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The Second Folio Printing of Shakespeare’s Plays A Rare Complete Copy - Printed by Tho. Cotes for Allot In a Full Antique Binding - London - 1632

1 Shakespeare, William. COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES. Published according to the true Originall Coppies. The second Impression (London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be fold at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1632) Second Folio edition. Allot title-page 4, Effigies leaf C as is correct, with the watermark in the Effigies leaf. Engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout on title-page, woodcut ornaments and initials and elaborate engraved head-pieces throughout. Folio (315 x 215 mm), in a very handsome binding of full and very early mottled calf, expertly rebacked to style with the spine panel elaborately decorated with classical tooling in gilt. The spine with raised bands gilt tooled, the compartments filled with exquisite gilt work. Marbled endleaves to style. Housed in a fine full red morocco solander case, the spine gilt lettered between raised bands. A very handsome and attractive copy, quite clean and crisp with strong images throughout, a bit of the usual mild mellowing, browning or evidence of age occasionally present. The “To the Reader” leaf has been skillfully laid into a larger sheet. The title-page is remargined at the gutter and lower edge. Lower corner of ccc5 with unobtrusive repair to closed tear; a few upper margins shaved with slight loss to ruled border, marbled endleaves and pastedowns.

A RARE COMPLETE COPY OF THE SECOND FOLIO, PERHAPS THE GREATEST BOOK IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. It is less and less common these days to find copies of the second folio without one or more of the preliminaries, and more often than not, the final leaf, in facsimile. This copy contains the original 1632 leaves and contains no facsimiles. The “To the Reader” leaf has been trimmed and relaid onto a larger sheet. That leaf is usually one of the first to disappear and reappear in facsimile. The early binding on this copy augments the examplar.

A Shakespeare folio is one of the most significant books for a collector of literature, and the Second Folio is the earliest copy still generally available to him or her, as most of the First Folios reside in institutional hands and currently can cost upwards of $10,000,000..

The second folio is also significant for Milton collectors as it includes, on the Effigies leaf, his first published poem, entitled “An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare.” $350,000.

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Precious Leaf From the Gutenberg Bible

The First and Greatest Printed Book - 1450 - 1455 A ‘Noble Fragment’ From I Maccabees

2 [Gutenberg, Printer. Bible, in Latin]; [Newton, A. Edward; Gabriel Wells]. A LEAF FROM THE GUTENBERG BIBLE: From I MACCABEES X:46 through XI:12. With a Bibliographical Essay by A. Edward Newton (Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, ca.1450) A single, highly important leaf from the famed 42-line Bible, the first book printed from moveable type. Presented in E. Edward Newton’s A Noble Fragment, Being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible: 1450-1455 (NY, Gabriel Wells, 1921) The original Gutenberg Bible leaf is printed in gothic letter, chapter titles in blue and red, initials and numbers rubricated in red and blue. Laid into the Noble Fragment presentation is a reproduction of Henry Raschen’s portrait in oil of Gutenberg printed by Henry

Nash in 1924. Folio (390 x 280mm), tipped into the Noble Fragment Portfolio of full blue morocco as issued, with Alfred Edward Newton’s fine essay included, the portfolio lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine. A single and noble leaf of the first book printed with moveable type, additionally with the four page essay and photographic reproduction. This leaf is a fine and handsome example, beautifully preserved. The Noble Fragment binding very pleasing and in fine condition.

A WONDERFUL LEAF FROM THE FIRST BOOK EVER PRINTED WITH MOVEABLE TYPE AND THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL PRINTED BOOKS. A LEAF IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, REMARKABLY CLEAN, WELL-MARGINED AND HANDSOMELY RUBRICATED.

The Gutenberg Bible may be described without the slightest exaggeration not only as the earliest but also the greatest printed book in the world. It is the first book from the printing press, having been preceded only by a few trial pieces, single leaves, almanacs and grammatical booklets of which merely stray fragments remain.

