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Catalogue Number 156 About the Cover of This Catalogue

The rings of a tree allow the dendrochronologist to accurately gauge a tree's history and life. In the same way, through lines of writing and text, a biography provides a window through which to gauge the life of the subject.

The artistic and graphic composition of the catalogue cover is designed according to the Golden Ratio, a continual pattern which dictates growth throughout nature and includes the structure of the human body. -Cover design by Ari Weinkle

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CONTENTS Highlights ............................................................................................................. 1 Alphabetical Listings........................................................................................... 5 Select Index..........................................................................................................40

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A Unique, Inscribed Presentation Copy of the First Edition The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - A Monument of Scholarship The Highly Important Collection by Paul Leicester Ford In the Publisher’s Best Binding - Ten Volumes - 1892-1899

Jefferson, Thomas. THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. Collected and Edited by Paul Leicester Ford.

(New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892-1899) 10 volumes. A UNIQUE, INSCRIBED COPY OF THE VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION and the Best Issuance of the collection. THIS UNIQUE COPY IS ONE OF ONLY A SMALL NUMBER LETTERED RATHER THAN NUMBERED AND IT IS MARKED AS “PRESENTATION COPY”. THE FIRST VOLUME IS INSCRIBED ON THE FREE-FLY BY THE EDITOR, PAUL LEICESTER FORD ON THE DAY OF PUBLICATION, DECEMBER 13, 1892. It is presented to a family member. The provenance is of singular importance and the books continued to be passed down through the family until the end of the 1950’s, when they came into the possession of John Strohn Copley the publisher of the The San Diego Union Tribune and the San Diego Evening Tribune. The Letter-Press Edition of the Writings limited to only seven hundred fifty signed and numbered sets. With engravings and a vast profusion of illustrations throughout, including maps and facsimiles of Jefferson’s writings, of the Declaration of Independence and of other important papers. Tall, thick 8vo, in the publisher’s preferred binding of half black morocco over maroon cloth boards, one of the scarcest of the bindings issued on this already elusive set of Jefferson’s highly important writings. A fine set, very beautifully presented and in an excellent state of preservation. A very handsome, very well cared for set of this monumental work of historical scholarship. $12,500.

A VERY IMPORTANT SET OF THE WORKS OF ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES AND WRITER OF A NUMBER OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. THIS IS THE RARE ISSUANCE OF THE WORKS IN PUBLISHER’S MOROCCO. The set, besides including the great breadth of Jefferson’s writing, includes also, copies of the Declaration of Independence, in the form of a facsimile of Jefferson’s written manuscript with the corrections of Franklin and Adams. The set is illustrated profusely with maps and portraits, facsimiles and other illustrations.

Ford's edition of THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON is still regarded as one of the monuments of American historical scholarship, setting the standard for documentary editing for half-a-century. Ford's edition remains valuable for its accuracy of transcription from original manuscripts and its careful annotation of the documents chosen for publication. The Ford edition appeared in two versions, a ten-volume edition published between 1892 and 1896 and a fourteenvolume limited numbered edition (known as the "Federal" edition) issued in 1904; other than the different breakdown of volumes, the contents of these editions are identical. Readers, however, have to take note of which edition is being used in a given scholarly work.

This unique first edition copy was presented by Ford to members of his family on the day of publication, and it remained in the family until it passed into the hands of James Strohn Copley (1916, St. Johnsville, New York - 1973) publisher of The San Diego Union-Tribune and the San Diego Evening Tribune from 1947 until his death in 1973. Copley was also President of the Inter American Press Association (1969 - 1970). The University of San Diego has a library named in honour of Copley and his wife (the Helen K. and James S. Copley Library).

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In the Hand of Ernest Hemingway - Beautifully Displayed A Long and Interesting Autograph Letter Signed Concerning Matters Relating to Writing, Friendship and Travel Hemingway, Ernest. A LONG AND FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED CONCERNING MANY MATTERS RELATING TO SPORTING, TRAVEL, HIS MANNER OF WRITING AND HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH PETER VIERTEL and with a large and important photographic reproduction of the author (Kenya: , [August/September 1953]) A long handwritten letter entirely filling the page and signed by Hemingway as "Papa". With a large and famous photographic reproduction of Hemingway. 4to, the letter, very attractively housed in a foldover morocco backed case with window allowing the letter to be read while still protected by the plastic sleeve and with a large and familiar photograph of Hemingway on the opposite inside cover. Together a handsome and attractively displayed collection of Hemingway related items. A finely preserved letter in excellent condition.

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A FINE AND EXTENSIVE AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM HEMINGWAY TO HIS GOOD FRIEND PETER VIERTEL CONCERNING SPORTING, TRAVEL, HIS MANNER OF WRITING AND INCIDENTS OF FRIENDSHIP. Hemingway is hunting in Kenya at the time and relates interesting considerations of the hunting conditions and matters of travel and camping. The letter consists of one quarto sheet completely filled with Hemingway's familiar script....From the text of the letter: Dear Pete...Thaks you very much for writing - Glad you have the book figured out. I wish I could do that. i just start them on one day and then make them up for better or much worse. ....Once an elephant and then a rhino loused her up after we'd tracked 3 hours under noon soun. Another time there were two lions instead of one and they roared and came right through the outfield like the bulls in the encierro only 8 times as fast. ....had a letter from Gianfranco that he is fine. Rupert has straightened out again. Best love from Mary and me and Let's not lose touch anymore. Pamplona was good and we can have lots of good ones. Thanks for the gun for Antonio Ordones and for acting as you did in the fight. ....Please write when you have time....Papa

A Book that Would Change the World - First Edition The Most Influential Work in American Literature Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe - PMM Stowe, Harriet Beecher. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, OR LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY (Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1852) 2 volumes. First edition, First issue with all points as called for by BAL. This copy with the 1852 ownership signature of noted Boston businessman and tailor James Tolman. With the six original steel-plate engravings and with title-pages illustrated with large vignettes. 8vo, publisher’s original textured brown cloth, BAL’s binding “A” with the spines gilt lettered and decorated in blind, upper covers decorated with gilt pictorial vignettes and with borders in blind, lower covers decorated with pictorial vignettes and borders in blind. x, 312; iv, 322, [2, blank] pp. A very pleasing and well preserved copy of this book. The first and early printings are notorious for being found in unusually poor condition due to fragility and use. Internally, this copy is especially fresh and clean and without the foxing or browning typically encountered, the original fragile cloth in pleasing condition with some very expert refurbishment to the spines. A very pleasing copy and a very handsome set. $10,500.

RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, VERY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Arguably, the most influential work of American literature and unquestionably a milestone of 19th century world literature. The initial printing sold out immediately upon publication and the book went through continual reissue for years after its introduction. Nice copies of the first edition as with this copy have become increasingly difficult to find.

It is said that for writing this extraordinary bestseller Ms. Stowe was paid only $300. For her the battle against slavery was a God-ordained crusade to cleanse the United States of an Evil affront to Humanity. In the emotion charged atmosphere of 19th century America this novel exploded like an atomic bomb. For those opposed to slavery it was a testament to all that was wrong in an evil system. To the pro-slavery forces it was considered a slanderous attack on an established way of life. In either case, the impact of UNCLE TOM’S CABIN on the society of the United States of America was probably greater than any book published before or since.

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Walt Whitman - A Fine Set of the Complete Writings 10 Volumes - Beautifully Bound in Morocco, Gilt Extra One of a Limited Number and an Important Set of the Works Whitman, Walt. THE COMPLETE WRITINGS...Issued under the editorial supervision of his Literary Executors, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel. With additional bibliographical and critical material prepared by Oscar Lovell Triggs, Ph.D. (New York: The Knickerbocker Press for G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902) 10 volumes. The Paumanok Edition, one of only 300 numbered sets printed on Ruisdael handmade paper. With illustrations in gravure and aquatint on japon vellum in each volume, colour frontispiece of Whitman to Volume I, tissue guards intact as issued. Large, thick 8vo, beautifully presented in fine period bindings of three-quarter crushed honey morocco over subtle marbled boards, the turnovers gilt ruled at the borders, the spine with art nouveau decorations incorporating raised bands gilt decorated and gilt ruled, the largest compartment with fine gilt and black tooled art nouveau intertwining decorations, one compartment lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. A very handsome, fine and bright, attractive and especially well preserved set. $10,500.

A RARE AND BEAUTIFUL SET, on fine paper with Gothic titles, illustrated title pages and finely engraved portraits of the author, the people in his life and other important personages of the age. There is a fine introduction to LEAVES OF GRASS and the set also includes an important biography of the poet by Bucke, Harned, and Traubel. There are here presented, the greatest poem of America in its most complete format, and volumes of the wonderful prose writings of Whitman including the inclusion of SPECIMEN DAYS and other significant works.

Whitman’s LEAVES OF GRASS portrayed America at the crossroads between an old world, soon to be cast off, and the new world of our future present. With the publication of LEAVES OF GRASS in 1855, Whitman, the poet of democracy, ushered in a new era in American letters, describing specifically American experiences in a distinctly American idiom. From its first publication in 1855, he had complete confidence in the greatness of both the book and its author.

One of the rare opportunities to acquire this comprehensive set from one of the greatest of American poets.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden - First Edition A Highlight of American Renaissance Thought Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN, Or, Life In the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854) First edition, first state of the text, earliest state of the ads. Illustrated with the map of Walden Pond printed on a separate leaf and inserted at p.

306 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in blind on spine, bordered and decorated in blind on all covers. Housed in a fold-over morocco backed case. 357, [8 ads (dated April 1854)]. A very nice, very handsome copy indeed, internally quite pleasing with a bit of the usual spotting typical to the paper of the period, the binding very expertly and unobtrusively refreshed at the spine panel.

$12,950 HIGHLY IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL WORK IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. WALDEN has taken its place as one of the most important pieces of American literature and a highlight of American thought. In attempting an experiment in simple living Thoreau became the embodiment of the American quest for the spiritual over the material; and his book, ostensibly a simple record of his experiment, has earned the reputation as a work of great philosophical import.

Walden emphasizes the importance of solitude, contemplation, and closeness to nature in transcending the "desperate" existence that, he argues, is the lot of most people. The book is not a traditional autobiography, but combines autobiography with a social critique of contemporary Western culture's consumerist and materialist attitudes and its distance from and destruction of nature. That the book is not simply a criticism of society, but also an attempt to engage creatively with the better aspects of contemporary culture, is suggested both by Thoreau's proximity to Concord society and by his admiration for classical literature. There are signs of ambiguity, or an attempt to see an alternative side of something common.

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A Pulitzer Prize Winner and Literary Masterpiece Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg An Unusually Fine Set of the Signed, Limited First Edition [Lincoln, Abraham] Sandburg, Carl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1939) 4 volumes. LIMITED First Edition, SIGNED by the Author. One of 525 hand-numbered large paper copies printed on fine rag paper. With 426 half-tones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents. Large, thick 8vos, publisher’s original polished brown buckram, the spines with gilt decorations to the labeling and the upper covers with gilt facsimiles as decorative devices. Housed in the original slipcase. xxxi, 660; xi, 655; xiii, 673; xii, 515 + index pp. An unusually well preserved and especially fine set, handsome and as pristine with only the most minimal evidence of age. A set as mint and unused.

$2850.

ONE OF THE GREAT HISTORICAL WORKS CONCERNING ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. Carl Sandburg was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Complete Poems (1950), and then again for his Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939).

In a real sense, this is the definitive biography of Lincoln, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches. Carl Sandburg felt a close tie to Abraham Lincoln because of similar childhood experiences. Sandburg’s and Lincoln’s youths had not been easy. Their understanding of the common man was mutual. Each in his own lifetime would think of himself as a common man, a struggler from among ordinary people, according to one historian. Sandburg put it this way: “There’s a certain level of human existence below which one must sometime have lived if one is to really know the ways of the masses.”

Reviewers from all over the world called Sandburg’s book a classic. Sandburg, with a reputation as a labor advocate, gained favor with Republicans. After the first two volumes were published, William Randolph Hearst offered Sandburg a job with substantial pay and the Republican Party invited him to be the main speaker at the Lincoln Dinner. When Sandburg died in 1967, it was said of him what he had once said of Lincoln: “Now he belongs to the ages.”..Franchere Franchere, Carl Sandburg: Voice of the Peoples; Golden, Carl Sandburg; Hacker, Carl Sandburg; Zehnpfennig, Carl Sandburg: Poet and Patriot

A Splendid Set with Autograph Manuscript Leaf Inserted The Works of Washington Irving - Very Handsomely Bound Published 1895 - 1897 - A First Edition - Profusely Illustrated Irving, Washington. AUTHOR’S AUTOGRAPH EDITION OF THE WORKS OF WASHINGTON IRVING (New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895-1897) 40 volumes.

First Edition of this printing of Irving’s Works, and the most complete of all editions. This set with an autograph manuscript leaf in Irving’s hand. Illustrated throughout the entire set with a vast profusion of fine engravings, reproductions, facsimiles, photogravures and other decorative designs printed on special vellum paper and including engraved head- and tail-pieces and other decorations in many of the volumes. Thick 8vo, publisher’s best bindings of three-quarter honey morocco over marbled boards, the spines with raised bands and compartments lettered in gilt, the corners gilt ruled, marbled endleaves, t.e.g. others untrimmed. A fine set in very handsome and pleasing condition.

Very little evidence of wear or of use. The entire set is virtually pristine. $4850.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION SET OF THE WORKS WITH AN ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT LEAF INSERTED. ‘Author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century, Irving was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, Granada and the Alhambra. Irving also served as the U.S. minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846.

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The Eulogy for President James Monroe John Quincy Adams - 1831 - First Edition 1 Adams, John Quincy. AN EULOGY ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JAMES MONROE, Fifth President of the United States.

Delivered at the Request of the Corporation of the City of Boston, on the 25th of August, 1831 (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1831) First Edition 8vo, disbound. 100 pp. A fine copy with only minor toning or edge wear.

FIRST PRINTING, FIRST EDITION of the first of the two presidential eulogies given by John Quincy Adams. All the more interesting in that Monroe was Adams’ immediate predecessor in office and had also served as Secretary of State to Monroe. While serving in that position Adams authored The Monroe Doctrine. John Quincy Adams’ second eulogy would follow in 1836 for President James Madison. At the time this speech was given Adams was serving in the House of Representatives, he was the first of only two Presidents to this day to serve in Congress AFTER serving as President. The other being Andrew Johnson. Sabin 279. $125.

First Edition in Original Dustjacket John Berryman’s Novel of Alcoholism 2 Berryman, John. RECOVERY [Foreword by Saul Bellow] (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth lettered on the spine in gilt, with the original dustjacket. xiv, 254. A near fine copy only very lightly mellowed by time.

FIRST EDITION of Berryman’s brilliant novel about, in his own words, “the disease called ‘alcoholism.” The novel features a thinly disguised autobiographical character in the form of one Jasper Stone, “an extremely bitter bearded poet”.

Berryman began writing it in 1970 and had completed all but the final section of the first draft when he died in January of 1972. “Even unfinished, even without benefit of the intensive revisions and improvements he applied to all his work, it is so powerful that it had to be published.” - Publisher.

RECOVERY is powerful, moving and a unique testament to courage and strength. $50.

Albert Beveridge - The Life of John Marshall One of the Great American Biographies 3 Beveridge, Albert J. THE LIFE OF JOHN MARSHALL (Boston: The Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, 1916-19) 4 volumes. A very early reissue of the first edition. With numerous illustrations, including color frontispieces in each volume. 8vo, publisher’s original ribbed green cloth, gilt lettered on the spines and upper covers. xxvi, 506; xviii, 594; xxii, 644; xviii, 668. Bibliography in each volume and General Index in Volume IV. A very handsome set, internally near as new with just very light age to the bindings, the cloth still nice and dark, the gilt bright, all sound and sturdy.

AN IMPORTANT AND CLASSIC WORK. A brilliantly written life of John Marshall, 1755-1835, the second Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and a fascinating account of the early development of the nation. A standard work. Marshall’s court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law while promoting nationalism and making the Supreme Court of the United States a center of power with the capability of overruling Congress. Previously, Marshall had been a leader of the Federalist Party in Virginia and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1799 to 1800. He was Secretary of State under President John Adams from 1800 to 1801.

The longest-serving Chief Justice of the United States, Marshall dominated the Court for over three decades and played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. Marshall cemented the position of the American judiciary as an independent and influential branch of government. $225.

The Best William Blake Ever The Works of William Blake - Poetic, Symbolic and Critical Gathered Together by W.B. Yeats and E.J. Ellis First Edition - Beautifully Decorated in the Gilt Bindings 4 Blake, William; Ellis, Edwin John; Yeats, William Butler. THE WORKS OF WILLIAM BLAKE. Poetic, Symbolic and Critical. Edited with Lithographs of the Illustrated “Prophetic Books,” and a Memoir and Interpretation by Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893) 3 volumes. Vol. I “The System”; Vol. II “The Meaning”; Vol. III “The Books”. First Edition and one of only 500 sets. Illustrated throughout with a great profusion of fine lithographs and other full page illustrations including portraits, folding plates, plans and other decorations. Tall, royal 8vo, publisher’s beautiful original green polished linen, the covers exquisitely emblazoned in gilt with all over pictorial designs after Blake’s own designs and with additional pictorial and lettered gilt-work to the spines, t.e.g., others uncut. xvi, 420; vi, 435; ix, errata, 97, (6), (28), (8), (27), (9), 16, 6, (2), (9), (5), (3), (17), (1), 13, 100, 45,(6), (1), 18, (1),(4),6 ff., 174 pp. 2 ads. A fine. bright and clean set with only very light age evidence, primarily at the tips and primarily from shelving.

FIRST EDITION OF THE BEST BLAKE EVER. With the errata slip and portrait frontispieces to each volume. Volume III is a fully illustrated volume with facsimiles reproducing Blake’s books. The front covers, fully emblazoned with gilt-work depicting one of Blake’s most beautiful designs are renown for being among the most beautifully decorated publisher’s bindings of all time.

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“Nothing perhaps in his pictorial art quite matches the aerial radiance and felicity of his best songs. But nothing in his poetry has the sustained grandeur of the Job engravings, or of a whole series of splendidly imagined designs.” Not only did Blake posses a sweeping poetic and visual imagination, but his technical range was also far beyond his contemporaries. “Were there no mystical ideas or original imagination to attract us to his work,” as Binyon said, “we could still admire the artist who, in a time when the fashionable academicians hardly seemed to know of the existence of any art but that of painting in oils, engraved his own designs, painted in watercolours and in distemper, invented two methods of etching in relief, revived (doubtless without consciousness of any predecessor) the “monotype,” engraved original woodcuts, and made at least one experiment in lithography.”

“That William Blake was a great artist as well as one of the greatest poets of the English language is well known. What is not so widely know is that Blake found a means of combining both sides of his genius in what he called “Illuminated Printing.” Blake wrote out his poems with a surrounding design which often assumed the importance of an individual plate, etched each page and colored it by hand as and when he had a purchaser. Thus Blake, the poet of genius, was also a consummate craftsman, a poet who illustrated and printed all his great works, including the visionary prophetic books.

In fact, Blake the poet, printer and prophet---precursor of both symbolism and surrealism” $3250.

“One of the Best Books in the World” First Edition of Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson 5 Boswell, James. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON (London: by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791) 2 volumes. First edition, with ‘give’ on p. 135. With round robin plate, signatures page, portrait frontispiece. 4to, contemporary-style full rich morocco, richly gilt decorated spines, red and green contrasting morocco labels gilt, key-rolls gilt at the top and bottom of the spines, gilt bands to the spines. xii, (16), 516; 588. A clean set throughout, very fine.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION IN FINE CONDITION. Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness, Boswell’s Life of Johnson “is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great, very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets,--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists,--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators, than Boswell is the first of Biographers...” (Macauley, in the Edinburgh Review, 1831). Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject, and brought to his task boundless curiosity, persistence, and zest.

Boswell had been collecting material for this work since his first interview with Johnson in 1763, and was confident that his kind of biography, “which gives not only a History of Johnson’s visible progress through the world, and of his publications, but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived, and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared.”

Only 1750 copies of the first edition were printed. $9500.

