Howland and Company Llewellyn Howland III Established in 1978, Howland and Company is an antiquarian maritime bookseller and marine art dealer. It also deals in modern literary first editions and English literature. Operating as a closed shop the company has issued 98 mail-order catalogs. Llewellyn Howland III, sole proprietor of Howland and Company, worked for 20 years in trade publishing. From 1964 through 1977 he was senior editor at Little, Brown in Boston, where he edited the work of many ranking historians and biographers, among them James Thomas Flexner, Jean Edward Smith, John Wilmerding, Page Smith, Jonathan Spence, John E. Mack, Mary Beth Norton, and Nobel laureate Robert William Fogel. A Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Howland has served as a trustee of the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport Museum. He is the author of several books, most recently of No Ordinary Being, a biography of poet, yacht designer, and aviation pioneer W. Starling Burgess. The following is a priced listing of some of the representative stock of Howland and Company Antiques, Architecture, Art, and Photography Boor, Allison,et al. Philadelphia Empire furniture. Hanover, (Boor Management/UPNE, 2006). Pp.592; color ills.30.5cm.Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $50 Bradford, Richard. The importance of elsewhere. Philip Larkin’s photographs. (London), Francis Lincoln, (2015). Pp. 256;halftones. 25cm. Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $30 Caponigro, Paul. New England days. The photographs of…. Boston, Portland Museum/Godine, (2002). 24.5cm (oblong). Fine in fine d.j. First edition. Signed by author. [Dow, A. W.] Enyeart, James L. The photographs of Arthur Wesley Dow. Santa Fe, Marion Center for Photographic Arts/Museum of New Mexico Press, (2001). 27cm (square). Fine in fine d.j. 30 Gross, Michael. Rogue’s gallery. The secret history of the moguls and the money that made the Metropolitan Museum. NY, Broadway, (2009). 24cm. Fine in d.j. First edition. $15 Hayler, Henry. 61 Pimlico. The secret journal of…. Intro. by Bill Jay. (Tucson AZ), Nazraeli, (19980. Pp. 69,[1],[1--colophon]; tipped in halftones. 23cm. Fine in fine d.j.. First edition. $45 1 (Loeb, John L., Jr.) Fabritius, Elizabeth, et al. The Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. Danish art collections. Foreword by John L. Loeb, Jr. Introduction by SuzanneLudvigsen. NY, John L. Loeb, Jr., 2005. 30.5cm. Pictorial stiff wraps. Fine. First edition. With form compliments letter on Kuhn, Loeb stationary from author laid in. $25. I confess that I share Loeb’s enthusiasm for Danish painting, especially marine painting ,and this is as good and well-reproduced review of the subject as you could ask for at any price. Natali, Enrico, and Mark Sandrof. American landscapes. 1968–1990. Boston, Panopticon, 1991. Pp. 104; halftones. 25.5cm (oblong). Fine. First edition. $35. [ch??] [Nicholson Collection.][Auction catalogue.] Christie’s. The collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Nicholson. NY, Christie’s, [1995]. Pp. 395[1]; color and halftone ills. 28cm. About fine in near fine d.j. $25 Robinson, Annie. Peabody & Stearns. Country houses and seaside cottages NY, Norton, (2010). Sante, Luc. Evidence. NY, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, (1992). Pictorial wraps. Fine. First edition. $45. Some 55 old NYPD evidence photos interpreted by Sante. Saudek, Jan. Life love death & other such trifles. Intro. by Michael Fournier. Amsterdam, Art Unlimited, (19910. 32cm. Photographic wraps. About fine. First English-language paperback edition. $35 Spring, Justin. Fairfield Porter. A life in art. New Haven, Yale, (2000). Pp. [xvi],384; color and halftone ills. 25.5cm. Fine in fine d,j, First edition. $35 Tomasi, Lucia Tongiorgi. An Oak Spring flora. Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time. A selection ofrare books, manuscripots, and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon. Upperville VA,Oak Spring Garden Library, 1997. Pp. [lxxiv],427,{1],[1]; copious color and halftone ills. 28.5cm. Near fine in near fine d.j. First edition. $40 Vedder, Elihu. The digressions of V. Boston and NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1910. Pp. xxvi,521,[1], plus halftone and color plates; halftones in text. 22.5cm. Dec..cloth, gilt;top edges gilt. First trade edition. $55 Vollman, William T. See Item (Whitehill, Walter M., et al., ed.] Boston furniture of the Eighteenth Century. Boston,Colonial Society/University Press of Virginia, (1974). Pp. [xviii],316,[1], plus foldout plate; copious halftones. 23.5cm.Near fine in toned d.j. First edition. $35 Widmer, Kemble, Joyce King, et al. In plain sight. Discovering the furniture of Nathaniel Gould. Salem and London, PEM/Giles, (2014). Pp. 184; color ills. 30cm. Fine in fine d.j. First edition. S O L D Autobiography, Biography and Bibliography; Essays; Literary Criticism and Theory; Travel Ackroyd, Peter. Wilkie Collins. London, Chatto & Windus, (2012). Fine in fine d.j. Later printing. $15 Action, Harold. More memoirs of an aesthete. London, Methuen, (1970). Near fine in d.j. with small tears. First edition. $30 Aldington, Richard. The strange life of Charles Waterton. 