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Sale 475
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Fine Literature & Fine Books in All Fields
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Front Cover: Lot 221
Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left: Lots 201, 193, 289, 410
Bond # 14425383
Section I: Fine Literature, Lots 1-226
Section II: Fine Books in All Fields, Lots 227-446
Section I: Fine Literature
1. Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Quarter paper vellum and black boards, spine lettered
in black, front cover lettered in red, page edges untrimmed. No. 136 of 350 hand-numbered
copies. First Edition.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925
Signed by the author on the limitation page. Slight rubbing to spine; near fine.
(200/300)
2. Anderson, Sherwood. Many Marriages. Dark blue cloth lettered in orange, jacket. First
Edition.
Rye, New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923
Signed by the author on the half-title. Spine ends and corners chipped, head well so, ¼x1”
piece missing from rear panel; very faint stain to front cover, light offset to endpapers,
near fine in very good jacket.
(200/300)
3. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Black cloth, lettered in gilt, jacket. First
Edition.
New York: Random House, [1969]
Jacket edge worn; minor wear to volume; very good.
(200/300)
4. (Black Sparrow Press) Cooney, Seamus. A Checklist of the First One Hundred Publications of
the Black Sparrow Press. Introduction by Robert Kelly. Cloth-backed boards, acetate jacket. No.
76 of 200 copies. First Edition.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971
Signed by both Cooney and Kelly, as issued. The scarce first bibliography of the press.
Fine.
(200/300)
5. (Black Sparrow Press) Five volumes published by the Black Sparrow Press. Includes: Owens,
Rochelle. Salt & Core. No. 93 of 150 copies. 1968. * Posner, David. The Dialogues. No. 99 of
150 handbound hardcover copies numbered and signed by the poet.1969. * Bowles, Jane. Out
In The World: Selected Letters of Janes Bowles 1935-1970. Edited by Millicent Dillon. Copy K
of 26 lettered copies handbound in boards and signed by the editor. 1985. * Fante, John West
of Rome: Two Novellas. One of 400 hardcover trade copies. 1986. * Wieners, John. Selected
Poems 1958-1984. Edited by Raymond Foye. Foreword by Allen Ginsberg. No. 32 of 200
numbered copies handbound in boards and signed by John Wieners, Raymond Foye and Allen
Ginsberg. 1986. Together, 5 volumes. Cloth &/or boards. First Editions.
Los Angeles & Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, Various dates
Near fine to fine condition.
Page 1
(200/300)
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
6. [Bronte, Emily]. Wuthering Heights. 288 pp. BOUND AFTER: Warren, Samuel. Now and
Then. 290 pp. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1848. 2 volumes bound together. (12mo) 18x11 cm.
(7x4½”), modern full green levant morocco ruled in gilt, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, raised
bands, marbled endpapers.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848
First American Edition of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, published the year after
the very rare London edition. The author is wrongly identified on the title-page as being
that of “Jane Eyre”. Jane Eyre had also been published first in 1847 and was immediately
successful, leading to some speculation that Wuthering Heights was an earlier work by
“Currer Bell” (i.e. Charlotte Bronte). The sisters did not acknowledge their identities to
their American publishers until later. Dampstained throughout and intermittent foxing;
handsome modern binding.
(2000/3000)
ORIGINAL RECORDING OF CHARLES BUKOWSKI
7. Bukowski, Charles. Original reel-to-reel recordings of “90 Minutes in Hell”. Two seven inch
reels of audio recording tape, in generic white boxes.
[Hollywood]: 1966
In 1966, Santa Monica poet and bookstore owner Steve Richmond dropped off a tape
recorder and some blank tapes at Charles Bukowski’s Hollywood apartment. Bukowski
recorded 90 minutes of his poetry onto two reel-to-reel tapes and gave them to back to
Richmond. In 1977, Steve Richmond finally issued a 2-record LP set of this recording
session - “90 Minutes in Hell.” The records were released under Richmond’s bookstore
name, Earth Books, in Santa Monica. In approximately 1990, Steve Richmond sold the
two original tapes to Water Row Books and the idea came up to re-issue the LP set. The
tapes’ boxes were labeled at Water Row Books and were sent to the professional recording
studio, Blue Jay Studios, in Carlisle, Massachusetts, to validate the contents and condition
of the tapes. These master tapes were found to be in good condition to use to re-issue
the LP set but plans for the reissue fell through and these tapes resided in the Water
Row warehouse for over twenty years. There are two individual reel-to-reel tapes, each
contained in a separate white generic box. One box has the notation “Side 1 & 2” and the
other box has “Side 3 & 4” - both notations written by Steve Richmond. On each box
there is also a label and stamp with Water Row Books address information and a written
label: Charles Bukowski 90 Minutes in Hell #1 and Charles Bukowski 90 Minutes in Hell
#2. Both boxes have minor soiling, slight age wear, and some foxing; both of the 7-inch
¼” reel-to-reel tapes appear in fine condition, the sound quality and condition of both
tapes was verified by a professional sound engineer at Blue Jay Studios in 1990. The sound
engineer did make one CD-R transfer of each of the original tapes, these two CD-Rs are
included.
(700/1000)
8. Bukowski, Charles, Neeli Cherry & Paul Vangelisti (editors). Anthology of L.A. Poets.
ith black and white group photo of the poets, including Bukowski. 8vo. Printed wrappers.
W
First Edition.
[Los Angeles]: Laugh Literary / Red Hill Press, 1972
Poets include Bukowski, Gerald Locklin, Jack Hirschman, etc. A touch of wear; near fine.
(100/150)
9. Bukowski, Charles. At Terror Street and Agony Way. [6], 89 pp. With embossed facsimile
Bukowski letter at front and rear, as issued. 8vo. Red wrappers, white card-stock paper cover
label lettered in black. First Edition, Second Issue. One of 747 copies.
Krumhansl 27b. Light wear to wrapper edges; near fine
Page 2
(300/500)
10. Bukowski, Charles. Barfly. Red cloth-backed black boards, paper spine label, acetate cover.
No. 149 of 200 copies. First Edition.
Ontario, Canada & Santa Barbara: The Paget Press, [1984]
Signed by Bukowski on tipped-in leaf facing colophon. Krumhansl 90.c. Light wear to
jacket; bottom edge of boards rubbed; near fine.
(300/500)
11. Bukowski, Charles. The Movie: “Barfly”. Illustrated from photos. 8vo. Decorative black
cloth (with white patterns)-backed pictorial boards, paper spine label, acetate cover. Copy 114
of 400 numbered copies. First Edition.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987
Signed by Bukowski in the colophon. Krumhansl 103.c. Minor shelf wear to bottom edge
of boards, dust spotting to top edge of page block; near fine.
(200/300)
12. Bukowski, Charles and Sheri Martinelli. Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence
of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967. 380, [2] pp. Patterned cloth-backed pictorial
boards, paper spine label, clear acetate jacket. No. 469 of 526 copies. First Edition.
With an original serigraph print by Bukowski inserted at front. Fine
(150/200)
13. Bukowski, Charles. Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems. (8vo) cloth-backed boards, acetate
jacket. No. 139 of 400 numbered copies.
With an original serigraph print by Bukowski inserted at front. Fine.
(100/150)
RARE PORTFOLIO OF BUKOWSKI PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL MONTFORT
14. Bukowski, Charles. Carlton Way Suite. Twelve Photographs of Charles Bukowski by Michael
Montfort. Twelve original gallery quality black & white photographs taken by legendary
Bukowski photographer Michael Montfort, 16x20”. Each photograph is signed in black by
both Charles Bukowski and Michael Montfort and lettered “B” (one with a small man with
bottle drawing by Bukowski). The photographs are enclosed in the protective black plastic bag
as issued and housed within a black tied portfolio case with the original printed / inked label
on green card stock. Copy “B” of 2 copies (with only 5 total ever produced). First Edition.
[Los Angeles]: [Privately produced by the photographer], 1982
The rare Carlton Way Suite deluxe photo portfolio set of Bukowski in various settings
in Los Angeles / San Pedro, including: pumping gas in his VW bug, one driving with
cigarette, a few at home, one in his room tossing clothes around, one petting a cat, one
at typewriter eating, carrying laundry, two at graveyard (one he is lying down, other in
front of headstone “Beers”), etc. Cover label states this is copy “B” of a limited edition of
26 copies, but in fact only 2 were originally produced. In 1982, Michael Montfort made
just the two sets due to the expensive production costs involved. One is marked copy “A”
and the other (this copy) copy “B”. Some years later, a similar portfolio was produced
in a limitation of 3 further copies, which would be considered the second edition, with
slight production differences with red ink signatures, etc. A very scarce and important
Bukowski item. Fine.
(12000/18000)
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15. Bukowski, Charles. Cold Dogs in the Courtyard. Original decorative tan saddle stitched
wrappers, printed in black. One of 500 copies. First (and only) Edition.
[Chicago]: [Literary Times-Cyfoeth], [1965]
Scarce and early Bukowski chapbook, before his Black Sparrow Press days. Krumhansl
16. A few light stains to wrappers; very good.
(200/300)
16. Bukowski, Charles. Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. [47], [5 (blank)]
pp. Mimeographed text on various colored paper. 21.5x13.5 cm. (8½x5½”), original saddle
stitched pictorial light pink wrappers. One of 500 copies. First Edition.
Bensenville, IL: Mimeo Press / Publishers of Ole, 1965
Bukowski’s first book of prose. Dorbin A8; Krumhansl 17. Fine.
Lot 14
Page 4
(300/500)
ONE OF ONLY 125 COPIES
17. Bukowski, Charles. The Curtains are Waving and People Walking Through the Afternoon
Here and in Berlin and in New York City and in Mexico. [9] pp. 6x6, original saddle-sewn tanbrown wrappers, front lettered in black and blue-gray. No. 91 of 125 copies (3 of which were
not for sale) printed by Graham Mackintosh on Fabriano paper. First Edition.
Signed by Bukowski in the colophon and with a sketch of four little men on facing page.
Scarce early and sought after Bukowski title. Krumhansl 26. Fine.
(1500/2000)
18. Bukowski, Charles. A Depressive State of Affairs for Kings, Witches and Elevator Boys. [In] 4
Poets, Synaesthesia Press Chapbook #2. Wrappers. No. 7 of 11 “Special Copies”.
[Tempe, AZ]: Synaesthesia Press, [1995]
Bound in variant covers and with a facsimile manuscript of “The House of Horrors” by
Charles Bukowski tipped in. A letter from the publisher Jim Camp to Bookseller Jeffrey
Weinberg laid in. Fine.
(150/200)
19. Bukowski, Charles and Steve Richmond. The Earth Rose 1: Fuck Hate. 4 pages on a folded
sheet. 43x28 cm. (17x11”).
Santa Monica: Earth Rose, 1966
Includes Bukowski’s poem “Freedom” as well as contributions by Steve Richmond and
John Buckner. Published by Steve Richmond, leading to obscenity charges and arrest in
Santa Monica for the him. This copy is signed by both Bukowski and Richmond. Most
copies encountered are signed by Steve Richmond only. Light edge wear, a few short
tears; very good.
(400/600)
20. (Bukowski, Charles) Tullos, Will and Evelyn Thorne. Epos: A Quarterly of Poetry - Five
issues with contributions by Charles Bukowski. Includes issues from Summer 1961, Fall 1962,
Summer 1963, Spring 1965, & Summer 1965. All in original wrappers.
Crescent City, Florida: 1961-1965
Each volume includes contributions by Charles Bukowski. Some light wear and soiling;
very good or better.
(250/350)
21. Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. Cloth-backed decorative boards, paper spine label,
original acetate cover. No. 14 of 350 hand-numbered copies. First Edition.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982
Signed by Bukowski at the colophon. Bukowski’s retelling of his childhood and
considered by many to be one of his greatest works. Krumhansl 74.d. Spine leaning and
slightly faded; dust spotting to top edge of page block; very good or better.
(500/800)
22. Bukowski, Charles. Hollywood - Uncorrected Proof, Number 3 of 10. 272 leaves. Printed on
rectos only. 11x8½”, spiral bound. “Uncorrected Manuscript” proof copy.
Signed by Bukowski on title leaf, numbered 3/10 and initialed by John Martin at upper
corner of title leaf. Rare. Some light wear; very good.
(400/700)
Page 5
TYPESCRIPT COPY OF A BUKOWSKI MAGAZINE APPEARANCE
23. Bukowski, Charles. I Meet The Master - Copy of original typescript. 24 photocopied pages
of original corrected typescript, paper clipped. Some of the corrections appear to be in the
photocopy and a few appear to be holograph corrections. 11x8½”, enclosed in a large manila
envelope with Bukowski’s return address in San Pedro and with the address of the recipient,
underground comix legend and artist, S. Clay Wilson in San Francisco. There is a large circle
in red ink around Wilson’s address in Bukowski’s hand with message: “Return c/o Dick’s If
Not Home.”
San Pedro, CA: [1984]
Typescript copy of Bukowski’s story about his hero and fellow writer, John Fante,
published in OUI magazine, in two parts, in the December 1984 and January 1985. The
artwork that accompanied the published story in OUI was by S. Clay Wilson, to whom
the envelope is addressed. The story was later collected in Portions from a Wine-Stained
Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 (2008). A touch of wear; near fine.
(700/1000)
24. Bukowski, Charles. Love is a Dog from Hell. 8vo. Light purple corduroy-backed pictorial
boards, paper label, acetate cover. No. 242 of 300 copies. First Edition.
Signed by Bukowski in the colophon. Krumhansl 60.c. Spine a touch faded, dust stain to
top edge of page block; near fine.
(300/500)
25. Bukowski, Charles. Love is a Dog From Hell. (8vo) tan wrappers, paper label on front.
Advance Review Copy.
Light soiling to wrappers; near fine.
(100/150)
26. Bukowski, Charles. A New War. (8vo) boards, plain paper jacket. Copy ‘Z’ of 26 lettered
Issued as the Black Sparrow Press New Year’s Greeting for 1997. Fine.
(150/200)
27. Bukowski, Charles. The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps: New Poems. With original color
silkscreen by Buk tipped in at front. (8vo), cloth-backed boards, acetate dust jacket. First
Edition.
A posthumous work of previously uncollected poems. One leaf (pp.79/80) diagonally
creased and with a short tear at edge; very good.
(100/150)
28. Bukowski, Charles. Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers
Begin to Bleed a Bit. (8vo) yellow wrappers with paper label on front. Advance Review Copy.
Minor wear; near fine.
(100/150)
Page 6
29. Bukowski, Charles. Poems Written Before Jumping Out an 8 Story Window. 8vo. Pictorial
light blue wrappers. Second printing.
[Salt Lake City]: Litmus, [1975]
Expanded edition with added letters from Bukowski to publisher Charles Potts. Just a
touch of edge wear; erasure on front flyleaf; near fine.
(150/200)
30. Bukowski, Charles. The Roominghouse Madrigals. (8vo), yellow cloth-backed pictorial
boards, paper spine label, acetate cover. No. 50 of 400 copies. First Edition.
Signed by Bukowski at the colophon. Krumhansl 108.c. Bottom edge lightly rubbed, dust
spotting to top edge of page block; near fine.
(300/500)
31. Bukowski, Charles. Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader. [8], 497 pp. Edited by
John Martin. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards, acetate jacket. Copy No. 59 of 300 numbered copies.
First Edition.
[New York]: HarperCollins, [1993]
Signed by Bukowski at the limitation and with his typical sketch of the little man and
bottle. There were also 26 lettered copies. Title page imprint states “HarperCollins” but
imprint on front cover is “Black Sparrow Press.” A few small spots to edges of page block;
near fine.
(200/300)
32. Bukowski, Charles. Stories und Romane. Das ausbruchsichere Paradies. Faktotum. Der Mann
mit der Ledertasche. Anmerkungen eines Dirty Old Man. 810, [2] pp. Text in German, translated
by Carl Weissner. Frontispiece portrait from photograph by Joan Levine. Blue cloth stamped
in orange, acetate wrapper, slipcase. First Edition in German.
Frankfurt, Germany: Zweitausendeins, 1977
Signed by Bukowski on the title-page. Carl Weissner’s translations of Post Office,
Factotum, South of No North, and Notes of a Dirty Old Man. It also contains the first
appearance in book form of the story “Bop, Bop Against That Curtain,” which was
illustrated by R. Crumb and originally appeared in Arcade Magazine in 1975. Fine in very
good or better slipcase.
(200/300)
RARE PIRATED EDITION OF BUKOWSKI’S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK
33. Bukowski, Charles. 20 Tanks From Kasseldown - Baroque Bookshop Pirated Edition.
Broadside. 43x28 cm. (17x11”). Number 15 of 25 copies. Signed by Bukowski.
[Hollywood]: [Baroque Bookshop], No date
A pirated edition of Bukowswki’s first published work. Produced, with Bukowski’s
assistance, by Red Sodofsky, proprietor of the Baroque Bookshop in Hollywood.
Originally published in 1946 in Black Sun Portfolio III. Fine.
(400/600)
34. Bukowski, Charles. 2 Poems. [4] pp. 21.3x13.5 cm. (8¼x5½”), brown wrappers. No. 68 of
96 numbered copies.
[Los Angeles]: [Black Sparrow Press], [1967]
Signed on colophon by Bukowski. Krumhansl 25. A few small spots on rear wrapper;
near fine.
(400/700)
Page 7
35. Bukowski, Charles. Thirteen volumes of works by Bukowski in languages other than English.
I ncludes: Die Ochsentour. With photos by Michael Montfort. Germany, [1980]. * Svastica.
Italy, 1994. * Nicht Mit Sechzig, Honey. Germany, 1986. * Nouveaux Contes de la Folio
Ordinaire. France, [1982]. Misto Quente: A Juventure de Henry Chinaski. Brasil, 1985. *
Faktotum. Sweden, [1979]. * Badkarsmusik. Sweden, [1984]. * Post Office. Italy, [1981]. *
Factotum. Italy, [1981]. * Shakespeare Non L’Avrebbe Mai Fatto. Italy, [1982]. * Das Schlimmste
Kommt Noch Oder Fast Eine Jugend. Germany, 1983. * Der Mann mit der Lederstasche Post
Office. Germany, [1982]. * La Senda del Perdedor. Spain, 1985. * Eine Kinoreklame in der
Wuste. Cloth, dust jacket. Germany, 1982. Together 14 volumes, all but the final volume in
the original wrappers.
Various places: Various dates
Fine.
(200/300)
THE ESSENTIAL BUKOWSKI REFERENCE BOOKS
36. (Bukowski, Charles) Dorbin, Sanford. A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski. With the
tipped-in facsimile frontispiece of Bukowski’s rare broadside “His Wife, The Painter.” (8vo)
linen-backed boards, paper spine label, acetate jacket. No. 274 of 350 copies. First Edition.
Signed by Charles Bukowski and Sanford Dorbin in the colophon. Small “Compliments
of the Author slip laid in. Bukowski’s important first bibliography. Fine.
(200/300)
37. (Bukowski, Charles) Krumhansl, Aaron. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Primary
Publications of Charles Bukowski. Cloth-backed boards, acetate jacket. No. 307 of 750 copies.
First Edition.
Broadside poem, “Crime & Punishment”, laid in, as issued. Fine.
(100/150)
38. (Bukowski, Charles) Barker, David. Charles Bukowski Spit in My Face - One of 10 copies with
a watercolor. Full-page illustration by the author. Wrappers. First Edition.
Salem, Oregon: 1982
One of only 10 copies with an original water color drawing by David Barker, this being
copy number 2. Signed by Barker on the drawing and at the limitation statement. Fine.
(150/250)
39. Burroughs, John. “Waiting” - manuscript poem signed by John Burroughs. Six stanzas of
4 lines each, handwritten in ink by Burroughs, signed at the bottom. On sheet 23x14 cm.
(9x5½”), matted and framed under glass with a photogravure portrait of Burroughs, overall
32x37.5 cm. (12½x14½”).
No place: No date
One of the naturalist/author’s better known poems, beginning “Serene, I fold my hands
and wait...”. Near fine, not examined out of frame.
(400/600)
Page 8
ONE OF 133 COPIES SIGNED BY BURROUGHS AND GYSIN
40. Burroughs, William S. The Cat Inside. Illustrations from ink paintings by Brion Gysin.
(Folio) vellum-backed boards, spine lettered in silver. No. 52 of 133 copies printed by the
Grenfell Press on J. Green paper.
New York: Grenfell Press, 1986
Signed by Burroughs and Gysin in the colophon. The final collaboration between
Burroughs and Gysin, signed by Gysin shortly before his death. Prospectus laid in.
Vellum lightly spotted, fine.
(2000/2500)
41. Burroughs, William S. Ghost of Chance. Pictorial boards, slipcase. No. 111 of 125 copies.
First Edition from this publisher.
New York / London: High Risk Books, [1991]
Originally published by the Whitney Museum. Signed by Burroughs on the title page. A
touch of wear to slipcase; fine.
(250/350)
42. Burroughs, William S., with Brion
Gysin, Sinclair Beiles, & Gregory Corso.
Minutes to Go. Blue paper wrappers. First
Edition.
[Paris]: Two Cities Editions, [1960]
Spine sunned, light wear; near fine.
(250/350)
43. Burroughs, William S. The Seven
Deadly Sins. With frontispiece photo
of Burroughs aiming a shotgun taken
by Robert Mapplethorpe. Several color
reproductions of Burroughs’ paintings,
illustrating the “seven deadly sins,” plus
text by Burroughs. (Small folio) black cloth,
with a thin plywood “shotgun” painting
by Burroughs affixed on the front cover,
lettered in gilt and red. First Trade Edition.
New York: Lococo - Mulder, [1992]
Light wear to cloth; very good.
Lot 40
(150/200)
44. Burroughs, William S. & Charles
Gatewood. Sidetripping. Illustrations from photographs. (4to) wrappers. First Edition.
[New York]: [Strawberry Hill Books], [1975]
Signed by Charles Gatewood. Corners lightly bumped. light wear; very good.
(100/150)
45. Burroughs, William S. & Brion Gysin. The Third Mind. White wrappers. “Unrevised and
unpublished proofs”.
New York: Viking Press, [1978]
Scarce. Some soiling to white paper wrappers; very good.
Page 9
(250/350)
46. (Cahill, James, publisher) Eight volumes published by James Cahill. Includes: Crumley,
James. The Mexican Tree Duck. Slipcase. No. 2 of 150 signed & numbered copies. 1st edition,
preceding trade edition by 1 month. 1993. * Powers, Tim. The Skies Discrowned. Afterword
by James P. Blaylock. Color frontispiece by Phil Parks. Jacket. Presentation copy of 300 copies
by the Powers, Blaylock & Parks. 1st hardcover edition. * Butler, Robert Olen. They Whisper.
Slipcase. No. 2 of 150 copies signed by the author. 1st signed/limited edition. 1993. * Block,
Lawrence. The Specialists. Jacket, slipcase. No. 5 of 200 specially bound copies signed by the
author. 1st edition. 1996. * Cussler, Clive. Pacific Vortex! Jacket. 1st limited trade hardcover
edition. 2000. * White, Randy Wayne. Twelve Mile Limit. 2 copies. Slipcases. Nos. 52 and 82
of 600 specially bound copies signed by the author. 1st signed/limited edition, simultaneous
with the 1st trade hardcover edition. 2002. * Cussler, Clive & Craig Dirgo. The Sea Hunters
2: More True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks. Slipcase. No. 112 of 600 specially bound
copies signed by the author. 1st signed/limited edition. 2002. Together, 6 volumes. Hardcover.
Huntington Beach & Aliso Viejo, CA: James Cahill Publishing, Various dates
All in fine condition.
(400/600)
47. Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Yellow cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
Basis for the classic 1961 Blake Edwards film starring Audrey Hepburn. Jacket with
“10/58” date code on the front flap. Jacket spine faded, as usual, slight chips at head,
rubbing at foot; a few light fox marks to front cover, darkened patches to front endpapers
from removed label; very good or better in like jacket.
(600/900)
48. Capote, Truman. The Grass Harp. Illustrated double title page. Beige linen, dust jacket.
First Edition, First Printing.
Author’s fourth book. First printing with rough linen binding. Jacket price clipped, light
soiling and edge wear; label residue on rear endpaper; near fine in a very good jacket.
(200/300)
49. Cary, Joyce. The African Witch. Black cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1936
Signed by the author on the title page. Jacket spine sunned, minor wear; fine in a near fine
jacket.
(150/250)
50. Clancy, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. Red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, [1984]
Clancy’s first, and still most famous, book. First state of the first edition, with 18 lines of
print on the copyright page, no statement of edition with no series of numbers, no price
on jacket, Clive Cussler review on rear jacket panel is the third review down, ISBN is on
lower rear jacket panel and cloth cover. Jacket with faint foxing along spine, slight wear
at spine ends and corners; volume with a touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners; near
fine in like jacket.
(200/300)
51. Clavell, James. Tai-Pan: A Novel of Hong Kong. Half cloth & boards, jacket. First Edition.
New York: Atheneum, 1966
Presentation copy with full-page signed inscription on the front flyleaf from Clavell to
Colonel Jack Gross, dated January 1967; autograph letter signed by Clavell to Gross laid
in. Jacket with some minor soiling and wear; front hinge tender; very good in like jacket.
(200/300)
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52. Cobb, Humphrey. Paths of Glory. Red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Viking Press, 1935
The author’s only work. The basis for the 1957 film of the same name directed by Stanley
Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas, Adolph Menjou, George Macready, and Ralph
Meeker. Minor wear to jacket; slight spine lean; near fine.
(200/300)
53. Crais, Robert. Two volumes by Robert Crais. Includes: Stalking the Angel. [1989]. * Free
Fall. [1993. Together, 2 volumes. Half cloth & boards, jackets. First Editions.
New York: Bantam Books, [1989 & 1993]
Two novels featuring Elvis Cole, a wisecracking Los Angeles private detective. Both in
fine condition.
(200/300)
54. Crews, Harry. Madonna at Ringside. 8vo. Red cloth, lettered in gilt. Number 31 of 275
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1991
Signed by Crews on leaf at front. Fine.
(200/300)
Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.
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SEVERAL LOTS OF R. CRUMB RARITIES
55. Crumb, R. The Complete Crumb Comics - Volumes 1-17. Volumes 1-17 plus 4 duplicate
volumes. (4to) pictorial boards. First Editions, varying limitations, all signed by R. Crumb.
Westlake Village, CA / Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 1987-2005
Includes: Volume 1. October 1987. Early Years of Bitter Struggle. 1958-1962. Introduction
by Marty Pahls. Copy # 001419. No notice of limitation. Volumes were number-stamped
by hand in no special order. Signed by R. Crumb. Additionally Crumb has added
inscription: “A 60’s Kinda Guy.” Few copies received extra inscription by Crumb. *
Another copy of Volume 1, this volume is in special cloth on boards binding. One of 150
numbered copies signed by Crumb. This is copy #71. * Volume 2. May 1988. Some More
Early Years of Bitter Struggle. 1959-1964. Introduction by Marty Pahls. Special Edition:
One of 50 numbered copies signed by Crumb on a variant blue illustrated card. This is
copy #47. * Another copy of Volume 2. One of 600 numbered copies signed by Crumb.
This is copy #40. * Volume 3. 1988. Starring Fritz The Cat. 1960-1966. Introduction by
Marty Pahls. One of 100 special numbered copies signed by Crumb on variant card with
illustration of a guitar. This is copy #86. * Another copy of Volume 3. One of 50 special
numbered copies signed by Crumb on a variant blue card. This is copy #32. * Another
copy of Volume 3. One of 400 numbered
copies signed by Crumb. This is copy #
92. * Volume 4. Dec 1988. Mr. Sixties.
1966-1967. Reproduces Zap #0 and Zap
#1. One of 600 numbered copies signed
by Crumb. This is copy #263. * Volume
5. 1990. Happy Hippy Comix. 1967-1969.
One of 600 numbered copies signed by
Crumb. This is copy #170. * Volume 6.
1990. On The Crest Of A Wave. Includes
the notoriously X-Rated “Joe Blow” story.
Crumb. This is copy #12. * Volume 7.
1991. Hot ‘N Heavy. 1970-1971. One of
400 numbered copies signed by Crumb.
This is copy # 283. * Volume 8. 1992.
Featuring The Death of Fritz the Cat.
1972. One of 400 numbered copies signed
by Crumb. This is copy #325. * Volume
9. 1992. R. Crumb Versus the Sisterhood.
Crumb. This is copy #395. * Volume
10. 1994. Crumb Advocates Violent
Overthrow. One of 400 numbered copies
signed by Crumb. This is copy #12. *
Volume 11. 1995. Mr. Natural Commited
To A Mental Institution!! One of 400
Lot 55
numbered copies signed by Crumb. This
is copy #243. * Volume 12. 1996. We’re Livin’ in the “Lap o’ Luxury”! 1976-1979. One
of 400 numbered copies signed by Crumb. This is copy #375. Crumb has also added the
inscription: “It Beats Working at MacDonald’s I Guess.” * Volume 13. 1998. The Season
Of The Snoid. 1976-1980. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Crumb. This is copy
#257. * Volume 14. 2001. The Early ‘80s and Weirdo Magazine. Early 1980s. Features the
earliest Weirdo Comics edited by Crumb. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Crumb.
This is copy #118. * Volume 15. 2001. Featuring Mode O’Day and Her Pals. Mid-1980s.
Introduction by Peter Bagge (cartoonist and previous editor of Weirdo). One of 300
numbered copies signed by Crumb. This is copy #185. * Volume 16. 2002. The Mid-1980s:
More Years of Valiant Struggle. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Crumb. This is
copy #108. * Volume 17. 2005. Cave Wimp, Mode O’Day, Aline ‘N’ Bob, R. Crumb
Goes To The Academy Awards. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Crumb. This is
copy #62. Together 21 volumes. All the books are in uniformly fine unread condition.
(2000/2500)
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56. Crumb, R. R. Crumb Sketchbook - Volume 1 through Volume 10. 10 volumes. (4to) clothbacked pictorial boards. First Editions, varying limitations, all signed by R. Crumb.
Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 1992-2005
Rarely found complete. Volume 1. Over 150 pages of Crumb’s private sketchbooks.
Volume 1 contains gorgeous selections circa 1964 to mid-1965. Subjects include portraits,
landscapes, roughed out strips, studies for commercial work, and, of course, lotsa girls.
One of 400 numbered copies signed by Crumb. This is copy #339. * Volume 2. Over
150 pages of Crumb’s private sketchbooks. Volume 2 contains gorgeous selections circa
mid-1965 to early ‘66: portraits, landscapes, roughed out strips, studies for commercial
work, and, of course, girls, girls, girls. One of 400 numbered copies signed by Crumb.
This is copy #26. * Volume 3. These selections from 1966 include complete strips, a rough
of “Keep on Truckin’,” parody covers and ads, portraits, still lifes, urban landscapes, and
other scenes transformed by Crumb’s searching eye and obsessive pencil. One of 400
numbered copies signed by Crumb. This is #163. * Volume 4. One of 400 numbered
copies signed by Crumb. This is #95. * Volume 5. Personally selected by the artist,
these drawings include much material never seen before. Volume 5 covers 1967 and
1968, when Crumb was crowned King of the Undergrounds. See a world-famous artist
at work, developing ideas. One of 400 numbered copies signed by Crumb. This is copy
#169. * Volume 6. Countless gems rousted from Crumb’s imagination: hippies, cityscapes, girls, self-portraits, mock covers, social commentary, studies, fantasies and stylistic
experimentation. These are the sparks that ignited the late ‘60s One of 300 numbered
copies signed by Crumb. This is copy #121. * Volume 7. One of 400 numbered copies
signed by Crumb. This is copy #222. * Volume 8. One of 300 numbered copies signed
by Crumb. This is copy #286. Crumb has also added the inscription: “R. ‘Helluva Fix’
Crumb.” * Volume 9. Direct from Crumb’s tortured id comes this ninth volume of
reproductions from his voluminous sketchbooks. This book covers the 1972 and 1973
years — some of his most inquisitive and soul-searching years! One of 300 numbered
copies signed by Crumb. This is copy #152. Crumb has also added the inscription, “R.
‘God Help Me’ Crumb.” * Volume 10. Crumb’s Personal sketchbook drawings from
Mid 1975 to Early 1977. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Crumb. This is copy #33.
Together 10 volumes. All the books are in uniformly fine unread condition.
(1000/1500)
57. Crumb, R. The Record Cover Collection. Illustrations throughout by R. Crumb. (4to) boards.
#44 of 100 copies. Signed by R. Crumb.
Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 1994
Accompanied by a 10” vinyl record titled “I Own ‘Em” a in record sleeve with
illustrations by Crumb. The record features eight of Crumb’s favorite compositions he
has chosen from his 78 record collection. Fine.
(250/350)
58. Crumb, R. and others. The Best Comics of the Decade, 1980-1990 - Volumes 1 & 2. 2 volumes.
Black boards, dust jackets. First Editions, each one of 650 copies.
Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, [1990]
Includes: Best Comics of the Decade. Volume 1. One of 650 numbered copies signed by
contributors Bill Griffith (creator of Zippy The Pinhead) and Matt Groening (creator of
The Simpsons). This is copy #53. * Best Comics of the Decade. Volume 2. One of 650
numbered copies signed by contributors The Hernandez Brothers (creators of Love and
Rockets) and R. Crumb (creator of Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and more). This is copy
#206. Fine.
(250/350)
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59. Crumb, Sophie. Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist. Illustrations throughout, many
in color, by Sophie Crumb. (Small 4to) black boards, dust jacket, slipcase. No. 112 of 250
New York: New York, [2011]
Original signed and numbered print laid in, as issued. Signed at the limitation by Sophie
Crumb and by her mother Aline Crumb and her father, comic artist, R. Crumb. Fine.
(300/500)
60. Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - 2 copies. Each [12], 162, [2] pp. Illustrated
by Joseph Schindelman. 1st in red cloth, 2nd in half cloth & boards.
New York: Knopf, [1964]
Early printings of the unforgettable story “concerning the adventures of four nasty
children and Our Hero with Mr. Willy Wonka and his famous candy plant.” Each with 5
lines in the printer’s colophon below the “About the Author” section on the last printed
leaf. First with spine slightly faded, leaning; very good or better.
(200/300)
61. (Dickens, Charles) Childs, George W. Autograph Letter Signed by George W. Childs, relating
to Charles Dickens’ final appearance in America. 10 lines, in ink, on letterhead of the Public
Ledger, with engraving of the headquarters of the newspaper in the upper left corner. 23x18½
cm. (9x7½”).
