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3 Sherwood ANDERSON. A Story

Teller’s Story. New York:

B.W. Huebsch 1924.

First edition. Light contempo-

rary name in pencil (“H.L.

Rounds”), else fine in an attrac-

tive, very good dustwrapper

with the spine tanned. Signed

by the author. Anderson’s first

of three autobiographies. One

of his greatest feats was to move

American literature into the

modern age by breaking down

the boundaries between fiction

and autobiography. It was in

this volume that the process became most evident. Johnson

High Spot of American Literature. [BTC #304911]

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1 (Edward

ABBEY).

[Broadside]:

Earth First!

Rally Featuring

Ed Abbey.

Musicians Katie

Lee, Bill Oliver.

Speakers Ed

Abbey, Doug

Peacock, Dave

Foreman ... El Rio

Community Center ...

Tucson. Tucson: Earth

First! [1986].

Approximately 11" x 17". Printed and decorated in black

and green. Shrink-wrapped onto foam core backer. Corners a

little bumped else fine. Illustration is of a hillside covered in

saguaro cacti. The rally was held February 6, 1986 at the El Rio

Community Center in Tucson. This poster was done for a local

fundraising effort in Tucson, Arizona and although the print run

is unknown, it was undoubtedly small. [BTC #337186]

2 Mercedes de ACOSTA. Here

Lies the Heart. New York: Reynal &

Company 1960.

Uncorrected galleys

printed rectos only, rib-

bon bound in card-

board cover with

applied paper label.

Very good or better.

Prepared for in-house

use, usually only a few

copies were made.

Autobiography of a

remarkable Cuban-

American lesbian poet,

playwright, and social-

ite reputed to have con-

ducted lesbian affairs

with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Alla Nazimova,

Eva Le Gallienne, Isadora Duncan, Katharine

Cornell, Maude Adams, and others. [BTC #99747]

Modern

Firsts

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Books

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Architecture

Photography

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Children’s

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Edward

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Mysteries

Science-

Fiction &

Horror

Westerns

Sports

5 Edward ALBEE. A Delicate

Balance. New York: Atheneum 1966.

First edition. A couple of tiny spots on the

topedge else fine in fine dustwrapper.

Signed by the author. Winner of the

Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [BTC #292290]

Inscribed to a Blurber

6 —. Counting the Ways and

Listening: Two Plays. New York:

Atheneum 1977.

First edition. Fine in a price-clipped and

slightly rubbed, else fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Albee to the distinguished theatre critic Eliot

Norton, “for understanding.” Norton’s blurb from his Boston Herald American review appears on

the rear flap. A nice association. [BTC #276458]

7 —. Marriage Play. New York: Barr-Bixler Productions 1987.

Play script. Photo-mechanically reproduced sheets printed rectos only in bradbound embossed red

wrappers. Hand-lettered on the first leaf as Copy 1-A (possibly Albee’s own copy), slight edgewear,

a very near fine copy of this play script for a play commissioned by Vienna’s English Theatre in

Austria. Very scarce. [BTC #321206]

4 (Antho-

logy). Oscar

WILLIAMS,

editor. New

Poems 1942:

An Anthology

of British and

American

Verse. Mt.

Vernon: Peter

Pauper Press

(1942).

First edition,

deluxe issue

Signed by all but

one of the thirty-

three contributors

(as issued). Ink initials on the front free endpaper, and light rubbing to the extremities of the marbled papercov-

ered boards, a near fine copy. The special signed edition was limited to fifty-nine copies: twenty-six copies for sale

and one copy for each contributor, of which this is contributor John Peale Bishop’s copy, so stated on the colo-

phon. The volume is Signed by Conrad Aiken, W.H. Auden, R.P. Blackmur, Richard Eberhart, Horace Gregory,

Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, C. Day Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Louis Macneice, Marianne Moore, Howard

Nemerov, Frederic Prokosch, Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shapiro, Stephen Spender, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas,

and Robert Penn Warren, as well as the other contributors: Kenneth Allott, George Barker, John Peale Bishop,

Hugh Chisholm, Gene Derwood, Willam Empson, Jean Garrigue, Alfred Hayes, Ruth Herschberger, Muriel

Rukeyser, Winfield Townley Scott, Theodore Spencer, and Oscar Williams.

(There is only allotted space for the existing thirty-two signatures and con-

tributor W.R. Rodgers has not signed the volume, likely because of the war.)

Includes photographs and short biographies of the contributors. Several of

the poems, including some by Stevens and Thomas, appear here for the first

time in book form. An extraordinary assemblage of signatures and contribu-

tions by the greatest English language poets of the era. [BTC #97303]

Modern First Editions ~1~ L i t er a t u r e

A Signed Who’s Who of 20th Century Poetry

13 John ASHBERY and Joe BRAINARD. The

Vermont Notebook. Los Angeles:

Black Sparrow 1975.

First edition. Fine in illustrated boards

and fine original acetate dustwrapper.

This is copy number 12 of 250 numbered

copies Signed by both Ashbery and

Brainard. [BTC #275261]

One of Ten

14 John

ASHBERY. Spring

Day. [No place]: Palaemon

Press Limited 1984.

First edition. Broadside. 9" x

12½". Fine. One of ten

numbered copies Signed by

the poet. [BTC #315732]

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8 Jane AUSTEN. Persuasion. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea

1832.

First American edition. Two volumes. Octavo. Original boards with muslin

spines and printed paper labels, preserved in a custom folding box.

Contemporary penciled name and gift inscription dated 1838 on the title

pages, printed label of “Hosford’s Circulating Library” on the front pastedowns,

corners bumped, some slight scuffing to the boards, a few tears to leaves profes-

sionally mended, and modest wear to the labels. Despite some minor flaws a

very attractive example of a book rarely found in the original binding. [BTC

#59645]

12 Kate ATKINSON.

Behind the Scenes at

the Museum. London:

Doubleday (1995).

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrap-

per. Signed by the author. From the

collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC

#303339]

Auden’s First

Commercially

Published Book

10 W.H. AUDEN.

Poems. London: Faber

and Faber (1930).

First edition. Very good in

wrappers with a small

owner’s name on the front

panel, and some chipping

at the extremities. Author’s

first commercially pub-

lished book, preceded by a

handful of copies of a privately

printed volume. [BTC #278232]

11 — and Christopher

ISHERWOOD. On the

Frontier: A Melodrama in

Three Acts. New York: Random

House (1938).

First American

edition. A cou-

ple of modest

dampstains on the front endpapers,

very good or

better, lacking the dustwrapper.

Signed by Auden on the title

page. [BTC #100435]

A unique custom binding and slipcase

by Jeanne Bouvier

9 Bernard AURY. La

délivrance de Paris, 19-26

août 1944. Grenoble, Paris: B.

Arthaud 1945.

First edition. Text in French. Quarto.

128, [4] pp.; 25 cm. Illustrated with

photographs of the liberation of

Paris. Near fine in a custom vellum

binding and slipcase designed and

executed by Jeanne Bouvier. The

front cover lettering and centerpiece

design, and the Parisian coat of arms

on the back cover, are achieved with

morocco inlays and gold tooling.

Unique. [BTC #332150]

20 S.N. BEHRMAN. Brief Moment: A

Comedy in Three Acts. New York: Farrar & Rinehart

(1931).

First edition. A tiny tear at

the crown thus near fine in a

spine-tanned, near very good

dustwrapper (designed by

“Jung”). Actor Hume

Cronyn’s copy with his

bookplate and ownership

Signature on the front fly, and small owner’s stamp on the front panel of the

jacket. A play that was the basis for the 1933 David Burton film featuring

Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond. In the original Broadway production

author Alexander Woollcott played a supporting role based on himself! [BTC

#98210]

19 John BARTH. The Floating Opera. New

York: Appleton-Century 1956.

First edition. Small, attractive bookplate on the front fly, else

fine in fine dustwrapper. Barth’s first book, unusual in this con-

dition. [BTC #337914]

17 (Aviation). Milton W. ROSEN. The

Viking Rocket Story. New York: Harper &

Brothers (1955).

First edition. Endpapers foxed, a tape shadow on the rear

endpaper and flap where a previous owner had formerly

affixed the jacket to the rear pastedown, very good in very

good dustwrapper. Signed by Rosen on the half title page.

Viking Hall bookplate on the front fly presenting the book

with the compliments of the Martin Company of Balti-

more, Maryland at the opening of Viking Hall, The Hay-

den Planetarium, New York, June 30, 1955. Signed by

Rosen, who was a scientific officer in charge of the Viking

Project, as well as by J. Preston Layton (Martin company

crew chief of the first Viking Project), and W.P. Murphy (Navy crew chief of the same

project). All are mentioned extensively in the text. [BTC #279059]

15 (Aviation). D[imitri] RIABOUCHINSKY. Institut Aérodynamique de Koutchino. St.

Petersbourg: [no publisher] 1905.

First edition. Text in French. Original photographically illustrated wrap-

pers. Bound in green cloth. 8pp., 17 plates and draw-

ings. Small stamps of an aeronautical society and a small

tear to the edges of the boards, else near fine. Attractive

triangular bookplate of The Aeronautical Library of

William A.M. Burden on the front pastedown.

Inscribed by the author: “To Mr. W. Burden with the

author’s compliments and best personal regards, D. Riabouchinsky. 21st Sept. 1938.” In small let-

ters the recipient has written: “inscribed during the author’s visit.” Riabouchinsky was a Russian

fluid dynamicist noted for his discovery of the Riabouchinsky solid technique, and many other sci-

entific discoveries and inventions in the field of aeronautics and ballistics, and the Director of the

Institut Aérodynamique de Koutchino, close to Moscow, which he founded in 1904 and which was

the first aerodynamic institute in Europe. The recipient, Burden, was an aviation consultant who

among many other things headed aviation research for Scudder, Stevens, & Clark, directed the

National Aviation Corporation, served as a special assistant to the Secretary of Commerce, with

supervision of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and served as assistant secretary of Commerce for Air. He served on the Board of NASA from

its creation until he resigned to serve as ambassador to Belgium in 1959. A significant association. [BTC #284641]

Modern First Editions ~3~ L i t er a t u r e

18 Lynne Reid-BANKS. The L-

Shaped Room. London: Chatto &

Windus 1960.

Uncorrected proof. A bit cocked, splits at the

edges of the spine, else a very good copy in

printed wrappers. Author’s first novel. Bryan

Forbes wrote and directed the 1962 film fea-

turing Leslie Caron as a young and pregnant

French woman in a London boarding house,

also with Anthony Booth, Tom Bell, and

Bernard Lee. A

very scarce proof.

[BTC #302364]

16 Natalie

BARNEY.

Nouvelles

Pensées de

l’Amazone.

Paris: Mercure de

France 1939.

First edition. Text

in French. Fine in

wrappers. One of

200 numbered cop-

ies. [BTC #100142]

21 (Samuel BECKETT). [Showbill]: The

American Premiere of Endgame. New

York: Cherry Lane Theatre [1958].

One leaf folded to make four pages. An Off-Broadway

showbill for the American premiere of Endgame.

Horizontal crease, near fine. The showbill for the pre-

miere consists mostly of

cast biographies; fea-

tured were Alvin

Epstein, Lester Rawlins,

P.J. Kelly, and Nydia

Westman. Scarce and

ephemeral. [BTC

#284571]

22 Samuel BECKETT. Comment C’est.

(Paris): Les Editions de Minuit (1961).

First edition. Text in French. Fine in wrappers and fine

unprinted tissue overjacket as issued. Of a total edition of

3000 copies, this is copy number C 3 of 100 numbered

copies printed on Alfa Mousse Navarre paper reserved “au

Club de L’Edition” and Signed by the author. A beautiful

copy. Federman 268. [BTC #108521]

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24 Saul

BELLOW.

The Last

Analysis. New

York: Viking Press

(1965).

Uncorrected proof,

consisting of

unbound long,

folded galleys, with

two applied labels:

a title label and a

summary label.

Modest wear, near

fine. A rare state of

Bellow’s first play,

it is likely that

fewer than a dozen were printed. [BTC #106713]

23 Jorge Luis BORGES.

The Congress. London:

Enitharmon Press 1974.

First edition. Small quarto. Tipped in

frontispiece illustration of Borges by

Hugo Manning. Fine in fine, original

unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 50

copies Signed by Borges, Manning, and

translator Norman

Thomas di

Giovanni, this copy

unnumbered. [BTC

#58532]

25 John BERRYMAN. Poems.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions (1942).

First edition, hardcover issue.

Crown a trifle bumped, else

fine in very good dustwrap-

per with a wrinkle and short

tears on the front panel. A

selection in the Poet of the

Month collection. The

author’s first solely authored

book; the hardcover issue is scarce.

[BTC #104812]

26 —. Berryman’s

Sonnets. New York: Farrar

Straus Giroux (Noonday Press

1967).

First edition. Slight foxing on the

half-title, near fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of soiling on the front panel.

Signed by Berryman on the front fly. [BTC #340527]

27 Hermann BROCH. The Unknown Quantity. New York: Viking Press

(1935).

First American edition. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.

Fine in near fine dustwrapper with two tiny nicks and a little

age-toning. Broch’s second book to be published in the U.S.

This copy nicely Inscribed by the author to the long-time film

critic at the New York Herald

Tribune: “For Thomas Curtiss

in friendship H.B., N.Y. May

’39.” The jacket design is by

George Salter, one of the first

covers Salter designed in the

United States (Hansen. Classic

Book Jackets). [BTC #72445]

28 Charlotte BRONTË as Currer Bell. Shirley. A Tale. London: Smith,

Elder & Co. 1849.

First edition, first issue with Chapter IV misnumbered III, the final 16 pages of ads present in

Volume I listing Shirley as “just ready” and dated October, 1849, and with three pages of ads

in Volume III (published without half-titles). Three volumes. Publisher’s purple cloth stamped

in blind and titled in gilt. Faint stains on the cloth, slight loss at the crowns, but still a hand-

some, near fine copy, housed in separate chemises and a single quarter morocco and cloth

slipcase. Very scarce in original cloth. [BTC #325180]

29 —. Voltaire’s “Henriade” Book I. London: Privately printed by Clement

Shorter 1917.

First edition. Translated from the French by Charlotte Brontë. Large octavo. Stitched printed

green wrappers. 29, [2]pp. One of 25 copies privately printed by Shorter for distribution to

his friends, this is copy number 17 Initialed by Shorter. Attractive engraved bookplate of

Chicago industrialist John A. Spoor, a light ink stroke on the front wrap, else fine. A tran-

scription of Brontë’s youthful 1830 translation, with reproduction of some pages of the little booklet that Shorter

apparently bought from her widower. Spoor’s library was sold by Parke-Bernet in New York in 1939. Of the 25

copies, at least 10 are held in libraries, so we are reasonably certain that this volume is uncommon. [BTC

#305804]

30 —. Thackeray and Charlotte Brontë: Being some hither-

to unpublished Letters to her Publisher by Charlotte Brontë.

London: Privately printed by Clement Shorter 1919.

First edition. Large octavo. Stitched printed green wrappers. 15, [1]pp.

Unopened. One of 25 copies privately printed by Shorter for distribution to his

friends, this copy is unnumbered. Attractive engraved bookplate of Chicago

industrialist John A. Spoor (see above), small chips, mostly on the front wrap,

about very good. Letters to her publisher which were witheld at the publisher’s

request from the Gaskell biography that Shorter edited when it was reprinted in

the Haworth edition. Of the 25 copies, at least 8 are held in libraries. [BTC

#305937]

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Early Bowles Appearance

31 (Paul BOWLES).

(Kenneth REXROTH, Charles Henri FORD, Harry

CROSBY, Ezra POUND, and others). Norman

MACLEOD, edited by. The Morada – No. 1–3, 5.

Albuquerque, New Mexico: [no publisher] 1929-1931.

First edition. Broken run, only four of the five issues, lacking issue

four. Small quartos. Printed paper wrappers, some with partially

unopened pages. Issue One is about fine, Two and Three are about

near fine with some bumping to the yapped edges, and Five is com-

posed of loose signatures with the wraps present but separated and in

two pieces, fair. An obscure little magazine that mixed American ex-

patriots with local Southwestern writers and was once believed to be

the next Little Review, according to Ezra Pound. Issue One fea-

tures very early appearances of Paul Bowles (“The

Church”), Kenneth Rexroth (a two-

page story, “She Left Him”), and

Charles Henri Ford (“Short Poem

About a Gunman”); Issue Two is

dedicated to Harry Crosby and

features Bowles (“Serenade Au

Cap”); Issue Three has a two-page

letter from Pound; and Issue Five,

“tri-lingual” issue, includes Bowles

(“Eight”), and Louis Zukofsky (“from

two dedications”). A

nearly

complete

run of a

tough to

find magazine. [BTC #335766]

32 Paul BOWLES. Let It

Come Down. New York: Random

House 1952.

First American edition. Fine in fine

dustwrapper with a very tiny nick on

the front panel. A lovely copy of the

author’s increasingly scarce second

novel. [BTC #291783]

39 Peter CAREY and Ray

LAWERENCE. [Screenplay]: Bliss.

Sydney: Window III Productions 1983.

Quarto. Bradbound with unprinted card

covers, near fine with minor rubbing.

Signed by Carey. Interspersed leaves in

blue with changes. A screenplay based on

Carey’s 1981 first novel, made into the

1985 Australian film of the same name

directed by Ray Lawrence and starring

Barry Otto. From the collection of Bruce

Kahn. [BTC #312825]

37 Robert BURNS. Poems, Chiefly

in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: Printed

for the Author, and Sold by William Creech 1787.

First Edinburgh edition, mixed sheets with the first

state of the subscribers list containing the misprint

“Duke of Boxburgh” for “Roxburgh” on page xxxvii,

but with the later misprint of “stinking” for “skink-

ing” on page 263. Octavo. 368pp. Engraved frontis-

piece portrait by I. Beugo after Alexander Nasmyth.

Contemporary or early brown calf, re-spined with

new red morocco spine label

gilt. Some crackling to the

calf, name torn away from the

title page with old paper

repair and

part of the

“s” in

“Poems”

inked in,

small chips

on the

edges of the

first few

leaves, a

sound, good

or better

copy. [BTC

#339018]

33 William S. BURROUGHS as William LEE. Junkie: Confessions of an

Unredeemed Drug Addict. New York: Ace 1953.

First edition. Paperback original. Near fine with very light rubbing,

and slight creasing on the spine. An attractive copy of Burroughs’s

fragile and uncommon pseudonymous first book, bound dos-a-dos

with Narcotic Agent by Maurice Helbrant as issued. [BTC #66573]

34 —. The Ticket That Exploded. New York: Grove

Press, Inc. 1962.

First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy.

From the collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #282652]

35 —. Ghost of Chance. (New York): Library Fellows of the

Whitney Museum of American Art 1991.

First edition. Illustrated by George Condo. Folio. With 3 original

etchings and several tipped-in color illustrations. Black cloth with

leather spine label gilt. Fine in fine cloth slipcase. One of 160 copies

printed on Hahnemuhle etching paper by Leslie Miller at The

Grenfell Press and Signed by both Burroughs and Condo. [BTC #311942]

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36 Horace Wadingham CALHOUN. Reaping for

Another: A Realistic Page in Life [cover title]: Six Years in the

Penitentiary. Toledo: Hines Publishing Company 1904.

First edition. Publisher’s green cloth titled in black. 109pp. A small stain on the

front endpapers, else near fine, likely issued without jacket. Account by a

reporter of the murder trial of a prominent citizen from Danbury, Illinois. All

of the participants have been supplied with aliases. OCLC locates no copies.

[BTC #300120]

38 Bertolt BRECHT. The Private

Life of the Master Race. London: Victor

Gollancz Ltd. 1948.

First English edition. English version, with an essay

on the work of Brecht by Eric Russell Bentley. Near

fine in a lightly worn, very good plus dustwrapper

with a small nick and tear at the foot and a little age-

toning. Warmly Inscribed and signed by Bentley on

the front fly. [BTC #285621]

43 Raymond CARVER. Music. (Concord, NH: William Ewert 1987).

First edition. Fine in sewn paper wraps. Approximately 5" x 7". One of only 10 copies Signed

and personalized by the author. From the collection of Bruce Kahn. Further provenance available

upon request. [BTC #310307]

44 —. Those Days. Elmwood:

Raven Editions 1987.

First edition. Quarter red morocco

and marbled papercovered boards

(shown at extreme left). Publisher’s

prospectus laid in. Designed and

printed letterpress by Carol Blinn at

the Warwick Press. A previously uncollected story.

One of 14 Presentation Copies Signed by the author.

Although not called for this copy also Signed by

Carol Blinn. [BTC #340155]

45 — another copy.

First edition. Fine in marbled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies in wrappers (of a total edition of 140 cop-

ies) Signed by the author, this copy unnumbered and marked “Printer’s Copy.” Though uncalled for this copy is

also Signed by Carol Blinn. [BTC #340154]

46 —. His Bathrobe Pockets Stuffed With Notes. (Elmwood,

CT: Raven Editions 1988).

First edition. Sewn marbled paper wrappers with applied printed label. Designed

and printed letterpress by Carol Blinn at the Warwick Press. Of a total edition of

70 copies, 20 copies were handsewn in marbled papercovered wrappers, of which 5 were ad personam and 15

copies were for presentation. This is one of the 20 copies, although it is not indicated from which issue it came.

Not signed by Carver (as all copies were supposed to be). However, this is marked as the “Printer’s Copy” and is

Signed by Carol Blinn. [BTC #340156]

47 (—). William L. STULL and Maureen P. CARROLL, editors. Remembering Ray:

A Composite Biography of Raymond Carver. Santa Barbara: Capra Press (1993).

First edition. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. Copy number 13 of 30 numbered hardbound copies with a leaf

bound in that was Signed by Carver in 1988. A composite biography by over forty contributors including Tess

Gallagher, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Jay McInerney, William Heyen, Stephen Dobyns, William

Kittredge, Haruki Murakami, Hayden Carruth, and Robert Coles. From the collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #309515]

40 Truman CAPOTE. A Tree of Night and Other Stories. London: William Heinemann (1950).

First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy of the author’s second book, and first collection of stories. As nice a copy as

you are likely to see of the English edition, which, unlike the U.S. edition, used

leftover stocks of cheap wartime paper. [BTC #99451]

41 —. The Muses Are Heard: An Account of the Porgy and

Bess Visit to Leningrad. London: Heinemann (1957).

Uncorrected proof of the first English edition.

Modest staining to the bottom page edges and one

small tear, thus very good in a good, oversize proof

dustwrapper (that differs slightly from the finished

jacket) with chipping at the crown. [BTC #104901]

42 —. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York:

Random House (1958).

First edition. A name neatly erased on the front fly,

else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with less

than the usual spine-fading. Signed by the author. A collection of the title novella and three short stories:

“House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory.” George Axelrod scripted the Blake

Edwards film of the title novella that featured Audrey Hepburn in one of her

most appealing roles as Holly Golightly. Scarce signed. [BTC #285455]

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51 Humphrey COBB. Paths of Glory. New

York: Viking 1935.

First edition. Spine gilt a little rubbed, near fine in near

fine dustwrapper with some internal repairs and a scrape

on the front panel. Inscribed by the author: “To the

Murrays from Humphrey.” The author’s only book, one of

the great anti-war novels, based on real incidents during

WWI. The film rights were purchased two decades later

by Kirk Douglas, who hired

the relatively unknown

Stanley Kubrick to direct.

Starring Douglas and

Adolphe Menjou and

scripted by Kubrick, Jim

Thompson, and Calder

Willingham, the film was a technical

and critical triumph and ranks with

All Quiet on the Western Front as per-

haps the greatest of anti-war films.

Uncommon signed. [BTC #285111]

48 Willa CATHER. April Twilights. Boston: Richard Badger / The Gorham Press 1903.

First edition. Papercovered boards with paper labels on the front board and the spine, issued without dustwrap-

per. A tiny nick at the crown, spine label a bit darkened, and a small split at the joint, still an at least very good

copy. Cather’s first book, a vanity press collection of poetry. Cather reportedly destroyed the remainder of the

edition in 1908. This copy Inscribed by Cather at a later date: “For Edwin Winter, In return for a beautiful let-

ter he once wrote me about ‘My Antonia’. Willa Sibert Cather. Five Bank Street. March 15, 1920.” Also laid in

is a two-page Autograph Note Signed “Willa Cather,” written in pencil, that addresses her attempts to visit her

doctor, her inability to make engagements at present, and says in part: “I came home with gout, but I admit it

only to old friends. Anyhow, I’m glad I had the Wine in Paris and the gout in New

York!” The note is folded, and has a couple of small tears, but is over-

all very good. [BTC #87467]

One of 35 Signed Copies

49 —. Youth and the Bright Medusa. New

York: Alfred A. Knopf (1920).

First edition, limited issue. All edges untrimmed. Hinges pro-

fessionally restored, cloth a bit soiled, an about very good

copy without dustwrapper. Signed by Cather on the front fly.

Also included is a 1937 letter to a collector from the Argus

Book Shop revealing this is one of the highly limited issue of 25 copies. Joan Crane, in her book, Willa Cather: A

Bibliography, confirms this, changing the number slightly, under her entry A10.a.1: “Thirty-five copies of the first

edition, first printing were bound with untrimmed top edge and signed on the front open end paper recto by Willa

Cather. These copies are 8mm. taller than the trade issue.” Both book

and letter are housed in an elaborate custom chemise and quarter moroc-

co slipcase. Exceptionally scarce. [BTC #320325]

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Copy #1 – Inscribed

50 René CLAIR. Adams. Paris: Bernard Grasset 1926.

First edition. Printed wrappers as issued. Very slight wrinkling on the front wrap, still easily fine. This is Copy

#1 of seven copies on Japon (of the seven there were also two copies hors commerce numbered HCI and HCII).

Very warmly Inscribed by the author: “á Monsieur Brun qui a si cordialement accueilli mon début. Avec la

reconnaissance de Rene Clair,” which translates roughly as “To Mr. Brun who so cordially welcomed my debut.

With appreciation, Rene Clair.” A nicely inscribed, and highly limited issue of the first novel by the famous

French film director probably best known in the English-speaking world for his 1945 film of Agatha Christie’s

And Then There Were None (see item 413). Rare. [BTC #85152]

52 Italo CALVINO. The

Baron in the Trees. New

York: Random House (1959).

First American edition. Fine in fine

dustwrapper with the slightest of

toning to the spine and a tiny tear

on the

front

panel. A

lovely

copy.

[BTC

#340526]

57 Gregory

CORSO.

American

Express. Paris:

The Olympia Press

(1961).

First edition. Wrappers.

Owner name on the

front fly else fine in a

lightly rubbed, near

fine dustwrapper.

[BTC #99738]

58 (Cocktails). George A.

ZABRISKIE. The Bon Vivant’s

Companion or How to Mix Drinks. “The

Doldrums” Ormond Beach, FL: [The Author] 1933.

First edition. Privately

printed. Green cloth gilt.

82pp. Boards a little

bumped and rubbed,

a small hole on the

front fly from an

erased price, faint evi-

dence of hinge

strengthening, a very

good copy. The pri-

vately printed first

edition, intended for

presentation, this copy

presented (but not signed) by the author to “Miss

Goodrich.” Zabriskie, an art collector and business-

man associated with the Pillsbury Flour Mills, was a

longtime president of the New York Historical

Society. Exceptionally scarce. [BTC #339001]

59 (Cocktails).

Jerry THOMAS.

The Bar-Tender’s

Guide or How to

Mix All Kinds of Plain

and Fancy Drinks.

Danbury, CT: Behrens

Publishing Company

(1887).

Reprint. 12mo. 130pp.

Coated pale blue wrappers

printed in black and red.

Some tears at the spine and

wrappers a little loose, a

very good copy. Behrens

was the distributor of the

Dick & Fitzgerald

Handbooks. A cursory

glance at the ads on the rear

wrapper suggest that this

might be somewhat later than the published date,

perhaps as late as 1909. Uncommon. OCLC locates

three copies with this imprint. [BTC #337189]

53 John CHEEVER. The Way Some People Live. New

York: Random House (1943).

First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a very small nick near the

base of the spine and a faint spot on the spine, but an especially bright and fine

example. Signed by the author and dated in 1976. Cheever’s uncommon first

book, a collection of short fiction which he never allowed to be reprinted. Only three of the stories have ever

been subsequently printed, in an obscure paperback published in the 1960s.

Consequently Cheever was loathe to sign copies, and this is one of only a very

few thus. Combined with the especially nice condition, this may be the best

copy we’ve seen. [BTC #318499]

54 —. The Wapshot Scandal. New York: Harper & Row (1964).

Uncorrected galley proof. Spiral bound cut galley sheets printed rectos only in

publisher’s wrappers with a printed information sheet attached to the front wrap.

Spirals have broken, and pages are thus disbound. Signed by John Cheever. A very

unusual format, the long galley sheets have been cut and in a few places pieced

together with tape. The second and final of the Wapshot novels, which are similar

in tone and format to Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha trilogy. The first book, The

Wapshot Chronicle, won a National Book Award. Rare. We’ve never seen another

copy in this format, and certainly not signed. [BTC #318531]

55 —. The World of Apples. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1973.

Uncorrected proof. Tall green printed wrappers (with stamp of the printers, Crane

Duplicating Service, on the inside rear wrap). Spotting at the bottom of the front wrap, a

faint tape shadow on the front wrap, else a sound, near fine copy of a fragile construction.

Inscribed by John Cheever, and scarce thus. [BTC #318503]

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56 (Cocktails). Louis MUCKENSTURM. Louis’ Mixed Drinks

with Hints for the Care & Serving of Wines. Boston / New York: H.M. Caldwell

(1906).

First edition. Small, thin quarto. Decorated cloth. 113, [2]pp. Cloth a little rubbed, a

bookstore label on the front fly, a near fine copy. Attractive cocktail book, including what

is reportedly the first published recipe for the martini. Gabler G31550. [BTC #339235]

65 Noël

COWARD. Star

Quality. Garden City:

Doubleday & Company

1951.

First American edition.

Spine lettering rubbed, a

very good copy without

dustwrapper. Six long sto-

ries. This copy Inscribed

by Coward: “For Peter

from Noël, 1951.” We

have some reason to believe

that the recipient of this

copy

was Coward’s fel-

low playwright and

actor,

Peter

Ustinov.

[BTC

#340058]

64 Pat

CON-

ROY.

The

Boo.

Atlanta:

Old

New

York Book Shop

Press 1988.

First edition thus, with a new introduc-

tion by the author. Cloth and marbled

paper over boards in cloth slipcase.

Fine. One of 250 numbered copies

Signed by Pat Conroy, Lt. Col. Nugent Courvoisie (“The

Boo”), and Lt. Col. Donald Conroy, the author’s father

and the model for “The Great Santini.” The author’s first

book, the original edition was published in 1970. From

the collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #282679]

62 Will CUPPY. How to Be a

Hermit or A Bachelor Keeps House.

New York: Horace Liveright 1929.

First edition. Pictorial map endpapers. Fine in

very good or better dustwrapper (illustrated by

Jacks) with small chips at the spine ends, and

some scattered light foxing. Signed by the author on the half-title. Humorous

sketches of the author’s hermit life on Jones Island, off the south coast of

Long Island. The first edition is scarce in jacket. [BTC #276815]

60 William CUNNINGHAM. The Green Corn Rebellion. New York: Vanguard Press (1935).

First edition. Two modest stamps from a Brooklyn camera shop on the front pastedown, else fine in an

attractive, very good dustwrapper with a thin triangular chip on the spine removing some of the lettering

from the title, and some other modest wear at the extremities. The author’s first book, an antiwar novel

based on the abortive 1917 rebellion (called the Green Corn Rebellion in the War Department archives)

of Oklahoma farmers who plotted to rebel against the draft and America’s entrance into the First World

War, and to march on Washington and form a cooperative commonwealth, and the tragic consequences

to those who participated in it. Cunningham was a major influence on his protégé and friend at the

Oklahoma Writer’s Project, Jim Thompson. Thompson’s admiration for this novel and friendship with

Cunningham precipitated his being hired at the Project, where he succeeded Cunningham as Director.

Cunningham was also the head of the Communist Party in Oklahoma during some of the 1930s, and

according to one source Cunningham arranged for Jim Thompson to join the local chapter so that

Thompson could get a loan from the cell and buy a car in which to travel from Oklahoma to California.

Cunningham’s style, influence, and some of the episodes from this novel are reflected in Thompson’s later

writing. This novel was cited by Walter B. Rideout in his definitive study, The Radical Novel in the United

States. All copies of The Green Corn Rebellion are exceptionally uncommon, and in jacket they are flat out

rare. [BTC #68830]

63 Edward

DAHLERG.

Bottom

Dogs. New

York: Simon and

Schuster 1930.

First American edition. Introduction by D.H.

Lawrence. Owner name on the front fly else fine in

flexible cloth boards in a very good dustwrapper

with a couple

of shallow

chips. The

author’s first

book. [BTC

#105153]

61 Joseph

CONRAD.

