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Quarto (7-1/8" x 10-3/4") bound in decorated red cloth. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white plates, several color plates, and two albumen photographs of the moon.
LES TERRES DU CIEL. VOYAGE ASTRONOMIQUE SUR LES AUTRES MONDES ET DESCRIPTION DES CONDITIONS ACTUELLES DE LA VIE SUR LES DIVERSES PLANÈTES DU SYSTÈME SOLAIRE
FLAMMARION, Camille
Paris: G. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1884.
Price: $175.00
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Duodecimo (4-1/2" x 7") in original pictorial boards with a blue cloth spine; 120 pages with additional pages of ads at the beginning and end. "Splendidly Illustrated with 124 Wood-cuts." Contains a full ten illustrated pages about baseball as well as a mention of tennis and much on cricket, rugby, etc.
THE PLAY GROUND; OR, OUT-DOOR GAMES FOR BOYS. A BOOK OF HEALTHY RECREATIONS FOR YOUTH. CONTAINING UPWARDS OF A HUNDRED AMUSEMENTS, INCLUDING GAMES OF ACTIVITY AND SPEED; GAMES WITH TOYS, MARBLES, TOPS, HOOPS, KITES, BALLS; AND FULL INSTRUCTIONS IN ARCHERY
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1866).
Price: $2,000.00
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Brief letter on two sides of a generic Christmas card. In full: "I appreciated those kind words in the Commonweal - an excellent selection of adjectives, said I to myself. Did you see the editorial in America about Rabbit Run? Nausesous [sic]. I hope your various projects are going well and I wish you a Merry Christmas. Flannery OC." Although the recipient is not named and the date not given, the reference to the review of Updike's book dates this to 1960. The card (4-3/4" x 5-1/2") is matted with a photograph of O'Connor (-4-1/4" x 6-1/4") and framed to an overall size of 14-1/4" x 19-3/4" with a cutout on the reverse side to show both sides of the card.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
O'CONNOR, Flannery
n.d. [1960].
Price: $2,500.00
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Cloth-backed marbled boards. Of a total of 50 copies bound in this manner, this is copy "ix" of only ten copies SIGNED by the poet on the colophon page and with a SIGNED HOLOGRAPH POEM ("A Pretty Stone") on the recto of the colophon page.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHERE THERE AREN'T ANY PEOPLE
STAFFORD, William
Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1980.
Price: $500.00
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A 5" x 7" publicity photograph for the book DISTURBING THE PEACE depicting a bearded Yates. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the blank left margin: "for Al Newgarden/with best wishes always,/Dick Yates/11-2-90."
SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
YATES, Richard
[New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1975].
Price: $750.00
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Original bronzed brown pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered on the front cover. Crane A2: First Issue, Binding A of Frost's first book. Less than 350 copies of the first issue in the first binding were issued, from a total edition of 1,000. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To William Stockhausen/this a first of my first/Robert Frost/and pleased to meet it/again so fresh after all/these years/Dec 26 1960." In addition on the front endpaper is the pencil ownership signature of Henry James, Jr. with a 55 East 65th St. address. According to the SOTHEBY PARKE BERNET catalog of THE WILLIAM E. STOCKHAUSEN COLLECTION, 1974, "this copy is most certainly from the library of Henry James the novelist. The owner name is in the hand of his nephew Henry James but appears to be an identification of source. The nephew inherited a large part of the novelist's library on the author's death in 1916. He never used either Jr. or Henry James II but his uncle did use the latter. Since this is evidently not his own ownership inscription it appears to be more than likely that he wrote it to identify those books which had come from his uncle's library." A copy of NORTH OF BOSTON also inscribed to Stockhausen had a similar ownership signature. This copy was last on the market in 1977, and a letter from the seller to the buyer is laid in. Housed in a cloth chemise and handsome brown morocco-backed cloth slipcase.
A BOY'S WILL
FROST, Robert
London: David Nutt, 1913.
Price: $50,000.00
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Contains Frost's second national appearance in print, here as R. L. Frost, after the poem "My Butterfly: An Elegy" which appeared in the same magazine in 1894. The importance of this magazine to Frost predated his writing for it. According to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Frost's first encounter with the publication was of immense importance to him: "I happened into the old library, and found on the magazine rack a copy of the INDEPENDENT, with a poem on the front page.... This experience gave me my very first revelation that a publication existed, anywhere in my native land, that was a vehicle for the publication of poetry." Small stain to front cover; minor wear and small chips.
"The Quest of the Orchis" in THE INDEPENDENT. June 27, 1901. Frost's Second National Publication
(FROST, Robert)
New York: 27 June 1901.
