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Cover Item No. 262
1. Abbott, Lee K., Jr.: THE HEART NEVER FITS ITS WANTING. Cedar Falls, IA:
American Review / University of Northern Iowa, 1980. Cloth. First edition, clothbound
of the author’s first book. Signed and dated by the author in 1981. About fine in dust
showing only slight shelf-use.
North
issue,
jacket
$125.
2. Abramson, Ben [ed & pub]: READING AND COLLECTING A MONTHLY REVIEW OF
RARE AND RECENT BOOKS. Chicago. December 1936 through Feb/March 1938. Volume
One, number 1, through Volume Two, number 3 (all published). Fifteen issues. Quarto.
Printed and pictorial self-wrappers. Illustrations. Some modest use to some of the spines
and edges, a few nicks and creases, but a very good set.
Edited and published by legendary Chicago (later New York) bookman, Ben Abramson, as an
adjunct to the Argus Book Shop. As one might expect, some of Abramson’s favorite writers
and topics are treated frequently, by himself as well as by others. Other contributors include
H. F. West, Robert Bayer, Samuel F. Morse, Harry Moore, D.C. McMurtrie, Derleth, Morley,
Cabell, L.C. Powell, Conklin, Schorer, Starrett, James Guthrie, et al. Some of the writers who
are subjects of contributions include Corvo, Steinbeck, Machen, Nathanael West, Clemens,
Houghton, Bradstreet, R. Kent, et al. This was one of the editor’s retained sets, enclosed
in a custom full calf folding case made as a gift for him by a grateful customer, with the title
label reading: “Ben Abramson’s Collected Works Sett Furth 1937- 1938.” The box is worn,
and lacking the top panel, and one of the leather straps for the metal clasps is defective. A
presentation letter of provenance from Abramson’s daughter is laid in. $300.
3. Acosta, Juvenal, and Derli Romero [illus]:
PAPER OF LIVE FLESH. [San Diego]: Brighton
Press, 1990. Small quarto. Bound concertina
style between printed boards covered with
Moriki rice paper and Arches Black. Fine, in
lightly worn glassine sleeve.
First edition of this early work by the Mexico
City native, now resident in California. Illustrated with two chine collé etchings and three
motif etchings by Derli Romero. One of only
fifty-five numbered copies, hand set in Goudy
Bold and printed letterpress on Johannot paper,
and signed by the author and artist. As poet,
editor, novelist, critic, and essayist, Acosta has
moved across several genres with considerable
success. Scarce.
$950.
4. Adams, Charles F[ollen]: LEEDLE YAWCOB
STRAUSS, AND OTHER POEMS. Boston &
New York: Lee and Shepard / Charles Dillingham, 1878. Decorated medium brown cloth,
stamped in black and gilt. Frontis and illustrations by ‘Boz’ (Morgan J. Sweeney). Extremities
a bit worn, rear inner hinge cracking lightly, bit of a crease in upper corner of front board
with a faint crack mirrored to pastedown; near very good.
First edition. The first major collection of Adams’s popular humorous dialect verse, written in
the manner of Pennsylvania German emigrants. An expanded edition under the same title
appeared in 1910. $75.
5. [African American Film]: Norman, Richard [producer]: [Promotional Herald for the Silent
Film:] REGENERATION. [Jacksonville, FL: Norman Studios, 1923]. Pictorial small broadsheet (7 x 4.5”), printed on recto and verso of cheap news stock. Very good, with stamp in
appropriate place: “Champion Theatre Today.”
A promotional herald for one of the most widely known productions by silent filmmaker Richard
Norman, who was among the most successful producers of films shot with “All Colored” casts.
This 1923 release featured a professional cast that included Stella Mayo, M. C. Maxwell,
Alfred Norcom, Charlie Gaines, and Steve “Peg” Reynolds, et al. The film promised six reels
of “Love! Thrills! Adventure!” It was touted as a “Romance in Southern Seas,” but censors
feared the fight scenes and one with a woman with a pistol would “tend to incite crime.”
Censors were apparently unconcerned by the overtly lustful degenerate sailors, or the nude
“artistic” bathing scenes. Norman constructed these scenes so that they could be removed
without loss to continuity, but it proved to be unnecessary. At least two different heralds were
issued for this film, the other being a folded leaflet without the additional internal content.
$55.
6. [African American Theatre]: Dunbar, Paul Laurence (lyrics), and Jesse A. Shipp: [Original
Theatrical Programme for the First London Production of:] IN DAHOMEY. London Shaftesbury Theatre, 20 May 1903. Oblong quarto sheet, folded to six panels. Heavily creased,
with some splits at toes of vertical folds, lower edge a bit ragged, but an intact, good copy
of a very fragile item.
An original theatrical program for the first London production of the first full-length musical
written and played by African Americans to be performed at a major Broadway house, and
elsewhere. In Dahomey opened at the New York Theatre on 18 February 1903 and ran for
53 performances. The company then transplanted the production to London, where it opened
at the Shaftesbury Theatre, eventually enjoying a year-long tour in the UK. Significantly,
it was in London that the play and score saw first publication – see BAL 4949. Finally, in
August 1904, it reopened in New York for 17 performances before embarking on a 40 week
U.S. tour. Will Marion Cook composed the music that accompanied Dunbar’s lyrics, Jesse
Shipp wrote the play, and Bert Williams, George W. Walker, Pete Hampton, et al, starred in
the London cast. Any paper associated with the original productions of In Dahomey is very
uncommon. $450.
7. [African American Theatre]: HARLEM BLACKBIRDS SOUVENIR PROGRAMME OF
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST ALL COLOURED REVIEW [wrapper title]. [Adelaide]: Majestic Theatre
/ Celebritiy [sic] Theatres PTY. Ltd., [1955]. 16pp. Quarto. Pictorial self wrappers. Illustrated,
photographs. Small nick at top edge of upper wrapper, otherwise very good or better.
A souvenir programme for the Adelaide appearance of this show from the US, then engaged
in a multi-engagement tour of Australia. This incarnation of the Harlem Blackbirds was produced and directed by Larry Steele, and featured Mabel Scott, Dewey “Pigmeat” Markham,
Sunshine Body (“The Girl with the Balloons”), the “Beige Beuts,” Freddie and Flo, The Four
Moroccos, Eugene Kee, Leonard and Leonard, Maurice Rocco, et al. Much is made of the fact
that this is the first all-Black revue to ever tour Australia, and additional stops were planned
for Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, via Celebrity Circuit promotions. OCLC/Worldcat locates
only a single copy of one other similar program, that for the appearance at the Palladium
in Sydney, at the State Library of NSW. However, it differs in its external design (at least).
OCLC 221506598. $125.
8. Aldington, Richard: THE LOVE OF MYRRHINE AND KONALLIS AND OTHER PROSE
POEMS. Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1926. Large sq. octavo. Gilt black cloth. Pictorial endsheets
by Frank Mechau. Spine gilding slightly oxidized, otherwise very good, without dust jacket.
First edition, limited issue. Copy #34 of 150 signed copies, from a total edition of 1010 copies for the US and the UK.
KERSHAW 13. $125.
9. Aldington, Richard [trans]: ALCESTIS. By Euripides. London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Cloth
and boards, t.e.g. Slight tanning along top edges of boards, otherwise near fine
First edition, limited issue. Copy #27 of 260 numbered copies, specially printed and bound,
and signed by the author.
KERSHAW 219. $85.
10. Aldington, Richard: STEPPING HEAVENWARD. A RECORD. Florence: G. Orioli, 1931.
Small quarto. Cloth and boards. Small spot on half-title mirrored to verso of free endsheet
(or vice-versa), otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket.
First edition. Copy #496 of 800 numbered copies (of 808), signed by the author. Published
as No. 7 in the Lungarno Series. Aldington’s barbed roman à clef, in part a thinly veiled
portrait of Eliot and his first wife.
KERSHAW 144. $125.
11. Aldington, Richard: JANE AUSTEN. Pasadena, CA: The Ampersand Press, 1948. Black
cloth, printed paper label. Portrait. Trace of sunning to edges of cloth, otherwise near fine
in chipped tissue wrapper.
First separate edition, and first American edition, of Aldington’s Introduction to the Chawton
edition of Austen’s works. Grant Dahlstrom’s compliments card is laid in.
KERSHAW, P.56. $55.
12. Aldington, Richard: THE DEAREST FRIEND A SELECTION FROM THE LETTERS OF
RICHARD ALDINGTON TO JOHN COURNOS. Francestown, NH: Typographeum, 1978. Linen
and boards, paper spine label. Frontis facsimile. Trace of faint foxing to linen, otherwise fine.
First edition. Introduction and Afterword by R. T. Risk. One of 100 numbered copies (of 110),
printed by hand and signed by Risk. The letters date from 1914-1918, and include letters
Aldington wrote while in uniform. $55.
13. Aldington, Richard: IN WINTER. Francestown: Typographeum, 1987. Octavo. Sewn
wrappers, printed label. Frontis and illustration. Fine in very slightly dusty folding case with
printed label.
First publication of this poem, here printed for the first time from the manuscript. One of 100
copies, signed by the artist, Sylvia Nicolas O’Neill. Contextually, it is related to the prose
poems of the cycle, “The Love Poems of Myrrhine and Konalis” (1917). $60.
14. [Allen, Woody]: [Theatre Window Card Poster for:] DON’T DRINK THE WATER. New
York: Morosco Theatre, [1966]. Folio (22 x 14”) pictorial color window card, printed on recto
only of stiff card. Fine.
An original publicity window card promoting the forthcoming New York opening of Allen’s first
solo Broadway play, which preceded, and was the basis for, his first book publication a year
later. The New York production was directed by Robert B. Sinclair, and starred Lou Jacobi,
Anthony Roberts and, according to the text on this window card, Vivian Vance. However,
Vance left the play during its out-of-town tryouts and Kay Medford was her replacement, a
change not yet made in the letterpress of this poster. $350.
15. Allen, Woody [sourcework], and Charles Grodin [screenwriter]: “PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM”
SCREENPLAY BY ... BASED ON A PLAY BY.... [Los Angeles]: Twentieth Century-Fox /
APJAC Productions, [nd. but no earlier than 15 February 1971]. [1], 108 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only of pale blue-green stock. Bradbound
in printed studio wrappers. Ink squiggle on upper wrapper, with some darkening along top
edge of same, some use to wrappers with a few small chips at edges, internally very good.
A “first draft” of Grodin’s adaptation of Allen’s 1969 Broadway play. The draft is undated,
but two inserted revises on darker blue paper are dated 15 February 1971. Eventually, Allen
himself undertook the screenplay for the final film and a cursory examination of the first few
pages evidences considerable variation between Grodin’s draft and Allen’s screenplay. The
film, which was a Paramount production rather than 20th Century-Fox, was released in May
1972, was directed by Herbert Ross, and starred Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry
Lacy, Viva, Joy Bang, et al. Actual pre-production scripts by Allen or for films based on his
sourceworks tend to be rather uncommon, their circulation being largely confined to those
actually involved directly in production. $950.
16. [Alternative Newspaper]: THE WASHINGTON FREE PRESS. Washington DC. 3 May
1966 through 16/31 August 1968. I: 3; 2: 13, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 29, 36 and 38. Ten issues
(plus 4 duplicates). Folio tabloid, on newsprint. Printed or pictorial self wrappers. Horizontal
folds across middle, occasional tanning and modest fraying, one issue has a small patch of
the front page clipped away; good to very good.
A representative lot of issues of this underground biweekly, founded in 1966 by Michael
Grossman, Arthur Grosman, William Blum and Movement representatives of the five colleges
in the DC area. II:36 is an Extra attending the resolution of the Newspaper Guild strike.
Staunchly anti-war, the Washington Free Press shared premises with the Liberation News
Service, and had political affinity with the SDS. $185.
17. Altsheler, Joseph A.: THE SUN OF SARATOGA A ROMANCE OF BURGOYNE’S SURRENDER. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 15 May 1897. [4],313pp. Printed brick-colored
wrappers. Large pencil ownership initials erased from upper wrapper and margin of first text
leaf, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, wrapperbound issue, published as No. 216 in Appleton’s “Town and Country
Library.” A relatively early work by the extraordinarily prolific author of historical novels and
sequences of boys’ books.
WRIGHT III:101. $75.
18. [Amateur Press – Texas]: Dewson, Francis Alexander (b. 1881): BOOK 1: SONNETS THE
YEARLY PASSING. Houston: The Author, 1936. [52]pp. Small octavo. Bradbound decorated
wrappers. Spine somewhat tanned and frayed, light use, but internally very good or better.
First edition of this amateur effort, “written 1925 to 1935 [and] Edited, Printed, Bound & Marketed...” by the author. Dewson evidently had access to a deep case of dingbats and felt it
necessary to use them, along with occasional ornamental initials. The upper wrapper bears
a price in pencil in the hand of a late well-known Texas bookseller ($650). OCLC locates 8
copies, including several outside of Texas. $100.
19. Ambasz, Emilio [ed]: ITALY: THE NEW DOMESTIC LANDSCAPE ACHIEVEMENTS
AND PROBLEMS OF ITALIAN DESIGN. New York & Greenwich: MOMA / New York Graphic
Society, [1972]. 428,[1]pp. Large sq. octavo. Printed boards. Heavily illustrated in color and
b&w. Book about fine, printed glassine wrapper with inserts tanned (as usual), with shallow
loss at crown of spine.
First edition, boardbound issue. A monumental work, associated with the jointly coordinated
exhibition at Centro Di, in Florence, and MoMA. Includes texts by Etore Sottsass, Germano
Celant, et al. $125.
20. Amichai, Yehuda: I AM SITTING HERE NOW / [in Hebrew:] ANI YOSHEV ‘AKHSHAV
KAN [Huntington Woods, MI: Land Marks Press, 1994]. Triptych, folded to quarto and sewn
in decorated wrappers. Mezzotint illustration. Fine.
First edition in this format of an excerpt from Amichai’s poem, “Travels,” accompanied by an
original mezzotint by Lynne Avadenka. Hebrew and English texts printed en face. One of an
edition of twenty-five numbered copies, signed by the poet and by the artist. $350.
21. Andre, Michael, and Erika Rothenberg [eds]: THE POETS’ ENCYCLOPEDIA. New York:
Unmuzzled Ox, 1979. Lavender cloth, lettered in silver. Photographs and illustrations. About
fine, in near fine, slightly edgeworn dust jacket.
First edition, the less common clothbound issue – also issued paperbound and as a number
of the periodical. This copy is signed beneath his contribution (p. 269) by Gerard Malanga. A
compendium of an aspect of the world’s useful knowledge, with contributions or texts quoted
from a broad range of experts (225 of them), both living and not. $95.
22. [Antiquities Smuggling]: Wojciechowski, Krzysztof [director]: [Original Vintage Studio
Publicity Poster for:] ANTYKI [ANTIQUITÉS / ANTIQUES]. Warsaw: Film Polski, [1978].
Original color 36 x 26” (91 x 67 cm) pictorial theatrical poster. Rolled, very good or better
Visually striking pictorial poster for a theatrically distributed documentary about the illegal
export of works of art and how to combat criminal elements, with a view to permanent protection of national treasures. The director, Krzysztof Wojciechowski, won the Gdynia (until 1986,
Gdansk) Polish Film Festival editorial award, “Voice of the Coast” for bringing the subject
of the need for this protection to the public’s attention. Written by Ryszard Gontarz, the film
stars Zbigniew Bartosiewicz, Erazm Ciolek, and Ryszard Fabisiak, et al. $65.
23. [Arkham House]: THE ARKHAM COLLECTOR. Sauk City: Arkham House, Summer 1967
through Winter 1971. Whole numbers one through eight (of 10 published). Eight issues. Small
octavo. Printed self-wrappers. Illustrated. About fine.
Edited by August Derleth and staff. The first eight numbers of this short-lived Arkham House
periodical, combining promotional efforts with original contributions in the form of poetry, fiction and criticism. The final number appeared in summer of 1971, and with Derleth’s death,
publication ceased. Thereafter sets of the ten numbers were offered in a collective binding.
Appropriately, this lot is enclosed in a somewhat worn Nelson Bond envelope. $125.
24. Arnold, Josias Lyndon: POEMS BY THE LATE...OF ST. JOHNSBURY (VERMONT)
FORMERLY OF PROVIDENCE, AND A TUTOR IN RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE. Providence:
Carter and Wilkinson, 1797. xii,[13]-141,[1]pp. 12mo. Modern full morocco. Ink name on title,
shallow chips at fore-edge of half-title and top edge of title, last two leaves cracking at top
of gutter, with repair to terminal leaf, a few other small marginal mends; just a sound copy.
First edition. With an introduction by James Burrill, Jr., who edited this posthumous collection from Arnold’s papers and periodical publications. Arnold, who earned degrees at both
Dartmouth and Yale, settled in Vermont in the winter of 1791/2 after the death of his father,
where he practiced law and served two terms in the legislature. He died in 1796, still in his
early 30s, and this volume is credited with being the first volume of verse by a Vermont poet.
The editor was, however, somewhat careless, as in addition to Arnold’s imitations of Horace
and Ossian, assorted epitaphs and elegies, and “The Warrior’s Death Song,” he included
Freneau’s “The Last Words of Shalum; – or, The Dying Indian” on pp. 46-9. ESTC locates
a number of copies, though only one (BL) outside North America.
WEGELIN 7. STODDARD & WHITESELL 564. EVANS 31753. SABIN 2074. GILMAN, p.15.
ESTC W2477. $275.
25. Arnold, Matthew: CROMWELL: A PRIZE POEM, RECITED IN THE THEATRE, OXFORD;
JUNE 28, 1843. Oxford: Printed and Published by J. Vincent, 1843. Original printed wrappers. Minor foxing early and late, a few neat repairs to closed tears in wrappers, small collector’s bookplate inside front wrapper over an early inscription, but a good or better copy.
Half morocco slipcase (spine faded).
First edition of the author’s second separate publication, preceded by the rare Rugby prize
poem, Alaric at Rome. This publication marked Arnold’s receipt of the Newdigate Prize
while at Balliol College.
SMART 2. TINKER 125. $1250.
26. [Artists Equity Association]: Newman, Elias [editor]: 1952 IMPROVISATIONS ARTISTS
EQUITY MASQUERADE BALL ... SPRING FANTASIA. [New York]: Artists Equity Association, 1952. [12]pp. plus 99 leaves. Large quarto (305 x 235 mm). Plastic comb bound stiff
pictorial card covers. 99 lithographed sheets, printed on rectos only, with color lithographs
on rectos and versos of covers. Extreme fore-tips of wrappers a bit creased and soft, plastic
comb a bit handsoiled, slight soiling to upper cover, and some offset incurred in printing to
verso of upper cover, internally near fine.
First edition of the third volume in the series.
Copy #846 of two thousand numbered copies. In
the creation of this lavish program for the 15 May
Ball, held at the Hotel Astor, sponsors selected
an artist or artists from the membership to create
full-page original designs associated with their
product or service. “Each page was designed by
the artist directly on the litho plate, thus making
this a collection of original lithographs” – prefatory note. Byron Browne, Adolf Dehn, Sol Wilson
and Ruth Reeves created the color works for
the covers, and Milton Avery, T.L. Feinenger,
Antonio Frasconi, Chaim Gross, John Groth,
Jacob Lawrence, Ben Shahn, Raphael Soyer and
Max Weber were among the contributors to the
internal plates, a few in colors, but the majority
monochrome. A few artists contributed more than
once, and while the majority are signed in the
plate, a few are not. A marvelous and stylistically diverse showcase of some of the important
talents in the field at the time. $1500.
27. Austen, Jane: LADY SUSAN ... WRITTEN ABOUT 1805 FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1871
NOW REPRINTED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1925. Cloth
and boards, paper label, untrimmed. Top edge faintly dust marked, foretips slightly bruised,
label tanned, otherwise very good.
First edition, limited issue. One of 250 copies printed on large, handmade paper. Preface
and notes by R. W. Chapman.
GILSON F5. KEYNES 176. $200.
28. Austen, Jane: [SANDITON] FRAGMENT OF A NOVEL WRITTEN BY ... JANUARY
– MARCH 1817. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1925. Cloth and boards, paper label,
untrimmed. Frontis facsimile. Large bookplate on pastedown, minor handsoiling to binding,
usual slight tanning to endleaves, but a very good copy.
First edition, limited issue. One of 250 copies printed on large, handmade paper. Preface &
Notes by R.W. Chapman.
GILSON F6. KEYNES 177. $200.
29. Austen, Jane: VOLUME THE FIRST ... NOW FIRST PRINTED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT
IN THE BODLEIAN. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1933. Linen and boards, paper spine
label. Pencil erasure from endsheet, label slightly tanned, otherwise very good or better.
First edition, ordinary issue. Edited, with a Preface, by R.W. Chapman.
GILSON F12. $100.
30. Austen, Jane: VOLUME THE THIRD ... NOW FIRST PRINTED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1951. Linen and boards, paper spine label, untrimmed.
Small gilt morocco bookplate on pastedown offset to opposite free endpaper, otherwise
very good or better.
First edition, ordinary issue. Edited, with a Preface, by R.W. Chapman.
GILSON F14. $100.
31. Badur, Frank: 64 VARIANTEN. [Berlin: Published by the Artist, 1979]. [12]pp. plus colophon and 64 plates on separate sheets. Small quarto (8.5 x 8.5”; 21 x 21 cm). Pamphlet
and loose sheets laid into folding cloth clamshell box, lettered in blind. Box slightly sunned
at edges, otherwise fine.
First edition. One of 80 numbered copies (of 100), signed by the artist. Illustrated with 64
(plus one duplicate) original silkscreens (black on white) exploring variations on a trisected
square. $225.
32. [Ballard, J. G. (sourcework)]: [Original Color Pictorial Italian One Panel Poster for:] CRASH.
[Italy]: Telefilm Canada / Film Auro, 1996. Large folio, 55 x 39” (140 x 99 cm). Pictorial 1p
poster, printed on recto only. Folded, as issued, otherwise near fine.
A visually striking one panel poster for the 1996 Italian first release of David Cronenberg’s
award-winning (and controversial) film adaptation of Ballard’s novel. The film starred James
Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Kostes, Rosanna Arquette, et al. In addition to a slew of nominations, Cronenberg won the Jury Special Prize at Cannes, and the film and its crew won
five Genie awards. This poster proclaims the Cannes award, and accompanied the Italian
release in November of 1966; the film saw limited US release in late March of the following
year. Of the paper attending the various international releases of this film, this poster tends
to be among the most anatomically revealing. $55.
33. Bann, Stephen [ed]: CONCRETE POETRY AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY. [London]:
London Magazine Editions, 1967. Oblong octavo. Laminated glossy printed boards. A bit of
darkening at extreme edges of the laminate, a bit of rippling (but no staining) along lower
edge; a good, sound copy, without the glassine wrapper.
First edition. Designed and printed at the Shenval Press. In addition to Bann’s substantive
introduction, this key anthology includes contributions by Eugen Gomringer, Hansjorg Mayer,
Ernst Jandl, Decio Pignatari, Haraldo de Campos, Augusto de Campos, Pedro Xisto, Mathias
Goeritz, Pierre Garnier, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dom Sylvester Houedard, John Furnival, Stephen
Bann, Edwin Morgan, Emmett Williams, Robert Lax, et al. $125.
34. Barney, Natalie Clifford: THE ONE WHO IS LEGION OR A.D.’S AFTER-LIFE. London:
Privately Subscribed by Eric Partridge Ltd [at the Scholartis Press], 1930. Large octavo.
Polished green buckram, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Two plates. Cloth somewhat sunned and
bubbled, otherwise very good, without dust jacket.
First edition, one of 535 copies, from a total edition of 560 (525 for sale). With Barney’s
late presentation inscription: “To Bettina, my best reader & most charming friend ever her
admirer Natalie / Paris 3 June | 63.” The recipient, Elizabeth “Bettina” Bergery, was the
American-born and Paris-resident fashion designer, and wife of French politician and Vichy
ambassador, Gaston Bergery. The two plates reproduce paintings by Romaine Brooks that
she executed specifically for this work. One of Barney’s most unusual works, and one of
the handful of her original publications in English, The One Who Is Legion is a stylistically
unconventional novel, imbued with several gothic elements, concerning a suicide reincarnated
as a sexually ambiguous hermaphrodite. It has considerable importance as a reflection of
Brooks’ influence in Barney’s life, as well as of Barney’s efforts to come to terms with Renée
Vivien’s death. $950.
35. Barney, Natalie Clifford: NOUVELLES PENSÉES DE L’AMAZONE. Paris: Mercvre de
France, 1939. Printed wrappers, decorated with house logo. Light use at extended wrapper
edges, otherwise about fine, unopened.
First edition, limited issue. One of 200 numbered copies on alfa, from a total of 220 copies
on fine papers. $250.
36. Baroja y Nessi, Pio: [Autograph Letter, Signed “Pio Baroja”]. Hotel Oriente, Barcelona.
25 March [no year, but likely prior to 1928]. Three and one-half pages, in ink, on rectos and
versos of two octavo sheets of Hotel Oriente stationary. Horizontal folds, with clean short
breaks at edges of folds (with one tissue repair at one edge), but good to very good.
A very good letter, in his native Spanish, to his distinguished friend, “Sr. Don T. MorenoLasalle”(?). He comments about efforts by parties to get him to come to the US to give
lectures, and about his fruitless attempts to learn English. He notes the possibility that his
novel, El Árbol De La Ciencia (1911), will be translated into English, and comments on the
wearisome intricacies of the business details attending publication of his work. He comments
as well about the spiritual value and evolutionary aspects of his work as a writer. Baroja
(1872 – 1956) was among the first tier of Spanish novelists of his generation, and his work
was greatly admired by Hemingway (upon whom he had considerable stylistic influence),
Dos Passos, and others. Knopf published The Tree of Knowledge in an English translation
by Aubrey F.G. Bell in 1928, thus providing a potential “no later than” date for this letter. $550.
37. Batchelder, Eugene: BORDER ADVENTURES: OR, THE ROMANTIC INCIDENTS OF
A NEW-ENGLAND BORDER TOWN; AND OTHER POEMS, WITH AN APPENDIX. Boston:
Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851. 48pp. Original printed wrappers, bound up in later cloth. Old
bookseller’s description affixed to lower edge of upper wrapper, narrow split along a portion
of the upper joint of the cloth binding, otherwise very good.
First edition of this collection published on the occasion of the Centenary of New Ipswich.
The wrapper adds ‘The Gift’ as a prefix to the proper full title. Batchelder is best remembered (if at all) for his part prose, part verse novel, A Romance of The Sea-Serpent, or
The Icthyosaurus (1849).
OCLC: 8762028. $65.
38. Beckelmann, Jürgen: ICH HABE BEHAUPTET GEDICHTE [/] J’AFFIRME POÈMES [/]
IK HEB BEWEERD GEDICHTEN .... [Mainz: Édition F. Despalles, 1986-7]. Octavo. Open
sewn printed wrappers. Illustrations
and unconventional typography. Fine.
First edition thus. Selections from four
poems by Beckelmann first published
in 1976, with one new poem, treated
differently in four sections designed
and printed by different printers -- Infrarot (Dieter Hermann), Lothar M.K.
Micklei, Johannes Strugalla and Dieter
Wagner -- over a span of two years, in
Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Mainz and
Wiesbaden. One of a total edition of
150 copies (50 for sale), signed by
Beckelmann, and on their respective
sections, by the printers/designers. A
delightful little book. $175.
39. Beckett, Samuel: MURPHY. [Paris]: Bordas, [i.e. Les Éditions de Minuit] 1947 [i.e. 1951].
Octavo. Printed wrappers. Usual tanning of textblock and edges of wrappers, otherwise
about fine.
First edition in French, in the second issue wrappers. Translated from the English by Beckett
and Alfred Péron in the years prior to the outbreak of WWII, and Péron’s death in a concentration camp. Originally published as title 5 in the Collection Les Imaginaires. The total first
printing consisted of three thousand copies, but after the passing of four years, and the sale
of fewer than three hundred copies, the unsold stock passed to Les Éditions de Minuit and
was reissued in these new wrappers bearing their imprint and ads.
F&F 145.01. $450.
40. [Beckett, Samuel]: Pinget, Robert: PLAYS VOLUME I .... London: John Calder, [1963].
Cloth. Top edge a trace dust darkened, a few tiny spots to front pastedown, otherwise a very
good copy in lightly used dust jacket.
First collective edition, including Beckett’s translation of The Old Tune, and Barbara Bray’s
translations of Clope and Dead Letter.
F&F 502.02. $75.
41. Beckett, Samuel: IMAGINATION MORTE IMAGINEZ. [Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit,
[October 1965]. Square octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine, unopened, in glassine.
First edition, limited issue. Copy #344 of 450 numbered copies on vélin cuve BFK rives, in
addition to 100 copies hors commerce and 112 for La Librairie des Éditions Minuit.
F&F 272. $275.
42. Beckett, Samuel: ASSEZ. [Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, [February 1966]. Square octavo.
Printed wrappers. Fine in glassine.
First edition, limited issue. Copy #38 of 450 numbered copies on vélin cuve BFK rives, in
addition to 100 copies hors commerce and 112 for La Librairie des Éditions Minuit.
F&F 275. $250.
43. Beckett, Samuel: BING. [Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, [October 1966]. Square octavo.
Printed wrappers. Fine, unopened, in glassine.
First edition, limited issue. Copy #70 of 550 numbered copies on vélin cuve BFK rives, in
addition to 100 copies hors commerce and 112 for La Librairie des Éditions Minuit.
F&F 276. $250.
44. [Beckett, Samuel]: Hayman, Ronald: [Autograph Manuscript and Corrected Typescript
for:] “WORKING WITH SAMUEL BECKETT.” [London]. ca. 1973. [1],5 leaves autograph
manuscript, 4 leaves carbon typescript. Quarto. The autograph manuscript very closely written in ink, the typescript lightly corrected/revised in ink. Very good.
Captioned in manuscript by the critic/dramatist/biographer on the coversheet to the autograph
manuscript: “Working with Samuel Beckett. Manuscript transcript of interview with Anthony
Page about working with Beckett on Waiting for Godot (1964) [and] Krapp’s Last Tape [and]
Not I (1973). Typescript of interview as written up for The Times printed 19 January 1973
[signed] Ronald Hayman.” Accompanied by tearsheets of the published interview. $85.
45. Beckett, Samuel: PAS MOI. [Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, [January 1975]. Small octavo.
Printed wrappers. Fine, unopened, in glassine.
First edition in French, limited issue. Copy #82 of 150 numbered copies on vélin d’Arches, in
addition to 92 copies reserved for La Librairie des Éditions Minuit and an unspecified number
of copies hors commerce. $200.
46. Beckett, Samuel: IMMOBILE. [Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, [January 1976]. Square
octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine, unopened.
First edition, limited issue. Copy #35 of 100 numbered copies on vélin d’Arches, in addition
to 25 copies hors commerce. $150.
47. Beebe, William: THE ARCTURUS ADVENTURE AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEW YORK
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY’S FIRST OCEANOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION. New York & London:
Putnam, 1926. Large, thick quarto. Half parchment and batik boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed.
Plates, maps and photographs, seven of the plates in color. Label chipped and edges rubbed,
but a good, sound copy, internally near fine.
First edition, large paper issue. One of an unknown number of out of series copies, in addition to fifty copies numbered and signed by the author on an inserted colophon, all printed
on large paper and specially bound. In this issue, the photos are printed on tissue tipped to
larger sheets. Beebe’s account of this 6 month expedition from New York to the Sargasso
Sea, on to the Galapagos, and its return. This large paper issue is uncommon. $300.
48. Beerbohm, Max: THE WORKS OF MAX BEERBOHM. New York: Scribner, 1896. Gilt
decorated cloth by Margaret Armstrong. Typical light foxing (more marked to endsheets),
light wear to extremities, but a very good, bright copy.
First edition of the author’s first book, preceding British publication. One of one thousand
copies printed, of which reportedly three hundred were pulped.
GALLATIN & OLIVER 1. $250.
49. [Behan, Brendan (sourcework),
and Mc Mahon, Frank adaptation]:
[Abbey Theatre Window Card for:]
BORSTAL BOY. [Dublin]: Abbey Theatre, 1967. Folio (23 x 18”) stiff board
window card, laid down on art board,
printed on recto only. Some visible old
creases and closed tears remedied
by the mounting, otherwise very good
and bright.
An original window card for the premiere run at the Abbey Theatre of
Frank McMahon’s adaptation to the
stage of Brendan Behan’s 1958 autobiographical novel. The design
incorporates gray-scale portraits of
Behan and a collage of newspaper
clippings, with a starkly modernist
inset in bright colors, featuring an
abstract rendition of a head in profile
filled with abstract details. The poster
is signed and dated in the plate a few
weeks prior to the production (“13-9’67”), with the poster artist’s signature
not completely legible but appearing to be “N. Lane.” The production
opened on 10 October 1967, with
Frank Grimes as the young Behan,
and ran for eleven weeks. Upon its wider release, McMahon won a New York Drama Critics’
Circle Award and Tony Award in 1970 for his adaptation. A very, very uncommon and visually
striking poster. $750.
Scarce First Book
50. [Bellamy, Edward]: SIX TO ONE; A NANTUCKET IDYL. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
1878. Light tan cloth, stamped and ruled in dark brown and black. Frontis. Spine darkened
somewhat and with some moderate tanning and light soiling to the cloth, otherwise a very
good copy.
First edition, clothbound issue, of the author’s uncommon first book, published anonymously.
This romantic pot-boiler precedes by a decade Bellamy’s chef d’oeuvre, the immensely influential Looking Backward 2000-1887. Not in the Seyboldt catalogue.
BAL 952. SEVEN GABLES (FIRST BOOKS) 24 (“scarce”). WRIGHT III:462. $550.
51. Bellamy, Edward: MISS LUDINGTON’S SISTER A ROMANCE OF IMMORTALITY.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Gray cloth, elaborately decorated in black,
lettered in gilt (see full page plate at entry in BAL). Spine darkened somewhat, a bit of spotting at edges, minute crack at top of front inner hinge, a bit of foxing to endsheets; still, a
very good, tight copy.
First edition of Bellamy’s third clothbound book, “a romantic novel about Spiritualism, which
was of [then] great current interest ... an amusing jeu d’esprit” – Bleiler. Uncommon.
BAL 954. BLEILER, p.20. BLEILER (SUPERNATURAL) 123. WRIGHT III:461. $400.
52. Bellamy, Edward: LOOKING BACKWARD 2000 – 1887. Boston: Ticknor & Company,
1888. Original gilt slate gray cloth. Endsheets darkened at gutters, cloth faintly handsoiled,
minor rubbing at spine ends, but for this book, a very good, tight copy.
First edition, first printing, with the imprint of “J.J. Arakleyan” on the verso of the title leaf.
Page 210 exhibits the uncorrected reading. The most important 19th century American
Utopian novel, and as the most widely read, one of the most influential of all 19th century
Utopian works. “Bellamy’s arguments for a socialist state, devoid of production for private
profit, concentrations of wealth, and social inequalities, were presented so convincingly as
reforms already accomplished that they easily aroused the imagination of people ready for
a new deal.” – Grolier 100.
BAL 956. GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 90. BLEILER, p.20. NEGLEY 80. SARGENT, p.
38. DOWNS 10. ADAMS, p.57. WRIGHT III:460. $1250.
53. Bemelmans, Ludwig: [Three Typed Letters, Signed “Ludwig”]. Paris & New York. 15
& 16 October 1951 and 3 June 1952. Three leaves, octavo and quarto. Folded for mailing,
light use, else very good.
Three letters to his representative, “Fred” [i.e. Frederic Newlen Price, of Feraragil Galleries]
about business matters, all short and to the point, accompanied by seven carbons of letters
by Price, or an employee, to Bemelmans and others, about sales and arrangements re: works
by Bemelmans (“Bemelmans is the modern Toulouse-Lautrec”). $350.
54. Bennett, Arnold: WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS [wrapper title]. London: Duckworth and
Co., July 1909. Large octavo. Pale blue wrappers. Small snag at crown of spine, edges
tanned and a bit dusty, very good.
First edition, published as a “Special Supplement” to The English Review, and preceding
formal book publication.
NCBEL IV:431. $85.
55. Bentivoglio, Mirella: JET-P68. Rome: Edikon, 1976. Oblong small octavo. Stiff decorated
wrappers. Laid-in pictorial gatefold by Bruno Conte. A few small faint spots to white wrapper,
otherwise very good to near fine.
First edition. Bentivoglio’s poems are printed in both Italian and English (translated by Franca
Zoccoli), and the sequence follows the stages of a jet flight. Published as “Collana Interazioni
2.” $100.
56. Berenson, Bernard: AESTHETICS AND HISTORY IN THE VISUAL ARTS. [New York]:
Pantheon, [1948]. Small octavo. Cloth. Twenty-four black & white plates. Edges dust-spotted,
spine a bit dull, bookplate (see below) offset to free endsheet, otherwise very good, without
dust jacket.
First edition. With the joint bookplate of poets Barbara Howes and William Jay Smith, and
with Berenson’s cordial May 5 1950 presentation inscription to them. $125.
57. Bethge, Hans, and Georg A. Mathéy [illus]: LIEBESVERSE. [Leipzig?]: Privatdruck,
1922. Thin quarto. Batik over boards. Illustrated. About fine, in battered and partially split
decorated folding case.
First edition in this format. Illustrated with six full-page etchings and a smaller etched titlepage vignette of nude women by German designer, architect and artist, Georg Alexander
Mathéy. From a total edition of 150 numbered copies printed on Zanders-Butten, this is one
of thirty copies signed by the author and the artist, with each full-page etching signed in
pencil in the margin by the artist. $550.
58. Biberstein, Michael: PROSPECT / REFUGE – IMAGES. Madrid: Duero, 1987. Extended
oblong quarto (125 x 325 mm). Cloth. Illustrations. Cloth faintly dust marked and with a mild
isolated abrasion to upper cover, otherwise very good, internally fine.
First edition. Illustrated with five serigraphs, with interleaved text printed on tissue. One of
eighty numbered copies for sale, from a total edition of 100 copies signed by the late artist. $150.
59. [Binding – American 19th Century]: Hall, Mrs. S.C. [Anna Maria]: TURNS OF FORTUNE;
AND OTHER TALES. New York: James Miller, 1864. 195,[4]pp. 12mo. Original forest green
EC cloth, elaborately decorated in blind and gilt. Frontis and pictorial extra-title. Plates
(unsigned). One signature starting slightly, otherwise very good, the binding fine and bright.
An attractive New York edition of these frequently reprinted tales by the Irish novelist and
occasional poet; NCBEL records first publication in London in 1858, but there appear to have
been earlier editions. Uncommon in this condition. $125.
60. [Binding – American Pictorial]: Judson, L. Carroll: THE PROBE, OR ONE HUNDRED
AND TWO ESSAYS ON THE NATURE OF MEN AND THINGS ... WITH AN APPENDIX ....
Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1847. viii,[9]-272,64pp. Large octavo. Publisher’s full
pebbled morocco, elaborately gilt extra, with pictorial vignettes and corner pieces, a.e.g.
Lithographed frontis portrait. Trace of occasional light foxing, small chip at crown of spine,
light rubbing to tips, otherwise very good.
Denoted the Fourth Edition, but all signs point to it being a matter of impression rather than
edition. Judson was a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and published several
purely historical works. This collection of miscellaneous short essays, intended “to probe
the festering wounds of human nature...” replaces a similar undertaking that was destroyed
by the Pittsburgh fire while still in manuscript. While the main text consists of alphabetically
arranged topical didactic essays (for example, “Novels, not useful in the aggregate”), the
appendix includes state documents and biographical sketches. The binding features a gilt
realization of “Washington Receiving His Commission” on each cover, with corner portrait
vignettes of the Founders, and lots of additional filigree. $100.
61. [Black Panther Party]: Newton, Huey P.: THE GENIUS OF HUEY P. NEWTON. [San
Francisco: Ministry of Information, ca. 1970]. Small quarto. Pictorial wrappers. First edition.
With an Introduction by Eldridge Cleaver (dated 2 January 1970). Very good or better.
$65.
62. [Blake, William, et al (illustrators)]: Gay, John: FABLES ... WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR
AND EMBELLISHED WITH SEVENTY PLATES. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793.
Two volumes. xi,[1],225,[1]pp. plus plates; vii,[1],187,[1]pp.
plus plates. Royal octavo. Full modern plum-brown crush
levant, raised bands, gilt labels, a.e.g. Frontis, engraved
title vignettes. Occasional light foxing and isolated finger
smudges, but a very good, large set (256 x 155 mm),
neatly bound
First Stockdale edition, first impression, on unwatermarked
paper and with the long ‘s’ throughout. This edition is
notable for the inclusion of twelve engravings executed by
William Blake, as well as engravings by Grainger, Mazell
and others. “Mr. Blake” is also present in the substantial
Subscribers list at the end of the second volume, which is followed by an advertisement
for Barlow’s Aesop. A concealed reprint on paper watermarked 1809 or 1810 utilizes the
modern ‘s’ throughout.
BENTLEY & NURMI 371a. KEYNES 106. RAY 1. ESTC N9619. $1250.
63. Block, Allan: THE SWELLING UNDER THE WAVES [wrapper title]. [Westport: Tiger’s
Eye, 1948]. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Wrappers faintly dusty, else near fine.
First edition, issued as the first of the intended series of “Tiger’s Eye Pamphlets.” The first
separate publication by the legendary Greenwich Village craftsman and musician. $60.
64. [Blue Sky Press]: [Moore, Edward Martin (ed)]: SPOIL OF THE NORTH WIND. Chicago:
Blue Sky Press, [1901]. Pictorial boards, decorated in green and red. Trace of shelfwear to
toe of spine, otherwise about fine.
First edition of this anthology of verse inspired by, or in parody of, Omar Khayyam and the
Rubaiyat. One of 100 numbered copies printed on Shandon paper with the initials illumined
in color by hand, from a total edition of 625. The art nouveau binding design, title-leaf and
initials are by Frank B. Rae, Jr.
RANSOM (BLUE SKY) 12. $300.
65. [Blue Sky Press]: Stevens, Thomas Wood, and Alden Charles Noble: THE MORNING
ROAD A BOOK OF VERSES. Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, 1902. Medium brown paper
boards, with pictorial design stamped in black. Printed spine label. Small nicks to spine ends,
minute spot on upper joint, but a very good copy, internally fine.
First edition. Copy #4 of fifteen numbered copies printed on Japan vellum and initialed (“L”)
by Alfred G. Langworthy, in addition to two hundred copies on handmade paper. Langworthy
and Stevens were principals of the press.
RANSOM (BLUE SKY) 24). $300.
Copy One of One
66. Bohbot, Michel, and Julius Baltazar [artist]: REPLI D’ANGLE. Paris: The Author and
Artist, April 1985. 27,[1]pp. Small folio (32 x 25 cm). Loose sheets and bifolia laid into handdecorated wrappers. White portions of wrappers slightly tanned along edges, but about fine.
