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Dickens’ Nine Christmas Numbers of All the Year Round A Very Handsome Collection of the First Editions 1 Dickens, Charles. THE NINE CHRISTMAS NUMBERS OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND, CONDUCTED by Charles Dickens [Including THE HAUNTED HOUSE, A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA, TOM TIDDLER’S GROUND, SOMEBODY’S LUGGAGE, MRS. LIRRIPER’S LODGINGS, MRS. LIRRIPER’S LEGACY, DOCTOR MARIGOLD’S PRESCRIPTIONS, MUGBY JUNCTION AND THOROUGHFARE].

(London: Strand, 1859-1867) 9 volumes bound into one volume. First Edition of each of the tales. 8vo, the publisher’s original bright green boards, lettered in black on the upper and lower covers. Each of the tales with 48 numbered pages. Title and Contents leaves preceding the collection. A handsome copy, tight and well preserved, the spine panel sometime renewed skillfully to match the boards.

A VERY HANDSOME AND PLEASING COPY OF THE NINE FIRST EDITIONS BOUND TOGETHER INTO ONE VOLUME. Dickens was responsible for much of the writing which was offered in these tales. $750.

Very Pleasing and Beautifully Illustrated Books on England Our Beautiful Homeland - Great Britain in Words and Paint 2 [England] Heath, Sidney; Salmon, Arthur L.; Mitton, G.E.; Thomas E.; Jerrold, W., Nicklin, J.A.; Edwardes, Charles; How, F D; Morley, George. OUR BEAUTIFUL HOMELAND: [Comprised of] The Thames: Windsor Castle: Hampton Court: Dickens Land; Hereford: Chester: Oxford: Warwick & Leamington; Exeter: Heart of Wessex: Dartmoor: Bath and Wells (London: The Gresham Publishing Company LTD., [circa 1920]) Together 3 volumes. First Editions of the combined titles. With a total of 146 colourplates, including 12 for each section, from the paintings of Ernest W. Haslehust, R.B.A. Also with pictorial headpieces at the start of each of the sections. 8vo, publisher’s original white cloth, lettered and decorated in an English rose motif on both upper cover and spine in dark green and red, gray endpapers printed in a similar motif in dark green. A fine and handsome set, the white cloth unusually fresh and bright with only a touch of faint mellowing, the text clean and with only a little of the spotting typically confined to the edges, much less then is normally found on these books. The beautiful colourplates are all in excellent condition.

FIRST EDITION OF THE FOUR AND A VERY BRIGHT AND ATTRACTIVE COPY. IT IS UNUSUAL TO FIND THE BOOK IN SUCH NICE CONDITION. Four of Scotland’s most scenic districts are described by leading authors and given a full complement of 12 wonderful colourplates each. A watercolourist best known for his impressive landscapes, Haslehust was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), Royal West of England Academy (RWA) and Royal British Colonial Society of Artists (RBC), and exhibited regularly at many venues including the Royal Academy in London. His beautiful paintings of British towns and country-sides were featured in travel posters

for both the LNER and LMS railways. $225.

Italy - Frank Fox - The Best and Most Complete Edition With Sixty-Four Fine and Beautiful Colourplate Illustrations 3 Fox, Frank. ITALY (London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1918) The best edition and the first edition to include all 64 of the colourplates, the issue of 1913 had only 32 plates. With 64 beautiful and finely produced colourplates by Alberto Pisa and various other artists, each with captioned tissue-guards, and with a map of Italy. 8vo, original blue cloth with decoration all over the upper cover and spine featuring a vineyard motif green, black, yellow and purple, the upper cover lettered in black, the spine lettered in gilt xi, 206 pp. An especially fine and bright copy, the decorations vivid and bright, internally very fresh and clean, only a touch of the mellowing found commonly at the end-leaves.

A STUNNING BOOK, AND STUNNING CONDITION AND THE BEST EDITION, THE FIRST TO INCLUDE 64 PLATES. While there is certainly no shortage of pretty books about Italy to be found, this one unquestionably stands out among them. It is a general tour of the entire country, providing a glimpse at all the major cities and the countryside spanning from Lake Como to Sicily. The sixty-four colourplates (there were only thirty-two in the previous printing) are produced in A. & C. Black’s best style and quality and employed a variety of the finest artist who worked for them. $225.

A Devilishly Dark Pop-Up by Edward Gorey A Fine First Edition That’s Hauntingly Humorous 4 Gorey, Edward. THE DWINDLING PARTY. [A Pop-Up Book by Random House] (New York: Random House, [1982]) First Edition, First Printing, Signed by Edward Gorey. Six double-page fully illustrated colour pop-up pages by Edward Gorey and engineered by Ib Penick. The large pop-up pages also include sliders, spinners, flaps and other smaller details.

4to, publisher’s original all-over pictorially designed glossy boards from Gorey’s artwork bound and designed to open flat, no dustjacket was issued. A very fine copy, internally near as new with all pop-ups and moving parts fine and working, the boards very fresh and solid and bright, no fading, with just a tiny bump to the upper corners.

RARE FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY AND A DELIGHTFULLY MACABRE POP-UP FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENRE. A strangely whimsical poem about a family’s wonders through Hickyacket Hall and the progressively perverse methods of mayhem that one by one dwindle down the party. No one other than Charles Addams has done a better job of bringing dark humor to a young audience than Edward Gorey. $750.

The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose First Edition, First Issue with Pictorial Endpapers - 1914 Jesse Willcox Smith Illustrates the Classic Rhymes 5 [Jessie Willcox Smith, Illus.]; [Mother Goose, Nursery Rhymes]; Buddy, Katherine Gridley, editor. THE JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH MOTHER GOOSE (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914) Scarce First Edition, First Issue with Jessie Willcox Smith’s illustrations. With a fine colourplate to the cover, twelve full-page colourplates, five full-page monotone plates and a profusion of black and white line drawings throughout the text. Oblong 4to (8 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches), publisher’s original black cloth with a pictorial colour pastedown on the upper cover with additional colour plate of Mother Goose in a bonnet with children under her wings, framed in gilt and blue and colours with black lettering, the spine letterded in white, pictorially decorated endpapers, white geese and baby geese to the peach paper. [2] blank, 173, [1] blank pp. A very nice copy, internally very clean and fresh, quite fine, the textblock and binding all firm and strong, the cloth just a bit mellowed by time, a handsome and attractive copy. Old discreet ownership label to the front pastedown and notations to the verso of the title-page.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE WITH THESE ILLUSTRATIONS. A WONDERFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK

BY JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH. ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED VERSIONS OF MOTHER GOOSE PRINTED TO THIS DAY, Jessie Willcox Smith’s exquisite delights brighten the plates with full colour and monotone illustrations and other merrymaking decorations throughout. By nature, books for such early readers are typically found in dismal condition, but this copy has completely escaped the various forms of havoc commonly caused by little hands. Truly a classic of juvenile literature.

The legend of Mother Goose is one of the most enduring in the history of children’s literature. She makes her first published appearance in 1697 in Charles Perrault’s CONTES DE MA MERE L’OYE (The Tales of Mother Goose) but it is believed that origins can be be traced to a “period of remote antiquity in Italy”. (Harvey 538) $1850.

In the Publisher’s Best And Most Rare Binding Photographing Big Game in Equatorial Africa The Limited Edition Imperial Folio Signed and With Superb Photographs By Marius Maxwell 6 Maxwell, Marius. STALKING BIG GAME WITH A CAMERA IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. With a Preface

by Sir Sidney F. Harmer...Director of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) (New York: The Century Co., 1924) First edition, one of only 568 copies (550 for sale) numbered and signed by Maxwell. With 113 plates in photogravure after photographs by the author and a color map. Laid in a pocket at the rear is a 4-page folding reproduction of the frontispiece, which is a marvelous close-up photograph of half a dozen advancing elephants. Imperial folio, publisher’s best binding of original navy cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and cover, and additionally decorated with large gilt pictorial devices on the spine panel and upper cover, t.e.g. xxii, 202. A fine copy of the book, clean and tight with virtually no fading to the navy blue cloth and only the mildest of wear to the extremities, some light but only occasional foxing as is typical with the paper.

FIRST EDITION, IMPERIAL FOLIO, SIGNED AND NUMBERED, IN THE PUBLISHER’S BEST BINDING, RARE. A truly stupendous book. “[It] has been my desire,” Maxwell states in his introduction, “to secure photographic records of incidents in big game hunting, incidents such as are found in the writings of well-known hunters, and to illustrate

these experiences by actual photographs wherever and whenever fortune has turned my way, and given me opportunities to obtain an accurate shot with the camera instead of the rifle.”

Maxwell pays his respects to C. G. Schillings and A. Radclyffe Dugmore, pioneers in the field of big game photography. But while these gentlemen attempted to capture game animals in their natural setting, neither was able to capture them with enough detail to satisfy the naturalists. In order to accomplish this Maxwell tried to use a telephoto lens as little as possible and relied primarily on an ordinary lens with a focal length of six to ten inches, a habit which necessitated close proximity to the animals in order to obtain the best shot. The results are stunning.

Many of the photos depict animals staring into the camera with tense suspicion, in graceful motion as they flee, or actually charging the camera (and being dropped by bullets when necessary).

Almost all these photos are quite artfully composed, the difficulty of which, under the circumstances, speaks highly of Maxwell’s sense of aesthetics and skill as a photographer. One can browse this book and rejoice that photogravure was the method of choice for photo reproduction at the time, as it gives these pictures an almost ghostly beauty that echoes the fate of the animals in subsequent years.

The book also includes an introductory chapter on “A Camera Huntsman’s Equipment” and an appendix on the natural history of the elephant and “Primeval Man and the Pleistocene ‘elephas.’”

Now considered rare in the extra decorated binding. $1100.

Paris - The Limited Edition-de-Luxe - One of Only 500 Copies One of the Most Beautiful of the A. and C. Black Books 7 Menpes, Mortimer [Illus.] and Dorothy [text]. PARIS (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909) First Edition, Large Paper, Limited and Best edition, the Edition-de-Luxe on handmade paper and limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. With 75 beautiful plates in colour with captioned guards and line drawings throughout the text all but Mortimer Menpes. 4to, publisher’s original white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and red on the upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, others uncut. xii, 185 pp. A handsome volume, bright and clean internally, the plates and pages near as pristine, the binding very well preserved and still very attractive at the spine panel, but with red bleed to a small upper right portion of the front cover and small upper left portion of the rear cover.

THE CITY OF LIGHT MAGNIFICENTLY CAPTURED IN COLOUR BY RENOWNED ARTIST MORTIMER MENPES. The accompanying text is his daughter’s reflections of the city with a special emphasis on its life and art. Between the two Menpes so many aspects and sights and memories of Paris are here captured forever. We see the great gardens, cathedrals and other landmarks of course, but equally important to the Menpes were the potato peelers and gossipers, fruits and markets and flowers, the bookseller and fish stalls and factories. This is one of Adam and Charles Black’s finest productions, well fitting to the city it illustrates. $450.

Robert Parker’s First Book - The Godwulf Manuscript First Edition - Signed by the Author - A Very Fine Copy 8 Parker, Robert B. THE GODWULF MANUSCRIPT (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974) First Edition, First Issue, Inscribed and signed in full as Robert B. Parker. Full signatures on the early Spenser novels are scarce. 8vo, publisher’s original tan cloth stamped in gold on the spine in brown on the upper cover and in the fully decorated and designed dustjacket with the original price and date code still present. 186 pp. An excellent copy, both jacket and book in very fine condition.

FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT PARKER’S FIRST BOOK AND HIS FIRST SPENSER NOVEL IN VERY FINE CONDITION. “The Godwulf Manuscript introduces the most attractive and resourceful private investigator since Raymond Chandler’s Phliip Marlowe and proves that crime in Boston can be quite as lively and sinister as crime in Los Angeles.” $895.

The Book of Pirates Illustrated by Howard Pyle First Edition and a Wonderfully Fine Copy 9 Pyle, Howard. HOWARD PYLE’S BOOK OF PIRATES; Fiction, Fact and Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main, compiled by Merle Johnson (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1921) First edition. Profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle. Folio, quarter black cloth and beige boards, gilt-lettered spine and pictorial paste-down on the upper cover. xviii, 247. An especially nice copy bright, clean and fine all over, inside and out, a beautiful copy.

This is an especially bright and clean copy of this wonderful book, one of Pyle’s best and most popular works.

“Why is it that the pirate has, and always has had, a certain lurid glamour of the heroical enveloping him round about? Is there, deep under the accumulated debris of culture, a hidden groundwork of the old-time savage? Is there even in these well-regulated times an unsubdued nature in the respectable mental household of every one of us that still kicks against the pricks of law and order? To make my meaning more clear, would not every boy, for instance— that is, every boy of any account—rather be a pirate captain than a Member of Parliament?” (- from the Introduction). $650.

In a Very Fine Binding by Bickers & Son, Signed A Beautiful Work on the Naples and its Vicinity With Fine Colourplates by Maurice Greiffenhagen 10 Vaughan, Herbert M. THE NAPLES RIVIERA (New York: Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1908) The second printing, identical to the first.

With 25 fine colouplates illustrations from the paintings of Maurice Greiffenhagen. 8vo, in an especially handsome Bickers & Son binding of full navy blue crushed morocco, the covers elaborately paneled in gilt, the spine with tall raised bands gilt ruled between gilt paneled compartments, two compartments and a smaller one at the tail gilt lettered, board edges and turn-ins gilt ruled, the turn-ins wide with further gilt work, t.e.g. xii, 326 pp. A fine copy in a fine and attractive binding.

A BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN TRAVEL BOOK WITH FINE COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS VERY HANDSOMELY PRESENTED IN AN EXCELLENT BICKERS & SON FULL MOROCCO BINDIING. The text and illustrations include Vesuvius, Pompeii, Paestum, Capri, Sorrento, and more.

Maurice Greiffenhagen was a Royal Academician known for painting idyllic landscapes and, due to his close friendship with H. Rider Haggard, illustrating books. Greiffenhagen’s 1891 painting, ‘An Idyll’, inspired D H Lawrence’s novel The White Peacock. Lawrence once stated, “As for Greiffenhagen’s ‘Idyll’, it moves me almost as if I were in love myself. Under its intoxication, I have flirted madly this Christmas.” $325.

A Very Rare and Unique Example - The Publisher’s Copies Andy Warhol - Ho, Ho, Ho - A Christmas Holiday Treat With Original Prospectus, Page Proofs, Unbound Sheets et. al 11 Warhol, Andy. HO, HO, HO [The Original Publisher Markups, Pages, Illustrations, Prospectus, Uncorrected Proofs and Notes for the Soon to be Released Book.] (Boston and New York: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Co., 1995) Multiple volumes including the Uncorrected Proof, the Announcement, Mark-ups of the Book, Page examples, Colourplate examples and etc. A full compliment of the publisher’s pre-publication work. Earliest Issue, First Issue, First Printing. Illustrated with a plethora of examples including colourplates, black and white renderings and notes concerning the printing of the illustratioins. Folio leaves, 4to and 8vo examples., publisher’s original wraps, printed leaves, dated specimens, now gathered together and protected in a plastic sleeve. A very fine survival, essentially as pristine and all elements in excellent and original condition.

A RARE AND UNIQUE SET OF THE PUBLISHER’S EARLIEST AVAILABLE RENDERINGS, NOTES, LETTERS, MOCKUPS, DIRECTIVES AND EXAMPLES OF THE SOON TO BE RELEASED BOOK. A sweet holiday treasure from one of America’s most revered artists. $350.

Bruce Weber’s Powerful Photographs The First Edition – 1989 – A Very Handsome Publication 12 Weber, Bruce. BRUCE WEBER. Edited by John Cheim.

(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989) First Edition. With 140 photographs by Bruce Weber. 4to, publisher’s original green cloth, lettered in black, in the illustrated double dustjackets. Fine copy of the book and the pictorial dustjacket, the glassine jacket with a slight bit of wear at the foot of the spine panel.

A BEAUTIFUL BORZOI BOOK, FIRST EDITION. With photographs taken at the peak of Weber’s career. Fine photographs of a number of known subjects, such as Sam Shepard and Chris Isaak, and provocative and evocative photographs they are all. Always a hard to find book with a small print run, within just a few years after production copies with the outer of the two jackets had a healthy premium. Now 30 years later they are scarce indeed. $295.

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The Thoughts of An Emperor The Meditations of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A Pristine Copy Beautifully Bound 13 [Aurelius, Marcus]. THE THOUGHTS OF THE EMPEROR MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS. Translated by George Long (London: George Bell and Sons, 1880) Second Edition. Small 8vo, full black crushed morocco with double gilt fillet rules and corner tools gilt to both covers, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, compartments with fine panel designs incorporating corner and central tools gilt, gilt rolled turnovers, gilt tooling to the edges, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. [6], 210 pp. A pristine copy in excellent condition, beautifully preserved.

THE THOUGHTS OF THE EMPEROR MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS. THIS COPY IN A BEAUTIFUL BINDING IN SUPERB CONDITION. The twelve books were composed by Aurelius in Greek while he was on campaigns during the last years of his reign and were first published posthumously. The books were written in an informal manner, generally dealing with philosophical observations about the world-order and man’s relationship to it. They clearly show his adherence to Stoicism and in them we find deeply personal expressions of an aging Emperor, somewhat disillusioned and despairing, in the final years of his reign.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was probably the last great proponent of Stoicism.

Aside from the first book, in which he pays his respects to his teachers and influences, the work has no formal structure, which gives it the character of a diary or journal and makes its reflections more personal and immediate.

These meditations, written by the Emperor while in the midst of armed struggle and during the great military campaigns of his final years, “record his thoughts about the meaning of world-order and the relationship of man...they show him to be disillusioned and despondent, seeking fortitude against the fear of death, the cares of this world and the misdeeds and injustices of others.” $350.

