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1 Lawrence Clark Powell’s introduction entitled “An Essay on
With 72 Photogravures By Berenice Abbott
1. (ABBOTT, Berenice). LANIER, Henry Wysham.
Greenwich Village, Today & Yesterday. New York, 1949.
Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $1400.
First edition, illustrated with 72 striking black-and-white
photogravures by Berenice Abbott.
Having spent most of the 1920s in Paris photographing
famous literati, Abbott returned to New York with the
intention “to do in Manhattan what Atget did in Paris.” Fine.
Description Of The Whole World, 1624
2. ABBOTT, George. Briefe Description of the Whole
World. London, 1624. Small square octavo, early 18th-
century boards rebacked in half brown sheep, new
endpapers. $2500.
Sixth edition, with a lengthy discussion of North America,
including Florida and the new colony of Virginia.
Abbot originally published this work for his students in 1599;
known as “Abbott’s Geography,” this prototypical textbook
contains descriptions of the nations of the world, with
particular attention devoted to the British Isles and America.
A very desirable copy.
Three Signed And Inscribed By Ansel Adams
3. (ADAMS, Ansel) NEWHALL, Nancy. The Eloquent
Light. San Francisco, 1963. Slim folio, original stiff
photographic covers; pp. 16. $750.
First edition of this handsome exhibition catalogue, with ten
finely screened duotones, inscribed on the title page, “For
Barbara, Carmel, May 20, 1965, Ansel Adams.” Fine.
4. ADAMS, Ansel. Images 1923‑1974. Boston,
1974. Oblong folio, original black and gray cloth, dust
jacket. $1200.
First trade edition, with 115 extended-range photolithographs,
signed by Adams on the half title.
For Adams, the Sierra Nevada Mountains (featured in this
collection) were “an inexhaustible well of esthetic and spiritual
stimulation.” Without original slipcase. Fine.
5. ADAMS, Ansel. Photographs of the Southwest.
Boston, 1976. Oblong quarto, original russet cloth,
photographic endpapers, dust jacket. $850.
First edition, with 109 photolithographic duotones, inscribed
in the year of publication on the dedication page by the
photographer, “Ansel Adams, Cambridge, 11-3-76.”
This splendid collection of 109 photographs of the Southwest,
made by Adams between 1928 and 1968, is accompanied by
the Land.” Fine.
Signed By Ansel Adams
6. ADAMS, Ansel. Yosemite and the Range of Light.
Boston, 1980. Oblong folio, original half red cloth with gray
cloth boards, original pictorial dust jacket. $850.
First edition, third printing, with 116 striking black-and-
white photogravures, one of a “special edition prepared for
Time/Life Books subscribers,” signed by Adams on a printed
label. Fine.
Postcard Of Yosemite, Signed By Ansel Adams
7. ADAMS, Ansel. Postcard signed. “Yosemite Valley
from Inspiration Point, Yosemite National Park,
California.” Redwood City, California, circa 1980. Original
black-and-white photolithographic postcard, measuring 4
by 6 inches. $350.
Vintage postcard of Yosemite with black-and-white
photolithographic image of Adams’ “Yosemite Valley from
Inspiration Point,” boldly signed by him on the verso. Fine.
John Quincy Adams’ First State Of
The Union Address
8. ADAMS, John Quincy. President’s Message.
Washington, 1825. Broadside sheet of wove stock, measuring
19 by 23 inches, printed on recto only. $3500.
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 Probably the earliest newspaper printing (issued as a
broadside) of Adams’ first State of the Union Address, in
which he proposes major programs “to improve the condition
of [our] fellow-men.”
Adams laid out an extremely ambitious domestic program of
internal improvements, not only proposing new roads and
canals, but sponsoring such intellectual improvements as a
national university, the first observatory, patent protection for
authors and inventors, and subsidies for scientific expeditions
on the scale of Lewis and Clark. Occasional small closed tear
along fold, faint patches of foxing. Scarce.
38-Volume Set of The Tatler, Spectator,
Guardian, Rambler, Adventurer and Idler
9. ADDISON, Joseph and STEELE, Richard, et al. The
British Essayists. Boston, 1866. Thirty-eight volumes. Small
octavo, early 20th-century full red morocco gilt. $6000.
First American edition, number 65 of 100
sets produced, of this collection of 12 classic
18th-century periodicals, reprinted in their
entirety, with numerous engraved frontispiece
portraits of principal contributors. Fine.
Limited Edition Of Calder’s
Illustrated Fables Of Aesop
10. (CALDER, Alexander) AESOP.
Fables of Aesop According to Sir Roger
L’Estrange. Paris, 1931. Quarto, original blue
paper-wrapped boards with design by Calder,
uncut; original slipcase.  $2500.
Calder’s finest illustrated book, number 30 of
595 copies on Auvergne handmade paper,
with 50 wonderful stylized “wire-form” line
cuts by Calder. 14
“The 50 drawings Alexander Calder made to accompany
Aesop’s tales, audacious in their simplicity and revelation,
provided... explosive and expressive contrast” (Ford, 334).
Without sheet-opening knife. Fine.
“We Are Talking Now Of Summer Evenings In
Knoxville, Tennessee”
11. AGEE, James. A Death in the Family. New York, 1957.
Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $650.
First edition, first issue of Agee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel.
Posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in
1958. First issue, with title page printed in blue and first word
on page 80 misprinted “walking.” Interior fine; dust jacket
near-fine.
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Agee’s Permit Me Voyage
12. AGEE, James. Permit Me Voyage. New Haven, 1934.
Tall octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket; pp. 59. $1200.
First edition of Agee’s first book of poems. About-fine.
First English Publication Of Anna Akhmatova
13. AKHMATOVA, Anna. Forty-Seven Love Poems.
London, 1927. Slim octavo, original blue cloth, uncut. $1500.
Limited first edition of the first English translation of
Akhmatova’s poetry, one of only 300 copies.
This translation marks the first appearance of Akhmatova’s
work in English; she had already published five books of
poetry in Russian. Without original dust jacket. Owner
signature crossed out. Interior fine; light toning to spine. A
beautiful copy. Scarce.
Inscribed By Edward Albee
14. ALBEE, Edward. Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf? London, 1964.
Octavo, original yellow boards, dust
jacket.  $1500.
First English edition of Albee’s award-
winning play, boldly inscribed by him
on the half title with the final
line of the play: “Edward Albee
2006. ‘I… am… George… I…
am…’ (done for Adrienne
Rogers).”
Preceded by the American
edition of 1962. Dust jacket
price-clipped. About-fine.
The “Big Book”
15. (ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS) (WILSON, Bill).
Alcoholics Anonymous. New York, 1951. Thick octavo,
original dark blue cloth, dust jacket. $2000.
First edition, 14th printing of the famous Alcoholics
Anonymous “Big Book.”
Bill Wilson first published the Alcoholics Anonymous “Big
Book” in 1939. Immensely popular, this first edition continued
to be reprinted without change until 1955, when a second
edition appeared. Fine.
Scarce Early Printing Of Little Women
16. ALCOTT, Louisa M. Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth
and Amy. Boston, 1869. 12mo, original gilt-stamped green
cloth. $2200.
First edition, early issue, of this “outstanding achievement of
19th-century American literature.”
Illustrated with frontispiece and three plates by the author’s
sister, May. Early issue, with notice of Part Second on page
[341], without “Part One” on spine. About-fine.
Rare First Printing of the 1767 New York
Restraining Act
17. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (NEW YORK
RESTRAINING ACT) Act for restraining and prohibiting
the Governor, Council, and House of Representatives, of
the Province of New York, until Provision shall have been
made for furnishing the King’s Troops. London, 1767. Folio,
disbound, complete in three leaves. $3200.
Very rare first printing of the 1767 New York Restraining Act,
one of the controversial Townshend Acts that sparked outrage
and protest in the American colonies. One of only 1100 copies
printed.
The New York Restraining Act suspended the New York
Assembly until it complied with the extremely unpopular
Quartering Acts of 1765 and 1766, which required colonial
assemblies to provide basic necessities (including housing,
food and drink) to British soldiers stationed within their
borders. The New York legislature objected and voted to fulfill
some of the requirements, but “this was deemed insufficient”
by the British, and Parliament declared all acts of the New
York Assembly to be null and void until it fully complied with
the Quartering Act” (Morison, 35-36). American outrage was
immediate. This first printing, from the Sessional Volumes of
Parliament (pages 891-94), precedes all the American
printings. Nearly fine.
“The White Stripes Were Cut Out of
Ammunition Shirts”
18. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) WILLETT, William
M. A Narrative of the Military Actions of Colonel Marinus
Willett, Taken Chiefly From His Own Manuscript. New
York, 1831. Octavo, original half brown cloth; custom
clamshell box. $1500.
First edition of Colonel Willet’s dramatic firsthand account of
the Revolution, containing correspondence with Congress,
John Hancock, Washington and others.
Willet recalls the siege of Fort Stanwix in August 1777 when
his soldiers improvised an American flag for their fort—
believed by many historians to be the first time a 13-star
American flag flew over the battlefield. After the war, Willett
“accomplished what had seemed impossible: he had prevailed
on Alexander McGillivray, the Creeks’ half-breed Chief, to
come to New York,” where a treaty was signed that Washington
described as one that “will leave us in peace from one end of
our borders to the other” (Freeman, 585). Published
posthumously by his son, “this narrative is essentially a
firsthand account” (Streeter II:812). Without scarce
frontispiece and plan. Near-fine.
One Of The Earliest And Most Influential
Colonial Arguments For American Independence
19. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) DUMMER, Jeremiah.
A Defence of the New-England Charters. London, 1765. Tall
slim octavo, modern half brown calf; pp. 88. $1800.
Early English edition of an important early argument for the
rights of American colonial authority against Parliamentary
rule, a linchpin in the course of American revolutionary
thought.
“Dummer’s pamphlet contributed to the ideological challenge
to parliamentary authority being developed by James Otis
and other early revolutionaries” (ANB). First published in
London in 1721, this edition was published in 1765, the same
year as a Boston edition, due to renewed interest related to the
Stamp Act. With advertisements for pamphlets about the
Stamp Act on the verso of the title page. Fine.
1783 Parliamentary Act Repealing The Boston Port
Act Of 1774 And The Prohibitory Act Of 1775
20. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (PARLIAMENT) Act
to repeal Prohibitory Acts. An Act to repeal so much of
Two Acts… as prohibits Trade and Intercourse with the
United States of America. London, 1783. Folio, disbound;
pp. (2), 471-72. $2800.
First printing of the 1783 parliamentary act repealing the
Boston Port Act of 1774 that closed Boston Harbor after the
Boston Tea Party and the Prohibitory Act of 1775 that ignited
open Revolution by declaring American trading vessels “the
ships and effects of open enemies.” This diplomatic signal of
peace cites and affirms George III’s Proclamation Declaring a
Cessation of Hostilities between Britain and the United
States, issued February 14, 1783.
Such acts printed prior to 1796 are extremely scarce, since the
maximum number printed only slightly exceeded 1100 copies.
Tiny chip to lower gutter not affecting text. About-fine.
America’s First Conscientious Objectors
21. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (PEMBERTON,
Israel). An Address to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania…
Philadelphia, 1777. Small octavo, original side-stitched sheets,
uncut and partially unopened; pp. (4), 52. $3000.
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 First edition, second issue, of this pamphlet in the history of
Freedom of Conscience and early affirmation of due process.
An exceptional copy, uncut and unopened.

In an effort to deal with loyalists during the Revolution,

Congress had recommended in August of 1777 “to the
executive powers of the several states, to apprehend and secure
all persons who have, in their general conduct and
conversation, evidenced a disposition inimical to the cause of
America.” The refusal of Quakers to take the oath of allegiance
and to bear arms was construed as such evidence. This
eloquently worded pamphlet, signed by Israel Pemberton and
others, is in large part the Friends’ explanation of their beliefs
with respect to the war. Light foxing and embrowning.
Scarce.

“A Powerful Influence In Determining Colonial

Resistance” 24

22. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) SHARP, Granville. A The First To Reach The South Pole
Declaration of the People’s Natural Right to a Share in the
24. AMUNDSEN, Roald. The South Pole: An Account of
Legislature, Which is the Fundamental Principle of the
the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram,” 1910-
British Constitution of State. London, 1774. Octavo, original
1912. London, 1912. Two volumes. Large thick octavo, original
boards sympathetically rebacked in period style, uncut and
maroon cloth gilt. $5800.
partially unopened. $2800.
First edition in English, with four maps (two folding), 138
First edition combining the sheets of Sharp’s 1774 pamphlet
photographic illustrations on 103 plates, as well as numerous
with text substantially expanded by him to highlight the effect
in-text maps, graphs, and tables.
of slavery on America’s struggle for independence, one of a
very small number “printed for private distribution only,” in Complete with the folding diagram of the Fram, not found in
original boards. most copies of the (later) American issue. Originally published
in Norwegian in the same year as the present English
British abolitionist Sharp’s “sympathies were easily enlisted
translation. Moderate foxing to text and a few plates, bright
on behalf of the American colonies, and in 1774 he published
original cloth fine and fresh, with just a bit of wear to spines.
A Declaration” (DNB), where he persuasively addressed what
was seen as a contradiction in colonial claims of “the natural
and inalienable rights of mankind… in the face of domestic
“Lyric Imagery Touched By Poignant Realism”
slavery” (Bailyn, 241). “A powerful influence in determining 25. ANGELOU, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird
colonial resistance” (Howes S331), Sharp’s defense of the Sings. New York, 1969. Octavo, original black cloth, dust
people’s right to a legislative voice fundamentally altered a jacket. $600.
changing tide of public opinion, and “it was no accident that
Americans in Philadelphia in 1775 formed the first anti- First edition of Maya Angelou’s celebrated autobiography.
slavery society in the world” (Wood, 186-7). Interior fine;
light dampstaining to original boards. Extremely good. First issue, with top edge stained magenta. Fine.

Inscribed By Nelson Algren Mardrus’ 16-Volume Arabian Nights

23. ALGREN, Nelson. A Walk on the Wild Side. New 26. (ARABIAN NIGHTS) Le Livre des Mille Nuits et
York, 1956. Octavo, original yellow and blue paper boards, Une Nuit. Paris, 1903-11. Sixteen volumes. Octavo,
dust jacket. $950. contemporary half red morocco gilt. $2600.

First edition, warmly inscribed: “With good wishes to Tad Early limited edition of Mardrus’ colorful French translation
and Shiz Okubo. From Nelson Algren. May 22, ’56.” of the Arabian Nights, one of only 75 sets on Holland paper.

Set in the New Orleans during the Great Depression, this is “Mardrus’ translation (which was really more of a loose
Algren’s most critically acclaimed and best-known novel. Red adaptation) caught the literary mood of the time… [His]
sticker to foot of dust jacket spine. Near-fine. version of the Arabian tales was a belated product of fin-de-
siècle taste, a portrait of a fantasy Orient, compounded of

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opium reveries, jeweled dissipation, lost paradises, melancholy
opulence and odalisques pining in gilded cages… T.E.
Lawrence [described] the Mardrus version as ‘Much the best
version of the Nights in any language’” (Irwin, 36-9). Text in
French. Near-fine.
“Lovely Scheherazade… You Can Never Be At A
Loss For These Sorts Of Stories…”
27. (ARABIAN NIGHTS) Arabian Nights
Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One
Stories. London, 1783. Four volumes. 12mo, full contemporary
polished speckled brown calf. $1100.
Late 18th-century edition of the Arabian Nights, handsome
in contemporary calf.
Antoine Galland’s translation into French of a 14th- or 15th-
century manuscript of the stories commenced publication in
1704; English renditions of Galland began to appear as soon
as two years later. About-fine.
Signed By “Satchmo” And Velma Middleton
28. (ARMSTRONG, Louis). (MIDDLETON, Velma).
Document signed (concert program). No place, circa 1957.
Quarto, original stiff glossy photographic wrappers, staple-
bound as issued; pp. 16. $1650.
Vintage concert program booklet, illustrated with numerous
black-and-white photographs, signed in green ink on the front
cover “Satchmo, Louis Armstrong,” fand urther signed by
singer Velma Middleton at her photograph. Very nearly fine.
“And We Are Here As On A Darkling Plain...”
29. ARNOLD, Matthew. The Poems. London, 1909.
Octavo, contemporary full tan tree calf gilt, elaborately gilt-
decorated spine. $750.
Lovely compendium of Matthew Arnold’s poems, exquisitely
bound by Morrell. Fine.
Cyclopedia Of Painters And Paintings, 1887
30. (ART) CHAMPLIN, John Denison Jr., Ed.
Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. New York, 1887.
Four volumes. Thick quarto, contemporary three-quarter
brown morocco. $950.
Early edition of this comprehensive biographical and topical
reference, with over 2000 illustrations.
“It is not only a fuller biographical dictionary than now exists
of the painters of all times and schools, including prominent
contemporaries, but it is as well a dictionary of works.” First
published in 1886. Interiors fine, minor expert restoration to
a few joints and spine heads. A lovely set.
The World Of Atget By Berenice Abbott
31. (ATGET, Eugene) ABBOTT, Berenice. The World of
Atget. New York, 1964. Folio, original black cloth, dust
jacket. $750.
First edition of this photographic survey of the career of
pioneering French photographer Eugène Atget, with 176
photographic plates published for the first time in book form,
along with Abbott’s memorable portrait of Atget, taken only
months before his death.
Images bright and fine; only lightest toning to spine ends of
near-fine book; light edge-wear and slight chipping to
extremely good dust jacket.
With 91 Architectural Plates
32. AUDSLEY, William and AUDSLEY, George Ashdown.
Cottage, Lodge, and Villa Architecture. London, 1868-1870.
Tall folio (13 by 18 inches), modern three-quarter brown
morocco. $1800.
First edition of this popular guide to Gothic Revival
architecture, complete with 91 lithographic plates on 90
sheets.
In this survey of domestic architecture, the Audsley brothers
combine history and practical advice, providing information
on when various styles were introduced into Britain and
adapted for use. The handsome lithographic plates depict an
assortment of building structures, complete with elevations
and floor plans, as well as details of such specific components
as columns, gables, and mantlepieces. Occasional light
smudges to margins only. Very attractive.
The Chawton Limited Edition Of Jane Austen
33. AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels and Letters. New York,
1906. Twelve volumes. Octavo, original tan cloth. $2500.
Limited “Chawton” edition, number 836 of 1250 copies, with
63 beautiful color illustrations by C.E. and H.M. Brock, and
a folding facsimile of a letter written by Austen. Fine.
“Forty Years Of Dedication”
34. (AUTOMOTIVE) BENZING, Enrico. Ferrari
Formula 1 Annual 1989. Milan, 1989. Quarto, original red
cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First edition (“Edition Autunno”) of the 1989 Ferrari Formula
1 yearbook, illustrated with numerous black-and-white and
color photographs.
This generously illustrated volume, the first Ferrari factory
yearbook published since 1970, spans four decades of Ferrari
Formula 1 racing, profiling vehicles since the innovative 125/
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 F1 in 1948, but focusing largely on the F1/89, which was
victorious in its debut at the 1989 Brazilian grand prix. Text
in Italian, English and French. Fine.
Early History Of The British Open Road
35. (AUTOMOTIVE) HOOPER, William Eden. The
Motor Car in the First Decade of the Twentieth Century.
London, 1908. Thick quarto, original full black morocco
gilt. $3800.
Deluxe limited edition of this history of British automobiles,
one of only 650 copies, with frontispiece portrait of Edward
VII and numerous full-page plates (18 in color).
Includes chapters on the development of the modern car, the
marine motor, and English pioneers of the modern automobile
industry. A few stray spots of foxing, faint finger marks,
separation at first gathering. Moderate edge-wear to original
morocco. Extremely good.
Inscribed By Avedon
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36. AVEDON, Richard and
BALDWIN, James. Nothing
Personal. New York, 1964. Folio,
original boards, slipcase. $1850.
First edition of an artistic
collaboration documenting the
face of America in the 60s, boldly
inscribed: “For Bob with gratitude
always, Dick.”
Slipcase with a bit of soiling and
minor wear to extremities. Book
near-fine, with one gathering
expertly reattached and faint
smudging to boards.
“A Signature Brand Of
Visual Impact”
37. AVEDON, Richard. Observations. New York, 1959.
Folio, original boards, acetate dust wrapper, slipcase. $1200.
First edition of Avedon’s last collaboration with Alexey
Brodovitch, with commentary by Truman Capote, featuring
over 100 black-and-white photogravures of Avedon’s most
famous portraits.
“Richard Avedon set the standard for portraiture and fashion
photography in the second half of the 20th century… His
photographs… virtually jump off the page with a signature
brand of visual impact” (New York Times). About-fine.
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Portraits, Boldly Signed By Avedon
38. AVEDON, Richard. Portraits. New York, 1976.
Quarto, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $1800.
First edition of this beautiful collection of black-and-white
portraits (four folding), boldly signed by Avedon.
Although Avedon initially achieved fame as a fashion
photographer, “it is his portraits, stark and penetrating, which
have won the greatest acclaim among collectors” (Blodgett,
102). Fine.
Avedon’s The Sixties, Signed By Him
39. AVEDON, Richard and ARBUS, Doon. The Sixties.
London, 1999. Folio, original photographic boards, dust
jacket. $1200.
First edition, the historically significant result of a 30-year
collaboration between artist Avedon and author Arbus,
boldly signed by Avedon on the title
page.
Combines Avedon’s provocative
photographs with interviews
conducted by Doon Arbus, daughter
of photographer Diane Arbus, during
the portrait sessions. Fine.
Bacon’s History Of Henry VII
40. BACON, Francis. The Historie
of the Reigne of King Henry the
Seventh. London, 1641. Narrow
quarto, contemporary full brown
speckled calf. $1500.
Sixth edition of Bacon’s most
influential history, with elaborate
woodcut title page.
“None of the histories which had been
written before conveyed any idea
either of the distinctive character of the man or the real
business of his reign. Every history that has been written since
has derived all its light from this” (DNB). First published in
1622, this 1641 edition, because of confusion regarding the
number of re-issues of earlier editions, is considered the sixth.
Without the frontispiece portrait. Interior quite clean, with
only an occasional light stain. Front joint re-hinged, endpapers
renewed. Shelf-wear to contemporary calf.
The Cure Of Old Age, 1683
41. BACON, Roger. The Cure of Old Age and Preservation
of Youth. ISSUED WITH: ARRAIS, Edward Madeira. Arbor
Vitae; Or, A Physical Account of the Tree of Life in the
Garden of Eden. London, 1683. Small octavo, modern half
calf-gilt. $2500.
First editions in English of two early treatises on healthy living
and the quest for immortality.
In Cure of Old Age, written around 1240 and first published in
Latin in 1590, free-thinking medieval friar Roger Bacon
emphasizes the use of diet and hygiene, and close adherence
to the medical principles of the four humors, which had
already been established by Galen. Issued together with this
edition is Edward Arrais’ Tree of Life, published here for the
first time. Occasional close trimming to upper edge, a few
occasional marginal notes. A very attractive copy.
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With A Bold Sketch By John Barrymore
42. (BARRYMORE, John) ROTHENSTEIN, William.
Men and Memories. A History of the Arts 1872-1922. New
York, circa 1935. Thick octavo, original black cloth, dust
jacket. $2800.
First single-volume edition of Rothenstein’s two-volume
memoir, from the library of legendary actor John Barrymore,
featuring a bold caricature drawn by Barrymore on the front
free endpaper, with his inscription “John Barrymore—Tower
Rd” above the sketch and his initials “J.B.” beneath.
This is the first single-volume work of Rothenstein’s memoirs
to combine the two separately published editions of 1931-2.
From the library of legendary actor John Barrymore.
Barrymore’s notation of “Tower Rd” above the sketch refers to
his estate in Hollywood, purchased by him in 1927. Text fine,
lightest edge-wear to near-fine book; some chipping, soiling
to very good dust jacket.
“They Call Me Mister Tibbs”
43. BALL, John. In the Heat of the Night. New York, 1965.
Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1350.
First edition, winner of the 1965 Edgar Award for best first
mystery novel and the basis for the Oscar-winning movie
starring Sidney Poitier. Very nearly fine.
“Please Look After This Bear”
44. BANBERY, Fred. “Paddington with His Watering
Can.” London, circa 1972. Original pen-and-ink drawing on
tissue paper, measuring 3 by 4 inches, handsomely framed,
entire piece measures 7 by 8 inches. $3600.
Delightful original preliminary drawing of this classic
children’s character, produced in preparation of Michael
Bond’s Paddington’s Garden (1972). From the estate of the
artist. Fine.
“The First Baseball Guide Published For
Commercial Sale”
45. (BASEBALL) CHADWICK, Henry, ed. The Dime
Base Ball Player, Comprising the Proceedings of the March
Conventions of 1872. New York, 1872. 12mo, original
pictorial wrappers. $2400.
Rare 1872 edition of Beadle’s Dime Base Ball Player, with
professional club records and statistics for the year 1871,
baseball history, instruction and the “new rules adopted.”
The Beadle baseball guide was first published in 1860 and was
“the first baseball guide published for commercial sale to the
public” (Smith 172). Nice, complete 19th-century baseball
guides are scarce; Henry Chadwick’s Beadle Guides (published
1860-1881) are exceptionally so. Interior generally quite clean,
with only a little light dampstaining at some edges. Japanese
paper repair along spine, with some minor wear at edges of
fragile original wrappers. Exceptionally good.
Signed By Joltin’ Joe
46. (BASEBALL) DIMAGGIO, Joe. The DiMaggio
Albums. New York, 1989. Two volumes. Quarto, original full
blue morocco, slipcase. $2200.
Signed limited first edition, one of 700 sets signed by DiMaggio
in Volume I.
Over 800 pages of newspaper accounts, photos and
reproductions of memorabilia from DiMaggio’s incomparable
career, with commentary and an introduction by DiMaggio
himself. In original publisher’s shipping carton. Fine.
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Babe Ruth’s Autobiography
47. (BASEBALL) RUTH, Babe and CONSIDINE, Bob.
The Babe Ruth Story. New York:, 1948. Octavo, original gray
cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
First edition of Babe Ruth’s autobiography, illustrated with
49 photographs. Interior fine, slight staining to cloth, original
dust jacket fine.
The Mick, Inscribed By Mantle
48. (BASEBALL) MANTLE, Mickey and GLUCK, Herb.
The Mick. Garden City, 1985. Octavo, original half black
cloth, dust jacket. $950.
First edition, illustrated with numerous photographs, boldly
inscribed on a preliminary page, “To Lenny, Best wishes,
Mickey Mantle.” Fine.
Large Photograph Signed By Mantle
49. (BASEBALL) MANTLE, Mickey. Black and white
photograph signed. No place, no date. Photograph measures
14 by 11 inches, handsomely matted and framed, measuring a
total of 20 by 17 inches. $1250.
Beautiful black and white photograph of the famed Yankee
slugger swinging away, boldly signed by him in blue marker.
Fine.
“The American Game Par Excellence”
50. (BASEBALL) SPALDING, Albert G. America’s
National Game. New York:, 1911. Thick octavo, original blue
pictorial cloth gilt. $2800.
First edition of this essential baseball history, with over 100
full-page illustrations and four fold-out plates (two printed
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on both sides), including panoramic views of the Polo
Grounds, Shibe Park, Comiskey Park and Forbes Field.
Minor marginal dampstaining to about 30 pages of text,
one folding plate chipped and separated at fold. Front free
endpaper excised, inner paper hinges expertly repaired.
Cloth fresh, gilt cover illustration bright and fine. Extremely
good.
Spalding’s How To Play Short Stop, 1909
51. (BASEBALL) SPALDING, Albert G. How to Play
Short Stop. New York, 1909. Small octavo, staple-bound as
issued, original pictorial black paper wrappers. $750.
Second edition of this early guide to playing short stop, in
original wrappers.
First published in 1907, this work includes pointers and
in-depth instructions from the leading professional short
stops of the time such as Hans Wagner and Fred Parent. A few
small closed marginal tears to text, small stain to front
wrapper, a bit of wear to extremities. Very good.
“Get A Bonus And Join The NY. Mets”
52. (BASEBALL) (STENGEL, Casey) PAXTON, Harry
T. Casey at the Bat. The Story of My Life in Baseball.
New York, 1962. Octavo, original half white cloth, dust
jacket. $850.
Early printing, inscribed on the half title: “To John Barringer
& his seven prospects. Study at school then get a bonus and
join the NY. Mets. Casey Stengel.”
Stengel’s distinguished 54-year professional career spanned
the era from Christy Mathewson to Mickey Mantle. Book
near-fine, with toning to spine and a few unobtrusive spots of
soiling to boards. Dust jacket very good, with corner of front
flap torn away affecting blurb, only light wear to extremities
and quite bright. Scarce and desirable inscribed.
Bateson’s First Two Reports On Heredity
53. BATESON, William, et al. Reports to the Evolution
Committee of the Royal Society. Reports I-II.
London, 1902-05. Two volumes. Slim octavo, modern
black cloth. $1350.
First editions of the first two reports presented by Bateson and
his colleagues to the Evolution Committee of the Royal
Society—the “main vehicle for Mendelian publication in
Britain.”
“Bateson’s contributions toward the establishment of the
Mendelian conception of heredity and variation were
enormous” (DSB). Fine. Rare.
“There’s Always Room In The Land Of Oz”
54. BAUM, L. Frank. The Emerald
City of Oz. Chicago, 1910. Octavo,
original light blue cloth. $2800.
First edition, first state, of the sixth Oz
book, with 16 full-page color illustrations
by John R. Neill.
Baum intended to conclude his popular
series with this volume. Baum’s own
bankruptcy the next year, however,
would mean he “had no choice but to
call once more upon the magic of Oz in
an attempt to restore his fortunes”
(Eyles, 48). Neill’s plates, embellished
with metallic green ink, make first
editions of this title particularly notable.
Near-fine.
First American Edition Of 54
Grand Hotel
55. BAUM, Vicki. Grand Hotel. Garden City, 1931.
Octavo, original light blue cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First American edition of the classic German novel, which
starred Greta Garbo in the 1932 film adaptation, scarce in
original dust jacket.
Interior fine, very light soiling to near-fine book; minor
chipping and rubbing to extremely good dust jacket.
“More About Dorothy”
56. BAUM, L. Frank. Ozma of Oz.
Chicago, 1907. Octavo, original light tan
cloth. $3200.
First edition, first issue of the third Oz
book, with many color headpieces and 40
full-page color illustrations by John R.
Neill.
“Baum responded to his young readers’
pleas for ‘more about Dorothy’… The
Cowardly Lion also reappeared… [and
Baum introduced] the clockwork man,
Tik-Tok, the first manmade mechanical
figure in literature (years before the word
‘robot’ was invented)” (Eyles, 46). First
issue, in primary binding with “The Reilly
58
& Britton Co.” at spine foot. Interior with
scattered light soiling. Cloth with light wear to spine ends,
light soiling and rubbing, slight bump to bottom corner of
front board. Very good.
With Striking Art Nouveau Illustrations
57. (BEARDSLEY, Aubrey). The
Yellow Book: An Illustrated
Quarterly. London, 1894-97. Thirteen
volumes. Octavo, original black-
stamped yellow cloth. $3200.
Mixed edition of Beardsley’s
celebrated art-nouveau quarterly,
profusely illustrated with 220 plates
after designs by Beardsley, Sickert,
Crane, Sargent, Beerbohm, Leighton
and many others. With literary
contributions by such distinguished
men of letters as Yeats, Wells, James,
France, and Grahame.
This renowned journal was conceived
in 1894 by Beardsley and the
American novelist Henry Harland. It
is nearly impossible to determine
which edition a Yellow Book is, as “so many sets have been
‘made up’ and the details are so perplexing that rational
codification may well prove impossible” (Lasner, Beardsley
Checklist 65). Usual scattered light foxing; mild wear to spine
extremities. Very desirable.
Aubrey Beardsley’s Last Work
58. (BEARDSLEY, Aubrey) JONSON, Ben. Volpone: or
The Foxe. London, 1898. Tall quarto, original full vellum,
ornate cover design stamped in gilt. $4000.
Limited edition of Jonson’s famous comedy,
number 1 of only 100 copies on Imperial
Japanese vellum (of a total edition of 1100),
with cover design, frontispiece and five
initial letters by Aubrey Beardsley, issued
with a separate set of large-size photogravure
plates bound in.
This elegant edition of Volpone was
originally intended as an “édition de
luxe—with 24 illustrations, frontispiece,
initial letters, and small drawings… [but]
it appeared with only the frontispiece, five
initials, and front cover design, [all that
was] completed by the time of the artist’s
death on 16 March 1898” (Lasner 129).
Bookplate also designed by Beardsley.
Evidence of bookplate removal on front
pastedown. Lightest soiling to original
vellum, gilt fine and fresh. An exceptional copy.
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“An Entirely New Theatrical Language”
59. BECKETT, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Paris, 1952.
Small octavo, original white paper wrappers, uncut. $5600.
First trade edition, review copy, of Samuel Beckett’s greatest
and most influential play.
Although Beckett finished En attendant Godot in 1946, the
play was rejected by six Paris publishers before its publication
in this 1952 first edition of 2500 copies. Text in French. First
trade edition, review copy, with the publisher’s small cross-
shaped punch through margins only of the final 16 leaves
and rear wrapper; preceded by only 35, quite rare, numbered
copies in wrappers. Without scarce original glassine.
About-fine.
Signed By Samuel Beckett
60. BECKETT, Samuel. Company. New York, 1980.
Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $1750.
First American edition of Beckett’s semi-autographical prose
work, signed by him on the title page, an advance review copy
with publisher’s card laid in.
Preceded by signed limited English edition published the
same year. Fine, scarce signed.
“The Summit Of That Instrument’s Repertoire”
61. BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Grande Sonate pour le
Piano Forte. Oeuvre XXII. Vienna:, 1802. Oblong quarto,
modern speckled brown boards; pp. 23. $4800.
First edition of Piano Sonata No. 11 in B Flat, fully engraved.
“Just as Beethoven’s string quartets are the finest body of
quartets created by one person, so his piano sonatas are the
summit of that instrument’s repertoire” (Staines, 41).
Beethoven composed the piece in 1799 and the first half of
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1800. Title page and last leaf reinforced, affecting the engraved
surface on the last leaf (but not affecting the notes). Some
foxing and dampstaining. Very good; scarce.
Beethoven’s “Harp” Quartet, Opus 74
62. BEETHOVEN, Ludwig. Quatuor pour deux Violons,
Viola et Violoncelle… Op. 74. Leipzig, 1810. Folio, original
separate parts in original paper wrappers, disbound; pp. 11, 7,
7, 7. Housed in custom chemise. $4000.
First edition, first issue of Beethoven’s “Harp” Quartet, in
parts, fully engraved.
So called from its use of harp-like pizzicato effects, the “Harp”
quartet is one of the great works of Beethoven’s middle period.
With publisher’s blindstamp throughout. Exceptionally clean
and fine.
“Noble, Energetic, Proud”
63. BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. IIme Grande Simphonie
en Rè majeur (D dur)… Oeuvre XXXVI. Bonn and
Cologne, 1822. Tall octavo, modern full brown linen-
covered boards. $3500.
First German and first authorized edition of the complete
score of Beethoven’s Second Symphony, fully engraved.
Written during the summer of 1802, the Second Symphony is
vigorous, and reflects little of Beethoven’s personal anguish at
his growing deafness. Berlioz characterized it as “noble,
energetic, proud.” The full score was first published in London
in a pirated edition in 1808; this, the first German edition, is
the first authorized by Beethoven. Fine.
Signed By Saul Bellow
64. BELLOW, Saul. Mr. Sammler’s Planet. New York,
1970. Octavo, original half blue cloth with blue paper boards,
dust jacket. $600.
First edition, signed by Bellow on the front free endpaper.
Winner of the National Book Award for 1971. Fine.
Signed Photograph Of Bellow
65. (BELLOW, Saul) SHAY, Art. Saul Bellow. Photograph
signed. No place, circa 1990. Vintage gelatin silver photograph
measures 11 by 14 inches. $2200.
Vintage large gelatin silver photograph of Nobel laureate
Bellow, signed by him on the image, additionally signed by
famed Chicago photographer Art Shay on the verso.
Bellow is seen here in profile, in a striking image captured by
noted Chicago photographer Art Shay. Fine.
Signed By Bemelmans
66. BEMELMANS, Ludwig. I Love You I Love You I Love
You. New York, 1942. Octavo, original pictorial yellow cloth,
pictorial endpapers, dust jacket. $850.
First edition, with 71 lovely black-and-white illustrations and
pictorial endpapers, boldly signed by Bemelmans.
themselves of these tendencies. The very fact that the clerks
and members of free professions have allied themselves with
all of the workers is most welcome. Cordially, D. Ben Gurion.
Minister of Defense.” He wrote this to Shraga Netzer, who
was the “eminence grise of founding father David Ben-
Gurion’s party” (Jerusalem Post). Text in Hebrew. Two round
holes punched in margin. Faint creases from folding. Fine.

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working in hotels and restaurants, this collection of stories
includes reminiscences about Bemelmans’ travels through
Europe and Americas. Book near-fine, with slight fading to
spine. Extremely scarce dust jacket very good, with moderate
wear to extremities, and fading to spine. Very good, scarce in
dust jacket and signed.

With An Original Drawing

67. BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Father, Dear Father. New
York, 1953. Octavo, original red cloth, uncut and unopened,
acetate, slipcase. $1500.

Signed limited first edition, number 3 of only 151 copies, of

which only 100 were for sale, signed by the author and with
an original color drawing. The copy of Viking Press president,
Thomas Guinzburg. This copy with a wonderful boldly signed
original colored drawing of a poodle.

Ludwig Bemelman’s daughter “was 11, precocious and down-

to-earth when she accompanied Bemelmans on a grand tour
of France, Switzerland, the Tyrol, Italy. Every page of their
progress is littered with the types that have peopled
[Bemelman’s] works… the bowing hotel managers, the
bespatted aristocrats, the bored billionaires, the Tyrolean
songsters with hooked pipes, the tiny donkeys and the hairy
mongrels…” (Time). Fine.
“They Will Rid Themselves Of These Tendencies”
68. BEN-GURION, David. Autograph letter signed.
Hakirya, May 24, 1955. Octavo, one sheet of official Israeli
Prime Minister’s stationery, writing on recto only, 6 by 8
inches. $3500.
Autograph letter signed, from then-Israeli Defense Minister
David Ben-Gurion to Mapai party elder Shraga Netzer,
regarding political defection of his former allies.
The letter, on David Ben-Gurion’s personal stationery and
entirely in his hand, reads, in translation: “David Ben Gurion.
Hakirya, 3 Sivan 5715. May 24, 1955. [To] Shraga Netzer. Tel
Aviv. Dear Friend, We must accept, as a positive fact, that the
General Zionist Workers are joining forces with the General
Federation [of Labor, i.e. Histadrut]. It is not at all important
that these workers are entirely subordinate to the General
Zionists, and are currently imbued with anti-Labor tendencies.
It is not unthinkable that, in the course of time, they will rid
Inscribed In Hebrew By David Ben-Gurion
69. BEN-GURION, David. Michtavim el Paula vael
hayeladim (Letters to Paula and the Children). Tel Aviv, 1968.
Octavo, original illustrated boards, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition of Ben-Gurion’s letters to his family, inscribed in
Hebrew by Ben-Gurion in the year of publication, “To Senetta
Yoseftal, with respect, David Ben-Gurion, Sede Boker
20/9/68.”
Senetta Yoseftal was elected to the Israeli Knesset in Ben-
Gurion’s Mapai party in 1955, and later was an active politician
in the United Kibbutz movement, which Ben-Gurion also
strongly supported. When he retired from politics, he moved
to the kibbutz Sede Boker, in the Negev. Text in Hebrew. Book
bright and fine. Scarce dust jacket with light edge-wear and
very minor rubbing, extremely good.
Arthur Szyk’s Israeli Declaration Of
Independence
70. SZYK, Arthur. The Declaration of the Establishment
of the State of Israel. New Canaan, Connecticut, 1948.
Large color lithographic print on cardboard, 18-1/2 by 14-
1/2 inches. $600.

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 First impression of Szyk’s stunning color lithograph of the
Israeli Declaration of Independence.
Working in the style of 16th-century miniaturist painters,
Szyk used colors “with the luminosity of Gothic stained glass
windows. His Hebrew lettering was superbly decorative and
his illuminations showed a close acquaintance with Jewish
Legend.” Text in Hebrew. Fine.
1599 Barker “Breeches Bible”
71. (BIBLE) The Bible, that is, the holy Scriptures
conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament. London,
1599. Octavo, contemporary full paneled brown calf
rebacked. $4000.
Late-16th century illustrated Barker edition of the important
Geneva Bible, with engraved maps of the Holy Land and the
Garden of Eden, in contemporary calf.
“The Geneva Version included prefaces, maps and tables; and
for the first time in an English Bible the verses were divided
and numbered… It has been more properly called the
Elizabethan family Bible, since it was this version which was
the first to enter the English home” (PMM 83). Without one
blank and 3F1 (John 7:16-8:51). Old owner ink inscriptions to
a few blank leaves, occasional old ink marginalia. Interior
with light marginal dampstaining to a few leaves, scattered
light wear to edges; one closed tear and four tears to leaves,
affecting text, embrowning to last leaf. Light age-wear to
attractive contemporary calf. Very good.
First Edition Of The 1668 “Preaching Bible”
72. (BIBLE) The Holy Bible Containing the Old
Testament and the New. Cambridge, 1668, 1666. Two
volumes. Quarto, contemporary black morocco, elaborately
gilt-decorated spine and covers. $3500.
Lovely 17th-century Preaching Bible, with engraved
architectural title page by John Chantry.
Engraved general title page by Chantry dated 1668, printed
New Testament title page dated 1666. “This edition is
sometimes known as the ‘Preaching Bible,’ being well adapted
for pulpit use; it is printed in small type, with a very full page”
(Herbert 697). Early owner notations on front and rear
flyleaves. Sections of blank flyleaves neatly cut out, pages
spotted, some heavily. Handsome in unrestored contemporary
morocco-gilt.
Early 17th-Century Barker Geneva Bible
73. (BIBLE) The Bible, Translated according to the
Ebrew and Greeke. London, 1611. Thick quarto, contemporary
full blind-tooled brown calf rebacked and recornered with
original spine laid down. $4200.
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Early 17th-century Barker Geneva Bible, printed in Gothic
type, illustrated with woodcut ornaments, title page and
frontispiece, in handsome full contemporary calf.
Double-column Gothic-type text, with printed marginal
annotations, decorative woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces
and several in-text woodcuts. Includes Apocrypha. Various
clippings affixed to front endpapers, a few instances of ink
marginalia. Scattered mild marginal dampstaining, occasional
closed tears and minor loss to edges of leaves, mild marginal
worming. Text occasionally trimmed a bit close. Old
restoration to inner paper hinges, mild age-wear to
contemporary calf. Excellent.
1655 King James Bible In Contemporary
Morocco
74. (BIBLE) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old
Testament and the New. 1655. 12mo, contemporary full
brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine. $2200.
Mid-17th century edition of the King James Bible, handsome
in contemporary morocco.
Hand-rubricated throughout, decorated with two elaborately
wood-engraved title pages—one general and one for the New
Testament—and a vignette and floriated woodcut initial at
Genesis 1. Bound with a contemporary edition of Sternhold
and Hopkins’ popular metrical psalter. Contemporary owner
inscriptions, later pencil bibliographic annotations, scattered
unobtrusive ink marginalia. Marginal loss to leaf B5 of
metrical psalter, mild age-wear to handsome contemporary
morocco. Excellent.
The King James Bible In Contemporary
Morocco-Gilt With Silver Cornerpieces
75. (BIBLE) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old
Testament and the New. Oxford, 1679. Octavo, contemporary
full black morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid
down, silver cornerpieces. $3500.
Second Oxford edition of the King James Bible, with engraved
general title page and separate New Testament title page,
bound in contemporary morocco-gilt with silver
cornerpieces.
Text hand-rubricated throughout. Early ink marginalia
throughout the psalms. Occasional marginal closed tears and
minor loss; repairs to lower corners of H1-H3 and I1, I7 in
New Testament, with Acts 7:35, 49 and portions of 8:3-7
supplied in an early manuscript hand. Inner hinges expertly
repaired. Handsome.
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Early 18th-Century New Testament In
Morocco-Gilt With Silver Corners
76. (BIBLE) The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. London, 1721. Octavo, contemporary full
paneled black morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, silver
cornerpieces. $1200.
Early 18th-century New Testament, in distinguished
contemporary morocco-gilt with silver fittings.
This volume presents the New Testament in two columns of
Roman text, hand-ruled in red throughout, handsomely
bound in elaborately gilt-tooled, paneled morocco with silver
cornerpieces. Occasional light embrowning to interior,
expected light age-wear to morocco and patina to silver, front
joint expertly repaired. Handsome.
“The Greatest Theological Performance Of
Our Age And Country”
77. (BIBLE) (SCOTT, Thomas). The Holy Bible
Containing the Old and New Testaments… with
Explanatory Notes, Practical Observations, and Copious
Marginal References. London, 1841. Six volumes. Thick
quarto, contemporary full brown morocco gilt. $2800.
Later edition of Scott’s copiously annotated Bible, illustrated
with 14 maps and 75 full-page wood-engravings, handsomely
bound.
First published in 174 weekly numbers between 1789 and
1792, Scott’s Calvinist commentary, “superior to any that had
appeared during the years before” (Wright, 201), enjoyed great
popularity and influence. Scattered light foxing and occasional
mild marginal dampstaining to plates. Scattered light foxing
to text. Final few leaves of Volume I trimmed short. Slight
rubbing to joints and spine ends, a few minor abrasions to
boards. Near-fine.
Illustrated King James Bible, With Matthew
Henry’s Commentary
78. (BIBLE) The Holy Bible… London, circa 1860.
Two volumes. Thick quarto, contemporary full black calf
gilt. $1750.
Decoratively bound, large-type King James Bible, annotated
with Matthew Henry’s famous Exposition and illustrated
with 52 full-page steel-engravings of the Holy Land.
First published in 1804, this edition is annotated with passages
from Matthew Henry’s Exposition of the Old and New
Testaments (1708-10), “long celebrated as the best of English
commentaries for devotional purposes” (New Schaff-Herzog).
Very sparse faint foxing. Minor rubbing to corners, inner
hinges reinforced. Near-fine.
1760 First Octavo Baskerville Book Of
Common Prayer
79. (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER) (BASKERVILLE
PRESS) The Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge, 1760.
Large octavo, contemporary full red morocco, elaborately
gilt-decorated spine and covers, inlaid green and navy
morocco centerpieces. $3000.
First octavo Baskerville edition of the Book of Common
Prayer, beautifully printed and handsomely bound.
“The language of the Prayer Book is now part of the whole
language… and as a source of spiritual inspiration, it is for
most Englishmen second only to the Bible” (PMM 75). This
copy is from the first of three Baskerville octavo editions of
the prayer book. The full contemporary red morocco boards
feature a green and navy onlay centerpiece of the initials
“JHS” (Iesus Hominum Salvator) within a gilt gloriole,
surrounded by floral gilt scrollwork, on each board. First
preliminary blank excised. Interior fine, light wear to spine
extremities, gilt bright. Distinguished and excellent.
Book Of Common Prayer In Hand-Painted
Folk-Art Decorative Binding
80. (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER) The Book of
Common Prayer. London, 1631. BOUND WITH: Speed,
J[ohn]. The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures.
No place, no date. BOUND WITH: [Apocrypha]. Octavo,
early 19th-century three-quarter brown calf; custom
clamshell box. $2500.
Early 17th-century edition of the Book of Common Prayer,
author Granville Penn’s copy, bound in a unique folk-art
decorative binding with hand-painted covers.
Illustrated with woodcut royal coat of arms on title page;
decorative woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout.
Bound with contemporary editions of John Speed’s popular
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 Genealogies (first published in 1611), which presents 34
engraved charts; and with the Apocrypha from the King
James Bible. Hand-ruled in red throughout. The hand-painted
front board reads, “The Book of Common Prayer printed in
the 7[th?] year of King Charles the first, and in the year of
Lord God 1631, with Genealogies of all the Tribes from Adam
[to] the Blessed Virgin Mary [and?] our Savior Jesus
Christ.” The rear board is decorated with a
hand-painted floral pattern. A bookbinder’s
autograph note, dated August 19, 1837,
laid in, mentioning that the book has
been “bound and cleaned.” The note is
addressed to author Granville Penn,
the grandson of Pennsylvania
founder William Penn. Front free
endpaper excised. Title page of
prayer book trimmed closer than
rest of text block, not affecting text.
Occasional marginal soiling.
Moderate rubbing to boards, joints
partially split at spine head; binding
sound. Extremely good.
Illustrated Book Of Common
Prayer, 1789
81. (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER)
The Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge,
1789. Thick 12mo, contemporary full red morocco,
elaborately gilt-decorated spine. $1600.
Late 18th-century Cambridge edition of the Book of Common
Prayer, illustrated with 47 engraved plates, handsomely
bound.
The plates depict biblical scenes, apostles, and Kings James,
Charles I and Charles II. Companion with paper restoration
to title page and B12. Mild rubbing to spine and edges of
handsome contemporary morocco; rear joint just starting,
binding sound. Excellent.
Israël, 1955, With 80 Heliogravures By Izis,
Cover And Frontispiece By Chagall
82. BIDERMANAS, Izis and CHAGALL, Marc. Israël.
Lausanne, 1955. Quarto, original half white flexible paper-
covered boards, illustrated French wraps, glassine. $1200.
Numbered first edition, “Édition Hors Commerce,” of this
memorable photobook published only seven years after Israel
declared independence. With two tipped-in color plates, 80
black-and-white heliogravures and numerous in-text
illustrations, together with a full-color dust jacket illustration
and frontispiece by Chagall.
Preface by Andre Malraux. Text in French. Light edge-wear to
spine ends of French wraps. Near-fine.
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Birds Of California, Deluxe Signed Edition
83. (BIRDS) DAWSON, William Leon. The Birds of
California. San Diego, 1923. Four volumes. Thick folio,
original three-quarter green morocco gilt. $3500.
Signed deluxe large-paper edition, signed by the author.
Wonderfully illustrated with 110 color plates, 150
full-page photogravures and duotones, and
hundreds of in-text line cuts and
photographs.
The Birds of California is among the most
definitive works relating to the birds of a
specific state. This superbly illustrated
edition includes artistic renderings as
well as photographs of the species in
their natural environs. A fine set.
Religious Freedom And The
Law: Priestley’s Answer To
Blackstone, 1773
84. (BLACKSTONE, William)
PRIESTLEY, Joseph. An Interesting
Appendix to Sir William Blackstone’s
Commentaries on the Laws of England.
Philadelphia, 1773. Octavo, contemporary full
brown sheep. $3200.
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Second American edition (published only one year after the
first) of this primary source on religious toleration in the
context of English common law, with rebuttals, replies,
arguments and defenses.
In his Commentaries, Blackstone classified religious non-
conformity as a crime, intimating that Protestant “dissenters”
were disloyal citizens and that the Church of England should
be the ultimate authority. First published in Dublin (1769)
and in Philadelphia (1772), this work consists of a refutation
of Blackstone’s argument by liberal theologian and defender
of religious freedom Joseph Priestley. The Appendix
additionally contains not only Blackstone’s reply to Priestley’s
remarks, but also Priestley’s answer to Blackstone’s reply,
Philip Furneaux’s letters to Blackstone, the argument of
Justice Foster in the case of Evans v. Harrison, and the speech
of Lord Mansfield in defense of Evans. Light scattered foxing
and occasional embrowning. Only minor age-wear to
contemporary sheep. Extremely good.
With 29 Blake Poems Published For The First Time
85. (BLAKE, William) GILCHRIST, Alexander. Life of
William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus.” London and Cambridge,
1863. Two volumes. Octavo, mid-20th-century three-quarter
brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines. $2300.
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First edition of this important early biography, profusely
illustrated with photolithographic plates after Blake,
frontispiece portrait and folding frontispiece of the Canterbury
pilgrims. With three prints taken from original woodblocks
and 16 impressions from Blake’s original electrotype plates.
An important edition, publishing for the first time 29 Blake
poems from a manuscript notebook in the possession of Dante
Gabriel Rossetti. Fine.
Earliest Obtainable Edition Of
Blake’s Poems, 1868
86. BLAKE, William. Poetical Sketches. London, 1868.
Small, slim octavo, original brown cloth. $1600.
Second and only obtainable edition of Blake’s early poetry,
written between the ages of 12 and 20, and retaining the
author’s original “ruggedness of meter and crudeness of
expression.”
Faithfully reset from the very scarce 1783 first edition,
selections from which were altered and published by Dante
Rossetti in the second volume of Gilchrist’s Life of Blake
(1863). Interior generally clean, paper repair to one leaf,
affecting text, light rubbing to spine and label. Near-fine.
“Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright…”
87. BLAKE, William. Songs of Innocence [and
Experience]. London, 1911. 12mo, contemporary full blue
calf gilt, slipcase. $600.
Lovely volume of Blake’s masterpiece, beautifully bound by
Rivière.
Contains numerous mounted engraved sepia head- and
tailpieces by E.D. Ghendt, illustrated lithographic title page
and red initial letters. Fine.
“…The Icy Conviction That Soon He Would Face
An Ancient Enemy”
88. BLATTY, William Peter. The Exorcist. New York,
1971. Octavo, original half maroon cloth, dust jacket. $500.
First edition. Fine.
Limited Edition Of Boccaccio’s Decameron
89. BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. The Decameron.
Philadelphia, 1928. Two volumes. Octavo, modern three-
quarter navy morocco gilt. $900.
Limited “Certaldo Edition,” one of 1550 unnumbered copies,
with frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio, engraved head-pieces
and 19 plates from engravings by Teyssonnieres after original
paintings by Jacques Wagrez, handsomely bound.
These celebrated tales, though written circa 1350, offer
distinctly modern treatments of sex and love; the United
States Customs Department maintained a ban on The
Decameron until 1932 (Haight, 7-8). This translation by poet
John Payne was first published in 1886. Fine.
“Go On. Get The Bath Ready”
90. BOILEAU, Pierre and NARCEJAC, Thomas. The
Woman Who Was No More. New York, 1954. Octavo,
original blue cloth, dust jacket. $2900.
First American edition of the classic tale that was the basis for
the Clouzot film Diabolique.
Book fine. Dust jacket extremely good with only light wear to
extremities and very minor soiling to rear panel.
Relations Of The Most Famous Kingdomes, 1630,
With The Scarce Double-Page World Map
91. (BOTERO, Giovanni). Relations of the Most Famous
Kingdomes and Common-wealths thorowout the World…
London, 1630. Thick 12mo, contemporary full polished brown
calf rebacked with original spine laid down. $3800.
Early edition in English of one of Botero’s most significant
works, the first edition with Vaughan’s double-page woodcut
map of the world showing California as an island, often not
present, distinguished in full contemporary calf.
In this comprehensive historical and geographical treatise,
Botero—a prolific Italian priest, poet and polymath—surveys
the nations of the world as individual states and in their
alliances with each other. Decorative woodcut initials and
headpieces illustrate the text, as well as a detailed, double-page
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 woodcut world map, rarely present. First published in Venice
in 1589; first edition in English published 1601 as The Travellers
Breviat. Expert restoration to the elusive map. Occasional
early ink annotations. Occasional light dampstaining. Light
age-wear to monogrammed contemporary calf, bearing the
gilt initials “R.F.” on each cover. Excellent.
First Edition Of Bowles’ A Little Stone
92. BOWLES, Paul. A Little Stone. London, 1950. Octavo,
original green cloth, dust jacket. $800.
First edition of Bowles’ first short-story collection, with three
of the 12 stories appearing for the first time, published one
year after his celebrated novel The Sheltering Sky. Near-fine.
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Signed By “The Greatest”
93. (BOXING) (ALI, Muhammad) LEIFER, Neil. Large
original color photograph signed. No place, November 1993.
Poster-sized photographic print, image measures 20 by 20
inches, entire print measures 20 by 24 inches (signed by Ali
beneath the image), suitable for framing. $4800.
Splendid poster-size color photograph of Muhammad Ali in a
tuxedo smiling, number 81 of only 350 copies signed by
photographer Neil Leifer, one of only 35 signed by Ali.
Renowned sports photographer Leifer noted that “my favorite
subject, no matter what the sport, was and still is Muhammad
Ali.” Fine.
Jack Dempsey’s Autobiography, Inscribed By Him
94. (BOXING) DEMPSEY, Jack. Dempsey. New York, 1977.
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Octavo, original half orange cloth gilt, dust jacket. $750.
First edition of the Manassa Mauler’s third autobiography,
inscribed, “To Nick ——, Lots of Luck, Jack Dempsey.”
Written with his stepdaughter, Demspsey’s third autobiography
contains 24 pages of photographs depicting the heavyweight
champion’s life inside and outside the ring. Fine.
One Of The Most Famous And
Controversial Figures In Boxing
95. (BOXING) JOHNSON, Jack. Jack Johnson—In the
Ring—and Out. Chicago, 1927. Octavo, original red cloth,
dust jacket. $900.
First edition of Johnson’s autobiography, with 16 drawings
and photographs.
Jack Johnson defeated Canadian Tommy Burns to become the
world’s first African-American heavyweight champion in
1908. Johnson’s comportment outside the ring brought him
as much notoriety and fame as his actions inside it. He owned
his own jazz band, which performed in his own Chicago
nightclub. He drove a flashy yellow sports car and flaunted
gold teeth. It was seven years before the talented and self-
assured champion would taste defeat. Fine.
Bradbury’s First Book, Signed By Him
96. BRADBURY, Ray. Dark Carnival. Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1947. Octavo, original full black cloth, dust jacket;
custom red cloth clamshell. $4000.
First edition of Bradbury’s scarce and important first book,
signed by him on the title page.
Only 3112 copies were printed. Book fine; dust jacket near-
fine. Highly desirable, scarce signed.
One Of 750 Signed By Omar Bradley
97. BRADLEY, Omar N. A Soldier’s Story. New
York, 1951. Thick octavo, original beige cloth, acetate,
slipcase. $1850.
Signed limited first edition, number 437 of 750 copies
numbered and signed by the author on the limitation page,
with a card laid in at the dedication page, also in Bradley’s
hand, reading: “Officers and Men of Company ‘A’—3rd Inf.”
Bradley led more combat troops in WWII than any other field
commander in history. With 55 maps and 17 black-and-white
illustrations, including photographs. Nicknamed the Rock of
the Marne, the 3rd Infantry, to whom Bradley inscribed the
laid-in card, fought in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France,
Germany, and Austria for 531 consecutive days of combat
during the Second World War. Book fine, tape repairs to
acetate, wear to slipcase.
“Once There Was A Little Boy Who
Didn’t Like The Night”
98. BRADBURY, Ray. Switch on the Night. New York,
1955. Slim octavo, original gray paper boards, dust
jacket. $1500.
First edition of Bradbury’s first book for children. About-
fine.
Rupert Brooke’s First Book Of Poetry
99. BROOKE, Rupert. Poems. London, 1911. Octavo,
original blue cloth. $1600.
First edition of Rupert Brooke’s first book of poetry, one of
only 500 copies.
Brooke, one of the finest of the World War I poets, was just 23
when he published this work. He died in the war four years
later. Near-fine.
“There’s Some Corner Of A Foreign Field /
That Is For Ever England”
100. BROOKE, Rupert. “1914”: Five Sonnets. London,
1915. 12mo, contemporary three-quarter navy calf North of Scotland, Hitherto Unpublished. Edinburgh, 1875.
gilt; pp. (8). $700.
First separate edition, with fragile original paper wrappers
bound in.
These five sonnets originally appeared in the journal New
Numbers in December 1914. Brooke died in April 1915, just
after his poetry had begun to attract national attention.
Demand for his work was such that a book of his poetry, 1914
& Other Poems, which included these war poems, was issued
in June of 1915. In November of the same year, this first
separate publication of his war poems was issued. Near-fine.
Finely Bound Edition Of Browning’s Works
101. BROWNING, Robert. The Complete Works. New
York, 1899. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-
quarter tan morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, uncut
and unopened. $2600.
Limited Dulwich edition, number 280 of only 750 sets signed
by publisher George D. Sproul, handsomely bound. With
photogravure frontispieces in each volume. Fine.
Signed By Illustrator Leonard Weisgard
102. (BROWN, Margaret Wise) MACDONALD, Golden
and WEISGARD, Leonard. The Little Island. Garden City,
1946. Oblong octavo, original half blue cloth and pictorial
boards, dust jacket. $1600.
First edition of this award-winning picture book, with text by
Margaret Wise Brown and color pictorial boards and 21 full-
page color illustrations, signed by the illustrator, Leonard
Weisgard.
Weisgard won the Caldecott Medal in 1947 for his illustrations
for The Little Island. Very nearly fine and scarce thus.
Exceptional First Edition In English Of Babar
103. BRUNHOFF, Jean de. The Story of Babar the Little
Elephant. New York, 1933. Folio, original half blue cloth,
pictorial boards. $1100.
Beautiful first edition in English of the first Babar book, with
the author’s wonderful color illustrations, one of the great
classics of children’s literature.
The first American edition was the first edition of this work
published in English. Slightest bit of staining to front free
endpaper, boards unusually fresh and bright. A most
exceptional copy, rarely seen in this condition.
Ancient Ballads Of The North Of Scotland
104. BUCHAN, Peter. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the
Two volumes. Octavo, late 19th-century full red morocco,
elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers. $1600.
19th-century edition, with frontispiece portrait, beautifully
bound in full red morocco-gilt by Grieve of Edinburgh.
“Buchan owes his reputation to his success as a collector and
editor of Scottish ballads, and in this work he spent large sums
of money. In 1828 appeared in two volumes his Ancient
Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland…. More than 40
ballads were printed there for the first time, and many others
were published in newly discovered versions” (DNB). Fine.
Buffon’s Oeuvres Complètes, 1827,
With Over 190 Hand-Colored Plates
105. BUFFON, [Georges Louis LeClerc, Comte de].
Oeuvres Complètes. Twenty-eight volumes. ISSUED WITH:
CUVIER, [Georges]. Histoire des Progres des Sciences
Naturelles. Four volumes in two. Paris, 1827-28. Together,
thirty volumes. Octavo, contemporary half red morocco,
elaborately gilt-decorated spines. $4000.
Illustrated edition, with over 200 engraved plates, including
four large folding maps and over 190 hand-colored
illustrations of animals.
Includes Buffon’s extensive writings on the natural world,
studies of human beings, wild and domestic animals, minerals,
birds, and his account of the earth’s cosmology, “one of the
first based on Newtonian celestial mechanics.” “Buffon’s belief
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 in the mutability of the species implied clearly some
preparation for the thought of Darwin” (PMM 198). Text in
French. Tape repairs to versos of two maps. Light foxing, a bit
heavier to a few leaves. Contemporary binding handsome.
Signed And Dated By
Charles Bukowski
106. BUKOWSKI, Charles. Crucifix in a
Deathhand, New Poems 1963-1965. New
York, (1965). Small folio (8-1/2 by 12-1/2
inches), original beige paper boards,
original attached pictorial paper wrappers,
original wrap-around band; custom
chemise and wooden box. $1500.
Limited first edition of Bukowski’s second
major collection of poems, one of only 3100
copies signed and dated by Charles
Bukowski in red paint.
With three etchings and illustrated paper
wrappers by Noel Rockmore. Designed,
printed and hand-bound by Loujon Press
editors Jon and Louise Webb, on handmade,
deckle-edged papers in a variety of shades
and widths. Fine.
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Factotum, Signed By Charles Bukowski
107. BUKOWSKI, Charles. Factotum. Santa Barbara, 1975.
Octavo, original half black cloth. $1200.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 250 copies signed by
Charles Bukowski.
Published simultaneously with a trade edition of 1000
hardcover copies and a limited edition of 75 copies featuring
a watercolor by Bukowski. Slightest soiling to base of spine. A
beautiful signed copy.
“Dear Gertie: E.H. Has No Sense Of Humor,
Only A Sense Of Honor”
108. BUKOWSKI, Charles. The Last Generation. Santa
Barbara, 1982. Slim octavo, original pictorial blue paper
boards, dust jacket, acetate; pp. 6. $900.
Signed limited first edition, presentation copy, number 6 of
only 176 copies printed as a New Year’s Greeting for friends of
the Black Sparrow Press, handbound in boards, and signed
by the author; additionally inscribed by Bukowski on the title
page: “Dear Gertie: E.H. has no sense of humor, only a sense
of honor. But aren’t humor and honor linked together? If not,
shouldn’t they be? Yrs, A Fan…”
While the recipient of this presentation copy is unknown (the
“Gertie” mentioned in the poem is Gertrude Stein, who died
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in 1946), it may have been Gertrude Raffel Stein, Gertrude
Stein’s daughter. What is certain is that the “E.H.” in the
inscription refers to Ernest Hemingway, who is the focus of
much of this poem and who Bukowski alternately praised and
criticized throughout his career. Fine.
Signed By Bukowski, With An Original
Self-Portrait Sketch
109. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the
Time. Poems 1981-1984. Santa Barbara,
1984. Octavo, original half blue cloth, pictorial
boards. $800.
Signed limited first edition, one of 400 special
hardcover copies signed by Charles Bukowski,
with what appears to be an abstract self-
portrait of Bukowski smoking a cigarette with
a bottle in his hand.
Included are some of Bukowski’s best-loved
poems such as “the last generation,”
“transformation and disfiguration,” and
“eating my senior citizen’s dinner at the
Sizzler.” Without original acetate. About-
fine.
The Secret Garden, With Robinson’s Illustrations
110. BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden.
London, 1911. Thick octavo, original green cloth gilt, pictorial
endpapers. $2500.
Scarce first English edition, the first to contain Charles
Robinson’s eight beautiful color plates.
Robinson was influenced by the “aesthetic” movement of the
late 19th century, which paid attention to the entire design of
a book—typography to plates to endpapers to binding.
Published one month after the first (American) edition. Color
postcard featuring artwork by Anne Anderson mounted to
copyright page. Tissue repair to inner paper hinges. Cloth
clean, gilt bright. A beautiful copy.
Signed By George Burns And Gracie Allen
111. BURNS, George and LINDSAY, Cynthia Hobart. I
Love Her, That’s Why! New York:, 1955. Octavo, original half
blue cloth, dust jacket. $500.
First edition of George Burns’ autobiography, inscribed, “Best
Wishes—George Burns” and signed by Gracie Allen.
An autobiography, focusing mainly on Burns’ relationship
with wife Gracie Allen, who was the other half of his successful
vaudeville comedy duo. Book about-fine. Unfaded dust jacket
very good, with several repairs to verso.
Fine Limited Edition Of Burns’ Works
112. BURNS, Robert. The Complete Works. Philadelphia,
1909. Six volumes. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter
polished green morocco gilt, watered silk endpapers. $2250.
Beautiful Ayrshire Edition de Luxe, one of only 1000 sets
printed, with 60 etchings, woodcuts, maps and facsimiles.
Gilt owner’s monogram in upper left corner of covers,
encircled by laurel wreath. Fine.
“A Measure Of Byron’s Increasing Skill”
113. BYRON, Lord George Gordon. The Prisoner of
Chillon, and Other Poems. London, 1816. Tall thin octavo,
early 20th-century three-quarter deep blue morocco gilt,
elaborately gilt-decorated spine with burgundy morocco
onlays. $1250.
First edition, one of 6000 copies, of Byron’s popular poem
about imprisoned Swiss patriot François Bonivard,
handsomely bound. With half title and advertisements,
without final blank. Fine.
Byron’s Childe Harold, Beautifully Illustrated
114. BYRON, Lord. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A
Romaunt. London, 1845. Octavo, late 19th-century full green
morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine. $850.
One-volume illustrated edition of the poem that brought
Byron fame, with 60 copper engravings, including a
frontispiece portrait of Byron in Albanian dress. Handsomely
bound by Worsfold, with original cloth bound in at rear.
The immediate and overwhelming success of Cantos I and II,
published in 1812, prompted Byron’s statement, “I woke one
morning and found myself famous.” Canto III was first
published in 1816, and Canto IV in 1818. Fine condition.
Heath’s Illustrations For Byron
115. (BYRON) HEATH, Charles. Heath’s Illustrations to
the Works of Lord Byron. London, circa 1830. Quarto,
contemporary full olive close-grain morocco, elegantly gilt-
decorated covers and spine. $950.
First edition of this splendid collection of poems and plates,
with frontispiece portrait of Byron and 35 fine steel-
engraved and etched plates, executed under the supervision
of Charles Heath.
In 1820 Charles Heath produced the first printing plates
engraved on steel rather than copper, thereby increasing the
life of a printing plate over the long run; he was able to support
the growing new fashion for illustrated annuals and gift-
books. Near-fine.
Caesar’s Commentaries, 1543, Bound With
Aemilio’s History Of The Kings Of France, 1544,
And Tillet’s Chronicon, 1543
116. CAESAR, Gaius Julius. C. Julii Caesaris
Commentariorum de bello Gallico (prefaced by C. Julii
Caesaris Rerum ab se Gestarum Commentarii). BOUND
WITH: AEMILIUS, Paulus. Rebus Gestis Francorum.
BOUND WITH: TILLET, Jean. De Regibus Francorum
Chronicon. Paris, 1543-44. Thick folio, 17th-century full
paneled brown calf rebacked and recornered with original
spine laid down, panels outlined in paint, star of David center
medallions on both covers, gilt-stamped “R. Leo.” $3800.
Early edition of Giocondo’s version of Caesar’s Commentaries,
with two in-text woodcut maps and five elevations of
fortifications. Bound with the third complete edition of Paulus
Aemilio’s history of the Kings of France and Tillet’s
Chronicon.
This edition of the Commentaries includes the first drawing
of Caesar’s bridge across the Rhine. The second work in this
volume is the third and “best” (Brunet) edition of Paulus
Aemilio’s Rebus Gestis Francorum. This copy belonged to
Aberdeen theologian George Campbell, author of the
influential Philosophy of Rhetoric (1776) and celebrated
Dissertation on Miracles (1763). Contemporary manuscript
annotations in two different hands throughout the
Commentaries. First few leaves somewhat soiled. Small,
light dampstain to bottom corner, a bit of flaking to fore-
edge. Expected age-wear to sound and attractive
contemporary calf.
Typed Letter Signed From James M. Cain To His
Literary Agent Regarding The Film Contract For
Double Indemnity
117. CAIN, James M. Typed letter signed. Hyattsville,
Maryland, November 18, 1966. Single leaf, measuring
8-1/2 by 11. $1250.
Original lengthy typed letter from James M. Cain to his
literary agent, H.N. Swanson, discussing a missing contract
related to Paramount’s production of Double Indemnity, a
live television adaptation of another work, the sale of usage
rights for the characters from Mildred Pierce, and the
completion of an unnamed work.
Director Billy Wilder’s 1944 noir classic, starring Barbara
Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, with a screenplay co-authored
by Raymond Chandler, earned seven Oscar nominations,
including Best Picture. H.N. Swanson was also involved with
the sale of film rights to several other works by Cain, including
Mildred Pierce, which is mentioned in this letter. Original
folds. Two tiny staple holes. Fine.
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Inscribed By Calder,
With Laid-In Proof Plate Of A
Drawing
118. CALDER, Alexander. Three Young Rats and Other
Rhymes. New York, 1944. Folio, original half tan cloth and
yellow pictorial boards, dust jacket. $4000.
First edition, an out-of-series copy on special paper, containing
a laid-in proof plate of Calder’s genial drawing of an elephant
with a crowd of people and animals, this lovely presentation
copy also featuring a full-page artistic inscription by Calder,
“Pour Snr. & Snra. Henrique Mindlin de Sandy Calder, sur
commande, et toujours à vos orders [on command, and
always at your service]. Juillet 1945.”
Eighty-five Calder illustrations enliven over 80 rhymes drawn
from folklore and poets such as Blake and Keats. Sixty signed
numbered copies were published in a limited series (each
including an original pen and ink drawing); this out-of-series
first edition is unnumbered and with the proof plate of an
illustration not otherwise included in the book. Light scattered
foxing; slight foxing, toning to spine of original dust jacket.
Extremely good, scarce inscribed.
Signed First Edition Of Calder’s Bestiary
119. CALDER, Alexander. A Bestiary. Compiled by
Richard Wilbur. New York, 1955. Large quarto, original
blue-black cloth, slipcase. $1200.
First edition of this handsome production, one of only 825
copies signed by both Calder and Wilbur.
Wonderfully illustrated with Calder’s stylized “wire-form”
line drawings of animals and mythical creatures, each
accompanied by engaging quotations drawn from literature
by poet Richard Wilbur. Book fine, publisher’s slipcase split
along one edge.
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With Photogravures By Cartier-Bresson
120. CAPOTE, Truman. Local Color. New York, 1950.
Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $950.
First edition of Capote’s first non-fiction
book, with 18 rich photogravure plates
juxtaposed against Capote’s text, including
images by Cartier-Bresson, Louis Faurer,
Bill Brandt and others.
The nine essays collected in Local Color
were written from 1946-50, in pieces Capote
later described as “a written geography of
my life.” First edition, precedes limited
edition published in England the same year.
Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
“Don’t Forget. Please Feed The Cat”
121. CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at
Tiffany’s. A Short Novel and Three Stories.
New York, 1958. Octavo, original canary
yellow cloth, dust jacket. $3000.
First edition of the adventures of free-spirited Holly
Golightly.
With three other stories: “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond
Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory.” Book fine, dust jacket
nearly so with usual toning to spine.
Signed By Capote
122. CAPOTE, Truman. Music for Chameleons. New
York, 1980. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $650.
First trade edition, signed by Capote.
This collection of short pieces includes Capote’s portrait of
Marilyn Monroe and “Handcarved Coffins.” Preceded by a
signed limited edition of the same year. Fine.
Camus’ The Stranger
123. CAMUS, Albert. The Stranger. New York, 1946.
Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
First American edition of the first and most well-known novel
by Nobel laureate Camus, scarce in original dust jacket.
First American edition published same year as first London
edition entitled The Outsider, both preceded by 1942 first
French edition. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert.
About-fine.

