LITERATURE AND JUvENILIA

Lots 319–374

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319* AUSTEN, JANE Mansfield Park. London: J. Murray, 1816.

3 vols. 12mo, modern quarter morocco, renewed endpapers. Second edition. Lacks half-titles; 2-inch tear to title page vol. 2 restored; spines deteriorating and hinges cracked; otherwise the interior is in near fine condition with very little brownspotting. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota Literature: Gilson A7 $1,000-2,000 320* AUSTEN, JANE Fragment of a Novel, written January-March 1817. Now First Printed from the Manuscript [Sandition]. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925.

8vo, publisher’s cloth-backed blue boards, printed spine label, facsimile frontispiece. Limited edition facsimile, one of 250 copies on handmade paper. Boards lightly soiled with some loss to spine label; otherwise very good. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $100-200

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322 BELLOW, SAUL Humboldt’s Gift. New York: The Viking Press, (1975).

8vo, publisher’s orange cloth-backed yellow boards, dust jacket, unclipped. First edition of the winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Signed by Bellow on a tipped-in sheet. Some very light brownspotting to jacket; otherwise fine. $150-250

323 BLOCH, ROBERT Original typed transcript, “A Way of Life,” for Fantastic Universe Magazine, October 1956, published in various other works, signed (“Robert Bloch”), 25 pages (numbered 24, one pg. numbered twice), approx. 8,000 words, with some hand-written editing marks, stamped “Fantastic Universe Oct 1956,” with card of Harry Altshuler, Bloch’s agent, individually sleeved, housed in black binder.

“A Way of Life” opens with the election of a new President following the next world war; the only organized group of individuals are Science Fiction fans, many of whom Bloch knew from real life. $100-200 324 BRADBURY, RAY I Sing the Body Electric! New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1969).

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in silver, dust jacket unclipped. First edition, second printing. Inscribed by Bradbury on the f.f.e.p. Boards bumped and faded at edges; otherwise good. $100-200

325 BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE Llana of Gathol. Tarzana, CA: By the Author, (1948).

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in red, dust jacket. First edition. Marginal chipping to jacket with loss to corners and head of spine; light wear to boards; ends bumped; pen ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. $100-200 326 CAPOTE, TRUMAN Breakfast at Tiffany’s. A Short Novel and Three Stories. New York: Random House, 1958.

8vo, publisher’s yellow cloth, title in gilt to black spine label, original dust jacket with “10/58” date code on front flap. First edition, first printing. Light soiling and edgewear to jacket; otherwise fine. $600-800

327 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. $100-200

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328 CARROLL, LEWIS [DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE] Alice’s Adventures Underground. Facsimile. [Camden, NJ: Privately Printed for Eldridge R. Johnson by Max Jaffe, Vienna, 1936]

8vo, original limp green morocco gilt, a.e.g., original green board slipcase, color title-page, dedication and initials, 37 illustrations by the author, 14 full-page, photograph tipped to final leaf, extra leaf loosely inserted providing alternative ending to the text. Limited edition facsimile of Dodgson’s manuscript version for Alice Liddell. In 1885, Dodgson proposed a facsimile of the manuscript be produced limited to 5,000 copies, which was published the following year. The original manuscript was subsequently purchased by A.S.W. Rosenbach in 1928, then sold for Eldridge R. Johnson. Johnson decided to have a fine collotype facsimile edition privately printed for his friends. This edition is believed to have been limited to 50 copies. Very fine, with only a touch of light rubbing to slipcase. Contemporary articles regarding the history of sale laid in. $2,000-4,000

329 (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. $200-400

330* COWARD, NOEL Post-Mortem. A Play in Eight Scenes. London: William Heinemann, (1931).

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, dust jacket. Inscribed to Carmen Douglas on the f.f.e.p. and dated 1931. Light soiling to dust jacket; spine faded. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 331 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. $100-200

332 DICKENS, CHARLES Autographed note, unsigned, in the hand of Charles Dickens, one page, Devonshire Terrace, London, March 15, n.y.

