liTERATURE, fiNE PRESS AND BiNDiNgS

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426 (ADVERTISEMENT) THE CENTURY CO. The June Century, Napoleon in Egypt, after E. Grasset, 1895. Framed and matted. 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. $300-500 427 (ADVERTISEMENT) HARPER’S MAGAZINE Harper’s Christmas, after Edward Penfield, 1895. Framed. 25 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches. $200-400

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428* BELLOW, SAUL A group of two first editions, comprising Humboldt’s Gift (1975) and Herzog (1964). Both New York: Viking. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $80-120

429 BRADBURY, RAY Fahrenheit 451. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982.

4to, original aluminim boards, all edges silver, slipcase. With original lithograph and folding color plates by Mugnaini. First edition, number 322 of 2,000 copies signed by Bradbury and Mugnaini. Wear to slipcase and minor wear to boards; otherwise good. $300-500

430* CAPOTE, TRUMAN The Grass Harp. New York: Random House, 1951.

8vo, publisher’s linen. First edition, first printing. Soiling to boards; 1-inch tear to foot of spine; pencil notations to front pastedown and f.f.e.p.; hinges starting. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $100-200 431 CAPOTE, TRUMAN In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, (1965).

8vo, publisher’s maroon cloth lettered in gilt, dust jacket. First edition, eleventh printing. Signed by Capote on the half-title. Very minor wear to jacket; otherwise fine. $100-200

432 CARRANDENTE, GIOVANNI Voltron. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, (1964).

Folio, decorative cloth. Black and white photographic plates by Ugo Mulas and David Smith. Limited to 1,000 copies. Lacking slipcase; light fading to boards; ends bumped and slightly frayed; hinges starting; otherwise good. $200-400 433 (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) TWAIN, MARK Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885.

8vo, original pictorial blue cloth stamped and lettered in gilt and black. First American edition. Early issue of the first edition, in the rare blue cloth binding, as opposed to the much more common green cloth. The book exhibits the following states: title leaf is a cancel with copyright notice dated 1884 (second state, but the first state was only seen in a prospectus and set of advance sheets - no copies of the first state have been observed in the published edition); heading for chapter 6 reads “Huck Decided” instead of “Huck Decides”; the illustration captioned “Him and another man” is listed on page 88; “with the was” on p. 57; final 5 p. 155 lacking; signature mark 11 missing on p. 161; final leaf is blank; frontispiece portrait table cloth not visible, Karl Gerhardt on side, and Heliotype Printing Co. imprint. Minor rubbing to boards; text block shifting at the center; 1-inch tear to p. 193; some minor foxing. $2,000-4,000

434* (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) TWAIN, MARK Mark Twain’s Autobiography. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924.

2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered blue cloth, t.e.g. Frontispieces with printed tissue guards. First edition. Rubbing to boards at edges; ends bumped; light foxing to endpapers; offsetting from frontispieces; ephemera laid in; hinges starting. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $200-400

435* (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) TWAIN, MARK A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1889.

8vo, publisher’s decorative green cloth. First edition, first issue, with a small “S-like” ornament between the two words in the caption “The King” for the illustration on p. 59, 2 pp. publisher’s advertisements. Wear to boards; ends bumped; bookseller’s stamp to front pastedown; hinges tender. [Together with:] Mark Twain’s Sketches New and Old. Hartford, CT: American Publishing, 1875. 8vo, 3/4 calf over cloth, title in gilt to spine, a.e.g. First edition, first printing. Soiling and wear to boards; intermittent brownspotting; hinges starting. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $200-400 436* (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) TWAIN, MARK A group of two first British editions uniformly bound in decorative red cloth, including A Tramp Abroad, 1880, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $200-400

437* (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) TWAIN, MARK A group of two works, including one first edition, A Tramp Abroad, Hartford, 1880, and Roughing It, Hartford, 1890.

8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth. Wear to boards; “Tramp Abroad” spine beginning to detach from backstrip; hinges tender; otherwise good. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $100-200

438 BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE Autographed letter signed (“S de Beauvoir”), one page, to “Mr. T.A. Wilbern” in regard to his editor in Paris, with original mailing envelope. $200-400 439* DICKENS, CHARLES The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman & Hall, 1837.