It is, as well, one of the most beautiful books ever printed. The quiet dignity of those twelve-hundred or so pages of bold, stately type, the deep black ink, the broadness of the margins, the glossy crispness of the paper, may have been equaled, but they have never been surpassed; and in its very cradle, the printer’s art, thanks to the Gutenberg Bible, shines forth indeed as an art as much and more than as a craft.

Last but not least, the Gutenberg Bible is the first printed edition of the Book of Books. The mere fact that in the Rhine valley in 1455 the first book to be printed should have been the Bible tells its own story. “While Gutenberg and Fust were actually at work, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 announced the end of an old world and the dawn of modern thought. Did Gutenberg realize that by setting the Holy Text in type he was heralding one of the greatest movements of human thought in the history of the civilized world?” (S. De Ricci)

The leaf included here is from I Maccabees. Maccabees 1 encompasses the events in Judea from 175-135 B.C.E., which included the time of the Hasmonean (Maccabean) revolt against the Seleucid Empires. Leading up to the revolt, Antiochus murdered circumcised infants and their mothers, desecrated the Temple, and tried to force the Jews to sacrifice to pagan gods. The leaf begins in Chapter 10 when Jonathan and the people of Judea decide in favor of Alexander, who has gathered a large army to oppose Demetrius. The two kings join in battle, but when Demetrius’ army flies Alexander overpowers him and Demetrius falls that day. Alexander then sends ambassadors to Ptolemy, king of Egypt, with this message: “Now that I have returned to my realm, taken my seat on the throne of my ancestors, and established my rule by crushing Demetrius and gaining control of my country for I engaged him in battle, he and his army were crushed by us, and we assumed his royal throne let us now establish friendship with each other. Give me now your daughter for my wife; and as your son-in-law, I will give to you and to her gifts worthy of you.” Ptolemy accepts, and gives his daughter in marriage. King Alexander also wrote to Jonathan to come and meet him, so he went with pomp to Ptolemais, where he met the two kings and gives them and their friends silver and gold and many gifts and thus wins their favor. Jonathan then goes on to defeat Apollonius. When King Alexander hears of these events, he accords new honors to Jonathan.

Chapter Eleven describes the Alliance of Ptolemy and Demetrius II. In the verses contained within this leaf Ptolemy gathers forces and seeks by deceit to take Alexander’s kingdom and add it to his own. He sets out for Syria, which welcomes him as Alexander’s father-in-law, but he stations a garrison of troops in all of the cities. Ptolemy takes possession of the cities along the seacoast as far as Seleucia by the sea,* plotting evil schemes against Alexander all the while.

Gabriel Wells was a prominent antiquarian bookseller, who broke up an incomplete copy of the Bible so that multiple collectors and institutions could have the opportunity to own “A Noble Fragment” of this Supreme Book. The present leaf is a superb example and a rare opportunity to acquire a specimen of the greatest printed book in the history of humankind. HC *3031; BMC I p. 17; GW 4201; Goff B526. $125,000.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter - 1850 The First Edition - A Beautiful Copy in Very Fine Condition The First Issue with the Earliest Ads and All Points

3 Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE SCARLET LETTER. A Romance (Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850) First Edition, First Issue, with ads dated March 1. 1850, no preface and all first edition points noted by Clark, including ‘reduplicate for ‘repudiate’ on page 21. Title-page printed in red and black. 8vo, a rare survival in the publisher’s original Ticknor Style

A brown textured cloth, the covers decorated in blind, the spine printed in gilt. Now protected and housed in a folding box of brown cloth covered boards lined with marbled paper, the back with brown leather label lettered and ruled in gilt. iv, 322 pp. A beautifully preserved copy, and a remarkably fine example of what is arguably the author’s most important and most revered work, as well as a landmark of American literature. The text very clean and fresh, completely free of foxing or stains, looking to be near as pristine the binding sturdy and strong, the hinges fine and firm, the cloth rich and unfaded with bright gilt, trivial rubbing to the tips and edges. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING AND VERY RARE IN SUCH FINE CONDITION. IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH, THIS IS CORNERSTONE WORK IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND A LANDMARK WORK OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. An American Renaissance masterpiece and surely one of the most important works in the oeuvre of colonial America. More than any other work of literature, Hawthorne’s SCARLET LETTER set the stage for an understanding of the puritan mind and beginnings of the American social system.