Price: $1,500.00
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Vintage 8" x 10" photograph of Frost seated outside a house next to a woman (the recipient?) with two men seated on each side of them, with the stamp of the photographer on the verso: John F. Smith, Jr. of Middlebury, Vermont. Loosely inserted into a mat on which at the bottom is SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the poet: "to Elaine McAllister from Robert Frost Bread Loaf VT '61/Christmas greetings." It is likely that the other seated men are writers and/or teachers at Bread Loaf, but we were unable to identify them.
SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
FROST, Robert
1961.
Price: $1,250.00
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Printed wraps. Crane B21: 3060 total copies printed, this one of 225 with Frost's own imprint. INSCRIBED but not signed by Frost on the title page: "To the Hockings wherever they are/meditating the wrong Muse." Richard Hocking seems to have been an acquaintance of Frost's during the 1920s and 1930s, having graduated from Harvard in 1928 and earning a Master's there shortly after. When inscribing Christmas greetings, Frost would often not sign his inscription, or at the most simply initial it.
ON A TREE FALLEN ACROSS THE ROAD (TO HEAR US TALK)
FROST, Robert
New York: Spiral Press, 1949.
Price: $500.00
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Second State of Frost's first book with correct spelling on page 14. This copy is SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper and dated June 1926. Frost has also written out the first stanza of the last poem in the book, "Reluctance": "Out through the fields and the woods/And over the walls I have wended/I have climbed the hills of view/And looked at the world and descended/I have come by the highway home/And lo it is ended." The tips of the spine are lightly worn with the gilt lettering on the spine faded but readable. Fine, early example of a Frost manuscript in a book.
A BOY'S WILL with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT STANZA
FROST, Robert
New York: Henry Holt, 1915.
Price: $3,500.00
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INSCRIBED For Sue Grundy Bonner and SIGNED by the poet on the front free endpaper beneath the complete sonnet, "Once by the Pacific," entirely in the author's hand and here titled "Fiat Nox," the chapter heading under which this poem is the first printed from the book WEST-RUNNING BROOK. This poem, one of the few Frost wrote about the state of his birth, California, was begun by Frost in college but not finished until 46 years later. The first four of the fourteen lines set the stage: "The shattered water made a misty din Great waves looked over others coming in And thought of doing something to the shore That water never did to land before." Very mild sunning to the spine with light fraying to the spine tips. Neat tissue repair to the front hinge. Housed in a handsome gilt-lettered brown morocco-backed marbled paper clamshell box.
SELECTED POEMS with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM
FROST, Robert
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923 (1926).
Price: $5,000.00
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Later Printing of the Second Edition of Frost's second book. Portrait frontispiece of the author. SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper with one of his most famous lines, from "Birches": "One could do worse than be a swinger of birches/Robert Frost." Owner name dated 1928 on front endpaper above the Frost quote. Some foxing to a few preliminary pages and overall aging of the paper; spine quite dull with the lettering no longer visible.
NORTH OF BOSTON
FROST, Robert
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (Nov. 1927).
Price: $2,000.00
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Reprint of this popular collection which features Frost's essay on poetry, "The Constant Symbol," as an introduction. This copy has been SIGNED by the author and INSCRIBED to minor poet and folklorist Addison Barker with the complete eight-line poem "The Pasture," the first poem in the book, in the poet's hand on the page opposite the title page. The recipient's signature is on the front endpaper above a pasted newspaper photograph of Frost and Barker has noted on the title page the date Frost wrote the poem in the book: 25 January 1950. Barker has an interesting connection to Frost in that in 1951 he published the discovery of the very first appearance in print (BLUM'S FARMER'S AND PLANTER'S ALMANAC FOR 1850) of the proverb "Good fences make good neighbors." Barker tried to find an earlier, New England appearance before publication in the North Carolina almanac but was unsuccessful. There were previous variants on the proverb, but none exactly as Frost used it. Even without this academic aside to an entirely different poem, "The Pasture" is one of Frost's best known poems and not commonly encountered, complete, in manuscript form.
THE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM
FROST, Robert
New York: Modern Library, (1946).
Price: $6,500.00
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Early but not first printing. This copy is SIGNED by the author and lengthily and charmingly INSCRIBED to a very young child on the front endpaper: "For Linda to keep for her own but not/read till she xx is six or seven; when/I think she may begin with page 29 and/go on gradually to page 30 then 41/then 42 then perhaps 57 at the rate of one or/two a year to her mothers tune and her fathers explanation. It would be nice/if she arrived at page 65 some time/late in her fifties thinking of me/Robert Frost/August 30 1942." The inscription, which takes up more than half the page, is to Linda Jean Wheelwright, the daughter of noted educator, critic, and philosopher Philip Wheelwright. The poem "The Gift Outright" on page 41 has been corrected with two words added by Frost. The recipient's small address label when she was at Vasser on the front pastedown above her small ink stamp, both hidden by the front flap of the dustwrapper.