A unique artist’s book, with Bohbot’s text written by him in ink in 1985 within the context of
Baltazar’s original India ink drawings, executed a decade earlier. The text and drawings
are on a medium gray Italian handmade paper, and the wrapper, also decorated in ink by
Baltazar, is white stock. With a formal justification, signed by Bohbot, and signed and dated
at the end of the text by both Bohbot and Baltazar. $1250.
With Beautfiul Color Lithos by Paul Jenkins
67. Bohbot, Michel, and Paul Jenkins [artist]: LA COULEUR EST UN CHEMIN. Paris: Éditions
Semios, 1986. Folio (39 x 29cm). Loose sheets laid into heavy handmade paper wrapper.
Illustrated. Fine.
First edition. Illustrated with four brilliant color lithographs by Paul Jenkins. One of 90 numbered copies for sale (in addition to 30 EA and 10 HC), signed by the author and artist, and
with each lithograph signed and numbered by the artist as well. Printed on Papier Pombié
by Pierre Jean Mathan, with the lithographs printed under the supervision of Claude Jobin.
$1000.
68. [Bookseller’s Catalogue – New York]: [Gudaitis, Anthony]: Gud, Anton [pseud]: FIRST
EDITIONS AMERICAN AND ENGLISH A CHECKLIST [wrapper title]. New York: Anton
Gud, [nd. but ca. 1930s]. [16]pp. Sewn printed wrappers. A few faint smudges to wrapper,
otherwise fine.
One of 400 copies set by hand and “privately printed.” Not a checklist, but rather a modest
bookseller’s catalogue, issued by Gudaitis [a.k.a. Gud] while doing business at 636 East 16th
Street. Gudaitis was an associate of Samuel Roth, published a novel, A Young Man About
to Commit Suicide under Roth’s Faro imprint, and is generally credited as ghost-writer of
Lady Chatterley’s Husbands (see Gertzman, p. 240). $45.
69. Bowles, Paul: YALLAH. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, [1957]. Cloth. Quarto. Photographs by Peter Haeberlin. Near fine in unusually nice dust jacket, with only minimal
evidence of the inevitable darkening and bubbling of the laminate.
First English language edition, printed in Switzerland. Although preceded by the German
language edition, 2500 fewer copies of this edition were printed. $250.
70. Boyd, Thomas: THROUGH THE WHEAT. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923. Gilt
cloth. Spine a bit dull, some rubbing at tips, 1923 ownership inscription on pastedown, trace
of foxing to endleaves; a good, sound copy, without the dust jacket.
First edition of the author’s first book, now somewhat uncommon. The first printing consisted
of only 1000 copies. One of the most significant of American novels about the Great War,
based on Boyd’s own experience as a Marine in the battles of Bois de Bellau de la Brigade
des Marins, Soissons, Champagne, and elsewhere. When he reviewed the book on its first
appearance, F. Scott Fitzgerald asserted: “To my mind this is not only the best combatant
story of the great war, but also the best war book since ‘The Red Badge of Courage.’” In
1927 it was reissued in an illustrated edition, and then, decades later, republished in SIU’s
Lost American Fiction series.
HANNA 402. $150.
71. [Bradley, Will]: Lamb, Charles: A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG. [Concord, MA: At
the Sign of the Vine, 1903]. 12mo. Pale gray-blue boards, printed label. Frontis and decorations. Very near fine.
First edition in this format, designed and printed by Will Bradley. With David Magee’s signed
pencil note on the front pastedown: “This is one of Will Bradley’s own copies purchased by
me from his son ....”
BAMBACE A62. $100.
72. Bramah, Ernest: KING WENG AND THE MIRACULOUS TUSK FROM KAI LUNG UNROLLS HIS MAT. [Birmingham: City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1941]. Boards, paper
label. Illustrations by W.J. Martindale. Subtle aberration in the front free endsheet (probably
incurred in manufacture), otherwise about fine.
First printing in this format, undertaken as a project for printing students in training. While
no limitation is explicit, the edition was likely not terribly large. $75.
73. Bresson, Robert [screenwriter and director], and Leo Tolstoy [sourcework]: L’ARGENT UN
FILM DE .... Paris. 16 June 1982. [1],126 leaves. Photomechanically reproduced typescript,
printed on rectos only of comb-bound A4 stock, printed card wrappers. Light use, very good.
A combined continuity script for Bresson’s screen adaptation of Tolstoy’s short-story, “The
Counterfeit Note.” Bresson directed Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet,
et al, in the May 1983 release, tying for Best Director at Cannes, and winning the National
Society of Film Critics Award for same. $300.
74. Brooks, Louise (1906 – 1985): [Three Typed Letters, Signed]. Rochester, NY. nd, 27
October, and 6 November 1966. Three pages, on three quarto lettersheets. Folded for mailing, otherwise about fine. Contained in a custom folding half morocco slipcase.
Three characteristic and revealing letters from the American film actress to an unidentified
“Mr. Brozen,” single-spaced, and signed in full, as usual, with colored pencil or crayon. After
establishing her credentials in films by, among others, Howard Hawks and William Wellman in
the mid to late ‘20s, Brooks left an indelible mark in two films directed by G.W. Pabst: Pandora’s Box (as ‘Lulu’, a role with which she was widely identified in later decades) and Diary
of a Lost Girl. Before retiring in 1935, she had starred in seventeen silent films and eight
sound films. In later years she struggled, but in the 1950s revival of interest in her and her
films led to her emergence as both a writer and a speaker about her days in the film industry.
In these three letters, to a party she had met on an occasion at Tallulah Bankhead’s home,
she takes issue with a number of critics and their commentary on her work. In reference to
an acquaintance of the recipient who is seeking information about Conrad Veidt, she asserts:
“He will find in all of his research nothing but lies and sloppy writing done by people who
know nothing of film but hitch themselves on this art in order to become rich and famous, like
Hallis Alpert. He was here to see me for the Playboy series he is doing ... and he couldn’t
get off his ass long enough to see me at Eastman House in LULU. Can you imagine? He
never saw me in anything. And he wrote ludicrously about the film ....” She notes further that
“The ‘resurgence of interest’ in me means only that a lot of little kids are pumping me for my
memories so that they may write papers on a time and a place and an art about which they
know nothing ....” In the undated letter, she reveals a bit more about herself, and comments
that “Myself I find a bore on the screen ... As for my writing ... I write about film because the
making of them is the only life I know, and perhaps in doing so, I am creating a new form
for the telling of a life story.” She responds to the recipient’s comments about the firing of
critic Bosley Crowther: “I don’t think your theory on Crother [sic] has much merit. He was
about to be fired before they came up with the pretty feeble Bonnie And Clyde pretext ...
the newspaper was waiting for an excuse.” About her own viewing of the film, “I did see B&C
last Saturday. As I have already written, it was excellent up to the point of the Oakie camp.
The girl, Dunaway, is the greatest star since Garbo, and superior on some ways. The beauty
of her body and grace is totally without calculation. Alas, these are qualities of innocence
which fade in film making.” She responds to the recipient’s comments about Mae West with
her own, and invites him to “Come if you like, but call first and bring a gun.” In the November
letter, she comments on the recipient’s own area of expertise, dance, and praises a writer’s
comments about Bogart as having “comforted her.” She then cuts loose in the direction of
another writer on Bogart (“a little French fop in Paris”): “The way certain idolaters write about
Hollywood and the legends they themselves created makes me want to puke. Am I to leave
one alter [sic] only to return to another with a canope [sic] of tinsel and an amen corner of
credulous, worshipful fools [?] I do not pay attention to them and IDOL is not in my lexicon
....” The letters bear a handful of small corrections and a deletion in pencil. $2650.
75. Brotchie, Alastair, and Malcolm Green [eds]: ATLAS ANTHOLOGY 3. [London & Heidelberg]: Atlas Press & Carcanet Press, [1985]. 224pp. plus folding inserts. Pictorial wrappers.
Illustrations. Very good or better.
First edition. The third number of the “house” serial of the innovative press, a comfortable
watering hole and playing field for Dadaists, Pataphysicians, traditionalists (with something
to say) and multiple generations of Surrealists. Texts in English or translations into English.
Gascoyne, Vian, Breton, Brus, Crevel, Jarry, Kirkup, Mathews, Pasolini, Peret, Queneau,
Roussel, Schwitters, Wainhouse, Shiel, et al. $75.
76. Bruce, Lenny [screenwriter]: [Original Studio Pictorial Window Card for:] THE ROCKET MAN. [Np]: Nat’l
Screen Service for 20th Century-Fox, 1954. Folio (22
x 14”) highly pictorial window card, printed on recto
only. Folded across middle, “Thu & Fri” stenciled in
marquee area at top margin, a few light dust smudges,
minor foxmarks at lower fore-corner, filing annotation
on blank verso; very good.
An original pictorial publicity window card for Lenny
Bruce’s second or, just possibly, third screenwriting
credit, released the same year as his thematically
polar-opposite riff on burlesque, Dream Follies. Bruce
co-wrote this script with Jack Henley, basing it on a
story by G. W. George and G. F. Slavin. Oscar Rudolph
directed the family-oriented science fiction comedy,
which starred Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, Anne
Francis and John Agar. Bruce’s first credit, Dance Hall
Racket, appeared in early 1953. $100.
77. Brus, Günter, and Dominik Steiger: JEDEN JEDEN
MITTWOCH – EIN ZWOMAN. Berlin: Edition Hundertmark, 1974. Thick quarto. Stiff pictorial wrappers.
Illustrated throughout. Trace of minor soiling to lower
wrapper, otherwise about fine.
First edition of this occasionally sexually explicit collaborative commingling of narrative text
and image. One of 600 numbered copies, signed by Brus and Steiger. $100.
78. Buber, Martin: ICH UND DU. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923. Gray paper boards, printed
in black and red. Very slight bowing to the upper board, a trace of slight tanning at edges,
otherwise near fine.
First edition of Buber’s most widely read work, initially translated into English in 1937 as I
and Thou. A central work in the exploration of man’s existential relationships with the “other,”
and the qualitative differences between those relationships with objects, other humans, or
divinity. The chronology of Buber’s work on the text appears on the final leaf, beginning in
1916 and concluding with the draft here printed, finished in 1922. $500.
79. Bunner, H. C.: MORE “SHORT SIXES.” New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1894. Octavo. Decorated glazed yellow wrappers. Illustrations by C.J. Taylor. Some chips and early
neat repairs to spine covering, pencil name on front wrapper, very light soiling to wrappers,
otherwise a very good copy. Cloth slipcase and chemise.
First edition, BAL’s printing ‘B’ (no priority ascertained), wrapperbound issue, published as
No. 10 in the series “Puck’s Stories.” Uncommon in wrappers
BAL 1927. WRIGHT III:781. $100.
80. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: THE ONE I KNEW BEST OF ALL A MEMORY OF THE
MIND OF A CHILD. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893. Elaborately gilt pictorial cloth,
t.e.g. Frontis and illustrations by Reginald Birch. First edition (7400 copies printed). A bright,
tight, near fine copy.
BAL 2084. WRIGHT III:812. $75.
81. Burroughs, John: WAKE-ROBIN. New York & Cambridge: Hurd and Houghton / Riverside
Press, 1871. Small octavo. Reddish brown cloth, decorated in gilt and black. Pencil eraser
tip-size spot on front pastedown, faint, narrow rub on rear board, otherwise an unusually
nice copy, near fine.
First edition of the author’s second book, in BAL’s binding A (no priority, but the most elaborate
of the three). Preceded by his work on Whitman, and two rare leaflets.
BAL 2135. $300.
82. Butor, Michel, and Gregory Masurovsky [illus]: OBLIQUES [Special Number 16/17].
[Les, Pilles, Nyons & Paris]. [February 1976]. Two volumes. Quarto. Stiff pictorial wrappers.
Illustrated throughout. Very faint dusting to white portions of wrappers, else about fine.
First edition. Copies ‘xx’ of thirty E.A. copies numbered in roman, and signed by Butor and
Masurovsky in each volume. A record of collaborations over 15 years. Masurovsky studied at
Black Mountain College in 1947-8, and subsequently settled in Paris. In 2004 he was featured
in an exhibition and workshop at Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center marking
the publication of Black Mountain College Dossier No. 8: Gregory Masurovsky. $100.
83. Butor, Michel, and Michel Sicard [illustrator]: INTEMPERIES. [Coutances]: Galerie
L’Hermitte, 1984. Folio (15.75 x 11.5”; 39 x 29 cm). Loose bifolia laid into serigraphed wrappers. Very near fine in decorated slipcase (after a design by Sicard).
First edition in this format. Butor’s text is reproduced from manuscript via serigraphy (with
an added original pencil postscript by him), and is accompanied by six original drawings by
Sicard (four of them full-page), plus a tailpiece, all but the tailpiece signed with initials by
the artist. One of forty numbered copies (of 45), signed by the author and the artist. $750.
84. Butor, Michel, and Michel Sicard [illus]: ASPERSIONS. [Paris & Nice: Published by the
Author and Artist, 1985 – 6]. Folio (15.75 x 11.5”; 39 x 29 cm). Loose bifolia laid into hand
calligraphed wrappers. Wrappers faintly dusty, but about fine.
First edition thus. Copy #8 of ten numbered copies, utilizing serigraphed text sheets from
Intempéries (1985), reconceived and heavily worked over by the artist in acrylic and black
ink with ten illustrations (some double-spread), at least five of them signed with initials by
the artist, with a special short colophon in manuscript, signed by the author and artist in
one of the images, and with a second, more detailed colophon in manuscript reproduced via
serigraph. $850.
85. [Cabell, James B.]: [A COLOPHONIC PROPOSAL] HOW THE PEOPLE OF COLOPHON
PROPOSED TO DO HONOR TO THE NAME OF CABELL. Cleveland: The Colophon Club,
1923. Sewn printed wrappers. Tipped-in portrait. Edges a bit frayed and sunned, offset from
portrait to title and inserted tissue guard; a good copy.
First edition. A scarce ephemeron, printing a letter by Cabell, as well as a Cabellian pastiche
by the members of the Club. Samuel Loveman has inscribed this copy, asserting that only
ten copies were printed; that number is, of course, demonstrably an understatement. $100.
86. Cain, James M.: [Carbon Typescript of:] THE 49’ERS A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. [Np:
The Author], 16 May 1945. [3],39,[1],47,[1],27 leaves. Quarto. Carbon typescript, on rectos
only of onionskin stock (although at least one leaf is in original typescript). Bradbound in
stock paper script binder, with typed label. Some coffee spots toward the top edge of the
upper wrapper, otherwise about fine.
Denoted the “revised version” of this three-act play -- the title is in reference to one of the
settings, a mid-town NYC restaurant that serves as a gathering place for tough guys, shifty
characters and their love interests. Murder and threats of same are involved. OCLC does
not report any other examples of this script, although material relating to the work is in the
Cain papers at LC. $850.
87. [Calder, Alexander]: Arnason, H. H.: CALDER. [Princeton]: Van Nostrand, [1966]. Quarto.
Yellow cloth. Portrait. Black and white photographs and color plates. Some dust spotting to
boards, and dust jacket endflaps, otherwise a very good copy in good dust jacket with several
snagged tears, a faded spine, some moderate chips and some laminate peel.
First edition. Photographs by Pedro E. Guerrero, and text by H. Harvard Arnason. This copy
bears Calder’s expansive presentation inscription to two of his neighbors on the title-page,
signed “Sandy Calder.” $475.
88. [Calder, Alexander]: Mulas, Ugo, and H. Harvard Arnason: CALDER. New York: Viking,
[1971]. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Black and white photographs and plates. Some dust marking at
edges of the dust jacket flaps and some mild foxing to some preliminary pages, otherwise
a nice copy in a dust jacket with a small snag at toe of spine and at upper back panel, and
some rubbing along the top edge.
First US edition. Photographed and designed by Ugo Mulas, introduction by H. Harvard Arnason with comments by Alexander Calder. This copy bears Calder’s affectionate presentation
inscription, incorporating a portrait of a man, to two of his neighbors, dated 1973, signed
“Love from Sandy.” $600.
89. CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY. Los Angeles. Autumn 1951 through Summer 1953. I:1-3;
II:1 & 4. Five issues. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Discoloration to extreme upper fore-tip of
first number, otherwise very good.
Edited by Lawrence Spingarn, et al. Representative issues from the early years: contributors
include Willard Marsh, Rolfe, Elliott, Bradbury, Honig, McGrath, Brand, Neruda, Césaire, Killens, Merriam, Williams, Algren, Pasternak, D. Woolf, et al. II:4 is a special number, devoted
to Bieberman and Wilson’s Salt Of The Earth, including the screenplay. An editorial in that
issue places the film in the context of the larger attack on the arts by the Night-Riders of the
subliterate Right. $100.
90. [Campbell, Roy]: Lyle, Anna Campbell: POETIC JUSTICE A MEMOIR OF MY FATHER
ROY CAMPBELL. Francestown: Typographeum, 1986. Large octavo. Red linen, paper spine
label, edges untrimmed. Portrait and plates. Trace of sunning to the spine, otherwise about fine.
First edition. One of a total edition of 150 copies printed and bound by R. T. Rick. $125.
91. [Capote, Truman (screenwriter)]: [Studio Publicity Campaign Pressbook for:] INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE. [Los Angeles]: Columbia Pictures, 1954. 19,[1]pp. plus 4pp.
newsprint insert herald. Quarto (41 x 30 cm). Pictorial self wrappers. Heavily illustrated.
Horizontal fold, spine a bit frayed and slightly split (the coverstock is heavy and most copies
exhibit this to one degree or another), but otherwise very good or better.
The publicity pressbook for the U.S. release of Truman Capote’s first screenwriting credit
– Capote contributed dialogue, and the screenplay was written by Luigi Chiarini, Giorgio
Prosperi, and Cesare Zavattini, who based the scenario on his story “Terminal Station.”
Vittoria De Sica directed Jennifer Jones and Montogmery Clift in the leading roles. The film
was released in Italy under the title Stazione Termini over a year prior to its US release,
and in that form, it preceded Beat the Devil, Capote’s second credit. $60.
92. Cardenal, Ernesto: LOS HIJOS DEL BOSQUE DE LA PALABRAS ALMAS .... [Paris &
Mainz]: Édition F. Despalles, [1986]. Small folio (13 1/8 x 8 3/4”; 335 x 220 mm). Decorated
boards. Illustrated throughout, including foldouts. Typographic decorations in colors. Fine.
First edition, A trilingual presentation of this
poem (including German and French translations), illustrated with original wood engravings in black and gray by Elbio Mazet and
typography by Johannes Strugalla. One of 110
copies on Vergé d’Arches, from a total edition
of 180 numbered copies, signed by Cardenal,
the illustrator and the designer, in addition
to 30 numbered copies hors commerce, and
“quelques exemplaires nominatifs.” There
was also a modified edition of two hundred
unsigned copies, consisting solely of the typographic elements.
$400.
93. Carpenter, Andrew [ed]: MISCELLANIES
IN VERSE BEING THE SECOND VOLUME
OF IRISH WRITINGS FROM THE AGE OF
SWIFT.... Dublin: Printed and Published by
The Cadenus Press, 1973. Half calf and
marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Fine, without
printed dust jacket, as issued.
First edition. One of two hundred numbered
copies printed by hand. This volume follows
the design by Liam Miller for the first volume,
which was printed at the Cuala Press.
$75.
94. Carpenter, Andrew [ed]: LETTERS TO AND FROM PERSONS OF QUALITY BEING THE
THIRD VOLUME OF IRISH WRITINGS FROM THE AGE OF SWIFT.... Dublin: Printed and
Published by The Cadenus Press, 1974. Half calf and marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Fine,
without printed dust jacket, as issued.
First edition. One of two hundred numbered copies printed by hand. This volume follows the
design by Liam Miller for the first volume, which was printed at the Cuala Press. $75.
95. Carpenter, Edmund, and Ken Hayman [photographer]: THEY BECAME WHAT THEY
BEHELD. New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / Ballantine, [1970]. Oblong small quarto.
Gray boards, lettered in silver. Fine in very good, inevitably somewhat rubbed and scratched
mirror finish dust jacket.
First edition, boardbound issue. The evolving sense of self dealt with visually and in text from
an anthropological point of view, in a format redolent of its era. The authors acknowledge
the involvement of Carpenter’s colleague, Marshall McLuhan, as co-author of an earlier version. $125.
96. [Carrier’s Address]: [Holmes, Oliver W.]: THE CARRIER’S DREAM AND THE BROOMSTICK TRAIN THE CARRIER BOYS OF THE SALEM GAZETTE AND ESSEX COUNTY
MERCURY TO THEIR PATRONS. JANUARY 1, 1891. Salem. 1891. 12pp. Octavo. Sewn
self-wrappers. Extracted from pamphlet binder. Quarter-size tea (?) stain at lower edge of
first two leaves, otherwise very good.
BAL assigns priority to the solo Roxbury printing from the South End Industrial School Press
(BAL 9025), and relegates this printing in company with “Old Salem as the Carrier Boy Saw
It,” to reprint status. Currier & Tilton make no ascription of priority. “The Broomstick Train”
was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in August 1890, and collected in Over the Teacups in November.
BAL 9207. CURRIER & TILTON, p.235-6. $125.
97. Carruth, Hayden: THE ADVENTURES OF JONES. New York: Harper & Bros., 1898.
12mo. Decorated cloth. Frontis and plates. Spine dull, else very good.
An early reprint of this collection of mixed fantasy stories, the author’s first book, originally
published in 1895. Inscribed “For Mr. Orson Lowell with good wishes” and signed by the
author in New York, 7 Dec. 1898. Lowell (1871 – 1956) moved from Chicago to New York in
1893, and soon established himself as a leading commercial magazine and book illustrator.
BLEILER, p.40. BLEILER (SF) 377. WRIGHT III:921. $75.
98. Carruth, Hayden: LIGHTER THAN AIR CRAFT. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University /
Press of Appletree Alley, [1985]. Small quarto. Cloth, printed paper label. Illustrated with
wood engravings by Barnard Taylor. Fine.
First edition. One of 110 numbered copies printed on Mohawk Letterpress text, from a total
edition of 150 copies, all signed by the author, printed by Barnard Taylor and associates.
Press devices by John DePol. $225.
99. Cartier-Bresson, Henri: THE DECISIVE MOMENT. New York: Simon & Schuster in Collaboration with Éditions Verve, [1952]. Small folio.
Decorated boards after a design by Matisse.
Illustrated with 126 photographs (some double
spread). An unusually nice copy, near fine, in
slightly tanned dust jacket (replicating Matisse’s
design) with a few smudges at the extreme lower
edges, a short closed tear at the top edge of the
front panel, and a few short tears and a small
creased snag at the edges of the rear panel.
First edition, US issue, printed in France. Accompanied by the separate [12]pp. quarto leaflet
printing the captions to the photographs in English. The design was undertaken by Teriade, with
the collaboration of Marguerite Lang, and the
photographs engraved and printed in heliogravure
by Draeger Frères. This state of the dust jacket
prints comments on the rear inner flap by Monroe
Wheeler, Philippe Halsman, Jacob Deschin, et al.
In his important introduction to this collection, one
of the defining books in the field of photography
from the immediate post WWII years, CartierBresson sums up the principles that would inspire the work of countless photographers for
the next half-century or more: “There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive
moment ... To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second,
of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that
event its proper expression.” The initial edition consisted of approximately 3000 French
language copies and 7000 English language copies, and like any number of significant
books, received highly positive reviews but sold only a slow trickle of copies. Because of
the nature of the binding and dust jacket, copies in agreeable condition, as here, are few
and far between. The first faithful reprint was finally published in late 2014. $3000.
100. [Cendrars, Blaise]: Mathieu, Bertrand [translator]: [Manuscript Archive for:] CHRISTMAS
ON THE FACE OF THIS PLANET MEMORY POEMS [published as CHRISTMAS AT THE
FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH]. [New Haven] [ca. 1975-6]. Quarto. Variously autograph
manuscript, and photomechanically reproduced typescript; very good.
The working autograph manuscript for Mathieu’s translation and introductory essay, accompanied by a retained photocopy typescript of an introduction by Anais Nin. Mathieu’s trans-
lation was eventually published by BOA editions in 1994 with illustrations by Denzil Walker.
Here present are: a) Original heavily revised autograph manuscript of the translation, ca. 80
leaves, quarto, written in ink chiefly on rectos only, and with scattered revisions throughout,
occasionally extending over to the versos, and b) a two page photocopied typescript of an
introduction to the translation by Anais Nin, dated Winter 1976, which was not included when
the text was finally published. $650.
101. [Child, Lydia Marie]: AUTHENTIC ANECDOTES OF
AMERICAN SLAVERY NO. 1 [with:] ... NO. 2. [Newburyport,
MA: Charles Whipple, nd. but 1835]. 12;4pp. 12mo. Sewn
self-wrappers. A bit dusty and lightly foxed, but very good.
First editions of these two anonymously published serial
tracts, both of them attributed to Child by BAL on the basis
of a publisher’s note in The Evils of Slavery (1836) and a
statement in the Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1836. Somewhat
uncommon and significant examples of Child’s anti-slavery
activities, incorporating testimony of actual circumstances
as examples to counter apologists for slavery. The entry in
American Imprints joins the parts, but includes pagination
only for the first part. Uncommon in the trade. A second
edition, conjoining both parts, appeared in 1838.
BAL 3123 & 3124. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 30897.
$650.
102. [Chromolithography]: FEW WORDS. MANY TRUTHS.
THE HARTFORD RUBBER WORKS COMPANY HARTFORD CONN., U.S. [wrapper title]. Hartford. [1901]. [16]pp.
String sewn pictorial stiff wrappers. Illustrated throughout
in color. Faint tidemark at fore and bottom edges, affecting
only some margins, otherwise a very good, bright copy.
A handsome promotional brochure, illustrated with full-color chromolithographs printed by
H. A. Thomas & Wylie lithographers in New York. The text, which includes portions in verse,
extols the virtues of the Hartford Single Tube for bicycles, carriages and horseless carriages
as the key to la vie splendide. OCLC locates a single copy, at CT Historical.
OCLC: 24059917 $65.
103. [Clemens, Samuel]: Twain, Mark, and Thomas Hart Benton [illustrator]: LIFE ON THE
MISSISSIPPI .... New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Large octavo. Publisher’s half
green pigskin and pictorial cloth. Color frontis and plates. Fine in torn glassine, and lightly
edgeworn folding case with some erosion to the spine label.
First edition in this format, with illustrations by Thomas Hart Benton, an Introduction by
Edward Wagenknecht, and a number of previously suppressed passages now first printed.
Edited, with a note, by Willis Wager. Copy #300 of 1200 numbered copies, printed by Rudge
and signed by Benton.
BAL 3571. $275.
104. [Clemens, Samuel L.]: Twain, Mark, and Thomas Hart Benton [illustrator]: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER ... WITH A PROLOGUE “BOY’S MANUSCRIPT” PRINTED FOR
THE FIRST TIME. Cambridge: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the
University Press, 1939. Large octavo. Denim over boards, paper spine label. Illustrations
after drawings by Thomas Hart Benton. Manuscript facsimile. Fine in slightly torn glassine
and somewhat worn slipcase with crack at one joint and dust spotting to top panel.
One of 1500 numbered copies, printed after a design by C. P. Rollins, and signed by the
artist, Thomas Hart Benton. Introduction by Bernard DeVoto.
BAL 3562. Sold
105. Cobbing, Bob: BILL JUBOBE SELECTED TEXTS ...1942-1975. [Toronto]: The Coach
House Press, 1976. Oblong small octavo. Pictorial wrappers. About fine.
First edition. Edited by the author and Sean Ohuigin. One of 750 copies. A substantial selection from the works of the influential British concrete and visual poet. $75.
106. Cohen, Leonard: SELECTED POEMS. New York: The Viking Press, [1968]. Plastic
comb-bound stiff printed wrappers, printed label. Residue of filing label at lower quarter of
front and rear wrapper, otherwise very good or better.
Uncorrected page proofs of the first (US) edition, with publisher’s promotional letter laid in,
and a photoduplicated promotional blurb affixed by the publisher to the first leaf (causing
offset to verso and following page). Uncommon format. $150.
107. [Cole, Thomas – His Copy]: Gwilt, Joseph: SCIOGRAPHY; OR, EXAMPLES OF SHADOWS; WITH RULES FOR THEIR PROJECTION: INTENDED FOR THE USE OF ARCHITECTURAL DRAUGHTSMAN AND OTHER ARTISTS. London: Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria
Lane, 1839. viii,55pp plus plates (some folding). Contemporary cloth (disbound and boards
detached). Text heavily foxed, plates less so. Physically only a fair copy, but see below.
Denoted the “Second Edition, With Considerable Additions and Improvements, and Six Additional Plates,” but in fact an example of Whittaker and Co. taking on distribution of sheets
from that edition, printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars and published first in 1824, and equipping
the sheets with a cancel title leaf bearing their imprint. Potentially an interesting association
copy, bearing an ownership signature (“Thos. Cole 1840”) in the upper margin of the title.
The signature bears a strong resemblance to that of the prominent American painter, Thomas
Cole (1801-1848), long associated with the Hudson River school of painting. The date of the
signature and the subject matter of the book are significant and suggest a highly attractive
association with one of Cole’s most famous paintings, “The Architect’s Dream.” As recorded
on the web site of The Thomas Cole National Historic Site: “Cole created The Architect’s
Dream for prominent New York architect Ithiel Town, who commissioned a landscape from
the artist in 1839. Town paid Cole in cash and books from his extensive architectural library,
which inspired the painting’s fantastic composition. Cole was, in his own words, ‘something
of an architect,’ and provided the plans for the Ohio State Capitol, and also for St. Luke’s
Episcopal Church in Catskill after an earlier building burned down in 1839. Cole’s friend William
Cullen Bryant described The Architect’s Dream as ‘an assemblage of structures, Egyptian,
Gothic, Grecian, Moorish, such as might present itself to the imagination of one who had
fallen asleep after reading a work on the different styles of architecture.’ Cole finished The
Architect’s Dream in only five weeks, exhibiting it in the 1840 National Academy of Design
annual exhibition, where it received mixed reviews. Some critics found it ‘too full of poetry,’
while others declared it ‘display[ed] as much genius as many of his best.’ Unfortunately, Cole’s
patron was on the opposing side, and ultimately refused to accept the painting because it
was ‘exclusively Architectural.’” It is possible, if not probable, that this book was among those
which constituted the book portion of Ithiel Town’s down payment to Cole. $750.
108. [Collège de ‘Pataphysique’]: CIRCULAIRE PHYNANCIERE DU NOUVEL AN PATAPHYSIQUE [caption title]. [Charleville: Imp. de L’Ardennais, “15 absolu 89” (ie 1961)]. [4]
pp. Folded quarto leaflet, on pale green stock. Horizontal fold, stock sunned to tan at edges
and fold, still a very good copy of a fragile piece.
A circular, signed at the end “T. Bullin,” chiefly concerned with recent publications, including those associated with the College, and those by authors of kindred sensibilities – Boris
Vian, Jean Dubuffet, new editions of Jarry – as well as thematically appropriate postcards
and stamps.
OCLC 701820401. $125.
109. Colp, Norman B. (1944 – 2007): WHAT WOMEN WEAR DAILY. [New York: The Artist, 1984]. Small octavo (125 x 102 mm). Accordion fold between cloth boards. About fine.
A unique photographic artist’s book by the installation artist, comprised of a sequence of
seven 6.5 x 5 cm original silver print photographs, mounted on decorated Japanese paper,
with rubber-stamped title. The photographs result in a sequential revelation of the subject of
the book. Signed and dated by the artist, and with his business card laid in with ms. note on
verso. Colp’s installation, “The Commuter’s Lament – A Close Shave,” was commissioned
by the NYC MTA, and is his most widely recognized work. $750.
110. Confortès, Claude: ESPRIT DE SUITE. Paris: Editions Janus, [1954]. Pictorial wrapper. Illustrations and portrait. Wrappers a bit snagged and frayed along overlap edges, but
very good.
First edition. Copy #56 of 150 copies on Fleur d’ Alfa, from a total edition of 500 copies. A
quite early work by the dramatist / actor / director / poet / theoretician. No copies are located
in OCLC/Worldcat. $125.
111. Confortès, Claude: SUITE CONCRÈTE. Paris: La Presse a Bras de Monteiro, 1954.
12mo. Oblong sheet folded to make eight panels (142 x 95mm). Printed recto and verso.
Very faint creases, otherwise fine.
First separate edition of these poems. Copy #88 of 100 copies reprinted from their appearance in Poèsie. A rather early work by the dramatist / actor / director / poet / theoretician.
No copies are located in OCLC/Worldcat. $125.
112. [Connolly, Cyril]: Hirth, Mary [comp]: CYRIL CONNOLLY’S ONE HUNDRED MODERN
BOOKS FROM ENGLAND, FRANCE AND AMERICA 1880-1950 ... WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CYRIL CONNOLLY. AN EXHIBITION: MARCH – DECEMBER 1971. Austin: The
Humanities Research Center, 1971. Oblong small quarto. Cloth. Illustrations and facsimiles.
Edges a trace sunned, otherwise about fine, without dust jacket, as issued.
First edition, clothbound issue (520 copies bound thus). With the bookplate of Paul Horgan.
Letters, manuscripts and inscriptions by a number of the exhibited writers are quoted or
reproduced in the text. $60.
113. [Connolly, Marc (sourcework)]: [Atwell, Ben (ed)]: [Souvenir Theatrical Program for:]
THE GREEN PASTURES. [New York: Gordon-Baker Printing Corp., nd. but ca. 1932]. 16pp.
Quarto. Pictorial semi-art deco wrappers. Illustrations. Minor edgewear, but very good or better.
A souvenir program for road-show engagements of Connolly’s Pulitzer Prize winning play,
referencing both the New York and the Chicago premieres. Includes an “Analysis and Appreciation” by Atwell, biographical sketches of the principals and stars, endorsements from
church leaders and a complete cast list and program. $95.
114. [Conrad, Joseph (sourcework)]: Brosnan, Peter L. [screenwriter]: JOSEPH CONRAD’S
HEART OF DARKNESS AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY .... Los Angeles: Anglo American
Films, March 1989. [2],141 leaves. Quarto. Photo-mechanically reproduced typescript, printed
on rectos only. Bradbound and inserted into somewhat cumbersome printed production company folder with fold-in flaps. Title leaf tanned and with a few stains, some relevant reader’s
receipts and notes taped to prelims, fold-in flaps torn at corner, otherwise a good copy.
A first draft of this adaptation of Conrad’s novella, evidently unproduced in this form. The
1994 made-for-television film was from another production company and screenwriter. The
inserted reader’s notes include the suggestion that a viewing of Fitzcarraldo would serve
as context. $125.
115. Corman, Cid: [Autograph and Typed Manuscript of:] “Paragraphs on Poetry.” [Np].
[nd. but possibly ca. 1962]. Four pages, on rectos only of four leaves of 10 x 7” plain paper.
First two pages closely typed, with a handful of revisions or corrections, the third and fourth
closely written in black ink. Folded, but very good.
Ca. 600+ words on the “fundamental datum of poetry,” and poetry “as a sort of verification
of existence, ours and others’.” Laid into Corman’s copy of Poesia E Critica, Whole Number
2, Milan, 1961, with his February 1962 ownership inscription. There is no direct correlation
between the essay and the contents of the issue, which is included as context of the manuscript’s physical residence for many years. $225.
116. Corso, Gregory: WAY OUT A POEM IN DISCORD. Kathmandu, Nepal: Bardo Matrix,
1974. Small quarto. Gilt lettered sewn wrappers. About fine.
First edition, published as Starstreams Poetry Series No. 1. Copy #101 of 500 numbered
copies. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Corso on the title-page. The separately
printed slip pertaining to the performance of the play is present. $250.
117. Cory, David: TRAVELS OF PUSS IN BOOTS, JR. IN FAIRYLAND. [New York]: Harper
& Brothers, [May 1918]. Gilt lettered cloth with pictorial onlay. Faint old discoloration along
about a third of the extreme lower edge of the rear cover, otherwise about fine and bright,
in a very good example of the scarce pictorial dust jacket (small stain on spine panel, short,
internally mended tear at top edge of front panel, shallow loss at crown of spine, a few other
small nicks).
First edition, first printing, with ‘Published May 1918’ and letter code ‘E-S’ on verso of title.
One of ten highly popular books Cory published between 1917 and 1922, derived somewhat
from the character polished by Perrault some two centuries earlier. An uncommon book in
the first printing (though G&D reprints abound), particularly in dust jacket. $275.
118. Craig, J[ohn]. Duncan: MIEJOUR; OR PROVENCAL LEGEND, LIFE, LANGUAGE, AND
LITERATURE IN THE LAND OF THE FELIBRE. London: John Nisbet & Co., 1877. Forest
green cloth decorated in black and gilt. Extremities a bit bumped and rubbed, occasional
foxing, small ink drop on fore-edge; about very good.
First edition. Inscribed by the Irish translator / linguist / historian in the year of publication: “To
Mrs. Carter Brown with the author’s very kindest and truest regards, Vesey Place, Kingston,
Dublin 12 Dec. ‘77.” Further inscribed by the recipient to her cousin in 1897.
O’DONOGHUE, p.46. $125.
119. Crane, Stephen: MAGGIE A GIRL OF THE STREETS. New York: D. Appleton and
Company, 1896. Tan cloth, decorated in red, black and gilt, lettered in red and black. Cloth
a bit smudged and lightly handsoiled, internally near fine.
Second, somewhat revised edition of Crane’s first novel, first published pseudonymously
in 1893. This copy exhibits BAL’s state 1 of the title, set in upper and lower case letters.
BAL 4075. WILLIAMS & STARRETT 8. WRIGHT III: 1254. $400.
120. Cristofer, Michael [screenwriter]: FALLING IN LOVE. Hollywood & New York: Paramount
Pictures / Marvin Worth Productions, 16 August 1983. [1],128 leaves Quarto. Mechanically
reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in Studio Duplicating Services
binder. Ink name (see below) small smudge on upper wrapper, otherwise near fine.
A revised first draft of this original screenplay. Ulu Grosbard directed the 1984 release, starring Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, et al. This was Cristofer’s first screenplay
to see production following his own 1980 adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The
Shadow Box. This copy bears the ownership signature of Les Lazarowitz, credited sound
mixer for the production. $225.
121. Crouwel, Wim [design]: ATELIER 12 ... BEELDJE VOOR BEELDJE EEN TENTOONSTELLING OVER NEDERLANDSE ANIMATIEFILMS [wrapper title]. Amsterdam: Stedelijk
Museum, 1974. Octavo (20.5 x 13 cm). Stiff card printed wrappers, rivet-bound in middle to
create two distinct flip-images at the fore-edges. Very minor use at tips, otherwise near fine.
An innovative flip-book designed by Crouwel to accompany the 4 October – 10 November
1974 museum program devoted to Dutch film animators. The printed flip animations were
created by Jacques Verbeek, Karin Wiertz, and Niek Reus, and counterpoint text and a
catalogue of the films. $75.
122. [Cuala Press]: Carpenter, Andrew [ed]: MISCELLANIES IN PROSE BEING THE FIRST
VOLUME OF IRISH WRITINGS FROM THE AGE OF SWIFT.... Dublin: Printed for the publishers, The Cadenus Press, 1972. Half calf and marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Fine, without
printed dust jacket, as issued.
First edition. One of two hundred numbered copies, designed by Liam Miller, and printed by
hand. Although the imprint does not appear within, of the ten volumes in this series, this is
the only volume to be printed at the Cuala Press.
MILLER, p. 131. $125.
123. Cunard, Nancy: RELÈVE INTO MAQUIS. Derby: The Grasshopper Press, 1944. [4]pp.
Folded leaflet. About fine.
First edition. One of 250 copies printed by Kenneth Hopkins. A second, close-to-facsimile
printing was made in 1979.
REILLY (WWII), p.92. $65.
124. Curle, Richard: THE ONE AND THE OTHER. London: Jonathan Cape, [1928]. Gilt cloth.
About fine, in good, modestly tanned, price-clipped pictorial dust jacket with some fraying
at crown and toe of spine.
First edition of the author’s first novel, preceding the US edition. Inscribed and signed by
the author: “Richard Curle 1928 This English edition appeared several months before the
first American edition. But the American text is superior.” $200.
With Signed Sentiment
125. [Curtis, George William]: Winter, William: GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS A EULOGY
DELIVERED BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF STATEN ISLAND, AT THE CASTLETON, ST.
GEORGE, FEBRUARY 24, 1893. New York & London: Printed for the Curtis Commemoration
Committee of Staten Island by Macmillan and Co., 1893. Small octavo. Linen and boards,
paper spine label, edges untrimmed. Portrait. Binding and label darkened and edgeworn,
three bookplates on pastedown, some foxing at edges; just a sound copy.
First edition, limited issue, BAL’s imprint B for that issue (no priority established). One of
250 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Tipped-in on a folded 12mo sheet is a
seven-line ink sentiment, signed in full by Curtis, dated 17 December 1863.
BAL 23097 and II:393. $150.
126. [Daguerre, Louis J. M.]: Arago, Francois: “... Le Daguerréotype,” contained in COMPTES
RENDUS HEBDOMADAIRES DES SÉANCES DE L’ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES ... TOME
NEUVÌEME JUILLET – DÈCEMBRE 1839. Paris: Bachelier, 1839. 903,[1]pp. Large, thick
quarto. Modern half morocco and cloth, edges wholly untrimmed and largely unopened. Some
tanning at extreme edges, half-title and errata tanned, half-title chipped at lower fore-corner,
but a nice, fresh copy.
First edition. On pp. 250 through 267 appears the printed record of Francois Arago’s detailed
presentation to the Academy, made in August, of Daguerre’s development of the photographic
process that came to bear his name, constituting its first official description to the scientific
community. A letter from Daguerre to Arago, “Des procédés photogéniques considérés comme
moyens de gravure,” and comments addressing other relevant issues appear on pages 423
– 430, and a briefer note from Daguerre to Arago appears on pp.512-513. Arago’s Rapport
... was also published separately, and Daguerre’s own work, Historique et Description des
Procédés du Daguerréotype et du Diorama appeared the same year, but was preceded
by Arago’s August presentation.
PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 318 (note). HORBLIT 21b (note). $3000.
127. DANCE PERSPECTIVES. New York. Winter 1959 through Spring 1961. Whole numbers 1- 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10, plus Index To...1-4 And Current Bibliography For Dance 1959.
Eight issues, plus index. Pictorial wrappers. Photographs and illustrations. Very good to fine.
Edited by A. J. Pischl, et al. A nice lot of early numbers of this long running quarterly that
suspended publication in Summer 1976 with its 66th number. Each issue is turned over
largely to a single monograph by a distinguished commentator: #1, for example, is Lincoln
Kirstein’s “What Ballet is About: An American Glossary.” $225.
128. Davenport, Guy: DO YOU HAVE A POEM BOOK ON E.E. CUMMINGS? Penland,
NC: Jargon Society, 1969. Pictorial wrappers, featuring drawings by the author. About fine.
