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44 PYNCHON, THOMAS The Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966. 8vo, yellow cloth over gray boards, in dust jacket. First edition of Pynchon’s second novel. Dust jacket price-clipped with light wear and small chip to edge; otherwise a fine copy. Property of a Gentleman, Racine, Wisconsin $200-400

45 ROBERTS, KENNETH Northwest Passage. New York: Doubleday Doran, 1937. 2 vols. 8vo, red cloth, dust jackets, uncut, in publisher’s slipcase with pastedown label, map endpapers, top edges gilt. First edition. One of 1,050 limited copies signed by the author to limitation page. Jackets chipped with some soiling concentrated at spine; otherwise a fine set. Together with Oliver Wiswell. By Kenneth Roberts. New York: Doubleday Doran, 1940. 2 vols. 8vo, brown cloth. First edition. One of 1,050 copies signed by the author. Lacking dust jackets; otherwise fine. $200-400

46 STEIN, GERTRUDE Before the Flowers of Friendship Have Faded. Written on a Poem by Georges Hugnet. Paris: (Durand), n.d. Folio, loose as issued in original thick paper folder with original tissue wraps. First edition. Presentation copy, number XVIII of eighteen copies (from a total of 120) printed on Antique Montval paper for the author and signed by her to the limitation page, this one presented to Francis Lowe. Browning to tissue wraps with some chipping at extremities; otherwise very fine. $800-1,200

47 TWAIN, MARK The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894. 8vo, original red decorative cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Illustrated with frontispiece photograph of Twain with facsimile signature and with tissue guard. First American edition. Marginal drawings throughout. Spine ends frayed; rubbing to boards; hinges starting; some age-darkening to extremities of pages; otherwise fine. $200-400

48 WALL, BERNHARDT Man’s Best Friend: A Plea to a Jury. By the Honourable Graham Vest, senator from Missouri. Etched by Bernhardt Wall. New York, 1920. Thin 4to, marbled paper over green leatherette boards, pastedown label to front cover. First edition. One of 125 copies. Signed in pencil by Wall on title page and inscribed “special copy no. 11 of 14.” With original signed cartoon pencil sketch of dog to f.f.e.p., with “Gee, Wall, must like dogs some. I like him for that,” in a bubble quote above the dog. With copperplate mounted inside front cover corresponding to the etching within the book. Head and foot of backstrip bumped; otherwise a fine copy. Rare. $300-500

49 WHEATLEY, PHILLIS Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. (London): (A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and Sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston), (1773). [v-viii], [9]-124, [4] pp. 12mo, modern full red morocco, gilt titles to spine in compartments. First edition of the first literary work ever published by an African-American. Around 1760, (1761 according to her master’s note), Phillis Wheatley, then only seven years old, was captured in Senegal and sold as a slave to John and Susannah Wheatley of Boston. The Wheatley’s saw to it that Phillis received a good education and, at the age of 13, her command of the English language was strong enough to publish her first poem. Skeptical that readers would believe the poetry to be that of a young slave girl, she appeared before a group of “the most respectable Characters in Boston” -- including John Hancock and James Pitts -- all of whom signed their names in official attestation that Wheatley truly did write the poems. Even so, no local publisher would assume the task, so Phillis and her master’s son traveled to London and procured a publisher with the assistance of the Earl of Dartmouth and the Countess of Huntington (to whom the collection is dedicated). Despite her unprecedented accomplishment, Wheatley died a poor woman at the age of 31 while giving birth to her third child. Lacking first two leaves (i-vii), including portrait frontispiece and title page; dedication page and preface encapsulated in old thick glassine; otherwise fine. $8,000-12,000

50 WILDER, THORNTON A group of seven books, letters and ephemera signed and inscribed by Wilder. Includes: The Bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Longmans, Green, 1929. Illustrated edition with 15 tipped in engravings by Clare Leighton. The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act. New Haven: Yale University Press; New York: Coward-McCann, 1931. Number 516 of 525 copies, of which only 500 were for sale, signed by the author to the limitation page. First edition. The Skin of Our Teeth. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1942. First edition. In dust jacket. Inscribed. Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker. New York: Harper, (1957). Inscribed on title page. Theophilus North. New York, London: Harper & Row, (1973). First edition, first printing. Inscribed three months prior to publication. The Eighth Day. New York, London: Harper & Row, (1967). First edition. Number 9 of 500 copies signed by author. Inscribed. The Merchant of Yonkers. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First edition, first printing. Inscribed. The previous owners were long time friends and neighbors of the Wilder family, a relationship which is supported in the author’s inscriptions. Two inscriptions suggest a number of Wilder’s plays found their first audience with the previous owners. Wilder writes on the half-title of The Skin of Our Teeth, “Margaret: her book/She befriended it in manuscript, and sponsored its first submittal to an audience/ with the devoted affection of her old friend/Thornton/New Haven, May 15, 1943.” In addition to the personal mentions in his inscriptions, Wilder even makes changes within the text, in his own hand, thus being a commentary on his friendship with the previous owners. On the final page of “The Matchmaker” in Three Plays at the end of the sentence “we all hope that in your lives you have just the right amount of - adventure!,” Wilder has crossed out the final word “adventure,” and added in pen at the bottom of the page “sitting quietly, and just the right amount of . . . adventure . . . goodnight!” $3,000-5,000

