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Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts | Lots 107-235
Lots 107-235
107 ALGREN, Nelson (1909-1989). A group of 3 photographs of Nelson Algren as a child, comprising:
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Photograph tipped to card of Nelson Algren as a toddler, with caption verso: “Nelson Abrahams on side walk Ashland Ave seeing from back of Cottage. Calling him & he in return is thinking shall I answer or not. He thinks it a great joke to have everyone running around looking for him. July 1913, Fox Creek, Mich.” -- Photographic postcard to Marilew Kogan with typed note signed (“[N]elson”) verso: “Dear Marilew, Aint this plumb pitiful? N/” -- Also with a photograph of Algren as a toddler mounted on cardstock.
Provenance: Herman and Marilew Kogan, friends of Nelson Algren; acquired by the present owner after Marilew Kogan’s death in 2007. $800 - 1,200 108 [ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN]. [KNOTHE, Paul (1897-1988)]. Der Maler Als Raumkünstler. Dresden: Atelier Stenzel, [1927].
109 [ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN]. DUFRENE, Maurice. Ensembles Mobiliers. Exposition Internationale 1925. Paris: Editions Charles Moreau, 1926. Folio. 28 color plates. Loose as issued in cloth-backed boards (boards separated, lacking spine, lacking cloth ties, wear to extremities).
FIRST EDITION containing designs for wallpaper patterns, friezes, pilasters, doors, and overall interiors.
[With:]Dekorative Vorbilder. Volume 25. Stuttgart: Verlag Julius Hoffmann, 1912. Folio. 24 (of 60) color plates including chromolithographs. Loose as issued in original green gilt-stamped cloth portfolio (overall wear). FIRST EDITION, volume 25 only, this German decorative arts periodical published annually from 1889 to 1928. -- LAMBERT, Th. Das Moderne Möbel Auf Der Pariser Weltausstellung 1900. Stuttgart: Verlag Von Julius Hoffmann, [1900]. Folio. 214 photographic illustrations on 40 plates (A few marginal tears). Loose as issued in original cloth-backed printed boards (some soiling). Second edition. featuring examples of Art Nouveau furniture featured at the 1900 Paris World Exhibition.
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $300 - 400
110 [ARCHITECTURE]. Encyclopédie de L›Architecture. Constructions Modernes. Paris: Éditions Albert Morancé, [1928-1939].
2 volumes, comprising Series I-II (of 3), folio. 64 photographic plates. (Occasional marginal soiling.) Loose as issued in original cloth-backed printed boards, cloth ties (soiling and some light wear).
FIRST EDITION of this set of plates documenting Art Deco interiors and furnishings on display at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts.
[With:] DUFRENE, Maurice. Ensembles Mobiliers. Exposition Internationale 1937. Paris: Editions Charles Moreau, 1937. Volumes II-III (of 3), 4to. 96 photographic plates. Loose as issued in original cloth-backed printed boards cloth ties (some soiling). FIRST EDITION. -- CHAVANCE, René. Nouvelles Boutiques. Façades et Intérieurs. Paris: Éditions Albert Lévy, 1929. 4to. 48 photographic plates. Loose as issued in original cloth-backed printed boards (some light soiling). 12 volumes, folio. 1200 plates, (a few double-page, a few hand-colored). Original brown cloth-backed board portfolios, cloth ties (some light wear or soiling, a few hinges starting).
FIRST EDITION, a complete set of this signifi cant survey of modernist architecture, with a profusion of photographic reproductions, drawings, and fl oor plans of offi ce buildings, industrial buildings, hotels, theatres, train stations, airports, retail stores, universities, monuments, and private residences in various countries. This survey features works by leading twentieth-century European architects and designers including Elsaesser, Freyssinet, Laprade, Le Corbusier, Luckhardt, Mallet-Stevens, Neutra, Pacon, Perret, Roux-Spitz, Ruhlmann, Siclis, and van der Velde.
Property from the Collection of Marvin Herman $3,500 - 4,500
Folio. Frontispiece portrait of Mizner and 184 sepia-toned photogravure plates after photographs by Frank E. Geisler. Original half orange linen over marbled boards, printed paper spine label, top edge gilt (some light rubbing to bottom edge).
FIRST EDITION, showcasing residences designed by Mizner, whose interpretations of Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles had a signifi cant impact on architecture in South Florida. Mizner’s work included the Everglades Club, the Plaza Shops on Palm Beach Avenue, Gulf Stream Golf Club, the Cloister at Boca Raton, and numerous private residences.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $1,000 - 1,500
112 [AUTOMOBILE QUARTERLY] BORGESON, Griffi th (1918-1997). Errett Lobban Cord. His Empire, His Motor Cars: Auburn – Cord – Duesenberg. Princeton, New Jersey: Automobile Quarterly Publications, 1984.
Folio. Original brown leather gilt-stamped, edges gilt; original leather folding case; original shipping carton. Provenance: W.D. Hill (subscription invoice).
LIMITED EDITION, number 75 of 2,500 copies SIGNED BY BORGESON of the Automobile Quarterly Commemorative Marque Book. Original publisher’s prospectus laid in.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $200 - 300
113 AUTOMOBILE QUARTERLY. BAILEY, L. Scott, editor (1924-2012). Automobile Quarterly. A nearly complete run from 1962-2009.
238 volumes (lacking vol.7 no.1, vol.14 no.1, vol.16 no.2, vol.23, no.2, vol.42, nos.2-3, vol.44 nos.2-3, vol.48 nos.1-2, vol.49 nos.2-4; including duplicates of numerous volumes), oblong 4to. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth gilt, upper covers with central illustration onlay (very light rubbing to extremities); original shipping cartons to a few later volumes.
FIRST EDITIONS, featuring articles on signifi cant collectible automobiles, famous names in the industry, and biographical essays on racecar drivers, designers and inventors of breakthrough automotive technologies. The founder of the magazine L. Scott Bailey (1924-2012) referred to his publication as a cross between The New Yorker and Encyclopaedia Britannica in the world of automania.
[With:] The Classic Tradition of the Lincoln Motorcar, 1968. -- Automobile Quarterly 20 Year Cumulative Index: Vols. 1-20, 1985. -- Automobile Quarterly Executive Planner, 2006. -- Automobile Quarterly newsletters, ordering catalogues, and other print ephemera.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $500 - 700
114 BAUM, L. Frank. (1856-1919). Ozma of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1907.
8vo. Numerous illustrations by John R. Neill. Original publisher’s pictorial tan cloth printed in red, black, blue, and yellow (soiling and slight rubbing, corners slightly bumped, upper hinge separating). Provenance: Edith Gambress Stuey (gift inscription, 1908).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the “O” in “Ozma” in line fi ve of the “Author’s Note” on p.11 present, integral pages pp. 135, 153, 221, publisher’s advertisements facing the half-title page and on the rear fl yleaf list two titles: The Land of Oz and John Dough and the Cherub. In the primary ‘A’ binding, with “The Reilly & Britton Co.” at foot of spine. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p.29.
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $200 - 300
115 BEMELMANS, Ludwig (1898-1962).
Pencil drawing on paper. 247 x 198 mm sight, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Showing a child (Pepito, the Spanish Ambassador’s son?) shooting at a baby’s balloon. 111
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116 [BINDING] -- [FOUJITA, Léonard, illustrator]. RAUCAT, Thomas. L’honorable partie de campagne. Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1927.
Small folio. 29 original etchings by Foujita. Contemporary full black polished calf gilt, upper cover and spine with ornamental ivory-colored morocco onlays, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Randeynes et fi ls (spine slightly rubbed with a few tiny losses); original wrappers bound in; morocco-tipped slipcase. Provenance: Mrs. Charles H. Russell, Jr. (her sale, Parke Bernet, 15-16 February 1944, Lot 138, with lot tag).
LIMITED EDITION, number 292 of 300 copies.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $1,000 - 1,500
117 [BINDINGS]. AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817). Novels. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912.
12 volumes, 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece vol.I, half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black. 20th-century half blue morocco gilt, top edges gilt (spines slightly sunned).
LIMITED EDITION, an unnumbered copy of the “Winchester Edition.” First published in 10 volumes by Grant Richards in 1898, this issue includes two additional volumes containing Lady Susan, The Watsons, and the Letters of Jane Austen. $700 - 900
118 [BINDINGS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey (1340?-1400). Poetical Works. London: William Pickering, 1852.
6 volumes, 8vo (160 x 100 mm). Engraved frontispieces. 20thcentury calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate). The Aldine Edition of English Poets.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $300 - 400
119 [BINDINGS]. DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Works. Boston and New York: Houghton, Miffl in and Company, 1894.
32 volumes, 8vo (218 x 146 mm). Numerous engraved plates, some with hand-coloring. Contemporary half red morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, number 34 of 500 copies of the “LargePaper Edition.” [Bound in to Volume I:] Printed check signed (“Charles Dickens”), drawn on Coutts Bank, payable to “W: Herbert Clarke, £2.12.” London, 9 April 1864.
Property from the Collection of Wendy Masse $2,500 - 3,500
120 [BINDINGS]. DOYLE, Arthur Conan, Sir (18591930). Works. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1903.
12 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces, title-pages printed in red and black, numerous plates. 20th-century half red crushed levant gilt, top edges gilt, stamp-signed by Bayntun (slight chipping to one spine).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 8 of 1,000 copies SIGNED BY DOYLE of the “Author’s Edition.” $3,000 - 4,000
121 [BINDINGS] -- [HOE, Robert, his copy]. PANCKOUCKE, Charles Louis Fleury. Bibliotheque LatineFrançaise. Paris: C L. F. Panckoucke, 1829-1835.
6 volumes, 8vo, comprising: the works of De Stace (4 volumes), and the works of Pétrone (2 volumes). Half-titles. 20th-century red morocco gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Belz Niedrer. Provenance: B. E. (monogram in gilt on spines); Robert Hoe III (1839-1909), fi rst President of the Grolier Club (morocco bookplate gilt).
Collected edition of literature in translation, the complete series comprised some 178 volumes. THE VERY FINE ROBERT HOE COPY.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600
*122 [BINDINGS]. -- [LINCOLN, Abraham]. NICOLAY, John George (1832-1901). -- HAY, John Milton (18381905). Abraham Lincoln. A History. New York: The Century Co., 1914.
10 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces, numerous plates. 20th-century half blue morocco gilt stamp-signed by Brentano’s, top edges gilt (slight rubbing to extremities).
FIRST EDITION of Nicolay and Hay’s defi nitive biography of Lincoln.
Property from the Estate of Avis Hope Truska, Scottsdale, Arizona
$600 - 800
123 [BINDING]. MAGINN, William and William BATES, editors. -- MACLISE, Daniel, illustrator. A Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters (1830-1838). London: Chatto and Windus, 1874.
2 volumes, 4to (273 x 209 mm). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY THE ADDITION OF APPROXIMATELY 145 PLATES AND 100 DOCUMENTS (see below). 20th-century blue morocco gilt, brown morocco strapwork onlays on covers and spine, wide turn ins and tan morocco doublures gilt, watered silk endleaves, edges gilt, stamp-signed by the Monastery Hill Bindery (light rubbing, minor losses to some onlays).
ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL NEATLY BOUND IN THROUGHOUT, INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE FROM SEVERAL NOTABLE AUTHORS, with most author's entries accompanied by an additional plate and a manuscript, and with several examples from additional authors, including:
BROWNING, Robert. ALS, to Mrs. Benzan. N.d., 1p. -- COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. ALS, to C. A. Tulk. 26 Jan. 1822, 1p. -- DICKENS, Charles. ALS, to Henry Bicknell. 10 June 1858, 1p. -- DISRAELI, Benjamin. ALS, to an unnamed recipient. 23 May n.y., 1p. -- FARADAY, Michael. ALS, to an unnamed recipient. 15 July 1847, 1p. -- GODWIN, William. ALS, to an unnamed recipient, 21 June 1816, 1p. -- GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. ANS, to an unnamed recipient. 21 April 1878, 1p. -- HUNT, Leigh. ALS, to E. R. Moran. 5 Sept. n.y., 4pp. -- IRVING, Washington. ALS, to Robert Harvey. 26 Sept n.y., 1p. -- MITFORD, Mary Russell. ALS, to Mr. Belfe?. 26 Sept. 1826, 1p. -- NORTON, Caroline. ALS, to Mr. Hay. 14 Feb. 1853, 1p. -- SCOTT, Sir Walter. ALS, to Rosa. N.d., 1 1/2pp. -- SOUTHEY, Robert. ALS, to an unnamed recipient. 20 Aug. 1825, 1p. -- THACKERAY, William. AN. N.d., 1p. -- WORDSWORTH, William. ALS, to an unnamed recipient. 15 Dec.? n.y., 1p. -- (Complete list and details available on request).
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $4,000 - 6,000
*124 [BINDINGS]. MUIR, John (1838-1914). The Writings of John Muir. Boston and New York: Houghton Miffl in Company, 1916-1924. The Writings of John Muir. Boston and New York: Houghton Miffl in Company, 1916-1924. 10 volumes, 8vo. Numerous photogravure and halftone plates. 20th-century half maroon morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. LIMITED EDITION, number 137 of 750 copies the “Manuscript Edition.” The collected works of Muir, who was a wilderness preservationist and the founding president of the Sierra Club. [Bound in to Volume I:] MUIR, John. Autograph manuscript, a page from the manuscript of The Mountains of California (1894). 1 page, 4to, (155 x 198 mm), in ink on paper with a few pencil corrections comprising 10 lines in ink, paginated “[35?]” at top. The text describes Bloody Cañon: “...marvelous freshness & simplicity, furnishing the student with extraordinary advantages for the acquisition of knowledge of this sort. The most striking passages are polished & triated surfaces, which reflect the rays of sun like smooth water. The dam of Red Lake is an elegantly glaciated rib of metamorphic slate, brought into relief because of its superior...” (Vol. 4, Chapter 5, “The Passes,» p. 103 in this set).
Property from the Collection of Todd D. Moberly, Berea, Kentucky $2,000 - 3,000
125 [BINDINGS]. POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. London: John C. Nimmo, 1885.
4 volumes, 8vo. Etched frontispieces and numerous proof etchings on Japanese paper. Contemporary half brown morocco gilt (a few small scuffs, lightly rubbed). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (gift inscription, engraved bookplate).
LIMITED EDITION number 14 of 50 copies on laid paper.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $300 - 400
126 [BINDINGS]. POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). Works. Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry, editors. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894-1895.
10 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces and numerous illustrations by Albert Edward Sterner printed on India paper tipped in. Original vellum elaborately gilt uncut (slight soiling).
LIMITED EDITION, number 85 of 250 LARGE PAPER COPIES.
*127 [BINDINGS]. SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1661). Works. New York: Edwin C. Hill Company, 1906.
21 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces. 20th-century mottled calf gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt-lettered in one, fl oral gilt tool in rest, turn-ins gilt, red silk doublures, top edge gilt, others uncut (very slight rubbing to spines and corners).
LIMITED EDITION, number 3 of 15 copies of the “Hathaway Edition.”
Property from the Estate of Avis Hope Truska, Scottsdale, Arizona $3,000 - 4,000
*128 [BINDINGS]. SHAKESPEARE, William. -- GAUTIER, Theophile. -- FLAUBERT, Gustave. -- BOURGET, Paul. -- MUSSET, Alfred de -- LONGUS. [BINDINGS]. SHAKESPEARE, William. -- GAUTIER, Theophile. -- FLAUBERT, Gustave. -- BOURGET, Paul. -- MUSSET, Alfred de -- LONGUS. Romeo and Juliet; Anthony and Cleopatra; King Candaules; A Night of Cleopatra; Jean and Jeannette; Daphnis and Chloe; Heródias; A Simple Heart; Pastels; The Last Abbé. Édition Artistique. Paris: Société des Beaux Arts, n.d.
10 volumes, 4to (260 x 194 mm). Engraved color frontispieces, numerous plates, most in two states, colored and uncolored, numerous illustrations all after Paul Avril, A. Robaudi, Raphael Collin and others. Green crushed levant, covers gilt with white, red and violet morocco onlay pansies, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest with gilt fl oral tooling and onlays, board edges gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, crushed red levant doublures with gilt and blue blue morocco onlay centerpieces, red watered silk fl yleaves, top edges gilt, others uncut (some light rubbing or slight sunning).
LIMITED EDITION, number 73 of 75 copies of the “ÉDITION ARTISTIQUE” on Japan paper printed for England and America.
Property from the Estate of Avis Hope Truska, Scottsdale, Arizona $2,000 - 3,000
129 [BINDINGS] -- [SPORTING NOVELS]. SURTEES, Robert Smith (1803-1864). [SPORTING NOVELS]. SURTEES, Robert Smith (1803-1864). Mr. Romford’s Hounds. - Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour. - Ask Mamma. - Plain or Ringlets. - Handley Cross. - Hillingdon Hall. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., n.d. [ca 1890].
6 volumes, 8vo (216 x 142 mm). Hand-colored engraved frontispieces and title-pages, engraved plates, numerous in-text woodcut illustrations by John Leech, H.K. Browne and W. T. Maud. Uniformly bound in 20th-century half red morocco gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, the rest with central fox, horse, hound, horseshoe or riding crop tools gilt, top edges gilt, stamp-signed by Bayntun (some light rubbing, minor wear to spine ends).
Later editions of Surtees’s sporting novels fi rst published in the 1850s. $200 - 300
130 [BINDINGS]. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord, (1809-1892). Works. Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1895-1898.
12 volumes, 8vo (182 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispieces. Title printed in red and black. Original half green morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
“Illustrated Cabinet Edition.”
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $600 - 800
131 [BINDINGS]. WEBSTER, John (1580?-1625?). Works. London: William Pickering, 1830.
4 volumes, 8vo (186 x 114 mm). Contemporary tan calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces, red speckled edges (front cover separated vol.I., a few hinges starting). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (gift inscription).
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
132 [BINDINGS]. WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Writings. London and New York: Keller-Farmer Co., 1907.
15 volumes, 8vo. Engraved title-page, title-page printed in red and black. 20th-century half green morocco gilt, marbled boards, top edges gilt, stamp-signed by Bayntun-Riviere (spines and corners sunned). Provenance: Henry Sotheran Ltd. (bookseller’s label).
LIMITED EDITION, number 229 of 450 copies of the “Florentine Edition.” $800 - 1,200
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137 Claude Monet, 1982. -- Picasso, 1983. -- Van Gogh, 1983. -- Bonnard, 1984. -- Salvador Dali, 1984. Leonardo Da Vinci, 1984. -- Goya, 1985. -- Margritte, 1985. -- And 34 others. Together, 40 works in 40 volumes, all in original leather bindings, edges gilt, condition fi ne. Provenance: Embrow W. Morgan, Jr. (stamps; blind-stamps). Complete list available on request.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $500 - 700
134 [BINDINGS]. [THE EASTON PRESS]. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616). Complete Works. Norwalk, CT, 1992-1993.
35 volumes (of 39, lacking 4 volumes comprising: King Lear; Timothy of Athens; The Poems of William Shakespeare Part I; and Hamlet). 4to. Together, 52 volumes with 11 works in duplicate and 3 works in triplicate. Numerous color plates. Publisher’s giltdecorated maroon morocco, black morocco lettering pieces on spines, watered silk endpapers, edges gilt. Provenance: Embrow W. Morgan, Jr. (stamps).
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $600 - 800
135 [BINDINGS]. [THE EASTON PRESS]. A group of 52 works published by the Easton Press, including:
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, 1966. -- TOLSTOY, Leo. Anna Karenina, 1975. MILTON, John. Paradise Lost, 1976. -- BAUDELAIRE, Charles. The Flowers of Evil, 1977. -- BRONTE, Charlotte. Jane Eyre, 1978. -- CERVANTES, Miguel de. Don Quixote, 1979. -- PAYNE, Thomas. Rights of Man, 1979. -- STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1979. -- And 45 others. Together, 52 works in 55 volumes, all in original leather bindings, edges gilt, condition fi ne. Complete list available on request.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $300 - 400
136 BINDINGS]. [THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY]. A group of 13 works, including:
FOWLES, John, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1979. SIGNED.. -- STRYTON, William, The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1979. SIGNED. -- FOWLES, John, The Collector, 1982. SIGNED. -- AUCHINCLOSS, Louis, Diary of a Yuppie, 1986. . -- DOCTROW, E.L., Billy Bathgate, 1989. SIGNED. -- And 7 others. Together, 13 works in 13 volumes, all in original leather bindings, edges gilt, condition fi ne. Complete list available on request.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $300 - 400
137 [BINDINGS] -- [PUBLISHER’S CLOTH]. A group of 4 works, comprising:
BLACKMORE, R. D. Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, n.d. (ca 1880s). 2 volumes. Original publisher’s gilt-decorated cream cloth; red cloth chemise. Provenance: Herman U. Loeffl er (signatures, 1894). Sixth edition. -- CRANE, Stephen. Active Service. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899. Original publisher’s green pictorial cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- LLOYD, John Uri. Scroggins. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. Original publisher’s beige pictorial cloth gilt. Later edition. -- TARKINGTON, Booth. -- WILSON, Harry Leon. The Man From Home. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1908. Original publisher’s light brown pictorial cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- Together, 4 works in 5 volumes, 8vo, all in original publisher’s pictorial cloth, most fi rst editions where indicated, condition generally good.
138 [BINDINGS]. A group of 3 fi nely-bound works, comprising:
BARRUCAND, Victor. Le Chariot de Terre Cuite. Paris: L’Édition D’Art H. Piazza, [1921]. 4to. Binding stamp-signed by René Aussourd. LIMITED EDITION, number 79 of 135 copies on Japon Impérial of a total edition of 910 copies. -- HALÉVY, Ludovic. La Famille Cardinal. Paris: Librairie de L’Édition Nationale Émile Testard, editeur, 1893. 4to. Binding stamp signed by James MacDonald Co. LIMITED EDITION, one of 110 copies of the “Grande Luxe” edition. -- LONGUS. Daphnis et Chloé. Paris: Librairie Illustrée, J. Tallandier, Éditeur, 1890 (preface dated). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (signature). -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, all in morocco or levant gilt, condition generally fi ne.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
140 [BINDINGS]. A group of 4 works, comprising:
DE JOINVILLE, Jean. Memoirs of John Lord de Joinville…. N.p.: Printed at the Hafod Press by James Henderson, 1807. 2 vols. 18th-century blindstamped calf gilt. Provenance: William Lloyd Aston, 1806 (bookplates). -- [BIBLE, in English]. The Holy Bible... Oxford or London, 1815. 3 vols. 19th-century red leather gilt (some toning, lower board separated vol.III, a few hinges starting). Provenance: William Banoco (signature). -- CARMAN, Bliss. Poems. New York and London, 1904. LIMITED EDITION, number 327 of 500 copies SIGNED BY CARMAN. [Laid-in:] 4pp. Typed Document “Christmas Eve. A Choral” INSCRIBED BY CARMAN to Louis V. Ledoux and ALS (“Bliss Carman”) to Ledoux, 1914. -- BROOKE, Rupert et al. New Numbers. Vol. I, No. 4. December 1914. Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester: n.p., 1914. Original printed wrappers; quarter morocco slipcase. -- Together, 4 works in 8 volumes, various 4to or 8vo sizes, bindings as noted, condition generally good.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300 139 [BINDINGS]. A group of 5 fi nely-bound works, comprising:
DE LA CROIX, D. Le Mariage Des Fleurs. Paris: Drost, 1798. Fourth edition. -- ZOUCH, Thomas. The Life of Izaak Walton. London: Thomas Gosden, 1826. Provenance: Robert Pinkney (bookplate). Later edition. [Laid in]: 7pp. Autograph letter signed “W. Shallilong” to Ledoux, 12 January 1900. -- MACHEN, Arthur, translator. The Heptameron or Tales and Novels of Marguerite Queen of Navarre… N.p.: Privately printed, 1886. Binding by Bayntun. -- SEINBURNE, Algernon Charles. Félise: A Book of Lyrics. Portland, ME: Printed for Thomas B. Mosher, 1893. Binding by G.P. Putnam’s Sons for Knickerbocker Press. LIMITED EDITION, one of 725 copies. -- STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Aes Triplex. N.p.: for the American Subscribers to the Stevenson Memorial, 1898. LIMITED EDITION, this copy printed for Louis V. Ledoux from a total edition of 160. -- Together, 4 works in 8 volumes, 8vo, all in morocco or calf bindings gilt, most with Louis V. Ledoux’s bookplate or signature, condition generally fi ne. [With:] AESCHYLUS. Tragédies D’Eschyle. Paris: Saillant & Nyon, 1770. Contemporary vellum.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
141 [BINDINGS]. A group of 3 works, comprising: (part lot)
CAVENDISH, William. Handbook of Chatsworth and Hardwick. London: Privately printed, [1844]. 19th-century brown morocco gilt with black morocco strapwork stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf (front board detached, lower joint starting, rubbed). -- COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Rime of the Ancient Mariner. New York: George H. Doran Co., [1910]. Numerous illustrations by Willy Pogány. Brown leather with vignette in gilt and blind with white morocco onlay to upper board, top edge gilt (separations to joints, rubbed). Provenance: Fred Herendeen (bookplate). -- FITZGERALD, Edward, translator. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1930. Numerous illustrations by Willy Pogány. Modern tree calf gilt stampsigned by Riviere and Son (separations at joints). -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 4to. $300 - 400
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Approximately 28 autograph letters signed, most with original envelopes, written to Louis V. Ledoux between 1926-1938.
