T H E C O L O P H O N B O O K S H O P Robert and Christine Liska P. O. B O X 1 0 5 2 E X E T E R N E W H A M P S H I R E 0 3 8 3 3 ( 6 0 3 ) 7 7 2 8 4 4 3 Net Price Sale List The price in bold is the net sale price All items listed have been carefully described and are in fine collector’s condition unless otherwise noted. All are sold on an approval basis and any purchase may be returned within two weeks for any reason. Member ABAA and ILAB. All items are offered subject to prior sale. Please add $5.00 shipping for the first book, $1.00 for each additional volume. New clients are requested to send remittance with order. All shipments outside the United States will be charged shipping at cost. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD and AMERICAN EXPRESS. (603) 772-8443; FAX (603) 772-3384; e-mail: [email protected] http://www.colophonbooks.com 1. (AGEE, James). MOREAU, Genevieve. The Restless Journey of James Agee. New York: Morrow, 1977, octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. 320pp. First Edition. Poet, film critic, journalist, novelist, essayist and screenwriter. Very fine copy, jacket not price clipped. (10322) $8.00 $5 2. (AIKEN, Conrad). BONNELL, F. W. and F. C. Conrad Aiken. A Bibliography (1902-1978). San Marino: Huntington Library, 1982, octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. (xiv), 292pp. First Edition. A comprehensive bibliography which follows the format of the Pittsburgh and Soho series of bibliographies. Fine. (1) $10.00 $5 3. (ALDINE PRESS). BARKER, Nicolas, Paul G. Naiditch, Kathryn Chew, and others. A Catalogue of the Ahmanson- Murphy Aldine Collection at UCLA. Fascicule II. Los Angeles: Department of Special Collections, University of California, 1991, octavo, blue wrappers with gilt printing and decoration. (xvi), (162)pp. First Edition. The Publications of Aldus the Elder’s Heirs 1515-1529. Illustrations in black and white. Fine. (15368) $25.00 $15 4. (ALDINE PRESS). FLETCHER, H. George. In Praise of Aldus Manutius. A Quincentenary Exhibition. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, quarto, wrappers. xii, (132)pp. First Edition. Extensively illustrated in black and white and in color. With a foreword by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. and Preface by David S. Zeidberg. A useful and highly informative catalogue of this remarkable exhibition. With a bibliography and a census of Aldines and related books in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Very fine. (10558) $8.00 $5 5. (ALDINE PRESS). NAIDITCH, Paul G. and Sure A. Kaplan, (editors). A Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection at UCLA. Fascicule IIIa: The Publications of Paulus Manutius, 1533-1557. Los Angeles: Univ Research Library, UCLA, 1992, octavo, wrappers. (xxii), 273pp. First Edition. followed by (x) of plates. A scholarly attempt to date and order Aldine Press publications through a study of internal evidence, and when this fails, to fall back to Renouard because “we are unwilling to differ with him without cause.” Each entry lists date, item number, main heading ( author), title page and colophon transcriptions, collations, binding notes, provenance notes, dating notes, and bibliography. New. (10794) $25.00 $15 6. (ALLEN, Rev. George, Sale). Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the Rev. George Allen, of Worcester... Boston: Joseph Leonard, Auctioneer, June 19-20, 1877, octavo, printed wrappers. 28 pp. 663 lots. McKay 2251. McKay location notes on front wrapper, else a fine, solid copy of an early American auction. (19002) $75.00 $35 7. ALLEN, W. E. Some Aspects of the American Short Story. London: Oxford Univ Press, 1973, octavo, wrappers. 18pp. Offprint from “The Proceedings of the British Academy” Vol. LIX. Very fine. (10536) $12.50 $6 8. (ALLINGHAM, William). LASNER, Mark Samuels. William Allingham. A Bibliographical Study. Philadelphia: Holmes Publishing, 1993, octavo, cloth. 88pp. First Edition. First Separate Edition, Limited to 200 copies. This is a revised and illustrated edition of Mark Samuels Lasner’s bibliography of the poet, William Allingham, which was previously in the 1990 Summer and Autumn issues of “The Book Collector.” Included in the text is a lengthy introductory comment on Allingham and his works, together with full collations of this first editions, a section of illustrations, and an index. New. (10289) $20.00 $10 9. (AMERICAN LITERATURE). An Exhibition of American Literature: Honoring the completion of the editorial work on the 100th volume approved by the Center for Editions of American Authors. Bloomington IN: The Lilly Library, 1973, octavo, yellow printed wrappers. First Edition. Chapters include Eighteenth Century Fiction by Americans or About America Published Abroad, American Editions of English Novels, American Drama, and the First Twenty-Five Years of American Fiction. Among the American authors whose works are discussed: Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Samuel L. Clemens, William Dean Howells, and more. Includes Editions