The first printing of THE SCARLET LETTER consisted of only 2500 copies, and sold out within days. It is said when Hawthorne delivered the final pages to Ticknor, Reed and Fields he doubted it would be popular, but THE SCARLET LETTER ushered in the most lucrative period of his long career. The public’a positive response was enormous, but the book was not without its critics. The publication brought protest from natives of Salem, who did not like how Hawthorne depicted their Puritan ancestors. Religious leaders also took issue with the novel’s subject, and the ‘Church Review’ offered that the novel “perpetrates bad morals.” Reviewers from the next generation proved more tolerant. Author D. H. Lawrence argued that there could not be a more perfect work of the American imagination than The Scarlet Letter. Henry James said of the novel; “It is beautiful, admirable, extraordinary; it has in the highest degree that merit which I have spoken of as the mark of Hawthorne’s best things—an indefinable purity and lightness of conception... One can often return to it; it supports familiarity and has the inexhaustible charm and mystery of great works of art.” BAL 7600; Clark A16.1 $18,500.

Galileo Galilei - Opere del Galileo - 1718

The Complete Works Including Many First Printings The Embodiment of the Galilean Revolution A Fine Set in Rare Full Calf Bindings of the Period

4 Galilei, Galileo. OPERE DI GALILEO GALILEI LINCEO NOBILE FIORENTINO GIA LETTORE DELLE MATEMATICHE NELLE VNIUERSITA DI PISA, E DI PADOUA, DI POI SOPRAORDINARIO NELLO STUDIO DI PISA. PRIMARIO FILOSOFO, E MATEMATICO DEL SERENISSIMO GRAN DUCA DI TOSCANA. In quest nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij Trattati dell’istesso Autore non più Stampati accresciute. (Firenze: Tartini & Franchi, 1718) 3 volumes. Rare first three volume collection, the second issuance of certain parts of the OPERE and the first printing of many of the works of Galileo or pieces heretofore unpublished in any form including the GIORNATA SESTA DEI DISCORSI E DIMOSTRAZIONI MATEMATICHE INTORNO ALLE NUOVE SCIENZE. With a very finely engraved vignette title-page printed in black and red to volume one, also an engraved portrait of Galileo, engraved folding plan, folding plate of the compass, many woodcut plates, astronomical renderings, mathematical tables and diagrams throughout, a number of fine woodcut initials. 4to, [241mm x 180 mm], handsomely bound in contemporary bindings of fine full mottled calf, handsomely decorated in gilt on the spines with gilt panels incorporating a floral motif between gilt-tooled raised bands, two compartments featuring fine gilt ruled and lettered red morocco labels. cxii, 628, 2 page errata; [viii], 722, errata; [vi], 484, [50pp of errata, index, registri, etc]. A truly fine copy, large and unusually fresh. A rare survival in contemporary state, crisp and an especially clean copy throughout, the bindings quite handsome with only minimal wear or evidence of age.

EXTREMELY SCARCE IN FULL CALF BINDINGS OF THE PERIOD. USUALLY ENCOUNTERED IN VELLUM BINDINGS, THIS RARE EDITION OF GALILEO’S COMPLETE WORKS (excepting the DIALOGO, which was still on the Index of Prohibited Books at the time), preserves a record of some of the most seminal discoveries in astronomy, scientific methodology, mathematics, primary work in the study of motion, as well as the most significant support of the Copernican theory of a heliocentric planetary system--in other words, the embodiment of the “Galilean Revolution.”

This issue of the OPERE, contains an entire volume of Galileo’s writings which appear here for the first time, having never before been printed. The long list of these first printings is given by Riccardi (p. 520-521) and cited by Centi. Included are the GIORNATA SESTA DEI DISCORSI E DIMOSTRAZIONI...as well as other works such as the LETTERE IN PROPOSITO DI TROVARE LE LONGITUDINI, the NOTE SOPRA IL NUNZIO SIDEREO..., the LA OPERAZIONI ASTRONOMICHE and a profusion of other works.