Philadelphia: May 4th, 1868
The letter was probably written to Charles H. Sweetser, New York: “I thank you for
the article “The [Floral?] Tribute to Charles Dickens” which I shall send him by the next
Steamer and I know how much he will appreciate it. I gave you a little notice of your
‘Mail’ and wish you every success…” After a six-month reading tour of the United States,
Charles Dickens’ final American appearance was at a New York journalists’ banquet in
his honor at Delmonico’s in April 1868. The article mentioned in this letter was probably
an account of the flower-bedecked event by Charles H. Sweetser, 27 year-old publisher
of the newly-established New York Evening Mail. A few months later, Sweetser’s wife
gave birth to a daughter, named Kate Dickinson after her poet cousin Emily, who was
destined to one day write popular children’s books. In 1919, Kate Sweetser would find
that account in an old trunk and rewrite it in book form as Dining with Dickens at
Delmonico’s. Not present at the banquet was George W. Childs, wealthy and influential
Philadelphia newspaper and book publisher, whose good friends included President
Grant, Edison, Carnegie, Walt Whitman - and Charles Dickens, whom Childs visited at
his home in England later that year. Childs would later own the original manuscript of
Our Mutual Friend, the only complete Dickens book manuscript in America. The letter
was trimmed down and apparently cut in half, with the two sections taped together on
verso just below the date. Also trimmed at the margins, with no loss of handwriting.
(150/250)
62. Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa. Black and orange cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First American
Edition.
Basis for the Academy Award winning 1985 film starring Robert Redford and Meryl
Streep. jacket lightly edge worn, small chipping to head and heel of spine; previous
owner’s name on front pastedown endpaper; near fine in a like jacket.
(300/500)
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FIRST ENGLISH AND FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS
63. Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Lost World: Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures
of Professor George E. Challenger... 319 pp. Frontispiece and 8 plates. 7½x4¾, blue cloth, cover
lettered and ruled in white, with a gilt portrait of Professor Challenger, spine lettered in gilt.
First Edition.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912]
The first Professor Challenger story, in which the scientist and his exploring party locate
a remnant of the prehistoric world on a plateau in South America. Bookplate of George
Munro on front pastedown. Light wear, corners lightly bumped; very good.
(600/900)
64. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Lost World. [10], 309 pp. Illustrated with 16 plates by
Joseph Clement Coll and five of which are by Maple White. 19.6X13 CM. (7¾x5¼”), olive
tan-green cloth, lettered in gilt. First American Edition.
New York: Hodder & Stoughton/George H. Doran Co., [1912]
Bleiler: Science Fiction: The Early Years, 612. Slightest rubbing to spine ends and corners;
faint foxing to endpapers, fine or nearly so, with bookplate of Elwyn B. Gould.
(200/300)
65. Dreiser, Theodore. A Gallery of Women. 2 volumes. 9½x6½, original ¼ parchment &
silver-decorated black boards, spines lettered in black, edges untrimmed, some pages unopened.
No. 248 of 560 sets (only 535 were for sale). First Edition.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1929
Signed by Dreiser on the limitation page. Spines slightly darkened, darkening along front
joint of Vol. II; near fine, with bookplates of E. Hill Leith.
(300/500)
66. Eastman, Max. Venture. 398 pp. Blue cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927
A scarce novel of pre-World War I radicalism and the I.W.W. Especially scarce in the dust
jacket. Large chips from head and heel of spine, hole at center of spine, some light edge
wear; light wear to binding, previous owner’s name on endpaper; very good in a good
jacket.
(500/800)
67. Eshleman, Clayton. The Name Encanyoned River: Selected Poems, 1960-1985. Cloth-backed
boards, acetate jacket. Copy ‘H’ of 26 lettered copies. First Edition.
Holograph poem in the author’s hand inserted at front, as issued. A touch of rubbing to
edges, foxing to top edge of page block; near fine.
(150/200)
68. Everson, William. River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States. Illustrations
from line drawings by Patrick Kennedy. (Folio) calf-backed boards. No. 115 of 250 copies.
First Edition.
[Berkeley]: Oyez, 1976
Signed by Everson at the colophon. Fine.
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(100/150)
69. (Everson, William) Brother Antoninus. Who is She that Looketh Forth as the Morning. [4],
19, [6] pp. Color block print by Graham Mackintosh on title page. (Folio) green cloth stamped
in gilt. No. 191 of 250 copies. First Edition.
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1972
Signed by Everson as Brother Antoninus at colophon. Fine.
(100/150)
70. Fante, John. John Fante: Selected Letters, 1932-1981. Edited by Seamus Cooney. Clothbacked pictorial boards. Copy 10 of 176 copies.
Signed by Seamus Cooney and Joyce Fante on inserted leaf at front. Slight lean to spine,
top edge of page block a bit dusty; near fine.
(100/150)
71. Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. Beige cloth, lettered in brown. First Edition, Second
issue.
New York: Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith, [1930]
Second issue of Faulkner’s stream-of-consciousness novel, with the corrected “I” initial
on p. 11, which was initially dropped down; 750 copies were printed before this was
corrected. See Peterson A7c; Howard A7.1b; Massey 16. Darkening and slight fraying to
spine head, darkened along rear joint; second signature slightly loose; very good.
(200/300)
SIGNED BY WILLIAM FAULKNER
72. Faulkner, William. Notes on a Horsethief. Illustrated by Elizabeth Calvert. 71 pp. Green
cloth stamped in silver. No. 697 of 950 copies. First Edition.
Greenville, Miss.: Levee Press, 1950
Signed by William Faulkner on the limitation page. No jacket, as issued. Petersen A27a.
Slight rubbing to spine ends and corners, offset to front endpapers from item previously
laid in; near fine.
(1000/1500)
73. Faulkner, William. Pylon. Light blue cloth, lettered in gilt over black wrap-around
background, top edges black, pictorial jacket. First Trade Edition.
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935
Faulkner’s aviation novel and the basis for the 1958 film The Tarnished Angels. First issue
jacket with the publisher’s ads on the rear panel. Petersen A16b. Jacket browned and with
some light edge wear; spine cloth sunned, a few small spots on rear cover; very good.
(200/300)
74. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. The Canticle of Jack Kerouac. Hand-sewn chapbook illustrated
with photograph of Kerouac’s grave on the front cover and photos of other Lowell landmarks
on back cover and inside covers. Wrappers. Copy “O” of 26 special lettered copies signed by
Ferlinghetti (total edition 350 copies). First Edition.
Lowell, MA: Corporation for the Celebration of Jack Kerouac in Lowell, 1987
Fine.
(150/250)
75. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. A Trip to Italy & France. Cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in
gilt, acetate jacket. No. 192 of 250 copies. First Edition.
[New York]: New Directions, [1981]
Signed by Ferlinghetti in the colophon. Morgan A56. Light wear to jacket; volume fine.
(200/300)
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ONE OF ONLY 5 SIGNED COPIES
76. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. The World Is a Beautiful Place. Broadside. Illustration from a
painting by Ferlinghetti. 61x42 cm. (24x16½”). No. 19 (of 100) copies, one of only 5 signed.
New Haven, CT: Sign of the Gryphon, 1989
Fine.
(300/500)
77. Field, Eugene. The Temptation of Friar Gonsol. A Story of the Devil, Two Saints and a Booke.
Unpaginated. (8vo) 19.4x12.6 cm. (7½x5”) original boars, ribbon ties, top edge gilt. Number 19
of 22 copies on Japan Vellum.
Washington, D.C.: Woodward & Lothrop, 1900
The limitation calling for ten copies on Japan Vellum has been crossed through in red ink
and the number 22 substituted. BAL 5783 (note). Cover illustrations faded to a very faint
ghost of an image, light wear; very good.
(200/300)
78. (Fitzgerald, F. Scott) Graham, Sheilah. Typed Letter, signed from the former mistress of F.
Scott Fitzgerald. Typed Letter, signed (“Sheilah”), with a few handwritten additions. To her
newly-wed husband, Trevor Westbrook, in England. 3 pages, Two 11x8½”, the third 5½x8½”.
New York: April 27, 1942
British-born Sheilah Graham, one of the most influential gossip columnists in
Hollywood, is remembered today as the last lover of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, their
three-year relationship (described in her book Beloved Infidel) beginning while he
was still married to his wife Zelda, who was institutionalized in an asylum. Graham
remained with Fitzgerald until the day he died of a heart attack in December 1940. She
then returned as a war correspondent to her native England, where she met fighter plane
manufacturer Trevor Westbrook, whom she married in January 1942, weeks after the
US entered World War II. When, four months later, she wrote this letter from New
York to her new husband in London, she was pregnant - and explained at length why
her New York Doctors “did not think it wise (to put it mildly) for me to make the trip
back to England now, or at any time during the next months”. Rejecting the insistence
of Westbrook and his “interfering” mother that she should come back to England during
her pregnancy, Sheilah Graham was still in United States in September when she gave
birth in Hollywood to a baby girl. Not until after her mother’s death in 1988 did her
grown daughter discover (and reveal in a published memoir) that her biological father
was not Westbrook, but British philosopher A.J. Ayer, with whom her mother had
a brief affair just before her marriage - and exactly one year after the death of F. Scott
Fitzgerald, the true love of her life. Paper browned and creased, some wear; very good.
(150/250)
79. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Crack-Up. Cloth-backed patterned boards, dust jacket. First
Edition.
New York: New Directions, [1945]
First printing with the title page printed in black and red-brown. Light extremity wear
to jacket and volume; near fine.
(100/150)
80. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, lettering
on front cover blind-stamped, facsimile dust jacket. First Edition, First Issue.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925
First edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great masterpiece, considered the epitome of the Jazz
Age in American literature. First issue with “sick in tired” on p. 205, lines 9-10, plus the
other 5 textual variations noted by Bruccoli. Bruccoli A11.I.a. Spine a little faded, gilt
dull, ends and corners a little rubbed, small stain to rear cover; else very good, in facsimile
jacket.
(1500/2000)
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81. Follett, Ken. Eye of the Needle. Half cloth & boards, jacket. First American Edition.
New York: Arbor House, [1978]
Author’s first book. Jacket with a little edge wear, small chip to spine foot; ink name to
front endpaper, very good in like jacket.
(200/300)
82. Forester, C.S. The Daughter of the Hawk. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First American
Edition.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1928]
Published in England as The Shadow of the Hawk. Jacket price clipped, some light edge
wear, stain on rear panel; slight lean to spine; very good.
(400/600)
83. Forster, E.M. The Eternal Moment. [viii], 188 pp. Red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928
The author’s second published collection of short stories. Jacket spine sunned, some light
wear; fine in a near fine jacket.
(200/300)
ONE OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY ROBERT FROST
84. Frost, Robert. New Hampshire: A Poem. [4], 19 pp. Woodcut on title-page in red by J.J.
Lankes. 19x13.2 cm. (7½x5¼”), half linen & boards, paper spine label, rice paper dust wrapper.
No. 153 of 750 copies. First Separate Edition.
Hanover, NH: The New Dresden Press, 1955
Signed by Robert Frost on the limitation-page. Crane A6.2. Plain dust wrapper with
some light staining; some discoloration to the linen spine from the glue used in binding, as
generally occurs; near fine in very good dust wrapper.
(400/600)
85. Ginsberg, Allen. Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze. Cloth, illustrated label on front,
acetate jacket. No. 12 of 100 copies.
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972
Inscribed and signed by Allen Ginsberg at the colophon with a sketch of a flower.
Another inscription on the facing page with illegible signature. Minor wear; near fine.
(200/300)
86. Ginsberg, Allen. T.V. Baby Poems. Yellow cloth, dust jacket. One of 400 casebound copies.
First Edition.
[London]: Cape Goliard Press, [1967]
Light soiling to jacket; fine in a near fine jacket.
(150/250)
INSCRIBED BY GINSBERG TO CARL SOLOMON
87. Ginsberg, Allen. White Shroud: Poems, 1980-1985 - Inscribed to Carl Solomon. Red cloth,
dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Harper & Row, [1986]
Inscribed on the title page to Ginsberg’s longtime friend and the man to whom his
masterpiece “Howl” is dedicated, Carl Solomon. “For Carl Solomon from the Author
Allen Ginsberg. Something new to read, Winter night in Bronx. February 3, 1987.” And
with his circled AH monogram. An important association copy. A touch of wear to dust
jacket; fine.
(500/800)
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88. Golding, William. The Inheritors. Blue cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., [1955]
The second novel by the author of “Lord of the Flies” and a Science Fiction high point.
Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 19. Front flap corners clipped, minor wear
and darkening; fine in a near fine jacket.
(300/500)
89. Goldman, William. The Temple of Gold. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957
The author’s first novel. Jacket spine a bit darkened, lower edge lightly rubbed; near fine
in a near fine jacket.
(150/250)
90. Graves, Robert. Love Respelt Again. Black cloth, dust jacket. One of 1000 copies signed by
the author. First Edition.
New York: Doubleday, [1969]
50 poems by Graves, reproduced in facsimile of the manuscript. Jacket browned and with
some chipping and short tears; volume fine.
(100/150)
THREE LOTS BY GRAHAM GREENE
91. Greene, Graham. The Labyrinthine Ways. Yellow cloth, top page edge stained blue-green,
color pictorial jacket. First American Edition, second issue.
New York: Viking, 1940
Originally published in England as The Power and the Glory in the same year. Second
issue with pages 165 and 256 inserted in their proper locations. Wobbe A16b. Large chip
from heel of jacket spine, some other light edge wear; near fine in a good jacket.
(300/500)
92. Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory. Cloth, jacket. First Edition, second printing.
London: William Heinemann, [1940]
Second printing, the same month as the first. Jacket states “Second Large Printing” at
bottom of front flap. Jacket with ¾x1” triangular piece missing from spine head, smaller
chip at foot, tiny nicks at corners, a bit of edge wear and soiling; volume spine ends with
darkened patches matching the jacket chips, a little bubbling to front cover, darkening to
endpapers; very good in like jacket.
(400/600)
93. Greene, Graham. Stamboul Train. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition, second
issue.
Author’s fourth novel and one of his more elusive early titles. Second issue with all the
material objectionable to author J.B. Priestley removed along with the other issues points,
including the character “Quin Savory” mentioned on page 78. Wobbe A5a. Spine leaning,
light edge wear; very good.
(300/500)
94. Grey, Zane. Skogarnas Son. Red cloth. First Swedish Edition?
Stolkholm: Vart Hems Forlag, [1924]
Signed by Grey on the front free endpaper in his usual purple ink. Light edge wear; very
good.
(150/250)
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95. Grisham, John. A Time to Kill [and] The Firm. Includes: A Time To Kill. First Doubleday
Edition. [1993]. * The Firm. First Edition. [1991]. Together, 2 volumes. Half cloth & boards,
jackets.
New York: Doubleday, [1993 & 1991]
John Grisham’s first two books. A Time to Kill, after many approaches to publishers, was
finally accepting by the Wynwood Press in 1989, issued in a relatively small (5,000 copies)
edition, and not republished until after The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and The Client
brought Grisham to the forefront of bestselling authors. There is a former owner’s ink
inscription on the front free endpaper of A Time to Kill: “Grisham’s 1st novel. Rejected
by >25 publishers. Sold for screen rights in 1994 for >$6 million.” Light shelf wear, fine
or nearly so.
(200/300)
96. (Hanuman Books) Collection of Hanuman Books editions. Includes: 1) John Wieners -A
Superficial Estimation, (1986). * 2) David Trinidad -November, (1986). * 3) Eileen Myles -Bread
And Water, (1987). * 4) Taylor Mead -Son of Andy Warhol. Volume four: Excerpts From
The Diary of a New York Youth (1986). * 5A) Francis Picabia -Who Knows - Poems and
Aphorisms, (1986). First edition. * 5B) Francis Picabia - Who Knows - Poems and Aphorisms,
(1992). Second edition. * 6) Henri Michaux -By Suprise, (1987). * 7) Amy Gerstler -Primitive
Man, (1987). * 8) John Ashbery -The Ice Storm, (1987). * 9A) Herbert Huncke -Guilty of
Everything, (1987). * 9B) Herbert Huncke - Guilty of Everything, (1987). This copy SIGNED
by Huncke on front flyleaf. * 10) Manuel Rosenthal -Satie, Ravel, Poulenc, (1987). * 11) Rene
Daumal -A Fundamental Experiment, (1987). * 12) Bob Flanagan -Fuck Journal, (1987). * 13)
John Wieners -Conjugal Contraries & Quart, (1987). * 14A) Willem de Kooning,Collected
Writings. (1990). Second Impression. * 14B) Jack Kerouac. Manhattan Sketches. Also numbered
“14” on spine. “Pirate Edition” on title page but Hanuman name and logo on back cover of
jacket. * 15) Cookie Mueller -Fan Mail, Prankletters, and Crank Calls, (1989). * 16) Sandro
Penna -Confused Dream, (1988). * 17) Vincent Katz -Cabal of Zealots, (1988). * 18) Alain
Danielou -Fools of Gold, (1988). * 19) Edward Denby -Willem De Kooning (1988). * 20) Max
Beckmann -On My Painting, (1988). * 21) Gary Indiana -White Trash Boulevard, (1988). *
22) Jean Genet -Rembrandt, (1988). * 23) David Trinidad -Three Stories, (1988). * 24) Allen
Ginsberg -Your Reason and Blake’s System, (1988) * 25) Rene Guenon -Oriental Metaphysics
(1989). * 26) Eileen Myles -1969, (1989). * 27) Gregory Corso -Mind Field, (1989). * 28) Rene
Daumal -The Lie of The Truth, (1989). * 29) Elaine Equi -Views Without Rooms, (1989). * 30)
Ronald Firbank -Firbankiana (1989). * 31) David Hockney -Picasso, (1990). * 32) Simone Weil
-On The Lord’s Prayer, (1990). * 33) Jack Smith -Historical Treasures, (1990). * 34) Cookie
Mueller -Garden of Ashes, (1990). * 35) Beauregard Houston-Montgomery -Pouf Pieces,
(1990). * 36) Bob Dylan -Saved! The Gospel Speeches, (1990). * 37) Richard Hell -Artifact,
(1990). * 38) Henry Geldzahler -Looking at Pictures, (1990). * 39) Francis Picabia -Yesno,
(1990). * 40) Robert Creeley -Autobiography, (1990). * 41) Dodie Bellamy -Feminine Hijinx,
(1990). * 42) Jack Kerouac -Safe in Heaven Dead. Interviews with Jack Kerouac, (1994). * 43)
Candy Darling by Candy Darling, (1992). * 44) Nick Zedd -Bleed Part One, (1992). * 45) Patti
Smith -Woolgathering (1992). * 46) William S. Burroughs -Painting & Guns, (1992). * 47)
Robert Hunter -Idiot’s Delight, (1992). * 48) Robert Frank -One Hour (1992). The above all
approximately 4x2½” in the original boards and jacket. Also includes the following full size
Volumes, approximately 6x8”: Rene Ricard. God With Revolver. 1989. Designed and printed
in Madras, India. Decorative wrappers. In clear film dust jacket as issued. * Rene Ricard. God
With Revolver. 1989. Designed and printed in Madras, India. Handbound in boards with
decorative dust jacket. Covered with clear film jacket as issued. Together 53 volumes.
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1986-1992
The body of work from the press of Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente. Hanuman
was the favorite Hindu deity of both men. The format of the books is based on Indian
prayer books, they were hand-made in India. A few volumes with a touch of wear but
overall fine.
(1000/1500)
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97. Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Blue cloth, spine lettered in white, jacket. First Edition
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961
Signed by Joseph Heller on label affixed to front free endpaper. Heller’s classic novel of
World War II, his first, and best, book. Jacket with a few edge tears and chips, spine faded
somewhat; volume spine head a little bumped, small stain to top edge of front cover;
offset to endpapers, else very good in like jacket.
(600/900)
A FEW BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY
98. Hemingway, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. Illustrated with numerous Bullfighting scenes
from photographs originally captured on film; color frontispiece from painting by Juan Gris,
with printed tissue-guard. Black cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition.
New York: Scribner’s, 1932
Hemingway’s famous treatise on bullfighting, accentuated with eighty-one stills of
bullfighters at all stages of the event. Hanneman A10.A. Spine sunned, light edge wear,
front hinge starting, rear hinge cracked, bookplate; very good.
(200/300)
99. Hemingway, Ernest. The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. Red cloth, spine
lettered in gilt over black background, facsimile dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing.
Hemingway’s three-act play and four previously uncollected stories written from his
experiences in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. First printing: 1938 date on title and
copyright pages, Scribner’s seal and “A” present. Some staining/darkening to endpapers;
very good in facsimile jacket.
(250/350)
100. Hemingway, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa. Decorations by Edward Shenton. Green cloth,
lettered in gilt, dust jacket.
The same year, publisher and format as the first edition, but without the “A” on the
copyright-page. The dust jacket is the presumed first state, with wide green band on rear
panel and text in small font. Jacket spine faded, as usual, head chipped affecting a few
letters in “GREEN,” smaller chips to foot and a short tear through the first two letters of
Scribner’s, some rubbing, small chips to corners; volume with only slight fading to spine,
else near fine in good to very good jacket.
(200/300)
101. Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Black cloth, gilt paper cover and spine labels.
First Edition, Second issue.
Second issue with “stopped” (instead of “stoppped”) on p. 181, line 26. Hanneman A6A.
A little rubbing to spine ends and corners, spine head with ¼” tear, spine label a bit
tarnished with small rubbed streak, else very good.
(500/800)
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102. Hemingway, Ernest. The Torrents of Spring. Smooth dark greenish-black cloth lettered in
orange. First Edition.
New York: Scribner’s, 1926
The first Hemingway book to be published by Scribner’s; his first novel and his second
book to be published in America. One of only 1250 copies printed. Hanneman A4.A.
With circular blindstamp of Ray McRae to front free endpaper; bookplate on front
pastedown; small bookseller’s ticket of Brentano’s, Paris, to rear pastedown. Spine
leaning, a bit of wear to spine ends, lower corners just showing, very faint, barely
discernible stains to rear cover; slight darkening to front endpapers, very good.
(500/800)
103. (Hemingway, Ernest) Cohn, Louis Henry. A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest
Hemingway. Folding facsimile at front. (8vo), black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Number 252
of 500 copies. First Edition
New York: Random House, 1931
This copy with the ownership signature of Hemingway bibliographer Audre Hanneman.
Review slip laid in. Hanneman B9. Light wear to cloth, tape stains on endpapers; very
good.
(500/800)
AN ORIGINAL PORTRAIT OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY
104. (Hemingway, Ernest) Gant, David. Portrait of Ernest Hemingway. Original oil on canvas,
50.7x40.5 cm. (20x16”). Signed by the artist on the rear of the canvas.
2011
A vividly colored portrait of Ernest Hemingway by this Kansas City artist. Fine
(1000/1500)
Lot 104
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105. (Hollywood) Edwards, J.S. Autograph Letter, signed on pictorial stationery of Edwards’
Zoo, regarding animals for movies, including at a later date Tarzan of the Apes. 2 page Autograph
Letter, signed, possibly secretarial, to Henry S. Martin. Approximately 11x8½” on company
letterhead, with several photographic portraits.
Scranton, PA: Sept. 8, 1904
“...I do not think we can show our animals under canvas, we have an Orang Outang and
a Chimpanzee and those specimens contract pneumonia quite easily. We always show
in storerooms on account of the character of our exhibitions. We have 70 monkeys in
our exhibition, the largest collection of Simians in this country. Also a large collection
of other animals...” Five years after the date of this letter, Edwards was accused of having
kidnapped a mentally retarded young Black man to put him on “freak” display as “Congo,
The Ape Man” - possibly the same “Gorrilla Man” shown on this stationery. In 1914,
Edwards moved to Los Angeles and with his partner John Rounan, founded the “E. and
R. Jungle Film Co.” to produce Hollywood films starring chimpanzees “with human
brains”. In 1917 they contracted to provide apes, monkeys, lions and leopards for the first
Tarzan movie based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ famous novel. Some of the animal scenes
were filmed at the E & R studio. Creased from mailing; very good.
(100/150)
106. (Hollywood) Foreman, Carl. Typed Letter, signed, from the blacklisted screenwriter of High
Noon. Typed Letter, signed. 2 pages, to “Johnny” [Green].
London: March 8, [1953]
“...I suppose you know that I won’t be able to attend the Awards presentation. I
don’t think it matters particularly, because I think it’s highly unlikely that I’d win the
screenwriting Oscar, the competition in my category being pretty rough this year.
However, on the off chance that something nice might happen...I should inform you of
whom I’d like to represent me...Fred Zinneman, Dmitri Tiomkin or Elmo Williams...If
they’re not available, pick anyone you like, so long as it isn’t someone from the Kramer
organization. In the best picture category...having given up the producer credit during the
course of my separation from the Kramer company...it has since been taken by Kramer
by default...since I think the picture has very little chance of winning, the whole thing
is fairly academic, and I don’t propose to worry my pretty little head about it. My best
wishes go to you for the success of the awards affair, and I’m sure it’ll be up to your
usual exciting standard...” Carl Foreman was one of the top screenwriters in Hollywood
when Stanley Kramer offered him a partnership as co-producer and screenwriter for High
Noon. While Foreman was working on the script in 1951, he was summoned before
the “red-hunting” House Committee on Un-American Activities. He willingly testified
that he had once been a member of the Communist Party, but had long since quit the
Party. Refusing to discuss others he knew with alleged Communist ties, he was labeled
an “uncooperative witness”. This led to a bitter falling out with Kramer, who forced
Foreman to sell his part of the High Noon production company. Realizing he would be
“blacklisted” and would find no future work in Hollywood, Foreman then moved to
England before High Noon was released in July 1952. As he mentions in this letter to the
producer of the 1953 Academy Awards ceremony - the first to be nationally televised - he
retained his credit as screenwriter. Light edge wear, several punched holes along left edge;
very good.
(300/500)
WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
107. Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Professor at the Breakfast-Table - With an Autograph Letter,
signed. [iv], 410 pp. (8vo) original brown cloth. First Trade Edition.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860
Tipped in at the front is an Autograph Letter, signed, from Holmes to a Dr. White
offering a gift as a token of remembrance. Letter dated Jan. 1st, 1866. Also issued in a
large-paper format. BAL 8791. Light wear and soiling to cloth, hinges starting; very good.
(300/500)
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108. Hughes, Langston. Simple Stakes a Claim. Boards, jacket. First Edition.
New York: Rinehart & Company, [1957]
Inscribed “Sincerely - Langston Hughes” on the front free endpaper. Jacket spine sunned a
bit, minor extremity rubbing, price clipped; contents darkening, as is common, very good
or better in like jacket.
(500/800)
109. Humes, H.L. The Underground City. Black cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
The author’s first novel. Humes, along with Peter Matthiessen, founded the Paris Review
literary journal. Jacket worn at edges, a few small chips and short tears; near fine in a very
good jacket.
(300/500)
ONE OF 250 SIGNED COPIES
110. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. [viii], 311 pp. (8vo) cloth-backed boards stamped in
gilt on spine and front cover, top edge gilt. Number 2 of 250 copies. First American Edition.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., 1932
Signed by Huxley at the limitation statement. Huxley’s classic and best known work;
a “Utopia which is never dull, of which the horror is always credible” – Connolly, The
Modern Movement 75 Lacking slipcase, as often, small nick to top of page block, a few
small marks to rear board; still fine.
(2000/2500)
Lot 110
111. Isherwood, Christopher. The Memorial. Tan cloth lettered in blue, pictorial dust jacket.
First Edition.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1932
Spine leaning a bit, hinges cracked; very good in a fine jacket.
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(200/300)
112. Jerrold, Douglas. Autograph Letter Signed by Douglas Jerrold to playwright [Joseph] Lunn,
London, asking his attendance at the Garrick Club to form a Dramatic Authors Society. 12 lines, in
ink, on 1st page of 4-page integral stampless lettersheet with address.
Little Chelsea [London]: Undated [July 13, 1833]
Joining Lunn and Jerrold at the Garrick Club will be James Sheridan Knowles, T.J.
Serle and other playwrights intent on forming a Dramatic Authors Society, “to secure
to us the fruits of the Dramatic Authors Art – and a law…for it is only by acting in a
society that the managers are to be fought…” Parliament was about to enact the first
legislation giving playwrights the legal right to be paid for both re-printing and public
performances of their work. To enforce the law, Jerrold and his colleagues formed a
Dramatic Authors Society, a formal licensing agency which eventually had 2000 plays
under its protection and agents all over the country to report on copyright infringement
by theater managers. Jerrold, one of the most popular British dramatists of his time, felt
strongly about violations of dramatic copyright, which reduced most playwrights to
“stark-naked poverty, with grey hairs” – a sad prediction of his own fate; on his death
in 1857, his friend Charles Dickens had to stage a public reading to raise money for his
widow. This significant letter about formation of the first professional association of
British playwrights was quoted in full in the 1914 biography of Jerrold by his grandson.
Some darkening at margins and a small edge chip; very good.
(200/300)
113. Joyce, James. Chamber Music. [40] pp. 15.5x105 cm. (6¼x4¼”), original green gilt-lettered
boards. First (unauthorized) American Edition.
Boston: The Cornhill Company, [1918]
Precedes the authorized American edition published in New York by B. W. Heubsch.
This is the issue with wove, rather than laid paper endpapers, no known priority. Slocum
& Cahoon A5. A fine copy, in custom-made folding morocco case.
(300/500)
114. Joyce, James. Pomes Penyeach. 12x9.2 cm. (4¾x3¾”) original boards, glassine jacket. Errata
slip tipped in at rear. First Edition.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927
With the label of Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company bookshop inside front cover.
Light wear; near fine.
(300/500)
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ONE THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
115. Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. Black cloth, lettered in white, dust jacket. First Edition,
First Printing in First State jacket.
First state jacket, price present on front flap of $3.95 and blue and red stripe across back
cover. One of the most important novels of the twentieth century, by the father of the
beat generation. Charters A2. Jacket professionally restored, repairing some tears and
chips, with retouching to the lettering and illustrations; volume spine rubbed a bit, the
bright white lettering on spine and front cover likely retouched; an attractive, expertly
restored copy in like dust jacket.
(2000/3000)
Lot 115
116. Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. Black cloth, lettered in white, top page edge stained light
red, jacket. Third printing.
Early printing of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, by the father
of the beat generation. See Charters A2. Jacket rubbed at front joint and at extremities;
covers rubbed at top and bottom edges, affecting the margins of cover and causing loss
to surface of the cloth; several small stains to page fore-edges, some foxing and offset to
endpapers, ink name to front free endpaper, about very good in like jacket.
(200/300)
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117. Kerouac, Jack. Les Souterrains. 190, [2] pp. Translated by Jacqueline Bernard. 19.5x12.5
cm. (7¾x5”), original printed wrappers. No. 9 of 26 special copies printed on Lafuma-Navarre
stock. First Edition in French.
Paris: Gallimard, 1964
First French edition of The Subterraneans in limited format. Spine a little sunned; near
fine.
(400/700)
118. Kerouac, Jack. Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46. Black cloth-backed
boards, pictorial endpapers, pictorial jacket. First Edition.
New York: Coward-McCann, [1968]
Jacket with several tears and creasing at top edge, tape repairs on verso; gilt on volume
spine well faded, mark near top edge of front cover; about very good in like jacket.
(200/300)
119. Kerouac, Jack. Twelve chapbooks most of them Bootleg Editions of writings by Jack Kerouac.
Includes: The Vision of the Hooded White Angels. 1 of 100. [Coventry, Eng.]: Pacific Red
Car, 1985. * Home at Christmas. 1 of 50. [Coventry, Eng.]: Insight publications, 1991. * San
Francisco Blues. [Coventry, Eng.]: Pacific Red Car, 1991. * The Mexican Girl. 1 of about
100. [Coventry, Eng.]: Pacific Red Car, [1987]. * Two Stories From Jack Kerouac. 1 of 100.
[Coventry, Eng.]: Pacific Red Car, 1984. * The Great Western Bus Ride. 1 of 50. [Coventry,
Eng.]: Insight publications, 1991. * Awakening From A Dream of Robert Fournier. 1 of 50.
[Coventry, Eng.]: Insight publications, 1991. * Celine and Other Tales. 1 of 100. [Coventry,
Eng.]: Pacific Red Car, 1985. * Old Angel Midnight. [Brighton, Eng.]: Booklegger/Albion,
1973. * The Northport Haikus. 1 of 125. Coventry, Eng.: Beat Scene Press, 1989. * Blues.
In German. Bickenbach, Germany: Wendepunkt Verlag, 1985.* Der Marktplatz Der Worte.
Gottingen, Germany: Verlag Altaquito, 1985. Together, 12 booklets. Wrappers.
Very good to fine condition.
(300/500)
120. (Kerouac, Jack) Two Anthologies with contributions by Jack Kerouac. Includes: New Editions
2. An Anthology of Literary Discoveries. 136 pp. Contains Kerouac’s story “Neal and the
Three Stooges.” 1/1000 copies. First Edition. Berkeley: Paperback Editions Limited, 1957. *
The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America. Edited and with an introduction by
Leroi Jones. Contributors include Jack Kerouac, Robert Creeley, William Burroughs, LeRoi
Jones, Hubert Selby, Jr., Diane di Prima, et al. Black boards, jacket. First British Edition.
London, England: Mac Gibbon & Kee, 1965. Together, 2 volumes.
London & Berkeley: 1957 & 1965
First is fine; second jacket with some darkening and soiling, offset to endpapers, very
good.
(100/150)
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121. (Kerouac, Jack) Four books and booklets about Jack Kerouac. Includes: Holmes, John
Clellon. Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook. Black & white photograph of Holmes’
home in Old Saybrook, CT is pasted in as issued. Oblong wrappers. No. 512 of 750 copies
signed by John Clellon Holmes. California, PA: The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual,
1981. * Gifford, Barry. Kerouac’s Town: On the second anniversary of his death. Photos by
Marshall Clements. Boards. No. 89 of 125 hardbound copies signed by Gifford. Santa Barbara:
Capra Press, 1973. * Jack’s Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac by Barry Gifford and
Lawrence Lee. Wrappers. First edition. Uncorrected Advance Proofs. NY: St. Martin’s Press,
1978. * Montgomery, John. Kerouac West Coast. A Bohemian Pilot / Detailed Navigational
Instructions. Boards, issued without jacket. First Edition. One of 300 hardcover copies. Palo
Alto: Fels & Firn Press, 1976. Together, 4 volumes.
All in fine condition.
(100/150)
122. (Kerouac, Jack) Clark, Tom. Two booklets on Jack Kerouac by Tom Clark. Includes:
Kerouac’s Last Word: Jack Kerouac in Escapade. No. 453 of 500 copies Printed letterpress
at Tabula Rasa Press in Morro Bay, CA. Signed by the publisher, Jeffrey Weinberg, on the
title page. Sudbury: Water Row Press, 1986.* Jack Kerouac in San Francisco. Midnight Ghost
Chapbook Series #1. Copy K of 26 lettered copies specially bound with a cover hand-tinted
by Tom Clark and signed by him on the front cover (total edition 250 copies). Berkeley:
Ammunition Press, 1989. Together, 2 volumes. Stapled wrappers. First Editions.
Sudbury, MA & Berkeley: 1986 & 1989
The first work comprises a thirty-page essay by Kerouac biographer Tom Clark about
Kerouac’s writings for the men’s magazine, Escapade, and a supplement of three “Last
Word” articles by Kerouac as published in Escapade. Both in fine condition.
(150/200)
123. (Kerouac, Jack) Nicosia, Gerald. The Two Lowells of Jack Kerouac. Original wrappers.
One of 115 copies.
[Coventry, England]: [Beat Scene Press], [1988]
Small label signed by Nicosia affixed to front flyleaf. Fine.