Mrs. Beeton’s Family Cookery One of the Most Famous Cookbooks in the World Printed in London - Circa 1920 - A Fine Copy 14 Beeton, Mrs. [Isabella]. MRS. BEETON’S FAMILY COOKERY With Nearly 3,000 Practical Recipes... (London: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, circa 1925) Early Edition. Illustrated with 20 full-page plates in colour and a profusion of additional full-page plates in black and white. Original illustrated endpapers. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original sea-green cloth, the spine in contrasting dark-green morocco with full gilt decorations and lettering occupying the entirety of the spine panel, both pastedowns and flies with colourful advertisements for household items. 864, 16 ads. pp. A pleasing and handsome copy, quite fine and very well preserved with only light mellowing or age evidence to the text-block as usual. The binding in excellent condition.

A FAMOUS ENGLISH COOKERY BOOK. An early 20th century edition of one of the most famous cookbook series by “the best housewife in the world”.

While mostly a cookbook, there are also chapters on labor saving devices such as vacuum cleaners and cloth washing machines, serving, carving, napkin folding, room layout, and etc. $195.

The Circus Paintings of Bernard Buffet - 1956 Le Cirque - Presentation Copy - Signed by the Artist 15 Buffet, Bernard. LE CIRQUE PAR BERNARD BUFFET (Paris: Art et Style, 1956) First Edition, presentation copy INSCRIBED AND signed by Buffet, in His Artistic Style.

With an introduction in manuscript facsimile by Jean Bouret, a portrait of Buffet from a photograph by A. Ortier and 30 plates of Buffet’s circus paintings, seven of which are in colour. 4to, in the publisher’s original paper-covered boards, the upper cover with a full-size pastedown featuring colour art by Buffet. 8pp, [20ff]. A fine copy but for a small unobtrusive ding to the back cover, and a little bit of soiling to the covers, internally very fine.

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ANTIABSTRACT “L’HOMME TÉMOIN PAINTER BERNARD BUFFET. At this time in the 1950s Buffet’s reputation rivaled Picasso’s, as did his outsize persona. The popularity of his exhibitions and gallery shows, as well as all the media attention around his extravagant lifestyle, made him one of the most famous working artists of the period. $250.

Winston Churchill on His Peers - “Great Men of Our Age” Great Contemporaries - First Edition - Original Cloth 16 Churchill, Winston S. GREAT CONTEMPORARIES (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937) First edition. With twenty-one photographic portraits. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on top cover and spine. [iv], 330, index. A very pleasing and very handsome copy with virtually no mellowing, but for a tad to the spine panel. Very fresh and clean internally and externally, a very well preserved copy.

AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND A VALUABLE LOOK INTO THE MAKERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. 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. 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.

The 1866 Christmas Number of All the Year Round With Four Short Stories by the Master of Holiday Literature Including the First Publication of Dickens’ The Signalman 17 Dickens, Charles, et al. MUGBY JUNCTION, The Extra Christmas Number of ALL THE YEAR ROUND... For Christmas, 1866 (London: At the Office of ‘All the Year Round’ for Chapman & Hall and all booksellers, 1866) First Edition, and includes the first publication of Dickens’ short story “The Signalman. Royal 8vo, bound in the original blue paper wrappers printed in black, the lower and inside covers with advertisements, the upper serves as title-page, stitch bound with thread. 48 pp. An especially well preserved copy, rare with the wrappers so fully intact, the blue paper with just some very minor soiling, the text clean and fresh with just a touch of the same soiling at the outer edge.

THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER FOR 1866 OF DICKENS’ WEEKLY LITERARY MAGAZINE. It contains twice the number of stories as the regular weekly issues and four of the eight stories are by Dickens himself.

The other authors included are Andrew Halliday, Charles Collins, Hesba Stretton, and Amelia B. Edwards.

Perhaps the most important inclusion in this number is Charles Dickens’ short story, “The Signalman’, which is published here for the first time. It is a horror/mystery story that is now considered a classic of supernatural literature. Its influence has reached from Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals to Doctor Who. $250.

Happy England With 81 Paintings by Helen Allingham Beautifully Reproduced On Fine Colourplates 18 [England] Allingham, Helen and Huish, Marcus B. HAPPY ENGLAND As Painted by Helen Allingham With a Memoir and Descriptions by Marcus B. Huish (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909) First Edition of the reissued larger size printing. With 80 beautifully produced colour plates from Helen Allingham paintings, each with a captioned tissue guard and a portrait of the artist from a black and white photo with facsimile signature. 8vo, bound in the original maroon cloth, the upper cover and spine gilt lettered and decorated in a lovely English rose motif in green and pink. xi, 204 pp, 8 ads, pp. A very attractive copy, with a bit of mellowing to the spine panel, but the gilt very bright and fine, internally fine and fresh.

FIRST EDITION IN THE LARGER SIZE, OF THIS CHARMING WORK. The artist, who previously worked under the name Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson,began painting in watercolours the beautiful English countryside after retiring from a career illustrating periodicals. She particularly loved painting the picturesque farmhouses and cottages of Surrey and Sussex for which she became famous.

She specialized also in the rural scenes of other parts of the

country – Middlesex, Kent, the Isle of Wight and the West Country – and abroad in Venice, Italy. It is notable that other then a handful of paintings of Venice, she never painted outside of England. Her paintings of many years were collected in this volume, appropriately named HAPPY ENGLAND. While Vincent Van Gogh was developing as an artist and studying English illustrated journals he was struck very positively by her artistic work published in ‘The Graphic’. $225.

Sir John Froissart’s Renaissance History His Great Work on England, France, Spain and Europe 19 Froissart, Sir John. CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, AND THE ADJOINING COUNTRIES, From the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV. Translated from the French editions, with variations and additions from many celebrated Mss. by Thomas Johnes. To which are prefixed, A Life of the Author, An Essay on His Works, and A Criticism of His History (London: William Smith, 1842) 2 volumes. Illustrated with colour lithographed title-pages and a profusion of woodcut illustrations in the text. Large 8vo, bound in contemporary mottled calf, the spines elaborately decorated with raised bands gilt tooled, gilt lettered black morocco labels in two compartments, the remaining four with fine gilt tooling within multi-ruled gilt tooled borders, the covers with double gilt filleted ruling, all edges marbled. xlvii, 768; xiv, 733 pp. A handsome set, the volumes sometime re-hinged expertly, light general age wear, still a strong and pleasing example in a very pleasing binding.

AN EARLY PRESENTATION. Johnes’s translation was the standard for most of the nineteenth century. “Froissart might be called the great interviewer of the Middle Ages.

The newspaper correspondent of modern times has scarcely surpassed this medieval collector of intelligence. He traveled extensively in the various countries of Europe; he conversed with gentlemen of rank everywhere; and he had the remarkable knack of persuading those about him to divulge all he wanted to know. He learned the details of battles from both sides and from every point of view. He delighted in the most minute details of every cavalry skirmish, of the capture of every castle, and of every brave action and gallant deed. He lived from 1337 to about 1410, and wrote chiefly of contemporaneous events. The “Chronicles” are universally considered as the most vivid and faithful picture we have of events in the fourteenth century.... As a picture of the most favorable side of chivalry, the work has no equal” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, pp. 334-5). $395.

The Rats of Rutland Grange - Limited Edition An Edmund Wilson / Edward Gorey Collaboration 20 [Gorey, Illus.] Wilson, Edmund. THE RATS OF RUTLAND GRANGE (New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1974) LIMITED first edition and printing, one of only 1000 copies in wrappers of a total edition of only 1126. With illustrations on every page by American artist Edward Gorey. Oblong 8vo, in the original stiff paper wrappers featuring Gorey’s artwork on the upper cover. [16pp.] A very fine copy, essentially pristine.

ONE OF ONLY ONE THOUSAND COPIES. Wilson’s wonderful Christmastime poem made all the better with Gorey’s artwork. The illustrated poem first appeared in the December 1961 issue of Esquire Magazine, this is the first time it is available separately. Toledano B59c. $150.

The Poems of Robert Graves - L.E.C. First Edition - Illustrated - Limited and Signed - 1980 21 Graves, Robert. POEMS (New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1980) First Edition. One of a Limited number Signed by the illustrator, Paul Hogarth and the typographer, Freeman Keith, with the publisher’s original announcement leaf. With a number of very appealing double page illustrations in colours by Paul Hogarth Tall 8vo, publisher’s original handsome patterned cloth covered boards backed in dark tan cloth, the spine panel lettered in gilt, housed in the original protective slipcase using the same patterned and tan cloth. xx, 144, [1], [colophon], [2 blank] pp. A pristine copy, beautifully preserved and as mint.

FIRST EDITION LIMITED of this fine collection of poems by the revered writer Robert Graves. Elaine Kerrigan wrote of Graves’ poetry that she imagined that the author “would like the poems to speak for themselves, to let the reader puzzle out the mysteries and perhaps make shuddering contact with the muse herself. In them are the wild olive (a shrub Graves compares himself to), the utter quietism of love, the savage animal knowledge of the torments of the muse, and the quintessential nightmares of grotesque bestiality, replete with unnerving argoyles leering =down from the poetry of cathedrals.” $150.

Alex Haley - A Different Kind of Christmas First Edition in Pristine Condition 22 Haley, Alex. A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1988) First Edition. Woodcuts and jacket design by David Frampton. 8vo, publisher’s original white linen lettered and decorated in copper on the spine and upper cover. In the original colour illustrated dustjacket. 101 pp. A very fine and clean copy, pristine and as mint.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE BOOK BY ALEX HALEY AND INSPIRING READING FOR ALL AGES AND FAITHS. “Alex Haley’s ROOTS is one of the world’s most beloved and important books. In A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS, the intense drama of a white Southerner and a black slave who work toward a mutual goal, Haley once again gives us a moving story of physical and moral courage, and an unforgettable tale of spiritual regeneration. Rendered with a matchless sense of time and place, a poetic humanness, and a rich, robust humor.” $95.

The Temple Shakespeare - Plays and Poems A Collection of 40 Little Gems Nicely Adorned 23 Shakespeare, William. THE TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE [COMEDIES; TRAGEDIES; HISTORIES AND POEMS] With Preface & Glossary by Israel Gollancz (London: J.M. Dent, 1900-1904) 40 volumes. A handsome and very early set of the Temple gift edition of “pocket” volumes of Shakepeare’s plays and poems. Each with frontispiece engravings, very nicely done with captioned tissueguards, and each with its own unique handsomely decorated title-page printed in black and red, all are in a style reminiscent of the Kelmscott Press, featuring central vignettes or portraits within elaborate borders, headlines throughout printed in red, and with black and yellow emblems of the edition on each pastedown. 12mo, in the publisher’s original flexible burgundy soft morocco bindings with gilt emblem on upper covers, the spines lettered in gilt with small morning-glory devices at each spine tip, silk ribbon markers, t.e.g. A very nice set of this very pleasing and highly stylized little library, the text printed on fine paper is clean and fresh, some bindings with some light mellowing to the spine panels and some shelf wear at the tips but still a very attractive set.

A VERY APPEALING SET OF THESE LITTLE GEMS, Dent’s very popular TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE provides a wonderful way to read the great Bard’s works.

Each of the thirty-nine plays is in its own small and easily handled volume, all nicely printed and adorned; a final volume provides us with the poems and sonnets. $450.

The Beautiful Art of Jamie Wyeth First Edition - Limited Issue - Signed - Specially Bound 24 [Wyeth, Jamie]. JAMIE WYETH (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980) First Edition, First Printing, Limited, One of 500 numbered copies Specially bound and Signed by the artist. With 126 full-color reproductions.

Oblong folio, publisher’s original special binding of three-quarter brown leather over blue cloth covered boards, housed in the original blue cloth covered slipcase. 143 pp. A pristine copy, as mint and without evidence of age or use.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, LIMITED, NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Jamie Wyeth, son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth continues the long and great tradition of Brandywine illustration and painting. He is the heir to the title that his grandfather once held. His artistic work is exquisitely accomplished and rich with inner intensity.

In an interview he once said, “We’re charged, my father and I, with being a pack of illustrators. I’ve always taken it as a supreme compliment. What’s wrong with illustration? There’s this thing now that illustrations are sort of secondary to art and I think it’s a bunch of crap.”

According to the Brandywine River Museum, “James Wyeth had earned national attention with a posthumous portrait of John F. Kennedy and other work. Later, he produced striking portraits of Rudolf Nureyev and Andy Warhol, studies for which are in the museum’s collection. Since then, Wyeth has established a distinctive style, characterized by strong images and sharp contrasts in his landscapes and portraits. He is known for his monumental animal portraits, including Portrait of Pig and Raven in the museum’s collection, which represents various stages in his changing style.”

In “Jamie Wyeth: Proteus in Paint” Joyce Hill Stoner said of Wyeth: Jamie Wyeth lives on his own terms with a healthy respect for his heritage and a unique ability to translate acute observations into a spectrum of visual experiences in an impressive range of styles from the laser-like intensity of Portrait of Shorty to the archetypal but ironic encrusted image of an animal friend in Portrait of Pig to the eerie painterly dreamscape of Comet.

Ann Morgan, author of Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Arts, describes his style as one that follows the realistic style of his father, Andrew Wyeth, while venturing into “more psychologically fraught territory”. When making portraits, Wyeth sees into the nature of an individual and portrays them with such detail and realism that the shocked subjects “often hid them up in their closets”. Wiki. $295.

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Christmas is a Time of Giving - A Wonder and Delight Brightly Illustrated by Author Joan Walsh Anglund 25 Anglund, Joan Walsh. CHRISTMAS IS A TIME OF GIVING (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961) First Edition. With full page illustrations throughout in both colour and black and white plus additional decoration all by the author, Joan Walsh Anglund. 16mo, in the publisher’s original cherry-red cloth pictorially decorated on the upper cover in black and lettered in black on the spine, in the original brightly decorated dustjacket. Unpaginated, [32pp.] A pristine copy, near as mint.

UNCOMMON IN FINE CONDITION. “The very essence of Christmas—with its lovely sense of giving and sharing, its joys of song and prayer and festivity, its treasured reunions with family and friends, its gift of hope and its promise of peace—is caught in this enchanting and gentle little book. With the simplicity and sensitivity that characterize all her work, Joan Walsh Anglund conveys in words and pictures the essential spirit of this blessed season of the year. As with A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You and Love Is a Special Way of Feeling, here is a book of wonder and delight for young and old to cherish and to share throughout the year.” - Dustjacket $75.

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One of the Best Books on Indian Art of Mexico and America Miguel Covarrubias - First Edition 26 Covarrubias, Miguel. INDIAN ART OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957) First Edition. Illustrated throughout with colourplates, line drawings, maps and views and with an “album of photographs”. 4to, publisher’s original black polished cloth over tan cloth covers, the spine lettered in gilt and decorated in silver, the upper cover with gilt and silver pictorial and geometric designs after Native American artworks. xvi, 360, xvii Index, [3] pp. A fine and well preserved copy with only light mellowing.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. The arts of the Native American peoples of Mexico and Central America including the Maya, Toltecs, Aztecs and others. Fine colourplates by the author as well as a profusion of line drawings, and an album of photographs. A tour de force. $95.

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Adventure of the Unique Dickensians - 1968 A Solar Pons Christmas Story Using Dickens Derivations Signed by the Author and Illustrator - First Edition 27 Darleth, August. THE ADVENTURE OF THE UNIQUE DICKENSIANS (Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1968) First edition, Inscribed by both the author and illustrator. With 8 black and white illustrations within the text by Frank Utpatel. 8vo, publisher’s original olive wrappers, lettered and decorated in red on the upper cover. 38 pp. A very fine copy.

A MODERN DETECTIVE FICTION SHORT STORY. A Christmas Sherlock Holmes story using Solar Pons and Dickens derivations. Scarce. Signed by both the author and illustrator. $75.

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A Scarce Detmold Illustrated Charmer Our Little Neighbors - Animals of the Farm & Woodlands 28 [Detmold, illus.] Kaberry, C. J. OUR LITTLE NEIGHBOURS. Animals of the Farmyard and the Woodland (London: Humphrey Milford for the Oxford University Press, 1938) First reprint. With 11 color plates by Edward J. Detmold. 4to, publisher’s original blue cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered and decorated in black, in the scarce pictorial dustjacket. 104 pp. An elusive title, the toning and spotting to which the book is prone is at a minimum, the cloth with minor mellowing at the extremities, the scarce dustjacket with some chipping and edgewear but still bright and attractive.

A very uncommon title by Detmold and an exquisite collection of his animal illustrations. The plates include, The Superior Cat, Mrs. Hen and Her Family, The Fairy Squirrel and Mice, Plain and Fancy. Eleven farm and woodland friends are described and painted in total making this book a lovely addition to a children’s illustrated library. These bright paintings of baby animals are some of Detmold’s most endearing and timeless illustrations. $95.

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One of Charles Dickens’ Best Books A Child’s History of England - Illustrated Throughout 29 Dickens, Charles. A CHILD’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1898) First Edition with Illustrations from Photographs by Clifton Johnson. Illustrated with a great number of full-page photographs throughout, all providing a grand tour of England and connection with Dickens’ historical writing. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, the cover pictorially decorated in red and black within a multi-ruled frame in black, top edge gilt. xv, 400 pp. A fine copy, bright, clean and very well preserved, the binding, textblock and photographs all in fine order.

FIRST EDITION WITH THESE ILLUSTRATIONS. From the Roman conquest to the reign of William and Mary, 1688, and then to 1837. ‘The germ of this book was in the mind of Dickens nearly ten years before the idea was perfected. In 1843 he wrote to Douglas Jerrold concerning it but no immediate result followed. In style, subject and composition it was different from anything he had attempted.’

Scarce and excellent, this work by tone of the world’s most revered authors is one of Dickens’ great contributions to the English people. $50.

