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Fiction, Poetry, and Miscellaneous............................................... Items 1 - 236
Children’s Books...................................................................... Items 237 - 267
Mysteries & Detective Fiction.................................................. Items 268 - 298
Oh, well. We’ve finally gotten over our bitter disappointment about not winning the
Nobel Peace Prize (again!) despite our constant efforts to spread joy throughout the world.
But our loss is your gain, as we’ve taken that time that we had originally allotted for writing
our acceptance speech, and used it to prepare another catalog. So far this year we’ve bought
over 100,000 books (and the year’s not over yet). While we are unusually industrious in our
production of catalogs, you can probably understand that not every one of these vivacious
volumes is going to emerge into full-color splendor in one of our regular catalogs. So once
again we’ve compromised, and printed you a list of new arrivals in black and white. Really,
the least you can do to assuage our bruised feeling after this latest rejection is to buy a couple
of dozen books. And if the lack of color is that vexing to you, well you can find full color images of these books on our website. And since you were probably going there soon anyway...
One more note: Several of the items in this catalog are inscribed to Rachel MacKenzie.
MacKenzie replaced Katherine White as the fiction editor at the New Yorker, on the latter’s
retirement, on the recommendation of May Sarton. During her tenure at the magazine
MacKenzie was noted for her nurturing and editing of, among others, Sarton, Philip
Roth, Muriel Spark, and especially Isaac Bashevis Singer. MacKenzie’s enthusiasm led to
the magazine devoting an entire issue to Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. However,
the magazine wouldn’t publish Goodbye, Columbus as she recommended because Wallace
Shawn was too squeamish over the more “frank” aspects of the novella.
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Fiction, Poetry & Miscellaneous
ALBEE, Edward. The Zoo Story The Death of Bessie Smith The
Sandbox. New York: Coward-McCann (1960). First edition.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with the price intact, and a large
but very faint stain. Author’s first hardcover book, preceded
only by a wrappered acting edition. The only copy we have
seen in recent memory with the price intact.
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ALFRED, William. The Annunciation
Rosary. Matawan, New Jersey: The Sower Press 1948. First
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edition. Fine in wrappers. Warmly Inscribed by the author. A
play in verse, the author’s first book.
ANDREWS, Frank. Bum on Fifth
Avenue: Song of an Ugly Man. Toronto, Ont.: New
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Line Fraternity 1962. First edition. Printed green wrappers.
85pp. Pencil word (“Andy”?) on the front wrap, else near fine.
Author’s complimentary slap laid in. Epic biographical (and possibly autobiographical) poem
about a bum who badly needs a dime for a cup of coffee. Unusual, we’ve never seen another;
neither have OCLC or Copac, which locate no copies.
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(Anthology). Poetry Festival: Commissioned Poems 1962.
San Francisco: The Poetry Center, San Francisco State
College 1962. First edition. Stapled die-cut illustrated
orange wrappers. Quarto. Fine. Includes poems by Brother
Antoninus, James Broughton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack
Gilbert, Thom Gunn, Josephine Miles, Harold Witt, Muriel
Rukeyser, and W.D. Snodgrass.
(Architecture). HALBERT, Blanche,
edited by. The Better Homes Manual
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[Published in Co-Operation with Better Homes
in America]. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
[1931]. First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good orange
dustwrapper with fading
and small tears at the spine. A scholarly guide to homes and
remodeling, take is very scarce in jacket.
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(Arctic). KENT, Rockwell. N By E.
New York: Brewer and Warren 1930. First trade edition. Fine
in a nice, very good or better dustwrapper with three very
small chips. The jacketed trade edition is many times scarcer
than the limited edition.
(Art). ALAJALOV, Constantin.
Autograph Letter Signed. [New York: 1975]. One
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page Autograph Letter Signed, dated Dec. 20, 1975, written
in green ink on Alajalov’s personal stationery. Folded for
mailing, else fine. The artist responds to a correspondent who has suggested Alajalov make
a book of his work. He writes, “At present I have no plans, nor ideas, nor inclinations to do
anything about it, but, just the same, I want to thank you for the flattering idea. Sincerely
yours, Constantin Alajalov.”
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(Art & Photography, EAKINS, Thomas). HENDRICKS,
Gordon. The Photographs of Thomas
Eakins. New York: Grossman Publishers 1972. First
edition. Quarto. Fine in very good dustwrapper with
some foxing and offsetting on the front panel.
(Art). KANE, Bob with Tom
Andrae.
Batman and Me.
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Forestville, California:
Eclipse Books 1989.
First edition. Quarto.
Blue cloth gilt with applied illustration. Fine in fine slipcase,
accompanied by original shipping carton. One of 1000
numbered copies Signed by Kane on a limitation label on the
front fly, and each with a full-page drawing by Kane, in this
case, a drawing of Batman. An as new copy.
(Art, LEWIS, Martin). McCARRON,
Paul. The Prints of Martin Lewis: A
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Catalogue Raisonne.
Bronxville, New York: (M. Hausberg 1995). First edition.
Quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of soiling.
Nicely Inscribed by compiler Paul McCarron.
(Art). POPPER, Frank. (Yakov
Agam). Agam. New York: Harry N. Abrams (1990).
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Third revised edition. Large quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
Includes a multicolored drawing in marker in which Agam
has incorporated his signature
five times.
(Automotive).
MURPHY, Thos. D.
New England Highways and Byways from
a Motor Car. Boston: L.C. Page & Company 1924. First
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edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of small
nicks and tears, in a lightly worn, very good or better box with
applied illustration. Scarce thus.
(Automotive). WINN, Mary Day. The
Macadam Trail: Ten Thousand Miles by Motor
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Coach. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1931. First edition.
Illustrated by E.H. Suydam. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of very small
tears on the rear panel. Account of a ten thousand-mile trip.
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(Automotive Trailers). NASH, Charles Edgar. Trailer
Ahoy! Being as comprehensive a book on
the automobile house trailer as is possible for
one man to prepare at this time from his own
experiences and the fragmentary data available
in an industry frantic with the demands of
production. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Intelligencer Printing
Company 1937. First edition. Cloth with applied illustration,
spine gilt. Illustrated from photographs. Cloth rubbed near
the crown, spine lettering a little dull, one page wrinkled, else
a handsome, near fine copy without dustwrapper (possibly as
issued). Signed by the author.
15 BARNES, Djuna. A Night among
the Horses. New York:
Horace Liveright 1929. First edition. Faint offsetting to the
half-title from a clipping, and on the fly leaves from an old
tape repair to the jacket, else near fine in good, price-clipped
dustwrapper with small chips and tape shadows from the old
repair (with the tape professionally removed). A collection of
short stories, poems, and plays. Scarce in jacket.
(Baseball). [Promotional Brochure]: Ye
New Georgia Chain Gang Announce Their
First New England Tour. East Coast’s Newest
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and Most Outstanding Baseball Club Presenting
the Best in Baseball and
Comedy. (Somerville, MA):
Ye New Georgia Chain Gang (1950). One quarto leaf folded
to make four pages. Faint vertical crease and some modest
foxing, else near fine. A brochure announcing the formation of
a new (and apparently short-lived) comic barnstorming baseball
team. Front cover photo shows the warden, with bat and pistol,
holding two players, with mitts and dressed in convict stripes, at
bay. The players (as listed) were a combination of minor league
stars and retired journeyman major leaguers, and including
Charley Osgood (ex-Dodgers), Sam Gentile (ex-Braves), Ray
Martin (ex-Braves), Lou Belanger, etc. The team seems to be
an offshoot of barnstormers the New England Hoboes, and
includes a former Kokomo Clown as well. Whether the tour
came off is not clear, as we can find no further information about the team. OCLC references
no copies of this brochure.
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(Baseball). EVERS, John J. and Hugh S. Fullerton.
Touching Second: The Science of Baseball.
Chicago: Reilly & Britton (1910). First edition. Cloth with
applied photographic illustration. Corners a bit worn, and
the usual heavy rubbing to the cover illustration, a very good
copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. A solid copy of this “howto” book for boys by the second baseman made famous in
the “Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance” double play combination.
Illustrated with photos of various baseball greats, including
Evers, Frank Chance, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Nap Lajoie,
Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, “Home Run” Baker and
others showing how it’s done. Later re-issued as Baseball in the
Big Leagues.
(Baseball fiction). DAVIES,
Valentine. It Happens Every Spring. New
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York: Farrar Straus 1949. First edition. Some sunning to the
boards, very good in good dustwrapper with some moderate
chipping. An amusing baseball romance, about a chemistry
professor who invents a substance that makes baseballs avoid all
wood surfaces (i.e. bats) and embarks on a spectacular pitching
career. Basis for the Lloyd Bacon film, scripted by Davies, with
Ray Milland and Jean Peters. A scarce title.
(Basketball). CAUDLE, Edwin C.
Collegiate Basketball: Facts and Figures on the
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Cage Sport. 1959 edition. Winston-Salem NC: John F.
Blair, Publisher (1960). First edition. Two tiny tears in the
cloth, and corresponding very small holes in the jacket, else
fine in fine dustwrapper. Accompanied by a wrappered “1960 Supplement,” which is lightly
rubbed, but about fine. A nice copy of this uncommon compendium.
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Producer’s Copy
BEACH, Rex. Big Brother and Other
Stories. New York: Harper and Brothers (1923). First
edition. Ownership stamp of film production company
Famous Players-Lasky, fine in very good or better dustwrapper
with a scrape on the front panel. A collection of six short
stories, at least three of which were filmed. The title story
was the basis for the 1923 film Big Brother directed by Allan
Dwan produced by Famous Players-Lasky. It also served as
the basis for the 1931 film Young Donovan’s Kid directed by
Fred Niblo and starring Richard Dix, Marion Shilling, Jackie
Cooper, and Boris Karloff (a few films before his star-making
turn in Frankenstein). The the story “Too Fat to Fight” was the
basis for the 1918 film of the same name directed by Hobart
Henley. Also, the story “Recoil” was filmed by T. Hayes Hunter as The Recoil in 1924 with
Mahlon Hamilton, Betty Blythe, and Clive Brook.
(BEACH, Sylvia). Sylvia Beach 18871962. Paris: Mercure De France 1963. First edition.
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Wrappers. Illustrated from photographs. A small bump on the
front wrap, else fine. A homage to Beach with contributions by
T.S. Eliot, Bryher, Marianne Moore, Janet Flanner, Malcolm
Cowley, Allen Tate, Yves Bonnefoy, and others. One of 1400
copies. A lovely copy.
BECKOVIC, Matija and Dusan
Radovic. Che: A Permanent Tragedy [with]
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Random Targets. New York:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
(1970). First American edition.
Fine in fine dustwrapper. A
dramatic social satire, accompanied by satiric essays by two
Serbian authors. A beautiful copy of a very scarce play.
BEITH, Gilbert, Edited by. Edward
Carpenter: In Appreciation. London: George Allen
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and Unwin Ltd (1931). First edition. Edited by Gilbert Beith.
Very good with a light water stain on the top cover edges, light
foxing on the pages, lacking the dustwrapper. An appreciation
of early gay activist and socialist philosopher Edward
Carpenter with contributions by E.M. Forster, Havelock Ellis,
Laurence Housman, Henry Salt, and various other friends and colleagues.
BELLOW, Saul. Humboldt’s Gift. (New
York): Viking Press (1975). First edition. Usual slight toning to
the pages, else fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny rub on the
front panel. Laid in is a decorative envelope Signed by Bellow. A
fresh, very nice copy of this Nobel Prize winner’s scarce Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel, which reportedly had a small first printing.
Burgess 99 title. Very scarce in this condition.
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BENEDIKT, Michael. Serenade in Six
Pieces. (Huntington, Connecticut: M. Sabados 1958). First
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edition. 24mo. A trilfe age-toned, and corners a little bumped,
still very near fine in wrappers. One of 55 numbered copies,
this copy Inscribed by the author to poet Howard Moss: “Dear
Mr Moss – Please accept this as a small thanks for ‘A Summer
Grove,’ and others. Michael Benedikt.” Poet’s first book.