Typhoon. New York:

G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1902.

First edition, preceding

the U.K. edition. Blue

cloth lettered in orange. A

trifle rubbed, else fine.

Conrad’s character study

of human behavior in the

face of danger. A lovely

copy housed in a custom

cloth clamshell case. [BTC

#324036]

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71 Valentine DAVIES. It

Happens Every Spring. New York:

Farrar, Straus and Company 1949.

Advance Reading Copy in self wrappers. A

very near fine copy with some light age-ton-

ing and spine fading. Advance state of

Davies’s amusing little baseball romance,

about a chemistry professor who invents a

substance that makes baseballs avoid all

wood surfaces (i.e. bats) and embarks on a

spectacular pitching career. Made into a

good movie of the same name, also scripted

by Davies, with Ray Milland and Jean Peters.

[BTC #274906]

Two Inscribed to Her Sister

68 Peggy Gaddis DERN

(a.k.a. Peggy GADDIS). Happy

Landing! New York: Arcadia House 1940.

First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dust-

wrapper. Young woman works in a cafe out-

side of a Texas paratrooper training school,

two men fall for her, she follows them to Fort

Benning. The Georgia-born Peggy Gaddis

Dern wrote under both the names Peggy Gaddis and Peggy Dern. This copy

Inscribed by the author to her sister: “To Goldie, the nicest sister anyone could

have, with much love — Peggy Dern, 1943.” A nice association in an attractive copy. [BTC #90009]

69 —. The Fighting Terhunes. New York: Arcadia House 1942.

First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with very light wear. High-strung family fights relentlessly, but are loyal when confronted

by romantic interlopers. This copy Inscribed by the author to her sister and brother-in-law: “To Goldie & Mr. Wyatt, with love & best wish-

es, Peggy Dern. 1942.” A nice association in an attractive copy of probably the author’s best known romance. [BTC #90007]

66 Charles DICKENS. The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The

Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the

Ghost’s Bargain. London: Bradbury & Evans 1843-48.

A fine, complete set of the Christmas books, beautifully bound by Bayntun. A Christmas Carol with first

edition title page but corrected text; first edition, first issue of The Chimes; first edition of The Cricket on

the Hearth; first edition, fourth issue of the vignette title page of The Battle

of Life; first edition of The Haunted Man. All works with original illustra-

tions, including four full-color plates in A Christmas Carol. Each volume

has been uniformly bound in three-quarter, gilt-ruled morocco with gilt-

decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers and all

edges gilt. A lovely set, housed in a custom, half moroc-

co gilt clamshell box. [BTC #78540]

67 —. Dealings With the Firm of

Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail

and for Exportation. London: Bradbury and

Evans 1848.

First edition. First printing. “Captain” misspelled on

page 324 as “Capatin.” Three quarter red leather

with marbled boards, endpapers and page edges, gilt

decoration. Illustrated by H.K. Browne. Very good with owner’s bookplate on the front paste-

down (also a bookplate removed from the front fly verso leaving a glue stain), owner name on

preliminary pages, pages foxed, a very light water line on title page edges, cover modestly edge-

worn. [BTC #222334]

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70 E.E. CUMMINGS.

Xaipe: Seventy-One

Poems. New York: Oxford

University Press 1950.

First edition. Spine perished at the

crown, very good in very good

dustwrapper with a chip at the

crown and two tears along the

spine. Signed by the author. [BTC

#338546]

72 Isak DINESEN as Karen BLIXEN. Den Afrikanske

Farm [Out of Africa]. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk

Gorlag 1937.

First Danish edition. Fine and uncut in original illustrated self-wrappers

with a couple of tiny tears, housed in a custom cloth clamshell case with

morocco spine label. An exceptionally fresh and beautiful copy of the

author’s best-known work, a fond evocation of Kenya and its wildlife sug-

gested by her experience running a coffee plantation. Written in English by

the Danish author, and then translated by her into her native tongue for

this edition. The English edition precedes this Danish edition, which in

turn precedes the American edition. This edition is many times scarcer

than either the English or American editions, and is rare in nice condition.

No copies found in either OCLC or RLIN, nor any offered at auction with-

in the past quarter century. Sydney Pollack directed the 1985 film

version starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. [BTC #72772]

78 Andre DUBUS.

Blessings. Elmwood: Raven

Editions 1987.

First edi-

tion. Fine

in paste-

paper

boards.

One of

60 num-

bered copies bound thus (of a total edition

of 70 copies) designed and printed by Carol

Blinn at the Warwick Press, and Signed by

Dubus. This copy unnumbered and marked

“Printer’s Copy” and though not called for,

is Signed by Carol Blinn. A scarce and

attractive production. [BTC #340153]

73 John DOS PASSOS. Streets of Night. New

York: George H. Doran (1923).

First edition, first issue. Slight wear at the spine ends, near fine in

fair dustwrapper with three chips on the spine, and other light wear.

One of 3414 copies, very scarce in any jacket. [BTC #313964]

75 Hilda DOOLITTLE

writing as H.D. Sea

Garden. London: Constable and

Company 1916.

First edition, red paper variant (also

issued in green). Stiff wrappers.

Spine a trifle tanned, else a very near fine

copy of this collection of poetry, the

author’s first book. [BTC #99701]

76 Theodore DREISER. Jennie Ger-

hardt. New York: Harper & Bros. 1911.

First edition, first issue binding, second issue text. Some

staining to pages, a very good copy in a very good, first

issue dustwrapper with chipping to the corners and spi-

nal extremities. Dreiser’s second novel, like his first a natu-

ralistic story of a young woman who becomes the mistress of

a wealthy man and is shunned by society. Dreiser was forced

by Harper’s editors to make substantial changes to his manu-

script (making it less critical of organized religion, the insti-

tution of marriage, etc.), and it was his first commercial suc-

cess. A major 20th Century American novel, scarce in jacket.

Johnson High Spot of American Literature. [BTC #83190]

77 —. Tragic America. London: Constable (1932).

Uncorrected proof of the English edition. Printed wrappers.

A little sunning to the wrappers, a tiny split at the top of the

front wrap, else near fine. For those desperate for a new film

source, this was the basis for a 1976 Czechoslovakian televi-

sion series, Americká tragédia – don’t even ask why we know

this. [BTC #99777]

74 Allen DRURY. Advise

and Consent. Garden City:

Doubleday 1959.

First edition. Fine in very good dust-

wrapper with the original publisher’s

price blacked out and replaced with a

printed price, some rubbing at the

folds and modest tears and rubbing at

the spine ends. A pretty nice copy of a

very poorly manufactured book,

Drury’s first, a Pulitzer Prize-winner

and perhaps the quintessential 20th

Century political novel. Basis for the

1962 Otto Preminger film with a

great cast that included Franchot

Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda,

Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton,

Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, and

Burgess Meredith. Exceptionally

uncommon in the first edition. [BTC

#277243]

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With Gertrude Stein’s Only Jacket Blurb

84 Charles [Henri] FORD and Parker TYLER. The Young and Evil. Paris:

Obelisk Press (1933).

First edition. Self-wrappers. Brown butcher paper wrappers printed in red. A very good or better copy that

is a trifle cocked, and with small tears and nicks at the spine ends. A notorious and exceptionally scarce

novel of homosexual life in Greenwich Village. Parker met Ford while writing for Ford’s amateurly pro-

duced Blues magazine, which was published in Ford’s parents’ home in Mississippi during 1929-30. Tyler

encouraged him to move to New York and there they spent a year exploring the gay subcultures of Green-

wich Village and Harlem before writing the book. Considered by some to be the first modern gay novel,

Gertrude Stein called this book “The novel that beat the Beat Generation by a generation.” The front flap

of the self-wrapper has blurbs by Stein and Djuna Barnes; according to G. Thomas Tanselle in his 1971

paper “Book-Jackets, Blurbs, and Bibliographers” (citing another source) this was the only wrapper blurb

contributed by Stein during her lifetime, and very likely the only one from Barnes as well. [BTC #280002]

82 James T.

FARRELL. Young

Lonigan: A

Boyhood in Chicago

Streets. New York:

Vanguard Press 1932

[actually 1935].

First edition thus, a re-

issue using first printing

sheets with a three page

foreword by Robert Morss

Lovett inserted before the

original introduction by

Frederic M. Thrasher and bound slightly shorter than

the original issue. Blue cloth boards spotted, thus good

plus in a nice, very good or better dustwrapper with a

very small chip on the front panel, and a little surface

erosion at the extremities. A nice copy of a book seldom

found in dustjacket. The first book in the Studs

Lonigan trilogy, and one of the Modern Library’s best

100 novels of the 20th Century. [BTC #76847]

83 (Robert DUNCAN and

Cy TWOMBLY. The Song of

the Border-Guard. Black

Mountain, NC: Nicola Cernovich /

Black Mountain College Graphics Workshop [circa 1952].

First edition. Designed by

Cy Twombly. Folded

broadside laid into hand-

printed wrappers, 12½"

x 19" when open.

Signed by Duncan.

Fine. Reportedly one of

approximately 200 cop-

ies printed at the print-

shop of Black

Mountain College,

and one of the earliest

printed works by

Twombly. Extremely

scarce, and rare in this condition. [BTC

#278215]

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79 F. Scott FITZGERALD. Flappers and Philosophers.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1920.

First edition. Neat owner’s name dated in 1920, a nice, solid very good copy with

the spine lettering rubbed, but readable, lacking the rare dustwrapper. [BTC

#277304]

80 —. All the Sad Young Men. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons

1926.

First edition, second issue with battered type. A cou-

ple of pages a little roughly opened resulting in very

small chips on those pages, else a fine, bright copy in

an attractive, just about fine dustwrapper with a cou-

ple of tiny nicks at the corners of the crown. The fig-

ure on the jacket has only nominally “battered” lips,

supposedly an indication that it was printed early in

the run. A lovely copy. [BTC #99097]

81 (—). Andrew W. TURNBULL. Scott Fitzgerald at La Paix. Cambridge:

Department of the Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1956.

First edition. Stapled wrappers. 17, (1)pp. Faint wear, near fine in original mailing envelope, with Turnbull’s

signature in the return address. Inscribed by Turnbull: “Enjoyed our talk and hope we meet again sometime.

A.T.” Very scarce pamphlet. [BTC #99820]

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85 William FAULKNER. Mosquitoes. New York: Boni & Liveright 1927.

First edition. Moderate rubbing to the extremities, a near fine copy lacking the dust-

wrapper. Faulkner’s second novel, a satiric portrait of the New Orleans artistic com-

munity. [BTC #67099]

86 —. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and

Harrison Smith 1929.

First edition. Corners of the delicate papercovered boards worn through a bit, and

the spine a trifle soiled, still a tight and sound, very good copy lacking the scarce

dustwrapper. An attractive copy of one of the major

highspots of the 20th Century and a title which in the

past couple of years has become exceptionally scarce.

[BTC #92521]

87 —. Light in August. New York: Harrison

Smith & Robert Haas (1932).

First edition. Fine in a fine, beautiful, and fresh Arthur Hawkins-designed dust-

wrapper, in original unprinted glassine overjacket (shown at left) with a modest

chip at the crown, and rare thus. A wonderful copy of one of Faulkner’s best and

most accessible novels. [BTC #94721]

88 —. Miss Zilphia Gant. (Dallas): Book Club of Texas 1932.

First edition. Gilt spine lettering a little tarnished and a trifle worn at the spine

ends, else near fine, lacking the fragile unprinted tissue dustwrapper. Copy number 37 of 300

numbered copies, the whole edition. A Yoknapatawpha short story of a girl who grows up to be like her mascu-

line, single mother, which Faulkner had sold to The

Southwest Review in 1930. The editor, John

McGinnis, later decided it was too long and offered

the story to the Book Club of Texas, apparently with-

out input from Faulkner, who was not asked to sign the edition. The story was not

reprinted until the late 1970s, in the Uncollected Stories. This limited edition was

chosen by the AIGA as one of the 50 best designed books of the year. [BTC

#67070]

89 —. Doctor Martino and Other Stories. New York: Harrison Smith

and Robert Haas 1934.

First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a bit of uniform spine-tanning. A

very nice example of the fragile Arthur Hawkins-designed jacket. The author’s sec-

ond collection of stories, including “Turnabout,” which was made into the Howard

Hawks film Today We Live (with a script co-written by Faulkner) which featured Joan

Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, and Franchot Tone. [BTC #322618]

90 —. Pylon. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas 1935.

First edition. Lettering on the spine rubbed, and spine slightly sunned, a very good copy in a fine, first issue dustwrapper

with a light crease on the rear panel. One of a few books we purchased from a collection that had the jackets stored

separately from the books. Faulkner’s tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean’s life a few

months after the book was published. The novel was the basis for the 1958 Douglas Sirk film The Tarnished Angels

featuring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone. Although the book has sustained some modest wear, the

jacket is unusually bright, with the blue colors exceptionally deep and rich, especially when compared side-by-side to

other copies. A considerably nicer than usual copy. [BTC #87454]

91 —. The Wild Palms. New York: Random House 1939.

First edition, trial binding. Quarter cloth and wood-grained patterned paper over boards. Slight rubbing to the bot-

tom of the boards and a little age-toning, else near fine, (presumably issued without dustwrapper in this state). A curi-

ous trial binding: a copy of the trade edition bound in the binding that was used only for the limited edition. Not

noted in either the Carl Peterson or Linton Massie collections. The Faulkner section of The Author Price Guides refer-

ences a copy offered in the same binding in 2000, but declines to assign a price. Purchased from the library of a

Random House employee, and presumably for in-house use only. Rare. [BTC #338242]

96 [T.S. ELIOT]. Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry. New York:

Alfred A. Knopf 1917.

First edition. Rose-colored paper-covered boards stamped in gilt. Fine, lacking the

unprinted dustwrapper. One of 1000 copies of Eliot’s second book, issued anony-

mously. Collector John Quinn’s copy with his bookplate on the

front pastedown. A lovely copy. [BTC #337468]

97 —. The Cocktail Party: A Comedy. London: Faber

and Faber (1950).

First edition, first state. Fine in just about fine

dustwrapper with one short, closed tear. Laid in

is a program for the original London production

of the play. A fresh and bright copy. [BTC

#100224]

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92 —. Go Down, Moses and Other Stories. New York: Random House 1942.

First edition, first issue black cloth. Some spotting to the boards, thus only very good in a price-clipped, very

good plus dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears, and a little rubbing. A bright and fresh example of the jacket,

this is a book that is particularly susceptible to wear. A collection of interconnected stories published as a

novel, including the comic masterpiece “Was” and the first book appearance of his classic novella The Bear.

[BTC #67055]

93 —. The Town. New York: Random House (1957).

First edition, first issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight wear and tiny

tears at the crown and nominal toning at the spine. A bright and fresh copy of the

second volume of the Snopes Trilogy. Once a relatively common book, fresh copies

such as this are rapidly becoming a memory. [BTC #338223]

94 (—). Estelle Oldham FAULKNER. Exhibition of

Paintings by Estelle Oldham Faulkner. Alderman Library,

University of Virginia 12-31 October 1964. Charlottesville, VA: (University

of Virginia) 1964.

First edition. Stapled decorated self-wrappers. Small octa-

vo. [8]pp. Slight foxing, staples a little oxidized, near fine.

A small and ephemeral program for an exhibition of the paint-

ings of William Faulkner’s wife. Rare. OCLC locates only two copies (University of

Virginia and University of Michigan); we’ve seen one other copy. [BTC #333943]

95 (—). Malcolm COWLEY. The Faulkner-Cowley File:

Letters and Memories, 1944-1962. New York: The Viking Press (1966).

First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the crown and a touch

of age-toning. This copy Inscribed by Cowley: “For Allan Lang, Malcolm Cowley.”

Also, with author’s complimentary slip laid in. An excellent copy. [BTC #339035]

99 Stephen DUNN. Beyond Hammon-

ton: South Jersey Poems.

Port Republic, NJ: Printed by

Michael and Denise McGarvey

/ Port Press 2002.

First edition. Wood engravings

by Michael McGarvey. Silk over

boards with applied wood

engraving. Fine. Prospectus laid

in. One of 100 numbered cop-

ies Signed by the poet and the

artist. The first book of the

press. Scarce. OCLC locates a

single copy. [BTC #340160]

98 —. Poetry and Drama: The Theodore Spencer

Memorial Lecture, Harvard University, November 21, 1950.

London: Faber & Faber (1951).

First edition. Offsetting to rear blanks from a clipping, boards sunned and

offset, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. However, Inscribed by

Eliot “To Dorthea Merriman from T.S. Eliot. 21. ix. 51.” The recipient

was the wife of distinguished Harvard historian and diplomat Roger B.

Merriman. [BTC #328245]

Copy Number One of the Presentation Edition Inscribed to the Publisher by Ford

With the Original Manuscript of the Story,

Correspondence, and Related Material

100 Richard FORD. My Mother, In Memory [with] The Original Manuscript

of the Story [with] Long Galleys Corrected by Ford [with] Correspondence from

Ford related to the Publication. Elmwood: Raven Editions 1988.

First edition. Frontispiece by Russell Chatham. Quarter leather and pastepaper over boards. Fine. Of

a total edition of 140 copies, only 40 were hardbound, this is copy number 1 of 14 copies marked for

presentation. Signed by Ford, and Initialed by Chatham. Additionally, this copy is warmly Inscribed

on the half-title to the publisher, Kevin Rita: “For my friend, Kevin, this wonderful book

of your making and mine, together. Very, very proudly, and with

admiration, gratitude, Richard. Missoula. July 12, 1988.” Also laid in

is a hand pulled proof of the Chatham illustration with notes from

the printer to the publisher in the margin.

Accompanied by the long galley proofs of the edition. Twelve leaves

printed rectos only, the final leaf combines both the colophon and the

text for the prospectus for the edition. This set has been noted by pub-

lisher Rita as one of three sets of the galley’s produced, and has been

hand corrected by Ford. While these corrections are not overly substantive, a few

changes to sentences are significant.

Accompanied by a Typed Letter Signed by Ford to Rita expressing admiration of the Raymond

Carver book published by Raven Editions, indicating his interest in having Rita publish this

memoir and suggesting that Russell Chatham would likely participate. Interestingly, Ford asks: “Did we not meet

each other once, some years ago, in Michigan? Am I completely crazy? Your name

is very familiar to me.” (Ford and Rita were both students in Carver’s creative writ-

ing class at Goddard College, where Rita won a short story contest over Ford!).

Also accompanied by an Autograph Postcard Signed from Ford reiterating that the

dedication of the book is to be for his wife Kristina.

Accompanied by a 37 page manuscript (which appears to be a first generation

typed copy) printed rectos only, corrected by Ford in red pencil, with a Typed

Cover Letter Signed from Ford to Rita sending the manuscript along, and men-

tioning that the Harper’s magazine version was edited for length (the magazine

appeared five months after this letter, a copy of the

magazine is also present here). There are corrections in Ford’s hand on prac-

tically every page in either pencil or red marker, some of them substantive.

In the cover letter Ford states: “This book is a great source of pride to me, I almost need not say. I look for-

ward to it very, very much, and appreciate your patience and good cheer. I’ll try to be more reliable with the

gallies [sic], pages, etc.” The manuscript and letter are in a Fed-Ex envelope addressed from Ford in New

Orleans to Rita.

A fully realized manuscript of the author’s touching memoir of his recently deceased mother, with accompa-

nying materials that illustrate the process of realizing a beautiful fine press book from conception through

manuscript into its final form. Ford manuscripts are notoriously scarce in the market. [BTC #340979]

101 — another copy.

First edition. Frontispiece by Russell Chatham. Quarter leather and pastepaper over boards. Fine. Of a total

edition of 140 copies, only 40 were hardbound, this is copy number 11 of 14 copies marked for presentation.

Signed by Ford, and Initialed by Chatham. Although not called for, this copy is

also Signed by the printer and designer, Carol Blinn of the Warwick Press. Scarce.

[BTC #340152]

102 — another copy.

First edition. Fine. Of a total edition of 140 copies, only 40 were hardbound, this

is one of 26 lettered copies in papercovered boards, Signed by Ford, and Initialed

by the artist Russell Chatham. This copy is not lettered but marked “Printer’s

Copy,” and is also Signed by the printer and designer, Carol Blinn of the Warwick

Press. Scarce. (Shown at left) [BTC #340150]

103 — another copy.

First edition. Frontispiece by Russell Chatham. Wrappers with printed spine label.

Fine. Prospectus laid in. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author, and

Initialed by Chatham. (Shown at right) [BTC #340151]

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104 Robert FROST. Selected Poems. New York:

Henry Holt 1923.

First edition. Bookplate on the front pastedown, gift inscription on

the title page, corners a bit bumped and worn, still a bright and

fresh, very good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper. [BTC

#93963]

105 (—). W.B. Shubrick CLYMER and Charles

R. GREEN.

Robert Frost: A

Bibliography.

Amherst,

Massachusetts: The

Jones Library 1937.

Uncorrected proof in

unprinted brown paper

wrappers. Small tears, cocked a bit, about very good. Ownership signa-

ture of Daniel Smythe, the author of Robert Frost Speaks. Briefly

Inscribed by Frost to Smythe beneath his frontispiece portrait. Scarce in

this format, and especially signed. [BTC #312397]

106 —. An Unstamped Letter in Our Rural Letter

Box. (New York): Henry Holt 1944.

First edition. String-tied selfwrappers. A faint spot on the front wrap, else

fine. Frost’s Christmas greeting for 1944.

[BTC #276955]

107 —. A Masque of Reason.

New York: Henry Holt (1945).

First edition, trade issue. About fine in a

mildly chipped, very good dustwrapper with slight nicking. Inscribed by the

author: “To Daniel Smythe

(home again) from his old friend

Robert Frost. October 30, 1945.

Cambridge.” A nice association –

Smythe was the author of Robert

Frost Speaks. [BTC #312377]

108 —. A Cabin in the

Clearing. (New York: Spiral Press) 1951.

First edition. Stapled selfwrappers. Corner slightly bumped else fine. Frost’s

Christmas greeting for 1951, one of the copies for Ann and Joseph Blumenthal.

[BTC #319071]

109 (—). Sidney COX. A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of

Robert Frost. New York: New York University Press 1957.

First edition. Introduction by Robert Frost. Fine in a bit rubbed, very good dust-

wrapper with tiny nicks and tears. Signed by Robert Frost at the end of his introduction. [BTC #340540]

110 —. Accidentally on Purpose. (New York: Spiral Press)

1960.

First edition. Stapled selfwrappers. Slight spotting on the front wrap,

else fine. Frost’s Christmas greeting for 1960, this the imprint for

Henry Holt, and signed by a Holt editor. [BTC #56774]

111 Anne FRANK. The Diary of a Young Girl.

Garden City: Doubleday 1952.

First American edition. Introduction

by Eleanor Roosevelt. A couple of

modest stains on the foredge and

some slight smudging on the boards,

at least very good in very good or bet-

ter dustwrapper with just a bit of the

usual spine-sunning and a small nick

at the crown. The most famous and

widely-read diary of the 20th Cen-

tury. Adapted to the screen several

times, first and most notably in 1959

by George Stevens, with a script by

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hack-

ett, based on their Pulitzer Prize-win-

ning play. An increasingly scarce title.

[BTC #338959]

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114 Marian GALLAWAY.

Constucting a Play. New

York: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1950.

First edition. Foreword by

Tennessee Williams. Near fine in

near fine dustwrapper with light

edgewear to the top edge. A very

uncommon title, written by the

Director of the University Theatre

of the University of Alabama. [BTC

#298229]

113 William GADDIS.

JR. New York: Alfred A. Knopf

1975.

First edition. Fine in fine dust-

wrapper with the slightest of wear.

Publisher’s advance complimentary

copy with a note laid in to author

Nicholas Delbanco, dated almost a

month before publication and

signed by a Knopf editor. A nice

copy of this National Book Award-

winning novel. [BTC #108776]

115 Allen GINSBERG. Autograph Postcard

Signed to Diane Di Prima.

Approximately 5¾" x 4" postcard sent from Athens, Greece in

1961 to Diane

Di Prima in

New York

City. Tiny tack

holes in the

corners, else

just about

fine. A closely

written post-

card in which

Ginsberg asks

Di Prima to

have Jose Anumarel contact him about business, and then writes:

“I’m wandering now thru Delphi, Mycenae, & this week to Crete

for a few weeks walking along on country roads with shepherds. Delphi

great, climbed over shoulder of Mt. Parnassus to a cave of all uses &

idyllic valley, walked all day smoking pipefuls of Ganja. Peter has gone

on alone to Istanbul. I’ll read in Mt.

Athos for a month. Love, as ever –

Allen.” [BTC #321045]

116 —. Mind Breaths: Poems

1972-1977. San Francisco: City Lights

Books (1977).

First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in

fine, very lightly rubbed dustwrapper.

Signed by the poet. One of 300 copies of

the hardcover edition. Scarce. A beautiful

and fresh copy. [BTC #99492]

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117 Jean GENET. The Thief’s

Journal. New York: Grove Press (1964).

Uncorrected proof of the first American edi-

tion. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Spiral

bound pictorial wrappers. Some offsetting

and small stains on the front wrap, a very

good copy. An uncommon format. [BTC

#105908]

Inscribed to Joe DiMaggio

118 Corinne GRIFFITH. Antiques

I Have Known. New York: Frederick Fell

(1961).

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of sunning at the spine.

Inscribed by the author to Joe DiMaggio: “In sincere admiration of a great

American sportsman – Joe DiMaggio from Corinne Griffith.” A book on

antiques by a well-regarded, but now forgotten film actress who successfully

transformed herself from actress to businesswoman and writer. She wrote several books, including a couple on

sports, and her memoir Papa’s Delicate Condition was filmed with Jackie Gleason. Aside from amassing a for-

tune in Los Angeles real estate, she also married the owner of the Washington Redskins and composed their

fight song “Hail to the Redskins.” With letter of provenance signed by DiMaggio’s two granddaughters. [BTC

#91731]

112 Daniel FUCHS.

Summer in Williamsburg.

New York: Vanguard Press (1934).

First edition. Faint spotting on the

spine else near fine in an attractive,

very good dustwrapper with some

chipping at the corners of the spine,

and several old internal repairs. A

handsome copy of the author’s first

book, an extremely scarce novel set

in Williamsburg, the Jewish section

of Brooklyn. The first book in a tril-

ogy, and destined for greater recogni-

tion. Hanna. Mirror for the Nation

#1331. [BTC #293533]

122 Seamus

HEANEY. Win-

tering Out. London:

Faber & Faber (1972).

First edition. Paperback origi-

nal. 12mo. Printed self-wrap-

pers. Slight age-toning to the

wrappers, else fine. Nobel

Laureate’s scarce third collec-

tion, this wrappered edition

precedes the hardcover issue

by a year. [BTC #311155]

123 Ellen GLASGOW. Phases of an Inferior

Planet. New York: Harper & Brothers 1898.

First edi-

tion.

Bottom

corner

bumped, a

nice, near

fine copy

of the

author’s

scarce sec-

ond book,

like her

first, a

novel.

Inscribed by the author: “Stoneall O’Brien: Ellen Glasgow.” [BTC

#278236]

124 —. The Voice of the

People. New York: Doubleday,

Page 1900.

First edition. Spine tanned, slight

fraying at the corners, near very

good. Inscribed by the author.

Author’s third book, and the first to

be published under her name. [BTC

#302757]

125 —. The Romantic

Comedians. Garden City:

Doubleday Page 1926.

First edition, trade issue. Spine tanned,

and an owner’s name neatly erased on

the half-title, thus very good in a very

good dustwrapper with small chips at

the spine ends. Inscribed by the author

as “the one I like best after Barren

Ground...” An attractive copy of the

first novel in the author’s Queensborough

Trilogy, novels of manners modeled on

her hometown of Richmond, Virginia.

[BTC #284344]

119 Graham GREENE. The

Man Within. London: William

Heinemann (1929).

First edition. A bookplate on the front past-

edown, and a small label on the rear paste-

down indicating this was at one time dona-

ted to a distinguished rare book library,

with that library’s tiny release stamp, and a

small, expertly and

minimally repaired

hole on the spine,

about very good

lacking the dust-

wrapper. Signed by

the author on the

front fly. The author’s first novel, sel-

dom found signed. [BTC #99477]

120 —. Nineteen Stories.

New York: Viking Press (1949).

First American edition. Spine and

edges of the boards slightly faded,

one corner roughly bumped, very

good lacking the dustwrapper. Signed

by the author on a tipped-in front fly,

apparently an issue used by the pub-

lisher in promotion. [BTC #283483]

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121 Radclyffe HALL.

Adam’s Breed. New York: Jonathan

Cape and Harrison Smith (1929).

First American edition. Some foxing to

the boards and the foredge, else near fine

in a very attractive, near fine dustwrapper,

but for an owner name on the front panel.

Radclyffe Hall’s first commercial success, a

novel following several volumes of her

verse. Adam’s Breed was the only novel,

apart from E.M. Forster’s A Passage to

India, to be awarded both the Prix Femina

and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

A lovely copy. [BTC #85393]

126 Carmel Haden GUEST. Children of the Fog: A

Novel of Southwark. New York: G.P.

Putnam’s Sons 1928.

First American edition, advance Presentation

Copy with an applied label on the title page

noting the publication date. Holes in the gut-

ters, a sound, but fair only copy in a nice, very

good plus dustwrapper. A novel about the tragic

life in London’s slums by the 1st Baroness

Haden-Guest (the current Baroness Haden-

Guest is the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wife of the

author’s grandson, actor Christopher Guest).

Although not credited as such, basis for the

1935 film directed by Leopold Jessner and John

Quin. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #77721]

131 Ted HUGHES. Seneca’s Oedipus adapted by Ted Hughes.

London: Faber and Faber (1969).

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of age-toning. A lovely copy.

[BTC #105123]

132 —. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. London: Faber and

Faber (1970).

Uncorrected

proof. Slight

age-toning, very

near fine in

wrappers. [BTC

#100361]

133 Heinrich HEINE (Ernst Ludwig Presse,

Darmstadt). Die Nordsee von Heinrich Heine, 1825-

1826 [The North Sea]. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1909.

Limited edition. 1 of 300 copies printed at the Ernst Ludwig Presse,

Darmstadt. [2], 45, [2] pp. 23.5 cm. In full vellum with the original

glassine wrapper and slipcase; with the text printed in black and gold on Japanese vellum, top edge

gilt. Near fine with a few small tears to the edges of the glassine wrapper, else fine, in a very good slipcase a bit bowed at

the opening, with small tears to the corners. A lovely volume. [BTC #340529]

129 Joseph HELLER. Catch-22. New York: Simon & Schuster

1961.

First edition. Drink rings on the front board,

else about near fine in a good plus dustwrap-

per with a few moderate chips. Author’s first

novel, whose satiric anti-war attitude set the

tone for the 1960s, and whose title quickly

became part of the language. [BTC #77921]

Inscribed to his Daughter

130 —. Something Happened.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1974.

First edition. Binding a bit worn, good in

about fine dustwrapper, presumably married

to the book, but not by us. Inscribed by

Heller to his daughter using most of the front fly: “To my daughter Erica, Who knows a good book when she reads one, even in galleys, and

spotted this good book right from the start. With love, Dad 9/12/74.” [BTC #291429]

127 Jim HARRISON and Ted KOOSER. A Conversation. [No place]: Aralia Press

2002.

First editions. Two volumes housed in a custom cloth clamshell case with leather spine label, as issued by

the printer. Both volumes and case fine. One volume is in self-wrappers

with an applied printed label; the second volume is in black cloth. One of

26 lettered copies (of 38 hardbound copies) and Signed by both Harrison

and Kooser. The other copy is one of 150 copies in wrappers. How many

were issued in this dual format is unknown to us. Poetry

composed by the two authors. As new. [BTC #340777]

128 — another copy.

First edition. Fine in self-wrappers with an applied print-

ed label. Fine. One of 150 copies printed on Johannot

paper (of a total edition of 186). [BTC #340158]

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Hemingway’s Second Book Appearance

134 (Ernest HEMINGWAY). (Anthology). L.A.G. STRONG,

editor. The Best Poems of 1923. Boston: Small, Maynard and

Company (1924).

First edition. Fine in near very good dustwrapper with shallow chipping.

Contributors include Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos

Williams, Nancy Cunard, Robert Frost, and many others. Hemingway’s second

book appearance. [BTC #338099]

135 —. Men Without Women. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1927.

