Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner October 8, 2020
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1 ADAMS, Richard (1920-2016). Watership Down. London: Rex Collings, 1972. 8vo. With folding map. Original cloth; publisher’s dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Adams’s first novel Watership Down was initially turned down by the major publishing houses, before publication by Rex Collings in 1972, and it was quickly established as a major work of British post-war literature. Sales exceeded 100,000 copies in the first year, and Adams was awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for children’s fiction. It was the source of numerous adaptations for film and television. A VERY FINE COPY. $1,000-1,500
2 ADAMS, Richard (1920-2016). Watership Down. Illustrated by John Lawrence. London: Paradine Press, 1976. 8vo. Color frontispiece, numerous text illustrations in the text in color and black & white, folding color map tipped-in at rear. Original dark green crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, upper cover with rabbit vignette in gilt, spine with gilt vignettes in four compartments, edges gilt; original marbled board slipcase. Original watercolor to the first blank. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 226 of 250 specially bound copies signed by both the author and illustrator. WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWING on the front blank depicting a pair of rabbits before a cottage, signed with initials. $2,000-3,000
3 ASIMOV, Isaac (1920-1992). [The Foundation Trilogy]: Foundation. — Foundation and Empire. — Second Foundation. New York: Gnome Press, 1951-53. 3 volumes. 8vo. Original publisher’s bindings (all Currey A): blue cloth [Foundation], red boards [Foundation and Empire], and blue boards [Second Foundation] (minor rubbing to some extremities); dust jackets (Foundation priceclipped and with some minor wear to ends of spine panel; short closed tear to head of spine panel on Second Foundation, otherwise fine). FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST PRINTINGS, in First State bindings and dust jackets. SIGNED BY ASIMOV on front free endpaper of Second Foundation, dated “5 March 67.” Currey, pp. 17 & 19. $2,000-3,000
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4 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-1898), illustrator. -- MALORY, Thomas, Sir (fl 1470). [Le Morte d’Arthur]. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table…. [London]: J. M. Dent, 1894. 2 volumes, small 4to. 2 photogravure frontispieces, illustrated throughout. 20th-century brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, STAMP-SIGNED BY BIRDSALL. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1,500 unnumbered copies. [With:] BEARDSLEY. Reproductions of Eleven Designs omitted from the First Edition of Le Morte d’Arthur. London: J. M. Dent, 1927. Illustrations, woodcut initials, historiated head- and tailpieces. Original calf-backed vellum boards gilt (slight wear to spine ends, some very minor soiling). LIMITED EDITION, number 207 of 300 copies on hand-made paper. $1,000-1,500
5 BEEBE, Charles William (1877-1962). A Monograph of the Pheasants. London: Witherby & Co., 1918-1922. 4 volumes, folio (401 x 297 mm). Half-title, titles printed in red and black, 90 color lithographed or collotype plates, 88 photogravures, and 20 distribution maps. (Occasional spotting, some offsetting.) Publisher’s gilt-lettered maroon cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut (recased, a few repairs). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 477 of 600. One of the greatest ornithological works of the 20th century with plates after works by George Edward Lodge (42), Henrik Grønvold (15), H. Jones (11), C.R. Knight (8), Archibald Thornburn (8), L.A. Fuertes (5), and E. Megargee (1) and photogravures by Beebe and others (mostly vol. III). $1,500-2,500
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6 BELLOW, Saul (1915-2005). A group of 3 works, comprising: The Victim. New York: The Vanguard Press Inc., 1947. -- Henderson the Rain King. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. INSCRIBED BY BELLOW to Connie Reuveni, 5 October 1983. -- Mr. Sammler’s Planet. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1970. SIGNED BY BELLOW. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo. ALL FIRST EDITIONS, all in original publisher’s cloth and dust jackets (light chipping or a few short tears), condition generally fine. $600-800
7 BENET, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943). John Brown’s Body. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1928. 8vo. Original publisher’s boards, uncut (spine very slightly toned, short split to rear joint near head); cloth folding case. Provenance: Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt (presentation inscription from the author); Helmut N. Friedlaender copy (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 142 of 201 copies signed by the author, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt with 16 lines of verse on the front free endpaper, dated Nov 1928. $600-800
8 BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828). A History of British Birds. Newcastle: Edward Walker, 1804. 2 volumes, 8vo (230 x 143 mm). Engraved title, wood-engraved vignettes. (Very occasional spotting.) Contemporary green morocco, gilt ruled, turn-ins gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, other compartments gilt-decorated, edges gilt, stamp-signed by White (small stain to one board, a few minor scuffs). FIRST EDITION, volume II (Water Birds), later edition of volume I (Land Birds). The first edition of Land Birds was started in 1791 and finished in September 1797, and the second edition appeared in 1798. In the 6 intervening years between the second edition of Land Birds and the first edition of Water Birds, Bewick’s first printer, Solomon Hodgson passed away and he separated from his other partner in the project, Beilby. He completed the work that the three had started alone. Nissen IVB 95. $400-600
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9 BLACKWELL, Elizabeth (d.1758). A Curious Herbal, containing Five Hundred Cuts of the most useful Plant which are now used in the Practice of Physick. Engraved on folio Copper Plates, after Drawings, taken from the Life… To which is added a short Description of ye Plants and their common Uses in Physick. London: John Nourse, 1739. 2 volumes, folio (398 x 247 mm). 2 engraved titles, 4 engraved dedicatory leaves, 2 engraved leaves “English Index,” 2 engraved leaves “Catalogus Plantarum,” 125 engraved leaves of explanatory text and 500 hand-colored plates (some minor pale foxing and offsetting throughout, plates 113-116 and their explanatory text leaf bound after 117-120 in Vol. I, some minor marginal worming on upper margins of some plates at end of Vol. I, some toning to plates at beginning of Vol. II and occasionally elsewhere, Plate 354 with 5-inch repaired tear crossing image, occasional marginal finger-soiling). Contemporary mottled calf, edges uncut (rebacked, some edge repairs, worn). Provenance: purchased from Hamill and Barker, 1966; Anita Peek Gilger copy (sold Christie’s New York, 14 October 2003, lot 11). Henrey’s fourth issue, except here the dedication in vol. II is to Robert Nicholls and vol II. is without the dedications to Henry Plumptre, Joseph Miller or John Johnstone. The work’s bibliographical history is complicated and not fully documented. “There is no uniformity with regard to the number of dedications contained in the various issues, or in the order in which the preliminary leaves are arranged” (Henrey). Elizabeth Blackwell undertook the work with the encouragement of various eminent members of the medical profession and with the intention of paying off her husband Alexander’s debts. She took a house opposite the Chelsea Physic Garden, at 4, Swan Walk, at the suggestion of Isaac Reed, in order to draw and engrave the plants. Her husband helped by supplying the common names of the plants in various languages. The work was a success, and she achieved her object. She accompanied her husband to Sweden where he was employed as an agricultural expert (Linnaeus visited him in 1746), but he unfortunately became involved in politics, was arrested and eventually beheaded on 29 July 1747, for his part in a conspiracy to alter the Swedish succession. Elizabeth, who died in 1758, is buried in the churchyard of Chelsea Old Church. Cleveland Collections 386; Dunthorne 42; Great Flower Books, p.50; Henrey 453; Hunt 510; Lisney 175 and 180; Nissen, BBI 168; Pritzel 811; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 545. $15,000-20,000
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10 BORN, Max (1882-1970). Typed letter signed (“Max Born”) to Samuel Goudsmit. Edinburgh, 6 December 1951. 1 page, 4to, 254 x 203 mm, on University of Edinburgh stationery, received stamp lower margin, red pencil annotation upper corner, a few tiny holes upper left corner, creased. “IT IS NOT SO MUCH THE FINANCIAL QUESTION WHICH ANGERS ME, BUT THE INCREDIBLE DISREGARD FOR SCIENTIFIC WORK AND DIGNITY.” Born enlists the help of American physicist Samuel Goudsmit (1902-1978) regarding royalties for his 1932 textbook on optics whose copyrights were seized by the Custodian of Alien Property after the Second World War. In his letter, Born refers to a Letter to the Editor he wrote for the Manchester Guardian on 27 November 1951 (not present): “In 1932 I published a voluminous textbook on optics...Six months later I had to leave Germany as a victim of Hitler’s persecution...From that moment I received no royalties from the book...After the war the book, like many others from German publishing firms, was confiscated by the United States Government.” Born writes Goudsmit: “I would be grateful if you could induce the American Physical Society and any other bodies to take up the matter, and perhaps publish a copy of my letter in one of the big American newspapers or even in a physical periodical.” Goudsmit’s papers (digitized by the American Institute of Physics) include this letter, and contain correspondence between Goudsmit, Born, and the Department of State regarding the matter of Born’s copyrights; his papers also include a carbon copy of a letter sent to born by the Office of Alien Property regarding the issue of his copyrights. $300-400
11 BOSWELL, James (1740-1795). The Life of Samuel Johnson. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. 2 volumes, 4to (269 x 199 mm). Engraved portrait of Johnson by James Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2 engraved plates by H. Shepherd. (Some minor spotting; title-page in Vol. II soiled and with gutter margin reinforced; small marginal holes on first few leaves in Vol II; final plate with corner repaired.) Modern calf antique. FIRST EDITION, second state, with “give” on p.135 in Vol. I; Mm4 in Vol. I and E3, Oo4, Qq3, Zz1 and Eee2 in Vol. II are cancels. “Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of the dramatists, Demosthenes is not more sensibly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers” (Macaulay). Boswell’s great biography was published 16 May 1791 and achieved immediate critical acclaim. It has not been out of print since. ESTC T64481; Grolier English 65; Rothschild 463; Tinker 338. $3,000-4,000
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BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950.
BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). The Illustrated Man. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951.
8vo. Original light green cloth (spine slightly toned); publisher’s pictorial dust jacket (spine panel slightly sunned, 1-in. tear at foot of upper joint with tape repair verso, minor toning to edges).
8vo. Original tan cloth (a few small stains, spine slightly toned); publisher’s pictorial dust jacket (slight chipping, a few short tears, spine panel sunned). Provenance: William Rotsler (19261997), science fiction writer, illustrator and artist (presentation inscription; bookplate). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY BRADBURY: “For Bill—With my best wishes and luck to you in your wire sculptures always. Ray Bradbury. Nov. 8, 1951.” Bill Rotsler was a four-time Hugo Award winner and one-time Nebula Award nominee. Currey, 56; Nolan p.114.
FIRST EDITION of Bradbury’s series of closely-linked short stories about the colonization of Mars; each story was previously published in various science fiction publications in the 1940s. Currey, 56; Nolan p.107. $1,500-2,500
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[BRITISH POLITICS -- PRIME MINISTERS]. THATCHER, Margaret (1925-2013). The Downing Street Years. London: Harper Collins, 1993.
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-1994). It Catches My Heart in Its Hands: New & Selected Poems 1955-1963. New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963.
8vo. Modern blue leather gilt, upper cover with central illustration onlay depicting 10 Downing Street; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THATCHER. [With:] MAJOR, John (b. 1943). The Autobiography. London: Harper Collins, 1999. 8vo. Modern blue leather gilt, upper cover with central illustration onlay depicting 10 Downing Street; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MAJOR.
8vo. Printed on multi-colored sheets. (Tiny dampstain to lower corner of a few leaves.) Original orange-printed card covers (slight abrasion); printed wrapper; stiff yellow wrappers printed in red and black with cork overlay; cloth folding case. LIMITED EDITION, one of 777 unnumbered copies, SIGNED AND WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY BUKOWSKI in blue and red ink and yellow paint, signed, dated 2-9-64, and with title “The Dance” in silver ink.
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16 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-1994). Autograph note signed (“Bukowski”), to John [Martin?]. N.p., n.d. 1 page, 8vo, 215 x 140 mm, on a bifolium, creased. Bukowski writes to John (presumably to John Martin, his editor at Black Sparrow Press), in full: “O.K. John You carry your mash shit. I’m not Patricia Hearst. I’d love to fuck her but I’m working on the pome. Still, you’re O.K. Bukowski -- I’m high. You swing out.--” With two drawings in Bukowski’s hand. $300-400
17 CALLAS, Maria (1923-1977). Autograph note signed (“Maria Meneghini Callas”), to Alda Girouset. N.p., 1954. 1 page, oblong 8vo, 142 x 210 mm, on an autograph book sheet, matted and framed with 3 photographic portraits of Callas, including one after an image by Cecil Beaton. $400-600
18 CAMUS, Albert (1913-1960). L’État de siège. Spectacle en trois parties. Paris: Gallimard, 1948. 8vo. Half-title. (Browning as usual.) Original printed wrappers (spine panel darkened); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: A. M. Antomin (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CAMUS on half-title: “A. M. Antomin en cordial hommage Albert Camus.” Critics and the public expected a dramatization of Camus’ La Peste (1947), but L’État de siege was different in tone, and was initially poorly received. Despite this, the work has remained almost constantly in print in French since its first publication. $1,000-1,500
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CAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). The Grass Harp. New York: Random House, 1951.
CAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York: Random House, 1958.
8vo. Pictorial title-page printed in brown and black. Original publisher’s tan linen, spine lettered in brown, green and black; original dust jacket (price-clipped, a few short nicks and tears with occasional minor losses, a few separations along folds). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated on copyright page), FIRST STATE binding of Capote’s second novel; the novel was reimagined as a play, which was published under the same title in 1952.
8vo. Original yellow cloth gilt, top edge stained gray; publisher’s dust jacket (spine panel sunned, slight toning, a few short closed tears to edges). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated on copyright page), of Capote’s novella, published along with three other short stories: “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory.” $1,000-1,500
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CAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965.
CAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965.
8vo. Original publisher’s maroon cloth gilt, top edge stained blue; publisher’s dust jacket (spine panel darkened, some minor rubbing to corners, very light chipping to foot of spine); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated on copyright page). SIGNED BY CAPOTE on a blank preliminary leaf.
8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, top edge stained red, others uncut; morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 134 of 500 copies SIGNED BY CAPOTE. $800-1,200
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23 CAPUTO, Philip (b. 1941). A collection of 2 typed poems signed with carbon copies (“Philip Caputo”), 2 autograph letters signed (“Phil”), and one typed letter signed (“Phil”), 2 December 1973 - 19 April 1977, a few typed and handwritten corrections. Together 15 pages, 4to, with two envelopes. Comprising apparently-unpublished poems “The Veterans,” and “The Walking Dead,” as well as a small group of personal correspondence. Philip Caputo served as an infantry lieutenant in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Following his service, he began his journalism career at the Chicago Tribune in 1968, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on election fraud in Chicago. Starting in 1973, and for the next 5 years, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Tribune. His Vietnam memoir, A Rumor of War, was published in 1977, and has sold over two million copies; the novel was adapted as a two-part television movie in 1980. In “The Veterans”, Caputo writes: On those roads which trace civilization’s long retreat, we died of unseen wounds, / Never washed by tears nor gentle rain; / We wonder if it’s lust for all we lost / That bids us return to die again.” Copies of both The Veterans,” and “The Walking Dead” are present in Caputo’s papers at Boston University’s Howard Gottleib Archival Research Center. Correspondence includes letters written from Italy and Moscow (“Moscow is about as well as can be expected. This is not the kind of place one can love. I’m hoping I can eventually learn to tolerate it”). $400-600 24 CARPENTER, Nathanael (1589-1628?). Geography delineated forth in Two Bookes. Containing the sphaericall and topicall parts thereof. Oxford: John Lichfield and William Turner, printers to the famous University, for Henry Cripps, 1625. 4to (208 x 145mm). 3 folding letterpress tables (of 4, lacking that at p. 228 in the second part), woodcut diagrams in text, each part with first and final blanks, errata leaf at end. (Some marginal dust-soiling.) Contemporary olive green velvet over pasteboard, remnants of ties, edges gauffered (text block cracked with some leaves becoming loose, velvet worn); quarter calf folding case. Provenance: Thomas Langley (early calligraphic signatures on front pastedown and free endpaper, one dated 1662). FIRST EDITION. Carpenter’s primer for Oxford students contains a cautious discussion of “a Spanish Chart taken by the Hollanders” showing California as an island; the recent North-West Passage expeditions undertaken by Henry Hudson (1610-11) and Thomas Button (1612-13) are cited as grounds for the author’s skepticism. It also contains an early definition of geography as a discipline. “Unable himself fully to accept the Copernican system, Carpenter presented his readers with a faithful account of it and encouraged them to weigh the evidence for themselves” (ODNB). ESTC S107662; Sabin 10999; STC 4676. $1,000-1,500
25 CASSIN, John (1813-1869). Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1853-1856. 8vo (255 x 168 mm). 50 hand-colored lithographed plates by William E. Hitchcock and George G. White. (Dampstaining to a few leaves.) Publisher’s dark blue morocco gilt, gilt turn-ins, edges gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, a few other minor repairs). FIRST EDITION of Cassin’s ornithological work including species not described by Audubon or other American naturalists. The author intended the work to be regarded “in some measure as an addition to the works of former authors in American Ornithology, but at the same time complete in itself” (preface). Sabin 11369. $1,500-2,500
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26 CATHER, Willa (1873-1947). Sapphira and the Slave Girl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. 8vo. Original publisher’s green cloth-backed boards gilt; original printed dust wrapper (light soiling to spine, minor creasing to edges); slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 324 of 520 copies, SIGNED BY CATHER. The author’s final completed novel which explores antebellum enslavement through the anxieties and paranoia of white slaveowner Sapphira in 1856 in Virginia. $300-400
27 CATHER, Willa (1873-1947). Sapphira and the Slave Girl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. 8vo. Custom quarter morocco with marbled boards, raised silhouette portraits affixed to front board, SIGNED BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 439 of 520 copies, SIGNED BY CATHER. $500-700
28 CATHER, Willa (1873-1947). Typed letter signed (“Willa Cather”), to Charles Nelson. N.p., 20 October 1931. 1 page, 8vo, visible area 180 x 170 mm, on monogrammed letterhead, light creasing, matted and framed, unexamined out of frame. Cather responds with palpable annoyance to a presumptuous young fan: “Persistence wins, they say; but I think it wins much more easily when it is accompanied by a certain courtesy and delicacy. I get a great many letters from young boys, but they are seldom so inconsiderate as to present me with a questionnaire... You can readily see that it would be preposterous if a writer attempted to explain his book to several hundred thousand readers, and one reader has just as much right to ask questions as another. When I call your attention to this I am sure you will understand why I did not answer your earlier letters.” [Framed With:] HOPPÉ, Emil Otto (1878-1972). Gelatin silver print portrait of Cather, 1921, visible image 162 x 104 mm. $400-600
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29 CECIL, Robert, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612). Manuscript copy of two dispatches by Sir Robert Cecil giving account of his embassy to King Henry IV of France, 23 March 1597 & 27 March 1598. [ca 17th century]. Together 17 pages (302 x 203 mm) on 5 bifolia. Marginal chipping affecting a few letters, creased, some minor soiling. Early copies of Robert Cecil’s two dispatches relating the events and progress of his important mission to the King of France, undertaken to dissuade the latter from entering into an alliance with King Philip II of Spain, who sought friends in his long conflict with England. Sir Robert Cecil had recently been appointed secretary of state after years of de facto service in the office. The officials of his embassy included his brother-in-law, Lord Brooke, the Earl of Southampton, Sir Walter Raleigh, and others. $800-1,200
30 CHAPMAN, Abel (1851-1929). On Safari. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. 8vo. Frontispiece and numerous plates. Contemporary half morocco gilt for Hatchards, with original cloth covers bound in at end. FIRST EDITION. Czech (Africa), pp. 59-60. $300-400
31 [CHILDREN’S BOOKS]. LINTON, William James (1812-1897). Bob-Thin or the Poorhouse Fugitive. [London?]: n.p., 1845. 8vo (244 x 153 mm). Lithographed title-page printed in red and black; illustrations throughout by Thomas Sibson, William Bell Scott, Edward Duncan and Linton. (Some minor marginal chipping.) Later half green morocco gilt (joints and extremities with slight wear). FIRST EDITION, originally published in Illuminated Magazine in September and October 1845, and later published by Linton at the Appledore Press in Hamden, Connecticut in 1897. RARE: according to online records, no copy of this work has appeared on the market at auction in the last 40 years. $200-300
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[CHINESE BOOK]. QIN Weiyue (秦維嶽, 1759-1839) -- Huang Jing (黄璟) -- Lu Zhitian (陸芝田), and Zhang Tingxun (張廷選, 16721755). 皋蘭縣續志 Gaolan Xian xu zhi [Gao Lan County Chronicle]. Gaolan: Gaolan Shu Yuan, 1847 (Daoguang 27).
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria. London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.
12 parts in 4 volumes, 4to (225 x 153 mm). Woodcut illustrations. (Some darkening.) Tan paper, stab-sewn (rubbing, chipping with losses to wrappers); cloth folding case with paper title label (darkening, rubbing, lacking clasps). An illustrated history of Gansu province in the far west of China bordering Tibet, Mongolia, and Sichuan, along the Silk Road.
8vo. 3 folding maps, 32-page publisher’s catalogue at end. Original publisher’s pictorial cloth (soiled, spine darkened and repaired). Provenance: J.Q.R. (gift inscription, 1900). W.H. Smith & Son (blind stamp); FIRST EDITION of Churchill’s account of the Second Boer War. Woods A4. $500-700
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CLARKE, Arthur C. (1917-2008). Rendezvous with Rama. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1973.
CLARKE, Arthur C. (1917-2008). Rendezvous with Rama. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
8vo. Original publisher’s blue boards gilt (a few minor stains to fore-edge); dust jacket (tiny crease at foot of spine panel, otherwise fine). Provenance: John (presentation inscription). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Clarke’s Hugo and Nebula awardwinning novel set in the 2130s. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CLARKE: “To John, with all good wishes, Arthur C. Clarke, Colorado, 24 January 1982.” Currey, 115.
8vo. Original black cloth; publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Provenance: John Barkham (1908-1998), book reviewer (presentation inscription). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CLARKE: “To John Barkham, with all good wishes, Arthur C. Clarke, N.Y.C., 23 July 1973.” Barkham, a book critic, reviewed thousands of books primarily on contemporary history and Africa over fifty years. His reviews appeared frequently in The New York Times Book Review, The New York World-Telegram, The New York Post and in syndication across the country.
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36 CLEMENS, Samuel L. (“Mark Twain”). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Square 8vo. Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original pictorial green cloth stamped in gold and black (spine ends slightly frayed, extremities slightly rubbed, rear cover with finish a little rubbed and with a few minor scuffs, otherwise a bright copy); morocco folding case. Provenance: Ella Moffett (presentation inscription from the publisher, see below). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PUBLISHER’S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Charles L. Webster to his cousin on the front free endpaper: “To Miss Ella Moffett / With the compliments of her cousin the publisher of the book. New York March 19th 1885.” William Moffett married Clemens’ sister Pamela and their daughter, Annie Moffett, married Charles Webster. Erasmus Moffett was the brother of William, and his daughter was the recipient Ella Moffett. Charles L. Webster was Clemens’ niece’s husband. EARLY STATE, with early issue points: first state of p. 57 with “was” for “saw”; first state of the list of illustrations with “Him and Another Man” plate listed as being on p. 88; third state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five slightly larger and below the line); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283 (a cancel); the portrait frontispiece is in first state. In addition, the present copy contains blank leaf. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50. A FINE ASSOCIATION. $4,000-6,000
37 [COOK, James (1728-1779)]. -- [FIRST VOYAGE]. John HAWKESWORTH (1715-1773). An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour; drawn up From the Journals which were kept by several Commanders, And from the papers of Joseph Banks, By John Hawkesworth. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. 3 volumes, 4to (307 x 251 mm). 51 engraved plates, maps and charts (of 52 as in early issues without the “Straights of Magellan” plate), including 41 folding. (A few minor spots or browning, some light offsetting of text to plates.) Contemporary calf gilt (neatly rebacked preserving original lettering-pieces and endpapers). Provenance: Count Gerard De Visme (1726-1797), Ambassador to Lisbon (armorial bookplate); D. José Luís de Sousa, 1st Earl of Vila Real (1785-1855), Portuguese diplomat and politician (signatures and stamps on titles). FIRST EDITION, AN EARLY ISSUE, OF COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE, without the map of the “Streights of Magellan,” the description of plates with one erratum, and with the direction for placing the cuts and charts. “Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia” (PMM). Volume I contains the voyages of Byron, Carteret and Wallis, and describes the discovery of Tahiti; volumes II-III contain Hawkesworth’s edited account of Lieutenant Cook’s voyage (he was only promoted to Captain on his return). Cook added more than 5,000 miles of coastline to Admiralty charts for Tahiti, Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, and New Zealand, which he circumnavigated. Hill 783; PMM 223; Sabin 30934. $3,000-4,000
38 COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851). The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757. London: John Miller, 1826. 3 volumes, 12mo. With half-titles in Vols. II & III as issued. (Occasional minor spotting or foxing; margin edges on leaf C1 in Vol. I a little frayed and toned.) Contemporary half calf (joints and corners neatly restored); cloth folding case. Provenance: A. Worsley Holmes (contemporary signatures on title-pages); Alexander George Russell (engraved armorial bookplate). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, published about one month after the Philadelphia edition. See BAL 3833 note. $1,000-1,500
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39 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). -- Robert FITZROY, editor (1805-1865), and Capt. Philip Parker KING (1793-1856). A Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 4 volumes, including Appendix to vol. II, 8vo (219 x 134 mm). 9 folding maps (6 loosely inserted in cover pockets) and 47 plates and views (some maps with some minor foxing or offsetting, 2 folding maps in Vol. III each with a small marginal repair at gutter; some minor spotting or soiling to some plates). (Lacking half-titles and advertisements, minor spotting to title in Vol. III.) Contemporary diced russia gilt, spines decorated in gilt and blind with black leather lettering-pieces in two (spine slightly darkened with some small scuffs, a few old stains, minor rubbing to extremities, hinges tender or starting). Provenance: Wicksted, Shakenhurst (inscription on front endpaper in Vols. II and III). FIRST EDITION OF DARWIN’S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK, second issue of volume III. Described as “one of the most famous journeys ever undertaken,” the Admiralty Surveying Expedition of H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1836) carried the 23-year old Charles Darwin as Naturalist and Geologist. It was his observations on the voyage which gave birth to and gradually strengthened his convictions regarding natural selection and evolution. On the first voyage of 1826-1830, King and Fitzroy charted the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, and on the second voyage (1831-1836) further charted the South American and Australian coasts, the Galapagos Islands, New Zealand and Tahiti. Magnetic observations in the appendix are by Edward Sabine who was with both John Ross and William Parry in the Arctic. Darwin’s own investigations, most notably in the Galapagos, are fully contained in vol. III, together with his journey up the Parana River and into the Andes towards the Cordillera. He later wrote that this voyage had “been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career.” Expedition artists were Augustus Earle and Conrad Martens from whose drawings many of the engravings were prepared. Freeman 11; Hill 607; Norman 585; Sabin 37826. A FINE COPY. $25,000-35,000
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40 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1859. 8vo (198 x 122mm). Half-title [with 2 quotations on the verso]. Folding lithographic diagram by William West after Darwin. 32-page publisher’s catalogue dated June 1859 [Freeman variant 3] bound at end. (Preliminary leaves, including title, with margins brittle and with some chipping; half-title slightly short with split at gutter tissue-repaired; some minor marginal toning.) Original green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants with their ticket on the lower pastedown, covers panelled in blind, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt [Freeman variant a] (recased preserving original endpapers, spine dulled and repaired at ends, some wear to joints and extremities); quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION OF “THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN SCIENCE” (Dibner). Although some key observations and findings from the voyage of the Beagle acted as his initial inspiration, Darwin’s ideas about the beneficial mutation of species did not coalesce into the theory of evolution until his reading of Thomas Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population in the latter half of 1838. In his Essay, Malthus presented a statistical argument that unrestrained human populations breed beyond their means and struggle to survive; Darwin related Malthus’s argument to the competition for resources among wildlife and to botanist de Candolle’s “warring of the species” in plants. It became clear to him that general competition among living things was part of the “struggle for existence,” and only the best-adapted survived. Although the idea of species evolution can be traced to the Greek “great chain of being,” Darwin’s eventual argument for the existence of a viable mechanism - natural selection - made the concept acceptable to the scientific community. He completed a 35-page sketch of his evolutionary theory in June 1842, which he converted into a 231-page essay by February 1844. He returned to his notes in late 1854, and after consulting Charles Lyell, began writing an extended treatise for his scientific peers on 14 May 1856. Nearly two years later, in March 1858, “Natural Selection” was two-thirds complete at 250,000 words, and was projected to be published as a three-volume work. In June of the same year, he received a letter form Alfred Russell Wallace regarding his own independent conclusions about evolution. Both scientists presented papers to the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. At Joseph Dalton Hooker’s suggestion, Darwin completed an abbreviated manuscript of “Natural Selection,” comprising 155,000 words, in April 1859. Stripped of references, the new work was not aimed at specialists, but rather the general reading public. The work was published as On the Origin of Species on 24 November 1859 in an initial print run of 1250 copies, and has since become regarded as “a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general" (DSB). With “species” misspelled “speceies” on page 20, with the whale-bear story in full on page 184. Dibner, Heralds of Science 199; Heirs of Hippocrates 1724; Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton (1991) 220; Grolier, Science 23b; Norman 593; PMM 344b; Sparrow, Milestones 49; Waller 10786. [Laid-in:] DARWIN, Charles. Autograph note signed in the third person to an unnamed recipient. 5 Sept 1880. 1 page, 110mm by 176mm. In full: “Sept 5th 1880 / Down Beckenham / Kent / With Mr. Darwin’s compliments”. (Creased and soiled at folds.) $60,000-80,000
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41 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing. London: John Murray, 1862. 8vo (197 x 122 mm). Folding wood-engraved plate, numerous woodengravings in the text; 32 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end dated December 1861. Original plum cloth decorated in gilt and blind, gilt-stamped with orchid device on upper cover [Freeman variant a] (recased with joints skillfully repaired); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (bookplate, sold his sale, Christie’s New York, 29 October 1998, lot1021). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed (in the hand of a publisher’s clerk) on the front flyleaf: “From the Author.” This work was the first of Darwin’s works to publish extensive evidence supporting his theory of Evolution through natural selection. “In my volume ‘On the Origin of Species’ I have given only general reasons for my belief that it is apparently a universal law of nature that organic beings require an occasional cross with another individual… Having been blamed for propounding this doctrine without giving ample facts, for which I had not, in that work, sufficient space, I wish to show that I have not spoken without having gone into details” (Introduction). Freeman 800; Norman 595. $6,000-8,000
42 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871. 2 volumes, 8vo. 16pp. publisher’s advertisements dated January 1871 in each volume. (Some very minor spotting to some prelims and ads.) Original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered (slight rubbing to joints and extremities, touch of wear to lower corners of Vol. I); quarter morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE WORD “EVOLUTION” IN DARWIN’S WORKS, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of On the Origin of Species the following year. "This is really two works. The first demolished the theory that the universe was created for Man, while in the second Darwin presented a mass of evidence in support of his earlier hypothesis regarding sexual selection" (Garrison-Morton). In 1847 Wallace and Bates, friends through their shared interest in entomology, set out to "travel to the tropical jungles to collect specimens, ship them home for sale, and gather facts 'towards solving the problem of the origin of species' - a frequent topic of their conversations" (DSB). Wallace and Darwin’s researches so closely mirrored each other that in 1858 the two published a joint first announcement of the theory of natural selection. Bates stayed in South America for eleven years, returning the year after Darwin presented his first papers to the Linnean Society. He was an avid supporter of Darwin’s arguments, and Darwin showed great interest in his researches into mimicry amongst butterflies, in which Bates saw “a most beautiful proof of natural selection.” Darwin described one of Bates’ papers on the subject as “one of the most remarkable and admirable papers I have ever read in my life” (DSB). Freeman 937; Garrison & Morton 170; Norman 599. A FINE COPY. $6,000-8,000
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43 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray, 1872. 8vo (182 x 118mm). 7 heliotype plates by O. G. Rejlander (3 folding), numerous illustrations in text; 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end dated November 1872. (Title a little soiled, some very slight marginal toning, folding plates with some minor pale spotting on verso.) Original green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants with their ticket on the lower pastedown (minor wear to spine ends and corners, a few bumps to board edges, hinges cracked); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: George Harris (1809-1890), prominent psychologist, scientist and correspondent of Darwin (presentation inscription from the author); Walter Spindler (1878-1940), English artist best known for his portrait of Sarah Bernhardt (signature and note on front free endpaper dated March 1907, and his extensive underlinings and neat marginal notations on approximately18 pages). FIRST EDITION, Freeman’s First Issue (but with photographic plates numbered in Roman). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED IN DARWIN’S HAND TO GEORGE HARRIS on the title-page. Additionally inscribed by the publisher’s clerk “From the Author” on front flyleaf. And with a holograph envelope cover addressed in Darwin’s hand to Harris tipped-in on leaf facing the title. “With this book Darwin founded the study of ethology (animal behavior) and conveyance of information (communication theory) and made a major contribution to psychology” (DSB). The work contains studies of facial and other types of expression in man and mammals, and their relationship to various emotions. “This is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment” (Freeman). George Harris (1809-1890) was a barrister and judge with strong interests in anthropology and psychology. During 1874-1876, George Harris solicited comments and suggestions from many eminent philosophers, theologians and naturalists concerning the ideas and language of his planned treatise on the nature of man for his A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man published in 1876. The present copy (as well as most other presentation copies) has its plates numbered in roman instead of arabic, contradicting Freeman’s priority of arabic numbered plates: since this copy was one of those specially prepared for presentation by having its edges trimmed by the binder, it is most likely that Darwin would have presented copies from the earlier issue. Freeman 1141; Garrison-Morton 4975; Norman 600. $8,000-12,000 44 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Autograph letter signed (“Charles Darwin”) to Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill (“Madam”), Down, Bromley, Kent, 27 November [1861]. 4 pages, 8vo (203 x 127 mm), on a bifolium. Creased. “I am convinced that orchids have a wicked power of witchcraft, for I ought all these months to be working at the dry old bones of poultry, pigeons, and rabbits instead of intensely admiring beautiful orchids…” A fine letter in which Darwin thanks Lady Nevill for her kindness and assistance in supplying him with plants, and mentioning his forthcoming work on orchids [On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects] which he had promised to send her when it was published. “…I am pleased to hear that my Books have at all interested you; but I fear my little Orchid book will be dry. This summer when at the sea, I meant merely to write a paper for some scientific journal, but the subject grew on me till my M.S. got rather too long for a paper. I am convinced that orchids have a wicked power of witchcraft, for I ought all these months to be working at the dry old bones of poultry, pigeons, and rabbits instead of intensely admiring beautiful orchids. - I mention all this, because, though I can hardly bear to write the words, I must beg your Ladyship not to send any more of your treasures; though perhaps at some future period I may indulge myself with the examination of a few more orchids. - I will not forget your Ladyships most generous offer to give me other flowers, if I require them for observation, & I have no doubt that I shall some time be a beggar again of the beauties - I am truly obliged to your Ladyship for taking the truth to write to Mr. Veitch [Chelsea nursery firm of James Veitch]; who has already sent me some orchids & with much generosity refused[?] all payment for cut flowers. - I see in ‘Cottage Gardner’ of this morning, an account of the beauties of Dangstein, which I shall now read with interest.” Darwin also sends his regards to naturalist Arthur Edward Knox and paleontologist Sir Philip Egerton: “If your Ladyship should meet Mr [Arthur Edward] Knox I hope that you will remember me to him: I spent many years ago a very pleasant morning with him & Sir Philip Egerton at the Zoological Gardens…” In a postscript he adds: “Since writing I have reason to hope that I shall receive a flower of Mormodes from Mr Rucker of Wandsworth”. Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill (1826-1913), the daughter of Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, developed a notable garden at Dangstein near Petersfield, where she cultivated orchids and pitcher-plants. Nevill was provided Darwin with samples of, and observations from, her garden. In Insectivorous Plants (1875) Darwin credited Lady Nevill with having sent him an Australian plant and a utricularia montana. In her Reminiscences, Nevill noted that she had maintained correspondence with Darwin, William Hooker, and Joseph Hooker, all of whom she felt had an avid interest in her garden. $6,000-8,000
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45 DEFOE, Daniel (1660-1731). John Major, editor. The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. 4to (242 x 188 mm). Frontispiece, numerous plates and in-text illustrations by George Cruikshank. Later half maroon morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (some slight rubbing to board edges). LIMITED EDITION, number 93 of 100 copies of the LARGE-PAPER EDITION. $400-600
46 DENTON, Sherman Foote (1856-1937). As Nature Shows Them: Moths and Butterflies East of the Rocky Mountains. Boston: Bardlee Whidden, 1900. 2 volumes, large 8vo (251 x 178 mm). Half-titles; 107 nature-printed plates mounted on 56 leaves, with approximately 400 black and white illustrations throughout, some full-page. (Minor offsetting of tissue guards to plate mounts.) Contemporary green morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, 2 compartments gilt-lettered, rest gilt-ruled, turn-ins gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spines very slightly sunned). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 116 of 500 copies. The plates, referred to as “Nature Prints” are direct impressions of the wings from the actual insects, a laborious process. According to Denton: “I have had to make over fifty thousand of these transfers for the entire edition, not being able to get anyone to help me who would do the work as I desired it done...I will say, however, that there never a laborer more in love with his work” (Preface, p.vi). $2,000-3,000
47 DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen] (1885-1962). Out of Africa. New York: Random House, 1938. 8vo. Original black and orange cloth gilt, top edge stained green, others uncut; publisher’s pictorial dust jacket (spine panel slightly darkened, a few tiny chips to extremities, minor toning to edges). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Dinesen’s memoir recounting her 17 years in Kenya, then called British East Africa. $200-300
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48 [DOVES BINDERY]. DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. 8vo (162 x 100 mm). Half-title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, verso printed in blue. Hand-colored etched frontispiece and 3 hand-colored etched plates by john Leech, 4 wood-engravings in the text by W. J. Linton after Leech; 2-page publisher’s advertisement at end. 20th-century tan Niger morocco, double gilt fillet border surrounding two branches of oak leaves, oak leaf tools in corners, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, the rest with central oak leaf tool, board edges gilt, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt BY COBDEN SANDERSON FOR THE DOVES BINDERY, signed on rear turn-in “19 C-S 11,” original cloth bound in (tiny separation to head of upper joint, some very slight rubbing to other corners of spine, upper corners just bumped, a few tiny indentations to lower cover, otherwise bright); cloth folding case. Provenance: Edmund D. Brooks (1866-1919), Minneapolis bookseller (bound for him by the Doves Bindery 1911). FIRST EDITION, second issue, with “Stave One” as the first chapter heading, the balance of the text uncorrected, blue and red title-page dated 1843. Philo Calhoun and Howell J. Heaney, “Dickens’ Christmas Carol After a Hundred Years: A Study in Bibliographical Evidence,” in: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 39 (Fourth Quarter, 1945); Eckel, p. 110; Kitton, pp. 33-37; Smith II:4. IN A FINE DOVES BINDING BY COBDEN SANDERSON, THE ONLY DOVES BINDING ON A WORK BY DICKENS RECORDED BY TIDCOMBE. According to Tidcombe, the present work was bound for “E. L. Brooks, Minneapolis.” More likely, however, the book was bound for Minneapolis bookseller and importer Edmund DeWitt Brooks, whose business was located in the Handicraft Guild building at 89 South 10th Street. An advertisement for Edmund D. Brooks’ firm, in the 6 July 1912 issue of The Bellman, includes an advertisement for "A Rare Book from the Doves Bindery. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens...Elegantly bound in full Niger Morocco, gold tooling, edges gilt, original covers preserved in COBDEN-SANDERSON's masterly manner" (p.24). Tidcombe records 3 other works bound for “E. L. Brooks, Minneapolis” (i.e. Edmund D. Brooks). The first, a copy of John Keats’s Lamia and other Poems (1820), includes a rose, forget-me-not and leaf design (Tidcombe 717, binding undated). The second, a copy of John Keats's Endymion (1818), is similarly bound to the present work with an oak leaf wreath in the center within an interlacing strapwork panel (Tidcombe 718, binding undated). The third, a copy of Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam, incorporates tulips and a center wreath (Tidcombe 771, binding dated 27 September 1912). Edmund DeWitt Brooks was born and raised in Minnesota, where his family, with roots on the East Coast, settled in 1864. His greatgrandfather, Captain James Brooks, was a member of Washington’s Life Guard during the Revolutionary War. Edmund Brooks began working as a books and manuscripts dealer in 1901, and quickly became a significant contributor to the development of literary culture in Minneapolis. He spent several months each year in London and in Continental Europe, and counted among his friends many significant literary and art figures in the English-speaking world. He was a member of the Caxton Club, the Rowfant Club, the California Book Club, and the Authors Club of London. Tidcombe 761. $10,000-15,000
49 DREISER, Theodore (1871-1945). Dawn. A History of Myself. New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. 8vo. Original gilt-lettered black cloth; publisher’s cloth slipcase with limitation label. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 74 of 275 copies signed by Dreiser. $100-150
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DULAC, Edmund (1882-1953), illustrator. -- QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur, Sir (1863-1944). The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1910].