A WITNESS TREE
FROST, Robert
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1942).
Price: $1,500.00
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Thirty-seven folio (8-3/4" x 13") volumes bound in gold-stamped half natural buckram, top edges gilt, with the paper sides, printed in four colors, reproducing a patterned wall painting uncovered in a room where Shakespeare might have seen and admired it. Edited by Herbert Farjeon, who created the Nonesuch edition text of Shakespeare, to restore the original typographic style and spelling; typography planned and production supervised by Bruce Rogers. Each of the 37 volumes is illustrated by one of the world's leading book artists including Arthur Rackham, Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, Jean Charlot, and Frans Masereel. Media include wood engravings and lithographs with some hand coloring. An attempt to "produce a text such as Shakespeare himself might have passed for the printer had he personally read the proofs, " and surely one of the most beautiful editions, if not the most beautiful edition, of Shakespeare ever produced. Each volume is copy #391 of 1950 copies issued unsigned. Very difficult to acquire this set in this condition. A few corners bumped and worn. Commentaries laid in for some volumes.
THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE COMEDIES, HISTORIES & TRAGEDIES: 37 volumes
SHAKESPEARE, William
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939-40.
Price: $2,500.00
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Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in full black sheepskin with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with drawings by Helen Sewell. Copy #746 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Light rubbing to the spine tips with a few faint scratches neatly retouched. Small owner inscription on the front pastedown.
THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
DICKINSON, Emily
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952.
Price: $250.00
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Folio (8" x 12-1/2") bound in library buckram; irregularly paginated: [10], 502, [58] pages. Illustrated with 273 woodcuts, many full and half page. Previously published in 1556 and 1561, this edition seems scarcer than either of the previous. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 79: "The first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times." Herbert Hoover, who first translated this book into English, described this title in his autobiography as "the first important attempt to assemble systematically in print the world-knowledge on mining, metallurgy, and industrial chemistry. It was the great textbook of those industries for two centuries and had dominated thought and practice all that time. In many mining regions and camps, including the Spanish South America, it was chained to the church altar and translated by the priest to the miners between religious services." The woodcut impressions are strong and dark. As customary with this title, there is browning throughout, occasionally heavy. Small piece of title page repaired with no loss of text or illustration; ink names of David Stuart dated 1771 and Joseph Robertson dated 1830 on title page. Library bookplate on front pastedown and small ink number on the title page illustration; no other library markings except for numbers on the spine. An important and richly illustrated title.
DE RE METALLICA. LIBRI XII. QUIBUS OFFICIA, INSTRUMENTA, MACHINAE, AC OMNIA DENIQUE AD METALLICAM SPECTANTIA...
AGRICOLA, Georgius
Basil: Ludovici Regis, 1621.
Price: $8,500.00
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Two parts in one volume with separate title pages. Small folio (7-1/4" x 11-3/4") bound in somewhat later parchment-backed boards; [14], [1], 1-382, [19] pages. An early edition of one of the most popular herbals of the time and a richly illustrated scientific and medical encyclopedia. Eventually over twenty editions were published, the first in 1546 and the last in 1783. This copy has its approximately 800 woodcuts all with early hand-coloring. The woodcuts are mainly botanical, but the final section of 70 leaves includes birds, mammals, and related subjects. Also depicted are scenes of farming, mining, and distilling. Graesse IV, 256; Nissen 1228; Pritzel 5599. This copy has several leaves in facsimile: the contents page, the last three pages of text (only one illustration affected), and six leaves of the register. The front blank is lacking, and there is an eight-page manuscript index with notes at the rear. Text generally aged but mostly clean with occasional soiling and several repairs; first few leaves including the title page laid down. Considering that this book was likely used in maintaining a family's health and was subject to hard use, this delightful compendium is in very good condition.
KREUTERBUCH. KUNSTLICHE CONTERFEYTUNGE DER BAUME, STAUDEN, HECKEN, KREUTER, GETREYDE, GEWURTZE...
LONICER (LONITZER), Adam
Frankfort: S. Latomus for V. Steinmeyer, 1609.
Price: $12,500.00
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Archive includes 17 early silver gelatin photographs and a book recovered from the crash site, including THE ONLY KNOWN IMAGE OF THIS RARE AIRCRAFT TAXING FOR TAKE-OFF. The photographs include four images of the Sikorsky S-35 before its ill-fated attempted transatlantic flight, one of the plane taxing on the runway, one of the Sikorsky hanger, ten of the wreckage, and one of an unidentified person with automobile. The wreckage photographs are quite detailed and graphic, showing the extent of the huge fire that engulfed the plane when it cracked during takeoff due to landing gear malfunction on 21 September 1926. The book recovered from the crash is PRACTICAL AVIATION INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION by Andrew White, 1918, Wireless Press, 197pages with illustrations. Of the four members of the crew Capt. Rene Fonck and co-pilot Lt. Lawrence Curtin escaped. Veteran mechanic Jacob Islamoff and radio operator Charles Clavier were killed. The plane had been heavily modified to attempt to win the $25,000 Orteig price for the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris, won the following year by Charles Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis. Most images slightly light, one torn in half and missing right side, book with heavy wear, as one would expect.