Dickens writes: “Charles Dickens presents his compliments to Mr. Miller, and [illeg.] to inform him that he has sent to men at Chapman and Hall a note which he [illeg.] last night from Lea and Blanchard; and that if Mr. Miller will have the goodness to [illeg.] with those gentlemen on the subject to which it infers, he will find them prepared to [illeg.] with him.” [Framed with:] Typed letter signed (“Louis R. Lurie”), one page, San Francisco, CA, July 29, 1968, presenting the letter Ambassador James S. Kemper. Framed and matted. Size of note 7 x 4 1/4 inches. $800-1,200 333 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN The Lost World. New York: George H. Doran, (1912).

8vo, green cloth lettered in gilt. First American edition. Ends bumped; lacking dust jacket; otherwise fine. $200-400

334 DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE Howdy, Honey, Howdy. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1905.

8vo, publisher’s pictorial brown cloth with mounted picture on upper board, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g. First edition. Ex-library with call number to spine, sticker to rear board bookplate and stamps; corners and ends rubbed. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

335 (ELIOT, T.S.) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock pp. 130-135,- in Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, Volume VI, No. III, June 1915.

8vo, publisher’s printed decorative wrappers, uncut. First appearance in a national publication, preceded only by publication in the Smith Academy Record and the Harvard Advocate. Lacking spine; wraps detached; chipping to wrappers with some loss to corners. [Together with:] Poetry, a Magazine of Verse. Volume VI, No. VI, September, 1915. Lacking portion of spine; wraps detached; chipping to wraps with loss to corners; 4-inch tear to rear cover. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $500-700

336 (ELIOT, T.S.) BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES Intimate Journals. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. London: Blackamore Press, 1930.

8vo, original beige gilt-stamped cloth reproducing Baudelaire’s signature on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut. First edition, number four of 50 copies signed by Eliot. Minor wear to boards; remnants of slipcase only; otherwise near fine. Literature: Gallup B18B $800-1,200

337 ELIOT, T.S. Four Quartets. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1943).

8vo, publisher’s black cloth, gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket, clipped. First edition, second printing. Ex-library copy with bookplate tipped to front pastedown and stamp to verso of title page; small loss to jacket. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

338* ELIOT, GEORGE Daniel Deronda. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876.

8 books in 4 vols. 8vo, contemporary 3/4 calf, giltlettered spines. First edition in book form of George Eliot’s final novel, errata slip for book 2 following the title page of vol. 2, book 4 with a slip advertising the next installment at the end of vol. 2, each of the 8 books with individual half-titles. Boards worn and hinges tender; upper board partially detached vols. 1 and 4; bookplate English politician and academic, Augustine Birrell, tipped in front pastedowns. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $200-400

339 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 $100-200

340 FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT Autographed letter signed (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”), one page, on a bifolium, Paris, May 21, 1921. To Mrs. Jenkins (at an unknown magazine), refusing an offer to contribute because his “muse is gone.” He states, “I haven’t written a line of poetry for two years!” Framed and matted with a reproduction photograph. Creased in half; otherwise fine. 13 1/2 x 15 inches. Property from a Private Collection $2,000-4,000

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341 FLEMING, IAN Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, (1961).

8vo, publisher’s black cloth with blind-stamped hand, dust jacket unclipped. First edition. Dust jacket slightly rubbed at the corners; previous owner’s pen notation to f.f.e.p; otherwise a very good copy. $300-500

342 FLEMING, IAN You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, (1964).

8vo, publisher’s black cloth with gilt Chinese characters and white-lettered spine, dust jacket unclipped. First edition, first printing with “First published 1964” on copyright page. Spine slightly darkened; otherwise near-fine. $200-400 343 FLEMING, IAN On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, (1963).

