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The Works of Ben Jonson In Elusive Period Calf in Original State - 1716 - London 1 Jonson, Ben. THE WORKS OF BEN JONSON. With a Biographical Memoir

by William Gifford (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, M. Wotton. . . J. Tonson, and W. Innys, 1716) 6 volumes. Early antiquarian edition. Adorned with frontispieces and plates, including a frontispiece portrait in Volume I. 8vo, bound in fine period polished calf in very pleasing and handsome style, the spines with raised bands and lettering on contrasting red and green morocco labels in gilt, board edges tooled in blind, edges sprinkled red. A fine handsome set and rare in this condition, the joints sometime refurbished. The textblocks are only very lightly mellowed and the extremities lightly rubbed.

SCARCE EARLY PRINTING HANDSOMELY BOUND. A beautiful presentation of one of the English language’s greatest writers. Jonson of course is most remembered for his plays and poetry. His first play to be produced “Every Man Out of His Humour” featured William Shakespeare in its cast. Along with Jonson’s great body of work is William Gifford’s memoir, a selection of Commendatory Verses on Jonson written by his contemporaries, a fine glossary and extensive index.

Jonson, dramatist, lyric poet and literary editor is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare.

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A Rare and Beautiful Edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses Two Beautiful Large Folio Volumes Profusely Illustrated Latin and French - Printed in Amsterdam - 1732 2 Ovid. LES METAMORPHOSES D’OVIDE, En Latin, Traduites en Francois, Avec des Remarques, et des Explications Historiques Par Mr. L’Abbe Banier de l’Académie Royale des Inscriptions & BellesLettres (Amsterdam: R. & J. Westein & G. Smith, 1732) 2 volumes.

First of the edition, the French and Latin printed in double column.

Extensively illustrated with figures in taille douce engraved by B. Picart and other skilled masters. The engravings consist of large pictorial illustrative chapter heads typically measuring over 22 by 17 cm.

Also with engraved tail pieces and initials throughout. Folio [46.5 by 30.5 cm], in very fine and handsome contemporary mottled calf, the boards paneled in gilt featuring an outer gilt rolled frame in a fleur de list mottif around an inner gilt panel featuring large acorn cornerpieces, this surrounding a large and ornate central gilt element in finest period fashion, the spines elaborately gilt tooled in compartments between wide gilt-tooled bands, the compartments in a floral motif also featuring large acorn center tools, two compartments featuring morocco labels of contrasting red and green with extensive gilt decoration and lettering. 248; 249-524, [4] pp. A very fine and handsome set, the contemporary calf extremely handsome with only the most minor of expected age, internally very fresh, clean and wonderfully preserved.

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EIN AND SMITH’S IMPRESSIVE ILLUSTRATED OVID. It is far rarer then their Latin/English printing, OCLC notes only 15 copies in institutional collections and there are no auction records going back over 25 years. This a magnificent copy in full and very fine contemporary binding. Banier’s translation into French was a standard for decades and was later reprinted. There were several editions of it in 1732, but we are unaware of any earlier.

Metamorphoses is mainly a collection of Greek and Roman myths, retelling classical stories such as Echo and Narcissus, Jason and Medea, and Venus and Adonis. It also includes the Eastern Babylonian tale, Pyramus and Thisbe. This great epic work has been recognized throughout the centuries for its inventiveness, charm, and originality.

“As a story-teller and guide to Greek myth and Roman legend, Ovid was very influential on later Roman writers and was read, quoted, and adapted during the Middle Ages. He was the favourite Latin poet of the Renaissance, and there were many translations of his works into English.”-M.C.Howatson. His influence upon great writers through history, from Chaucer to Marlowe and Shakespeare, is well-known.

Originally $12,500. NOW $9500.

Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen - First Complete Edition The Beautiful First Illustrated Edition of 1751 Printed in London - Replete with Folding Copperplates 3 Spenser, Edmund. THE FAERIE QUEEN. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions Published by Himself at London in Quarto; the Former containing the first Three Books printed in 1590, and the latter the Six Books printed in 1596. To which are now added, A New Life of the Author, and Also a Glossary. (London: J. Brindley in New-Bond Street and S. Wright, 1751) 3 volumes. First Complete and First Illustrated Edition and the First with Birch’s Life. A fine early antiquarian printing of Spenser’s great work, adorned with engraved plates. Elegantly embellished with fine full page engraved double-page copper plates from the original drawings of W. Kent, architect and painter to his Majesty. Large 4tos, handsomely bound in full period polished calf, the covers with elaborate rolled gilt toolwork at the borders, the spines with raised bands gilt stopped and separating compartments fully gilt decorated with corner pieces, border work and central ornamental tools, two compartments with contrasting red and green morocco lettering pieces gilt, marbled endleaves, all edges marbled. lxiii, [2], xxxvii, 453; [ii], 450. [ii], 440 pp. A fine set in fully original state, internally, the text-blocks quite fresh and clean and well preserved, the folding plates with some of the usual offsetting or mellowing, the bindings well preserved though with some wear or weakness at the joints.

RARE IN CONTEMPORARY BINDINGS. THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED AND FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. A BEAUTIFUL AND EARLY PRINTED SET OF ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The text of Books I to VI of Faerie Queen from the editions of 1590 and 1596 in quarto. The fragment of Book VII is from the folio edition of 1609. Included is Birch’s Life and Spenser’s letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, commendatory verses, dedicatory verses and a collation of the 1590 and 1596.

Edmund Spenser stands with the likes of William Shakespeare and John Milton in the history of English poetry. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one of the greatest poets in the English language. Spenser was known to his contemporaries as “the prince of poets” and was said by them to be “as great in English as Virgil in Latin”. He was greatly preferred over Shakespeare by Queen Elizabeth and many others of the day. He left behind him masterful essays in every genre of poetry, from pastoral and elegy to epithalamion and epic. A century later John Milton would call Spenser “a better teacher than Aquinas” and was greatly influenced by him. Since then generations of readers have admired his subtle use of language, his imagination, his immense classical and religious learning and “his unerring ability to synthesize and, ultimately, to delight”.

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THE FAERIE QUEEN is Spenser’s best known work, and arguably his best. It is especially notable for its form: it was the first work written in what is now called Spenserian stanza, and is also one of the longest poems in the English language.

An allegorical work, written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I, is is largely symbolic, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several virtues. It found, not surprisingly, great political favour with Elizabeth I and was such a public success that it quickly became Spenser’s defining work.

Originally $3950. NOW $2950.