BERKMAN, Sylvia. Blackberry Wilderness. Garden City:
Doubleday 1959. First edition. A little spotting to the boards, very good in very good
dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to an editor at the New Yorker, Rachel MacKenzie (see
introduction): “For Rachel, with love, Sylvia. January 29, 1959.”
$50
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BLAKE, Michael. Dances With
Wolves. New York: Newmarket Press (1991). First
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hardcover edition (preceded by a paperback original). With
an afterword by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Briefly
Inscribed by the author.
(Books Collecting). BASBANES,
Nicholas A. Patience and Fortitude: A
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Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and
Book Culture. (New York): HarperCollinsPublishers (2001).
First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a rubbed tear
at the corner of the crown, and a little additional rubbing.
Signed by the author.
(Book Collecting). STONE, Herbert
Stuart. First Editions of American Authors: A Manual for Book29
Lovers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Stone and Kimball 1893. First edition. Introduction by
Eugene Field. Green cloth gilt. Ownership signature of Bernard Flexner, lawyer, philanthropist,
and Zionist leader. Very slight bumping to the spine ends, just about fine.
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BOWLES, Paul. The Spider’s House.
New York: Random House (1955). First edition. Fine in near
fine dustwrapper with a wrinkled tear on the rear panel.
BOYLE, T. Coraghessan. East Is
East. (New York): Viking (1990). First edition. Fine in fine
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dustwrapper. Signed by the author. From the Library of Bruce
Kahn.
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BRIDIE, James. Colonel Wotherspoon
and Other Plays. London:
Constable & Co 1934. First
edition. Owner’s name else fine
in a price-clipped, very good or
better dustwrapper with slight
spine-fading. Plays by a Scottish writer and frequent film
collaborator with Alfred Hitchcock. The other three plays
represented are What It Is to Be Young, The Dancing Bear, and
The Girl Who Did Not Want to go to Kuala Lumpur. The true
first is uncommon.
BRITTON, Kenneth Phillips. Winter’s
Back in Town. Paris: [no publisher] 1927. First edition.
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12mo. Quarter cloth and printed paper covered boards.
Corners rubbed, else near very good. Signed by the author.
A (probably self-published) book of poetry published in Paris by a forgotten American
playright who authored two Broadway plays (one of which, Houseparty was set in the library
of a fraternity house at Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts). Some of Britton’s
poetry was published in the New Yorker. OCLC locates two copies.
BROUGHTON, James and Gerard
Hoffnung. The Right Playmate. London:
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Rupert Hart Davis 1952. First edition. Papercovered boards.
A chip at the spine, thus good in a spine-sunned and modestly
chipped and torn, good dustwrapper. Inscribed (but not
signed) by Broughton with a long, nearly full-page poem on
the subject of the book: finding the right playmate.
BUCK, Pearl S. Imperial Woman. New
York: John Day Company (1956). First edition. Fine in fine
and bright dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. A superlative,
as new copy – the nicest we’ve seen of a surprisingly
uncommon title, an historical novel about the last Empress of
China.
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BUECHNER, Frederick. A Long Day’s Dying. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf 1950. First edition. Near fine in very good, priceclipped dustwrapper with a long tear on the front panel.
Warmly Inscribed by Buechner to fellow author Nicholas
Delbanco. The noted author and Presbyterian minister’s first
book, a richly symbolic work about a widow who has an affair
with her son’s college teacher and, to save her own reputation,
accuses the latter two of a homosexual relationship. The first
book by an author whose long and prolific career has included
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations.
(Business). THOMAS, Dorothy
Swaine. Social Aspects of the Business
Cycle. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1927. First American
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edition. Errata slip. Slight toning to the boards, still about
fine in very good dustwrapper with small tears, very shallow chips, and a little tanning at
the spine. Examination of sociological implications of business cycles by a Columbia Ph.D.
Scarce in jacket.
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CHAMBERLAIN, George Agnew. White Man. Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill (1919). First edition. Illustrated by W.H.D.
Koerner. Advance Copy in decorated papercovered boards
with applied printed label: “Mr. C.H. Ayers / Compliments
of the Publisher.” Rubbing to the spine ends, a small stain
on the edge of a few pages, a very good copy. An unusual
advance copy, issued without dustwrapper. English woman
slated to reluctantly marry a millionaire meets a pilot with
a plane, and heads off to Africa. Basis for the 1924 film
directed by Louis J. Gasnier and featuring Kenneth Harlan,
Alice Joyce, and Walter Long; but better known for being
Clark Gable’s screen debut.
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CHASE, Mary Ellen. The Golden Asse
and Other Essays. New York: Henry Holt 1929. First edition.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of short tears.
CHASE, Stuart. Men and Machines. New
York: Macmillan 1929. First edition. Illustrated by W.T. Murch.
Slight offsetting on the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper with
a short tear. The anatomy and invention of machinery, and what
it means for human labor. Beautiful unsigned Art Deco jacket art,
and a superb copy. Not particularly scarce, but very much so in
this condition.
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CHAYEFSKY, Paddy. The Passion of
Josef D. New York: Random House (1964). First edition.
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Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper. A card Signed by
Chayefsky laid into the book. A cheery little musical play about Joseph Stalin that featured
Peter Falk in the title role.
CHEEVER, John. The Brigadier and
the Golf Widow. New York: Harper and Row (1964).
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First edition. Tiny owner’s name, else fine in an attractive, very
good dustwrapper with two tears on the front panel, and with
some smudging on the rear panel. Signed by the author on a
tipped-in leaf.
CHESTER, Alfred. Jamie is My
Heart’s Desire. New York: Vanguard Press (1957).
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Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers and near fine
dustwrapper. The author’s first novel, with gay themes.
Uncommon format.
44 COHN, Nik. Arfur: Teenage Pinball Queen.
New York: Simon and Schuster 1970. First edition. Fine in slightly rubbed, near fine
dustwrapper with very shallow loss at the top of the front panel. Scarce title, especially in this
condition.
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COLEGATE, Isabel. Winter Journey.
London: Hamish Hamilton (1995). First edition. Fine in fine
dustwrapper. Signed by the author.
CORNCOB, Jonathan. (Noel Perrin).
The Adventures of Jonathan Corncob, Loyal
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American Refugee Written by Himself. Boston: David
R. Godine (1976). Reprint of the 1787 edition. Edited with
foreword by Noel Perrin. Fine in a mildly sunned, very good
dustwrapper. Inscribed by Noel Perrin to his editor at the New
Yorker, Rachel MacKenzie (see introduction): “To Rachel, whom I
love. Ned.”
$125
COURTELINE, Georges. The
Bureaucrats: Scenes from French Official Life
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[Messieurs les Ronds-de-Cuir]. London: Constable 1928.
First edition in English. Translated by Eric Sutton. Illustrated
by Donia Nachshen. A tiny bookstore label on the front
pastedown, foredge a trifle foxed, else fine in a price-clipped,
fine dustwrapper. Filmed on several occasions, probably most
notably in 1936, directed by Yves Mirande with an ensemble
cast headed by Arletty. Very scarce in jacket.
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COWLEY, Malcolm. Exile’s Return: A
Literary Odyssey of the
1920’s. New York: W.W. Norton
(1934). First edition. Slightly
soiled, else near fine in good dustwrapper with some chipping
and several short tears, and some evidence of tape removal on
the inside of the jacket. Scarce in jacket.
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CREELEY, Robert. A Quick Graph:
Collected Notes & Essays. San Francisco: Four Seasons
Foundation 1970. First edition, hardcover issue. Edited by
Donald Allen. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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CREELEY, Robert and Martha
Visser’t
Hooft.
Window. Buffalo: Poetry/Rare Books Collection
SUNY at Buffalo 1988. First edition, Fine in
wrappers and fine unprinted acetate dustwrapper
and envelope with applied title label. One of 100
numbered copies Signed by both the artist and poet.
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CROUZAT, Henri. Island at
the End of the World. New York: Duell, Sloan and
Pearce (1959). First American edition. Translated by Lowell
Bair. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight foxing on rear
panel. French air force officer marooned on desert island
with three beautiful English nurses after their hospital ship
is sunk, poor fellow. Basis for the 1959 French film L’île du
bout du monde directed by Edmond T. Gréville and featuring
Magali Noël, Dawn Addams, Rossana Podestà, and Christian
Marquand. The film was released in the U.S., not surprisingly,
as Temptation. Nice mildly suggestive jacket art by Larry Lurin.
Scarce in this condition.
(Cuisine). BONNEY, Therese &
Louise. A Guide to the Restaurants of
Paris. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company (1929).
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First edition. Slight edgewear to the boards, very good or
better in good dustwrapper with several modest chips and
tears. Scarce in jacket, a guide to Paris eateries at the height of
the Lost Generation invasion.
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(Cuisine). BRAUN, Lionel H. and
William Adams.
Fanny Hill’s Cook Book.
New York: Taplinger 1971. First
American edition. Illustrations
by Brian Forbes. Fine in near
fine dustwrapper with some rubbing and tiny tears. Mildly
salaciously illustrated recipes for comestibles and cocktails.
Scarce in nice condition.
(Cuisine, Dining). Trader Vic’s Book of
Food and Drink. Garden City: Doubleday 1946. First
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edition. Introduction by Lucius Beebe. Watercolor illustrations
by Guy Huzé. Drawings by William F.M. Kay. Neat owner
name on the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper with a little
rubbing. An especially nice copy.
DE REGNIERS, Beatrice Schenk.
The Little Book. New York: Henry Z. Walck,
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Inc. 1961. First edition. 24mo. Fine in very near fine
dustwrapper. Signed by the author, as well as Inscribed by
her to children’s book editor Frances Schwartz.
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DENISA, Lady Newborough. Fire
in my Blood. London:
Elek Books (1958). First
edition. A pen stroke on the
front pastedown, boards a little soiled, else near fine in good,
price-clipped dustwrapper lacking the bottom 1½" of the
spine, and with other light wear. Biography of an impoverished
aristocratic woman who ran away with the gypsies and then
supported her family mostly through her sexual exertions.
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DOS PASSOS, John. The Best Times.
New York: The New American Library, Inc. [1966]. Uncorrected
proof. Spiral bound in printed wrappers. Slight soiling, some
pencil marks in the margins, near fine. Scarce in this format.
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DUBERMAN, Martin. Black Mountain:
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DUNCAN, Robert. Selected Poems.
An Exploration in Community. New York: E.P. Dutton
1972. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch
of rubbing.
San Francisco: City Lights (1959). First edition, second issue
in perfectbound wrappers. Lightly soiled, near fine. Pocket
Poets Series number ten.
EAGAN, Alberta Stedman. New
Lamps. New York: The
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Macaulay Company 1930.
First edition. Owner’s name
stamps on the front endpapers, a small sticker removal mark
on the front fly, else near fine in near very good dustwrapper
with small chips and a dampstain on the rear panel. Jacket art
unsigned. Novel about the degenerate effects of vice and the
breezy lifestyle of two young Jazz Age women.
ELIOT, T.S. The Confidential Clerk: A
Play. London: Faber and Faber (1954). First edition (“Ihad”
for “I had” on p.7) in first
state dustwrapper (priced 10s
6d on the front flap). Small
owner’s name on the front fly, else fine in very good or better
dustwrapper with slight overall soiling.
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ELIOT, T.S. and Igor Stravinsky.
Anthem (The dove descending breaks the air):
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for chorus a cappella. London: Boosey & Hawkes Music
Publishers 1962. First edition. One leaf folded to make four
pages. Very slight age-toning else fine, in a worn and torn
envelope from the publisher. A memorial to Eliot, Stravinsky
sets Part IV of Little Gidding to music. Scarce.
ENGLISH,
Richard. Strictly Ding-Dong and Other
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Swing Stories. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran 1941.
First edition. Owner’s name on the front fly else fine in a
price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing. A
collection of swing stories featuring Ding-Dong Williams
which were the basis for the 1946 William A. Berke film
Ding Dong Williams featuring Glenn Vernon as Ding-Dong, a
genius with the clarinet who has to have others write what he
composes because he doesn’t know musical notation. Blurbs
by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Tommy
Dorsey, Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, and Rudy Vallee.
(Erotica). GAUTIER, Theophile.
Mademoiselle de Maupin. [NY]: Pierre Louys
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Society 1927. First edition thus. Illustrated by Clara Tice.