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Charles Dickens - The Christmas Books Containing All Five Novels - Chapman & Hall 30 Dickens, Charles. CHRISTMAS BOOKS In One Volume (Comprised of; A CHRISTMAS CAROL; THE CHIMES; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH; THE BATTLE OF LIFE [and] THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOSTS BARGAIN) (New York: At the Riverside Press, Cambridge, for Hurd and Houghton, 1876) A nice vintage illustrated edition of all five of Dickens’ Christmas novels, being from the ‘New Illustrated Library Edition’.

Each story with illustrations reproduced from the original editions. 8vo, in the publisher’s original cloth binding textured and designed to look like three-quarter green morocco over cloth boards, the back and corner-pieces gilt ruled, the spine with four blind embossed compartments and two gilt framed and lettered, gilt ruling at the tale, glossy black endpapers. xix, 412pp. A very good and attractive copy, the text a bit age mellowed but completely free of any foxing, stains or spotting, the toning is quite uniform and unobtrusive, the hinges sturdy and intact, the green cloth is bright with no fading, a bit of wear at the edges, tips and extremities but still quite pleasing.

A NICE VINTAGE SINGLE VOLUME EDITION OF THE GREAT CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF CHARLES DICK

ENS. The text includes ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Chimes’, ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’, ‘The Battle of Life’, and ‘The Haunted Man’.

These books rank among the author’s most famous and well loved, and are holiday staples for readers all throughout the English-speaking world. The first story, ‘A Christmas Carol’ is arguably the most famous and popular holiday story of all time. $45.

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Signed by the Author - Louise Erdrich Tales of Burning Love - Continues the North Dakota Stories 31 Erdrich, Louise. TALES OF BURNING LOVE (New York: HarperCollins, 1996) First edition, first printing.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original black boards backed in black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjacket. 452 pp. A very fine copy in a very fine dustjacket.

SIGNED FIRST EDITION. TALES OF BURNING LOVE, like LOVE MEDICINE, begins with June Kashpah’s death during a 1981 North Dakota blizzard. It also shares with the other North Dakota novels the conviction that the universe does not reveal how to love, but still requires truthful and faithful love; the only alternative to burning love is freezing death. $95.

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The Poetry of Robert Frost The First Comprehensive and Authoritative Edition 32 Frost, Robert. THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Edward Connery Lathem (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969) First edition, club issue. With a black and white portrait of Frost from a photograph by Clara E. Sipprell. 8vo, publisher’s original tan cloth lettered on the spine in silver within a black label, in the original dustjacket designed by Lawrence Ratzkin. xx, 607, [1] pp. The book is very fine, the jacket is also in near excellent condition though with a few small closed tears.

AN IMPORTANT PUBLICATION AND unquestionably, the definitive complete version of the great American poet’s work. The texts of all eleven of Frost’s books, from A BOY’S WILL to IN THE CLEARING are provided here in the most textually perfect state possible.

Robert Frost was associated with Henry Holt throughout his long and illustrious career and it was Holt which published the first definitive collection. More then 350 poems are present in this volume, scrupulously prepared by Edward C. Lathem. Lathem was librarian of Dartmouth College, a leading Frost scholar and a close personal friend of the poet. $75.

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Fine in Original Wrappers A Robert Frost Poem Issued for Christmas 1962 33 Frost, Robert. THE PROPHETS REALLY PROPHESY AS MYSTICS, THE COMMENTATORS MERELY BY STATISTICS (New York: The Spiral Press, 1962) Single poem issued as a Christmas greeting in pamphlet form.

12mo, publisher’s original cream paper wrappers printed in brown and gray/green. 5 pp. A fine copy.

First Edition of this fine Christmas greeting sent by Frost to friends, among others. $75.

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A Nice Piece of Edward Gorey Ephemera A BookMark for Christmas 1999 34 [Gorey, Edward; Ephemera]. [An Edward Gorey Illustrated Bookmark Advertising Eight of His Books Available From Harcourt Brace] ([New York]: Harcourt Inc., 1999) Advertising “This Holiday Season Get a Little Gorey”. With an Edward Gorey ghostlike figure printed in white and green on a black background and featuring images of eight of his books, two in colour and the rest in black and white, three Gorey insects fly about amongst the books. 7.5” x 2.5”, on stiff, glossy, stock. 1 Near as pristine.

A FINE PIECE OF EDWARD GOREY EPHEMERA IN REMARKABLE PRESERVATION. This is a 1999 holiday season advertisement for Edward Gorey books published by Harcourt Brace. $4.

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A Work Famous in America Edward Everett Hale - The Man Without a Country 34 Hale, Edward Everett. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916) A handsome early reprint of Little, Brown and Company’s separate printing. 8vo, publisher’s original sea-foam green course cloth, lettered and decorated with a pleasing and attractive pictorial decoration of a sailing ship on the upper cover in white and gray, lettered on the spine in white. 60pp. A near fine copy An attractive and appealing vintage edition of one of the most famous novellas in American literature. This short tale was written to inspire patriotism during the Civil War. Although the story is entirely fictitious, there was a real Philip Nolan (the main character in this work), whose true history is the basis for Hale’s complementary novelette, PHILIP NOLAN’S FRIENDS. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY is among the best examples of fiction being used to promote a political cause. “As Hale intended, the short story created significant support for the U.S. as a country, identifying the priority of the Union over the individual states, and thus pressuring readers to view Southern secession negatively. In so doing, he convinced many individuals to join, or at least support the North’s effort to, as Abraham Lincoln put it, “preserve the Union.” In the story, Hale skillfully convinced many readers that Nolan was an actual figure, thus increasing the story’s effectiveness as a piece of patriotic literature.” - John R. Adams. John R. Adams, Edward Everett Hale. $75.

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Moments In Time - Photographs by Dirck Halstead Iconic Photos from the 1950’s - 2000’s 36 Halstead, Dirck. MOMENTS IN TIME. Photos and Stories from One of America’s Top Photojournalists.

(New York: Abrams, 2006) First Edition. Illustrated throughout with full page colour and black and white photographs by Dirck. 4to, publisher’s original black boards, lettered in white and red across the boards and spine panel. 351 pp. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION. Intimate photographs of historic figures and events across the world. Halstead, one of the great photojournalists of all time, covered wars, presidencies and more for decades and worked for some of the most important journals and newspapers of the era. $35.

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W.D. Howells - First Edition - Original Decorated Cloth Gilt The Seen and Unseen at Stratford-On-Avon - 1914 37 Howells, W. D. THE SEEN AND UNSEEN AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON. A Fantasy (New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914) First Edition, First Issue. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth in American Edwardian style, the spine and upper cover decorated with decorative lettering and designs in gilt. [5], 112 pp.

A fine and bright copy, the spine panel only very lightly mellowed, a bit of age evidence in the gutters.

FIRST EDITION AND A BRIGHT COPY BY the American realist author and literary critic. Nicknamed “The Dean of American Letters”, he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the “Atlantic Monthly” as well as his own writings, including the Christmas story “Christmas Every Day” and the novel THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM, along with many others. His work was prodigious and he was respected as one of America’s great writers even to the end of his life in 1920. BAL 9829 $55.

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Elise Lathrop - Old New England Churches - First Edition 1938 - With Charming Drawings Throughout 38 Lathrop, Elise. OLD NEW ENGLAND CHURCHES. (Rutland: Tuttle, 1938) First Edition. With 29 illustrations by Welsh. 4to, publisher’s original rust cloth lettered in black on the spine and upper cover. 171 pp. A very good copy with a bit of light age evidence, quite fine and clean internally and a pleasing copy withal.

FIRST EDITION. A history of the oldest churches in New England including: First Religious Services, Old Boston Churches, Rhode Island and Religious Freedom, and much more. $25.

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A Touch of Genius - Life of T. E. Lawrence Signed by Malcolm Brown - First Edition - A Pristine Copy 39 [Lawrence, T. E.]; Brown, Malcolm, and Cave, Julia. A TOUCH OF GENIUS. The Life of T. E. Lawrence. (London: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1988) FIRST EDITION, SIGNED on a tipped in plate, by Malcolm Brown, the author. With black and white photographs throughout. 4to, in the original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and in the dustjacket. xxii, 233 pp. A pristine and very fine copy.

FIRST EDITION WITH REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPHS. “Recognized as an exceptional figure in his own lifetime, T.E. Lawrence never ceased to arouse intense interest, and controversy, after his death in 1935...Drawing on a wealth of material, much of it made available here for the first time, A Touch of Genius presents an authentic portrait of the real T.E. Lawrence...What emerges is a credible but still very remarkable Lawrence as opposed to an incredible ‘Lawrence of Arabia.’”- Publisher $85.

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With Pennell’s Only Illustrations of the Great City London - 55 Impressive Plates from Drawings - 1936 40 [London; Pennell, Illus.]; Dark, Sidney. LONDON (London: The Macmillian Company, 1936) First American Edition. With 55 plates from drawings by Joseph Pennell. Large 8vo, publisher’s navy wove cloth lettered on the upper cover in gilt, lettered on the spine in gilt. xi, 176 pp. A very nice example, the cloth is dark with no fading and essentially no wear, the gilt on the spine just mellowed the slightest, that on the cover vivid, the paper lightly toned as is always the case with this book, but otherwise fresh and clean, everything solid, sound and firm.

JOSEPH PENNELL’S ONLY ILLUSTRATIONS OF LONDON. Joseph Pennell was very well known by the time of this publication for his many illustrations for travel books and his posters supporting the Liberty Bond effort. This is the only book he ever illustrated on England. The drawings were originally made by Mr. Pennell in 1908, but this book represents the first time they were reproduced for publication. Sidney Dark was chosen to write a text accompanying Pennell’s illustrations. He traveled to the scene of each of Pennell’s 55 drawings to describe in words what Pennell had already described with pictures. $50.

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Miro’s Posters - The Catalogue Raisonné - First Edition Over 60 Years of Posters - Wonderfully Illustrated 41 [Miró] Corredor-Matheos, J. MIRÓ’S POSTERS. Catalogue of the Posters by Gloria Picazo (Barcelona: Printed by La Polidrafa for Chartwell Books, Secaucus, NJ., 1980) First Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné and First Edition of the Chartwell English Language imprint, translated from the Spanish by Anita Roberts.

With 119 full page and full colour reproductions of posters by Joan Miró, each with accompanying text on the facing page. 4to, publisher’s original light gray buckram lettered on the spine in black, in the original gloss paper dustjacket illustrated with a poster by Miró. 269pp. A fine copy of the book, the jacket withvery minor edge wear from shelving and a small closed tear with no loss along one fold line.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. A magnificently illustrated catalogue of posters by the great Spanish 20th Century artist. The posters, beautifully reproduced, were done by Miró between 1919 and 1980. Many of the posters were for gallery exhibitions featuring his own work. $95.

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Paris the Beautiful - 1911 First Edition of a Lovely Early Travel Book 42 [Paris; France]; Whiting, Lilian. PARIS THE BEAUTIFUL (Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1911) First Edition.

With 25 impressive plates from photographs, including a colour-tinted frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s original burgundy cloth, the upper cover featuring a gilt vignette of the Tower of St. Jacques framed in gilt and with lettering in white, the spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. 399 pp. A very pleasing and well preserved copy, fine and bright.

A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF A BEAUTIFUL BOOK. Ms. Whiting expertly captures the spirit and atmosphere of the City of Light with chapters on the Champs Elysees, Louvre, Luxembourg, the Spring Salons, Parisian life, progress and more.

Her illustrations largely focus on the city’s wonderful artistic treasures, but also such famous landmarks as the fountains of Versailles, Fontainebleau and the Tower of St. Jacques. $65.

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Beatrix Potter’s Second Story - The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin In the Original Format and Publisher’s Dustjacket 43 Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN (London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1963]) A handsome printing in the original format and by Potter’s original publisher. With 27 colour illustrations, most on double-sided plates, illustrated endpapers, and and cover decoration all by Beatrix Potter. 12mo, publisher’s original buff boards lettered in chestnut brown on the upper cover and spine, with pictorial colour pastedown on the front cover, in the original pictorially decorated white paper dustjacket. 59 pp. A fine copy with only trivial evidence of use, the jacket with just a bit of edgewear.

POTTER’S SECOND PUBLISHED TALE. This story of an impertinent red squirrel named Nutkin and his narrow escape from an owl was the first book to follow Potter’s hugely successful ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’. The now beloved endpapers of the Peter Rabbit series were first introduced with this story. $75.

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The Private Lives of the Romans - In Original Cloth A Well Researched and Illustrated Account 44 [Rome]; Preston, Harriet Waters and Dodge, Louise. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANS (Boston: Leach, Shewell and Sandborn, 1896) First edition. With numerous illustrations including black and white plates from photographs, drawings and cuts throughout the text. 8vo, publisher’s original ruddy brown cloth, gilt lettered on the upper cover and spine. vi, 167, 4 ads. Internally fine copy, the text bright and clean, the binding in solid and unfaded condition with just a touch of very minor age mellowing.

A very interesting and well researched glimpse into the everyday lives of the classical Romans. Drawing on the leading German scholars, largely in Pompeii, the authors give us well illustrated details on their daily living, family life, homes, food, clothing, social structure, amusements, etc., etc. $65.

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J.K. Rowling - First Edition in Dustjacket Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone The First in the Series - A Pristine, As Mint Copy 45 Rowling, J.K. HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE (New York: Arthur A. Irvine Books. An Imprint of Scholastic Press, 1998) The Pleasing American Edition. With illustrations throughout by Mary Crandpré Thick 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth over purple boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the pictorially illustrated dustjacket. (vi), 309, (1), colophon pp. A very fine copy, as pristine and mint.

FIRST EDITION. J.K.Rowling was a struggling single mother when she wrote the beginnings of this, her debut Harry Potter novel on scraps of paper at the local cafe. It went on to become an international phenomenon, garnering rave reviews and major awards including the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year, and the Smarties Prize. $45.

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Seville - “The Pearl of Andalusia” - First Edition - 1907 With Three-Hundred Fine Illustrations from Photographs 46 [Spain; Seville]; Calvert, Albert F. SEVILLE An Historical and Descriptive Account of “The Pearl of Andalusia” (London and New York: John Lane, 1907) First edition. With 300 black and white illustrations on double-sided plates, one being a map and 299 being from photographs. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, the upper cover with a double-ruled gilt frame with gilt cornerpieces surrounding a central gilt coat of arms, the spine with gilt lettering within an arabesque gilt design, each with a central gilt tool, t.e.g. xxi, 139 pp., plates, 11 pp. ads. A very nice copy, bright and fresh. The red cloth unfaded with strong gilt, a touch of rubbing to the bottom edge and a little bit of age to the corners, internally clean and fresh and in excellent condition.

FIRST EDITION WITH HUNDREDS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEVILLE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST CENTURY. “The spell of the Pearl of Andalusia is instant and enduring; I have not met a man or woman proof against its witchery”. $50.

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Robert Penn Warren - First Edition - 1966 A Plea For Mitigation: Modern Poetry and the End of an Era 47 Warren, Robert Penn. A PLEA FOR MITIGATION: MODERN POETRY AND THE END OF AN ERA (Macon: Wesleyan College, 1966) First Edition. With a photograph of Robert Penn Warren as frontispiece. 8vo, publishers original printed wrappers. vi, 20 pp. A fine copy with a bit of light rubbing and wrinkling to a corner of the back wrapper.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE LECTURE BY THE NOTED FUGITIVE POET/NOVELIST. $50.

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A Holiday in Europe From May to December An Inscribed Copy of the Elusive First Edition 48 Williams, Rudolph. EUROPE FROM MAY TO DECEMBER (Chicago: E. A. Weeks & Company, [1895]) First Edition, AUTHOR INSCRIBED COPY, “Kind Regards of Rudolph Williams” With a photographic plates of Mr. Bang, Heidelberg, Grindelwald, and Jungfrau and three plates from sketches. 8vo, publisher’s original mustard cloth, lettered in brown on the upper cover within an elaborate gilt frame, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt. 461pp. An appealing copy, the text is solid and clean, the hinges sound and sturdy, the cloth aged a bit and mellowed but not overly so.

AN ELUSIVE BOOK IN THE TRAVEL GENRE, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Published here are a series of letters of time spent traveling across the United Kingdom and Europe. Especially delightful are the Alpine reminisces of encounters with goats. $50.

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Hand-Painted and Rare A Greating Card by Claud Lovat Fraser 49 [Greeting card] Fraser, Claud Lovat. DRUMMER WITHIN FLORAL BORDER Greeting Card. ([London: Privately printed, most likely at 45 Roland Garden, 1913]) A lovely engraving of a drummer within an oval floral frame lettered “Greetings From”. All printed in black with hand-colouring in red. 7.5 x 5.25 inches, printed on heavy cream stock handmade paper. Single leaf. A very fine example, pristine.

From a short series of handprinted Christmas and greeting cards designed and produced by Claud Lovat Fraser. The print runs on these cards is unknown but is believed to be quite small. This pristine example is a fine find. Not copywriten, it could be reproduced for personal use. Easton #132. $65.

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Dinosaurs From the Eyewitness Visual Dictionaries Beautifully Illustrated Science for Young Readers 50 [Dinosaurs]. Eyewitness Visual Dictionaries. THE VISUAL DICTIONARY OF DINOSAURS (London: Dorling Kindersley, 1993) First edition of the issue for U.S. distribution. Extensively illustrated on each page from various sources 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. 63. A fine copy, the dustjacket with just very minor mellowing.

The Eyewitness Visual Series publications, when created, were an entirely new kind of dictionary - packed with superb full colour photographs and illustrations, and extensive but easily understood information, they have become especially popular with children and teachers.

This volume of DINOSAURS, explores the world ot the most fascinating extinct creatures and provides countless children with a gateway into the study of natural history. This book provides instant access to the specialized vocabulary relating to the anatomy and the classification of dinosaurs in a way that is clear, informative and easy to understand. $25.

