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251* (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) “TWAIN, MARK” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). Boston: Charles L. Webster, 1885.

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth stamped in gilt and lettered in black to upper boards and spine, pale peach endpapers, blue morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. Double frontispiece with tissue guard, wood engravings throughout. First American edition, with title page a cancel and the following first issue points: “Him and another Man” is listed at p. 88, “with the was” to p. 57 eleven lines from the bottom, p. 155 with final “5” lacking, final leaf blank, frontispiece with “Heliotype Printing Co.” and visible table cloth. Also, “Huck Decided” instead of “Huck Decides” under “Chapter VI” on p. [9], a first issue point per MacDonnell (Firsts, p. 31). Carroll Atwood Wilson copy, with bookplate tipped to front pastedown. Minor rubbing to boards; small blemish to upper board; inner hinges cracked slightly; very few scattered spots. Otherwise a very good copy in the scarcer blue cloth. BAL 3415. Kevin MacDonnell in Firsts, September 1998 - Vol. 8, No. 9, “Huck Finn, Among the Issue Mongers,” pp. 29- 35 Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa Provenance: Carroll Atwood Wilson copy (bookplate). A collector of famous quotes. $10,000-15,000

252* (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) “TWAIN, MARK” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1876.

8vo, original blue cloth stamped in gilt and black, custom matching blue morocco-backed slipcase and cloth chemise. Wood-engraved frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations by True Williams and others. First edition, variant printing, printed on wove paper, with half-title and frontispiece on separate leaves, versos of half-title and preface blank; 4-page publisher’s advertisements bound at the end, Revised December 1, 1876. Minor rubbing to boards; inner hinges cracked but sturdy; scattered spotting and moderate soiling; repaired 1-inch marginal tear to pp. xi-xiii; otherwise a fine copy with only minor wear. BAL 3369 Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $2,000-4,000

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253* (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) “TWAIN, MARK” A group of two volumes comprising, The Gilded Age, and The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1874. Property from the Estate of Dr. Joseph and Donna Lee Boggs, Chicago, Illinois $300-500

254* (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) “TWAIN, MARK” Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883.

8vo, publisher’s brown cloth stamped in gilt and lettered in black. First edition, second state. Hinges slightly tender; spine ends bumped. BAL 3411 Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200

255 AKERS, FLOYD The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, (1908).

8vo, publisher’s brown cloth pictorially stamped in black and white. First edition, first state, with an open book device on title page, the only advertisement is on verso of title page listing three titles in this new series, and the text concludes at p.271 with the words “unvarying good fortune” below which is “The End.” Some rubbing to cloth with a bit of loss to white on upper boards; spine ends and corners bumped; manuscript and stamped ex-libri to f.f.e.p.; some marginal toning to pages; hinges slightly tender. $200-400 256 ALBEE, EDWARD Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New York: Atheneum, 1963.

8vo, softcover. Inscribed by Albee to the f.f.e.p. and dated “NYC 3-18-65.” Inner hinges slightly cracked; some soiling to covers; crease to center of spine. $600-800

257* BANNING, KENDELL; BAUMANN, GUSTAVE Pirates! or, The Cruise of the Black Revenge. Chicago: Brothers of the Book, 1916.

4to, original stiff black wrappers printed in red, original publisher’s box. One of 525 copies on Kozuchi hand-made Japanese paper. Illustrated with wood engravings by Baumann. Box split at the edges with wear. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

258 (BEARDSLEY, AUBREY) MALORY, SIR THOMAS The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Nobel Knights of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte d’Arthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of this World of them All. [London:] E. P. Dutton, 1927.

4to, original black cloth stamped in gilt and blind, untrimmed, t.e.g. Illustrated throughout with full-page plates after etchings and woodcuts by Beardsley. One of 1,600 copies. Lacking dust jacket; upper hinge cracked; foxing to some pages and plates. $400-600 259* BEARDSLEY, AUBREY, et al. The Yellow Book. Illustrated Quarterly. London: The Bodley Head, 1894-1897.

