Bauman Rare Books July 09 Catalog by Megan Fentzloff

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last-minute acquisitions This catalogue presents a selection of recently acquired offerings, with our very latest acquisitions featured in this first section. Visit our website at www.baumanrarebooks.com for frequent updates on our most recent titles.

john f. k ennedy First Edition Of Profiles In Courage, Inscribed By John F. Kennedy 1. KENNEDY, John F. Profiles in Courage. New York, 1956. Octavo, original black and blue cloth, dust jacket. First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer-winning examination of “that most admirable of human virtues,” warmly inscribed by him: “To Sam Jensen—with very best regards. John Kennedy. Lincoln [Nebraska] 1957.” “A series of sketches of American politicians who risked their careers in the cause of principle… ‘A man does what he must,’ Kennedy wrote, ‘—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality’… The book was popular history of high order, and it received the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957” (DAB). Illustrated with four black-and-white photographic plates. Only very light edge-wear to book and price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine inscribed first edition.

$15,000.

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history of moscow The Character Of The Russians And A History Of Moscow, 1823, With Splendid Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates 2. (RUSSIA) LYALL, Robert. The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow. London, 1823. Large quarto, contemporary three-quarter diced brown calf gilt. $7800. First edition, with 23 plates, including 13 beautiful hand-colored aquatints (three folding, many views of Moscow) and a large folding map of Moscow. The Scottish physician Robert Lyall visited St. Petersburg in 1815 and became a colleague of the Tsar’s physician. From 1816-20, Lyall was attached to the residence of Countess Orlov-Chesmenska near Moscow. In 1822, he traveled “with the Marquis Pucci, Count Salazar and Edward Penrhyn, through the Crimea, Georgia and the southern provinces of Russia.” Lyall’s colorful experiences richly inform his Character of the Russians, but this beautifully illustrated work, having “freely exposed the corruption and immorality of the Russian nobles and officials, gave great offence at St. Petersburg” and was banned (DNB). “We are pretty certain that no other English writer has either had the same opportunities to make a good [book], or shown a better disposition to make use of his advantages” (Allibone, 1145). With 13 hand-colored aquatints engraved by Edward Finden after Lavrov, additional architectural plates, a large folding map of Moscow by Mutlow and two in-text woodcut engravings. Abbey Travel 227. Small institutional inkstamps. Beautiful plates and map generally quite clean with only lightest scattered foxing. A beautiful volume in near-fine condition, finely bound.

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berenice a bbot t “Photography Helps People To See” (Berenice Abbott) 3. ABBOTT, Berenice. Faces of the 20s. Portfolio of 12 Signed Gelatin Silver Prints. New York, 1981. Folio, original portfolio of 12 gelatin silver prints (measuring 10 by 13 inches); matted on heavy white card stock (total measuring 16 by 20 inches), imprints on versos, with guard sheets, contents and title sheets, loose as issued, clamshell box. $18,000. Rare limited portfolio of 12 large gelatin silver prints, one of only 60 issued, each impressive print signed and numbered in pencil on the matt by Abbott—“the dean of American photographers”—featuring her legendary 1920s portraits of James Joyce, Eugène Atget, Janet Flanner, Jean Cocteau, Edna St. Vincent Millay and others, in the original clamshell box. This rare portfolio of 12 gelatin silver prints, each signed by Berenice Abbott on the matt, illuminates the brilliance of artists such as James Joyce, Eugène Atget, Jean Cocteau and others (New York Times). As the “dean of American photographers,” Abbott began her career in Paris, when in 1923 she worked as an assistant to Man Ray. Impressed by her skill, he “offered Abbott his studio to make her own portraits, and soon her reputation rivaled his.” Abbott returned to New York in 1929, where her cityscapes were inspired by the Parisian images of Atget, whose influence on Walker Evans and others was assured through Abbott’s efforts (Yochelson, Fantastic Passion for New York). Faces of the 20s is especially significant for its inclusion of Abbott’s 1925 portrait of Atget and her iconic 1928 portrait of Joyce—images that define the genius and humanity of these two legends. Also herein are portraits of André Gide, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Janet Flanner, Solita Solano, Jean Cocteau and an image of his hands at rest, of Princess Eugène Murat, drummer Buddy Gilmore, Mrs. Raymond Massey and Princess Marthe Bibesco. With laid-in original 1981 prospectus from Parasol Press. An impressive suite of 12 signed prints in fine condition.

Signed By Ansel Adams

4. ADAMS, Ansel. Yosemite and the Range of Light. Boston, 1981. Oblong folio, original red and blue cloth, dust jacket. $850.

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First edition, fourth printing, with 116 striking blackand-white photogravures, one of a “special edition prepared for Time/Life Books subscribers,” signed by Adams on a printed label. “During his lifetime Adams was arguably the world’s most famous photographer, with reproductions of his works hanging everywhere from college dorm rooms to museum galleries the world over” (McDarrah, 3). Preceded by a 1979 trade edition and signed limited edition of 250 copies. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a few minor stray marks. A beautiful copy.

Costume Of The Russian Empire, 1810, With 72 Brightly Hand‑Colored Folio Plates 5. (RUSSIA) HARDING, Edward, compiler. The Costume of the Russian Empire. London, 1810. Folio, late 19thcentury full brown morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $3500. Second issue of this compendium of distinctive costumes worn by the “different races of people” in the Russian Empire, with additional engraved title page and 72 beautifully hand-colored stipple-engravings of “Russians, Fins, Laplanders, Georgians, Circassians, Poles, Tartars, and Calmucs.” A large, widemargined copy with vivid plates. Splendidly portraying indigenous peoples in their native costumes, the wonderful hand-colored plates for this edition were closely copied from a series of engravings commissioned by Carl Wilhelm Müller for Johann Gottlieb Georgi’s Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs (1776-80), the first demographic study of the peoples of Russia. The plates in Harding’s work, first published in 1803, differ from Müller’s in that they “have had slight scenic backgrounds added and there are minor changes of stance and gesture” (Abbey Travel 246). Text in English and French, with separate title pages in each language. This is the second issue of Harding’s 1803 edition, with the title page dated 1810, plates dated 1803 and paper watermarked 1809. With additional Plates 5* and 20* (for a total of 72). Bound without a description for Plate 14. Colas 704. Hiler, 192. Plate impressions crisp and coloring true, occasional faint mark of handling, a few old abrasions to handsome binding. A very desirable copy.

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Handsome 1630 King James Bible, With Speed’s Genealogies, In Full Contemporary Calf With Brass Fittings 6. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues. London, 1630. Small thick quarto, contemporary elaborately blind-tooled and paneled burgundy calf over beveled wooden boards rebacked with remnants of original spine laid down. $7500. Handsome 1630 King James Bible, with Apocrypha, Sternhold and Hopkins’ metrical psalter and Speed’s splendid woodcut genealogies, in contemporary blind-tooled calf with brass fittings. First published in 1611, the King James Version has had an incalculable impact on piety, language and literature. This edition, set in double columns of Gothic type with decorative woodcut initials, is bound with historian John Speed’s extensive woodcut genealogical tables and Sternhold and Hopkins’ popular metrical psalter. Distinguished in contemporary paneled calf, blind-tooled with floral designs, with brass furniture (clasps absent, catches present). Speed’s Genealogies bound between leaves [A7] and [A8], with the Bible’s general title page preceding [A8]. With woodcut New Testament title page depicting the Apostles, Evangelists and tents of the 12 tribes. With Apocrypha. Speed’s Genealogies without gathering F (the map of Canaan, often absent). Metrical psalter without leaves G5-8. Darlow & Moule 329. Occasional light foxing, burn holes to leaves [2C5] of Bible and F3 of metrical psalter, minor marginal repair to top edge of final leaf, a few minor abrasions to rear board. A very handsome and most desirable Bible.

Beautiful 1683 Cambridge King James Bible 7. BIBLE. Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. Cambridge, 1683. Octavo, contemporary full paneled black morocco gilt. $5200. 1683 Cambridge edition of the magisterial King James Version of the Bible, beautifully bound in contemporary morocco-gilt. With engraved architectural general title page, separate New Testament title page, and decorative woodcut initials (at Genesis 1 and Matthew 1). Without Apocrypha. Without marbled free endpapers. Calligraphic owner inscription on verso of final leaf. Gilt initials “M.O.” on front board. Occasional light foxing and soiling, a few small marginal holes, small marginal closed tear to leaf N1, tears to two blank leaves, lower marginal repair to leaf [M3] of New Testament. A handsome Bible in excellent condition, contemporary calf-gilt beautiful and fine.

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bible Magnificent Silver Filigree Onlaid Armorial 19th-Century Oxford King James Bible 8. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. Oxford, London and New York, 1878. Large thick quarto, contemporary full scarlet morocco, silver spine panels, armorial silver presentation covers, custom silk clamshell box. $17,500. 1878 Oxford edition of the magisterial King James Bible, illustrated with 18 engraved plates and six color maps, magnificently bound in full morocco with intricate full armorial silver onlays. A fine and very beautiful Bible. This illustrated edition is bound in a manner befitting the authority and beauty of the venerable King James text, with ornate silver onlays boasting elaborate foliate scroll designs surrounding heraldic shields. With engraved frontispiece, 17 engraved plates and six maps printed in color. Separate New Testament title page, also dated 1878. With Apocrypha. Ornate armorial silver binding fine and untarnished. A fine Bible in an absolutely splendid silver binding.

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cost u me of china 48 Hand-Colored Aquatints Of 18th-Century Chinese Life 9. (CHINA) ALEXANDER, William. The Costume of China. London, 1805. Quarto, late 19th-century full straight-grain green morocco gilt. $7000. First edition in book form of this exquisite collection of 48 hand-colored aquatint images of Chinese manners and customs at the end of the 18th century, with sepia aquatint dedication page, beautifully bound in full straight-grain morocco-gilt. At the close of the 18th century, England was “anxious to establish formal diplomatic relations with China” (Cox I:344). In 1792, a mission to Beijing was led by Lord Macartney, but the Chinese “effectually resisted… His visit was not in vain, however, for it gave us a most interesting account of Chinese manners and customs” (Cox). Artist William Alexander was the junior draughtsman in Lord Macartney’s entourage. Executed mainly in watercolors, some of Alexander’s official drawings of the expedition were first published (uncolored) in George Staunton’s official Account of an Embassy to the Emperor of China (1797). With half title and without list of subscribers. Possibly preceded by an edition in parts as suggested by the imprints and stated by Cordier, but, according to Abbey, no such edition has ever been seen. Abbey Travel 534. Tooley 18. Without corner of Chow-ta-zhin plate not affecting image, offsetting from plates to text, a few scattered spots of foxing and soiling, binding very lovely. A near-fine copy. See cover illustration.

10. CHURCHILL, Winston. My Early Life: A Roving Commission. London, 1948. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $3800. Later edition of Churchill’s acclaimed autobiography, illustrated with maps and photographic plates and signed: “From Winston S. Churchill.” My Early Life covers the first 25 years of Churchill’s life, to the beginning of his parliamentary career. Included are accounts of his childhood, his active service in Cuba, the North West Frontier and Omdurman and his exploits during the Boer War, detailing his famous escape as a prisoner of war. “My Early Life was one of the two Churchill works excerpted by the Nobel Library… This book presents Churchill at his dazzling best as chronicler and memoirist” (Langworth, 130). Originally published in 1930. Cohen A91.9.d. Interior fine, light rubbing to cloth extremities. Light edge wear to fine, bright dust jacket. A fine signed copy.

“As Certain As That Night Follows Day Is The Coming Of The Funnel-Shaped Cloud…” 11. FINLEY, John P. Tornadoes. What They Are and How to Observe Them; with Practical Suggestions for the Protection of Life and Property. New York, 1887. Octavo, original black-stamped brown cloth, custom clamshell box. $1800. First edition of the first book on tornadoes, focusing on their origins as well as the protection of life and property, with folding frontispiece chart showing the geographical distribution of tornadoes between 1760 and 1885, additional folding chart, and numerous tables and illustrations. Written by American meteorologist and Army Signal Service officer John Park Finley, this first book on tornadoes concentrates on the immense dangers they present to the middle of the country, explaining how they develop and their history. It discusses the damage they can cause and offers numerous tips and suggestions for reinforcing structures, protecting one’s property, and potentially saving one’s life. Finley was a leader in the field of meteorology, setting up a nationwide weather observer network, as well as an early aviation weather school. A few small closed tears to margins and stub of folding chart, only minor rubbing and soiling to cloth. A near-fine copy.

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Signed By Winston Churchill

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i a n fleming Limited First Edition Of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Signed By Ian Fleming 12. FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. London, 1963. Octavo, original half vellum gilt, original mylar. $14,000. Signed limited first edition, the only Bond title issued in a limited edition, one of only 250 copies signed by Ian Fleming, of the eleventh Bond novel, in which 007 takes a bride, only to have his happiness cut short by the schemes of his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld. The eleventh James Bond novel—the first to be published after the debut of the Bond film series—became “an immediate bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic” (Biondi & Pickard, 48, 53). “By the time of publication, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service had received nearly a quarter more subscriptions than any previous Fleming novel” (Lycett, 419). George Lazenby, in his only outing as the secret agent, starred in the 1969 film version. With color frontispiece portrait of Fleming. Published simultaneously with the trade edition. Without dust jacket, as issued. Book fine, chipping to original mylar jacket. A fine copy.

13 (FLOWER BOOKS) LOUDON, Jane Wells. British Wild Flowers. London, 1846. Thick quarto, contemporary three-quarter green calf gilt. $4800. First edition of this “much prized” flower book, with 60 superb handcolored lithographic plates by Day and Haghe, one of the most prominent lithographic firms of mid 19th-century England and lithographers to the Queen. Jane Wells Loudon (née Webb) was one of the major designers of garden landscapes in the 19th century and a prominent compiler of flower books. Her artistic groupings of like flowers, considered unusual for the times, were immediately accepted among gardeners throughout England. This work and her Ladies’ Flower Garden (1840) were sought after as “much prized for their attractive illustrations” (Magnificent Botanical Books, 237). Sitwell, 115. Nissen 1233. Plates and coloring fine, with only a bit of foxing (far less than usual), shallow dampstain to fore-edge margin of first gathering and Plate 1, rubbing to contemporary binding. An extremely good copy.

“A New Stage In The Evolution Of Natural Garden Design” 14. (FLOWER BOOKS) ROBINSON, William. Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review for Lovers of Garden, Woodland, Tree or Flower. London, 1903-05. Three volumes. Folio, contemporary three-quarter vellum gilt. $3500. First edition of a wonderful periodical series on early 20th-century horticulture and garden design, edited by one of the most famous landscape designers of the period and illustrated with 66 spectacular full-page chromolithographic plates of flowers, numerous intricately wood-engraved text illustrations, and several halftone photographs printed on coated stock. British landscape designer William Robinson was the leading exponent of the wild or natural garden, which he advocated in all of his writings, including Flora and Sylva, which began as a periodical in April 1903 and ran through December 1905—comprising 33 issues altogether. Nissen 2251. Faint patches of foxing to some plates (fewer than usual), only minor scruffs to contemporary cloth boards. A near-fine copy.

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Magnificently Illustrated With 60 Hand-Colored Plates: Mrs. Loudon’s British Wild Flowers, 1846 First Edition

Rare 19th-Century Photograph Album Of France, 18 Vintage Albumen Prints, Including A View Of The Eiffel Tower

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15. (FRANCE) Photograph Album of Vintage Albumen Prints with Views of Paris and the Eiffel Tower. France, circa 1890. Oblong quarto, periodstyle three-quarter green morocco gilt; 18 vintage albumen prints (six prints measuring 5 by 7-1/2 inches; 12 measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches) mounted on heavy card stock. $5800. Original photograph album, circa 1890, with 18 handsome albumen prints from glass negatives, offering views of Versailles, Rouen and magnificent prints of Paris, including a handsome image of the Eiffel Tower. With the “transformation of Paris from a medieval to a modern city, ordered by Prefect of the Seine Baron Haussman,” photographers seized the “chance to capture the contrast the old and new” (Rosenblum, 161). This impressive album, circa 1890, of 18 vintage albumen prints, contains splendid views of Rouen and Versailles and is especially distinctive for its many exhibition-size prints of Paris near the turn of the century. Prints generally fresh, only minor margin dampstaining to card stock. Beautifully bound. About-fine condition.

“Work Is Love Made Visible”: The Prophet, Wonderfully Inscribed By Gibran 16. GIBRAN, Kahlil. The Prophet. New York, 1926. Tall, slim octavo, original wheat paper spine and corners, patterned gilt boards with emblem stamped in red. $5200. Early private-press edition, published three years after the first, of Gibran’s lyrical masterpiece, warmly inscribed by him with quotations from the work: “‘Love is winging this day through work’ and ‘work is love made visible.’ To Marie Louise from her devoted friend Kahlil, April 1928.” First published in 1923, Gibran’s lyrical masterpiece enjoyed a tremendous resurgence at the height of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture. “The Prophet, with its distinctive views of marriage and language of love, was Gibran’s crowning literary achievement. After Gibran’s death it became the all-time bestselling book in America” (ANB). Illustrated with 12 collotype plates by Gibran. Without scarce original dust jacket. Inscribed to Marie Louise Watters, a devoted friend of Gibran during the last decade of his life. Ink citation alongside but not touching Gibran’s inscription. Ink underlining on page 27, identifying the second quotation in Gibran’s inscription. Occasional minor soiling, minor marginal dampstaining, light toning and mild rubbing to spine, modest rubbing to boards. Custom chemise worn. An extremely good inscribed copy.

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edwa rd gibbon “The Greatest Historical Work Ever Written” 17. GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London, 1777-88. Six volumes. Quarto, contemporary full tree calf gilt rebacked with original spines laid down. $15,000. Mixed edition set (Volume I is third edition, Volumes II and III are 1789 “New” editions, and Volumes IV-VI are first editions) of one of the greatest classics of Western thought, with three engraved maps by Kitchin, two of them folding, beautifully bound in rich contemporary calf-gilt. “This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works” (PMM 222). “For 22 years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly 1500 years… It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written” (Adams, 146-7). All 1000 copies of the first edition of Volume I were sold within two weeks of publication in January 1776. Volume I here is the third edition, published one year after the first, with notes altered per Gibbon’s decision “to take Hume’s advice to print the notes at the bottom of the pages.” The third edition was extensively revised by Gibbon: “improving the turn of the sentence or securing greater accuracy of expression” (Norton, 43). Volumes II and III are the 1789 “New” or fourth overall editions, published the year following the publication of the first editions of Volumes IV-VI. With maps of the “Western Part of the Roman Empire,” “Eastern Part of the Roman Empire,” and “Parts of Europe and Asia Adjacent to Constantinople” in Volume II. Frontispiece portrait of Gibbon; bound without half titles. Norton 22, 28, 29. Usual occasional scattered light foxing to interiors; contemporary tree calf exceptional. About-fine condition.

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14 Lovely 19th Century Kashmirian Manuscript Koran Leaf, Beautifully Framed 18. ILLUMINATED LEAF. Manuscript Koran leaf. Kashmir, Northern India, 19th century. Single leaf, measuring 5 by 7-1/2 inches, written in black ink; handsomely matted with gold fillets in blue cloth and window-framed, entire piece measures 13 by 16 inches. $1100. Lovely 19th-century manuscript Koran leaf from Kashmir, with 12 lines of black Naskh script, gold rules, gold dots between verses, and a beautiful and intricate Sura heading in white on a rich gold panel bordered by flower-embellished fields, all on gold sprinkled paper, handsomely framed with gold fillet and coordinating matting. The leaf has been window-framed and the verso is similar with 14 lines of text, but without the elaborate Sura heading. A beautiful leaf.

Lovely Illuminated Persian Manuscript, 1830, In Contemporary Calf-Gilt Blind-Decorated With Lyrics By Hafiz 19. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Persian illuminated calligraphic manuscript. Lahore, India, 1830. Slim quarto, full contemporary elaborately blind-tooled calf gilt rebacked and partially recornered; 79 leaves. $3000. Lovely 1830 Indian calligraphic Farsi manuscript, handsomely bound in contemporary calf blind-decorated with lyrics by the acclaimed Iranian poet Hafiz. This beautifully illuminated manuscript, written in a calligraphic Farsi script (Nastaaligh style) of ten lines per page by one Brahman Kashmiry, contains historical episodes and moral anecdotes. Illuminated within gold, red and blue frames, with frequent, vibrant red highlights and blue marginalia; the first two pages also boast an intricate blue and gold architectural-style headpiece and elaborate gold floral borders. The handsome calf binding has been blind-tooled with popular verses by Hafiz, the celebrated 14th-century Iranian poet. Written on heavy glazed purple paper (two pages sunned to yellow). Light age-wear to binding. A beautiful illuminated manuscript in handsome contemporary calf-gilt.

20. JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. With a Preface by Padraic Colum. New York, 1928. 12mo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth. $4500. The first separate publication of the centerpiece and most beautiful segment of Finnegans Wake, one of only 800 copies signed by Joyce. A fine copy. Responding to critics who accused him of writing off the cuff, Joyce claimed to have spent 1200 hours composing this integral part of his Work in Progress, later published as Finnegans Wake. He wrought perhaps the most lyrical of his published works. With fragments of scarce and fragile original glassine. Slocum & Cahoon 32. A fine copy.

Signed By Le Carré, A Stunning Copy 21. LE CARRÉ, John. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. London, 1963. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $5500. First edition of this classic of the spy genre, signed by Le Carré. An exceptional copy in fine condition. “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is still Le Carré’s cleanest job: compact in structure, deftly deceptive in the unfolding of its triplecross, and painfully human” (Reilly, 933-34). “In a covert war later immortalized in John Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, [West and East German intelligence chiefs] conducted the battle of moles, infiltration, counter-infiltration, double agent and triple agent” (Volkman, Spies, 180). Text fine, faint bit of foxing to fore edges only, dust jacket fine and bright. A fine copy, scarce signed.

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Anna Livia Plurabelle, Signed By Joyce

Inscribed By Robert Kennedy

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22. KENNEDY, Robert. The Enemy Within. New York, 1960. Octavo, original olive cloth, dust jacket. $2200. First edition of Robert Kennedy’s account of his battle to rid the American labor movement of corruption, warmly inscribed by the author: “With Best Wishes. Robert Kennedy.” In 1957, Kennedy “was named chief counsel of what became known as the Rackets Committee and made a name for himself by uncovering corrupt practices in the Teamsters’ Union. In 1959, Kennedy left the committee to write The Enemy Within on his investigation” (ANB). Near-fine book only very lightly sunned. Dust jacket bright with closed tear to rear panel and some edge-wear. A very desirable inscribed copy.

Nicolay And Hay’s Monumental Illustrated Biography Of Lincoln, First Edition 23. (LINCOLN) NICOLAY, John G. and HAY, John. Abraham Lincoln: A History. New York, 1890. Ten volumes. Large octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt. $4500. First edition of this magisterial biography, with ten frontispiece portraits of Lincoln, numerous maps and diagrams and over 300 wood-engraved illustrations, mostly portraits of dignitaries—many produced from Matthew Brady photographs—handsomely bound. This early and definitive biography of Lincoln was the result of 15 years of collaboration by his private secretaries. “The plan was conceived in 1861; and before they began to write Nicolay had spent six years in collecting and arranging the elaborate mass of Lincoln papers loaned by Robert Lincoln… Prepared under the scrutiny of Robert Lincoln, and written by Republicans who were ‘Lincoln men all through,’ the work… stands as an impressive monument, not only because of the vastness of the undertaking, but also because of its enduring historical significance” (DAB). Monaghan I:1071. Spines evenly toned to brown. A handsome set.

24. (MIDDLE EAST) FULLER, Thomas. The Historie of the Holy Warre… The Third Edition. WITH: The Holy State… [and The Profane State] The Second Edition Enlarged. Cambridge, 1647-48. Two volumes. Tall quarto, modern half speckled brown calf. $3200. Third edition of Fuller’s Historie of the Holy Warre—the first of his historical works as well as the first to contain an engraved folding map of Palestine—and second edition of his Holy State (which also contains The Profane State)— featuring 20 engraved portraits by William Marshall—both volumes handsomely and uniformly bound. Fuller was one of his day’s best-known writers. His history of the Crusades, which deemed them a waste of lives and wealth, was first published in 1639. The Holy State and The Profane State first saw print in 1642. “This curious book is a sort of blend of the abstract ‘Character’ popular at the time, and of examples which are practically short stories with real heroes and heroines’” (Pforzheimer I:377). The Holy Warre with additional engraved title page by William Marshall. Holy Warre with paper repairs to verso of folding map, title page closely trimmed at top, pinprick worming to first few leaves, vertical closed tear toward gutter of leaf [M5], tiny burn hole to Q1 affecting a few letters. Holy State with interior generally clean. A handsome pair of volumes in near-fine condition.

“Images Of Camel Caravans In The Desert”: Rare 19th-Century Album Of 22 Vintage Albumen Prints, With Béchard’s Famous “Ascension De La Grand Pyramide” 25. (MIDDLE EAST) (SÉBAH, J. Pascal and BÉCHARD, Emile, et al.). Photograph Album. Twenty-two Albumen Prints of the Egypt with Views of the Pyramids. Egypt, circa 1880. Oblong quarto, period-style full green morocco gilt; 22 vintage albumen prints, each measuring 8 by 10 inches; mounted on heavy card stock each measures 10 by 14 inches. $7500. Original photograph album of the Middle East circa 1880, with 22 splendid exhibition-size albumen prints from glass negatives, featuring the work of renowned photographers J. Pascal Sébah, Émile Béchard, Langahi and others, including Sébah’s images of Alexandria’s Column of Pompey, Nile yachts and desert vistas, Langahi’s view of Nubian tribesmen, and Béchard’s iconic image of people climbing the massive stones of the Great Pyramid. Splendidly bound. This rare album of 22 vintage albumen prints highlights the work of J. Pascal Sébah and Émile Béchard. Sébah is known for documenting Egyptian life. Béchard also worked in Egypt, where he was “known primarily for his photographs of Egyptian antiquities” (Micklewright & Brassey, 118-120). Béchard’s view of people climbing the Great Pyramid is one of the era’s most iconic. Photographs fresh with only light scattered margin foxing not affecting prints. A rare album of vintage prints in about-fine condition. Beautifully bound.

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1647-48 Editions Of Fuller’s Holy Warre, With Large Folding Map Of Palestine, And Holy State, Handsomely Bound

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egy p t “One Of The Most Fascinating Books In The Whole Of Egyptian Literature” (Howard Carter): With Superb Atlas Folio Volume Of Hand-Colored Plates 26. (MIDDLE EAST) BELZONI, Giovanni Battista. Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia. WITH: Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni. London, 1821. Two volumes. Text volume: Quarto, contemporary full brown calf rebacked with original spine laid down; Plate volume: Atlas folio (19 by 24-1/2 inches), original gray-brown paper boards respined, paper cover and spine labels preserved. $25,000. Second edition of this riveting account of archeological discovery by “the first man known to have excavated in the Valley of the Kings,” with large folding map of the Nile region and scarce atlas folio comprised of 44 plates on 34 sheets (2

Former circus strongman Giovanni Belzoni became one of the first and greatest archaeologists of Egypt. Funded by the British Consul in Egypt, Belzoni sailed to Thebes, where he unearthed and removed the colossal stone bust of Rameses II. His success prompted the underwriting of further expeditions. Upon Belzoni’s return to London, he arranged for the publication of his account “and also for an exhibition… [which] drew huge crowds” (Clayton, 42). The superb accompanying folio plate volume has been described as “the first English work of any importance to use lithography” (Blackmer). Egyptologist Howard Carter regarded Belzoni’s account as “one of the most fascinating books in the whole of Egyptian literature” (Clayton, 43). Both the text and plate volumes were originally published in 1820. The plates in this copy bear the imprint “1820,” on paper watermarked either 1820 or 1821, so some are probably remainders from the first edition, and others restrikes. Text volume clean and bright, with only a few small spots of foxing to map. Plates crisp and colors true, title page lightly soiled, faint staining to first few plates, expert paper repairs to stubs of folding plates 24 (slightly affecting image) and 40, shallow open tear to margin of plate 37, wear to edges of original boards. A near-fine copy of a magnificent production, scarce with the plate volume.

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folding), including 40 superb hand-colored plates (19 lithographs directly after Belzoni and 21 other fine engravings of Egyptian antiquities and views), and four uncolored topographical maps and plans.

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With Hand-Colored Plates Of Turkish And Egyptian Costumes 27. (MIDDLE EAST) WITTMAN, William, M.D. Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and Across the Desert Into Egypt During the Years 1799, 1800, and 1801 in Company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission. London, 1803. Thick quarto, contemporary full brown tree calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $4200. First edition of this observant turnof-the-19th-century travelogue of the Near East, illustrated with a folding frontispiece depicting “The March of the Grand Vizier’s Army across the Desert,” 20 engraved plates, mostly of native costumes (16 beautifully hand-colored), coloroutlined military plan, large folding map showing the author’s route from Constantinople to Jaffa, and a large folding facsimile of a “Turkish Passport.” William Wittman served as surgeon to the British Military Mission between 1799 and 1801. He traveled through Turkey, Syria, Egypt, and later, Greece. In this travelogue, Dr. Wittman kept an eye on the medical conditions of the inhabitants, particularly the effects of the plague. Wittman was in a particularly advantageous position for “observing the manners, customs, and habits of the Turkish nation, not only in peace, but in war.” Wittman’s account also contains a detailed meteorological journal from 1799 to 1802. Sixteen hand-colored plates depict various inhabitants in native costume. Contents leaves supplied from another copy. Hiler, 903. Plates fine, light scattered foxing to text, minor rubbing to corners of contemporary calf. An extremely good copy.

First Edition Of Mickey Mantle’s World Series Reminiscences, Signed By Him 28. MANTLE, Mickey and HERSKOWITZ, Mickey. All My Octobers. New York, 1994. Octavo, original half navy cloth, dust jacket. $800. First edition of Mantle’s memories of the 12 World Series in which he played, signed by him. From 1951-1964 the Yankees played in 12 World Series, winning seven—effectively “ruling baseball.” With 16 pages of photographs. A fine signed copy.

29. MONTGOMERY, (Bernard Law), Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. El Alamein to the River Sangro, Normandy to the Baltic. London, 1971. Quarto, original full black morocco gilt, slipcase. $2400. Signed limited edition, one of only 265 copies signed by Montgomery, with beautiful publisher’s deluxe binding by Zaehnsdorf. Published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein. Richly illustrated with dozens of maps, many printed in color, numerous photographic plates, and frontispiece portrait printed in color. Originally published in 1946. A fine copy.

“The Dearest And Most Lovable Child In Fiction Since The Immortal Alice” (Mark Twain): Very Rare First Issue Of Anne Of Green Gables 30. MONTGOMERY, L.M. Anne of Green Gables. Boston, 1908. Octavo, original gilt-stamped pale green cloth, mounted cover illustration, custom slipcase. $22,500. First edition, first issue, of Montgomery’s first novel, illustrated with eight plates by M.A. and W.A.J. Claus. A most desirable copy of this scarce children’s classic. “Montgomery began writing about Anne as a serial for a Sunday school periodical in the spring of 1904… Much as would later with readers, Anne took hold of her creator, developing into a feisty, imaginative little being who demanded to be noticed and loved” (Keeline, 41). The novel was completed in 1905, but was rejected by four major American publishing houses, and it was not until 1907 that Montgomery found a publisher. The best seller was not to be published in Montgomery’s native Canada until 1942, the year Montgomery died. First issue, dated “April, 1908” on the copyright page. With eight-page publisher’s catalogue bound at rear. Slight crease to plate at 33, text generally quite nice, expertly recased, only light rubbing and soiling to cloth, less than usually found. An extremely good copy.

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Signed Limited Edition Of Montgomery’s Account Of World War II, Very Finely Bound By Zaehnsdorf

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“Now, My Dears… Don’t Go Into Mr. McGregor’s Garden” 31. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London and New York, 1902. 16mo, modern full blue calf gilt, original paper boards with mounted cover illustration bound in. $4200. First trade edition, with first-state text, of Potter’s first book, one of the most popular not only of her books but also of all children’s tales, with 30 charming color illustrations. In 1893, young Beatrix Potter composed a letter to cheer the child of her former governess, who was suffering from rheumatic fever. “My dear Noel,” she began, “I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits, whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter….” The Tale of Peter Rabbit was born. Undaunted by publishers’ rejections, Potter published the first two private editions of Peter Rabbit at her own expense, both editions totaling only 450 copies—which immediately sold. Publisher Frederick Warne agreed to print the first trade edition of Peter Rabbit: the earlier black-and-white line drawings were replaced by color illustrations and the famous prancing image of Peter was mounted on the front cover. “There are no recognizable differences between the first three printings, except that green boards were introduced after the first printing” (Linder, 421). First-state text, with “wept big tears” on page 51, and illustrations removed from later editions, such as Potter’s caricature of herself as Mrs. McGregor. Quinby 2. Interior generally fine. A lovely copy.

First Edition Of Happiness Is A Warm Puppy, Signed Twice By Schulz And Inscribed By Him With Original Ink Sketch Of Snoopy 32. SCHULZ, Charles M. Happiness is a Warm Puppy. San Francisco, 1962. Small square quarto, original illustrated paper boards, dust jacket. $3200. First edition of Charlie Brown and the gang’s whimsical (and frequently wise) words on happiness, with 30 “Peanuts” cartoons by Schulz, signed by him and further inscribed by him with an original, signed sketch of Snoopy. Before Happiness is a Warm Puppy, Schulz had published only collected “Peanuts” strips; this is the first Peanuts book to appear in a format of original text and illustrations, on colored paper. The small volume enjoyed great success, spending 45 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, reaching as high as the number two spot. Book fine, dust jacket lightly rubbed, tiny split to fold of front panel and flap. A bright, about-fine, twice-signed copy with an original sketch of Snoopy.

33. CARTER, Howard and MACE, A.C. The Tomb of Tutankhamen. London, 1923-33. Three volumes. Thick octavo, original brown cloth gilt with decorative gilt scarabs on front covers. $5500. First edition of Carter’s account of the discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb, including the scarce third volume, with 247 dramatic illustrations. A beautiful copy. When Carter entered King Tut’s tomb in 1922 he bridged 3000 years separating the reign of the Boy-King from the modern world. This first detailed account, richly illustrated with hundreds of plates after photographs taken by Harry Burton, includes images from the discovery of Tut’s sepulchral chamber, the excavation of the site and hundreds of catalogued artifacts. Because of the Depression, the third and final volume, included here, was printed in limited numbers and is consequently quite scarce. Without dust jackets, as usual. Owner signatures. Only a bit of pinpoint foxing to fore-edge, cloth-gilt exceptional. A fine set.

“Who Is John Galt?” 34. RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York, 1957. Thick octavo, modern full green morocco gilt. $1400. First edition, first printing, of one of the most popular and influential novels of the last 50 years, handsomely bound. “From 1943 until its publication in 1957, [Rand] worked on the book that many say is her masterpiece, Atlas Shrugged. This novel describes how a genius named John Galt grows weary of supporting a society of ungrateful parasites and one day simply shrugs and walks away. He becomes an inspiration to like-minded men and women, all of whom eventually follow his example, until society, in its agony, calls them back to responsibility and respect. Again [as with Rand’s novel The Fountainhead in 1943] reviews were unsympathetic, and again people bought the book” (ANB). By 1984 more than five million copies of Atlas Shrugged had been sold, and in a 1991 Library of Congress survey Americans named it second only to the Bible as the book that had most influenced their lives. Perinn A4a. A fine copy.

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“There Before Us Lay The Sealed Door”: Exceptionally Fine Illustrated First Edition Of The Discovery Of King Tut’s Tomb

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“The First And Greatest Classic Of Modern Economic Thought” 35. SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London, 1791. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tree calf sympathetically rebacked. $3600. Sixth edition of Smith’s landmark work on the individual’s right to the free exercise of economic activity, “the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (PMM 221). A handsome copy in contemporary tree calf of the first edition published after Smith’s death. Smith’s Wealth of Nations was an immediate success when first published, and four additional editions came out during Smith’s lifetime. The 1776 first edition is exceptionally rare. “The historical importance of the Wealth of Nations is surpassed by no other economic book… Smith, for the first time, put together the body of economic knowledge that can still be recognized as an early form of what today may be called mainstream economics… There is little in Jean-Baptiste Say, Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill that is not, more or less directly, an elaboration of Adam Smith” (Niehans, 62-72). Goldsmiths 14612. Kress B2209. Contemporary owner signatures on title pages. Minor occasional scattered light foxing. A handsome set in contemporary tree calf.

Signed By By John Glenn 36. WOLFE, Tom. The Right Stuff. New York, 1979. Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $850. First edition of this “carefully researched classic” (Burrows, 290) about America’s early space program, inscribed by astronaut John Glenn, one of the major personages in the book. “Wolfe at his very best… technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic— The Right Stuff is superb” (New York Times). Basis for the acclaimed 1983 film written and directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Sam Shepard and Ed Harris. Fine condition.

First Edition Of Kay Thompson’s Classic

37. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise. New York, 1955. Slim quarto, original white pictorial cloth, dust jacket. $4000.

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First edition of the first and rarest Eloise book, illustrated by Hilary Knight. “Eloise’s birth was unexpected. At rehearsals of her act with the Williams Brothers, Thompson [who was a professional singer] prized punctuality. Then one day she was late. In a high, childish voice that she had never used before, she made her apology. One of her co-workers said, ‘Who are you, little girl?’ Thompson replied, ‘I am Eloise. I am six.’ The others joined in the game, each assuming a juvenile identity, and it became a regular rehearsal pastime” (New York Times). That pastime became a book, with three more to follow in Thompson’s lifetime. Book with minor expert repair to spine head. Dust jacket with two expert paper repairs to verso and a few minute spots to rear panel. A lovely copy in about-fine condition.

1606 First Edition In English Of Suetonius’ Twelve Caesars, Bound With The 1601 English Edition Of Commines, “One Of The Greatest Historians Of The Middle Ages” 38. SUETONIUS. The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperours of Rome: Written in Latine by C. Suetonius Tranquillus, and newly translated into English by Philemon Holland. London, 1606. BOUND WITH: COMMINES, Phillippe de. The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton. London, 1601. Small folio, contemporary brown calf gilt rebacked. $8200. First edition in English of Suetonius’ dramatic biographies of the Caesars, the important Holland translation, together with the second edition in English of Commines’ important history of medieval France under Louis XI and Charles VIII. First published in Latin in 1470, Caesars “is largely responsible for that vivid picture of Roman society and its leaders, morally and politically decadent, that dominated historical thought until… the discovery of nonliterary evidence” (Britannica). Bound with this copy is the second edition in English of Commines’ important history of medieval France, first published in 1523. Commines was an adviser to both Charles the Bold and Louis XI. A gifted political and cultural analyst, he is considered “one of the greatest historians of the Middle Ages.” With woodcut initials and elaborate woodcut chapter headpieces incorporating medallion portraits in the Suetonius. Commines with errata sheet, elaborate woodcut title page (slightly cropped), decorative woodcut initials, and several French and Italian royal genealogies. STC 23424, 5603. Early owner signatures and notations on title page. Suetonius title page near-fine with minor paper repair, dampstain to bottom corners of several interior gatherings of Commines, otherwise texts generally quite clean, contemporary calf quite handsome.