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A Winter Place A Lyrical Offering from Radin and O’Kelley

picture book. $25.

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51 Radin, Ruth Yaffe. A WINTER PLACE (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1982) First Edition. With fourteen bright, beautiful paintings in American Folk-Art style

by Mattie Lou O’Kelley. 4to, publisher’s original blue paper-covered boards lettered on the spine in silver, in the original pictorially decorated dustjacket. 30. A near as pristine copy of this lovely book, the only blemishes being to the dustjacket which has a bit of shelfwear and minor mellowing.

An exquisitely simple yet deep and touching tale. Going up into the hills to skate and then coming home again may be a common experience, but such common experiences often serve to remind us of what is truly meaningful in our lives. This lyrical prose poem evokes a wealth of images and feelings. Ms. O’Kelley’s primitive American folk art paintings add considerably more magic to this already irresistible

The Only True Mother Goose Published Boston and Illustrated - 1905 52 (Intro.) Hale, Rev. Edward Everett. THE ONLY TRUE MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES (Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1905) First edition thus. Illustrated throughout with pen and ink drawings accompanying the text. 12mo, publisher’s original illustrated boards, decorated in green on both covers. 100. A nice copy with some age mellowing a bit of shelf rubbing to the edges.

An Exact Reproduction of the Text and Illustrations of the Original Edition Published and Copyrighted in Boston in the

Year 1833 by Munro &Francis. $85.

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Zermatt Saga - 1964 - First Edition - Cicely Williams A Sweeping History of Zermatt and the Matterhorn 53 Williams, Cicely. ZERMATT SAGA (London: George Allen and Unwin LTD., 1964) First edition. With 9 photographic plates including one in colour. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine, in the original dustjacket pictorially decorated. 197pp, 2 ads. pp. A very fine copy, essentially as pristine. The dust jacket in very good condition with minor evidence of age.

FIRST EDITION, A PLEASING COPY. Cicely Williams’ Zermatt Saga reveals her passionate attachment to the alpine Swiss village of Zermatt. She begins the story of Zermatt in ancient times, tells again the epic of the July day in 1865 which brought both glory and disaster to Whymper and his party, and follows the history of the growing village up to the outbreak of WWII. She then takes her readers behind the scenes and unfolds aspects of Zermatt life known only to few, but familiar to her through many years of intimate acquaintance with Zermatt people. $50.

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Frank Smythe - Mountaineering Holiday - To the Alps Climbs in the French Alps and Mont Blanc 54 Smythe, F. S. [Frank]. MOUNTAINEERING HOLIDAY (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1950) First edition in this format, being the first issue of the Uniform Edition. Illustrated with 24 of the author’s photographs nicely reproduced on glossy double-sided plates, and with a map of the route taken over Mont Blanc. 8vo, in the original red cloth, lettered on the spine in black and in the original dustjacket. xi, 229 pp. A very pleasing copy, the text is essentially fine and very fresh, the binding strong and sturdy with very little wear but with some mottling and fading to the red dye, the jacket a bit toned on the spine and rear and with some very minor edge-rubbing but in all quite attractive and complete.

FIRST PRINTING OF THE TITLE IN THE FORMAT UNIFORM WITH OTHER WORKS OF THE AUTHOR. The textblock of the Uniform Edition is somewhat larger then the original and uses a larger, bolder typeface.

Smythe was one of the greatest mountaineers of his age, and was also a pioneer in mountain photography. In this book he recounts a mountaineering holiday taken with Jim Gaven to the Alps in 1939 and explains to the reader why “there is no holiday like a mountaineering holiday.” $75.

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Ancient Life in the American Southwest The Archeological Studies of the Pueblo Plateau With History a History of the Modern Pueblo Indians 55 [Native Americans] Hewett, Edgar L. ANCIENT LIFE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST With an Introduction on the General History of the American Race (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, N.D.[1930]) First edition, an early reissue. With many illustrations on glossy plates from black and white photographs and with University of New Mexico map of the Pueblo plateau as endpapers. Tall 8vo, in the original blue cloth, lettered on the upper cover and spine in black. xvii, 392 pp. A fine copy, very fresh and bright.

AN EXCELLENT Archeological STUDY OF THE PUEBLO PLATEAU AREA, with a history of it settling by the ancestors of Native Americans and extensive anthological information on the Pueblo Indians of the modern period as well.

$35.

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Random Notes of Boston - H.P Dowst - 1913 First Edition - Boston - Fine in Original Cloth - Illustrated 56 [Boston]; Dowst, Henry P. RANDOM NOTES OF BOSTON (Boston: H.B. Humphrey Company, 1913) First Edition. Illustrated throughout with full-page plates with tissue guards from drawings by John Albert Seaford.

Tall 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth the spine lettered in gilt, the upper cover beautifully decorated with a fine gilt framework design and lettering in gilt within, t.e.g. [94] pp. A fine copy, the binding and cloth very well preserved, some of the typical mellowing to the inside pages.

FIRST EDITION. PUBLISHED FOR PRESENTATION IN 1913. A PLEASING WORK ON BOSTON with illustrated chapters on Beacon Hill, the Old City, Copley Plaza, the Harbour and Waterfront and the New City. A famous book for many years. $45.

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The Commercial Photography of Edward Steichen Real Fantasies - First Edition - Very Fine 57 [Edward Steichen; Photography]; Johnston, Patricia. REAL FANTASIES Edward Steichen’s Advertising Photography (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1997) First edition and first printing. Extensively illustrated throughout, including plates in colour. Tall 8vo, in the original brick cloth, the spine gilt lettered, and in the original dustjacket. xxii, 351pp.

A very fine copy, both the book and jacket essentially as new and pristine.

FIRST EDITION IN PRISTINE CONDITION. During the 20’s and 30’s of the last century Edward Steichen was one of the most successful photographers in the advertising industry, but his status as one of the era’s greatest fine-art photographers now overshadows his commercial work entirely. Ms. Johnston’s book gives those works, which regularly appeared in popular magazines like Vanity Fair, Vogue and Lady’s Home Journal, some much deserved, and long overdue, attention. $65.

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A Cornerstone Work in the Field - First Edition John C. Lilly - The Mind of the Dolphin - 1967 58 Lilly, John Cunningham, M.D. THE MIND OF THE DOLPHIN A Nonhuman Intelligence (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967) First Edition. Illustrated with a number of photographs througout. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in gilt and red on the spine panel, in the original pictorial dustjacket. [xxii], 310 pp. A very fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS CORNERSTONE WORK IN THE STUDY OF DOLPHIN INTELLIGENCE AND COMMUNICATION. The book continues the work Lilly presented in MAN AND DOLPHIN in which the author described the methodology developed for communicating with the species. This book describes in intimate detail, the discoveries Lilly made abou the dolphin’s abilities, intellect and difficulties of inter-species communication.

Lilly found the dolphin’s brain to be highly developed and the mammal able to communicate in a sophisticated manner, that it could, possibly have understanding as to man’s intentions and mannerisms. The intimacy which Dr. Lilly was able to create with the dolphin still impresses today and opened up an entirely new relationship between man and dolphin which

persists and continues to be explored. $50.

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The Great Classical Work by Longus Daphnis and Chloe - Very Handsome - Illustrated by Vertès 59 [Vertès; Classic]; Longus, (mid-third century A.D.?).

DAPHNIS AND CHLOE. Translated by George Moore (London: Folio Society, 1954) Impression of 1955. With illustrations by Vertès as in the Paris edition. 4to, publisher’s original white vellum over blue cloth covered boards, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, housed in the original slipcase. 95 pp. A very fine copy, partially unopened and as pristine, in a slightly mellowed slipcase.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE PRINTING AND TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH OF LONGUS’ GREAT CLASSIC. Beautifully illustrated, sensitively and delicately rendered by the very fine artistry of Vertès. This first English edition takes the illustrations from the Paris edition of the same year. $50.

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First Edition - Paul Strand Southwest A Beautiful Tour Through Strand’s Wonderful Photography 60 [Photography; Paul Strand]; Busselle, Rebecca; Stack Trudy Wilner. PAUL STRAND SOUTHWEST (New York: Aperture Foundation, Inc., 2004) First Edition. Beautifully illustrated throughout with 50 fine full-page plates and a profusion of photographs and illustrations throughout the text. 4to, publisher’s original tan cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and in the photographically decorated dustjacket. [112] pp. A very fine as pristine copy.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS MASTERWORK OF PAUL STRAND PHOTOGRAPHY. Iconic photographs taken during the seminal years 1930-1932, a time of significant change in Strand’s personal, artistic and political life. Strand had spent an emotional three weeks in Texas with Georgia OKeefe in 1918 at the instigation of his mentor and teacher, Alfred Stieglitz. The romantic tangle between the trio shifted after Stieglitz married O’Keeffe and Strand married Rebecca Salsbury who figures prominently in this work. The photographer never lost his love of the American Southwest and its indelible images so perfectly photographed and presented here. He was, for many years a guest of Mabel Dodge Luhan at Los Gallos, her fabled Texas ranch where illustrious writers and artists from D.H. Lawrence to Ansel Adams created an extraordinary landscape. Strand’s Southwest period brought a rejuvenation to his creative energy and style and that is captured here most splendidly. $75.

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Pictures From Dickens With Readings Excepts of His Writings With Fine Colourplates 61 [Dickens, Charles]. PICTURES FROM DICKENS WITH READINGS (London & New York: Ernest Nister and E. P. Dutton, [1895]) First edition. With illustrations by H. M. Paget, Fred Barnard, Harold Copping, John H. Baco, Victor Venner, and G. H. Thompson. These being 12 full-page colourplates and numerous illustrations throughout the text. Small 4to, original green cloth, pictorially decorated and lettered on the upper cover in black, green and gilt, red edges. 96pp. A pleasant copy of this charming book, the cloth is age mellowed but attractive, the pages just a bit mellowed, one gathering loose, but otherwise a tight and well-preserved copy.

A LOVELY COLLECTION OF DICKEN’S WRITINGS WITH ACCOMPANING ARTWORK BY MAJOR ILLUSTRATORS. These charming Victorian colourplates bring to life such beloved characters as Little Nell, Chuzzlewit, Pecksniff, Mr. Pickwick and others. $75.

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An Illustrated Junior Library Classic The Little Lame Prince - A Fine Copy - With Colourplates

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62 Craik, Dinah Maria Murlock. THE LITTLE LAME PRINCE and the Adventures of a Brownie (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, ND [1948]) Illustrated Junior Library edition. Charmingly illustrated

by Lucille Corcos with ten fine colourplates and with numerous black and white illustrations all throughout the text. Tall 8vo, in the publisher’s original decorated cloth featuring an all-over colour illustration by Lucille Corcos, wrapping around both covers and the spine, the spine also features a blue label simulating morocco, gilt lettered and decorated, in the original clear acetate dustjacket with lettering in white and black. 327pp. A fine copy, the text clean and fresh and well-preserved, the binding and wrapper in fine condition.

A WONDERFUL EDITION OF DINAH CRAIK’S COLLECTION OF CHILDREN’S STORIES, which were highly regarded and praised in spite of her popularity coming primarily from her novels for adults. The illustrator too was better known for adult publications, she was widely appriciated for her covers to Vanity Fair, as well as providing art for Life, Fortune, Mademoiselle and The Saturday Evening Post.

Grosset and Dunlap’s Illustrated Junior Library series provided an unbeatable combination of fine colourplate illustrations, high quality printing and materials, and especially bright and appealing decorated cloth bindings, all at an affordable price. $95.

Fiction on the Writing of the Gettysburg Address The Perfect Tribute - Highly Popular Source for Two Films 63 [Lincoln] Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman. THE PERFECT TRIBUTE (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916) An early printing of the illustrated edition. With a frontispiece in charcoal sketch style of Lincoln comforting the Confederate soldier, with tissue guard. Small 8vo, quarter brown cloth over paper-covered boards, with lettering and a bust of President Lincoln pictured on upper cover in brown. (3), 47. Internally fine and bright, the binding solid and intact, the wear that is inevitable to these paperboard bindings being fairly unobtrusive.

ANDREWS’ BEST REMEMBERED WORK, THE BELOVED STORY OF LINCOLN’S TRIP TO GETTYSBURG TO DELIVER HIS ADDRESS. “The Perfect Tribute”, first appeared in Scribner’s in July 1906. It depicts Lincoln writing and delivering the Gettysburg Address, then concluding his speech was an utter failure. Later, he comforts a Confederate Captain as he dies in a prison hospital, and the Captain, who does not recognize him, praises the Address as “one of the great speeches in history”. The wildly popular story was assigned reading for multiple generations of school children in the United States and may be the most popular book ever published about Lincoln, though historians take issue with Andrews’ work. The story was largely responsible for the persistent myth that Lincoln hurriedly wrote the Address on the train on the way to Gettysburg.

“The Perfect Tribute” was adapted into a 1935 MGM short film starring Chic Sale as Lincoln and the extremely successful 1991 television movie starring Jason Robards as the President. $45.

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The Children of Dickens Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith - A Very Nice Copy 64 [Jessie Willcox Smith, Illus.] Crothers, Samuel McChord. THE CHILDREN OF DICKENS (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947) Early printing, one of the books in the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics series. With ten charming colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith along with a title-page vignette and illustrated endpapers featuring a London scene of the Old Curiosity Shop. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, with a colour pictorial paste-down by Jessie Willcox Smith on the upper cover within a gilt frame lettered in black. 259 pp. A very nice copy, the black cloth still fresh and bright and well preserved, no fading and with vivid gilt, only light evidence of shelving to the tips or edges.

A PLEASING AND WELL PRESERVED COPY, and a wonderful work by beloved illustrator Jesse Willcox Smith.

Smith brings us charming period images of David Copperfield and Peggotty, Pip and Joe Gargery, Little Em’ly, Oliver and the Artful Dodger, Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit, Jenny Wren, Little Nell, The four little Kenwigses, Paul Dombey and Florence, and the Runaway Couple.

Crothers text retells stories of many of Dickens’ most famous characters and includes background information on the time and the settings of the novels to make them more approachable to 20th Century American children. $75.

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First Edition - The Art Photography 1839-1989 A Very Fine Copy - Yale University Press - M. Weaver, Editor 65 Weaver, Mike, Editor; Photographs selected by Daniel Wolf. THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY 1839-1989 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989) First edition. With over 80 colour and 400 black-and-white illustrations. Large quarto, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine in the pictorial dustjacket. 472 pp. A very fine copy indeed.

FIRST EDITION AND A VERY FINE AND COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOGRAPHIC ART OVER 150 YEARS. “...takes the reader on a historical journey of discovery - through the traditional genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, and the major stylistic changes of realism. Modernism, documentary, and Postmodernism - to describe with choice examples photography’s exciting evolution.” From the exhibition, organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1989. $75.

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Asbury Park’s Lyric Theatre The Program of Attractions for July, 1920 66 [Motion Picture Ephemera, Asbury Park]. LYRIC THEATRE Stephen E. Pawley, M’ger. PROGRAM OF ATTRACTIONS For the Week of July 11th to July 17th, 1920.... (Asbury Park, N.J.: Printer unknown, 1920) Text with decorative borders printed in green on glossed yellow paper. Single sheet, 6.75 by 6 inch folded once to create 3.375 by 6 inch program printed on front and rear. Very fine for such a delicate little item, only the lightest hint of age mellowing.

A BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED PIECE OF SILENT PICTURE EPHEMERA, from Asbury Park’s Lyric Theatre, a movie house which was opened in the 1910’s. It was still listed as open in the 1951 edition of Film Daily Yearbook, and continued to operate until at least 1965. It was located at 220 Cookman Avenue in New Jersey’s famous beach resort town. Pictures being shown or listed as coming attractions include; The Butterfly Man, Forbidden, Should a Woman Tell, Blind Husbands, For the Soul of Rafael, She Loves and Lies, Sex, Eyes of Youth, Virgin of Stamboul, Alias Jimmy Valentine, Isle of Conquest, and Suds. $45.

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A Really Pleasing Hawaiian Cook Book - 1940 Throw a Luau For Your Next Party!

67 [Cooking]; Bazore, Katherine. HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC FOODS a Cook Book of Culinary Customs and Recipes Adapted for the American Hostess (New York: M. Barrows and Company, 1940) First edition. Illustrated with seven black and white photographs and numerous whimsical line drawings. Large 8vo, in the publisher’s bright orange “washable cloth’ lettered and decorated on both the upper cover and spine in black, and in the original bright and colourful tropically decorated dustjacket. xxix, 286pp. A very pleasing and fresh copy, very clean, the jacket bright and attractive with just a little edge wear and very mildly mellowed by time.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY PLEASING COOK BOOK FROM AN AGE WHEN HAWAIIAN PARTIES WERE ALL THE RAGE. Ms. Bazore, chairperson of the Home Economics Department at the University of Hawaii, has done a wonderful job of presenting Hawaiian and Asian traditional cuisine, as well as providing recipes which were assembled for the average American home using “mainland ingredients” available at any local grocery store. $75.

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Unvisited Places of Old Europe With Photogravures and Woodcut Illustrations Throughout 68 Shackleton, Robert. UNVISITED PLACES OF OLD EUROPE (Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1913) First edition. Illustrated

by Walter Hale and Ralph L. Boyer, with a colour frontispiece, 26 plates of gravures from photographs and woodcuts all throughout the text.

8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, the upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and featuring a pictorial decoration of a mountain chateau in white, blue, green, red and gilt, the spine gilt lettered. 320 pp.

A very attractive copy, the blue cloth and pictorial decoration bright and fresh, internally extremely clean and solid, the hinges firm and strong, the plates all very fine with tissue guards intact.

FIRST EDITION, A WELL ILLUSTRATED PRINTING AND A VERY WELL PRESERVED COPY. A wonderfully illustrated European travelogue and discussing many places not frequently considered in more typical travel books. The photographs are especially interesting and are extremely well reproduced. Though some of Shackleton’s text had been published previously, this is the first edition complete in this format and with the wonderful illustrations included. $95.