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Signed By Eric Carle
124. CARLE, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. New
York, 1987. Oblong quarto, original pictorial boards, dust
jacket. $650.
First revised edition, later printing, signed by the author,
“Eric Carle 2006” on the title page.
“Carle was one of the first illustrators intrigued with the idea
of introducing natural science concepts to young children”
(Silvey, 120). First published in 1969. Fine.
Inscribed By Eric Carle, With Color Drawing
125. CARLE, Eric. The Rooster Who Set Out to See the
World. New York, 1972. Tall slim quarto, original pictorial
cloth, dust jacket. $1250.
First edition, presentation copy warmly inscribed: “With
much love for Bill & Phyllis from your friend Eric Carle.” In
addition, across the entire page, Carle has drawn a rooster in
seven colors with pastels.
Tape residue to endpapers and covers. Dust jacket price-
clipped. Near-fine.
Inscribed Copy Of The Very Quiet Cricket,
With Original Drawing By Carle
126. CARLE, Eric. The Very Quiet Cricket. New York, 1990.
Oblong quarto, original pictorial boards, dust jacket. $600.
First edition, inscribed by Carle on the title page. Carle has
drawn a word balloon above the head of the cricket printed
on the title page, and inside he has written: “For Kay with
love.” Beneath that, he has drawn a cricket and written: “Eric
Carle. Sept. 1996.”
A charming, wonderfully illustrated fable of a cricket’s search
for his chirp. Turning the last page activates a chirping
microchip. Fine.
Triumphant Democracy, Inscribed By Carnegie
127. CARNEGIE, Andrew. Triumphant Democracy. New
York, 1893. Quarto, original black cloth. $2200.
Early edition, inscribed on the dedication page, “Professor
Keeler, with best wishes, Andrew Carnegie.”
Carnegie “would always consider Triumphant Democracy
[first published 1886] his magnum opus. His argument was
that political forms determine material success. By establishing
a democracy, the United States was achieving economic
supremacy over outdated European monarchies” (ANB).
Interior fine, some wear to cloth and spine ends, front cover
gilt bright.
First Edition Of Hunting Of The Snark
128. CARROLL, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark: An
Agony in Eight Fits. London:, 1876. Small octavo, original
gilt-stamped red cloth. $1300.
First edition of Carroll’s masterpiece of nonsense humor, with
nine splendid wood-engraved illustrations by Henry Holiday.
About-fine.
Carter’s The Tomb Of Tutankhamen
129. CARTER, Howard and MACE, A.C. The Tomb of
Tutankhamen. London, 1930-33. Three volumes. Thick
octavo, original brown cloth gilt with decorative gilt scarabs
on front covers. $2600.
First and early mixed edition set (Volumes II and III first
impressions, Volume I fourth impression) of Carter’s account
of the discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb, including the
scarce third volume, with 247 dramatic illustrations.
When Howard Carter entered Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922,
he bridged three millennia that separated the Boy-King’s
reign from the modern world. The first volume was first
published in 1923. Financial conditions of the Depression
forced the third and final volume, included here, to be printed
in limited numbers; it is consequently quite scarce. Without
dust jackets, as usual. Bindings with very light rubbing to
extremities; cloth clean, gilt bright. A lovely copy, complete
with the elusive third volume.
Inscribed By Jimmy Carter
130. CARTER, Jimmy. The Blood of Abraham. Boston,
1985. Octavo, original burgundy cloth, dust jacket. $350.
First edition, second printing, inscribed: “Wish best wishes to
Barbara Norris – J. Carter.”
Jimmy Carter’s account of his experiences with Middle
Eastern leaders and his vision of the region’s future. Fine.
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131. CARTER, Jimmy. An Outdoor Journal: Adventures
and Reflections. Toronto and New York, 1988. Octavo,
original half green cloth, dust jacket. $350.
using the prairie setting for which she is famous” (ANB).
Book fine, dust jacket near-fine, with only slightest soiling
and a few small tears mainly to flaps.
136

First edition, signed by Carter. An account of the former

president’s hunting, fishing and hiking adventures in Georgia
and beyond. Previous owner’s pencil annotation to rear free
endpaper. Fine.

Signed By President Carter

132. CARTER, Jimmy. Talking Peace: A Vision for the
Next Generation. New York, 1993. Octavo, original half gray
cloth, dust jacket. $300.

First edition of the former president’s acclaimed book for

younger readers, warmly inscribed on the half title, “Best
wishes to Timothy—Jimmy Carter.”

“In lucid detail, Carter surveys the ills that thwart peace and
suggests constructive ways to address them” (Kirkus Reviews).
Illustrated with eight pages of photographs. Fine.

Memoirs Of Casanova, Handsomely Bound Cartier-Bresson’s Europeans

133. CASANOVA, Jacques. The Memoirs… London, circa 136. CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The Europeans:
1920. Six volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter Photographs. New York, 1955. Folio, original red, blue and
burgundy morocco gilt. $3200. yellow pictorial paper boards designed by Miró. $1800.

Limited edition of the 1894 London translation, one of 500
sets on Louvain Laid Antique paper, expanded with the
additional chapters discovered by Arthur Symons, a
supplement and a bibliography, handsomely bound. Excellent
condition.
Signed by Willa Cather
134. CATHER, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop.
New York, 1927. Octavo, original half green cloth,
slipcase. $4000.
First edition in English, with 114 large full-page photogravures
and cover designed by Joan Miró.
This collection of photographs focuses on the faces and scenes
of Europe as captured by the lens of Cartier-Bresson’s Leica
camera. Published the same year as the French first edition.
Original caption booklet laid in. Without scarce acetate dust
wrapper. Covers bright and unfaded, rear joint and inner
hinges with expert repair. Extremely good.
Signed By Michael Chabon

Signed limited first edition of Cather’s acclaimed novel, 137. CHABON, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of
number 61 of only 175 copies printed on rag paper and signed Kavalier and Clay. New York, 2000. Octavo, original half
by the author. Slipcase lightly toned. Book fine. white cloth, dust jacket. $550.

First edition, signed by the author on the title page,

One Of Only 260 Copies Signed By Willa Cather accompanied by his usual sketch of a golden key.
135. CATHER, Willa. Obscure Destinies. New York, 1932. This, Chabon’s acclaimed fifth novel, won the 2001 Pulitzer
Octavo, original cream and green paper boards, dust jacket; Prize. Fine.
custom chemise and half morocco slipcase. $975.

Signed limited first edition, number 12 of 260 copies signed by
Willa Cather, of which 235 were for sale, printed on Nihon
Japan vellum.
This collection of three stories was Cather’s “final major work
Extra-Illustrated Set Of Don Quixote
138. CERVANTES, Miguel de. Life and Exploits of Don
Quixote de la Mancha. Translated by Charles Jarvis. London,
1821. Four volumes. 12mo, early 20th-century marbled
morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines. $1400.

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Renowned Jarvis translation of Cervantes’ classic, with
hand-colored frontispieces, extra-illustrated with 14 fine
copper-engraved plates by Stothard. Handsomely bound by
Bayntun.
Jarvis’ translation, one of the earliest when it appeared in
1742, is also regarded as one of the best. Repair to page 183 in
Volume III. Interiors clean. A few joints expertly reinforced.
Very attractive.
Chagall’s Jerusalem Windows,
With Two Original Lithographs
139. CHAGALL, Marc. The Jerusalem Windows. Text and
Notes by Jean Leymarie. New York, 1962. Folio, original red
cloth, photographic endpapers, dust jacket. $3000.
First American edition, with two original color lithographs
specially prepared by Chagall for this edition and with
numerous beautiful color reproductions of the artist’s work.
Illustrated are various drafts as well as the final versions of the
12 stained glass windows (one for each of the tribes of Israel)
designed by Chagall for the synagogue of the Hadassah-
Hebrew University Medical Center. Issued the same year as
the very similar French edition entitled Vitraux pour
Jerusalem. Without scarce cardboard slipcase. Dust jacket
price-clipped. About-fine.
140
With Original Chagall Lithograph
140. (CHAGALL, Marc) LASSAIGNE, Jacques. Marc
Chagall: Dessins et Aquarelles pour Le Ballet. Paris, 1969.
Folio, original light gray cloth gilt, dust jacket, original
slipcase. $2000.
First edition of Chagall’s decors and costume designs for
Aleko, Firebird, and Daphnis and Chloe, containing 68
full-color reproductions, with an original color lithograph
bound in.
The original Chagall lithograph was printed by Fernand
Mourlot, who ran a lithography press in the rue de Chabrol
where the likes of Braque, Matisse, Picasso and Chagall came
to have their designs printed and to learn about this still
nascent medium. Edges of original slipcase sunned. Fine.
Early Printing Of The Eikon Basilike, 1649
141. CHARLES I. Eikon Basilike. London, 1649. Octavo,
18th century full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-tooled
covers. $2200.
Very early printing (March, 1649) of the Eikon Basilike (The
King’s Image), the important and controversial defense of
Charles I, first published in February 1649 immediately after
his execution. With engraved portrait of the penitent King
engraved by William Marshall with the explanation printed
beneath.
First published by English clergyman John Gauden within
hours after the execution of the monarch on January 30, 1649
(1648 in the old reckoning), “this work is a masterpiece in its
expression of Charles’ principles, personal feelings, and
prejudices, and by making a martyr of this Stuart king,
exercised a considerable influence on English history” (Kunitz
& Haycraft, 212). It very quickly ran through over 40 editions.
This early edition (printed late in March) is among the best
printed of the English editions and contains the prayers of
Charles I, which were not included in the earliest impressions
(Almack 44). Without Prince of Wales or Charles I portrait, as
usual. Light expert restoration to spine ends. Near-fine.
First Edition Of Chopin’s Impromptu No. 3
142. CHOPIN, Fréderic. Allegro Vivace pour le Pianoforte
dedié à Madame la Comptesse Esterházy, neé Comtesse
Bathyany. Op. 51. Leipzig, 1843. Quarto, original self
wrappers, disbound; pp. 11. $1800.
First edition, German issue, of the third of Chopin’s four
impromptus, fully engraved.
“The swift figuration and the thematic material of each of
Chopin’s four celebrated impromptus are so akin as to suggest
the he intended them to form a coherent group—each one
after the first to be, so to speak, improvised from, or casually
derived from, the material of the previous one” (New Grove
9:31). As is often the case with Chopin, German, English and
French editions were issued around the same time, with no
priority established. With a lithographed title page. Music
dealer stamps to title page. Excellent.
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winston churchill
Churchill’s Ian Hamilton’s March, 1900
143. CHURCHILL, Winston. Ian Hamilton’s March.
London, 1900. Octavo, modern three-quarter brown
morocco. $1500.
First edition of Churchill’s fifth book, a continuation of his
coverage of the Boer War, handsomely bound.
This sequel to Churchill’s popular London to Ladysmith
consists of 17 letters Churchill wrote as a Morning Post
correspondent during the Boer war. With frontispiece portrait
of Hamilton and ten maps (one folding and colored). Folding
map repaired with archival tape. Fine.
144
“Never In The Field Of Human
Conflict Was So Much Owed By
So Many To So Few”
144. CHURCHILL, Winston. A
Speech by The Prime Minister… in the
House of Commons, August 20th, 1940.
London, 1940. Octavo, original gray
wrappers printed in maroon; pp. 16;
custom three-quarter navy morocco
clamshell box. $1450.
First edition of Churchill’s famous 1940
address to the House of Commons at the
height of the Second World War, one of
history’s most stirring and influential
speeches.
“At the time when Great Britain stood
alone against the weight of Nazi and
Fascist aggression... the gap between
destruction and survival seemed a very
narrow one. In it stood nothing much but the resolution of the
islanders and the indomitable figure of their Prime Minister”
(PMM 424). Near-fine.
“Churchill At His Dazzling Best”
145. CHURCHILL, Winston. My Early Life: A Roving
Commission. London, 1930. Octavo, modern three-quarter
red morocco. $1200.
First edition of Churchill’s acclaimed autobiography,
abundantly illustrated with maps and photographic plates.
My Early Life covers the first 25 years of Churchill’s life, to the
beginning of his parliamentary career and was one of the two
Churchill works excerpted by the Nobel Library for Churchill’s
1953 Nobel Prize in Literature. “This book presents Churchill
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at his dazzling best as chronicler and memoirist” (Langworth,
130). Fine.
“A Copy Of This Work Belongs On The Shelf Of
Every Serious Churchill Library”
146. CHURCHILL, Winston. The World Crisis.
London, 1931. Octavo, modern three-quarter navy
morocco. $1200.
First one-volume edition of Churchill’s important history of
World War I, abridged and revised by Churchill and with a
new chapter on the Battle of the Marne.
“Often passed up by collectors as a mere abridgement, this
volume is essential to the complete library because Churchill
added new material and considerable revisions… there is a
completely new chapter on the Battle of the Marne... As
such, a copy of this work belongs on the shelf of every
serious Churchill library” (Langworth,
114). Illustrated with numerous maps
(many folding), charts, facsimiles and
photographs. The original six-volume
edition was published between 1923 and
1931. Fine.
Reflections Of “A Happy Young
Warrior”
147. CHURCHILL, Winston. Thoughts
and Adventures. London, 1932.
Octavo, modern three-quarter navy
morocco. $1200.
First edition of this collection of essays,
with photographic frontispiece portrait,
illustrated with seven political cartoons,
handsomely bound.
“The broadest range of Churchill’s thought
between hard covers, Thoughts and
Adventures comprises essays on a vast array of subjects,
attesting not only to the breadth of the author’s comprehension
but of his personal experience... Churchill seems always a
happy young warrior enjoying himself and sure of his
convictions” (Langworth, 156). Fine.
“About A Few Prominent Men—
Great, Evil, Stupid, Silly, Wise”
148. CHURCHILL, Winston. Great Contemporaries.
London, 1937. Octavo, modern three-quarter navy
morocco. $1200.
First edition of this collection of biographical sketches of some
of the most influential men of the 20th century, illustrated
with 21 photographic portraits, handsomely bound.
Includes essays on George Bernard Shaw, Chamberlain,
Lawrence of Arabia, Leon Trotsky, Adolf Hitler, Philip
Snowden and King George V, among others. Fine.
“Allowed The Wicked To Re-Arm”
covered boards, late 20th-century paper spine and spine
label, uncut. $950.
First edition of this early 19th-century English anthology of
chess writings, in original boards.

Based on London Chess Club member Peter Pratt’s Studies of

149. CHURCHILL, Winston. Arms and the Covenant.
Chess (1803): “This work was reissued, with occasional
Speeches by The Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill. Compiled
revision, seven times up to 1825. Its chief merit is that it
by Randolph S. Churchill. London, 1938. Octavo, modern
contains the whole of Philidor” (Hooper & Whyld, 318). Near-
three-quarter navy morocco. $1200.
fine. Extremely scarce.
First edition of this collection of Churchill’s speeches on
foreign affairs and national defense, with a photographic Signed By Garry Kasparov
frontispiece portrait.
153. (CHESS) KASPAROV, Garry. My Great Predecessors.
All but two of the speeches collected here were delivered by London, 2003-06. Five volumes. Octavo, original red paper-
Churchill in the Commons in the years leading up to the covered boards, dust jackets. $2800.
Second World War. Collected by Churchill’s son, Randolph,
and revised a second time by Churchill, these represent some First editions of chess champion Kasparov’s study of previous
of the best written by a man who “devoted more time than chess greats, each volume signed by Kasparov in Roman
any other modern orator to the preparation of his speeches” letters on the title page.
(Langworth, 190). Fine.
In the series My Great Predecessors, Kasparov gives tribute to
some of the greatest chess champions with brief biographies
Churchill And Roosevelt’s Correspondence and in-depth analyses of games. Fine.
150. CHURCHILL, Winston S. and ROOSEVELT, Franklin 154
D. The Complete Correspondence. Princeton, New Jersey,
1984. Three volumes. Thick octavo, modern three-quarter
navy morocco. $1750.

First edition of this collection of the correspondence between

Churchill and Roosevelt, spanning the years 1933-1945.

Illustrated with numerous photographs and maps.

With extensive annotations and index by editor Warren
Kimball. Fine.

Rockwell Kent’s Illustrated Canterbury Tales

151. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. New
York, 1930. Two volumes. Folio, original tan cloth. $1600.

Signed limited edition, number 284 of 999 sets illustrated and

signed by Rockwell Kent, with 25 two-color illustrations and
55 head- and tailpieces.

Unmitigated praise came from the book’s translator, William
Van Wyck, who “congratulated Kent for his illustrations,
describing them as ‘big, vital things’ that capture ‘every
possible nuance of the spirit of Chaucer… Were he alive, he
would be hugging himself over his luck in having you for his
illustrator’” (Jake Milgram Wien). Near-fine.
An Easy Introduction To The Game Of Chess
152. (CHESS) (PHILIDOR, A.S.) (FRANKLIN, Benjamin)
ANONYMOUS. An Easy Introduction to the Game of
Chess… London, 1813. Octavo, original brown paper-
154. (CHESS) KASPAROV, Garry. The Test of Time.
Oxford, 1986. Octavo, original pictorial paper-covered
boards. $500.
First English edition of the Russian chess champion’s first
book, a combination of game analysis and autobiography,
signed by Kasparov on the title page and dated 05/12/04.
This, his first book, offers analysis of 21 of Kasparov’s matches.
With chess diagrams and black-and-white photographs. With
publisher’s addendum slip laid in. Near-fine.

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civil war
“A Greater Variety Of Military Problems And
Experiences Than Any Other”
155. (CIVIL WAR) BIGELOW, John, Jr. The Campaign
of Chancellorsville: A Strategic and Tactical Study. New
Haven, London and Oxford, 1910. Quarto, original red
cloth. $1500.
Limited first edition, number 969 of 1000 copies, illustrated
with 48 battle maps—25 of them folding and nine of those
housed in a pocket at rear—charting the pivotal
Chancellorsville campaign.
Upon taking command of the Army of the Potomac after the
Battle of Fredericksburg, Major General Joseph Hooker
“crafted a brilliant plan for the spring [of 1863] that he
expected would at least compel General Robert E. Lee to
abandon his Fredericksburg entrenchments, and, possibly,
prove fatal to the Army of Northern Virginia… With both
wings of the enemy across the Rappahannock, Lee faced a
serious dilemma. Conventional military wisdom dictated
that the understrength Army of Northern Virginia retreat
south and escape Hooker’s trap. Lee opted instead to meet the
Federal challenge head-on” (National Park Service). With
errata slip. With an additional limitation page noting that 150
copies were set aside for members of the Civil War Book Club,
this one for Ralph G. Newman, noted expert on Civil War
books and owner of the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop. Fine.
Poore’s Biography Of Burnside
156. (CIVIL WAR) (BURNSIDE, Ambrose) POORE,
Benjamin Perley. Life and Public Services of Ambrose E.
Burnside, Soldier—Citizen—Statesman. Providence, Rhode
Island, 1882. Large quarto, original full blind-stamped
morocco. $1200.
Limited first edition of this notable Civil War biography,
number 17 of 300 “deluxe” copies, with frontispiece and
numerous maps and engravings, handsomely bound.
The career of this controversial soldier made him one of the
Civil War’s most contested figures. Following the dismissal of
McClellan, “Burnside was made commander of the Army of
the Potomac,” but soon resigned amidst furor over his
leadership. Not long after, however, Burnside successfully led
the campaign “liberating East Tennessee form the
Confederates… [and] was recalled to command his old Ninth
Corps in Ulysses S. Grant’s 1864 Virginia campaign….
Originally a conservative Democrat who supported slavery,
Burnside came during the war to see the need for emancipation”
(ANB). Fine.
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Signed By Bruce Catton
157. (CIVIL WAR) CATTON, Bruce. Gettysburg: The
Final Fury. New York, 1974. Tall, slim octavo, original blue
cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. $400.
First edition of Catton’s celebrated battle history, signed by
him on the half-title.
“A winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book
Award, Catton was perhaps the most widely read and
influential Civil War historian of his time” (DAB). One of his
final books, Gettysburg appeared three years before Catton
was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. With 41
illustrations and 5 maps. Fine.
“There Is Jackson Standing Like A Stonewall!”
158. (CIVIL WAR) (JACKSON, Stonewall) COOKE, John
Esten. Stonewall Jackson: A Military Biography. New York,
1866. Thick octavo, original purple cloth. $850.
First edition, illustrated with two engraved portraits and six
maps (one folding), in original cloth. The copy of “King of
New Orleans” D.H. Holmes with his title page owner stamp,
given to him by his nephew, one of Stonewall Jackson’s foot
cavalry, with his contemporary gift inscriptions.
“Highly romanticized and containing significant quantities
of embellished dialogue, the work is nonetheless valuable for
communicating the popular Southern feeling of the day
regarding its dead hero of the battlefield… Within this work
exist the seeds of much of the Jackson mythology, including
the statement that Barnard Bee uttered on Henry House Hill:
‘There is Jackson standing like a stonewall!” (Eicher 247).
Early price label. Faint scattered foxing to text, joints repaired,
chipping to spine ends. A very good copy.
“The Southern States Had Rightfully
The Power To Withdraw”
159. (CIVIL WAR) DAVIS, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of
the Confederate Government. New York, 1881. Two volumes.
Thick octavo, original full brown cloth gilt. $1100.
First edition of Jefferson Davis’ important history of the
Confederacy, with 18 maps (14 folding) and 19 plates,
including fine stipple-engraved portraits of Davis, members
of the presidential staff, General Lee and others.
Interiors generally clean. Front inner paper hinge of Volume I
expertly repaired, mild rubbing to edges of cloth. An extremely
good copy.
“Such A Man Can Never Be Forgotten”
160. (CIVIL WAR) DUKE, Basil W. History of
Morgan’s Cavalry. Cincinnati, 1867. Octavo, original green
cloth. $950.
First edition, illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait
and several full-page maps.
“This is a classic work about John Hunt Morgan’s legendary
cavalry exploits, written by Morgan’s brother-in-law and a
brigadier general in his own right… A focused military
narrative of Morgan’s operations, the work is valuable for
Duke’s eyewitness recollections recorded soon after the war”
(Eicher 1060). Near-fine. Scarce.
Foote’s Civil War, Signed By Him
161. (CIVIL WAR) FOOTE, Shelby. The Civil War. A
Narrative. New York, 1958-74. Three volumes. Large octavo,
original gray cloth, dust jackets. $4200.
Scarce first editions of all three volumes in Foote’s monumental
history, signed by him on a tipped-in leaf in the first volume.
161
Foote’s “mission was to tell what he considered America’s
biggest story as a vast, finely detailed, deeply human
narrative… A model of what military history can be” (New
York Times). First edition sets such as this are much sought-
after but increasingly scarce. Ink gift inscription to Volume II
half-title. Volume II and III dust jackets price-clipped. A set of
scarce first edition volumes, elusive and particularly desirable
with Foote’s signature. Fine
Inscribed First Edition Set Of Freeman’s
Biography Of Lee
162. (CIVIL WAR) (LEE, Robert E.) FREEMAN, Douglas
Southall. R.E. Lee: A Biography. New York and London, 1934-
35. Four volumes. Octavo, original red cloth. $2000.
First edition of Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography,
inscribed by Freeman on a tipped-in leaf in Volume I:
“Inscribed for William J. Wiley, Douglas Southall Freeman.”
Illustrated with full-page photographs, facsimiles, maps and
battle plans. Freeman, the son of a former Confederate soldier
who served in the Army of Northern Virginia, “was invited in
1915 to write a biography of Lee for Scribner’s” (DAB). Without
original slipcases. Spines slightly darkened. Extremely good.
A Classic Civil War Autobiography
163. (CIVIL WAR) GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs
of U.S. Grant. New York, 1885-86. Two volumes. Thick
octavo, original green cloth, gilt cover medallions front and
rear. $750.
First edition of the memoirs of one of the most recognized
figures in American military history, illustrated with
numerous steel engravings, facsimiles, and 43 maps.
“No Union list of personal narratives could possibly begin
without the story of the victorious general. A truly remarkable
work” (New York Times). Near-fine.
First Edition Of Reminiscences Of
Winfield Scott Hancock
164. (CIVIL WAR) (HANCOCK, Winfield
Scott) [HANCOCK, Almira Russell].
Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock by
His Wife. New York, 1887. Octavo, original gilt-
stamped green cloth. $650.
First edition of this Civil War biography, with
several illustrations.
A career military man, Hancock served in
General McClellan’s Army of the Potomac,
fought at Williamsburg, commanded a
division at Antietam, performed distinguished
service at Chancellorsville, and assumed
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 command of the entire army late in the first day of battle at
Gettysburg before being relieved by General Meade.
Contemporary owner signature of General Elisha H. Rhodes,
who served in the Second Regiment of Rhode Island Volunteer
Infantry throughout the Civil War, advancing in the ranks
from private to colonel. Rhodes fought at the most of the war’s
most famous battles, including First Bull Run, Antietam,
Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. Fine.
Dabney’s Life Of Jackson
165. (CIVIL WAR) (JACKSON, Stonewall) DABNEY,
Robert Lewis. Life and Campaigns of Lieut.‑Gen. Thomas J.
Jackson, (Stonewall Jackson). New York, 1866. Octavo,
contemporary three-quarter brown calf, elaborately gilt-
decorated spine, black morocco spine labels, marbled boards,
endpapers and edges. $850.
First American edition, with 11 maps (one folding) and steel-
engraved frontispiece portrait of Jackson.
“Dabney, a Virginia clergyman, wrote this biography at the
invitation of Jackson’s family; while the work is polemical in
its defense of the Southern cause, it contains much primary
material” (CWB II:50). The text of this edition is slightly
altered from the London 1864-66 first edition. Publisher’s
advertisement with salesman’s signature laid in, small owner
inkstamp to spine on front board. Interior with occasional
mild soiling. Mild age-wear to calf and rubbing to boards.
Extremely good.
“One Of The Early Classic Narratives By A
Confederate General”
166. (CIVIL WAR) JOHNSTON, Joseph E. Narrative of
Military Operations, Directed, During the Late War
Between the States. New York, 1874. Thick octavo, original
red cloth gilt. $900.
First edition, with numerous portraits and maps.
J.E. Johnston is still seen as one of most controversial
Confederate military figures. He assumed command
immediately following secession and continued in one
capacity or another until the very end, when he surrendered
to Sherman in April 1865. It was Johnston who recommended
a fighting withdrawal against Sherman during his infamous
March to the Sea. The Confederacy’s refusal to implement
this strategy led to John Bell Hood’s disastrous defeat at
Atlanta. A few stray pen marks and occasional foxing to text,
light wear to binding extremities. Extremely good.
Valuable Illustrated History Of The Civil War
167. (CIVIL WAR) LOSSING, Benson John. Pictorial
History of the Civil War in the United States of America.
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Philadelphia and Hartford, 1866-68. Three volumes. Royal
octavo, original rose cloth. $1250.
First edition of this early first-hand account of the Civil War,
abundantly illustrated with 15 steel-engraved plates and
hundreds of in-text wood-engravings by Lossing and his
brother-in-law, William Barritt.
This graphic account of the Civil War includes portraits, maps
and plans, battle scenes, weapons and warships, forts and
arsenals, military uniforms and flags. “Since Lossing was
both an eyewitness and an historian, his study has value in
the extent of his coverage and in his unusual first-hand
impressions” (Nevins II:20). Much of this work is based on
unpublished drawings, photographs, diaries and letters, and
material provided by Harper’s Weekly and Frank Leslie’s
Illustrated Newspaper. Spines of original cloth sunned, cover
gilt bright. Nearly fine.
“When The Battle Waged Hottest,
Sheridan Was At His Best”
168. (CIVIL WAR) SHERIDAN, Philip Henry. Personal
Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan. General United States Army.
New York, 1888. Two volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter
burgundy morocco gilt. $1200.
First edition of Sheridan’s military autobiography, with 27
maps (many folding) and 17 plates.
Sheridan completed this work just days before his death in
1888. He recounts three decades of military service including
his many decisive Civil War campaigns and his later Indian
campaigns, his military governorship of Texas and Louisiana
and his tenure as commander-in-chief of the army after
Sherman’s retirement. Small closed tear to one map stub, light
wear to binding. Extremely good.
“The Cause Of The South Is The Cause Of Us All”
169. (CIVIL WAR) STEPHENS, Alexander Hamilton. A
Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States.
Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Atlanta; Chicago and St. Louis,
1868-70. Two volumes. Octavo, original textured brown cloth
rebacked with original spines laid down. $800.
First edition, illustrated with 20 plates, of the “most
elaborate—and best—argument for the constitutional
validity of the doctrine of state sovereignty and the right of
secession” (Howes S938).
The former vice-president of the Confederate States, whose
notorious “cornerstone speech” set forth white supremacy as
the Confederacy’s “great truth,” Stephens after the war “urged
southerners to accept the end of slavery, be conciliatory toward
the North, and grant the freedmen the legal and civil rights of
citizenship. Ex-library, with expected markings (no pockets);
evidence of label removal to spines. Extremely good.
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2001, Signed By Arthur C. Clarke
170. CLARKE, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey. New
York, 1968. Octavo, original blue and black paper-covered
boards, dust jacket. $3600.
First edition, signed by the author on the title page.
Inkstamp of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute in Sri Lanka to
half title. Book about-fine; rear free endpaper expertly
reinforced at hinge. Dust jacket with light dampstaining to
spine head, light rubbing. An extremely good copy overall.
Signed By Tom Clancy
171. CLANCY, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. Annapolis,
1984. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition of Clancy’s first novel, inscribed on the half title:
“FIRST EDITION Tom Clancy.” Book fine, dust jacket very
nearly so.
My Life, Signed By Bill Clinton
172. CLINTON, Bill. My Life. New York, 2004. Octavo,
original blue boards, dust jacket. $1500.
First edition, first state, boldly signed by President Clinton
(“William J. Clinton”) on the title page. Fine.
Living History, Signed By Hillary Clinton
173. CLINTON, Hillary Rodham. Living History.
New York, 2003. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust
jacket. $750.
First edition, signed by Senator Clinton on the title page.
Preceded by the signed limited edition of 1500 copies. Fine.
Perrault’s Fairy Tales
174. (CLARKE, Harry) PERRAULT, Charles. The
Fairy Tales. London, 1922. Quarto, original pale blue
cloth gilt. $1500.
First edition with Clarke’s illustrations of Perrault’s classic
children’s tales, with 24 full-page plates (12 in color) and
numerous in-text linecuts.
First published in 1697 as Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé
(aka Mother Goose’s Tales); the text for this edition was taken
from Robert Samber’s translation of 1729. About-fine.
Eastman House Tribute To Coburn
175. (COBURN, Alvin Langdon) NEWHALL, Nancy.
Alvin Langdon Coburn. Rochester, New York, 1962. Folio,
original brown paper-covered portfolio, containing staple-
bound pamphlet in russet wrappers and 16 loose mounted
photogravures. $950.
First edition of this representative selection from Coburn’s
works, one of 2000 copies for members of Eastman House,
with 16 lovely mounted photogravures, including portraits of
Twain, Yeats and Chesterton.
This commemorative portfolio draws upon all of Coburn’s
works in representing changes in his style and technique,
from “modernist” pictorialism to abstraction. Accompanied
by an art critique by Nancy Newhall. Fine.
Boldly Inscribed By Jean Cocteau
176. COCTEAU, Jean. Le Cap de Bonne Espérance. Paris,
1919. Square 12mo, original pale gray printed thick paper
wrappers. $3800.
Limited first edition of Cocteau’s first collection of poetry, one
of only 510 copies, inscribed on the half title, “à Henriot, son
ami et l’ami de Valentin, Jean Cocteau, 1919.”
The recipient of this copy was poet, novelist and literary critic
Émile Henriot. Text in French. Near-fine.
Book Of Longing, Signed By Leonard Cohen
177. COHEN, Leonard. Book of Longing. New York, 2006.
Octavo, original half white cloth, dust jacket. $550.
First American edition, signed by Cohen in pencil on the title
page, and stamped by Cohen in red with the “Order of the
Unified Heart.”
Includes poetry and art by Cohen. The first American edition
was published two weeks after the first Canadian edition. A
fine copy.
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 “First And Foremost A Sailor”
178. (COLUMBUS, Christopher) MORISON, Samuel Eliot.
Christopher Columbus, Mariner. London, 1956. Octavo,
modern three-quarter burgundy morocco gilt. $450.
First English edition of Morison’s abridgement of his Pulitzer
Prize-winning biography, with 19 plates and maps,
handsomely bound. Fine.
179
Rare Signed First Edition Of
Pat Conroy’s First Book
179. CONROY, Pat. The Boo. Verona, Virginia, 1970.
Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $4000.
Scarce first edition of Conroy’s first book, signed by him on the
title page.
A self-published memoir of the author’s experiences at the
Citadel military college and of the college’s assistant
commandant, Lt. Colonel Nugent Courvoisie (the Boo). Faint
foxing and one spot of dampstaining to dust jacket. Fine.
Babbage’s On The Economy Of Machinery And
Manufactures, Including For The First Time
His Calculating Engine
180. (COMPUTERS) BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy
of Machinery and Manufactures. London, 1833. Small
octavo, original plum cloth. $1500.
Expanded third edition, published just one year after the
scarce first edition, including for the first time a brief
demonstration of Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 1
performing calculations.
“By the time the third edition was published Babbage had the
small working portion of his Difference Engine No. 1 that he
had ordered constructed in 1832. This portion of the machine,
which represented approximately one-ninth of the complete
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design, would be the only portion ever constructed. It could
perform a limited amount of calculation, and Babbage was
able to include a long mathematical footnote to pages 198 and
199 of the chapter on the division of mental labor showing
how it had been possible to implement in machinery de
Prony’s principles of the division of mental labor” (Hook &
Norman 44). Fine.
The First Separately Published Work On
The ENIAC Computer
181. (COMPUTERS) HARTREE, Douglas Rayner.
Calculating Machines. Recent and Prospective Developments
and Their Impact on Mathematical Physics. Cambridge,
1947. 12mo, original printed beige wrappers. $1600.
First edition of the first separately published work on the
ENIAC computer, the world’s first computer.
Completed in 1945, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Calculator) was first unveiled to the public on
February 14, 1946 at the Moore School of the University of
Pennsylvania. Calculating Machines was the first separately
published work on the ENIAC, delivered by Hartree for his
inaugural lecture as the Plummer Professor of Mathematical
Physics at the University of Cambridge. Faint pencil
underlining. Near-fine.
Conrad’s Chance, A Stunning Copy
182. CONRAD, Joseph. Chance. A Tale in Two Parts.
London, 1914. Octavo, original green cloth gilt; custom cloth
chemise and slipcase. $1800.
First edition, second issue, of Conrad’s classic novel.
Front inner paper hinge split; cloth extraordinarily fresh and
fine, gilt perfect.
America’s Constitution And Declaration Of
Independence, Privately Printed, 1925
183. (CONSTIUTION) The Constitution of the United
States and Related Articles. No Place, 1925. Octavo, original
three-quarter burgundy morocco gilt. $425.
First edition of this privately printed commemorative volume,
containing the Declaration of Independence, Articles of
Confederation and the Constitution, with frontispiece
illustration of D.J. Stearn’s painting of the 1787 Constitutional
Convention, handsomely bound. Fine.
“Cornerstones Of The American Fabric
Of Government”
184. (CONSTITUTION) MARSHALL, John. The
Writings… upon the Federal Constitution. Boston, 1839.
Thick octavo, original publisher’s dark brown cloth, uncut
and partly unopened. $1800.
First edition of the timeless work assembling the most
important opinions of Chief Justice Marshall, whose “genius
left a unique and powerful mark on American law,” featuring
crucial decisions such as Marbury v. Madison, United States.
v. Aaron Burr and Dartmouth College v. Woodward.
“Before Marshall’s appointment as Chief Justice in 1801, the
Constitution was in many respects no more than a controversial
piece of parchment: when, in 1835, he transmitted it to his
successor, it had become a vital, operative method of
government… even his opponents recognized that Marshall
had elevated the court to be—what it has been ever since—the
most powerful judicial tribunal in the history of civilized
government” (New York Times). Light scattered foxing; some
spotting, rubbing to original cloth. Extremely good, scarce in
publisher’s gilt binding.
Debates On The Adoption Of The Constitution
185. (CONSTITUTION) ELLIOT, Jonathan, editor.
Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption
of the Federal Constitution, as Recommended by the
General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Washington,
1836. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown
sheep gilt. $2200.
Second edition, “much enlarged and improved,” of this
famous compilation of government documents relative to the
ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
Elliot collected in one publication all of the documents
pertinent to the discussions on ratification: the Declaration of
Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Journal of
the Constitutional Convention, the text of the proposed
Constitution, and the debates in the various states. “This
valuable collection of facts and arguments… sheds much light
on the nature of our political institutions” (Vice-President J.
C. Calhoun). Contemporary signature of Joseph LeCompt
Esq. on two front covers, dated 1837—quite possibly the four-
term Congressman from Kentucky’s 6th District and good
friend of Henry Clay. Scattered foxing, preliminary leaves
embrowned. A few shallow abrasions to contemporary sheep.
A handsome set.
1774 Forerunner Of The Declaration Of
Independence, With The Assertion Of The
Rights To “Life, Liberty, And Property”
186. (CONTINENTAL CONGRESS). Extracts from the
Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental
Congress, Held at Philadelphia, on the Fifth of September,
1774… London, 1774. Octavo, original self-wrappers respined,
uncut; pp.(2), 59, (1). $3600.
Second English edition, published by order of Congress, with
the significant inclusion of the “Address to the Inhabitants of
the Province of Quebec” that did not appear in the Philadelphia
edition, one of only 500 copies printed.
Foremost in these extraordinary proceedings of the first
Continental Congress is the “Bill of Rights,” which clearly
and strongly defines and asserts the rights of the colonists.
These fundamental rights, from “the immutable laws of
nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the
several charters,” include: “life, liberty, and property”; the
rights and liberties granted to English citizens; representation
and participation in legislation and government, especially in
issues of taxation and internal policy; trial by jury; “a right
peaceably to assemble, consider of their grievances, and
petition the King.” Second English edition, one of only 500
copies printed in December the same year and by same
publisher as first London edition; initially printed in
Philadelphia on October 24, 1774. Numerical margin stamp.
Near-fine.
The First Accurate Partial English Translation
Of Beowulf, 1826
187. CONYBEARE, John Josias. Illustrations of Anglo-
Saxon Poetry. London, 1826. Quarto, modern half brown
calf, original drab boards. $3200.
First edition, large-paper presentation copy in original
boards, which contains the first accurate English partial
translation of Beowulf, inscribed by the author’s wife, “From
Mrs. Conybeare,” with an autograph note from her laid in
that reads, “N.B. The Editor added more than interested
me—Please to distinguish his productions from The
Author’s.”
“While many a college freshman knows that Beowulf is the
oldest English epic”—hailing from as early as the eighth
century AD—“we often forget that the poem’s canonization
got off to a slow start well into the 19th century… The editio
princeps was published in 1815... In 1826, J.J. Conybeare
provided the first accurate English synopsis and partial
translation of the poem” in this volume (Mancoff, 41-42).
Very nearly fine
Accum’s 1821 Culinary Chemistry, With Two
Hand-Colored Plates
188. (COOKERY) ACCUM, Fredrick. Culinary
Chemistry… London, 1821. Octavo, contemporary three
quarter brown calf gilt. $2200.
First edition of this classic work on the chemistry of cooking,
with beautiful hand-colored copper-engraved frontispiece
and title page, in contemporary three-quarter calf and
marbled boards.
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 “More a chatty practical guide to the philosophy of cooking
and the chemical principles than a cookbook,” this work
relates fundamentals on topics ranging from judging doneness
to correct heat and includes several fascinating digressions on
the history and preparation methods of various foods and
beverages (Gernon 144). Of particular interest is the chapter
on coffee, which offers some of the earliest instructions in
English on the proper preparation of continental-style coffee
as well as a description of the percolator. Evidence of bookplate
removal. One small closed tear, a few spots of faint foxing to
text, a bit of wear to contemporary binding. Extremely good.
Hannah Glasse’s Art Of Cookery, 1770
189. (COOKERY) [GLASSE, Hannah]. The Art of Cookery,
Made Plain and Easy. London, 1770. Octavo, contemporary
full brown calf rebacked. $1250.
Early edition of Hannah Glasse’s famed cookbook, the
standard culinary work of the 18th century.
Amid more commonplace fare are recipes for “catchup to
keep 20 years,” “The Jews way of preserving salmon,” and
instructions on “how to pickle ox-palates” and “how to make
portable soop.” First published in 1747. Minor embrowning
and only slight kitchen soiling to text Near-fine.
The Earliest Complete Manual Of Household
Management, 1808
190. (COOKERY) [RUNDELL, Mrs. (Maria Eliza)]. A New
System of Domestic Cookery. Philadelphia, 1808. 16mo,
contemporary three-quarter red morocco. $1700.
Early American edition—the second Philadelphia edition—of
Mrs. Rundell’s popular cookbook.
Rundell originally prepared this work for the use of her
married daughters, “editing and putting into order the
hundreds of handwritten recipes and remedies she had
compiled and collected… until the whole voluminous
collection of a lifetime’s culinary trials and errors had been
sorted and indexed” (Quayle, 118-19). “No edition of this
work dated earlier than 1807 has been located… The first
edition may have appeared late in 1805 or early in 1806” (Cagle
971). Domestic Cookery first appeared in America in 1807.
Contemporary ink annotations to front endpapers. Scattered
light foxing, minor offsetting to leaves M1-M2; small hole to
[R2], barely affecting text; closed tear to [2A3]. Near-fine.
Cooper’s 1795 History Of North America
191. COOPER, [William]. The History of North
America… Laningsburgh, New York, 1795. 12mo.,
contemporary full brown calf. $1500.
Second American edition of Cooper’s dramatic history, a
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scarce account of America from early colonial times through
the Revolution, with engraved frontispiece and five additional
copper plates depicting the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of
Bunker Hill, and other key moments of the Revolution.
Cooper devotes most of his chronicle to America’s struggle
for independence, citing passages from the Declaration of
Independence and focusing on Revolutionary battles.
Preceded by 1793 edition published in Bennington, Vermont.
Contemporary owner inscriptions dated 1804. Light foxing,
dampstaining, occasional closed tears to margins, minimally
affecting text, horizontal tear to one plate affecting image
archivally repaired; rubbing, slight loss to front edge of
unrestored binding. A very good copy.
Signed By Aaron Copland
192. COPLAND, Aaron. Fanfare for the Common Man.
New York, circa 1960. Octavo, unbound as issued, original
self-wrappers, full score and thirteen one-page parts. $700.
Later edition with full score and separate parts, signed by
Copland above his printed name on the full score.
“One of the ten patriotic fanfares commissioned by Eugene
Goossens for performance with the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra during the 1942-3 season” (Aaron Copland: A
Complete Catalog, 23). Three years later, Copland used
the Fanfare as the basis for the last movement of his
Third Symphony. It remains one of Copland’s best-known
works. Fine.
Lavsihly Illustrated Edition Of The Song of
Songs, Signed By The Artist
193. COURBOULEIX, Léon. Le Cantique des Cantiques.
No place, circa 1920. Folio, contemporary three quarter brown
morocco gilt, original paper wrappers bound in. $950.
Signed limited first edition, number 93 of 224 copies on Velin
(out of a total edition of 310 copies) signed by the artist.
Courbouleix’s graceful and pastoral scenes complement the
Song of Songs’ celebration of physical love. Abundantly
illustrated with 56 lovely, engraved sepia etchings—eight full
page, eight half-page and 40 headpieces. Also with engraved
hand-rubricated general title page and similar title pages for
each of the book’s eight chapters, engraved hand-rubricated
illuminated initials and engraved hand-rubricated calligraphic
text. Text in French. Fine.
Signed By Malcolm Cowley And Berenice Abbott
194. COWLEY, Malcolm. Exile’s Return, A Literary
Odyssey of the 1920’s. New York, 1981. Octavo, original
half brown cloth and printed paper boards, glassine,
slipcase. $1100.
First signed limited edition, number 690 of 2000 copies,
signed by Cowley and photographer Berenice Abbott, with 12
full-page photogravures by Abbott, Man Ray, André Kertész,
Alvin Coburn and Walker Evans.
Literary critic, poet, editor and historian, Malcolm Cowley
“will best be remembered for his autobiographical histories of
the 1920s ‘lost generation,’” exemplified by Exile’s Return and
its chronicle of American expatriates in France such as
Hemingway, Pound, Stein and Fitzgerald (ANB). Fine.
195
Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes,
Fizzes, Juleps
195. CRADDOCK, Harry. The Savoy Cocktail Book. New
York, 1930. Octavo, original half black cloth, gold, green, and
black Art Deco pictorial paper boards. $850.
First American edition of this quintessential book of cocktails,
with lively and colorful Art Deco illustrations by Gilbert
Rumbold and lovely Art Deco binding.
A witty, informative and eminently useful book on how to
make and mix drinks. In 1926, Harry Craddock fled
prohibition in the United States to become Head Barman at
the London Savoy. He was the inventor of the “Old Fashioned.”
Owner stamp to bottom edge of text block and verso of title
page. Near-fine.
“Bind Us In Time, O Seasons Clear, And Awe”
196. CRANE, Hart. White Buildings: Poems by Hart
Crane. New York, 1926. Octavo, original half blue cloth;
custom slipcase. $2000.
First edition, second issue of Crane’s first book, one of only
500 copies. Inscribed by Allen Tate, who wrote the book’s
foreword, on the title page: “Inscribed to William Targ with
all good wishes. Allen Tate. July 23, 1969.”
Crane has been described as “one of those poets who need to
undergo no development, who seemed fully formed from the
start, the rare handful that includes Marlowe, Blake,
Rimbaud... White Buildings [is] already upon the heights”
(Bloom, The Western Canon, 46). William Targ was a
bibliophile, publisher and editor. Second issue, as usual, with
Allen Tate’s name correctly spelled on the cancel title page.
The entire first printing consisted of only 500 copies: 50 were
sent out to reviewers with Tate’s name misspelled; these 50
comprise the first issue. For the balance of the run, the title
page was reset and tipped in (as in the present copy). Without
scarce original dust jacket. Interior fine, spine slightly
darkened. Extremely good.
Three Stephen Crane First Editions
197. CRANE, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. New
York, 1895. Octavo, original pale yellow buckram decorated
in red, black, and gilt; custom chemise and half morocco
slipcase. $4600.
First edition, first issue of this classic Civil War novel.
First issue, with all points called for. Without exceptionally
rare dust jacket. Interior fine; expected usual slight age-
darkening and light rubbing to original cloth. Extremely
good.
198. CRANE, Stephen. The Open Boat and Other Tales of
Adventure. New York, 1898. 12mo, original green and silver
pictorial cloth. $1500.
First edition of this collection of eight short stories, including
the popular title story and “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky.”
About-fine.
199. CRANE, Stephen. The Monster and Other Stories.
New York, 1899. Octavo, original russet cloth. $1250.
First edition of this collection of three short stories, including
“The Blue Hotel,” illustrated with 12 plates and 13 in-text
illustrations. Fine.
Signed By Sir Francis Crick
200. (CRICK, Francis) (EINSTEIN, Albert) PAIS, Abraham.
Einstein Lived Here. Oxford, 1994. Octavo, original black
paper boards, dust jacket. $950.
First edition of this collection of biographical essays on
Einstein, signed on the title page by Francis Crick, who won
the Nobel Prize for his role in discovering the double helix
structure of DNA. Fine.
“The Rugeley Poisoner”:
Serial Killer Or Miscarriage Of Justice?
201. (CRIME) (PALMER, William) Report of the Trial of
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 William Palmer for Poisoning John Parsons
205
Cook, at Rugeley. London, 1856. BOUND WITH:
Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer.
London, 1856. BOUND WITH: PALMER,
Thomas. A Letter to the Lord Chief Justice
Campbell. London, 1856. Octavo, early 20th-
century three-quarter tan calf, elaborately gilt-
decorated spine, original wrappers for the first
two items bound in. $1800.

First edition of the accounts surrounding the

sensational trial of William Palmer, accused of
poisoning a fellow racing tout and members of his
own family—convicted on questionable evidence
obtained through toxicological analysis.
Copiously illustrated, including folding plates
depicting the trial.
These three scarce contemporary pamphlets tell conflicting
stories of this sensational trial. Interiors fine. Slight rubbing
to extremities of handsome calf binding. Very desirable.
Scarce First Edition Of Crowley’s Household Gods
202. CROWLEY, Aleister. Household Gods. A Comedy.
Pallanza, 1912. Octavo, original beige buckram. $600.
First edition of Crowley’s verse play. Near-fine.
“The Method Of Science; The Aim Of Religion”
Account Of The Famous Harriman Alaska
Expedition Of 1899
205. (CURTIS, Edward S.) HARRIMAN ALASKA
EXPEDITION. MERRIAM, Clinton Hart, editor. Alaska.
Volume I: Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. Volume II: History,
Geography, Resources. New York, 1901. Two volumes. Thick
quarto, original green cloth, cloth dust jackets. $5000.
First edition account of the 1899 Harriman Expedition to
Alaska, Volumes I-II, with 39 color plates (including 16
heliotype plates of coastal birds by Louis Agassiz Fuertes), 85
full-page photogravures (45 by Edward S. Curtis), five maps
and numerous in-text illustrations. Fine.

203. CROWLEY, Aleister. The Equinox. The Official

Caricatures By Dickens’ First Illustrator,
Organ of the A.∙. A.∙. Detroit, 1919. Thick quarto, original
pictorial blue cloth, uncut. $1000.
With Vivid Hand-Coloring

First edition of the “Blue Equinox,” official publication of
Crowley’s magical order Argenteum Astrum, with at least
three-quarters of the contents written by Crowley, including
his “Hymn to Pan,” a manifesto of the A.∙. A.∙., and H.P.
Blavatsky’s The Voice of Silence, with a commentary by
Crowley. With color frontispiece portrait and six plates (one
in color).
Interior clean. Ring stain to front cover, cloth a bit darkened
and lightly rubbed. Extremely good. Scarce.
206. CROWQUILL, Alfred. Seymour’s Humorous
Sketches… London, 1866. Octavo, mid-20th century
three-quarter brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated
spine. $750.
Later edition, with text by Alfred Crowquill and 86 hand-
colored, engraved plates by Robert Seymour, Dickens’ first
illustrator, handsomely bound. Fine.
Tenting On The Plains

“Spectacularly Nasty-Minded” 207. (CUSTER, George A.) CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Tenting

on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas. New
204. CROWLEY, Aleister. The Stratagem and Other York, 1889. Octavo, original green cloth gilt. $750.
Stories. London, 1930. 12mo, original half black cloth, paper
spine label, dust jacket. $550. Second edition, with frontispiece portrait and 28
illustrations.
First edition of Crowley’s only collection of short stories,
including the “spectacularly nasty-minded” story “The Elizabeth Custer wrote this book as part of a trilogy of
Testament of Magdalen Blair.” autobiographical works focusing on her husband. In Tenting
on the Plains, she describes “their marriage and experiences
Book near-fine, with corners lightly rubbed; scarce original in the Civil War and subsequent Indian campaigns” (ANB).
dust jacket extremely good with shallow wear to spine ends The first edition was published in 1887. Near-fine.
and corners.