First edition. Signed by Davenport on the half-title. One of one thousand copies, hors commerce, issued as Jargon 67.
CRANE A8. $65.
129. Davenport, Guy: JONATHAN WILLIAMS, POET. Cleveland: Asphodel Book Shop, 8
March 1969. Pictorial wrapper over plain wrappers. Portrait by the author, photograph by
Ralph E. Meatyard. A few faint smudges to wrappers, otherwise near fine.
First separate edition of this tribute, printed on the occasion of the poet/publisher’s 40th
birthday in an edition of five hundred copies. This copy bears Williams’s brief 1985 signed
(“Jonathan”) inscription.
CRANE A9. $65.
130. Davenport, Guy [intro to]: THE DRAWINGS OF PAUL CADMUS. New York: Rizzoli,
[1989]. Small oblong quarto. Cloth. Plate and illustrations (some in color). First edition. With
an appended Catalogue Raisonné (1924-85). Faintly dusty at top edge, else about fine in
dust jacket.
CRANE D118. $125.
131. Davie, Alan (1920 – 2014): MAGIC
READER [cover title]. [London: Paragon
Press, 1988]. Folio (17 x 14”; 43 x 36
cm). Color screenprinted upper wrapper.
Illustrated. Fine in publisher’s chemise
and slipcase.
First edition in book form, comprised of
eighteen original two-color lithographs,
usually incorporating text in English,
Spanish or French, and occasionally
finger or partial hand prints. One of fifty
numbered copies (and 3 APs), signed by
the artist. The lithographs were pulled by
Ian Lawson on Vellum Arches. There was an additional issue of 45 copies in portfolio format.
A prime example of the artist’s concern with common symbols from disparate cultures. $650.
132. Davies, Robertson: A MIXTURE OF FRAILTIES. Toronto: Macmillan, 1958. Cloth. Light
offset to endsheets from jacket flaps, otherwise a very good copy in lightly soiled, spine
tanned dust jacket with a small closed tear at bottom edge of lower panel.
First edition, Canadian issue, printed in the US, with Macmillan Toronto prelims and jacket.
Signed by the author on the title-page. $250.
133. [Day, Dorothy (her copy)]: Crane, Stephen: THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE AN
EPISODE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. New York: Appleton, 1896. Tan cloth stamped
in gilt, red and black, top edge stained yellow. Cloth a bit foxed and soiled, old tidemark
around upper forecorner of binding and textblock; just a good, sound copy.
From the library of Catholic activist and humanitarian, Dorothy Day, with her ink signature
on the free endsheet and the slightly later inscription “my mother’s book.” Later printing of
the first edition, but with the adverts common to the first state of the first edition still opening
the terminal catalogue rather than an advert for this work.
WRIGHT III:1257. $150.
134. Day, Holman: THE RAMRODDERS A NOVEL. New York & London: Harper & Bros.,
1910. Gilt lettered green textured cloth. Frontis. A bit of modest rubbing to cloth, small abrasion to top edge of one board, otherwise very good.
First edition of this novel concerning political machinations and intrigues on the state level.
Hanna cites several of Day’s other titles.
SMITH D-232. $75.
One of Four Uncorrected Copies
135. De Casseres, Benjamin: THE MUSE OF LIES. Newark: The Pose Printers & Publishers,
Inc., [1935]. Large octavo. Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt. Binding somewhat dull and rubbed,
spine extremities worn, but a sound copy.
First edition, first (unpublished) issue. With the author’s full-page presentation inscription
to attorney Arthur Leonard Ross. Ross was Frank Harris’s attorney and executor, a backer
of the Provincetown Players, and confidant and attorney for Emma Goldman. Presumably
he maintained a similar relationship with De Casseres. The inscription reads: “Dear Arthur:
There are only four copies of this book -- probably the most restricted edition of any work.
There is an error in the copyright line. It should be 1936, there is a page missing giving an
account of other books and the dust cover is missing. I am retaining 3 copies for myself
and present this again to you with salutations. Yours, Ben. To Arthur Leonard Ross from
Benjamin De Casseres New York 1936.” A corrected issue (or printing) was published the
same year. $125.
136. de Vries, Hermann [sic]: RESEARCH SERIES XXVI [cover title]. [Neuchâtel]: Editions
Media, March 1978. Quarto (9.5 x 9.5”; 24 x 24 cm). Loose sheets, enclosed in plain stiff
card envelope. Envelope a bit smudged, otherwise fine.
First edition. A sequence of nine original serigraphs (some in color) with explanatory text by
the artist. One of only fifty copies, with each serigraph signed and numbered in pencil on
the verso by de Vries. OCLC locates only the copy at the BN.
OCLC: 469670123. $1250.
137. Debord, Guy: SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE. Detroit: Black & Red / Radical America,
1970. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with photographs, collages, etc. Ink name on title, otherwise very good or better.
First edition in English of this canonical Situationist text, published as IV:5 of Radical
America. The translator is not identified, though members of the RA staff, including Fredy
Perlman, may have participated. Accompanied by a very good or better copy of the 1973
second printing (i.e. the first printing apart from its original format as a special number of
RA, with the errata corrected). $225.
138. Deisler, Guillermo, and Gregorio Berchenko: COLLAGES [wrapper title]. [Halle/Saale
(?): The Artists], 1991. ca. 36 pp. plus inserted booklet. Oblong quarto (15 x 22 cm). Plastic
comb-bound pictorial wrappers. About fine.
First edition. Copy #26 of fifty numbered copies, signed by the collaborators. Deisler (19401995) escaped his native Chile when Pinochet’s dictatorship came into power, and spent
time in France, Bulgaria and the GDR. In the GDR, he worked as a stage designer, and
was a force in the word-art / mail-art movement, particularly in his support of the work of
Latin American practitioners. Berchenko is an internationally known Chilean sculptor, who
also participates in mail-art and works with visual poetry. This collaborative assembly defies
easy characterization, and consists of found items and collages of same, various printed or
pictorial detritus, and in a sealed bag, a facsimile of an 18th century German pamphlet. No
copies are located in OCLC/Worldcat. $400.
From the Library of a Leading 19th Century American Woman Physician
139. Dendy, Walter Cooper: THE PHILOSOPHY OF MYSTERY. New York: Harper & Bros.,
1847. vi,[7]-442,5,[1]pp. 12mo. Original cloth, stamped in gilt. Bookplate on pastedown (see
below), spine extremities frayed, foxing and a few occasional spots, but a good, sound copy.
A late printing of the US edition, in the format of the “Harper’s New Miscellany” series, of this
highly popular consideration of aspects of the supernatural and paranormal, first published
in London in 1841. Subjects include demonology, mesmerism, ghosts and spectres, “fantasy
from cerebral congestion,” dreams, “poetic fantasy or phrensy,” premature internment, etc.
The bookplate is that of Sarah R.[ead] A.[damson] Dolley, MD (1829-1909), the pioneering
American woman physician, who graduated from Central Medical College in 1851, and for
much of her professional life practiced in Rochester. The first American woman to graduate
from medical school, Elizabeth Blackwell, received her degree in 1849. The places on the
bookplate for acquisition details have not been filled in, but the space for the date (‘18__’)
is still a place holder for the 19th century.
Windsor, WOMEN IN MEDICINE (2002), pp. 65-70. $75.
140. “Denmark” [the Belgian artist known as]: ARCHIVES RECYCLÉES. [Ghent]: Imschoot,
uitgevers, [1989]. 111pp. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. Plates and photographs (many
in color). About fine.
First edition of this expansive exhibition catalogue attending this installation hosted by the
Centre d’Art Nicolas de Staël at Braine-l’Alleud. Introduction by Marcel Daloze (printed in
English at the conclusion of the text). Much of the work is related to books, archives, data,
paper, etc, and Ray Bradbury is a frequent touchstone. There were fifty copies signed by the
artist -- the position of what may, or may not be, Denmark’s original signature in this copy
is clouded by its visual context. $75.
141. [Design]: Gingrich, Arnold [editor]: APPAREL ARTS [#4]. New York & Chicago. Fall
1932. Small folio. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Lavishly illustrated in color and black &
white. Tipped-in samples, etc. Edges rubbed. some damp staining along lower joint and
to rear board, with heavy residuary discolorations to rear endsheets, faint discolorations
to the front endsheets, and the same occasionally in the gutters, a few late advertisement
leaves a bit rippled, narrow vertical adhesion scratch to lower board; a sound, if somewhat
blemished copy.
Volume one, number four, of this extraordinarily beautiful periodical, which pulled out all the
stops in terms of production values in its presentation to members of the trade the latest
developments in men’s fashion. This copy is inscribed and signed by Gingrich on the titlepage: “For Tony, Without whose assistance ... Arnold Gingrich.” In addition to the brilliant color
work and striking layouts, one finds two full-page photographs by Margaret Bourke-White
as well as some spectacular color renderings of modernist store designs. The periodical
initially had very limited distribution in trade channels but proved so popular that in addition
to spinning off Esquire, it expanded into a more modest, yet still visually innovative, mass
market format (in 1936 Paul Rand was taken on as a staff designer). Eventually, Apparel
Arts morphed into GQ. Early issues are very uncommon, and often exhibit signs of abuse. $275.
An Appropriate Association Copy
142. [Desor, Pierre Édouard]: THE OCEAN AND ITS MEANING IN NATURE [caption-title].
[Boston. 1849]. 18pp. Sewn self wrappers. Sewing partially absent, externally dusty, transparent but significant tidemark affects upper third of textblock, a few creased nicks along
spine; a sound copy of a fragile item.
First separate printing, as an offprint (according to OCLC) from the Mass. Quarterly Review,
June, 1849. Inscribed faintly in the upper margin of the first leaf: “G.B. Emerson with the
regards of the Author.” Desor, a Swiss geologist and naturalist, collaborated with Agassiz
in Europe, and accompanied him to the US in 1847. He worked on the coastal survey, and
helped with the geological survey of the mineral district of Lake Superior. The recipient was
almost certainly educator and naturalist, George Barrell Emerson (1797-1881). “The study of
natural ecology became a focus of Emerson’s adult life, and his influence extended into this
area as well. Emerson was an environmentalist with the attitude of a romantic and the aptitude
of a scientist. As a romantic he believed that ‘every object is full of beauty, every sound has
an echo in the heart of a child.’ Seven years after its formation in 1830, the Boston Society
of Natural History chose Emerson as its president. During his six-year tenure as president
and scientist, he commissioned a zoological and botanical survey of Massachusetts and
spent considerable time on his own botanical research. At one point during the survey he
rejected an offer of the professorship of natural history and the directorship of the Botanical
Garden at Harvard University” – American National Biography (online). There is one ink
correction in the text. OCLC locates four copies of this separate, three of them at Harvard.
OCLC: 80560036. $175.
143. Dickinson, Emily: JANVIER 1866 LETTRE & POÈME
ENVOYÉS À THOMAS W. HIGGINSON [cover title]. [Paris: Les
Éditions du Rouleau Libre, 1991].
Oblong quarto (6 3/4 x 9”; 17 x 23
cm). Open-sewn stiff boards, with
wooden spine anchor. Illustrations.
Fine.
First edition in this format, the text
printed in English with a parallel
translation into French by Déborah Kéramsi and Pierre Mréjen.
Illustrated with four original gravures by Monique Palayer. One of
a total edition of 46 copies (6 hors
commerce), numbered and signed by the artist. OCLC locates copies at the BN, Brown and
Denver University.
OCLC: 39953067. $225.
144. Dickinson, Emily: APHORISMES .... [Paris: Aux dépens des 30, 1995]. Oblong octavo
(4 1/2 x 6 3/4”; 115 x 167 mm). Folded signatures, laid into printed wrappers. Fine, in faintly
smudged printed cloth and board clamshell box.
First edition in this format of these translations into French, presented in company with red,
white and blue engravings by Bambagioni, and typographic decorations supporting a US flag
motif. Comprised of nine bifolia, each of which opens to a double-page spread of text and
images. One of a total edition of 45 numbered copies printed on BFK Rives, and signed by
the artist. OCLC locates only the NYPL copy in North America.
OCLC 714117936. $300.
145. [Dimitrijevic, Braco]: Cladders, Johannes: BRACO DIMITRIJEVIC. Mönchengladbach:
Städtisches Museum, 1975 (205 x 160 mm). Two bound pamphlets laid into printed box.
Accompanied by an artist’s multiple laid into a separate compartment in the box. Upper lid
of box a bit soiled, otherwise very good or better.
First edition. One of 330 numbered copies. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held
March – April 1975. The first pamphlet includes Cladders’ text, photos and a chronology. The
second pamphlet is Dimitrijevic’s Dies Könnte Ein Ort Von Historischer Bedeutung Sein
/ This Could Be A Place Of Historical Interest, illustrated with photographs. The multiple
is an 18cm long deformed piece of heavy wire. $275.
146. [Dolmen Press]: Philips, William: ST. STEPHEN’S=GREEN OR THE GENEROUS LOVERS .... BEING THE TENTH VOLUME OF IRISH WRITINGS FROM THE AGE OF SWIFT....
Dublin: Published by The Cadenus Press, 1979. Half calf and marbled boards, lettered in gilt.
Frontis. Spine ends a bit rubbed, otherwise near fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued.
First this edition, limited issue. Edited by Christopher Murray, and inscribed and signed by
him “... with enduring admiration ....” One of two hundred numbered copies printed at the
Dolmen Press, and signed by the series editor, Andrew Carpenter. This concluding volume,
like those before it, follows the design by Liam Miller for the first volume, which was printed
at the Cuala Press. A trade edition of this title was distributed under the Dolmen imprint.
$125.
147. Doré, Henry, S.J.: RESEARCHES INTO CHINESE SUPERSTITIONS. Shanghai:
T’Usewei Printing Press, 1914 – 1926. Two parts in eight volumes (of thirteen published
through 1938?). Open sewn cloth backed printed boards. Heavily illustrated with hundreds
of plates and facsimiles printed via chromolithography. Extremities of boards worn, a few
corners bruised, spine labels largely chipped away, volume 5 shaken, with several gatherings started, endsheets a bit dusty, a bit musty, some marginal tanning; generally a good
set, the plates fresh and bright.
First edition in English of this mammoth undertaking, translated from the French, with
historical and explanatory notes, by M. Kennelly. The First Part (comprised of the first five
volumes) is devoted to Superstitious Practices; the remaining three volumes, denoted the
Second Part, are devoted to the Chinese Pantheon of religious figures. Given the span of
years over which the work was published, many of the extant sets are fragmentary or want
later volumes. Doré served as a Jesuit missionary for over twenty years in the Kiangsu and
Nganhwei provinces. His original French text began publication in 1911 as elements in the
Variétés Sinologiques, and the preface to the first volume of this English text projected
completion of the French work, in eight volumes, by 1915. $1100.
148. Dorn, Edward: GUNSLINGER BOOK I [with:] GUNSLINGER BOOK II. Los Angeles:
Black Sparrow Press, 1968 and 1969. Two volumes. Large octavo. Printed pictorial wrappers. Ink name in first volume on half-title (but see below), otherwise very good to near fine.
First editions, wrapperbound trade issues (the first a variant), of the first two volumes of the
author’s best known extended work. Both have been signed and dated by Dorn on 1 Dec.
1971, at Kent, Ohio, the first incorporating the ownership signature, followed by ‘Hello!’, into
a form of inscription. The colophon statement in the first volume is not present on the leaf
where it normally appears – in every other way it conforms to the first printing.
MORROW & COONEY 35 & 63. STREETER A11a & A16a. $100.
149. [Douglas, Norman]: Tomlinson, H.M.: NORMAN DOUGLAS. London: Chatto & Windus,
1931. Pictorial boards. Top edge dust marked, otherwise near fine in like dust jacket with
a couple small creases.
First edition. Published as #12 of the Dolphin Books. Inscribed on the free endsheet: “Siegfried Sassoon from H.M. Tomlinson.” Sassoon became and remained Tomlinson’s friend and
enthusiast for the remainder of the elder writer’s life; he dedicated Sequences to Tomlinson
in 1956. With the posthumous Sassoon library dispersal label on the pastedown. $300.
150. Douglas, Norman: LOOKING BACK AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EXCURSION. London: Chatto & Windus, 1933. Folded, loose, unbound sheets. Occasional paperclip marks
at top edges, a smudge here and there, terminal gathering a bit creased and slightly frayed,
otherwise good.
An out-of-the-ordinary state of the two volume first edition, possibly a proof (there are occasional differences in inking) or intended for early review. The index and plates are not yet
present, nor are the prelims delimiting the second volume. It does not correspond to sheets
of the one-volume second impression, as the volume designation is still present on the halftitle and title-leaf, and the one volume second impression is dated 1934.
WOOLF A36a. $100.
151. [Douglas, Norman]: Tomlinson, H.M.: NORMAN DOUGLAS. London: Hutchinson, [1952].
Cloth. Top edge dust marked, otherwise very good in spine-tanned dust jacket.
Revised and enlarged edition, first published as a Dolphin Book in 1931. Inscribed on the
half-title: “To Siegfried with blessings H.M. Tomlinson Christmas 1952.” Sassoon became
and remained Tomlinson’s friend and enthusiast for the remainder of the elder writer’s life; he
dedicated Sequences to Tomlinson in 1956. With the posthumous Sassoon library dispersal
label on the pastedown. $225.
152. Drescher, Henrik: COMEUNDONE. [New York]: Pooté Press, [1990]. Printed and bound
in the form of the Swiss cross (6 x 6”; 155 mm x 155 mm). Open-sewn between water-colored
boards with pictorial onlay on upper boards Illustrated throughout. Very fine, enclosed within
a similarly shaped sheet metal case, with manuscript label and postage stamp affixed to lid.
First edition. One of 100 numbered
copies printed letterpress from line
engravings onto stenciled handmade
paper by Ruth Lingen, signed by the
artist. Subtitled in printed facsimile
of the artist’s holograph: “Being a
Complete and Reliable Descriptive
Collection of the Perilous Explorations and also Important Discoveries
made in the Wildest Territories upon
The Face of the Earth Encountering Savage men, Ferocious Beast[s],
and Poisonous Reptiles ... Covering
a Period of Twelve Months 1988 –
1989.” An aggressive and occasionally
discomfiting collection of images by
the award-winning Norwegian-born
illustrator. $600.
153. [Duchamp, Marcel, et al]: Richter, Hans: DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY [wrapper
title]. New York: Films International, 1947. Small quarto. Pictorial green wrappers after a
design by Max Ernst. Extensively illustrated. A very near fine copy.
First edition of this record of this remarkable surrealist anthology film, produced and edited by Hans
Richter, and including participation by Kenneth
MacPherson, Alexander Calder, Paul Bowles, Marcel
Duchamp, John Cage, Max Ernst, Leger, Man Ray,
Julien Levy, et al.
MILLER F68.
$500.
154. Dumur, Marie Francoise: MOTS NOIRS. [Paris]:
Editions Vaudevire, 1983. Oblong accordion style
foldout, in printed wrappers (11.5 x 25.3 cm). Fine
in printed acetate jacket.
First edition. Copy #18 of 100 copies, signed by the
author/artist, with the text printed via serigraphy on
mat black stock with glossy black imagery as
background.
$100.
155. [Dust Jacket – 19th Century]: Longfellow, Henry
W., et al: POEMS OF THE “OLD SOUTH.” Boston:
William F. Gill & Co., 1877. 35,[1]pp. Brown cloth,
decorated in gilt and black, a.e.g.. Frontis and illustrations. Front inner hinge torn and cracked (but
sewing sound), a bit musty-smelling, otherwise about fine and bright in the original publisher’s
printed dust jacket (a few small rubs).
First edition. A selection of poems re: the Old South Church by Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier,
Howe, Hale and Clarke. The jacket is scarce.
TANSELLE 77.3 (illustrated). BAL 12194B. $450.
156. Ernst, Max [illustrator & translator], and Kleist, Heinrich von, et al: CASPAR DAVID
FRIEDRICH SEELANDSCHAFT MIT KAPUZINER PAYSAGE MARIN AVEC UN CAPUCHIN .... Zürich: Edition Hans Bolliger, 1972. Folio (34 x 26 cm). Loose gatherings laid into
printed wrappers. Illustrations and two original
lithographs. Fine.
First edition thus. Dialogue by Achim von Arnim and
Clemens Brentano. Texts in German and French.
With six whimsical illustrations in the style of his
collages by Ernst, along with an original lithograph in
color and the same lithograph in gray and black, both
signed in pencil in the lower margin by Ernest. An
unnumbered copy, in addition to 77 numbered copies
with the signed lithograph in both states, from a total
edition of 607 copies on Rives. The dialogue by
Arnim and Brentano was inspired by the painting by
Caspar David Friedrich. Heinrich von Kleist revised
the first draft heavily and published the text in the
Berliner Abendblätter. Max Ernst translated the
text for the first time into French. Afterword by Werner Spies.
$1850.
157. Evans, Walker, and Andrei Codrescu: WALKER
EVANS SIGNS. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, [1998]. Oblong octavo. Cloth. Photographs.
Fine in dust jacket with publication price in ink on
front flap.
First edition. A selection of fifty photographs by Evans from the Getty’s collection, accompanied by an essay and commentary by Codrescu, who has signed this copy. $60.
158. Evrard, André: LITHOGRAPHIE PROPOS
DONNÉS À VOIR. [Verscio, Switzerland]: Ateliers
Lafranca, [1986]. Rectangular folio (14 x 12”;
355 x 305 mm). Loose sheets and bifolia, laid
into plain paper wrapper and board chemise.
Illustrated. Slipcased.
First edition. Copy #24 from a total edition of 54
(including 6 EA), signed by the author/artist and
printer. Illustrated with nine original color stone
lithographs, full-page or double-spread. Printed
on heavy Moulin à papier La Collinasca in Bodoni
types by Francois Lafranca. Evrard’s concluding
essay on lithography is printed in French, and in
German and English translations. $1750.
159. [Fante, John; Daniel Fuchs, and Sonya
Levien (screenwriters)]: [Set of Studio Lobby
Cards for:] JEANNE EAGELS. [Los Angeles]:
Columbia Studios / George Sidney Productions,
Inc., 1957. Eight 11 x 14” color pictorial lobby
cards. Two cards have tack marks from display, card # 8 has a small surface abrasion in the
blank lower margin and a couple small smudges, two cards have filing notations on versos,
but a very good set.
A complete set of the lobby cards issued to promote this film. John Fante is credited as
cowriter (along with Daniel Fuchs and Sonya Levien) for the 1957 release directed by George
Sidney. It starred Kim Novak, Jeff Chandler and Agnes Moorehead in a somewhat fictionalized/sensationalized biography of the colorful 1920s stage actress and pioneering film star
who died in 1929 from an accidental drug overdose. $225.
160. Faulkner, William: THE REIVERS A REMINISCENCE. New York: Random House,
[1962]. Gilt burgundy cloth. Faint dust to top edge, minute bump to top edge of one board,
otherwise near fine and bright in acetate wrapper (a couple of tears and scratches).
First edition, limited issue. One of five hundred numbered copies, specially printed and
bound, and signed by the author. The Pulitzer Prize novel of its year, and the sourcework
for the 1969 film adaptation. $1850.
161. Feigel, Suzanne, and Marie-Thérèse Vacossin [illus]: SOG DER WELLEN. Basel: Edition Fanal, 1979. Narrow quarto (28 x 14 cm), unfolding leporello-style to 44 panels (printed
on rectos only). Fine in slipcase with laid in publisher’s prospectus.
First edition. One of 300 numbered copies (and 5 HC) signed by the author and the artist.
Feigel’s text is printed interwoven with linear drawings and patterns by Vacossin. $125.
162. Feigel, Suzanne, and Marie-Thérèse Vacossin [illus]: HINTER EINER GLSWAND Basel: Edition Fanal, 1982. Two volumes. Narrow quarto (28 x 14 cm). Loose bifolia laid into
decorated parchment over limp boards. Fine in slipcase, with prospectus laid in.
First edition. One of 100 numbered copies (and 10 HC and 2 EE) signed by the author and
the artist. Illustrated with two laid in original serigraphs by Vacossin on semi-translucent
paper in keeping with the theme of Feigel’s text. Vacossin’s linear designs are replicated on
the wrappers. $125.
163. THE FIGURE IN THE CARPET A MAGAZINE OF PROSE. New York: Published by
the New School of Social Research, October 1927 through May 1928. Whole numbers one
through four (of four published under this title). Four issues. Large octavo. Printed wrappers.
Very good to near fine.
Edited by Hansell Baugh, et al. An important periodical, featuring contributions by students
enrolled in Gorham Munson’s course in “Style and Form in American Prose” at the New
School. After concluding with the fourth issue, it was later revived under the title Salient.
Non-student contributors to these issues include Waldo Frank, Gorham Munson, Genevieve
Taggard, and Alfred Kreymborg.
HOFFMAN, et al, p.284. $100.
164. [Fine Press Bibles]: Bennett, Paul A., et al [eds]: LIBER LIBRORUM. [Stockholm]. 1955.
Folio. Octavo explanatory pamphlet, accompanied by 43 printed specimens in various formats.
The whole enclosed in linen and decorated boards folder. Small ink blot to lower corner of
folder, a few specimens show light use from display, but very good or better.
One of 1500 sets. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Gutenberg Bible, an array
of the world’s best living typographers printed one or more separate specimens illustrative
of their own solutions to the issues presented by printing the Bible. Among the contributors
are Bruce Rogers, Hermann Zapf, Joseph Blumenthal, Jan Tschichold, Jack Stauffacher, Jan
van Krimpen, Hans Schmoller, Grant Dahlstrom, et al. Although Maximilien Vox (a member
of the editorial board) is included in the list of contributors, he missed the deadline for inclusion. Also laid in is a small lot of postcard-size portraits of the printers, and a presentation
sheet for this set. $200.
165. Fischl, Eric [illus], and E.L. Doctorow [text]: SCENES AND SEQUENCES FIFTY EIGHT
MONOTYPES. New York: Peter Blum Edition, 1989. Oblong folio (14 x 19.5”; 36 x 48 cm).
Linen backed printed boards. Illustrations in color. Folding plates. Smaller format insert
section. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued, in publisher’s slipcase and shipping carton.
First edition, ordinary issue. With a (brief) introductory text by E.L. Doctorow. One of an
edition of 1600 copies printed on BFK Rives, of which 55 deluxe copies were specially bound
and included a signed print. The large format necessitates special shipping charges. $165.
166. Flavel, John: HUSBANDRY SPIRITUALIZED; OR, THE HEAVENLY USE OF EARTHLY
THINGS. CONSISTING OF MANY PLEASANT OBSERVATIONS, PERTINENT APPLICATIONS, AND SERIOUS REFLECTIONS; AND EACH CHAPTER CONCLUDED WITH A
DIVINE AND SUBTLE POEM; DIRECTING HUSBANDMEN TO THE MOST EXCELLENT
IMPROVEMENTS OF THEIR COMMON EMPLOYMENTS. WHEREUNTO ARE ADDED
... SEVERAL CHOICE OCCASIONAL MEDITATIONS UPON BIRDS, BEASTS, TREES,
FLOWERS, RIVERS, AND SEVERAL OTHER OBJECTS. Elizabeth Town [NJ]: Printed and
Sold by Shepard Kollock, 1794. 295,[4]pp. Contemporary calf, gilt label. Upper joint cracked,
but sound, early ink ownership signatures, occasional spotting and light tidemarks, else a
good, sound copy.
A reissue of the sheets of Kollock’s 1794 printing, with the first signature reset, with variations in some line endings. This copy features state 2 of signature B (see Felcone for a
detailed discussion of the variant forms of this title). The rare first American edition appeared
in Boston in 1709, and Kollock’s is the second to appear in North America. Prefatory and
dedicatory statements and poems by John Caryl and others are included. Flavel (1630 –
1691), a Presbyterian minister at Dartmouth, Devon, published a similar work intended for
the use of mariners, Navigation Spiritualized, which was even more widely reprinted than
was this compilation.
EVANS 28675. FELCONE 691 & 761. ESTC W19451. $150.
167. Flower, Robin [trans]: LOVE’S BITTER-SWEET: TRANSLATIONS FROM THE IRISH
POETS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. Dublin: The Cuala Press,
1925. Linen-backed boards, paper spine label. Woodcut title pressmark (“Lone tree in Irish
landscape”) by Elizabeth Yeats. About fine, unopened, with shards of the original plain
wrapper laid in.
First edition. One of 500 copies printed.
MILLER 37. $300.
168. [Fluxus]: Yoko Ono, et al: FLUXUS SELECTIONS FROM THE GILBERT AND LILA
SILVERMAN COLLECTION ... [caption title]. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1988. Photooffset poster/mailing in red and black (36.5 x 57 cm). Folded for mailing, as usual, with a
trace of use on the verso at the folds, otherwise very near fine.
A highly visual and thematically sympathetic poster, incorporating a montage by Yoko Ono,
which itself incorporates photographs by Rolf Jährling, Iain Macmillan, Nancy Mee and Norie
Sato. Includes a calendar of film screenings and performances. The Silverman Collection,
developed with the curatorial oversight of Jon Hendricks, became a permanent asset at the
MOMA in 2008. $125.
169. Foote, Samuel: THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF SAMUEL FOOTE, ESQ. TO WHICH IS
PREFIXED A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. London [i.e. York]: Printed for A. Millar, 1798. Two
volumes. 366;434pp. Old three quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt labels.
Binding rubbed (but sound), some discolorations and stains to the endsheets, otherwise a
very good set.
ESTC identifies the imprint as false, being closely identified with Spence & Mawman of York.
ESTC T17094. $150.
170. Ford, Paul Leicester: JANICE MEREDITH A STORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION .... New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1899. Pictorial cloth. Portrait frontis. Small bookplate
on front pastedown, top edge a trace dust darkened, otherwise about fine in lightly soiled
and worn dust jacket with some old internal mends to several creased and short edge tears.
Half morocco slipcase (the latter a bit dull and rubbed).
First edition, BAL’s first printing, with 57:14 uncorrected. A 1924 film adaptation starred
Marion Davies, Harrison Ford, Macklyn Arbuckle and W.C. Fields, based on a script by
Lillie Hayward (the first of 70 film and television scripts for which she received credit). The
Parsons copy. The dust jacket is scarce. While the jacketed (and boxed) illustrated issue
of the same year (which was comprised of sheets from a subsequent printing) is noted as
Tanselle 99.36, the first printing of the first edition is not.
BAL 6224. WRIGHT III:1965. $400.
171. [French Binders]: [Flagler, Alice (subject)]: IN MEMORY OF AICE MANDELICK FLAGLER APPRECIATIONS MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY LETTERS OF RESOLUTION. [New
York]: Privately Printed, [1919]. Large octavo. Full navy-blue crushed levant, raised bands,
boards ruled in gilt, with title stamped in gilt within central frame, a.e.g., others untrimmed.
Photographs and tipped in items. A bit of rubbing along lower portion of upper joint, otherwise
fine in lightly worn morocco-faced slipcase.
First edition, perhaps a deluxe issue, well-printed on substantial handmade paper and specially bound. There were also copies in cloth. Flagler was prominent in NY social and charity
circles, and an accomplished singer. The binding is signed “The French Binders Garden City,
NY” in the front, and ‘Hardy Maillard Pilon” in the rear. $350.
172. [Futurism]: Bentivoglio, Mirella [ed]:
DA PAGINA A SPAZIO FUTURISTE ITALIANE TRA LINGUAGGION E IMMAGINE
[FROM PAGE TO SPACE]. [Venice: Galleria Dieda, 1997]. [4]pp. text plus 9 broadsides. Quarto (34 x 24.5 cm). Enclosed in
decorated printed folder. Fine.
First edition. One of 25 sets with each
broadside numbered in Roman, in addition
to 250 numbered sets. Introductory text
in English by Bentivolglio, as well as the
overall design. A portfolio of high quality
facsimiles of broadsides from 1910-1924
by Italian Futurists who were women, including biographical sketches. Important,
and although recent, uncommon.
$150.
173. [Gálerie Filiale – Basel]: TREFFEN IM
GEBIRGE. [Zurich: Die Künstler in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Seedorn Verlag, 1984].
Octavo. Eight separately printed works
(some with titles) bound up collectively in
printed wrapper, including one substantial
fold-out. Extensively illustrated, including
some color, and printed by various modes.
Light use to wrapper edges, otherwise fine.
First collective issue. One of 300 copies. Published in conjunction with a collective exhibition
by Icelandic artists at the Gálerie Filiale in Basel. Participants included Ingolfur Arnarsson,
S.E. Kristmundsson, D. Guöbjörnsson, Dieter Schwarz, Tumi Magnusson, Arni Ingolfsso,
Magnús Pálsson, Eggert Pétursson, and H.P. Friöjonsson. An unusual compilation, somewhat difficult to summarize bibliographically. One item has, in addition to a sectional title, an
imprint: Guöbjörnsson’s Zonder Tidel, Amsterdam: Druk Kunsthuis, 1984.
OCLC: 63239941. $125.
174. [Gift Binding – American]: Cheever, George B. [ed]: THE POETS OF AMERICA, WITH
OCCASIONAL NOTES. Hartford: Silas Andrus and Son, 1854. 405pp. Octavo. Publisher’s
ornately gilt decorated black morocco, a.e.g. Frontis and portraits. Foxing early and late, early
gift inscription on free endsheet, very light rubbing, otherwise an uncommonly good copy.
A reprint of the immensely popular anthology first published under this title in 1847. In “The
Literati of New York” (1846) Poe criticized harshly this collection’s predecessor and its editor: “’The Commonplace Book of American Poetry,’ ... has at least the merit of not belying
its title, and is exceedingly commonplace. I am ashamed to say that for several years this
compilation afforded to Europeans the only material from which it was possible to form an
estimate of the poetical ability of Americans. The selections appear to me exceedingly injudicious, and have all a marked leaning to the didactic. Dr. Cheever is not without a certain
sort of negative ability as critic, but works of this character should be undertaken by poets
or not at all. The verses which I have seen attributed to him are undeniably mediocre ....” It
comes as no surprise, then, that he is not represented in this collection. $85.
175. Gilbert, W.S.: AN ENTIRELY ORIGINAL JAPANESE OPERA IN TWO ACTS, ENTITLED,
THE MIKADO; OR, THE TOWN OF TITIPU. New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co., copyright 1885.
48pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine and corners a bit frayed and creased, clipping offset
to two pages, a couple leaves pulled at staples, else a good copy.
An early American edition of the libretto of one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s great successes. The
London premiere took place at the Savoy on 14 March 1885, and the US premiere on 19
August. Searle does not treat these American editions with any detail. The vocal and piano
scores by Arthur Sullivan were sold separately. $125.
176. Ginsberg, Allen: CAPITOL AIR [caption title]. [Dallas]: Northouse & Northouse, [1987].
Folio broadside (45 x 33cm). Illustrated. Fine.
First edition in this format, preceded by periodical publication. From a total edition of 166
copies printed in three colors on BFK Rives at the Red Ozier Press, this is one of 26 lettered
copies. All copies were signed by the author, with a one-word insertion in his hand in the
last line of the poem. The lettered copies, as well as the numbered copies, were issued as
elements in the American Poetry Portfolio. $350.
One of 33
177. Giovannoni, Jean-Louis, and [Julius] Baltazar [artist]: LA DEMEURE DE L’OMBRE.
[Nice]: Editions Unes, [1987] Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine.
First edition. Apart from the printed title and justification, the entire text is executed in manuscript by the poet, and is accompanied by a multi-colored original composition in ink, colored
pencil and paint by Baltazar. This is copy #22 of 33 numbered copies, signed by the poet
and the artist. $150.
178. [GLBT Studies]: COC. Amsterdam: Central Bureau Cultuur en Ontspannings-Centrum,
1960 -1962. Numbers 1 (4th Q. 1960); 2 (1st Q 1961); 4 (1st Q. 1962), and 5 (2nd Q 1962).
Four issues. Small octavo. Typographically decorated wrappers. Two wrappers with small ink
subject captions on upper wrappers, otherwise fine, several with loose single sheet inserts.
Four early numbers of the official periodical publication of the Cultuur en OntspanningsCentrum (“Center for Culture and Leisure”), the oldest formal GLBT organization in the world,
founded in 1946. The emphasis is largely on legal, social and medical issues, as well as the
organization’s primary concern with Human Rights. Text in Dutch. Uncommon. $125.
179. Goldman, Emma: [Typescript:] EMMA GOLDMAN DEFENSE FUND ... DEAR FRIEND
... [caption title]. New York. April 1916. Quarto. Typescript on printed letterhead. Old folds,
with edge-break at folds (one affecting signature), receipt date stamp (“Apr 7 -1916”). Good.
A solicitation for funds and letters of protest in the face of Goldman’s impending trial in the
New York Court of Special Sessions, then scheduled for 20 April. Goldman stresses the need
for sustaining Mother Jones in light of the probability of her being jailed, and similar issues.
Signed at the end in rather blotted, feathered and partially faded ink, “Emma Goldman.” This
solicitation most likely relates to Goldman’s arrest on 11 February and being charged for
violation of the Comstock Law while engaged in a speaking tour on behalf of birth control
advocacy. That this letter was produced in multiples seems quite likely. $225.
180. Grant, Duncan (1885 – 1978): [Graphite Drawing of a Cat, Unsigned]. [Np]. [ca.
1950s]. Approximately 320 x 235 mm (measured from mat), graphite on paper, handsomely
matted and framed under Plexi. Visibly about fine (not examined out of frame).
A casual portrait of a seated cat in three-quarter profile with its face turned toward the viewer.
Framed, with the label of the Bloomsbury Workshop (London), noting attribution and date.
Grant, Scottish painter and designer of textiles, pottery, and theatre sets and costumes, was
a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group. Lytton Strachey and John M. Keynes were among
his early intimates, and Grant served as co-director with Vanessa Bell of the Omega Workshop. After the birth of their son, Grant and Bell lived together in an open relationship for
more than four decades. After her death in 1961, he lived with his lover, poet Paul Roche,
at Charleston Farmhouse, and several sketches and drawings of “Sam,” the resident cat at
Charleston, are known. $1500.
181. Graves, Robert: OCCUPATION: WRITER. London: Cassell, 1951. Cloth. First UK edition of this miscellany (including “The Shout”), preceded by the US edition. Crease in lower
forecorner of free endsheet, otherwise an unusually nice copy in dust jacket, near fine.
HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A65b. $100.
182. Graves, Robert: GOODBYE TO ALL THAT. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1957]. Gilt
black cloth. Photographs. First British printing of the revised text, with a new prologue and
epilogue. About fine in dust jacket, the latter with a trace of use at the edges and a tiny,
closed edge tear.
HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A32h. Sold
183. [Greene, Graham (sourcework)]: Berkman, Ted, and Raphael Blau [screenwriters]: [Original Three Sheet for:] SHORT CUT TO HELL. [Los Angeles]: Paramount, 1957. Highly pictorial
vintage three sheet (81 x 41”), printed in two panels, and folded as issued. Very near fine.
A dramatic lithographed three-sheet for Berkman and Blau’s revision of Albert Maltz and W.R.
Burnett’s earlier adaptation of Greene’s 1936 novel, A Gun For Sale. Previously filmed as
This Gun For Hire (the British title for the novel) in 1942 using Burnett and Maltz’s script,
this remake was James Cagney’s directorial debut, and starred Robert Ivers and Georgann
Johnson. $150.
184. Gregory, Lady Augusta: CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE: THE STORY OF THE MEN
OF THE RED BRANCH OF ULSTER ARRANGED AND PUT INTO ENGLISH...WITH A
PREFACE BY W. B. YEATS. London: John Murray, 1902. Drab grey wrappers. Scattered
foxing early and late, wrappers moderately soiled and frayed at joints, but a good copy.
Preliminary, perhaps proof, state of the first edition. In addition to the Preface, Yeats contributed “Note on the Conversation of Cuchulain and Emer,” pp. 351-3. Some copies were
exported to the U.S. and issued with a Scribner’s Sons title leaf.
WADE 256. $600.
185. Gregory, Lady Augusta: THE KILTARTAN HISTORY BOOK ... ILLUSTRATED BY
ROBERT GREGORY. Dublin: Maunsel and Co., Ltd., 1909. Printed wrappers, printed spine
label. Colored frontis and plates. A bit of scattered foxing, otherwise a near fine copy of this
fragile book.
First edition, wrapperbound issue. The spine label may be a slightly later contrivance, as very
early presentation copies (inevitably in wrappers) we have handled from both Gregorys were
not so equipped. Copies with a dual imprint and integral title were exported for sale in the US.
COLBECK I:317. $150.
186. Gregory, Lady Augusta: THE KILTARTAN WONDER BOOK ... ILLUSTRATED BY
MARGARET GREGORY. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., [nd. but ca. 1910]. Sq. octavo. Pictorial blue
cloth over limp boards, with extended wallet edges. Color frontis and plates. First edition.
Spine and upper edges of cloth sunned, a few rust spots to lower cover; still, an unusually
nice copy of a book most often seen rather ragged.
NCBEL III:1940. $175.
187. [Griffin, John Howard (sourcework)]: [Set of Studio Lobby Cards for:] BLACK LIKE ME.
[Np]: Continental Distributing, 1964. Eight 11 x 14” pictorial lobby cards. Scattered staple
holes from use (including several inside the margins), paperclip rust mark at one top edge,
upper left corners slightly bumped, but generally a very good set.
A complete set of the lobby cards issued to promote the 1964 film adaptation of Griffin’s
precedent shattering book, based on a screenplay by Gerder and Carl Lerner (with uncredited
contributions by dramatist Paul Green), directed by Carl Lerner, and starring James Whitmore,
Will Geer, Sorrell Brooke, Roscoe Lee Brown, et al. Much as was the book upon which it
was based, the film was the subject of controversy in parts (many of them regional), and
publicity paper is somewhat uncommon. Surprisingly, even today one occasionally encounters uninformed individuals who deny the authenticity of Griffin’s account, and/or perpetuate
falsehoods about the circumstances of his death. $125.
188. Gudbjörnsson, Dadi: LINO UIT 1983 – 1984. Amsterdam: Rijksakademie van Beeldende
Kunsten, 1984. Oblong small quarto (22 x 25 cm). Stiff wrappers printed with an original
color linocut. Two folding plates. Trace of rubbing to the joints, uniform slight toning to the
paper stock, otherwise a nice copy, near fine.
First edition. Introduction by Dieter Schwarz. One of 40 numbered copies, signed by the
artist, so denoted in the margin of the terminal folding linocut. Comprised of approximately
100 original linocuts in various colors, bound collectively. There is some variation in the trim
size of the sheets. OCLC locates three copies, only two of them in North America: MOMA
and Cornell.
OCLC: 63239909 $350.
189. Gysin, Brion: TO MASTER -- A LONG GOODNIGHT THE STORY OF UNCLE TOM, A
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. New York: Creative Age Press, [1946]. Cloth. Extremities a bit
rubbed, slightly musty, otherwise very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
First edition of the author’s first book, an account of Josiah Henson, the model for Stowe’s
“Uncle Tom,” and a work of marked dissimilarity from those originating from Gysin’s collaborations with William Burroughs in later years. $85.