“Galileo, more than any other man, had introduced the change in our manner of thinking that broke with ancient and led on to modern science. Contributions had also been made by Copernicus, by Vesalius, by Harvey, by Tycho, and by Kepler and others. The share of Galileo, however, is overwhelming...[It] was more than an addition to knowledge. It was more even than an alteration in the conception of the structure of the universe. It was rather a change in mood as to the kind of knowledge that was to be sought. It partook of the nature of a philosophical crisis” (Singer, A HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC IDEAS, p. 249). The influence of the new mood affected ideas regarding the mechanical world, the extension of the senses, the idea of the universe as mathematical and boundless, and indeed altered the whole world of science and religion. Gamba 227; Centi 170; Riccardi I, 520-521; Carli-Favaro 431. Razzolini 157; Graesse III, 15 Gamba 227; Centi 170; Riccardi I, 520-521; Carli-Favaro 431. Razzolini 157; Graesse III, 15 $12,500.

An Exquisite Copy of a Very Rare Edition

The Complete Angler - Izaak Walton Extra Large Paper - Extra Illustrated - Wonderful Binding

5 Walton, Izaak. THE COMPLETE ANGLER or The Cntemplative Man’s Recreation [with,] Part II. Being Instructions HOW TO ANGLE FOR A TROUT OR GRAYLING IN A CLEAR STREAM [with,] TREATISE ON FLIES AND FLY-HOOKS by the Late John Jackson of Tanfield HIll. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1885) First Printing of this Special, Extra-Large Paper and Extra-Illustrated Edition, specially designed for collectors of this most famous work, originally issued unbound, though folded and collated, and left for the collector to bind to their personal specifications. This is copy number 38 of only 120 copies printed. Extra Illustrated, including fifty steel plate engravings designed by J. Stothard, James Inskip, Edward Hassell, Delamotte, Binkenboom, W. Hixon, Sir Francis Sykes, Pine and others, all engraved by famous engravers. And with six original etchings and two portraits, as well as seventy four engravings on wood by famous artists, the portraits of Walton and Cotton in two states at the beginning of each of the texts. To this are also added ten steel plates, coloured, of various flies both natural and artificial. Large, thick quarto, exquisitely bound in fine three-quarter red crushed goatskin over marbled paper covered boards, the spine with wide raised bands gilt tooled, the compartments decorated with gilt filleted panels incorporating elaborate inner borders surrounding central ornamental tools of fishermen at sport, fishes, and creel, lettered in gilt in two compartments, top and bottom edges gilt tooled, the joins at the covers gilt ruled, top edge gilt. A splendid binding indeed. xv, [1], 445, 16 pp. An excellent copy, beautifully preserved, the binding rich in colour, the gilt bright and unblemished, the text-block and illustrations in pristine condition. An especially fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, EXTRA-LARGE PAPER AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF ONE OF THE CORNERSTONE WORKS IN ALL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. This edition was prepared especially for a small number of collectors of a literary masterpiece and the most revered of all books on fishing. This copy is especially handsome and visually appealing, in a fine and substantial binding of rich red morocco, gilt extra. The book is already a rare bird in commerce. Few copies ever make it to the marketplace. This copy is especially appealing and beautifully preserved.

Walton’s ANGLER has been described as “full of wisdom, kindly humour, and charity; it is one of the most delightful and care-dispelling books in the language.” “More than most authors he lives in his writings, which are the pure expression of a kind, humorous and pious soul in love with nature, while the expression itself is unique for apparent simplicity which is really elaborately studied art” - DNB XX:732.

The Compleat Angler was first published in 1653, but Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century. It is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse; 6 verses were quoted from John Dennys’s 1613 work The Secrets of Angling. It was dedicated to John Offley, his most honoured friend. There was a second edition in 1655, a third in 1661 (identical with that of 1664), a fourth in 1668 and a fifth in 1676. In this last edition the thirteen chapters of the original had grown to twenty-one, and a second part was added by his friend and brother angler Charles Cotton, who took up Venator where Walton had left him and completed his instruction in fly fishing and the making of flies. Britannica $3500.