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Inscribed By Clive Cussler With Drawing
208. CUSSLER, Clive. Raise the Titanic! New York, 1976.
Octavo, original half green cloth, dust jacket. $1000.
First edition of Cussler’s bestselling thriller, the third in his
Dirk Pitt adventure series, boldly inscribed by the author on
the title page with his sketch of the Titanic sinking and his
inscription, “Get it up! Clive Cussler.” About-fine.
“A Rough And Tumble Crusader For The
Common Man”
209. DARROW, Clarence. The Story of My Life. New
York and London, 1932. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust
jacket. $950.
First trade edition of Darrow’s autobiography, scarce in
original dust jacket.
Darrow’s “Story of My Life is still must reading for all citizens
who care about liberties and our legal system” (Alan
Dershowitz). With 14 photographs and drawings, preceded
same year by signed limited edition. Library stamp. Book fine;
some light edge-wear to very bright, near-fine dust jacket.
Presentation Copy Of Living With The Bible
210. DAYAN, Moshe. Living with the Bible. New York,
1978. Octavo, original gold cloth, dust jacket. $600.
First edition presentation copy, warmly inscribed only a year
before Dayan’s death: “To Georgette Klinger, with warmest
regards and best wishes, Rahel & M. Dayan, 8.11.80.”
Illustrated with eight full-page maps, and numerous color and
black-and-white photographs of ancient and modern Israel.
It was as Foreign Minister that Moshe Dayan notably “played
a key role in negotiations that led to the signing of the Israeli-
Egyptian peace treaty in March 1979… Mr. Dayan’s devotion
to Israel was reflected in his private life. He built up a vast
collection of Holy Land antiquities that nourished his near-
mystic sense of Israel’s past. His writings, notably his
autobiography and a book about archeology Living with the
Bible were in part hymns to his country” (New York Times).
Book fine, dust jacket about-fine.
Signed By Moshe Dayan
211. DAYAN, Moshe. Breakthrough: A Personal Account
of the Egypt-Israel Peace Negotiations. New York, 1981.
Octavo, original half cream cloth, dust jacket. $650.
First American edition, published the same year as the first
edition, signed by Dayan. First published the same year in
London. Fine.
“Hold The Bag Tight!”
212. DAHL, Roald. James and The Giant Peach. London,
1967. Octavo, original laminated pictorial boards. $950.
First English edition of Dahl’s “little classic,” with numerous
whimsical illustrations, many full-page, by Michael Simeon.
Interior with light staining to top and fore-edge, tear with loss
to rear free endpaper. Lamination separating from lovely
pictorial boards at top of spine and along front joint. A very
good copy.
DeLillo’s First Book, Signed By Him
213. DELILLO, Don. Americana. Boston, 1971. Octavo,
original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $1800.
First edition of the author’s first book, signed by him. Book
about-fine, dust jacket near-fine. Scarce signed.
“Authoritative Source Upon The Early History
Of Seattle”
214. DENNY, Arthur A. Pioneer Days on Puget Sound.
Seattle, 1888. Slim 12mo, original brown cloth; pp. 83. $1000.
First edition of this important first-hand history of the
settlement of Washington’s Puget Sound area, written by one
of the founders of the city of Seattle.
“Deservedly prized as an authoritative source upon the early
history of Seattle and Puget Sound” (Graff 1053). “This is
Denny’s account of his first ten years on Puget Sound from
1851 to 1861. Clarence Bagley, the printer, was a pioneer
newspaperman and a personal friend of Denny. The first
edition had a small press run, probably no more than 300
copies, and it was distributed among Denny’s friends with no
copies being offered for sale. An unknown number were
distributed, but the majority were still in Bagley’s printing
shop when the Seattle fire of 1889 completely destroyed the
shop along with all of the remaining copies. These
circumstances make it one of the rarest of early Washington
Territorial imprints” (Tweney, The Washington 89, 12). Streeter
3285. Fine.
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charles darwin
“Pioneer Study In Quantitative Ecology”
215. DARWIN, Charles. “On the Formation of Mould.”
FROM: Geological Society Of London Proceedings, Volume
II, Number 52. London, 1838. Slim octavo, unbound, whole
issue; pp. 571-78. $1100.
Extremely rare separate issue Number 52 of Geological Society
Proceedings, containing Darwin’s first paper on earthworms—
placing him as a pioneer of soil science.
“Earthworms… play an important part not only in the ecology
of plants but also as geological agents, and Darwin’s work on
these lowly animals stands as a pioneer study in quantitative
ecology” (deBeer, 251). Near-fine. Very scarce.
“The Most Important Event...
In The History Of Biological Science”
216. DARWIN, Charles. Journal of
Researches into the Natural History and
Geology of the Countries Visited During
the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round
the World… London, 1860. Thick
octavo, original green cloth gilt
rebacked with the original spine laid
down. $1100.
“Final definitive text” of Darwin’s
account of the most famous voyage in
the history of biological science and
modern thought.
Darwin’s “first published book is
undoubtedly the most often read and
stands second only to On the Origin of
Species as the most often printed” (Freeman,
31). This work was first published in 1839 as
one of the volumes in the four-volume Narrative
of the Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and
Beagle. For later editions such as this, Darwin heavily revised
the text, and the number of woodcuts was increased. This
1860 edition is considered the “final definitive text” (Freeman
20). Ex-library. Rubbing to spine. Extremely good.
“From These Researches… Has Sprung The
Whole Science Of Growth Hormones In Plants”
217. DARWIN, Charles. “On the Movements and Habits
of Climbing Plants.” IN: The Journal of the Linnean Society,
Volume IX, Numbers 33 & 34 (June 12, 1865). London, 1865.
Slim octavo, original blue-green wrappers; pp. 128, custom
clamshell box. $3800.
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First edition of this innovative “investigation of the adaptive
value of climbing in plants,” in original wrappers, uncut and
unopened.
Darwin was as much interested in botany as geology and
zoology. During his Beagle voyages, his extended stay in Chile,
and his six weeks in the Galapagos Islands, Darwin collected
thousands of plant specimens. In 1860, with his major work on
evolution behind him, Darwin indulged himself in the pursuit
of his botanical studies. The resulting experiments formed the
basis for a new approach to the discipline. “The behavior of
climbing plants and the bending of their shoots led Darwin to
investigate the mechanical cause of such bending… By means
of simple but ingenious experiments, Darwin showed that the
tip of the shoot was sensitive to light and that the bending was
caused by growth in the stem on the side away from the light…
From these researches and experiments has sprung the whole
science of growth hormones in plants” (DSB). Near-fine.
Extremely scarce.
Darwin On Orchids
218. DARWIN, Charles. On the Various
Contrivances by which British and Foreign
Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects… London,
1862. Octavo, period-style full green morocco
gilt. $7000.
First edition of Darwin’s first book to
follow On the Origin of Species, with 34
woodcut figures, one folding, by George
Brettingham Sowerby.
Darwin’s chief American advocate Asa
Gray stated that “if the Orchid-book had
appeared before the Origin the author
would have been canonized rather than
anathematized by the natural theologians”
(Freeman, 112). This is the first of Darwin’s
volumes supporting the theory of evolution
through natural selection. Handsome.
The First Book To Contain
Heliotype Photographs
219. DARWIN, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions
in Man and Animals. London, 1872. Octavo, original green
cloth. $1200.
First edition, second issue, of the book that founded the study
of ethology—the only one of Darwin’s books to be illustrated
with photographs, and the first book ever to use the heliotype
process to produce the photographic plate.
The most immediately successful of all of Darwin’s books, The
Expression of the Emotions was “written as a confutation of
the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a
special endowment” (Freeman, 142). “The work is really an
extension of his study of man and would have made a...
suitable second half to the Descent” (Bowlby, 401). In recent
years, “with the growing interest in an ethological approach
to the understanding of man’s emotional life and behavior,
Darwin’s work has become recognized as a classic first
contribution to the subject” (Bowlby, 403). This was the first
book ever illustrated with heliotyped photographs. Without
initial blank leaf. Inner paper hinges split, cloth rubbed at
extremities. Extremely good.
Darwin’s Important Geological Observations
220. DARWIN, Charles. Geological Observations on the
Volcanic Islands [and South America]. London, 1891.
Octavo, original green cloth gilt. $1200.
Third edition of the second and third of Darwin’s three geology
works from the Beagle expedition, with a large folding map at
rear and two other folding maps bound in.
The remarkable trilogy of Darwin’s geological writings that
emanated from his voyage on the Beagle consists of The
Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Geologic
Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Geological
Observations on South America. This is a combined edition of
the latter two of these works. In Volcanic Islands, Darwin
argues that active volcanic regions are undergoing elevation,
and that they probably account for the development of
continental mountain chains. Darwin’s explanation has
become the standard scientific account. First published in
1844 and 1846. Fine.
Allen’s Life of Darwin
221. (DARWIN, Charles) ALLEN, Grant. Charles Darwin:
His Life and Work. New York, circa 1900. Slim octavo,
original purple cloth. $600.
Early American edition. This biography attempts to situate
Darwin within a constellation of brilliant thinkers and
scientists whose scientific triumphs both supported and led
from his own. First published as Charles Darwin in 1888.
Hinges expertly repaired, light foxing to preliminaries, slight
rubbing to edges. Attractive.
“First Consistent All-Embracing Hypothesis
Of Evolution”
222. DARWIN, Erasmus. Zoonomia; or, The Laws of
Organic Life. London, 1794-96. Two volumes. Thick quarto,
modern three-quarter tan calf. $2800.
First edition of Erasmus Darwin’s “classification of all
diseases and treatments known at that time,” including his
own speculations on evolution, with six hand-colored plates
relating to eye examinations and four uncolored plates of
medical apparatuses.
“As a physician Erasmus Darwin was widely recognized as
England’s finest medical doctor… Much of the philosophy
central to Erasmus Darwin’s medical beliefs is laid out in his
treatise on animal life, Zoonomia… He was considered
progressive in that he believed in a connection between his
patient’s state of mind and their general health, and was one
of the first physicians to espouse sympathetic treatment of
mental patients” (Robert Day). Darwin advanced the “first
consistent all-embracing hypothesis of evolution” (Garrison
& Morton 105). Near-fine.
“The Most Evolutionarily Explicit Of His Works”
223. DARWIN, Erasmus. The Temple of Nature; or, The
Origin of Society. London, 1803. Folio, period-style full tan
sprinkled calf. $2600.
First edition of this posthumously published poetic treatise on
the creative force of nature, “spontaneous vitality,” and the
theory of evolution, illustrated with four full-page copper-
engravings—in proof state—from drawings by Henry Fuseli.
A fine, wide-margined copy.
Called by Samuel Taylor Coleridge “the most inventive of
philosophical men,” Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles,
“caught a glimpse of many [evolutionary] observations and
principles, afterwards turned to account by his grandson”
(DNB). Temple of Nature incorporates in verse his theory of
evolution (“all vegetables and animals now living were
originally derived from the smallest microscopic ones”), and
his belief that sexual selection accounts for changes within
species (“the final cause of this contest among males seems to
be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate
the species, which should thence become improved”). The
great Romantics, Byron, Keats and the Shelleys “were
powerfully influenced by Darwin’s view of the natural world
and his belief in connections between human and nonhuman
life” (Ashton Nichols). Fine.
First Edition Of Seward’s Memoirs Of The Life
Of Dr. Darwin
224. (DARWIN, Erasmus) SEWARD, Anna. Memoirs
of the Life of Dr. Darwin… London, 1804. Octavo,
contemporary full tree calf gilt rebacked. $850.
First edition of this classic memoir of Erasmus Darwin’s life
at Lichfield.
“Miss Seward published in 1804 a Memoir of Dr. Darwin,
which she dedicated to the Earl of Carlisle. It consists chiefly
of anecdotes of the early part of Darwin’s life, and of the
society at Lichfield while he lives there” (DNB). A few faint
spots of foxing to text, small expert repair and a bit of rubbing
to corners. Lovely.
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charles dickens
Little Dorrit, Beautifully Bound
225. DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. London, 1857.
Octavo, modern full brown morocco gilt. $1600.
First edition in book form, first issue, with 40
illustrations by Phiz, handsomely bound by
Bayntun.
“A wonderfully rich novel—rich in ideas,
rich in characterization, rich in incident,
and written in a richly imaginative
prose... many critics regard it as
Dickens’ masterpiece” (Watts, 108).
Faint discoloration to paper of plates,
far less than usual. Beautiful.
Dickens’ Pictures From Italy
226. DICKENS, Charles. Pictures
from Italy. London, 1846. Small octavo,
contemporary full brown calf gilt. $750.
First edition in book form of Dickens’
Travelling Letters: Written on the Road, in
contemporary calf.
With four woodcut illustrations by Samuel Palmer. Only
slight rubbing to binding. Lovely.
“Whether I Shall Turn Out To Be The Hero Of
My Own Life...”
227. DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of David
Copperfield. London, 1850. Octavo, later 19th-century three-
quarter green calf gilt. $2300.
First edition, first issue, bound from original parts, with 40
etchings Phiz including the second of Browne’s famous “dark
plates.”
“With many lovers of the author’s works David Copperfield
ranks as the finest of his writings” (Eckel, 77). Bound with
neither half title nor publisher’s advertisements. Moderate
darkening to plates at edges, as usual. Lovely.
Nicholas Nickleby, First Edition In Cloth
228. DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of
Nicholas Nickleby. London, 1839. Octavo, original green
cloth rebacked with original spine laid down. $2000.
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First edition in cloth of one of Dickens’ most popular novels,
illustrated with 39 etchings by Phiz and the steel-engraved
frontispiece portrait after the painting by David Maclise.
First state of binding. Text mixed state, with “visiter” corrected
to “sister” and “latter” corrected to “letter,” but with several
other early state points intact. Originally issued in 20 parts
from April 1838 to October 1839. Scattered light foxing
to plates, spine toned. Very good.
“Never Was A Book Received With
More Rapturous Enthusiasm”
229. DICKENS, Charles. The
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick
Club. London, 1837. Thick octavo,
contemporary three-quarter brown
calf. $1200.
First edition, mixed issue, of one of
Dickens’ greatest works, with 43
illustrations by Seymour, Buss and
Hablot Knight Browne (“Phiz”).
With five of seven first-issue points.
Most plates in the first state. Originally
issued in 20 parts from April 1836 to
November 1837. With “Directions to Binder”
and errata leaf. Bound without half title. Some
darkening and foxing to plates, front inner paper
hinge expertly repaired, light wear to calf and boards.
225
“Torture In Love, And Despair, And Madness”
230. DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. London,
May 1864-November 1865. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo,
original green paper wrappers, custom half morocco
clamshell box. $4500.
First edition in original parts, with nearly all
advertisements.
Usual minor chipping (with some expert restoration), some
soiling to cover of first part. Interior very clean and bright.
Dickens’ Works, Handsomely Bound
231. DICKENS, Charles. Works. New York, circa 1900.
Fifteen volumes. Thick 12mo, early 20th-century three-
quarter tan calf gilt. $3800.
Early 20th century set of Dickens’ novels, illustrated with title
page vignettes and over 130 plates, handsomely bound.
Light expert restoration to a few spines and inner hinges,
occasional light rubbing to boards. Handsome.
“Written By One Who Has Observed Herself
Frankly And With No Self-Pity Or Regrets”
232. DICKINSON, Emily. Letters of Emily Dickinson.
Boston, 1894. Two volumes. Octavo, original gilt-stamped
light green cloth. $1500.
First edition, first issue, of this collection of Emily Dickinson’s
letters, one of 1000 copies printed, edited by her friend Mabel
Loomis Todd.
“Though she never wrote about herself after her adolescence,
the letters nevertheless are always self-portraits, written by
one who has observed herself frankly and with no self-pity or
regrets” (Johnson). Near-fine.
“Fine Examples Of Mannered Grotesquerie”
233. DINESEN, Isak. Seven Gothic Tales. New York, 1934.
Octavo, original full red morocco gilt. $900.
Limited first edition of Dinesen’s first work in English, one of
only 1010 copies illustrated by Majeska and specially bound.
Seven Gothic Tales established Dinesen’s reputation and laid
the financial foundation for her future writing. This limited
illustrated edition was issued in two bindings: full morocco,
as here; and black cloth. Without scarce original glassine and
slipcase. Near-fine.
“I Had A Farm In Africa,
At The Foot Of The Ngong Hills…”
234. DINESEN, Isak. Out of Africa. New York, 1938.
Octavo, original black and orange cloth, dust jacket. $1200.
First American edition of Dinesen’s famous account of her
experiences in Africa. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
“Mickey Started The Calliope,
The Music And The Parade”
235. DISNEY STUDIOS. The “Pop-Up” Mickey Mouse.
New York, 1933. Octavo, original pictorial boards. $1400.
First edition of an early American pop-up book, published by
Blue Ribbon Pleasure Books, the original patent-holder for
pop-ups, with three pop-ups.
Blue Ribbon was the first publisher to market its books using
the term “pop-up.” These are the first modern pop-up books
produced in America. Near-fine.
Donald Duck And His Friends, 1937
236. DISNEY, Walt. Donald Duck and His Friends.
Racine, Wisconsin, 1937. Folio, staple-bound as issued,
original stiff pictorial paper boards; pp. [46]. $950.
Early Donald Duck story book, with large black-and-white
illustrations on each page.
Donald debuted in the cartoon The Wise Little Hen on June 9,
1934; he first starred in his own book in 1935. Near-fine.
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One Of The First Mickey Mouse Books,
In Rare Original Dust Jacket
237. DISNEY STUDIOS. The Adventures of Mickey
Mouse. Philadelphia, 1931. Octavo, original stiff pictorial
paper boards, dust jacket. $3000.
First edition of one of the earliest (and the first hardback)
Mickey Mouse books, in scarce original dust jacket.
Although Bibo & Lang of New York published a licensed,
staple-bound Mickey Mouse Book in 1930, many Disney
collectors regard this McKay publication—featuring a single
illustrated plot, rather than several stories, games and
songs—as “the first Mickey Mouse book.” It features color
pictorial covers and illustrations on each page depicting
Mickey and Minnie and their less famous friends Caroline
Cow, Henry Horse, Patricia Pig and Gertie Goat, a very young
Donald Duck and the villainous and long-forgotten Claws,
the Cat. With elusive original dust jacket. About-fine.
“I Want To Be A Real Boy!”
238. (DISNEY, Walt). Walt Disney’s Version of Pinocchio.
New York, 1939. Tall quarto, original half blue cloth, dust
jacket. $700.
First edition of this Disney classic, with illustrations from
“original production drawings created during the two years
our picture was in the making.”
With the half sheet illustration of “Monstro” tipped in. Book
fine, dust jacket very nearly so.
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The Life And Work of Doisneau
239. (DOISNEAU, Robert). HAMILTON, Peter. Robert
Doisneau. La vie d’un photographe [The Life of a
Photographer]. Paris, 1995. Large quarto, original black
cloth, dust jacket. $650.
First edition, one of the first posthumous works on the life and
work of Doisneau, with hundreds of photogravure plates and
in-text images, including 16 in color. A rare association copy,
from the collection of Doisneau’s former assistant, noted
Newsweek photographer Peter Turnley.
This handsomely produced study of Doisneau, published only
one year after his death, chronicles his timeless impact on
French humanist photography in a comprehensive
biographical essay and an assemblage of hundreds of images.
Collected here are images representing every aspect of
Doisneau’s career. This distinctive association copy is from
the library of award-winning photojournalist Peter Turnley
and signed by him. Text in French. Fine.
Two Extraordinary Doisneau Association Copies
From The Collection Of His Former Assistant
240. (DOISNEAU, Robert). Bistrots [Cafes]. Le Point.
Revue Artistique et Littéraire. Volume LVII. Souillac, 1960.
Slim quarto, original burgundy French wrappers over stiff
paper boards; pp. 46 [1]. $750.
First trade edition, Volume 57 (1960) of the prestigious French
journal, Le Point, with Jacques Prévert’s poem “Gravures sur
le Zinc” (Images Taken at the Bar) in a facsimile printing of
his autograph manuscript, Robert Giraud’s essay “Bistrots”
(Cafes), and featuring 44 finely screened black-and-white
heliogravures of photographs by Robert Doisneau, specially
commissioned for this edition. From the collection of
Doisneau’s former assistant, award-winning photographer
Peter Turnley.
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In praising the work of Robert Doisneau, MoMA curator
John Szarkowski particularly singled out images Doisneau
took for this 1960 edition of the French journal Le Point. Text
in French. This copy is from the collection of acclaimed
Newsweek photojournalist Peter Turnley and is signed by
him. After moving from America to Paris in the 1970s,
Turnley began his career as a photojournalist by working as
an assistant to Doisneau. Near-fine, with a distinctive
association.
“The Last Great Romantic Illustrator”
241. (DORÉ, Gustave). (LA FONTAINE, Jean de). Fables
of La Fontaine. London and New York, circa 1870. Thick
folio, contemporary full green morocco gilt. $2200.
Early edition, with frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine, 86
plates of illustrations and numerous in-text etchings by
Gustave Doré, beautifully bound.
Of Doré, “one can hardly deny that he is not merely one of the
most popular but also one of the greatest of all illustrators”
(Ray, 327-28). First published in French in 1867. Interior with
occasional foxing and embrowning, slight bowing to boards.
Handsome.
Signed By Norman Douglas
242. DOUGLAS, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek
Anthology. Florence, 1927. Octavo, original blue paper
boards, dust jacket. $600.
Signed limited first edition, one of 500 copies signed by
Norman Douglas.
In Birds and Beasts, independent writer and traveler Norman
Douglas compiles a witty assemblage of myths, anecdotes,
literary asides and the occasional recipe. Book fine, dust jacket
about-fine.
“The Most Famous Legal Case Involving Slavery”
243. (DRED SCOTT CASE) HOWARD, Benjamin C. A
Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United
States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case
of Dred Scott, versus John F.A. Sandford. New York, 1857.
Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco; pp. (4),
[393]-633, (1). $4500.
First edition of “one of the most important cases in American
constitutional history” (Hall), deciding “that Congress did
not have the power to prohibit slavery in the territories, and
that Negroes could not become citizens of the United States.”
“The Dred Scott decision was the most controversial decision
of the century, and perhaps in the history of the Court. The
famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 and the political
rhetoric of the 1860 presidential campaign centered largely on
the meaning and importance of Taney’s decision—that
Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in the
territories, and that Negroes could not become citizens of the
United States” (Finkelman, 43). This true first edition was
published by Benjamin Howard, reporter for the U.S. Supreme
Court, ordered by Congress and retaining the original
pagination and headnotes found in United States Reports.
Text slightly embrowned (as usual), minor shallow dampstain
to top margin, moderate rubbing to contemporary binding.
Extremely good.
Inscribed By Dreiser
244. DREISER, Theodore. The Titan. New York,
1914. Octavo, original blue-gray cloth, custom clamshell
box. $4000.
First edition, inscribed: “To W.W. Lang with my best wishes
Theodore Dreiser.”
Dreiser “relied on his own energetic research into the life of
his model, the street-railway magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes.
[Through] the fictional Frank Cowperwood... The Titan
details Cowperwood-Yerkes’s stock and street-railway
manipulations in Chicago and his long series of sexual
conquests. Harper’s, after having printed and advertised the
novel, backed out of publishing it, and Dreiser had to find
another publisher” (DAB 3, 236). “The Titan is, if anything,
somewhat scarcer than the two preceding Dreiser novels”
(McDonald 6). Near-fine.
Signed Limited Edition Of Dreiser’s
Masterpiece, An American Tragedy
245. DREISER, Theodore. An American Tragedy. New
York, 1925. Two volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter
beige cloth, slipcase. $2500.
Signed limited edition, one of 795 copies signed by Dreiser.
This special signed limited edition was issued shortly after the
first trade edition. Without original slipcase. Books fine,
chipping to fragile glassine; repair to joints of slipcase.
Inscribed Presentation Copy Of Dreiser’s
Financier, With Signature Of Financier Jay Cooke
246. DREISER, Theodore. The Financier. New York and
London, 1912. Octavo, early three-quarter red morocco gilt,
green morocco inlays. $3200.
First edition, inscribed: “To Maurice Hatton, For value to be
recieved [sic] - From Theodore Dreiser New York, June 21st
1913 and not too big.”
“The historic scope of his theme, the monumental architecture
of his story, and the exhaustiveness of his documentation
make The Financier the greatest business novel written in
America of its time—and probably of all time” (Lingeman,
281). With clipped signature of Jay Cooke, who figures in the
novel as a secondary character, attached to front flyleaf. In
writing The Financier Dreiser drew on a biography of Cooke,
prominent Philadelphia banker and Union financier during
the Civil War, as a model for its hero, Frank Cowperwood
(Lingeman, 276). Minor wear to handsome binding.
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Inscribed By Marcel
Duchamp, With A
Distinctive Reproduction Of His Masterpiece,
Large Glass, Printed On Clear Plastic
247. DUCHAMP, Marcel. Marchand du sel. Écrits de
Marcel Duchamp. [Salt Seller. Writings of Marcel
Duchamp]. Paris, 1958. Quarto, contemporary red cloth,
original wrappers bound in. $5500.
First edition, this copy warmly inscribed by Duchamp: “Pour
Irma et Arthur Harris, ce passé épicé du [title—Marchand du
Sel…] et áffectioneusement de Teeny et Marcel Duchamp,
April 1960” (For Irma and Arthur Harris, this long-past epic
of [title—Marchand du Sel…] affectionately from Teeny and
Marcel Duchamp), featuring a reproduction of Duchamp’s
“Large Glass” printed on clear plastic.
“The quintessence of the Dada spirit,” Marcel Duchamp
worked for over eight years on his greatest work, The Bride
Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, also known as The Large
Glass (New York Times). Throughout that period he kept notes
on scraps of paper, which were assembled in The Green Box
(1934) as a verbal complement to his masterpiece. Editor
Marcel Sanouillet includes that valuable record here, along
with additional writings, an extensive correspondence and
numerous illustrations, together with a folding reproduction
of Duchamp’s Large Glass tipped-in as issued on clear plastic.
First edition of the premiere volume in Sanouillet’s “Collection
‘391’”: one of 2000 copies on Alfa in an edition of 2050 (50 on
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 Auvergne published simultaneously). Duchamp’s warm
inscription plays on the title’s partial anagram of his name,
and also refers fondly to his second wife Alexina, best known
as “Teeny.” Text in French and English. About-fine.
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Ebers’ Great Illustrated History Of Egypt
248. EBERS, Georges. Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and
Picturesque. New York, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1882.
Two volumes. Folio, original pictorial brown cloth. $1500.
First edition in English of this monumental work in
Egyptology, profusely illustrated with over 70 full-page
wood-engravings and over 500 in-text illustrations of
decorative motifs, ancient ruins, biblical and historical
scenes, and contemporary Egypt.
This work, handsomely illustrated with
wood-engraved plates and in-text vignettes
of temples, pyramids, hieroglyphs and
scenes along the Nile, is part history, part
travelogue, and provides a fascinating view
of Egypt in the late 19th century. First
published in German in 1878. Fine.
“A Practical System Of Military
Science In The Early Years Of The
Republic”
249. DUANE, William. A Military
Dictionary… Philadelphia, 1810. painting of Edison, signed by him beneath
Thick octavo, contemporary full brown
sheep.  $1200.
First edition of Duane’s pioneering work in
“evolving a theoretical and practical
system of military science in the early years
of the republic.”
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William Duane, one of early America’s most colorful
publishers, was also a highly respected military strategist and
a valued friend of Jefferson. Shortly after immigrating to
America in 1796, Duane assumed publication of the
prestigious Philadelphia Aurora, a newspaper “frequently
mentioned in Jefferson’s correspondence” (Sowerby 544). By
the time he served in the War of 1812 as an adjutant general,
he had turned the Aurora into “the nation’s most influential
Republican paper” (ANB). Using his extensive military
training, Duane also devoted himself to launching a self-
published series on military history and strategy in 1809. This
scarce first edition of Duane’s encyclopedic Military Dictionary
represents the second work in “his pioneer efforts in evolving
a theoretical and practical system of military science in the
early years of the republic… an important phase of national
growth” (Vigman, Military Affairs). Light foxing, embrowning,
slight edge-wear, abrasions to contemporary binding.
Extremely good.
One Of The Earliest American Printings
On Education, Boston, 1749
250. (EDUCATION) [BURGH, James]. Thoughts on
Education. Boston, 1749. Slim octavo, modern half brown
morocco; pp. 63. $3500.
Rare first American edition of this important pamphlet
advocating the teaching of religion and morality to children.
A very early American publication on education.
“A manual popular in the American colonies” (Trevor
Colbourn), this work advocates a broad education in grammar,
Greek, Latin, French, drawing, music, geography, history and
mathematics, while stressing the compatibility of all these
with Christian education. First published
in London in 1747. Without half title.
Corner of G3 torn, embrowning to text,
binding fine. Handsome. Rare.
Photograph Of Thomas Edison,
Signed By Him
251. EDISON, Thomas Alva. Photograph
of an oil portrait signed. No place, circa
1930. Original photolithograph measuring
5-1/2 by 7 inches; stock measures 8 by 10
inches. $2500.
Photograph of a three-quarter profile oil
the image.
The painting reproduced here was
produced just a year or so before Edison’s
death. Fine.
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economics
Complete Run Of The Journal Of Economic
And Business History
252. (ECONOMICS) Journal of Economic and Business
History. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1928-32. Four volumes.
Thick octavo, 20th-century beige cloth. $1200.
Complete run of the Journal of Economic and Business
History, spanning the years 1928 to 1932.
Edited by Edwin S. Gay, the first dean of Harvard Business
School, and Professor N.S.B. Gras, who chaired the
Department of Business History at Harvard, this journal was
among the first to focus on the historical side of economics.
While it only ran for four years due to financial woes and
internal strife, this publication helped to establish business
history as a legitimate area of study and helped to bring
historians into the field of economics. Toning and slightest
soiling to spines. Attractive and desirable.
“No King Or Emperor, No Morgan Or
Rockefeller, Ever Had It So Good!”
253. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) CARRET, Philip L. The
Art of Speculation. New York, 1927. Octavo, original
burgundy cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
First edition of this classic guide to market speculation, in
rare original dust jacket.
Written just one year before Barron’s reporter and feature
writer Philip Carret founded the Pioneer Fund, one of the first
mutual funds, this valuable work provides important
information on the best and safest way to engage in financial
speculation. Lauded as “a hero of mine” by Warren Buffett,
Carret spent well over 70 years of his life tracking the financial
markets and engaging in common-sense investing. Near-fine.
Rare Presentation Copy Of Political And
Economic Democracy, Signed By 19 Members
Of The New School And Its University In Exile
254. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) ASCOLI, Max and
LEHMANN, Fritz, editors. Political and Economic
Democracy. New York, 1937. Octavo, original purple cloth,
dust jacket. $2500.
First edition, presentation copy, of this collection of 21 essays
by the most prominent scholars at the New School’s University
in Exile, signed by 17 of its faculty including Frieda
Wunderlich, Hans Speier, Fritz Lehmann, Arnold Brecht, as
well as New School presidents Hans Simons and Alvin
Johnson, with original faculty presentation card laid in.
An offshoot of the prestigious New School for Social Research,
the University in Exile was created in 1933 in order to take in
renowned European social science and economics scholars
who faced persecution by the Nazis prior to the start of World
War II. This exceptional copy has been signed by many of the
University in Exile’s leading scholars and all but one of the
authors whose essays appear in this work, including economists
Arthur Feiler, Gerhard Colm, Emil Lederer, Alfred Kahler,
Fritz Lehmann, Rudolf Littauer, Hans Staudinger, Karl Brandt,
and Eduard Heimann; social policy expert Frieda Wunderlich;
legal philosopher and author Max Ascoli; political scientist
Arnold Brecht; sociologists Hans Speier, Carl Mayer, and
Horace M. Kallen; linguist Roman Jakobson; psychologist
Max Wertheimer; and New School presidents Hans Simons
and Alvin Johnson. Very nearly fine. Rare.
Inscribed By Economist Garfield A. Drew
255. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) DREW, Garfield Albee.
New Methods for Profit in the Stock Market. Boston, 1954.
Octavo, original navy cloth, dust jacket. $1200.
Later edition of Drew’s analysis of methods for timing
stock market operations, with numerous charts and
graphs, inscribed by Drew using his nickname: “For Mark
Lesses with best wishes—from ‘Jeff’ (otherwise the author)
March 27, 1955.”
Garfield Drew discusses his theories for evaluating trends
and making profits in the stock market, many of which rely
on the relationship between popular psychology and stock
prices, as well as critically assessing a number of theories and
forecasting systems. Originally published in 1941 and revised
in 1948. Book with two small isolated areas of staining to
cloth, dust jacket with large chip and light dampstaining to
spine, wear and chipping to extremities, front flap detached.
Very good.
Inscribed By “The Father Of Monetary Economics”
256. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) FISHER, Irving.
Prohibition at its Worst. New York, 1926. Octavo, original
green cloth, dust jacket. $800.
First edition presentation copy, with numerous charts and
graphs, inscribed “To Ex Governor Carl E. Milliken with the
compliments of Irving Fisher. September, 1926.”
“Irving Fisher was, in the opinion of many, the leading
economic theorist in the United States during the first half of
the 20th century. Although his contributions to economic
theory and to the development of econometrics ensure him a
preeminent position among contemporary economists, he
was a versatile man. In his day he was equally well-known as
social philosopher… and passionate crusader for many social
causes” (DAB). This presentation copy is inscribed to Carl E.
Milliken, who, by the date of this inscription, had already left
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 the Maine governor’s mansion to return to his position as
Secretary of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors
Association (MPPDA). As the movie industry’s first self-
censorship body, the MPPDA forcefully pushed for
moviemakers to back prohibition in the many gangster and
bootlegging films of the period, a goal strongly aligned with
Fisher’s work. Near-fine.
Inscribed By Irving Fisher
257. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) FISHER, Irving.
The Money Illusion. New York, 1928. Octavo, later gray
cloth. $1500.
First edition, second printing, inscribed: “To Mr. Lee Cross
with the compliments of Irving Fisher. March, 1930.”
Based upon a series of lectures given at the Geneva School of
International Studies, this work analyzes the causes of
currency instability and the consequences for the public. Fine.
Very scarce.
“In The Retrospect It Is Easy To Appreciate
That Preliminary Symptoms Of The Crash
Were Not Lacking”
258. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) FISHER, Irving. The
Stock Market Crash—And After. New York, 1930. Octavo,
original red cloth. $750.
First edition of this important work tracing the causes and the
immediate aftermath of the 1929 Stock Market Crash.
In 1929, just before the crash, Fisher wrote that stock prices
had “reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”
However, Fisher’s perspective changed drastically post-crash
and he managed to salvage his reputation with the brilliant
understanding of the market’s machinations that he displayed
in this work, along with some inspired solutions for recovery.
Without very scarce dust jacket. Fine.
Signed By Robert Fogel
259. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) FOGEL, Robert
William. The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of
Egalitarianism. Chicago and London, 2000. Octavo, original
half black cloth, dust jacket. $650.
First edition of this “profound piece of intellectual history”
(Library Journal), signed by the Nobel-winning economist.
In 1993, Fogel, along with Douglass Hall, received the Nobel
Prize in Economics for developing “‘new economic history,’
or cliometrics, i.e. research that combines economic theory,
quantitative methods, hypothesis testing, counterfactual
alternatives and traditional techniques of economic history,
to explain economic growth and decline” (Nobel press
release). Fine.
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“America’s First Great Economist”
260. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) FISHER, Irving. The
Theory of Interest As Determined by Impatience to Spend
Income and Opportunity to Invest It. New York, 1930.
Octavo, original dark blue cloth. $1200.
First edition of one of the most significant works by America’s
first great economist.
Based on his own The Rate of Interest (1907) and building on
the works of John Rae and Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (to whom
the volume is dedicated), Fisher provided the “definitive”
solution to the nature of interest by proving that rates were
determined by the demand for production and consumption
loans on one hand and the supply of savings on the other
(Great Economists Before Keynes, 79). Furthermore, Fisher
employed statistical evidence that looks, even after six decades,
“strikingly modern” (Niehans, 275). The Theory of Interest
was a major departure from orthodox economics, which
relied upon the implications of Say’s Law that production
creates it own demand and that interest constituted a kind of
“rent.” Joseph Schumpeter called this work Fisher’s greatest
because it redefined interest as “impatience and opportunity”
and because it was basic to the monetarist view of the entire
capitalist system. With errata slip after p. xii. Paper clip
damage to margins of a few leaves, mild wear to cloth, spine
reinforced. Extremely good.
Hayek’s The Constitution Of Liberty
261. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) HAYEK, Friedrich A.
The Constitution of Liberty. Chicago, 1960. Octavo, original
brown cloth, dust jacket. $950.
First edition of Hayek’s groundbreaking work on monetary
theory and economic fluctuation.
Written for a general audience on the occasion of the
centennial of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, The Constitution
of Liberty provides “a positive statement of the principles of a
free society” and “a thorough exposition of a social philosophy
which ranges from ethics and anthropology through
jurisprudence and the modern welfare state.” Book fine,
price-clipped dust jacket very nearly so.
“Perhaps The Most Influential Work In
Economic History Of The 20th Century”
262. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) FRIEDMAN, Milton
and SCHWARTZ, Anna Jacobson. A Monetary History of
the United States 1867-1960. Princeton, 1964. Octavo,
original green cloth, dust jacket. $600.
Second printing of this classic history of American money
and economics.
“Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz’s A Monetary History
of the United States 1867-1960 is perhaps the most influential
work in economic history of the 20th century. The book, a
perfect combination of historical narrative, empirical work,
and theoretical analysis, was the major force in refocusing the
economics profession’s thinking about the importance of
money in generating cyclical fluctuations. It also showed how
the severity of the Great Depression was in large part due to
the mistakes of the Federal Reserve” (Cato Institute). The first
edition was published in 1963. Book fine, price-clipped dust
jacket near-fine.
“Among The Very Greatest Of Economists”
263. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) JEVONS, W. Stanley.
Money and the Mechanism of Exchange. London, 1875.
Small octavo, original red cloth. $2600.
First edition of Jevons’ “most readable” account of the
manufacture, use and regulation of money.
Jevons has been described by Stigler as the “forerunner of
neo-classical economics,” by Marshall as “among the very
greatest of economists,” and by Schumpeter as “one of the
most genuinely original economists who ever lived.”
Infrequent faint foxing to text, cloth with only modest rubbing
to ends of slightly darkened spine. Extremely good.
264. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) JEVONS, W. Stanley.
The Principles of Economics. London, 1905. Octavo, original
brick cloth. $2000.
First edition of this posthumously published volume, including
some essays printed here for the first time.
In this book, Jevons sets out the mathematical principles of
his Theory of Political Economy of 1871 in plain language for
the general reader. Not completed before his untimely death
in 1882, it was published from posthumous papers, edited by
Henry Higgs, who added a preface and four essays, published
previously in periodicals or hitherto unpublished. Near-fine.
The Most Influential Economic Treatise Of
The 20th Century
265. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) KEYNES, John
Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest
and Money. London, 1936. Octavo, original blue- events, the first book by acclaimed Wall Street writer Edwin
green cloth. $1500.
First edition of Keynes’ last major work, the most influential
economic treatise of the 20th century.
The General Theory ranks with the Wealth of Nations as an
intellectual event and with Malthus’ Essay on Population as a
guide to public policy. “The world-wide slump after 1929
prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, and new
methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle. First
in A Treatise on Money, 1930, and later in his General Theory,
he subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school
of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and found them
seriously inadequate and inaccurate” (PMM 423). Without
rare dust jacket. Bookplate. Bookseller ticket. Fine.
“Made Its Author World Famous Overnight”
266. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) KEYNES, John
Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
London, 1919. Octavo, original blue cloth. $1250.
First edition of Keynes’ second book, which established his
worldwide reputation.
“A devastating critique of the peace treaty and a brilliant piece
of writing. It made its author world famous overnight. He was
now the most influential financial journalist, an opinion
leader governments had to reckon with” (Niehans, 347).
Without scarce original dust jacket. Faint soiling and slight
rubbing to original cloth. Extremely good.
Keynes On War Economics
267. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) KEYNES, John
Maynard. How to Pay for the War. London, 1940. Octavo,
original green paper boards. $600.
First edition of Keynes’ economic plan for World War II.
Shortly after Great Britain entered World War II, Keynes
published How to Pay for the War. “The plan was simple—a
portion of every wage earner’s pay would automatically be
invested in government bonds that would not be available for
redemption until after the war” (Heilbroner, 282). “This little
book is of a great theoretical as well as practical interest”
(Harrod). Toning to extremities, slightest rubbing to spine
ends. Very good.
“He Who Sells What Isn’t His’n Must Buy It
Back Or Go To Pris’n”
268. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) LEFÈVRE, Edwin.
Wall Street Stories. New York, 1901. Octavo, original black
cloth. $3200.
First edition of this collection of short stories inspired by real
Lefèvre.
“Eight tales of the habits and customs of Wall Street. Some are
thinly-veiled portraits of well-known Wall Street characters
such as James R. Keene and Daniel Drew” (Hess Collection).
A mining engineer turned journalist, Edwin Lefèvre was
known for his close attention to the major players on Wall
Street. His books, Reminiscences of a Stockbroker and The
Making of a Stockbroker in particular, have become stock
market classics, much sought after for their literary merit,
their insight into Wall Street history, and the financial
observations they contain. The first story in this collection,
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 “The Lady and Her Bonds,” was the basis for Lefèvre’s later
novel, Sampson Rosk of Wall Street. These stories originally
appeared in McClure’s Magazine during 1900. Fine.
First Edition Of Lefèvre’s The Plunderers
269. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) LEFÈVRE, Edwin. The
Plunderers. New York and London, 1916. Octavo, original
red cloth. $1850.
First edition of this adaptation of Robin Hood, in which the
rich are recast as the greedy business tycoons of early 20th-
century New York.
This four-part novel tracks the exploits of The Plunder
Recovery Syndicate, a group Lefèvre invented for the sole
purpose of recovering “plunder taken from unidentified
individuals by malefactors of great wealth.” Light wear to
spine ends, mild toning to spine. Exceptionally good.
One Of The Most Important Works In
Modern Economics
270. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) MALTHUS, Thomas
Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population… London,
1806. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter
brown calf gilt. $2200.
Third edition of one of the landmark works in economics—four
times larger than the first edition.
“Malthus was one of the founders of modern economics. His
Essay was originally the product of a discussion on the
perfectibility of society with his father, [who] urged him to
publish. Thus the first edition (published anonymously) was
essentially a fighting tract, but later editions were considerably
altered and grew bulkier as Malthus defended his views
against a host of critics... The Essay was highly influential in
the progress of thought in early 19th-century Europe [and]
his influence on social policy was considerable... Both Darwin
and Wallace clearly acknowledged Malthus as a source of the
idea of ‘the struggle for existence’” (PMM 251). Excision from
title pages of both volumes, removing the word “Essay” from
title page of Volume I, only scattered light foxing, minor
rubbing and sunning to contemporary calf.
“Among The Half Dozen Or So Most Important
Figures In The Long History Of Economics”
271. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) MARSHALL, Alfred.
Money, Credit & Commerce. London, 1923. Octavo, original
green cloth. $1100.
First edition, by one of the most important turn-of-the-
century economists.
The third of a series by Marshall, succeeding Principles of
Economics (1890) and Industry and Trade (1919), this work
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“contains a quantity of materials and ideas, and collects
together passages which are otherwise inaccessible to the
student or difficult to access” (Keynes, Essays in Biography).
Without scarce original dust jacket. Near-fine.
First Complete English Translation
Of Marx’s Capital
272. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) MARX, Karl. Capital:
A Critique of Political Economy. Chicago, 1906-09. Three
volumes. Thick octavo, original maroon cloth. $2800.
First complete edition in English, considered by many to be
the definitive English edition, including the first volume
written by Marx and the second and third volumes written by
Frederich Engels from Marx’s notes.
“It is doubtful that any figure in history has inspired more
violently contradictory opinions than Karl Marx” (Downs,
22). Upon publication of Marx’s masterpiece in Hamburg,
1867, the International Working Men’s Association passed a
resolution officially describing Das Kapital as the “Bible of the
working class.” Only the first volume was completed and
published in Marx’s lifetime; the remainder of the work was
later constructed by Engels from Marx’s posthumous papers.
Near-fine.
“A Picture Of Human Life So Wonderful,
So Awful…” (Thackeray)
273. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) MAYHEW, Henry.
London Labour and the London Poor. London, circa 1864.
Three volumes. Octavo, original purple cloth gilt. $2000.
Early edition of Mayhew’s important Victorian-era exposé,
richly illustrated with 79 full-page engravings.
A founder of Punch, Mayhew was “the first to strike out the
line of philanthropic journalism which takes the poor of
London as its theme. His principal work… was London
Labour and London Poor, a series of articles, anecdotic and
statistical, on the petty trades of London” (DNB). Originally
issued in 63 parts and first published in book form in 1851. All
volumes neatly recased in original cloth bindings, expert
restoration to spine ends and corners. Extremely good.
“Certain Qualities Are Needed By All Who
Make Securities Their Concern: Patience,
Ability To Keep One’s Head, Willingness
To Learn, But Above All, Common Sense”
274. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) MORTON, James P.
When to Sell to Assure Profits. New York, 1926. Octavo,
original limp navy cloth. $750.
First edition of this book about when to liquidate securities in
order to realize maximum profits.
Intended as an auxiliary to The Magazine of Wall Street and
published just three years before the stock market crash, this
important book focused on the specific issue of helping both
investors determine when to sell stocks at a time of record
participation in the market. Morton divided his practical,
level-headed advice into separate categories based on whether
it was appropriate for bulls or for bears, making this work
valuable to every type of investor, especially those with heavily
diversified holdings or both short- and long-term investment
goals. Fine.
Inscribed And Signed By Robert Rhea
275. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) RHEA, Robert. The
Dow Theory. An Explanation of its Development and an
Attempt to Define its Usefulness as an Aid in Speculation.
New York, 1932. Octavo, original navy cloth. $1200.
First edition, second printing (published the same year as the
first printing), of this important Dow Theory text, inscribed:
“To Marion with the best wishes from the compiler of these
notes. Bob Rhea. July 12, 1933.”
“Rhea is properly credited as the man who traced Dow Theory
implications better than any other… Taking all that he had
learned as a student of William Peter Hamilton, he
transformed it into a book that has become the cornerstone
of any serious study of Dow Theory. Rhea’s seamless weaving
of Hamilton and Dow’s words into a thorough explanation of
the theory’s implications gives any reader a full opportunity
to start their journey of exposure to Dow Theory” (The Dow
Theory Project). The first printing of this book was issued the
same year. Near-fine.
Wealth Of Nations, Important 1805 Edition
276. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) SMITH, Adam. An
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations. London, 1805. Three volumes. Octavo, modern full
tan speckled calf gilt. $3500.
Eleventh edition of Smith’s landmark work, with important
supplementary notes by William Playfair, handsomely
bound.
“Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two
centuries to explore, Smith’s achievement was to bring the
study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work.
The Wealth of Nations is not a system, but as a provisional
analysis it is completely convincing. The certainty of its
criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first
and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (PMM
221). Scottish economist William Playfair attempted to apply
Smith’s economic theories to actual economic history,
specifically as it related to the French revolution, which
Playfair witnessed first-hand. Fine.
Inscribed From Nobel Prize-Winning
Economist George Stigler To Fellow
Nobel Laureate Ted Schultz
277. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) STIGLER, George J.
Essays in the History of Economics. Chicago and London,
1965. Octavo, original burgundy cloth, dust jacket. $950.
First edition, inscribed from Nobel Prize-winning economist
George Stigler to fellow Nobel Prize laureate Ted Schultz: “To
Ted Schultz from an admiring colleague, George Stigler.”
George Stigler was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1982 “for his
seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of
markets and causes and effects of public regulation.” Schultz,
who was chairman of the Department of Economics at the
University of Chicago (Stigler taught at the School of Business
there), had been co-awarded the Nobel Prize three years
earlier with Arthur Lewis for “pioneering research into
economic development research with particular consideration
of the problems of developing countries.” Near-fine.
Inscribed By George Stigler To
Economist James Lorie
278. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) STIGLER, George J.
The Economist as Preacher and Other Essays. Chicago,
1982. Octavo, original orange cloth, dust jacket. $850.
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Stigler to
respected economist James Lorie in the year of publication,
the same year Stigler received the Nobel Prize: “To James
Lorie, A sinner if ever there was one, these sermons are
offered. George Stigler. 12/3/82.”
“A major intellectual force behind one of the most influential
schools of thought in economics, the Chicago School” (ANB),
Stigler was the author of nearly 30 books, among them three
collections of essays written for the general public, including
The Economist as Preacher. “There [the intelligent layman]
will find a potpourri of wit and seriousness blended with a
high writing style” (Demsetz, 218:656). The recipient of this
copy, James Lorie, established the Center for Research in
Security Prices at the University of Chicago. His work in
charting the history of stock prices made it possible to analyze
long-range market performance and allowed for the creation
of index funds. While at Chicago, Lorie helped to build the
Graduate School of Business and recruited Stigler for its
faculty. Fine.
“If Anyone Tells You They Can Almost Be
Invariably Successful, Put Him Down As
Trying To Impose On Your Credulity”
279. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) WYCKOFF, Richard D.
How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds. New York,
1922. Octavo, original limp blue morocco. $2500.
First edition, by the originator of the “Wyckoff method.”
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 A noted Wall Street trader and the editor of The Magazine of
Wall Street, Wyckoff’s method was an attempt to combine
hard data with a sense of investor psychology to predict when
the market would turn. Light sunning and wear to extremities.
Very good.
Wall Street Ventures And Adventures
280. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE)
WYCKOFF, Richard D. Wall Street
Ventures and Adventures through Forty
Years Illustrated. New York and London,
1930. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust
jacket. $3800.
First edition of Wyckoff’s autobiography,
with 35 illustrations and one folding
facsimile.
In this autobiography focusing on his 40
years on Wall Street, Wyckoff reveals the
inner workings of the New York Stock
Market and offers insight into the characters
and financial secrets of such men as J.P.
Morgan, Jesse Livermore, and E.H. Harriman. Included is a
wealth of fascinating and useful financial information about
market manipulation, market forecasting, stock trends, and
much more. Book with minor foxing to rear board, dust
jacket with moderate soiling and light rubbing to extremities.
Extremely good.
Signed Copy Of Harold 281
Edgerton’s Moments Of Vision,
With Separate Signed Print Of
His Famous “Drop Of Milk”
281. EDGERTON, Harold E. and
KILLIAN, James R. Moments of
Vision: The Stroboscopic Revolution
in Photography. Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1979. Oblong quarto,
original black cloth, dust jacket, wrap-
around band. ISSUED WITH:
Original signed “chromagenic” print,
measuring 6 by 7 inches, mat measures
11-1/2 by 9 inches, plexiglass slipcase,
custom clamshell box.  $3500.
“Special Edition” of this engaging
visual documentary of arrested motion
using multi-flash photography, signed both Edgerton and
Killian, and accompanied by an original color print of
Edgerton’s “A Drop of Milk,” one of the most famous
photographic images, signed by him.
This volume chronicles the history and achievements of
Edgerton’s pioneering work in the fields of stroboscopy and
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electronic flash photography, “revealing to us phenomena
never before visible.” His newly-invented stroboscope allowed
him to take split-second pictures of objects in motion,
including bullets and hummingbirds in flight, light bulbs
shattering, and athletes in action. In his
famous “A Drop of Milk,” he tried to
produce a perfect coronet from a single
drop of milk falling into liquid. Fine.
Inscribed Publisher’s Presentation
Copy: The Doniphan Expedition
282. EDWARDS, Frank S. A Campaign
in New Mexico with Colonel Doniphan…
London, 1848. Octavo, original green
cloth. $2600.
First English edition, publisher’s
presentation copy, inscribed: “J.B. Hyde
Esqr With Mr Hodson’s Compliments.” An
excellent copy in original cloth.
“The most entertaining account of the
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Doniphan expedition” (Streeter I:164), in
which Alexander Doniphan, organizer of the First Regiment
of the Missouri Mounted Volunteers, joined them with the
Army of the West, took control of Santa Fe, secured peace
with the Navajo, and then moved on to engage 1200 Mexicans
at the Bracito River on Christmas Day. After a fierce battle in
which only seven Americans were
lost, his troops fought their way to
Mexico. “Contains much important
material concerning General Houston
and Western Texas” (Soliday I:761).
Bottom half-inch of title page excised,
inner paper hinges split, light wear to
original cloth. Extremely good.
Warmly Inscribed By
Eisenhower
283. EISENHOWER, Dwight.
Crusade in Europe. Garden City,
1952. Thick octavo, original tan
cloth, cartographic endpapers, dust
jacket. $1200.
Early edition, warmly inscribed: “To
Jo Prehy with lasting appreciation of
many landmines and with best
wishes. Dwight D. Eisenhower.”
The first edition was published in 1948. Book fine, price-
clipped dust jacket extremely good with light wear mainly to
corners and only slight soiling.
Eisenhower’s White House Memoirs,
Signed In Both Volumes
284. EISENHOWER, Dwight D. The White House Years:
Mandate for Change, 1953-56; Waging Peace, 1956-61. New
York, 1963-65. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original tan cloth,
uncut, slipcases. $3600.
Signed limited first editions, each one of 1500 copies signed by
Eisenhower.
Volume I without original acetate dust jacket. Volume I near-
fine, Volume II fine.
“One Of The Few English Novels
Written For Grown-Up People”
285. ELIOT, George. Middlemarch, a
Study of Provincial Life. Edinburgh and
London, 1871-72. Four volumes. Octavo,
early 20th century full polished tan calf
gilt.  $4500.
First edition in book form of one of the
classics of English literature, complete with
all half titles, beautifully bound by Riviere
and Son. Fine.
Signed By T.S. Eliot
286. ELIOT, T.S. A Song for Simeon.
London, 1928. Octavo, original gray paper
boards, glassine. $1400.
Signed limited large paper edition, one of
only 500 copies signed by the Eliot.
A Song for Simeon, one of Eliot’s “lyrical meditations on
religious themes” (Hamilton, 148), appears as Number 16 in
Faber & Gwyer’s series of Ariel Poems, and features a lovely
color illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Published 30 days
after the first edition; not published separately in the United
States. With scarce original glassine. Fine.
The Culminating Work Of Eliot’s Later Career
287. ELIOT, T.S. The Four Quartets. London, 1940-42. Four
volumes. Octavo, original green, yellow, blue, and mauve paper
wrappers, custom half morocco clamshell box. $3200.
First separately published editions of each of Eliot’s Four
Quartets, in their original paper wrappers.
Eliot’s celebrated Four Quartets made their first appearances
between 1936 and 1942. “Burnt Norton,” based upon lines
Eliot excised from his verse drama Murder in the Cathedral,
was first published in the poet’s Collected Poems (1936). Later,
Eliot decided that “Burnt Norton” should not stand alone
and began composing three additional “quartets,” the poems
aspiring to the structured, harmonious condition of music.
These—“East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” “Little Gidding”—
appeared in the journal New English Weekly in 1940, 1941
and 1942 respectively. Faber and Faber then published each
separately in pamphlet form to make the first collection of
the Four Quartets as a uniform set. Although separately
issued, the Four Quartets as finally realized are parts of a
unified work loosely based upon the scheme of the four
seasons and the four elements. Named after American or
English villages and landscapes, the poems are meditations
upon conflict and peace, poetry and philosophy, time and
eternity. The first of Eliot’s poems to reach
a wide public, their celebration of England
and Anglicanism was seen as a unifying
force in the besieged England of World
War Two. Faint embrowning to wrappers,
“East Coker” wrappers with expert repair
to spine, small loss to rear wrapper.
Excellent condition.
Camden’s History Of
Elizabeth I, 1688
288. (ELIZABETH I) CAMDEN,
William. The History of The most
Renowned and Victorious Princess
Elizabeth, Late Queen of England…
London, 1688. Small folio, period-style
full paneled brown calf. $2500.
1688 edition of Camden’s important
history of Elizabeth I, “among the best
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historical productions which have yet been
composed by an Englishman” (Hume), with splendid engraved
frontispiece portrait of Queen Elizabeth by Robert White.
This “most exquisite history” (Lowndes, 358) by the greatest
Renaissance historian of England, granted William Camden
“claim to be considered as the founder, not merely of
antiquarian studies, but also of the study of modern history”
(PMM 101). Camden’s “friend and patron, Lord Burleigh, had
in 1597, a year before his death, urged Camden to compile a
history of the reign of Elizabeth. His lordship had carefully
noted the events and actors of the time, and his information
and literary records were of invaluable assistance to the
historian.” Although the first part of his work was published
in Latin in 1615, Camden requested that the final part be
published posthumously. The English translation of the first
part appeared in 1625 and the second part in 1629. In his
History of England, Hume notes that this work “is written
with simplicity of expression, very rare in that age, and with a
regard to truth. It would not, perhaps, be too much to affirm
that it is among the best historical productions which have yet
been composed by any Englishman.” This is the fifth complete
edition in English. Near-fine.
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 Including Emerson’s Celebrated Essay
On Self-Reliance
289. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Essays. Boston, 1841.
12mo, period-style full brown calf gilt. $2600.
First edition of Emerson’s first series of essays, very handsomely
bound.
“Timeless, and without a trace of ‘dating,’ these essays are as
readable, and to a considerable extent as much read, today as
a hundred years ago” (Grolier 100 American 47). The first
series, which contains 12 essays, includes Emerson’s celebrated
“Self-Reliance,” as well as essays on love, friendship, heroism,
the over-soul, the intellect and art. Fine.
Signed By Crewmen Of The Enola Gay
And Bock’s Car
290. (ENOLA GAY). Photograph inscribed. No place,
no date. Black-and-white photograph, measuring 8 by 9
inches. $800.
Iconic photograph of the mushroom cloud that rose over
Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, signed by seven crewmen from
the Enola Gay and the Bock’s Car missions. Fine.
“A Library Of Western Americana Is Incomplete
Without It”: Emory’s Exploration Of The
Southwest, With Important Large Folding Map
291. EMORY, William H. Notes of a Military
Reconnaissance… Washington, 1848. Thick octavo, modern
half brown morocco gilt. $3000.
First edition, House issue, complete with the important large
map not issued in all copies (measuring 32 by 64 inches), 42
lithographic plates of Native Americans, Southwest
landscapes, flora and fauna, and three battle plans (one
folding). Issued with the 24 additional plates from Albert’s
reports. “A library of Western Americana is incomplete
without it” (Zamorano 80).
“The War with Mexico enormously stimulated the production
of maps depicting that country and its borderlands... Of the
greatest interest and importance is the cartographic
contribution resulting from the march of U.S. Army forces
into the American Southwest, and thence to the Pacific... The
route continued fairly well known on to Santa Fe. Beyond that
point it was through virtually unexplored country... no officer
of the Corps had ever been south of the Colorado River. It was
the task of Emory and his companions to map this southern
route to the Pacific... The map of Lieutenant Emory... is a
document of towering significance in the cartographic history
of the West... It tied the country together on a route at its
extreme south, and was to be of great value when the boundary
of the United States and Mexico was traced a few years later”
(Wheat III:3-8). The important large folding Emory map was
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included in only some copies. Emory’s journal also “provided
some of the first scientific information of the new territories
gained from Mexico” (Basic Texas Books 57). This House
issue is the first to include the 24 additional plates from
Albert’s New Mexico reconnaissance and the Albert, Cooke
and Johnston reports, none of which were present in the
Senate issue. Archival tape repairs to large folding map, only
occasional light foxing to plates, scattered foxing to text.
Extremely good.
“The First To Use The Subway As
A Lens On Society”
292. EVANS, Walker. Many Are Called. Boston, 1966.
Square octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
First edition of this classic photobook capturing “Walker
Evans’ search for the real” (Roth), featuring introductory
essay by James Agee, with 89 full-page black-and-white
photogravures that investigate “the very process of
photographing” (Parr & Badger).
“Most scholars agree that Walker Evans… was the first to use
the subway as a lens on society. From 1938 to 1941, he took
some 600 photographs of passengers, although the work was
unknown to the public until 1966” (New York Times). In Many
Are Called, Evans “investigated the very process of
photographing, by making spontaneous, improvised images
for which he relinquished as much control as he could to the
camera itself” (Parr & Badger I:253). Faint rubbing to original
cloth, scarce unrestored dust jacket with some edge-wear,
creasing to rear panel, and several tiny closed tears at seams.
Extremely good.
“An Invaluable Record Of The Period”
293. EVELYN, John. Diary and Correspondence of John
Evelyn. London, 1854. Four volumes. Octavo, 20th-century
three-quarter brown calf gilt. $1200.
Mid 19th-century edition of Evelyn’s diaries and
correspondence, with three engraved plates and a folding
genealogical chart, handsomely bound.
“Evelyn is the typical instance of the accomplished and
public-spirited country gentleman of the Restoration” (DNB).
Chiefly remembered for his Diary, first published in 1818, this
work “covers most of his life, describing his travels abroad, his
contemporaries, and his public and domestic concerns, and is
an invaluable record of the period” (Drabble, 189). Fine.
Olivia Saves The Circus, Signed By Ian Falconer
294. FALCONER, Ian. Olivia Saves the Circus. New York,
2001. Quarto, original black cloth, slipcase. $1200.
Signed limited first edition, one of 250 copies, of the second
book in Falconer’s delightful series, signed by the author-
illustrator. Fine.
“Blanche—She Won’t Be Here Any More.
She’s—She’s Going Away”
295. FARRELL, Henry. What Ever Happened to Baby
Jane? New York and Toronto, 1960. Octavo, original black
paper boards, dust jacket.  $750.
First edition of Henry Farrell’s first novel, basis for the classic
1962 film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Fine.
Spartacus, Signed By Howard Fast
296. FAST, Howard. Spartacus. New
York, 1951. Octavo, original rust cloth, dust
jacket. $950.
First edition, signed by Fast. Blacklisted for
Communist activities, Fast was unable to find a
commercial publisher for his historical novel
about the slave who led the Gladiatorial War
(73-71 BC) against Rome. The book was a great
success, and “may be the only self-published
bestseller in recent publishing history”
(Contemporary Novelists, 436). The 1960
premiere of Kubrick’s Oscar-winning film
adaptation broke the Hollywood blacklist by
awarding on-screen credit to its blacklisted
screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Book fine, dust
jacket very good with several tape repairs to recto. Desirable.
Signed By Faulkner
297. FAULKNER, William. Idyll in the Desert. New York,
1931. Octavo, original marbled red paper boards. $2500.
Signed limited first edition, one of 400 copies signed by
Faulkner. Without scarce original glassine. Light edge-wear,
front joint expertly repaired. Extremely good.
Signed By Faulkner
298. FAULKNER, William. Requiem For A Nun. New
York, 1951. Octavo, original three-quarter black cloth gilt,
acetate. $2000.
Signed limited first edition of the sequel to Sanctuary, one of
only 750 copies signed by Faulkner. Fine.
Fine Signed Limited First Edition Of Faulkner’s
Pulitzer Prize-Winner
299. FAULKNER, William. A Fable. New York, 1954.
Octavo, original blue cloth, slipcase. $3000.
Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 copies signed by
Faulkner.
Faulkner won the Pulitzer Prize for this 1954 novel-length
parable of mutiny and false armistice in World War I. Without
original glassine. Bookplate of noted science fiction author
Robert J. Leman, an avid book collector with a particular
affinity for Faulkner. Mild toning to slipcase. Book fine.
“Of All Human Pursuits,
Murder Has The Most Deadly Need Of Privacy”
300. FAULKNER, William. Intruder in the Dust. New
York, 1948. Octavo, original black cloth,
dust jacket. $850.
First edition of Faulkner’s first novel
published since 1940.
Book fine, near-fine dust jacket with light
edge-wear and minor soiling to rear panel.
“Rich, Sinister, And Furious”
301. FAULKNER, William. Light in
August. New York, 1932. Octavo, original
beige cloth, dust jacket. $4500.
First edition of one of Faulkner’s most
powerful and ambitious novels. Book fine,
dust jacket with very light restoration.
Lovely.
300
Faulkner’s Pylon, First Edition
302. FAULKNER, William. Pylon. New York, 1935. Octavo,
original blue cloth, dust jacket. $2800.
First trade edition. About-fine.
Signed Limited First Edition
Of Notes On A Horsethief
303. FAULKNER, William. Notes on a Horsethief.
Greenville, Mississippi, 1950. Slim octavo, original pictorial
green cloth. $2200.
Signed limited first edition, one of 975 copies signed by
Faulkner. About-fine.
Faulkner’s Hunting Stories
304. FAULKNER, William. Big Woods. New York, 1955.
Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $600.
First edition of this illustrated collection of Faulkner’s hunting
stories.
In this collection, Faulkner connected four previously
published stories—“The Bear,” “The Old People,” “A Bear
Hunt” and “Race at Morning”—“with lyrical passages, mostly
drawn from published sources, but evocatively revised and
structured”(Parini, 371-72). Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
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 Nine Rare Articles On The Theory Of Relativity,
1920-1929
305. FEIGL, Herbert. “Theorie und Erfahrung in der
Physik,” Baden, 1929. BOUND WTH: REICHENBACH,
Hans. “Kausalstruktur der Welt und der Unterschied von
Vergangenheit und Zukunft,” Munich, 1925, AND
“Relativitätstheorie und Erkenntnis apriori,” Berlin,
1920. BOUND WITH: BERGMANN, Hugo. “Der Kampf
um das Kausalgesetz in der jünsten Physik,” 1929;
GATTERER, Alois S.J. “Das Problem des statistischen
Naturgesetzes,” 1924; KNESER, Adolf. “Das Prinzip der
kleinsten Wirkung von Leibniz bis zur Gegenwart,” 1928;
LOHR, Erwin. “Atomismus und Kontinuitätstheorie in
der neuzeitlichen Physik,” 1926; NUNN, T. Percy.
“Anthropomorphism and Physics,” 1926; LIPSIUS,
Friedrich Reinhard. “Wahrheit und Irrtum in der
Relativitätstheorie,” 1927. Octavo, contemporary green
cloth, original wrappers bound in. $3200.
First editions of articles by Herbert Feigl, Hans Reichenbach,
and six other leading scientists and philosophers, offering
distinctive approaches to Einstein’s revolutionary work on
relativity, each originally published in German, Austrian
and English scientific journals (eight in German and one in
English) from 1920 to 1929, and bound in one volume.
At the time of Einstein’s pioneering work on relativity, the
most influential Austrian and German groups also exploring
that field were known as the “Vienna Circle,” whose members
included Herbert Feigl, and the “Berlin Circle,” led by Hans
Reichenbach. Feigl, who played a foundational role in
establishing logical positivism, would soon emigrate to the
United States in the early 1930s. His article included here,
“Der Kampf…,” was later translated and published with his
collected writings in 1980. Another key figure in establishing
the disciplinary importance of the philosophy of science,
Hans Reichenbach was “one of the five to attend Einstein’s
first seminar in relativity theory at the University of Berlin”
and took a professorship there largely due to “Einstein’s
persistent and witty pleading” (DSB). The two Reichenbach
articles here represent his early but continuing expression of
an anti-Kantian premise, one that theorized probability as an
alternative to Kant’s notion of synthetic a priori knowledge.
Reichenbach’s “Relativitätstheorie und Erkenntnis apriori”
was translated into English and published as “The Theory of
Relativity and A Priori Knowledge” in 1965. Along with
Reichenbach and Feigl, Hugo Bergmann and Alois Gatterer
also wrote on the freshly contested theorizations of time and
causality inspired by Einstein. The article by Adolf Kneser,
“The Principle of the Smallest Effect from Leibniz to the
Present,” represents another milestone in the history of
science by “one of the most distinguished German
mathematicians” of the turn-of-the-century. An acknowledged
“master of analysis,” Kneser’s survey bridges a gap between
the previous scope of mathematics and its newly configured
role in physics (DSB). The volume’s concluding articles by
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Erwin Lohr, T. Percy Nunn and Friedrich Lipsius offer
additional perspectives on Einstein’s revolutionary theory.
Each article comprised an entire issue of the journal in which
it appeared, and is bound here in its original wrappers. Typed
table of contents attached to front free endpaper. Near-fine.
Fenelon’s Telemachus, Extra-Illustrated With
69 Engraved Plates, 11 Hand-Colored
306. FENELON, Francois de la Salignac de la Mothe. The
Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses. From the
French of Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, Archbishop of
Cambray, by the late John Hawkesworth, LL.D. London,
1795. Two Volumes Bound in One. Large quarto, 19th-century
full polished brown calf gilt. $3500.
Early edition of Hawkesworth’s notable English translation of
Fenelon’s Telemachus, extra-illustrated, one of the most
important works of the Enlightenment, containing 11 hand-
colored, engraved plates after Stothard and Burney, along
with one engraving after Picart, with an additional 57
engraved plates, handsomely bound.
“Fenelon’s Télémaque has been described as the first prose-
poem in French” (Harvey & Heseltine, 698). In its reworking
of the Homeric legend, Telemachus became “the most widely
read literary work in 18th-century France” (Vidal, Art
Bulletin). The first printing of Hawkesworth’s translation
appeared in 1768 and his “is still considered the best English
version. It is one of the most spirited and valuable in our
language” (Lowndes, 787). This splendid, extra-illustrated
volume contains 69 engraved plates: ten hand-colored
engravings after Stothard and one after Burney, along with
one striking engraving by Barlow after Picart, with an
additional 57 engravings after Corbould, Debrie, Christall
and others. With biography of Fenelon, two pages of
advertisement in front; without index. Near-fine.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
307. FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
London, 1963. Octavo, original dark gray cloth, dust
jacket. $900.
First trade edition of the eleventh Bond novel. Near-fine.
“A Naked Arm Smelling Of Chanel No. 5 Snaked
Round His Neck…”
308. FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun.
London, 1965. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First edition, published the year after Fleming’s death.
Second-issue binding without gilt-embossed gun on front
cover, as usual; the first-issue binding is extremely rare. Biondi
& Pickard, 50. Near-fine.
“To Begin With He Was Ashamed Of Himself—
A Rare State Of Mind”
309. FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London, 1961. Octavo,
original black cloth, dust jacket. $1000.
First edition of the ninth Bond novel. Near-fine.
“If Anyone Can Bring It Off, You Can.
Care To Have A Try, James?”
310. FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964.
Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $600.
First edition, second state, of the 12th James Bond nove1, the
last published in Fleming’s lifetime. Second state, no priority
established. Fine.
Flinders’ Monumental Circumnavigation Of
Australia, Rare First Edition, Large-Paper Issue
311. FLINDERS, Matthew. A Voyage to Terra Australis…
London, 1814. Two text volumes only. Large quarto, period-
style three-quarter tan morocco gilt. $7000.
Extraordinarily rare large-paper first edition of the landmark
account of the first circumnavigation of Australia, with nine
full-page engraved plates, handsomely bound.
In an epic voyage that lasted from 1801 to 1803, Matthew
Flinders led a crew that became the first to successfully
circumnavigate the island then known as New Holland. In
April, five months after the English arrived in New Holland,
they encountered a French crew under the command of
Nicholas Baudin at a location that would later become known
as Encounter Bay. Although their countries were at war, they
exchanged information about what they had discovered. After
Flinders’ HMS Investigator finished its journey around New
Holland at Sydney (then Port Jackson) in June 1803, winning
the race around the continent, he wrote to Sir Joseph Banks,
urging that the entire land mass be named Australia. However,
without the daring sailing and exploration by both the English
and the French, the Southern and Western parts of Australia
never could have been settled so efficiently. These two volumes
of text were originally published in both large-paper and
normal issues; the present copy is the preferred large-paper
issue. Without the scarce folio atlas volume. Without half
titles. Near-fine.
312
Taps At Reveille In Scarce Dust Jacket
312. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. New York,
1935. Octavo, original dark green cloth, dust jacket. $5800.
First edition, first state, of the last collection of Fitzgerald’s
short stories published during his life, in scarce first-state dust
jacket. One of only 5100 copies printed.
Book about-fine, scarce dust jacket very good
with expert reinforcement to folds, spine
slightly darkened, some light edgewear.
“So We Beat On, Boats Against The
Current, Borne Back Ceaselessly
Into The Past”
313. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great
Gatsby. New York, 1925. Octavo, original
green cloth. $4800.
First edition of this landmark of 20th-century
fiction.
Without rear free endpaper or extremely rare
original dust jacket. Near-fine.
311
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 “Some Gentlemen Sat Down To A Friendly
Game…”
314. FLORENCE, William Jermyn. Gentlemen’s Hand-
Book on Poker. London, 1892. Octavo, original pictorial blue
cloth gilt. $650.
First and only edition, the product of a boast and a bet.
This work, itself the result of a wager, focuses on “Betting
and Bluffing,” “Playing a Hand Pat,” and “Poker Sharps.”
Near-fine.
Kelson’s Influential 1895 Work On Fly-Tying,
With Eight Color Plates Of Flies
315. (FLY FISHING) KELSON, George M. The Salmon
Fly: How to Dress It and How to Use It. London, 1895. Thick
quarto, original red-brown gilt-stamped pictorial cloth,
custom clamshell box. WITH: Tips. London, 1901. Quarto,
original red-brown gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. Two
volumes. $4000.
Scarce privately printed first edition of one of the finest and
most influential works on salmon flies and fishing, with
frontispiece portrait, eight chromolithographic plates of flies
and numerous in-text wood-engravings. Accompanied by
Kelson’s follow-up Tips (1901), in which he illustrates various
types of casts. Fine.
Large-Paper Copy Of Zouch’s
Life Of Isaac Walton
316. (FLY FISHING) (WALTON, Isaac). ZOUCH,
Thomas. The Life of Isaac Walton; Including Notices of
his Contemporaries. London, 1824. Quarto, early full dark
brown morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid
down. $850.
One of only 25 large-paper copies, published a year after the
first edition, with frontispiece and full-page steel engravings,
including a portrait of Walton, facsimiles of various
documents, and reproductions of scenes from The Compleat
Angler.
This handsome production was intended to accompany
Major’s edition of The Compleat Angler, “adding such
illustrations as were not to be found among the embellishments
blended throughout his publication.” Near-fine.
Handsomely Bound And Illustrated Edition Of
The Complete Angler, 1860
317. (FLY FISHING) WALTON, Izaak, and COTTON,
Charles. The Complete Angler, or, the Contemplative Man’s
Recreation… London, 1860. Two volumes. Royal octavo,
contemporary full green morocco gilt. $2200.
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Second Nicolas edition, the deluxe large-paper issue,
embellished with 61 steel engravings, many full-page and on
India paper, including 48 copper and steel engravings by
Stothard and Inskipp and 13 in-text vignettes of fish and
fishing sites, handsomely bound by Holloway.
First published in 1836, the Sir Harris Nicolas edition “has
been the occasion for much extravagant admiration… ‘No
finer edition of the Complete Angler will ever be published’”
(Oliver 41). This second Nicolas edition “contains the
variations of all the first five editions [of Walton], voluminous
notes, with original and elaborate memoirs of Walton and
Cotton, presenting many new facts… One of the handsomest
publications of modern times, an ornament to the Angler’s
Library, unique of its kind, and perhaps destined to remain
so” (Westwood & Satchell, 228-29). About-fine.
Famous First Book On American Football
318. (FOOTBALL) CAMP, Walter. American Football.
New York, 1891. Small octavo, original gilt-stamped blue
cloth. $1800.
First edition of this classic by the father of American football,
with 31 photographs of stars from Harvard, Princeton and
Yale. Near-fine.
Signed By President Ford
319. FORD, Gerald R. A Time to Heal. New York, 1979.
Octavo, original blue cloth, acetate. $1600.
Signed limited first edition, one of 250 copies signed by
President Ford. About-fine.
Inscribed By President Ford
320. (FORD, Gerald). Gerald Ford and the Future of the
Presidency. New York, 1974. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust
jacket. $800.
First edition of this biography of the “accidental president,”
inscribed and dated “12/3/93” by President Ford. Fine.
Forester’s The African Queen
321. FORESTER, C.S. The African Queen. London, 1935.
Octavo, modern full crushed red morocco. $2500.
First edition, attractively bound. About-fine.
“Only Connect…”
322. FORSTER, E.M. Howards End. New York, 1910.
Octavo, original burgundy cloth. $1100.
First American edition of Forster’s fourth novel, one of only
1500 copies printed. Without very scarce original dust jacket.
Near-fine.