190. Hall, Colin: GARSINGTON MANOR. [London]: New Pyramid Press, 1988. Folio (16.25
x 12.75”; 41 x 32cm). Linen-backed pictorial boards. Illustrations. Fine in lightly sunned
cloth slipcase.
First edition. One of fifty copies only, of which this is one of forty-five printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper, all signed by the artist. An album consisting of ten expansive double-spread
original colored woodcuts (plus woodcut title and dedication) in homage to the grounds of
the estate of Ottoline and Philip Morrell, dedicated posthumously to Ottoline. $450.
191. Halleck, Fitz-Greene: [Autograph Letter, Signed, to Henry T. Tuckerman]. Guilford,
CT. 28 December 1853. 2 pages, in ink, on two panels of a folded octavo lettersheet. Folds
from mailing, but very good.
Halleck writes to poet / critic / miscellaneous writer Henry Theodore Tuckerman (addressed
as “My dear Sir”). After giving an account of a chance meeting with “a very pretty Boy of
about seven years old seated next to me in a French Theatre ...,” Halleck informs Tuckerman that “I have not until today had the pleasure of reading your ‘Month in England’ ... but
your Chapter on ‘London Authors’ compels me to ask you to accept my best thanks for the
delight it has given me. The theme, as you know, is one after my own heart ....” Signed in
full. Halleck was highly regarded in his life-time as one of the chief among the Knickerbocker
group of writers and was honored with a statue in Central Park. Academic study of his life
and works has recently been revived in the context of 19th century Gay studies. $375.
Inscribed to Bartlett
192. [Halleck, Fitz-Greene]: Duyckinck, Evert A. [ed]: A MEMORIAL OF FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: A DESCRIPTION OF THE DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT ERECTED TO HIS
MEMORY AT GUILFORD, CONNECTICUT; AND OF THE PROCEEDINGS CONNECTED
WITH THE UNVEILING OF THE POET’S STATUE IN THE CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK
.... New York: Printed for the Committee by Amerman & Wilson, 1877. 79pp. Portrait and
plates. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Upper wrapper neatly detached, otherwise a very
good to near fine copy. Cloth slipcase.
First edition, large paper issue, including the portrait and two plates not present in the small
paper issue. An excellent, if somewhat late, association copy, inscribed on the upper wrapper: “Hon. John Russell Bartlett With Jas Grant Wilson’s regards New York, 1880.” Wilson
had written/edited Halleck’s Life And Letters and Poetical Writings in 1869, and delivered
a significant contribution to the Memorial.
BAL 2244 & III:365. $250.
193. Harris, Wilson: THE FAR JOURNEY OF OUDIN. London: Faber, [1961]. Small octavo.
Cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Top edge slightly dust marked, else a fine copy in a near fine
and bright dust jacket with very faint sunning along the spine and with a trace of dust on
the back panel.
First edition of the second novel by the Guyana-born writer, and the second novel in his
quintet of inter-related fictions. $150.
194. Harte, Bret: TRENT’S TRUST AND OTHER STORIES. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903.
Gilt brown cloth. First American edition. Offset on endsheets from dust jacket, else a fine,
bright copy, in very good, lightly chipped printed dust jacket. Uncommon thus.
BAL 7404. SMITH H-329. $200.
195. Hartmann, Werner (1945 – 1993): “ICH + DU” [caption title – Original Manuscript
Leporello of Watercolor Drawings, Signed]. [Zurich: The Artist 1984]. 16 panel leporello.
Executed in a ‘found’ satin covered remembrance folder (15 x 10.5 cm). Album cover very
slightly soiled, internally fine.
An original artist’s book by Hartmann, signed, titled and dated by him on the rear pastedown.
Each panel bears a watercolor drawing or design. Laid in is a photo postcard of the artist.
For a useful account of Hartmann’s life and work, see: www.werner-hartmann.ch . $250.
196. Hartmann, Werner (1945 – 1993): “NOTIZEN” [caption title – Original Manuscript
Notebook of Ink Drawings, Signed]. [Zurich: The Artist 2 November 1984]. ca. 150 leaves,
in ink, on rectos only. Bound notebook (165 x 105 mm). Cloth and boards. Text stock pale
yellow, ruled in blue and red. Fine.
An original artist’s book by Hartmann, signed, titled and dated by him on the rear pastedown.
Each leaf bears an arrangement (sometimes occupying most of the page, sometimes a portion of it) of Hartmann’s characteristic symbols (including recurrent stylized fish). A number
of the individual leaves are dated in September, demonstrating that Hartmann’s work on
this undertaking spanned a number of weeks. Laid in is a photo postcard of the artist. For
a useful account of Hartmann’s life and work, see: www.werner-hartmann.ch . $375.
197. Harwood. H. C.: JUDGMENT EVE STORIES. London: Constable & Co., 1924. Medium
blue cloth, decorated and lettered in red. Some darkening, but a very good copy, in quite
spine-tanned dust jacket with a couple tiny chips and two internally mended edge tears.
Publisher’s promotional card laid in.
First edition, in what is most likely the primary binding – some copies appear in red boards.
A collection of a dozen stories, many of them partaking of macabre or fantastic elements.
Harwood contributed war verse to several of the standard Great War anthologies (see Reilly)
and edited editions of Jules Verne. Otherwise, this seems to be his chief published work.
OCLC/World cat locates only nine copies. Not in Bleiler, though it should be. $450.
198. [Hassall, Joan]: Chambers, David: JOAN HASSALL ENGRAVINGS & DRAWINGS.
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1985. Large octavo. Quarter half morocco and cloth,
spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Illustrated throughout. Fine in slipcase.
First edition. With an introduction by the artist, and an appreciation of her technique by
George Mackley. The deluxe issue, specially bound, limited to 110 numbered copies, signed
by the artist, with a supplement of eight plates printed from the blocks, and with the small
chapbook, The Plain Facts ..., signed by her, with the pictorial front wrapper colored, inserted
in a pocket in the back. $400.
199. [Hazenplug, Frank (designer)]: Stover Manufacturing Co.: CATALOGUE DESCRIPTIVE
OF THE IDEAL POWER WINDMILL AND AUXILIARY GOODS .... Freeport, IL.: Stover
Manufacturing Co., 1900. 48pp. Large octavo. Medium brown wrappers, decorated in dark
brown and lettered in orange. Extensively illustrated. Minute chip and slight curling to lower
forecorners, otherwise very good or better.
A handsome, heavily illustrated trade catalogue with the wrapper design (and perhaps other
decorative and design elements) by Frank Hazenplug, with his superimposed ‘FH’ monogram
in the lower right corner of the design. $125.
200. Heaney, Seamus: THE LOOSE BOX [cover title]. [New York: Parnassus: Poetry in
Review, 2001]. [4]pp. French fold leaflet. Fine.
First separate edition. One of 101 numbered copies printed at the Oliphant Press and signed
by the author, published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Parnassus: Poetry In
Review. $450.
201. Heath-Stubbs, John: BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION RADIO 3 ... “THE
LIVING POET” – JOHN HEATH-STUBBS ... [caption title]. London. August 1978. 19 leaves.
Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only, bradbound at top left corner. Some
creases, a few smudges, but very good.
An “As Broadcast” script, though still embargoed until transmission on 2 August. With HeathStubbs’s characteristic signature on the first leaf, and with his ink initials on each following
leaf. $85.
With Six Etchings by Al Held
202. Heissenbüttel, Helmut, and Al Held [illustrator]: DER PHILOSOPH. Zurich: Verlag 3, 1983.
Small quarto. Folded sheets laid into printed
wrappers. Fine in lightly handsoiled slipcase.
First edition, deluxe issue. Illustrated with six
original etchings by Al Held. From an edition of
150 numbered copies (and 30 hors commerce), all
printed on Moulin de Creysse by Dölf Hürlimann,
and signed by the author and the artist, this is
one of the first twenty-five copies accompanied
by an extra suite of the six etchings, each signed
by the artist in the margin. The etchings were
printed at Atelier Tanguy Garric, and the examples
in the extra suite were printed on Moulin Richard
de Bas. Accompanied by an English translation
of the text by Cozette Griffin. $1000.
First Book
203. Hemingway, Ernest: THREE STORIES & TEN POEMS. [Paris]: Contact Publishing
Company, 1923. Publisher’s pale blue wrappers, printed in black, fore and bottom edges
untrimmed. Hint of slight tanning at edges, minuscule nick (no loss) in upper wrapper at spine,
otherwise about fine. Half morocco folding
case and fleece-lined chemise.
First edition of the author’s first book -although only the sequential nature of the
volumes in the Three Mountains “Inquest”
series prevented in our time from preceding it. One of 300 copies printed in Dijon by
Maurice Darantiere. Six of the poems had
seen prior publication in Poetry (Jan. 1923).
The short stories -- “Up in Michigan,” “Out
of Season,” and “My Old Man” -- are here
first published. “Up in Michigan” was not
reprinted until 1938, and then in somewhat
revised form. The other two stories were
reprinted in the 1925 Boni & Liveright In
Our Time. “No other writer ... [in the Modern
Movement] stepped so suddenly into fame,
or destroyed with such insouciance so many
other writers or ways of writing or became
such an immediate symbol of an age” – Cyril
Connolly, The Modern Movement.
HANNEMAN A1a. $55,000.
204. [Hemingway, Ernest]: Hotchner, A. E: [screenwriter]: [Set of Eight Pictorial Lobby
Cards for:] HEMINGWAY’S ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN. [Hollywood]: 20th Century
Fox, [1962]. Eight 11x14” color lobby cards. Mild and inoffensive vertical streak of printing
offset in extreme left blank margins of several cards, otherwise an excellent set, without
any signs of use.
A complete set of the studio promotional lobby cards for the Martin Ritt film, based on
Hotchner’s mélange adaptation of several Hemingway short stories, starring Paul Newman,
Eli Wallach, et al. $125.
205. Hengstler, Romuald (1930 – 2003): 35 ZEICHNUNGEN. [Munich: Ottenhausen Verlag,
September 1980]. Quarto (27 x 20.5 cm). White linen. Fine.
A unique album of thirty-five characteristic and obsessive original black ink abstract drawings
(ca. 7 x 7 cm) drawn on fine, heavy paper. The title leaf and the colophon are executed in
ink by the artist – the title is also signed by the artist. $450.
206. [Heron-Allen, Edward]: Blayre, Christopher [pseud]: THE PURPLE SAPPHIRE AND
OTHER POSTHUMOUS PAPERS SELECTED FROM THE UNOFFICIAL RECORDS OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF COSMOPOLI .... London: Philip Allan & Co., [1921]. Octavo. Lavender
cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine and extreme top edges of boards sunned, edges a bit foxed,
otherwise very good, without dust jacket.
First edition, in the primary binding. One of the polymath’s collections of fantasy/horror/
science fiction tales, a number of them set in the context of libraries and museums. Bleiler
was unable to locate this edition, so based his entry on the 1932 expanded edition. Although
the table of contents lists the short story, “The Cheetah-Girl,” it was not included and in its
place appears a single sentence publisher’s apologia. Heron-Allen then resorted to having
the modestly explicit story privately printed in a small edition.
BLEILER (SUPERNATURAL) 204. $150.
207. Herrmann, Dieter (a.k.a. “DeePee”) [editor]: INFRArot [Whole Numbers 1-4]. Wiesbaden:
Newlit Verlag [#1], and the Editor [#s2-4], 1983 – 1984. Four issues. Quarto. Brilliant multicolored screen-printed wrappers. Illustrated throughout, some color. A fine set.
The first four numbers of this almost completely visual graphzine, each issue one of 100
numbered copies only. At least 9 issues appeared, the 9th after a hiatus of over two decades.
Each number features artwork in various media by between nine and a dozen European
artists, reproduced photomechanically. Numbers bear various subtitles, including “Todliche
Bilder,” “Schlechte Bilder,” and “Wilde Bilder.” OCLC returns few locations, with only MOMA
in North America. Sold
208. Hesse, Herman: SIDDHARTHA. [New York: New Directions] New Classic Series, [1951].
Small octavo. Boards. Pencil ownership signature and some scattered ink annotations (but
see below), otherwise a very good copy, in slightly chipped, spine sunned (2nd state) dust
jacket with internally mended tears around the toe of the spine.
The proper first U.S. edition, translated by Hilda Rosner, published as NC 34, and preceding
the 1964 slipcased ‘gift edition’. This jacket has the series price increase overstamped on
the rear panel ($1.75) which conforms to the jacket flap price. The list of titles in the series
on the verso of the title has the misspelling ‘Patterson,’ later corrected. Novelist Maude
Hutchins’s copy, with her ownership signature on the title-page and occasional ink marginal
comments. New Directions published four of her novels, 1948-53.
HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO, p. 31. $250.
First American Anti-Slavery Novel
209. [Hildreth, Ricard]: THE SLAVE: OR MEMOIRS OF ARCHY MOORE. Boston: John H.
Eastburn, Printer, 1836. Two volumes. [4],170;163pp. Original linen and boards, paper spine
labels. Early press-cutting affixed to “Advertisement” leaf in first volume, binding rather soiled
and edgeworn, with some splitting toward the top of the upper joint of vol. 2, a couple of
signatures starting, textblock rather foxed and spotted, with a tidemark in the gutter of the
first four leaves in vol. 1; just a sound set.
First edition of the anonymously published first book by the Boston journalist, historian, lawyer and abolitionist, now regarded as the first American anti-slavery novel. In 1832 Hildreth
cofounded a daily newspaper, the Boston Atlas, and soon was engaged in active pursuit
of social, economic and political causes. This work, presented as a first person account of
the life of a Virginia slave named “Archy Moore,” eventually caught hold with the reading
public and merited several later editions, often under altered titles, often under the imprint of
anti-slavery organizations. It is significantly more assertive in its presentation of the evils of
slavery than was Stowe in her significantly later Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and appealed to wide
readership in British editions and in an early French translation. While not a scarce book in
an absolute sense (OCLC returns over 40 locations, the majority of them likely legitimate),
it is uncommon in commerce: ABPC reports only two copies in the last three decades, one
ex-library (2009) and one (1999) described as worn, chipped and foxed throughout.
WRIGHT I:1186. Seven Gables, MORE FIRST BOOKS 129. WORK, p.312. SABIN 31788.
Sold.
210. [Hill, George A., Jr.]: PITCHERINO A PROVINCIAL VARIATION OF THE MODERN
GAME OF PITCH DESCENDED FROM THE MORE ANCIENT GAME OF ALL FOURS. “By
an Observer.” [Houston: The Rein Company, November 1930]. Small octavo. Boards, paper
label. Some spotting to lower board and small nick at toe of lower joint, a bit of tan offsetting
to the endsheets, but a good copy.
First edition. One of 150 copies privately printed for the author. As usual, this copy is inscribed
by Hill, but in 1944. Hill was vice president of the Houston Natural Gas Corporation from 1928
to 1932 and served as general counsel and president of the Houston Pipe Line Company
and of the Houston Oil Company. Other than being a skilled player of Pitcherino, he was a
motivating force behind the establishment of several museums and a medical center or two
in Texas. $75.
211. Hollander, John: NIGHT OBSERVATIONS [caption title]. [New Haven]: Bibliographical Press Poetry Broadside, 2 March 1978. Narrow small folio broadside (495 x 223 mm).
Blockprint in medium blue. Minor edge crease and smudge, else near fine.
First edition in this format. One of an unknown number of copies, in addition to 70 numbered
copies, printed on the Vandercook Press in the Sterling Memorial Library on the occasion
of a reading. This copy was inscribed by the poet at the time to a party closely associated
with the undertaking, and variant dimensions and variant inking of the blockprint suggest
the possibility of a trial impression. $85.
212. [Holmes Pastiche]: Garland, Lawrence: THE AFFAIR OF THE UNPRINCIPLED PUBLISHER. BY JOHN H. WATSON, M.D. AS DISCOVERED BY.... New Castle: Oak Knoll
Books, 1983. Cloth and boards. Trace of foxing to spine, otherwise fine.
First edition. limited issue. Title-page device by John DePol. One of 50 numbered copies,
specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator, from a total edition of 325 copies
printed at the Pickering Press. Sherlock Holmes and T.J. Wise cross paths. $150.
A Pulitzer Winner on Social Diseases
213. [Horgan, Paul]: WAR DEPARTMENT PAMPHLET NO. 21-15. YOU DON’T THINK [wrapper
title]. [Washington: War Department, 1944]. [68]pp. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Illustrated throughout
by the author. About fine.
First edition of this tract on venereal disease, written and illustrated by Horgan while in the
service, and printed and distributed by order of the Secretary of War to “each male officer and
enlisted man in the continental U.S.” Of the many publications (largely bulletins and reports)
Paul Horgan wrote while in the military, this is the only one described in Kraft’s preliminary
bibliography, and the most widely distributed (one might assume several millions of copies
were printed). The colorful illustrations are highly characteristic of his work, and though wellknown to most informed Horgan collectors, this little tract is seldom seen or offered for sale.
KRAFT A16. $300.
214. Houston, James: THE WHITE DAWN AN ESKIMO SAGA. New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, Inc., [1971]. 275pp. Gilt cloth. Illustrations by the author. Endsheet maps. Top
edge faded, and with a few tiny spots, but a very good or better copy in dust jacket with
trivial use at edges.
First U.S. edition of this novel, based on true events. Signed by the author on the half-title
and with the publisher’s review slip laid in. The source for the 1974 film adaptation, starring
Warren Oates, Louis Gossett, Jr., Timothy Bottoms, and a cast of Inuits. $50.
215. [Hughes, Langston]: [Playbill for:] THE NEW NEGRO THEATRE PRESENTS “DONT
[sic] YOU WANT TO BE FREE” ... [caption title]. Los Angeles: New Negro Theatre, [n.d.,
but 1939]. [4]pp. Folded 8.5 x 11” sheet. Lower fore-corner creased, light soiling; very good.
An original “Harlem Renaissance West” playbill for a new theatre group Hughes founded in
Los Angeles called the “New Negro Theatre.” The company was created as a counterpart
to the Harlem theatre group Hughes had founded, the “Harlem Suitcase Theatre,” which
was then in its death throes. On 19 March, 1939, his new organization made its debut at
Gray’s Musart Studio at 41st Street and Central Avenue with “Don’t You Want To Be Free?,”
directed by Clarence Muse, preceded by three satirical sketches. It is noted that the “Entire
Production [was] supervised by Langston Hughes.” The back panel of the playbill lists the
patrons of the new theatre company.
RAMPERSAD I, p.369. $75.
216. Huncke, Herbert: THE EVENING SUN TURNED CRIMSON. [Cherry Valley]: Cherry Valley Editions, [1980]. Stiff, lurid pictorial wrappers. Photographs. Lower fore corner bumped,
otherwise a very good or better copy.
First edition, trade issue in wrappers. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg (dated at the end 1968,
when the book was first submitted, unsuccessfully, to Random House). Photographs by Louis
Cartwright. Raw, early and late semi-fictional autobiographical sketches by the occasionally
elusive Beat figure and legendary junkie. Huncke’s biographer indicates the first printing of
this edition consisted of 1000 copies. $75.
217. INS AND OUTS A MAGAZINE OF AWARENESS. Amsterdam: Ins & Outs Press, June
1978 through July 1980. Volume one, numbers 1, 2 and 4/5 (wanting #3 for all published).
Four numbers in three issues, the last a double number. Pictorial wrappers. Heavily illustrated.
A couple minor creases, but near fine.
Published by Salah Harharah and edited by Edward Woods. A significant expat English language periodical of its decade, the history of which Woods recounted for an online issue of
Exquisite Corpse. Much like the Paris Booster, its publisher envisioned something different
at the beginning, but the creative element held sway. Contributors to these issues include
Ira Cohen, Bowles, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Kaufman, Ford, Malanga, Rubington, et
al. There is a pervasive attention to matters involving consciousness expansion and steps
outside the norm. $85.
218. [Irish Art]: Curran, Elizabeth [intro]: CONTEMPORARY IRISH PAINTING AN EXHIBITION ORGANISED BY THE CULTURAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE OF IRELAND NORTH
AMERICA 1950. Dublin: Printed for the Committee at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1950.
23,[1]pp. plus 9 leaves of illustrations. Square octavo. Pictorial wrappers (after a design
by Raymond McGrath). Offset to prelims from some laid in items (see below), some pencil
notes, wrappers a bit hand soiled; very good.
First edition. A catalogue of 89 works, some for sale (and priced), some on loan, by some
major names. The exhibit opened in Providence, moved to Boston, and finished in Ottawa.
Accompanied by a printed invitation to a private viewing in Boston; two copies of a [12]pp.
handlist and biographical key for the Rhode Island show, one quite browned; and finally,
a 1 1/2 page a.l.s. from Elizabeth Curran, Boston, June 4 [1950], to Mr. [Bradford] Swan,
thanking him for his assistance, commenting on matters associated with the exhibition and
others, and noting: “I have now seen the paintings on the road to Ottawa – wished them
Godspeed and am flying home immediately.” The recipient has penciled in comments about
many of the individual paintings. Uncommon: OCLC/Worldcat locates only 11 copies of the
main catalogue (only two in Ireland), and two copies of the Rhode Island School of Design
Museum of Art handlist, both in Rhode Island.
OCLC: 12700830 & OCLC: 795366139. $125.
219. Irving, Washington: VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE COMPANIONS OF COLUMBUS. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1831. 350,[1]pp. Large octavo. Contemporary cloth
and boards (wanting the spine label). Spine a bit frayed, upper joint cracking slightly, lower
board stained at edges, scattered foxing. An ordinary copy, and somewhat surprising thus,
as it bears the Littell bookplate (and another). Enclosed in a fleece-lined folding cloth case.
First U.S. edition, slightly preceded by publication in London. BAL reports the edition consisted
of 3000 copies. The binding on this copy is at variance from the standard binding – rather
than red-purple muslin and tan boards, it is in diced green cloth and tan boards.
BAL 10133. LANGFELD & BLACKBURN , p.31. $225.
220. [Ishill Imprint]: Ellis, Mrs. Havelock: STORIES [and] ESSAYS. Berkeley Heights, NJ:
Published Privately by the Free Spirit Press, [1924]. Cloth and printed boards, paper spine
labels. Portraits and decorations. Lower fore-corners bumped, trace of dust soiling at toes
of spines, but a nice set, in fragmented glassine wrappers.
First edition. Introductory Note by Havelock Ellis. Memoirs by Mrs. Clifford Bax and F. W.
Stella Browne. Prefaces by Charles Marriott and George B. Ives. Decorations by M. Duvalet.
Copies #44 from an edition of 305 sets, set up and printed by Joseph Ishill. The imprint was
a fore-runner of Ishill’s anarchist-leaning Oriole Press. The second volume consists of Mrs.
Ellis’s essays on Edward Carpenter, Olive Schreiner, Oscar Wilde and others.
ISHILL 16. $200.
221. [Janus Press]: McPherson, Sandra: DESIGNATING DUET. [Newark, VT]: The Janus
Press, 1989. Small oblong quarto. Paper-backed decorated fabric over boards. A fine copy,
in otherwise very good cloth-covered clamshell box (with an unfortunate pale tidemark affecting the spine and edges of the boards).
First edition. McPherson’s poems are presented in the context of a cut colored paper quilt-like
construct bound into the outer shell, which may be carefully extended in an accordion style
fashion. One of 175 numbered copies, signed by the poet, by Claire Van Vliet the printer/
designer, and by several other parties associated with the production. $300.
222. Jarry, Alfred, and [Gershon Legman and Beverley Keith (trans)]: KING TURD. New
York: Boar’s Head Books, [1953]. Large octavo. Cloth textured orange boards. Lower foretips slightly bumped, a couple of light spots at fore-edge of rear free endsheet, otherwise
near fine in dust jacket.
First edition of Legman and Keith’s translation, and the first collective English translation of
the entire cycle. Legman contributes a substantive (5 1/2pp) note at the end.
MODERN MOVEMENT 11. $85.
223. Joans, Ted: POÈTE DE JAZZ. [Dakar: Centre Culturel Americain, ca. 1978]. 12pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Very near fine.
First edition (text in English, with a couple of parallel translations into French as well). Inscribed “with great respect” by the author to a scholar, and with an 11-line typed note, signed,
laid in. Inserted in front is a photocopy of a blurb about Joans, with two photos, additionally
inscribed in ink by Joans: “This booklet is dedicated to Charles ‘Bird’ Parker 12 Mar 78.”
$225.
224. Johnson, Lionel: THREE POEMS. Ysleta [TX]: Edwin B. Hill, 1928. Stiff printed wrappers. About fine.
First edition in book form. Introductory note by Vincent Starrett. Although there is no explicit
limitation statement, Myers’s Hill checklist indicates the edition consisted of one hundred
copies. $75.
225. Johnson, Lionel, and William Butler Yeats [ed]: TWENTY ONE POEMS WRITTEN
BY ... SELECTED BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press, 1904.
Line and boards, paper spine label. Small bookplate on pastedown, usual tan offset to free
endsheets, very faint tanning around edges of boards, but an unusually nice copy for this
book, very good or better.
First edition of the fourth Dun Emer Press book publication. One of 220 copies printed, published on 21 February 1905. This copy has been signed by Yeats beneath his crossed-out
name on the title-page. Uncommon thus.
WADE 231. MILLER 5. $850.
226. [Jones, Owen]: [Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Qunitus: THE WORKS OF QUINTUS
HORATIUS FLACCUS ILLUSTRATED CHIEFLY FROM THE REMAINS OF ANCIENT ART.
London: John Murray, 1849. 194,[6],490,[2],xivpp. Large, thick octavo. Elegantly bound in
(unsigned) richly gilt forest green crushed levant, elaborately gilt extra, raised bands, gilt
compartments, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Extra and sectional titles printed in color, decorative
borders, with those in the first section printed in color. Illustrations. A fine copy, in somewhat
worn and frayed folding cloth case.
First edition in this format, with the prefatory Life of Horace by Henry Hart Milman, and
with color ornaments and decorations by Owen Jones, along with eight highly decorated
color title-pages on heavy stock. Illustrations drawn by George Scharf from contemporary
sources. $450.
227. Joyce, James: POMES PENYEACH. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. 16mo.
Printed pale green boards. Errata slip. Boards a bit sunned and foxed, light rubbing (but no
cracking) to extremities, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, trade issue. There were also thirteen copies on handmade paper. The still common suggestion that the printer, Herbert Clarke, was, in fact, Harry Crosby operating under
a pseudonym, is demonstrably false. Clarke established himself as a Paris-based printer of
English language texts while Crosby was still in knickers.
SLOCUM & CAHOON A24. $600.
228. [Joyce, James]: Edel, Leon: JAMES JOYCE THE LAST JOURNEY. New York: The
Gotham Book Mart, [1947]. Large octavo. Cloth and printed boards. Photograph. Trace of
sunning at edges, otherwise a near fine copy.
First edition. Inscribed by Edel to novelist / historian / biographer, Paul Horgan: “For Paul
Horgan, this piece of juvenilia with the warm regards of Leon Edel Middletown CAS 1965.”
With Horgan’s bookplate on the pastedown. At the time of the inscription, Edel was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University, of which Horgan was then
Director. $125.
229. [Joyce, James]: Aleksiun, Jan Jaromir [artist]: [Vintage Original Polish Theatrical Poster
for:] ANNA LIVIA. Warsaw: Teatr Wspolczesny, 1977. Folio broadside (37¾ x 26½”; 89 x 67
cm). Printed by offset lithography in color. Professionally linen mounted, lower margin with
imprint retained, top and side margins trimmed. A very good to fine, bright example. Rolled.
An interesting image of Anna Livia as a fusion of intertwining motifs: femininity and metempsychosis, by noted poster artist Jan J. Aleksiun for a Polish theatrical production based
on the “Anna Livia Plurabelle” episode of Finnegans Wake. The adaptation was written by
Maciej Slomczynski (who published the first complete translation of the episode into Polish
in 1985) and directed by Kazimierz Braun. It opened at the Teatr Wspolczesny [Contemporary Theatre] in Warsaw on June 17, 1976, and ran through 1977, with Teresa Sawicka
in the leading role. At least two different posters were executed at different periods of the
performance’s run, likely intended for display in different venues. This poster, from 1977,
incorporates nudity; the poster issued in 1976, designed by Maciej Urbaniec, featured more
restrained imagery. $250.
230. Jünger, Ernst: WEISSE NÄCHT. [Berlin]: Edition Galerie auf Zeit, [1997]. Folio (46 x
34.5 cm). Pictorial cloth. Illustrated throughout. About fine in faintly handsoiled white slipcase.
First edition in this format, the text rendered in script, and accompanied by illustrations, all
as screenprints, by Klaus Zylla. One of 103 numbered copies, signed by the author and the
artist. Additionally, each full-page illustration has been signed by the artist in the margin. Laid
in is a poster, a press release and an invitation related to publication of the book. Affixed to
the blank opposite the justification page is a full color photograph (215 x 152 mm) of actor
Ben Becker reading from the book at the publisher’s gallery, and a small clipped notice of
that occasion – a publication party for the book. $1000.
231. Kafka, Franz: DESCRIPTION D’UN COMBAT. [Paris]: Maeght Éditeur, [1946]. Quarto
(12 x 9 5/8”; 305 x 245 mm). Gathered loose signatures, laid into lithographed pictorial wrapper. Lithographed frontis, plates, head- and tail-pieces. Fine, in lightly rubbed and smudged
publisher’s board chemise and slipcase.
First edition in French, translated by Clara Malraux and Rainer Dorland, with a Préface by
Bernard Groethuysen. One of 300 numbered copies printed on Vélin, from a total edition of
350. Illustrated with eight black and white full-page lithographs, plus the wrapper and headand tail-pieces, by Jean-Michel Atlan, all printed by Mourlot.
MONOD 6480. $850.
232. Keats, John: AN UNCOLLECTED SONNET ... SONNET TO SPENSER. Philadelphia:
Printed for Seymour Adelman, 1945. Broadside, printed on waste sheets of 18th century
paper. Somewhat foxed; edges a little nicked, otherwise very good.
First edition in this format. One of only forty copies printed by Seymour Adelman, the
prominent Philadelphia book-collector. The text of the sonnet is accompanied by a footnote
which reads: “The above sonnet, judging entirely from internal evidence, was written by
John Keats. No signature accompanied its first appearance in print; but content and style
are signposts pointing in a single direction. Except for every word in the poem, there is no
other proof at hand that Keats did write it; but the fourteen lines are sufficient evidence for
the undersigned. The sonnet is now printed simply in celebration of the 150th Anniversary
of John Keats’s birth, October 31, 1945. Seymour Adelman.” $75.
233. Ketelhodt, Ines V.: ARCHITEKTUR – BAUKUNST [cover title]. [Offenbach am Main
/ Dreieich: druck Wilhelm & Krehling, 1987]. Narrow quarto (28 x 16 cm). Pictorial printed
boards. Fine in near fine plain wrapper.
First edition. One of 70 copies printed. Illustrated with digitally edited photographs by Ketelhodt and Richard Meir, creatively juxtaposed with Ketelhodt’s text; some portions of each are
printed on semi-transparent sheets that result in the text merging with the images. A quite
handsome work. $150.
234. Ketelhodt, Ines V.: ... BIS 17.1. BIS 28.2.91 BIS .... [Frankfurt am Main: Unica T.,
1991]. Quarto (288 x 208 mm). Boltbound flexible vinyl pictorial wrappers. Photographs and
newsprint inserts. Fine.
First edition. One of only fifty numbered copies, signed by the artist. Captured video images
and press coverage from German newspapers of the first Gulf War, juxtaposed and rendered
to haunting effect. $200.
235. [King, Martin Luther, Jr.]: [Group of Five Handbills Calling for a Protest and Memorial in Central Park the Day After the Assassination of M. L. King]. New York City. 4-5
April 1968. Five leaves. Quarto. (8 1/2 x 11”). Mimeographed typescript and mimeographed
manuscript, on rectos only of pink, yellow and white stock. Some light creasing and soiling,
one mimeo a bit faint, but very good or better.
A significant group of handbills distributed in Manhattan and Brooklyn either late in the
evening of 4 April or early the next morning, calling for a protest and memorial at 1 p.m. on
Friday 5 April on Central Park Mall near the 72nd street entrance. Three of the handbills
were distributed on the LIU Brooklyn campus and include information on assembly there
for movement to the main event, as well as calls to strike and shut down LIU Brooklyn. Cosponsors of the protest include the Vietnam Peace Parade, the SDS, the Freedom & Peace
Party, the Student Mobilization Committee, the W.E.B. Dubois Clubs, the Black United Action
Front, etc. Among those tentatively noted as speakers are Benjamin Spock, Ossie Davis, Pete
Seeger, Norma Becker, et al. Accompanied by another handbill, not included in the count
above, for a “Tribute in Action to Martin Luther King, Jr,” including a city-wide mass rally, in
the days leading up to, and on, the anniversary of his murder, ca. 1971, sponsored by the
Vietnam Peace Parade Committee. Uncommon, ephemeral pieces capturing the immediacy
of the tragedy. $225.
236. Kipling, Rudyard: PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. Calcutta & London: Thacker, Spink
and Co. / W. Thacker and Co. 1888. xii,283,[1],xxxiipp. Olive green cloth, spine lettered in
gilt, covers lettered and decorated in black. Bookplate on pastedown offset slightly to free
endsheet, extremities a bit rubbed, rectangular rule of rust-colored offsetting on upper cover;
still about very good.
First edition, third issue of the binding, with the publisher’s monogram in black on the lower
cover, and ornamental borders in black at upper and lower edges of the spine and upper
cover. In this copy, the page number for 192 is misplaced, as often (and with no implication
of priority) and the terminal 32pp. catalogue bears a London printer’s imprint and the date
‘2000 | 9 | 87” and mention of ‘Rudyard Kepling’ [sic] and Departmental Ditties on p.xviii.
RICHARDS A10. STEWART 18. MARTINDELL 17. LIVINGSTON 24. $850.
237. Kipling, Rudyard: DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS AND
OTHER VERSES. New York: United States Book Co. / Lovell, 1890. Plum cloth, stamped in
gilt, t.e.g. Minor rubbing to spine ends, otherwise an unusually nice copy, very good or better.
First U.S. edition (first impression), and first book publication of seventeen pieces.
RICHARDS A48. STEWART 79. $225.
238. Kipling, Rudyard: THE JUNGLE BOOK [with:] THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. London:
Macmillan, 1894 & 1895. Two volumes. Elaborately gilt pictorial blue cloth, a.e.g. Illustrations
by J. L. Kipling, and others. Some foxing early and late, three inner hinges cracking a bit,
spine extremities a bit rubbed, frayed and soft, small ink name on preliminary blank in first
volume. A good, sound, average set, in slightly faded cloth slipcase.
First edition of the first volume, and first U.K. edition of the second volume, the formal publication of the latter having been preceded by the U.S. edition by a few days.
RICHARDS A76 & A85. STEWART 123 & 133. $2000.
239. Kipling, Rudyard: KIM. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. Green cloth, stamped
in gilt and black, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis and plates. Bookplate on front pastedown,
light rubbing to spine ends, very good.
First edition, with poetical headings for chapters VIII and XIII only, and preceding the UK
edition by a few days. “Considered to be Kipling’s greatest work, and the finest novel about
the India of the British Empire” – Richards. The basis for the 1950 MGM film adaptation.
RICHARDS A173. STEWART 253. LIVINGSTON 248. $250.
240. Kipling, Rudyard: THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY REPORT OF A SPEECH BY ... AT THE
ANNUAL DINNER OF THE CHAMBER OF SHIPPING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1925. Cream wrappers, printed in green. Fine.
First American edition. One of sixty-three copies printed for copyright purposes.
STEWART 557. RICHARDS A354. $200.
241. Koenig, Lester: [screenwriter]: “SMART LADY” ORIGINAL SCREEN COMEDY ....
[Hollywood]. 28 April 1942. [1],49 leaves; [1],42 leaves. Quarto. Two carbon typescripts, on
rectos only. The first bradbound in typed wrappers; pencil name, and light discolorations
along fore-edge of wrappers, otherwise very good or better; the second on cheap pulp paper,
with tanning, some sliver loss at edges, and mild discolorations to edges of last few leaves.
Two variant typescripts of an original film treatment by Koenig, a one-time William Wyler
associate who gave up filmwork in 1953 in favor of full time concentration on his legendary
record company, Contemporary Records, due to the persistence of the Blacklist. The story
is set in contemporary New York, and concerns circumstances following the successful
publication of a novel by a male writer who publishes under a female pseudonym. $85.
242. Kokoschka, Oskar [illustrator], and Albert Ehrenstein: TUBUTSCH. New York: Profile
Press Book / Ben Abramson Publisher, [1946]. Thin octavo. Blue cloth, stamped in red. B&w
frontis and plates by Kokoschka. Upper board slightly soiled, endsheets show some discoloration from the binder’s glue and the effects of climate/humidity, a couple of small spots of
foxing, small spot on fore-edge, hence just a good copy, in fine dust jacket.
First edition of this translation by Eric Posselt and Era Zistel. From a total edition of 1000
copies, this is copy “1 – out of Series” in addition to 100 numbered copies signed by the artist
and the author (this copy signed by Kokoschka only). The 1911 edition was Enhrenstein’s
first book, and this edition reprises Kokoschka’s illustrations for that edition. $250.
243. Kosinski, Jerzy [writing as Joseph Novak]: ‘THE FUTURE IS OURS, COMRADE’
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE RUSSIANS. London: The Bodley Head, [1960]. Cloth. Near
fine, in near very good, slightly darkened and lightly frayed pictorial dust jacket with a short,
closed edge tear.
First UK edition of Kosinski’s first published book, published by Doubleday in the US the
same year. Foreword by Irving R. Levine. $100.
244. Kosinski, Jerzy: DER BEMALTE VOGEL BERICHT DES AUTORS [wrapper title].
[Bern, Munich etc]: Scherz, [nd. but no earlier than 1965]. 28,[2]pp. 12mo. Glossy printed
wrappers. Small nick in upper wrapper, otherwise very good.
Uncorrected proof printing of the German text of Kosinski’s “Author’s Notes” published roughly
coincident with Herbert Roch’s translation into German of The Painted Bird. The preliminary
blank and the lower margin of page 17 both bear the denotation in type: “Unkorrigiertes
leseexemplar Kein Auflagepapier.” $60.
245. Kosinski, Jerzy: THE LONE WOLF [wrapper title]. [Washington]: Reprinted from The
American Scholar XLI:4, Autumn 1972. pp. 513-[519]. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Upper
fore corner bumped, a few faint smudges to wrappers, but very good or better.
An author’s separate of this essay. This copy is not inscribed by the author, and is distinctly
uncommon thus. $40.
246. Kosinski, Jerzy: PACKAGED PASSION [wrapper title]. [Washington]: Reprinted from
The American Scholar XLII:2, Spring 1973. pp. 193-204. Large octavo. Printed wrappers.
Trace of sunning to wrappers, else near fine.
An author’s separate of this essay. This copy is not inscribed by the author, and is distinctly
uncommon thus. $40.
247. Kreymborg, Alfred [ed]: OTHERS AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE NEW VERSE (1917). New
York: Alfred A. Knopf 1917. Orange boards stamped in blue. Fragmentary small bookseller’s
stamp on rear board and rear free endsheet, slight tanning to spine, otherwise a very good
or better copy, in the primary binding, but without the uncommon dust jacket.
First edition of the second of the Others anthologies, which number among the most essential of American modernist anthologies. This volume includes contributions by Arensberg,
Bodenheim, Eliot, Loy, Moore, Rodker, Sandburg, Stevens, Williams, et al. Many of the
contributions are the first book appearances of the poems. $150.
248. [Kubrick, Stanley, Peter George, and Terry Southern (screenwriters)]: STANLEY KUBRICK’S DR. STRANGELOVE ... [wrapper title]. [Copenhagen?: Columbia Pictures Corp.,
1964]. [12]pp. Pictorial self wrappers. 157 x 118 mm. Illustrated. A bit of staple rust offset to
wrappers, ticket stub for a showing in Svendborg tipped in; very good.
A Danish souvenir program for the 1964 release in Denmark of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece
of humor noir, scripted by Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George, from whose book, Red
Alert, the bare bones of the plot were taken, and then transformed into something beautiful,
strange, and over the top, starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan
Wynn, Slim Pickens, et al. The program includes stills and descriptive captions, and relies
on an adaptation of the original Tomi Ungerer promotional art. An uncommon ephemeron.
$75.
249. [Kubrick, Stanley, Peter George, and Terry Southern (screenwriters)]: [Studio Publicity
Campaign Pressbook for:] DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. [Los Angeles]: Columbia Pictures Corp., 1964. 18pp. (including
foldout). Small folio (38 x 38cm.) Glossy pictorial self-wrappers by Tomi Ungerer. Heavily illustrated. Light use, a few smudges along lower edge of upper wrapper, but very good or better.
The elaborate and visually evocative original campaign pressbook for Stanley Kubrick’s
masterpiece of humor noir, scripted by Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George, from
whose book, Red Alert, the bare bones of the plot were taken, and starring Peter Sellers,
George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, et al. Recent pundits have
proclaimed Some Like It Hot as the best American comedy film, but this cataloguer takes
issue with that, and puts forth Dr. Strangelove in its place. Some copies of this pressbook
include some loose supplements, but they are not present here. Increasingly less common. $275.
250. Kutscher, Vollrad: WIE DIE WURST IN DER PELLE .... Wiesbaden: Elke Betzel Verlag,
1978. Octavo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. Photographs. Text reproduced in facsimile
of manuscript. Fine.
First edition. Copy #121 of 300 numbered copies, signed by the artist. The first sixty included
an original page of the manuscript. $75.
251. Kutscher, Vollrad: DER WEISSE TRAUM BUCH ZUM ENVIRONMENT. [Frankfurt: Elke
Betzel Verlag, 1980]. Quarto (30 x 21 cm). Linen over boards, with title written on upper
board with a resin-like substance. Illustrated with color photocopies of photographs. Fine.
First edition. Copy #38 of 100 numbered copies, signed by the artist, and with each of the
color photocopied plates signed by him in pencil in the margin. A record of Kutscher’s exercise
in nude body-painting to enable him to completely disappear/blend into natural environments.
OCLC/Worldcat locates three copies. $250.
252. Labadie, Jo: WINDOWS. Bubbling Waters [Wixom, MI]: The Labadie Shop, 1924. 16mo.
Sewn printed wrappers. Frontis portrait. Short tear in lower edge of upper wrapper, glue used
to affix frontis portrait tanned, otherwise about fine.
First edition. With an ink correction to the date at the end of the poem. A poem about ‘Windows’ by the anarchist/poet/printer, composed in response to a theme proposed to the poetry
section of the Detroit Women’s Writers Club.
OCLC: 28863405. $150.
253. Labadie, Jo: RUSSIAN VERSES. Detroit: The Labadie Shop, 1932. 16mo. Sewn wrappers. Portrait and plate. Pale purple wrapper a trace sunned, otherwise fine, unopened.