of American Authors Published by CEAA. Illustrated. Very fine. (15646) $12.50 $6 10. (AMERICAN LITERATURE). MARTINE, James J. Fred Lewis Pattee & American Literature. Univ Park: Penn State Univ Press, (1973), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xvi, 193pp. First Edition. A chronicle both of the teaching of literature and the rise of American literature in importance during the nineteen twenties, when after World War I people began to appreciate things American. (10958) $20.00 $9 11. (AMERICAN PRINTMAKERS). Graphic Excursions: American Prints in Black and White, 1900-1950. Selections from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. (Boston): David R. Godine, (1991), small quarto, black cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (155)pp. First Edition. This publication accompanied a traveling exhibition presenting 110 prints, among them George Bellows, Edward Hopper, John Marin, and lesser known artists, Birger Sandzen, Jan Matulka, from the Williams collection. The catalog includes comprehensive essays on printmakers and printmaking during this period, and complete biographies of each artist represented. Illustrations in black and white. Very fine in a very fine jacket. (13997) $10.00 $6 12. (AMERICAN SPECTATOR). The American Spectator: A Literary Newspaper. Vol. I, No. 1 through Vol. I, No. 7; November, 1932 through May, 1933. The first seven issues folded twice with original print wrap-around band which noted the contributors to that issue. Very fine without wear, fading or chipping. Publication was suspended with the April/May, 1935 issue. These first seven issues were edited by George Jean Nathan, Ernest Boyd, James Branch Cabell, and Eugene O’Neill. “Like ‘Contempo’ and ‘The Chicago Literary Times,’ ‘The American Spectator’ is a ‘literary newspaper,’ offering comment on a wide variety of subjects interesting to the student of modern letters. Unlike its Chicago brothers, its point of view is series, and iats purpose to evaluate our age without’ commercial or advertising’ prejudice. Theodore Dreiser and Eugene O’Neill appear in the role of critics. The prose of Sherwood Anderson is also in evidence. The criticism of Joseph Wood Krutch, Ernest Boyd, and Robert Linn also appears. There are frequent satirical references to certain writers and movements...Short stories are contributed by Jerome Weidman and Sherwood Anderson.” Hoffman, Allen and Ulrich, The Little Magazine, p. 304. (17856) $45.00 $25 13. (AMERICANA). Acts and Laws of the Thirteen Original Colonies and States Constituting the Collection Made by Hon. Russell Benedict Justice of the Supreme Court of New York. New York: American Art Association, February 27, 1922, octavo, printed wrappers. unpaginated. 479 lots. From the 4 pp. prospectus which is laid in, “Not only has Judge Benedict endeavored to make his Collection as complete as possible, especially in relation to the Laws of New York, but in doing so he has also striven after the finest possible copies to be obtained, the result that he has brought together examples of many of the most important Laws of the Colonial times, which are not only excessively rare and valuable, but also unique in their state. The number of examples printed by the early New York printers, especially those by William Bradford, the first New York Printer, is remarkable in its extent, there being no less than 24 imprints by William Bradford...” Illustrated with facsimiles of title pages. Each lot neatly priced in pencil. Wrappers dust soiled with edge wear. (21606) $45.00 $20 14. (AMERICANA). ADAMS, Ramon F. Burs Under the Saddle. A Second Look at Books and Histories of the West. Norman: Univ of Oklahoma Press, (1989), octavo, wrappers. xiv, 610pp. Paperbound edition. With a Foreword by William W. Savage, Jr. A critical examination of 425 titles about the American West, correcting the myths and inaccuracies about the famous outlaws and lawmen of popular history. Very fine. (2205) $15.00 $10 15. (AMERICANA). ADAMS, Ramon F. More Burs Under the Saddle. Books and Histories of the West. Norman: Univ of Oklahoma Press, (1989), octavo, wrappers. (xvi), 182pp. Paperbound edition. With a Foreword to this paperbound edition by William W. Savage, Jr., and Foreword to the First Edition by Wayne Gard. A bibliography of 200 books about the West, each with extensive notes correcting inaccuracies of fact and legend about the outlaws and lawmen of the old West. Very fine. (2206) $9.95 $6 16. (AMERICANA). RICH, O. Bibliotheca Americana Nova. A Catalogue of Books in Various Languages, relating to America Printed since the year 1700 including Voyages to the Pacific and Round the World and Collections of Voyage and Travels. Two volumes. New York: Burt Franklin, [circa 1967], octavo, brown cloth. 424, 412, (ii), 16, 8, 48 pp. Reprint. Cloth slightly soiled as are the edges of the text blocks. (18014) $50.00 $30 17. (AMERICANA). Treasures Revealed from the Paul Mellon Library of Americana. Charlottesville: Howell Press, (2001), quarto, black boards in pictorial dust jacket.