Charles Dickens - American Notes For General Circulation London - Chapman and Hall - 1842 An Unusually Fine Set in Lovely Period Bindings 4 Dickens, Charles. AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION (London: Chapman and Hall, 1842) 2 volumes. The fourth issuance of the book, released within months of the “First Edition” and in the identical format. 8vo, in very handsome and desirable bindings of contemporary three-quarter dark blue calf over violet cloth-covered boards, the spines with superb giltwork featuring very ornate designs in three compartments separated by delicately gilt tooled raised bands, two compartments with red morocco labels gilt lettered, additional giltwork at the spine tips, all very beautifully preserved, marbled edges and endpapers. viii, [1], 308; viii, [1], 306 pp. An especially pleasing set, the text-blocks very fine, as clean and fresh as could be, the bindings extremely handsome and well preserved.

BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND UNCOMMON IN SUCH BRIGHT AND FINE CONDITION. The work is Dickens’ rendering of his journeys in America. He went as far West as St. Louis and describes the people and characteristics of many of the cities and towns along the way including Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Cincinnati. An especially nice copy of this printing.

This fourth issue coming out within the same year as the first attest to AMERICAN NOTES success in sales, but it did not go over well with American readers. No other book of Dickens’ ever received such a harsh response from this side of the pond. Dickens had written an introduction he thought would soften the book to the American people but the publisher suppressed it fearing it would lead only to further misunderstanding. In spite of the controversy the book clearly sold very well, but this fourth was the last of the 1842 printings.

Originally $750. NOW $575.

Rare First Edition of Melville’s Mardi - Two Volumes A Unusually Handsome Set in Publisher’s Original Cloth New York - Harper and Brothers - 1849 5 Melville, Herman. MARDI and a Voyage Thither (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849) 2 volumes. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original blind-stamped purple cloth, with elaborate blind-stamped decorative tooling on covers and spine, lettering and Harper’s logo in gilt to the spine panel. Housed in a pleasing dark green morocco solander case, the volumes each with their own chemise. xii, 365; xii, 387 pp., 8 pp. ads. An unusually fine copy and a very handsome pair, beautifully preserved. The cloth is bright and clean and essentially without fading, some of the typical offsetting to the pastedown and free-fly.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH IN UNUSUALLY WELL PRESERVED CONDITION. THE BOOK IS EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE IN THE PURPLE CLOTH IN FINE CONDITION AS IS THIS COPY. After a tiring 18 month whaling voyage in the south seas, Melville jumped ship and with his companion, Richard Tobias Greene, lived in the islands for several months. While there he was captured by but escaped from island natives. He served on an Australian trader, worked as a field laborer and enlisted on the frigate U.S.S. United States. His experiences are the basis for the Swiftian adventures of Taji and his companion Jarl in Mardi. This is one of Melville’s best written stories. BAL 13658, Wright I, 1860 Originally $4750. NOW $3800.

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First Footsteps in East Africa - London - 1856 Burton’s First African Expedition In the Scarce Original Cloth 6 Burton, Richard F. FIRST FOOTSTEPS IN EAST AFRICA or, An Exploration of Harar. Edited By His Wife, Isabel Burton (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856) First edition. With four color lithographed plates, two maps, and seven illustrations in the text. 8vo, original red-orange cloth gilt lettered on the spine and decorated in blind on the covers, expertly and sympathetically rebacked retaining the original spine. xli, 648, 24 ads. A very good copy with the inevitable age mellowing.

AN IMPORTANT BURTON FIRST EDITION and a seminal work of Africana recording Burton’s first expedition into Somalia. His purpose was to explore the forbidden Moslem city of Harar, “a city whose walls no European had ever penetrated,” as well as to gather information about the headwaters of the Nile. He travelled in the same disguise that took him to Mecca, as Haji Mirza Abdullah, an Arab merchant.

It was on this expedition that Burton was first joined by John Speke, at the suggestion of James Outram. Speke originally abetted Burton’s plans in Somalia, but differences quickly arose between the two, and Speke over the years became Burton’s great nemesis, taking credit for discovering the Nile and deprecating Burton’s efforts in every sphere.

On this journey, despite the success of the primary objective, Lieut. Stroyan died and Burton received the famous spear wound to his face during an attack by Somalis while encamped on the beach at Berberah.

Burton’s intellectual influence is far-reaching. His amazing grasp of languages and culture anticipates the globalism of the future. His geographical discoveries not only make him an interesting historical figure but also allowed for future exploration. The detail with which he wrote and his willingness to examine intimate aspects of daily life were precursors to modern ethnography. And his understanding and willingness to immerse himself in cultures that are still little understood by those in Western nation-states is enlightening on many levels. He was the first European to enter Mecca, first to explore Somaliland, and first to discover the great lakes of Central Africa. A prolific writer, he published 43 volumes on exploration and travel, two volumes of poetry, over a hundred articles and 143 pages of autobiography. He translated sixteen volumes of The Arabian Nights, six volumes of Portuguese literature, two volumes of Latin poetry, and four volumes of folklore (Neapolitan, African and Hindu). His occupations included; soldier, writer, explorer, foreign emissary, translator and linguist, sword fighter, ethnographer and archaeologist. Penzer pp. 60-61.

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Robert Louis Stevenson - First Edition - 1893 Island Nights’ Entertainments - Illustrated Throughout Beautifully Bound by Zaehnsdorf 7 Stevenson, Robert Louis. ISLAND NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS, Consisting of The Beach of Falesá, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices (London: Cassell and Co, 1893) First edition. With illustrations by Gordon Browne and W. Hatherell. 8vo, very handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full tan calf, the covers with double fillet lines in gilt, elaborate gilt turnovers, the spine with raised bands stopped in gilt, contrasting red and green morocco labels, panel decorations in gilt and blind within the compartments, original cloth cover and spine panel bound in at the rear. x, 277, publisher’s catalogue. Spine a bit darkened, with some light wear to edges, else very good.

FIRST EDITION OF THE WORK AND A STEVENSON FAVORITE. The binding by Zaehnsdorf adds in a very pleasing way to the beauty of the book, illustrated throughout by two fine artists. Prideaux 38 Originally $395. NOW $300.

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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night The First of the Handsome Library Editions With the Material Removed by Lady Burton Fully Restored 8 Burton, Richard F., translator. THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT. Translated from the Arabic by Capt. Sir R. F. Burton. Printed from the Original Edition and Edited by Leonard C. Smithers (London: H. S. Nichols & Co., 1894) 12 volumes. First edition thus, the first Nichols/Smithers “Library Editon”, with all passages restored which had been omitted from Lady Burton’s edition of 1886. 8vo, black cloth decorated with elaborate Islamic design filling top cover, gilt lettered on spine. A very fine set exceptionally so for this edition, near mint.