323
“The Day Of The Jackal Was Over”:
Inscribed By Frederick Forsyth
323. FORSYTH, Frederick. The Day of the Jackal. London,
1971. Octavo, original red paper boards, dust jacket. $4500.
First edition of Forsyth’s acclaimed first novel, warmly
inscribed: “For Adrienne, All my best wishes, Frederick
Forsyth, 2006,” with his additional inscription on the facing
page quoting the novel’s final line: “The day of the Jackal was
over.” Exceptionally fine.
First Edition Of The Magus
324. FOWLES, John. The Magus. Boston, 1965. Tall octavo,
original green cloth, dust jacket. $700.
First edition, preceding the London first, of Fowles’s second,
highly acclaimed novel. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
The Enigma Of Stonehenge, Signed By John Fowles
325. FOWLES, John and BRUKOFF, Barry. The Enigma of
Stonehenge. London, 1980. Oblong octavo, original half black
morocco, slipcase. $750.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 100 copies specially
bound and signed by both Fowles and Brukoff, of this history
of Stonehenge, illustrated with numerous full-page
photographs, many in color, with an original color photograph
also signed and numbered by Brukoff laid in. Fine.
Folio Edition Of Fox’s Celebrated
Book Of Martyrs, With Superb Copper-Plate
Engravings—Exceptional Copy
326. FOX, John. Fox’s Book of Martyrs, Containing
Copious & Authentic Accounts of the Lives, Sufferings &
Deaths of the Protestant Martyrs in the Reign of Queen
Mary the First. London, circa 1790. Folio, contemporary full
brown calf gilt rebacked and recornered. $2800.
Handsome 18th-century folio edition of Fox’s Book of Martyrs,
splendidly illustrated with engraved title page, frontispiece
and over 75 fine copper-engraved plates depicting the suffering
of martyrs, especially the executions of Protestants during the
reign of Mary I (Bloody Mary) and the Spanish Inquisition.
Beautifully bound in contemporary calf, rebacked in elaborate
calf-gilt.
“Foxe’s Book of Martyrs was for more than two centuries one
of the most widely read books in England… It built up an
image of the persecuting papist, which… strongly colored
English thinking on Roman Catholicism to this day” (PMM,
52). First published in English in 1563, “its influence in
keeping alive the Protestant feeling in Great Britain and North
America is too well known to be disputed” (Allibone I:626).
The anguish caused by Bloody Mary’s tumultuous rule, as
well as by the Spanish Inquisition, “described in Fox’s Book of
Martyrs, did more to convert England to Protestantism than
all the efforts of the Protestant divines” (Fraser, 283). With
engraved title page, frontispiece and 77 copper-engraved
plates, along with a preface, indices, subscriber and plate lists.
Without six plates. Minor abrasions to contemporary calf.
Very handsome.
“One Of The Most Famous Figures Of
French Literature”
327. FRANCE, Anatole. Vie de Jeanne d’Arc. Paris, 1908.
Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter crushed
blue morocco gilt, slipcases. $1200.
First trade edition of the classic biography of Joan of Arc by
Nobel laureate Anatole France, elegantly bound in crushed
morocco.
First trade edition, with original wrappers bound in,
published same year as limited edition of 125 copies. Text in
French. Fine.
Signed By Justice Felix Frankfurter
328. FRANKFURTER, Felix. Mr. Justice Holmes and the
Supreme Court. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1938. Octavo,
original blue cloth. $1200.
First edition of Frankfurter’s tribute to Justice Holmes, signed
by Justice Frankfurter.
Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter’s work on his predecessor
Justice Holmes, is “concise, inclusive, deeply thought and
beautifully written… It would be hard to overestimate the
importance of this small book, both for its timeliness and its
timelessness… Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court
represents the distillation of Justice Frankfurter’s wisdom”
(New England Quarterly). Without original dust jacket. Fine.
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 Rare Presentation/Association Copy, Of Law
And Men, Inscribed By Justice Frankfurter
329. FRANKFURTER, Felix. Of Law and Men. New York,
1956. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
First edition, a rare presentation/association copy warmly
inscribed by Justice Frankfurter in the year of publication to
a noted legal scholar: “For Rudolfo Batiza, who must have
virtues to deserve to be, and gather he does, the brother-in-
law of June White, With the good wishes of Felix Frankfurter,
July 18, 1956.”
American history, U.S. v. Dennis, in which 11 top leaders of
the Communist Party USA were tried under the Smith Act
for conspiring to advocate violent overthrow of the
government.” Following their conviction Medina “became a
symbol of American justice—or injustice—and… the most
famous trial judge of his time” (ANB). Lightest spotting to
laid-in letter; book near-fine, bright dust jacket very good
with repair.

With Of Law and Men, Frankfurter brought together essays

from two decades, many in tribute to men he admired. This
rare association copy is warmly inscribed to Louisiana legal
scholar Rudolfo Batiza. “A frustrated journalist himself,”
Justice Frankfurter wittily mentions Batiza’s family
relationship to the June White, wife of journalist and
presidential historian Theodore White (New York Times).
Toning and staining to original cloth, price-clipped dust
jacket with light chipping and rubbing to extremities. Very
good.

Presentation Copy Of Felix Frankfurter

Reminisces, With Laid-In Letter From “The Most
Famous Trial Judge Of His Time,” Harold Medina 331

330. FRANKFURTER, Felix. Felix Frankfurter
Reminisces. New York, 1960. Octavo, original half blue
cloth, dust jacket. WITH: Laid-in autograph letter signed
by Judge Harold D. Medina. New York, 1971. Single sheet
measuring 5 by 8 inches, typed and signed on verso. Two
items altogether. $2200.
“Seeing Into Dark Corners, Slipping Through
The Cracks”: Signed By Robert Frank
331. FRANK, Robert. Come Again. Göttingen, 2006. Slim
quarto, stitched as issued, original photographic self-wrappers,
photographic wraparound sleeve. $3500.

First edition of Felix Frankfurter’s memoirs, inscribed: “For
George J. Zengerle, with happy memories and all good wishes,
Jan’y 1st, ’61.” With laid-in autograph letter typewritten on
the imprinted letterhead of Harold J. Medina, Circuit Judge
of the United States Court of Appeals, written to the wife of
the book’s recipient, Mrs. George J. Zengerle, dated August
30, 1971 and signed by Judge Harold Medina, whose
controversial rulings in the Smith Act Trials of 1949 were
supported by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter in the
1951 appeal.
Judge Medina’s laid-in letter warmly thanks the book’s
recipient, Mrs. Zengerle, for writing him and his wife on their
anniversary. Though not citing Justice Frankfurter, the letter
effects an association between Medina and the Supreme Court
justice that recognizes the key role each played in American
legal history. As known colleagues and fellow jurists, they
shared in landmark rulings that significantly affected
constitutional interpretations of free speech. For Medina,
appointed by Truman as judge in the Southern District of
New York in 1947, two years later “shot into world fame as the
dominant figure in one of the great political show trials in
First edition, signed by Robert Frank, with 24 photographic
plates (including one folding) of war-torn Beirut.
In Come Again, as in his revolutionary work, Les Americains
(1958), Frank’s camera continues to be a “roving eye seeing
into dark corners, slipping through the cracks” (Roth, 20).
His is a vision that “makes photography, despite its inherent
limitations, into a realm of allusion, indirection and
suggestion” (New York Times). Fine.
Paris 1791 True First Edition Of Franklin’s
Autobiography
332. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Mémoires de la Vie Privée
de Benjamin Franklin, Écrits par Lui-Même. Paris, 1791.
Octavo, early marbled boards rebacked and recornered in red
morocco gilt. $6000.
True first edition (preceding the first English edition by two
years), in two parts, of Franklin’s renowned autobiography,
“the most widely read of all American autobiographies.”
Rare.

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“The most widely read of all American autobiographies...
[Franklin’s] holds the essence of the American way of life”
(Grolier American 21). Written during four different periods
from 1771 to 1789, “this account is the epitome of Franklin’s
spirit. In it one sees him as a typical though great example of
18th-century enlightenment, a Yankee Puritan who could
agree with Rousseau and Voltaire, and use the language of
Defoe and Addison with a genial homely twang” (Hart, 142).
This French translation by Jacques Gibelin constitutes the
first appearance of any part of Franklin’s Autobiography,
covering Franklin’s life until 1731, the year he founded the
Library Company of Philadelphia. It was apparently translated
into French from one of the two manuscript fair copies sent to
friends in France for further advice. This remains the ultimate
treatise on man’s ability to better himself, notable for its
humorous pragmatism and vivid portrayal of early 18th-
century colonial America. Text in French. Marginal paper
repair and dampstaining to several rear leaves not affecting
text; some rubbing to early boards. Extremely good.
First Edition Of Frazer’s Classic Study Of
Magic And Religion
333. FRAZER, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study
in Comparative Religion. London, 1890. Two volumes.
Octavo, original green cloth gilt. $1650.
First edition of Frazer’s landmark anthropological study.
Frazer began his work “merely... to explain the strange rule of
the priesthood or sacred kingship of Nemi and with it the
legend of the Golden Bough, immortalized by Virgil,” but the
project grew over the years into “a vast and enterprising
comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind,
offering the thesis that man progresses from magical through
religious to scientific thought… Its influence may perhaps be
seen most lastingly in the works of D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot,
and Pound” (Drabble, 212). Near-fine.
“Cold Mountain Nevertheless Soared In His
Mind As A Place Where All His Scattered
Forces Might Gather...”
334. FRAZIER, Charles. Cold Mountain. New York, 1997.
Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $600.
First trade edition, signed by the author. Fine.
First Issue Of West-Running Brook,
Signed By Frost
335. FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. New York,
1928. Slim octavo, original half green cloth. $3000.
First edition, first issue, of one of Frost’s greatest collections,
signed: “Robert Frost Bread Loaf 1930.”
Without scarce original dust jacket. Near-fine.
Robert Frost’s Biography, Signed By Frost,
Moore, And 22 Others
336. (FROST, Robert). SERGEANT, Elizabeth Shepley. The
Trial by Existence. New York, 1960. Octavo, original gilt-
stamped light blue cloth, dust jacket, glassine, custom chemise
and half morocco slipcase. $2000.
First edition of Frost’s biography, signed by Frost and other
members of the American arts and letters community,
apparently at an event held at New York’s Grolier Club on
June 1, 1960.
On the front pastedown and free endpapers are 24 signatures,
including that of Frost; the poet Marianne Moore; author and
editor Louis Untermeyer; the book’s author; Mark Van Doren,
author and literary critic; Glenway Wescott, the writer and
then president of the American Academy-Institute of Arts
and Letters; his lifelong companion, Monroe Wheeler,
Director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Museum of
Modern Art; Waller Barrett; Cornelia H. Barrett; Mark Van
Doren; Dorothy Van Doren; Frank Van Doren; Grace Van
Doren; Stanley Burnshaw; Lydia Burnshaw, Alfred Edwards,
Eleanor Edwards, Louis Untermeyer, Washington Doge, H.B.
Doge; Edgar J. Rigg; Gwenn Rigg; Isabel Wilder; and Ethel
Hillyer Medina, among others. On the rear free endpaper,
Wheeler has copied some of the poet’s remarks at the event:
“Frost: ‘I’m here to betray a secret—today is Waller’s birthday.’
1 June 1960. (to MW, when he could not hear me) ‘Why don’t
other people stop talking?’ From the collection of Monroe
Wheeler, with his bookplate laid in. Fine.
Inscribed By Robert Frost To
Fellow Poet John Ciardi
337. FROST, Robert. Complete Poems of Robert Frost.
New York, 1960. Octavo, original green cloth. $1250.
Later edition, inscribed to poet John Ciardi: “For Jonnes
Ciardi, to get used to, Robert Frost, Bread Loaf 1961.”
“Robert Frost reaped more honors during his lifetime than
any other American poet before him… Perhaps the most
eloquent tribute paid to him after his death was made by a
fellow poet, John Ciardi, who said simply: ‘He was our best’”
(National Park Service). Frost was the “spiritual godfather” of
Bread Loaf, and Ciardi served as its director for many years.
Without original dust jacket. About-fine.
Inscribed By Gao Xingjian, Winner Of The 2000
Nobel Prize For Literature
338. GAO, Xingjian. Soul Mountain. New York, 2000.
Octavo, original burgundy and peach paper boards, dust
jacket. $1000.
First American edition, inscribed by the first Chinese winner
of the Nobel Prize for Literature: “To Adrienne Rogers, Gao
Xingjian. Paris, le 30 février 2005.”
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 The first edition of this work was published in Taiwan in
1990; the first edition in English was published in Australia
in 2000. Fine.
339
Wonderfully Inscribed By Gardner To A
Member Of The Court Of Last Resort
339. GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Demure
Defendant. New York, 1956. Octavo, original brown paper
boards, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition, presentation copy, warmly inscribed to Dr.
LeMoyne Snyder, a member of Gardner’s “Court of Last
Resort”: “To LeMoyne and ‘Fifi’ with all the love in the world
& a cup of sugar thrown in. Yours Erle. Erle Stanley Gardner.
May 1956.”
Dr. LeMoyne Snyder was a close friend of Erle Stanley Gardner
and a member of his so-called “Court of Last Resort.” In 1946
Gardner formed the Court of Last Resort in response to a
three-part article in the Saturday Evening Post that detailed
Gardner’s interest in exculpating underprivileged men and
women falsely convicted of crimes due to fabricated evidence
or corruption in the courts. Using a specially created board
composed of legal and medical professionals, they intended to
carry out in-depth investigations and then report their
findings to magazine readers, hoping for sensational results
in which people convicted of shocking crimes were found to
be innocent based on forensic evidence. The board, which
Gardner headed, became known as the Court of Last Resort.
Dr. LeMoyne Snyder, known for his forensic textbooks on
homicide investigation, was the first to be recruited. The
Court of Last Resort was a smashing success and it successfully
exculpated numerous people convicted of crimes they did not
commit. A television show also called “The Court of Last
Resort,” which had actors playing the parts of the actual
members ran on NBC during the 1957-58 season, just a year
after this book was published and inscribed. Fine.
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Inscribed By Erle Stanley Gardner
340. GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Musical
Cow. New York, 1950. Octavo, original black paper boards,
dust jacket. $1600.
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed: “To Alfred Allison
with all good wishes from one writer to another. Yours, Erle
Stanley Gardner. April 1951.”
In this departure from the Perry Mason series, Gardner
introduced Rob Trenton, a police dog trainer who stumbled
on a mystery while returning from a trip to Switzerland. Book
with tape residue to endpapers, price-clipped dust jacket with
foxing to rear panel and light rubbing to extremities.
Extremely good.
Dissenting Opinion For Bush V. Gore,
Signed By Justice Ginsburg
341. GINSBURG, Ruth Bader. Typed opinion signed. No
place, 2000. Staple-bound, four leaves, measuring 8-1/2 by 11
inches. $975.
Typed copy of the dissenting opinion in the case of Bush v.
Gore, signed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Fine.
Allen Ginsberg’s Early Poems,
Signed By Him
342. GINSBERG, Allen. The Gates of Wrath, Rhymed
Poems: 1948-1952. Bolinas, 1972. Octavo, original beige
cloth. $700.
Signed limited first edition of this collection of Ginsberg’s very
early poetry, one of only 100 copies signed by Ginsberg. Fine.
Signed By Carolyn Cassady, Gregory Corso,
And Allen Ginsberg
343. GINSBERG, Allen and CASSADY, Neal. As Ever. The
Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg & Neal
Cassady. Berkeley, 1977. Octavo, original gilt-stamped green
cloth. $650.
First edition, signed by Allen Ginsberg, with his usual “AH”
in a circle; by Carolyn Cassady, the wife of Neal Cassady who
wrote the book’s Foreword; and additionally by beat poet
Gregory Corso.
This volume, published nine years after Cassady’s death in
Mexico, contains Ginsberg’s and Cassady’s exchanged letters
from the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, many of which Ginsberg signed
with his trademark “As ever,” cribbed from William
Burroughs. All of the Beats, including Ginsberg, Kerouac,
and later Ken Kesey, saw the adventurous Neal Cassady as an
embodiment of the American spirit. When Ginsberg met
Cassady in New York in 1946, the young poet was immediately
enamored, and saw in Cassady a spiritual and sexual soul
mate. His relationship with Cassady was of vital creative
importance to Ginsberg, and Cassady’s ultimate romantic
rejection of him proved quite painful. Without scarce white
tissue dust jacket. Fine.
Fine Illustrated Quarto Set Of Goethe’s Works
344. GOETHE, J.W. von. Goethe’s Works. Philadelphia,
1885. Five volumes. Tall quarto, contemporary full brown
morocco gilt. $3800.
Richly illustrated large quarto edition of Goethe’s works, with
66 mounted steel-engravings, 128 full-page wood-engravings
and hundreds of in-text vignettes, beautifully bound. Fine.
“Kill The Beast! Cut His Throat! Spill His Blood!”
345. GOLDING, William. Lord of the Flies. New York, 1955.
Octavo, original half beige cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
First American edition, published in the year after the first
edition, of one of the most celebrated novels
in modern literature. About-fine.
“Passion. Duels. Miracles. Giants.
True Love”
346. GOLDMAN, William. The Princess
Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of
True Love and High Adventure. The ‘good
parts’ version. New York, 1973. Octavo,
original gray cloth, dust jacket. $1000.
First edition of this fantastic and hilarious
satire of the swashbuckling genre,
Goldman’s most popular book. Near-fine.
Signed By Barry Goldwater
346
347. GOLDWATER, Barry. The Conscience of a
Conservative. Shepherdsville, Kentucky, 1960. Octavo,
original blue paper boards, dust jacket. $750.
First edition, signed by Goldwater. Book with coffee-staining
to a few leaves, dust jacket with a bit of wear and creasing, faint
staining, and sunning to spine. A very good signed copy.
“One Of The Fine Books In The Golf Library”
348. (GOLF) DARWIN, Bernard. The Golf Courses of the
British Isles. London, 1910. Thick octavo, original green
cloth. $2400.
First edition of this golf classic, with 64 fine plates (48 in color)
after original watercolors by Harry Rountree depicting
renowned Scottish, English and Irish courses.
“Thanks to Bernard, golf has acquired the sturdiest literature
of any game. The best is Darwin’s… because he showed the
writers who came after him how golf should be written” (H.W.
Wind). “The illustrations, from original water colors, help to
make this one of the fine books in the golf library, setting a
high standard of excellence that Mr. Darwin would never fail
to meet in his later books” (Murdoch 181). Without scarce
original dust jacket. Occasional foxing to text, inner paper
hinges expertly repaired, slight bowing to front board, only
minor rubbing to extremities. Extremely good.
“I May Be Criticized As An Ogre By Those Who
Feel That There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Day
On The Golf Course…”
349. (GOLF) DOAK, Tom. The Confidential Guide to
Golf Courses. Chelsea, Michigan, 1996. Quarto, original red
paper boards, original dust jacket. $1500.
First trade edition of this scarce guide to golf courses.
Determined to offer a candid and comprehensive guide to the
world’s golf courses, Doak penned this
highly informative work that ranks each
region’s major courses on a tough ten-point
scale. Additionally, the guide includes the
indispensable Doak Gazetteer, featuring
lists such as “Best Outbuildings,” “‘Dumb
Blonde’ Awards—Pretty But Lacking
Substance,” “Courses I’d Never Play
Again,” “Unusual Hazards,” and “Best
Lunch.” Preceded by a 1994 signed limited
edition of 1000 copies with no photographs
and substantially different text. Fine.
Excerpts From Bernard Darwin’s
Golf Column
350. (GOLF) DARWIN, Bernard. Second
Shots. London, 1930. Square, thick 12mo, original pale green
cloth, dust jacket. $1200.
First edition of this collection of amusing anecdotes taken
from Darwin’s column in The Times, with frontispiece
portrait.
Only lightest foxing to preliminaries, minor rubbing to
extremities of scarce dust jacket.
“Most Comprehensive History Of Golf”
351. (GOLF) BROWNING, Robert H.K. A History of Golf:
The Royal and Ancient Game. London, 1955. Octavo, original
green cloth, dust jacket. $650.
First edition of this “veritable ‘Bible’ of the game,” with eight
color and 32 black-and-white plates. Book fine, dust jacket
near-fine.
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 “A Galaxy Of Golf Balls”
352. (GOLF) MARTIN, John Stuart. The Curious History
of the Golf Ball: Mankind’s Most Fascinating Sphere.
New York, 1968. Tall octavo, original white cloth, dust
jacket. $650.
Signed limited first edition, one of 500 copies signed by
Martin, with 32 pages of photographs.
Copies of the limited edition were issued in either slipcases or
dust jackets; this copy is in a dust jacket. Near-fine.
Limited First Edition Of Fifty Years Of Golf,
One Of Only 355 Copies, Warmly Inscribed
By Golf Columnist Harry Brownlaw Martin
353. (GOLF) MARTIN, Harry Brownlaw. Fifty Years of
American Golf. New York, 1936. Large octavo, original red
cloth. $2200.
Limited first edition, one of only 355 copies, inscribed: “To my
good friend, Mrs. W.O. Lentz, with best wishes from the
author, H.B. Martin. Oct ’36.”
With scores of early photographs depicting golf as a
gentleman’s game. Without scarce original slipcase. 357. (GOLF) SIMPSON, Walter Grindlay. The Art of Golf.
Near-fine.
Signed By Arnold Palmer
354. (GOLF) PALMER, Arnold. Arnold Palmer Golf
Journal. Chicago, 1997. Tall, square octavo, original blue-
green paper boards, dust jacket. $550.
First edition of this golfing legend’s practice regimen, with
blank ledger pages to document one’s own routines, signed by
Palmer. Fine.
354
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Signed By Jack Nicklaus
355. (GOLF) NICKLAUS, Jack and BOWDEN, Ken. My
Story. New York, 1997. Tall, thick octavo, original blue paper
boards, dust jacket. $750.
First edition of Nicklaus’ own accounts of his championship
victories, with 32 pages of photographs, signed by Nicklaus.A
fine copy.
Signed Limited Edition Of The Duffer’s
Handbook Of Golf
356. (GOLF) RICE, Grantland and BRIGGS, Clare. The
Duffer’s Handbook of Golf. New York, 1926. Quarto, original
tartan cloth. $1800.
Signed limited first edition, one of 500 copies of this collection
of Rice’s verse and tips on golf and cartoons by Clare Briggs,
signed by both Rice and Briggs.
A few finger smudges to text, small closed tear to front board
label, a few rub spots to cloth. Exceptionally good.
The First Golf Book To Use Photography, 1887
Edinburgh, 1887. Octavo, original half brown calf gilt. $2200.
First edition of this early and entertaining treatise on the
physical and mental aspects of golf, illustrated with 20
halftone photographs demonstrating varying golf swings and
numerous in-text diagrams of stances and grips.
Stray spots of light foxing, some wear to fragile spine.
Extremely good.
Smith On Golf, 1897
358. (GOLF) SMITH, Garden G. Golf. London, 1897. Slim
octavo, modern stiff brown paper wrappers. $950.
First edition of this early instructional manual, with
frontispiece and ten in-text halftones of grips, stances and
swings. Near-fine.
Signed By Benny Goodman And His Entire Band
359. GOODMAN, Benny and KOLODIN, Irving. The
Kingdom of Swing. New York, 1940. Octavo, original black
cloth recased. $1250.
First edition, second printing of this autobiography of the
“King of Swing,” signed by Goodman and by his whole band.
“The band we could all agree on, for a long evening of dancing
in all moods and tempos—jump and shag and glide—was
Benny Goodman’s. Year in, year out, it remained for most of
us the band—full of invention and vitality and sheer
overpowering musicianship… In a galaxy of jazz nobility, of
Dukes and Counts and Earls, the proudest title was Goodman’s.
He was the King, and there was no more to be said” (Anton
Myrer). This copy of Goodman’s autobiography is signed, not
only by Goodman, but also by the entire 1940-41 band: Cootie
Williams and Jimmie Maxwell (trumpets), “Big” Sid Catlett
(drums), Mel Powell (piano), Clint Neagly and Les Robinson
(alto sax), Vido Musso and Pete “Toots” Mondello (tenor sax),
Skippy Martin (baritone sax), Walter Iouss (bass), Tom
Morgan (guitar), and Tommy Taylor and Helen Forrest
(vocals). Without scarce dust jacket. Excellent.
Gorbachev’s Memoirs, Signed By Him
360. GORBACHEV, Mikhail. Memoirs. New York, 1996.
Octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket. $3000.
First American edition of Gorbachev’s memoirs, signed by him.
First published in Russia in two volumes as Life and Reforms
(1995). With 16 pages of photographs. Photographs from
booksigning event laid in. Fine.
First American edition, preceded by the London edition of
1961; initially published in German in 1959. Fine.
Signed By Günter Grass
363. GRASS, Günter. Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum].
Darmstadt and Berlin-Spandau, 1959. Octavo, original gray
cloth, dust jacket. $3600.
First edition of the Nobel Laureate’s first novel and acclaimed
masterpiece, boldly signed by Grass. Text in German.
When Günter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1999, his first novel Die Blechtrommel (The Tin
Drum) was singled out for particular praise. The publication
of Grass’s masterpiece was hailed as “a second birth for the
German novel of the 20th century. Not since Thomas Mann’s
Buddenbrooks had a first book caused such a stir… It seems to
stage the very march of history” (Nobel Prize Presentation
Speech). Text in German. About-fine.
364

Inscribed By “The Father Of Soviet Literature”

361. GOR’KII, Maxim. Ocherki i razskazy. [Sketches and
Stories]. Tom’ Tretii [Volume Three]. St. Petersburg, 1899.
Octavo, contemporary half black cloth. $2600.

Second edition, published in the same year as the first, of the

third volume of Gor’kii’s celebrated first work, warmly
inscribed and signed by the author in Cyrillic.

Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov—who wrote under the

pseudonym “Gor’kii” or “Gorky,” meaning “bitter”—is
considered “the father of Soviet literature and the founder of
the doctrine of socialist realism... In 1898 [and 1899] Gorky’s
collection Sketches and Stories was published by a radical press
and the author was an immediate sensation. These romantic Lovely First Edition Of Sue Grafton’s First
tales concern the vigor and nobility of the Russian peasants Kinsey Millhone Mystery, Signed By Her
and workers” (Columbia University Press). Sketches and
Stories appeared in three volumes; this second edition of the 364. GRAFTON, Sue. “A” is for Alibi. New York, 1982.
third volume appeared in the same year as the first. Text in Octavo, original gray boards, dust jacket. $4500.
Cyrillic. Gorky’s inscription is to one Yelizaveta, “with good
memories.” Moderate marginal staining, a few pages supplied First edition of the original Kinsey Millhone mystery, the first
in fair manuscript copy from another hand (not Gor’kii), in Sue Grafton’s enormously popular alphabet series, signed
occasional additional repairs and marginal restorations, chip by her. Fine.
to inner margin of page 1 with small textual loss, a few small
abrasions to boards. Extremely good. Scarce. “I, Tiberius Claudius... Am Now About To Write
This Strange History Of My Life”
Signed By Günter Grass
365. GRAVES, Robert. I, Claudius. London, 1934. Octavo,
362. GRASS, Günter. The Tin Drum. New York, 1962. original blue cloth, dust jacket. $2600.
Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $3600.
First edition of Graves’ most famous novel. Book fine, dust
First American edition of the Nobel Laureate’s first novel and jacket near-fine.
acclaimed masterpiece, boldly signed by him.

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 “Leapin’ Lizards!”
366. GRAY, Harold. Little Orphan Annie. New York,
1926. Octavo, original half navy cloth. $400.
Early edition of the first anthology of Little Orphan Annie
newspaper strips.
“The first major comic strip to venture into political
commentary, Gray’s creation seemed an unlikely candidate for
that distinction when it debuted on August 5, 1924, but its
heroine quickly demonstrated a spunky independence of spirit
fundamental both to the success of the strip’s stories and to its
alleged politics… The strip reached the zenith of its popularity
during the depression because it addressed and assuaged the
greatest fear of the period. Annie’s adventures proved again
and again that the traditional American ethic of hard work
was not bankrupt and that capitalism could still work” (ANB).
“The book contains 86 pages of black-and-white, four-panel
cartoons. Without scarce original dust jacket. Mild edge-wear
and soiling to boards. Extremely good.
One Of Only 330 Copies Signed By Graham Greene
367. GREENE, Graham. How Father Quixote Became a
Monsignor. Los Angeles, 1980. Octavo, original black- and
gilt-stamped red cloth. $600.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 330 copies beautifully
printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press and signed by
Graham Greene.
Written during Greene’s struggle with the French mafia in
Nice, “Monsignor Quixote is not simply a novel about a journey
made by two friendly antagonists—one a priest, an innocent,
and the other a communist ex-mayor. It is also a theological
and political pilgrimage, in a series of parables… Only Greene
would put truth so resolutely in the centre of a fable, and wrap
doubt snugly around great faith” (Sherry, 661, 681). Fine.
One Of Only 350 Copies Signed By Graham Greene
368. GREENE, Graham. Yes and No. A Play in One Act.
Helsinki, 1983 i.e. 1984. Octavo, original white paper
wrappers, dust jacket. $500.
Signed limited first separate edition, one of only 350 copies
beautifully printed on special Michelangelo paper and signed
by Graham Greene, with a facsimile of the original manuscript
bound alongside the text.
First performed in 1980, “Yes and No” is a humorous and
experimental one-act play about a conversation about an actor
and a director in which the actor’s only lines are “yes” and
“no.” “Yes and No” was previously published in 1983 by the
Bodley Head with the three-act play “For Whom the Bell
Chimes.” Fine.
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Signed And Dated By Graham Greene
369. GREENE, Graham. The Monster of Capri. Helsinki,
1985. Small quarto, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $800.
Signed limited first edition of the children’s book Greene wrote
for his grandsons, one of 500 copies specially printed on
Primat paper and signed and dated by Graham Greene.
Graham Greene originally wrote these stories on numbered
postcards and sent them from Capri via airmail to his
grandchildren, Andrew and Jonathan Bourget, who were
living in Switzerland. This splendidly produced book includes
wonderful reproductions of the handwritten postcards, each
with caption, printed alongside vibrant color photographs of
Capri. Fine.
Two Inscribed By Graham Greene
370. GREENE, Graham. The Captain and the
Enemy. London, 1988. Octavo, original green cloth,
dust jacket. $1600.
First edition, inscribed: “For Gillian with lots of love,
Graham.”
John and Gillian Sutro, film and theatre producers and
writers, were close friends of Greene for over 30 years,
especially when they all lived in the south of France. Fine.
371. GREENE, Graham. Yours etc. Letters to the Press,
1945-89. London, 1989. Octavo, original green cloth, dust
jacket. $1500.
First edition of this collection of Greene’s letters to the press,
inscribed: “For Gillian with much love from Graham.
Christmas 1989.” Fine.
Inscribed, With A Large Original Drawing By
Chaim Gross
372. GROSS, Chaim. Watercolors and Drawings. Text by
Alfred Werner. New York, 1979. Oblong quarto, original red
cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
First edition of this representative collection of sculptor
Chaim Gross’ preparatory sketches, with 26 color plates and
194 in-text illustrations, inscribed: “To Dr. [&] Mrs. Nathaniel
Solomon, Chaim Gross,” enhanced with a large original
drawing of acrobats.
“Gross is considered among the greatest of 20th century
figurative sculptors” (Forum Gallery). An Austrian Jew who
emigrated to America, sculptor Chaim Gross returned to his
Jewish roots following the Second World War and devoted
himself to celebrating the traditions and foundations of
Judaism from a modern artistic perspective. Fine.
Inscribed And With A Sketch By The Author
373. GRUBB, Davis. The Night of the Hunter. New explanation for the origin of the world and the beings that
York, 1953. Octavo, original half dark blue cloth, dust
jacket. $1600.
First trade edition of the author’s haunting debut novel,
inscribed: “For Harold Forbes from Davis Grubb,
Greenbrier, W.Va., November 1977,” beside an original,
full-page sketch by Grubb that he has captioned “Preacher
with John and Pearl.”
This is not one of the 1000 copies signed on a tipped-in
limitation page. Book fine, dust jacket very good with mild
edge-wear, small chip to front panel and dampstaining to top
of back panel.
374
“Early In The Spring Of 1750, In The Village
Of Juffure, A Manchild Was Born…”
374. HALEY, Alex. Roots. Garden City, 1976. Thick octavo,
original half black cloth, dust jacket. $950.
First trade edition of Haley’s acclaimed historical novel,
signed by the author. Very nearly fine.
“First To Use The Expression
‘Geometrical Proportion’”
375. HALE, Matthew. The Primitive Origination of
Mankind, Considered and Examined According to The
Light of Nature. London, 1677. Folio, contemporary full
brown mottled and paneled calf rebacked. $2000.
First edition of Hale’s theory of the earth’s spontaneous
“beginning,” and his defense of the Mosaic account of the
single origin of all peoples.
“There are few more illustrious names on the roll of English
history than that of Sir Matthew Hale” (Allibone, 757). “The
problem of human origins, of how and when the first humans
appeared in the world, has been addressed in a variety of ways
in western thought. In the 17th century the predominant
inhabit it, especially human beings, was based on the biblical
account of creation. It was almost universally accepted that
humans had been created by a supernatural agent using
supernatural means. But alternative explanations for the
production of the first humans did exist, according to which
the first humans were produced by nature through some form
of spontaneous generation” (Matthew R. Goodrum). In
response to Isaac de la Peyrere‘s theory of polygenesis, Hale
advanced his own theory that the earth was not eternal, but
rather had a spontaneous “beginning,” and went on to defend
“the Mosaic account of the single origin of all peoples”
(Norman). He further believed “that in animals, especially
insects, various natural calamities reduce the numbers to low
levels intermittently, so maintaining the balance of nature”
(Garrison & Morton). Hale anticipated Malthus in studying
the growth of a population from a single family, and “seems to
have been the first to use the expression ‘geometrical
proportion’” in respect to population (Hutchinson). Fine
engraved frontispiece portrait. Fine.
Signed Limited Edition Of Radclyffe Hall’s
Groundbreaking Novel, The Well Of Loneliness
376. HALL, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. New York,
1929. Two volumes. Octavo, original silver-stamped yellow
cloth and slate-blue paper boards. $1250.
Signed limited “Victory” edition, one of 225 copies signed by
Radclyffe Hall, printed on Van Gelder handmade paper,
published nine months after the first edition to celebrate the
successful defense of the work against obscenity charges in
New York’s appellate court.
The Well of Loneliness provided an open treatment of lesbianism
“at a time when homosexuality could not be discussed in
English books or in the English press. Unlike male inversion...
the female kind was not officially acknowledged to exist in
England. In 1920, the House of Lords declined to amend the
criminal laws of England to include lesbians because the Lords
did not admit such people lived” (de Grazia, 166-67). Following
its 1928 publication in England, the book was ordered
withdrawn from sale by the Secretary of the Home Office.
Early in 1929 in New York, “Charles Sumner, Secretary of the
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, acting under a
warrant... raided the office of the publisher and removed 865
copies remaining from the sixth edition, then raided Macy’s
book department” (Haight, 94). This edition contains a
summary of the court proceedings by defense attorney Morris
Ernst, and a one-paragraph “Commentary” by Havelock Ellis,
author of the suppressed 1897 Studies in the Psychology of Sex,
who notes that “apart from its fine qualities as a novel by a
writer of accomplished art... it is the first English novel which
presents, in completely faithful and uncompromising form,
one particular aspect of sexual life as it exists among us today.”
The book remained contraband in England until 1959. Without
the original slipcase. Fine.
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 “The Most Important Work In Political Science That by Frederick Church and James Moser. “It will live as long as
Has Ever Been Written… In The United States” Aesop’s fables” (John Bigelow). Near-fine.

377. HAMILTON, Alexander, MADISON, James and JAY, Nights With Uncle Remus
John. The Federalist, on the New Constitution… Hallowell,
Maine, 1826. Thick octavo, contemporary full mottled brown 381. HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Nights with Uncle Remus,
calf sympathetically rebacked. $1850. Myths and Legends of the Old Plantations. Boston, 1883.
Octavo, original gray pictorial cloth gilt, custom chemise and
Later edition of the Federalist Papers—“the most famous and slipcase. $4000.
influential American political work” (Howes).
First edition of the second Uncle Remus book, illustrated with
First published in 1788, “these 85 essays were designed as frontispiece and 19 plates by Frederick Church. Near-fine.
political propaganda, not as a treatise of political philosophy.
In spite of this The Federalist survives as one of the new
nation’s most important contributions to the theory of 382
government” (PMM 234). “It is the most important work in
political science that has ever been written, or is likely ever to
be written, in the United States” (Clinton Rossiter). This
edition is based on that of 1818, the first to have been corrected
by the authors themselves. Near-fine.

“Kill Yourself Into A Hole,

And The Chances Are A Time Comes
When You Have To Kill Yourself Out”
378. HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Dain Curse. New York,
1929. Octavo, original mustard cloth. $2750.

First edition of Hammett’s second novel, the final Continental

Op novel, with distinguished provenance.

This copy from the library of Joseph “Cap” Shaw, editor of
Black Mask, which gave Hammett his first big literary
exposure. It was there that his writing caught the eye of
Blanche and Alfred A. Knopf, who then became his publishers.
The Dain Curse was initially published in four parts in Black
Mask from November 1928 to February 1929. Hammett
dedicated his first published novel, Red Harvest, to Shaw.
Without scarce original dust jacket. Minor toning to spine,
with front inner paper hinge cracked. Very good, with a
potent literary association.
Red Dragon, Inscribed By Thomas Harris
382. HARRIS, Thomas. Red Dragon. New York, 1981.
Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition of Harris’s second novel—the first to feature his
infamous villain, Hannibal Lecter—inscribed: “For Peter
Rabbit, who likes a good lunch as much as I do. Thomas
Harris, Mangold 1991.” Of living writers, Harris’ signature is
among the more elusive. Fine.

One Of Thomas Hardy’s Finest Novels First Issue Of Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun

379. HARDY, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. New York, 1896.
Octavo, original dark green cloth gilt. $750.
First American edition, published the same year as the first
edition, of one of Hardy’s finest novels. Near-fine.
“It Will Live As Long As Aesop’s Fables”
383. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun: or, the
Romance of Monte Beni. Boston, 1860. Two volumes. Small
octavo, original brown cloth. $2500.
First American edition, first issue, of Hawthorne’s last major
work of fiction, intended to be published simultaneously with
the London first.

Preceded by the first English edition, although Blanck notes

380. HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs
and His Sayings. New York, 1881. Octavo, original pictorial
brown cloth gilt. $1200.
First edition, third state, of the first and most beloved Uncle
Remus book, with eight plates and numerous text illustrations
that “The Boston and the London publishers attempted to
publish simultaneously, Ticknor & Fields setting their edition
from advance sheets of the London edition… Contemporary
notices indicate that the London edition was issued prior to
the Boston edition but simultaneous publication may have
occurred.” Fine. Quite exceptional in this condition.

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Handsomely Bound Riverside Edition Of
Hawthorne’s Works
384. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Complete Works. Boston
and New York, 1886. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary
three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $3800.
“Riverside” edition, with frontispieces and etched vignette
title pages, handsomely bound by Riviere & Son. Fine.
Signed By Seamus Heaney
385. HEANEY, Seamus, translator. Beowulf. New York,
2000. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First bilingual edition of the acclaimed new translation of
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney, signed and dated by him.
Preceded in 1999 by a modern English-only
edition. Fine.
Signed By Heinlein
386. HEINLEIN, Robert. Beyond This
Horizon. Reading, Pennsylvania, 1948.
Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
First edition, one of only 500 signed copies,
additionally inscribed by Heinlein on a
special limitation leaf: “For Austin P. Haller,
M.D., yours sincerely, Robert A. Heinlein.”
The first edition was limited to a total of 3000
copies, only 500 of which were signed. Toning
to spine of book, spine of dust jacket lightly
rubbed, shallow chipping to spine ends,
closed tear to back fold with tape repair on
verso. Very good.
“The Most Important Contribution Any Single
Writer Has Made To Children’s Science Fiction”
387. HEINLEIN, Robert A. Rocket Ship Galileo. New York,
1947. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2000.
First edition of Heinlein’s first published science fiction novel,
“the first U.S. juvenile novel to reflect the new levels of…
scientific plausibility now expected in the field.”
Book about-fine, dust jacket very good with minor abrasion
to front panel, chipping to ends of lightly toned spine,
affecting “R” of title and final “S” in Scribner’s, and tape
repairs to verso.
“Paris Is A Moveable Feast”
388. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New York,
1964. Octavo, original half rust cloth gilt, dust jacket. $500.
First edition, with eight pages of photographs. Very nearly fine.
“If It Isn’t Enjoyable—Why Do It?”
389. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. To Have and Have Not.
New York, 1937. Octavo, original full black cloth, dust
jacket. $3000.
First edition, first issue. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
“The World Is A Fine Place And
Worth The Fighting For”
390. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New
York, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
First edition of this classic Hemingway novel, in first-issue
dust jacket. Book fine, bright dust jacket near-fine.
First Edition Of Hemingway’s
The Old Man And The Sea
391. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The
Old Man and the Sea. New York, 1952.
Octavo, original blue cloth, dust
jacket. $2800.
First edition of this classic Hemingway
novel, in first-issue dust jacket. Book
fine, beautiful dust jacket near-fine.
The Novel That Placed Him
Among The Masters
392. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell
to Arms. New York, 1929. Small octavo,
392 original black cloth, dust jacket. $4800.
First trade edition, first issue, of Hemingway’s “consummate
masterpiece” (Mellow, 379), in second-state dust jacket.
Published simultaneously with the signed limited edition of
510 copies. Book near-fine, fragile dust jacket extremely good
with a bit of light rubbing and toning and small dampstain to
rear corner. Most desirable.
First Edition Of Willement’s Illustrated
Armorial History Of The Kings And
Queens Of England, 1821
393. (HERALDRY) WILLEMENT, Thomas. Regal
Heraldry. The Armorial Insignia of the Kings and Queens
of England, from Coeval Authorities. London, 1821. Quarto,
contemporary three-quarter maroon morocco. $1100.
First edition of Willement’s lavishly illustrated history of
armorial insignia from William the Conqueror to King
George IV, with engraved headpieces and 36 engraved plates
(32 hand-colored), including frontispiece depicting the arms
of Henry VIII. Near-fine.
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 “Instrumental In Helping To Open Up The
Amazon River”
394. HERNDON, William Lewis and GIBBON, Lardner.
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Made under
Direction of the Navy Department. Washington, 1853-54.
Three volumes. Octavo, original purple cloth. $1500.
First edition of this fascinating and richly illustrated narrative
of exploration, with 52 tinted lithographs and 38 in-text wood
engravings, accompanied by scarce portfolio volume of three
large folding maps tracing Herndon’s passage through the
Andes and descent along the Amazon.
After serving in the United States Naval Observatory, Lt.
William Lewis Herndon was sent to the South Pacific and in
1850 was chosen to lead a “Pacific squadron to return through
South America via the Amazon Valley,” an expedition planned
in hopes of colonizing the region with slave-owners, thus
eradicating slavery from the Southern states, and as a means
of preventing English merchants from establishing a cotton-
producing industry along the river. Herndon left for Lima in
January 1851, where it was decided he would approach the
Amazon through Peru and Gibbon through Bolivian
tributaries. After difficult passage through Peru, Herndon’s
expedition reached Tingo Maria, and on September 25, 1951,
“boats were fitted with decks and coverings, the American
flag was raised and the Amazon was entered.” Herndon
completed his descent of the Amazon in January 1851 and
“after a month sailed for the United States. Herndon’s report,
and that of Gibbon, who had successfully descended the
Madeira and Amazon, provided a wealth of information”
(Howgego, 283). “Contains minute, accurate and very
interesting accounts of the aborigines of the Andes, and the
Amazon and its tributaries” (Sabin 31524). Without scarce
portfolio of two folding maps to accompany Gibbon’s account.
Interiors of Volumes I-II with some dampstaining and foxing,
slight edge-wear, light toning to original cloth. Folding maps
of separate portfolio volume quite clean and fresh with only a
few small closed tears to maps I and II. Extremely good.
“The Earliest Historian”
395. HERODOTUS. (BELOE, William, translator).
Herodotus, Translated from the Greek, with Notes. London,
1812. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter
green calf gilt. $2000.
Third edition of William Beloe’s “elegant” translation
(Lowndes), with engraved folding map of Lower Egypt in
Volume I.
“Herodotus is the earliest historian; his predecessors were by
contrast chroniclers” (PMM 41, citing the 1502 editio
princeps). Beloe’s translation was first published in 1791. “This
translation is held in very great esteem, and is justly considered
the best we have of this important historian” (Allibone, 162).
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Extensively indexed. Calf lightly rubbed, chipping to spine
label of Volume I. Extremely good.
“Considered By Some As Hersey’s Finest
Achievement”
396. HERSEY, John. The Wall. New York, 1950. Octavo,
three-quarter black morocco gilt. $600.
First edition of Hersey’s fifth book, his second novel, about the
ill-fated Warsaw ghetto uprising, finely bound. Fine.
Hiroshima, Signed By Hersey, Penn Warren,
And Lawrence
397. HERSEY, John. Hiroshima. With a New Poem
by Robert Penn Warren and Silk-Screens by Jacob
Lawrence. New York, 1983. Quarto, original full black
calf, slipcase. $3500.
Limited edition, one of only 1500 copies signed by Hersey,
Penn Warren, and Lawrence, and illustrated with eight full
color silk-screen prints by Lawrence.
“The quietest and the best of all the stories that have been
written about the most spectacular explosion in the time of
man” (New York Times Book Review). Near-fine.
The Basis For Porgy And Bess
398. HEYWARD, Du Bose. Porgy. New York, 1925. Octavo,
original dark brown cloth, dust jacket. $1750.
First edition, first issue of Heyward’s first novel, the inspiration
for George Gershwin’s only opera. Near-fine.
Homer’s Epics, Beautifully Bound And Illustrated
399. HOMER. The Iliad… The Odyssey. Boston and New
York, 1905. Eight volumes. Quarto, original three-quarter
olive morocco gilt. $1800.
Lovely large-paper limited editions of Bryant’s esteemed
translations, each one of only 600 copies.
Beautifully bound and illustrated with frontispiece
reproductions of paintings by Rembrandt, Jacques Louis
David, Burne-Jones and others, and over 60 full-page engraved
plates by John Flaxman and others throughout. Flaxman, the
British neoclassical sculptor and illustrator, created these
lovely illustrations for Homer in 1793. This edition appears to
be the first pairing of Bryant’s celebrated translation with
Flaxman’s famous illustrations. Frontispieces originally in
double suite (tinted and full color). Full color plates have been
neatly excised in all volumes, and one tinted plate removed in
Volume IV of The Odyssey, which also is without blank final
leaves. Spines evenly toned to brown, red stain to rear board
of Volume I of The Odyssey. Excellent.