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Athens - The Violet-Crowned A Pleasing Book on Greece - Well Illustrated 69 [Greece; Athens]; Whiting, Lilian. ATHENS THE VIOLET-CROWNED (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913) First Edition. With 36 illustrations from black and white photographs. Tall 8vo, in the publisher’s original ribbed gray cloth, the upper cover pictorially decorated with Greek ruins in white, black, blue, and gray and lettered in gilt, the spine gilt lettered, t.e.g. x, 361 pp. A pleasing and well preserved copy, internally fine, fresh, clean and bright. The cloth of the binding still handsome with some general light soiling and age mellowing, spine gilt a bit dulled, a little rubbing.

FIRST EDITION AND A WONDERFUL BLEND OF TRAVEL BOOK AND ART HISTORY, and with a healthy dose of Archaeological studies tossed in for good measure. The indomitable Ms. Whiting was a true polymath; journalist, editor, author of poetry and short stories, a critic of art, music, and culture, well read and knowledgeable in history. Though American, she spent a great deal of years between 1896 and 1907 traveling throughout Europe. $45.

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Anthony Powell - Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant From ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ A Handsome Copy in Original Broom-Lynne Jacket 70 Powell, Anthony. CASANOVA’S CHINESE RESTAURANT A Novel (London: Heinemann, 1969) First edition, second printing. 8vo, in publisher’s original red cloth, the spine with gilt lettering within a painted black label gilt ruled, additional gilt lettering at the foot, and in the famous original wonderfully decorated dustjacket designed by James Broom-Lynne. 229 pp. A fine copy, just the very lightest of mellowing to the jacket, really quite trivial.

ONE OF THE BOOK OF POWELL’S FAMOUS SERIES, A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME. Most of the action in this book takes place in the years 1367-37, the title location mirrors the incongruities of the bohemian lifestyle of that time. $75.

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Our Navy and the West Indian Pirates The American Navy’s War on Piracy in the 19th Century First Edition in Original Binding - Gardner W. Allen 71 [Piracy; West Indies]; Allen, Gardner W.. OUR NAVY AND THE WEST INDIAN PIRATES. With an Introduction by Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, United States Navy. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1925) First Edition. Illustrated with 9 black and white plates, including map of the West Indies.

8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, lettered in black on the spine, bordered in blind on the upper cover. xii, 107 pp. A handsome and bright copy, in very pleasing condition.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY USEFUL AND READABLE WORK. Instead of narrating the extralegal exploits of the buccaneers and filibusters of the West Indies, this book highlights the heroics of the naval officers in their attempts to put a stop to the piracy, a subject the author of the preface finds has not been wellexplored and deserves to be: “In this new volume, [the author] carries us back a hundred years and more to tell the story of what the navy did to supress piracy in the waters along our coast not far from our Atlantic seaboard. The narrative abounds in thrills, not to say horrors, while doing justice to the terrible conditions of discomfort, toil and danger, chiefly climatic, under which our brave officers and men labored during weary years with little reward save an approving conscience. The same painstaking study of original documents which already marked his previous books makes this a trustworthy guide and practically an exhaustive presentation of the facts. Withal, in so attractive a style as to appeal even to the casual reader.”

In a nutshell, “All of these products of his pen are characterized by accuracy of statement and---a charming readability” [preface]. $95.

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Charles Dickens by His Eldest Daughter Mamie 1885 - First Edition - A Scarce Work in the Dickens Oeuvre 72 [Dickens, Charles]; Dickens, Mamie. CHARLES DICKENS by His Eldest Daughter. (London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1885) First Edition. With frontispiece portrait. 8vo, publisher’s original gray decorated cloth, lettered and coloured in black with red decorations on the spine and upper cover, bordered in blind on the lower cover. 128 pp. A very pleasing and well preserved copy, essentially as fine, the binding in fresh and bright state

with very minimal evidence of use or age, some foxing every now and again as is normal for the paper stock.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. The author, Charles Dickens daughter attempted to collect every incident which would be of interest and appeal to young readers. She used her father’s words whenever possible and presented Dickens as a man to be loved for himself and not only as an author and genius of the age. $95.

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David Mamet’s The Cabin A Very Fine Copy of the First Edition - Original Dustjacket 73 Mamet, David. THE CABIN. Reminiscence and Diversions (New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over brown paper covered boards, lettered on the spine in silver, in the original dustjacket. 157 pp. A very fine copy, as pristine.

A VERY FINE COPY AND FIRST EDITION BY THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT. “The twenty pieces in this volume are spare and pointed: episodes, both terrifying and thrilling, from childhood; impressions of a romantic young man; the strangely familiar tales of a traveler; and eerily exotic moments of retrospection. [They] share a tough, masculine flavor: Cigars, guns, beautiful women, and the romance of being a writer on the rise are the commanding notes.” $75.

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Irish Shopfronts Photographs by John Murphy First Edition - 1981 74 [Ireland]; [Murphy, John]. IRISH SHOPFRONTS. Introduction by Patrick O’Donovan (Belfast: Appletree Press, 1981) First Edition. Illustrated with one hundred full-page colour photographs by John Murphy. 4to, publisher’s original photographic wrappers, the spine and upper cover lettered in black. 100 pp. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION. Introduction by Patrick O’Donovan.

Charming photographs of Irish village shops from across the country. $35.

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The Works of Flavius Josephus - 2 Volumes A Pleasing English Printing - London - 1825 With Maps and Engraving - Period Full Calf Bindings 75 Josephus, Flavius. THE WORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior. With Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God’s Command to Abraham. [Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, &c., and The Life of Josephus, Written

by Himself and the Book of Apion. [Translated...Together With Explanatory Notes and Observations] by William Whiston (London: Printed for William Baynes and Son, 1825) 2 volumes. An early printing of the Whiston edition. Engraved frontispiece, folding map of Canaan and Palestine and a folding plan of Jerusalem. 8vo, bound in full contemporary diced calf, the spines in five compartments separated by wide raised bands triple gilt ruled and decorated, two compartments with contrasting red and black morocco lettering labels gilt, the covers ruled in gilt, marbled edges. 635; 652 including appendices and index pp. A handsome and well preserved set with light aging to the bindings which remain in very good order. The textblocks are clean, crisp and unpressed, only occasionally showing any foxing, the plates remain in very good order as well with a bit of the expected usual spotting.

A FINE EARLY PRINTING OF JOSEPHUS AND WITH A FINE LIFE OF JOSEPHUS INCLUDED. “Josephus was a learned Jew who lived in the latter half of the first century of our era. At Rome he early made a favorable impression on the imperial government. Returning to Jerusalem, he endeavored to dissuade his countrymen from their intended revolt against Roman authority; but, failing in his efforts, he joined the war party. He was made a general, and was entrusted with the defense of Galilee; but, after a desperate resistance, was betrayed to the Roman commander. Long held as a prisoner, he was present at the siege of Jerusalem.

At the close of the war he went to Rome, was presented with the freedom of the city, an annual pension, and a house that had formerly been the residence of an imperial family. The remainder of his life he gave up to literary pursuits” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, p. 81). His works cover the entire history of the nation to the fall of Jerusalem. $850.

The Poems of John Keats - Two Volumes The Fine Chatto and Windus, Florence Press Printing Very Handsomely Bound by Bickers and Son 76 Keats, John. POEMS OF JOHN KEATS. Arranged in Chronological Order With a Preface by Sidney Colvin (New York: At the Florence Press for Chatto and Windus, 1915) 2 volumes. The First Printing of the Florence Press Edition. 8vo, very handsomely bound by the English binders Bickers and Son in three-quarter dark-purple morocco over lavender cloth covered boards, the spines with fine giltwork incorporating tooled panel designs with central ornaments within the compartments which are separated by raised bands gilt stopped, two compartments gilt lettered, gilt ruled edges to the spine panel and corners, top edges gilt. xviii, 338; viii, 371, [1] colophon pp. A fine and handsome set in very well preserved condition, the bindings in quite excellent condition, the text-blocks with a bit of the usual toning. Very elusive in such bindings, the purple morocco uncommon and rarely encountered.

FIRST FLORENCE PRESS EDITION VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND. This is one of the most attractive editions of Keats, printed at the Florence Press in their beautiful Florence typeface. The edition was originally published by

Chatto and Windus, London in 1915, this printing is from the original plates. It was designed in order to present the poems in an attractive typography and in a close approximation to the order in which they were written. $950.

Illustrated by Leonard Baskin - Text by Lore Segal The Book of Adam to Moses - First Edition 77 [Leonard Baskin Illus.]; Segal, Lore. THE BOOK OF ADAM TO MOSES (New York: Knopf, 1987) First edition, first printing. Illustrated with evocative pen and ink drawings throughout by Leonard Baskin. 4to, publisher’s original white buckram, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original colour illustrated dust jacket. 115 pp. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

FIRST EDITION. “Here are the incomparable stories of the Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, the Tower of Babel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses- the splendid saga of the generations from Adam to Moses.

“In her refusal to invent or simplify for a young audience, Lore Segal has followed the narrative threads in a translation that is both graceful and precise, keeping the grandeur and wit of language, the music and mystery of these ancient texts. Eloquently illustrated by master classicist Leonard Basking, this is a beautiful and important book for a new generation of Bible readers.”- Publisher This lovely book would be a fine gift for Hanukkah. $50.

S.Y. Agnon - Address at the Nobel Prize Banquet A Very Rare Pamphlet - No Copies Found Elsewhere Jerusalem - First Edition - 1966 78 [Nobel Prize]; Agnon, S.Y. ADDRESS AT THE NOBEL PRIZE BANQUET, DECEMBER 10, 1966 (Jerusalem: For the Banquet Presentation, 1966) Very Rare First Printing of the speech delivered by Agnon to the Nobel Prize Banquet Attendees. With a photographic portrait of Agnon and the KIng of Sweden on the cover. 8vo, original printer’s wraps. 8 pp. A very fine copy as pristine and beautifully preserved.

VERY RARE JERUSALEM PRINTING OF THE NOBEL PRIZE SPEECH. Delivered in English and printed in English as here with the rear wrapper printed in Hebrew. A very rare pamphlet, there are no copies listed in OCLC, the Union Catalogue, the Library of Congress or at Harvard University, and no copies appear in commerce.

S.Y. Agnon was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world. They also attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European shtetl (village).

In a wider context, he also contributed to broadening the characteristic conception of the narrator’s role in literature. Agnon had a distinctive linguistic style mixing modern and rabbinic Hebrew. His writing often used words and phrases that differed from what would become established modern Hebrew. His distinct language is based on traditional Jewish sources, such as the Torah and the Prophets, Midrashic literature, the Mishnah, and other Rabbinic literature.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize “for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people”. In his speech at the award ceremony, Agnon introduced himself in Hebrew: “As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from

its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem”.

In later years, Agnon’s fame was such that when he complained to the municipality that traffic noise near his home was disturbing his work, the city closed the street to cars and posted a sign that read: “No entry to all vehicles, writer at work!”

Along with the National Library of Israel, there are museums in his native Ukraine and in Israel that continue to this day to present his life and work to the public. His home is a destination point for many travelers to Jerusalem. $500.

Poems by Christina Rossetti Beautifully Illustrated by Florence Harrison The First Edition - Printed in Scotland for Blackie and Son 79 Rossetti, Christina, [Florence Harrison, Illus.]. POEMS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1910) First edition. Profusely illustrated with 36 color plates by Florence Harrison. 4to, publishers original white cloth, extensively decorated in gilt with an all-over elaborately designed illustration and lettering in gilt on the upper cover, the spine beautifully lettered and extensively decorated in gilt, also in an all-over design, t.e.g. xxiv, 369 pp. A very fine copy, the plates all pristine and the text spotless, the white cloth especially fresh and bright. With two lovely family inscriptions, the first to a girl in 1910 and the second to her own granddaughter 52 years later.

A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION OF ROSSETTI’S POEMS, BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED IN A VERY ATTRACTIVE PUBLISHER’S BINDING AND REPLETE WITH WONDERFUL COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS. Rossetti and Harrison’s efforts combined make this a true Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece. Florence Harrison illustrated books by several notable poets of the Circle, though her paintings are especially well suited for Christina Rossetti’s poetry. Along with Ms. Rossetti she also illustrated poems by William Morris and Sir Alfred Tennyson; but this book in particular is an especially pleasing work in the oeuvre of illustrated books of the early 20th century.

This book is rarely seen in such lovely shape, as one would assume the white cloth is more typically found soiled and mellowed. This is one of the nicest copies of it that we have seen. $1250.

Isaac Bashevis Singer - Stories For Children First Edition - A Fine Copy in the Original Dustjacket 80 Singer, Isaac Bashevis. STORIES FOR CHILDREN (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original navy cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, housed in the original printed dustjacket. 338 pp. A fine copy in the dustjacket. As pristine.

FIRST EDITION, with several stories about Hanukkah. “This volume presents the lion’s share of the children’s stories Isaac Bashevis Singer has written to date, along with a brief introduction and an epilogue. Most have been translated from the Yiddish. Singer’s stature as a teller of exuberant and timeless tales for children which are rich in fantasy but also deeply rooted in the lost cultural tradition of his native Poland is perhaps unsurpassed.” Several of the stories are tales about Hanukkah. $65.

A Vanished World - The Jews of Europe in the 1930s Roman Vishniac’s Powerful Photography - Signed Copy 81 Vishniac, Roman. A VANISHED WORLD With a Foreword by Elie Wiesel (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983) First Edition. signed by Vishniac on the half-title. He signs his own name along with that of his wife, with the date of Nov.5, 1983. With 179 photographs by Vishniac. 4to, original brown faux leather with the author’s signature embossed in blind on the upper cover, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original dustjacket. [vii], 179pp. A very fine copy in dustjacket, pristine and near as mint.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. This is probably the best-known collection of Vishniac’s important photographic work and it has contributed most to his popularity. The book reproduces many of the images from his 1947 collection POLISH JEWS: A Pictorial Record, which vividly captures on film the culture of the Jewish people in Central and Eastern Europe just prior to World War II and the Holocaust.

During Vishniac’s 1930’s tour of Eastern Europe when he took these photographs for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, he was often arrested by police for taking photographs, sometimes because he was thought to be spying. Later, when published, these photographs made him popular enough for his work to be showcased as one-man shows at Columbia University, the Jewish Museum in New York, the International Center of Photography and other such institutions.

Edward Steichen wrote of this collection of photographs ‘has become an important historical document, for it gives a last-minute look at the human beings he photographed just before the fury of Nazi brutality exterminated them. Vishniac took with him on the self-imposed assignment....a rare depth of understanding and a native son’s warmth and love for his people. The resulting photographs are among photography’s finest documents of a time an place’ $250.

Illustrated by Leonard Baskin Hosie’s Aviary - A Baskin Family First Edition 82 [Baskin Illus.] Baskin, Tobias and Lucretia. HOSIE’S AVIARY (New York: Viking, 1979) First edition, first printing. Illustrated with watercolor paintings throughout by Leonard Baskin. 4to, publisher’s green buckram, lettered in dark green on the spine, and in the original color dust jacket. (46) pp. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

A COLORFUL AND CHARMING CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK. “In words that ring with poetic vigor and in pictures that glow with humor and strength, award-winning artist Leonard Baskin creates a companion volume to his Caldecott Honor Book Hosie’s Alphabet. Never before has a great artist’s love of birds in all their full splendor been more excitingly rendered.

And the Baskins’ haunting words complement this fine gallery.” - Publisher $85.

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The Holy Bible - A Fine English Edition - Oxford In A Beautiful Regency Binding Handsomely Decorated The “King James” Version 83 [Bible, Old and New Testaments]. THE HOLY BIBLE, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with The Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised.

(Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co., 1823; 1821) 2 volumes bound in one. A very handsome Regency edition. Small, thick 8vo, very handsomely presented in the finest regency style straight-grain, dark brown morocco, the covers with a single gilt fillet line enclosing and elaborate blind rolled inner border with four floral tools at the inner corners in blind, all enclosing a central decorative tooled ornament in blind, the spine with gilt ruled bands separating the compartments, lettered in gilt in one compartment, gilt rolled turnovers, all edges gilt. 1101; 340 pp. A very handsome copy of this beautiful Regency Bible, bound expertly in full tooled straight grain morocco, contemporary inscriptions establishing period provenance.

A VERY HANDSOME EXAMPLE OF A LOVELY PERIOD BIBLE IN FINE REGENCY BINDING. $895.

In A Beautiful Regency Binding Gilt Extra The “King James” Clarendon Press Bible 84 [Bible, Old and New Testaments]. THE HOLY BIBLE, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with The Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised.

(Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co., 1826) 2 volumes in one. A handsome Regency edition. Small 8vo, very handsomely presented in the finest regency style straight-grain, red morocco, the covers with elaborate decorative gilt rolled borders with floral rosettes at the corners, bordered on either side by gilt fillet lines enclosing a central panel formed by four triangular corner decorations tooled in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling and lettering between raised bands on the spine, all edges gilt. 805; 252 pp. A very handsome copy of this beautiful small Regency Bible, bound lusciously in full gilt tooled straight grain morocco, contemporary inscriptions establishing period provenance.

A VERY HANDSOME EXAMPLE OF A LOVELY PERIOD BIBLE IN FINE REGENCY BINDING. $795.