The Greatest Biography in the English Language Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson - First Octavo Edition 6 Boswell, James. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, etc... (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793) 3 volumes. First octavo edition, revised and augmented by Boswell, with the corrections, cancels, and misprints. This copy also with the extra *c3 leaf of “Additional Corrections” noted by Rothschild, the “Additions received after the Second Edition was printed” (pp. *i-*xxii), “A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D” which is the first attempt at a Johnson bibliography (pp. *xxiii- *xxxi), and thirteen letters to Bennet Langton and one to the Earl of Bute. Engraved portrait frontispiece, after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Also with the folding ‘Round Robin’ plate and a folding plate of with a facsimile of Dr. Johnson’s handwriting. 8vo, very handsomely bound in original period tree calf, the spines richly gilt tooled in panels decorated with a central device featuring an anchor above an urn and surrounded by gilt borders, divided into six compartments separated by gilt decorated bands, two compartments with contrasting red and green morocco labels gilt lettered and decorated, additional gilt work at the heads and tails of the spines. xviii, xxxvii, 603; 634; 711 pp. A fine and handsome copy, IMPORTANT PRINTING IN CONTEMPORARY TREE CALF GILT. The first 8vo edition of what is perhaps the greatest biography ever written in the English language, in a fine contemporary binding. The “chronological catalogue of the prose works of Samuel Johnson” appears in this edition for the first time. This set with the alphabetical table of contents before the text rather than at the end of volume 3, as is often the case and with the scarce leaf of corrections and additions following the contents.

Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness, Boswell’s Life of Johnson “is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great, very great work.

Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets,--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists,--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators, than Boswell is the first of Biographers...” (Macauley, in the Edinburgh Review, 1831). Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject, and brought to his task boundless curiosity, persistence, and zest.

Boswell had been collecting material for this work since his first interview with Johnson in 1763, and was confident that his kind of biography, “which gives not only a History of Johnson’s visible progress through the world, and of his publications, but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived, and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared.” $2850.

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Boswell’s Immortal “Life of Johnson” The Greatest Biography in the English Language 7 Boswell, James. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides... A Reprint of the First Edition, to which are added Mr. Boswell’s corrections and additions, issued in 1792; the variations of the second edition, with some of the author’s notes prepared for the third; the whole edited with new notes by Percy Fitzgerald. Second Edition with a Preface by the Editor, and a Boswell Bibliography by H. R. Tedder (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1924) 3 volumes. An early printing of this edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine xlii, [m], 538; 527; 525. A fine set, the spines slightly sunned.

Percy Fitzgerald’s edition of Boswell’s LIFE OF JOHNSON is considered “a valuable contribution to Boswellian literature.” He carefully points out Boswell’s successive corrections and additions, and draws attention to many interesting changes introduced by the author. $185.

The Best Biography of One of the Great Explorers Murray’s Account of the Life and Writings of James Bruce One of the Earliest British Explorers of the African Continent 8 [Bruce, James]; Murray, Alexander. ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JAMES BRUCE of Kinnaird, Esq. F.R.S. Author of TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773. (Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Company, 1808) First Edition. With 22 engraved plates including a portrait frontispiece of Bruce, and two large folding maps at the end of the volume. 4to, handsomely presented in a full calf binding of the period, the spine sometime skillfully restored to style, red morocco lettering piece gilt. xiii, 504,4 ads. pp + 22 engraved plates and maps. A fine, clean and handsome copy. The back handsomely accomplished to style. Only very minimal toning or mellowing, the binding very well preserved, inner hinges strengthened with fabric.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND GREATEST BRITISH EXPLORERS OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. It was said of Bruce’s writings on Africa, “that few such monuments exist of the energy and enterprise of a single traveller” (DNB).

“The result of his travels was a very great enrichment of the knowledge of geography and ethnography” (Cox II, p. 389.)

Bruce was one of the earliest westerners to search for the source of the Nile. In November of 1770 he reached the source of the Blue Nile, and though he acknowledged that the White Nile was the larger stream, he claimed that the Blue Nile was the Nile of the ancients and that he was thus the discoverer of its source.

The account of his travels was written twelve years after his journey and without reference to his journals, which gave critics grounds for disbelief, but the substantial accuracy of the book has since been amply demonstrated.

The collection of writings is a cornerstone to any collection of Africana, and it is considered one of the earliest and greatest illustrated works on the seminal discoveries to be made on the continent over a hundred year period. $1850.

Travels Through Europe and North Africa William Cullen Bryant - First Edition - 1859 9 Bryant, William Cullen. LETTERS OF A TRAVELLER. Second Series. [LETTERS FROM SPAIN and Other Countries] (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1859) First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s brown textured cloth embossed in blind on the covers, the spine gilt lettered and ruled. 277 pp., 10 ads. A very handsome and well preserved copy, just a light bit of the expected evidence of age, sturdy, clean and fresh.

FIRST EDITION. Letters home to America sent by one of the most popular American literary figures of the 19th century. These letters are published precisely as they were originally written and sent home by Bryant. This series is from travels primarily in France, Spain, North Africa, Italy, Holland and Switzerland. “Letters from Spain” however makes up the most sizable portion.

While best remembered today for his romantic poetry, in his own time Bryant was most popular for his prose, particularly the work published as Editor-in-Chief for the New York Daily Post, a position he held for over half a century. $125.

Bishop Gilbert Burnett’s Life of Sir Matthew Hale First Edition - 1682 - A Masterwork of Legal Biography 10 Burnett, Gilbert, DD. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SIR MATTHEW HALE, KT. Sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Magesties Court of Kings Bench (London: William Shrowsberty, 1682) First Edition. With an engraved portrait frontispiece.

12mo, Handsomely bound in later full antique calf, the spine with gilt ruled raised bands and red morocco label lettered and ruled in gilt. [xvi], 218. A fine copy, fresh and clean internally, the calf with in nice condition, some light rubbing to the colouring of the leather at the hinges.

FIRST EDITION. SIr Matthew Hale 1609-1676) was originally trained as a soldier, but was called to the bar in 1637 where he almost immediately began full practice. He entered public life at perhaps the most critical period of English history. Two parties were contending in the state, and the obstinacy of each could not fail but produce a most dire collision. Amidst the confusion Hale steered a middle course, rising in reputation, solicited by both parties.

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As a lawyer and a judge, Hale believed he could best serve his country and benefit his countrymen by holding aloof from partisanship and its violent prejudices. It has been said, but without certainty, that Hale was engaged as counsel for the Earl of Strafford; he certainly acted for Archbishop Laud, Lord Maguire, Christopher Love, the Duke of Hamilton and others. It is also said that he was ready to plead on the side of Charles I. had that monarch submitted to the court. The parliament having gained the ascendancy, Hale signed the Solemn League and Covenant, and was a member of the famous Assembly of Divines at Westminster in 1644; but although he would undoubtedly have preferred a Presbyterian form of church government, he had no serious objection to the system of modified Episcopacy proposed by Usher. Consistently with his desire to remain neutral, Hale took the engagement to the Commonwealth as he had done to the king, and in 1653, already sergeant, he became a judge in the court of common pleas. Two years afterwards he sat in Cromwell’s parliament as one of the members for Gloucestershire. At the Restoration in 1660 Hale was very graciously received by Charles II, and in the same year was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and accepted, with extreme reluctance, the honour of knighthood. After holding the office of Chief Baron for eleven years he was raised to the higher dignity of Lord Chief Justice, which he held till February 1676.

Gilbert Burnett was one of the great contemporary historians and biographers of his day. He was a popular preacher and was offered four Bishoprics before he was 29 years of age. These he refused and in 1674 was dismissed from the post of King’s Chaplain for remonstrating with Charles II for his profligacy. He was Chaplain to Mary when she was still Princess of Orange. He became Bishop of Salisbury in 1689 under William III. He published this account of Sir Matthew Hale only a few short years after Hale’s death. Ency. Britannica, 11th edition. $650.

A Rare Sir Richard Francis Burton Work in Fine Binding Captivity and Cannibalism in Brazil 11 Burton, Richard F. THE CAPTIVITY OF HANS STADE OF HESSE, in A.D. 1547 - 1555, Among the Wild Tribes of Eastern Brazil.

Translated by Albert Tootal, Esq., of Rio de Janeiro (London: Printed by the Hakluyt Society, 1874) First edition. 8vo, bound by Morrell in three-quarter crushed green morocco and cloth, gilt ruled borders in the panels of the spine, two panels with lettering in gilt, t.e.g. With the original blue cloth spine bound in at the rear. xcvi, 169. A very handsome and beautifully bound copy.

This scarce publication is the autobiography of a German soldier of fortune, Hans Stade, who had been captured by cannibalistic Indians in eastern Brazil during the sixteenth century.

Burton wrote the introduction to the book and added extensive footnotes. He also brushed up the text a bit. Burton discovered this text while on an extensive visit to Brazil where he studied many of the indigenous Indian languages, excavated early Portuguese forts and searched for gold. Rice, pp. 299-390. $1850.

Wright’s Early Biography of Burton Two Volumes - Original Cloth - Scarce First Edition 12 [Burton] Wright, Thomas. THE LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON (London: Everett and Co., 1906) 2 volumes. First Edition, First Issue. With 64 illustrations and maps, including photographic and facsimile reproductions. 8vo, original red ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, and decorated with gilt bands at the head and tail. xxix, 291; xi, 291, xxv index. A fine, well preserved copy with only a bit of age mellowing to the bindings and some occasional internal aging.

RARE FIRST EDITION and a fine early biography of Burton with excellent scholarship and profuse illustration. Now quite scarce. This is the first edition issued with a new title page stating “second” on the verso, but in fact retaining the original sheets and bindings of the first edition. $950.

Abel Chapman’s Memories of Fourscore Years Less Two 1930 - First Edition - A Fine Copy - Original Cloth Sporting and Natural History Adventures of a Master 13 Chapman, Abel. MEMORIES OF FOURSCORE YEARS LESS TWO 1851-1929. With a Memoir by George Bolam (London: Gurney and Jackson, 1930) First edition. With a photogravure frontispiece, 24 colour plates, 3 black and white plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green ribbed cloth gilt lettered in gilt on the spine, t.e.g. xxvii, 257, 3 ads. An unusually well preserved copy, fine and clean and near as pristine.

FIRST EDITION OF A VERY FINE AND WELL-ILLUSTRATED AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Chapman was one of the greatest of sporting and natural history writer. This copy is in splendid condition. Includes his adventures in Egypt, Africa, Spain, and Northumberland.

“Abel Chapman began to write “Memories” before the publication of “Retrospect”, and, in spite of illness, continued work upon it until his death.

The endurance that had carried him through so many adventures was equal to this last occasion. He completed the manuscript, revised it thoroughly, illustrated it with a number of his own lively drawings...” - Bloom $225.

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Two Highly Important Works of the English Civil War Including the Very Scarce Apophthegmata... Carolina Bound Together in Period Full Calf - 1649 14 [Charles I, King of England]; [English Civil War]; [Gauden, John]. EIKON BASILIKE [in Greek]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie, In His Solitudes and Sufferings [With] Praiers, Used by His Majestie In the Time of His Suffering Delivered To Doctor Juxon Bishop of London Immediately Before His Death, Also a Letter From the Prince. [Bound With,] APOPHTHEGMATA AUREA, REGIA, CAROLINA. Apophthegms I. Theological. II. Moral. III. Political. Collected Out of the Incomparable Eikon Basilike [in Greek] of His Most Glorious Majestie King Charls [sic] the First ([London]; London: [William Du-gard], William Du-gard, 1648 [i.e. 1649], 1649) 2 volumes bound into one volume. First edition, very early reprint (one month after the first) of Eikon Basilike, with the place and publisher not given and no reference to the prayers on the general title-page. THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION of the Apophthegmata Carolina. Engraved title-pages, foliated initials and headpieces. Small 8vo, impressively decorated full period calf, the boards ornately gilt paneled featuring large thistle motif gilt corner tools on delicately gilt rolled frames with additional gilt tooling, the spine with gilt tooled compartments between gilt ruled raised bands, one compartment with a red morocco label gilt ruled and lettered, marbled endleaves, t.e.g. [iv], 268, 10; 52 pp. Internally a solid and well preserved copy, titlepage at sometime mounted onto heavier stock, a bit of expected toning, especially to the prelims, trimmed close. sometimes effecting the headlines or page numbers, lacking portrait plate. APOPHTHEGMATA lacking final blank leaf. The binding well worn, especially so on the spine ends and corners, upper hinges cracked but boards still holding.

THE VERY SCARCE ‘APOPHTHEGMATA AUREA, REGIA, CAROLINA’ INCLUDED WITH THE ‘EIKON BASILIKE’, ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS BOOKS OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR AND A LANDMARK IN PRINTING AS PROPAGANDA. The EIKON BASILIKE is a purported spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. It was published on February 9, 1649, ten days after the King was beheaded by Parliament in the aftermath of the English Civil War in 1649. Written in a simple, moving, and straightforward style in the form of a diary, the book combines prayers urging the forgiveness of Charles’s executioners with a justification of royalty and the King’s political and military program that led to the Civil War. It is by no means certain that Charles wrote the book. After the Restoration, John Gauden, bishop of Worcester, claimed to have written it. Scholars continue to disagree about the merits of his claim, though assuming that Gauden wrote it, he had access to Charles’s papers when he did so. Jeremy Taylor is also said to have had a hand in its writing, and is said to be the source of its title.

Whoever wrote the Eikon Basilike, its author was an effective prose stylist, one who had partaken deeply of the solemn yet simple eloquence of Anglican piety as expressed in Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer. The end result is an image of a steadfast monarch who, while admitting his weaknesses, declares the truth of his religious principles and the purity of his political motives, while trusting in God despite adversity. Charles’s chief weakness, it says, was in yielding to Parliament’s demands for the head of the Earl of Strafford; for this sin, Charles paid with his throne and his life. Its portrait of Charles as a martyr invited comparison of the King to Jesus.

The pathos of this dramatic presentation made it a master stroke of Royalist propaganda. The book was quite popular despite official disapproval during the Protectorate and the Restoration. Because of the favourable impression the book gave of the King, Parliament commissioned John Milton to write a riposte to it, which he published under the title Eikonoklastes in 1649. Milton’s response sought to portray the image of Charles, and the absolute monarchy he aspired to, as idols, claiming a reverence due only to God, and therefore justly overthrown to preserve the law of God. This theological counterattack failed to dislodge the sentimental narrative of the EIKON itself from public esteem.

The printing of the APOPHTHEGMATA from the EIKON so quickly following its initial publication is a testament to its widespread popularity and influence. The collection is believed to have been assembled by Dr. Hooker, an editor for Du-gard’s press and a vocal Royalist. The APOPHTHEGMATA is scarce, Worldcat list only 6 copies. Wordsworth, C.; Helgerson, R.; Wing A3560a; Madin 94; Pforzheimer 171; Lowndes I, 723; Wing E276. $850.

“Great Men of Our Age” Winston Churchill on His Great Contemporaries First Edition with the Essays on Roosevelt and Baden-Powell 15 Churchill, Winston. GREAT CONTEMPORARIES (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1938) First edition, first impression of the revised and expanded edition, with four articles not included in the previous appearance. Illustrated with 25 photographs. 8vo, publisher’s original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. 387 pp. A very fine copy, very fresh and clean throughout, just the lightest hint of shelving evidence to the bottom edge and corners, completely free of foxing or spotting, rarely found thus.

FIRST EDITION, EXPANDED, OF AN IMPORTANT WORK, AND THIS ISSUE WITH THE ARTICLES ON ROOSEVELT AND LORD BADEN-POWELL, plus two others, which were not included in the earlier printings. This is Churchill’s great multi-biography of the men he considered to be the greatest figures of his time. Among the notables rank; George Bernard Shaw, Adolf Hitler, T.E. Lawrence, Curzon, King George, Hindenburg and others for a total of 25. This first revised and complete edition includes four biographies not found in earlier appearance of the text: works on Lord Fisher, Charles Stewart Parnell, Lord Baden-Powell, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. $350.

First Edition - Winston Churchill - Beautifully Bound His Great Biography - Marlborough: His Life and Times 1947 - London - Two Volumes 16 Churchill, Winston. MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times (London: George G. Harrap, 1947) 2 volumes. First printing and issuance of the two-volume edition, complete and unedited. Portrait frontispieces, numerous maps and document facsimiles, many folding. Thick 8vo, beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in three-quarter brick-red crushed morocco, the spine with raised bands tooled in blind, lettered in gilt in two compartments. 990, appendix, index; 1040, bibliography, index pp. A very fine set in excellent condition, the bindings and

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the internal portions of the books fresh, clean and in a beautiful state of preservation.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN THIS DELUXE SPECIALLY BOUND TWO VOLUME FORMAT OF CHURCHILL’S IMPORTANT HISTORICAL WORK ON MARLBOROUGH. Vilified by history, the author sets out to give a true depiction of his famous ancestor: “ It is my hope to recall this great shade from the past, and not only to invest him with his panoply, but make him living and intimate to modern eyes. I hope to show that he was not only the foremost of English soldiers, but in the first rank among the statesmen of our history; not only that he was a Titan, for that is not disputed, but that he was a virtuous and benevolent being, eminently seviceable to to his age and country, capable of drawing harmony and design from chaos, and one who only needed an earlier and still wider authority to have made a more ordered and a more tolerant civilization for his own time and to help the future.” (from the preface) This two volume format reproduces the full text of the four volume edition completely and is printed on a thinner paper than the four volume issue.

Woods, A.40 (d). $895.

First Edition Winston Churchill - Four Volumes His Great Biography of Marlborough 17 Churchill, Winston. MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times (London: George G. Harrap, 1933-38) 4 volumes. First edition of each volume. Portrait frontispieces, and a great profusion of illustrated plates, plans (many folding), document facsimiles and maps (several folding), in all, totaling hundreds of illustrations throughout. Thick 8vo, very handsomely bound in three-quarter red morocco over red cloth lettered and decorated with lion emblems in gilt between raised bands on the spines, t.e.g. [iv], 557; [iv], 605; [iv], 556; [iv], 652 pp. Appendices and index to each volume. A very handsome and finely preserved set. The bindings in near pristine, excellent condition and showing no wear. The text-blocks all very clean, crisp and tight, as perfect but for only the occasional evidence of age, usually at the prelims as is normal.

SCARCE FIRST EDITIONS IN DELUXE BINDINGS OF RED MOROCCO GILT. CHURCHILL’S VERY IMPORTANT HISTORICAL WORK ON MARLBOROUGH. Scarce in First Edition, First issue format.

Vilified by history, Churchill sets out to give a true depiction of his famous ancestor: “ It is my hope to recall this great shade from the past, and not only to invest him with his panoply, but make him living and intimate to modern eyes. I hope to show that he was not only the foremost of English soldiers, but in the first rank among the statesmen of our history; not only that he was a Titan, for that is not disputed, but that he was a virtuous and benevolent being, eminently seviceable to to his age and country, capable of drawing harmony and design from chaos, and one who only needed an earlier and still wider authority to have made a more ordered and a more tolerant civilization for his own time and to help the future.” (from the preface) Woods A40(a) $2450.

One of Winston Churchill’s Best Books His Autobiographical My Early Life London - 1930 - Original Cloth 18 Churchill, Winston. MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930) First edition, second impression, printed the same year as the first. With a frontispiece portrait of Lady Randolph Churchill, 15 black and white images on plates and 11 drawings, maps or charts within the text and one folding map. 8vo, publisher’s original magenta cloth with gilt lettering on the upper cover and the spine. 392 pp. A very nice copy with some expected mellowing or evidence of use and a bit of the light foxing that is almost always found in this title.

SCARCE AND IMPORTANT. One of Churchill’s best of his many books, some say, his very best. It is an entertaining autobiographical work about his early years, up through his experiences as a soldier and the beginning of his political career.

The work includes a daring escape reminiscent of the exploits of Indiana Jones after he had been captured by the Afrikaners during the Boar Wars, his escapades with the Malakand Field Force and the relief of Ladysmith and his entry into the House of Commons. It also includes intimate portraits of his childhood, family life and days as a cadet. $395.

Winston Churchill on His Peers - “Great Men of Our Age” Great Contemporaries - First Edition - Original Cloth 19 Churchill, Winston S.. GREAT CONTEMPORARIES (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937) First edition, first issue. Illustrated throughout with twenty-one photographic portraits. 8vo, publisher’s original sky-blue cloth, gilt-lettered on the upper cover and spine. [iv], 330, index pp. A very pleasing and very fine copy with virtually no evidence of age or use. About as fine a copy as one can expect to find. A few typical spots to the foredge.

AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND A VALUABLE LOOK INTO THE MAKERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. This is Churchill’s

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great multi-biography of the men he considered to be the greatest figures of his time. Among the notables rank; George Bernard Shaw, Adolf Hitler, T.E. Lawrence, Curzon, King George, Hindenburg and others. These short sketches by Churchill were penned between 1928 and 1936. A fascinating look at the great men of the age by someone who is not simply a biographer but unquestionable a peer. Woods, p.77-78. $1050.