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51* ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY Signed document, June 1st, 1825, one page, as President. Land grant for Vincennes, Indiana. Framed; seal intact but faded; fading to text; minor soiling to sheet; otherwise fine. 9 x 14 inches. Property from the Estates of Will H. Hays, Sullivan, Indiana, and Will H. Hays Jr., Crawfordsville, Indiana $300-500

52 (AMERICANA) A group of 14 volumes. $100-200

53 (CHICAGO, COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION) ARNOLD, CHARLES DUDLEY An series of 19 albumen prints from Charles Dudley Arnold’s official portfolio of the World’s Columbian Exposition. Originally published in Official Views of the World’s Columbian Exposition Issued by the Department of Photography. C. D. Arnold and H. D. Higginbotham. Chicago: Chicago Photo-gravure Company, 1893. $200-400

54 (CHICAGO, CLARENCE DARROW) LEOPOLD, NATHAN Life Plus 99 Years. New York: Doubleday, 1958. 8vo, gray cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First edition, second printing. Rare inscribed presentation sheet laid in, “For Dr. John F. Pick with my deepest respect, admiration and gratitude. Nathan J. Leopold, Jr. Feb. 27, 1958.” This is a very rare presentation copy. Together with five books by or about Leopold’s defense attorney, Clarence Darrow. Including: Clarence Darrow for the Defense. By Irving Stone. New York, 1941. Inscribed. First edition, first printing. The Story of My Life. By Clarence Darrow. New York, 1932. First edition, including deleted chapter on the Massie Trial laid in. Verdicts Out of Court. By Clarence Darrow. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1963. In dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Farmington. By Clarence Darrow. New York, 1904. First edition. Infidels and Heretics. By Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice. Boston, 1929. Second printing. In dust jacket. The Amazing Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb. By Maureen McKernan. With an introduction by Clarence Darrow. Chicago, 1924. Clarence Darrow and the American Literary Tradition. By Abe C. Ravitz. Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned. Edited by Arthur Weinberg. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Also with two Blue Book reports on Darrow’s trials. Plea of Clarence Darrow, in his own Defense . . . . Golden Press, 1912. With laid in ephemera. And five other pamphlets. (18) $600-800

55 CLARKSON, T. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species; particularly the African. Georgetown, (Kentucky): David Barrow, 1816. 12mo, full calf, spine ruled in gilt. An early Kentucky imprint and one of the rarest anti-slavery tracts. First published in London in 1785, Clarkson’s essay won first prize at University of Cambridge and was published twice in Philadelphia before Barrow’s printing in Kentucky. Rubbing to boards; dampstaining to endpapers; some browning to pages; otherwise fine. $200-400

56 CROCKETT, DAVID A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett. Written by Himself. Philadelphia: E. L. Cary; Reprinted in London: John Limbard, 1834. 12mo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. American edition. Browning to pages; last two pages detached; very minor rubbing to boards; otherwise fine. $300-500

57 DANA, EDMUND Geographical Sketches on the Western County. Designed for Emigrants and Settlers: Being the Result of Extensive Researches and Remarks to which is added, a Summary of all the Most Interesting Matters on the Subjects, including A Particular Description of the Unsold Public Lands, Collected from a Variety of Authentic Sources. Also, a List of the Principle Roads. Cincinnati: Looker, Reynolds, 1819. 12mo, original printed boards, housed in custom 3/4 morocco slipcase and matching cloth chemise, black leather spine label with gilt titles. First edition. After spending 6 years among the native peoples of “the Great Western Lakes,” Dana petitioned to Congress for a loan to purchase a large piece of territory for settlement and was denied. According to the preface, his friends thus pressed him to publish his observations for the general public. An important document regarding early settlement in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Tennesee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Michigan, Missouri and the Northwest Territory. $400-600