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Orders can be sent via the U.S. Postal Service if so requested. Item # 191 Item # 179 Item # 200 Item # 209 1. [AFRICAN-AMERICAN] FED- 4. [AMERICAN FICTION] BLACK- 7. [AMERICANA] HARBAUGH, 10. ASIMOV, ISAAC. The Founda- ERAL WRITER’S PROJECT. Caval- FAN, JOSEPHINE H. Between REV. H. The Life of Rev. Michael tion Trilogy. Norwalk: The Easton cade of the American Negro: Illinois Two Worlds. New York: F. Tennyson Schlatter; With a Full Account of his Press, 1988. “Collector’s Edition.” One Writer’s Project. Chicago: Diamond Neely, 1899. First Edition. Wright Travels and Labors Among the Ger- of an unspecified number bound in full Jubilee Exposition Authority, 1940. 554. Hinges cracked; ownership in- mans in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, leather and signed by the author; fine, First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers; scription; very good. Set in Southern Maryland and Virginia. Philadelphia: with the single leaf “Collector’s Notes” owner’s signature; very good. $50.00 California. $65.00 Lindsay and Blakiston, 1857. First Edi- by Asimov laid in. $175.00 tion. Howes H-178. Publisher’s cloth; 2. AHERN, HELEN. Lost Lady of 5. [AMERICAN FICTION] SKENE, near fine. $300.00 11. [AUCTIONS] PARTRIDGE, Dreams: A Love Story. New York: Chel- ALEXANDER J.C. True to Them- BELLAMY. Going, Going, Gone!. sea House, 1931. First Edition. Fine selves: A Psychological Study. London He Couldn’t Tell a Lie New York: E.P. Dutton, 1958. First in a very good dust jacket with minor & New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897. 8. [AMERICANA] WEEMS, M.L. Edition. Fine in dust jacket. $50.00 interior tape mends. $50.00 First Edition. Publisher’s illustrated The Life of George Washington. Phila- cloth; pages yellowed; hinges broken, delphia: Mathew Carey, 1814. “Tenth The Far Side of the World His Worst Wife else very good. Not in Wright, who Edition...Greatly Improved.” The title 12. [AUSTRALIA] PARKES, HEN- 3. [AMERICAN FICTION] AB- might have excluded it on two as- page calls for eight engravings; one of RY. Stolen Moments; A Short Series of BOTT, L.A. Seven Wives and Seven sumptions: the London imprint (which these is a folding map of America which Poems. Sydney, Australia: James Tegg, Prisons; or, Experiences in the Life of precedes New York on the title page, identifies West of the Mississippi as 1842. First Edition of the author’s first a Matrimonial Monomaniac. A True but is spurious), and the author’s Scot- “Louisiana.” Bound in contemporary calf; Story Written by Himself. New York: tish origins. However, Skene practiced ribbed and spotted; contemporary owner’s published for the author, 1870. First medicine in Brooklyn from his arrival in inscriptions; considerable page staining; Edition. Wright 3. Some page stains and this country in 1863 until his death in numerous tears (one plate has a tear down cloth wear; very good. The frontispiece 1900. $125.00 the center and the map has tears at the is captioned “My first and worst wife.” folds). A good copy. $500.00 Mostly set in New York and New Eng- 6. [AMERICAN FICTION] STOD- March land, the narrator speculates that, should DARD, WILLIAM O. Three Stories: 9. [ARMSTRONG, MARGARET] his history become known in Salt Lake The First Cruiser Out, etc. Chicago: BOUVET, MARGUERITE. Sweet City, he might be held forth as a “shining Herbert S. Stone, 1898. First Edi- William. Illustrated by Helen and light of Mormondom.” $250.00 tion. Other books by this author are Margaret Armstrong. Chicago: A.C. 2 0 0 9 in Wright, but he probably excluded McClurg, 1890. First Edition. Gift in- this title as a possible juvenile. Very scription; cloth wear at the extremities; good. $85.00 very good. $85.00 PETER L. STERN & COMPANY, INC. 15 COURT SQUARE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02108 book; presentation copy; inscribed in 1942. First Edition. Near fine in dust A fine copy in a dust jacket with some 31. BURNETT, FRANCES HODG- Sydney by the author in 1843. Publish- jacket. $500.00 slight wear and tiny chips. $1250.00 SON. The Lost Prince. New York: The er’s boards with paper label; outer joints Century Co, 1915. First Edition. Small splitting; spine paper chipped; front 19. BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON. 26. BRAMAH, ERNEST. Kai Lung ownership signature on front flyleaf, else free endpaper detached; interior clean