4to. Title-page prints on Japan vellum, 20 color-printed plates tipped to Japan vellum mounts with gold-printed borders; lettered tissue guards. (Some minor spotting primarily to text leaves.) Original vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, silk ribbon ties (covers slightly bowed, some minor soiling, endpapers browning). LIMITED EDITION, number 176 of 200 copies printed for distribution in the United States, with text from Fitzgerald’s second translated edition.
4to. 30 color-printed plates tipped to mounts with borders and captions. (Some browning to blank leaves.) Original brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (rebacked preserving portion of original spine, endpapers renewed). LIMITED EDITION, number 877 of 1,000 copies SIGNED BY DULAC. $400-600
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DULAC, Edmund (1882-1953), illustrator. A Fairy Garland: Being Fairy Tales from the Old French. London and New York: Cassell & Company, Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1928].
4to. 28 color-printed plates tipped to mounts with gold-printed borders; duotone headpieces; lettered tissue guards. Original giltdecorated vellum, top edge gilt, others uncut (lacking silk ribbon ties, covers slightly bowed, some minor soiling). LIMITED EDITION, number 167 of 750 copies SIGNED BY DULAC.
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54 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. Evanston: Library of Living Philosophers, 1949. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece portrait and plates. Original brown textured cloth over bevelled boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, partially unopened; publisher’s board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 532 of 760 copies signed by Einstein (“Albert Einstein. 49.”). Einstein’s “Autobiographical Notes” occupy the first 96 pages of the volume published in English with the German text on facing pages. He also contributed “Remarks to the Essays Appearing in this Collective Volume” (pp. 663-688). Einstein’s “autobiographical notes” is actually an account of the development of his scientific thought, and is a major original contribution. It also includes a bibliography of Einstein’s works. A FINE COPY. $5,000-7,000
55 EINSTEIN, Albert. Typed letter signed (“A. Einstein”), to Mr. Lester Murphy. Princeton, New Jersey, 5 November 1953. One page, 4to (279 x 215 mm), on embossed personal stationery. Creased, one tiny rust stain to blank margin. EINSTEIN ON DARWINISM AND ITS DETRACTORS. Thanking the recipient for sending his manuscript and book on Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, and offering his own thoughts on a “planning God.” “I find the man interesting in what he tells about our knowledge in paleontology and his doubts about the opinion that natural selection has given satisfactory explanation of the trend toward increasing organization and differentiation in the organic world.” But Einstein adds at end: “I must confess that his arguments in favor of traditional religion with a planning God appear to me rather childishly anthropomorphic.” Pierre Lecomte du Noüy (1883-1947) was a French biophysicist and philosopher who believed that mankind should have confidence in science, but cautioned we know less about the material world than is commonly believed. $4,000-6,000
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56 FARMER, Philip José (1918-2009). To Your Scattered Bodies Go. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971. 8vo. Original publisher’s black cloth; original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of Farmer’s first work in the “Riverworld” series, which won the 1972 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Currey, 186. [With:] The Fabulous Riverboat. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971. 8vo. Original publisher’s orange cloth (tiny gouge to top edge lower board); original dust jacket (some very minor staining, spine panel very slightly darkened). FIRST EDITION of the second work in the “Riverworld” series SIGNED BY FARMER. Currey, 184. $500-700
57 FERDINAND II (1452-1516) and ISABELLA I of Spain (14511504). Letter signed at head (“Yo El Rey” & “Yo La Reyna”) to the Bishop of Malaga and his council. Palencia, 12 December 1501. In Spanish. One page, 4to (221 x 206 mm), addressed on verso to the Bishop of Malaga and his council panel. Signed by a secretary “Almacan” at foot on recto. (Some light toning in upper left corner, 4 horizontal teas on lower blank margin, small area of paper thin not affecting signatures or text, folds….) Housed in leather folding case with a matted print. Provenance: Library of Roger Wagner (sold, PBA Galleries, 18 March 2010, lot 70). Asking them to help hasten the trip of their daughter and her husband. “We have seen your letters of the 15th of November in which you notify us of the departure of the Princess, our children, on their way to us, causing us much happiness and because to see them is what we most desire and in order to be more at ease, for our peace and to our service we wish you to help hasten their trip without any inconveniences and in such good news we will find complete relief…”. The death of their two eldest children left the succession of Castile to their third daughter, Joan the Mad, and her husband Philip the Handsome, and they were to make the journey from Flanders to Spain. $6,000-8,000
58 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- ADAMS, Ansel (1902-1984). Images 19231974. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. Oblong folio. 115 extended range photolithographic reproductions. Original cloth; publisher’s pictorial dust jacket (small bump to top of spine panel); board slipcase (slight rubbing, a few breaks to joints). FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED BY ADAMS. $300-400
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59 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [ARION PRESS]. -- JOYCE, James (1882-1941). -- MOTHERWELL, Robert (1915-1991). Ulysses. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1988. Folio. 40 etchings on 20 folded leaves, some with colored backgrounds. Original white pigskin over white-flecked blue cloth, spine stamped in blue; matching slipcase with printed paper label; cloth folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 99 of 150 copies SIGNED BY MOTHERWELL of a total edition of 175. A VERY FINE COPY. $6,000-8,000
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60 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [ARION PRESS]. LEWITT, Sol (1928-2007), illustrator. – HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013). Squarings, a sequence of forty-eight poems. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2003. Square 4to. 48 plates. (Some minor offsetting of plates to text.) Original grey cloth decorated and lettered in black; original cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 145 of 400 numbered copies of a total edition of 426 SIGNED BY HEANEY AND LEWITT. $400-600
61 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [ARION PRESS]. THIEBAUD, Wayne (b. 1920), illustrator. -BRAUTIGAN, Richard (1935-1984). Trout Fishing in America. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003. 4to. ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPH BY THIEBAUD; photographic portrait of Brautigan taken by Edmund Shea in 1967. Original blue and gray cloth decorated and lettered in black. LIMITED EDITION, number 154 of 200 copies WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH, SIGNED BY WAYNE THIEBAUD on the facing leaf. $400-600
62 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [ARION PRESS]. A group of 4 works, comprising: ROTH, Henry. Call it Sleep. 1995. Original morocco-backed cloth boards; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 216 of 300 copies SIGNED. -- VIDAL, Gore. Williwaw: A Novel. 1996. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket edged in cloth as issued. LIMITED EDITION, number 233 of 250 copies SIGNED. -- WASHBURN, Stan, illustrator. MILLER, Arthur. The Price. 1999. Original cloth; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 260 of 300 copies SIGNED. -- MATTHEWS, William, illustrator. STOPPARD, Tom. Arcadia. 2001. Original cloth; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 318 of 400 copies SIGNED. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, CONDITION VERY FINE. $600-800
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63 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [ASHENDENE PRESS]. MALORY, Thomas (fl. 1470). The Noble and Joyous Book entytled Le Mort Darthur. Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1913. Folio (397 x 277mm). Headings and shoulder notes in red, initials in red and blue after Graily Hewitt; 29 woodcuts by W.H. Hooper and J.B. Swain after Charles and Margaret Gere, 2 full-page. (Scant spotting to a few leaves, offsetting on free endpapers from turn-ins.) Original brown calf by W. H. Smith & Son, stamp-signed in blind on rear turn-in, spine gilt lettered, gilt-ruled turn-ins (spine slightly sunned, a few small scuffs, particularly to edges, spotting to edges). LIMITED EDITION, one of 145 copies on paper of a total edition of 153, with text based on Southey’s reprint of Caxton’s 1485 edition. “The Morte d’Arthur is a glorious piece of printing…the presswork is miraculous” (Cockerell, qtd. in Franklin, p. 107). Hornby 26. $4,000-6,000
64 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- BASKIN, Leonard (1922-2000), illustrator. -GUNN, Thom (1929-2004). Mandrakes. London: Rainbow Press, [1973]. 8vo. 5 full-page illustrations. Original quarter vellum, burgundy cloth-covered boards, top edge gilt, others uncut; original matching cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 77 of 150 copies SIGNED BY GUNN. $300-400
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65 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- BROWN, Roger (1941-1997). Roger Brown Sketchbook 1982. New York: Styria Studios, 1983. Square 4to. 20 lithographed leaves including the title-page with letterpress by Grenfell Press, 4 photolithographic reproductions of newspaper clippings tipped to versos of 4 leaves, 2 lithographed overlays tipped in (one folding). Original black morocco-grain cloth; original black morocco-grain cloth slipcase, silver-lettered on spine, all by Sendor Binders. LIMITED EDITION, number 35 of 50 copies SIGNED BY ROGER BROWN of a total edition of 60, the whole edition printed on Arches 88, with photolithographic reproductions on Rives Newsprint Gray. All of the plates were drawn, proofed and printed between 16 January and 29 July 1983 at Styria Studio in New York. Born & Adrian, The Chicago Imagist Print, 1987, p.52. $800-1,200
66 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [GROLIER CLUB]. DE VINNE, Theodore Low (1828-1914). Title-Pages as Seen by a Printer. New York: The Grolier Club, 1901. 8vo. Numerous facsimile illustrations. Original half red straight-grained morocco gilt, Grolier Club insignia on sides, uncut and unopened (spine panel darkened, some light rubbing to joints and spine ends). Provenance: Emerson Chamberlain, New Jersey book collector (bookplates). LIMITED EDITION, one of 325 unnumbered copies on Italian hand-made paper. Emerson Chamberlain’s book collection was dispersed at auction 5-7 January 1921 at Anderson Galleries. $200-300
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67 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. LEFEVRE, Raoul. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. Translated by William Caxton, edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. 3 volumes in 2, 4to (288 x 208 mm). Printed in Troy type, the table of chapters and glossary in Chaucer type, printed in black and red, woodcut title-page and facing page with full woodcut page-border, numerous partial page-borders, and 8-line and smaller initial capitals, printer’s device at end of volume 2. (Light spotting to a few leaves.) Original limp vellum, spines gilt-lettered, yapp edges, silk ties, uncut and unopened (some minor soiling, corner slightly bumped); half morocco folding case. Provenance: Alexander T. Hollingsworth (bookplate designed by Ethel Cassels Gillespy, 1902). LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies on paper of a total edition of 305. Morris, in describing his plans for the work, stated: “The book will be ornamented very richly with woodcut ornaments entirely designed by myself; no labour or expense will be spared on them and there will be much variety in them. The semi-Gothic type designed by me (with special regard to legibility) will appear in this book for the first time” (qtd. in Peterson). Cockerell 8 (“This book ... is the first book printed in Troy type, and the first in which Chaucer type appears”); Peterson A8. $3,000-4,000
68 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. [GUILELMUS, Archbishop of Tyre]. The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the Conquest of Iherusalem. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. 4to (290 x 215 mm). Printed in Troy type, the list of chapter headings and glossary in Chaucer type, printed in black and red, woodcut titlepage and facing page with full woodcut page-border, numerous three-quarter, column height and smaller woodcut page-borders, 8-line and smaller initial capitals, printer’s device. Original limp vellum, spine gilt-lettered, silk ties unreleased, guard sheets laid in, uncut (slightest soiling); full morocco folding case. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies on paper of a total edition of 306. In Morris’s announcement for the work, he remarks on the “many new ornaments in this the latest issue from the Kelmscott Press; for the chapters being very short and the scheme of ornament being very similar to that of the last two quartos, the Reynard and the Recuyell, the book is very decorative” (qtd. in Peterson). Cockerell 15 (“This was the fifth and last of the Caxton reprints, with many new ornaments and initials and a new printer’s mark ... it was the first book published and sold at the Kelmscott Press”); Peterson A 15. $2,000-3,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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69 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works ... now newly imprinted. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. Folio (424 x 288 mm). Chaucer and Troy types, printed in black and red, woodcut title, borders and initials by C.E. Keates, W.H. Hooper and W. Spielmeyer after William Morris, 87 woodcut illustrations by W.H. Hooper after Edward Burne-Jones. Early 20th-century vellum gilt, spine in seven compartments with 6 raised bands, gilt lettered in second and seventh, yapp edges, uncut, STAMP-SIGNED BY PETER FRANCK (slight even fading to spine); red morocco gilt lettering-piece from previous binding laid in; full morocco folding case. Provenance: Philip Duschnes (booklabel, see below); John Whiting Friel and Helen Otillie Friel (bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent). IN A FINE BINDING FOR DUSCHNES WHICH PETER FRANCK SPOKE OF “WITH PRIDE” (Guild of Book Workers Journal). Franck began his vocation as a binder at age thirteen as an apprentice at his uncle’s bindery in Landau. He came to the United States in 1907 and began working as a binder at the Roycroft shop. He bound for the Caxton Printers and Stikeman and Company, before returning to his native Germany in 1920 where he worked for the Bremer Press bindery in Munich. After several years, he returned to New York where he worked again for Stikeman and Company, and later the Blackwell-Bennett Bindery. In 1925, he began working for the printing house of William Edwin Rudge in Mt. Vernon, New York. In 1932, he established his own workshop in Sherman, Connecticut; that same year, he was chosen as a member of the Meister der Einbandkunst, one of the highest honors for a bookbinder. “It was during this period that Peter’s finest work was done. He had joined the Guild of Book Workers in 1929 and in 1932 began exhibiting his work” (Lucy Crump, “Peter Franck, American Hand Binder,” Guild of Book Workers Journal, Fall 1964, pp.7-8). He bound several copies of Dard Hunter’s private press books in full vellum, and “one of each of these is held by the Dard Hunter Museum at the Paper Chemistry Institute in Appleton, Wisconsin [now at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking at Georgia Tech]” (ibid., p.8). A binding Franck “speaks of with pride is one he did for Philip Duschnes. This is a Kelmscott press complete Chaucer. I quote the catalogue, ‘Folio, full vellum, uncut, with vellum overleaf on covers, gilt lettering, six raised bands, with exceptionally fine marble like veining, by Peter Franck.’ Incidentally, the price of the above is listed at $1,250” (ibid. p.9). Writing about the process of binding in vellum, Franck notes: “One must be warned in pressing to pay attention to the height of the printing punch, for example the Kelmscot (sic) Press ‘Chaucer’, where the print and wood-cut illustrations are very deeply impressed. In this case, sufficient hand-made paper stubs must be added before or during the sewing to equalize the height of the punch” (translated by Betsy Palmer, “Vellum Binding,” Guild of Book Workers Journal, Fall 1964, p.13). LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 425 COPIES ON PAPER OF A TOTAL EDITION OF 438. “THE FINEST BOOK SINCE GUTENBERG” (Franklin). The supreme achievement of the forty year artistic collaboration between Morris and Burne-Jones, and of the Kelmscott Press: “the final chapter of co-operation; the venture in which their particular talents are combined for the last time, and to spectacular effect” (Robinson). Earliest plans for the work date to 1891; though the book was announced to Kelmscott Press subscribers in December, the actual printing did not begin until August 1894, and the book was only issued to subscribers in June 1896. Franklin Private Presses p.192; Peterson A40; Robinson William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Chaucer; Sparling 40. $60,000-80,000
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70 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. BURNE-JONES, Edward (1833-1898). The Beginning of the World. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1902. 4to. 25 wood-engraved illustrations by Burne-Jones. Original green boards (rebacked and recornered in later green morocco). Provenance: Robert Frank Skutch (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, including the first publication of the 25 woodcuts Burne-Jones created for Biblia Innocentium, written by John William Mackail (Burne-Jones’s son-in-law) and published by the Kelmscott Press in 1892. Burne-Jones was to complete 250 woodcuts for the work, but they were never completed. $200-300
71 KENT, Rockwell, illustrator (1882-1971). -- MELVILLE, Herman (18191891). Moby Dick. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. 3 volumes, 4to. Numerous woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Original black cloth, titled and decorated in silver, top edges stained black, several leaves unopened (spines slightly sunned, tiny break at foot of spine vol. II, a few tiny stains); aluminum slipcase (a few minor scratches). LIMITED EDITION, one of 1000 copies, one of R. R. Donnelley and Sons’ Lakeside Press “Four American Books” campaign. Of the four books produced for the series (also including Poe’s Tales, Thoreau’s Walden, and Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast), Moby Dick was the only work to sell out completely. “The most lasting contribution of the undertaking, though, was Kent’s Moby Dick. Still regarded as the definitive illustrated edition of this American Classic, it positioned Chicago as a major center in the history of American book illustration, design, and production” (Coventry, “Four American Books Campaign,” Chicago by the Book, p.121). The Artist and the Book 130; Caxton Chicago by the Book 53. $3,000-4,000
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72 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE] -- [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] -- JOYCE, James (1882-1941). -- MATISSE, Henri (1869-1954), illustrator. Ulysses. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. 4to. 6 etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings. Original publisher’s brown cloth, upper cover and spine gilt-decorated (spine slightly rubbed); original board slipcase, printed paper label on spine. LIMITED EDITION, number 1080 of 1,500 copies SIGNED BY MATISSE. George Macy commissioned Matisse to provide as many etchings as he could for a $5,000 commission. He chose to illustrate six episodes from Homer’s Odyssey: Calypso, Aelous, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Circe, and Ithaca; when asked why he did not illustrate episodes from Joyce’s novel, he responded that he hadn’t read it. The American Livre de Peintre, 32; The Artist and the Book, 197; Slocum and Calhoun A22. $3,000-4,000
73 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE] -- [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] -- LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Main Street. Illustrated by Grant Wood. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. 8vo. Original cloth over flexible boards; in orig board slipcase (slipcase a little darkened and split at edges). LIMITED EDITION, number 203 of 1,500 copies signed by Grant Wood. $200-300
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74 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- MOORE, Henry Spencer (1898-1986). Heads Figures and Ideas. London and Greenwich, CT: George Rainbird, New York Graphic Society, 1958. Folio (471 x 327 mm). Original color lithograph “Thirteen Standing Figures,” signed in pencil lower right; numerous illustrations throughout. Original half grey morocco, blue boards by Zaehnsdorf (spine slightly sunned, slight dampstain and a few tiny stains to spine); original slipcase (some light chipping and soiling). LIMITED EDITION, number 85 of 150 copies SIGNED IN PENCIL BY MOORE ON ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH. Cramer 41. $500-700
75 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [NONESUCH PRESS]. FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bovier de (1657-1757). A Plurality of Worlds. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 8vo. Headpieces printed in color and gold, title-page printed in red and black. Original limp vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (slight soiling); original slipcase (some wear to extremities). LIMITED EDITION, number 332 of 1,200 copies, designed by Francis Meynell, printed at the Curwen Press; described by Meynell to Bennett Cerf at Random House as “a little peach of a book.” $100-200
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76 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- WARHOL, Andy (1928-1987). The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth-backed boards; original printed dust jacket. Provenance: Guido (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WARHOL WITH A DRAWING OF A CAMPBELL’S SOUP CAN: “To Guido, Andy Warhol.” $1,000-1,500
77 [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. -- [WARHOL, Andy (1928-1987), his copy]. [DE KOONING, Willem]. HESS, Thomas B. William de Kooning Drawings. Lausanne: Editions des Massons, 1972. 4to. Profusely illustrated in black and white, numerous color-printed plates tipped in. Original yellow cloth; original yellow cloth slipcase (some minor soiling).Provenance: Andy Warhol (bookplate). LIMITED EDITION, number 64 of 150 copies SIGNED BY DE KOONING. ANDY WARHOL’S COPY WITH HIS BOOKPLATE. $1,000-1,500
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78 FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925. 8vo. (Some minor pale foxing to some gutter margins.) Original publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt (minor rubbing to extremities, otherwise a bright copy); cloth folding case. Provenance: R. F. Pietsch (purchase note in pencil on front pastedown, dated 20 June 1925). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with “chatter” for “echolalia” on p. 60, “northern” for “southern” on p. 119, “sick in tired” for “sickantired” on p. 205, and “Union Street station” for “Union Station” on p. 211. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48. $1,000-1,500
79 FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922. 8vo. (Some marginal toning, a few leaves roughly opened) Original publisher’s green cloth (spine a little frayed at ends, hinges cracked, lacking rear free endpaper, small green stain on fore-edge). FIRST EDITION, second printing, with the publisher’s seal on the copyright page and the concluding advertisements on pp. [451-452]. Bruccoli A8.1.b. [With:] FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Vegetable. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923. 8vo. (Some leaves roughly opened.) Original publisher’s green cloth. FIRST EDITION, with date on title and “Published April, 1923” on copyright page. Bruccoli A10.1.a. $200-300
80 FOWLES, John (1926-2005). The Collector. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. 8vo. Original cloth, top edge stained red (a few tiny spots along lower edge); FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET without reviews on the front flap; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION of the author’s first work, in which the narrative is told in two parts from the perspectives of both the captor and captive. A FINE COPY. $400-600
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81 GIBSON, William (b. 1972). Neuromancer. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1984. 8vo. Original publisher’s blue boards; original dust jacket (small soft crease to lower corner upper panel, otherwise fine). FIRST EDITION of Gibson’s first novel, which won the 1984 Nebula, 1985 Hugo and 1985 Philip K. Dick award for best novel. INSCRIBED BY GIBSON, 2003. $800-1,200
82 GIBSON, William (b. 1972). A group of 3 works, comprising: Neuromancer. West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1986. Slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 337 of 375 copies SIGNED BY GIBSON. -- Count Zero. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986. INSCRIBED BY GIBSON, “To Jerry, Best, Wm. Gibson.” -- Virtual Light. New York: Spectra, Bantam Books, 1993. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all 8vo, ALL FIRST EDITIONS (except where indicated), all in original publisher’s cloth or cloth-backed boards and dust jackets, condition very fine. $500-700
83 [GINSBERG, Allen]. BENJAMIN, Jerry. Kaddish: A Dramatic Mass by Allen Ginsberg. [New York]: Studio duplicating service, [ca 1965]. 4to. 60 leaves mimeographed on rectos only. Bound with metal screw posts in black folder, upper cover yellow-lettered; cloth folding case. Provenance: Edwin Blair (invoice from Serendipity Books laid in; his sale, 2006). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, one of 18 unnumbered copies INSCRIBED BY GINSBERG: “This isn’t mine, it’s J.B.’s version, Allen Ginsberg, N.O., LA.” A pencil note on the Serendipity invoice notes “14-18 copies according to Dowden” prepared for a project which never occurred. [Laid in:] “The Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn… Kaddish Based on a poem by Allen Ginsberg.” Ca 1971. 12pp. program for a production directed by Robert Kalfin and Michael David. With mimeographed sheet, “Additional Notes,” for the production laid in. RARE: according to online records, the present copy is one of only two copies to sell at auction in the last 50 years. $700-900
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84 GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997). The Visions of the Great Rememberer...with Letters by Neal Cassady & Drawings by Basil King. Amherst, MA: Mulch Press, 1974. 8vo. Numerous photographic illustrations, several leaves of music and other illustrations. Original blue wrappers (slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Doris Grumbach (b. 1918), American novelist, essayist and editor (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GINSBERG: “Allen Ginsberg for Doris Grumbach March 8, 1977 AH.” [Laid in:] AUTOGRAPH NOTE FROM GINSBERG AND PETER ORLOVSKY TO GRUMBACH. December 9, 1976. 1 page, on verso of a postcard with Ginsberg’s “Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit” printed recto. Ginsberg writes: “Peter & I spent last several months at a Buddhist seminary doing lots of sitting practice & study of Vajrayana style.” Orlovsky writes: “Sat 10 hrs a day for a month, very easy & Healthy. Don’t forget to drop by Farm sometime in spring summer or fall.” Addressed to Grumbach in Washington, D. C., where she lived with her partner Sybil Pike, and worked first as literary editor at The New Republic, and then as a professor of American Literature at American University. In 1985, Pike and Grumbach opened a rare and used bookstore, Wayward Books, near Eastern Market, on Capitol Hill. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. $300-400 85 GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997). Plutonian Ode and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore, 1982. 8vo. Photographic illustration, a few leaves of printed music. Original printed wrappers (minor stain to lower wrapper, spine slightly toned). Provenance: Karri Kokko (b.1955), Finnish Poet (signature, note from Ginsberg); Doris Grumbach (b. 1918), American novelist, essayist and editor (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY GINSBERG: “For Doris Grumbach 2/23/83 Allen Ginsberg.” ADDITIONALLY ANNOTATED BY GINSBERG with his minor corrections on 2 pages (pp. 30 and 101), and with a note in his hand on the title-page indicating that he previously met Karri Kokko in Finland. ONE PAGE OF NOTES IN GINSBERG’S HAND LAID IN for a program of readings on 9 February 1983 in Berlin. Grumbach, Ginsberg’s friend, was an instructor at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Ginsberg was interviewed by Kokko in 1983. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY. $200-300
86 GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997). Autograph letter signed (“Allan”), to István Eörsi. New York, New York, 11 May 1984. 4 pages, 8vo, 215 x 138 mm, on Harper & Row, Publishers Memorandum paper, Ginsberg’s return address stamped on the first page, with original envelope. GINSBERG DISCUSSES CONVERSATIONS WITH CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ, AND OLD PHOTOGRAPHS OF KEROUAC AND BURROUGHS. Ginsberg’s wide-ranging letter to his friend and Hungarian translator, poet and playwright István Eörsi (1931-2005) includes updates about work, foreign relations, and his photography. “I finished text + 75pps notes to Collected Poems - sent to the printer - I’ll be back in NY in a month.” He recalls a conversation with “Miloscz” (presumably Czesław Miłosz): “I spent a little time 2 weekends ago with Miloscz wondering what to do re Central America. He & Squaretyki[?] (Czech) seem dubious about my non-neutral (anti U. S. involvement) stand. So we discussed that Central America dilemma - how not to create another Marxist police state.” Ginsberg inquires about Eörsi’s recent play, and then discusses a project: “I am working on photography more, and hired a young friend to sort out my photos & negatives from 1945 -- thru the sixties -- and make enlargements of snapshots of Kerouac & Burroughs from those days 1949--1953--1963-- I seem to have had a consistent thread of awareness of seeing them as on earth one time only all along & the photos look fine.” He concludes, “I am overworking.” $400-600 38
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87 GODDARD, Robert H. (1882-1945). Rockets. New York: American Rocket Society, 1946. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece, plates and diagrams in text. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust jacket (some toning to spine panel, flap folds and edges, a little wear to extremities). FIRST EDITION of this posthumously printed collection of Goddard’s important papers on rocketry: “A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes” and “Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development,” previously published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1919 and 1936, respectively. This work also contains a new foreword by Goddard prepared shortly before his death in August 1945. With an American Rocket Society membership flyer laid in. $300-400
88 GOODALE, George Lincoln (1839-1923). -- SPRAGUE, Isaac (1811-1895), illustrator. The Wild Flowers of America. Boston: S.E. Cassino, 1882. 4to (324 x 247 mm). 50 chromolithographed plates. (Spotting, some plates yellowed.) Publisher’s dark green cloth, covers and spines gilt-lettered (recased with repairs to spine ends, some bubbling or wrinkling of the cloth to upper cover vol. II). FIRST EDITION in book form. Originally published in parts and issued with wrappers, the title was altered and the work was issued in the present 2 volume set in 1882. Lithographs by Armstrong & Co. after the illustrations by Sprague, considered one of the finest botanical artists of his day. $200-300
89 GRISHAM, John (b. 1955). A group of 5 works, comprising: The Summons. 2002. Number 118 of 350 copies. -- The King of Torts. 2003. Number 65 of 350 copies. – Bleachers. 2003. Number 93 of 350 copies. -- The Last Juror.2004. Number 182 of 350 copies – The Broker. 2005. Number 48 of 350 copies -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, 8vo, all published by Doubleday in Garden City, all LIMITED EDITIONS SIGNED BY GRISHAM. All in original publisher’s leather, original slipcases, original unopened shrink wrap, all unopened in very fine condition. $400-600
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90 GUMILEV, Nicolay Stepanovich (1886-1921). Zhemchuga. Stikhi. [Pearls. Verses.] Moscow: Skorpion, 1910. 8vo. Half-title; 6pp. advertisements. (Browning, some light marginal chipping). Modern cloth-backed linen; original front wrapper bound in (laid down with repairs). FIRST EDITION, published in the year that Gumilev married poet Anna Akhmatova. Dissatisfied with the mysticism of Russian Symbolism, Gumilev and Sergei Gorodetsky established the Guild of Poets, modeled after the medieval guilds of Western Europe. The Guild advocated that, like an architect, a poet needed to adhere to higher levels of craftsmanship; they compared writing a poem to building a cathedral. Zhemchuga. Stikhi was the first collection Gumilev published to illustrate the Guild’s principles. Kilgour 420. $500-700
91 HAECHT GOIDTSENHOVEN, Laurens van (1527-1603). Mikrokosmos. Parvus Mundus. Antwerp: Gerard de Jode, 1584. 4to. Engraved title and 74 engraved emblems by G. de Jode. (Lower portion of title-page cut away below engraving [with loss of imprint?], some minor pale spots, lower blank margins of G2 and G3 torn away.) Contemporary vellum gilt; morocco folding case. The Latin text first appeared at Antwerp in 1579. Each emblem bears a Latin caption and bible quotation, with a poem in Latin on the opposite page. The book is based on the theme “Cognoy toy mesme”: the illustrations, mottoes and poems are elaborations on this subject, and the examples are mostly derived from classical mythology and philosophy. This edition is a variant of Landwehr 263 with a new type face for the text and a new Dutch poem on the final leaf verso. Landwehr, Low Countries 264; Pettegree & Walsby 14188; see Praz p. 427 (Arnhem edition). $3,000-5,000
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92 HAKLUYT, Richard (ca 1552-1616). The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or overland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres. London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1599-1600. 3 volumes in 2, folio (287 x 180 mm). Ornamental woodcut capitals, head- and tail-pieces. (Lacking the map, as often, vol. I pp.607-619 supplied, p.607 soiled, a few tiny rust-holes affecting a few letters, some minor dampstaining or soiling.) Contemporary calf, spine in 7 compartments with 6 raised bands, gilt-numbered in one, tan morocco lettering-piece gilt (joints starting, some overall light wear); cloth folding case. Provenance: Charles Maynard, 1st Viscount Maynard (engraved armorial bookplate); Stewart Kidd (bookseller’s label); Bayard Livingston Kilgour, Jr. (1904-1984), American book collector (bookplate). Second (first enlarged) edition. Title-page in volume one in the second state, dated 1599 and not including the reference to “the famous victorie atchieved at the citie of Cadiz, 1596,” with misspelled “Hackluyt” on vol. II title-page, and with “yeeres” on vol. III title-page. WITH THE VOYAGE TO CADIZ (vol. I, pp.607-619, ESTC state 1a). The section was suppressed by Elizabeth I after the disgrace of the Earl of Essex in 1599. In some copies sold after Elizabeth’s death, these sheets were reinserted. As for the presence of the map, Pforzheimer notes: “It is generally allowed that the map which belongs in that third volume, though only occasionally found, was not issued with all copies.” Church located thirteen copies of the map. There are apparently two variants of the printer’s ornaments on the title-page in volume one. This copy has a border of fruit and flowers surrounding the opening word “The” and the ornamental device above the imprint is composed of a center medallion flanked by cornucopia. No priority has been established between this state and the variant with a typographical border around “The” and a device using three birds above the imprint. The present edition greatly enlarges the first edition of 1589, with the entire third volume devoted to America. “Hakluyt’s Principall Navigations was the fruit of a life devoted to promoting the cause of English colonization and commerce by disseminating knowledge about, and stimulating interest in, all the less known or recently discovered parts of the world. This great repository of explorations, travels, and adventures ‘within the compasse of these 1500 years’ was aptly styled by Mr. Froude ‘the prose epic of the modern English nation’” (Church). The Supplement “contains fourteen rare works not easily accessible in any other form, and is quite as important as either of the volumes published in [Hakluyt’s] time” (Sabin 29600). “In a word, many of such useful tracts of sea adventures, which before were scattered as several ships, Mr. Hakluyt hath embodied into a fleet, divided into three squadrons so many several volumes; a work of great honour to England” (Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England). Alden & Landis 598/42; Borba de Moraes I:328; Church 322 (second issue); ESTC S106744; Grolier English 14; Hill 744 (second issue of the title); Palau 112038, 112039; Pforzheimer 443 (1st and 2nd volumes); PMM 105 (first ed.); Sabin 29595. $20,000-30,000
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93 HARRIS, Joel Chandler (1848-1908). Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 8vo. Frontispiece, 7 plates and numerous illustrations in text. (Some very slight marginal toning.) Original publisher’s pictorial powder blue cloth gilt (minor rubbing to extremities, text block cracked with a quire sprung). Provenance: Arthur Swann (bookplate, catalogue slip laid in). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with “presumptive” on page 9, and no mention of this title in ads at end. Harris’s popular retelling of African-American folk-tales and myths. BAL 7100; Grolier American 83; Parley to Penrod, pp. 56-57. A FINE COPY, IN AN UNCOMMON VARIANT CLOTH COLOR. $1,500-2,500
94 HARRIS, Joel Chandler (1848-1908). Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 8vo. Frontispiece, 7 plates and numerous illustrations in text. (Page 23 with marginal chip on foremargin just touching illustration and short closed tear, some minor staining and soiling.) Original publisher’s pictorial green cloth gilt (touch of wear to extremities, front hinge tender). Provenance: C. K. Judson, Albany (bookseller’s stamp on front flyleaf); G. A. Whitaker (bookseller’s stamp on front free endpaper); Philip Greely Brown (bookplate); Dr. D. W. Houston (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with “presumptive” on page 9, and no mention of this title in ads at end. Harris’s popular retelling of African-American folk-tales and myths. BAL 7100; Grolier American 83; Parley to Penrod, pp. 56-57. A BRIGHT COPY. $1,000-1,500
95 HARRIS, Joel Chandler (1848-1908). Daddy Jake: The Runaway and Short Stories Told After Dark. By “Uncle Remus.” London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1890. 4to. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. Original pictorial green cloth (minor rubbing to extremities, some soiling, rear cover with a few stains, hinges shaken). Provenance: The Galignani Library, Paris (bookseller’s label on front pastedown). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, published a few months after the First American Edition of 1889. See BAL 7117 note. $200-300
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96 HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The House of the Seven Gables. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 8vo. 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements dated March 1851 [BAL’s printing B, no priority]. Original brown blind-embossed cloth [BAL’s binding B] (some light pale stains to covers, touch of wear to two corners and lower edge of rear board, minor pale spotting on block edges); quarter morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION. BAL 7604. A BRIGHT COPY. $800-1,200
97 HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831). Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts. Berlin: Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1821. 8vo (197 x 120mm). With the additional title (minor tear in gutter of a single leaf). Contemporary German half mor gilt (minor wear to spine head, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Dr. Paul Singer, Wien (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Hegel’s seminal work on “the sociology of the perfectly organized state… It turns away from the apparent chaos of the democratic advocates of individual right in favour of an overwhelming sense that liberty cannot exist apart from order, and that the vital connexion of all parts of the body politic is the source of all good” (PMM 283). Paul Singer (1904-1997) was born in Pressburg, Hungary and grew up in Vienna, where he began his studies in 1921 at the Realgymnasium, becoming a neuropsychiatrist in 1929 at the University of Vienna. While in Vienna he developed a lifelong interest in Chinese art. He and his wife, actress Eva Geyer, fled the country in 1938 and, after a brief stay in London, came to the United States. Singer became quite active in collecting Chinese art with support from Arthur M. Sackler, and in exchange they agreed his collection would go to Sackler upon his death. Borst 1361; PMM 283. A FINE CRISP COPY. $1,000-1,500
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98 HEINLEIN, ROBERT A. (1907-1988). Stranger in a Strange Land. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1961. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket (touch of wear to extremities, slight rubbing or toning to folds, some minor fading, rear panel with slight soiling); quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with top edge stained green and C22 code at foot of p. 408. In the First Issue dust jacket priced $4.50 and with blurbs for Starship Troopers on rear panel. The 1962 Hugo Award winner, a science fiction novel that became a cultural phenomenon. Currey, 193; Smiley, 36. $2,000-3,000
99 HEINLEIN, Robert A. (1907-1988). Orphans of the Sky. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. 8vo. Original red boards; publisher’s dust jacket (minor creasing and toning to front flap, a few tiny stains and chips to foot of spine panel, some other minor toning). Provenance: L. E. Eden (inscription dated 1963). FIRST EDITION including the novellas “Universe” and “Common Sense,” originally published in Astounding Science Fiction as a two-part serial in 1941. Currey, 233. [With:] HEINLEIN. Farmer in the Sky. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950. 8vo. Original publisher’s blue cloth (a few minor bumps to extremities); publisher’s pictorial dust jacket (a few chips and tears, minor abrasions to lower panel, some minor toning). Provenance: Armand Cearoy? (signatures). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. with “A” and the Scribner seal on the copyright page. Currey, 232. $400-600
100 HELLER, Joseph (1923-1999). Catch-22. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. 8vo. Original cloth (slight fading to spine); pictorial dust jacket (a few short splits at edges, very minor soiling and slight rubbing); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY HELLER on the title of the author’s first book, in dust jacket priced “$5.95.” The title of this contemporary American novel has entered the language more seamlessly than any other. However, “Catch 22” was not the book’s original title. In the late ‘50s, when a chapter was published in the anthology New American Writing, Heller was calling the novel “Catch 18.” He only changed it to Catch 22 the following year when Leon Uris published his bestselling World War II novel Milo 18, beating Heller to the number and begetting a cliché destined to be with us for decades to come. The phrase is used to refer to the maddeningly circular logic used to deny leave on the grounds of insanity to the novel’s anti-hero, Yossarian. The Doctor quotes the Catch 22, which states that a man “would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t, he was sane and had to.” $4,000-6,000
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101 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. 8vo. (Front free endpaper slightly toned from previous newsclipping.) Original black cloth, printed front cover and spine labels; pictorial dust jacket (some minor chipping and wear to ends of spine panel, abrasion on lower edge of front panel affecting a letter in author’s name, soiled); cloth folding case. Provenance: Bernard Foley (pencil signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without the legal disclaimer. Hanneman A8a. $2,000-3,000
102 HERBERT, Frank (1920-1986). Dune. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965. 8vo. Original publisher’s blue cloth (slight discoloration on bottom edge of rear cover); pictorial dust jacket (rear panel stained, touch of wear to upper corners of spine panel, short split on upper edge of rear panel, slight rubbing to front flap fold); custom morocco folding case with Dune design from title. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, in First Issue dust jacket priced $5.95 on the front flap and the 4 lines in the Chilton address on the rear flap. $2,500-3,500
103 HERBERT, Frank (1920-1986). Dune Messiah. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket (extremities slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED BY HERBERT on the front flyleaf. In the First Issue dust jacket priced $4.95. $200-300
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104 HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679). Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. London: printed for Andrew Crooke, 1651. Chancery folio (279 x 184 mm). Collation: etched frontispiece, A4 (title, author’s dedication to Francis Godolphin, table of contents, errata, introduction); B-E4 F4(3+ fold-out sheet Table of Subjects of Knowledge) G-Z4 Aa-Bb4 (Part 1 Of Man, Part 2 Of Common-Wealth); Cc-Tt4 (Part 3 Of a Christian Common-Wealth); Uu-Zz4 Aaa-Ccc4 (Part 4 Of the Kingdome of Darknesse); Ddd4 (A Review and Conclusion). Woodcut head-ornament vignette on title. (Some light staining, tiny rust-hole in 2T2 affecting 3 letters, final leaf slightly trimmed along fore-edge.) Contemporary English dark calf (rebacked preserving original spine, some wear); morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT 17TH-CENTURY ENGLISH WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. Hobbes regarded the state “as a great artificial monster made up of individual men, with an existence which could be traced from its generation through human reason under pressure of human needs to its destruction through civil strife proceeding from human passions. The individual (except to save his own life) should always submit to the State, because any government is better than the anarchy of the natural state” (PMM). Hobbes’ theory caused a scandal in England, where he was labeled “everything from atheist, heretic and libertine to the ‘monster of Malmesbury’ and ‘pander to bestiality.’ He was blamed…for the great London Fire of 1666 and…discovered a committee of bishops in the House of Lords willing to put him to the stake” (Norman). His influence, first on Spinoza and Bentham, has lasted into our own century. The frontispiece “may have contributed to the strong impact of the book” (Schmitt). Previously ascribed to be in the style of W. Hollar, it is now thought to be by Abraham Bosse (ca. 1602-1676), who executed it after lengthy discussions with Hobbes. ESTC R17253; MacdonaldHargreaves 42; Pforzheimer 491; PMM 138; Wing H-2246; Norman 1082; see Carl Schmitt Der Leviathan in der Staatslehre des Thomas Hobbes, 1938, p. 26. $20,000-30,000