Fine save for a touch of wear to the board edges, without
dustwrapper as issued. No. 912 of 1250 copies printed, 960 of
which were meant for America.
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FARRELL, James T. Press Release,
Signed in Facsimile. New
York: Vanguard Press (ca. 1945).
Press release from Vanguard, using
the text of a letter from Farrell
protesting the Canadian banning
of Bernard Clare. Folded, with
the edges chipped, thus very good plus. Signed by Farrell in
facsimile.
FARRELL, James T. [Photocopied Offprint]:
The World Is Today. (No place): The World of Books
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1971. One photocopied quarto leaf printed recto only. Folded as
mailed, very good or better. Inscribed on the verso to critic and
author Harry Levin: “Dear Harry: In case this be of any interest,
I send it. Book no. 81 is more than 2/3 done. Best, Jim Farrell.”
The ink in the inscription has spread out a little on the photosensitive paper, but is still easily
readable. Paperclipped to the sheet is the original mailing envelope from Farrell to Levin.
67
FARRELL, James T. [Offprint]: Farrell Looks at his Writing
[from] Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and
Critical Journal. February 1976. (No place): Twentieth
Century Literature 1976. Stapled wrappers. 7pp. Staples
oxidized, a light smudge on the front wrap, one word corrected
in an unknown, but almost certainly Farrell’s hand (it came
from a number of offprints, most of which he had inscribed to
a noted scholar and author), and a stray ink mark on another
page, a very good copy.
FAULKNER,
William. Faulkner at
West Point. New York:
68
Random House (1964). First
edition. Edited by Joseph L.
Fant, III and Robert Ashley. Foreword by W.C. Westmoreland.
Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip
laid in. Transcriptions of Faulkner’s speeches and answers to
students’ questions during his April, 1962 visit to West Point,
which was one of his last public appearances. An exceptionally
fresh copy.
FORESTER, C.S. Randall and the
River of Time. Boston: Little, Brown and Company
69
1950. First edition, preceding the UK edition. Fine in fine,
price-clipped dustwrapper with some light rubbing. Young
British WWI officer falls in love during leave. An unusually
fresh copy of a relatively common title.
FORESTER, C.S. The Good
Shepherd. Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1955).
70
First edition, preceding the UK. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An
unusually fine copy.
FORESTER, C.S. Hornblower and the
Crisis. London: Michael
71
Joseph (1967). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A
lovely copy of the last Hornblower novel, along with two
short stories. Scarce in this condition.
GAYE, Phoebe Fenwick. The Good
Sir John. New York: Horace Liveright (1930). First
72
American edition. Boards a
little soiled, else near fine in
an attractive, very good plus
dustwrapper with a crease on
the spine. English author’s
novel about Sir John Falstaff.
73
GENET, Jean. The Thief’s Journal.
(Paris): Olympia Press (1954). First edition in English, with
additional notes by the author. Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Wrappers as issued. Fine.
The Traveller’s Companion Series.
74
GIBBONS,
Stella. The Charmers. (London): Hodder and
Stoughton (1965). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper
with a little toning to the spine, and a small chip at the crown.
A scarce novel of London, by the author of Cold Comfort
Farm. Jacket design by Jennie Paul.
GILCHRIST, Ellen. Two Stories. New
York: Albondocani Press 1988. First edition. Stapled selfwrappers. A fine, as new copy. Prospectus for the edition laid
in. Copy number 2 of 150 numbered copies Signed by the
author.
75
GLASGOW, Ellen. The Romance of a Plain Man. New York:
Doubleday, Page 1910. First edition. Spine faded and rubbed, a very good copy. Inscribed by
the author: “Felicity Clark Dunne, Ellen Glasgow.” A relatively scarce title.
76
77
GOREY, Edward. Amphigorey Also.
New York: Congdon and Weed (1975). First edition. Fine in
fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. A nice, fresh copy.
GOREY, Edward. Gorey Stories. New
York: Samuel French, Inc. (1983). First edition. Conceived
and adapted for the Stage by Stephen Currens from Eighteen
stories by Edward Gorey. Music by David Aldrich. Stapled
blue wrappers. Fine.
78
(GOREY,
Edward). MOORE,
Merrill. Illegitimate
Sonnets. New York: Twayne Publishers (1950). First
79
edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, very good dustwrapper with
a short tear and an owner’s name on the front flap. Endpapers
by Edward Gorey, his first commercially published book
appearance.
GRAHAM, Harry.
The Private Life of
Gregory Gorm. London:
80
Peter Davies (1936). First
edition. Top edges of the easily susceptible boards a little
sunned, else fine in near fine, Nicholas Bentley-illustrated
dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. A nice copy of this
uncommon comic novel about a fatuous cleric.
81
GRAVES, Robert. Wife to Mr. Milton.
New York: Creative Age Press (1944). First American edition.
Lightly worn, very good or better
copy in near very good dustwrapper with general wear and
small chips and tears.
GRAVES, Robert. The Crane Bag and
Other Disputed Subjects. London: Cassell (1969). First
edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful, very nearly as
new copy.
82
HANFF, Helene. The Duchess of
Bloomsbury Street. Philadelphia and New York:
83
J.B. Lippincott (1973). First edition. Fine in near fine
dustwrapper with very slight wear. Warmly Inscribed by the
author. The story of Anglophile Hanff ’s first visit to England,
and something of a sequel to 84 Charing Cross Road.
HARTE, Francis Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other
Sketches. Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co. 1870. First edition, first state. Green cloth gilt.
Tiny owner’s stamp on the front fly, modest edgewear to the boards, paper over front hinge
starting to crack, a sound, about very good copy. The story and book that propelled Harte to
international fame. BAL 7246.
84
85
HAWES, Elizabeth. Men Can Take It.
New York: Random House (1939). First edition. Illustrated by
James Thurber. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple
of tears, a tiny nick at the crown, and a small stain on the rear
panel. An attack on men’s fashion. Scarce in jacket.
HELD, John, Jr. The Gods Were
Promiscuous. New York: Vanguard Press 1937. First
86
edition. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the
author “To Dorothy Quick Mayer. John Held Jr.” Humorous
novel by the pre-eminent illustrator of the Jazz Age. Meyer
wrote mysteries under her maiden name, and while still a girl
she befriended another humorist, Mark Twain.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. By-Line: Ernest
Hemingway. Selected Articles and Dispatches of
87
Four Decades. London: Collins (1967). Uncorrected proof
of the first English edition. Edited by William White. A small
crease on the front wrap, title written on the spine, very good
or better in red wrappers with applied printed label. Scarce in
this format.
HEPBURN, Katherine. Typed Letter
Signed. One page Typed Letter Signed (“Kate”) in a slightly
88
infirm hand on her Katherine Houghton Hepburn stationery
dated 3 January 1991. Fine. A brief letter, in full: “Dear Noel: I
say – that’s quite a letter to get from you – Has me walking on
a cloud – Wow! When are you
coming here? I feel as if I haven’t seen you in a thousand years
– Affection and thanks – Kate.” A nice, personal letter.
HERGESHEIMER, Joseph. Quiet
Cities. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1928). First edition.
89
Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing at
the crown. A very nice copy.
90
HEYWARD, Du Bose. Lost Morning.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart (1936). First edition. Fine
in spine-faded, very good or better dustwrapper. Advance
Review Copy, so stamped on the front fly.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Address
Delivered at the Dedication of the Hall of
the Boston Medical
Library Association,
91
on December III,
MDCCCLXXVIII... Report
of the Librarian James
R. Chadwick. Cambridge:
Printed at the Riverside
Press 1881. First edition. Printed wrappers. 39, 18pp. Light
edgewear, near fine. Chadwick’s report is paginated separately
from the Holmes address.
HUBBARD,
Ralph. Queer
92
Person. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1930. First
edition. Illustrated by Harold von Schmidt. A tiny bookstore
label on the front fly, very near fine in a modestly age-toned,
very good dustwrapper with a few faint creases. Story of an
outcast Indian boy. Very scarce in jacket.
HUGHES,
Ted. Illustrated
93
with photographs
by Fay Godwin.
Remains of Elmet:
A Pennine Sequence. (London): Faber and Faber
(1979). First edition. Slight rubbed spot, and a tiny bump
to one corner, near fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful
copy.
HYMAN, Sarah (Shirley
Jackson). Patchwork Quilt. (No place 94
New York): Gentlemen’s Quarterly (No date - probably
1958). Folio. Four loose tall quarto proof sheets printed rectos only, printing this complete
short story by the daughter of Shirley Jackson, then age sixteen, and representing her first
published work. The story is very much in the style of her mother, and exhibits considerable
talent, perhaps to the extent that she could have had guidance from her mother, or her father,
the literary essayist and critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Aside for some preliminary matter for
a collection of her mother’s unpublished stories, the author doesn’t appear to have published
much else. Folded once horizontally, with very light wear, near fine. Possibly unique.
ISHAM, Juliet Calhoun. Winds and
Tides. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1925. First edition.
95
Slight offsetting on the front fly from a clipping, else fine in very
good dustwrapper with some shallow chipping. Inscribed by the
dedicatee, the author’s son, Ralph H. Isham, a financier, biggame hunter, and the discoverer and purchaser of the personal
papers of James Boswell: “To Gertrude Broderick in trembling
hand and with apologies after a hectic day. Ralph H. Isham. 21
Sept. 1934, New York City.” Laid in are two photographs of the
author, and a clipping and press release about Ralph’s purchase
of the Boswell Papers.
JACOBS, W.W.
Salthaven. London:
96
Methuen (1908). First edition. Pictorial green cloth. A trifle
worn at the spine ends, still very near fine. A nice copy.
JARRELL, Randall. The Complete
Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1969. First
97
edition. A tiny bump on the spine, still easily fine in fine
dustwrapper. Scarce in this
condition.
98
KAY, Ted. Hazel.
(New York): E.P. Dutton 1946. First edition. A small
bookplate remnant on the front fly, else near fine in a priceclipped, else fine dustwrapper. A nice copy of the first Hazel
book, and surprisingly scarce.
KEMP, Harry. The Thresher’s Wife. New
York: Albert and Charles Boni 1914. First edition. Corners
rubbed, else near fine with a small chip at the top of the
paper spine label. Signed by the author.
99
100 KENEALLY, Thomas. Blood Red,
Sister Rose. London and Sydney: Collins 1974. Uncorrected proof. One corner a little
curled, very near fine. Scarce in this format.
101
KERR, Richard. Wireless Telegraphy Popularly Explained.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1898. First edition. 12mo. Yellow cloth stamped in red.
111pp. Front fly detached but present, small chips to the fly, boards a bit foxed, very good.
First book on wireless telegraphy in English. Very scarce.
KIP, Leonard. The Dead Marquise. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
1873. First edition. Original green cloth gilt. A tiny tear at the crown and a little rubbing at
the extremities, a nice otherwise near fine copy. Wright 1483.
102
KREYMBORG, Alfred. The Selected
Poems 1912-1944 of Alfred Kreymborg. New York:
103
E.P. Dutton 1945. First trade edition. Near fine with the gilt
lettering a bit dimmed and the spinal extremities bumped, in
near fine dustwrapper with the spine lightly sunned. Inscribed
by the author to Henry Leach, author and editor of The Forum,
with a manuscript letter Signed by Kreymborg and addressed
to Leach laid in.
LAUGHLIN, James. Gists & Piths: A
Memoir of Ezra Pound. (Iowa City): The Windhover Press
at Iowa 1982. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered
boards with printed paper spine label. Fine. One of 225 copies
of a total edition of 250.
104
105
LAX, Robert. The Circus of the Sun. (New York: Journeyman Books
1959). First edition. Cloth and photographically illustrated
papercovered boards. Drawings and design by Emil Antonucci.
Cover photograph by Charles Harbutt. Fine in good original
unprinted glassine dustwrapper. One of 500 numbered copies
Signed by both Lax and Antonucci. Additionally briefly
Inscribed by Lax: “Douglas / Bob.” Lax’s first and most famous
book, a meditation on the Creation, was described in the New
York Times as “perhaps the greatest English language poem
of this century.” A close friend of Thomas Merton’s, their
correspondence was published. Occasionally described as a
hermit, Lax did little to advance his literary career. His sparing
use of words qualifies him as one of the founders of literary
minimalism.