ARCHIVE OF SIKORSKY S-35 WRECK INCLUDING PHOTOGRAPHS AND A BOOK RECOVERED FROM THE CRASH SITE
[1926].
Price: $2,500.00
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An album containing nearly 600 pieces of German inflationary bank notes, all appearing to be from 1917 to 1921, and of various sizes, most slightly larger than a business card. The album has a presentation bookplate dated 1922 signed by local officials. Germany, during its near collapse after the First World War because of economic sanctions placed on them by the Treaty of Versailles, issued currency, often in very large denominations, due to severe inflation. Many of these examples have beautiful woodcuts, and all are in superb condition. A great collection to study and appreciate.
GERMAN INFLATIONARY CURRENCY, nearly 600 pieces
Germany: [1917 - 1921].
Price: $1,500.00
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...EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS FROM THE INDIAN GALLERY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR, AT WASHINGTON. The first volume of this magnificent three-volume set. Folio (14-3/4" x 21") bound in contemporary half red morocco with matching corners and marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine with six raised bands and matching black morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 48 beautiful hand-colored lithographs of Native Americans based on original oil portraits painted from life in the studio of Charles Bird King, to whom McKenney brought many of the subjects. The rest were copied from watercolors executed in the field by a young frontier artist named James Otto Lewis. The finished portraits were housed in the Smithsonian where all but four were destroyed in a fire in 1865. There appearance here is not only the best but in many cases the only likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Bennett, p. 79; BAL 6934; Field 992; Howes M129: "The most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed"; Reese 24: "the grandest color plate book issued in the United States up to the time of its publication, and one of the most important of the century"; Sabin 43410a. Bookplate of Samuel Spaight Reeves on the front pastedown.
HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS...
McKENNEY, Thomas L. and HALL, James
Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenbough, 1838.
Price: $50,000.00
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Folio (10" x 13") in publisher's cloth and dustwrapper. Text by Claude Roger-Marx. With 115 illustrations printed on various colored paper. Of a total of 1000 copies, this is copy #19 of only 100 with a lithograph SIGNED by the artist laid in loosely in a folder.
VARIATIONS. DRAWINGS, WATER COLORS, ETCHINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS
[VERTES] ROGER-MARX, Claude
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, (1961).
Price: $1,000.00
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First issue in salmon cloth with paragraph containing printing information and dustwrapper with Fourth Avenue address. Owner inscription from April 1943 on the front pastedown. A bright, clean copy of this modern classic, the only real defect being a quarter-sized chip at the top outside corner of the rear panel of the lightly soiled dustwrapper affecting the first letter in "Antoine."
THE LITTLE PRINCE
SAINT EXUPERY, Antoine de
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1943).
Price: $3,500.00
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Third Printing in a Third Printing dustwrapper BUT INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Don---/from/Jack Kerouac/I'm really happy/that you came to the/party Henri threw for me!" Henri was one of Kerouac's oldest friends, Henri Cru, the character Remi Boncoeur in ON THE ROAD. (Some years ago we sold a copy of this book inscribed to Henri as "my best friend" by Kerouac.). We have not been able to identify Don, though it very well may be Don Uhl, a friend of Neal Cassady's from Colorado, who appears as Ed Wall in ON THE ROAD. Except for one book signing event in Denver for his first book, THE TOWN AND THE CITY, Kerouac did not do promotional signings for any of his books. When ON THE ROAD was published, Kerouac was so overwhelmed by the publicity that he went into self-imposed exile with his mother. Consequently, inscribed copies of any printing of this, his most important book, are rare. The heavyweight champ of Beat Literature, with many hints of it being turned into a film but none realized as of yet. Both the book and the dustwrapper are bright and fresh, with a few very short closed tears to the top of the dustwrapper.