First edition in this format, comprised of poems on thematically related topics (anarchism,
Russian political events, etc) written over a span of years by the anarchist/poet/printer.
Published the year prior to his death as one of the Labadie Booklets.
OCLC: 28863404. $150.
254. Labadie, Laurance C. [ed & publisher]: THE WHIPPO-WIL [Whole numbers 1 & 4].
Detroit, MI.: The Labadie Shop, March & August 1912. [4]pp. each. Small octavo. Folded
leaflets, text in double columns. First number slightly tanned, but very good.
Two representative issues of this boys’ paper, published by the 13 year-old son of the
anarchist printer/poet, Jo Labadie, on his father’s press, the first number in company with
two other 13 year-olds, Vernon Gnau and John Galvin. A poem by Jo Labadie opens each
number, followed by contributions by others and local adverts. OCLC locates examples in
the Labadie Collection at Univ. of Michigan (#s 1-4).
OCLC: 30994026. $75.
255. Lachenmeier, Rosa: NEWS. [Basel: BookART, 1993]. Octavo (215 x 152 mm). Boltbound
stiff paper boards. Illustrated in color throughout. Fine in decorated dust jacket and slightly
snagged plain paper shipping sleeve with label.
First edition. One of sixty numbered copies only, signed by the artist. A virtually completely
visual chronological presentation of collective world events and individual triumphs and
sorrows via small photos inset into larger color maps reflecting climatic, topographic and
statistical gradations of various sorts. $100.
256. Lancaster, William J.C. [1851-1922]: [Fine Autograph Letter, Signed, as “Harry
Collingwood,” with a Two-page List of His Book Publications, and a Portrait Cabinet
Photograph]. Liverpool. 12 October 1914. Three pages, on three panels of a folded quarto
lettersheet. Horizontal fold from mailing, otherwise very good.
Lancaster writes an American reader, who has written him about the series of nautical novels Lancaster published under the pseudonym, “Harry Collingwood” (a nom de plume he
adopted in tribute to his hero, Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood). He encloses a list of his titles
(an additional two pages, on two panels of another folded quarto lettersheet), and notes: “I
am a little surprised to learn that so few of my books are known in the U.S.A. Is it that your
countrymen do not care for sea stories, or is it that, from a sense of patriotism, they will only
read American authors?” He details his lack of expertise at finding an American publisher “of
good standing” as he has “never attempted to place any of my work on your side of the ‘Pond’
....” He notes that the recipient (“Mr. Hassett” or “Harrett”) has a connection with the Chicago
Daily News, and indicates he would be greatly obliged if he had any advice on the matter.
He highly recommends his forthcoming book, The First Mate: “The hero is of course British
(our publishers practically insist upon this whenever it is possible), but the other principal
characters are Americans, and I think Americans would find the book interesting. I may say
that if I could come to a satisfactory agreement with an American House, I could supply two
books, each of 100,000 words, per annum, and although my forte is of course sea stories,
I have written others in which all the adventures occurred ashore.” He signs the letter as
“’Harry Collingwood’” (in quotes). Accompanied by a fine cabinet photograph (17 x 11 cm) of
Lancaster by Maull & Fox, identified on the verso in ink, and dated 1898. Lancaster was the
son of a Royal Navy Captain and was educated at the Naval College, Greenwich. He first
shipped out at the age of 15, but had to set aside his aspirations toward a naval career due
to severe myopia. In tandem with his eventual career as a marine engineer, he published 23
nautically based novels under the Collingwood pseudonym, including the prescient science
fiction novel, The Log Of The Flying-Fish. A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and
Adventure (1887). $550.
257. LARUS THE CELESTIAL VISITOR. Lynn, MA: The Press of the Lone Quill, February
1927 through April/June 1928. I:1-5/7 (in five issues). Large octavo. Original printed wrappers, bound up in gilt lettered cloth. Cloth a bit sunned, with a couple small spots, otherwise
near fine.
Edited by John Sherry Mangan and Virgil Thomson. A complete run of this short-lived,
excellent little magazine, the first number combined with Oliver Jenkins’s Tempo. Among
the contributors are: Gertrude Stein, R. P. Blackmur, Hart Crane, Mary Butts, Yvor Winters,
Conrad Aiken, Erik Satie, Cuthbert Wright, Pierre de Massot, Robert McAlmon, Bernard
Fay, et al. The final number is a triple number. Although nowhere physically demonstrated
(except by the characteristic binding), poet/publisher James Laughlin’s set. Complete runs
are now somewhat scarce.
HOFFMAN, et al, pp. 286. $400.
258. Lassaigne, Jacques, and André Masson [illus]: MARIA TU SAIS TRENTE-CINQ POÈMES
D’AMOUR. Zurich: Adolf Hürlimann ..., 1974. Small
folio (13 x 10”; 330 x 255 mm). Loose folded sheets
laid into typographically decorated wrapper. Fine
in faintly tanned, slightly nicked glassine.
First edition. Thirty-five love poems accompanied
by four original color lithographs by Andre Masson. One of eighty-eight numbered copies, from
a total edition of 138 copies on vélin de Rives,
signed by the author and the artist, as well as by
Hürlimann. $350.
259. Laud, William: A SUMMARIE OF DEVOTIONS ... NOW PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO
THE COPY WRITTEN WITH HIS OWN HAND,
AND RESERVED IN THE ARCHIVES OF ST.
JOHN BAPTIST’S COLLEDGE [sic] LIBRARY
IN OXON. Oxford: Printed by William Hall, 1667.
[4],333,[1]pp. Small octavo. Disbound. Ownership
signatures of George F. Nott on title, one dated
1829. Faint blindstamp of a theological seminary in
title, manuscript shelf number on verso of title; still, a good, crisp copy, with the license leaf.
First Oxford edition, preceded by three London printings, under the title Officium Quotidianum, 1649-50, and 1663. Madan asserts that the London 1667 edition was a poor piracy
of this edition. As noted in the entry in ESTC, pages 97/8 are omitted. One of the staples of
Anglican devotional literature. Nott (1767-1841), editor of Wyatt and translator of the Book
of Common Prayer into Italian (1831), spent much of his later life in Italy, where his religious
opinions caused some issues with the Shelleys. He amassed a library of over 12,500 volumes,
as well as a collection of art and bric-a-brac, which were dispersed by auction after his death.
MADAN 2770. ESTC R27458. $300.
260. Laughlin, James [ed]: NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROSE & POETRY 1938. Norfolk: New
Directions, 1938. Printed boards. Photographs. Hint of foxing to edges and endsheets,
otherwise near fine in bright, unfaded dust jacket with two short, closed edge tears, a few
minor rubs, a bit of foxing on verso, and a trace of dust to rear panel.
First edition of the third ND anthology, including contributions by Berryman, Patchen, Zukofsky, Ford, Thomas, Saroyan, Pound, Schwartz, et al. In spite of the detractions noted above,
actually a much nicer copy than usual. $125.
261. Laughlin, James, et al [editors]: PERSPECTIVES [and:] PERSPECTIVES USA. Brooklyn
& London: Intercultural Publications / Hamish Hamilton, Winter 1953 – Winter 1956. Whole
numbers one through sixteen (all published). Large octavo. Decorated wrappers. Plates and
photographs. Light dust soiling to a few wrappers, small chip at crown of one spine, one
spine bumped, pencil erasure from one wrapper, short tear at top edge of one rear wrapper,
wrappers of #9 a bit soiled, otherwise very good to about fine.
James Laughlin served as general editor, with guest editors for most issues (Malcolm Cowley, R. P. Blackmur, Hayden Carruth, Lionel Trilling, among others), and a large and stellar
board of advisory editors. An ambitious undertaking, published in US, UK, French, German
and Italian editions, showcasing current U.S. literature and criticism, visual arts, film, music,
and commentary. The list of contributors is distinguished, but the Ford Foundation backing
for the undertaking was the subject of some small measure of controversy. This set includes
seven issues in the UK format. Alvin Lustig is credited with some of the wrapper designs.
The final number includes a general index to #s 1-16. $175.
262. Lavater, Warja (1913 – 2007): LES GENS ESQUISSE POUR UN DESSIN ANIMÉ
UN PICTOGRAM PAR .... [Paris: The Artist, 1970]. [26] panels including stiff vellum-finish
boards. Quarto (9.5 x 7.25”; 24 x 18 cm), accordion fold. About fine, in folding cloth and
boards clamshell box (the latter slightly dust smudged).
Although without stated limitation, this is one of three unique, but similar, copies of this
artist’s book in its purest form, hand-drawn, lettered and painted in watercolors by Lavater,
and signed and dated in Paris by her on the blank verso of the penultimate panel. Warja, a
Swiss-born illustrator and graphic designer, and a pioneer among creators of artist’s books, is
best known for creating or interpreting texts (often fables) via graphic symbols, often without
accompaniment by anything other than an explanatory text at the end. This particular work
is an original tale by her, communicated though a diverse group of brilliantly colored verbal
standins and some integral text. [Cover image].
$3500.
263. Lavater, Warja (1913 – 2007): PERCEPTIONS. [Locarno, Italy: Editions Lafranca, 1975].
Folio (14.5 x 12.5”; 37 x 32 cm). Loose bifolia laid into heavy handmade paper wrappers.
Enclosed in stiff card clamshell box and sleeve, both of which are numbered, titled and
signed by the artist in pencil.
A “livre en papier modulé” published in an edition of 24 numbered copies on heavy papier
de La Collinasca, and signed by the artist. Additionally, each bifolium is also signed with
initials by the artist and dated: “WL 75.” A handmade leporello book-sculpture, with the paper
manipulated, formed and embossed in blind with symbols by the artist. Letterpress by Adolf
Hürlimann, Zurich (colophon, and explanatory statement and key to symbols printed on grid
paper). Warja, a Swiss-born illustrator and graphic designer, and a pioneer among creators
of artist’s books, is best known for composing or interpreting texts (often fables) via graphic
symbols, often without accompaniment by anything other than an explanatory text at the
end. $1250.
264. Lavater, Warja (1913 – 2007): JEU. [Paris, La Collinasca & Zurich: The Artist, 1980].
Folio (17.5 x 10.5”; 44 x 27 cm). Handpainted bifolia, laid into wrappers. Quarter parchment
and cloth clamshell box, spine labeled in manuscript by the artist (narrow crack at top of
upper joint).
A “livre en papier modulé” published in an edition of 22 numbered copies on heavy papier de
La Collinasca and signed by the artist. A handmade leporello book-sculpture, with the paper
manipulated, formed and handcolored by the artist. Letterpress by Adolf Hürlimann, Zurich
(colophon and caption text/symbols). Warja, a
Swiss-born illustrator and graphic designer, and
a pioneer among creators of artist’s books, is
best known for composing or interpreting texts
(often fables) via graphic symbols, often without
accompaniment by anything other than an explanatory text at the end. This particular work,
apart from the brief caption text and colophon,
is totally devoid of text and must be seen to be
understood. $2900.
265. Lawrence, D. H.: THE PAINTINGS OF D.H.
LAWRENCE. London: The Mandrake Press,
[1929]. Small folio. Three quarter publisher’s
pebbled morocco, spine stamped in gilt, boards
stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Color plates. A few small
rubs to spine, otherwise a very good or better
copy, without slipcase.
First edition, trade issue. One of five hundred
numbered copies on Arches mouldmade paper,
from a total edition of 510 copies printed for subscribers only.
ROBERTS A46a. $650.
266. Lawrence, D. H. [trans]: THE STORY OF DOCTOR MANENTE BEING THE TENTH AND
LAST STORY FROM THE SUPPERS OF A.F. GRAZZINI CALLED IL ILASCA.... Florence:
G. Orioli, 1929. Parchment over boards. Portrait. Near fine in printed dust jacket.
First edition, trade issue. In spite of the stated limitation of one thousand copies in this issue, it has long been known that 2400 were printed, and the majority, including this copy,
were left unnumbered.
ROBERTS A45b. $110.
267. [Lawrence, D.H.]: [Five Publishers’ Press Bulletins Re: Conflicting US Editions of:] LADY
CHATTERLEY’S LOVER. New York: New American Library & Grove Press, 6-10 August
1959. Five items, totaling 13 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos
only. Stapled as units. Near fine.
An interesting sequence of Press Releases from the two publishers, fencing over the rights to
publish the unexpurgated edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the labeling of the expurgated
edition (which NAL had been publishing since 1946, claiming it was authorized), injunctions,
rulings, etc. Grove Press also challenges the legitimacy of the Pocket Books reprinting of
the text in the course of their detailed statement. $55.
268. [Lawrence, D. H. (sourcework)]: Allégret, Marc; Gaston Bonheur, and Philippe de Rothschild [screenwriters]: [British Quad Publicity Poster for:] LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER.
[Np]: Regie du Film / Orsay / Columbia, [1957]. Vintage 30 x 40” (75 x 100 cm.) British quad
screen-printed pictorial poster. Repeated folds, some offsetting and light soiling to an area of
the white lettering, small breaks at folds in margins, a used but essentially very good copy.
A British quad publicity poster for the brief 1957 English language release of this 1955
French film adaptation of Lawrence’s 1928 novel, directed by Marc Allégret, starring Danielle
Darrieux, Leo Genn, Erno Crisa, and Janine Crispin, et al. The poster makes much of the
novel’s continued status as a ‘banned book’ in its unexpurgated form, and as tepid as it is,
the film was also banned in the US until a court ruling in its favor. While artistically a fairly
crude piece of work, this quad is a much more visually appealing poster than that for the
short-lived US 1957 release. Both are uncommon. $95.
269. [Legman, Gershon]: NEUROTICA. St. Louis & New York: Neurotica Publishing Company,
Spring 1948 – Winter 1952. Whole numbers one through nine. Decorated wrappers (by Lustig).
Some general modest soiling and dust smudging to wrappers, a couple small spots to upper
wrapper of #8, chip to overlap at top edge of wrapper of #7; still a good, internally very good
or better set, without the wraparound bands that accompanied a few issues.
A complete run of this iconoclastic little magazine, edited initially by Jay Landesman, with
Gershon Legman acting as associate editor of later issues, and editor of record of the last.
In addition to providing a forum for Legman’s own works, Neurotica includes contributions
by Patchen, John Clellon Holmes, Durrell, DeJong, Roskolenko, McLuhan, Reik, Brossard,
Broyard, Ginsberg (his first appearance in print), Markfield, Fitzgerald, et al. Complete runs
of Neurotica have become somewhat uncommon. $450.
270. Lehrer, Warren; Sandra Brownlee-Ramsdale, and Dennis Bernstein: GRRRHHHH A
STUDY OF SOCIAL PATTERNS.... Purchase, NY: Ear / Say, 1987. Thick oblong octavo.
Decorated stiff wrappers. Illustrated in colors and b & w. Very near fine.
First edition. With illustrative matter based on weavings by Sandra Brownlee-Ramsdale, and
with chants and stories by Dennis Bernstein. One of 650 copies (including 15 deluxe copies), signed by Lehrer. “An extended visual fugue based on the long-forgotten but important
[imaginary] animals of the earth ... this volume attempts to document the evolutionary and
social patterns of these mytho-hysterical creatures.” $125.
Excellent Association Copy
271. Leland, Charles Godfrey [ed & trans]: THE POETRY AND MYSTERY OF DREAMS.
Philadelphia: Published by E.H. Butler, 1856. 271,[1],[16]pp. Medium blue cloth, ruled in
blind, lettered in gilt (BAL’s binding A). Extremities somewhat rubbed, but sound, small
morocco bookplate on pastedown, some spotting to rear board; still, a good, sound copy,
internally near fine.
First edition of this compilation, including a significant number of poems by Leland as well as
others translated by him. This copy bears his a presentation inscription to poet and critic R.
H. Stoddard, once and quite plainly in pencil on the first blank, and again, quite elaborately
in ink, on an inserted bifolium of fine white paper, incorporating a German Proverb, and a
translation of same: “Dreams are foam on streams.” Scattered throughout the text, in a minute and neat hand, Leland has identified those anonymous poems or otherwise uncredited
translations that are his own work, adding significantly to the extended list of his credited
work printed in BAL. A book that has become somewhat uncommon in the trade.
BAL11527. $1250.
272. Leland, Charles Godfrey: THE MUSIC-LESSON OF CONFUCIUS AND OTHER POEMS.
London: Trübner & Co., 1872. Small octavo. Red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and black.
Cloth lightly soiled, a bit of foxing early and late, bookplate (see below); a very good copy.
First edition, preceding the Boston issue of sheets from this printing. This copy is in a binding
at variance from either of those detailed by BAL (no priority). With the bookplate of Hastings
Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford, and with a clipped presentation inscription to him, “... from The
Author” tipped to the verso of the free endsheet. A pencil noted on the half-title indicates it
was received 21 Dec. 1871, which is in the week of publication.
BAL 11578. $175.
273. Leland, Charles Godfrey: SONGS OF THE SEA AND LAYS OF THE LAND. London:
Adam & Charles Black, 1895. xiii,[3],278,[2]pp. Pictorial green linen, t.e.g., others untrimmed.
Bookplate on pastedown, some foxing early and late and at edges, cloth a trace sunned and
lightly soiled; a good, sound copy.
First edition, UK issue. BAL reports the probability that the edition advertised for the US by
Macmillan was likely made up of UK sheets with a cancel title leaf.
BAL 11672. $95.
274. Leppien, Jean [illus], and Gilles Plazy:
VERS UN MIDI. [Paris: Michèle Broutta Éditeur, 1983]. Large quarto (13.75 x 11”; 35 x
28.5 cm). Loose bifolia laid into folding cloth
clamshell box. Illustrated. Internally fine; the
box is a bit sunned and nicked.
First edition. Illustrated with 14 linogravures
by Leppien, printed from blocks cut originally
in 1948-50. One of 70 numbered copies,
signed by the author and artist, from a total
edition of 100 copies (30 APs and HCs). Additionally, two of the linogravures are signed
in the margin by Leppien. $350.
275. Levine, Philip: NOT THIS PIG. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, [1968].
Cloth. First edition, clothbound issue, of the
poet’s second book. Small ink name on free
endsheet, otherwise near fine in near fine,
price-clipped dust jacket.
$250.
276. Lindsey, William: APPLES OF ISTAKHAR. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895.
Octavo. Medium brown buckram, decorated
in blind and gilt. Some foxing to endsheets,
cloth slightly sunned and bubbled, just a very
good copy.
First edition, ordinary issue. One of five hundred copies printed in trade format, from a total
edition of 550. Inscribed: “To my friend C.W. [indecipherable] with the compliments of the
Author.”
KRAUS 36. $75.
277. [Living Theatre]: Bissinger, Karl, et al: DECLARATION OF CONSCIENCE OF EMERGENCY COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE LIVING THEATRE [caption title]. New
York. [January or February 1964]. Two leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed
on rectos only. Stapled at top left, formerly folded for mailing, with small marginal break at
edge at fold; very good.
A solicitation of support, both public and financial, for Julian Beck and Judith Malina after
their indictment on charges associated with the IRS seizure of the Living Theatre in October
1963. The first sheet outlines the circumstances, and the second is the formal declaration,
to be signed and returned (perhaps with a monetary contribution) to photographer/activist
Karl Bissinger. $55.
278. Löhr, Helmut: DISCUSSIONS BERLIN 1988. [Berlin: Verlag Galerie Horst Dietrich,
1989]. Quarto. Sewn wrappers in printed dust jacket. Laid in screenprint on flexible acetate.
Fine in publisher’s box.
First edition, deluxe issue. Illustrated with lithographs of Löhr’s collage work involving folded
newsprint. An EA copy, in addition to thirty numbered copies in the deluxe issue, from a total
of 150 numbered copies (and an unspecified number of EA or HC). This deluxe issue is accompanied by a special leporello, “Discussions Part II,” as well a separate lithograph of one
of the collages, signed by Löhr. Additionally, the upper lid of the box has been expansively
signed by the artist. $250.
279. [Lorimer, George H.]: LETTERS FROM A SELF-MADE MERCHANT TO HIS SON
.... Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1902. Plum red cloth, stamped in white, black and gilt.
Frontis and plates. Trace of rubbing to one corner, otherwise a very good, bright copy, in
lightly chipped and torn dust jacket.
First Boston edition, with material not in the Philadelphia printing of the previous year. The
jacket trumpets the prepublication orders for 10,000 copies. An unusually nice copy of this
sentimental, though influential, best-seller. It is reasonably uncommon in dust jacket.
$225.
280. [Luck, Mary Churchill (or Churchill-Luck)]: Hamilton, M. [pseud]: A SELF-DENYING ORDINANCE. New York: Appleton and Co., 1895. Publisher’s 3/4 gilt roan and marbled boards,
t.e.g. Small private ownership name stamp on title and last leaf, minor rubbing, otherwise a
nice copy, very good or better.
First US edition, published as “Town and Country Library” No. 183, this being in the publisher’s
deluxe binding. Ms. Churchill-Luck, née Spottiswoode-Ashe, was a Derry-born, London
resident, who wrote several minor novels set in Ulster. Although OCLC locates a number of
copies of this US edition of this title, only a partial BL Ref. Section entry appears in OCLC
for this title with a UK imprint (with no locations), and that is also under Appleton’s imprint.
OCLC: 5204990. Brown, IRELAND IN FICTION, p. 129 (n). $75.
First Book(s)
281. Lynch, Brian, and Paul Durcan: ENDSVILLE. Dublin: New Writers’ Press, 1967. Pictorial
wrappers (after a design by John Behan). Wrappers a bit dust soiled at spine and edges,
but a very good copy.
First edition of the poets’ first book, to the degree that such a joint publication may be so
reckoned. The front wrapper bears the legend “New Irish Writers,” suggesting it was an element
in a series; however, it was a standalone, financed in part by the authors and with assistance
from Anthony and Elaine Kerrigan. This is an interesting association copy, inscribed inside
the front wrapper: “For Edward Dahlberg with love Brian Lynch June ‘68.” Laid in is a clean
typescript of a poem, “The Rabbi at Dahlberg,” by Paul Durcan. Dahlberg had contributed
to Lynch’s short-lived literary periodical, The Holy Door (3 numbers, 1965-6). $450.
282. MacDiarmid, Hugh: DIREADH I, II, AND III. Frenich, Foss: Kulgin Duval & Colin H.
Hamilton, 1974. Folio. Quarter gilt morocco and boards. Fine in slipcase, the latter with a
bit of faint soiling.
First edition. One of two hundred numbered copies, designed by Martino Mardersteig and
printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, signed by the author. $200.
283. MacDiarmid, Hugh, and Norman MacCaig: POETRY READING BY ... MAY 2, 1967
.... Brooklyn: Brooklyn Center Long Island University, 1967. [1],17 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Stapled at top left. Title leaf a bit tanned and
lightly soiled; very good.
Prints the text of ten poems by MacDiarmid, with appended glossaries of Scottish terms,
followed by the texts of six poems by McCaig. $30.
284. Macé, Gérard, and Jean Clareboudt: PIERROT VALET DE LA MORT. [Paris: Michel
Nitabah, 1986]. Folio (13.5 x 10.5”; 345 x 265mm). Loose bifolia, laid into heavy printed
wrapper. Illustrations. Fine, in faintly smudged folding clamshell case.
First edition. Illustrated with original hand-enhanced lithographs by Jean Clareboudt with
manipulation by tears and folds. One of 26 numbered copies (of a total of forty copies),
printed by Francois de Ros on chiffon à la forme du Moulin de Larroque, with the lithographs
printed by Jean Clareboudt, and signed by the author and artist. $450.
Item 284
285. MacKaye, Percy: THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS A COMEDY. New York: Macmillan,
1903. Small octavo. Tan cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt red, green and olive, t.e.g. Bookplate on pastedown, spine ends a bit worn, with short snag at crown, otherwise very good.
First edition of this early work by the poet dramatist, preceded by the privately printed Johnny
Crimson, and some credited and uncredited collaborations. This copy is inscribed and signed
by MacKaye, incorporating a four line quote (in modern English) from “The Prologue” to the
Tales. $125.
Subject’s Copy
286. [MacKaye, Percy]: Grover, Edwin Osgood [ed]: ANNALS OF AN ERA PERCY MACKAYE
AND THE MACKAYE FAMILY 1826 – 1932 A RECORD OF BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY IN
COMMENTARIES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY .... Washington, DC: Published Under the Auspices
of Dartmouth College / The Pioneer Press, 1932. 534,[2],lxxvii,[2]pp. Thick octavo. Panels
of prospectus (or dw) affixed to pastedowns (with browning from adhesive), shaken, frayed
and used, with split to lower joint, but see below.
First trade edition. From the library of playwright, poet and biographer, Percy MacKaye (18751956), the subject of this work, with his ownership signature and address in ink on the front
free endsheet, and with a number of pencil and ink annotations and markings in his hand
throughout the text, and with additional material mounted or loosely inserted by him. The
latter material includes reviews of his books; supplemental biographical and bibliographical
sources; a typescript poem by his nephew inscribed to him; offprints and articles relating to
other family members; and two retained copies of typed letters by MacKaye written while he
was in Switzerland after his wife’s death, accompanied by a carbon typescript of “Descent
of Percy MacKaye from John Steele.” $400.
287. MacLeish, Archibald: THE AMERICAN BELL ... A LUMADRAMA SPECTACLE AT INDEPENDENCE HALL. New York: Lumadrama, Inc. / T. Edward Hambleton Phoenix Theatre,
[1962]. [1],32 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Staplebound
in Hart Steno Bureau binder, stamped in silver. About fine.
An original script for this play written by MacLeish for presentation in cooperation with the
National Park Service at Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, beginning in 1962. It was produced by T. Edward Hambleton, of the New York Phoenix Theatre, and featured music and
songs by David Amram. The play was included in the American Heritage publication, Let
Freedom Ring: The Story of Independence Hall and Its Role in the Founding of The
United State (1962). OCLC locates a single copy, in the MacLeish papers at Yale, as well
as a photocopy elsewhere. $85.
288. MacManus, Seamus: A LAD OF THE O’FRIEL’S. London: Isbister & Co., 1903. Decorated green cloth, lettered in gilt and white. Very slightly shaken, two ownership signatures
on free endsheet, tips a bit rubbed, but a good, sound copy.
First UK edition, published the same year as the US edition, in a later state of the binding. Donegal-resident MacManus traveled often to the US and had direct contact with his
periodical and book publishers there, so potential priority of this edition is unknown to this
cataloguer. This edition is significantly more uncommon than the US edition (OCLC locates
9 copies, versus over fifty for the McClure Phillips edition). Brown does not cite this edition
at all, noting the US and the somewhat later Dublin editions only. This may be due to the
fragility of the Isbister firm at the time, which was taken over by Pitman in 1905. And indeed
the spine imprint on this copy is ‘Pitman’.
OCLC: 12829076. BROWN 1065. $100.
289. [Mail Art]: Stagnaro, Umberto [compiler]: ALFABETO INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF
MAIL ART. Finale Ligure, Italy: Umberto Stagnaro, [ca. 1981]. [8] leaves. Oblong quarto (21
x 30 cm). Stapled at left. Photomechanically reproduced. Illustrated. Trace of minor staple
rust, folded vertically once, very good.
First edition of this accompaniment to the exhibition, to which several hundred participants
contributed. Copy #24 of 250. This copy is accompanied by an original work by Stagnaro
(105 x 220 mm), executed in rubberstamp and colored wash, signed in red ink by the artist
and with his address stamp on the verso. $75.
290. Mallalieu, H.B.: ON THE BERLIN LAKES AND OTHER POEMS. Edinburgh: The Tragara
Press, 1988. Large octavo. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. Fine.
First edition of this posthumous selection, with a prefatory note by Julian Symons. In addition to 125 copies (85 for sale) on Gainsborough paper, this is one of an unknown (but
small) number of “proof” copies on different paper. This copy bears the printer’s presentation
inscription to George Sims, as well as the latter’s bookplate.
HALLIWELL A131 (note). $150.
291. Mamet, David, and Donald Sultan [illustrator]: WARM AND COLD. [New York: Fawbush
Editions / Solo Press, 1985]. Large folio (22.5 x 18”; 57 x 46cm). Loose sheets and bifolia,
laid into printed wrappers. Photographs and illustrations. Fine in cloth clamshell case.
First edition in this format. Illustrated with nine original lithographs (8 with handcoloring)
by Sultan. In addition to a regular issue of 100 numbered copies, this is copy ‘vii’ of twenty
copies numbered in Roman. Printed on Arches by Carol Bundy, with the lithographs printed
by various hands and handcolored by Cinda Sparling. The two photographs are of the collaborators’ daughters, the dedicatees of the book. Due to the oversize format, there will be
extra costs for shipping. $2000.
292. Mansouroff, Paul Andréevitch: STRUKTUREN [caption title].
Friedberg: Edition Hoffman, 1979. [8] leaves of text. Quarto (33 x 24
cm). Prefatory text leaves, accompanied by six matted mixed-media
prints. Enclosed in printed boards folder. Folder a trifle sunned at
edges, with small chip at spine crown, otherwise near fine.
First edition. Prefatory essay by E. Steneberg. Copy #68 of 120
numbered copies (and 25 épreuves), signed by the artist on the
justification, and with the prints signed in the plate in the lower right
corner. The prints are in black on white, or two colors on white, and
vary significantly in size. Mansouroff (1896 – 1983) was one of the
first generation of post-Revolutionary Soviet artists, and an associate of Tatlin and Malevich.
$500.
293. [Maritime Juvenile]: Redfield, J. S. [publisher]: THE YOUNG SAILOR, OR, THE SEALIFE OF TOM BOWLINE. New York: J.S. Redfield, [nd but not before 1843, nor after 1852].
16pp. Sewn printed wrappers. 113 x 75 mm. Illustrated. A bit foxed, but very good.
Published as Third Series, No. 8, of Redfield’s “Toy Books.” The copy at AAS is assigned
the above date span because of Redfield’s address during that period; another OCLC record
for two other copies dates it 1835, which is derived from an incorrect reference to another
publisher in Rosenbach.
OCLC: 806270980. $125.
Excellent Association Copy of His First Book
294. Masefield, John: SALT-WATER BALLADS. London: Grant Richards, 1902. Polished blue
buckram, gilt, t.e.g. Cloth a bit rubbed, crown of spine slightly bumped, front free endsheet
neatly excised, otherwise a good copy. Folding cloth slipcase.
First edition of the author’s first book (a few early copies were issued in black buckram and
are rare). One of 500 copies printed. Inscribed by Masefield in the upper margin of the halftitle: “H. Granville Barker from John Masefield January 26 1907,” and with Barker’s pictorial
bookplate (designed by Beerbohm) on the front pastedown. The date of the inscription is
auspicious: Granville-Barker produced the first run of Masefield’s first play, The Campden
Wonder, at the Court Theatre in January of 1907, and this presentation was made on the day
the run closed. The play contributed greatly to the establishment of Masefield’s reputation,
and he remained friendly with Granville-Barker until the producer’s death in 1946.
SIMMONS 1. $1000.
295. Masefield, John: THE MAINSAIL HAUL. London: Elkin Mathews, 1905. 12mo. Light
green cloth, stamped in white. Frontis by Jack Yeats. Endsheets tanned, as usual, a few
isolated bits of foxing, spine lettering dimmed a bit (but legible); a very good copy.
First edition of the author’s third book, and first collection of short stories. One of 1000 copies printed, of which perhaps half were issued in wrappers. Several of the stories include
supernatural elements – Bleiler cites the enlarged 1913 edition.
SIMMONS A3. BLEILER (SUPERNATURAL) 1121. $225.
296. Masefield, John: MELLONEY HOLTSPUR. London: Heinemann, 1922. Gilt boards. A
very good copy in dust jacket with small nicks and tears.
First edition, trade issue. Inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endsheet:
“for Con from Jan,” and with the Masefield library dispersal label on the front pastedown.
Masefield married Constance Crommelin in 1903. He wrote of her in a letter to a friend:
“She is my genius ... I am only a pen. Her pen at my best, I hope; but all my talent comes
from her” (quoted in John Masefield: A Life by Constance Babington Smith). “Jan” was
Masefield’s preferred nickname.
NCBEL IV:307. SIMMONS 55. $300.
With a Fine Original Watercolor
297. Masefield, John: WITH THE LIVING VOICE AN ADDRESS ... GIVEN AT THE FIRST
GENERAL MEETING OF THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE SPEAKING OF VERSE
24TH OCTOBER 1924. [London: Heinemann, 1925]. Printed tan wrappers. Wrappers somewhat creased and lightly soiled, but a good copy.
First edition, preceding the limited and boardbound issues. Inscribed by the author on the
title-page to an American admirer in April of 1948, below which Masefield has executed a
lovely ink and watercolor drawing of a single-masted sailing ship at sea, with two crew members working the rigging. Formerly affixed to the half-title is a slip inscribed: “With the Living
Voice. Spoken soon after the founding of the S.A.S.V. John Masefield.” This is among the
most attractive Masefield inscriptions incorporating a watercolor we have handled.
SIMMONS 64. $350.
298. Mathers, E. Powys [editor & translator]: [THE EASTERN ANTHOLOGY (series title)]
EASTERN LOVE. London: John Rodker for Subscribers, 1927. Twelve volumes bound in four.
Large, thick octavos. Full medium dark brown morocco, ruled and decorated in blind, spines
lettered in gilt, with stylized inlaid black morocco ornamentation on each upper board; t.e.g.,
others untrimmed. Plates. Bindings handsomely darkened, with some occasional mottling or
rubs, usual offset to endsheet margins from morocco turn-ins, a bit musty, some extended
fore-edges a bit tanned; a good, sound set.
First collective edition. From a total edition of 1000 numbered sets for subscribers, this is one
of an unknown number of sets bound thus, in various colors of morocco, 12 volumes in 4. The
illustrations are copperplate engravings by Hester Sainsbury, printed and handcoloured by
A. Alexander and Sons. Among the works here translated, some for the first time in English,
one finds: The Lessons of a Bawd of Damodaragupta; Harlot’s Breviary of Kshemendra; The
Book of Women and the Education of Wives; The Young Wives’ Tale and Tales of Fez; The
Loves of Radha and Krishna and Amores of Amaru and Mayura; Love Stories and Gallant
Tales from the Chinese; Comrade Loves of the Samurai by Saïkaku Ebara and the Songs
of the Geishas; Ninety Short Tales of Love and Women from the Arabic; The Loves of Dasin
and Musa-Ag-Amastan from the Tamashek; Camel-Boy Rhythms from the Arabic; Love Tales
of Cambodia; and Songs of the Love Nights of Lao. $450.
299. [Matisse, Henri, et al]: ARTS ET METIERS GRAPHIQUES [Whole number 68]. [Paris
& New York]. 15 Mai 1939. Quarto. Decorated wrappers by Robert Clavel, lithographed by
Mourlot. Extensively illustrated, with a number of plates and inserts hors-texte. Faint trace of
dust darkening along spine, small staple rust mark to rear wrapper, otherwise unusually fine.
Edited by Charles Peignot and André Lejard. The final issue of one of the premiere European
periodicals devoted to the graphic arts and printing published between the wars (68 issues,
1928-1939). This number features an original linocut by Matisse printed on vélin blanc and a
woodcut by Henri Lespinasse. The first printed insert is Garcia Lorca’s “Lettre à J. Bergamin,”
and other articles pertain to Diaghlev, Marcel Bovis, Rouault, et al. The periodical fell victim
to diminishing resources and increasing production costs, as well as to the looming clouds
of war. $300.
300. Mattes, Rudolf: KULTURGRÄBER – GRÄBE KULTUR. [Bern]: Edition Lydia Megert,
[1979]. Oblong quarto (22.5 x 32.5cm). Boltbound cloth backed boards (album style). Very
near fine.
First edition. Copy #13 of twenty copies, signed by the photographer. A collection of 36 B&W
original silver prints of photographs (10 x 14 cm), taken in Venice and Genoa in 1978, juxtaposing images of mausoleums with those of official buildings. The title-leaf and colophon
are in manuscript, written in ink by the photographer. $125.
301. [Matthews, Brander]: Bunner, H.C.: AIRS FROM ARCADY AND ELSEWHERE. New
York: Scribner, 1884. Navy blue cloth, decorated in gilt, t.e.g. Lower corners bumped, crown
of spine frayed, a few spots of foxing along fore-edges, otherwise very good. Bookplate and
bookseller’s description affixed to endsheets (see below).
First edition, BAL’s first printing. One of 1500 copies. A good period association copy,
inscribed in the month of publication on the free endsheet by the dedicatee, Brander Matthews, to poet/collector Frederick Locker, with the latter’s bookplate and small name stamp.
Laid in (formerly tipped in) is a 4pp. letter from Matthews to Locker, New York, 21 March
1884, sending the book by “... a very good friend of mine, as you will see, and the most
promising of our younger bards...,” commenting on the lack of success of a recent play (“...
But there have been damned dramatists before now, and I can stand it if the public can ...”)
and matters of friendship and the potential of a future visit. A slightly later UK bookseller’s
description is glued to the endsheet, no doubt by Locker, which notes, with a odd error in
the transcription of the title: “Airs of Already ... Only a few copies of this charming volume
remaining, of extreme interest to lovers of Dobson, Lang, Gosse and Locker.” 262 copies
were distributed in the UK with a cancel title.
BAL 1891. $250.
302. Maugham, W. Somerset: OF HUMAN BONDAGE WITH A DIGRESSION ON THE ART
OF FICTION AN ADDRESS .... [Washington: Library of Congress /GPO], 1946. Printed
boards. A trace of faint sunning to the lower edge of the upper board, otherwise about fine,
with the event menu (creased and a bit tanned at edges) laid in.
First edition. One of five hundred copies signed by Maugham, from a total edition of eight
hundred. The address was delivered at the formal presentation of the manuscript of the novel
to the Library of Congress. $400.
303. Maund, Alfred: THE BIG BOXCAR. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957. Cloth. Near fine
in very good dust jacket, the latter with several small nicks and creased tears at the edges,
and some dust soiling to the white portion of the lower panel.
First edition of the first novel by the crusading Louisiana-born journalist, novelist and social
activist, a fictionalized account of the journey of six African Americans riding the rails away
from troubled pasts in the Jim Crow South. Selected for reissue in 1999 in the Univ. of Illinois
series, “The Radical Novel Reconsidered.” $60.
304. McCarthy, Justin: THE RIDDLE RING. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896.
Publisher’s 3/4 roan and marbled boards, t.e.g., others rough-trimmed. Neat private ownership name stamp on title and last page, spine evenly sunned and lightly rubbed; very good.
First US edition of a late novel by the Irish Nationalist, historian and miscellaneous writer,
published as #195 of the “Town and Country Library.” This copy is in the publisher’s deluxe
binding. The London first edition is a scarce triple-decker, published the same year. $75.
305. Melville, Herman: MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER. New York: Harper & Bros.,
1849. Two volumes. Purple cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, coated yellow endsheets.
Spines sunned, pencil ownership inscription in each volume, coated endsheets show heavy
discolorations from (evidently) an early form of protective wrapper, some isolated small ink
spots to cloth, otherwise, for this edition, about very good, with only very slight scattered
foxing. Worn slipcase.
First US edition of Melville’s third book, and first novel, issued a few days after the scarce
three volume London edition. This set is in the binding variant with the blindstamped rule at
the crown of each spine.
BAL 13658. WRIGHT I:1860. $2500.
306. Melville, Herman: TEIPI, EN BERÄTTELSE OM EN FYRA MANDERS VISTLESE BLAND
INFÖDINGARNE I EN DAL PA EM AF MARQUESA-ÖARNE, EN INBLICK I LIFVET I POLYNESIEN .... Landskrona: J. L. Törnqvists Förlag, [1879]. xi,[1],302pp. Octavo. 19th century
three-quarter calf and pebbled cloth, gilt spine label. Textblock uniformly tanned, with some
scattered marginal soiling or spotting, edges a bit rubbed, otherwise a good, sound copy.
First (?) edition in Swedish of Herman Melville’s first book, Typee. OCLC locates a single
copy with a Stockholm Bonniers imprint published the same year. The translation is denoted
as from the original edition, though by whom is unclear. OCLC’s main entry for this edition
calls for two pages of terminal ads, which were not preserved when this copy was bound.
Scarce: OCLC locates only 3 copies: Univ. of Delaware, Washington State University, and
the State Library of New South Wales.
OCLC: 13411102. $850.
307. Melville, Herman: JOURNAL UP THE STRAITS OCTOBER 11, 1856 – MAY 5, 1857.
New York: Published by The Colophon, 1935. Large octavo. Marbled cloth, gilt leather label.
Portrait. Edited by Raymond Weaver. First edition. One of 650 copies printed. An excellent
copy, in somewhat frayed and snagged tissue wrapper.
BAL 13690 $175.
308. Melville, Herman: TYPEE A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS. New York: Limited
Editions Club, 1935. Large, thick octavo. Tapa cloth over boards. Usual faint tanning to
spine, otherwise about fine in slipcase.
One of 1500 numbered copies, printed at the Harbor Press, illustrated in color by Miguel
Covarrubias, and signed by him. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. The Newsletter is laid
in. $250.
309. Mendès, Catulle: THE FAIRY SPINNING WHEEL & THE TALES IT SPUN. Boston:
Richard G. Badger & Company, 1899. Small quarto. Pictorial orange cloth, stamped in black.
Plates. Inner hinges neatly repaired, effusive pencil inscription erased from half-title, rear
free endsheet a bit frayed at fore-edge, closed marginal tear in fore-edge of half-title, and
in from top edge of rear free endsheet, spine a bit faded and rubbed, modest hand-soiling
to cloth; still, a (now) good, sound copy.
First edition of these translations from the French, with an Introduction, by Thomas J. Vivian
of Mendès’ fairy tales, illustrated in black and white by Marion L. Peabody. A surprisingly
uncommon book -- OCLC locates copies at Harvard, Univ. of Florida, and LC. It was reprinted
under the Four Seas imprint in late 1919, and even that printing is uncommon. Vivian was
associated with the Hearst papers, and in addition to journalistic works, published at least
one collection of short stories with largely fantastic themes.
OCLC: 22754107. $250.
310. Merriam, Charles: LAST OF THE FIVE-MASTERS. [New York]: Claude Kendall, Inc., [1936].
Textured cloth, paper spine label. Frontis by Steele
Savage. A very good copy in lightly worn and soiled,
price-clipped pictorial dust jacket (also by Savage).
First edition. A semi-fictionalized personal account of
sailing, published in the same year as the imprint’s
declaration of bankruptcy, and the year before Kendall was found beaten to death in a New York hotel
room.
$55.
311. Merrill, James: JIM’S BOOK A COLLECTION
OF POEMS AND SHORT STORIES. New York: Privately Printed, 1942. Large octavo. Cloth and boards,
lettered in gilt. Fine in modestly tanned and slightly
frayed glassine wrapper.
First edition of the poet’s first book, privately printed
by his father for presentation. At the time, Merrill
was sixteen, and enrolled at Lawrenceville School.
Though the exact number of copies printed has long
been a subject of speculation, the bibliographers hypothesize that the edition consisted of
“about 200 copies.”