One of the Most Monumental Historical Works Ever Winston S. Churchill - Eight Volumes - First Editions Randolph S. Churchill and Martin Gilbert 20 [Churchill, Winston S.] Churchill, Randolph S. and Gilbert, Martin. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. VOLUME I YOUTH 1874-1900; VOLUME II YOUNG STATESMAN 1901-1914; VOLUME III 1914-1916; VOLUME IV 1917-1922; VOLUME V 1922-1939; VOLUME VI FINEST HOUR 1939-1941; VOLUME VII ROAD TO VICTORY 19411945; VOLUME VIII ‘NEVER DESPAIR’ 1945-1965 (London: Heinemann, 1966-1983) 8 volumes. First editions, the original English printings of each volumes. With a great profusion of illustrations in monochrome and colours, including maps, tables, charts, photographs, folding plates, and other decorations. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, the spines lettered in gilt, the books all housed in their printed varied colour dust-jackets. xxxvi, 608; xxix, 775; xxxvii, 988; xvi, 967; xxvii, 1167; xx, 1308; xx, 1417; xxvii, 1438 pp. A fine set of this prodigious work. The books and dust-jackets are all in very handsome and pleasing condition.

FIRST EDITION COMPLETE OF ONE OF THE MOST MONUMENTAL HISTORICAL TASKS EVER UNDERTAKEN, RESULTING IN ONE OF THE GREAT HISTORICAL WORKS EVER PRODUCED. Randolph Churchill, who began this great work with Martin Gilbert in the early 1960’s had the exclusive use of Sir Winston’s letters and papers. The form in which is the work is cast is summed up in the phrase that Randolph Churchill quotes from Lockhart: “He shall be his own biographer.” And the authors present Churchill, a far as possible, through his own words. The first volume covers the years from Churchill’s birth to his return to England from an American lecture tour on the day of Queen Victoria’s funeral, in order to embark on his political career. The final volume spans Churchill’s life from the defeat of Germany in 1945 to his death nearly twenty years later.

‘No statesman of modern times--or indeed of any earlier age--has left such a wealth of personal letters, such a rich seam of private and public documentation, such vivid memories in the minds of those who worked closest to him or were at his side at both historic and amusing moments. Through these materials, assembled by Martin Gilbert during more than twenty years, one can trace Churchill’s moods, aims, actions, hopes and farsightedness.

The many-sided nature of Churchill’s abilities, his enormous capacity for work when well into his seventies, his literary achievements, his optimism, his humanity, his humour, his belief in man’s capacity for self-improvement and survival, fill this volume with a rich tapestry of people and events, dominated not by the day-to-day struggle of politics and international conflicts but by an abiding sensitivity.

Randolph Churchill died just after the second volume of this massive work was produced and Martin Gilbert continued the writing. He is one of Britain’s most distinguished historians. Following Randolph’s death in 1968 he was appointed the Official Biographer. During the twenty-five years spent on the biography, which reached completion in 1988, Mr. Gilbert wrote many other books on modern European history including AUSCHWITZ AND THE ALLIES, THE HOLOCAUST, and THE SECOND WORLD WAR as well as serving as editor of thirteen volumes of Churchill documents.

The eight volume work offered here has been hailed as “ stupendous achievement...of immense and permanent value.” $2250.

Winston S. Churchill - A Life - First Edition Martin Gilbert - A Masterpiece of Scholarship 21 [Churchill, Winston S.]; Gilbert, Martin. CHURCHILL. A Life (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991) First Edition, American Issue. Illustrated throughout with many photographs. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original lavender boards backed in navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, housed in the original pictorial dustjacket. xx, 1066 pp. A very fine copy, as pristine.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK BY ONE OF ENGLAND’S FINEST HISTORIANS. This important biography, written by the Official Biographer of Sir Winston is of great importance. It was said of Churchill in Mr. Gilbert’s prodigious eight volume work, that ‘No statesman of modern times--or indeed of any earlier age--has left such a wealth of personal letters, such a rich seam of private and public documentation, such vivid memories in the minds of those who worked closest to him or were at his side at both historic and amusing moments. Through these materials, assembled

by Martin Gilbert during more than twenty years, one can trace Churchill’s moods, aims, actions, hopes and farsightedness.

The many-sided nature of Churchill’s abilities, his enormous capacity for work when well into his seventies, his literary achievements, his optimism, his humanity, his humour, his belief in man’s capacity for self-improvement and survival, fill this volume with a rich tapestry of people and events, dominated not by the day-to-day struggle of politics and international conflicts but by an abiding sensitivity.

Martin Gilbert is one of Britain’s most distinguished historians. Following Randolph Churchill’s death in 1968 he was appointed the Official Biographer of Winston S. Churchill. During the twenty-five years spent on the great eight volume biography, which reached completion in 1988, Mr. Gilbert wrote many other books on modern European history including AUSCHWITZ AND THE ALLIES, THE HOLOCAUST, and THE SECOND

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WORLD WAR as well as serving as editor of thirteen volumes of Churchill documents. This single volume, complete unto itself has been called a “masterpiece of scholarship” and “an extraordinary achievement.” $65.

The Authorized Biography - 1923 - First Edition Grover Cleveland The Man and The Statesman 22 [Cleveland, Grover] McElroy, Robert. GROVER CLEVELAND. The Man and the Statesman. An Authorized Biography. (New York and London: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1923) 2 volumes. First Edition. Illustrated with gravure portrait frontispieces to each volume. Tall 8vo, bound in the publisher’s original navy cloth, the spines lettered in gilt. (xiv), 359; (viii), 427 pp.

A very fine, very bright and clean set.

FIRST EDITION of this fine biography of the only President to ever win two non-consecutive terms and three times garner the majority of the popular vote. Cleveland was noted especially for his commitment to the public welfare and for his fairness and honesty and service to the public weal. $225.

With a Fine Letter on White House Stationary The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge The Deluxe Limited Edition Specially Presented 23 Coolidge, Calvin. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE. (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929) First Edition, Limited Issue, Specially Bound. This copy out of series and with a tipped in letter signed by Coolidge on White House stationery and dated 1927. With a photogravure frontispiece of President Coolidge and eleven other illustrations throughout. 8vo, publisher ’s original dark blue linen backed boards, t.e.g., others uncut. [12], 247, colophon.

A bright and clean copy, the letter also finely preserved.

SCARCE LIMITED FIRST EDITION, THIS COPY WITH A FINE LETTER ON WHITE HOUSE STATIONERY AND OUT OF SERIES, RARE THUS. Coolidge speaks in an endearing way of his childhood in the woods and mountains near Killington, VT and his process of political maturation and service to his community and nation. The book is ably written and articulate in its presentation and leads the reader to a new appreciation of a man often relegated to the obscure because of his quietude. Especially noteworthy in the present day is to read Coolidge’s own thinking about the methodology of the Presidency, its struggles with the other branches of government and the absolute necessity for the President to bear the burden of that struggle in order to protect in an absolute way, the rights and privileges of the executive, and thus its equality with the other branches. All of this from a man who came from a simple country environment, from local people and through service in both the legislative and legal bodies to his place in the executive branch. $1450.

A Superb Set in Exquisite Condition The Memoirs of D’Artaganan - Of the Three Musketeers Three Volumes - Beautifully Decorated Bindings 24 [D’Artagnan, Captain-Lieutenant]; Sandraz, Courtilz De [Nevill,, Ralph, translator]. MEMOIRS OF MONSIEUR D’ARTAGNAN Captain-Lieutenant of the 1st Company of the King’s Musketeers... Now For the First Time Translated into English (London: H. S. Nichols, [1925]) 3 volumes. First edition thus, Nichols much higher quality printing on large paper from the Little, Brown and Company plates.

With an engraved frontispiece portrait, decorative head pieces and initials throughout. Tall 8vo, in the publisher’s beautifully decorated bindings of royal blue cloth, the upper cover and spines with an all over pattern of gilt fleur-de-lis, the covers with a gilt portrait of D’Artagnan, spines and upper covers elegantly gilt lettered within decorative gilt frames, edges untrimmed. A brilliant set, still largely unopened, the cloth especially bright, the gilt vivid, the text pristine, a superb set.

THE STORY OF THE REAL D’ARTAGNAN, DE SANDRAZ WAS THE SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR ALEXANDRE DUMAS AND HIS THREE MUSKETEERS STORIES. Sandraz’s novelized account was written in 1700, just 27 years after D’Artagnan’s death. Sandras had served in the army before becoming a writer and had been imprisoned several times in the Bastille when Besmaux, the former companion of d’Artagnan, was warden. It was most likely from this source that he learned the details of d’Artagnan’s life. $395.

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Leonardo Da Vinci - The Most Authoritative Work Produced Profusely Illustrated in Colour and Black and White 25 [Da Vinci]; Vollmer, Emil, Editor. LEONARDO DA VINCI (New York: Reynal and Company, [1956]) With 1609 gravure plates and 12 plates in full colour. Folio, publisher’s original beige linen, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, in the original pictorial dust jacket. 518pp. + index. The book is a very fine copy, very bright and very clean. The dust jacket has a bit of minor edge wear but remains whole and very attractive.

This is the most magnificent and comprehensive volume published on LEONARDO Da vinci and his work. It was compiled originally in 1938 in conjunction with the famed Milan exhibition of the artist works by outstanding scholars with the goal of bringing together into one comprehensive volume all the data, materials and reconstructions concerning Leonardo. The project was stalled by war and was never fully realized until the publication of this magnificent volume in the 1950s. It remains to date the most authoritative work ever produced on Leonardo. $125.

Dante - La Vita Nuova - “The New Life” The Great Charles Eliot Norton Translation 26 Dante Alighieri; [Norton, Charles Eliot]. THE NEW LIFE OF DANTE ALIGHIERE [LA VITA NUOVA]. Translated by Charles Eliot Norton. (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893) Second Edition and only the second issuance of the text. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth gilt lettered on the spine panel. [iv], 168, [1] ads pp. A very good and pleasing copy with only minimal age evidence.

AN IMPORTANT TRANSLATION OF A MAJOR WORK OF LITERATURE. The history of Dante’s love for Beatrice. “How he met Beatrice as a child, how he often sought her glance, how she once greeted him in the street...how he saw in a dream the death and transfiguration of his beloved, how she died...how Beatrice appeared to him in a vision and reclaimed his heart, and how at last he saw a vision which induced him to devote himself to study that might be more fit to glorify her who gazes on the face of God forever. The simple story is interspersed with a remarkable symmetry , to which professor Charles Eliot Norton was the first to draw attention.” (EB) An important translation by Norton, noted scholar, writer and Harvard professor. Norton was appointed a grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy for his work in Italian Studies. Encyclopedia Britannica. $135.

Limited to Only 130 Copies - Captain Charles Morris A Fine Piece of Rowfantia - Privately Printed 27 Dexter, Richard. CAPTAIN CHARLES MORRIS. The Bard of the Sublime Society of the Beef Steaks (Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1923) First and only edition, limited to 130 copies numbered by hand. With five illustrations, including a portrait frontispiece of Charles Morris. The book is printed on special Laid Antique Strathmore paper. Small 4to, handsomely bound in half brown calf over brown cloth, the spine attractively gilt lettered in three compartments and with gilt ruled raised bands. Publisher’s original printed front wrap bound in. 166, [ii] pp. A very fine copy.

The Rowfant Club is an organization of bibliophiles in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1892 to promote the study and appreciation of books and printing, and it continues to meet yearly. The books of the Rowfantia series were privately printed for its members and the print runs are all very small. This title, the first of their Quarto series is a short, humorous and often poetical sketch of the life of Captain Charles Morris and is followed by a large selection of his songs. Morris, as a member of the famous old London club Society of the Beef Steaks, was most noted for his charming and colloquial songs. $125.

The Unpublished Letters of Charles Dickens to Mark Lemon A Copy with Fine Provenance - The Doheny Copy First Edition - Limited Issue - London - 1927 28 Dickens, Charles; Dexter, Walter. THE UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS TO MARK LEMON. Edited by Walter Dexter (London: Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1927) First Edition, the Limited Issue specially bound and numbered. This copy with Fine Provenance. From the Doheny Collection with two plates of the Doheny family at the pastedown and free-fly. With a number of illustrations throughout, including facsimiles of playbills and letters. 4to, publisher’s original three-quarter vellum over purple cloth boards, the spine lettered in gilt and the covers ruled in gilt. (8), 165 pp. A very fine copy, beautifully preserved.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 525 COPIES ONLY. $550.

John Forster’s Life of Charles Dickens Three Volumes - Beautifully Bound - The Best Biography An Epic Life Story Written By A Personal Friend - 1872-1874 29 [Dickens, Charles] Forster, John. THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-74) 3 volumes. A very early set in mixed state, as is common. Volume I and Volume

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II are early impressions and Volume III is the first. Illustrated throughout with pictorial engravings on steel and facsimiles of Dickens’ notes, letters and manuscripts and including three wonderful engraved portrait frontispieces representing Dickens at various stages of his life. 8vo, in an especially attractive binding of three-quarter dark tan calf in contemporary style by Lloyd’s, over blue marbled boards, the spines with a single floral gilt tool within panels framed with gilt ruled borders in four of the six compartments, the remaining two compartments with red and green morocco lettering labels gilt lettered and bordered. xix, 398, [6] ads; xx, 462 [2]; xv, 552 pp. A very fine set of this scarce work, clean and fresh and as pristine in very handsome bindings of proper style.

A BEAUTIFUL SET OF THIS IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHY. Written by Dickens’ long time friend and executor, John Forster. Forster was a writer and journalist, and a notable figure in mid 19th century literary London. Through his friendship with the influential editor Leigh Hunt, he became adviser, agent, and proofreader not only to Dickens but to many leading writers of the day. Forster was not merely the friend of the great man; he was a highly experienced journalist by the time he began to write the biography, and his experience as a writer, as well as his breadth of familiarity and knowledge of the subject and the writing, shows absolutely throughout this prodigious work. Forster’s great biography is all at once, an epic, an illustrated history and a eulogy. $1250.

The DiMaggio Albums A History in Pictures of Yankee “Number 5” One of the Greatest Players in Baseball History 30 DiMaggio, Joe. THE DIMAGGIO ALBUMS Selections from Public and Private Collections Celebrating the Baseball Career of Joe DiMaggio 1932 [through] 1951. Introduction And Commentaries By Joe DiMaggio. Compiled and Edited By Richard Whittingham (New York: G. P. Putnam’s sons, [1989]) 2 volumes. First edition, first printing. Profusely illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white with photographs and reproductions of news clips, ads, magazine covers, etc., etc. 4to, original blue-black cloth lettered on the upper covers and spines in gilt, in the original red cloth covered slipcase with gilt lettering on the spine and front and with a large colour photographic pastedown of DiMaggio at bat. 400, 401-800 pp. A fine copy, internally pristine and as new, the cloth with just a tad of very minor age evidence, the slipcase also very well preserved.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS WONDERFUL BOOK ON DIMAGGIO and a fantastic collection on one of the greatest baseball stars of all time. Joe Dimaggio had a long career with the New York Yankees and obtained an uncommon level of celebrity both on and off the playing field. He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955, was a three-time MVP winner, and 13-time All-Star. He is the only player to be selected for the All-Star Game in every season he played. At the time of his retirement, he had the fifth-most career home runs (361) and sixth-highest slugging percentage (.579) in history. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15–July 16, 1941), a record that still stands.

Touted by sportswriters as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Shoeless Joe Jackson rolled into one, DiMaggio made his major league debut on May 3, 1936, batting ahead of Lou Gehrig. The Yankees had not been to the World Series since 1932, but, thanks in large part to their sensational rookie, they won the next four Fall Classics. In total, DiMaggio led the Yankees to nine titles in 13 years. $185.

Theodore Dreiser’s Autobiography of His Younger Years A History of Myself...Dawn - New York - 1931 31 Dreiser, Theodore. A HISTORY OF MYSELF. DAWN. (New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931) First Editon of Dreiser’s autobiography of early youth. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY FROM DREISER’S WIDOW. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over red cloth boards, the spine and upper cover lettered in gilt. (4), 589 pp. A fine copy, bright and clean, the dustjacket also very well preserved and just a bit aged.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. The jacket statement notes that the book provides the most intimate confession of youth since Rousseau. Presentation copies of the book are rare.

A 1931 promotional leaflet for Dreiser’s NEWSPAPER DAYS is loosely inserted. Pizer et al. A31-1 $450.

A Great Figure of the Church of England Life or Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury Papal Conflicts in the Age of Henry the IV and V 32 Duck, [Arthur]. THE LIFE OF HENRY CHICHELE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, Who Lived in the Times of Henry the V. and VI. Kings of England. Written in Latin By Arth.

Duck. LLD. Now Made English. And a Table of Contents Annexed (London: Ri[chard].

Chiswell, 1699) First Edition in English. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Archbishop Chichele. 8vo, tastefully bound in antique style half calf over marbled boards, the spine with simple flat blind-tooled bands and a gilt ruled and lettered red morocco label. [iv], 178, [20pp contents, Errata]. A very nice copy of an uncommon book, internally solid and fresh with only a light amount of aging. The binding is attractive and in fine order.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF A LIFE HISTORY AT A PIVOTAL TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH. In his capacity as archbishop. Chichele was as much a statesman, diplomat and lawyer as he was a leader of the church. He was present at the siege of Rouen, and the king committed to him personally the negotiations for the surrender of the city. He crowned Katherine, baptized Henry IV, presided at the trial of John Claydon and came into direct conflict with Pope Martin V. The struggle between them has been represented as one of a patriotic archbishop resisting the encroachments of the papacy on the Church of England. Chichele, by appointing a jubilee to be held at Canterbury in 1420, after the

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manner of the Jubilee ordained by the Popes, threatened to divert the profits from pilgrims from Rome to Canterbury. Chichele also incurred the papal wrath by opposing the system of papal provision which diverted patronage from English to Italian hands, but the immediate occasion was to prevent the introduction of the bulls making Beaufort a cardinal. Chichele had been careful enough to obtain Papal provisions for himself, his pluralities, his bishopric and archbishopric. Wing D2430 $550.

Jacqueline Duhéme’s John F. Kennedy A Life and a Loss Beautifully Expressed in Paint 33 Duhéme, Jacqueline. JOHN F. KENNEDY A Book of Paintings (New York: Atheneum, 1967) First Edition. With 19 beautifully reproduced paintings by the author. Square 4to, publisher’s original blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and with silver decorative border and lettering on the upper cover, in the original pictorial dustjacket. [43.] A fine copy, the dustjacket with just a very minor amount of age toning.

When John F. Kennedy was killed, many people the world around experienced a personal loss as well as a public loss. Since his death those many years ago, that loss has been expressed in many ways. Few are more intimate then Jacqueline Duhéme’s presentation of this book.

The work features 19 beautiful paintings celebrating the life of Kennedy from his boyhood, through the war years, his marriage to Jacqueline Bouvier, his years in the Senate, as President and finally mourning his death. Each painting is accompanied by the author’s own words. $30.

With Fine Provenance - The Copy of Booth Tarkington First Edition - Court and Society From Elizabeth to Anne Beautifully Bound and Presented - London - 1864 34 Duke of Manchester, The; [William Drogo Montagu]; [Royalty, British Monarchy]. COURT AND SOCIETY FROM ELIZABETH TO ANNE. Edited From the Papers at Kimbolton (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1864) First Edition. With the fine literary provenance of Booth Tarkington with his handsome engraved bookplate in each volume. With two fine engraved portraits as frontispieces of Henry and Charles Montagu, the first Earl and the first Duke of Manchester. 8vo, very finely and handsomely bound at an early time by Riviere and Son, in full royal blue calf, the covers with multi-ruled gilt fillet lines at the borders with circular tools as corner-pieces, the spines richly gilt decorated in panels between gilt ruled and stippled raised bands, two compartments with red morocco labels finely gilt ruled and lettered, gilt tooled turn-ins and board edges, red coated endpapers, t.e.g. Bound in and preserved are the publisher’s original blue cloth spines and upper covers, gilt lettered and featuring the Montagu coat of arms in gilt. 403; 438 pp. A fine and very handsome set, the luxurious calf with only a bit of expected edge wear.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION WITH FINE PROVENANCE. VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND. Very fine biographical sketches of the Kings, Queens and important Nobles from the reign of Catherine of Aragon through the last of the Stuart monarchs, Queen Anne. The author was the Seventh Duke of Manchester and had access to papers and materials in his families possession since the time of his ancestor Henry, the first Earl of Manchester and one of the Executors of King Henry VIII’s will.

This set is especially handsome in its fine antique binding and has the literary provenance of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Booth Tarkington. $850.

Eisenhower At War: 1943 - 1945 Rare Advance Proofs of the First Edition 35 Eisenhower, David. EISENHOWER: AT WAR. 1943 - 1945 (New York: Random House, 1986) Advance Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original printed wraps, with advance proof notice tipped to the upper cover. (26), 944 pp. A fine, as pristine copy, just a touch of evidence of shelving.

RARE ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS OF THE FIRST EDITION. A major work by David Eisenhower concerning his grandfather’s service as Commander of all Allied Forces during the final years of World War II. Well illustrated throughout and written after exhaustive scholarship. $50.