ON THE ROAD
KEROUAC, Jack
New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
Price: $20,000.00
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Exceptional archive of 15 pieces including 4 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED from Merton to his typist, Ann Skakel (mother of Ethel Kennedy); a wonderful TYPED LETTER from Merton (signed in type) to his friend and teacher, Donald Walsh; 8 retained TYPED LETTERS from Skakel to Merton; a TYPED LETTER SIGNED from Walsh to Skakel; and a photograph of Merton's ordination annotated on the verso by Walsh. Superb content throughout with Merton's letters, SIGNED as "Father Louis" or "Father M. Louis Merton," containing much discussion of his work, including forwarding the carbon copy of his manuscript of his new book THE ASCENT TO TRUTH (not present here). There are maybe a dozen or so holograph additions by Merton in the letters. Merton's lengthy letter to Walsh discusses more spiritual matters: "The fact that I get scared of Our Lord and have to trust Him blindly about the present and the future is, however, sufficient pledge of what one must expect. So I turn to jelly on the threshold of a terrified love." The 8" x 10" original photograph of Merton's ordination, possibly unique, contains Walsh's detailed notes on the verso identifying those in the photograph and the location-- "the Basilica of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Trappist, Ky, on Ascension Day, May 26, 1949." Ann Skakel and her husband George were killed in an airplane crash not long after the date of the last letter in this archive. Ethel's devotion to her Catholic religion can be attributed to the faith of her mother.
ARCHIVE OF LETTERS AND A PHOTOGRAPH, A TOTAL OF 15 PIECES, TO THE MOTHER OF ETHEL KENNEDY
MERTON, Thomas
1949 - 1955.
Price: $35,000.00
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One of 500 unnumbered copies SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. An uncommon autograph due in part to Merton's early and tragic death as well as his monastic life. A notoriously fragile book prone to spine wear, this copy is superior to most we have handled. The original acetate dustwrapper is no longer present.
ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB
MERTON, Thomas
[New York]: (New Directions), (1962).
Price: $650.00
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Fourteen (of fifteen, lacking THE PICKWICK PAPERS) volumes bound in 3/4 red morocco with gilt rules and beautifully gilt-decorated spines with three raised bands, top edges gilt. Illustrated with several full-page plates per volume. Contains DAVID COPPERFIELD, MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, BLEAK HOUSE, THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, HARD TIMES, BARNABY RUDGE, MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, DOMBEY AND SON, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, A CHILD's HISTORY OF ENGLAND, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER, OLIVER TWIST, PICTURES FROM ITALY, AMERICAN NOTES, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, CHRISTMAS BOOKS, TALES AND SKETECHES, LITTLE DORRIT, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, SKETCHES BY BOZ, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, A HOLIDAY ROMANCE, and PLAYS, POEMS & MISCELLANIES. The spines are not numbered so there is no way of knowing this is not a complete set unless you look specifically for the missing title. Some rubbing and minor flaking of leather to the spine edges of a few volumes; all hinges are secure and covers tight. There is no chipping to the spines of any volumes.
THE WORKS Of CHARLES DICKENS
DICKENS, Charles
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1922.
Price: $2,000.00
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Title page only (13-1/4" x 18-1/2") from this work by Cocteau issued in an edition of only 125 copies. This page has been INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in 1958 in red and blue pencil with a large drawing of a head in profile.
SIGNED DRAWING on title page of TEMOIGNAGE
COCTEAU, Jean
[Paris]: Pierre Bertrand, [1956].
Price: $750.00
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A 12" x 20" broadside of Blake's classic poem illustrated with a wood engraving by Berta Golhany and designed by Michael McCurdy. Issued in an edition of 324 copies printed in brown on Mohawk Sandstone Vellum.
THE TIGER
BLAKE, William
Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, 1973.
Price: $150.00
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TOTEM
BEEKMAN, E. M. (MOSER, Barry)
[Easthampton, MA]: (Pennyroyal Press), 1973.
Price: $150.00
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Oblong quarto (10-1/2" x 7-1/2") bound in gilt-lettered blue cloth. An autograph album celebrating writers who were published by the press with an introduction by Stephen King. One of 400 numbered copies illustrated with photographs of all but King (though there is a facsimile of a manuscript page) and SIGNED by Stephen King, John Barth, James Blaylock, Robert Bloch, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ray Bradbury, James Lee Burke, Ramsey Campbell, Harry Crews, James Crumley, Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris, Dennis Etchison, Gerald R. Ford, Richard Ford, Bruce Francis, Ellen Gilchrist, Jim Harrison, Tony Hillerman, William Kennedy, Ursula K. LeGuin, John L'Heureux, Elmore Leonard, Thomas McGuane, Norman Mailer, Richard C. Matheson, Brian Moore, Joseph A. Mugnaini, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Robert B. Parker, Tim Powers, Reynolds Price, James Purdy, Dan Simmons, Peter Straub, Ross Thomas, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and Donald E. Westlake, with printed signatures of William Everson and Richard Yates. Also includes a section of facsimile autographs of Thomas Pynchon, Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin, Einstein, Herman Melville, Ted Williams, and others. Although not called for, this copy is additionally SIGNED after publication by Charles Baxter and Mark Strand.