106
LEES-MILNE, James. Ancestral Voices.
London: Chatto and Windus 1975. First edition. Fine in fine, Reynold’s Stone-illustrated
dustwrapper with just a touch of age-toning. The first volume of Lees-Milne’s diaries, written
while inspecting houses on offer to the National Trust. A very
nice copy.
LEWIS, Sinclair. The Man Who Knew
Coolidge. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company
107
(1928). First edition. Fine in a near very good dustwrapper
with some loss at the crown. A flawed but presentable copy.
108
LINDSAY, Vachel. Going to the Sun.
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1923. First edition.
Illustrated by the author. Cloth beautifully restored at the
spine, gilt lettering on the spine is dull, else a near fine copy
in an attractive, internally repaired, good dustwrapper with
some loss at the crown, that has been supplied to this copy.
Inscribed by the author: “My very good wishes to my lifetime, lifelong friend Marjorie S.
Logan, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay – December 25, 1923.” Logan was the head of the Fine Arts
Department at Milwaukee-Downer College. A significant association copy.
109
LLOYD, Harold. Printed Calling Card Signed. Small engraved
calling card. Approximately 1½" x 3". Fine. Lloyd
has crossed out his printed name and written “Merry
Xmas, Harold.” Undated but a pencil note on the
back notes “from Christmas 1926.”
110
LOGUE, Christopher.
[Broadside]:
The Song of The Dead Soldier: (to the
tune of McCafferty): one killed in the interests
of certain Tory senators in Cyprus. London:
Villiers 1959. First separate edition. Folio. Folded in
quarters. Some even tanning, and a couple of tiny tears.
Scarce and fragile.
LOY, Mina. The Last Lunar
Baedeker. Highlands, North Carolina: The Jargon
111
Society 1982. First edition. Edited by Roger L. Conover.
Note by Jonathan Williams. Fine in fine dustwrapper, in
the original shrinkwrap. A beautiful copy.
(MacPHERSON, Kenneth, edited
by). Close Up. Number 5. November 1927.
112
Riant Chateau, Switzerland: Pool 1927. Wrappers. Volume
1. Lightly soiled, near fine. Includes articles by MacPherson,
Dorothy Richardson, Rene Crevel, and others. Uncommon
and influential English-language film journal published and
edited by Kenneth MacPherson, with an assist from his wife,
Bryher, between 1926 and 1933.
113
MALAMUD, Bernard. A New Life.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1961. First edition. A
poor copy with dampstaining
and wear, lacking the
dustwrapper, mitigated some by
being Inscribed by Malamud
to his close friend, the author
Nicholas Delbanco: “For Nick, Writer – Colleague – Friend
– who, with his lovely wife, makes more fun. Bern. Bennington
April 1974.”
MAMET, David. American Buffalo. New
York: Grove Press (1976). First edition, wrappered issue. Fine
in wrappers. The author’s first book. Winner of the 1976 Obie
Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best
American play of 1977.
114
MANKOWITZ, Wolf. A Kid for Two
Farthings. New York: E.P. Dutton 1954. First American
115
edition. Fine in bright, near fine dustwrapper with a little
light rubbing and some foxing visible only on the inside of
the jacket. Basis for Carol Reed’s first color film, scripted by
Mankowitz, a charming comedy about a London boy who
buys a one-horned goat and believes it to be a unicorn.
MAROTTA, Giuseppe. Neapolitan
Gold. London: Hogarth Press
116
1950. First English edition.
Translated from the Italian by
Frances Frenaye. A little foxing
on the title page else about fine
in a near fine dustwrapper with some tiny tears. Humorous
stories from Naples, and also the basis for the 1954 Vittorio
De Sica film L’Oro di Napoli. The film, which had six separate
segments, had a necessarily large cast that included Silvana
Mangano, Sophia Loren, Totò, Paolo Stoppa, and De Sica
himself. Very scarce.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The
Writer’s Point of View. London: Published for the
117
National Book League by the Cambridge University Press 1951. First edition. Stiff wrappers
in dustwrapper. Fine.
118
McALMON, Robert. A Hasty Bunch. (Paris: The Author 1922). First
edition. The rear wrapper has been sympathetically replaced, else
a very good or better copy. Small handbill “From an h’English
Printer to an English Publisher” laid in, and a trifle soiled.
McAlmon was the founder of Contact Editions which published
James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and several others, including Ernest
Hemingway’s first book. He was at the center of expatriate life
and helped to support various struggling artists and writers in
that tumultuous time. The author’s
second book, published at his own
expense prior to the formation of
Contact Editions.
McCARTHY,
Cormac. No Country
119
For Old Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2005. First
edition. Fine in dustwrapper with the slightest of rubbing, but
which is otherwise fine. Basis for the Coen Brothers film that
won four Academy Awards including Best Picture.
McMURTRY, Larry. Cadillac Jack. New York:
Simon & Schuster (1982). First edition. Cloth in cloth covered
slipcase. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author, one
of his less common limited editions. From the Library of Bruce Kahn.
120
121
McMURTRY, Larry. The Desert Rose. New
York: Simon & Schuster (1983). First edition.
Fine in slipcase as issued. One of 250 numbered
copies Signed by the author. A notably small
limitation for a major novel by an author of
McMurtry’s popularity and collectibility. From
the Library of Bruce Kahn.
122 MEAD, Taylor. On
Amphetamine and In Europe: Excerpts from the
Anonymous Diary of a New York Youth. Volume Three. New
York: Boss Books (1968). First edition. Wrappers. Top corner bumped,
else near fine. Poetry by an underground film star and New York poet
and performance artist. Very uncommon title.
123
MERWIN, W.S. The Miner’s Pale Children.
New York: Atheneum 1970. First edition. Bump at the top of the
rear board, very good in very good plus dustwrapper with a chip
on the rear panels. A collection of short stories, most of which first
appeared in the New Yorker. This copy Inscribed by Merwin to his
editor at the New Yorker Rachel MacKenzie (see introduction): “For
Rachel, all the children in one album at last – with love from Bill.
New York Nov. 1970.” A nice association.
124
MERWIN, W.S. Houses and Travellers.
New York: Atheneum 1977. First edition. Foxing on the foredge,
still near fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a few short tears.
One of 1000 copies printed. A collection of short stories, most of
which first appeared in the New Yorker. This copy Inscribed by
Merwin to his editor at the New Yorker Rachel
MacKenzie (see introduction): “For Rachel
who had more than she would ever admit in this book’s being as it is,
Her Copy with much love from Bill. New York Oct 26 1977.” A nice
association.
(Military). CHURCHILL, Winston S. The
River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan.
125
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode (1951). Third edition, fifth printing.
Bound by Bayntun in half black morocco and cloth by Bayntun. Slight
sunning to the cloth, else about fine. A handsome volume.
MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent.
Huntsman, What Quarry? New York: Harper &
126
Brothers (1939). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a
touch of soiling. A lovely copy.
127
MILLER, Arthur. Salesman in Beijing.
New York: The Viking Press (1984). First edition. Fine in near
fine dustwrapper with a crease on the front flap and a little
rubbing. Signed by Miller.
MILLER, John.
A Description of the
Province and City of
New York; with Plans
128
of the City and Several Forts as they existed in the
Year 1695…Now first printed from the original
manuscript. (To which is added, a Catalogue of an
extensive Collection of Books relating to America, on
sale by the Publisher) [cover title]: New York in 1695.
London: Thomas Rodd 1843. First edition. Sympathetically
rebacked in gray cloth gilt with original papercovered boards,
and printed paper title label on the front board. 44, [4], 21116pp. 6 folding plates. Mostly unopened. Bookplate on the
front pastedown, edgewear to the boards, old repair and a small chip to the last leaf of text,
else near fine. Howes M610.
129
MILLS, James. The Panic in Needle Park. New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux (1966). First edition. A couple of tiny spots on
a preliminary page, near fine in dustwrapper with a tear on
the front panel, but which is otherwise near fine. Basis for the
1971 film featuring Al Pacino in his first starring role (as well
as Raul Julia in his first credited movie part).
130
Woman Traveller
MINER, Clara M. as C.M.M. Stray Bits
from the Orient:
Experiences of an
American in Hindostan,
What She Saw, Heard
and Learned. Buffalo: The
Courier Company 1892. First
edition. Flexible green cloth
gilt. Penciled owner’s name on the front fly, a little rubbing.
near fine. According to the title page, “The Proceeds of this
work are to be devoted to the education and elevation of
Hindoo Women.”
MITCHELL, David. Cloud Atlas. (London):
Sceptre (2004). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with fine
wraparound band.
131
MONTAGUE, Margaret Prescott. Up
Eel River. New York: Macmillan Company 1928. First
132
edition. Illustrated by Martha Bensley Bruere. A bookplate
removed from the front fly causing a tear, else near fine in very
good dustwrapper with negligible and shallow nicks and tears.
Tony Beaver, a Paul Bunyan-type, performs amazing feats in the
West Virginia mountains.
133
(MOORE, Marianne). TAMBIMUTTU,
editor. Festschrift for
Marianne Moore’s
Seventy-Seventh Birthday. New York: Tambimuttu
& Mass 1964. First edition. Fine, with the spine lettering in
the second state, in near fine dustwrapper with two very small
chips. Inscribed by Moore: “For G.B.M. Marianne Moore Nov.
9 1966.” Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Contributors
include Robert Lowell, Babette Deutsch, May Swenson, James
Laughlin, Allen Tate, Kathleen Raine, Vernon Watkins, Allen
Ginsberg, Ruthven Todd, Howard Moss, Robert Penn Warren,
David Ignatow, Herbert Cahoon, Stanley Kunitz, James T.
Farrell, and others. Fifteen black and white drawings, most of
which are by Laurence Scott and Peggy Bacon. Dustwrapper
design by Leonard Baskin.
(Music). WHITEMAN, Paul and Leslie Lieber. How to Be a
Bandleader. New York: Robert M. McBride (1948). First edition. Copiously illustrated
134
with photographs of contemporary musicians in action. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a
couple of shallow nicks at the crown. An amusing, and very scarce book.
135
NATHAN, Robert. The Bishop’s Wife.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1928). Early reprint. Fine in
an attractive, very good dustwrapper with several small tears.
Inscribed by the author: “I’m afraid this isn’t a ‘first’. Robert
Nathan” (a seemingly uncommon example of an author
correctly being able to identify his own first editions). Basis
for the wonderful 1947 Christmas film in which Cary Grant
plays an angel who sets out to help a Bishop (David Niven),
but becomes the love interest of the Bishop’s wife (Loretta
Young). Remade in 1996 as The Preacher’s Wife with Denzel
Washington and Whitney Houston.
136
NIEDECKER, Lorine. The Collected Poems (1936-1966).
(Penland, North Carolina): The Jargon Society 1968. First
edition. Plant prints by A. Doyle Moore. Printed wrappers. Fine
in wrappers. One of 2000 copies. Jargon 48.
O’CONNOR, Flannery. Everything That
Rises Must Converge. New York: Farrar, Straus &
137
Giroux (1965). First edition. Some spotting on the topstain, else
near fine in fine dustwrapper. From the Library of Bruce Kahn.
O’CONNOR,
Flannery. Mystery and
Manners: Occasional
138
Prose selected and edited by
Sally and Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus &
Giroux (1969). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper, a lovely
copy of these fugitive essays, either unpublished or which
had appeared in scattered and often obscure periodicals. A
posthumous title which is becoming increasingly difficult to
find especially in this condition. From the Library of Bruce
Kahn.
O’NEILL,
Eugene. Lazarus Laughed. New York: Boni
139
& Liveright 1927. First edition, trade issue. Fine in fine
dustwrapper with a little foxing on the spine. A lovely copy of
the trade edition, seldom found thus.
(Paint). KELLY, A. Ashmun. The
Expert Paint Mixer:
140
Designed for the Use of
House and Structural
Painters. Giving a course
of instruction in the
preparation of paints
used for interior and
exterior work, with directions for applying them,
and with which course are included clear and
helpful observations on the theory, nature, and
origin of color, descriptions of bases, pigments,
and liquids employed in the compounding of
paints, with many useful tables and suggestions of
a practical nature. Philadelphia: David McKay Company,
Publishers 1923. Reprint (copyright page dated 1920). Fine in
near fine dustwrapper with tiny tears. A very nice copy.