Ernest Hemingway - To Have and Have Not - 1937

First Edition - First Issue - A Superb Copy

In the Original Cloth and Dustjacket

6 Hemingway, Ernest. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937) First edition, First Printing. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt over green on the spine and with a facsimile of Hemingway’s signature in gilt on the upper cover, in the gold and black printed dustjacket. [8], 262 pp. A fine and unusually well preserved and clean copy. The book appears to have been left unread, the cloth and labels and gilt-work all in superb condition, tight, strong, square and unusual in this fine state of presentation. The dustjacket near fine with minimal evidence of age, and with only light creasing or rubbing or wear at the tips.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN EXEMPLARY CONDITION IN THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. A Hemingway classic about smuggling in Cuba and The Keys. ‘Harry Morgan, with whose life this novel is entirely concerned, is perhaps the most completely real masculine figure that Ernest Hemingway ever created. Morgan is a native of Key West--that paradise of the “haves” and purgatory of the “have nots.” In his fast boat he takes folks out fishing and runs rum, guns and sometimes human contraband. His life is a lonely struggle to keep himself, his wife, and daughters away from the edge of the “have not” category.’ Now RARE in the original dustjacket in such fine condition. $3250.

Signed by Seamus Heaney and Max

Neumann One of Heaney’s Rarest Editions - Audenesque His Elegy to Fellow Nobel-Winning Poet Joseph Brodsky

7 Heaney, Seamus. AUDENESQUE (Paris: Maight Éditeur, 1998) LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND HAND-NUMBERED BY POET SEAMUS HEANEY AND ARTIST MAX NEUMANN. One of only 100 copies offered for sale from a total printing of only 120 examples. Printed on fine d’Arches Vélin paper. With four bold original lithographs by German artist Max Neumann. Small folio [112 x 75 mm], unstitched as issued and laid in a binding of stiff folded white paper lettered in black on the upper cover and spine and with an additional Neumann lithograph on the rear cover, in the original slipcase of green/gray paper over boards. 8ff, unpaginated. A superb copy, as mint and pristine.

FIRST EDITION, VERY LIMTED, AND ONE OF THE RAREST EDITIONS OF WORK BY NOBEL-PRIZE-WINNING POET SEAMUS HEANEY, SIGNED BY HEANEY AND BY ARTIST MAX NEUMANN.

AUDENESQUE is a poem in memory of Heaney’s friend and fellow Nobel-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, who died in 1996. It was first published in the New York Times.

Brodsky and Y.B. Yeats both died on the same day, one in 1939 and the other in 1996. Poet W. H. Auden had been instrumental in getting Brodsky to the United States after he was expelled from his homeland by the Soviets. Auden wrote his famous elegy to Yeats in 1940. Heaney here references that earlier work while creating a new elegy in much the same style and meter for Brodsky.

This beautiful combination of poetry and art was printed in Paris; the text on the presses of the l’Imprimerie Nationale, the lithographs at Imprimerie Arte by Adrien Maeght. $1650.

Churchill’s Nobel Prize Winning History

The Chartwell First Illustrated Second World War Beautifully Presented and Fine and Handsome Set

8 Churchill, Winston. THE SECOND WORLD WAR (London: Educational Book Company, nd (c1954)) 6 volumes. The First Chartwell edition, and first illustrated edition with the coloured plates. With color frontispiece in each volume, and a profusion of illustrations, photographs, drawings and maps, many folding. Large 8vo, in the publisher’s fine red cloth bindings, spines elaborately and beautifully decorated in the style of fine leather bindings with multi-gilt ruled panels within the compartments, two brown morocco lettering labels gilt, upper cover with onlay in contrasting morocco with an embossed bust of Churchill bordered in gilt and printed in blind. xx, 641; xx, 592; xix, 725; xix, 802; xx, 587; xix, 619; extensive appendices and index in each volume. A very handsome set, bright and clean and well preserved. Only very minimal evidence of light age mellowing.