LORD JOHN SIGNATURES
KING, Stephen; FORD, Gerald; HARRISON, Jim; UPDIKE, John; WELTY, Eudora; MAILER, Norman; BRADBURY, Ray; BURKE, James; etc
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1991.
Price: $500.00
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INSCRIBED "For Arpad, Jr.--/with all good/wishes from an/old schoolmate/of your parents,/Langston Hughes" and SIGNED by the author and dated "Milwaukee, February 7, 1945."
SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM
HUGHES, Langston
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.
Price: $1,500.00
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Chapters 2 & 3 of Genesis from the Old Testament. Folio (13- 1/8" x 16-1/8") bound in quarter blue patterned cloth and light blue-gray Fabriano paper boards. Designed, illustrated with original wood engravings, and hand-printed on double-fold Japanese Masa paper by Michael McCurdy, his first commercially produced book. The colophon states that the book was produced in 1965-1966, but there is a small engraved Hillside Press logo with the 1967 date pasted below that. The entire edition consisted of only 20 copies, of which 15 were for sale. This copy has a Penmaen Press envelope containing a typed description of the book: "This book is without label on front panel. Colophon says HILLSIDE PRESS, pasted over PENDEL PRESS imprint. 1965-6." Also noted in pencil on this paper is that this copy is one of four in McCurdy's possession. With the bookplate of noted press collector Carl Sutton on the front pastedown.
GENESIS
McCURDY, Michael
[Boston]: [Hillside Press], [1967].
Price: $4,500.00
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Folio (10-1/2" x 16") in quarter blue morocco and cloth boards, with an inset morocco cover label with a design by Tom Killion stamped in gilt. One of 226 numbered copies (this copy not numbered) designed and printed by Adrian Wilson on paper handmade by Barcham Green & Company and illustrated with a full-page woodcut and a smaller woodcut by Tom Killion. SIGNED by the author, artist, and printer on the colophon page. The poem is an elegy to the author's mother.
IN MEDIAS RES. CANTO ONE OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EPIC: DUST SHALL BE THE SERPENT'S FOOD
EVERSON, William
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, (1984).
Price: $250.00
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INSCRIBED "especially/for Laura Irvin,/with the sincere/regards of--/Langston Hughes" and SIGNED by the author and dated "Fisk, February 15, 1951." Slight smearing to the ink of the date only; small stains on three pages. Dustwrapper soiled and rubbed with a chip on the rear panel at the top near the spine.
ONE-WAY TICKET
HUGHES, Langston
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
Price: $850.00
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT by Coleridge of @200 words, two pages on both sides of a sheet of paper (7-1/8" x 4-1/2") from an unknown work, unsigned, apparently from an essay or notes on English grammar, with approximately 16 lines on one side, and a portion of an outline titled Logical Nomenclature on the other. In part: ". . . is the ground of Time, and the indispensible condition of the absence of circular reasoning in all below it. The Infinitive mood corresponding to Indifference is the finite expression, or the Analogue of Identity. It is so far like this that as the Identity is, so the Indifference may be, both Verb and Substantive; but unlike inasmuch as it cannot be both in the same relation or of the same object. Rather therefore say: most of the Identity is both, so the Indifference may be neither: thus For not to dip the Hero in the stream could save the Son of Thetis from to die. . . ."
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor
Price: $2,000.00
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Holograph Manuscript completely in Carlyle's hand of @250 words on the verso of a letter (8" x 9-7/8") addressed to the writer notifying him of his election to the Atheneum. Mostly in ink with additions in pencil, the notes appear to be historical and biographical research in preparation for the writing of his biography of Frederick the Great. The notes spill over to the bottom of the letter. Light creases from folding; writing dark and clear.
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT likely from FREDERICK THE GREAT
CARLYLE, Thomas
[1853].
Price: $2,000.00
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Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #355 of 1500 illustrated with original wood engravings by Paul Landacre printed directly from the blocks and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Small adhesive stain on the front pastedown from bookplate once tipped in. Chemise darkened and splitting. Slipcase with one edge split. Monthly Letter laid in.
TALES OF SOLDIERS & CIVILIANS
BIERCE, Ambrose (Paul LANDACRE)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943.
Price: $375.00
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Two large octavo (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") volumes bound in full blue denim with new black leather labels stamped in gold. Copy #1057 of 1500 copies illustrated with wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps Frost's most sympathetic illustrator, and designed by Bruce Rogers. SIGNED by the poet, the illustrator, and the designer of the book on the colophon page. The most beautiful of the several issues of this great poet's complete works. Bright, fresh copies with very mild sunning to the spine. Slipcase with light wear and soiling but completely intact.
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST
FROST, Robert
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950.