PALAHNIUK, Chuck. Fight Club. New York: W.W. Norton (1996).
First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Basis for the intriguing David
141
Fincher film with Brad Pitt, Ed Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter which merits repeated
viewings and is destined for cult status. From the Library of Bruce Kahn.
142
PAYNE, John. Vigil and Vision: New Sonnets. London: Villon
Society 1903. First edition (advance issue?). Decorated cloth
stamped in red and gilt. A near fine copy. Bookplate of
H. Buxton Foreman, editor, book collector, bibliographer,
and literary fraudster on the front pastedown. Laid in is a
one page Autograph Letter Signed, written on the back of
a Villon Society flyer for the book from Alfred Foreman,
Secretary of the Society to his brother Henry Buxton
Foreman transmitting “accompanying advance sheets” (not
present) for this book, and asking for his corrections, and
also mentioning that he will have a special case made up for
the sheets. The book is lettered as copy “No. 1.” Despite a
long and distinguished literary career, H. Buxton Forman was
later implicated as a conspirator with Thomas Wise in that
gentleman’s celebrated literary forgeries.
143
PERRIN, Noel. Amateur Sugar Maker. Hanover, New Hampshire:
University Press of New England (1972). First edition.
Illustrated by Robert Mac Lean. A razor slit on the rear board
and rear panel of the jacket, slightly foxed, else very good in a
spine-tanned, very good dustwrapper with a short tear at the
foot. Nicely Inscribed by the author to his editor at the New
Yorker, Rachel MacKenzie (see introduction): “Rachel, the first
chapter of this book was written for you. And edited by you.
If only the other three had had the same treatment, a pretty
good book would have been a very good one. love, Ned. New
York 23 Nov. 1974.”
$150
144
PERRIN, Noel. First Person Rural:
Essays of a Sometime Farmer. Boston: David R.
Godine (1979). First edition. Illustrated by Stephen Harvard.
A trifle foxed, near fine in spine-tanned, very good dustwrapper with a short tear at the foot.
Nicely Inscribed by the author to his editor at the New Yorker:
“To my dearest Rachel – this would be a better inscription
if you had edited it. (But you’d leave the love.) Ned 22 Dec.
1978.”
$125
PERRY, George Sessions. Tale of a
Foolish Farmer. New York: McGraw-Hill (1951).
145
First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good plus, spinefaded dustwrapper with a couple of small chips. Signed by
the author. From the Library of Carter Burden. Memoir by a
Texas author about his return to Texas.
146
PETERSON, Brenda. River of Light.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1978). First edition. A little
foxed, else fine in a just about fine dustwrapper. First book by
a New Yorker staffer. Inscribed by the author to an editor at the
New Yorker, Rachel MacKenzie (see introduction): “3/78. To
Rachel, my first editor and gentle friend. Thank you for being
there at the end of this book. I worked towards your generous,
critical eyes like light. With love and respect, Brenda.”
MacKenzie is the first person thanked in the acknowledgments
of the book.
$85
147
PHILLIPS, Morris. Abroad and at
Home: Practical Hints
for Tourists. New York:
Brentano’s (1891). First edition.
Red cloth illustrated in gilt. Modest soiling to the boards,
very good or better. Inscribed by the author to mystery writer
Augusta Prescott, curiously, on the frontispiece tissue guard.
Interesting illustrated coated purple endpapers.
(Philosophy). HEIDEGGER, Martin.
Holzwege [Off the Beaten Track]. Frankfurt am Main:
148
Vittorio Klostermann (1950). First edition. Text in German.
Cheap pages are browned, a small chip on the half-title,
else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with small nicks and
tears. An important collection of essays based on his lectures
and published in English as Off the Beaten Track. This collection includes one of his most
influential essay, “Der Ursprung der Kunstwerkes” (“The Origin of the Work of Art”).
(Photography). BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret. Halfway to
Freedom: A Report on the New India in the Words and Photographs of
149
Margaret Bourke-White. New York: Simon & Schuster 1949. First edition. Slight wear,
near fine in a modestly worn, very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of very small
chips and tears. Bourke-White’s account of the emergence of India and Pakistan from British
control.
(Photography). CAPA, Cornell
and J. Mayone Stycos. Margin of Life:
150
Population and Poverty in the Americas. New York:
Grossman 1974. First edition, wrappered issued. A small tear
on the front wrap, else near fine. Capa’s photos accompanied
by Stycos’s text. This copy warmly Inscribed by Capa to
photographer Bernice Abbott. A nice association copy.
(Photography). HOSOE, Eikoh and
Yukio Mishima. Ba Ra Kei: Ordeal by
151
Roses. New York: Aperture 1985. First American edition.
Preface by Yukio Mishima. Folio. A small sticker removed from the front fly, else fine in
very good or better dustwrapper with some spotting on the front panel. Accomplished, and
occasionally erotic photographs, probing the psyche, life, and eventual death (in a ritual
suicide) of Mishima, who collaborated on the design of the Japanese edition.
(Photography). KERTÉSZ, André. Distortions. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf 1976. First edition. Quarto. Edited by Nicolas Ducrot. Introduction by
Hilton Kramer. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a wrinkle
in the lamination of the front panel.
152
(Photography). PFEIFFER, Walter.
Walter Pfeiffer (1970–1980). (Frankfurt: Elke
153
Betzel Verlag 1980). First edition. Photographic wrappers.
Embossed owner’s stamp on the front leaf and a little rubbing
to the wrappers, else near fine. Uncommon photography
book that ranges from cuddly kitties to strong homoerotic
content.
(Photography). PLICKA, Karel.
Prag ein Fotografisches Bilderbuch. Prague
154
in Pictures en Images. Prag: Artia (1953). First edition.
Folio. Fine in near fine dustwrapper and a moderately worn
cardboard slipcase. Relatively common, but in nicer than usaul
condition.
(Photography). VERSACE, Gianni
and Donatella. South Beach Stories.
155
(Milan): Leonardo Arte (1993). First edition, Bloomingdale’s
issue. Folio. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Includes photographs
by Bruce Weber, Doug Ordway, and David Vance. Signed by
Gianni Versace.
(Photoplay). CLARKE, Donald
Henderson. Louis Beretti [jacket title]: Louis
156
Beretti, Gangster. Born
Reckless. New York: Grosset
& Dunlap 1930. Photoplay edition. A bit rubbed, else near
fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small label neatly removed
from spine. Illustrated with scenes from the film directed by
John Ford and Andrew Bennison, and featuring Edmund
Lowe.
(Photoplay). FAVERSHAM, Julie
Opp. The Squaw Man. New York: Grosset and
157
Dunlap [1931]. Photoplay edition. Adapted from the play by
Edwin Milton Royle. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with
minor wear. Illustrated with scenes from film directed by Cecil
B. DeMille and featuring Warner Baxter and Lupe Velez. Mac
Tey jacket art.
(Photoplay). TARKINGTON, Booth.
Business and Pleasure: Photoplay title of The
158
Plutocrat. New York: Grosset and Dunlap (stated 1927
- really 1932). Photoplay edition, and the first edition with
this title. Small name stamp on the front fly, and some foxing
to both the front board and the title page, very good or better
in a nice, very good plus dustwrapper with a little foxing and
very light wear. Illustrated with stills from the 1932 film that
featured Will Rogers and Joel McCrea, with an attractive
jacket painting of Rogers by Mac Tey. A nice copy.
159
PINSKY, Robert. Landor’s Poetry.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1968). First edition.
Fine in a lightly rubbed, else near fine dustwrapper. First book
by a former U.S. poet laureate.
POUND, Ezra. The Pisan Cantos. (New York): New Directions 1948.
First edition. Fine in chipped, good only dustwrapper. The
jacket is notoriously brittle, this copy is worn but sound and
without restoration. Connolly 100.
160
POUND, Ezra. Personae: Collected
Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound. London: Faber and Faber
(1952). First English edition. Top corners a little bumped,
else near fine in a slightly spine-toned, very good or better
dustwrapper with two small tears at the crown.
161
POUND, Ezra.
Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de
162
los cantares. Milano: All’Insegna
del Pesce D’Oro 1955. First edition.
Illustrated papercovered boards.
Bottom corners very slightly bumped, still fine in a chipped, very
good example of the original unprinted glassine dustwrapper. One
of 500 numbered copies.
POUND, Ezra.
Thrones: 96-109 de los
163
cantares. London: Faber and
Faber (1960). Uncorrected proof of
the English edition. Unprinted blue
wrappers. Title and a couple of words in ink on the front wrap,
else fine.
PRICE, Reynolds. Late Warning. New York:
Albondocani Press 1968. First edition. Fine in self-wrappers.
One of 150 numbered copies Signed by the author, this is copy
number 8.
164
(Psychology). FREUD, Sigmund. Der Mann Moses und
die monotheistische Religion. Drei Abhandlungen [Moses and
165
Monotheism]. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1939. First American edition. Text
in German. Spine slightly sunned, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few short nicks
and tears.
166
(Psychology). JUNG, C.G. Analytische Psychologie und
Erziehung [Analytical Psychology and Education].
(Heidelberg): Niels Kampmann Verlag (1926). First edition.
Text in German. Green cloth gilt. 94,(1)pp. Slight wear to the
corners and a little age-toning, else a near fine copy.
(Psychology). PFISTER, Oskar.
Religiosität und Hysterie [Religiosity and
167
Hysteria]. Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag
1928. First edition. Text in German. A trifle soiled, very near
fine.
(Psychology). RANK, Dr. Otto. Eine
Neurosenanalyse in Traumen [An Analysis
168
of Neuroses in Dreams]. Leipzig, Wien, Zürich:
Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag 1924. First edition.
Text in German. Printed papercovered gray boards. Slight
toning at the spine, near fine.
169
PURDY, James. Jeremy’s Version.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1970. Uncorrected
proof. Spiral bound in wrappers. A chip at the bottom of the
front wrap, else very good. Scarce in this format.
PURDY, James. Sleep Tight. (New York):
Nadja (1979). First edition. Small quarto. String tied wrappers.
Uncut. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author.
170
PYNCHON,
Thomas. V. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott (1963). Fourth
171
impression, noted as such on both the copyright page and
the front flap of the dustwrapper (as “fourth printing”). Fine
a in very lightly rubbed, fine dustwrapper. Very scarce. Only
the second copy of the fourth printing that we’ve seen. The
bibliography does not mention the existence of this printing,
and the bibliographer was unaware of it until we notified him
of it when we had another copy over a decade ago.
172
PYNCHON, Thomas. Mason & Dixon.
New York: Henry Holt (1997). First edition. Fine in fine
dustwrapper. Publisher’s business card laid in signed “Love.”
173
(PYNCHON, Thomas). Proceedings, Second Series, No. 26.
New York: (American Academy of Arts and Letters) 1976.
First edition. Wrappers. A tiny tear on the front wrap, else
fine. Includes the text of Thomas Pynchon’s letter declining
the William Dean Howells Medal for Gravity’s Rainbow, which
appears in the text of William Styron’s speech presenting
Pynchon with the award. Also includes William Gaddis’
acceptance of the National Book Award for J.R., a Norman
Mailer speech, and contributions by Robert Lowell, John
Ashbery, and others. Mead B23.
174
RAND, Ayn. Night of January 16th.
New York and Cleveland: World
(1968). Definitive edition, with
new introduction by Rand.
Originally published in 1936
only in a wrappered acting edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A
beautiful copy.
REED, Mark. Yes, My Darling
Daughter. New York: Samuel French 1937. First edition.
175
Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with slight chipping at
the crown. A play that was the basis for the 1939 film directed
by William Keighley and featuring Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn,
Roland Young, and Fay Bainter.
176
ROBBINS, Harold. Never Love a
Stranger. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1949. First edition.
Corners bumped, small splashmarks on the boards, front hinge
repaired, a good copy in a worn and tattered dustwrapper.
Nicely Inscribed by the author: “To Rudie, With appreciation
for your help and efforts. Harold Robbins.” First novel by the
bestselling master of the potboiler, and, as many first novels
are, openly autobiographical in nature.