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105 HOLINSHED, Raphael. [The Chronicles]. The First and Second volumes of Chronicles [-Third Volume…], comprising 1 The descriptions and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: First collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: Now newlie augmented and continued… London: [H. Denham] for John Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587. 3 volumes bound in 2, folio (365 x 223mm). Modern calf antique. (Lacking initial blank in Vol. I, and final blanks at the end of Vols. II and III; occasional soiling, marginal staining and small flaws throughout. Vol. I: title-page with some marginal repairs, soiled and laid down; A2-A3 with marginal burn-hole affecting a few letters on former; first 8 leaves with some marginal fraying, creasing & soiling; P6 with marginal paper flaw; 4[super-script]I1 with marginal repair just touching one shoulder note. Vol. II without cancelled leaves 2Q3.4 [supplied in photo-facsimile, see note below]. Vol. III: title-page soiled with pale dampstaining and with small institutional stamp on recto and ink accession number on verso, same stamp appearing on about 6 other leaves throughout volume; 3Q2 with portion of lower blank margin replaced; 5D6 with small hole affecting a few letters; 5T1 with marginal tear slightly crossing text repaired; 5E1 with lower blank corner renewed; some other pale marginal dampstaining and soiling; some early marginalia at beginning of Vol I. Provenance: John Thompson (early signatures on title of Vol. I); early unidentified signature on title of Vol. III; William Bromley of Baginton in the County of Warwicke (armorial bookplate preserved in Vol. I); Nottingham Reference Library (bookplate in Vol. I & small ink stamps in Vol. II). Second edition, revised and expanded from the 1577 First Edition, of the great Elizabethan narrative history used by Shakespeare as a main source for many of his plays. The textual history of this second edition is particularly complex, with most copies bearing cancels in Vols. II & III following censorship by the Elizabethan authorities who ordered the removal of politically sensitive. According to DNB there were three stages in the castrations and revisions, and consequently copies survive with various states of cancels, variant cancels and original leaves. The present copy conforms with ESTC, except without the cancel leaf paginated 421 (recto) and 424 (verso) replacing leaves 2Q3.4 in Vol. II (the originals here supplied in photo-facsimile). ESTC S122178; STC 13569. [With:] A bound volume containing an 18th-century reprinting of the castrated leaves. Folio, late 18th-century sheep-backed calf (worn). Provenance: Richard Laurence Pemberton (signature on front flyleaf and armorial bookplate); Prinknash Abbey (bookplate). $8,000-12,000
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106 HORAE, Use of Rome. Hore beate marie virginis s[e]c[un]d[u]m usum ecclesie romane totaliter ad longum cum multis suffragiis et orationibus. Paris: Gilles Hardouin for Germain Hardouin, [ca 1521, calendar for 1521-1540]. 8vo (179 x 111mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. 104 leaves (but 106, including 4 inserted leaves: 2 additional in quires C and D and 2 apparently replacements in quires C and E), 23 lines (24 lines on inserted leaves), gothic letter, large metalcut device on title [Renouard, 434; Silvestre, 57], 14 large metalcuts (2 on inserted leaves), and 15 small metalcuts of the Evangelists and Saints within text (one on inserted leaf), all illuminated in colors and gold, the large miniatures within illuminated architectural borders, some borders illuminated when facing miniatures; woodblock borders, initials supplied in gold on blue and rose grounds. (Title a little soiled and with border rubbed, occasional soiling or rubbing to some other leaves, some leaves at end damp-wrinkled with slight discoloration, a few old vellum imperfections). 19th-century black morocco gilt; morocco folding case. Provenance: some early inscriptions (partially deleted) on title. The illumination of this copy, presumably carried out in Hardouin’s atelier, is finely executed. Lacombe, 316-319; Bohatta, 1062; Renouard, III, 134 (BP16_104295); Van Praet, I, nos 137, 138 et 139; see Brunet V: Heures. $10,000-15,000
107 HOVEY, Charles Mason (1810-1887). The Fruits of America, containing richly colored figures and full descriptions of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States. Boston & New York: [Vol.I] Hovey & Co. and D. Appleton & Co. in New York, [Vol. II] Hovey & Co., 1852-1856. 2 volumes, 8vo (270 x 180mm). Titles with wood-engraved vignettes, lithographic portrait frontispieces of Hovey and William Sharp, 96 chromolithographic plates by William Sharp & Son, numerous woodcut illustrations. (Endpapers in Vol. I a little discolored.) Contemporary elaborately gilt-panelled morocco (rebacked preserving portions of original spines with lowest compartments gilt to style, minor edgewear to lower board edges). Provenance: Mr. J. Lombard (presentation inscription from the author); Fall River Public Library (bookplates on rear pastedowns, ink stamps on titles and accession numbers on title versos, sold Christie’s East, 12 June 2001, lot 45). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOVEY on the front free endpaper of Vol. I: “Mr. J. Lombard / from his friend / C. M. Hovey / Dec. 25th 1854.” Charles M. Hovey was a nurseryman in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the editor of the popular and long-running Magazine of Horticulture. The beautiful mounted chromolithographs in this work were finely executed by by the Boston firm headed by William Sharp, and describe a variety of apples, pears, cherries, plums, and berries. “The book has a place in the history of American printing as well as American pomology” (Oak Spring Pomona). The plates are accompanied by text which gives the history of each variety, a full description, its growing habit, flower and fruit, and advice on its cultivation. The present work was intended by Hovey as an international show-case for what American pomologists had achieved, as well as an essential reference guide. It originally appeared in parts between 1847 and 1856, and is considered complete in two volumes with 96 plates. In addition to the two volumes found here, Hovey also issued three parts for a third, unfinished volume. Bennett, p.59; Nissen, BBI 941; Oak Spring Pomona 61; Raphael 61; Reese 20 (“The first major work executed entirely in chromolithography”). A RARE PRESENTATION COPY: no other inscribed copies have appeared at auction according to online databases. WITH PLATES VERY FRESH AND CLEAN. $6,000-8,000
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[JAPANESE BOOKS]. CHITOSĒN Fujihiko (千歳園 藤彦, possibly Senzaien Fujihiko, active 19th c.) -- WATANABE Taigaku (渡辺 対 岳, active 19th century), illustrator. 厳島絵馬鑒 Itsukushima Ema Kagami [The Ex-votos of Itskushima Shrine]. [Hiroshima]: 1833 (Tenpō 3).
2 volumes, 4to (288 x 210 mm). 22 plates tipped-in with the suite of duplicate plates. (Occasional spotting primarily to text.) Publishers original brown and green cloth gilt, top edge stained blue, others uncut and unopened (bump to top edge, spines lightly sunned); extra suite of plates, loose as issued in publisher’s printed envelope (chipping). LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 large paper copies SIGNED BY HUDSON, with plates by Henrik Grønvold, the Danish naturalist, artist, and taxidermist best known for his illustrations of birds and their eggs. Hudson spent much of his career working both officially and unofficially for the Natural History Museum, London.
1 volume (of 5), 4to (185 x 255 mm). 38 leaves with 7 doublepage woodcuts, 2 single-page woodcuts, and a multitude of decorative borders. (Dampstaining to a few leaves.) Contemporary brown diamond-patterned paper with paper title label, stab-sewn (stain to upper cover, some minor rubbing and creasing). Woodcuts of devotional gift-giving, including a fine illustration of a falcon, and a double-page woodcut of Itsukushima Shrine with its distinctive “floating” torii gate.
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110 [JAPANESE BOOKS]. LUO Guanzhong (羅貫中, Luo Ben 羅本, ca 1330-1400 or ca 1280-1360) -- KATSUSHIKA Taito (葛飾 戴斗, active ca 1810-1853), illustrator. -- IKEDA, Tōri (池田 東 籬, 1788-1857), translator. 繪本通俗三国志 Ehon tsūzoku Sangokushi [Illustrated Romance of the Three Kingdoms]. [Osaka]: [Gungyokudō], [1836- 1841 (Tenpō 6-11)]. 2 volumes (of 75 comprising volume 3 part 6 and volume 8 part 3 only), 4to. 8 woodblock illustrations by Katsushika, 6 handcolored. Publisher’s original embossed paper, stab-sewn (some soiling and creasing, extremities rubbed, minor chipping to title label). Japanese translation of the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms with illustrations, some hand-colored, by a pupil of the master ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai, Katsushika Taito (sometimes known as Katsushika Taito II, as Hokusai also used the gō Taito). $100-200 111 [JAPANESE FALCONRY]. A group of works about falconry, in Japanese, comprising: 箸鷹和歌文字抄 Hashi taka waka moji shō [Hawking Techniques Described in Waka Poetry]. N.p., Tensho 12 (1584). - SAIONJI Kintsune (西園寺公経, 1171-1244). 西園寺殿鷹百首 Saionjidono
Taka hyakushu [100 Poems on Falconry by Lord Saionji Kintsune]. N.p., Kan’ei 13 (1636). - MASAKI Michitaka (正木 通尭). 漫 詠鷹百首 Manei Taka Hyakushu [100 Unrestrained Poems on Falconry]. 江戸書林 Edo Shōrin [Edo Bookstore], n.d., ca 1840s. - And 10 others. Together, 13 works in 13 volumes, 4to, all stabsewn with paper covers and paper labels, good condition (minor worming). Provenance: Shinobazu Bunko (不忍文庫, 4 volumes bear seals); Awakuni Bunko (阿波國文庫 , seals on all volumes); four books Shinobazu. The Awakuni Bunko (Awa Province Book Collection) in the now dissolved Awa Province in modern-day Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku was a collection formed mainly by the Hachisuka family (蜂須賀家), especially 10th Daimyo Shigeyoshi (蜂須賀重 喜, 1738-1807) and 13th Daimyo Narihiro (蜂須賀斉裕, 18211868), as well as contributions from Shibano Ritsuzan (柴野栗山, 1736-1807), and Yashiro Hirokata (屋代弘賢, 1758-1841). The library is estimated to have consisted of 50,000-60,000 books when complete. 30,000 books were transferred to the Tokushima Prefectural Mistukei Library in March 1912, however, most were destroyed during World War II. $200-300
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112 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Chamber Music. London: Elkin Mathews, 1907. 12mo. Title printed within pictorial border. Original gilt-lettered green cloth (very slightly rubbed at extremities); half green morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION OF JOYCE’S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, one of 509 copies, in the third variant binding (priority of the second and third variants undetermined). Chamber Music was printed at the urging of Arthur Symons, to whom Yeats introduced Joyce in the fall of 1904. Joyce never received royalties for its publication, though in 1912, he sold copies in Trieste with considerable success. The suite of 36 lyrical poems reflected the sentiment and mood of Joyce as a young poet. He intended the poems to be set to music, and not long after the work was published, G. Molylneux Palmer wrote to Joyce asking permission to do so; by July 1909, Palmer had completed the musical settings. Slocum and Cahoon A3. $2,000-3,000
113 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt (a touch of wear to spine ends and corners); half morocco folding case. Provenance: Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher (1881-1963), English book collector (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF JOYCE’S FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL, which appeared in serial form in The Egoist from February 1914 to September 1915. Joyce began the work in 1904, and it went through a series of radical changes before publication in 1916. “The prose moves forward in complexity from the child’s sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end,” and the novel’s modernism is apparent in its episodic format and concern with the consciousness of the protagonist (Connolly, The Modern Movement 26). Slocum and Cahoon A11. $2,000-3,000
114 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Exiles. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918. 8vo. (Minor spotting to front endpapers and half-title.) Original green cloth-backed blindstamped tan boards with vertical ribs (light rubbing to extremities, lower corners slightly bumped, staining lower cover). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Joyce’s only extant play, written in Trieste in 1914 and 1915, and with a structure that resembles those of the plays of Ibsen that Joyce admired. Joyce intentionally waited to publish the play until after A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man had been published in book form. Slocum and Calhoun A14. $200-300
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115 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. 4to. Original “Greek flag” blue printed wrappers, uncut (rebacked to style, mostly marginal dampstaining or soiling, a few short tears occasionally sympathetically repaired); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, ONE OF 750 COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER of a total edition of 1,000, this copy number 824. Joyce’s Ulysses was revolutionary in its time, and it stands as the most significant English-language novel of the 20th-century. The mock-heroic epic novel, celebrating the events of a single day, June 16th 1904, employs a complexity of language and structure, and a cohesion of historical sources which have made Ulysses the most diligently studied work of modern literature in English. Joyce began writing Ulysses in 1914 or 1915, and, thanks to assistance from Ezra Pound, fourteen installments were published in 23 successive issues of Margaret Anderson’s American Journal, The Little Review between 1918 and 1920. Pound was also influential in getting portions of the work published in Harriet Shaw Weaver’s The Egoist in London in 1919. Facing legal issues in America and England, resulting from the novel’s presumed obscene content, The Little Review was reluctant to publish the complete work. After several unsuccessful attempts to find a publisher, Pound introduced Joyce to Sylvia Beach of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, who was willing to publish the work under her imprint. The first edition consisted of 1,000 copies: the first 100 copies were printed on handmade paper and signed by Joyce; copies 101-250 were printed on a slightly lesser grade of handmade paper and were not signed; the final 750 copies (as here) were printed on the least expensive stock of handmade paper, also unsigned. Connolly The Modern Movement 42; Slocum & Cahoon A17. $12,000-18,000
116 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. London: Printed for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, 1922. 4to. (Lacking the 8p. errata.) Contemporary brown morocco gilt (upper hinge starting); original printed blue front wrapper bound in. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, number 1,353 of 2,000 copies, printed in Dijon from the original plates for Joyce’s patron, Harriet Weaver, who was unable to find a printer in London, and distributed by Rodker and Ezra Pound. Of the 2,000 copies printed, 500 copies were sent to America and were subsequently reported seized and burned by the United States government authorities; recent evidence suggests that not all of the copies sent to America were destroyed. According to Harriet Shaw Weaver, “a good number of copies sent by ordinary book post to the U.S.A got through to their various destinations, but some time between October 1922 (when the Egoist edition as published) and December, the U.S.A censorship authorities evidently became suspicious…until finally 400-500 copies were confiscated and burnt” (qtd. in Slocum and Cahoon). Slocum and Cahoon A18. $1,000-1,500
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117 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Pomes Penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Small 12mo. Errata slip tipped to final leaf. Original pale green boards printed in dark green (light browning to edges); green cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, a collection of 13 poems written in Trieste, Zurich and Paris from 1913-1920. “The title of the collection evokes the slurred pronunciation of a street hawker crying his wares – poems for a penny – to the passing crowd” (Fargnoli and Gillespie, James Joyce A-Z, p.180). Slocum and Calhoun A24. $300-400
118 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: The Modern Library, 1928. 8vo. 20th-century grey morocco, portion of upper cover and spine from original cloth laid down; half morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, eighth issue, the first by the Modern Library. SIGNED BY JOYCE on the title-page. In March 1928, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was issued by the Modern Library, New York, in an edition of 8,000 copies with an introduction by Herbert Gorman; as of May 1950, the Modern Library issue of Joyce’s work had been reprinted thirty-seven times, all from the original Huebsch plates. Slocum and Cahoon A11 (note). $800-1,200
119 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Tales Told of Shem and Shaun: Three Fragments from Work in Progress. With a preface by C.K. Ogden. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. 4to. Portrait of Joyce by Brancusi. Original printed wrappers; publisher’s red papercovered slipcase with onlaid gold panels (lacking glassine); cloth folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 161 of 500 copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen of a total edition of 650. The three fragments published here are “The Mookse And The Gripes,’’ “The Muddest Thick That Ever Was Heard Dump’’ and “The Ondt And The Gracehoper,’’ which form pp.152-159, 282-304 and 414-419 respectively of Finnegans Wake. Slocum and Calhoun A36. [With:] JOYCE. Haveth Childers Everywhere. London: Faber and Faber, 1931. Original yellow wrappers printed in red (separations along edges). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, comprising the last part of chapter 3, Book III in Finnegans Wake. Slocum and Calhoun A42. $500-700
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120 [JOYCE, James (1882-1941)] -- Samuel BECKETT (1906-89) & Others).] Our Exagmination round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929 [“Made in Great Britain” stamped beneath imprint]. 8vo. Original cream printed wrappers (small losses to corners repaired, upper joint repaired verso). FIRST EDITION, containing “in addition to brief quotations from Work in Progress as it had been appearing in transition, a passage concerning Swift and blindness…which was not later incorporated in Finnegans Wake” (Slocum & Cahoon B10). $200-300
121 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysse. Paris: La Maison des Amis des Livres, Adrienne Monnier, 1929. 4to. Original blue-lettered cream wrappers uncut and unopened (repair to head of spine, some minor browning to edges and spine); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, number 88 of 100 copies on velin d’Arches of a total edition of 1,200. The process of translating Ulysses into French began before the first edition in English was published in 1922, and was the work of Auguste Morel and Stuart Gilbert. The text was revised and edited by Valery Lerbaud and Joyce himself. Slocum and Calhoun D17. $3,000-4,000
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122 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934. 8vo. Original red and black stamped cream cloth (slight soiling); original red and black printed dust jacket (a few vertical creases, a few tears to rear panel with very minor losses only occasionally affecting letters, some chipping or short tears to edges, some minor soiling). Provenance: James Whitaker (bookplate). FIRST AUTHORIZED AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with “Reichl” credit on front panel. Bennett Cerf, who co-founded Random House with Donald S. Klopfer, hired attorney Morris Ernst to argue the case against the ban on Ulysses in the United States. On 6 December 1933, Judge John M. Woolsey rendered his landmark decision to lift the ban, and Random House published the present edition about a month later. In the publication, Random House included a foreword by Morris Ernst, as well as the full text of Judge Woolsey’s decision. The publisher also reprinted an April 1932 letter from Joyce to Bennett Cerf (“since you are determined to fight for its legalization in the United States and to publish what will be the only authentic edition there, I think it just as well to tell you the history of its publication in Europe and the complications which followed it in America”). Slocum and Calhoun A21. $1,000-1,500
123 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Collected Poems. New York: The Black Sun Press, 1936. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of Joyce by Augustus John; text printed in blue. Original cream-white boards, upper cover with all-over floral decoration in blue, blue-lettered on spine, uncut (lacking original glassine). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF JOYCE’S POEMS, LIMITED ISSUE, number 289 of 800 copies. The collection includes Chamber Music and Pomes Penyeach (see lots 112 and 117), as well as the poem “Ecce Puer,” first published in the January 1933 edition of Criterion. Slocum and Calhoun 44. $200-300
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124 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber, 1939. 8vo. Publisher’s gilt-lettered red cloth (some minor soiling to endleaves, upper hinge starting); original red and yellow dust jacket (corners clipped, a few small chips or tears, a few circular wax stains). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, trade issue, one of 3,400 sets of sheets for the trade edition of Finnegans Wake which were printed for Faber and Faber. Of these, 2,255 were bound and sold at 25 shillings, 950 were destroyed by the publisher, and the remaining were gratis copies. It is possible that the 950 discarded sets of sheets remained unsold because of the price, which Joyce believed was too high. “’A way alone aloved alost along the…’ If Finnegans Wake is a key book, it is a key which needs a key” (Connolly The Modern Movement 87). Joyce’s last and most innovative prose work approximates the protean nocturnal dream world. “His work is enriched by such large resources of invention and allusion that its total effect is infinite variety” (Harry Levin, James Joyce: A Critical Interpretation). Slocum & Cahoon A47. $2,000-3,000
125 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Finnegans Wake. New York: The Viking Press, 1939. 8vo. Original black gilt-lettered cloth, top edge stained blue (some very minor wear to extremities, upper hinge starting). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, offset from proofs supplied by the English publisher, Faber and Faber (see previous lot). Slocum and Calhoun A48. $400-600
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126 [JUDAICA] -- BEGIN, Menachem (1913-1992). Typed letter signed (“M. Begin”), as Prime Minister, to Mrs. W. Lenox. Jerusalem, 17 October 1978. 1 page, 4to, on Prime Minister stationery, with envelope. FOLLOWING THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS, “IT IS OUR ARDENT WISH TO CONSUMMATE THE PEACE PROCESS AS SPEEDILY AS POSSIBLE” “Upon our return to Jerusalem my colleagues and I are devoting all our energies to translating the important agreements of Camp David into the tangible realities of full peace and security. It is our ardent wish to consummate the peace process as speedily as possible. I know that you are with us in this historic effort.” The Camp David Accords comprised two agreements: “A Framework for Peace in the Middle East,” and “A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel.” The second was a precursor to the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty signed in March 1979. $300-400
127 [JUDAICA]. -- BEN-GURION, David (1886-1973). Typed document signed ("or"David Ben-Gurion’’), as Chairman the executive committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in Hebrew. Tel Aviv, 13 March 1944. 2 pages, 4to, on Jewish Agency for Palestine stationery, some minor staining or marginal chipping. CONSIDERING ACTIONS WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE MIDST OF WAR AND FAR-REACHING PLANS FOR THE PEACE PERIOD. Establishing a sub-committee for seamanship affairs: “The technology engineering committee of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Yisroel has decided to appoint a sub-committee for the seamanship affairs. Their duty will be to arrange plans for expanding the positions with the Jewish settlement has in the seamanship, and to conquer new positions” [translated]. The mandate of the sub-committee was to bear responsibility for Jewish defense on the ports of Eretz Yisroel, seamanship preparation for the youth, development of fishing in the Mediterranean and Red Seas, establishment of transportation from the port of Eretz Yisroel to other world ports, freight transportation, and the development of Jewish seamanship insurance. Ben Gurion’s order appointed Dr. H. Widra, Y. Horin, Engineer E. Tovim, S. Tolokovsky, B. C. Meyerovits, Dr. M. Soloveitchik, Yitzchak Rokeach and David Remez to the subcommittee. $600-800
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128 [JUDAICA] RABIN, Yitzhak (1922-1995). Typed letter signed (“Y. Rabin”), as Prime Minister, to John H. Bullard. Jerusalem, 9 November 1994. 1 page, 4to, on Prime Minister stationery. “PEACE IS NOT THE ENTERPRISE OF JUST ONE PERSON – IT IS THE ACHIEVEMENT OF MANY” Rabin thanks a supporter after he is chosen as a laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize: “Our efforts to realize our dream of both living in peace is our inheritance to our children, both Palestinian and Israeli. The work, however, is not yet finished. The Nobel Peace Prize is for future generations, more than it is a reward for the achievements we have made towards peace this far. I am hopeful that with continued cooperation and dialogue, our two peoples can overcome the obstacles place by those who oppose coexistence.” Rabin approved the Oslo Accords, negotiated in secret in Norway in 1993, stipulating that Israel would gradually withdraw from occupied lands. The agreement was signed in Washington D. C. in the same year, and Rabin shared the Peace Prize with his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shimon Peres, and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. $800-1,200
129 [JUDAICA]. -- HERZL, Theodor (1860-1904). Der Judenstaat. Versuch einer moernen Lösung der Judenfrage. Leipzig and Vienna: M Breitenstein, 1896. 8vo. (Title-page slightly soiled.) Later cloth; morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION OF HERZL’S PROPOSAL FOR A JEWISH STATE. Herzl proposed that the Jewish question was a political matter (rather than religious) and should be settled by a world council of nations. “It was Herzl’s book which really crystallized the idea of a national home for the Jews. Two conceptions had prevailed hitherto: either that of the ghetto, presupposing an unbridgeable gulf between Jews and Gentiles, or that of assimilation, which meant a complete acceptance by the Jews of their environment leading eventually to their becoming part of the people among whom they lived. Herzl took a different view. By his work he transformed the Jewish people from a passive community into a positive political force” (PMM). Herzl organized a world congress at Basel in August 1897, and he became the first president of the World Zionist Organization, which was influential in the establishment of a Jewish state. “That a Jewish State was created in Palestine within fifty years of his death was due to the vision and practical methods of Herzl, expressed in his manifesto of 1896” (PMM 381). $8,000-12,000
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130 JUNG, Carl Gustav (1875-1961). Typed letter signed (“C. G. Jung”), to Miss Jeanie E. Hughes. Küsnacht, Zürich, 6 March 1937. 1 page, 4to (293 x 209 mm), on personal stationery, with original typed envelope. JUNG REPORTS ON A PATIENT’S PROGRESS TO AN AMERICAN STUDENT: “A woman can fill many gaps by her intuition and her eros, where a man needs solid knowledge. Therefore be careful with him.” Jung sends a report to Jane (“Jeanie”) Hughes, one of his American students who attended his workshop at Bailey Island, Maine in 1936. He reports on the treatment of Hughes’ brother, which was completed by Dr. Carl Alfred Meier: “As you know your brother is returning to America now. He has done his work with Dr. Meier and I saw him just once. From that interview I had with him i was convinced that it was much better for him to work with a younger man, because he is so little prepared for psychological work that my influence would have been a bit too much for his rather delicate mental structure.” Carl Alfred Meier was a Jungian psychologist scholar and the first president of the C. G. Hung Institute in Zürich. He was Jung’s successor as Honorary Professor of Psychology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1949, and later co-founded the Clinic and Research Center for Jungian Psychology in Zürichberg. Of Meier’s treatment of Hughes’ brother, Jung writes: “Quite recently he told me of a certain difficulty which consisted of the fact that things wouldn’t go any deeper and kept to a superficial stratum...I concluded that there was a serious reason why things should not be pushed on for the time being and that the things that want to sleep shouldn’t be artificially disturbed...I advised Dr. Meier not to press your brother.” He concludes that further treatment is not advisable at this time: “Things have developed just as far as they could for the time being, but not far enough to make collaboration with you advisable. Of course minor help of practical nature would be possible, but I would not burden him with any serious responsibility. I would be afraid to increase feelings of inferiority which a man is quite likely to get in such matters where he clearly feels that one should be scientifically well equipped.” $1,500-2,500 131 JUNG, Carl Gustav (1875-1961). Typed letter signed (“C. G. Jung”), to Clarisse Eggemann. Küsnacht, Zürich, 12 December 1952. 1 page, oblong 8vo (146 x 206 mm), on personal stationery, with original typed envelope. Creased, a few minor spots or chips. “THIS SPIRITUAL UNREST HAS SPREAD OVER THE WHOLE WORLD” Jung thanks his correspondent for her “kind Christmas letter”: “I was glad to hear something of you and of your life in the Beyond. What you tell me about the people and their superstitions there, interests me very much. Well, this spiritual unrest has spread over the whole world and I must say, I am grateful that I understand something of what is going on in the Unconscious of mankind, otherwise it would be too horrible.” $800-1,200 132 KEROUAC, Jack (1922-1969). Excerpts from Visions of Cody. New York: New Directions, 1960. 8vo. Original purple cloth-backed boards (lacking acetate dust jacket, slight soiling); cloth folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 744 of 750 copies SIGNED BY KEROUAC. Visions of Cody recounted Kerouac’s travels with Neal Cassidy in the 1940s, and was not published in its entirety until 1972, after Kerouac’s death. $800-1,200 133 KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Kim. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. 8vo. Title-page printed in red and black, photographic illustrations. Original publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (tiny chips to head of spine, some very minor rubbing). FIRST EDITION, published just two weeks prior to the English edition, with rhymed chapter headings for chapters VIII and XVIII only (pp. 207 and 364). Livingston 248. 132
[With:] KIPLING. Kim. London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. 8vo. Title-page printed in red and black, photographic illustrations. Original publisher’s red cloth, gilt Ganesha device, spine gilt lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut (one corner bumped, some very light rubbing to spine ends and lower edge). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Livingston 250. $500-700
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134 KNOOP, Johann Hermann (ca 1706-1769). Pomologie, ou Description des Meilleures Sortes de Pommes et de Poires. [Bound with:] Fructologie, ou Description des Arbres Fruitiers. Amsterdam: M. Magérus, 1771. 2 works bound in one, small folio (333 x 205 mm). 39 engraved plates with handcoloring. (A few minor stains.) Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, uncut (hinges and joints repaired); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: The Horticultural Society of New York (gift bookplate from Kenneth K. Mackenzie, October 1934). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, first published in 1758 at Leeuwarden in Dutch. Knoop, considered to be the founder of the field of pomology, was the first to publish scientific explanations of apples and pears from the Netherlands, Germany, England and France. Brunet III: 681; Dunthorne 171; Nissen BBI 1077, 1079; Oak Spring Pomona, p. 131. A FINE COPY. [With:] KNOOP. Fructologia, of Beschryving der Vrugtbomen en Vrugten. Leeuwarden: Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1763. Folio (370 x 266 mm). Title-page printed within red typographic border; 19 engraved plates with hand-coloring. Contemporary red roan-backed marbled boards uncut (some light wear); quarter calf folding case. FIRST EDITION. Dunthorne 171; Nissen BBI 1078. $4,000-6,000
135 LAURENTI, Joseph Nicolai (1735-1805). Specimen Medicum, exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatam cum Experimentis circa Venena et Antidota Reptilium Austriacorum. Vienna: Joan. Thomae, [1768]. 8vo (175 x 108 mm). With 2pp. “Thesis” and 1p. errata at end; 5 folding engraved plates. (A few repairs to gutter margins, some dampstaining and soiling throughout, pink staining lower margin, plate edges rounded.) Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards (repaired, dampstained); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance; Francesco Edoardo de Betta (1822-1896), Italian naturalist and herpetologist (signature); Olivero de Geduly (signature, Monaco, June 1951, given to:); Dr. George S. Myers (1905-1985), American ichthyologist (gift inscription, signature, stamp); Dr. Philipp Lehrs (d. 1956), German herpetologist (signature, a few pink underlinings in text). FIRST EDITION of Laurenti’s rare work, the first significant review of amphibians and reptiles since Linnaeus. Prior to the publication of his work, amphibians and reptiles were both categorized as Class Amphibia; Laurenti’s work was the first to describe the Class Reptilia. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only one copy of this work has sold at auction in the last 40 years. $1,500-2,500
136 LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Florence: Privately Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, 1928. 8vo. Rebound in modern gilt-ruled red morocco, by Studio Ars Libri (spine very slightly faded); matching morocco-edged board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 954 of 1000 copies signed by Lawrence. Lawrence commissioned the Tipografia Guintina in Florence to print Lady Chatterley’s Lover in the spring of 1928 after it was rejected by several English publishers. He planned to sell the one thousand numbered copies for £2 each and sent order forms to friends in America and Europe who acted as agents in distributing copies. By December 1928, Lawrence had nearly sold all one thousand copies despite the fact that the novel was about to be suppressed in London and was stopped from entering the United States. Roberts A42a. $1,000-1,500
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137 LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph. [London: Privately Printed], 1926. 4to (249 x 191 mm). Printed in red and black. 66 plates, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John, many colored or tinted, 4 double-page, by Eric Kennington, William Roberts, Augustus John, William Nicholson, Paul Nash and others, THIS COPY WITH ADDITIONAL PLATE BY BLAIR HUGHES-STANTON INSERTED BEFORE TITLE; 4 folding colored maps (linen-reinforced at folds; frontispiece map creased and curled slightly), 58 illustrations in text, one colored, by Roberts, Nash, Kennington, Blair-Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes and others, initials by Edward Wadsworth. Contemporary brown calf, gilt-ruled borders on sides incorporating interlace ornament at corners, gilt-lettered on front cover “The Seven Pillars,” spine in six compartments, each with gilt-ruled panel, gilt-lettered in one, original endpapers by Kennington, side and lower edges mostly uncut, edges gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (a few minor scuffs, small stain on front cover); morocco folding case. Provenance: Col. Robert (“Robin”) Vere Buxton (presentation inscription from the author); Sir Richard Levinge Bt (Buxton’s stepson; sold Sotheby’s London, 22 July 1985, lot 294, to:); Spiro Family Collection (sold, Christie’s New York, 26 February 2004, lot 99). PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION, limited to about 170 “complete” subscriber’s copies, INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE on p. XIX “Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES.”, with a single additional manuscript correction to the illustration list. AN IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE TO HIS FRIEND COL. ROBERT BUXTON, WHO ARRANGED FINANCING OF THE SUBSCRIBER’S EDITION. INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE on the blank leaf at front: “R.V.B.’s own copy, which he specially deserves, having gone to war and helped to do the show, and then having gone to banking and financed all the history of the show--persuading his innocent Bank to stand an unknown and unprecedented risk, continuing for years. T.E. Shaw. December 1926.” He later added to this inscription, “(and not yet ended, indeed. T.E.S. 1931).” Robert (“Robin”) Buxton (1883-1953) was commander of the Imperial Camel Corps, who met Lawrence in Arabia in August 1918. Lawrence guided Buxton and the Camel Corps on the first stage of the journey to their successful attack on Mudawara. He played a major role in the campaign which resulted in September 1918 in the cutting of the railway junction at Deraa, ensuring that no trains could run through to Damascus by the Turks. The two remained close friends after the war and Buxton served as Lawrence’s bank manager, and helped finance the subscriber’s edition of Seven Pillars. He later served as one of the Trustees of Revolt in the Desert. The additional plate in this copy is a wood engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton that appears in only four special copies to illustrate the dedicatory poem “To S.A.” It is titled “The Poem,” numbered “4/5” and signed by the artist “Blair H-S [19]26”. George Bernard Shaw’s copy also contained the additional plate. This copy includes the “Prickly Pear” plate, but not the two Paul Nash illustrations called for on pages 92 and 208. In this copy, page XV is mis-paginated as VIII. Clements p. 49 (stating that “only about 100 copies were produced at 30 guineas each”); O’Brien A040. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY. [With:] Photographic reproduction of pencil portrait of Lawrence by Augustus John; a late 18th- or early 19th-century hand-colored engraving entitled “Ein Kameel Artillerist”; and a (proof?) review of Graves’s book Lawrence and the Arabs, corrected and initialled by Buxton. $60,000-80,000
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138 LAWRENCE, T. E. (1888-1935). Secret Despatches from Arabia. Edited by A. W. Lawrence. [Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire:] The Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. 4to. (Dampstaining to lower blank fore-corner in first few quires.) Original publisher’s quarter niger, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edge gilt, others uncut (upper cover dampstained at bottom, some toning to cloth at edges). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 235 of 970 copies, of an edition of 1000. O’Brien A226. [With:] LAWRENCE, T. E. The Mint. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 4to. Original publisher’s quarter morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut; publisher’s board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 772 of 2,000 copies. — WOOLLEY, Leonard; and T. E. LAWRENCE. The Wilderness of Zin. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936. 4to. Original cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. $400-600
139 [LAWRENCE, T. E.] -- ALLENBY, Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861-1936). Photographic print portrait of Allenby in his military uniform, photo by H. Walter Barnett, signed “Edmund H. Allenby / General”. [N.d., ca 1917]. With caption Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from June 1917. [With:] A vintage photograph of British troops entering Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, 11 December 1917; and 2 related postcards: First Entrance of General Watson at Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem; and No. 128 Sakieh (water-raiser) near Gaza, Palestine. $200-300
140 [LAWRENCE, T. E.]. --POUND, Ezra (1885-1972). Typed letter signed (“Ezra Pound”) with five-line autograph postscript and emendations in text, to T.E. Lawrence (“My Dear Hadji ben Abt el Bakshish, Prince de Mecque, Two-Sworded Samurai, Old Bird, Young Bird, Magister Artium, etc.”), 5 Holland Place Chambers, Kensington, 20 April 1920. 3 pages, 4to. Provenance: Sotheby’s, 20 July 1981, lot 262, purchased by Harry Spiro; Spiro Family Collection, sold Christie’s New York, 26 Feb 2004, lot 73. “CAN YOU ‘WRITE’?”: POUND ADVISES LAWRENCE An exceptional response from Pound to Lawrence, who had solicited advice about publishing. “Thou hast in thee an exceeding hot, intemperate, swift and precipitate manner of judging thy fellowe men, and in the present case mightest have weighed against six or eight pages of BLAST the dozen or more volumes and thousand or more scattered pages of my other labours and opusculi.” Pound had just been appointed correspondent to the Dial, which he describes as “an aged and staid publication which I hope, rather rashly, to ginger up to something approaching the frenetic wildenesse of The Athenaeum. They are much more afraid of me than you are.” (continued)
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Lawrence, evidently concerned about revealing his identity in his writings, is given advice by Pound: “... I don’t care a saffron .... whether you use your own name or not; only if you don’t you will be under the shameful and ignominious necessity of writing something which will interest the editor. Can you ‘write’? Of course, having vortex’d a large section of Arabia you are fed up with vortices; but why reprove me, who have merely created a market for one or two artists and got a half dozen good books into print despite John Murray, Sr. G. Macmillan e questa puttazaia?... In sending copy to America, let me caution you to use an incognito as well as a pseudonym. [Scofield] Thayer is, I think, quite decent (He is the Dial), but I trust an American publication about as far as I wd. trust a British government; my bright compatriots are quite capable of printing an article by Mr Smith, and then printing a leetle note at the end of the number saying ‘The article by Mr Smith is really written by a distinguished Shiek-tamer and Tiger-baiter etc.... Who for reasons of modesty has concealed himself ‘neath the ridiculous name of Smith-Yapper. If you want to write about Arabia, I cd. simply write to N.Y. that I was getting copy from the one man who knows, or you cd. get a written promise from Thayer not to reveal your identity. I shd. prefer not to be instrumental in publishing anything likely to incite either Moslems or Xtns. to further massacres etc.” Pound further cautions Lawrence against the hope that his writing will bring him much money. Published in Letters to T.E. Lawrence. $3,000-4,000 141 [LAWRENCE, T. E.]. -- SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Typed letter signed (“G. Bernard Shaw”) to T.E. Lawrence, Conway, Wales, London, 17 December 1922. 2 pages, large oblong 4to (176 x 226 mm), on personal stationery. Right margin verso just shaved affecting a few letters, creased. Provenance: Sotheby’s, 20 July 1981, lot 269, purchased by Harry Spiro; Spiro Family Collection, sold Christie’s New York, 26 Feb 2004, lot 87. SHAW EXTOLLS SEVEN PILLARS (“THE GREATEST BOOK IN THE WORLD”) AND MOCKS LAWRENCE’S “RIDICULOUS” CAREER IN THE AIR CORPS Shaw begins his letter with publishing advice, then rounds into Lawrence about his affectation of humble obscurity in the Air Corps. He chafed his own publishers, Shaw reports, for failing to grab the rights to Seven Pillars. “I naturally said ‘Why in thunder didn’t you secure it? it’s the greatest book in the world. I then expatiated on the qualities of the work, and said it really ought to be published in the good old eighteenth century style in twelve volumes or so to begin with, the abridgment coming afterwards.” He goes on to recommend Constable as a publisher, warning him to steer clear of certain “modern ruffians.” Turning to the life of airman “Shaw,” playwright Shaw is unsympathetic: “Nelson, slightly cracked after his whack on the head in the battle of the Nile, coming home and insisting on being placed at the tiller of a canal barge, and being treated as nobody in particular, would have embarrassed the Navy far less...The thing is ridiculous. Why in the name of all that is sane did you not get £20,000 from parliament? It was yours for anybody else’s asking” He likewise dismisses Lawrence’s complaints about not getting leave. “Ask for three months leave and they will exclaim, with a sob of relief, ‘For God’s sake, take six, take twelve, take a lifetime, take anything rather than keep up this maddening masquerade that makes us all ridiculous.’ I sympathize with them. If you must be a Cincinnatus, go and farm. If you must be a Garibaldi live at Caprera instead of putting poor Aldershot out of countenance.” He concludes: “Are you a flying officer of a bloke in a military office? It would be so like you to be charading as an office boy.” Published in Letters to T. E. Lawrence. $3,000-4,000
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LE CARRE, John (b. 1931). A group of 3 works, comprising:
8vo. 2 folding engraved maps; 14 lithographed plates and plans (a few folding or tinted), numerous illustrations in text. (Some minor spotting throughout.) Original pictorial blindstamped light brown ribbed cloth. FIRST EDITION. Atabey 687; Abbey Travel 384; Blackmer 969. [With:] LAYARD. Nineveh and its Remains: With an account of a visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers. London: John Murray, 1849. 8vo. Half-titles; engraved folding map, 26 plates and plans (some folding). (Light spotting throughout.) Contemporary half morocco (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Library of the Royal Artillery (bookplates). FIRST EDITION. Atabey 685; Blackmer 968.