8vo, rebound in 3/4 calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt-lettered spine. First English edition in book form, early printing, with all but four points present. Complete with half-title and 42 engraved plates, including frontispiece and engraved title page. ALS from bookseller, noting the early issues of the plates (without titles) and the boy’s fork facing downward on the plate facing p. 579, dated January 4, 1939. Foxing to plates and intermittent brownspotting; rubbing to boards; bookseller’s sticker to front pastedown; manuscript ex-libris to verso f.f.e.p. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $150-250

440 DICKENS, CHARLES A group of two first editions bound by Riviere, comprising Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857, Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.

8vo and 4to, uniformly bound in calf, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, a.e.g., slipcased. Engraved frontispieces and engraved plates throughout. Minor scattered brownspotting; wear to slipcases; otherwise fine. $400-600

441 DICKINSON, EMILY Autographed manuscript of the poem “If what we could/were what we would;/Criterion be small - It is the Ultimate of talk/the impotence to tell”, 4 lines, signed (“Emily”), 1 page (6 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches), with manuscript presentation from Martha Dickinson Bianchi (her niece) to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mills, September 15, 1904. Presented as a wedding present to the Mills’ from Bianchi.

Tipped to the f.f.e.p. of Single Hound. Poems of a Lifetime. Edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Boston: Little, Brown, 1914. 8vo, original cream boards backed in cream cloth stamped in black, custom red morocco over marbled boards folding clamshell case, lettered in gilt.

[Together with:] Autographed letter signed (“Edward Dickinson”), 1 page, Amherst, Mass., Nov. 24, 1840. And, The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Variorium Edition. Edited by R.W. Franklin. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1998. 3 vols. Slipcased (3 items total) Literature: Published in The Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1998; together with correspondence of Ralph W. Franklin, (then) Director of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, verifying authenticity of signature upon personal examination of the signed, Dickinson quatrain. It is to be noted the existence of this variant signed poem was hitherto unknown and not included in the Johnson Variorum Edition published in 1955. Franklin dates this poem to be written in 1863 and given by Emily to Susan Dickinson.

Provenance: A document in the hand of Georgianna W. Adams Mills confirms the notation “A wedding present, September 15, 1904” is in the hand of Mrs. Mills and a copy is included. Mr. Franklin H. Mills and Mrs. Georgianna W. Adams Mills were married September 15, 1904 in Amherst, Massachusetts. An authorized copy of the marriage certificate is included. $15,000-20,000

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442 (DICKINSON, EMILY) LOOMIS TODD, MABEL, et al Autographed letter signed (“Mabel Loomis Todd”), editor of the posthumously published editions of Emily Dickinson’s poems, four pages, on a bifolium, October 26, 1896.

To Nathan Dole, fellow editor, commenting on the poem “A Wounded Deer.” [Together with:] Autograph postcard from Nathan Dole and wife, signed (“Nat and Helen”), depicting “The Home of Emily Dickinson, Amherst, Mass.” [Also together with:] Autographed postcard signed (“T. W. Higginson”) [Thomas Wentworth Higginson], regular correspondent and literary mentor of Emily Dickinson, October 15, 1896, to Nathan Dole, address docket to verso, regarding Emily Dickinson’s syntax. [And:] The Life and Times of Stephen Higginson. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907. 8vo, gilt-lettered green cloth. Inscribed by the author on the f.f.e.p. Wear to boards; ends bumped; otherwise good. $300-500

443 DICKINSON, EMILY Further Poems. Boston: Little, Brown, 1929.

8vo, publisher’s quarter cloth over green linen, slipcase. Limited edition, number 77 of 450 copies available for sale. Wear to slipcase; otherwise fine. [Together with:] Unpublished Poems. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935. 8vo, publisher’s quarter cloth over teal linen, slipcase. Limited edition, number 373 of 500 copies available for sale. Wear to slipcase; minor soiling and fading to boards; otherwise fine. $100-200

444 (DICKINSON, EMILY) TAGGARD, GENEVIEVE The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson. New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, pastedown label to spine, uncut. First edition, number 116 of 200 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Light wear to boards; corners bumped; otherwise fine. $100-200 445 DICKINSON, EMILY Acts of Light. Illustrated by Nancy Eckholm Burkert. With an introduction by Jane Langton. Boston: New York Graphics Society, 1980. 4to, publisher’s blind-stamped orange cloth, pastedown label to spine, slipcase with pastedown label. Limited edition, number 228 of 750 copies signed by the illustrator and contributor. Wear to slipcase; foxing to pastedown label; otherwise fine. $100-200

446 (DICKINSON, EMILY) TODD, MABEL LOOMIS, ed. Poems [fifth edition and eighth edition]; Poems Second Series [two first editions]; Poems Third Series [first edition]. Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891, 1892, and 1896.