(100/150)
124. (Kerouac, Jack) Walsh, Joy. The Absent are Always in the Wrong: Poems for Jack Kerouac.
Tipped-in photograph portrait of Kerouac in the back taken by George Poirier. Also,
frontispiece portrait of Kerouac. 8vo. Dark blue cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in
gilt, matching marbled endpapers. No. 35 of 50 hand-numbered copies printed by Tabula Rasa
Press in Morrow Bay, CA. First Edition, deluxe hardbound issue.
Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1985
Signed by the author and by publisher Jeffrey Weinberg in the colophon. Also, signed
by the photographer, George J. Poirier, on the lower margin of the gelatin silver-print
photograph portrait of Kerouac taken in 1964 tipped on leaf facing colophon. Fine.
(80/120)
125. Kerouac, Jan. Parrot Fever. Excerpts from a Novel. [2], 24, [2] pp. With an introduction by
Jack Kerouac biographer, Gerald Nicosia. 19.5x14 cm. (7¾x5¼”), hand-sewn wrappers, paper
label. No. 51 of 135 copies designed and printed letterpress by Norman H. Davis. First Edition.
Santa Cruz: Pica Pole Press, 1994
Signed by Jan Kerouac in the colophon; also signed by Gerald Nicosia at the end of
his introduction, a feature not called for. Additionally laid in is a 5x7” black & white
photograph of Jan Kerouac taken in Albuquerque, NM in 1994. Fine.
(200/300)
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126. Kerouac, Jan. Trainsong. Cloth-backed boards, jacket. First Edition.
New York: Henry Holt, [1988]
Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine in fine jacket.
(100/150)
THE AUTHOR’S FIRST NOVEL
127. Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon. Gray cloth, pictorial white jacket. First Edition, First
printing.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1966]
Author’s first novel. First appeared as a short story and won the 1960 Hugo Award (was
also nominated for the 1969 Hugo Award as a novel). However, it did win the 1966
Nebula Award. Basis for the 1968 film, Charly, starring Cliff Robertson, who won the
Academy Award for Best Actor as Charly. Selected as one of the 100 Best Science Fiction
novels – David Pringle. Currey, p.276. Jacket with a little wear at spine ends, two short
tears which are neatly repaired on verso, price clipped; volume spine ends a bit crimped,
still fine in very good or better jacket.
(700/1000)
128. King, Martin Luther. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?. Half cloth &
boards, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition.
Secretarially signed for Martin Luther King, Jr., on the front free endpaper. This was
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last book. A little shelf wear, near fine.
(300/500)
129. King, Stephen. Danse Macabre. Black cloth, lettered in gilt, publisher’s slipcase. One of 35
copies reserved for the publisher, with no limitation page. First Edition.
New York: Everest House, [1981]
King’s first published work of nonfiction. These publisher’s copies are the same form as
the limited edition of 250 signed copies, but have no limitation page and are unsigned.
Fine in fine slipcase.
(250/350)
SIGNED BY STEPHEN KING
130. King, Stephen. 11/22/63. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Trade Edition.
New York: Scribner, [2011]
Signed by King on the title page. Eleven photographs from the 11/14/11 book signing at
the Sarasota, Florida Barnes and Noble laid in (seven showing King). Also laid in are a 1
page description of the book signing by an attendee and a photocopy of the store rules for
the event. Fine
(250/350)
131. King, Stephen. Full Dark, No Stars. Blue leather, dust jacket, clamshell box. No. 375 of
750 copies. First Edition.
Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010
Signed by King on the limitation leaf. Fine.
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(400/600)
132. King, Stephen, intro. Lord John Signatures. Introduction by Stephen King. Illustrated
from photographs and facsimiles. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. No. 19 of 400 copies. First
Edition.
A tribute to authorial signatures and other autographed material, with original ink
signatures and portraits of 43 participants in the project, including Stephen King, former
U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, Robert Bloch, John Barth, Jim Harrison, Tony Hillerman,
Ursula K. LeGuin, Robert B. Parker, James Purdy, John Updike, Eudora Welty, James
Lee Burke, William Everson, and many others. Fine.
(300/500)
133. Kipling, Rudyard. Captains Courageous. Gilt-lettered pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt.
First American Edition.
New York: Century, 1897
Livingston 138. Light wear and soiling to cloth, spine leaning; very good.
(300/500)
134. Kipling, Rudyard. Poems: 1886-1929. 3 volumes. Frontispiece portrait in volume one
executed in drypoint and signed by Francis Dodd, in pencil. 10½x7½, full red morocco, giltlettered spines with raised bands, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt. No. 454 of 525 copies printed on
hand-made paper by the Chiswick Press. First Edition.
London: Macmillan, 1929
Signed by Kipling on limitation page in Vol. 1. Livingston 545. Spine leather sunned and
dried, light wear; internally fine
(500/800)
135. [L’Amour, Louis] Burns, Tex, pseud. Hopalong Cassidy and the Rustlers of West Fork. Red
cloth, spine lettered in white, color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1951
First edition in book form, originally published in abbreviated form in the Hopalong
Cassidy Western Magazine. The dust jacket features the likeness of William Boyd, who
played the character of Hopalong Cassidy in 66 feature films. Though the series was
created and continued for years by Clarence E. Mulford, this book, along with three
others, was written by Louis L’Amour under the pseudonym of Tex Burns. These four
books were the first four books Louis L’Amour ever published, but he denied being the
writer til the day he died. Rubbing to jacket spine head, 1x½” triangular chip to lower
edge of rear panel; near fine in a very good or better jacket.
(200/300)
136. L’Amour, Louis. Sitka. Half cloth & boards, jacket. First Edition.
New York: Appleton Century Crofts, [1957]
With Typed Letter Signed by Russell Thacher, Eastern Story Editor at Metro-GoldwynMayer, on MGM letterhead, to a Mr. Ira Guilden, about a possible movie based on
the book: “Unfortunately I haven’t been able tot get a rise out of any of our producers
in regard to the motion picture potential of SITKA... I am returning the book to you
since I understand it is from your private library.” Ira Guilden would be the New York
investment banker and financier who went on to control Best & Co., the Stetson hat
company, and Baldwin Securities. Jacket with some chipping and wear, price clipped; else
very good in like jacket.
(200/300)
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137. Lansdale, Joe R. Fifteen books, booklets & periodicals by Joe R. Lansdale. Includes: Dead in
the West. Serialized in 4 issues of Eldritch Tales (Nos. 10-13), each signed twice by Lansdale.
[1984-1987]. * Dead in the West. Signed by Lansdale. 1986. * Night Visions 8. Contributions
by Lansdale & others. Signed by Lansdale. Cloth, jacket. [1990]. * Savage Season. Uncorrected
Page Proofs. 1990. * Steppin’ Out, Summer, ‘68. No. 231 of 500 copies, signed by Lansdale.
[1990]. * On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks. 2 copies. Nos. 348 & 349 of
500 copies signed by Lansdale, each with additional authorial signature on the title-page. [1991].
* Batman in Terror on the High Seas. Signed by Lansdale. [1992]. * God of the Razor. No. 159
or 500 copies signed by Lansdale. [1992]. * Weird Business. Edited by Lansdale. Cloth, jacket.
[1995]. * Freezer Burn. Cloth, jacket. [1999]. * Triple Feature. No. 431 of 450 copies signed by
Lansdale. [1999]. Together, 15 items. Wrappers except as noted.
In the traditional of Weird Tales. All in fine condition.
(200/300)
138. Larsson, Stieg. Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden [The Girl Who Played with Fire]. Black boards,
spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition.
[Stockholm]: Norstedts, [2006]
First edition, in the original Swedish, of the second volume in the Millennium series,
following The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Jacket with some chipping and tears; very
good in good jacket.
(200/300)
139. Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Cloth backed boards, dust jacket.
Signed by Harper Lee on half title. Jacket with some rubbing to spine ends, edges and
corners; slight foxing to page edges; near fine in very good jacket.
(500/800)
140. Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Cloth backed boards, jacket. Second printing.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1960]
Second printing of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize award-winning story that takes place during
the Great Depression, the basis for the movie starring Gregory Peck. Dust jacket is
identical to the first printing jacket, except for the second printing statement at front flap.
Jacket with rubbing, creasing and scratches, spine head chipped with a few smaller edge
chips, several short tears; volume leaning slightly, bookplate on front free endpaper, very
good to near fine in good to very good jacket.
(500/800)
D.A. LEVY RARITY
141. Levy, D.A. Got Butter On It. 5½x3½” mimeograph booklet with stiff front wrapper,
within large white paper wrappers. First Edition.
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
“Got Butter On It” is a scarce volume by the legend of the mimeo poetry revolution of
the 60s, D. A. Levy. The controversial renegade poet took his own life in 1968 after years
of being harassed by the local police. Published as Ohio City Series 6. Signed by Levy on
the front. Light soiling to outer wrappers; near fine.
(700/1000)
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142. Lewis, Sinclair. Dodsworth. Orange cloth, spine stamped in black. First Edition, first
printing, advance copy.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1929]
Winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. Advance copy in variant binding, with
notice printed on front free endpaper, “This is a special edition presente3d to the trade
in advance of publication and is not for sale.” Copyright page states: “Published March
1929.” Also, includes the following publisher’s typos: “colownial” on page 42, line 20;
“strenth” on page 162, line 1; and “nours nours” on page 205, line 25. Faint soiling to
covers, a tiny hole in lower spine; very good or better.
(200/300)
143. London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. [5]-231, [1] + 2 ad pp. Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin
and Charles Livingston Bull with 11 color plates, including frontispiece, 5 color illustrations in
the text, page decorations by Charles E. Hooper. (8vo) original decorative green cloth, lettered
in gilt, spine and front cover pictorially blocked in black, white, and red, top edge gilt.
New York: Macmillan, 1910
Jack London’s best and most enduring work. This is a reprint, in the same format as the
first edition, with the same illustrations and binding. With facsimile dust jacket. Just a
little flaking to the white background on the front cover and spine; near fine.
(200/300)
144. London, Jack. Dutch Courage and Other Stories. xii, [4], 180 pp. Frontispiece photograph
of Jack London, 7 plates from drawings by G. M. Richards. Red cloth decorated and lettered
in black on front cover, in gilt on spine. First Edition.
A collection of nautical-themed short stories. Only 4,348 copies printed. BAL 11985;
Sisson & Martens, p. 105. Fine condition, a bright, tight copy.
(600/900)
KING KONG IN THE RARE PICTORIAL DUST JACKET
145. Lovelace, Delos W. King Kong. [6], 249, [1] pp. Novelized from the Radio Picture by
Lovelace. Conceived by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper. (8vo), original green cloth,
lettered in dark maroon, pictorial endpapers showing several action stills from the movie, color
pictorial jacket with wrap-around artwork. First Edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [December
1932]
The original novelization for the 1933 King
Kong movie classic as part of the film’s
advance marketing. Co-creator Merian
Cooper was the key creative influence, saying that he got the initial idea after he had
a dream that a giant gorilla was terrorizing
New York City. Edgar Wallace, a famous
writer of the time, died very early in the
process and it is generally believed that little
if anything of his ever appeared in the final
story, but his name was retained for its
saleability. Bleiler (1978), p. 127; Reginald
09268. Jacket chipped, especially at heel
and bottom edge of front panel, rear flap
formerly detached, repaired on verso with
tape, some fading and tearing; moderate
edge wear and some light soiling to cloth;
very good volume in a very good jacket.
(2000/3000)
Lot 145
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146. [Lowell, James Russell]. The Biglow Papers - 1st & 2nd Series. 2 volumes. First Series: 12,
xxxii, 163 pp. Original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. * Second Series: [4],
lxxx, 258 pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Housed together in a custom chemise
and cloth slipcase.
Cambridge, MA [&] Boston: George Nichols [&] Ticknor & Fields, 1848 & 1867
Mounted to the front pastedown of the first volume is a photograph of Lowell, signed by
him in the lower margin. First volume with some light wear, dampstain to a few leaves,
mounted photograph torn; previous owner’s name on title page; very good. Second
volume with previous owner’s name and stamp on front endpapers; fine.
(500/800)
147. Mailer, Norman. How the Wimp Won the War. Black leather lettered in gilt. Copy ‘I’ of
26 lettered copies from a total edition of 301 copies designed by Susan Flake and printed on
Curtis Flax Text by the Page Printing Services; bound by Mariana Blau. First Edition.
Signed by Mailer on leaf at front. Fine.
(250/350)
148. Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Illustrated by Randolph Schwabe. 24x17
cm. (9¼x6¾”), tan linen decorated in gilt and black, top edge gilt, slipcase with pictorial label.
One of 751 copies. First Illustrated Edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1936
Signed by Maugham and Schwabe on the limitation statement. Stott A21.d. Slipcase
foxed, rubbed and stained, splitting at seams; soiling to cloth, stains to rear cover, spine
darkened with some rubbing; stains to endpaper gutters, front hinge cracked; good in like
slipcase.
(400/600)
149. Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Illustrations by Randolph Schwabe. Green
cloth, dust jacket. Illustrated Deluxe Edition.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., 1936
Signed by Maugham on front free endpaper. First published in 1915. Light wear to jacket;
volume fine.
(200/300)
150. McCarthy, Cormac. The Orchard Keeper. Cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt,
jacket. First Edition.
McCarthy’s scarce first book. Jacket with some staining and soiling, spine darkened, chips
to spine ends and top edge of front and rear panels, repairs on verso at spine foot and
along front fold; volume with tape stains to covers and endpapers, good to very good in
like jacket.
(500/800)
151. McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Oatmeal linen, jacket. First Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940
Author’s scarce and important first book. Also, basis for the 1968 film classic. Jacket with
some rubbing and a few small chips at spine ends and corners; ink initials on front free
endpaper; near fine in very good or better jacket.
(350/450)
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152. McMurtry, Larry. Leaving Cheyenne. Beige-cream cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition.
McMurtry’s second book. First issue jacket with publisher’s original “$4.50” printed price
on front flap (later issue jackets have the price clipped and a circular $4.95 sticker at the
lower corner). Jacket with just a hint of rubbing to spine ends and corners, faint residue
from a removed rectangular sticker from the top corner of the front flap, fine in fine
jacket, a lovely copy.
(400/600)
153. (Melville, Herman) McCurdy, R[obert] H. Autograph Letter Signed, from Robert H.
McCurdy to his son, who knew Herman Melville and has been portrayed as his lover. 2 pages +
integral stampless address leaf. 27x21 cm. (10¾x8¼”).
New York: December 21, 1850
Letter written to Theodore F. McCurdy, c/o N. Berry, Paris, France, from his father
in New York. About 14 months before the letter was written, Herman Melville, then
31 yeas old, had sailed for Europe to search for a British publisher. At the start of the
25-day journey, Melville feared that he would have to share a cabin with Theodore
McCurdy, 21 year-old law student, son of a rich New York merchant (and cousin of
the ship’s Captain) whom Melville described as “a lisping youth of genteel capacity…
quite disposed to be sociable”. Happily told that he would have a stateroom to himself,
Melville spent the weeks on board talking philosophy with a Professor of Languages and
a Doctor, joined in more sociable hours by McCurdy, who freely paid for the champagne
and brandy. Arrived in London, the quartet spent happy evenings together until the
Doctor and McCurdy left for a trip to Egypt and Jerusalem. Melville was back in New
York in February 1850 to see the publication of White-Jacket - and to begin work on
the whaling novel which was to be his masterpiece. When this letter was written by the
senior McCurdy to his son, continuing the “grand tour” in Paris, Melville had nearly
finished Moby Dick and had probably forgotten all about the tall, sickly, rich youth with
whom he had crossed the Atlantic – notwithstanding a recent novel in which “Teddy”
McCurdy appears as Melville’s shipboard gay lover. The letter reads in part, “..Uncle
Charles…writes that Mr. Webster says he shall have his instructions immediately and may
be off as soon as he pleases. He also says that Austria has complained in high terms of our
government but that ‘he does not intend to eat humble pie’... Your French letter to sister
was rather a puzzle…after some considerable deciphering… You must write oftener and a
great deal more in detail. You doubtless will say ‘what new can I write about Paris?’ We
say, Your own experience of it, in all its particulars….” Other than Melville’s diary of the
trip, little is known about McCurdy or the colorful uncle mentioned in this letter, who
was apparently working for Secretary of State Daniel Webster in countering Austrian
diplomatic threats to retaliate for American support of the unsuccessful Hungarian
revolution against Austrian rule. Fine.
(200/300)
154. Micheline, Jack. River of Red Wine. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. With an original
painting by Jack Micheline with title and author painted in white, affixed on the front cover, as
issued. (8vo), original pictorial wrappers bound inside the publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered
in gilt; bound by Tabula Rasa Press in Morro Bay, California. Copy “V” of 26 hand-lettered
copies, signed and with an original painting by Micheline on the front cover.
Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1986
Signed by Micheline on the title page, and also by the publisher Jeffrey Weinberg. Fine.
(150/200)
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155. Miller, Henry. Plexus. Black cloth lettered in gilt, jacket. Third American Edition (& first
hardbound Grove Press edition).
New York: Grove Press, [1965]
Book Two of Miller’s classic “The Rosy Crucifixion.” Accompanied by an autograph
letter signed by Miller, to a Mrs. Perkoff, mentioning her son Stuart Z. Perkoff, “I see he
is now being published - by Jonathan Williams” (The Suicide Room, issued as Jargon 17).
He goes on to request a copy of one of Neill’s books (“the one you think gives the best
picture of his work”), and ruminates about his search for a school for his children “I cant
find a school to suit me for my kids - though they are not quite ready. Are there any in
America - I mean truly free, joyous and so on?” Shifreen & Jackson A83o. Fine in slightly
rubbed, near fine jacket.
(400/600)
156. Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. 323 pp. 18.5x13 cm. (7¼x5¼”), period full red levant
morocco ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers. Second Edition.
Paris: The Obelisk Press, [1935]
Rare second edition published in September, 1935, one year after the first edition, also
from the Obelisk Press. While 1000 copies of the first edition were printed, there were
only 500 copies of this second edition produced, in two binding variants. This copy is
rebound, and the original wrappers not retained, so it is not known which variant it
would have been. Shifreen & Jackson A9b/c. A few slight scuffs to spine; faint creases to
prelims., very good or better.
(300/500)
FIRST EDITION OF MARGARET MITCHELL’S CLASSIC NOVEL
157. Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. Grey cloth, dust jacket. First Edition, First
Printing, in second issue dust jacket.
First printing with “Published May
1936” on copyright page. Second
issue jacket with GWTW leading two
columns of “New Macmillan Books”
on rear panel. Jacket with sizable
chips at spine ends, smaller ones at
corners, a few short edge tears; some
foxing and rubbing to cloth, spine
darkened, rubbing/wear to ends
and corners; about very good in like
jacket.
(1000/1500)
158. Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With
the Wind. Gray cloth. Second printing.
Second printing with “June, 1936”
on title page. Facsimile dust jacket
provided. BOMC review laid in.
Light wear to binding; near fine in a
facsimile dust jacket.
(200/300)
Lot 157
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159. (Monetary Miscellany) Eight volumes of fiction and non-fiction relating to money, success
and social mobility. Includes: Martin, Frederick. Stories of Banks and Bankers. German
rubberstamp on half-title, armorial bookplate on its verso. London: Macmillan, 1865. *
Richberg, Eloise O. Randall. Bunker Hill to Chicago. Inscribed by the author on the title-page.
Chicago: Dibble, 1893. * Paperback issue of preceding, same imprint and date. * Payne, Will.
The Money Captain. Bookplate. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1898. * Payne, Will. The Story of
Eva. (Owner’s inscription in title-page and front endpaper). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901.
* Tichenor, George. Glibson. Jacket. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1933]. * Waugh, Alec.
The Golden Ripple. Jacket. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1933]. * Norris, Kathleen. Shining
Windows. Jacket. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1935. Together, 8 volumes. Cloth except
as noted. First Editions.
Some minor wear to jackets; generally very good.
(400/600)
160. (Mysteries) Eight volumes of mystery and detection. Includes: Walsh, Thomas. Nightmare in
Manhattan. (Chipping to jacket). Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. Boyer, Rick. Billingsgate Shoal.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. * Hall, James W. Tropical Freeze. Signed by the author. New
York: W.W. Norton. [1989]. * Hall, James W. Paper Products. Signed by the author. New
York: W.W. Norton. [1990]. * Smith, Julie. New Orleans Mourning. Inscribed and signed
by the author on half-title. New York: St. Martin’s Press, [1990]. * Ketchum, Jack. Only
Child. Signed by the author. [London]: Headline, [1995]. * King, Jonathan. The Blue Edge of
Midnight. Signed by the author. [2002]. * Parker, T. Jefferson. California Girl. [New York]:
William Morrow, [2004]. Together, 8 volumes. Cloth &/or boards, jackets. First Editions.
First very good, others fine.
(250/350)
161. O’Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories. Black cloth, jacket.
First Edition.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1955]
Author’s second and best-remembered book. First issue with ‘tyring’ on page 125,
corrected to ‘trying’ in later issues. First issue jacket with O’Connor’s first book “Wise
Blood” the only title mentioned on rear panel. Jacket price-clipped, some edge wear, red
circle on spine faded as usual; light wear to binding, dampstain throughout in margins;
fair in a good jacket.
(300/500)
162. O’Faolain, Sean. A Nest of Simple Folk. Cloth stamped in gilt with a harp on front cover,
spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1933]
First edition of author’s first novel, preceded by a collection of short stories. Jacket spine
darkened, vertical crease, wear at ends, price clipped; volume spine a little faded, very
good in like jacket.
(100/150)
163. O’Neill, Eugene. The Iceman Cometh. viii, 260 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth lettered in gilt, jacket.
First Edition.
Considered by many to be the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s finest work, “The
Iceman Cometh” exposes the human need for illusion as an antidote to despair. Light
wear to jacket edges, tape repair at head of spine; fine in a very good jacket.
(100/150)
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164. (Poetry Anthology) Dwang: Outsider poetry, prose, graphics. Numbers 1, 2 & 3 (all
published). Illustrated. 24x17 cm. (9½x6½”), hand-bound in cloth &/or boards. Each one of 26
lettered copies signed by a contributor.
London: Tangerine Press, 2009-2011
Dwang is a beautiful production reminiscent of Jon & Gyspy Lou Webb’s journal
and sixties milestone “The Outsider” in both literary scope and printing expertise.
Contributors include Douglas Blazek, Steve Richmond, Dan Fante, Gerald Locklin,
Charles Plymell, Billy Childish, William Wantling, Arthur W. Knight, Fred Voss, Kelsie
T. Harder, R. Crumb, David Barker, Ntozake Shange, and others. Fine condition.
(150/250)
165. Powell, Dawn. The Locusts Have No King. Green cloth with reverse lettering on white
background, jacket. First Edition.
Several chips to jacket, the largest being about ½x1”, spine faded, price clipped; volume
near fine with no flaking to the white background of the lettering, jacket about very
good.
(200/300)
166. Puzo, Mario. The Dark Arena. Half black cloth and red boards, pictorial jacket. First
Edition.
Author’s first book, preceding his famed “Godfather” series. A searing novel about the
American occupation of postwar Germany. Jacket with a little fraying to spine ends,
corners rubbed; near fine in like jacket.
(200/300)
167. Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. Green cloth with initials AR stamped in gilt on front cover,
spine lettered in gilt on black background, top edge stained dark blue-gray, pictorial jacket.
First Edition, First Printing.
High spot in 20th century literature. Author’s classic novel based on her principles of
Objectivist philosophy. Jacket rubbed along joints and folds, chipped at spine head.
slightly so at foot and at corners, a few short edge tears; volume faded a bit, tiny white
spot near head; offset to endpapers, hinge cracked before title, light foxing to page foreedges, else very good in good to very good jacket.
(350/450)
EIGHT LOTS OF JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY SCARCITIES
168. Riley, James Whitcomb. A Child-World. 209, +[14] ad pp. (8vo) original red cloth, spine
gilt, top edge gilt. Housed in a custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. First American
Edition, First Printing.
Indianapolis and Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1897
Inscribed by Riley on front free endpaper to Joseph Knight. Inscription dated Oct. 9,
1896. Knight was editor of “Notes & Queries”, dramatic critic of the Globe (London),
biographer of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, author of Life of David Garrick, etc. With Knight’s
bookplate and the bookplate of Geo. A Zabriskie on front pastedown, embossed stamp
of Fosdick Zabriskie on front free endpaper. BAL 16622. Light wear to binding, slipcase a
touch worn; very good.
(400/600)
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169. Riley, James Whitcomb. The Flying Islands of the Night. [viii], 88 pp. (8vo) bound in full
brown morocco, spine gilt, top edge gilt, original flexible white boards (BAL binding ‘A’)
bound in at front and rear, custom cloth jacket and slipcase. First Edition, First Printing.
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1892
Inserted at the front is a portrait photograph of Riley with a clipped signature beneath,
at the rear is a stiff card addressed on one side in Riley’s hand to Young E. Allison and
on the reverse from Allison to J. Christian Bay. Riley’s bookplate on front pastedown,
Bay’s bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. Laid in is a three page Autograph Letter,
signed, from Riley to Young Alison. BAL 16587. Fine.
(1000/1500)
170. Riley, James Whitcomb. An Old Sweetheart of Mine. Unpaginated. 19 illustrations by
Howard Chandler Christy. Decoration by Virginia Keep. (Small 4to) original red cloth,
cover stamped in brown, tan and gilt, illustrated oval paper label on front, glassine, original
publisher’s two-part illustrated box. Early reprint.
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1902]
Inscribed by Riley beneath the frontispiece illustration; inscribed by Howard Chandler
Christy and Virginia Keep Clark on title page; inscribed by the publishers Charles
Merrill and William Bobbs on flyleaf; inscribed by George C. Hitt, to whom the book is
dedicated, on the dedication leaf. Gift inscriptions at front. A unique copy. Box complete
but with some wear and splitting at corners; glassine wrinkled and with some edge wear;
binding with extremity wear, front hinge shaken, rear hinge cracked; good.
(800/1200)
171. Riley, James Whitcomb. Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers - A unique copy. xii, 111 pp. Illustrations by
C.M. Relyea. (8vo) 19x13 cm. (7½x5¼”), original pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt. House in
a custom chemise and full red morocco solander case. First Edition.
New York: The Century Co., 1897
Presentation copy inscribed by Riley on
front flyleaf, “For Robert Underwood
Johnson, Now the author of ‘Songs of
Liberty’ but onc’t a fellow-Hoosier of
the Old Burnt District. This book of
mine I freely swap fer his’n - with some
extry rubaiyats in the author’s own handwrite. With all hale Christmas greetings.
James Whitcomb Riley. Indianapolis,
1897” The “extry rubaiyats” consisting
of five additional verses, are written in
Riley’s hand in the blank margins of the
frontispiece and of the illustrations on pages
3, 19, 51, & 65. With Johnson’s bookplate
and notes in his hand on front endpapers
calling attention to the additional verses.
Johnson was the associate editor of “The
Century Magazine” in which “Rubáiyát of
Doc Sifers” appeared in the November and
December issues of 1897. BAL 16625. Fine.
(1500/2500)
Lot 171
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172. Riley, James Whitcomb. The Raggedy Man. Unpaginated. 8 full-page color plates by Ethel
Franklin Betts. (4to) 29x26.4 cm. (11½x10½”), green cloth, pictorial label on front. First
Edition, Second Issue.
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Company, [1907]
Second issue, without final blank leaf. BAL 16682. Some wear to cloth and label, front
hinge cracking, gift inscription on front free endpaper; very good.
(250/350)
173. Riley, James Whitcomb. When She Was About Sixteen. Unpaginated. Illustrations by
Howard Chandler Christy. (Small 4to) original green cloth, illustrated label on front, spine
lettered in white.
[Indianapolis]: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1911]
BAL 16800. Light extremity wear, gift inscription on front pastedown endpaper; very
good.
(100/150)
174. Riley, James Whitcomb. While the Heart Beats Young. 110 pp. 16 full-page color plates by
Ethel Franklin Betts. (Small 4to) original green cloth, pictorial label on front. First Edition.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1906]
Later printing with errors corrected in table of contents. Inscribed by Riley on front
flyleaf: “With hale greetings of your old Hoosier friend, James Whitcomb Riley” followed
by a verse from “The Hired Man” in Riley’s hand. BAL 16677. Light wear to cloth and
label, spine leaning; very good.
(300/500)
175. Riley, James Whitcomb. Two works by James Whitcomb Riley. Includes: The Orphant
Annie Book. Illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. First
Edition. [1908]. * The Boy Lives on Our Farm. Illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts. Blue
cloth, illustrated label. First Betts illustrated edition. [1908, i.e. 1911]. Two volumes.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Various dates
BAL 16687 & 16785. Both with some wear, dampstain to front of first title; good to very
good.
(300/500)
176. Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Illustrated by Mary GandPré. 9x5¾,
red cloth-backed purple boards with embossed diamond patterns, color pictorial jacket designed
by Mary GandPré & David Saylor. First American Edition, First Printing, First Issue.
[New York]: Levine Books / Scholastic Press, [1998]
Far fewer copies of the first U.S. edition of the first Harry Potter book were issued than
the sequels in this wildly popular series. First printing, first issue with all the correct
points and first issue jacket without the Year 1 stamp on the spine; lone review blurb on
the back panel quoted from the Guardian (later changed to Publisher’s Weekly); “51695”
printed above the barcode to the right of the ISBN; $16.95 on front flap; number line
on copyright page going from 10 to 1, etc. Lower quarter of front board dampstained
bleeding to the verso of the jacket but not really visible on the recto, stain to front
pastedown; good in very good jacket.
(300/500)
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177. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye - 2 copies. Black cloth, spines lettered in gilt.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1951
Early printings of the classic story of the “cynical adolescent” Holden Caulfield. The
popularity of the work was immediately popular - first published in July 1951, by August,
1951, the earlier of the two copies here, it was in its seventh printing, and the second
September printing, also represented here, was the eleventh printing. August printing
spine gilt dull, ink inscription to front free endpaper; September printing with tiny
wormholes in front joint, spine head a bit bumped, ink name to front free endpaper; both
very good.
(200/300)
178. Salinger, J. D. Nine Stories. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition.
Boston: Little, Brown, [1953]
Salinger’s second book after The Catcher in the Rye and first short story collection.
Jacket spine faded, stain at foot, some wear at ends and corners, split along front fold;
flaking to volume spine lettering, stain to test block fore-edge, ink name to front free
endpaper, about very good in like jacket.
(500/800)
A PAIR OF SECOND FOLIO LEAVES
179. Shakespeare, William. Two Original Leaves from the Second Folio edition of Shakespeare’s
plays. 2 leaves, pages 273 (i.e. 265)-266, from Twelfe Night and pages 297-298 from The Winters
Tale. 31.2x21.1 cm. & 30.6x20 cm. respectively.
London: Printed by Tho. Cotes..., 1632
Fine examples from the second folio printing of William Shakespeare’s Comedies,
Histories, & Tragedies. Some edge wear, browning; very good.
(400/700)
180. (Shakespeare, William) Knight, Charles, editor. The Works of Shakspere - Imperial Edition.
2 volumes. Illustrated with steel-engraved plates. 36.5x26.5 cm. (14¼x10½”), publisher’s full
red morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, rebacked with original spine
leather laid down. Imperial Edition.
London: Virtue & Co., [c. 1875]
The Bard’s classic plays in a handsome publisher’s full morocco binding. Some edge wear;
light foxing; very good.
(300/500)
181. Shakespeare, William. The Handy Volume Shakespeare - With the original box. 13 volumes.
(12mo) 12.2x8.4 cm. (4¾x3¼”) original red cloth, housed in the original matching red cloth
box, ‘Shakespeare’ in blind on box top, paper label inside box lid.
New York: George Routledge & Sons, [c. 1900]
A charming small set of Shakespeare’s, with a glossary in the final volume. Scarce in the
original box. Box with professional repairs to corners; volumes near fine, box very good.
(250/350)
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182. Shakespeare, William. The National Shakespeare: A Facsimile of the Text of the First Folio of
1623. 3 volumes. Photogravure plates after illustrations by Sir J. Noel Paton. (Folio) 40.5x25.5
cm. (16x10”) modern full green calf with oval inset from the original cloth bindings on front
covers.
London: William Mackenzie, [c.1900]
“...a scrupulously accurate reproduction of the original, including all those peculiarities
of paging, spelling, and punctuation to which so much interest is now attached. It will be
printed in a special antique type, such as was actually employed in the ‘First Folio’, upon
hand-made paper, with rough edges, specially manufactured for this work, to maintain
the antique character of the edition.” (From the publisher’s description) Light wear to
bindings; occasional foxing; very good.
(300/500)
183. Shakespeare, William. The Works of Shakspere - Imperial Edition. 4 volumes. Edited by
Charles Knight. Illustrated with steel-engraved plates. (Folio) 37x26.5 cm. (14½x10½”) original
black half morocco and cloth, portrait of Shakespeare in gilt on front covers, all edges gilt.
London: Virtue & Company, No date
Bindings rubbed, some staining both externally and internally; still about very good.
(300/500)
184. Smith, F. Hopkinson. The Professor on “How to Train Our Wives and Children”. [8] pp.
Pages (523)-530, extracted from (or more likely never bound) “Liber Scriptorum: The First
Book of the Authors Club”. 23x15.5 cm. (9x6¼”) three-quarter mottled calf and boards, spine
gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition.
[New York]: [Authors Club], [1893]
Signed at the close by F. Hopkinson Smith. BAL 18217. Vertically and horizontally
creased; binding near fine with a cracked front hinge.
(200/300)
ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES OF THIS GARY SNYDER BROADSIDE
185. Snyder, Gary. Bison Rumble-Belly, Picture Poem XII. 24x17, broadside, poem and buffalo
illustration (in brown), woodcut & linoleum, on hand-made Japanese rice paper. No. 33 of 50
N. San Juan, CA: Bob Giorgio, 1979
Signed by the author and artist in pencil. Fine.
(400/600)
186. Spiegelman, Art. Breakdowns: From Maus to Now. Comic illustrations throughout, several
in color. (Folio) pictorial boards. First Edition.
New York: Nostalgia Press, [1977]
Inscribed by Art Spiegelman to Al Newgarden, NYC rare book dealer and father of Mark
Newgarden, fellow comic artist: “For Al Newgarden - Cheers!..All The Best. (signed) Art
Spiegelman.” Spiegelman has added a drawing of a mouse holding up a bottle of ink. Laid
in is Al Newgarden’s business card. Fine.
(400/700)
187. Stein, Gertrude. Narration: Four Lectures. Introduction by Thornton Wilder. viii, 62, [1]
pp. 23x17.5 cm. (9x7”), blue cloth stamped in black and gilt, slipcase. From an edition of 120
copies, this copies out of series and not numbered. First Edition.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1935]
Signed at the colophon by Stein and Wilder. Light wear to slipcase, splitting along
corners; spine faded; slight separation in gutter at colophon leaf; very good.
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(400/600)
188. Steinbeck, John & Edward F. Ricketts. Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and
Research. Illustrations from color and black and white photographs, drawings and charts; map
endpapers. (8vo), green cloth lettered in silver on front cover and spine, jacket. First Edition,
cloth issue.