The Looking Glass War. London: Heinemann, 1965. SIGNED BY LE CARRE. -- Smiley’s People. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. -- The Tailor of Panama. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. SIGNED BY LE CARRE. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, all in original publisher’s cloth or cloth-backed boards and pictorial dust jackets, condition generally fine. $500-700
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144 LEO AFRICANUS, Johannes (ca 1494-ca 1554?). De totius Africae descriptione. Antwerp: Johannes de Laet, 1556. 8vo (157 x 96 mm). Woodcut device on title-page. (Some mostly marginal dampstaining, some minor browning or spotting.) Contemporary mottled sheep, sprinkled edges (rebacked preserving original spine, some minor peeling); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: 17th century inscription on title; John Ralph Willis (1938-2007), American Scholar (bookplate). FIRST LATIN EDITION, first published in Italian in 1550, and used as a basis for the English translation of 1600. Joannes Leo Africanus, born al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, was a noble-born Moor from Granada who, after the Spanish conquest, was educated in Morocco, principally in geography. His work describes the geography of Africa, and was the chief authority on the subject until the end of the 18th century. He accompanied his uncle on a diplomatic mission to Timbuktu, and then continued in the diplomatic service, traveling to Egypt, Constantinople, Mecca and Persia. On his return, he was captured by pirates off (continued)
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Tunisia and taken to Rome as a slave for Pope Leo X; the pope recognized his abilities and freed him and gave him a pension to continue researching and writing. While at the Vatican, he was baptized, taking the name Leo. $4,000-6,000 145 LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). The Trail of the Hawk. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915. 8vo. Original cloth (spine a little dulled, front hinge cracked); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Lewis on the front free endpaper: “To Joseph Margulis / with the regards of his friend / Sinclair Lewis / Aug. 31, 1915.” $800-1,200
147 146 LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. 8vo. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION, in first state binding. $300-400 147 LIVINGSTONE, David (1813-1873). Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. 8vo. With folding tinted lithographic frontispiece, engraved portrait, 22 wood-engraved plates, 2 tinted lithographs, one folding diagram, 2 folding engraved maps (one in rear cover pocket), and numerous illustrations. Original cloth (recased, repaired, endpapers renewed). Provenance: James Muzio (gift inscription, 1857); Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950), South African statesman and military leader (gift inscription from “A. C.” dated 11 March 1919). (continued)
FIRST EDITION, second issue with tinted lithographs drawn on stone by T. Picken and published by Day & Son substituted for the folding wood-engraved frontispiece and the wood-engraved plates facing pages 66 and 225. Livingstone’s first and most important major expedition in 1849-1856, during which he crossed the Kalahari Desert, discovered the source of the Upper Zambezi River in 1851, and in 1853-56 made the first west-east crossing of the continent, via the Zambezi, and discovered Victoria Falls. J. C. Smuts served as the prime minister or the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and again from 1939 until 1948. He lost the 1948 election to nationalists who institutionalized apartheid after he backed the Fagan Commission’s findings that complete segregation would be impossible. Abbey Travel 347; Mendelssohn I, p. 908; PMM 341. $800-1,200
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LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). A group of 4 works, comprising:
8vo. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Original publisher’s grey cloth, color illustration by Lofting pasted to upper cover (soiled, spine repaired). FIRST EDITION of the third of Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle books, SIGNED BY LOFTING.
Martin Eden. 1909. BAL 11912. -- Burning Daylight. 1910. BAL 11918 (first printing). -- Smoke Bellew. NY: Century Co., 1912. BAL 11939. -- Jerry of the Islands. 1912. BAL 11973. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, all in original publisher’s pictorial cloth, all published in New York by the Macmillan Co. (except where indicated), ALL FIRST EDITIONS. $500-700
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MARTIN, George R. R. (b. 1948). [A Song of Ice and Fire series:] A Game of Thrones -- A Clash of Kings -- A Storm of Swords -- A Feast for Crows. London: Voyager, Harper Collins, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005.
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4 volumes, 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth; publisher’s pictorial dust jackets. FIRST EDITIONS, EACH SIGNED BY MARTIN on the title-page. The first four works in Martin’s “Song of Ice and Fire” series. The international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels was adapted into the HBO dramatic series, Game of Thrones. A VERY FINE SET. $1,000-1,500
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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset (1874-1965). Of Human Bondage. New York: George H. Doran, [1915].
8vo. Original publisher’s black cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of the first novel in Martin’s “Song of Ice and Fire” series SIGNED BY MARTIN. A FINE COPY.
8vo. Original publisher’s cloth (spine slightly darkened with minor wear at ends, small hole on lower joint, front hinge tender, endpapers unevenly browned [affecting inscription]); cloth folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on front free endpaper: “To Mary Felsenheld / from / W. Somerset Maugham / Chicago. October 1920”. Second issue, without the misprint “help him” in line 4 of page 257.
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[Framed with:] SEARLE, Alan (1905-1985). Typed letter signed (“Alan Searle”), to Mr. Penn. Cap Ferrat. France, 30 November 1965. 1 page, 8vo, visible area 176 x 111 mm, on Villa Mauresque stationary. Writing on behalf of Maugham, his private secretary and companion Alan Searle responds: “I read your letter to him, and he asks me to thank you for it and to say how touched and pleased he was – also to say how sad It makes him that he is too unwell to be able to reply personally. I enclose a photograph of Mr. Maugham which he has autographed for you. It was taken eleven years ago on his eightieth birthday. I am afraid the signature is rather shaky, but Mr. Maugham is very frail just now.” Maugham would pass away just 16 days later. $300-400
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158 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life. London: John Murray, 1846. 8vo. Map of the Marquesas Islands bound before pg. [1]. (Lacking half-title and 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements.) 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, smooth spine gilt, edges sprinkled red (rebacked preserving original spine). FIRST EDITION of Melville’s first book, second state of page 19 (“Pomare”), published just prior to the first American edition of the same year entitled Typee (see next lot). BAL 13652. $400-600
159 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Typee: a Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. 2 volumes in one, 8vo. Frontispiece map. (Some spotting or staining to a few leaves.) Original publisher’s blue cloth, blocked in blind, spine gilt-lettered, laid over modern blue cloth (spine sunned, gilt faded). Provenance: The FraserHickson Institute of Montreal (blind-stamp on part I title-page and 6 text leaves). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK, preceded by a London edition of the same year (see previous lot). BAL 13653 (Binding Variant A, Cloth [no priority]). $1,500-2,500
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160 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. London: John Murray, 1847. 8vo. Frontispiece map. (Lacking 16pp. publisher’s advertisements at end, a few leaves with light spotting). 19th-century half green calf, marbled boards, smooth spine gilt, edges red (spine darkened, some light rubbing or wear to extremities). FIRST EDITION, published in the same year as the first American edition (see next lot). BAL 13655 (State C of signature “P” [no priority]). $400-600
161 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. 8vo. Half-title printed in red, title-page printed in black and red; frontispiece map. (Some spotting throughout, a few stains.) Original publisher’s green cloth blocked in blind, upper cover with central gilt ship, gilt-lettered on spine, marbled endpapers (old repairs to spine ends, overall wear, staining). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, preceded by a London edition of the same year (see previous lot). BAL 13656. $500-700
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162 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Mardi: and a Voyage Thither. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. 2 volumes, 8vo. (Some pale spotting). Original publisher’s rose blind-stamped cloth, giltlettered on spine, yellow coated endpapers (spines sunned, minor losses to spine ends vol. I, 1 1/2-in split to upper joint vol. I, corners slightly bumped, some soiling to endpapers as often); half morocco folding case. Provenance: John Sedgwick (early signature on titles, bookplates). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, published approximately one month after the English edition. The present copy has the blind-stamped rule about 1/8” from the tops of spines (no priority established). BAL 13658. $1,500-2,500
163 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Redburn: His First Voyage. New York: Harper, 1849. 8vo. (Some spotting throughout.) Original publisher’s blue cloth blocked in blind, spine giltlettered, yellow endpapers (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, some soiling to endpapers as often). Provenance: W. H. Jewett (signature, 1849); Skaneateles Library Association (blind-stamp on title, gift bookplate from William Marvin). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second printing, with extended advertisements at end, published in the same year as the first London edition. BAL 13660. $800-1,200
164 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). White Jacket; or the World in a Man-of-War. New York: Harper, 1850. 8vo. 6pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Original slate blind-stamped cloth, yellow coated endpapers (chipping and minor losses to spine with a few repairs, wear to corners and edges). Provenance: W. H. Jewett (signature, 1850); Skaneateles Library Association (gift bookplate from William Marvin). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST BINDING, published in the same year as the first London edition. BAL 13662. $1,000-1,500
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165 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. 8vo. 6pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. (Some spotting as usual.) Original drab purple-brown cloth, publisher’s device at center of each cover, orange coated endpapers, 2 flyleaves at front and 3 at end (rubbed and worn). Provenance: A. L. Johnson (signature on title-page dated 1852); B. Dawson (bookseller’s label). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first binding, following the London edition by a month and containing some thirty-five passages not present in the English edition. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60; Johnson High Spots 57. An unsophisticated copy. $40,000-60,000
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166 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Pierre; or, the Ambiguities. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852. 8vo. (Blind-stamp and inscription removed on title with stains, some spotting.) Original publisher’s slate blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, brown coated endpapers (spine darkened, losses to spine ends, wear, joints starting, endpapers soiled). FIRST EDITION. A large portion of the first edition of Pierre was destroyed in the 1853 fire at Harper & Brothers. BAL 13666. $800-1,200
167 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1855. 8vo. (Front free endpaper removed, pale stains to a few leaves.) Original publisher’s brown blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered, yellow coated endpapers (recased preserving original endpapers, overall fading, a few stains.) FIRST EDITION, second printing, in the second binding. BAL 13667. $300-400
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168 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Autograph letter signed (“H. Melville”), to his publisher George P. Putnam. Pittsfield [MA], 25 November 1854. One page, 8vo (171 x 121 mm). (Tiny chip at upper left corner repaired, otherwise fine.) DRAWING ON FUNDS FROM SERIALIZATION OF ‘ISRAEL POTTER’. In full: “Gentlemen: — I have taken the liberty to draw on you today at three days’ sight for Sixty Dollars ($60); about which sum will probably be due on Dec: No: of ‘Israel Potter’.” Melville’s only historical novel, Israel Potter was serialized in Putnam's from July 1854 to March 1855 and was published in book form by the firm later the same year. Not in Letters, ed. M. R. Davis and W. H. Gilman, and APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED. See Letters, no. 112, for a letter to Putnam dated “7 June? 1854” also regarding terms for Israel Potter. Another unpublished letter from Melville to Putnam, 12 June 1854, agreeing to the terms for Israel Potter sold at Christie’s 8 Oct 1991, lot 174. $8,000-12,000
169 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Autograph letter signed (“H. Melville”), to Miss Coffin. New York, 13 January 1872. One page, 8vo (202 x 126 mm). Creased, marginal toning from old framing, a few small stains to lower margin. Provenance: Richard Manney Library (sold, Sotheby’s New York, 11 October 1991, lot 227). Melville responds to an earlier inquiry made by his correspondent: “So long a time has elapsed that I can not recall where I got the fact alluded to in your note....” Melville apologetically adds that he is at a loss as to where Miss Coffin might find the information she seeks. Apparently unpublished. $8,000-12,000
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MERTON, Thomas (1915-1968). Original Child Bomb. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1991.
4to (233 x 187mm). Additional engraved allegorical title, engraved title vignette, 7 engraved plates (5 folding), numerous woodcut illustrations in text. (Some minor spotting and soiling.) Contemporary vellum. First published in 1569, it is “one of the earliest books to discuss the therapeutic value of gymnastics and sports generally for the cure of disease and disability, and an important study of gymnastics in the ancient world” (Garrison-Morton 1986); the second edition of 1573 was the first illustrated book on gymnastics, containing woodcuts by Cristoforo Coriolano after Pirro Ligorio, which also appear here. Brunet III:1646; Wellcome IV, p. 116.
Square 8vo. Illustrated. Original publisher’s black cloth, printed labels on covers (rear cover label with small scuff with loss to corners, small scuff at foot of front board). LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 unnumbered copies SIGNED BY MERTON. Merton’s “anti-poem”, written in terse, compact language, centers around the events leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima. $200-300
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MEYER, Henry Leonard (1797-1865). Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs. London: Willis and Sotheran, 1857 (vols. I & VII); G.W. Nickisson, 1844 (vol. II); Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1846-1849 (vols. III-VI).
MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950). Conversation at Midnight. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1937.
7 volumes, 8vo (217 x 133 mm). Wood-engraved title vignettes, 322 hand-colored lithographed plates of birds and 105 of their eggs, with 7 (of 8?) uncolored diagram plates. (Occasional spotting). Contemporary green morocco gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, edges gilt (spines slightly sunned with a few minor scuffs, a few discreet repairs to some edges and spine ends). Mixed octavo edition uniformly bound of Meyer’s work on British birds. With illustrations after Meyer and his wife Mary Ann Moor Meyer, notably including the eggs of most species listed, an uncommon addition for ornithological works of the day. $1,000-1,500
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8vo. Half-title, title printed in blue and black. Original half-vellum; original glassine (chipping and a few tears); publisher’s slipcase with printed label. LIMITED EDITION, number 23 of 36 copies SIGNED BY MILLAY AND PRINTED ON VELLUM. $300-400
174 MILTON, John (1608-1674). Paradise Lost. London: Printed by S. Simmons ... to be sold by T. Helder, 1669. Small 4to (177 x 124 mm). Title-page and text within ruled border; woodcut headpieces and initials opening each book. (Without blank A1 after cancel title, F3 with paper flaw affecting rule border and shoulder notes, tiny mostly marginal wormhole to a few leaves.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt; half morocco folding case. Provenance: Elizabeth Gordon (signature on title verso dated 1686); Robert Chilton Pearson (bookplate); Patrick & Julie Pearson (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING, OF “ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF THE HUMAN IMAGINATION” (DNB). “In the United States, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams drew on their wide reading in Milton’s poetry and prose to articulate their republicanism... Milton may rightly be regarded as one of the founding fathers of American and French republicanism” (ibid). With the cancel title-page corresponding to Amory’s fourth issue, the eighth title page with “Angel” in the imprint in italic, and no note from the printer to the reader. Amory’s subissue 4† with signature Z in the original setting with “illustrous” in line 109 of the seventh book, and with Vv reset reading “far” in line 2 ov Vvlr. Hugh Amory “Things Unattempted Yet” in The Book Collector, Spring 1983, pp. 41-66; see ESTC R13352; Grolier Wither to Prior 603; Pforzheimer 718; Wing M-2142. $12,000-18,000
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175 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. – [ALMANACS]. A group of 5 miniature almanacs, comprising: London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1788. [London]: Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1787]. Engraved throughout. Original red morocco wallet binding, small front pocket, edges gilt. -- London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1791. [London]: Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1790]. Engraved throughout. Original green gilt tooled morocco, beige morocco gilt onlays, edges gilt; green morocco slipcase simliarly decorated with black onlays (a few minor losses to book and slipcase onlays). -- The English Bijou Almanac for 1837. London: Schloss, 1836. Original green-coated card boards gilt, edges gilt; original green-coated card chemise; laid into original red velvet box. -- The Bijou Almanack 1849. London: Rock Brothers, [1848]. Original green morocco gilt, edges gilt. -- Bijou Almanack 1854. London: Rock Brothers & Payne, [1853]. Original green morocco gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: W. R. S. (bookplate). -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, various 64mo sizes or smaller, condition generally fine. $400-600
176 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. – [AMERICANA]. A group of 6 miniature books, comprising: ROSENTHAL, Max. The Signers to the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia: N.p.,1876. Contemporary brown half morocco. -- A Short History of Gen. Hancock. Park Place, NY: Knapp & Company, 1888. Original printed pictorial wrappers. -- ANDREWS, Byron. Facts About the Candidate. Chicago: Sam Stone, 1904. Original printed pictorial wrappers. -- Abraham Lincoln. Worchester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1950. Blue morocco gilt, edges gilt; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. One of 1500 copies printed at the Chiswick Press. -- BARRETT, Amos. The Concord Fight. Concord: Robert D. Naiva, 1975. Blue morocco gilt, edges gilt. One of 2000 copies. [Uniformly bound and slipcased with:] LISTER, Jeremy. The Concord Fight. Concord: Robert D. Naiva, 1975. One of 2000 copies. -Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, various 48mo and 64mo sizes or smaller, condition generally fine. $250-350
177 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. – MILLS, Alfred (1776-1833). A group of 3 works by Mills, comprising: Costumes of Different Nations, In Miniature, From Drawings. 1811. -- Natural History of 48 Quadrupeds, With Elegant Engravings. 1812. -- London In Miniature. With Engravings of its Public Buildings and Antiquities, From Drawings. 1814. Together, 3 works, 48mo, all published London: Darton, Harvey, & Darton; and J. Harris, UNIFORMLY BOUND in contemporary red morocco gilt (some minor soiling to covers; some minor internal spotting). $300-400
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178 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 4 miniature books, comprising: Petit Mois de Saint Joseph. Limoges: Dalpayrat et Depelley, [ca 1875]. Contemporary green levant gilt, turn-ins gilt, green-watered silk doublures and endleaves. Provenance: R. J. (gilt-stamped initials to upper doublure). -- TUER, Andrew White, editor. Quads for Authors, Editors & Devils. London: Field & Tuer, Simkin, Hamilton, 1884. Original vellum gilt. Provenance: W. R. S. (bookplate). -- THOMPSON, Eben Francis. The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam. Worchester, MA: Privately printed, 1932. Original red morocco gilt. -- Serments d’Amour. Zurich: N.p., 1953. Original red decorated leather gilt; plexiglass case. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, various 48mo and 64mo sizes or smaller, condition generally fine. $300-400
179 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 8 miniature books, comprising: The Tid-Bit. Philadelphia: American S. S. Union, 1846. Original leather. -- Fanny’s Journey. Buffalo, New York: Breed, Butler & Co., 1866. Original dark grey blind-stamped cloth gilt. -- Willie’s Western Visit. New York: American Tract Society, 1874. Original red pictorial cloth gilt. -- Hazeltine’s Pocket Book Almanac. Warren, PA: W.T. Hazeltine, 1882, 1888, 1889. 3 volumes. Original publisher’s printed paper wrappers. -- Petite Calendar 1899. Providence, RI: Livermore & Knight Co., 1898. Original red morocco gilt. -- The Life of General Tom Thumb. Troy, NY: Moore & Nims, n.d. Original blue blind-stamped cloth. Provenance: Frank Hoyne (gift inscription). -- Together, 6 works in 8 volumes, various 48mo and 64mo sizes or smaller, condition generally good. $200-300
180 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 8 miniature books, comprising: WILLIAMS, C. Child’s Natural History of Beasts. New Haven: Durrie and Peck; Philadelphia: Smith and Peck, n.d. Original pictorial light green cloth gilt. Provenance: R. E. Wyarts (signature, 1846). -- CARTER, S. C. The Offering. Boston: G. W. Cottrell, 1852. Original maroon blindstamped cloth gilt. -- LILL, Cousin. The Songs of the Seasons. Boston: G. W. Cottrell, 1855. Original blind-stamped red cloth gilt. Provenance: Mary J. James (gift inscription, 1863). -- Demorest’s Gem Souvenir. [New York: Demorest, ca 1870]. 19th-century leather. -- The Diamond Etiquette for Courtship and Marriage. London: G. E. Petter, n.d. Original red cloth gilt. -- Pearls.Boston: American Tract Society, n.d. Original green blind-stamped cloth gilt. -- VIZCAYNO, Sebastian. Jornada Principal de las Californias. (Accidentes Documentados). Mexico, D. F: G. M. Echaniz, 1963. Modern red morocco gilt. LIMITED EDITION, printed for Dawson’s Book Shop. -- GONZÁLEZ PEÑA, Carlos. La Vida y la Obra de Altamirano. Mexico: G. M. Echaniz, 1964. Modern red morocco gilt. -- Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, various 48mo and 64mo sizes or smaller, condition generally good. (part lot) $200-300
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181 MOORE, John Hamilton (1738-1807). The New Practical Navigator; being an Epitome of Navigation… Revised and Corrected by a Skilful Mathematician and Navigator [Nathaniel Bowditch]. Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt, 1799. 8vo (211 x 130mm). 8 engraved plates. (Lacking 4 leaves in Table I [A3-A6], upper corner of Contents leaf B1 torn away affecting a few words on verso, some minor browning or spotting, some marginal soiling.) Contemporary sheep (spine cracked with some loss of leather, worn); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: George Gray, Baltimore (early ownership signature on title, marginalia and presumably his 2-page manuscript notes on rear endpapers recording various sea voyages); Saul Moskowitz (bookplate). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. The most popular navigational text of the late 18th century was The New Practical Navigator by John Hamilton Moore of the Royal Navy, first published in 1772. In America Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) was the editor of two editions of Moore's Practical Navigator, published by Edward Blunt of Newburyport in 1799 and 1800, respectively. By 1802, when Blunt was ready to publish a third edition, Nathaniel Bowditch and others had corrected so many errors in Moore’s work that Blunt decided to publish it as the first edition of a new work entitled, The New American Practical Navigator. Campbell 1; ESTC W31364; Evans 35834; Shipton & Mooney 35834. $1,000-1,500
182 O’BRIEN, Tim (b.1946). Northern Lights. New York: Delacorte Press, 1976. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; original pictorial dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the author’s second book. SIGNED BY O’BRIEN on half-title. A FINE COPY. [With:] O’BRIEN. The Things They Carried. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; FIRST ISSUE of the pictorial dust-jacket, mis-rolled with some of the cover type on the spine. FIRST TRADE EDITION, A FINE COPY. $600-800
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183 PAOLINI, Christopher. Eragon. Inheritance. Book One. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, preceded by the privately published paperback edition in 2002. SIGNED BY PAOLINI on the title-page and dated “’03”. A VERY FINE COPY of the first book of the Inheritance cycle. $200-300
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184 PEARY, Robert E. (1856-1920). The North Pole. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. 4to. 4 photogravure plates, 112 mounted photographic reproductions, folding map (some staining to map). (Title and frontispiece tissue guard foxed, some mostly marginal foxing throughout.) Original publisher’s vellum gilt, upper cover with gilt bust of Peary in profile, top edge gilt, others uncut, cloth ties (vellum very spotted, with some gilt rubbed away, endpaper wrinkled, edges foxed). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 153 of 500 copies signed by Peary and R. A. Bartlett. Peary’s account of his achievement of the pole is introduced with high praise by Theodore Roosevelt. Peary wintered at Ellesmere Island before heading North to the pole with a small team. Despite winning a high profile lawsuit against Frederick Cook, who had a competing claim, recent scholarship has cast some doubt on Peary’s ability to accurately measure his own location on the ice, having left Bartlett, his expert navigator, behind at the camp. Arctic Bib. 13230. $500-700
185 PENNANT, Thomas (1726-1798). History of Quadrupeds. London: B. White, 1781. 2 volumes, 4to. With 2 engraved titles, 52 engraved plates and 2 engraved vignettes in text. (Some minor occasional spotting and offsetting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked to style preserving portions of original spines and labels). Provenance: Dalton Hall Library (bookplates). Second edition. First Edition thus, of this expansion of his earlier Synopsis of Quadrupeds (1771). The Welsh naturalist and antiquary Thomas Pennant contributed greatly “to organizing, popularizing, and promoting the study of natural history” (DSB). Nissen, ZBI 3108; ESTC T113535. $300-400
186 PIAZZI, Giuseppe (1746-1826). Autograph letter signed (“Piazzi”), to D. Gaetano. Palermo, 22 June 1807. 2 pages, 4to, visible area 235 x 176 mm, matted and framed with a portrait of Piazzi, unexamined out of frame, creasing. I HEAR IT IS RUMORED THAT OLBERS DISCOVERED A NEW PLANET. Italian astronomer and mathematician Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1826), who founded an observatory at Palermo in 1790, writes about scientific books and equipment. He discusses the developments of the micrometer, created by Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800), which was used in gathering readings from at Palermo. He includes a small diagram and writes, “an ocular astronomical micrometer, called a Dinametra, as imagined by Ramsden.” He shares the news of Heinrich Wilhelm Matthais Olbers’ discovery of the asteroid Vesta on 29 March 1807: “I hear it is rumored that Olbers discovered a new planet.” In 1801, Piazzi discovered dwarf planet Ceres, the largest member of the asteroid belt, which was initially believed to be a planet. With the additional discoveries of Pallas (discovered in 1802 by Olbers), Juno (discovered in 1807 by Karl Ludwig Harding), and Vesta, astronomers began to hypothesize about the nature of these celestial bodies, eventually leading to the discovery and designation of the asteroid belt. Ceres and Vesta are now considered dwarf planets, while Pallas and Juno are designated as asteroids. $3,000-4,000
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187 PLATH, Sylvia (1932-1963). The Colossus and other poems. London: Heinemann, 1960. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt; original printed dust jacket (some spotting to rear panel, some toning to edges); green morocco folding case. Provenance: Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001), English poet (signature on flyleaf). FIRST EDITION, THE POET ELIZABETH JENNINGS’ COPY with her signature. Jennings, who wrote in a traditional formalist style, was the only woman counted among the postwar Movement poets, including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, John Wain and Thom Gun. Through Ted Hughes’ relationships on the fringe of The Movement, the two 20th century poets were acquainted, and both Plath and Jennings have been labeled as confessional poets due to their self-disclosing manner. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. [With:] PLATH. The Colossus & Other Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Original cloth; original printed dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. $1,000-1,500
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188 POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). The Raven and Other Poems. New York: Wiley And Putnam, 1845. 8vo. [i-viii] [1]-91 [92, blank] [i-iv]. Half-title with “Wiley and Putnam’s Library of American Books”, name of stereotyper T. B. Smith on the title verso; 4pp. publisher’s advertisements at end, beginning “German Romance.” Original blind-blocked blue cloth (rebacked in modern cloth preserving gilt-lettered portion of spine); half blue morocco folding case. Provenance: Sabin E. Mowry? (early signature on front blank leaf). FIRST EDITION of “the most important volume of poetry that had been issued up until that time in America” (Allen). The first edition of The Raven was usually issued with the second or third printing of Tales (not present in this volume). Within a month of its first appearance it was reprinted at least ten times, and Poe's fame soared with that of “The Raven.” It “made Poe's name known both in America and England, and brought him an immortality that by no other means could he have attained”; it “gave him fame as a poet such as no other American has received” (Robertson). BAL 16147 (reissue B, usually bound with Poe’s Tales, and without signature <8> terminal advertisements); Grolier American 55; Heartman & Canny 92-97; Robertson, A Bibliography of the Writings of…Poe, San Francisco, 1934, vol. 2, pp.224-5. $8,000-12,000
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189 POHL, Frederik (1919-2013). Gateway. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1977. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket (very slight rubbing to ends of spine panel, otherwise fine). FIRST EDITION. Winner of the 1977 Nebula and 1978 Hugo awards for best novel. Nicholls, p. 466. VERY FINE. $300-400
190 PRESCOTT, William H. History of the Conquest of Peru. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847. 2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, 2 engraved frontispiece portraits, map of Peru, and facsimile with Pizarro’s signatures and rubrica. (Spotting, offsetting from frontispiece tissue guards.) Publisher’s tan cloth, blind tooling, gilt lettering and Pizzaro’s coat of arms to spine (darkening of boards, a few pencil marks, very light rubbing to spine ends, some soiling to endpapers). Provenance: Francis Sales (presentation inscription); Roxbury Latin School (embossed seal on titles, bookplates removed, a few notes to titles). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY PRESCOTT on front free endpaper: “Francis Sales Esq. from his friend the Author.” Francis Sales (17711854) was a professor of Spanish and French at Harvard University from 1816-1854. Sabin 65272. $300-400
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191 PULLMAN, Philip. [His Dark Materials trilogy:] Northern Lights. — The Subtle Knife. — The Amber Spyglass. London: Scholastic, 1995-19972000. 3 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth; dust jackets. FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, EACH SIGNED BY PULLMAN on the title-page. Northern Lights has the first issue points on the jacket: £12.99 price, “Point” on lower spine panel, and “7-9 Pratt Street” address on rear flap. Pullman’s epic trilogy of fantasy novels is recognized as one of the best children’s novels of the 20th century. The Amber Spyglass was the first children’s book to be awarded the won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 2001, and the first children’s book to be nominated for the Booker Prize. AN EXTREMELY FINE SET OF PULLMAN’S EPIC TRILOGY. $6,000-8,000
192 PULLMAN, Philip. [His Dark Materials trilogy:] The Golden Compass. — The Subtle Knife. — The Amber Spyglass. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996-1997-2000. FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, FIRST PRINTINGS, the first two volumes EACH SIGNED BY PULLMAN on the title-page. The Golden Compass was first published in Britain in 1995 with the title Northern Lights; the other volumes were published in Britain in the same years, under the same titles. A VERY FINE SET. $800-1,200