Together 5 vols. 8vo, varying shades of green and white cloth, giltlettered. Light soiling to boards; otherwise a near fine set. $800-1,200

447 (DICKINSON, EMILY) Three sets of bibliographical works in eight volumes.

Thomas H. Johnson, editor. The Letters. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, (1986). 3 vols. 8vo, blue cloth, titles in gilt to red spine labels, slipcased. [and] The Poems. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, (1979). 3 vols. 8vo, grey cloth, titles in gilt to black spine labels, slipcased.

[Together with:] Ralph W. Franklin, editor. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1999. 2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s cream cloth, slipcase. $200-400

448 ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land. A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts. Edited by Valerie Eliot. New York: Harcourt Brace, (1971).

4to, publisher’s brown linen, gilt-lettered spine, matching board slipcase with pastedown label. Number 190 of 250 copies. Fine in fine slipcase. $100-200

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449 FAULKNER, WILLIAM Sherwood Anderson & Other Famous Creoles. A Gallery of Contemporary New Orleans. New Orleans: The Pelican Bookshop Press, 1926.

8vo, publisher’s green boards, printed green paper label. First edition, first issue, limited to 250 copies. Illustrated throughout with portraits of famous Creoles by William Spradling. Spine detached; light rubbing and darkening to boards; previous owner’s presentation inscription to f.f.e.p.; frontispiece partially detached; light offsetting per usual. Literature: Peterson A3.1 $400-600

450* FERBER, EDNA Giant. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952.

8vo, publisher’s black cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Soiling to boards and jacket; chipping to jacket and spine ends and corners with some loss. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $150-250 451 (FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT) The Romantic Egoists. Edited by Matthew Bruccoli. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, (1974).

Folio, quarter cloth lettered in gilt, slipcase. Number 13 of 500 copies signed by Scottie Fitzgerald. Light wear to slipcase. $300-500

452 FLEMING, IAN Casino Royale. New York: Macmillan, 1953.

8vo, original cloth. First American edition. No dust jacket; light rubbing to spine ends. $100-200

453* GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH A group of seven signed works.

Economics and the Art of Controversy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955. The Scotch. Boston: Riverside Press/Houghton Mifflin, (1964). A Contemporary Guide to Economics, Peace and Laughter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Economic Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964. Another copy of the same. Boston: Riverside Press/Houghton Mifflin, (1964). The New Industrial State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1967). The Affluent Society. Boston: Riverside Press/ Houghton Mifflin, 1958. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $100-200 453A GREY, ZANE Riders of the Purple Sage. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1912).

8vo, publisher’s tan and black embossed cloth with pictorial pastedown to front cover. First edition. Corners and spine ends bumped; hinges slightly tender. $100-200

454* HALEY, ALEX Roots. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976.

8vo, quarter cloth over paper boards, title in gilt to spine, dust jacket. First edition. Jacket chipped with 7-inch tear to front flap; previous owner’s pen inscription to f.f.e.p. [Together with:] Inscribed photograph of David Wolper, producer of the television show, Roots, after the book by Alex Haley, framed and matted. Size of photograph 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $100-200

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456* HEMINGWAY, ERNEST A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.

8vo, publisher’s black cloth, title to gold pastedown label. First edition, first issue without the disclaimer notice on p. [x]. Boards worn; lacking dust jacket; spine label chipped; intermittent foxing; hinges tender. [Together with:] For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, spine lettered in black to red label. First edition, first printing, with “A” to the copyright page. Soiling to boards; lacking dust jacket; ephemera tipped to rear endpaper. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $200-400

457* HUXLEY, ALDOUS Eyeless in Gaza. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1936.

8vo, publisher’s gilt cloth. First edition. Light soiling to boards; intermittent foxing. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $100-200 458 MELVILLE, HERMAN Moby Dick or, The Whale. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. New York: Random House, 1930.