ROBERTS,
Kenneth L.
Antiquamania. Garden
177
City: Doubleday, Doran and
Company 1928. First edition.
Illustrated by Booth Tarkington.
A little foxing, and a bump on the rear board, thus a very good
copy in a very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper with
a few shallow tears. Scarce in dustwrapper. A compilation of
humorous tales about antiques, antique collectors, and antique
dealers. One imagines a considerable amount of alcohol was
expended in the compilation of this collection.
178
ROONEY, Frank. The Heel of Spring. New York: Vanguard Press
(1956). First edition. Very near fine in very good or better
dustwrapper with some modest foxing. Nicely Inscribed
by the author: “For Mary Nelson – in appreciation of a
memorable summer – Frank Rooney.”
ROREM, Ned and Frank O’Hara.
Four Dialogues for Two Voices and Two
Pianos. New York: Boosey & Hawkes 1969. First edition.
179
Quarto. Cover illustration by Joe Brainard. Just about fine.
Inscribed by Rorem in the year of publication: “Merry
Christmas to Paul Berl, Ned Rorem 1969.” Berl was the
piano accompanist to Spanish operatic soprano Victoria de los
Angeles.
180 ROSEN, Norma.
Green: A Novella and Eight Stories. New York:
Harcourt, Brace & World (1967). First edition. Fine in a spinefaded, very good or better dustwrapper. Inscribed to New Yorker
fiction editor Rachel MacKenzie (see introduction): “March 28,
1967 Dear Rachel – Most of these you know, and as far as I am
concerned you are a kind of Godmother to this book. Is that
all right with you? Love, Norma.” At least one of the stories
appeared in the New Yorker. A nice association.
RUSHDIE,
Salman. The Moor’s
Last Sigh. New York:
181
Pantheon (1995). First American
edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.
RUSSELL, Bertrand. History of the
World in Epitome (For use in Martian infant
182
schools). (London): Gaberbocchus Press (1962). First edition.
Illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. 64mo. Near fine in gold
wrappers with a little rubbing.
Mostly printed on gold foil
pages, as a celebration of
Russell’s ninetieth birthday.
183
SARTON, May. Inner Landscape.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (1939). First American
edition (using British sheets). Fine in very good dustwrapper
with some toning at the spine and small nicks and tears.
Nicely Inscribed by the author to Rachel MacKenzie (see
introduction), her editor at the New Yorker: “To Rachel with
love from May. Oct. 1950.” A superb association.
SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Intimacy and Other Stories. (New York):
New Directions (1948). First American edition. Translated by Lloyd Alexander. Near fine in
very good dustwrapper displaying evidence of having been folded.
184
(Science-Fiction). ALDISS, Brian W.
An Age. London: Faber & Faber (1967). First edition. Fine
185
in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.
(Science-Fiction). BANKS, Iain.
Walking on Glass. (London): Macmillan (1985). First
186
edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author’s second novel.
(Science-Fiction). BENSON,
Theodora. The Man from the Tunnel and
187
Other Stories. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts (1950).
First American edition. Pencil name, else fine in a lightly worn,
slightly spine-faded, very good plus dustwrapper with some
tiny nicks and tears. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A nice copy of this collection of
stories, several of which wander over into the macabre.
188
(Science-Fiction). DREW, Edward J. The Sludge. New York:
Vantage Press (1988). First edition. Fine in a trifle rubbed, else
fine dustwrapper. Vanity press science-fiction novel about a
pile of sludge that attacks New York, and the policeman who
is in charge of combating it, written by an employee of the
NYPD. Scarce. OCLC locates no copies.
(Science-Fiction). GASKELL, Jane.
The Serpent. (London): Hodder and Stoughton (1963).
189
First edition. Fine in a very lightly rubbed, fine dustwrapper.
First volume in the author’s Atlantis trilogy.
(Science-Fiction). REYNOLDS,
George W.M. Wagner the Wehr-Wolf. New
190
York: Hurst and Company (no
date - circa 1875). Probable piracy, an early and possibly first
American edition. Blue-green cloth decorated in purple, black,
and gilt. A large piece of page one of the prologue missing,
affecting pages one and two. Cheap paper a bit browned, some
modest overall soiling, a very good or better copy.
(Science-Fiction). SMITH, Clark
Ashton. Other Dimensions. Sauk City:
191
Arkham House 1970. First edition. Fine in a bright and fine
dustwrapper, with the slightest trace of rubbing. One of 3000
copies.
192
(Science-Fiction). TAINE, John. Green Fire. Los Angeles:
Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. (1952). First edition by this
publisher, originally published in 1928. A little foxing to the
endpapers, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little wear
at the top of the front panel.
193
SHAW, George Bernard. Saint Joan:
A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue.
London: Constable and Co. Ltd. 1924. First edition.
Green cloth gilt. Foxing in text, some uneven soiling on the
spine, very good without the dustwrapper. Actress Eva Le
Gallienne’s copy with her bookplate. Small slip of paper laid
in the text with an inscrutable note in Le Gallienne’s hand:
“Twelve pound look.” Daughter of the French poet Richard
Le Gallienne, Eva was a distinguished actress, producer, and
director. She founded the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York in the 1920s. In 1964 she
was awarded a special Tony Award celebrating her 50th year as an actress and honoring her
work with the National Repertory Theatre. She also received a 1977 Theatre World Special
Award, and a 1986 National Medal of Arts.
(Show Business). MERMAN, Ethel and Pete Martin. Who
Could Ask for Anything More. New York:
194
Doubleday 1955. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
Complimentary copy from Macy’s, so stamped on the halftitle. A beautiful copy and very uncommon thus.
195
SIMON, Neil. Laughter on the 23rd
Floor. New York: Random
House (1995). First edition.
Fine in fine dustwrapper. Briefly
Inscribed by the author. Based
on the author’s experiences
writing comedy for Sid Caesar.
Basis for the television film
directed by Richard Benjamin.
SINCLAIR, Upton.
What Can Be Done
About America’s
Economic Troubles?
196
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius (1939). First edition. Near fine
in stapled wrappers with a small split at the foot of the spine.
Ahouse notes that some copies have Sinclair’s own imprint, but
does not establish priority. Ahouse B26.
197
SNODGRASS, W.D. Magda Goebbels. (Winston-Salem): Palaemon
Press 1983. First edition. Fine in wrappers and fine marbled
paper dustwrapper with applied title-piece. Laid in is a four page
printed statement by Snodgrass. One of 150 numbered copies
Signed by Snodgrass.
SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr I.
America, We Beg You
to Interfere. Wheaton,
198
IL: Church League of America
1975. First separate edition
(previously published in an
AFL-CIO publication). Quarto.
Stapled wrappers. (28)pp. Modest
offsetting at the extremities, a
very good or better copy. Authorized translation in English
of the text of two speeches delivered by Solzhenitsyn in
Washington, DC and New York, under the sponsorship of
the AFL-CIO. Very scarce.
199
STEELE, Wilbur Daniel. Meat: A
Novel. New York: Harper and Brothers 1928. First edition.
Fine in a price-clipped, about very good dustwrapper with a
chip on the front panel. Advance Review Copy, so stamped
on the front panel of the jacket. A family drama by Steele.
The author, little remembered today, was considered one
of the most consistent masters of the American short story
during the 1920s and ’30s.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The
Ebb-Tide and Lloyd Osbourne. London:
200
William Heinemann 1894. First edition. Two attractive
bookplates on the front endpapers (including that of author
Munson Aldrich Havens), corners a little bumped, a very
good or better copy.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Songs of
Travel and Other Verse. London: Chatto & Windus 1896.
201
First edition. Bookplate, corners slight bumped, else near fine.
STOREY, David. The Changing Room: A
Play. London: Jonathan Cape (1972). First edition. Fine in fine
dustwrapper. A lovely copy.
202
STRATTON-PORTER, Gene. At the
Foot of the Rainbow. New York: The Outing
203
Publishing Company 1907. First edition. Four color illustrations
by Oliver Kemp, Designs and decorations by Ralph Fletcher
Seymour. A few pages roughly opened, front hinge tender but holding, else a near fine copy.
One of the author’s scarcest titles, especially in this condition.
204
TANNENBAUM, Samuel A. Was William Shakspere a
Gentleman? Some Questions in Shakspere’s
Biography Determined. New York: The Tenny Press
1909. First edition. Fine in near fine printed (French-folded)
dustwrapper with a couple of small tears and small stains at
the top of the front panel. Inscribed by the author to Volney
Streamer. Tannenbaum was a prolific early-20th Century
literary scholar, bibliographer, and paleographer, best known
for his work on William Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Streamer was an actor and later Librarian of the Players’ Club,
and the author of several books, including at least one on
Shakespeare.
(Tennis). COFFIN, Tristram Potter.
Great Game for a Girl.
205
Hauppauge, New York: Exposition Press (1980). First edition.
Small owner’s name, a little wear to the boards, a crease to the
corner of one page, a very good copy in a rubbed, good plus
dustwrapper. Uncommon vanity press tennis novel.
206
THOMAS, Dylan. Under Milk Wood: A
Play in Two Acts. London: J.M.
Dent & Sons (1958). First edition
of this acting edition with preface
and musical settings by Daniel
Jones. Stiff card wrappers. Fine.
TIMMERMANS,
Felix. Pallieter. New York: Harper and Brothers (1924).
207
First American edition. Translated from the German by C.B.
Bodde. Illustrated (and jacket art) by Anton Pieck. Fine in just
about fine dustwrapper with very
slight marks on the front panel.
Novel by a Flemish author. Very
scarce in jacket.
208
TUCK, Lily. The News from Paraguay.
(New York): HarperCollins (2004). First edition. Fine in fine
dustwrapper. Winner of the National Book Award.
209
VIVANTE, Arturo. A Goodly Babe.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1966). First edition.
Fine in a lightly rubbed, about near fine dustwrapper with a
short tear. Author’s complimentary slip laid in. Inscribed by
the author to his editor at the New Yorker, Rachel MacKenzie
(see introduction): “New York, March 1966. For Rachel, who
guided me like the Northern Star, Arturo.” MacKenzie was
the dedicatee of Vivante’s story collection The French Girls of
Killini: Twenty-One Short Stories.
$150
210
VIVANTE, Arturo. Run to the
Waterfall. [New York]:
Charles Scribner’s Sons (1979).
First edition. A little foxed on the
foredge, near fine in just about
fine dustwrapper. A collection of short stories, all of which
appeared in the New Yorker. Inscribed by the author to his
editor at the New Yorker, Rachel MacKenzie (see introduction):
“New York, November 20, 1979. For Rachel, these page that
we traced together hand in hand with love, Arturo.” MacKenzie
was the dedicatee of Vivante’s story collection The French Girls
of Killini: Twenty-One Short Stories.
$150
211
WALPOLE, Hugh. The Old Ladies.
London: Macmillan 1924. First
edition. Slight spotting to the
boards, near fine in about very good dustwrapper with minor
chips, and tanning and splash marks on the spine. Scarce in
jacket.
212
WARE, William. Zenobia: or, The Fall
of Palmyra. An Historical
Romance. New York: C.S. Francis
1838. First edition with this title.
Two volumes. Octavo. Originally
published in 1837 under a different
title. Publisher’s green leaf pattern
cloth. Slight wear at the spine
ends, a small chip to the front fly
of Volume One, nice, very good or better copies. Each volume
bears the ownership signature of “J. Quincy” on the titlepage,
almost certainly Josiah Quincy III, sixteenth president of Harvard
and second Mayor of Boston, but possibly his son, Josiah Quincy
Jr., who was the eleventh Mayor of Boston (their signatures were
similar).
WAUGH, Evelyn. A Little Learning: The First Volume of an
Autobiography. London: Chapman Hall (1964). Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. A
bit cocked, else near fine.
213
WELTY, Eudora. On Short Stories. New
York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1949). First edition. Fine in a
nice, near fine, original tissue dustwrapper with tiny nicks and
tears. Complimentary card from the publisher laid in, signed by
three Harcourt employees, and additionally lightly inscribed by
them in pencil. Nicer than usually found. One of 1500 copies
sent out as a New Year’s greeting to the friends of the author and
publisher.