First published edition, being the first to print the text in its entirety (the first edition
in wrappers which preceded this only printed half of the text and actually constituted
an advance copy, according to Bradford Morrow). The book is a description of the visit
Steinbeck and Ricketts made to the Gulf of California on the “Western Flyer,” a 76-foot
purser seiner, to collect marine invertebrates in March and April of 1940. Goldstone &
Payne A15.b. Jacket spine detached and lacking pieces at head and heel; light wear to
volume, endpapers darkened; very good in a poor jacket
(200/300)
189. Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. Rebound in full blue morocco, spine gilt, top edge gilt,
spine and front cover cloth bound in at rear. First Trade Edition, First Issue
With the word “bite” present on page 281, line 38. Steinbeck’s epic novel about two
families who settle in the rich farmlands of California. Goldstone-Payne A32.b. Spine a
touch sunned; ink number in half title; very good.
(200/300)
FIRST EDITION OF STEINBECK’S BEST KNOW NOVEL
190. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Decorative beige pictorial cloth, color pictorial
jacket with wrap-around artwork by Elmer Hader. First Edition.
New York: Viking, [1939]
First edition of Steinbeck’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning classic.
Perhaps the most influential,
and best remembered book
to come out of the Great
Depression. The jacket flap
corners are clipped (as issued)
with the original printed price
($2.75) and “First Edition”
statement still present.
Goldstone-Payne A12.a.
Jacket spine sunned and with
vertical crease, some light
edge wear; volume sunned
at spine and top edges, small
label from previous owner on
front pastedown; very good
in a like jacket.
(2500/3000)
Lot 190
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191. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Decorative beige pictorial cloth, color pictorial
jacket with wrap-around artwork by Elmer Hader. First Edition.
New York: Viking, [1939]
First edition of Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Perhaps the most influential,
and best remembered book to come out of the Great Depression. The jacket flap corners
are clipped (as issued) with the original printed price and “First Edition” statement still
present. Goldstone-Payne A12.a. Jacket chipped at spine ends and corners, split through
along rear joint, partially split along front fold with some loss, tape repairs on verso,
darkening to spine; darkening to volume spine, shaken; very good in good jacket.
(500/800)
192. Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. Beige cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition, First Issue.
New York: Covici-Friede, [1937]
First issue with the words “and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula” on
page 9; also, the bullet between the two 8’s in the page number 88. The dust jacket has
the $2.00 price on the front flap. Goldstone-Payne A7.a. Jacket with expert restoration at
extremities and folds, spine darkened; a little rubbing at volume spine ends, very good or
better in like jacket.
(700/1000)
193. Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. Illustrations by Ruth Gannett. 19x12.5 cm. (7½x5¼”),
beige cloth, spine lettered in blue, stamped horizontal blue line around covers and spine, top
page edge stained blue-gray, pictorial jacket. First Edition, presumed 5th printing.
New York: Covici Friede, [1935]
Steinbeck’s breakthrough fourth novel about the life and characters in Monterey,
California in the 1930’s. Although there is no indication in the book that this is a later
printing, the jacket states Fifth Printing on the front flap, and Goldstone-Payne notes that
there were at least eight printings between May 1935 and April 1937. The design of the
jacket is the same as that for the first printing. Goldstone-Payne A4.b. Some darkening to
jacket spine, small nicks and a few short tears to ends and corners; slight foxing to volume
spine and to page edges, very good in like jacket.
(1000/1500)
Lot 193
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194. Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. Illustrations by Ruth Gannett. 7½x5¼, beige cloth, spine
lettered in blue, stamped horizontal blue line around covers and spine, top page edge stained
light blue-gray. First Edition.
New York: Covici Friede, [1935]
Classic novel of the life and characters in Monterey, California in the 1930’s. GoldstonePayne A4.b. Dust jacket lacking, spine sunned, light wear; very good.
(300/500)
195. (Steinbeck, John) Viva Zapata! Exhibitors Campaign Book [Pressbook]. 28 pp. Illustrated
from photographs and ad drawings. (Folio) 18x14, original pictorial staple-bound wrappers.
First Edition.
[Los Angeles]: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., [1952]
Includes a laid in copy of 20th Century-Fox’s 1952 “Supplementary Ads ‘Viva Zapata!’
for Small Towns” paper slip with 3 more ads, measuring 15”x11.” “This campaign
book reproduces all available posters, lobby cards, press releases and other promotional
paraphernalia issued by 20th Century-Fox to advertise the film. It was sent to theater
owners and promoters only. Also has several pages dedicated to techniques for infiltrating
local communities with ‘Zapatamania’...Statement by Steinbeck about the film printed on
p. 22, apparently not published elsewhere...A gaudy and illuminating rarity” - Bradford
Morrow “Harry Valentine Collection,” item 552; Goldstone & Payne E18 (see note).
Some wear and creasing to wrappers; very good.
(400/600)
196. Stone, Irving. Large collection of works by Irving Stone, many inscribed. Includes: Jack
London, Sailor on Horseback. Cloth, dj. Inscribed. Later reprint. * Lust for Life. Boards,
dj. Inscribed, Reprint edition. * They Also Ran. Cloth, dj. Inscribed. First Edition. 1943. *
Immortal Wife. Cloth, dj. Inscribed. First Edition. 1944. * Earl Warren. Cloth. Inscribed.
First Edition. [1948]. * The Passionate Journey. Cloth, dj. Inscribed. First Edition. 1949. *
The President’s Lady. Cloth, dj. Inscribed. First Edition. 1951. * Love Is Eternal. Cloth, dj.
Inscribed. [1954]. * Men to Match My Mountains. Cloth, dj. Inscribed. First Edition. 1956. *
The Agony and the Ecstasy. Cloth, dj. Inscribed. 1961. * I, Michelangelo, Sculptor. Cloth. First
Edition. 1962. * The Irving Stone Reader. Boards, dj. Inscribed. BOMC Edition. 1963. * The
Agony and the Ecstasy. Cloth-backed boards, slipcase. Illustrated Edition. 1963. * Those Who
Love. Cloth, dj. First Edition. 1965. * There Was Light. Cloth, dj. Inscribed. First Edition.
1970. * The Passions of the Mind. Boards, dj. Inscribed. BOMC Edition. [1971]. * Dear Theo.
Boards, dj. Inscribed. [1973]. * The Greek Treasure. Cloth-backed boards, dj. First Trade
Edition. 1975. * The Origin: A Novel of Charles Darwin. Full leather. First Edition. 1980. *
The Origin. Cloth, dj. Inscribed. First Trade Edition. 1980. Together 20 volumes.
Also includes: Irving Stone: A Bibliography. Compiled by Lewis F. Stieg. Wrappers.
Inscribed by Stone. 1973. The inscribed copies (many signed in the year of publication)
are all inscribed to John and Katy Weld. John Weld was film producer, Hollywood
stuntman, reporter and author. All with some wear; overall very good.
(500/800)
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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
197. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly. 2 volumes. Three
plates in each volume. (8vo), re-backed original brown cloth, gilt and blind-stamped decoration
on covers, gilt-lettered original spines laid down. Custom chemise and tan morocco-backed
slipcase. First Edition, First Printing.
Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852
In addition to being one of the most
influential books ever written, Uncle
Tom’s Cabin was also one of the most
popular; as Sabin notes, “During [1852]
there were numerous reissues from
the plates of the first edition, also in
two volumes, with the addition of the
words ‘Tenth’ to ‘One Hundred and
Twentieth Thousand.” Laid in is an
autograph letter dated Oct. 24, 1882, to
publisher Houghton: “Mr. Houghton,
I am about to leave for the South but
would like if possible to have my full
account with your firm before leaving.
Could you furnish it by Nov. 1st. Very
Truly Yours, H.B. Stowe.” BAL 19343.
Spines leaning, some wear and soiling
to cloth; foxing, early owners’ names
on endpapers; very good.
(2500/3000)
198. Tarkington, Booth. The Gentleman
from Indiana. viii, 384 pp. Decorative
green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge
stained green. First Edition, First Issue,
Second Binding.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co.,
1899
First issue of the author’s first book
with “so pretty” on page 245, line 16
(change to “her heart” in later issues);
second state binding with the ear of
corn decoration on the spine pointing
down. Light edge wear; near fine.
(200/300)
Lot 197
199. [Thackeray, William Makepeace]. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. 3 volumes. 344; vi,
319; [vi], 324 pp. Half-titles present; 16 page publisher’s catalog, dated October, 1852, bound in
at rear of Volume 3. (8vo) 18.8x12.5 cm. (7½x5”), later full green morocco, raised bands, spines
lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt. First Edition.
London: Smith, Elder, & Company, 1852
Bookplate (J.F. Browne) on front pastedown of each volume. Extremities lightly rubbed,
heavier on Volume 1, small chip to head of spine on Volume 1; very good.
(300/500)
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200. Thompson, Hunter S. The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time. Black
cloth-backed boards, stamped in white, jacket. First Edition, first printing.
New York: Summit, [1979]
Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Jacket with small chips to lower edge of
front panel, bumps to lower corners of boards with also light affects the jacket; very good
in like jacket.
(400/600)
SIGNED BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN
201. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again. With 6 full-page black & white
illustrations by the author. 18.5x12.5 cm. (7¼x5”), green cloth, color pictorial jacket designed
by the author.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, No date
Signed by J.R.R. Tolkien on color plate from a drawing by him of The Hill, Hobbiton,
inserted before the half-title; likely it is from another copy, being slightly taller and a bit
narrow than the text block. The jacket states Fourteenth Impression. Any copies of The
Hobbit signed by Tolkien are quite scarce. Jacket with some wear at spine ends, corners
and edges, slight insect damage to top and bottom of the flaps; cloth slightly bubbled on
front cover, faint faded horizontal streak to cloth, ink name to front endpaper, about very
good in like jacket.
(4000/6000)
Lot 201
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202. Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces. Foreword by Walker Percy. Cloth,
pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980
Posthumous Pulitzer Prize-winning novel published 11 years after the author’s death by
his own hand at the age of 32. This copy inscribed by the author’s mother in the year of
publication: “August 17, 1980. Appreciation and Regards from John Kennedy Toole’s
Mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole to Dear Anne Ferguson”. First issue jacket with no
review comment in strip above brick wall illustration on the rear panel. Jacket with light
stains to rear panel, bottom of front panel, and rear flap, a few short tears (longest 1½”),
rubbing to joints, folds and extremities; jacket with erasure to top corner of front free
endpaper, else near fine in very good jacket, better than it sounds.
(500/800)
203. Trumbo, Dalton. Johnny Got His Gun - Tall Galley Proofs. Tall galley proofs. Clothbacked plain wrappers with typed label on front.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1939]
Rare proofs for Trumbo’s famous anti-war novel. Wrappers chipped and torn; paper
browned; very good.
(500/800)
SEVEN LOTS OF WORKS BY MARK TWAIN
204. Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). 366 pp., blank
leaf. Double frontispiece (including portrait), plus numerous wood engravings throughout.
21.5x16.5 cm. (8½x6½”), original decorative green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black.
First American Edition.
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885
First edition of the quintessential
classic of 19th century American
literature. The present copy is an
early state, exhibiting the following
issue points: title leaf is a cancel with
copyright notice dated 1884 (second
state, but the first state has only been
seen in a prospectus and set of advance
sheets); the illustration captioned
“Him and another Man” [p.13] listed
as p.88 (first state); 11th line from
bottom of p.57 reads “...with the
was...” (first state); p. 283 is a cancel,
with corrected engraving (third state),
the final 5 in p.155 is missing (first
[second?] state); leaf 23-8 is present as
a blank; first state of the frontispiece
portrait (imprint of Heliotype,
tablecloth clearly visible, and without
the sculptor’s name added to edge
of bust). BAL 3415; Peter Parley to
Penrod, p. 75. Spine ends worn, edges
rubbed, cloth splitting along front
joint, corners showing; else very good.
(2500/3500)
Lot 204
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205. Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton. Edited
and with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto. With Prologue “Boy’s Manuscript”. 9½x6, blue
cloth, paper spine label, slipcase. No. 1252 of 1500 copies.
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1939
First appearance of “Boy’s Manuscript” in print. Signed by Benton at the colophon. One
endpiece detached from slipcase; volume spine sunned; near fine.
(250/350)
206. Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. 712 pp. Illustrated from
photographs, drawings, etc.; portrait frontispiece. (8vo), original blue cloth. First Edition.
Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897
This copy has Johnson’s preferred title with Hartford imprint only, signature mark “11”
present on p. 161. BAL 3451. Light extremity wear, rear hinge repaired; very good.
(250/350)
207. Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. Edited, with
a note by Willis Wager. Illustrated with lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton. 9½x6, half
leather & pictorial cloth, spine lettered in gilt, glassine, folding slipcase. No. 986 of 1200 copies
designed by Will Ransom & printed by William E. Rudge’s Sons.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944
Signed by Benton at the colophon. Box label chipped, some wear to box; glassine chipped;
volume fine.
(200/300)
208. Twain, Mark. Mark Twain on Simplified Spelling [A speech at the annual dinner of the
Associated Press held in New York, September 19, 1906, Revised Expressly for the Simplified Spelling
Board]. 4 pp. 21.2x13.5 cm. (8¼x5¼”) bound in three-quarter mottled calf and cloth, spine gilt,
top edge gilt, numerous blank leaves added to provide bulk. First Edition.
[New York]: Simplified Spelling Board, Nov. 10, 1906
A scarce Twain item. Among the earliest copies printed, with unbroken type at page 1,
line 3. BAL 3493. Ink stamps and pencil notations at head of first page, diagonal crease at
lower corner; binding fine.
(200/300)
209. Twain, Mark. Mark Twain’s Speeches. [xii], 434 pp. (8vo) rebound in three-quarter mottled
calf and cloth, spine gilt, top edge gilt. Original spine and front cover cloth bound in at rear.
First Edition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910
With a letter from F.A. Nast, on Harper & Brothers letterhead, to bibliographer Merle
Johnson, thanking him for his assistance in preparing this volume. BAL 3513. Fine.
(200/300)
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SIGNED BY TWAIN
210. Twain, Mark. [Works], i.e., The Writings of Mark Twain. 37 volumes. Illustrated with
gravure plates from photographs, paintings, drawings, etc. 22.5x14.5 cm. (8¾x5¾”), clothbacked boards, paper spine labels, volumes 36 & 37 with the original paper jackets. No. 689 of
1024 sets. Definitive Edition.
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922-24
Signed by Twain (as both Clemens and Twain) on inserted leaf in Vol. I, which was
prepared in 1906 in anticipation of this edition of his works. Signed by Albert Bigelow
Paine on facing page. Volumes 36 and 37 (often lacking) comprise the Life of Twain by
Paine, and are present in this set. Some light wear, labels a touch darkened; near fine.
(4000/6000)
Lot 210
211. Updike, John. A Month of Sundays. Green linen with red cloth spine, jacket, slipcase. No.
35 of 450 copies printed on special paper and specially bound. First Edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975
Signed by Updike on the limitation-page. Fine.
(150/200)
212. Uris, Leon. Trinity. Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition.
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1976
A novel of Ireland from the famine of the 1940s to the Easter Rising of 1916. Jacket with
a bit of rubbing and creasing to spine ends; tiny ink mark to front flyleaf; near fine in like
jacket.
(200/300)
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213. Verne, Jules. The Adventures of a Chinaman in China. vi, 271, + [8] ad pp. Illustrated with
50 plates, title vignette. (8vo), original brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black.
Boston / New York: Lee and Shepard / Charles T. Dillingham, 1889
This 1889 edition is a reprint of Lee and Shepard’s 1880 edition, which had the title
“Tribulations of a Chinaman in China”, “Tribulations” is retained as the running title in
this printing. However, Lee and Shepard’s first edition was not illustrated; this appears to
be their first illustrated edition. Light wear and spotting to cloth, previous owner’s name
on endpaper and title page; near fine.
(400/700)
214. Vonnegut, Kurt. Bagombo Snuff Box. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Trade
Edition.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1999]
Signed by Vonnegut on the half title. Soiling to jacket; fine in a near fine jacket.
(150/250)
215. Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday!. Orange cloth, dust
New York: Dell Publishing, [1973]
Signed by Vonnegut on half title. Light wear to jacket edges; near fine.
(400/600)
216. Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Happy Birthday, Wanda June. Black boards, jacket. First Edition.
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1971]
Vonnegut’s scarcest book, signed by him on the half-title. One-half inch tear to lower
edge of front panel of jacket; else fine in nearly fine jacket.
(700/1000)
Lot 216
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FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S SECOND BOOK
217. Waugh, Evelyn. Vile Bodies. Cloth-backed patterned boards, jacket. First American
Edition.
New York: Jonathan Cape - Harrison Smith, [1930]
Author’s second book. Also, basis for the highly acclaimed 2003 film titled Bright Young
Things directed by Stephen Fry. This is apparently a review copy, with typed slip laid in,
“This book will not be released until March 10.” Soiling to jacket with some light staining
to the lower extremities, small chips to spine ends and corners; darkening to top edges of
boards, slight bumps to top corners, vertical creases to spine; very good in like jacket.
(1000/1500)
Lot 217
218. Waugh, Evelyn. Two volumes by Evelyn Waugh. Includes: Labels: A Mediterranean
Journal. 2nd impression. [London]: Duckworth, 1930. * The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1957. Together, 2 volumes. First Editions.
London: 1930 & 1957
The jacket of the first has the Book Society label on the front panel. First jacket spine
worn with hole affecting title, repair on verso, some foxing to jacket and page edges,
bookplate; else first very good on lesser jacket, second volume fine in fine jacket.
(200/300)
219. Webb, Charles. The Graduate. Cloth-backed boards, jacket. First Edition.
New York: New American Library, [1963]
A “novel of today’s youth, unlike any you have read,” made into the movie starring
Dustin Hoffman, and featuring the Simon & Garfunkle soundtrack. Some rubbing to
jacket, foxing to spine and folds, chip at head, 1” tear to lower front panel, tape residue to
front flap; near fine in very good jacket.
(250/350)
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220. Welch, Denton. Four Titles by Denton Welch. Includes: In Youth Is Pleasure. Routledge,
1944. * Brave and Cruel and Other Stories. Hamish Hamilton, [1948]. * A Last Sheaf. John
Lehmann, 1951. * The Denton Welch Journals. Edited and with an introduction by Jocelyn
Brooke. Book Society wrap-around band laid in. Hamish Hamilton, [1952]. Together, 4
volumes. Cloth, jackets. First Editions.
London: Various dates
Four works by this English-American writer and painter (he designed the jackets of the
first three volumes) who died in 1948 at the age of 33, his early death stemming from the
consequences of being struck by a car while cycling in Surrey some 13 years earlier. Some
minor wear to jackets, 2nd with foxing to page edges; very good or better.
(200/300)
IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET
221. Wells, H.G. The First Men in the Moon. [8], [2 blank], 312 pp. Illustrated by E. Herring
with 12 plates. (8vo) 18.5x12 cm. (7¼x4½”), original dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered and
front cover illustration in gilt; dust jacket. First Edition, second state binding.
Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, [1901]
Exceptionally rare first edition in dust jacket. A milestone in modern science fiction.
The Bowen-Merrill edition preceded the London edition by about one month. This is
the Currey second state binding with “Bobbs Merrill” on the spine. It is in the first state
pictorial dust jacket (printed in dark blue on buff paper stock) with “Bowen / Merrill”
imprint at base of spine panel. Although
the book and jacket are different states,
they have not been married (there is
offsetting from the flap of this jacket
on the fore-edges of the free endpapers);
it can be surmised that the book was
distributed with this jacket by the
publisher who changed their name
from Bowen-Merrill to Bobbs-Merrill in
January 1903, some 15 months after the
book was published in late September
or early October 1901. The size of the
edition is not known, but the book
was apparently not a great success and
unsold sheets of the first printing were
later sold to Grosset & Dunlap. Bleiler
comments, “After ‘The First Men in the
Moon’, Wells’s science fiction novels
are never quite the same” and that “the
last and most complex [of Wells’s early
scientific romances] is ‘The First Men in
the Moon’. The two first men, Bedford
and Cavor are well-contrasted, the
civilization of the Selenites is excellent
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both as horror and satire; and the novel
abounds with wonderful passages of unforced description at which Wells is unrivaled.
This lovely book also contains much of Wells’s delightful humor; it has kept the joints of
his discourse oiled to this day”. “The First Men in the Moon” was also the first of Wells’s
works to be adapted for film, in 1919. Bleiler, Science Fiction Writers, p. 28; Bleiler,
Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2335; Currey, p. 518. Jacket darkened with some edge
wear, spine panel missing top ¼” but no loss of lettering, small chips to spine foot, ½x1”
triangle missing from lower edge of front panel affecting the ruling but no lettering, chips
at corners, circular stain to rear panel, flap corners clipped (as issued?); volume with slight
rubbing to spine ends and corners, the aforementioned offset to endpapers, still a bright,
nearly fine copy, in a near very good, very rare jacket.
(10000/15000)
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222. Wharton, Edith. The Children. Black cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Appleton, 1928
Second state with “moters” page 135, line 14, Arabic [1] on last page of text. BOMC
review laid in. Jacket well worn, heavily chipped at top edge, split at folds, tape repairs;
soiling to cloth, wartime lending library stamp on front pastedown, front free endpaper
clipped at top, front hinge cracking; some foxing; good in a fair jacket.
(200/300)
PERHAPS THE ONLY COPY EXTANT
223. (Whitman, Walt) Curtz, Henry. The American Yachtsman’s Master-Piece; or, The Slidein-Keel: [History of Sail-Vessels’ Centre-Board]. 16 pp. 18.7x13.1 cm. (7½x5¼), original printed
wrappers. First (and probably only) Edition
Camden, NJ: Printed and published by the Author, 1887
Possibly the only existing copy (no copies are listed in OCLC/WorldCat) of a strange
pamphlet by the eccentric New Jersey printer who produced small proof sheets for
Whitman of his last poems - intended for the poet’s “private distribution”, though
Whitman confessed that he found these printings, set by hand in old wood type at Curtz’s
“queer little office”, so “odd and attractive” that he felt more “free” to give away his
original manuscript copies than Curtz’s printed slips. Which may explain why so few
of the Curtz imprints have survived in institutional collections and none have appeared
on the antiquarian market. Described by Walt Whitman as “an effete person… left over
from a very remote past…the last of his race”, little is known about Curtz. Other than a
political diatribe published during the Civil War, this appears to be his only publication,
which, despite the title, uses an obscure maritime invention as excuse to expound
on “precedent versus reason”, “American family alliances”, and “Sociality fostering
statesmanship”. Added to the lot is the 1886 Memorial card for Camden, New Jersey
photographer Charles H. Spieler, who was long believed to have taken the famous 1876
“Spieler Profile” photographs of Whitman, used as studies for Sidney’s Morse’s Whitman
bust, now on display in the Library of Congress, as well as Whitman’s own choice as
frontispiece for the 1888 edition of his collected poems and prose. A little darkening to
the wrappers, fine or nearly so.
(500/800)
224. Williams, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Black boards, spine lettered in blue
and silver, dust jacket. First Trade Edition.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1975]
Signed by Williams on front flyleaf. A touch of wear to jacket edges; near fine.
(200/300)
225. Wolfe, Thomas. Of Time and The River. A Legend of Man’s Hunger in his Youth. Black
cloth, lettered in gilt over green backgrounds, plus other gilt stamping, jacket. First Edition.
New York: Scribner, 1935
Author’s second book and the last novel to be published before his life was cut short in
the prime of his life of tubercular meningitis in 1938. Johnston A3.1a; Johnson A.II.A39.
Jacket spine faded, some light edge wear; small loss of green color from spine and cover
stamping; near fine.
(250/350)
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226. Woolf, Virginia. The Years. Green cloth, spine gilt-lettered; pictorial jacket by Vanessa
Bell. First Edition.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1937
First edition of one of Woolf’s most ambitious novels. Published by Leonard and Virginia
Woolf at Hogarth Press and with a jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, Woolf’s elder sister.
Jacket darkened at spine and folds, light edge wear a few short tears; spine cloth slightly
darkened and frayed at ends, bottom edge rubbed; very good.
(700/1000)
Section II: Fine Books in All Fields
227. Aesop. Fables of Aesop and Others: Translated into English. With Morals and Instructive
Application; and a Print before each Fable. To which is prefixed, The Life of Aesop, More enlarged
than in any former edition of this size. 142, [2] pp. Woodcut illustrations throughout. (12mo)
15.7x9.2 cm. original wrappers, woodcut illustration on front.
Aberdeen: James Chalmers and Co., 1781
A very scarce and charming edition of Aesop, especially scarce in the original wrappers.
OCLC locates only 2 copies within the United States (University of Southern Mississippi
& Princeton); ESTC locates a further 5 copies in the United Kingdom. ESTC N32421.
Front wrapper chipped at corners, a few leaves with dog-eared corners; very good.
(500/800)
228. (Animation - Phenakistoscopes) Two hand-made Phenakistoscope disks, one of a baseball
game. Each disk approx. 20 cm. (8”) in diameter, with hand-drawn color figures and 7 cut-out
narrow windows.
No place: c.1850-60
Invented in the 1830s, the Phenakistoscope was an animation device that created the
illusion of a moving picture. It used a spinning disk, attached to a handle, around the
center of which a series of pictures was drawn below radial slits. A user would spin the
disk and look through the moving slits at the disk’s reflection in a mirror and the images
would appear to be in motion. Phenakistoscopes became very popular in the United
States during the 1850s and 60s, and these crudely hand-made disks probably date from
that era - one with a patriotic theme of a man waving an American flag; the other with a
batter and pitcher in a baseball game. Some soiling and darkening, very good.
(400/600)
229. (Archaeology) Whitehouse, Frederick Cope. Autograph Letter, signed, regarding L’Institut
Egyptien. 1 page Autograph Letter, signed. Approximately 8x5”.
Shepheard’s Hotel (Cairo, Egypt): January 9, 1887
Whitehouse writes to an official of L’Institut Egyptien, offering to present “Some
Observations on Dionysias” at the next Cairo meeting of the Institute, a scholarly
association first founded by Napoleon during the French occupation of Egypt.
Whitehouse was a rich New York lawyer who spent his private fortune on his amateur
work as a passionate “Egyptologist”, not only conducting archaeological digs in the
Middle East but receiving international acclaim for his humanitarian efforts to “regulate”
the water supply from the River Nile in times of drought. Number in red pencil at head
of letter, crease from mailing; very good.
(100/150)
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FIVE LOTS FROM THE ARION PRESS
230. (Arion Press) Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. With 12 illustrations by Wayne Thiebaud.
14x13”, binding constructed of anodized aluminum, U-bolts, and locking post. No. 77 of 400
copies printed on Italian mouldmade papers and clear plastic sheets.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1999
Translated from the Italian and with a new introduction by William Weaver. “Wayne
Thiebaud had the idea for drawings of cities that would be invisible until the reader took
the action of turning the page. The concept involved printing his drawings on transparent
sheets in different colors of inks.” A most unusual volume. Signed by Thiebaud in pencil
on verso of half-title. Fine
(1000/1500)
231. (Arion Press) Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria. The Alienist. Translated from the
Portuguese with an afterword by Alfred MacAdam. With twelve drawings by Caroll Dunham.
25.7x35.5 cm. (10¼x14”), cloth, paper cover & spine labels, slipcase. No. 85 of 250 copies.
Signed by Dunham on the limitation-page. Fine.
(300/500)
232. (Arion Press) Miller, Arthur. The Price: A Play. Illustrations by Stan Washburn. 25.5x17.8
cm. (10x7”), cloth, slipcase, paper wrapping and original publisher’s shipping box. No. 150 of
300 copies.
Signed by Arthur Miller on the half title page. Also signed by the illustrator at the
limitation statement. Fine.
(300/500)
233. (Arion Press) Toomer, Jean. Cane. Afterword by Leon F. Litwack. Woodcuts by Martin
Puryear. 29.1x35 cm. (11½x13¾”), linen boards with ribbon ties. No. 358 of 400 copies
designed by Andrew Hoyem & printed at the Arion Press.
Signed by Martin Puryear in the colophon. Fine printing of Toomer’s masterwork,
considered one of the major achievements of Harlem Renaissance literature, first
published in 1923. Fine.
(1000/1500)
234. (Arion Press) Williams, William Carlos. Kora in Hell: Improvisations. Introduction by
Lawrence Kart. With 21 prints by Mel Kendrick. 25.5x25.5 cm. (10x10”), morocco-backed
wood veneer boards, spine lettered in red. No. 115 of 300 copies.
Signed by Kendrick in the colophon. Fine.
(400/600)
235. (Aviation) Mansfield, Charles Blachford. Aerial Navigation. xxiv, 513 pp. (8vo) original
terra-cotta cloth stamped in gilt and black. Pages largely unopened. First Edition.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1877
Written in the early 1850s and issued posthumously following Mansfield death at the
young age of 36, from burns suffered during a laboratory accident. The DNB describes
this title of his as “one of the most striking and suggestive works on its subject.” Light
edge wear, lower edge of front cover with board showing, front hinge cracked; very good.
(300/500)
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236. Barriffe, William. Military Discipline: Or The Young Artillery-man. Wherein is Discoursed
and Showne the Postures Both of Musket and Pike the Exactest Way, &c. [24], 421, [1], [8] pp.
Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved armorial plate, 5 folding plates. (8vo) 19.2x14 cm.
(7½x5½”), modern half calf and marbled boards. Third Edition.
London: Printed by John Dawson, 1643
Barriffe’s Military Discipline was among the most widely utilized military manuals of
the 17th century going through six editions before the start of the English civil war in
1642. Repairs to the frontispiece, armorial plate, title page and several other leaves, some
worming in margins at front of volume, no loss of text, pages washed, binding fine.
(600/900)
237. (Baskin, Leonard) O’Neill, Eugene. The Iceman Cometh. Introduction by Irma Jaffe.
Illustrated by Leonard Baskin, including an original lithograph inserted at rear. (4to), gray
boards, paper spine and cover labels, slipcase. No. 596 of 2000 copies.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982
Signed by the artist, Leonard Baskin (who was also the typographical designer), in pencil
in the colophon. With an LEC monthly newsletter laid in. Slight rubbing to spine foot;
were at gutter hinge of half-title; near fine.
(200/300)
238. Baudot de Juilly, Nicolas. Histoire de la conqueste d’Angleterre par Guillaume II, duc
de Normandie. [8], 141 + 5 pp. Folding engraved genealogical table. 15.5x8.5 cm. (6¼x3¼”),
period calf. First Edition.
Paris: Damien Buegnie, 1751
Scarce little history of the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066.
OCLC/WorldCat lists only eight copies, none in the United States. American Book
Prices Current records only one sale at auction since 1975, in 1982. Binding rubbed, spine
head chipped, corners showing; some darkening/foxing to contents, ink name to front
pastedown, else very good.
(500/800)
239. Beckler, Marion. The Magic Map. Illustrated by Dick Martin. Pictorial tan cloth, pictorial
dust jacket. First Edition.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1964
Jacket chipped at spine head, some light wear at edges; volume fine, jacket very good.
(80/120)
240. Benson, A.C., Lawrence Weaver, & E.V. Lucas, editors. The Book of the Queen’s Dolls’
House [&] The Book of the Queen’s Dolls’ House Library. 2 volumes. Numerous full page plates,
many in color. (4to) 10x7¾, original linen-backed blue boards, paper labels on spines. Each No.
986 of 1500 copies.
London: Methuen, [1924]
The first volume describes the doll’s house, made as a gift for Queen Mary. The second
volume is devoted to the doll’s house library. Minor wear to extremities; very good.
(300/500)
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WITH BEAUTIFUL GOUACHE ILLUSTRATIONS
241. (Bible - Coptic) Ethiopian Coptic Bible, hand-written in the Ge’ez script, with 8 gouache
paintings. 55 vellum leaves, neatly hand-written text in black and red ink. 8 full page gouache
paintings. 18x13.5 cm. (approximately 7x5¼”), hand-stitched with original thick wooden
boards.
Ethiopia: [mid 19th century?]
Written in the Ethiopic (Ge’ez) script. Shows a nice patina of age and usage; well-smoked
with a pleasant faint aroma of incense. Wonderfully illustrated with 8 colorful paintings
of biblical scenes, each illustrated leaf with a black thread tied at upper corner. Some light
wear; very good.
(1500/2000)
242. Birch, Samuel. Sketch of a Hieroglyphical Dictionary... Part I. Hieroglyphics and English.
Division I. Phonetical symbols, vowels. 4, 12 pp. 28.5x22.8 cm. (11¼x9”), original printed
wrappers. First Edition.
London: William Allen & Co., 1838
Presentation copy inscribed on the front wrapper, “To Charlotte Frances Gray/ with
Samuel L. Birch’s/ best regards and wishes for/ her welfare.” Birch had been seeing Ms.
Gray at the time the sketch was published, and presumably presented her with this copy,
his first work on Egyptology, produced when he was 25 years old, and an assistant at
the British Museum. His specialty was Chinese antiquities, and he was an accomplished
linguist, but he became fascinated with the Egyptian hieroglyphic system postulated by
Chompollion after his examination of the Rosetta Stone. He, along with his German
counterpart Lepsius, was among the first scholars to defend the system, and he would go
on to become the leading Egyptologist of his day. This groundbreaking work consists of
the title-page, two-page preface, and a 12-page lithographic insert on slightly smaller paper
showing the symbols and English translations. Though there was never a Part II per se of
this work, he expanded upon it, and eventually completed a comprehensive hieroglyphic
dictionary in 1857. OCLC/WorldCat lists only seven copies, and most of those show the
insert as being only 8 pages. A rare and important association copy if a seminal text on
Egyptology. Charlotte Frances Gray, the eventual Mrs. Birch, was the younger sister of
J.E. Gray, a friend and colleague of Charles Darwin. Wrappers chipped, starting to split
along spine; top corners of 1st 4 pages creased, else very good.
(700/1000)
243. (Bookbinding) The Bindings of To-morrow: A Record of the Work of the Guild of WomenBinders and of the Hampstead Bindery. xxxii pp. Introduction by G. Elliot Anstruther + 50
chromolithograph plates picturing bookbinding designs, each with letterpress description on
preceding leaf; tissue guards. 36x20 cm. (10¼x7¾”), green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, page
edges untrimmed. No. 196 of 500 copies. First Edition.
London: Printed for the Guild of Women-Binders, 1902
Spectacular series of fine chromolithographed plates featuring the art nouveau bookbindings from the Guild of Women-Binders. Rubbing and some staining to cloth; some
foxing to the text pages, a few tissue guards torn or detached, 4 partially adhered to their
plate; overall very good.
(500/800)
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OVER 300 HAND-COLORED PLATES
244. (Botanical) Bentley, Robert & Henry Trimen. Medicinal Plants, Being Descriptions with
Original Figures of the Principal Plants Employed in Medicine. 4 volumes. 306 hand-colored
lithograph plates, including several double page. (8vo) 23.2x16.5 cm. (9¼x6½”), newly bound
in full black morocco, black and red labels on spines.