Laurence Binyon, English poet and dramatist, was a noted scholar of Japanese art. He developed a friendship with American poet and Japanese print collection Louis V. Ledoux (see lots 190 & 191).
The archive of letters from Binyon to Louis Ledoux (nearly all addressed “Dear Ledoux”) are written in a friendly tone. Binyon discusses his work in the Asian arts and his lectures, Japanese prints, and his travels and plans.
[With:] 5 pamphlets by Binyon, including: Three Short Plays. 1930. Two PRESENTATION COPIES. -- Three Poems. 1934. PRESENTATION COPY. -- Art and Freedom. 1939. -- The Burning of the Leaves. 1944. -- Sophro the Wise. N.d. -- Dedication pamphlet to Binyon on the occasion of his retirement.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
143 [BLAKE, William]. GILCHRIST, Alexander (1828-1861). The Life of William Blake. London: Macmillan and Co., 1880.
2 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece portraits printed on India paper mounted to laid sheets, numerous illustrations on plain and India paper, including 3 original prints from Blake’s woodblocks of Virgil’s Pastorals and 16 electrotypes made from the original copperplates of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Original blue-green cloth elaborately giltdecorated by Burn & Co. with their ticket. Provenance: Henry Buxton Forman (1842-1917), bibliographer and bookseller (engraved bookplate; his sale, Anderson Galleries, 15 March 1920, Lot 59).
Second edition, elaborately expanded and enhanced from the fi rst edition of 1863. THE VERY FINE H. BUXTON FORMAN COPY.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600
144 BLAKE, William (1757-1827). The Works of William Blake Poetic, Symbolic and Critical. Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats, editors. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893.
3 volumes, 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original green cloth elaborately gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (very slight rubbing to spine ends, otherwise bright.) Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 unnumbered copies on paper of a total edition of 650. Yeats “marked down William Blake as a master early on, and with Edwin Ellis produced a large-scale commentary on Blake’s prophetic writings in 1893. While often erratic and idiosyncratic, it helped establish the importance of Blake’s esoteric verse” (ODNB). A FINE COPY.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $800 - 1,200
145 CAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965.
8vo. Original black cloth gilt, top edge stained maroon; original slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, LIMITED ISSUE, number 139 of 500 copies SIGNED BY CAPOTE of his acclaimed true crime novel.
$1,000 - 1,500
146 [CHESS]. FISKE, WILLARD DANIEL. The Book of the First American Chess Congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, held in New York, in the Year 1857… New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859.
8vo. Color frontispiece decorated in gilt. Original publisher’s brick-colored cloth gilt (very slight rubbing to extremities, tiny split at foot of spine). Internally fi ne. Provenance: contemporary inscription on front fl yleaf.
FIRST EDITION of the fi rst American Chess Congress. The frontispiece is a dedication to Paul Morphy, the winner of the tournament. Includes 67 games in the Grand Tournament of 1857 held in New York, with Paul Morphy claiming the fi rst prize. It also covers The Problem Tourney with 53 set-ups and their solutions in the back section of the book. A fi ne copy. $200 - 300
148 [CHESS]. A group of 3 works, comprising:
SARRATT, J. H. The Works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez, and Salvio on the Game of Chess. London: T. Boosey, 1813. 8vo. (Some minor spotting to endpapers; slight marginal toning.) Contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards (front hinge cracked, some rubbing to boards and extremities, with some paper loss to rear cover). Provenance: Herbert Greenwell[?] (faint ink signature on front free endpaper; catalogue label “845” on front pastedown). --STEINITZ, WILLIAM. The Modern Chess Instructor. Part I. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889. 8vo. Original cloth gilt (minor wear to spine ends and extremities; some rubbing to covers, hinges tender). FIRST EDITION. --FISCHER, BOBBY. My 60 Memorable Games. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1969). 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket (spine panel and front panel faded, some chipping). FIRST EDITION. $250 - 350 147 [CHESS]. PHILIDOR, A. D. Studies of Chess; containing Caissa, A Poem by Sir William Jones A Systematic Introduction to the Game and the Whole Analysis of Chess composed by Mr. A. D. Philidor. London: Samuel Bagster, 1803.
2 volumes bound in one. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece. (Very pale dampstaining onto title-page from frontispiece. In contemp mottled tree calf, red morocco spine label (small repair at head of spine, rear hinge starting).
FIRST EDITION.
$200 - 300
149 [CHILDREN’S LITERATURE]. BOUTET DE MONVEL, Louis-Maurice (18501913). Jeanne D’Arc. Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit & Cie., [1896].
4to. Numerous color in-text illustrations by de Monvel. Original beige decorative cloth stamped in green and gilt, edges stained red (slight soiling, corners bumped, light rubbing to corners and spine ends). FIRST EDITION.
[With:] FRANCE, Anatole (1844-1924). Filles et Garçons. Scenes de la ville et des champs. Paris: Librairie Hachette, [1900]. 4to. Numerous color in-text illustrations by Boutet de Monvel. Original publisher’s cloth-backed illustrated boards (slight soiling, very light wear to extremities). FIRST EDITION. -- TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de (1864-1901). Lautrec. A Portfolio of Twelve Reproductions of Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. New York and London: Holme Press Inc., 1946. Folio. 12 reproduction prints loose as issued in original printed wrapper.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $100 - 200
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153 150 [CHINESE]. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. LI FANG, Compiler. Wen Yuan Ying Hua. [Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature]. [China, ca 16th century].
2 volumes bound in one, comprising volumes 278-286 (of ca 1,000), 8vo (278 x 180 mm). (Light toning to margins.) 20th-century Chinese gilt-speckled blue wrappers and FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Madonna and Child in Chinese Sung style (outer fold of each sheet opened); contemporary folding brocade case, a cloth pattern of iridescent pink, green, orange and brown fl owers on a blue background, the inner fl aps of interlocking scroll form with gilt edges, bone toggles.
16th Century reprint, likely from the Ming Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Longqing, originally compiled during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Northern Song Dynasty, from 982 to 986. The fi rst edition of this Tang Poetry collection was printed in 1195. $800 - 1,200
151 CLEMENS, Samuel (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910). The Prince and the Pauper. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882.
8vo (212 x 160 mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece, numerous illustrations in text. (Some very light spotting.) Original publisher’s sheep, red and black morocco spine labels (slight wear, joints starting). Provenance: J.H. Ewalt (gift inscription, 1882).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of the author’s fi rst historical novel. Mixed state: BAL’s fi rst state printing, with Franklin Press imprint on copyright, but this copy with text on p.124 in corrected state, line 1 reading “canopy of state” as in captioned illustration (instead of “canopy of estate” in earlier state). BAL 3402; Johnson, pp. 39-41. $400 - 600
152 CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
Square 8vo (212 x 165 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 3), illustrations in text. Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (lower hinge separating, minor wear to spine ends and corners). Provenance: Jed (gift note from E.W.S.,1922, tipped in).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, later state, with the following issue points: the title leaf in the third state; the frontispiece in the third state; second state of p. 13 with “Him and Another Man” plate listed as being on p. 87; second state of p. 57 with “saw”; third state of pagination on p. 155; with fi nal blank 23/8. BAL 3415; Johnson, p.43-50. $500 - 700
153 The Colophon. A Book Collectors’ Quarterly. New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1930-1940, 1948-1950.
89 volumes, 4to and 8vo. A complete set of The Colophon, 1930-1335, 35 volumes comprising the complete run of Volumes I-XX and additional duplicates of several vols.; complete set of The New Series, 1935-1938, 37 volumes comprising the complete run of 12 volumes and additional duplicates of several vols.; a near complete set of The New Graphic Series, 1939-1940, 5 volumes (lacking vol. III with duplicates of vols.I-II); complete set of The New Colophon, 1948-1950, 12 volumes comprising the complete run of 8 volumes and additional duplicates. Original printed boards or cloth (slight toning and soiling, light rubbing to extremities); several vols. with original glassines (some tearing with loss). Publisher’s ephemera laid in.
FIRST EDITIONS, a near complete run of the periodical including the often lacking color drypoint etching entitled “Hilltop” SIGNED BY DAVID B. MILNE in pencil lower margin in The Colophon First Series vol.V and the color woodcut print “An Eagle Ceremony at Tesuque Pueblo” by Gustave Baumann in The Colophon First Series vol.XII.
[With:] Index. The Colophon. 1930-1935. Volumes I, II, III, IV, V. Twenty Parts. New York: The Colophon, 1935. 2 copies. 8vo. Original publisher’s blue cloth gilt; original glassine. -- The Annual of Bookmaking 1927-1937. New York: Pynson Printers, 1938. 4to. Original publisher’s cloth stamped in silver and black (slight darkening to spine). FIRST EDITION. -- The New Colophon, A Book-Collectors’ Miscellany. New York: Duschnes Crawford, Inc., 1950. 2 copies. 8vo. Original publisher’s pictorial cloth; original glassine to 1 copy (some tearing with loss). Provenance: M.L. Biscotti (bookplate). -- Index. The Colophon. 1930-1935. Volumes I, II, III, IV, V. Twenty Parts. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Reprint Corp., 1967. Publisher’s blue cloth.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $600 - 800
154 COLUM, Padraic (1881-1972). A group of 4 works and a small archive of correspondence, comprising:
Broad-Sheet Ballads. Being a Collection of Irish Popular Songs with an Introduction by Padraic Colum. Baltimore, 1914. 8vo. (Endpapers a little foxed.) Original cloth. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (bookplate). -- COLUM. Three Plays. Boston, 1916. 8vo. Original cloth. INSCRIBED BY COLUM on front free endpaper: “Good luck to the possessor! / Padraic Colum / Cornwall-on-Hudson / 28th. October 1916”. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (bookplate). With an ALs laid in from Colum to Ledoux, [n.d.]. 1 p, 4to, with original envelope. -- COLUM. Wild Earth and Other Poems. New York, 1916. 8vo. Original cloth. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (bookplate). INSCRIBED BY COLUM to Ledoux on front free endpaper, dated Dec. 1916. -- COLUM. Dramatic Legends and Other Poems. New York, 1922. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards.