8vo, decorative blue cloth, dust jacket. First trade edition. Marginal chipping to jacket with some loss at corners; light offsetting from illustrations; otherwise good. [Together with:] This is My Own. By Rockwell Kent. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1940). 8vo, decorative cream cloth. First edition. Signed by Kent on the f.f.e.p. Soiling to boards; lacking dust jacket; ends bumped; darkening to endpapers. $200-400

459 NIELSEN, KAY East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. By Peter Christen and Jorgen Asbornsen. S.l.: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1914]

4to, gilt-decorated blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. Complete with 25 tipped-in color illustrations by Nielsen. Wear to boards; ends bumped; hinges starting; otherwise good. $800-1,200 460 IRVING, JOHN The World According to Garp. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1978).

8vo, quarter cloth lettered in gilt, dust jacket unclipped. First edition. Signed by Irving on the title page. Marginal chipping to jacket; boards bumped; spine lightly faded. $100-200

461 KOONTZ, DEAN Frankenstein. Lynbrook, NY: Charnel House, (2005).

4to, publisher’s original silk, slipcase. Number 341 of 750 copies signed by Koontz. Light wear to slipcase; otherwise fine. $100-200

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462* LAWRENCE, D. H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Florence: Privately Printed, 1928.

8vo, original mulberry-colored paper boards with black Phoenix design on upper cover, white paper spine label, rebacked with matching cloth retaining original label, housed in custom quarter maroon morocco and cloth slipcase with spine lettered in gilt, matching cloth chemise, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies signed by the author. Hinges strengthened; boards professionally touched up; interior in very fine condition. Property from the Estate of Michael Izbicky, Deerfield, Illinois $3,000-5,000

463* LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. New York: George H. Doran, 1927.

8vo, publisher’s cloth, decorative endpapers. First American edition, first printing. With fold out map, black and white plates. Boards lightly soiled; ends bumped; intermittent foxing; lacking dust jacket. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $100-200 464 MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Of Human Bondage. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1936).

8vo, leatherette-backed cloth, title in gilt to spine, dust jacket. Book Club Edition. Signed and dated by the author on the f.f.e.p., accompanied by typed acknowledgment note. Corners bumped; marginal chipping to jacket; scattered light foxing. $100-200

465 MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Of Human Bondage. Illustrated by Randolphe Schwabe. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1936.

8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped thick buckram, slipcase with pastedown illustration, t.e.g. First illustrated edition, number 94 of 751 copies signed by the author and the illustrator on the limitation page. Wear to slipcase; darkening to some leaves; otherwise good. $200-400

466 MITCHELL, MARGARET Gone With the Wind. New York: Macmillan, 1936.

8vo, publisher’s grey cloth, upper panel and flap of dust jacket retained. Signed by Mitchell on the f.f.e.p. Third printing. Boards lightly bumped; partial dust jacket, unclipped. $600-800

467* MITCHELL, MARGARET Gone With the Wind. New York: Macmillan, 1936.

8vo, publisher’s cloth. First edition, first issue, with “Published May, 1936” to verso of title page. Boards lightly soiled; lacking dust jacket; spine darkened; ends bumped and frayed; intermittent foxing; hinges starting. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $200-400

468* O’MEARA, WALTER A group of three inscribed works, two first editions.

The Spanish Bride. New York: Putnam, (1954). Tales of the Two Borders. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, (1952). First edition. The Duke of War. New York: (1966). First edition. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $80-120

469 RAND, AYN The Fountainhead. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, (1943).

8vo, publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt, first state dust jacket. First edition, later printing. Ends bumped; marginal chipping to jacket; otherwise fine. $200-400

470 ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. New York: Scholastic, 1998.

8vo, publisher’s red cloth-backed blue boards, dust jacket. First American edition, first printing, with complete number line, intact $16.95 price, no numeral on the spine, review from The Guardian and bar code number 51695 on rear panel of dust jacket. Very small dampstain to top of spine; otherwise very good in near fine dust jacket. $300-500

471* SANDBURG, CARL A group of four inscribed works, including three signed by Sandburg: Smoke and Steel; Slabs of the Sunburnt West; Good Morning, America. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1920-1928); The People, Yes. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1936); and Remembrance Rock. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1948). [Together with:] The Letters of Carl Sandburg. Edited by Herbert Mitgang. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1968). Signed by Mitgang. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $300-500

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473 472* SANDBURG, CARL A collection of LP recorded readings and songs performed by Sandburg at Muzak Transcriptions Inc., NY, for William Benton, owner of the company. Housed in a quarto custom record album, comprising 20 78 RPM LP records, all in fine-near fine condition.