First edition, first issue, weighing 15.5 ounces. Gold labels a trifle tarnished and

rubbed, near fine in very near fine first issue dustwrapper with some modest uni-

form age-toning. Housed in an older chemise and custom quarter pigskin and

cloth slipcase. Bookplate on the front pastedown of Professor Fraser Drew of the

University of Buffalo in New York. As a young teacher, Drew wrote a letter to which Hemingway responded

kindly. Eventually, Hemingway invited Drew to visit him in Havana. On April 8, 1955, one year after

Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Drew and Hemingway spent a long afternoon discussing lit-

erature and teaching, later recounted by Drew in his article “Unedited Notes on a Visit to Finca Vigia” (in

Bruccoli, Conversations With Ernest Hemingway, pp.89-98), an account remarkable for its portrayal of

Hemingway’s modesty and generosity. Hemingway’s second collection of stories to appear in the U.S., and the

book which confirmed his status as a master of the short story, with such classics as “The Killers,” “Fifty

Grand,” and “Hills Like White Elephants.” [BTC #280778]

136 —. Winner Take Nothing. New York:

Charles Scribner’s Sons 1933.

First edition. Paper over front hinge split, else near

fine with the gold spine label bright, in a near fine

dustwrapper with some professional restoration.

Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell case. [BTC #291807]

137 —. Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1935.

First edition. Fine, with none of the spine fading to the cloth that usually plagues

this title, in fine dustwrapper (the presumed first issue with the 2½" green band on

the rear panel). Housed in an older chemise and custom quarter pigskin and cloth

slipcase. Bookplate on the front pastedown of Professor Fraser Drew of the

University of Buffalo in New York (see above). An exceptionally fresh and bright

copy. Hanneman 13A. Bruccoli & Clark I:179. [BTC #280774]

138 —. The Fifth Column

and The First Forty-Nine

Stories. New York: Charles

Scribner’s Sons 1938.

First edition. A little rubbing to the

decoration at the base of the spine,

near fine in very good or better

dustwrapper that is tanned at the

spine, and displays shallow loss at

the foot. A very attractive copy.

[BTC #89190]

139 —. For Whom the Bell

Tolls. New York: Charles

Scribner’s Sons 1940.

First edition. Spine lettering a little rubbed, hinges cracked, else

very good in near very good, first issue dustwrapper with slight

nicks and tears, mostly at the spine ends, and some modest damp-

staining along the edge of the front flap fold. [BTC #314149]

Modern First Editions ~21~ L i t er a t u r e

Folded and

Gathered

Signa-

tures

quently the

signatures

have minor

height variations.

Fine. Vignettes inspired by

the author’s profound nos-

talgia for the halcyon days

of his early career. Rare in

this format. [BTC #334030]

140 —. A Moveable

Feast. New York: Charles Scribner’s

Sons (1964).

Unbound folded and gathered signa-

tures. Eight signatures (including one

of photographs), the first and last sig-

nature with endpapers attached. Fine.

Page edges untrimmed, and conse-

145 Christopher ISHERWOOD. Sally

Bowles. London: Hogarth

Press 1937.

First edition. Contemporary

bookstore label, fine in good

dustwrapper with shallow loss

at the crown, a chip on the

front panel, and some overall

age-toning. A presentable copy

of a fragile volume which was

the genesis of the musical and

film Cabaret. [BTC #99417]

141 James HILTON. The Meadows of the Moon. London: Thornton Butterworth (1926).

First edition. Spine-faded, else near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the

author. Hilton’s fifth book. [BTC #91693]

Scarce True First Edition

142 —. Good-bye, Mr. Chips. Boston: Little,

Brown 1934.

First edition, preceding the English edition by six months.

Fine in a brighter than usual, near fine dustwrapper with a

wrinkle on the front panel. A beloved short novel that became

an instant classic upon publication. Basis for two films: the 1939 Sam Wood-direct-

ed version with Robert Donat (who beat out Clark Gable, Henry Fonda and others

for the Best Actor Oscar), Greer Garson, and Paul Henreid, and the 1969 remake

directed by Herbert Ross with Peter O’Toole, Petula Clark, and Michael Redgrave. A very nice copy of the true

first edition, which is much less common than

the English edition. [BTC #302642]

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143 (Clifford IRVING). [Prospectus for unpublished maga-

zine]: Speed Fast Reading [with

associated broadside]. New York:

Speed Fast Reading [circa 1971].

Quarto. (8)pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers.

Very near fine with very light wear. A pro-

spectus for a counterculture magazine that

was never published, including promotional

comics by Joe Schenckman and Yossarian.

Among the editors listed are P.J. O’Rourke,

and Leslie Cabarga as art director. The listed

contributors make for an impressive group

including Lester Bangs, Art Speigelman,

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Hendrik Hertzberg,

Trina Robbins, Charles Bukowski, Ed

Sanders, Diane Di Prima, Gary Snyder, Harlan Ellison, Robert Christgau, and

many others; and the proposed articles would have made for interesting read-

ing. [With]: Quarto broadside in the form of a letter by Clifford Irving invit-

ing subscribers (fine with a tiny nick in the margin). According to Cabarga the

magazine never got off the ground, and these were the only published traces of

its existence. Neither the prospectus nor broadside is located by OCLC. [BTC

#312553]

144 Denis

JOHNSON.

The Man

Among the

Seals. Iowa City:

Stone Wall Press

(1969).

First edition. Cloth

with applied paper

spine label. Fine. One

of 260 copies of the

author’s first book, a

collection of poetry. A

beautiful copy from

the collection of

Bruce Kahn. [BTC #310194]

147 Nunnally JOHNSON.

[Screenplay]: Rose of Wash-

ington Square. [No place]:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Cor-

poration January 4, 1939.

Shooting Final Draft Screenplay.

Mimeographed sheets bradbound in

tan studio wrappers. Near fine. The

1939 film was directed by Gregory

Ratoff and featured Tyrone Power,

Alice Faye, and Al Jolson in his pen-

ultimate film role. Very scarce. Ex-

Carter Burden. [BTC #81572]

146 —. Down There

on a Visit. London:

Methuen (1962).

Uncorrected proof. Fine in

wrappers in near fine dust-

wrapper which is a bit

oversized, and soiled at the

flap folds. [BTC #279693]

Shirley Jackson’s First Published Story

148 Shirley JACKSON, et al. “Janice” in The Threshold. [Syracuse: Syracuse University]

1938.

First edition. Foreword by A.E. Johnson. 21pp. Near fine in wood-patterned paper wrappers with a few min-

ute creases and tiny stains. A collection of prose and verse from the 1937-38 sophomore class in Creative

Writing at Syracuse University, taught by Johnson. Notable for containing Shirley Jackson’s first published

story, “Janice.” A very short tale, told primarily in dialogue, of a disaffected college student who casually

recounts her suicide attempt. This inaugural yet fully mature effort was a clear indicator of the understated

psychological horror for which she would become well known. In addition, it was directly through

the publication of this story that she met her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Although

the two did not know each other prior to its publication, he was also a student at Syracuse and

upon seeing a copy of The Threshold he was so taken with the quality and impact of the story that

he immediately sought her out and wooed her (Oppenheimer, Private Demons, pp. 52-56). The

Threshold was not a campus periodical, but rather a one-off publication, and thus was particularly

prone to being discarded. (Jackson later published three pieces in the campus humor magazine The

Syracusan, and, with Hyman, produced four issues of a campus literary journal called Spectre.) A

lovely copy of a rare booklet; we know of only two other copies. [BTC #318541]

The Dedication Copy

149 —. Life Among the

Savages. New York: Farrar

Straus & Young (1953).

First edition. A couple of tiny spots on the

first few pages, and a little edgewear, a sound,

very good copy in good plus dustwrapper

with tape repairs, some splitting and small

chips. The Dedication Copy of Jackson’s

fourth book, and her first book of nonfiction,

Inscribed by the author to her parents: “For the children’s grandparents from the

children’s mother with all my love – Shirley. May 1953.” The printed dedication

reads: “For the Children’s Grandparents.” The first of Jackson’s two books about her home life, revolving

around her children, the “savages” of the title. As important a copy as you are ever likely to find. [BTC #78577]

150 —. Raising Demons. New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy (1957).

First edition. Fine in an especially fine and crisp dustwrapper with a little wear on the rear panel. Jackson’s sec-

ond volume of domestic reminiscences, preceded by Life Among the Savages. Inscribed by the author to the parents of her

husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman: “For Lulu and Dad. With all my

love – Shirley. December 1956.” The recipients were, along with

her own parents, the dedicatees of Life Among the Savages. [BTC

#78581]

151 —. 9 Magic Wishes.

[New York]: Crowell-Collier

(1963).

First edition. Folio. Illustrated

by Lorraine Fox. The usual edge

wear, and a publisher’s price

sticker on the front board, else a

near fine copy without dust-

wrapper (as issued) of this fragile

and very uncommon children’s

book. The author’s second of

three books for children.

Inscribed by the author to the

mother of her husband, author Stanley Edgar

Hyman: “For Lulu, with love – Shirley.” A

bright copy of this very uncommon book for children, one of only two copies of

her children’s books we’ve seen signed. [BTC #78579]

152

James JOYCE. Ulysses.

London: Egoist Press 1922.

First English edition. Bound without

wrappers in contemporary three-quarter

black morocco and papercovered boards.

Extremities rubbed and worn, half-title

and title page a little smudged, still a

nice and sound,

very good copy

that could use a

little polishing.

One of 2000

numbered copies.

A nice copy of an

increasingly scarce

edition of one of

the most impor-

tant novels of the

20th Century.

Connolly 100.

[BTC #285398]

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160 Patrick KAVANAGH.

A Soul for Sale. London:

Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1947.

First edi-

tion. Fine

in a very

good or

better

dust-

wrapper

with a

tear near

the

crown

and a

rubbed

spot on the spine. A nice copy of a

scarce poetry title. [BTC #281185]

edge, else fine. Pax was a

broadside periodical pub-

lished by Lax from the offic-

es of Jubilee magazine begin-

ning in 1956 and running

until 1962. This broadside

features the first appearance

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153 Ken KESEY. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. New

York: Viking Press (1962).

First edition. Fine in a very attractive, very good plus, first issue dustwrapper

with some subtle fading at the spine and the edge of the front panel, and a lit-

tle rubbing, but considerably less than usual. Author’s uncommon first book,

something of a generational keystone and basis for the 1975 film which was the

first to win all five major Oscars since It Happened One Night in 1934. A nice

copy. [BTC #99414]

154 —. Sometimes a Great Notion. New York: Viking Press

(1964).

First edition, first state with publisher’s logo on the first half-title. Fine in just

about fine, first state dustwrapper with a couple of light creases on the front

flap. Author’s second novel, a book particularly susceptible to rubbing and

wear. A very nice copy. [BTC #310806]

155 Jack KEROUAC. The

Dharma Bums. New York: Viking

Press 1958.

First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrap-

per with modest rubbing and one old

tape shadow on the inside of the jacket,

and none of the usual fading to the col-

ored portions of the spine illustration.

Viking Press editor’s card laid in, presum-

ably some sort of complimentary copy.

Kerouac’s follow-up to On the Road, a

thinly-veiled account of his spiritual

growth and friendship with poet Gary

Snyder. A very nice copy. [BTC #99443]

156 — and David BUDD [Robert LAX, edited by].

Pax 10 [Hymn by Jack Kerouac]. New York: [no publisher]

1959.

Broadsheet. Approximately 17½" x 11". Single sheet folded twice,

as issued (shown folded). The lightest bit a toning along the right

of Jack Kerouac’s poem “Hymn [God

Pray For Me]” with accompanying illus-

tration by David Budd. Scarce. [BTC

#340512]

157 —. Vanity of Duluoz. New

York: Coward-McCann (1968).

First edition. Light soiling, near fine in

near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with

some modest rubbing and short tears. A

nice copy of this novel whose autobio-

graphical nature is indicated by the end-

papers consisting of photographs of the author’s youth. [BTC #99910]

158 Jacqueline KENNEDY. Typed

Note Signed.

Small note (approximately 4¾" x 6") dated 17

October 1960 to Miss Vermeule, thanking her for a

clipping, commenting, “I certainly agree with you

about Jack’s smile,” and Signed “Jacqueline B.

Kennedy.” Framed, and unexamined out of the

frame, but exhibits light general age-toning, very

good. Possibly trimmed from a larger sheet. [BTC

159

William KENNEDY. Billy

Phelan’s Greatest Game. New

York: Viking Press (1978).

First edition. Fine with a small store

stamp on the front pastedown and slight

foxing to flaps, else fine. Signed by the

author. The

second book

in the Albany

Cycle and rare

in such nice

condition.

From the col-

lection of

Bruce Kahn.

[BTC

#309345]

162 Thomas KINSELLA. Thirty Three Triads translated by

Thomas Kinsella from the xxii century Irish. Dublin: Dolmen Press 1955.

First edition. Decorated by Pauline Bewick. Illustrated. [8]pp. Chapbook. A small

chip on the rear wrap, light dampstains and foxing on the first leaf, a good copy.

One of 275 copies. Not particularly fine, but rare. [BTC #304441]

163 —, John MONTAGUE, and Richard MURPHY.

Three Irish Poets. Dublin: Dolman Press 1961.

First edition. Stapled self-wrappers. (8)pp. The

slightest of soiling, else fine. One of 250 copies pre-

pared for a reading. [BTC #276500]

Inscribed by Harper Lee

164 (Harper LEE). James F. CLANAHAN.

The History of Pickens County, Alabama 1540-

1920. Carrollton, AL: Clanahan Publication (1964).

First edition. 422pp. Fine in a modestly soiled, very good or bet-

ter dustwrapper with a couple of light stains and a small, shallow

chip at the crown. An exhaustive history of an Alabama county,

this copy is Inscribed by Harper Lee to a friend: “To Roberta: Hope you enjoy this as much as I did. Love,

Nell.” Lee’s love of Alabama history is well-known, and she has written at least one essay to that effect of which

we are aware. Bought by us in the depths of Alabama during a recent buying trip. A very interesting book. [BTC #75770]

166 Pär LAGERKVIST.

The Dwarf. New York: L.B.

Fischer 1945.

First American edition as well as

the first edition in English.

Translated from the Swedish by

Alexandra Dick. Publisher’s reply

card laid in. Fine in fine dustwrap-

per with very slight age-toning. A

very nice copy of this cheaply man-

ufactured wartime book, the

Danish Nobel Laureate’s novel of

an evil dwarf in the court of a

Renaissance prince. A masterpiece,

and very scarce in this condition.

[BTC #325528]

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161 Ring W. LARDNER. Regular Fellows I Have Met. Chicago: (Privately Printed

by Carbery & Reed) 1919.

First edition. Thick quarto. Stiff green suede wrappers tied with silk cord as issued. A small dampstain on

the front fly and a somewhat larger dampstain affecting the edges of the last several pages, spine slightly

faded, a couple of minor tears to the yapped edges, else a handsome, very good or better copy, housed in

a custom cloth clamshell case. 200 leaves printed on deckle-edged thick paper interleaved with tissue page

guards, each page contains a caricature of a Lardner friend, many or perhaps most either in sporting garb

or engaged in one or another sporting activity, with a small caricature of Lardner observing each of them,

and a limerick about each person. Among the notables are Ban Johnson, Charles Comiskey, golfer Chick

Evans, Kid Gleason (manager of the White Sox), and August Herrman (owner of the Reds). Aside from a

handful of other baseball executives, the vast majority of the individuals included are Chicago business-

men, professionals, and politicians, with a smattering of actors and journalists thrown in. According to

Bruccoli and Layman in their Ring W. Lardner: A Descriptive Bibliography, where this appears as item

number A10 this “was a subscription (or mug book) sold to the men included in the text. Unknown

number of copies.” Exceptionally scarce. [BTC #68595]

165 Tony KUSHNER.

Homebody/Kabul. New York:

Paradigm: A Talent and Literary

Agency 2001.

Playscript. Third Draft June 12, 2001.

Bradbound photo-mechanically repro-

duced sheets in printed

blue cardboard wrappers.

Light wear to the wrap-

pers (mostly rubbing and

a little smudging) else near

fine. A draft completed

about six months before

production, apparently

distributed by Kushner’s

agents. [BTC #321282]

168 Aldo LEOPOLD. A Sand

County Almanac. New York: Oxford

University Press 1949.

First edition, first issue cloth binding in first

issue dustwrapper. A bookplate on the front

pastedown else fine in near fine dustwrapper

with some fading at the spine. A nice copy of

this increasingly scarce and desirable environ-

mental classic. [BTC #328241]

171 Denise

LEVERTOV as Denise

LEVERTOFF. The

Double Image. London:

Cresset Press 1946.

First edition. Fine in a modestly

foxed, else fine dustwrapper.

The author’s first book.

Inscribed by the author in

1961. [BTC #100266]

167 Alan Jay LERNER and

Burton LANE. On a Clear

Day You Can See Forever. New

York: Random House (1966).

First edition. Fine in very near fine dust-

wrapper with a tiny tear and very slight

rubbing. Musical about a young woman

whose psychiatrist discovers she lived a for-

mer life in 19th Century England. The

Broadway show was nominated for three

Tony Awards. Vincente Minnelli directed

the sumptuous film version starring Barbra

Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart,

and Jack Nicholson. An unread copy, the nicest

we’ve seen of a very scarce title. [BTC #338231]

Liebling’s First Book

170 Abbott J. LIEBLING as told to by Edward

B. MARKS. They All Sang:

From Tony Pastor to Rudy

Vallée. New York: Viking Press

1934.

First edition. A little soiling on the

front board, near fine in very good or

a little better, price-clipped dustwrap-

per with some small chips and inter-

nal repairs. Memoir of the founder of

the Marks Music Company, written

by Liebling, his very scarce first book,

rarely found in jacket. [BTC #94193]

169 Howard

LINDSAY

and Russel

CROUSE,

music and lyrics by Richard

RODGERS and Oscar

HAMMERSTEIN II. The Sound

of Music. New York: Random House

(1960).

First edition. A little rubbing at the bottom of

the boards, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper

with the slightest of rubbing. Advance Review

Copy with slip laid in. An exceptional copy of an

exceptionally uncommon and much-beloved title. The film, the most suc-

cessful musical of all time, won Best Picture and four other Oscars. The

best copy we’ve seen. [BTC #338232]

172

Wyndham LEWIS.

[Broadside]: Buy The

Apes of God and See

for Yourself What All

This is About! [London:

The Arthur Press 1930].

Broadside prospectus. 16½" x

7½". Printed in black and red

with a self-portrait by Lewis.

Horizontal crease, small tack

hole at the top, else near fine.

Text by Lewis, a satirical attack

on himself!

Morrow and

Lafourcade

A12a(b).

[BTC

#321497]

173 Sinclair LEWIS.

Main Street: The Story of

Carol Kennicott. New York:

Harcourt Brace and Howe 1920.

First edition. Ink initials and a

note on the front fly, and a little

light wear at the corners of the

spine, else an unusually nice, fine

copy, lacking the rare dustwrapper.

Johnson High Spot of American

Literature. [BTC #64541]

174 —. The Man Who Knew

Coolidge. New York: Harcourt Brace and

Company (1928).

First edition. Fine in an attractive, price-

clipped, very good dustwrapper with some

shallow chipping at the top of the front panel,

and a faint stain on the spine. [BTC #98890]

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179 Gerard MALANGA. Cristina’s

World:

Im(media)cy

Poemworks. (New

York: Poetry on

Films 1970).

First edition. Quarto.

Stapled photographic

wrappers. 61, [1]pp.

Some rubbing, very

good or better. One

of 500 copies. Scarce.

[BTC #332717]

175 Robert LOWELL. Land

of Unlikeness. (Cummington):

The Cummington Press 1944.

First edition. Blue printed papercov-

ered boards, lettered in red.

Introduction by Allen Tate. Woodcut

by Gustav Wolf. Light rubbing to the

crown, spine a little faded, with two

very small

spots, and a

small, light

smudge on

the front

board, lacking the original unprinted glassine dustwrap-

per. A nice, very good copy of a fragile volume, and internally

fine. This copy Inscribed by Lowell to Stanley Hyman, impor-

tant American literary critic, and husband of the novelist Shirley

Jackson: “For Stanley Hyman From Robert Lowell With Great

Respect.” The author’s first book. One of 224 copies of a total

edition of 250. An important title and a keystone of American

poetry. [BTC #73982]

176 —. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864.

(Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University 1964).

First edition. Folio. Large broadsheet poem.

Illustrated with woodcut by Sidney Chafetz. One

large sheet folded to make four pages. One of 150

copies for distribution to par-

ticipants in the Centenary

Commemoration of the death

of Hawthorne at Ohio State

University, Signed by both

Lowell and Chafetz. Fine in

the original large unprinted

envelope (which has only a

touch of wear) with cardboard

backer. [BTC #315715]

177 —. The Old Glory: 1. Endicott and the Red Cross 2. My

Kinsman, Major Molineux 3. Benito Cereno. New York: American

Place Theatre [1964].

Playscript.

Mimeographed sheets

printed rectos only

screw bound into

embossed Studio

Duplicating Service

wrappers. Wrappers

sound, but worn, par-

ticularly at the yapped

edges, overall very

good. Exceptionally

uncommon playscript.

Lowell won the 1965 Vernon Rice-Drama Desk

Award for this series of three plays that appeared

Off-Broadway. [BTC #321296]

178 (Magic). [Harry] HOUDINI,

editor. Elliott’s Last Legacy:

Secrets of the King of All Kard

Kings. Many tricks that have mysti-

fied the best Magicians of the world,

Laid bare for the first time, together

Modern First Editions ~27~ L i t er a t u r e

First edition. Illustrations by Oscar S. Teale.

Compiled by Clinton Burgess. Binding lightly

worn at the extremities, tidemark from a damp-

stain at the top corner of the pages throughout,

front hinge tender but still a sound, very good

copy. Illustrator Oscar S. Teale’s copy with his

“Teale Library of Mystery” bookplate and

Inscribed to him by Houdini: “Presented by the

Author – Houdini – to the Magician Artist who

made all the drawings, Oscar S. Teale.” Teale for

his part, has Inscribed the book to a fellow magi-

cian: “Presented to Lester A. Grimes by O.S.T.”

Grimes has then Inscribed the book: “To my

friend Gertrude Elliott from Grimes The Mystery

Man, 1934.” Reportedly, on his deathbed Elliott,

the world’s foremost card manipulator, asked his

friend Houdini to edit and publish these notes.

Whether the final recipient, Gertrude Elliott, was

the famous stage actress (who was the original Cleopatra in

Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra), or a relative of the “Kard King”

we are unsure. An extraordinary association copy, nicely

inscribed by three prominent magicians. [BTC #20469]

with many

novel inven-

tions, Taken

from note

books left by

Dr. James

William Elliott. New York: Adams Press Print 1923.

182 Carson McCULLERS. The

Member of the Wedding. Boston:

Houghton Mifflin Company 1946.

First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good

dustwrapper with two longish, but discreet,

parallel tears on the rear panel. McCullers

later adapted her own novel into a play that

opened on Broadway with Julie Harris and

Ethel Waters and won numerous awards.

Waters and

Harris then

recreated

their Broadway roles in the 1952 Fred

Zinnemann film, with Harris nominated

for a Best Actress Oscar. [BTC #100149]

183 William McCLELLAN.

Penthouse Pagan. New York: Phoenix

Press (1938).

First edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers,

still fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch

of rubbing. Two friends join the Navy to take

advantage of the romantic opportunities. Scarce.

[BTC #87757]

181 Horace

McCOY. They Shoot

Horses, Don’t They? New York:

Simon and Schuster 1935.

First edition. Gift inscription hidden by

the front flap, and a little foxing to the

boards, a near fine copy in very near

fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing at

the folds. Signed by the author. A lovely

copy of the author’s first book, a hard-

boiled Depression-era classic, basis for

the Sydney Pollack film with Jane

Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah

York, and Gig Young (who won an Oscar for

his role as the dance marathon promoter). [BTC #88414]

184 William MAXWELL. The

Folded Leaf. New York: Harper and Brothers

1945.

Second printing. A stain at the bottom of the

boards and a label for an out-of-print bookstore

on the front pastedown, a fair

copy. Warmly Inscribed by

Maxwell to his fellow editor at

The New Yorker, Rachel

MacKenzie: “Rachel dear –

‘Nobody will ever want to

read this book,’ I said, to

myself, I don’t know how

many times – a hundred,

maybe. And it came very close

to ending up in the fireplace.

So I am touched at the trouble

you went to to get this copy.

My love, Bill. 1-20-71.” MacKenzie replaced Katherine

White as the fiction editor at The New Yorker on the recom-

mendation of May Sarton. During her tenure at the magazine

MacKenzie was noted for her nurturing and editing of,

among others, Sarton, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and espe-

cially Isaac Bashevis Singer. MacKenzie’s enthusiasm led to

the magazine devoting an entire issue to Spark’s The Prime of

Miss Jean Brodie. However, the magazine wouldn’t publish

Goodbye, Columbus as she recommended because William

Shawn was too squeamish over the more “frank” aspects of

the novella. [BTC #314672]

185 —. Ancestors. New

York: Alfred A. Knopf (1971).

First edition. Fine in very

good plus dustwrapper with a

little rubbing and a couple of

tiny nicks. Novel set in Ohio

in 1818. Warmly Inscribed by

the author to his fellow editor

at The New Yorker Rachel

MacKenzie (see above): “For

Rachel with love, Bill. June

21, 1971.” [BTC #314665]

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Wightman’s Copy of von Neumann

180 (Mathematics). John von

NEUMANN. Functional

Operators. Volume I: Measures

and Integrals. Volume II: The

Geometry of Orthogonal Spaces.

Princeton: Princeton University Press 1950.

First editions. Two volumes. Tall octavos. 261;

107pp. Original printed orange wrappers. Some

sunning at the edges of the wrappers, and some

faint spotting and dampstains at the spines, a very

good, uniform set. Arthur S. Wightman’s copies

with his ownership Signature (“A.S. Wightman”) on

the front cover of each volume (one dated in 1951). Von Neumann

was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to

quantum mechanics, in the development of

functional analysis, and a principal member

of the Manhattan Project and the Institute

for Advanced Study in Princeton. Wightman

was one of the founders of the axiomatic

approach to quantum field theory, and origi-

nated the set of Wightman axioms. His work,

including such titles as PCT, Spin and Statistics

and All That, frequently cites the work of von

Neumann. Although we wouldn’t claim to

understand the writings of either mathemati-

cian, we know an excellent association when we

see one. [BTC #341394]

192 James MERRILL. The

(Diblos)

Notebook.

New York:

Atheneum 1965.

Uncorrected proof.

Fine in wrappers.

Author’s second

novel. [BTC

#100802]

193 Henry

MILLER.

[Lithograph]:

“Linear Fantasy.” 1973.

Original lithograph in black and orange. Image

measures 11¾" x 18¼" (with margins 16" x

23¼"). Glazed and framed. Hand Inscribed,

titled, Signed, and dated by Miller below the

image: “For Sydney Omarr – Linear Fantasy –

Henry

Miller

1973.”

Surreal

image

with dis-

cernible

human faces. Unexamined out of the

frame, but all indications are that the

lithograph is in fine condition. On

the reverse is an old label, contempo-

rary with the frame, indicating the

lithograph was framed in Santa

Monica, California. Omarr was a

close friend of Miller’s and famous as

the “astrologer to the stars.” He pub-

lished a daily horoscope that

appeared in more than 200 newspa-

pers, and his books of horoscopes

sold over 50 million copies. [BTC

#97796]

191

Ian McEWAN.

Or Shall We Die?

London: Jonathan Cape

Ltd. (1983).

First edition. Words for

an oratorio set to music

by Michael Berkeley. Fine

in fine dustwrapper.

Signed by Ian McEwan

and Michael Berkeley.

From the collection of

Bruce Kahn. [BTC

#305416]

188 Larry McMURTRY. Sin Killer. New York: Simon & Schuster

(2002).

First edition. Fine with fine dustwrapper in fine slipcase with paper labels. One of 26

lettered copies Signed by the author. Volume I of the Berrybender series. From the

collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #312447]

189 —. The Wandering Hill. New York: Simon & Schuster (2003).

First edition. Fine with fine dustwrapper in fine slipcase with paper labels. One

of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. Volume II of the Berrybender series.

From the collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #312451]

190 —. Folly and Glory. New York: Simon & Schuster (2004).

First edition. Fine with fine dustwrapper in fine illustrated slipcase with paper

labels. One of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. Volume IV of the

Berrybender series. From the collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #312453]

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186 John McPHEE. A

Sense of Where You Are:

A Profile of Princeton’s Bill

Bradley. New York: Farrar, Straus

& Giroux (1965).

First edition. Fine in a fresh and

fine dustwrapper with a little rub-

bing, and a thin pen stroke on the

front panel, but none of the usual

spine fading. A much brighter than

usual copy of the author’s fragile

first book, which has become very

scarce in this condition. [BTC

#85387]

187 Arthur MILLER. Death of

a Salesman. New York: Viking Press

1949.

First edition. Very slight sunning to the

extremities else fine in near fine dustwrapper

with rubbing and a tiny nick near the crown,

and very slight fading on the spine. A very

nice copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play,

one of the classics of American drama and

basis for a number of film and television ver-

sions with Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Rod

Steiger, Dustin Hoffman, and Brian

Dennehy, among others, assaying the role of

salesman Willy Loman. [BTC #338494]

194 Joseph MITCHELL.

My Ears Are Bent. New York:

Sheridan House (1938).

First edition. Previous owner’s neat gift

inscription, rear endpaper wrinkled, a

very good or better copy in a very good

example of the rare dustwrapper with

small chips at the crown and rear panel,

some rubbing, tears, and other light

wear. The author’s exceptionally rare

first book, a collection of short pieces

from his days as a reporter for the New

York World-Telegram, the New York

Herald Tribune and The New Yorker.

Anecdotally it has been said that Mitchell

would not allow this book to be reprinted in his lifetime. We have

seen only a handful of jacketed copies in twenty years of searching. [BTC #62728]

198 James MORIER.

The Adventures of Hajji

Baba of Ispahan. London:

John Murray 1824.

First edition, first

printing (with

Volume III, page

387, misnum-

bered 388).

Three volumes.

Original blue

papercovered

boards rebacked

with identical

contemporary

gray paper, with

original spine

labels laid down.

A very good or better set with volume one’s spine

label more than half perished, volume two’s label

mostly intact and completely legible, and volume

three’s label with a small chip affecting part of the

title. Housed in an older custom folding cloth

case. Morier (1780-1849) was a British diplomat

who spent years in Iran and published a few non-

fiction accounts of the region before writing this

book, the first in a popular series of novels so

authentic in their detail of Iranian life that their

Persian translations are considered classics of the

region’s literature. Basis for a 1954 adventure film

with John Derek in the title role. [BTC #325178]

195 Marianne MOORE. What Are Years.

New York: Macmillan Company 1941.

First edition. Bottom of the spine a trifle bumped, else

fine in a lightly rubbed, very good or better dustwrapper

with light edgewear. A better than usual copy of a scarce

and fragile wartime book. [BTC #100364]

196 (—). George Platt LYNES. Original

Portrait Photograph of Marianne Moore.

Black and

white silver

gelatin photo

of Marianne

Moore in her trademark

tricorn hat and cloak.

Image matted to 7¼" x

9", and framed to 10" x

11¾". Paper backing is

cut away to reveal the

photographer’s stamp on

the verso of the photo:

“George Platt-Lynes.

229 East 47 Street New

York.” Matted, framed

and glazed in black

wooden frame. This is the iconic image

of Moore that was used on the front

panel of the dustjacket of A Marianne

Moore Reader. [BTC #331360]

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197 Richard MURPHY. The

Last Galway Hooker. (Dublin):

The Dolmen Press (1961).

First edition. Quarter parchment and cloth.

Fine in original very good unprinted glass-

ine dustwrapper (not shown) with some

tears and small chips. One of 200 Signed

copies. [BTC #274500]

out of the

needlework

cover, but no

obvious evi-

dence of

damage.

[BTC

#279438]

199 (Needlework Binding). Oliver Wendell

HOLMES. The Last Leaf. Cambridge: Houghton

Mifflin & Co. 1886.

First edition. Illustrated by

George Wharton Edwards and F.

Hopkinson Smith. Folio. The

boards are covered with contem-

porary muslin with needlework

lettering and illustration on front

and back covers that matches the

style of the illustrations. Spine a

little soiled, and muslin a little

loose at the spine, a charming,

near fine example. Unexamined

206 John Jay OSBORN, Jr. The Paper Chase. Boston:

Houghton Mifflin Company 1971.

First edition. A faint bend on the front fly else fine

in a very near fine dustwrapper with none of the

usual fading to the spine lettering, but with a little

rubbing. A nice copy of a remarkably difficult first

edition, a novel about the quest for a Harvard Law

degree. The basis for the movie and later the tele-

vision series of the same name. Veteran stage direc-

tor John Houseman became a “star” with his

Oscar-winning portrayal of the imposing Professor

Kingsfield, a role he reprised for television. Copies

with unfaded spine-lettering are becoming increas-

ingly difficult to find. [BTC #337336]

203 Flannery O’CONNOR.

Everything That

Rises Must

Converge. New York:

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

(1965).