[With:] Approximately 19 autograph or typed letters signed, written by Colum to Louis V. Ledoux, 1915-1917. Written in a warm friendly tone, primarily relating to books, poetry, travels and arranging visits: “Would you care to have those intolerable people, the Colums, visit with you for a few days next week?” [Also with:] YEATS, William Butler. Samhain. London: Sealy Bryers & Walker and T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. One volume only (of 7), 8vo. Original wrappers. SIGNED BY YEATS on the cover.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600 $400 - 600
156 156 DALI, Salvador (1904-1989) -- DALI, Gala (1934-1982). Two autograph letters signed, comprising: DALI, Salvador. Autograph letter signed (“Dali”), to an unnamed recipient, n.d. 1 page, 8vo. Written on the verso of an autograph note, presumably in Gala Dali’s hand, reiterating what Dali notes in his letter. Dali discusses an upcoming trip, and mentions that he will bring 6 paintings he has recently completed whose titles can be found in the catalogue for an exhibition he recently held in Barcelona. He mentions the title of one work: “’Presence instantane de Luis II de Bobiere’ Salvador Dali, Lenin, et Wagner sur la plage de Rosas.” [With:] DALI, Gala. Autograph letter signed (“Gala”), to Julien, n.d. 2 pages, 8vo, separations to folds. Discussing translating text about Dali, and bringing photographs and paintings to plan for an upcoming catalogue. $1,500 - 2,500 155 COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851). The Deerslayer; or, the First WarThe Deerslayer; or, the First WarPath. A Tale. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841.
2 volumes, 12mo (183 x 109 mm). (Some minor spotting as usual.) Original purple muslin, printed paper labels on spines (spines and labels a bit faded and rubbed, some minor soiling). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with the Fagan-Ashmead imprint on the verso of each title-page. The fi nal novel published in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, but the fi rst installment chronologically, set during the lifetime of hero Natty Bumppo. BAL 3895; Sabin 16430; Spiller and Blackburn 32.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $600 - 800
157 DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection. New York: D. Appleton, 1860.
8vo. Half-title; one folding letterpress table. (Some spotting.) Original blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered (some light wear, minor losses to spine ends, hinges starting). Provenance: Seguin (two signatures, January 27, 1860).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with two quotations facing titlepage. Darwin’s work ‘marked a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general, for there is no fi eld of human intellectual endeavor that has not been infl uenced by the thought and fact of evolution’ (DSB III, p.571). Freeman 377.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $3,000 - 4,000
158 [DERRYDALE PRESS]. KIRMSE, Marguerite. Dogs. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930.
Small 4to. Original drypoint etching frontispiece, illustrated throughout. Original publisher’s half buckram over boards, printed label on spine (some very minor browning or toning, one corner with slight wear). Provenance: John Stuart Groves (morocco book label gilt).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 175 unnumbered copies with an original drypoint etching SIGNED AND CAPTIONED by Kirmse. Siegel 41.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600
160 ELIOT, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965). “The Waste Land.” In: The Dial, Vol. LXXII, No. 5, pp. 473-485. New York: Dial Publishing Co., 1922.
8vo, comprising pp. 473-506 only (the issue incomplete, but with Eliot’s work complete). (Some minor soiling, pp.503/504 misbound). Modern wrappers; cloth folding case.
FIRST AMERICAN APPEARENCE of “The Waste Land,” preceded by The Criterion printing in England in October 1922. The present copy also includes The Player Queen by W. B. Yeats. $500 - 700 159 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; publisher’s pictorial dust jacket (some minor toning and chipping, tear along front fold).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Dinesen’s memoir recounting her 17 years in Kenya. $400 - 600
161 EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882). Autograph note signed (“R. W. Emerson”) to an unnamed recipient, n.d.
1 page, 100 x 124 mm, some minor ink smudging, matted and framed with an engraved portrait, unexamined out of frame. Regarding submitting edits to Parnassus: “I send you a pair of corrections for Parnassus. I may probably add a few words? but will not delay the printing for them. R W Emerson.” $200 - 300
162 FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925.
8vo. Original publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt (slight rubbing, very minor staining and tiny indentations to lower cover.)
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
164 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. NORDHOFF, Charles (18878-1947). -- HALL, James Norman (1887-1951). Mutiny on the Bounty. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1932.
8vo. 20th-century blue crushed levant gilt, upper cover with central illustration of a ship in white, red and green morocco onlay, edges gilt, concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of the H.M.S. Bounty and a ship of mutineers at sea; quarter morocco gilt slipcase.
FIRST EDITION of the fi rst work in the Bounty Trilogy, based on the 1787 mutiny in Tahiti and later made into the 1962 fi lm starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris.
$500 - 700 163 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. LEWIS, Lloyd (1891-1949). Sherman. Fighting Prophet. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.
8vo. 20th-century blue crushed levant COSWAY STYLE BINDING, upper cover with inlaid portrait of General William T. Sherman, turn-ins gilt, blue watered silk doublures and endpapers, edges gilt, concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of General Sherman with his troops in the countryside; quarter morocco gilt slipcase. $2,000 - 3,000
165 [FORMAN, H. Buxton]. The Anderson Galleries. The Library of the Late H. Buxton Forman. [Part One]. --[Part Two]. New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1920.
2 volumes, 8vo. Original printed wrappers (some minor chipping to spines).
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $100 - 200
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167 DU ROUSSEAUD DE LA COMBE, Guy. Recueil de Jurisprudence Civile du Pays de Droit Ecrit et coutumier par Ordre Alphabetique. Paris: Chez Le Gras, Paulus-du -Mesnil, De Nully, and De Bats, 1746. New revised edition. -- JOUY, Louis-Franç ois de. Conférence des Ordonnances, Édits, Déclarations...Paris: Chez Durand and Pissot, 1753. Later edition. -- DANTY, N. Traité de la Preuve par Temoins en Matiere Civile...Paris: Chez Celalain, 1769. Sixth edition. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 4to, all in contemporary mottled calf gilt (some light wear).
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $200 - 300
167 FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A Further Range. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936.
8vo. Original beige linen with printed paper spine label gilt, top edge stained maroon; original glassine (a few tears with losses); original board slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 37 of 803 copies SIGNED BY FROST. Crane A21.
[With:] FROST. In the Clearing. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. Original brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered; original board slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 1,112 of 1,500 copies SIGNED BY FROST. Crane A41.
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $500 - 700
168 [FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS]. TATLOCK, R. R. and Roger FRY, R. L. HOBSON, and Percy MACQUOID. A Record of the Collections in the Lady Lever Art Gallery Port Sunlight, Cheshire Formed by the First Viscount Leverhulme. London: B.T. Batsford, 1928.
3 volumes, 4to. Numerous plates, some tipped in and some in color. Original publisher’s blue cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; original printed dust jacket (some soiling and toning, spines slightly darkened, light chipping and tears to extremities). Provenance: M. Phifer Williamson (blind stamps to dust jackets).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 350 unnumbered copies. A catalogue of English paintings, English furniture, and Chinese porcelain and Wedgwood pottery in the Lady Lever Art Gallery collections.
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $300 - 400
169 [FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS]. WILLIAMSON, George C. (1858-1942) The Imperial Russian Dinner Service. A Story of a Famous Work by Josiah Wedgwood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1909.
4to. Chromolithographed frontispiece, numerous halftone plates. Quarter vellum over green cloth boards, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt. LIMITED EDITION, one of 10 copies printed on Japanese vellum.
[With:] ERSKINE, Beatrice Caroline (1860-1948). Lady Diana Beauclerk. Her Life and Work. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. 4to. Color frontispiece, numerous color plates and in-text illustrations, title-page printed in red and black. (Some spotting to a few leaves.) Original maroon gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt (corners slightly bumped, some rubbing to edges, very light sunning to spine). FIRST EDITION.
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $400 - 600
170 GODWIN, William (1756-1836). Autograph Letter Signed (“William Godwin”), to an unnamed recipient. Skinner Street, Snow Hill, 31 October 1817.
1p., 4to, matted and framed with an engraved portrait, unexamined out of frame. Asking the return of a bust of his recently-deceased friend: “I have always much wished to have the...bust of my friend...which I sent to you some years ago, returned to me, & the melancholy event of his death has now greatly increased my anxiety on the subject.”
170A GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771). The Poems of Mr. Gray. To Which are Added Memoirs of his Life and Writings. William Mason, editor. York: A. Ward and others, 1778.
4 volumes, 8vo (180 x 112 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece etched by Doughty; printed on thick paper. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, board edges gilt, edges stained yellow. Provenance: “F. W.” (initials on title-page); “W. B. Y.” (initials on fl yleaf vol. I). Collected edition of Gray’s works. ESTC T90575.
[Laid in:] Autograph manuscript, 19th-century, in an unknown hand. A fair copy of a translation of Thomas Gray’s “Latin Ode on the Monastery of the Grande Chartreuse,” fi rst published unattributed in The London Magazine, Vol. I, January-April 1825, p. 367. The translation was later published in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1903, p. 382, with a note from the editor that the translation work is “not certain to be Lamb’s, but probably his.”
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $300.00 - $500.00 $300.00 - $500.00
172 HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The Scarlet Letter, A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.
8vo (178 x 110 mm). Title printed in red and black. 4-page publisher’s advertisements dated 1 October 1850 bound in at front. (Dampstaining to a few leaves.) Original publisher’s brown cloth (minor losses to foot of spine, some wear or losses to corners or extremities, hinges starting). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
Second edition, with the Metcalf and Company imprint on copyright page and ads dated October 1, 1849. Hawthorne’s work was an immediate success, selling 2,500 copies in its fi rst week of publication, giving Hawthorne his fi rst literary success. HAWTHORNE’S SIGNATURE TIPPED IN facing titlepage. BAL 7600; Grolier American 59.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $500 - 700 *171 HASTINGS, Warren (1732-1818). Autograph letter signed (“Warren Hastings”), to an unnamed recipient. Daylesford, Gloucestershire, 14 June 1812.
2 pages, 4to, a few old repairs, matted and framed, unexamined out of frame. Inquiring about the improvements to a portrait of the Duke of Gloucestershire.
Property from the Estate of Agnes Neill Williams, Chevy Chase, Maryland $400 - 600
173 HOSACK, David. Essays on Various Subjects of Medical Science. New York: Printed by J. Seymour, 1824.
8vo (230 x 143 mm). Engraved plate. (Some damp-staining or soiling). Original boards uncut (several separations to hinges, losses to spines, some overall wear and chipping); cloth folding case. Provenance: Dr. Morris Parker Collection, Michael Reese Hospital (bookplates and a few library markings).
FIRST EDITION. Hosack, one of the founders of the New York Historical Society, an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, remains widely remembered as the doctor who treated Alexander Hamilton’s fatal injuries after his duel with Aaron Burr in 1804.
$300 - 500
174 IACOVLEFF, Alexandre (1887-1938). Dessins et Peintures d’Asie. Exécutés au Cours de l’Expedition Citroën Centre-Asie. Paris: Jules Meynial, 1934.
Folio. 50 color lithographed plates. Text volume in original wrappers; plates loose as issued in original publisher’s printed board portfolio, cloth ties. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (letter laid-in).
LIMITED EDITION, number 147 of 500 copies, SIGNED BY IACOVLEFF in pencil to half-title. During 1931-1932, Iacovleff was the artistic adviser to the Croisière Jaune expedition sponsored by the car maker Citroën. The artwork Iacovleff produced during this expedition includes this series of portraits of the peoples and landscapes of central Asia. [Laid in:] Autograph letter signed “Iacovleff” to Louis V. Ledoux, n.d.
[With:] 3 autograph letters signed, from Iacovleff to Louis V. Ledoux, 1936. Coordinating travel and arranging for Iacovleff to do a drawing of Ledoux.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $2,000 - 3,000 $2,000 - 3,000
176 [JAPANESE FAIRY TALES]. HEARN, Lafcaido, translator. 5 volumes, comprising:
The Boy Who Drew Cats. -- The Old Woman Who Lost her Dumpling. -- Chin Chin Kobakama. -- The Fountain of Youth. -- The Goblin Spider.
Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, 8vo, all printed on crepe with original crepe wrappers stab-sewn (without folding case). All larger format 7 1/2 x 5 1/2in. post-WWI printings, with various Hasegawa imprints.
[With:] 3 smaller format works with Nishinomiya imprints, on crepe, comprising: Motomaro. -- The Hare of Inaba. -- The Ogre’s Arm.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $600 - 800 175 IRVING, Washington (1783-1859). The Alhambra. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832.
2 volumes, 8vo (199 x 115). ORIGINAL CLOTH-BACKED BOARDS, printed paper label on spine uncut [BAL variant B, no priority] (some staining or soiling, labels chipping with minor losses, some minor rubbing). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with “Philadelphla” in imprint on title-page Vol.II. BAL 10163.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
177 [JAPANESE BOOKS]. A group of 4 works, comprising:
HEARN, Lafcadio. Kottō. New York and London: The Macmillan Co., 1902. -- WANTANNA, Onoto. A Japanese Nightingale. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1902. -- We Japanese. Yokomama: Yamagata Press, [ca 1950]. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo, illustrated, each in original publisher’s cloth bindings.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $200 - 300
178 [JAPANESE BOOKS]. NOGUCHI, Yone (1875-1943). A group of 3 works, comprising:
From the Eastern Sea. London: at the Unicorn, 1903. Provenance: Maruzen Kabushiki Kaisha (bookseller’s label). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY NOGUCHI. -- Seen & Unseen. Or Monologues of a Homeless Snail. New York: Orientalia, 1920. Second edition, limited issue, one of 500 unnumbered copies. INSCRIBED BY NOGUCHI to Louis Ledoux. -- Selected Poems. Boston and London: The Four Seas Company; Elkin Mathews, 1921. INSCRIBED BY NOGUCHI to the Ledouxs, 1921. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo, in original cloth or stab-sewn printed paper covers, FIRST EDITIONS where indicated, condition generally fi ne.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
179 MICHENER, James A. (1907-1997). The Modern Japanese Print. An Appreciation. Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1962.
Large folio. 10 woodblock or stenciled plates by Hiratsuka Un’Ichi, Maekawa Sempan, Mori Yoshitoshi, and others each signed and numbered by the artist. Original 3-tone gilt-stamped cloth; original wooden slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, number 453 of 510 copies SIGNED BY MICHENER.
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $1,000 - 1,500
180 [JAPANESE PRINTS]. MAKI, Haku (1924-2000). BRANNEN, Noah and ELLIOTT, William, translators. Festive Wine. Ancient Japanese Poems from the Kinkafu. New York & Tokyo: Walker/ Weatherhill, 1969.
4to. Frontispiece and 21 original colored woodblock prints signed and numbered 91/150 by Haku Maki in pencil. Original half leather over gilt and silver-stamped cloth, edges uncut; original rice paper dust jacket; wooden slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, number 91 of 150 deluxe copies SIGNED BY MAKI.
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $1,000 - 1,500
181 [JAPANESE PRINTS]. A group of 4 works, comprising:
LEDOUX, Louis V. A Descriptive Catalogue of an Exhibition of Japanese Landscape, Bird, and Flower Prints. New York: the Grolier Club, 1924. -- AMSDEN, Dora and J. S. HAPPER. The Heritage of Hiroshige. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1902. -- MURRELL, William. Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Woodstock, NY: William M. Fisher, 1922. -- A Flight of Butterfl ies. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, 8vo, in original bindings, condition generally fi ne.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $200 - 300
182 [JAPANESE SONGS]. A group of three works, comprising:
Kohana San. -- Oyucha San. -- Japanese Jingles.
Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo, all printed on crepe with original crepe wrappers stab-sewn. All larger format (7 1/2 x 5 1/2-in. or slightly smaller), with various Hasegawa imprints.
[With:] Japanese Pictures of Japanese Life. Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, n.d. Printed on crepe. -- Saru-Kani Kassen. Tokyo: Kobunsha, n.d. Printed on paper.
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183 JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). A Dictionary of the English Language... London: Longman Group UK Limited, 1990. JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). A Dictionary of the English Language.. 185
2 volumes, folio; also with 2 booklets as issued. Original Cabra red bonded leather blocked in gold and green foil; original slipcase; original shrinkwrap; original shipping carton.
Facsimile edition of Johnson’s Dictionary in two volumes, with two additional booklets as issued, comprising: a facsimile of the Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language by Johnson and a 16-page booklet with introductory essays. Johnson’s Dictionary was originally published in 1755 under a joint imprint of five booksellers, including T. and T. Longman. AS NEW IN ORIGINAL SHRINKWRAP.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $200 - 300
184 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. In: Two Worlds Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1-Vol.III, No. 3. New York City: Two Worlds Publishing Company, July 1926 - September 1927.
11 volumes, 8vo. Original printed wrappers (some chipping or tears).
Pirated fi rst appearance of Joyce’s Ulysses in America, published by Samuel Roth. Complete as issued in 11 volumes; a 12th installment was planned but not issued separately, although it did appear when the work was issued in a two-volume bound edition. Joyce sought and obtained an injunction against Roth, and sued for damages. Slocum & Cahoon C-68 (“This unauthorized serialization of Ulysses resulted in considerable public indignation and provoked the ‘International Protest’ signed by 167 artists and writers and printed in transition” in April 1927.)
Property from the Collection of Andy Nettell $600 - 800
185 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Anna Livia Plurabelle. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.
8vo. Half-title. Original brown cloth gilt, top edge gilt.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 29 of 800 copies SIGNED BY JOYCE. Anna Livia Plurabelle, Chapter I of Finnegans wake, was published in translation in November 1927 prior to the present separate publication. The chapter, named after its heroine Anna Livia Plurabelle, includes some of the Wake’s most lyrical passages. Slocum and Cahoon A32. A VERY FINE COPY.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $1,500 - 2,500
186 186 KERNER, Johann Simon (1755-1830). Abbildung Aller Oekonomischen Pfl anzen. Stuttgart: Christoph Friedrich Cotta, 1786, 1788.
2 volumes (of 8, comprising vols.I-II), 4to (305 x 240 mm). 2 hand-colored etched title vignettes, etched tailpiece in vol.I, 185 (of 200) hand-colored etched plates by Kerner [Lacking plates 1, 2, 6, 7, 21, 26, 32, 35, 41, 43, 52, 90, 96 in vol.I and 131, 132 in vol.II]. (Dampstaining to a few margins,). Contemporary half calf gilt, edges uncut (worn, some minor damage to spine and hinges).
FIRST EDITION of this rare German botanical book with fi ne plates. Kerner was a German botanist and botanical illustrator and highlights a range of plants with economic potential in this work. COMPLETE COPIES ARE RARE: NUC locates only one complete copy at Vassar College. Brunet III: 654; Dunthorne 164 (French text); Great Flower Books p.107; Nissen BBI 1034; Pritzel 4639; Stafl eu & Cowan 3604.
Property from the Collection of the Sisters of Providence, Sisters-of-the-Woods, Indiana $1,000 - 2,000
187 KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de (“Jack”), (1922-1969). The Dharma Bums. New York: The Viking Press, 1958.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth stamped in silver and green (small damp stain on front cover); original dust jacket (slight chipping, a few tears with old tape repairs verso).
FIRST EDITION, “appearing a year after the author’s explosive On the Road put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller lists” (front flap). Charters A4a $200 - 300
8vo. Illustrated with plates by Kipling. Original red pictorial cloth; in McCutcheon’s quarter red straight-grained morocco slipcase. Provenance: George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928), American novelist and playwright and noted Kipling collector (bookplate, his sale, American Art Association, 20 April 1925 ).
FROM THE NOTED RUDYARD KIPLING COLLECTION OF GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON
FIRST EDITION of Kipling’s classic collection of children’s stories explaining, among other questions, “How the Camel Got its Hump.” Publisher’s advertisements laid in. Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature 57; Livingston 267; Stewart 260. A VERY FINE COPY.
$600 - $800
188A KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). A group of 5 works, comprising: 188 188
The Courting of Dinah Shadd. And Other Stories. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Half green morocco gilt, top edge gilt, stamp-signed by Stikeman & Co. Original printed wrappers bound in. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- The Light That Failed. London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. Original blue cloth gilt. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. -- His Apologies. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. Original cloth-backed printed boards (hinges separating, rubbing to extremities). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- The Fox Meditates. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. Original printed wrappers. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- Ham and the Porcupine. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1935. Original printed wrappers. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, all fi rst American or English editions where indicated, bindings as indicated, condition generally fi ne except where indicated. $400 - 600
189 LAMB, Charles (1775-1834). Autograph letter signed (“C. Lamb”) to Mr. Allsop. N.p., 29 May 1829.
1 page, 8vo, a few holes or tears from rough opening.
Lamb writes English stockbroker, author, and follower of radical politics, Thomas Allsop (1795-1880): “I do not know a soul that at my recommendation is likely to do what you wish to have done. I have considered all my friends round, and there is not one to whom I could apply with a chance of success. You know pretty well of whom they consist.”[With:] Mezzotint portrait engraving of Charles Lamb by Samuel Arlent Edwards (1862-1938), matted and framed. 188, 188A
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $500 - 700
190 LEDOUX, Louis Vernon (1880-1948). A group of 8 works by American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector Louis V. Ledoux, most with his bookplate, including:
The Soul’s Progress and Other Poems. New York: John Lane Company, 1906. INSCRIBED BY LEDOUX. -- Yzdra. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909. INSCRIBED BY LEDOUX to Edward S. Partridge, 1910. -- The Shadow of Aetna. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1914. Original dust jacket. -- The Story of Eleusis. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. -- George Edward Woodberry. A Study of his Poetry. Cambridge, MA: The Poetry Review Company, 1917. -- And 3 others. Together, 8 works in 18 volumes, all in original cloth or printed wrappers, dust jackets where indicated, most fi rst editions, condition generally good. Complete list available on request.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
191 LEDOUX, Louis V. (1880-1948). An archive of letters written in the 1900s-1930s to Louis V. Ledoux.
Approximately 575 autograph or typed letters signed, written to Louis V. Ledoux and sent from various locations in the United States and Europe, primarily from New York and London. Also with related ephemera.
Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948) was an American businessman, author and collector. He was President of Ledoux & Company, his family’s mining exploration and assaying fi rm in New York, and was a noted collector of books, manuscripts, and Japanese prints. He was a noted authority on Japanese prints and wrote collectors’ reference works on the subject. He also wrote original works of poetry, and wrote about George Edward Woodberry, who had been his professor at Columbia. He served as President of the Japan Society, and he was a member of the Grolier Club.
Included in this archive of correspondence is a large group of letters and carbon copies from American writer John Gneisenau Neihardt, including a typescript of his work A Bundle of Myrrh, with a manuscript dedication from Neihardt to Ledoux, Bancroft Nebraska, June 1906. Also included are groups of letters from artist Sydney Adamson; African American writer, poet and critic William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite; poet Amelia Josephine Burr; art historian Royal Cortissoz; organist Archer Gibson; American educator, author and composer John Erskine; poet Vachel Lindsay; poet Josephine Preston Peabody; painter Gijs Bosch Reitz; British diplomat and Japanese historian George Bailey Sansom; American war poet Alan Seeger; poet and editor Ridgely Torrence. 190
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195 LINTON, William James. The Plaint of Freedom. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: G. Bouchier Richardson, 1852. THE H. BUXTON FORMAN COPY with his signature. -- THOMSON, James. The City of Dreadful Night. London: Reeves and Turner, 1880. Provenance: Fenton (armorial bookplate). -- Selected Poems From The Harvard Monthly 18851910. Cambridge: Published by the Graduate Council of the Harvard Monthly, 1910. Original printed wrappers. -- LOCKWOOD, Luke Vincent. The Furniture Collectors’ Glossary. New York: Printed for the Walpole Society, 1913. One of 175 copies on Cheltenham Deckle-edge paper. Provenance: John T. Jackson (gift inscription 1914). -- HOUSMAN, A.E. Last Poems. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1922. -- And 3 others. Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, 8vo, all in original cloth, boards or printed wrappers, most with the bookplate of Louis V. Ledoux, condition generally fi ne, complete list available on request.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
193 MAISTRE, Xavier, Comte de (1763-1852). Voyage autour de ma Chambre. Paris: Dufart, an VII [1799].
12mo. Half-title; engraved frontispiece by Auguste Blanchard. 20th-century half blue morocco gilt, uncut.