[Tipped in:] Autographed letter signed (“Carl Sandburg”), 1 page, December 22, 1942, Harbert, MI, on Chikaming Goat Farm letterhead, to Bill Benton: “... What we have wandered into on this odd venture is a curious book. People will be thanking us when our last toe-bones have become all ash-grey dust.” Laid in is another LP recording, 33 1/2 RPM, “A Visit with Carl Sandburg,” stated: “For Private Use Only. Not for Sale or Broadcasting.” Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $800-1,200

473* SANDBURG, CARL Complete Poems. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1950).

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth with blind-stamped facsimile signature to upper boards, no dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed on the f.f.e.p. to Bill Benton, from Carl Sandburg, 1950. Light wear to boards; otherwise near fine. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $300-500

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473A VERNE, JULES Hector Servadac. New York: Scribner, Armstrong, 1878.

8vo, publisher’s red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, wood vignette on the title page and 96 woodengraved plates. First American Illustrated edition. Hinges tender; boards rubbed and bumped with some loss at spine ends. $100-200

473B WELLS, H. G. Autographed letter signed (“H.G. Wells”), 1 page, October 23, 1935, on Chiltern Court letterhead, invitation to dinner. $200-400

474 WOOLF, VIRGINIA The Waves. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1931).

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, title in gilt to spine, original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. First edition. Dust jacket price clipped, lightly soiled and chipped at upper edges; otherwise fine. $400-600

475* WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM Autographed note signed (“Wordsworth”), 1 page, July 20, 1837. Framed and matted with portrait drawing. Two horizontal creases; light foxing. 2 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Property from the Collection of Mrs. Luther M. Swygert, Chicago, Illinois $300-500

476* (LITERATURE) A group of five first editions, comprising Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller, A Walk on the Wild Side, by Nelson Algren, Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, by James Baldwin, and Exodus, by Leon Uris. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $200-400 477* (CHILDREN’S) BEMELMANS, LUDWIG A group of three works.

Fifi. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1940). 4to, publisher’s illustrated boards, spine detached and reinforced with tape. Madeline. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1939). 4to, publisher’s illustrated wraps, spine detached. Madeline’s Rescue. New York: Viking, 1953. 4to, publisher’s red cloth, illustrated, original dust jacket in pieces and laid-in. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $100-200

478 (CHILDREN’S) BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON The Secret Garden. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1911).

8vo, publisher’s light blue blind-stamped cloth lettered in gilt, t.e.g. First edition, copyright April 1911. Soiling and rubbing to boards; ends bumped; pen ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; otherwise good. $200-400

479* (CHILDREN’S, POP-UP) A group of seven pop-up books, comprising The “Pop-Up” Pop-Eye, (1935). With three pop-ups (2 working); The “Pop-Up” Terry and the Pirates, (1935). With three pop-ups; Hopalong Cassidy Lends a Helping Hand, (1950). With two pop-ups; Hopalong Cassidy and Lucky at the “Double X” Ranch, (1950). With two pop-ups; The New Adventures of Tarzan “Pop-Up,” (1935). With three pop-ups; The “Pop-Up” Little Orphan Annie, (1935). With three pop-ups; The “Pop-Up” Buck Rogers, (1935). With three pop-ups. All pop-ups in working condition unless otherwise stated. Property from the Collection of George Keeton, Muskegan, Michigan $250-350 480* (CHILDREN’S, POP-UP) DISNEY, WALT A group of three Mickey Mouse pop-ups and one Goldilocks pop-up. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, various dates.

Mickey Mouse in King Arthur’s Court, (1933), with four pop-ups. The Pop-Up Mickey Mouse, (1933), with three pop-ups. The Pop-Up Minnie Mouse, (1933), with two pop-ups. The “Pop-Up” Goldilocks and the Three Bears, (1934), with four pop-ups. Property from the Collection of George Keeton, Muskegan, Michigan $200-400

481 (CHILDREN’S) RACKHAM, ARTHUR A group of two first editions.

Fairy Tales by Hans Anderson. London: George C. Harrap, (1932). 8vo, decorative red cloth. The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. London: George C. Harrap, 1933. 8vo, decorative red cloth. $100-200

482 (CHILDREN’S) REY, MARGARET Curious George Flies a Kite. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

8vo, publisher’s decorative blue cloth stamped in cream, decorative endpapers, dust jacket. First edition. Soiling and marginal chipping to jacket; otherwise fine. $200-400

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483 (CHILDREN’S) DR. SEUSS The Cat in the Hat. New York: Random House, (1957).