First edition. Fine in fine

dustwrapper. Advance

Review Copy with slip and

promotional material laid in.

Author’s fourth book, a post-

humously published collec-

tion of short stories. A beau-

tiful copy. [BTC #100665]

204 Liam O’FLAHERTY as Liam O

FLAITHEARTA. Duil. Dublin: Sairseal Agus Dill

(1953).

First edition. Text in Gaelic. Cloth. Very slight breaks in

the cloth at the spine ends, and a lit-

tle sunning, a very good copy, with-

out dustwrapper. One of 2500 copies

of which the first

500 were signed,

this is one of the

unsigned issue,

but bears a long

presentation

Inscription from

the author in

Gaelic in the year

of publication.

We are not aware

of an equivalent

edition in English.

[BTC #91623]

205 Kenneth PATCHEN.

The Journal of Albion

Moonlight. (New York: Ken-

neth Patchen 1941).

First edition, limited issue. Quarter

red cloth and marbled papercov-

ered boards. Fine in a lightly

rubbed, else fine cardboard slipcase

with printed spine label. Prospectus

for the edition laid in, with state-

ments by Patchen and Henry

Miller, stating that: “The printing

of this book was made possible by

fifty people who paid ten dollars in

advance for a copy of the signed, numbered, deluxe edition.” Among these sub-

scribers were Van Wyck Brooks, Maxwell Perkins, E.E. Cummings, Wallace

Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Stephen Vincent Benét, Paul Rosenfeld, John

Peale Bishop, Waldo Frank, James Laughlin, and Sinclair Lewis. Copy number

50 of the 50 subscribers’ copies Signed by the author. A very uncommon issue

sold by Patchen personally from his home. [BTC #107619]

200 Tim O’BRIEN. If I Die in a Combat Zone. (New York): Delacorte (1973).

Third printing. Fine in fine dustwrapper with an insignificant and very faint small stain at the top of the front

panel. Inscribed by the author to Richard “Dick” Harwood – national editor and later ombudsman for The

Washington Post and a WWII Marine veteran of Iwo Jima: “To Dick, Best wishes & thanks. Tim.” O’Brien’s very

scarce first book, a classic of the Vietnam War. A beautiful copy. [BTC #56566]

201 —. The Things They Carried. Boston:

Houghton Mifflin Company 1990.

Uncorrected proof. Fine in

wrappers. Signed by the

author. From the collection of

Bruce Kahn. [BTC #282842]

Author’s Copy

202 —. In the Lake of

the Woods. (London): Flamingo (1994).

First English edition. Author’s copy. Fine in wrappers

with minor rubbing. Signed and Inscribed by the author:

“My copy. Incorporates major revisions & corrections I

made after publication of Am. hardcover. T.O.” From the

collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #312614]

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214 Sylvia PLATH. Ariel. New York: Harper & Row (1966).

First American edition. Fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with a bit of soiling.

Extremely influential collection of poetry, written in the last months of the poet’s

life. A lovely copy. [BTC #100352]

215 —. Crossing the Water. London: Faber and Faber (1971).

Uncorrected proof. Slight age-toning, else fine in wrappers. [BTC #105918]

211 Harold

PINTER. The

Caretaker.

London: Encore

Publishing Co.

[1960].

First edition. Printed

wrappers. Just about

fine. An acting edi-

tion, the true first

edition of this play.

Pinter’s second book.

[BTC #305550]

212 Joseph Mary PLUNKETT. The Poems of

Joseph Mary Plunkett. London: T. Fisher Unwin 1916.

First edition. Quarter cloth and

printed paper over boards.

Frontispiece engraved portrait by

Mrs. Joseph Plunkett. Attractive

contemporary bookplate (“Green-

Armytage”) on the front pastedown,

else about fine in fine dustwrapper.

Plunkett was an Irish nationalist and poet, and a

leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. He was executed

after his capture at the Dublin General Post

Office. Rare in jacket. [BTC #306653]

207 Ezra POUND. Personae. London: Elkin Mathews 1909.

First edition, first issue. Drab papercovered boards. A touch of rubbing to the front board, easily fine. Pound’s

third book. A beautiful copy. Gallup A3. [BTC #99480]

208 —. Provença. Poems Selected From Personae, Exultations, And

Canzoniere. Boston: Small Maynard & Company (1910).

First edition, first impression. 12mo. Original printed tan boards. Ownership signa-

ture, a tiny spot on the front cover, top corner a little bumped, but generally a very

near fine copy. Scarce in this condition. Pound’s first book of poetry published in

America, the best work of two earlier volumes, Personae and Exultations, with the

addition of several new poems. Separately issued in England under the title of

Canzoni. One of approximately 200 copies printed. Gallup A6a. [BTC #311596]

209 —. Antheil and The Treatise on Harmony.

Paris: Three Mountains Press 1924.

First edition. Orange wrappers. Some pages of the brittle

text paper chipped at the corners, covers somewhat worn, tears at the edges of the

spine, but still a near very good copy of a fragile book published by Pound himself,

and distributed by Three Mountains Press (following Hemingway’s in our time). One

of 400 copies. Gallup A25. [BTC #311054]

210 —. Prolegomena 1:

How to Read. Toulon: To

Publishers (1932).

First edition published in France,

and expanded from the 1931 edi-

tion published in England.

Wrappers. Some professional and seamless repair along the

spine, a very good, better than usual copy of this extremely

fragile volume. Gallup A33b. [BTC #99482]

213 Carl RAKOSI. Two

Poems. New York: The Modern

Editions Press [1933].

First edition. Cover by Francis Foy.

(3)pp. String tied paper wraps. A tiny

split at the crown, tanning at the

extremities, and a bump to one corner,

about near fine. The first book from

this Objectivist poet, preceding his

next by eight years. A scarce poetry

production, Pamphlet 7 in the series

that also produced Paul Bowles’s first

published book, Two Poems. [BTC

#333785]

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216 Marjorie Kinnan RAWLINGS. The Yearling. New

York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1938.

First edition. Tiny dampstain touching a couple of pages, fine in near fine dust-

wrapper with a short tear and some nicking at the crown. Inscribed by the

author on the half-title, and with a small, brief,

non-authorial gift inscription probably added at a

later date. Basis for the marvelous film, shot on

location in Florida, with Gregory Peck, Jane

Wyman, and Claude Jarman, Jr., who won a spe-

cial Academy Award as Jody Baxter. A Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, very sel-

dom found signed. (Shown at left) [BTC #294180]

217 — another copy.

First edition. Owner name, toning to the gutters from the usual reaction with

the binder’s glue, thus very good in a nice, near fine, dustwrapper with a very small tear at the top of the front

panel. [BTC #339974]

222 Jacob A. RIIS. The Battle

with the Slum. New York: Macmillan

Company 1902.

First edition. Blue cloth gilt. Illustrated from

photographs. Boards lightly rubbed, a very

near fine copy of a book usually found well-

worn. Riis was a Danish-born immigrant

and journalist who fought a predominantly

lone war against tenement conditions, child

labor, and other abuses of the downtrodden

until he found powerful support from

Theodore Roosevelt. A New York Public

Library Book of the Century. [BTC #322271]

221 Lynn RIGGS. Listen, Mind. [No place]:

Privately Printed by Ward Ritchie 1933.

First edition. Self-wrappers. Edges

of the wrappers age-toned, a mod-

est vertical crease, else an about

very good copy. One of 50 copies

of this poem that originally

appeared in F.P.A.’s Conning Tower

column in the New York Herald

Tribune. This copy Inscribed by

Riggs: “For Anne – ‘ in the sun’ –

Lynn.” Riggs, of Cherokee

descent, was the first Native-

American to achieve critical suc-

cess as a playwright, most notably

with Green Grow the Lilacs, basis

for the musical Oklahoma! This very limited little poem is

seldom encountered. [BTC #92624]

218 Jean RHYS. Quartet: A Novel. New York:

Simon and Schuster 1929.

First American edition, and

first with this title (published

in the U.K. as Postures). Fine

in an about fine original print-

ed glassine dustwrapper.

Author’s second book, and

first novel, about “The Game

of Adultery in the Latin

Quarter of Paris,” and consid-

ered by many to be autobio-

graphically about the author’s

affair with her mentor Ford

Madox Ford, while her husband was in prison.

Filmed in 1981 as Quartet by Merchant and Ivory, with a

screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and featuring Alan

Bates, Maggie Smith, and Isabelle Adjani. Smith won a

BAFTA for Best Actress, and Adjani won Best Actress at

Cannes. The flimsy and fragile printed jacket is pretty

much impossible to find; we’ve never seen another. [BTC

#283969]

Modern First Editions ~33~ L i t er a t u r e

220 Elmer L. RICE. Street

Scene. New York: Samuel French

1929.

First edi-

tion, wrap-

pered act-

ing edition, issued simultaneously with the

hardcover. The slightest of wear, still easily

fine in wrappers. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

for Drama in 1929. Rice also wrote the 1931

film version, directed by King Vidor and fea-

turing most of the original Broadway cast.

Very scarce. [BTC #84728]

219 Kenneth REXROTH.

The Heart’s Garden The

Garden’s Heart. Cambridge, MA:

Pym-Randall Press (1967).

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One

of 75 numbered clothbound copies Signed

by the author. [BTC #105586]

228 Robert ROSS. Masques and Phases.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys

1909.

First edition. Slight foxing, very

light wear to the boards, near

fine. Signed

by the

author:

“With com-

pliments of

the author,

Robert

Ross.” Ross was Oscar Wilde’s

lover and faithful friend. [BTC

#326795]

227 Franklin D.

ROOSEVELT. The Public

Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. With a

special introduction and

explanatory notes by

President Roosevelt. New

York: Random House

1938.

First edition.

Compiled by

Samuel I.

Rosenman. First

five volumes (as

published, eight

additional volumes

were added later).

Original full gray

calf. One of 500

unnumbered cop-

ies. Bookplate in

each volume, corners and edges of

the spines a little rubbed, a very good

set, lacking the original cardboard slip-

case. This copy Inscribed by Franklin

D. Roosevelt to Samuel Falk, and

below F.D.R.’s inscription, it has also

been Inscribed to Falk by the compiler,

Rosenman. [BTC #299105]

226 Samuel ROGERS.

Italy. A Poem. London: Printed for T. Cadell 1830.

First illustrated edition. Original

papercovered boards

with paper spine

label. Owner signa-

ture of G.E. deBurgh

Wilmot on the front

fly, edges of the spine

and corners rubbed

with minor loss of

paper at the joints.

Tiny binder’s ticket

on the rear pastedown

of “F. Westley Binder,

Friar Street, Near

Doctors Commons.”

One of the most lavishly and expensively illustrated books of

its time, with engravings by many notable artists including

J.M.W. Turner. Very uncommon in boards. [BTC #198320]

225 Edouard RODITI.

Poems. Teaneck, New Jersey: The

Literary Review 1960.

Offprint. Self-wrappers. 24pp. (paginated from

the journal p.417-439). Some offsetting and

spotting on the front wrap, very good.

Inscribed by the author to Jerome Rothenberg:

“For Jerome Rothenberg after an evening spent

together in Paris. Edouard Roditi.” Poems,

aphorisms, and criticism by Roditi, as well as

an appreciation by Paul Goodman. OCLC

locates five copies; three in the U.S. (LOC,

HRC, Brown). Scarce. [BTC #337516]

224 Kenneth ROBERTS and N.C.

WYETH. Trending Into Maine. Boston: Little,

Brown 1938.

First edition, the “Arundel Edition,”

illustrated by N.C. Wyeth, one of

1075 numbered copies Signed by

Roberts and Wyeth. Fine in origi-

nal unprinted parchment dust-

jacket with a few small chips, in

the publisher’s slipcase (very

lightly soiled and cracked), and

includ-

ing the

addition-

al suite

of plates.

[BTC

#55637]

223 Tom ROBBINS. Another

Roadside Attraction. Garden City,

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.

1971.

First edition. Advance

Review Copy with

Doubleday stamp on the inside pastedown.

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author

and also Inscribed on the title page: “Stop me

before I kill again.” Author’s first novel, which

slowly achieved cult status through successive

paperback printings. From the collection of

Bruce Kahn. [BTC #305102]

Between the Covers ~34~ C a t al o g u e 16 6

229 Juan RULFO. El llano en llamas y otros cuentos

[The Burning Plain and other Stories].

Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica letras

mexicanas (1953).

First edition. Slight age-toning to the pages,

else fine in fine dustwrapper with slight over-

all age-toning, housed in a custom cloth clam-

shell case. The Mexican author’s first book, a

widely influential collection of classic short

stories including “¡Diles que no me maten!”

[“Tell Them Not to Kill Me!”]. A lovely copy

of a key work of Latin American literature.

[BTC #324037]

232 J.D. SALINGER. Nine Stories. Boston: Little, Brown (1953).

First edition. Dark offsetting to the front endpapers from a clipping, and slightly bumped at the crown, else

fine in an attractive, very near fine dustwrapper with no fading to the spine and modest rubbing at the

extremities. A very nice copy of a book seldom found in collectible condition.

Salinger’s second book and first collection of short stories. [BTC #54122]

Salinger’s Final Publication

233 —. “Hapworth 16, 1924” [story in] The New Yorker, June

19, 1965. New York: The New Yorker 1965.

The complete story “Hapworth 16, 1924” in The New Yorker for June 19,

1965. Quarto. Cover illustration by William Steig. Wrappers lightly rubbed

with a few light creases and tears, about near fine. This issue contains

Salinger’s final published story, in the form of a letter home from the youngest

member of the Glass family, seven-year-old Seymour. Aside from piracies, the

story, which starts on page 32 and runs to page 90, has never been reprinted.

A scarce issue, much coveted by Salinger collectors. [BTC #339117]

Modern First Editions ~35~ L i t er a t u r e

230 (Antoine de

SAINT-EXUPÉRY).

Adèle BREAUX. Saint-

Exupéry in America,

1942-1943: A Memoir.

Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson

University Press (1971).

First edition. Fine in a very near

fine dustwrapper with a single

short tear. Very uncommon

account by a young English teach-

er who tutored Saint-Exupéry at

the time he was in America work-

ing on The Little Price. [BTC #313279]

231 Rafael SABATINI. The Writings of Rafael Sabatini (Volumes 1-29). Boston:

Houghton Mifflin Co. 1924-1933.

Autograph Edition. 29 volumes (the publisher continued to add titles annually, this set without the final five volumes issued from 1934-

1937). Tan papercovered boards with red cloth backstrips and spine labels, without dustwrappers as issued (not to be confused with the pub-

lisher’s Definitive Edition, which had jackets but was smaller in size and unsigned). A few volumes slightly bumped (near fine) and the the spi-

nal extremities of three volumes torn and frayed (good), all other volumes about fine, overall a very good or better set. Copy number 418 of

750 numbered copies of this first uniform edition, Signed by Sabatini in the first volume. In addition, although uncalled for, the first volume

of this set also has a tipped-in manuscript page (usually found only in the green morocco bound copies). The manuscript page is from his early

biography The Life of Cesare Borgia, published in 1912. Knight & Darley B1. [BTC #132285]

238 Anne SEXTON. Mercy Street. New York: The

American Place Theatre [1969].

Playscript. Clasp-bound mimeographed

sheets. First leaf soiled, a few page cor-

ners creased, marked “#31” on the first

leaf, a very good copy. A

play by Sexton that

played Off-Broadway for

about six weeks. [With]

Program from

the original

production.

Very scarce.

[BTC

#321499]

239 W.G. SEBALD. Austerlitz. London: Hamish Hamilton

(2001).

Uncorrected proof

of the first English

edition, and first

English-language

edition. Fine in

boards, issued with-

out dustwrapper, an

as new copy. One of 100 numbered copies of the

hardcover proof Signed by the author. The German

author’s breakthrough novel. Sebald died in a car

accident shortly after this was published, so predict-

ably enough, signed copies are scarce. [BTC

#67808]

237 James SCHUYLER. A Sun Cab. New York:

Adventures in Poetry 1972.

First edi-

tion.

Illustrations

by Fairfield

Porter.

Quarto.

Mimeographed sheets in stapled illus-

trated wrappers. Slight oxidation to the

staples, else fine. Copy letter Z of 26 let-

tered copies Signed by both Schuyler

and Porter. [BTC #308083]

236 George

SCHNEEMAN.

[Broadside]: St Marks

Poetry Project New

Year’s Benefit

Festival. New

York: St. Mark’s

Poetry Project

1980.

Broadside. 16" x

21". Printed in

blue and black.

Old folded marks

as mailed, else

very near fine.

Verso bears an

address label to

poet Michael

Benedikt and two

canceled stamps.

The art work is a

typical Schneeman

combination of

words and pictures – dozens of hands, each holding a card with

the name of a participating poet or artist including William

Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Larry Rivers, Miguel

Pinero, Gregory Corso, Charles Henri Ford, Gerard Malanga,

Michael Lally, Taylor Mead, Rod Padgett, Keith Haring, Joel

Oppenheimer, Peter Schjeldahl, Lewis Warsh, and many others.

[BTC #322033]

235 [Friedrich von] SCHILLER.

Wallenstein ein Dramatisches Gedicht.

Tubingen: In der J.G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung

1800.

First edition. Two volumes in one.

238; 250pp. Contemporary paper-

covered boards with green spine

label, with title inked on the label.

Tiny contemporary owner name, a

bit of edgewear, corners bumped

and worn, but a nice and tight, else

fine copy. Old auction description

laid in. Schiller’s epic masterpiece

and one of the world’s great dramas,

detailing the rise and fall of the gen-

eral of the armies of the Holy

Roman Empire during the Thirty

Years’ War. [BTC #289568]

234 William

SAROYAN. Places

Where I’ve Done Time.

New York: Praeger Publishers

(1972).

First edition. Fine in fine dust-

wrapper. Signed by the author.

[BTC #340524]

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Betty Boop

244 (Show Business). Mae QUESTAL. Portrait Photograph. [circa 1929].

Formal photographic portrait. Approximately 5" x 8". No backmark. Slight crease at one corner, else near fine. A

photograph of a young Mae Questal. Questal was a vaudeville actress who specialized in impressions of other

female stars when Max Fleischer hired her to provide the voice of Betty Boop. She voiced more than 150 animat-

ed shorts with the character, and later provided the voice of Olive Oyl in Fleischer’s animated Popeye series. Her

recording of “On the Good Ship Lollipop” sold more than two million copies. She provided the voice for many

other animated characters and also appeared as an actress in many live-action films throughout her long career,

including the part of Aunt Bethany in 1989’s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. [BTC #339262]

243 (Show Business). (William POWELL). The Centralian

1911. Kansas City, Missouri: Central High School 1911.

1911 edition. Oblong quarto. String-tied

embossed blue paper wrappers. Small chips

to the yapped edges, one page has been

tape repaired, tears to a couple of pages,

check marks in the margins beside various

students (including Powell), else very good.

Yearbook for actor William Powell’s senior

year. Powell is shown in his individual

senior picture

looking digni-

fied, as the lit-

erary editor of this yearbook, in the glee club, acting in plays,

in the Shakespeare Club, in a bizarre cheerleading pose, and

in various other places in the book. Powell, who appeared in

nearly a hundred films, is best known for his roles in The

Thin Man series, several movies as Philo Vance (The Canary

Murder Case, The Benson Murder Case, etc.), and the classic

comedy My Man Godfrey. A

program for the Class of ’11

commencement laid in –

Powell gave an oration at the

ceremony. [BTC #309260]

242 Percy Bysshe

SHELLEY. Queen

Mab.

London:

Printed

and

Published

by W.

Clark

1821.

First pub-

lished edi-

tion, with

the usually

absent

dedication to his first wife, “To Harriet...”

bound at the end of the notes, but without the

advertising leaf. Early or contemporary red pol-

ished calf ruled in gilt. Sympathetically re-

spined, with red morocco gilt spine label.

Scattered mild foxing, some wear to the boards,

a nice, very good copy. [BTC #288252]

The True First Edition

240 George Bernard SHAW. Pygmalion. London: Everybody’s Magazine 1914.

First edition, an unauthorized edition printed a week or two after the first American performance, and preced-

ing the authorized publication by nearly two years. An issue of Everybody’s Magazine bound in publisher’s pur-

ple cloth gilt. Large octavo. Illustrated by May Wilson Preston. A large stain on the rear panel, else near fine.

The true first edition of a classic play, filmed several times, most notably the 1938 version directed by Anthony

Asquith and Leslie Howard, and featuring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. Famously adapted into the musi-

cal My Fair Lady, filmed in 1964 by director George Cukor and featuring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison,

a film that won eight Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best

Actor. Rare. [BTC #285387]

241 —. Autograph Postcard Signed.

Autograph Postcard Signed and dated 13 January 1946 to artist Theodore

Spicer Simson, granting him permission to produce a medallion of Shaw’s

wife, who had died three years before. Old glue remnants on the verso, not obscuring the recipient’s

address, very good. Earlier, Simson had published Men of Letters of the British Isles: Portrait Medallions from

the Life (1924) which included G.B.S. In full: “My wife died in 1943. She was sensitive about her personal

appearance, and resented the slightest attempt to pass her off as a conventionally pretty woman. The result

was that she could not bear any sort of portrait. The photographs I have were forced on her by the passport

authorities. Your medallion, which was kindly if not flattering — a bit sonsie perhaps — shared the general

fate. But there is now no reason why you should not reproduce the medallion ad lib. I, as her executor, have

no objection. Both medallions are at your disposal if you can reproduce them and find any market for

them. Glad to hear from you again after all the dangers. G. Bernard Shaw.” [BTC #309195]

Modern First Editions ~37~ L i t er a t u r e

249 David STARKWEATHER.

(Edward

ALBEE).

[Broadside]:

David Starkweather’s So Who’s

Afraid of Edward Albee? Directed by

Robert Dagny.... [New York]: Caffe Cino

[1963].

Pictorial broadside. Approximately 10½" x 14¾". Horizontal

fold, corners a little creased, near fine. Date stamped “Mar 5

1963.” A farce about Albee. According to some sources Caffe

Cino was the birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway. A very early ver-

sion of this play; it made its debut at the Van Dam Theatre

almost a year and a half later. [BTC #337575]

248 Charles

SIMIC. The

Message Is

Confined to the

Species. New York:

Nadja 1979.

First edition.

Broadside. 8½"

x 11". Fine.

Framed. One of

26 lettered cop-

ies printed on

HMP and issued

as a holiday

greeting. [BTC

#323026]

245 Nevil SHUTE. Kindling. New York: William Morrow 1938.

First American edition. Spine a little soiled, else near fine in a supplied and copy-

appropriate, very good dustwrapper with some small chips at the lower extremities.

Inscribed by the author to his aunt in the year of publication: “Aunt Grace from

Nevil. May 1938.” Shute’s second book published in the U.S. [BTC #340799]

246 —. In the Wet. New York: William Morrow 1953.

First American edition. A trifle worn at the crown,

thus very good in near fine, supplied dustwrapper.

Inscribed by the author to his aunt in the year of

publication: “For Aunt Grace with love from Nevil.

May 1953.” [BTC #340257]

247 —. Beyond the Black Stump. New

York: William Morrow & Company 1956.

First American edition.

Spine a little faded and a

tiny tear at the crown,

very good or better in

near fine, supplied dust-

wrapper. Inscribed by

the author to his aunt in

the year of publication:

“For Aunt Grace with

love from Nevil. May 1956.” [BTC #340255]

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Inscribed to his Son

250 Louis SIMPSON.

Selected Prose. New York:

Paragon House (1988).

First edition. Slight wear, else fine in

fine

dust-

wrapper.

Inscribed

by the

author to

his son:

“To Tony

with

love,

Dad.

March

15, ’89.”

[BTC #317865]

251 Muriel SPARK. Memento

Mori.

London:

Macmillan

1959.

First edition.

A little

cocked, spine

a little faded,

and three light

tape shadows

on the front

fly, else very good lacking the dustwrapper.

Signed by the author. [BTC #99939]

252 Neil SIMON. Barefoot in the

Park. New York:

Random House 1964.

First edition. Fine in

fine dustwrapper. A

superb, unread copy of

the hit Broadway play

featuring Robert

Redford and Elizabeth

Ashley which was made

into a film with Jane

Fonda replacing Ashley.

Rarely seen in this con-

dition. [BTC #338228]

Harpo’s Copy

253 John STEINBECK. To a God Unknown. New York: Robert O. Ballou (1933).

First edition, first issue. Topstain bright, a fine copy with slight fading to the extremities

of the spine, in a nice and bright, very good dustwrapper with a modest chip at the foot

of the spine, and tiny nicks at the crown. Harpo Marx’s copy with his bookplate,

directly, both Steinbeck and Marx worked closely with playwright George S. Kaufman

and were likely familiar through him – Kaufman co-wrote for the Marx Brothers the

plays that became their first two films, The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers, and then he

directed Of Mice and Men on Broadway after helping Steinbeck substantially with the dramatic adaptation of the

novella. A nice association copy of the author’s third book, one of only 598 copies in the first issue, a novel about

a California farmer’s mystical obsession and ultimate fate. [BTC #64371]

254 —. Nothing So Monstrous. New York: Pynson Printers 1936.

First separate edition (originally published in The Pastures of Heaven, 1932). An unusually

fine, fresh copy with the corners square and virtually unrubbed. Goldstone notes that the

paper supply allowed only 370 copies to be printed. Published for subscribers to use as

Christmas gifts, the colophon was customized with the subscriber’s name following “made

by the Pynson Printers of New York at the request of [blank] for presentation to [blank].”

50 copies were so designated for Elmer Adler, 100 for Frederick B. Adams, Jr., 150 for

Ben Abramson, 50 for Edwin J. Beinecke, and 20 for antiquarian bookseller Howard

Mott (although evidently fewer were issued with his name; only one is known). Unknown

to Goldstone, there were six copies for Steinbeck as well. This copy has the subscriber’s

name, The Colophon, handwritten in for presentation to the noted printer Carl P. Rollins.

Additionally this copy is Signed by the subscribers Adams and Adler, as well as by book-

man John T. Winterich. All three were editors of The Colophon, a magazine for book collec-

tors. Rollins was the first “University Printer” at Yale. Goldstone A2f. [BTC #56139]

255 —. The Long Valley. New York: Viking Press 1938.

First edition. A gift inscription, and a tiny owner’s name stamp on the front fly, else fine in fine dustwrapper. A

lovely copy. [BTC #277891]

256 —. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press

(1939).

First edition. Foxing to the foredge and endpapers, else near fine in a

nice, near fine dustwrapper with

very slight toning to the spine.

Signed by the author: “Thank

you, John Steinbeck. New York.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of

an Oklahoma family’s migration

to California during the

Depression. Basis for the John Ford film featur-

ing Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and Supporting Actress

Jane Darwell won Academy Awards; Fonda was nominated but lost

to Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips! Steinbeck’s masterpiece and

literature’s lasting testament to the Great Depression, it was singled-

out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later. [BTC

#103884]

257 —. Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team.

New York: Viking Press 1942.

First edition. A little rubbing to the bottom of the boards, fine in a bright, near fine dustwrapper with a little

light wear. A handsome copy. [BTC #99953]

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263 Jacqueline SUSANN. Valley of the Dolls. (New

York): Bernard Geis (1966).

First edition.

Very slight soil-

ing, fine in near

fine dustwrap-

per with some

rubbing and a

few modest

tears. Inscribed

by the author

to a noted

jurist: “To Judge Simon H. Rifkind – my dear

friend, Alfred Staelsin[?], hopes you will like

this book. All my best – Jacqueline Susann.”

Bestseller that was the basis for the scandalous

1967 film, directed by Mark Robson, and featuring a large

cast including Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, and

with a cameo by Susann herself. A book that usually looks like it has been

read to death, this is a nice copy. [BTC #335136]

262 Rose STYRON. Thieves’

Afternoon. New York: The Viking Press

(1973).

First edition.

Very good with

sunning to the

edges of the

binding in a

soiled, about very

good dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author, the

wife of novelist William Styron, to her close

friends, the author James Jones, and his wife

Gloria Mosolino: “For Jim and Moss, love and

long afternoons, Rosey.” [BTC #92546]

260 David

STOREY. Radcliffe.

London: Longmans (1963).

Uncorrected proof. A bit

soiled in wrappers, else near

fine. Scarce format for this

novel. [BTC #100116]

Inscribed to Ralph

Richardson

261 —. Home: A Play.

London: Jonathan Cape

(1970).

First edition. Fine in a mod-

estly spine-faded dustwrap-

per, housed in a custom

cloth clamshell case with

leather spine label gilt.

Inscribed by the author to

Ralph Richardson, who

played “Jack,” one of the leads

in the play (and is listed in the

book accordingly; the other lead

was played by John Gielgud):

“To Ralph for Jack, ‘Once over:

never again...’ To mark our

fourth and finest opening.

‘Home!’ The Morosco.

November 17th 1970. With

love, David.” The play pre-

miered in London then

transferred to New York

with the same leads; it was

one of only two of Storey’s

plays to open on Broadway.

Both the play, and

Richardson and Gieldgud

were nominated for Tony

Awards; they shared the

Drama Desk Award for

Outstanding Performance. [BTC #340123]

259 (Wallace STEVENS). (Anthology). Tom BOGGS, edi-

tor. American Decade: 68 Poems for

the First Time in an Anthology.

Cummington, Massachusetts: Cummington Press

1943.

First edition. Partially unopened. Bottom of the

front board bumped

else near fine in fair

only dustwrapper lack-

ing about one-third of

the spine. Important anthology with poems by

Elizabeth Bishop, R.P. Blackmur, John Ciardi,

Malcolm Cowley, E.E. Cummings, Kenneth

Fearing, Robert Frost, Horace Gregory, Langston

Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Weldon Kees, Muriel

Rukeyser, Carl Sandburg, Karl Jay Shapiro, Mark Van Doren,

Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and others. One of 450 copies of

the trade edition (of a total edition of 475). This copy is Signed by Wallace

Stevens at the end of his entry in the text. [BTC #312414]

258 Gertrude STEIN. Lucy Church

Amiably. Paris:

Imprimerie Union 1930.

First edition. Printed

blue papercovered

boards. Rubbing and

light wear, particularly at

the crown, but a nice,

very good or better copy,

issued without dust-

wrapper. One of 1000

copies. A nice example.

[BTC #278018]

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264 William Makepeace

THACKERAY. The Works of William

Makepeace Thackeray. London: Smith, Elder

& Company 1869, 1886.

First collected edition. Twenty-two volumes with two

additional, uniform 1886 volumes, Miscellaneous Essays

and Contributions to Punch, making 24 volumes in total.

Very good in three-quarter blue leather with marbled

paper covered boards, five raised bands, top edge gilt,

leather has a few scattered scuffs at the spine ends and on

some of the raised bands, light wear at the corners;

Volume One has some glue residue on the front endpa-

per. A nice set. [BTC #295829]

266 James THURBER. Three Typed Letters (two Signed, one secretarially signed).

Two Typed Letters Signed, and one Typed Letter Secretarially Signed. All dated in 1948 to Keith O. Wilson in Bloomington, Illinois, presum-

ably a student at Illinois Wesleyan University, in response to a request to stage one of Thurber’s “Fables” in a college festival. The first (24 April

1948 from West Cornwall, Connecticut, secretarially signed “James Thurber per J.L.H.”) gives per-

mission to “put on ‘The Bear Who Let It Alone’ with my compliments with the understanding, of

course, that this permission includes only productions at your coming spring festival.” He praises

the Charles Weidman ballets based on his fables that were produced in New York, although he notes

that as production neared Weidman substituted fables, “The Beavers” for “The Bear,” adding, “...I

don’t know why... Bear heads are also god damn hot.” The second (24 May 1948 from West

Cornwall, Connecticut, Signed “James Thurber” in his penciled scrawl) recom-

mends “the way that Weidman does anything is the way to do it, I would

say.” He mentions a fellow acquaintance, presumably a football star: “Red

Grange thought Ohio State’s Chic Harley was the best of them all. The

Yale man you have in mind was once described as ‘Harley in a strait jack-

et.’” He also notes “I belonged to Phi Kappa Psi.” The final letter (19 June

1948 from West Cornwall, Connecticut, Signed “Thurber” in his penciled

scrawl), in full: “The way to understand MOONBAUM is to go to Chasen’s

Restaurant in Hollywood with a few drinks in you about 10:30 P.M. some

day, ask some drunken producer what movies he has made, is making, and

would like to make. The next morning, while hung over, type out what you

remember of the evening. I did this, sent it to the New Yorker, and got a

check. As simple as that. Or you can write how the Sigs beat your bear heads

while you were trying to figure out who Harley was, with a bunch of fraternity

brothers in the background singing, apparently, about the Fiji Islanders.” A

cohesive little archive with amusing content. [BTC #341327]

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265 Dylan THOMAS. A Child’s Christmas in

Wales. Norfolk: New Directions (1954).