SCARCE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION WITH THE COLOURED PLATES OF THIS MONUMENTAL WORK WHICH GAINED FOR

CHURCHILL THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. A very fine and unusual edition, the Chartwell edition was the first illustrated edition and was issued by subscription only. It includes a profusion of illustrations and maps.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNING FIRST EDITION. Upon hearing that President Roosevelt sought suggestions about what the war should be called Churchill replied, “The Unnecessary War.” According to Churchill, “There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle.”

Churchill’s heartfelt opinion is reflected in the theme of the first volume, “How the English-speaking peoples through their unwisdom, carelessness and good nature allowed the wicked to rearm.”

Sir Winston Churchill ranks among the greatest men of history. He was born in 1874, a descendant of the great Duke of Marlborough. After an education at Harrow and Sandhurst he entered the army in 1895 and embarked on one of the most varied and distinguished careers of the century. He acted as a correspondent for the Morning Post during the Boer War and his dramatic escape from prison in Pretoria brought him to public attention. He embarked on his political career in 1900 by entering Parliament. While there he held many major offices of state: Home Secretary, Secretary of State for War, First Lord of the Admiralty in which he oversaw naval operations for the First World War, Colonial Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and eventually in 1940, Prime Minister. The latter office he would hold throughout World War Two and again from 1951 to 1955.

It is unquestionably his office of Prime Minister during the Second World War for which he is best remembered. His powerful leadership and inspiring oratory held his nation and the free world together throughout the horrors of that conflict. He was a prolific writer, as this 6 volume set will attest, and in 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in spite of the fact that the work was not yet published in full. In that same year he was distinguished further by being made Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth II. These volumes were written and published over the course of seven years.

Always submerged in multiple projects, he also finished his ‘History of the English Speaking Peoples’ and perfected his style of painting and wrote ‘Painting as a Pastime’ during this same time period. His death in 1965 sent the whole world into mourning and his funeral was one of the most moving public events of the century.

The books that sealed for Churchill, the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature. $895.

From the Highly Unusual Mind of Tim Burton

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

Inscribed by the Famous Director/Author/Illustrator

9 Burton, Tim. THE MELANCHOLY DEATH OF OYSTER BOY & OTHER STORIES (New York: Rob Weisbach Books / William Morrow and Company, 1997) First edition, first printing, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY TIM BURTON. Illustrated throughout with drawings in both colour and black and white by the author, Tim Burton. A great many are full page. Small 8vo, in the original black cloth lettered in silver on the spine and with printed pastedowns on both the front and back covers, no jacket was issued. [iv], 115, [1] pp. A very fine copy, mint and as pristine.

A MACABRE LITTLE GEM INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/ILLUSTATOR, FAMOUS FILM DIRECTOR TIM BURTON. This copy has been boldly inscribed “To_ Love. Tim Burton” in the author/ director’s distinctive hand.

Tim Burton has produced some of the most unique and memorable films of the last several decades. Listing ‘Human Abnormalities’ as a genre, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a black humor poetry book full of wild characters who are stylistically similar to those in Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Some of the characters in these stories would later appear in the animated series Stainboy, which was also created, directed, and written by Burton. $695.

First Edition - Climbing and the Flora of the Himalayas

F.S. Smythe - The Valley of Flowers - 1938 - Signed & Limited

10 Smythe, F. S. THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS (London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1938) First Edition, one of only 250 copies signed by the author, F.S. Smythe. With 16 beautiful full-page plates from photographs in colours, each with a captioned tissue guard and with two maps, one being large and folding. Large, royal 8vo, publisher’s fine white polished buckram, the upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, handmade sky-blue endleaves. xiii 322 pp. A fine copy, the cloth bright and fresh virtually without wear, internally clean and solid and sound, no spotting or foxing, the white cloth just a touch mellowed at the spine panel.

FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND LIMITED TO 250 COPIES ONLY. F.S. Smythe is regarded still as one of the most famous mountain climbers of all time. His many books are collected avidly and describe his adventures all around the world, from Canada to British Isles, Europe and the Himalayas. This is one of his most pleasing books in that it discuss both the flora of the Himalayas and the great climbs that he and his mates made over the years.