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1880
Bentley (1821-1896) and Trimen (1821-1893) produced a comprehensive account of the
major plants used in the medicine of the day. Each plant entry (306 in all) consists of
several sections, including: a physical description of the plant and its parts, its habitats,
botanical classification, commerce and medicinal uses, varieties, chemical composition,
and an explanation of the plates. Nissen 137. Four plates with small tape repairs on rear;
near fine in fine modern bindings.
(2000/2500)
Lot 244
245. (Botanical) Catlow, Agnes. Two botanical works by Agnes Catlow. Includes: Popular
Garden Botany: Containing a Familiar and Scientific Description of the Hardy and Half-Hardy
Plants Introduced into the Flower Garden. 16 black white line lithographed plates. 1855. *
Popular Greenhouse Botany; Containing a Familiar and Technical Description of a selection
of the Exotic Plants introduced into the Greenhouse. 19 (of 20) hand-colored lithographed
plates. 1857. Together, 2 volumes. 16x12.5 cm. (6½x5”), original cloth stamped in gilt and
blind.
London: Lovell Reeve, 1855 & 1857
The first with some fraying and splitting to cloth at joints; 2nd lacking plate 16; both
very good.
(200/300)
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246. (Botanical) Culpeper, Nicholas. The Complete Herbal; To Which is Now Added, Upwards of
One Hundred Additional Herbs, With a Display of Their Medicinal and Occult Qualities; Physically
Applied to the Cure of All Disorders Incident to Mankind: To Which are now First Annexed, the
English Physician Enlarged, and Key to Physic, with Rules for Compounding Medicine...Forming a
Complete Family Dispensatory and Natural System of Physic...To Which is Also Added, Upwards
of Fifty Choice Receipts... vi, 398, [4] index pp. Engraved frontispiece, 40 hand-colored engraved
botanical plates, each with 12 plant vignettes. 26.6x21 cm. (10½x8¼”), period calf, rebacked
with original spine laid down.
London: Thomas Kelley, 1823
Numerous editions of herbals using Culpeper’s name were published from the latter half
of the 17th Century to the early 19th Century. The engraved frontispiece plate consists of
a portrait of the author. Leather scuffed; some fairly minor soiling within, very good.
(500/800)
247. (Botanical - Flower Painting) Seven 19th century works on Flower Painting. Includes: Duffield.
The Art of Flower Painting. 12 wood-engraved plates by the Brothers Dalziell. Wrappers (spine
worn). 1856. * Rosenberg. A Guide to Flower Painting in Water Colours. Color lithographed
frontispiece; 4 uncolored litho plates within. Wrappers (spine perished, tape repair). c.1870.
* Duffield. The Art of Flower Painting. 12 wood-engraved plates by the Brothers Dalziell.
Wrappers (spine perished). 1882. * Hanbury. Advanced Studies of Flower Painting in Water
Colors. 8 (of 12) tipped-in chromolithographed plates. (Spine worn.) 1885. * Nisbet. Flower
Painting for Beginners. 10 (of 12) tipped-in color plates (missing several text pages as well),
c.1889. * Naftel. Flowers and How to Paint Them. 10 tipped-in chromolithographed plates
(1 with corner creased). 1891. * Muckley. A Manual of Flower Painting in Oil Colours from
Nature. 3 color plates. Ex-Franklin Institute, in library buckram, perforated stamp to title,
bookplate, etc. c.1900. Together, 7 volumes. Cloth except as noted.
Good to very good, sold as is.
(200/300)
248. (Botanical) Lowe, E.J. Beautiful Leaved Plants. [4], ii, 144 pp. 60 hand-colored plates. (8vo)
25.2x16 cm. (10x6¼”) modern three-quarter green morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt.
First Edition.
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1861
Charming hand-colored plates. An ex-library copy with embossed stamp from the West
Houghton Public Library on each plate, a few other library markings; very good.
(400/600)
WITH BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY ISAAC SPRAGUE
249. (Botanical) Sprague, Isaac, et al. Set of three botanical works illustrated by Isaac Sprague
& others. Includes: Beautiful Wild Flowers of America. From Original Water-Color Drawings
after Nature, by Isaac Sprague. Descriptive Text by Rev. A.B. Hervey. 14 chromolithographed
plates. 1883. * Flowers of Field and Forest. From Original Water-Color Drawings after Nature,
by Isaac Sprague. Descriptive Text by Rev. A.B. Hervey. 14 chromolithographed plates. 1883.
* Beautiful Ferns. From Original Water-Color Drawings after Nature, by C.E. Faxon and
J.H. Emerton. Descriptive Text by Daniel Cacy Eaton. 10 chromolithographed plates. 1886.
Together, 3 volumes. 32x24 cm. (12½x9½”), decorated cloth, all edges gilt.
Boston: S.E. Cassino / Estes & Lauriat, 1883-1886
The Beautiful ferns, here reprinted by Estes & Lauriat, was actually the first in the series
from Cassino. The first listed title worn, others very good.
(800/1200)
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250. [Béraud, F.F.A.] R. de L. The Public Women of Paris. Being an account of the causes of their
depravation, their several classes, their means and ways of living, their arts, habits, and practices.
293 pp. (12mo) 18.5x11 cm. (7¼x4¼”) original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in
gilt. First American Edition.
New York: Dewitt & Davenport, 1849
A study on the prostitutes of Paris, translated from the French. OCLC WorldCat locates
8 copies in institutional holdings, rarely scene in the trade. Spine faded, extremities worn,
paper a bit browned; very good.
(300/500)
251. (California) Lyons, Caleb. Autograph Letter Signed by Caleb Lyons, who would later be a
prominent figure in the California Gold Rush, relating to his lectures on woman’s rights. 1+ pp.,
on 1st 2 pages of 4-page lettersheet, addressed on p.4. 25.5x20 cm. (10x8”).
Collinsville, New York: December 6, 1842
Early letter by the man who took credit for designing the California state seal in 1849.
Just 20 years of age, and freshly graduated from college in Vermont, Caleb Lyons
launched himself on the New England lecture circuit, with his subject being woman’s
rights and temperance. This letter, to Rev. W.W. Ninde, Pastor of the M.E. Church,
Rome, Oneida County, New York, attempts to arrange one of these lectures: “I have
not forgot your kind invite to give you a Temperance Lecture in Rome at your Church
and I now can tell when I would like to do so...I would of course like to have due notice
both in the churches and by the Press well circulated. Even I, with my humble abilities
would not like to Lecture to empty halls. The subject of the Lecture will be of ‘Woman’s
Rights and Influence, a Temperance Lecture’ by Caleb Lyon of Lyonsdale...” A few years
later, with help from his politically-connected father, young Caleb got an appointment
as the first U.S. Consul at Shanghai, though he may never have set foot in China,
instead appearing in California in 1849 to win a job as a secretary of the new State’s
Constitutional Convention - and a $1,000 gold prize from the Legislature for the state
seal (actually designed by a self-effacing Virginia friend who later became a Confederate
General). Lyon then returned to New York to be elected to Congress, where he cultivated
friends among anti-slavery “radicals”. In 1864 he was appointed by Abraham Lincoln as
the second governor of Idaho Territory, where he came very close to being indicted for
embezzlement. Horizontal and vertical folds; large part of the address leaf was torn away
and replaced, probably by the recipient, with a piece of paper taken from another letter,
not in Lyon’s hand, and using non-archival tape. The Lyon letter itself is complete and in
very good condition.
(150/250)
252. (Campagnes Scientifiques) Seven Fascicules from the Resultats des Campagnes Scientifiques
Accomplies sur son Yacht par Albert I. Includes: Milne-Edwards, A. & E.L. Bouvier. Crustaces
Decapodes Provenant des Campagnes du Yacht l’Hirondelle. 11 lithograph plates (5 with color).
Fascicule VII. 1894. * Milne-Edwards, A. & E.L. Bouvier. Crustaces Decapodes Provenant
des Campagnes du Yacht l’Hirondelle (supplement) et de la Princesse-Alice. 4 lithograph
plates (2 with color). Fascicule XIII. 1899. * Bouvier, E.L. Crustaces Decapodes (Macroures
marcheurs) Provenant des Campagnes des Yachts Hirondelle et Princesse-Alice. 11 lithograph
plates (7 with color). Fascicule L. 1917. * Gruvel, A. Cirrhipedes Provenant des Campagnes
Sccientifiques de S.A.S. le Prince de Monaco. 7 plates including 4 photogravures. Fascicule LIII.
1920. * Bouvier, E.L. Observations complementaires sur les Crustaces Decapodes... 6 plates
including 2 color lithographs. Fascicule LXII. 1922. * Fage, Louis. Cumaces et Peptostraces
provenant des Campagnes Scientifiques... 3 double-page lithograph plates. Fascicule LXXVII.
1929. * Divers Auteurs. Memoires sur les Crustaces et Pychogonides... 9 lithograph plates (8
double page). Fascicule XCVII. 1938 Together 7 volumes, all in modern black cloth, spines gilt
lettered.
Monaco: 1894-1938
Color plates include lobsters, crabs, etc. Some soiling to cloth; light foxing; internally
very good.
(250/350)
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253. (Cirripedia) Three works on the Cirripedia and one on Crustacea. Includes: [Hoek, P.P.C.
The Cirripedia of the Siboga-Expedition. Cirripedia Pedunculata.] 10 plates. Lacking title page.
Rebound in modern red cloth. [1907]. Hoek, P.P.C. The Cirripedia of the Siboga-Expedition.
B. Cirripedia Sessilia. 17 plates. Modern green cloth (worn). * Gruvel, A. Revision des
Cirrhipedes. Five parts in one volume. 16 plates. Modern blue cloth. [1902-04]. * Dana, James
D. United States Exploring Expedition...Atlas. Crustacea. Facsimile of the 1855 edition. Red
cloth. (Worn, several plates detached). 1972. Together 4 volumes.
All with some wear and soiling to the cloth; good.
(100/150)
FOLIO OF GERMAN MILITARY COSTUME
254. (Costume) Arnould, Georg & Felix von Olberg. Das Deutsche Heer und die Marine.
Title in red and black. 59 (of 60) numbered chromolithograph plates, all but one after Arnould,
the other after R. Knotel, all mounted. Lacks plate 15. (Folio) 64.6x50.5 cm. (25½x19¾”),
contemporary green three-quarter morocco, original front wrapper bound in. First Edition.
Wandsbek-Hamburg: Kunstanstalt (vormals Gustav W. Seitz) A.-O., [1891]
A rare work with fabulous large chromolithograph plates of German army and navy
uniforms after Georg Arnould and with explanatory text by Felix von Oldberg.
OCLC/WorldCat records only three copies. (Bibliotheque Nationale de France,
Wurttembergische Landesbibliotherk, & National Art Library, Victoria and Albert
Museum). Binding worn, front cover detached, plate #5 with small tear at corner, mounts
quite brittle with approximately a third damaged at edges, first few plates and a few later
plates detached, a few others with paper spotting, title, foreword leaf and explanatory
text affected by tears, including several into text, a few old adhesive tape repairs, lacking
descriptive text to plates 39-42; plates bright and overall very good.
(4000/6000)
Lot 254
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255. (Cox, Palmer). Four volumes of Palmer Cox’s Brownie books. Includes: Another Brownie
Book. [1890]. * The Brownies at Home. [1893]. * The Brownies Through the Union. [1895]. *
The Brownies in the Philippines. [1904]. Together 4 quarto volumes, all in the original pictorial
boards.
New York: The Century Co., Various dates
Wonderfully illustrated by Cox with his mischievous “Brownies”. All with some light
wear; overall very good.
(300/500)
256. Darwin, Charles. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical
Chapter. 3 volumes. x, 359, [1]; iv, 393, [1]; iv, 418 pp. 5 illustrations. (8vo), period green half
calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, top edges gilt. First Edition.
London: John Murray, 1887
Edited by his son, Francis Darwin. Spines sunned, a bit of edge wear; very good.
(500/800)
257. (Disney, Walt) Finch, Christopher. The Art of Walt Disney from Mickey Mouse to the Magic
Kingdoms. 458 pp. With a special essay by Peter Blake. 763 illustrations, 351 plates in full color,
from photographs, drawings and paintings, mostly from the original movie scenes. 33.5x26 cm.
(13¼x10½”), white linen, color illustrated cut-out of Mickey Mouse with paint bucket affixed
to front cover (as issued), spine lettered in gilt, original printed acetate jacket. First Edition.
[New York]: Abrams, [1973]
The unsurpassed classic on Walt Disney, his films, and his empire, profusely illustrated.
Some light wear to acetate jacket; very good.
(200/300)
258. (Disney, Walt) Gottfredson, Floyd & Carl Barks. Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse in Color.
248 pp. Illustrations in color throughout. (Oblong folio) 31.5x41 cm. (12½x16”), original black
and white cloth, clear dust jacket. Number 1890 of 3000 copies. First Edition.
Prescott, Arizona: Another Rainbow Publishing, Inc., [1988]
Signed by cartoonists Floyd Gottfredson and Carl Banks on inserted sheet at front. Some
light wear to jacket; volume fine.
(200/300)
259. Dodd, James J. The History of the Urban District of Spennymoor, With Occasional References
to Kirk Merrington, Middlestone, Westerton, Byers Green, Page Bank, Croxdale, and Ferryhill. xvi,
256 pp. Illustrations from photograph, maps, etc. (4to) period full calf, spine gilt, top edge gilt.
First Edition.
Spennymoor: By the author, 1897
Scare privately published edition of this history, published in a regular edition 2 years
later with fewer illustrations. Binding worn; smoke damage to a few leaves; good.
(150/250)
260. (Doré, Gustave) Alighieri, Dante. The Vision of Hell. vi, 183, (vii)-xxiv pp. Illustrations
throughout by Gustave Doré. 37x28.5 cm. (14½x11¼”), publisher’s full brown morocco
stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, all edges gilt.
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1866
A great pairing of word and illustration. Some light scuffing and edge wear, very good.
(200/300)
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261. (Doré, Gustave) Cervantes [Saavedra, Miguel de]. The History of Don Quixote. xxviii,
737 pp. Edited by J. W. Clark. Biographical Notice of Cervantes by T. Teignmouth Shore.
Profusely illustrated with wood-engravings from drawings by Gustave Doré. (4to) 31x23.5
(12¼x9¼”), bound in period full morocco over thick boards, stamped in blind, beveled edges,
spine lettered in gilt, raised bands.
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [c. 1880’s]
The classic adventures of the “errant knight” and his faithful squire, as illustrated by
master artist Gustave Doré (1832-1883), the most popular and successful French book
illustrator of the mid-nineteenth century. Extremities rubbed, some scuffing, hinges
cracked; paper a bit browned and brittle; very good.
(300/500)
262. (Dulac, Edmund) Quiller-Couch, A.T. The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales from the
Old French. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac with 30 tipped-in color plates, tissue guards. (4to),
original red cloth elaborately gilt. First Trade Edition.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]
Classic French fairy tales beautifully illustrated by the modern master, in addition to
Sleeping Beauty the volume also includes Blue Beard, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast,
and more. Laid in is an exhibition notice from Leicester Galleries for the original watercolour drawings for this work. Light wear to cloth, foxing to endpapers and edges of page
block; very good.
(300/500)
263. Dulles, John W. Life in India; Or, Madras, The Neilgherries, and Calcutta. 528 pp. Woodcut
illustrations. (12mo) 15.2x9.6 cm. (6x3¾”) original blindstamped green cloth, spine lettered in
gilt.
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [1855]
The author was a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions at Madras. Light wear to cloth; lacking illustration called for at page 283 though
it appears to never have been present; light foxing; very good.
(200/300)
264. (Duveen Bros.) Catalogue of the Special Loan Exhibition of Old Masters of the British School
in Aid of “The Artists’ Fund” and “Artists’ Aid” Societies. 17 photogravure plates interleaved with
descriptive letterpress. (4to) original white cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition.
New York: Messrs. Duveen Brothers, 1914
Laid in is a letter from the Duveen Brother to New York Herald critic, Gustave
Kobbe informing him of the Press Viewing. Catalogue includes works by Thomas
Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, Thomas Lawrence, Henry Raeburn,
and John Hoppner. Soiling to cloth; light foxing; very good.
(250/350)
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360 HAND-COLORED FASHION PLATES
265. (Fashion) Lemaire, J.P. Journal Des Dames et Des Modes - Tome LXXVI - LXXXVII, January
1836 - December 1841 - with 360 hand-colored fashion plates. 12 volumes, each containing 6
months of the weekly issues. 360 hand-colored plates. (8vo) 19.5x13.5 cm. (7¾x5¼”), period
half calf and marbled boards, red and black labels.
Frankfurt: 1836-1841
A nice run of 6 consecutive years of this
leading fashion journal of the mid 19th
century. Bindings worn, one volume
lacking labels, a few other labels chipped
and/or peeling, rear joint split on final
volume; some browning and offsetting
to plates as typical; very good.
(4000/6000)
266. (Fashion) The Lady’s Monthly Museum,
or Polite Repository of Amusement and
Instruction - Volumes 1 & 16. 2 volumes. 27
engraved plates, fully or partially colored.
(12mo) 16.7x10 cm. (6½x4”), period full
calf.
London: Vernor & Hood, 1798 & 1806
Includes a number of plates of
contemporary lady’s fashion. Bindings
well worn, covers detached; foxing.
Offered as a collection of plates, not
subject to return.
(300/500)
Lot 265
267. (Fashion) Townsend’s Quarterly Selection of Parisian Costumes. 2 volumes. Various
paginations. 138 hand-colored engraved plates with leaves of descriptive letterpress interspersed.
19.6x12.2 cm. (7¾x4¾”) full polished green calf, red leather spine labels.
London: J. Townsend, et al, c. 1825
Plate 100 skipped in the numbering, not called for in the printed text. A very attractive
group of plates depicting Paris high fashion in the 1820s. Includes several plates of head
wear. Bindings well worn and partially detached, some light foxing; plates overall very
good.
(600/900)
268. Finden, William & Edward Francis Finden. Finden’s Illustrations to the Life and Works
of Lord Byron. With Original and Selected Information on the Subjects of the Engravings by W.
Brockenden... 3 volumes. With 126 steel-engraved plates, including frontispieces & added titles,
by the Findens after various artists. 9x6¼, period diced calf, all edges marbled.
London: John Murray, 1833-34
With commentary by W. Brockendon. Bindings well worn, spines chipped or lacking,
two boards detached, joints cracked, hinges with tape repair; internally very good with
only some light browning and foxing to plates.
(200/300)
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269. (Fine Bindings) Percy, Thomas. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Consisting of Old Heroic
Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, Together With Some Few of Later Date. 3
volumes. Portrait frontispiece in Volume 1. (8vo) original full brown calf stamped in blind on
covers, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, all edges stained red.
London: Bickers and Son, 1876-77
A handsomely bound edition of Percy’s classic anthology. Each volume with the
bookplate of San Francisco industrialist Milton S. Ray. Spines a bit faded, light wear to
bindings; very good.
(200/300)
ONE OF ONLY 12 SETS – THE ASTRAL EDITION OF ROOSEVELT’S WORKS
270. (Fine Bindings) Roosevelt, Theodore. The Complete Writings of Theodore Roosevelt - Astral
Edition. 21 (of 22) volumes. Illustrated, with plates in three states, several of them signed by the
artist. (8vo) 21.5x15 cm. (8½x6”), finely bound in full green morocco, covers decorated with
arrow-tipped floral devices with red and white morocco on-lays within a gilt frame, double
gilt rule borders, spines with similar floral devices between two raised bands, gilt lettering, red
morocco doublures with leaf sprays at corners, original subscriber’s monogram (MAL) in gilt
on front doublures, silk end leaves, top edges gilt. One of only 12 sets thus prepared and bound
by the Keller-Farmer Company of New York for the Anglo-American Authors Association.
This set prepared for Marguerite Anne De Labarre.
New York: Gebbie and Company, 1902-03
Signed by Roosevelt on a front flyleaf in the first volume of his “Naval War of 1812”.
Includes illustrations signed by Albert Rosenthal, Jr., Walter Russell, Albert Henke, R.G.
Vosburgh, E.J. Read, Louis Bauhan, C. Mente, W.H.W. Bicknell, H.L.V. Parkhurst, P.R.
Audibert, E.A. King, Clare Angell, E. Herring, M.E. Riddick, Will Crawford, and W.L.
Hudson. Among the most desirable editions of Roosevelt’s collected works. This set
lacking the first volume of Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, otherwise complete. Spines just
a touch sunned, a few minor scratches; still about fine.
(7000/10000)
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271. (Fine Bindings) Roosevelt, Theodore. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. 26 (of 28) volumes.
[Volumes I-XXVI]. Each illustrated with plates from paintings, engravings, etchings, drawings,
photos, maps, etc., including frontispieces, with tissue-guards. 21.5x14.5 cm. (8½x5¾”),
uniformly bound in three-quarters dark blue morocco and marbled boards, ruled in gilt, spines
lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. No. 40
of 1250 hand-numbered sets (60 additional sets were originally not for sale). “Elkhorn Edition.”
New York: Scribner’s, 1906-1913
With: The Naval War of
1812 (2 volumes); Hunting
Trips of a Ranchman (2
volumes); Thomas Hart
Benton; Gouverneur Morris;
Ranch Life and the Hunting
Trail; The Winning of the
West (6 volumes); New York;
The Wilderness Hunter (2
volumes); Hero Tales from
American History; American
Ideals (2 volumes); The
Strenuous Life; The Rough
Riders; Oliver Cromwell; An
American Hunter; African
Game Trails (2 volumes);
and History as Literature.
Lacks the final two volumes
in this Elkhorn edition set,
both of which are comprised
of minor later writings and
were not issued for this
edition series until 1920, seven
years after Volume XXVI, as
well as being one year after
Roosevelt’s death (perhaps
done in his memory). The
set present here contains all
of the major works and key
titles by Roosevelt. Just a hint
of darkening to spines, a few
ends with small chips, scuffs to
some of the ribs, neat 1” cut to
one of the spines; very good to
near fine.
(2500/3500)
Lot 271
272. (Fine Bindings) Winsor, Justin, editor. Narrative and Critical History of America. 8
volumes. Profusely illustrated with engraved plates, maps, drawings, facsimiles, etc.; Vol. I
with steel-engraved frontispiece portrait. (Large 8vo), original half brown morocco and cloth,
marbled endpapers.
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1889
A valuable work of American history and a handsomely bound set. Winsor was librarian
of Harvard University (1877-97). “He advanced the scientific study of American history
by making available new materials.” (Oxford Companion to American Literature).
Howes W577. Some light wear bindings; overall very good.
(300/500)
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273. Fisher, Harrison. American Beauties. Unpaginated. 21 color plates by Harrison Fisher.
Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford. (4to) 28.2x22.5 cm. (11x8¾”) brown cloth stamped in
blind and gilt, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Company, [1909]
Fisher’s iconic images of young American women. Scarce in the original dust jacket.
Jacket worn, several tears, tape repairs on verso; volume fine, jacket good.
(200/300)
274. (Fisher, Harrison) Bachelor Belles with Illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Unpaginated. 19 full
page color illustrations by Harrison Fisher, decorations by Theodore Hapgood. (4to) original
gray cloth, pictorial label on front. Original two part publisher’s box with illustration on lid.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1908]
A reprint edition with 3 fewer plates than the Dodd, Mead edition, rare in the original
box nonetheless. Some light wear and soiling to box; minor wear to volume; near fine in a
very good box.
(150/250)
275. (Fisher, Harrison) Harrison Fisher Girls. Unpaginated. Twelve tipped-in color plates by
Harrison Fisher. Decorations by Theodore B. Hapgood.(4to) 31x22 cm. (12¼x8½”), original
boards, illustrated label on front, lettering in gilt. First Edition
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914
Binding worn, some chipping to spine; a few of the tipped in plates with light edge wear;
very good.
(200/300)
276. (Fisher, Harrison) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. 189 pp. 16
full-page color plates by Harrison Fisher, numerous black & white illustration by Fisher,
full-page and in text. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford. (Small 4to) 24.2x17.6 cm. (9½x7”)
original gilt decorated green cloth, glassine jacket, two-part publisher’s box with illustration
on lid.
Rare in the original publisher’s box. Box with some wear and staining; glassine chipped
and with some tears, rear flap detached; volume fine.
(250/350)
277. (Fisher, Harrison) The Harrison Fisher Book: A Collection of Drawings in Colors and Black
and White. Introduction by James B. Carrington. 9 full-page color plates, portrait photograph,
numerous other illustrations. (4to) 27.7x21 cm. (11x8¼”), original blue cloth, illustrated paper
label on front. First Edition.
Illustrated throughout with more that 80 images. Light wear to cloth, small nick to spine
cloth; very good.
(200/300)
THREE LOTS OF FORE EDGE PAINTINGS
278. (Fore Edge Painting) Cowper, William. The Poetical Works of William Cowper - With fore
edge painting of Windsor Castle. xxiv, 516 pp. Additional illustrated title page. (8vo) 23.2x15 cm.
(9¼x6”) full brown pebbled morocco, decorative gilt stamping on covers and spine bands, all
edges gilt.
London: William Smith, 1839
With a lovely fore edge painting of Windsor Castle. Spine faded, some light wear; very
good.
(500/800)
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279. (Fore Edge Painting) [Ellis, George, compiler]. Specimens of the Early English Poets. [2],
[viii], 323 pp. (8vo) 18.5x11.5 cm. (7¼x4½”) period full vellum (in the style of and likely by
Edwards of Halifax), spine gilt, boards with gilt borders over a green wash border, marbled
endpapers, all edges gilt, calf backed clamshell box.
London: Printed for Edwards, Pall-Mall, 1790
With a fore edge painting (also likely by the Edwards firm) of a pastoral scene of an
English estate with a lake and drive in the foreground. Provenance: Sotheby’s sale number
4056, Nov. 15, 1977 (identifying the fore edge scene as Woburn Abbey). Bookplate of
John Levien. Box split at joints; vellum soiled; very good.
(1500/2500)
Lot 279
280. (Fore Edge Painting) The Book of Common Prayer - With for edge painting. Unpaginated.
(8vo) 22x13.5 cm. (8½x5¼”) early full black morocco, gilt borders, all edges gilt. Rebacked
with original spine leather laid down.
London: John Reeves, 1802
With a beautiful and skillfully executed fore edge painting of a cathedral and other public
buildings along the water’s edge, sailing ships and other vessels on the water. Armorial
bookplate, North North, Thurland Castle. Light edge wear; some scuffing; light foxing;
very good.
(600/900)
281. (Foxhunting) Crafty. La Chasse à courre, notes et croquis, par Crafty. 48 pp. Color
illustrations throughout, initialed CY. (Oblong 4to) 22.3x26.5 cm. (8¾x10¼”), original color
pictorial cloth.
Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, [c.1888]
Rare French children’s book on foxhunting. OCLC/WorldCat lists only five copies,
three of which are in the United States. Rubbing to joints and edges; light foxing to titlepage, very good.
(400/600)
282. (Frankfurter, Felix) Mendelson, Wallace,
cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
editor. Felix
Frankfurter: A Tribute. Black
New York: Reynal & Company, 1964
Inscribed by the 82 year-old Frankfurter on flyleaf in a shaky hand: “With cordial regards
and best wishes, Felix Frankfurter, July 7, 1964”. An anthology by 17 famed contributors
praising the renowned Supreme Court Justice, who had retired from the Court when he
suffered a stroke after 24 years on the bench. More rarely found inscribed by Frankfurter
than any of the half dozen books he himself authored, as he died six months after
publication. Jacket with some small chips; light wear to volume; very good in a like
jacket.
(250/350)
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THE 100 GREATEST BOOKS
283. (Franklin Library) The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. 100 volumes. Full leather bindings
of various colors, decorations in gilt.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, [1970s-80s]
100 of the world’s greatest literary works, from Aeschylus to Zola. Including works
by Austen, Bronte, Chaucer, Darwin,, Emerson, Faulkner, Hardy, Hemingway, Ibsen,
Joyce, Kafka, Melville, Plato, Poe, Shakespeare, Thoreau, Twain, Whitman, etc. A
complete list is available on request. The original publisher’s booklets for all but 2 titles
are still present. Prospectus also present. Fine.
(1000/1500)
TWO LOTS FROM LEONARD BASKIN’S GEHENNA PRESS
284. (Gehenna Press) Shakespeare, William. Othello. Illustrated with 10 full-page inserted
woodcuts by Leonard Baskin; line cut illustrations by Baskin in text. (Folio) 51x34 cm.
(20x13½”) brown morocco-backed marbled boards by Arno Werner. Matching moroccobacked clamshell box. From an edition of 200 copies numbered I through CC, this copy out
of series and not numbered.
[Northampton, MA]: [The Gehenna Press], [1973]
The second volume of the ambitious but never completed Gehenna Shakespeare, preceded
earlier the same year by Titus Andronicus and abandoned following the printing of the
black text of King Lear, the red letter printing for King Lear never completed. Signed, as
issued, at the colophon by Leonard Baskin. Gehenna Press, 75. Some wear to box, corners
split on lower half of box; volume fine.
(1200/1800)
Lot 284
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285. (Gehenna Press) Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus. Illustrated with 12 etchings by
Leonard Baskin; woodcut illustrations by Baskin in text. (Folio) 51x34 cm. (20x13½”) full
green morocco stamped in gilt on front, binding by Arno Werner. No. XV of 150 copies
numbered I-CL (issued with an extra suite of plates but extra plates not present here). There
were also 250 copies numbered 1-250.
[Northampton, MA]: [The Gehenna Press], [1973]
The first volume of the ambitious but never completed Gehenna Shakespeare, followed
later the same year by Othello and abandoned following the printing of the black text
of King Lear, the red letter printing for King Lear never completed. Signed, as issued, at
the colophon by Leonard Baskin. Gehenna Press, 74. Spine sunned, light extremity wear;
internally fine.
(1200/1800)
286. Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 12 volumes.
Frontispiece and 1 of 3 folding maps (other 2 maps supplied in facsimile). (8vo) period full tree
calf, rebacked with original spine leather laid down (except Volume 1 which has a new spine).
New Edition.
London: Lackington, Allen, and Co., et al, 1815
Nice set of Gibbon’s renowned historical study. Bindings with some wear, professional
repairs; foxing and browning; very good.
(300/500)
287. (Grabhorn Press) Ray, Milton S. The Poet and the Messenger. Unpaginated. (4to), vellumbacked boards, plain paper jacket. One of 250 copies.
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, [1945]
Initial letters by Mallette Dean. GB 418. Fine.
(100/150)
288. Hervey, John L. The Art of W.C. Emerson: An Appreciation. [25] pp. Illustrated. 22.8x17.4
cm. (9x6¾”) original wrappers, string bound. One of 500 copies.
No place: [Privately Printed], [1923]
Emerson was born in England, but moved to the U.S. and settled in Connecticut. He
was a member of the New York Watercolor Club and the Westchester Art Institute. He
specialized in tonalist landscapes. Inscribed by the author to author Harry Worcester
Smith, with Smith’s sporting bookplate inside front wrapper. Light wear and soiling to
wrappers; light foxing; very good.
(200/300)
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HIRSCHFELD’S HARLEM – 24 LITHOGRAPHS
289. Hirschfeld, Al & William Saroyan. Harlem as Seen by Hirschfield. Illustrated with 24
tipped-in original lithographs. 6-page introduction by Saroyan. 46x35.5 cm. (18x13¾”), color
pictorial cloth. No. 752 of 1000 copies. First Edition.
New York: Hyperion Press, 1941
Twenty-four original lithographs by Hirschfeld, 19 of which depict Harlem residents, the
other five of Balinese dancers. Hirschfeld (1903-2003) was the revered master of this type
of joyful caricature. Light dampstain to lower 3” of covers, lightly affecting the lower
margins of some of the contents, some light offset from the plates, other than for the
dampstaining, much cleaner and nicer than usually found.
(2500/3500)
Lot 289
290. (Hogarth, William) Ireland, John. Hogarth Illustrated. 2 volumes. [6], cxxii, 311; [ii],
(312)-607 pp. 90 (of 91) engraved plates, including illustrated title pages and frontispieces; 2
engraved vignettes. (8vo) 22.4x13.6 cm. (8¾x5¼”), later full sheep, red and black leather spine
labels, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. First Edition.
London: J. & J. Boydell, 1791
A supplementary volume was issued in 1798, it is not present here. Bindings rubbed,
joints starting; lacking the plate called for at page xciv in volume 1 though it appears to
have never been present; some foxing; very good.
(300/500)
291. Hopkins, Nevil Monroe. Twentieth Century Magic and Construction of Modern Magical
Apparatus... [2], vi, 160 pp. Illustrations in text. (8vo) original brown cloth stamped in black
and white, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
New York: George Routledge & Sons, [1898]
With chapters on Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical magic. Light extremity wear,
previous owner’s name on endpapers; very good.
(150/250)
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ONE OF 26 HAND-ILLUMINATED COPIES
292. Hubbard, Elbert. These Pages Recount Little Journeys Made to the Homes of Ruskin
and Turner. 53 pp. 12 photogravure plates from Turner’s art work;10 original watercolor
illustrations by Bertha C. Hubbard in the margins; 1 pen-&-ink sketch by her; 27 handilluminated initials with gilt highlights. 25.5x19.7 cm. (10x7¾”), linen-backed boards. No. 18
of 26 copies hand-illuminated by Bertha C. Hubbard.
East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Printing Shop, 1896
Signed and numbered by Bertha Hubbard on the limitation-page. One of the earliest
of the Roycroft printed books, the shop opened in 1895. A very limited, specially
illuminated copy, with watercolor
illustrations by the wife of author/
publisher Elbert Hubbard, and many
lovely and varied initials. Bookplate
of E.A. Morrison, Jr. Boards rubbed,
worn at edges, moderate soiling to
the cloth; internally fine.
(1000/1500)
293. (Hurd, Peter) Horgan, Paul.
he Return of the Weed. Illustrated
T
with original lithographs by Peter
Hurd, including tipped-in frontispiece.
(4to) green cloth, paper spine label,
glassine jacket, slipcase. No. 173 of 350
total copies, of which only 250 were
originally for sale. First Edition.
New York: Harper & Bros., 1936
Signed by the author and artist in the
colophon. Classic short stories of the
American west, with illustrations by
the author’s friend and noted artist
Peter Hurd (1904-1984). A bit of wear
to slipcase, faint stain at lower edge;
glassine lightly worn; volume fine.
(200/300)
Lot 292
FOUR LOTS OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
294. (Illuminated Manuscript) Bernard of Clairvaux. Illuminated manuscript leaf with an
excerpt from a letter by Bernard of Clarivaux to Rainald, Abbot of Foigny. Single leaf on vellum,
14 lines. Small water-color painting of a man carrying the Christ child on his shoulder, initial
letters and flourishes in red, blue, green, and gilt. 26.7x16.7 cm. (10½x6½”)
No place: c.1900
Text begins: “Is not that truly light which does not burden, but relieves him who bears
it?” A beautifully illuminated leaf with small images of birds and flowers within the
marginal flourishes. Fine.