Long galleys of the first separately printed edition (originally published in

Quite Early One Morning). Five leaves, printed rectos only, and an unprint-

ed cover sheet, all folded. Slight offsetting to the unprinted cover sheet, else

fine. Accompanied by a first edition of the finished book as issued by New

Directions, which is fine in near fine, slightly age-toned dustwrapper. Also

accompanied by a fine copy of the New Directions edition of Quite Early One

Morning (fine in fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper with wraparound band promoting A Child’s

Christmas in Wales, an Advance Review Copy with slip laid in) where the story made its first appear-

ance. A beloved little gem, this story of Christmas in Wales was recorded by Thomas, and became a

Christmas classic, necessitating this separate edition. Ex-Ned Erbe, director of publicity for New Directions. Rare.

One of two sets of which we are aware. [BTC #275981]

271 John UPDIKE. The Poorhouse Fair. New

York: Alfred A. Knopf 1959.

First edition. Near fine in very good, first issue dustwrapper with some rubbing, a tiny nick

on the front panel, and a fairly large dampstain visible almost

entirely on the inside of the jacket. A presentable copy of the

author’s first novel, and seldom found thus. [BTC #99427]

272 —. A Child’s Calendar. New York: Alfred A.

Knopf (1965).

First edition. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Thin quar-

to. One corner bumped, else

about fine in very good dustwrap-

per with internal repairs and some

dampstaining, mostly visible only

on the inside, but with some

scratches on the rear panel.

Inscribed by John Updike. One

of the author’s scarce children’s books, seldom found signed.

[BTC #300121]

273 Laurence VAIL. Two

Poems.

New York:

The Modern

Editions Press

[circa 1933].

First edition.

Cover by Max

Axe. (3)pp.

String tied

paper wraps.

Two inch

split along the

spine, closed

tear and a few chips, very good. Two

poems, “Style” and “Saint Cloud,” from

Peggy Guggenheim’s first husband. A rare

poetry production, Pamphlet 6 in the series

that also produced Paul Bowles’s first pub-

lished book, Two Poems. Five copies listed

in OCLC. [BTC #333777]

270 Sigrid UNDSET. Happy Times in Norway.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1942.

First edition (Undset spent WWII in

America). Translated by Joran

Birkeland. About fine in a price-

clipped, good but presentable dust-

wrapper with some chips and internal

repairs. Signed by the Nobel Prize-

winning author. [BTC #326792]

268 Mark TWAIN (Samuel L. CLEMENS). The

Innocents Abroad or The

New Pilgrim’s Progress.

Melbourne: George Robertson 1871.

First Australian edition, cloth issue.

Green cloth lettered in gilt, gilt

vignette on the front board, ruled and

decorated on the rear board in blind.

(19), 10-383, (1)pp. A small owner

name on the front fly, front hinge ten-

der, a bit of foxing, some scattered light

stains on the front board, and some

rubbing, an about very good copy of

an uncommon edition. [BTC #276818]

269 —. The Prince and the

Pauper: A Tale for People of

all Ages. Boston: James R.

Osgood 1882.

First American edition, first issue

with Franklin Press imprint.

Publisher’s deluxe binding of half-

calf and marbled papercovered

boards. The paper on the edges of

the boards is a bit worn, and some

rubbing to the extremities, as almost

always seems the case, else a nice,

tight, very good or better copy, with

the spine gilt easily readable. On a

lark a prince and a pauper change

stations in life, allowing Twain to

critique various legal and moral injustices. A nice copy of a classic

tale, scarce in the deluxe binding. BAL 3402. [BTC #98648]

267 Julien TORMA.

Coupures, tragèdie en neuf

tableaux; suivi de Lauma Lamer,

Pièce en un acte [Cuts, a Tragedy

in Nine Scenes]. Paris: Éditions

Pérou 1926.

First edition. Text in French. Printed

wrappers. Unopened. Owner name on

the front fly, a large but mostly faint

dampstain towards the end of the text,

offsetting on the front wrap, a very

good copy. Scarce Dadaist play by an

author who reportedly disappeared at

age 30, possibly a suicide, and who may have even been a complete-

ly fictitious person put forward by the Dadaists. OCLC locates only

three copies in the U.S. [BTC #299513]

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277 David Foster WALLACE. The Broom of the

System. (New York): Penguin

(1987).

First edi-

tion, wrappered issue. Just a touch of the

usual darkening to the pages, still easily

fine in wrappers. Signed by the author on

the title page. A very nice copy of the

author’s first book. From the collection of

Bruce Kahn. [BTC #282705]

278 —. Infinite Jest.

Boston: Little Brown 1996.

Advance Reading Copy. Illus-

trated wrappers with bumped cor-

ners else fine in original publisher’s

shrinkwrap (partially opened).

Signed by the author. A beautiful

copy of this massive and highly

acclaimed novel. From the collec-

tion of Bruce Kahn. [BTC

#312472]

280 Dale WASSERMAN, Joe DARION, and

Mitch LEIGH. Man of La Mancha. New York:

Random House (1966).

First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with less than the usual

rubbing and only a touch of the usual spine-fading. A scarce musical

play based on Don Quixote which won the New York Drama Critics

Award. A much nicer than usual copy. [BTC #338237]

279 Dillon WALLACE. The

Long Labrador Trail. New York:

The Outing Publishing Company 1907.

First edi-

tion.

Attractive

bookplate

on the

front paste-

down, and

some skin-

ning to

the front

fly, possi-

bly from a

removed

label, spine lettering a little dull, a very

good copy in very good dustwrapper

with a stain visible mostly only on the

inside of the jacket. Account of a trip to

the more desolate reaches of Labrador.

Rare in jacket. [BTC #98356]

276 Kurt VONNEGUT, Jr. Slaughterhouse-

Five. New York: Delacorte 1969.

First edition. Spine lettering a trifle

rubbed, near fine in very good dust-

wrapper with faint staining on the

spine and some overall age-toning. A

nice copy of the author’s signature

title. A splendid blend of history,

humor, and fantasy in the story of

optometrist Billy Pilgrim, survivor of

the firebombing of Dresden, unstuck

in time and living an alternate life on

the planet Tralfamadore. Basis for

George Roy Hill’s 1972 film that man-

aged to make a good movie out of a virtually unfilm-

able novel. [BTC #305636]

275 VOLTAIRE (François-Marie AROUET). Candide.

The Spiciest, Wittiest, and Most Exciting

Book in the French Language. New York:

Published by Calvin Blanchard

1864.

First thus, allegedly the first com-

plete edition in English. Small

octavo. 154, 13, 7, 30 pp. Also

contains, as issued: Apostrophe

Americana (13pp.) by Calvin

Blanchard; Perfect Happiness

(7pp.); Amours of Famous Men

and Women (30pp.) by Calvin

Blanchard. Rebound at a relative-

ly early date in red half calf and

marbled paper over boards with

morocco spine label gilt. Modest

scuffing to the boards, and moderate foxing throughout, a

pleasing and sound, very good copy. According to the book’s self-

description, this novel “is now, for the first time, completely rendered

into English, without omissions or interpolations [emphasis original].”

Whether this is true or not is for others to judge. It is however, very

uncommon, with OCLC locating but three copies (over two

records): AAS, Yale, and University of Chicago. [BTC #326277]

274 Carl VAN VECHTEN. Parties: A Novel of

Contemporary New York Life.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1930.

First edition. A small stain on

the topedge, boards a bit

soiled, an about very good

copy without dustwrapper.

Nicely Inscribed by the author:

“For Emilio in memory of the

time when we will go to parties

again [three words indecipher-

able] Carlo. September 2,

1942.” [BTC #282241]

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281 (Tennessee WILLIAMS). College Verse. Volume Six, Number Seven. Laramie,

Wyoming: The College Poetry Society of America May, 1937.

First edition. Stapled printed yellow wrappers. Includes the poem “Sacre de Printemps” by Thomas Lanier

(Tennessee) Williams, announces Williams as a finalist for a poetry award, as well as contains a statement by

Robert Penn Warren about the prizes. A little fading to the wrappers, else near fine.

[BTC #297781]

282 (—). Five Young American Poets. Norfolk: New Directions

(1944).

First edition. Corners very slightly bumped, else fine in a very near fine dustwrapper

with very slight toning. Tennessee Williams is among the five poets. [BTC #298083]

283 —. Battle of Angels (Pharos Number 1 & 2). Murray, Utah:

Pharos 1945.

First edition. Near fine in wrappers with a light crease on the rear wrap, in a

worn and presumably supplied cardboard slipcase. Pharos Numbers 1 & 2 as

issued, and constituting Williams’s first book, an early version of Orpheus

Descending. (Shown at left) [BTC #297905]

Publisher’s Bound File Copies

284 — and Ezra POUND. Pharos [Numbers 1-4].

Murray, UT [and Norfolk]: Pharos [and New Directions] 1945,1947.

First edition. Publisher’s bound file copy of the complete run of the mag-

azine. Blue cloth, titled on spine in gilt. A small owner name on the

front fly, a few spots on the boards, very near fine, internally fine. Three

issues (the first is a double issue) bound into a single volume with the

original wrappers bound in. Numbers 1 & 2 constitute Tennessee

Williams’s first separate publication, Battle of Angels; Number 3 is Harry Levin’s Toward Stendahl; and

Number 4 is Ezra Pound’s Confucius: The Unwobbling Pivot & The

Great Digest. [BTC #297741]

285 —. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: New

Directions 1947.

First edition. Fine in a very good or better, price-clipped dustwrap-

per with a little edgewear and slight tanning to the spine. Advance Review Copy with slip

laid in. Pulitzer Prize-winning drama highspot, basis for innumerable revivals and an explo-

sive Elia Kazan film featuring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim

Hunter. Ironically, Brando, in his sig-

nature performance, was the only

one of the quartet who didn’t win an

Oscar. [BTC #100019]

286 —. The Eccentricities of a

Nightingale and Summer and

Smoke. New York: New Directions

(1948).

Unbound galley proof, with two sets of the

page proofs. Galleys folded, a couple of

bends to the page edges, a few penciled edito-

rial marks, still near fine. [BTC #337456]

287 —. The Rose Tattoo. (New York):

New Directions (1950).

First edition. Fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with

nominal wear. A hit play and basis for the 1955 film fea-

turing Anna Magnani in an Oscar-winning role, as a

widow wooed by truck driver Burt Lancaster. [BTC

#309039]

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Three Inscribed to Ruth Ford

288 —. The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. New

York: New Directions 1964.

First edition, second issue (of three) with pages 19-22 tipped in and Scene two start-

ing on page 21 (approximately only 50 copies of the first issue were produced). Fine

in a slightly age-toned, very near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Williams to actress

Ruth Ford: “Dear Love with all my heart, Tennessee.” In Williams’s Memoirs he refers

to Ford as “the wise and lovely actress, Ruth Ford, who seems to have been born with

more worldly wisdom than I have accumulated even at this point in life.” Ford was

the Mississippi-born sister of surrealist author Charles Henri Ford (see item 84), as

well as a beautiful model and actress, first in Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre, and later in films and theater.

Notably, she starred on Broadway in Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit in 1946, under the direction of John Huston (the

last of five Broadway plays he directed). Her apartment in the Dakota became a salon for authors such as

Williams, Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and Truman Capote. A chance encounter between Stephen Sondheim

and Arthur Laurents in her Manhattan living room led to their collaboration, with her Dakota-neighbor Leonard Bernstein, on

West Side Story. Similarly, she brought together Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight to create the celebrated stories of Eloise, the little girl who

lived at the Plaza. Ford is also well known for her long friendship with William Faulkner – he was openly smitten with her for many years and

wrote Requiem for a Nun with her in mind. She adapted the play herself and starred in its London and Broadway productions opposite her sec-

ond husband, Zachary Scott. Ford continued to act on both stage and screen well into the 1980s. She passed away in 2009 at the age of 98. A

wonderful inscription and nice association. [BTC #321104]

288a —. The Gnadiges Fraulein. New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (1967).

First edition, first issue. Stapled printed wrappers. A small tear on the title page, probably torn when the book

was inscribed, else fine in wrappers. One of 1000 copies printed. Inscribed by Williams to actress Ruth Ford

(see above): “To my dearest girl in the USA. Love, Tennessee.” A wonderful inscription

and nice association. [BTC #321109]

289 —. Memoirs. Garden City: Doubleday 1975.

First trade edition. Fine in an about fine dustwrapper with a

couple of very short tears. Inscribed by Williams to actress

Ruth Ford (see above): “To Ruth: You were always right! Love,

Tennessee.” A wonderful inscription and nice association.

[BTC #321121]

289a — same title.

First edition. As new in slipcase, sealed in the publisher’s brown card-

board shipping carton as issued (shown at extreme right). Printed on

slipcase as copy number 332. One of 400 numbered copies Signed by

the author. [BTC #337448]

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290 Thomas WOLFE. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1929.

First edition. Spine lettering

worn but readable, a very good

copy in worn, good only first

issue dustwrapper (with the

Wolfe portrait on the rear

panel) lacking the bottom cou-

ple inches of the spine, with several other modest chips and tears, and

several internal tape repairs. This copy is Inscribed by the author: “To

Fidelia E. Stark with warmest thanks. Thomas Wolfe Oct 30, 1929.”

Also laid in is a four-page carbon manuscript (folded, small breaks at

the folds, else near fine), unsigned, but almost certainly by Maxwell

Perkins, dated April 17, 1929 entitled “Selling Points: Look

Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe.” The “Selling Points,” in the third person, recounts the editorial

process in detail, and enumerates the literary wonderment of the book. A modern classic, the author’s

first book, and generally considered his major achievement, a breathtaking autobiographical novel. An

inscribed copy, with an intriguing manuscript account of the birth of the novel. [BTC #67103]

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295 Richard WILBUR. The Beautiful

Changes and Other

Poems. New York:

Reynal & Hitchcock

(1947).

First edition. Covers

slightly sunned, else fine in

a rubbed, near fine dust-

wrapper. Wilbur’s first

book, one of 750 copies.

Signed by the poet on the

front free endpaper. [BTC

#311238]

Inscribed to a 14 year-old future author

294 Walt WHITMAN. Specimen Days & Collect.

Philadelphia: David McKay 1882-’83.

First edition, second issue with the McKay imprint.

Some modest erosion to the cloth on the spine,

paper over the front hinge starting, else a very good

copy. Very nicely Inscribed (but not signed) by

Whitman to a fellow author: “To Churchill Wil-

liams from his friend the

Author with love. December

27, 1883.” Francis (or Frank)

Churchill Williams was the

son of a successful playwright,

and an 1891 graduate of the

University of Pennsylvania

(where he was Class President in his Senior year).

Aside from publishing two novels (including an

interesting portrait of Philadelphia politics, J. Devlin, Boss),

he was an active member of the Philadelphia publishing world as a journalist, edi-

tor, and publisher. He apparently was well-known to most of the literary figures

of the time, and is recorded as a guest at Mark Twain’s 70th birthday party.

Something of a literary prodigy at Germantown Academy where he attended high

school, Whitman’s inscription was written to Williams when he was 14 years old,

a freshman at Germantown, and already winning literary prizes. Presumably Whit-

man, ensconced across the river in Camden, was warmly acquainted with young

Williams, as the affectionate inscription would seem to indicate. Whitman was an

active and agreeable signer, but for whatever reason, Specimen Days isn’t often

found signed by its author, especially with this degree of affection. [BTC #56751]

Long Island Poetry

293 John Hall WHEELOCK. [Poetry

Manuscript Signed]: Bonac [Bonack].

Three page holograph manu-

script of the poem “Bonac” on

three octavo leaves written on

rectos only. Shows extensive

corrections. Note dated in

1952 on the last leaf by

Wheelock explaining that this

was the first draft of the poem

written in 1951 and that

“Bonac is the term used by

local people for that section of

Long Island from Montauk

Point west, along the

south shore for about

thirty miles, including,

of course, East

Hampton where I have

spent part of almost every summer for sixty-four years,

and where I have written most of my poems.” Wheelock

was apparently unsure of the spelling and altered it on

the manuscript from “Bonack” to “Bonac.” Bonack was

an old place name derived from Accabonac Harbor.

[BTC #331207]

292 Paul WEST. Tenement of

Clay. London: Hutchinson of London

(1965).

First edition.

Fine in fine dust-

wrapper with a

couple of tiny

tears. A nice

copy of the

author’s second

novel, Inscribed

to Nan and Charley Mann, who would

become the dedicatees of his best-known

novel, Alley Jaggers: “For Nan and Charley,

with love, Paul. 2 February 1965.” [BTC #92636]

291 Eudora WELTY. [Original photograph]: “Keep Off Grass.”

Original silver gelatin print. Approximately 14" x 11". In unprinted gray folding portfolio.

One of 400 numbered copies Signed by Welty. A photograph of men with their backs to the

camera, assembled on a town green with the most prominent figure with his foot propped

onto a “Keep Off Grass” sign. Although this photograph is of 1930s vintage, apparently it

was issued as a limited and signed fundraiser for the New Stage Theatre in Welty’s home-

town of Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1980s. Welty was an avid and talented photogra-

pher in the 1930s and 1940s, and had images published at that time, but few if any of her

photographs were issued in limited or signed editions until well after she was established as a

writer. Portfolios of her work were published in 1980 and 1992, but they are now all but

unobtainable. Individual images are also scarce. [BTC #330846]

301 W.B. YEATS. Plays in Prose and Verse. Written for an Irish Theatre, and

Generally with the Help of a Friend. London: Macmillan & Co. 1922.

First edition. Faint offsetting to the free endpapers, a touch of sunning to the head of the spine, else fine in

near fine dustwrapper which is modestly chipped at the head of the spine. One of 1500 copies. Wade 136. A

nice example of the fragile and seldom found jacket. [BTC #311271]

299 Franz WRIGHT. The One Whose Eyes Open

When You Close Your Eyes. Roslindale, MA: Pym-Randall

Press 1982.

First edition. Slight rubbing to the boards, and a trifle foxed on the

foredge, still just about fine in a very lightly rubbed, near fine

dustwrapper. One of 400 hardcover copies of a total edition of

1000, of which 50 were numbered and signed by the author.

Although this copy is unnumbered it

bears a warm and long Inscription

from Wright in the year of publica-

tion, to another poet and close per-

sonal friend, about poetry and creat-

ing poems. [BTC #93980]

300 —. Rorschach Test. [No

place]: Minatoby [1991].

First edition. String-tied wrappers.

Pictures by Martha McCollough.

Slight sunning at the spine, very near

fine. One of 100 numbered copies

Signed by both Wright and McCullough.

Very scarce, and not to be confused with the Carnegie-Mellon

University edition published several years later. OCLC locates four

copies of this edition. [BTC #338087]

296 Virginia WOOLF. To the Lighthouse. London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the

Hogarth Press 1927.

First edition. Foxing to the foredge, else just about fine in a very good dustwrapper with some chipping at

the spine and corners, a modest chip on the rear panel, and slight tanning to the spine. The original paper

of the jacket has been archivally strengthened at the folds, else the jacket is entirely original and has NO

supplemental restoration, and is rare thus. One of the author’s most influential novels, a richly textured

examination of gender and family, told through stream-of-consciousness narratives. A nice, unsophisticated

copy of a masterwork of modern literature. Connolly 100. [BTC #49756]

Signed and in the Rare Original Dustwrapper

297 —. Orlando: A Biography. New York: Crosby Gaige 1928.

First edition, preceding the English trade edition. Fine with

none of the usual spine fading, and the only example we have

seen in the original unprinted deep purple glassine dustwrap-

per, that has some minor chip-

ping, mostly on the rear panel.

One of 861 numbered copies Signed by the

author. A fantasy biography of transgendered

Orlando, living alternately as male and female

through four centuries. Made into a Sally Potter

film in 1992 with Tilda Swinton in the title

role and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I. A rarity in jacket. [BTC #79093]

Modern First Editions ~47~ L i t er a t u r e

298 Herman

WOUK. The

Traitor: A Drama. New

York: Samuel French

(1949).

First edition. Cocked thus

good in a price-clipped and

rubbed, good dustwrapper.

Wouk’s second and easily scarcest

title, a play about an atomic sci-

entist who believes the only way

to prevent atomic war is to pro-

vide the Russian Communists

with a deterrent. Only the sec-

ond copy we’ve seen in jacket.

[BTC #292336]

302 W.E. Burghardt DU BOIS. The

Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, together

with A Special Report on Domestic Service by Isabel

Eaton, A.M. Philadelphia:

Published for the University 1899.

First edition. Quarto. 520, (viii)pp.

Diagrams, two folding charts. Full

green cloth with rem-

nants of a leather

spine label. Some ero-

sion to the spine ends,

a small label on the

spine, and a small

ownership mark (pre-

sumably library)

removed from the title

page, a very good

copy, internally about

fine. Bookplate of

“The Wrights” on the

front pastedown.

Issued in both wrappers and

cloth, this is almost certainly

a publisher’s binding, identi-

cal to another copy with

which we are familiar. Signed

by the author, one of several books from the same collection,

most with the same bookplate, and all signed circa 1950,

apparently for the Wrights. Du Bois’s monumental study of the

social conditions in which the Negroes of the Seventh Ward of

Philadelphia lived, and one of the first scientific sociological

studies ever conducted. Du Bois’s method, a house-by-house

canvass of the Ward, had a lasting impact on him, and revealed

to him the true state of urban dwelling African-Americans.

The effect of the study impressed Horace Bumstead, the

President of Atlanta University, enough to offer Du Bois an

appointment in Sociology and direc-

torship of the newly formed confer-

ences that resulted in the Atlanta

University Studies of the Negro

Problem, and which eventually

resulted in his ascension to national

prominence. Copies of the first edi-

tion of The Philadelphia Negro, in

any condition, are very scarce; this is

the only signed copy we’ve seen.

Blockson 101 #48. [BTC #283253]

303 —. The Souls of Black

Folk. London: Constable 1905.

First English edition from American sheets. Frontispiece por-

trait. A clipping affixed to the front pastedown, and the boards

are very slightly rubbed, else fine with the gilt spine-lettering

bright. An especially nice copy of the English edition of the

author’s best known book, in a slightly larger format than the

American edition, and certainly as scarce. Blockson 101 #52.

[BTC #74578]

304 Jean-Louis DUBROCA. Vida de J.J.

Dessalines, gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo; con

notas muy circunstanciadas sobre el origen, caracter y

atrocidades de los principales gefes de aquellos rebeldes

desde el principio de la insurreccion en 1791. Mexico: en la

oficina de Mariano de Zuniga y Ontiveros 1806.

First Mexican edition. Small quarto. Frontis-

piece and nine plates engraved by Jose

Ambrosi Carraro, three of which have hand-

some contemporary hand coloring. Contem-

porary marbled calf with spine

gilt. The most important edition

of this Afro-Mexicanum illus-

trated book. Published originally

in France in 1804, then translat-

ed into Spanish and published

in Spain in 1805, this title tells

of the revolution in Haiti, the

personalities of the leaders of the

revolution, and stresses the mob

violence, excesses, and atrocities.

The portraits of the leaders

include Dessalines, Toussaint

L’Ouverture, Christobal, and

Biasou, as well as depicting graphic scenes of decapitation, dismembered

bodies, dead babies, and executions. Dubroca was hired by the Bona-

parte regime to conduct a propaganda war against Toussaint L’Ouver-

ture, the leader of the slave revolt at Santa Domingue, and this work is a

similar vilification of his successor, Dessalines. Exhibition of Slavery and

Justice, Selected

Sources from the

John Carter

Brown Library,

number 22

(describing this

edition). A

beautiful copy

of an interest-

ing book.

[BTC

#280454]

Between the Covers ~48~ C a t al o g u e 16 6

305 Jessie FAUSET. The Chinaberry Tree. London:

Elkin Mathew & Marrot 1932.

First English edition. Introduction by

Zona Gale. Corners slightly bumped, a lit-

tle fading at the extremities, about fine in

an age-toned, very good plus dustwrapper

with three old and unnecessary internal

repairs. A very attractive copy of the third

novel by the influential literary editor of

The Crisis. Extremely uncommon. OCLC

lists five copies in world libraries; how

many retain the rare jacket is not speci-

fied, but we suspect the answer is none.

[BTC #68356]

First Edition of the First African Poet to Be Published in Europe

307 Juan LATINO (Juan de SESSA). Ad Catholicum, et Invictissimum Philippum Dei Gratia

Hispaniarum Regem ... Sicut per unum Hominem de Terra Terrenum morimur, itaper unum hominem de ceolo

ceolestem nobiscum regalia corpora vivisicabuntur. Grenada: Hugo de Mena 1576.

First edition. 68 leaves. Tied contemporary flexible vellum, title in manuscript

on the spine. Woodcut coat of arms on the title-page, repeated on the large

folding plate, and on one other page, with an additional small woodcut of the

Crucifixion. One tie broken, split at the top joint, a tear on the title-page, else a

handsome, very good copy. An excessively rare first edition of the second work

of Juan Latino, the great “Ethiopian Humanist.” Latino (also known as Juan de

Sessa) was captured by Spanish sailors, probably near the coast of Guinea, and

subsequently sold to Gonzalo Ferdinando de Cordova Duca de Sessa, hence

Juan’s name. Sponsored by his master, Juan studied at the University of

Grenada, eventually was set free, and received the chair of grammar at his uni-

versity. He was the first published African poet in Europe, the first African to

be published in Europe in Latin (thus his later name, Latino), and the second

African to be published in Europe,

after Leo Africanus (see item 308).

Cervantes mentions Latino in his classic work Don Quixote as “El

Negro Juan Latino,” and regarded him as the epitome of a pedantic

scholar (not without some derision, as Cervantes himself was not as

fluent in Latin as he would have liked to be). In this particular

work, Latino’s second of three (he published a similar work in 1573,

issued by the same publisher, known in only one copy, Blockson 101

#2), he describes in both prose and verse the celebration of the

transfer of the Royal remains, by the command of King Philip II,

from the Cathedral in Granada to the mausoleum in the Royal

monastery Escorial. Apparently only two other copies are known, at

Harvard and the University of Grenada. The only Juan Latino first

edition we have ever seen on the market. [BTC #280447]

First Published Story by an African-American Woman and the First African-American Novel Published in America

306 (Anthology). (F.E.W. HARPER, Martin R. DELANY, et al). The Anglo-African Magazine. New York:

Thos. Hamilton 1859.

Volume 1 (January-December, 1859). Octavo. 400pp. Bound in

modern, period-sympathetic quarter morocco and paper covered

boards. Engraved frontispiece of Alexander Dumas. A few small

tears in the margins of some pages, some foxing and small stains to

the indifferent quality paper, else very near fine. Owner’s signature

(“Ellis A. Potter”) on two endpapers. Almost a complete run (only

three other issues were produced from January-March, 1860) of a

remarkably rare and important periodical, with contributions by

many prominent African-Americans including the publisher,

Thomas Hamilton. Among the other contributors are Frances E.

W. Harper, Martin R. Delany, J. Mercer Langston, Edward W.

Blyden, James M’Cune Smith, J.W.C. Pennington, Bishop Daniel

Payne, Sarah M. Douglass, and William C. Nell. Two contribu-

tions stand out: “The Two Offers” by F.E.W. Harper (here referred

to as Frances Ellen Watkins), which appears complete in the September and October issues, is the first published

short story by an African-American woman. The volume also contains substantial portions of the first novel by an African-American to be pub-

lished in the United States, Blake, or, The Huts of America by Martin R. Delany. Chapters 1-23 and 29-31 appeared serially in the January-June

issues. They were later reprinted, along with the rest of Part One, in the Weekly African-American in the 1860s. The novel was never published in

complete form until 1970. The only novels by African-Americans that precede, Clotel and The Garies and Their Friends, were both published

previously in London and not published in the United States until 1864 and 1969, respectively. Other articles include “On the Fourteenth

Query of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia” by James M’Cune Smith; “Colored American Patriots” by William C. Nell; a poem, “Gone to

God,” as well as an essay, “Our Greatest Want” by F.E.W. Harper; and many others worthy of mention. The ownership signature of Potter may

belong to an African-American by that name who served as the Recording Secretary of the African Civilization Society of New York, but who

supposedly emigrated to Liberia late in 1859, and thus may not have received all issues of the magazine, or at least did not receive them until

later. [BTC #282567]

First Editions ~49~ African-Americana

Blockson 101 #1

308 Johannes LEO AFRICANUS. De totius Africæ descriptione libri IX. (...). Antwerp:

Apud. Ioan Latium (Joannes Latius) 1556.

First edition of the Latin translation by Joannes Florianus of the book originally published in

Italian as Della descrittione dell’Africa in Venice in 1550. Small octavo. Contemporary vellum

with old, but probably later leather spine label gilt. 302 leaves, lacks the final blank. Woodcut

vignette on the title page. Some light foxing, a few small wormholes on the spine, “Africa. Jo:

Leo” written in a contemporary hand on the bottom of the page edges, a pleasing, very good or

better copy of the very uncommon first Latin edition. Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, the

Moroccan ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, was captured by Italian pirates, delivered to

Pope Leo X, and converted to Catholicism, almost certainly under threat of death. Leo, a schol-

arly pope, was much taken with the erudite African, and encouraged this exhaustive geographical

and historical treatise on Africa. By all accounts it was considered the primary source on African

history, and remained so for centuries. It is one of the few works from the post-medieval Islamic

world that had an influence in Europe. Leo Africanus, as he was known, later returned to Tunis

and reconverted to Islam. This is generally considered to be the first book published in Europe by a person of primarily African descent. The

Italian edition is rare. The last copy of this Latin edition at auction was in 1981. Blockson 101 #1 (referencing, and illustrating the title page

of this edition): “Any edition of Africanus works is rare and is the cornerstone of any collection of African history.” [BTC #78130]

Locke’s Own Copy!

309 Alain LOCKE. The New Negro: An Interpretation. New

York: Albert & Charles Boni 1925.

First edition. 446pp. Color portraits by Winold Reiss, and additional illustra-

tions by Aaron Douglas. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. A bit of the

usual rubbing to the edges of the papercovered boards, a slight remnant from a

removed label on the half-title, else a nice, near fine copy without the rare dust-

wrapper. Alain Locke’s copy with his Aaron Douglas-designed bookplate on the

verso of the decorated front fly. Locke’s bookplate gives his title as “Prof. Phil.

Howard University 1912 -” with a blank space for the second date, which he has

filled in with the date of publication of this book “1925” in ink. Drawing from

works that Locke had compiled for the special issue of Survey Graphic, and great-

ly expanding it for this anthology, this book basically announced the Harlem

Renaissance to the outside world. It would be hard to over emphasize the importance that this book played in

the development and popularization of that movement. Includes articles, essays, poetry, and fiction by Locke, Rudolph Fisher,

Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Jessie Fauset, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Eric

Walrond, Bruce Nugent, William Stanley Braithwaite, Angelina Grimke, W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter White, and many others. The portraits by

Reiss, a German expressionist and teacher of Aaron Douglas, are particularly striking. As good a copy as you could want of one of the tower-

ing high spots of the Harlem Renaissance. Blockson 101 #64. [BTC #338981]

African-Americana ~50~ Between the Covers

The Dedication Copy

310 Eslanda Goode ROBESON. Paul Robeson, Negro. New York: Harper and Brothers 1930.

First edition. Corners worn, and the spine has been professionally and

nearly seamlessly rebacked, a fair only copy, lacking the dustwrapper. A

biography of Robeson by his wife. The Dedication Copy. The printed

dedication reads “For Our Son.” Their only child, Paul Robeson, Jr., was a

mere two years old at the time of publication. This is Paul Robeson, Jr.’s

copy with his bold ownership Signature on the front fly (obviously writ-

ten at a later date). It also has the smaller ownership signature of Rev.

Benjamin C. Robeson (Paul Robeson, Sr.’s brother). In addition, the

subject of the book, Paul Robeson, Sr., has noted on the rear fly:

“April 25, 1956. Have translated = The Soviet Biography . - John.

Soldier of Peace.” An exact timeline of ownership is impossible to

determine, but we suggest this was one of Paul Robeson, Sr.’s own copies,

was then given to his brother, and was later inherited by the dedicatee, to

whom his mother probably did not see fit to inscribe a copy while he was still in diapers. [BTC #82669]

315 Richard F. BURTON. Personal

Narrative of a

Pilgrimage to El-

Medinah and Meccah.

New York: G.P. Putnam & Co.

1856.

First American edition. Original

publisher’s brown cloth titled and

decorated in gilt. Folding map, two

frontispiece engrav-

ings, some modest

foxing in the text,

and a stain to the

bottom margin of

several pages affect-

ing no text, spine

gilt bright, a nice

and presentable, very

good copy of Bur-

ton’s account of his

daring and famous

Hajj. [BTC #88050]

Signed by President Asa Messer

314 (Brown University). The Laws of Rhode-Island

College. Enacted by the Fellows and Trustees [with]

Supplement to the Laws of Rhode-Island College.

Providence: Printed by J. Carter 1803.

