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JAMES CUMMINS bookseller New York Antiquarian Book Fair April 9-12, 2015 JAMES CUMMINS bookseller 699 Madison Ave, New York, 10065 | tel: (212) 688-6441 | fax: (212) 688-6192 | www.jamescumminsbookseller.com THE NEW YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR 9-12 April 2015 booth e-3 1 3 (ALICE IN WONDERLAND), WELLS, Carolyn. To Alice Alphabetum Aethiopicum sive Gheez et Amhharicum, cum Oratione Hargreaves. Single sheet on thick yellow paper. 4to. [New York]: May dominicali, Salutatione angelica, Symbolo fdei, praeceptis decalogi & initio 4, 1932. Housed in a green card folder with silk ties. A band of pale Evangelii S. Johannis. 32 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. green ofset in the middle of the sheet. de Prop. Fide, 1789. Recent morocco backed boards, a.e.g. Library Alice Hargreaves is best known as the model for “Alice in Wonderland.” perforation stamp at foot of title page, else fne. Birrell & Garnett 22; She traveled to New York in 1932 to receive an honorary degree from Smitskamp PO 213; Goldschmidt 30. Columbia University as part of the celebrations that marked the $1,000 centenary of Charles Dodgson’s birth. In addition to the degree, she also received the (rather sycophantic) acrostic, composed by Carolyn Wells, author of over 170 books (including a bibliography of Walt 4 Whitman) and a noted book collector. The acrostic begins: Alphabetum Arabicum una cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo fdei. 15 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Alice, who would not envy thee Fide, 1797. Recent morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. Not Love, Fame and Immortality? in Birrell & Garnett. Smitskamp PO 216; Brunet I, 197. In full, those gifts the life endow, $750 Child of the pure unclouded brow Elusive in thy mystery. 5 A pencil note in Wells’s hand on the verso reads “An Acrostic to Alice Hargreaves – by Carolyn Wells. May 4, 1932. Lettering by John Alphabetum Barmanorum seu regni Avensis. Editio altera emendatior. J. Tucker – 3 copies. One to Ms Hargreaves – this one – and one for Folding engraved plate of Pali text by G. Expilly, each page printed CW.” We understand that this copy was given as a gift, or inherited, within a border of typographical ornaments, numerous examples of by a female friend and fellow book collector of Wells. Burmese types. [iii]-xvi, 64 pp. Lacking [a1] blank. Small 8vo. Rome: There is no record of what happened to the other copies of the Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1787. Second, revised edition, acrostic, this might well be the only surviving example. following the 1776 frst edition. Text rewritten, plate enlarged. Recent $1,250 morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 21; Smitskamp PO 212. $750 2 Alphabeta Indica, id est Granthamicum seu Samscrdamico-Malabaricum 6 Indostanum sive Vanarense Nagaricum vulgare et Talinganicum. 24 pp. The First Burmese Type Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1791. First edition. Recent morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. Alphabetum Barmanum seu Bomanum regni Avae fnitimarumque Birrell & Garnett 23; Smitskamp PO 214; Brunet I, 197. regionum. Editio altera emendatior. Folding engraved plate of Pali text With a woodcut comparative table at pp. 8-17 of the four alphabets: by Giuseppe Expilii (numbered page xlv). [2] f. [v]-xlv, 51 pp. Lacking Malabar, Sanskrit and a modifed form, and Telugu. [a1] blank. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1776. $1,000 First edition. Recent morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 18; Smitskamp PO 209; Brunet I, 197. $1,750 7 13 Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi. xx, 152 Alphabetum Syro-Chaldaeum una cum Oratione Dominicali Salutatione pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First Angelica et Symbolo Fidei. 30 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. edition. Recent morocco backed boards, a.e.g. Paper faw in margin de Prop. Fide, 1797. First edition. Recent morocco backed marbled of A1 (no loss), else fne. Birrel & Garnett 12; Updike, Printing Types boards, a.e.g. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 241; Smitskamp 215; Moss 1052; I (1951), pp. 181-3; Smitskamp PO 206; Brunet I, 197. Brunet I, 197; cf. Coakley, pp. 58-9. $1,500 Type specimen printed on the eve of the Napoleonic conquest of Italy, during which “there was an order from the French government for the confscation of exotic language punches and matrices from 8 the Propaganda to supply the Imprimerie Nationale” (Coakley). Alphabetum Cophtum sive Aegyptiacum [Caption title]. [4] f. Small Uncommon. 8vo. [Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, n.d., 1809]. Recent $1,000 morocco backed marbled boards, uncut edges. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 25; Smitskamp PO 217. The last in the series of elegant type specimens of exotic languages 14 issued by the Propaganda Press from the 1770s onward. Uncommon. Inscribed by Susan B. Anthony to George Francis Train $750 ANTHONY, Susan B.; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Matilda Joslyn Gage; and Ida Husted Harper, editors. History of Woman Sufrage. Ninety plates, including forty-eight steel-engraved portraits. 