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“Now We Know The Ground On Which We Stand; Now We Are A Nation” 39. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) SMITH, Charles. The American War, From 1775 to 1783, with Plans. New York, 1797. Octavo, late 19th-century full brown speckled calf gilt rebacked, custom slipcase. $15,000. First edition of this very scarce military history of the Revolution, with three plates, including frontispiece and portraits of Washington and Anthony Wayne, and all seven folding maps, containing views of Quebec and the Battle of Bunker Hill—rarely found complete. This major early history of the Revolution, complete with all seven folding maps and three plates, is especially significant in drawing on eyewitness accounts by two leading generals: Gates and von Steuben. It was Gates who “served with Washington at the siege of Boston… [and] in 1776 was chosen by Congress to take command of an American army that had invaded Canada… At the end of the year he marched with 600 Continentals to reinforce Washington on the Delaware,” before forcing Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga (ANB). The other chief contributor, General von Steuben, was “one of the most important foreigners to serve the American cause” (Morison, 231). At Valley Forge Steuben met the dire needs of an

untrained army by drawing up a manual and drilling a model company. “At Washington’s recommendation he was promoted to major general and appointed inspector general of the Continental army” (Morison, 231-2). Near-fine. 39

40. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) TARLETON, Sir Banastre. A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of North America. London, 1787. Quarto, early 19th-century full brown mottled calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $11,000. First edition of Tarleton’s significant account of the southern campaigns in the American Revolution, illustrated with five detailed maps (three large folding) with hand-colored outlines of routes and positions. Tarleton’s aggressive, ruthless style on the field of battle during the American Revolutoin earned him the name “Bloody Tarleton.” “The work begins with D’Estaing’s fruitless attack on Savannah in the autumn of 1779, and proceeds with great minuteness of detail to give the military events of the Carolinas and Virginia down to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, October 19, 1781. The history is in general a compilation of the official letters of the British officers, both in the sea- and land-service, and of the American and French commanders, which had appeared in the newspapers” (Church 1224). Text and maps fresh and clean with only lightest scattered foxing, tiny bit of loss to corner of one leaf. Calf with expert marginal restoration. A beautiful copy.

42. BURTON, Richard F. Letters from the Battle-fields of Paraguay. London, 1870. Octavo, original blue cloth sympathetically rebacked with original spine laid down. $3000. First edition, first issue, with folding map of Paraguay and Uruguay. In 1865 orientalist and explorer Sir Richard Burton began a four-year consulship at Santos, the port of Sao Paulo in Brazil. In August 1868, “Burton set off for Paraguay, where one of the most vicious wars of the century was being fought. It had arisen out of a dispute between Paraguay and Brazil over borders. Argentina and Uruguay were soon drawn into the battle.. and the war had quickly turned into a struggle, as Burton phrased it, between ‘an obscure nationality,’ ‘a palaeolithic humanity,’ which fought with single-shot rifles, whose navy was largely punts and canoes, and the highly industrialized military machine of the Allies, who had the latest Spencer and Enfield rifles and armored ships” (Rice, 391-92). Near-fine.

Signed By Jimmy Carter 43. CARTER, Jimmy. The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture. New York, 2002. Small octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $375. First edition, signed by the 39th President. Jimmy Carter won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Peace “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development” (Nobel Citation). Fine.

“Not Only One Of The First But One Of The Best Of American Cavalry Soldiers” 41. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) LEE, Henry. Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States. Philadelphia, 1812. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown tree calf. $2500. 43

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First edition of a history of the Revolutionary War’s southern theater by Henry Lee, America’s best cavalry officer and the author of Washington’s eulogy with the famous words, “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Henry Lee, one of the Revolution’s greatest soldiers, declined an offer to serve as Washington’s aide-de-camp “because he preferred to stay with the cavalry. He was promoted to major… and given command of an independent partisan corps… As commander of this corps, known as ‘Lee’s Legion,’ Lee acquired the sobriquet Light-Horse Harry” (ANB). His fifth child with his second wife was Robert E. Lee. Slight scattered foxing, minor edge-wear to extremities. Extremely good.

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“A Visual Legacy” 44. HOOD, Robert E. 12 at War. Great Photographers Under Fire. New York, 1967. Square quarto, original black cloth. $250. First edition of a dramatic look at war photography. With 50 photogravures of classic images by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mathew Brady, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, Chim (David Seymour), Roger Fenton, André Kertesz, Edward Steichen, David Douglas Duncan and others. Without dust jacket, rarely found. About-fine.

“A Greater Variety Of Military Problems And Experiences Than Any Other” 45. (CIVIL WAR) BIGELOW, John, Jr. The Campaign of Chancellorsville. New Haven, London and Oxford, 1910. Quarto, original red cloth. $1500. Limited first edition, number 286 of 1000 copies, illustrated with 48 battle maps—25 of them folding and nine of those housed in a pocket at rear—charting the pivotal Chancellorsville campaign. Bigelow allows “readers to understand clearly troop movements down to a minute level… [He] also expertly details the campaign’s cavalry operations… which add excitement to the story” (Eicher 72). Interior generally clean, joints expertly repaired.

Manuscript Civil War Account Of Losses At The Battle Of Bull Run 46. (CIVIL WAR) GRANGER, Brownell. List of the Killed, Wounded and Missing… at the Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, July 21st 1861. Manassas, Virginia, 1861. Original sheet of blue-ruled wove stock (8 by 29 inches), backed by linen and mounted in contemporary gray cloth wallet; custom clamshell box. $8500.

Original manuscript listing of casualties suffered by the 11th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers at the Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the Civil War. This original manuscript in the hand of Adjutant Brownell Granger lists casualties suffered by the 11th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers at the Battle of Bull Run: 15 killed, 55 wounded and missing (46 of whom were taken prisoner). Bull Run was the regiment’s first military engagement. Organized at Readville and mustered in June 13, 1861, the 11th Regiment left Massachusetts for Washington, D.C. on June 24th. There it was attached to Franklin’s Brigade, Heintzelman’s Division, McDowell’s Army of Northeast Virginia, and remained so through August, 1861. Altogether the Regiment lost during service a total 261 men: 11 officers and 153 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded; two officers and 95 enlisted men dead from disease. A number of minor smudges and spots to manuscript, dampstain to bottom segment of wallet. A very desirable item of Civil War memorabilia. 46

Very Scarce 1861 Confederate Printing Of Hardee’s Classic Tactical Manual 48. (CIVIL WAR) HARDEE, William Joseph. Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics. New Orleans, 1861. Slim octavo, contemporary limp brown cloth. $3800. One of a number of Confederate printings made during the first year of the Civil War of this widely accepted tactical guide (first published in 1855), with in-text wood-engravings illustrating various firing positions and 14 tipped-in diagrams of field maneuvers. Commander of the Army of Tennessee and one of the great Confederate generals of the Civil War, William Hardee graduated the U.S. Military Academy and served with Lee in the 2nd Cavalry. First published in 1855 and dubbed “Hardee’s Tactics,” this military manual soon became a standard work on riflery and was adopted as a text-book for the Confederate army. The owner of this copy, Confederate Engineer and Chief of Artillery Edward Ivy, was captured with Smith’s Brigade in the fall of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. On July 26th, while awaiting his parole, Ivy presented this copy to “his highly esteemed and distinguished friend, Capt. M[arshall] McDonald,” Chief of Ordnance and fellow prisoner. Crease to front cover, faint dampstain to bottom margin, inner hinge expertly repaired. Extremely good.

A Classic Civil War Autobiography In Handsome Publisher’s Morocco 50. (CIVIL WAR) GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs. New York, 1885-86. Two volumes. Octavo, original deluxe three-quarter dark brown morocco gilt. $2500. First edition of the memoirs of one of the most recognized figures in American military history, illustrated with numerous steel engravings, facsimiles, and 43 maps. “Grant’s memoirs comprise one of the most valuable writings by a military commander in history” (Eicher 492). Archival tape repair to bottom corner of endpaper in Volume I, small nick to top board edge of Volume I, hinges reinforced. Extremely good.

“Such Herculean Deeds Of Valor” 49. (CIVIL WAR) GRANT, Ulysses S. Official Report of Lieut.-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. New York, 1866. 12mo, early 20thcentury half blue cloth, original printed paper wrappers bound in. $300. Early edition of Grant’s official summary of his command of the Union Armies, with original wrappers bound in. Grant outlines 50

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First edition of this early Civil War biography of Union General Hancock, with steel-engraved frontispiece and 21 full-page engravings, in scarce publisher’s three-quarter morocco. A career military man, Hancock served in General McClellan’s Army of the Potomac, fought at Williamsburg, commanded a division at Antietam, performed distinguished service at Chancellorsville, and assumed command of the entire army late in the first day of battle at Gettysburg before being relieved by General Meade. Text generally fine, expert restoration to joints and extremities of binding.

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47. (CIVIL WAR) HANCOCK, A.R. Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock by His Wife. New York, 1887. Octavo, original three-quarter brown morocco. $650.

his “conviction that no peace could be that would be stable and conducive to the happiness of the people, both North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken” and the strategies he pursued to achieve that aim, describing several key battles and incorporating numerous official communications into his narrative. First published 1865. Pencil markings and lower corner restoration to front wrapper, minor loss to text; light rubbing to boards. Extremely good.

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53. (CIVIL WAR) (LEE, Robert E.) HAMPTON, Wade. Address on the Life and Character of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Baltimore, 1871. Slim octavo, original printed purple paper wrappers. $950. First edition of this rare pamphlet containing a speech delivered on the first anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s death by Confederate General Wade Hampton, in original wrappers. Hampton was a figurehead of the Confederate resistance who led the young Southern aristocracy into military service and who later went on to become Governor of South Carolina and a United States Senator. Near-fine.

Leaders And Battle Scenes Of The Civil War “The Facts Concerning The Important Battles On Land And Sea, From A Confederate Standpoint” 51. (CIVIL WAR) LA BREE, Ben. The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War. Louisville, Kentucky, 1897. Folio, modern three-quarter maroon morocco. $1250. Second edition of this compendium of Confederate information, with color frontispiece illustration and color plate showing Conferate flags, and hundreds of black-andwhite reproductions of photographs, engravings, and maps. Included are articles written by Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, G.T. Beauregard, Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, and Franklin Buchanan, covering all aspects of the Confederate government and its military campaigns. Near-fine.

54. (CIVIL WAR) LESLIE, Frank. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War. New York, 1896. Folio, original burgundy cloth. $750. First edition of this pictorial history of the Civil War, with hundreds of woodcuts originally used in Leslie’s Civil Warera illustrated newspaper. Includes illustrations of major events, battle scenes, naval engagements, portraits of central participants, forts, and poignant episodes. Faint scattered foxing and soiling, some small closed marginal tears, only minor discoloration and wear to endpapers, a bit of toning and wear to original cloth. Extremely good.

Beautiful Carte-De-Visite Photograph Of Robert E. Lee, Signed By Him 55. (CIVIL WAR) LEE, Robert E. Cartede-visite photograph signed. Richmond, Virginia, no date. Original albumen photograph mounted on card, measuring 2-1/2 by 4 inches. $9500.

“A Genuinely Tragic Book, Brave And Bitter” 52. (CIVIL WAR) HOOD, John Bell. Advance and Retreat. New Orleans, 1880. Octavo, period style three quarter tan calf. $1200.

Original P.E. Gibbs carte-de-visite photograph of Robert E. Lee from the famous portrait shot by Vannerson, signed by Lee. Exceptionally fine. Iconic bust-length portrait of Lee in military uniform, signed just beneath the image. This image, produced by daguerrian P.E. Gibbs, was taken from the famous 1864 portrait by Richmond photographer J. Vannerson, who was well known for photographing military personnel. Fine.

First edition of this dramatic Confederate memoir, with two full-page engraved portraits and four maps, one folding, handsomely bound. Hood’s memoir focuses on his Confederate service, from his early involvement at Second Manassas and Sharpsburg to his surrender at Natchez, Mississippi. Near-fine. 55

57. (CIVIL WAR) LINCOLN, Abraham. Proclamation of the President Relative to Pardons for Deserters. PART OF: An Act for Enrolling and Calling Out the National Forces. Washington, circa February 24, 1864. Small broadside, measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches. $4500.

58. (CIVIL WAR) LONGSTREET, James. From Manassas to Appomattox. Dallas, 1896. Thick octavo, original red cloth gilt. $1300.

“Whereas An Insurrection Against The Government Of The United States Has Broken Out…” 56. (CIVIL WAR) LINCOLN, Abraham. Proclamations by the President of the United States of America. Washington, 1861. Original broadside printed on one side, measuring 8-1/2 by 14 inches. $7500. Original broadside announcing the blockade proclamations of April 19 and April 27, 1861, establishing an early strategy of unconditional surrender. “If a vessel shall attempt to enter or leave the blockaded port, she will be captured and sent to the nearest convenient port, for such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize as may be deemed advisable.” In the wake of Fort Sumter, on April 15th Lincoln declared a state of “insurrection,” and by these presidential proclamations on the 19th and 27th established a “bare-knuckle” blockade strategy that gradually choked the Southern supply of imports. The blockade was among several early emergency measures “designed to bring the rebellion to a speedy end” (Oates, 235). Three faint folds, with mild embrowning to one panel. Very good. Rare.

First edition, scarce Dallas issue, with frontispiece portrait, 16 maps and 30 illustrations of battle sites and portraits. “Longstreet’s tome is a milestone of great importance in Confederate literature. It tells the story of the war in the first person from one of the great generals of American history, allows him to make his case” (Eicher). “Longstreet’s reminiscences are basic to any study of the Army of Northern Virginia” (In Tall Cotton 114), and is “a necessary source for any study of Lee’s army” (Nevins I:122). Fine. 58

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First public notice of the February 24, 1864 Presidential proclamation regarding deserters, appended to the amended conscription Act of 1863. “After volunteering almost stopped during the winter of 1862-1863, the Lincoln administration put its weight behind a new conscription act, signed by the President on March 3” (Donald, 417). On February 24, 1864, Congress amended its act to exact the penalty of perjury on anyone submitting falsified proof of age. Appended to this re-publication is Lincoln’s proclamation regarding deserters, in which he offers pardons to those who would return to their regiments and serve out “the remainder of their original terms of enlistment, and, in addition thereto, a period equal to the time lost by desertion,” an additional effort to bolster flagging Union ranks. Near-fine.

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“The Grandfather Of Civil War Histories”

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59. (CIVIL WAR) MILLER, Francis Trevelyan, ed. The Photographic History of the Civil War. New York, 1911. Ten volumes. Quarto, publisher’s three-quarter dark brown morocco gilt. $7200. First edition of Miller’s famous and important 10-volume photographic history of the Civil War, containing “thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities.” “This mammoth work… a necessary part of any civil war library,” contains a number of photographs, some previously unpublished, from the collections of private individuals, including the extensive Eldridge Collection of Mathew Brady Civil War photographs, “easily five times larger than that of any contemporary” (Everitt). Volume X is the first issue. Interiors fine. Expert restoration to publisher’s morocco; light dampstaining and soiling to edges of cloth boards. Exceptionally attractive, scarce in publisher’s morocco.

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62. (CIVIL WAR) ROMAN, Alfred. The Military Operations of General Beauregard. New York, 1884. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark brown morocco. $1100.

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“A Thousand Incidents Of Army Life” 60. (CIVIL WAR) MOTTELAY, Paul. The Soldier in Our Civil War. New York, 1890. Two volumes. Tall folio, original three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $2200. Early edition, deluxe binding, of this large folio pictorial history of the Civil War soldier, profusely illustrated with numerous maps and portraits, and many double-page wood engravings after sketches by various artists and eyewitnesses. The large folio plates (many double-page) are supplemented by text documenting events of the war—portraying the “valor, patriotism, and bravery of the soldier” on both sides of the conflict. Text and plates generally fresh, light scattered foxing, bit of dampstaining to gutter edge of a few leaves, occasional repaired closed tears, inner hinges expertly reinforced. Original morocco with expert restoration.

“The First Modern General” 61. (CIVIL WAR) SHERMAN, William Tecumseh. Memoirs. New York, 1891. Two volumes. Octavo, original full tan pigskin. $1600. Enlarged fourth edition of this invaluable autobiography, incorporating corrections and revisions by Sherman, and including a concluding chapter on Sherman’s final illness and death and a personal tribute by Congressman James G. Blaine. With 12 folding maps, frontispiece portrait and steel-engraved portraits. In publisher’s deluxe pigskin binding. “Penned with intelligence and passion… The memoirs frankly describe the rights and wrongs of the Civil War campaigns Sherman experienced, without regard to stepping on the feelings of others. The work is not unduly harsh, but is unwaveringly honest (as the author viewed these events)” (Eicher 576). First published in 1875. Interiors fine. Mild wear to extremities, repair to spine head of Volume II, Volume II joints starting but sound. Extremely good.

“When The Battle Waged Hottest, Sheridan Was At His Best” 63. (CIVIL WAR) SHERIDAN, P.H. Personal Memoirs. New York, 1888. Two volumes. Octavo, original full tan sheep. $1500. First edition of Sheridan’s military autobiography, with 27 maps (many folding) and 17 plates. “Often ranked with Grant and Sherman as the foremost Union commanders” (Mullins & Reed 82), Sheridan completed this work just days before his death in 1888. Fine.

The War With The South, Illustrated 64. (CIVIL WAR) TOMES, Robert and SMITH, Benjamin G. The War with the South. New York, circa 1866. Three volumes. Quarto, publisher’s three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $2400. Early edition, three volumes abundantly illustrated with 81 fine engraved plates of historical figures and scenes of the Civil War. Tomes’ work originally saw print in parts, reflecting a belief that fighting would end quickly and would fill no more than a single volume’s worth of history. As the struggle, however, stretched on, Benjamin Smith was hired to complete the work; it ultimately filled three quarto volumes. Fine.

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“The Most Valuable Of All The Contemporary Accounts” 65. CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Eight volumes. WITH: The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon. Three volumes. Oxford, 1826-27. Together, eleven volumes. Thick royal octavo, contemporary full red calf gilt. $6200. Early 19th-century edition of Clarendon’s history, very beautifully bound. Soldier and politician, Clarendon supported Charles I in his struggle against the Parliamentarians but after “Charles abandoned him, encouraging his impeachment, Clarendon fled to France” (Cannon, 216). Pursued “by the ghosts of history, Clarendon would now try to exorcise them by writing it” (Schama II:277). First published 1702-04. Wonderful in beautiful contemporary calf-gilt.

“The Best Work Of PhotoReportage Of War Ever Published”

Custer’s Classic Account Of Life On The Plains 67. CUSTER, George A. My Life on the Plains. New York, 1876. Octavo, original russet cloth, gilt buffalo-head cover motif. $4500. First edition, with eight full-page wood-engravings by A. Roberts, including a portrait of Custer and four portraits of chiefs. Custer’s narrative of his experiences as a cavalryman fighting Native American tribes first appeared in book form two years before his last stand at Little Bighorn. Originally serialized in Galaxy magazine between 1872-74. About-fine.

“This Book Will Not Tell You How To Die” 68. HEMINGWAY, Ernest, editor. The Best War Stories of All Time. New York, 1942. Thick octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $900. First edition, edited by Hemingway, with a 21-page introduction and three contributions by him. Published two years after For Whom the Bell Tolls, as war raged around the world, this anthology includes 82 excerpts from T.E. Lawrence, Faulkner, Tolstoy, Hugo, Kipling, Churchill and others, including Hemingway himself. Book with minor abrasions to cloth. Dust jacket with mild edge-wear, short closed tear to rear panel, tape repairs to verso. Extremely good.

66. GRIFFITHS, Philip Jones. Vietnam Inc. New York, 1971. Quarto, original stiff photographic wrappers. $1800. First edition in softcover, with 266 “magnificent and heartrending pictures” (New York Times). “Not since Goya has anyone portrayed war like Philip Jones Griffiths” (Cartier-Bresson). Griffiths covered Vietnam from 1966-68 and returned in 1970 to produce “the finest book to come out of the Vietnam War… a great work of humanist documentary photography” (Parr & Badger II:250). First edition in wrappers, preceded only by first hardcover edition, published the same year. Fine.

Inscribed By Hoover And Hugh Gibson 69. HOOVER, Herbert and GIBSON, Hugh. The Problems of Lasting Peace. Garden City, 1943. Octavo, original light blue cloth, dust jacket. $2000.

The first printed collection of Hemingway’s reports from the Spanish Civil War. “The 1937-38 wartime cables, written for the North American Newspaper Alliance, show Hemingway’s reportorial skills and the terse cadences that have been emulated by generations of novelists, journalists and students” (New York Times). Near-fine.

Splendid Engraved Official Military Commission Signed By Jefferson In The Last Weeks Of His Presidency 71. JEFFERSON, Thomas. Engraved document signed. Washington, February 23, 1809. Original vellum sheet (15 by 18 inches), completed in manuscript and signed on the recto, original paper seal. $17,500. Original, impressive engraved 1809 military commission signed by Jefferson in his final weeks as President, countersigned by his Acting Secretary of War, with the original paper seal intact and fine engraved American eagle at head next to seal. Jefferson’s large signature quite fine and bold. A visually splendid piece. As Jefferson’s second term waned in 1809, America was still recoiling from a British assault on the U.S.S. Chesapeake, an incident that fueled an embargo to prevent what Jefferson described as “the present paroxysm of the insanity in Europe” (Brodie, 418). This elegantly printed official document, awarding the promotion of “first Lieutenant in the fifth Regiment of Infantry” to Alexander McIlheny, is dated February 23 of that year and is boldly signed by Jefferson above the engraved illustration by I. Draper only weeks before Jefferson left office. Counter-signed by Jefferson’s Acting Secretary of War John Smith, the impressive vellum sheet bears the intact embossed seal of the United States at the upper left, beside the engraved central symbol of the American Eagle grasping arrows and an olive branch. Military commissions signed by Jefferson are quite elusive. Faint stamp of receipt in “the War Office” along left margin. Near-fine and highly desirable. 71

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First edition, advance review copy, of former President Hoover and diplomat Gibson’s thoughtful, urgent appeal for strategic postwar planning, inscribed by Hoover, “To Miss E. Jeanette Marsh. With the kind regards of Herbert Hoover,” and signed beneath by Gibson. “If democracy is to live… the purpose of this war, the most terrible of three centuries, is to make a lasting peace.” Advance review slip from the publisher laid in. Near-fine.

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Warmly Inscribed By Humphrey To Longtime Director Of UNICEF Henry Labouisse 72. HUMPHREY, Hubert H. The Cause Is Mankind. New York, 1964. Octavo, original navy cloth, dust jacket. $400. First edition, second printing, inscribed to the director of the United Nations Children’s Fund, “To my good friend Henry Labouisse with my warm regards and sincere admiration, Hubert Humphrey.” Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. directed UNICEF for over 15 years; in 1965, he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on the organization’s behalf. During their careers, Labouisse and Humphrey doubtless had frequent contact with each other during the creation of the Peace Corps. Near-fine.

strategist, the Duke of Wellington, and supported by Spanish guerrilla irregulars, had ground down the best equipped and most feared army in Europe. Scenes include “The Burning of Moscow,” “The Storming of St. Sebastian,” “The Entrance of the Allies into Paris” and “The Battle of Waterloo.” First published in 1814-15, Sutherland’s plates for Jenkins’ Martial Achievements were reprinted several times: this copy printed on text stock watermarked “J. Whatman 1812,” with plate stock watermarked “T. Edmunds 1830” and “1831.” Original publisher’s price label affixed to front pastedown. Without list of subscribers. About-fine. 74

Pictorial Documentation Of Wellington’s Defeat Of Napoleon, With 54 Splendid Large HandColored Folio Aquatints 73. JENKINS, James. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. London, circa 1831. Folio, contemporary three-quarter straight-grain red morocco gilt. $7800. First edition, later issue, of this dramatically illustrated record of Lord Wellington’s Peninsular Campaign, with hand-colored frontispiece, vignette title-page and dedication with Wellington’s coat-of-arms and 51 additional vividly hand-colored aquatints of battle scenes by Thomas Sutherland after drawings by William Heath. A beautiful production. “A brilliant and worthy record of a brilliant period in England’s history” (Hardie, 147). In 1807 a demoralized and ill-defended Spain was at the mercy of the French Emperor—but seven years and more than a million lost lives later, the French retreated over the Pyrenees, never to return. The Anglo-Portuguese Army under a brilliant

Inscribed By Martin Luther King, Jr. 74. KING Jr., Martin Luther. Stride Toward Freedom. New York, 1958. Octavo, original black and blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7800. Early printing of Dr. King’s first book, his account of the Montgomery bus strike, illustrated with eight pages of blackand-white photographs, inscribed, “Best Wishes. Martin L. King Jr.” King’s firsthand account of the Montgomery bus strike, the first successful large-scale application of non-violent resistance to segregation in the United States. Published in the same year as the first printing. Near-fine.

The Russian Army, 1895 75. (JONGH, Frederick and E. de) CAMENA D’ALMEIDA, Pierre. L’Armée Russe. Paris, circa 1895. Folio, original paper wrappers, textured paper slipcase à la française. $1500. First edition, richly illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Czar Nicholas II and dozens of photographs, including eight hand-colored plates. Discussion and analysis, illustrated with dozens of photographs, of the Russian army by several French scholars. Text in French. Photographs lovely and fine. Light sunning, minor edgewear, two-inch abrasion to front panel of wrapper. Extremely good. 73

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“Summed Up And Embodied The Greatness Of Possibilities Which Sea Power Comprehends” 77. MAHAN, A.T. The Life of Nelson. London, 1897. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full polished blue-green calf gilt.

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First English edition of this biography of Britain’s greatest naval hero by “the first philosopher of sea power,” illustrated with 19 engraved plates and 20 maps and plans (two folding). With his popular books on the importance of naval might, Mahan “electrified foreign offices and war departments all over the world” (ANB). Near-fine.

“I Drew These Tides Of Men Into My Hands And Wrote My Will Across The Sky In Stars” 78. LAWRENCE, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, A Triumph. London, 1935. Large quarto, original brown cloth gilt, dust jacket. $1650. First trade edition of Lawrence’s account of his legendary part in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, scarce in fragile original dust jacket. Even though “Seven Pillars is remarkably accurate as a military history,” its blending of epic adventure, psychological insight and spiritual transformation make it the literary treasure Lawrence intended it to be, deserving Winston Churchill’s praise as among “the greatest books ever written in the English language” (Wilson, 55).

Military commission, signed at the camp at Villers-Brûlin by the Duke of Marlborough as Captain General of Her Majesty’s Land Forces, with original red wax seal. In 1710, the War of the Spanish Succession had worn on for nearly a decade, as William III sought to cripple Louis XIV’s growing influence by placing Archduke Charles on Spain’s throne. For many of those years, Marlborough had been a central figure on the field of battle; however, with the rise of a staunchly antiMarlborough party in England, he found his sway over Queen Mary and King William diminishing. Attempting to shore up support within his own ranks, Marlborough began rapidly promoting officers. This commission, signed in mid-summer on the field at VillersBrûlin, was likely a part of that scheme. The engraved portrait accompanying the commission is from a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, a student of Rembrandt’s. Chipping to wax seal, two small labels, slight age toning and creases from folding, as usual. Extremely good. 79

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76. (TURKEY) MCLEAN, Thomas, publisher. The Military Costume of Turkey. London, 1818. Folio, contemporary full red straight-grain morocco gilt rebacked with original elaborately gilt-tooled spine laid down. $2700.

Illustrated with photographic plates, portraits from sketches and four folding maps. Preceded only by the very scarce private printing of 1926 and the 1935 limited edition. Fine.

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“The Incomparable Armoury” (Sir Walter Scott) 80. MEYRICK, Samuel Rush. A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. London, 1842. Three volumes. Folio, contemporary threequarter russet morocco gilt expertly recased. $7800. Improved and enlarged second edition of Meyrick’s beautifully illustrated work on arms and armor—“Practically the first on the subject… [one that] remains an authority” (DNB)—with handcolored frontispiece, 80 numbered plates (70 richly hand-colored) and 27 illuminated initials, handsomely bound by Wright. Antient Armor established Meyrick as the leading authority on the topic; he was asked to arrange the national collection of arms and armor in the Tower of London and, at the behest of George IV, at Windsor Castle. This edition textually corrected and enlarged over the 1824 first edition. Plates fine; occasional light scattering foxing to text. Beautiful.

“War Chooses All Its Victims Randomly” 81. NACHTWEY, James and RICHARDS, Eugene et al. War Torn. New York, 1984. Octavo, original red cloth, photographic dust jacket. $150. First edition of this moving photobook depicting the human cost of war, with 80 halftones and color images by the finest war photographers of a generation, among them James Nachtwey, Eddie Adams, Eugene Richards, Don McCullin and Steve McCurry. This association copy from the library of award-winning photojournalist Peter Turnley. War Torn gathers images from conflicts in the Middle East, Central America, Ireland and Southeast Asia during the 1970s and early 1980s. Fine.

Original Manuscript Inventory Of Horses And Carters At The Ready In Napoleon’s 3rd Artillery Division, Boldly Endorsed By The Emperor With His Full Signature 82. NAPOLEON. Autograph military inventory endorsed. [Corsica?], circa 1793. Single folio sheet of laid stock, measuring 15 by 12-1/2 inches. $8000. Autograph inventory for Napoleon’s Third Artillery Division of the Army of Toulon, consisting of army staff, carters, horses and fodder, endorsed, “Certifié vrai, Buonaparte”—his signature exceptionally large and bold.

In this original communiqué, the division commander requests more funds, supplies and officers for the Army of the Alps and the Army of Italy, stating that without assistance, he cannot sustain his army during the rigors of their siege. He requests 10,000 more horses. The year the document was written is not clear; however, in 1793, the Armies of the Alps and Italy were temporarily united. This inventory of Napoleon’s Third Horse Artillery Division is certified as accurate by the commander and is further endorsed by Napoleon himself. Text in French. Identified in pencil on the verso as “Artillerie 3e Division.” Small inkstamp in lower right corner. Faint fold lines and minor foxing. Endorsement bold and fine.

“Those Who Are Bred To The Sword” 83. GUILLET SAINT-GEORGES, Georges. The Gentleman’s Dictionary. London, 1705. Small octavo, contemporary full brown speckled calf, custom clamshell box. $1800. First English edition of Guillet’s famous work on the art and language of military training, the first with substantial revisions and additions to his 17th-century French classic, with full-page chart and three folding plates, along with 41 woodcuts newly added to this edition. Guillet’s Les arts de l’homme d’epeé (1678) was an extensively researched compendium of military terminology and history. Eighteenthcentury armorial bookplate. Interior quite clean, small repairs to versos of three folding plates; minor edge-wear with expert restoration to spine head. Extremely good. 82

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First trade edition, inscribed, “To Carol S—, With best wishes, from Richard Nixon.” Originally self-published as Real Peace: A Strategy for the West, in a limited edition in September 1983. Book fine, dust jacket about-fine. 86

Original Typed Letter Signed By Eleanor Roosevelt, Addressing The Legacy Of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” 84. ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. Typed letter signed. New York, April 26, 1947. Two original letterhead sheets (measuring 6-1/2 by 10 inches), typed and signed on the recto, both with faint penciled notations on the verso. $1500. Original typed letter signed by Eleanor Roosevelt, written to film producer/writer Jay Richard Kennedy in April 1947, offering her assistance on a proposed film about the “Four Freedoms” as framed by FDR in his 1941 State of the Union Address. Mrs. Roosevelt’s letter reads: “April 26, 1947. Dear Mr. Kennedy: I quite see that you may have to dramatize my husband in order to make your picture on one of the Four Freedoms convincing. I am willing to have you do this and I understand that a picture of this kind may be extremely helpful to the country at the present time. When you have had the opportunity to prepare a script, I shall be glad to go over it, and I shall be glad to help in any way possible to get you authentic information. I will be glad also, to tell my husband’s friends and co-workers, whom you feel it necessary to contact in order to make the picture valuable and authentic, that I hope they will find it possible to cooperate with you. I am sure that my sons, James and Elliott, will carry out their obligations to the best of their ability, and I am sure that anything which they approve will be within the bounds of good taste. Of course, I am sure you realize that I have a very busy schedule and that I can not do more than I have outlined in this letter. I shall be glad to arrange to see you at any-time you come East, though from the 9th of June for two weeks, I shall be working five days

86. NIXON, Richard. No More Vietnams. New York, 1985. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $650. First trade edition, inscribed on the half title: “To Barry Kramer with best wishes from Richard Nixon. 4-10-’92.” Issued the same year with the signed limited and “Presidential” editions. Very nearly fine.

“This Is A Book Of Very Few Words, But It Is Not A Quick Read” 87. NAYTHONS, Matthew and KORMAN, Lewis J., eds. A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces. New York, 2003. Folio (measuring 10 by 13 inches), original half black cloth, photographic dust jacket. $250. First edition of this lavishly illustrated tribute to the men and women of the American Armed Forces, with numerous color and black-and-white photographs. From the collection of acclaimed photojournalist Peter Turnley (whose work appears in the book), with his owner signature. On October 22, 2002, 125 leading photojournalists documented the lives of

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a week at Lake Success with the Human Rights Commission drafting committee. It is not my desire to impose in any way my thinking on your interpretation of the theme of the picture, except to insure that any interpretation of my husband shall be accurate and in good taste. [Page two] My good wishes go to you for success in your undertaking and I hope you will attain the ideals which you and James and Elliot have set for yourselves. Very sincerely yours, [signed] Eleanor Roosevelt.” Near-fine.

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recruits, enlisted personnel, officers and their families in all branches of the United States military. Participating photographers include Eddie Adams, Arthur Grace, David Hume Kennerly and Peter Turnley, as well as many photographers serving in the Armed Forces. With the owner signature of Peter Turnley, acclaimed photojournalist; Turnley’s own work appears within the book (pages 65, 113, 160). Fine. 88

Extremely rare first edition of one of the earliest and best scholarly histories of colonial conflict with Native Americans, suppressed due to controversy over its sympathetic treatment of “the savages.” Congregational preacher and first president of the University of Vermont, Sanders details numerous conflicts against the Indians, including Queen Anne’s and King Philip’s wars, the French and Indian War, and battles against Indians during the Revolutionary War. “This book, which made an important contribution to the study of early colonial history, was one of the first works to express some sympathy for Native Americans… This edition is scarce because Sanders destroyed most of the books after the [ensuing] controversy” (ANB). “So nearly complete was the destruction of the book that it was forgotten by those who professed to know the most of its author, his biographers” (Field 1351), and Field stresses the extreme rarity of the work. Contemporary owner inscription. Leaves occasionally trimmed close, occasionally barely affecting text. Light dampstaining to upper corner of final few gatherings. Contemporary calf with expert restoration.

“This Was My First Intellectual Contact With The Theory Of Nonviolent Resistance” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

“I Have Seen A Great Part Of The Most Notable Adventures… From The Beginning To The End” 88. STORY, George. An Impartial History of the Wars of Ireland, With a Continuation thereof. London, 1693. Octavo, contemporary full speckled brown calf rebacked. $ 8000. First complete edition (comprising the second edition of Part I and the first edition of Part II) of Story’s authoritative eyewitness history of the Williamite wars in Ireland, illustrated with 14 folding maps and plans. An elusive contemporary historical source. When James II fled England after the “Glorious Revolution,” he mustered support in largely Roman Catholic Ireland. The ensuing “War of the Two Kings” resulted in British and Protestant rule over Ireland into the 19th century. George Story, chaplain to soldiers under Lord Drogheda, witnessed much of this momentous war firsthand; he “intermixed in [this] work many curious accounts of the customs and traditions of the several provinces and counties through which the army passed” (Lowndes, 2523). Very nearly fine. Scarce.

90. THOREAU, Henry David. A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston, 1866. Octavo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $3600. First edition, first printing, containing the first book appearance of Thoreau’s widely influential “Civil Disobedience.” One of only 1500 copies printed. A stunning copy in fine condition. In 1846, tax collector Samuel Staples arrested Thoreau for his refusal to pay the poll tax. Thoreau had not paid the tax for several years, as a form of protest against slavery. The townspeople were so curious that Thoreau felt compelled to explain his actions in a public lecture. The text of this lecture first appeared in the journal Aesthetic Papers in 1849; it is here collected for the first time in book

“And If Christians Could Conduct As These Did, What Worse Could Infidels Do?” 89. [SANDERS, Daniel Clarke]. A History of the Indian Wars with the First Settlers of the United States. Montpelier, Vermont, 1812. 16mo, contemporary full brown calf. $4500. 90

First edition in English, published the same year as the first edition, with frontispiece portrait of Peter the Great, handsomely bound. “It is a marvelous story… and it has been told with great spirit” (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 1907 Catalogue, 2992). First published in France the same year. Mild edge-wear, minor abrasions to calf. Handsome.

Signed By Peter Turnley 91. TURNLEY, Peter and TURNLEY, David. In Times of War and Peace. New York, 1997. Oblong quarto, original black cloth, dust jacket. $900. First American edition of brothers David and Peter Turnley’s third photobook, featuring 202 color and black-and-white photographic plates of work spanning three decades, signed by Peter Turnley. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Turnley and Newsweek photographer Peter Turnley are twin brothers who have “photographed almost every important international news event of the last 15 years” (New York Times). Preceded by a 1996 Milan edition. This copy is from Peter Turnley’s own library. Fine.

“The Actions Of His Life Were Extraordinary; But His Character Was Equal To His Actions” 92. (WELLINGTON) WILSON, John Marius. A Memoir of Field‑Marshal The Duke of Wellington. London, Edinburgh and Dublin. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20thcentury three-quarter burgundy morocco gilt. $1000. First edition of this biography of one of England’s most revered military heroes, illustrated with 36 steel-engraved plates and 12 maps and plans (11 hand-colored), handsomely bound. Near-fine.

“A Marvelous Story… Told With Great Spirit” 93. WALISZEWSKI, K. Peter the Great. London, 1897. Two volumes. Octavo, mid 20th-century three-quarter red calf gilt. $450.

First edition of this rare account of frontier life and Indian warfare, one of the classic books concerning the settlement of the Ohio country. The Streeter copy. “Of this scarce book, very few copies are complete or in good condition. Having been issued in a remote corner of Northwestern Virginia, and designed 91 principally for a local circulation, almost every copy was read by a country fireside until scarcely legible. Most of the copies lack the table of contents. The author took much pains to be authentic, and his chronicles are considered by Western antiquarians, to form the best collection of frontier life and Indian warfare, that has been printed” (Field 1690). Without four leaves of contents, as usual, but with the terminal ad leaf which is often lacking. Some foxing and embrowning, and occasional light marginal dampstaining, contemporary sheep binding with expert restoration.

Artist Huard’s Documentation Of The Battle Front Of France, 1916, With 20 Large Lithographs, Each Signed In Pencil 95. (WORLD WAR I) HUARD, Charles. War Sketches. New York, 1916. Slim folio, original dark gray paper portfolio containing 20 original lithographs mounted on cardstock, title page and prospectus laid in, slipcase. $1600. Signed limited first edition, one of only 300 copies of this collection of 20 large lithographs “drawn from life on the battle front of France,” each signed and numbered in pencil by Charles Huard, “one of the official painters attached to the historical section of the Musée de l’Armée.” “During the First World War, [Huard] served as an artist for the French government. The etchings and lithographs he made of French military life within the war zones provide an important and lasting record of these momentous times” (Connie Peters). Includes a facsimile letter from General Niox, Director of the Musée de l’Armée to the commander of the 6th army, authorizing Huard to enter the military zone of France. Original prospectus laid in. Near-fine.