First edition. Disbound. 29, [1] plus 6, [1]pp. A short tear on the first leaf

(title-page) else very good or better. Published

the year before the college changed its name to

Brown. Apparently intended to be given to

matriculating students, on the last page of the

first work is a form for admitting a new stu-

dent. The form has been filled out in hand, the

first letter of the student’s name has been

trimmed but it appears to be [E]than Allen

(not the

great patri-

ot, who

died in

1789, but presumably a descendent), “Rhode-

Island College” has been changed to “Brown

University” and it has been Signed by the president of the University Asa

Messer. A few corrections are made by hand in the text. [BTC #338254]

313 (Australia).

(Harden S.

MELVILLE). The

Adventures of a Griffin on a Voyage of

Discovery written by Himself.

Philadelphia and London: J.B.

Lippincott & Co. and Bell and Daldy

1867.

First edition. Illustrated with woodcuts

from Harden S. Melville’s own draw-

ings. Publisher’s blue cloth elaborately

stamped in gilt. Coated endpapers, all

edges gilt. Contemporary gift inscrip-

tion, slight chipping at the crown,

hinges cracked in a couple of places

but holding, a good or better copy of

an uncommon third person travel nar-

rative. Melville’s adventures as draught-

sman on the HMS Fly as it conducted the first official

hydrographic survey of the northeast coast of Australia in 1842-

1846, with extensive illustrations of Australia. A modestly flawed

but handsome copy of an uncommon title. [BTC #340051]

312 (Animal Rights). William

H. DRUMMOND. The

Rights of Animals, and

Man’s Obligation to Treat Them

With Humanity. London: John

Mardon 1838.

First edition. Small octavo. Original

brown cloth with printed paper spine

label. 216 pp. Front fly adhered to

pastedown, edgewear at the joints,

corners a little bumped, and some

scattered foxing, a very good copy. An

important work concerning animal

rights by a noted Irish Presbyterian

minister and Unitarian theologian,

poet, and translator of ancient Irish

legends. His passionate concern for

the rights of animals led him in 1830

to deliver and publish at the behest of

the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals a discourse titled

“Humanity to Animals: The Christian’s Duty,” which he later

expanded into this book. [BTC #313213]

311 Sunday Review, 1813. London: J.Morton 1813.

Bound in later red cloth with leather spine label gilt. 832pp. Bound volume for the

complete year of 1813 of this weekly newspaper of politics, news, and the arts. Old

mercantile library stamps on the front page of a few issues. Small tears and light fox-

ing in text, spine faded, small paper remnants on the rear board. A wealth of infor-

mation, particularly primary source material on the Napoleonic Wars, with addition-

al attention paid to the American situation, domestic politics, crime, births, deaths,

theatricals, and books published. Also contains advertisements for contemporary

books and sundry products including our favorite: Dr. Harvey’s Anti-Venereal Pills

(offered “By His Majesty’s Authority” no less!). Scarce. [BTC #297130]

C a t al o g u e 16 6 ~51~ Antiquarian Books

316 Lydia Maria CHILD. Autograph

Sentiment Signed.

Autograph

Sentiment Signed:

“It is not a wise say-

ing ‘Let Truth pre-

vail, though the

heavens fall;’ for the

heavens never DO

fall when Truth pre-

vails. L. Maria

Child, 1875.” The

card (4" x 2½") is a

little amateurishly

mounted with an

attractive early paint-

ing of flowers and a

steel engraving of Child. [BTC #328325]

320 Soren KIERKEGAARD. Enten – Eller:

Et Livsfragment udgivet af

Victor Eremita [Either – Or].

Kjobenhavn: C.A. Reitzel 1843.

First edition. Two

volumes. Text in

Danish. Sympa-

thetically rebound in

black morocco gilt

and cloth covered

boards, with new

endpapers and lack-

ing the half-titles.

Kierkegaard’s first

major work, one of

the most important

works of 19th Cen-

tury philosophy, which first expounded his theories of choice

and laid the groundwork for 20th Century Existentialism. One

of only 525 copies printed. A lovely copy. Himmelstrup 20.

Printing and the Mind of Man 314. [BTC #78520]

319 (Alexander HAMILTON). Eliphalet NOTT

[and] John M’DONALD. A Discourse delivered in

the North Dutch Church, in the City

of Albany, Occasioned by the ever to be

lamented Death of General

Alexander Hamilton, July 26,

1804 [bound with] A Sermon

on the Premature and

Lamented Death of

General Alexander

Hamilton. Albany: Published by

Request by Charles R. and George

Webster [and] Published by Request by

John Barber

1804.

First edi-

tion. Later 19th Century binding. 40pp; 32pp.

Bookplate and stamp of collector Charles

Walker Andrews on the front pastedown, spine

rubbed and worn, internally a little foxed, else

near fine. Two important eulogies on

Hamilton’s death. The first title prints the

Appendix, which reprints Hamilton’s last letter

about his duel with Burr. [BTC #313932]

318 (German Literature). Elui-Bibliothek der

Deutschen Classiker [Library of the German

Classics]. Aachen / Heilbronn: F.W. Forstmann /

G.G. Strasser 1816-1825.

First edition thus. 80 volumes with engraved title-

vignettes and portraits. Each volume is approxi-

mately 3¼" x 3½". Bound in contemporary half

tree-calf with colored labels on the spines. A very

good to fine set with some labels lacking, wear to

extremities and some light chipping. A handsome

near-miniature library of German literary classics from the

early part of the 19th Century. While many of the volumes

are available individually, a compete set such as this in their

original bindings and in this condition is exceedingly uncom-

mon. [BTC #322701]

317 (Gems). Adolf FURTWANGER. Die Antiken

Gemmen Geschichte Der

Steinschneidekunst [History of

Ancient Gems Cut Stone Art].

Leipzig & Berlin: Giesecke & Devrient

1900.

First edition. Three volumes. Text in

German. Very good, rebound in red cloth

with the original black leather spine labels

retained. 67 plates with multiple stones

displayed in each, with a description and

explanation of each and a history of the art

of cut stones in classic antiquity. Labels

with some chipping, cloth a bit soiled,

remnants of a bookplate on the pastedowns

of each volume, and a dampstain on the front board

of Volume 3. Internally tight and clean. An examination of the

gem collection at the Berlin Antiquarium. [BTC #325634]

Between the Covers ~52~ C a t al o g u e 16 6

323 (New York History). The

First Book of Records of

the Town of Southampton

with Other Ancient Documents

of Historic Value. Sag-Harbor, NY:

John H. Hunt, Book and Job Printer

1874.

First edition.

Half diced

leather with

leather spine

label gilt and

papercovered

boards.

177pp.

Hairline crack to the front joint and

a stain on the rear board, else a tight

and attractive, very good copy.

Exceptionally uncommon. OCLC

locates three copies. No copies at

auction in the last several decades.

[BTC #285388]

324 (New York History). Francis’s New Guide to the Cities of New-York

and Brooklyn, and the Vicinity: Giving a full descrip-

tion of the Metropolis and its Environs, with a particular

account of Public Buildings, Institutions of Benevolence,

Learning, Science, Art, Literature, Business and Recreation,

Churches, Motels, Banks, Theatres, &c., tables of distance,

and the various methods of conveyance in and from the

cities and the neighborhood. With maps, and numerous

engravings. New York: C.S. Francis & Co. 1854.

12mo. 148pp., plates, folding map.

Green cloth stamped in blind and

gilt. Small bookseller’s label, a little

soiling to the front board, the fold-

ing map has a horizontal tear, but is

otherwise complete, else a nice, near

fine copy. Bookplate of Henry H. Haight, a Yale

graduate from Rochester, New York who served as Governor

of California from 1867-1871, and who was likely the name-

sake of Haight Street in San Francisco (his uncle, a prominent

banker, also has been noted occasionally as the source of the

street name). A particularly nice publisher’s cloth binding.

OCLC locates eleven copies under three different entries.

[BTC #332069]

322 (New Jersey History). H.C. WOOLMAN, T.F. ROSE and T.T.

PRICE, M.D. (Woolman and Rose). Historical and Biographical Atlas

of the New Jersey Coast. Philadelphia: Woolman & Rose 1878.

First edition. Folio. Original quarter leather and cloth boards. Lithographic title page, many

colored maps, and lithographic prints of Jersey Shore towns in Cape May, Atlantic, Ocean, and

Monmouth Counties. A small bookplate on the front pastedown and a small name on the top

margin of the title page, corners rubbed through, very good, with the maps and prints in fine

condition. One of the most eagerly sought of New Jersey atlases. [BTC #188184]

321 (Magic). H[enri] DECREMPS. Testament de Jérôme Sharp, professeur de phy-

sique amusante: où l’on trouve parmi plusieurs tours de subtilité, qu’on peut exécuter sans

aucune dépense, des préceptes & des exemples sur l’art de faire des chansons

impromptu: pour servir de complément a La magie blanche dévoilée. Paris: Chez

l’auteur; Granger; Bailly; Lagrange; Lesclapart... 1786.

Second edition. Text in French. Octavo. 328, [1]pp. Woodcuts and relief cuts of musical notation.

Contemporary papercovered boards with leather spine label. Label chipped, some erosion to the

boards, else a pleasing, about very good copy. Exposé of one of the first great conjurors, which did

nothing to diminish his popularity. Scarce in boards. [BTC #322217]

Antiquarian Books ~53~ Between the Covers

327 Peter ST. JOHN. The Death of Abel,

An Historical or rather Conjectural Poem;

Relating many things which might probably take

place both Before and After that Barbarous

Fratricide. Danbury [CT.]: Printed by Nathan Douglas,

for the author 1793.

First edition. [6], [13]-186pp.

Errata and (facetious) list of sub-

scribers bound in after preface,

some copies have the errata bound

as the last leaf.

Rebound, with new

endpapers, in later pur-

ple cloth gilt. A stain

on the first few leaves, a

bit of foxing, slight loss

to a few words in the

preface, else a very good

copy. Humorous dog-

gerel supposedly trans-

lated from the German.

Scarce. OCLC locates

three copies in two

entries, all in New

England (AAS, Brown, Trinity). [BTC #299290]

326 (Reynard the Fox). Hartman SCHOPPER.

Speculum Vitae Aulicae. De Admirabili

Fallacia et Astutia Vulpeculae Reinikes Libri

Quatuor, nunc primum ex idiomate

Germanico latinitate donati, adiectis elegan-

tissimis iconibus, veras omnium apologorum

animaliumque species ad vivum adumbranti-

bus. [Reynard the Fox]. Francof. ad Moenum

[Frankfurt]: Nicolaus Bassaeus 1579.

Third edition of the first Latin transla-

tion of Reynard the Fox, previously pub-

lished in 1567 and 1574. 24mo. 496,

[20]pp. 57 woodcuts by Jobst Amman.

Utilitarian later (probably early 20th

Century) cloth with morocco spine

label gilt. Trimmed but with reasonable

margins. A small worm hole on the first

few leaves, a very good or better copy.

The Reynard cycle of stories (satirical

allegories rather than stories for chil-

dren), in which the trickster fox outwits

his enemies, often the greedy and dull-witted wolf, arose in the 10th and 11th

Centuries and were popular throughout medieval Europe in several languages,

most notably in the French versions. Several more modern translations derive

from Schopper’s Latin version. [BTC #309780]

325 Robert OWEN. A New View of Society: or, Essays on the Formation of the Human Character, Preparatory

to the Development of a Plan for Gradually Ameliorating the Condition of Mankind to which

are Prefixed Rules and Regulations of a Community [bound with] An Address to the

Inhabitants of New Lanark, The First of January, 1816, at the Opening of the Institution

established for the Formation of Character. Cincinnati: Published by Luman Watson. Looker & Reynolds,

Printers / Printed by S.J. Brown at the Emporium Office, for Luman Watson 1825.

“First American edition from the Fourth London edition”

of the first title (one of two 1825 issues, the other pub-

lished in New York), and first American edition of the sec-

ond title “From the Fourth London Edition.” Original or

contemporary wrappers. 84pp., 56pp. Wrappers are

encased in a homemade dustwrapper (and the fragility of

the dustwrapper is such that we have not removed it), con-

structed from the April 27, 1827 issue of the Boston

Record and Telegraph (predating by two years the first

known publisher’s dustwrapper). Wrappers beneath appear

to be green, and we assume unprinted. Slight foxing to the

text, else near fine, the dustwrapper is a little worn at the folds, but

still very good or better. Ownership signature of the Rev. William Andrus Alcott with

his library number (“Wm. A. Alcott, No. 372”) on the title page of the first work.

Alcott (1798-1859) was a pioneer educational reformer (as was Owen), an early promulgator of the vegetarian movement (he founded and

was the first president of the American Vegetarian Society), a bestselling self-help author, and a cousin and close friend of Bronson Alcott.

The most important work by the founder of the utopian socialist movement, in a rare western edition, issued the same year that Owen

founded his utopian community in New Harmony, Indiana. Owen, a successful, Welsh-born mill owner in New Lanark, Scotland, reformed

the living conditions in which his workers lived, and founded the cooperative movement, in which workers would benefit from the savings

of bulk purchases that Owen made of food and other commodities. He also founded “infant schools” and greatly reformed education for the

children of the poor and working class. When his partners in the mill became concerned that he wasn’t maximizing profits, he re-organized

the company with more sympathetic partners who included Jeremy Bentham, and embarked fulltime upon philanthropy and in espousing

the philosophical and practical underpinnings used in creating utopian communities.

This is by far the rarer of the two American printings published in 1825. OCLC locates six confirmed copies of this edition (compared to

nearly thirty of the New York printing). Printing and the Mind of Man 271. Rare and important, and intriguing in this near-contemporary

custom jacket. [BTC #99183]

Between the Covers ~54~ C a t al o g u e 16 6

First Edition of the first book by America’s first female doctor

330 (Women). Elizabeth BLACKWELL, M.D. The Laws of Life, With Special Reference to the Physical

Education of Girls. New York: George P. Putnam 1852.

First edition of the first book by America’s first female doctor. 180pp. Bound in original gray-green blind-stamped

cloth, all edges stained red, spine sunned to green (as usual with this cloth), a small professional repair at the bottom

of spine resulting in loss of part of “P” and all of “U” and “T” in the publisher’s name, original owner’s name in pen-

cil on the front free endpaper, “Robert Porter” and dated 1852, name in pencil repeated on page 63, else fine, a love-

ly copy of a scarce book that rarely turns up on the open market. Blackwell’s text was developed from a series of lec-

tures she had given the previous spring and was published just three years after she earned her medical degree. These

themes were to concern her throughout her life, which was spent trying to improve the lives of other women. In this

radical treatise, Blackwell goes against the conventional wisdom of her contemporaries and advocates physical fitness

for girls and women. She points out that a healthy diet is crucial for young girls as that will enable mental as well as

physical development. Her arguments for these healthy life changes range from common sense to a citing of ancient

Greek and Roman traditions. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), born in England, became an American citizen and

was the first modern female to practice medicine in this country. She was a member of an extraordinary family of

reformers: her sister Emily also practiced medicine and was America’s third female doctor; her sister Anna was a

newspaper correspondent, another sister, Ellen, was an author and artist. Her brother Henry married the

abolitionist and suffragist Lucy Stone, and her brother Samuel married Antoinette Brown Blackwell,

America’s first ordained woman minister.

Elizabeth opened the first U.S. hospital run by women doctors, and, during the Civil War, helped

form the Woman’s Central Relief Association, spurring the formation of the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

“Going off at age twenty-one to a teaching position in Kentucky, she realized that the traditional job with

its inevitable culmination in marriage and motherhood was not for her, and she began consciously think-

ing about a way to avoid marriage in an era with virtually no employment opportunities for women. She

settled on the idea of becoming a doctor – something that, for women, was wholly without precedent.”

(Weatherford). Her early medical career was a struggle against great opposition. After rejection by about

ten medical schools she was accepted as a joke at Geneva College in western New York. She startled the

males by showing up, and went on to graduate at the head of her class in 1849. In 1853 she founded the

New York Infirmary for Women and Children with her physician-sister Emily and Dr. Marie

Zakrzewska. She returned to England (where she spent the rest of her life) and in 1869 she opened the

Women’s Medical College with Florence Nightingale, and then in 1874 was a co-founder of the London

School of Medicine for Women, where she had a chair in gynecology. NAW I, pp. 161-65; Hersh, The Slavery of Sex, p. 171; Read & Witlieb,

The Book of Women’s Firsts, pp. 54-55; Weatherford, American Women’s History, pp. 39-40; Timelines, pp. 145, 221, 222, 258. [BTC #87669]

Signed by America’s First Successful Vintner

329 (Wine). Abailard a Heloise. Cluny: [No

publisher] 1776.

First edition published in Cluny. Octavo. Original string-

tied unprinted blue wrappers. (1-7)8-16pp, with half-title

and one page of ads. Text within an ornamental “bamboo”

border throughout. “Abailard a Heloise 1777” is hand-

written on the front wrap, light edgewear, spine splitting,

else a pleasing very good or better copy. The pamphlet is

Signed on the title page: “Pierre Legaux 1777.” Pierre

Legaux, a Frenchman born in Lorraine, emigrated to

Saint Domingue (modern day Haiti), and later, in 1785,

to Pennsylvania. In 1793, he purchased Mount Joy, the

former estate of Anthony Morris overlooking the

Schuylkill River at Spring Mill, 13 miles northwest of

Philadelphia, and there, in concert with the American

Philosophical Society, he established the Vine Company

of Philadelphia, the first commercial vineyard and winery

in the U.S. Legaux’s journals were donated by bequest to

the APS in 1866 by a descendent. Additionally this is a bibliographically interesting

issue of the famous 12th Century romantic tragedy – no other books published in

Cluny appear in OCLC before 1841. Thus while we have no reason to question the

date of the pamphlet (especially because of the corroborating handwritten date, a year

apart from the date of publication), the imprint itself may be spurious. [BTC #83357]

328 (The Titanic). Zatoniecie

Parowca “Titanic” [Sinking of the

Steamer “Titanic”]. Stevens Point, WI:

Wydawnictwo Braci Worzallów 1912.

First edition (we

assume). 98pp.

Illustrated.

Photographically

illustrated purple

coated wrappers.

Text in Polish.

Pages browned,

wrappers a little

soiled, and with

mild wear at the

spine, else a near

fine copy of a

cheap production.

An account of the Titanic disaster prepared for

Polish immigrants in the Midwest. Rare. Not in

Rasor’s The Titanic: Historiography and Annotated

Bibliography. OCLC locates no copies. [BTC

#340090]

Antiquarian Books ~55~ Between the Covers

331 (Architecture). Cameroun Hilton Architectural Presentation Book. (New York / Yaounde, Cameroun):

WBTL Architects / Fobi Nchinda & Associates [1989?].

Oblong folio. (100)pp. Comb-bound in wrappers with acetate dustwrapper. The

front wrap lightly toned and the page ends a bit worn, near fine, in lightly rubbed

wrappers with a chip to the rear and crease to the front, about near fine. The archi-

tectural presentation book for the Younde Hilton in Cameroun with more than 50

pages of floor plans showing the various interiors, including several tipped in that

fold out. In addition, the book contains 17 pages of color images showing the furni-

ture, light

fixtures,

and wall

and floor

covering

used in the

construction of each room,

along with 11 full-color artist renderings of how the

rooms will look when finished. One of a very limited number of

privately produced architectural presentation books from one of the

world’s leading hotel

firms. [BTC #340135]

332 (Architecture). Jules GAILHABAUD. L’Architecture du Ve au

XVIIe siècle et les arts qui en dépendent: la sculpture, la peinture murale,

la peinture sur verre, la mosaïque, la ferronnerie, etc., publiés d’après les

travaux inédits des principaux architectes français et étrangers [Architecture

in the Fifth to the Seventeenth Century....] Paris: Gide, Editeur 1858.

First edition. Four volumes. Quarto. Contemporary quarter morocco and cloth. Joints of a

couple of volumes a little stressed but holding, spine ends a bit worn, and slight foxing to the

plates, mostly confined to the margins, a very good set. Born into a wealthy family of textile

merchants, Gailhabaud (1810-1888) devoted his life to the study of architecture, art, and

archeology, and spent eight years compiling this beautifully illustrated encyclopedia. He attempted to make his works both

authoritative and accessible to laymen, but his enthusiasm got the better of him and by the 1860s he had lost much of his fortune attempting to

publish a monumental history of art. He was compelled to sell his personal library to the City of Paris for a large sum and a lifetime curatorial

position, but the library was destroyed in an 1871 fire. Although his legacy suffered considerably from this reversal in fortune, his works on

medieval churches and cathedrals are still in print to this day. [BTC #319234]

333 (Architecture). H.T.

LINDEBERG. Domestic

Architecture of H.T.

Lindeberg. New York: William

Helburn, Inc. 1940.

First edition. Folio. Quarter red leather and

cloth. Introduction by

Royal Cortissoz. Corners a

bit frayed, spine ends a bit

rubbed, a very good copy of

an uncommon title. The

work of architect H.T.

Lindeberg displayed in illus-

trations, photographs, and

schematics including a list

of his clients. One of 1000

copies. [BTC #286188]

334 (Architecture). Carl von STEGMANN

and Heinrich von GEYMUELLER. The

Architecture of the Renaissance in Tuscany.

Illustrating the Most Important

Churches, Palaces,

Villas and

Monuments. New York:

The Architectural Book

Publishing Company

(1924).

First edition. Preface by

Guy Lowell. Two volumes.

Large folio. Illustrated.

Fine in lightly worn, very

near fine dustwrappers

with very small nicks and

tears. A lovely set and rare

in this condition. [BTC

#308394]

Art & Architecture ~56~ Between the Covers

335 Dan BEARD. [Original pen and ink drawing]: Frontiersman and his horse in the Forest, with an Indian

in the background.

Large pen and watercolor drawing. 24½" x 16". Contemporary oak frame

and glazing. Unexamined out of the frame, but appears just about fine.

Signed in lower right-hand corner: “Dan Beard 1919.” A frontiersman

leads a pack horse, with an Indian with a musket in the background.

Beard was a popular illustrator, particularly of adventure stories, including

several by Mark Twain (A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Tom Sawyer

Abroad, etc.) as well as one of the pioneer organizers of the Boy Scouts of

America. An especially large image presumably intended as a magazine or

book illustration. [BTC #326974]

337 Ada Rasario

CERERE. [Original

Pencil Sketch for a

Mural]: “History of

Women’s Rights Move-

ment - Top Group - Susan

B. Anthony, Leaders for

Ballot Voting, etc.”

Pencil sketch. Image size 7½" x

11½" (on 9½" x 15" artist’s board).

Signed on the verso with the

author’s New York City address.

Undated, but circa 1940. One cor-

rection on the ballot box held by a

woman, else a complete, detailed

sketch of women in educational

and factory settings. [BTC

#331042]

336 Marc CHAGALL and Paul ELUARD.

Le dur désir de Durer. Philadelphia and London:

The Grey Falcon Press and The Trianon Press (1950).

First edition in English, Trianon Press issue. Small quarto.

Translated into English verse

by Stephen Spender and

Frances Cornford. Color

lithograph frontispiece by

Marc Chagall. Very near fine

in wrappers and near fine

unprinted tissue dustwrap-

per (neatly secured to wraps

with stamp hinges). Copy

number 530 of 750 num-

bered copies reserved for the

Trianon Press. [BTC

#339380]

338 [Jean Baptiste Marie and Claude Hilaire

Alphonse] CHAMOUIN. Collection de Vues

de Paris, prises au Daguerréotype [alternate title]:

Collection de 28 Vues de PARIS prises au

Daguerréotype gravures en taille douce sur acier. Paris:

Chamouin [1860].

First edition. Oblong quarto. Red

cloth stamped in gilt and blind.

Engraved title page, plus twenty-

eight engravings (complete) of Paris locations. Edgewear,

hinges tender, some foxing, mostly to the tissue

guards (where present) and margins, but a little

on the images, a sound, very good copy. [BTC

#317692]

339 (Artists Books). Joseph J. D’AMBROSIO. Krome, a further experi-

ence. Intended as a sequel to You Dress “Funny,” an experience. [No place]: (Joseph J.

D’Ambrosio 1971).

First edition. 12mo. Silver foil boards. Illustrated with original silk-screens. Fine. D’Ambrosio’s second book. One

of 100 numbered copies Signed by the artist. “This volume of story-graphics was produced completely by hand, using a

flat bed printing press and sundry silk screen techniques.” Scarce. [BTC #311909]

C a t al o g u e 16 6 ~57~ Art & Architecture

345 Alex KATZ and Kenneth

KOCH. Interlocking Lives. New York:

Kulchur Press

1970.

First edition, hard-

cover issue. Small

square quarto.

Pictorial orange

boards. A couple of

spots on the

foredge, and the boards a bit rubbed, but otherwise near fine. The

hardcover issue is scarce. [BTC #278969]

340 Jurg DA VAZ. Intricacies. (Washington, DC: The Artist 1979).

First edition.

Oblong

folio. Near

fine in

worn, good

only dust-

wrapper.

Marked

“Special

Edition” in ink by the Swiss avante-garde

artist and filmmaker, as well as additionally

Signed, monogrammed, and dated by him,

this copy has also been nicely Inscribed: “To my dear

friends Mr. & Mrs. Kamenetz, A person’s creativity is one of its essen-

tial resources, and what he does to protect and develop that resource is a measure

of his strength and vitality. 7-8-79.” [BTC #279098]

341 Neil K.

DAVEY.

Netsuke: A com-

prehensive study

based on the M.T.

Hindson

Collection. New

York: Sotheby Parke

Bernet (1974).

First American edition.

Quarto. 564pp.

Preface by W.W.

Winkworth. Light edgewear to the cloth cover,

owner name on the front fly, else near fine in fine

dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to David

Radovsky on the front endpaper. Includes a glossary

of Japanese terms, index of Netsuke artists, market

prices of every piece, detailed index of 2,500 names,

and more. [BTC #314758]

342 Julian DE MISKEY. [Original Watercolor]: New Yorker

Magazine Cover

October 16, 1948.

Original cover illustration for

the October 16, 1948 issue of

New Yorker magazine. A

woman in fur coat eagerly

addressing a crowd from the

top of a truck: “Vote! Straight

Ticket!” Image 11¼" x 16",

matted and framed to 20¼" x

27½". Small stain on backer,

else fine. [BTC #331529]

343 John HELD, Jr. [Original illustra-

tion]: L’Envoi [from]: Saturday to Monday.

Pen and ink

drawing of an

exhausted cou-

ple in chairs.

Signed by art-

ist. 7" x 10½"

matted in 15"

x 18" frame.

This original

illustration

reproduced on page 78 of the book Saturday

to Monday by Newman Levy and John Held,

Jr., published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1930.

[BTC #326626]

344 Frances Tipton

HUNTER. [Pencil sketch]: Two

children at an outdoor pic-

nic disrupted by a dog-and-cat

chase.

Charming pencil sketch of two children at an

outdoor picnic with a cat and dog running

by. Image measures 11" x 14", framed to

18½" x 21¼". Signed in the bottom left cor-

ner “Frances Tipton Hunter.” [BTC

#331848]

Between the Covers ~58~ C a t al o g u e 16 6

348 Miné OKUBO. [Oil Painting]: Fishes.

Oil painting on laminated panel. Approximately 10" x 8". Unframed. Signed in the lower left.

Slight rubbing at the edges of the boards, near fine. Old (circa 1950?) label on the back from the

Mortimer Levitt Gallery in Manhattan stating price at $75 (later lowered to $65). Partly repre-

sentational, partly abstract depiction of a school of fish rendered in a heavy impasto style. Okubo

(1912-2001) was born in Riverside, California, to immigrant Japanese parents. She attended

Riverside Junior College, (now Riverside City College), and subsequently obtained a master’s

degree from the UC Berkeley. She won a fellowship in 1938 to study art in Europe, and returned

to the United States just before the outbreak of World War II. She was working with Mexican

muralist Diego Rivera for the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in San

Francisco Bay when war with Japan was declared. She and her brother were incarcerated briefly at

Tanforan Relocation Camp and subsequently transferred to another camp in Topaz, Utah. There

she taught art and did numerous pen and ink drawings depicting life in the camp. She entered a

magazine contest with a drawing of a camp guard, and Fortune magazine, recognizing her talent, offered her a job in New York that led to her release

from the camp. She lived in Greenwich Village for the next 50 years, vigorously participating in the New York art scene and creating works of art that

were exhibited from Boston to Tokyo. Her landmark book, Citizen 13660, published in 1946, was the first account of the wartime Japanese American

relocation and confinement experience. [BTC #335618]

347 Herbert PIZER. [Tempura painting ]: Arabian with a

Scimitar. 1911.

Painting of an Arabian knight dressed in maroon and blue, holding a sword and

wearing a red hat. Signed “Herbert Pizer / 11” in bottom left corner. Framed, image

approximately 14¾" x 22". Small chips and tears at the extremities, very good. [BTC

#331813]

From the Library of Egon Schiele

346 (Wiener Werkstätte). All Four Parts of ‘Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration’ that were published on

the Wiener Werkstätte. Four Volumes. (Darmstadt:

Koch 1906 - 1909).

First editions. Four volumes. Thin quartos. Uniformly

bound in original white cloth with Wiener Werkstätte

insignia on the front boards. Endpapers illustrated in

color by Koloman Moser. Heavily illustrated. All four

volumes are fine. Very rare collection of four volumes

about the Wiener Werkstätte from the library of Egon

Schiele with his estate stamp on the front free endpa-

per of three of the four volumes (“Nachlaß Egon

Schiele,” which conforms to the estate stamps on his

posthumously sold artwork).

The volumes and

contents are as follows: 1) 1905: Wiener Werkstätte. Josef Hoffmann und

Koloman Moser, pages 1 - 46. 2) 1905: Josef Hoffmann - Kolo Moser. Die mod-

erne in Wien, pages 521 - 564. 3) 1906: Josef Hoffmann - Kolo Moser, pages 149

- 192. 4) 1909: Schönheit als Weltanschauung (Cabaret Fledermaus), pages 153 -

207. The plates exhibit a perfect overview of all the items produced by the Wiener

Werkstätte: furniture, jewelry, dishes, earthenware, leatherware, boxes, bindings,

graphic design, glass-painting, lamps, etc. One article is dedicated to the Cabaret

Fledermaus showing the interior design, the graphic design of the program, etc.

In 1906 Schiele applied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts)

in Vienna, where Gustav Klimt had once studied, and which was heavily influ-

enced by the Wiener Werkstätte, and where presumably Schiele himself was

exposed to and heavily influenced by the style. Individual issues are occasionally

found, usually rebound. To compile all four volumes that were devoted to the

Wiener Werkstätte in original bindings is pretty nearly impossible; that they are

Egon Schiele’s copies in this condition is by definition unique. [BTC #341367]

Art & Architecture ~59~ Between the Covers

349 BRASSAÏ. Large Portrait Photograph of Salvador Dali.

Black and white gelatin silver print photograph of Salvador Dali in a suit and polka dot tie. Signed

in the bottom right margin “Brassaï” with limitation “10/30” in the bottom left margin.

Presumably printed later (1970s?). Matted and in a white aluminum frame. Image matted to 10½"

x 15", framed to 16¼" x 20¼". Fine. [BTC #331527]

350 Alvin Langdon COBURN. Men of Mark. London / New York:

Duckworth & Co. / Mitchell Kennerley 1913.

First edition.

Quarto. Original

beige cloth gilt. 33

tipped-in mono-

chrome photogra-

vure plates, each

with the subject’s

signature in facsimile

and tissue guard.

Introduction by

Coburn. Corners a

little bumped, tissue

guards toned and

one with a tear, but

a very near fine copy

in the rare dustwrap-

per, also near fine with

tiny nicks and the slightest of

edgewear. Portraits of artists and authors including George Meredith, George Bernard

Shaw, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Auguste Rodin, Roger Fry, William Dean Howells, Clarence

H. White, Henri Matisse, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Frank Brangwyn, William Butler

Yeats, Robert Bridges, and others. [BTC #332947]

351 —. More Men of Mark. London: Duckworth &

Co. (1922).

First edition. Quarto. Original quarter cloth and beige linen gilt.

33 tipped-in monochrome photogravure plates with tissue guard.

Introduction by Coburn. Corners bumped, else a near fine copy.

Portraits of artists and authors including Ezra Pound, Thomas

Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Wyndham Lewis, Edmund Dulac, A.E.

Waite, a self-portrait by Coburn, and others. [BTC #332954]

352 Larry EIGNER and Harry

CALLAHAN. On My Eyes. Highlands, NC:

Jonathan Williams 1960.

First edition. Oblong quarto. Wrappers. Fine. Eigner’s poetry

illustrated with

Callahan’s pho-

tographs.

Issued as Jargon

36. One of 500

copies. A beau-

tiful copy of an

early Callahan

book, generally

found well-

worn. [BTC

#277668]

Between the Covers ~60~ C a t al o g u e 16 6

353 Cecil BEATON. Original

Portrait Photograph of a

Young Boy.