THE FIRST OF NICHOLS AND SMITHERS’ FINE LIBRARY EDITIONS OF THIS MASTERPIECE OF WORLD LITERATURE AND ONE OF THE GREAT TRANSLATION EFFORTS OF ALL TIME, AND TO THIS DAY, UNRIVALED BY ANY SUBSEQUENT LINGUISTIC FEAT. Richard Burton was one of the foremost linguists of his time, an explorer, poet, translator, ethnologist, and archaeologist, among other things. ‘The Thousand Nights and a Night’ is probably the most famous of all his many works.

This translation reflected his encyclopedic knowledge of Arabic language, sexual practices and life: “it reveals a profound acquaintance with the vocabulary and customs of the Muslims, with their classical idiom,” [Ency Britt] as well as colloquialisms, philosophy, modes of thought and intimate details. In contrast to Victorian mores, Burton was driven to explore what would now be called by literary critics the uncanny/Unheimliche or the unresolvable tensions of human beings.

Accordingly, he recorded details of daily life and practices that were considered vulgar at the time.

The original edition was published in Benares in 1885 and printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only. Lady Burton’s edition of 1886 omitted 215 pages from the original text. In this edition, the omitted material has been restored. Edited by Leonard Smithers, who hoped that this edition would permit Burton’s translation of the famous tales to “take its proper place on the library shelf alongside Cervantes and Shakespeare.” (From the Editor’s Note.)

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Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Books - 1894 and 1895 A Set with Very Fine Provenance - The Doheny Copy First Editions - In Fine Original Gilt Decorated Cloth 9 Kipling, Rudyard. THE JUNGLE BOOK and THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK (London: Macmillan and Co., 1894, 1895) Together 2 volumes. First editions. These with fine provenance, being from the Doheny Collection with both Doheny plates added to each volume. With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. 8vo, publisher’s original polished navy blue cloth lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt on each volume, a.e.g. 212; 238, ads pp. A very pleasing, and handsome set, nice copies. The Jungle Book as usual, a bit less bright than The Second Jungle Book. Hinges are clean and unbroken, the giltwork to the bindings in good order, bright and only lightly worn on the first volume. An important set.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. The stories of Mowgli, a human child lost in the jungles of India and raised by wild animals, struck a cord with readers who somehow found him and his animal friends easy to relate to despite the bizarre circumstances. Arguably the best loved of Kipling’s many delightful works for children and a true classic of its genre.

Originally $4500. NOW $3500.

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Very Finely Bound in Red Morocco Gilt Winston Churchill - The World Crisis - 1911-1918 A Full Set of the Rare First Editions 10 Churchill, Winston. THE WORLD CRISIS (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-31) 6 volumes. A complete set of first editions, all volumes being first printing. Illustrated throughout with numerous diagrams and maps, some of which are folding, and with a frontispiece portrait in the volume “Eastern Front”. Tall 8vo, very handsomely bound by Bayntun of Bath in three-quarter red crushed morocco over red cloth. The wide backing and large corner pieces ruled in gilt, the spines with gilt framed panels within compartments separated by gilt-stippled raised bands ruled in blind, gilt lettering in three panels and at the foot, tips gilt hatched, fine marbled endpapers and t.e.g. Engraved bookplates and ex-libris embossed in blind on the free-flies. 529, index; 552, index; 292; 582, index; 466, index; 368. An especially fine and very handsome set, the text very clean and fresh and pristine, the bindings in excellent condition and very fine indeed.

SCARCE FULL SET OF FIRST EDITIONS IN VERY FINE BINDINGS SIGNED BAYNTUN OF BATH. In Churchill’s own words: “(in) the five volumes of the WORLD CRISIS and the AFTERMATH I have told the story of the War from the British standpoint, and particularly from those positions of authority which I held myself. The war at sea, the expedition to the Dardanelles, and the campaigns in France and Flanders filled the stage. It was only here and there that brief summaries of the struggles of Russia with Germany and Austria in the East could find a place. In (THE EASTERN FRONT) the proportions are reversed. The tale both of the events leading to the War and of its battles is told from the Eastern theatre, and only brief, indispensable references are made to British and French affairs. I have attempted to give a general account of the whole War upon the Eastern Front, and the distant cannonade in France breaks only fitfully upon the ear. The primary theme arises in Vienna and covers the agonies of Central Europe. The familiar events of the West are seen only in their reactions upon the Eastern Front” [preface to THE EASTERN FRONT).

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Unique and Noteworthy Presentation Copy from the Author From David Rockefeller to Buckminster Fuller First Edition - Creative Management In Banking - 1964 11 Rockefeller, David. CREATIVE MANAGEMENT IN BANKING (New York: McGraw Hill, 1964) FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED WITH WARM PRESENTATION FROM THE AUTHOR, DAVID ROCKEFELLER, TO R. BUCKMINSTER “BUCKY” FULLER. Signed and dated December 4th, 1964. 8vo, original orange/ brown cloth lettered in yellow on the upper cover and in yellow and black on the spine, in the original dustjacket. ix, 84pp. A very good copy, just a bit of mellowing to the jacket, with Fuller’s shelf label affixed to the bottom of the spine of both book and jacket.

Pencil notation, possibly Fuller’s, on the front of the jacket.

A PRESENTATION COPY FROM ONE OF THE 20TH CENTURY’S MOST FAMOUS MEN OF FINANCE AND BUSINESS TO ONE OF THE CENTURY’S GREAT RENAISSANCE MEN, BUCKMINSTER FULLER, American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. Rockefeller and Fuller had a long and sometimes hostile association. At the time of this inscription Rockefeller was chairman of Chase Manhattan. Fuller often accused the financial world of Wall Street, and David Rockefeller by name, of downgrading (617) 536-4433

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and selling out American Ingenuity. However, from other quotes it is also clear Fuller considered him a genius. If there was animosity between them it is clearly not evident from this inscription, it reads “With deep admiration and warm regards.”

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With Eight Plates Signed by Jim Dine Limited Edition - The Poet Assassinated - Apollinaire One of 250 Copies Only - Signed by Dine and the Translator The Beginnings of the Pop Art Movement 12 Apollinaire, Guillaume; Dine, Jim (Illustrator); Padgett, Ron (Translator). THE POET ASSASSINATED. Translated

by Ron Padgett Illustrations by Jim Dine (New York: Tanglewood Press, [1968]) LIMITED DELUXE EDITION, of 250 hand-numbered copies SIGNED by both the translator and artist and with Dine’s eight original glossy Pochoir plates signed by the artist and hand-numbered and laid in. Printed on Euroset offset paper. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and photo-collages plus the eight original numbered colour pochoir plates by Jime Dine with all tissue guards intact. 4to, loose in printed chemise as issued within the publisher’s wrap of stiff paper covered in glassine and printed in black. In the original cloth covered slipcase with photographic image printed in hot pink. 128 pp. plus the eight additional plates. A very fine copy, internally as new, the glassine wrapper also fine and just a tad mellowed at the spine, the slipcase very fresh and clean with very minor mellowing to the pink at the rear panel.