The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath. Beneath the Mulberry Tree. London: a fine copy in the rare dust jacket, which and untrimmed; in a custom clamshell New York: Dutton, 1916. First Ameri- The Richards Press, 1940. First Edition. has a few tiny chips and tears. $450.00 box. can Edition. A fine copy in dust Foxed; owner’s inscription; very good in The author, born in England, became jacket. $650.00 dust jacket. $150.00 The End of Rico a prominent Australian politician. Re- 32. BURNETT, W.R. Little Caesar. vered as a founding father of the nation, 20. [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS] New York: Lincoln MacVeagh/ The Dial his poetical efforts have been largely, but RODEN, ROBERT F. Famous Presses: Press, 1929. First Edition. A near fine justly, ignored. $4000.00 The Cambridge Press: 1638-1692: A copy in a very good dust jacket with History of the First Printing Press Es- some chipping, most seriously at the tablished in America, Together with a top of the spine, which is missing part Bibliographical List. New York: Dodd, of the title. $5000.00 Mead, 1905. One of 750 numbered cop- ies; bookplate; very good. $50.00 33. BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. Tarzan of the Apes. Chicago: A. C. 21. BOWDLER, JOHN. Select McClurg, 1914. First Edition; Currey’s Pieces in Verse and Prose. London: second state (or printing); first binding. Davidson, 1817. Second edition. Two Hinges broken; cloth frayed, especially volumes; bound in 19th century half- at the foot of the spine (not affecting calf and marbled boards; some rub- lettering); a good copy. $1250.00 bing; very good. The author defends Item # 14 his brother’s editing of Shakespeare which led to the term “bowdleriza- 27. BROUN, HEYWOOD. Pieces of tion.” $250.00 Hate. New York: George H. Doran, 1922. First Edition. Very good or better Item # 3 in a very good, slightly trimmed dust jacket. $125.00 13. [BALLET] WARE, WALTER. Bal- let is Magic. New York: Ihra Publishing, 28. BROWNING, ROBERT. Sor- 1936. First Edition. Inscribed by one dello. London: Edward Moxon, 1840. of the subjects, Patricia Bowman. Very First Edition. Publisher’s cloth and good in an ugly, worn and torn dust paper spine label; bookplate; very jacket. $75.00 good. $85.00 14. BANKS, LYNN REID. The L-Shaped Room. London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. First Edition. Bottom Item # 18 of front cover bumped, else fine in a slightly worn dust jacket. Basis for the 34. BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. film of the same title. $400.00 Item # 12 Tarzan the Invincible. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Reprint 15. BARTLEY, NALBRO. The Devil’s 22. [BOXING] SWIFT, OWEN. edition. Very good in a dust jacket Lottery. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Boxing Without A Master. New York: with chips, tears, and mending on the 1931. First Edition. Small stamp on the Henry J. Wehman, n.d. [c.1900]. Il- verso. $65.00 front free endpaper; near fine in a very lustrated wrappers. Pages brittle; a good good dust jacket. What happens to the copy. $35.00 35. BYRD, RICHARD E. Skyward. winners of a lottery. $100.00 New York: Putnam’s, 1928. First 23. BRADBURY, RAY. The Martian Edition. One of 500 numbered copies 16. BEARDSLEY, AUBREY. A Chronicles. Norwalk: The Easton Press, Item # 15 signed by Byrd, with a small piece of Second Book of Fifty Drawings. New 1989. “Collector’s Edition.” One of an the fabric from his aircraft mounted York: John Lane, 1899. First Edition; unspecified number bound in full leather 29. BUCK, CHARLES NEVILLE. inside the front cover. A fine copy in American issue. Publisher’s cloth; and signed by the author; fine, with the Mountain Justice. Boston: Houghton, a very good publisher’s box with some some staining and wear; good to very single leaf “Collector’s Notes” by Brad- Mifflin, 1935. First Edition. Minor staining. Laid into this copy is the good. $150.00 bury laid in. $135.00 waterstaining; very good in dust jacket. publisher’s announcement and order Murder in Kentucky. $35.00 form (folded and splitting) as well as Sting 24. BRAMAH, ERNEST. The Eyes of a letter from Putnam’s offering this 17. [BEES] MORLEY, MARGARET Max Carrados. London: Grant Rich- A Modern Dystopia edition to purchasers of Lindbergh’s WARNER. The Bee People. Chicago: ards, 1923. First Edition. Bookplate; a 30. BURGESS, ANTHONY. A We, noting that the smaller limitation A.C McClurg, 1899.