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form under its now-famous title, “Civil Disobedience.” Thoreau’s idea of passive but firm resistance has had a profound influence on countless revolutionaries and reformers. BAL binding A, no priority established. Fine.

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Signed limited first “Author’s Autograph” edition, one of 2100 copies signed by Pershing, winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for History. Pershing returned from World War I as America’s most famous general. Includes conversations and documents that dictated the course of World War I in the European theater. With 32 pages of illustrations from photographs and 35 strategic maps, including five folding. Without scarce original dust jackets and slipcases. Underlining to Volume II, slight soiling and rubbing to boards. In extremely good condition.

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Inscribed By Captain Eddie Rickenbacker 96. (WORLD WAR I) RICKENBACKER, Edward V. Fighting the Flying Circus. New York, 1919. Octavo, original blue cloth, mounted cover illustrations, dust jacket. $2500. First edition, presentation/association copy, of the dramatic story behind Captain Eddie Rickenbacker’s World War I exploits, one of a number of special copies issued as promotional tools by Rickenbacker’s automobile company, featuring a special bookplate and presented to early auto racing devotee H.R. Robertson, who also signed the front blank. Inscribed: “In appreciation of your Confidence, Captain E.V. Rickenbacker.” Rickenbacker was “America’s top ace (Ace of Aces) in World War I” and won the Congressional Medal of Honor (ANB). With frontispiece portrait of the author and five maps. This special presentation copy of Fighting the Flying Circus was issued by Rickenbacker’s automobile company, which was established in 1922 and which lasted for five years. Tipped onto the front pastedown is a second copy of the frontispiece, on the verso of which is a bookplate made out to H.R. Robertson and signed by Panama-Pacific race chairman and Leon Shettler Cup namesake Leon T. Shettler in April of 1923. The bookplate reads: “In presenting you with this vivid Chronicle of Captain Rickenbacker’s experiences in France, I feel that you will better understand his pride in the car that he designed and considers worthy of its name.” The recipient of this copy, H.R. Robertson, was involved in early auto racing and manufacturing. Book extremely good, with inner paper hinges expertly reinforced, light foxing to edges of text block, and a bit of wear and minor chipping to cover illustrations. Dust jacket very good, with chipping and some tape repair to recto and verso. Most desirable.

Signed By General Pershing 97. (WORLD WAR I) PERSHING, John J. My Experiences in the World War. New York, 1931. Two volumes. Large octavo, original olive cloth. $1000.

98. (WORLD WAR II) CLARK, Mark W. The Advance on Rome of the Fifth Army. No place, circa 1944. Slim quarto, staple-bound as issued, original pictorial cream paper wrappers. $2800. First edition, one of an unknown number of official registered copies, with five large folding maps and 20 photographic images of the advance, inscribed on the registration page during the war: “Mark W. Clark. Lieut. Gen. U.S.A. Comdg. Fifth Army, Italy-Oct. 7 1944.” “Calling Clark ‘the best trainer, organizer, and planner I have ever met,’ Eisenhower selected Clark to command the Fifth U.S. Army in the Salerno amphibious landing of 9 September 1943” (ANB). Clark painstakingly fought through German defenses, leading to a race between the British Eighth Army and Clark’s American Fifth Army for the glory of capturing Rome. This in-depth discussion of the advance, written by Clark himself, serves as in invaluable record of that victory. “Restricted” and pencil owner signature of Major Rigby on front wrapper. Near-fine. Rare.

One Of 750 Copies Signed By Bradley 99. (WORLD WAR II) BRADLEY, Omar N. A Soldier’s Story. New York, 1951. Thick octavo, original beige cloth, acetate. $1500. Signed limited first edition, one of 750 copies numbered and signed by “the GI’s general.” A Soldier’s Story recounts the battles of World War II from the perspective of the general who led more combat troops than any other field commander in history. With 55 maps and 17 black-and-white illustrations, including photographs. Without scarce original slipcase. Near-fine.

Extraordinary 1944 Archive Of Early Material Related To The Occupation Of Germany Before The End Of The War 100. (WORLD WAR II) EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Proclamation No. 1. No place, 1944. Printed broadside, measuring 17 by 21 inches. WITH: Handbook Governing Policy and Procedure for the Military Occupation of Germany. London, December, 1944. Square octavo, cordbound as issued, original half navy cloth. WITH: Photographic print. New York, no date. Black-and-white photographic print, measuring 8-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches. $8800. Exceptionally rare collection of items related to the earliest occupation of Germany by the allies, including a broadside of Proclamation No. 1, General Eisenhower’s message to the German people announcing the Allied Forces’ arrival in Germany, their intention to overthrow the Nazis, and their immediate seizure of all power in the occupied territories, printed in both German and English; a smaller flyer with a German reprint of the Proclamation on one side and Churchill’s and Roosevelt’s statements on Germany printed in German on the other; the detailed secret handbook governing the policy for handling the military occupation, with two confidential maps clearly delineating how Berlin and Germany were to be split between the occupying forces; and a historic news photograph showing a U.S. infantryman explaining the new rule of law to a group of attentive German civilians. On September 28, 1944, two weeks after U.S. troops entered Germany, Eisenhower issued Proclamation No. 1. It begins with the immortal line, “We come as conquerers, not as oppressors.” The “confidential” folding maps at the rear of the handbook depict the division of Germany proposed as part of the Morgenthau Plan. On September 16, 1944, Roosevelt persuaded a highly

First edition, illustrated with an abundance of vintage photographs, inscribed by the only man to have flown on both atomic bombings: “To Norman With Best Wishes Jacob Beser, 7/22/90.” With autographed card by pilot of the Enola Gay, Col. Paul W. Tibbets, laid in. This copy belonged to Sgt. Claud E. Hull, with photocopies of orders and photographs of Hull and comrades. This commemorative volume includes numerous photographs depicting the squadrons of the 509th at work and play at their base on Tinian, as well as the Enola Gay’s mission to Hiroshima and the Bock’s Car’s to Nagasaki. This copy is inscribed by Lieutenant Jacob Beser, a RadarCounter-Measure Officer who was on board both B-29 bombers that flew the atomic missions against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This copy belonged to Sgt. Claud E. Hull of the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron, with his photographs and photocopies laid in. A few faint fingermarks to margins, moderate rubbing to extremities of original cloth. A very good inscribed copy. 101

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101. (WORLD WAR II) (ENOLA GAY). 509th Pictorial Album. Tinian, 1945. Quarto, original coated and embossed blue cloth, with gilt, redand-black division emblem on front cover. $1200. 100

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reluctant Winston Churchill to agree to the plan. A final agreement would not be ratified with the Soviets until Yalta in February 1945. Yet these maps were published in December 1944. They clearly depict two sets of borders: one is labeled “A.E.F.” or “Allied Expeditionary Force” and the other is labeled the “Russian Sphere.” “Restricted” and “Secret” crossed out in marker and pen on front board of handbook; pen notations including “Reclassified to Restricted” and “Econ & Labor Section” added. Paper caption and agency stamp on verso of photograph. Near-fine. Quite rare.

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First Edition In Russian Of Grossman’s Stalingrad, 1943

Pictorial History Of The French Army In WWII

102. (WORLD WAR II) GROSSMAN, Vasilii Semenovich. Сталинград [Stalingrad]. Moscow, 1943. Square 12mo, original stiff pale green paper wrappers. $2500.

105. (WORLD WAR II) MINISTÈRE DE LA GUERRE. L’Armée Française dans la Guerre. Paris, 1944-45. Four volumes. Tall, slim quarto, original illustrated olive paper covers. $450.

First edition of this first-hand account of one of the bloodiest and most momentous battles in Russian history—the defense of Stalingrad against Nazi attacks and the Soviet counteroffensive. “A collection of sketches describing the defense of the city, the beginning of the Soviet counteroffensive, and the first stages of the encirclement of the German forces” (Christine Rydel). The accounts of individual heroism during the building-to-building combat are now legendary. Text in Russian. Title in manuscript on spine. Text embrowned (as usual), chipping to bottom extremities and toning to fragile original covers. An extremely good copy. Scarce.

First edition of this illustrated account of the engagements of the French Expeditionary Corps in World War II, “from Chad to the Rhine” and “from the Rhine to the Danube,” with large, rich photogravures on nearly every page. This illustrated tribute to the French Expeditionary Corps from 1943 to 1945 includes the campaigns of Fezzan, Tripolitania, and Tunisia, the Italian Campaign, the liberation of France, and the Invasion of Germany. The hundreds of documentary photographs were provided by Le Service Cinématographie de l’Armée and the British Information Service. Text in French. Photogravures fine, light edge-wear to original paper covers. Very desirable.

Signed Limited First Edition Of MacArthur’s Autobiography

The “Smyth Report” On The Atom Bomb

103. (WORLD WAR II) MACARTHUR, Douglas. Reminiscences. New York, 1964. Octavo, original beige cloth, slipcase. $1800.

106. (WORLD WAR II) SMYTH, Henry DeWolf. A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes. Washington, 1945. Octavo, staple-bound as issued, original cream paper wrappers. $950.

Signed limited first edition of MacArthur’s autobiography, one of 1750 copies signed by him. With color frontispiece photographic portrait and 20 plates of photographic illustrations, four in color. Fine.

Original Large Colored Lithographed Certificate Of Recognition Signed By General MacArthur 104. (WORLD WAR II) Original official chromolithographic document with original paper seal, measuring 11-1/2 by 17 inches, matted together with Time magazine cover; entire piece measures 14-1/2 by 37-1/2 inches. $3000. Original official certificate of recognition for the service of PFC Fred Alexander as member of the elite honor guard to Douglas MacArthur during the occupation of Japan, signed by MacArthur and matted beneath the Life magazine cover for September 17, 1945 bearing a portrait of MacArthur captioned “Commander of Japan.” The certificate, signed by both Captain Warren B. Hodges, Company Commander and General MacArthur, recognizes the service of PFC Fred Alexander as a member of MacArthur’s personal Honor Guard. Minor closed tears and creasing to left margin of certificate, just touching text and signature. Splendid.

First published edition of Smyth’s account of development work under the code name “Manhattan District.” This is the first edition in book form of “the Smyth Report,” a “remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the American-directed but internationally recruited team of physicists, under the code name ‘Manhattan District,’ which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb” (PMM, 254). Preceded only by preliminary typewritten stencil versions produced in the Adjutant General’s Office for the Army’s internal distribution. 104 Once the Smyth Report was declassified (six days after Hiroshima), it was immediately printed by the both the Government Printing Office and Princeton University Press. Historically, the GPO edition has been sold as the first published edition, while the Princeton edition has been sold as a trade edition. However, “there is some uncertainty as to the exact date of issue” (Laudamus & Krishnamurthy 0426). It is impossible to determine priority and both editions should be regarded as the “first published.” First state, with “1945-663817” at bottom of page 182. Signature on front wrapper. Handsome and desirable.

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Limited first edition, one of 2500 copies, illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs, many full-page. This copy inscribed by the co-author, Vice Admiral Allan E. Smith. The fourth and final battleship built by the United States Navy, the Missouri, or the “Mighty Mo,” supported the Iwo Jima invasion as well as raids on Japan’s home islands, and served as the site of the Japanese surrender ceremony on September 2, 1945. This copiously illustrated volume recounts the ship’s action-packed history in World War II and the Korean War. During Korea, the Missouri was the flagship of co-author Vice Admiral Allan E. Smith, who has signed this copy. Front joint expertly repaired. Handsome. 109

Large Original Color Print Of The Enola Gay, Signed By Tibbets, Ferebee And Van Kirk 109. (WORLD WAR II) (TIBBETS, Paul W.). “Atomic Warfare is Born.” Signed color print of the Enola Gay. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, circa 1989. Large colorprinted image, sheet measures 24 by 18 inches. $950. Original color print of the Enola Gay by renowned aviation artist Harley Copic, signed by pilot Tibbets, bombardier Ferebee and navigator Van Kirk. This handsome color print of the Enola Gay by famous aviation artist Harley Copic is signed by pilot Paul W. Tibbets, bombardier Thomas W. Ferebee and navigator Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk. Fine.

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Original 16-piece archive of World War II materials related to four-star admiral Chester W. Nimitz and one of his staff, Colonel Frederic H. Nichols, including Nimitz’s own 4-star Admiral’s flag. Chester W. Nimitz was Commander-inChief, United States Pacific Fleet, charged with rebuilding the Navy and coordinating all Allied forces in the Pacific. At the end of the war, it was Nimitz who signed the Japanese surrender documents for the United States. This archive follows the career of Frederick H. Nichols, General Staff

108. (WORLD WAR II) NEWELL, Gordon. SMITH, Allen E. Mighty Mo. The U.S.S. Missouri. A Biography of the Last Battleship. Seattle, 1969. Quarto, full navy leatherette gilt. $1200.

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107. (WORLD WAR II) NIMITZ, Chester W. 16 piece Nimitz-related archive. No place, circa 1945. Contains the following items: Four-star admiral’s flag; china plate; bronze star medal; typed letter signed by Nimitz; three-page press release; ten photographs; certificate of service, custom clamshell box. $12,500.

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Corps of the United States Army. Nichols served under Admiral Nimitz. The archive includes: a 62 by 42-inch 4-star Admiral’s flag, likely flown outside Nimitz’s headquarters, presented by Nimitz to Nichols; a four-star Admiral’s china plate, given by Nimitz to Nichols, 7 inches in diameter, with 4-star Admiral’s flag; Bronze Star medal presented to Nichols by Nimitz, accompanied by a typed citation signed by Nimitz on his stationery; ten photographs of Nichols; Nichols’ official Certificate of Service card; three-page typed press release, dated Fort Lawton, 17 April 1946, announcing the presentation of army awards to Nichols. Fine.

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reconstructions. “From May 1942 until July 1945, VIII Bomber Command would plan and execute the American daylight, precision and strategic bombing campaign over Nazi-occupied Europe from a former girls school at High Wycombe, England. During World War II, under the leadership of such generals as Ira Eaker and Jimmy Doolittle, the VIII Bomber Command became the greatest air armada in history” (Eighth Air Force Fact Sheet). Published the year after the American edition. Numerical inkstamps to front and rear wrappers, minor marginal dampstaining to first few leaves, wrappers with light rubbing. Extremely good.

Signed By 39 American Flying Aces, Including Chuck Yeager 112. (YEAGER, Chuck). American Fighter Aces Album. Mesa, Arizona, 1996. Quarto, original gilt-stamped white cloth. $2800.

“Avenge December 7” 110. (WORLD WAR II) PERLIN, Bernard. Poster: Avenge December 7. Washington, 1942. Original full-color poster measuring 28-1/2 by 40 inches. $1500. Dramatic original World War II poster depicting a sailor with his fist raised, standing above a scene of an exploding battleship, with the words “Avenge December 7” in red across the middle of the poster. With America’s entrance into WWII after Pearl Harbor, the Office of War Information quickly coordinated efforts to generate support for the war effort. This striking image on OWI “Poster No. 15,” memorializing the events of December 7, 1941, was painted by Virginia-born artist Bernard Perlin, a Guggenheim fellow and respected painter who was a well-known illustrator for Life and Fortune. Fine.

Second edition, greatly enlarged and expanded from the first of this commemoration of America’s elite fighter pilots, with numerous black-and-white illustrations as well as four color pages depicting planes flown, signed on the front pastedown by 39 aces, including Chuck Yeager, the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound. American combat pilots who destroy five or more enemy aircraft in aerial combat receive the honorable designation of “ace.” This generously illustrated volume celebrates the accomplishments of over 1000 who flew for their nation from 1916 through 1972. The album’s first edition, published in 1978, surveyed only 386 of the 1442 pilots included in this edition. Signed on the front pastedown by 39 American fighter aces, most notably among them Chuck Yeager. Signed photographic portraits of Alex Vraciu (the Navy’s fourth-ranking ace), Ralph Foltz (famed “Hellcat” pilot) and Roy “Butch” Voris (first leader of the Blue Angels), laid in, as well as a photographic portrait of ace Wil Scheible with his cut signature affixed, and an unsigned photographic portrait of Walker “Bud” Mahurin (the first American pilot to become a double ace in the European Theater). Fine. 112

“One Of The Most Polished And Powerful Instruments Of Aerial Destruction Ever Assembled” 111. (WORLD WAR II) Target: Germany. The U.S. Army Air Forces’ Official Story of the VIII Bomber Command’s First Year Over Europe. London, 1944. Square octavo, original photographic wrappers, staple-bound as issued; pp. 120. $200. First British edition of the official account of how the pilots and planes of the “Mighty Eighth”—the VIII Bomber Command—“changed the face of war,” abundantly illustrated with black-and-white photographs—many aerial overviews of bombing raids—as well as charts and artists’

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114. CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed. London, March 11, 1914. One folded leaf, measuring 8 by 5 inches folded and 8 by 10 inches open, on Admiralty letterhead. $6000. Autograph letter signed from Churchill to his paternal aunt, Lady Cornelia Wimborne, expressing condolences after the death of her husband, Lord Wimborne.

First Edition Of Arms And The Covenant 113. CHURCHILL, Winston. Arms and the Covenant. London, 1938. Octavo, original blue cloth. $850. First edition of this collection of Churchill’s speeches on foreign affairs and national defense. All but two of the speeches collected here were delivered by Churchill in the Commons in the years leading up to the Second World War. Collected by Churchill’s son Randolph, and revised a second time by Churchill, these represent some of the best written by a man who “devoted more time than any other modern orator to the preparation of his speeches” (Langworth, 190). “The finest (and most ominous) prewar warning of Winston Churchill occurs on [its] penultimate page… Available in no other Churchill book… the last four paragraphs of that famous speech on 24 March 1938… summarize the theme of this volume, a precursor to the official theme of The Gathering Storm: ‘How the Englishspeaking peoples through their unwisdom, carelessness, and good nature allowed the wicked to re-arm’” (Langworth, 190). Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Langworth, 191. Woods A44(a). A fine copy in original cloth.

Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill was the younger sister of Lord Randolph Churchill, father of the future prime minister. She married baronet Ivor Bertie Guest in 1868; he was created the first Baron Wimborne in 1880. Lord Wimborne died in February 1914 after a prolonged illness. Winston Churchill was serving as the First Lord of the Admiralty when this letter was written, a post he was appointed to in 1911 and still held at the outbreak of WWI. The letter reads: “My dear Aunt Cornelia, I have thought much about your sorrow in these last days. The final link wh[ich] held so long has broken, & of the noontime of your life only the memory remains. Still I feel that the pain & shadow had been so spread over the long succession of years, that nothing in the nature of a shock fell on you. I am much occupied here, but w[oul]d come to lunch with you on Friday, unless, wh[ich] w[oul]d suit me better, you feel equal to lunching alone with us. Yours affectionately, Winston S.C.” Light embrowning to edges of paper. A fine autograph letter.

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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. and CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Complete Correspondence. Prince-ton, NJ, 1984. Three 113 volumes. Thick octavo, modern threequarter navy morocco-gilt. $1750. First edition of this collection of the correspondence between Churchill and Roosevelt, spanning the years 1933-1945. Illustrated with numerous photographs and maps. With extensive annotations and index by editor Warren Kimball. Cohen A287.1.a. Langworth, 352. Fine condition.

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The First Collected Edition: Superb Centenary Limited Edition Of Churchill’s Works, 34 Volumes In Publisher’s Full Vellum Gilt, A Beautiful Set 116. CHURCHILL, Winston. The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill. Centenary Limited Edition. London, 1973-76. Thirty-four volumes. Large octavo, original full vellum, upper boards giltstamped with the Churchill arms, original dark green slipcases, also gilt-stamped with the Churchill arms. $15,000. Centenary limited edition of Churchill’s Complete Works, one of only 3000 sets produced, copiously illustrated with numerous photographic plates, maps and charts. Beautifully bound in publisher’s gilt-stamped vellum and printed on 500-year archival paper. This monumental set, the first of only two collected editions ever produced, was issued in recognition of the centenary of Churchill’s birth. Compiled and published with the approval and cooperation of the Churchill Centenary Committee and members of his family, this edition reproduces all of Churchill’s 50 books in 34 volumes. “An extremely desirable set, “the Collected Works are so rare that few can access them” (Langworth, 364). Cohen AA1. Woods, 391. Interiors fine; occasional light toning to vellum bindings, as often. Fine condition. Increasingly scarce.

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scarce original dust jacket. Cohen A105.1.c. Woods A43(a). Langworth, 176-179. Weinberger, a Harvard-educated lawyer, entered the U.S. Army as a private in 1941 and served in the Pacific theater. “Early in life he developed an interest in politics and history, and, during the war years, a special admiration for Winston Churchill, whom he would later cite as an important influence” (Department of Defense). After the war,Weinberger became a career politician, eventually serving under three U.S. presidents. Light rubbing to cloth extremities and some fading to spine. A very good copy with exceptional provenance.

119. CHURCHILL, Winston. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. London, 1900. Octavo, original fawn pictorial cloth rebacked with original spine laid down. $2200.

“Churchill’s Last Great Work” 117. CHURCHILL, Winston. A History of the EnglishSpeaking Peoples. London, 1956-58. Four volumes. Octavo, modern three-quarter red morocco-gilt. $2200. First English editions of Churchill’s classic history, illustrated with maps and genealogical tables, handsomely bound. “Churchill’s last great work was published nearly 20 years after he penned its first draft in the late 1930s, just after wrapping up [the biography of] Marlborough. This enabled him to utilize the literary team he had assembled for the biography, to which he added dozens of outlines he had solicited from scholars… In its final form the original single volume evolved to four, each of which was published simultaneously in Britain, the USA and Canada—a first for Churchill’s works” (Langworth, 312). Woods A138(a). Langworth, 312-317. A fine set.

“About A Few Prominent Men— Great, Evil, Stupid, Silly, Wise”: Inscribed By Churchill’s Son Randolph 118. CHURCHILL, Winston. Great Contemporaries. London, 1937. Octavo, original navy cloth. $1850. First edition of this collection of biographical sketches of some of the most influential men of the 20th century, illustrated with 21 photographic portraits. Inscribed by Churchill’s son Randolph: “Krick from Randolph. To help replace the library lost in Paris. September 25, 1940.” Additionally inscribed: “March 6, 1989. To Caspar Weinberger, From the Claremont Institute, with respect for great accomplishments, with anticipation for those to come, Larry P. Arnn.” Includes essays on George Bernard Shaw, Chamberlain, Lawrence of Arabia, Leon Trotsky, Hitler, Philip Snowden and King George V, among others. Without

First edition of Churchill’s fourth book, with three folding maps, in the original pictorial cloth. When the Boer settlers in South Africa rebelled against British authority, Churchill joined with the 21st Lancers and “secured an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post… He had scarcely arrived [in South Africa] before he was involved in a skirmish which found him ‘in durance vile’: a prisoner of war in Pretoria, unable to talk himself out of prison by claiming to be a reporter, and nearly mad over the lack of action. Typically, he made a daring escape… The true-life adventure story of his successful escapade dominates this book, one of the most gripping in the canon, making this one of his most popular books” (Langworth, 52, 53). Woods A4. Bookplate. Occasional scattered light foxing to interior. Light wear and soiling to cloth (as often). An extremely good copy. 119

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“One Of The Best Political Biographies In English” 120. CHURCHILL, Winston. Lord Randolph Churchill. London, 1906. Two volumes. Octavo, modern three-quarter navy morocco-gilt. $2000. First edition of Churchill’s distinguished biography of his father, with two photographic frontispiece portraits of Lord Randolph, handsomely bound and illustrated. “Outside Parliament, Churchill devoted much of his time during 1904 and 1905 to compiling a biography of Lord Randolph. When the book emerged in 1906, it was widely hailed as one of the best political biographies in English and its prose style is still greatly admired today… Contemporary readers were struck by the frankness and openness of the account, contrasting favorably with the pious acts of homage served up as biography by other sons of famous fathers” (Grant, 47). Woods A8a. Langworth, 68-71. Occasional scattered light foxing. Fine.

First Edition In Parts Of The Great War 121. CHURCHILL, Winston. The Great War. London, 193334. Twenty-six parts. Quarto, original paper wrappers. Housed in two custom clamshell boxes gilt-stamped with the Churchill coat-of-arms. $2200. First illustrated edition of Churchill’s important World War I history The World Crisis, in original parts, richly illustrated.

With a new foreword by Churchill dated August 1933. Churchill’s monumental history of the first World War was first published in six volumes as The World Crisis, 1923-31; these 26 parts were issued fortnightly by Newnes from September 1933 to October 1934, “in a form which will make them accessible to a very wide public.” “Not only the best account of the most tremendous convulsion the world has ever seen, but one of the most brilliant treatises on war that has ever been written” (Spectator). Langworth, 118-20. Woods A31a. Pencil notations to rear wrapper of part 2; owner signature to rear wrappers of parts 7-13 and front wrapper of part 14. Occasional scattered light foxing to interiors and light soiling to wrappers. Half-inch open tear to front wrapper and spine head of part 7. Fine condition.

Ian Hamilton’s March, First Edition, 1900 122. CHURCHILL, Winston. Ian Hamilton’s March. London, 1900. Octavo, modern three-quarter navy morocco-gilt. $1800. First edition of Churchill’s continued coverage of the Boer War, with maps. Ian Hamilton’s March, the sequel to London to Ladysmith, “describes the fighting march of Ian Hamilton’s mounted division from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg and on to Pretoria, where the author was able to help liberate his former fellow prisoners” (Langworth, 58). Langworth, 59. Woods A5. Scattered light foxing to interior; light foxing to fore edge. A fine copy of an increasingly scarce Churchill title.

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123. CHURCHILL, Winston. My African Journey. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. Octavo, original pictorial red cloth, uncut. $1800. First edition of this early Churchill travelogue, with three full-page maps and over 60 photographs, many taken by Churchill. “As undersecretary of State for the Colonies in 1907,” Churchill traveled to Africa on a tour of inspection… [he] saw the advantages of producing a travelogue on Britain’s valuable possessions in East Africa. Among these, Churchill waxes most eloquent on Uganda, which he calls ‘a pearl’” (Langworth, 80). My African Journey “includes photographs allegedly taken by Churchill, the only such appearance in the canon; the text is important because it shows Churchill raising prescient questions involving the betterment of the East African population” (Langworth, 80). Cohen A27.1. Langworth, 80-83. Woods A12. Occasional scattered light foxing; light fading to spine. A fine, bright copy.

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“Each Man Sees A Tumult From A Different Point Of View…”: First Edition Of Churchill’s Second Book, The River War 124. CHURCHILL, Winston. The River War, An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. London, 1899. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original gilt-embossed navy cloth; housed in a custom clamshell box. $9000. First edition, first issue of Churchill’s second book, rare and most desirable in the original cloth, one of only 2000 copies printed, illustrated with numerous maps and photographic plates.

Churchill served in the Twenty-first Lancers during Lord Kitchener’s campaign on the Upper Nile in the late 1890s and was a participant there in the last great cavalry charge of the British Army. “Hopping on a ferry, and not bothering to trouble his commanding officer in distant South India for leave, Winston turned up in the Abbasya barracks in Cairo on August 2, 1898, and joined the 21st’s A Squadron. He was fully outfitted, had bought a horse, and was, most important of all, equipped with a commission from the Morning Post to send dispatches at £15 a time” (Keegan, 46). Though only in his early twenties and a mere subaltern, Churchill had already developed an independence of thought that would serve him well in his later political career: “Far from accepting uncritically the superiority of British civilization, Churchill shows his appreciation for the longing for liberty among the indigenous inhabitants of the Sudan; but he finds their native regime defective in its inadequate legal and customary protection for the liberty of subjects. On the other hand, he criticizes the British army, and in particular its commander Lord Kitchener, for departing in its campaign from the kind of civilized respect for the liberty and humanity of adversaries that alone could justify British civilization and imperial rule over the Sudan” (Langworth, 27). This account includes 34 maps, 20 of which are printed in color and folding, and 58 illustrations, including tissue-guarded frontispieces, photogravure portraits, and numerous in-text illustrations. The maps and plans include various sections of the Nile, the Dervish Empire, etc. Cohen A2.1.b. Woods A2(a). Langworth, 27-30. Owner signature dated the year of publication in Volume I. Many marginal pencil annotations. Scattered light foxing to interiors. Mild wear to cloth extremities. Expert repair to rear joint of Volume I, and reinforcement to hinges. A handsome, near-fine copy, extremely desirable in original cloth.

Second World War, the majestic blending of his commanding English with historical precedent, one has to read Marlborough” (Langworth, 164). Cohen A97.2. Woods A40a. Occasional light foxing to interiors and fore edges; remainder mark to bottom of text block of Volume III. A fine set.

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“This Is Not History: This Is My Case”: Churchill’s Brilliant History Of The Second World War 127. CHURCHILL, Winston. The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy. London, (1948-54). Six volumes. Octavo, modern three-quarter red morocco gilt. $3500. First English editions of Churchill’s WWII masterpiece, part history and part memoir, written after he lost reelection as Prime Minister.

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125. CHURCHILL, Winston. Painting as a Pastime. London, 1948. Octavo, three-quarter navy morocco gilt. $1200. First edition of Churchill’s reflections on painting, with 18 beautiful color reproductions of his work.

The six volumes of Churchill’s masterpiece were published separately between 1948 and 1954. With the Second World War, Churchill “pulled himself back from humiliating defeat in 1945, using all his skills as a writer and politician to make his fortune, secure his reputation, and win a second term in Downing Street” (Reynolds, xxiii). Woods A123b. Langworth, 254. Occasional scattered light foxing. Fine condition.

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Includes Churchill’s thoughtful essays on the relevance and therapeutic value of painting. “Happy are the painters,” he writes, “for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end, or almost to the end, of the day.” Cohen 242.1.a. Woods A125. Langworth, 288-89. Fine.

128. CHURCHILL, Randolph S. and GILBERT, Martin. Winston S. Churchill. London, 1966-88. Eight volumes. Thick octavo, modern three-quarter red morocco gilt. $4800.

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“His early political life was devoted to organizing a system of support for the weak who had been defeated by the harshness of industrial life. Churchill’s reputation as a social reformer has now been so overlaid by that of war leader as to be forgotten. His commitment, however, was genuine and his achievements were considerable. Had peace persisted he might now be remembered as a pioneer of Britain’s welfare state” (Keegan 187-88). Each volume of this monumental biography was issued separately. The first two volumes, written by Churchill’s son Randolph, cover Churchill’s youth and early political career. After Randolph’s death in 1968, Martin Gilbert, who had worked as his research assistant, was appointed official biographer and completed the work in another six volumes. Zoller A301a-h. Fine condition.

126. CHURCHILL, Winston. Marlborough: His Life and Times. London, 1933-38. Four volumes. Octavo, modern three-quarter navy morocco-gilt. $2300. First trade editions, with hundreds of maps and plans (many folding), plates and document facsimiles. “Though it was a commissioned work, Churchill would not have invested nearly a million words and ten years had it not had special significance for him. For he wrote about a man who was not only his ancestor, an invincible general, the first of what became the Spencer-Churchill dukes of Marlborough, and a maker of modern Britain, but also a supreme example of heroism in the two vocations which mainly interested Churchill and in which ultimate triumph seemed to have eluded him—politics and war making” (Wiedhorn, 110). “It may be his greatest book. To understand the Churchill of the

First editions of the official biography of Winston Churchill, richly illustrated with numerous photographic plates and handsomely bound.

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129. CHURCHILL, Winston. The World Crisis. London, 1923-31. Six volumes. Octavo, original navy cloth. $6000. First English editions of Churchill’s important history of World War I. “Not only the best account of the most tremendous convulsion the world has ever seen, but one of the most brilliant treatises on war that has ever been written” (Spectator). During WWI, Churchill served variously as the head of the British Navy, Minister for Munitions, and as a foot soldier in the trenches. The World Crisis offers his first-hand account of the British government’s massive efforts to win the war, and depicts the political events that would serve as object lessons for Churchill when WWII broke out. Illustrated with numerous maps (many folding), charts, facsimiles, photographs, and a large folding colored map at rear of last volume. Preceded by the American editions, although “the English is more aesthetically desirable… equipped with shoulder notes on each page which summarize the subject of that page… It is more popular among collectors who wish to own only one edition” (Langworth, 108). Woods A31(a). Langworth, 105-108. Owner signature dated the year of publication and owner label in Volume IV. Volume I without front free endpaper. Occasional scattered light foxing. Light rubbing to cloth extremities. An extremely good set. Full first edition sets of this title are becoming increasingly scarce.

“They May Be The Last Word Upon The War”: First Editions Of Churchill’s War Speeches 130. CHURCHILL, Winston. Collection of World War II Speeches: Into Battle, (1941); The Unrelenting Struggle, (1942); The End of the Beginning, (1943); Onwards to Victory, (1944); The Dawn of Liberation, (1945); Victory, (1946); Secret Session Speeches, (1946). London, 1941-46. Seven volumes. Octavo, modern full navy morocco gilt. $4000. First editions of Churchill’s separately published World War II speeches. Churchill’s speeches “constitute a contemporary history of the war which is as lively as it is authoritative; and, so far as contemporary history is of value, they may be said to be the last word upon the war” (Randolph S. Churchill). With 50 half-tone photographic plates. Langworth, 202-247. Occasional light scattered foxing to interiors. A fine set. 131

“Churchill At His Dazzling Best”: His Acclaimed Autobiography, Inscribed By Him 131. CHURCHILL, Winston. A Roving Commission: My Early Life. New York, 1930. Octavo, original russet cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $11,000. First American edition of Churchill’s acclaimed autobiography, abundantly illustrated with maps and photographic plates, inscribed by Churchill on the half-title: “To J. Jay Elliott Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill Feb. 1932. ‘On Trek.’” A Roving Commission covers the first 25 years of Churchill’s life, to the beginning of his parliamentary career. Included are accounts of his childhood, his active service in Cuba, the North West Frontier and Omdurman and his exploits during the Boer War, detailing his famous escape from the Boers as a prisoner of war. In this autobiography “Churchill records his experiences in words which will live as long as any 20th-century author is read… [A Roving Commission] was one of the two Churchill works excerpted by the Nobel Library—for Sir Winston’s 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature was won not for his war memoirs but the totality of his work. This book presents Churchill at his dazzling best as chronicler and memoirist” (Langworth, 130). This copy is second printing, published two months after the first. Published in England as My Early Life: A Roving Commission in the same year. Cohen A91.2.b. Langworth, 131-33. Woods A37(b). Light toning to spine, light wear to cloth extremities, slight loss to spine ends. Mild wear to extremities of scarce extremely good dust jacket with half-inch chip to spine head and tape repairs to verso. An extremely good copy, scarce inscribed.

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“I will leave judgments on this matter to history — but I will be one of the historians.” —Winston Churchill “In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.” Churchill penned his monumental six-volume History of the Second World War only a few years after the war’s end, including in it details privy only to him as Prime Minister, and offering his singular observations and memories of the people and events that shaped the course of history. While he had published a number of books prior to the war, this was the work that would seal his literary reputation. Published separately from 1948-1954, the six volumes in Churchill’s masterpiece achieved immediate popularity in both Britain and the United States and earned Churchill the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.

Inscribed By Churchill 132. CHURCHILL, Winston. The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy. London, 1949-54. Six volumes. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jackets. $12,500. Mixed first and second English editions of Churchill’s masterpiece, in the original dust jackets, inscribed on the half title of Volume I: “Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill, 1950.” “The Second World War is a great work of literature, combining narrative, historical imagination and moral precept in a form that bears comparison with that of the original master chronicler, Thucydides. It was wholly appropriate that in 1953 Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature” (Keegan, 175). Volumes I and II are second editions, each published one year after the first editions. Woods A123b. Langworth, 25-66. All interiors near-fine with occasional scattered foxing. Minor stain to text block fore-edge of Volume I, not affecting text. All dust jackets extremely good to near-fine, with light soiling and wear, tape repairs to verso of Volume VI dust jacket. A near-fine set, quite desirable inscribed.

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Public Disclosure Of The “XYZ Affair” 133. ADAMS, John and PINCKNEY, Charles. Letters of Credence and Full Powers to the Envoys. IN: Columbian Centinel, Extraordinary. Monday, April 16, 1798. Boston, 1798. Single sheet of laid stock in tabloid format, measuring 12 by 20 inches folded. $3000. Important newspaper publication of the infamous “XYZ” dispatches, informing President Adams of “indirect suggestions of loans and bribes to France” by Talleyrand’s representatives (referred in the dispatches as X, Y and Z) and the failure of the United States peace commission to end French aggression at sea by diplomatic means. In 1797, President Adams sought to defuse growing tensions with France over mercantile commerce by sending two additional diplomats, John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry, to join the American Minister to France, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, in Paris as a peace commission. “This three-man commission was immediately confronted by the refusal of French foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand to receive it officially. Indirect suggestions of loans and bribes to France were made to the commissioners through Mme de Villette, a friend of Talleyrand. Negotiations were carried on through her with Jean Conrad Hottinguer and Lucien Hauteval, both Swiss, and a Mr. Bellamy, an American banker in Hamburg; the three were designated X, Y and Z in the mission’s dispatches… The proposal that the Americans pay Talleyrand about $250,000 before the French government would even deal with them created an uproar when it was released in the United States… The representatives made no progress and the mission broke up” (William Stinchcombe). When Marshall and Pinckney returned to America and reported the incident, the Democratic Republicans suspected a Federalist plot to instigate war with France and challenged Adams to prove the allegations. In response, Adams released the XYZ dispatches to Congress on April 3, 1798—to general American outrage—declaring: “I will never send another Minister to France without assurance that he will be received, respected and honored, as the representative of a great, free, powerful and independent nation.” This account 136

of the entire affair, based upon those official dispatches, was published by the leading Federalist newspaper, Boston’s Columbian Centinel, in an “extra” dated Monday, April 16, 1798—just two weeks after Adams turned the correspondence over to Congress. Near-fine.

“One Of The Greatest Detective Stories Ever Told”: Signed By Several Key Watergate Figures 134. BERNSTEIN, Carl, and WOODWARD, Bob. All the President’s Men. New York, 1974. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $3200. Book club edition of the book version of Bernstein and Woodward’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative articles, signed by many of the most important figures in the Watergate scandal: John Ehrlichman, Bob Haldeman, Kenneth Wells Parkinson, John Mitchell, Judge John J. Sirica and Carl Bernstein, also signed by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Bernstein and Woodward’s reports on the Watergate scandal in the Washington Post earned the reporters a Pulitzer. Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Parkinson, Mardian and Mitchell comprised five of the “Watergate Seven.” Near-fine, with an exceptional collection of signatures.

Signed By Carter 135. CARTER, Jimmy. Always a Reckoning and Other Poems. New York, 1995. Octavo, original half ivory cloth, dust jacket. $300. First edition, third printing, signed by Carter. Fine.

Signed By Bill Clinton 136. CLINTON, Bill. My Life. New York, 2004. Octavo, original blue boards, dust jacket. $1500. First edition, first state, boldly signed by President Clinton on the title page. The autobiography of President Bill Clinton. First state, with “failure” instead of “failures” in final sentence of Acknowledgements. Fine.

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Original Autograph Letter Signed By President Cleveland 140. CLEVELAND, Grover. Autograph letter signed. New York, 1890. Original autograph letter, measuring 8 by 10-1/2 inches. $950.