13 vols. 8vo, pictorial yellow cloth. Numerous plates and illustrations, many by Aubrey Beardsley. Lightly rubbed and soiled; minor intermittent foxing. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

260* [BIERCE, AMBROSE] Nuggets and Dust Panned out in California by Dod Grile. London: Chatto & Windus, n.d. [1873]

8vo, original printed yellow wraps. First edition. Wear to wraps with some loss at the edge of spine; slight separation at top edge; otherwise interior is in fine condition. BAL 1099 Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $300-500

261 THE BRITISH NOVELISTS London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820.

49 (of 50) vols. only. 12mo, 3/4 black morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt-lettered spines. New Edition. Bookplates tipped in front pastedowns; rubbing to boards at extremities; chipping to spine ends most vols. $400-600

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262 BRONTE, CHARLOTTE AND EMILY Works. London: Riviere, (1910).

6 vols. 8vo, 3/4 blue calf over marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, frontispieces, t.e.g. Bound by Riviere. Boards detached from some vols.; spines chipped and rubbed at hinges. Together with The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, London, 1822, 4 vols. 8vo, full blue calf, gilt-decorated spines, red leather spine labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Illustrated. Ex-libris bookplates tipped in front pastedowns; wear to boards; spine ends chipped, joints rubbed; light intermittent foxing. (10) $200-400

263 BROOKS, GWENDOLYN A Street in Bronxville. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1945.

Thin 8vo, publisher’s black and orange cloth-backed boards stamped in gilt. Second edition. Inscribed by Brooks to the half-title. With an inscribed note from Brooks laid-in. Together with Annie Allen. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition. Inscribed by Brooks to the f.f.e.p. $200-400 264 BUNYAN, JOHN The Pilgrim’s Progress. New York: Century, 1898.

4to, pictorial cloth boards with title in red to spine, portrait frontispiece. With over 120 sepia illustrations and floral borders in the Art Nouveau style by George Woolliscroft, Frederick and Louis Rhead. Soiling to boards; corners and ends lightly bumped; hinges starting; p. 184 detached but present. $100-200

265* [BURGESS, GELETT, et al.] The Lark. Book I & Book II, Numbers 1-24 [and] The Epilark. San Francisco: William Doxey, 1896-1897.

2 vols. 8vo, original color pictorial linen, uncut, some pages unopened, printed on hand-made rag paper. First edition of this eccentric collection of poetry and prose, profusely illustrated. First few pages (i.e. title and index) both volumes detached or starting; some minor wear to cloth. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200 266 BURROUGHS, WILLIAM The Naked Lunch. The Traveller’s Companion Series. Paris: The Olympia Press, (1959).

8vo, softcover, illustrated dust jacket. First edition of Burroughs’ second book. Dust jacket with 3-inch tear to upper cover and small chip to lower cover; sunning to spine; small chip to softcover spine; small indentations with some loss to inner edge of first few pages; otherwise fine. $300-500

267* BURTON, RICHARD Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry. With thirty-three illustrations by Ernest Griset. London: Longmans, Green, 1870.

8vo, publisher’s decorated red cloth, pictorially stamped with fantastical creatures to upper board in black, lettered in black. First edition, second issue. Backstrip detached; wear to cloth with some soiling; small dampstain to fore edge. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200

268* COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE The Last of the Mohicans. Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826.

2 vols. 8vo, quarter calf over marbled boards, black leather gilt-stamped spine labels. First edition, vol. 1, state A, with “a Book” to copyright, pagination lacking p. 71, p. 89 misnumbered 93, p. 243 read IXV for XVI, i present in vii, vol. 2, state B, with “a book” on copyright page, terminal blanks in each vol. are present. Bookplates tipped in front pastedowns; edgewear to boards with some loss at corners and rubbing to marbled boards; moderate browning to some pages; some pages shaved lightly; some light dampstaining upper right corner vol. 1. BAL 3833 Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $4,000-6,000 269* COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE The Pathfinder. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840.

2 vols. 8vo, original purple muslin, with pastedown paper spine labels. First American edition, fourth state of vol. 1 with J. Fagan and T. K. and P. G. Collins imprint on p. 2 and copyright notice. Manuscript exlibris to title pages on both vols.; minor foxing; fading to cloth with some loss to spine label. BAL 3892 Together with Notions of the Americans: Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1833. 2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s plain boards, pastedown spine label. Second English edition. Light foxing to fore edge; hinges cracked; wear to boards. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

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270* DEFOE, DANIEL The Family Robinson Crusoe: or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked with His Wife and Children on an Uninhabited Island. London: M. J. Godwin, 1816.

2 vols. 12mo, original calf, gilt spine label and gilt ruling. First complete English edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, fold-out map and five plates. Light rubbing to boards at joints and extremities; offsetting from plates. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $1,000-2,000

271 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN The Complete Sherlock Holmes. New York: Doubleday, 1953.