HAGSTROM & BIXBY A1a. $6,000.
312. [Merrill, James, et al.]: TEN POETS ANTHOLOGY. East Dorset, VT: Anthony Harrigan,
[nd. but ca. 1947]. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. White wrappers tanned, spine a bit rubbed,
slight discoloration (a small tea stain?) at top edge of rear wrapper, internally very good.
First edition, edited and published by Anthony Harrigan. An uncommon anthology, printing
early work by Merrill, Buechner, Pauker, Wilbur, et al. Ostensibly the edition consisted of 200
copies published by subscription, although only a portion of the copies bear the manuscript
limitation statement.
HAGSTROM & MORGAN B1. $125.
313. Merrill, James: FIVE INSCRIPTIONS [caption title]. Cambridge, MA: Pomegranate
Press, November 1974. Folio broadside (48 x 30.5 cm). Woodcut decorations. A bit of light
creasing and curling, otherwise near fine.
First edition. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author, from a total edition of 180
copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi types, and with woodcuts, by Karyl Klopp. One of the
more uncommon broadsides in the Pomegranate series.
HAGSTROM & MORGAN A29. $175.
314. [Merrill, James]: TOM INGLE A COMMEMORATIVE EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS,
WATERCOLORS, AND DRAWINGS .... [New London, CT]: Lyman Allyn Museum, [1974].
Quarto. Stiff wrappers. Plates. About fine.
First edition. One of 500 copies. Laid in original color serigraph derived from work by the
artist (posthumously printed and unsigned), as issued. Includes an untitled poem by the
artist’s friend, James Merrill.
HAGSTROM & MORGAN B21. $75.
315. Merrill, James: SOUVENIRS. [New York]: Nadja, [1984]. Narrow quarto. Cloth, paper
label. Fine.
First edition. One an unknown number of out-of-series copies in addition to the 26 lettered
copies, specially bound thus, from a total edition of 226 copies signed by the author – plus,
obviously, out-of-series copies. Hagstrom & Morgan indicate that the out-of-series copies
were for the author’s use.
HAGSTROM & MORGAN A53a. $450.
316. Merrill, James: THE IMAGE MAKER A PLAY IN ONE ACT. [New York]: Sea Cliff Press,
[1986]. Cloth, pictorial onlay on upper board. First edition. One of two hundred and twenty
numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued. $200.
317. Merrill, James: JAPAN: PROSE OF DEPARTURE. [New York]: NADJA, [1987]. Large
octavo. Printed wrappers over stiff wrappers.
First edition in book form. One of twenty-five out-of-series copies in wrappers for the author’s
use, in addition to 74 numbered copies and 26 clothbound copies all signed by the author.
Printed in Bembo types on Saunders paper.
HAGSTROM & MORGAN A69b2. $225.
318. Merrill, James: SELF-PORTRAIT IN TYVEK WINDBREAKER AND OTHER POEMS.
[Dublin]: Dedalus Editions 7, [May 1995]. Printed stiff wrappers. First edition. One of 250
copies. Fine.
HAGSTROM & MORGAN A92. $65.
319. Merrill, James, and William Burford [editors]: THE MEDUSA. Amherst. Fall 1946. Whole
number one (all published). Printed wrappers. Soft crease and tiny nick at lower fore-corner
of the upper wrapper, otherwise very near fine.
The once uncommon single issue of this periodical, published independent of the college by
Merrill and Burford while undergraduates. They are contributors as well, in company with their
mentor Kimon Friar, and friends Anais Nin, Maya Deren, et al. In 1980, in correspondence
with this cataloguer, one of the editors asserted the edition consisted of only a “couple”
hundred copies; however, subsequent experience suggests that, barring precise data, that
estimate needs to be revised to “several” hundred copies.
HAGSTROM & MORGAN C50-3. $225.
320. [Merrymount Press]: Goodhue, Bertram G. (calligrapher), and E. D. French (engraver):
[Broadside:] COMMEMORATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST
PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION OF SURGICAL ANAESTHESIA AT THE MASSACHUSETTS
GENERAL HOSPITAL .... THE HONOUR OF YOUR COMPANY IS REQUESTED OCTOBER
16TH 1896 .... [Boston]: The Merrymount Press, 1896. Folio engraved broadside, 36 x 25
cm (plate size 28 x 20.5 cm), printed on watermarked laid paper. Old horizontal fold, a bit
foxed, otherwise very good.
A handsome engraved broadside, printed at the Merrymount Press in the third year of its
formal life, and a fine example of Goodhue’s work associated with the Press. Additionally,
the broadside is signed in ink by eminent surgeon, Japanologist and American Buddhist,
William Sturgis Bigelow (“For the Trustees”), and surgeon J. Collins Warren, Jr. (son of John
Collins Warren, who authorized the first procedure). A rare Merrymount/Goodhue item, and
a significant medical ephemeron as well. Not in Smith. $600.
321. Meyer, Thomas: THE UMBRELLA OF AESCULAPIUS .... Highlands: The Jargon Society,
1975. Quarto. Cloth and pictorial boards, paper spine label. Illustrations by Paul Sinodhinos.
A few faint smudges to boards, otherwise about fine.
First edition, limited issue. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, signed by the poet.
The edition consisted of 1000 copies; another fifty copies were more elegantly bound and
numbered in Roman. Published as Jargon 83. $150.
322. Miller, Henry: [Autograph Letter, Signed, to Bertrand Mathieu]. Pacific Palisades. 17
January 1977. One page, quarto, on recto only of printed stationary, in black ink. Old folds
from having been mailed, otherwise very good or better.
To poet/translator Bertrand Mathieu -- Miller contributed an Introduction to Mathieu’s translation of Rimbaud’s Illuminations, published the following year. A chatty letter in response to
Mathieu’s, in which Miller mentions the death of Anais Nin “2 nights ago,” discusses his lack
of a supply of the quality reproductions of his watercolors produced in Japan, notes that he
hasn’t yet seen Mathieu’s translation of Cendrars’ Christmas stories, comments on his own
health (“By spring I should be in much better shape. Am now beginning to recover from the
fall”), suggests that he contact Miller’s agent for help placing his book (unspecified) with
European publishers, comments on Mathieu’s personal situation (“So you’ve switched to a
Balinese girl! Good luck!”), and expresses his gratitude: “I certainly do appreciate all you
are doing and have done. Your book is absolutely amazing. Am still reading it. More soon,
I hope. Best of luck to you! Henry Miller.” $350.
323. [Miller, Henry]: Rimbaud, Arthur: ILLUMINATIONS ... A NEW AMERICAN TRANSLATION
.... Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1979. Cloth and marbled boards. A bit dusty and slightly
musty, spine a trifle cocked, but about very good, without dust jacket.
First edition, deluxe issue, of this translation by Bertrand Mathieu. With a Foreword and
color frontispiece after a painting by Henry Miller. Copy VIII of ten copies numbered in uppercase roman, signed by Miller and Matthieu, and with an original ink doodle captioned
(“La Cimitière”), dated and signed by Miller mounted to the rear pastedown with tabs, from
a total of fifty special copies of various limitations and designations. $250.
324. Miller, Rob [editor & design]: IMPLEMENTING ARCHITECTURE: EXPOSING THE
PARADIGM SURROUNDING THE IMPLEMENTS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ARCHITECTURE. Atlanta: Architecture Society of Atlanta / Nexus Press, [1988]. Quarto, comprised of
five 12 x 8” folding cloth panels, printed recto and verso via decorated onlays, with separate
booklets and folded broadsheets mounted to five of the panels and letterpress on the others.
Fine in faintly rubbed slipcase.
First edition. An unusual format and presentation of five works, each separately printed,
by R. Durham Crout, Marco Frascari, John Jacques, George R. Johnston, and Giuseppe
Zambonini. Miller’s design won First Place and Grand-Prize in Macworld’s graphic design
competition for its year. $200.
325. Milne, David B. (Canadian, 1882 – 1953): [Original Two Color Drypoint, Signed, “Hill
Top” (a.k.a. “Painting Place”)], contained in THE COLOPHON A BOOK COLLECTOR’S
QUARTERLY. [New York: The Colophon, 1931]. Whole number Five. Quarto. Typographically
decorated boards. Illustrations. Spine a bit tanned, with discoloration at toe, dry-point in fine
condition. Several pieces of Colophon ephemera are laid in.
An original drypoint etching on Fabriano by the prominent Canadian artist, specially commissioned to be bound into this number of The Colophon, in an edition of 3000 unnumbered
copies (and perhaps 100 extras), all hand printed by Milne on his press in Palgrave, Ontario,
and individually signed in pencil by him in the lower margin. The task took him over a year
to accomplish, with consequent variant states within the edition. The plate measures 125 x
175 mm, and the margins are full, as issued. In spite of the large edition, this print enjoys
considerable popularity both in and when removed from its original context. $950.
326. Mingus, Charles, and N. King: BENEATH THE UNDERDOG. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1971. Folio long galleys. Folded across middle, publisher’s typed i.d. label. light fraying at
edges, very good.
Original uncorrected long galleys for the first edition of this seminal, and highly controversial,
jazz autobiography. Stamped “Duplicate Author’s Proof.” One of only a handful of sets that
are normally produced in this early format. “The candid, self-analytical narrative reads like
fiction, and is made objective by the use of the third person ...Three themes predominate:
sex, music and blackness” – Horn.
HORN 1127. BRIGNANO 260. $125.
327. [Miro, Joan, et al]: VERVE AN ARTISTIC AND LITERARY QUARTERLY NO. 3. Paris.
October – December 1938. Folio. Pictorial wrappers (after Pierre Bonnard). Plates, photographs and illustrations. Spine just a shade darkened, else a near fine copy.
One of the more sought-after of the early issues, including the “Four Seasons” suite of four
original color lithographs by Chagall, Miro, Klee and Rattner, drawings by Matisse, some
excellent photographs reproduced in heliogravure, and the color lithographs of the Indian
Pantheon. Texts by Bataille, Reverdy, Valery, Claudel, et al, translated by Robert Sage.
$850.
328. Mitchell, Susan: AIDS TO THE IMMORTALITY OF CERTAIN PERSONS IN IRELAND
CHARITABLY ADMINISTERED BY.... Dublin: New Nation Press, 1908. Small octavo. Pictorial printed wrappers. Detached wrappers chipped at spine and lightly chipped at edges,
internally very good or better.
First edition of the poet’s first book, a series of satirical poetic squibs aimed at prominent Irish
literary figures of the time (who are the subject of the wrapper illustration). The “Prologue” is
indebted, in part, to Yeats’s “When You are Old,” and is noted as printed “With apologies to
Ronsard and Yeats.” Among the “Rejected Dedications” is one to Yeats, and the publisher’s
(satirical) adverts include No Ideas Good or Bad by W.B. Yeats and The White Flower of
A Blameless Life An Autobiography by George Moore.
COLBECK II:560. JOCHUM 5883. $150.
One of 25 with Extra Suite
329. Mock, Jean-Yves, and Gottfried Honneger
[illus]: MEMORIA. [Zurich]: Verlag 3, [1975]. Small
quarto. Loose folded sheets and bifolia, laid into
decorated wrappers. Illustrated. Fine in glassine
and faintly smudged white slipcase.
First edition, the edition de tête. Illustrated with
five original engravings by Honneger. From an
edition of 130 copies printed on papier Arches by
Dölf Hürlimann, this is one of 25 copies signed
by the author and artist, with an extra suite of
the engravings printed on Japon and signed in
the margin by Honneger. Published as title XI in
the Verlag 3 series of publications.
$1000.
330. Monsarrat, Nicholas: A FAIR DAY’S WORK.
London: Cassell, [1963]. Printed drab wrappers.
Light use, but very good.
Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition of
the third volume in the “Signs of the Times” sequence. This copy is denoted on the upper
wrapper in red ink: “Author’s Corrections.” Throughout the text are scattered corrections in
red ink, chiefly matters of punctuation and format, but on occasion alterations of word choice
or modest textual revision. A fictional account of labor unrest among dock workers by the
author of The Cruel Sea. $150.
331. Montague, John: THE BREAD GOD A LECTURE / WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN VERSE
/ ON THE RECENT HISTORY OF THE CHURCH IN THE ANCIENT PARISH OF ERRIGAL
KIERNAN .... [Dublin]: Dolmen Editions, [1968]. Quarto. Printed stiff wrappers. Wrappers a
trifle sunned at edges, otherwise near fine.
First edition. One of 250 copies, printed in Hammer Uncial and Pilgrim types, at the Dolmen
Press, and signed by the author. Dolmen Editions VII.
MILLER 140. $125.
332. [Moore, Margaret King]: CONTINUATION OF THE STORIES OF OLD DANIEL: OR
TALES OF WONDER AND DELIGHT. CONTAINING NARRATIVES OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND MANNERS, AND DESIGNED AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF VOYAGES,
TRAVELS, AND HISTORY IN GENERAL. London: Printed for M.J. Godwin and Co., 1820.
[4],224pp. 12mo. Neatly disbound. Engraved frontispiece by S. Springsguth. Frontis a bit
foxed, with some marginal spotting, otherwise very good.
First edition of this sequel to the 1808 collection. On occasion the tales were attributed to
Charles Lamb, but the attribution to Moore, countess of Mount Cashel, is likely and current
(see the Osborne Catalogue). She originally sent the manuscript of the collection to William
Godwin in 1814, and in his Preface, he comments on the potentially inappropriate nature
of two of the stories for children (“The Murderer” and “The Blind Man”) but justifies their
inclusion in the light of likelihood that young readers would encounter similar horrors in the
press, devoid of the moral context offered here. Scarce.
OSBORNE II:915. OCLC: 13301004. $275.
333. Morellet, Francois: MOTS RELAIS MORE ELLE T. [Basel]: Editions Fanal, [1992].
Square quarto (12.5 x 12.5”; 32 x 32 cm). Loose bifolia laid into stiff wrapper. Fine, in printed
white cloth clamshell box (a bit foxed and dust soiled).
First edition. A suite of twelve vari-colored copper engravings, printed in pairs en face, usually
involving text and occasional visual puns, with introductory text by the artist serigraphed in
facsimile of his handwriting. One of sixty numbered copies on Rives, signed by the artist, in
addition to ten hors commerce and two unsigned publisher’s copies. Each pair of engravings
is numbered and signed by the artist in the lower margin as well. $950.
334. Morris, William: THE DECORATIVE ARTS THEIR RELATION TO MODERN LIFE AND
PROGRESS .... London: Ellis and White, [1878]. 32pp. 16mo. Printed wrappers. Sliver chip
to lower fore-corner of rear wrapper, bookplate of Henry W. Poor inside upper wrapper offset
a bit to title and wrapper, otherwise a very good or better copy.
First edition in book form of this “Address Delivered before the Trades’ Guild of Learning,”
and here reprinted from its first appearance in The Architect. Lemire notes the edition
consisted of 2000 copies.
LEMIRE A16.01. OCLC: 5106224. $175.
Quinn – Poor Copy.
335. Morris, William: CHANTS FOR SOCIALISTS [wrapper title]. London: Socialist League
Office, 1885. 16pp. Printed self-wrapper. Bookplate of Henry W. Poor affixed inside upper
wrapper; bookplate of John Quinn laid in. Fine, unopened.
Second edition, 2nd (and first complete) impression, adding “Down Among the Dead Men”
and with the list of contents split into double columns. Although a later impression, this is
the first to include all 7 poems, with the added poem replacing adverts on the final page,
and features distinguished provenance to boot.
LEMIRE A-23.02. $75.
336. Morris, William: A KING’S LESSON. Aberdeen: Printed and Published by James Leatham,
1891. 14,[2]pp. 16mo. Printed wrappers. A couple of pencil erasures on the upper wrapper,
slight offset from now departed oval morocco bookplate inside upper wrapper (likely that of
Henry W. Poor), otherwise a very good or better copy.
First impression of the first separate edition. Leatham was an active, and peripatetic, selfemployed socialist printer/publisher. He kept this title in print for the remainder of his career;
Lemire notes as many as seven printings under his imprint from various locations up through
his death in 1945. OCLC locates 14 copies, while over 75 copies of its contemporary, Under
An Elm-Tree ... are located.
LEMIRE A-55.01. FORMAN 132. OCLC: 5633311. $100.
337. Morris, William: THE GOD OF THE POOR. London: “Printed at the Office of ‘Justice’...,”
nd. [but ca. 1896 or 1897]. 8pp. Sewn. Rose printed wrappers (detached and with the upper
wrapper considerably chipped at edges). Internally very good.
First separate edition, but a Buxton Forman forgery, represented as associated with the
non-existent “Social Democratic Federation.” With the leather bookplate of Henry W. Poor
affixed inside the front wrapper, and with the loose bookplate of John Quinn laid in. Originally
published in the Fortnightly Review, 1 August 1868. An unauthorized and contrived rarity,
promoted by Forman as having been printed in 1884, but exposed by Carter and Collins,
and others, as most likely dating from 1896 or slightly later. While matters of condition could
be better, the provenance is attractive.
LEMIRE E-5. FORMAN 73. BARKER & COLLINS, pp. 204-5. OCLC: 265464254. $150.
338. Motoi Oi (1910 – 2004): [Untitled Lithograph of Mother Cat and Kitten]. [N.p.]. [n.d.].
Original monochrome lithograph, 28 x 36.5 cm. Printed on Arches. Fine.
#2 of 10 artist’s proofs, so designated and signed by the artist in pencil in the lower margin.
A characteristic work by the honored founder of the Sumi-e Society of America and recipient
of the 6th class of the Order of the Rising Sun for his work in US-Japan cultural relations.
$150.
339. Nash, Jørgen, and Asger Jorn: LEVE LIVET. Copenhagen: Thaning & Apprels Forlag,
[1948]. Pale green wrappers, printed in black. Illustrated. Wrappers rather faded at extremities, otherwise near fine.
First edition of this collection of poems by the COBRA associate who would soon play a
central role in Situationism, illustrated with drawings by his brother. $100.
340. [Never Mind the Press]: Schwartzburg, Anne, and Alisa Golden: TIDAL POEMS. [Berkeley]: Never Mind the Press, 1995. [24]pp. Oblong quarto. Linen over boards with decorated
printed labels. Fine.
First edition. One of sixty numbered copies, signed by the collaborators. “This collaboration
features poems and linoleum cuts by both artists, and drawings printed from magnesium
plates by Anne. The theme is water. The edition is varied as all pages are handpainted with
watercolors, inks, and acrylics to evoke the sea and beach. Letterpress printed from handset
type on painted Stonehenge paper. Three signatures are sewn at the mountain folds, giving
the book a wavy appearance as it is being read. Tidal Poems was the first use of painted
paper for never mind the press” – the publisher. $200.
341. NEXUS INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE AND FINE ARTS [later: AN UMBILICAL
NEURON]. Dayton, OH: Wright State University, 1989 – 1999. XXIV:3; XXV:2 & 3; XXVI:13; XXXII: Winter & Spring; XXXIII:1-3; XXXIV:1 & 2 (Whole numbers 100 & 101). Thirteen
issues. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Heavily illustrated throughout. Some occasional rubbing
and a few corner creases, but generally very good to fine.
A representative lot of this quite well-appointed university-associated journal of arts and letters,
for a period assuming the subtitle “An Umbilical Neuron.” Editorial control varies according
to academic year, but Ira Cohen and John Solt served as contributing editors for a number
of issues, reeling in contributions from outside the university: Enslin, Kitasono Katue, C. H.
Ford, Joseph Bruchac. H. Miller, Paz, Pommy Vega, Brandi, Hirschman, Perchik, Corman,
Lima, Micheline, Kupferberg, Malanga. Ferlinghetti, Bowles, Norse, Chester, Mrabet, Padgett,
Lavigne, Malina, Rothenberg, and others. Photography and the visual arts are not neglected,
and a section of work by “Masters of the Camera: The Japanese Avant Garde” appears in
XXIV:3. The spring 1997 issue has a special “In Memoriam Allen Ginsberg” component,
bound dos-a-dos with the regular text. Additional shipping charges. $250.
342. NOMAD. Culver City, CA & London. Winter 1959 through Autumn 1962. Whole numbers
one through eleven (including two double numbers), in nine issues. Pictorial wrappers. Plates.
Occasional light soiling or rubbing, but very good to about fine.
Edited by Donald Factor and A. Linick, et al. Published quarterly. and printed by Villiers Publications for both US and UK distribution. The first number includes a statement of purpose
promising no dogmatic approach to selection of the poets to be included. Contributors include
Bukowski, McGrath, Micheline, DeJong, Orlovitz, Hitchcock, Major, Corman, Edson, Creeley,
Oppenheimer, Corso, Burroughs, Blackburn, Zukofsky, Levertov, Eigner, Hitchcock, Snyder,
Layton, Ginsberg, Whalen, Kelly, et al. The last issue published (10/11) is devoted to the
New York poets and artists, including Levertov, Jones, Blackburn, Sorrentino, Oppenheimer,
di Prima, Koch, Schuyler, O’Hara, Guest, Elmslie, Berkson, Ashbery, Corso, et al.
CLAY & PHILLIPS, p.287. $375.
343. O’Brian, Patrick: THE WALKER AND OTHER STORIES. New York: Harcourt, Brace
and Company, [1955]. Medium brown boards, lettered in silver, with decorative orange sun.
Fine in very good dust jacket with some sunning to the spine and extreme edges, and shallow chips at crown and toe of spine.
First (US) edition. A publisher’s review copy, with the characteristic dated review slip tipped
to the front free endsheet. The author’s third short story collection, gathering some stories
from the UK collection, Last Pool And Other Stories (1950), and including others eventually
published there in Lying In The Sun And Other Stories (1956). $325.
344. O’Casey, Sean [sourcework]: Nichols, Dudley [screenwriter]: [Original Studio HalfSheet Publicity Poster for]: THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS. [Culver City]: RKO Radio
Pictures, 1936. Vintage 22 x 28” (55 x 70 cm) color lithographed half-sheet poster on card
stock. Slight bump crease to lower right corner, a quarter inch abrasion to upper right corner
margin, old soft horizontal crease, otherwise very good, with no signs of use.
A highly pictorial half-sheet issued to promote John Ford’s 1936 film, based on Dudley Nichols’s adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s play about the 1916 Easter Uprising. While considered
one of Ford’s least successful films, it is thought by many critics to be cinematographer
Joseph August’s masterpiece. As a follow-up to the phenomenal success of The Informer,
Ford had initially hoped to direct a film drawing largely on the talents of the Abbey Theatre
Players and Spencer Tracy, but Tracy was unavailable and RKO intervened, forcing Ford to
include Barbara Stanwyck as a lead, and even inserted melodramatic retake scenes Ford
had no hand in, well after he had finished the project. The film had serious shortcomings,
including a fundamental divergence from the tone and language of O’Casey’s play. But in
spite of those shortcomings -- a few of which can not be blamed on Ford -- it did feature a
number of the Abbey Theatre Players, including Arthur Shields (who was in the Dublin Post
Office when it fell), Barry Fitzgerald, Eileen Crowe, Una O’Conner and Dennis O’Dea, many
of whom later joined Ford’s company. $650.
345. O’Faolain, Sean, and later, Peadar O’Donnell [editors]: THE BELL. Dublin. December
1940 through December 1954. Forty-six issues. Printed wrappers. Sporadic representation. Condition generally very good, with some soiling to wrappers and tanning, significant
exceptions noted below
Founded in 1940 as a monthly, largely literary endeavour, The Bell was early on the only
serious competition for Dublin Magazine. Beginning with XII:1, it was edited by Peadar
O’Donnell, as “A Magazine of Ireland To-Day,” with additional broad social and political concerns, terminating in Dec. 1954, after a total of 131 numbers, occasionally as a quarterly.
Significant runs are difficult to assemble, but this is a good start out of the gate, consisting
of: I: 3 & 4 (spine torn at toe); II: 2 (spine imperfect), 3-6; III: 2, 4 (wrapper stained), 5, 6
(front wrapper cut away); IV: 1, 2, 5, 6; V: 1-4, 6; VI: 1, 2, 4-6; VIII:4 ; IX:3; X:2; XVI: 1,6;
XVII:2-6; XVIII: 8-12; XIX: 1-4,10 and 11.
HOFMANN, et al, p.401. SULLIVAN (MODERN), pp.40-45. $750.
346. O’Hearn, Karen: DOWN, FROM, ABOVE. Amsterdam & New York: ZET, [1996]. Small
quarto. Cloth, paper label. Plates and photographs. Fine.
First edition. A concrete poem fashioned from an entry in the Larousse Encyclopedia Of
Astronomy, accompanied by eight photographs, some double-spread, one a gatefold. One
of forty numbered copies, signed by O’Hearn. $175.
347. [O’Neill, Eugene (source work)]: Fehl, Fred [photographer]: [Six Theatrical Production
Photographs from:] ANNA CHRISTIE. [New York]. [1952]. Six 7 x 5”, double weight black &
white photographs, stamped on verso by photographer, along with some promotional text
and filing info in pencil. Near fine.
A selection of Fehl’s promotional stills from Michael Gordon’s Broadway revival of O’Neill’s
Pulitzer-winning play, Anna Christie (1921), which opened at the New York City Center for
16 performances, then moved to the Lyceum Theatre for an 8 performance extension of the
run. The photos feature Celeste Holm, Kevin McCarthy, Art Smith, and Grace Valentine. Fehl
(1906 – 1995) was among the most celebrated stage, opera and dance photographers of his
generation. $250.
348. [O’Neill, Eugene (source work)]: Vandamm, Florence (or Tommy) [photographer]:
[Theatrical Publicity Still Photograph of Judith Anderson in:] MOURNING BECOMES
ELECTRA. New York: Vandamm Studio, [no date but ca. 1932]. Original 10 x 8” double weight
sepia toned portrait photograph. Vandamm studio stamp and identifying text on verso, small
Vandamm blindstamp in lower right corner. Fine.
A superb, meditative character portrait of Judith Anderson in the role of Lavinia Mannon in the
Theatre Guild revival of O’Neill’s play, staged by Philip Moeller, which ran for 16 performances
in May, 1932, at the Alvin Theatre. The Vandamm Studio were the Broadway photographers
of record for nearly four decades. While it is not possible to absolutely credit this photo to
Florence, she specialized in the character portraits, while Tommy covered the photographs
of staged productions. $175.
Inscribed First Book
349. O’Reilly, John Boyle: SONGS FROM THE SOUTHERN SEAS, AND OTHER POEMS.
Boston: Roberts Bros., 1873. Gilt decorated brown cloth, t.e.g. Extremities a bit rubbed, head
and toe of spine slightly frayed, cloth faintly darkened, but about very good.
First edition of the transplanted Fenian’s first book, warmly inscribed by him in the upper
margin of the title-page: “To W. D. Sanborn Esq. with the regards of his friend John Boyle
O’Reilly.” Many of the poems herein partake of his transport to, and escape from Australia,
after his conviction for his Fenian activities.
BAL 15195. $750.
350. O’Reilly, John Boyle: IN BOHEMIA: Boston: The Pilot Publishing Co., [1886]. Gilt blue
cloth, t.e.g. Portrait. Crown and toe of spine worn, otherwise a good, sound copy.
First edition, BAL’s binding variant E. With the transplanted Fenian’s signed presentation
inscription, dated “Xmas 1886.”
BAL 15218. $175.
351. O’Reilly, John Boyle: IN BOHEMIA: Boston: The Pilot Publishing Co., [1886]. Gilt green
cloth, t.e.g. Portrait. Crown and toe of spine worn, free endsheet nearly detached at gutter,
otherwise a good, sound copy.
First edition, BAL’s binding variant D. With the transplanted Fenian’s signed presentation
inscription: “Sister M. F. Clare with the sincere regards of John Boyle O’Reilly Feb. 1887.”
The recipient was the Catholic nun and prolific author, widely known as the “Nun of Kenmare.”
BAL 15218. $175.
352. [O’Rourke, P.J., et al (screenwriters)]: EASY MONEY. [New York: Easy Money Associates / Orion Pictures], 8 – 28 September 1982. [1],109 leaves plus many lettered inserts.
Quarto. Mechanically duplicated typescript, printed on rectos only of white, blue and canary
stock. Boltbound in Studio Duplicating Service binder. Ink name and some annotations (see
below), but a very good copy.
An unspecified, but heavily revised draft of this original screenplay. Final writing credits were
shared by O’Rourke, Michael Endler, Dennis Blair and Rodney Dangerfield. James Signorelli
directed Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Tom Noona, Jennifer Jason Leigh, et
al. This copy bears the ownership signature and occasional relevant annotations of sound
mixer, Les Lazarowitz. A rather early (albeit shared) writing credit for O’Rourke. $275.
353. Ormsby, Alan [screenwriter]: CAT PEOPLE. Universal City: Universal City Studios, Inc.,
15 January 1981. [1],168 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on
rectos only, bradbound in studio wrappers. Ink name on upper wrapper, otherwise near fine.
A “final draft” of this reinterpretation by Ormsby of DeWitt Boden’s original story for Jacques
Tourneur’s 1942 classic. Paul Schrader directed, and Nastassia Kinski, Malcolm McDowell
and John Heard starred, along with the city of New Orleans (in part). $225.
354. Orwell, George [pseud of Eric Blair]: NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. New York: Harcourt,
Brace and Company, [1949]. Cloth. About fine in very good (red variant) price-clipped dust
jacket with some small nicks, a bit of edgewear and shallow fraying at crown of spine.
First U.S. edition, first printing. The first US printing consisted of 20,000 copies, as opposed
to 25,575 for the UK printing.
MODERN MOVEMENT 99. FENWICK A12b. $400.
355. Orwell, George [pseud of Eric Blair]: ESSAIS CHOISIS. Paris: nrf / Gallimard, [1960].
Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine, partially unopened, in glassine.
First edition of these translations into French by Philip Thody, accompanied by a long prefatory
essay by Thody. Copy #26 of thirty-five numbered copies, in addition to six hors commerce
copies, printed on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre.
FENWICK DT3. $125.
356. Osborn, Kevin [author and artist]: TROPOS. [Arlington, VA: Osbornbook, 1988]. Small
rhombus quarto. Foil-printed vinyl stiff wrapper, with slotted dowel spine clamp. Illustrated
in color throughout. Fine.
First edition, limited issue. One of 100 signed copies, specially bound, from a total edition
of 1750 copies with the contents printed via offset color lithography. $200.
357. Page, Marco [pseud of Harry Kurnitz]: FAST COMPANY. New York: Dodd, Mead &
Company, 1938. Printed wrappers. Wrappers somewhat frayed and spotted, upper wrapper
joint split and evidently repaired early on; textually a good copy of a scarce format.
Advance reading copy of the first edition of Kurnitz’s first novel – a well-regarded bibliomystery
– promoted as the “Dodd, Mead Prize Detective Story / $1000 Red Badge Prize Mystery.”
The novel’s popularity led to Kurnitz’s adaptation of it for MGM and a long, successful career
as screenwriter. The 1938 release, directed by Edward Buzzell, starred Melvyn Douglas,
Florence Rice, Claire Dodd, et al. $375.
358. [Paolini, Giulio]: Cladders, Johannes: GIULIO PAOLINI. Mönchengladbach: Städtisches
Museum, 1977. Octavo (205 x 160mm). Sixteen offset reproductions of photographs (145 x
195 mm and occasionally smaller), with captions on verso in facsimile of manuscript laid into
printed box, with two additional photographs mounted inside the top and bottom lids of the box.
First edition. One of 550 numbered copies. Cladders’ text is imprinted on the top and bottom lids of the box. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held March – April 1977. The
images record some of Paolini’s own works and installations. $350.
359. [Paper Catalogue]: SPECIMENS: A STEVENS-NELSON PAPER CATALOGUE. New
York: Stevens-Nelson Paper Company, [ca. 1953]. Quarto. Half black morocco and marbled
boards. Edges shelf-rubbed, shallow bump across top edges of boards, otherwise very good,
internally fine, without slipcase.
One of the last and greatest of the elaborate paper catalogues, including over one hundred
specimen leaves of fine hand and machine made papers, printed in various ways by distinguished international printers: Plantin, Mardersteig, Enschede, Curwen, Marchbanks, Spiral,
etc. The [8]pp separate price list / index / errata is laid in. This copy was presented by Clarke
& Way / The Thistle Press. $200.
360. [Papermaking]: Mason, John: SOME PAPERS HAND MADE BY JOHN MASON. London:
Maggs Bros., 1959. [32] leaves. Square octavo. Quarter gilt parchment and handmade paper
over boards, incorporating a botanical specimen on each board, edges wholly untrimmed.
Illustrations and inserts. Fine, with prospectus laid in, in faintly soiled box with gilt label.
First edition. Copy #6 of one hundred numbered copies, produced by Mason at his 12 x 8
Mill. Comprised of half-sheets of papers dating from 1954 to date of publication, several of
them examples of his inclusion of whole botanical objects in the sheets, preceded by a brief
introductory essay and some notes specific to the circumstances of production of each of
the papers. $750.
361. Payne, Will [i.e. William Hudson Payne]: THE MONEY CAPTAIN. Chicago: Herbert
S. Stone & Co., 1898. Blue cloth, stamped in yellow, with decorated border of dollar signs,
t.e.g. Early ink ownership signature across title, otherwise an unusually nice copy of a book
often seen badly worn. Collector’s decorated board slipcase.
First edition of this novel by a staff writer of the Chicago Economist, based on a scandal in
the local utility company. Uncommon, of late, in this original edition.
KRAMER 157. WRIGHT III:4119. $125.
362. Pecák, Milan [poster artist]: [Original Czech Film Poster for:] HORlCl MISSISSIPPI
[i.e. MISSISSIPPI BURNING]. [Czechoslovakia]. [1990]. Original Czech distributor’s publicity poster 15.5 x 11” (39 x 28 cm). In color. Minute nick at one edge, with slight crease on
opposite margin, otherwise fine.
A brilliant and haunting poster by Pecák for the Czech release of the 1989 Alan Parker film,
Mississippi Burning. The image is of a hooded Klansman, from shoulders up, in partial
silhouette against a torch flame in the background, with the eye holes in the hood a solid,
empty black. $75.
363. Pope, Alexander: THE WORKS OF MR. ALEXANDER POPE IN PROSE. VOL. II. [CONTAINING THE REST OF HIS LETTERS, WITH THE MEMOIRS OF SCRIBLERUS, NEVER
BEFORE PRINTED; AND OTHER TRACTS WRITTEN EITHER SINGLY, OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH HIS FRIENDS ... (half-title)]. London: Printed for J. and R. Knapton, C. Bathurst,
and R. Dodsley, 1741. vi,[10],108,85-173,[3],[299]-312,[2],[3-]70,[4],[189]-280,[243]-257pp.
Small folio. Modern paneled calf, raised bands, gilt labels (Pope’s Letters / Vol. II). Some
mild soiling to half-title and along fore-edge of half-title and title, occasional marginal dusting
and a few corner creases; a good to very good copy, handsomely bound.
First edition, small folio printing, of this volume, the fourth in sequence of the serial collected
edition of Pope’s Works begun in 1717. This volume preserves the letters to and from Swift,
as well as the major section of “Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works and Discoveries
of Martinus Scriblerus.”
GRIFFITH 529. TEERINK 60A. $500.
364. Pope, Alexander: LETTERS OF MR. ALEXANDER POPE, AND SEVERAL OF HIS
FRIENDS [with:] THE WORKS OF MR. ALEXANDER POPE IN PROSE. VOL. II. London: Printed by J. Wright for J. Knapton ... [et al], 1737 and London: Printed for J. and R.
Knapton, C. Bathurst, and R. Dodsley, 1741. Two volumes. 32,[3],10-222,215-332pp. &
vi,[10],182,[4],[325]-339,[1],[2],75,[7],[207]-270,[181]-188,[277]-304,[2],265-268,169-179pp.
Quarto. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked to style in brown calf, raised bands, gilt labels
(with volume designations). Portrait vignette on each title. Head and tail-pieces engraved by
Fourdrinier after Kent. Half-title to second volume bound in, that for the first not retained. Some
marginal dusting and occasional foxing (the latter most noticeable in the first two gatherings of
the first volume), boards a bit edgeworn and lightly scarred, otherwise very good.
First authorized edition, quarto subscriber’s issue, of the first volume, and first edition, quarto
printing of the second, formally in sequence volumes III and IV of the serial collected edition of Pope’s works begun in 1717. With the bookplate in each volume of poet-radical John
Cam Hobhouse(1786 - 1869), Lord Byron’s close friend, literary confidante and executor.
The first volume features the earlier setting of signature B, with the erroneous date 1724
assigned to the first letter. The second volume preserves the letters to and from Swift, as
well as the major section of “Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works and Discoveries of
Martinus Scriblerus.”
GRIFFITH 454 & 531. TEERINK 56B & 60A.
$1500.
Private Edition
365. Potter, Beatrix: THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER. [London: Privately Printed for the
Author], December 1902. 12mo. Original pictorial pink boards. Color frontispiece and plates
by the author. Trace of dust-spotting to boards and minor foxing/offsetting to endsheets,
otherwise a fine copy. Half morocco fleece-lined clamshell case.
First edition. One of five hundred copies printed. Both The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901) and
The Tailor of Gloucester were first privately printed for Beatrix Potter; trade editions of each
were later produced by Warne. In this privately printed edition of The Tailor Of Gloucester,
the text is considerably longer than that in the first trade, and, the cover contains a vignette
illustration which was never used again. According to Margaret Lane, The Tailor of Gloucester “remained Beatrix Potter’s own favourite among all her books.’’
QUINBY, p.32. $7500.
366. [Prasada Press & Finial Press]: Forberg, Janice Rebert (1923 – 1996): CALENDAR OF
DESIRE A GATHERING OF POEMS & LITHOGRAPHS. Cincinnati, OH & Champaign, IL:
Prasada Press & Finial Press, 1987. Oblong folio (15 x 16”; 395 x 405 mm). Plain wrappers.
Illustrations. Fine, enclosed in publisher’s folding cloth clamshell case with printed caption
(a bit rubbed at extremities).
First edition. Copy #12 of an edition limited to only 12 copies printed by hand in handset
Optima types on Okawara paper. The seven hand-pulled double-spread color lithographs are
printed on a variety of colored papers. A very personal production by the cofounder of the
Prasada Press (established 1979). A resident of Cincinnati for almost forty years, Forberg
died in Connecticut at the age of 73. Her obituary reports that the Prasada Press published
over sixty artist’s books by local and national artists. OCLC locates 4 copies (Smith, Univ.
of GA, Univ. of IL, and Cincinnati Public). There is also a copy at Harvard.
OCLC: 18203163. $350.
367. Prewett, Frank: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF .... London: Cassell, [1964]. Gilt blue
cloth. Frontis. Boards slightly bowed, otherwise fine in faintly rubbed dust jacket.
First collective edition, with an introduction by Robert Graves. Includes many hitherto unpublished poems, along with three broadcast talks. According to H&W, the edition consisted
of 500 copies.
HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS B64. REILLY (WWI), p.258. $75.
368. [Radical Periodical]: Barnhill, John Basil [ed & pub]: THE AMERICAN ANTI-SOCIALIST
[after issue 2 subtitled:] AN ORGAN OF JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY. Washington, DC.
February 1912 through January 1914. Volume one, numbers one through six (all published).
Octavo. Stapled printed self wrappers. Scattered modest soiling, a few bits of staple rust,
but a very good run, a couple of the issues untrimmed and unopened.
Edited by John Basil Barnhill. A short-lived individualist/anarchist periodical, planned as
a monthly, but falling far short of that over a span of two years. Barnhill, who under the
pseudonym “Erwin McCall” helped edit and publish the much better known anti-altruist journal, The Eagle and The Serpent (London, 1898-1903), is the almost certain source for the
quotation commonly misattributed to Thomas Jefferson by an ill-informed minority among
contemporary gun rights advocates and anti-stateists: “When governments fear the people,
there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Issue #3 consists
largely of a reading list, and offers many of the books for direct sale. $100.
369. Raine, Kathleen: YEATS, THE TAROT AND THE GOLDEN DAWN. [Dublin]: The Dolmen
Press, [1972]. Small quarto. Printed wrapper. Plates. Corners a bit bumped and creased,
otherwise a nice copy.
First edition, issued as New Yeats Paper II. From the library of poet/translator Cid Corman,
with his 1973 ownership inscription and frequent marginal highlights and occasional marginal
annotations. $125.
370. [Rampant Lions Press]: Bridson, D. G.: THE QUEST OF GILGAMESH. [Cambridge]:
Rampant Lions Press, 1972. Quarto. Gilt cloth and marbled boards. Lithographed frontis by
Michael Ayrton. Fine in glassine jacket.
First edition in book form (with additions) of this play for radio first broadcast on the Third
Programme on 29 November 1954. One of 110 numbered copies printed on Saunders Cream
laid paper, from a total edition of 125 copies. $125.
371. Rannit, Aleksis: THE VIOLIN OF MONSIEUR INGRES SOME HIERATIC AND SOME
ERRATIC ESTONIAN LINES IN ENGLISH. Zurich: Edition Adolf Hürlmann, 1983. Small
quarto. Loose gatherings laid into printed wrappers. Illustrated with original woodcuts by
Jacques Hnizdovsky. Fine in glassine wrapper.
First edition. One of a total edition of 120 copies, printed on Vélin Arches, signed by the
author, artist and printer, and accompanied by an extra suite of the three woodcuts, printed
on Japanese papers, and signed by the artist. This copy is not numbered, but bears a pencil
inscription noting its receipt from the printer/designer in October 1982, well in advance of
formal publication. $275.
372. Raymond, Marcel: FROM BAUDELAIRE TO SURREALISM. New York: Wittenborn,
Schultz, Inc., 1950. [16],428,[2]pp. Small octavo. Stiff decorated wrappers (by Paul Rand).
A bit dusty at edges, a couple small spots at edges, but a very good copy, the wrappers
well-served by the presence of a slightly used and tanned printed dust jacket, with a creased
tear and shallow loss at toe of spine.
First edition in English, translated by “G.M.” Accompanied by a Preface by Robert Motherwell,
an Introduction by Harold Rosenberg, and a Bibliography by Bernard Karpel. Documents of
Modern Art 10. $125.
373. Reed, John: THE DAY IN BOHEMIA OR LIFE AMONG THE ARTISTS .... New York:
Printed for the Author, 1913. Large octavo. Printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. A very good
to near fine copy, in good slipcase with tape mend to bottom panel, which also lacks short
segments
First edition of the author’s first (or second) solo publication. One of 500 copies printed at
the Hillacre Press. $500.
374. Richards, Frances: THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ENGRAVINGS .... [London]:
Barn Elm Editions, 1980. Folio (38 x 28 cm). Loose sheets and bifolia laid into folding cloth
chemise. Slipcase.
First edition. Prefatory note by Mel Gooding. One of seventy numbered copies, signed by
the artist. A suite of seven copper-plate engravings, six of them originally commissioned
by Stanley Morison in 1929, but never utilized for the projected edition of The Acts of The
Apostles for which they were intended. The seventh, “Praying to the Animals,” is of the
same vintage, but only thematically related. Each engraving is initialed by the artist in the
margin. $400.