Three Signed By Eisenhower 137. EISENHOWER, Dwight D. The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953-56. WITH: Waging Peace, 195661. New York, 1963-65. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original tan cloth, acetate, slipcases. $4200. Signed limited first editions, each one of only 1500 copies signed by Eisenhower. Mandate for Change number 608 of 1500 copies; Waging Peace number 415 of 1500. Books fine, only light rubbing to edges of acetate and slipcases. 138. EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Typed letter signed. Washington, 1946. Letter, measuring 6-1/2 by 9 inches; matted and framed, entire piece measures 14 by 16 inches. $1600. Original typed letter from Eisenhower, as Chief of Staff of the War Department, to the brother of two grievously injured war veterans, framed with half-tone portrait of Eisenhower. The letter reads: “26 July 1946. Dear Mr. Carter: I am deeply grateful for your thoughtfulness in taking the time to write me such a splendid letter. I can appreciate the great sorrow your family has experiences in the death of one brother and the disability of another, and mere words cannot begin to express to you the depth of my sympathy. Courageous and understanding letters, such as yours, are always a great source of inspiration to me in many tasks. Thank you for your kind expressions of faith and confidence. Sincerely, Dwight D. Eisenhower.” Fine.

Signed autograph letter written by President Cleveland to Professor James A. Gantis thanking him for sending a speech by another professor and offering his impressions of it. The letter reads: “February 19, 1890. Prof James A. Gantis. My dear sir: I wish to thank you for the speech of Prof Smith which you sent me. I intended to glance at it briefly but did not lay it down until I had thoroughly read it. It strikes me as very often direct and convincing. My impression is that the best field for its circulation is among the farmers of the West and South West. I fear it has quite a touch of what would be construed to be anti-Eastern feeling. I should be glad to have it in pamphlet form when it is issued. Yours very truly, Grover Cleveland.” About-fine.

“Good Speech. Writer Has Talent. Who Is He?” 141. FORD, Gerald R. Archive of White House internal memoranda, initialed by Ford. Washington, 1974-75. Eight pieces altogether. Four original two-page typed memoranda on White House stationery; two clearance forms; two sheets of White House notepaper. $3800. Collection of original internal memoranda and office forms, initialed by the President, including backgrounders for upcoming visits to South Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee, and a draft telegram announcing the 55 miles per hour speed limit. Copies belonging to speechwriter Paul A. Theis. Facing the aftermath of Watergate and the military withdrawal from Vietnam, as well as runaway inflation, a 7.5 % unemployment rate, a grave energy crisis and escalating crime, Ford addressed these issues in numerous speeches at

139. EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Inscribed photograph. Minneapolis, circa 1955. Image measures 7 by 7 inches; entire sheet measures 7-1/2 by 10 inches. $1250. Original photograph of President Eisenhower with cartoonist Al Capp, inscribed by the President, “For Al Capp, Regards, Dwight D. Eisenhower.” The picture shows Eisenhower and Capp, creator of the “L’il Abner” comic strip, with Marvin Kline, former Mayor of Minneapolis, and a “poster boy” for the Sister Kenny Foundation, located in Minneapolis. The Sister Kenny Foundation pioneered new treatments for polio; Kline was its president; Capp, as honorary chairman of the foundation, provided art and made numerous appearances on its behalf. Fine.

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state fairs and festivals. This collection contains three backgrounders for such visits; included also is a typed draft of a telegram regarding energy conservation and imposition of the 55 miles per hour speed limit. The former owner of these internal communications, speechwriter Paul Theis, served as Executive Editor in the White House Editorial Office from 1974-76. Near-fine.

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Signed By Ford 142. FORD, Gerald R. Humor and the Presidency. New York, 1987. Octavo, original half white cloth, dust jacket. $950. First edition, signed by Ford. With classic and contemporary political cartoons. Fine.

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143. FILLMORE, Millard. Autograph note signed. Buffalo, May 30, 1857. Single leaf (measures 4 by 6 inches), bordered in black, written in manuscript on recto. $650.

145. HOOVER, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. New York and London, 1934. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $1200.

1857 original signed autograph note, inscribed by President Fillmore, “For Mrs. Fannie E. Gridley, with the Respect of Millard Fillmore Buffalo N.Y. May 30, 1857.” Fine.

First edition, inscribed on a tipped-in card, “The Good Wishes of Herbert Hoover.” After Franklin Roosevelt defeated him in 1932, Hoover retired to write this work, “warning of the threat of fascism within the New Deal” (DAB). Contemporary gift inscription to Maine State Senator Frank W. Carlton. Minor smudging to inscription, a bit of soiling and dampstaining to endpapers and cloth. Scarce dust jacket with slight rubbing to extremities and mild toning. Attractive.

Large Broadside Printing Of Jackson’s First State Of The Union Address 144. JACKSON, Andrew. President Jackson’s First Message to Congress. Washington, 1829. Broadside printed on silk, measuring 20 by 28 inches, closely framed. $3800. Extremely rare early printing of Jackson’s 1829 State of the Union, in which he questions the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States, proposes sharing federal surpluses among the individual states, and recommends establishing a separate district west of the Mississippi River “to be guaranteed to the Indian tribes as long as they shall occupy it, each tribe having a distinct control over the portion designated for its use. There they may be secured in the enjoyment of governments of their own choice, subject to no other control from the United States than such as may be necessary to preserve peace on the frontier.” After losing the presidential election of 1824 in the House of Representatives, “Old Hickory” successfully gained the office four years later with “a stunning popular and electoral victory… Jackson remains one of the most important spokesmen for majoritarian rule in this country, a president who brought into sharp focus the never-ending efforts of privileged elites who seek to use the government for their particular and selfish purposes and in the process endanger liberty and betray American democracy” (ANB). Jackson sounded these signature themes in his first address to Congress—but also proposed a “voluntary emigration” of Native Americans that ultimately led to “the Trail of Tears.” Near-fine.

146. (HOOVER, Herbert) AGRICOLA, Georgius. De Re Metallica. Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556. London, 1912. Folio, original full vellum. $3200. First edition in English of “one of the first technological books of modern times,” translated, with annotations, by Herbert Hoover, and his wife, this copy inscribed, “To Mr. & Mrs. Peter Orchard Mather. With the kind regards and good wishes of Herbert Hoover. June 26, 1946.” Hoover, a mining engineer before he entered politics, annotated this edition; his wife, a former Latin teacher, executed the bulk of the translation. One of an estimated 1476 copies printed. With reproductions of all 270 woodcut diagrams and illustrations from the 1556 first Latin edition. Interior clean. Light wear to spine head. Front joint starting but strong. Extremely good. 147. HOOVER, Herbert. Fishing for Fun—And to Wash Your Soul. New York, 1963. Slim octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $950. First trade edition, inscribed on the half title in the year of publication, “To the niece of my old friend Frank AndradeBarbara Andrade Jackman. The good wishes of Herbert Hoover. 5-9-63.” Fine.

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“The Most Detailed Study… Available For More Than A Century” 148. RANDALL, Henry S. The Life of Thomas Jefferson. New York, 1858. Three volumes. Octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth. $1800. First edition, illustrated with ten plates, including a two-plate folding facsimile of Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence. In writing his “superior” biography of Jefferson, Randall “had the help of [Virginia gentleman farmer Hugh Blair] Grisby and the Jefferson family in obtaining access to materials he rightly feared would eventually be lost. The resulting [work]… provided the most detailed study of Jefferson available for more than a century” (ANB). Occasional scattered light foxing to interiors, more so to preliminary and concluding leaves; dampstaining to bottom margin of Volume III. Light rubbing to cloth extremities; wear to spine head on Volume I and spine foot on Volume III. Extremely good. 149

Signed By President Andrew Johnson 150. JOHNSON, Andrew. Document signed. Washington, June 23, 1865. Printed document, measuring 9-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches. $3500. Printed and manuscript postmaster appointment, signed by President Andrew Johnson, countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward. Seal of the United States affixed. Light creases from folding, as usual, with Japanese paper reinforcement at fold ends.

Two Signed By LBJ 151. JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines. Typed letter signed. Washington, December 6, 1958. One quarto sheet, 6 x 7 inches. $800. Fine typed letter, signed by Johnson as Senate Democratic Leader, to Theodore Bernstein. The letter reads: “It was a pleasure to meet with you and the other members of the New York Times Editorial Board during my brief visit in New York. I hope you will reciprocate the favor by calling upon me in Washington the next time you are there.” Fine. 152. JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines. The Vantage Point. New York, 1971. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $1250. First edition, signed by Johnson on the presidential bookplate affixed to the half-title. Authentic Johnson signatures are quite scarce. Fine.

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Inscribed By Jacqueline Kennedy To Emil Mosbacher 149. (KENNEDY, Jacqueline). The White House: An Historic Guide. Washington, 1962. Large octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $3800. Third edition, published the same year as the first, inscribed on the title page, “To Emil Mosbacher, Jr. with best wishes, Jacqueline Kennedy.” Jacqueline Kennedy “took an interest in ‘restoring’ (as opposed to redecorating) the White House… She also wrote and edited the first White House guidebook” (ANB). Recipient Emil Mosbacher, Jr. served as the State Department’s chief of protocol during the Nixon Administration. Book fine, dust jacket very good with closed tears, a few shallow chips, tape repairs across spine foot.

153. (MADISON, James) UNITED STATES CONGRESS. Documents Accompanying the Message of the President of the United States of the Fourteenth Instant, on the Subject of East Florida. Washington, 1813. Octavo, stitched as issued, in eight signatures, uncut; pp.60. $2750. First edition of this influential War of 1812 document issued to select members of the government—the first publication of material debating the controversial invasion of Florida, “confidentially printed under authority of the Senate,” especially scarce in original wrappers, rare association copy from the library of Senator Stephen Row Bradley. In the first year of the War of 1812, President Madison fully “expected Congress… to approve the seizure of both Floridas,” East and West (Adams, 764). That resolve is dramatically visible in this rare official collection containing the first publication of correspondence from Secretary of War Monroe, Georgia’s governor, the Spanish governor of East Florida, members of the Creek Nation and Major-General Pinckney, who was ordered in November to invade and occupy all of Florida. On December

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“The History And The Picture Of The Growth And Development Of The United States” 155. MORSE, John T., editor. American Statesmen. Boston and New York, 1898-1900. Thirty-two volumes. Small octavo, contemporary three-quarter pebbled red morocco gilt. $ 3500. Standard Library edition. The 28 biographies include Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Monroe, Samuel and John Adams, Daniel Webster, John Marshall and John Jay. Among the authors are Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles Francis Adams, Jr. and Theodore Roosevelt. Biography of Lincoln with frontispiece portrait, folding map. Bookplate of steel magnate William Larimer Jones, with his owner signatures. Interiors fine, light wear to extremities, spines mildly toned. Handsome.

Two Signed By Nixon 156. NIXON, Richard. Leaders. New York, 1982. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $600. First trade edition, signed in blue ink on the half title by President Nixon. Published the same year as the signed limited edition of 2500 copies. Very nearly fine. 157. NIXON, Richard. 1999: Victory Without War. New York, 1988. Octavo, original black half-cloth, dust jacket. $850. First trade edition, inscribed on the first leaf, “To Bob Zaff with best wishes from Richard Nixon.” Published the same year as the signed limited edition of 600 copies. Fine.

Signed By Obama 158. OBAMA, Barack. The Audacity of Hope. New York, 2006. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $ 4500.

Scarce Carte-De-Visite Portrait Of Lincoln 154. WARD, Joseph. Carte-de-visite photograph of Lincoln. Boston, circa 1865. Original albumen print, mount measures 2-1/2 by 4 inches. $1800. Vintage albumen print probably made shortly after Lincoln’s assassination, from a now lost negative of a pose taken around 1864. “All of the surviving period prints of this pose are vignetted. All but a few are retouched cartes-de-visite printed by the firm of Wenderoth and Taylor of Philadelphia after Lincoln’s assassination. No original negative or contemporary copy negative of this pose is known to survive” (Mellon, 200). This is the scarce Boston print of this pose, with studio imprint of Boston’s Joseph Ward to verso of mount. A few tiny spots of foxing. Most desirable.

First edition, first printing, signed by President Obama. “A different brand of politics… rooted in the faith, inclusiveness and nobility of spirit at the heart of ‘our improbable experiment in democracy.’” Fine. 158

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22, 1812, the Senate supported the President’s move; on January 14, Madison issued an approval Message in response, followed by a bill on the 19th, “authorizing the President to occupy both Floridas.” But this scarce document, “confidentially printed under authority of the Senate,” was compiled in response to a contrary motion by Michael Leib, one of Madison’s chief opponents. “In refusing to seize East Florida, the Senate greatly disarranged Madison’s plans,” ultimately forcing him to withdraw from Spanish territory in March 1813. From the library of Stephen Row Bradley, first United States Senator from Vermont. Light scattered foxing, edge-wear with mild occasional dampstaining. Extremely good.

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Three Signed By Reagan 159. REAGAN, Ronald. An American Life. New York, 1990. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $3800. First edition, signed by Reagan on the flyleaf and dated September 15, 1992. About-fine.

First edition of the first publication of Lincoln’s 1858 Springfield campaign speech, presentation/association copy of this only book by Lincolniana collector Barrett, inscribed by him and accompanied by a 1925 letter of appreciation to him, typewritten on Supreme Court letterhead and signed by America’s 27th President, presiding Chief Justice William H. Taft. In this warm letter to Oliver Barrett, renowned collector of Lincolniana, William Howard Taft—America’s 27th President and 10th Chief Justice—responds to the gift of an inscribed copy of Barrett’s Abraham Lincoln’s Last Speech that accompanies this letter: “February 20, 1925. My dear Sir: I thank you very much for sending me a copy of Mr. Lincoln’s speech at the close of the Senatorial contest in 1858. It is a most interesting memorial in the revelation of the wonderful judicial quality of his mind and the remarkable self-restraint and moderation toward those who were hostile to him. Thank you again for sending it. Sincerely yours, [signed] Wm. H. Taft.” The only book Barrett ever published, Lincoln’s Last Speech features the first publication of Lincoln’s 1858 oration, “a sober appeal in an hour of hair-trigger tension” (Sandburg, Lincoln Collector, 81-5). Issued without dust jacket. Taft’s letter tipped to card stock along left margin, not affecting text. Book inscribed, “With the ever grateful remembrance of Oliver R. Barrett.” Fine. 164

160. REAGAN, Ronald and HUBLER, Richard G. Where’s the Rest of Me? New York, 1965. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $3800. First edition, second printing, signed by Reagan. Fine. 161. REAGAN, Ronald. Speaking My Mind. New York, 1989. Tall octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $3000. First edition of Reagan’s selected speeches, signed and dated (”April 2 ’92”) by him on the first leaf. Fine.

“How Much Does Dutch Really Know?” 162. (REAGAN, Ronald) MORRIS, Edmund. Dutch. New York, 1999. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $250.

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First edition of Morris’ authorized semi-fictionalized biography of Reagan, signed on the title page by the author. Fine.

164. (TRUMAN, Harry). HILLMAN, William. Mr. President. New York, 1952. Quarto, original gray and blue cloth, dust jacket. $2200.

Presentation Copy Of Lincoln’s Last Speech, With Fine Letter Signed By William Howard Taft

First edition, inscribed by the President in the margin of the frontispiece portrait, “With kind regards to Sonia Kroft from Harry Truman. 2/22/58.” “Never has a President allowed such a personal revelation while still in office.” With scarce errata slip laid in. Near-fine.

163. TAFT, William H. Typed letter signed. Washington, February 20, 1925. Single letterhead sheet (measures 10-1/2 by 8 inches) tipped to ivory card stock. WITH: (LINCOLN, Abraham) BARRETT, Oliver, editor. Lincoln’s Last Speech in Springfield in the Campaign of 1858. Chicago, 1924. Large quarto, original half tan cloth, blue paper boards. Two items. Custom clamshell box. $3200.

165. TRUMAN, Harry. Memoirs: Year of Decisions. WITH: Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope. Garden City, 1955-56. Two volumes. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jackets, custom slipcase. $2200.

First editions, inscribed on the half title of the first volume, “To Sonia Kroff, Kind regards from Harry Truman. 2/22/58,” and on the half title of the second, “Best wishes to Sonia Kroff from Harry Truman. 2/22/58.” Books fine, dust jackets extremely good with only mild toning and light wear to extremities. Most desirable twice inscribed.

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“His Work Changed, As Well As Documented, History” 166. (TRUMAN, Harry) SMITH, W. Eugene. Large copyprint of Harry Truman listening to the National Anthem. No place, 1948. Contemporary silver gelatin copy-print, measuring 14 by 9-3/4 inches. $485. Contemporary copy-print by Life magazine staff photographer Thomas Styles of W. Eugene Smith’s photograph of Harry Truman, with stamps on verso identifying Smith as the photographer and the date. “Smith created photo essays so compelling in their power that it can be said his work changed, as well as documented, history” (McDarrah & McDarrah, 457). This copy-print of Truman taken for a Life photo essay appearing November 15, 1948. Fine.

“That Your Union And Brotherly Affection May Be Perpetual” 167. WASHINGTON, George. [Farewell Address]. The Legacy of the Father of his Country. Address of George Washington, President of the United States, to his Fellow Citizens…. Boston, 1796. 12mo, original marbled paper wrappers, sewn as issued, later printed label affixed to front wrapper; pp. 44. Housed in custom chemise and clamshell box. $5000. Scarce early printing in original wrappers, published ten days after the text’s initial printing, of the first president’s final Address to the nation, in fragile original wrappers. Washington’s Farewell Address was both his valedictory and his vehicle for imparting advice to succeeding generations of Americans. “Washington’s thoughts on unity, on the love of power, on the impact of partisan strife, on the importance of focusing on our common interests, on avoiding entanglements with other nations, on religion and morality, on the public credit and on freedom of trade have worn well when they have been observed” (Clarence B. Carson).

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WILSON, Woodrow. Autograph quotation signed. Princeton, May 2, 1901. Single leaf, measuring 5 by 6 inches. $4200. Wonderful autograph quotation written entirely in President Wilson’s hand, reading, “A man should not read himself into the books he handles. Picking and choosing, to find the books which are like living spirits, he should read their quality into his own thoughts, increasing alike his force and his vision. Woodrow Wilson. Princeton, 2 May, 1901,” accompanied by a lovely engraved portrait of him. Small closed marginal tear, mounting residue to verso along one edge. Beautiful and suitable for framing.

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169. (ADDISON and STEELE, et al.). The Spectator; A New Edition. London, 1808. Eight volumes. 12mo, contemporary full diced brown calf gilt. $1600. Early 19th-century edition of the acclaimed papers on manners, morals and literature, handsomely bound. Presenting essays by Addison, Richard Steele, Alexander Pope, Thomas Tickell and others, The Spectator (originally published 1711-14) “appeared daily and was immensely popular, particularly with the new growing middle-class readership… [The papers’] object is ‘to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality’” (Drabble, 925-6). Scattered foxing to first few pages in each volume, interiors otherwise fine. Contemporary diced calf only lightly worn. A very handsome set.

Auster’s acclaimed trilogy transforms “the detective genre into something tonier: the gumshoes in their chilly pages keep meeting doppelgangers and spitting out references to Don Quixote and Hawthorne and Thoreau. And the more they stalk their eccentric quarry, the more they seem actually to be stalking the Big Questions” (New York Times). City of Glass in first-state dust jacket, with no publisher’s device at spine foot. Fine. 172

“Long Ago In Some Brief Lost Spring, In A Place That Is No More” 170. ALGREN, Nelson. A Walk on the Wild Side. New York, 1956. Octavo, original yellow and blue paper boards, dust jacket. $350. First edition of Algren’s best-known novel. “Considered by some literary scholars as the last in a line of great Chicago writers, Algren had the ability to shock his readers with what critic Herbert Mitgang described as ‘hammerblows in prose’” (ANB). Fine.

Signed By Paul Auster In All Three Volumes 171. AUSTER, Paul. The New York Trilogy: City of Glass. WITH: Ghosts. WITH: The Locked Room. Los Angeles, 1985-86. Together, three volumes. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jackets. $4200. First editions of Auster’s acclaimed, experimental detective stories, signed by him on the title page of each volume.

“The Only Author Of Her Period Whose Works Can Be Read, And Are Read, Today With Delight In Their Entirety” 172. AUSTEN, Jane. Works. London, 1930. Seven volumes. Octavo, modern three-quarter navy morocco. $3500. “Adelphi Edition” of Austen’s novels, handsomely bound. Includes Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Lady Susan and The Watsons. Fine.

Handsomely Bound And Illustrated Set Of Balzac’s Novels 173. BALZAC, Honore de. Works. Boston, 1901. Eighteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter burgundy morocco gilt. $3800. “Illustrated Sterling Edition” of the novels of Balzac, with over 100 illustrations. “One of the great novelists of all literature… Balzac’s genius consists in his dynamic, unflagging, creative vigour’” (Harvey & Heseltine, 44-45). Fine.

“A Frisson Nouveau” 174. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Oeuvres Complètes. Paris, 1889-92. Seven volumes. 12mo, contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco. $1600.

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Beautiful later edition of Baudelaire’s works. “Baudelaire was said by Hugo to have introduced a frisson nouveau into poetry, an essentially modern form of exacerbated

Two Signed By Saul Bellow 175. BELLOW, Saul. Herzog. New York, 1964. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $2000.

David Benioff’s first novel is dark and intense,” and his critically praised story of Manhattan drug dealer facing prison “on his last night of freedom… is a lyric wail of love and hate to the city he will soon leave behind” (New York Times). Fine.

Illustrated Edition Of The Decameron, Handsomely Bound 179. BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci. Philadelphia, circa 1890. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary threequarter red morocco gilt. $850. Later edition of Boccaccio’s masterpiece, illustrated with 11 full-page engraved etchings in double suite by French artist Leopold Flameng, beautifully bound. “These celebrated tales of trickery, survival and adultery, though written in about 1350, contain distinctly modern treatments of love and sex” (Haight, 7-8). Flameng was one of France’s most highly decorated engravers, working in the tradition of Ingres and Delacroix. Fine.

First edition, signed by Bellow on the title page. For this “intense revelation of the life and experiences of a middle-aged Jewish intellectual,” Nobel laureate Bellow won the 1965 National Book Award (Hart 65). Book fine, dust jacket near-fine. Scarce signed. 176. BELLOW, Saul. Humboldt’s Gift. New York, 1975. Octavo, original half yellow cloth, dust jacket. $850. First edition, signed by Bellow. Awarded the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Humboldt’s Gift is the seventh novel by “the most distinguished novelist of the post-war period in America” (Vinson, 124). Book fine; light edge-wear to bright price-clipped dust jacket, spine a bit toned. Near-fine. Scarce signed.

Two Signed By David Benioff 177. BENIOFF, David. City of Thieves. New York, 2008. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $200. First edition of Benioff’s much anticipated second novel, boldly inscribed on the title page by him in the year of publication, dated “5/19/08.” “Set during the siege of Leningrad,” Benioff’s “finely honed” novel tells a compelling story of intrigue and unexpected “good humor amid the grisly absurdities of wartime” (New Yorker). Fine. 178. BENIOFF, David. The 25th Hour. New York, 2000. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $450. First edition of Benioff’s acclaimed first novel, signed by him on the title page, basis for the Spike Lee film starring Edward Norton, from a screenplay written by Benioff. “Crime novels like The 25th Hour don’t fall out of trees every day. The tone of

The Novels Of The Brontë Sisters, Illustrated By Dulac 180. BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The Novels. London & Toronto, 1922. Six volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $2500. Lovely collection of the novels of the Brontë sisters, with 60 color illustrations by Edmund Dulac, handsomely bound. Includes Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Professor, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey. Bookplates of Selden Chapin, former United States ambassador to Hungary, Iran, the Netherlands, Peru and Panama. Fine.

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“Where’er We Tread ‘Tis Haunted, Holy Ground” 181. BYRON, George Gordon, Lord. The Poetical Works. London, 1855-56. Six volumes. Octavo, contemporary full purple polished calf gilt. $1800. Early edition of Byron’s works, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf. With Phillips’ frontispiece portrait of Byron engraved by Finden. Includes all of Byron’s poems and verse dramas. Index in Volume VI. Interiors fine, spines evenly toned to brown. Very attractive.

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sensibility which will quicken only to a beauty that contains the elements of corruption… He was a precursor of modern poetry by his perception of the symbolic correspondences of colors, scents and sounds, by his exploration of the musical possibilities of the French language, and above all by his evocative power” (Harvey & Heseltine, 53-54). This set includes Baudelaire’s most imortant works, including Les Fleurs du Mal and his renowned translations of Edgar Allan Poe. With frontispiece portrait of Baudelaire in one volume. Text in French. Fine. 175

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182. CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York, 1958. Octavo, original canary yellow cloth, dust jacket. $3800. First edition of the adventures of free-spirited Holly Golightly. “If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so well… He could capture period and place like few others” (Norman Mailer). With three other stories: “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar” and “A Christmas Memory.” Dust jacket with none of the frequently seen fading or toning. Fine.

“The Clear Shine Of A Well-Polished Mirror” 183. CAPOTE, Truman. Local Color. New York, 1950. Octavo, original black cloth, original jacket. $500. First edition of Capote’s first non-fiction book, with 18 rich photogravure plates juxtaposed against the text, including images by Cartier-Bresson, Louis Faurer, Bill Brandt and others. In the nine essays collected in Local Color (written 1946-50 and previously appearing in the New Yorker) Capote first displays the creative shift from fiction to reportage that ultimately produced his masterpiece, In Cold Blood (1965). Precedes the English limited edition of the same year. Book fine; some tears, chipping with loss to very good dust jacket.

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illustrated with wonderful etchings by Lalauze, has been esteemed by Del Río y Rico as truly beautiful and worthy of bibliophiles’ appreciation (Del Río y Rico 526). Handsome bindings lightly rubbed, with very light expert restoration. Lovely.

Two Signed By Michael Chabon 186. CHABON, Michael. Wonder Boys. New York, 1995. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $250. First edition of Chabon’s whimsical second novel, boldly signed by him on the title page. “Told in a meditative yet playful voice reminiscent of the early Philip Roth, it is a beguiling novel” (New York Times). Fine 187. CHABON, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. New York, 2000. Octavo, original half white cloth, dust jacket. $550. First edition of Chabon’s acclaimed, Pulitzer-winning fifth novel, inscribed, “To Ahmed—Michael Chabon.” “The depth of Chabon’s thought, his sharp language, his inventiveness and his ambition make this a novel of towering achievement” (New York Times). Fine. 188

Signed By Willa Cather 184. CATHER, Willa. Sapphira and the Slave Girl. New York, 1940. Octavo, original half gilt-stamped green cloth. $750. Signed limited first edition of Cather’s final novel, number 428 of only 520 copies signed by her. Cather’s “last novel is a tour de force of narrative, returning once again to history as a series of tales told and tales remembered” (Modern American Women Writers, 45). Without scarce original dust jacket and slipcase. Near-fine.

Beautifully Illustrated 19th-Century Edition Of Don Quixote In English, Handsomely Bound 185. CERVANTES. The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. Edinburgh, 1879-84. Four volumes. Royal octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt. $1850. Later edition of Motteux’s highly esteemed translation of Cervantes’ incomparable work of genius, illustrated with 39 engraved etchings by Adolphe Lalauze, beautifully printed and handsomely bound. This translation of Cervantes’ masterpiece (first published 1605-15) by dramatist Peter Motteux, first published in 1719, has been praised as the greatest version in English (Lowndes, 401); this edition,

Urry’s 1721 Illustrated Folio Edition Of Chaucer, With Three Previously Unpublished Tales 188. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works. London, 1721. Folio, period style full paneled calf gilt. $3800. First printing of Urry’s illustrated folio edition of Chaucer’s works, with three previously unpublished tales. “Except for Shakespeare, Chaucer is foremost among writers in the English language” (Bloom, The Western Canon, 105). This edition beautifully illustrated with fine copper-engraved portraits, one of Chaucer by Vertue and one of Urry by Pigue, as well as a handsome title page vignette and numerous in-text copper

Signed By Susanna Clarke 189. CLARKE, Susanna. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. New York and London, 2004. Thick octavo, original black paper-covered boards, cream dust jacket. $425. First trade edition of Morell’s masterful first novel, boldly signed by her on the half title. Praised by Neil Gaiman as “unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last 70 years,” Clarke’s impressive first novel displays an imagination that “is prodigious, her pacing is masterly and she knows how to employ dry humor in the service of majesty” (New York Times). First trade edition, published the same year as the signed limited edition. With first issue dust jacket: half the first printing copies issued in cream dust jacket, half in dark jacket; all later printings in dark jacket only. Fine.

“Why Should The Knights Have All The Sport?” 190. CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur. The White Company. Chicago, 1898. Octavo, original burgundy cloth. $250. Early edition of Conan Doyle’s chivalric classic. Though famous for Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle considered this adventure, originally published in 1891, one of his favorites. Near-fine.

“What A Woman’s Patience Can Endure, And What A Man’s Resolution Can Achieve” 191. COLLINS, Wilkie. The Woman in White. New York, 1860. Octavo, period-style full blue crushed morocco gilt, original tan front wrapper bound in. $1250. First edition in book form of Collins’ mystery novel, preceding the English edition by one month. “Collins never married but spent most of his adult years with Caroline Graves, whom he is said to have met in a situation that was later immortalized as the opening scene of The Woman in White. Collins, his younger brother, and the artist Millais were walking in a country lane one night when they heard a scream from a darkened garden and then saw a beautiful young woman dressed all in white.

Obviously terrified, she raced away, with Wilkie Collins close behind. After he caught up to her, she told him an anguished story of her past several months, during which she had been held prisoner by a man” (Steinbrunner & Penzler, 97). First published in parts in Harper’s Weekly in November 1859. First edition, preceding the unillustrated English edition by one month; issued in both cloth and paper bindings, no priority established. With one leaf of advertisements in front and two leaves in rear; State “B” of ads. Scattered light foxing. Very handsomely bound.

“I Have A Terrible Dream That My Mother And I—” 192. CONDON, Richard. The Manchurian Candidate. New York, 1959. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $800. First edition of Condon’s brilliant, controversial novel, scarce in original dust jacket. Condon has been praised as “a visionary, a darkly comic conjurer, a student of American mythology and a master of conspiracy theories, as vividly demonstrated in The Manchurian Candidate,” and the 1962 film adaptation has been hailed as “the most chilling piece of cold war paranoia ever committed to film” (New York Times). Book fine, dust jacket near-fine. 192

“A Story Told With Maximum Emotional Effect” (New York Times)

193. CORMAN, Avery. Kramer Versus Kramer. New York, 1977. Octavo, original half cream cloth, dust jacket. $250. First edition of Corman’s second book, the bestselling basis for the 1979 Academy Award-winning film. Fine.

“A New Note In American Prose” 194. CRANE, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. New York, 1896. Octavo, original pale yellow buckram decorated in red, black and gilt. $1800. Early printing of this classic Civil War novel, published the year after the first edition. “From reading Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, from no actual experience save Crane’s own struggles and failures, came this realistic picture of war, its truth vouchsafed for by veterans… Its intensity, its startling yet inevitable descriptive phrase, struck a new note in American prose” (DAB). First published 1895. Top edge yellow and title page printed in red and black, as with the first edition. Four pages of advertisements bound at rear. Without exceptionally rare original dust jacket. Fine.

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engravings of the Canterbury pilgrims. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. This edition contains three previously unpublished tales: “The Coke’s Tale of Gamelyn,” “The Merchant’s Second Tale” and “The Adventure of the Pardoner and Tapster at the Inn at Canterbury.” Also included are a Life of Chaucer, a new preface and a glossary of Middle English terms. With errata on last page. Scattered light foxing. Beautifully bound.

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“Completists Are Required To Get The 88 Weekly Parts In White Wrappers”: Dickens’ Master Humphrey’s Clock, The Schiff Copy 195. DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey’s Clock. London, 1840-41. Eighty-eight weekly parts. Quarto, original white pictorial wrappers, custom half green morocco slipcases and chemises. $3800.

Rudge. The weekly edition is the most scarce and desirable form. Each weekly number was issued on a Saturday as a single folded sheet of 16 pages (including wrappers), uncut and unopened. “Every fourth or fifth week, the text portion of the weekly numbers was collected, and made up into a single part, each being bound in green wrappers, and these constituted the monthly parts” (Hatton & Cleaver). Master Humphrey’s Clock is the first time wood-engravings were used as a medium in place of etchings on steel. The cover illustrations were engraved by Landells from designs by George Cattermole. Hablôt Knight Browne (“Phiz”) provided 154 of the 198 in-text illustrations. From the library of John M. Schiff, prominent banker and national president of the Boy Scouts of America for much of the 1950s. Some modest occasional curling to fore edges, wrappers remarkably clean with only light soiling. An excellent copy of this rare first edition in original weekly parts.

“A Deathless Niche In The Temple Of Fame” 196. DICKENS, Charles. Works. London, circa 1887. Thirty volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf gilt. $4800.

Illustrated “Library Edition,” with over 400 black-and-white plates after the original illustrations, handsomely bound First edition of Master Humphrey’s Clock by Bickers & Son. “His imaginative in original weekly parts, including The Old freshness, his deep and sincere tenderness Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge, and pity, his whole-souled humor that is illustrated by George Cattermole and H. K. seldom sharpened into wit, his Browne (“Phiz”). The copy formerly belonging superabundance of creative energy, have to John M. Schiff. “Dickens feared that his built a deathless niche in the temple of fame for readers had become weary of stories in monthly Charles Dickens” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 184). issues on account of the lapse of time between the Generously illustrated with over 400 black-and-white 195 numbers. At the request of Chapman & Hall he outlined his plates after the original illustrations. Scattered light foxing plans partially in a letter… The new [weekly] venture began… and offsetting. Volume 22 rebacked with orignal spine laid with a circulation of 70,000, but this fell so quickly that the down, several other volumes with expert restoration. A original project was abandoned and a [monthly] serial was handsome set. begun in the fourth number under the well-known title of 196 ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’” (Eckel). This is the first of four original forms of publication of Master Humphrey’s Clock: (1) 88 weekly parts, (2) 20 monthly parts, (3) a three-volume edition (“triple-decker”) and (4) separately bound volumes of The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby

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197. DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, His Relatives, Friends, and Enemies. London, 1843-44. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original green printed paper wrappers, custom full morocco slipcase. $4500. First edition in original parts, with 40 engraved plates and cover design by Hablot Knight Browne (“Phiz”). The copy formerly belonging to Mortimer L. Schiff. “You know, as well as I,” Dickens told John Forster at the time of its publication, “I think Chuzzlewit in a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories” (Ackroyd, 415). With title page (bound in Number XIX/XX), errata leaf and almost all advertisements and slips. Morocco bookplate of prominent American banker and important early leader of the Boy Scouts of America Mortimer L. Schiff. Some soiling and fraying to original wrappers, a few spines expertly repaired and some rear wrappers supplied from other parts. Plates generally quite clean with only occasional light embrowning. Scarce in the original parts.

“To Find A Cricket On The Hearth Is The Luckiest Thing Of All” 198. DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. London, 1846. Small octavo, original full red cloth gilt. $1800. First edition of Dickens’ third Christmas Book, illustrated with frontispiece, vignette title page and 12 illustrations by Leech, Doyle, Landseer and Stanfield. Dickens created a new literary genre with his annual Christmas books. The Cricket on the Hearth was the third in the series. First printing, with second state of advertising leaf at rear. Fine.

“His World Explodes Off The Page” (Walter Mosley) 199. DÍAZ, Junot. Drown. New York, 1996. Octavo, original half purple cloth, dust jacket. $250. First edition of this first book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Díaz, with ten stories reflecting the often brutal lives of teenagers caught between two worlds. Dominican-American writer Díaz’s first book offers “a montage of ten stories about a boy named Yunior (Díaz’s childhood moniker) growing up in Santo Domingo’s Barrio XXI and then, the scrappy New Jersey suburb… Díaz is an unflinching observer, an insider, of tough teen-age Latino immigrants” (New York Times). Without laidin errata slip, rarely found. Fine.

200. DINESEN, Isak. Out of Africa. New York, 1938. Octavo, original black and orange cloth, dust jacket. $1200.

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First American edition of Dinesen’s famous account of her experiences in Africa. Dinesen was born in Denmark but wrote both in English and Danish; her books usually appeared simultaneously in both languages. She “married her cousin, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. They ran a coffee plantation in Kenya, which she continued to manage after her divorce; the story of this failed enterprise is told in Out of Africa” (Drabble, 109). Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.

“After 25 Years, I Again Take Up Episodes Of My Life In Africa…” 201. DINESEN, Isak. Shadows on the Grass. London, 1960. Octavo, original half turquoise cloth, dust jacket, glassine. $300. First edition, with a photographic frontispiece portrait by Cecil Beaton and four plates. Book fine, dust jacket extremely good with a bit of dampstaining, mild toning to extremities and a few tape repairs to verso, original glassine with minor toning and soiling. Near-fine.

“Since There’s No Help, Come Let Us Kiss And Part” 202. DRAYTON, Michael. Poems. London, 1630. Small octavo, 19th-century full brown morocco gilt. $3600. Early edition of collected Poems by prominent Elizabethan poet Michael Drayton, reportedly a friend of Shakespeare, this scarce volume featuring works that “rise to a true poetic elegance.” Drayton, highly favored in Queen Elizabeth’s court, was a close friend of Ben Jonson, and “there is a tradition that he was a friend of William Shakespeare…” Drayton’s highly regarded Heroicall Epistles, featured herein, “present him at his happiest and best” (Pforzheimer 302) and “often rise to a true poetic elegance… while some of his odes and lyrics are inspired by noble feeling and virile imagination” (Britannica). With engraved title page, individual title pages for England’s Heroicall Epistles and Legends of Robert, woodcut engraved head- and tailpieces, title page vignettes and initials; without one preliminary leaf. The first collected edition of Drayton’s poetical works appeared in 1603 as The Barrons Wars. Armorial bookplates, manuscript note by renowned British bibliophile Richard Heber tipped to verso of front free endpaper. Text generally fresh with lightest scattered foxing, minor expert archival repair to title page and gutter of first text leaf, tiny bit of loss only slightly affecting text of several leaves. Extremely good.

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“…As If History Were No More Than A Tune On A Player Piano”

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203. DOCTOROW, E.L. Ragtime. New York, 1975. Octavo, original brown cloth gilt, dust jacket. $250. First trade edition of Doctorow’s “highly original experiment in historical fiction” (New York Times). An “excellent novel, whose silhouettes and rags not only make fiction out of history but also reveal the fictions out of which history is made” (Books of the Century, 294). The novel received a National Book Critics Circle Award and has been twice adapted: as a 1981 film and as a 1998 Broadway musical. Published simultaneously with a signed limited edition of 150 copies. Text clean. Cloth with light offsetting to spine head, mild sunning. Dust jacket with mild fading to spine, light rubbing to edges, spot of soiling to front panel, price sticker to front flap. Very good.

Faulkner’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Fable 205. FAULKNER, William. A Fable. New York, 1954. Octavo, original maroon cloth, dust jacket. $600.