2 vols. 8vo, quarter blue morocco over linen, gilt-lettered spines, glassine wraps, publisher’s slipcase with pastedown label. Limited edition, one of 147 sets signed by Doyle to the limitation page on vol. 1. Fading to spines with some rubbing to leather; wear to slipcase, with soiling and some loss; otherwise a very good set with fine interiors. $1,000-2,000

272 [ELIOT, GEORGE] Autograph letter signed with her married name, (“Marian E. Lewes”), 2 pages, Blandford Square [Newcastle], June 15, 1861. To Eliza Eborall.

Lewes writes to Ms. Eborall, the teacher of her niece Emily Clarke, regarding her niece’s state: “It is of a satisfaction to learn from you that she is going on pretty well. I feel, with you, that the great misfortune of deafness claims an additional measure of tolerance for the poor dear girl; and she is at an age, too, when the character is often obscured by passing impulses.” Creased in quarters; bottom quarter detached; split at a few folds. $800-1,200

273 FAULKNER, WILLIAM Light in August. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, (1932).

8vo, original rough tan cloth stamped in orange on the front cover and blue on the spine, top edge stained orange, original blue and orange dust jacket, unrestored and unclipped. First edition, first printing, first state of dust jacket. Small tears to edges and spine ends of dust jacket and some scuffing to upper panel; rear panel creased; otherwise a very good copy. $1,000-2,000

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274 FAULKNER, WILLIAM A group of 13 first editions, first printings or limited editions, with dust jackets.

Mirrors of Chartres Street. Minneapolis, 1953. Limited edition. One of 1,000 copies. Collected Stories of William Faulkner. New York, 1950. Knight’s Gambit. New York, 1939. First edition. Intruder in the Dust. New York, 1948. Requiem for a Nun. New York, 1951. First Trade edition. Big Woods. New York, 1955. The Town. New York, 1957. The Unvanquished. New York, 1938. A Fable. New York, 1954. The Reivers. New York, 1962. The Mansion. New York, 1959. The Hamlet. New York, 1940. The Faulkner Reader. New York, 1954. $1,000-2,000

275 FAULKNER, WILLIAM Go Down, Moses and Other Stories. New York: Random House, (1942).

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in green, unclipped dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Previous owner’s manuscript ex-libris to front pastedown; some light chipping to edges to jacket and some minor soiling. $100-200 276 FITZGERALD, SCOTT F. Tender is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934.

8vo, publisher’s navy cloth-backed boards with blindstamped singled-ruled frame, gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket unclipped. First edition, first printing with “A” and printer’s device on copyright page. Front jacket flap in first issue state with the three quoted blurbs by T. S. Eliot, H. L. Mencken and Paul Rosenfeld. Fitzgerald’s last completed novel published during his lifetime. Dust jacket with 2-inch portion of spine head torn with loss to title; corners, edges and bottom of spine with loss; crease to center of both upper and lower panels and even toning; upper flap detached; wrapped in mylar; otherwise a good unsophisticated copy with hinges sturdy. $4,000-6,000

276A ELLISON, RALPH The Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952.

8vo, publisher’s black and tan cloth, white lettering to spine, top edge stained black, unclipped dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Wear to jacket with a few closed tears and some tape repair at folds; hinges tender; dampstain to upper board. $200-400 277* HAMILTON, ELIZABETH The Cottagers of Glenburnie. South Hanover, IA: Jas Morrow, 1835.

16mo, contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards. First American edition. Boards almost completely detached; some loss at corners; spine detached; preliminaries with folded corners; foxing and some staining throughout; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200

278* HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. New York: D. Appleton, 1881.

8vo, publisher’s mustard yellow cloth with illustration stamped in gilt and black to upper, gilt titles to spine, decorative endpapers. First edition, second state. Corners bumped; some light soiling; otherwise fine. BAL 7100(2) Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

279* HARTE, BRET A Ward of the Golden Gate. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1890.

8vo, original green cloth, title stamped in black to front cover, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. Charles Dudley Warner copy, inscribed “C. D. W.” on the f.f.e.p. Corners lightly bumped; hinges tender; otherwise fine. Together with The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories. Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870. 8vo, publisher’s maroon cloth. Second edition, contains the story “Brown of Calaveras.” BAL 7247 Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

280* HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850.