375. Richards, Laura E.: WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1895. Gilt
lettered medium brown cloth. Frontis and plates. Quite shaken, with crude repairs to inner
hinges, one plate frayed and mended with tape at bottom edge; a poor copy, but see below.
First edition of the writer’s memoir of her early youth in the Howe family, including much on
her mother, Julia Ward Howe. The author’s own copy, signed by her, with the manuscript
admonition: “Author’s Copy, not to be taken from the house,” and with the publisher’s boilerplate inscription “To the author ...” on the title page. There are a few small pencil annotations
in the text. A well-used, perhaps even abused, copy, but with singular provenance. $155.
376. Richards, Laura E.: QUICKSILVER SUE. New York: The Century Company, 1899.
Cherry red cloth, decorated in white and olive. Frontis and plates by W.D. Stevens. Spine
quite faded, slightly cocked, otherwise very good.
First edition. The author’s own copy, signed by her, and with the manuscript admonition:
“Author’s Copy, not to be taken from the house.” $125.
Early Typescript Collection
377. Riding, Laura: [Original Typescript Booklet, with Corrections:] POEMS BY LAURA
RIDING [cover title]. [Np: The Author, nd. but ca. 1929]. [1],68,[1]pp. Octavo. Typed recto
and verso on 17 1/2 folded sheets of 8.5 x 11” typing paper. Moderate tanning and some
spotting to the first bifolium, first leaf split at fold and mended early on with old cellotape,
some occasional marginal fraying, but generally good to very good.
A rather early collection of typescript poems by Riding, bearing occasional minor revisions of
word choice and format in ink and pencil, the majority identifiable as in her hand, as well as
occasional manuscript pointers to a few of the poems’ periodical appearances. The poems
date no later than 1928/29 for their original appearances in periodicals, and start with several
of her earliest published poems, from 1924 and 1925. They do not duplicate the selection
that appeared as The Close Chaplet in 1926, and only one (“Sunday”) appear in Poems
– A Joking Word (1930). Many of the poems were finally collected in book form in First
Awakenings The Early Poems Of Laura Riding (1992), particularly among those included
there in Sequence Five. Others appeared in Fugitives An Anthology Of Verse (1928),
but remained uncollected for some years. In the end, three of the poems remain unindexed
in Wexler under these titles, although they saw periodical publication and were eventually
published in book form: “Nothing” (Voices, Oct. 1925), “As From a Balcony” (Voices, Dec.
1925), and “Philosopher’s Morrow” (Palms, Jan. 1926) – See First Awakenings, Appendix
B. The occasional small manuscript revisions and tinkerings bring the texts into harmony
with Riding’s revisions of the poems as published in First Awakenings. The origin of this
typescript is uncertain; however, it may be illuminated somewhat by an autograph letter from
Riding which accompanies it, dated Deya, Dec. 27, no year [but prior to 1930], in ink, on
two leaves (rather fragile and chipped, affecting one word), to “Dear Mr. McVitty,” reading
in part: “I am well now, and shall be glad to tell you about Early Poems. They were never
published: I withdrew them to work over further and they appear in a collective volume of
my poems to be published by Cape in the spring and later in America, called Poems – A
Joking Word. Before that the Hours Press is publishing a small and limited edition of recent
poems ....” She continues and states that she will let him know when those volumes are
ready, and will make sure he gets copies “If you are too poor to get them ....” Signed “Yours
-- Laura Riding.” Of course, the majority of the poems present in this typescript did not
make it into Poems – A Joking Word, and that collection from Cape preceded both Riding
titles published by Cunard’s Hours Press. That this typescript might have been assembled
purely as the whimsy of an early Riding aficionado may be discounted on the basis of the
presence of her corrections -- any assumptions beyond that would be mere speculation on
the part of this cataloguer. $2250.
378. Righi, Francois: PAVO FRAGMENT SUR LE PAON BLEU. [Ivoy-le-Pré]: Le Tailleur
d’Images, 1986. Sq. quarto (9.75 x 9.75”; 25 x 25 cm). Open-sewn wrappers with pictorial
vignette. Ten illustrations. Fine in slightly sunned clamshell box with nicks at the top of the
joints.
First edition. One of nine deluxe copies, from a total edition of 46 copies printed at the Press
of Emile Moreau on Ingres, signed by the author/artist. Illustrated with ten original gravures
printed on blue Japanese “Shoji” at L’Atelier des Michauts by the artist. Accompanied by an
original pencil and gouache drawing by the artist which was a prelude to one of the engravings, titled “Les Lieux des Yeux,” signed and dated by the artist, inset into a mat within the
case (the glue attaching the mat to the case has dried out). The original prospectus is laid
in, printing a long commentary by Michele Pinson. $850.
379. Riley, James Whitcomb: THE FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT. Indianapolis: BowenMerrill, 1892. [8],88pp. Small octavo. Gilt lettered stiff boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Slight
tanning, signs of early tightening of the front inner hinge, otherwise a very good copy in the
printed dust jacket (lightly spotted and soiled).
First edition, BAL’s binding A, printing 2 (with signature marks). The dust jacket is the variant
with printing on the front panel only
BAL 16587. TANSELLE 92.7. RUSSO, p. 37. $175.
380. Riley, James Whitcomb: RUBÁIYAT OF DOC SIFERS. New York: Century Co., 1897.
Olive cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, with pictorial vignette, t.e.g.. Frontis and illustrations
by C.M. Relyea. Cloth sunned and a bit spotted, endsheets foxed, bookplate (see below),
but a good, sound copy.
First edition. Inscribed by Riley on the preliminary blank: “For – J. B. Pond, With best greetings, – James Whitcomb Riley. Indpls., Nov. 30, 1897.” James B. Pond’s large bookplate
appears on the front pastedown. An excellent association copy: Major James Pond was the
principal of the Lyceum Theatre Lecture Bureau, and in 1888-89, put together a lecture series
featuring Riley in company with humorist Bill Nye. The series was a success, particularly
when Samuel Clemens, earlier another of Pond’s clients, took the stage to introduce them
at their first Boston appearance
BAL 16625. RUSSO, pp.69-70. $850.
381. [Rimbaud, Arthur]: Mathieu, Bertrand [translator]: [Manuscript Archive for:] ILLUMINATIONS ... A NEW AMERICAN TRANSLATION BY .... [New Haven] [ca. 1973 – 1978]. Quarto
and folio. Variously autograph manuscript, photomechanically reproduced typescript, and
photomechanically reproduced page proofs; very good.
The working autograph manuscripts for Mathieu’s translation and introductory essay, accompanied by retained production material. His translation was published by BOA editions in
1978, in both trade and limited editions, with an introduction and illustration by Henry Miller.
Here present are: a) an original heavily revised autograph manuscript of the translation of
Illuminations, ca. 85 leaves, quarto, closely written in ink on rectos only, and very, very
extensively revised; b) original revised autograph manuscript of his introduction, “Seven
Paragraphs on Rimbaud and Illuminations,” 57 leaves, quarto, in ink, chiefly on rectos but with
occasional insertions or revisions on versos, dated at end 1973; c) a retained photocopy of
the final typescript, including a 4pp. afterword by the publisher not included in the published
book, signed by Mathieu in ink; d) retained photocopy typescript of Henry Miller’s “Preface,”
3 leaves; and e) a photocopied set of long galleys, captioned in ink “Second Proofs” and
signed by Mathieu. The whole enclosed in a worn Kraft envelope, captioned and signed by
Mathieu. $1250.
382. [Riverside Press]: Anburey, Thomas: TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF
AMERICA. Boston: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1923. Two volumes. xxx,[2],276;
[6],322pp. Large octavos. Paper boards, paper spine labels. A fine, largely unopened set,
in chipped and cracked slipcase.
Copy #556 of 575 numbered sets (525 for sale), printed at the Riverside Press. Foreword
by William Hodding Carter. A substantial new edition of Anburey’s memoirs of service as an
officer with Burgoyne during the American Revolution, first published in 1789.
HOWES A226 (ref). $175.
383. [Robeson, Paul]: [Original Pictorial Herald for:] EMPEROR JONES. Mussoorie [India]:
Art Press, [ca. 1933]. [4]pp. Pictorial herald, folded to four 15 x 11cm panels. Illustrations.
Horizontal fold with tiny marginal break at edge of fold, a clean 1 cm cut in top margin (with
no loss), slight offset to lower margin of final panel, otherwise a very good example of a
quite fragile item.
A remarkable survival, being a herald promoting the showing of the 1933 United Artists film
adaptation of the Eugene O’Neill stage play at an English language cinema in the (then)
somewhat remote but quite posh resort town of Mussoorie, in the Northern Indian state of
Uttarakhand. The adaptation was based on a script by DuBose Heyward, and starred Paul
Robeson reprising his role as the lead. Dudley Diggs, Frank Wilson, Fredi Washington, and
Jackie “Moms” Mabley also starred, under the direction of Dudley Murphy and supervision
of William C. DeMille. That this herald dates from the period of the film’s initial release is
made likely due to the promotion of two other forthcoming films on the final panel, both of
them also 1933 releases. The copy writers threw out all restraint in this case: “From gaudy
Harlem flats, where hot embrace of dusky arms tightened to the throb of jazz, and gin flowed
to the click of dice! ....” $175.
384. Robinson, Edwin A.: AMARANTH. New York: Macmillan, 1934. Gilt cloth. Spine stamping very slightly oxidized, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket.
First trade edition. A lovely period association copy, inscribed by Robinson: “To Mr. & Mrs.
Stephen Vincent Benet from E.A. Robinson / 1934.” $300.
385. Rosbotham, Lyle: EXTINCTION EVENT: A WORKBOOK. [Arlington, VA: Press 451 / The
Author, 1988]. Oblong quarto (155 x 280 mm). Printed wrappers. Photographs, translucent
interleaves etc. A very good copy, though we suspect the adhesive for the perfect binding
has been refreshed.
First edition. A startling presentation, including photographic images printed on plastic, translucent interleaves bearing images and/or text, and other modes of juxtaposition of visual and
technical data on the subject and potential scenarios for same. Rosbotham was art director
for National Geographic Publications from 1984 to 2002, and subsequently for Worldwatch
Institute. This is one of his earliest artist’s books. $75.
386. Rosocha, Wieslaw: ILLUSTRATIONS TO “THE PAINTED BIRD” BY JERZY KOSINSKI
[wrapper title]. [Warsaw: Printed by Rapid / The Artist, 1993]. Eight pictorial cards (8 x 5.75”;
202 x 145 mm including margins), with captions on verso. Enclosed in printed paper folder.
Folder slightly dusty, otherwise about fine.
A suite of eight striking images by the brilliant Polish graphic artist intended to illustrate
Kosinski’s novel. Each card has been signed in ink by Rosocha on the verso. Uncommon in
this format. $150.
387. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: ROSSETTI’S SISTER HELEN. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1939. Quarto. Frontis, plates and facsimiles. Foretips of cloth of binding discolored
from humidity, otherwise a very nice copy in dust jacket.
First edition of this important work of textual scholarship, edited by Janet Camp Troxell.
This copy is inscribed by the editor to her husband: “Gilbert from Janet ‘Sister Helen in an
awful lesson on an awful subject’ D.G.R. Letter Ap. 7. 1891.” This copy is accompanied
by a moderate file of publishing dead-matter for the book, including proofs of illustrations,
unbound sheets, two t.ls.s. from the publisher forwarding proofs, and a couple of offprints,
all laid into a dummy of the binding. $150.
388. Rothenberg, Jerome: THE GORKY POEMS / POEMAS A GORKY. Mexico City: El
Corno Emplumado, 1966. Printed stiff wrappers. Translation by Sergio Mondragón. Trace
of foxing and light rubbing; very good.
First edition. One of 1000 copies published as Colección Acuario 9. Inscribed and signed
by the author in the year of publication. $60.
389. Rothenberg, Jerome [compiler]: ETHNOPOETICS ... READING LIST [caption title].
[Np: The Compiler, nd. but probably ca. 1971]. 6 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript,
printed on rectos only, and stapled at upper left. A few ink notes at top edge of first leaf,
old folds, ring mark and a couple of small coffee splashes on blank verso of terminal leaf,
otherwise very good.
An extensive reading list of books, BAE Reports, articles and periodicals, including occasional
commentary, prepared by Rothenberg, presumably for one of his classes. The inferential date
above is based on the fact that Shaking The Pumpkin is included, noted as “for release:
December 1971.” His occasional comments include praise as well as cautions and criticisms
about specific works. Uncommon. $45.
390. Rothenberg, Jerome [ed]: SHAKING THE PUMPKIN TRADITIONAL POETRY OF
THE INDIAN NORTH AMERICAS. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. xxvi,475,[3]pp. Thick octavo. Gilt cloth. First edition of this major anthology, with Rothenberg’s commentary. Spine
a shade sunned through jacket, otherwise a fine copy in slightly sunstruck dust jacket of a
book seldom seen truly fine.
$60.
391. Rothenberg, Jerome, et al: [Corrected Proofs for:] MARIA SABINA: HER LIFE AND
CHANTS. [Santa Barbara: Ross-Erikson, ca, 1981]. ca. 100 leaves. Small folio (8.5 x 14”).
Loose, uncorrected galleys, reproduced in photocopy, with original corrections in ink and
others reproduced in photocopy. Editorially used, hence just good, in captioned folder.
The set of foul proofs associated with this production, the first English language edition of
this work on the influential Mazatec curandera, with a Preface by Rothenberg, a Retrospective Essay by R. Gordon Wasson, and an Introduction by Álvaro Estrada (who is credited
with the original Spanish text). The original corrections and revisions are in various hands,
including those that would appear to be a proof-reader’s. Although not noted in these proofs,
the translations were prepared by Henry Munn. The file enclosure credits Rothenberg serving
as editor as well as author of the Preface; Polkinhorn records Estrada as the editor.
POLKINHORN E8. $175.
392. [Rudge, William E.]: THE RUDGE RUBRIC [Whole numbers 1-5]. New York: William
Edwin Rudge, October 1930 through September 1931. Whole numbers one through five (all
published). Five issues. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Order forms laid in.
A short-lived, intended monthly for the publishing division of Rudge’s enterprise, including
promotions for, and selections from, their publications or books with which they were associated – such as the Boswell Papers, which are offered at $900 for a set of 18 vols. $75.
393. Rummonds, Gabriel [editor & printer]: SEVEN ASPECTS OF SOLITUDE A MISCELLANY [Cottondale, AL]: Plain Wrapper Press, [1988]. Quarto. Printed wrapper over stiff
wrapper. Fine.
First edition. One of 275 copies printed at the Plain Wrapper Press. The swan-song of this
distinguished press: laid in is a cover letter to the press’s subscribers, signed in ink by the
printer, dealing with the issue, along with an elegantly printed announcement of his move
from the “general grand malaise of the South for the bright lights of Southern California.”
$150.
394. Rungenhagen, Ulf: VON A-Z NR. 9 [cover title]. [Düsseldorf: The Artist], November
1990. 26 pictorial cards, plus interleaves and manuscript title. (125 x 175 mm). Collage and
hand-painting. Contained in hand-painted box, with manuscript title and date repeated inside
the lid. Slight crack to one joint of the lid, otherwise about fine.
A unique assemblage by the collagist and installation artist, comprised of an alphabet of 26
collaged cards, made up of found images with text captions, chiefly on subjects of armaments and conflict, each over-painted in blood red and gunmetal gray. Both the manuscript
title and the inside of the upper lid are signed by Rungenhagen (1949 -). The implication of
the caption title is that this is likely one of a series of artist’s alphabets. $450.
395. [Runyon, Damon (sourcework)]: Swerling, Jo, and Abe Burrows: GUYS AND DOLLS
(A MUSICAL FABLE OF BROADWAY) ... MUSIC AND LYRICS BY FRANK LOESSER ....
New York: Music Theatre, Inc., [nd, but 1952 or later]. [6],61,42,8 leaves, foliated in act/
scene format. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript (printed on rectos only), bradbound in pale
pink typescript wrappers. Pencil annotations on upper wrapper erased, one ink direction
(“change”) on opening page of 1st act; very good.
An early, but undated, script for the Broadway success, which enjoyed a run of 1200 performances between Nov. 1950 and Nov. 1953. Frank Loesser, the musical composer for this
play, cofounded Music Theatre Incorporated (now Music Theatre International) in 1952, the
function being to control the rental of scripts for productions of major plays. This is identified
as one such rental script, and although it is an authorized script, any production with which
it might have been associated is not readily ascertainable and it must postdate the play’s
1950 opening by more than a year. Guys And Dolls was selected by the judges as the
1951 Pulitzer Prize winner, but due to Burrows’s run-in with the HUAC, no award was made
that year. The play went on to be the source work for the 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz film
production, starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons, et al.
$650.
396. [Ruskin, John – His Copy]: Smillie, James [illustrator], and Cleaveland, N.: GREENWOOD ... ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS .... New York: Published by R. Martin,
1847 [?]. [bound with:] Walter, Cornelia W.: MOUNT AUBURN ILLUSTRATED. IN HIGHLY
FINISHED LINE ENGRAVING, FROM DRAWINGS TAKEN ON THE SPOT ... WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES .... New York: Published by R. Martin, 1851. Two volumes bound in
one. Frontis, engraved title, 108,[2]pp. plus plates; half-title, frontis, engraved title, printed
title,119,[1]pp. plus plates. Quarto. Contemporary decorated morocco, stamped in gilt and
blind, a.e.g. Some occasional marginal discolorations and smudges, some foxing and tanning, joints cracked, first work lacks a printed title (if so issued in this instance). A sound
copy, but a good distance from fine.
Two sympathetic titles in the illustrated “Rural Cemeteries of America” series, with engravings
after Smillie by Lawrence, Hinshelwood and others. With the Brantwood Ex-Libris of books
from Ruskin’s Library. Laid in is an 1896 bank draft in the amount of £50 executed to Miss
S.D. Anderson on Ruskin’s behalf by Joanna Severn, his nurse-housekeeper. The check was
endorsed and deposited by Anderson, who served as Ruskin’s occasional secretary. There
are no annotations. $450.
397. Ruspoli, Mario: BLUES POÉSIE DE L’AMÉRIQUE NOIRE. [Paris]: Les Publications
Techniques et Artistiques, [February 1947]. Quarto.
Printed wrappers. Illustrations by Francis Maziere.
About fine, largely unopened.
First edition of this early work by the Italian-born filmmaker and photographer, reflecting his interest in jazz
and its idiom. Ruspoli’s translations of American Blues
lyrics are preceded by a long prefatory essay by him,
dedicated to Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. One of 1050
numbered copies for sale, from a total edition of 1200
copies.
$275.
398. [Saarinen], Lilian Swann [illus], and Myrtle Glenn
Terry [verse]: THE PICTURE BOOK ZOO. [New York]:
Department of Parks, [1935]. Quarto. Stiff pictorial
wrappers printed in black, green and yellow. Illustrated
throughout. A few leaves show a minor production
crease, otherwise very near fine.
First edition of
this children’s
ABC produced
as a teaching
tool for the Central Park Zoo. Foreword by Alfred E.
Smith, and Rhymes by Myrtle G. Terry. Lilian Louisa
Swann Saarinen (1912-1995) was a sculptor and
artist, and wife of architect and industrial designer
Eero Saarinen (married 1939, divorced 1951). This is
among her earliest commissions as book illustrator.
$250.
399. Sade, D.A.F., Marquis de, and [Austryn Wainhouse (trans)]: THE STORY OF JULIETTE OR VICE
AMPLY REWARDED. Paris: Travellers Companion
Series / The Olympia Press, [April 1958 through July
1965.]. Seven volumes. Printed wrappers. A very good
set, with varying degrees of rubbing to the joints and
wear to the spine ends; volume seven, apart from a
couple of small spots of soiling to the upper wrapper, is fine.
The sequential first publication of Austryn Wainhouse’s translation of volumes 1 through 5
(as “Pierelessandro Casavini”) and John Crombie’s of volumes 6 and 7. Published as #s
52 through 58 of the Traveller’s Companion Series, over a period of seven years. Initially,
the work was anticipated to occupy five volumes, but as work progressed, first a sixth, and
eventually a seventh volume were necessary. Three volumes have the publisher’s price
increase stamp on the rear wrapper.
KEARNEY & CARROLL 5.52.1 through 5.58.1. $250.
400. Saltus, Edgar: “A Transaction in Hearts. An Episode,” contained in LIPPINCOTT’S
MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, February 1889. Original printed wrappers. Tiny mend at toe of spine, otherwise an excellent copy, preserved in a faintly sunned,
imperial purple half morocco slipcase and chemise.
The complete first appearance of this novella, including a separate title leaf and author’s
portrait, and thus denoted by BAL a “twilight book” in the entry for its later book publication
(BAL 17139).
BAL 17137. $75.
401. [San Francisco Oracle]: THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO ORACLE VOL 1 NO. 7. San
Francisco: Oracle Publishing Co-Op, 1967. 48,[4]pp. Folio. Color pictorial self-wrappers, on
newsprint. Illustrated throughout. Lower forecorners creased, light tanning, a bit of dusting
along foremargin of upper wrapper; very good.
The special issue devoted to the “Houseboat Summit Meeting,” held in Sausalito in February,
with Watts, Snyder, Ginsberg and Leary as participants. This copy has the revised, redesigned
upper wrapper which denotes the second “edition.” The rear wrapper features Rick Griffin’s
iconic image of the Magical Peyote Indian, with Paul Kagan’s “Yab-Yum American Tantric
#2” on the inside recto. $150.
402. [Sassoon, Siegfried]: Dickinson, G. Lowes: THE CHOICE BEFORE US. London: Allen
& Unwin, [1917]. Large octavo. Gilt blue cloth. Spine quite faded, two pages have offsetting
from laid-in tear sheets from a number of The English Review, but a good, sound copy.
First edition of this analysis of the causes and consequences of war. With the 10 September
1917 ownership inscription on the front free pastedown of soldier-poet Siegfried Sassoon,
and with the posthumous library dispersal label. The tear sheets are for an article, “War and
Reconstruction,” by “001.” $125.
403. [Schoonhoven, Jan J. (1914 – 1994)]: [Cladders, Johannes, et al]: JAN J. SCHOONHOVEN.
Mönchengladbach: Städtisches Museum, 1972. 34 loose leaves, plates and small pamphlets.
(205 x 160mm). Portrait. Biography. Fine in modestly tanned and faintly dusty printed white box.
First edition, ordinary issue. One 0f 540 numbered copies, of 600, each containing an original “Prägedruck” by Schoonhoven (i.e. a white relief print). Published on the occasion of an
exhibition in tandem with the Westfälischer Kunstverein and Museum van Bommel – van
Dam. $750.
404. Scollard, Clinton: CHORDS OF THE ZITHER. Clinton, NY: George William Browning,
1910. Octavo. Boards, printed spine and cover label. Boards sunned at extremities, otherwise
near fine, unopened.
First edition. A somewhat obscure, locally published collection, printed on untrimmed Normandy Vellum. This copy is inscribed and signed by Scollard with four lines of verse, and
his clipped manuscript return address in Clinton is laid in. $100.
405. [Seaver, Edwin], and William E. Weeks: ALL IN THE RACKET. New York: Charles Boni
Paperbooks, July 1930. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Minor soiling to wrapper, otherwise a very
good or better copy, with the original subscription slip laid in.
First edition, an original publication in this format, and politically conscious editor and novelist
Seaver’s second book publication, if such a collaboration may be so regarded. An editor’s
note identifies Seaver’s participation, although it is not so noted on the title. Seaver’s entry
in Kunitz & Haycraft treats it as a collaboration. Introduction by Arthur Garfield Hays. The
striking wrapper design is by Vera Bock. $45.
406. Seoane, Xavier, and Raul Reguera: POESIA EXPERIMENTAL [wrapper title]. [Coruña:
Grafico Galaico La Coruña, 1978]. Stiff printed wrappers. Illustrations. Two inserts. Small
adhesion residue in blank area of preliminary leaf, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition of Seoane’s first book, insofar as a collective work with Reguera may be so
regarded. Two air mail envelopes are included, each containing a separately printed visual
poem card by the authors. The text is divided into two sections, each with an introduction
by the respective author printed on heavy brown paper preceding it. Seone (b. 1954) is an
active editor, lecturer and participant in the Spanish visual poetry movement. OCLC /Worldcat
locates one copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana.
OCLC: 434585584. $125.
407. Sharoff, Shirley [artist], and Lu Xun [text]: LA GRANDE MURAILLE / THE GREAT WALL
[Paris: The Artist, 1991]. Folded oblong folio (130 x 245 mm), unfolding to scroll approximately
7 meters in length. Enclosed in substantial Plexi wallet style sleeve and decorated slipcase.
First edition in this format. Illustrated with eight original color gravures by Sharoff, with Lu
Xun’s text printed in Chinese, French and English. From an edition of 75 copies (including
15 deluxe and 10 hors commerce), this is one of fifty numbered copies, signed by the artist.
Letterpress printing by Francois de Ros. $650.
408. Shen Jiji, and Clemens Tobias-Lange [illustrator & printer]: DIE GESCHICHTE DES
FRÄULEIN REN .... Hamburg: CTL-Presse, 1992. 112pp. Narrow quarto. Limp textured
wrappers of red-turquoise silk, with wooden backstrip. Illustrated throughout. Fine in slipcase.
First edition in this format, presenting in parallel the Chinese and German texts. A Chinese witch-fox tale from the Tang period, (618 – 907 AD.), with 24 original block prints by
Clemens-Tobias Lange. One of 100 numbered copies (of 123) printed on Japanese Kashu
paper, signed by Tobias-Lange. $750.
409. Shimada, Kinsuke [photographer]: LYRICISM IN KYOTO. [Tokyo]: Kokusai Johosha
Ltd., 1974 Folio. Gilt lettered silk over boards. Photographs, maps and plates (in color &
b&w). Narrow crack at top of front inner hinge (possibly a production flaw), otherwise fine,
in wrinkled glassine, publisher’s cloth slipcase, and outer shipping box (the latter snagged
at one corner).
First edition. Accompanied by the printed envelope containing extra offset printings of two of
the photographs for framing. Prefatory essays by Seisensui and Rowland G. Gould. $150.
410. [Shute, Nevil (sourcework)], and W. P. Lipscomb and Richard Mason [screenwriters]:
[Three Items Relating to:] A TOWN LIKE ALICE. London: J. Arthur Rank Productions Ltd.,
1957. Narrow quarto and folio, as described below.
Three items relating to the 1956 film adaptation of Shute’s 1950 novel, in part treating the
WWII occupation of Malaya by Japan, its aftermath, and the involvement of two of its survivors
in the development of Alice Springs. Jack Lee directed Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji
Takaki, et al, and the film garnered BAFTA awards for its stars, and several nominations
in other categories. Present here are: a) a combined continuity script, dated 8 April 1957,
small folio, bradbound at top in printed wrappers, on blue and salmon stock, foliated in reel
format, printed in the UK but denoted “American Version”; b) a very substantial “Information
Folder,” narrow folio, mimeographed typescript, 75 leaves printed on rectos only and bound in
cloth backed printed wrappers; and c) an 8pp., folio, highly pictorial color pressbook, geared
toward overseas distribution. The items show a bit of use and some light, isolated signs
of damp, largely at a few extreme edges but also to the upper wrapper of the script, but a
very good lot. A Town Like Alice, based on what many regard as Shute’s most significant
novel, premiered in the UK in 1956, and though released in a number of countries, including
Japan, the same year, IMDB records US release as having finally taken place in September
of 1958. $450.
411. Sitwell, Sacheverell: AGAMEMNON’S TOMB. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1972.
Small quarto. Folded sheets. Very good.
One of four signed “proof” copies on handmade paper, in addition to 85 signed, numbered
copies, from a total edition of 265.
HALLIWELL A24b. $85.
412. Smith, Ken, and John Christie [illus]: BETWEEN THE DANCERS A SEQUENCE OF
TEN POEMS WITH SCREENPRINTS .... [Guildford, Surrey]: Circle Press, [1980]. Quarto.
Linen and boards. Spine a trifle soiled, with some faint slipcase rubbing to the boards, otherwise near fine, internally fine, in slipcase.
First edition. Illustrated with six full-page color screenprints by Christie, and several small
images inset into the text pages. One of 80 numbered copies (and ten AP’s), signed by the
author and the artist. $325.
An Elaborate Pre-Publication Promotional
413. Smith, W. Eugene: [Publisher’s Advance Promotional Package for:] MINAMATA. [New
York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, prior to January 1975]. Folio. Loose and comb-bound sheets,
photocopied typescript, etc. Some tears and tanning to typescript, a few filing labels and
abrasions from same; a variety of items, as detailed below. Good to very good or better.
A substantial pre-publication promotional, assembled for purposes of subsidiary rights
consideration and highly privileged review, for the first US edition of Smith’s extraordinary
photo-essay on the devastation caused by industrial pollution at Minamata. Present here are
the twelve individual folio (41 x 30 cm) plates that made up the illustrative component of the
1973 Japanese portfolio, Minamata: Life – Sacred And Profane, published to coincide with
the exhibition hosted by Seibu Department Store; ca. 34 leaves of photocopied typescript,
legal format, denoted “Sample Text First Draft” and dated in type 12/9/74; two copies of an
elaborate oblong large folio (30 x 48 cm) presentation, plastic comb-bound in printed boards,
each consisting of eight proof printings in high quality gravure of photographs and captions;
and finally, a rather ragged example of the printed dust jacket for the forthcoming book. The
promotional caption to the comb-bound presentations does not overstep the bounds of truth
in asserting: “In the Twentieth Century, certain statements have helped alter the course of
civilization: D.W. Griffith’s ‘Birth of a Nation’ [/] Edward R. Murrow’s television condemnation
of Joseph McCarthy [/] Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin in the Wind’ [/] Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ [/]
now W. Eugene Smith’s Minamata.” The obvious expense of assembling such an elaborate
promotional package virtually assures that only a few were prepared for submission to the
top tier of reviewers or subsidiary rights editors, and it is unlikely that more than a few have
survived. Minamata is among the landmarks of the 20th century photo-essay, and stands as
testament to the dedication and genius, often in the face of extraordinary odds and physical
danger, of W. Eugene Smith.
ROTH, p.232. $1250.
414. Soisson, Jacques (1928 – 2012): PROPOS HORS DE RAISON. [Paris]: Acayoulge,
[1982]. Folio (17.5 x 12.5”; 44 x 32 cm). Loose bifolia laid into printed wrapper. Illustrated.
Faint mirror offset from title to colophon, tiny nicks at crown of spine, otherwise fine.
First edition. Illustrated with three full-page engravings and six ornamental figurative woodcuts.
One of 39 numbered copies, from a total edition of 47, printed under the artist’s supervision
by Michel Bon, and signed by the artist/author. For subject matter and method, Soisson
drew on his own experiences as an adolescent and child psychologist and pioneering art
therapist. He was associated with Dubuffet and the Société d’Art Brut. OCLC locates only
the LC copy in North America.
OCLC: 15590406. $550.
415. [Spanish Civil War]: [German Program for:] HELDEN IN SPANIEN. [Berlin]: Illustrierter
Film-kurier, [1938]. [8]pp. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers. 293 x 224 mm. Illustrated with
photographs throughout. Unusually fine.
A highly pictorial promotional program for this 1938 documentary on the war in Spain, obvious
in its support of Franco and the Royalist side. The German release ran 71 minutes, while the
Spanish release, under the title Espana Heroica, ran an additional 15 minutes. Paul Laven
is credited with the script for the German version, and served also as co-director. Noted [in
German] as an “Hispano-film of Bavaria in cooperation with Falange Espanole.” Scarce.
$150.
416. Stafford, William: GEOGRAPHY LESSON. [Dallas]: Northouse & Northouse, 1987.
Folio broadside. Fine.
First edition in this format. One of 26 lettered copies, from a total edition of 156 copies
printed at the Red Ozier Press and signed by the author. The lettered copies, as well as the
100 numbered copies, were issued as elements in the American Poetry Portfolio. $185.
417. Starrett, Vincent: [Autograph Letter, Signed]. Chicago. 26 March 1946. One page,
on folded quarto lettersheet, in ink. Folded for mailing, otherwise fine in somewhat tanned
envelope with address and return address in his hand, and dated receipt stamp.
To Providence journalist, collector and bibliographer, Bradford Swan, thanking him for procuring a copy of Rhode Island on H. P. Lovecraft for him, and promising to try and locate
a copy of Buried Caesars for him: “It is curious to realize how scarce it has become when I
remember how many copies I once had around the house. Now my own copy is a poor and
incomplete one! But one will turn up. I wish it were a better book ....” $85.
418. Steel, Barney: ARMAGEDDON. Berkeley: Last Gasp, [ca. 1972]. Whole numbers one
through three (all published). Small quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Very good to near fine.
Written and drawn by Barney Steel. The famous, overtly anti-state, sexually-explicit, politically incorrect Libertarian underground fantasy comic. For sale to adults only. $35.
419. Steele, Richard [editor]: TOWN-TALK. IN A LETTER TO A LADY IN THE COUNTRY. TO
BE PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. London: Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts ... [et al], Friday,
January 13 1715/16. [2],51-67,[1]pp. Octavo (signed n ‘2’s). Extracted from nonce volume.
Light foxing, tears in gutter at spine to first four leaves (no loss), generally a very good copy.
Whole number V, of nine published. A short-lived weekly published by Steele from 17 December 1715 through 13 February 1716. Evidently it was far from successful, as it is little
known except in collective reprintings with other texts issued in 1789 and 1790. Individual
original issues are scarce: ESTC bases its entry on this issue, with copies located at the
Bodleian, Merton College, Yale, and UT. Evidently there were subsequent denoted reprintings of this issue, at least: the British Library Catalogue lists 3rd and 5th “editions” of this
number. The present example includes no notice of reprinting, has 2 lines of errata toward
the bottom of page 66, and p. 67 bears adverts for Austin’s Persian Ink and Ink Powder, as
well as J. Cluer’s printing shop on Bow-Church-Yard, Cheapside.
CRANE & KAYE 876. NCBEL II:1275. ESTC P2110. $375.
420. Sterling, George: ODE ON THE OPENING OF THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION – SAN FRANCISCO – 1915. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1915.
Small quarto. Linen and boards. Printed in red and black. Some foxing to endleaves, pencil
ownership signature and shelf-label of typographer/printer Carl Rollins, a bit of handsoiling
to boards, but a very good copy.
First edition. One of 525 copies printed on handmade paper by Taylor and Taylor. A good
association copy of this characteristic example of work by the first of the many fine printers
nurtured in the Bay-area.
MATTILA A8. BAL 18762. $150.
421. Stillman, William James: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A JOURNALIST. Boston & New
York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1901. Two volumes. Large octavo. Polished buckram, printed paper
spine labels. Portraits. Bookplate in each volume, a bit of rubbing to labels and along one
joint, one inner hinge cracking slightly, but a very good set.
First edition, limited issue. One of one hundred sets specially bound, untrimmed. Stillman’s
career encompassed more than journalism. He was an accomplished photographer and artist,
and was friends with Rossetti and Ruskin (in some circles, he was known as the “American
Pre-Raphaelite). As a journalist and as a diplomatic representative of the US government
-- he served as Consul in Rome and Crete -- he traveled widely on the Continent, He served
as an editor at Scribner’s Magazine, a correspondent for The Times, and undertook and
published a sequence of photographs of Athenian architecture of a very high caliber. This
work was published in the year of his death, and is uncommon in this limited issue. $225.
422. Stokes, Telfer: FOOLSCRAP. [London]: Weproductions 1973. Small octavo. Stiff printed
wrappers. Photographs. Near fine.
First edition. Although not stated, according to Stokes’ Weproductions bibliography, 1000
copies were printed. $40.
423. [Stokes, Telfer, and: Helen Douglas]: CHINESE WHISPERS. [London]: Weproductions
[1975]. Small octavo. Stiff printed wrappers. Photographs. Near fine.
First edition. Although not stated, according to Stokes’ Weproductions bibliography, 1000
copies were printed. $40.
424. [Stokes, Telfer, and: Helen Douglas]: SPIN OFF. Yarrow, Selkirkshire: Weproductions /
Flat Iron Press 1985. Small octavo. Stiff printed wrappers. Photographs. Near fine.
First edition. Although not stated, according to Stokes’ Weproductions bibliography, 400
copies were printed. $50.
425. Stokes, Telfer, and Helen Douglas: REAL FICTION AN INQUIRY INTO THE BOOKERESQUE. Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1987. Small octavo. Stiff printed
wrappers. Photographs. Near fine.
First edition. Produced in association with Weproductions. Although not stated, according to
Stokes’ Weproductions bibliography, 800 copies were printed. $60.
426. Stuart, Francis: VICTORS AND VANQUISHED. London: Victor Gollancz, 1957. Wrappers,
paper label. Near fine, in very good, slightly frayed and chipped oversize specimen dust jacket.
Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition of the author’s inevitably somewhat controversial
WWII novel, eventually published in 1958. The dust jacket reprises W.B. Yeats’s comment
about The Coloured Dome. An uncommon proof. $85.
427. [Studio Novio]: Leonard, Jos, and Willy Godenne: CATALOGUS DER TENTOONSTELLING VAN STUDIO NOVIO IN HET MUSEUM PLANTIN-MORETUS TE ANTWERPEN ...
Antwerp: Musée Plantin-Morteus, March 1928. [24]pp. Small octavo. Stiff wrappers, pictorial label. Illustrations. Two tissue guards have caused offset tanning to the facing pages,
otherwise very good or better.
An attractive illustrated catalogue of 46 items designed at, illustrated by, or associated with
Leonard and Godenne’s ‘Studio Novio.’ $225.
428. Summers, Montague: LETTERS TO AN EDITOR MONTAGUE SUMMERS TO C.K.
OGDEN. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1986. Plain wrappers, printed paper label. Light
bump to lower edge, else about fine.
First edition, with introduction and notes by D.E. Wickham. One of one hundred and fortyfive numbered copies hand-printed on W S Vellum.
HALLIWELL A116. $55.
429. Symons, A. J. A.: INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF HIS ODDSHIPPE BRO. A.J.A. SYMONS
(SPECULATOR) DELIVERED TO THE SETTE OF ODD VOLUMES ... [wrapper title]. [London: Sette of Odd Volumes, 1938]. 8pp. Small octavo. Sewn, typographically decorated
wrappers. Very near fine.
First edition. Printed at the Curwen Press for the members. The address was delivered 18
October at the 525th meeting of the Sette, at the Savoy. $65.
430. Symons, Julian: 1948 AND 1984...THE SECOND ORWELL MEMORIAL LECTURE.
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1984. Decorated wrapper over stiff wrapper, paper label. Fine.
First edition, deluxe issue. Copy #2 of twenty-five copies, specially printed on handmade
paper, and signed by the author, in addition to 110 ordinary copies and twenty-five author’s
copies. The Second Orwell memorial Lecture, delivered at London University, 25 February
1983. With George Sims’s bookplate.
HALLIWELL A106a. $175.
431. Synge, John M.: IN WICKLOW WEST KERRY AND CONNEMARA ... WITH DRAWINGS BY JACK B. YEATS. Dublin: Maunsel and Company, 1911. Blue cloth, stamped in
gilt, t.e.g. Frontis and plates. Minimal light rubbing at edges, 1912 gift inscription on lightly
foxed free endsheet, with earlier ownership signature of the donor on the pastedown, light
foxing to rear endsheets and scattered elsewhere, otherwise very good.
First separate edition. The text was first published in the 1910 Works in four volumes (without illustrations), and then appeared, conjoined with Yeats’s illustrations in the 1911 second
collected (denoted the “Library”) edition. $275.
432. Synge, John M. [sourcework]; James Church and Richard McDonagh [adaptation]: GREAT
PLAYS “THE WELL OF SAINTS” ... RADIO ADAPTATION BY ... [caption title]. [New York]:
National Broadcasting Company, March 1941. [1],57 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript,
printed on rectos only. A few pencil notes on terminal leaf, otherwise very good or better.
A preproduction script for this adaptation for NBC’s radio series, “Great Plays,” scheduled for
production on Sunday 9 March 1941. The series first aired on NBC Blue in Spring of 1938,
and was until its suspension in 1942, one of its most prestigious undertakings. This production was included in its fourth season. The specific cast for the broadcast is not included in
this script, and presumably drew upon the substantial stable of performers the show engaged
for its season. $350.
433. Talcott, Dudley Vaill: NORAVIND. Hartford: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1929. Small
quarto. Pictorial cloth. Illustrated and hand-lettered throughout by the author/artist. Modest
dust tanning to the white cloth, but a very good copy.
First edition, limited issue. One of 375 numbered copies, signed by Talcott. An illustrated
account of his experiences in Norway (particularly his canoe trips on the Norwegian fjords)
by the Connecticut-born, Paris-educated sculptor and illustrator. $150.
434. Talsman, William [pseud. of James M. Smith]: THE GAUDY IMAGE. Paris: Traveller’s
Companion Series / The Olympia Press, [December 1958]. Printed green wrappers. Faint
old price in upper corner of lower wrapper, tiny nick in top edge of lower wrapper, spine ends
rubbed, but a very good copy.
First edition. Published as TC #63. Set in New Orleans, cited by Young, and increasingly
recognized as a significant work of Gay fiction.
YOUNG 2526. KEARNEY (1987) 138. KEARNEY & CARROLL 5.63.1. $75.
435. Taylor, Bayard: THE AMERICAN LEGEND. A POEM BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA
SOCIETY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, JULY 18, 1850. Cambridge: Printed by John Bartlett,
1850. 27,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers. First edition. A fine copy, enclosed in a folding
cloth and board case, gilt label.
BAL 19639. $175.
One of Ten Copies
436. Taylor, Linda: PINE. Edinburgh: Graeme Murray, 1988. Quarto (12 x 8”; 30.5 x 20cm).
Loose sheets and photographs laid into clamshell cloth box, with title stitched into upper lid
and explanatory text onlaid to pastedowns. Fine.
First edition. One of ten numbered copies, signed by the artist. At the request of the Scottish
Arts Council, Taylor created the original work, “Pine,” as an element of the touring exhibition,
The Unpainted Landscape. It consisted of a screen of watermarked paper illuminated by
an 8 x 5 foot lightbox. This replication of the work is made up of 64 sheets of fine French
handmade paper, each sheet specially watermarked by the artist to form a tile in a full mosaic
recreation of the work. It is accompanied by two 7.5 x 9” color photographs of the original
work and of the author’s maquette for it. “The watermark drawings are invisible until illuminated one by one by the viewer, introducing tactile contact suggestive of the species’ rarity
and the fragility of its continuance. Within each boxed edition lies the potential to recreate
the complete image of the Scots Pine” – from the explanatory text. $225.
437. [Tennyson, Alfred, Lord]: Thomson, J. C. [editor/compiler]: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED,
LORD TENNYSON. Wimbledon & New York: J. Thomson / G.E. Stechert & Co., 1905. 12mo.