“Trust Thyself: Every Heart Vibrates To That Iron String” 204. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Essays. WITH: Essays: Second Series. Boston, 1841-44. Two volumes. Octavo, period style full tan polished calf gilt. $6200. First editions, first issues, of Emerson’s first and second series of timeless essays, beautifully bound. “Emerson’s fame… rests securely upon the fact that he had something of importance to say, and that he said it with a beautiful freshness which does not permit his best pages to grow old” (ANB). The first series, which contains 12 essays, includes Emerson’s celebrated “SelfReliance,” as well as essays on love, friendship, heroism, “the Over-Soul,” the intellect and art. The second series includes “The Poet,” “Experience” and “Nature,” in addition to essays on politics, character and manners. First edition, first issue of each volume: second series with 19 of Myerson’s first issue points, four second issue points, and same mispagination noted in Myerson. Original cloth covers bound in. Text fresh and bright, tiny bit of dampstaining to corners of several leaves in second series. Beautifully bound. 204

First trade edition of Faulkner’s World War I allegory, the first book to win both the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. “A fable illustrating man’s imaginative power to transform his history into transcendent myth” (Blotner, 587). First trade edition with stated “First Printing”; dust jacket with price of $4.75, “8/54” on front flap. Preceded by a signed limited edition. Fine.

“The Moral Choice Is Everything” 206. ELIOT, George. Novels. Edinburgh and London, circa 1895. Eight volumes bound in seven. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter red calf gilt. $1800. “Stereotyped Edition” of Eliot’s collected novels, with 30 plates, handsomely bound. “In each novel there is a moral clash… [Eliot] maintained firmly her belief in the freedom of the will. The moral choice is everything” (Baugh et al., 1381). Occasional faint foxing to text, a few inner paper hinges split, light wear to bindings. A handsome set.

“The Grandeur Of The Scheme, The Size Of The Enterprise” 207. FAULKNER, William. The Town. New York, 1957. Octavo, original tan cloth, acetate dust jacket. $800. First trade edition, first issue of the second novel in Faulkner’s celebrated Snopes trilogy. While the book received many negative reviews, “reviewers in the main missed… the grandeur of the scheme, the size of the enterprise, the attempt… to write the epic not only of Yoknapatawpha but of the South” (Karl, 959). First issue, with line 8 on page 327 repeated as line 10. Published simultaneously with the signed limited edition. Fine.

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208. FERBER, Edna. Giant. Garden City, 1952. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $600. First edition of this epic saga of the American Dream, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber, basis for the 1956 Oscar-winning film starring James Dean. Thirteen years from conception to publication, Ferber’s best-known novel provoked both critical praise and fury, leading the New York Times reviewer to conclude that “when Texans read what she has written about them they won’t like Miss Ferber,” but that “almost everyone else is going to revel in these pages.” The 1956 film adaptation starred Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, and earned legendary director George Stevens his second Oscar for Best Director. Fine.

Finely Bound Limited Edition Set Of Flaubert’s Complete Works 209. FLAUBERT, Gustave. The Complete Works. New York and London, 1904. Ten volumes. Octavo, original full dark blue morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated and handpainted spines and upper boards. $3500. “Mazarine Edition” of Flaubert’s collected works in English, number 173 of only 750 sets signed by editor Robert Arnot in Volume I, with hand-colored frontispieces and vignette title pages, and numerous illustrations, most beautifully bound. In addition to Madame Bovary and Salammbo, this collection includes A Sentimental Education, The Temptation of Saint Antony, his drama The Candidate, Bouvard and Pecuchet, and several of his shorter works, sketches, and correspondence. With biographical preface by Arnot, critical articles by Ferdinand Brunetiere of the French Academy and Guy de Maupassant and coverage of Flaubert’s trial for immorality following the publication of Madame Bovary. Flaubert’s collected works were not published in English until 1904, in various limited editions, of which Dunne’s “Mazarine” edition is one. A fine, beautiful set.

First Edition Of The Magus 210. FOWLES, John. The Magus. Boston, 1965. Tall octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $700. First edition, preceding the London first, of Fowles’s second, highly acclaimed novel. “The story is a modernized, worldlywise version of The Tempest… bathed in an atmosphere of mystery, eroticism and paranoia” (Parker, 426-27). Fine.

Signed By Richard Ford 211. FORD, Richard. Independence Day. New York, 1995. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $350. First trade edition, signed by Ford. The sequel to Ford’s critically acclaimed novel The Sportswriter (1986), this is the first novel to win both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Preceded only by a signed limited edition of 176 copies. Fine.

“Something There Is That Doesn’t Love A Wall…” 212. FROST, Robert. North of Boston. London, 1914. Octavo, original green cloth. $ 2200.

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Rare first edition, first issue of Frost’s second published book. This volume represents a pinnacle of Frost’s career, containing such classic poems as “Mending Wall,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Home Burial,” and “The Wood-pile.” “The first edition, first issue of North of Boston appears in five binding variants distributed over a period of eight years” (Crane, 14). This copy binding F. Of the approximately 1000 copies of the first edition, 200 appeared in this binding. Original cloth with toning. A very good copy.

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“You See, We’ve Got All The Time In The World”

“A Naked Arm Smelling Of Chanel No. 5 Snaked Round His Neck…”

213. FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. London, 1963. Octavo, original brown paper boards, dust jacket. $1500.

216. FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. London, 1965. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $850.

First trade edition of the eleventh Bond novel, in which 007 takes a bride, only to have his happiness cut short by archnemesis Ernst Blofeld’s schemes. Published simultaneously with the signed limited edition of 250 copies, the eleventh James Bond novel—the first published after the debut of the Bond film series—became “an immediate bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic” (Biondi & Pickard, 48, 53). George Lazenby, in his only outing as the secret agent, starred in the 1969 film version, with Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Blofeld. Near-fine.

“If Anyone Can Bring It Off, You Can. Care To Have A Try, James?”

First edition of Fleming’s final Bond novel, published the year after Fleming’s death, in which 007 is sent to Fleming’s beloved Jamaica to neutralize the assassin known as “the man with the golden gun.” Because Fleming wrote this Bond adventure while ill—the author “was only able to work on it for one and a half hours a day”—the 216 publisher hired novelist Kingsley Amis to complete and revise it (Black, 75). Made into the 1975 film of the same title starring Roger Moore as Bond, with an all-star cast including Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams and Hervé Villachaize. Second-issue binding without gilt-embossed gun on front cover, as usual; the first-issue binding is extremely rare. Fine.

“I Love Its Colour, Its Brilliance, Its Divine Heaviness… The Power That Gold Alone Gives”

214. FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $1200. First edition, first state, of the 12th James Bond novel—the last published in Fleming’s lifetime— set in Japan and featuring the further plots of veteran Bond villian Ernst Blofeld. “Fleming worked hard to discover details of Japanese culture and society” (Black, 60-61). The Japanese characters on the book’s cover and dust jacket translate the book’s title. Made into the 1967 film of the same title with a screenplay by Roald Dahl, starring Sean Connery as Bond and Donald Pleasence as Blofeld. First state, with “First published 1964” on copyright page; issued concurrently with the second state. About-fine.

“One Of The Least Forgettable Characters In Modern Fiction” 215. FLEMING, Ian. Dr. No. London, 1958. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $3500.

217. FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London, 1959. Octavo, original black paper boards gilt, dust jacket. $3200. First edition of the seventh James Bond thriller, in which Fleming’s super-spy thwarts Auric Goldfinger’s plot to plunder Fort Knox. “In the first two months of 1958, Fleming wrote the first draft of Goldfinger… destined to become a quintessential example of both the novels and 214 the movies” (Biondi, 35). Perhaps surprisingly, given 007’s globe-spanning adventures, Goldfinger is the only Bond novel to include a map (on unnumbered page 246). Made into the 1965 film starring Sean Connery as Bond and Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore. Near-fine.

“And All This Because Of A Man Called Bond…” 218. FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London, 1966. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $450.

First edition of the sixth Bond thriller, introducing perhaps the most famous of the Bond villains (and the first to appear on film). The further adventures of “literature’s most famous spy” (Steinbrunner & Penzler, 151) and the basis for the first Bond film in 1962, starring Sean Connery. First edition, with all points. Without brown-stamped dancing girl silhouette on front board; no clear priority. About-fine. 215

First edition of the James Bond short stories “Octopussy” (in which a Fabergé egg holds the key to a nuclear attack on an American Air Force base) and “The Living Daylights” (in which 007 must organize the defection of a Soviet general). “Octopussy” was made into the 1983 movie starring Roger Moore as Bond and Maud Adams as Octopussy; “The Living Daylights” was made in the 1987 movie with Timothy Dalton in his first outing as Bond. Fine.

The Heart Of The Matter

223. GREENE, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. New York, 1948. Octavo, original gray and burgundy cloth, dust jacket. $325.

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“The Crackle Of Firing Before And Behind, And The Screams Of Stricken Men, And The Triumphant Screeching Of The Afghans”

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First edition of the first book in Fraser’s popular series. Dust jacket price-clipped. Fine.

First American edition. “Casting doubt on ecclesiastical doctrine that is specifically Catholic… it is concerned with real human dilemmas and its presentation of scene and atmosphere is altogether brilliant” (Burgess, 40). Published the same year as the British first edition. Near-fine.

“The Woods Are Lovely, Dark And Deep. But I Have Promises To Keep”

“There Is Power, Poetry, Imagination Here”

219. FRASER, George MacDonald. Flashman. London, 1969. Octavo, original red paper boards, dust jacket. $600.

220. FROST, Robert. New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. New York, 1923. Octavo, original half green cloth, dust jacket. $1800. First trade edition of this collection containing much of Frost’s most beloved verse, in scarce original dust jacket. New Hampshire was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, and contains many of Frost’s most celebrated poems, among them “Fire and Ice,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” Published simultaneously with the signed limited edition of 350 copies. Dust jacket with light toning and soiling, a few extremely shallow chips to edges, small hole to rear panel, closed tear to top of rear panel expertly restored. Book fine.

224. GRUBB, Davis. The Night of the Hunter. New York, 1953. Octavo, original half dark blue cloth, dust jacket. $650. First trade edition of David Grubb’s debut novel, basis for the 1955 film classic starring Robert Mitchum. Published the same year as a signed limited edition. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine. 225

“And Only Waits, A Serpent On Its Chin” 221. FROST, Robert. Steeple Bush. New York, 1947. Octavo, original half tan cloth, glassine, slipcase. $1400. Signed limited first edition, one of 751 copies signed by Frost. A fine copy. Book beautiful and fine, glassine crisp with only a few tiny chips, slipcase fine.

“Fearful And Wonderful—Horribly Brilliant!” 222. GRASS, Gunther. The Tin Drum. New York, 1962. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $600. First American edition of the Nobel Laureate’s first novel and acclaimed masterpiece, a work that “seems to stage the very mark of history” (Nobel Prize Presentation Speech). Preceded by the London edition of 1961; initially published in German in 1959. Fine. 222

Inscribed By Allen Ginsberg And Eric Drooker 225. GINSBERG, Allen. Illuminated Poems. New York and London, 1996. Quarto, original black cloth, dust jacket. $650. First trade edition, lavishly illustrated with beautiful paintings and drawings by Eric Drooker, many in color; signed by Drooker with his sketch of a skeletal fish, and further inscribed: “Allen Ginsberg AH 6/6/96.” Noted New York painter, animator and comics artist Drooker illustrates such famous Ginsberg works as Howl and “Sunflower Sutra.” Preceded by the signed limited edition of 300 copies. Fine.

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230. HERLIHY, James Leo. Midnight Cowboy. New York, 1965. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $375. First edition of Herlihy’s much anticipated second novel, basis for the 1970 Oscarwinning film. Fine.

Handsomely Bound 19th-Century Edition Of Pope’s Homer

Hawthorne’s Works, Handsomely Bound 226. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Complete Works. Boston and New York, circa 1910. Thirteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt. $2900. Riverside Edition, with introductory notes by Hawthorne’s son-in-law, George Parsons Lathrop, with numerous illustrations. Spines evenly toned to brown. Fine.

“The Clenched Fist Of Republican Spain” 227. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Spanish Earth. Cleveland, 1938. Octavo, original tan cloth. $1600. Limited first edition, one of only 1000 copies. Intended to help raise money for the Loyalist cause in the Spanish Civil War, within is a transcript of Hemingway’s narration for the sound track of Joris Ivens’ classic film The Spanish Earth (1937), and Hemingway’s essay “The Heat and The Cold,” which appeared in Verve earlier the same year. With introduction by Jasper Wood and illustrations by Frederick Russell. Second issue. Without scarce original glassine. About-fine.

Handsomely bound 1806 edition of Pope’s celebrated translations of Homer’s two great epics, with frontispiece portrait of the “father of all poetry.” With his translations (first published 1715 and 1725) of the most famous of ancient Greek epics, Pope “made the father of all poetry live for those of his day who were not scholars, and… his translation still remains about the most lively and readable of poetic translations” (Baugh et al., 925). With engraved frontispiece portrait of Homer. Near-fine.

“My Desert-Island, All-Time, Top Five Most Memorable Split-Ups” 232. HORNBY, Nick. High Fidelity. London, 1995. Octavo, original paper boards, dust jacket. $500. First edition of the author’s widely acclaimed second book, signed by Hornby. Fine.

Two Signed By John Irving 233. IRVING, John. The World According to Garp. New York, 1978. Octavo, original half navy cloth, dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase. $ 2000.

“Paris Is A Moveable Feast” 228. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New York, 1964. Octavo, original half gilt-stamped rust cloth, dust jacket. $500.

First edition of Irving’s fourth and most famous novel, signed by the author. Fine. 234. IRVING, John. The Hotel New Hampshire. New York, 1981. Octavo, original half white cloth, dust jacket. $500.

First edition, with eight pages of photographs. Fine.

“The Book Is All Ernest’s” 229. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Islands in the Stream. New York, 1970. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $400.

231. HOMER. The Iliad. WITH: The Odyssey. London, 1806. Four volumes. 12mo, late 19th-century full green straightgrain morocco gilt. $1600.

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First edition of this novel in three parts, posthumously published. Fine.

First trade edition, signed by the author. “A startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with a Dickensian sentiment” (Time). Published the same year in a signed limited edition of 550 copies. Text with light embrowning, light toning and minor soiling to top edges of boards. Dust jacket with mild embrowning to rear panel, crease to front flap. An extremely good signed copy.

The Lost Weekend, Inscribed By Jackson To New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons

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235. JACKSON, Charles. The Lost Weekend. New York and Toronto, 1944. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $850. Early edition of Jackson’s groundbreaking first novel, inscribed to popular New York Post columnist, Leonard Lyons, in the year of publication: “Dec 28th ’44, Dear Leonard Lyons—I hesitate to do this, since (to me) it looks like a shameless bid for further publicity—but you asked for it, so—And anyhow, I’m delighted to give it to you because I thought you were such a nice guy the night of Dorothy’s party at the Stork, because of last night at the Gershwins, and because of the many many plugs you have given my book. My best wishes to you, always. Faithfully, Charlie Jackson, Oxford, NH,” a rare association copy with a unique glimpse into the celebrity world of 1940s New York. Rare association copy, noting Jackson’s friendship with the Gershwins and other celebrities, gifted by him to well-known journalist and critic Leonard Lyons, whose New York Post column “The Lyons Den” (1934-74) made him one of Broadway’s most popular and powerful critics. Interior fine, light edge-wear to original cloth. Scarce unrestored dust jacket very good with some chipping to spine, affecting title and author’s name, and light dampstaining.

“A Pioneer Of Psychological Realism” 236. JAMES, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. Boston, 1882 i.e. 1881. Octavo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, custom clamshell box. $5200. First American edition, first issue, a literary “triumph,” one of only 1520 copies. Published only eight days after the very scarce London first edition. “James’ artistry was conscious at every point… His eminence in the realm of choice is unquestioned, as is his influence in the history of the novel” (Hart, 374-5). First issue, Supino’s “A” binding, with brown endpapers; period after “Copyright, 1881” on the copyright page. Published only eight days after the very scarce London first edition, which was limited to only 750 copies. Serialized in Macmillan’s Magazine, October 1880—November 1881, and in the Atlantic Monthly, November 1880—December 1881. Near-fine.

“He Sang The Story Up Into The Air, Giving It Universal Freedom” 237. KEATS, John. The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose. New York, circa 1950. Octavo, contemporary threequarter russet morocco gilt. $400. “Mayfair Edition” of Keats’ complete poetical works and selected prose, handsomely bound by Maurin. This lovely edition of Keats includes all of his poetry, a selection of letters, a bibliography current to 1950, and an introduction by scholar Harold Edgar Briggs. Very nearly fine.

Inscribed By Boris Karloff 238. KARLOFF, Boris, editor. Tales of Terror. Cleveland and New York, 1943. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $4000. First edition, the first “Tower Mystery” anthology edited by Boris Karloff, inscribed by him to Anne Targ, wife of William Targ, editor of the “Tower Mystery” series: “For Anne Targ, Boris Karloff,” with a further inscription by the publisher— “Me too! Ben Zevin.” These inscriptions are followed a another in elegant script by the book’s “ghost” editor: “For Anne Targ, from the tail of the terror, Edmund Speare.” An exceptional association copy of this memorable anthology, featuring 14 classic horror stories by Poe, Ambrose Bierce, O. Henry, Faulkner, Conrad and others. Boris Karloff became known to the world with his timeless performance as the Monster in James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931). This Tales of Terror anthology was the first of two collections World Publishing released under Karloff’s name. This unique association copy from the library of Anne and William Targ, and reportedly inscribed at a publisher’s event honoring Karloff. Small loss to lower corner of preliminary “Acknowledgements” page without affecting text; scarce near-fine unrestored dust jacket. Extremely good condition.

Signed By William Kennedy 239. KENNEDY, William. Ironweed. New York, 1983. Octavo, original half gray cloth, dust jacket. $950. First edition, boldly signed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Fourteen publishers rejected William Kennedy’s manuscript for Ironweed “until Saul Bellow, Kennedy’s former teacher, heard of it. A strongly worded letter to Viking from the normally taciturn Bellow eventually led to the novel being published” (Parker, 575). The book earned Kennedy the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Literature and a MacArthur Foundation grant. Fine.

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243. LEONARD, Elmore. Glitz. New York, 1985. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $325. First edition of this unexpected scenario “played out against the glitzy backdrop of the Atlantic City boardwalk,” signed by Leonard. Fine. 244. LEONARD, Elmore. Double Dutch Treat. New York, 1986. Thick octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $250. Later edition of this second collection of three Leonard novels, The Moonshine War, Gold Coast, and City Primeval, inscribed: “For Paul, Very best wishes. Elmore Leonard.” Fine.

“The Haunted House To End All Haunted Houses” 240. KING, Stephen. The Shining. Garden City, 1977. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1000. First edition of King’s third novel, a modern horror classic. Book about-fine, dust jacket near-fine.

245. LEONARD, Elmore. Bandits. New York, 1987. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $350. First edition of this foray into “Nicaraguan politics and a guntoting ex-nun,” inscribed: “For Paul, Very best wishes. Elmore Leonard, 1-14-87.” Fine.

Two Signed By John Le Carré

“A Paradoxical Quality Of Immediacy And Timelessness”

246. LE CARRÉ, John. A Perfect Spy. London, 1986. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $400.

241. KNOWLES, John. A Separate Peace. New York, 1960. Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $800. First American edition of Knowles’ first book, his critically celebrated and commercially successful story of “loyalty, cruelty, betrayal and original sin” (New York Times). Though an American author, Knowles traveled extensively in Europe during the 1950s. His first novel, the story of two students’ competitive friendship at a New England preparatory school during World War II, first appeared in England; this first American edition followed one year later. In second-issue printed dust jacket (the first-issue jacket was pictorial). Near-fine.

Signed By Louis L’Amour

First English trade edition, boldly signed by Le Carré. Preceded the same year by the English signed limited edition of 250 copies and the American trade edition. Fine. 247. LE CARRÉ, John. A Small Town in Germany. London, 1968. Octavo, original maroon cloth, dust jacket. $650. First edition of Le Carré’s fourth book, boldly signed by him. “A Small Town in 246 Germany is an exciting, compulsively readable and brilliantly plotted novel. Le Carré has shown once more that he can write this kind of book better than anyone else around” (New York Times). About-fine.

Inscribed By Harper Lee

242. L’AMOUR, Louis. The Lonesome Gods. New York, 1983. Octavo, original half burgundy cloth, dust jacket. $600.

248. LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York, 1995. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1600.

First edition of this sweeping historical novel set in the Palm Springs desert and 19th-century Los Angeles, in original dust jacket, boldly signed by L’Amour. Praised as “riveting reading,” Lonesome Gods tells the story of Johannes Verne, abandoned as a boy and raised by Indians, who grows up to be a bold adventurer in the Palm Springs desert and 19th-century Los Angeles (New Yorker). Near-fine.

Thirty-fifth Anniversary edition of this captivating chronicle of life in a small Alabama town—portraying the essence of the South at one of its most pivotal times, inscribed: “To John & Lisa—best wishes, Harper Lee.” Fine.

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“He’s That Rarity, A Pure Writer” 249. MAMET, David. The Shawl and Prairie du Chien. Two Plays. New York, 1985. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $600.

252. LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. New York and London, 1903. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth. $ 1800.

First edition of Mamet’s The Shawl and Prairie du Chien, a fine copy. David Mamet’s two plays, The Shawl and Prairie du Chien, which reveal his fascination with sleight-of-hand and the supernatural. The Shawl premiered in Chicago in April 1985. Prairie du Chien was adapted to the stage from Mamet’s original radio play that was broadcast in 1978, with the stage play premiering in New York in December 1985 together with the New York premiere of The Shawl. Fine.

“Mamet Is Better Than Ever” 250. MAMET, David. Goldberg Street. Short Plays and Monologues. New York, 1985. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. Laid-in review slip (measures 4 by 5-1/2 inches). $585. First edition, advance review copy, of this collection of 32 one-act plays and short pieces, with the first collected publication of the seven plays in Mamet’s Vermont Sketches, laid-in review slip. This early collection of 32 plays and prose by David Mamet contains what he describes as some of “the best writing I have ever done” (Introduction). Issued the same year in wrappers. Fine.

Inscribed By Maugham And Signed By Him Twice

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251. MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Garden City and New York, 1936. Large octavo, original full beige buckram, dust jacket, cardboard slipcase. $2500. Signed limited edition, one of 751 copies signed by Maugham and illustrator Randolph Schwabe, and additionally inscribed and signed: “For Robert H. Friedman. W. Somerset Maugham.” Deluxe edition on rag paper with a new preface by Maugham and 24 collotype plates by Schwabe. On its initial publication in 1915, Theodore Dreiser called Maugham’s masterpiece a novel “of utmost importance.” This edition features not only Maugham’s new preface, but also 24 collotype plates by Randolph Schwabe. Without original glassine. Book fine, very good dust jacket with tape repair to verso and several chips to extremities, affecting the name of the author on the front panel, very good slipcase with expert repairs to seams, and chip to mounted illustration.

First edition, first issue, of one of the most desirable classics in American literature, Jack London’s powerful examination of the “beastly manners of civilized men and the civilized manner of beasts.” The Call of the Wild “was instantly hailed as a ‘classic enriching American 249 literature,’ ‘a spellbinding animal story,’ ‘a brilliant dramatization of the laws of nature.’ It was, indisputably, the best study ever of the ‘beastly manners of civilized men and the civilized manner of beasts’” (Kershaw, 124). With 18 full-page color illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Near-fine.

Inscribed By Cormac McCarthy 253. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Outer Dark. New York, 1968. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $6500. First edition, first printing, of McCarthy’s second book, inscribed by him: “To Wilma & Bob, Cormac McCarthy.” Book near-fine, dust jacket very good with slight rubbing to edges, closed tears along fold of spine and front panel; tape repair and tape residue to verso. Quite scarce signed.

Signed By McCarthy 254. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Cities of the Plain. New York, 1998. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $950. Signed limited first edition of the final novel in McCarthy’s acclaimed “Border Trilogy,” one of 1000 copies signed by the author. Fine.

First Edition Of The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter 255. MCCULLERS, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Boston, 1940. Octavo, modern full burgundy morocco gilt. $1800. First edition of McCullers’ first novel. “No matter what the age of its author, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter would be a remarkable book. When one reads that Carson McCullers is a girl of 22 it becomes… something beyond that, something more akin to the vocation of pain to which a great poet is born” (New York Times). Original cloth bound in. Fine.

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“…His Great Throat A-Bellow As He Sings A Song Of The Younger World, Which Is The Song Of The Pack”

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Two Inscribed By James Michener

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259. MICHENER, James A. The Fires of Spring. New York, 1949. Octavo, original gray cloth, custom chemise and half morocco slipcase. $750.

Inscribed By McMurtry 256. MCMURTRY, Larry. Lonesome Dove. New York, 1985. Thick octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1600. First edition, first printing of this Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, inscribed: “For Jinx Borge, L. McMurtry.” Fine.

“A Dramatic Bonfire” 257. MILLER, Arthur. A View from the Bridge. Two oneact plays by Arthur Miller. New York, 1955. Octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket. $350. First edition of Miller’s acclaimed A View from the Bridge, the original one-act drama. Arthur Miller’s controversial one-act play A View from the Bridge, critically praised as “a dramatic bonfire” (New York Times), had its New York premiere in 1955 on a joint bill with his Memory of Two Mondays, also printed here, together with his essay “On Social Plays.” Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.

First edition of the author’s second book and first novel, inscribed by the author with his Japanese seal below: “Tinicum, Pa. 21 June 75. To Jane Engelhard, On this first day of Spring… a good many years later. Aloha—James A Michener.” “A warm-hearted, readable story, crammed with lively incident and remarkable characters” (The Atlantic). This copy is from the estate of Jane Engelhard, cosmopolitan book collector and philanthropist. She read and collected Michener from his earliest publications. After she met the author in 1975, their friendship continued and she added other inscribed books to her library. Her husband, Charles Engelhard, chairman of the multi-national minerals conglomerate Engelhard Industries, was the model for Ian Fleming’s tycoon Goldfinger. Near-fine. 260. MICHENER, James A. Caravans. New York, 1963. Thick octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom chemise and half morocco slipcase. $500. First edition, inscribed by the author with his Japanese seal below: “Tinicum, PA. 21 VI 75. To Jane Engelhard. This could be one of the few lands you haven’t visited yet. James A. Michener.” A novel about Afghanistan, set shortly after the end of World War II. From the library of collector and philanthropist Jane Engelhard. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.

“My Dear, I Don’t Give A Damn” 261. MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York, 1936. Thick octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7800.

“The Darkness Takes Them All” 258. MILLER, Arthur. After the Fall. New York, 1964. Octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket. $225. First trade edition of Miller’s first full-length play since A View from the Bridge, published the same year as its premiere on Broadway. Written in the aftermath of his well-publicized marriage to Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller described After the Fall as a play that takes “place in the rubble, in the ruins of values.” His Tony Award-winning drama premiered in January 1964, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Jason Robards, Jr. A signed limited edition was also published at the beginning of 1964. Fine.

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First edition, in first-issue dust jacket. “This is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer. It is also one of the best” (New York Times). Said to be the fastest selling novel in the history of American publishing (50,000 copies in a single day), Gone with the Wind won Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize. Book fine, dust jacket unfaded and in extremely good condition with insignificant tape residue to verso, very minor restoration to top of spine, light uniform soiling.

Signed By Walter Mosley 262. MOSLEY, Walter. Devil in a Blue Dress. New York, 1990. Octavo, original half orange cloth, dust jacket. $400. First edition, first issue of Mosley’s first novel, the debut of detective Easy Rawlins, signed by the author. In creating his popular, hardboiled African-American private eye, Mosley presents “a sort of social history that doesn’t exist in other detective fiction” (Chronicle of American Literature). Fine.

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263. NORDHOFF, Charles and HALL, James Norman. Mutiny on the Bounty. Boston, 1932. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $1200. First edition, first issue, of this nautical classic, in first-issue dust jacket. Light sunning to spine of book, bright price-clipped dust jacket with only light edge-wear. Extremely good copy.

Signed By John O’Brien 264. O’BRIEN, John. Leaving Las Vegas. Wichita, 1990. Octavo original black cloth, dust jacket. $1800. First edition of O’Brien’s first novel, the basis for the Academy Award-winning film, signed and dated “15 June 1991” by him. Author Jay McInerney called this unconventional love story “both shocking and curiously exhilarating. John O’Brien was a stunningly talented writer.” O’Brien committed suicide only two weeks before the 1995 film adapted from his novel began production. Fine.

“The Raw Experience Of Nightmare” 268. PLATH, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. New York, 1971. Octavo, original half burgundy cloth, dust jacket. $350. First American edition of this frightening exploration of a brilliant yet fragile mind— the first edition to include illustrations by Plath. First published under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas” in England one month before Plath’s suicide in 1963. Book fine, beautiful dust jacket about-fine.

“True! Nervous, Very, Very Dreadfully Nervous I Had Been And Am”

Signed By Patrick O’Brian 265. O’BRIAN, Patrick. The Commodore. London, 1994. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $1500. First edition of the 17th novel in O’Brian’s popular Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin series, in which his seafaring heroes must intercept French intruders in Irish waters, signed by the author. “O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars” (New Republic). Fine.

First edition in English, published one year after its first appearance (in Italian translation) and the same year as the first Russian edition. Rejected for publication in the Soviet Union, Doctor Zhivago first appeared in Italian translation in 1957, with a Russian edition published in Italy in 1958. Its publication in English and acclaim in the West, culminating in the award of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature to Pasternak, unleashed a bitter official Soviet campaign against Pasternak that forced him to decline the prize. Near-fine.

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269. POE, Edgar Allan. The Works. Edinburgh, 1874-75. Four volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter navy morocco gilt. $2000.

First edition of Poe’s complete works edited by Poe scholar John Ingram, with engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume I, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf. Fine.

“You Do Not Talk About Fight Club”

“Who Is John Galt?”

266. PALAHNIUK, Chuck. Fight Club. New York, 1996. Octavo, original half purple cloth, dust jacket. $250.

270. RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York, 1957. Thick octavo, original green cloth recased, dust jacket. $2400.

First edition of Palahniuk’s first novel, the basis for the cult classic film starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. About-fine.

First edition of one of the most popular and influential novels of the last 50 years. By 1984 more than five million copies of Atlas Shrugged had been sold, and in a 1991 Library of Congress survey a majority of Americans named it second only to the Bible as the book that had most influenced their lives. First printing, in first-issue dust jacket. Near-fine.

“One Of The Great Events In Man’s Literary And Moral History” 267. PASTERNAK, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. London, 1958. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $950.

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printings in 1761 and 1762; with his Dissertation on the Effects of Cultivating the Arts and Sciences (Vol. I) first appearing in English in 1752 under a different title. Anonymously translated. Text bright with light scattered foxing; light edge-wear with minor rubbing to spine ends of handsome contemporary calf, a few joints tender. 274

“Each Morning A Thousand Roses Brings” 271. (POGANY, Willy) FITZGERALD, Edward. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Philadelphia, 1942. Octavo, contemporary full red morocco gilt. $1500. Lovely edition of Pogany’s illustrated Rubaiyat, with 20 full-page black-and-white illustrations, four decorative vignettes, vignette title page, and decorative borders throughout, splendidly bound in elaborate full morocco gilt by Maurin. Fine.

“A Hieroglyphic Sense Of Concealed Meaning, Of An Intent To Communicate” 272. PYNCHON, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia, 1966. Octavo, original half yellow cloth, dust jacket. $1200. First edition of Pynchon’s second novel. “The wealth of invention is overwhelming… Pynchon’s trick of sitting the action on the edge of absurdity without letting it fall off is carefully performed” (Parker, 20th Century Novel, 428). Near-fine.

“The Philosophy Of A Better World” 273. ROUSSEAU, J.J. Miscellaneous Works. London, 1767. Five volumes. 12mo, contemporary full brown calf gilt. $4800. First collected edition in English of Rousseau’s major writings, prominently featuring the first edition in English of his Dissertation on Political Economy, assembled together with very early editions in English of his Treatise on the Social Compact—“Rousseau’s greatest work” (PMM)—and of his Second Discourse, along with other key writings, handsomely bound in contemporary calf. Also contained herein are numerous essays, important dramatic works and selected correspondence. First collected edition in English and second overall of Rousseau’s Treatise on the Social Compact, preceded only by the 1764 separate printing; first edition in English of his Dissertation on Political Economy; first collected edition in English, third overall, of his Second Discourse, preceded by

Inscribed By Tom Robbins 274. ROBBINS, Tom. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Boston, 1976. Octavo, original half white cloth, dust jacket, ARC dust jacket. $2200. First edition of Robbins’ second novel, an “extravagantly playful road romance” (Washington Post), inscribed, “To Bill, With Joy! Tom Robbins.” This copy with both its first issue dust jacket and the very scarce dust jacket issued with advance review copies. “Having gained a cult following for his first novel, Another Roadside Attraction (1971), Robbins achieved his biggest popular success with this picaresque novel…” (Chronology of American Literature). Fine.

“The Dead Never Lie; It Isn’t Worth Their While” 275. SACKVILLE-WEST, Edward. The Apology of Arthur Rimbaud. London, 1927. Original paper boards. $250. First edition of this scarce Hogarth Press volume, one of only 500 copies. The seventh title in the Second Series of Hogarth Essays, this consists of an imagined conversation between Sackville-West and Rimbaud. With cover design by Vanessa Bell. Near-fine.

“At Least I’m Still In Love With Yorick’s Skull” 276. SALINGER, J.D. Franny and Zooey. Boston, 1961. Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $950. First edition of Salinger’s third book, review copy with note from the publisher laid in. “Franny” originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1955 and was followed two years later by “Zooey.” About-fine.

277. SALINGER, J.D. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction. Boston and Toronto, 1963. Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $4500. First edition, very scarce first issue, one of about 20 copies released without the dedication leaf. Like Franny and Zooey (1961), these two long stories were first printed in The New Yorker, and form part of Salinger’s uncompleted series about the Glass family. First issue: “The publisher stated, shortly after publication, that approximately 20 copies without the dedication page had been released. The remainder of the first edition, constituting a second issue, contains a leaf with the dedication tipped in” (Bixby A5a). Book fine, dust jacket near-fine. 278

best wishes, Anne Sexton.” Sexton suffered from severe depression for the majority of her adult life. “Several attempts at suicide led to intermittent institutionalization… Sexton’s therapist encouraged her to write. In 1957 Sexton joined several Boston writing groups, and she came to know such writers as Maxine Kumin, Robert Lowell, George Starbuck, and Sylvia Plath. Her poetry became central to her life, and she mastered formal techniques that gained her wide attention. In 1960 To Bedlam and Part Way Back was published to good reviews… In October 1974, after having 277 lunched with Maxine Kumin, Sexton asphyxiated herself with carbon monoxide in her garage in Boston” (ANB). First-issue dust jacket with price of $3.00 on front flap. Interior fine; light toning to cloth spine, light ring-shaped mark to rear board. Light wear to extremities of dust jacket, chipping to spine ends, closed tears at flap folds, one-inch closed tear to bottom back panel. Most rare inscribed.

“I’ll Be Ever’where—Wherever You Look. Wherever They’s A Fight So Hungry People Can Eat, I’ll Be There” 280. STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York, 1939. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth, dust jacket. $5200.

“Incomparably The Greatest Master In Our Language” 278. SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Cambridge, 1909. Two volumes. Thick folio, modern full dark brown morocco gilt. $3000. Finely printed limited edition of Spenser’s masterpiece, number 18 of only 350 copies, set in Cambridge type and illustrated with vignette title pages and Art Nouveau tailpieces. Fine.

Inscribed By Anne Sexton 279. SEXTON, Anne. To Bedlam and Part Way Back. Boston, 1960. Slim octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $2200. First edition, presentation copy, of Sexton’s important first book of poetry, inscribed: “For Keyo and Rich Russell, with my

First edition, first issue, of Steinbeck’s most important novel, winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize. “It is a long novel, the longest that Steinbeck has written, and yet it reads as if it had been composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum… Steinbeck has written a novel from the depths of his heart with a sincerity seldom equaled” (Peter Monro Jack). First issue, with “First Published in April 1939” on copyright page, and first edition notice on front flap of jacket. Book about fine, bright dust jacket expertly restored, with little of the usual darkening to spine. 280

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Salinger’s Raise High The Roof Beam And Seymour, First Edition, First Issue, One Of About 20 Copies

“Expansive, Explosive And Narcotic In Its Effect”

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281. SHEPARD, Sam. La Turista. Indianapolis and New York, 1968. Slim octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $300. First edition of the first full-length play by the Pulitzer Prizewinning writer, marking the arrival of “one of the most prolific and original” dramatists of his generation, with four photographic illustrations from the original New York production. Following a series of acclaimed one-acts, in 1967 Sam Shepard wrote La Turista, his first full-length play, which won a 1967 Obie and confirmed the arrival of “one of the most prolific and original of new playwriting talents” (New York Times). Fine.

Signed By Vikas Swarup 282. SWARUP, Vikas. Q and A. London, 2005. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $550. First edition of the first novel by Vikas Swarup, the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008), boldly signed by Swarup. Fine.

“His Wit Is Bright, His Humour Attractive” 283. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Works. London and Philadelphia, 1901. Twenty-six volumes. Octavo, contemporary full polished green calf gilt. $4500. Limited edition, one of only 1000 sets produced for sale in America, wonderfully illustrated with over 400 plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf. With the success and popularity of Vanity Fair Thackeray’s “position as one of the first of English novelists was generally recognised” (DNB). With numerous illustrations by Thackeray and others. Includes the major novels, as well as the shorter works, tales and sketches. Fine. 283

First Edition Of Uncle Tom’s Cabin With Cruikshank’s Illustrations 284. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. With Twenty-seven Illustrations on Wood by George Cruikshank. London, 1852. Octavo, original brown cloth, custom slipcase. $1500. Second English edition of this influential novel, the first with Cruikshank’s illustrations, published in the same year as the Boston first edition. “In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-19th century America Uncle Tom’s Cabin exploded like a bombshell… The social impact of [the novel] on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since” (PMM 332). Near-fine.

“A Spontaneous Tribute To The Exceeding Loveliness And Beauty Of All Things” 285. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Agnes of Sorrento. Boston, 1862. Octavo, original purple cloth. $1100. First edition of Stowe’s only historical novel, in original cloth. Set against the backdrop of Girolamo Savonarola’s controversial 15th-century reform efforts, the book is Stowe’s “only historical novel and the only one not set in America… Stowe’s text constituted one of the earliest international novels” (Elsden, 47). Near-fine.

First Issue Of Tennyson’s Idylls Of The King 286. TENNYSON, Alfred. Idylls of the King. London, 1859. 12mo, late 19th-century full tan calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $850. First edition, first issue of Tennyson’s Arthurian cycle, bound by Riviere & Son. This, the first of Tennyson’s famous Arthurian pieces, contains “Enid,” “Vivien,” “Elaine” and “Guinevere.” First issue, without publisher’s imprint on verso of title page and with original publisher’s advertisements. Text clean, creased corners and one small chip to preliminary leaves, light wear to extremities of binding. Very good.

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287. TOOMER, Jean. Cane. New York, 1923. Thick 12mo, original pictorial gray-green cloth. $2600. Scarce first edition of Toomer’s eloquent and profoundly affecting examination, in an experimental fusion of prose, poetry and drama, of African-American culture and identity, “among the greatest achievements in American literature.” “In writing Cane [Toomer] seemed to have come to an understanding of the dual nature of the African American heritage. On the one hand, he saw its beauty and strength, and he felt a dignity derived from within the folk culture; on the other hand, he understood the depth of the pain and the price of the struggle that American racism extracted from a people it attempted to make less than human beings…” (Smith, Baechler & Litz, 331-37). Without extremely scarce original dust jacket. Near-fine.