Early edition of Maistre’s work of parody written in the tradition of a grand travel narrative, and fi rst published in 1794. Maistre wrote about his voyage “around his room” while he was imprisoned in Turin for 42 days for dueling. [With:] Meleagre. Tragedie. Paris: Pierre Ribou. 1699. (Repairs to title.) Later blue cloth. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (bookplate). -- Aristotle’s Secret of Secrets Contracted. N.p.: n.p., 1719. Second edition. Contemporary calf gilt (some light wear, hinges splitting).
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
194 McARTHUR, John (1755-1840). The Army and Navy Gentleman’s Companion; or a New and Complete Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Fencing. London: for J. Murray, 1784.
4to (256 x 204 mm). Engraved frontispiece after James Sowerby, engraved title-page, 19 engraved plates (most folding). (A few minor spots.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt (some wear). Provenance: T. S. Sands (gift inscription from Louis V. Ledoux, 1936).
Second edition, preceded by the fi rst edition of 1781, the success of which “induced the author to bestow some labour and attention in revising, correcting, and improving this Edition; to which he has added a copious Glossary of the technical terms” (Introduction).
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600
195 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. [BIBLE, in Latin]. Biblia Sacra. Cologne: Sumpt. Haered. Bern. Gualteri et Sociorum, 1639.
6 volumes, 48mo (95 x 50 mm). Engraved title-pages. Contemporary calf blind-tooled in gilt, edges gilt (some very light wear to spines); black morocco gilt-tooled slipcases, interior lined with decorative patterned paper. Provenance: Marshall Field & Company (bookseller’s label).
New revised standard version. Darlow & Moule 6215.
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $1,000 - 1,500
196 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Severinus. De consolatione philosophiae libri V. Cum praefatione P. Bertii. Amsterdam: Johan Blaeu, 1649.
87 x 51mm. Engraved title. Contemporary Dutch vellum (minor soiling). Provenance: Johannes Bilderbeeck (contemporary signature on front free endpaper).
A fi ne small format of Boethius’ philosophical work, edited by the humanist theologian and scholar Pierre Bertius (1565-1629). At the end “De metris Boethianis libellus” and “Locorum et versuum Graecorum...”.Welsh 1347; USTC 1013944; STCN (only one copy, Amsterdam). Not in Bondy, Spielmann, COPAC, Bn-Opale plus. $200 - 300
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197 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. The Tiny Book on Cocktails. Providence, RI: Livermore & Knight Co., 1905. 199
74 pp. 51 x 43 mm. Original limp dark green limp leather gilt, gilt-lettered on upper cover “Cocktails,” yapp edges (spine a little faded, minor wear to extremities).
A rare pre-Prohibition miniature mixology book, containing recipes for fi fty mixed drinks popular at the turn of the 20th Century. OCLC locates only a single copy, at the University of Virginia. $200 - 300
198 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. WALCOTT, PAUL and BETTY; and SOLIDAY, MARION. Chats about Miniature Books. [N.p.:] Privately Printed, 1932.
38 x 32 mm. Original gilt-decorated wrappers; original card slipcase. ONE OF 250 NUMBERED COPIES. $200 - 300
199 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 4 miniature books, comprising:
BUTLER, Samuel. Hudibras. London: by Jones & Company, 1824. -- The Miniature English Grammar. London: William Mason & Son, n.d. -- MAUNDER, Samuel. The Little Lexicon. London: T. Noble, 1846. Fifth edition. -- MAUNDER, Samuel. The Little Gazetteer. London: printed for the proprietor, n.d. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, 48mo, engraved frontispiece and title-pages, all in contemporary gilt-decorated morocco, condition generally fi ne.
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $300 - 400
200 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 4 works, comprising:
VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius. Bucolica. London: W. Pickering, 1821. 81 x 46 mm. With frontispiece. Contemporary calf (front hinge cracked, with fi rst quire detached). Provenance: “E.W.” (monogram bookplate). -- The Means of Doing Good. Stourport: G. Nicholson, 1820. 87 x 52 mm. Engraved frontispiece and additional title with vignette. Contemporary red morocco-backed patterned boards (front cover and preliminaries detached, corners worn, rubbed). Provenance: “Aspinwall” (lettered on front free endpaper). Rare provincial printing. Not in Welsh. -- WEBER, Msgr. Francis J. C. E. D. “The Lady”. San Fernando, CA: Junipero Serra Press, 1988. 68 x 47 mm. With original morocco bookplate of Carrie Estelle Doheny mounted as frontispiece. Original gilt-lettered leather. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies. -- WEBER, Msgr. Francis J. The Immortal Little Willie. San Fernando, CA: Junipero Serra Press, 1990. 66 x 45 mm. With original 20¢ US postage stamp tipped-in as frontispiece. Original gilt-lettered leather. LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 copies. $300 - 400
201 [MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 12 miniature books, comprising:
O’Neill, Eugene. The Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog. Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1972. Tan calf, edges gilt. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1,000 unnumbered copies. -- STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Prayers Written at Vailima. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1973. LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 unnumbered copies. Original printed boards. -- [GAGE, Thomas]. General Gage’s Instructions. Oakham, MA: The Oakham Bindery, 1974. Red morocco gilt. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1,000 unnumbered copies. -- BARRETT, Amos. The Concord Fight. Concord, MA: Robert D. Naiva, 1975. [Uniformly bound and slipcased with:] LISTER, Jeremy. The Concord Fight. Concord, MA: Robert D. Naiva, 1975. Blue morocco gilt. Each one of 2,000 unnumbered copies. -- CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Paris: Minia Press, n.d. [Uniformly bound and slipcased with:] CARROLL. Through the Looking-Glass. Paris: Minia Press, n.d. Red morocco gilt. -- Milano Minima. Collana illustrate di libri in miniatura. Rome: Editalia, 1967. 5 volumes. Tan calf gilt; tan morocco gilt slipcase. -- Together, 8 works in 12 volumes, various 48mo and 64mo sizes or smaller, condition generally fi ne.
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202A 202A A Leech Drawing A Leech Drawing. 1923. -- My Library. 1926. -- A Reprimand and What Came of It. 1927. -- The Christmas Spirit. 1930. -- A Thomas Hardy Memorial. 1931. -- I Want! I Want! 1932. -- Ascot. 1933. -- The Trollope Society. 1934. -- Staffordshire. 1935. -- -- Pope, Poetry and Portrait. 1936. -- Christmas Greetings. 1937. -- George Dyer. 1938. -- MacLEISH, Archibald. A Tribute to A. Edward Newton A. Edward Newton. Washington, D. C.: The Library of Congress, 1940. -- [With:] A Check-List of the First Editions of A. Edward Newton From the Library of Dr. Alfred P. Lee. Philadelphia: The Franklin Bookshop, n.d. -- Together, 14 works in 14 volumes, all in original printed wrappers, all published by Oak Knoll in Daylesford Pennsylvania, except where indicated. Three volumes INSCRIBED BY NEWTON to Robert J. Bucholz, condition generally fi ne. volumes INSCRIBED BY NEWTON to Robert J. Bucholz, condition generally fi ne.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $200 - 300
202A O’KEEFFE, Georgia (1887-1986). A group of 9 letters to Jean Ledoux, 1944-1951. O’KEEFFE, Georgia (1887-1986). A group of 9 letters to Jean Ledoux, 1944-1951. A group of 9 autograph letters signed (“Georgia O’Keeffe” or “Georgia”), comprising 24pp, with original envelopes. O’Keeffe’s letters to her friend Jean Ledoux discuss books, art, and the coordination of visits. In her 16 August 1944 letter, she describes her home: “I live on the edge of a strip of many miles of badlands -- the governments largest experiment in erosion controls -- they can’t control it -- It starts a stones throw from my kitchen door -- and I can not throw far -- red hills - purple shills with streaks and patches of green earth --- yellow and lavender cliffs very high and far-seeing all around the back -- about half a mile away - with their red foothills...the colors and shapes are so fantastic.” After describing travels in her 23 June 1949, letter, she muses: “I intend to settle down and just be a painter.” She invites her friend to visit her in New Mexico in her letter of 23 August 1950: “Your moving will not seem so bad when you have been away to a new sort of world.” In a 2 July 1951 letter, she apologizes for her slow responses: “Oh I am so slow -- I think so often of you and go on about my life like a squirrel in a cage and do not write in spite of my intentions.” In a November 1951 letter, O’Keeffe reports that she will not visit New York in the winter: “I do not plan to go to N. Y. this winter --- it seems so far away to me that I fi nd the years there almost like a dream.”
A group of 9 autograph letters signed (“Georgia O’Keeffe” or “Georgia”), comprising 24pp, with original envelopes.
O’Keeffe’s letters to her friend Jean Ledoux discuss books, art, and the coordination of visits.
In her 16 August 1944 letter, she describes her home: “I live on the edge of a strip of many miles of badlands -- the governments largest experiment in erosion controls -- they can’t control it -- It starts a stones throw from my kitchen door -- and I can not throw far -- red hills - purple shills with streaks and patches of green earth --- yellow and lavender cliffs very high and far-seeing all around the back -- about half a mile away - with their red foothills...the colors and shapes are so fantastic.”
After describing travels in her 23 June 1949, letter, she muses: “I intend to settle down and just be a painter.” She invites her friend to visit her in New Mexico in her letter of 23 August 1950: “Your moving will not seem so bad when you have been away to a new sort of world.” In a 2 July 1951 letter, she apologizes for her slow responses: “Oh I am so slow -- I think so often of you and go on about my life like a squirrel in a cage and do not write in spite of my intentions.”
In a November 1951 letter, O’Keeffe reports that she will not visit New York in the winter: “I do not plan to go to N. Y. this winter --- it seems so far away to me that I fi nd the years there almost like a dream.”
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
$3,000 - $4,000
203 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 (very minor rubbing to corners and edges, ). Provenance: Donald Cyril Dickerhoff (blindstamp to title-page).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the words “First Printing” on the copyright page. IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with price $6.95 and “10/57” at the bottom of the front fl ap, and with the publisher’s name and address at the bottom of the rear fl ap. Atlas Shrugged, Rand’s fourth and fi nal novel, is her most extensive statement of her Objectivist philosophy, depicted in a dystopian United States. $800 - 1,200
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204 204 SALINGER, J.D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
8vo. (Minor soiling to endleaves.) Original black cloth (spine slightly leaned); original fi rst issue dust jacket printed in red, black and yellow with cropped photograph of Salinger on rear cover, fl ap priced at $3.00 (small dampstaining to bottom edge, minor chipping, old adhesive remnants to fl aps and verso). Provenance: Beverly Book Shelves Rental Libraries (library stamps).
FIRST EDITION. The novel’s protagonist, Holden Caulfi eld, 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. 5354). $1,000 - 1,500
205 SALINGER, J.D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
8vo. Original black cloth (some rubbing, half ring stain to upper cover);in the second issue dust jacket (spine slightly toned, light chipping, some minor staining). Provenance: J.D. Witter (stamp, 1951).
FIRST EDITION, second printing with “Reprinted July 1951” on copyright page. In second issue dust jacket with the $3.00 price on the front fl ap and with the Lotte Jacobi photo credit on Salinger’s portrait on the rear panel, but with about 1/8 inches between the top of Salinger’s hair and the top edge of the jacket on the rear panel. $300 - 400
206 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Cenci. A Tragedy, in Five Acts. London: C. and J. Ollier, 1821.