SCARCE LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 250 COPIES. This English edition of Apollinaire’s “Le Poète Assassiné” is one of the great works of the “Pop Art” movement created around one of the foundational works of surrealist literature.

This edition is signed by both Ron Padgett and Jim Dine and includes eight original pochoir plates which are also handnumbered and signed by the artist.

Padgett studied 20th-century French literature in Paris during 1965 and 1966. In 1962 Dine’s work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and groundbreaking “New Painting of Common Objects”, curated by Walter Hopps at the Norton Simon Museum. This exhibition is considered historically as one of the first “Pop Art” exhibitions in America. At a time of major social unrest and socio-political change, the painters included began a great new movement, shocking America and the art world in general and changing modern art for all time.

Originally $4850. NOW $3650.

John Sloan’s Prints - A Catalogue Raisonné One of the Premier American Artist of the 20th Century With Two Limited Engraved Proofs Signed 13 Sloan, John; Morse, Peter. JOHN SLOAN’S PRINTS. A Catalogue Raisonné of Etchings, Lithographs, and Posters. With a Forward by Jacob Kainen (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969) LIMITED Special Edition of only 150 numbered copies, this being Number 5, including a proof etching limited to 150 of the hitherto unpublished plate “Woman with Hand to Chin” signed and dated for John Sloan by his widow and famed patron of the arts, Helen Farr Sloan. THIS COPY WITH TWO OF THE SIGNED PROOFS INCLUDED. Extensively illustrated throughout including reproductions of 313 engraved plates, 32 figures and 20 posters, all handsomely produced in black and white. Folio, publisher’s original blue/gray polished buckram lettered on the spine in gilt, in the original cloth covered slipcase with a large pastedown on the upper cover showing one of Sloan’s engravings.

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excellent and very handsome copy, internally pristine and as new, the cloth fine and with virtually no evidence of age, the slipcase fine and still very handsome and strong with a just bit of expected evidence of shelving or age.

ONE OF ONLY 150 COPIES AND THIS COPY WITH TWO OF THE SIGNED PROOF ETCHINGS, only one was intended to be provided with each copy of the book. A very impressive and handsomely produced Catalogue Raisonné of John Sloan, a member of The Eight, a group of American artists, and the leading figure in the Ashcan School of realist artists. In AMERICAN VISIONS the critic Robert Hughes praised the influence of “the most lyrical, and politically acerbic of the Ashcan artists, ‘a spectator of life’, as he called himself. Sloan’s work had an honest humane-ness, a frank sympathy, he refused to flatten lower-class New Yorkers into stereotypes of misery, and his strong sense of the moments in which ordinary people are seen unawares, or isolated, was to deeply affect the leading artist of the next generation, Edward Hopper.”

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John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra - First Edition In the Very Scarce First Issue Dustjacket 14 O’Hara, John. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1934]) First edition, First Issue, with the tipped in errattum slip as called for. 8vo, publisher’s original black polished cloth lettered on the spine in gilt. IN THE SCARCE FIRST ISSUE DUSTJACKET, with the $2.50 price and with “Recent Fiction” on the back cover. 301pp. A fine copy, pristine and unused, the varnished black cloth shiny and fresh with only a tiny amount of marking that is common to the varnish and almost no wear whatsoever, the text clean and solid and fresh. The jacket, which is quite scarce, is still very bright and attractive. The front and rear panels of the dustjacket are in quite excellent condition, bright, clean and complete, the spine panel shows a bit of evidence of shelving at the foot, and a bit of wear at the head, but this is a very pleasing and attractive copy of an important book.

A FINE COPY IN SCARCE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET OF JOHN O’HARA’S FIRST BOOK. One of the Modern Library’s Top 100 books of the 20th Century.

O’Hara is particularly well-known for his uncanny ear for dialogue. Writer Fran Lebowitz called him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald” and John Updike has likened him to Chekhov.

The novel is about the self-destruction, over a three day period, of Julian English, once a member of the social elite of Gibbsville. Gibbsville is clearly O’Hara’s fictionalized version of his native Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

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Dan Brown - Angels and Demons - Signed First Edition The First ‘Robert Langdon’ Novel - A Very Suspenseful Read 15 Brown, Dan. ANGELS & DEMONS (New York: Pocket Books, 2000) First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth over orange boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original decorated dustjacket. 430 pp. A superior copy, as mint and pristine.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY DAN BROWN. “An explosive international thriller, ANGELS & DEMONS careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.”

The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the protagonist of Brown’s subsequent 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code; his 2009 novel, The Lost Symbol; and the 2013 novel INFERNO. Angels and Demons shares many stylistic literary elements with its more famous sequel, such as conspiracies of secret societies, a single-day time frame, and the Catholic Church.

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Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code - First Edition A Very Fine Autographed Copy of This Riveting Thriller 16 Brown, Dan. THE DA VINCI CODE (New York: Doubleday, 2003) First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original decorated dustjacket. 454 pp. A very fine copy, as pristine.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY DAN BROWN. “Intrigue and menace mingle in one of the finest mysteries I’ve ever read. An amazing tale with enigma piled on secrets stacked on riddles.” - Clive Cussler. One of the most popular books of the century’s first decade.

The Da Vinci Code provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and Mary Magdalene’s role in the history of Christianity. Combining elements of the detective, thriller and conspiracy genres, it is Brown’s second novel to include the character Robert Langdon. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, “it concisely conveys the kind of extreme enthusiasm with which this riddle-filled, code-breaking, exhilaratingly brainy thriller can be recommended. That word is wow. The author is Dan Brown (a name you will want to remember). In this gleefully erudite suspense novel, Mr. Brown takes the format he has been developing through three earlier novels and fine-tunes it to blockbuster perfection.”

Originally $950. NOW $695.

Christopher Paolini - Eragon and Eldest - First Editions Both Books Signed by the Author - The “Inheritance Books” Unusual, Powerful, Fresh, and Fluid Fantasy Novels 17 Paolini, Christopher. [INHERITANCE BOOKS 1 & 2:] ERAGON [and] ELDEST (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003 and 2005) First Edition of each book and The First Boxed Edition.

Both books are AUTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original cloth over boards, the spines lettered in gilt, in the decorative dustjackets and housed now in the original pictorially designed colour slipcase. 509; 681 pp. Both books are in superlative condition, as mint copies of each book.

FIRST EDITIONS OF EACH BOOK AND THE FIRST BOXED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. “Paolini is a spellbinding fantasy writer.”- Boston Globe. “An authentic work of great talent.”