193 PULLMAN, Philip. A group of 7 volumes, each SIGNED: The White Mercedes. New York, 1992. Dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SIGNED on title-page. — Clockwork. New York, 1998. Dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SIGNED on the title-page. — The Firework Maker’s Daughter. New York, 1999. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SIGNED on the titlepage. —‘Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things.’ Perspectives on English Teaching 2. Sheffield, UK: Nate, 2002. Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED on the title-page. — Lyra’s Oxford. New York, 2003. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SIGNED on the title-page. — Spring-Heeled Jack. New York, 2002. FIRST AMERICAN EDITIN, SIGNED on the title-page. — The Scarecrow and his Servant. London, 2004. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED on the title-page. Together 7 volumes, various sizes, original publisher’s bindings, dust jackets as issued, all fine. $600-800
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194 PURCHAS, Samuel (1575?-1626). Purchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places discovered, from the Creation unto this Present. In Foure Parts. London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1614. Folio (282 x 188 mm). (18 leaves [pages 201-236] supplied form a slightly shorter copy; a few marginal paper flaws, that on leaf 2Q5 affecting printing slightly and with small hole on shoulder note; 3L3 with marginal paper flaw/tear crossing text and internal break crossing 2 lines of text; some occasional minor marginal dampstaining, some minor stains or spots; some pale dampstaining to Table at end.) Contemporary English calf, covers with central gilt-stamped device, spine compartments each with gilt devices, remnants of ties, title inklettered on spine (minor wear to joints and extremities, spine with a few wormholes and with lower joint splitting slightly at foot, front hinge starting); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Some contemporary ink marginalia, underlinings in text, and notes on rear endleaves and pastedown; Pytt’s Book Room at Kyre (19th-century printed label on spine). Second edition, “much enlarged with Additions through the whole Worke.” The first three parts relate to travels in Asia, Africa and the East Indies. The fourth, and most celebrated, includes accounts of New France, Virginia, Florida, explorations of Cabeca de Vaca, Columbus, Frobisher, Cartier, Hudson, Raleigh, Cortes, and others. European Americana 614/94; ESTC S111828; Sabin 66679; STC 20506. $4,000-6,000
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195 QUR’AN, Illuminated Arabic manuscript on paper. [Copied in Mosul, ca A.H.1120 / ca 1708]. 12mo (166 x 110 mm). 294 leaves, 15ll. of text within gold and red and black rule borders, marginal gold and polychrome palmettes, sura headings in blue on gilt ground, gold and polychrome divisions, ff.1v and 2r each with central round panel within wide gold and polychrome borders. (First leaf laid down, second leaf with margins renewed, marginal repairs to last leaf, some soiling.) Contemporary red morocco Islamic binding, blind-stamped arabesques with brown calf onlays within blind-stamped borders, central brown calf onlay on fore-edge flap (some light wear, hinges reinforced, endpapers renewed); morocco folding case. Provenance: E. A. Wallis Budge (gift inscription, 9 August 1927 to:) C. J. Gadd. NOTED EGYPTOLOGIST E. A. WALLIS BUDGE’S COPY, GIVEN TO ASSYRIOLOGIST C. J. GADD Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist, worked for the British Museum and published several works on the ancient Near East. He helped build the British Museum’s collection of cuneiform tablets, manuscripts, and papyri. He developed an interest in languages at a young age, and studies Biblical Hebrew, Syriac, Assyrian, Ge’ez and Arabic. Laid in is a note by him: “This copy was believed to have been written about A. H. 1120 by the Mullah of Mosul. E. A. Wallis Budge 9.8.27.” Wallis Budge gave the book to his colleague at the British Museum, C. J. Gadd, an Assyriologist, served as Chair of Ancient Semitic Languages and Civilizations at the School of Oriental and African Studies. $2,500-3,500
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196 RAND, Ayn (1905-1982). “Anthem.” In: The Freeman. Vol. III, No. I. pp.[I]-[VIII], 1-98. Los Angeles: Pamphleteers, Inc. 1946. 8vo. Original grey printed wrappers. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, published in a complete issue of The Freeman. First published in England in 1938, Rand carefully edited the work for publication in the United States, although “no idea or incident was added or omitted; the theme, content and structure are untouched. The story remains as it was. I have lifted its face, but not its spine or spirit; these did not need lifting” (Author’s Foreword, p.V). Anthem presents a dystopian world in which individuality has been outlawed. The narrator, known only as Equality 7-2521, begins his story: “It is a sin to write this.” $200-300
197 RAND, Ayn (1905-1982). Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1957. 8vo. Original green gilt-stamped cloth, top edge stained dark blue; original pictorial dust jacket (minor chipping to edges, some minor rubbing, darkening to folds). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with price $6.95 and “10/57” at the bottom of the front flap, and with the publisher’s name and address at the bottom of the rear inner flap. Atlas Shrugged, Rand’s fourth and final novel, is her most extensive statement of her Objectivist philosophy, depicted in a dystopian United States. $1,000-1,500
198 RAND, Ayn (1905-1982). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. New York: Random House, 1961. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edge stained yellow; original pictorial dust jacket (minor soiling to spine and edges). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY RAND on half-title of Rand’s first non-fiction work. Rand viewed the work as a “cultural commercial” for her novels which helped increase sales of recently-published paperback editions of Atlas Shrugged and We are the Living. $600-800
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199 RAWSTORNE, Lawrence (1774-1850). Gamonia: or, The Art of Preserving Game. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. 8vo (232 x 149mm). Half-title, errata slip. 15 hand-colored and finished aquatint plates by and after J. T. Rawlins. (Final text leaf heavily toned from morocco cover bound in.) Late 19th-century morocco gilt by Morrell for Scribners, with original morocco covers bound in at end (joints a little dried, slight wear to head of spine, upper hinge starting); morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION of a work celebrated for its “unusually attractive” shooting scenes (Schwerdt). As noted by Eric Parker in the preface to the 1930 edition “Gamonia is valuable not only for its rarity and charm, it is the first treatise devoted solely to the subject of pheasant rearing, covert shooting, and the management of woodlands for the special purpose of preserving game”. Abbey, Life 392; Chute 536; Schwerdt II, p. 127; Tooley 393. $1,000-1,500
200 RIEFENSTAHL, Leni (1902-2003). Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf. [Beauty in the Olympic Games.] Berlin: Deutschen Verlag, 1937. 4to. 273 black and white photographs. Original gilt-lettered cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Provenance: Kurt Neubert (presentation inscription, see below); Edwin Anderson (stamp). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INCSCRIBED BY RIEFENSTAHL in German: “Cordially dedicated to Kurt Neubert as a memento of our collaboration on the Olympia film. Leni Riefenstahl, Christmas 1937.” Riefenstahl and Neubert are pictured together on pg.259. Kurt Neubert was a cinematographer who worked with Riefenstahl on the 1938 films Olympia: Fest der Völker (part 1) and Olympia: Fest der Schönheit (part 2). They had previously worked together on Der Heilige Berg (1926), and Der Grosse Sprung (1927). 101 Books, pp.96-7; Auer 255; The Photobook, vol. I, p.151 (“A lavish photobook”). A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. $5,000-7,000
201 ROBINSON, Marilynne (b. 1943). Gilead. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. 8vo. Original tan cloth-backed boards; publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ROBINSON of her critically acclaimed novel, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2005. $300-400
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202 ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1757-1827), illustrator. -- COMBE, William (1741-1823). The First Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque. -The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation. - The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife. London: Nattali and Bond, [1855]. 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo. 2 aquatint titles with hand-coloring, 78 aquatint plates with hand coloring. (Some minor spotting throughout.) Original publisher’s green blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt (spines slightly sunned, some light wear to corners, a few hinges starting, a few spots). Ninth edition. $300-400
203 SACKVILLE WEST, Vita (1892-1962). A group of three works, comprising: Nursery Rhymes. London: Dropmore Press, 1947. LIMITED EDITION, number 370 of 550 copies. Original blue cloth gilt; original dust jacket; publisher’s board slipcase. -- In Your Garden Again. London: Michael Joseph, 1953. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- More for your Garden. London: Michael Joseph, 1955. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, condition generally fine. $150-250
204 SALINGER, Jerome David (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. 8vo. Original black cloth (some spotting and discoloration to pastedowns and gutters, block edges very slightly spotted); original first issue dust-jacket printed in red, black and yellow with cropped photograph of Salinger on rear cover, flap priced at $3.00 (spine panel lightly faded with small dampstain near foot, flap folds a little rubbed, some light spotting on verso); quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION. The novel’s protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has entered the pantheon of American literary heroes. “The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many voices—anger, contempt, self-pity—but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, pp. 53-54). $4,000-6,000
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205 SANTAYANA, George (1863-1952). Autograph letter signed (“Santayana”), to [Alfred A.?] Knopf. Rome, 30 May 1931. 1 page, 8vo, with received stamp dated 11 June 1931, small tears along top edge. GODS AND ROBOTS AFTER ALL NEED NOT BE DIVIDED A critique of Alexander Goldenweiser’s work Robots or Gods, presumably sent to the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf: “I have read Dr. Goldenweiser’s book, and although I still don’t know what Robots are, I see that he reads a great many intellectually exciting authors and Is animated himself by a very reasonable spirit...There seem to be two distinct questions to consider. The first is the relation of mentality in general to physical life or behaviour: on this question, Dr. Goldenweiser seems to me to be sound, though perhaps not so incisive and clear as would be desirable. The other question is moral and political: Do you like the loss of neutrality that goes with industrialization? I don’t gather anything very definite on that point, though I have some idea that he would allow the industrial age to create and enjoy its own gods: so that Gods and Robots after all need not be divided. If so, I should agree with him: but those gods need not be our gods if we are romantic, and certainly cannot be our God, if we are Christians. Would Dr. Goldenweiser write another book to prove that?” $400-600
206 SARMIENTO DE GAMBOÁ, Pedro (1532-1592). Viage al Estrecho de Magallanes por el Capitan Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboá en los años de 1579. y 1580. Y Noticia de la Expedicion que despues hizo para poblarle. Madrid: la Imprenta Real de Gazeta, 1768. Small 4to (219 x 155 mm). 3 engraved folding plates. (Minor dampstain to plates, minor worming affecting letters on approximately 140 leaves, some minor spotting.) Contemporary vellum, hand-lettered on spine (a few minor holes, slightly soiled, ties lacking); morocco folding case. Provenance: Pale signature on upper cover. FIRST EDITION, edited from the original manuscript in the Royal Library Madrid by Bernardo de Yriarte. Sarmiento commanded the Nuestra Senora de Guia and the Almiranta and he sailed with instructions to capture Francis Drake. He pursued Drake to the Straits of Magellan, but ultimately wasn’t able to capture him. He began to chart the straits and record his observations, and he developed a plan to prevent further incursions into the Pacific by colonizing the region. His plan was adopted by the King of Spain, and he was made governor of the future colony; the attempt at colonization ended in disaster. Borba de Moraes II:777; Hill 1526; Howgego G21; Palau 302364; Sabin 77094. $4,000-6,000
207 SENDAK, Maurice (1944-2012), illustrator. -- SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Zlateh the Goat. [New York]: Harper & Row, [1966]. 8vo. Numerous black and white plates tipped in. Original publisher’s cloth, black and white illustration mounted on upper cover, spine gilt-lettered; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 387 of 500 copies SIGNED BY SENDAK AND SINGER. $300-400
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208 SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Merchant of Venice [Extracted from the First Folio]. [London: Isaac Jaggard..., 1623]. Folio (307 x 199 mm). Comprising 22 pages (pp. 163-184) on 11 leaves (O4-Q2). (Lower gutter margin with some wormtracks repaired, short tear crossing two lines of text on upper margin of O6, short internal tear near gutter on final leaf Q2, a few rule borders slightly shaved, some minor marginal dampstaining, wear and soiling.) Modern calf gilt; morocco folding case. FIRST FOLIO PRINTING of this Shakespeare comedy. The Merchant of Venice was first published in a quarto edition in 1600 which is generally regarded as being accurate and reliable. It is the basis of the text published in the 1623 First Folio, which adds a number of stage directions, mainly musical cues. See STC 22273; Pforzheimer 905 (for First Folio). $25,000-35,000
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209 SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Mr. William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, SEVEN PLAYS, Never before Printed in Folio. London, Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, R. Chiswell, and R. Bentley, 1685. Folio (354 x 222 mm.). Engraved frontispiece portrait, woodcut initials (portrait and verses beneath inlaid with a few letters in facsimile). (Title remargined, gutter margin of last two leaves mended with extensive repairs on last leaf, rust hole in K2 touching a few letters, a few spots and ink splashes, tears in lower outer margin of fols. Q3, Hh2, mends in lower margins of Ee6, Ff1, Fff1, and in outer margin of 4C1, dampstain in upper outer corner of quires Hh–Ii.) 19th-century blind-tooled tan morocco, edges gilt, by the Guild of Women Binders (joints restored, some repairs to spine and corners); morocco folding case. Provenance: Thomas Thomson (signature on upper margin fol. 1, dated 1704); Paul Peralta-Ramos copy (small Japanese style ink collector’s stamp on front free endpaper, sold, Sotheby’s New York, 18 June 2004, lot 230). FOURTH FOLIO EDITION, issue with R. Chiswell in imprint. The edition was set from the second issue of the Third Folio. The Fourth Folio is the last edition of Shakespeare’s plays published in the 17th century, and was regarded by 18th-century editors, readers and collectors as textually the best edition, until Samuel Johnson and especially Edward Capell demonstrated the superiority of the First Folio. The most immediately striking aspect of the Fourth Folio is its height. Herringman and his co-publishers decided on a larger paper size to increase the number of lines per page and decrease the bulk of the book; thus, including the added plays, the number of sheets in the Fourth Folio is almost exactly the same as that in the First and Second. Greg III, 1119-21; Pforzheimer 910; Wing S-2916. $60,000-80,000
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210 SINCLAIR, Upton (1878-1968). The Jungle. New York: The Jungle Publishing Co., 1906. 8vo. 3pp. publisher’s advertisements. Original green pictorial cloth (rubbed, particularly at extremities). Provenance: Lewis E. Towers (presentation inscription, stamp). FIRST EDITION, WITH SUSTAINER’S EDITION LABEL. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY SINCLAIR: “To L. E. Tower with best wishes Upton Sinclair Oct 5 1935 (29 years after!). Corrected issue with “brass buttons” on page 42, “eight dollars” on page 82, unbroken “Y” on p.99, and unbroken type on “1” on copyright page, and normal-sized “3” on page 385. $800-1,200
211 STANLEY ROBINSON, Kim. [Mars Trilogy:] Red Mars. — Green Mars. — Blue Mars. London: HarperCollins, 1992, 1993, 1996. 3 volumes, 8vo. Original red, black and blue cloth; publisher’s pictorial dust jackets (UPC sticker over printed UPC code rear panel Blue Mars). FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, EACH SIGNED BY ROBINSON on the title-page in red, green, or blue ink into to coordinate with the title. Robinson’s “Mars” trilogy chronicles the colonization of the planet Mars and has won the Hugo (1994, 1997), Nebula (1993), and Locus Award (1994, 1997) for best novel. $400-600
212 STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. 8vo. 1 p. publisher’s advertisement at end. Original salmon-colored cloth (rubbed and slightly soiled, hinges starting); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Eugene Field (bookplate). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, preceded by the American edition which was published by Scribner four days earlier. McKay 348; Prideaux 17. $2,000-3,000
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213 STOEFFLER, Johann (1452-1531). Cosmographicae aliquot descriptiones… De Sphaera Cosmographica, hoc est de Globi terrestris, artificiosa structura. De Duplici Terrae proiectione in planum…Edited by Johann Dryander (1500-1560). Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1537. 4to (207 x 142mm). Title withing woodcut border, 5 folding diagrams (plates laid down on heavy paper, first 2 plates with some tears and small losses at center folds, some marginal tears). (Some dampstaining; final leaf E4 [corrigenda] defective with tear at center repaired with some slight loss of text, small internal tear on E3 just touching one letter.) Old pasteboards with vellum spine strips; morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION of this posthumous treatise on geography and astronomy by the influential astronomer, mathematician, mapmaker and maker of astronomical instruments. Stoeffler was a professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Tübingen, and his students included Philipp Melanchthon and Sebastian Munster. Adams S1885; USTC 625632; VD16 S9190. $3,000-4,000
214 STRAVINSKY, Igor Fedorovich (1882-1971). Stravinsky: An Autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936. 8vo. Photographic portrait frontispiece, 7 plates reproducing portraits by Picasso, Cocteau and others. Original red cloth, gold paper label affixed to spine, top edge black; original pictorial dust jacket (spine sunned, some minor chipping to edges with occasional losses, some minor soiling to rear panel). Provenance: Charles Nelson (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY STRAVINSKY WITH AN AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION: “To Charles Nelson Sincerely Igor Stravinsky Chicago 25 II 1940.” The Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere performances of Stravinsky’s Symphony in C on November 7, 8, and 12, 1940, with Stravinsky conducting. $800-1,200
215 THOREAU, Henry David (1817-1862). The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. 8vo. Original publisher’s blind-stamped brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered (some light chipping with losses to spine ends, small separation to foot of upper joint, corners slightly rubbed, spine slightly sunned). FIRST EDITION, one of 1650 copies, with the list of Thoreau’s books on p.[ii] priced. Thoreau’s “excursion book” includes the essays “Ktaadn,” “Chesuncook,” and “The Allegash and East Branch.” BAL 20113. $1,000-1,500
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216 THOREAU, Henry David (1817-1862). A Yankee in Canada. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 8vo. Original publisher’s blind-stamped brown cloth, spine gilt [BAL Binding A, no priority] (rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance: A. Quimby (bookseller’s blind stamp); Juliet Porter (booklabel). FIRST EDITION. BAL 20117. [With:] HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894). The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. 8vo. Engraved title-page. Original publisher’s blind-stamped brown cloth, spine gilt [BAL Binding A] (some light chipping to spine ends). Provenance: Julia R. Day (early signature). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the period after the word “Company” in the imprint. BAL 8781. $800-1,200 217 [TIJUANA BIBLES]. A group of approximately 73 Tijuana Bibles, ca 1920s-1960s. Each 32mo (each approximately 70 x 115 mm). Printed in black, red or blue; illustrated. Original stapled illustrated wrappers. With characters including Dick Tracy, Olive Oyl, Popeye, Flash Gordon, Uncle Willie, Moon Mullins, Dagwood, Blondie, ‘Lil Abner, Betty Boop, Joe Palooka, Jiggs, and Esther Williams. [With:] A group of 15 erotic ephemeral “readers,” printed in the U.S., but with various false imprints including: Paris, Bibliotheque St. Germaine; Paris, Published for Private Circulation Only; Nice, M. Seufferin; Havana; and London, Passion Publishers. Each 16mo. Each approximately 32pp. Original stapled wrappers. Titles including: French Love, Pretty Gal, Love’s Folly, No Love on Sunday, Man Crazy, and Fool’s Paradise. $400-600
218 TOKLAS, Alice B. (1877-1967). Autograph note signed (“A.B.T.”). Chicago, n.d, late 1934-early 1935. 1 page, 8vo, visible area 230 x 144 mm, on Drake Hotel stationary, light creasing, matted and framed with a photographic portrait of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein after an image by Carl Van Vechten, unexamined out of frame. “If you leave the books at the desk of the hotel wrapped and addressed to Miss Gertrude Stein she will sign them. Enclose a label with your name please and call for them two days later.” In October 1934, Stein and Toklas arrived in the United States after a 30-year absence for a 6-month book tour, the last time either would visit their country of birth. They were known to have visited Chicago and stayed at the Drake Hotel in late November and early December 1934. While there, Stein gave a lecture at the Friday Club, a women’s literary society, and they took the opportunity to see the Chicago premiere of Four Saints in Three Acts, for which Stein had written the libretto. This marked the first time they had seen the opera with music by Virgil Thomson, revolutionary in form and content, the work was groundbreaking for its all-black cast with the singers directed by the prominent African American choral director Eva Jessye (1895-1992). 218
$400-600 219 TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973). The Hobbit or There and Back Again. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. 8vo. 4 colored plates and 9 illustrations by the author. Publisher’s original tan cloth, title stamped in blue with bowing Hobbit device stamped in red on upper cover, pictorial map endpapers (some wear to spine ends, some minor staining, lacking dust jacket). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second impression, with the publisher’s device on the title-page. Hammond and Anderson A3b. $1,000-1,500
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220 TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973). [The Lord of the Rings trilogy:] The Fellowship of the Ring. 1954. -- The Two Towers. 1954. -- The Return of the King. 1955. All London: Allen & Unwin Ltd. Together, 3 volumes, 8vo. Folding map tipped-in each volume. Original red cloth (slightly leaned); pictorial dust jackets (closed tear crossing front panel and portion of spine and 1 ½-in. separation to upper joint of The Fellowship, some minor losses to spine ends, some minor soiling or creasing, a few short tears) ; half morocco folding case. Provenance: George Sayer (1914-2005), teacher at Malvern College, biographer of C. S. Lewis (signature in vol. I, see below). FIRST EDITIONS, often read as allegories of good versus evil. In a new preface to the 1965 edition, Tolkien wrote: “As for any inner meaning or ‘message,’ it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical.” In his essay entitled “On Fairy-Stories,” Tolkien describes his purpose in writing about an imaginary world: “The peculiar quality of the ‘joy’ in successful Fantasy can thus be explained as a sudden glimpse of the underlying reality or truth. It is not only a ‘consolation’ for sorrow of this world, but a satisfaction, and an answer to that question, ‘Is it true?’ The answer to this question that I gave at first was (quite rightly): ‘If you have built your little world well, yes: it is true in that world.” A FINE ASSOCIATION. George Sayer, a close friend of Tolkien, was an encourager of Tolkien’s work, and was influential in persuading him to resubmit The Lord of the Rings for publication. By 1952, after unsuccessful attempts to find a publisher, The Lord of the Rings seemed doomed; in that year, C. S. Lewis, Tolkien’s friend, had loaned the typescript to Sayer, who read it with enthusiasm. Sayer invited Tolkien to his home at Malvern for a short visit and to retrieve the manuscript. Of the visit, Sayer recalls: “To entertain him in the evening I produced a tape recorder…He had never seen one before and said whimsically that he ought to cast out any devil that might be in it by recording a prayer, the Lord’s Prayer in Gothic, one of the extinct languages of which he was a master…[I] asked if he might record some of the poems in The Lord of the Rings to find out how they sounded to other people. The more he recorded, the more he enjoyed recording and the more his literary self-confidence grew…I think I asked him to record what he thought one of the best pieces of prose in The Lord of the Rings, and he recorded part of ‘The Ride of the Rohirrim.’ ‘Surely you know that’s really good?’ I asked after playing it back. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘it’s good. This machine has made me believe in it again. But how am I to get it published?’ (The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, No. 450, July/August 2012). Sayer suggested sending the manuscript to Rayner Unwin, ultimately resulting in the publication of Tolkien’s beloved work, which sold over three million copies in Tolkien’s lifetime. Hammond A5a-i, ii, and iii; Bleiler 1606; Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 16; Cawthorn & Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 76. $20,000-30,000
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221 TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973). The Road Goes Ever On, a Song Cycle. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1968. 4to. Title printed in red and black, marginal decoration in Tengwar by Tolkien printed in gray and black. Original boards lettered in red; original printed dust jacket. Provenance: George Sayer (1914-2005), teacher at Malvern College, biographer of C. S. Lewis (invitation to a reception tipped in). FIRST EDITION. SIGNED CALLING CARD BY TOLKIEN mounted to front free endpaper (slightly smudged). George Sayer’s copy, with an invitation tipped in to a 14 March [1968] reception “to hear the first London performance of Donald Swann’s musical settings of poems by Professor Tolkien, sung by William Elvin with the composer at the piano. The Song Cycle, The Road Goes Ever On, with embellishments and commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien will be published in book form on 28th March.” $1,500-2,500
222 TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973). Autograph letter signed (“JRRT”). To George Sayer, Oxford, 7 August 1952. 2 pages, 8vo, on 99 Holywell, Oxford stationery, creased; morocco folding case. G[EORGE] A[LLEN] & U[NWIN] ARE NOW CLAMORING TO RECONSIDER THE LORD OF THE RINGS In 1937, at the urging of his publishers Collins, Tolkien began writing “a new Hobbit.” Due to his fulltime academic position, progress was slow, and he abandoned the manuscript for most of 1943. He began writing again in April 1944, and completed a revision of the earlier portions of the work in 1949. In April 1952, Collins declined to publish the work; by August 1952, nearly every major British publisher had rejected the work. George Sayer received a copy of Tolkien’s manuscript from their mutual friend, C. S. Lewis. Sayer and his wife became enthusiastic fans of the work, and invited Tolkien to stay with them at Malvern in August when he was on break. Having heard that publisher George Allen & Unwin had an interest in publishing the work, Tolkien writes George Sayer to request the return of the manuscript and to coordinate a visit: “Can you still put me up?...I could come any time after the 18th that is suitable to you and your wife. The earlier the better for me since G. A. & U. are now clamouring to reconsider the Lord of the Rings, so that the sooner you have finished it – I could not leave you in the middle of the third book for all the publishers in the world, and anyway I greatly desire to hear your opinions at the end – the better for me in that regard.” During his visit, at Sayer’s urging, Tolkien created the first recorded readings from The Lord of the Rings which still survive. Sayer also encouraged Tolkien to send the manuscript to Rayner Unwin (see lot 220). In a letter to Rayner Unwin enclosing a blurb from Sayer for The Lord of the Rings, in which Sayer refers to Tolkien as the “greatest living poet,” Tolkien refers to Sayer as “the most normal reader and liker of the work that I could think of…the blurb…surprised me.” $4,000-6,000
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WALTON, Izaac (ca 1593-1683) -- COTTON, Charles (16301687). The Compleat Angler. Edited by Sir Harris Nicolas. London: William Pickering, 1836.
8vo. Original turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, black and red (touch of fading to extreme spine ends); dust jacket (front flap with slightly toned strip along fore-edge, otherwise very fine). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Vonnegut’s scathing anti-war classic, based on his own experiences as a POW who survived the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945. In First State dust jacket with priced $5.95, with the correct code of 0369 at foot of the rear flap.
2 volumes, 4to (268 x 180 mm). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black, numerous engraved headpieces and illustrations throughout, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 45 full-page engraved plates, additional engraved portrait of Walton laid in. (Spotting throughout, minor offsetting of plates and illustrations to text, minor marginal dampstaining to several leaves.) Contemporary green morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-ruled, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt (minor rubbing to extremities, a few minor nicks or scuffs).
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First Nicolas edition, “one of the best, possibly the very best of...[the 146 editions of The Compleat Angler published between 1836 and 1901] with engravings after Stothard, Inskipp and others” (Percy Muir, Victorian Illustrated Books, 1971, p. 21). $1,500-2,500
225 WALTON, Izaac (ca 1593-1683) -- COTTON, Charles (16301687). The Compleat Angler. Edited by R.B. Marston. London: Sampson Low, Marson, Searle and Rivington, 1888. 2 volumes, 4to (282 x 220 mm). Titles printed in red and black, frontispiece photogravure portraits, and 52 photogravure plates with lettered tissue-guards, numerous wood-engraved illustrations including 3 full-page maps. (Minor toning, light chipping.) Original half green morocco gilt, Cotton-Walton dual monogram gilt-stamped to covers, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3 compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut (a few minor scuffs or rubbing, lower cover vol. II with bump to top edge). LEA & DOVE DEMY QUARTO EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 22 of 500 copies, SIGNED BY MARSTON. The 100th edition of Walton’s seminal work with significant biographical and scholarly additions. With plates after P.H. Emerson, George Bankart, and others. The final portion of vol. II, continually paginated, is Thomas Westwood’s The Chronicle of the “Compleat Angler,” with half-title and title page with the same imprint as above comprising pp.251-330. $600-800
226 WALTON, Izaac (ca 1593-1683) -- COTTON, Charles (16301687). The Compleat Angler. Edited by Richard LeGallienne. London and New York: John Lane, the Bodley Head Press, 1904. 8vo (188 x 124 mm). Frontispiece portraits, illustrations throughout by Edmund H. New. Contemporary half red morocco gilt, spine in 3 compartments with 2 raised bands, 1 gilt-lettered, 1 with single fish gilt-tool, large central compartment giltdecorated with fish, cattails, and dragonflies to an Art Nouveau style (slight wear to edges, spine very slightly leaned). “Edition de Luxe,” a reprint of the 5th edition which was the last to incorporate Walton’s own additions with modernized spelling. $300-400
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227 WATSON, James D. The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York: Atheneum, 1968. 8vo. Original cloth (some minor spotting to text block edges); dust jacket (a few tiny nicks or splits at ends of spine panel, otherwise fine). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WATSON on the title-page: “To John Bott / from / Jim Watson”. Additionally SIGNED BY FRANCIS CRICK below on title-page. The author’s groundbreaking account of the events which led to the discovery of the structure of DNA, for which the author, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962. Copies signed by both Watson and Crick are rare. A FINE COPY. $3,500-4,500 228 WELLES, Orson (1915-1985). Typed letter signed (“Orson Welles”), to C. B. Ryan. New York, 6 July 1937. 1 page, 4to, 279 x 216 mm, on Federal Theatre Project for New York stationery, “Maxine Elliott’s Theatre” typed below heading, creased, a few small stains. Welles writes on behalf of a member of his production team: “I hereby certify that Miss Lillian Sheldon is an efficient and useful worker and has always discharged her duties to my complete satisfaction while in my division of the Federal Theater Project.” In 1937, Welles was to direct Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock as part of the Federal Theatre Project. The show, which was to be performed at Maxine Elliott's Theatre, was scheduled to open on June 16, 1937, but a few days before the Broadway opening, the WPA temporarily shut the project down. The WPA claimed that they shut the play down as part of a reorganization of all its arts projects, but many argued that the pro-union play was instead deemed "too radical." The theatre was padlocked and surrounded by security to prevent anyone from stealing props or costumes, which were the property of the U. S. Government. Producer John Houseman secured a financial backer, and the show ran for two weeks beginning June 18; the success of the show led Welles and Houseman to form the Mercury Theatre, who ran the show as part of its inaugural season. $300-400 229 WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946). The Island of Doctor Moreau. London: William Heinemann, 1896.