A Fine Printing of the 19th Century - Holy Bible With Important Commentary, Notes and Maps Handsomely Bound in Preferred Three Volume Format 85 [Bible]. THE HOLY BIBLE, the Text According to the Authorized Version and a Commentary from Henry and Scott with Numerous Observations and Notes from Other Authors; Also the Marginal References, Maps of the Countries Mentioned in Scripture & Various Useful Tables (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1836, 1837) Six volumes in the preferred bound as three format. A very early issue of the Tract Society’s important scholarly version with commentary. With 8 maps, 6 of which printed in colour and 4 of which being folding. Large 8vo, contemporary full calf, the boards with chain tool boarders in blind and triple-line gilt frames, the spines beautifully gilt tooled in large compartments between double raised bands gilt tooled, two compartments with black morocco labels multi-ruled and lettered in gilt, board edges gilt tooled, turn-ins decorated in blind, endpapers, flies and page edges handsomely marbled. viii, 496; iv, 540; iv, 452; viii, 552; x, 562, viii, 524.

A very well preserved and handsome set, the textblocks all quite fine, maps fine, second volume only with some chipping and loss to the front free-fly, the bindings handsome and proper with just a bit of minor wear or rubbing to the tips or extremities, less so then would be expected.

A VERY HANDSOME SET OF THE IMPORTANT AND SCHOLARLY USEFUL BIBLE FROM THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. The Authorized Version augmented by extensive commentary, tables, notes, prefaces and arrangements. The bindings are likely publisher’s originals, in which case we suspect this was their best format. $750.

A Handsome American King James Bible In Original Full Morocco - 1896 - Very Fine Condition 86 [Bible], [American Bible]. THE HOLY BIBLE: Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. (New York: American Bible Society, 1896) A very handsome American shelf Bible of the 19th century, still very usable and pleasing for the modern day. Royal octavo, publisher’s original full pebbled brown morocco, the boards framed in multilined rules in blind, the spine with raised bands ruled in blind and with gilt lettering in one compartment, silk ribbon marker, t.e.g. 1009, 315, (1). Beautifully preserved, internally fine and fresh and solid as could be, the binding firm and handsome with just a bit of very minor rubbing to the extremities.

A very handsome American printing of the King James Bible by the American Bible Society. Founded in 1816 and still going strong today, the A.B.S. has always been one of the most important names in American Bible publishing and distribution. Since the time of the Civil War they have been especially involved with distribution to American military personnel. $225.

One of Only 150 Copies From the Ashendene Press Songs and Poems From the Old Testament and Apocrypha 87 Book of Songs [Ashendene Press]. A BOOK OF SONGS AND POEMS FROM OLD TESTAMENT AND APOCRYPHA (Chelsea: At the Ashendene Press, 1904) First edition, one of only 150 copies on paper (of which 125 were for sale) out of a total printing of 175. Printed in Subiaco type in black and red, with large rubricated initials throughout in blue done by hand by Graily Hewitt. Small 4to, original publisher’s limp vellum, yapp edges, the spine lettered in gilt, edge untrimmed. 62, [1] pp. A very fine copy, essentially pristine.

A SPLENDID, SCARCE AND QUITE BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTION FROM THE ASHENDENE PRESS, “Printed by St John & Cicely Hornby with the help of Meysey Turton & E. Faulkner at the Ashendene Press, Shelley House, Chelsea, in the spring of the year 1904.” The book features large and beautifully drawn initials done by hand.

According to Colin Franklin this “is one of the most charming works of a modest sort that the Press produced...This book might be seen together with the Ecclesiasticus, for it is something like a diminutive version of it.” Franklin; The Private Presses p.61. $6750.

For the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary Very Rare Bible Beautifully Bound in Full Crushed Goatskin The Upper Cover Emblazoned with the Royal Coat of Arms Specially Created for Members of the Entourage Decorated in Gilt and with Onlays of Red, Blue and White 88 [Coronation Bible, King James Bible], [King George V Coronation]. THE HOLY BIBLE Containing the Old and New Testaments [with, the Apocypha]. Translated Out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.

(London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Paternaster Row, [c. 1910]) First Edition of a very special survival. This Bible was offered in a luxurious binding as here to celebrate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary of Great Britain on June 22, 1911. Copies are not available in the marketplace and are especially rare. It is most possible that this particular Bible was bound as it is here specially for members of the royal entourage and members of royalty attending the coronation. 8vo, in the original and very best binding of full crushed navy-blue morocco, the volume covers beautifully decorated, tooled and lettered in an all-over style, the tooling, framing, onlays and stamping accomplished in gilt, red blue and white. The upper cover with double gilt lines surrounding and framing the words Georgius V; Dei Grtia Britanniarum; Omnium Rex; Fid. Defensor; Ind. Imperator with each of these separated by roses in gilt, and the all surrounding the large central decoration showing the Royal Coat of Arms in gilt, with red, blue and white onlays, the spine gilt lettered, the endleaves of dark blue moire silk, the turnovers double gilt ruled and with gilt royal stars to the corners, a.e.g., still housed in the original fold-over protective case of dark blue moire cloth, the inside protectively lined with fine white cotton cloth. [4], 802, 172, 246 pp. A wonderful survival. Still in the original protective foldover case, a superb copy, pristine and as mint and without wear or evidence of use.

FIRST EDITION OF THE PRESSING AND BINDING AND A GREAT EXAMPLE FROM A WONDERFUL HISTORICAL EVENT OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. A finely produced Bible representing the printer’s arts and the binding workmanship and artistry of the best binders of the period. A very unusual survival and a quite rare example of a Bible specially bound as tribute to the coronation of an English King and Queen.

The coronation of George V and his wife Mary of Teck as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Empire took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 22 June 1911. This was second of four such events held during the 20th century and the last to be attended by royal representatives of the great continental European empires.

The first of three processions left Buckingham Palace at 9:30 am. It consisted of representatives of foreign royal families and governments, carried in fourteen carriages. The second procession had five state landaus for members of the British royal family; the fifth contained the king and queen’s children, the Prince of Wales, Princess Mary and the young Princes Albert, Henry and George. The third procession brought the officers of state in a further four carriages and the twenty-fifth and final carriage, the Gold State Coach carrying the king and queen. They were surrounded by equerries, aides-de-camp and the commanders of the armed forces mounted on horseback, all escorted by Yeomen of the Guard, colonial and Indian cavalry and the Royal Horse Guards.

Following the coronation service, the three processions returned to the palace in reverse order and by an extended route, passing through Pall Mall, St James’s Street, Piccadilly and Constitution Hill. Some 45,000 soldiers and sailors from across the empire either participated in the procession or lined the route.

After the end of the procession, there was an unexpected innovation, the appearance of the king and queen on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. This created such excitement that the soldiers outside the palace broke ranks and joined in the cheering. According to one account, “some of them put their helmets on their rifles and waved them vigorously aloft”. That evening, the principal buildings in central London were illuminated with strings of electric lights until 12:30 am.

On the following day, the return procession was reconstituted for a further parade through the streets of the capital, this time passing along The Strand and into the City of London, past St Paul’s Cathedral, across the River Thames by London Bridge, along Borough High Street, back over Westminster Bridge and finally returning up The Mall to Buckingham Palace. Instead of the Gold Coach, the king and queen were driven in an open landau. The place of the foreign royalty was taken

by Indian princes and colonial rulers. This time, 55,000 troops were on duty.

On 24 June, the king and queen attended the Coronation Review of the Fleet at Spithead between the naval base of Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. The Royal Navy had 167 warships in attendance, together with 187 ships from foreign navies; they were arranged in five lines, each 6 miles (10 kilometres) in length, through which the royal party steamed in review, aboard the royal yacht, HMY Victoria and Albert. The crowd of spectators ashore was estimated to number a quarter of a million.

On 11 November 1911, the king and queen left Portsmouth aboard RMS Medina bound for the Indian Empire. Arriving in Bombay (present day Mumbai) on 2 December, they reached Delhi by train on 7 December for a ceremonial state entry.

The Durbar itself was on 12 December, attended by an estimated 100,000 people, both watching and participating. $2250.

Gustav Doré’s Magnificent Bible In a Handsome Beautifully Preserved Binding With Spectacular Full-Page Engravings Throughout 89 [Doré, Gustav. Illus]. THE HOLY BIBLE containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorised Version. With illustrations by Gustav Doré. (London, Paris and New York: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [c. 1885]]) 2 volumes bound in one. With near 200 full-page engravings by Gustave Doré. Folio, handsomely bound in three-quarter black calf over blue cloth covered boards, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, compartments with central ornamental tool in blind, lettered in gilt on a red morocco label in one compartment, all edges marbled. [xii], 1004, [ii], 186, [ii], 323 pp. A very handsome, unusually clean copy of this spectacular Bible. This book is prone to heavy foxing but this copy has none to speak of.

VERY SCARCE AND BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED COPY OF THIS FINE EDITION OF DORE’S GREAT BIBLE. One of the most magnificent of the Doré illustrated books. A huge testament to Doré’s talent and a most impressive set in size and scope.

These books are not commonly found in such condition due to the stress caused by the bulk of the text but this is a very sturdy copy and remains in excellent condition.

Gustave Doré was one of the greatest illustrators of his day.

His grand and magnificent style is a wonderful complement for the greatest of all books. $2850.

A Leaf from the “King James” Bible Genesis XIX - XXI From The Editio Princeps of the Famed 1611 Bible 90 [King James Bible], [1611 Bible]. A LEAF FROM THE 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE, a Leaf From GENESIS containing part of Chapter XIX, all of Chapter XX and part of XXI ([London: Robert Barker, 1611]) A single leaf from the First Edition or the Editio Princeps of the King James’ Bible.

Printed double-column with headlines and chapter lines, this leaf with two fine five line ornamental capital initials, text within woodcut rules, in both gothic and roman letter.

Royal Folio, single leaf. A very well preserved leaf, large and showing the original stab marks for sewing from the original time of binding.

A LEAF IN PERFECT CONDITION FROM THE BOOK OF GENESIS FROM THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF KING JAMES’ BIBLE, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ‘AUTHORIZED’ VERSION, A LANDMARK OF PRINTING AND THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL ENGLISH BIBLES. The King James Bible was described by W. A. Jackson as “perhaps the single most important influence upon the development of English prose style.”

It was royally commissioned, in the hopes of reconciling or ameliorating the conflicts between the Bishop’s Bible, officially read in services, and the Geneva Bible, much more popular among the

laity, but mistrusted within much of the Church hierarchy as being aggressively radical, especially in its annotations. $550.

The Holy Bible - Containing the Old and New Testaments Handsomely Bound in Full Morocco Gilt 91 [King James Bible], [English Bible]. THE HOLY BIBLE Containing the Old and New Testaments. Translated Out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.

(London: Collins Clear-Type Press, [c. 1910]) First of the edition. 8vo, in a handsome binding of full crushed honey-red morocco, the covers ruled with double gilt fillet lines at the borders, the spine with raised bands gilt stopped, the compartments with gilt ruled panels, two compartments gilt lettered, marbled endleaves, all edges gilt. 878, 269 pp. A handsome copy and a very usable Bible in a pleasing binding. Very well preserved and showing virtually no wear and just a touch of age mellowing.

A PLEASING AND HANDSOME BIBLE IN A PLEASING BINDING. Very usable and an easily read and more modern version for present day use. $225.

A Superb Copy of Sale’s Great Translation of the Koran The Best of the Early Translations - Finely Bound 92 [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 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.” $2950.

The Waters of Siloe - First Edition Thomas Merton on Trappist Life and History 93 Merton, Thomas. THE WATERS OF SILOE (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1949) First edition. With a frontispiece from a photo of Barn Monastery in Georgia and 8 double-side plates of black and white photographs of Monastic life around the world, some full page and others with multiple photos, illustrated endpapers. 8vo, publisher’s original light blue cloth gilt lettered and decorated on the spine and upper cover, in the original dustjacket. xxxvii, 377pp., inclusive of bibliography, glossary, and index. A very fresh copy, the book essentially very fine but for the lightest of mellowing to the pale blue cloth, the jacket is also well preserved, complete and attractive with just a little edge wear and general mellowing and a few very faint, barely noticeable stains and a few very small neat tape repairs.

FIRST EDITION OF MERTON’S comprehensive picture of the monk’s daily existence with an informal account of the meaning and purpose of Trappist life. It can be looked upon as a follow-up to SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN but stands on its own as an examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order. At the time this was written Merton had already been in the Trappist order for over eight years.

“The Waters of Siloe is a charming and sometimes humorous history of his order, but it is also a polemic on what he feels is the critical role of the contemplative orders in the Catholic religion.” - E.A. Lovitt $100.

The Beautiful Nonesuch Holy Bible A Fine Set - The Old Testament - Original Bindings 94 [Nonesuch Press, Bible], (Old Testament). THE HOLY BIBLE. The Authorized or King James Version of 1611... Volume I: Genesis to Kings; Volume II: Chronicles to Malachi (London: The Nonesuch Press, 1963) 2 volumes. First edition, limited, of the octavo printing designed by Francis Meynell. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of the fine 16th century woodcuts of Bernard Salomon. Tall 8vo, original fine green linen decorated in gilt on covers and spines. xxvii, 700; iv, 806. A very pleasing set, with just the lightest touch of wear to the tips and edges.

A very appealing version of the Bible--the traditional King James text finely printed in single column, and with the addition of Salomon’s woodcuts, which lend a historical feel to the volumes. It was designed by Sir Francis Meynell to be an exceptional combination of handiness, legibility and beauty. The

set is printed on a fine India paper made especially for this edition to Sir Meynell’s specifications and bound in a fine green linen also produced especially for Meynell. $95.

The Buddhism of Tibet - L. Austine Waddell Extensively Illustrated Including Fold-Out Plates - Cambridge 95 Waddell, L. Austine. THE BUDDHISM OF TIBET or Lamaism, with its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology, and in its Relation to Indian Buddhism (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 1958) Second edition. Illustrated with eight plates including frontispiece and six foldouts. Numerous illustrations throughout text. 8vo, publisher’s original light buff cloth with lettering and pictorial illustrations on the spine and upper cover in dark green. l, 598 pp. A very fine copy, as pristine, internally with no evidence of use, the binding fresh with no wear or fading, one tiny mark on the upper cover more likely an original publisher’s flaw then an abrasion.

One of the first authors to chronicle and explain Tibetan Buddhism for Western readers, L. Austine Waddell draws his information from his own extensive travels in Tibet.

The extensive illustrations help make this a fascinating and attractive survey of a complex subject.

“The special characteristics of the book are its detailed accounts of the extenal facts and curious symbolism of Buddhism, and its analyses of the internal movements leading to Lamaism and its sects and cults.” [From the Preface to the First Edition] $195.

The Buddha Eye Essays on the Kyoto School of Mahayana Buddhisme 96 Franck, Frederick. THE BUDDHA EYE. An Anthology of the Kyoto School (New York: Crossroad, 1982) First edition. 8vo, blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. viii,235. A fine copy, in the dust jacket.

“The Buddha Eye is an anthology of significant but unavailable writings of the major figures of the Kyoto School. The Kyoto School is a system of thought, a way of ‘doing’ philosophy, which is characterized by its fidelity to, and rootedness in, the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, coupled with its openness to Western thought and its commitment to bringing about a meeting of East and West in ‘a unity beyond differences.’

“Included here are essays-culled primarily from ‘The Eastern Buddhist’-by Nishitani Keiji, Abe Masao, Ueda Shizuteru, Hisamatsu Shin’ichi, Takeuchi Yoshinori, D.T. Suzuki (represented by four posthumous essays, and others.” $40.

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The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius Privately Printed for the Hogarth Press 97 Apuleius, Lucius. THE GOLDEN ASS In the Translation by William Adlington Edited, With an Indroduction by F.J. Harvey Darton (New York: Privately Printed For Hogarth Press, N.D.) First edition of the Hogarth imprint for America. Illustrated with a frontispiece for each of the eleven books and decorations throughout all

by Philip Hagreen. Large 8vo, publisher’s light green cloth backed in forest green buckram, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt. 359 pp. A very fine copy.

FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. A handsome privately printed edition of the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety. The work as it survives today was written cicra 160 AD by Lucius Apuleius, although he had adapted the work from earlier Greek sources. Apuleius’ style is innovative, mannered, baroque and exuberant, a far cry from the more sedate Latinity familiar from the schoolroom. It is a precursor to the literary genre of the episodic picaresque novel, in which Quevedo, Rabelais, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Voltaire, Defoe and many others have followed. It is an imaginative, irreverent, and amusing work that relates the ludicrous adventures of one Lucius, a virile young man who is obsessed with magic.

William Adlington was one among the host of translators that made the Elizabethan era the “golden age of translations”.

His working of the prose is bold and delightful and it served as a favored source for William Shakespeare. Philip Hagreen’s delightful and saucy decorations provide a nice 20th century twist to this production. $65.

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Louis Armstrong - A Self Portrait - The First Book Edition The Meryman Interview of 1966 - Original Wrappers 98 [Armstrong, Louis]. LOUIS ARMSTRONG - A Self Portrait.

The Interview by Richard Meryman (New York: The Eakins Press, [1971]) First edition. With 15 full page black and white photographs. Square 8vo, publisher’s original red textured paper wrappers labeled in gilt on the upper cover and spine. 59pp. Internally fine with just a touch of the spotting on the plate pages only due to the paper used, the covers mellowed at the spine and just a bit bumped in one corner and minor separation to the rear hinge.

FIRST EDITION OF THE UNCOMMON BOOK EDITION of the famous interview first published in LIFE magazine, April 15th, 1966. The square format and round labeling in gilt on the upper cover are reminiscent of a 45 RPM phonograph record in sleeve. $95.

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The “Democratic Vistas” of Cecil C. Bell Extensively Illustrated in Vibrant Color 99 [Bell] Barton, Phyllis. CECIL C. BELL (Kansas City: Book Division, McGrew Color Graphics, 1976) First edition. Limited to 2000 copies. Illustrated on virtually every page with hundreds of finely reproduced images of Cecil Bell’s painting, the vast majority in colour. 4to, publisher’s original navy cloth, lettered on the spine and upper cover in silver, with blue printed illustrated endpapers from a New York street scene by Cecil Bell, in the original dustjacket with color illustration. 160pp. A very fine copy, the white paper of the dustjacket just the slightest bit mellowed, with a neat gift inscription on the title-page.