Boards, printed spine label. Bit of wear at spine ends, four tape shadows to free endsheets
from former “protective” wrapper, otherwise near fine.
First edition. The manuscript colophon asserts: “Of an edition of Twenty copies for presentation
purposes, printed on hand-made paper, this is No. Nine ...,” signed and dated by Thomson
on 18 May 1905. This copy also bears Thomson’s signed presentation inscription on the
front pastedown to noted collector and railroad tycoon of the Midwest, John A. Spoor, below
which appears Spoor’s bookplate. An excellent association copy of an uncommon issue of
this preliminary effort, infamous for its part in the implied canonization of some of the Wise/
Forman fabrications. $300.
438. [Téramond, Guy de, et al]: L’ART ET LE BEAU LA FORME HUMAINE ET SA BEAUTÉ
ETUDES ARTISTIQUES .... Paris: Librairie Artistique et Littéraire, [1906]. [4],236,36pp. Folio.
Original publisher’s pictorial cloth. Heavily illustrated, including 340 “magnifiques gravures
photographiques” and 22 printed in four colors. Tiny snag in top margin of title mended early
on, cloth significantly rubbed and handsoiled, endleaves foxed; still, a good, sound copy.
A substantial compendium associated with the Paris periodical focusing on the human form
as a subject of art, including a very substantial section devoted to Félicien Rops, and an
appended chapter about Rodin. Various media are treated, but there is a substantial component of photography, much of it in the manner of rather tedious and dishonest imitations
of classical forms with (then) living models. $375.
First Book – Signed
439. Thomas, Dylan: 18 POEMS. London: The Sunday Referee and The Parton Bookshop,
[1934]. Gilt cloth. Endsheets and fore-edges somewhat foxed, else a nice copy (with spine
gilding still bright), in similarly foxed printed dust jacket with two tiny chips and tears at the spine
ends and one chip at the lower edge of the rear panel. Half morocco slipcase and chemise
First edition, first state of the binding, of the author’s first
book. A total of 500 sets of sheets were printed, of which
250 sets were bound up in December of 1934 in this fashion,
and the remaining 250 sets of sheets in February, 1936.
This copy is signed by Thomas in the upper quadrant of the
free endsheet, and has a gift inscription incorporating that
signature: “To Ethel from Bert, and Dylan Thomas ... Xmas
1934.” “Bert” was Albert Lancaster Lloyd (1908-1982), the
prominent British folklorist, singer and Communist activist
who, in the late 1930s, was commissioned by the BBC to
undertake documentaries on sea-faring life and the rise of
Nazism in Germany. He co-edited The Penguin Book of
English Folk Songs (1959) and was a key figure in the
folksong revival of the 1950s and 1960s. Laid in is a brief
note of presentation, signed “Bert,” noting that “Dylan’s
stuff ... [is] the best young poetry there is; better even than
George’s [Barker?] or David Gascoyne’s. He signed [the
book] specially for you.” “These first poems (very uneven)
shattered for those who discovered them the whole revolutionary optimism of the ‘thirties” – Connolly.
ROLPH B1a. MODERN MOVEMENT 78a. HAYWARD 343. $12,000.
440. Thomas, Dylan: 18 POEMS. London: The Sunday Referee and The Parton Bookshop,
[1934]. Gilt cloth. Endsheets a trifle foxed, spine gilding a trace oxidized, Holiday Bookshop
ticket on rear pastedown, but a very good copy in slightly tanned dust jacket with a few short
edge tears and some very shallow losses at crown and toe of spine panel.
First edition, second state of the binding, of the author’s first book. A total of 500 sets
of sheets were printed, of which 250 sets were bound up in December of 1934, and the
remaining 250 sets of sheets in February, 1936. These later copies have an inserted leaf
facing the title with adverts for three Parton Press titles (including this one) and a rounded
spine. “These first poems (very uneven) shattered for those who discovered them the whole
revolutionary optimism of the ‘thirties” – Connolly.
ROLPH B1b. MODERN MOVEMENT 78a. HAYWARD 343. $1000.
441. Thomas, Edward: THE FEAR OF DEATH. Edinburgh: Privately printed at the Tragara
Press, 1982. Quarto. Sewn plain wrappers. Fine.
First edition in book form of this essay first published in The Nation in 1912. In addition to
95 copies printed on Barcham Green Langley paper, this is an unnumbered proof copy on
different paper, inscribed by the printer/publisher to bookseller George Sims.
HALLIWELL A86(note). $200.
442. Thomas, Edward: A SPORTSMAN’S TALE. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1983.
Marbled wrappers, printed label. Fine.
First edition, printed from the manuscript, with an introduction by R. George Thomas. One of
three special copies, printed on Barcham Green paper, in addition to 125 numbered copies
for sale. Inscribed and signed by the printer/publisher to bookseller George Sims.
HALLIWELL A94b. $250.
443. Thoreau, Henry D.: CAPE COD. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. Blue BD cloth, stamped
in blind, spine stamped in gilt. A couple of small nicks at toe of spine, ink ownership signature
and date on free endsheet, and inscription on verso of preliminary blank (but see below); a
few ink checks in the terminal catalogue; a very good or better copy.
First edition, BAL’s binding A. One of 2000 copies printed. Edited by Sophia Thoreau and
William E. Channing. This copy bears the ink ownership signature and date (“April 1865”) of
Clarence Cook (1828 – 1900), author and art critic. The book was published in late March.
At the time, Cook was contributing a series of articles about American art to the New York
Tribune. A relatively early ink inscription, signed “W.R.W.,” on the verso of the preliminary
blank details the books acquisition by its next owner. There are careful pencil annotations
three places in the text, and some ink marginal highlights in the terminal catalogue next to
Mayne Reid’s titles.
BAL 20115. BORST A5.1.a. $2250.
444. [Thoreau, Henry D., et al]: Allen, Francis H. [ed]: NATURE’S DIARY. Boston & New
York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1897. Gilt pictorial green cloth, with vignette in pale blue. Frontis
and plates. Faint foxing to spine, otherwise very good and bright.
First edition of this collection of daily selections from Thoreau (substantially), Burroughs,
Whittier, Lowell and others. Now somewhat uncommon in this attractive original edition.
$85.
445. THE TIGER’S EYE. Westport. October 1947 through June 1949. Whole numbers one
through nine (all published). Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Heavily illustrated. Printed on various
colored stocks. As usual, some of the glue affixing some of the tipped-in plates has dried
out and there is some slight tanning to the edges of some of the colored stocks, the spines
are creased from reading, two of the spines have neat, small restorations at the tips, and
another has a small chip at the toe, otherwise (for this periodical) an uncommonly good set.
Edited by Ruth Stephan, et al. A complete run of this important American post-war literary
and artistic journal. The first issue bear’s Carl Van Vechten’s typographic bookplate, and his
annotations marking Owen Dodson and William Attaway’s contributions. Among the many
significant literary contributors are Moore, Merton, Patchen, Attaway, Roethke, Rexroth, Kees,
Hayden, Dodson, Duncan, Williams, Bataille, Lamantia, Krim, Eliot, Ford, Genet, Borges, et
al. The artistic contributions are equally impressive: Picasso, de Chirico, Motherwell, Ernst,
Masson, deKoonig, Rothko, Gorky, Tanguy, Pollock, Braque, Klee, Giacometti, Miro, et al.
$450.
446. Tinker, Edward Larocque: THE PALINGENESIS OF CRAPS. New York: Press of the
Woolly Whale, 1933. Cloth and decorated boards, paper label. Portrait. Top edge a bit dusty,
slight tanning at board edges, otherwise very good or better.
First edition in book form. One of 400 numbered copies printed on handmade paper, of
which 150 were for sale. Foreword by Melbert Cary, Jr. With the small bookplate on the front
pastedown of typographer/designer Carl P. Rollins.
LAWSON & PANKOW 29. $100.
447. [Tobacco]: Miller, James, and John Lizars: ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO. ALCOHOL:
ITS PLACE AND POWER ... THE USE AND ABUSE OF TOBACCO. Philadelphia: Lindsay &
Blakiston, 1859. [4],[6],[13]-179;[x (i.e.4)],[2],138pp. Two volumes bound in one, with separate
title pages and registers, as well as a cover title and notice. Original cloth. Binding rubbed
and a bit edgeworn, pencil ownership inscriptions; a good, sound copy.
First American editions, publisher’s collective issue. Both authors were surgeons resident
in Edinburgh. The latter work by Lizars is noted as derived from the 8th Edinburgh edition.
$65.
With Three Original Etchings by Coignard
448. Tortel, Jean, and James Coignard [illustrator]:
MISE EN CAUSE. Paris: Éditions Semios, 1985. Folio
(16 x 11 1/2”; 405 x 390 mm). Loose sheets laid into
heavy handmade paper wrapper. Illustrated. Fine.
First edition. Illustrated with three handworked color
carborundum etchings by James Coignard. One of
90 numbered copies for sale (and 20 EA and 10 HC),
signed by the author and artist, and with each etching
signed and numbered by the artist as well. Printed on
Papier Pombié by Pierre Jean Mathan, with the etchings printed on Papier du Moulin de Laroque at l’Atelier
Pasnic.
$900.
449. Tranströmer, Tomas: BALTICS. [Berkeley]: Oyez,
[1975]. Small quarto. Cloth and pictorial boards, paper
spine label. Faint dust shadow to top edge and extreme
top edges of endsheets, otherwise very near fine.
First edition, limited issue, of this translation by Samuel
Charters. One of 125 numbered copies printed by
Graham Mackintosh and handbound by Emily Paine,
signed by Tranströmer and Charters. An early and elusive publication in English by the 2011
Nobel laureate. $450.
“In love you are my next door neighbor ....”
450. Traubel, Horace [writer], and Charles Warren Stoddard [recipient]: [Original Autograph
Letter, Signed, to Charles Warren Stoddard, with an Inscribed Portrait Photograph].
Philadelphia. 20 January 1908. Two pages, on recto and verso of quarto lettersheet. Accompanied by a 6 5/8 x 4 5/8” original portrait photograph, inscribed, and by the original
envelope (with the Walt Whitman Fellowship return address), addressed in Traubel’s hand
(“To Charles Warren Stoddard. Monterey, California”). Letter a bit fragile, with breaks towards
the ends of a couple of the folds, but very good. Photograph about fine.
An effusive and frank letter from Traubel (1858-1919), literary critic, progressive editor, and
Whitman’s Boswell, to Charles W. Stoddard (1843-1909), California poet, travel writer and
proponent of male-male relationships, then living in Monterey and entering into his final days.
Traubel writes: “My love goes across the continent to you. My heart answers all your thrilling
salutations. You never seem far off except in miles. In love you are my next door neighbor.
In love you anoint my ribs. I am worked hard throughout the [sic] most of the twenty four
hours of each day ... I must set most of the type on my own paper [likely referring to The
Conservator]. This as you see leaves me little leisure in which to frolic. But my friends,
my lovers attend me in my work. In that way, in the sacred quiet of this room, you visit me
& we talk face to face. Remember anything else you must about me but do not forget this.
Love again and again, dear Kinsman. Horace Traubel.” Stoddard, intrigued by the Calamus
themes in Whitman’s poems, had written the poet as early as 1867, and in an 1869 letter,
written from Hawaii, had detailed his affectionate encounters with a young Hawaiian man.
Traubel read Whitman Stoddard’s letter on that occasion, and recorded his response in With
Walt Whitman In Camden. As an advocate of Whitman’s views on comradeship, Traubel
is known to have engaged in relationships with members of both sexes, intellectually and
physically (albeit the latter somewhat discretely), and the demonstrative nature of this letter
is indicative of at least a measure of comradely affection, if not more, on the part of Traubel
toward Stoddard. The photograph, which is inscribed on the verso by Traubel to Stoddard (“To
Charles Warren Stoddard / with love’s right hand, Horace Traubel”), is also captioned by him:
“Photo by Paul Fournier. 1907.” Fournier (1888-1961) was a photographer and at one time
a member of the arts and crafts community, the Roycrofters. Fournier and his wife, Rosalie,
left the Roycrofters in 1906, and split their time between Philadelphia and New York, keeping
close company with Traubel who, recent scholarship suggests, may have been the father of
their child (Marilyn McKay, “Walt Whitman in Canada: The Sexual Trinity of Horace Traubel
and Frank and Mildred Bain,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, XXX:1, 2012). The portrait
is much in the manner of, and perhaps originates from the same sitting as, a photographic
portrait of Traubel in the collections of the Lilly Library, and included (“undated, photographer
unknown”) in the online exhibit, Walt Whitman At The Lilly. $750.
451. Trippel, H.F., Major [ed]: THE FLAG THE BOOK OF THE UNION JACK CLUB. [London]: Published by the Daily Mail for the Union Jack Club, [1908]. viii,116,ix-xxviiipp. Small
quarto. Printed wrappers. Plates and adverts. Wrappers used and a bit frayed at overlap
edges, news agent’s stamp on rear wrapper, but a good copy.
First edition, issue for the hoi polloi. An anthology published to raise funds for the Club’s
“Extension Building Fund” (donation slip tipped in), with contributions by Kipling, Corelli,
Meredith, Gilbert, W.C. Russell, Edgar Wallace, Doyle, Hichens, Jacobs, Baden-Powell,
HRH, et al, and a variety of empire-kissing (or other) artistic contributions edited by P. G.
Konody -- Hassall’s “Fuzzy-Wuzzy” standing out among them. A more lavish edition of 150
copies was minted for the Royals and the senior members.
RICHARDS B40. $50.
452. Turnbull, Gael: TRACES. [Guildford, Surry]: Circle Press, 1983. Oblong octavo. Stiff
wrappers, paper label. Fine.
First edition. One of 120 numbered copies, signed by the poet. The text is a concrete poem
printed on a six panel narrow gatefold affixed to an interior leaf with creases for folding to
12 overlapping panels. Uncommon in the trade recently. $50.
453. [Turtle Island Press]: Owen, Claire, and Daniel Tucker: A CLIFF STORY [AND SHE
COMES DOWN]. Philadelphia: Turtle Island Press, 1976. [16]pp. Oblong 12mo (11 X 14 cm).
Watercolor decorated wrappers, with ms. title. Illustrated throughout. Two creased snag tears
in fore-edge of rear wrapper, corner crease to one leaf, otherwise near fine.
First edition. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Owen and Tucker. Hand-written text
and illustrations printed via offset lithography, with hand-tinting, printed on Strathmore Cream
paper, with handmade paper endleaves. An early, delicate and somewhat modest publication
by a press now well-regarded for its ambitious and highly limited artist’s books. $45.
454. Updike, John: TWO SONNETS [caption title]. [Dallas]: Northouse & Northouse, [1987].
Oblong folio broadside (33 x 43cm). Illustrated. Fine.
First edition in this format, preceded by periodical publication. From a total edition of 166
copies printed by David Holman at the Wind River Press, this is one of 26 lettered copies. The lettered copies, as well as the numbered copies, were issued as elements in the
American Poetry Portfolio.
DE BELLIS & BROOMFIELD A120. $350.
455. [Vale Press & Charles Ricketts]: [BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE VALE PRESS] A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOOKS ISSUED BY HACON & RICKETTS. [Landsdowne House, Holland
Park & New York: Charles Ricketts / John Lane, 1904]. Linen and boards, paper labels.
Small book label of Herbert Boyce Satcher and a few pencil marginal ‘x’s by him next to
titles, labels slightly tanned, a few scattered minor bits of foxing; a very good or better copy.
First edition. One of 250 copies (of 260) printed in red and black on specially watermarked
handmade paper. With borders, initials and a frontispiece engraved by Ricketts. Another ten
copies were printed on vellum. Uncommon.
RANSOM (VALE) 46. $500.
456. Verplanck, Gulian C.: THE RIGHT MORAL INFLUENCE AND USE OF LIBERAL STUDIES. A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AFTER THE ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT OF GENEVA
COLLEGE .... New York: Henry Ludwig, 1833. 47pp. Contemporary cloth. Front inner hinge
cracked and somewhat crudely repaired, partial split and chip to spine covering, some old
damp marking to cloth mirrored on prelims and endleaves; just a sound copy.
First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front pastedown: “Richard H. Dana [Sr.]
from his friend the author.” Scattered throughout the (chiefly lower) margins are a number
of substantive pencil annotations and lines of commentary, quite likely, but not definitively,
by the recipient, such as “... Mr. V would do better would he adopt the middle style, & give
up the exalted & figurative; the latter is not according to the natural working of his mind.”
Verplanck was the dedicatee of Dana’s Poems, published in 1827. $100.
457. Viollet, Fanny: LES PETITS CAHIERS DE LA CULTURE CAHIER NO 11. [Paris:
The Artist, 1989 – 1990]. Oblong 32mo (9 x 12 cm). Faux leather over boards, paper spine
label. Fine.
A unique artist’s book, comprised of found items (paint chips, paper, plastic and the like)
of an approximate sky blue color, cut and trimmed, mounted to sheets with facing printed
caption labels recording the date found (spanning 20 December – 18 January). Viollet is
perhaps best known outside France for her series, Nudes Dressed Again. Signed by the
artist on the colophon, denoting it “exemplaire unique.” $125.
458. [Vixen Press]: Seidenberg, Caryl: OPERATION RESCUE IN WHICH 25 YEARS OF
MISPRINTS – NO TWO ALIKE ARE MIRACULOUSLY REINCARNATED. [Winnetka, IL:
The Vixen Press, 1980]. Small quarto. Linen and boards, paper label. Tipped-in illustrations.
Slight discolorations to upper board and spine panel at edges, two minute bleed marks at
top edge, otherwise very good, internally about fine.
First edition. A relatively uncommon title under the imprint, being one of 35 numbered copies
printed by Seidenberg on Arches, and signed and bound by her. There is some variation
in the illustrative component of the copies, the illustrations being “odd bits and pieces from
the Vixen Press.” The six illustrations in this copy are chiefly colored engravings, with two
of them en face as a center spread. $300.
459. [Voltaire, F.M. Arouet de]: ALZIRA. A TRAGEDY AS IT IS ACTED AT THE THEATREROYAL IN LINCOLN’S-INN FIELDS. London: Printed for John Osborn, 1737. 60pp. 12mo.
Extracted from nonce volume. Title in red and black. Somewhat tanned and foxed, with a
few spots, trimmed slightly askew (no loss of text, but a few headlines touched); a good to
near very good copy.
Second edition of Aaron Hill’s adapted translation of Voltaire’s anonymously published play,
Alzire, ou les Américains (1736). Hill prepared his text for publication shortly after the
play’s appearance in France and it was published in 1736, equipped with a long dedication
to Frederick, Prince of Wales. The Prologue and Epilogue were spoken by Mr. Giffard. The
setting is Peru during the Spanish conquest, and Alzire is considered the earliest surviving
French play set in the Americas. ESTC locates ten copies of this edition in North America.
ESTC T162562. NCBEL II:792. $100.
One of Five Copies
460. Wagner, Ulrich: [SERIE GELB-SCHWARZ]. [Np: The Artist], 1987. [28] leaves. Sq.
octavo (163 x 163 mm). Bound in unlettered yellow linen. Very slight dusting along top edge,
otherwise fine.
Copy #1 of 5 copies, numbered, signed and caption-titled on the blank prior to the rear
free endsheet by the artist. An early textless artist’s book by Wagner, dating from the years
(1984-89) when he was working as an assistant to his mentor, Eduardo Paolozzi, on the
realization of projects at Museum Ludwig and at the Bundesgartenschau in Berlin. The work,
executed in yellow and black on thick rag paper, consists of a sequence of symbols and
combinations thereof, and fore-shadows significant elements of Wagner’s later works (see
“Changing Signs – Paper as System,” by Joachim Geil, Leopold Hoesch Museum, online).
Wagner (1959 – ) is noted particularly for his early investigations of the relations between
computers and art. $550.
461. Wantling, William: THE AWAKENING. [London]: Turret Books, [1967]. Cloth. A few minor
incidents of foxing, otherwise about fine in dust jacket.
First edition of this selection of Wantling’s work from 1962 through 1966. One of 200 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author. $75.
462. Warren, Robert Penn: BAND OF ANGELS. New York: Random House, [1955]. Cloth.
Binding a trace dust marked, otherwise very good or better in modestly edgeworn dust jacket.
First edition. Inscribed on the front free endsheet by the author within days of publication: “To
.... with love Red [/] Fairfield September 8, 1955.” The book was published 22 August. Clark
Gable, Yvonne de Carlo and Sidney Poitier starred in the 1957 Raoul Walsh film adaptation.
Uncommon with a publication-vintage presentation. $225.
463. Warren, Robert Penn: ROBERT PENN WARREN TALKING INTERVIEWS 1950-1978.
New York: Random House, [1980]. Narrow small quarto. Printed wrappers, paper label.
Uncorrected “first proof” of the first edition. Signed by Warren on the title-page. Edited by
Floyd C. Watkins and John T. Hiers. About fine.
$125.
464. [Warwick Press]: Blinn, Carol J.: OUT WEST A POEM ON PASTE. [Easthampton]:
Warwick Press, 1988. Small quarto. Bound in stiff DeWint handmade paper, with open vellum
tapes. Illustration. Very fine in clamshell box.
First edition. One of thirty numbered copies (the entire edition), printed by the author in
Monotype Cochin Light on Mohawk Superfine Cover, with the poem printed on a doublespread original pastepaper illustration, and with watercolor highlights to the title-page.
Accompanied by a folder containing a sequential set of photocopies of the manuscripts of
the poem through many stages of revision, as well as the original prospectus. The slipcase
was made by Claudia Cohen and Cara Moser, with onlaid panels of Japanese Sugi Veneer.
$350.
465. Watson, William: THE FATHER OF THE FOREST AND OTHER POEMS. [London]:
Privately Printed for William Watson, John Lane and Their Friends, 1895. Square octavo.
Boards, paper label. Lower tips of boards worn, endsheets tanned, boards a bit dust soiled;
still, very good, internally near fine.
First edition, private issue. One of 35 copies printed in this format, and signed by the poet
in pencil in the lower margin of the frontis portrait. There were an additional 75 copies on
large paper for sale (unsigned), as well as the ordinary issue on small paper.
COLBECK II:895. $250.
466. Watts-Dunton, Theodore: AYLWIN. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1899. vi,472,[1]pp. Navy
blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Title printed in red and black. A very good, bright copy.
First edition. A somewhat allusive potential family association copy, with a prepublication
inscription on the half-title: “Florence Watts / from her Father/ 18.10.98.” Watts-Dunton’s roman
à clef about Rossetti and members of his circle was quite successful, although it is reputed to
have waited over a dozen years from the point of its acceptance until its actual publication.
NCBEL III:1456. COLBECK II:902. $300.
467. [Werner, Arno (binder)]: Du Bury, Richard: THE PHILOBIBLON OF RICHARD DE
BURY. New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1945. Quarto. Full stiff vellum, lettered in gilt, t.e.g.,
by Arno Werner, contained in a quarter vellum and linen clamshell case, bearing Werner’s
own small booklabel inside the upper lid. Vellum binding a bit bowed, as is the case as a
consequence, case side panels just a trifle dusty, with some mild discolorations to the case
lining papers, neat small collector’s pencil acquisition notes in lower margin of colophon,
otherwise about fine.
First printing in this format of Andrew Fleming West’s translation. One of 600 numbered
copies printed by Peter Beilenson. Although the numbering sequence was to follow a somewhat eccentric model of 1345 (Du Bury’s birth year) to 1944, this copy is denoted #59. The
prospectus is laid in, as is a sheet of manuscript notes and a description by a former owner
occasioned by the exhibition of this copy at the Club of Odd Volumes in 1994, pointing out
Werner’s typographical error in the spine stamping, which was replicated in the stamping
on the case. $325.
468. [Whistler, James M.]: [Gallatin, A. E.]: WHISTLER NOTES AND FOOTNOTES AND
OTHER MEMORANDA. “By A.E.G.” New York & London: The Collector and Art Critic Co /
Elkin Mathews, 1907. Large octavo. Cloth and boards, paper spine label. Frontis and plates.
Spine and top margin of boards a bit darkened, otherwise very good.
First edition, US issue. One of 250 copies on French wove paper, from a total edition of 335
copies. Beyond Whistler, this collection includes essays on Hassam, Beardsley and Symons,
Shinn and others. $100.
469. White, Kenneth, and Anne Walker [illustrator]: NOVEMBER BIRCHES. Paris: Éditions
Biren, [1988]. Small octavo (6 1/8 x 5 1/8”; 155 x 130mm). Loose bifolia laid into printed
wrapper. Illustrated. Fine in board slipcase and chemise, the latter with a small panel of
birch bark on the spine.
First edition. White’s short poem, accompanied by four thematically appropriate color etchings by Walker. One of 55 numbered copies (plus 5 HC), signed by the poet and the artist.
The text was printed by J.L. Lerebourg, and the etchings by Atelier Leblanc. OCLC locates
three copies in North America: NYPL, UCLA and Smith. White, a Scot, was resident in
France from 1967-83.
OCLC: 69662466. $225.
One of Four Copies
470. White, Kenneth, and [Julius] Baltazar [illustrator]: LE CHEMIN DU SAUMON. [France: The
Author and Artist, 1992]. Small quarto (220 x 163
mm). Handsewn painted wrappers, with decorated
manuscript label. Illustrations. Fine.
Copy #1 of four copies of this artist’s book, with
the poet’s text executed by him in ink, and with two
original watercolor designs by Baltazar accompanying the text. With a manuscript colophon, signed and
dated by the author and the artist. White, a Scottish
poet, lived in France (1967-83) and writes verse in
both English and French. He is a frequent collaborator with artists and fine presses.
$550.
471. Williams, Jonathan: ELEGIES AND CELEBRATIONS. Highlands: Jargon (13b), [1962]. Pictorial
wrappers over stiff wrappers. Lower spine corner of
upper wrapper foxed, with tear at tip of upper joint,
otherwise a good copy in torn glassine.
First edition. One of a total edition of 750 copies, of
which this is one of the ordinary issue printed on wove paper. Preface by Robert Duncan. A
good association copy, inscribed by Williams to Walter and Lillian Lowenfels, “...with affection
...,” in 1963. Lowenfels’ collection, Some Deaths, appeared under the Jargon imprint in 1964.
JAFFE 22. $150.
472. Williams, Jonathan: RIPOSTES ... WITH A SERIGRAPH BY WILLIAM KATZ. Aspen
& Stuttgart: Aspen Center for Contemporary Art / Edition Domberger, [1968]. Quarto. Sewn
stenciled wrappers, enclosed in blind-lettered stiff paper folder. Outer wrapper faintly tanned,
otherwise fine.
First edition. From a total edition of two hundred copies signed by Williams and Katz, this
is one of fifty (copy P13) reserved for the poet and bears his brief personalization (“ for Al”)
after his signature. “Ripostes to two passages from Mina Loy’s long poem ‘Sonnge Bird’.”
$85.
473. Williams, Jonathan: BLUES & ROOTS / RUE & BLUETS. A GARLAND FOR THE
SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. [Durham]: Duke University Press, [1985]. Large octavo. Cloth.
Fine in near fine dust jacket (with a bit of offset from the slipcase) and slipcase.
Second, vastly enlarged edition. One of 75 numbered copies, signed by the author. This is
copy #49 and bears Williams’s brief inscribed personalization of his signature on the halftitle. $125.
474. [Williams, Jonathan]: Jaffe, James S. [comp]: JONATHAN WILLIAMS A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST OF HIS WRITINGS, 1950-1988...WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY GUY DAVENPORT. Haverford. 1989. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. Illustrations.
First edition. One of 150 copies signed by Williams and Davenport (of 550). Top edge dust
marked, otherwise fine,
$75.
475. Winkler, Michael: EXTREME MEASURES. [New York: The Artist, 1988]. [60]pp. Octavo.
Full burgundy faux leather. Illustrations by the artist. Fine.
First edition, the special “Artist’s Personal Edition,” being copy #1 of 11 copies signed by the
artist. Continued investigations into the transliteration of text into visual representations by the
word and conceptual artist, including texts by Derrida, Asimov, Einstein, Hesse, Bronowski
and others. OCLC/Worldcat locates two copies of this edition, MOMA and Stanford. $350.
476. Wolff, Robert Lee: STRANGE STORIES AND OTHER EXPLORATIONS IN VICTORIAN
FICTION. Boston: Gambit, 1971. Cloth. Illustrations and plates. A very good copy in lightly
worn dust jacket.
First edition. A decent association copy, inscribed: “To Lefty Lewis – with the homage of the
Author.” The recipient, Wilmarth Lewis, has added, in pencil, a date (“April 1972”) and his
small book label, with a release stamp, appears on the pastedown. $55.
477. [Woolrich, Cornell (sourcework)]: Warner, Jerry [screenwriter]: [Vintage Studio Lobby
Card for:] FALL GUY. [Los Angeles]: Monogram Pictures, [1947]. Original 11 x 14” lobby
card. Mounting pinholes at edges and corners, a few faint rubs, else very good.
Card #4 of the set of sepia-toned lobby cards issued to promote the highly charged lowbudget film noir adaptation by Jerry Warner of Cornell Woolrich’s 1940 story, “Cocaine” (aka
“C-Jag”). Directed by Reginald Le Borg, the film starred Leo Penn, Robert Armstrong, Elisha
Cook, Jr., and Virginia Dale, et al. $60.
478. [Works Progress Administration – Federal Theatre Project]: FEDERAL THEATRE. New
York. March 1936 through [June 1937]. Volume one, numbers 4 & 5; volume 2, numbers 1-4.
Six issues. Quarto. Stapled stiff wrappers. Photographs and illustrations (a few in color).
Wrappers occasionally dust-tanned or smudged, library blind-stamp in lower fore-corner of
first wrapper; chiefly very good.
Edited by Pierre de Rohan. Originally subtitled the “Monthly News Bulletin Issued for All
Workers on Federal Theatre Projects Throughout America by the Bureau of Research and
Publication,” then finally abbreviated to the “Bulletin of the Federal Theatre Project.” An essential record of the Theatre Project under the direction of Hallie Flanagan. Its aspiration to
appear monthly was short-lived, and a final third volume appeared, evidently terminating in May
1938. The last three issues here indicate efforts to achieve distribution to the public through
newsstands and bookshops, rather than just
to individuals associated with the Project.
Those issues were distributed (according to
a note) in pictorial covers rather than in the
typographic wrappers evidenced here. Don
Freeman contributed several frontispieces
(including color), and there are color plates
of marionettes and costume designs. The
text ranges from summary reports and projections by Flanagan and others, to accounts of
specific productions and theatre groups, in
the North East as well as elsewhere. Uncommon, essential.
$450.
479. [World War I]: Van Schaick, John, Jr.:
THE LITTLE CORNER NEVER CONQUERED
THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN RED
CROSS WAR WORK FOR BELGIUM. New
York: Macmillan, 1922. Blue cloth, stamped
in gilt and black. Frontis and plates. Small
surface snag/puncture in spine, otherwise
very good and bright, with the panels of the
dust jacket laid in.
First edition. An excellent association copy,
with the author’s 1943 presentation inscription to Boswell bibliographer/editor Frederick
Pottle, who served with Evacuation Hospital 8, and wrote a history of the unit, Stretchers.
$75.
480. [World War I Poetry]: Kipling, Rudyard: THE YEARS BETWEEN. London: Methuen
and Co., [1919]. Red cloth, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Pictorial vignette on title. Very near fine in
faintly soiled dust jacket with minor use at crown of spine.
First edition, trade issue, of one of the key collective volumes of Kipling’s war verse. Its
popularity was anticipated by the publishers, who ordered a printing of 100,000 copies.
RICHARDS A320. STEWART 434. REILLY (WWI), p. 191. $150.
481. Würth, Anton: ARBEITEN AUF LEINWAND UND PAPIER. [Hamburg/Saar]: Edition
Monika Beck, 1994. Small quarto. Printed decorated wrapper over stiff wrappers. Color
plates. Wrapper very faintly sunned and smudged, otherwise fine.
First edition, deluxe issue. From a total edition of 500 copies, this is one of fifty with an original two-color engraving by Würth, numbered and signed in the margin, printed on perforated
stock, sewn in as a center-spread. $85.
482. Yeats, Jack Butler: THE SCOURGE OF THE GULPH [wrapper title]. London: Elkin
Mathews, [1903]. Small octavo. Stiff pale blue wrappers, with handcolored pictorial vignette.
Illustrated by the author. Fine.
First edition, ordinary issue, of “One of Jack B. Yeats’s Plays for the Miniature Stage.” This
issue was published at one shilling; for five shillings, one could buy a copy colored throughout
by Yeats. This copy has the laid in portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson by William Strang,
which usually accompanied those copies issued together with James Flaunty ... [1901] in
a special envelope.
COLBECK II:955. $850.
483. Yeats, Jack Butler: A LITTLE FLEET [wrapper title]. London: Elkin Mathews, [1909]. Small
octavo. Stiff pale blue wrappers, with handcolored pictorial vignette. Illustrated throughout
by the author. Wrappers sunned at spine and fore-edge of
lower wrapper, usual slight tanning to text stock, but a very
nice copy, very good or better.
First edition, ordinary issue, of “One of Jack B. Yeats’s Books
for Children.” This issue was published at one shilling; for
five shillings, one could buy a copy colored throughout by
Yeats, and with an original drawing.
COLBECK II:955. $650.
484. Yeats, Jack Butler: SLIGO. London: Wishart & Co.,
1930. Gilt green cloth. First edition. 1930 ink gift inscription
on free endsheet, otherwise near fine in price-clipped dust
jacket with a trace of tanning and rubbing to spine and edges.
$200.
485. [Yeats, Jack Butler]: MacGreevy, Thomas: JACK B. YEATS AN APPRECIATION AND
AN INTERPRETATION. Dublin: Victor Waddington Publications, [1945]. Cloth and boards.
Plates. About fine in very good dust jacket with small chips at crown and toe of spine.
First edition, limited issue. One of 250 copies. Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles.
$150.
486. Yeats, Jack Butler [illus], and Norma Borthwick: CEACTA BEAGA GAEDILGE I [- III]
IRISH READING LESSONS ... WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JACK B. YEATS. Dublin: The
Irish Book Company, 1904, 1906 & 1906. Three parts. iv,29,[1];28;40pp. Bound up in contemporary gilt cloth, without wrappers. Cloth a bit sunned along top edge, fore-tips lightly
worn; very good or better.
Three of the four volumes in this sequence of texts enlivened by Yeats’s early contributions
as illustrator. The first volume (at least) had appeared as early as 1902, and all were frequently reprinted well into the next decade. As consumables, the early impressions tend to
be uncommon. $175.
487. Yeats, Jack Butler [illus], and George A. Birmingham [pseud. of J.O. Hannay]: IRISHMEN
ALL. London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1913. Gilt green polished buckram, t.e.g., others
untrimmed. Tipped-in color frontis and plates. 1913 Xmas gift inscription on free endsheet,
spine sunned, crown of spine a bit frayed, a few marginal finger smudges; a good, solid copy.
First edition. The twelve color plates by Jack Yeats are reproduced from paintings, and thus
are a touch above some of his other book illustrations of the period. $165.
488. Yeats, Jack Butler [illus], and Padraic Colum: THE BIG TREE OF BUNLAHY STORIES
OF MY OWN COUNTRYSIDE. New York: Macmillan, 1933. Sq. octavo. Cloth. Colored frontis
and b&w illustrations by Jack Yeats. First US edition. Endsheets darkened at gutters and
edges, cloth faintly sunned through dust jacket, top edge faintly dusty, but a very good copy
in near fine (probably price-clipped) dust jacket.
$125.
Salesman’s Dummy
489. Yeats, Jack Butler [illus], and Patricia Lynch: THE TURF-CUTTER’S DONKEY AN
IRISH STORY OF MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE. London & Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons,
Ltd., [1934]. [8],16pp. plus colored frontis and six plates (one colored). Small, thin octavo.
Cream boards, lettered in blue, with pictorial vignette in blue. Fine in very near fine dust
jacket and wraparound band.
A highly uncommon salesman’s dummy for the first edition of this important example of
Yeats’s book illustrations. The folds for the binding and dust jacket have been adjusted for
the thin textblock – the published book weighed in at approximately 248 pages and 14 plates
(five colored), according to the promotional text (denoted “Sample Only”) on the verso of the
half-title and contents. $250.
490. Yeats, William Butler: THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN AND OTHER POEMS. London:
Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889. Dark blue cloth, stamped in gilt, untrimmed. Faint ring mark
on upper cover, small ink spot in blank margin of title offset onto verso of half-title. Bookplate
on pastedown. A very good copy.
First edition, first issue, of Yeats’s first original clothbound publication, preceded by the offprint Mosada (1886) and the edited Fairy And Folk Tales Of The Irish Peasantry (1888).
This copy is in the second state of the binding, without the blindstamped device on the lower
board, and with the imprint at the toe of the spine: “Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.” In 1892,
a second issue was created when one hundred (or seventy-three, as reported in Letters I,
p.283, note 2) sets of sheets were transferred to Unwin and issued in May, with a cancel
title-leaf bearing a modified and expanded subtitle, and an inserted frontispiece by Edwin
John Ellis. That second issue, distributed by Unwin, is actually far and away the scarcest
of all forms of the original printing of this book.
WADE 2. HAYWARD 295. $2000.
Association Copy
491. Yeats, William Butler: STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN. Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press,
1904. Linen-backed boards, paper spine and cover labels. Spine label chipped, boards
somewhat soiled, endsheets darkened, else a good, sound copy, in folding cloth slipcase,
morocco label.
First edition. One of five hundred copies printed. Inscribed by Lady Gregory on the front
free endsheet to Augustus John, a frequent visitor to Coole: “A. E. John from A. Gregory.”
In spite of the date on the title-page, official publication did not occur until 16 May 1905.
Yeats inscribed John Quinn’s copy: “Red Hanrahan is an imaginary name – I saw it over a
shop, or rather part of it over a shop in Galway village – but there were many poets like him
in the eighteenth century in Ireland. I wrote these stories first in literary English but I could
not get any sense of the village life with the words. Now, however, Lady Gregory has helped
me, & I think the stories have the emotion of folklore. They are but half mine now, & often
her beautiful idiom is the better half”.
WADE 59. MILLER 4. $2500.
492. Yeats, William Butler: THE TABLES OF THE LAW AND THE ADORATION OF THE
MAGI. London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. Blue wrappers, printed in black. Text tanned as usual,
tiny nick at crown of spine, otherwise an unusually nice copy of this edition, near fine.
First trade edition, ordinary wrapper-bound issue, after the semi “private” edition of 110
numbered copies printed in 1897, here published as No. 17 in the Vigo Cabinet Series. An
unknown (but quite small) number of copies of this edition were printed on thick paper and
bound in quarter linen and boards. Later issues (or printings) appeared in cloth (ca. 1909)
and in wrappers (1905).
WADE 25. $250.
493. Yeats, William Butler: THE TABLES OF THE LAW AND THE ADORATION OF THE
MAGI. London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. Quarter natural linen and blue paper over boards,
lettered in black. Light wear at corners, minor foxing early and late, but a very nice copy.
First trade edition, after the private edition of one hundred and ten copies printed in 1897.
The very uncommon “deluxe” issue. One of an unknown, but evidently quite small, number of
copies printed on thicker paper of substantially better quality than that used for the wrapper
issue, and differently bound. Laid in front is the front panel of the 1905 wrapper “reissue.”
WADE 25. COLBECK II:962. $850.
494. Yeats, William Butler: THE TABLES OF THE LAW AND THE ADORATION OF THE
MAGI. London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. Green cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover. A few small
spots of rubbing, endsheets and inserted catalogue at rear a bit tanned, but a very good copy.
First trade edition, ordinary clothbound issue, published ca. 1909, as indicated by the additional 8pp. of inserted ads bound in the rear.
WADE 25. $225.
495. Yeats, William Butler: RESPONSIBILITIES AND OTHER POEMS. London: Macmillan
and Co., 1916. Pictorial blue cloth, with a gilt design by T. Sturge Moore. About fine in bit
dusty and lightly frayed, but very uncommon, printed dust jacket.
First British edition, published in an edition of one thousand copies on 10 October. Includes
the text of the Cuala edition of 1914, the Cuala edition of The Green Helmet, “The HourGlass”, and additional notes.
WADE 115. MODERN MOVEMENT 24. $1750.
496. Yeats, William Butler: THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE, OTHER VERSES AND A PLAY
IN VERSE. Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1917. Linen-backed boards, paper spine
label. Woodcut pressmark (“Charging Unicorn”) by Robert Gregory in red. Usual modest
sunning at edges of boards and endleaves, label just a bit darkened, with a trace of loss to
blank area along one edge, otherwise near fine and unopened.
First edition. One of four hundred copies. An important transitional collection, including the
title poem, the sequence “Upon a Dying Lady,” the controversial “On Being Asked for a War
Poem,” and “Lines Written in Dejection.”
WADE 118. MILLER 26. MODERN MOVEMENT 41 (ref). $2250.
497. Yeats, William Butler: THE WORDS UPON THE WINDOW PANE: A PLAY IN ONE
ACT, WITH NOTES UPON THE PLAY AND ITS SUBJECT. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1934.
Linen-backed boards, paper spine label. Title woodcut engraving “Monoceros de Astris” by
T. Sturge Moore. Fine.
First edition. One of 350 copies. Accompanied by the original Cuala Press invoice to Cecil
Harmsworth, accomplished and signed in ink by Elizabeth Yeats, as well as a copy of the
single-side broadsheet stocklist beginning with New Stories Of Michael Robartes.
WADE 174. MILLER 52. $750.
498. Yeats, William Butler: ON THE BOILER. Dublin: The Cuala Press, [1939]. Small quarto.
Printed wrappers, with pictorial vignette by Jack Yeats. Some shallow snags and creases
along lower portion of extended upper wrapper fore-edge, short tear at toe of upper joint,
otherwise a very good copy.
First published edition, preceded by the discarded first edition, of which only a double-handful
were preserved.
WADE 202. MILLER (OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS) 4. $250.
499. Yeats, William Butler: THE LETTERS OF W. B. YEATS. London: Rupert Hart-Davis,
1954. Large, thick octavo. Cloth. Portrait. Plates. A few corners wrinkled, else a very good,
or somewhat better, copy of this bulky book, in rather shelfworn, somewhat frayed dust jacket.
First edition. Edited by Allen Wade. The edition consisted of three thousand copies. With the
handsome bookplate of poet/publisher James Laughlin on the front pastedown.
WADE 211j. $125.
500. [Yeats, William Butler, et al]: Smith, Simon Nowell [comp]: WORDSWORTH TO ROBERT GRAVES AND BEYOND PRESENTATION AND ASSOCIATION COPIES FROM THE
COLLECTION OF SIMON NOWELL SMITH AN EXHIBITION .... [London: Bertram Rota,
1984]. Large octavo. Cloth and printed boards. Facsimiles and plates. Fine in dust jacket.
First edition, limited issue. One of fifty numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and
signed by the collector/compiler. The texts of four Yeats inscriptions are quoted, and one
reproduced in facsimile. The exhibition was held at the Bodleian.
$125.