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230 WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946). A group of 3 works, comprising: In the Days of the Comet. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906. Provenance: Gift inscription, 11 September 1906. Currey, 519520. -- The War in the Air. And Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While it Lasted. London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. Currey, 526. – The Country of the Blind and Other Stories. London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Leeds, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1911]. Currey, 517. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, all in original publisher’s cloth, condition generally good to fine. $400-600
231 WIENER, Norbert (1894-1964). Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine. New York: John Wiley & Sons; Paris: Hermann et Cie, 1948. 8vo. Original red cloth (lacking dust jacket). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, printed offset from the typesetting of the French edition, of the first conventionally published book (rather than a technical report) to include a serious discussion of electronic computing. Origins of Cyberspace 992. $400-600
232 WILLIAMS, Tennessee (1911-1983). A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: New Directions, 1947. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial lavender boards designed by Alvin Lustig (touch of wear to spine ends and corners, minor bump on upper edge of front board slightly carrying through to text block at front); pictorial dust jacket (spine panel lightly faded, small areas of light wear to spine ends and corners tissue-reinforced on verso); in custom morocco folding case with onlaid designs based on the cover. FIRST EDITION of Williams’s second major play and a cornerstone of the modern American theatre. A Streetcar Named Desire was first performed at the Barrymore Theatre in New York on December 3, 1947 under the direction of Elia Kazan. Crandell A5.1.a. A FINE COPY. $2,000-3,000
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233 WILLIAMS, Tennessee (1911-1983). The Rose Tattoo. New York: New Directions, 1951. 8vo. Illustrated with a photograph of the stage set. Original rose cloth; dust jacket (spine panel very slightly faded with slight wear at ends). FIRST EDITION of Williams’s comedy about a Sicilian woman’s quest for love. In the first issue binding in pink cloth. [With:] Summer and Smoke. New York: New Directions, 1948. 8vo. Original cloth (spine slightly faded); dust jacket (spine panel slightly faded and rubbed at ends). FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY, with publisher’s slip laid in. — The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. New York: New Directions, 1950. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket (minor nicks to ends of spine panel and extremities, spine panel with short tear along joint fold and few pale dampstains, rear panel slightly soiled, price clipped). FIRST TRADE EDITION. $200-300
234 WOOD, William (1774-1857). General Conchology; or a Description of Shells, arranged according to the Linnean System. London: for John Booth, 1835. 8vo (234 x 155mm). With 60 hand-colored plates. (Lacking half-title, some light toning to text and plate guards.) Contemporary half morocco (spine and corners repaired, lacking spine label, front hinge cracked with spine pulling away from text block). Provenance: E. M. Howland (inscription on front flyleaf dated 1934). Second edition. Nissen, ZBI 4455. $400-600
235 WOOLF, Leonard S. (1880-1969). The Village in the Jungle. London: Edward Arnold, 1913. 8vo. 16pp. publisher’s advertisements dated February 1912. Original blue cloth (rubbing to extremities, slightly leaned, upper hinge starting, staining to upper paste-down). FIRST EDITION WOOLF’S FIRST NOVEL, dedicated to Virginia Woolf, whom he had married the previous year. $400-600
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236 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). Night and Day. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. 8vo. Original publisher’s green cloth, black lettering on spine (wear to spine ends, hinges starting, lacking dust-jacket). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Woolf’s second novel. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet, which she considered to be her “traditional” novel written in the style of the 19th-century novelists she admired. Doran likely only printed one impression; by 1929, only 1,326 copies had been sold. Kirkpatrick A4b. $200-300
237 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). Monday or Tuesday. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921. 8vo. 4 woodcuts by Vanessa Bell; 1p. publisher’s advertisements at end. (Some minor offsetting of plates to text.) Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, woodcut design by Vanessa Bell on front cover (some slight soiling, minor spotting to edges and pastedowns, endleaves with toning as usual); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, one of 1,000 copies printed, with essays including “A Haunted House,” “The String Quartet,” and “Kew Gardens.” The work was printed by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt Press in Richmond, who used to advise Leonard and Virginia Woolf when they first started the Hogarth Press. Kirkpatrick A5a. $600-800
238 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). A Room of One’s Own. New York: The Fountain Press, London: Hogarth Press, 1929. 8vo. Half-title. Original cinnamon cloth, spine gilt-lettered (spine slightly sunned); morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 275 of 492 copies SIGNED BY WOOLF on halftitle. Kirkpatrick A12a. $3,000-4,000
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239 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). A Room of One’s Own. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929. 8vo. Half-title. Original cinnamon cloth, spine gilt-lettered (fore-edge with slight spotting); original pale pink dust jacket printed in navy blue, designed by Vanessa Bell. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, one of 3040 copies published in October 1929. Originating in two lectures given by Woolf in October 1928 to students at the two women’s colleges of Cambridge University, A Room of One’s Own was first published as an essay entitled “Women and Fiction” in Forum (March, 1929). Kirkpatrick A12b. $2,000-3,000
240 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). Beau Brummell. New York: Rimington & Hooper, 1930. 4to. 2 plates printed in pink, brown and green by W. A. Dwiggins. Original clothbacked boards, pictorial label to upper cover; publisher’s slipcase with pictorial label. LIMITED EDITION, number 480 of 500 copies SIGNED BY WOOLF. Beau Brummell was first published in the Nation & Athenaeum in September 1929. Kirkpatrick A15a. A FINE COPY. $800-1,200
241 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). The Waves. London: Hogarth Press, 1931. 8vo. Half-title. Original purple cloth, spine gilt-lettered (small portion of foot of spine slightly discolored, light spotting to fore-edge); original cream dust jacket printed in lime green and brown designed by Vanessa Bell (some minor spotting to foot of front panel and to flaps, spine slightly soiled, a few short tears). FIRST EDITION of Woolf’s most experimental work, generally considered to be her masterpiece. The novel traces six narrators from childhood through adulthood. Woolf considers the individual consciousness of each character and the ways in which those consciousnesses intersect; the soliloquies spoken by each character explore the concepts of individuality, self, and community. A seventh character is present, but readers never hear him speak in his own voice. Kirkpatrick A16a. $600-800
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242 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). Walter Sickert: a conversation. London: Hogarth Press, 1934. 8vo. Original duck egg blue wrappers, upper cover illustration by Vanessa Bell (very minor toning to spine). FIRST EDITION, first published in the Yale Review in September 1934 as “A Conversation About Art,” and later reprinted in The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays (see lot 246). Kirkpatrick A20a. $100-150
243 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). The Years. London: Hogarth Press, 1937. 8vo. Half-title. (Slight discoloration to half-title, otherwise fine.) Original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered; original cream dust jacket printed in black and brown designed by Vanessa Bell (some minor chipping and a few short tears with repairs, spine slightly soiled.) FIRST EDITION of Woolf’s bestselling novel which traces the life of the Pargiter family from 1880 to “present day.” Woolf originally intended the novel to be a sequel to A Room of One’s Own and planned to alternate nonfiction essays with the family’s story. She ultimately excluded the nonfiction and changed the working title from “The Pargiters” to The Years. Kirkpatrick A22a. $800-1,200
244 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). Between the Acts. London: Hogarth Press, 1941. 8vo. Half-title. Original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered (slight toning or rubbing to extremities, otherwise bright); original cream dust jacket printed in black designed by Vanessa Bell (a few short tears with occasional losses or associated creases, a few with repairs, slight soiling, particularly to spine and rear panel, some light spotting to endleaves). FIRST EDITION of Woolf’s last novel, published after her death. Set in June 1939 at Pointz Hall, home of the Olivers, and a neighboring village, Between the Actsfocuses on the preparations for a community pageant. Woolf decided to publish the novel days before her death, but hadn’t yet corrected the typescript; critics consider the work to be unfinished. Kirkpatrick A26a. $400-600
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245 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. London: The Hogarth Press, 1943. 8vo. Half-title. (Browning as usual.) Original publisher’s crimson cloth, spine gilt-lettered; original cream dust jacket printed in black by Vanessa Bell. FIRST EDITION, published by Leonard Woolf after Virginia Woolf’s death. In the introduction, he recalls: “For some time before [Virginia’s] death we had often discussed the possibility of her republishing Monday or Tuesday, or publishing a new volume of collected short stories. Finally, in 1940, she decided that she would get together a new volume…and include in it…some unpublished [stories]….In the present volume I have tried to carry out her intention” (p.7). Kirkpatrick A28a. $200-300
246 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays. London: Hogarth Press, 1950. 8vo. Half-title. Original cedar brown boards, spine gilt-lettered; original cream dust jacket printed in lemon yellow and black designed by Vanessa Bell (spine slightly soiled, a few tiny chips along top edge, one short closed tear). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION edited by Leonard Woolf, and including essays written at various times in the 20 years before Woolf’s death. In the preface, Leonard Woolf notes that “this fifth volume [of essays] will probably be the last” (p.7). Kirkpatrick A30b. $100-150
247 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). A group of 6 works, comprising: Monday or Tuesday. Richmond, 1921. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Fitzpatrick A5a. -- Reviewing. London, 1939. Original blue-grey wrappers; quarter morocco folding case. Fitzpatrick A24a. -- Roger Fry a Biography. London, 1940. Original cloth; original printed d/j. Fitzpatrick A25a. -- Between the Acts. New York, 1941. Original cloth; original pictorial d/j. Fitzpatrick A26b. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- Captain’s Death Bed and other Essays. New York, 1950. Original cloth; original pictorial d/j. Fitzpatrick A30a. -- Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey Letters. London, 1956. Original cloth; original pictorial d/j. Fitzpatrick A32a. Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, all FIRST EDITIONS except where indicated, condition generally fine. $500-700
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248 WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850). Ecclesiastical Sketches. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. 8vo. Original publisher’s boards (some wear to joints, hinges tender); full morocco pull-off case. Provenance: Mrs. Richard Watson (presentation inscription from the author on the half-title, Calgarth Park bookplate). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WORDSWORTH on the half-title: “Mrs. Watson / from Wm Wordsworth.” Richard Watson (1737–1816) was an Anglican bishop and academic, who served as the Bishop of Llandaff from 1782 to 1816. He married Dorothy Wilson, daughter of Edward Wilson in 1773, and was the author of some notable political pamphlets. In 1788, he purchased the Calgarth estate in Troutbeck Bridge, Windermere, Westmorland, where he was visited by various authors including Coleridge, De Quincey and Wordsworth. Wordsworth wrote his Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793) responding to Watson’s defense of the French monarchy. A FINE ASSOCIATION. $2,000-3,000
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249 WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850). Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and Edward Moxon, 1835. 12mo. Half-title. Original publisher’s drab boards (rebacked preserving original spine with portions of printed label, corners a little worn, rubbed); morocco folding case. Provenance: unidentified ownership inscription dated “May 1835” at head of title-page. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the publishers “From the Author” on the half-title. Healey 86. $1,000-1,500
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250 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959). Autograph manuscript signed (“Frank Lloyd Wright”), entitled “To the Countryside,” numerous holograph emendations and corrections in ink, several in pencil or purple pencil. N.p. [Taliesin?], [June 1926]. 2 pages, 4to, creased. THREE TIMES I HAVE BUILT [TALIESIN] UP FROM ITS ASHES EACH TIME STRONGER AND MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN BEFORE TRAGEDY DESTROYED IT. Following the 1914 fire and massacre at Taliesin, which took the lives of his mistress Mamah Cheney and her children, Frank Lloyd Wright vowed to rebuild. Calling the project Taliesin II, he began work on the new project. That same year, he began a relationship with wealthy divorcee Miriam Noel, and by 1915, the couple moved into the newly-completed Taliesin II. Their relationship was turbulent, likely in part due to Noel’s erratic behavior (later identified as schizophrenia), but the couple were married in November 1923; they separated less than a year later. During their separation, in 1924, Wright met Olgivanna Lazovic Hinzenberg. They moved in together at Taliesin in 1925, and Olgivanna gave birth to a daughter, Iovanna, in December 1925. For three days in early June 1926, in a fury over divorce proceedings and convinced she had an ownership claim over the property, Miriam Noel Wright tried to take Taliesin by storm, but was rebuffed by Wright’s employees each time. Wright, upset at the ensuing media frenzy, wrote a public response for publication in the local newspaper, the Home News. “I have never thanked my neighbors and townspeople directly for their friendship and forbearance - I want to do so now...My grandfather began my life here, my mother and her people lived here and loved this valley to which I have come back as the third generation in a struggle to develop on old family soil some of the finer elements of what we call civilization. It seems that my direct ways of meeting life as it comes to me and meeting my obligations to it has made me a marked man for the benefit of modern journalism. I can have no private life...I have made a mistake in accepting the desertion of Miriam Noel as final or ever believing her to be human. Having every reason to believe myself finally deserted and an intolerable domestic situation humanely ended, I allowed other lives to become entangled with mine - thinking no difficulty could arise to prevent me from making my life here ‘regular’ at last...What I wanted to say to you was that I like you people of this region. You all seem homelike to me. I’ve been about all over the globe and come back here with that feeling of coming ‘home.’...I think the countryside deserves the best of me and if you who make it what it is give me its benefit of the doubt in all this for a year or two I believe I will come through right side up and you may yet take pride in Taliesin as I have always hoped and believed you would do.” [With:] A typescript copy of an account of Miriam Noel Wright’s attempt to storm Taliesin while accompanied by a team of reporters, from the 10 June 1926 edition of the Home News ("Mrs. Wright is evidently a sick woman, and as such is deserving of more consideration than was shown her by a syndicate of scandalmondering newspapers in staging the spectacular attempt which she made...”). $4,000-6,000
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251 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959). Autograph manuscript signed (“Frank Lloyd Wright”), entitled “Taliesin III,” numerous holograph emendations and corrections in ink, a few in pencil N.p. Taliesin, 8 June 1926. 5 1/2 pages, 4to, creased. “YET A NEW TALIESIN HAS RISEN IN A WHOLE SPIRITUAL INCARNATION ABOVE ITS OLD - TO BE LIVED UP TO BY A SADDER PERHAPS WISER AND YET A HAPPIER MAN THAN IT HAS EVER KNOWN...WINDS SELDOM BLOW DOWN OAKS WELL ROOTED IN WISCONSIN SOIL...AND TALIESIN IS AN OAK.” Writing shortly after scandal with Miriam Noel (see previous lot), Wright carefully considers the past and the future of Taliesin. After the devastating fire and tragedy that took the life of his partner Mamah Cheney in 1914, Wright rebuilt Taliesin II, where he lived with his second wife, Miriam Noel Wright. On 20 April 1925, Taliesin was yet again devastated by fire, which destroyed the living quarters but spared the studio. Recognizing that Taliesin has become inextricably linked with several of his personal relationships, Wright continues to grapple with his relationship with the press: “Somehow Taliesin is mixed up in popular imagination with ‘women’: ignorant because regardless of true circumstances, ‘the public’... takes for granted that where there are ‘women’ there must be demoralization blame and disgrace. And ‘journalism’ of the baser sort suppressing facts it may privately know to the contrary...that demoralization should enter the popular mind with women is not fair....I would be a coward to feel anyone by myself to blame for all this....Those who meet life head on not only make good copy for newspapers they arouse and set in motion forces for evil as well as good.” Throughout, he considers Taliesin’s past as he contemplates building for its future: “The unfortunate comrade whose shelter Taliesin originally was [Mamah Cheney] met her death here in one of those unaccountable strokes of human fate that is like a stroke of lightning. Those privileged to touch the personal life of the Taliesin of that time in its difficult circumstances respected it highly. Only those who did not know it imagined it eccentric and profane. Tragedy suddenly destroyed that life forever and left a black hole, its smoking crater of a volcano upon the hill where once Taliesin stood. I was left to rebuild it - better and stronger than before. I tried to share the life I had dedicated to high purposes and great work there with a poor woman...This phase of Taliesin was ill-starred from its unsuitable beginning....Morbid resentments and suspicions hard to contemplate and worse to struggle with made Taliesin, for seven of the eight years, dead to all I had made it for. “ONCE MORE THE LIGHTNING STRUCK AND THE TALIESIN THAT WITNESSED THAT USELESS STRUGGLE AND EVERY OBJECT LEFT IN IT WHICH THAT MORBID LIFE HAD TOUCHED WENT DOWN TO UTTER RUIN. “I built it up again, this time painfully, with infinite difficulty out of scant resources, but better, nobler and stronger than before....And life smiled, life brought Taliesin late, at last, friendship and release from loneliness in sorrow and suffering in defeat. Blessed life can so bruise and maim and then bind up closing wounds and heal them.” The metaphorical rebuilding which Wright contemplates would not be completed until 1928. Some of his best-known buildings and most ambitious designs would be created in his studio during the Taliesin III period, including Fallingwater, the world headquarters for S.C. Johnson, and the first Usonian house. $4,000-6,000
252 XENOPHON (ca 430-ca 355 B.C.). Xenophon’s History of the Affairs of Greece. By the Translator of Thucydides. Translated by William Smith. London: for Benjamin White, 1770. 4to. Folding engraved frontispiece map. Contemporary tree calf (minor rubbing to extremities, a few scrapes to covers). Provenance: John Sullivan, Esq. (engraved armorial bookplate). Preceded by John Newman’s translation of 1685. ESTC T145017. A very fine copy. $1,000-1,500
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253 ARMSTRONG, Louis (1901-1971). Photograph signed and inscribed in image (“Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong), to Jackie Mabley, N.p., [ca late 1940s]. Black and white photograph, (visible image 240 x 188 mm), SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ARMSTRONG TO JACKIE MABLEY: “Best Wishes / To Jackie Mably [sic] / My very dear friend / From / Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong.” Comedian and entertainer Jackie “Moms” Mabley (1897-1975) began her career on the African American vaudeville circuit. In the mid-1920s, she made her Harlem debut at Connie’s Inn and quickly became a regular performer at Harlem Renaissance hotspots Cotton Club and Club Harlem where she developed her “Moms” character. It was here where she first met and performed alongside Armstrong, as well Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway and other jazz greats. $800-1,200 254 BROOKS, Gwendolyn (1917-2000). 4 autograph draft poems or notes signed (“Gwendolyn Brooks”), with numerous corrections and emendations, December 1968 and May 19, 1994. Together 5 pages, 8vo and 12mo. Comprising three drafts for “The Beauty in the Forest” and a draft of “For Sara Miller, sculptor.” Both poems were posthumously published in In Montgomery: And Other Poems, (Chicago: Third World Press, 2003). Brooks examines the notion of the gaze in “The Beauty in the Forest”: “And even deep into the forest the beauty was where no one could see. / The Forest Beauties perfected themselves for no gaze.” One draft of the poem is written in a small pocket day timer for December 1968, which also includes a note about Carl Sandburg. Her heavily amended draft of “For Sara Miller, sculptor” includes early notes for a poem Brooks wrote to commemorate Sara Miller’s bronze bust of Brooks, which was publicly unveiled the Harold Washington Library Center on 6 June 1994. Brooks saw the sculpture prior to its unveiling, and writes: “Sara, thank you for...sending my life into bronze” and continues “You see me UNBLINKINGLY BLACK!” [crossed out]. She concludes: “You see beyond seeables, see beyond flesh...No longer walking through rooms I shall be gone and not gone.” $600-800
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BROOKS, Gwendolyn (1917-2000). A Street in Bronzeville. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1945.
BROOKS, Gwendolyn (1917-2000). Annie Allen. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949.
8vo. Original black cloth gilt; publisher’s pictorial dust jacket.
8vo. Original black cloth gilt; publisher’s printed dust jacket (small tear, lightly sunned). Provenance: Kenan Heise (b. 1933), bookseller, author, journalist at the Chicago Tribune (inscription).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY BROOKS: “Sincerely, Gwendolyn Brooks, April 15, 1997.” Brooks published her first poem when she was 13 and her compositions were regularly printed in newspapers, especially the Chicago Defender, throughout her adolescence and early adulthood. A Street in Bronzeville, her first book of poetry, was recommended by Richard Wright to Harper & Brothers. Wright wrote that Brooks’s poems “are hard and real, right out of the central core of Black Belt Negro life in urban areas...She easily catches the pathos of petty destinies; the whimper of the wounded; the tiny accidents that plague the lives of the desperately poor, and the problems of color prejudice among Negroes.” (Kent, A Life..., p.62).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY BROOKS: “For Kenan Heise. Sincerely, Gwendolyn Brooks, February 24, 1996.” Brooks was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for this collection of poetry, the first African American recipient of the award. $600-800
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BROOKS, Gwendolyn (1917-2000). A group of 6 works, comprising:
Maud Martha: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. -- We Asked Gwendolyn Brooks About the Creative Environment in Chicago. Chicago: Illinois Bell Telephone, [1967]. INSCRIBED. -- Beckonings. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1975. INSCRIBED. -- Report from Part One. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. INSCRIBED. -- Report from Part Two. Chicago: Third World Press, 1996. INSCRIBED. -- And 3 others. Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, 8vo, all FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.
A Street in Bronzeville. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. -- Bronzeville Boys and Girls. New York, Evanston, London: Harper & Row, 1956. -- Selected Poems. New York, Evanston, London: Harper & Row, 1963. -- In the Mecca. New York, Evanston, London: Harper & Row, 1963. SIGNED. -- Riot. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969. SIGNED -- Blacks. Chicago: The David Company, 1989. Fifth printing, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. -- Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, 8vo, all FIRST EDITIONS except where noted, all in publisher’s bindings with dust jackets as issued, condition generally fine, dust jacket for A Street in Bronzeville with small tear with loss. $200-300
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CARVER, George Washington (1860s-1943). Autograph letter signed (“Geo. W. Carver”), as Director of the Department of Agriculture at Tuskegee Institute, to Emily Howland. Tuskegee, AL, 1 October 1897. 1 page, 8vo, on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute Department of Agriculture letterhead, with envelope, light creasing.
CARVER, George Washington (1860s-1943). Autograph letter signed (“G.W. Carver.”), as Director of Research and Experiment Station at Tuskegee Institute, to Grady Porter. Tuskegee, 17 February 1935. 1 page, 8vo, on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, with envelope, light creasing.
To abolitionist, suffragist, and Tuskegee benefactor Emily Howland (1827-1929) presenting a copy of Carver’s first publication Progressive Nature Studies, soliciting her opinion: “I hope you will both look at it and tell me what you think concerning the science.” The publication intended to instruct teachers on implementing nature studies in science education. Written in his first year as the Director of the Department of Agriculture, a post offered to him by Booker T. Washington after Carver completed his master’s degree in 1896. Here he pioneered agricultural science and taught students for 47 years. He writes to Howland, “my students still talk about your helpful words to them and wish to be remembered to you.”
To Grady Porter of the Tom Huston Peanut Company in Columbus, GA, a fellow peanut researcher. Their correspondence began as early as 1931 and continued through at least 1942. Here, Carver continues an on-going conversation possibly regarding the 1934 implementation of tariff rate quotas on peanuts: “’Peculiar condition’ is correct and just how we are going to pull out of it is a very serious problem. Just think of it, $110.00 per ton for peanuts, phenomonal. [sic]” $400-600
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DU BOIS, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963). Typed letter signed (“W. E. B. Du Bois”), as editor of The Crisis, to Charles H. Wesley. New York, 13 January 1930. 1 page, 8vo, on Editorial Rooms of The Crisis, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People letterhead, evenly toned, light creasing.
8vo. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth (some finish damage to covers from damp, rubbed). Provenance: John Price Sheldon, Buxton, M.P. (signature and inscription on half-title). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. First published in the United States in 1903, the book contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine. To develop this groundbreaking work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African-American in American society. $500-700
“Thank you for the book and return of the photographs. I shall be glad to note the History in THE CRISIS.” Charles H. Wesley (1891-1987), historian and author, was a longtime professor at Howard University and an accomplished scholar. Du Bois is likely referencing Wesley’s The History of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Development in College Life, first published in 1929. As the first historically African American intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity which counted Du Bois among its alumni, the work would have been of significant interest to readers of The Crisis. $300-400
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263 GARVEY, Marcus (1887-1940). Typed letter signed (“Marcus Garvey”), as President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, to Edna Green. West Kensington, London, 4 August 1936. 1 page, 8vo, on Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities’ League letterhead, light creasing. “We have to thank you very much for the good work you have done in securing the names and addresses of so many persons who are willing to work for the salvation of our Race. We have made a record of the names in conjunction with those from other parts of the world.” Written in the final phase of Garvey’s life when he had moved the headquarters of the UNIA from Jamaica to West Kensington. At the UNIA Convention of 1934, he proposed the Five-Year Plan which proposed that every African voluntarily send monetary contributions in order to revitalize the organization and achieve their aims. Garvey concludes his correspondence to Miss Grear, “We will be releasing to each and every promised worker a programme of the Five Year Plan, for all of them to work and make a success of it. You will hear from us on the matter in time.” $800-1,200
264 HUGHES, Langston (1901-1967). Typed letter signed (“Langston”), to William Grant Still. Cleveland, OH, 18 January 1937. 1 page, 8vo, small chips to left edge. “I was delighted to have both your letter and your card, and immensely pleased with your ideas for the opera.” Hughes writes to African American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978) regarding their collaboration on the opera Troubled Island about the life of Jean-Jacques Dessalines (17581806) and the Haitian Revolution. He muses on their creative partnership: “It must, of course, be as integrated as posible [sic], libretto and music, and I am beginning to wish we were one person, like Wagner, so that our creativeness would be a single powerful force, indissoluble in its beauty and strength…..I am sure that you can do a superb job with the music, and I hope that together we can make the words worthy of that music. So please always feel that I am open to suggestions and changes, however large or small they may be.” Hughes shares several titles on Haiti with Still that he has read in preparation. He also notes, “Interesting that you have a new musical typewriter, because I have a new writing typewriter (my other one being now 12 years old) and our libretto will be the first work done on this new machine of mine. All my poems and books were written on the old machine. I’m hoping to do better on the new one, (anyway, as well! No, better! As well would be no fun.)” Though Hughes began the libretto in 1936 and showed enthusiasm for the project, he left the project to report on the Spanish-American War for the Baltimore Afro-American. The libretto was finished by Verna Arvey (1910-1987), but the opera would not be performed until 1949, when it premiered on March 31 at the New York City Opera. Notably, it was the first grand opera composed by an African American composer to be produced by a major company. $400-600
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265 KING, Coretta Scott (1927-2006). Typed letter signed (“Coretta Scott King”) to Mr. S. Resnick. Atlanta, 31 October 1968. 1 page, 8vo, on Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. letterhead. A letter of thanks written by King in response to a letter of condolence and contribution in the wake of her husband Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination: “Let me thank you for your kind and comforting letter and the contribution. Such support mean [sic] a great deal to me and my family and gives us the encouragement we need to continue the work for which my husband gave his life.” $100-200
266 KING, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968). Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? New York: Harper & Row, 1967. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; publisher’s pictorial dust-jacket (slight wear to head of spine panel, short closed tear near rear flap fold at foot, touch of soiling on rear panel); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: H. O. Wilson (presentation inscription from the author). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY KING on front free endpaper: “To Mr. H. O. Wilson / In appreciation for your great support / Martin Luther King, Jr.” $3,000-4,000
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267 MALCOLM X (1925-1965). Typed letter signed (“Malcolm X”), to Alex Haley. Cairo, Egypt, 18 September 1964. “ 1 page, 8vo. A letter written to Alex Haley (1921-1992), part of a series of responses to the editorial, “The Lesson of Malcolm X” published by the Saturday Evening Post on September 12, 1964. Haley describes the initial correspondence in the Epilogue of The Autobiography of Malcolm X: “The Saturday Evening Post flew photographer John Launois to Cairo to locate Malcolm X and photograph him in color. The magazine’s September 12 issue appeared, and I sent a copy by airmail to Malcolm X. Within a few days, I received a stinging note, expressing his anger at the magazine’s editorial regarding his life story…I wrote to Malcom X that he could not fairly hold me responsible for what the magazine had written in a separate editorial opinion. He wrote an apology, ‘but the greatest care must be exercised in the future.’” Malcolm X opens his response to Haley’s apology: “Just after I had mailed a letter to you yesterday giving you my very subjective (smile) reactions to the POST article and its editorial, your letter came last night and made me feel a bit relieved and perhaps less subjective (smile again).” He continues, describing the exhausting nature of the civil rights struggle and the benefit he sees in stepping back and considering the cause from a global perspective, “WE’ve [sic] been under the gun so much, and for so long, we have become ‘gun shy’ perhaps without even realizing it. But this is actually the case with most American Negroes, especially these who are most active in the Negro Struggle, and particularly the Negro ‘leaders.’ I have been saying for five months that all the Negro leaders need to go abroad and forget the struggle for two months. They will come back with a new perspective and much broader scope: involving new aims and new methods to achieve these aims.” 1964 was a tumultuous year for Malcolm X and would prove to be the last full year of his life. He split from the Nation of Islam in early March, converted to Sunni Islam, undertook the Hajj in April, and contended with escalating threats from the Nation of Islam. He would spend much of the year traveling throughout Africa delivering lectures and conferring with prominent figures across the continent. Haley had originally met Malcom X in 1960 and had penned two articles about him and the Nation of Islam. After suggestions from his publisher, Haley proposed the idea of a biography to Malcolm X in 1963. Despite initial hesitation, Malcolm X agreed. In the Epilogue, Haley admits that “we got off to a very poor start. To use a word he liked, I think both of us were a bit ‘spooky.’” Over time their relationship thawed, and Haley used the material garnered from over 50 interviews to publish his critically-acclaimed first book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X in October 1965. $6,000-8,000 268 [MALCOLM X (1925-1965)]. SCHATT, Roy (1919-2002). Gelatin silver print. 1964. Visible image 238 x 168 mm, Schatt’s studio stamps and signature to verso, slight blemish at Malcolm X’s temple, matted and framed. Captured on June 20, 1964 when Malcolm X was a guest on the Long John Nebel Show on WOR Radio in New York City. During the program, Malcolm X, Nebel, and 3 other guests discussed African American identity, the effectiveness of protests, subconscious racial bias, and racial terminology with Malcolm X noting that the term “white” is not a just a description of skin color, but a word implying attitudes and privileged class. Photographer Schatt documented the popular radio show and its guests for over 17 years, capturing at least 4 images of Malcolm X. Schatt’s studio stamps and signature to verso. $300-400
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269 MANDELA, Nelson (1918-2013). Long Walk to Freedom. London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. 8vo. Numerous photographic illustrations. 20th-century calf gilt, smooth spine in 5 compartments, 2 gilt-lettered, large central compartment with onlaid South African flag; brown cloth slipcase with inlaid commemorative 5 rand “Madiba” coin featuring Mandela’s portrait, issued in 2008 to mark his 90th birthday. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Mandela’s first autobiography taken largely from a manuscript he secretly penned while imprisoned. SIGNED BY MANDELA. $800-1,200
270 MANDELA, Nelson (1918-2013). The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom. Boston, New York, Toronto, London: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. 4to. Illustrated. 20th-century calf, upper cover with onlaid cow-hide Xhosa ikhaka pointed oval shield. FIRST ILLUSTRATED TRADE EDITION, SIGNED BY MANDELA. $600-800
271 MANDELA, Nelson (1918-2013). Mandela: The Authorised Portrait. (London): Bloomsbury, 2006. 4to. Profusely illustrated with photographs and images from the Nelson Mandela Foundation and private collections. 20th-century goat, gilt-lettered, onlaid South African flag; brown cloth slipcase. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, number 1 of 2 copies, SIGNED BY MANDELA, with a foreword by Bill Clinton and introduction by Desmond Tutu. The story of Mandela’s remarkable life is recounted through extensive interviews with his family, close friends, colleagues, and fellow world leaders. $800-1,200
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272 [MANDELA, Nelson]. JOFFE, Joel (1932-2017). The State vs. Nelson Mandela: The Trial that Changed South Africa. Oxford: Oneworld, 2007. 8vo. Original deluxe black morocco gilt, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, 2 gilt-lettered, large central compartment decorated with flag of South Africa. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 10 of 10 specially bound copies, SIGNED BY NELSON MANDELA. An account of the landmark Rivonia Trial of 1963-1964 written by Joel Joffe, a human rights lawyer who was one of the defense attorneys for Mandela and his co-defendants. $600-800
273 [MANDELA, Nelson]. CARLIN, John (b.1956). Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation. New York: Penguin, 2008. 8vo. Original boards; publisher’s illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY NELSON MANDELA, of Carlin’s history of the 1995 Rugby World Cup held in South Africa. Nelson Mandela’s integral role in reshaping and racially integrating the South African National Team, the Springboks, to serve as a unifying force in post-Apartheid South Africa, was adapted into the 2009 film Invictus. $300-400
274 MANDELA, Nelson (1918-2013). The Historic Speech of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela at the Rivonia Trial: As Delivered from the Dock on April 20, 1964. Johannesburg: Learn and Teach Publications, [1998]. 8vo. Original publisher’s wrappers. Second edition, TWICE SIGNED BY MANDELA on title-page: once in his hand, and with one autopen signature. Originally printed in 1987 but “was seized under the emergency media regulations” and no copies are known to still exist. This reprint was published to mark Mandela’s 70th birthday, which he celebrated while still imprisoned. Despite the title page disclaimer, the publication was likely suppressed quickly leading to its scarcity. RARE: According to online records, no copies have ever sold at auction and OCLC locates only 12 copies. $1,000-1,500
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275 STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly… Illustrated Edition. Complete in One Volume. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1853. 8vo. Illustrated. (Some minor staining and soiling.) Original publisher’s brown cloth (minor wear to spine ends and extremities, hinges and text block cracked; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: L. Crowell (pencil signature on front free endpaper). FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. BAL 19527. [With:] STOWE. The Minister’s Wooing. New York: Derby and Jackson, 1859. 8vo. Original brown cloth (minor wear, rubbed). FIRST EDITION. $300-400
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276 WASHINGTON, Booker T. (1856-1915). The Future of the American Negro. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece portrait. Original maroon cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (minor rubbing to extremities). Provenance: William Johnston (gift inscription). FIRST EDITION of Washington’s first major published work. He outlines his ideas and philosophies regarding African Americans, especially pertaining to their education, referring often to Tuskegee University, which he co-founded. $400-600
277 WASHINGTON, Booker T. (1856-1915). Up from Slavery: An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece portrait. Original publisher’s maroon cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION of the second of Washington’s books published in his lifetime, which was a bestseller and was highly influential in the African American and allied communities. The success of the work prompted President Theodore Roosevelt to invite Washington to dine at the White House in October 1901. Although US presidents had previously hosted black guests including Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, this social occasion was notable because of its publicity and the equal footing Roosevelt extended to Washington. Vitriolic response from southern politicians and press, however, meant that no other African American was invited to dinner at the White House for nearly 30 years. $400-600
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278 WASHINGTON, Booker T. (1856-1915). Working with the Hands. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait and additional plates. Publisher’s maroon cloth gilt (some wear to extremities). FIRST TRADE EDITION, preceded by a subscribers edition of the same year. Billed as a “sequel to Up from Slavery,” Washington’s fourth book focuses on the industrial trades and vocations taught at Tuskegee Institute with numerous plates. $200-300
279 WASHINGTON, Booker T. (1856-1915). Putting the Most Into Life. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1906. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt. Provenance: Newton D. Baker, Jr. (1871-1937), lawyer, progressive Democrat politician, mayor of Cleveland from 1912-1915 (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Newton D. Baker was appointed Secretary of War by President Wilson in 1916. He oversaw America’s military involvement in World War I creating the nationwide draft, selecting General Pershing to lead the American Expeditionary Forces, and insisting that they participate as an independent fighting partner, rather than replenishing British and French troops. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. $300-400
280 WASHINGTON, Booker T. (1856-1915) The Man Farthest Down. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. 8vo. Fold-out map. Original publisher’s red cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. An examination of the poor and working classes in Europe by Washington, written while he was on sabbatical from Tuskegee Institute. The Man Farthest Down includes significant contributions from Robert E. Park (1864-1944), the influential sociologist who worked with Washington at Tuskegee, and later at the University of Chicago where he became a major figure in the Chicago school of sociology. $200-300
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282 WRIGHT, Richard (1908-1960). Uncle Tom’s Children. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 8vo. (Half-title toned, two clipped newspaper portraits of Wright mounted on half-title verso with some offset to title.) Original cloth (spine a little sunned, a few pale spots). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT on half-title verso: “With best wishes / Richard Wright / March 24 - 1938.” $400-600
283 [CAMUS, Albert (1913-1960), his copy]. - WRIGHT, Richard (1908-1960). - WEBB, Constance (1939-1948). A Hitherto Unpublished Manuscript. N.p.: Strictly private circulation [Constance Webb], n.d. [ca 1946]. 8vo. Original mimeographed proof copy. Plain stapled wrappers; glassine. Provenance: Albert Camus (1913-1960), French philosopher and author (annotations). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 57 of an unstated edition. According to Davis and Fabre, the edition comprised 100 copies, however, copies with numbers higher than 100 are known to exist, including a copy numbered 500 (though bibliographer Bill French notes, “it is doubtful that 500 copies were made”). Wright gave his biographer, Constance Webb, permission to publish the second part of Black Boy in a limited mimeographed edition. The work comprises 125 pages of Wright’s text for the second part of Black Boy, followed by 25 pages of Webb’s notes. Webb's biography was published in 1968. American Hunger, the unexpurgated version of Black Boy, was not published until 1991. There are 2 notations in ink: “Mr. Albert Camus” and “57”; and a pencil note, presumably in Camus’ hand “1965 - Donee par Ellen Wright” (Richard Wright’s widow). In 1946, Wright moved to Paris permanently, where he developed friendships with existentialist philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and absurdist Albert Camus. Their intellectual exchanges were highly influential during Wright’s early French period, most profoundly realized in The Outsider. Davis & Fabre, pp.144-145. A SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATION COPY. $1,500-2,500
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284 [ASTRONAUTS]. A group of 5 works, comprising: ALDRIN, Buzz. Men from Earth. New York: Bantam Books, 1989. SIGNED BY ALDRIN. -- DUKE, Charlie and Dotty. Moonwalker. Nashville: Oliver Nelson, 1990. SIGNED BY CHARLIE AND DOTTY DUKE. -- LOVELL, Jim. Lost Moon. The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. SIGNED BY LOVELL. -- COOPER, Gordon. Leap of Faith. An Astronaut’s Journey into the Unknown. New York: Harper Collins, 2000. SIGNED BY COOPER. -- CUNNINGHAM, Walter. The All-American Boys. New York: ibooks, 2003. Later edition, SIGNED BY CUNNINGHAM. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, 8vo. FIRST EDITIONS (except where indicated) ALL SIGNED, original publisher’s bindings and dust jackets. Condition generally fine. $500-700
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285 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, [1839-] 1840-1844. -- AUDUBON, John James and John BACHMAN (1790-1874). The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849-1854. Together, 2 works in 10 volumes, royal 8vo (264 x 162-172 mm). Birds: Half-titles, 500 HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHED PLATES after Audubon by W. E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in text; Quadrupeds: 155 HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHED PLATES by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J. J. and John Wodehouse Audubon. UNIFORMLY BOUND IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER’S BLIND-STAMPED BROWN MOROCCO, edges gilt (neatly rebacked to style). Provenance: Morgan Shepard (“John Martin”), (1865-1947) children’s book author (typed letters signed tipped in to:); R. M. Kaufmann (bookplate). FIRST OCTAVO EDITIONS IN THE DELUXE PUBLISHER’S BINDINGS Audubon’s double-elephant folio edition of The Birds of America (18271838) established his reputation as the greatest ornithological artist of his time. Though that edition was published in London to ensure the quality of the plates, he employed the Philadelphia firm of J. T. Bowen to produce this more commercially viable edition under the close supervision of his sons. The original subscription price was $100, and its commercial success granted Audubon financial security. To the original plate count included in the double-elephant folio edition, the octavo edition adds 65 new images for a total of 500 plates, making it “the most extensive color plate book produced in America up to that time” (Reese). The Quadrupeds was first published between 1845 and 1848 in three folio volumes with 150 colored plates; a supplement, published in 1854, provided an additional volume of text and 6 plates. This first octavo edition, issued in response to the success of the octavo edition of The Birds of America, contains all of the original 150 plates and 5 of the 6 supplemental plates, reduced by means of the camera lucida. Ayer/Zimmer, p.22; Bennett, p.5; McGill/Wood, p.208; Nissen IVB 51; Nissen ZBI 163; Reese, American Color Plate Books 34; Sabin 2364, 2638. A FINE TALL SET. $60,000-80,000
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286 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). Autograph letter signed (“John J. Audubon”) to Edinburgh bookseller Alexander Hill. London, 17 July 1830. One page, 4to (252 x 202 mm), with integral leaf addressed in holograph. Mailing folds, a few minor spots, remnants of mounting strip on integral address leaf. AUDUBON WRITES AN EDINBURGH BOOKSELLER REGARDING PAYMENT FROM ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN SUBSCRIBERS TO THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. “I have been in London a fortnight and am yet without any answer to my last letter sent to you from Liverpool about a month ago, in which I desire you to collect the money due to me by Miss Harriet Douglas of New York. I am extremely anxious to have your answer and some money from you and I again ask you to send in a regular list of my Subscribers with you and their respective residence to have the whole engraved in the sheets of my 1st Jany next plates of frontispieces. I hope you received the 19th number in good order…” In a postscript he writes concerning a young artist, Joseph B. Kidd (1808-1889), whom Audubon employed to paint birds for display and advertisements: “Please let me know where Mr. Kidd is and if in Edinburgh, why has he not written to us?” Harriet Douglas (1792-1833) was a New York heiress who spent time in Edinburgh. She was Audubon’s first American subscriber for The Birds of America. In his journal, Audubon mentions a visit to her at some later date and comments on the poor condition the plates had been maintained: “Called on Miss D—, the fair American. To my surprise I saw the prints she had received the evening before quite abused and tumbled. This, however, was not my concern, and I regretted it only on her account, that so little care should be taken of a book that in fifty years will be sold at immense prices because of its rarity…” $4,000-6,000 287 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). Autograph letter signed (“John J. Audubon”) to his son Victor. Pittsfield, [MA], 11 September 1844. One page, 4to (234 x 194 mm), with integral leaf addressed in holograph. Some minor pale spotting, remnants of previous mounting at corners on verso, mailing folds. ADDING SUBSCRIBERS FOR HIS NEW BOOK ON NORTH AMERICAN QUADRUPEDS. Informing his son that he has obtained more subscribers for their Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America: “I have obtained three more subscribers since my last to you… The subscribers are follows. — 1. Hble. Henry Shaw, Lanesboro (Pittsfield) 2. L. Pomeroy… 3. Thomas Allen, St. Louis, Mo. I have some hopes of another this day…” Also reporting on his sporting activities, “We went fishing for Pickerel and caught 10… We go again tomorrow morning at 4 o’clock…” He also gives his forthcoming travel plans through Hudson and Troy, New York. And concludes: “I hope to find you all quite well. God bless you all…” Victor Gifford Audubon (1809-1862) assisted his father, along with his brother John Woodhouse Audubon, in the creation of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. While he did contribute some artistic work to the project, his main function was to handle the business of producing and selling the work, along with the earlier The Birds of America. After his father’s death, Victor continued to manage the business aspects in promoting his father’s work. Of the subscribers he mentions, Henry Shaw had served as a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts and was at the time in the MA legislature. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1845. Thomas Allen was a successful St. Louis banker and railroad executive who later was elected to Congress. $3,000-4,000
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288 BURTON, Richard Francis (1821-1890). The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862. 8vo (235 x 145 mm). Wood engraved frontispiece, folding map, folding plan, numerous engraved illustrations. (A few short mostly marginal tears to the map, signature effaced on Dedication page.) Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, giltstamped spine (spine ends, top and bottom edge discreetly repaired; some light wear to edges). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Burton’s travels in the American West. Burton was very interested in the Mormons and wrote about them sympathetically. Howes B-1033; Sabin 9497; Wagner-Camp 370:2. $400-600
289 BURTON, Richard Francis (1821-1890), editor. -- MARCY, Randolph B. (1812-1887). The Prairie Traveler, a Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions, with Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes Between the Mississippi and the Pacific, and a Map. London: Trübner and Co., 1863. 8vo (179 x 117 mm). Half-title; engraved frontispiece, folding map, numerous engraved illustrations. 20th-century half green morocco gilt, top edge gilt. Fourth edition, the first edited by Burton. “After half a lifetime spent on the western plains and in the Rocky Mountains, Captain Marcy was well qualified to advise the prospective emigrant…By 1859, the routes of overland travel had been well established, and Marcy set out twenty-eight of them, including one to the Pike’s Peak gold region which had recently been discovered. The book was then brought up to date in 1863 with a new edition, published in London by Trübner, and edited by Richard Burton, who had just returned from a visit to Salt Lake City” (Wagner-Camp 335:4). Graff 2677; Howes M279; Sabin 44515. $600-800
290 CHASTELLUX, Franois Jean, Marquis de (1734-1788). Travels in North-America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782... translated from the French by an English Gentleman. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Colles, Moncrieffe, and others, 1787. 2 volumes, 8vo (197 x 118 mm). 2 folding engraved plates and 3 folding engraved maps at end of vol. II. Contemporary calf, smooth spines gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt (vol.II rebacked . FIRST DUBLIN EDITION published in the same year as the London edition, which was the first edition in English. According to Howes, “In its completed form [Travels] constitutes the first trustworthy record of life in the United States.” Howes C-324; Sabin 12229. $300-400
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291 [CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE]. The International Competition for a New Administration Building for The Chicago Tribune. Containing all the Designs Submitted in Response to the Chicago Tribune’s USD 100,000 Offer Commemorating its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, June 10, 1922. [Chicago: The Tribune Company, 1923]. Small folio. Etched frontispiece, 281 plates of the designs. Publisher’s cloth-backed burlap, leather lettering-pieces gilt to upper cover and spine. FIRST EDITION, with designs submitted to the controversial contest by the leading architects of the day, including Gropius, Loos, Adler, Bragdon, Burnham & Co., Saarinen, Goodhue, Holabird and Roche, and Phelps Stokes. John Howell and Raymond Hood (who would later build Rockefeller Center in New York) won with their gothic skyscraper design. $800-1,200
292 [CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR – CENTURY OF PROGRESS]. Kaufman and Fabry Co., Photographers. A Century of Progress International Exposition Chicago 19331934. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 4to (347 x 272 mm). 60 sepia-toned photographs printed on heavy cream stock, pencil captions lower margin; two additional images of the International Harverster exhibit laid in. Original red morocco gilt, watered silk endpapers, stamp-signed by Arthur Hertzberg & Craftsmen (some light wear to joints); cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 39 of 257 copies signed by Rufus C. Dawes and L. R. Lohr, President and General Manager, respectively, of the Exposition. A fine copy of this rare keepsake. [With:] Chicago and the World’s Fair 1933. Chicago: F. Husum Publishing Company Inc. 4to. Illustrated. Original silver-stamped blue cloth; pictorial label upper cover. $1,000-1,500
(part lot) 293 [CHICAGO]. HEFNER, Hugh (1926-2017). That Toddlin’ Town! A Rowdy Burlesque of Chicago Manners and Morals. Chicago: Chi Publishers, 1951. 8vo. Illustrated through. Original red pictorial wrappers (some light wear to spine and extremities). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY HEFNER: “To Mr. McBride with regards Hugh M. Hefner.” “Of this book, and of the countless hours spent in its creation Mr. Hefner says: (Nasty four letter word deleted by publisher)” (blurb rear cover). $600-800
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294 CLINTON, William Jefferson (b. 1946). My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt; slipcase; original unopened shrink wrap. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1500 copies, SIGNED BY CLINTON. $600-800
295 CLINTON, William Jefferson (b. 1946). My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. 8vo. Original blue boards gilt; original dust jacket. FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED BY CLINTON. $400-600
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296 CLINTON, William Jefferson (b. 1946). Typed letter signed (“Bill Clinton”), with one holograph emendation, as United States President, to Carlos J. Moorhead. Washington D. C., 17 November 1993. 1 page, 8vo, on White House letterhead, threehole punch. Sent the same day NAFTA was passed by House of Representatives, Clinton thanks California Republican Congressman Carlos Moorhead, who crossed party lines to approve the bill. Clinton has crossed out the typed greeting (“Representative Moorhead”) and written “Carlos”. He assures Moorhead about the upcoming congressional elections: “We have come through a difficult debate with many competing pressures. The historic nature of NAFTA and the intense feelings on both sides of the issue and on both sides of the aisle mean it would be best for the House and for our political system if this issue were not re-fought in the 1994 Congressional elections... I will do my utmost to personally encourage a campaign in which anti-NAFTA candidates will no use this issue against pro-NAFTA members, regardless of party, in the coming election.” 296
[With:] CLINTON, William Jefferson (b.1946). Typed letter signed (“Bill”), with holograph postscript, as United States President, to Sonny Callahan. Washington D. C., 29 September 1999. 1 page, 8vo, on White House letterhead.