8vo (222 x 138 mm). 20th-century half maroon morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut; ORIGINAL WRAPPERS bound in, original printed label to front wrapper. Provenance: Robert Ellis (early signature on title-page); Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
Second edition, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, preceded by an 1819 edition printed in Livorno, Italy, in an edition of only 250 copies.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $300 - 400
207 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Queen Mab. London: W. Clark, 1821.
8vo. With 1p. advertisement leaf at end. ORIGINAL BOARDS, original printed label to spine, uncut (some chipping with small losses to spine label, some light wear to extremities); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Charles W. Frederickson (1823-), noted Shelley collector (bookplate with manuscript date of acquisition, May 1858, his sale, Bangs & Co., 24-28 May 1897, Lot 1568, a few pencil notes in his hand).
PIRATED FIRST EDITION, thin paper copy, issued without the dedication to Harriet *****, but this copy with the dedication leaf supplied and laid in (purportedly from a copy of the 1822 Carlile edition). Queen Mab was first privately printed in 1813. This pirated edition of 1821, printed by R. Clark, precedes the first authorized edition, which was composed of the remaining sheets from Clark’s edition and issued with a new title-page by Carlile in 1822. When Shelley learned of Clark’s unauthorized edition, he protested the piracy; Clark appeared before the Court of King’s Bench on 23 June and pleaded not guilty to publishing an “indecent, immoral and scandalous poem.” According to Geroge Goodspeed, “His trial did not take place until late in the following year, but the book appears to have been suppressed, nominally at least, very soon after its publication” (See The Colophon, New Graphic Series, No. 1, p.2532, 1939). Ashley V., p.150. THE C.W. FREDERICKSON COPY.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $500 - 700
208 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Queen Mab a Philosophical Poem. New York: William Baldwin, 1821.
12mo. Engraved title-page. ORIGINAL BOARDS uncut (old spine repairs, upper cover detached); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
“First American edition,” but really the second unauthorized edition, with a false imprint, believed to be published by William Benbow in London in 1821. In “The ‘First American’ Queen Mab,” George Goodspeed notes: “The suppression of Clark’s edition of Queen Mab [see previous lot] left the field open to another publisher. Demand had been stimulated by the controversy and the source of supply had been cut off. Benbow was nothing if not an opportunist» (See The Colophon, New Graphic Series, No. 1, p.2532, 1939).
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600
209 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Posthumous Poems. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824.
8vo. With the leaf bearing the errata and advertisements. Later green calf gilt, smooth spine gilt, brown decorative morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stampsigned by Zaehnsdorf for A. C. McClurg (spine slightly sunned, some minor rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, one of fewer than 500 copies printed, much of the edition was suppressed by Shelley’s father, Sir Timothy Shelley. “It was with difficulty that a publisher was found for the book, the sale of two hundred and fifty copies being guaranteed by Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Bryan Waller Proctor (“Barry Cornwall”) and Thomas Forbes Felsall” (Granniss Shelley 78). Ashley V, p.88; Tinker 1904; Wise Shelley, p.70.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $600 - 800
210 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Miscellaneous Poems. London: William Benbow, 1826.
12mo (150 x 90 mm). 20th-century brown crushed levant elaborately gilt, uncut, stampsigned by Riviere & Son. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
PIRATED FIRST EDITION, largely a reprint of the Posthumous Poems, omitting the longer poems and translations, but including “Lines written in Dejection,” which does not occur in the Posthumous Poems. VERY RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only four copies of this edition have sold at auction in the last 35 years.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600
211 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Poetical Works. London: Edward Moxon, 1839.
4 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles; engraved frontispiece portrait in vol. I. 20th-century crushed levant gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, turn-ins gilt, stamp-signed by G. P. Putnam’s for the Knickerbocker Press (spines slightly sunned, a few corners lightly bumped). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of Shelley’s works edited and compiled by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, which she dedicated to their son Percy Florence Shelley.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $300 - 400
12mo. Half-title, 1p. advertisements at end. 19th century polished calf gilt. Provenance: John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-1894), great-nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (signature on blank leaf, two annotations, initials at end, ALS from Edward Moxon tipped in); Frank T. Sabin (d.1915), London rare book and autograph dealer (ALS from Thomas Hookham with postscript in Sabin’s hand); T. Tileston Wells (armorial bookplate); Louis V. Ledoux (18801948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this “ingenious forgery perpetuated by an impostor, claiming to be the son of Lord Byron. Two genuine letters, which happened to be in Moxon’s hands, were included. The fraud was discovered, to the chagrin of Browning and Moxon, who at once destroyed all obtainable copies of the book” (Granniss/Grolier Shelley 127). [Bound in:] “Unpublished Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley,” from Fraser’s Magazine, March 1860. -- “The Coliseum. A Fragment.” N.p., n.d. (with a footnote reading: “This is the fragment referred to by Capt. Medwin in the Memoir--see Athenaeum, p.503). Ashley V, p.92; Wise , p.74.
WITH MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL FROM JOHN DUKE COLERIDGE, EDWARD MOXON & THOMAS HOOKHAM REGARDING THE FORGERIES
Two of the published letters include manuscript postscripts regarding the authenticity of those letters. On p.66, following Letter V, he writes: “This letter was printed in the Memoirs of Shelley...in the volume of Coleridge, Shelley & Keats...as early as 1833.” In a note on p.145, following Letter XXI, he notes the specifi c passages in the letter which led to the doubt of the volume as a whole.
[Tipped in:] MOXON, Edward. Autograph letter signed to Coleridge, n.d. 2 pages, 8vo. Moxon discusses the manuscripts which served as the basis for this work: “The important fact respecting Letter 5 I will immediately communicate to Mr. Cunningham, the writer of the article in the Athenaeum. I may mention it is the decided opinion of Mr. Hookham, who knows more of Shelley’s private history than any one else, that the whole of the letters are genuine. ...My own impression is that the letters which I purchased at Sotheby’s are not in Shelley’s hand writing, but with perhaps two or three exceptions copies of genuine letters.”
[Laid in:] HOOKHAM, Thomas. Autograph letter signed to Frank T. Sabin, 9 October 1882. With a post-script in Sabin’s hand. 5pp., 8vo. “You ask me respecting the authenticity of a Letter from Shelley to my Father, which is included in the volume of ‘Letters of P. B. Shelley, edited by Robert Browning,’ and published about 1850. This volumes has long been condemned as spurious, and all the letters indiscriminately pronounced forgeries. All I can say is that the single one addressed to my Father is not so...The letter itself is an unimportant one, and he did not deem it worthwhile to make public his guarantee of the fact. It might naturally lead to the inference that there may be others in the volume equally genuine, but on this point I will not pressure to pass an opinion.” 212
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $500 - 700
213 [BINDINGS]. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). – FORMAN, Harry Buxton, editor. Works. London: Reeves and Turner, 1880.
8 volumes, 8vo (214 x 132 mm). Engraved frontispieces. Contemporary tree calf gilt, edges marbled, red and blue morocco lettering-pieces to spine (rubbing to extremities, a few hinges starting). Provenance: Constitutional Club Library (bookplate).
Collected edition of Shelley’s works edited by Harry Buxton Forman. $800 - 1,200
214 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Poetical Works. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1892.
4 volumes in 8, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece printed on India paper mounted in vol. I. Half blue morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (spines sunned, some light rubbing to extremities, some very light chipping to spine ends of a few volumes). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (18801948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
LIMITED EDITION, number 195 of 250 LARGE PAPER COPIES. 213
. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press,
: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $500 - 700
215 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Letter from Percy B. Shelley to T. Peacock, July, MDCCCXVI. London: The Essex House Press, 1901.
8vo. Printed in red and black. (A few scant spots.) Original boards, printed labels to upper cover and spine (some minor soiling or toning). Provenance: Edward Willard (1853-1915), English Shakespearean actor, fi ne press book collector (signature); Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 45 unnumbered copies on paper of a total edition of 50.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
216 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Poems. London: The Vale Press, 1901.
3 volumes, 8vo. Wood-engraved pansy border by C. Keats after Charles Ricketts at text opening of each volume, woodcut initials by Ricketts. (Some very minor mostly marginal spotting to a few leaves.) Original white buckram, uncut and unopened (some very minor spotting or soiling, fore-edge of vols. I & II slightly bumped). Provenance: Shepard Book Company (bookseller’s label); Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 310 unnumbered copies on paper of a total edition of 320.
[With:] [GROLIER CLUB] -- GRANNISS, Ruth S. A Descriptive Catalogue of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley. New York: The Grolier Club, 1923. Original boards, uncut and unopened; original glassine; original slipcase.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
217 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). A group of 8 early posthumous works. Comprising:
SHELLEY. Poems and Sonnets. Charles Alfred Seymour, editor [but Thomas J. Wise]. Philadelphia [but London], 1887. One of 30 copies. -- PATON, J. Noel, Sir. Compositions from Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound. Edinburgh, n.d. -- SHELLEY. Epipsychidion. London, 1887. Finely bound. -- FAIRFIELD, Sumner L. Abaddon, the Spirit of Destruction. NY, 1830. Includes a biography of Shelley, pp. 135-142. -- THOMSON, James. Shelley, a Poem. London, 1884. -- The Shelley Centenary at Horsham, August 4th, 1892. Arundel, 1892. -- SHELLEY. The Masque of Anarchy. London, 1852. -- Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Austin & Co., n.d. -- Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, condition generally fi ne.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600
218 [SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, and his Circle]. A group of 4 works relating to Shelley and his Circle, comprising:
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. London: Edward Moxon, 1840. 2 volumes. -- DOWDEN, Edward. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London and Philadelphia: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. and J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. 2 volumes. -- WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. Letters to Imlay. London: C Kegan Paul, 1879 [but 1878]. -- PAUL, C. Kegan. William Godwin: His friends and Contemporaries. London, Henry S. King and Co., 1876. 2 volumes. -- Together 4 works in 7 volumes, all 8vo, all in 20th-century half morocco bindings gilt, condition generally fi ne. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $500 - 700
219 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). A group of 6 works by our about Shelley, comprising:
SHELLEY. Adonais. San Francisco, 1922. 2 volumes. Original vellum-backed boards or wrappers; original slipcase. One of 150 copies, including facsimile. -- [FREDERICKSON, Charles W. Bangs & Co. Catalogue of the Library of the Late Charles W. Fredericsson. New York: Bangs & Co., 1897. -- [SHELLEY]. A bound volume including several pamphlets and sale catalogues. -- SHELLEY. The Cenci. New Rochelle: Elston Press, 1903. Original cloth-backed boards. -- SLICER, Thomas R. Percy Bysshe Shelley. An Appreciation. New York: Privately Printed, 1903. Original boards; original glassine. LIMITED EDITION, one of 150 unnumbered copies on paper. -- [GROLIER CLUB] -- GRANNISS, Ruth S. A Descriptive Catalogue of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley. New York: The Grolier Club, 1923. Original boards; original glassine. -- Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, condition generally fi ne.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600
220 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Autograph letter signed (“P. B. S.”), to Charles Ollier. Florence, Italy, 15 December 1819.
3 pages, square 4to, on a bifolium, addressed on an integral leaf, postmarked 28 December 1819, dampstaining to one corner, signifi cant show-through, some inkburn, a few tiny holes, 4-in tear. FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES W. FREDERICKSON, and sold, his sale, Bangs, 29 May 1897, Lot 2353 (described as “badly stained”).
“MY PROMETHEUS IS THE BEST THING I EVER WROTE.”
Shelley writes to his publisher Charles Ollier (1788-1859) about Prometheus Unbound: “When the box comes, you may write a note to Mr. Peacock; or it would be better to call on him, and ask if my tragedy is accepted? If not, publish what you find in the box. I think it will succeed as a publication. Let ‘Prometheus’ be printed without delay. You will receive the additions, which Mrs. S. is now transcribing, in a few days. It has already been read to many persons. My Prometheus is the best thing I ever wrote.”