8vo, rebound in quarter red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine, marbled endpapers. First edition, first issue, with the word “reduplicate” instead of “repudiate” on page 21, line 20, two leaves of advertisements dated March 1, 1850 inserted in the rear, title page in red and black. Some minor soiling and brownspotting; otherwise fine. BAL 7600 Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $2,000-4,000 281 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Two unsigned unpublished photographs of Hemingway fishing as a young man in Michigan and as an adult in the Gulf Stream, black and white. Size of largest 8 x 10 inches. $300-500

282* HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Every Man His Own Boswell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892.

8vo, original blue cloth, yellow endpapers, t.e.g., housed in a morocco drop case. Inscribed by Holmes to the f.f.e.p. and dated July 28th, 1893. Front hinge starting; minor rubbing to cloth; rubbing to drop case; otherwise fine. Property from the William H. Moore Trust, Dorset, Vermont $150-250 283 HUGHES, LANGSTON A collection of 12 signed works, mainly first editions, various printings.

The Weary Blues. New York, 1945. Tenth printing. Inscribed. An African Treasury. Articles/Essays/ Stories/Poems by Black Africans Selected by Langston Hughes. New York, 1961. Third printing. Inscribed to Mrs. Herbert N. Dawes. The Langston Hughes Reader. New York, 1958. Second printing. Inscribed to Hughes’ biographer, Milton Meltzer. Tambourines to Glory. New York, 1958. First edition. Inscribed to Sally E. Childs. The Dream Keeper and Other Poems. New York, 1941. Fifth printing. Inscribed to James Morton. One-Way Ticket. New York, 1949. First edition. Inscribed to Scott Kennedy. The Big Sea. An Autobiography. New York & London, 1945. Third printing. Inscribed to Jimmy Broxton. Montage of a Dream Deferred. New York, 1951. First edition. Inscribed to “The Exums.” Fields of Wonder. New York, 1947. First edition. Inscribed to “Max and Mina” from “Langston.” Shakespeare in Harlem. New York, 1947. Third printing. Inscribed to Robert Fisher. Not Without Laughter. New York, 1941. Alblabook edition. Inscribed to Max and Minna, from “Langston.” The Ways of White Folks. New York, 1944. Third printing. Inscribed to James Summers. $1,500-2,500

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293 284* IRVING, WASHINGTON The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of The Moors and Spaniards. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832.

2 vols. 8vo, quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, printed paper spine labels. First American edition. Soiling to boards; chipping to spine labels; fading to spines; vol. 1 upper third of front flyleaf torn; dampstaining to vol. 1 edges of pp. 1-14, 211-234, vol. 2 pp. 225-236; intermittent foxing to both vols. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200

285* JACKSON, HELEN HUNT Ramona: A Story. Boston: Little, Brown, 1884.

8vo, original green cloth with floral vignette stamped in gilt to front board and title lettered in brown, gilt-lettered spine, floral endpapers. First edition. Light edgewear; hinges starting. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

286* JEFFRIES, RICHARD Bevis: The Story of a Boy. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882.

3 vols. 8vo, original decorative cloth gilt, uncut. First edition, first issue. With half-title to vol. 1 and 32 pp. advertisements to rear vol. 3 (dated Dec., 1881). Some light rubbing to cloth; hinges starting; otherwise a nice clean copy. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

287 KEROUAC, JACK The Dharma Bums. New York: The Viking Press, 1958.

8vo, publisher’s black cloth, green and silver lettering, dust jacket unclipped. First edition. Jacket slightly rubbed. $300-500

288 KESEY, KEN One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. New York: Viking, (1962).

8vo, green cloth, spine lettered in yellow, dust jacket unclipped. First edition, first issue, with “that fool Red Cross woman” on p. 9, lines 12-13, and with “It’s the plump Red Cross woman named Gwen-doelin, with the blond hair the patients are always arguing about…” on pp. 85-86. First issue jacket with 5-word Jack Kerouac quote on the front flap. Wear to jacket with some small tears and sunning to spine; some light dampstaining along crease of rear flap; bookplate tipped in f.f.e.p. $2,000-4,000

289 KIPLING, RUDYARD Songs of the Sea from Rudyard Kipling’s Verse. London: Macmillan, 1927.

4to, original quarter vellum over blue paper-backed boards, dust jacket gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., housed in publisher’s slipcase. Illustrated with mounted hand-colored plates. One of 500 Large Paper copies signed by Kipling. Manuscript notations; soiling to slipcase and dust jacket; chipping to edges and spine of dust jacket; discoloration to endpapers; light offsetting from some plates; otherwise fine. $100-200

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290 (KIPLING, RUDYARD) BALLARD, ELLIS AMES Catalogue Intimate and Descriptive of My Kipling Collection. Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1935.