8vo, publisher’s decorative boards, dust jacket. First edition, first printing, with “200/200” on front flap of dust jacket and no mention of the Beginner’s Books series on back cover. Chipping to jacket with loss at corners; 1/2-inch tear to upper rear cover; soiling to pp. 2-3 and 62; otherwise good. $1,000-2,000

484* (CHILDREN’S) WHITE, E. B. Charlotte’s Web. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1952).

8vo, publisher’s cloth boards and first issue dust jacket with four blurbs for Stuart Little on the rear panel. First edition, later printing with “H-K” on copyright page. Pen ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; dust jacket price-clipped; previous owner’s pen inscription to half-title; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $200-400

485* (CHILDREN’S) WHITE, E. B. Stuart Little. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945.

8vo, publisher’s pictorial cloth, dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped and marginally chipped; ghosting to verso of dust jacket; pen ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $200-400 486* (CHILDREN’S) WHITE, E. B. The Trumpet of the Swan. New York: Harper & Row, (1970).

8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Light edgewear; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $100-200

487 (FINE PRESS, ANVIL PRESS) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Shake-speares Sonnets. (Lexington, KY): (Anvil Press), (1956).

8vo, publisher’s boards, paper spine label. Number 19 of 240 copies printed after the Praetorius facsimile edition from the copy of the First Quarto (1609) in the British Museum. Layout by Victor Hammer. Printed by Jacob Hammer. Victor Hammer signed bookplate to front pastedown. Spine toned with some rubbing to boards. [Together with:] Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897. 12mo, boards with cream wraps, untrimmed. Limited edition, one of 750 copies. Minor soiling to wrapper; some loss at edges. $200-400 488 (FINE PRESS, ANVIL PRESS) A group of three works printed and designed by Victor and Jacob Hammer.

Song Story of Aucassin & Nicolette. Translated by Andrew Lang. Lexington, KY: Gravesend Press, 1957. 12mo, cloth, deckled edges. Limited to 200 copies. With illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Opus Paschale. De Quatour Evangelistis. By Coelius Sedulius. Lexington, KY: The Anvil Press, 1955. 8vo, marbled boards. Limited to 250 copies. Three Fragments from the Posthumous Papers of Conrad Fiedler. Lexington, KY: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1951. 8vo, black cloth, paper spine label, partially unopened. Limited to 152 copies. $300-500

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489 (FINE PRESS) BECKETT, SAMUEL Company. [Iowa City:] University of Iowa, (1980).

Folio, bound by conservator William Anthony for his private collection in quarter black morocco over marbled boards, cloth slipcase, uncut. Limited edition, one of nine unnumbered proofs signed by Henke and Beckett on the title page. With 13 etchings by Dellas Henke. Spine of slipcase faded; otherwise very fine. $3,000-5,000

490 (FINE PRESS, CRESSET PRESS) MILTON, JOHN Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d. [London:] Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for the Cresset Press, 1931.

2 vols. Folio, publisher’s cream buckram, gilt lettered spines, untrimmed. Limited to 195 copies printed on Bachelor’s hand-made paper, with engraved plates and illustrations by D. Galanis. Soiling to boards. $300-500

491 (FINE PRESS, GRABHORN PRESS) A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode and His Meiny. Edited by John Mathew Gutch. San Francisco, CA: The Grabhorn Press, 1932.

12mo, quarter red morocco over decorative boards. First edition thus. Limited to 280 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, for The Westgate Press (its last publication). Very good. $100-200 491A (FINE PRESS, KELMSCOTT PRESS) BURNE-JONES, EDWARD The Beginning of the World. Twenty-Five Pictures. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1903.

4to, quarter cloth over green boards, printed dust wrapper. Printed at the Chiswick Press. New edition. With 25 wood engravings made for an illustrated edition of Mr. Mackail’s “Biblia Innocentium,” produced for the Kelmscott Press. Chipping to dust wrapper with some loss to head and tail of spine; boards faded and bumped; endpapers darkened; ephemera tipped in front pastedown; otherwise fine. $1,000-2,000

492 (FINE PRESS, MERRYMOUNT PRESS) The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments...Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. [Boston:] Merrymount Press, 1930.