Price: $3,000.00
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In the original heavily gilt-decorated full red morocco. With the original illustrations by John Tenniel. Copy #1288 of 1500 with typography and binding by Frederick Warde who has SIGNED the colophon page. Additionally SIGNED for the publisher on a separate page bound in before the title page by Alice Hargreaves, "the original Alice," one of only about 500 copies of the total edition of 1500 copies that were signed by her a few years before her death. Alice refused to sign other editions of this famous book in her lifetime, written by Carroll for her when she was young Alice Liddell, but she was convinced with the help of monetary compensation to sign these copies. She would also sign two years later copies of THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS by the same publisher. A rare opportunity to acquire one of the most famous children's books ever published here signed by the subject of the book. Many have praised this book, but perhaps novelist Sir Walter Besant's remark is the most insightful: "It admits us into a state of being which, until it was written, was not only unexplored but undiscovered." Book completely original, the slipcase is new and sympathetic to the original. A nicer copy of this book will not be found.
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
DODGSON, Charles L. (LEWIS CARROLL)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932.
Price: $4,500.00
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Three tall quarto (7-3/4" x 12-3/4") volumes bound in half blue linen and armorial-decorated boards. Illustrated with handsome wood engravings by master engraver Robert Gibbings who also designed the book. Preface of William Caxton. Edited, with spelling and punctuation modernised, by A. W. Pollard. Copy #380 of 1500 printed at the Golden Cockerel Press and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. One of the finest productions of the press.
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR
MALORY, Sir Thomas
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936.
Price: $400.00
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CONTENANT L'HISTOIRE DES ANIMAUX, DES VEGETAUX, DES MINERAUX, DES METEORES, DES PRINCIPAUX PHENOMENES PHYSIQUES ET DES CURIOSITES NATURELLES, AVEC DES DETAILS SUR L'EMPLOI DES PRODUCTIONS DES TROIS REGNES DANS LES USAGES DE LA VIE, LES ARTS ET METIERS ET LES MANUFACTURES. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-3/4") volumes, eight (of nine, lacks volume 4,) of text bound in seven and two of plates, in contemporary half morocco for the atlas volumes and cloth and boards for the text volumes. Text in French, printed in two columns per page. Illustrated with 709 (of 720) plates, 684 of which are beautifully hand-colored by a contemporary hand. Nearly half of the plates with tissue guards. Even, light browning to the paper of some of the plates, very occasional spotting, but most of the plates are bright and clean with wonderful coloring. Some rubbing to bindings. One text volume with old dampstaining within and without. Both atlas volumes are now loose in their bindings.
DICTIONNAIRE PITTORESQUE D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE ET DES PHENOMENES DE LA NATURE...
GUERIN M. F. E
Paris: Bureau de Souscription, 1833-1834.
Price: $10,000.00
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Ten Original Photographs (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") by Nona Hatay, nine of which are SIGNED by the photographer in gold ink and all with identifying ink notations on the verso, with accompanying text of Hendrix's lyrics, all housed in a morocco-backed marbled paper clamshell case. Introduction by guitarist John McLaughlin and calligraphy by Joan Saalfield. The photographs were all taken at a Madison Square Garden concert on 18 May 1969, one of the great musical performances of Hendrix's amazing and brief career. Dissatisfied with the static quality of the still photographs, she expanded the concert pictures by combining them with other negatives from her collection in impressionistic visual attempt to convey Hendrix's musical vibrancy. These experimental photographs are the result. The portfolio was limited to 100 numbered copies and 30 artist's proofs. This copy appears to be from the latter and lacks any limitation leaf as well as the cassette of Hendrix's music that came packaged within the portfolio case.
THE HENDRIX PORTFOLIO
HATAY, Nona [HENDRIX, Jimi]
n.p.: Studio Hatay, [1978].
Price: $2,500.00
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Handsome 8" x 10" original silver print photograph in an old frame of a serious Grainger looking at the camera. Nicely and clearly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the subject in the blank area to his right: "To/Edna V. McLoughlin/in sincere admiration/of her inspired &/outstanding work for/musical progress/& in happy memory/of the concerts of/October 10, 1941/from/Percy Grainger." Below his name Grainger has written four bars of unidentified music. There is a word written below the music, but it is very faint and appears to be in another hand, likely the photographer's. But for a few letters that are light but still readable, the writing is dark and strong.
SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH with HOLOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION
GRAINGER, Percy
10 October 1941.
Price: $1,000.00
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Wallace A42b. Copy #69 of only 75 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
WILLIAMS, William Carlos
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957).
Price: $750.00
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Large thin octavo (7" x 10-1/8") profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. SIGNED on the title page by three Presidents--Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, and Jimmy Carter--and by six First Ladies--Jacqueline Kennedy, Bess Truman, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, and Rosalyn Carter. A one-of-a-kind grouping of White House residents spanning 35 years. Book rubbed and bumped at corners; dustwrapper with some soiling, a small chip at the base of the spine, and mild edgewear.