8vo, publisher’s full imitation vellum, gilt-lettered spine, glassine, uncut. Limited edition, one of 120 copies, this number 11, presented to “Granddaughter Susan” and signed by Ellis Ames Ballard to the limitation page. First and only edition of Ballard’s catalogue, containing descriptions of books, manuscript, and letters of Kipling’s with numerous illustrations. Some red stains and light soiling to boards; otherwise fine. $100-200

291* LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH Hyperion. A Romance. New York: Samuel Colman, 1839.

2 vols. 8vo, original buff paper-covered boards, printed paper spine-labels. First edition. Wear to boards; front boards detached to both vols.; spines and spine labels cracked; repaired tears along spine vol.1; light intermittent foxing. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200

292* MASTERS, EDGAR LEE The Spoon River Anthology. New York: Macmillan, 1915.

8vo, blue cloth, front cover and spine decoratively stamped in black and lettered in gilt, original dust jacket. First edition. Soiling and chipping to dust jacket; discoloration to endpapers; ephemera laid in rear pastedown. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200 293* MELVILLE, HERMAN Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. New York: Harper, 1849.

2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s brown cloth-backed boards with gilt-stamped spine, all blanks present. First American edition. Fading to spines with some loss at spine ends; typical browning to endpapers; intermittent foxing. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $600-800

294* MEREDITH, GEORGE The Egoist. London: C. Kegan Paul, 1879.

3 vols. 8vo, green cloth, gilt-lettered spines, blue endpapers. First edition. Wear to boards; spine ends bumped; hinges starting on all vols.; ephemera laid in front pastedowns; publisher’s advertisements tippedin to rear vols. 1 and 2; light interior soiling. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200

295 MILLER, HENRY A group of three first edition, first printings, all in original dust jackets.

Tropic of Cancer. New York: Grove Press, (1961). Tropic of Capricorn. New York: Grove Press, (1961). The Cosmological Eye. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, (1939). $200-400

296 PAOLINI, CHRISTOPHER Eragon. Inheritance. Book I. New York: Alfred Knopf, (2003).

8vo, original pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Illustrated with double-page map. Signed by the author to the title page. Fine. $100-200 297* POE, EDGAR ALLEN The Works of Edgar Allen Poe; With Notices of His Life and Genius. By B. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell and R. R. Griswold. New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850 (Vols. I-III); 1856 (Vol. IV). 2 copies of vol. III (The Literati).

5 vols. 8vo, publisher’s brown blind-stamped cloth. Vols. 1 and 2 are second printings with state B binding. Two copies of vol. 3: copy 1 is a first printing with state D binding, copy 2 is a second edition with state F binding. Vol. 4 is first printing with state H binding. Wear to cloth; moderate soiling; front hinge cracked and starting on vols. 2 and both copies of vol. 3; spine detached from backstrip of vol. 3, copy 1.

The First Collected Edition of Poe’s works. The third volume was published separately and comprises the First Edition of The Literati, and includes Griswold’s sketch of the author. The first three volumes were published in 1850; the fourth volume was not published until 1856. It became the standard edition of Poe’s works for 25 years, and served as the model for nearly another quarter of a century. BAL 16158, 16159 and 16161; Heartman & Canny, pp. 129-33. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $1,000-2,000

298* POE, EDGAR ALLEN Tamerlane and Other Poems. Boston: Calvin F. S. Thompson, 1827. [London: The Ulysses Bookshop, 1931]

12mo, original yellow printed paper wraps, stapled, in original light-grey printed envelope bearing limitation statement. First full facsimile reprint of 1827 original edition, 1/288 numbered copies. Together with original bookseller’s envelope. Some light dampstaining to the printed sleeve; without 6-page pamphlet. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200

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303 299* POE, EDGAR ALLEN The Raven and the Philosophy of Composition. San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder, n.d. [1907]

4to, quarter suede over black paper, front board and spine decoratively stamped in black and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., original dust jacket and slipcase. Photogravure Edition. Illustrated with 12 photogravure plates, including frontispiece. Light offsetting from plates; otherwise fine. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200