Folio, original maroon pigskin, stamped in black, untrimmed. Limited edition, one of 500 printed by D.B. Updike’s Merrymount Press, as underwritten by J.P. Morgan for the Church. Laid in are several printed holiday greetings from Updike’s Press. Light rubbing to boards. $2,000-4,000

493 (FINE PRESS, NONESUCH PRESS) CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE Don Quixote. London: Nonesuch, (1930).

2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s full tan pigskin, brown morocco labels to spines, slipcase. Limited to 1,475 copies printed on Cainensis hand-made paper. Light wear to boards; otherwise fine. $200-400

494 (FINE PRESS, NONESUCH PRESS) DICKENS, CHARLES A Tale of Two Cities. Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1937.

8vo, finished buckram, title in gilt to leather spine label. With engraved plates. Ends bumped; light offsetting from plates; otherwise fine. [Together with:] Steel plate entitled “The Sea Rises,” engraved by H.K Browne (‘Phiz’) from Messrs. Chapman and Hall Ltd., housed in finished buckram folding clamshell box. $800-1,200

495* (FINE PRESS, PETER PAUPER) WHITMAN, WALT Leaves of Grass. Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1943.

Folio, publisher’s quarter morocco over decorative boards, t.e.g., uncut, slipcase. Illustrated with color wood-cuts by Boyd Hanna, out-of-series copy, limited to 1,100. Light wear to spine and slipcase; otherwise interior is in fine condition. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $200-400

496 (FINE PRESS) A group of six works published by and pertaining to private presses.

Poems in English of John Milton with Illustrations by William Blake. Cambridge: Nonesuch Press, 1926. 8vo, full vellum. 2 vols. bound together. The Compleat Angler. By Isaak Walton. (Boston and New York): The Riverside Press, 1909. 12mo, quarter calf over marbled boards, slipcase. One of 440 copies. Pilgrim’s Progress. By John Bunyan. (London): Essex House Press/Edward Arnold, 1899. 12mo, full vellum. One of 750 copies. Brocade Series: Prose Selections. By Oscar Wilde. Portland, MA: Thomas Mosher, 1904. 4 vols. 16mo, plain limp boards, each with silk brocade-backed slipcase, housed in matching folding case and cardboard box. Prothalamion: Epithalamion. By Edmund Spenser. (Boston and New York): The Riverside Press, 1909. Folio, plain boards, matching slipcase and chemise. One of 419 copies. William Morris in Private Press and Limited Editions: A Descriptive Bibliography of Books by and about William Morris. By John Walsdorf. [Phoenix:] Oryx Press, 1983. 8vo, publisher’s dummy, comprising the unbound sheets housed in matching slipcase and chemise. $200-400

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497* (BINDINGS) BOADEN, JAMES, et al. Days of the Dandies. London: Grolier Society, n.d.

15 vols. 8vo, 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Edition de Luxe, number 123 of 1,000 copies for England and America. Boards rubbed; ends chipped; spines uniformly faded; otherwise fine. [Together with:] Beaux & Belles of England. By Various Authors. London: Grolier Society, n.d. 13 vols. 8vo, 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Wear to boards; ends chipped; otherwise good. (28 total) Property from the Elizabeth Price Welch Legacy Collection, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

498* (BINDINGS) DICKENS, CHARLES [Works.] New York: Bigelow, Brown, n.d.

20 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, t.e.g. National Library Edition. Fading and soiling to boards; ends chipped. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $100-200

499 (BINDINGS) GUIZOT, FRANCOIS PIERRE A Popular History of France, from the Earliest Times. Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat, n.d. 6 vols. [Together with:] A Popular History of France. By Bon Louis Henri Martin. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, (1878). 3 vols.

9 vols. total. Large 8vo, uniformly bound in 3/4 tan calf over marbled boards, titles in gilt to red leather spine labels, frontispieces. With engraved plates throughout. Boards worn; edges chipped; hinges cracked on some vols.; intermittent brownspotting. $200-400

500 (BINDINGS) IBSEN, HENRIK Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen. London: William Heinemann, 1906.

12 vols. 8vo, 3/4 navy morocco over cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g. Copyright edition. Light wear and soiling to boards; ends chipped; scattered foxing; otherwise good. Provenance: Waverly Auctions, The Library of Mr. and Mrs. Howard K. Smith, March 3, 2005, lot 117 $200-400 501 (BINDINGS, CHAMOLLE-DURU) PIERCE, EGAN Life in London. London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1821.