Memorial Tributes to Dwight D. Eisenhower First Edition - Washington, D.C. 36 [Eisenhower, Dwight David]. Joint Committee on Printing. MEMORIAL SERVICES IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES AND TRIBUTES IN EULOGY OF DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Late a President of the United States (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1970) First Edition, first impression. Photographic frontispiece of Eisenhower. Large 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, title and presidential seal in gilt on upper cover and spine. xxxi, 226. A very handsome and attractive copy, as pristine. The gilt is brilliant, the text block is clean and fresh.

FIRST EDITION. Presented are speeches, eulogies, prayers, and scriptures read in the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as in the

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funeral services for the late President Eisenhower in Washington, D.C. and Abilene, Kansas. $50.

C. Ticknor Editor - First Edition Illustrated - Classic Concord Writings of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and the Alcotts 37 Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Alcott, Ticknor, Caroline, Editor. CLASSIC CONCORD As Portrayed by Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Alcotts. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926) First edition, Limited to 1,000 copies only. With twelve fine sepia illustrations and drawings of old Concord by May Alcott. Large 8vo, publisher’s original olive cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and pictorially decorated in gilt and blind on the upper cover. ix, 271, (1) pp. An especially fine and very bright copy throughout, unusual in this condition.

A VERY FINE COPY OF THIS HANDSOME FIRST EDITION. A worthwhile group of writings by the Concord luminaries: Hawthorne and Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts, beautifully illustrated with pictures by May Alcott. $145.

An Early Biography of R.L. Stevenson In the Footsteps…

38 Findlay, J. Patrick. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF R. L. S. (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell, 1911) First edition. Illustrated from photos by John Patrick. Small 8vo, original wrappered boards, pictorial paste-down on the upper cover. 63. Light wear to the wrappers, otherwise a very good copy. $50.

The Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin An Elemental Part of Early Americana - Rare Imprint - 1818 39 Franklin, Benjamin (and William Temple Franklin). MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, LL.D. F.R.S. &c. Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America at the Court of France, and for the Treaty of Peace and Independence with Great Britain, &c. Written by Himself, to a Late Period, and Continued to the Time of His Death by His Grandson... Now First Published From the Original Manuscript, Comprising the Private Correspondence and Public Negotiations of Dr. Franklin Together with the Whole of His Political, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous Works (Philadelphia: T. S. Manning, 1818) First edition, Manning imprint, same date as the Colburn imprint, with the complete three parts of the autobiography in one volume.

Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved titlepage by Duane, engraved Emblematic card, engraved plate of manuscript facsimile, fold-out 1782 Boston Chronicle facsimile. 8vo, original printer’s boards, sometime backed in tan cloth with a manuscript paper label on spine, with remnant of original printed paper label beneath, untrimmed and scarce such. xii, 519 pp. (misnumbered as noted by printer, and as called for). A very collectable copy, the scarce printer’s boards with some expected wear and backed in an unsophisticated manner, but the book is generally found, if at all, in much later bindings. The copy has some of the expected toning and foxing prone to all American books of the period. It remains however, as from the printer’s workbenches, with the original untrimmed edges, and is as close to original state as one could probably find.

VERY SCARCE IMPRINT, RARER THEN THE LONDON IMPRINT AND THIS COPY IN PRINTER’S BOARDS AND UNTRIMMED. “From the poverty and obscurity in which I was born, and in which I passed my earliest years, I have raised myself to a state of affluence and some degree of celebrity in the world. As my constant good fortune has accompanied me even to an advanced period of my life, my posterity will perhaps be desirous of learning the means, which I employed, and which, thanks to Providence, so well succeeded with me.” - Franklin. (From a 1771 letter addressed from Benjamin to his son William.)

This is an important piece of early Americana. Written in parts, the Autobiography remained unpublished during Franklin’s lifetime. In 1791, the first edition appeared, in French rather than English, as Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin, published in Paris. This translation of Part One only was based on a flawed transcript made of Franklin’s manuscript before he had revised it. This French translation was then retranslated into English in two London publications of 1793, and one of the London editions served as a basis for a retranslation into French in 1798 in an edition which also included a fragment of Part Two. The three parts of the Autobiography were first published together by Franklin’s grandson, William Temple Franklin, (as offered here) in 1818. It was published as Volume 1 of the “Memoirs and Writings” but was sold separately and is typically found alone as a single volume. W.T. Franklin’s text was the standard version of the Autobiography for half a century, until John Bigelow purchased the original manuscript in France and in 1868 published the most reliable text that had yet appeared, which also included the first English publication of a part Four. $1250.

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John Morse’s Biography - Benjamin Franklin Original Cloth - A Fine Copy 40 [Franklin, Benjamin]; Morse, John T. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1889) Early printing. 8vo, in the publisher’s original pebbled blue cloth, with a band of gilt stars along the upper cover and spine, gilt-lettered on the cover and spine, t.e.g. vi, 428,(4 ads)pp. A fine copy. “(Morse) has managed to condense the whole mass of matter gleaned from all sources into his volume without losing in a single sentence the freedom or lightness of his style or giving his book in any part the crowed look of an epitome.” - The Independent (New York). $65.

A Catalogue With Notes An Exhibition of Claud Lovat Fraser 41 [Fraser, Claud Lovat]. CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION: CLAUD LOVAT FRASER, THE PRINTED WORK, From Mrs. Grace Lovat Fraser’s Collection of her Husband’s Books and Broadsides, etc., Many of Them Inscribed and Hand-Colored by the Artist. New Information for the Entries and a Biographical Note Written Specially for the Occasion by Grace Lovat Fraser, The Catalogue Compiled and edited with a Study of Three of the Artist’s Sketchbooks by Malcolm Easton (Hull: University of Hull, 1968) First edition. Illustrated throughout with examples of the artwork of Claud Lovat Fraser, photographs, facsimiles of letters, etc., in black and white. 4to, original salmon paper wrappers bound in gray 56. A very nice copy.

An enumeration of the extensive collection of Fraser’s work possessed by his wife that was exhibited at the University of Hull in 1968. The catalogue contains particularly interesting biographical and critical notes on his life and art, and is a charming addition to any collection of the Fraser enthusiast.

Fraser is best remembered for his work with the Lyric Theatre where he did costume and character studies as well as set art and poster designs. In his short career, he died at the age of thirty-one, Claud Lovat Fraser made a considerable impact on the world of art. In the words of John Drinkwater, “Beauty of spirit flowed in everything he did into beauty of execution.” The plates of this book are no exception. $150.

A Great Psychoanalyst’s Professional Career Laid Open Sigmund Freud - An Autobiographical Study 42 Freud, Sigmund. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STUDY (London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1946) Second Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. 137pp (one advertisement). A fine copy. The book in its entirety remains clean, crisp, and fresh. Text block is tight and straight.

EDITED BY ERNEST JONES. “This work appeared originally in 1925 in volume iv. of Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen (Leipzig: Felix Meiner), a collection of short studies by various members of the medical profession designed (as the title shows) to give a picture of the present state of medicine as revealed in the autobiographies of its leaders. The stress was thus laid by implication upon the professional rather than the personal histories of the contributors.” This is not to be confused with Freud’s prior “autobiographical studies,” as he states in the first chapter that this edition is based more on his professional work, rather than his personal experiences in the field. $45.

Grant’s ‘Personal Memoirs’ of the Civil War The Finest War Memoir Ever Penned 45 Grant, U.S. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885) 2 volumes. First edition. With 49 maps and illustrations, including a portrait frontispiece. Also with the dedication from Grant in holograph facsimile. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered in gilt and with a gilt medallion on the upper covers, with floral endpapers. 584; 647, index. A very handsome set, pleasing and solid with only light age evidence to the cloth. The gilt is still bright, the green cloth dark, the textblocks in fine order.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. An important historical memoir of the Civil War, and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned. Collectable copies of these books are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain.

The earliest days of the Civil War were a hard lesson in hubris for the Union Army. After the appointment of Grant to command the Union forces, the war would quickly turn to their favor. In the years following the war Grant would become President of United States. $895.

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An Superior Set in the Publisher’s Deluxe Bindings Ulysses S. Grant’s ‘Memoirs of the Civil War’ ‘The Finest Memoirs of War Ever Penned’ 46 Grant, U.S. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT (New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885, 1886) 2 volumes. First edition of both volumes in publisher’s deluxe bindings. With 49 maps and illustrations, including two steel-engraved frontis-portraits and two etched views, all with tissue-guards. Also with the dedication from Grant in holograph facsimile. Tall, thick 8vo, publisher’s very scarce deluxe bindings of original three-quarter morocco over boards, gilt lettered and finely decorated with gilt emblematic decorations in compartments of the spines separated by raised bands, the covers featuring large gilt medallions, all edges marbled. 584; 647, index. An especially bright and very fine set in the scarce publisher’s deluxe binding state. An unusually well preserved set. About as fine a copy as one could hope to find, showing very little evidence of age. Both volumes are pristine and unused. A great set.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN UNUSUALLY FINE CONDITION. VERY SCARCE IN THIS FORMAT, CONDITION AND DELUXE BINDING STATE. ‘THE FINEST MEMOIRS OF WAR EVER PENNED’. An important historical memoir of the Civil War, arguably the most important, and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Norman Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned. Collectible copies of these books are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. Copies in this binding, especially so.

The earliest days of the Civil War were a hard lesson in hubris for the Union Army. After the appointment of Grant to overall command of the Union forces, the war would quickly turn to their favor.

Probably the most important book on the American Civil War, and in many respects a masterpiece of American literature. David Eicher”s useful summary includes this fine judgment: “Grant’s MEMOIRS comprise one of the most valuable writings by a military commander in history . . . The work is genuinely that of the commander. As such, it is valuable in its scope, its plain and clear analysis and language, and its broad conclusions about the conduct of the war.

“In the years following the war Grant would move into the political arena, even against his best judgment and would, with great public acclaim be elected President of United States for two full terms. Larned 2351; Eicher, Civil War in Books, 492. $2850.

Grant’s ‘Personal Memoirs’ of the Civil War The Finest War Memoir Ever Penned 47 Grant, U.S. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT (Montreal [and] Toronto: Dawson Brothers [and] Rose Publishing Company, 1886) 2 volumes. First edition, Canadian Issue in the same visual format as the American issue but for the medallions on the covers. With 49 maps and illustrations, including a portrait frontispiece. Also with the dedication from Grant in holograph facsimile. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover as in the U.S. issue. 584; 647, index. A pleasing and solid copy, clean and tight with only light aging to the cloth. The gilt is still quite bright, the textblocks are in good order.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. An important historical memoir of the Civil War, and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned. Collectable copies of these books are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain.

The earliest days of the Civil War were a hard lesson in hubris for the Union Army. After the appointment of Grant to command the Union forces, the war would quickly turn to their favor. In the years following the war Grant would become President of United States. $695.

One of Zane Grey’s Rarest Novels Betty Zane - 1903 - The Charles Francis Press 48 Grey, Zane. BETTY ZANE (New York: Charles Francis Press, 1903) Second Edition, in binding format as the first, and issued in the same year as the first printing. With six illustrations from paintings by Zane Grey, all full-page and on coated paper and with illustrated capitals at the beginning of each chapter. 8vo, publisher’s original gray-lavender cloth with multi-coloured pictorial illustration on the upper cover, lettered in gilt on the spine. xii, 291. A well preserved copy with some age evidence to the binding, typical rubbing or mellowing, interesting clippings about the author attached internally.

RARE PRINTING OF THIS IMPORTANT ZANE GREY TITLE ISSUED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION. One of Zane Grey’s best books, based on fact and about one of his own ancestors.

Betty Zane (1759-1823) was a great heroine of the Revolutionary War on the West Virginia frontier.

She would later become one of just a handful of brave women in the first wave of American pioneers that started west from the original thirteen states. She settled eventually in what is now called Bellaire, Ohio.

Zane Grey, a direct ancestor of Betty Zane, could not find a publisher when he first wrote this novelized account, so he paid to have the book published in 1903 using his wife’s funds. Afterward, the book found a wide audience and has remained popular ever since.

Due to the nature of the printing history, the first edition of this work is rare and valuable. Offered here is a very attractive and collectable substitute. $425.

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The Best Work on Edward Everett Hale The Limited Large-Paper Edition of 295 Copies With A Signed Autograph Letter Included by Hale 49 Hale, Edward E, Jr. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF EDWARD EVERETT HALE (Boston: Little, Brown, and company, 1917) 2 volumes.

First edition, the Limited Large Paper edition of 295 hand-numbered copies of which 265 were for sale WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER WRITTEN AND SIGNED BY HALE TIPPED IN. With frontispiece photogravure portraits in each volume and 20 additional illustrations from various sources on plates. 8vo, original green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spines and gilt rules on the covers. vi,390; 441. A very fine, and beautifully preserved set.

Edward Everett Hale was one of the great Bostonians of the 19th century. A Unitarian Clergyman, philanthropist and popular author, now best remembered for his patriot tale, THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. Hale’s prolific writings, and his sermons in Boston and Worcester typically expressed great respect for American ideology, particularly the fight against slavery and support for Civil War. This work, written by his son, is the definitive writing on Hale and this limited large-paper issue is its best format. The manuscript letter included in this copy is a fine example written boldly in dark ink on his printed stationary and with a nice large signature. $215.

The First Edition by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1852 His Biography of a President - The Life of Franklin Pierce 50 Hawthorne, Nathaniel. LIFE OF FRANKLIN PIERCE (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852) First Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Pierce. 8vo, publisher’s original dark brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettered on spine. Housed in a fine morocco backed folding case. [4] ads, 144 pp. A well preserved and fresh copy with a small abrasion to the head of the spine, housed in a 1/4 red morocco clamshell box.

FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH OF THIS HAWTHORNE SCARCITY, and one of only two American presidential political biographies written by men of letters.

Hawthorne was a college classmate and friend of Pierce’s, and he wrote this during the presidential campaign of 1852. While professing objectivity, Hawthorne considered the work “a political biography, and as a representation of the principles and acts of a public man, intended to operate upon the minds of multitudes, during a presidential canvass.” $595.

Nathaniel Hawthorne First Edition by Mark Van Doren 51 [Hawthorne] Van Doren, Mark. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ([New York]: William Sloane Associates, [1949]) First Edition, first printing. With the famed Charles Osgood portrait of Hawthorne reproduced in black and white as frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine. 285pp. A near fine copy with the spine just a touch faded.

A classic biographical work on Hawthorne, his writing and his era from the publisher’s ‘American Men of Letters Series’. Viking Penguin reprinted this title in paperback on several occasions, but this, the original and only hardcover edition, is far more uncommon. $25.

First Edition - Seamus Heaney - Station Island A Collection of Poems With Extraordinary Breadth 52 Heaney, Seamus. STATION ISLAND (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985) First American edition. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth over boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, in the colour illustrated dustjacket. 123 pp. A very fine, as pristine copy, lightly mellowed at the spine panel.

A SWEEPING COLLECTION OF POEMS. “The title poem is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with “the growth of a poet’s mind.’” There are also many poems with richly meditative lyrics and the final section is in the voice of the legendary Sweeney, a king of Ulster. A marvelous group of poems. $85.

Seamus Heaney - Signed and Dated by Author - 1985 Station Island - First Edition A Collection of Poems With Extraordinary Breadth 53 Heaney, Seamus. STATION ISLAND (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985) First American edition, SIGNED AND DATED IN FEBRUARY 1985, BY THE AUTHOR, SEAMUS HEANEY. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth over boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, in the colour illustrated dustjacket. 123 pp. A very fine copy, just lightly mellowed at the spine panel.

FIRST EDITION. SIGNED AND DATED BOLDLY IN BLUE PEN BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS SWEEPING COLLECTION OF POEMS. “The title poem is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with “the growth of a poet’s mind.’” There are also many poems with richly meditative lyrics and the final section is in the voice of the

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legendary Sweeney, a king of Ulster. A marvelous group of poems. $350.

Letters From the Raven The Elegant Writings of Lafcadio Hearn 54 Hearn, Lafcadio. LETTERS FROM THE RAVEN. Being the Correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin. With Introduction and Critical Comment by the Editor Milton Bronner (London: Archibald Constable & Company, 1908) First UK Edition. With illustrations throughout, being facsimiles of pencil sketches, cards and letters from Hearn. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, lettered on the upper cover in gilt, the spine with an all over gilt geometric decoration and gilt lettered. 201 pp. A lovely copy, internally fine, fresh and clean, the cloth very bright with nice gilt, the black cloth on the spine just mellowed a bit and the gilt very fresh.

A LOVELY COPY, FAR MORE FRESH AND CLEAN THEN IS TYPICALLY FOUND. The collection contains the letters, “Letters from the Raven,” “Letters to a Lady,”and “Letters of Ozias Midwinter.” They not only display Hearn’s great literary elegance but also offer valuable insight to his thoughts and values. These were written during his years in the South and contain his thoughts and impressions on New Orleans, Memphis and elsewhere. $250.

Concerning Lafcadio Hearn Rare - First Edition in the Scarce Original Dustjacket 55 [Hearn, Lafcadio]; Gould, George M. CONCERNING LAFCADIO HEARN. With A Bibliography by Laura Stedman (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Company, 1908) First edition. With seven black and white plates, including the frontispiece, most of which are portraits of Hearn at various stages of life. 8vo, original buff boards backed in brown cloth, the upper cover lettered in brown, the spine lettered in gilt, in the scarce original dustjacket. 416 pp. A very handsome copy of this uncommon title, the boards and back in excellent order, the very scarce jacket with some minor edgewear though very well preserved and without any significant loss, internally fine, the upper front inner hinge has a neat repair.

UNCOMMON AND ELUSIVE FIRST EDITION, the best and first contemporary biography of Lafcadio Hearn, also most useful for its bibliography and discussions on Hearn’s writing and style. Hearn’s career was quite the later 19th century saga; from his birth in Greece to immigration to Cincinnati, his years spent in New Orleans, Martinique, Youma and the eventual immigration to his beloved Japan. $275.

Ernest Hemingway - First Edition True at First Light - A Fictional Memoir - 1999 56 Hemingway, Ernest. TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT Edited with an Introduction by Patrick Hemingway (New York: Scribner, 1999) First edition, first printing. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original forest green boards backed in black, gilt lettered on the spine, in the original dustjacket.

319pp. A mint and as new copy.

FIRST EDITION. A fictional memoir nearly finished by the great American author and not published till Hemingway’s centennial year. The publication sparked a literary controversy regarding how, and whether, an author’s work should be reworked and published after his death. It is blend of autobiography and fiction written about his last Safari to Africa with his wife Mary, edited by his son Patrick who had accompanied them. Hemingway scholars generally consider it to be complex and a worthy addition to his canon of later fiction. $75.

The Life and Death of France’s King Henry IV Published the Same Year as His Murder - 1610 Very Rare First Edition - Few Copies Known 57 [Henry IV, King of France; Skory, Edmund]. AN EXTRACT OUT OF THE HISTORIE OF THE LAST FRENCH KING HENRY THE FOURTH OF FAMOUS MEMORIE, According to an Autentique Copie Written in His Lifetime. To Which is Added His Being Murdered With a Knife in His Coach in Paris the 14. of May Last 1610. Styl. Rom. With An Apprecation for the Safeguard and Happines of Our Most Gracious Soveraigne James the First, &c. (London: Robert Barker, 1610) VERY RARE First edition. Leaf A1 with an engraved thistle motif signature, Royal Arms engraved on the verso of the title-page, a handsome 5 line engraved opening initial cap and two engraved headpieces.

4to (169x120mm), bound in marbled paper over boards, with a printed paper label on the spine. [32] pp. A finely preserved copy, a bit of extremely minor, unobtrusive light antique staining to the top edge of the last few leaves, the modern binding in fine condition.

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. WorldCat list only 5 copies in

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institutional libraries, we know of no other copies currently on the market and auction records show only one copy since 1978. A concise contemporary history of King Henry IV, “le bon Roi Henri”, published within months of his death. Although he was regarded as a King of kindness, compassion, and good humor, and was popular with his people, he had been the target of several murder attempts. On the 14th of May in 1610, King Henry IV was assassinated in Paris by a fanatically passionate Catholic, François Ravaillac, who stabbed the king to death while he rode in his coach. Henry was buried at the Saint Denis Basilica. Henry’s widow, Marie de Médici, served as Regent to their 9-year-old son, Louis XIII, until 1617.

Very little seems to be known of the author, Edmund Skory, other than the fact that he had a rather abusive wife. She is rumored to have once even thrown him out of a window. In his will he left a considerable sum to his wife’s servant, no doubt as a reward for years of service. $1450.