Clinton writes to Sonny Callahan, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign, Export Financing, and Related Programs warning him of his impending veto of Callahan’s appropriation bill H.R. 2606 (106th): “The bill will not allow us to carry out critical foreign policy objectives, including our work to dismantle Russia’s nuclear weapons and to move forward on Middle East peace process commitments. I believe the bill seriously impairs U.S. interests and that I have no choice but to veto it.” Clinton adds an inscribed note near his signature, “I want to work this out with you.” $800-1,200
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297 [CONSTITUTIONS]. Constitutional Law: Comprising the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation; the Constitution of the United States; and the Constitutions of several States composing the Union. Washington City: Gales and Seaton, 1819. 12mo (174 x 100 mm). Errata slip pasted to final leaf verso. (Browning and spotting throughout, some dampstaining.) Contemporary calf, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (minor losses to spine, rubbed); cloth folding case. Provenance: Louis Dicken Wilson (1789-1847), North Carolina politician, General in the U.S. Army (signatures on fly-leaf and title, dated 1819, Raleigh, and 1826). FIRST EDITION THUS, including constitutions of Vermont, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi, Indiana, and Illinois in addition to the 13 original states. Louis Dicken Wilson represented Edgecombe County in the General Assembly of North Carolina from 1814-1819, and then in the North Carolina Senate in 1820, and again from 1824-1832, when he was chosen speaker. Shaw-Shoemaker 47716; see Sabin 16133 (listing only later editions). $1,000-1,500
298 DARROW, Clarence (1857-1938). The Story of My Life. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932. 8vo. Color frontispiece portrait. Original white buckram; in original glassine dust jacket (minor chipping and tears at edges); original publisher’s board box (splitting at edges). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, unnumbered out-of-series copy SIGNED BY DARROW. [With:] A memorial card for funeral services for Darrow at the Bond Chapel, University of Chicago laid in. A VERY FINE COPY. $1,000-1,500
299 DODGE, Richard Irving (1827-1895). The Hunting Grounds of the Great West. A Description of the Plains, Game, and Indians of the Great North American Desert. Introduction by William Blackmore. London: Chatto & Windus, 1877. 3 parts bound in 2 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece portrait, folding map and 19 plates. Contemporary half calf (joints repaired). Provenance: Sir John Lubbock (bookplates, signed on half-title with ex-dono inscription from the translator William Blackmore, dated 20 November 1876, and presumably his pencil annotations at end). FIRST EDITION. John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet (1834-1913), was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath. Lubbock worked in his family company as a banker but made significant contributions in archaeology, ethnography, and several branches of biology. He coined the terms “Paleolithic” and “Neolithic” to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, respectively. He helped establish archaeology as a scientific discipline. He corresponded extensively with Charles Darwin, who lived nearby in Down House, and was influential in nineteenth-century debates concerning evolutionary theory. William Blackmore was translator and also the dedicatee of this work. Howes D-404. $400-600
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300 FORD, Gerald (1931-2006). Typed letter signed (“Jerry Ford”), as House Minority Leader, to Donald E. Wieringa. Washington D. C., 2 April 1971. 1 page, 8vo, on Office of the Minority Leader, House of Representatives letterhead, top edge lightly toned with small chip. Ford responds to concerned constituent Donald E. Wieringa of Grand Rapids, regarding the court-martial of Lt. William Calley (b.1943) for his leadership role in the My Lai Massacre, writing the day after President Nixon released Calley to house arrest: “May I thank you for your expression of interest in the Lt. Calley case. Which has generated much comment both in and out of Congress. I share the grave concern which you expressed. Vietnam veterans with whom I have talked were astonished by the Defense Department’s decision to prosecute Lt. Calley. They are distressed and angered by the court martial verdict. I am sure this verdict will be appealed to higher authority, and I hope that Lt. Calley will benefit from equity and justice.” $600-800
301 HAMILTON, Alexander (1757-1804). The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Most Important Official Reports; An Improved Edition of the Federalist, on the New Constitution, written in 1788; and Pacificus, on the Proclamation of Neutrality, Written in 1793. New York: Williams & Whiting, 1810. 3 volumes, 8vo (193 x 110 mm). (Lacking engraved portraits of Hamilton, Jay and Madison, some browning or minor spotting.) Contemporary calf, smooth spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt (Vol. I p. 325 misbound, some minor rubbing, a few hinges starting); morocco folding case. Provenance: B. Taft Jr. (signatures in pencil). FIRST EDITION of this collection of official reports, including the sixth edition of The Federalist Papers. The work was edited by John Wells, and incorporates changes based on Hamilton’s notes from his own copy of The Federalist; the names of the authors are appended to each essay. See Howes H-114; Sabin 29987. $3,000-5,000
302 JOHNSON, Lyndon B. (1908-1973). Typed letter signed (“Lyndon”), as Vice President, to William J. McManus. Washington D.C., 28 April 1963. 1 page, 8vo, on Vice President stationary, with envelope, toning, adhesive residue to upper and lower margins. “It is always a pleasure to acknowledge such nice letters from old and good friends.” [With:] JOHNSON, Claudia “Lady Bird” (1912-2007). Typed letter signed (“Lady Bird Johnson”), as First Lady, to William J. McManus. Washington D. C., 29 December 1964. 1 page, 8vo, on White House letterhead, with envelope, minor toning at creases. A note of gratitude: “The orchid was just exquisite. How thoughtful of you to remember my birthday.” $500-700
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303 KENNEDY ONASSIS, Jacqueline Bouvier (1929-1994). Typed letter signed (“Jacqueline Kennedy”), to Jonathan Agronsky. N.p., 10 February 1964. 1 page, 8vo, on Mrs. John F. Kennedy stationary with black mourning border, very light creasing. Kennedy expresses her appreciation to Agronsky who sent an image of her son John at President Kennedy’s funeral: “How very kind of you to send me the portrait of John saluting on the steps of the church, and it is one of the most unusual ones I have seen. You can be assured that I will always treasure this and never forget your thoughtfulness in sending it to me.” $800-1,200
304 [KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald]. Memorial Addresses in the Congress of the United State and Tribute in Eulogy of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Late a President of the United States. Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1964. 8vo. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Original black gilt-stamped cloth; morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY AND JACQUELINE KENNEDY. Comprising the addresses and tributes given in the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives on the life, character, and public service of John F. Kennedy. $4,000-6,000
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305 LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and CLARK, William (1770-1838). History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6. Philadelphia and Dublin: Bradford and Inskeep, J. Christie, 1817. 2 volumes, 8vo (208 x 127 mm). Folding map, 5 single-page maps, with the plate “Principal Cascade of the Missouri River.” (Lacking 12pp. prelims in vol. II, some spotting or browning throughout, a few short marginal tears, some minor offsetting.) Contemporary calf gilt, smooth spines gilt, red and black morocco lettering-pieces gilt (rebacked preserving original spines, some minor rubbing, wear or soiling). Scarce Dublin edition, which closely follows the first edition of 1814, and which includes Jefferson’s “Life of Captain Lewis” of 18 August 1813 (pp. vii-xxvii), Paul Allen’s “Preface” (pp. iii-v), as well as other text not found in the first London edition. There is disagreement about the preliminary matter in volume II; Howes calls for 18 preliminary pages, whereas Sabin and Wagner-Camp call for 12 preliminary pages. Volume II of the present copy is without the preliminary leaves, with text starting after the title-page on page [3]. “THE MOST IMPORTANT WESTERN EXPLORATION” (Howes). Nicholas Biddle edited the text of the first American edition with the assistance of Paul Allen, and the first edition was published in Philadelphia in 1814. “This reissue of the Bradford and Inskeep edition of 1814 was printed with larger, clearer type, thirty-two lines to the page instead of the earlier thirty-six, and contained other editorial changes. Coues considered it to be the best of the Biddle-Allen editions” (Wagner-Camp). Field 930; Graff 2482; see Hill, p.180 (“one of the most interesting narratives of North America in existence”); see Howes L-317; Sabin 856; Sabin 40831; Wagner-Camp 13:6. $10,000-15,000
306 MARCY, Randolph Barnes (1812-1887). Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852: By Randolph B. Marcy, ... assisted by George B. McClellan. Washington, D. C.: Robert Armstrong, 1853. 8vo. 65 plates comprising: 12 lithographed views, 10 engraved geological plates (one hand-colored and folding, numbered 1-11, without plate No. 2 as issued), 6 lithographed paleontology plates, 18 lithographed zoology plates, and 19 botanical plates (numbered I-XX, without plate XVIII as issued); 2 folding maps (the larger map with short tear to fold repaired verso). Contemporary calf, red and black morocco lettering-pieces gilt (repairs to hinges and spine, some light wear). FIRST EDITION, Senate issue, of “Marcy’s report [which] abounds in topographical and geographical detail” (Wagner-Camp). The larger of the two maps, Map of the Country Between the Frontiers of Arkansas and New Mexico, shows Marcy’s route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe in 1849, and “was an attempt not only to bring together information obtained from his own explorations, but to show the relation of that country to the areas lying to the north and south and to the west as far as the Colorado River...one of the best maps of the period.” (Wheat). The second smaller map shows the territory of the upper Red River explored in 1852. Howes M-276; Sabin 44512; Wagner-Camp 226:3; Wheat Transmississippi 791. $400-600
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307 McKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) -- HALL, James (1793-1868). History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia: D. Rice and A.N. Hart, 1855. 3 volumes, 8vo (260 x 169 mm). 120 hand-colored lithographed plates by J.T. Bowen, most after Charles Bird King (1785-1862). (Occasional spotting primarily to text, Moa-na-hon-ga plate with 1/2-in. marginal tear.) PUBLISHER'S DELUXE RED MOROCCO GILT, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, gilt turn-ins, edges gilt (scratch to rear board vol. III, very minor spotting to some boards, very light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: R.M. Kauffmann (bookplate), with gift inscription from “E.W.K.” dated 1947. Early octavo edition. The first edition of 1836-1844 was published in folio format, and the first smaller-format edition of 1850 contained the additional plate “Red Bird” as the frontispiece to volume II. The plates, which Howes describes as “the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed,” are from King’s portraits previously held in the Indian Gallery, Department of War (Washington D. C.) before they were destroyed in the fire that ravaged the Smithsonian in 1865. Howes M-129; Sabin 43411. A FINE COPY IN THE DELUXE BINDING. $15,000-20,000
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308 MICHAUX, François-André (1770-1855). The North American Sylva. Paris: C. d’Hautel, 1819. 3 volumes, 8vo (249 x 160 mm). Half-titles, 156 color stipple-engraved plates and finished by hand by Gabriel, Bessin, Renard, Cailly, and others after Pancrace Bessa, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, and Henri-Joseph Redouté. (Mostly marginal spotting, light toning to a few plates vol. III, gutter margin reinforced between pp.2-3 vol. III.) Contemporary half green calf backed marbled boards, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands decorated in gilt and blind, red morocco lettering pieces gilt (rebacked preserving original spines and endpapers, rubbing to extremities). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by A.L. Hillhouse, containing the findings of François-André Michaux and his father André, who explored the southern Appalachians, Spanish Florida, the Bahamas, the Carolinas, and the midwest, as well as Canada (including Hudson’s Bay). The first edition contained 138 plates, and the present edition was enlarged to include 156 plates from the drawings by Pancrace Bessa (17721846), Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), and Henri-Joseph Redouté (1776-1852). The work remained the definitive text on the subject until the publication of Charles Singer Sargent’s Silva of North America (1891-1902). Sabin notes that of the English editions “this, notwithstanding some typographical errors, is the best.” Sabin 48694. $4,000-6,000
309 MICHAUX, François-André (1770-1855). -- NUTTALL, Thomas (1786-1859). The North American Sylva; or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. Philadelphia: D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1859. 5 volumes, large 8vo (265 x 175 mm). 277 hand-colored engraved or lithographed plates, additional engraved frontispiece portrait of Michaux in vol. I. (Occasional spotting, small wormhole in upper corner of a few leaves in vol. II of the Nuttall.) ORIGINAL DELUXE PUBLISHER’S BLIND-STAMPED BROWN MOROCCO, spines gilt-lettered, edges gilt (a few discreet repairs to joints, very slight rubbing to a few extremities). Provenance: Donald Scott (bookplate). Later edition. “Few American color plate books had such lasting popularity as this classic work on American trees, or as tangled a publication history... In 1856 a fire destroyed the premises of the publisher of the joint edition. The Michaux plates were saved, but the Nuttall stones were evidently lost, and the later joint editions used new stones” (Reese, Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books 21). Sabin 48695 & 56351 (“Of the two works united, it is no exaggeration to remark that it is the most complete work of its kind and is a production of unrivaled interest and beauty”). $3,000-4,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 131
310 [MORMONISM]. The Deseret First Book. -- The Deseret Second Book. [In Deseret]. [Salt Lake City, UT]: [Regents of the Deseret University], 1868. 2 volumes, 12mo (185 x 118 mm). Text printed in Deseret language throughout, pictorial title-page, numerous illustrations. Original salmon or brown cloth-backed printed boards (a few minor stains). FIRST EDITIONS of this “new alphabet consisting of thirty-eight characters...[intended to simplify] the English language [and] to invent an entirely new and original set of characters” (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Historian’s Office pamphlet, laid in). Alfred L. Bush notes: “I find [volumes in the Deseret alphabet] a curious and interesting aspect of Brigham Young’s empire-building -- which went so far as to include an attempt at an alphabetic reformation” (qtd. in Streeter). Flake 2818; Streeter IV: 2309. $200-300
311 [MORMONISM]. The Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, Volume XII. Liverpool: Edited and Published by Orson Pratt, 1850. Numbers 1-24 in one volume, 8vo (213 x 134 mm). General title, preface and index bound at front. (Minor marginal spotting or staining to a few leaves, a few mostly marginal annotations.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (some very light wear, bookplate removed from pastedown). Provenance: Matthias Cowley (1829-1864), British Mormon, early overland pioneer to the Salt Lake Valley (signature partially effaced on pastedown); Arthur W. North (gift inscription in purple pencil from Harriet B. Hasker, see below). The complete run of Numbers 1-24 comprising Volume XII of The Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, the final volume edited by Orson Pratt (see lot 315). Unlike earlier volumes in which a new number was released each month, numbers were issued twice per month. Numbers 1-8 include information about the pilgrimage from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City, adapted from the private overland journal of Orson Pratt. He began to report on the journey in Volume XI, Nos. 23-24, and the complete account was published as a separate work entitled Exodus of Modern Israel in 1947. Covering the most significant period of the migration west, Pratt details conditions faced by the emigrants, as well as information about the gold rush, the condition in the mines, and early government in California and Utah. In her gift inscription, Harriet Hasker notes that she is “Daughter of Pioneer John Binns, Utah 1847.” See Flake 4779; see Wagner-Camp 171. UNCOMMON WITH FINE EARLY LATTER DAY SAINT PROVENANCE. $500-700
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312 [MORMONISM]. Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly, at Their Session, begun and held at Springfield, on the seventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty. Springfield: Wm. Walters, 1841. 8vo. (Overall browning and spotting, dampstaining). ORIGINAL SHEEP-BACKED BOARDS, red morocco lettering-piece (overall soiling and wear, lettering-piece with slight chipping, a few early light annotations); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION. During the 1840-1841 session of the Illinois General Assembly, laws were passed incorporating Nauvoo as a city (pp.52-57), incorporating the Nauvoo House Association (pp.131-132), incorporating the Nauvoo Agricultural and Manufacturing Association (pp.139-145), and appointing a Notary Public to Nauvoo (p.190). In addition to the significant features of the city’s corporate powers, elections, court system, and the right to establish a university system, the “Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo” includes an unusual provision allowing for the organization of a militia: “The city council may organize the inhabitants of said city subject to military duty into a body of independent military men, to be called the ‘Nauvoo Legion,’ the court martial of which shall be composed of the commissioned officers of said legion…with full powers and authority to make, ordain, establish and execute all such laws and ordinances… Said legion shall be exempt from all other military duty” (p.57). Additionally, an important attachment to the Road Act provided that “any citizen of Hancock county, may, by voluntary enrollment, attach himself to the Nauvoo Legion, with all the privileges which appertain to that independent military body” (p.223). Throughout, important principles are named, including Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Orson Pratt, Sidney Rigdon, Geroge Miller, Lyman Wright, John Snyder, and Peter Hawes. $1,000-1,500
313 [MORMONISM]. Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the First Session of the Sixteenth General Assembly, begun and held at the City of Springfield, January 1, 1849. Springfield: Charles H. Lanphier, 1849. 8vo. (Light overall browning, dampstaining to a few leaves, a few spots or stains.) Original sheep-backed boards, black morocco lettering-piece (rebacked preserving original spine, some dampstaining or soiling); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, including six laws passed to address the “Hancock Disturbances.” As tensions grew between the residents of Nauvoo and the residents of Hancock County, fighting broke out. Joseph and Hyrum Smith were imprisoned and later killed by a mob, Nauvoo was raided, and the Mormons agreed to leave Illinois. Among the pertinent laws: “An Act to Pay Certain persons the Balance Due the from the State,” including a list of persons who were called into service by the Governor to suppress the disturbances (pp.33-34); “An Act to compensate Porter Sergant for powder furnished in the Hancock War” (p.36); “An Act authorizing the removal of the county seat of Hancock county” (p.56); “An Act for the relief [of] certain persons therein named,” including Thomas H. Owen, who was paid $51.34 “for provisions furnished the troops…in the Mormon war,” and Thomas Wells, who received $5 “for provisions furnished by him to the troops aforesaid” (pp.118-119); “An Act to provide for the sale of lands and town lots in township four north, range nine west, in Hancock County” (p.181); and a report in the appendix containing expenditures relating to the disturbances at Nauvoo. $800-1,200
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314 [MORMONISM]. LINFORTH, James (1827-1899), editor. -- PIERCY, Frederick H. (1830-1891), illustrator. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley... Together With a Geographical and Historical Description of Utah, and a Map of the Overland Routes to that Territory, from Missouri River. Liverpool: Franklin D. Richards; London: Latter-Day Saints’ Book Depot, 1855. 4to (309 x 238 mm). Folding frontispiece map “Utah and the Overland Routes to it, from the Missouri River,” with the Utah border and routes hand colored in outline, 30 steel engraved plates, and woodcuts in text after Frederick H. Piercy. (Pale dampstain to lower margin, some browning or soiling.) Contemporary green half calf gilt (some minor rubbing or wear, library card pocket glued to front pastedown); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF “SOME OF THE BEST WESTERN VIEWS OF THE PERIOD” (Streeter). “One of the most elaborately and beautifully illustrated of Western books. A large portion of the edition was water-damaged while in transit to New York. In some copies the map of Utah counties is hand-colored” (Howes). In early 1853, Samuel W. Richards and Frederick Piercy decided to publish an illustrated travel book meant to encourage English Mormons to emigrate to Utah. Piercy, a 23-year-old convert of 5 years, was a skilled artist and engraver; Richards, the president of the British Mission, financed his trip to the United States in February 1853. Piercy visited Carthage and Nauvoo, where he drew Carthage Jail and the ruins of the Nauvoo temple as well as portraits of Lucy Smith and two of Joseph Smith’s sons. He set out on the overland route, sketching prominent landmarks along the way; arriving in Utah, he drew a panorama of the Great Salt Lake City and sketched Brigham Young’s portrait. He wrote a detailed narrative of his travels, which he gave to James Linforth to edit on his return to England in early 1854. Linforth was an assistant editor of the Millennial Star (see lots 311 and 315), and he added extensive footnotes to Piercy’s narrative, including a comprehensive summary of the LDS emigration up to 1855. The book was originally published in 15 monthly parts beginning in July 1854. Flake 46; Graff 2501; Howes L-359; Sabin 4; Wagner-Camp 259. $10,000-15,000
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315 [MORMONISM]. [PRATT, Orson (1811-1881), his copy]. The Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, Volume I. Manchester: W. Shackleton & Son, 1841. Numbers 1-12 in one volume, 8vo (208 x 131 mm). General title, preface and index bound at front. (Inscription heavily bled with offsetting and inkburn, some browning or spotting.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, black morocco lettering-piece gilt on upper cover (rebacked, corners restored). Provenance: Orson Pratt (1811-1881), Mormon theologian, original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (gilt-lettered label on front cover); Orson Pratt Jr. (b.1837), (presentation inscription, see below). FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST MORMON PERIODICAL OUTSIDE OF THE UNTED STATES, edited by Parley Pratt in its first year of publication, and continually published until 1970. “It is difficult to overestimate the value of the Millennial Star…Its pages contain a continuous record of the progress of the Church in every corner of the globe, in some instances the only such record” (Crawley). Parley Pratt was eventually replaced as editor, and was later succeeded by his brother, Orson Pratt, who served as editor from 15 August 1848 through 15 December 1850. ORSON PRATT’S COPY, PRESENTED TO HIS SON ORSON PRATT JR.: “Presented to Orson Pratt Jr. by his Father, April 10th 1856.” Orson Pratt was ordained as a member of the original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, called in 1835 under the direction of Joseph Smith. After Joseph Smith’s death, Pratt supported Brigham Young, and was part of the first party to arrive in Salt Lake Valley in 1847. He was called to return to Europe as a mission administrator between 1848 and 1851, during which time he served as the editor of the Millennial Star. His son, Orson Pratt, Jr., was the first born of his 45 children. He did not follow in the footsteps of his father into the hierarchy of Mormon leadership, and publicly renounced his faith in 1864. Crawley 71; Flake 4779. A SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATION COPY. $1,000-1,500
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316 [MORMONISM]. REMY, Jules (1826-1893) and Julius BRENCHLEY (1816-1873). A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City...With a Sketch of the History, Religion and Customs of the Mormons. London: W. Jeffs, 1861. 2 volumes, 8vo. Half-title and frontispiece portrait in each volume, 10 engraved plates, folding map. Original blue blind-stamped cloth, Mormon tabernacle in gilt on front covers, spines gilt-lettered. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, after the French language first edition of the previous year, recounting Remy and Brenchley’s trip from San Francisco to Salt Lake City in 1855, where they stayed for one month. The Frenchmen “were fascinated by the Mormons, and much of this book is devoted to the new American religion” (Wagner-Camp). The folding map traces the authors’ route. Flake 6867; Forbes 2447; Howes R-210; Sabin 64594; Wagner-Camp 364:2. $800-1,200
317 NUTTALL, Thomas (1786-1859). The Genera of North American Plants, and a Catalogue of the Species to the Year 1817. Philadelphia: D. Heartt for the Author, 1818. 2 volumes, 8vo (199 x 119 mm). (Some soiling or spotting, dampstaining.) ORIGINAL CLOTH-BACKED BOARDS UNCUT, printed labels on spines (old repairs to spines, joints starting, minor losses to spine ends and extremities, some soiling or staining). Provenance: William Wagner (17961885), Founder of the Wagner Free institute of Science, Pennsylvania merchant and State Senator. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY NUTTALL: “Wm. Wagner presented by Mr. Thomas Nuttall the Author Aug. 24th 1818.” Thomas Nuttall and William Wagner were both early members of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, which was established in 1818. Other notable 19th-century members included Thomas Jefferson, Richard Owen, Georges Cuvier, Alexander von Humboldt, and John James Audubon. Wagner founded the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia to provide free lectures and demonstrations for the public, which also housed a fine scientific library. Pritzel 6772; Sabin 56347. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. $800-1,200
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318 OBAMA, Barack. The Audacity of Hope. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. 8vo. Original publisher’s boards; dust jacket; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY OBAMA on the title-page. A FINE COPY. $500-700
319 OBAMA, Barack. Duplicated typescript of his 2004 Democratic Convention Keynote Speech, entitled “Audacity of Hope.” [c.2008]. 4 pp., 4to. SIGNED BY OBAMA at head of the first page. On “Obama ’08” stationery. Loose sheets; housed in cloth folding case. With small previous authenticator’s label on verso of first page. The keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention was given by then Illinois State Senator, United States Senate candidate, and future President Barack Obama on the night of Tuesday, July 27, 2004. His unexpected landslide victory in the March 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Democratic primary had made him overnight a rising star within the national Democratic Party, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, Dreams from My Father. His convention keynote address was well received, which further elevated his status within the Democratic Party and led to his reissued memoir becoming a bestseller. $600-800
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320 OBAMA, Barack. Duplicated typescript of his speech entitled “A More Perfect Union,” delivered at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia, March 18, 2008. [N.d.]. 10 pp., 4to. SIGNED BY OBAMA at head of the first page. (A few minor creases at edges.) Loose sheets; housed in calf folding case. Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech was delivered by thenSenator Barack Obama on March 18, 2008 in the course of the contest for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination before an audience at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. It was prompted by the attention paid to controversial remarks made by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor and, until shortly before the speech, a participant in his campaign. Obama framed his response in terms of the broader issue of race in the United States. The speech’s title was taken from the Preamble to the United States Constitution. In it he addressed the subjects of racial tensions, white privilege, and race and inequality in the United States, discussing black “anger,” white “resentment,” and other issues as he sought to explain and contextualize Wright’s controversial comments. His speech closed with a plea to move beyond America’s “racial stalemate” and address shared social problems. It was considered by many to be the most persuasive piece of oratory on U.S. race relations since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at the August 28, 1963 March on Washington. $600-800
321 OBAMA, Barack. Keeping America’s Promise: Strengthening the Middle Class. [N.p.: n.p., 2008]. 4to. Original wrappers, stapled; cloth folding case. SIGNED BY OBAMA at the end of the introduction. Pamphlet outlining the Obama economic plan to jumpstart the economy at the start of his first term, produced by Obama for America. With small previous authenticator’s label on verso of signed page. $400-600
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322 OBAMA, Barack. Duplicated typescript of his State of the Union Address, delivered on January 27, 2010. [N.d.]. 13 pp., 4to. SIGNED BY OBAMA at head of the first page. Stapled at upper left corner; housed in calf folding case. Obama’s first State of the Union Address, though he did give a non-State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress a month after taking office in 2009. The speech was delivered in the United States House of Representatives in the United States Capitol. The theme for President Obama’s speech was “Rescue, Rebuild, Restore – a New Foundation for Prosperity”. Among the topics that Obama covered in his speech were proposals for job creation and federal deficit reduction. $800-1,200
323 OBAMA, Barack. Photographic print official portrait of President Barack Obama, photo by Pete Souza, signed “Barack Obama”. [N.d., ca 2009]. 8vo, visible area 250 x 197 mm, matted and framed, unexamined out of frame. $200-300
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324 OGILBY, John (1600-1676), translator. [MONTANUS, Arnoldus (ca 16251683)]. America: being the latest, and most Accurate Description of the New World... Collected from most Authentick Authors, Augmented with later Observations, and Adorn’d with maps and Sculptures, by John Ogilby. London: Printed by the Author, 1671. Folio (401 x 258 mm). Engraved allegorical title, letterpress title printed in red and black. 56 engraved plates comprising: 6 portraits, 3 folding views and plans, 17 engraved double-page maps and 30 double-page views; 66 engraved illustrations in text; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. (Without the “Arx Carolina” view [see below], map of Virginia pars Australis apparently supplied and with marginal repair lower right corner, A3 with portion of lower corner margin torn away, O2 with rust-hole affecting a few letters, a few leaves with pale dampstain, otherwise fine.) Contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt, morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, corners renewed); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Charles Palmer, later Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, 1st Duke of Southampton (1662-1870), Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland’s illegitimate son (early letterpress gift bookplate dated 10 May 1707, engraved armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second issue, without the “Arx Carolina” plate, and with the Lords Proprietor’s map and a map of Barbados. In place of the “Arx Carolina” plate (depicting the castle on the French settlement at present Paris Island) is Moxon’s map of Carolina, A New Discription of Carolina By Order of the Lords Proprietors (known as The First Lords Proprietors Map). The map was based on a manuscript map by philosopher John Locke, and is the first large-format map of the newly-settled Carolina colony. Also in the present copy is a copy of the Virginia pars Australis map found in copies of the first issue (likely supplied from another copy). Ogilby’s text is, in part, a translation of Montanus’s De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, with numerous additions about New England, New France, Maryland and Virginia from more reliable sources. He includes a short section, “New Netherland, now call’d New York,” which recounts the transfer of sovereignty from the Netherlands to England in 1664. Most of the plates were reprinted from the original Dutch atlas plates. Alden & Landis 671/207; Borba de Moraes II:626; JCB (3) III:227-8; Palau 177493; Sabin 50089; Stokes Manhattan VI:262; Wing O-165. A FINE WIDE-MARGINED COPY. $30,000-40,000
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325 [PRESIDENTS & POLITICS]. A group of 5 books signed by Presidents or American political figures, comprising: CARTER, Jimmy. The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. FIRST EDITION. -- CLINTON, Hillary Rodham. Living History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY CLINTON. -- CLINTON, William Jefferson. My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1500 copies, SIGNED BY CLINTON. Original shrink wrap. -- OBAMA, Barack. Dreams From My Father. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2004. Later edition, SIGNED BY OBAMA; lacking dust jacket; with slipcase. -- ALBRIGHT, Madeleine. The Mighty and the Almighty. Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs. New York: Harper Collins, 2006. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY ALBRIGHT. -Together, 5 works, 8vo, original publisher’s bindings and dust jackets except where indicated, condition generally fine. $700-900 326 REAGAN, Ronald (1911-2004). An American Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth-backed boards; dust jacket; morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY REAGAN on the front flyleaf: “To Jerry & Barbara Weiner - With Best Wishes. Ronald Reagan / June 24 - ’91.” A VERY FINE COPY. $2,000-3,000 327 [REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. A sammelband, comprising: RAYNAL, Abbé. The Revolution of America. London: for Lockyer Davis, 1781. With final advertisement leaf N4. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. ESTC T1893; Howes R-85; Sabin 68104. -- PAINE, Thomas. A Letter addressed to the Abbe Raynal of the affairs of North-America. In which The Mistakes in the Abbe’s Account of the Revolution of America are corrected and cleared up. London: for C. Dilly, 1782. Half-title. Second English edition. ESTC N10833; Howes P-25; Sabin 58222. -- [WILKES, John]. The North Briton, from No. I. to No. XLVI. Inclusive. With Several useful and explanatory Notes, Not printed in any former Edition [London: at Wilkes’ house, 1763.] FIREST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. ESTC N26370. -- [LEONARD, Daniel]. Massachusettensis: or A Series of Letters, containing a faithful state of many important and striking facts, which laid the foundation of the present troubles in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay…. Boston: for J. Mathews, 1786. ESTC T121877; Howes L-258; Sabin 40100. Together, 4 works in one volume, 8vo (193 x 120 mm). 20th century half calf antique preserving 18th-century flyleaves. Provenance: Samuel Robinson (signature, Newcastle[-under-Lyme], Staffordshire); Samuel Candland (signature, Barlaston, Staffordshire, 1804); 18th-century manuscript note on title of Massachusettensis identifying the author as “a Tory a Ministerialist & a Pensioner.” A sammelband of four 18th-century pamphlets relating to the Revolutionary War, reflecting both Republican and Tory opinions. Raynal’s Revolution of America is excerpted from the Geneva 1780 edition of his Histoire philosophique et politique. The French edition and the English translation were likely both printed in London and issued simultaneously; both were reprinted several times before the first authorized English edition of 1782. The work elicited a response from Thomas Paine, who “objected to Raynal’s claims that the war arose entirely from a dispute over taxation and that peace efforts had been hampered by the Americans’ alliance with France. His Letter… is an exemplary piece of diplomacy” (DNB). Wilkes’ newspaper The North Briton included satirical attacks on the Earl of Bute, George III’s Prime minister, and reflected many of the debates over Britain’s relationship with the American colonies. Leonard’s Massachusettensis was the “most influential early Tory attempt to defend England’s conduct” (Howes). $1,500-2,500
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328 ROGERS, Robert (1731-1795). A Concise Account of North America: containing a Description of the several British Colonies on that Continent, including the Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c.... also of the Interior or Westerly Parts... London: J. Millan, 1765. 8vo (206 x 125mm). (Short closed marginal tear on H2, leaf U1 with cut across text partially repaired with tissue, minor spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some wear to corners). FIRST EDITION. “Based largely on personal knowledge, this was the first geographical account of the American interior after England had wrested it from France, and, aside from those by Pittman and Hutchins, the most accurate of the period” (Howes). Major Rogers was sent to receive the capitulation of Western French posts in 1760; en route he met Pontiac, the Ottawa chief, and received his submission to English supremacy. Rogers was also present at the siege of Detroit by Pontiac in 1763. Clark, Old South I:301; ESTC T131446; Greenly, Michigan; Howes R-418; Sabin 72723; Streeter sale II:1028; Vail 562. $1,000-1,500
329 ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano (1882-1945). Whither Bound? Boston and New York: The Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. 8vo. Original publisher’s blue embossed cloth (some very pale spotting to front endpapers); dust jacket (some overall pale spotting); morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT on title-page. An address given on 18 May 1926 at the Milton Academy for its Alumni War Memorial Foundation. $1,000-1,500
330 SANDBURG, Carl (1878-1967). Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. 4 volumes, 8vo. Illustrated. Original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, top edges stained yellow; original dust jackets. FIRST TRADE EDITION of Sandburg’s influential biography of Abraham Lincoln focusing on the Civil War period. $200-300
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331 STANSBURY, Howard (1806-1863). Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Special Session, March 1851. Senate Executive Document, no. 3. Washington, D.C.: Robert Armstrong, 1853. 8vo (225 x 136 mm). 50 lithographed plates (of 59) of which 3 are folding. (Lacking the folding map and the atlas of 2 maps, scattered spotting, a few stains, a few plates trimmed short). Contemporary half red morocco (rebacked preserving portion of original spine, slightly rubbed). Provenance: Howard K. Gloyd (1902-1978), American herpetologist credited with the discovery of several species of reptiles (bookplate, stamp on title-page). FIRST EDITION, third (“Senate”) issue, the first extensive survey and an important pioneering botanical study of the Great Basin. Flake 8360; Howes S-884; Wagner-Camp 219:3. $400-600
332 STEARNS, Samuel (1741-1810). The American Herbal or Materia Medica. Walpole, N.H.: David Carlisle for Thomas & Thomas, and the Author, 1801. 12mo (178 x 98 mm). (Some browning and spotting throughout.) Contemporary sheep, smooth spine gilt, green morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges sprinkled blue (hinges starting, some rubbing or wear); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION of “the first herbal both produced and printed in the United States, as opposed to those which were reprints of European works. Stearns’s homely remedies sometimes strayed beyond the boundaries of herbal medicine…The work also includes information on American Indian remedies” (Norman). Garrison-Morton 1838; Howes S-911; Sabin 90959; Norman 2008. $1,500-2,500
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333 TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de (1805-1859). De la Démocratie en Amérique. Paris: Bourgogne and Martinet for Charles Gosselin, 1835-1840. 2 parts in 4 volumes, 8vo (209 x 127 mm). Half-titles; engraved folding map with hand-coloring. (Some overall browning particularly to vols.I & II as often, some spotting, slight printer’s error vol. II, p. 423.) Contemporary French calf-backed boards, green vellum corners, marbled edges, smooth spines gilt with brown and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt (some light rubbing to joints, a few hinges starting). FIRST EDITION of part I, second edition of part II. De Tocqueville’s inquiry into the nature and institutions of American society was written and published in two parts. The first, comprising volumes I and II, was published in Paris in 1835. It was immediately popular, and two additional Paris editions and a Brussels edition appeared in the same year. The second part appeared in 1840. The first American edition was published in 1838 and 1840 (see next lot). de Tocqueville was the first to wrestle with the “new” society, and the first to address the connection between the extraordinary size and natural wealth of America. While he believed in the liberal commonplaces of his time, he was distrustful of a society based on individualism, and he deplored a politics dominated by self-interest. Howes T-278, T-279; Sabin 96060, 96061. $30,000-40,000
334 TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de (1805-1859). Democracy in America. New York: Adlard and Saunders, George Dearborn & Co., 1838; J. & H. G. Langley, 1840. 2 volumes, 8vo (224 x 139 mm). (Some spotting.) Original publisher’s blindstamped cloth, spines gilt (Vol.I: spine ends repaired, fading, some minor spotting; Vol.II: rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, corners rounded and repaired); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: James W. Bacon (pencil signature in vol.I); John I. Mitchell (bookplate in vol.I); Hastypudding Library (gift bookplate from G. W. Hay, 1840, and shelf label in vol.II). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with a new preface by John Canfield Spencer, who later served as Secretary of War and then Secretary of the Treasury under President John Tyler. (See previous lot.) Howes T-278, T-279 (“aa”); Sabin 96064, 96065. $3,000-4,000
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335 TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1892). North America. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. 2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles; folding engraved map (short tear to fold). Original publisher’s blind-stamped purple cloth gilt (spines sunned, a few minor stains, some minor rubbing, corners bumped). Provenance: Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, K.P. (1799-1868), member of the House of Commons (armorial Lord Farnham bookplate). FIRST EDITION, written by Trollope after a visit to North America from August 1861 to April 1862, presenting the novelist’s view of Canada and the United States during the Civil War. “I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object before the intestine troubles of the United States Government had commenced…I should not purposely have chosen this period either for my book or for my visit” (Introduction, p.1). Sadleir 46. $400-600
336 WILKES, Charles (1798-1877). Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, during the Years 1838-42. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. 6 volumes, including atlas, imperial 8vo (280 x 180 mm). Half-titles in text volumes. 64 plates, 14 maps (5 folding and one hand-colored), and numerous vignettes in text (a few tears to maps along folds, some minor offsetting to maps). Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, uncut (some very minor wear to lower corners, spines slightly sunned, short separation to upper portion of lower joint vol. I, otherwise bright). Provenance: Edward Elbridge Salisbury (1814-1901), American Sanskritist and Arabist (bookplate) given to; George Grant MacCurdy (1863-1947), American Anthropologist (ex dono inscription, stamps); American School of Prehistoric Research (stamps). FIRST TRADE EDITION, limited to 1,000 copies, preceded by the official government edition, published in 1844 and limited to 100 copies, and the unofficial edition, published by Lea and Blanchard in 1845 and limited to 150 copies. Wilkes set sail on the first American exploring expedition with a team of scientists and artists in August 1838 to survey the remote regions of the South Pacific. Wilkes and his men explored the South Pacific Islands, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, California, Singapore, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena. The United States Exploring Expedition “was the first American scientific expedition of any size, charged to ‘extend the bounds of Science and promote the acquisition of knowledge,’ and was one of the most ambitious Pacific expeditions ever attempted” (Forbes). Wilkes’s survey of the Pacific Islands resulted in over 200 new charts for 280 islands, and he was the first to use the term “Antarctic Continent.” Ferguson 4209; Forbes 1574; Haskell 2B; Howes W-414. $8,000-12,000
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Evaluation of Property If you have property you wish to sell, please call our Consignment Department at 312.280.1212 to arrange for a consultation. At that time, you may make an appointment to bring your property or photographs, along with any other pertinent information, to Hindman LLC and we will be happy to provide you with complimentary estimates and advice. If you have a large collection, an appointment may be made to evaluate the property on-site. Fees for on-site visits may vary. Standard Commission Rates Our standard rate of commission is equal to ten percent (10%) of the hammer price on each lot sold for $5,001 or more; and twenty-five percent (25%) of the hammer price on each lot sold for less than $5,001, with a minimum commission of $75 per lot sold. If your property fails to reach the reserve price agreed upon between you and Hindman LLC, you may be obligated to pay a reduced commission rate of five percent (5%) of the reserve price. Shipping Arrangements Hindman LLC can advise you as to how to have your property delivered to our galleries. Packing, shipping and insurance are payable by the seller. In certain instances, packing and shipping costs may be paid by Hindman LLC and deducted from the proceeds of the sale. We may recommend packers and shippers, but we are not responsible for their acts or omissions. Appraisals Appraisals can be arranged for insurance, donation, estate tax, family division or other purposes. Appraisal fees vary according to circumstances. Please contact our Estates and Appraisals Department at 312.280.1212 for further information.