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One of the Greatest Renaissance Contributions The Basis for the Study of the Greek Language Budé - 1548 - Estienne - Commentarii Linguae Graecae...

18 Budé, Guillaume. COMMENTARII LINGUAE GRAECAE ... Ab eodem accuratè recogniti, atque amplius tertia parte aucti (Paris: Robert Estienne, 1548, 23rd Dec.) With Fine Provenance.

The first issuance of the definitive and best edition, enlarged by more than a third from the original. Estienne device [Schreiber 10] on title; foliated Greek initials. Folio, bound in full 18thcentury sprinkled calf, the covers with fine double fillet border lines gilt, the spine beautifully presented with raised bands gilt stopped, the compartments with fine panel designs some elaborately decorated in fully gilt presentations and others with tooled borders and central ornamental pieces, red morocco lettering label gilt, marbled endleaves. 1109, [1] pp., [21] leaves (in this copy the colophon leaf has been bound at the beginning, before the title. A superior copy beautifully preserved, the covers in excellent condition, the back sometime renewed brilliantly to style, with the manuscript ownership entry of Gouye de Longuemarre (1715-1763: see below).

WITH FINE PROVENANCE. A RARE AND IMPORTANT PRINTING OF THIS GREAT RENAISSANCE MASTERWORK. The definitive and best edition, attractively printed, with extensive use of the “grecs du roi,” enlarged by more than one-third from notes left by Budé, of one of the greatest Renaissance contributions to the study of Greek antiquity, and the book which was directly responsible for the foundation of the Collège de France.

Guillaume Budé (1467-1540) was the leading humanist of the reign of François I, and was recognized as sharing with his friend Erasmus the primacy of European scholarship. The Commentarii, first published in 1529, is Budé’s most immense and encyclopedic work, which was itself a monument or summation of Budé’s years of Greek study: “This prodigious work was a thesaurus, in the original sense of the word, a treasure utilized by later lexicographers.

Far more than a Greek-Latin word list, it is a complex and rich compilation of lexicographical notes designed to help young people learn Greek” (David O. McNeil, Guillaume Budé and Humanism, p. 89). It served as the basis for Henri Estienne’s Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a masterful reference work which has never really been surpassed. “The ‘Commentaries on the Greek Language’ formed the basis for the study of the Greek language in France. [It was] a monument of the new learning” (Printing and the Mind of Man, 60); “C’est aux Commentaires que Budé doit d’avoir été considéré, sans contestation possible, comme le prince des hellénistes” (J. Plattard, Guillaume Budé et les origines de l’humanisme en France).

In his dedicatory Greek preface to François I (reprinted here from the first edition), Budé reminds the king, in very plain language, of the promise he had long before made to establish a royal college for the study of ancient languages. The king heeded the appeal and the following spring he instituted royal readers in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, with the object of supplementing the conservative teaching of the Sorbonne. Thus was born the Collegium Trilingue, later to become the Collège de France. In appendix is Budé’s 3-page epistle in Greek addressed to students of the Greek language.

This copy was owned in the 18th century by the historian Gouye de Longuemarre (1715-1763) of Dieppe, a prominent writer on early French history; his ownership inscription on the title-page reads: “Utebatur Gouye de Longuemare Dieppensis” (“Gouye de Longuemarre of Dieppe used [this book]”); indeed, this is attested by the numerous neat underscorings of words and phrases throughout the volume. Brunet I, 1374; Renouard 71: 7; Armstrong 69, 112f., 130; Adams B-3096; Schreiber 100; Cf. PMM 60.

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Fine in Contemporary Calf Samuel Johnson’s Classic Tour of Scotland A Journey to the Western Islands - 1775 19 [Johnson, Samuel]. A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND (London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775) First edition. Issue with six line errata.

8vo, in a lovely binding of full contemporary polished calf, spine with simple and tasteful raised bands ruled in gilt and a red morocco label, gilt lettered. [3], 384. An especially fine copy, in completely original state with no repairs or restoration whatsoever, highly unusual with both the text and binding in such a fine state of preservation.

With excellent provenance and fine baronial bookplate.

FIRST EDITION IN A BEAUTIFUL STATE OF PRESERVATION. Johnson undertook this expedition at the ripe old age of 64, but it had its origin in a book, Martin’s DESCRIPTION OF THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND (1703), which his father gave him in his youth. “His attention was drawn to the anecdote of the man of St. Kilda, who thought that the high church of Glasgow had been carved out of a high rock, and had remarked that there were some in that island ‘much higher’. This fascinated him and remained, while life lasted, in his mind.....His narrative of the journey was written in a more homely style than many of his previous publications, and it was not meant unkindly” (Courtney and Smith, pp. 118-9).

Traditionally this is called the second issue of the first edition owing to the six versus the twelve line errata. It contains Johnson’s final corrections (despite the presence of the errata leaf) and is the authorized text of the book. Courtney, p. 122; Chapman, p. 151.

Originally $3250. NOW $2500.

Exquisitely Bound by Simier R. du Roi - Binder to the King The Greatest Printed and Illustrated Cervantes 1780 - Don Quixote de la Mancha - The First Ibarra Edition Luxuriously Presented in the Finest Crushed Morocco Gilt Perhaps the Most Beautiful Example of a Great Book Replete with Very Fine Engravings Throughout All Volumes

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20 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De. EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA...Nueva Edicion, Corregida por la Real Academia Española (Madrid: Don Joachin Ibarra, 1780) 4 volumes. The First Ibarra Edition, the most revered and beautifully illustrated and printed pressing of the most treasured work in all of Spanish literature, a monument of Spanish typography. The edition chosen by the Fathers of Seville for presentation after the defeat of Napoleon by the English.

The choice of this edition as a gift in thanks for rescuing Spain from Napoleon’s onslaught is of the greatest importance and suggests the esteem in which the edition was held by the people of Spain. With an engraved portrait, engraved title pages in each volume, 31 fine engraved plates and 66 charming head- and tailpieces, and a large map with Quixote’s peregrinations in the first volume. Large 4to, a splendid and very beautiful binding by the firm of Simier R. du Roi, binder to the king, in the finest dark purple goatskin, adorned in gold and blind decorations, the spines titled and numbered in gold and with very rich and beautiful gold decorations in compartments, rich gold dentelles and edges. Simier’s “variety and and technique were superb; he had no superior and few rivals during his career” ( Ramsden’s French Bookbinders 1789-1848 ). [iv], XIV, ccvviv, 199; [iv], 418; [ii], xiv, 306; [iv], 346. This is a superb example in the most wonderful state of preservation. A magnificent binding and the most beautiful Cervantes we have ever encountered.

AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY OF THE FIRST IBARRA CERVANTES.