THE WHITE HOUSE: AN HISTORIC GUIDE
CARTER, Jimmy/Rosalyn; EISENHOWER, Mamie; FORD, Gerald/Betty; JOHNSON, Lady Bird; KENNEDY, Jackie; NIXON, Dick; TRUMAN, Bess
Washington: White House Historical Assoc, 1963.
Price: $3,000.00
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A scarce book in its true First Edition of 1900, this is a fairly early copy of a book rarely found signed let alone with such a superb presentation. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For/George W. Wilder/-The book that/introduced me - but/twenty years after/from/Theodore Dreiser/N.Y. April - 1926." Wilder, president of Butterick Publications, met Dreiser in June 1907, and on the basis of his growing reputation for SISTER CARRIE, hired him as editor-in-chief of his magazine THE DELINEATOR. Dreiser's statement of purpose published in the September issue of the magazine centered around woman's mastery of her own destiny, and he dedicated the publication "to strengthening her in her moral fight for righteousness in the world." Many of the magazine's readers were mothers, and one of the first series of articles that Dreiser commissioned was on the care and feeding of infants by Dr. Leonard K. Hirschberg, articles largely written by H. L. Mencken. Dreiser's relationship with Mencken eventually became one of the most interesting literary relationships of the twentieth century. A wonderful opportunity to obtain an outstanding association copy of one of the groundbreaking literary works of the twentieth century. Area of discoloration to the cloth at the upper right front corner; spine mildly sunned.
SISTER CARRIE
DREISER, Theodore
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1925).
Price: $5,000.00
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...AND THE OXUS SOURCES ON PAMIR. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/4") in original gilt-decorated green cloth; xiv, 172 pages. Illustrated with 23 tinted lithographs, a folding panorama, and a folding map as well as numerous text illustrations, many of which are lovely. Gordon was a member of Forsyths second mission to Kashgar in 1873-4, one of the earliest expeditions to combine exploration with scientific investigation. Recently rebacked retaining nearly all of the original decorated spine. Several small institutional blindstamps and ink stamps, none on the plates and none bothersome. The plate of the Hemis Bhudist Monastery Ladak is almost detached and has edgewear and chipping, not coming close to the image or affecting the title.
THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. BEING THE NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY OVER THE HIGH PLATEAU OF TIBET TO THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER...
GORDON, Lieutenant-Colonel T. E
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1876.
Price: $2,500.00
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Reprint of the Golden Treasury Edition. Small Octavo (3-7/8" x 6") bound in full green morocco with floral gilt decoration and rules on both covers and gilt rules on the spine which has five raised bands and gilt lettering; gilt dentelles; all edges gilt. The text is presented in two translations: the first not identified except by the editor's initials "W. A. W." and the second Edward Fitzgerald's First English Translation of 1859. Presentation inscription from singer Lade Lovelle of the Temple's English Entertainers on the front pastedown, endpaper, four front blanks, and title page (apparently he had a lot to say), and a small label on the bottom margin of the contents page. Light rubbing along spine edges.
THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
KHAYYAM, Omar
London: MacMillan & Co., 1909.
Price: $350.00
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Folio (7" x 11-1/4") in contemporary full blindstamped vellum bound with a 17th century religious work. Illustrated with an engraved title page, 18 numbered engraved plates, and the "Owl" plate, not found in most copies. The book begins with a lengthy and fantastic account of the Atlantic voyages of St. Brendan, the 5th century Irish monk. Most of the book describes the exploits of the Benedictine priest Bernard Buil of Montserrat, who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage in 1493 to Haiti and led a team of papal-appointed missionaries to the peoples of the Americas. One of the most curious and interesting volumes of Americana with its mixture of fantasy and authentic details of Caribbean life in both text and its wonderful plates including: Columbus with a hemispherical map showing America; St. Brendan celebrating mass on the back of a whale with the coast of Africa to the east and to the north the mythic island of St. Brendan; cannibals attacking and roasting members of Columbus's crew; indigenous fruits including the pineapple; and more. All of the impressions are dark and strong; all are trimmed on one side about a half-inch into the image. The upper corner of the plate of the pineapple and potato lacking and replaced in expert facsimile. The specimen of printed music on the bottom of pages 35-36 represents an early printed example of Native American chants.
NOVA TYPIS TRANSACTA NAVIGATIO. NOVI ORBIS INDIAE OCCIDENTALIS...
PHILOPONUS, Honorius (pseudonym of Caspar PLAUTIUS, O.S.B.).
1621.
Price: $25,000.00
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