“Hotter Than Bond, Cooler Than Bullit” 288. TIDYMAN, Ernest. Shaft. New York, 1970. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $950. First edition, presentation/association copy, warmly inscribed to Los Angeles Times book reviewer William Melton, Jr., “Aug. 21, 1970, For Bill Melton, Warm regards—Ernest Tidyman.” Accompanied by Tidyman’s autograph letter, signed and dated two days later, remarking on their phone conversation regarding “promotional elements involved with Shaft.” Academy Awardwinning writer Tidyman, who also wrote The French Connection and other acclaimed films, won an NAACP Image Award for his Shaft novels. Tidyman penned the accompanying letter to Melton two days later, “23 August 1970, Dear Bill: Apart from the promotional elements involved with Shaft, I wanted to tell you how interesting it was to chat with you the other day. It would also be interesting to pursue the conversation again one day soon—on or off the record. Best wishes for Split Personality—I’ll look forward to reading it. Sincerely, [signed] Ernest Tidyman.” Fine. 288

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“By Far The Most Impressive Product Of The Negro Renaissance”

“An Endorsement To Keep On Reaching And Creating And Growing” 289. THOMPSON, Ernest. On Golden Pond. New York, 1979. Octavo, original orange cloth, dust jacket. $1600. First edition, inscribed by the playwright, “6.13.79. for George & Phyllis, being awarded the George Scala Grant is one of the great satisfactions of my life. to be recognized and encouraged by one of the giants of the business is more than exciting and reassuring—i take it to be an endorsement to keep on reaching and creating and growing. thank you. Ernest.” “Thompson [won] the Best Play Award from the Broadway Drama Guild and would later receive an Academy Award for his screenplay of the popular 1981 film adaptation” (Chronology of American Literature). Fine.

“Few Things Seemed To Newland Archer More Awful Than An Offence Against ‘Taste’” 290. WHARTON, Edith. The Age of Innocence. New York, 1920. Octavo, original red cloth. $2800. First edition, first issue of Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Wharton’s novel of manners and conventionality won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Text generally fresh with light scattered foxing, original cloth with expert restoration. Extremely good.

“The Gods Approve The Depth And Not The Tumult Of The Soul” 291. WHARTON, Edith. The Gods Arrive. New York and London, 1932. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $750. First edition of the last novel Wharton completed. The sequel to Hudson River Bracketed. Wharton considered the two novels “one extended enterprise.” They contrast the morals and social conventions of the Midwest with settled New York society, and England with continental Europe. Book nearfine, dust jacket extremely good, with a bit of dampstaining and only light rubbing to extremities.

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Very Rare Salesman’s Dummy Of Life On The Mississippi 295. TWAIN, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. Boston, 1883. Octavo, original brown cloth gilt. $4500.

First Edition Of Twain’s The Prince And The Pauper 292. TWAIN, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper. Boston, 1882. Octavo, original green cloth gilt. $3200. First American edition, first issue, first state, of “the best book for young folks that was ever written,” (Harriet Beecher Stowe), in first-state binding. First issue, first state, with Franklin Press imprint on copyright page and “reigned” rather than “reined” on page 362. Binding state A, with top center rosette on spine 1/8 inch below fillet. Occasional minor soiling to interior, old ink marks on front pastedown. Original cloth lightly rubbed, gilt bright. Extremely good.

“Written By One Loafer For A Brother Loafer” 293. TWAIN, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. Hartford and London, 1880. Octavo, original tan sheep. $ 4500. First edition of Twain’s wonderful account of his walking tour through the Black Forest and the Alps, profusely illustrated. Includes over 30 full-page wood-engravings, as well as nearly 300 in-text vignettes (including, as the title page states, “three or four pictures made by the author of this book without outside help”). The illustrations comprise “an integral part of [the book’s] humor” (Rasmussen, 489). About-fine.

“Distillations Of Twain’s Wit And Wisdom” 294. TWAIN, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson. Hartford, 1894. Octavo, original brown cloth gilt. $1800. First edition, first state, of the preferred American edition (published simultaneously with the English). “Includes a series of brilliant epigrams, each the headpiece of a chapter, which are distillations of Twain’s wit and wisdom” (Benet, 795). With frontispiece photographic portrait of Twain and copious marginal illustrations. First state, with all first-state points. Fine.

Rare salesman’s dummy for Life on the Mississippi, with four sample spines (three leather) tipped onto the pastedowns. A “salesman’s dummy” (also called a salesman’s sample or prospectus) was meant to be taken door-to-door to show prospective subscribers. The front cover of the dummy is identical to the published book, while the text consists of a few pages from the book (primarily those pages with illustrations). Since the sample is thinner than the finished book, the spine samples—in publisher’s cloth, morocco, sheep, and calf—are instead tipped onto the pastedowns. The dummy for this work has a “wholly different pilot vignette” on the tipped-in cloth spine than the first edition (Johnson, 42). Front inner hinge expertly repaired, light soiling to interior, wear mainly to extremities of original cloth. Very good.

The Definitive Biography Of Twain, Inscribed By The Author 296. (TWAIN, Mark) PAINE, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain. A Biography. New York and London, 1912. Three volumes. Octavo, original red cloth gilt. $2500. First edition of Paine’s important biography of Twain, inscribed, “For Henry Hering, A good fellow and a good friend, Greetings of Alfred Bigelow Paine, Nov. 1912.” “As an example of excellence in biography the work has no equal in American letters” (Johnson 103). Illustrated with numerous portraits of Twain, his family and friends, and manuscript facsimiles. Without original acetate. Inscribed to American sculptor Henry Hering. About-fine.

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“Listen: Billy Pilgrim Has Come Unstuck In Time”

297. WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. London, 1890. Octavo, original printed stiff paper wrappers respined, custom clamshell box. $4200.

299. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Slaughter-houseFive or The Children’s Crusade. New York, 1969. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $2500.

First appearance of Oscar Wilde’s only novel, in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, substantially different from the text which appeared in book form a year later. Although Wilde claimed, “I wrote this book entirely for my own pleasure… Whether it becomes popular or not is a matter of absolute indifference to me,” he also responded to the critics who attacked the work for its immorality: “Leave my book, I beg you, to the immortality that it deserves.” Between this first magazine publication and the novel’s appearance in book form in 1891, Wilde added six chapters and numerous variations to the text. The July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine appeared first in London, followed just a few days later by the American issue. Interior fine. Wrappers with expert restoration. Very good.

First edition, first printing, of Vonnegut’s “most powerful novel.” “A masterpiece… A key work” (Anatomy of Wonder II-1204). First printing, with “An” for “And” on page 37, line 24. About-fine.

“I Hope Some Of The Faithful, And All The Elect, Will Buy Copies” 298. WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. London, 1899. Quarto, modern full mauve calf gilt. $ 3600. Scarce first trade edition of Wilde’s last and greatest play, one of only 1000 copies, handsomely bound in full mauve calf-gilt replicating the original cloth, with original violet cloth covers bound in. The Importance of Being Earnest premiered in February 1895 in London and was an immediate success, but the premiere was very nearly ruined when the Marquess of Queensbury, angry at Wilde for his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the Marquess’ son, attempted to break into the theater, disrupt the play, and humiliate Wilde. The Marquess’ constant hounding of Wilde finally bore fruit when Wilde sued him for slander, and Queensbury then used the trial as a platform to expose him and have him arrested for “gross indecency.” The play closed shortly thereafter, a mere seven weeks after the premiere of the play. After his release from prison, Wilde set to work editing Earnest for publication in order to earn a small amount to support himself, but “the appearance of the play in book form passed practically unnoticed by the reviewers. ‘I am sorry my play is boycotted by the press… However I hope some of the faithful, and all the elect, will buy copies. If you hear anything nice said about the play, write it to me: if not, invent it’” (Hyde, 399). Fine.

“A Meeting Of Two Lonesome, Skinny, Fairly Old White Men On A Planet Which Was Dying Fast” 300. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions. New York, 1973. Octavo, original orange cloth, dust jacket. $600. First edition of one of Vonnegut’s most popular novels, illustrated by Vonnegut. “In his eighth novel, Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday, Vonnegut performs considerable complex magic… He wheels out all the latest fashionable complaints about America—her racism, her gift for destroying language, her technological greed and selfishness—and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable, all at the same time” (New York Times). Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket near-fine.

“…Into The Dark, Into That Silence That Has No End…” 301. WELLS, H.G. The First Men in the Moon. London, 1901. Octavo, original blue cloth gilt. $3200. First English edition, first state of “the last of Wells’ classic scientific romances.” Wells’ forays into the genre he dubbed “scientific romance” “became the archetypal examples of a distinctive United Kingdom tradition of futuristic and speculative fiction” (Clute & Nicholls, 1313), and have had “an incalculable in301 fluence on modern literature and popular culture; their cosmic sweep and haunting pessimism have influenced most subsequent science fiction” (Stringer, 708). This first English edition was published just one month after the first American edition; this is the rare and desirable first state, with blue cloth stamped in gold and black endpapers. Without exceptionally scarce original dust jacket. About-fine.

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“In Her Dealings With Man Destiny Never Closes Her Accounts”

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“My Love-Play To The World”

“One Of The Great Forces In 20thCentury American Verse”

302. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo. New York, 1951. Octavo, original rose cloth, dust jacket. $750. First edition of Williams’ Tony Awardwinning play—his “celebration of the inebriate god.” Williams wrote of his play, “The Rose Tattoo is the Dionysian element in human life… the lyric as well as the Bacchantic impulse… the transcendence of life over the instruments it uses… a celebration of the inebriate god” (Spoto, The Kindness of Strangers, 170). Text fresh with 302 light foxing to early leaves, tiny bit of edgewear to bright cloth; slight edge-wear, soiling, with foxing to verso of bright dust jacket. Extremely good.

Signed By Tennessee Williams

305. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Paterson. New York, 1946-58. Five volumes. Octavo, original tan cloth, dust jackets. $3600. First editions of all five volumes of Williams’ masterpiece, including Book III, winner of the first National Book Award for Poetry. Scarce complete. “Williams’ work is more expressive of American sensibility, and more saturated with American speech and its rhythms, than any poet’s since Whitman… He has entered the bloodstream of American poetry” (Hamilton, 584). Fine.

“…Lighter And Quicker And Quieter, He Runs” 306. UPDIKE, John. Rabbit, Run. New York, 1960. Octavo, original half green cloth, dust jacket. $1500.

303. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Night of the Iguana. New York, 1962. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $3600.

First edition of Updike’s second novel, the first book in his Rabbit tetralogy. Book extremely good with a few finger smudges to text and light soiling and mild toning to binding, dust jacket near-fine.

First edition of Williams’ timeless drama, signed and dated by Tennessee Williams in the year of publication. The story of “diverse characters in a mean Mexican hotel who, like its chained iguana, are balked and imprisoned,” earned Williams his fourth New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award (Hart, 928). With a note from Williams’ editor Audrey Wood regarding the signing of the book to Ned Erbe, the director of publicity at New Dimensions Media. Fine.

“No Living Writer Can Bring Back The Ordinary Day”

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Signed By William Butler Yeats 304. YEATS, William Butler. The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats. New York, 1957. Large thick octavo, original red and tan cloth, slipcase. $3800. Signed limited first edition, number 252 of 825 copies signed by Yeats. Few poets revised as frequently or extensively as did Yeats. This volume contains variant wordings from a wide range of published sources, from the first appearance of individual poems to their final appearance in various collections, each footnoted with Yeats’ emendations. Without original acetate dust jacket. Fine in a worn slipcase.

307. WOOLF, Virginia. The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays. London, 1950. Octavo, original cedar-brown cloth, dust jacket. $600. First English edition of this posthumous collection of essays. This first English edition, published by the Woolfs’ own Hogarth Press, was preceded only by the New York first edition, published one week earlier. With dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, Woolf ’s sister. Near-fine. 304

Inscribed By Markus Zusak With His Original Drawing 308. ZUSAK, Markus. The Book Thief. New York, 2006. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $350. First edition, warmly inscribed with Zusak’s characteristic original drawing of a smiling stick figure, followed by his signature. A love of books is at the core of this novel hailed as “the kind of book that can be life changing” (New York Times). Fine.

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309. BAUM, L. Frank. Ozma of Oz. Chicago, 1907. Octavo, original pictorial light tan cloth.. $3200.

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First edition, first issue of the third Oz book, with many color headpieces and 40 full-page color illustrations by John R. Neill. Despite the popularity of The Marvelous Land of Oz, 1904, “there was a hue and cry over Baum’s character omissions, which he made sure to rectify in the third of the series” (Franklin, 32). “Baum responded to his young readers’ pleas for ‘more about Dorothy’… The Cowardly Lion also reappeared… [and Baum introduced] the clockwork man, Tik-Tok, the first manmade mechanical figure in literature (years before the word ‘robot’ was invented)” (Eyles, 46). First issue, in primary binding with “The Reilly & Britton Co.” at spine foot. Without extremely scarce original dust jacket. Interior with scattered light soiling. Cloth with light wear to spine ends, light soiling and rubbing, slight bump to bottom corner of front board. Very good.

“There’s Always Room In The Land Of Oz” 310. BAUM, L. Frank. The Emerald City of Oz. Chicago, 1910. Octavo, original light blue cloth, mounted cover illustration. $2800. First edition, first state, of the sixth Oz book, with 16 full-page color illustrations by John R. Neill. Baum intended to conclude his popular series with this volume, but bankruptcy the next year would mean he “had no choice but to call once more upon the magic of Oz in an attempt to restore his fortunes” (Eyles, 48). First edition, with all first state points. Without extremely scarce original dust jacket. Inner paper hinges expertly repaired. Near-fine.

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“More About Dorothy”

“Once There Was A Little Boy Who Didn’t Like The Night”

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313. BRADBURY, Ray. Switch on the Night. New York, 1955. Slim octavo, original gray paper boards, dust jacket. $1500. First edition of Bradbury’s first book for children. When Bradbury’s infant daughter Susan suffered from colic, “her fits of tears stirred Ray’s memories of his own childhood, and his deep-seated fears of the dark. He worried that his girl would one day have the same nightmares. In response to this, just a week after Susan was born, Ray decided to write his first children’s book” (Weller, 160). Illustrations by Madeleine Gekiere. About-fine. 314

“Hearts Are More Scarce Than One Would Think” 311. BAUM, L. Frank. The Tin Woodman of Oz. Chicago, 1918. Octavo, original red cloth, mounted cover illustration. $3000. First edition, first state, of Baum’s twelfth Oz title, delightfully illustrated with 12 color plates and numerous black-andwhite drawings by John R. Neill, many full-page. Baum wrote this tale to please his many readers “who had wanted to know what became of the Munchkin girl that the Tin Woodman had been engaged to marry before he axed himself to pieces” (Eyles, 51). First edition, first state, with publisher’s advertisement on verso of ownership leaf listing 11 titles. Without scarce original dust jacket. Fine.

“For Gypsies Do Not Like To Stay—They Only Come To Go Away” 314. BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline and the Gypsies. New York, 1959. Slim folio, original green cloth, dust jacket. $850.

“Never Question The Truth Of What You Fail To Understand, For The World Is Filled With Wonders”

First trade edition. In the fourth book in Bemelmans’ Madeline series, his irrepressible heroine proves “as absurd and amusing as ever” (Chicago Tribune). Book about-fine, dust jacket near-fine.

312. BAUM, L. Frank. Rinkitink in Oz. Chicago, 1916. Thick octavo, original light blue cloth, mounted cover illustration. $2000. First edition, first state, of Baum’s 10th Oz title, richly illustrated by John R. Neill with 12 tipped-in color plates and numerous blackand-white illustrations, many full-page. “Baum took a circa 1906 non-Oz manuscript, King Rinkitink, and turned it into one of his most exciting Oz books by adding a new conclusion” (Douglas & David Greene 100). Without extremely scarce original dust jacket. About-fine.

“A Part Of The World And A World Of Its Own” 315. [BROWN, Margaret Wise]. MACDONALD, Golden (pseudonym) and WEISGARD, Leonard. The Little Island. Garden City, 1946. Oblong octavo, original half blue cloth and pictorial boards, dust jacket. $1600. 312

First edition of this award-winning picture book, with text by Margaret Wise Brown and color pictorial boards and 21 full-page color illustrations, signed by the illustrator, Leonard Weisgard. Kingfishers, butterflies and a little kitten explore the secrets of a beautiful island in this lushly illustrated children’s book. “Although Weisgard illustrated stories for numerous authors, he was known especially for his association

“Night Is Coming. Everything Is Going To Sleep” 316. BROWN, Margaret Wise. A Child’s Good Night Book. With color lithographs by Jean Charlot. New York, 1943. 12mo, original paper pictorial boards, dust jacket. $2500. First edition of this rare Margaret Wise Brown title. This tender bedtime title is “among the many books in which, sentence by sentence or stanza by stanza, Brown presented young children with simple, gamelike structures in which to frame their own rhymes, thoughts and perceptions” (Silvey, 96). True first edition, preceding the 1950 quarto reissue. Book fine, original dust jacket extremely good with light edge-wear, chip to spine head (not affecting lettering), a few tape repairs to verso.

First Edition Of Pearl Buck’s The Water-Buffalo Children 317. BUCK, Pearl S. The Water-Buffalo Children. New York, 1943. Slim octavo, original pictorial cream paper boards, dust jacket. $275. First edition of this children’s book that stemmed from Pearl Buck’s childhood encounter with two Chinese children riding a water buffalo, wonderfully illustrated by William A. Smith. Buck’s “compassion for children was deeply felt, and many of her books, both early and late, were written for young readers” (Pribic, 70). Book extremely good, with mild discoloration to endpapers and first two leaves and a few faint stains to boards. Dust jacket near-fine.

The First Three Artemis Fowl Novels, All Signed By Colfer 318. COLFER, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. WITH: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident. WITH: Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code. New York, 2001-03. Three volumes. Octavo, original stiff paper boards, dust jackets. $300. First American editions of the first three books in Colfer’s fast-paced, high-tech fairy tale, each volume signed by the author. “Colfer’s anti-hero, techno fantasy is cleverly written and filled to the brim with action, suspense and humor” (School Library Journal). Fine.

“First Real Effort To Provide Children With Reading Matter”

319. CROUCH, Nathaniel. The Unhappy Princesses. London, 1710. 12mo, period-style full brown morocco gilt. $950. First edition, with engraved frontispiece containing oval portraits and the execution scene, and four in-text woodcuts. Author and publisher Nathaniel Crouch (who used the pseudonyms R.B., Richard Burton, and Robert Burton) promises an “impartial account of the first loves of Henry VIII to [Anne Boleyn], the reasons of his withdrawing his affections from her, and the real cause of her woeful and calamitous fall.” This history is written for “young persons,” in the hope that they will read it, “rather than the productions of those vain and frothy wits, who fill the world with senseless atheistical [sic] and ridiculous amusements.” “Crouch seems to mark the first real effort to provide children with reading matter… 316 to which they would look forward with pleasure and excitement in their leisure time” (Muir, 35). Without last leaves of advertisements only. Frontispiece repaired and mounted. Interior generally clean. Highly desirable.

Signed By The Original Alice 320. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. WITH: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. New York, 1932, 1935. Two volumes. Slim octavo, original full morocco gilt, cloth slipcases. $7800. Limited edition, number 31 of 1500 copies signed by Alice Hargreaves née Liddell, for whom Carroll wrote the books. First published in 1865 and 1871, Carroll’s two topsy-turvy classics “unleashed thousands of children’s minds and imaginations and invited them to laugh” (Silvey, 124). Alice additionally signed on limitation page by typographer and binder Frederic Warde. Through the Looking-Glass with expert repair to spine ends. Near-fine. 320

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with Margaret Wise Brown… Weisgard was a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal in 1946 for his illustrations to Little Lost Lamb and won the award in 1947 for The Little Island; Brown wrote both books under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald” (Britannica Online). Caldecott label affixed to front panel. Book about-fine, dust jacket extremely good with light toning to spine, closed tear to front panel, minor abrasions to rear panel, one tape repair to verso.

Inscribed By Roald Dahl

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321. DAHL, Roald. James and the Giant Peach. New York, 1961. Large octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $4500. Early printing of Dahl’s classic children’s book, beautifully illustrated in color by Nancy Burkert, inscribed, “Philip. Love, Roald.” “In 1953 Dahl married the actress Patricia Neal; they had three children, to whom he began to tell bedtime stories. James and the Giant Peach, the first of these to reach print, is a comic fantasy about a small boy who travels the world inside a huge peach, in company with several giant insects. Like most of Dahl’s children’s books, it first appeared in print in the United States” (Carpenter & Prichard, 139). Early printing, with “Bound by The Book Press” in colophon. Book fine, dust jacket extremely good with a few spots of faint soiling and a few closed tears at extremities.

“Greetings To You… From Mr. Willy Wonka!” 322. DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York, 1964. Octavo, original blind-stamped red cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7000. First edition, first issue, of Dahl’s deliciously delightful tale of magic and morality, with numerous in-text illustrations by Joseph Schindelman. “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is already a great classic work… [and] one of the most enduring post-war children’s books… Dahl is undeniably special” (Connolly, 102). First issue, in full red cloth and with six lines of publishing information on last page (instead of five). Firstissue dust jacket, with no ISBN number on rear panel. Dust jacket extremely good with light toning, minute chipping to spine foot, slight soiling to front panel. Book fine.

Mei Li, Signed By Thomas Handforth, A Beautiful Copy 323. HANDFORTH, Thomas. Mei Li. New York, 1938. Slim folio, original orange cloth gilt, dust jacket. $2500. First edition of this 1939 Caldecott Medal winner, signed by Handforth on the half-title, with an announcement of the Caldecott Medal tipped in. Young Mei Li sneaks out to attend the New Year Fair in the city, but must get home in time to greet the Kitchen God in this delightful look at pre-Communist Chinese culture. Handforth traveled to China in 1931 on a Guggenheim Fellowship and decided to stay. With beautiful copperplate illustrations. Fine.

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“Then Bring Your Puzzles, Troubles, Cares, And Load Them On The Teddy Bears” 324. EATON, Seymour. Teddy-B and Teddy-G the Bear Detectives. Illustrated by Francis P. Wightman and William K. Sweeny. New York, 1909. Quarto, original half gray cloth, mounted cover illustration. $1250.

Early edition, published in the same year as the first, with color mounted cover illustration, color frontispiece and six fullpage color illustrations, as well as numerous in-text black-and-white illustrations. Eaton, one of the first professors at the new Drexel Institute of Technology, wrote, in 1905 and 1906, a “series of stories about two bears… who had encountered President Teddy Roosevelt on a hunting trip. The fully illustrated serial stories syndicated in 20 newspapers ran for 29 weeks… Originally, Eaton hesitated to attach his name to the stories because he continued to write on mature subjects and feared that his reputation would suffer… but as the success of the Roosevelt Bears became apparent he began to identify himself as the author. The stories eventually were collected and expanded into books” (Greater Lansdowne Civic Association). First published by E. Stern of Philadelphia the same year. Without extremely scarce original dust jacket. Near-fine.

Disney’s Mickey Mouse “Flip-Book,” 1934 325. DISNEY STUDIOS. Mickey Mouse Stories. Philadelphia, 1934. Octavo, original green cloth, mounted cover illustration.$650.

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Early edition of a Disney “flip-book,” with stills from four 1931 cartoon shorts. Appearing in the lower corners of every page are images of Mickey and Minnie dancing, as one flips the pages. Also issued in limp pictorial boards. Very nearly fine.

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328. FORESTER, C.S. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. Boston, 1942. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $900. First edition of Forester’s first children’s book, with illustrations by Robert Lawson. A most attractive copy. “Sought-after by both children’s book collectors and Forester enthusiasts” (Smiley 30). Forester first told the stories about Harold Heavyside Brown and his dragons in order to entice youngest son to abandon a “hunger strike” during his mother’s absence: Forester recounted the stories at dinnertime, “but would only tell them if George would eat. If George stopped eating, Forester stopped talking mid-sentence” (Smiley, 32). “The American [edition] is the true first. It was published in 1942, before the war impacted book production. Nevertheless, as with so many vintage children’s books, it is difficult to find in a pristine dust wrapper” (Smiley 30). Book fine, original unrestored dust jacket very nearly fine.

“It Will Live As Long As Aesop’s Fables” (John Bigelow) With Ten Splendid Color Plates By Dulac, Signed By Him 326. HOUSMAN, Laurence. Princess Badoura. London, 1913. Quarto, original pictorial cream cloth gilt. $3500. Signed limited edition, number 145 of 750 copies signed by Dulac, with 10 beautiful mounted color plates by him. “Scheherezade herself must have appeared to Edmund Dulac. In a dream, perhaps, in which she kissed his eyelids. Where else could he have learned to see the things he saw?… Whole generations saw his paintings and agreed, ‘Yes, this is what the East must be like’--and dreamt of it themselves” (Rebecca Bruns). Without scarce original glassine and cardboard box. Published November 1913; preceded by the trade edition the previous month. Advertisements for exhibition and purchase of Dulac’s drawings laid in. Near-fine.

Inscribed By De Paola 327. DE PAOLA, Tomie. Hello Book. 1977. Oblong poster, framed; entire piece measures 36-1/2 by 8 inches. $750. Original poster, inscribed by De Paola, “To Mary Ann, with love, Tomie de Paola 1980.” This wonderful poster appears to be a National Book Week poster for 1977, with several children reading and several singing the words “Hello Book.” Fine.

329. HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. New York, 1881. Octavo, original gilt- and black-stamped green pictorial cloth, protective custom chemise. $7500. First edition, first state, of the first and most beloved Uncle Remus book, with eight plates and numerous text illustrations by Frederick Church and James Moser. The Manney copy. While working for the Atlanta Constitution in 1876, Harris “invented Uncle Remus… He published Uncle Remus pieces regularly in the Constitution, and they were extremely popular. In 1880 he collected them into his first book… Eventually, seven more Uncle Remus volumes followed… Although Harris created Uncle Remus as a composite of three elderly slaves he had known, the stories themselves were his retellings of old African American tales. He rigorously researched his material, often collecting several versions of the same story until he felt he had the most authentic one… The stories Harris had heard originally were never meant to be told for the benefit of a white child; rather they were an integral part of the slave culture out of which they grew. Nevertheless, Harris made an important contribution by carefully and accurately preserving these stories” (Silvey, 296). First 329 state, with “presumptive” in the last line of page 9 and no mention of Uncle Remus in the publisher’s advertisements. Bookplates of collectors George Clinton Fairchild Williams and Richard Manney. Near-fine.

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“It All Started Because The Boy Was Moping For His Mother”

Inscribed By Kurt Weise

“A Milestone Of Children’s Fiction”

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330. FLACK, Marjorie. The Story of Ping. New York, 1933. Thin octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1850.

333. MACDONALD, George. At the Back of the North Wind. London, 1871. Octavo, modern three-quarter crushed blue morocco gilt. $3000.

First edition of this beloved children’s tale, beautifully illustrated with numerous zinc lithographs by Kurt Wiese, inscribed, “To Jimmy Henderson from Kurt Wiese.” “Developmentally significant to American picture books, The Story of Ping was one of the earliest collaborative efforts between a well-known writer and an accomplished illustrator” (Silvey, 679). Flack was a noted illustrator in her own right, but asked Wiese to illustrate this work because he had lived in China. Near-fine.

“The Crayon Is As Much A Character As Harold”

First edition in book form of MacDonald’s enchanting fairy tale, with 76 exquisite woodcut illustrations by Arthur Hughes. “A remarkable piece of work and a milestone in children’s fiction” (Carpenter & Prichard, 34). The books on which MacDonald and Hughes collaborated are “the despair of the collector, for they are exceedingly scarce… The North Wind is at once Hughes most delightful undertaking and one of the most charming books of the period” (Muir, 144). Originally published as a serial in the juvenile magazine Good Words for the Young. Book nearfine, slight wear to extremities of binding. Rare.

“An Honorable Place In Any Library Of Children’s Books”

331. JOHNSON, Crockett. Harold’s Fairy Tale. New York, 1956. 12mo, original half black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $2500. First edition of the second book in Johnson’s popular Harold series. “From page to page, the thick, firm, purple mark delineates Harold’s actions against the stark white background so effectively and ingeniously that the crayon is as much a character as Harold… Few picture-book authorillustrators have captured [the world of very young children] as superbly as Johnson” (Silvey, 355). Near-fine.

“I Was That Boy Billy And A Cowboy From The Very Start” 332. JAMES, Will. The Will James Cowboy Book. New York, 1938. Octavo, original pictorial orange cloth. $2500. First edition of this children’s storybook guide to the cowboy life, with color frontispiece and numerous full-page and intext illustrations. A Montreal cowboy and Hollywood movie stuntman, Newberry Medal-winner James’ most lasting influence is as a children’s book writer. Having fabricated a complex autobiographical mythology centering on an imaginary frontier upbringing, James entered the literary scene as a self-appointed authority on Western life and ranching. Despite his initial deception, James proved a talented artist with a particular aptitude for drawing horses. His books, written in a folksy style with sketch-like illustrations, became immensely popular in the era of Westerns. “James at his best is fresh, natural and pungent, and his word pictures are now pure nostalgia” (ANB). Near-fine.

334. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. WITH: The Second Jungle Book. London and New York, 1894-95. Two volumes. Octavo, original giltstamped pictorial blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $6000.

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First editions of Kipling’s classic Jungle Books, “replete with adventure and excitement.” Illustrated largely by W.H. Drake and Kipling’s father, J. Lockwood Kipling, “this most desirable pair… will always fill an honorable place in any library of children’s books” (Quayle 87). Very nearly fine. 334

“How All The Comings And Goings Between Our Own World And The Land Of Narnia First Began”

335. LEWIS, C.S. Prince Caspian. London, 1951. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $6000.

338. LEWIS, C.S. The Magician’s Nephew. London, 1955. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $3600.

First edition of the second book in Lewis’ beloved Chronicles of Narnia, with numerous illustrations by Pauline Baynes, including a color frontispiece. In this, the series’ second volume, the Pevensie siblings help Narnia’s rightful ruler reclaim his throne. About-fine.

“And Here Is As Great An Adventure As Ever I Heard Of…”

First edition of the sixth book published in Lewis’ acclaimed Narnia series, with illustrations by Pauline Baynes. The Magician’s Nephew tells the beginnings of the Narnia story. Near-fine. 335

339. (LAWSON, Robert) ATWATER, Richard and Florence. Mr. Popper’s Penguins. Boston, 1938. Octavo, original cloth, dust jacket. $850.

336. LEWIS, C.S. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. London, 1952. Octavo, original pale blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $6200. First edition of the third book in Lewis’ beloved Chronicles of Narnia, in which Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with a disagreeable cousin, brave greedy slavers, menacing sea monsters and dark dreams as they sail to the World’s End. With charming illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Cloth with usual light toning to spine. Dust jacket with light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine ends barely affecting title, light tiny stain to front cover. Extremely good.

Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Illustrated By Robert Lawson

First edition of one of illustrator Robert Lawson’s most popular books, with color and black and white plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Richard Atwater was inspired to write this Newbery-winning tale about a housepainter who dreams of Antarctic exploration and keeps a pet penguin after seeing a film of Byrd’s first Antarctic Expedition. Book near-fine, dust jacket lightly chipped, spine panel somewhat worn, with expert repair to verso. 336

“Farther Up And Farther In!”

“Perhaps You May Be One Of The Great Scientists Of The Future” 340. MEYER, Jerome S. Picture Book of Electricity. New York, 1953. Thin quarto, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $250.

337. LEWIS, C.S. The Last Battle. London, 1956. Octavo, original light blue cloth, dust jacket. $3600.

First edition of the children’s book about electricity and magnetism, wonderfully color-illustrated by Richard Floethe. An early introduction to the concepts of electricity and magnetism, geared at older elementary school children, with explanations of important concepts and instructions for several experiments. Book very nearly fine, dust jacket extremely good with a few neat repairs to verso, a bit of color restoration.

First edition of the final book in Lewis’ beloved fantasy series. In the series’ seventh and final volume, many characters familiar from previous books return to join an epic conflict between good and evil. “It is not only the fitting conclusion to the Chronicles: given Lewis’ Christian faith, it is their only possible conclusion” (Ford, xxxiv). About-fine. 337

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“All You Have Heard About Old Narnia Is True”

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A Treasury Of Illustrated Children’s Classics, In Original Painted Wooden “Book House” 341. MILLER, Olive Beaupre. My Bookhouse. Six volumes. WITH: My Travelship. Three volumes. Chicago, 1921-28, 1925-54. Together nine volumes. Quarto, original red, blue and black cloth, color pictorial labels, painted wooden “book house.” $2500. Early printing of the beloved My Bookhouse series, a complete set of the six original volumes, together with the complete three volumes of the My Travelship series, the two series brought together under one roof in the original publisher’s painted wooden “book house.” This delightful treasury of classic children’s tales gathers works by authors ranging from John Milton to Carl Sandburg, as well as many folk tales, all illustrated by some of the premier children’s illustrators of the time. Very good condition, much nicer than often found, in scarce publisher’s wooden “book house.” A wonderful set.

Signed By Milne And Shepard 342. MILNE, A.A. Now We Are Six. New York, 1927. Square octavo, original three-quarter pink cloth and pictorial blue boards, dust jacket, pictorial cardboard gift box, custom clamshell box. $7500. Signed limited large-paper copy of the first American edition, one of 250 copies signed by both Milne and illustrator Ernest Shepard. This delightful collection of poetry, featuring Christopher Robin and his famous bear, is the third book in Milne’s classic “Pooh Quartet.” Issued in the same year as the first English and American trade editions as well as an English signed limited edition, also of 200 copies. About-fine. Original box expertly restored. Very desirable.

The Yearling, Signed By Both Rawlings And N.C. Wyeth 343. RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. New York, 1939. Large octavo, original green cloth. $3200. First signed “Pulitzer Prize Limited Edition,” one of 770 copies signed by Rawlings and illustrator N.C. Wyeth. The first edition to be illustrated by Wyeth, with 14 beautiful

full-page color plates. This signed limited edition includes two additional black-and-white illustrations done in charcoal and wash, and a facsimile of a letter hand-written by Wyeth during a trip to Florida with Rawlings. Preceded by the American 342 and London trade editions of 1938. First issue binding A, which precedes the “less expensive” binding B, issued years later. Without original chemise and slipcase. Near-fine.

Signed By Arthur Rackham 344. (RACKHAM, Arthur) IRVING, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. London, 1928. Quarto, original gilt-stamped cream paper boards. $5500. Deluxe signed limited first edition, one of only 375 copies signed by Rackham, with eight mounted color plates and numerous blackand-white illustrations by Rackham. Of 375 copies, 125 were for sale in the United States and 250 were for sale in England; this copy is part of the English issue. Near-fine.

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345. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London and New York, 1903. 16mo, original maroon boards, mounted cover illustration. $2500. First trade edition of Beatrix Potter’s second book, described by her as “my own favorite amongst my little books,” with pictorial label, frontispiece and 26 illustrations in color. This book “was Potter’s own favorite of all her stories… Fairy tale, nursery rhyme and Arcadian fantasy all come together for a moment in perfect balance” (Carpenter, 148). Preceded by a privately printed edition of 500 copies. Near-fine. 346

“What A Funny Sight It Is To See A Brood Of Ducklings With A Hen!” 347. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. London, 1908. 16mo, original gray boards, die-cut mounted cover illustration. $2200. First edition of Potter’s much-loved story of one proud but foolish duck’s quest for a suitable nesting place, with frontispiece and 26 color illustrations. Set at Hill Top, Potter’s beloved farm, and starring a real duck who lived there, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck “is not just a farmyard story… but a fable warning of the consequences of venturing into the unknown” (Taylor et al., 133-34). “The year 1908 appears on the front of the title page of the first three printings, which are believed to be identical” (Linder, 427). Without scarce original dust jacket. Near-fine.

“Don’t Put The Brush In Your Mouth. If You Do, You Will Be Ill, Like Peter” 348. POTTER, Beatrix. Peter Rabbit’s Painting Book. London and New York, circa 1911. Square octavo, original limp, coated olive-green paper boards; pp. [52], custom clamshell box. $1250.

“You Never Tasted Anything So Good! And You Shall Eat It All!” 346. POTTER, Beatrix. The Pie and the Patty-Pan. London and New York, 1905. Tall 12mo, original brown paper boards, mounted cover illustration. $1500. First edition, with 10 lovely color plates, including frontispiece, and numerous charming in-text illustrations. Without scarce dust jacket. Quinby 9. Scattered light foxing and soiling, spine ends skillfully restored. Extremely good.

First edition of this charming children’s activity book, the first of an eventual three painting books to feature Potter’s beloved characters, with 24 illustrations, 12 printed in color and 12 “outline pages,” neatly hand-painted by a previous owner, as well as outline endpapers and title page, also hand-painted. In its earliest form, this book contained 12 colored plates and 12 outline plates, as here; by 1917, “it was reduced to 8 colored plates and 8 outline pages” (Quinby 19). Also issued in boards; Warne further published separate portfolios of the outline prints as single sheets enclosed in an envelope. Slight rubbing to boards, light foxing to front panel.

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“My Own Favorite Amongst My Little Books”

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The Perennially Popular Nutshell Library, Signed By Maurice Sendak 351. SENDAK, Maurice. Nutshell Library: Pierre, A Cautionary Tale; Alligators All Around: An Alphabet; One Was Johnny: A Counting Book; Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months. New York, 1962. Four volumes. 24mo (books measure approximately 2-3/4 by 3-3/4 inches), original pink cloth, dust jackets, pictorial cardboard slipcase. $2200. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated little set of classics for children, signed by the author/illustrator in Pierre. Fine, scarce signed. Inscribed By Sendak In The Year Of Publication 352

“Then Over The Hills And Far Away She Danced With Pigling Bland” 349. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Pigling Bland. London and New York, 1913. 12mo, original light green boards, mounted cover illustration. $1500. First edition, with 14 color plates and 37 in-text vignettes. A fine copy. This was Potter’s 19th book, the second title to appear in the “New Series.” Pigling Bland concerns two real pigs whom Potter called Alexander and Pigling Bland, at Potter’s own Hill Top Farm which appears in several of the illustrations. Potter herself appears in her drawing on page 22, along with the piglet Alexander. Fine. 350

352. SENDAK, Maurice. Outside Over There. New York, 1981. Oblong quarto, original red cloth, dust jacket. $1000. First edition of Sendak’s Caldecott-winning, “mysterious and richly allusive fantasy” (New York Times), inscribed in the year of publication: “For Elena, Maurice Sendak, Dec. ’81.” In this beautifully illustrated tale about a young girl’s quest to save her baby sister from goblins, “Sendak is again dealing with the complex emotional life of children in the present” (Silvey, 586). Fine.

“A Little Masterpiece” 350. SALTEN, Felix. Bambi: A Life in the Woods. New York, 1928. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $2300. First trade edition in English, in scarce original dust jacket. With lovely black-and-white illustrations and decorative endpapers, all by Kurt Wiese. Bambi first appeared in German in 1923—this edition in English was preceded only by a scarce limited edition of 1000 copies. Book fine, scarce dust jacket bright and fresh with shallow chipping to spine ends, tears with loss along front flap fold. Extremely good.

“I Learned There Are Troubles Of More Than One Kind—Some Come From Ahead And Some Come From Behind” 353. SEUSS, Dr. I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew. New York, 1965. Quarto, original pictorial paper boards, dust jacket. $1350. First edition. A young traveler encounters all sorts of obstacles on his way to Solla Sollew—the buses aren’t running, the camels have hiccups, the Poozers are attacking, and all the traffic is going the wrong way. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.