The Very Beautiful Nonesuch Press Herodotus The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus - A Fine Copy Printed in Nonesuch Plantin with Perpetua and Felicity Types 58 Herodotus , [Nonesuch Press]. THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS OF HALICARNASSUS. The Translation of G. Rawlinson Revised and Annotated by A. W. Lawrence...To which is added a Life of Herodotus and the Behistun Inscription (Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1935) One of only 675 numbered copies. Illustrated with 9 large wood-engravings

by V. Le Campion, one colour plate, and 9 double-page maps by T. Poulton. Printed in Nonesuch Plantin with Perpetua and Felicity italic types. Folio, publisher’s original half blue vellum over blue cloth, the spine lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt designs which follow to the turnovers , t.e.g. xxvi, 778 pp. A fine copy, internally very much so, clean and fresh and solid, the binding in excellent condition with just hint of the mellowing one expects with the blue vellum used in binding this title, but without any of the bowing typical to the book. An unusually well preserved copy, pristine and unused.

LIMITED EDITION, AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MODERN PRINTINGS of the Greek historian. This is very pleasing copy: the gilt is brilliant, the boards are not bowed as is usual, and the volume is clean throughout. In all likelihood this particular copy has never been read.

Herodotus, the Greek historian was often called the “father of history” due to his systematic collection of sources and his attempt at intellectual rigor. His merits were “...the diligence with which he collected his materials, the candour and impartiality with which he has placed his facts before the reader, the absence of party bias and undue national vanity, and the breadth of his conception of the historian’s office.” His work represents the first significant Greek writing and covers the struggle between Asia and Europe, ending in the Persian invasion of Greece (490 to 479 BC). $1950.

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One of the Most Tumultuous Careers In English Politics Denzil Lord Holles Memoirs of the Civil War Years Scarce First Edition - 1699 - Antique Full Calf 59 Holles, Denzil, Lord. MEMOIRS OF DENZIL LORD HOLLES, Baron of Isfield in Sussex, From the Year 1641 to 1648 (London: For Tim. Goodwin, 1699) Scarce first edition. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. 8vo, full antique calf, the spine with gilt ruled raised bands and a single red morocco label lettered in gilt. xiv, [1], 213, [19]. A fine copy of this uncommonly found first edition, the paper fresh and clean but for some minor mellowing to the prelims, very occasional contemporary marginalia, the binding is well worn but sturdy and still attractive.

A SCARCE FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE TUMULTUOUS YEARS OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR. Holles began his life as one of King Charles’ closest childhood friends and then began his political career as one of Charles’ most formable antagonist. During the years of the Civil War he came into violent antagonism with Cromwell and with the support of Essex and the Scottish endeavored to procure Cromwell’s impeachment in 1664.

These actions were only the beginning of a high-and-low political career that would span over 50 years. He spent much of his adult life in exile, in fact the present work was written primarily in France. $795.

Memoirs of the Life of Col. Hutchinson First Edition - 1806 - Printed in London 60 Hutchinson, Julius. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF COL. HUCHINSON, Govenor of Nottingham Castle and Town (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1806) First edition. With fine copperplate and aquatint engravings. 4to, contemporary calf, the covers ruled in gilt, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt and with a red morocco lettering label gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece, (8), xiv, 446. A very good copy in its contemporary binding, the covers with some expected rubbing from age, the spine restored and incorporating the original spine panel. The textblock and plates are in quite nice condition, crisp, unpressed and clean.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. This memoir is a “faithful image of the mode of thinking in those days of which it treats, an interesting and new specimen of private and public character, of general and individual biography, and that recommended as it comes by clearness of discernment, strength and candour of judgement, simplicity and perspicuity of narrative, pure, amiable, ....sentiments at once tender and elevated, conveyed in language elegant, expressive, and classical, occasionally embellished with apposite, impressive, and classical, and well supported figures, it will be found to afford

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instruction to every class of readers.” From the Preface $395.

An Aldous Huxley Masterpiece First Edition - Eyeless in Gaza 61 Huxley, Aldous. EYELESS IN GAZA (London: Chatto and Windus, 1936) First edition. 8vo, tan cloth lettered in red on spine and upper cover, in the scarce original dustjacket. 620. A fine copy, the dustjacket with only light edgewear and age toning, surprisingly the red spine is not faded at all.

Huxley spent over 4 years writing this largely autobiographical novel. Perhaps not his most famous work, but certainly one of his best.

Characteristically sociological, anthropological and, at moments, quite shocking. Rich in references to Pavlov, Krafft-Ebing, masturbation and Proust.

Drabble. $275.

Irving’s History of Columbus and His Disciples The First Edition - Paris Issue - In English - 1928 62 Irving, Washington. A HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1828) 4 volumes. First edition published in France. The book was published in England in the same year. Two large folding maps. 8vo, contemporary dark-blue half calf over marbled boards, the spines with red and black morocco lettering labels gilt, raised bands gilt ruled. xvi,472; viii, 517; viii, 434; vii, 513 pp. A handsome set with light aging or light rubbing at the tips, clean and very well preserved lettering labels refurbished at some time.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION, Paris printing. This was a scholarly but popular biography based primarily on the work of the Spanish historian Navarrete. Navarrete had published his work on Columbus, which contained a number of previously unknown and significant documents. However, Irving felt that “the whole presented rather a mass of rich materials for history, than a history itself...[and] the sight of disconnected papers and official documents is apt to be repulsive to the general reader, who seeks for clear and continued narrative.”

In fact, he felt that nearly every account had been incomplete while many important documents and manuscripts ignored. Thus, he hoped to offer a more rigorous and yet accessible account.

Written while Irving was a diplomatic attaché in Spain (1826-29), “it was the most painstaking effort of Irving’s life, and it won him election to the ‘Real Academia de la Historia’, the friendship of Navarrete, and a literary reputation in Spain where the work is still quoted respectfully” (DAB). The American edition, published the same year in three volumes, had only one map. BAL A testament to Irving’s often-neglected gifts as a historian. BAL 10123 , DNB $950.

A Unique, Inscribed Presentation Copy of the First Edition The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - A Monument of Scholarship The Highly Important Collection by Paul Leicester Ford In the Publisher’s Best Binding - Ten Volumes - 1892-1899 63 Jefferson, Thomas. THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. Collected and Edited by Paul Leicester Ford. (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892-1899) 10 volumes. A UNIQUE, INSCRIBED COPY OF THE VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION and the Best Issuance of the collection. THIS UNIQUE COPY IS ONE OF ONLY A SMALL NUMBER LETTERED RATHER THAN NUMBERED AND IT IS MARKED AS “PRESENTATION COPY”. THE FIRST VOLUME IS INSCRIBED ON THE FREE-FLY BY THE EDITOR, PAUL LEICESTER FORD ON THE DAY OF PUBLICATION, DECEMBER 13, 1892. It is presented to a family member. The provenance is of singular importance and the books continue to be passed down through the family until the end of the 1950’s, when it came into the possession of John Strohn Copley the publisher of the The San Diego Union Tribune and the San Diego Evening Tribune. The Letter-Press Edition of the Writings limited to only seven hundred fifty signed and numbered sets. With engravings and a vast profusion of illustrations throughout, including maps and facsimiles of Jefferson’s writings, of the Declaration of Independence and of other important papers.

Tall, thick 8vo, in the publisher’s preferred binding of half black morocco over maroon cloth boards, one of the scarcest of the bindings issued on this already elusive set of Jefferson’s highly important writings. A fine set, very beautifully presented and in an excellent state of preservation. A very handsome, very well cared for set of this monumental work of historical scholarship.

A VERY IMPORTANT SET OF THE WORKS OF ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES AND WRITER OF A NUMBER OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. THIS IS THE RARE ISSUANCE OF THE WORKS IN PUBLISHER’S MOROCCO. The set, besides including the great breadth of Jefferson’s writing, includes also, copies of the Declaration of Independence, in the form of a facsimile of Jefferson’s written manuscript with the corrections of Franklin and Adams. The set is illustrated profusely with maps and portraits, facsimiles and other illustrations.

Ford’s edition of THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON is still regarded as one of the monuments of American historical scholarship, setting

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the standard for documentary editing for half-a-century. Ford’s edition remains valuable for its accuracy of transcription from original manuscripts and its careful annotation of the documents chosen for publication. The Ford edition appeared in two versions, a ten-volume edition published between 1892 and 1896 and a fourteen-volume limited numbered edition (known as the “Federal” edition) issued in 1904; other than the different breakdown of volumes, the contents of these editions are identical. Readers, however, have to take note of which edition is being used in a given scholarly work.

This unique first edition copy was presented by Ford to members of his family on the day of publication, and it remained in the family until it passed into the hands of James Strohn Copley (1916, St. Johnsville, New York - 1973) publisher of The San Diego Union-Tribune and the San Diego Evening Tribune from 1947 until his death in 1973. Copley was also President of the Inter American Press Association (1969 - 1970). The University of San Diego has a library named in honour of Copley and his wife (the Helen K. and James S. Copley Library). $12500.

Jerrold’s Classic on the Authors - First Edition The Best of All Good Company - 1878 64 Jerrold, Blanchard. THE BEST OF ALL GOOD COMPANY. First Series. Charles Dickens. Walter Scott. W.M. Thackeray. Douglas Jerrold. (Boston: William F. Gill & Co., 1878) First Edition. Illustrated throughout with full page and textual engravings. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth, decorated and stamped in gilt and black on the spine and in black on the upper cover. 320 pp. A very nice copy, well preserved but for a bit light aging to the cloth confined primarily to the edges.

FIRST EDITION. A famous and well regarded work which was issued both in series format and in this first edition bound format. Jerrold’s work on the prominent authors of the day has continued to be read and studied to the present time. $50.

Samuel Johnson - London - 1781 - Contemporary Calf The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets 65 Johnson, Samuel. THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS; With Critical Observations on Their Works. (London: for C. Bathurst, et al, 1781) 4 volumes. The First London edition, first authorized edition, first separate edition. Portrait of Johnson by Joshua Reynolds as frontispiece in the first volume. 8vo, contemporary tree calf with gilt fillet lines surrounding the covers, the spines with plain calf backs. vii, 480; iii, 471; iii, 462; iii, 505. A very good, handsome and honest copy, rehinged incorporating the original spine panels and without labels, the text block clean and sound throughout.

FIRST LONDON EDITION, FIRST AUTHORIZED EDITION, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of this masterwork of literature.

It took Johnson four years to write these lives, and much of their charm lies in the anecdotes and reminiscences which the author was able to provide.

He spent much time in the company of men of letters and his retentive memory preserved many of the facts and criticisms which fell from their lips.

The work, Johnson’s last great labor, was suggested by the Martins at Edinburgh. “The first conception of the booksellers was to begin with the works of Chaucer, but that project was too vast for them, and the first author in their edition was Cowley. The diminution of the scheme is not greatly to be regretted. The poets before Cowley were not so well know to Johnson, and he had no special information on their lives” (Courtney and Smith, p.

130). $1850.

“A Scandalous Work” - From the Restoration of Charles II The Secret History of White-Hall - London - 1697 English and French Secret Diplomatic Intrigue 66 Jones, D[avid]. Gent. THE SECRET HISTORY OF WHITE-HALL, From the Restoration of Charles II. Down tot he Abdication of the late K. James. Writ at the request of a noble Lord, and conveyed to him in letters, by late secretary-interpreter to the Marquess of Lourvois, who by that means had the perusall of all the private minutes between England and France for many years. The whole consisting of secret memoirs, which have hitherto lain conceal’d, as not being discoverable by any other hand. (London: R. Baldwin, 1697) First edition. 8vo, contemporary full calf, the spine with blind tooled compartments between raised bands, one compartment with a paper title label lettered in manuscript, board edges tooled in blind, page edges sprinkled red. [xii], 80, 80, 80, 64, 80, 110 pp. A very pleasing and finely preserved copy, internally, quite fresh and clean, the paper crisp and the text-block sturdy and sound, the contemporary binding solid and with minor age-wear at the extremities.

FIRST EDITION OF WHAT LOWNDES CALLED “A SCANDALOUS WORK.” The author, a captain in the King’s Life Guards, published this series of letters reputed to be between and English peer and a French official between 1676 and 1689, claiming them to be secret diplomatic transactions previously concealed and now divulged. Modern historians are unsure and opinions conflicting in how much accuracy or reliance can be placed on the text. The author wrote a number of other historical works. Wing J9347. $695.

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Letters to Milena A Scarce Kafka First Edition 67 Kafka, Franz. LETTERS TO MILENA. Edited by Willi Haas. Translated by Tania and James Stern (London: Secker and Warburg, 1953) First edition. 8vo, blue cloth in the dustjacket. 238. A very fine copy.

A scarce book. These letters were written to a married woman who was herself a journalist and translator (she translated some of Kafka’s stories into Czech); many were written while Kafka was in a sanatorium, confined by his illness. “From beginning to end theirs was an imprisoned love, intense, hopeless and self-destructive...[The letters] show a mind lucidly in control of an uncontrollable situation, and a soul miraculously sustained by its own hopelessness” (-from the dustjacket). $185.

Report to Greco - First Edition - By One of the Great Authors The Life and Philosophies of Nikos Kazantzakis 68 Kazantzakis, Nikos. REPORT TO GRECO Translated From the Greek by P. A. Bien (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965) First edition, First printing. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered on the spine and upper cover in gilt, in the original dustjacket. 512 pp.

A very fine copy of the book, and a fine dustjacket with only light mellowing to the spine panel.

FIRST EDITION OF THE KAZANTZAKIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. The autobiographical summing up of his life, works, ideas and friendships by the author of Zorba the Greek, Last Temptation of Christ, The Odyssey-A Modern Sequel and much more. Philosophy, spirituality and the love of life and art flow from these informal pages by one of the truly great writers of the 20th century. $75.

John F. Kennedy - 1956 An Original Letter Signed by Kennedy 69 Kennedy, John F. ORIGINAL LETTER SIGNED. (Washington: United States Senate, March 23, 1956) A typewritten letter signed, to Merton H. Childs, on imprinted stationery of the United States Senate. 235 x 160 mm., original state unrestored. One page, 4to. A very finely preserved letter in excellent condition.

A FINE LETTER FROM JOHN F. KENNEDY SIGNED BOLDLY BY HIM AND DATED IN MARCH OF 1956. “ I wish to acknowledge and thank you for your letter expressing your support of legislation concerning Civil Service. You may be interested to know that the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee has held three days of hearings on S. 2875 and is planning to hold an additional day of hearings on this bill. Certainly there is some question as to whether this bill will come before the full Senate this session but as my past record indicates I can assure you that I will keep in mind the interests of the civil employees in considering this bill. With every good wish, I am yours sincerely, John F. Kennedy. $4500.

Inscribed by John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Joe The Rarest of All Works in the Kennedy Genre His Touching Tribute to His Fallen Elder Brother - 1945 70 Kennedy, John F. Editor. AS WE REMEMBER JOE (Cambridge: Privately Printed, designed and printed at the University Press, 1945) VERY SCARCE. INSCRIBED BY JOHN F. KENNEDY. First edition, first issue with the Wings insignia printed in dark red on the title-page, very limited printing of probably 250 copies such. Extensively illustrated with black and white photographs, letter facsimiles and a colour reproduction of the Navy Cross.

8vo, in the original burgundy cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and gilt lettered within a gilt ruled border within a black cloth box on the upper cover. xi, 75, with printers colophon on verso of page 75. A very handsome copy of this very scarce work, the cloth is fresh and bright, internally solid with fresh paper, hinges fine and well cared for, with an inscription as noted below providing more of an interesting history then being a distraction. With a rare genuine period signature by the future President.

BOLDLY INSCRIBED BY THE FUTURE PRESIDENT. VERY SCARCE, THE RAREST OF ALL JOHN F. KENNEDY RELATED BOOKS AND WITH VERY EARLY PUBLISHED WRITINGS BY THE FUTURE PRESIDENT. Privately printed and limited, the work is known in two issue states. This is the first state with the title page printed in black and red. It is estimated that there were roughly 250 copies printed such. The second state was printed with the title page all in black. While 500 copies in total was the official printing record, it is believed that the actual print count was only 360.

AS WE REMEMBER JOE was privately printed by the Kennedy family as a memorial to Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., John F.’s elder brother who was killed in action during World War II. It was to provide a remembrance for family, friends and a few important associates.

In content, AS WE REMEMBER JOE is a collection of essays or writings by various persons concerning Joe Kennedy. It was only John Kennedy’s second book (after WHY ENGLAND SLEPT in 1940) and it includes a forward by him and his very touching essay, MY BROTHER JOE. It also

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includes a short essay by his youngest brother Teddy, who was only 12 years old at the time. Teddy had convinced his brother John and sister Eunice to allow him to submit a story about a sailing race in which he accompanied Joe and where Joe, “seized me by the pant and through me into the cold water.”. With all of the youngest Kennedy’s spelling and punctuation errors intact it is a very sweet and touching addition.

With the death of Joe Kennedy in 1944 his brother John F. Kennedy assumed the responsibilities and stature expected of an eldest son in the Kennedy family. This change in family position no doubt affected him for the rest of his life, greatly influencing his career in public service and leading 15 years later to the White House. J. Maddalena: K. Hasely: John F. Kennedy Library & Museum. $9500.

As We Remember Joe The Most Scarce of All Works in the Kennedy Genre JFK’s Touching Tribute to His Fallen Elder Brother - 1945 71 Kennedy, John F. Editor. AS WE REMEMBER JOE (Cambridge: Privately Printed, designed and printed at the University Press, 1945 [1965]) Scarce First and Limited Edition of the second issue, one of 250 only, with the title page printed entirely in black.

This issue was privately printed for Robert Kennedy with most copies being distributed by him personally. Extensively illustrated with black and white photographs, letter facsimiles and a colour reproduction of the Navy Cross. 8vo, in the original burgundy cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and gilt lettered within a gilt ruled border within a black cloth box on the upper cover. xi, 75, with printers colophon on verso of page 75.

An especially fine copy of this scarce work, rarely seen in this condition.

SCARCE, AND ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN JOHN F. KENNEDY RELATED BOOKS AND WITH VERY EARLY PUBLISHED WRITINGS BY THE FUTURE PRESIDENT. Privately printed and limited, the work is known in two issue states. This is the second but probably scarcer state with the title page printed in black only. It is estimated that there were roughly 250 copies printed of the first issue with 500 copies in total given as the official printing record. However it is believed that the actual total print count was only 360, thus making the second issue the less common of the two.

AS WE REMEMBER JOE was privately printed by the Kennedy family as a memorial to Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., John F.’s elder brother who was killed in action during World War II. It was to provide a remembrance for family, friends and a few important associates.

In content, the book is a collection of essays or writings by various persons concerning Joe Kennedy. It was only John Kennedy’s second book (after WHY ENGLAND SLEPT in 1940) and it includes a forward by him and his very touching essay, MY BROTHER JOE. With the death of Joe Kennedy in 1944 his brother John F. Kennedy assumed the responsibilities and stature expected of an eldest son in the Kennedy family. This change in family position no doubt affected him for the rest of his life, greatly influencing his career in public service and leading 15 years later to the White House.

J. Maddalena: K. Hasely: John F. Kennedy Library & Museum. $1850.

The Senator - First Edition Ten Years with Edward M. Kennedy 72 [Kennedy, Edward] Burke, Richard E., with William and Marilyn Hoffer. THE SENATOR. My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992) First Edition, first printing. Illustrated with black and white photographs printed on glossy plates. 8vo, publisher’s original black boards backed in navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. In the original dustjacket featuring photographs in colour and black and white. 328 pp. A fine copy in fine dustjacket.

FIRST EDITION. In 1971 as a freshmen at Georgetown University, Richard Burke volunteered at the offices of his political idol, Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Over the next four years he would become one of the Senator’s closest staff members and then in 1977 become Kennedy’s personal assistant.

A year later, in 1978, he would be appointed Administrative Assistant, the youngest in the U.S. Senate. Burke held that appointment until 1981.

For nearly an entire decade during his professional association with Senator Kennedy he was considered the right-hand of one of the most powerful men in American political life. His book is not only a biography, or a study of politics... it is an experience, through the eyes of a young man, marked with exhilarating highs and tragic lows, of falls from grace and remarkable recoveries. $75.

The Memories of JFK with Bradlee’s Poetic Pamphlet First Editions in Original State 73 [Kennedy] Stoughton, Cecil; Clifton, Major General Chester and Sidey, Hugh. THE MEMORIES JFK, 1961-1963, of Cecil Stoughton, the President’s Photographer and Major General Chester V. Clifton, the President’s Military aide. Narrated by Hugh Sidey. With, THAT SPECIAL GRACE. By Benjamin Bradlee. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1973) First edition of each item. Numerous black and white and color photographs. 4to and 8vo, original full blue cloth lettered in gilt. In the original photographic dustjacket. The Bradlee pamphlet in the original format, staplebound and loosely inserted into the larger book. 200. A fine copy in a bright dustjacket. Some light wrinkling to the jacket. The Bradlee pamphlet in excellent condition.