Shelley began writing his masterpiece Prometheus Unbound, in early September 1818, but stopped work on the poem following the death of his daughter Clara Everina Shelley later in the month. He began work on the poem again in early 1819, and had fi nished the majority of the poem by April of that year. He had the work transcribed in September 1819, and sent the manuscript for the fi rst three acts to England in December 1819. The work was published by Ollier 1820, but Shelley found it to be full of printer’s errors.
Shelley also discusses future publications: “I mean to write three other poems, the scenes of which will be laid at Rome, Florence, and Naples, but the subjects of which will be all drawn from dreadful or beautiful realities... I am [also] preparing an octavo on reform, --a commonplace kind of book,-- which...I shall not trouble myself to fi nish for this season. I intend it to be an instructive and readable book, appealing from the passions to the reason of men.” Published in: The Best Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shirley Carter Hughson, editor. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1892, pp. 231-233.
221 [SHELLEYANA]. A group of material relating to Shelley and his circle, including manuscripts from the collection of Charles W. Frederickson. Letter dated 1813, etching later
A group of manuscripts from Shelley’s publishers, biographers, and relatives FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES W. FREDERICKSON, comprising the majority of Lot 2387 from his sale, Bangs, 24-28 May 1897:
Capt. E. S. Trelawny, ALS, 8vo, 1841 -- J. Shelley, ALS, 4to, 1799 -- Augusta Leigh (sister of Lord Byron), AL, 3p., 8vo -- Peter Finnerty, ALS, 4to, 1804 -- T. Shelley, 2 ALSs, 1813 and 1828 -- Edward Dowden, ALS, 4pp., 8vo, 1885, regarding his Life of Shelley -- Lady J. S. Shelley, ALS, 2pp., 8vo -- Sir Percy F. Shelley, ALS, 8vo, 1883 -- J. C. Jeaffreson, ALS, 4pp., 8vo, 1883 -- Edward Moxon, ALS, 2pp., 8vo, 1867 -- H. Buxton Forman, ALS, 3pp., 8vo, 1876, regarding Shelley’s letters -- Joseph Severn, ALS, 3pp, 8vo -- Charles Cowden Clarke, ALS, 4pp., 8vo, 1842 -- T. F. Dillon Croker, 2 ALSs, 8vo, 1854 -- Prof. C. Short, MS, Oration on Shelley.
[With:] A small group of letters to Frederickson, comprising: Anna J. Gould, ALS, 2pp, 8vo 1889; Charles Short, ALS, 2pp., 8vo, 1875; Ernest North, 8vo, 1895, with a dried fl ower from Shelley’s grave; W. H. Randolph, 4pp., 8vo, with a dried fl ower from Shelley’s grave. -- Also with: J. Shelley? Cut address panel, 1820 -- John E. Burke Jr., ALS, 4pp., 8vo, 1894. [Also with:] A small group of engravings and periodical publications about Shelley.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600
222 THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863). Autograph letter signed (“Wm Thackeray”), to Mr. Walker, Esq. 36 Onslow Square, n.d.
1 page, 8vo, on a bifolium, some minor ink smudging or staining, short tear to upper margin, tipped along upper margin to mount.
Regarding chimney maintenance: “The fi re from my chimnies [sic] communicates to the Barons walls, and smoke breaks through the panels of his drawing room. Will you send somebody to examine my fi replaces and my neighbours? We may be all in ashes if we don’t mind.”
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600
223 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. BYRON, John. (1723-1786) Viage del Comandante Byron Al Rededor Del Mundo… Madrid: Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1769.
Small 4to (200 x 145 mm). Frontispiece bound facing p.1, engraved folding map hand-colored in outline. (Map with tears to fold crossing image, repairs verso, a few light pencil markings.) Contemporary vellum (hinges separating or starting, some light wear, lacking ties). Provenance: Pedro Robredo y Cia (bookseller’s stamp to title-page).
Second edition of Casimiro Gómez de Ortega’s Spanish translation of John Byron’s A Voyage Round the World, in His Majesty’s Ship The Dolphin, Commanded by the Honourable Commodore Byron (1767). Ortega was a botanist at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid and identified plant species collected during Spanish expeditions to the Americas in the 18th century.
Property from the Collection of Gaspar Mayagoitia Barragán $800 - 1,200
224 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. SHACKLETON, Ernest Henry, Sir (1874-1922). South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1919.
8vo. Half-title, color-printed frontispiece, numerous photographic plates, folding map (short tear with loss to blank margin), errata slip. (Text slightly browned as usual,.) Original dark blue silver-decorated cloth, top edge stained blue (recased, some light rubbing, endpapers renewed). Provenance: Robert P. Gibb (gift inscription 1919); Henry Sotheran Ltd. (bookseller’s label).
FIRST EDITION of Shackleton’s account of his ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. SHACKLETON’S SIGNATURE on a card tipped-in. Conrad p.224; Renard 1460; Rosove 308.A1; Spence 1107; Taurus 105.
$1,000 - 1,500
225 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. STEPHENS, John Lloyd (1805-1852). Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. London: John Murray, 1846.
2 volumes, 8vo. 2 lithographed frontispieces, lithographed folding map, numerous lithographed plates. Later tree calf (rebacked, spines somewhat brittle).
“Twelfth edition” (stated on the title-page). According to Sabin, there were several reissues of the fi rst American edition “from the same plates, with only slight variations in the collations. London issues appeared in 1842 and 1843.” This included at least eleven issues of a “Twelfth Edition” between 1844 and 1871.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $200 - 300
226 NO LOT
227 [20th CENTURY LITERATURE - SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS]. A group of 4 signed limited editions, comprising:
O’NEILL, Eugene. The Emperor Jones. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. LIMITED EDITION, number 91 of 775 copies SIGNED BY O’NEILL. -- MICHENER, James A. The Drifters. New York: Random House, 1971. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 352 of 500 copies SIGNED BY MICHENER. -- UPDIKE, John. Rabbit Redux. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 295 of 350 copies SIGNED BY UPDIKE. -- WARREN, Robert Penn. Meet Me in the Green Glen. New York: Random House, 1971. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 217 of 300 copies SIGNED BY WARREN. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, 8vo, all in original cloth or cloth-backed boards as issued, condition generally fi ne. $300 - 400
228 VONNEGUT, Kurt (1922-2007). The Sirens of Titan. Boston: Houghton Miffl in Company, 1961.
8vo. Publisher’s navy cloth lettered in white (some minor rubbing); original dust jacket (a few short closed tears to top edge, very light chipping to spine ends, minor toning).
FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION of Vonnegut’s second novel. “The hardcover edition of the book is very scarce” (Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy). Currey p.503. $600 - 800
230 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Salome. London and New York: John Lane, 1907.
Small 4to. Frontispiece, 15 illustrations on Japan vellum. Original publisher’s green gilt-decorated cloth.
The fi rst edition to include all of Beardsley’s illustrations for the work. Lasner Beardsley 59; Masons 355 (“Green linen boards stamped on the front side in gilt with...a design by Beardsley prepared for the 1894 edition...). A FINE COPY.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $400 - 600 229 [WAGNER, Richard (1813-1883)]. – ROLLESTON, T.W. Parsifal or the Legend Parsifal or the Legend of the Holy Grail. Willy Pogany, illustrator. London: Harrap & Co., [1912].
4to. Original etched plate signed by Pogany laid-in; numerous plates and illustrations by Pogany. Original gilt-decorated vellum, top edge gilt, others uncut (upper hinge broken); yellow cloth slipcase. Provenance: May Wilson (signature); Fred Herendeen (bookplate).
LIMITED EDITION, number 182 of 525 copies SIGNED BY POGANY. $300 - 400
231 231 WOODBERRY, George Edward (1855-1930). A group of 19 works by or about Woodberry, from the collection of Woodberry scholar Louis V. Ledoux, most with his bookplate, many signed or inscribed by Woodberry, including: The Relation of Pallas Athene to Athens. N.p.: Privately printed for the Signet Society of Harvard University, 1877. INSCRIBED BY WOODBERRY to Louis V. Ledoux. Slipcase and chemise. -- Wild Eden. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1899. FIRST EDITION. -- An Easter Ode. N.p.: printed for the Woodberry Society, 1918. Original printed wrappers. 3 copies. -- The Roamer. And Other Poems. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. FIRST EDITION, limited issue, number 43 of 100 copies SIGNED BY WOODBERRY. -- LEDOUX, Louis V. The Poetry of George Edward Woodberry. A Critical Study. New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1918. FIRST EDITION. -- And 14 others. Together, 19 works in 22 volumes, all in original cloth or printed wrappers, various fi rst or later editions, condition generally fi ne. Complete list available on request.
232 WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850). Autograph Letter Signed (“W. Wordsworth”), to H. C. Robinson. N.p. June 1826.
1 page, 8vo, on a bifolium, addressed in Wordsworth’s hand on an integral leaf, some minor staining, lower margin trimmed irregularly.
Wordsworth writes Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867), English lawyer and diarist, about a recent payment: “pray tell me who it was that gave that unfavorable report of the Provincial Bank Thames you mentioned yesterday... When he gave it and what opportunities to guide...he has for [making?] a sound judgement. I cannot afford to [?] that quicky, and as you I and ours know C-- though [?] and sagacious is not infallible.”
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York $1,000 - 1,500 $1,000 - 1,500
234 [WOLFE, Thomas (1900-1938)]. A group of later printings by Thomas Wolfe, [WOLFE, Thomas (1900-1938)]. A group of later printings by Thomas Wolfe, including: The Face of a Nation. New York: The Literary Guild of America, Inc., 1939. Dust jacket (price clipped). -- Mannerhouse. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948. -- Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1957. Dust jacket (price-clipped). Provenance: Francis M. Woodward (bookplate). -- Selected Letters of Thomas Wolfe. Elizabeth Nowell, editor. London: Heinemann, 1958. -- The Story of a Novel. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963. Dust jacket. -- The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe. Francis E. Skipp, editor. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1987. -- And approximately 28 others. Together, approximately 34 volumes, 8vo, published between various dates, most later editions, all in original publisher’s cloth, cloth-backed boards, printed boards or printed wrappers, with dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fi ne. Complete list available on request.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $200 - 300 233 [WOLFE, Thomas (1900-1938)]. A group of 6 fi rst editions by Thomas Wolfe, comprising:
Carolina Folk-Plays. “The Return of Buck Gavin.” New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1924. Provenance: Arthur R. Holmes (bookplate). -- Of Time and the River. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. Provenance: Margery Comstock (signature, 1935). -- From Death to Morning. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. -- The Web and the Rock. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1939. -- You Can’t Go Home Again. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Provenance: F. Poise? Schmidt (signature). -- The Hills Beyond. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1941. Original dust jacket. -- Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, 8vo, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, all in original publisher’s cloth, with dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fi ne.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $200 - 300
235 [WOLFE, Thomas (1900-1938)]. A group of reference works about Thomas [WOLFE, Thomas (1900-1938)]. A group of reference works about Thomas Wolfe, including:
FISHER, Vardis. Thomas Wolfe As I Knew Him. Denver: Alan Sallow, 1936. -- Johnston, Carol. Thomas Wolfe. A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987. -- Preston, George R. Thomas Wolfe. A Bibliography. New York: Charles S. Boesen, 1943. Inscribed by the publisher, Charles S. Boesen. -- HARPER, Margaret Mills. The Aristocracy of Art in Joyce and Wolfe. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. -- IDOL, John Lane. A Thomas Wolfe Companion. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. INSCRIBED BY IDOL, 1994. -- NOWELL, Elizabeth. The Letters of Thomas Wolfe. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1956. Dust jacket (price-clipped). -- And approximately 130 others. Together, approximately 138 volumes, 8vo, all in original publisher’s cloth, cloth-backed boards, printed boards, or printed wrappers, with dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fi ne. Complete list available on request.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher $200 - 300
