BOSTON INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR HYNES CONVENTION CENTER, NOVEMBER 12 – 14, 2010 A Selection of Fine, Rare and Important Books from Our Stock (including some new arrivals and some books we just like a lot) JAMES S. JAFFE RARE BOOKS 790 Madison Ave, Suite 605 New York, New York 10065 Tel 212-988-8042 Fax 212-988-8044 Cell: 610-637-3531 (during the fair) Email: [email protected] Please visit our website: www.jamesjaffe.com Member Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America / International League of Antiquarian Booksellers 1. [ABATTOIR EDITIONS] RILKE, Rainer Maria. Holding Out. Poems Rendered from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rika Lesser with a Note by Richard Howard. 4to, original natural linen with printed label on spine. Omaha, NE.: Abattoir Editions / University of Nebraska at Omaha. 1975. First edition. Limited to 225 copies printed in Bembo type on Grand Moghul handmade paper from India. Very fine copy, in a custom-made chemise and slipcase. $500.00 2. AGEE, James. The Morning Watch. 8vo, original printed wrappers, glassine dust jacket. Roma: Botteghe Oscure VI, 1950. First (separate) edition of Agee’s autobiographical first novel, printed for private circulation in its entirety. One of an unrecorded number of off-prints from Marguerite Caetani’s distinguished literary journal Botteghe Oscure. Agee’s novella was not published in book form until 1951 when Houghton Mifflin brought it out in the United States. A fine copy. Scarce. $1500.00 3. [ANVIL PRESS] RACINE, Jean. Andromache: A Tragedy, Freely Translated into English in 1674 from Jean Racine’s ‘Andromaque’ by a Young Gentleman & John Crowne. With a Foreword by Desmond Flower and Illustrations by Fritz Kredel. 4to, original cloth-backed boards with printed spine label, dust jacket. Lexington, KY.: Anvil Press, 1986. Limited to 100 numbered copies printed by Carolyn Hammer and W. Gay Reading at the Anvil Press in Victor Hammer’s American and Andromaque Uncial types. A very fine copy of a beautiful book, in a custom-made slipcase. $850.00 4. ASHBERY, John & James SCHUYLER. A Nest of Ninnies. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. N. Y.: E. P. Dutton, 1969. First edition of this collaborative novel. Signed by Ashbery. Fine copy in lightly dust-soiled jacket with one short closed tear. $450.00 5. AUDEN, W. H. Poems. 8vo, original pale blue printed wrappers. London: Faber, (1930). First edition of Auden’s first regularly published book. One of 1000 copies printed. Bloomfield & Mendelson A2a. Apart from a hairline split about an inch long at the base of the spine along the rear outer hinge and a minute amount of wear at the corners, a very fine clean copy – one of the finest copies we have seen – with the publisher’s advertisement flyer laid in. $2500.00 6. [AUDUBON, John James] BURROUGHS, Franklin. Passion or Conquest. 8vo, illustrated in color, original green boards, dust jacket. (Haverford, PA): Green Shade, 2001. First edition of this long essay on John James Audubon by the author of Billy Watson’s Croker Sack. One of 100 numbered copies printed by the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy and signed by the author. As new, at publication price. $150.00 7. AUSTER, Paul. Autobiography of the Eye. 8vo, photographic frontispiece by Karin Welch tipped- in, original string-tied French-fold unprinted wrappers, printed paper label, publisher’s envelope. (Portland: Printed at The Beaverdam Press for Charles Seluzicki, 1993). First edition of this poem. One of thirty-five copies printed (the entire edition). Fine copy. Rare. $850.00 8. BECKETT, Samuel. Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. Small thin 4to, original printed buff wrappers. Paris: Europa Press, 1935. First edition of Beckett’s second book of poetry. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Beckett in a bold contemporary hand on the title-page, and numbered “28” by hand on the colophon page, suggesting that it is a special copy, since the numbers on the colophon page of the ordinary edition on Alfa paper were ink-stamped. A very fine copy, rare signed. $7500.00 9. BECKETT, Samuel. Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. Small thin 4to, original printed buff wrappers. Paris: Europa Press, 1935. First edition of Beckett’s second book of poetry. One of the ordinary issue of 250 numbered copies printed on Alfa paper, with the number ink-stamped on the colophon page. Buff wrappers very slightly toned as often, otherwise a very fine copy. $2500.00 10. BERRIGAN, Ted. So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems 1958-1979. Large 8vo, original red cloth, publisher’s brown cloth slipcase. Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1980. First edition, limited issue. One of only 75 copies signed and numbered by Berrigan on the half-title page. Fischer p. 55. In his memorial tribute to Berrigan, Kenneth Koch wrote: “I knew, for the first time, how good he was when I read “Tambourine Life.” I loved (love) that poem. It seemed in a way ahead of everything – absolutely casual, ordinary, and momentary-seeming, without joking, mystery, or false dazzle, and full of buoyancy, sweetness, and high spirits.” Spine very slightly faded, otherwise a fine copy. $850.00 11. BERRYMAN, John. Stephen Crane. The American Men of Letters Series. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. (New York): William Sloane Associates, (1950). First edition. Stefanik A6.I.a. An important association copy, inscribed by Berryman to his teacher Mark Van Doren on the front free- endpaper: “Mark & Dorothy with love / Crane’s relation w. [Hamlin] Garland tells me something about mine with you. Rebellion & guilt [underlined] suffocating the gratitude. Will you forgive me ever & can we meet? This is better by the way than when you saw it but still lousy. Don’t read it. I hope to do something pleasant yet. / John / 14 Nov 50”. Van Doren was Berryman’s professor at Columbia University, where Berryman attended college and where he began publishing poems in the Columbia Review. In September 1945, Van Doren gave Berryman his own set of Wilson Follett’s twelve-volume edition of The Works of Stephen Crane. One of Berryman’s most important influences, and a life-long friend, Van Doren was also a general editor of, as well as a contributing author to, The American Men of Letters Series, and he commissioned Berryman to write this critical study of Crane, a psychological study some scholars believe tells more about its author than its subject. Berryman’s inscription to Van Doren enhances this insight. A fine copy, the dust jacket of which has been neatly reinforced on the verso at a couple of places along the flap folds. $5000.00 12. BERRYMAN, John. National Book Award in Poetry 1969 Acceptance Speech 3/12/69. 1 page, 4to, mimeographed. N. Y.: National Book Awards, 1969. Berryman’s Acceptance Speech for the National Book Award in Poetry which he received for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (N. Y.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1968). A brilliant statement of poetic purpose, independence, and vindication: “Both the writer and the reader of long poems need gall, the outrageous, the intolerable – and they need it again and again. The prospect of ignominious failure must haunt them continually. Whitman, our greatest poet, had all this. Eliot, next, perhaps even greater than Whitman, had it too. Pound makes a marvelous if frail third here. All three dazzlingly original, you notice, and very hostile, both Pound and Eliot, to Whitman. It is no good looking for models. We want anti-models.” National Book Award speeches of this and earlier vintages were printed for the occasion, and in our experience, seldom survive. Very fine copy. Rare. $450.00 13. BISHOP, Elizabeth. The Complete Poems. 8vo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. N. Y.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, (1969). First edition, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. One of 5500 copies printed. MacMahon A9. Signed by Bishop on the title-page. Fine copy in a slightly sunned jacket with a spot of soiling on front panel. $2500.00 14. BOGAN, Louise. The Blue Estuaries. Poems: 1923-68. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. N. Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1968). First edition of this overview of Bogan’s career, effectively her collected poems. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the title page: “For Phyllis Armstrong, Louise Bogan, 18 November 1968”. With the author’s complimentary card laid in. The recipient was the assistant to the Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, the position that has since become known as the Poet Laureate, a position Bogan held in 1945. Small rust mark from paperclip on half- title page, otherwise a fine copy. $450.00 15. BURROUGHS, William S. The Cat Inside. Drawings By Brion Gysin. 4to, illustrations, original quarter vellum and Sage Reynolds’ hand-painted paper over boards, without dust jacket as issued. N.Y.: The Grenfell Press, 1986. First edition and one of the author’s most affecting essays. One of 115 numbered copies, signed by Burroughs and Gysin, out of a total edition of 133 copies. A beautiful book, the last collaboration between Burroughs and Gysin, signed by the artist just before he died – the signature is not, as some have assumed, a facsimile. As new. $2500.00 16. CAPOTE, Truman. Local Color. 8vo, illustrated with photographs with photographs by Cecil Beaton, Cartier-Bresson, Hoynigen-Huene, Alexander Liberman and others, original cloth and paper over boards, dust jacket. N. Y.: Random House, (1950). First edition, a Review Copy with slip laid in, of Capote’s impressions of New Orleans, Hollywood, Tangiers and New York, among other places. Very slightly cocked, otherwise a very fine, bright copy with none of the usual discoloration to the white portions of the dust jacket.