Memories of the Kennedy presidency by his close friends. Primarily a book of photographs which captures both the official moments and the intensely

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personal.Laid in is a supplement from the Knickerbockers News, Albany, N.Y, Nov.21, 1964. Entitled “That Special Grace” , with a poem by Benjamin Bradlee. Also laid in is a poem entitled “ A Decade After Kennedy”, hand typed with no author. $150.

The Scarce Limited Edition in Superb Condition T.E. Lawrence’s Masterpiece - Seven Pillars of Wisdom First Published Trade Edition - One of 750 Copies - Printed in 1935 74 Lawrence, T. E. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM (London: Jonathan Cape, 1935) Limited edition, one of 750 numbered copies only. 54 illustrations (4 in color), 4 maps, facsimiles of: a manuscript page, a page from the 1922 Oxford edition, and a page from the subscriber's edition. Royal, thick 8vo, publisher’s original half-beige morocco over dark tan polished buckram lettered and decorated in gilt. 672 pp.

A fine copy but for some very minor mellowing to the binding, quite handsome and fresh.

THE IMPORTANT LIMITED ISSUE OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED TRADE EDITION. The most complete edition after the subscriber's edition, retaining four of the colour plates from that issue.

Lawrence, in relating the history of his involvement in the Arab revolt against Ottoman rule during the First World War, produced a true literary classic. Winston Churchill said of the book, "[It] ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language." Its fame was further secured

by Hollywood: "Lawrence of Arabia," starring Peter O'Toole, was based upon the book. This is a splendid, handsome copy of an enduring masterpiece.

A personal narrative of the revolt of Arab armies against the Turks during the First World War, SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM stands as a monument of modern literature and history. Bernard Shaw described the book as one of the greatest of our time.

O’Brien A042 $2850.

Lawrence and the Arabs Robert Graves' Illustrated Biography of T.E. Lawrence 75 [Lawrence, T. E.] Graves, Robert. LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS (London: Jonathan Cape, 1927) First edition, early impression.

With several photographs, drawings and a map. 8vo, full orange-brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. 454, Appendix, Index. A nicely preserved copy with just a bit of general mellowing to the cloth.

By this writing, ‘Lawrence’ was discarded and ‘Shaw’ was in place, as well as ‘T.E.’ Graves mentions other names that were also contemporaneous; ‘Ross’, chosen for its late placement in the alphabet like ‘Shaw’; ‘Aurens’ or ‘Lurens’ by the Arabs; and, ‘Emir Dinamit’, his nickname which meant Prince Dynamite. Old Auda, the fighting chief of the Howeitat, used to call him ‘The World’s Imp’. And most popularly, he was referred to as ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, but he found ‘Lawrence’ to be too long especially for this subtitle. Graves cites the true source for Lawrence’s disatisfaction with his name as its failure at having any “proud family traditions for him.” $95.

The Letters of T.E. Lawrence A Fine Copy of the First Edition in Dustjacket - 1938 76 [Lawrence, T.E.; Wilson, J.M.] Garnett, David, editor. THE LETTERS OF T.E. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (London: Jonathan Cape, 1938) First edition.

First state with “T.E.L” at p. 495 and “Baltic” at p. 182 16 photographs and illustrations including 4 maps of which two are folding. 8vo, publisher’s original fawn polished buckram, lettered in gilt on the spine, in publisher’s original printed dustjacket. 896 pp. A fine copy, the dustjacket is complete with minimal edge-wear primarily as evidence of shelving.

AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. The letters of T.E. Lawrence from 1906-1935, from early work in archaeology, through the Arab revolt, the writing of Seven Pillars of Wisdom and ending the year of his death in 1935.

The ultimate aim of Garnett was to allow Lawrence to tell his own story, as much as possible. He has included Lawrence’s private letters as well as official ones to give a complete portrayal of his life. Garnett took over this project when E.M. Forster felt “he could not go on with it” and thus was aided by his notes.

Lawrence’s interest in archaeology lasted from his childhood to the time of his death.

These letters reflect this interest and his intellectual development over the years. Because Lawrence had many friends of diverse interest and background, his correspondence is complex and revealing. He was a very good correspondent and the substance of his writing “destroys the mystery of Larwence and establishes more firmly his titles to greatness--not only as a soldier and a writer--not because of what he did, but because of what he was.” [dustjacket] Included are letters to Lloyd George, Bernard Shaw, Lady Astor, E.M. Forster, Noel Coward, Yeats, and Churchill. O’Brien A202 $450.

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Lawrence of Arabia - The Authorized Biography Jeremy Wilson - First Edition - The Best of Them All 77 [Lawrence, T.E.]; Wilson, Jeremy. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence (New York: Atheneum, 1990) First Edition, American Issue. Profusely illustrated with maps and illustrations throughout. Thick, Royal 8vo, publisher’s original turquoise-blue cloth backed boards, the spine lettered in gilt, the dustjacket beautifully designed and pictorially decorated. xi, 1188 pp.

An excellent, very fine copy, as pristine.

FIRST EDITION AND ARGUABLY, THE MOST SIGNIFICANTLY RESEARCHED AND THE VERY BEST OF THE BIOGRAPHIES OF T.E. LAWRENCE. Jeremy Wilson was appointed official biographer of Lawrence by the British Government, which meant that he had full access for the first time to papers relating to Lawrence’s role in the Arab Revolt and subsequent diplomatic negotiations; he also had full access to papers controlled by Lawrence’s family and Trustees. This is considered the most comprehensive biography of Lawrence to date. $75.

Madame Récamier and Her Friends The Illustrated Edition in Fine Gilt Royal Blue Cloth 78 Lenormont, Madame. MADAME RÉCAMIER AND HER FRIENDS Translated from the French by Isaphene M. Luyster (Boston: Knight and Millet, ND (circa 1900)) The New Illustrated Edition. Illustrated throughout with a number of fine portraits on glossy plates.

8vo, publisher’s original royal blue cloth with extensive and elaborate gilt decorations and lettering to both the upper cover and spine, t.e.g. xx, 281 pp. A bright fine copy.

FIRST OF THE EDITION. A glimpse into French society as taken from the letters and correspondences of Juliette, Madame Recamier, the undisputed toast of Paris. Beautiful, accomplished, and with a real love for literature, she possessed at the same time a temperament which protected her from scandal, and from the early days of the French Consulate to almost the end of the July Monarchy, her salon in Paris was one of the chief resorts of literary and political society and all that was fashionable. In 1859, her “Souvenirs et correspondences tirés des papiers de Madame Récamier” was edited by Madame Lenormant. $65.

The Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame Récamier The Illustrated Edition - Beautifully Presented 79 Lenormont, Madame. MEMOIRS & CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME RÉCAMIER Translated from the French by Isaphene M. Luyster (Boston: Knight and Millet, ND (circa 1900)) The New Illustrated Edition. Illustrated throughout with a number of fine portraits on glossy plates. 8vo, publisher’s original royal blue cloth with lovely decoration and lettering on both the upper cover and spine, t.e.g. xxii, 408 pp. A bright fine copy.

THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. A glimpse into French society as taken from the letters and correspondences of Juliette, Madame Recamier, the undisputed toast of Paris. Beautiful, accomplished, and with a real love for literature, she possessed at the same time a temperament which protected her from scandal, and from the early days of the French Consulate to almost the end of the July Monarchy, her salon in Paris was one of the chief resorts of literary and political society and all that was fashionable. In 1859, her “Souvenirs et correspondences tirés des papiers de Madame Récamier” was edited by Madame Lenormant. $65.

A Pulitzer Prize Winner and Literary Masterpiece Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg A Fine Copy of All Six Volumes of the Work 80 [Lincoln, Abraham] Sandburg, Carl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS and THE WAR YEARS (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company , ) 6 volumes. Early editions of both works, THE PRAIRIE YEARS and in matching format, THE WAR YEARS. With 426 half-tones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents, and with over 100 maps, additional photographs, and facsimiles.. Large 8vo, publisher’s original full blue cloth with Lincoln’s signature embossed in blind on upper covers, and with gilt lettered spines. xvi, 480; vi, 482 including index; xxxi, 660; xi, 655; xiii, 673; xii, 515 + index pp. A very handsome set, the cloth fresh and bright, internally with some neat underlining and scholarly notes in pencil in the “War Years” volumes, otherwise quite fresh.

AN IMPORTANT AND FINE HISTORICAL WORK. A CLASSIC. Carl Sandburg was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Complete Poems (1950), and then again for his Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939). THE PRAIRIE YEARS covers Lincoln’s life from his birth to his first inauguration. Originally printed in two volumes, the author himself has this to say about this edition, “I first planned this book for one large volume. When completed, however, it was necessary for initial publication to issue it in two... It is [here] made available to a large part of the public I had in mind all the time.” The War Years covers the Civil War period until Lincoln’s death by assassination shortly after war’s end.

In a real sense, this is the definitive biography of Lincoln, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of

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paintings, drawings and sketches. Carl Sandburg felt a close tie to Abraham Lincoln because of similar childhood experiences. Life in their youth, for both Sandburg and Lincoln, had not been easy. Their understanding of the common man was mutual. Each in his own lifetime would think of himself as a common man, a struggler, and from among ordinary people. Sandburg put it this way: “There’s a certain level of human existence below which one must sometime have lived if one is to really know the ways of the masses.”

Reviewers from all over the world called Sandburg’s book a classic. Sandburg, with a reputation as a labor advocate, gained favor with Republicans.

After the first two volumes were published, William Randolph Hearst offered Sandburg a job with substantial pay and the Republican Party invited him to be the main speaker at the Lincoln Dinner. When Sandburg died in 1967, it was said of him what he had once said of Lincoln: “Now he belongs to the ages.”..Franchere Franchere, Carl Sandburg: Voice of the Peoples; Golden, Carl Sandburg; Hacker, Carl Sandburg; Zehnpfennig, Carl Sandburg: Poet and Patriot $295.

The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln First Edition in Nine Volumes 81 [Lincoln, Abraham] Basler, Roy P. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The Abraham Lincoln Association, Springfield, Illinois (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953) 9 volumes. First edition. Published for the History Book Club and the Abraham Lincoln Association. Illustrated profusely with photographs, documents, and maps throughout. 8vo, publisher’s original gray polished buckram, the spines with dark blue lettering pieces lettered and decorated in gilt. A very pleasing and as fine set, the spines just very lightly mellowed.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION and the culmination of a long and arduous process to collect all extant writings or public utterances that came within the scope defined by the editors and editorial advisers. For all intents and purposes, this was the definitive edition and would only be expanded by the inclusion of letters or other documents that might come to light in the years after the initial publication. The work was created almost entirely from original manuscripts and to this day remains the most fundamental and important work in any collecting of, or interest in Lincoln’s work and writing. $395.

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years - Carl Sandburg 1926 First Editions in Rare Dustjackets - A Very Fine Set 82 [Lincoln] Sandburg, Carl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926) 2 volumes. First edition, early issue from February 1926. With over 100 maps, photographs, and facsimiles. 8vo, publisher’s original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, in the rare publisher’s printed dustjackets. xvi, 480; vi, 482 including index. Very fine, especially bright and clean copies in the rare dustjackets, which are slightly worn at the extremities of the spine panels.

AN EXTREMELY PLEASING SET OF THIS CLASSIC WORK, STILL THE BEST AND MOST DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT. Carl Sandburg was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Complete Poems (1950), and then again for his Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939). The Prairie Years’ covers Lincoln’s life from his birth to his first inauguration. Originally printed in two volumes, the author himself has this to say about this edition, “I first planned this book for one large volume. When completed, however, it was necessary for initial publication to issue it in two... It is [here] made available to a large part of the public I had in mind all the time.”

In a real sense, this is the definitive biography of Lincoln, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches. Carl Sandburg felt a close tie to Abraham Lincoln because of similar childhood experiences. Sandburg’s and Lincoln’s youths had not been easy. Their understanding of the common man was mutual. Each in his own lifetime would think of himself as a common man, a struggler from among ordinary people, according to one historian. Sandburg put it this way: “There’s a certain level of human existence below which one must sometime have lived if one is to really know the ways of the masses.”

Reviewers from all over the world called Sandburg’s book a classic. Sandburg, with a reputation as a labor advocate, gained favor with Republicans.

After the first two volumes were published, William Randolph Hearst offered Sandburg a job with substantial pay and the Republican Party invited him to be the main speaker at the Lincoln Dinner. When Sandburg died in 1967, it was said of him what he had once said of Lincoln: “Now he belongs to the ages.”..Franchere $225.

From the Illinois State Historical Library The Lincoln Bibliograhy For the First 100 Years 83 [Lincoln] Angle, Paul M., ed. COLLECTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY: LINCOLN BIBLIOGRAPHY 18391939 (Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Historical Library, 1945) 2 volumes. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spines. xlv, 519; xi, 560 including index;. Very good.

With an introduction by James G. Randall. $100.

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Carl Schurz’s Essay - Abraham Lincoln Original Cloth - 1920 84 [Lincoln] Schurz, Carl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. AN ESSAY...With a Preface by Calvin Coolidge (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920) Small 8vo, publisher’s original maroon cloth v,117 pp. A good reading copy, full mellowing to the gilt on the spine, clean and tight but for a couple of old stains to the prelims.

A biographical essay on Lincoln with an essay by Calvin Coolidge. In the President’s words: “No man in American history, not even Washington, compares with Lincoln in dealing with the practical affairs of his day. He employed no magic. He was no visionary. He was no child of fortune. He was the creation of an adversity that walked hand in hand with him from the cradle to the grave. In that struggle he found his strength. He too grew in stature and in wisdom. Out of an experience of sorrow and pain he gained the power to look into the heart of things.” $35.

The Adventures of Livingstone in Africa A Well Illustrated Victorian Narrative 85 [Livingstone and Africa]. Chambliss, Rev. J.E. THE LIFE AND LABORS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D., D.C.L., COVERING HIS ENTIRE CAREER IN SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA. Carefully Prepared From the most authentic sources...his own two large volumes and his Journals, the Reports of the London Geographical Society... A thrilling narrative of the Adventures, Discoveries, Experiences and Achievements of the Greatest Explorer of Modern Times in a Wild and Wonderful Country,... (Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros., 1875) First edition. Richly illustrated with a great profusion of plates in black and white and with a portrait frontispiece of Livingstone and a fine large folding map of the routes and the regions depicted. Tall, thick 8vo, publisher’s original elaborately decorated, rust colored cloth with black floral borders surrounding a gilt pictorial vignette and gilt lettering on the upper cover, lower cover blocked and elaborately decorated in blind and with gilt lettering and a gilt pictorial vignette on the spine. 805, 9 ads pp. A very good and quite pleasing copy, light evidence of age or use, front inner hinge with some light wear, overall a quite well preserved copy.

This comprehensive volume highlights the adventures of perhaps the most famous explorer of Africa in the19th century, Dr. David Livingstone. Rev. Chambliss lauds Livingstone’s heroism, dedication, and piety, and this expansive book details everything concerning his career in African travel.

It begins with historical descriptions of Africa prior to Livingstone’s arrival and accounts of Livingstone’s “early life [and] preparation for his life work,” and then moves chronologically through his many achievements and adventures (such as his unsatisfactory Zambesi expedition and his experiences with cannibals) and eventually to his death. Chambliss ends his narrative by relating the efforts of Baker and Speke and admires especially Livingstone’s never ending push to end the slave trade. The book is compiled from the works of Livingstone as well as several secondary authorities including Baker, Speke, Grant, and Barth. Each chapter has numerous subheadings detailing their content, which makes for easy referencing. This is a well-researched and extensively detailed volume and remains historically important in its own right. $195.

The Last Journals in Central Africa from 1865 to His Death Livingstone’s Last Expedition In Original Decorated Cloth - A Set of the First Editions 86 [Livingstone] Waller, Horace, F.R.G.S. THE LAST JOURNALS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, IN CENTRAL AFRICA, FROM 1865 TO HIS DEATH Continued by a Narrative of his Last Moments and Sufferings, Obtained from his Faithful Servants Chuma and Susi. (London: John Murray, 1874) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and a profusion of engraved plates and illustrations in the text and including two folding maps, one being very large and housed in a map pocket at the end of Volume I. 8vo, publisher’s original mulberry-purple cloth gilt, pictorially illustrated with fine gilt pictorial vignettes on the upper covers; gilt lettered spines with ornate borders. xvi, 360, 6 ads; viii, 346, 20 ads. A very clean and bright set, remarkably fresh and clean internally, with some expected uniform mellowing to the purple of the spines.

A HANDSOME SET OF THE LAST JOURNALS OF LIVINGSTONE. These volumes contain a detailed description of Livingstone’s last expedition, which began in Zanzibar in 1866 and ended with his death on the south shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1873.

“The two main objects of the expedition were the suppression of slavery by means of civilizing influences, and the ascertainment of the watershed in the region between Nyasa and Tanganyika. At first Livingstone thought the Nile problem had been solved by Speke, Burton, and Baker, but the idea grew upon him that the Nile sources must be sought farther south, and his last journey became in the end a forlorn hope in search of the ‘fountains’ of Herodotus.” These journals were delivered into the hands of Livingstone’s friends whole and intact; no break occurs in the seven years of his mission from its beginning in Zanzibar to its tragic end in the village of Ilala. A staple for any collection of Africana. EB $1595.

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The Last Journals of David Livingstone Profusely Illustrated Throughout 87 [Livingstone]; Waller, Horace. THE LAST JOURNALS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, In Central Africa. From Eighteen Hundred Sixty-five to his Death, Continued by a narrative of His Last Moments and Sufferings, obtained from His Faithful Servants Chuma and Susi (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875) First Edition, American Issue. With frontispiece, 20 full page illustrations, 25 smaller illustrations, and two maps, 1 folding in pocket. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original olive green cloth over boards, gilt scene of Livingstone on the cover framed in blind, gilt lettered and with decorations and illustrations on the spine. 541, 4 ads. pp. A very nice, handsome copy, a touch of foxing occasional, but otherwise bright and clean.

A FINE AND HANDSOME COPY OF THIS FIRST EDITION OF THE LAST JOURNALS OF LIVINGSTONE. A rare look at one of the great explorers of Africa, told first hand through his collected journals. This work contains a detailed description of Livingstone’s last expedition, which began in Zanzibar in 1866 and ended with his death on the south shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1873. “The two main objects of the expedition were the suppression of slavery by means of civilizing influences, and the ascertainment of the watershed in the region between Nyasa and Tanganyika. At first Livingstone thought the Nile problem had been solved by Speke, Burton, and Baker, but the idea grew upon him that the Nile sources must be sought farther south, and his last journey became in the end a forlorn hope in search of the ‘fountains’ of Herodotus.” These journals were delivered into the hands of Livingstone’s friends whole and intact; no break occurs in the seven years of his mission from its beginning in Zanzibar to its tragic end in the village of Ilala.

From the introduction: “In the midst of the universal sorrow caused by the intelligence that Dr. Livingstone had lost his life at the farthest point to which he had penetrated in his search for the true sources of the Nile, a faint hope was indulged that some of his journals might survive the disaster: this hope, I rejoice to say, has been realized beyond the most sanguine expectations.

It is due, in the first place, to his native attendants, whose faithfulness has placed his last writings at our disposal, and also to the reader, before he launches forth upon a series of travels and scientific geographic records of the most extraordinary character, to say that in the following narrative of seven years’ continuous work and new discovery no break whatever occurs.”

A staple for any collection of Africana. $350.

Under The Volcano Malcolm Lowry - 1940 88 Lowry, Malcolm. UNDER THE VOLCANO (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947) First edition. 8vo, grey cloth with red lettering.

375. A fine copy with a lightly toned spine.

A novel of self destruction in Mexico on the Day of the Dead. Like most of Lowry works it is largely autobiographical and vividly written. $450.

The Greatest Naval Hero of an Extraordinary Empire A.T. Mahan’s Life of Nelson - First Edition - 1897 89 Mahan, Captain A.T. THE LIFE OF NELSON, THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SEA POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1897) 2 volumes. First edition. With 19 portraits and illustrations and 21 maps and plans.

Thick 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth gilt lettered on spine, decorated in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g. xxiii, 454; xvi, 427 pp., 3 ads. A very handsome, very bright and clean set with no sign of fading and with the gilt still sparkling, light evidence of shelving or use to the spine tips.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. Perhaps the finest, most accurate, and detailed biography of Lord Admiral Nelson ever published. Nelson, of course, is known for his illustrious naval career which culminated at the battle of Trafalgar, where under his command the English decimated the Napoleonic fleet and prevented them from reaching the Continent.

Mahan, a captain in the United States Navy, was one of the greatest naval historians of the 19th and early 20th centuries and serves the life of Nelson well in this finely crafted narrative. $495.

Edouard Manet With Fine Colour Plates 90 (Manet) Courthion, Pierre. EDOUARD MANET (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., n.d.) First edition. 48 full colour tipped in plates and numerous black and white illustrations. 4to, blue and white textured cloth with gilt signature of Manet on upper board. Gilt on spine. In the original pictorial dustjacket. 152. A fine copy in a lightly mellowed dustjacket.