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PROFUSELY AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT WITH THE FINEST ENGRAVINGS. PERHAPS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND DESIRABLE SET AVAILABLE OF THE MAGNIFICENT IBARRA EDITION. The Ibarra Edition is “the finest edition of Don Quixote that has ever been printed” (D. B. Updike). Printed for the Royal Spanish Academy in Spanish-designed types, lavishly ornamented, and containing the Prologue of the Academy, the Life of Cervantes, and a Chronological Plan and Analysis of the book, this is not only the finest edition of Cervantes, but is also a monument of European fine printing.

What results from the combination of edition and presentation is a remarkable historical artifact whose position in the annals of bibliophily is perhaps unequaled except by a handful of famous books. It boils down to this: the greatest imaginative work from the Spanish mind, in its most beautiful physical manifestation.

Binder to the King, Simier’s “variety and and technique were superb; he had no superior and few rivals during his career” ( Ramsden’s French Bookbinders 1789-1848 ).

This was the edition given to one of the most famous figures in military history, in gratitude for one of the most important military operations in European history. Cohen- De Ricci 218-9; Palau 52024 “magnifica edicion”; Updike Printing Types II, pp. 55-7: “so original and lively in cut”.

Originally $47,500. NOW $37,500.

Shakespeare - The Works - With Rare First Concordance 1790 - In the Original Calf Bindings - Three Volumes A Handsome Set - Complete With an Important Index 21 Shakespeare, William. SHAKESPEARE’S DRAMATIC WORKS; With Explanatory Notes...To Which Is Added, A Copious Index...by the Rev. Samuel Ayscough... Embellished with A Striking Likeness of the Author From the Original Folio Edition (London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1790) 3 volumes. “A New Edition”, and a fine 18th century printing of the Bard’s Dramatic Works. With a portrait frontispiece engraved by W. Sherwin from the famous Droeshout portrait from the original folio editions. Royal 8vos, in fine full contemporary calf, the spine with a gilt lattice decoration in compartments between flat gilt multi-ruled bands, one compartment with a red morocco gilt decorated and lettered label, a second with a contrasting green morocco oval label with the volume numbers in gilt.

(14), 541pp; 543pp-1079pp; 1083pp-1752pp, publisher’s catalogue pp. A very good and handsome set, the antique calf with some minor expected wear to the corners and edges, some joints with a bit of minor cosmetic cracking but still firm and tightly attached.

AN IMPORTANT AND RARE 18TH CENTURY EDITION. A very handsome 18th century Shakespeare. The huge index, one entire volume, to the passages and words is of extraordinary usefulness and it is the first published concordance of Shakespeare’s plays. It also contains two short but valuable prefaces and Rowe’s “Life” of Shakespeare. Stockdale’s intention was to produce sets of the Bard’s great works for subscribers not wealthy enough to purchase the large 6 to 10 volume sets typically printed at the time, but the fine quality of the contemporary full calf on this set would indicate a fairly rich heritage. Jaggard, page 505.

Originally $2650. NOW $1950.

A Superb Copy of Sale’s Great Translation of the Koran The Best of the Early Translations - Finely Bound 22 [Koran]; Sale, George. THE KORAN, Commonly Called The Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English immediately from the Original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken from the most Approved Commentators.

To which is prefixed a Preliminary Discourse. By George Sale (Bath: Printed by S. Hazard for J. Johnson, Vernor and Hood, Ogilvy and Speare et al, 1795) 2 volumes. An early and very scarce printing of George Sale’s great English translation. With three engraved genealogical tables (two folding), a map and a folding plate featuring (617) 536-4433

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a view and the plan of the Temple of Mecca, all as in the first edition. 8vo, very handsome full contemporary speckled calf, compartments of the spines elegantly decorated in elaborate panel designs with gilt decorated bands and fine central gilt ornamental devices, gilt rolled border designs, two compartments with contrasting red and green morocco labels ruled and lettered in gilt, board edges gilt stippled, covers with roll tooled borders gilt, marbled endleaves. Vol. I: xii, (2), 266, Table 14 pp. ; Vol. II: (8), 519, Table 12 pp. An especially fine and exceptionally handsome set in beautiful contemporary bindings. The bindings are in excellent condition, the text blocks and paper remain fresh, clean, unpressed and in beautiful condition, near as pristine.

VERY RARE IN THIS CONDITION. Sale’s version, originally published some years earlier, is the best early translation of the Islamic holy book, and the first English translation taken directly from the original Arabic. The only translation published previous to Sale’s was “the despicable French version” of André Du Ryer, issued in 1649, and Alexander Ross published an English version derived from Du Ryer’s in the same year.

Sale’s intent in translating the Koran was seemingly to educate English readers (and perhaps those in power) about Islam in an atmosphere of what he perceived to be ignorance and intolerance: “...it seems as if there was something more than what is vulgarly imagined, in a religion which has made so surprising a progress.” He states, “...as Mohammed gave his Arabs the best religion he could, as well as the best laws, preferable, at least, to those of the ancient pagan lawgivers, I confess I cannot see why he deserves not equal respect, though not with Moses or Jesus Christ, whose laws came really from heaven, yet with Minos or Numa, notwithstanding the distinction of a learned writer, who seems to think it a greater crime to make use of an imposture to set up a new religion, founded on the acknowledgment of one true God, and to destroy idolatry, than to use the same means to gain reception to rules and regulations for the more orderly practice of heathenism already established.” He goes on to argue that “...if the religious and civil Institutions of foreign nations are worth our knowledge, those of Mohammed, the lawgiver of the Arabians, and founder of an empire, which, in less than a century, spread itself over a greater part of the world than the Romans were ever masters of, must needs be so.”

Originally $2950. NOW $2250.

The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane Smollett’s Classic Translation - London - 1819 A Fine Colourplate Set in Three Volumes in Polished Calf 23 [Smollett] Le Sage, [Alain Rene]. THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS DE SANTILLANE, Translated From the French of Le Sage by Tobias Smollett (London: for Thomas McLean, 1819) 3 volumes. First edition thus. With the famous fifteen fine and charming hand-colored plates. 8vo, in fine antique full red calf by Root & Son, the boards with triple-ruled gilt frames with small floral cornerpieces, the spines handsomely gilt tooled in compartments between gilt ruled bands, two compartments with black morocco lables lettered and decorated in gilt, board edges gilt stippled, turn-ins gilt decorated, marble endpapers and t.e.g. xii, 384; 378; 392 pp. A very fine set, internally fresh and clean, the plates bright, the bindings sturdy and sound, the calf with minor and pleasing evidence of age. A lovely set.

A FINE AND BEAUTIFUL SET IN ANTIQUE CALF BY ROOT AND SONS, handsome and well preserved. Le Sage’s 18th century classic, offered here in the best translation by Mr. Smollett who was also renown for his translation of DON QUIXOTE and for his own masterful works of literature and travel. The fine hand-colored engravings are very much after the style of Thomas Rowlandson (though they are not by his hand) and are rich in both colour and expression.