(500/800)
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295. (Illuminated Manuscript) St. Francis of Assisi. Illuminated manuscript leaf of “The Song of
the Sun” by St. Francis of Assisi. Illuminated leaf on vellum. 21x30 cm. (8¼x11¾”). Large initial
letter in gilt, red and blue at start, the first verse in alternating lines of gilt and blue, the first
word to each following verse in larger letters, alternating colors of blue and gilt, smaller initial
letters throughout in red, green or blue, floral decorations along left edge with a squirrel at the
bottom, other decorative pen flourishes in red and blue, title in gilt at top.
No place: c.1900
Gorgeous manuscript of St. Francis’s Canticle of the Sun A bit of wear at corners where
previously mounted; still about fine.
(500/800)
296. (Illuminated Manuscript) Illuminated manuscript of “The Dream of Gerontius “. 38 pp.
Calligraphic text in black, red, and blue with several gilt initial letters and words. Water-color
frontispiece highlighted in gilt. 12.5x8.5 cm. (5x3¼”), stiff paper wrappers.
No place: c.1900
Beautiful water-color frontispiece of Christ on the crucifix with an angel at each side, the
text expertly calligraphed. Frontispiece on vellum, text on fine paper. Fine.
(500/800)
297. (Illuminated Manuscript) Illuminated manuscript of a hymn beginning “Peace, Peace, Jesus
is Here...”. 4 pages on a folded sheet of velum, thin paper inner wrapper and vellum outer
wrappers. 11.3x10 cm. (4¾x4”), ribbon tie.
No place: c.1900
Each verse within a gilt border surrounded by decorative borders of red, blue, green and
gilt, the borders containing many floral illustrations. The front wrapper bears the date,
September 12. Fine
(500/800)
298. (Illuminated Manuscripts) Katterbach, Bruno. Two volumes with facsimiles of Italian
illuminated manuscripts. Includes: Le Miniature dell’ Evangeliario di Padova dell’ Anno 1170.
1931. * Le Miniature dell’ Epistolario de Padova dell’ Anno 1259. Together, 2 volumes. With
numerous collotype plates reproducing miniature paintings and manuscripts, some in color
with gilt highlights. 31.5x21 cm. (12½x8¼”), cloth stamped in gilt.
Rome: Danesi - Editore, 1931 & 1932
Issued as Volumes IV and V of Codices ex Ecclesiasticis Italiae Bybliothecis. Rubbing to
joints and edges, extremities worn; light to moderate foxing within, overall very good.
(120/180)
299. Johnson, A.E. The Russian Ballet. [vi], 240 pp. 12 full-page color plates by Rene Bull, 4
colored headpieces, numerous black & white illustrations. (4to) 28x22 cm. (11x8¾”) original
brown cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition, Trade Issue.
London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1913
Each of 17 ballets performed by the Ballet Russe, described and illustrated. There were
also 100 copies, signed by the illustrator. A few small spots to cloth, hinges cracked, light
foxing; very good.
(250/350)
300. Josephus, Flavius. The Famous and Memorable Workes of Josephus, A Man of Much Honour
and Learning Among the Jewes. [x], 554, [5], 556-812, [20] pp. Lacking 4 leaves from index at
end. (Folio) 31x21 cm. (12¼x8¼”) 19th century blindstamped full calf, spine in gilt and blind.
London: Printed by J.L. for Andrew Hebb, 1632
Scarce 17th century edition of Josephus’s works. ESTC S112704. Edges rubbed, lacking
spine label, light foxing; very good.
(400/700)
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301. Josephus, Flavius. The Works of Flavius Josephus: Translated into English by Sir Roger
L’Estrange, Knight... [4], 18, 1130 [i.e. 942] pp. With 3 copper-engraved plates engraved by M.
Vander Gucht, including the additional engraved title page; 2 copper-engraved folding maps.
(Folio) 39x23.5 cm. (15¼x9¼”), modern red library cloth. First Edition of this translation.
London: Richard Sare, 1702
L’Estrange’s Josephus, printed on thick paper, considered the finest printing in English.
One of the prime sources on the antiquities and wars of the Hebrew nation. The six parts,
as listed on the title page, are “I. The antiquities of the Jews, in twenty books. II. Their
wars with the Romans, in seven books. III. The life of Josephus written by himself. IV.
His book against Apion, in defence of the antiquities of the Jews, in two parts. V. The
martyrdom of the Maccabees. As also; VI. Philo’s embassy from the Jews of Alexandria
to Caius Caligula.” The additional title consists of 4 portraits, above which are images of
the Garden of Eden; the Ark of Noah; the Ark of the Covenant; and the Temple. The
two plates show various religious and cultural accouterments; there is a map of the Holy
Land and a plan of Jerusalem. There are numerous errors and vagaries in the pagination,
including omissions (no. 131-148, 555-584, 597-744) and numbered leaves 979-982, 987-990.
Binding rubbed; occasional foxing; very good.
(500/800)
302. Kemble, E.W. Coontown’s 400. Unpaginated. Cartoon illustrations with captions on
facing pages. 27.5x22.5 (10¾x8¾”), pictorial tan cloth. First Edition.
New York: Life Publishing, 1899
Racially stereotyped cartoons with captions in dialect. Some soiling and light wear to
cloth, hinges cracked; very good.
(400/600)
SIGNED BY YURI KUPER
303. Kuper, Yuri & Franck Bordas. Estampologia. 32 lithograph plates and facsimile
manuscript, 8 pages of letterpress at rear. Loose in paper folder, as issued. Housed in the
original painted cloth two-part slipcase. No. 29 of 100 copies.
Paris: Paquebot, 2000
Signed by Yuri Kuper at the colophon. Rare. Fine.
(1500/2000)
304. Lang, Andrew, editor. The Red Book of Animal Stories. xviii, 379, [1] pp. Illustrations by
H.J. Ford. (8vo) rebound in full red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands. First Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899
Spine sunned, light extremity wear, a few scuffs; very good.
(200/300)
305. Lang, Andrew, editor. The Yellow Fairy Book. xvi, 321, +[2] ad pp. Illustrations by H.J.
Ford. (8vo) original yellow cloth stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. First Trade Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894
The fourth of Lang’s fairy books. Spine leaning, some soiling to cloth; very good.
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(200/300)
306. (Lantz, Walter) Small archive of material relating to cartoonist Walter Lantz, creator of
Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker. Small archive, including: Life Begins for Andy Panda.
Unpaginated. Original pictorial boards. With an original sketch of Andy Panda on front
pastedown. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1940. * Original signed and inscribed sketch of Woody
Woodpecker on 3x5 card. * 12 illustrations from a book by Lantz. Two of the plates signed by
Lantz in the lower margin, each leaf with the artists ink stamp on bumper also. * 10 black and
white photographs of Lantz and/or the Panda from the Chicago zoo. Most 8x10 or so. * 21
8x10 still photographs from Andy Panda and other cartoons.
Lantz is best remembered as the creator of Woody Woodpecker. Some light wear; very
good.
(300/500)
WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY YURI KUPER
307. (Limited Editions Club) Pasternak, Boris. My Sister-Life - Artist’s Proof copy, with an
original drawing by Yuri Kuper. Illustrated with 6 original etchings by Yuri Kuper, printed in
Paris on Hahnemuhle paper by Aldo Crommelynck. Translated by Mark Rudman. (Folio)
19x16, gray half-morocco and handmade paper boards; cloth slipcase. From an edition of 250
copies, this copy not numbered and designated A/P (Artist’s Proof), signed by Kuper at the
colophon.
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, [1991]
With an original drawing by Yuri Kuper on the title page. Additionally inscribed
by Kuper at the colophon to the previous owner. This copy with each etching (also
designated A/P) signed in pencil by Yuri Kuper, not issued as such. A beautiful edition
printed on handmade paper recycling various Cyrillic printings. Kuper’s work is found
in the permanent collections of MoMA, Moscow Museum of Fine Arts, Fonds National
d’Art Contemporain in Paris, etc. Publishers’ newsletter laid in. Spine a bit sunned; fine.
(3000/5000)
Lot 307
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308. Mavrogordato, J.G. A Falcon in the Field: A Treatise on the Training and Flying of Falcons.
x, 123 pp. 12 color plates by D.M. Henry and G.E. Lodge. 24.8x18 cm. (9¾x7”) cloth, dust
[London]: Knightly Vernon Ltd., [1966]
A sequel to “A Hawk for the Bush”. The author was Vice-President of the British
Falconers’ Club and member of numerous other falconers’ groups. Jacket price-clipped
and with some light staining; very good.
(200/300)
309. (McLoughlin Brothers) Animal Life: Linen (cover title). [12] pp. incl. wrappers. With 4 fullpage color lithographed illustrations, plus black & white drawings in the text. Printed on linen.
22.5x15 cm. (8¾x6¾”), chromolithographed wrappers.
New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1904
Descriptions of exotic animals from reindeer and elephants to camels and chickens.
OCLC/WorldCat lists no copies. A bit of rubbing to wrappers, small chip to lower left
corner, ink inscription to back wrapper; very good.
(150/250)
310. (McLoughlin Brothers) Comical Pets A.B.C. (wrapper title). [12] pp. With chromolithographed
illustrations, plus some printed in red & black. 27x21 cm. (10½x8¼”), chromolithographed
wrappers.
Charming little alphabet book. OCLC/WorldCat lists only four copies. Some rubbing to
wrappers, light internal soiling, very good.
(250/350)
311. (McLoughlin Brothers) Two Children’s books on linen from McLoughlin Brothers. Includes:
Jolly Stories. * Pretty Story Book. Together, 2 volumes. Illustrated including color lithographs.
Printed on linen. 18x12.5 cm. (7x5”), color lithographed self-wrappers.
OCLC/WorldCat lists only six copies of the first, and no copies of the second, though
McLoughlin did publish an 1899 version in larger format, of which two copies are listed.
Minor wear, very good.
(250/350)
ELEVEN LOTS ON MEDICINE
312. (Medical) B[rugis], T[homas]. The marrovv of physicke. Or, a learned discourse of the
severall parts of mans body. Being a medicamentary teaching the maner and way of making and
compounding all such oiles, unguents, sirrups, cataplasmes, waters, powders, emplaisters, pilles, &c.
as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house, with little labour, small cost, and in short
time. And also an addition of divers experimented medicines, which may serve against any disease
that shall happen to the body. Together with some rare receipts for beauties, and the newest and best
way of preserving and conserving: with divers other secrets never before published. Collected and
experimented by the industry of T.B. Gen. practitioner in physicke and chyrurgery. 2 parts in 1. [16],
88; 175, [23] pp. A4, b4, B-M4, 2A-2Z4, 2A-2B4 (-B4, a blank). Folding table; wood engraving
in the text. (4to) 17.7x13 cm. (7x5¼”), 19th century half morocco & marbled boards, all edges
gilt. First Edition.
London: Printed by Richard Hearne, 1640
“Brugis, Thomas fl. 1640?, surgeon, was born probably between 1610 and 1620, since
he practised for seven years as a surgeon during the civil wars. He does not record upon
which side he served. He obtained the degree of doctor of physic, though from what university does not appear, and settled at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, where he describes
himself as curing ‘(by God’s help) all sorts of agues in young and old, and all manner of
old sores that are curable by art’” - DNB. Quite scarce - ESTC locates only 10 copies;
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only one copy of the 1640 first edition has sold at auction since at least 1975, according to
American Book Prices Current, and only one copy of the 1648 second edition. STC 3931;
Wellcome I, 109. Some fading and scuffing to covers; occasionally trimmed close at top
and bottom, affecting some signature marks and catchwords and a few lines of text, lower
margin of 1st 72 pp. slightly gnawed, but well away from any text, repair to folding plate;
lacking the final blank; very good.
(1000/1500)
Lot 312
313. (Medical) Cushing, Harvey. The Pituitary Body and Its Disorders. x, 341 pp. Color
frontispiece, folding plate, numerous black and white photographic plates. 9½x6, original red
cloth, spine stamped in gilt. First Edition, Second State (less common).
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1912]
Garrison-Morton outlines the importance of Cushing’s first book: “Cushing, outstanding
neurological surgeon of the [20th] century, added much to our knowledge of the pituitary
body and its disorders.” Only 1000 copies of the second state, which lists Cushing as the
Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard, were issued. Bookplate of the Mayo-Clinic
Library on front pastedown. Cushing Bibliography 2. GM 3896. Spine gilt dull, rubbing
and wear to ends and corners; hinges cracked, flyleaf detached, well shaken with hinges
cracked, good overall.
(400/600)
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314. (Medical) Eleven volumes from the “Classics of Medicine Library”. Includes: Addison,
Thomas. On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Supra-Renal Capsules.
Folio. * Carpue, J.C. An Account of Two Successful Operations for Restoring a Lost Nose
from the Integuments of the Forehead. Quarto. * Scarpa, Antonio. Practical Observations
on the Principal Diseases of the Eyes. * Gray, Henry. Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical. *
Withering, William. An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of Its Medical Uses. * Holt, Emmet.
The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. Beaumont, William. Experiments and Observations
on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion. * Rush, Benjamin. Medical Inquiries
and Observatons, Upon The Diseases of the Mind. * Peacock, Thomas B. On Malformations
of the Human Heart. * The Aphorisms of Hippocrates. * Low, Peter. The Whole Course
of Chirurgerie. Together 11 volumes, all but the first two are octavo in size, all are in full
morocco, decoratively gilt.
Birmingham, Alabama: Gryphon Editions, [1980s]
A handsome shelf of facsimile editions of classic medical texts from the Classics of
Medicine Library. A touch of wear; about fine.
(400/700)
315. (Medical) Six Medicina Rara facsimile editions of rare early medical texts and one reference
text. Includes: Browne, John. Myographia Nova: Or, A Graphical Description of all the
Muscles in Humane Body... Morocco-backed boards. One of 2800 copies. * Bell, Charles.
[Facsimile] Manuscript Drawings of the Arteries. Half cloth and boards. One of 2800 copies.
* Brunschwig, Hieronymus. Buch der Cirurgia. Vellum-backed boards. One of 2800 copies. *
Gerssdorff, Hans von. Feldtbuch der Wundtartzney. Calf-backed boards. One of 2800 copies.
* Pugh, John. A Treatise on the Science of Muscular Action. Half calf and cloth. * Scultetus,
Johannes. Armamentarium Chirurgicum. Calf-backed boards. The above 6 volumes each
number 260 of 2800 copies, all in the original slipcases with newsletters laid in.
New York: Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., Various dates
Also: Herrlinger, Robert. History of Medical Illustrations from Antiquity to 1600. Cloth,
slipcase. [1970] Some fading to spines and slipcases; near fine.
(400/700)
316. (Medical - French) Three documents relating to French medicine. Includes: Lisfranc, Dr.
Jacques. Document Signed, as President of the French Royal Academy of Medicine. Paris,
March 31, 1835. Notifying Dr. Hering of Stuttgart that he had been honored with appointment
as a Correspondent of the Royal Academy because of his “zeal for the progress of medical
science.” Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin (1790-1847) was a distinguished French Surgeon
and Gynecologist who pioneered several surgical procedures, which were named after him;
Garrison and Morton cite his 1815 description of a new method for amputation of the foot,
probably devised while he was a young military Surgeon serving in Napoleon’s Army. The
Doctor honored by this document, Edward August von Hering was an obscure German
Veterinarian whose expertise in the treatment of thoroughbred horses had won him Prussian
Royal distinction. Ironically, that same month, Dr. Lisfranc sent an identical letter to the great
British Chemist and Physicist Michael Faraday. * Landre-Beauvais, Augustin Jacob. Document
Signed - possibly with a stamp - as “Doyen de la Faculte”. Printed Ticket of Admission to a
course at the University of France School of Medicine, 1828-1829. Dr. Landre-Beauvais (17721840) was a French Surgeon best known for his 1800 description of Rheumatoid Arthritis, the
first modern-day account of the disease (Garrison-Morton 4490). Curiously, the back of this
ticket has a printed admonition that it was forbidden to enter the Medical School with a cane
or weapons. * Pean, Jules Emile. Autograph Note Signed in French on front and verso of his
printed calling card (“Le Docteur Pean / Membre de l’Academie de Medicine / Chirurgien des
Hospitaux”) [Paris], October 20, 1895. To Madame Verity, making an appointment. French
Physician Surgeon Jules Emile Pean (1830-1898) performed the first successful ovariotomy
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in France; claimed to have invented the hemostatic forceps; and is credited by Garrison and
Morton with pioneering operations for removing tumors from the stomach and uterus. Many
of his writings are medical classics. Together, 3 items.
c.1828-1895
Interesting group of items relating to three leading French medical practitioners of the
19th century. Very good or better condition.
(200/300)
317. (Medical - Insane Asylum Broadside) Vermont Asylum for the Insane. Rules for the
attendants and assistants of the Vermont Asylum. Printed broadside. 20.4x16.4 cm. (8x6¾”) on
sheet 25x20 cm. (9¾x7¾”).
[Brattleboro, Vt.?]: J.H. Capen, printer, c.1855
Rare broadside presenting the rules for procedures at the Asylum, founded in the 1830s,
after two decades of experience: Attendants were expected to “treat Patients with respect,
kindness and attention; and never use any profane, obscene or vulgar language”; to take
care that patients should not carry metal knives or forks away from the dining table, or
to give any patient a razor; to deliver no letters or anything written by a patient without
approval of a supervisor; and never to discuss patients’ conduct or conversation outside
the Asylum. In the decade before the Civil War, Dorothea Dix was still crusading, against
potent opposition, for reforms in the care of mentally ill patients – the kind of humane
treatment set out in this broadside at one of the first asylums in America. OCLC/
WorldCat lists only a single example, at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Stain to
lower margin, some minor edge wear; very good.
(150/250)
318. (Medical - Insanity) Delilez, Francis. A New Treatise on Insanity: Its Cause, Effects,
Treatment and Cure. Being an Abridgement of the Book: Insanity Explained (wrapper title). 32
pp. Wood-engraved portrait of the author. 18.8x12 cm. (7½x4¾”), original printed wrappers.
[Milwaukee]: Published by the Author, 1890
A promotional pamphlet self-published by the author for his 1888 book, The True
Cause of Insanity Explained, an autobiographical account of “imprisonment” and brutal
mistreatment in the state asylum in Winnebago Wisconsin - one the very few 19th
century first-hand narratives by an asylum patient, rather than a doctor. Far more scarce
than the book itself - no copies are located by OCLC/WorldCat. Fine or nearly so.
(100/150)
The Buyer’s Premium will be 20% f or bids up to $100,000
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319. (Medical - Nursing) Wildenbruch, Ludwig von. Autograph Letter Signed (in French),
as Prussian Ambassador to Ottoman Turkey, relating to medical treatment and nursing in the
Crimean War, with veiled reference to the accomplishments of Florence Nightingale. 2 pages, on
4-page stampless lettersheet, addressed on p.4. 27x21.5 cm. (10½x8½”),
Pera [Contantinople], Turkey: March 29, 1855
Von Wildenbruch writes to British Ambassador Lord Stratford (Canning) de Redcliffe,
thanking him for allowing Dr. Morris to inspect the English Hospital at Constantinople,
where he felt great “admiration” for the care of the “brave sick and wounded soldiers”
who were being treated there, though he had doubts about the “too great abundance” of
patients. A year before, Britain and France, allied with Turkey, Germany and Austria,
declared war on imperial Russia. After fighting began on the Crimean coast of the
Black Sea, the allied troops suffered greatly during the winter of 1854-55 from lack of
fuel, clothing and supplies. Hearing in London of the horrible conditions of the British
wounded, in November 1854, 35 year-old Florence Nightingale took 38 British women
volunteer nurses to staff an overcrowded British military hospital near Constantinople,
hundreds of miles from the battlefields. The nurses - who were not welcomed by the
male Army Doctors - found a shortage of medicine and food and such awful sanitary
conditions that many of the evacuated wounded were dying of typhus, cholera and
dysentery. Not until March 1855, after the inspection of a British Sanitary Commission,
did improved Hospital sanitation and ventilation begin to reduce the high death rate. The
(apparently) German doctor, who visited the Hospital that same month with credentials
from Ambassador von Wildenbruch was perturbed by the overcrowding. But he could
only praise the care given the patients, thanks - though this diplomatically-worded letter
neglects to mention it - to Florence Nightingale, known poetically as “the Lady with the
Lamp”. Some creasing and wear along one edge, very good.
(200/300)
320. (Medical - Psychology) Buchanan, Joseph. The Philosophy of Human Nature. vi, [2], 336
pp. (8vo) 20.3x12 cm. (8x4¾”), period calf. First Edition.
Richmond, K[entucky]: Printed by John A. Grime, 1812
Joseph Parrish’s The Philosophy of Human Nature is unquestionably the most original
American contribution to psychology before William James’ Principles of Psychology
published nearly 80 years later. Notable both as an early Kentucky imprint and a
groundbreaking medical treatise, the work was prepared as lectures to be delivered in the
contemplated medical school of Transylvania University. The PsycINFO database of
the American Psychological Association notes “The chapters in this book examine the
human body and human nature. The author explores the topics of excitement, sensory
perception, perceptual stimulation, the human mind, truth, beliefs, the association
of ideas, human emotions, feelings, volition, will, voluntary actions, anatomical and
physiological systems, diversity of excitability, and the dependence and interdependence
of sensory organs and systems. Animal comparisons are also included.” Ink name of
Corman L. Chambliss to title-page, along with a few light pencil names. Covers well
worn, front joint cracked with cover nearly detached, rear joint partially cracked; some
soiling, darkening and foxing to contents; good.
(500/800)
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321. (Medical - Tobacco) Mussey, R.D. An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco Upon Life and
Health. 48 pp. 16.5x11 cm. (6½x4¼”), original printed yellow wrappers. First Edition.
Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1836
First appearance of a very influential tract, often reprinted, which helped launch the first
anti-Tobacco movement in America. Dr. Reuben Dimond Mussey (1780-1866), Professor
of Surgery at Dartmouth and Ohio Medical College, President of the New Hampshire
Medical Society, and later, of the American Medical Association, was also widely
respected among anti-alcohol Temperance crusaders, such as the three young Theology
students from notable Maine families, who presented and received this copy, with an
inscription to Samuel C. Fessenden from John Tappan and C.H. Hamlin at the top of the
front wrapper: Cyrus Hamlin, later founder of Robert College in Istanbul and a relation
of Lincoln’s future Vice President; John Tappan, brother of the rich abolitionist who
would bankroll defense of the Amistad slave rebels; and the recipient, Samuel Clement
Fessenden, later Civil War Congressman whose brother would be Lincoln’s Secretary of
the Treasury. A rare imprint with a notable provenance. Lower portion of spine perished,
some light foxing within, very good.
(400/600)
322. (Medicine - Quarantine Island, New York) DeWitt, Benjamin. Autograph Letter, signed,
from the doctor on New York City’s first “Quarantine Island” for immigrants. Autograph Letter,
signed. 2 pages plus integral address leaf.
[Staten Island, NY]: May 17, 1817
Address to “The Commissioners of Health, New York, care of Mr. Roonie”. “I have
been negotiating with the Mr. Humphreys…and the most favorable terms I can obtain
from them for doing the work we require is $800. For that sum they will engage to make
a substantive stone wall along the beach and fill it in to High water nearly, and also to
regulate the ground and road adjacent, and cover the Quarantine wharf with a sufficient
coat of earth. The new wharf along the line fence is not included in this estimate, they
say it will cost $100 more to have that covered… The other work is indispensable and
they say it cannot be done for less. They wish to have an answer on Monday next…
you should let me know by one of the first boats on the morning of Monday, or else
perhaps you may find it convenient to come down in person on Monday and decide on
the matter here, which I should prefer.” Two years after Dr. Benjamin DeWitt wrote this
letter, New York high society was shocked to learn that he had died in the course of his
official duties as the second Health Officer of the Port of New York, having accepted that
un-coveted post after serving as Surgeon to Army regiments guarding New York City
against the British during the War of 1812. Before that, he had been Private Secretary
to his relative, New York Governor George Clinton, later Vice President of the United
States under Thomas Jefferson. The Doctor himself was socially prominent and politically
active in the Tammany Society. Also founding editor of the New York Medical Journal
and Professor at the State University of New York, his professional credentials were
impeccable. So it was out of pure public spirit that Dewitt accepted his burdensome work
on that section of Staten Island set aside to quarantine newly-arrived ship’s passengers
diagnosed with deadly diseases like cholera, typhoid and yellow fever – which ultimately
led to his own death. Creased from mailing, light wear; very good.
(300/500)
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BEAUTIFUL COPPERPLATE ENGRAVINGS
323. Merian, Matthaeus. Topographia Sueviae... [8], 100, [12] pp. Copper-engraved title-page.
Illustrated with 55 (only) copper-engraved plates, mostly double-page, and many with multiple
images, showing nearly 100 views, plans and maps. (folio) 12x8, c.15th-century vellum with
musical manuscript and a large blue and red initial. First Edition.
Frankfurt: M. Merian, 1643
Matthew Merian (1593-1650) was a Swiss engraver and draftsman. The present is one
of the most desirable volumes from his famous Topographia Germaniae, filled with
bird’s-eye views of castle towns, scenic
views of villages nestled in hillsides with
many rustic details, maps of the region,
etc. There are 58 plates listed in the
register (and Wuthrich notes 60 overall);
there are only 55 plates in this copy,
including two which are not listed in the
register, of Schwabisch Hall and a map
titled, “Comitatustetnang” (not noted in
Wuthrich). The plates not present are
5, 6, 13, 17 and 53. The text of the first
edition is only 100pp. The second edition
incorporates the appendix written in
1654 and is expanded to 232pp (though
with only 2 further plates). Wuthrich,
Das druckgraphische Werk von Matthaus
Merian, IV, 11. Vellum with unobstrusive
staining, wear to joints and bands with
covers starting; pale corner dampstain
at beginning, intermittent browning
and spotting (mostly marginal), early
manuscript on verso of two plates (with
some bleeding through and a few small
inkstains), one plate with old corner
repair, a few other minor old repairs, a
few of the large views trimmed at outer
edges, some splitting and occasional wear
or creasing at centerfolds; overall, still in
Lot 323
extremely good condition in an attractive
binding.
(3000/5000)
324. Milne, A[lan] A[lexander]. When We Were Very Young. xii, [2], 100 pp. Illustrated by
E.H. Shepard. 8x5½, original cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of 400 unsigned copies, from
a total limited edition of 500 copies. First American Edition.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1924]
There were also 100 copies of this edition signed by the author. The first in the series, and
the first appearance of both Christopher Robin and an early incarnation of Winnie the
Pooh (in “Teddy Bear”). Spine sunned, edges rubbed, previous owner’s name in verso of
front free endpaper; good.
(500/800)
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325. Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de. Essayes Written in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne
... done into English, according to the last French edition, by John Florio. [10], 348, 350-630 pp.
(A-Iii6, Kkk4). Lacking leaf A6 which contained the metalcut portrait of John Florio by
William Hole (sometimes bound as the frontispiece), lacking final blank leaf (Kkk4). (Folio)
29x19 cm (11½x7½, period calf, later rebacking. Second Florio Edition.
London: Printed by Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret, 1613
Second edition of John Florio’s translation into English of Montaigne’s Essays, following
the edition produced in 1603. Books two and three have separate dated title-pages, with
pagination and register continuous.
Montaigne is generally credited
with the invention of the essay,
his Essays were first published in
French in 1580, and are called by
Printing and the Mind of Man
the “consummate representation
of the enlightened scepticism of
the sixteenth century... “ Florio’s
translation is considered one of the
great translations of the Elizabethan
period. With early ink ownership
signature of John Monkhouse to
top of title-page. (PMM 95); STC
18042. Some wear to binding, head
of spine pulled, rear hinge cracked;
paper repairs to edges of title page,
one leaf (A5) detached, two leaves
(pages 437-440) slightly smaller,
possibly provided from another
copy, paper a bit browned, light
foxing; very good.
(2000/3000)
326. Mora, F. Luis. The health of
the child is the power of the nation
Children’s year, April 1918 - April 1919.
Color lithographed poster. 46x72 cm.
(18x28¼”); matted & framed under
plexiglass.
New York: The W. F. Powers Co.,
Litho., 1918
Poster showing a group of happy
children on a hill, the promise of
a post-war world. The artist was
Jo Mora’s brother. Tiny edge tear,
near fine.
(400/700)
Lot 325
THREE BY JOHN HENRY NASH
327. (Nash, John Henry - Leaf Book) Bullen, Henry Lewis. The Nuremberg Chronicle or, The
Book of Chronicles from the Beginning of the World, the most famous German picture books of the
fifteenth century...a monograph...with a leaf from the first Latin edition. XXV pp. Illustrated with
a tipped-in leaf from the first Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle plus frontispiece and
reproductions in the text. (Folio) calf-backed marbled boards. No. 266 of 300 copies.
San Francisco: John Henry Nash for the Book Club of California, 1930
Original leaf is folio XXXVIII. With the bookplate of John Henry Nash on front
pastedown. Extremities lightly rubbed; very good.
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(400/600)
328. (Nash, John Henry) Harte, Bret. The Heathen Chinee: Plain Language from Truthful
James. Introduction by Ina Coolbrith. Bibliography by Robert E. Cowan. Illustrated by Phil
Little. 14x11, blue boards stitched in oriental fashion with paper title label, tan linen chemise
with bone clasps. Number 228 of 200 copies printed for the Book Club of California from a
total edition of 500 copies.
San Francisco: John Henry Nash for the Book Club of California, 1934
A handsome edition of Harte’s classic, if somewhat racist, poem, printed on double-leaves
of ‘American’ vellum. One of the 50 Books of the Year. Inscribed inside front cover by
John Henry Nash for Milton S. Ray. A bit bowed, faint spotting on front cover; near
fine.
(200/300)
329. (Nash, John Henry) O’Day, Nell. A Catalogue of Books Printed by John Henry Nash. xiv,
100, [1] pp. Portrait frontispiece. (4to) original tan cloth, paper spine label. First Edition. One
of 500 copies.
San Francisco: [John Henry Nash], 1937
An essential reference for the work of the esteemed San Francisco printer. Fine.
(200/300)
330. (Natural History) Framed Hand-Colored Print of Lizards. Hand-colored lithograph of
lizards. 35x27 cm. (visible), mated and framed. 44x36 cm. (17¼x14¼”) overall.
[Stuttgart]: [Hoffmann], [c. 1830s]
From Oken’s Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände. Light staining in margins,
paper a bit browned; not examined out of frame; very good.
(100/150)
331. Nádasdy, Ferencz. Mausoleum Potentissimorum ac Gloriosissimorum Regni Apostolici
Regum & Primorum Militantis Ungariae Ducum Vindicatis è mortuali pulvere Reliquiis ad gratam
apud posteros memoriam. [8], 407, [5] pp. Text in Latin and German. Title-page printed in red
& black; copper-engraved added pictorial title; 59 full-page copper-engraved illustrations, being
portraits of Dukes and Kings of Hungary. (folio) 31x19 cm. (12¼x7½”), period full vellum.
First Edition.
Nuremberg: Endter, 1664
Rare history of the dukes and kings of Hungary, from the first formation of the
federation of united tribes, to the crowning of Saint Stephen as the first king in 1001, to
Ferdinand IV, king from 1647 until his death in 1654. The fine engravings are portraits,
the earlier dukes in fighting armor, the later kings in regal robes and symbols of office
including a lone woman, Maria, who reigned in the fourteenth century. Vellum soiled,
rubbed, a few chips to spine, top ½” of spine strip missing, clasps lacking; light foxing to
title-page and occasionally within, else very good, internally near fine.
(1000/1500)
THE OZ BOOKS OF L. FRANK BAUM
332. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. The New Wizard of Oz. [8], 208 pp. Illustrated with 8 inserted color
plates by W.W. Denslow; text drawings in black & white; pictorial endpapers with scenes from
the M.G.M. movie. 9½x6¾, dark green cloth with pictorial & cover lettering in black, spine
lettered in gilt; color pictorial jacket. First MGM Movie Version Edition.
First state of this edition, with pictorial endpapers and spine lettering on black fields.
The dust jacket shows the four main characters, and Toto too, surrounding the bald,
short Wizard. Jacket with $1.19 price on front flap. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 13. Jacket
chipped at edges and with some short tears, larger chip at head of spine; volume with
some light spotting to cloth, lower corners bumped; very good.
(300/500)
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333. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. The Land of Oz. 287 pp. With 16 color plates & numerous black &
white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, red cloth stamped in silver, black, and green; pictorial
endpapers printed in dark green on a green stock. First Edition, Fourth Printing.
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, [c. 1914]
The Marvelous Land of Oz with the shortened title on the front cover. Fourth printing
with new typeset title page. Binding Variant ‘E’. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 24. Wear to
extremities, front hinge with tape repair, tape repair also in gutter of title page, a few
plates reinserted with tape, some wear to page edges, plates called for at pages 68 and 174
incorrectly placed at pages 256 and 272; good.
(150/250)
334. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. Ozma of Oz. 270, [blank], + [1] ad pp. Illustrated by John R. Neill
with full-page and text illustrations in color and black and white. 9x6¾, tan cloth pictorially
stamped in black, blue, red and yellow; blank endpapers. First Edition, Fourth Printing.
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, [1907, but c. 1917]
Fourth printing of the third Oz title; advertisements on last page listing titles through
“The Lost Princess of Oz”; “O” in “Ozma” on line five of the Author’s Note on p.[11],
is absent. One of a few copies in the ‘B’ binding, with pictorial stamping on rear cover.
Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 30. Extremities worn, some soiling to cloth, front free endpaper
glued to front pastedown, rear hinge cracked, page edges uneven; good.
(250/350)
335. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Illustrated with 16 color plates &
numerous black and white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, light blue cloth, pictorial cover
label with metallic gold background; inserted pictorial endpapers in black and yellow. Housed
in a custom clamshell box. First Edition, First Printing, First Binding.
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, [1908]
First printing, with advertisement on verso of half-title listing three titles, The Land of
Oz, Ozma of Oz, and John Dough and the Cherub; the color plates are captioned. In the
first state binding, with “The Reilly &/ Britton Co.” in large and small capitals at foot of
spine. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p.34. Some wear and soiling to cloth, front hinge cracked;
very good.
(500/800)
336. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. The Road to Oz. 261, [1] blank, [2] ad pp. Illustrated throughout
with black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, light green linen-like cloth stamped in
dark green, red, brown and black; pictorial endpapers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. First
Edition.
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., [1909]
First printing, binding state ‘A’ with publisher’s imprint in upper and lower case letters.
Perfect type in the words “Toto on” page 34, line 4 and in the numeral “121” on page 121,
numeral and caption beneath illustration on page 129 indicating one of the earliest copies
printed. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p.41. Extremities rubbed, light soiling to cloth, small
crack to rear hinge; very good.
(700/1000)
Page 85
337. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. The Emerald City of Oz. 295, [1] pp. Illustrated with 16 color plates
embellished with metallic green ink & numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill.
9x6½, light blue cloth, pictorial cover label embellished with metallic silver & green ink;
pictorial endpapers in black & orange. Housed in a custom clamshell box. First Edition, First
Printing.
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1910]
First printing, in the primary binding featuring the elaborate cover label showing a
number of characters traveling through the city, spine lettered in black with picture of a
rabbit in black and silver. The striking use of metallic ink on the illustrations and cover
label can only be found in this state. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 47. Light wear and soiling
to cloth; very good.