8vo, bound by Chamolle-Duru in full green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., silk endpapers, slipcase. First edition, second issue. With 36 color aquatint plates by I.R. and George Cruikshank, three foldout sheets of music and eight pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear. Minor wear to slipcase; spine faded; offsetting from plates and half-title; very light scattered foxing; otherwise fine. $500-700

502 (BINDINGS) POE, EDGAR ALLEN The Works. Boston: Jefferson Press, n.d.

10 vols. in five. 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., frontispieces. Edition de Luxe. Boards lightly worn; ends chipped on some vols; spines uniformly faded; ex-libris to front pastedowns; otherwise fine. $100-200

503* (BINDINGS) RUSKIN, JOHN The Works. London: Privately Printed for Members of the Elzevir Society, n.d.

26 vols. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Edition de Luxe, number 53 of 100 copies. Wear to boards; ends chipped; boards detached from some vols.; hinges cracked; otherwise good. [Together with:] George Eliot’s Works. London: Privately Printed for Members of the Elzevir Society, n.d. 24 vols. 8vo, 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Edition de Luxe, number 56 of 100 copies. Wear to boards; ends chipped; spines uniformly faded; otherwise good. (50 total) Property from the Elizabeth Price Welch Legacy Collection, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

504 (BINDINGS, SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE) BURTON, RICHARD F. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu el-Yezdi. London: Philip Allan, 1925.

8vo, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full blue calf, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, black spine label, a.e.g., gilt-decorated endpapers and slipcase. Light fading and chipping to spine; wear to slipcase. $100-200 505* (BINDINGS) SCOTT, SIR WALTER Waverley Novels. London: Printed for Robert Cadell, 1839.

48 vols. Small 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine, red leather spine labels. Rubbing to boards; chipping to ends of spines on some vols.; intermittent foxing heaviest at endpapers. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $200-400

506 (BINDINGS) STERNE, LAURENCE The Works. Dublin: Thomas Armitage, 1779.

7 vols. 8vo, quarter red calf, title in gilt to cream leather spine labels. Wear to boards; corners bumped; vol. 7 lacking spine label; intermittent foxing; bookplates tipped in front pastedowns. $500-700

507 (BINDINGS, BAYNTUN) SUE, EUGENE The Mysteries of Paris. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845.

3 vols. 8vo, bound by Bayntun in 3/4 crushed orange morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Extra-illustrated edition, with frontispieces, additional engraved title page to vol. 1, and 21 plates by Thomas Onwhyn. Minor wear to boards at edges; otherwise good. Provenance: Sotheby’s, New York, February 27, 1973, lot 350 $300-500

508* (BINDINGS) THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE [Works.] New York: The Nottingham Society, n.d. (1860).

10 vols. 8vo, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Edition de Luxe, limited to 1,000 sets. Rubbing to boards; ends chipped; hinges starting. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $100-200

509* (BINDINGS) TOLSTOY, LEO [Works.] New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.

24 vols. 8vo, 3/4 blue morocco over cloth, marbled endpapers, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, frontispieces, t.e.g. Boards lightly soiled; light edgewear; offsetting from frontispieces to tissue guards; interiors clean and hinges tight. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $200-400

510* (BINDINGS) FRANKLIN LIBRARY A group of 93 volumes published by the Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, various dates. 8vo, all in various colors of morocco stamped in gilt. Property from the Collection of David H. Gee, Chicago, Illinois $800-1,200 511 (BINDINGS) A group eight leather bound books, comprising Memoir of Baron Larrey. London: Henry Renshaw, 1861. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. The Jerusalem Delivered of Torquato Tasso. By J.H. Wiffen. London: George Bell and Sons, 1881. The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, (1899). The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Portland, ME: Thomas Mosher, 1906. A History of Physics. By Florian Cajori. New York: Macmillan, 1916. The Works of Charles Lamb. London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. London and New York: Frederick Warne, n.d. Poems of Shelley. London: Macmillan, 1922. $200-400

512* (BINDINGS) A group of nine leather bound books including Plutarch’s Lives, 5 vols., and Dialogues of Plato, 4 vols. New York: Bigelow, Brown, n.d. 8vo, 3/4 calf over cloth, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Boards lightly faded; ends chipped on some vols.; hinges starting; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $200-400

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