Cecil C. Bell is one of the most unique and exuberant American painters of the 20th century. His works are vibrant in color, rich in depth, always spiced with a healthy dose of humor and, particularly in his New York City paintings, uncommonly good at capturing the day to day, the common thread and the simple, clumsy “Democratic Vistas” of the American

Experience. His images have been said to do with paint what Walt Whitman’s poetry did with words; “comprehending and effusing for the men and women of the States, what is universal, native, common to all, inland and seaboard, northern and southern.” $75.

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A Fine Work on Gaelic Literature Aodh de Blácom - Gaelic Literature Surveyed - 1929 100 Blácam, Aodh de. GAELIC LITERATURE SURVEYED (Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1929) First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in blue on the spine. xvi, 390, (1) pp. A fine copy internally, the cloth with a bit of mellowing or aging at the spine panel.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE WORK. $45.

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First Edition - James W. Cable - Bylow Hill One of His Scarce New England Novels - 1902 101 Cable, George W. BYLOW HILL (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902) First edition. Illustrated with six atmospheric plates in colour by F. C. Yohn. 8vo, in the original bright red cloth, featuring a Margaret Armstrong art nouveau design on the upper cover of flowers depicted in black and gilt with a coiled gilt snake at the base, the spine similarly decorated in gilt and black and gilt lettered. 215 pp.

A fine copy, bright and clean and attractive. The Armstrong binding with just a hint of mellowing at the spine and the lightest touch of shelving evidence at the tips.

FIRST EDITION. Leaving his trademark southern localities for a change, Cable sets this story in a small and quaint New England town in the late nineteenth century. Bylow Hill tells of a web of relationships between a number of the inhabitants, but the focus is on two families in particular— the Byingtons and the Winslows. The young people of these families, including Ruth and Leonard Byington and Arthur and Godfrey Winslow, must all face the realities of love, loyalty, and loss. George W. Cable strikes a personal chord with his touching story based on his adoptive town of Northampton, Massachusetts. Cable moved there in 1885 after the results of publishing two essays encouraging racial equality and the consequent blow-back in his native Louisiana. BAL 2371. $95.

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The Short Stories of Michael Chabon First Edition - A Model World - A Pristine Copy 102 Chabon, Michael. A MODEL WORLD And Other Stories (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1991) First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original blue boards backed in yellow cloth, in the original dustjacket. 207 pp. A pristine, mint copy.

FIRST EDITION. Michael Chabon has been called the most celebrated writer of his generation. This collection of stories followed up his first novel, THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH and preceded by four years his massive success with WONDER BOYS. $75.

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The Loneliest Continent - Antarctica First Edition - Walker Chapman - 1964 103 Chapman, Walker. THE LONELIEST CONTINENT (Greenwish: New York Graphic Society Publishers, Ltd., 1964) First Edition With illustrations from photographs. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine panel, in the original printed dustjacket. (8), 279 pp. A fine and very well preserved copy but for the old internal “withdrawn” stamps and markings from taping to the old plastic protective cover. The dustjacket is very well preserved and has now been placed inside of a clean plastic protective cover. A nice copy considering.

FIRST EDITION. With selections from the most important of the Antarctic works: SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION, THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD, THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC, SOUTH, THE SOUTH POLE and Byrd’s major works, ALONE, DISCOVERY and LITTLE AMERICA. $45.

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Wilkie Collins - Iolani or, Tahiti As It Was His Earliest Novel - First Edition - 1999 A Tale of Terror and Suspense 104 Collins, Wilkie. IOLANI; or Tahiti as it was. A Romance. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999) First Edition. With black and white illustrations or chapter headings and decorations as issued. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in copper on the spine and in the pictorial dustjacket. xxxvii, 205 pp. A pristine and as mint copy, the dustjacket protected in a plastic cover.

IOLANI WAS WILKIE COLLINS’S EARLIEST NOVEL...a tale of terror and suspense, bravery and betrayal, set against the lush backdrop of Tahiti. Written over 150 years ago, it was presumed lost for nearly a century. - Publisher $55.

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England: Picturesque and Descriptive - 1900 Two Volumes Handsomely Bound and Decorated 105 Cook, Joel. ENGLAND: Picturesque and Descriptive Reminiscences of Foreign Travel (Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1900) 2 volumes. First edition. 50 photogravures, folding map at rear. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt, t.e.g. xii, 402; viii, 372, index.

A bright and well preserved copy with some minor mellowing to bindings and light evidence of age.

A PLEASING SET OF THIS WELL ILLUSTRATED WORK ON ENGLAND. The work is arranged in ten tours, with Liverpool and London logically being the chief starting points. The tours are arranged as would be typical of those taken by American travelers of the period with the steamship entry points being hubs and the rail lines being a primary form of transportation. $95.

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Michael Crichton’s Techno-Thriller - 1995 The Lost World - First Edition - A Pristine Copy 106 Crichton, Michael. THE LOST WORLD (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1995) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over boards lettered and decorated in silver on the spine and upper cover, in the designed dustjacket. 393 pp. A very fine copy.

FINE FIRST EDITION. Michael Crichton’s sequel to his earlier Jurassic Park.

Follow the expedition to the remote Central American territory where you will roam with the dinosaurs if you dare.

Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm (who is revealed to have survived the events of the previous novel, despite being declared dead in its epilogue) teams up with paleontologist Richard Levine to search for a “lost world” of dinosaurs following rumors of strange animal corpses washing up on the shores of Costa Rica. They learn of Site B on Isla Sorna, the “production facility” where the now-defunct company InGen hatched and grew the dinosaurs for their Jurassic Park theme park on nearby Isla Nublar. $95.

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Buckdancer’s Choice - Original Wraps James Dickey - 1966 - Winner of the National Book Award 107 Dickey, James. BUCKDANCER’S CHOICE (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1966) Second Printing. 8vo, publisher’s original gray wrappers lettered on the spine and upper cover and pictorially decorated. 79 pp. A very nice copy, well preserved.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER. Of James Dickey: “Here is a man who matches superb gifts with a truly subtle imagination, into whose depths he is courageously traveling - pioneering - in exploratory penetrations into areas of life that are too often evaded or denied.”-Publisher $15.

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Albert E. Elsen - Purposes of Art Profusely Illustrated Throughout - A Fine Copy 108 Elsen, Albert E. PURPOSES OF ART. An Introduction to the History and Appreciation of Art. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]) Second Edition. With a great profusion of illustrations in colour and black and white, throughout the text. 4to, publisher’s original blue-gray linen, lettered in black on the spine and upper cover. viii, 455 pp. A copy in fine condition.

A thorough history of art explored through its many themes and purposes: the artist, religion, architecture, nature, and much more. $85.

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Signed by the Author - Louise Erdrich Blue Jay’s Dance - A Poignant Year of New Motherhood 109 Erdrich, Louise. THE BLUE JAY’S DANCE A Birth Year (New York: HarperCollins, 1995) First edition, first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original blue boards backed in black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, gilt monogram on the upper cover, in the original dustjacket. 223 pp. A very fine copy, as mint and pristine.

SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF LOUISE ERDRICH’S FIRST MAJOR WORK OF NONFICTION. During the period in which Erdrich wrote seven critically acclaimed and best-selling stories she also gave birth to three children and was raising six. THE BLUE JAY’S DANCE poignantly and in lyrical prose follows the author through one year, beginning with a winter pregnancy, through a summer birth and a return to her writing career in the autumn. $75.

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A Modern Comedy - John Galsworthy - First Edition Original Cloth - Nobel Award Winning Literature 110 Galsworthy, John. A MODERN COMEDY (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935) First edition of the second novel in the Forsyte Saga. This is the first issue with the “A” on the copyright page. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and black on the spine and upper cover. xvii, 889, [6 ads] pp. A very nice copy with only minor mellowing, the blue cloth quite bright and fresh with only light age-wear, FIRST EDITION of the collection of stories that comprised A MODERN COMEDY. The titles when individually published were; “The White Monkey”, “The Silver Spoon”, and “Swan Song”. The work is the basis for one of the most critically acclaimed BBC television productions to date. Galsworthy received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932 “for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga”. -Swedish Academy. $75.

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Doug Glener’s The Reluctant Knight A Fantastic Time-Traveling Quest 111 Glener, Doug. THE RELUCTANT KNIGHT (Encinitas, CA.: Paladin Publishing, 2013) First Edition. Decorated throughout, designed by Lah Roschke, Chris Polley and Jodee Taylah. 8vo, original decorated wrappers featuring art by Jodee Taylah 264pp. New and as mint.

“Lost Civilizations, time-traveling warriors, suspicious parents, barbarous hordes, and one unforgettable ride... Percival Adler always dreamed of going on a quest—until he stumbled into a real one. Now he’s found himself entangled in an adventure with a Mongol warlord, an insane pharaoh, and the greatest samurai of 19th-century Japan. The cast of characters takes to Manhattan in search of a legendary relic that gives its wielder unimaginable power.” - From the dustjacket. $12.99 Order this book online by clicking HERE

With Fine Colour-Plates Throughout Kate Greenaway’s Illustrated Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes A True and Beloved Classic of Children’s Literature 112 [Greenaway, Kate]. MOTHER GOOSE or the Old Nursery Rhymes (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd, nd) A circa. 1940’s printing of this classic, illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved pictorially illustrated copyright page, half-title, title-page and colophon leaf in colours and 47 other fine illustrations in colour with rhymes on every page

by Kate Greenaway. 12mo, publisher’s original pictorial boards backed in green cloth, the covers with “Mother Goose” printed in black within a frame with climbing roses on a green lattice trellis and an illustration of Mother Goose in colours, pictorially decorated endpapers. Dustjacket decorated similarly. 48 pp. An unusually well preserved copy of a book typically found much abused or well-used. The binding and cloth in very fine condition, the dustjacket with only very light edgewear and a bit of mellowing due to age.

ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED VERSIONS OF MOTHER GOOSE PRINTED TO THIS DAY, Kate Greenaway’s fanciful delights brighten each page with full colour illustrations and other merrymaking decorations thrill throughout. By nature, books for such early readers are typically found in dismal condition, but this copy has completely escaped the various forms of havoc commonly caused by little hands. Truly a classic of juvenile literature.

The legend of Mother Goose is one of the most enduring in the history of children’s literature. She makes her first published appearance in 1697 in Charles Perrault’s CONTES DE MA MERE L’OYE (The Tales of Mother Goose) but it is believed that origins can be be traced to a “period of remote antiquity in Italy”.

(Harvey 538) $75.

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Knut Hamsun - Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Victoria a Love Story - First Edition of the Translation 113 Hamsun, Knut. VICTORIA a Love Story (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969) First Edition issued by Farrar and the first of the translation. 8vo, publisher’s original orange cloth lettered in gilt and black on the spine and in gilt on the upper cover, in the illustrated dustjacket. 170 pp. A fine copy, the dustjacket with just a bit of mellowing or evidence of shelving.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS NOVEL BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING WRITER. ‘Regarded as one of Hamsun’s three or four greatest works. The story, touching idyl of young love is imbued with a passionate lyricism...one senses the epic in even this short work. $75.

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Bret Harte - First Edition - Original Cloth - 1888 Phyllis of the Sierras and a Drift From Redwood Camp 114 Harte, Bret. A PHYLLIS OF THE SIERRAS AND A DRIFT FROM REDWOOD CAMP (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888) First Edition. Small 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth, decorated all over the front and spine in purple, the rear in blind, the upper cover also lettered in purple, the spine gilt lettered. 215 pp.

A very near to fine copy, bright and fresh, the cloth still rich and unfaded with exceptionally little wear, internally very clean and completely free of foxing or spotting, the hinges firm and tight.

VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. This is a collection of two novellas from one of the earliest American writers to emerge from the state of California. His witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California, earned him acclaim.

Later in life Harte moved back east where Andrew Carnegie praised him as uniquely American: “A whispering pine of the Sierras transplanted to Fifth Avenue! How could it grow? Although it shows some faint signs of life, how sickly are the leaves! As for fruit, there is none. America had in Bret Harte its most distinctively national poet.” $50.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne First Edition by Mark Van Doren 115 [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.

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First Edition - Very Fine The Jews and the Crusaders - 1972 116 [Hebrew Chronicles] Eidelberg, Shlomo, Translator. THE JEWS AND THE CRUSADERS The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972) First edition, first printing. With maps of the Crusade routes as endpapers and a black and white illustration of the Mainz Memorial Book. 8vo, publisher’s light brown cloth lettered on the spine in dark brown, in the original dustjacket. xii, 186 pp. A very fine and near as new copy.

FIRST EDITION. “The Jews of Christian Europe were the first victims of the Crusaders’ zeal, and the survivors produced accounts of the massacres they had witnessed. The Jews and the Crusaders contains a full English translation of these chronicles, which cover the First and Second crusades - years in which a wave of slaughter and suicide swept the Jews of France and Germany, and demonstrated the Jews’ stubborn refusal to abandon their faith. Shlomo Eidelberg has translated four important primary documents from the original Hebrew, providing a perspective on the Crusades that has until now remained relatively obscure to the English-speaking world, thus serving both historians of early Christian Europe and Judaic scholars. The unique emotional power of each chronicle may be felt in the translation.” - Ktav Publishing House in a statement on their 1996 reprint. $45.

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Signed by the Author - First Edition - A Mint Copy Silas House - A Parchment of Leaves “Entrancing in the Manner of a Vivid Dream” 117 House, Silas. A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES (Chapel Hill: Alqonquin Books, 2002) First edition, first printing, SIGNED by the author. 8vo, publisher’s original blue boards backed in blue cloth, lettered on the spine in silver, in the original dustjacket. 278 pp. Very fine, as pristine and mint.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES is filled with the imagery and thrumming life of the Kentucky mountains. “A SEAMLESS WORK OF FICTION, entrancing in the manner of a vivid dream . . . The novel is steeped in details of place—the sounds, smells, and quality of light in House’s native Kentucky.” —Newsday. $50.

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Now and In Time to Be - Ireland and the Irish First Edition - A Fine Copy Photography by Prendergast 118 [Ireland]; Keneally, Thomas; Photgraphs by Patrick Prendergast. NOW AND IN TIME TO BE - IRELAND & THE IRISH (New York: W.W.Norton & Company, 1991) First Edition. Illustrated throughout with full page colour photographs by Patrick Prendergast. Folio, publisher’s original dark-gray cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in the colour illustrated dustjacket.

208 pp. A fine copy, the book and jacket both in very pleasing condition.

FIRST EDITION. “Thomas Keneally’s text and Patrick Prendergast’s photographs, which capture the beauty of the land and its people, are a proud confirmation of an ancient Irish incantation - together they will live a long life.” $50.

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John Jay - American Statesman Pellew’s Biography - A Fine Copy - Original Cloth 119 [Jay, John]; Pellew, George. JOHN JAY (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890) First Edition. 8vo, in the publisher’s original pebbled blue cloth, with a band of gilt stars along the upper cover and spine and with giltlettered cover and spine, t.e.g. vi, 374 pp. A very nice copy, clean, tight and bright.

“It is an important addition to the admirable series of ‘American Statesmen,’ and elevates yet higher the character of a man whom all American patriots must delight to honor.” - The New York Tribune. $45.

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First Edition and First Issue of the Author’s Third Novel The Crazed - Ha Jin - Very Fine in Original Dustjacket 120 Jin, Ha. THE CRAZED (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002) First edition, first issue. 8vo, publisher’s original black boards backed in cream cloth, lettered in black on the spine, in the original dustjacket. 323, [3] pp.

A pristine copy, very fine and near as mint.

FIRST ISSUE OF THE THIRD NOVEL BY MULTI-AWARD WINNING AUTHOR HA JIN. Jin is one of only four authors, with Philip Roth, John Edgar Wideman and E. L. Doctorow, to have won the PEN/Hemingway Award twice.

Among the many other honors his writing has received are the Flannery O’Connor Award, The Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Book Award, The Asian Fellowship Award and others. $50.

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The Kennedy Wit By Bill Adler 1st Edition - Fine 121 [Kennedy] Adler, Bill. THE KENNEDY WIT (New York: Citadel Press, 1964) First edition, later printing.

Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. 8vo, original orange cloth with black lettering on the spine. (x),83 pp. A fine copy.

A VERY ENTERTAINING COLLECTION OF QUIPS FROM THE PRESIDENT. $15.

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A Fine Copy of a Delicate Little Gem Kipling’s World War One Fringes of the Fleet 122 Kipling, Rudyard. THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET (Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1915) First American edition. 8vo, publisher’s original mottled paper covered boards, upper cover with a large paper lettering label printed in black and decorated with a flag in black, red and blue, spine with paper label lettered in black. 122. A fine copy of this delicate little gem with just a bit of toning to the paper label on the spine and a bit of minor wear at the head and foot.

FINE FIRST EDITION, written by Kipling while he was a war reporter during the First World War. The work includes six poems written for the publication. At the request of Admiral Charles Beresford four of these poems were put to music by Sir Edward Elgar, famed ‘Master of the King’s Musick’. $50.

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Rudyard Kipling - Soldier Tales - 1896 In the Original Gilt Decorated Blue Cloth 123 Kipling, Rudyard. SOLDIER TALES (London: Macmillan and Co., LTD, 1896) First edition and issue. With 21 black and white full-page plates from Archibald Standish Hartrick and numerous illustrations within the text.

8vo, publisher’s original royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on spine, decorated with pictorial designs of fife player and drummer in gilt on the upper cover, a.e.g. viii, 172 pp. A very good copy, the spine a bit mellowed with the gilt dulled a bit but with only very minor rubbing to the tips or corners, the text with much less then typical toning or spotting.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS COLLECTION. Seven fine tales by the author of KIM and THE JUNGLE BOOKS. These works are short stories originally published in various venues between 1888 and 1890 and include ‘ Drums of the Fore and Aft’, ‘The Man Who Was’ and ‘The Taking of Lungtungpen’. The illustrations are here provided for the first time with any of them. $85.