A catalogue of Manet’s best works, each with commentary and historical background.

Includes a biography of the artist. $195.

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Herman Grimm - The Life of Michaelangelo A Handsome Set Appealingly Bound - A Famous Work 91 [Michaelangelo] Grimm, Herman. THE LIFE OF MICHAEL ANGELO. Translated by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1900) 2 volumes. The new edition with additions and illustrated. Illustrated with over forty photogravure plates from Michelangelo’s most famous works of art. 8vo, contemporary three quarter blue morocco over marbled boards, the back and corner pieces ruled in gilt, the spines gilt decorated and lettered, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. xvi, 558; vii, 536 pp. A very appealing set, internally all but pristine, the binding attractive, with minor rubbing or abrasion at the tips and corners.

EARLY PRINTING OF THIS FAMOUS WORK. A well researched and popular biography of the great painter and sculptor written by the lead professor of art history at the University of Berlin. Originally published in 1863, this new edition is greatly more appealing due to the presence of the photogravures and the quality of production. $195.

Gilman’s Biography of James Monroe Original Cloth - A Fine Copy 92 [Monroe, James]; Gilman, Daniel C. JAMES MONROE, In His Relations to the Public Service During Half a Century, 1776 to 1826.

(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1883) Early issue. 8vo, in the publisher’s original pebbled blue cloth, with a band of gilt stars along the upper cover and spine and with gilt-lettered cover and spine, t.e.g. xiii, 287 pp. A very nice copy, clean and very well preserved.

“In clearness of style, and in all points of literary workmanship, from cover to cover, the volume is well-nigh perfect. There are also a calmness of judgment, a correctness of taste, and an absence of partisanship which are too frequently wanting in biographies, and especially in political biographies.”

- American Literary Churchman $75.

John Morley’s Walpole In a Fine School Prize Binding 93 Morley, John. WALPOLE (London: Macmillan, 1909) Early printing. Frontispiece illustration. Small 8vo, in a school prize binding of full scarlet calf richly gilt in the panels of the spine, with the school cypher on the upper cover. vi, 251. Spine a bit dry, foxing to the preliminary and final blanks, else a nice copy.

From the “Twelve English Statesmen” series. A pretty little binding. $55.

First Edition in Unusually Nice State The Most Significant Biography of Nansen 94 [Nansen] Brögger, W.C., and Nordahl Rolfsen. FRIDTIOF NANSEN 1861-1893. Translated by William Archer (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896) First edition. Scarce. With numerous illustrations and maps. 8vo, original dark blue cloth decorated and lettered in silver on spine and upper cover. x, 402. An unusually nice and bright copy, some very mild foxing occasional to some leaves, ex-libris of Salesian College on blank.

The most significant biography of the man who, “in the teeth of scepticism and discouragement harder to face, perhaps, than the Arctic ice-pack and the month-long night, [led] the way into the very heart of the polar fastnesses...in one stride enormously reduced the unconquered distance, and... demonstrated the justice of his theory...from [his initial] campaigns [he returned] never [losing] a Norwegian life.” $350.

Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon A Court Insider’s Intimate Memoirs - 3 Vols - First Edition 95 [Napoleon]; Constant, [Louis Constant Wairy] Premier Valet de Chambre. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON Translated by Walter Clark (New York: The Merriam Company, [1895]) 3 volumes. First edition in English. With 24 black and white plates, most being from contemporary portraits of Napoleon and members of his circle. 8vo, publisher’s original navy-blue cloth, the upper covers decorated in gilt and red featuring handsome pictorial images including, plumes and Napoleonic crests, and with gilt lettering within red lined fillet borders, the spines similarly decorated and lettered in red and gilt, t.e.g. 431, 323, 435 pp. A very attractive, handsome and fine set, internally near as pristine, the bindings with only very minor evidence of shelving. A beautiful set, especially well preserved.

FIRST EDITION IN UNUSUALLY FINE CONDITION. An intimate history of the great French emperor written by his own personal valet.

This is an in-depth firsthand account of Napoleon’s private life, his family and the people of his court. Though the book had originally been published in French in 1830, it had never been translated into English. Already scarce by the 1890s, Walter Clark managed, with much difficulty, to find a copy of one of the original editions, from which he made his translation. Constant’s account was bitterly assailed by both Prince Napoleon and Napoleon III, but there is actually no good reason to doubt its authenticity or genuineness. The work “paint[s] Caesar in undress... His foibles, his peculiarities, his vices, are here depicted without reserve. But so also are his kindness of heart, his vast intellect, his knowledge of men, his extraordinary energy, his public spirit. The shutters are taken down, and the workings of the mighty machinery are laid bare.” $295.

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The Very Fine Nonesuch Printing -In English - Illustrated Thomas North’s Celebrated Translation of Plutarch - 1579 A Veritable Gold Mine of Plots for William Shakespeare 96 [Nonesuch Press]; [Fine Press]; [Plutarch], Plutarke of Chæronea. THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANES, Compared Together by that Grave and Learned Philosopher & Historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea: Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot: and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North: the Illustrations by T.L. Poulton: With the Fifteen Supplemental Lives of 1603 (London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929) 5 volumes, on Arches paper printed and made in France. One of 1550 sets only, printed from the first edition of 1579 and with the 15 lives additional, first published in 1603. Decorations and fine full-page illustrations to precede each life, by T.L. Poulton. Folio, publisher’s original fine polished buckram, the edges beveled, the spines with labels printed in black, a second set of labels provided within the volumes. xxix, 431, (1); (viii), 442, (2); (viii), 454, (2); (viii), 482, (2); (viii), 410, (2) pp. + plates. An exceptionally fine set, pristine and mint, never used, crisp and tight as at issue.

A wonderfully preserved, beautiful set of this luxurious

edition.

SCARCE AND IMPORTANT. A BEAUTIFUL PRINTING, RICHLY ILUSTRATED, OF THOMAS NORTH’S CELEBRATED TRANSLATION OF PLUTARCH, WITH A HOST OF ADDED MATERIAL. In this monumental historical work, Plutarch relates the lives of the historically important Greeks and Romans of ancient times. His studies are revered as among the most important and beautiful of all classical writings. The author’s object is to bring out the moral character in each case, rather than to relate the political events of the time; in essence, at times he will distort the truth in order to exemplify virtue or vice. Nonetheless, he is as reliable as the sources he uses, and very valuable as a historical resource.

Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s LIVES is one of the most famous. His prose considered by many to be “incomparable... [his] achievement in narrative prose is only less signal than Shakespeare’s in dramatic verse. I doubt if there are many pages which may rank with the last of North’s “Antonius” in the prose of any language...Of good English prose there is much, but of the world’s greatest books in great English prose there are not many. Here is one, worthy to stand with Malory’s Morte D’Arthur on either side of the English Bible” (George Wyndham, Essays in Romantic Literature). “There are few who, were the choice given them, would not rather read Plutarch in the noble English of North, than in the restrained and sometimes inexpressive Greek of Plutarch” (Charles Whibley, Cambridge History of English Lit).

North’s Plutarch is also well-known as a primary source for the plots of Shakespeare’s classical plays and for numerous passages in the non-Roman ones, and he relied almost exclusively on it for the historical background of ancient Rome. It is likely that he used more than one edition of North’s translation--most probably the first, second, and third. A copy of the fourth is said to have been among his possessions at his death, but all of the plays in question were written before that edition was published in 1612.

Each edition of North’s work until this point bears more and more life histories; in 1603 fifteen new lives were added of such figures as Hannibal, Philip of Macedon, Octavius Caesar, and Plutarch himself.

This Nonesuch Press printing is beautifully executed on fine Arches paper, and illustrated in luxurious fashion with full-page plates by Poulton. $1250.

Kenneth Patchen--The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer First Edition in Original Decorated Dustjacket 97 Patchen, Kenneth. THE MEMOIRS OF A SHY PORNOGRAPHER (London: Grey Walls Press, 1948) First edition. 8vo, blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine in the publisher’s original pictorial dustjacket. 235 pp A very clean copy in its vividly colored dustjacket, jacket with some minor edgewear, else fine. “‘For his bewildered visionary quality, for the rich, abrupt confusion of his imagery, for a recurrent note of tenderness, and for a wide if vague human sympathy, Mr. Patchen deserves to be read.’” [Times Lit Supp, dustjacket] This is a satiric novel, experimental in form, reflecting his thoroughly modern style and debt to Freud, as well as the Surrealists. Patchen received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939 and was considered one of the most exciting writers of his day. He was a widely published poet, an artist and a playwright. $295.

The Paintings of Camille Pissarro First Edition in the Original Dustjacket 98 (Pissarro, Camille); Rewald, John. CAMILLE PISSARRO (New York: Harry Abrams, Inc. , n.d. (c. 1960s)) First edition, stated. With 122 illustrations, 48 of them are large tipped-in colour plates. Large 4to, publisher’s original blue-white linen lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine, in the original colour pictorial dustjacket. 160 pp. A fine and handsome copy just a tad mellowed along the top edge.

The plates are all in excellent order.

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FIRST EDITION, combining scholarly text with beautiful and finely produced reproductions of the artist’s greatest work. Expertly printed in Holland, this series set a new benchmark for art history publications.

Pissarro painted rural and urban French life, particularly landscapes in and around Pontoise, as well as scenes from Montmartre. His mature work displays an empathy for peasants and laborers, and sometimes evidences his radical political leanings. He was a mentor to Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin and his example inspired many younger artists, including American Impressionist Lucy Bacon. $125.

LIFE: The John F. Kennedy Memorial Issue - 1963 Iconic Photographs of the 20th Century 99 [Presidential; Kennedy, John F.]. LIFE. John F. Kennedy Memorial Edition Including His Biography and His Most Enduring Words.

(New York: Time Inc., 1963) Special Issue of Life Magazine featuring, “All of LIFE’s Pictures and Text on the Most Shocking Event of Our Time. Illustrated on every page in color and black and white with the outstanding photography for which LIFE magazine has been world renown. Folio magazine sheets, staple bound in original paper wrapper featuring a color portrait of JFK on the front cover and an iconic view of Mrs. Kennedy, Caroline and John Jr. on the rear. 42 leaves and wrappers, unpaginated. Quite well preserved with a bit of edge wear or bumping of the corners and some splitting along the spine of the wrapper, some corners a bit dog-eared but for the most part still very fresh and impressive.

A SPECIAL ISSUE OF LIFE MAGAZINE FEATURING SOME OF THE MOST ICONIC AND MEMORABLE IMAGES OF THE 1960s.

Including a nine photo series of Kennedy’s assassination, photos from his funeral service including the unforgettable image of John Jr. saluting, images from Kennedy’s life and career, the general public in response to hearing of the assassination, the swearing into office aboard Air Force One of Lyndon Johnson and many, many other equally powerful and memory evoking photographs. $50.

Life and Times in Rural Florida - Cross Creek A Charming Memoir by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 100 Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. CROSS CREEK (London: The Book Club, 1944) Early British issue, “War Economy” edition. With black and white decorations throughout by Edward Shenton. 8vo, publisher’s original pink cloth lettered on the spine in black, in the original pictorial dustjacket. 312. A handsome copy in well preserved dustjacket.

In 1928 after leaving her husband, Rawlings bought and ran a rambling orchard in rural Cross Creek, Florida. Here in is an autobiographical memoir of those experiences and the colorful folk of that provincial southern hamlet. $125.

Teddy Roosevelt - Hunting Trips of a Ranchman Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains One of 500 Large-Paper Copies - Rare First Edition 101 Roosevelt, Theodore. HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains (New York: The Knickerbocker Press for G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1885) The Medora Edition, one of 500 numbered copies, large-paper. With 20 illustrations in black and white by A. B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, and others. Thick 4to, publisher’s original brown polished buckram, the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt. xvi, 318 pp. A handsome and well preserved copy of this important work. The spine is a tad mellowed, as is usual with this color cloth, and there is light wear to the tips, internally, the text block is very fine and very bright.

FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER, LIMITED ISSUE. SCARCE. Roosevelt wrote in his “Foreword” of October 1898 to a joint title publication that “... the wilderness has been conquered and the game killed off. The frontier itself has vanished.” “My object in writing these books was not only to give a full account of the chase of every kind of big game proper to the United States, but also where possible to touch on their life histories....I write for my fellow ranchmen and fellow hunters, and for the young men of America, in whose veins the red blood of life runs lustily, and who joy in the strenuous pleasure that comes only as the prize of toil and exposure in the open.” $2350.

Roscoe’s Great Work - The Life of Lorenzo De’ Medici First Edition - 1795 - London - Handsomely Bound Including the Poems of Lorenzo the Magnificent Illustrated Throughout with Fine Engravings 102 Roscoe, William. THE LIFE OF LORENZO DE MEDICI CALLED THE MAGNIFICENT (Liverpool and London: J.M. McCreery, 1795) 2 volumes. First edition Illustrated throughout with engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignettes on title pages, engraved chapter heads. 4to, contemporary three-quarter tan calf over marbled boards, the spine decorated

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with multi-ruled gilt bands and lettered in gilt on a black morocco lettered label. Gilt rules to the boards. Marbled edges. xxvi, (2), 320, 136 appendix; (2), 312, 48 Poesie [Poems of Lorenzo], 111 appendix, 11 index. A handsome set , very clean internally. Some rubbing to the calf.

AN IMPORTANT CLASSIC, HANDSOMELY BOUND. The principal work in the author’s long history of historical writings. Roscoe began publishing this at his own expense in 1793, with the first edition produced in February of 1796 (though marked as 1795). This volume drew great attention both in England and abroad, and went into many subsequent editions.

Included are two appendix of documents in the original Italian and Latin and a number of poems in Italian. $1650.

Limited to 350 Copies - Numbered and Signed Henry Roth’s Youthful Reminiscence 103 Roth, Henry. NATURE’S FIRST GREEN (New York: Targ Editions, 1979) First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies SIGNED

BY THE AUTHOR. With a titlepage decoration by Marc Hinkley. Small folio, original dark teal cloth, lettered on the spine in gilt, in the original yellow paper dust wrapper. 9 leaves. A pristine copy, near as mint.

Henry Roth’s warm and personal short autobiographical memoir is a portrait of a 14 year old boy’s experience with the theatrical industry in the days of vaudeville and early cinema. The title is derived from Robert Frost- “Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold...”

A lovely production from the Targ Editions in Greenwich Village, the book was designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press. $75.

Beautiful Joe - First Edition - 1894 A ‘Black Beauty’ For Man’s Best Friend 104 Saunders, Marshall. BEAUTIFUL JOE, An Autobiography with an Introduction by Hezekiah Butterworth (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1894) First edition. With a black and white frontispiece from a photograph of ‘Beautiful Joe’ and two black and white plates from a photographs, head and tail-pieces and initials throughout. 8vo, publisher’s original sage green cloth lettered and pictorially decorated on the upper cover in gilt and lettered in gilt on the spine. 304 pp. A handsome, tight, clean, essentially fine copy lightly mellowed by time.

UNCOMMON IN FIRST EDITION. Marshall Saunder’s “autobiography” of the abused dog Beautiful Joe did for man’s best friend what BLACK BEAUTY did for the horse. By publishing these books dedicated to the Human Society attention was drawn for the first to the plight of animals in human, but not always Humane, modern world. A beautiful and moving story modeled on the lives of actual dogs and people. $550.

Illustrated by Frank Schoonover - A Superb Copy Lucy Madison’s “George Washington” 105 [Schoonover, illus.] Madison, Lucy Foster. WASHINGTON (Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1925) First edition. With 8 color plates by Frank Schoonover. Large 8vo, publisher’s original blue-black cloth lettered in gilt on cover and spine, with gilt and colour pictorial pastedown on upper cover. 399. A very fine copy, as pristine.

SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION AND WITH FULL ALLOTMENT OF PLATES BY SCHOONOVER. An excellent children’s biography of this American hero. $115.

Sir Walter Scott - The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte - 1827 Especially Rare in the Publisher’s Original Wrappers First Edition - Highly Influential- Extensively Researched 106 Scott, Sir Walter. THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution (Paris: A. and W. Galignani , 1827) 9 volumes. First Edition, issued in Paris, same year as the first editions of Edinburgh and London. 8vo, in the extremely scarce original publisher’s wrappers of gray/blue paper printed in black in all over designs to all covers and spines, the half-titles to each volume as called for, Volume I with publisher’s original ad catalogue printed on yellow paper and bound into the front of the volume. This is a rare item which was almost never retained by the binders. A remarkably well preserved set in the original wrappers, the text blocks very fresh and clean. Where this edition is prone to heavy foxing and toning, there is no toning in this set and virtually no evidence of spotting at all, the wrappers with very little of the expected wear, only light evidence of mellowing to the spine panels. A fine set.

FIRST EDITION. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS STATE OF CONDITION AND IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS. Every other set we have seen on the market has been bound.

While Scott may be best remembered for his period romances, such as IVANHOE, QUENTIN DURWARD, WAVERLY, or THE LADY OF THE LAKE, his nonfictional writings are extremely well regarded--in particular, this very influential LIFE OF NAPOLEON. The work represents an

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important contemporary contribution to the study of France during the Napoleonic Era. Sir Walter Scott had the advantage of visiting the field of Waterloo, and of conversing with officers engaged in the battle--thus his narrative may be accepted as especially accurate. The British government had granted him free access to all archives dealing with Napoleon’s exile in St. Helena.

The biography was originally planned to be complete in four volumes, but the immense amount of reading that Scott undertook soon saw its great expansion to the present nine volumes. In 1826 his publisher, Constable, fell into bankruptcy and Scott, whose affairs were intrinsically linked with those of Constable, was left with debts totaling £121,000. In May of the same year, his wife Charlotte died. In spite of these immensely difficult conditions, which took a heavy toll on the writer’s health, Scott produced this formidable and extraordinary work, and at an unusually great speed. During the same period of time Scott also managed to write WOODSTOCK and to begin work on the CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE. This work on Napoleon is still considered one of his greatest singular achievements and copies available in the original wrappers are especially elusive. $1850.

The Art of Georges Seurat Courthion’s Masterwork on the Great Impressionist 107 (Seurat) Courthion, Peter. GEORGES SEURAT (New York: Harry Abrams, Inc, n.d. (c. 1970’s)) First edition. 125 illustrations, 48 of them tipped in colour plates. Large 4to, blue-white linen lettered in gilt on the cover and spine, in the original pictorial dustjacket. 160.

A fine bright and clean copy.

Part of Abrams’ “Library of Great Painters Series”. Combining scholarly text with beautiful reproductions of the artist’s greatest work.

“Seurat developed the technique of pointilism, applying paint to canvas by means of a myriad of tiny dots of color. When seen from a distance, these dots blend to create a marvelous effect of shimmering light and subtle color variations” Like many artists of the late 19th century, he rediscovered the beauty of clean lines and a sense of order after the excesses of the Victorian Age. Seurat’s work saw a mini revival in the 1980’s with the production of Steven Sondheim’s biographical musical “SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE”. $195.

A Fine and Important Set - First Edition General W.T. Sherman’s Civil War Memoirs 108 Sherman, General W. T. MEMOIRS...WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, With a Appendix, Bringing His Life Down to its Closing Scenes, also a Personal Tribute and Critique of the Memoirs, by Hon. James G. Blaine (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1891) 2 volumes. First edition as part of the Great War series, early printing of the “Shoulder Strap” issues conforming with the memoirs penned by Ulysses S. Grant, W.T. Sheridan, McClellan and others. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 15 folding maps and 4 other portraits. Tall, thick 8vo, original dark green cloth lettered in gilt on the spines and upper covers, the spines with the amulets in black and gold. 455; 604, (4) ads pp. A very fine and bright set, beautifully preserved, and unusual in this condition.

VERY SCARCE IN THIS FINE CONDITION. An uncommon title in the Great War series (uniform with the MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT).

A contemporary reviewer in the Atlantic Monthly said, “His book is such as our knowledge of him prepared us to expect, and it is a treat....His style is characteristic of the man. It is absolutely free from rhetorical ornament, and it does not hesitate to be colloquial in the extreme, but it is admirable in its clearness and directness.....he appends a concluding chapter on the military lessons of the war, which is full of knowledge, wisdom, and sound sense.”

An important record of inestimable historical importance. $795.