214
WELTY, Eudora. Three Papers on
Fiction. Northampton: Smith College 1962. First edition.
215
Stapled wrappers. Fine. Three lectures on writing fiction that
Welty delivered at Smith College as the William Allan Neilson
Professor in 1962.
WELTY, Eudora. White Fruitcake. (New York): Albondocani Press
(1980). First edition. Cover drawing by Robert Dunn. One of 450 copies printed as a
holiday greeting by the author and publisher. Fine in original envelope with stiffener.
216
217
(Western). EVANS, Max. The Rounders. New York: Macmillan
1960. First edition. Slight toning to the endpapers, else fine
in a lightly spine-sunned, near fine dustwrapper. Author’s first
novel, basis for the Burt Kennedy-directed western comedy
featuring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda.
(Western). LOCKHART, Caroline.
The Lady Doc. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1912.
218
Stated second edition. Illustrated and with jacket art by Gayle
Hoskins. Gift inscription, fine in an attractive, near fine
dustwrapper with a couple of small nicks.
WETJEN, Albert Richard. Way for a
Sailor! New York: The Century Co. (1928). First edition.
219
Slight spotting to the boards, else near fine, lacking the very
uncommon dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author: “Salem, Ore. Jan. 1929 Inscribed
by the author for Mr. F.W. Wilcox on behalf of Monroe and
Myrtle – With all good wishes – Albert Richard Wetjen.”
Basis for the 1930 film directed by Sam Wood, notable mostly
for being one of the few talkie’s to feature John Gilbert, who
appeared along with Wallace Beery, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran,
and Doris Lloyd, and with a short appearance by an uncredited
Ray Milland. The film, despite a screenplay W.L. River and
Laurence Stallings, additional dialogue by Charles MacArthur,
and the only acting appearance in a film by author Jim Tully,
was by all accounts a failure, and helped to deliver yet another
nail into the coffin of the once-enormously successful Gilbert’s
career, reportedly hastened by the enmity of studio boss Louis
B. Mayer.
WHEELOCK, John Hall. The Black
Panther. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1922. First
220
edition. Binding a bit rubbed, thus very good or better, lacking
the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author, with an additional
note in Wheelock’s hand giving the date and location
(Morristown, NJ) of the composition of one piece.
WHEELOCK, John Hall. In Love and
Song. New York: Scribner’s (1971). First edition. Illustrated
221
by Stefan Martin. Front cover gilt slightly rubbed, else fine in
fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Signed twice by Wheelock,
and also with a laid in, Signed photograph of the author, with
a note in his hand stating that the picture had been taken in
his office the day before his retirement from Scribners.
WILBUR, Richard. Advice from the
Muse. Deerfield, Massachusetts / Dublin: Deerfield Press /
222
Gallery Press 1981. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One
of 100 copies Signed by the author.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. W.C.W.F.H.W. April 18. 1959: To Be Recited to Flossie on
223
Her Birthday. (New York: New Directions 1959). First
edition. One leaf folded twice. Fine. A single poem. One of
100 copies printed for New Directions at the Press of Igal
Roodenko.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. I Wanted
to Write a Poem. The Autobiography of the
224
Works of a Poet. Reported and Edited by Edith Heal. London: Jonathan Cape
(1967). Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Fine in wrappers and fine, slightly
oversized dustwrapper.
WILLINGHAM, Calder. Geraldine Bradshaw. New York:
Vanguard Press (1950). First edition. Boards a little smudged, a very good copy in about very
good dustwrapper with a triangular chip at the crown. Inscribed by Willingham to fellow
author James Jones: “James Jones – An old cuss – Calder Willingham.” The author’s second
book, with a nice association.
225
WILSON, Edmund and
Paul Sherman. Corrections and
Comments. Iowa City: The Windhover Press /
226
The University of Iowa 1976. First edition. Oblong
octavo. Paste-paper over boards with printed paper
spine. Fine. One of 175 copies.
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mulliner
Nights. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1933. First American edition. Corner of the
227
front fly clipped, a spot on the front board and a little faint spotting on the spine, a very
good copy in a good only dustwrapper with the red portion of the spine faded nearly to
white, the front flap partially price-clipped, and some staining (visible only on the inside of
the jacket). Uncommon in jacket, even one so humble as this.
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Sir
Agravaine. Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press
228
(1984). First edition. Illustrated by Roger McPhail.
Thin quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
(Women). ADDAMS, Jane. A
New Conscience and An Ancient
Evil. New York: Macmillan 1912. First edition.
229
Handwritten church
ownership statement on the front fly, near fine in a very good
dustwrapper lacking the top ¾", just touching the top of
the title. The fragile jacket is uncommon. Addams on the
problems of “white slavery.”
WOOLF, Virginia. Tres Guineas [Three
Guineas]. Buenos Aires: Sur (1941). First edition in Spanish
of Three Guineas. Translated by Roman J. Jimenez. Fine in
stiff wrappers in a slightly edgeworn, near fine French-folded
dustwrapper.
230
231
WOOLF, Virginia. A Haunted House
and Other Stories. London: Hogarth Press 1943. First
edition. Crimson cloth lettered in gold. Fine in very good
dustwrapper with an old internal repair, and small nicks and
tears.
232
WOOLF, Virginia. El Cuarto De Jacob
[Jacob’s Room]. Barcelona: Ediciones Lauro 1946. First
edition in Spanish of Jacob’s Room. Translated by Simon
Santaines. Pages a bit browned, else near fine in near fine,
price-clipped dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks at the
crown. Scarce.
(WOOLF, Virginia).
BELL, Vanessa.
Notes on Virginia’s
Childhood: A Memoir. New
233
York: Frank Hallman 1974. First edition. Edited by Richard J.
Schaubeck, Jr. Printed papercovered boards. Fine. One of 300
numbered copies printed by Andrew Hoyem in San Francisco. A
lovely copy.
234
WOOLMER, J. Howard. A Checklist of The Hogarth Press.
Andes, New York: Woolmer/Brotherson, Ltd. 1976. First
edition. With a Short History of the Press by Mary E. Gaither.
Slightly bumped else fine in fine dustwrapper. Addenda and
errata both laid in.
235
WURLITZER, Rudolph. Nog. New York:
Random House (1968). First
edition. Owner’s name, a little
scratching on the front board,
and slight spotting on the topedge
stain, else near fine in very good
dustwrapper with small tears.
Inscribed by the author beneath
the owner’s name: “January 1969
from Rudy.” Wurlitzer’s first novel, a sixties road trip narrative
that was compared to Pynchon’s work (Pynchon himself
contributed a blurb to a later Wurlitzer novel). Wurlitzer also
wrote numerous screenplays including the cult drag-racing film
Two-Lane Blacktop starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson,
and the cult search-for-the-perfect-guitar film Candy Mountain
with Tom Waits, Leon Redbone, Dr. John, and many others.
YGLESIAS, Jose. An Orderly Life. New York: Pantheon 1968. First
edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small internal repair. Inscribed by the
author to an editor at the New Yorker, Rachel MacKenzie (see introduction): “For Rachel from
Jose on May Day. 5-1-69.” With MacKenzie’s ownership signature.
$85
236
Children’s Books
237
Goosie Gander Rhymes. London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. [no date - circa
1920]. Edition unknown. Illustrated by Kenneth H. Lovell.
Printed flexible linen self-wrappers. Octavo. (12)pp. A “cloth
book.” A bit wrinkled, else near fine.
238
Ouaou! Ouaou!
Collection Toto, Mimi,
Lulu. Paris: Hachette [no
date - circa 1925]. Edition
unknown. Printed flexible
linen self-wrappers. Octavo.
(12)pp. A “cloth book.” A bit
of fraying at extremities of the
wrappers, very good or better.
Trains and Ships. [No place - New York]: Platt
and Munk 1929. Edition unknown. Printed flexible linen
wrappers. Small quarto. (8)pp. A “cloth book.” Slightly
wrinkled, else near fine.
239
First Cloth Book. [No place - New York]:
Holiday House 1934. Edition unknown. Printed flexible
linen wrappers. Octavo. (8)pp. A “cloth book.” Small stains,
else near fine.
240
ABBE, Patience, Richard and
Johnny. Of All Places! New York: Frederick
241
A. Stokes 1937. First
edition. Illustrated from
photographs. Foxing to the
boards, endpapers, and a
little in the text, thus very good in very good or a little better
dustwrapper with a creased tear on the front panel, and some
other tiny tears. Precocious children in Hollywood report on
their interactions with Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, fellow
children Shirley Temple and Elizabeth Taylor, and a bevy of
others. Scarce.
242
ANNO, Mitsumasa. Anno’s Alphabet:
An Adventure in
Imagination. New
York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1975. First American
edition. Thin quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
(Baseball Fiction). LEONARD,
Burgess. The Rookie Fights Back.
243
New York: J.B. Lippincott (1954). First edition. Fine
in about fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears.
An especially fresh copy of this novel for adolescents.
Young Herman Sherman returns to save the Bay City
Lancers, for whom he was the former bat boy. McCue
p.64. Very scarce in this condition.
244 BISHOP,
Sheila. A Silver Nutmeg and a
Golden Pear. London: William Heinemann (1945). First
edition. Illustrated by the author. Neat pencil owner name on
the front fly else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a tear on the
front panel and a small nick at the crown. A wartime children’s
book that includes Golliwogs in the plot. Scarce in jacket.
BUTLER, Francelia. The Skip Rope
Book. New York: The Dial Press (1963). First edition.
245
Pictorial boards. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a tiny
tear and a little soiling. Signed by the author with a sentiment.
CARROLL, Lewis. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London and
New York: Macmillan & Co. 1893. First edition, first issue. Illustrations by Harry Furniss.
Publisher’s red cloth gilt, all edges gilt. Modest edgewear, foxing confined mostly to the
endpapers, one signature very slightly sprung, a very good or better copy.
246
CHWAST, Seymour. The Flip-Flap
Limerickricks. New York: Random House 1972. First
247
edition. Staple bound glossy wrappers. Fine and uncommon
thus. A flap book from the Push Pin Studios.
CHWAST, Seymour. The Flip-Flap
Mother Goooooose.
248
New York: Random House
1972. First edition. Glossy
paper over boards. Staples a
trifle pulled, else fine and uncommon thus. A flap book from
the Push Pin Studios.
CIARDI, John.
The Reason for the
Pelican. Philadelphia:
249
J.B. Lippincott Company (1959). First edition. Illustrated by
Madeleine Gekiere. Thin quarto. Neat gift inscription, else
fine in a slightly age-toned, near fine dustwrapper with very
tiny nicks and tears. Scarce in reasonably nice condition.
DONNISON, Polly. William the
Dragon. London: Sidgwick & Jackson (1972). First
250
edition. Thin oblong octavo. Fine in fine dustwrapper with
small applied title label on spine, apparently added by the
publisher as an afterthought. Exceptionally uncommon title, written and illustrated by an
eleven-year old English school girl.
GARIS, Howard R. Uncle Wiggily
Drawing Master with an Uncle Wiggily
Story. New York: Fred A. Wish, Inc. 1923. First edition.
251
Folio. Illustrated by Lang Campbell. Card folder with metal
apparatus for tracing. Clips used to fix the apparatus in place,
and hold the drawing paper, and the apparatus itself are a
bit oxidized and rusted, a small stain and small tear on front
cover, a very good copy of a fragile item.
GARIS, Howard R. Second
Adventures of Uncle Wiggily: The Bunny
252
Rabbit Gentleman and His Muskrat Lady
Housekeeper. Newark, NJ and New York: Charles E.
Graham & Co. (1924). First edition. Thin quarto. Illustrated
by Lang Campbell. Cloth and papercovered boards with applied illustration. Corners
rubbed, some smudging to the boards and illustrations, a very good copy lacking the
dustwrapper. A nice presentable copy.
(GOREY, Edward). TARCOV, Edith
H. Rumpelstiltskin. New York: Four Winds Press
253
(1973). First hardcover edition. Pictures by Edward Gorey.
Fine in fine dustwrapper. An especially fresh copy.
GRAHAME, Kenneth. Illustrated
by Michael Hague. The
Reluctant Dragon. New York:
254
Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1988.