8vo, publisher’s black cloth with white-stamped decoration, gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket unclipped. First edition. Light browning and a small tear to rear panel dust jacket; otherwise a very good copy. [Together with:] The Man With the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, (1965). 8vo, publisher’s black cloth second state, gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket, clipped. Fine. $100-200

344* GIBRAN, KHALIL Autograph letter signed (“Khalil Gibran”), one page, n.d., s.l., invitation to an unknown recipient. Gibran writes: “Bring your good appetite with you - the Syrian food is hearty - and come to 73 Beach Street, and there you will find me waiting for you at the door. But tell me, is six o’clock a right time for you?” Framed and matted with portrait. 12 1/2 x 16 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Albert Joseph, Northbrook, Illinois $100-200 345 (JOYCE, JAMES) THE LITTLE REVIEW 25 issues. Chicago: September 1915 - 1925. Edited by Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap and others. Joyce published the first 13 parts, plus part of the 14th, of the total 18 serially in the Little Review between 1918 and 1921. The present set includes six parts (6-7, 9-10 and 12-13). Also including contributions by authors such as Ben Hecht, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound, among others. Chipping to wrappers; leaves and covers detached on some issues.

Parts are included in the following: September 1918; October 1918; April 1919; December 1919; July 1919; and May-June 1920. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $400-600

346 JOYCE, JAMES Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927.

8vo, modern 3/4 blue morocco over, gilt-lettered spine, original blue wraps bound in. Ninth printing. Light rubbing to boards; otherwise fine. $100-200

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347 LAWRENCE, D.H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover. [Florence:] Privately Printed [at Tipografia Giuntine], 1928.

8vo, rebound in full crushed red morocco, giltlettered spine, t.e.g., others uncut, custom wooden felt-lined slipcase. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Spine lightly faded; otherwise very fine with contents in pristine condition. $2,000-4,000

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348* MACLEAN, NORMAN A River Runs Through It. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

8vo, photo-pictorial soft cover. Signed later edition. Light rubbing; previous owner’s notations; otherwise near fine. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $100-200

349 MANNING, FREDERIC Her Privates, We, by Private 19022. London: P. Davies, 1930.

8vo, publisher’s pictorial cloth. First edition. Light soiling to boards; ends bumped; slight shelf lean; otherwise good. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200 350* MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT Collected Sonnets. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1941).

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Fifth edition. Signed by Millay on the f.f.e.p. Spine faded; some underlining. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $80-120

351 NORDHOFF, CHARLES AND JAMES NORMAN HALL Mutiny on the Bounty. Boston: Little, Brown, 1932.

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, dust jacket (later issue with reviews), plain endpapers. First edition, first printing, later dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed by James Norman Hall and dated 1933, additionally signed by Nordhoff under Hall’s inscription. $800-1,200 352 O’CONNOR, FRANK Guests of the Nation. London: Macmillan, 1931.

8vo, publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt, dust jacket price-clipped. First edition. Chipping to jacket with 2 1/2-inch tear to rear cover; boards faded; ends bumped; otherwise good. $150-250

353 No lot

354* POWELL, ANTHONY A group of 14 books. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $200-400

355* SALINGER, J. D. Nine Stories. Boston: Little, Brown, (1953).

8vo, publisher’s black cloth, dust jacket laid-in. First edition. Fading to boards; dust jacket heavily worn and torn, with upper flap detached; minor spotting to endpapers. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $80-120

364 356 SANDBURG, CARL A group of 11 books by and about Carl Sandburg, two of which are signed. $200-400

357* 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. A facsimile letter to Bill Benton is included stating: “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 $400-600

358* 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 $150-250

358A SANDBURG, CARL Remembrance Rock. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1948).

8vo, publisher’s navy cloth, gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket. First “regular” edition. Inscribed by Sandburg on the f.f.e.p. Boards bumped; marginal chipping to jacket with some loss to head and tail of spine; jacket clipped. $100-200

359 SCOTT, SIR WALTER Kenilworth; A Romance. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and John Ballantyne, 1821.

3 vols. 8vo, contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, marbled edges and endpapers. First edition. Spines neatly re-hinged; rubbing to boards; no advertisement leaf; bookplates tipped in front pastedown. $100-200

359A THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858.