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Bidding Increments Bidding generally opens at half the low estimate and advances in the following order, although the auctioneer may vary the bidding increments during the course of the auction. The normal bidding increments are:
$0 - $200 ........................................ $10 $200 - $500 ........................................ $25 $500 - $1,000 ..................................... $50 $1,000 - $2,000 ................................... $100 $2,000 - $5,000 ................................... $200 $5,000 - $10,000 ................................. $500 $10,000 - $20,000 .............................. $1,000 $20,000 - $50,000 .............................. $2,000 $50,000 - $100,000 ............................ $5,000 $100,000 - $200,000 .......................... $10,000 Over ‘ $200,000 ...... Auctioneer’s Discretion In-House Bidding Live bidding at Hindman LLC is by paddle only. Please register for a paddle at the entrance of the sales room. If you are the successful bidder, your paddle number and the hammer price will be announced by the auctioneer. Online Bidding Hindman LLC allows absentee and live bidding through our website at hindmanauctions.com as well as absentee and live bidding through third party online bidding providers which vary by sale. For more information regarding online bidding please visit our website at hindmanauctions.com. Absentee Bidding If you are unable to attend an auction, you may use the absentee bid form provided at the back of this catalogue. Hindman LLC will exercise written order bids and telephone bids at no additional charge. Lots will always be sold as inexpensively as is allowed other bids and reserves as are on our books or bids executed in competition from the audience. Tax Exempt Notice Lots marked with an asterisk (*) are tax exempt as permitted by law.
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CONDITIONS OF SALE These Conditions of Sale set out the terms upon which Hindman LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) sells property by lot in this catalogue. You agree to be bound by these terms by registering to bid and/or by bidding in our auction. A glossary at the end defines the words in bold type.
A. BEFORE THE AUCTION
1. LOT DESCRIPTIONS AND WARRANTIES Our description of a lot, any statement of a lot’s condition, and any other oral or written statement about a lot—such as its nature, condition, artist, period, materials, dimensions, weight, exhibition or publication history, or provenance—are our opinion and shall not to be relied upon by you as a statement of fact. Except for the limited authenticity warranty contained in paragraphs E and F below, we do not provide any guarantee of our description or the nature of a lot. 2. CONDITION The physical condition of lots in our auctions can vary due to age, normal wear and tear, previous damage, and restoration/repair. All lots are sold “AS IS,” in the condition they are in at the time of the auction, and we and the seller make no representation or warranty and assume no liability of any kind as to a lot’s condition. Any reference to condition in a catalogue description or a condition report shall not amount to a full accounting of condition and may not include all faults, inherent defects, restoration, alteration, or adaptation. Likewise, images in our catalogue may not depict a lot accurately, as colors and shades may appear different in print or on screen than on physical inspection. We are not responsible for providing you with a description of a lot’s condition in the catalogue or in a condition report. 3. VIEWING LOTS We offer pre-auction viewings, either scheduled or by appointment, that are free of charge. If you believe that the catalogue description or condition reports are not sufficient, we suggest you inspect a lot personally or through a knowledgeable representative before you bid on a lot to make sure that you accept the description and its condition. We recommend you hire a professional adviser if you are not familiar with how to address the nature or condition of an object. 4. ESTIMATES Estimates of a lot account for the condition, rarity, quality, and provenance of the object and are based upon prices realized for similar objects in past auctions. Neither you nor anyone else may rely on our estimates as a prediction or guarantee of the actual selling price of a lot or its value for any other purpose. Estimates do not include the buyer’s premium, any applicable taxes, and any other applicable charges. 5. WITHDRAWAL We may, in our sole discretion, withdraw a lot from auction at any time prior to or during the sale and shall have no liability to you for our decision to withdraw.
B. REGISTERING TO BID
1. NEW BIDDERS New bidders must register at least twenty-four (24) hours before an auction and must provide us with documentation of their identity. (a) Individuals must provide photo identification (driver’s license, non-driver ID card, or passport) and, if not shown on the photo identification, proof of current address (a current utility bill or bank statement). (b) Corporate clients must provide a Certificate of Incorporation or its equivalent bearing the company’s name and registered address, together with documentary proof of directors and beneficial owners. (c) Trusts, partnerships, offshore companies, and other business entities must contact us in advance of the auction to discuss our requirements. If we are not satisfied with the information you provide us in our bidder identification and other registration procedures, we may refuse to register you to bid, and if you make a successful bid, we may cancel the contract for sale between you and the seller. New bidders may be required to provide us with a financial reference and/or a deposit before we allow them to bid. 2. RETURNING BIDDERS If you have not bought anything from us recently, then we may require you to register as a new bidder, as described in the paragraph above. Please contact us at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the auction. 3. BIDDING FOR ANOTHER PERSON If you are bidding as an agent on behalf of another person, your principal must be a registered bidder and must provide us with written authorization
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allowing you to bid. You, as the agent, shall accept personal liability to pay the purchase price and all other sums due unless we have agreed in writing before the auction that you are acting as an agent on behalf of your principal and that we will only seek payment from your principal. 4. BIDDING IN THE SALEROOM If you wish to bid in the saleroom, you must first acquire a bidding paddle at least thirty (30) minutes before the auction. 5. OUR BIDDING SERVICES We offer the following bidding services as a convenience to our clients, subject to these Conditions of Sale. We shall not be responsible for any error, omission, or failure, human or otherwise, in providing these services. (a) Phone Bids: You must contact us at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the auction to arrange a phone bid. We will accept bids by telephone for lots only if our staff is available to take the bids. We agree that we may record telephone bids. (b) Internet Bids: You can bid in our live sales via our bidding platform or through third-party bidding sites. (c) Written Bids: You can find a Written Bid Form in the back of our catalogues, at the auction location, or online at www.hindmanauctions.com. We must receive your completed Written Bid Form at least twenty-four (24) hours before the auction. We will endeavor to execute written bids at the lowest possible price consistent with the reserve. If you make a written bid on a lot that does not have a reserve and there is no higher bid than yours, we will bid on your behalf at approximately fifty percent (50%) of the low estimate or, if lower, the amount of your bid. The first written bid we receive of those for identical amounts will be given priority over other bids. 6. CREDIT CARD AUTHORIZATION HOLD When you register to bid you may be asked to provide us with a valid credit card number. You authorize us to verify the validity of the credit card by placing a $100 authorization hold on the card that will remain until it falls off, usually within 48 hours.
C. DURING THE AUCTION
1. BIDDING IN THE AUCTION (a) Live Auctions. We will appoint an individual auctioneer to administer a live auction. The auctioneer may accept bids from (a) written bids left with us by bidders before the auction; (b) bidders in the saleroom; (c) telephone bidders; and (d) Internet bidders. Bidding generally starts below the low estimate and increases in steps, called bid increments. The auctioneer will decide at his/ her sole option where the bidding should start and the bid increments. Bid increments may vary from auction to auction. You shall comply with all laws and regulations in force that govern your bidding. (b) Online-only Auctions. Bids may only be submitted on our website or through third-party bidding sites between the dates and times specified in the lot’s description. Your bid is submitted once you place and confirm your bid amount. You agree that a bid is final once it is placed and that you may never amend or revoke your bid. You are fully responsible for any errors you make in bidding. Bidding generally opens at or below the low estimate and increases in steps (bidding increments) to be determined in Hindman’s sole discretion. 2. AUCTIONEER’S DISCRETION The auctioneer shall have absolute discretion to (a) admit a bidder into or remove a bidder from the saleroom or online auction; (b) accept or refuse any bid; (c) change the order of the lots in the auction; (d) move the bidding backward or forward; (e) withdraw any lot from the auction; (f) divide any lot or combine any two or more lots; (g) reopen or continue the bidding even after the hammer has fallen; and (h) continue the bidding, determine the successful bidder, cancel the sale of the lot, or reoffer and resell any lot in the event that there is an error or dispute related to bidding or the application of the reserve, whether during or after the auction. You must provide us with written notice within three (3) business days of the date of the auction if you believe that the auctioneer has accepted the successful bid in error. The auctioneer will consider the claim and decide in good faith if the sale of the lot is final, whether he/she will cancel the sale of the lot, or whether he/she will reoffer and resell the lot. The auctioneer’s decision in exercise of this discretion is final. This paragraph does not in any way affect our ability to cancel the sale of a lot under other applicable provisions of these Conditions of Sale, including the rights of cancellation set forth in sections B(1), D(6), E(2), and G(1). 3. BIDDING ON BEHALF OF THE SELLER The auctioneer may, at his/her sole option, bid on behalf of the seller up to one bidding increment before the reserve by making either consecutive or responsive bids. The auctioneer will not identify these as bids made on behalf of the seller. If a lot is offered without reserve, the auctioneer will open the bidding at approximately fifty percent (50%) of the lot’s low estimate; where
necessary, will lower the asking bid until a bid is received; and will solicit higher bids from that amount. If there are no bids on a lot, the auctioneer may deem the lot unsold. 4. SUCCESSFUL BIDS AND INVOICES Subject to paragraph C(2), the contract of sale between the seller and the successful bidder is formed when the final bid is accepted and the auctioneer’s hammer strikes. The successful bid price is the hammer price, and we will issue an invoice only to the registered bidder who made the successful bid. While we send out invoices by mail and/or email after the auction, we shall not be responsible for telling you whether your bid was successful. You should contact us immediately after the auction to find out the success of your bid in order to avoid having to pay storage charges.
D. AFTER THE AUCTION
1. THE BUYER’S PREMIUM In addition to the hammer price, the successful bidder agrees to pay us a buyer’s premium on the hammer price of each lot sold. On all lots, we charge twenty-five percent (25%) of the hammer price up to and including $250,000; twenty percent (20%) of any amount in excess of $250,000 up to and including $3,000,000; and twelve percent (12%) of any amount in excess of $3,000,000. If the bidder bids through a third-party platform the bidder agrees to pay us a surcharge equal to the fee levied by the third-party platform. The third-party platform fee is in addition to the buyer’s premium. 2. TAXES The successful bidder is responsible for any applicable taxes, including any sales or use tax or equivalent tax wherever such taxes may arise on the hammer price, the buyer’s premium, and/or any other charges related to the lot. A sales or use tax is dependent upon a number of factors, including, but not limited to, our volume of sale and the place of delivery of the lot, regardless of the nationality or citizenship of the successful bidder. The applicable sales tax rate will be determined based upon the state, county, or locale to which the lot will be shipped or where it is picked-up in person. We collect sales tax in states where legally required. 3. MAKING PAYMENT (a) Immediately following the auction, you must pay the purchase price, consisting of the hammer price, plus the buyer’s premium, plus any applicable duties and sales, use, or other applicable taxes. Payment is due no later than by the end of the seventh (7th) calendar day following the date of the auction, which we refer to as the due date. (b) We will only accept payment from the registered successful bidder. Once issued, we cannot change the buyer’s name on an invoice or reissue the invoice in a different name. (c) You must pay for lots in US dollars in one of the following ways: (i) Wire transfer. (ii) Bank checks: You must make these payable to Hindman LLC, and we may impose other conditions. Once we have deposited your check, property cannot be released until five (5) business days have passed. (iii) Personal checks: You must make these payable to Hindman LLC, and they must be drawn from US dollar accounts from a US bank. The property will not be released until the check has cleared and the funds are received by us. (iv) Cash: We accept cash payments (including money orders and traveler’s checks) subject to a maximum aggregate of US $10,000 per buyer, per sale. (d) You must quote your invoice number when making a payment. All payments sent by post must be sent to Hindman LLC, 1338 West Lake Street, Chicago, IL 60607, ATTN: Client Accounting Department. 4. TRANSFERRING OWNERSHIP TO YOU You will not own the lot and title will not pass to you until we have received full payment in good funds of the purchase price, even in circumstances where we have released the lot to you. 5. TRANSFERRING RISK TO YOU Unless we have agreed otherwise with you, the risk in and responsibility for the lot will transfer to you from whichever is the earlier of the following: (a) when you collect the lot; or (b) the end of the thirtieth (30th) day following the date of the auction or, if earlier, the date the lot is taken into care by a third-party warehouse. 6. YOUR FAILURE TO PAY If you fail to pay us the purchase price in full in good funds by the due date, we will be entitled to do one or more of the following (as well as enforce any other rights and remedies we have by law) at our sole discretion: (a) We can charge interest from the due date at a rate of up to one and onehalf percent (1.5%) per month on the unpaid amount due. (b) We can cancel the sale of the lot and sell the lot again, publicly or privately, on such terms as we believe appropriate, in which case you must pay us any shortfall between the amount you owe us and the resale price, plus all costs, expenses, losses, damages, and legal fees we incur due to the cancellation. (c) We can pay the seller the amount due to them, in which case you acknowledge and understand that we will have all the seller’s rights to pursue you for such amount.
(d) We can hold you legally responsible for the amount you owe us and bring legal proceedings against you to recover the amount owed by you, plus other losses, interest, legal fees, and costs as allowed by law. (e) We can reveal your identity and contact details to the seller. (f) We can reject any bids made by or on behalf of you in future auctions or require you to provide us with a deposit before accepting any bids. (g) We can exercise all the rights and remedies of a person holding security over any property in our possession owned by you, whether by way of pledge, security interest, or in any other way as permitted by the law of the place where such property is located. You will be deemed to have granted such security to us and we may retain such property as collateral security for your obligations to us. (h) We can take any other action we deem necessary or appropriate. 7. SHIPPING, COLLECTION, AND STORAGE (a) You must collect purchased lots within thirty (30) days of the auction. We can assist in making shipping arrangements by suggesting art handlers, packers, transporters, or experts, but you must arrange all transport and shipping with them, and we are not responsible for their acts, failure to act, or neglect. (b) If you do not collect any purchased lot within thirty (30) days following the auction, we may, at our sole option, (i) charge you storage and insurance costs; (ii) move the lot to another Hindman location or to a third-party warehouse, whereupon we will charge you transport costs, insurance costs, and administration fees for doing so, and you will be subject to the third-party storage warehouse’s standard terms and responsible for paying its standard fees and costs; or (iii) sell the lot in any commercially reasonable way we think appropriate. (c) In accordance with applicable state law, if you have paid for the lot in full but you do not collect the lot within the time specified by the law of the state where the auction takes place, we may charge you state sales tax for the lot. (d) Nothing in this paragraph is intended to limit our rights under paragraph D(6). 8. EXPORTING, IMPORTING, AND ENDANGERED SPECIES (a) The shipping of a lot is affected by United States export laws or the import laws of other countries. If you are outside the United States, then local laws may prevent you from importing a lot. You alone are responsible for seeking advice prior to bidding and meeting the requirements of any law or regulation applying to the export or import of a lot. (b) Lots made of or including (regardless of the percentage) endangered and other protected species of wildlife—such as, among other things, ivory, tortoiseshell, crocodile skin, rhinoceros horn, whalebone, certain species of coral, and Brazilian rosewood—may be subject to export controls in the US and import controls in other countries. You should check the relevant wildlife laws and regulations before bidding on any lot containing wildlife material if you plan to export the lot from the United States, import the lot into another country, or ship the lot between states. Your purchase of a lot containing endangered and other protected species of wildlife is at your own risk, and you shall be responsible for any scientific test or other reports required for export from the United States or for shipment between states. We will not cancel your purchase and refund the purchase price if your lot may not be exported, imported, or shipped between states, or if it is seized for any reason by a government authority. It is your responsibility to determine and satisfy the requirements of any applicable laws or regulations relating to import, export, and/or interstate shipping of a lot containing endangered and other protected species of wildlife.
E. WARRANTIES
1. SELLER’S WARRANTIES For each lot, the seller gives a warranty that the seller (a) is the owner of the lot or a joint owner of the lot acting with the permission of the other co-owners or, if the seller is not the owner or a joint owner of the lot, has the permission of the owner to sell the lot or the right to do so by law; and (b) has the right to transfer ownership of the lot to the buyer without any restrictions or claims by anyone else. If either of the above warranties are incorrect, the seller shall not have to pay more than the purchase price (as defined in paragraph D(3) above) paid by you to us. The seller will not be responsible to you for any reason for loss of profits or business, expected savings, loss of opportunity or interest, costs, damages, other damages, or expenses. The seller gives no warranty other than as set out above, and as far as the seller is allowed by law, all warranties from the seller to you, and all other obligations upon the seller that may be added to this agreement by law, are excluded. No employee or agent of Hindman is authorized to make a representation or provide other information, whether orally or in writing, that amends the seller’s warranties or creates an additional warranty on behalf of the seller with respect to a lot. Any such representation, other information, or additional warranty shall be null and void.
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2. OUR LIMITED AUTHENTICITY WARRANTY Our limited authenticity warranty, which lasts for one (1) year from the date of a live auction or three (3) months from an online only auction, is that the lots in our sales are authentic as defined in paragraph H, below. You must notify Hindman regarding concerns of authenticity in writing within one (1) year of the date of a live auction or within three (3) months of the date of an online only auction. Following receipt of that written notification, subject to the terms below, Hindman will refund the purchase price paid by the client. The terms of this limited authenticity warranty are as follows: (a) It will be honored for claims notified in writing within a period of one (1) year from the date of a live auction or three (3) months from an online only auction. After such time, we will not be obligated to honor the limited authenticity warranty. (b) It is given only for information shown in UPPERCASE type in the first line of the catalogue description (the Heading). It does not apply to any information other than that in the Heading, even if it is shown in UPPERCASE type. (c) It does not apply to any Heading or part of a Heading that is qualified. “Qualified” means limited by a clarification in a lot’s catalogue description or by the use in a Heading of one of the terms listed in the definition of “qualified” provided in paragraph H, below. Qualified Headings are not covered at all by this limited authenticity warranty. (d) It applies to the Heading as amended by any saleroom notice. (e) It does not apply where scholarship has developed since the auction, leading to a change in generally accepted opinion. Further, it does not apply if the Heading either matched the generally accepted opinion of experts at the date of the auction or drew attention to any conflict of opinion. (f) It does not apply if the lot can only be shown not to be authentic by a scientific process that, on the date we published the catalogue, was not available or generally accepted for use, was unreasonably expensive or impractical, or was likely to have damaged the lot. (g) Its benefit is only available to the original buyer shown on the invoice for the lot, issued at the time of the sale, and only if, on the date of the notice of claim, the original buyer is the full owner of the lot and the lot is free from any claim, interest, or restriction by anyone else. The benefit of this limited authenticity warranty may not be transferred by the original buyer to anyone else. (h) In order to make a claim under the limited authenticity warranty, you must (i) give us written notice of your claim within one (1) year of the date of a live auction or three (3) months from an online only auction ; (ii) at our option, pay for and provide us with the written opinions of two recognized experts in the field, mutually agreed upon by you and us, confirming that the lot is not authentic (we reserve the right to obtain additional opinions at our expense); and (iii) return the lot at your expense to the saleroom from which you bought it in the condition it was in at the time of sale. (i) Your only right under this limited authenticity warranty is to cancel the sale and receive a refund of the purchase price paid by you to us. We will not, under any circumstances, be required to pay you more than the purchase price, nor will we be liable for any loss of profits or business, loss of opportunity or value, expected savings or interest, costs, damages, other damages, or expenses. (j) No employee or agent of Hindman is authorized to make a representation or provide additional information, whether orally or in writing, that amends the limited authenticity warranty or creates an additional warranty with respect to a lot. Any such representation, other information, or additional warranty shall be null and void. 3. ADDITIONAL WARRANTY FOR BOOKS If the lot is a book, then we give an additional warranty to the original buyer shown on the invoice for the lot issued at the time of the sale in the following circumstances: (a) We will refund the purchase price to the original buyer if we, in our sole discretion, are convinced that the book is defective in text or illustration, subject to the following terms: (i) This additional warranty does not apply to (A) the absence of blanks, half titles, tissue guards, or advertisements; or damage in respect of bindings, stains, spotting, marginal tears, or other defects not affecting the completeness of the text or illustration; (B) drawings, autographs, letters or manuscripts, signed photographs, music, atlases, maps, or periodicals; (C) books not identified by title; (D) lots sold without a printed estimate; (E) books that are described in the catalog as sold not subject to return; or (F) defects stated in any condition report or announced at the time of sale. (ii) To make a claim under this additional warranty, you must give written details of the defect within twenty-one (21) days of the date of the sale and return the lot within twenty-one (21) days of the date of the sale to the saleroom at which you bought it in the same condition as at the time of sale. (iii) Paragraphs E(2)(b), (c), (d), (e), (h), and (i) also apply to a claim under this additional warranty. (c) No employee or agent of Hindman is authorized to make a representation or provide other information, whether orally or in writing, that amends the additional warranty for books or creates an additional warranty with respect to a lot. Any such representation, other information, or additional warranty shall be null and void. 150 S E L E C T I O N S F R O M T H E L I B R A R Y O F G E R A L D A N D B A R B A R A W E I N E R
4. JEWELRY (a) Colored gemstones (such as rubies, sapphires, and emeralds) may have been treated to improve their appearance through methods such as heating and/or various clarity enhancements. These methods are considered common by the international jewelry trade but may make a gemstone more fragile and/or cause the gemstone to require special care over time. (b) All types of gemstones may have been improved by some method. You may request a gemological report for any item that does not have a report if the request is made to us at least three (3) weeks before the date of the auction and you pay the fee for the report. (c) We do not obtain a gemological report for every gemstone sold in our auctions. When we do get gemological reports from internationally accepted gemological laboratories, such reports are described in the catalogue. Reports from American gemological laboratories describe any improvement or treatment to the gemstone. Reports from European gemological laboratories describe any improvement or treatment only if we request that they do so, but they do confirm when no improvement or treatment has been made. Because of differences in approach and technology, laboratories may not agree on whether a gemstone has been treated, the amount of treatment, or whether that treatment is permanent. The gemological laboratories only report on the improvements or treatments known to them at the date they make the report. (d) For jewelry sales, estimates are based on the information in any gemological report. If no report is available, assume that the gemstones may have been treated or enhanced. 5. WATCHES AND CLOCKS (a) Almost all clocks and watches are repaired in their lifetime and may include parts that are not original. We do not give a warranty that any individual component part of any watch is authentic. Watchbands described as “associated” are not part of the original watch and may not be authentic. Clocks may be sold without pendulums, weights, or keys. (b) As collectors’ watches often have very fine and complex mechanisms, you are responsible for any general service, change of battery, or further repair work that may be necessary. We do not give a warranty that any watch is in good working order. Certificates are not available unless described in the catalogue. (c) Most wristwatches have been opened to find out the type and quality of movement. For that reason, wristwatches with water-resistant cases may not be waterproof, and we recommend you have them checked by a competent watchmaker before use. (d) Many of the watches offered for sale in this catalogue are pictured with straps made of endangered or protected animal materials such as alligator or crocodile skin. When straps are shown for display purposes only and are not for sale. We may remove and retain the strap prior to shipment from the sale site. Please check with the department for details on a lot with such a strap. 6. YOUR WARRANTIES You warrant to us and the seller that (a) the funds you use for payment are not connected with any criminal activity, including tax evasion, and neither are you under investigation, nor have you been charged with or convicted of money laundering, terrorist activities, or other crimes; (b) where you are bidding on behalf of another person, (i) you have conducted appropriate customer due diligence on the ultimate buyer(s) of the lot(s) in accordance with all applicable anti-money laundering and sanctions laws, you consent to us relying on this due diligence, you will retain for a period of not less than five (5) years the documentation evidencing the due diligence, and you will make such documentation promptly available for immediate inspection by an independent third-party auditor upon our written request to do so; (ii) the arrangements between you and the ultimate buyer(s) in relation to the lot or otherwise do not, in whole or in part, facilitate tax crimes; (iii) you do not know, and have no reason to suspect, that the funds used for payment are connected with or the proceeds of any criminal activity, including tax evasion, or that the ultimate buyer(s) are under investigation for, or have been charged with or convicted of, money laundering, terrorist activities, or other crimes.
F. OUR LIABILITY TO YOU
(a) We give no warranty in relation to any statement made, or information given, by us or our representatives or employees about any lot other than as set out in the limited authenticity warranty or in the additional warranty for books, and as far as we are allowed by law, all warranties and other terms that may be added to this agreement by law are excluded. The seller’s warranties contained in paragraph E(1) are their own, and we do not have any liability to you in relation to those warranties. (b) We are not responsible to you for any reason (whether for breaking this agreement or for any other matter relating to your purchase of, or bid for, any lot) other than in the event of fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation by us, or other than as expressly set out in these Conditions of Sale. (c) WE DO NOT GIVE ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR GUARANTEE
OR ASSUME ANY LIABILITY OF ANY KIND IN RESPECT OF ANY LOT WITH REGARD TO MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, DESCRIPTION, SIZE, QUALITY, CONDITION, ATTRIBUTION, AUTHENTICITY, RARITY, IMPORTANCE, MEDIUM, PROVENANCE, EXHIBITION HISTORY, LITERATURE, OR HISTORICAL RELEVANCE. EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY LOCAL LAW, ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS EXCLUDED BY THIS PARAGRAPH. (d) Our written and telephone bidding services, online bidding services, and condition reports are free services, and we are not responsible to you for any error, omission, or failure of these services. (e) We have no responsibility to any person other than a buyer in connection with the purchase of any lot. (f) If, despite the terms in paragraphs F(a)–(e) or E(2)–(3) above, we are found to be liable to you for any reason, we shall not have to pay more than the purchase price paid by you to us. We will not be responsible to you for any reason for loss of profits or business, loss of opportunity or value, expected savings or interest, costs, damages, or expenses.
G. OTHER TERMS
1. OUR ABILITY TO CANCEL In addition to the other rights of cancellation contained herein, we can cancel a sale of a lot if (i) any of your warranties in paragraph E(4) are not correct; (ii) we reasonably believe that completing the transaction is, or may be, unlawful; or (iii) we reasonably believe that the sale places us or the seller under any liability to anyone else or may damage our reputation. 2. RECORDINGS We may videotape and/or audio record proceedings at any auction. We will keep any personal information confidential, except to the extent that disclosure is required by law. If you do not want to be videotaped, you may decide to make a telephone or written bid or bid online instead. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, you may not videotape or record proceedings at any auction. 3. COPYRIGHT We own the copyright in all images, illustrations, and written material produced by or for us relating to a lot, including the contents of our catalogues, unless otherwise noted therein. You cannot use them without our prior written permission. We make no representation and offer no guarantee that the buyer of a lot will gain any copyright or other reproduction rights. 4. ENFORCING THIS AGREEMENT If a court finds that any part of this agreement is invalid, illegal, or impossible to enforce, that part of the agreement will be treated as being deleted, and the rest of this agreement will not be affected. 5. TRANSFERRING YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES You may not grant a security over or transfer your rights or responsibilities under these terms unless we have given our written permission. This agreement will be binding on your successors or estate and anyone who takes over your rights and responsibilities. 6. PERSONAL INFORMATION We will hold and process your personal information in line with our privacy policy at www.hindmanauctions.com. 7. WAIVER No failure or delay to exercise any right or remedy contained herein shall constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of such right or remedy shall prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. 8. LAW AND DISPUTES This agreement, and any noncontractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this agreement, or any other rights you may have relating to the purchase of a lot will be governed by the laws of Illinois. Before we or you start any court proceedings (except in the limited circumstances where the dispute, controversy, or claim is related to proceedings brought by someone else and this dispute could be joined to those proceedings), you and we agree to try to settle the dispute by mediation submitted to JAMS, or its successor, for mediation in Illinois. If the dispute is not settled by mediation within sixty (60) days from the date when mediation is initiated, then the dispute shall be submitted to JAMS, or its successor, for final and binding arbitration in accordance with its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures or, if the dispute involves a non-US party, the JAMS International Arbitration Rules. The seat of the arbitration shall be Illinois, and the arbitration shall be conducted by one arbitrator, who shall be appointed within thirty (30) days after the initiation of the arbitration. The language used in the arbitral proceedings shall be English. The arbitrator shall order the production of documents only upon a showing that such documents are relevant and material to the outcome of the dispute. The arbitration shall be confidential, except to the extent necessary to enforce a judgment or where disclosure is required by law. The arbitration award shall be final and binding on all parties involved. Judgment upon the award may be entered by any court having jurisdiction thereof or having jurisdiction over the relevant party or its assets. This
arbitration and any proceedings conducted hereunder shall be governed by Title 9 (Arbitration) of the United States Code and by the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards of June 10, 1958.
H. GLOSSARY
authentic: a genuine example, rather than a copy or forgery of (a) the work of a particular artist, author, or manufacturer, if the lot is described in the Heading as the work of that artist, author, or manufacturer; (b) a work created within a particular period or culture, if the lot is described in the Heading as a work created during that period or culture; (c) a work of a particular origin or source, if the lot is described in the Heading as being of that origin or source; or (d) in the case of gems, a work that is made of a particular material, if the lot is described in the Heading as being made of that material. buyer’s premium: the charge the buyer pays us along with the hammer price. catalogue description: the description of a lot in the catalogue for the auction, as amended by any saleroom notice. due date: has the meaning given to it in paragraph D(3)(a). estimate: the price range included in the catalogue or any saleroom notice within which we believe a lot may sell. Low estimate means the lower figure in the range, and high estimate means the higher figure. The mid estimate is the midpoint between the two. hammer price: the amount of the highest bid the auctioneer accepts for the sale of a lot. Heading: has the meaning given to it in paragraph E(2). limited authenticity warranty: the guarantee we give in paragraph E(2) that a lot is authentic. other damages: any special, consequential, incidental, or indirect damages of any kind or any damages that fall within the meaning of “special,” “incidental,” or “consequential” under local law. purchase price: has the meaning given to it in paragraph D(3)(a). provenance: the ownership history of a lot. qualified: has the meaning given to it in paragraph E(2), subject to the following terms: (a) “Cast from a model by” means, in our opinion, a work from the artist’s model, originating in his circle and cast during his lifetime or shortly thereafter. (b) “Attributed to” means, in our opinion, a work probably by the artist. (c) “In the style of” means, in our opinion, a work of the period of the artist and closely related to his style. (d) “Ascribed to” means, in our opinion, a work traditionally regarded as by the artist. (e) “In the manner of” means, in our opinion, a later imitation of the period, of the style, or of the artist’s work. (f) “After” means, in our opinion, a copy or after-cast of a work of the artist. reserve: the confidential amount below which we will not sell a lot. saleroom notice: a written notice posted next to the lot in the saleroom and on www.hindmanauctions.com, which is also read to prospective telephone bidders and provided to clients who have left commission bids, or an announcement made by the auctioneer either at the beginning of the sale or before a particular lot is auctioned. UPPERCASE type: type having all capital letters. warranty: a statement or representation in which the person making it guarantees that the facts set out in it are correct. Updated 9/20
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Online registration/bid requests must be received at least 24 hours before the auction begins. Hindman LLC will confirm all bids received by fax or by return email. Phone bids will not be accepted on lots with a low estimate below $300. Hindman LLC allows absentee and telephone bidding registeration through our website at hindmanauctions.com
Bidding generally opens at half the low estimate and advances in the following order, although the auctioneer may vary the bidding increments during the course of the auction. The normal bidding increments are:
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$0 – 200 $200 – 500 $500 – 1,000 $1,000 – 2,000 $2,000 – 5,000 $5,000 – 10,000 $10,000 – 20,000 $20,000 – 50,000 $50,000 – 100,000 $100,000 – 200,000 $200,000 +
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For absentee bids, indicate your limit for each lot. Your bids will be excecuted at the lowest prices allowed by reserves and competing bids. If we receive more than one bid of the same value, the first one received will take precedence.
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I authorize Hindman LLC to bid on my behalf up to the amount stated below. By bidding at auction you agree to be bound to the Conditions of Sale as stated in the sale catalog and on our website. SIG N ATURE
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A per lot buyer’s premium is added to the final hammer price as per the following: $0 – 250,000 $250,001 – 3,000,000 $3,000,001 +
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ELUARD, Paul. Un Poeme dans Chaque Livre. Paris: Louis Broder, 1956. In a fine 20th-century calf mosaic binding by P. L. Martin. One of 100 copies signed by the contributing artists. Estimate $20,000-30,000 TO BE OFFERED AT AUCTION 12 NOVEMBER
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