6 Vols. 9 Large 8vo. Rochester: 1881, 1881, 1886, 1902, 1922, 1922. First editions. Alphabetum Graecum cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, Original burgundy publisher’s cloth, spines gilt, frst volume expertly Symbolo Fidei, & Praeceptis Decalogi. 15 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. rebacked, with original backstrip laid down, volumes two, three, fve Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. Recent morocco backed marbled and six with institutional blindstamp on titlepage, new endpapers, boards, a.e.g. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 15; Smitskamp PO 205; Brunet and remnants of labeling on the spine, hinges a touch weak, very I, 197. clean internally, very good overall. Allibone, Critical Dictionary of $750 English Literature, 1378. The frst and fourth volumes of this set are inscribed by Susan B. Anthony, to the noted author, entrepreneur, and agitator, George 10 Francis Train. Train and Anthony spent weeks together in Kansas First Type Specimen of Malayalam in 1867 stumping for women’s rights, and later toured the country together. Train was the creator and principal backer of Susan B. Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive Samscrudonicum. 9 folding Anthony’s important newspaper, The REvolution, published from 1868 charts. xxviii, 100 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis to 1870. The inscription in the frst volume reads “George Francis de Propag. Fide, 1772. First edition. Recent morocco backed marbled Train / with grateful memory / of his valuable aid / in Kansas in boards, a.e.g. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 16; de Gubernaties 329; 1867 & / the Revolution 1868 / Susan B. Anthony / Madison Square Smitskamp PO 207; Brunet I, 197. / Nov. 22, 1881.” The inscription in the fourth volume reads “George First type specimen of the Grantha or Malabar alphabet, now most Francis Train / & his daughter / Stamford Ct. / See what gains have frequently known as Malayalam. / been made since — Kansas 1867 — / four states with full sufrage — $1,250 Wyoming / Colorado, Utah & Idaho — great hopes for / the future — with great respect & gratitude / Susan B. Anthony / 17 Madison St / Rochester / N.Y. / June 20, 1903.” Train’s contributions to the 11 woman’s sufrage movement, especially with regard to the campaign Alphabetum Hebraicum Addito Samaritano et Rabbinico cum Oratione in Kansas, are discussed in the second volume of this work. Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, & Symbolo Apostolico. 16 pp. Small 8vo. $15,000 Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Recent morocco backed boards, a.e.g. Birrell & Garnett 15; Smitskamp PO 204. 15 $900 “In Africa, Armstrong is more than a band leader, he is a symbol” [ARMSTRONG, Louis]. Collection of material documenting Louis Armstrong’s visit to Accra in 1956, assembled by Jimmy Moxon. A 12 complete listing of material available on request. Alphabetum Persicum, cum Oratione Dominicali et Salutatione Angelica. A wonderful collection of manuscript and printed ephemera and 24 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, memorabilia, owned by Jimmy Moxon who organized Louis 1783. Recent morocco backed boards, a.e.g. Birrell & Garnett 19; Armstrong’s two day visit to Accra and hosted him and his wife, Smitskamp PO 210; Brunet I, 197. Lucille. Louis Armstrong’s two-day trip to Accra was the brainchild $900 of Ed Murrow and was sponsored by CBS. The accompanying camera crew flmed Armstrong, Lucille and the Allstars to provide material for the weekly show “See it Now.” The segment was called Satchmo the Great. Despite the brevity of the trip, Ed Murrow the james cummins bookseller booth e-3 2 producer contacted Moxon to ensure it would go smoothly. 16 Murrow had been to Accra in 1954 and Moxon states: “[his] genius The 53 Ashendene St. Francis Proofs on Japon Vellum told him — from his glimpse of Accra night life — that Satchmo and (ASHENDENE PRESS) I Fioretti del glorioso poverello di Cristo S. black Africa should be blended — and anything at all might happen. Francesco Di Assisi. Japon paper proofs of the 53 illustrations in the Everything did. And that was where I took my cue.” Accepting that book, drawn by Charles M. Gere and cut on wood by J.B. Swain. 8vo. there were only so many hours at their disposal, the cabled program London: The Ashendene Press, 1922. The 53 individual proofs are read as follows: tipped into a blank book (some leaves of which have been excised) “FIRST DAY MET AIRPORT ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS THEN FORMAL CALLS bound in tan morocco, upper cover elaborately tooled in gilt and GOVERNOR PRIME MINISTER AFTERNOON DRIVE THROUGH CITY EVENING blue, lower cover in blind, a.e.g., probably Italian, 19th century, some PRESS PARTY NIGHT OPENAIR CONCERT THIRTY THOUSAND PEOPLE foxing to a few blank pages, the proofs, except for a faint rust stain AFTERWARDS VISIT NIGHTCLUBS SECOND DAY STUDIO INTERVIEW LUNCH in the corner of two, are in fne condition, with about one-inch UNIVERSITY THEN OPENAIR DISPLAY TRADITIONAL DANCING DRUMMING lower blank margins.