First edition illustrated by Michael
Hague. Small quarto. Fine in cloth
and slipcase, in original publisher’s
shrinkwrap and cardboard mailer.
The mailer has some modest wear and has been opened at one end
(allowing for the still-shrinkwrapped book to come out). One of 350
numbered copies Signed by Hague, and with a special reproduction
of an illustration in the text.
255
HORWICH, Frances R. and Reinald
Werrenrath, Jr. Miss
Frances’ All-Day-Long Book. New York: Rand
McNally & Company (1954). First edition. Illustrated by
Katherine Evans. Thin quarto. A light stain at the crown else
near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tears. A
Ding Dong School Book. Scarce in a nice jacket.
HUFFARD, Grace Thompson, Laura
Mae Carlisle, Helen Ferris. (Willy
Pogany). My Poetry Book: An Anthology of
256
Modern Verse for Boys and Girls. Chicago: The John
C. Winston Company (1934). First edition. Illustrated by
Willy Pogany. Introduction
by Booth Tarkington. Fine in very good Pogany-illustrated
dustwrapper with some foxing and small chips.
HUXLEY, Aldous. The Crows of
Pearblossom. New York: Random House (1967). First
257
edition, preceding the British edition. Illustrated by Barbara
Cooney. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A much nicer that usual
copy of this children’s book written by Huxley for a favorite
niece, and published posthumously.
JOHNSON, Siddie Joe. Cat Hotel. New
York: Longmans Green and Co. 1955. First edition. Illustrated
by Janice Holland. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper. A
handsome copy.
258
259
LOFTING, Hugh. Tommy Tilly and
Mrs. Tubbs. New
York: F.A. Stokes
(1936). First American
edition. Oblong small
octavo. Publisher’s cloth
with applied pictorial
illustration. Gift
inscription, and a slight
tear at the crown, else a
very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. A book for younger children by the author of the
Doctor Dolittle series.
MACDONALD, George and Maurice
Sendak. The Golden Key. New York: Farrar, Straus
260
and Giroux 1967. First edition thus. Illustrated by Maurice
Sendak. Afterword by W.H. Auden. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
An especially nice copy.
261
PARRY, Marian. King of the Fish:
Adapted from a Korean Folk Tale. New York: Macmillan
(1977). First edition. Thin oblong quarto. Illustrated by the
author. Fine in pictorial boards in dustwrapper with a tear at
the front flap fold, else near fine. Inscribed (but not signed) by
the author with two attractive ink and watercolor drawings of
fish. Also laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed by the author,
sending the book along. A nice book.
262 SENDAK, Philip. In Grandpa’s House. New York: Harper and Row
(1985). First edition. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
263
SIDNEY, Margaret. Phronsie Pepper:
The Youngest of “The Five Little Peppers.” Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company 1937. First edition with
new color frontispiece by Arthur Bechler. Near fine in an
edgeworn, very good dustwrapper. On the front fly is a long
and interesting full-page inscription by the author’s daughter
Margaret M. Lothrop about her parents.
SPIER, Peter. The Erie Canal. Garden
City: Doubleday & Company 1970. First edition. Oblong
thin quarto. Illustrated by Spier, a much-awarded illustrator.
Fine in good dustwrapper with a few tears on the front panel.
Nicely Inscribed by the author.
264
TAYLOR, Ann and Jane and Adelaide O’Keefe. The
“Original Poems” and Others. London: Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co. [1903].
265
First edition with these illustrations. Edited by E.V. Lucas. Illustrated by Francis D. Bedford.
Blue cloth elaborately decorated in white, green, and gilt. Corners a bit bumped and rubbed,
tiny tears at the spine ends, a nice and tight, very good or better copy.
266
THURBER, James. Many Moons. New York: Harcourt, Brace and
Company (1943). Early reprint. Illustrations by Louis
Slobodkin. Thin quarto. Fine in very good or better
dustwrapper lacking the top ½" of the spine. Winner of the
Caldecott Medal for 1944. Presumably, this children’s tale is
based in part on one of Thurber’s own earliest publications,
a musical of the same title written while he was a college
student.
Dedication Copy
267 ZOLOTOW,
Charlotte. The
New Friend. New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell (1981). Reprint of the 1968 edition.
Square octavo. Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. A little
foxing else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. A dedication
copy, Inscribed by the author to editor and agent Frances
Schwartz. The printed dedication reads: “For Frances
Schwartz, once again,” beneath which the author has written:
“with love – always – Charlotte.” Schwartz was the editor at
Abelard-Schuman, where the book was originally published
in 1968.
Mysteries & Detective Fiction
AMBLER, Eric. Cause for Alarm. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1939.
First American edition. The photosensitive green cloth a little sunned at the spine, else near
fine in very good price-clipped dustwrapper with tape (quite possibly removable) along the
edges of the flaps, just barely touching a letter or two of text. Author’s fourth mystery.
268
BELLAIRS, George. Death Before
Breakfast. London: John Gifford (1962). First edition.
269
Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with a small chip
and tear at the crown.
BELLAIRS, George. (Edward Gorey).
Death in the Wasteland. New York: London House
270
& Maxwell (1964). First American edition. Some foxing on
the spine, near fine in near fine dustwrapper designed by
Edward Gorey, with a small sticker shadow of the front panel.
The desirability of the Gorey jacket makes this title scarce in
nice condition.
DOLPH, Jack. Dead Angel. Garden
City: Doubleday / Crime Club 1953. First edition. Pages
slightly browned still fine in fine dustwrapper. Doc Connor
investigates a family of Cuban sugar growers who are living
in New York. Jacket design by Anna Marie Jauss. A beautiful,
fresh and bright copy.
271
272
FORREST, Charles. The Defendant
Soul. New York: Harper and
Brothers 1930. First edition.
Modest wear to the spine, thus
very good in an attractive, very
good dustwrapper with several
small tears, and a very faint
dampstain along the edges
of the spine. Working woman murders another in order to
protect her husband. Very scarce.
273
GODEY, John. The Man in Question.
Garden City: Doubleday /
Crime Club 1951. First edition.
Pages slightly browned still fine
in fine dustwrapper with very
slight wear. Secret agent in New York makes contact in the
Public Library. A beautiful, fresh and bright copy.
GREEN, George Dawes. The
Caveman’s Valentine. New York: Warner Books
274
(1994). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the
author. Edgar winner.
HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Continental
Op. New York: Random House (1974). First edition of this
275
collection of stories taken from earlier collections. Fine in fine
dustwrapper.
HARRIS, Thomas. The Silence of the
Lambs. New York: St. Martin’s Press (1988). First edition.
276
Owner’s name, a little foxing on the boards, near fine in a
near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. Basis for the acclaimed
Jonathan Demme film which was the first film since One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to win all the major Academy Awards.
HEARD, H.F. A Taste for Honey. New York:
Vanguard Press (1941). First American edition. Boards a little
sunned, and spine ends slightly worn, very good in a fairly
attractive, good dustwrapper with some sunning and small
chips at the spine.
277
HEARD, H.F. Reply Paid. New York:
Vanguard Press (1942). First American edition. Spine ends
slightly worn, very good in about very good dustwrapper
with some small chips at the crown. Rex Stout blurb. Jacket
art by “MC.”
278
JAMES, Robert. Board Stiff. Garden
City: Doubleday / Crime Club 1951. First edition. Pages
slightly browned still fine in fine dustwrapper. Shipboard
murder on a cruise to Nassau. A beautiful, fresh and bright
copy.
279
JOHNS,
Captain W.E.
Biggles of the
Interpol. Leicester: Brockhampton Press (1957). First
280
edition. Ownership signature of author and critic Donald
Barr, and a small bookstore label on the front endpapers,
else near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with light
rubbing.
JOHNS, Captain W.E. Biggles in
Mexico. Leicester: Brockhampton Press (1959). First
281
edition. Two ownership signatures, including that of author
and critic Donald Barr, and a small bookstore label on the
front endpapers, page edges a little foxed, else near fine in
about very good or better dustwrapper with small chips and tears.
282
JOHNS, Captain W.E. Biggles’ Combined Operation.
(London): Hodder and Stoughton (1959). First edition. A small
bookstore label on the front endpapers, else fine in near fine
dustwrapper with light rubbing.
KERR, Philip. Dead Meat. London: Chatto &
Windus (1993). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. From
the Library of Bruce Kahn.
283
PHILLPOTTS,
Eden. Jig-Saw. New
284
York: Macmillan Company 1926.
First American edition. Near fine
in very good plus dustwrapper
with an internally repaired small
tear, a small scrape on the front panel, and some overall agetoning. Very scarce in jacket.
285
QUEEN, Ellery. To the Queen’s Taste: The First Supplement to
101 Years’ Entertainment consisting of the best
stories published in the first four years of Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Boston: Little, Brown and
Company 1946. First edition. A crease at the top of the front
board, a tiny hole on the spine, modest wear, about very good
lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by (one half of ) Ellery
Queen to a fellow author: “To Charles Angoff in admiration
and friendship. Sincerely, ‘Ellery Queen’ (Fred Dannay).”
SIMENON, Georges. Black Rain. New
York: Reynal & Hitchcock (1947). First American edition.
Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Near fine
in about very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a chip on
the front panel.
286
SIMENON, Georges. The
Burgomaster of Furnes. London: Routledge and
287
Kegan Paul (1952). First English edition. Translated from the
French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a
later publisher’s price label on the front flap. A beautiful copy,
and very scarce thus. Jacket art by “MB.”
SIMENON,
Georges. The House
by the Canal. London:
288
Routledge and Kegan Paul
(1952). First English edition.
Translated from the French
by Geoffrey Sainsbury. A tiny bookstore label on the front
pastedown, fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy, and
very scarce thus. Jacket art by “MB.”
SIMENON,
Georges. The Stain
on the Snow. London:
289
Routledge and Kegan Paul
(1953). First English Edition. Translated from the French by
John Petrie. A tiny bookstore label on the front pastedown,
fine in near fine dustwrapper with small nicks at the crown and
a small hole on the rear spine fold. A better than usual copy.
Jacket art unsigned.
SIMENON, Georges. Strangers in the
House. Garden City: Doubleday 1954. First American
290
edition. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Fine
in fine dustwrapper. The American edition is scarce, and rarely
found in this condition. Jacket art by Joe Magniani.
291
SIMENON, Georges. The Methods of Maigret. Garden City:
Doubleday Crime Club 1957. First American edition.
Translated by Nigel Ryan. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely
copy, and very scarce thus. Jacket art by Jack Keats.
292
SIMENON, Georges. The Stowaway.
London: Hamish Hamilton (1957). First English edition.
Translated from the French by Nigel Ryan. Bottom corners
slightly bumped, still fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful
copy. Jacket art by Robin Jacques.
SIMENON,
Georges. The Fate
of the Malous. London:
293
Hamish Hamilton (1962). First
English edition. Translated from
the French by Denis George. Top corners quite bumped, else
near fine in a bright and crisp, near fine dustwrapper. Nicer
than usual. Jacket art by P. Youngman Carter.
SIMENON, Georges. Maigret’s Dead
Man. Garden City: Doubleday Crime Club 1964. First
294
American edition. Translated from the French by Jean Stewart.
Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy, and very scarce thus.
Jacket art by Arthur Shilstone.
SIMENON, Georges. Three Beds in Manhattan. Garden City:
Doubleday 1964. First American edition. Translated from the French by Lawrence G.
Blochman. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The American edition is very scarce, and rarely found in
this condition. Jacket art by Ellen Raskin.
295
SIMENON, Georges. Four Days in a Lifetime. London: Hamish
Hamilton (1977). First English edition. Translated from the French by Louise Varese. Fine in
fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. Jacket art by Jerry Bauer.
296
TRUAX, Rhoda. The Accident Ward
Mystery. Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1937.
297
First edition. Some spotting to the boards, thus fair only in
very good dustwrapper with two vertical creases on the spine.
Jacket art by Samuel H. Bryant.
VAN GULIK, Robert. The Chinese
Gold Murders: A Chinese Detective Story. New
298
York: Harper and Brothers (1959). First American edition.
Fine in fine dustwrapper. The second Judge Dee mystery to
appear in the U.S. Harper and Brothers bookmark laid in
advertising this title. A beautiful copy, and scarce thus.
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