1782-1865. London, Evans Brothers, (1949). Near fine in fine d.j. First edition. $20 Aldiss, Brian. Bury my heart at W. H. Smith’s. A writing life. London, Hodder & Stoughton, (1990). Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $15 2 Amis, Kingsley. Everyday drinking. The distilled Kingsley Amis. Introduction by Christopher Hitchins. (NY), Bloomsbury, (2008). Fine in fine d.j. First American edition. $15 Amis, Kingsley. The letters of… Edited by Zachary Leader. NY, Miramax/Hypersion, (2001) Fine in fine d.j. First American edition. $35. Auster, Paul. Hand to mouth. A chronicle of early failure. NY, Holt ,(1997). Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $15 Auster, Paul. Winter journal. NY, Holt, (2012). Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $15 [Ballard, J. G.] Baxter, Johm. The life of J. G. Ballard. The inner man…. London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, (2011). Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $15 [Barthelme, Donald.] Daugherty, Tracy. Hiding man. A biography of Donald Barthelme. NY, St. Martin’s, (2009). Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $15 Bass, Rick. The book of Yaak. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Pictorial wraps. Uncorrected proof copy. Fine. $20 Bass, Rick. Oil notes. Drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. Boston, Lawrence/Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $15 Baxter, Charles. Burning down the house. Essays on fiction. (St. Paul), Graywolf, (1997). Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $20 Beaton, Cecil. The years between. Diaries1939-44. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1965). Near fine in d.j. wih several closed tears and minor spine rubbin. First American ediiton. $25 Beaton, Cecil. Beaton in the Sixties. The Cecil Beaton diaries as he wrote them, 1965–1969. Introduction by Hugo Vickers. NY, Knopf, (2003). Pp. x,525,[5]; halftones. 23cm. Near fine in d.j. with trivial rubbing along spine. First American edition. $35 Beaton, Cecil, and KennethTynan. Persona grata. [[[[ Beerhohm, Max. Mainly on the air. NY, Knopf, 1958. Near fine in sunned d.j. First American edition. $15 Biddle, Nicholas. Personal memoirs. An autobiography, including a personal history and accounts of various cruises and hunting expeditions. (Lititiz PA, privately printed/Sutter House, 1975). Near fine in near fine d.j. First edition. Inscribed by author and with previous owner’s bookplate. $95 Bowles, Paul. A hundred camels in the courtyard. (San Francisco, City Lights, (1962). Photograph wraps. Near fine. First edition. $55. Miller A 11. [Bowles, Paul.] Choukri, Mohamed. Tennessee Williams in Tangiers. Translated by Paul Bowles. Santa Barbara, Cadmus Editions, 1979. Pictorial French wraps. In original glassine d.j. Near fine. First edition thus. One of 1300 copies of the trade edition. $35 Brady, Sally Ryder. A box of darkness. The story of a marriage. NY, St. Martin’s, (2011). Fine in d.j. with “autographed copy” sticker. First edition. Signed and dated by author. $20 Bradbury, Robert C. Twentieth century United States miniature books. No. Clarendon VT, Microbibliographic,, 2000.. Fine in d.j. First edition. One of 1000 copies. $235 Brenan, Gerald. Thoughts in a dry season.A miscellany.Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1978). Near fine in near fine d.j. First edition.$20 [Bronte family.] Smith, Walter E. The Bronte sisters. A bibliographical catalogue of first and early editions 1846-1860… Los Angeles, Heritage Book Shop, 1991. Pp. xxviii, 183, [1]; halftones. 27.5cm. Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $20 3 _____ Symington, J. A. Bibliography of all members of the Bronte family and of Bronteana. (Slad, Gloucester, and New Castle NJ, Ian Hogkins, 2002.) Pp. [viii],210, 23.5cm. New. First edition. $45 [Bunting, Basil.] [Burns, Robert.] Sidduth, Elizabeth A. The G. Ross Roy collection of Robert Burns. An illustrated catalogue. Introduction by G. Ross Roy. Foreword by Thomas F. McNally. Columbia SC, University of South Carolina, (2009). Po. [xxii],456, plus color frontis. and 8 plages of color plates; halftones in text. 22.5cm. Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $25 Burroughs, William S. Rub out the words. The letters of… 1959–1974. Edited by Bill Morgan. (NY, Ecco, 2012.) Pp. [xxxvi],444, plus 16 pages of halftones. Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $25 Chabon, Michael. Maps and legends. Reading and writing along the borderlands. (San Francisco, McSweeney’s Books, 2008.) Fine in fine d.j. First edition. $20 Chatwin, Bruce. In Patagonia. NY, Summit, (1977). Fine in slightly off-center d.j. First American edition. $110 Chatwin,Bruce. The songlines. (NY), Viking, (1987). Fine in d.j. with lightly sunned spine. First American edition. $15 Chatwin, Bruce, and Paul Theroux. Patagonia revisited. Ills. by Kyffin Williams. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Fine in near fine d.j. First edition. $20 Choukri, Mohammed. Tennessee Williams in Tangier.