300 QUILLER-COUCH, (SIR ARTHUR) In Powder and Crinoline. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. [London:] Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1913]

4to, publisher’s pictorial cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine, illustrated endpapers. First edition, with 24 tipped-in color plates. Title page and frontispiece partially detached; hinges split and backstrip starting; soiling and fading to boards; previous owner’s manuscript ex-libris to front pastedown. Property from the Collection of Joscelyn S. Johnson $200-400

301 ROSENBACH, A. S. W. Early American Children’s Books. Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1933.

4to, original quarter morocco over pictorial boards, publisher’s slipcase. Limited edition, number 98 of 585 copies printed on Worthy Aurelian paper and signed on the limitation page. Evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown; portion of bar code to dedication page; library stamp to title page; bookplate tipped in rear pastedown; wear to slipcase; rubbing to edges of spine. $100-200

302 ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. (London:) Bloomsbury, (1998).

8vo, original pictorial boards and matching pictorial dust jacket. First UK edition, fourth printing. Signed by Rowling to the dedication page. Fine. $800-1,200

303 ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Illustrated by Mary GrandPre. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/ Scholastic Press, (1998).

8vo, original pictorial jacket unclipped, publisher’s red and purple cloth with gilt-lettered spine. First American edition, first printing, first state, with The Guardian review on rear panel of jacket, no “1” to jacket or boards and full number line to copyright page. Signed by the author and illustrator. Fine. $1,000-2,000

304 SANDBURG, CARL A group of three signed books.

Complete Poems. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1950). Harvest Poems, 1910-1960. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1960). Harry Golden, Carl Sandburg. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, (1961). $300-500

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305* SHEA AND PATTON The Soapy Smith Tragedy. Skagway, Alaska: Shea and Patton, 1907.

Oblong 8vo, original maroon wrappers lettered and decorated in black, custom portfolio. First Edition. Minor fading to wrappers; horizontal crease through middle of leaves. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

306 STEINBECK, JOHN The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press, (1939).

8vo, original pictorial linen. First edition, with first state dust jacket unclipped. Bookplate of Hawk’s Inn tipped to front pastedown; some light sunning to spine and inner flaps; small brown spot to rear panel; a few small closed tears; some toning to bottom right corner of text block; otherwise fine with no chipping to jacket. $1,500-2,500

307* STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1853.

8vo, original 3/4 morocco over leather, gilt-lettered spine label. First edition, second printing. Rubbing to boards at spine and extremities; head of spine lightly chipped; foxing to endpapers; pencil manuscript notation to title page; otherwise fine. Together with Old Town Folks. Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1869. 8vo, full red cloth blind-stamped boards, gilt-lettered spine; brown endpapers. Soiling to boards; rubbing to joints and extremities; spine ends bumped; ephemera tipped in front pastedown; light intermittent brownspotting; hinges starting. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200 308* STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852.

2 vols. 8vo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth. First edition, first issue, with blanks present, engraved title page vignettes and six plates. Scattered minor stains; slight lean; fading to cloth; pp. 63-70 starting to become unsewn from backstrip; manuscript exlibris f.f.e.p. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $1,000-2,000

309 UPDIKE, JOHN Rabbit is Rich. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

8vo, cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author. Together with Rabbit Redux, (1971), First edition, and Rabbit at Rest, (1990), First Trade edition. $200-400

310 VAN ALLSBURG, CHRIS The Polar Express. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Oblong 4to, publisher’s red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing, without the Caldecott medal on the front panel. Some light wear to the jacket; otherwise fine. $400-600 311 VERNE, JULES The Mysterious Island. The Modern Robinson Crusoe. New York: Scribner, Armstrong, 1876.

8vo, publisher’s green cloth-backed boards pictorially stamped in gilt and black, 4 pp. advertisements, profusely illustrated. Scarce First Combined edition, comprising three parts of The Mysterious Island: Dropped from the Clouds; Abandoned; The Secret of the Island. Wear to boards with rubbing to edges and a minor loss to bottom corner rear boards; hinges slightly tender; evidence of previous owner’s manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; some light brownspotting; otherwise very good condition. Rarely seen with boards preserved in their original state with no restoration. $1,000-2,000

312* WALLACE, LEW Ben-Hur. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880.

8vo, brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First edition, first printing, with first dedication “To the Wife of My Youth.” Light rubbing to boards; previous ownership inscription to f.f.e.p; hinges starting. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

313* WHITMAN, WALT Specimen Days and Collect. Philadelphia: Rees Welsh, 1882-83.