(1000/1500)
338. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. The Patchwork Girl of Oz. 340, [2] + [6] ad pp. Illustrated throughout
with color & black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, light-tan cloth stamped in dark
green, red & yellow; color pictorial endpapers. First Edition, Second State, Secondary Binding.
First edition with 6 pages of ads at end, including preliminary ad with photographs of
5 covers and commencing with “You Will be Glad to Know...”, followed by 5 pages of
synopses. This has the later state of p.35 with the `C’ in “Chapter” corrected so that it
does not overlap text. In the secondary binding of light-tan cloth rather than light-green,
which Hanff & Greene note as scarcer than the primary binding. Hanff & Greene VII;
Bienvenue & Schmidt p.52. Wear and soiling to cloth, spine ends frayed, front hinge
cracked; very good.
(300/500)
339. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. Tik-Tok of Oz. 271, [1] pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates and
numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, medium-blue cloth, pictorial cover
label; inserted color pictorial endpapers of maps of Oz. First Edition, First Printing.
First printing, with advertisements on verso of half-title listing 6 titles through The
Patchwork Girl of Oz, and with horizontal double rules at top and bottom of spine.
Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 58. Spine faded and leaning; light extremity wear; very good.
(400/600)
340. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. The Scarecrow of Oz. 288 pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates &
numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, green cloth, pictorial cover label;
black & white pictorial endpapers. First Edition, First Printing.
First printing with advertisement on verso of half-title listing 8 titles through The
Scarecrow of Oz, and with 12 inserted color plates without captions. Bienvenue &
Schmidt, p. 63. Some light wear to cloth and cover label; very good.
(500/800)
341. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. The Scarecrow of Oz. Illustrated with 12 color plates & numerous
black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, dark green cloth, pictorial cover label; black
& white pictorial endpapers. First Edition, Third Printing.
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [c. 1918]
Third Printing, with advertisement on verso of half-title listing titles through The Tin
Woodman of Oz. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 63. Some wear and soiling to covers, small
nick to front cover illustrations, front hinge repaired, rear hinge cracked; good.
(200/300)
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342. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. Rinkitink in Oz. 314 pp. Illus. with 12 color plates & numerous
black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, light blue cloth, pictorial cover label; black &
white pictorial endpapers. First Edition, First Printing.
First printing with no advertisements on verso of ownership page. Bienvenue & Schmidt,
p. 68. Light extremity wear; very good.
(500/800)
343. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. The Lost Princess of Oz. 312 pp. With 12 color plates and numerous
black and white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, light blue cloth, pictorial cover label; black
and white pictorial endpapers. First Edition, First Printing.
First printing with the advertisement on verso of ownership page listing 10 titles through
The Lost Princess of Oz, double-rules at top and bottom of spine. Bienvenue & Schmidt,
p. 71. Some wear and soiling to cloth, surface wear and a small spot on cover illustration,
hinges repaired; very good.
(300/500)
344. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. The Tin Woodman of Oz. 287, [1] pp. With 12 color plates &
numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, green cloth, color pictorial cover
label; black & white pictorial endpapers. Early Reprint.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1918, but c. 1920]
Early reprint with list of titles to The Cowardly Lion of Oz on verso of ownership leaf.
Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 75. Light wear and soiling to cloth; very good.
(150/250)
345. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. The Magic of Oz. 265, [1] pp. Illus. with 12 color plates and numerous
black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, green cloth, pictorial cover label; black &
white pictorial endpapers. Early reprint.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1919, but 1923]
Early reprint with verso of ownership page blank and plates repositioned. Bienvenue &
Schmidt, p. 79. A touch of extremity wear, short crack to front hinge; very good.
(200/300)
346. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. The Magic of Oz. 265, [1] pp. Illus. with 12 color plates and numerous
black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, green cloth, pictorial cover label; black &
white pictorial endpapers. Early reprint.
Early reprint with verso of ownership page blank and plates repositioned. Bienvenue &
Schmidt, p. 79. Light wear and soiling to cloth; very good.
(150/250)
347. (Oz) Baum, L. Frank. Glinda of Oz. 279 + [1] pp. Illustrated 12 color plates and numerous
black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, tan cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white
pictorial endpapers. First Canadian Edition, First Printing.
Toronto: Copp Clark Co., Limited, [1920]
Perfect type on page 150. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 81. Some wear and soiling to cloth,
hinges repaired; a few pencil markings internally; very good.
(250/350)
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THE OZ BOOKS OF RUTH PLUMLY THOMPSON
348. (Oz) [Thompson, Ruth Plumly]. Baum, L. Frank. The Royal Book of Oz. Enlarged and
edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson. 312 pp. With 12 color plates & numerous black & white
drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, gray-green cloth, color pictorial cover label; black & white
pictorial endpapers. Later printing.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [mid 1920s]
Later printing with caption on plate facing p.255 corrected, the plates coated on both
sides, and four of the plates relocated. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p.102. Light wear, previous
owner’s name on ownership leaf; very good.
(150/250)
349. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Kabumpo in Oz. 297 pp. Illus. with 12 color plates by
John R. Neill. (8vo), green cloth, pictorial cover label, black & white pictorial endpapers,
pictorial dust jacket. Early reprint.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., [1922, but mid 1920s]
Mid-1920s reprint with ampersand in “standard” form and illustration of Kabumpo
on page [299]. Later dust jacket with titles to The Yellow Knight of Oz (1930). Jacket
chipped at spine ends and corners, spine faded; previous owner’s name on ownership leaf;
very good.
(200/300)
350. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Cowardly Lion of Oz. 291 pp. Illustrated with 12 color
plates and numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, green cloth, pictorial
cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers. Later printing.
Later printing with the “standard” ampersand in the spine imprint. Bienvenue & Schmidt,
p. 104. Lightly rubbed; near fine.
(150/250)
351. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Grampa in Oz. 271 + [7] ad (i.e. 4 leaves printed on rectos
only) pp. 12 color plates (no color frontispiece, as issued). 9x6½, light brick-red cloth, pictorial
cover label, black & white endpapers. Later printing.
Later printing with broken type in numeral on p. 171. Bienvenue & Schmidt p.105. Light
wear to binding; very good.
(150/250)
352. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Lost King of Oz. 280 pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates
by John R. Neill. 9x6½, blue cloth, pictorial cover label, black & white pictorial endpapers.
First Edition.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1925]
With plates coated on printed side only. Broken type on the letter “k” on page 193, line
4 making this not among the earliest copies first printing. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 107.
Scuffing to cover label, hinges repaired, previous owner’s names; very good.
(200/300)
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353. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Hungry Tiger of Oz. 261, [3] pp. + [2] ad leaves.
Illustrated with 12 color plates and numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½,
dark green cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers. First Edition, First
Printing.
First printing with plates coated on printed side only; hyphen on the last line of p.21;
the word “two” (p.252, last line) in unbroken type, indicating this is one of the “earliest
copies” of the first printing. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 108. Light wear to cloth, hinges a
bit shaken; very good.
(200/300)
354. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Gnome King of Oz. 282 pp. Illustrated with 12 color
plates by John R. Neill. 8¾x6½, bright emerald cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white
pictorial endpapers. First Edition.
Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 109. Light wear, short crack to front hinge; very good.
(250/350)
355. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Giant Horse of Oz. 283 pp. Illustrated with 12 color
plates and numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, brick-red cloth, pictorial
cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers. First Edition, First Printing.
First state with misprint “Oniberon” for “Quiberon” in frontispiece caption; “r” in
“morning” (p.116, line 1) in damaged type making this not among the earliest copies of
the first printing. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 110. Light spotting to rear cover, front hinge a
bit shaken; very good.
(200/300)
356. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Pirates in Oz. 280 pp. With 12 color plates by John R.
Neill. 9x6½, dark green cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers. First
Edition.
First state binding with spine imprint in boldface. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 113. Light
wear to cloth, pencil markings on front; faint dampstain to lower corner of pages; very
good.
(150/250)
357. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Purple Prince of Oz. 281 pp. Illustrated with 12 color
plates by John R. Neill. 9x6½, dark purple cloth, pictorial cover label, pictorial endpapers.
First Edition.
First binding with spine imprint in boldface type. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 114. Some
wear to extremities, hinges cracked; very good.
(200/300)
358. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Purple Prince of Oz. 281 pp. Illustrated with 12 color
plates by John R. Neill. 9x6½, dark purple cloth, pictorial cover label, pictorial endpapers.
First Edition.
First binding with spine imprint in boldface type. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 114. Spine a
touch faded, light wear; very good.
(200/300)
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359. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Ojo in Oz. Illustrated with 12 color plates by John R.
Neill. (8vo), gray cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers; color pictorial
jacket. First Edition, Second State.
Second state binding, with spine imprint in semi-script. All later printings were issued
without color plates. The jacket has the spine imprint in semi-script “fancy” letters
and lists 38 titles, through The Hidden Valley of Oz (1951). Bienvenue & Schmidt, p.
115. Jacket lightly worn and faded; light wear to binding, hinges starting to crack, gift
inscription and erasures on front pastedown; very good in near fine jacket.
(400/600)
360. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Speedy in Oz. 298 pp. Illustrated by John R. Neill. (8vo)
blue cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Later
printing.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1934, but later]
Later printing without color plates, dust jacket with titles to Magical Mimics in Oz (1946).
Jacket chipped, paper tape repairs on rear of jacket; small nick to rear joint; near fine in a
very good jacket.
(200/300)
361. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Wishing Horse of Oz. 297 pp. Illustrated with 12 color
plates by John R. Neill. 9x6¾, dark green cloth, pictorial cover label. First Edition.
This was the last Oz book to be issued with color plates, and all subsequent printings of
this book did not contain the plates. This is the only Reilly & Lee Oz book that was not
issued with its own pictorial endpapers. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 117. Extremities worn,
front hinge cracked, bookplate; very good.
(200/300)
362. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Captain Salt in Oz. 306 pp. Illustrated with black & white
drawings by John R. Neill. 8¾x6½, blue cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial
endpapers. First Edition.
16-page gatherings. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 118. Light wear to binding, rear hinge
cracked, bookplate; very good.
(150/250)
363. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Handy Mandy in Oz. 271 pp. Illustrated by John R. Neill.
(8vo), yellow cloth, pictorial cover label, black & white pictorial endpapers; color pictorial
First state with picture of Handy Mandy on spine. The jacket is a later issue: the rear flap
lists 34 titles through Scalawagons of Oz (1941). Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 119. Jacket
price clipped, some edge wear; light wear to cloth, small scratch to label; very good.
(300/500)
364. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Silver Princess in Oz. Illustrated with black & white
drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, red cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial
endpapers. First Edition, First Printing, Second Binding.
First printing with 16-page gatherings; binding ‘B’ with no illustration on spine; the
title on the cover label, except for the Oz monogram, is printed in metallic-silver ink.
Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 120. Light wear, front hinge starting; very good.
(150/250)
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365. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Ozoplaning With the Wizard of Oz. Illustrated with black
& white drawings by John R. Neill. 22.8x16.8 cm. (9x6½”), red cloth, pictorial cover label;
black & white pictorial endpapers. First Edition, First State.
First state, with 16-page gatherings. Jacket flap with 32 titles listed through Ozoplaning.
Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 121. Jacket spine faded, edges with some chipping and short
tears, larger chips at spine ends; volume with minor wear; near fine in a very good jacket.
(500/800)
366. (Oz) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Ozoplaning With the Wizard of Oz. Illustrated with black
& white drawings by John R. Neill. 22.8x16.8 cm. (9x6½”), red cloth, pictorial cover label;
black & white pictorial endpapers. First Edition, First State.
First state, with 16-page gatherings. Jacket flap with 32 titles listed through Ozoplaning.
Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 121. Jacket with some chipping and short tears; rear hinge
cracked; very good.
(500/800)
THE OZ BOOKS OF JOHN R. NEILL
367. (Oz) Neill, John R. The Wonder City of Oz. Illustrated by Neill. 9x6½, green cloth,
pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.
First edition, with 16-page gatherings. Jacket with list of titles to Wonder City of Oz on
rear flap. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 126. Jacket chipped at edges, splitting along folds; cloth
spotted; very good.
(300/500)
368. (Oz) Neill, John R. The Scalawagons of Oz. 309 pp. Illus. by Neill. 8¾x6½, reddish-brown
cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers. First Edition.
First edition, with title on spine printed diagonally, with the “Scalawagons” hyphenated
on two lines. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 127. Light wear to binding, hinges taped; very
good.
(150/250)
369. (Oz) Neill, John R. Lucky Bucky in Oz. 289 pp. Illustrated by Neill. 8¾x6½, blue cloth,
pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers; color pictorial dust jacket. First
Edition, First State.
First printing, with vignette of a boy on spine. Early state dust jacket with $1.75 price on
front flap and Victory Bonds ad on rear. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 128. Jacket worn, chips
and tears, a few tape repairs, large piece torn from bottom of front flap and front panel;
some wear and soiling to binding; very good in a poor jacket.
(300/500)
THE OZ BOOKS OF JACK SNOW
370. (Oz) Snow, Jack. The Magical Mimics in Oz. Illustrated with black & white drawings by
Frank Kramer. 8¾x6½, light gray cloth, pictorial cover label; pictorial endpapers in green,
pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.
First printing with thickness of volume is greater than 1”. Bienvenue & Schmidt p.133.
Jacket price clipped and with some light edge wear, a few small chips and short tears;
volume near fine.
(300/500)
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371. (Oz) Snow, Jack. The Magical Mimics in Oz. Illustrated with black & white drawings by
Frank Kramer. 8¾x6½, light gray cloth, pictorial cover label; pictorial endpapers in green.
First Edition.
First printing with thickness of volume is greater than 1”. Bienvenue & Schmidt p.133.
Light wear to binding, corners showing; very good.
(100/150)
372. (Oziana) Oziana 2004 [and] Oziana 2005 - each one of 26 copies signed by the contributors.
Two volumes. Illustrated. (4to), pictorial boards. Each copy ‘V’ of 26 lettered copies.
Antioch, CA: International Wizard of Oz Club, 2004, 2005
Signed by the contributors on labels mounted to the front free endpapers. The Creative
Magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club. Fine.
(200/300)
373. (Oziana) Thompson, Ruth Plumly. King Kojo. 239 pp. Illustrated by “Marge” including 8
color plates. 9x6½, red cloth, color pictorial cover label. First Edition in Book Form.
Philadelphia: David McKay Co., [1938]
Previously serialized in King Comics as a collection of stories. Spine faded, light wear;
very good.
(150/250)
THE NON-OZ BOOKS OF L. FRANK BAUM
374. (Baumiana) Baum, L. Frank. The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk. Illustrated with 4
black & white plates by Pauline M. Batchelder. 7½x5, pictorial blue cloth. First Edition, First
State.
There was only one printing of this work and this is the first binding state, in dark blue
cloth and showing the twins full-length. This is the first in a two-book mystery series for
teenagers, the only such books published under Baum’s name. Bienvenue & Schmidt,
p.240. Light extremity wear, faint stain on rear cover; very good.
(250/350)
375. (Baumiana) Baum, L. Frank. John Dough and the Cherub. 315 pp. Illustrations by John R.
Neill. Yellow cloth, pictorial label. Later printing.
This edition without color plates other than the frontispiece which is lacking in this copy.
Some wear to cloth and cover illustrations, lacking the frontispiece; very good.
(100/150)
376. (Baumiana) Baum, L. Frank. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. [8], 206 pp. Illustrated
by Mary Cowles Clark including 12 inserted color plates, among them the frontispiece &
title-page. 9x6¾, red cloth pictorially stamped in white, green, beige and black. First Edition,
Second State.
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1902
Second state with section headings as “Youth,” “Manhood,” and “Old Age.” This second
state includes many textual illustrations and decorations, mainly in the margins, not
present in the first state. The illustrations were done by a local artist whom Baum met on
a visit to Syracuse. Bienvenue & Schmidt p.200. Light wear and soiling to cloth, some loss
of white stamping on front; very good.
(300/500)
Page 92
377. (Baumiana) Baum, L. Frank. Mother Goose in Prose. 265 pp. Illustrated with 13 plates
(including title page) by Maxfield Parrish, printed in sepia. 9¼x7, red cloth pictorially stamped
in black & white. Second Edition.
Chicago: Geo. M. Hill, [1901]
Second edition of Baum’s first children’s book and first book of fiction, first published in
1897. Reduced in size from the first edition. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 160. Front cover
bowed and cloth rippled, some staining at edges, early gift inscription; fair.
(250/350)
378. (Baumiana) Baum, L. Frank. The Sea Fairies. 239, [1] pp. Illustrated with 12 duotone plates
with iridescent ink & numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, green cloth,
pictorial cover label; pictorial color endpapers. First Edition, First State.
First state with front cover label illustrating the heads of the 3 principal characters, the
last two lines of page 95 transposed, and lines 14 and 15 of page 105 also transposed.
This is the first volume in the “Trot” series, which Baum hoped would replace Oz in his
readers’ affections. It did not, but the Sea Fairies is one of his most imaginative books,
especially with the marvelous iridescent plates. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 244. Some wear
and soiling to cloth and cover illustration; very good.
(250/350)
379. (Baumiana) Baum, L. Frank. Sky Island: Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and
Cap’n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies. 287, [1] pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates and
numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, red cloth, color pictorial cover
label, spine stamped in black, color pictorial endpapers. First Edition.
This, a sequel to The Sea Fairies, is considered one of John R. Neill’s finest books, filled
with vivid fantasy images. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 247. Light wear and soiling to cloth,
spine sunned; very good.
(200/300)
380. (Baumiana) Baum, L. Frank. The Surprising Adventures of The Magical Monarch of Mo, And
His People. Illustrated with 8 color plates by Frank Verbeck. 9x6½, dark blue cloth, pictorial
cover label. Later reprint.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [Early 1920s]
Originally published in 1903. Light wear to binding and cover illustration, gift inscription
on front free endpaper; very good.
(100/150)
381. (Baumiana) Baum, L. Frank. The Lost Princess of Oz. With 12 color plates and numerous
black and white drawings by John R. Neill. (8vo), blue cloth, pictorial cover label; black and
white pictorial endpapers, dust jacket. Later Printing.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1917, but mid 1920s]
Later printing, circa mid 1920s, with no list of other titles on verso of ownership leaf and
with captioned color plates. Dust jacket from a later printing with titles to Ojo in Oz
(1933) on rear flap. Jacket chipped and with some tears, tape repairs; light wear to volume;
very good.
(150/250)
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382. (Baumiana) [Baum, L. Frank] Bancroft, Laura. Twinkle and Chubbins. Their Astonishing
Adventures in Nature-Fairyland. 384 pp. 95 colored full page illustrations by Maginel Wright
Enright. 7½x5¾, yellow cloth pictorially stamped in black, green and red. First Edition
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., [1911]
A single volume reprint of the complete ‘Twinkle Tales’ series (1906). One of the rarest
Baum titles, using the Laura Bancroft pseudonym. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p.290. Wear and
soiling to cloth, endpapers soiled, hinges cracked; a few leaves with tears; good.
(400/600)
EIGHTEEN LOTS OF PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
383. (Photography) Adams, Ansel. The American Wilderness. Illustrated with photography.
31.8x39 cm. (12½x15½”), cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown / Bullfinch Press, [1990]
Fine, in original shipping carton, with original shrink-wrap laid in.
(100/150)
384. (Photography) Adams, Ansel. Images, 1923-1974. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. 115
extended range photolithographic reproductions. Oblong, 35x43 cm. (13¾x16¾”), cloth; dust
jacket, slipcase. First Edition.
Boston: New York Graphic Society, [1974]
Inscribed by Adams on the half-title, “For Joan Murray, with appreciation and every
good wishes for 1975 and many more to come!! Ansel Adams, Carmel, 12-30-74.” Fine
condition.
(400/600)
385. (Photography) Adams, Ansel. Yosemite and the Range of Light, Signed. Introduction by
Paul Brooks. Illustrated throughout from black and white photographs by Ansel Adams.
(Oblong folio) 12x15, linen-backed cloth, pictorial jacket. Fourth printing.
Boston: New York Graphic Society, [1981]
Signed by Ansel Adams on Time-Life certificate on front free end-paper. Jacket price
clipped; near fine.
(100/150)
386. (Photography) Adams, Ansel. Three books and a press kit with Ansel Adams photographs,
signed &/or inscribed. Includes: De Cock, Lilian. Ansel Adams. Foreword by Minor White.
Inscribed on the half-title, “For Joan Murray with Affection! Ansel Adams, 2-12-73.” A
Morgan & Morgan Monograph. 2nd ptg. Cloth, jacket. [1972]. * Press kit for an exhibit of
Ansel Adams photographs at the California Academy of Sciences. Includes “Ansel Adams: The
Eightieth Birthday Retrospective” by Mary Alinder, signed by Adams; “The Unknown Ansel
Adams” by James Alinder, signed by Adams; plus a few other items. Set into printed paper
folder with pockets. 1982. * Ansel Adams: An American Place, 1936. 2 copies. Each Signed
by Adams on the title-page, dated 5-5-82. Wrappers (a bit rubbed with light creases). [1982].
Together, 4 items.
various places: Various dates
(400/600)
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387. (Photography) Avedon, Richard. Avedon: Photographs, 1947-1977. Essay by Harold
Brodkey. Black and white photographs by Avedon throughout. 35.5x26.3 cm. (14x10½”),
glossy photographic boards, clear printed acetate jacket. First Edition.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1978]
Inscribed and signed by Richard Avedon to Joan Murray on the front free endpaper,
dated Berkeley, 80. Fashion photographs of glamorous subjects including the Duchess of
Alba, Brigitte Bardot, Lauren Bacall, Cyd Charisse, Gabrielle Chanel, Marlene Dietrich,
Audrey Hepburn, and others. Acetate jacket with nick to top corner of front panel, price
clipped; volume spine sunned a touch, near fine.
(300/500)
388. (Photography) Avedon, Richard. In the American West: 1979-1984. Plates throughout
from photographs by Abrams. 35.5x27.5 cm. (14x10¾”), cloth, large photo pictorial cover
labels on front & rear covers, original acetate dust wrapper. First Edition.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1985]
Inscribed and signed by Richard Avedon on the front free endpaper, “To Joan [Murray],
Avedon, ‘86.” Fine condition.
(400/600)
389. (Photography) Bullock, Wynn. Wynn Bullock. Text by Barbara Bullock with notes
by the Photographer. Plates throughout from photographs by Wynn Bullock. 31x25.5 cm.
(12¾x10”), cloth, pictorial cover label, acetate dust wrapper.
[San Francisco]: Scrimshaw Press, 1971
Inscribed by the photographer on the title-page, “To Joan [Murray], With love, Wynn.”
The acetate wrapper has shrunk a little, as inevitably occurs, else fine.
(300/500)
390. (Photography) Caponigro, Paul. Seven volumes by or with the work of Paul Caponigro.
I ncludes: Paul Caponigro: An Aperture Monograph. (Jacket torn along spine, head chipped.)
[1967]. * Paul Caponigro: An Aperture Monograph. Wrappers. 1972. * Paul Caponigro:
Photography, 25 Years. Wrappers. [1982]. * Megaliths. [1986]. * Masterworks from Forty
Years. 1993. * The Voice of the Print. Wrappers. 1 of 1000. [1994]. * The Wise Silence. [1983].
Together, 7 volumes. Plates throughout from photographs by Paul Caponigro. Cloth, jackets,
except as noted. First Editions.
All but the first and last signed &/or inscribed by Paul Caponigro. Very good to fine
condition.
(400/600)
391. (Photography) Irwin, William. We protest: A photographic study of the Bay area protest
movement, 1969. [57] pp. Foreword by William L. Ellis. Full-page halftone photographs
throughout by William Irwin. 27.5x21 cm. (10¾x8¼”), original color pictorial wrappers. First
Edition
San Francisco: Rip Off Press, 1970
Scarce photographic record of the tumultuous year of 1969 in the San Francisco Bay Area,
as protests rocked the land - the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, People’s Park, and more.
OCLC/WorldCat lists only seven copies - at the Berkeley Public Library, San Francisco
Public Library, University of California at Davis, University of Colorado at Boulder,
Iowa State University, Washington State University, and Bibliotheek Universiteit van
Amstercam. Rub mark near spine foot, else fine.
(300/500)
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392. (Photography) Madonna. Sex. Edited by Glenn O’Brien. Photographs throughout
in color & black & white by Stephen Meisel. Compact disc, still sealed, laid in. 35x27 cm.
(13¾x10¾”), original spiral-bound aluminum covers with embossed lettering, original mylar
envelope (unsealed).
[New York]: Warner Books, [1992]
The famed singer in unbridled erotica, scandalous at the time, now somewhat tame. Fine.
(200/300)
393. (Photography) Michals, Duane. Now Becoming Then. Unpaginated. Photographs by
Duane Michals. Text by Max Kozloff. (4to) cloth, slipcase. No. 13 of 100 copies.
Altadena: Twin Palms, 1990
Signed by Michals at the colophon. Duane Michals’ distinctive narrative style at its finest.
Fine.
(200/300)
ONE OF 100 SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
394. (Photography) Misrach, Richard. Richard Misrach 1979. Plates throughout from
photographs by Richard Misrach. 30.5x20.5 cm. (12x9¾”), cream cloth, spine lettered in black,
original photograph mounted on front cover, acetate dust jacket. No. 65 of 100 hardbound
[San Francisco]: [Grapestake Gallery], [1979]
Signed and numbered by Misrach on front flyleaf, as issued. Legendary photographic
rarity featuring a haunting series of nighttime desert scenes, with an original photograph
mounted on the front cover. Laid in is an unused order blank from Grapestake Gallery
- you could get a 20% discount on the purchase of any original photograph illustrated in
the book. The acetate jacket is slightly short, a shrinkage issue that inevitably occurs. Fine
condition.
(2000/3000)
Lot 394
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395. (Photography) Misrach, Richard. Five books by Richard Misrach or featuring his
photographs. Includes: Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West. [1990]. * The Sky Book.
Text by Rebecca Solnit. 2000. * Golden Gate. Essays by T.J. Clark & Richard Walker. 2001. *
Violent Legacies: Three cantos. [1992]. * Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard
Misrach. [1996]. Together, 5 volumes. Color plates throughout from photographs by Richard
Misrach. Cloth or boards, jackets. First Editions.
First three inscribed and signed by Richard Misrach to Joan [Murray]. Light shelf wear to
jackets; fine or nearly so.
(400/600)
396. (Photography) Owens, Bill. Four photographically illustrated volumes by Bill Owens.
I ncludes: Suburbia. [1973]. * Second printing of preceding. [1973]. * Our Kind of People:
American Groups and Rituals. [1975]. * Working (I Do It for the Money). [1977]. Together,
4 volumes. Illustrated throughout from photographs by Bill Owens. 25.5x25.5 cm. (10x10”),
pictorial wrappers. First Editions except as noted.
San Francisco & New York: Straight Arrow Press/Simon & Schuster, Various dates
Owens’ insightful and revealing photographs of the American middle class. He has
inscribed the reprint of Suburbia on the title-page: “Joan [Murray], I’m glad you like Our
Kind of People better than Suburbia, but Suburbia will out sell it! Bill Owen, 1976.” Some
minor wear from use, very good or better.
(300/500)
397. (Photography) Weston, Brett. Two photography books by Brett Weston, each inscribed.
Includes: Voyage of the Eye. Afterword by Beaumont Newhall. [1975]. * Brett Weston:
Photographs from Five Decades. [1980]. Together, 2 volumes. Plates throughout from
photographs by Brett Weston. 34x29.5 cm. (13½x11¾”) or smaller, cloth, jackets. First Trade
Editions.
Millerton, NY: Aperture, Inc., [1975 & 1980]
Each inscribed and signed by Brett Weston to Joan [Murray]. Fine or nearly so.
(300/500)
398. (Photography) Weston, Edward. Four volumes with photographs by Edward Weston.
I ncludes: Edward Weston, Photographer: The Flam of Recognition. An Aperture Monograph
edited by Nancy Newhall. Wrappers (tape repair at spine foot). 1965. * Edward Weston
Nudes. Remembrance by Charis Wilson. His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from
the Daybooks & Letters. 1977. * Edward Weston: Fifty Years. The definitive volume of his
photographic work. Illustrated biography by Ben Maddow. [1973]. * Edward Weston: His Life
and Photographs. Revised Edition. The definitive volume of his photographic work. Illustrated
biography the Ben Maddow. Afterword by Cole Weston. Review copy, with slip affixed to
front flyleaf, other matter laid in. [1979]. Together, 4 volumes. Illustrated from photographs
by Edward Weston. Last 3 in cloth &/or boards, jackets. All but the last are First Editions.
(300/500)
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399. (Photography) Two copies of Portfolio I and one of Portfolio II from The Friends of Photography.
Includes: The Persistence of Beauty: Portfolio I. 2 copies. Each with 12 finescreen halftones
from photographs & 8 pp. text, loose in thick paper folder; 1 with original shipping carton.
1969. * Discovery: Inner and Outer Worlds. Portfolio II. With 15 finescreen halftones from
photographs & 8 pp. text, loose in thick paper folder. 1970. Together, 3 volumes. 36.5x29 cm.
(14½x11½”).
Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1969 & 1970
Selection of photographs by Paul Strand, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Brett
Weston, Minor White, Wynn Bullock, Gordon Parks, Paul Caponigro, Judy Dater, Jerry
Uelsmann, and others. Added to the lot is a copy of Portfolio One, Nudes, by Ruth
Bernhard, with 6 loose plates in paper folder. The copy of Portfolio I in the original
shipping box is virtually as new; the others very good with some minor wear and
yellowing.
(200/300)
400. (Photography) Four portfolios in the “Eight Photographs” series, featuring Edward Weston,
Jerry Uelsmann, Leslie Krims, and Arthur Freed. Each portfolio is a plain thick paper folder
containing a text leaf and 8 screened gravure plates from photographs, housed in a cardboard
slipcase.
New York: Doubleday & Co., 1970-1971
A little rubbing to the slipcases, slight yellowing to folders, very good or better.
(400/600)
401. Piggott, F.T. The Music and Musical Instruments of Japan. xviii, 230 pp. Illustrations
throughout from photographs. 27x20.5 (10¾x8”), each leaf stub-mounted and bound in a
modern morocco-backed cloth binder, string tied. First Edition.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1893
An important text on the history of Japanese music and instruments. Light foxing and
soiling to pages; binding fine.
(200/300)
402. (Pogany, Willy) Wagner, Richard. The Tale of Lohengrin. Unpaginated. 8 tipped-in color
plates and numerous other full-page illustrations, black & white and tinted by Willy Pogany.
(4to) original pictorial gray cloth binding. First American Trade Edition.
New York: T.Y. Crowell, [c.1912]
Beautifully illustrated by the Hungarian-born illustrator. Light wear and soiling; near fine.
(200/300)
403. (Pogany, Willy) Wagner, Richard. Tannhauser: A Dramatic Poem. Unpaginated. 16
tipped in color plates by Willy Pogany, other illustrations throughout. (4to) original pictorial
gray cloth binding. First American Trade Edition.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1911]
Spine leaning, minor wear; very good.
(200/300)
404. (Pop-Ups) Two works with pop-up or animated illustrations. Includes: Gould, Chester. Dick
Tracy: The Capture of Boris Anson. Pictorial boards. Three pop-up illustrations. [1935]. *
Bannerman, Helen. Little Black Sambo. Animations by Julian Wehr. Spiral bound boards. All
of the animations lacking parts. [1949] *
Some wear to first title, pop-ups complete and functioning well, about very good; second
title lacking parts from all animations, fair only.
(150/250)
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405. Pope, Alexander. An Essay on Man... Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with
his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William,
Lord Bishop of Gloucester. xvi, 124 pp. Title-page printed in red & black, with stipple-engraved
portrait of Pope by A. Walker. (8vo) 16.5x10.2 cm. (6½x4), 18th/early 19th century leatherbacked marbled boards, spine ruled & lettered in gilt.
London: Printed for A. Millar & J. & R. Tonson, 1763
Pope’s famous epistle with extensive notes and additions. Contains also “The universal
prayer”: p. [117]-122; and “The dying Christian to his soul”: p. 123-124. Soiling to titlepage; lacking A1, apparently the half-title; very good.
(120/180)
406. Racinet, [Auguste]. L’Ornement Polychrome... [2 editions with 219 plates]. Includes:
L’Ornement Polychrome. 100 chromolithograph plates, loose and housed in 4 green cloth
chemises with ties, gilt-lettered covers. With no textual leaves in this copy. (40.3x29 15¾x11¼”).
1st Series. [c.1870]. * L’Ornement Polychrome: Cent Planches en Couleurs or et Argent Art
Ancien et Asiatique, Moyen Age, Renaissance... [12] pp. text + 119 (of 120) chromolithograph
plates, and their accompanying text. 41x28.8 cm. (16x11¼”), loose illustrations, leafs and
signatures housed in green cloth chemise with ties, re-backed with original spine laid down,
lettered in black, original string ties. Second Series.
Paris: Firmin-Didot, [c.1870 & c.1885]
Wonderful collection of plates of architectural treasures from around the world, each in
vibrant colors. Inside cover of each chemise with a sticker from Matthias Hetherington
Architectural Books in San Francisco. Chemise spine ends and corners a bit rubbed,
chipped, or cracking; plates with scattered and very light marginal marks; 2nd work lacks
plate XVIII; most plates are clean and near fine.
(1800/2500)
NINE LOTS OF ARTHUR RACKHAM LIMITED EDITIONS
407. (Rackham, Arthur) Aesop. Aesop’s Fables. Translated by V.S. Jones. Introduction by G.K.
Chesterton. Illustrated with 13 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham; printed guards.
(4to), original pictorial white cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. First Rackham Edition.
Limited Edition, no. 32 of 1450 copies, signed by the artist.
London: William Heinemann, 1912
Printed Rackham exhibition notice for Leicester Galleries laid in. Latimore & Haskell 39.
Spine tanned, front cover with soft dent just showing on inside of cover, corners bumped,
some pale dampstain, front hinge cracked; endpapers and signature page with some
spotting; minor offsetting from brown paper mounts; very good.
(1500/2000)
408. (Rackham, Arthur) Dickens, Charles. The Chimes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham,
including 6 full-page pictures. (4to), buckram stamped in black and gilt, top edge gilt; pictorial
board slipcase. Number 174 of 1500 copies printed by George W. Jones.
London: Limited Editions Club, 1931
Signed by Rackham at the colophon. Latimore & Haskell, 67. Slipcase extremities rubbed;
volume spine darkened; else a near fine volume in a very good slipcase.
(300/500)
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409. (Rackham, Arthur) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book. Illustrated by Arthur
Rackham, including 16 tipped-in color plates on cream paper, 8 full-page color illustrations
and many drawings within text. (4to), original cream cloth pictorially gilt, pictorial endpapers,
top edges gilt, others untrimmed. No. 282 of 600 copies. First Rackham Edition.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1922]
Signed by Rackham on the limitation page. Latimore & Haskell, 55. Some soiling and
rippling to cloth, small nick to spine cloth; very good.