Lovely silver print portrait

photograph Signed by

Beaton. Image approximately

9" x 12" on 13¾" x 22"

mount. Boldly signed win red

on the mount. Fine condi-

tion. Undated but circa 1930.

The subject was the scion of

a newspaper family on the

Philadelphia Main Line

named Peter Strassburger. His

estate, along with this photo-

graph, was sold at auction

nearly two decades ago.

Much of Beaton’s work con-

sists of smaller prints, and

much is often unsigned. A

lovely image. [BTC #330742]

358 Dr. Erich SALOMON.

Berühmte Zeitgenossen in

Unbewachten Augenblicken. Mit 112

Bildern. Stuttgart: J. Engelhorns Nachf

(1931).

First edition. Small quarto. Text in German.

Light offsetting to the first couple of leaves

from a clipping (affecting no photographs),

slight fraying at the crown, a very good copy

without dustwrapper. Among the portraits in

the book is one of German Chancellor

Heinrich Brüning giving a speech in the

Reichstag. Brüning has Signed his name

beneath the portrait. [BTC #109440]

357 (Sixties). David STARK. Ahead.

Idaho Springs, CO: (Stark Publication 1965).

First edition. Stapled pho-

tographic wrappers.

Marked “Sample Copy.”

Canvas bound wrappers, a

moderately worn, good

only copy. Hippiesque

Sixties photography of

nudes and dudes being

cosmic. The stated limita-

tion of 5000 copies seems

ambitious and probably

unlikely. Very scarce.

[BTC #283265]

356 Robert FRANK. The

Americans. New York: Aperture and

The Museum of Modern Art (1968).

First

revised

edi-

tion,

and

first

paper-

bound

edi-

tion.

Intro-

duction by Jack Kerouac. Oblong octavo.

Photographic wrappers. Endpapers a trifle

foxed, just about fine. Grossman Publishers

label on the rear wrap. [BTC #317356]

355 Paul de LACROIX, editor.

Galerie Contemporaine des

Illustrations Françaises. Paris: Paul

de Lacroix [1890].

First edition. Eight volumes

(complete). Folio. Original red

half morocco, titled and deco-

rated in gilt and marbled paper-

covered boards. A bit of rub-

bing to the boards and the cor-

ners a bit bumped, some foxing

in the margins, but not affect-

ing images, a handsome, near

fine set. Superbly illustrated

with 265 mounted photo-

graphs: 62 full-page portraits,

65 medallion portraits, and 138

reproductions of

paintings and

sculptures. The

portraits include

wonderful images

of Baudelaire,

Rossini,

Clemanceau,

Alphonse

Daudet, and

many others by

Carjat; as well as

portraits of

Gustave Doré,

Edmond de

Goncourt, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Baron Taylor,

Georges Sand, Gounod, Louis Figuier, and others by

Nadar. Other portraits include: Edmond About, le

Duc d’Aumale, Théodore de Banville, Bartholdi, Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Blanc, Champfleury,

Puvis de Chavannes, François Coppée, Corot, Gustave Droz, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave

Eiffel, Octave Feuillet, Victor Hugo, Rouget de l’Isle, Jules Janin, Alphonse Karr, Cardinal

Lavigerie, Emile Littré, Pierre Loti, Louis

Pasteur, Ernest Renan, Thiers, Ambroise

Thomas, and Emile Zola. Galerie

Contemporaine was a weekly revue that ran

from 1876 to 1885. [BTC #332921]

First Editions ~61~ P h o t o g r a p h y

354 Terry RICHARDSON.

Manimal. (Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour

2006).

First

edition.

Folio.

White

silk

with

applied

photo-

graphic

illustra-

tions

on front and rear boards. Photographic

mask of Richardson’s face laid in. Top cor-

ner bumped, and a little soiling to the

boards, near fine. Graphic images of sexual-

ity and the general silliness for which the

photographer is known. [BTC #99214]

359 (Joan BAEZ). [Poster]: Famous Artists presents Joan Baez /

Onondaga War Memorial. Wednesday Evening, April 24.... Boston: Manuel

Greenhill / Folklore Productions [circa 1968].

Vintage poster or broadside. Approximately 15¼" x 9". Printed in brown and black with

photographic image of Baez on cardstock. Stapled holes in each corner, one pulled

through, some offsetting, very small red ink mark, very good. Undated, but our perpetual

calendar and instincts suggest that either 1963 or 1968 is the most likely date for the con-

cert, we suspect the latter. [BTC #333040]

Oh, Yoko!

360 (The Beatles). (William BURROUGHS, Jeff

NUTTALL, Yoko ONO, John LENNON, Ezra

POUND, and others). Tom McGRATH, edited

by. The International Times: Issues 1, 2 &

3. [London: no publisher 1966].

Newspaper. The first three issues of the weekly

English counterculture newspaper, each issue is

folded once as issued. Folio. 12pp., 16pp., and

12pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with

very light tanning, scattered tears at the extremities,

and a couple of spots. An important and influential

alternative press publication launched in London in the fall

of 1966 by co-founders John Hopkins, a noted photographer

and activist of the time, and Barry Miles, owner of the influential

Indica Bookshop and Gallery, and the man who introduced Paul

McCartney to some very special brownies. The bi-weekly publication

focused on politics, art, music, movies, and culture. Issue One includes a poem by Adrian

Mitchell, a photo by John Hopkins, a comic by Jeff Nuttall and, most notably, a story about

a new exhibition at the Indica Gallery by artist Yoko Ono, one that John Lennon would

attend and, well, you know the rest. Issue Two includes an article about Ezra Pound, an

underground film festival supplement, and coverage of the International Times launch party.

Issue Three includes a piece written by Burroughs, “The Invisible Generation,” along with

articles on Bertrand Russell, composer Morton Feldman, and rubber fetishists by noted film

critic Raymond Durgnat, entitled “Rubber with Violence.” These newspapers are an amazing

window into the life of Swinging Sixties London. [BTC #324161]

Irving Berlin’s Rhyming Dictionary!

361 (Irving BERLIN). J. WALKER. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language in Which the

Whole Language is Arranged According to Its Terminations... Revised and Enlarged by J. Longmuir. London: George

Routledge and Sons [circa 1895].

Revised and enlarged edition. Octavo. Red cloth. Gilt lettering dulled but readable, mod-

est wear to the spine ends, a tight, very good copy. Irving

Berlin’s copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

Housed in a custom quarter leather and marbled

papercovered board clamshell case. Accompanied by

twenty slips of paper, originally laid into the book,

with holograph notes by Berlin. Of these, seven con-

tain working manuscript notes for a rhyming song.

The transitory and fragmentary nature of the notes

are obviously inconclusive, but it appears this song is

currently unpublished. Also in the book is a letter to

Mrs. Berlin from a Las Vegas correspondent, and

some other material. Further provenance on request.

A chance to remake musical history: in an interview in his 90s (he

lived to 101), Berlin claimed never to use a rhyming dictionary

(see Davis, The Craft of Lyric Writing, p. 212). [BTC #98090]

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Modern First Editions ~63~ M u s i c

Inscribed to his student Virgil Thomson

365 Edward Burlingame HILL. Modern

French Music. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin

Company 1924.

First edition. Blue cloth gilt.

Embossed stamp of Virgil Thomson

on title-page, wear and small tears to

the cloth mostly along the bottom

extremities, else very good. Inscribed

by Hill: “To Virgil Garnett

Thomson, long-suffering and diligent

assistant, his friend, Edward

Burlingame

Hill.

Christmas,

1924.” Hill was

an American

composer, little

remembered

today, but his

influence was great. Among his students at Harvard were

Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, and

Walter Piston. Although we can find no printed acknowledgment

of Thomson in the book, the inscription would indicate that he

had a considerable part in its creation. [BTC #326911]

The Time They Are A-Changin’

362 (Bob DYLAN). (Gerard MALANGA, William MEREDITH, and others). Lynne

COLEMAN and Stephanie SPINNER, edited by. Silo 4/ Fall 1963. Bennington, VT: Ben-

nington College 1963.

Magazine. Quarto. 57pp. Paper wrappers. Moderate wear to the yapped edges, along with a couple of chips and

two one inch tears at the front foredge. A literary magazine produced by Bennington College that includes the

first published appearance in any form of Bob Dylan’s iconic song, “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” Dylan

played Bennington in the fall of 1963 and gave the school’s literary magazine a copy of the lyrics for publica-

tion which they published a few months before the song was released as the title track of the eponymous album

in January 1964. The printed lyrics include a slightly different title, “The Times They’re a Changin’,” as well as

a few scattered wording variations throughout. The song became an immediate classic and a touchstone for

America reeling from the assassination of President Kennedy, escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and the

burgeoning Civil Rights movement. [BTC #324472]

363 Woody GUTHRIE.

Bound for Glory. New

York: E.P. Dutton 1943.

First edition. Spine gilt a trifle

dull, else fine in near fine, price-

clipped dustwrapper with a small

nick, and a modest tear on the

rear panel. Uncommon autobiog-

raphy by the legendary singer/

songwriter and folk icon. Basis

for the Hal Ashby film with

David Carradine. An exceptional-

ly scarce wartime book, this is

easily one of the nicest copies we’ve

seen. [BTC #279286]

364 MADONNA. Sex. New York: Warner Books 1992.

First edition.

Quarto. Spiral

bound aluminum

boards. Fine in

opened pictorial

mylar envelope.

Including audio

compact disc as

well as comic book

at the rear. The pop

diva gets frisky.

[BTC #340241]

366 Stephen

SONDHEIM. Sheridan

MORLEY, introduced and

compiled by. The Stephen

Sondheim Songbook.

London / New York: Chappell & Co.

/ Elm Tree Books (1979).

First edition, English issue. Fine in

near fine dustwrapper with a little

rubbing and slight disturbance to the

lamination. Nicely Inscribed by

Stephen Sondheim. [BTC #308006]

367 Richard

WAGNER.

Beethoven. Leipzig: E.W.

Fritzsch 1870.

First edition, text in German.

Original pastepaper boards.

Front hinge a little tender, else

just about fine. A superior copy

of this study and tribute occa-

sioned by the centenary of

Beethoven’s birth [BTC

#313715]

368 The New Pretty Village. New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1897.

Original vintage toy. With large paper lay-out for the village (approximate-

ly 47" x 21"), seventeen numbered buildings, seventy-seven cardboard cut-

outs to populate the village, all in original color box (approximately 14¾"

x 20¼"). The original tin stands for the cut-outs are missing. The box is

somewhat worn, otherwise the set is in fine condition over all. Each house

is made of cardboard with fiberoid tape and a separate roof; a few of the

more complicated buildings come with an extra chimney or cupola. Each

one is complete and in fine condition, though in a few cases

some of the tape has come loose. The cut-

outs feature trees, shrubbery, fences, car-

riages, boats, various people and animals,

all to populate the village. McLoughlin,

one of the leading children’s book

publishers and game-makers in

the 19th Century, apparently

issued several variations of

their “Pretty Village” game.

This village is one of the

largest “towns” with seven-

teen buildings (though the

description on the interior of the

top lid states there are sixteen buildings),

each corresponding to a space on the paper plan.

An attractive example. [BTC #93697]

369 Lloyd

ALEXANDER.

Impromptu.

Original etching by the

beloved children’s book

author. Matted, glazed and

framed; image about 7¼" x

6¾" in frame 15¼" x

14¾". One of only eight

numbered copies, titled and

Signed by Alexander below

image. [BTC #96382]

370 Hans Christian ANDERSEN. A

Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories. New

York: James Miller [1847?].

First American edition. Some

modest soiling and light

staining to the boards, a little

wear to the spine ends, and a

narrow chip on the spine, a

good or better copy of this

collection of fourteen of

Andersen’s best stories, several

of which were made into

films, including The Little

Match Girl and The Red

Shoes. OCLC locates no copies of this edition. [BTC #286949]

First collected English edition

371 —. The Hans Andersen Library Set. London: George Routledge & Sons 1869.

First collected English edition. 13 volumes (complete). 16mo. Translated by H.W. Dulcken. With color frontis-

pieces, and black and white illustrations in the text by the Dalziel Brothers. The

collection includes The Red Shoes, The Silver Shilling, The Little Match Girl,

The Darning Needle, The Tinder-Box, The Goloshes of Fortune, The Marsh

King’s Daughter, Everything in Its Right Place, The Wild Swans, Under the

Willow Tree, The Old Church Bell, The Ice Maiden, and The Will-O’-the-

Wisp. In original dark green cloth with gilt and blind-stamped decorations,

with front and rear blank sheets intact, ownership signatures, some offset-

ting from color frontispiece to title-pages, some light foxing and covers

lightly rubbed, near fine. A handsome set lacking its original cloth box. We

have located three sets in North America. [BTC #316825]

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372 (Anthology). Edward HUTTON, edited by. The

Children’s Christmas

Treasury of Things Old and

New. London: J.M. Dent [1905?].

First edition. Quarto. Pictorial cloth

illustrated by Reginald Knowles. 207,

[1]pp. Many illustrations including 32

inserted color plates. Some light wear to

the extremities, but a handsome, very

good or better copy. Classic stories and

tales interspersed with “New Things” by

E.V. Lucas, Evelyn Sharp, R. Moorhouse,

Jean C. Archer, Edward Hutton, and oth-

ers. Illustrated by many notables includ-

ing Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson, W.

Heath Robinson, T.H. Robinson, Robert Anning Bell,

and others. A handsome and uncommon title. [BTC #325862]

373 Edward

ARDIZZONE.

Little Tim and the

Brave Sea Captain.

New York, London,

Toronto: Oxford University

Press 1936.

First edition. Folio. Very

good in pictorial paper cov-

ered boards with a little loss

of paper at the bottom of

the spine, light wear at the

corners, lacking a dustwrap-

per. His first book, written

in calligraphy and illustrat-

ed with color pictures on every page, pages printed on rectos

only. [BTC #339630]

374 L. Frank BAUM. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Indianapolis:

The Bowen-Merrill Company 1902.

First edition, first state. Illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark. Red illustrated cloth. Neat contemporary gift

inscription, bookplate on the front fly, and small tears on the fly leaves, the decorations on the front board are

a little rubbed but mostly intact, a few small smudges on the margins of a few

pages, a very good or better copy. [BTC #318493]

375 —. Queen Zixi of Ix. Chicago / New

York: Reilly & Britton / Century 1905.

First edition. Rebound at a very early date. Rebacked,

labels removed from each spine, internally fine.

Signed by Baum. Also, tipped-in before the frontis-

piece illustration is a 1905 full-page Autograph Letter

Signed “L. Frank Baum” on the author’s station-

ery. The letter has been trimmed slightly to fit

the book, affecting one letter, and just touching

the top of his printed name in the letterhead.

[BTC #77443]

377 Walter R. BROOKS. Freddy

and the Baseball Team From Mars.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1955.

First edition. Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. A mod-

est stain on the rear board else near fine in an

attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a

small corresponding stain on the rear panel and a

couple of tiny nicks at the crown. Inscribed by the

author: “To John Orban with best wishes of

Freddy and Walter R. Brooks.” Our favorite title

among the highly collectible series of books about

Freddy, an intelligent pig-detective. Here he is

embroiled in the search for six missing Martians

who are being forced to travel the country as a

barnstorming baseball team. A significant

highspot in porcine-detective literature,

and exceptionally scarce signed. [BTC

#99237]

376 Pearl S. BUCK. The Chinese

Children Next Door. New York: John Day

(1942).

First edi-

tion.

Drawings

William

Arthur

Smith.

Faint offsetting to the front fly from a clipping else

fine in fine dustwrapper with one tiny tear on the

front panel. As nice a copy as we’ve seen of this

uncommon kid’s book. [BTC #340528]

First Editions ~65~ Children’s Books

Bad Santa

383 Lys CASSAL. My Stocking. [New

York]: Harper and

Brothers (1950).

First edition. Small

size (approximately

4" x 3"). Canvas

bound printed

paper over thick

card. Fine. A

“Riffle” or flip book of Santa Claus filling up a

Christmas stocking, but which has the unfortunate

and presumably inadvertent effect of making it look

like Santa is abusing himself. This might account

for the scarcity of the book. OCLC locates only two

copies, at the Detroit Public Library and National

Library of Scotland. [BTC #338447]

378 Eric CARLE. 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo. Cleveland: World Publishing Company 1968.

First edition. Thin quarto. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a small chip on the front

panel, and wear at the spine ends. The artist’s first solely authored and original picture book for children

(prior to this he had illustrated for others and produced an ABC book). [BTC #319668]

379 —. Den sultne larve Aldrigmaet [The Very

Hungry Caterpillar]. [No place]: Borgen / (Gerhard Stalling

Verlag) [1970].

First Danish edition, printed in Germany. Oblong thin quar-

to. Glossy boards. Text in Danish, translated from the

German (which was translated from the English). Fine, with-

out dustwrapper, possibly as issued. A beautiful copy of a chil-

dren’s classic. [BTC #302488]

380 —. The Secret

Birthday Message. London: Hamish Hamilton 1971.

First English edition. Thin quarto. Slight wear

at the bottom of the front board, very near

fine in near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the

author “With love, Eric Carle.” A very nice

copy of this children’s book, with all of the

die-cut pages undamaged and in fine condi-

tion. [BTC #318253]

381 —. A Very Long Tail: A Folding Book. New York:

Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1972.

First edition. Printed paper over cardstock folded accordion-style. Fine

in a modestly rubbed, near fine printed plastic sleeve. The book folds

out to tell the story. Exceptionally scarce. [BTC #312898]

382 Roald DAHL.

Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

(1964).

First edition, first issue. Two

small shadows on the rear

pastedown, else fine in very

good plus dustwrapper with

a faintly creased tear on the

front panel, very light edge-

wear, and a little age-toning.

A subversive children’s clas-

sic, and the basis for two

memorable films starring

first Gene Wilder and later

Johnny Depp as Willy

Wonka. [BTC #324844]

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384 James DAUGHERTY. Daniel

Boone. New

York: Viking

Press 1939.

First edition.

Quarto. A small

gift inscription

on the half-title

else fine in fine

dustwrapper

with very slight

age-toning and

two short tears.

A lovely copy of

this 1940

Newbery

Award-winner, and very seldom found thus.

[BTC #321188]

Disney’s Topless Mermaids

385 (Disney, Pop-ups). Staff of the Walt Disney Studios. The “Pop-Up” Silly Symphonies

Containing Babes in the Woods and King Neptune. [Cover title]: Mickey Mouse Presents

His Silly Symphonies. New York: Blue Ribbon (1933).

First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a touch of age-toning to

the spine, and a couple of very tiny tears. The four pop-up illustrations are fine,

clean, and complete. The first book produced in conjunction with Disney’s

musical cartoon series, which comprised 75 shorts

between 1929 and 1939 and led to the develop-

ment of his feature length animated films. This

book features stories from two very early three-

strip Technicolor cartoons: Babes in the Woods

(the story of Hansel and Gretel) and King

Neptune. The latter contains Disney’s first

animated mermaids, who appear topless,

possibly one reason the short has not been reissued on DVD. Several

illustrations in the book, and one pop-up, feature the mermaids au nat-

ural. Gretel is clothed throughout (in case you were wondering). A beau-

tiful copy of a book usually found “popped-up” to death. [BTC #83067]

389 Georg LANG and

Heinrich SCHLITT.

Die goldne Nadel [The

Golden Needle]. München:

Verlag von Georg W. Dietrich

[1908].

First edition, text in German.

Illustrated by Heinrich Schlitt.

Thin quarto. Original quarter

cloth and illustrated paper over

boards. Bottom corner a trifle

bumped, boards a little bowed,

else about fine. [BTC #319312]

387 James JANEWAY. A Token for Children.

Being An exact account of the

Conversion, Holy and exemplary

Lives, and joyful Deaths of

Several Young Children in Two

Parts...To which is added

Some choice sayings of Dying

Saints. Philadelphia: From the Press

of the Late R. Aitkin, Printed by Jane

Aitkin 1806.

First edition printed by Jane Aitkin,

the widow of the noted Philadelphia

publisher and an important woman

printer. 16mo. Leather and marbled

paper over boards. Lacks rear board

and blanks, but text complete. Early

owner names, part of the front fly

torn away, presumably to efface an inscription, general wear – a

good, readable copy. A cheery little tome about dead children, and

one of the most widely printed and popular books for children for

over a century. OCLC locates only three copies of this edition.

[BTC #81300]

386 Kenneth GRAHAME. The Wind in the

Willows. London: Methuen and Company (1908).

First edition. Contemporary owner

name on the front fly, boards very

slightly bowed, a very good or better

copy lacking the rare dustwrapper.

Housed in an older, moderately

worn, clamshell case. A children’s

classic, made into innumerable film

and television versions, including a

1949 Disney short film narrated by

Basil Rathbone and a 1996 version

with John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael

Palin, and Terry Jones (who also

directed from his own screenplay).

The success of the book allowed

Grahame to retire from his despised

bank job, and spend the rest of his

days on the Thames “simply messing

about in boats.” [BTC #88421]

First Editions ~67~ Children’s Books

388 Owen JOHNSON. The Varmint. New York:

Baker and Taylor Company 1910.

First edition. Illustrated by Frederick

Gruger. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a

few short tears. Johnson wrote several novels

and short stories revolving around Dink

Stover and his prep school friends at the

Lawrenceville School, of which this is one of

the best known. Basis for the 1917 film

directed by William Desmond Taylor and

featuring Jack Pickford and Louise Huff; the

stories as a whole were the basis for the

1950 William Wellman-directed film The

Happy Years, featuring Dean Stockwell and

Darryl Hickman. The only copy we’ve seen in

jacket. McCue p.58. [BTC #83148]

Silverstein’s First Children’s Book, Inscribed with a Drawing

392 Shel SILVERSTEIN. Uncle Shelby’s

Story of

Lafcadio, The

Lion Who Shot

Back. New York:

Harper & Row (1963).

Early reprint. Fine in

fine, price-clipped

dustwrapper. Inscribed

by Silverstein with an

original full-page draw-

ing of Lafcadio.

Silverstein’s first chil-

dren’s book, as well as his

favorite among his books. [BTC #322295]

390 A.A. MILNE. Now We Are Six. London: Methuen (1927).

First edition. Fine in an attractive and clean, near fine dustwrapper with very slight toning on the spine and a shal-

low sliver at the crown. A very nice copy of the third “Pooh” book. [BTC #340802]

391 Maurice SENDAK. Where the Wild Things

Are. New York: Harper & Row 1963.

First edition with the

publisher’s price and

the correct first issue

code on the front flap.

Cloth and papercov-

ered illustrated boards.

A bit of foxing to the

boards, near fine in a

modestly toned, very

good dustwrapper with a couple of faint splash marks. Nicely

Inscribed by Sendak in 1966 with a small drawing of a dog. [BTC #325185]

393 Dr. SEUSS (Theodore Seuss GEI-

SEL). Fox in Socks. (New York): Beginner

Books (1965).

Early reprint. Glazed illus-

trated boards. Fine.

Signed by the author: “for

Christmas, Dr. Seuss.” A

beautiful copy of this chil-

dren’s favorite, usually

found in

inferior

condi-

tion.

Scarce

signed.

[BTC

#340828] 395 (Temperance). Jos. H. BARNETT. Broom Brigade

Tactics, and Fan Drill. Chicago: Jos. H. Barnett,

Publisher 1890.

Fifth edition. Introduction by

Anna A. Gordon (Assistant

Superintendent of the

Department of Juvenile Works

for the National W.C.T.C.).

12mo. Light blue paper wrapper

printed and illustrated in darker

blue. 69, (3)pp. Spine discreetly

taped, neat owner’s name on the

front wrap, a tight, very good

copy. A scarce illustrated pamphlet by a military captain that

attempts to inculcate good habits and discipline in the young

through the use of military drill techniques. Gordon’s intro-

duction stresses that the young are needed in a holy war

against alcohol and tobacco. A 1978 reprint exists, but earlier

copies are very scarce. OCLC seems only to locate the 1978

edition. [BTC #277154]

394 Florence K. and Bertha UPTON. The

Golliwogg’s “Auto-Go-

Cart.” London: Longmans

Green and Co. 1901.

First edition. Oblong quarto.

Quarter cloth and illustrated paper

over boards. Dampstains and a bit

of rubbing at the corners of the

boards, still a fresh, very good

copy, internally fine. Signed by

Florence K. Upton on the title

page: “Hello Dolly! Florence” and

dated in 1917. The black-skinned

Golliwogg doll’s adventures with an early motorcar. The

only signed Golliwogg book we’ve encountered. [BTC #340176]

Between the Covers ~68~ C a t al o g u e 16 6

399 Edward GOREY. The Iron Tonic or,

A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley. New York:

Albondocani Press 1969.

First edition. Oblong stapled wrappers. Fine. Copy num-

ber 4 of 200 numbered copies Signed by Gorey. [BTC

#273922]

400 —. Leaves from a Mislaid Album. New York:

Gotham Book Mart 1972.

First edition. One of 500 num-

bered copies. Seventeen loose

illustrations in folder and enve-

lope. Small tears on the enve-

lope, else fine. Inscribed by

Gorey on the envelope. [BTC

#315289]

401 —. Les Passemen-

teries Horribles. New

York: Albondocani Press 1976.

First edition. Stapled wrappers. A fine, as new copy. Prospectus

for the edition laid in. Copy number 8 of 300 numbered cop-

ies Signed by Gorey. [BTC #298048]

402 —. The Green Beads. New York: Albondocani

Press 1978.

First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. Prospectus for the edi-

tion laid in. Copy number 8

of 400 numbered

copies Signed by

Gorey. [BTC

#298070]

403 —. The Prune

People. New York:

Albondocani Press 1983.

First edition. Stapled wrap-

pers. Fine. Prospectus for the

edition laid in. Copy number 2 of 400 numbered copies

Signed by Gorey, this copy is also briefly Inscribed below the

author’s signature to a noted New York literary figure. [BTC

#298060]

396 Edward LEAR. The Jumblies. (New York): Young Scott Books (1968).

Uncorrected proof consisting of three unbound signatures laid into the finished jacket. Oblong octavo.

Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with pencil initials (in an unknown hand)

on the front panel. Gorey’s interpretation of some of Lear’s nonsense poems. Presumably very scarce in

this format. [BTC #282248]

398 Ronald FIRBANK.

Two Early Stories [The

Wavering Disciple and A Study

in Opal]. New York: Albondocani

Press 1971.

First edition. Illustrations by Edward

Gorey. Foreword by Miriam J.

Benkovitz. Fine in self-wrappers with

applied paper label. One of 200 num-

bered copies. [BTC #103963]

397 Alphonse ALLAIS. Story for Sara: What

Happened to a Little Girl. New York: Albondocani Press

1971.

First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. Prospectus for the edition laid in. Copy number 8 of 300 num-

bered copies Signed by Gorey. [BTC #298052]

Modern First Editions ~69~ Edward Gorey

404 —. [Postcards]: The

Gashlycrumb Tinies.

New York: Harvey Hutter &

Co. (1979).

Postcards. 28 separate cards in

an unprinted plastic box with

a small printed label. Consists

of a title card, 26 alphabetic

cards, and a final “tail-card” with an illustration

but no additional text. Complete and fine with old,

presumably original, tape on the box. Very scarce.

[BTC #305633]

405 David BENIOFF. The 25th

Hour. New York: Carroll & Graf

Publishers,

Inc. (2000).

First edition.

Fine in fine

dustwrapper.

Signed by the

author. From

the collection

of Bruce

Kahn. [BTC

#305456]

406 Lawrence BLOCK. Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man. (New

York): Bernard Geis Associates (1971).

First edition. Fine in a slightly spine-soiled, else fine dustwrap-

per. Signed by Block. [BTC #310978]

407 —. Hope to Die. Gladstry: Scorpion Press (2001).

First edition, special issue of 114 cop-

ies with an introduction by Peter

Straub not found in the trade edition.

Fine in quarter leather with marbled

boards, blue top stain, raised bands

and gilt lettering in fine glassine dust-

wrapper (not shown). Copy letter H of

15 lettered de luxe copies Signed by

both Block and Straub (there were also 99 numbered copies signed

only by Block). From the collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #310282]

Basis for Diabolique

408 Pierre BOILEAU and

Thomas NARCEJAC. The

Woman Who Was No More. New

York: Rinehart (1954).

First American

edition. Page

edges browned,

else fine in just

about fine dust-

wrapper with a

bit of rubbing

and one small,

internal tape

repair. An

exceptionally

uncommon

title, the first

book by this

French team to be published in the U.S. Basis

for the classic Henri-Georges Clouzot film Les

Diaboliques, with Simone Signoret and the

director’s wife Vera Clouzot, in which the two

women conspire to murder their sadistic hus-

band/lover. The film is arguably the best psy-

chological thriller of all time, and one from

which many of the conventions of the genre

stem. Alfred Hitchcock, already well-estab-

lished as the “Master of Suspense,” was upset

at having missed the film rights to this book

and took special care to acquire the rights to

Boileau and Narcejac’s follow-up, which

became Vertigo. Remade several times, includ-

ing a 1994 version with Sharon Stone and

Isabelle Adjani. A translation from the

French, and published before the film was

released, this had a very small print run, per-

haps as few as a thousand copies. Considering

the cheap leftover wartime materials

employed, it is unlikely to have survived in

any numbers. [BTC #33642]

409 Ellis Parker

BUTLER. Philo Gubb,

Correspondence-School

Detective. Boston/New York:

Houghton Mifflin 1918.

First edition. Fine in a lovely, near fine dustwrapper with

very shallow loss at the crown and with splitting at the folds.

A hilarious parody of the detective genre – Gubb emulates

Sherlock Holmes and maintains an office for his two occu-

pations: correspondence-school detective and wallpaper

hanger. One of the first and best detective parodies. Rare in

jacket. Queen’s Quorum. [BTC #47320]

410 James M. CAIN. Love’s Lovely

Counterfeit. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1942.

First edition. A slight spot on the topedge else fine in a very

slightly soiled, fine dustwrapper. Filmed by Allan Dwan in

1956 as Slightly Scarlet with John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, and

Arlene Dahl. As nice a copy as we’ve seen. [BTC #283696]

411 Raymond

CHANDLER. The

Lady in the Lake.

London and Melbourne:

Hamish Hamilton (1946).

First Australian edition. Page edges browned, some offset-

ting from the jacket on the front board, else about fine in

a very attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with a cou-

ple of small chips at the folds, some slight tanning of the

spine lettering, and a tiny chip at the foot. Presumably

issued in very small numbers, the author’s exceptionally

scarce fourth novel. [BTC #67135]

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412 Agatha CHRISTIE. The Mystery of the Blue Train. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1928.

First American edition. Very faint spotting to the boards, a very near fine copy in fine dustwrapper with just

a touch of age-toning. A lovely copy. Jacketed copies of the Christie titles from the 1920s have become nearly

impossible to find in this condition. [BTC #45348]

413 —. Ten Little Niggers. London: Collins for the Crime Club

(1939).

First edition. Some sunning to the spine ends, and a dampstain on the front

board, an about very good copy in an attractive, very good plus example of the

dustwrapper with some neatly effected professional restoration, particularly at the

base of the spine. A highly politically incorrect title even when it was published,

the jacket compounded the problem by portraying little black figures with big

white lips cavorting with spears and eating watermelon. The book was published

in America as And Then There Were None and was later reissued as Ten Little

Indians, perhaps only an incremental improvement over the original. In any

event, one of Christie’s most ingenious, rarest, and sought after titles, reportedly the best-selling mystery of all

time. Made into an excellent 1945 film, And Then There Were None, directed by René Clair (see item 50), scripted

by Dudley Nichols and with Barry Sullivan and Walter Huston leading an ensemble cast. [BTC #59840]

414 Carroll John

DALY. The

Mystery of the

Smoking Gun.

New York: Frederick A.

Stokes 1936.

First edition. Fine in a

nice, near fine dustwrap-

per with a crease on the

front panel. Satan Hall

versus the crime syndi-

cate. Very scarce in jacket.

[BTC #292338]

415 Nelson DeMILLE and Thomas H. BLOCK.

Mayday. New York: Richard Marek Publishers

(1979).

First edition. A

slight and nearly

invisible abrasion to

the front pastedown, very near fine in about fine

dustwrapper with a little wrinkling to the bottom

edge. Signed by DeMille. The true first edition of

this scarce title, a thriller co-written with Block, a

pilot and DeMille’s childhood friend. DeMille’s co-

authorship was originally unattributed, and the

book club edition (lacking a priced jacket as this

has) is sometimes mistakenly offered as a first edi-

tion. DeMille’s scarcest book, particularly in this

condition and signed. From the collection of Bruce Kahn.

[BTC #304092]

416 Izzy EINSTEIN. Prohibition Agent

No. 1. New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1932.

First edition.