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First Edition in the Original Cloth - Redburn A Herman Melville Classic - Very Scarce - 1849 24 Melville, Herman. REDBURN: HIS FIRST VOYAGE. Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1849) First edition.

A copy with both sets of the ads. 8vo, publisher’s original purple blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Now housed in a fine threequarter blue morocco drop-over clamshell case, decorated with raised bands separating compartments with gilt designs and gilt lettering. xi, 390 pp. + [advertisements [i-iv], 1-11, 14, 1-2]. A very handsome, very pleasing, tight copy, beautifully preserved with little of the inevitable foxing. The spine panel, as would be expected, is mellowed down from the original purple, some offsetting to the yellow end-leaves as normal.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE WORK. Melville’s novel, based on his own experiences as a boy from a poverty stricken New York family who ships out to sea on his first voyage bound for Liverpool.

In 1837 Melville left his impoverished New York family on a similar voyage. It was the young boy’s first taste of life on the ocean and an experience that would instill a lifelong love of the sea. That love was so profound that it is seen throughout virtually all of his writings.

Prior to setting off to sea Melville had been employed at a hat shop. And if his voyage to Liverpool can be viewed as the beginning of his literary career, American literature owes an extraordinary amount to the experience Melville had on that raw morning down on the merchant docks of New York City. BAL 13660 Originally $2850. NOW $2100

The Courtship of Miles Standish - A Longfellow Classic First Edition, First Issue - A Very Well Preserved Copy 25 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, And Other Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858) First edition, first printing with October ads and unbattered type in all places.

8vo, publisher’s original brown Ticknor cloth binding, lettered in gilt on spine, blindstamped decorations and borders on covers. iv, [7]-215, 12 ads.

A bright, clean and very nice copy, with light aging to the binding, the tips in very nice condition, internally clean and fresh, the hinges strong and sound with one short closed tear refurbished.

A NICE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. An American classic by this truly masterful craftsman of narrative poetry. A difficult book to locate in nice condition.

Set against the backdrop of a fierce Indian war, the tale focuses on a love triangle between three of the Mayflower Pilgrims: Miles Standish, Priscilla Mullens, and John Alden. Longfellow claimed the story was true, but the historical evidence is inconclusive. Nevertheless, the ballad was very popular in nineteenth-century America, immortalizing the Pilgrims in American culture.

Debate has persisted for over 150 years as to whether the tale is fact or fiction.

The main characters, Miles Standish, John Alden, and Priscilla Mullins, have names actual Pilgrims. Henry Longfellow was a direct descendant of Mayflower pilgrims and claimed that he was relating oral family history. Skeptics dismiss his saga as a folktale, but no conclusive evidence exists either way. However, scholars have confirmed the cherished place of romantic love in Pilgrim culture, and have documented the Indian war described by Longfellow. Circumstantial evidence of the love triangle also exists. Miles Standish and John Alden were likely roommates; Priscilla Mullins was the only single woman of marriageable age. BAL 12122, Originally $495. NOW $375.

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Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains And Exploration of the Highlands - A Burton Rarity First Edition, First Issue, Finely Bound 26 Burton, Richard F. ABEOKUTA AND THE CAMAROONS MOUNTAINS. An Exploration (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863) 2 volumes. First edition. With a paste-down frontispiece and three other plates, folding map.

8vo, in a contemporary style binding of three-quarter tan calf and marbled boards, gilt raised bands, red morocco lettering labels gilt, volume numbers gilt within compartments. xvi, 333; v, 306. A very clean and handsome copy, only lightly mellowed internally.

QUITE SCARCE. After exploring in India, making the pilgrimage to Mecca, making the journey to the forbidden city of Harrar, exploring central Africa for the source of the Nile, and after crossing the American continent, Burton was granted, to his chagrin, the post of consul at Fernando Po off the West African coast--”the white man’s grave.” Upon the acceptance of this position, moreover, he was stripped of his commission as an officer in the Indian army.

He had no intention, however, of mouldering in his new and relatively unwelcome position. Having been in Fernando Po for just over a month, Burton set out for the coast and travelled inland to visit the native chief in Abeokuta, the capital of Nigeria, and to obtain his mark on a treaty, and two months later he led a small expedition to climb the still unscaled Mt. Victoria in the Cameroon mountains. This is the record of those two journeys. Penzer, pp. 70-71.

Originally $4850. NOW $3500.

A Scarce Burton Work - A Glance at the “Passion Play” A Handsome First Edition Copy in Original Cloth 27 Burton, Richard F. A GLANCE AT THE “PASSIONPLAY” (London: W. H. Harrison, 1881) First edition. With several diagrams and musical notations. Small 8vo, original red cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine and upper cover, ruled in blind on the lower cover, and housed in a 3/4 red morocco box. a.e.g. 168. A fine copy of this very scarce book with some minor darkening and light evidence of staining not affecting the gilt lettering.

RARE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. Burton’s account of his visit to Oberammergau to see the great “Passionsspiel.” As he writes in the introductory note, “I went to the ‘great religious drama in the beautiful Highlands of Bavaria’ neither to scoff nor to pray, nor to swell the list of some thirty books and brochures which the mountain-play has already produced. My object was artistic and critical, with an Orientalistic and anthropological side; the wish to compare, haply to trace, some affinity between this survival of the Christian ‘Mystery’ and the living scenes of El-Islam at Meccah.”

Burton describes in detail all aspects of the Passion Play that he viewed in 1880 including details about the layout of the theatre, the cast of actors and chorus, the music (including 14 pages of Western musical notation), the preparations leading up to the enactment of the play, and a synopsis of the story through a list of acts and scenes. He found the play long (8 hours) and somewhat dull and concluded that it did not have any bearing at all on the pilgrimage at Meccah.

“I found it impossible to draw any parallel between the Passions-Play and the three days’ pilgrimage at Meccah: the ideas are totally disconnected; there is not even a rope of sand to join them. The former is performed by a company of hereditary (617) 536-4433

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and professional players; the latter by a moving multitude of devotees. Oberammergau runs through the holy history of the Judaeo-Christian world. Meccah touches only upon the legend of Adam and Eve at Arafat, the tradition of Abraham and Ishmael at Muna and the Ka’abah, and finally absorbs itself in the life and career of Mohammed. The former is unreal, at best imitative realism. The latter is the living and breathing representation of what has changed but little for the last twelve centuries. In one point only city and village meet: both thrive upon the contributions of the pious.” Penzer, p. 106.

Originally $2450. NOW $1650.