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“This Absolutely Darling Little Sweetnik”

First edition of Thompson’s fourth “Eloise” title, illustrated by Hilary Knight. With fold-out color illustration of the Kremlin. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine. 357

“In The Beginning… He Had Only One” 354. SEUSS, Dr. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. New York, 1938. Thin quarto, original half red cloth, dust jacket. $6800. Scarce first edition of Dr. Seuss’ second book, a comical and insightful fantasy with numerous black, white and red illustrations by the author. “The 500 Hats touched a sore spot for children-trying to do the right thing and arousing an adult’s anger through no fault of their own” (Cohen, 193-94). Interior with slight marginal soiling, rear inner paper hinge split, slight fading to spine, moderate edge-wear. Price-clipped dust jacket with spine largely split but holding, modest loss to spine ends, a few short closed tears. Very good. Extraordinarily scarce in any condition.

“The Whole Contour Of The Child’s Hidden World” 355. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child’s Garden of Verses. London, 1885. 12mo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth. $4200. First edition of this delightful children’s book, containing 64 classic poems. Variant issue, with apostrophe after “d” on spine. Interior generally quite clean, small splits between a few gatherings at inner margins, binding still strong, light edge-wear to spine ends. Very good.

Inscribed By Schulz With An Original Snoopy Sketch 358. SCHULZ, Charles M. I Need All the Friends I Can Get. San Francisco, 1964. Small quarto, original yellow paper boards, dust jacket. $2600. First edition of the Peanuts gang’s reflections on friendship, warmly inscribed: “For Mrs. Shannon with friendship, Charles M. Schulz,” accompanied by his original sketch of Snoopy. Charlie Brown’s quest for friends leads him to such realizations as “A friend is someone you can sock in the arm!” and “A friend is someone who understands why you like your strawberry sodas without any strawberries in them.” With 38 full-page cartoons. Dust jacket very good with light rubbing, tape repairs to verso. Book about-fine. An attractive inscribed copy.

First Edition Of Jumanji, With A Signed Drawing Of A Monkey 356. VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. Jumanji. Boston, 1981. Quarto, original green cloth, dust jacket. $1650. First edition, with a laid-in drawing of a monkey signed by Chris Van Allsburg. Winner of the 1982 Caldecott Medal. Near-fine.

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357. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise in Moscow. New York, 1959. Slim folio, original orange and black pictorial boards, dust jacket. $850.

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modernism “Since all centuries and all peoples have had their own form of beauty, so inevitably we have ours.” —Charles Baudelaire, 1846. The modern world—its freedoms and failings, its ugliness and beauty—demanded a modern response. In art and architecture, music and dance, poetry and prose, visionary artists created new forms and languages to express and respond to that new reality. Formally innovative and daringly unconventional, the masterpieces of Modernism still have the capacity to shock and delight.

Rare World War I Era Russian Poetry Anthology 359. AKHMATOVA, Anna, et al. Trinadcat Poetov [Thirteen Poets]. Petrograd, 1917. Octavo, original paper wrappers. $2200. First edition of this rare wartime anthology of the finest Russian poets of their time. Many of the greatest poets of Russia’s silver age contributed to this volume, including Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Georgy Ivanov, Nikolay Gumilev and Mikhail Kuzmin. Near-fine.

Splendidly Illustrated By Barbier

Review Of The 1937 Paris Exposition And Prospects For The Upcoming New York World’s Fair

361. BARBIER, George. Guirlande des Mois. Paris, 1916-21. Five volumes. 16mo, original illustrated silk gilt, dust jackets, slipcases, custom clamshell box. $6000.

360. (ART & ARCHITECTURE). Expositions Internationales: Paris 1937; New York 1939. Paris, 1938. Tall, slim quarto, staplebound in original decorative stiff paper wrappers. $375. Issue Number 62 of the Paris art journal Arts et Métiers Graphiques, describing the 1937 Paris Exposition and preparations for the 1939 New York World’s Fair, illustrated with photographs throughout. The 1937 Paris exposition marks the first time a fair was launched in order to shore up a sagging economy. This exposition would glorify art and science at their highest measure of worth—their application to daily life. Art became design, science became technology. Text in French, captions in English and French. Near-fine.

First editions of the complete series of five years of this almanac, beautifully illustrated with 31 pochoir color plates by George Barbier in his characteristic Art Deco style, and five color title page vignettes. The designs in this charming production are the work of Art Deco legend George Barbier, who began his career as a costume and set designer for the Ballet Russes and later created décors and costumes for music-halls, movies and the Folies Bergère. Renowned for his fashion illustrations for the leading magazines of the time, including the Gazette du Bon Ton and Vogue, his artistic style is recognized by a characteristically elegant, stylized line with some classical Greek influence. Text in French. Without slipcase for Volume two. Near-fine. 360

“The Cult Of Perversity And Irony”

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Early printings of all 13 volumes of Beardsley’s celebrated art-nouveau quarterly, profusely illustrated with 220 plates after designs by Beardsley, Sickert, Crane, Sargent, Beerbohm, Leighton and many others. With literary contributions by such distinguished men of letters as Yeats, Wells, James, France, and Grahame. The Yellow Book opened its pages to a wide variety of artists and writers, whose collective efforts exemplified the cultural spirit of the turn-ofthe-century. Interiors fine. Spines only slightly darkened (much less than usual), covers quite bright. Very desirable.

With 16 Plates By Constantin Guys 363. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne. Paris, 1923. Folio, contemporary full brown morocco gilt. $1500. Limited first illustrated edition, number 123 of 550 copies, of Baudelaire’s highly influential essay in which he differentiates the modern age from that which came before, with 16 plates of watercolors by Constantin Guys. Constantin Guys “has everywhere sought after the fugitive, fleeting beauty of present-day life, the distinguishing character of that quality which, with the reader’s kind permission, we have called ‘modernity’. Often weird, violent and excessive, he has contrived to concentrate in his drawings that acrid or heady bouquet of the wine of life” (Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne). With these words, Baudelaire named, and created, the modernist movement. Text in French. Original wrappers and spine bound in. Fine.

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362. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly. London and Boston, 1894-97. Thirteen volumes. Octavo, original black-stamped yellow cloth. $3800.

architectural marvel,” Rockefeller Center is hailed here as “the most interesting place in this amazing metropolis… a gleaming monument to American foresight and architectural genius.” Bourke-White’s photographs are not identified, but she is listed first in the credits. Minor stain to top margin of front cover. Extremely good.

“If I Should Die, Think Only This Of Me: That There’s Some Corner Of A Foreign Field That Is For Ever England” 365. BROOKE, Rupert. The Collected Poems. London, 1931. Octavo, contemporary full red calf gilt. $500. Later printing, with two photogravure portraits of Brooke and two poems not included in the 1918 edition, beautifully bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Fine.

“One Of The Most Striking Books In Photographic History” 366. BLOSSFELDT, Karl. La Plante. Berlin, 1928. Large quarto, original green cloth. $2500.

1939 Souvenir Booklet Of Rockefeller Center 364. (BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret) (NEW YORK CITY). The Story of Rockefeller Center. New York, 1939. Tall quarto, original staple-stitched wrappers. $150. Original souvenir for one of New York’s great monuments of architecture, with photographs on every page, many by Margaret Bourke-White. An “art deco 366

First edition, French issue, of Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928), published the same year and by the same Berlin publisher, a bold “manifesto on the intimate interrelationship between art and nature” (Roth),” with 120 splendid héliogravure plates. In Berlin during the 1920s, Karl Blossfeldt sought to inspire industrial designers with his series of botanical photographs. “Blossfeldt’s photobook masterpiece” captures a “duality of vision [that] is both striking and beguiling” (Parr & Badger I:96). Text in French. Without extremely rare dust jacket. Near-fine.

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Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps

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367. CRADDOCK, Harry. The Savoy Cocktail Book. New York, 1930. Octavo, original half black cloth. $850. First American edition of this quintessential book of cocktails, with lively and colorful Art Deco illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold and lovely Art Deco binding. A witty, informative and eminently useful book on how to make and mix drinks. Preceded in the same year by a signed limited edition and the London edition. Without Bacardi Cocktail addendum slip at page 25. Near-fine.

Art Deco Ironworks 368. CLOUZOT, Henri. La Ferronnerie Moderne, Deuxième Série. Paris, circa 1927. Folio plates, loose as issued in original half blue cloth portfolio. $500. First edition of this lovely folio volume about modern ironwork, from the height of Art Deco’s popularity, with 39 plates. In addition to the 36 plates called for in this edition, there are three extra plates, from the same publisher’s book on art deco woodwork. Light soiling to portfolio, with minor edge-wear. Extremely good.

Stunning First Edition Of Conrad’s Lord Jim 369. CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim, A Tale. Edinburgh and London, 1900. Octavo, original green cloth, custom three-quarter morocco clamshell box. $8000. First edition of Conrad’s novel about the complex nature of morality and the torment of guilt, “one of the world’s literary masterpieces.” A beautiful copy, rarely found in this condition. First issue, with all first issue points. Serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine, beginning in late 1899. No dust jacket was issued with this work. Fine.

Boldly Inscribed By Cocteau 370. COCTEAU, Jean. Le Cap de Bonne Espérance. Paris, 1919. Square 12mo, original pale gray printed thick paper wrappers. $3800. Limited first edition of Cocteau’s first collection of poetry, number 182 of only 510 copies, inscribed, “à Henriot, son ami et l’ami de Valentin, Jean Cocteau, 1919.” “During the first World War Cocteau had his first experience of flying, with his

friend Roland Garros… Cocteau was so impressed with these flights, which were like a new form of acrobatics for him, that they were the starting-point of his first collection of poems—that is, the first collection that he wrote after ‘falling asleep’—Le Cap de Bonne Espérance” (Crossland, 43). Text in French. Near-fine.

Signed By Countee Cullen 371. CULLEN, Countee. The Ballad of the Brown Girl. London, 1927. Octavo, original three-quarter black cloth, slipcase. $2000. First edition, boldly signed by “one of the major voices of the Harlem Renaissance” (ANB). “If any event signaled the coming of the Harlem Renaissance, it was the precocious success of this rather shy black boy who, more than any other black literary figure of his generation, was being touted and bred to become a major crossover literary figure… If the aim of the Harlem Renaissance was, in part, the reinvention of the native-born Negro as a being who can be assimilated while decidedly retaining something called ‘a racial self-consciousness,’ then Cullen fit the bill” (Gerald Early). Fine in a worn slipcase.

Inscribed By Debussy To The Arranger 372. DEBUSSY, Claude. Rêverie. Paris, 1914. Folio, original self wrappers. $6200. 369

Early edition of the piano-violin score, inscribed by Debussy to the arranger Ferdinando Ronchini, “pour F. Ronchini, avec mon sincere compliment. Claude Debussy. Juillet-1914.” Written in 1880-81, Rêverie is an early Debussy piece from his student days at the Paris Conservatoire. “The very beautiful principal melody of this piece should have sufficed to silence the numerous critics who denied that Debussy wrote, or could write, a melody!” (Schmitz, The Piano Works of Claude Debussy, 58). Outer bifolio split at seam. A few tiny tears to fore-edge. Excellent condition.

“Oh, Carrie, Carrie! Oh, Blind Strivings Of The Human Heart!” 373. DREISER, Theodore. Sister Carrie. New York, 1900. Octavo, original red cloth, custom clamshell box. $ 6000. Exceptionally rare first edition of Dreiser’s controversial first novel. Doubleday’s records indicate, “the first edition consisted of 1008 copies, of which 129 were sent out for review,

Sketches Of Isadora Duncan 374. DUNCAN, Isadora. Isadora Duncan. Paris, 1928. Quarto, original half white cloth portfolio, contents loose as issued. $900.

“When She Danced It Was Divinity Speaking”

376. DUNCAN, Isadora. The Art of the Dance. Isadora Duncan. New York, 1928. Quarto, original half cream cloth. $750.

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465 were sold, and the balance, 423 copies, were turned over to [remainder house] J. F. Taylor & Company” (Orton, Dreiseriana, 17). In 1929 Vrest Orton wrote that Sister Carrie “is much scarcer than is generally supposed… In the course of 30 years, any edition of 1000 copies of a novel will, for the most part, become lost, destroyed or worn out. And most copies that do exist, will not do so in a very good state” (Orton, 18). Scattered foxing and soiling to text as often, inner paper hinges split, closed tear to final leaf, light wear to sound original cloth. Very good. Extremely rare and desirable.

First edition, limited edition issue, a posthumous tribute to Isadora Duncan, with Steichen’s photographic frontispiece of her at the Parthenon and three other full-page photogravures, as well as five striking full-page photogravures by Arnold Genthe, essays by Duncan and others, and numerous reproductions of drawings of the dancer, some never before published. As issued without dust jacket. Fine. 377

Limited first edition, one of 469 copies on pure fiber vellum by Lafuma-Navarre, of 500 copies total, with 67 (of 72) plates of José Clará’s sketches of Isadora Duncan dancing. “Isadora Duncan created a new form of dance that was rooted not in spectacle but in expression… a genre of dancing that utilized the entire body in subtle and dynamically powerful ways” (ANB). Without five plates. Loss of one set of cloth ties. Near-fine.

Signed By Thomas Edison 375. (EDISON, Thomas Alva) RAMSAYE, Terry. A Million and One Nights. New York, 1926. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original blue cloth. $6000. Signed limited first edition of this early history of cinema, one of 327 sets signed by Ramsaye and Thomas Edison. With over 100 illustrations. Much of the first volume is devoted to Thomas Edison, specifically his “kinetograph” camera and “Black Maria,” the structure he designed to rotate in alignment with the sun. Ramsaye then examines the impact of innovators such as Muybridge, Edwin S. Porter, Méliès and Griffith, continuing on through contemporaries such as David O. Selznick and Charlie Chaplin. As issued without dust jackets. Fine. 375

“The Justification Of The Movement Of Our Modern Experiment” 377. ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land. New York, 1922 [i.e. 1923]. Slim octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $9000. Limited second impression of one of the most important poems of the 20th century, number 665 of only 1000 copies printed. A beautiful copy in fine condition, most rare in fine original dust jacket. Perhaps the greatest and most important poetic work of the 20th century, Eliot’s Waste Land “came as a profound shock… Pound wrote that it was ‘the justification of the movement of our modern experiment since 1900’… Within less than a decade, The Waste Land had attained a kind of eminence from which it has never been dislodged” (Ackroyd, 127-128). Although this impression is called the “Second Edition” in the colophon, it was printed from the same setting of type as the first edition. The first edition was published just one year earlier. Fine.

“The Most Important Poem, As Many Think, Of The Century” 378. ELIOT, T.S. Four Quartets. New York, 1943. Thin octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $4800.

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Rare first edition in book form (preceded only by separately published pamphlets of each poem) of Eliot’s “extraordinary tour de force,” an elaborate and eloquent exploration of religion and philosophy for the modern mind. Four Quartets “brings together the intricacies of modern technique and imagery and the simplicities of traditional lyric measures. In the austere asceticism and confident dogmatism of these poems there is an impressive restatement of Christian belief in terms of contemporary poetic idiom and contemporary speculations about time” (Baugh et al., 1587). First printing, with “first American edition” on copyright page and faulty margins (due to unskilled war-time labor). “The entire impression would have been destroyed except that it was necessary to meet the announced publication date (May 11, 1943) in order to preserve copyright” (Gallup A44a). Only 788 copies were used as advance review copies, with the remainder of the impression destroyed. Dust jacket near-fine, book fine. 379

First edition, first issue, of Faulkner’s “strange, hilarious, terrifying” masterpiece, in the scarce original dust jacket. “As I Lay Dying is among Faulkner’s most unified and satisfying novels; it hovers among the several peaks of his achievement… This strange, hilarious, terrifying novel presents the drama of a damaged family, with each character searching for a wholeness that cannot be restored, and that probably never was” (Parini, 144, 150). First issue, with misplaced initial letter “I” on page 11. Near-fine.

“Life Was A Great Deal Larger And Gayer” 381. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tales of the Jazz Age. New York, 1922. Octavo, original dark green cloth. $1100. First edition of Fitzgerald’s second short story collection. This collection of Fitzgerald’s stories features masterpieces such as “A Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” “May Day” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Always retaining his affection for the “Jazz Age,” a term he reportedly authored, Fitzgerald would later write, “it is the custom now to look back on the boom days with a disapproval that approaches horror. But it had its virtues, that old boom: Life was a great deal larger and gayer for most people and the stampede to the Spartan virtues in time of war and famine should not make us too dizzy to remember its hilarious glory” (Turnbull, 225). Without scarce original dust jacket. Fine. 382

“Secures His Place At The Very Front Of American Writers Of Fiction” 379. FAULKNER, William. Light in August. New York, 1932. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $8000. First edition, first issue of one of Faulkner’s most powerful and ambitious novels. “An astonishing performance… Light in August is a powerful novel, a book which secures Mr. Faulkner’s place at the very front of American writers of fiction” (Books of the Century, 100-01). First issue, with first printing statement on copyright page, and “Jefferson” for “Mottstown” on page 340, line 1; first-issue binding, lettered in blue and orange. Without glassine wrapper. Book fine, light edge-wear and light spine fading to extremely good dust jacket.

“I Set Out Deliberately To Write A Tour-De-Force” 380. FAULKNER, William. As I Lay Dying. New York, 1930. Octavo, original tan cloth, dust jacket. $7200.

“So We Beat On, Boats Against The Current, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past” 382. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, 1925. Octavo, original green cloth, custom clamshell box. $5000. First edition, first printing of this landmark of 20th-century fiction. Without extraordinary scarce dust jakcet. Fine.

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Inscribed To Mrs. H.G. Wells In The Month Of Publication

383. GROPIUS, Walter. The New Architecture and the Bauhaus. Boston, 1955. Quarto, original black cloth, dust jacket. $250.

386. (WELLS, H.G.) FORD, Ford Madox. Between St. Dennis and St. George. London, 1915. Octavo, original brown cloth. $650.

Later American edition of Gropius’ “ideal handbook of contemporary architecture,” with the striking photomontage dust jacket by Moholy-Nagy and 16 full-page plates. Forced to flee Nazi Germany for London in the mid-30s, Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius authored this pivotal declaration of his revolutionary approach toward an organic architecture that “throws open its walls like curtains… [with] an aesthetic that meets our material and psychological requirements alike” (43-4). Preceded by the first edition, published in London in 1935 and the 1936 first American edition. Near-fine.

Inscribed By Robert Frost 384. FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. New York, 1928. Octavo, original half green cloth, dust jacket. $2000. Presentation first edition, second issue, of Frost’s fifth collection of verse, inscribed by the poet to British author and historian Arthur Lyon Cross, “For Arthur Cross, whose conversation made the journey across so pleasant, Robert Frost.” Second issue, with “First Edition” printed on copyright page. Also published the same year in a signed limited edition of 1000 copies. Inscribed to British historian and author Arthur Lyon Cross. Book fine. Dust jacket with light toning to spine, shallow chips to spine ends and light edge-wear. Closed tears to rear panel and spine with expert restoration.

“Hammett’s Finest Work And Possibly The Best American Detective Novel Ever Written” 385. HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. New York and London, 1930. Octavo, original gray cloth, custom clamshell box. $4000. First edition of Hammett’s most famous and influential novel. On its publication, the New Republic called the novel “glistening and fascinating,” achieving “an absolute distinction of real art… [and] the genuine presence of myth” (Bruccoli & Layman, 119-20). Serially published in five parts in Black Mask, 1929-30. Without extremely scare original dust jacket. A bit of soiling to original cloth, mild toning to spine. Extremely good.

First edition, inscribed in the month of publication to H.G. Wells’ wife, “To Cass[?] Jane / F.M.H. / Sep. 18th MCMXV.” One of the fathers of English modernism, Ford published the present collection of essays in the same year that his masterpiece, The Good Soldier, appeared, and in the same year that he enlisted in the army. The recipient of this copy was H.G. Wells’ second wife, Amy Catherine (called “Jane”) Robbins. In 1908 Ford started the English Review and H.G. Wells was among the notable contributors, and, given their work and ideas, it is likely the two writers had many occasions to encounter one another. Tape stains to front free endpaper, light foxing and embrowning to first and last leaves only. Spine slightly darkened, corners slightly bumped. Extremely good.

Signed By Radclyffe Hall 387. HALL, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. New York, 1929. Two volumes. Octavo, original silver-stamped cloth and paper boards. $800. Signed limited edition, number 135 of 225 copies signed by Radclyffe Hall, printed on Van Gelder handmade paper, published nine months after the first edition to celebrate the successful defense of the work against obscenity charges in New York’s appellate court. The Well of Loneliness provided an open treatment of lesbianism “at a time when homosexuality could not be discussed in English books or in the English press” (de Grazia, 166), and it was quickly suppressed. In 1929 “Charles Sumner, Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice… raided the office of the publisher and removed 865 copies remaining from the sixth edition, then raided Macy’s book department” (Haight 94). Among the many who protested the suppression of the novel were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, George Bernard Shaw, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Rudyard Kipling, and Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer. The book remained contraband in England until 1959. Without the original slipcase. Interiors fine; cloth spines lightly soiled. Extremely good. 385

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“Throws Open Its Walls Like Curtains”

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“The World Is A Fine Place And Worth The Fighting For”

First edition of this classic Hemingway novel, in first-issue dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket dear-fine.

appeared on September 30, 1915, and on November 3 the entire edition “was seized by the police and declared obscene” (Drabble & Stringer, 317). The police removed from Methuen and their printers 1,095 copies, all of which were destroyed, along with the original printing plates. Apparently the only copies to escape destruction were those which had already been sold before the government confiscation. Fine.

Beautifully Illustrated By Paul Iribe

A Dozen Plus A “Tilly”

388. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $2600.

389. IRIBE, Paul. Blanc et Rouge. WITH: Rose et Noir. WITH: Bleu Blanc Rouge. Paris, 1930-32. Three volumes. Tall quarto, original printed paper wrappers. $2500. Limited first editions of three promotional albums for the wine merchant Nicolas, each one of 500 deluxe copies printed, out of a total edition of 520 copies, beautifully illustrated by Paul Iribe with 10 bold full-page black-and-white illustrations, 9 full-page tinted photographic prints, four lovely folding pochoir illustrations, and one mounted color plate. Rarely found in a complete set of all three albums. The illustrator of these works Paul Iribe was best known for his wide-ranging influence in fashion and his Art Deco costume, furniture and fabric designs. Accordingly, these albums contain bold, Art Deco illustrations, in both color and black-and-white, that depict contemporary life during the 1930s. Text in French. Near-fine.

Limited First Edition Of D.H. Lawrence’s Apocalypse 390. LAWRENCE, D.H. Apocalypse. Florence, 1931. Octavo, original pink paper boards, dust jacket. $1500. Limited first edition of D.H. Lawrence’s last work, one of only 750 copies. Published posthumously, this commentary on the Book of Revelation was written while Lawrence was suffering from tuberculosis, from which he died in 1930. Book near-fine, dust jacket extremely good, with only slightest rubbing and some toning to extremities (entire jacket usually toned to brown).

“A Kind Of Working Up To The Dark Sensual Or Dionysic… Ecstasy”

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First edition of this collection of short poems, written over a 20 year period and published by Sylvia Beach. Scarce copy with paste-over price label on rear board. “Pomes Penyeach contains thirteen poems—a dozen plus a ‘tilly,’ the title of the first poem and a word meaning the thirteenth in a baker’s dozen or the extra half-cup from the Dublin milkman. Faithful to its title (and of necessity cheaply printed), the volumes cost a shilling, or 12 francs” (Fitch, 263). With errata slip tipped in at rear and paste-over label “Price Two Shillings” on rear board (not mentioned by Slocum & Cahoon). Interior fine, a few tiny nicks to fragile paper spine, original pale green boards toned at margins.

“The Accused Is Never Free” 393. KAFKA, Franz. The Trial. New York, 1937. Octavo, original pictorial orange cloth, dust jacket. $1600. First American edition of Kafka’s visionary first novel, only his second book published in America—“everything in this work is, in the true sense, essential” (Camus). Published posthumously in German in 1925 by Kafka’s friend and executor Max Brod, Der Prozess (The Trial) “has passed into far more than classical literary status… In more than one hundred languages, the epithet ‘kafkaesque’ attaches to the central images, to the constants of inhumanity and absurdity in our times” (George Steiner). Published the same year as the London edition. Near-fine.

Signed By Eugene O’Neill

391. LAWRENCE, D.H. The Rainbow. London, 1915. Octavo, original blue-green cloth, custom chemise and slipcase. $7000. First edition of Lawrence’s fourth novel, “his first real trouble with the problem of censorship” (Roberts & Poplawski), with four pages of advertisements dated “Autumn 1915.” An exceptionally fine copy. Published in 2,527 copies, The Rainbow

392. JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach. Paris, 1927. 12mo, original pale green stiff paper boards. $1000.

394. O’NEILL, Eugene. The Plays. New York, 1934-35. Twelve volumes. Tall octavo, original russet cloth, cardboard slipcases. $3000.

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Signed limited “Wilderness Edition,” one of 770 sets signed by O’Neill, with introductory notes by O’Neill and photogravure frontispieces. Without original glassine. Volume XII without slipcase. About-fine.

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“A Landmark Volume In Modern American Poetry” 397. STEVENS, Wallace. Harmonium. New York, 1923. Octavo, original half blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $5600.

“A Landmark Of Modern Book Design… A Masterpiece” 395. (LÉGER, Fernand) CENDRARS, Blaise. La Fin du Monde. Paris, 1919. Slim folio, original brown paper wrappers. $7500. Limited first edition of Léger’s second book, number 96 of 1200 copies on Lafuma paper (total edition of 1225 copies), with 22 wonderful line-blocks heightened with watercolor in the pochoir method. “Léger’s illustrations are closely related to the story. His double-page chapter headings and other illustrations are a landmark of modern book design and build on the collage technique of Cubism, the literary calligrams of Apollinaire, and the cinematic inventions of Abel Gance” (Logan Collection, 21-22). “It was the most beautiful and accessible French artist’s book of its era… A message of modernity is evident on every page of this bibliophilic masterpiece” (Logan, 78). Top portion of half title excised (not affecting text), light soiling to original wrappers. A beautiful production.

Inscribed By Gertrude Stein To Stephen Spender 396. STEIN, Gertrude. Operas and Plays. Paris, 1932. 12mo, original stiff tan wrappers, slipcase. $3600. First edition, presentation/association copy of this collection of 22 of Stein’s operas and plays, one of only 500 copies, inscribed, “To Stephen Spender, and meeting him has been a pleasure, G[er]trude Stein. “The theater of Gertrude Stein is as radical today as it was 70 years ago. These theatrical exercises developed into a dramaturgy stripped bare of the essentials: plot,

First edition of Wallace Stevens’ first collection of poems, one of only 500 copies in the rare first binding. Includes some of Stevens’ most famous poems, such as “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” “Peter Quince at the Clavier,” “Ploughing on Sunday,” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” “Sunday Morning” and “The Snow Man.” First issue, with red top edge. Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Fine.

“One Of The Best-Known Titles In Photobook History” 398. RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert. Die Welt ist Schön. München, 1928. Quarto, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $4500. First edition of Renger-Patzsch’s influential work, sparking “one of Germany’s most pervasive modernist movements” and advancing the cause of a ‘New Objectivity’ in photography, with 100 black-and-white halftone photographs, in very rare original dust jacket. “For Renger-Patzsch, photography was a way of recreating the order of things 398 through the order of the photograph. His pictures of factories, mines, architecture, even flowers and animals, have an unwavering precision that is almost painful in its purity” (New York Times). “The New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) style he sparked was one of Germany’s most pervasive modernist movements… The photographs in Die Welt is Schön have a cool reserve and a deliberate ordinariness that still look ‘modern,’ and their elevation of the common object to iconic status feels proto-Pop” (Roth, 50). Text in German. Without extremely scarce printed band and card slipcase. Images fine, bit of toning to spine head; light edge-wear and small chip to spine head of scarce unrestored dust jacket.

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character development, scenery, stage directions… Among the modernist writers, Stein remains the last outpost of industrious textual explication” (James R. Mellow). The recipient of this copy was the English poet, novelist and essayist Stephen Spender, sometime Bloomsbury group member and, like Stein, known for his expatriate life in the 1930s. About-fine.

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“A Taut, Real, Strenuous Book”

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399. WOOLF, Virginia. The Years. London, 1937. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $4200.

Rimsky-Korsakov. “Here surely,” Stravinsky wrote, “was the epiphany through which the whole of my late work became possible” (Walsh, 346). Fine.

Warmly Inscribed By Wright

First edition of the most ambitious and successful of Woolf’s later novels. When The Years was published audiences responded eagerly, making her truly wealthy for the first time in her life. As is usual with Woolf’s books, the jacket design is by her sister Vanessa Bell. Book fine dust, jacket near-fine.

403. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. An Autobiography. New York, 1943. Large oblong octavo, original red cloth. $2800.

“Established Her Reputation As An Original Modernist” 400. WOOLF, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. London, 1925. Octavo, original rust-colored cloth. $3500. First edition of one of Woolf’s finest novels and her first true masterpiece, one of only 2000 printed. Woolf’s “great modernist novels of the 1920s, Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse… established her reputation as an original modernist comparable with Joyce or Proust” (Stringer, 734). Mrs. Dalloway “initiated Woolf’s sequence of radical experiments with literary form, embodying a striking combination of fluid sympathy and secret resistance… Through the novel’s rapid transitions between apparently disconnected, but secretly related stories, Woolf was able to suggest the hazards of neatly pigeonholing human character according to social situation or gender” (Parker, 110-11). Without extremely scare original dust jacket. Fine.

Complete Oscar Wilde, Beautifully Bound In Ten Volumes 401. WILDE, Oscar. Complete Writings. New York, 1909. Ten volumes. Octavo, later three-quarter navy calf. $ 4500. Library “De Luxe” edition of Wilde’s complete writings, number 868 of 1000 sets, handsomely bound. Includes Wilde’s plays, poems, short stories, reviews, essays, novel and miscellanies. Fine.

Revised second edition, first printing, inscribed: “To Sophia Haag—at Taliesin. Frank Lloyd Wright. July 15/45.” Here Wright presents an early and insightful 399 exposition of the architectural principles that established him as the most influential American architect of the 20th century. The first edition was published in 1932; this second edition was partially rewritten and includes additional material. Book about-fine, dust jacket extremely good with closed tear to front fold and small chip to spine, a bit of creasing and toning, expert tape reinforcement to verso.

Inscribed By Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wife Olgivanna To Japanese Architect Taro Amano 404. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. The Early Work. New York, 1968. Folio, original blue cloth, slipcase. $2600. First edition in English, inscribed to one of Wright’s architect apprentices on the Tokyo Imperial Hotel project: “To Taro Amano, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright.” “A book of interior and exterior photographs and plans of Wright’s buildings executed before his 1909 departure from Chicago,” originally issued to expose the European audience to his innovative and extremely modern design (Sweeney 96). The first edition was published in Berlin as Ausgeführte Bauten in 1911. This edition is the first to be hardbound and is much larger in format. Taro Amano was one of the first Japanese architects to study under Wright. Olgivanna, who wrote the inscription, was Frank Lloyd Wright’s third wife. Near-fine. 404

Signed By Igor Stravinsky 402. STRAVINSKY, Igor. Mavra. Berlin, 1925. Folio, contemporary full green morocco gilt. $3300. First edition of the piano-vocal score, signed and inscribed in Russian: “Igor Stravinski, 24 February 1928, Berlin,” on the day before the first Berlin performance. Dedicated to Pushkin, Glinka and Tchaikovsky, the opera Mavra took on a deliberate aesthetic, one that stood in sharp contrast to the picturesque nationalist element typified by the works of Balakirev and

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“A Magic Amalgam Of Theatrical Style, Occult And Esoteric Knowledge” 405. ARTAUD, Antonin. Artaud le Mômô. Paris, 1947. Small square quarto, original stiff yellow wrappers, custom clamshell box. $1200.

407. (BLAKE, William) BLAIR, Robert. The Grave. London, 1808. Folio, original gray-brown boards with paper label, sympathetically rebacked, custom clamshell box. $7500. First edition to be illustrated by William Blake of Blair’s singular poetic achievement, with 12 wonderful plates by Blake and engraved frontispiece portrait of Blake, one of only 589 copies published by subscription. In October 1805, engraver and would-be publisher Robert Cromek commissioned Blake to prepare 40 drawings for Blair’s Grave (originally published 1743), from which Cromek planned to select 20 for this deluxe edition. During the initial stages, Blake and Cromek argued over one of Blake’s preliminary “white-line” etchings; the dispute resulted in Cromek’s engaging Louis Schiavonetti, rather than Blake himself, to engrave the 12 drawings eventually chosen. This edition contains the famous Phillips portrait of Blake. About-fine.

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Twelve Colorful, Intricate Gouache Paintings Depicting The Chinese New Year’s Festival 406. (CHINA). Album of 12 color gouache paintings on rice paper. No place, circa 1880. Oblong 12mo, contemporary red velvet, measuring 7 by 5-1/2 inches. $2500. Wonderful series of one dozen delicate color gouache paintings documenting stages in the Chinese New Year procession. This lovely 19th-century album depicts dragon dancers, men shouldering poles with festive symbols and feng shui designs of good luck and prosperity, parade drummers and boys lighting firecrackers. Vivid paintings in fine condition. Two leaves reattached, velvet binding slightly worn.

“Change And Variety Is As Much A Necessity… In Buildings As In Books” 408. AUDSLEY, William and AUDSLEY, George Ashdown. Cottage, Lodge and Villa Architecture. London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, circa 1868-70. Tall folio (13 by 18 inches), modern three-quarter brown morocco. $1800. First edition of this popular guide to Gothic Revival architecture, complete with 91 lithographic plates on 90 sheets. The Audsley brothers combine history and practical advice, providing information on when various styles were introduced into Britain and adapted for use. The handsome lithographic plates depict an assortment of building structures, complete with elevations and floor plans, as well as details of such specific components as columns, gables and mantlepieces. Impressions crisp. Occasional light smudges to margins only. Very attractive.

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Signed By Christo, Jeanne-Claude And Wolfgang Volz 409. CHRISTO. The Umbrellas Japan-USA, 1984-1991. Köln, 1998. Two volumes. Large quarto, original full beige cloth, photographic slipcase. $1250. Signed, limited first edition, number HC 57 of 500 hors de commerce copies, out of 3000 copies signed by Christo, JeanneClaude and Wolfgang Volz, with numerous vivid color photographs by Volz. In 1984, Christo and Jeanne-Claude planned to install over 3100 large umbrellas along the coasts of Japan and the United States (sky blue for Japan, yellow for California) to complement the natural scenery. The project reached fruition in 1991. This volume documents the artwork, featuring numerous photographs by Wolfgang Volz, Christo’s exclusive photographer. Text in English and Japanese. Fine.

With Over 300 Silk Woven Kimono Fabric Samples From Japan 410. (COSTUME). Collection of Japanese fabric samples. No place, circa 1890. Two volumes. Thick folio (10 by 15-1/2 inches) and thick octavo (8 by 9-1/2 inches), original full patterned silk over boards bound in Japanese accordion-style, custom clamshell boxes. $8200. Wonderful collection of 332 colorful woven silk kimono swatches from Japan, most with gilt thread on 61 accordion-style leaves. Each swatch is bordered in gilt. The swatches themselves range in size from about 1 by 1-1/2 inches to 6 by 8-1/2 inches. Many swatches have traditional Japanese kimono design features such as cranes, cherry blossoms, plum blossoms leaves, dragons, chrysanthemums, lotus blossoms and even a Dutch sailing vessel. Several samples also feature

hand-embroidered designs. Original swatches brightly colored and in fine condition, several folds expertly repaired. Very good original cloth binding frayed and worn. A superb, unique collection of antique Japanese fabric samples.

“I’m Glad That Accursed Fame Turned Out To Be Good For Something” 411. CRUMB, Robert. R. Crumb Comics. Santa Rosa, 1990. Folio, original black cloth with paper label, black cloth slipcase. $1200. Signed limited first edition, letter “N” of 26 copies (from a total edition of 226), signed by Crumb. Features three trademark “comix” from the legendary underground sequential artist: “The Story O’ My Life,” “People… Ya Gotta Love ‘Em” and “I’m Grateful! I’m Grateful!” Fine.

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412. (DALÍ, Salvador) DESCHARNES, Robert. The World of Salvador Dalí. New York and Evanston, 1962. Square folio, original beige cloth, dust jacket, cardboard slipcase. $1800. First edition of this beautifully illustrated survey of Dalí’s life and work, boldly signed by him and dated 1963 across the entire half title. Profusely illustrated with numerous color photographs and photo-montages of the artist and his muse, Gala. Features a splendid portfolio of 52 tipped-in full-color reproductions of paintings from all phases of Dalí’s career, some well-known, others never before published or reproduced in color. Fine.

With 398 Full-Page Folio Plates 413. DALY, César-Denis. Motifs Historiques d’Architecture et de Sculpture d’Ornement… à des Monuments Français. Paris, 1880-81. Four volumes. Folio, contemporary half red morocco gilt. $3500.

Boldly Inscribed By Walt Disney 415. (DISNEY, Walt) FEILD, Robert D. The Art of Walt Disney. London and Glasgow, 1947. Thick folio, original cream cloth, dust jacket. $8500. Later English edition of this early evaluation of Disney’s art and “culture,” with 237 images on 59 plates (many in color) showing the development of Disney’s technique and style, inscribed in sepia conté crayon, “To Bob Smith, All best wishes. Walt Disney.” Formal criticism of cartoon art was so entirely new at the time that “we have no standards by which to judge the art of today, no terminology with which to discuss, for instance, the work of a man like Walt Disney.” First published in New York in 1942. This copy’s recipient, Robert Smith, was primarily a layout artist who had freelanced for Disney since the 1950s and whose later work included the 1988 Disney feature film Oliver & Company as well as the 1990 sequel The Rescuers Down Under. About-fine.

First and second series of Daly’s history of architectural ornamentation in France from the 16th through the 18th centuries, depicting both interior and exterior details, with 398 large folio plates (many double-page), including 17 splendid chromolithographs (five double-page). One of his day’s leading architects and architectural critics, Daly founded the Revue Generale d’Architecture, France’s first illustrated architectural journal and one of the foremost architectural journals on either side of the Atlantic during the 19th century. This history of ornamental details, first published in 1869-70, stems from Daly’s restoration of the cathedral of Alby at Tarn. Double-page engravings and chromolithographic plates bear double numbers. Near-fine. 415

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Limited first edition of this splendid illustrated collection of Chinese ceramics, number 595 of 680 copies, with 180 colorplates on coated French-folded stock, text set in typefaces especially designed by Eric Gill, handsomely bound by Morrell. The David Collection of mostly Sung and Ming ceramics was largely acquired from a bank that had held them as collateral for loans made to the emperor Ch’ien Lung, whose tenure historians generally regard as the Ch’ing dynasty’s high water mark. The David Collection is representative of the great collections of the Imperial Palace assembled by Ch’ien Lung. Professor Ma Hêng rendered the Chinese title and dedication. Fine.

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414. (DAVID, Percival) HOBSON, Robert Lockhart. Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David. London, 1934. Thick folio, original three-quarter green morocco gilt. $3200.

