BETWEEN THE COVERS RARE BOOKS, INC. 112 Nicholson Rd (856) 456-8008 Gloucester City, NJ 08030 [email protected] www.betweenthecovers.com C ATALOG 187: Association Copies Redux In a world where the internet seems to have made multiple copies of interest- ing books available in profusion, it’s nice to have something that sets your copy of a book apart. This might mean a book inscribed by one important author to another. Maybe you’d prefer your copy of a book to have been used by a favorite author for research, complete with signs of ownership or use. Or perhaps you like books owned by literary figures, musicians, sports figures, or celebrities. Maybe you’d like a dedication copy, arguably the most important copy of a particular book that might exist. In a collecting field (and for that matter, in a world) that prizes an item for its uniqueness, what could be better than an association copy? So here for your perusal is a selection of about 300 pretty much unique copies of books. Further, unlike our last association copy catalog, which featured many very ex- pensive volumes, we’ve tried here to make a point of including what are mostly pretty affordable books: that way you can buy lots of them! -Tom C. Terms of Sale Images are not to scale. Dimensions of all items, including artwork, are given width first. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or email. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. For private individuals, payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, DISCOVER, and PayPal. Gift certificates available. Domestic orders please include $7.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). N.J. residents please add 7% sales tax. All items are insured. All items subject to prior sale. Members ABAA, ILAB Cover by Tom Bloom. © 2013 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. Note: Color pictures of all available items in this catalog can be seen at www.betweenthecovers.com by searching under author or title. 1 ANDERSON, Maxwell. Valley Forge. Washington: Anderson House 1934. First edition, limited issue. Full leather gilt as issued, without dustwrapper. One of 200 numbered copies. A bit rubbed at the extremities, else near fine. Signed by Anderson on the title page, and additionally warmly Inscribed by him to actress Margalo Gillmore thanking her for performing beautifully in the play. [BTC#305294] 2 (Art). DA VAZ, Jurg. Psychospheres 1975-1978. (Washington, DC: The Artist 1978). First edition. Very large oblong folio. Translation by Ursula Davatz. Edited by Davatz and Herman L. Kamenetz. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of chips. Copy number 4 of 300 numbered and handbound copies. Monogrammed, and dated by Da Vaz, Swiss avant-garde artist and filmmaker. This copy has also been nicely Inscribed by Da Vaz to the co-editor Herman L. Kamenetz and his wife. [BTC#279099] 3 (Art). SLOANE, Eric. A Reverence for Wood. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc. (1965). First edition. Quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper with perhaps the slightest of sunning at the spine. Promotional brochure for Sloane’s works laid in. Sloane has Inscribed the book to the great boxing champion Gene Tunney: “To Gene Tunney who always had a reverence for wood. Eric Sloane. Warren, Conn.” beneath which Sloane has drawn the figure of a man (Tunney?) fleeing from a toppling tree. Presumably the drawing tells a story, and we will be happy to fabricate one if you’d like. [BTC#342571] 4 ASHBERY, John. Hotel Lautreamont. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1993. First edition. Faint sticker shadow on front pastedown, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Pencil Signature (“Sifton”) of Ashbery’s editor Elizabeth Sifton. [BTC#275056] 5 BACHELLER, Irving. Vergilius: A Tale of the Coming of Christ. New York: Harper & Brothers 1904. First edition. Lightly edgeworn, near fine without dustwrapper. Bookplate of collector Frederick W. Skiff, and later book label of the Estelle Doheny Collection. Inscribed by Bacheller to Skiff: “Introducing to Mr. Skiff Vergilius, son of Varro and officer of the fatherly and much beloved Gaius Caesar Octavianus Augustus. Irving Bacheller. Thrushwood Dec. 22, 1916.” [BTC#274896] Ralph Hodgson’s Copy 6 BAKER, Silvia. Journey to Yesterday. London: Peter Davies 1950. First edition. Top corner a little bumped, near fine in near fine dustwrapper. A record of the artist’s travels to Tahiti, Barbados, Cyprus, Spain, and elsewhere, with accounts of her relationships with Augustus John, Will Rothenstein, Paul Nash, Violet Hunt, and George Moore. The author Ralph Hodgson’s copy. While Hodgson hasn’t signed the book, he has written out Baker’s London address with a date in 1953 on the front fly, annotated one page (p. 138), and supplied the book with a further homemade and hand lettered brown paper dustwrapper. [BTC#343972] 7 BARNHAM, Henry D. The Khoja Tales of Nasr-Ed-Din. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1924. First edition. Introduction by Sir Valentine Chirol. Bookplate of designer P.K. Thomajan, some offsetting on the front board, about very good in poor, internally repaired dustwrapper with some chips and tears. Collection of Turkish folk tales. [BTC#313491] 8 (Baseball). GETZ, Mike. Baseball’s 3000-Hit Men: A Book of Stats, Facts, and Trivia. Brooklyn: Gemmeg Press (1982). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication to Cliff Kachline, Historian of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, who merits a special thanks in the book’s acknowledgments page. According to some sources the man most responsible for the existence of SABR. [BTC#342139] 9 (Baseball). RICHTER, Francis C. Richter’s History and Records of Base Ball: The American Nation’s Chief Sport. Philadelphia: Francis C. Richter 1914. First edition. 306pp., illustrated from photographs. The front fly lacking, with some erosion to the cloth at the spine ends, and a little foxing. A well-worn but sound, good copy of this classic baseball book with a nice association, Inscribed by Richter to his son: “To my dear son Francis C. Jr. with the best wishes of his father. Francis C. Richter. Philadelphia Pa. March 14, 1914.” As a writer, Richter was an influential force in the early development of the game. Beginning with the Philadelphia Day in 1872, then the Sunday World and Public Ledger, he was the first to set up a separate sports department for any newspaper. Richter was instrumental in the formation of the original American Association in 1882 and helped to place the Philadelphia Athletics in it. The next year he helped to organize the Phillies in the National League and started Sporting Life, a weekly newspaper, which became a great force in baseball. In 1907 he was offered the presidency of the National League but turned it down. He edited the Reach Guide from its inception in 1901 to the 1926 volume, which he completed days before his death. A splendid association copy. #314522. [BTC#314522] Inscribed to Joe DiMaggio 10 (Baseball). RUST, Art, Jr. with Edna RUST. Recollections of a Baseball Junkie. New York: William Morrow (1985). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Joe DiMaggio: “To Joe … Perfection is always the unexplored, unexpected dream we all seek and fantasize about the ultimate. You have achieved perfection and I have appreciated it. Art. 7/13/85.” With a letter of provenance signed by DiMaggio’s two granddaughters. [BTC#93679] Inscribed to Joe DiMaggio 11 (Baseball). TURKIN, Hy and S.C. THOMPSON. The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball (Jubilee Edition). New York: A.S. Barnes (1951). Jubilee edition. Fine in a modestly worn, very good or better dustwrapper. Inscribed by Turkin: “To Joe DiMaggio Who is great even without a bat, ball or glove in his hand. Hy Turkin. April 5, 1951.” DiMaggio, who is of course cited frequently in the book, announced his retirement from baseball eight months later. With letter of provenance signed by DiMaggio’s two granddaughters. [BTC#93688] 12 BEERBOHM, Max. A Christmas Garland. London: William Heinemann 1912. First edition. Blue cloth gilt. Boards quite stained, particularly the rear board, which extends to the final leaf, a fair only copy. On the front pastedown is the bookplate of Beerbohm’s contemporary, author and politician Augustine Birrell. [BTC#317069] 13 BELL, Madison Smartt. Doctor Sleep. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1991). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by Bell to author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife, the inscription takes up parts of two pages. [BTC#107461] 14 BELOOF, Robert. The One-Eyed Gunner and Other Portraits: A Book of Poems. London: Villiers Publications 1956. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with small nicks and tears at the crown. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Karl Shapiro. [BTC#379019] 15 BENDIX, Hans. The Lady Who Kept Her Promise. New York: American Artists Group 1941. First edition. Introduction by Frances Hackett. 12mo. Illustrated papercovered boards. Slight edgewear, else near fine. Wartime fable about a man who is uprooted and taken to New York City by a Danish illustrator. Inscribed by the author: “To my good collaborator on both sides of the Atlantic Gurmar Leistikow(?) from Hans Bendix. November 7th 1941.” [BTC#290038] 16 BENEDIKT, Michael. Serenade in Six Pieces. (Huntington, Connecticut: M. Sabados 1958). First edition.