Introduction by Stanley

Walker. Some rubbing

to the edges of the cloth

else near fine in near

fine dustwrapper with

tiny nicks and a little

spine fading. One of the

great accounts of prohi-

bition and law enforce-

ment, described on the

jacket as “the startling

and humorous disclo-

sures of America’s most

famous prohibition agent.” The printed dedication is

“To the 4,932 persons I arrested hoping they bear me

no grudge for having done my duty.” Jackie Gleason

played Einstein in the 1985 TV movie Izzy & Moe,

alongside Art Carney (in their final screen appearance

together) as his partner, Agent Moe Smith. The only

copy of the first edition we’ve seen in jacket. [BTC

#320478]

417 Stanley ELLIN. The Eighth

Circle. (New York): Random House (1958).

First edition. Pages browned, as always, else fine in near

fine dustwrapper with a couple of small stains on the

front panel, but none of the usual spine fading. Winner

of the Edgar Award, and very seldom found in this

condition. [BTC

#92163]

418 Bruno

FISCHER.

The Dead Men

Grin. Philadelphia:

David McKay

(1945).

First edition. A bookplate on the front fly else near

fine in very good dustwrapper with a few small chips

on the rear panel. Most of Fischer’s novels were

paperback originals; this is one of his few hardcovers.

[BTC #274908]

Modern First Editions ~71~ Mysteries

419 Ian FLEMING. For Your Eyes

Only. New York: Viking

Press 1960.

First American edition. Fine

in fine dustwrapper with a

tiny rubbed spot on the front

panel near the flap fold. The

eighth Bond book, contain-

ing five separate stories of

007: the title story, “From a

View To a Kill,” “Quantum

of Solace,” “Risico,” and

“The Hildebrand Rarity.”

The first three stories have

lent their names to James

Bond films and, in the case of the

book’s title, a hit song as well. A superior, fresh and

crisp copy, and seldom found thus. [BTC #312981]

420 Martin Joseph FREEMAN.

The Murder of a Midget. New York:

E.P. Dutton & Co. (1931).

First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good

dustwrapper with several modest tears, the longest

on the rear panel, and small nicks at the crown.

Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Texas sob

sister finds beloved circus midget murdered.

[BTC #277220]

421 Richard HALLAS (pseud-

onym of Eric KNIGHT). You Play

the Black and the Red Comes

Up. New York: McBride 1938.

First edition. Minute bumps to the crown and foot

else fine in a lovely, about fine example of the

scarce dustwrapper with a few rubbed spots and

slight loss at the spinal extremities (affecting a cou-

ple of letters). A lost classic of hardboiled fiction;

when it came out it was compared to The Postman

Always Rings Twice and They Shoot Horses, Don’t

They? An Oklahoma man comes home and finds

his wife and child gone, perhaps to California, and

he sets out after them. The only mystery novel

written by Eric Knight, an excellent and very versa-

tile writer (he also wrote Lassie, Come Home) who

died in a plane crash during WWII. An uncommon

book, and genuinely rare in jacket. [BTC #97353]

422 Thomas HARRIS. Black Sunday.

New York: G.P. Putnam’s

Sons (1975).

Book club edition. Near

fine in a well-used, very

good dustwrapper. Nicely

Inscribed by the author

to a neighbor and friend.

Author’s first book and basis for the John

Frankenheimer film. Harris lived in Europe for many

years; his signature is among the scarcest of contempo-

rary authors, and in particular is seldom found as part

of a personal association. [BTC #273820]

423 Patricia HIGHSMITH. The

Talented Mr. Ripley. New York: Coward-

McCann 1955.

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a very

tiny nick at the edge of the crown where it meets the

front panel, and very slight rubbing. A beautiful copy

of this classic mystery, the first book in the Ripley

series. Basis for the acclaimed 1960 René Clément

film Purple Noon with Alain Delon, and more recent-

ly filmed by Anthony Minghella with Matt Damon,

Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jude Law. [BTC #74564]

424 Geoffrey HOUSEHOLD. Rogue

Male. Boston: Little,

Brown and Company

1939.

First American edition. A small

bookstore label on the front

pastedown, else fine in a very

attractive, near fine, price-

clipped dustwrapper with small

nicks at the spine ends. Basis

for the suspenseful 1941 film

Man Hunt directed by Fritz

Lang, in which a pre-war

British hunter played by Walter

Pidgeon toys with assassinating

Hitler while Gestapo agents George Sanders

and John Carradine close in on him. [BTC #322145]

425 Elizabeth KOSTOVA.

The

Historian:

A Novel. Ashville, NC: The Captain’s

Bookshelf (2005).

Limited edition. Fine in illustrated boards and

fine pictorial slipcase. Copy number 80 of 150

numbered copies Signed by the author. The

author’s first book. The

slipcase made from a

reproduction of a 16th

Century map of the

Balkans by Sebastian Munster. From the collec-

tion of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #303685]

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428 William LE QUEUX. The Voice from

the Void: The Great

Wireless Mystery. New

York: Macaulay (1923).

First American edition. Very

slight age-toning, very near fine

in very good dustwrapper with

a small

“x”

marked

on the

spine.

Thriller

about a

giant emerald and a confidence man,

and self-described as the “first novel

cast in the atmosphere of the radio...”

[BTC #95436]

One of Two Known Copies in Jacket

426 Gaston LEROUX. The Phantom of the Opera. New York: Bobbs-Merrill

(1911).

First American edition. Color frontispiece and four striking two-page color illustrations by Andre

Castaigne as issued. Contemporary owner name on the front fly, bottom corners a trifle bumped,

near fine in a very good example of the exceptionally rare dustwrapper. The jacket has some pro-

fessional internal repair, and some modest chipping at the spine ends that continues a bit onto

the rear panel near the crown. The jacket art repeats the striking Castaigne image of the

Phantom descending the staircase of the Paris Opera House, wraps around onto the spine, and is

overprinted in embossed gold. From an older private collection, this was long thought to be the

only known jacketed copy (we remember when it last appeared in the trade about 20 years ago),

but our research has identified one other jacketed copy, with identical text, type, and $1.25

price, but utilizing a different image from the book (thus there are two known variant jackets, no

priority, each existing in only a single known copy). Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case.

Filmed several times, most indelibly with Lon Chaney as the vengeful composer, and in recent

decades transformed into a successful musical play, and a less successful musical film. Some mod-

est flaws, but try to find another. A true rarity, and perhaps the only jacketed copy that will ever

appear on the market. [BTC #85405]

427 L.T. MEADE and Robert

EUSTACE. The Gold Star

Line. London: Ward, Lock & Company

1899.

First edition. Illustrated by Adolph Thiede.

Bevelled decorated blue boards gilt. Neat

contemporary owner name on the front fly,

a lovely and tight, near fine copy.

Exceptionally uncommon, especially in this

condition. [BTC #286010]

429 Sara PARETSKY.

Deadlock. Garden City, New

York: The Dial Press/Doubleday &

Company, Inc. 1984.

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. From

the collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #306540]

Modern First Editions ~73~ Mysteries

430 (Edgar A. POE). “The Purloined Letter,”

in The Gift: A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday

Present. MDCCCXLV. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1845.

First edition. 300 pp. 6 steel

engraved plates (including the

engraved added title). 23 cm. Contemporary full brown morocco with an elab-

orate design in gilt on both covers. Ownership inscription dated December 25,

1844 in neat ink on the front and rear free endpapers. Boards are rubbed and

worn at the edges, with a chip to the top of the spine (neatly replaced with an

aged piece of tape with title handwritten); and with scattered foxing and stain-

ing to the text pages and plates, some of which are loose at the gutter. Lacks the

two plates of Washington, else complete as issued, a fair copy. Features the first

printed appearance of Poe’s classic story “The Purloined Letter” (pages 41-61) –

it was reprinted the following year in Poe’s Tales. The third of Poe’s three mys-

tery stories with which he inaugurated the genre, and generally considered the

best. It is not only widely anthologized, but also one of the most analyzed and

deconstructed texts in world literature. [BTC #339935]

431 John RHODE. The

Robthorne Mystery. New York: Dodd,

Mead and Company 1934.

First edition. A

faint stain on the

rear board, near

fine in very good

dustwrapper with

a corresponding

stain on the rear

panel and very

small nicks,

mostly at the

spine ends.

Scarce in jacket.

[BTC #286492]

432 Sax ROHMER.

Daughter of Fu Manchu.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and

Company

1931.

First

American

edition. A

small era-

sure on

the front

fly, slight

rubbing

to the

boards,

very good

or better in a price-clipped, fair only dust-

wrapper (illustrated by George Annand)

with a triangular chip at the crown, and

the extremities and folds backed with

brown paper. Still, very uncommon in a

reasonably whole jacket. Filmed in 1931

as Daughter of the Dragon, directed by

Lloyd Corrigan, and featuring Anna May

Wong, Warner Oland, and Sessue

Hayakawa. [BTC #321171]

433 Joseph T. SHAW. It

Happened at the Lake. New

York:

Dodd,

Mead and

Company

1937.

First edi-

tion. Fine

in fine and

bright dust-

wrapper

with slight

tanning at

the spine,

and a touch of

rubbing at

the crown.

Inscribed

by the

author to

noted mystery author George Harmon

Coxe: “To George Harmon Coxe, who

wields a mighty pen and a nasty niblick –

Joseph T. Shaw.” Mystery set in New York

City. Aside from his work as an author,

Shaw was the extremely influential editor

of Black Mask, the pulp magazine which

defined the hardboiled style of writing,

and furthered the careers of Dashiell

Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Raoul

Whitfield, among many others, including

Coxe. [BTC #94559]

434 Rex STOUT. Too Many Cooks.

New York: The American Magazine 1938.

First edition. A

book-shaped box,

with title page

bound in, con-

taining a com-

plete set of 36

cards, including

the menu card,

34 recipe cards,

and an important

note from Nero

Wolfe, dustwrap-

per is affixed to

the box at the rear flap, as issued. Near fine, in

good dustwrapper with a large chip centered on

the bottom of the spine, and stretching onto both

panels, removing most of the word “Stout” but

affecting no other text. Scarce. [BTC #91662]

435 Jim THOMPSON.

Calendar of Annual Events

in Oklahoma. Oklahoma: Works

Progress Administration, Federal Writers’

Project 1938.

First edition. Stapled orange wrappers.

Illustrated by cowboy artist Wallace

Simpson and Oneida Indian artist Walker Boone. WPA

Assistant Director Clair Laning’s copy, with her ownership

Signature on the inside front cover. Tiny chips to the

front wrap else very near fine. An attractively printed

pamphlet, and Jim Thompson’s first appearance in print,

as Director, prominently noted at the top of the title

page. It is likely that Thompson provided the introductions to the various sec-

tions of the calendar, and possibly some of the thumbnail descriptions of the vari-

ous activities in Oklahoma. A rare Thompson item, preceding both Now and On

Earth and his first short story appearance. [BTC #64622]

Inscribed by Thompson

436 —. Heed the Thunder. New York: Greenberg 1946.

First edition. A fairly worn, but presentable, good only copy lacking the dustwrap-

per. This copy Inscribed by the author in pencil: “For Lois and Jim[?] very gratefully Jim

Thompson 2-20-46.” We do not know who the recipients were, but curiously, the dedicatees were

Lois and Elliott McDowell. Whether this is the same Lois with another companion is not immedi-

ately clear to us, but the suggestion is at least worth considering because Thompson signed almost

no books. We have sold three other books signed by Thompson in the past 20 years, and of those,

two were considerably later paperback titles. The only other inscribed hardcover was another copy

of this title inscribed about ten months after this one, thus making this the earliest inscribed

Thompson book we have seen. To put it in context, we have handled more books signed by J.D.

Salinger and Thomas Pynchon than we have of Thompson. An uncommon book, the second of

only three hardcover novels published during the hardboiled author’s lifetime. [BTC #76419]

Between the Covers ~74~ C a t al o g u e 16 6

437 (True Crime). E.E. KIRKPATRICK. Crimes’ Paradise: The Authentic Inside

Story of the Urschel Kidnapping. San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Company

1934.

First edition. Gift inscription and top edge a little soiled, else fine in near fine,

slightly age-toned dustwrapper. Account of the celebrated kidnapping that eventually

resulted in George “Machine Gun” Kelly being brought to justice. [BTC #339013]

438 —. Voices from Alcatraz: The Authentic Inside Story of the

Urschel Kidnapping. San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Company (1947).

First edition. About fine in a rubbed, about near fine dustwrapper. A further

account of the Urschel kidnapping, re-written from the author’s 1934 book

shown above. [BTC #339016]

Nympho Lesbian Psycho Serial Killer –

but we mean that in a good way

442 Frank WALFORD.

Twisted Clay. (New York):

Claude Kendall (1934).

First American edition (and first

hardcover edition). Fine in pat-

terned cloth with full-length

printed spine label and about

near fine dustwrapper with a faint

crease and small chips at the

spine ends. Lurid novel by an

Australian author that was

banned and unpublished in

Australia until the 1960s and was

first published in London in the

1930s as a paperback. According

to the journal Wormwoodiana,

dedicated to the “literature of the fantastic, supernatural and deca-

dent,” the novel “has the distinction of being one of the more

bizarre thrillers published in the 1930s, which is saying something

given the excruciating excesses of R.R. Ryan, Harry Keeler, J.U.

Nicolson amongst others. Walford himself bragged that the novel

was applauded by the London Times as ‘the best book ever written

with a lunatic as a central character.’” The central character, Jean

Deslines is a promiscuous young teenager who finally determines

she is a lesbian. When her father wants to send

her to Europe for experimental treatment to

end her lesbianism, she murders him, and later

partners up with a drug dealer and commits

several other “Jill-the-Ripper” type crimes.

Soon to be a Lifetime After-School-Special.

Not. [BTC #338961]

439 Donald E. WESTLAKE as D.E. WESTLAKE.

Philip. New York: Thomas

Y. Crowell (1967).

First edition. Thin quarto.

Fine in a very lightly rubbed,

fine dustwrapper. A lovely

copy of a rare children’s book

by the author better known

for his mystery and suspense

novels. [BTC #75506]

440 —. Nobody’s Perfect. New

York: M. Evans (1977).

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

An exceptionally uncommon novel fea-

turing the hapless Dortmunder Gang. A

beautiful copy with very little of the

usual age-toning. [BTC #328505]

441 — as Richard STARK.

Butcher’s Moon.

New York: Random

House (1974).

First edition. Fine in fine,

fresh dustwrapper. A lovely,

as new copy of an especial-

ly uncommon title. [BTC

#316554]

443 R.D. WINGFIELD. Hard Frost.

London: Constable (1995).

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by

the author. [BTC #314261]

Modern First Editions ~75~ Mysteries

444 Das lustige Gespensterbuch [The

Funny Ghost Book]. München and Leipzig: Georg

Müller 1915.

First edition. Foreword by

Gustav Meyrink. Illustrated

by Kurt Szafranski. Full vel-

lum, illustrated. Stout octavo.

359, [8]pp. Boards slightly

splayed, and slightly foxed,

near fine. One of 100 num-

bered copies. Anthology of

ghost stories by Meyrink,

Mark Twain, Charles Dickens,

E.T.A. Hoffman, Heinrich

Heine, Oscar Wilde, Heinrich

Seidel, Ludwig Tieck, Helene

Böhlau, Oscar A.H. Schmitz, and others.

Wonderfully illustrated by Szafranski, a college friend of

Kurt Tucholsky who eventually moved to the U.S. and

worked for Life Magazine. [BTC #335196]

Science-Fiction & Horror

~76~ Between the Covers

445 J.G. BALLARD. Vermilion

Sands. London: Jonathan Cape (1971).

First hardcover edition (adding a story not in

the paperback original). Fine in fine dustwrap-

per. A bright, beautiful copy. [BTC #291404]

446 —. Chronopolis and Other

Stories. New

York: G.P. Putnam’s

Sons (1971).

First American edi-

tion. Fine in fine

dustwrapper. A

bright and beautiful, pretty much as new copy of

a book usually found well-worn. [BTC #291405]

447 Arthur C. CLARKE. The View from

Serendip. New York:

Random House 1977.

First edition. Fine in fine

dustwrapper with slight ton-

ing to the edges of the flaps.

Inscribed by Arthur C.

Clarke to his protégé, one-

time secretary, and longtime

friend Ian Macauley: “To Ian, this souvenir of a quarter cen-

tury! All the best, Arthur. NYC 11 Oct. 77.” Macauley, an

award-winning New York Times journalist, was the dedicatee

of Clarke’s first published hardcover novel, Islands in the Sky

(1952). He also edited Clarke’s book of collected essays,

Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! (2000). Clarke wrote the last chapter of

Childhood End, while visiting Macauley in Atlanta, where he was reportedly greatly influ-

enced by their discussions. A nice association copy of this miscellany, including specula-

tions on space, science and the sea, a short science-fiction story, and “an equatorial auto-

biography.” Macauley has made several pencil and pen alterations in the text, apparently

while preparing the essays for the collected volume. [BTC #305872]

448 —. 2010: Odyssey Two. New York:

Ballantine Books / Del Rey (1982).

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by

Arthur C. Clarke to Ian

Macauley (see above): “To

Ian & Marnie & Simon,

with my very best wishes.

Arthur, 12 Nov. ’82.” Basis

for the 1984 film, written

and directed by Peter

Hyams, and featuring Roy

Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, and

Keir Dullea (reprising his role from Stanley Kubrick’s clas-

sic 2001: A Space Odyssey). A splendid association copy. [BTC

#312480]

449 August DERLETH. The

Trail of Cthulhu. Sauk City: Arkham

House 1962.

First edition. A

tiny name stamp on

the bottom page

edge, and on the title

page, along with a

small date, else a fine

copy in an exception-

ally bright and fine

dustwrapper. Signed

by the author. A

beautiful copy. [BTC

#89252]

450 Walther EIDLITZ. Zodiak.

New York: Harper & Brothers 1931.

First American edi-

tion. Translated by

Eric Sutton. Fine

in fine dustwrapper

with a little rub-

bing. A novel deal-

ing with the “deifi-

cation of technical

progress.” An

excellent copy.

Bleiler Checklist.

[BTC #109714]

454 Robert A. HEINLEIN. Assignment in

Eternity. Reading PA: Fantasy Press (1953).

First edition, Currey’s remainder binding B3 (dark blue boards). Fine

in fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. Four long stories. A

lovely copy. [BTC #338743]

451 Virgil FINLAY and Gary de la REE, editor. The Books of Virgil

Finlay [Six Separately Issued Volumes]. Saddle River, N.J.: Gary de la Ree 1975, 1978, 1979,

1979, 1979, 1980.

First editions. Six volumes. Quartos. Volume One with an excerpt from “Dreams in the Witch House”

by H.P. Lovecraft laid in. A couple of corners bumped, else each volume is fine in fine dustwrapper, a

couple of which have very slight soiling. Volume One is one of 1050 copies; Volumes Two, Three, Four,

and Six are each one of 1300 copies; Volume Five is one of 1350 copies. [BTC #334955]

452 H. Rider HAGGARD. Montezuma’s

Daughter. London: Longmans,

Green and Co. 1893.

First edition with the publisher’s cata-

logue dated 8/93. Illustrated by Maurice

Greiffenhagen. Blue cloth gilt, beveled

boards. Neat, contemporary owner name,

corners worn through a bit, else a tight,

very good or better copy. Tipped to the

front fly is an Autograph Letter Signed

(“H. Rider Haggard”) dated in 1890 to a

reader suggesting his correspondent

“study the English standard authors –

beginning at the Elizabethan era.” [BTC #317798]

453 Joe HALDEMAN.

The Forever War. New York:

St. Martins (1974).

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrap-

per. An exceptionally fresh and

crisp copy of this Hugo Award-

winning novel. [BTC #312885]

The Monkey’s Paw

456 W.W. JACOBS. The

Lady of the Barge. New

York:

Dodd, Mead 1902.

First American edition; presumed

first issue binding. Near fine with a

bookplate, a tiny name stamp on

the rear pastedown, and a few pages

lightly creased. Contains one of the

most anthologized and finest of all

horror stories, “The Monkey’s Paw.”

The story has been filmed and tele-

vised numerous times, our favorite

adaptation being the Simpsons

Halloween special. [BTC #83240]

457 Stephen KING.

Desperation. Hampton Falls,

NH: Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc.

(1996).

First edition, limited issue. Illustrated

by Don Maitz. Fine in fine slipcase as

issued. One of 2050 copies (2000

offered for sale) Signed by both the

author and artist. [BTC #331988]

455 L. Ron HUBBARD.

Final Blackout. Providence,

RI: Hadley Publishing Co. (1948).

First edition. Fine in an age-toned,

else near fine dustwrapper with a lit-

tle rubbing. A future war novel set

in England. A nice copy. [BTC

#95070]

Modern First Editions ~77~

Science-Fiction & Horror

~78~ Catalogue 166

458 Katherine KURTZ.

Lammas Night. London: Severn

House Publishers (1986).

First British edition, and the first hard-

cover edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper

with a bit of rubbing. [BTC #332291]

459 Henry KUTTNER and C.L.

MOORE. No Boundaries. New

York: Ballantine Books (1955).

First edition. Slightest toning to the pages,

still fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple

of tiny tears. An especially fresh copy. [BTC

#327197]

460 H.P.

LOVECRAFT.

Collected Poems.

Sauk City: Arkham House

1963.

First edition. Illustrated by Frank Utpatel. A tiny name

stamp on the bottom page edge, and a small, faint date

stamp on the title page, else a fine copy in a fine, fresh and

bright dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the illustrator. A

beautiful copy. [BTC #89257]

461 Arthur

MACHEN. The

Shining

Pyramid. London:

Martin Secker 1925.

First edition, limit-

ed issue. Fine in an

internally repaired,

very good or better

dustwrapper. One

of 250 numbered

copies Signed by

the author. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #275011]

462 J.R.R. TOLKIEN. The Lord of the Rings: [The

Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the

King]. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 1954, 1955.

Three volumes. Each volume is a first edition, first issue.

All three volumes are fine and bright. All in original dust-

wrappers, the red lettering on the spines is slightly and

uniformly faded. Slight and nearly invisible restoration to

the extremities of the first volume, else fine with no chips,

tears, owner names, or price-clipping. Each volume

housed in a separate, uniform custom cloth chemise and

gray quarter-morocco slipcase. Probably the most beloved

fantasy, and easily one of the most important novels of the

20th Century. Recently discovered by a new generation, in

part due to the award-winning film trilogy by Peter

Jackson. Mixed issue sets, made-up sets employing wildly

divergent-condition of the individual volumes, and

rebound sets abound, but first issue sets in uniformly nice

condition remain scarce and desirable. [BTC #80301]

463 John Holbrook VANCE as

Jack VANCE. The Faceless Man; The Brave Free

Men; The Asutra. San Francisco:

Underwood-Miller 1983.

First hardcover editions, copy number 11

of 200 copies of the Durdane Trilogy.

Three volumes, each Signed by the

author. Fine in fine dustwrapper with

slipcase. From the collection of Bruce

Kahn. [BTC #310955]

464 Walter Van Tilburg CLARK.

Autograph Letter Signed. Virginia City,

NV: 1951.

Quarto. Dated 30

June 1951 to Miss

Cisili (apparently a

functionary at New

Directions) thanking

her and William

Carlos Williams for a

copy of the fourth

book of Paterson, and

commenting on it in

detail. Folded as

mailed, faint toning

to one quarter, else

fine. [BTC #321547]

465 Zane GREY. Forlorn River. New

York: Harper & Brothers 1927.

First edition. Slightly spine-cocked else near fine

in a slightly spine-faded, very good plus dustwrap-

per with a few short tears. Filmed twice – silently

in 1926 by John Waters (not the John Waters of

current fame, although that might make for an

interesting film) featuring Jack Holt, and more

notably in 1937 by Charles Barton with Buster

Crabbe and June Martel. An attractive copy. [BTC

#93242]

466 Will JAMES. The Drifting

Cowboy. New York:

Charles Scribner’s Sons

1926.

Apparent second printing,

originally published in

1925. Quarto. Fine in

price-clipped, very near fine

dustwrapper with a couple

of tiny nicks and tears.

Inscribed by the author:

“To Porter Welch from

Will James III – ’26.” A

lovely copy. [BTC #85786]

L’Amour’s First Book

468 Louis L’AMOUR. Smoke

from this Altar. Oklahoma City OK:

Lusk Publishing Company (1939).

First edition.

Modest wear to

the top edges of

the spine, and a

little scuffing to

the finish of the

boards, a very

good or better

copy in a near

very good example of the rare dustwrapper with a

large chip on the unprinted rear panel, small

chips, tears, and light staining on the front panel.

Signed by the author above what is likely an

authorial gift inscription dated May 31, 1939.

The prolific and popular Western author’s first

book, a volume of verse. Much has been speculated

about which of the many bindings precede, but few of these speculations are

very convincing. After L’Amour’s death, he was found to have remainders of

orange, light green, and gray, of identical textured cloth, and each stamped in

black in his possession (we have seen reference to orange as the first binding)

and many of these, in suitably fine condition, but unjacketed, subsequently

made their way to the market place. This copy is in dark green cloth, of what

appears to be a thicker texture than the other three bindings, with gold stamp-

ing. If one were wont to engage in speculation, one might hazard that such a

copy as this, with the more expensive cloth and gold stamping, an obviously

contemporary dustwrapper, and a dated, early presentation might precede the

other uniform and more cheaply produced orange,

gray and light green bindings, which may all of

have been remainder bindings. At any rate a signed

and jacketed copy of a book seldom found in

either state. [BTC #72443]

469 —. Guns of the Timberlands.

(New York): Jason Press (1955).

First edition. A trifle rubbed at the base of the

spine, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few

tiny tears and a little rubbing at the extremities of

the spine. A lovely copy of the author’s cheaply

manufactured second hardcover, his first hardcover

western and by all accounts his rarest book. The

only copy we have seen. [BTC #14787]

467 Alan LE MAY. The Searchers. New

York: Harper and Brothers (1954).

First edition. Fine in a

price-clipped, near fine

dustwrapper with a tiny

tear and a couple of

scratches on the rear

panel. A nice copy of this

western classic without

the usual spine-fading,

the basis for the John

Ford film featuring John

Wayne and Natalie

Wood, one of the defin-

ing films of the genre.

[BTC #331835]

Between the Covers ~79~ W e s t e r n s

470 (Baseball).

[Broadside]: The

National Game! Base

Ball on the College

Grounds. Rochester

University vs. Hamilton.

We’n’sday, June 5.

Large printed broadside.

Approximately 19" x 12½". Old

folds, several small tears, tack

holes in the corners where the

broadside was posted, about very

good. Undated but the type style

and our universal calendar sug-

gest either 1889 or 1895 as the

most likely year of publication.

[BTC #302232]

The First Book Devoted Exclusively to Baseball

471 (Baseball). The Base Ball Player’s

Pocket Companion: Containing Rules and

Regulations for Forming

Clubs, Directions for the

“Massachusetts Game,”

and the “New York

Game,” from Official

Reports. Boston: Mayhew &

Baker 1859.

First edition. 16mo. 35(1)pp.

Original flexible cloth-covered

boards with a gilt illustration of

a ball player. Old library stick-

ers removed from the endpa-

pers, small nicks at the extrem-

ities, a very good example in a

custom quarter leather and cloth clamshell case. A rare book –

the first book exclusively devoted to baseball. According to a

recent baseball auction (at which an 1861 third edition sold

for $8500 plus premium) fewer than ten examples of this first

edition are known. [BTC #78592]

472 (Baseball). [Broadside]: Base Ball! Between

Websters and [blank space for name] at Nine-Mile

Point,

Webster N.Y.

3 1/2 Miles

North of

Webster

Village.

Saturday,

[blank space

for date]1900

at 3 PM.

Come One!

Come All!

Ladies

Respectfully

Invited.

Rochester, NY:

Spinning Press

1900.

Large broadside.

21¾" x 28¾".

Framed. A little age-toned, else

fine. Webster Village is a suburb

of Rochester. Scarce. [BTC

#331513]

Inscribed to Joe DiMaggio

473 (Baseball). John Patrick

CARROLL-ABBING. A

Chance to Live: The Story of

the Lost Children of the War. New

York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1952.

First edition. Fine in a slightly

sunned and lightly worn, near

fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Joe DiMaggio: “to Joe

DiMaggio, a wonderful friend of Boys’ Towns of Italy and of the

homeless & underprivileged children who need a chance to live. J.P.

Carroll-Abbing. Sept. 2nd 1955.” With letter of provenance signed by

DiMaggio’s two granddaughters. [BTC #93677]

474 (Boxing). Nat FLEISCHER. Nat Fleischer’s All-Time Ring Record Book, 1943

Edition. (Norwalk, CT: The O’Brien Suburban Press 1943).

1943 edition. Red cloth (also issued in wrappers). A few light stains on the front board, else a very good or better,

internally fine copy. Signed by Nat Fleischer. Fleischer attempted to capi-

talize on the quick sale of the 1941 edition by offering this very slightly

amended edition during the first few weeks of 1942. One of 1500 copies

in cloth, of a total edition of 2000 copies. Scarce. [BTC #70984]

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475 (Baseball). (Lou GEHRIG). Albert Y. OLNEY, editor. The 1923 Columbian. New York: Senior Class of

Columbia College (1923).

1923 Columbia Yearbook. Bookplate, light edgewear

to the boards and the front hinge weakening, but a

sound, very good copy. Gehrig initially could not play

intercollegiate baseball for Columbia because he had

played baseball for a summer professional league dur-

ing his freshman year, unaware that doing so jeopar-

dized his eligibility to play any collegiate sport.

Gehrig was ruled eligible to play on the Lions’ foot-

ball team and was a standout fullback and tackle. He later gained baseball eligi-

bility and joined the Lions on that squad as well. But in this yearbook he is fea-

tured in photographs and accounts of his days on the football team over the

1922 season. Gehrig is pictured at least twice and is lauded for his “consistent

line-plunging,” although his efforts could not prevent the season from being “an

unmitigated failure, with few, if any, redeeming qualities.” Other notables pictured include the authors Corey Ford and Henry

Morton Robinson, and Walter Koppisch, Gehrig’s teammate who was later elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. [BTC #291611]

Modern First Editions ~81~ S p o r t s

476 (Baseball). Harry Clay PALMER, J.A. FYNES, Frank RICHTER and

W.I. HARRIS. Athletic Sports in America, England and Australia. Comprising

History, Characteristics, Sketches of Famous Leaders, Organization and Great Contests of

Baseball, Cricket, Football, La Crosse, Tennis, Rowing, and Cycling. Also Including the

Famous “Around the World” Tour of American Baseball Teams, Their Enthusiastic Welcomes,

Royal Receptions, Banquets, Great Games Played before Notables of

Foreign Nations, Humorous Incidents, Interesting Adventures, etc., etc.

Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, Publishers (1889).

First edition. Thick small quarto. Decorated brown cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt and

black. 711pp., illustrated, four color chromolithograph plates. Corners a little bumped, else

a fine copy, and as nice as we’ve seen. Although the book covers most popular field sports

of the era, it is overwhelmingly devoted to baseball, and includes profiles of all the current

professional teams, college baseball, and with what would in another context be a book-

long account of the 1888-89 world barnstorming tour between the Chicago Baseball Club

and an opposing all-star squad. Three of the four color illustrations are of baseball (including the wonderful frontispiece view of a baseball

game outside London’s Crystal Palace), the fourth is of a cricket match. Many black and white illustrations of individual baseball players, as

well as of teams and important games. A beautiful copy of a keystone title for any serious baseball collection. [BTC #77774]

Inscribed to Dinah Shore

478 (Tennis). Ellsworth VINES and

Gene VIER.

Tennis: Myth and

Method. New York: Viking

Press (1978).

First edition. Fine in fine

dustwrapper. Inscribed by

tennis great Vines to singer, actress, and television per-

sonality Dinah Shore. After Vines’s great tennis career, he

also became a leading golf pro. Although Shore is gener-

ally associated with golf, and is an honorary member of

the World Golf Hall of Fame, she was actually a more

avid tennis player. [BTC #326757]

477 (Baseball). Francis C. RICHTER. Richter’s History

and Records of Base Ball: The

American Nation’s Chief Sport.

Philadelphia: Francis C. Richter 1914.

First edition. 306pp., illustrated from photo-

graphs. Very tiny tears at the spine ends, slight off-

setting on the front pastedown from a clipping,

else a fine copy of a very important baseball book.

Ownership signature of the author’s granddaugh-

ter Helen Richter Warner. As a writer, Richter was

an influential force in the early development of

the game. Beginning with the Philadelphia Day in

1872, then the Sunday World and Public Ledger, he

was the first to set up a separate sports department

for any newspaper. Richter helped form the original

American Association in 1882 and helped to place the Philadelphia

Athletics in it. The next year he helped organize the Phillies in the National

League. In 1883, he started Sporting Life, a weekly newspaper which became a

great force in baseball. He edited the Reach Guide from its inception in 1901 to

the 1926 volume, which he completed days before his death. A superior copy of

a book usually found well worn. [BTC #314521]

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