400
First Edition Of The Classic Work On Crees
And Chippeways, With 20 Color Plates And
Seven Maps And Charts
400. HIND, Henry Youle. Narrative of the Canadian Red
River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the Assinniboine
and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858. London,
1860. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter
green morocco gilt. $2500.
First edition of this early account of the Crees and Chippeways,
illustrated with 20 full-page color-printed wood-engravings
(some in four colors), depicting scenes of Indian life and views,
seven hand-colored maps and charts (including two large
folding maps), and numerous in-text black-and-white wood-
engravings. Handsomely bound by Stikeman.
“Professor Henry Youle Hind’s investigations of the country
between Lake Superior and the Rocky Mountains were
prompted by the need for a land access to the gold fields of
British Columbia and for the possible establishment of a
railway route to the Pacific Coast” (Wagner-Camp 360). The
author, Professor of Chemistry and Geology at Trinity College,
Toronto, was in charge of the 1858 expedition, during which
he lived almost constantly among the Crees and Chippeways,
whose habits he eagerly studied and recorded. Everything
about them had the charm of novelty to him and he was
anxious to observe all the facts that might prove helpful in
tracing their origins and history. He also gives a comprehensive
description of Lord Selkirk’s Red River Settlement, now the
site of Winnipeg. The color plates were made after photographs
taken by Humphrey Lloyd Hime, photographer to the
expedition, and from sketches by John Fleming, assistant
surveyor and draughtsman, using a printing method invented
by Benjamin Fawcett, whose firm specialized in very fine
quality xylographs—a color wood-engraving process. Bound
with both half titles. Fine.
“Terrifying And Suspenseful”
401. HIGHSMITH, Patricia. Strangers on a
Train. New York, 1950. Octavo, original pale
blue cloth. $850.
First edition of Highsmith’s scarce first book.
Without scarce original dust jacket. Book
spine lightly toned. Extremely good.
Signed By Patricia Highsmith
402. HIGHSMITH, Patricia. The Tremor of
Forgery. London, 1969. Octavo, original
orange paper boards, dust jacket. $850.
First English edition, published the same year
as first American edition (no priority
established), signed: “Patricia Highsmith, 6/6/85, Amsterdam.”
Book fine, dust jacket about-fine.
Signed By Patricia Highsmith
403. HIGHSMITH, Patricia. A Dog’s Ransom. New York,
1972. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First American edition, published the same year as first
English edition (no priority established), signed: “Patricia
Highsmith, 6 June 1985, Amsterdam.” Book fine, dust jacket
near-fine.
“An Atmosphere Of Nameless Dread,
Of Unspeakable Foreboding”
404. HIGHSMITH, Patricia. Ripley Under Water. London,
1991. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $650.
First trade edition of the fifth and concluding novel in
Highsmith’s highly acclaimed Ripley series, the penultimate
novel published before her death in 1995.
Preceded the same year by a signed limited edition, this
edition precedes the first American edition by one year. Fine.
“One Of The First Technological Books
Of Modern Times”
405. (HOOVER, Herbert) AGRICOLA, Georgius. De Re
Metallica. Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556.
London, 1912. Folio, original full cream parchment, custom
clamshell box. $1600.
First edition in English of this lavishly illustrated landmark
scientific work, “one of the first technological books of modern
times,” translated, with annotations, by the 31st President of
the United States, Herbert Hoover, and his wife.
Hoover, a mining engineer before entering politics, annotated
this edition. His wife Lou, a former Latin teacher, was
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 responsible for the bulk of the translation. Includes a life of
Agricola, and an appendix of his works. One of an estimated
1476 copies (Norman 21), with reproductions of all 270
woodcut diagrams and illustrations included in the 1556 first
Latin edition. Sheaf of copies of related correspondence laid
in. Fine.
Exceptional 1930 Letter By J. Edgar Hoover In His
First Decade As Director Of The Dept. Of Justice
406. HOOVER, J. Edgar. Typed letter signed. Washington,
D.C., January 29, 1930. Three items. Two original sheets each
measuring 8 by 10-1/2 inches: one imprinted letterhead sheet
typewritten on recto, signed in manuscript; one sheet
typewritten and annotated in manuscript on recto; one small
sheet measuring 2 by 3-1/2 inches, printed on recto. $1650.
Original typed letter signed by J. Edgar Hoover as director of
the Department of Justice (later the FBI), addressed to Max
H. Lowenthal of the Wickersham Commission. In the letter
Hoover responds to an official request by Lowenthal by
providing an enclosed tabulation of auto thefts in 18 U.S.
cities, these listed in two columns on a separate typewritten
sheet that is annotated in pencil and ink. Notably Max
Lowenthal later became the object of intense FBI scrutiny
after the 1950 publication of his pioneering expose of Hoover
and the FBI.
Written by J. Edgar Hoover in his earliest years as director of
the FBI, this rare 1930 letter is addressed to Harvard lawyer
Max Lowenthal of the landmark Wickersham Committee,
which published the first federal assessment of U.S. law
enforcement in 1931-32. Hoover’s letter reveals those
exceptional bureaucratic skills that made the young director
indispensable, while its cordial tone gives little indication of
the controversy ahead—a conflict provoked by the 1950
publication of Lowenthal’s pioneering investigation of the FBI
and its powerful director. Lowenthal subsequently became
the subject of ongoing investigations by HUAC and the FBI.
Here, in the letter, typewritten on his personal letterhead
stationary at the Department of Justice, dated January 29,
1930 and addressed to Lowenthal at the Commission, Hoover
writes, “Dear Mr. Lowenthal:—With respect to your request
of yesterday, I am enclosing herewith a tabulation showing
the number of National Motor Vehicle Theft Act cases which
originated within the corporate limits of certain cities of the
United States, and which were reported to Field Offices of the
Bureau of Investigation.” Sincerely yours, [signed] J. Edgar
Hoover, Director.” Beneath is a typed “Encl. #131721,” its
number repeated in the accompanying small imprinted note
that reads “INCLOSURE No. 131721 from Department of
Justice”—both notices referring to the accompanying typed
sheet of auto theft cases. That tabulation sheet contains a
typewritten headline stating “Number of National Motor
Vehicle Theft Act cases which originated within the city limits
during the calendar year 1929,” with two typed columns
below: one listing 18 American cities; the other corresponding
a list of numbers that is annotated by lightly penciled and
inked annotations in three additional columns. Near-fine.
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Inscribed By Herbert Hoover
407. HOOVER, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. New
York and London, 1934. Octavo, original red cloth, dust
jacket. $1200.
First edition, inscribed on a tipped-in card: “The Good Wishes
of Herbert Hoover.”
After his overwhelming defeat by Franklin Roosevelt in the
presidential election of 1932, Hoover retired to write this
work, “warning of the threat of fascism within the New Deal”
(DAB). Contemporary gift inscription to Maine State Senator
Frank W. Carlton. Minor smudging to inscription, a bit of
soiling and dampstaining to endpapers and cloth. Scarce dust
jacket with slight rubbing to extremities and mild toning. An
attractive copy.
Inscribed By Herbert Hoover
408. HOOVER, Herbert. Fishing for Fun—And to Wash
Your Soul. New York, 1963. Slim octavo, original half black
cloth, dust jacket. $950.
First trade edition, inscribed: “To Sue Kieffer—and the good
wishes of Herbert Hoover,” with original booklet containing
Hoover’s address from the 1962 dedication of his presidential
library laid in.
“A true citizen of the world, Herbert Hoover… found God in
a trout stream as well as a church pew. He pursued Japanese
tuna and Canadian salmon—and he laughed at Calvin
Coolidge for preferring earthworms to fly fishing… As
president of the Izaak Walton League, Hoover once declared:
‘Man and boy, the American is a fisherman. That comprehensive
list of human rights, the Declaration of Independence, is firm
that all men (and boys) are endowed with certain inalienable
rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
which obviously includes the pursuit of fish’” (Herbert Hoover
Presidential Library & Museum). Published the same year as
the signed limited edition of 200 copies. Fine.
“Where We Were Once”:
Inscribed By Langston Hughes
409. HUGHES, Langston, editor. An African Treasury.
New York, 1960. Octavo, original half gray cloth, dust
jacket. $1800.
First edition, warmly inscribed: “Especially for Ruthie—
Sincerely—Langston, New York, July 8, 1960” with an arrow
indicating Sierra Leone on the map and the additional
annotation: “Where we were once.”
This anthology helped introduce “the writings of a wide range
of Africans to readers in North America. Many of the writers
who later achieved major international success, including
Wole Soyinka [and] Amos Tutuola… were represented”
(African American Writers, 172). This copy inscribed to Ruth
Jett, “a leader in the Committee for the Negro in the Arts and,
later, an employee of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace… ‘I am not very objective about Langston,
because I was very fond of him,’ she admitted. ‘He was like a
brother to me and to many people’” (Rampersad II:339). First
edition, second state of the binding. Near-fine.
“One Of The Most Successful Collaborations
Between A Great Writer And A Great
Photographer Ever Published”
410. HUGHES, Langston and DECARAVA, Roy. The Sweet
Flypaper of Life. New York, 1955. Small
octavo, original paper wrappers. $1750.
First edition of this landmark collaboration
between Hughes and DeCarava, the preferred
softcover edition, featuring Hughes’ lyrical
text and 141 engaging photogravures by
DeCarava.
“An important step forward” in the history of
photobooks, Sweet Flypaper of Life proved
especially significant in its “design, featuring
a pacy, cinematic style. It is also a book that
had more impact in its cheaper paperback
edition, since, radically, Hughes’ text begins
on the cover” (Parr & Badger II:242). “It is
one of the most successful collaborations
between a great writer and a great
photographer ever published” (Roth, 138).
Scarce preferred first softcover edition with
text beginning on front wrapper, text block
on page 3; published same year as first cloth
edition. Exceptionally fine.
“For My No. 1 Fan”: 413
Warmly Inscribed By Langston Hughes
411. HUGHES, Langston. Fields of Wonder. New York,
1947. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $900.
Early edition of this timeless collection of poems, boldly and
warmly inscribed: “For my No. 1 fan, Noel—Joe’s No. 1
brother, Sincerely—Langston. New York, Sept. 7, 1950.”
Published same year as first edition. Book fine, extremely good
dust jacket with small closed tears and light toning to spine.
“Darwin’s Bulldog”
412. HUXLEY, Thomas Henry. Evidence As to Man’s Place
in Nature. London, 1863. Octavo, original green cloth. $3000.
First edition, variant second issue, of Huxley’s most important
work, which “introduced the idea of humanity’s ape ancestry”
(Britannica).
Huxley’s vigorous public support of his friend Charles Darwin’s
evolutionary naturalism earned him the nickname “Darwin’s
bulldog,” while his organizational efforts, public lectures, and
writing helped elevate the place of science in modern society.
With frontispiece illustration of a series of primate skeletons
and in-text illustrations throughout. With rear advertisements
dated March 1863; first issue is dated February 1863, second
issue is dated August 1863. Very nearly fine.
“Then Simon Peter Having A Sword Drew It…”
413. (ILLUMINATED LEAF) Illuminated Leaf, Partially
Printed. Paris, circa 1515. Royal octavo (6-1/2 inches by 9
inches), single leaf on vellum,
handsomely window framed. Entire
piece measures approximately
12 inches by 15 inches. $4800.
Beautiful illuminated full-page
miniature from an early 16th-century
devotional work, showing Peter
striking off the ear of Malchus.
With Jesus depicted surrounded by
troops and a pastoral smaller scene
in the background of Jesus praying
while his apostles sleep, all set in a
gilt architectural border. With three
short lines of printed text. The verso
displays 30 lines of printed text in
Latin with small metal-cut decorative
borders depicting scenes from the
life of Jesus. Fine.
“The Length Of The Inner
Sanctuary Was Twenty Cubits”
414. (ILLUMINATED LEAF) Leaf
from a 15th-century illuminated Latin Bible. Germany,
circa 1450. Folio, single vellum leaf, in black, red, and blue
inks, measuring 12 by 17-1/2 inches. Handsomely framed,
entire piece measures 17 by 23 inches. $1500.
Original manuscript leaf from a 15th-century folio Latin
Vulgate Bible, handsomely framed.
This leaf contains the last verses of Ezekiel 40 and the first ten
verses of Chapter 41, which describe a vision of rebuilding
the temple (“The House of Israel”) following the destruction
of the sinful city of Jerusalem. The Latin text is written in a
highly pointed High Gothic bookhand (textualis), in two
columns of 45 lines each; with blue initials in the running
head, a blue leaf-and-tendril fine-line ascender in the center
margin, red chapter numeral, and a three-line capital “E” in
red against a blue background. Fine.
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415
Three Signed By John Irving
415. IRVING, John. The World According to Garp. Three volumes. Slim octavo, original half brown morocco
New York, 1978. Octavo, original half navy cloth, dust
jacket. $2000.
First edition of Irving’s fourth and most famous novel, signed
by him. Fine.
416. IRVING, John. The Cider House Rules. New York,
1985. Octavo, original half brown cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First trade edition of Irving’s sixth novel, boldly signed by
him. Fine.
417. IRVING, John. A Prayer For Owen Meany. New York,
1989. Octavo, original half gray cloth, dust jacket. $1200.
First trade edition, signed by John Irving. Preceded by a
signed limited edition the same year. Fine.
Handsomely Bound Set Of Irving’s Works
418. IRVING, Washington. The Works. New York, circa
1890. Twenty-seven volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-
quarter burgundy morocco gilt. $3500.
The “Hudson” edition of Washington Irving’s Works, with
engraved frontispieces, title page vignettes, and numerous
full-page illustrations. Fine.
“That Little Diamond Among Modern
Narratives”: Inscribed By Isherwood
419. ISHERWOOD, Christopher. The Berlin Stories: The
Last of Mr. Norris. Goodbye to Berlin. New York, 1945.
Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
First combined edition of Isherwood’s best-known novels of
Berlin in the 1930s, inscribed: “For Bob Tamkin, with my best
wishes, Christopher Isherwood, January 15, 1982.”
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The Last of Mr. Norris was first published in 1935 under the
original title Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin
was first published in 1939. “Mr. Norris Changes Trains, a
short novel, and Goodbye to Berlin, a sequence of short stories,
reflect [Isherwood’s] years in Berlin during 1929-33 and are
excerpts from a long novel of interconnected Berlin lives, ‘The
Lost,’ which was never completed; the novels are incomparable
renderings of a society at the point of disintegration. Goodbye
to Berlin contains the memorable ‘Sally Bowles’ (published
separately, 1937) which was adapted for the stage by John Van
Druten as I Am a Camera (1951) and as a musical (Cabaret,
1968)” (Stringer, 332). Near-fine.
Signed Limited Edition Of Vladimir Jabotinsky’s
Belles Lettres, One Of 200 Copies Published To
Commemorate His 50th Birthday
420. JABOTINSKY, Vladimir (Altalena). Разскасы [Short
Tales], Стихи [Verses] and Causeries [Essays]. Paris, 1930.
gilt, custom slipcase. $6500.
Signed limited edition, one of only 200 copies of this collection
of the Zionist leader’s stories, poems and essays published by
his friends to commemorate Jabotinsky’s 50th birthday, each
volume signed by Jabotinsky. Text in Russian.
“After Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion, Vladimir
Jabotinsky is perhaps the most renowned figure in Zionist
history… Like Herzl, Jabotinsky was a journalist and a literary
writer before he became a Zionist at the start of the new
century,” his activism motivated by the brutality of the
Kishinev pogrom of 1903 (Nation). Then Russia’s “foremost
Zionist lecturer and journalist… Jabotinsky played a leading
role in the evolution of Zionist ideology in Russia… [crusading]
against anti-Semitism, Jewish assimilation and the quasi-
nationalism of the Bund.” Jabotinsky frequently wrote under
the pen name ‘Altalena.’ “In 1910 [Jabotinsky] translated The
Raven by Edgar Allan Poe into Hebrew... His translation of
ten cantos of Dante’s Inferno is a masterpiece... but his main
contributions to belles lettres were in Russian... In 1930, on
his 50th birthday, his friends published a limited edition of
three volumes of his poems, short stories, and essays in
Russian” (Encyclopaedia Judaica). Frontispiece portraits in
each volume. Text in Russian. Scattered light foxing to
interiors and edges, heavier at preliminary and concluding
leaves, bindings about-fine.
“By Destroying The Resources Of The Savage,
[We] Doom Him To Weakness And Decay”
421. JACKSON, Andrew. President Jackson’s First
Message to Congress. Washington, 1829. Broadside printed
on silk, measuring 20 by 28 inches, closely framed. $5200.
Extremely rare early printing of Jackson’s 1829 State of the
Union, in which he questions the constitutionality of the Bank
of the United States, proposes sharing federal surpluses among
the individual states, and recommends establishing a separate
district west of the Mississippi River “to be guaranteed to the
Indian tribes as long as they shall occupy it.”
After losing the presidential election of 1824 in the House of
Representatives, “Old Hickory” successfully gained the office
in 1828 with “a stunning popular and electoral victory” over
John Quincy Adams. “Jackson remains one of the most
important spokesmen for majoritarian rule in this country, a
president who brought into sharp focus the never-ending
efforts of privileged elites who seek to use the government for
their particular and selfish purposes and in the process
endanger liberty and betray American democracy” (ANB).
Jackson sounded these signature themes in his first address to
Congress: “under the present mode of election a minority
may often elect a President, and when this happens it may
reasonably be expected that efforts will be made on the part of
the majority to rectify this injurious operation of their
institutions… Let us, then, endeavor so to amend our system
that the office of Chief Magistrate may not be conferred upon
any citizen but in pursuance of a fair expression of the will of
the majority.” Near-fine.
First Edition Of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery
422. JACKSON, Shirley. The Lottery; or, The Adventures
of James Harris. New York, 1949. Octavo, original gray cloth,
dust jacket. $2200.
First edition of Jackson’s second and most famous book, her
first collection of short stories, including her masterpiece, the
title story “The Lottery.”
Book near-fine; minor expert restoration to extremities of
bright dust jacket. Scarce.
“The Great Modern Novel Of Supernatural Horror”
423. JACKSON, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House. New
York, 1959. Octavo, original cloth, dust jacket. $2000.
First edition of Shirley Jackson’s most famous and influential
novel, “the great modern novel of supernatural horror”
(Horror: 100 Best 60).
“A provocative and unsettling story in which Jackson achieves
a perfect blurring of the boundary between supernatural
intrusion and psychological projection. Tense, complex and
brilliant in its depiction of the alienating power of loneliness
and isolation” (Barron, Fantasy and Horror 6-181). Nearly fine.
James II’s Volatile Second Declaration Of
Indulgence, 1688
424. JAMES II. His Majesties Gracious Declaration… for
Liberty of Conscience. London, 1688. Single folio sheet,
folded, custom morocco clamshell box; pp. 4. $4500.
First edition of James II’s second Declaration of Indulgence, a
landmark step toward religious toleration and for provoking
a resistant parliamentary and civic authority that led to
England’s Glorious Revolution and ultimately America’s own
revolutionary Bill of Rights.
Resistance to James’ first and second Declarations of
Indulgence brought about “a conception of Parliament that
would have been inconceivable a generation earlier: a body
absolute and arbitrary in its sovereignty; the creator and
interpreter, not the subject, of law; the superior and master of
all other rights and powers within the state. It was this
conception of Parliamentary sovereignty that triumphed…
and it was this conception, justified in the end by the theory
of an ultimate supremacy of the people—a supremacy, that is,
normally dormant and exercised only at moments of rebellion
against a tyrannical government—that was carried on into
the 18th century and into the debates that preceded the
American Revolution” (Bailyn, 200-01). Expert paper
restoration to fold and minor tissue reinforcement to edges. A
splendid copy. Scarce.
Publisher’s Presentation Copy Of Henry James’
The Reverberator
425. JAMES, Henry. The Reverberator. London and New
York, 1888. Two volumes. Octavo, original green cloth, custom
clamshell box. $2500.
Scarce first edition, publisher’s presentation copy, of one of
James’ finest works, with two stamps on the title page of each
volume reading: “With the Publisher’s Compliments.”
The Reverberator was the second book James wrote after
returning to the novel-form following a three-year hiatus
in which he focused on short stories and travel literature.
Only 500 copies of this edition were printed. Foxing to
preliminary and concluding pages, inner paper hinges
starting, faint soiling and toning to extremities of original
cloth, a bit of wear to spine ends, spines leaning slightly.
Extremely good. Scarce.
“I Have Sworn... Eternal Hostility Against Every
Form Of Tyranny Over The Mind Of Man”
426. JEFFERSON, Thomas. Memoir, Correspondence,
and Miscellanies. Charlottesville, 1829. Four volumes.
Octavo, contemporary full marbled brown sheep rebacked
with original spines and spine labels laid down. $6500.
First edition of the first published collection of Jefferson’s
writings, edited by his grandson.
This four-volume collection begins with a memoir written by
Jefferson at age 77, and includes a journal kept by him while
Secretary of State during Washington’s administration. “The
rest consists exclusively of a voluminous correspondence,
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 ranging from 1775, after blood had been spilt in Boston, to
June 1826, only ten days before his death” (Sabin 35891). With
all half titles, four-page facsimile of Jefferson’s manuscript of
the Declaration of Independence and engraved frontispiece
portrait by Gilbert Stuart in Volume IV. Foxing and occasional
dampstaining to text as usual, contemporary binding expertly
restored. Most handsome.
Thomas Jefferson Free Franking
Signature As President
427. JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph
envelope signed. No place, no date. Opened
envelope measures 10 by 6 inches.
Handsomely framed with portrait, entire
piece measures 18 by 32 inches.  $6800.
Signed envelope addressed entirely in
Jefferson’s hand, with his bold free
franking signature, “Th Jefferson.”
The envelope is addressed to a
Revolutionary War commander and
veteran of Valley Forge, “Majr. Richard
Call, Richmond,” and is signed in the top
left corner, “free / Th Jefferson.” Small tear
with loss to top of envelope due to removal of
wax seal, fold lines. Jefferson’s writing and
signature bold and clear. Handsomely framed
with an engraved portrait. A wonderful piece with a
427
Jefferson signature.
Printed and manuscript postmaster appointment, signed by
President Andrew Johnson and countersigned by William H.
Seward, Secretary of State.
This document, printed and completed by hand, appoints
Charles M. L. Wiseman to the position of Deputy Postmaster
for Lancaster, Ohio. Seal of the United States of America
affixed to document. Light creases from folding, as usual,
with Japanese paper reinforcement at fold ends.
“This Venerable Mansion Was
Dedicated To The Mysterious Rites
Of Unrestrained Love”
430. JOHNSON, Charles. Chrysal: or,
the Adventures of a Guinea. London,
1822. Three volumes. 12mo, modern full
red morocco gilt, custom cloth slipcase.
$850.
Later edition of this amusing satire,
illustrated with 12 hand-colored plates,
beautifully bound by Root.
A “novel of circulation”—a genre popular
in the 18th century—that follows a coin as
it travels through all levels of society,
encountering rich and poor, foolish and wise
alike. First published in 1760. Fine.
First Edition Of Harold At The North Pole

“The Most Detailed Study… Available For More 431. JOHNSON, Crockett. Harold at the North Pole.
New York, 1958. 12mo, original half black cloth, dust
Than A Century”
jacket. $2500.
428. (JEFFERSON, Thomas) RANDALL, Henry S. The
First edition of the scarce fourth book in Crockett Johnson’s
Life of Thomas Jefferson. New York, 1858. Three volumes.
Harold and the Purple Crayon series.
Thick octavo, contemporary full tan sheep rebacked with
original spines laid down. $2200. Harold and his trusty purple crayon help Santa Claus and
his eight reindeer on Christmas Eve. Book fine, dust jacket
First edition, illustrated with ten plates, including a two-plate
near-fine.
folding facsimile of Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of
Independence.

Randall had the help of Virginia gentleman farmer Hugh

Blair Grisby “and the Jefferson family in obtaining access to
materials he rightly feared would eventually be lost. The
resulting Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858), though highly
partisan, provided the most detailed study of Jefferson
available for more than a century” (ANB). Interiors fine,
minor rubbing to corners of contemporary sheep.

Signed By President Andrew Johnson

429. JOHNSON, Andrew. Document signed. Washington,
D.C., June 23, 1865. Printed document, measuring 9-1/2 by
13-1/2 inches. $3500.
431

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“It Was A Big Job For A Small Boy”
432. JOHNSON, Crockett. A Picture for Harold’s Room.
New York, 1960. Octavo, original glazed stiff pictorial paper
boards, dust jacket. $1500.
First edition of Johnson’s sixth “Harold” book.
In his sixth adventure with his trusty purple crayon—the first
to be published in a larger format, as part of Harper & Brothers’
“I Can Read” series—Harold creates and enters a mural on his
wall. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket about-fine.
Inscribed By Ruth Krauss And Crockett Johnson
433. (JOHNSON, Crockett) KRAUSS, Ruth. Is This You?
New York, 1955. Square 12mo, original pictorial paper boards,
dust jacket. $2500.
First edition, inscribed by the author, “Best wishes to Betty
Tyler from Ruth Krauss and,” and signed by illustrator
Crockett Johnson.
Step by step and page by page, Krauss’ easy text and Johnson’s
gently humorous illustrations invite children to create their
own books as they read along: “Is this where you live? Is this
where? Take another page of paper and draw where you live.”
Nearly fine.
“It Has Been Said That The Presidency Is The
Loneliest Office In The World. I Did Not Find It So”
434. JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines. The Vantage Point. New
York, 1971. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $1250.
First edition of this presidential autobiography, signed by
Johnson on a tipped-in leaf.
Extensively illustrated with numerous photographic plates.
First Edition Circle copies like this one (identifiable by the
tipped-in leaf, as well as laid-in bookmark) are far scarcer
than copies with signed Presidential bookplates. Authentic
Johnson signatures are quite scarce. Fine.
Inscribed By Lyndon Johnson
435. JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines. This America.
Photographed by Ken Heyman. New York, 1966. Quarto,
original blue cloth. $850.
First edition, inscribed by President Johnson, “To Dora
Alexander with my personal best wishes, Lyndon Johnson.”
“The book, published by Random House, was the editorial
creation of Jerry Mason, editor of the award-winning Family
of Man. Mason chose excerpts from the President’s words…
‘to serve as a shooting script’ for the photographer… who
spent nearly six months traveling throughout the United
States in search of suitable pictures. Heyman’s five-year-old
daughter Jennifer presented the first copy of the book to the
President” (The American Presidency Project). Without
original dust jacket. Issued the same year in wrappers,
presumably simultaneously. Near-fine.
18 Volumes Uniformly And Handsomely Bound
436. JOHNSON, Samuel. The Works of the English Poets.
London, 1779. Eighteen volumes. 12mo, contemporary full
tree calf gilt. $2800.
From the first edition of Johnson’s great final project,
Lives of the English Poets: 18 of 56 volumes of poetry,
published separately from, but originally sold with, the
four volumes of Johnson’s criticism; illustrated with
frontispiece portraits of Cowley, Milton, Butler, Waller,
Denham, Otway and Dryden.
In 1777, prominent London booksellers commissioned
Johnson to write, as Johnson told Boswell, “little lives and
little prefaces to a little edition of the English poets” (Wain,
344). Johnson’s Poets’ form an attractive and useful collection;
but the volumes being small were easily mislaid, and it is now
hard to find a set which is complete and uniform in binding”
(Courtney & Smith, 156). The 18 volumes present include the
works of Cowley, Milton, Butler, Waller, Denham, Spratt,
Rochester, Roscommon, Yalden, Otway, Dorset, Halifax,
Stepney, Walsh and most works of Dryden; the balance of
Dryden’s works appeared in Volume 19 (Courtney & Smith,
157). Interiors generally clean, a few headcaps expertly
restored. Very handsome.
“In Memory Of A Great May Things That
Were… And A Number Of Things That Weren’t”
437. JONES, James. From Here to Eternity. New York,
1951. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
First trade edition, twice signed by the author and with warm,
lengthy inscription: “To be filled in later, after thot:” with a
large box that Jones drew below for his later inscription.
Beneath the box, Jones has signed his name and written
“January 31, 1952. 597 5th Ave., N.Y.C.” Within the box, Jones
has written “February 14, 1952—“In memory of a great many
things that were (such as Jimmy, the manager); and a number
of things that weren’t—And at least one thing that should
have been, but wasn’t. Jim.”
A signed limited edition was issued the same year. Ink
moustache drawn on Jones portrait on rear of dust jacket,
almost certainly by Jones himself, as he had grown a moustache
shortly after the photograph was taken, and the ink is identical
to the ink with which he wrote the inscriptions. Near-fine.
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 With Fine Folding Maps Of Jerusalem
And The Holy Land
438. JOSEPHUS, Flavius. The Works. London, 1702.
Thick folio, contemporary full paneled brown calf
rebacked. $3500.
First L’Estrange edition of the works of Josephus, with
additional engraved allegorical title page, two engraved
plates by M. Vander Gucht, and two double-page maps—
one of the Holy Land and the other a plan of Jerusalem
after J.B. Villalplando.
Includes “The Antiquities of the Jews,” “Their Wars with
the Romans,” “Life of Josephus,” “His Book Against Apion,”
“The Martyrdom of the Maccabees” and “Philo’s Embassy
from the Jews of Alexandria to Caius Caligula.” Folding
maps re-mounted, a few minor abrasions to contemporary
calf. Very handsome.
A Dozen Plus A “Tilly”
439. JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach. Paris, 1927. 12mo,
original printed stiff paper boards; [pp.24]. $1000.
First edition, published by Sylvia Beach.
“Pomes Penyeach contains thirteen poems—a dozen plus a
‘tilly,’ the title of the first poem and a word meaning the
thirteenth in a baker’s dozen or the extra half-cup from the
Dublin milkman. With errata slip tipped in at rear. Near-fine.
“Rejoicing In Jerusalem”
440. (JUDAICA) The Palestine Post. Jerusalem, December
1, 1947. Original folio tabloid sheet, measuring 16-1/2 by 22-
1/2 inches. $2100.
Extraordinary newspaper announcing the UN resolution to
create a Jewish state. In English.
On November 29, 1947, the fledgling United Nations voted, in
General Assembly Resolution 181, to approve a plan to divide
the British Mandate of Palestine into a Jewish State and an
Arab state, with Jerusalem as an international zone. The
Palestine Post joyously proclaimed the decision in this special
issue that describes the reaction in Palestine—the celebrations
as well as the violence. “Mrs. Goldie Myerson”—one day to
become, as Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel—is featured
prominently on the front page, celebrating. Near-fine.
The First Knesset Of The State Of Israel,
February 14, 1949
441. (JUDAICA) Maariv. Tel Aviv, February 14, 1949.
Original folio tabloid sheet, measuring 16-1/2 by 11 inches,
folded in two. $1800.
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Newspaper announcement, in Hebrew, of Israel’s first Knesset,
with photographs of all of the original 120 members.
Once Israel proclaimed its independence on May 14, 1948,
attention turned to forming a permanent government. From
the early days of Zionist pioneers, there had been political
parties, and “it was largely due to the existence of these parties,
which had conducted intensive political activities for almost
half a century, including periodical elections by popular vote,
that independent Israel (1948) was able to proceed immediately
to the establishment of an orderly and democratic
parliamentary system” (Encyclopedia Judaica). Elections were
held on January 25, 1949, and they met for the first time on
February 14, 1949. It was opened by Chaim Weizmann,
president of the State council. This newspaper depicts all 120
delegates, with short biographies of each, and party
breakdowns. Among those depicted are three future Israeli
Prime Ministers (David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and
Menachem Begin, and two future Israeli Presidents (Yitzhak
Ben-Zvi and Zalman Shazar). Near-fine.
Signed By Meir Dizengoff, Founder Of Tel Aviv
442. (JUDAICA) English Zionist Federation 1899-1929.
London, Tel Aviv and elsewhere, circa 1920-1930. 15 volumes
bound as one. Octavo, contemporary brown cloth. $6500.
A collection of early 20th-century Zionist pamphlets, one
with a presentation inscription by Meir Dizengoff, founder
and first mayor of Tel Aviv, to Nathan J. Adler, a prominent
English Zionist: “To Mr. & Mrs. N.J. Adler in souvenir of their
visit in Tel Aviv. 15.4.31. M. Dizengoff.” With two large folding
maps of Tel Aviv in the 1920s and numerous photographs of
Palestine in the 1920s.
This extraordinary collection of Zionist pamphlets in English
represent dramatic documentation of the early, utopian years
of British Mandate Palestine, as the Jewish community in
England contributed settlers and moral, educational, and
political support to build the land that would one day become
Israel. These fragile documents include over 100 rare images
of early 20th century Palestine and provide first-hand
documentation of life there at that time. Near-fine.
Early Israeli Children’s Textbook
443. (JUDAICA) (MALEVANCHIK, Zvi) CASPI, Rachel.
Aleph Bet Gimmel. Tel Aviv, circa 1948. Small quarto, later
stiff paper wrappers; pp. 29. $450.
First edition of this rare children’s Hebrew textbook, with 14
full page color illustrations.
An elementary school children’s primer, this book was
designed to teach the Hebrew alphabet and simple Hebrew
terms to beginning students. With nikud throughout.
Near-fine.
A Landmark Document In Jewish History
444. (JUDAICA) (PARLIAMENT) Act to Repeal the
Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753. London, 1753 [i.e. 1754].
Folio, modern gray paper-covered boards, complete as issued
in three leaves; pp. [1]-4. $4500.
Scarce first edition of the Act that hurriedly repealed Britain’s
Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753 only months after its
passage, this repeal enacted in response to a furious outcry
where “those who had voted for it were denounced by the
people” (Charles Daly), a retreat in the progress of human
rights that ultimately sparked waves of opposition to Jewish
naturalization in America.
This landmark bill marked a striking retreat from the progress
of human rights in the mid-18th century, a bill swiftly enacted
by Parliament in response to its earlier passage of the 1753
Naturalization Act, known as the “Jew Bill.” This repeal of
that Act, which had promised naturalization to British Jews,
was the effect of resounding outcries of “‘horror and
execration.’ Those who had voted for it were denounced by the
people” (Daly, Settlement of the Jews in America). Almost a
century later, after several modest measures to permit the
election of Jews were defeated in 1837 and 1841, a bill securing
these rights finally passed in 1845. This first printing, from
the Sessional Volumes of Parliament, printed in gothic type
(indicative of first edition), is the earliest and most accurate
contemporary source of the Act and precedes all the American
printings. About-fine.
The Jewish Cowboy, 1942
445. (JUDAICA) RABOY, Isaac. Der Yidisher Kauboy
[The Jewish Cowboy]. New York, 1942. Octavo, original
brick cloth. $500.
First edition, with frontispiece portrait.
This roughly autobiographical work recounts the adventures
of Isaac, a Jewish immigrant from Bessarabia who emigrates
to the United States to work in the sweatshops of New York at
the turn of the twentieth century. A horse lover, he then moves
to North Dakota to become a cowboy and meets with
numerous adventures. Text in Yiddish. Fine.
“A Dossier, An Indictment And The
Definitive History”
446. (JUDAICA) KLARSFELD, Serge. French Children of
the Holocaust. New York, 1996. Thick quarto, original
photographic paper-covered boards. $650.
First edition in English of Klarsfeld’s profound memorial,
“the definitive history of the 85 railway transports that
deported more than 11,000 Jewish children… as comprehensive
a book as we are likely to get” (Parr & Badger II), with over
2,500 photographic images of the children.
“In an exhaustive feat of research presented as a memorial…
Serge Klarsfield spent decades restoring the names of 11,400
French Jewish children who were deported during WWII.
Most were put to death in Nazi camps… ‘Here each child has
a story, where he was arrested and what camp he was sent to,’
said Klarsfeld, himself a childhood survivor of the Nazi
occupation” (New York Times). First edition in English,
freshly expanded from the 1994 French first edition, with over
1,000 newly identified photographs. Fine.
Signed By Yousuf Karsh
447. KARSH, Yousuf. In Search of Greatness. Toronto,
1962. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $425.
First edition of Karsh’s memoirs, with photographic
illustrations including six of his renowned portraits, signed
by him. Near-fine.
Keats’ Poetical Works, Handsomely Bound
448. KEATS, John. The Poetical Works. London, 1854.
Octavo, early 20th century full tan calf gilt. $850.
Early edition of Keats’ poetry, with frontispiece portrait and
numerous full-page and in-text wood engravings, handsomely
bound by Hayday.
With a brief life of Keats by Richard Monckton Milnes. Near-
fine.
“A Man Does What He Must… And That Is The
Basis Of All Human Morality”
449. KENNEDY, John F. Profiles in Courage. New
York, 1956. Octavo, original black and blue cloth, dust
jacket. $1400.
First edition of Kennedy’s best-known book.
“A series of sketches of American politicians who risked their
careers in the cause of principle... ‘A man does what he must,’
Kennedy wrote, ‘—in spite of personal consequences, in spite
of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis
of all human morality’... the book was popular history of high
order, and it received the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957”
(DAB). Near-fine.
Signed By William Kennedy
450. KENNEDY, William. Ironweed. New York, 1983.
Octavo, original gray and black boards, dust jacket. $950.
First edition, boldly signed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning
author.
The book earned Kennedy the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for
Literature and a MacArthur Foundation grant. Fine.
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451
Warmly Inscribed By Robert Kennedy
451. KENNEDY, Robert. To Seek a Newer World. Garden
City, 1967. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $2600.
First edition, warmly inscribed, “For Brundon. With the best
wishes of his friend and traveling companion—Bob.”
This collection of essays, which grew out of Kennedy’s travels
and experiences as Attorney General and as a Senator,
addresses such topics as the youth movements, race relations
in America, nuclear arms, and Vietnam. Book fine. Dust
jacket with small chip to rear panel and small abrasion to
front panel, spine lettering faded, extremely good.
Rockwell Kent’s Beowulf, 1932
452. (KENT, Rockwell) LEONARD,
William Ellery, translator. Beowulf. New
York, 1932. Folio, original black-and-
white pictorial cloth. $650.
Limited edition, number 629 of 950 copies
with celebrated illustrator Rockwell
Kent’s thumbprint on the limitation page,
finely printed and illustrated with eight
lithographs by Kent.
William Leonard’s verse translation was
first published in 1923. Without scarce
original dust jacket. Fine.
“The Most Important Illustrated
Book To Have Been Made In
America”
453. (KENT, Rockwell) VOLTAIRE, Jean Francois Marie
Arouet de. Candide. New York, 1928. Quarto, original gilt
stamped tan cloth. $650.
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Limited edition of Voltaire’s masterpiece, number 1470 of
1470 copies signed by illustrator Rockwell Kent.
This copy not among the 95 hand-colored copies of this
edition. Near-fine.
First Edition Of Kerouac’s Big Sur
454. KEROUAC, Jack. Big Sur. New York, 1962. Octavo,
original half black cloth, dust jacket. $700.
First edition of Kerouac’s autobiographic story of Jack Duluoz.
Book fine, dust jacket very nearly so.
Wonderful André Kertész Photograph Of A Cat,
Pencil Dated In His Hand
455. KERTÉSZ, André. Photographic print, untitled
[“Cat”]. New York, circa 1972. Silver gelatin print, measuring
8 by 10 inches. $1600.
Photograph printed by Kertész’s studio, dated by him in
pencil on the verso, apparently produced to promote the
publication of Sixty Years of Photography (1972).
This print is dated, “10-26-43” in Kertész’s hand. Fine.
“A Pioneer Of Photojournalism”
456. KERTÉSZ, André. J’aime Paris. New York, 1974.
Quarto, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $600.
First edition, a memorable assemblage of 218 full-page black-
and-white photogravures by Kertész,
“founder of the humanist
documentary approach” (Parr &
Badger), from the collection of award-
winning photojournalist Peter
Turnley.
Book about-fine, some chipping,
closed tears, slight tape repair to
scarce, very good dust jacket.
Signed By André Kertész
457. KERTÉSZ, André. Hungarian
Memories. Boston, 1982. Large
square quarto, original blue cloth,
dust jacket. $1500.
First edition, signed by Kertész on the
title page, with over 140 black-and-
white and sepia-toned photogravures
452 taken by the Hungarian-born
photographer from 1912-25.
“One of the most influential photographers of this century…
Andre Kertész is widely acknowledged as one of the 20th
century’s most prolific, influential and lyric artists of the
camera.” In Hungarian Memories, early traces of “his
decisive-moment approach to action, his fascination with
distortions and his predilection for compressed, Cubist
compositions… are gloriously present” (New York Times).
Introduction by Hilton Kramer. Near-fine.
André Kertész Photograph
458. KERTÉSZ, André. Photographic print. New York: circa
1972. Silver gelatin print, measuring 8 by 10 inches. $1000.
Photograph of a city view printed by Kertész’s studio,
apparently produced to promote the publication of Sixty
Years of Photography (1972). Fine.
Five-Language Edition Of The Rubáiyát
459. KHAYYÁM, Omar. The Rubáiyát. Boston, 1898.
Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green
morocco gilt. $900.
“Multi-Variorum” edition of Khayyám’s classic, with “English,
French, German, Italian and Danish translations
comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward
Fitzgerald’s version,” illustrated with 12 photogravures.
With publisher’s “Presentation Copy” blind stamp to the title
pages. Fine.
Four Inscribed By Stephen King
460. KING, Stephen. The Dead Zone. New York, 1979.
Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1000.
First edition of King’s paranormal and political thriller,
inscribed by the author on a tipped-in leaf, “For Ray—Hope all
your zones will be live ones! Stephen King, 3/27/83.” Near-fine.
461. KING, Stephen. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger.
West Kingston, Rhode Island, 1982. Octavo, original black
cloth, dust jacket. $4500.
First trade edition of the first book in King’s epic Dark Tower
series, with five full-page color illustrations, color endpapers
and several vignettes by acclaimed fantasy artist Michael
Whelan, inscribed by the author to a fellow writer of horror
fiction, “For Stanley—Welcome to the weird, weird west!
Stephen King, 7/18/82.”
Published simultaneously with a signed limited edition of 500
copies. Bookplate of horror author and scriptwriter Stanley
Wiater. Wiater’s first published story was the winner of a
fiction contest judged by King in 1980. Fine.
462. KING, Stephen. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of
the Three. West Kingston, Rhode Island, 1987. Octavo,
original black cloth, dust jacket. $950.
First trade edition of the second volume in King’s monumental
“Dark Tower” series, inscribed, “For Ron—Good wishes,
Stephen King.”
Illustrated with 10 color plates by Phil Hale. Issued
simultaneously with a deluxe signed limited edition of 850
copies. Fine.
463
463. KING, Stephen. ’Salem’s Lot. Garden City, 1975.
Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $5200.
Rare first edition of King’s second novel, inscribed, “For
Tim—Best, Stephen King, 9/9/79,” in second-issue dust jacket,
as always (virtually no first-issue jackets exist).
King’s ability, through the overlayering of seemingly irrelevant
mundane details, to generate a sense of wrongness found its
first full flowering in this novel” (Clute & Grant, 537). Minor
rubbing to edges of bright, about-fine dust jacket. A beautiful
copy.
Signed By Stephen King
464. KING, Stephen. Carrie. New York, 1974. Octavo,
original burgundy cloth, dust jacket. $4000.
First edition, signed by King. This novel inaugurated King’s
reign as “the best-selling American author during the final
quarter of the 20th century” (Chronology of American
Literature). Fine.
“Harvey Could See The Glittering Cod Below”
465. KIPLING, Rudyard. Captains Courageous. London,
1897. Octavo, original full blue cloth gilt, custom chemise and
half blue morocco slipcase. $900.
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 First edition of this story of deep-sea fishing, with frontispiece
and 21 illustrations by I.W. Taber. Without scarce dust jacket.
Near-fine.
“A Genius Has Married The Fable
And The Fairy-Story”
466. KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little
Children. London, 1902. Octavo, original pictorial red
cloth. $1500.
First edition of Kipling’s classic collection of stories, illustrated
with 22 plates designed by Kipling himself.
Kipling’s own witty black-and-white drawings... together with
their extensive and ridiculous captions, are one of the chief
delights of the book” (Carpenter & Prichard, 285). This is the
second issue, without the easily-flaked white pigment
originally used to stamp the spine, here replaced with the
more durable white. Without extraordinarily scarce original
dust jacket. Sparse scattered foxing. Pictorial cloth fresh and
lovely, spine ends lightly rubbed. Extremely good.
467
Inscribed By William Klein To A
Close Friend And Colleague
467. KLEIN, William. William Klein. Tokyo, 1991. Large
square quarto, original stiff photographic wraps. $1200.
Revised, expanded edition of a 1987 exhibition catalogue,
published to include additional photographs and stills from
Klein’s films, boldly inscribed by him to a colleague, “To ----,
again from [Japanese symbols for ‘Tokyo’], With Best! William
Klein,” featuring 50 pages of photographic plates and
numerous additional images.
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Published only in wrappers, this expanded work contains
additional photographs and images from Klein’s films, along
with commentaries in both English and Japanese. Fine.
A Rare 19th-Century Guide To Ornate
Calligraphic Handwriting
468. KNAPP, Nathaniel C. and RIGHTMYER, Levi. A Self
Guide to Rapid Writing. New York, 1852. Oblong quarto,
contemporary marbled blue paper wrappers; ll. 12. $2600.
First edition of this rare guide to elaborate calligraphic
handwriting, with beautifully embellished title page.
This 19th-century lithographed writing manual includes
instructions for holding and positioning of the pen, seven
leaves of simple calligraphic alphabets with more complex
letters broken up into steps, and three leaves of ornate and
exquisite historiated capitals based on John Seddon’s lush
writing manual, The Pen-mans Paradis, published circa 1695.
Pinpoint foxing to text and booklabel, a bit of soiling, faint
white markings to title page, light wear to extremities of
contemporary wrappers. Extremely good.
First Edition Of A Separate Peace
469. KNOWLES, John. A Separate Peace. London, 1959.
Small octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
First edition of the author’s first and most famous novel.
Book fine, bright dust jacket very good with slightest rubbing
to edges and chip to foot of spine.
Inscribed By Jerzy Kosinski
470. KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Being There. New York, 1970.
Octavo, original half yellow cloth, dust jacket. $950.
First edition of Kosinski’s wry satire, boldly signed by him
and dated “May 1971.” Near-fine.
“And His Soul Could Not Leave Her,
Wherever She Was”
471. LAWRENCE, D.H. Sons and Lovers. London, 1913.
Octavo, original blue cloth gilt. $3000.
First edition, first state, of Lawrence’s first important novel.
An exceptional copy.
“Sons and Lovers is in many respects stylistically innovatory.
It emphasizes moments of sharp personal conflict and intense
psychological process which is conveyed in the charged,
symbolic prose characteristic of Lawrence’s best work”
(Stringer, 632). Light scattered foxing, less than usual, cloth
exceptionally fine.
First Edition Of D.H. Lawrence’s St. Mawr
472. LAWRENCE, D.H. St. Mawr together with The
Princess. London, 1925. Octavo, original brown cloth, dust
jacket. $500.
“I Drew These Tides Of Men Into My Hands And
Wrote My Will Across The Sky In Stars”
476. LAWRENCE, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London,
1935. Quarto, original half tan pigskin. $3500.

First edition, first issue, in scarce original dust jacket.
The title novella and “The Princess” were drawn largely from
Lawrence’s experience in New Mexico and his tense
relationship with patroness Mabel Dodge, a strong-willed
American woman who “confessed that she wanted to seduce
Lawrence, in the spiritual if not physical sense, and to subject
him to her oppressive will” (Meyers, 286). Book near-fine,
scarce dust jacket very good with light wear to extremities,
spotting to front panel, spine darkened.
Limited first published edition, number 426 of 750 copies, of
Lawrence’s famous account of his legendary part in the Arab
rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during World War I,
richly illustrated.
Preceded only by the very rare private printing of 1926. With
four-page publisher’s brochure listing works by Lawrence laid
in. Near-fine.
477

Limited First Edition Of D. H. Lawrence’s

The Virgin And The Gipsy
473. LAWRENCE, D.H. The Virgin and the Gipsy.
Florence, 1930. Octavo, original cream paper boards, dust
jacket. $1100.

Limited first edition, number 49 of only 810 copies printed, in

the scarce original dust jacket.

The Virgin and the Gipsy is largely “preoccupied with themes

of renewal and the need to break from inhibiting cultural and
social environments. As in much of his work, this search is
conducted through complex, ambiguous portraits of sexual
relationships” (Stringer, 380). Book near-fine; original dust
jacket with light toning and wear to corners, very good.
“The Persians Never Alter Their Fashions”
First Edition Of D.H. Lawrence’s Letters
477. LE BRUYN, Cornelius. Travels into Muscovy, Persia,
474. LAWRENCE, D.H. The Letters. London and New and Part of the East-Indies. London, 1737. One volume (of
York, 1932. Octavo, original cream paper boards. $800. two). Folio, contemporary full brown tree calf. $5800.
Limited first edition, number 217 of 525 copies. First edition in English of this exceptional trans-Asia
expedition by Dutch painter Cornelius Le Bruyn, with
The book contains “a splendid and enduring portrait of
allegorical frontispiece by Picart, portrait of Le Bruyn, and
Lawrence by Aldous Huxley as its introduction” (Maddox,
129 (of 315 in the complete set) superb copper-engravings,
488-9). Without original slipcase. Near-fine.
including 26 full-page and 20 double-page plates (most with
multiple images), four large, folding panoramic views and 21
Hunting, Fishing, Racing And Cock-Fighting in-text engravings.
475. LAWRENCE, John (SCOTT, William Henry). British “The Persians never alter their fashions, and have preserved
Field Sports. London, 1818. Thick octavo, late 19th-century that air of grandeur which prevailed among them in the days
full mottled calf gilt. $1200. of Alexander.” In 1701, landscape painter Cornelius Le Bruyn
began the second of his journeys, a seven-year trip to the East-
First edition of this comprehensive manual on the “essentials”
Indies, first “taking a ship to the country of the Samoyeds (the
of hunting small game, racing, fishing and cock-fighting, with
White Sea coast of Russia) and then proceeding to Moscow.
lengthy sections on training dogs and horses and maintaining
Traveling by way of Asia Minor (Turkey), he arrived in Persia,
firearms, illustrated with a frontispiece, additional wood-
where he remained for the years 1704-05. Leaving Persia he
engraved title page and 33 full-page engravings of dogs,
proceeded to India, Ceylon and the East Indies” (Howgego,
horses, game and hunting scenes. With vignettes by Thomas
157). Le Bruyn’s narrative of his second journey was originally
Bewick. Fine.
published in Dutch (1711) and in French (1718); this English

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 edition was translated from the Amsterdam French edition. First editions of the complete two-issue run of this important
Small paper repair to page 195, shallow dampstain to margin arts journal, featuring the works of Le Corbusier and Fernand
of last few leaves, rear endpaper excised. Contemporary calf Léger, as well as other noted artists of the day, richly
near-fine. A splendid work beautifully illustrated. illustrated.

“I Bid A Last Farewell... And With A Heavy
Heart Turned From The Ruins Of Ancient
Nineveh”
478. LAYARD, Austen H. Discoveries in the Ruins of
Nineveh and Babylon. London, 1853. Thick octavo,
contemporary full brown pebbled morocco gilt. $1500.
First edition of this authoritative study on the Assyrian cities
of Nineveh and Babylon, richly illustrated with five folding
maps, 11 lithographic plates (two folding, eight tinted), and
numerous in-text wood engravings.
This planned tri-yearly journal was designed to “define the
aspects of form and its static or dynamic development with
the collaboration of architects, plastics artists, designers,
engineers, biologists aestheticians, and psychiatrists.” The
cover was designed by Le Corbusier, and featured numerous
photographs of his buildings, sculptures, and paintings, as
well as an essay by him. Essays and works by Léger are also
featured. Text in French and English. Fine.

Chief among Layard’s groundbreaking achievements was the

discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets that comprised
the great library at Ashurbanipal. Occasional light foxing,
small split to fold of one plate.

Signed By John Le Carré

479. LE CARRÉ, John. A Murder of Quality. New York,
1963. Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $4000.

First American edition of Le Carré’s second George Smiley

novel, signed by Le Carré.

First American edition published one year after first English
edition. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
“A Genuine Modern Version Of Tragedy”
480. LE CARRÉ, John. The Spy Who Came in From the
Cold. London, 1963. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust
jacket. $2800.
First edition of this classic of the spy genre, a fine copy.
“The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is still Le Carré’s cleanest
job: compact in structure, deftly deceptive in the unfolding of
its triple-cross, and painfully human in the characterizations
of two victims of ‘our’ side’s necessary but evil mission”
(Reilly, 933-34). Fine.
“Forms Which Creep, Scour The Oceans, Or
Perforate The Clouds…”
481. LE CORBUSIER (JEANNERET-GRIS, Charles-
Édouard). LÉGER, Fernand, et al. Formes et Vie. Paris, 1951.
Two volumes. Folio, 9-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches, original illustrated
self-wrappers, Volume I spiral bound, Volume II staple-
bound, as issued, Volume II encircled by rare original glassine
advertising band; pp. 34; pp. 38. $2200.
Inscribed By Leaf— 482
With “Pawprint” From Noodle
482. LEAF, Munro and BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Noodle.
New York, 1937. Oblong octavo, original brown cloth, dust
jacket. $3000.
First edition, inscribed by the author on behalf of his title
character, “To Jo & Hein from Noodle and Munro Leaf,”
further inscribed with an ink “pawprint” and the words “his
mark” in Leaf’s hand.
Book with interior generally clean, price-clipped dust jacket
with closed tears, a few chips, and minor wear to spine ends.
Extremely good.
Signed By Munro Leaf And Robert Lawson
483. LEAF, Munro. Wee Gillis. New York, 1938. Slim
octavo, original burlap-covered boards, slipcase. $785.
Signed limited first edition, the Thistle Edition, one of 525
copies signed by the author and the illustrator.
This fable of the boy who plays the biggest bagpipes in Scotland
was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 1939. Original slipcase
with a bit of toning and light wear to seams, book fine.

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Signed By Harper Lee
484. LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York, 1999.
Octavo, original gray paper boards, dust jacket. $950.
Fortieth Anniversary edition, signed by Harper Lee. Fine.
485
Inscribed By Ira Levin
485. LEVIN, Ira. Rosemary’s Baby. New York, 1967.
Octavo, original half navy cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
First edition of this influential horror classic, inscribed by the
author, “1/8/07. To James Helgar, with best wishes, Ira
Levin.”
“One of the most sophisticated and stimulating books in the
genre. The most important horror novel of the 1960s and the
book that launched the ‘horror boom’ of the 1960s and 1970s”
(Barron, Horror Literature, 206). Very nearly fine.
“One Of The Three Or Four Most Influential
Science Fiction Novels Of The Last Half-Century”
486. LEGUIN, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness. New
York, 1969. Octavo, original olive paper-covered boards, dust
jacket. $2200.
First hardcover edition of this Nebula and Hugo award-
winning classic.
“Delicate yet daring in its handling of sexual themes, narrated
with immense gravitas, The Left Hand of Darkness remains
Ursula Le Guin’s masterpiece,” winning the 1969 Nebula
award and the 1970 Hugo award (Pringle, Science Fiction: The
100 Best Novels: 60). This hardcover edition was preceded in
the same year by a pulp paperback edition, published with
very poor production standards by Ace Books. About-fine.
Inscribed By Annie Leibovitz
487. LEIBOVITZ, Annie. Annie Leibovitz Photographs.
New York, 1983. Quarto, original gray cloth, dust
jacket. $850.
First edition of Leibovitz’s first photobook collection, a rare
presentation/association copy, twice inscribed by her, first on
the half title, “Annie Leibovitz 3/29/85, Dallas,” and again on
the title page, “For Laura—Thank you for all the Southern
hospitality—I can’t tell you what a wonderful time I had—
XXX Annie,” featuring 69 vivid, full-color and black-and-
white celebrity portraits.
Warmly inscribed by Leibovitz to Dallas gallery owner Laura
Carpenter, with Carpenter’s gallery label on the front free
endpaper. Fine.
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Signed
By Illustrator Pauline Baynes
488. LEWIS, C.S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
London, 1950. Octavo, modern full burgundy morocco gilt,
custom slipcase. $2600.
First edition of the first volume in Lewis’ acclaimed Chronicles
of Narnia, signed by illustrator Pauline Baynes. Occasional
mild foxing. A handsomely bound copy.
“How All The Comings And Goings Between
Our Own World And The Land Of Narnia
First Began”
489. LEWIS, C.S. The Magician’s Nephew. London, 1955.
Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $3600.
First edition of the sixth book published in Lewis’ acclaimed
Narnia series, with illustrations by Pauline Baynes.
“The Narnia books are intoxicating to all but the most
relentlessly unimaginative readers, and must be judged the
most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-
century author” (Carpenter & Prichard, 370). Near-fine.
“Farther Up And Farther In!”
490. LEWIS, C.S. The Last Battle. London, 1956. Octavo,
original light blue cloth, dust jacket. $3600.
First edition of the final book in Lewis’ beloved fantasy
series.
“The story has a life of its own and it moves easily through the
eschatological themes of death, judgment, hell and heaven. It
is not only the fitting conclusion to the Chronicles: given
Lewis’ Christian faith, it is their only possible conclusion”
(Ford, xxxiv). About-fine.
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 Gardner’s Carte-De-Visite early printing of the
Portrait Of Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation
(General Order No.1). Copy
491. (LINCOLN, Abraham) GARDNER, belonging to Dr. C.W. Jones,
Alexander. Carte-de-visite photograph of with gilt presentation on front
Abraham Lincoln. New York, pencil dated cover.
October 2, 1864. Original albumen print,
mount measures 2-1/2 by 4 inches. $1800. The general orders collected
here, issued between January
Vintage albumen print made by the famous and July 1863, offer an in-depth
photographic firm of E. and H.T. Anthony view of military life during the
from a stereopticon negative taken by Civil War. Of special interest is
Alexander Gardner in Brady’s National General Order No.1—Lincoln’s
Portrait Gallery in 1861—shortly before Emancipation Proclamation,
Lincoln’s inauguration. declaring “all persons held as
slaves… are and henceforward
Edward and Henry Anthony (one of the shall be free.” This General
oldest names in the American photographic Order No.1 is one of the earliest
industry) produced stereopticon views official printings of Lincoln’s
during and after the Civil War in their “War final version. It was preceded
for the Union Series,” including those of only by the Illinois State Journal
Gardner’s Lincoln from which this carte- “extra” of January 2, 1863
de-visite was made. Excellent condition. (known only in a single copy), a
Most desirable. small format two-page broadside
“printed in haste to serve the
Reception Following Lincoln’s urgent need for a few copies”
Second Inaugural Address 491 (also known only in a single
copy), and “the resplendent, official folio edition” (Eberstadt
492. (LINCOLN, Abraham). HOHENSTEIN, Anton. 10) (known only in nine copies, seven of which are in
Abraham Lincoln’s Last Reception. Philadelphia, 1865. institutional libraries). This General Order No.1 is one of the
Large original lithograph, measuring 32 by 24 inches, earliest printings of the Proclamation after it took effect as
handsomely framed, entire piece measures 37 by 30 law. This copy was presented to Dr. C.W. Jones by J. Taylor P.
inches. $2500. Wood, with the inscription stamped in gilt on the front cover.
Wood served in the Adjutant General’s Office (Regular Army)
Large original lithograph depicting Lincoln’s second inaugural
and Jones was presumably a Civil War surgeon. Without a
reception, produced after Lincoln’s assassination in order to
title page; each order paginated separately. Interior generally
remind the public of the martyred President’s happier times.
clean, with only a few scattered patches of foxing.
Lincoln’s assassination fostered a spate of popular prints Contemporary morocco with light expert restoration.
depicting the memorable events of Lincoln’s life, including Scarce.
portraits, scenes of the assassination, and images of earlier,
happier times—giving the American public a glimpse into the Signed By Charles Lindbergh
past of the martyred President, albeit one based more on the
artist’s imagination than on reality. Since the artist Anton 494. LINDBERGH, Charles A. We. The Flier’s Own Story
Hohenstein was not himself present at the reception, he was of His Life and His Transatlantic Flight. New York and
forced to consult already existing portraits of the principal London, 1927. Large octavo, original three-quarter vellum
figures. Fine. gilt, glassine, original box. $4800.

Limited “Author’s Autograph Edition,” number 721 of 1000

Early Printing Of The Emancipation
Proclamation In The General Orders, 1863
493. LINCOLN, Abraham. “Emancipation Proclamation.”
IN: General Orders. Washington, 1863. Thick small octavo,
contemporary full black morocco gilt. $4700.
Scarce government printings of 202 general orders issued
between January 2nd and July 1st, 1863, including a very
copies signed by Lindbergh and the publisher, featuring
numerous photographs and illustrations, in extremely scarce
publisher’s box, almost always lacking.
Lindbergh’s first autobiographical work, We recounts his
education as an aviator, his early career, and the 1927 flight
that made him famous. With photographs and illustrations.
Book fine, light wear to original glassine and box.

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Inscribed By Both Anne Morrow Lindbergh
And Charles Lindbergh
495. LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. North to the
Orient. New York, 1935. Octavo, original blue cloth, Historical and Romantic. London, 1841. Quarto, late 19th-
dust jacket. $3500.
First edition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s account of her
journey to Alaska and along the Arctic Circle to Russia, China
and Japan, inscribed, “For Mayor and Mrs. Theodore J.
Koenig, from Anne Morrow Lindbergh” and beneath his
wife’s inscription Charles Lindbergh has signed, “Charles A.
Lindbergh. Long Barn, 1936.”
In July of 1931, Anne Morrow Lindbergh took off with her
husband Charles in their aircraft Sirius on a journey that
would extend for over two months and take her to places
“where no white woman had been before.” With maps by
Charles Lindbergh. Book about-fine. Dust jacket very good
with several chips.
499
Signed By The Lindberghs
496. LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
Listen! The Wind. New York, 1938.
Octavo, original red cloth, custom half
morocco slipcase. $3200.
First edition, fifth printing, signed by
Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles
Lindbergh.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh accompanied
her husband Charles on his survey
flight around the North Atlantic Ocean
in 1933. With a photographic plate
showing the Tingmissartoq, the plane
in which the Lindberghs made their
journey. About-fine.
Inscribed By Anne Morrow
Lindbergh
497. LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. The Flower and
the Nettle. New York, 1976. Octavo, original cloth, dust
jacket. $1250.
First edition, presentation copy, of the fourth in the five-book
series of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Diaries and Letters,
inscribed: “For Mary Tay and Sam—with my love—(I hope
you will approve of—and that Charles would have approved
of—my Introduction.) Anne” and signed “Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, January 1976.”
“Sam” in the inscription is Sam Pryor, a Vice-President of Pan
Am, from whom the Lindberghs acquired some acres to build
their Maui home.. With photographic plates. Book near-fine,
dust jacket extremely good.
“A More Beautifully Embellished Volume
Never Was Offered”
498. LOCKHART, J.G. Ancient Spanish Ballads;
century three-quarter red calf gilt. $985.
First illustrated edition, profusely illustrated with 77 wood
engravings after various British artists, and with
chromolithographic section titles, borders, and ornamental
letters by Owen Jones, handsomely bound.
“A more appropriately as well as beautifully embellished
volume never was offered to the world” (Allibone 1119). First
published in 1823 without illustrations. Lowndes, 1381. A
near-fine copy.
Lodge’s Portraits Of Illustrious Personages
499. LODGE, Edmund. Portraits of Illustrious
Personages of Great Britain. London, 1823-34. Twelve
volumes. Quarto, contemporary full
red morocco gilt. $4000.
First quarto editions of Lodge’s greatest
work, beautifully illustrated with 240
fine steel-engraved portraits, and
handsomely bound by J. Mackenzie,
bookbinder to the King.
Portraits and biographical sketches
include Locke, Newton, Cromwell,
Wellington, Robert Boyle, Lord Nelson,
Sir Thomas More, Anne Boleyn, Jane
Seymour, Mary Stuart, Walter Raleigh,
Francis Bacon, etc. The steel engravings
are after the original portraits by
Holbein, Vandyke, and others.
Occasional minor marginal foxing;
light wear to contemporary binding. A
handsome set, finely illustrated.
“Joe Had Not Been A Boy Among Boys
For Nothing”
500. LONDON, Jack. The Cruise of the Dazzler. New York,
1902. Octavo, original cream and orange cloth. $4000.
First edition, first issue, one of the rarest of London’s early
novels, with frontispiece and five full-page illustrations.
At fifteen, escaping a grueling factory job, London borrowed
money for a small sloop called the Razzle Dazzle and after
“joining a gang of hard-drinking hoodlums known as ‘the
Oyster Pirates’ on San Francisco Bay, these escapades were
fictionalized in the Cruise of the Dazzler.” Without extremely
scarce dust jacket. Near-fine.
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 “…His Great Throat A-Bellow As He Sings A
Song Of The Younger World…”
501. LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. New York and
London, 1903. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth. $1800.
First edition, first issue of one of the most desirable classics in
American literature.
With 18 full-page color illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin
and Charles Livingston Bull. Nearly fine.
“The Most Merciful Thing In The World… Is The
Inability Of The Human Mind To Correlate All
Its Contents”
502. LOVECRAFT, H.P. The Dunwich
Horror and Others. Sauk City, Wisconsin,
1963. Octavo, original black cloth, dust
jacket. $600.
First edition of this important Lovecraft
collection.
“The first of three volumes that brought
Lovecraft’s fiction back into print” (Joshi 67).
This selection includes 16 tales of the strange
and supernatural, including the title story,
considered one of the core elements in the
complex “Cthulhu Mythos,” arguably
Lovecraft’s most influential legacy to the
horror genre. Fine.
“…The Dark Ocean Floor Shall Ascend Amidst
Universal Pandemonium”
503. LOVECRAFT, H.P. Dagon and Other Macabre Tales.
Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1965. Octavo, original black cloth, dust
jacket. $500.
First edition of this Arkham House collection.
“The third volume in Arkham House’s program of reissuing
Lovecraft’s fiction” (Joshi 82). The volume presents 33 tales,
four fragments and the influential essay, “Supernatural
Horror in Literature.” Book fine, dust jacket quite bright with
minor rubbing and a few abrasions.
Handsomely Bound Set Of Lowell’s Works
504. LOWELL, James Russell. Works. Ten volumes. WITH:
Latest Literary Essays and Addresses. WITH: The Old
English Dramatists. Boston and New York, 1892-93. Twelve
volumes. Small octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown
pebbled morocco gilt. $1500.
Riverside Edition of Lowell’s works, with two supplemental
volumes, beautifully bound, with five engraved frontispiece
portraits. Fine.
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By General MacArthur And General Kenney
505. MACARTHUR, Douglas. Photograph signed.
Washington, 1945. Black-and-white photograph, measuring
5 by 4 inches. $1600.
Original black-and-white U.S. Army news photograph of
General MacArthur wading through the marshes of Borneo,
signed by both Douglas MacArthur (as D. MacA.) and George
C. Kenney.
The photograph, dated “6/11/45,” shows General MacArthur
leading officers through the marshes of Brunei in the
process of inspecting the Australian troops who captured
the area. Fine.
The First Lew Archer Novel
506. MACDONALD, Ross. The Moving
Target. New York, 1949. Octavo, original
orange cloth, dust jacket. $3500.
First edition of the first Lew Archer novel by
“the true successor to Hammett and
Chandler” (Woeller & Cassiday, 141).
Near-fine.
“If The Questions Seemed Oddly
One-Sided To Me, It Was Because
They Were Answers, Too, Forced
Out In A Kind Of Code”
506 507. MACDONALD, Ross. Black Money.
New York, 1966. Octavo, original half
maroon cloth, dust jacket. $1200.
First edition of the 13th book in the Lew Archer series. Fine.
Rare First American Edition Of
At The Back Of The North Wind
508. MACDONALD, George. At the Back of the
North Wind. New York, 1871. 12mo, original pebbled
pictorial magenta cloth gilt rebacked with original spine
laid down. $2800.
First American edition, published the same year as the
English, of MacDonald’s classic story, his first full-length
work for children. With 76 in-text wood engravings by the
Dalziel brothers after illustrations by Arthur Hughes.
Maurice Sendak wrote that MacDonald’s work “does more
than merely suggest mystery—you walk right into it. Every one
of his books is a dream romance… You want to believe
whatever it is.” Enhancing this dream-like atmosphere are the
wonderful wood engravings by the Dalziels after original
artwork by the important Pre-Raphaelite Arthur Hughes. Text
generally clean, repair to rear inner paper hinge. Only minor
edge-wear and lightest rubbing to exceptionally nice cloth.
Macmichael’s Journey From Moscow To
Constantinople, 1819 First Edition
509. MACMICHAEL, William. Journey from Moscow to
Constantinople in the Years 1817, 1818. London, 1819.
Quarto, modern three-quarter brown calf. $2200.
First edition of Macmichael’s narrative of a journey from
Moscow to Constantinople, with six aquatint plates. A fine,
uncut copy.
In 1811, Macmichael was elected a Radcliffe traveling fellow
and “made several journeys in Russia, Turkey, the Danubian
principalities and Palestine. In 1812 he visited Thermopylae,
and suffered afterwards from intermittent fever for two years.
He visited the ruins of Moscow in 1814, and in 1817 revisited
the city. He traveled thence to Constantinople” (DNB). Fine.
“I... Know That It Is A Rising Not A Setting Sun”
510. MADISON, James. The Papers of James Madison.
Mobile, 1842. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full
speckled tan calf. $4500.
Third printing of Madison’s notes on the Constitutional
Convention, “by far the fullest and most complete record of
the debates themselves and... remarkably accurate” (Smith,
91).
When the members of the Constitutional Convention met in
Philadelphia in May 1787, they held their deliberations in
secret in order to encourage complete candor. An official
record was earlier printed which chronicled votes and
resolutions, but none of the debates on representation,
separation of powers, individual rights or the other
characteristics of the American Constitution. Three other
delegates are known to have kept notes of the proceedings, but
they attended the convention for only two brief periods. In
contrast, Madison organized the Convention and attended
every day. “His painstaking notes provide the greater part of
what we know about the actual discussions that took place in
the convention” (Smith, 90). Preceded by two scarce editions,
the 1840 Washington D. C. printing and the 1841 New York
printing. With index and facsimiles. Sabin 43716. Light
scattered foxing, a bit of wear and faint dampstaining to
contemporary calf. Extremely good.
Inscribed By Gregory Maguire
511. MAGUIRE, Gregory. Wicked: The Life and Times of
the Wicked Witch of the West. New York, 1995. Octavo,
original laminated boards, dust jacket. $1250.
First edition of Maguire’s popular and pointed reinvention of
Oz, inscribed by the author with the concluding passage of
the novel: “And there the wicked old witch stayed for a long
time. And did she ever come out? Not yet. Gregory Maguire, 3
Oct. 2006.” Fine.
Inscribed By Norman Mailer
512. MAILER, Norman. The Naked and the Dead. New
York and Toronto, 1948. Octavo, original black cloth, dust
jacket, custom clamshell box. $4200.
First edition of Mailer’s landmark first novel, inscribed,
“To ---, Cordially, Norman Mailer, Oct ’93.”
In first issue dust jacket, in a custom clamshell box with
mounted dust jacket cover design. Near-fine.
With Over 130 Architectural Plates Of
London Buildings
513. MAITLAND, William. The History of London.
London, 1772. Two volumes. Thick folio, contemporary full
brown diced calf rebacked. $3000.
Later (fifth) edition, profusely illustrated with 133 folio plates
and maps.
The plates include two double-page maps of London, detailed
plans of the different wards of London (many double-page),
and views of the churches, palaces, bridges, hospitals, and
other institutions of greater London. First published in 1739,
Maitland’s History was considerably augmented and enlarged
over the years. Plates and text quite clean, extremities of
contemporary calf lightly rubbed.
Signed By Bernard Malamud
514. MALAMUD, Bernard. The Magic Barrel. New York,
1958. Octavo, original lavender cloth, dust jacket. $1100.
First edition, signed by Malamud. Near-fine.
“An Almost Sublime Simplicity And Intensity”
515. MAPPLETHORPE, Robert. Lady Lisa Lyon. New
York, 1983. Quarto, original photographic stiff paper
wrappers. $1100.
First edition of Mapplethorpe’s sculptural study of the female
form, signed by Mapplethorpe and bodybuilder Lisa Lyon.
with text by Bruce Chatwin and over 100 photogravure
plates.
Foreword by Mapplethorpe’s longtime partner and influential
photography collector, Samuel Wagstaff. First edition in
wrappers, published same year as first cloth edition, no
priority established. As issued without dust jacket. Fine.
Signed By Mary Ellen Mark
516. MARK, Mary Ellen. Mary Ellen Mark: 25 Years.
Boston, 1991. Square quarto, original gray cloth, dust
jacket. $550.
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 First edition of this retrospective tribute to Mark’s work,
signed by her, with laid-in, black-and-white photogravure
postcard of Mark’s “Barcelona 1987” inscribed in black felt
pen on the verso, “Dear Paul Greenstein—Put me on your
mailing list—I hope I get to visit your shop one day—Best
Wishes, Mary Ellen,” with 130 tritones of Mark’s “elegantly
composed and frequently lyrical” images (New York Times).
Features essay by critic and author Marianne Fulton. Fine
517
“Unfiltered Glimpses Into The Lives And Spirits
Of The People They Record”
517. MARK, Mary Ellen. Falkland Road: Prostitutes of
Bombay. New York, 1981. Square quarto, original navy cloth,
dust jacket. $950.
First edition of Mark’s collection of 65 striking color
photographs documenting the lives of Bombay prostitutes,
review copy, with slip from Knopf laid in, and with postcard
signed by Mark tipped in.
“For over 30 years Mark has excelled at the traditional task of
the documentary photographer, recording the lives of people
on the margins of society in dramatic and visually compelling
images. What sets her pictures apart, though, is their intimacy,
the sense that in looking at them we are being offered
unfiltered glimpses into the lives and spirits of the people they
record” (Charles Hagen). Fine.
“An Eloquent Look At Lives On The Edge”
518. MARK, Mary Ellen. Streetwise. New York, 1988.
Square quarto, original photographic wrappers. $550.
Second edition, with black-and-white photogravure
Halloween postcard by Mark (measuring 3 by 5-1/2 inches),
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captioned “Happy Holidays,” signed by Mary Ellen Mark and
her husband Martin Bell, who directed the 1984 Oscar-
nominated film inspired by her work, with 58 black-and-white
photogravures.
Mark’s remarkable work in Streetwise had origins in what
remains “her best-known photo essay, a story of teenage
runaways in Seattle [that] appeared in Life magazine in July
1983” (McDarrah & McDarrah, 300). First Aperture Press
edition, preceded same year by extremely scarce University of
Pennsylvania Press edition; published only in softcover;
without dust jacket as issued. Near-fine..
“…I Would Visit The Country And
Judge For Myself”
519. MARRYAT, Frederick. A Diary in America. London,
1839. Six volumes. 12mo, contemporary three-quarter tan
calf rebacked. $1600.
First edition of Marryat’s spirited account of his travels in
America, with two folding maps.
Hailed at its publication as “the most readable and one of the
most valuable works which has yet appeared on America”
(The London Spectator), Marryat’s diary offers a lively account
of the United States in the early 19th century, illustrated with
two folding maps. Very nearly fine.
Rare 1790 Broadside Dividing Massachusetts
Into Districts For The Election Of Its Eight
Representatives To The First U.S. Congress
520. HANCOCK, John. Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, June 14,
1790. Resolved. That the Commonwealth be, and hereby is
divided into eight districts, for the purpose of electing
eight persons to represent the people thereof in Congress
of the United States. Boston, 1790. Broadside, original sheet
measuring 13-1/2 by 17 inches, printed on recto only,
mounted on Japanese tissue. $6000.
Original printed broadside, signed in type by John Hancock,
then Governor of Massachusetts, the 1790 resolution dividing
the state into eight districts for electing representatives to the
first United States Congress.
At a time of national debate over the Articles of Confederation,
Hancock made a speech that “was a turning point in
persuading Massachusetts to ratify the Constitution” (ANB).
As governor he also presided over passage of this
Commonwealth of Massachusetts resolution establishing the
state’s electoral procedures. With ornamental headpiece,
printed in two columns above printed date of June 18, 1790,
and printed signature of John Hancock, along with those of
David Cobb, Samuel Phillips and John Avery. Expertly
rebacked with small ink marks in right margin, light foxing,
very faint foldlines, trivial loss at one fold, not affecting text.
Extremely good.
“The Oldest Still-Governing Written “I Was Ravished With The Beauty Of The World”
Constitution In The World”
523. MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The Razor’s Edge. Garden
521. (MASSACHUSETTS) Constitution of the State of City, 1944. Octavo, original red cloth. $3200.
Massachusetts, and that of the United States; The
Declaration of Independence, with President Washington’s Signed limited first edition, number 434 of 750 copies signed
Farewell Address. Boston, 1805. 12mo, contemporary half by Maugham.
brown sheep. $800. Considered exotic in its time for its focus on “Eastern
First edition of the Massachusetts Constitution as it was philosophy and mysticism, The Razor’s Edge is Maugham’s
published together with the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration 20th-century manifesto for human fulfillment. Without
of Independence and Washington’s 1796 Farewell Address. slipcase. Near-fine.
Written by John Adams, Samuel Adams and James Bowdoin,
the Massachusetts Constitution served as a model for the With 113 Rich Folio Photogravure Plates
United States Constitution and basis for the 1783 Of African Wildlife
Massachusetts Supreme Court decision ruling slavery
unconstitutional. 524. MAXWELL, Marius. Stalking Big Game with a
Camera in Equatorial Africa. London, 1924. Folio, original
The first draft of the Massachusetts Constitution had black cloth. $2200.
recognized slavery and was initially
rejected by voters. Rewritten and passed Signed limited first edition of
by popular vote in 1780, it now included Maxwell’s photographic tour de
in its first article the phrase, “all men force, number 395 of 568 copies
are born free and equal.” Three years signed by Maxwell, featuring 113
after its passage, Massachusetts Chief spectacular photogravure plates
Justice William Cushing cited this (two double-page and many with
phrase as the basis for his action in the multiple images) showing African
Quock Walker Case, where he held that wildlife, along with colored map of
“‘the idea of slavery is inconsistent with Kenya and splendid mounted blue-
our own conduct and the Constitution’… tone panoramic gravure printed on
This decision was accepted by the calendered stock, “Advancing
people of the state as abolishing slavery,” Animals in the Lorian Swamp,”
making Massachusetts the first state in measuring 11-1/2 by 36 inches, and
the union to do so (Dumond, 31). The folded into rear pocket.
Massachusetts Constitution is regarded This is the London issue, only 300
the “oldest still-governing written copies of which were reserved for
constitution in the world” (Associated sale; 250 additional copies were
Press) and served as a model for the issued simultaneously for the United
United States Constitution. Scattered States with a New York, Century
foxing, loss of bottom corner of page 41 imprint. Near-fine.
(affecting two lines of text), tape repairs 524
to pages 44 and 119, dampstain to fore-edge margin of last few
“A Malign Star Kept Him”
leaves. Spine ends lost, some wear to original paper covering.
525. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Child of God. New York,
Inscribed By W. Somerset Maugham 1973. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
522. MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Smith. London, 1913. First edition of McCarthy’s third novel. Without remainder
Small octavo, original printed buff paper wrappers, custom mark often found on copies of this book. Fine.
chemise and slipcase. $1600.
Signed By Cormac McCarthy
First edition of Maugham’s comedy, wrappers issue, inscribed
by him on the title page where he has crossed out his printed 526. MCCARTHY, Cormac. The Crossing. New York,
name: “By W. Somerset Maugham, for Eddie.” 1994. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $950.
Issued simultaneously with copies in red cloth; with Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 copies signed by the
publisher’s printed overslip tipped to front wrapper, as issued. author. Fine.
Near-fine. Scarce.