The Life of Nelson - Robert Southey, Poet Laureate Rare Large Paper Copy of this Important Work The Best Short Biography in the Language 109 Southey, Robert. THE LIFE OF NELSON (London: for John Murray, 1813) 2 volumes. First edition, Rare large-paper copy. Portrait frontispiece by Hopwood, and with the handwriting facsimile plate. 8vo, full contemporary calf gilt, decorated in blind on both covers, with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine, elaborate gilt turn ins finely rendered, marbled endleaves, a.e.g. viii, 253, [1] ad; viii, 275, [5] ads. A handsome and attractive copy, quite fresh and clean with some expected light wear.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER ISSUE OF THIS ENDURING ACCOUNT OF NELSON’S LIFE. Lord Nelson was, and still is, one of the most revered historical personages by the English people. He was known for his courage and selflessness; a telling and famous example of his bravery was when he was once severely wounded in battle, the ship’s surgeon immediately sought to attend to Nelson’s wounds. However, Nelson commanded that his injured men be taken care of first and declared, “I will take my turn with my brave fellows!”

Southey immortalized Nelson even further as well as distinguishing himself in 1813 when he published this LIFE OF NELSON, his greatest prose work, shortly after being named Poet Laureate. The book quickly established itself as perhaps the best short, straightforward biography in the language. According to Sir Humphrey Davy this biography was “an immortal monument raised by genius to valour.” The Cambridge History of English Literature says, “The scale saved the writer from his

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own fatal fancy for quartos, and from the opportunities of prolixity and divigation which quartos bring with them; his own patriotism, in which he was the equal of Chatham or of Nelson himself, gave the necessary inspiration; his unwearied industry made him master of details even to the extent of avoiding any serious technical blunders; and those quaint flashes of the old Jacobism which have been noticed occur just often enough to prevent the book from having the air of a mere partisan pamphlet.”

Southey intended that this little biography be carried around by sailors for information and inspiration. A handsome and scarce set. $2850.

The Early Years of Henry M. Stanley The Birth, Boyhood and Younger Days - London - 1895

By His “Childhood Playmate” - A Fine First Edition 110 [Stanley, Henry M.; Africana] George, Thomas. THE BIRTH, BOYHOOD AND YOUNGER DAYS OF HENRY M. STANLEY, The Celebrated Explorer; A South Wales Hero (London: Roxburghe Press, 1895) First edition. Illustrated with two half-tone plates, one which is a frontispiece of Stanley, three manuscript facsimiles. 8vo, in the original blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, an image of Stanley blocked in gilt and gilt lettering on the upper cover, black endpapers. xiii, 124, 34 ads. A fine copy with very minor bumping to the spine.

SCARCE IN FIRST EDITION FORMAT. This book describes the early days of Henry M. Stanley, the explorer who “found Livingstone” and carried on his work of exploration and abolishment of the slave trade. The author claims to be a childhood playmate of Stanley, who he says was actually a native of Ysgar South Wales named Howell Jones. Despite the fact that it is now widely accepted that Stanley was born John Rowlands in Denbigh, North Wales, this fascinating little volume depicts a tale of what might have been, purportedly written with “the kind permission of Henry M. Stanley” [preface]. This is one of the many early “speculations” on the Stanley’s formative years, arising out of the hero-worship which surrounded him. Whether fiction or fact, this book is both an interesting and amusing commentary on Stanley’s life. $375.

John Steinbeck’s - Journal Of A Novel Autobiographical Writing at its Best - First Edition 111 Steinbeck, John. JOURNAL OF A NOVEL, The East of Eden Letters (New York: The Viking Press, 1969) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in silver, in the original printed and decorated dustjacket. ix, 182. A fine copy in a like dustjacket but for a small jag at the head and light mellowing to the spine panel.

“This posthumous work...is a day-by-day account of the writing of East of Eden...The journal was in the form of a series of letters to the late Pascal Covici, his close friend and editor at The Viking Press...The letters were about novel writing in general, and about some of the author’s deepest convictions. In its private glimpses of the author-his concern for his sons, his hobbies, his passion for invention-this is autobiographical material of the first order. Not intended for publication and never revised in any way, the journal casts a flood of light on the author’s mind and on the nature of the creative process.

“These letters are, in a sense, John Steinbeck’s testament.” - from Jacket. $225.

A Book that Would Change the World - First Edition The Most Influential Work in American Literature 112 Stowe, Harriet Beecher. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, OR LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY (Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1852) 2 volumes. First edition, First issue with all points as called for by BAL. This copy with the 1852 ownership signature of noted Boston businessman and tailor James Tolman. With the six original steel-plate engravings and with title-pages illustrated with large vignettes.

8vo, publisher’s original textured brown cloth, BAL’s binding “A", see complete description on page two. A very pleasing and well preserved copy of this book. A very pleasing copy and a very handsome set. See page two of this catalogue for further details.

RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, VERY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Arguably, the most influential work of American literature and unquestionably a milestone of 19th century world literature. The initial printing sold out immediately upon publication and the book went through continual reissue for years after its introduction. Nice copies of the first edition as with this copy have become increasingly difficult to find. A more complete description is available on page two of this catalogue. $10,500.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - An Important First Edition Men of Our Times - The Lives and Deeds of the Prominent 113 Stowe, Harriet Beecher. MEN OF OUR TIMES; or Leading Patriots of the Day. Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher. (Hartford: Hartford Publishing Co., 1868) First Edition With 18 full page finely engraved plates throughout. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original full forest-green cloth, the covers with triple fillet lines at the borders, upper cover with facsimile of Stowe’s signature in gilt, the spine gilt lettered and decorated. xiv, 575, 3 ads pp. A pleasing and well preserved copy, the hinges tight and strong, the text quite clean, the binding in nice

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condition with some gentle aging.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT HISTORICAL WORK BY ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST IMPORTANT 19TH CENTURY AUTHORS. A significant portion of the book is devoted to a biography of Abraham Lincoln just after the assassination of the President. Further biographies are as noted in the title of the work with special interest paid to Civil War commanders and prominent politicians of the period. $245.

A Glimpse at 19th Century Theatre Edited by Dickens the Younger 116 [Theatre] Dickens, Charles (the younger), editor. THE LIFE OF CHARLES JAMES MATHEWS Chiefly Autobiographical with Selections From His Correspondence and Speeches (London: Macmillan, 1879) 2 volumes. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece in each volume and three other engravings.

8vo, bound in early half green morocco and marbled boards richly gilt in the panels of the spines, t.e.g. ix, 324; viii, 336. Index. A very good set.

Mathews (1803-1878) was a popular light comedian and author of many light plays. From 1839 to 1842 he managed with his wife Lucia Covent Garden and later the Lyceum theatre; he also toured the United States, Paris, Australia, and India. $475.

Henry David Thoreau Joseph W. Krutch’s Biography - First Edition 117 [Thoreau, Henry David] Krutch, Joseph Wood. HENRY DAVID THOREAU ([New York]: William Sloane Associates, [1948]) First Edition, first printing. With a contemporary portrait of Thoreau reproduced in black and white as frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s teal cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine. 298 pp. A fine copy with a bit of unobtrusive tape residue on the blank end-leaves.

FIRST EDITION. A classic biographical work on Henry David Thoreau, his writing and his era from the publisher’s ‘American Men of Letters Series’. Krutch’s work concentrates far more on the author’s writings, inspirations and later influence then on more typical biographical material such as events and dates. This was only the second title produced for the series. $50.

Is Shakespeare Dead?

Mark Twain Debates the Authorship of Shakespeare First Edition - Original Cloth - A Fine Copy 119 Twain, Mark. IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? From my Autobiography (New York: Harper Brothers, 1909) First edition, first issue.

With a two page frontispiece from black and white photos, one features a statue of Shakespeare, the other a statue of Bacon. 8vo, original publisher’s dark green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. 150 A fine copy, uncommonly fresh and bright.

Mark Twain jumps into the great debate: who wrote Shakespeare? Was it really the hand of Shakespeare or Sir Frances Bacon? Twain was a confirmed Shaconian, one who believes Bacon was the author of the primary works. In this short work he provides, with a great deal of humor and satire, support for his argument. BAL 3509. $450.

Mark Twain’s Unconventional Autobiography What May Well Be His Best Book First of the Printing - 2 Volumes - 1925 121 Twain, Mark. MARK TWAIN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, With an Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine (New York: P.F. Collier and Son Company, 1925) 2 volumes. First Collier Edition and a very early reissue of the first edition, essentially identical to the first issuance of 1924 but for the colour of the cloth and the imprint. Portrait frontispiece in each volume. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original burgundy ribbed cloth lettered on the spines in gilt, with a facsimile of Twain’s autograph on the upper covers stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. 361, index; 357, index, ads pp. A very nice set, the cloth bright and fresh with no fading and only very minor rubbing to the tips and extremities, internally very fresh. With ownership signature on titles and a brief manuscript note on the final text leaf of noted New York Attorney Thomas Fenton Taylor.

A VERY HANDSOME SET. “As might be expected of anything which Mark Twain wrote, this autobiography is unlike any other ever written-as unconventional and unorthodox as its great author. Always, when the time came for him to go on with the dictation, he chose as his subject whatever was most interesting to him at the moment, regardless of chronological order. For he believed that a man’s thoughts, not his outward acts are his true history, which alone reveal him completely.

“The resulting book is a stream of table-talk: anecdotes, humorous and serious; reminiscences of his mother, his daughter Susy, his boyhood days in Missouri; chronicles of his friendships with all manner of men, from General Grant and President Cleveland to his Irish coachman and the unfamed intimates of his vagabond youth; bold expressions of opinion on every sort of topic-all are here, full of the vigor and the humanity of their author, and forming an inexhaustible mine of entertainment, amusement, and delight.”- Original publisher’s jacket review.

The Autobiography was dictated by Twain over several years with the stipulation that it be published only after his death. BAL 3537. $125.

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Life on the Mississippi - First Edition - 1883 One of Mark Twain’s Best Books - Profusely Illustrated In the Publisher’s Rare Original Deluxe Calf Binding 120 Twain, Mark. LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883) First edition, BAL’s RARE “First State,” Earliest Issue with Mark Twain in flames on p. 441 and ‘St. Louis Hotel’ on p. 443. Profusely illustrated throughout. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original decorated deluxe binding of threequarter calf over marbled boards, the spine decorated with lightly raised bands, contrasting red and green morocco lettering labels gilt, the compartments with gilt panel designs and central gilt ornaments. 624. A handsome copy, well preserved with some aging, the calf and marbled boards remain in condition and the book is internally sound and very clean.

ONE OF TWAIN’S BEST BOOKS AND A RARE PUBLISHER’S DELUXE BOUND COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. First Edition, first issue copies are rare. Our copy has p. 441 and p. 443 both in first state. Twain writes about his home and his muse-the great Mississippi. “As a dwelling place for civilized man it is by far the first upon our globe.” (preface) In this largely autobiographical narrative, Twain gives us a vivid account of his youth on the great river. A brilliant firsthand account of the steamboat age, the science of river piloting, and the life of the river itself from the point of view of those who made their living navigating it. A truly wonderful book and a valued piece of the American legacy. BAL 3411; McBride pp. 84-85; Johnson pp. 41-43 $2250.

Mark Twain’s Notebook A Beautiful Copy - First Edition - In Original Dustjacket 122 Twain, Mark. MARK TWAIN’S NOTEBOOK Prepared for Publication With Comments by Albert Bigelow Paine (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935) First Edition. With a frontispiece portrait of Twain from a 1906 photograph, two pages of manuscript facsimile from the original notebooks and a photograph of the notebook invented by Twain. Large tall 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue ribbed cloth lettered on the spine in gilt and with a gilt signature on the upper cover, in the scarce original blue paper printed dustjacket. xi, 413 pp. including index. An essentially mint copy of the book, unused and internally pristine, the cloth very near perfect, the scarce jacket with very minor wear and a few tiny chips along the top edge only.

A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF TWAIN’S NOTEBOOK, published posthumously by Twain’s official biographer and literary executor. Paine had worked with him (and on his behalf after his death) on a number of projects and authored what is still considered by most to be the best biography of the American great. This title is published uniformly with Twain’s Autobiography and with the definitive biography of Twain written by Paine. Bal 3556. $425.

Mark Twain’s Letters - In the Very Rare Dustjackets The Limited First Issue - Only 350 Copies Printed 123 Twain, Mark. Paine, Albert Bigelow.. MARK TWAINS LETTERS Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1917) 2 volumes. First Edition, THE LIMITED ISSUE, ONE OF ONLY 350 COPIES. Very Scarce Thus. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates, primarily portraits. Thick 8vo, in the special limited issue binding of publisher’s buff boards backed in tan buckram, the spines with paper labels printed in black and red. In the very scarce original dustjackets printed on the spines in black. 437; 448-886 pp. A very fine set, the books pristine and essentially as mint, only the very rare dust-wrappers with a bit of wear.

VERY SELDOM ENCOUNTERED, RARE FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE IN THE DUSTJACKETS. The most complete compilation available of letters by arguably, America’s most colourful literary figure. The letters were compiled, arranged and published posthumously by Twain’s official biographer and literary executor. Paine had worked with Twain on a number of projects and authored what is still considered by most to be the best biography of one of America’s greatest authors. $850.

The Court and Character of King James An Eye “and Eare” Witness Account - Published 1650 Scarce - Printed London - In Contemporary Paneled Calf 126 W[eldon], A[nthony]. THE COURT AND CHARACTER OF KING JAMES. Written and Taken by Sir A.W., Being and Eye and Eare

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Witness. (London: By R.I. to be sold by John Wright, 1650) Scarce first edition. With the rare portrait frontispiece and engraved titlepage.

Small 8vo [132 by 80mm], full contemporary calf, sometime sympathetically and expertly rebacked to correctly marry the boards which are paneled in blind in ornate fashion with floral corner-pieces also in blind, edges with a double-ruled gilt fillet line, edges gilt tooled, the spine with double-ruled gilt raised bands and a red morocco label ruled and lettered in gilt. [x], 197 pp. A nice copy indeed, being well preserved and a complete copy of this scarce work, with light typical age mellowing. The binding is sturdy and still attractive.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION WITH THE RARELY ENCOUNTERED PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE. A SELDOM ENCOUNTERED CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF KING JAMES I WRITTEN BY A MEMBER OF HIS COURT. ONLY A SMALL HANDFUL OF COPIES HAVE APPEARED IN RECENT YEARS. The work has long been attributed to Anthony Weldon, due somewhat to its not overly flattering portrayal of the monarch and due to its publication within a few months of Weldon’s death. The justification for the criticism inherent in the book is usually presumed to be because of Weldon’s dismissal from the royal court. At first a popular courtier, Weldon wrote an assessment of the Scottish people which was far from positive and the former James VI of Scotland did not take kindly to it.

While these attributions and assumptions have held for centuries there are nowadays opinions emanating from more modern scholarship which challenges both the authorship of the book and the story of Weldon’s dismissal from court. OCLC; DNB; Marshall and Kelsey. $1950.

First Edition of Izaak Walton’s Life of Dr. Sanderson From the Acclaimed Author of The Compleat Angler Full Contemporary Calf - 1678 127 Walton, Izaak. THE LIFE OF DR. SANDERSON, Late Bishop of Lincoln. To Which is Added Some Short Tracts or Cases of Conscience, Written by the Said Bishop. (London: For Richard Marriott, 1678) First Edition. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Sanderson, also with separate engraved title-pages to Sanderson’s included 5 works. 8vo, in full contemporary dark calf boards, long ago rebacked with proper raised bands double-ruled in blind, with a red morocco label lettered and double-ruled in gilt, additional gilt lettering at the tail of the spine A1-B4, a1-08,[1], 1-275pp. A very handsome copy, well preserved. Internally quite fresh feeling but with light and unobtrusive evidence of old damp to the outside bottom corner. The portrait, general title-page and a few leaves in the preface with some wear and soiling to the outer edge, antique binding handsome and solid but with some expected wear and mellowing.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION of Walton’s last published major work and the last of his series of “Lives” which along with Sanderson included Dunne, Hooker, Herbert and Wotton. Walton’s notoriety as author of THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, (one the most famous books in the language and one of the best sporting and best “how to” books of all time) often overshadows the memory of these biographies, the last three of which written when Walton was quite elderly. In these works Walton expresses a unique view of time as a perceptual framework and a transient state of normal life. He stresses that these important figures must be viewed within their own and personal relationship to time, and to the times in which they lived. In doing so he evolved the art of writing “Lives” to something more closely relative to modern biographical scholarship then can be seen in the writings of his contemporaries. $650.

Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass - A Rare Issue From the First Philadelphia Edition - Original Cloth - 1884 One of the Greatest Works in American Literature 129 Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS (Glasgow: Wilson & McCormick, 1884) First Edition Thus from the 1882 Philadelphia edition, and probably printed and bound in America for distribution in the UK . Engraved portrait of Whitman on card, as in the first edition, and with the tissue guard as issued. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original golden-yellow cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and with the author’s autograph rendered in gilt on the upper cover. 382 pp., and with the rare 12 pp. of ads at the rear A pleasing and well preserved copy with only light evidence of shelving or use over time, an old offset of a smaller volume to the front cover.

THE FIRST ISSUE OF THIS UK EDITIOIN FROM THE PHILADELPHIA EDITION AND A SCARCE ISSUE OF THIS AMERICAN MASTERWORK. AN IMPORTANT PRINTING. Whitman’s LEAVES OF GRASS portrayed America at the crossroads between an old world, soon to be caste off, and the new world of our future present.

"The whole of LEAVES OF GRASS is imbued with the spirit of brotherhood and a pride in the democracy of the young American nation. In a sense, it is America’s second Declaration of Independence: that of 1776 was political, this of 1855 intellectual." - PMM. $1250.

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Select Index of Authors & Subjects.

Grimm, Herman 31

A

Hale, Edward Everett 19 Hale, Matthew 7 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 19 Heaney, Seamus 19 Hearn, Lafcadio 20 Hemingway, Ernest 2, 20 Henry, King 20 Herodotus 21 Holles, Denzil Lord 21 Hutchinson, Col. 21 Huxley, Aldous 22

Adams, John Quincy 5 Anne, Queen 15

B Berryman, John 5 Beveridge, Albert 5 Blake, William 5 Boswell, James 6 Bruce, James 7 Bryant, William Cullen 7 Buonaparte, Napoleon 31, 34 Burnett, Gilbert 7 Burton, Sir Richard F. 8

C Chapman, Abel 8 Charles II, King 23 Charles I, King 9 Chichele, Henry 14 Churchill, Randolph S. 11 Churchill, Winston S. 9, 10, 11 Clark, Walter 31 Cleveland, Grover 12 Coolidge, Calvin 12

D Dante Alighieri 13 D’Artaganan 12 Dickens, Charles 13, 23 Dickens, Charles (the younger) 37 DiMaggio, Joe 14 Dreiser, Theodore 14 Duhéme, Jacqueline 15

E Eisenhower, David 15 Eisenhower, Dwight D. 15 Elizabeth I, Queen 15

F Ford, Paul Leicester 22 Franklin, Benjamin 16, 17 Franklin, William Temple 16 Fraser, Claud Lovat 17 Freud, Sigmund 17

G Gilbert, Martin 11 Grant, Ulysses S. 17, 18 Graves, Robert 26 Grey, Zane 18 (617) 536-4433

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I Irving, Washington 4, 22

J James, King 38 Jefferson, Thomas 1, 22 Johnson, Samuel 6, 23

K Kafka, franz 24 Kazantzakis, Nikos 24 Kennedy, Edward M. 25 Kennedy, Joe 24, 25 Kennedy, John F. 15, 24, 25, 33

L Lawrence, T.E. 26, 27 Lemon, Mark 13 Lincoln, Abraham 4, 27, 28, 29 Livingstone, David 29, 30 Lowry, Malcolm 30

M Madison, Lucy 34 Mahan, Admiral A.T. 30 Manet, Edouard 30 Marlborough 9 Marshall, John 5 MATHEWS, CHARLES JAMES 37 Medici, Lorenzo De’ 33 Michaelangelo 31 Monroe, James 5, 31 Morley, John 31 Morris, Charles 13 Morse, John 17 Murray, Alexander 7

P Patchen, Kenneth 32 Pierce, Franklin 19 Pissarro, Camille 32 Plutarch 32

R Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan 33 Récamier, Madame 27 Roosevelt, Teddy 33 Roscoe 33 Roth, Henry 34

S Sandburg, Carl 4, 27, 28 Sanderson, Dr. 39 Saunder, Marshall 34 Schoonover, Frank 34 Schurz, Carl 29 Scott, Walter 23, 34 Seurat, Georges 35 Shakespeare, William 37 Sherman, General W.T. 35 Southey, Robert 35 Stanley, Henry M. 36 Steinbeck, John 36 Stevenson, R.L. 16 Stowe, Harriet Beecher 2, 36

T Tarkington, Booth 15 Thackeray, W.M. 23 Thoreau, Henry David 3, 37 Twain, Mark 37, 38

V Vinci, Leonardo Da 13

W Wairy, Louis Constant 31 Walpole 31 Walton, Izaak 39 Washington, George 34 Whitman, Walt 3, 39 Wilson, Jeremy 27

Z Zane, Betty 18

N NANSEN, FRIDTIOF 31 Nelson, Lord Admiral 30, 35

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