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D.H. Lawrence - Kangaroo The First American Edition of 1923 124 Lawrence, D. H. KANGAROO (New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923) First American edition. 8vo, blue cloth gilt. 421. A very good copy with just a hint of expected age.

A beautiful blend of political outburst and Australian life based on Lawrence’s visit to Australia. Chapter 10, The Nightmare, describes his war-time confrontations with authority in Cornwall and his humiliating examination for service. The novel’s protagonist, like Lawrence, was rejected as “unfit”. and landscape. Chapter 10 describes Lawrence’s own experiences with military examinations and his profound humiliation with being found unfit. $75.

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Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia - A Cautionary Tale Fred Crawford - First Edition - A Pristine Copy 125 [Lawrence, T. E.]; Crawford, Fred D. RICHARD ALDINGTON AND LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. A Cautionary Tale. (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998) FIRST EDITION. With a photographic frontispiece. 8vo, in the publisher’s original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and in the illustrated dustjacket. xvii, 263 pp. A very fine copy as pristine and mint..

FIRST EDITION. “If you plan to portray a national icon in less than heroic terms, you had better be prepared for a fight, as Richard Aldington learned even before the publication of his 1955 biography, Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry. Fred Crawford provides the first examination of all major parties and points of view embroiled in the controversy generated by Aldington’s biography of T. E. Lawrence.” - Publisher $95.

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The Screenplay of How Green Was My Valley Signed by Oscar Nominated Writer Philip Dunne One of Only 1000 Trade Copies Printed 126 [LLewellyn] Dunne, Philip. HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY The Screenplay for the Darryl F. Zanuck Film Production Directed by John Ford Based on the Novel by Richard Llewellyn. Introductory Essay by Philip Dunne

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(Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1990) First edition LIMITED to only 1000 trade copies, SIGNED by Oscar nominated screenwriter Philip Dunne. With numerous black and white illustrations being either stills taken from the film or photographs taken during its production. Small 4to, in the publisher’s original gray wove cloth, lettered on the spine in gilt, and in the original dustjacket of green paper featuring a pictorial scene of a Welsh mining town on the upper cover and a portrait of Philip Dunne on the rear taken by Roddy McDowall. 105pp. A very fine copy, as mint.

SIGNED BY THE OSCAR NOMINATED SCREENWRITER AND A LIMITED FIRST EDITION of the script for this extraordinary motion picture published in conjunction with the film’s admittance into the National Film Registry as a National Treasure.

In the year 1941, Twentieth Century-Fox released 43 feature films, among them Blood and Sand, Swamp Water, Sun Valley Serenade, two Charlie Chan mysteries, and a Laurel and Hardy comedy. Towering above all of these was the most honored film of the year, an extraordinary adaptation of Richard Llewellyn’s best selling novel of life in a Welsh mining community. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by John Ford, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY became the recipient of five Academy Awards—including the coveted awards for Best Director and Best Picture; a huge accomplishment in the same year as The Maltese Falcon, The Little Foxes, and CITIZEN KANE.

One of Norman Mailer’s Last and Best Books Signed First Edition - The Castle in the Forest 127 Mailer, Norman. THE CASTLE IN THE FOREST (New York: Random House, 2007) First Edition. Signed

by Norman Mailer on the half-title. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the pictorial dustjacket printed in colours. [x], 477, [4] pp. A pristine copy, as mint.

FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY NORMAN MAILER. A truly provocative work, and one of Mailer’s last great books, this is the story in narration form, by a mysterious SS man in possession of some extraordinary secrets. A view into Adolf Hitler from birth with revealing portraits of his family. “ A tapestry of unforgettable characters the book delivers its myriad twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of the struggle between good and evil....At its core is a hypothesis that this novel employs with stunning originality.’ Publisher $95.

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Gilman’s Biography of James Monroe Original Cloth - A Fine Copy 128 [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.

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Valentine’s Old New York - The Last Fifty Years - 1926 Beautifully Illustrated Including Plates in Full Colour 129 [New York]; Brown, Henry Collins, Editor. Valentine’s Manual of Old New York 1926 [THE LAST FIFTY YEARS OF NEW YORK] (New York: Valentine’s Manual Inc., 1926) First edition, this being No.10, Volume 1, the special tenth year anniversary issue. With a beautiful and elaborate colour illuminated title-page with gilt, colour frontispiece, five double-page colourplates and countless illustrations both throughout the text and on sepia printed plates. 8vo, publisher’s original cloth, gilt decorated and lettered on the upper cover and spine. xix, 404pp. Internally very fine, the original cloth has no real wear or fading but the gilt of the spine is flaked, the text-block, plates and illustrations are all in excellent condition. A Mead family copy with their bookplate.

FIRST EDITION OF THE SPECIAL 10TH BIRTHDAY EDITION, SCARCE IN NICE CONDITION. This issue differed from the usual format of collecting varied articles on this city and instead presented a special issue THE LAST FIFTY YEARS OF NEW YORK. $35.

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The Rare Books and Manuscripts of A. Edward Newton The Prospectus for the Famous Auction 130 [Newton, A. Edward; Parke-Bernet]. THE RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTED BY THE LATE A. EDWARD NEWTON Public Sale[.] Part One on April 16, 17 and 18[.] Part Two on May 14, 15 and 16 [.] Part Three Dates to be Announced By Order of E. Swift Newton and Brandon Barringer Executors (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1941) First Edition, second printing. With reproductions of newspaper clips, manuscript letters, editorials, etc. 8vo, publisher’s original powder-blue paper boards lettered in dark blue on the upper cover and featuring a paste-down of Newton’s engraved bookplate within an embossed framed, in original glassine wrapper and in the original stiff paper folding chemise with metal clasps. 23 pp. The book near as mint, the glassine and case also well preserved with some light evidence of age.

FIRST EDITION OF THE PROSPECTUS for one of the most famous book auctions of the 20th century. A notable entry in the gold age of bibliophiles, at the time of Newton’s death it was estimated that he had approximately 10,000 books in his collection, focusing on English and American literary works, the major part of which were auctioned by Parke-Bernet Galleries. $35.

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From The Dean of American Crime Fiction Boston P.I. Spenser Tracks the Red Rose Killer 131 Parker, Robert B. CRIMSON JOY (New York: Delacorte, 1988) First edition, first printing, SIGNED by the author, Robert Parker.

8vo, in the publisher’s white boards backed in black cloth, the spine with lettering in red foil, in the original dustjacket. 211pp. As new, the white boards as bright as snow, the dustjacket essentially pristine.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND A MINT COPY. The story follows Boston based PI Spenser as he tracks a serial killer the press has dubbed the “Red Rose Killer”. The case becomes personal for Spenser, Hawk and Dr. Susan SIlverman, challenging their safety and testing their relationship. $50.

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Robert Parker - Ironhorse - A Virgil Cole Novel First Edition - Signed by the Author 132 Parker, Robert B. IRONHORSE (New York: G P Putman’s Sons, 2013) First Edition, signed by Robert Parker in full. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth over red paper covered boards, the spine lettered in copper. In the pictorial dustjacket. 374 pp. As pristine and mint.

A SIGNED EDITION. A VIRGIL COLE NOVEL. “Hitch and Cole, reminiscent of the steely eyed, soft-spoken lawmen Randolph Scott played in the movies, speak volumes to one another with a few words and a nod of the head.” - Associated Press $75.

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Jeremy Fisher- One of Potter’s Most Loved Tales A Bright Fresh Copy in Original Dustjacket 133 Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF MR. JEREMY FISHER (London: Frederick Warne and Company, [1962]) A handsome printing in the original format and by Potter’s original publisher. With 27 colour illustrations, most on double-sided plates, illustrated endpapers, and and cover decoration all by Beatrix Potter. 12mo, publisher’s original peach boards lettered in burgundy on the upper cover and spine, with pictorial colour pastedown on the front cover, in the original pictorially decorated white paper dustjacket. 59pp. A fine copy, the book and jacket with just the most trivial evidence of age.

IN THE ORIGINAL FORMAT AND DUSTJACKET. Jeremy’s origin lies in a letter she wrote to a child in 1893. She revised it in 1906, and moved its setting from the River Tay to the English Lake District. The tale reflects her love for the Lake District and her admiration for children’s illustrator Randolph Caldecott. $75.

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LIFE: The John F. Kennedy Memorial Issue - 1963 Iconic Photographs of the 20th Century 134 [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.

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A Mesmerizing Novel of Witchcraft and the Occult Anne Rice - The Witching Hour - First Edition 135 Rice, Anne. THE WITCHING HOUR (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990) First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the decorated dustjacket. 965 pp. A fine copy, as pristine.

FIRST EDITION. “A huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Demonstrating her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real a great dynasty of witches-a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy; a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.” $50.

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Inscribed by Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 136 Robbins, Tom. EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES (New York: Bantam Books, 1990) The first printing of the Bantam Trade Edition. Inscribed by the author “To Tom, Tom Robbins.” 8vo, original brightly decorated printed wrappers. 365pp. This copy is as new, mint.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. One of Robbins’ most popular titles, Sissy Hankshaw, the novel’s protagonist, is a woman born with enormously large thumbs who considers her mutation a gift. The novel covers various topics, including free love, drug use, political rebellion, animal rights, body odor, religion, and yams. $55.

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Africa Images and Realities A Fine Copy with Lavish Illustrations 137 Robins, Eric and, Littell, Blaine. AFRICA IMAGES AND REALITIES (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971) First Edition Lavishly illustrated throughout with color photographs by Marvin Newman and others. 4to, publisher’s original beige cloth, lettered in red on the spine. 250 pp. A copy in fine condition.

A VIVID LOOK AT AFRICA AND ITS PEOPLE AND CUSTOMS THROUGH A MARVELOUS COLLECTION OF FULL COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS. $50.

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African Reflections - Art From Northeastern Zaire First Edition - A Fine Copy 138 Schildkrout, Enid and, Keim, Curtis. AFRICAN REFLECTIONS. Art From Northeastern Zaire (Seattle: U. of Washington Press, 1990) First Edition With colour photographs throughout by Lynton Gardiner. 4to, publisher’s original blue wrappers. 271 pp. A fine copy.

Herbert Lang’s collection of African Art at the American Museum of Natural History. $48.

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Sir Walter Scott’s Famed Poem The Lady of the Lake In the Original Binding - A Very Pleasing Copy 139 Scott, Sir Walter. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. A Poem in Six Cantos (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., N.D., circa 1888) “The University Edition”, being an early American edition, with Notes and an Appendix from the latest Edinburgh edition. With a steel engraved frontispiece portrait of Scott and engraved plates throughout from various sources. 8vo, publisher’s original ribbed green cloth the upper cover with a gilt ruled border and gilt lettered in the center within an ornate gilt Gaelic-style wreath, the spine gilt ruled and lettered, t.e.g. 332 pp. Very well preserved, near as new but for a bit of light evidence of age at the tips.

“The Lady of the Lake” is a poem in six cantos, originally published in 1810.

It is the story of a knight who is received into the home of a highland chief. The knight falls in love with the daughter, Ellen, of an outlawed lord while there.

However, the highland chief and another man are also suitors. The plot of this poem is an exciting adventure filled with suspense and mystery. The poem includes the coronach “He is gone on the mountain” and Ellen’s song “Soldier, rest, thy warfare o’er.” The work was received with enthusiasm by the reading public. $75.

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Sir Walter Scott, Bart - First Edition Sir Herbert Grierson’s Fine Biography 140 [Scott, Sir Walter]; Grierson, Sir Herbert. SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. A New Life Supplementary to, and Corrective of, Lockhart’s Biography (London: Constable and Co, 1938) First separate edition, first issue. With a finely engraved frontispiece of the author from the 1830 original portrait painted by John Watson Gordon. 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth gilt lettered on the spine, untrimmed. xii, 320, tipped in erratum pp. A fine copy, the binding just a tad mellowed at the edges and extremities.

FIRST EDITION. Grierson’s fine biography of one of the greatest names in English literature. This was the first edition available other then as part of the twelve volume set of Scott’s letters. $65.

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Spain and Its People - A Record of Recent Travel Impressively Illustrated by Valentin Foulquier - First Edition 141 [Spain]; Poitou, Eugene. SPAIN AND ITS PEOPLE. A Record of Recent Travel. From the French of Eugene Poitou (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1873) First edition in English. With 150 original illustrations by V. Foulquier. 8vo, in handsome contemporary three quarter tan calf over brown ribbed cloth, the spine with gilt tooled raised bands and lavishly gilt tooled compartments, a single red morocco label gilt lettered and tooled, handsome marbled endpapers and page edges. xii, 497pp. A very appealing and well preserved copy of this scarce book, the binding handsome with just general age mellowing and a little rubbing at the edges, the hinges strong, the textblock solid. The paper is fresh and quite clean, only a very light bit of foxing on a handful of leaves, otherwise very clean and unusually so for a book of this period.

FIRST EDITION, VERY SCARCE AND WELL WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF SPAIN IN THE LATTER 19TH CENTURY. The book is also beautifully illustrated both on plates and throughout the text by French artist Valentin Foulquier.

Many of his illustrations remind us of the work of fellow Frenchman Gustave Doré. $95.

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Sylvester Stevens - A History of Pennsylvania First Edition - Fine Copy - 1964 142 Stevens, Sylvester K. PENNSYLVANIA. BIRTHPLACE OF A NATION. (New York: Random House, 1964) First Edition. With illustrations throughout the text. 4to, publisher’s original green cloth, lettered in red and black on the spine and upper cover. xiii, 399 pp, (13) ads. A fine and bright and clean copy.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. An excellent history of Pennsylvania. “The importance of Pennsylvania does not rest upon a few events and a few landmarks in the American story, but upon a long and continuing series of events and landmarks ranging from political through the social, cultural, and economic history of the nation.”- author’s preface $30.

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Pink and White Tyranny - In the Original Cloth A Society Comedy by Harriet Beecher Stowe Delightfully Light & Humorous - Very Scarce First Edition 143 Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher. PINK AND WHITE TYRANNY. A Society Novel (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871) First Edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth decorated in blind on both covers and spine and lettered on the spine in gilt. 4 ads, viii, 331, 8 ads. A handsome and well preserved copy, much nicer then one should expect to find.

A VERY SCARCE NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF UNCLE TOM’S CABIN. This work is hard to find in original condition. As different from “Uncle Tom” as two books could be, Pink and White Tyranny is a comedy of manners on the institution of marriage. Lillie Ellis, a professional belle, has been spoiled, petted, and flattered since the day she was born.

When she tricks the adoring and upright John Seymour into marriage, it is unclear who is the victim and who is the victimizer. It is a funny, marvelous tale of an empty-headed, gold digging girl and the unfortunate man she marries. Those familiar with Stowe only from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” will be amazed by her talent as a light humorist. The illustrations from ink drawings are a delightful touch as well.

The novel is, of course, vastly overshadowed by the monumental importance of “Uncle Tom”, to the point so that first editions in any condition are now extremely hard to come by. BAL 19461. $95.

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A Fine First Edition on Curling Published 1936 - Illustrated - A Very Fine Copy 144 Talbot, Fritz B.. MR. BESOM---STARTS CURLING With an Introduction by C. Campbell Patterson President Grand National Curling Club of America (Norwood: Plimpton Press, 1936) First Edition. Illustrated throughout with drawings. 8vo, publisher’s original tarta cloth, lettered and decorated in black on the spine and upper cover, with the original glassene dustwrapper. [64] pp. A very fine copy with glassene in excellent condition.

AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS CLASSIC TEXT. Curling as a sport dates back to at least the 1500s but has recently seen a large revival in the United States and Canada. A sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area, is closely related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. It has been a medal sport in the Winter Olympics since 1998. $45.

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Rambles in the Black Forest - London - 1911 A Tour in Paintings and Photographs 145 Wylie, I. A. R. RAMBLES IN THE BLACK FOREST (London: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1911) First edition.

With illustrations by C. Liebich, G. English and M. E. Lindnen and 22 photographs, four plates are in colour and with a colour pastedown on the cover. 8vo, publisher’s original forest-green cloth, the upper cover decoratively lettered in black and with a large colour illustrated pastedown framed in black, the spine lettered in black. viii, 325pp, 10pp ads. A bright and attractive copy, the binding with very little age mellowing, the text quite fresh with only light occasional foxing, the plates are all in fine condition.

FIRST EDITION AND A wonderful rambling tour through some of Europe’s most beautiful territory, including areas such as Freiburg, Hollenthal, Hornberg, Gutach, Baden - Baden, Wiese Valley, Badenweiler and many other towns and regions. The contemporary photographs are very interesting in their own right and include, of course, a clock-maker’s shop. $75.

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The Jolly Christmas Postman A Wonderful Activity Book of Letters and Other Surprises 146 Ahlberg, Janet and Allan. THE JOLLY CHRISTMAS POSTMAN (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991) First Edition and printing. Illustrated brightly throughout in colour and complete with the bound in envelopes containing letters, minibooks, puzzles, etc. Oblong 4to, bound in the original colourfully decorated illustrated boards. unpaginated, 10 leaves of text and illustration plus 6 envelopes of activities. A pristine copy, complete and very clean, essentially as mint.

FIRST EDITION AND A DIFFICULT BOOK TO FIND COMPLETE WITH ALL ENVELOPES AND CONTENTS. An ingenious activity book featuring the story of the Jolly Postman, who makes Christmastime deliveries for the Four Bears, Miss R. Hood, Mr. H. Dumpty, the Gingerbread Boy, Mister Wolf, and lastly to himself. Each “delivery” consist of a postmarked envelope containing a letter or other wonderful surprise. $75.

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