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 Signed By Frank McCourt Inscribed By Larry McMurtry
527. MCCOURT, Frank. Angela’s Ashes. New York, 1996. 530. MCMURTRY, Larry. The Last Picture Show. New
Octavo, original half burgundy cloth, dust jacket. $950. York, 1966. Octavo, original tan cloth, dust jacket. $2200.

First edition of McCourt’s first book, signed by him. McCourt’s First edition of McMurtry’s popular third novel, inscribed by
brilliant memoir was awarded the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Fine. the author, “For Martin Riddle, better late than never, Larry
McMurtry.”
“A Dreamlike, Mysterious Process”
Moderate dampstaining to last gathering of text and to spine
528. MCCULLERS, Carson. Collected Stories. Boston, and rear board. Dust jacket with corresponding dampstain,
1987. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $350. mild rubbing to spine, two shallow chips to spine head,
unobtrusive vertical crease to front panel. Extremely good.
First edition, with an introduction by McCullers’ leading
biographer, Virginia Spencer Carr.
531
This posthumous collection of McCullers’ work includes
“Member of the Wedding,” “Ballad of the Sad Café” and 19
other stories. Fine.

Autograph Letter From Superintendent

Of Indian Affairs Thomas McKenney
To Ornithologist Charles Bonaparte
529. MCKENNEY, Thomas. Autograph letter signed to
Charles Lucien Bonaparte. Georgetown, January 8, 1828.
Single sheet of wove stock, measuring 8 by 10 inches, written
on recto only. $1750.

Original signed autograph letter of transmittal from

McKenney to ornithologist Charles Bonaparte, apologizing
for not having an “appropriate present in my crude collection
of Indian workmanship to present to your interesting lady.”
Thomas McKenney was Superintendent of Indian Affairs
under Presidents Madison, Monroe, Adams and Jackson. In
1816, he struck upon the idea of an Indian Archive, a visual
record of Native American life “preserved for the information
of future generations and long after the Indians will have been
no more.” For the next 15 years McKenney commissioned
Charles Bird King to paint portraits of the Indian leaders who
visited Washington on behalf of their tribes, eventually
resulting in his famous Indian Tribes of North America (1838-
44). In 1828, McKenney was visited by Charles Lucien
Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon and an accomplished
ornithologist, and his companion. Bonaparte had settled in
Philadelphia from 1822 to 1828 in order to study American
birds and to produce a sequel to Wilson’s Ornithology, which
he published in 1825. This is McKenney’s letter of regret to
Bonaparte for not providing suitable gifts for him and his lady
during a visit and instead presenting “for her acceptance, a
pair of moccasins, and a pair of (models) snow shoes. These
little matters will derive their chief value in her eyes from
having been made by Miss Charlotte Johnson of the Sault de
Ste. Marie, whose character and accomplishments are slightly
noticed in the ‘Tour to the Lakes.’” About-fine.
Three Signed By Larry McMurtry
531. MCMURTRY, Larry. Anything for Billy. New York,
1988. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $500.
First edition of McMurtry’s “affectionate ode to dime novels,
Billy the Kid and the wild, wild West” (Publishers Weekly),
signed by the author. Fine.
532. MCMURTRY, Larry. Moving On. New York, 1970.
Thick octavo,. original half brown cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First edition of McMurtry’s fourth novel, signed by him.
Near-fine.
533. MCMURTRY, Larry. Terms of Endearment.
New York, 1975. Octavo, original half brown cloth,
dust jacket. $800.
First edition, signed by Larry McMurtry. Fine.
Signed By Margaret Mead
534. MEAD, Margaret. Typed quotation signed. No place,
1970. Single sheet of paper, 7-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches, typing on
recto only. $500.

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Typed quotation by Margaret Mead: “Women want mediocre
men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.
---Margaret Mead.” She has written beneath it: “Margaret
Mead 1970”. Fine.
First Edition Of Ballance’s Some Points In The
Surgery Of The Brain And Its Membranes
535. (MEDICINE) BALLANCE, Charles A. Some Points
in the Surgery of the Brain and Its Membranes. London,
1907. Octavo, original navy cloth. $850.
First edition of this important early treatise on brain surgery,
with dozens of half-tone photographs and illustrations.
In this classic work on the brain, “Ballance recognized and
described chronic subdural haematoma with great accuracy,
described a successful operation for it and also for subdural
hydroma, discussed brain abscess fully and devoted 243 pages
to brain tumours” (Garrison & Morton 4879.01). About-fine.
First Book Of Forensic Medicine
Published In America
536. (MEDICINE) COOPER, Thomas. Tracts on Medical
Jurisprudence. Philadelphia, 1819. Thick octavo,
contemporary full brown tree sheep rebacked in period
style. $2000.
First edition of this abridgment of the works of Samuel Farr,
William Dease, George Male and the first American printing
of John Haslam’s Medical Jurisprudence, with Cooper’s digest
of “laws relating to Insanity and Nuisance.” An Appendix
includes Erskine’s plea for James Hadfield, failed assassin of
King George III, on grounds of insanity.
“‘Legal medicine’ and ‘medical jurisprudence’ are terms used
to describe a professional discipline that has been evolving
for more than 200 years in the United States. Such early
works about medical-legal affairs as Thomas Cooper’s Tracts
testify to the intellectual interest surrounding this field in the
post-Revolutionary United States” (Matthew L. Howard). A
near-fine copy.
“An Epic Study Of The Physical State Of The
Nation During The Decades Of The Westward
Movement”
537. (MEDICINE) DRAKE, Daniel. A Systematic
Treatise, Historical, Etiological and Practical, on the
Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America.
Cincinnati, 1850. Thick octavo, modern full paneled brown
calf gilt. $3500.
First edition of Drake’s landmark study of North American
diseases, with 19 maps (one folding) and numerous
in-text tables.
“It is a mine of information... characterized by the most
painstaking accuracy of statement, a graceful and clear style,
a most unprejudiced and scientific weighing of evidence, and
great caution in references” (DAB). “This classical contribution
to the social history of North America includes the most
important work on the natural history of malaria published
up to that time” (Garrison & Morton 1777). Foxing to maps
and text, binding fine. Extremely good.
Inscribed By Golda Meir In Hebrew
538. MEIR, Golda. Photograph inscribed. New York, Oct.
16, 1962. Original black-and-white photograph measuring 8
by 10 inches, printed on verso. $500.
Original black-and-white photograph of Golda Meir, taken
in the United Nations, inscribed by her in Hebrew below the
image and dated Oct. 16, 1962, the same month Meir, then
Israel’s Foreign Minister, addressed the U.N. General
Assembly.
This photograph of Golda Meir shows her seated in the United
Nations General Assembly and was taken while she served as
Israel’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, a position Meir held from
1956-65. Near-fine.
Typed Letter In Hebrew Signed By Golda Meir
539. MEIR, Golda. Typed letter signed. Jerusalem, June
11, 1956. Octavo, one sheet of official Israeli Prime Minister’s
stationery, writing on recto only, 6-1/2 by 8 inches. $4000.
Typed letter in Hebrew signed by Golda Meir as Labor
Minister, regarding the conflict between Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion and former Prime Minister Moshe
Sharett.
This letter in Hebrew by Golda Meir, then known as Golda
Meyerson and holding the post of Minister of Labor, was
written on official stationery, and reads: “Ministry of Labor,
Office of the Minister of Labor, Jerusalem. Jerusalem, June 11,
1956. 2 Tammuz 5716. [To] Ari Onkorion, Adv. 30 Lilienblum
Street, Tel Aviv. Dear Friend, My answer to your letter: for
many years, most fortunately, the Zionist Movement in
general and the State in particular have derived a great blessing
from the combined talents of Ben-Gurion and Sharett, and I
might even say—from the great difference in their
temperament and their positions. Despite the lack of
friendship between them, they complement each other,
because their basic objectives are identical. Most unfortunately,
the argumentation between them has increased, and the
incompatibility has become more obvious; the tension in
Government sessions is becoming intolerable. Accordingly, I
predict a personal crisis between Ben-Gurion and Sharett,
which could cause a crisis throughout the Government. In
great friendship, [Signed] Golda Meyerson. Minister of Labor.
cc: Levi Eshkol Minister of Finance.” As Meir correctly
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 predicted, Sharett resigned from his cabinet post within days
of the writing of this letter, on June 18, ending permanently
his political career and his 25 years of service to the Jewish
state’s foreign ministry. Coincidentally, Meir was tapped by
Ben-Gurion to replace Sharett as Foreign Minister, a post she
held until 1966. Fine.
Rare First American Edition In Original Cloth
Of Melville’s First Book
540. MELVILLE, Herman. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian
Life. New York and London, 1846. Two volumes bound in
one, as issued. Small octavo, original purple cloth, custom
half morocco clamshell box. $7800.
Preferred first American edition of Melville’s first book, rarer
and more desirable than the first (London) printing of the
same year.
In 1842 Melville deserted the whaling ship Acushnet in the
Marquesas islands and lived for a month among the natives
with Richard Tobias Greene; these experiences provided the
raw material for Typee. This and subsequent books based on
his adventures in the Pacific won Melville fame and a wide
following; in fact, the public’s preference was always for his
earlier exotic romances, such as Typee, and his star began to
wane with the publication of his more iconoclastic works,
Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre (1852). Interior virtually free of
foxing and remarkably bright, original cloth with light wear
to extremities and some toning, as usual. Extremely good.
“I Am My Own Soul’s Emperor”
541. MELVILLE, Herman. Mardi: and a Voyage Thither.
New York, 1849. Two volumes. Octavo, original green cloth,
custom slipcase and chemises. $5000.
Preferred first American edition of Melville’s third novel, in
original cloth.
When Melville was writing Mardi he apparently intended it to
be the third in the series of South Seas adventures that
included Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). “But during the
composition process his intentions changed,” effecting a key
transformation as Melville shifted “from entertainer to truth
teller… [and the] sea yarn turned into allegorical romance”
(Baym). Though initially praised by some for images that
stretch “before us like a new world,” Mardi disappointed its
public and Melville was pressured to return to a more
straightforward style (New York Evening Mirror). Yet it is in
Mardi that Melville reveals “the first blossoming of the
intellectual growth and spiritual searching that would shape
his later works” (Life and Works). This is the most desirable
first American edition, set from Melville’s manuscript and
published mid-April 1849. Given 19th-century copyright law
and attempts to avoid piracy, the first English edition was
issued, as usual, several weeks before. However, the London
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issue was set not from manuscript but from proofs of the
American edition—therefore it is one step removed from this
more valued first American issue. Usual light foxing, rubbing
to endpapers. Exceptional original cloth about-fine.
Inscribed By James Michener
542. MICHENER, James. Hawaii. New York, 1959. Octavo,
original beige cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
First edition, inscribed, “Austin, TX, 1984. To Vearl Moody, I
hope your work goes well. James A. Michener.”
Dust jacket very good, with chipping to extremities (one
larger) and creasing; book near-fine.
Signed By James Michener
543. MICHENER, James A. Centennial. New York, 1974.
Thick octavo, original burgundy cloth, dust jacket. $800.
First trade edition, signed by the author.
Michener’s novel spans two centuries of Colorado history.
This copy inscribed to Leona Nevler, “whose career spanned
more than 50 years in publishing… After tenures at Little,
Brown and Lippincott, Nevler published the bestseller Peyton
Place at Fawcett Books; in 1984 she was named publisher of
Fawcett World Library, becoming one of the first women to
run a major house” (Publishers Weekly). Published in the
same year as a signed limited edition of 500 copies Fine.
First Edition Of Mill’s The Subjection Of Women,
Publisher’s Presentation Copy
544. MILL, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women.
London, 1869. Octavo, modern half brown calf gilt. $3800.
First edition of this classic statement of feminism, with the
publisher’s embossed presentation stamp on the title page.
“Many of Mill’s ideas are now the commonplaces of democracy.
His arguments for freedom of every kind of thought or speech
have never been improved on” (PMM 345). Mill’s wife, Harriet
Taylor, proved especially influential in developing this work;
her 1851 essay on the enfranchisement of women directly
inspired it. “During the seven years of his married life Mill
published less than in any other period of his career, but four
of his most closely reasoned and characteristic works, Liberty,
the Utilitarianism, the Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform,
and the Subjection of Women… were thought out and partly
written in collaboration with his wife” (Britannica, 456-457).
Only faint foxing. Scarce.
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Poems
545. MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. Poems. London, 1936.
Small octavo, contemporary full green calf gilt. $500.
Later edition, handsomely bound by Riviere & Son. This
collection includes “Renascence,” “To a Poet that Died Young,”
and Millay’s famed quatrain beginning “My candle burns at
both ends.” Fine.
Signed By Arthur Miller
546. MILLER, Arthur. The Misfits. New York, 1961.
Octavo, original cream cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
First edition of Miller’s novella based on his original
screenplay, signed by the author.
Miller based his screenplay on an earlier short story version
published in Esquire and intended as his gift to wife Marilyn
Monroe. She starred in the 1961 John Huston film, along with
Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. Very nearly fine.
547
“…A Little Boy And His Bear Will
Always Be Playing”
547. MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner.
London, 1928. Small octavo, original pink cloth gilt, Marilyn Monroe In A Vintage
dust jacket. $2800.
First edition of the final Winnie-the-Pooh book, delightfully
illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.
“Even as Milne celebrates childhood” in this, the final book of
his Pooh quartet, “he subtly prepares both characters and
readers for the inevitable need to forge ahead” (Silvey, 462).
The stories in this volume—the de- and reconstruction of
Eeyore’s house, Tigger’s arrival in the Forest, Christopher
Robin’s attempted farewell in an Enchanted Place—bring to a
close tales that are “more successful as works written for
children than anything else produced during children’s
literature’s Golden Age” (Carpenter, 205). Book about-fine,
dust jacket near-fine.
Fine First Edition Of Songs From Now We Are Six
548. MILNE, A.A. Songs from Now We Are Six. London,
1927. Folio, original half mustard cloth, dust jacket, custom
chemise and half morocco slipcase. $1200.
First trade edition of this popular collection of songs with
words by Milne, music by Fraser-Simson and illustrations by
Shepard.
Published in the same year as Now We Are Six, the third book
in the “Pooh Quartet”; and simultaneously with the signed
limited edition of 100 copies. Fine.
Signed by A.A. Milne and Ernest Shepard
549. MILNE, A.A. The Christopher Robin Story Book.
New York, 1929. Octavo, original three-quarter green cloth,
original matching box, custom clamshell box. $4200.
Signed, limited first American edition, number 21 of 350
copies signed by A.A. Milne and Ernest Shepard on a tipped-
in leaf.
A wonderfully illustrated collection of stories and verses from
Milne’s four “Pooh” books. Preceded only by the first English
trade edition. Without original acetate dust jacket. Book
lovely and fine, box near-fine.
Signed By A.A. Milne
550. MILNE, A.A. When I Was Very Young. New York
and London, 1930. Octavo, original pink and white cloth,
slipcase. $1650.
First edition, number 506 of 842 copies signed by Milne.
A charming essay by the author of Winnie-the-Pooh in
which he reminisces about his childhood experiences with
his brothers. With seven in-text illustrations by Ernest
Shephard. Fine.
“Miss Golden Dreams” Calendar
551. MONROE, Marilyn. Calendar photograph. No place,
1955. Contemporary color printed calendar photograph,
measuring 8 by 10 inches, mounted on ivory printed cardstock,
entire piece measuring 10 by 17 inches. $650.
Original 1955 calendar with Marilyn Monroe in the legendary
“Golden Dreams” photograph featured as the first centerfold
of the first Playboy magazine in 1953.
This celebrated image of Marilyn Monroe provoked
controversy as the centerfold of the first issue of Playboy. It
first appeared in a 1951 calendar called “Miss Golden Dreams”
that identified Monroe only as “Anonymous.” With complete,
original 12 calendar pages for 1955. Fine.
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 Finely Printed Boxed Set Of Montaigne’s Essays many printed in color. Numerous maps of military campaigns.
First published in 1968. Fine.
552. MONTAIGNE, Michel de. Essais. Paris, 1957. Five
volumes. Tall square octavo, original full green calf gilt, 555
ornate brass bosses, original slipcase. $1800.

Limited and superbly produced set of Montaigne’s Essays,

number 743 on pure rag Dame Blanche paper (from a total
edition of 5,000 copies), richly illustrated by Paulette Humbert
with numerous in-text wood-engravings, historiated initial
letters, and head- and tailpieces. Inscribed, “Pour le Docteur
Jean Payri, avec toute le sympathie de l’illustrateur et en
hommage, Paulette Humbert.”

Produced by the Éditions Club Bibliophile de France, this

illustrated “collectors’” edition is splendidly accomplished in
every detail. Its illustrator, modern French painter Paulette
Humbert, regularly exhibited at the Salon and during her
career created a large number of livres d’artistes. Text in
French. Interiors fine. Spines toned, narrow scratch across
fore-edge of Volume V. Extremely good.
Two Signed By Morrison
“How Far His Influence Has Extended
Is Incalculable” 555. MORRISON, Toni. Sula. New York, 1974. Octavo,
original orange cloth gilt, dust jacket. $3800.
553. MONTAIGNE, Michael. Essays. London, 1877. Three
volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark green First edition of Morrison’s scarce second book, signed by the
morocco gilt. $1250. author.

Cotton’s highly regarded translation of Montaigne’s Essays
into English, “among the masterpieces of translation” (DNB),
with frontispiece in each volume, handsomely bound by
Morrell.
“Montaigne devised the essay form in which to express his
personal convictions and private meditations, a form in which
he can hardly be said to have been anticipated. The most
elaborate essay, the ‘Apologie de Raimond Sebonde,’ is second
to no other modern writing in attacking fanaticism and
pleading for tolerance. He finds a place in the present canon,
however, chiefly for his consummate representation of the
enlightened skepticism of the sixteenth century, to which
Bacon, Descartes, and Newton were to provide the answers in
the next” (PMM 95). Fine.
Signed By General Montgomery
554. MONTGOMERY, (Bernard Law), Field-Marshal
the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. A History of
Warfare. London, 1969. Quarto, original full black
morocco gilt. $1600.
Signed limited edition of Montgomery’s study of warfare,
number 194 of only 265 copies signed by the General,
handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf.
Montgomery traces the history of conflict from ancient battles
to atom bombs. Richly illustrated with photographic plates,
“Her extravagantly beautiful, doomed characters are locked
in a world where hope for the future is a foreign commodity,
yet they are enormously, achingly alive” (Sara Blackburn).
About-fine.
556. MORRISON, Toni. Beloved. New York, 1987. Octavo,
original white cloth, dust jacket. $800.
First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, signed by
Morrison. Near-fine.
Stenhouse’s 1873 Illustrated History
Of The Mormons
557. (MORMONS) STENHOUSE, Thomas B.H. The Rocky
Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the
Mormons. New York, 1873. Octavo, three-quarter green
morocco gilt. $1100.
First edition of this comprehensive and critical history of life
in Utah under the Mormon prophet Brigham Young, with
frontispiece portrait of Young and numerous illustrations.
“Stenhouse was sufficiently prestigious within the Church to
be an emissary to the Lincoln administration. He became an
associate in the ‘Godbeite Heresy’ of 1869, a rebellion of a
group of able and influential Mormons… Leaving Utah for
the East, Stenhouse published The Rocky Mountain Saints,
constituting, together with a work by his wife giving the
distaff point of view, the most sensational exposé of

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Mormonism since John C. Bennett in 1842… Stenhouse saw
the Mormon faith as delusion, not hoax or fraud; he was
critical of Smith and Young but did not doubt their sincerity…
The Rocky Mountain Saints is therefore something of an early
landmark in Mormon historical writing, a forerunner of later
descriptive and analytical works” (Flanders, 55). Near-fine.
Handsomely Bound Set Of
Motley’s Dutch Histories
558. MOTLEY, John Lothrop. The Rise of the Dutch
Republic. WITH: History of the United Netherlands.
WITH: The Life and Death of John of Barneveld. New York,
1879. Nine volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter
brown morocco gilt. $3500.
Early editions of Motley’s important histories, in handsome
uniform bindings, with engraved frontispieces and large
folding map.
A complete set of Motley’s three important histories of the
Netherlands. Fine.
Signed By Maurice Herzog
559. (MOUNTAINEERING) HERZOG, Maurice.
Annapurna. New York, 1953. Small octavo, original cloth,
dust jacket. $600.
First American edition, fifth printing, signed by Herzog.
With full color and black and white photographic plates, in
addition to in-text illustrations, maps, and a large folding map
of Annapurna at rear. The first English edition was published
in 1952. Book fine; very good dust jacket slightly short, with
several tape repairs to verso and minor edge-wear.
Two Items Signed By Edmund Hillary
560. (MOUNTAINEERING) HILLARY, Edmund. Oxygen
canister signed. St. Petersburg, Russia, circa 2000. Bright
orange canister, measuring approximately 23 inches in length
and 4-1/2 inches in diameter. $1200.
Oxygen canister, boldly signed by Edmund Hillary in black
marker.
Supplemental oxygen, supplied in canisters such as this one,
is commonly used on Everest expeditions: this canister lists
the name and address of its Nepalese distributor in Katmandu.
Expected wear to extremities.
561. (MOUNTAINEERING) HILLARY, Edmund. Ice axe
signed. Wood and steel shaft measures 37-1/2 inches; steel
blade measures 10-1/2 inches. $1500.
Authentic vintage ice axe boldly signed by Sir Edmund Hillary
on the wooden shaft at a later date. Fine.
Inscribed By John Hunt
562. (MOUNTAINEERING) HUNT, John. The Ascent of
Everest. London, 1953. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust
jacket. $1200.
First edition, inscribed, “For David, in admiration and warm
regard. John Hunt 26th November 1955.” With eight color
photographic plates, 48 half-tone plates and a number of in-
text illustrations after pen-and-ink sketches.
On May 29th, 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide
Tenzing Norgay at last stood at the summit of Everest; it was a
culminating moment in mountaineering history, and one of
the great achievements of human stamina and will. The Ascent
of Everest was written in one month by Sir John Hunt, the
leader of the expedition, in order to satisfy the immediate
demand around the world for the story of the British team’s
success. Near-fine.
Signed By Krakauer And Four Everest Climbers
563. (MOUNTAINEERING) KRAKAUER, Jon. Into Thin
Air. A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster.
New York, 1997. Octavo, original half white cloth, dust
jacket. $800.
First edition of this gripping eyewitness account, signed by
Krakauer and four other climbers present on Everest in the
spring of 1996.
In 1996, nine climbers from four expeditions—some paid
guides, some clients—died near the summit of Mount Everest
in a sudden storm. The conflicting tales of the survivors—
Krakauer among them—made the disaster one of the most
sensational events in mountaineering history since Everest
was first climbed. Two of the signatures—Ed Viesturs and
Jamling Norgay Sherpa, “the son of the first ascender, Tenzing
Norgay, and the ninth member of the Norgay clan to climb
the peak” (p.277)—are from members of the IMAX film crew
that played a vital role (recounted in the book) in the rescue of
endangered climbers, as did Pete Athans, another signer. Also
signed by Goran Kropp, another climber present on Everest
that day. Fine.
Signed By Reinhold Messner
564. (MOUNTAINEERING) MESSNER, Reinhold.
Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate. New York, 1979. Octavo,
original orange cloth, dust jacket. $500.
First American edition, signed by Messner.
Reinhold Messner, the world’s foremost mountain-climber,
was the first man ever to climb all of the world’s mountains
exceeding a height of 26,250 feet. This book describes
his ascent of Everest without the aid of supplemental
oxygen. Fine.
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 “The Sea And The Sky, The Floods Of Light From
The Stars, And The Warm, Unspoilable Heart Of
The Earth, Infinitely Beautiful”
565. MUIR, John. Our National Parks. Boston and New
York, 1901. Octavo, original green cloth. $650.
First edition of this work focusing on Yellowstone and
Yosemite, with 11 black-and-white plates and one map, in
original cloth.
Muir, founder of the Sierra Club and discoverer of Glacier Bay
and Muir Glacier, was “of such transcendent importance as
an activist-conservationist that his worth as a naturalist is
sometimes underestimated and his considerable skill as a
writer obscured. His prose is as timeless as his message”
(ANB). BAL 14752. Fine.
566
Signed By Haruki Murakami
566. MURAKAMI, Haruki. Norwegian Wood. London,
2000. Two volumes. 12mo, original red and green paper
wrappers, original clamshell box. $2000.
First authorized edition in English, each volume signed:
“haruki 11/7/05.”
First published in Japanese in 1987; this translation was
preceded by Alfred Birnbaum’s unauthorized translation,
published specifically for Japanese students of English. Books
fine, a bit of dampstaining to clamshell box.
Inscribed And Twice Signed By Iris Murdoch
To Malcolm Bradbury
567. MURDOCH, Iris. The Unicorn. London, 1963.
Octavo, original olive cloth, dust jacket. $2600.
First edition of Murdoch’s imaginative Irish novel, a rare
association copy inscribed to fellow author and noted critic
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Malcolm Bradbury, “Malcolm / with love, Iris.” and
additionally signed by her on the title page, this unique
annotated copy with Bradbury’s penciled notation, “The
sensitivity toward the physical—touch, contact, etc.—,”
written directly above Murdoch’s inscription.
Iris Murdoch’s “gothic fantasy of the spiritual life” (Vinson,
993), set in a remote Irish castle, was described by the Dublin-
born Murdoch as a novel about “captivity and penance and
power” (Gaéliana, 1983:195). This exceptional association
copy is inscribed by Murdoch to fellow author and critic
Malcolm Bradbury and contains his penciled marginalia
throughout, as well as his annotation, written in precise hand
immediately above her inscription: “The sensitivity towards
the physical—touch, contact, etc.” Author of several essays on
Murdoch, as well as an oft-quoted interview, Bradbury ranked
Murdoch “alongside writers such as Burgess and William
Golding. ‘She belongs amongst the four or five great novelists
of the second half of this century to come out of Britain’”
(Independent). Near-fine.
“A New Era Of Musical Criticism”
568. (MUSIC) HADOW, William Henry. Studies in
Modern Music. London, 1907-08. Two volumes. Octavo,
contemporary full straight grain red calf gilt. $650.
Early mixed edition of this landmark of musical criticism,
with nine plates, beautifully bound by Bumpus.
Best known as the general editor of The Oxford History of
Music, Hadow dedicated much of his life to improving the
standing of English music and to encouraging general interest
in music history. “These perceptive and elegant essays set a
new standard for England in musical literature… they may
still be read with interest” (New Grove 8:19). First published
between 1892 and 1895. Fine.
Art Deco Illustrated Set Of Musset’s Works
569. MUSSET, Alfred de. Oeuvres Complètes. Paris, 1927-
29. Ten volumes. Tall octavo, contemporary three-quarter
dark blue close-grain morocco gilt. $2200.
Complete works of Alfred de Musset, with numerous full-page
lithographic plates by Art Deco illustrator Charles Martin.
Original brown paper wrappers bound in. Interiors and plates
fine, contemporary morocco near-fine.
Nabokov’s Dozen, First Edition
570. NABOKOV, Vladimir. Nabokov’s Dozen. Garden
City, New York, 1958. Octavo, original black cloth, dust
jacket. $300.
First edition of this collection of 13 Nabokov short stories.
Near-fine.
“The Highest Latitude Then Reached By Man”
571. NANSEN, Fridtjof. Farthest North, Being the
Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-
96. Westminster, 1897. Two volumes. Octavo, original blue-
green cloth. $800.
First edition in English of Nansen’s account of his own polar
expedition, with frontispiece portrait, four folding maps
printed in color, and more than 112 illustrations from sketches
and photographs, 16 printed in color.
In 1890, Norwegian scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen
announced an innovative plan for Northern polar expeditions.
“His theory, that a drift-current sets across the polar regions
from Bering Strait... towards the east coast of Greenland was
based on a number of indications... His intention was to get his
vessel fixed in the ice to the north of Eastern Siberia and let her
drift with it.” Although criticized, his plan succeeded. “His
ship, the ‘Fram’ (‘Forward’), was specially built of immense
strength and peculiar form” in order to endure the ice-floes.
“During the winter of 1894-95 it was decided that an expedition
should be made northward over the ice on foot in the spring...
Being satisfied that the ‘Fram’ would continue to drift safely,”
Nansen led the expedition to 86 degrees North, “the highest
latitude then reached by man” (Britannica). First published in
Norwegian earlier the same year. Interiors fine. Expertly
recased, original cloth with only slight rubbing and dampstain
to edge of rear cover of Volume II. Extremely good.
First Editions Of Two Of Nash’s
Most Influential Articles
572. NASH, John. “The Bargaining Problem” IN:
Econometrica, Volume 18, Number 2, pp. 155-62. WITH:
“Two-Person Cooperative Games.” IN: Econometrica, Volume
21, Number 1, pp. 128-40. Chicago, 1950, 1953. Large octavo,
original gray wrappers. $3200.
First editions of the first publications of these two influential
articles on game theory and the Nash equilibrium. The copies
of renowned mathematician and economist Nicholas
Georgescu-Roegen, with “The Bargaining Problem” bearing
his owner stamps.
Published shortly after Nash received his Ph.D. in 1950, these
are two of only three articles directly derived from Nash’s
thesis research. As a graduate student at Princeton, Nash
encountered game theory, which had been recently articulated
by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern. While their
theory dealt with two-person zero-sum games, or “pure
rivalries,” Nash explored rivalries with the possibility of
mutual gain, where each player acts independently and no
outside authority makes sure that players stick to
predetermined rules. His idea that any game such as this has
one equilibrium point became known as the “Nash
equilibrium,” a founding concept in analyzing economic
behavior, and the one for which he won the Nobel Prize in
1994. Nash’s devastating struggle with schizophrenia, which
propelled him out of elite mathematics for decades, was
chronicled in Sylvia Nasar’s award-winning biography, A
Beautiful Mind, and by the film, which won the Academy
Award for Best Picture in 2002. Owner stamps of famous
mathematician and economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen,
whose work is now regarded as a cornerstone of the developing
field of evolutionary economics. During his lifetime,
Georgescu-Roegen was best known for contributing three
important chapters to the 1951 Cowles monograph on linear
programming and general equilibrium theory. Those chapters
included an alternate existence proof for von Neumann’s
system, general laws of substitutability for Leontief systems,
and the discovery of the Hawkins-Simon conditions.
Georgescu-Roegen also contributed to the Marxian theory of
crisis and, most importantly, wrote The Entropy Law and the
Economic Process, which used the Second Law of
Thermodynamics to show that economies are limited in their
growth. Near-fine.
The First Publication Of The Nash Equilibrium
573. NASH, John. “Equilibrium Points in N-Person
Games.” IN: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Volume 36, Number 1, pp. 48-49. Easton, Pennsylvania, 1950.
Large octavo, contemporary black cloth. $1600.
First edition of the complete journal volume containing the
first publication of the Nash Equilibrium, which forever
changed the fields of game theory and economics.
Published shortly after Nash received his Ph.D. in 1950, this is
the first and most influential of only three articles directly
derived from Nash’s thesis research; it was published one year
before Nash’s thesis. Text generally fine. A handsome and
extremely desirable copy.
First Edition Of The Work For Which Nash Won
The Nobel Prize
574. NASH, John. “Non-Cooperative Games.” IN: Annals
of Mathematics, Volume 54, Number 2, pp. 286-95. Princeton,
1951. Large octavo, contemporary three-quarter burgundy
cloth. $3000.
First edition of the complete journal volume containing Nash’s
thesis, the seminal work most often cited as the source of the
“Nash equilibrium,” the impact of which “is comparable to
that of the discovery of the DNA double helix in the biological
sciences” (Journal of Economic Literature). About-fine.
Signed By John Nash
575. NASH, John. Essays on Game Theory. Cheltenham,
United Kingdom and Brookfield, United States, 1996. Octavo,
original black cloth. $2000.
First edition of this collection of Nash’s seven most famous
papers on game theory, signed by Nash. Fine.
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natural history
One Of The Earliest Natural History Books
Published In America
576. (NATURAL HISTORY) BARTON, William P.C.
Compendium Florae Philadelphicae. Philadelphia, 1818.
Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full marbled brown
sheep. $2000.
First edition of the first book on Philadelphia flora,
as well as one of the earliest natural history books
published in America.
Compiled as a field guide, this work uses a
format based on Carl Linnaeus’,
meticulously cataloguing the physical
characteristics of each plant discussed.
University of Pennsylvania botany
professor William Barton studied
medicine under his uncle, Benjamin
Smith Barton, whose 1803 Elements of
Botany was the first botanical textbook
published in the United States. Very
shallow yellow staining and shallow
chipping to fore-edges of a few leaves,
scattered foxing, moderate wear to bindings
with some expert restoration. Very good.
“The Best Work Of Natural History
Travels Published In England”
577. (NATURAL HISTORY) BATES, Henry Walter. The 578 First edition of this founding work of modern comparative
Naturalist on the River Amazons. London, 1863. Two zoology, illustrated with seven large folding tables and 52
volumes. Octavo, original burgundy cloth. $3800. engraved plates.
First edition of “one of the finest scientific travel books of the
19th century” (DSB), with 42 illustrations and a folding map
of the Amazon, in lovely original cloth.
A staunch Darwinist who, in turn, introduced Darwin to the
phenomenon of mimicry, Bates was a prominent naturalist
working along the Amazon in South America. Darwin, who
had effusively praised Bates’ “Contributions to an Insect
Fauna of the Amazon Valley” in 1862, “strongly recommended
Bates to publish a narrative of his travels, and with this object
introduced him to the publisher, John Murray… In January
1863 Murray issued Bates’ Naturalist on the Amazons, which
has been described as ‘the best work of natural history travels
published in England.’ Apart from the personal charm of the
narrative, Bates as a described of the tropical forest is second
only to Humboldt. His breadth of view saved him from the
narrowness of specialism and he was as far removed as
possible from what Darwin called ‘the mob of naturalists
without souls’… The highest compliment [the book] received
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was the remark of John Gould to the author: ‘Bates, I have
read your book—I’ve seen the Amazons’” (DNB). Near-fine.
With 192 Full‑Color Chromolithographs
578. (NATURAL HISTORY) MEEHAN, Thomas. The
Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States. WITH:
Second Series. Boston, 1878-80. Four volumes. Quarto,
period style half dark green crushed morocco. $4000.
First editions in book form of this anthology of “the most
beautiful, interesting, and important plants which grow
in the different parts of our country,” both the first
and the rarer second series, containing a total of
192 splendid chromolithographs by Louis
Prang after faithful watercolor paintings by
Alois Lunzer.
First issued in 24 parts, each with four
plates, these are the first editions
published in book form. The second
series “is far less common than the
first part” (Bennett, 75). Nissen 1331.
Near-fine.
“The First Truly Complete
Work In The History Of
Comparative Anatomy”
579. (NATURAL HISTORY) CUVIER,
Georges. Leçons d’Anatomie Comparée.
Paris, 1800-05. Five volumes. Octavo, modern
blue cloth. $1500.
“Cuvier’s Leçons was the first truly complete work in the
history of comparative anatomy. Whereas his predecessors
had at best applied comparison to select groups of animals,
Cuvier consistently attempted to employ it in his study of
every known animal or species. Comparative anatomy became
for Cuvier an essential segment of the theoretical basis of
natural history… Comparative anatomy is therefore the
division of the natural sciences which tends to generalize, to
erect the theory of organization” (Coleman, 62; Norman 565).
“Cuvier ranks with von Baer as one of the founders of modern
morphology” (Garrison & Morton 311). Text in French. Light
scattered foxing. Extremely good.
With A Signed Autograph Letter By
Martin S. Garretson
580. (NATURAL HISTORY) GARRETSON, Martin S.
The American Bison. New York, 1938. Octavo, 20th-century
three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $1200.
First edition, with a tipped-in signed autograph letter by the
author, the curator of the New York Zoological Society,
thanking author and New-York Historical Society trustee
George A. Zabriskie for sending him a book on fishing,
handsomely bound.
583
Included are chapters on the animal itself,
the story of its brush with extinction,
notable bison hunts, Buffalo Bill, and the
attempts made to save the species,
particularly by the American Bison
Society, which Garretson co-founded.
With 50 illustrated and photographic
plates. About-fine.
With 132 Hand-Colored Plates
581. (NATURAL HISTORY) MORRIS,
F.O. A Natural History of British Moths.
London, 1871. Four volumes. Royal octavo,
original green cloth. $2300.
Second edition, with nearly 2000 specimens
of moths illustrated on 132 hand‑colored
plates.
First published in 1859-1870. Includes
English and scientific names of moths, their
geographical distribution, times when they
appear and what they eat as caterpillars.
Index to genera and species in Volume IV. Near-fine.
Splendidly Illustrated With Copper-Engraved
Folio Plates Of 30 Vertebrate Animals
582. (NATURAL HISTORY) PERRAULT, Claude. Memoirs
for a Natural History of Animals… London, 1701. Folio,
contemporary full paneled brown calf rebacked. $2800.
Second edition in English of Perrault’s classic Mémoires, with
engraved frontispiece, ornamental tailpieces and 30 detailed
copper-engraved plates depicting animals and birds, with
associated keys on facing pages.
This is the second edition in English, containing 30 splendidly
detailed anatomical plates each accompanied by a key. Issued
with this volume and paginated separately is an early printing
in English of Jean Picard’s Mesure de la terre, containing five
striking copper-engraved plates, first published in France in
1671 and, with a translation by Richard Waller, first appearing
in English in 1688. Considered the founder of modern
astronomy in France, Picard “determined the length of a
degree of meridian based upon measurements of the distance
between Paris and Amiens. Picard used sophisticated
instruments and his results were 30 to 40 times more precise
than any that had been obtained previously” (Norman 1695).
Picard’s work “enabled Newton in 1684 to arrive at a striking
confirmation of the accuracy of his principle of gravitation”
(DSB). Interior text and images quite clean with only slight
toning and wear to edges, slight spotting to pages 104-5, faint
dampstaining to several leaves without affecting plates. Light
wear to calf. Extremely good.
First Edition Of Empire State
583. (NEW YORK CITY) Empire State, A
History. New York, 1931. Slim quarto,
original black, gold and silver paper boards,
custom matching slipcase. $1200.
First edition of this promotional history
recording the dramatic creation of the Empire
State Building, with a beautiful Art Deco
cover illustration and over 65 photographic
illustrations, including seven half-tones by
Lewis W. Hine. Near-fine.
“The First And Classic History Of
New York”
584. (NEW YORK) SMITH, William.
History of New York. Albany, 1814. Octavo,
late 19th-century three-quarter red morocco
gilt. $800.
First edition published with the
“Continuation,” the first distinctive history
of New York by the controversial historian William Smith.
In his preface, Smith calls “all other histories of our plantations
upon the continent… little else than collections of falsehoods
and worse than none.” He describes basing his work on a
careful review of the “provincial laws… the minutes of the
council, and the journals of the general assembly” of New
York, and acknowledges a debt to Colden’s history of the Five
Nations. According to the New York Historical Society, the
edition’s “Continuation,” printed here for the first time, “was
written by John Van Ness Yates” (Sabin 84569). The first
version of Smith’s History appeared in 1757. Light scattered
foxing, light rubbing to boards, morocco binding with light
restoration. Extremely good.
Signed By Anaïs Nin
585. NIN, Anaïs. D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional
Study. Paris, 1932. Octavo, original black cloth, dust
jacket. $1600.
First edition of Nin’s first book, number 46 of only 550
numbered copies, signed by Nin.
“The task of this book is to reconstruct by means of his works
the living personality of D. H. Lawrence, to come to an
understanding with him on the basis of his own ideas,
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 prejudices, passions and ideals, and finally to form a calm and
balanced estimate of his importance.” Near-fine.
“All That I Know Is Contained In This Book”
586. NIN, Anais. House of Incest. New York, 1947. Slim
octavo, original orange cloth. $2000.
First American edition, published at Nin’s
own expense, warmly inscribed by Nin: “For
Lillian Sable ‘All that I know is contained in
this book written without witness, an edifice
without dimension, a city hanging in the
sky.’ In gratitude for your understanding.
Anais Nin 1951.”
After being rejected by numerous publishers,
The House of Incest, Nin’s first work of
fiction, was first published in Paris in 1936
by Siana editions, a press that she helped to
co-found. When the author returned to the
United States in the 1940s, she established
the Gemor Press, publishing many of her
own works, including this one, at her
personal expense. Often considered a prose poem due to its
dream-like resonance, The House of Incest emphasizes
psychological states rather than realistic events. The quotation
included in Nin’s inscription is drawn from the epigraph.
Without scarce original dust jacket. Near-fine.
Inscribed By President Nixon
587. NIXON, Richard M. Six Crises. New York, 1962.
Thick octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $850.
First edition, warmly inscribed to a former member of his
campaign staff, “To Zelda and Ray Arbuthnot, with
appreciation for their friendship, from Dick Nixon.”
Recipient Ray Arbuthnot, a southern California rancher, was
a senior member of Nixon’s 1956 campaign staff. Near-fine.
Signed By Richard Nixon
588. NIXON, Richard. Leaders. New York, 1982. Octavo,
original half black cloth, dust jacket. $600.
First trade edition, signed by President Nixon.
With 32 pages of photographs. Published the same year as the
signed limited edition of 2500 copies. Near-fine.
Inscribed By Richard Nixon
589. NIXON, Richard. In the Arena. New York, 1990.
Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $800.
First trade edition, inscribed: “To William Livingston with
best wishes from Richard Nixon.”
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A memoir of Nixon’s years in office, the Watergate scandal
and his life after. With 24 pages of photographs. Published the
same year as the signed limited edition. Fine.
“We’ve Beat Them Before And
We’ll Beat Them Again”
590. O’BRIAN, Patrick. Post Captain.
London, 1972. Octavo, original blue cloth,
dust jacket. $2000.
First edition of the second novel in O’Brian’s
popular Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin
saga, one of the rarest of the series. About-
fine.
“Oh My God, Oh My God.
Six Hundred Men”
591. O’BRIAN, Patrick. Desolation
Island. London, 1978. Octavo, original gray
cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
590 First edition of the fifth novel in O’Brian’s
popular Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin saga. Book fine,
dust jacket near-fine.
Two Signed By Tim O’Brien
592. O’BRIEN, Tim. Going After Cacciato. London, 1978.
Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $600.
First English edition, signed: “Nov. 7, 1980. Tim O’Brien.”
Winner of the National Book Award in 1978. Published same
year as the New York first edition. Fine.
593. O’BRIEN, Tim. Friends; Enemies. Tempe, Arizona,
2001. Slim square octavo, original black raw silk dos-à-dos
binding, original welded and stamped bronze slipcase. $1200.
Limited private-press edition of two stories from The Things
They Carried, letter “E” of only 26 lettered copies (of a total
edition of 125), signed by both O’Brien and Scholder.
O’Brien, who won the National Book Award in 1978, and
whose work on Vietnam “belongs high on the list of best
fiction about any war” (Books of the Century, 586), writes here
about a fragile and bizarre personal relationship between two
foot-soldiers—extracted from The Things They Carried, which
was originally published in 1990. Fine.
Warmly Inscribed By Flannery O’Connor
594. O’CONNOR, Flannery. The Lame Shall Enter First.
IN: The Sewanee Review. LXX:3. Sewanee, Tennessee, 1962.
Octavo, contemporary full red morocco, original blue paper
wrappers bound in. $4500.
Uniquely bound copy of the summer 1962 issue of the Sewanee
Review, in full red morocco, containing the first appearance
of O’Connor’s novella, inscribed by the author, “To Marcus
Catlin, in appreciation for a unique edition—Flannery
O’Connor, Milledgeville, 24 October ’63,” with three autograph
letters from O’Connor laid in.
“She was for me the first great modern writer from the
South” (Alice Walker). The Sewanee Review, the oldest
published quarterly in America, published much fiction by
O’Connor; this novella would later appear in her
posthumously published collection, Everything that Rises
Must Converge (1965). Laid-in are three autograph notes
signed by O’Connor, all apparently regarding the present
copy. The first, dated “11 Sept. 62” reads, “Dear Mr. Catlin,
Thank you for your comments on The Lame Shall Enter First.
There were a lot of insights into textual qualities in Mr.
Hawke’s [sic] article. His devil, however, is a literary
creation, not the devil of theology. Regards, Flannery
O’Connor”; the second, with its original mailing enveloped
addressed in O’Connor’s hand and dated “4 Oct 63,” reads,
“Dear Mr. Catlin, I’ll be glad to sign your volume if you
want to send it. I’ll be away from here from Oct 14-19
however. I haven’t had any stories out since The Lame Shall
Enter First. Best, Flannery O’Connor”; and the third, dated
“24 October 63,” reads, “Dear Mr. Catlin, I am indeed
surprised and pleased to see such a book as this. Thank you
for letting me sign it. Yours, Flannery O’Connor.” Because
of her fragile health, O’Connor did not sign or inscribe
many books; signed copies of her work are therefore quite
desirable. Fine.
“As Close To Perfect As Writing Gets”
595. O’CONNOR, Flannery. A Good Man
is Hard to Find. New York, 1955. Octavo,
original black cloth, dust jacket. $1700.
First edition, first state, of O’Connor’s famed
first collection of short stories, her second
published book, in first issue dust jacket.
Near-fine.
“And Wona These Days I Know I’ll
We-Eara Crown”
596. O’CONNOR, Flannery. Everything
That Rises Must Converge. New York,
1965. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust
595
jacket.  $500.
First edition of O’Connor’s masterful collection of stories,
with a photographic frontispiece portrait.
Contains the first appearance of the collection’s final story,
“Judgement Day.” Fine.
First Edition Of O’Connor’s
The Violent Bear It Away
597. O’CONNOR, Flannery. The Violent Bear It Away.
New York, 1960. Octavo, original half gray cloth, dust
jacket. $950.
First edition. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. Book about-fine,
price-clipped dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine ends,
a few small closed tears, mild rubbing. Extremely good.
Signed By Michael Ondaatje
598. ONDAATJE, Michael. The English Patient. London,
1992. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $950.
Scarce true first edition of Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning
novel, signed by Ondaatje. “A rare and spellbinding web of
dreams” (Time). Fine.
“It Was The American Revolution That
Made Me An Author”
599. PAINE, Thomas. Letters to the Citizens of the
United States of America after an Absence of Fifteen Years.
London, 1817. Slim octavo, period style blue wrappers,
disbound; pp. 34. $800.
Second edition of the expanded collection of Paine’s anti-
Federalist letters, containing all eight in a correspondence
that heightened tensions between Jefferson and Adams.
Soon after returning to America in
1802, Paine began a series of “letters”
to the National Intelligencer,
Washington mouthpiece for Jefferson
Republicans. Strongly anti-Federalist
and supportive of Jeffersonian
principles, Paine called leaders of the
previous Adams administration
shallow and consummately vain,
“likening them to various animals,
then to mindless vegetables.” Paine’s
Letters created a new tension between
Jeffersonians and the Federalists. From
then on, “Adams and Jefferson were
seldom to be perceived as anything
other than archrivals” (McCullough,
John Adams, 433). Preceded by 1804
edition. Fine.
“Rickman Was To Paine What Boswell
Was To Johnson”
600. (PAINE, Thomas) RICKMAN, Thomas Clio. The Life
of Thomas Paine. London, 1819. Octavo, original blue paper-
covered boards rebacked with the original backstrip laid
down. $1600.
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 First edition of this biography of Paine, which “attempts to
vindicate Paine from the earlier unfriendly biographies,”
with engraved frontispiece portrait, a facsimile of Paine’s
handwriting and signature, and the text of Paine’s will, bound
in original paper boards.
In his preface, Rickman notes that “the engraving of Mr.
Paine by Sharp, prefixt to this work, is the only true likeness
of him; it is from his portrait by Romney, and is perhaps the
greatest likeness ever taken by any painter.” The facsimile of
Paine’s handwriting is from a letter to Rickman. Without free
endpapers. Occasional scattered light foxing; light damp
staining to the margin of the last three signatures. Light wear
to original paper boards. Extremely good.
Signed By Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk
601. PAMUK, Orhan. The White Castle. Signed By Irving Penn
Manchester, England, 1990. Octavo, original black cloth,
dust jacket. $3000.
First edition in English, the first book by Nobel laureate
Pamuk to be translated into English, boldly signed by him.
Awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, Orhan Pamuk
became the first Turkish person to receive a Nobel. Preceded
by the 1985 Turkish edition, Beyaz Kale. Fine.
Inscribed By Rosa Parks
602. PARKS, Rosa. Rosa Parks: My Story. New York, 1992.
Octavo, original half purple cloth, dust jacket. $1650.
First edition of Parks’ autobiography, warmly inscribed, “1-
23-92. Rosa Parks to Luke Myles with love and best wishes to
you for health and happiness.”
Illustrated with numerous photographs. Fine.
With Lovely Color Illustrations By Parrish
603. (PARRISH, Maxfield) FIELD, Eugene. Poems of
Childhood. New York, 1904. Royal octavo, original black
cloth gilt, mounted cover illustration. $650.
First edition to be illustrated by Parrish, with eight full-page
color plates and illustrated title page.
Parrish’s human beings often blend with and reflect the
intensely beautiful landscapes in which he places them. It is this
idyllic vision, fully realized in 1904’s Poems of Childhood, that
ensured Parrish’s place in art and illustration history” (Stephen
Pastore). Without scarce original dust jacket. Near-fine.
Inscribed By I.M. Pei
604. (PEI, Ieoh Ming) SUNER, Bruno. Pei. Paris, 1988.
Octavo, original stiff photographic paper wrappers. $550.
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First edition, illustrated with numerous plans and
photographs, including 16 pages of color photographs. This
copy inscribed by the celebrated architect to publisher Paul
Gottlieb, “To Paul, for your interest, (Pei) 6/12/88.”
Winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in
1983, Pei had by that time “designed over 50 projects in [the
United States] and abroad, many of which have been award
winners… His versatility and skill in the use of materials
approach the level of poetry” (Pritzker Prize). Some of Pei’s
most significant projects appear in this volume’s illustrations,
including the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the
East Building of the National Gallery of Art, the Texas
Commerce Tower and the Louvre Pyramide. This copy
inscribed by Pei to editor and Abrams publisher Paul Gottlieb.
Text in French. Near-fine.
605. PENN, Irving. Worlds in a Small Room. New York,
1974. Quarto, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $1200.
First edition, signed: “Irving Penn. New York, 1978.”
A collection of images of “disappearing aborigines in remote
parts of the earth.” “I would often find myself daydreaming…
[that] these remarkable strangers would come to me and
place themselves in front of my camera, and in this clear
north sky light I would make records of their physical
presence.” Near-fine.
Inscribed By Irving Penn
606. PENN, Irving. Moments Preserved. New York, 1960.
Large quarto, original beige cloth, dust jacket, pictorial
slipcase. $2500.
First edition of Penn’s first book, inscribed: “For Robert Hall,
Irving Penn.”
This collection features “eight essays in photographs and
words” by Penn, ranging from “The Flavor of France” to
“Christmas in Cuzco.” With an introduction by Alexander
Liberman. Fine.
Inscribed By Irving Penn
607. PENN, Irving. Flowers. New York, 1980. Quarto,
original beige cloth, dust jacket. $1200.
First edition of this collection of striking color photographs of
flowers, inscribed: “For William Herst, Irving Penn.”
“These photographic essays captured the extraordinary
beauty and promise of the poppy, tulip, rose, lily, peony,
orchid, and begonia.” Fine.