2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, marbled edges and endpapers. First edition in book form, first issue. With 46 of 48 engraved plates. Wear to boards with rear board detached vol. 2 and edges rubbing; intermittent foxing and light offsetting; pen notations to f.f.e.p. vol. 1. $100-200

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360 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. $80-120

361 WARREN, ROBERT PENN A group of four signed limited first editions, all slipcased.

A Place to Come To. (New York, 1977). One of 150 signed; Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968. (New York, 1968). One of 250 signed; Audubon: A Vision. (New York, 1969). One of 300 signed; and Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978. (New York, 1978). One of 200 signed. Light wear to slipcases; otherwise all are near fine. $100-200 362 WAUGH, EVELYN Basil Seal Rides Again, or The Rake’s Regress. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, (1963).

4to, blue cloth gilt, frontispiece by Kathleen Hale. Number 58 of 1,000 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Fading to spine; otherwise fine. $300-500

363* (WELLES, ORSON) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Mercury Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Edited by Orson Welles and Roger Hill. New York and London: Harper Brothers, (1939).

Thin 8vo, original printed paper wraps. Orson Welles copy, with his signature on the verso of the f.f.e.p. in blue ink. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400 364* WILDE, OSCAR The Sphinx. Illustrated and decorated by Alastair. London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920.

4to, publisher’s cream buckram stamped in blue and gilt. Limited to 1,000 copies. With 10 pochoir plates by Alastair. Some light soiling to boards. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500

364A WRIGHT, RICHARD Uncle Tom’s Children. Four Novellas. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1938.

8vo, publisher’s red cloth with title printed in blue and grey. First edition. Inscribed by Wright. Lacking dust jacket; fading and light soiling to boards; ends bumped; hinges starting; otherwise good. $200-400

366 365 (CHILDREN’S) BANNERMAN, HELEN A group of four editions of Little Black Sambo, various printers, in five volumes. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

366 (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. $100-200

367 (CHILDREN’S) DAHL, ROALD The Gremlins. From the Walt Disney Production. New York: Random House, (1943).

4to, quarter cloth over pictorial boards, decorative endpapers. First edition. With 12 full-page and one double-page color illustrations and numerous black and white vignette illustrations. Rubbing and soiling to boards; light scattered foxing; otherwise good. $300-500

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368 (CHILDREN’S) DISNEY, WALT Mickey Mouse Movie Stories. Philadelphia: David McKay, (1931).

Tall 8vo, publisher’s green cloth-backed boards with illustrated pastedown, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. Illustrated throughout with a small flip-book animation of Mickey Mouse (on recto) and Minnie Mouse (on verso) in lower corner of each page. Fading to spine. $80-120

369 (CHILDREN’S) HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER Daddy Jake and Other Stories by “Uncle Remus”. New York: Century, (1889).

4to, publisher’s printed boards. First edition. Previous owner’s manuscript ex-libris to second blank; minor soiling to boards. $50-100 370 (CHILDREN’S) KINGSLEY, CHARLES The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. London: Macmillan, 1863.

8vo, original green cloth gilt, t.e.g. First edition. With, half-title, two lithographed plates by J. Noel Paton, and advertisement leaf at rear. Light rubbing to boards; bookplate to f.f.e.p. and bookseller’s sticker to rear pastedown; otherwise good. $400-600

371* (CHILDREN’S. OZ) THOMPSON, RUTH PLUMLY The Giant Horse of Oz. Illustrated by Jno. R. Neill. Chicago and New York: Reilly & Lee, (1928).

4to, publisher’s red cloth boards with pastedown illustration. First edition, first printing, first state with “Oniberon” for “Quiberon” in frontispiece caption; “r” in “morning” in perfect type (p. 116, line 1). Boards worn; repaired tear to f.f.e.p.; pencilled ex-libris. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois Bienvenue and Schmidt, 110 $100-200 372 (CHILDREN’S) THOMPSON, KAY Eloise. Illustrated by Hilary Knight. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955.

4to, publisher’s cream boards, dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Large tear to dust jacket; brown stain to upper edge of board. $100-200

373* (POP-UP) LENTZ, HAROLD The Pop-Up Pinocchio. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1932.

8vo, publisher’s illustrated boards, rare dust jacket. With four pop-ups. Pop-ups in poor condition; dust jacket torn; hinges cracked. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200

374* (POP-UP) A collection of pop-up books. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200