In the author’s own words: “This is the story of four happy months spent amidst some of the noblest and most beautiful mountains of the world. Its inception dates back to 1931. In that year Kamet, a mountain 25,447 feet high, situated in the Garhwal Himalayas, was climbed by a small expedition of six British mountaineers of whom I was one. After the climb we descended to the village of Gamsali in the Dhauli Valley, then crossed the Zaskar Range, which separates the upper Dhauli and Alaknanda Valleys, by the Bhyundar Pass,16, 688 feet, with the intention of exploring the mountainous region at the sources of the two principal tributaries of the Ganges, the Alaknanda and Gangotri Rivers.

The monsoon had broken and the day we crossed the pass was wet, cold and miserable. Below 16,000 feet rain was falling, but above that height there was sleet or snow. A bitter wind drove at us, sheeting our clothing with wet snow and chilling

us to the bone, and as quickly as possible we dedscended into the Bhyunder Valley, which bifurcates with the Alaknanda Valley.

...[S]uddenly my wandering gaze was arrested by a little splash of blue and beyond it were other splashes of blue, a blue so intense it seemed to light the hillside....”All of a sudden I realized I was surrounded by primulas. At once the day seemed to brighten perceptibly. Forgotten were all pains and cold and lost porters. And what a primula it was!...All over the shelves and terraces it grew, often with its roots in running water. At the most it stood six inches high, but its flowers were enormous for its stature, and ample in number-sometimes as many as thirty to the beautifully proportioned umbel, and in colour of the most heavenly French blue, sweetly scented.”

Written beautifully throughout and a journey into some of the most spectacular mountain landscape on earth. $450.

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Beautifully Illustrated by Anrdré Collot - First Edition

Les Fleurs du Mal - Original Decorated Wraps

Baudelaire’s Greatest Poems with Colour Plates and Designs

11 Collot, Andre, illustrator]; Baudelaire, Charles. LES FLEURS

DU MAL (Paris: Editions Rombaldi, 1950) Limited First Edition, numbered on the colophon. Illustrated throughout with full-page plates rendered in colours from Collot’s sensual and evocative paintings. 8vo, bound in wraps with a Collot drawing and lettering in red and black on the upper cover and protected with the original glassine. x, [2], 329, [2] pp. A very fine, clean copy, near as mint, unopened and uncut, with just a touch of mellowing to the spine panel.

FIRST EDITION, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. Baudelaire’s most famous collection of poetry, with the text in the original French. Collot’s female portraits are spontaneous, sensual and graceful throughout. Included are Baudelaire’s Spleen et Idéal, Tableaux Parisiens, Le Vin, Fleurs du Mal, Révolte, La Mort, Pieces Condamnées and Supplément aux Fleurs du Mal. Also include are a bibliographical section, a table of the poems and a general index. The paintings are rich in colours and marry perfectly to the text. $100.

Paul Bunyan in the Army - 1942

A Colorful Children’s Book in Fine Dustjacket

12 [World War II] Inkslinger, John Rogers. PAUL BUNYAN IN THE ARMY (as Told to Bethene Miller) (Portland, OR.: Binfords & Mort, [1942]) First edition. With large, bold colour illustrations throughout by Tom O’Brian. 4to, publisher’s original pictorially decorated white cloth with pictorial endpapers, and in the scarce original dustwrapper. Unpaginated. A fine copy, the white cloth as is typical has mellowed to ivory but the pictorial decoration is bright, slight discoloration along the top edge, the jacket in exceptional condition for being white paper, very fresh and clean and with virtually no wear.

RARE IN SUCH PLEASING CONDITION. Paul Bunyan, giant symbol of the American worker, is ready to help the war effort in this entertaining book. He, along with Babe the blue ox, Pecos Bill, and some of his fellow loggers, can do things such as swamping an enemy fleet in the Pacific and bombing Germany with enormous redwood logs. And wait to see what his wife has cooked up for the Red Cross! During the Second World War children’s books such as this played an important role in maintaining good morale on the home front. John Rogers Inkslinger was the pseudonym Thomas Binford who wrote this tale while serving as a corporal in the United States Army. $65.

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