8vo, publisher’s mustard yellow cloth lettered in gilt. First edition. Some soiling to cloth; spine ends bumped; inner hinges starting. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200

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315 WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE A Streetcar Named Desire. Mount Vernon: New Directions, (1947).

8vo, original lavender paper-covered pictorial boards, dust jacket. First edition, first state, Some edgewear to dust jacket with short tears to spine ends and minor fading to spine; otherwise near fine in very good dust jacket. $800-1,200

316 WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE One Arm, and Other Stories. New York: New Directions, (1954).

8vo, publisher’s black cloth-backed boards, dust jacket clipped. Inscribed on the half-title. Some chipping and rubbing to dust jacket and 2-inch tear to rear panel. $200-400

317 WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE The Kingdom of the Earth with Hard Candy. New York: Privately Printed for the Author by New Directions, 1954.

8vo, publisher’s decorative boards, cloth spine, slipcase with printed pastedown label, no jacket as issued. One of 100 copies signed by Williams, this copy unnumbered and marked “Presentation Copy.” One of the author’s rarest titles, made up of the sheets printed from the same setting of type used to print Hard Candy, but includes The Kingdom of Earth, which was omitted from the trade edition of Hard Candy due to it being overtly sexual. Fine in fine slipcase. $1,000-2,000 318 WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS The Collected Later Poems. Norfolk, CT: James Laughlin, (1950).

8vo, original red cloth spine, dust jacket unclipped. First edition, first printing, with separately printed 8-leaf pamphlet entitled “The Rose” laid in, consisting of a group of poems accidentally omitted from the first printing. Wear to dust jacket with small tears at spine ends and at center upper edge of spine and upper cover; some soiling to jacket; otherwise fine. $100-200

319* WILLSON, BECKLES The Great Company. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1900.

8vo, red cloth, decorative gilt-stamped boards. Fold-out map, frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations. Fading to boards at spine and edges; rubbing to joints and extremities; frontispiece detached but present; 2 1/2-inch tear to foldout map. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200

320 WODEHOUSE, P. G. Heavy Weather. Boston: Little, Brown, 1933.

8vo, publisher’s black cloth-backed boards stamped in red, dust jacket unclipped. First U.S. edition in book form. Wear to dust jacket with rubbing to edges and some loss at corners and spine ends; previous owner’s inscription to verso of half-title. $100-200

321* WOODWORTH, SAMUEL The Champions of Freedom; or, The Mysterious Chief, a Romance of the Nineteenth Century, Founded on the Events of the War, Between the United States and Great Britain, Which Terminated in March, 1815. New York: Charles N. Baldwin, 1816.

2 vols. 12mo, quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt-lettered red leather spine labels. First edition of this rare romantic novel on the War of 1812, as introduced through the mouthpiece of the ghost of a “Mysterious Chief” (i.e. the spirit of George Washington), who further guides the destinies of the main characters. Ex-libris clipped from first two pp. vol. 1 and p. 3 vol. 2; some corners folded; some light soiling to leaves; manuscript ex-libris f.f.e.p. vol. 1; otherwise a fine copy of this incredibly rare odd novel and one of the only contemporary novels of the War of 1812. Only five copies located by Sabin. Wright 2760, Sabin 105179 Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $2,000-4,000

322 WOOLF, VIRGINIA Orlando. A Biography. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.

8vo, original black cloth-backed boards lettered in gilt. First American edition, one of 861 copies signed by Woolf in purple ink. Bookseller’s sticker tipped to rear pastedown; otherwise very fine. $800-1,200

323* YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER, ed. The Book of the Rhymers’ Club. London: Elkin Matthews, 1892.

12mo, original yellow buckram, pastedown spine label, title page in black and red. One of 450 copies of which 350 were offered for sale. Includes six poems by Yeats. Some light soiling to boards; a bit of loss to spine label.

Together with The Second Book of the Rhymers’ Club. London: Elkin Matthews; New York: Dodd, Mead, 1894. 12mo, original brown buckram lettered in gold to spine, uncut. One of 500 copies printed, of which 150 were offered for sale in the U.S. and 350 were offered for sale in England. Contains first printings of Dowson’s Cynara and Extreme Unction, along with poems by Yeats, Lionel Johnson, Le Gallienne and others. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

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