A Beautiful Copy - The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley With a Beautiful Split Handcoloured Fore-Edge Painting Very Finely Bound in Polished Tree Calf Gilt Extra 28 Shelley, Percy Bysshe. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS... (Including Materials Never Before Printed in Any Edition of the Poems.) Edited (with Textual Notes) by Thomas Hutchinson (London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University, 1919) First of the edition. WITH A FINE SPLIT FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF PERCY AND MARY SHELLEY AND LANDSCAPES. Portrait frontispiece of Shelley. 8vo, beautifully bound in full polished tree calf, the spine richly and elaborately designed gilt in panel designs within compartments separated by raised bands, lettered in gilt on a green morocco label in one compartment, the covers with gilt roll tooling at the borders, all edges, turnovers and dentelles fully gilt decorated. xxiv, 912 pp. (with notes on the text and an index of first lines). A very fine copy, beautifully presented and preserved.

A BEAUTIFUL COPY IN A BEAUTIFUL BINDING, WITH A BEAUTIFUL SPLIT FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Shelley remains one of the best known and loved Romantic poets; his works such as Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam and Prometheus Unbound have indisputably placed him amongst the greatest English poets. This handsome printing, in a fine antique binding, provides some of the greatest works of Romantic poetry.

Shelley, along with Lord Byron, is considered the leading voice of the genre. Throughout much of the late 19th century Shelley had fallen somewhat into disfavor, and his fame was also overshadowed by one particular novel written by his wife. He was rediscovered and reappreciated however as the 20th century came into being. Thus, this attractive 1904 printing is not without significance.

Mr. Hutchinson helped bring Shelley into yet more modern times though he used to great degree, Buxton-Forman’s prodigious amount of work on the poet. As had been written--Forman’s goal was to lay before the public “as near an approximation as may be to the text that the poet intended to issue,” a task which required Forman to decide on what authority to base the final version of any given poem. As Buxton-Forman states in his preface, “In respect of books seen through the press by [Shelley], there ought to be no difficulty whatever, except as regards isloated words and stops; but unfortunately he did not revise while at press one half of the entire bulk of his poetry, several of the volumes having been printed in England while he was abroad, and read through the press by friends. As regards the proportion of his mature works, from ‘Alastor’ onwards, which had the advantage of his personal revision when in type, we should, I think, be making a liberal allowance if we assumed that he saw proofs of one third; and the largest of the volumes seen through the press by himself is infamously printed.”

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Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence - First Edition Publisher’s Original Cloth - 1920 - 1st Edition 29 Wharton, Edith. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920) First Edition, Mixed Issue, with the corrected quote from the marriage service and 1920 on both the title and copyright pages and no number at the end. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth,the upper cover and spine lettered in black. 365 pp. A handsome copy with covers fresh and bright and the expected minor mellowing to the spine panel, a tight and clean copy.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE RECEIVED THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, the first time is was accorded to a woman. Garrison A30.1.b Originally $1250. NOW $950.

With a Unique Original Signed L’Age D’Or - Paris - 1926 - Beautifully Bound First Edition and One of Only 38 Copies Replete with Colour Lithographs on Fine Paper 30 Hesse, Raymond; Vertés, Marcel. L’AGE D’OR (Paris: Les Editions de la Roseraie, 1926) First Edition and one of only 38 copies on Hollande Van Gelder paper, signed by both Hesse and Vertés and numbered.

This copy with an original at the front signed by Vertés, 11 original lithographs in colours, 1 suite of 11 lithographs in black, 4 plates showing 4 states of one plate and 2 plates showing 2 states of one plate. 4to, finely bound in full red crushed goatskin and signed G. Cretté, the spine lettered in gilt, the inner covers of red goatskin, with a gilt fillet line enclosing a panel of moire silk, the free-fly of moire silk on paper, two free pages of finely marbled paper in French design.

A subtle and exquisite binding by one of the renown binders of France. The original wrappers and spine panel are preserved and bound handsomely into the binding. Protected by a luxurious slipcase of finely marbled paper gilt over boards, the tips and edges all covered in the same red goatskin as the binding. (6), 86 pp., + lithographs and original. A very fine copy, the spine lightly mellowed FIRST EDITION AND ONE OF ONLY 38 COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED BY VERTÉS AT THE FRONT OF THE VOLUME. TWO STATES OF THE PLATES AND ADDITIONAL STATES OF TWO PLATES. RARE THUS. Originally $2500. NOW $1850.

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Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Thousand and One Nights Privately Printed for the Burton Club - 17 Volumes 31 Burton, Richard F., translator. THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments... With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights. (London: Privately printed for the Burton Club, [n.d.]) 17 volumes, including the “Supplemental Nights”. Limited Illustrated edition of 1000 copies hand-numbered, issued by the Burton Club, for private circulation among its members. Profusely illustrated with fine plates from the original decorations created by Letchford and others reproduced from earlier illustrated editions, titlepage to each volume printed in red and black on Japan vellum. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original sage green ribbed cloth covered boards, the spines with printed paper labels. A nice set, the text-blocks fine, the bindings with some light age mellowing or occasional evidence of respectful use, typical mellowing to the paper labels from exposure over time. Generally a pleasing and well preserved set of this classic work.

LIMITED PRIVATELY PRINTED BURTON CLUB EDITION. A very handsomely printed edition, which includes the great profusion of illustrated full page plates executed by Letchford and others for the first and early illustrated editions.

Originally $500. NOW $350.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The Second of the Harry Potter Books Bloomsbury’s Fine Deluxe Issue 32 Rowling, J.K. HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (London: Bloomsbury, 1999) First issue of the deluxe edition.

With an illustrated titlepage and with letter facsimiles at the end. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered and with a colour pictorial pastedown on the upper cover, the spine gilt lettered, a.e.g. and with silk bookmark stitched in. This edition was issued without a dustjacket.

251, [4]. An extremely fine copy, as mint.

FIRST DELUXE EDITION OF THE SECOND HARRY POTTER BOOK, in the extremely handsome binding for the edition of full powder blue cloth with a colour pictorial pastedown. The issuance of a deluxe edition so shortly after the initial publication of this, only the second title in the series, clearly shows the impact Ms. Rowling’s books have had on the modern book trade. Almost immediately after the publication of the first title, Rowling’s “Potter” books gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and have to date sold more than 400 million copies.

Rowling is nearly as famous for her rags to riches story. She wrote the first of the series on a used manual typewriter while living on welfare in 1995. She was rejected by 12 publishers before finding Bloomsbury, who suggested that she should also find a day job as there was no money to be made in children’s books. By 2007 Forbes had named Rowling as the first person to become a U.S.-dollar billionaire by writing books, the second-richest female in an entertainment industry, and the 1,062nd richest person in the world.

Originally $650. NOW $390.

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