608
Pop-Up Edition Of Puss In Boots
608. (PERRAULT, Charles) CLOUD, C. Carey, and LENTZ,
Harold B. Puss in Boots. New York, 1934. Quarto, original
pictorial paper boards. $650.
Illustrated pop-up edition, with three engaging pop-ups by C.
Carey Cloud and Harold B. Lentz, all completely intact and
in fine condition. Fine.
Signed By Shimon Peres
609. PERES, Shimon. Photograph signed. No place,
circa 1998. Black-and-white photograph, measuring feet. The Allegheny and Monongahela rivers were converging
5 by 7 inches. $600.
Original black-and-white photograph of Nobel Peace Prize-
winner and former Prime Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres,
signed by him in Hebrew.
Peres is shown seated with hands folded before a wall lined
with books. Fine.
First Book-Length Treatise On
Oil Production In America
610. (PETROLEUM) ANTISELL, Thomas. The
Manufacture of Photogenic or Hydro-Carbon Oils, from
Coal and Other Bituminous Substances, Capable of
Supplying Burning Fluids. New York, 1859. Tall octavo,
original plum cloth. $3600.
First edition of the first book-length monograph on the
distillation of petroleum and coal oils.
Preceded only by Benjamin Silliman’s 20-page pamphlet,
Report on Rock Oil (1855), this early scientific monograph on
the chemistry of oil production by Antisell is a “synoptical
résumé of patented improvements having reference to the
distillation of oils from coals, bitumens, and schists” (pp. 141-
47). He lists current American and European patents and
reviews “technological achievements and advances in
distillation of bituminous substances in the United States and
abroad, general principles involved, products
derived, [and] manufacturers then operating”
(Swanson, 102). Fine.
The 1936 St. Patrick’s Day Flood
In 28 Original Photographs
611. (PITTSBURGH) Photographs of the
1936 Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Day Flood.
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Press, 1936. Twenty-
eight original black-and-white photographs,
each measuring 7 by 9 inches. WITH: Pittsburgh
Press. Special Flood Edition Extra. Pittsburgh,
March 20, 1936. Large folio; pp. 8. WITH:
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. Special Flood
Supplement. Pittsburgh, March 29, 1936. Small folio; pp. 24.
Housed in a custom clamshell box. $1600.
Original archive of 28 fascinating photographs taken by a
Pittsburgh Press staff photographer of Pittsburgh’s 1936 St.
Patrick’s Day Flood, accompanied by the Pittsburgh Press
Special Flood Edition Extra printed two days after the flood
and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph’s Souvenir Pictorial History
supplement printed just one week later.
“Fed by extraordinary snow melt and rain, Pittsburgh’s ice-
filled three rivers crested at the Point on March 18, 1936, at
the highest mark since anyone has kept track: just over 46
near Smithfield Street, leaving Downtown under as much as
15 feet of water. By the time the brown water receded the toll
was more than 60 dead, 500 hurt and 135,000 homeless. Flood
damage just within Allegheny County was estimated at $150
million to $200 million” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). “The flood
was so terrible it spurred Congress to pass the Flood Control
Act of 1936, making flood control a national issue” (Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review). The majority of the photographs, which
focus on the flood, clean-up, and aftermath at the press office
building, show both the astonishing impact the flood and the
dedication of the workers who pick-axed through floor-to-
ceiling rolls of sodden paper and toiled in mud-covered rooms
in order to get the news to print. Accompanying this collection
are two richly photo-illustrated newspaper supplements about
the flood, one published two days after the flood when fears of
epidemics, water shortages, and mass unemployment were
raging, and the other published nine days later as a
commemorative edition detailing the flood and the associated
relief efforts that managed to bring most of the city back to
functionality in just one week. Photographs fine, newspapers
with usual embrowning, light wear. A fascinating archive.
“The Raw Experience Of Nightmare”
612. PLATH, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. New York, 1971. Octavo,
original half burgundy cloth, dust jacket. $850.
First American edition of this frightening exploration of a
brilliant yet fragile mind—the first edition to include
illustrations by Plath. Fine.
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 Jowett’s Dialogues Of Plato, Handsomely Bound
613. PLATO. The Dialogues of Plato. New York, circa
1892. Four volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter
brown tooled morocco. $1600.
American issue of the third edition of Jowett’s esteemed
translation of Plato’s dialogues, handsomely bound.
The translation by Oxford don Benjamin Jowett, one of the
great teachers of the 19th century, is itself a classic, presenting
all of Plato’s works with commentaries. In 1871 Jowett’s
translation of Plato “appeared in four volumes... [it] had a
rapid sale, and it was necessary to revise it for a second edition
(1875)” (DNB). Fine.
“Shakespeare’s Storehouse Of Classical Learning”
614. PLUTARCH. Plutarch’s Morals. WITH: Plutarch’s
Lives. Ten volumes. Boston, 1874-78. Five volumes.
Contemporary three-quarter tan calf gilt. $2500.
Later editions of Plutarch’s greatest works, handsomely
bound.
“What raises [Plutarch] to a level of greatness as a writer is his
Lives… His Lives really are the stuff of poetry, though they
read as unpretentious prose. With the alteration of very few
words, they transmute into Shakespeare” (Levi, 464-65). “The
influence of Plutarch’s method has been constantly manifest
in the biographies of the modern great and in the authors who
have been inspired by it. Shakespeare relied almost exclusively
on Plutarch for the historical background of ancient Rome”
(PMM 48). The ideas expressed in the Morals exerted a
profound influence on Renaissance thinking, reviving the
rational moral philosophy of the ancients while providing an
indispensable contemporary account of Greek political life.
Only light rubbing to marbled boards and extremities of calf.
Very handsome.
“He Constantly And Inevitably Produced Magic”
615. POE, Edgar Allan. Tales and Poems. New York and
London, 1902. Six volumes. 12mo, modern three-quarter
burgundy morocco gilt. $2200.
“New Library” edition, illustrated with 70 plates by F.S.
Coburn. Very nearly fine.
Handsome Set Of The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
616. POE, Edgar Allan. Works. London, 1896. Six volumes.
Octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt. $1800.
Lovely set of Poe’s works, illustrated with frontispiece plates,
several tipped-in plates, in-text illustrations, and several
facsimile letters. Handsomely bound by Sotheran.
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Light scattered foxing to fore-edges, minor water marks to
cloth of Volume V only. A handsome set.
Willy Pogany’s Illustrated Rubaiyat,
Beautifully Bound
617. POGANY, Willy. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London, circa 1915. Large octavo, contemporary full brown
sheep gilt. $850.
Early edition of Pogany’s illustrated Rubaiyat, with 16 full-
page color plates, beautifully bound in full elaborately gilt-
decorated leather with green grapevine motif leather onlays.
Typeset with lovely initial letters, tailpieces and decorative
borders. Pogany’s illustrated edition was originally published
in 1909. Fine.
Inscribed By Katherine Anne Porter
618. PORTER, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Boston,
1962. Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket, custom
buckram slipcase. $2500.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s first and
only novel, inscribed, “For John Linenweaver, Katherine
Anne Porter.”
Tiny open tear to rear panel, slightly affecting image, lightest
edge-wear to near-fine dust jacket.
Inscribed By Chaim Potok
619. POTOK, Chaim. The Chosen. New York, 1967.
Octavo, original cream cloth, dust jacket. $1600.
First edition of this classic novel about two boys, an Orthodox
Jew and a Hasidic Jew, growing up in Brooklyn, inscribed in
the year of publication: “Best wishes. Chaim Potok. 9/20/67.”
Book with only minor soiling to original cloth and a bit of
toning to spine, dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine
ends, closed tears along front flap fold. Extremely good.
“You Never Tasted Anything So Good!
And You Shall Eat It All!”
620. POTTER, Beatrix. The Pie and the Patty-Pan. London
and New York, 1905. Tall 12mo, original slate blue paper
boards, mounted cover illustration. $1500.
First edition, with 10 lovely color plates, including frontispiece,
and numerous charming in-text illustrations.
In the summer of 1902, when she first conceived this book,
Potter and her family rented a country house in the village of
Sawrey. The Pie and the Patty-Pan “is Beatrix Potter’s praise to
Sawrey, and contains many village details that she loved”
(Linder, 169). Without scarce dust jacket. Near-fine.
Potter’s Story Of Miss Moppet In Scarce Wallet Form
621. POTTER, Beatrix. The Story of Miss Moppet. London
and New York, 1906. 16mo, original gray cloth wallet. $2200.
First edition, preceding the book form, with 14 illustrations
and 14 “pages” of text in one long accordion folder with gray
linen backing.
“During 1906 Potter wrote and illustrated two shorter, simpler
books for the very young, originally published that year in the
form of folding panoramic sheets tucked into a wallet; these
were The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit and The Story of Miss
Moppet” (Carpenter & Prichard, 422). Near-fine.
“Then Over The Hills And Far Away
She Danced With Pigling Bland”
622. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Pigling Bland. London
and New York, 1913. 12mo, original maroon boards, mounted
cover illustration. $1500.
First edition, with 14 color plates and 37 in-text vignettes.
Pigling Bland concerns two real pigs Potter called Alexander
and Pigling Bland, at Potter’s own Hill Top Farm, which
appears in several of the illustrations. Potter herself appears
in her drawing on page 22, along with the piglet Alexander.
Without scarce original glassine. Very nearly fine.
“It Is Said That The Effect Of Eating
Too Much Lettuce Is ‘Soporific’”
623. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of the
Flopsy Bunnies. London and New York,
1909. 16mo, original dark green boards,
mounted cover illustration. $2000.
First edition, early issue, with color
frontispiece and 26 color plates.
This book, the story of Peter Rabbit’s sister
Flopsy and her family, represents the final
stage “in the defeat of Mr. McGregor, who
by the end… has been made into a proper
fool, just as giants should be” (Carpenter,
146). Without scarce original dust jacket.
Near-fine.
623
“Tom Was Very Naughty…”
624. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Tom Kitten. London
and New York, 1907. 12mo, original green paper boards with
pictorial label. $2000.
First edition, with color frontispiece and 26 color
illustrations.
“It was the garden at Hill Top [her farm in Sawrey] which
Beatrix Potter used as the setting for The Tale of Tom Kitten,
and the pictures in the book give us delightful glimpses of this
garden” (Linder, 185, 187). Without scarce original glassine
dust jacket. Fine.
18th-Century Manuscript Hindu Prayer Book,
With 17 Full-Page Illuminated Miniatures
625. PRAYER BOOK. Ghor Mukhi-Nanuk. India, circa
1750. Oblong 12mo, original manuscript on handmade paper,
original full blind-stamped burgundy morocco with flap,
rebacked and reinforced. $4200.
Superb Hindu prayer book, with 17 wonderful full-page
miniatures.
This 18th-century Sanskrit prayer book appears to document
the life and teachings of 15th-century Guru Nanak, founder
of Sikhism, a sect of Sindhi Hindus who also embrace Islam
and Buddhism. It was because Nanak emphasized the
original spirit of Hinduism combined with the best of the
Muslim faith, and without the influence of Brahmins, that
Buddhism was able to spread so quickly throughout India.
This wonderful manuscript prayer book contains 17
miniatures, featuring a predominant male figure wearing a
gold- and red-striped turban, usually accompanied by a
woman—presumably Guru Nanak and his most famous
follower, Guru Angad. Near-fine.
“Effortlessly, Impeccably,
He Started The Mighty Clubhead Back”
626. PRESSFIELD, Steven. The Legend of
Bagger Vance. New York, 1995. Octavo,
original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $400.
First edition.
Based on the famous 1931 exhibition match
between Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones, Jr. and
Walter Hagen, Pressfield’s beloved tale
applies the spiritual teachings of the
Bhagavad-Gita to golf. Fine.
“The Novel And Controversial
Proposal That Adam Had
Been Black”
627. PRICHARD, James Cowles. Researches into the
Physical History of Mankind. London, 1813. Octavo, modern
full tan calf. $2200.
First edition of the “synthesis upon which modern ethnological
research has been based” (PMM 303). A handsomely bound,
uncut copy.
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 “Prichard’s interest in anthropology was stimulated by one of
the pressing questions of his day: did all the varied races of
mankind have a common origin, as stated in the Scriptures,
or did they spring from different ancestral stocks?… When he
came to publish the 1813 edition of Researches, [he had
adopted] John Hunter’s theory that civilization leads to lighter
coloration, and suggested that primordial savage populations
had advanced toward civilization by favoring lighter types—a
principle closely resembling Darwin’s theory of sexual
selection. This last theory led to the novel and controversial
proposal that Adam had been black, and that the black races,
far from representing a degeneration from white ‘perfection,’
were the origin from which the white races had sprung.
Prichard abandoned this theory in later editions” (Norman
1741). An outgrowth of his 1808 M.D. thesis at Edinburgh,
Prichard’s monumental research “remained a major reference
work in anthropology into the 1870s... His ‘ethnographical
investigation’… laid important groundwork for later research”
(DSB XI:137-38). Final few leaves remargined, text quite clean.
A handsome copy.
Inscribed By Pullman In The Year Of Publication
628. PULLMAN, Philip. His Dark Materials Trilogy. New
York, 1996-2000. Together, three volumes. Octavo, original
half blue cloth (Spyglass in original pictorial boards), dust
jackets. $1800.
First American editions, first volume inscribed on the half
title: “To Jack, with my best wishes--Philip Pullman. Ad astra
June 1996.”
One of the most sophisticated series of fantasy books for
young adults, Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy draws on
the work of Milton, Donne, and Blake to offer a unique reading
of the Bible through the experiences of Will and Lyra, a pair
of intrepid magic-wielding children. Fine.
First Edition Of The Earliest History Of
Electricity, 1767, With Seven Scientific Plates
629. PRIESTLEY, Joseph. The History and Present State
of Electricity. London, 1767. Thick quarto, period style full
speckled calf gilt. $7000.
First edition of the earliest history of the science of electricity
(published on the advice of Benjamin Franklin, who also
helped correct the proofs), with seven engraved folding plates.
“Conceived as a methodized account of previous discoveries
and an assessment of contemporary electrical studies, to
encourage further work on the subject... as a chronicle of near-
contemporary and contemporary electrical researches, lucidly
and simply described, it was very successful. During Priestley’s
lifetime the work went through five English editions and was
translated into Dutch, French, and German” (DSB). In addition
to a summary of the knowledge of electricity up to his time,
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Priestley describes his own original experiments, including
the first use of a conductor supported by an insulating pillar,
and his discovery of the conductivity of charcoal and metallic
salts, as well as his remarkable deduction anticipating the
inverse square law in electrical attraction: “May we not infer
from this experiment that the attraction of electricity is subject
to the same laws with that of gravitation.” “By Priestley’s law of
attraction between charged bodies, electricity was raised to
the position of an exact science” (Whittaker I, 53). Last leaf of
index and advertisement for Priestley’s Chart of Biography,
with plate, supplied in fine facsimile. Some leaves remargined,
shallow chipping to edges Only occasional light foxing, faint
offsetting. Extremely good.
Warmly Inscribed At Length By Mario Puzo
630. PUZO, Mario. The Godfather. New York, 1969.
Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
Book club edition of Puzo’s classic, boldly inscribed, “For Pat,
with admiration for her goodness, her wit, and her tolerance
of the Wicked Witches of the western world. Affect[ionate]ly,
Mario.”
Book with light wear to extremities and spine ends, dust
jacket exceptionally bright with light edge-wear, small
dampstain to rear fold and rear panel. Very good.
Howard Pyle’s American Spirit
631. PYLE, Howard. Howard Pyle’s Book of the American
Spirit. New York and London, 1923. Folio, original half black
cloth, dust jacket. $900.
First edition, first issue, profusely illustrated with 202
historical scenes and personages, 116 of which are full-page
plates (22 in color).
Without scarce publisher’s slipcase. Book fine. Fragile dust
jacket chipped at foot of spine. A near-fine copy.
Complete Works Of Racine, Handsomely Bound
632. RACINE, Jean. Oeuvre Complètes. Paris, 1820-21.
Six volumes. Large octavo, contemporary three-quarter
purple morocco gilt. $1200.
Handsome set of the 17th-century dramatist’s complete
works.
Text in French. A near-fine, handsome set.
Illustrated And Signed By Arthur Rackham
633. (RACKHAM, Arthur) MILTON, John. Comus.
London, 1921. Quarto, original half vellum. $1750.
Signed limited first edition of this beautifully illustrated
version of Milton’s pastoral drama, one of only 550 copies
signed by Rackham, with 24 mounted color plates and 37
black-and-white line cuts.
A fine copy with only slight toning.
634
“He Escaped From Being A
Human When He Was Seven
Days Old…”
634. (RACKHAM, Arthur)
BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in
Kensington Gardens. London, 1912.
Quarto, original green cloth gilt, dust
jacket. $3500.
Enlarged third edition, illustrated by
Rackham with a new color frontispiece,
49 original mounted color plates, and
12 new in-text line cuts (seven full-
page) not present in earlier editions, in
the scarce original dust jacket.
“The book which first made Rackham’s
work famous” (Carpenter & Prichard,
321). Without original box. Latimore
& Haskell, 40. Riall, 114. An attractive
copy in near-fine condition.
One Of Rackham’s Most
Sought-After Titles, Signed
By Him
635. (RACKHAM, Arthur). Mother Goose. The Old
Nursery Rhymes. London, 1913. Quarto, original pictorial
white cloth gilt top edge gilt, cardboard box. $2500.
Signed limited edition, number 909 of 1130 copies signed by
Rackham, with 12 of 13 splendid color plates mounted on
brown stock and 85 in-text line cuts.
Bookplate. Contemporary advertisement for a Rackham
exhibition laid in. Plates lovely and fine, light toning to cloth
spine. An extremely good copy.
Illustrated And Signed By Rackham
636. (RACKHAM, Arthur). ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin
Market. London, 1933. Slim octavo, original limp vellum
gilt. $1800.
First edition, number 65 of 410 copies signed and illustrated
by Arthur Rackham.
Without original slipcase. A lovely copy, nearly fine.
“Who Is John Galt?”
637. RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York, 1957. Thick
octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $2800.
First edition, in first-issue dust jacket, of
one of the most popular and influential
novels of the last 50 years.
Book fine. Price-clipped dust jacket with
most minor wear to extremities. A
handsome copy.
Rand’s Own Copy Of His
A Designer’s Art, Signed
638. R AND, Paul. A Designer’s Art.
New Haven, 1985. Quarto, original gray
cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. WITH: A
Designer’s Art. Tokyo, 1986. Slim
quarto, original yellow paper wrappers,
dust jacket. Two volumes. $2200.
First edition of Rand’s magnum opus on
commercial design, including an updated
version of his 1947 Thoughts on Design,
with “a wide selection of his brilliant
graphic work from the 30s to the present,”
signed by Rand. This is the Japanese
issue with a separate guide in Japanese.
“If the word legend has any meaning in the
graphic arts and if the term legendary can be applied with
accuracy to the career of any designer, it can certainly be
applied to Paul Rand” (Communication Arts). Considered
one of the world’s foremost innovators in the field of graphics
and advertising, Rand exerted a tremendous influence on
corporate identity and branding, having designed such
famous logos as ABC, IBM, Westinghouse and UPS. Book
and Guide in fine condition, slipcase slightly worn. A splendid
copy, with Rand’s signature of ownership.
“One Of Literature’s Most Poignant And
Convincing Portraits Of Childhood”
639. RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling.
New York, 1938. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, dust
jacket. $600.
First edition, first printing of the beloved, Pulitzer Prize-
winning classic.
Book with faint foxing to cloth extremities, one tiny mark to
rear board. Bright dust jacket with slight chipping to spine
ends. Extremely good.
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 “No Monkey Is As Curious As George”
640. REY, Margret and H.A. Curious
George Flies a Kite. Boston, 1958. Square
octavo, original pictorial blue cloth, dust with only light rubbing to
jacket.  $2400.
First edition of the fifth Curious George title.
One gathering expertly reinforced. Price-
clipped dust jacket with minor wear to spine
ends, two short closed tears to rear panel.
Extremely good, scarce in any condition.
“Stories Are Made Of Words, And
Words Are Made Of Letters”
641. REY, H.A. Curious George Learns
the Alphabet. Boston, 1963. Small quarto, original gray
cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
First edition of the sixth book in Rey’s enormously popular
series. Near-fine.
“It’s Going To Hurt, George…
But Only For A Moment”
642. REY, H.A. and Margret. Curious George Goes to the
Hospital. Boston, 1966. Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust
jacket. $2400.
First edition of the curious monkey’s hospital high jinks.
Book about-fine with interior generally quite clean. Fragile
original, price-clipped dust jacket extremely good with light
toning to spine and shallow chipping to spine ends, two closed
tears to front panel. A lovely copy.
“The Seminal Modern Vampire Novel”:
Inscribed By Anne Rice
643. RICE, Anne. Interview with the Vampire. New York,
1976. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket; custom
clamshell box. $2600.
First edition of the first novel in Anne Rice’s popular Vampire
Chronicles, inscribed by her on the half title, “For Roger, very
best wishes, Anne Rice. July 1977.”
A bit of light dampstaining to lower edge of text block, seldom
touching text. Fragile dust jacket fine. Scarce and desirable
inscribed.
Signed By World War I Ace Eddie Rickenbacker
644. RICKENBACKER, Edward V. Rickenbacker. An
Autobiography. Englewood Cliffs, 1967. Octavo, original
black and blue cloth, dust jacket. $1200.
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First edition, signed by Rickenbacker
in the year of publication.
Book about-fine, dust jacket near-fine
extremities.
The Complete Works Of Riley,
Beautifully Bound
645. RILEY, James Whitcomb. The
Complete Works. Indianapolis,
1913. Six volumes. Octavo,
contemporary three-quarter purple
morocco gilt. $2000.
Lovely “Hand-made Edition” of
640
Riley’s works, number 21 of only 50
sets produced, handsomely bound and richly illustrated with
47 plates of portraits, letters, manuscripts, and scenes from
his life.
“Left a lasting and memorable account of the life and times in
the Midwest in the 19th century. His poetry is still treasured”
(ANB). Spines toned to a rich burgundy. A handsome, fine
illustrated set.
“To Possess The Truth In One Body And One
Soul”: Signed By Mapplethorpe
646. RIMBAUD, Arthur. A Season in Hell. New York,
1986. Small folio, original full red morocco, slipcase. $2200.
Signed limited edition, number 986 of only 1000 copies,
signed by both Robert Mapplethorpe and translator Paul
Schmidt, with eight superb photogravures by Mapplethorpe.
“Of the arresting photographs used to illustrate this book,
several of the images rank among the photographer’s most
famous” (Phillips & Zwicker 30). The original French text and
the English translation are printed on facing pages. Original
prospectus laid in. Fine.
Rare First Edition Of Rittenhouse’s 1775
Oration To The American Philosophical Society,
Dedicated To The Second Continental
Congress By Rittenhouse
647. RITTENHOUSE, David. An Oration Delivered
February 24, 1775, before the American Philosophical
Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful
Knowledge. Philadelphia, 1775. Slim square quarto, 18th-
century three-quarter straight-grain brown morocco
rebacked, uncut; pp. 27. $6500.
First edition, with Rittenhouse’s dedication to the Second
Continental Congress dated “September 30th, 1775” and
delivered earlier that year to Franklin’s American
Philosophical Society by Rittenhouse, longtime influential
friend of Thomas Paine, Benjamin Rush, Jefferson and
Franklin, leading member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional
Convention of 1776, the second President of the Society, and
a Renaissance figure whose scientific innovations were
heralded by Jefferson as achievements exhibiting “as great a
proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced.”
The subject of this Oration is astronomy, “Rittenhouse’s
primary scientific study, a pursuit to which he moved easily
from his orreries, telescopes and surveying… [emerging] as
the leading figure in the American Philosophical Society’s
observations” when he placed one of his telescopes on a
platform behind the State House (now Independence Hall)
and plotted the Transit of Venus in 1769, an observation of
great importance “because of worldwide efforts to establish
the sun’s parallax” (DSB). Following Franklin as president
of the American Philosophical Society from 1791-96,
“Rittenhouse strengthened in its role as a platform of
science” and after his death was succeeded by Vice-President
Jefferson (DSB). Evans 14432. Sabin 71588. Some soiling
and chipping to fragile text, some expert repair to rear two
leaves. Very good.
Inscribed By Paul Robeson
648. ROBESON, Paul. Photograph inscribed. London,
circa 1937. Sepia photograph measures 10-1/2 by 13-1/2
inches. $1800.
Promotional photograph of Paul Robeson from the 1937
British film Big Fella, with Robeson standing with hands on
his hips, inscribed in blue ink, “To ‘Buddy’ from ‘Paul.’”
Paul Robeson ‘had so many talents he made acting seem
narrow… He was singer, actor and public speaker… Robeson
could sing the works of the masters; he could play O’Neill and
Shakespeare… a great deal of what he did [on film] depended
on offers from Britain,” such as this role in Big Fella, directed
by J. Elder Wills and produced in England (Thomson, 766).
Light edge-wear and soiling, slight loss to corners, single tape
repair to verso, small faint notation in red felt pen to lower
right corner.
“Robinson Displayed A Lightness And Finesse
Never Seen Before”: Inscribed By “Bojangles”
649. ROBINSON, Bill “Bojangles.” Photograph inscribed.
New York, 1938. Original albumen print measuring 7 by 9
inches, handsomely framed, entire piece measures 13 by 15-
1/2 inches. $1200.
Vintage full-length photograph of the incomparable
“Bojangles,” inscribed, “It is a real pleasure to do a few taps
in appreciation for Robert E. Pancake. Sincerely, Bill
Robinson, 1938.”
This wonderful full-length action photograph appears to have
been taken at the Cotton Club, with the stage curtain in the
background. Inscribed the year before Robinson left the Club
to join the Broadway cast of the African-American musical
“Hot Mikado.” Minor tape repair to bottom margin, not
affecting image.
Inscribed By Robbins
650. ROBBINS, Tom. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Boston,
1976. Octavo, original half white cloth, dust jacket. $1800.
First edition of Robbins’ second novel, an “extravagantly
playful road romance” (Washington Post), boldly inscribed
on the title page, “Joy! Tom Robbins.” Very nearly fine.
One Of “The Greatest Achievements In
Arthurian Literature”
651. ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington. Autograph
Manuscript (Fair Copy) of the first stanza of Tristram. No
place, 1927. Small quarto leaf. WITH: Autograph note signed
from Mark Van Doren attesting to provenance of the stanza.
No place, December 4, 1938. Small quarto leaf. Matted and
housed in blue cloth drop box. $2000.
Autograph manuscript of the first stanza of Tristram,
accompanied by autograph note signed from scholar Mark
Van Doren attesting that Robinson wrote this 20-line stanza
in 1927 at the request of Van Doren, and it was reproduced in
facsimile in Van Doren’s work Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Tristram received the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. Fine.
Inscribed By Eleanor Roosevelt
652. ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. This I Remember. New York,
1949. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $1600.
First trade edition of this fascinating personal account of the
Roosevelts’ life and times, inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt: “To
Jo Trehy from Eleanor Roosevelt.” Illustrated with 40 black-
and-white photographs.
Book near-fine with only lightest sunning to extremities. Dust
jacket quite fresh with some restoration.
From The Library Of Franklin And
Eleanor Roosevelt
653. (ROOSEVELT, Franklin and Eleanor)
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Merchant of Venice.
London, circa 1900. 24mo (3 by 4 inches), original full
brown cloth; pp. 80. $1500.
Miniature Library of the Poets Edition of the first act of The
Merchant of Venice, from the library of Franklin and Eleanor
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 Roosevelt, with his bookplate, and initialed for both of them
by Eleanor Roosevelt: “FDR ER”.
This volume is designated “No. 1362” in the Roosevelt’s library
on the bookplate. A wonderful item from the Roosevelts’
home. Fine.
Photographic Portrait, Signed By Eleanor Roosevelt
654. ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. Photograph signed.
Washington, DC, circa 1935. Sepia photograph measures 8 by
10 inches. $1800.
Sepia photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt in formal dress,
inscribed by her at the bottom of the image: “To Junior _____
with good wishes. Eleanor Roosevelt.”
Remnants of paper backing to verso. Small closed tear to
border, light fading. Fine, suitable for framing.
Inscribed By Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
And Alice Longworth
655. (ROOSEVELT, Theodore, Jr.) (LONGWORTH,
Alice) ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Theodore Roosevelt’s
Letters to His Children. New York, 1919. Octavo, original
green cloth. $3000.
First edition, second printing, inscribed by two of President
Roosevelt’s children, Theodore, Jr. and Alice Longworth.
This copy inscribed by Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who “served
with bravery and distinction in two major wars and won
decorations that his presidential father never received,” as
well as by TR’s eldest child, the enormously popular and
influential Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth: “Alice widened
the sphere of action for young women… President Roosevelt
himself conceded that he could govern the country or govern
his daughter, but he could not possibly do both” (ANB).
Without scarce original dust jacket. Near-fine.
Philip Roth’s Second Novel, Inscribed
656. ROTH, Philip. When She Was Good. New York, 1967.
Octavo, original navy blue cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
First edition of Roth’s second novel, a rare association copy,
inscribed on the half title to noted independent filmmaker
and actor Paul Bartel, “Sept 1986, To Paul Bartel—Philip
Roth.”
Book fine, light edge-wear, small crease to lower edge of bright
dust jacket.
Signed By Philip Roth
657. ROTH, Philip. Portnoy’s Complaint. New York, 1969.
Octavo, original navy cloth, dust jacket. $1600.
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First trade edition of Roth’s “wild and uproarious” novel,
boldly signed by the author on the title page. About-fine.
“A Comic Genius… A Living Master”
658. ROTH, Philip. Operation Shylock. A Confession.
New York, 1993. Octavo, original half gray cloth,
dust jacket. $550.
First trade edition of Roth’s award-winning novel, signed by
him on the title page.
Won the 1994 Pen/Faulkner Award and was named Time
Magazine’s Best American Novel for 1993. Only very minor
edge-wear to book and price-clipped dust jacket, nearly fine.
“An Autumnal Ramble Among The Hills
And Lakes Of Our Ancient British Home”
659. ROSCOE, Thomas. Wanderings and Excursions in
North Wales. WITH: Wanderings and Excursions in South
Wales. London, 1836-37. Two volumes. Octavo, mid-20th
century three-quarter blue morocco gilt. $1600.
First editions, with 99 steel-engraved plates, handsomely
bound by Larkins.
“Wales… fulfilled all the Romantic criteria for beauty, and
which was agreed to be the epitome of sublimity and solitude”
(Jane Zaring). Fine.
Rowlandson’s Sentimental Travels,
Beautifully Illustrated
660. (ROWLANDSON, Thomas) [COMBE, William].
Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces
of France. London, 1821. Octavo, early 20th-century
three-quarter green morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated
spine. $1200.
First edition of this account of “a traveler’s conduct in very
ticklish situations,” with 18 brightly hand-colored aquatint
engravings by popular satirist Thomas Rowlandson,
handsomely bound by Lemardeley.
The artist’s “rollicking humor and delicate tonal effects” are
paired here with the prose of William Combe, who worked
with Rowlandson on several other productions, including
the highly popular Dr. Syntax satires also published by
Ackermann (Oxford Dictionary of Art, 436). Abbey 89. Tooley
415. Fine, with only faint offsetting of plates to text, as usual,
handsomely bound.
Sequel To Dr. Syntax,
With 19 Hand-Colored Aquatints
661. (ROWLANDSON, Thomas) [COMBE, William]. The
Tour of Doctor Syntax through London. London, 1820.
Royal octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter green morocco
gilt, uncut; custom cloth slipcase. $950.
First edition in book form of this lively sequel to the “Tours of
Dr. Syntax,” containing the traveling schoolmaster’s account
of the “pleasures and miseries of the Metropolis,” with title
page vignette and 19 brightly hand-colored aquatint
engravings by Thomas Rowlandson and Robert Cruikshank.
Handsomely bound by Rivière.
Like its predecessors, this wonderful illustrated work is a
parody of the popular books of picturesque travels of the day.
Tooley 434. Abbey, Life 265. Plates clean and vividly colored,
light offsetting from a few plates to text. Spine toned to brown.
A fine copy, attractively bound.
662
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
662. ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets. London, 1998. Octavo, original boards, dust
jacket. $4800.
First edition of the second book in the phenomenally successful
Harry Potter series.
When Rowling’s second book saw print in 1998,
“Bloomsbury was a little less cautious” than they had been
when they published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Stone the previous year, “but the first printing was still
miniscule, considering the demand. Estimates range
between 1000 and 2000 copies… They have been notably
scarce” (Smiley, 52). Fine.
Rousseau’s Confessions, One Of Only Five
Large-Paper Copies, With 14 Etchings
By Edmond Hedouin
663. ROUSSEAU. The Confessions. No place, 1896. Two
volumes. Royal octavo, modern full burgundy morocco gilt,
uncut. $1100.
Limited illustrated edition, number one of only five large-
paper copies printed on Japanese vellum, with two frontispiece
portraits and 12 fine-line etchings by Edmond Hedouin.
Handsomely bound.
“Many of Hedouin’s finest original etchings were
commissioned for such great illustrated books as Rousseau’s
Confessions, Sterne’s Sentimental Journey and the plays of
Moliere. His Rousseau is indicative of the graceful lines and
design elements that made his art famous” (Art of the Print).
Fine.
Inscribed By Bertrand Russell
664. RUSSELL, Bertrand. Satan in the Suburbs and Other
Stories. London, 1953. Octavo, original black cloth, dust
jacket. $900.
First edition, inscribed by the author, “Rita Aarons, from
Bertrand Russell.”
Although remembered as one of the 20th century’s preeminent
philosophers, in 1951, following the completion of his
Autobiography, “Russell had taken to writing short stories.
He was not at all sure how they would be received, and the
first, ‘The Corsican Ordeal of Miss X,’ was published
anonymously in the magazine Go, which offered a prize for
identifying the author. Not surprisingly no one did” (Griffin,
471). Light foxing. About-fine.
The Beginning Of Vita Sackville-West
And Virginia Woolf’s Relationship
665. SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Seducers in Ecuador.
London, 1924. 12mo, original marbled red cloth. $500.
First edition, one of only 1500 copies printed, of Sackville-
West’s first work published by the Hogarth Press.
This novella’s publication marked the beginning of
Sackville-West and Woolf ’s 17-year personal and
professional relationship. “Their relationship, flowering
into friendship and love, interpenetrated both their lives. It
warmed Virginia into a new, intensely emotional experience
and led to her writing Orlando, as it strengthened and
developed Vita’s critical faculties, inspiring her to write her
two best-selling novels, The Edwardians and All Passion
Spent” (Willis, 105-06). Woolmer 52. Without original
fragile dust jacket. Near-fine.
With A Signed Autograph Letter By
Vita Sackville-West
666. SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Pepita. Garden City, New
York, 1937. Octavo, original beige and blue cloth, dust
jacket. $950.
Early American printing, published the same year as the first
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 edition, with a laid-in hand-addressed envelope and
autograph note on Sackville-West’s personal stationery that
reads: “Dear Miss (or Mrs.?) Lenney, I have much pleasure in
sending you my signature for insertion in your copy of ‘Pepita.’
It is nice of you to say you have found it worthy of inclusion in
your library. Yours sincerely, V. Sackville-West.”
An epic biography that chronicles the life of Sackville-West’s
grandmother, a famous Spanish dancer, as well as that of her
daughter, Sackville-West’s mother, before shifting into
autobiography. A beautiful near-fine copy, with a wonderful
signed autograph letter in original envelope.
“The Best Description Of Flight In Print”
667. SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine. Night-Flight. Paris,
1932. Small octavo, original buff paper self-wrappers,
glassine. $2000.
First edition in English, first printing, of Saint-Exupéry’s
second novel, 1931 winner of France’s Prix Femina. In the
rare original green glassine.
This is the exceedingly scarce first edition in English, published
in July 1932 in Paris for purchase on the Continent only;
precedes the London edition, which was not released until
November 8, 1932. A lovely, fine copy.
“To Read It Is To Forget We Are Earthbound”
668. SAINT‑EXUPÉRY, Antoine. Wind, Sand and Stars.
New York, 1939. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust
jacket. $5600.
First American trade edition, inscribed on the half title by
Saint-Exupéry, in French: “For Mr. Arthur E. Curtis, with
very friendly regards, Antoine Saint-Exupéry.”
Preceded in the U.S. by a signed limited edition of 500 copies.
A beautiful, near-fine inscribed copy.
669
“It Is Only With The Heart
That One Can See Rightly”
669. SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de.
The Little Prince. New York, 1943.
Small quarto, original cloth, dust
jacket. $3000.
First trade edition of the beloved fable,
with numerous illustrations by the
author, many in color.
Book fine. Chipping to spine ends of
original dust jacket affecting a few
letters of text, a few short closed tears
along edges, near-fine.
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Magnificent Hand-Colored Aquatint “Poonah,”
From Salt’s Elephant Folio Views In India, 1809
670. SALT, Henry. “Poonah.” FROM: Twenty Four Views
Taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia &
Egypt. London, 1809. Original hand-colored aquatint,
measuring 25 by 18-1/2 inches, beautifully framed; entire
piece measures 34-1/2 by 28 inches. $4500.
Splendid, large hand-colored aquatint prospect of Poona
(Bombay), with mourners surrounding the river-side burning
ghats, Plate XIII from Salt’s folio views of India, Egypt,
Ceylon, Abyssinia, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena.
Engraved by Daniel Havell. Image in fine condition with
colors true.
“We Meet Again Not In The Desert Land”
671. SANGER, Margaret. An Autobiography. New York,
1938. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket, uncut. $1800.
First edition, inscribed in black ink: “Jan 1939. To Mary
Allinson, whose cousin Esther Steele is my mountain & desert
neighbor—my greetings & regards. Margaret Sanger.”
Beneath that inscription, Sanger has written in blue ink:
“June 19, 1953. Towns End, Pa. We meet again not in the
desert land, but in a glorious garden East. Good friends,
hearty everywhere. Margaret Sanger.”
Sanger founded and served as president of the American
Birth Control League, organized the first World Population
Conference in Geneva, and was the first president of
the International Planned Parenthood Federation. A near-
fine copy.
Inscribed Presentation Association Copy Of
A Western Trip, With Some Of The Earliest
Color Photographs Of Yellowstone
672. SCHMIDT, Carl E. A Western Trip. Detroit, circa
1904. Octavo, original full tan calf gilt,
uncut; pp. 91. $7500.
First edition of this privately printed memoir
of the trip to the west by industrialist Carl
Schmidt, inscribed “To my friend Frederic
B. Stevens. Carl E. Schmidt, October 29th
1919.” With 12 mounted, full-page color
photographs, and 18 in text monochromatic
photographs, and a tipped in presentation
letter from the author.
Tipped in to the book is an autograph letter
signed by Schmidt, on his Walhalla
stationary, presenting the book. The letter
reads: “Dear Fred: Am sending you the
“Western Trip’. Some of the pictures were
the first photo-chromo pictures taken in this country—the
type was copied from an early Shakespeare edition & the
leather for the covers was the first mineral tanned leather ever
used for bookbinding—it is my own make. Look at the
pictures—the cover—the type—but you are not invited or
urged to read the stuff—Yours as ever Carl E. Schmidt.” Silk
endpapers renewed. Photographs vivid and beautiful, and
only lightest wear to spine. A beautiful, near-fine copy.
“Preserving An Immense Amount
Of Historic Data”
673. (SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry R.) DRAKE,
Francis S., editor. The Indian Tribes of the
United States: Their History, Antiquities,
Customs, Religion, Arts, Language,
Traditions, Oral Legends, and Myths.
Philadelphia, 1884. Two volumes. Thick
quarto, original three-quarter brown
morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines
and boards. $3500.
First edition of this abridgement of
Schoolcraft’s work, with 100 engraved and
lithographic plates, including a color-printed
frontispiece, ten hand-colored plates and a
hand-colored map.
First published in 1851 in six massive quarto volumes,
the present work was condensed “without, it is believed,
impairing the value of the work to the general reader,” and
retains many of the original illustrations. Howes D472. Plates
fine, occasional light marginal foxing to text. Joints with
expert repair. Near-fine.
“I Could’ve Been A Contender”
674. SCHULBERG, Budd. Waterfront. New York, 1955.
Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $2000.
First edition of Schulberg’s acclaimed novel, based on his
original Oscar-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront,
warmly inscribed with a classic quote from both novel and
film, “For John Rogers, I appreciate your response to this
book, and to Terry’s protest, ‘I coulda had class, I could’ve
been a contender. I could’ve been somebody. Instead of a bum,
which is what I am…” My best to you. Budd Schulberg,
10/3/06.” Near-fine, scarce inscribed.
“The Romantic Adventurer Rebelling Against
The Laws Of The Greedy World”
675. SCOTT, Walter. Rob Roy. Edinburgh, 1818. Three
volumes. 12mo, original boards rebacked and recornered in
period style with elaborately gilt-decorated spines. $1800.
First edition of the sixth “Waverly Novel,” handsome in calf
gilt and clean contemporary boards.
Bound without half titles. Scattered light foxing, occasional
marginal dampstaining. Contemporary boards quite clean. A
handsome set.
“The Highest Point Of Scott’s Literary And
Social Prosperity”
676. S COTT, Walter. Ivanhoe; A Romance. Edinburgh,
1820. Three volumes. 12mo, late 19th-century full
diced brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated
spines. $4000.
Scarce first edition, first issue, of Scott’s
classic novel, illustrated with ten engraved
plates by Charles Heath.
After the success of Scott’s Waverley, “the
whole English-reading world waited for
another book from the same pen. Ivanhoe
appeared... [and] was ‘Scott’s culminating
success in a book-selling sense, and
marked the highest point both of his
literary and social prosperity’” (Grolier
100 71). Occasional light foxing, closed
tears, creasing. Rear inner paper hinge of
Volume I partially split, binding sound. Mild
rubbing to binding. A very handsome copy in
excellent condition.
673
30-Volume Edition Of Scott’s Works
677. SCOTT, Walter. The Novels and Poems. Boston,
1892-1900. Thirty volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-
quarter purple morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines,
uncut and largely unopened. $4200.
“Standard Edition” of the Waverly Novels and other works of
Sir Walter Scott, number 401 of 1000 sets, with introductions
and notes by Andrew Lang, illustrated with frontispiece in
each volume and 120 plates, very handsomely bound. A
beautiful set in fine condition.
The Cricket In Times Square
678. SELDEN, George. The Cricket in Times Square. New
York, 1960. Octavo, original mauve cloth, dust jacket. $850.
First edition, illustrated by Garth Williams. A lovely copy,
near-fine.
“So His Parents Left Him There.
They Didn’t Take Him Anywhere”
679. SENDAK, Maurice. Nutshell Library: Pierre, A
Cautionary Tale; Alligators All Around: An Alphabet; One
Was Johnny: A Counting Book; Chicken Soup with Rice: A
Book of Months. New York, 1962. Four volumes. 24mo
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 (books measure approximately 2-3/4 by 3-3/4 inches), original
cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. $2200.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated little set of classics
for children, signed by the author/illustrator in Pierre.
Books fine. Lightest wear to extremities of pictorial slipcase.
Fine, scarce signed.
“I Wish I Had A Horse, And A Ship
With An Extra Room For A Friend”
680. SENDAK, Maurice. Kenny’s Window. New York,
1956. Slim quarto, original cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
Scarce first edition of the first book both written and illustrated
by Maurice Sendak.
Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with light wear and toning.
Inscribed By Maurice Sendak And Alec Wilder
To The Book’s Dedicatee
681. SENDAK, Maurice. WILDER, Alec. Lullabies and
Night Songs. New York, 1965. Folio, original blue cloth, dust
jacket. $4200.
First edition, signed by children’s author Lavinia Faxon Russ,
to whom the book is dedicated, and warmly inscribed on the
dedication page by both artist (“For Val, Oct. ’65, Maurice
Sendak,” with a small original sketch of a whistling dog) and
composer (“For Val, I hope that I write notes just half as lovely
as Maurice Sendak draws anything. Alec Wilder”).
Lavinia Russ’ books include Books Forever for Children (1964),
Over the Hills and Far Away (1968) and Alec’s Sand Castle
(1972). Interior lovely and clean, light discolorations to cloth.
Dust jacket with minimal soiling and slightest rubbing to
spine, near-fine.
Presentation Copy, Inscribed By
Sendak To Dorothy Parker
682. SENDAK, Maurice. Higglety
Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to
Life. New York, 1967. Square 12mo,
original brown cloth, dust jacket. $800.
First edition, presentation copy,
wonderfully illustrated, inscribed: “For
Dorothy Parker—Maurice Sendak.”
This delightful tale is “the story of a dog
named Jennie (in fact Sendak’s own
beloved Sealyham terrier) who leaves home
in search of excitement and becomes a
performer in the World Mother Goose
Theatre” (Carpenter & Prichard, 476).
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Parker died just weeks after Sendak inscribed this book to her.
A near-fine copy with an interesting association.
Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Beautifully Illustrated
And Inscribed By Sendak
683. (SENDAK, Maurice). SEGAL, Lore. The Juniper Tree
and Other Tales from Grimm. New York, 1973. Two volumes.
Octavo, original brown cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. $600.
First edition of this collection of 27 newly translated fairy
tales from Grimm, beautifully illustrated, and inscribed on
the half title of Volume I: “For Phoebe – hi! Maurice Sendak
April 79.”
“Numerous versions of Grimm’s fairy tales exist, but several
are exceptional. The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm,
edited by Lore Segal and translated by Segal and Randall
Jarrell, is illustrated with some of Maurice Sendak’s finest
work” (Silvey, 287). Very nearly fine.
Inscribed By Sendak In The Year Of Publication
684. SENDAK, Maurice. Outside Over There.
New York, 1981. Oblong quarto, original red cloth, dust
jacket. $1000.
First edition of Sendak’s award-winning, “mysterious and
richly allusive fantasy” (New York Times), inscribed in the
year of publication, “For Elena, Maurice Sendak, Dec. ’81.”
A fine copy.
“In The Beginning… He Had Only One”:
Scarce First Edition Of The 500 Hats Of
Bartholomew Cubbins
685. SEUSS, Dr. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew
Cubbins. New York, 1938. Thin
quarto, original half red cloth, dust
jacket. $6800.
Scarce first edition of Dr. Seuss’
second book, a comical and insightful
fantasy with numerous black, white
and red illustrations by the author.
Interior with slight marginal soiling;
rear inner paper hinge split, binding
sound. Price-clipped dust jacket
with spine largely split but holding,
modest loss to spine ends, a few
short closed tears. A very good copy
of an extraordinarily scarce Seuss
first edition, difficult to obtain in
any condition.
685
“That Cat Is A Bad One, That Cat In The Hat”
686. SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
New York, 1958. Octavo, original pictorial boards, dust
jacket. $1600.
First edition. Interior generally clean. Dust jacket with light
rubbing to spine ends, light soiling, near-fine.
“You Cannot Stop Our Apple Fun!”
687. (SEUSS, Dr.) LESIEG, Theo. Ten Apples up on Top.
New York, 1961. Octavo, original pictorial boards, dust
jacket. $1750.
First edition of this Dr. Seuss Beginner Book, illustrated by
Roy McKie.
“Theo. LeSieg” was the pseudonym Theodore Seuss Geisel
used in books to which he contributed text but not illustrations.
An extremely attractive copy in near-fine condition.
Inscribed By Dr. Seuss
688. SEUSS, Dr. Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book. New York, 1962.
Quarto, original pictorial boards, dust jacket. $3600.
First edition, inscribed by Seuss, “for Richard Kelly, who I
would rather have light my books than anyone I know… with
admiration… Dr. Seuss.”
A lovely copy, near-fine, scarce inscribed by Seuss.
“You Can Go By Foot. You Can Go By Cow.
Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now!”
689. SEUSS, Dr. Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go
Now! New York, 1972. Octavo, original pictorial boards, dust
jacket; custom slipcase. $3500.
First edition of this “Bright and Early Book” for Seuss’
youngest readers.
This book gained its widest recognition after Geisel gave Art
Buchwald a copy with Richard Nixon’s name replacing
Marvin K. Mooney’s throughout. Buchwald published the
story in his syndicated column; Nixon’s resignation soon
followed (Dr. Seuss from Then to Now, 55). Book fine, bright
price-clipped dust jacket with very small chip to spine head
and small hole to fold of front flap.
First Edition Of Shackleton’s
Heart Of The Antarctic
690. SHACKLETON, Ernest H. The Heart of the
Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic
Expedition 1907-1909. Philadelphia, 1909. Two volumes.
Large octavo, original silver-stamped blue cloth. $2200.
First trade edition, American issue, of Shackleton’s account
of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-09 (Nimrod).
Shackleton first gained fame as a member of Scott’s expedition
of 1901-02. Here he recounts his 1907-09 expedition which
came within 100 miles of the South Pole—a record—before
being forced to return due to lack of supplies. Profusely
illustrated with 12 color plates, photographic frontispieces
and over 200 other photographic illustrations, more than 40
plans and diagrams, three folding maps and one folding
panorama. Interiors fine, inner paper hinges expertly
reinforced. Cloth bindings clean and fresh, silver-gilt quite
bright. Near-fine.
Rare First Separate Printing Of
The Two Gentlemen Of Verona
691. SHAKESPEARE. The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
London, 1734. 12mo, disbound. $2500.
Rare first separate printing of this comedy, with a wood-
engraved frontispiece by Fourdrinier and woodcut devices
and initials.
This edition of the play is from “the first set of the plays issued
separately for performance, each with title page illustration,
and new page-numbering… The plays must have been
prepared for (or commissioned by) the Drury Lane company
of actors, in opposition to a very similar edition published by
Walker with whom Tonson carried on a price war” (Franklin,
17). “The first known printing of this tragedy is to be found in
the Jaggard folio of 1623, and the first separate edition was
issued by Jacob Tonson in 1734” (Jaggard, 301). Very faint
foxing. Near-fine.
Rare First Separate Printing Of Comedy Of Errors
692. SHAKESPEARE. Comedy of Errors. London:
J. Tonson, 1734. 12mo, disbound. $2500.
Rare first separate printing of this comedy, with a wood-
engraved frontispiece illustration and woodcut borders and
devices.
“Unprinted until it appeared in the Jaggard canon of 1623…
The earliest separate edition recorded was by J. Tonson in
1734” (Jaggard, 294). Very fainting foxing. Near-fine.
The Cambridge Shakespeare, Beautifully Bound
693. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works. London,
1894-95. Nine volumes. Thick octavo, contemporary full
polished tree calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, uncut and
entirely unopened. $3000.
Lovely 19th-century set of Shakespeare’s works, edited by
William Aldis Wright, “our greatest Shakespearian scholar
since Edmund Malone.” In lovely tree calf bindings.
A very handsome set, entirely unopened, in fine condition.
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 “The Play’s The Thing…”
694. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays. London, 1803.
Ten volumes. Small octavo, contemporary full straight-grain
green morocco gilt. $2800.
Early 19th-century edition, with frontispiece portrait,
handsomely bound.
Includes Rowe’s biography of the Bard as well as Dr. Johnson’s
celebrated preface and annotations. Scattered light foxing.
Light edge-wear to extremities of contemporary morocco,
spines uniformly toned. Near-fine.
“The Age Would Seize Upon Shelley”
695. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Posthumous Poems. London,
1824. Octavo, original boards respined with original
spine and printed paper spine label laid down, uncut;
custom chemise and slipcase. $3500.
First edition, first issue, edited and with a
preface by Mary Shelley, containing the first
publication of much of Shelley’s work. One
of fewer than 500 copies printed and fewer
than 300 actually sold, in original
boards.
“Posthumous Poems accomplished what
Mary Shelley intended: before it, Shelley’s
immorality, destructiveness, and
incomprehensibility were legendary, and he
was largely unread; upon its publication there
was a surge of interest as he seemed at once
more accessible and admirable... The age would
seize upon Shelley” (Sunstein, 257). Includes the
first appearance of Julian and Maddalo and The Witch
of Atlas, the unfinished Triumph of Life, the Epistle to Maria
Gisborne, and many other poems and translations, including
the first appearances of some of Shelley’s most widely known
lyrics—To Night, Lines to an Indian Air, and Music when soft
voices die. Occasional light foxing. Mild wear and rubbing to
original boards. An exceptionally desirable copy.
Peck’s Celebrated Biography Of Shelley, 1927,
Handsomely Bound
696. (SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe) PECK, Walter Edwin.
Shelley: His Life and Work. Boston and New York, 1927. Two
volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco,
elaborately gilt-decorated spines. $750.
First edition, illustrated with frontispiece portraits and 45
plates, handsomely bound.
Feted by the academic world when he discovered two of
Shelley’s previously unpublished poems in 1925, Peck
published this biography of the great poet two years later to
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widespread acclaim. Published the same year as a signed
limited edition of 175 copies. Evidence of bookplate removal.
Small sticker affixed to front free endpaper of Volume II. A
fine set, handsomely bound.
William Shockley’s Nobel Lecture, Accompanied
By A Signed Photograph Featuring An Original
Sketch Of A Transistor
697. SHOCKLEY, William. Transistor Technology Evokes
New Physics. Stockholm, 1957. Slim octavo, staple-bound as
issued, original white wrappers. WITH: Photograph signed.
No place, no date. Black-and-white photograph, measuring
3-1/2 by 5 inches. $3500.
First edition of Shockley’s Nobel Prize lecture, inscribed on
the front wrapper: “To Sir Lind: With appreciation for his
interest in my contributions. W=Shockley. 9 May 81.”
Accompanied by an original black-and-white
photograph signed and with an original drawing
of a transistor on the lower left corner of the
image.
Designed to replace the large, inconsistent,
and inefficient vacuum tube, the transistor
quickly took over as an essential element in
calculators, microprocessors, telephones,
stereos, televisions—in short, every major
electronic device. William Shockley, John
Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain, researchers
at Bell Laboratories, were awarded the 1956
Nobel Prize in physics “for their investigations
on semiconductors and the discovery of the
transistor effect.” This is the first edition of the
lecture Shockley gave in connection with that
Nobel Prize. The accompanying photograph, taken
in the 1950s, shows Shockley smiling and sitting in front
of a blackboard covered in equations. Fine. Scarce.
“The Stuff Of American Surfaces Has Become
The Stuff Of Contemporary Photography”
698. SHORE, Stephen. American Surfaces. New York,
2005. Square quarto, original boards, dust jacket, original
“Kodak” envelope. $850.
First edition of Shore’s remarkable photobook, representing
“the central idea—in contemporary photography” (Parr &
Badger), signed by Shore on the half title, with 313 color plates
and the scarce “Kodak Color Finishing Envelope.”
“The stuff of American Surfaces has become the stuff of
contemporary photography, but it was Shore, along with
William Eggleston, who at the beginning of the 1970s
brilliantly developed the language of Walker Evans and
Robert Frank in color” (Parr & Badger II:295). First edition,
released in the facsimile of a “Kodak Color Finishing
Envelope.” Fine.
“Maybe It’s A Period Of Grace”
699. SHUTE, Nevil. On the Beach. London, 1957. Octavo,
original red cloth, dust jacket. $550.
First edition of Shute’s chilling vision of nuclear war and
humanity’s end. About-fine.
700
An Exceptional Association Copy Inscribed By
Alan Sillitoe To Malcolm Bradbury
700. SILLITOE, Alan. The Loneliness of the Long-distance
Runner. London, 1959. Octavo, original green cloth, dust
jacket. $3200.
First edition of a collection of nine stories by one of England’s
most notable “Angry Young Men,” an extraordinary
association copy inscribed by Sillitoe to influential critic and
novelist Malcolm Bradbury: “To Malcolm, best wishes, Alan
Sillitoe.”
This rare association copy is inscribed by Sillitoe to fellow
author Malcolm Bradbury, whose 1959 review of Sillitoe’s
novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning praised his skills at
depicting “that separate, undercover world of the English
working man from the inside… If the heroes of some recent
English novels are angry young men,” wrote Bradbury, “Mr.
Sillitoe is raging” (New York Times). Slight foxing, edge-wear
to bright, extremely good dust jacket.
Isaac Singer’s First Book In English
701. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. The Family Moskat. New
York, 1950. Octavo, original two-tone burgundy and black
cloth, dust jacket. $950.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book to
be translated into English.
Dust jacket lightly nicked at edges, near-fine.
Presentation Association Copy,
Warmly Inscribed By Singer
702. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Satan in Goray. New York,
1955. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First edition in English, presentation association copy, of
Singer’s first novel, inscribed by him on the title page: “To
Libby (and Boris, too) with love. Isaac Bashevis Singer.”
Der Sotn in Goray, Singer’s first novel, was published in
installments in Poland in 1935, shortly before he immigrated
to the United States. Elizabeth Shub, the recipient, was an
author, editor, translator, and long-time friend to Singer. It
was she who first suggested to Singer that he write a children’s
book; the result was their collaboration on the award-winning
Zlateh the Goat (published 1966), followed by many other
works. Book extremely good with sunning to spine. Dust
jacket near-fine with only light edge-wear.
Presentation Association Copy Of
Singer’s The Slave
703. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. The Slave. New York, 1962.
Octavo, original half cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First edition, presentation copy, warmly inscribed: “To Libby
with love, Isaac B. Singer. W.Y. July 28, 1962.”
Elizabeth Shub, the recipient of this copy, was an author,
editor, translator, and long-time friend to Singer, collaborating
on Zlateh the Goat and many other works. Inner hinge
expertly repaired, some toning to binding of near-fine book,
light chipping to very good dust jacket.
Signed By Both Sendak And Singer
704. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Zlateh the Goat and Other
Stories. New York, 1966. Octavo, original cream cloth,
slipcase. $1600.
Signed limited first edition, number 444 of 500 copies signed
by Sendak and Singer, illustrated with 17 exquisite mounted
line-cuts by Sendak. Fine.
Signed By Singer
705. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. The Collected Stories. New
York, 1982. Large octavo, original gray cloth, slipcase. $500.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 450 copies signed by
Singer. Fine.
Yentl, Signed By Singer And Frasconi
706. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Yentl the Yeshiva Boy. New
York, 1983. Octavo, original white cloth, slipcase. $600.
Signed limited first edition, one of 450 copies signed by both
Singer and woodcut illustrator Antonio Frasconi. Fine.
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 With An Outstanding Full-Page Original Drawing
Of A Bird And An Inscription By Shel Silverstein
707. SILVERSTEIN, Shel. Falling Up. New York, 1996.
Quarto, original black cloth, dust jacket. $1200.
First edition, fifth printing, presentation copy, with a
wonderfully quirky full-page original drawing of a bird in
gym shoes standing on one leg and holding a sign bearing
the inscription: “for ARNOLD with thanks Shel
Silverstein.” Fine.
“Roll Jordan, Roll,” “Gabriel’s Trumpet,”
“Lonesome Valley”
708. (SLAVERY) ALLEN, William Francis, compiler. Slave
Songs of the United States. New York, 1867. Tall octavo,
original pale brown cloth. $950.
First edition of this landmark collection of African-American
spirituals, containing musical transcriptions and lyrics for
136 gospel songs.
This is the first systematic effort to collect and preserve the
songs sung by the plantation slaves of the Old South. The
commentary includes “a thorough discussion of the songs,
including their places of origin, their composition, their
phonetic and grammatical properties, and their performative
qualities. The editors then provide directions for singing the
songs before providing the musical transcriptions of 136
mostly sacred songs” (Brent Kinser). Work, 435. Sabin 82067.
See Blockson 9992. Owner signature in pencil. Interior lightly
embrowned, moderate rubbing to extremities of original
cloth, rear inner hinge tender. An extremely good copy.
Scarce 1861 Broadside Comparison Of Free
And Slave States
709. (SLAVERY) BATCHELDER,
John M. Comparison of Products,
Population, and Resources of the
Free and Slave States. Cambridge,
1861. Large broadside (14 by 22
inches), printed in black, red on December 3, 1947, produced by
and blue; handsomely framed,
entire piece measures 22 by 31
inches. $2700.
Original large broadside red and
blue bar-graph comparing the
resources of North and South at the
outset of the Civil War, with a small
wood-engraved vignette of Peter
Hart restoring the flag at Fort
Sumter.
711
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This striking broadside contrasts the statistical differences
between the free and slave states, now at war, on a scale of 100,
including illiterate white adults (free, 50; slave, 100), enrolled
militia (free, 100; slave, 58), miles of railroads (free, 100; slave,
38) and miles of canals (free, 100; slave, 29). Three faint
horizontal fold lines, expert repairs to two chips in left margin,
not affecting text. Near-fine, bright and fresh. A splendid
Civil War broadside.
“Thy Chains Are Broken, Africa, Be Free!”
710. (SLAVERY) MONTGOMERY, James. Abolition of
the Slave Trade, A Poem. London, 1814. Slim folio,
contemporary full brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine
and covers. $1600.
First separate edition of this “exposé of the iniquities of
slavery,” with portraits of Wilberforce, Sharp and Clarkson,
and nine fine full-page engravings of paintings by Robert
Smirke.
Montgomery’s poem first appeared in 1809, in a volume
together with similar works by James Grahame and Elizabeth
Benger. His poem not only celebrates the abolition of the slave
trade, it demands an end to slavery altogether. Armorial
bookplate. Scattered foxing. Beautiful contemporary calf only
lightly rubbed, front joint with expert repair.
Large Vintage Eugene Smith Portrait Of
Tennessee Williams For Life Magazine
711. SMITH, W. Eugene. Photograph of Tennessee
Williams. New York, 1948. Large silver gelatin print,
measuring 10 by 12 inches. $5000.
Vintage silver-gelatin print of Smith’s portrait of Tennessee
Williams, posed in front of a poster
advertising A Streetcar Named Desire,
taken for the February 16, 1948 issue
of Life magazine.
The first stage version of A Streetcar
Named Desire opened on Broadway
Irene Mayer Selznick, with Marlon
Brando starring as Stanley, Jessica
Tandy as Blanche, Kim Hunter as
Stella, and Karl Malden as Mitch.
Brando portrayed Stanley with an
overt sexuality that “catapulted him to
stardom, and his ‘method’ style of
acting to national prominence”
(Jordan Miller). This vintage portrait
of Williams by Smith was taken during
the third month of its two-year run on
Broadway and appeared in the
February 16, 1948 issue of Life. Fine.
“Smollett’s Crowning Achievement”
712. SMOLLETT, Tobias. The Expedition of Humphry
Clinker. London, 1771. Three volumes. 12mo, 19th-century
full mottled brown calf. $3000.
First edition, one of the four possible first states, of Smollett’s
finest novel.
Smollett’s last novel was published in 1771, the year of his
death, and is “generally agreed to be Smollett’s crowning
achievement… The mellowest and most accomplished of his
works” (Drabble, 915). With half titles. Grolier 100, 112.
Bookplates of distinguished book collector Roderick Terry. A
few faint stains to text, light restoration to handsome calf,
near-fine.
“170 Chapters Of Misery”
713. SNICKET, Lemony. A Series of Unfortunate Events.
New York, 1999-2006. Thirteen volumes. Small octavo,
original pictorial boards. WITH: Lemony Snicket: The
Unauthorized Autobiography. New York, 2002. Small
octavo, original photographic boards, dust jacket. Together,
fourteen volumes. $1600.
Splendid set of the popular series, all first editions in beautiful
condition, the first with the author’s characteristic blindstamp
and handwritten inscription “with all due respect” and dated
“19.XI.2004.” Accompanied by vintage publisher’s publicity
materials.
One of the most imaginative series to appear in recent years,
books by “Lemony Snicket”—pen name of author Daniel
Handler—“have collectively sold more than 51 million copies
worldwide… Handler’s literary opera buffa of calamity has
been a children’s book phenomenon second only to Harry
Potter” (New York Times). Inoffensive juvenile ownership
signature to ownership pages of Volumes 3, 4. Remainder
mark to The Unauthorized Autobiography only. A fine set,
desirable inscribed.
Inscribed By Solzhenitsyn
714. SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander. Lenin in Zurich.
Chapters. New York, 1976. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust
jacket. $1250.
First edition in English, inscribed in English and signed in
Cyrillic on the half title: “to Adrienne Rogers with best wishes.
Dec 2004. Alexander Solzhenitsyn.”
Drawing material from his various works including an excised
chapter from August 1914 and several chapters from his
World War I trilogy, Solzhenitsyn compiled this work in order
to provide insight into Lenin’s motivation during the years he
spent in Switzerland while the monarchy was falling in Russia.
The first edition was published in Russian in Paris in 1975. A
fine inscribed copy.
Inscribed By Solzhenitsyn
715. SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander I. The First Circle. New
York and Evanston, 1968. Thick octavo, original red cloth,
dust jacket. $2200.
First edition in English, advance review copy, of Solzhenitsyn’s
first novel, with presentation slip laid in, inscribed in English
and signed in Cyrillic on the title page: “to Adrienne Rogers
with best wishes Alexander Solzhenitsyn. August 2005.”
Based on Solzhenitsyn’s own experiences as a prison
laborer in a scientific research institute during the 1950s.
Slightest bubbling to original cloth, scratch to rear board;
dust jacket fine.
Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Lecture, Inscribed
716. SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander. The Nobel Lecture on
Literature. New York, 1972. Slim octavo, original boards,
dust jacket. $1650.
First book edition of Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel lecture, inscribed in
English and signed in Cyrillic on the title page: “to Adrienne
Rogers. Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Dec. 2005.”
Book about-fine, dust jacket near-fine with a few spots of
spoiling and a bit of toning to extremities. A near-fine
inscribed copy.
“Three Friends Who Have Extended The
Frontiers Of The Arts”
717. SONTAG, Susan. Dancers on a Plane: Cage,
Cunningham, Johns. London, 1989. Slim folio, original gray
cloth gilt, slipcase. $1500.
Signed limited first edition of this lavish exhibition catalogue,
with photographs of Cunningham’s dances, facsimiles of
Cage’s idiosyncratic musical manuscripts, and color plates of
Johns’ paintings, one of only 200 copies signed by all three
honorees on the verso of the frontispiece.
This special edition catalog was published to accompany a
multimedia exhibition at the London gallery of Anthony
d’Offay from October 31st to December 2, 1989; the
exhibition was later mounted at the Tate. Includes ten
poems by Susan Sontag collectively entitled: “In Memory of
Their Feelings.” Fine.
Apollo Spacecraft Training Manual,
Signed By Aldrin, Haise And Stafford
718. (SPACE) (ALDRIN, Buzz, HAISE, Fred and
STAFFORD, Tom). Apollo Training. Apollo Spacecraft &
Systems Familiarization. Course Numbers APC-106 &
APC-124. Downey, California, 1966. Oblong octavo, original
paper wrappers, bound with prongs as issued. $2500.
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 Original Apollo program training manual, with over 100
diagrams, signed on the front wrapper by Apollo astronauts
Buzz Aldrin, Fred Haise and Tom Stafford.
This training manual, designed to familiarize astronauts with
the moon lander, has been signed on the front wrapper by
three Apollo astronauts, including Aldrin, the second man on
the Moon. Haise was backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 8
and 11, and piloted the lunar module on the ill-fated Apollo
13; Stafford “helped formulate the sequence of missions
leading to the first lunar landing mission” and “was
commander of Apollo 10 in May 1969, [the] first flight of the
lunar module to the moon,” during which mission he
performed “the first rendezvous around the Moon” and “the
entire lunar landing mission except the actual landing”
(NASA). Front wrapper lightly toned. A fine signed document
from the zenith of America’s manned space program.
Original Apollo XI Checklist Page,
Inscribed By Aldrin
719. (SPACE) ALDRIN, Buzz. Document inscribed
(Apollo XI Checklist Page). Houston, June 27, 1969. One leaf,
6 by 8 inches, printed on recto. $1800.
Original page from the Apollo XI Launch Operations
Checklist, inscribed by the second man on the Moon, “Used in
training for APOLLO XI. Buzz Aldrin.”
spectacular views of Earth. Though not as iconic as scenes of
the entire planet gained by later Apollo crews, these
photographs from Gemini 3 (March 1965), Gemini 4 (June
1965) and Gemini 5 (August 1965) yielded significant
information for earthbound geologists, meteorologists,
geographers, oceanographers and other scientists. Owner
inscription. Fine.
Inscribed By Five Gemini Astronauts
721. (SPACE) (GEMINI ASTRONAUTS) NASA. Project
Gemini. Washington, DC, circa 1966. Quarto, original glossy
paper wrappers, staple-bound as issued. $1200.
First edition of this overview of the Gemini program, inscribed
on the front wrapper by astronauts Gordon Cooper, Charles
Conrad, Richard Gordon, Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford,
with their mission designations.
This generously illustrated volume outlines Project Gemini’s
objectives, hardware and personnel. Five Gemini astronauts
have inscribed the book with their signatures and mission
designations on the front wrapper. A fine inscribed copy.
722

Aldrin describes this inscribed item in an accompanying

typed letter (also signed by him): it is “a page numbered 2-4C
from the CSM 107 (Apollo 11) Launch Operations Checklist…
part of the complete manual that was used in the Command
Module Apollo Mission Simulator at the Manned Spacecraft
Center in Houston, Texas. The page is from Section 2 titled:
Boost-Insertion – TLI… Neil had the command responsibility
to initiate an abort if the launch profile deviated from the
planned events outlined in this checklist section… [The
simulator training in which this checklist was used] was a key
step which enabled our flight to make the first manned lunar
landing on July 20, 1969.” Fine.

Earth Photographs, Inscribed By The Crew

Of Gemini 5 Signed By Muriel Spark

720. (SPACE) (COOPER, Gordon, and CONRAD, Charles, 722. SPARK, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean
Jr.). Earth Photographs from Gemini III, IV and V. Brodie. London, 1961. Octavo, original green cloth, dust
Washington, DC, 1967. Quarto, original red cloth. $1500. jacket. $2000.

First edition, featuring 244 beautiful color-photographs taken First edition of Muriel Sparks’ eighth and best-loved novel,
from Earth orbit, inscribed on the title page by the crew of the basis of the Oscar-winning movie that starred Maggie
Gemini 5: “Gemini V Mission Photos by Gordon Cooper, cdr.” Smith in the title role, signed on the title page by Muriel
and, below Cooper’s inscription, “& Charles Conrad Jr., Plt.” Spark.

“The difference between Mercury and Gemini was the “The twinkling wit of Muriel Spark is always a joy to behold,
difference between taking short excursions to space and living and never more so, in my opinion, than in The Prime of Miss
there” (Burrows, 357, 360). Project Gemini also yielded some Jean Brodie” (Connolly, 260). Book fine, dust jacket with only
minor rubbing to extremities, about-fine.

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“Incomparably The Greatest Master
In Our Language”
723. SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queene.
Cambridge, 1909. Two volumes. Thick folio, original full
vellum gilt. $3000.
Finely printed limited edition of Spenser’s masterpiece, one of
50 reserved from sale (of a total of only 350 copies), set in
Cambridge type and illustrated with vignette title pages and
Art Nouveau tailpieces.
This handsomely printed edition by John Clay of the
Cambridge University Press was set in “Cambridge” type
from the rare 1596 quarto edition of Spenser. Fine, with only
lightest soiling to original vellum.
Boldly Signed By Bruce Springsteen
724. SPRINGSTEEN, Bruce. Greatest Hits. Miami, 1996.
Small folio, original pictorial white paper wrappers. $1600.
Guitar-tab edition of Bruce Springsteen’s greatest hits, with
harmonica solos and vocal line, boldly signed on the front
wrapper by Springsteen.
This book of sheet music arranged for guitar includes many
of Springsteen’s best-loved songs such as “Atlantic City,”
“Born in the U.S.A.,” “Born to Run,” “Dancing in the Dark,”
“Murder Incorporated,” “The River,” and “Streets of
Philadelphia.” Tiny stain to edge of
front wrapper. Fine.
“The River”
725. SPRINGSTEEN, Bruce.
Album cover signed (“The
River”). New York, 1980. Original
album sleeve, measuring 12-1/2 by
12-1/2 inches; matted and framed,
entire piece measures 19 by 19
inches.  $2500.
Original album cover for “The River,”
the album that made Springsteen a
rock and roll star, boldly signed by
him. Fine, handsomely framed.
Signed By Gertrude Stein
726. STEIN, Gertrude. Three Lives. Stories of the Good
Anna, Melanctha, and the Gentle Lena. New York, 1927.
Octavo, original rust, blue, and white cloth, dust jacket. $2600.
Later edition, signed by Gertrude Stein.
“Stein’s first published book, Three Lives (1909), the stories of
three working-class women, has been called a minor
masterpiece” (Kuiper, 1064). Book fine, dust jacket extremely
good with shallow chipping to extremities and a bit of
toning.
Steinbeck’s Cannery Row
727. STEINBECK, John. Cannery Row. New York, 1945.
Small octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket; custom cloth
slipcase. $2500.
First edition of this classic assemblage of colorful characters,
in second state cloth binding.
The first edition of Cannery Row was printed using materials
in conformity with wartime conservation measures. Issued
both in paper wrappers and in cloth with dust jacket, it was
first bound in light buff cloth. When supplies ran out, the job
was finished in yellow cloth (as here). Book fine, dust jacket
with very minor wear to spine ends.
“Timshel!”
728. STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York, 1952.
Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $2200.
First trade edition, first issue of Steinbeck’s classic novel of
good and evil.
Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with slight rubbing to spine
ends and joints, small closed tear to rear panel repaired.
Incidents Of Travel In
Yucatan, With Engravings
After Catherwood
729. STEPHENS, John L.
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan.
New York, 1843. Two volumes.
Octavo, original elaborately gilt-
stamped plum cloth. $2200.
First American edition of Stephens’
classic work on Central America,
illustrated with 75 full-page plates
and numerous in-text wood
engravings after drawings executed
by Frederick Catherwood,
including two folding frontispieces
and a folding map of the Yucatan
725
peninsula.
In 1839, Stephens and Catherwood set out to explore the
jungles of Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula in
search of the remnants of a once-great civilization whose
existence was only hinted at in the literature of the period.
The illustrations, engraved from sketches and daguerreotype
views taken by Catherwood, are remarkable for their accuracy;
his renderings of Mayan hieroglyphic inscriptions can be
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 deciphered by modern scholars. Foxing to text and plates, as
usual, original cloth sunned, but extremely good.
“Sterne Revolutionized The Novel”
730. STERNE, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey through
France and Italy. London, 1768. Two volumes. 16mo,
contemporary full tan calf gilt. $3200.
First edition of this major work by Sterne, considered the
“most eminent novelist of the period” (Baugh, 1022).
“Sterne is generally acknowledged as an innovator of the
highest originality, and has been seen as the chief begetter of
a long line of writers interested in the ‘stream-of-consciousness’
(Drabble, 937). Certainly James Joyce was one of those
influenced, writing about Finnegans Wake, “I, after all, am
trying to tell the story of this Chapelizod family in a new
way... Only I am trying to build many planes of narrative with
a single esthetic purpose. Did you ever read Laurence Sterne?”
(Ellman, 554). Interiors fine, moderate age-wear to spines of
contemporary full calf binding.
Dissenting Opinion In Bush V. Gore,
Signed By Justice Stevens
731. STEVENS, John Paul. Typed opinion signed. No
place, 2000. Seven leaves, measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches;
custom cloth portfolio. $1500.
Dissenting opinion in the case of Bush v. Gore, signed on the
first page by Justice John Paul Stevens.
Stevens ends his dissenting opinion with an admonishment
to the Court, stating that they had shaken “the Nation’s
confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of
law.” Tiny tear from mailing to first page.
“The Whole Contour Of The Child’s
Hidden World”
732. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child’s Garden
of Verses. London, 1885. 12mo, original blue cloth
gilt over beveled boards, custom half blue morocco
clamshell box. $6000.
First edition of this important and delightful children’s book,
containing 64 classic poems.
“The first sizable group of poems to... capture a child’s quality
of imagination, sense of wonder, and intense enjoyment of
experience” (Meigs, 293-4, 408). Previous owner’s bibliographic
pencil annotation to front pastedown; small ink annotation to
rear pastedown. Light rubbing to cloth, minor abrasion to
rear board, gilt bright. A lovely copy.
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“The Greatest American Poet Of The 20th Century”
733. STEVENS, Wallace. Notes Toward a Supreme
Fiction. Cummington, MA, 1942. Octavo, original white
cloth. $2400.
Limited first edition of “the major poem of Stevens’ later
period,” one of 190 copies hand-printed on Dutch Charcoal
paper.
In many respects Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction is the
culmination of Stevens’ lifelong curiosity about the link
between reality and the imagination. It is one of literature’s
most powerful statements of poetic purpose: “The poem
refreshes life so that we share / For a moment, the first idea. It
satisfies / Belief in an immaculate beginning...” Owner
inscription. Text fine; light toning, mild bumping to spine
ends of original cloth. A near-fine copy.
“Energy Of Vision… Magic Of Presentment”
734. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works. New York,
1906. Ten volumes. Octavo, later three-quarter brown
morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines. $3000.
Limited “Dordillon Edition de Luxe,” number 206 of 1000
sets produced, handsomely bound.
Includes such favorites as Treasure Island, Kidnapped and
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, along with travel pieces and essays.
Prize bookplate. Interiors fine, light wear to extremities. A
near-fine set.
Robert Stone’s First Novel, Signed By Him
735. STONE, Robert. A Hall of Mirrors. Boston, 1967.
Octavo, original black and gray cloth, dust jacket. $1600.
First edition of Stone’s first novel, signed by him on the title
page. Near-fine.
“And So I Leave It With All Of You…”
736. STOCKTON, Frank R. The Lady, Or The Tiger? And
Other Stories. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1884. Small
octavo, original pictorial brown and gray cloth, patterned
endpapers. $1400.
First edition of this short story collection, one of only 1500
copies.
“This tale of pure mystery has no detective in the story, but
there are countless outside the story… all created by the
author’s last sentence which reads: ‘And so I leave it with all of
you: Which came out of the opened door… the lady, or the
tiger?’ This question has transformed every reader into an
Armchair Detective” (Queen’s Quorum 12). The title story has
been a sensation ever since its first appearance, in the
November 1882 issue of Century; in 1888, in fact, it even Justice Marshall had already passed away months before
served as the basis of a three-act operetta. Light rubbing to Justices Ginsburg and Breyer joined the Court in 1993 and
spine ends and extremities, near-fine. 1994, respectively. Contemporary owner signature. Some
highlighting and marginal notations to text. Near-fine.
Lie Down In Darkness, Inscribed, With A
Recording Of Styron Reading From The Work
737. STYRON, William. Lie Down in Darkness.
Indianapolis, 1951. Octavo, original brown cloth, dust
jacket.  $1200.