(700/1000)
410. Rackham, Arthur. Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures. Introduction by Sir Arthur
Quiller-Couch. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 44 tipped-in color plates on brown
paper, printed guards. (4to) 11¼x8¾, rebound in red half morocco, gilt-ruled and spine gilt in
compartments, top edge gilt, other edges uncut; custom cloth slipcase. Number 938 of 1030
copies, signed by the artist. First Edition.
Latimore & Haskell, 41. Pale foxing to preliminaries and first and last few text leaves;
some of the brown paper with slight soiling; about fine and handsomely bound.
(1500/2000)
411. (Rackham, Arthur) Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life. Poems of
Childhood. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 9 color plates, tipped to dark brown
paper, captioned guards. (4to) vellum-backed boards, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others
untrimmed. First Rackham Edition. Number 471 of 765 copies, signed by the artist.
Latimore & Haskell, 48. Some light spotting to boards and spine; near fine.
Lot 411
Lot 410
Page 100
(1000/1500)
412. (Rackham, Arthur) Wagner, Richard. The Rhingold and the Valkyrie. Translated by
Margaret Armour. Illustrated with 34 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham; printed
guards. (4to), half-vellum and brown boards, morocco labels to spine, top edge gilt, others
uncut. First Edition. Number 1005 of 1150 copies, signed by the artist.
One of 150 copies for America in variant half-vellum binding. Latimore & Haskell, 37.
Morocco labels with some chipping, dampstain to front cover; scattered small marginal
dampstain to text leaves including half-title; small adhesion from one of the tissue guards
just touching plate; very good.
(800/1200)
413. (Rackham, Arthur) Wagner, Richard. Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods. Translated
by Margaret Armour. Illustrated with 30 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham; printed
guards. (4to), original pictorial vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. First Edition. Limited
Edition, one of 1150 copies, signed by the artist.
Latimore & Haskell 38. Some soiling and small stains to vellum, lacking ribbon ties, gilt
emblem on spine rubbed, hinges cracked, endpapers browned; offsetting to text and from
the brown paper on which the plates are mounted; very good.
(1000/1500)
414. (Rackham, Arthur) The Allies’ Fairy Book. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates by
Arthur Rackham; printed guards, plus black & white illustrations. (4to), blue cloth gilt,
pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. First Rackham Edition. Number 6 of 525
copies, signed by the artist.
Latimore & Haskell, 45. Spine sunned, endpapers toned; pale foxing to several leaves, one
tissue guard coming loose, 1923 gift inscription to front blank; very good or better.
(1000/1500)
415. (Rackham, Arthur) Some British Ballads. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 16
tipped-in color plates on white paper, captioned tissue guards. (4to), vellum-backed boards, top
edge gilt, other edges uncut. First Rackham Edition. Number 478 of 525 copies, signed by the
illustrator.
London: Constable, [1919]
Latimore & Haskell, 50. Minor toning to binding; page block cracked in a couple of
places, one tissue guard creased; still near fine.
(1000/1500)
416. Remington, Frederic. Artist’s Proofs: Six Remington Paintings in Colors. 6 color plates
loose as issued in cloth-backed boards portfolio with gilt-lettered paper cover label, ribbon ties.
Plates measure 17½x23½ or the reverse, including margins.
Collier, 1904-1908
Scarce portfolio of Remington paintings; the six prints are “Trailing Texas Cattle”; “The
Emigrants”; “An Argument with the Town Marshall”; “The Bell Mare”; “Pony Tracks
in the Buffalo Trail”; and “The Buffalo Runners.” Light wear to portfolio, one plate
browned on rear; near fine.
(400/600)
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417. (Renoir, Pierre-Auguste) Roger-Marx, Claude. Les Lithographies de Renoir. With 31
plates from lithographs by Renoir, 4 of them in color; color frontispiece self-portrait of Renoir;
plate from a portrait of Renoir by Albert Andre. 32x24.5 cm. (12¾x9¾”), original pictorial
wrappers. No. 2162 of 3000 copies. First Edition.
Monte-Carlo: Andre Sauret, [1951]
The plates were printed by Mourlot Freres. Some wrapper wear, rear hinge split; overall
very good.
(300/500)
418. Rikugun Bijutsu Kyokai. Fine Art of the World of the Sacred War (In Japanese). 16 tipped in
plates, numerous other illustrations in text. 15x11½, original yellow cloth, blue cloth chemise.
First Edition.
[Tokyo?]: c. 1940
Text in Japanese. Scarce volume of Japanese military art. Chemise faded and well worn,
dampstain to top edge of volume; else good.
(200/300)
FOUR LOTS OF HANDBILLS FROM ROCK AND ROLL SHOWS
419. (Rock Handbills) Lelo, Hank. Abe Lincoln’s Birthday Party concert, with Grateful Dead,
Moby Grape, Sly & the Family Stone. The New Salvation Army, Notes From the Underground.
28.5x22.1 cm. (11¼x8¾”).
San Francisco: Bill Graham Presents, Feb. 12, 1967
Concert at the Fillmore Auditorium to support the Council of Civic Unity, one of several
Bay Area groups focused on civil rights issues; the benefit concert was appropriately
scheduled on the birthday of the father of the Emancipation Proclamation himself,
Abraham Lincoln. The Grateful Dead received top billing, but were still six months away
from releasing their first album. (FIL670212-HB). Fine condition.
(200/300)
420. (Rock Handbills) Mouse, Stanley & Alton Kelley. Jefferson Airplane, Great Society, Bill
Ham and Company. 27.8x21.5 cm. (11x8½”). 1st printing state B2, printed in reddish-purple
ink on pink paper.
San Francisco: Family Dog Productions, July 22, 1966
The handbill was printed before the concert on paper of different colors. Inconsistencies
appear among all of the handbills because the purple ink used varies in quantity and hue.
(FD017-HB). Fine condition.
(300/500)
421. (Rock Handbills) Wilson, Wes. The Association, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Grass
Roots, The Sopwith Camel. 21.5x14 cm. (8½x5½”), blue ink on thin white paper.
San Francisco: Bill Graham Presents, July 22, 1966
“One of Wilson’s most distinctive posters, BG018 captures the fiery intensity of the dance
concert experience. Flaming letters lick skyward in a human head shape, and top billing,
The Association, blows off the lid” - Wolfgang’s Vault. Fine condition.
(300/500)
422. (Rock Handbills, Postcards, etc.) Twelve handbills, flyers, postcards, etc., promoting rock
concerts and performances. Includes: Country Joe and the Fish at the Matrix. * Mothers of
Invention and others at the Fillmore East. * Moby Grape and others at the California Hall.
* P.H. Factor Jug Band at 40 Cedar Alley. * Grateful Dead, Doors & others at Fillmore. *
Traffic, Blue Cheers, Iron Butterfly at Fillmore East. * Mr. Clemens Pop Festival with Eric
Burdon, Muddy Waters and others at Sportsman’s Park. * Plus others.
San Francisco & elsewhere: c.1967
Very good to fine.
Page 102
(400/600)
FIVE LOTS OF ROCK POSTERS
423. (Rock Posters) MacClean. Poster for The Doors & Jim Kweskin Jug Band at the Fillmore.
Color poster. 50.5x35.5 cm. (14x23-1/16”).
San Francisco: Bill Graham Presents, June 9, 1967
Following the release of their eponymously titled debut album in January, 1967, The
Doors rocketed to stardom on the strength of the hit singles “Break on Through [to the
Other Side)” and particularly “Light My Fire”. Whereas in earlier trips to San Francisco
the band had been relegated to opening slots for more established bands, by June of 1967
they were ready to headline the Fillmore. (BG067-PO). Slight creased and tiny pinholes in
top corners; very good or better.
(300/500)
424. (Rock Posters) Tuten, Randy. Jethro Tull, MC5, Sanpaku, Brotherhood Of Light. Color
poster. 53.7x35.5 cm. (14x21-1/8”).
San Francisco: Bill Graham Presents, Nov. 20, 1969
A composite, old-fashioned newspaper ad announced Jethro Tull’s appearance at the
Fillmore West. Nov. 20, 21, 22 & 23, 1969. BG203-PO. A touch of creasing and a slight
rub mark at edges, very good or better.
(200/300)
425. (Rock Posters) Five posters for Bill Graham produced concerts, at the Fillmore West in San
Francisco. Includes: The Doors, The Sopwith Camel, The Young Rascals. Artist: Wes Wilson.
Jan. 6, 1967 [1st appearance of Doors at the Fillmore]. 2nd Ptg. (BG044-PO). * Quicksilver
Messenger Service, Grateful Dead, Linn County, Brotherhood Of Light. Artist: Lee Conklin.
Nov. 9, 1968. 2nd Ptg. (BG144-PC). * Albert King, Aum, It’s a Beautiful Day, Brotherhood
Of Light. Artist: Lee Conklin. May 8, 1969. Only Ptg. (BG172-PO). * The Byrds, Pacific Gas
& Electric, Joe Cocker & The Grease Band, Little Princess #109. Artist: Randy Tuten. June
12, 1969, Only Ptg. (BG177-PO). * Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger
Service, Country Joe & the Fish, Martha & the Vandellas, & others. Artist: Wes Wilson. Sept.
2, 1966. 2nd Ptg. (BG026-PO). Together, 5 posters. Approx. 54.5x35.5 cm. (21½x14”).
San Francisco: Bill Graham Presents, 1966-1969
Some with pinholes in corners, some minor wear, very good or better.
(400/600)
426. (Rock Posters) Six posters for Family Dog produced concerts, all but one at the Avalon Ballroom
in San Francisco. Includes: Charles Lloyd Quartet, West Coast Natural Gas Co., Tripping West
to East. Artist: Bob Fried. Aug. 3, 1967. 1st Ptg. (FD074-PO). * The Chambers Brothers, Iron
Butterfly, Ben Van Meter, Roger Hillyard. Artist: Victor Moscoso. April 28, 1967. 2nd Ptg.
(FD059-PO). * Moby Grape, Canned Heat, Vanilla Fudge. Artist: Victor Moscoso. Aug. 10,
1967. 1st Ptg. (FD075-PO). * Van Morrison, The Daily Flash, Hair. Artist: Wes Wilson. Oct.
20, 1967. Only Ptg. (FD088-PO). * Canned Heat, Lothar and the Hand People, Allmen Joy,
Super Ball. Artists: Bob Fried, Grant Jacobs. Nov. 3, 1967. Only Ptg. (FD090-PO). * Van
Morrison, The Daily Flash. Artists: Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley. Oct. 13, 1967. Only Ptg.
(FDD006-PO). Together, 6 posters. Approx. 51x35.5 cm. (20x14”).
San Francisco: Family Dog Productions, 1967-1969
The last poster listed was for a concert in Denver, Colorado. Some with pinholes in
corners, some minor wear, very good or better.
(400/600)
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427. (Rock Posters) Seven posters for Family Dog produced concerts at the Avalon Ballroom in San
Francisco. Includes: The Steve Miller Blues Band, Mother Earth, Bukka White. Artists: Stanley
Mouse & Alton Kelley. Sept. 1, 1967. 2nd Ptg. (FD078-PO). * Moby Grape, The Charlatans,
Ben Van Meter, Roger Hillyard. Artist: Victor Moscoso. Feb. 24, 1967. 2nd Ptg. A. (FD049PO). * Big Brother and the Holding Company, Oxford Circle, Lee Michaels, Ben Van Meter,
Roger Hillyard. Artist: Victor Moscoso. Dec. 9, 1966. 3rd Ptg. (FD038-PO). * Country Joe
& the Fish, The Charlatans, Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks. Jan. 26, 1968. Only Ptg. (FD103PO). * The Charlatans, Buddy Guy. Artist: Bob Fried. Sept. 22, 1967. 2nd Ptg. (FD083-PO).
* Genesis, Siegel-Schwall Band, Mother Earth. Artist. Bob Fried. Jan. 19, 1968. Only Ptg.
(FD102-PO). * Vanilla Fudge, Charles Lloyd Quartet. Artists: Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley.
Sept. 29, 1967. 1st Ptg. (FD085-PO). Together 7 posters. Approx. 51x35.5 cm. (20x14”).
San Francisco: Family Dog Productions, 1966-1968
Some with pinholes in corners, some minor wear, very good or better.
(500/800)
428. (Rock-related ephemera) Sixteen flyers, handbills, and other ephemeral items relating to the
1960s and ‘70s counterculture. Includes: Pow-Wow: A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human
Be-in. Polo Grounds, Golden Gate Park. Jan. 14, * Dr. Timothy Leary in Person: Psychedelic
Celebration Number One. * Light, Sound, Dimension, at San Francisco Museum of Art. *
Love Ball: The Super Costume Gala. Don’t Come Nude. Designed & Staged by Ron Chereskin.
Cheetah, June 17th. * The Beard by Michael McClure. Wharf Theatre (Fisherman’s Wharf). *
And others.
Various places: 1960s and ‘70s
(400/600)
DESIGNED BY BRUCE ROGERS - ONE OF 300 COPIES
429. (Rogers, Bruce) Khayyám, Omar. Rubaíyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer Poet of
Persia. [vi], 159, [1] pp. Edited by William Augustus Brown. (8vo) original cloth-backed boards,
lettered in gilt. No. 268 of 300 copies.
[Boston]: Riverside Press, 1900
Designed by Bruce Rogers for the Riverside Press. Taken from the second edition of
Edward Fitzgerald’s translation “modified by the insertion of omitted stanzas and by
some of the variants of the First, Third, and Fourth Editions.” Light wear, corners
rubbed, bookplate; very good.
(400/600)
430. (Russian) [The man and the woman; their mutual relationships and position in modern and
cultural life] - in Russian. 3 volumes. An authorized translation from German by M. Engelhardt.
Profusely illustrated from photographs & other sources; 45 (of 48) plates with tissue-guards.
25x15.5 cm. (9¾x6½”), original half calf & cloth, stamped in gilt with art nouveau-style
decorations, embossed with figures of nude man and woman.
St. Petersburg: Publisher House Education, 1911
Famous German encyclopedia studying the history of relationships of men and women.
All aspects of history, sociology, psychology, biology of men and women are described
in the book. A famous pre-Revolutionary Russian edition rarely seen in such good
condition. Light shelf wear, lacking 3 plates; very good or better.
(1200/1800)
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431. (Sappho) The Songs of Sappho: Including the Recent Egyptian Discoveries. xiv, [2], 436 pp.
Translated into rimed verse by Marion Mills Miller; text translated into prose by David M.
Robinson. Illustrated with 10 plates from artifacts and text. 13.8x10.5 cm. (9½x6½”), quarter
vellum & boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. No. 61 of 750 copies.
New York: Frank-Maurice, 1925
Perhaps the best scholarly study on Sappho, celebrated muse of Lesbos. Fine or nearly so,
bookplate of James Earl Beall.
(100/150)
432. (Science) Guex, John. Autograph Letter, signed, to John L. LeConte on Entomological subjects.
3 page Autograph Letter, signed, + integral stamped address leaf. Approximately 10¾x8½”.
Jersey City: December 15, 1853
Guex writes to fellow entomologist John Le Conte: “...thanks for your information
respecting works on Lepidoptera - they seem to be very few and meagre...Motschulsky
has not made his appearance yet. I am glad to hear that something new has come into
your hands from the Boundary Comm. and elsewhere. If I was in your place I would not
postpone too long to describe these, as some ‘illustrious foreigner’ might put his (mitre?)
to them before you are aware of it. The copies of Mels.’ catalogue will be of service to
me...I shall send some to friends or correspondents or give one to such or such individual
whom I may think would be of any utility to me in the Entomological line. By little
favors of this kind, I am frequently enough able to get some very good specimens....I
don’t give up the Russians yet as I think Mneszech is a man to be depended upon. Let
us wait with patience...I long very much to see your work on Eletevida...I am going to
recopy the Cat. of my collection in two large vols. in 4o (fine vellum paper) and add to
each genera name its etymology in Greek, Latin, English and French...a work of length
which will take me some winter evenings...” LeConte is considered by many to be the
greatest American Entomologist of the 19th century. Creased from mailing; fine.
(100/150)
433. (Sendak, Maurice) Schenk de Regniers, Beatrice. What can you do with a shoe?. Color
illustrations throughout by Maurice Sendak. (Oblong) 14.4x27.8 cm. (5½x11”), blue cloth,
pictorial cover label, cloth slipcase with silver stamped vignettes. No. 208 of 250 copies. First
Edition.
[New York]: Margaret K. McElderrry Books / [Simon & Schuster], [1997]
Signed by the author and artist on the limitation page. Slight wear to slipcase; near fine.
(200/300)
434. Seymour, Robert, illustrator. New Readings of Old Authors. 25 (of 26) volumes. Each
containing title leaf and 10 lithograph plates. Blank leaves added at front and rear to add bulk to
the volumes. 14.2x9 cm. (5½x3¾”) later full tan calf, spines gilt, morocco labels, all edges gilt.
London: Charles Tilt, [c.1830-35]
Rarely found complete, the present set lacks only the first volume, Shakespeare’s Romeo
and Juliet. Abbey states “it can be regarded as illustrating the English idea of humor in
the 1830s, a taste that demanded puns, play on words, sentences twisted to an opposite
and absurd meaning, and the whole depicted in knockabout pictorial art . Very little of
his (Seymour’s) work was colored, his illustrations being mostly woodcuts or etchings.”
(Abbey, Life in England, No.320, pp.265-270). Bookplates of George Clifford Thomas.
Bindings worn, many joints and hinges cracked; light foxing; internally very good.
(1000/1500)
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435. Shahn, Ben. Love and Joy About Letters. 79 pp. Illustrated from numerous paintings,
drawings, sketches, facsimiles, etc., 29 of which are in color. (Oblong folio) 10x13½, original
color patterned boards, publisher’s decorative slipcase. No. 87 of 100 copies. First Edition.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1963
Signed by Shahn in the colophon. Slipcase with a bit of soiling and extremity wear; slight
bumps to lower edges of covers; hinges tender; very good.
(300/500)
436. (Szyk, Arthur) Burton, [Captain Sir. R.F.] (trans.). The Arabian Nights Entertainments
containing Sixty-five Stories told by Shahrazade.... 4 volumes. Translated by Richard Burton.
Notes by Henry Torrens, Edward Lane and John Payne. Illustrated with color plates after
miniature paintings by Arthur Szyk. Black cloth stamped in gilt. One of 1500 copies printed
by W.S. Cowell.
Ipswich, England: Limited Editions Club, 1954
The final work of Szyk, who died before this edition was published. Two vols. of text
each accompanied by a volume of notes. Some soiling and rubbing to covers, wear to
edges and corners; internally very good or better.
(200/300)
437. (Szyk, Arthur) The Haggadah. Edited by Cecil Roth. Illustrations throughout in color by
Szyk. (4to), full velvet decorated in gilt, folding cloth box.
Jerusalem & Tel Aviv: Massadah & Magen, 1956
Presentation stamped in gilt on cover: “Presented to A.B. Polinsky for Distinguished
Service to Israel as General Chairman for Israeli Bonds in Duluth Minnesota. Awarded at
the Annual Meeting of the national Board of Governors, January 5-6. 1957.” Light wear
to box; volume fine.
(250/350)
438. Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual
Consciousness. xvi, 600 pp. 47 page publisher’s catalogue bound in at rear. (8vo) original giltlettered blue cloth. First Edition.
London: Methuen & Co., [1911]
Scarce first edition of what was her best known work. Some light extremity wear, rear
hinge cracked, sticker on front free endpaper, photo of Underhill pasted to blank leaf at
end of preface; very good.
(200/300)
439. Van Allsburg, Chris. The Polar Express. Illustrated by the author. (Oblong 4to), red
cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition, First Issue.
First issue jacket, without the Caldecott medal on front panel. The basis of the acclaimed
motion picture starring Tom Hanks. Jacket price clipped, a few short tears with tape
repairs on verso; gift inscription on front free endpaper; near fine in a very good jacket.
(300/500)
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440. (Vietnam War) Palmer, General Bruce. Typed Letter, signed, on Department of the
Army letterhead, expressing concern over the anti-war “discontent”. Typed Letter, signed (with
handwritten postscript) on official stationery, as Deputy Commanding General, US Army,
Vietnam. (Saigon), APO San Francisco. 2 pages, approximately 10½x8”.
Saigon: June 23, 1967
To Major General Chester Clifton, Ret., former military aide to President John F.
Kennedy, then a corporation president in New York: “...Moving from the Dominican
Republic to Vietnam is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire, but I must admit
that I enjoy being where the action is. Westy and Abe are doing a great job and make an
unbeatable first team. I am really proud to be in a position to help them... The message
of discontent at home is beginning to get intense to us out here. It is reflected in many
things, and I am afraid that, where resources are concerned, the honeymoon is over. We
must find a much better way to articulate our very real progress over here. I am afraid
that it is simply not coming through...There is a new batch of young representatives
out here from the major newspaper and press media, most of them with a chip on their
shoulders and definitely hostile to our efforts in Vietnam. We need someone like you to
handle such a problem. This could make us or break us out here... P.S. Come on over and
help us out, especially with the press et al...” General Bruce Palmer, Jr. (1913-2000) was
a 1936 graduate of West Point, where his Academy classmates included Chester Clifton,
to whom he wrote this letter, and his two superiors in Vietnam - Generals William
Westmoreland (“Westy”) and Creighton Abrams (“Abe”). He remained in Saigon for a
year before returning to Washington with Westmoreland, eventually to succeed him as
Chief of Staff of the US Army, responsible for supervising the Nixon Administration’s
first withdrawal of American ground forces from Vietnam. Rare comments on domestic
opposition to, and media criticism of, the Vietnam War, by a ranking Army General.
Creased from mailing, fine.
(100/150)
441. Virgil. The Works of Virgil: Translated in English Blank Verse. With Large Explanatory
Notes and Critical Observations by Joseph Trapp, D.D. 3 volumes. [2], xcii, [4], 240; [2], 420;
[2], 430, +[16] ad pp. (12mo) 16x10 cm. (6¼x4”), period full calf, spine labels replaced. First
Edition thus.
London: J. Brotherton, J, Hazard, et al, 1731
Trapp’s translation of the Aeneis was first published in 1718, it is reprinted here with the
addition of Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgicks. Trapp was professor of poetry at Oxford
from 1708-1718, his edition of Virgil is said to have taken 28 years to complete. Some edge
wear; foxing; very good.
(300/500)
442. (Warhol, Andy) Andy Warhol - [Moderna Museet Exhibition book]. Unpaginated. Black and
white images from photographs throughout. 27x20.8 cm. (10½x8¼”), original wrappers. First
Edition.
[Stockholm]: [Moderna Museet], [1968]
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Moderna Museet, Stockholm. A previous
owner, Howard Conant, has inscribed the title page: “I shook hands with him at a gallery
opening in the nineteen fifties. His limp hand felt like a damp washcloth!” One of the
scarce Warhol books. Wrappers worn, tape repairs to spine, partially disbound, some
loose pages; fair.
(400/600)
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443. Warner, Richard. Antiquitates culinariae, or, Curious tracts relating to the culinary
affairs of the old English, with a preliminary discourse, notes, and illustrations. [2], lx, 137, [1] pp.
Engraved title-page; tinted aquatint frontispiece; double-page tinted aquatint plate of a Peacock
Feast. (4to) 30.2x23.5 cm. (12x9¼”), 19th century quarter morocco & cloth, spine lettered in
gilt. First Edition
London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1791
A backward glance at the eating habits of medieval England. Contains the rare suppressed
plate of the Peacock Feast, which was excised from remaining copies after a plagiarism
suit concerning it. Bitting p. 485; Pennell p. 164-165. Minor stains to cloth, corners a
bit worn, joints rubbed with a bit of splitting; title-page a little discolored with a faint
marginal stain, a few instances of slight worming to contents; very good.
(1000/1500)
SIGNED BY JAMES D. WATSON
444. Watson, James D. The Double Helix. With plates from photographs & other sources;
diagrams of molecular structures in the text. Boards, jacket. First British Edition.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1968]
Signed by Watson on the title page. Controversial best-selling account by the codiscoverer of DNA of the events surrounding the discovery of its structure in 1953.
Watson is generally uncooperative about signing his books, so books with his signature
are uncommon. Light wear to jacket edges; spine leaning; very good.
(1000/1500)
445. (Wyeth, N.C.) Thoreau, Henry David. Men of Concord and some others as portrayed
in the journal of Henry David Thoreau. Edited by Francis H. Allen. With 10 color plates by
N.C. Wyeth, plus drawings in the text. 24x15 cm. (9½x6”), green cloth lettered in silver on
blue backgrounds, color pictorial endpapers by Wyeth, color pictorial jacket by Wyeth. First
Wyeth Edition.
Fine in near fine, slightly darkened jacket.
(200/300)
446. (Wyeth, N.C) Four volumes with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Includes: Verne, Jules. Michael
Strogoff. First Wyeth edition. [1927]. * Boyd, James. Drums. First Wyeth trade edition. [1928].
* Lanier, Sidney, ed. The Boy’s King Arthur. Later printing. 1929. * Cooper, James Fenimore.
Lacking title page, edition unknown. Together 4 volumes from the Scribner’s Classic series,
each with multiple color plates after paintings by N.C. Wyeth.
New York: Scribners, Various dates
All in the original black cloth bindings with pictorial cover labels. some light wear;
overall very good.
(200/300)
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CONDITIONS OF SALE
The property listed in this catalogue will be sold by PBA Galleries, Inc. (hereinafter Galleries)
as agent for others upon the following terms and conditions as may be amended by notice or
oral announcement at the sale:
1. All bids are to be per lot as numbered in the catalogue.
2. As used herein the term “bid price” means the price at which a lot is knocked down to
the purchaser and the term “purchase price” means the aggregate of (a) the bid price (b) a
premium of twenty percent (20%) of the bid price payable by the purchaser, and (c) unless
the purchaser is exempt by law from the payment thereof, any California state or local sales
tax except where sold to a purchaser outside of California and shipped to the purchaser.The
Galleries have been authorized by the consignor to retain, as part of remuneration, the 20%
premium payable by the purchaser.
3. Property auctioned by the Galleries is often of some age.Prospective bidders should
personally inspect such property to determine its condition and whether it has been
repaired or restored.Any information provided by the Galleries or its employees is for
the convenience of bidders only and should not be relied upon. ALL PROPERTY IS
SOLD “AS IS” AND NEITHER THE GALLERIES NOR THE CONSIGNOR MAKES
ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND OR NATURE
WITH RESPECT TO THE PROPERTY OR ITS VALUE, MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR WHETHER THE PURCHASER
ACQUIRES ANY COPYRIGHTS.IN NO EVENT SHALL THE GALLERIES OR
THE CONSIGNOR BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CORRECTNESS OF DESCRIPTION,
GENUINENESS, ATTRIBUTION, PROVENANCE, AUTHENTICITY,
AUTHORSHIP, COMPLETENESS, CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY OR
ESTIMATE OF VALUE.NO STATEMENT (ORAL OR WRITTEN) IN THE
CATALOGUE, AT THE SALE, OR ELSEWHERE SHALL BE DEEMED SUCH
A WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION, OR ANY ASSUMPTION OF
RESPONSIBILITY.HOWEVER, notwithstanding this condition and subject to the further
provisions of this paragraph as set forth below, property may be returned by the purchaser,
the sale rescinded and the purchase price refunded under the following conditions: (1)
printed books which prove upon collation to be defective in text or illustration (provided
such defects are not indicated within the catalogue or at the sale), and (2) autographs which
prove not to be genuine (if this can be demonstrated and if not indicated in the catalogue or
at the sale).Printed books are not returnable for defects not affecting text and illustration,
including, but not limited to, lack of half-titles, lists of plates, binder’s instructions, errata,
blanks, or advertisements.No returns will be accepted unless written notice, by registered
mail or receipted courier, is received by the Galleries within fourteen (14) days of the sale of
the property and the property is returned in the same condition as it was at the time of sale.
NO LOT IS RETURNABLE ON ACCOUNT OF PROPERTY INCLUDED BUT NOT
SPECIFICALLY NAMED AND DESCRIBED IN SUCH LOT.LOTS CONTAINING
THREE OR MORE TITLES, WHETHER NAMED OR UNNAMED, AND SELLING
FOR ONE HUNDRED FIFTY ($150) OR LESS, EXCLUSIVE OF BUYER’S PREMIUM,
ARE SOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN FOR ANY REASON.
4.Photographs, prints and other fine art multiples are sold in compliance with California
law, and the Galleries’ catalogue descriptions of such multiples conform to the applicable
provisions of that law.
5. Any right of the purchaser under this agreement or under the law shall not be assignable
and shall be enforceable only by the original purchaser and not by any subsequent owner or
any person who shall subsequently acquire any interest. No purchaser shall be entitled to any
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remedy, relief or damages beyond return of the property, recision of the sale and refund of
the purchase price; and, without limitation, no purchaser shall be entitled to damages of any
kind.
6. If we are prevented by fire, theft or any other reason whatsoever from delivering any
property to the purchaser, our liability shall be limited to the sum actually paid by the
purchaser.
7. Books and other property purchased are to be removed at the close of each Sale unless
shipping instructions are received by the Galleries before such sale.If not removed, property
will be held at the sole risk of the purchaser and no responsibility is assumed if such goods
are lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed.The Galleries will facilitate shipment of property to
out-of-town purchasers at an additional packing charge plus carriage and insurance, but will
not be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from the shipping thereof in excess of the
amount of the insurance.
8. Payment terms:All items are to be paid for by (a) cash, (b) cashier’s check, (c)credit card,
or (d) personal check with approved credit, and all accounts are due when bills are rendered.
MERCHANDISE WILL BE SHIPPED AFTER PAYMENT HAS BEEN RECEIVED.
9. We reserve the right to reject a bid from any bidder.The highest bidder acknowledged by
the auctioneer shall be the purchaser.In the event of any dispute between bidders, or in the
event the auctioneer doubts the validity of any bid, the auctioneer shall have the sole and
final discretion either to determine the successful bidder or to re-offer and resell the article
in dispute. If any dispute arises after the sale, our sales records shall be conclusive in every
respect.
10. Unless the Sale is advertised as a sale without reserve, each lot is offered subject to a reserve.
MOST LOTS OFFERED BY THE GALLERIES HAVE A MINIMUM RESERVE OF
ONE-HALF THE PRESALE LOW ESTIMATE .The Galleries do not accept reserves of more
than the low estimate nor allow consignors to bid on their own items.
11. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery or inconvenience in the settlement of a purchase, no lot
can be transferred.Each buyer must pay for the whole of his purchases before any lot can be
removed.
12. As a service to clients unable to attend the Sale, we will accept absentee bids without
charge in advance of the sale by telephone, mail, fax, email or in person.All bids must state
the highest bid price the bidder is willing to pay.“Buy” bids are not accepted.Please check bid
sheets carefully to make sure you have the correct lot numbers and that the sheet is legible.
The Galleries reserve the right to refuse to undertake absentee bids, and shall in no event be
responsible for failure to execute such bids or for any error that may occur when executing
them.Unsuccessful absentee bids will not be acknowledged.
ALL SALES HELD BY PBA GALLERIES ARE CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 2328 OF THE COMMERCIAL CODE AND SECTION 535 OF THE PENAL
CODE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
CONSIGNING BOOKS TO PBA GALLERIES
The first step in consigning to PBA is to contact the Galleries, either by phone, fax, email or
letter. It can then be determined whether the item or items under consideration would do
well at auction. Following this, arrangements can be made for the delivery of the material
to PBA. In the case of large consignments or libraries, a member of the staff may be able to
view the books on location, and make arrangements for its transportation to PBA Galleries.
Because of the costs involved, PBA discourages consignments with a total value of less than
$1500.
The frequency of auctions, and variety of subject matter, allows PBA Galleries to ensure
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quick turn-around time for items consigned. Books can appear at auction as quickly as 30 days
and generally not more than 90 days following consignment. Commissions vary between 10%
and 15%, depending on the selling price of an item.These commissions encompass all related
costs including insurance, storage, cataloguing, illustrations, etc., except shipping. Payment is
sent within 20 banking days of an auction.
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O f f e r Yo u r B o o k s a t A u c t i o n
through PBA Galleries
The Polycronicon of Ranulf Higden, the second
edition, printed in 1495 by Wynkyn de Worde,
containing the first example of printed musical
notation in an English book.
Sold for $33,000
History of the Expedition under the Command of
Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the
Missouri, 1814, the first edition of the official
account of the most famous and most important
expedition of exploration in U.S. history.
Sold for $212,000
Eadweard Muybridge's stunning Panorama of
San Francisco, from California Street Hill, 1877,
the 11 albumen photograph panels framed
consecutively to stretch over seven feet wide.
Sold for $51,000
Original manuscript diary kept by William Willson,
recording a journey on the Oregon Trail from Iowa
to the Columbia River in the summer of 1852.
Sold for $30,000
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels,
first issue, large paper copy.
Sold for $192,000
Set of John Ogilby’s translations of Nieuhoff’s
Embassy to China (1669) and Montanus’ Atlas
Chinensis (1671), handsomely printed with
numerous fine engraved plates.
Sold for $42,000
F. Scott Fitzgerald's All the Sad Young Men, an
inscribed presentation copy with original sketch by
Fitzgerald, in the first issue dust jacket.
Sold for $37,375
First edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Sold for $51,000
Fine example of William Eddy’s important Official
Map of the State of California, 1854, folding into
the original red leather covers, very rare.
Sold for $39,000
SPECIALISTS IN EXCEPTIONAL BOOKS & PRIVATE LIBRARIES AT AUCTION
133 Kearny Street : San Francisco, CA 94108 : www.pbagalleries.com : 415.989.2665
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BId Sheet
Sale #:_________________
133 Kearny Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
Sale Date:______________________
Phone: (415) 989-2665 Fax: (415) 989-1664
www.pbagalleries.com
Name:_______________________________
Bidder#:______________ Cust Id#___________
Company:____________________________
Shipping address (if different from mailing address)
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City:________________State:______Zip:______
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Is either a new address? Yes No
Day Phone:___________________Home Phone:____________________Cell:____________________
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Fax:_________________________
Are you a dealer purchasing for resale? Yes No (if yes) I hereby certify that all tangible personal
property purchased by me will be for resale and is not subject to California Sales Tax, and that I hold
Sellers Permit #________________
1.
2.
3.
4.
PBA Galleries is hereby authorized to bid on the following lots up to the price stated.
All bids shall be treated as offers made subject to the Conditions of Sale.
These bids will not be executed unless this form is signed.
A 20% Buyer’s Premium will be charged on all lots sold.
PLEASE EXECUTE THESE BIDS ON MY BEHALF. _______________________________________
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LOT NUMBER
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BID AMOUNT
Bid Increments
$00 to $200. . . . . . . . $10 $2000 to $5000. . . . . . . $250
$200 to $500. . . . . . . . $25 $5000 to $10,000. . . . . $500
$500 to $1000. . . . . . $50 $10,000 to $20,000. . . $1000
$1000 to $2000. . . . $100 $20,000 to $50,000. . . $2500
Note: Bids not matching the above increments will be rounded down to the nearest increment.
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