First edition of Styron’s first book, inscribed by him on

the title page, “To Calvin Israel with best wishes William
Styron.” With a 1967 LP recording from CMS records of
Styron reading excerpts from the book and John
Knowles reading from A Separate Peace.

Slight rubbing to spine and boards, dust jacket spine

slightly chipped. Very good. LP jacket and record fine.

Sophie’s Choice, Signed By Styron

738. STYRON, William. Sophie’s Choice. New York,
1979. Octavo, original blue cloth, slipcase.  $600.
Signed limited first edition of Styron’s award-winning
novel, one of only 500 copies signed by him. About-fine.
First Novel About Surfing, 1900
739. (SURFING) TWOMBLY, Alex. Kelea: The Surf-
Rider. New York, 1900. Octavo, original green pictorial
cloth gilt. $950.
First edition of the first novel about surfing, with ten illustrated
plates of Hawaii. Fine.
Inscribed Or Signed By 14 Supreme Court
Justices, Including Thurgood Marshall
740. (SUPREME COURT) GARRATY, John A. and
MCCAUGHEY, Robert A. The American Nation. A History
of the United States. New York, 1993. Thick quarto, original
pictorial boards. $2200.
Seventh edition of this college-level history textbook, inscribed
on the dedication page: “‘All the Best.’ Thurgood Marshall”;
“This is wonderful reading—All the best. William Brennan”;
“Best Wishes. Stephen Breyer”; and “Every good wish. Ruth
Bader Ginsburg”; and additionally signed by Justices Sandra
Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Harry A.
Blackmun, David Souter, Lewis Powell, Jr., Warren E. Burger,
Byron White, John Paul Stevens, and Anthony Kennedy.
Items such as this are quite unusual as the lifetime nature of
Supreme Court appointments means that amassing a large
collection of signatures requires obtaining them over a period
of years; in the case of this particular compilation, for example,
741
Signed By The Entire Burger Court
741. (SUPREME COURT) Photograph signed.
Washington, circa 1978. Color photographic print, measuring
14 by 9 inches; mounted, entire piece measures 18 by 14
inches. $6000.
Large color photographic print, signed by the entire post-1975
Burger Court on the mount, including Justices Burger,
Brennan, White, Stewart, Marshall, Rehnquist, Blackmun,
Powell, and Stevens.
This color photographic portrait, taken after John Paul Stevens
replaced the late Justice Douglas in 1975, features all nine
members of the Burger Court in their traditional robes. A
lovely piece of Supreme Court memorabilia in very nearly fine
condition.
Handsomely Bound, Color-Illustrated
English Sporting Novels
742. SURTEES, Robert Smith. Handley Cross; or, Mr.
Jorrocks’s Hunt. WITH: “Plain or Ringlets?” WITH:
Hawbuck Grange. WITH: Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour.
WITH: “Ask Mama;” or the Richest Commoner in England.
WITH: Mr. Romford’s Hounds. WITH: Hillingdon Hall or
the Cockney Squire. A Tale of Country Life. WITH:
Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities. London, circa 1870-90. Eight
volumes. Octavo, late 19th-century three-quarter red
morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, uncut and
partially unopened. $2500.

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 Lavishly illustrated edition, with 99 hand-colored plates, 6 some degree, I owe it all to the teachings and the traditions
hand-colored title page vignettes, 16 color-printed plates, 147 and the eternal virtues of my people.” Originally published in
black-and-white plates, and 320 in-text illustrations. 1939 in an edition of only 250 copies. Text in Hebrew and
English. Fine.
Most of the illustrations are by John Leech (“his
best work is to be found among his illustrations to
Surtees’ later novels, notably ‘Ask Mama’ and Mr.
Romford’s Hounds”) and Hablot K. Browne
(“Phiz”), illustrator of many of Dickens’ works,
including Pickwick Papers, whose title character
was inspired in part by Mr. Jorrocks of Handley
Cross. A richly illustrated set in near-fine
condition.

Signed And Illustrated By Arthur Szyk

743. SZYK, Arthur. The Book of Job. New York,
1946. Tall quarto, original three-quarter white
morocco gilt, slipcase.  $950.

Signed limited edition, one of 1950 copies signed

by Szyk, with eight lovely full-page mounted color
746
illustrations.
“Szyk was noted for his refined draftsmanship and calligraphy,
in the style of medieval manuscript-illumination. His colors
had the luminosity of Gothic stained glass windows. His
Hebrew lettering was superbly decorative and his illuminations
sometimes showed a close acquaintance with Jewish legend”
(Encyclopaedia Judaica). Near-fine book with only a few tiny
nicks to spine and moderate rubbing to ends. Fragile gold
paper slipcase in exceptionally good condition (much better
than usual).
Signed And Illustrated By Arthur Szyk
744. SZYK, Arthur. The Book of Ruth. New York, 1947.
Tall quarto, original three-quarter white morocco gilt,
slipcase. $850.
Signed limited edition, one of 1950 copies, signed by Arthur
Szyk. With eight lovely full-page mounted color illustrations.
Book fine. Some rubbing and flaking to original gold paper
slipcase (as frequent). A fine signed private-press edition.
“I Am But A Jew Praying In Art”
745. SZYK, Arthur. The Haggadah. Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv,
1962. Quarto, original full royal blue velvet gilt, covers gilt-
stamped with Kiddush goblet motif, clamshell box. $850.
Later edition of Szyk’s stunning Haggadah, beautifully
illustrated in color, handsomely printed, bound and boxed.
The Haggadah became a personal and political statement for
Szyk, who viewed his Jewish heritage as integral to his work:
“I am but a Jew praying in art, and... if I have succeeded to
Fine Views Of Europe, Great Britain,
Russia, And Greece
746. TAYLOR, Bayard, editor. Picturesque Europe.
New York, 1875-79. Three volumes. Folio, original deluxe
full brown morocco, ornately gilt- and brown-stamped
covers. $2500.
First edition of this elegant depiction of European places of
interest, splendidly illustrated with 63 full-page steel
engravings and hundreds of in-text wood-engravings, in
original publisher’s deluxe tooled morocco-gilt.
This pictorial overview of European sights includes exquisitely
detailed views of forest scenery, the southern and Cornish
coasts of Great Britain, the Derby Dales, English castles,
abbeys, and churches, views of Italian lakes, the Alps, the
Rhine, Venice, old German towns, and the Alhambra as well
as scenes of Athens and Russia. Bookplate. Scattered light of
foxing. Extremities of deluxe morocco binding lightly rubbed.
A near-fine set.
“A Profound Influence On Modern
Management Thought”
747. TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of
Scientific Management. New York and London, 1911. Octavo,
contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt. $2800.
First trade edition of this enormously influential and
pioneering study of industrial management and efficiency,
handsomely bound.
Based upon years of study at the Midvale Steel factory, this
was among the first, and remains the greatest, of works
designed to increase the efficiency and productivity of the

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modern workplace. “The achievement for which Taylor is
most remembered was his development of ‘scientific
management,’” a principle often referred to as ‘Taylorism’ that
was based on his careful “time and motion” studies of every
step and operation in the manufacturing process. “Through it
he hoped to end class conflict and establish social justice.
Although these larger goals were not achieved, Taylor’s system
had a profound influence on modern management thought”
(DSB XIII, 272). Preceded only by private first printing. PMM
403. Books That Changed America 17. Owner signature, dated
1912. Fine.
“A Mad Dream? Certainly Not!”:
The First Book On Television
748. (TELEVISION) DINSDALE, Alfred. Television.
London, 1928. Octavo, original blue cloth. $800.
Second edition of the first book on the newly invented
television, richly illustrated with frontispiece, 32 photographic
plates, and numerous in-text illustrations.
This important work focuses on the pivotal television research
of Scottish engineer John L. Baird, who produced televised
objects in outline in 1924, recognizable human faces in 1925,
and in 1926 became the first person to televise pictures of
objects in motion. Alfred Dinsdale was the editor of Television
magazine. First published in 1926; this edition has been
expanded. Contemporary pencil date. Text fine, small closed
tear to head of spine, minor soiling to original cloth, a bit of
toning to extremities. An extremely good copy.
“In Short, Television In The Home Is The Ideal
And Perfect Medium Of Entertainment”
749. (TELEVISION) DOWDING, George Victor, editor.
Book of Practical Television. London, 1935. Octavo, original
navy cloth. $500.
First edition of this compilation of connected articles by early
technical experts on television, with dozens of half-tones,
diagrams, and illustrations, many full-page.
A comprehensive guide to the history and science of the
television, including complete instructions for building a
working television set from scratch. Near-fine.
First Publication Of Two Of Marconi’s Most
Important Papers On Telegraphy
750. (TELEGRAPHY) MARCONI, Guglielmo. “Note on a
Magnetic Detector of Electric Waves, Which Can Be
Employed as a Receiver for Space Telegraphy” and “A Note
on the Effect of Daylight upon the Propagation of
Electromagnetic Impulses over Long Distances.” IN:
Proceedings of the Royal Society, Volume LXX, Number 463,
pp. 341-347. London, July 29, 1902. Slim octavo, original paper
wrappers. $850.
First edition of the first publication of two of Marconi’s most
important papers on the long-distance transmission of signals
and telegraphy.
In “Notes on a Magnetic Detector,” Marconi described his
invention of a magnetic conductor with uniform and constant
resistance that works at much lower electromotive force. Upon
experimentation, he discovered that “jerks in the magnetic
condition” of the iron would allow induced strong enough
currents in a coil of wire to allow the signal to be transmitted
intelligibly on a telephone. The reception was then improved
by the addition of tuning coils to the receiver so that its aerial
only passed on oscillations identical to the ones originally
transmitted. In his second paper, “A Note on the Effect of
Daylight,” Marconi noted marked differences in the distances
at which it was possible to detect signal oscillations in the day
versus at night. With the transmitter located in Podhu,
England and the receiving station on board the U.S.S.
Philadelphia to allow for mobility, Marconi found that there
were no differences between day and night signals within a
distance of 500 miles, but that, at distances greater than 700
miles, the signals transmitted during the day failed, while
those at night were easily detected. Both of these papers
signaled rapid progress in the field of telegraphy and paved
the way for future advancements in telecommunications.
Marconi was co-awarded the Nobel Prize with K.F. Braun in
1909 “for contributions to the development of wireless
telegraphy.” With index slip laid in. A bit of creasing to spine,
minor toning to fore-edge of front wrapper, about-fine.
“We Were Somewhere Around Barstow On The
Edge Of The Desert When The Drugs Began To
Take Hold”
751. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas. New York, 1971. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust
jacket. $1400.
First edition of Thompson’s landmark picaresque journey
into the American dream.
Thompson’s second book, the embodiment of Gonzo
journalism, “is a custom-crafted study of paranoia, a spew
from the 1960s and—in all its hysteria, insolence, insult, and
rot—a desperate and important book, a wired nightmare, the
funniest piece of American prose since Naked Lunch” (Books
of the Century, 278-80). About-fine.
“Weird Flotsam On The Rising Tide, Giant
Boppers, Wild Ones, Motorcycle Outlaws”
752. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Hell’s Angels: A Strange
and Terrible Saga. New York, 1967. Octavo, original black
cloth, dust jacket. $1600.
First edition of Thompson’s first book, his narrative on the
infamous biker gangs of California. Fine.
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 Kay Thompson’s Classic Eloise
753. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise. New
York, 1955. Slim quarto, original white cloth,
dust jacket. $3600.
First edition of the first and rarest Eloise
book.
“Eloise became an alternative persona for
Kay Thompson, much as the dummy Charlie
McCarthy was for Edgar Bergen… [allowing]
Thompson to express contrarian thoughts
and ideas. Eloise took form as a lonely and
whimsical child who created her own world”
(Marie Brenner). Book with slight tape
residue to front free endpaper, shallow foxing
to extremities of cloth, and two ring stains to
rear board. Dust jacket with only minor
753
rubbing to corners. An extremely good copy.
“The Effect Is Rawther Extraordinaire”
754. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise in Paris. New York, 1957.
Slim folio, original boards, dust jacket. $850.
First edition, with whimsical illustrations by Hilary Knight.
This, Thompson’s second Eloise book, bears Noel Coward’s
endorsement, “Frankly, I adore Eloise.” Contemporary
Christmas gift inscription. Book fine, price-clipped dust
jacket extremely good with a bit of staining mainly to rear
panel and only minor rubbing to extremities.
“This Absolutely Darling Little Sweetnik”
755. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise in Moscow. New York, 1959.
Slim folio, original pictorial boards, dust jacket. $850.
First edition. With fold-out color illustration of the Kremlin.
Tiny stamp. Book with a few spots of faint foxing to final
leaves, dust jacket with only faint pinpoint foxing and soiling
and slight rubbing to extremities.
“This Was My First Intellectual Contact
With The Theory Of Nonviolent Resistance”
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
756. THOREAU, Henry David. A Yankee in Canada, With
Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston, 1866. Octavo,
original purple blind-stamped cloth gilt. $3000.
First edition, first printing, containing the first book
appearance of Thoreau’s widely influential “Civil
Disobedience.” One of only 1500 copies printed.
Thoreau’s idea of passive but firm resistance to government
has had a profound influence on countless revolutionaries
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and reformers, Gandhi and Martin
Luther King, Jr. among them. Many of
the other essays and speeches in Yankee
in Canada express Thoreau’s increasingly
strong support for the abolitionist cause,
including “Slavery in Massachusetts,” “A
Plea for Captain John Brown,” and “The
Last Days of John Brown.” Also includes
“Life Without Principle,” perhaps the
clearest exposition by Thoreau of his
central philosophical themes. The first
printing was of only 1500 copies. Books
That Changed America 8. Picture of
Thoreau affixed to front pastedown. Early
owner inscription. Interior fine, only
light sunning to spine, near-fine.
Tolkien’s First Major
Publication
757. (TOLKIEN, J.R.R.). Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight. Oxford, 1925. Octavo, original green cloth gilt, dust
jacket. $4000.
First edition of Tolkien’s scholarly edition of the great Middle
English poem, in the rare dust jacket.
Finding no edition suitable for the use of his university
students, Tolkien undertook a new one. He was responsible
for the text and glossary, while his colleague Gordon wrote
most of the explanatory notes. Never before had the poem
been edited to so high a standard; the edition “made an
indelible mark on the academic world” (Grotta, 66) and
showed Tolkein’s “unrivalled mastery of the early Middle
English of the West Midlands” (Carpenter, 142). Contemporary
owner inscription. Interior clean, minimal rubbing to cloth,
gilt bright. Scarce original dust jacket with light toning to
spine and moderate loss to spine ends, light rubbing to edges.
Elusive in the original dust jacket.
“A Great Slob Of A Man In Violent Revolt
Against The Entire 20th Century”
758. TOOLE, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces.
Baton Rouge and London, 1980. Octavo, original beige cloth,
dust jacket. $4500.
First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, one of only
2500 copies printed.
“This novel has a sad history behind it. The author sent it to
every publisher in America, all of whom rejected it. After the
final rejection (by Knopf) Toole committed suicide. He was
only 32. His mother gave the manuscript to Walker Percy,
who secured its publication by Louisiana State University
Press, and it was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. Its
virtues have now been universally recognized” (Anthony
Burgess, 99 Novels, 125). First state of the dust jacket, without
the Chicago Sun-Times blurb on the rear panel. Owner
signature. Book fine, dust jacket very nearly so.
“The Task Of Socialism Is To Create A Classless
Society”: The Revolution Betrayed, Signed By
Trotsky In The Year Of Publication
759. TROTSKY, Leon. The Revolution Betrayed. Garden
City, 1937. Octavo, original black cloth. $4200.
First edition of Trotsky’s brilliant and profound analysis of
Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint—“one of the most
important Marxist texts of all time”—signed by the former
Red Army leader and dated “20/IV/1937, Coyoacan
[Mexico].”
“If you remember that the task of socialism is to create a
classless society based upon solidarity and the harmonious
satisfaction of all needs, there is not yet, in this fundamental
sense, a hint of socialism in the Soviet Union.” Stalin’s
response to this trenchant critique of modern Soviet society
was to dispatch an assassin to Mexico where Trotsky had been
exiled. Without the scarce original dust jacket. Interior very
clean and signature bold. Several small semi-circular
indentations to both boards, creasing the covers and lightly
denting the first few leaves. Rare signed.
Twice Inscribed By Harry Truman
760. TRUMAN, Harry S. Memoirs: Year of Decisions.
WITH: Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope. Garden City,
1955-56. Two volumes. Octavo, original black cloth, dust
jackets. $1600.
Special Kansas City edition, inscribed on the dedication page
of the first volume: “To Fred & Elsie Lane, kind regards from
Harry Truman, 2/6/57,” and on the dedication page of the
second volume: “With best wishes to Fred & Elsie Lane from
Harry Truman, 2/6/57.”
Photograph of Truman’s home in Independence laid in. Gift
inscriptions on half titles. Books near-fine, with only light
foxing to fore-edges. Dust jackets very good with moderate
chipping and creasing, tape repairs to verso.
Photograph Of President Harry Truman And
His Advisors, Signed By Truman
761. TRUMAN, Harry. Photograph signed. Key West,
Florida, 1949. Original color photograph, measuring 9-1/2 by
7-1/2 inches. Matted, entire piece measures 15-1/2 by 12
inches. $2850.
Color photograph of President Harry Truman with many of
his advisors and cabinet members at the “Little White House”
in Key West, Florida, boldly signed by Truman and the others
on the mat.
This photograph, dated December 19, 1949, shows Harry
Truman sitting with 19 advisors and assistants, including his
press secretary and Secretary of the Treasury, all informally
dressed, as Truman preferred. The men are arrayed in front of
the house in Key West where Truman spent 175 days of his
presidency during 11 visits, and which was nicknamed “The
Little White House.” The President conducted business as
usual in Key West, including holding press conferences, going
so far as to bring his “The buck stops here” sign for his desk
there. Photograph lightly sunned, Truman’s signature bold
and clear.
“Written By One Loafer For A Brother Loafer”
762. TWAIN, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. Hartford,
Connecticut; London, 1880. Octavo, original pictorial brown
cloth gilt. $2000.
First edition of Twain’s account of his walking trip through
the Black Forest and the Alps, profusely illustrated by Walter
Francis Brown, True Williams, W.W. Denslow and others. An
exceptional copy.
“Besides his accounts of Germany, Switzerland, France and
Italy, Twain includes local folklore (some of which he made
up) and slips in several sketches that have little or nothing to
do with Europe, including one of his most famous comic tales,
‘Jim Baker’s Bluejay Yarn’” (MacDonnell, 42). Small early
paper ticket and ink annotation to front pastedown. Text fine.
Cloth-gilt exceptionally fresh and bright. A fine copy.
The Prince And The Pauper,
In Publisher’s Morocco
763. TWAIN, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper, A Tale
for Young People of All Ages. Boston, 1882. Octavo, original
three-quarter brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated
spine. $3200.
First American edition, first issue, second state, of “the best
book for young folks that was ever written,” (Harriet Beecher
Stowe), in deluxe three-quarter morocco binding.
Thought by his family and many of his friends to be his best
work, The Prince and the Pauper represented a risky departure
for Twain in his attempt to write a serious and thoughtful
adventure story for children. He considered publishing the
book anonymously, as he feared that his reputation as a
humorist would hurt its chances with the public, but finally
decided to put his name to it, “and let it help me or hurt me as
the fates shall direct.” Interior near-fine with marginal tape
repair to one leaf, not affecting text, inner hinges expertly
repaired. Original boards lightly rubbed. An extremely good
copy in the desirable morocco.
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 “Camelot… Name Of The Asylum, Likely”
764. TWAIN, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur’s Court. New York, 1889. Octavo, original pictorial
olive cloth gilt. $3800.
First edition, first issue, of Twain’s comedic critique of Camelot
and 19th-century America.
In part an affectionate lampoon of Malory’s Morte d’Arthur,
Twain’s comical classic explores and exploits “a number of
implicit parallels between Arthur’s England and the American
South: slavery; an agrarian economy which came into armed
conflict with an industrial economy; a chivalric code which,
Clemens said, was secondhand Walter Scott and kept the
South mawkish, adolescent, verbose and addicted to
leatherheaded anachronisms like duels and tournaments. In
both frameworks a civil war destroys the old order, and the
Yankee has as acute a sense of loss as Mark Twain did”
(Kaplan, 297). A lovely copy, very nearly fine.
“Distillations Of Twain’s Wit And Wisdom”
765. TWAIN, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson.
And the Comedy, Those Extraordinary Twins. Hartford,
1894. Octavo, original brown cloth gilt. $1800.
First edition, first state, of the preferred American edition
(published simultaneously with the English).
“Regarded as a major part of Twain’s Mississippi writings. It
resembles Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in being set
before the Civil War in a small Missouri town modeled on
Hannibal. However, it has a much more somber tone. While it
contains humor, it deals frankly with small-town prejudice,
slavery, miscegenation, lost birthright, degenerate aristocratic
values and distorted parental love” (Rasmussen, 372). A lovely,
very nearly fine copy.
“Bigotry, Pride, And A Malignant Hatred To The
Mother-Country, Characterize The Inhabitants”
766. (UNITED STATES) ASHE, Thomas. Travels in
America, Performed in 1806. London, 1808. Three volumes.
12mo, contemporary full diced green calf, elaborately gilt-
decorated spines and covers. $4500.
First edition of this influential and inflammatory account of
the Eastern seaboard and the Mississippi valley, in handsome
contemporary calf gilt.
This lively narrative, chronicling Ashe’s travels by flatboat
down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1806, is one of the
first travelogues written by a foreigner to comment specifically
on the American inhabitants of the region. The unrelenting
hostility with which Ashe characterizes Americans in this
“interesting and highly readable” account created quite a stir,
adding momentum to the wave of anti-British sentiment that
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would ultimately lead to the War of 1812 (Clark 134). “His
account of the Atlantic States forms the most comprehensive
piece of national abuse we ever recollect to have perused.
Their inhabitants it seems are all abominably vicious, but in
degrees very nicely distinguished; the middle states being
bad—the northern very bad—and the southern execrable”
(Sabin 2180). “Interesting in spite of its snarling asperity and
numerous lies” (Howes A352). Streeter II: 832. Interior clean,
with minimal foxing and a few inoffensive pencil notations.
Contemporary calf exceptionally handsome, one joint just
starting.
“One Of The Great Books Of American
Illustrations”
767. (UNITED STATES) BRYANT, William Cullen,
editor. Picturesque America; Or, The Land We Live In.
New York, (1872-74). Two volumes. Thick folio, original full
brown morocco, ornately stamped covers and spines in
brown and gilt. $2500.
First edition in book form, illustrated with 49 full-page steel-
engraved early American views, including title pages and
frontispiece plate of Niagara Falls, together with numerous
in-text wood engravings, in handsome publisher’s deluxe
morocco-gilt bindings.
“One of the great books of American illustrations… The best
landscapes engraved in this country are to be found here”
(Hamilton, 216). The superbly executed steel- and wood-
engravings in this work, “by eminent American artists,”
depict cities and towns (including one of the first images of
the City of Cleveland), as well as such rugged natural scenes
as Yellowstone Falls, the Smoky Mountains, and Mount
Hood. A handsome production, near-fine.
“The Most Authoritative Study Of American
Political And Social Institutions”
768. (UNITED STATES) BRYCE, James. The American
Commonwealth. London and New York, 1888. Three
volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown crushed
morocco gilt. $2400.
First edition of this detailed examination of American social
and governmental institutions, with folding map of the
United States, handsomely bound.
“Bryce was an ardent Liberal in politics, and in 1880 he was
elected to parliament... In 1907 he was appointed British
ambassador at Washington... His great work The American
Commonwealth was the first in which the institutions of the
United States had been thoroughly discussed from the point
of view of a historian and a constitutional lawyer, and it at
once became a classic” (Britannica). It is “the most authoritative
study of American social and political institutions” (Howes
B906), with critical reviews and an examination not only of
social institutions, but both federal and state governments,
and the party system. This first edition includes a chapter on
“the Tweed Ring,” suppressed in later editions. Bryce’s original
article on the role of the Speaker of the House, extracted from
the October 1890 issue of the North American Review, is
tipped into the front of Volume III. Discrete stamps of
ownership. Fine.
With 24 Distinguished Presidential Portraits
And Gilt Presidential Seal
769. (UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS) The White House
Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents. No place,
1901. Large folio (measures 16 by 20 inches), original full
brown morocco rebacked, large gilt presidential seal affixed
to front cover. $2200.
Limited first edition of this collection of 24 striking
photogravures of American Presidential portraits from
Washington to McKinley, number 124 of an unspecified
limitation, in full morocco with large gilt presidential seal on
front cover.
Each portrait accompanied by a page of biographical text.
Occasional finger-smudges to margins only; images clear and
fine. Some light rubbing to extremities of original morocco.
Extremely good.
Carey & Lea’s American Geography,
With 10 Hand-Colored Folding Maps
770. (UNITED STATES) CAREY & LEA. The Geography,
History, and Statistics, of America, and the West Indies.
London, 1823. Thick octavo, contemporary three-quarter
brown calf gilt rebacked with original spine and red morocco
spine label laid down. $4200.
First edition of this early geography, with 10 hand-colored
folding maps, four folding charts, and five views, including
Birch’s famous view of Philadelphia.
This English edition of Carey & Lea’s Geography “appears to
be an abstract of [their] Complete Historical Chronological
and Geographical American Atlas of the preceding year”
(Sabin). Most of the maps were made by London engraver
Alexander Macpherson, probably based on those of Fielding
Lucas for Carey & Lea. Includes a re-engraving of Thomas
Birch’s famous engraving of the “City & Port of Philadelphia,”
which immortalizes the image of the great elm tree at the
legendary site of William Penn’s treaty with the Indians in
1682. Owner signature and armorial bookplate. Interior fine,
several archival repairs to maps. An extremely good copy.
Daniel Webster’s Signed Copy
771. (UNITED STATES) (WEBSTER, Daniel) PITKIN,
Timothy. A Statistical View of the Commerce of the
United States of America. Hartford, 1816. Octavo,
contemporary full brown tree sheep, elaborately gilt-
decorated spine. $4000.
First edition of Pitkin’s survey of United States commerce,
with a brief review of the economies of the early colonies. The
copy of Daniel Webster with his armorial bookplate and title
page owner signature.
Representative Timothy Pitkin of Connecticut, a staunch
Federalist, here provides a comprehensive assessment of the
American economy, touching on trade, agriculture, and
manufacturing in the pre-revolutionary colonies. This copy
once belonged to famous orator, Federalist politician, and
prominent lawyer Daniel Webster and bears his bookplate
and owner signature. Pitkin served alongside Webster in the
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses. Throughout, the pair
shared a joint interest in the economic affairs of the United
States, with Pitkin focusing on the costs of the war and
Webster concerned with a national bank. “Webster’s
remarkable political, diplomatic, and legal careers were aided
by his intellectual brilliance and personal magnetism. He
contributed significantly to the concept of American
nationality, to the idea of a perpetual Union, to perspectives
on economic growth, to a modern legal system,
and to the rising importance of the United
States in foreign relations (ANB). Early owner
signature. Faint dampstaining to first few
signatures, joints expertly repaired. A very
good copy in contemporary binding with an
exceptional association.
Warmly Inscribed By Howard Zinn
772. (UNITED STATES) ZINN, Howard.
A People’s History of the United States. New
York, 1965. Octavo, original full blue cloth, dust
jacket. $2600.
First edition of this important history text,
770
inscribed on the half title with the final
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 paragraph of the work: “For Matthew Raptis: The prisoners of
the system will continue to rebel, as before, in ways that
cannot be foreseen, at times that cannot be predicted. The
new fact of our era is the chance that they may be joined by
the guards. We readers and writers of books have been, for
the most part, among the guards. If we understand that, and
act on it, not only will life be more satisfying, right off, but our
grandchildren, or our great grandchildren, might possibly see
a different and marvelous world. Howard Zinn. 2005.”
“He gives us a different kind of history: a book that tells of the
feelings, the actions of those overlooked in the usual accounts,
and shows the power of apparently powerless people… It
discusses Columbus from the standpoint of the Indians, the
American Revolution as seen by poor people, the Mexican war
from the viewpoint of the soldiers who fought in it.” Initially
published in a small printing run, in its various editions this
title has since sold over one million copies, and was a runner-
up for the 1980 National Book Award. Near-fine.
773
“…Lighter And Quicker And Quieter, He Runs”:
Signed By Updike
773. UPDIKE, John. Rabbit, Run. New York, 1960. Octavo,
original half green cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition of Updike’s second novel, the first book in his
Rabbit tetralogy, signed by the author on the title page.
Book fine, dust jacket with a bit of shallow chipping to spine
ends and a small faint stain to front flap, near-fine.
“A Rare And Beautiful Achievement”
774. UPDIKE, John. The Poorhouse Fair. New York, 1959.
Octavo, original half orange cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First edition of Updike’s first novel.
Book very nearly fine, dust jacket near-fine with minor
rubbing to extremities and archival repair to verso.
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Inscribed By Updike
775. UPDIKE, John. Rabbit at Rest. New York, 1990.
Octavo, original cloth, dust jacket. $500.
First trade edition of the fourth of Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom
books, inscribed, “For Steve Adorno, best wishes, John
Updike.”
Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Preceded by a
signed limited edition of the same year. Fine.
Battle Cry, Signed By Leon Uris
776. URIS, Leon. Battle Cry. New York, 1953. Octavo,
original black cloth, dust jacket. $1200.
First edition of Uris’ famous first novel, signed by him.
Light edge-wear to about-fine book; slight chipping to spine
ends of bright, near-fine dust jacket.
Van Dyke’s Works, Signed By The Author And
Illustrators N. C. Wyeth And Frank E. Schoonover
777. VAN DYKE, Henry. The Works. New York, 1920.
Eighteen volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter blue
morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, uncut and
unopened. $5200.
Avalon edition, number 88 of 504 sets, signed by Van Dyke on
the frontispiece portrait in Volume I and by illustrators N. C.
Wyeth (twice), Frank E. Schoonover, Frank V. DuMond, W.
T. Brenda, and S. Arent Edwards beneath their respective
frontispiece illustrations. Beautifully bound by Stikeman.
Includes his poetry, Studies in Tennyson, and much of his
writing on angling and nature. A fine set.
Splendid Six-Volume Illustrated Boxed Set Of
Verlaine’s Works
778. VERLAINE, Paul. Oeuvres. Paris, 1948. Six volumes.
Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt,
slipcase. $1650.
Fine limited edition, including “some of the finest, most
musical lyrics in the French language,” with 16 hand-colored
etchings in each of the six volumes, number XXIX of only 30
sets printed on Marais paper and reserved for the collaborators
(from a total edition of 1700 copies).
Verlaine is the archetype of the dissipated, bohemian poet—
leader of the Symbolist movement in poetry. He formed the
so-called “Decadents,” together with Mallarmé and
Baudelaire. Text in French. Fine.
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Signed By Gore Vidal
779. VIDAL, Gore. The City and the Pillar. New York,
1948. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2800.
First edition, signed on the title page by Gore Vidal.
Only slightest rubbing to bright, beautiful dust jacket.
“Yes—Kilgore Trout Is Back Again”:
Jailbird, Signed By Kurt Vonnegut
780. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Jailbird. New York, 1979. Octavo,
original black cloth, dust jacket. $600.
First trade edition, inscribed on the title page, “For Kaye—
Kurt Vonnegut, May 5 ’97.”
Book fine in near-fine dust jacket.
Wallace’s The Malay Archipelago:
Rare First Edition
781. WALLACE, Alfred Russel. The Malay Archipelago:
The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise.
London, 1869. Two volumes. Octavo, period-style full tan
polished calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines. $3000.
First edition of Wallace’s classic account of his journey to the
Malay Archipelago, “on the basis of artistic format, literary
style, and scientific merit, clearly one of the finest scientific
travel books ever written” (DSB). Handsomely bound.
“The enormous quantity of materials gathered there—about
127,000 specimens of natural history—enabled him to publish
scores of fundamental scientific papers on a broad range of
topics. These works alone would have established him as one
of the greatest English naturalists of his age, but his classic
natural history book, The Malay Archipelago, earned him an
international reputation that has endured to this day. On the
basis of artistic format, literary style, and scientific merit, it is
clearly one of the finest scientific travel books ever written…
He kept a notebook on evolution, here designated as his
‘Species Notebook.’ His first explicit, published evolutionary
statements drew on those materials” (DSB). A few ink
notations. Light scattered soiling to text, a few repairs mainly
to versos of folding maps. Handsome bindings fine. Rare.
“Provided A Rock‑Solid Factual Basis For
Evolutionary Biology”
782. WALLACE, Alfred Russel. The Geographical
Distribution of Animals with a Study of the Relations of
Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes
of the Earth’s Surface. London, 1876. Two volumes. Thick
octavo, original pebbled green cloth gilt. $2800.
First edition of the work that “established evolutionary
zoogeography on its modern foundation,” with 20 plates and
seven colored maps (three folding).
Wallace developed a theory of the origin of species through
natural selection independently of Darwin (with whom he
presented a joint paper announcing the theory in July, 1858).
“The culmination of Wallace’s approach was achieved in his
monumental two-volume The Geographical Distribution of
Animals (1876)… Few, if any, subsequent works have been
more important to the subject... Wallace’s evolutionary
approach to zoogeography provided a rock-solid factual basis
for evolutionary biology... His work actually transformed the
subject and became the standard authority for many years”
(DSB). Library stamps to titles and half titles. Only stray faint
spots of foxing. Moderate rubbing to edges of spines.
Extremely good.
Wallace On Darwin: The Rival’s Tribute
783. WALLACE, Alfred. Darwinism: An Exposition
of the Theory of Natural Selection with Some of Its
Applications. London, 1889. Octavo, original green
cloth. $1250.
First edition, illustrated with animal and plant specimens,
diagrams, and a map depicting the important “Thousand-
Fathom Line,” instrumental in determining early migratory
patterns.
Bothered by Darwin’s dependence on domesticated animals
and plants in proving his theory of natural selection, Wallace
set out here to measure and document, through ingenious
diagrams and charts, variations among members of a species
in the wild. In preparation for the Lowell lectures, which he
had delivered four years earlier, Wallace had gathered all of
the controversial research and opinion for the past thirty
years, and was able in this book to present new arguments for
Darwin’s theories, which remained very close to his own—in
fact, it was Wallace who had suggested the famous phrase,
“survival of the fittest.” Owner ink stamp and owner signature.
A bright, about-fine copy.
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Certainty Comes Only Once”
784. WALLER, Robert James. The Bridges of Madison
County. New York, 1992. Octavo, original boards, dust
jacket. $375.

First edition. Fine.

“I Caused The Declaration To Be Proclaimed

Before All The Army”
785. WASHINGTON, George. Official Letters to the
Honorable American Congress. Boston, 1796. Two volumes.
Small octavo, early 19th-century three-quarter diced green
calf gilt rebacked and recornered with original spines laid
down, marbled boards. $1200.

Second edition of Washington’s letters to the Second
Continental Congress at Philadelphia while leading the
Revolutionary struggle as Commander‑in‑Chief of the
Continental Army.
This scarce two-volume edition contains letters dating from
June 1775, when Washington assumed command of the army,
to December 1778, after the French Alliance had been struck
and Washington had quartered his army for the winter.
Washington’s letters convey the daily urgency of America’s
struggle for independence, such as that written on July 10,
1776, in which he acknowledges fresh news from the
Continental Congress and writes, “Agreeable to the request of
Congress, I caused THE DECLARATION to be proclaimed
before all the army under my immediate command.”
Washington knew his army would be immediately tested and
in the same letter tells of 10,000 British troops newly landed,
adding his concern over his largely untrained soldiers who
“will have to wade through much blood and slaughter before
they can carry any part of our works, if they carry them at
all,—and, at best, be in possession of a melancholy and
mournful victory. May the sacredness of our cause inspire
our soldiery.” Preceded by the 1795 edition, also published in
Boston. Without portrait as issued, for copies were “issued
with and without the portrait” (Evans 31422). Owner
signatures. Light scattered foxing. A handsome copy.
Molecular Biology Of The Gene, Signed By Watson
786. WATSON, James D. Molecular Biology of the Gene.
New York, 1965. Octavo, original paper wrappers. $1250.
First paperback edition, signed by Watson on the title page.
Based on a series of lectures Watson delivered at Harvard, this
text is designed to be an introduction to advanced biological
concepts from one of the foremost scientists in the world. This
first paperback edition was published at the same time as the
edition in cloth, and from the same sheets. About-fine.
The Double Helix, Signed By James Watson
787. WATSON, James D. The Double Helix. A Personal
Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. London,
1968. Octavo, original boards, dust jacket. $2000.
First English edition (issued the same year as the American
edition) of Watson’s controversial personal account of the
DNA discovery, signed by him on the title page.
“One of the investigators, more than any of the others, realized
the decisive importance of the DNA molecules in biology, and
it was this understanding which urged him relentlessly to
push this work toward a successful conclusion, in spite of his
rather modest technical qualifications for this task” (Mayr,
823). Preceded by the New York first edition published the
same year. About-fine.
“The Most Authoritative Figure In Jewish Life”
788. WEIZMANN, Chaim. Trial and Error. New York,
1949. Two volumes. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jackets,
slipcase. $2500.
Signed limited first edition, one of 500 copies signed by
Weizmann.
Weizmann would become “universally recognized as the
most authoritative figure in Jewish life” and was voted Israel’s
first president in 1949 (Encyclopedia Judaica, 430). His
autobiography, which appeared that same year, details the
story of his childhood, the long struggle for recognition of the
Zionist Movement, and the triumph of statehood. Owner
inscription. Slipcase with expert repairs. Books fine, dust
jackets nearly so.
“Are We Not Men?”
789. WELLS, H. G. The Island of Doctor Moreau. London,
1896. Small octavo, original tan cloth. $2600.

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First edition, first issue, of this classic Wells novel.
793
This is among Wells’ earliest works, published only a year
after The Time Machine and preceding The War of the Worlds
by two years. Owner inscription. Bookseller ticket. Cloth
rubbed and lightly soiled. Extremely good.

“Carried Forward The Great Tradition

Of Fantastic Voyages To The Moon”
790. WELLS, H.G. The First Men in the Moon. London,
1901. Octavo, original blue cloth gilt. $3000.

First English edition, first state of one of Wells’ most important

science fiction novels.

Wells’ “scientific romance” novels “have had an incalculable

influence on modern literature and popular culture; their
cosmic sweep and haunting pessimism have influenced most
subsequent science fiction” (Stringer, 708). This first English
edition was published just one month after the first American
edition; this is the rare and desirable first state, with blue cloth
stamped in gold, and black endpapers. Owner bookstamp.
Light toning to spine and rubbing to spine ends. A lovely,
near-fine copy.
Signed First Edition Of The Robber Bridegroom
793. WELTY, Eudora. The Robber Bridegroom. Garden
City, 1942. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $2900.
First edition of Welty’s imaginative first novel, signed by her
on the title page.

Inscribed By Eudora Welty
791. WELTY, Eudora. The Bride of the Innisfallen.
New York, 1955. Octavo, original half green cloth, dust
jacket. $1000.
First edition, second state, of Welty’s fifth collection of short
stories, inscribed on the title page, “Inscribed for James S.
Bloom, Eudora Welty.”
Eudora Welty received immediate praise as a masterful writer
of short stories with the publication of her first collection in
1949 and by 1955, with the appearance of The Bride of the
Innisfallen, was acclaimed as “one of the preeminent short-
story writers of the 20th century” (ANB). Fine.
Signed By Eudora Welty
792. WELTY, Eudora. One Time, One Place. Mississippi
in the Depression / A Snapshot Album. New York, 1971.
Square octavo, original cream cloth, slipcase. $750.
Signed limited first edition, number 83 of only 300 copies on
special paper, signed by Eudora Welty, illustrated with over
90 black-and-white photographs by Welty.
During “the years of the Depression, and of the WPA and as
publicity agent for the latter, Miss Welty found herself
traveling about over all the 82 counties of the state.” In her
photographs of that decade, taken with an inexpensive camera
and collected here for the first time, her gift is the same that
illuminates her fiction. Fine.
Book and dust jacket with slight wear to spine ends. A near-
fine signed copy.
“The Best Book Eudora Welty Has Ever Written”
794. WELTY, Eudora. The Optimist’s Daughter. New York,
1972. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $800.
First trade edition of Welty’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,
signed by Welty on the half title.
“The best book Eudora Welty has ever written, The Optimist’s
Daughter is… the kind of book, small in scope but profound
in its implications, that rewards a lifetime of work” (New York
Times). Fine.
The Photographs Of Lionel Wendt
795. WENDT, Lionel. Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon. London,
1950. Quarto, original full black cloth, dust jacket. $1800.
First edition, illustrated with 120 photogravures of Ceylon by
Wendt.
“Ostensibly a book of personal travel photographs, the usual
tropes of the genre are here—lush landscapes, architectural
and people studies—all heavily idealized. But there are also a
fair number of nude studies, of both males and females…
These are typically pictorialist in style, with some Surrealist
photomontages thrown in to show that Wendt was thoroughly
up-to-date” (Parr&Badger II, 98). About-fine.

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“Truth Is Never Quite So True As Invention”
796. WESTON, Edward. Eight Photographs. New York,
1971. Portfolio, eight gravure plates (measuring 11 by 14
inches) and one leaf of text, loose as issued in original chemise
and slipcase. $600.
First edition of this folio portfolio of exhibition-size
photogravure plates of eight of Weston’s best-known
photographs.
“One of the greatest artists of the 20th century. His carefully
composed, carefully printed images of natural objects and the
human body have influenced photographers until the present
day. His artistic photos have become the standards by which
later photographic practice has been judged” (McDarrah,
529). Plates clean and fresh; lightest soiling, trace of tape
removal to front panel of original box.
“One Day Before Sunrise We Set Out From Rabat”
797. WHARTON, Edith. In Morocco. New York, 1920.
Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition of Wharton’s travel guide to Morocco, “from the
Mediterranean to the High Atlas, and from the Atlantic to
Fez,” illustrated with 32 photographs, in extremely scarce
original dust jacket.
“Wharton’s travel writings are noteworthy on several counts:
she demonstrated an ability to capture local atmosphere, an
extensive knowledge of history, art, and culture, and an
exceptionally sensitive eye for detail and nuance” (ANB).
Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
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Italian Backgrounds, 1905
798. WHARTON, Edith. Italian Backgrounds. New
York, 1905. Octavo, original dark green decorative cloth
gilt. $1500.
First edition, with photogravure frontispiece and 12 delicate
architectural etchings by E.C. Peixotto.
Although Wharton is best remembered today as a novelist,
her contemporaries knew her also as a perceptive essayist on
what today might be termed “design.” In Italian Backgrounds,
which followed closely publication of her Italian Villas and
Their Gardens, she recounts her sojourn through Italy, taking
special architectural note of cityscapes and country residences.
Interior fine, only very minor wear to extremities of lovely
cloth. Near-fine.
“A Frivolous Society Can Acquire Dramatic
Significance Only Through What Its
Frivolity Destroys”
799. WHARTON, Edith. The House of Mirth. London,
1905. Octavo, original blind-stamped blue cloth. $550.
First English edition, published simultaneously with the first
American edition, of the novel that brought Wharton an
international reputation.
Lightest rubbing to extremities, gilt fine. Extremely good.
“The Gods Approve The Depth And Not The
Tumult Of The Soul”
800. WHARTON, Edith. The Gods Arrive. New York
and London, 1932. Octavo, original dark blue cloth, dust
jacket. $650.
First edition of the last novel Wharton completed.
Dust jacket near-fine with some minor edge-wear and toning,
and one small chip to foot of spine.
“One Of The Greatest Instances Of Pure,
Unassisted Genius”
801. (WHEATLEY, Phillis) Publication Notice. A Volume
of Poems, on various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By
Phillis Wheatley. IN: The London Chronicle. From Thursday,
September 9 to Saturday, September 11, 1773. Vol. XXXIV.
No. 2614. London, 1773. Original quarto newssheet, measuring
8-1/2 by 11 inches, disbound: pp. [249]-56. $1100.
Original 1773 publication notice for the first edition of
Wheatley’s Poems, advertised in a September issue of The
London Chronicle, noting Wheatley’s recent visit to London,
where she met with the Earl of Dartmouth and others who
“unanimously expressed their approbation of her genius.”
“The first African American to publish a book of any nature… “Just About Perfect, And Just Magical In
Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped from Senegal, West Africa The Way It Is Done”
and sold to the Boston merchant John Wheatley in 1761… She
began writing poetry at the age of 13 and continued to write 804. WHITE, E. B. Charlotte’s Web. New York, 1952.
poem after poem, dedicating to famous people of her day… Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $2600.
She made a brief visit to England in 1773 during which her
poems were printed… The first edition of Wheatley’s poems is First edition of one of the most delightful and beloved
considered one of the most important books relating to children’s books, a cornerstone of any collection of modern
African-American literature and one of the most celebrated children’s literature. Near-fine.
relating to a black author” (Blockson 68). When her work
805
gained the admiration of the Countess of Huntingdon,
Wheatley traveled to London to supervise the publication of
her first poetry collection. This notice in the September 1773
issue of The London Chronicle promotes the release of the
volume’s first London and Boston printings on September
11th. Comprising nearly an entire column on page 255, the
announcement describes the book’s dedication to the
Countess of Huntingdon and its frontispiece, an “elegant
engraved likeness” of Wheatley. “The book here proposed for
publication,” it continues, “displays perhaps one of the greatest
instances of pure, unassisted genius, that the world ever
produced… The Writer, while in England a few weeks since,
was conversed with by many of the principal Nobility and
Gentry of this country… who unanimously expressed their
approbation of her genius.” Faint foldlines and slight rubbing
to page 249, affecting several letters. A near-fine copy.

Photograph Of Elie Wiesel, Warmly Inscribed
By Him To Renowned Scholar And Writer Jacob
Baal-Teshuva
802. WIESEL, Elie. Photograph inscribed. No place, May
25, 1988. Original black-and-white photograph measuring 5
by 7 inches. $800.
Black-and-white photograph of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel,
inscribed to noted Chagall scholar, Jacob Baal-Teshuva, “For
Jacob—and Eve. Eli Wiesel,” with printed caption below
image announcing the 1988 publication of Wiesel’s novel
Twilight.
On winning the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, Elie Wiesel was
hailed as “one of our most important spiritual leaders and
guides.” This black-and-white photograph was taken by
Roman Vishniac. Fine.
E.B. White’s First Book For Children:
Stuart Little
803. WHITE, E. B. Stuart Little. New York and
London, 1945. Octavo, original beige pictorial cloth, dust
jacket. $1400.
“One Of The Finest Children’s Fantasies
Of The 20th Century”
805. WHITE, Terence Hanbury. The Sword in the
Stone. London, 1938. Octavo, original black cloth, dust
jacket. $1500.
First edition of the original version of White’s classic novel,
illustrated with numerous linecuts by the author.
White drew inspiration from both Malory’s Morte d’Arthur
and his own experiences as a schoolmaster when creating the
charming story of the young, future king and his magical
tutor Merlyn. Book fine in clean dust jacket with minimal
toning, some chipping and large closed tear to front panel,
barely affecting title.
“The Most Intelligent Piece Of English
Dramatic Writing Of Our Day”
806. WILDE, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance.
London, 1894. Octavo, original lavender cloth gilt. $2600.
First edition, one of 500 unnumbered copies, in original
decorative cloth designed by Charles Shannon.

First edition of White’s “outstandingly funny and sometimes Wilde’s drama was first performed at London’s Haymarket
touching” (Carpenter & Prichard, 568) first book for children. Theatre on April 19, 1893. With 16-page Elkin Mathews and
Near-fine. John Lane Publisher’s catalogue at rear, dated 1894. The

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while this work was in proof. Pages slightly toned, with minor
soiling to original cloth. An extremely good copy.

“For Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves”

807. [WILDE, Oscar]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by
C.3.3. London, 1898. Slim octavo, original cream cloth spine
with cinnamon cloth boards. $4300.

First edition, one of only 800 copies printed on handmade

paper.

Inspired by his prison experience and comprised in part by a

plea for penal reform, The Ballad of Reading Gaol was the last
work Wilde completed before his death in 1900. “There is no
doubt that Wilde had once again touched a great subject and
left his fingerprints on it… once read, it is never forgotten”
(Ellmann, 532-34). Near-fine. Signed By Tennessee Williams

Night Of The Iguana, Inscribed By Bette Davis, 810. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo. New York,
Star Of The Play’s Broadway Premiere 1951. Octavo, original rose cloth, dust jacket. $3000.

808. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Night of the Iguana. First edition of Williams’ “celebration of the inebriate god,”
New York, 1962. Octavo, original black cloth, dust signed by the playwright.
jacket. $2400. In his Memoirs Williams called The Rose Tattoo “my love-play
First edition of Williams’ timeless drama, a rare association to the world.” Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
copy inscribed on the cast-and-credits page by its Broadway
star Bette Davis, “To Tom, So much love, Bette.” Streetcar Signed By Tennessee Williams

This copy warmly inscribed by Bette Davis, who starred as
Maxine in the play’s opening six months. Owner signature of
Tom Minor, recipient of Davis’ inscription, dated “May 20,
1962,” one month after the actress left the play amidst
controversy to work on Robert Aldrich’s film, Whatever
Happened to Baby Jane, which premiered later that year and
earned Davis an Oscar nomination. Book exceptionally fine;
tiny dampstain to spine end of bright dust jacket. A highly
desirable association copy.
“To Begin With, I Turn Back Time”
809. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Glass
Menagerie. New York, 1945. Small octavo,
original rust cloth, dust jacket.  $1650.
First edition of Williams’ classic play.
The Glass Menagerie opened in Chicago shortly
before making its Broadway premiere at the
Playhouse Theatre on March 31, 1945, with an
opening night crowd that applauded for 25
consecutive bows, thereby launching the career
of “the most successful serious playwright of
his time” (New York Times). Book fine, dust
jacket nearly so.
811. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named
Desire. New York, 1952. Octavo, original red boards, dust
jacket. $2400.
Later printing of Williams’ first Pulitzer Prize-winning play,
signed by the playwright.
Stella, Stanley and Blanche brought Williams his second New
York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and Williams himself
considered this his best play (Devlin, 50). Originally published
in 1947. Book with wear to joints, binding sound. Price-
clipped dust jacket with chips to spine ends,
mild rubbing to edges and extremities.
Extremely good.
“Romanticism Is Absolutely
Essential...”
812. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Camino
Real. New York, 1953. Octavo, original tan
cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
First edition, signed by Williams.
Book fine, dust jacket very good with light
wear to spine ends and edges, light soiling.
809

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Hard Candy, Signed By Williams
813. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Hard Candy. A Book of
Stories. New York, 1954. Octavo, original half yellow cloth,
slipcase. $1250.
Limited first edition, first printing, of this collection, one of
approximately 3500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by
Williams.
This second volume of Williams’ short fiction collects nine
tales, with the title story as well as “The Mattress by the
Tomato Patch” and “The Mysteries of the Joy Rio” here
making their first appearances. Book fine, original slipcase
with mild wear.
royal arms. Slipcase with tape repairs. A few faint spots of
foxing to preliminaries, bit of discoloration to edges of
morocco and mild toning to spine, extremely good.
Signed By Tom Wolfe
816. WOLFE, Tom. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake
Streamline Baby. New York, 1965. Octavo, original white
cloth, dust jacket. $1250.
First edition of Wolfe’s first book, signed by him with his
characteristic flourishes on the title page.
With line drawings by Wolfe. Book fine; very light edge-wear
to near-fine dust jacket.

“A Man Should Not Read Himself Into The 817

Books He Handles”: Extraordinary Autograph
Quotation On Reading, Written Entirely In
President Woodrow Wilson’s Hand
814. WILSON, Woodrow. Autograph quotation signed.
Princeton, May 2, 1901. Single leaf, measures 5 by 6 inches.
WITH: Engraved portrait, measures 6 by 7 inches. $4200.

Wonderful autograph quotation written entirely in President

Wilson’s hand, reading: “A man should not read himself into
the books he handles. Picking and choosing, to find the books
which are like living spirits, he should read their quality into
his own thoughts, increasing alike his force and his vision.
Woodrow Wilson. Princeton, 2 May, 1901,” accompanied by
a lovely engraved portrait of him.

At the time Wilson penned this quote, he was teaching

jurisprudence and political economy at Princeton. A year
later, he was elevated to the position of university president.
Wilson finally resigned in 1910 after he failed to abolish
Princeton’s exclusive eating clubs and replace them with a
more democratic system, allowing him to enter politics that
same year. Only two years after that, Wilson was elected
President of the United States. Small closed marginal tear,
mounting residue to verso along one edge. A beautiful
autograph piece, suitable for framing.
“I Have Found It Impossible To Carry
The Heavy Burden”
815. WINDSOR, Duke of. A King’s Story. London, 1951.
Large octavo, original red morocco gilt, slipcase. $2800.
Signed limited first English edition, one of only 270 copies
signed by Edward, handsomely bound in publisher’s full
morocco.
Surveys Edward’s life up until his abdication in December
1936. Illustrated with numerous photographs and facsimiles
and bound in handsome full morocco stamped with Edward’s
Presentation/Association Copy Of The Electric
Kool-Aid Acid Test, Inscribed By Wolfe To
Publishing Legend Roger Straus
817. WOLFE, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New
York, 1968. Octavo, original white cloth, dust jacket. $2000.
First edition of Wolfe’s second book, inscribed by the author
on the half title to legendary publisher Roger Straus, “To
Roger, who persevered with these notorious pages in the midst
of the flak, Tom Wolfe.”
Roger Straus was the co-founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Wolfe once “recalled that when he came to New York in the
early sixties he expected that everyone ‘was going to have
great electricity and 150-watt eyeballs, and be full of life.’
Only Roger Straus among the publishing celebrities did not
disappoint him” (Unger & Unger, 462). Owner signatures.
Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with creasing to flaps. An
excellent association copy.

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 The Right Stuff, Inscribed By Wolfe To Paul Bartel
818. WOLFE, Tom. The Right Stuff. New York, 1979.
Octavo, original light gray cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First edition of this “carefully researched classic” (Burrows,
290) about America’s early space program, inscribed by the
author on the title page, “To Paul Bartel, Tom Wolfe.”
The recipient of this copy was collector and noted actor,
screenwriter and director Paul Bartel. Dust jacket near-fine
with light edge-wear, book fine.
spaniel, given to her by Miss Mitford; he was stolen and Miss
Barrett had to retrieve him from a thieves’ den in the East End
of London; she took Flush with her when she eloped with
Browning, and he ended his days in Florence. The narrator is
Virginia herself but an attempt is made to describe Wimpole
Street, Whitechapel and Italy from a dog’s point of view, to
create a world of canine smells, fidelities and lusts” (Bell, 409).
Illustrated with four original drawings by Vanessa Bell and
six other plates. Contemporary owner inscription. Book with
slight toning to boards; dust jacket with light chipping to
extremities and toning to spine. A very good copy.

822
Warmly Inscribed By Wolfe
In Year Of Publication
819. WOLFE, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities.
New York, 1987. Octavo, original half gray cloth, dust
jacket.  $900.

First trade edition of one of the quintessential social

satires of the late 20th century, signed by the author
with his characteristic flourish on the half title and
additionally inscribed by him over the entire
endpaper in the year of publication, “To Jerry from
Tom Wolfe with thanks for his marvelously generous
words! December 14, 1987.”

A very nearly fine copy, desirable signed and inscribed

by Wolfe.

Signed By Virginia Woolf

820. WOOLF, Virginia. Beau Brummel. New York, 1930.
Tall thin folio, original half red cloth, mounted cover label,
slipcase. $3000.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 550 copies (500 of
which were offered for sale), signed by Virginia Woolf.
First published in the Nation & Athenaeum (September 28,
1929), this essay describes the life, habits and unfortunate end
of Beau Brummel, early 19th-century arbiter of fashion.
Designed and decorated with two color illustrations by W.A.
Dwiggins and printed by William Edwin Rudge. Repairs and
wear to fragile slipcase. Book with only small chip to tail of
spine. Near-fine, scarce in this condition.
“Flush Was Not An Ordinary Dog”
“Rich Store Of Gossip, Anecdotes, Insight,
Vexed Relationships…”
822. WOOLF, Virginia. Letters. London, 1975-80. Six
volumes. Tall, thick octavo, original green cloth, dust
jackets. $2000.
First edition of Woolf’s letters from 1888 to 1941, published by
the Hogarth Press.
“Woolf continues to puzzle, dazzle and amaze. Her letters…
[are] a rich store of gossip, anecdotes, insight, vexed
relationships, complaints and enthusiasms” (Margaret
Drabble). “One can follow the slow development, the strain
and desperation, of a mystical writer, trying to capture a
reality behind convention, and record for ever a glimpse of it”
(Stuart Hampshire). Fine.

821. WOOLF, Virginia. Flush: A Biography. London, 1933.
Octavo, original tan cloth, dust jacket. $750.
First edition, of Woolf’s popular biography of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning’s dog, Flush.
“Biographically, Flush is interesting, for in a way it is a work of
self-revelation... Flush was Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s
“In The Present Volume I Have Tried To Carry
Out Her Intention” (Leonard Woolf)
823. WOOLF, Virginia. A Haunted House and Other
Short Stories. New York, 1944. Octavo, original blue cloth,
dust jacket. $700.

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First American edition of Woolf’s posthumous collection of
short stories.
Some of Woolf’s finest stories are printed here, including,
“Kew Gardens,” “The Mark on the Wall,” and “Lappin and
Lapinova.” Published in the same year as the London first
edition. Dust jacket designed by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell.
Near-fine.
“A Taut, Real, Strenuous Book”
824. WOOLF, Virginia. The Years. London, 1937. Octavo,
original green cloth, dust jacket. $3200.
First edition of the most ambitious and successful of Woolf’s
later novels.
Woolf struggled for four years with this novel, hoping to
incorporate into a fictional form deep and meaningful
commentary on the politics of the English middle class. Her
efforts to revise, rewrite, and edit what would become her
longest work led her to compare The Years to “a long
childbirth.” When The Years was finally published audiences
responded eagerly, making her truly wealthy for the first time
in her life. As is usual with Woolf’s books, the jacket design is
by her sister, Vanessa Bell. Interior fine; light rubbing to
extremities of publisher’s cloth. Sunning to spine and light
edge wear to extremities of extremely good dust jacket. An
extremely good copy.
“To Hit Back At... The Tyrannous Hypocrisy
Of Men”
825. WOOLF, Virginia. Three Guineas. London, 1938.
Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $1400.
First edition of Woolf’s sequel to A Room of One’s Own.
When E.M. Forster refused to recommend Woolf for the all-
male Committee of the London Library, “Virginia was furious
and her projected book, which at this point was
called On Being Despised, received new impetus... It
enabled her to let off steam, to hit back at what
seemed to her the tyrannous hypocrisy of men”
(Bell, 427, 433). Interior fine; front inner paper hinge
starting but sound, light toning to cloth spine ends.
Light wear to head of spine of exceptionally fresh,
clean dust jacket. A lovely copy.
Beautiful Large Folio Frank Lloyd
Wright Portfolio
826. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Selected Drawings
Portfolio. New York, 1977. Large folio (16 by 21-1/2
inches), plates in heavy paper wrapper with protective
rice paper, loose as issued, black cloth clamshell box
with bone clasps, cardboard box. $3200.
Limited first edition, number A305 of only 500 copies, with 50
color plates illustrating the range and vision of the great
American architect.
The significance of Wright’s architectural theory, as
dramatically illustrated by this portfolio, “lies in the fact
that his recourse to technology was always tempered by a
reference to what was natural, organic, and humane” (Kruft,
429). Fine.
“How Can We Know The Dancer
From The Dance?”
827. YEATS, William Butler. The Tower. London, 1928.
Octavo, original olive cloth with gilt Art Deco tower design,
uncut and partially unopened. $1750.
First edition of this “peak in English poetry.”
Described, along with The Winding Stair, as “the greatest
poetry of Yeats in his difficult later manner... a peak in English
poetry” (Cyril Connolly). This volume contains some of Yeats’
most famous poems, including “Leda and the Swan,” “The
Tower,” and “Sailing to Byzantium.” Without scarce dust
jacket. Very nearly fine.
“The War Of Spiritual With Natural Order”
828. YEATS, William Butler. The Secret Rose. London,
1897. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt-decorated spine and
boards, uncut and partially unopened. $4500.
First edition of Yeats’ collection of 17 stories—“visionary” in
their Irish and Celtic origins—with frontispiece and six full-
page illustrations by Jack Yeats.
“Yeats’ life during these years was also transmuted into fiction
(though more alchemically) in the occult stories… which
came together as The Secret Rose in 1897… The symbolic cover
by Althea Gyles and dedication to Waite stressed their old
alliance in mystic quests”
(Foster, 176). Yeats described
the stories in Secret Rose as
“visionary” in their Irish and
Celtic origins, and sharing a
common “subject, the war of
spiritual with natural order.” It
is a work propelled by Yeats’
expressed conviction that “when
one looks into the darkness
there is always something
there.” According to Symons,
the edition “probably consisted
of 1000 copies.” Issued without
dust jacket. A beautiful, about-
fine copy.
828
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