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416. FRÉART DE CHAMBRAY, Roland. Parallele de l’Architecture Antique et de la Moderne. Paris, 1650. Folio, 19th-century half brown calf gilt. $4200. First edition, beautifully illustrated with an engraved title page and 40 fine full-page copperplate engravings by Charles Errard, depicting facades, columns and lintels, and decorative details. “A beautifully printed and designed volume” (Fowler 127), this comparative study “launched the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns in architectural theory. His commentary… identified sizable differences among the ‘modern’ orders, despite the fact that all the Renaissance authors professed to follow the inviolable proportions of antiquity… he attacked modern inventions and called for a return to the untainted forms of Greek classicism” (Avery 78). Very minor marginal wormholing, occasional marginal dampstaining, plates overall very clean. Calf and boards rubbed.

“A Perfect Imitation of the Original” 417. GOLDICUTT, John. Specimens of Ancient Decorations from Pompeii. London, 1825. Quarto, original rose-colored cloth rebacked in black morocco gilt. $3800. First edition of this beautiful collection of plates illustrating the adornments of Pompeii, with engraved and hand-colored title, and 19 engraved plates, 18 of which are hand-colored. A stunning set of plates showing ceilings, mosaics and wall ornamentation from the then recently discovered buildings of Pompeii. The coloring is extremely vivid and accurate. Although plate counts vary among copies of this book, most, including this one, are found with the engraved title and 19 plates. Text and plates exceptionally bright and clean. A most handsome copy in original cloth. Scarce. 417

Japanese Woodblock Print Of A Sumo Wrestler 418. (JAPAN). Sumo Wrestler Woodblock Print: Orochigata Daigoro. Tokyo, circa 1895. One sheet of rice paper, 9-3/4 by 14-1/2 inches. $850. Beautifully detailed turn-of-the-century Japanese woodblock print of a sumo wrestler. This print features an image of champion sumo wrestler Orochigata Daigorō, whose wrestling career spanned 1885-1907. Prints such as this were sold as commemorative broadsides at sumo matches to honor favorite wrestlers. Light edge-wear and rubbing, as usual with this kind of paper. Very good.

“A Panorama Of Moral Decay” 419. GROSZ, George. Das Gesicht der herrschenden Klasse [The Face of the Ruling Class]. Berlin, 1921. Quarto, original half tan cloth, illustrated paper boards. $600. Third, expanded edition of Grosz’ famous lithographic series on Weimar Germany and ‘The Face of the Ruling Class,’ issued same year as the first edition, with 57 plates (four double-page, one photo-collage). “Grosz’ style strikes the balance between depictive and symbolic elements… Grosz and his drawings accompanied the period covering Germany’s defeat in war, the November Revolution, the Spartacus

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Mixed first and second editions, lavishly illustrated with over 1600 photographs and diagrams, many full-page. Although two of these volumes are credited to Francis Lenygon, a fashionable London decorator of the early 20th century, they all were written by Margaret Jourdain, who was “casually employed” by Lenygon (DNB). Interiors fine, light wear to rear board of first volume, one spine a bit toned. An excellent copy of a lavish production. 421

Over A Thousand Prize-Winning Designs From The Greatest 19th-Century School Of Architecture 422. L’ECOLE NATIONALE DES BEAUX-ARTS. L’École Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Les Médailles des Concours d’Architecture. Paris, 1899-1909. Seven volumes. Folio, contemporary beige cloth. $1800. Seven folio volumes of over a thousand heliotype elevations, renderings and floor plans by early 20th-century contestwinners in the École des Beaux-Arts. This expansive set of prize-winning architectural drawings covers the first decade of the 20th century, and stands as a significant historical resource on the most important architects of the time. Without volumes for the academic period Fall 1904 to Spring 1906. Fine.

“The Most Powerful And Eloquent Architect Of The 20th Century” 423. LE CORBUSIER. Le Livre de Ronchamp. Paris, 1961. Square quarto, original stamped blue cloth, dust jacket. $400.

Inscribed By Rem Koolhaas 421. KOOLHAAS, Rem. S, M, L, XL. New York, 1995. Thick octavo, original silver boards. $2000. First edition, profusely illustrated, boldly inscribed, “To XXX Bryan, Rem Koolhaas, Monacelli Books 96.” Perhaps the most famous architectural monograph of the last 20 years, S, M, L, XL is a dense, brilliantly illustrated record of the work of Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture. “Koolhaas is one of the few high-style architects today” (New York Times). Issued without dust jacket. Fine.

First trade edition, with over 100 photographs and drawings of Le Corbusier’s masterpiece, the Church of Notre-Dame-duHaut at Ronchamp. “The most revolutionary building of the mid-20th century… Rising like a medieval fortress from the crest of a mountain, it has a design so irrational that it defies analysis, even with the aid of perspective diagrams… Ronchamp mirrors the spiritual condition of Modern Man— which is a measure of its greatness as a work of art” (Janson, 544-45). Text in French. Preceded the same year by a limited edition of 1000 copies. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.

“Drawn With The Most Scrupulous Accuracy” 424. (LYSONS, Samuel). Remains of Two Temples and Other Roman Antiquities Discovered at Bath. London, 1802. Elephant folio, period-style three-quarter green morocco. $3200.

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420. JOURDAIN, M. English Decoration and Furniture of the Early Renaissance (1500-1650). WITH: LENYGON, Francis. Decoration in England from 1640 to 1760. WITH: Furniture in England from 1660 to 1760. WITH: JOURDAIN, M. English Decoration and Furniture of the Later XVIIIth Century (1760-1820). London, 1924-27. Four volumes. Folio, original burgundy cloth gilt. $1750.

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First edition of Part Two of Lysons’ Reliquiæ Britannico-Romanæ, with handcolored title-page vignette and 12 tinted stipple-engraved plates, three double-page. A separately published part of Lysons’ great multivolume work, Reliquiæ Britannico-Romanæ, containing figures of Roman Antiquities discovered in England (1801-17). Fine.

Perrault’s Architecture, First Edition In English, With Beautiful Folio Plates 425. PERRAULT, Claude. A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture. London, 1708. Folio, contemporary full brown speckled calf gilt. $4800. First edition in English, with copper-engraved title page, additional engraved title page with vignette, six fine copper-engraved folio plates of columns, architectural head- and tailpieces and allegorical initial letters—all by John Sturt. “In 1664 Perrault produced his first design for the façade of the Louvre. The Louvre colonnade was to be his major architectural achievement… In 1683 Perrault presented his own body of theory in the guise of a conventionally structured treatise on the Orders” (Kruft, 133). “After elaborating his theory of ‘arbitrary beauty,’ he proposed a new proportional rule for the orders” (Avery’s Choice, 62). Signature excised from title page (with no loss of text). Text and plates very clean and bright. Joints of contemporary calf expertly repaired. Very lovely.

“He Drew Very Little Except Architecture, But He Drew This Beautifully” 426. MACKENZIE, Frederick. Skelton’s Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire. Oxford, 1823. Folio, period-style three-quarter brown calf gilt. $2400. First edition in book form of Mackenzie’s detailed visual record of the church architecture of Oxfordshire, with handsome engraved title page, map of Oxfordshire, 49 fullpage mounted proof impressions of Skelton’s steel engravings on India paper and 72 intricate in-text vignettes, handsomely bound. First published in 13 parts, Mackenzie’s documentation of Oxfordshire’s ecclesiastical architecture demonstrates his use of the brush “with singular accuracy and delicacy” (DNB). Fine.

With 17 Folio Architectural Engravings 427. (NARDI, Luigi). Descrizione AntiquarioArchitettonica... Rimini, 1813. Folio, modern half blue morocco. $1800.

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First edition, with 17 folio architectural plates (four folding) of Roman and Renaissance buildings in Rimini. Featuring detailed plans of Rimini’s three most notable works of architecture: the Arch of Augustus, the Bridge of Tiberius (also known as the “devil’s bridge”) and the Tempio Malatestiano. Only minor foxing to plates, text bright and clean.

“They Wanted To Be Seen And Remembered—After Death” 428. MAIURI, Amedeo. La Villa dei Misteri. Roma, 1947. Two volumes. Folio and portfolio, original cream cloth gilt, unbound as issued. $2500. Limited second edition, number 196 of only 500 copies, with 18 large matted color plates and detailed folding plan of the perished city. Intensive excavation of Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79, commenced in 1924 under Maiuri’s direction; he remained in charge of excavations until 1961. First published in 1931. Text in Italian. Near-fine. 428

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432. RUSKIN, John. Works. New York, circa 1890. Thirteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter tan calf gilt. $2800.

“What Makes Great Pictures Great?” 429. QUIGLEY, Martin. Advertising the Motion Picture. New York, 1937. Large quarto, original orange cloth. $1600. Limited first edition, number 20 of only 191 copies, with hundreds of glittering full- and double-page color poster and lobby displays for films such as Chaplin’s Modern Times, Astaire and Rogers’ Follow the Fleet, Hepburn’s Mary of Scotland, and much more. Interior fresh and bright, edge-wear and mild soiling to original cloth. Scarce and desirable.

Beautifully Illustrated With 120 Engravings Of Pompeii, Herculaneum And Old Masters 430. PISTOLESI, Erasmo. Antiquities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. Naples, 1842. Two volumes bound in one. Folio, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $1650. First edition, beautifully illustrated with 120 plates, several folding, of the antiquities of ancient Rome. A lovely volume containing Erasmo Pistolesi’s engravings of art and artifacts from the Museo Borbonico in Naples, which includes items excavated from the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as Renaissance and more recent paintings. Each image accompanied by a lengthy description of the artwork in English, French and Italian. Several pages remargined and tipped in. Scattered light foxing. Extremely good. Handsomely bound.

Nicholson’s Treatise On Staircases, With 39 Copper-Engraved Plates 431. NICHOLSON, Peter. A Treatise on the Construction of Staircases and Handrails. London, 1820. Quarto, contemporary full brown tree calf gilt. $1200.

Handsomely bound set of Ruskin’s collected works, illustrated with numerous plates and in-text drawings. Writer, critic and artist Ruskin was the chief influence upon public taste in Victorian England. Interiors fine, handsomely bound.

“A Structure Which Has Not, Perhaps, Its Equal On The Surface Of The Globe” 433. SANTOS, Francisco de los. A Description of the Royal Palace and Monastery of St. Laurence, called the Escurial; and of the Chapel Royal of the Pantheon. London, 1760. Quarto, late 20th-century full brown calf gilt. $ 4000. First edition of Thompson’s illustrated translation of this study of the magnificent Escurial palace and monastery near Madrid, with 11 finely engraved copperplate illustrations, including views and plans, most folding, and a large folding, copper-engraved floor plan. De los Santos describes in detail one of the most remarkable buildings in Europe. The Escurial 433

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First edition of Nicholson’s instructional work on forming and casing stairs, including spiral staircases, with 39 copper-engraved plates. Nicholson devoted his life to the improvement of the mechanical processes in building, simplifying many old methods, and inventing a few new ones. In this volume, Nicholson discusses and illustrates practical techniques for building staircases and handrails, including instructions to smiths on forming iron rails and straps. With publisher’s catalogue at rear. Faint scattered foxing, joints starting. Exceptionally good and very scarce.

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combines in one structure a monastery, a palace, a basilica, a mausoleum for the Spanish royal family, a museum and a school. Originally published in Madrid, 1657 and first translated into English in 1671. Fine.

The Châteaux Of France, Richly Illustrated 434. SAINT SAUVEUR, Hector. Châteaux de France. Paris, circa 1912. Five volumes. Folio, original three-quarter blue cloth portfolios, contents loose as issued. $1200. First printings, richly illustrated with 198 full-page monochrome photographs as well as numerous in-text illustrations. Near-fine.

“The Magazine To Look For Was Verve” 435. TÉRIADE, Efstratios (ELEFTHERIADES, Efstratios). Verve. Volume 1, Number 3 (October-December 1938). Paris, 1938. Slim folio, original illustrated wrappers by Bonnard, glassine. $1200. First American edition of the exceptional third issue of Verve, with cover art by Pierre Bonnard, four original lithographs (including one each by Chagall, Miró and Klee), and articles by Tagore, Valéry and Malraux. “Fifty years ago in Paris, the magazine to look for was Verve, which first came out in December 1937…” (John Russell). “The magazine, a quarterly review of arts and letters, was lavish in design and challenging in content. Teriade’s view of the world of art and literature was personal, bold and compelling” (Rick Gagliano). Once called “the most beautiful magazine in the world,” Verve contained original lithographs by the most famous artists of the day—Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Léger, Miró, Chagall—with numerous lithographs appearing for the first time. First American edition, published the same year as the French, with English text translated by Robert Sage. Fine.

With 240 Full-Page Etchings In Double-Suite, One Of Only 70 Copies 436. (SCOTLAND) BILLINGS, Robert William. The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1845-52. Four volumes. Folio, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt. $3700. Limited first edition of Billings’ wonderfully illustrated study of Scottish architecture, one of 70 copies with 240 etchings in double-suite, with proof-states before backgrounds and letters.

Billings was admired for his drawings’ accuracy and for his lucid, informative commentaries. Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland is “his greatest achievement… and the one with which his name is chiefly associated” (DNB). It decisively inspired the Baronial movement and served as a pattern book for the Gothic revival. “The first work which has any claim to be regarded as a collection worthy of the remains yet spared to Scotland” (Allibone). This is one of 70 subscriber copies containing a second suite of mounted India proofs. Light foxing to margins of mounts (affecting only a few images) and toning to margins of text blocks. Very good.

Habitations Modernes, Richly Illustrated, 1877 437. VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Eugene Emmanuel. Habitations Modernes. Paris, 1877. Two volumes. Folio, loose signatures laid into original full red cloth portfolio as issued, cloth ties. $1600. First edition, with 200 full-page plates of architectural drawings, plans, and details of homes. Viollet-le-Duc—one of the most influential French architects of the 19th century—assembled this richly illustrated collection that features mid19th century private residences in a variety of sizes and styles. Plates lovely and fine. Portfolio lightly rubbed at extremities. Beautiful.

The Transformation Of Windsor Castle Into Windsor Palace 438. WYATVILLE, Jeffry. Illustrations of Windsor Castle. London, 1841. Two volumes bound in one. Elephant folio (20 by 27 inches), 20th-century three-quarter tan calf. $ 6500. First edition of the most complete record of the transformation of Windsor from a castle to a palace, richly illustrated with 32 elephant folio steel-engraved plates, of 435 which four are double-page images and three massive triple-page folding plates. “The work by which Wyatville is best known is his transformation of Windsor Castle, which dates from 1824. In that year competitive designs for the remodeling of the royal apartments were received from Nash and Smirke, as well as from Wyatville… Wyatville’s work consisted in replacing with solid masonry the supposed inappropriate and probably picturesque structures which had grown up within the castle precincts since the beginning of the Tudor dynasty (Architect, 1891, xlv. 174-5). The triple-page view of Windsor with large closed tear and crease across image, some repairs to folds. A few other minor marginal splits along folds. Occasional light spotting. Handsome binding fine. Scarce.

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Signed By Ansel Adams 439. ADAMS, Ansel and AUSTIN, Mary. Taos Pueblo. Facsimile edition. Boston, 1977. Folio, original half tan calf, slipcase. $3100. Signed limited edition, number 227 of 950 copies signed by Adams of this work exploring the fluid relationship between Pueblo architecture and Southwestern landscapes. A fine facsimile of the very rare original 1930 edition, with 12 finely screened duotones by Adams, woodcuts by Valenti Angelo. Within are portraits “reminiscent of Edward Curtis and neatly circumscribed, almost intimate landscapes… that reconcile nature and the built environment. The book’s solid success at the height of the Depression (all 108 copies sold over two years at $75 a piece) encouraged Adams to continue in his course as a photographer of the American landscape” (Roth, 58). This limited edition is a faithful reproduction of that rare landmark. Fine.

Inscribed By Ansel Adams 440. ADAMS, Ansel. Yosemite and the Range of Light. Boston, 1979. Oblong folio, original red and blue cloth, dust jacket, shipping carton. $2200.

First trade edition, first printing, presentation/association copy warmly inscribed to the director of New York’s renowned Lee Witkin Gallery and her husband, a respected photography collector, “To Evelyme [sic] and Howard Daitz, Ansel Adams, NY, 1-24-80,” with Adams’ long bold flourish below the inscription, containing 116 striking black-and-white photogravures, in scarce dust jacket. “During his lifetime Adams was arguably the world’s most famous photographer” (McDarrah, 3). Preceded the same year by a signed limited edition of 250 copies. Fine. 439

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443. (ATGET, Eugène) AUBENAS, Sylvie and LE GALL, Guillaume. Arbres inédits d’Atget The Unpublished Trees of Atget. Paris, 2003. Folio, original half black cloth, portfolio. $450. Limited first edition, number 823 of 1,000 copies, an exquisite folio volume of 39 exhibition-size sepia plates of previously unknown and unpublished photographs by Atget, taken in Hauts-de-Seine from 1909-11 but undiscovered until 1995. Eugène Atget was “a photographer of such authority and originality that his work remains a bench mark” (Szarkowski, 64). Discovered by chance, these were among 111 photographs left untouched since their purchase in 1923 by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Text in French. Fine.

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Signed By Berenice Abbott 441. ABBOTT, Berenice. A Guide to Better Photography. New York, 1941. Quarto, original tan cloth. $1400. First edition of Abbott’s influential Guide, signed by her, featuring a rare glimpse into the creative principles of this pioneering photographer, with 75 photogravures by Abbott, Walker Evans, Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams and others. Abbott’s stature as “one of the most important advocates of modernist-documentary photography” is assured by her Changing New York and this “acclaimed manual.” (Parr and Badger I:141; Lenman, I). Included are portraits of Joyce and Atget, and images by BourkeWhite, Cartier-Bresson and others. Without scarce dust jacket. A few plates with abrasions to image, mild soiling to cloth. Extremely good.

444. BLOSSFELDT, Karl. Wundergarten der Natur. Berlin, 1932. Folio, 120 original numbered gravure plates, 9-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches, loose as issued, booklet, portfolio; custom box. $7800. First edition, portfolio issue of the second work in Blossfeldt’s pivotal trilogy, with 120 loose, exhibition-size black-andwhite gravure plates of plant forms transformed into “objects of unexpected aesthetic delight.” In 1932 Blossfeldt followed his popular Urformen der Kunst (1928) with this influential photobook, and completed his trilogy in 1942 with Wunder in der Natur. Throughout, his images possess a “duality of vision that is both striking and beguiling” (Parr & Badger I:96). Text in German. One of an unspecified number issued coincident with the first cloth edition. Near-fine.

“Their Work Proclaims Them”: Women At Work, 1939, With Photogravures By Bourke-White, Abbott And Others 442. ABBOTT, Berenice and BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret, et al.. Women at Work. New York, 1939. Octavo, original stiff brown wrappers. $1200. First edition of this 1939 tribute to women printed coincident with the New York World’s Fair, with splendid sepia toned photogravures by Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White and others. Scarce in original wrappers. Especially notable are Bourke-White’s “Woman the Weaver” and Abbott’s portraits of artists whose work was celebrated at the World’s Fair. About-fine.

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447. BALTZ, Lewis. Park City. Albuquerque and New York, 1980. Oblong quarto, original light brown cloth, dust jacket. $4200. First edition of the scarce second photobook in Baltz’s New Topographics trilogy—“a key moment in Baltz’s oeuvre” (Parr & Badger)— inscribed, “For Debra with best regards, Lewis Baltz, 8.5.82,” with 102 finely screened blackand-white photogravure plates. “Rigorous, passionate, fiercely intelligent, Park City is one of the most important photobooks of the late 20th century” (Parr & Badger II:34). Near-fine.

“Drawing Luminosity From The Darkness”

“An Exceptional Photographic Witness Of His Time” 445. BISCHOF, Werner. 24 Photos. Bern, Switzerland, 1946. Quarto, original photographic plates, 9 by 12 inches, loose as issued, booklet, portfolio. $2200. First edition of Bischof’s premiere work, a scarce original portfolio with 24 black-and-white full-bleed photographic plates, 23 loose and one mounted, as issued, to front cover, with four-page booklet containing an essay by noted critic Manuel Gasser. Swiss photographer Werner Bischoff “won renown as an exceptional photographic witness of his time… His visual reporting has the underpinnings of art” (New York Times). Text in German. Near-fine.

Inscribed By Manuel Álvarez Bravo 446. BRAVO, Manuel Álvarez and PAZ, Octavio. Instante y Revelacion. Mexico City, 1982. Quarto, original brown cloth, dust jacket. $1200. First edition, Fondo Nacional issue, presentation copy inscribed, “A Dan Berley, M. Alvarez Bravo,” featuring over 60 halftone plates by Bravo and 32 poems in Spanish by Paz. This impressive collaboration brings together two of Mexico’s finest artists. “One of the 20th century’s greatest photographers… Bravo’s subject was Mexico, or more accurately mexicanidad (Mexicanness), what it means physically, historically, psychologically and spiritually to be Mexican” (Parr & Badger II:98). Published by Fondo Nacional same year as Circulo Editorial issue, no priority established. Text in Spanish. Fine.

448. BRASSAÏ and MORAND, Paul. Paris de Nuit. Paris, 1933. Quarto, original spiral bound wrappers; custom box. $6200. First edition of Brassaï’s masterpiece, with 64 rich full-page photogravures capturing his unforgettable “social fantastic” vision of Paris (Roth). “The book created a sensation when it was published; many pictures from the series were deemed too risqué and were not exhibited or published for decades” (McDarrah, 55). Near-fine. 448

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“One Of The Best Photobooks Of The 1960s” 451. BURRI, René. Les Allemands. Paris, 1963. Quarto, original black paper boards. $1500. First French edition of Burri’s influential photobook, a key model of the “classic genre of European photojournalism” (Parr & Badger), with 80 finely screened photogravure plates. Burri’s Les Allemands (The Germans) was a highlight of French publisher Robert Delpire’s renowned series Encyclopédie essentialle, which also featured Robert Frank’s Les Américains (1958). “One of the best photobooks of the 1960s” (Parr & Badger I:218, 190). This preferred first French edition is preceded one year by the German edition Die Deutschen. Text in French by Baudrillard. Fine.

“The Ecstasy And Essence Of The Dance” 449. BRODOVITCH, Alexey. Ballet. New York, 1945. Oblong quarto, original half gray cloth, original French wrappers over stiff paper boards; custom box. $9500. First edition of this “photobook legend,” Brodovitch’s only authored work, one of only 500 copies, featuring 104 dynamic black-and-white photogravure plates with “a vibrancy and fluidity that perfectly captures the motion of dance” (Parr & Badger). One of the most cinematic and dynamic photobooks ever published… [and] a photobook legend for two reasons. Firstly, only a few hundred copies were printed, so the book is more talked about than actually seen. Secondly, the volume was extremely radical” (Parr & Badger I:240). Near-fine.

Inscribed By Harry Callahan 450. CALLAHAN, Harry. Water’s Edge. Lyme, Connecticut, 1980. Folio, original cream cloth, dust jacket. $2200. First trade edition, presentation/association copy inscribed, “To Anna Winand, Harry Callahan,” featuring 48 duotone plates (four in a double gatefold spread). “The abstract photographic landscape has always attracted photographers” such as Callahan (Parr & Badger I:310), whose pristine images are “at once supremely rational and expressive, cool but hooked on visual pleasure” (Roth, 168). “Callahan undoubtedly ranks as one of the world’s greatest living photographers,” a status assured by these 48 finelyscreened duotones from photographs taken over four decades (Time). Published same year as signed limited edition (216 copies). From the library of noted editor Anna Winand, a longtime associate of New York’s International Center of Photography. Near-fine.

“A ‘Realm Of Beauty’ Beyond The Control Of Reason,” With Signed Print 452. CAPONIGRO, Paul. Sunflower. New York, 1974. Square quarto, original orange cloth, slipcase. WITH: Photograph signed. No place, 1985. Vintage gelatin silver print, 7-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches, signed and stamped on verso, folio sleeve. $2400. Signed limited “deluxe” first edition, number 328 of only 400 copies, signed by Caponigro, with 51 finely screened duotone plates, accompanied by a laid-in gelatin silver print, stamped on the verso, “Special Edition Print, Sunflower Book 1985” and signed in pencil by Caponigro. Caponigro combines “a purist’s faith in the mimetic quality of the medium with a mystical, visionary temperament… seeking a ‘realm of beauty’ beyond the control of reason” (New York Times). Fine. 452

Inscribed By William Claxton

First edition, abundantly illustrated with over 20 pages of color photographs and many more of black-and-white photographs of jazz musicians and their audiences across the United States, inscribed, “For Rudi, William Claxton 1961.” In 1960 “William Claxton and the German musicologist Joachim E. Berendt embarked on a road trip in America. They found and photographed the great jazz artists of the time, with a particularly jubilant, evocative emphasis on vintage New Orleans spirit” (New York Times). With “Pocket” to rear pastedown empty, as often. Near-fine.

“One Of The Most Important And Influential Photographers Of This Century” 454. CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The People of Moscow. New York, 1955. Quarto, original full tan buckram, dust jacket. $1200. First edition in English of Cartier-Bresson’s landmark photobook on Moscow, with 163 memorable black-and-white photogravures. Seven years after co-founding Magnum Photos, Cartier-Bresson became “the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death. His goal was to photograph ‘human beings in the streets, in the shops, at work, and at play’” (New York Times). Preceded by the first French edition, same year. Book fine; dust jacket extremely good.

Signed By Larry Clark 455. CLARK, Larry. Tulsa. New York, 1971 [i.e. 1979]. Folio, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2000. Signed limited first hardbound edition of Clark’s shocking first book, boldly signed and numbered “38/400” by Clark. A photography classic, Tulsa established Clark’s reputation, despite its limited exposure from a small print run. It documents the desperate lives of “speed freaks” in the photographer’s hometown, told from inside the story. First published in 1971 by Ralph Gibson’s Lustrum Press. This is the first hardcover edition, bound by Clark in 1979 from the 1971 sheets. Fine.

Scarce First Edition Of The First Book To Feature Walker Evans’ Photographs 456. EVANS, Walker and BEALS, Carleton. The Crime of Cuba. Philadelphia and London, 1933. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $1500. First edition of the first book appearance of Evans’ work, featuring 31 photographs by him of the 1931 revolution in Cuba against the government of Gerardo Machado. In 1931, a revolt was attempted in Cuba to oust President Gerardo Machado, who had recently amended Cuba’s constitution to allow himself a longer term in office and easy reelection. The effort was suppressed, but only after months of violence and internal terrorism. Book near-fine, dust jacket very good.

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453. CLAXTON, William and BERENDT, Joachim E. Jazzlife. Offenburg, 1961. Quarto, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2800.

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Signed By Edward Curtis 457. CURTIS, Edward. Photograph. The Vanishing Race—Navaho. Seattle, circa 1904. Vintage orotone print, 8 by 10 inches, matted and framed period style, entire piece 15 by 17 inches. $7500. Scarce 8-by-10-inch photographic print of the famous 1904 orotone by Curtis—The Vanishing Race-Navaho—signed in ink by him on the lower right corner. Edward Curtis’ North American Indian (1907-30), “the largest, the longest, the most ambitious and the most expensive project ever attempted in photography,” featured, in its very first volume, this famous image. (Parr & Badger I:73). To Curtis this print singularly “expresses so much of the thought that inspired the entire work’” (Beck, 30). One of a very few signed by Curtis. Fine. 457

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First edition presentation copy of Davidson’s first book, his powerful work on the people of East Harlem, with 123 black-and-white duotone plates, signed by Davidson, with a laid-in black-and-white photogravure postcard of his work, inscribed by him, “Thank you Adrienne—You have a rare copy of E 100th Street. Have you seen the new expanded version published by St. Ann’s Press. Bruce.” Near-fine.

Signed By Lee Friedlander 461. FRIEDLANDER, Lee. Cray at Chippewa Falls. Minneapolis, 1987. Oblong quarto, original rust cloth. $2800.

One Of Only 150 Copies Signed By Bruce Davidson, With A Signed Photographic Print 458. DAVIDSON, Bruce. Brooklyn Gang. Santa Fe, 1998. Square quarto, original black cloth, dust jacket, clamshell box. WITH: Gelatin silver print. 5-1/2 by 8 inches, matted. $5500. Signed limited first edition, number 45 of only 150 copies signed by Davidson, and one of only 50 to include a matted gelatin silver print from the book, also signed by Davidson, in pencil on the verso, featuring 71 sheet-fed photogravure plates. In book form for the first time, this is the “most memorable” of Davidson’s early work: “the grainy, cinematic record of the time he spent hanging out with a Brooklyn teen gang called the Jokers” during the late 1950s (Roth, 196). Fine.

An “Exemplary Exercise In The Humanist Social Documentary Mode” 459. DAVIDSON, Bruce. New York—100th Street. IN: DU [Magazine title]. Zurich, March 1969. Quarto, original stiff wrappers. $950. First publication of images from Davidson’s powerful view of Harlem, preceding his first photobook by one year, in the German magazine Du, with 60 rich, fullpage photogravures-including seven gatefolds not present in the book and cover image. An “exemplary exercise in the humanist social documentary mode” (Parr & Badger II:18). With photogravure plates larger than those in the book. Text in German. Fine.

Signed By Bruce Davidson 460. DAVIDSON, Bruce. East 100th Street. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970. Square quarto, original cream cloth, mounted cover print, acetate. WITH: Postcard signed. New York, 2003. Vintage postcard, 5 by 7-1/2 inches, photogravure image on recto, inscribed in manuscript on verso. Custom box. $5200.

First and only edition printed, signed by Lee Friedlander, with 79 full-page black-and-white photographs of workers at Wisconsin’s Cray Research. “One of the most influential of contemporary photographers,” Friedlander has devoted much of his career to chronicling the working lives of Americans (McDarrah & McDarrah, 155). “One of the most covetable and instructive of company photobooks” (Parr & Badger II:199). About-fine.

One Of Only 200 Copies, Signed By Doisneau, Prévert And Giraud, With 44 Heliogravures 462. DOISNEAU, Robert, et al. Bistrots. Souillac, 1960. Quarto, original burgundy silk, glassine; custom box. $7500. Signed limited first edition of the landmark Volume 57 of the French journal Le Point, number 100 of only 200 copies printed on heavy Arches paper, signed by Robert Doisneau, Jacques Prévert and Robert Giraud, featuring 44 finely screened heliogravures of photographs by Robert Doisneau. These 44 heliogravures display the “characteristic warmth and humanity” (Parr & Badger I:201) that made Doisneau a leading figure of French humanist photography. Text in French. Fine. 462

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463. FRANK, Robert. Les Américains. Paris, 1958. Oblong octavo, original glazed paper over boards with drawings by Saul Steinberg. $6800.

Dialogue with Solitude is one of the most important photobooks of the 1960s—forged in a style “at once intimate and reportorial” (Village Voice). Heath’s work is particularly important for its attempt “to photograph internal emotions… the essential solitude of an individual” (Parr & Badger II:104). From the library of photographer Margery Lewis Smith. Smith was the longtime partner of the book’s dedicatee W. Eugene Smith, who is paid further tribute by Heath in his preface that praises Smith for his “commitment to the human spirit.” Near-fine.

First edition of Frank’s masterpiece, with 83 full-page photogravures. In his preface to the 1959 American edition of Frank’s magnum opus, Jack Kerouac wrote that his friend “sucked a sad poem out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.” Frank’s Américains is “the most renowned photobook of all… None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank’s masterpiece” (Parr & Badger I:247). Text in French. Near-fine.

“Hido’s Instincts For Composition And Light Are Masterful”

“One Of The Finest… Of The West’s Early Photographers”

466. HIDO, Todd. House Hunting. Tucson, 2001. Elephant folio, original gray paper boards, dust jacket. $2200.

464. HAYNES, F. Jay. Four vintage albumen prints of Yellowstone. Fargo, North Dakota, circa 1890. Vintage albumen prints, mounted on stiff card stock, 5 by 8-1/2 inches; custom box. $1750. Vintage set of four mounted albumen prints by F. Jay Haynes, one of the most important Western photographers as longtime “official photographer of Yellowstone Park,” featuring views of Yellowstone’s Great Falls and Grand Canyon. Haynes “was one of the most prolific of the West’s early photographers, and one of the finest.” “It was as the official photographer of Yellowstone Park that Haynes achieved his lasting fame.” He was one of four “widely known photographers [who] were fortunate enough to begin their work in the wet plate days” of photography, when albumen photographs known for their exceptional detail were produced from glass plate negatives (Taft, 308-9). Near-fine.

Association Copy Of Heath’s Dialogue With Solitude 465. HEATH, Dave. A Dialogue with Solitude. New York, 1965. Quarto, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $6000. First edition, association copy of Heath’s seminal photobook, featuring 82 vibrant duotone plates, signed by photographer Margery Lewis Smith, longtime partner of this book’s dedicatee, renowned photographer W. Eugene Smith. Heath’s

First edition of Hido’s impressive first monograph, with 26 arresting four-color plates (some double-page). The images of deserted houses in Hido’s award-winning first monograph are “shrouded in the atmospheric light of wintry dusk or the motionless darkness of late evening… Hido’s instincts for composition and light are masterful” (Artforum). Fine.

Inscribed By Both Langston Hughes And Roy Decarava 467. HUGHES, Langston. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. New York, 1955. Octavo, original half white cloth; custom box. $4500. 465

First edition of this landmark collaboration between Hughes and DeCarava, inscribed, “10-30-55 Best wishes to Lupetto, Roy DeCarava, Langston Hughes,” with 141 engaging photogravures. Guggenheim Award-winner DeCarava is “the spiritual ‘father’ of much contemporary African American photography” (New York Times). Hughes, already “acknowledged as the most influential black writer of his generation… composed a fictional story to accompany DeCarava’s images, creating a lyrical tale” (Roth, 138). “One of the most successful collaborations between a great writer and a great photographer ever published” (Roth, 138). Without scarce dust jacket. Near-fine.

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“At The Forefront Of Radical Modernism”

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470. KRULL, Germaine. 100 X Paris. Berlin, 1929. Quarto, original cream stiff wrappers, dust jacket. $3500. First edition of Krull’s pioneering photobook of Paris in the 1920s, with 100 sepia-toned photogravure plates, including luminous views of the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, crowded street markets and Parisians strolling on the Bois de Boulogne. “In the 1920s, Man Ray told Krull, ‘Germaine, you and I are the greatest photographers of our time, I in the old sense and you in the modern one’” (Roth, 46). Captions in French, German and English. Also issued in cloth, no priority established. Near-fine.

Inscribed By Andre Kertész To Noted Collector/ Publisher Daniel Berley And His Wife 471. KERTESZ, Andre. Day of Paris. New York, 1945. Small quarto, original tan cloth, dust jacket; custom box. $7500.

Large Gelatin Silver Print Of Käthe Kollwitz, Signed By Jacobi 468. JACOBI, Lotte. Photograph signed. Käthe Kollwitz. No place, circa 1970. Gelatin silver print, 10 by 13 inches, signed on print recto. Matted and framed, total of 16 by 19 inches. $7500. Large gelatin silver print of the legendary German artist, with Jacobi’s trademark penciled signature at the corner of this 10 by 13-inch print. This gelatin silver print of renowned artist Kollwitz, signed by Jacobi, was taken at Jacobi’s studio in 1931, when Kollwitz “came wearing a lace collar and most of the pictures were made with it close around the neck. Toward the end Kollwitz reluctantly removed the collar,” thus defining the studied artlessness of Jacobi’s work, whose portraits of Kollwitz, Einstein and others “serve as vehicles of emotional expression.” With Jacobi’s trademark penciled signature at the lower right corner of print recto. Print date circa 1970. From the Jacobi estate. Fine.

With 18 Exhibition-Size Heliogravures 469. KOUDELKA, Josef. Animal. Amiens, France, 1990. Quarto, original glossy black paper portfolio, original metallic silver sleeve, 18 heliogravures, 9-1/2 by 12 inches, loose as issued; booklet. $1600. Signed limited first edition, number 417 of 700 copies signed by Koudelka, with 18 exhibition-size heliogravures, an exceptional collection by the “most potent and powerful photographer alive today” (British Journal of Photography). This exquisite portfolio of 18 heliogravures imagines a world where isolated animals roam, soar or linger in a landscape free of humanity—though not its imprint. Text in French. Fine.

First edition of Kertész’ first book published in America, presentation/association copy inscribed, “À Dan and Frances Berley, A. Kertesz, le 3. Octobre 1973,” with 103 black-andwhite photogravure plates (many double-page). “One of the most influential photographers of the 20th century… Kertész helped change the way photographers and picture magazines look at the world” (New York Times). Day of Paris, the first book he published in America, contains “some of Kertész’s most famous photos” (Roth, 114). Here is a wonderful “photographic modernist’s tour of the city” (Parr & Badger I:200). From the library of collector & publisher Daniel Berley and his wife. Light foxing to book, single tape repair to verso of dust jacket. Extremely good.

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“The Utopian Step Of Turning Humankind Into One Big Melting Pot”

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First edition of Ohara’s first book, with 500 black-and-white close-ups of individual faces photographed on the streets of New York. While working in New York with Richard Avedon and Hiro, Ohara reconfigured the art of portraiture when he made an “obsessive recording of tightly framed single faces snapped on the streets of New York… and printed them with the same tonal characteristics… Ohara has taken the utopian step of using the camera to turn humankind into one big melting pot, his serial photographs making almost ritual atonement for the sin of racism” (Parr & Badger I:291). Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Near-fine.

“Rarely Has An Artist Authored So Many Disparate Masterpieces” “The Key To Some Unwritten Story That Strikes Deep” 472. LANGE, Dorothea and TAYLOR, Paul. An American Exodus. New York, 1939. Quarto, original navy cloth, dust jacket. $2800. First edition of this Dust Bowl classic, with 112 striking blackand-white photographs and extremely scarce dust jacket. “This is the most balanced of New Deal documentary books… Lange’s pictures are as direct as those of Walker Evans, though… warmer and more humane, displaying an overt empathy that, importantly, could be transmitted to the public” (Parr & Badger I:142). Book fine; chipping, tape repair to verso of very good dust jacket.

“A Precarious Balance Between The Beauty… And The Horror” 273. MEISELAS, Susan. Nicaragua. New York, 1981. Oblong quarto, original black cloth, dust jacket. $1100. First American edition, with 71 dramatic color photographic plates by MacArthur Award-winner Susan Meiselas. Meiselas’ “groundbreaking book on the Nicaraguan revolution” (Roth, 238) was immediately praised as a work whose perspective of war “becomes haunting precisely because of the precarious balance between the beauty of its pictures and the horror of what they depict” (New York Times). Preceded one year by an edition in French. Published same year as the first British edition, no priority established. Expert reinforcement to text block, light edge-wear to dust jacket. Extremely good.

475. MARKER, Chris. Coréennes. Paris, 1959. Oblong quarto, original laminated boards. $1500. First edition, a scarce early photobook by legendary filmmaker and artist Chris Marker, a “seamless moving in-between media” (Afterimage), with over 120 black-and-white photogravures of North Korea, intersected by illustrations from maps, comic books, street posters and paintings. “A towering and seminal figure in the field of contemporary visual culture… Marker was among the celebrated directors who formed the nucleus of the French New Wave.” Marker traveled extensively in the late 1950s, when a trip to North Korea resulted in Coréennes (Lupton)—a work that seamlessly defies boundaries between still photography, cinema, the novel and travelogue. Text in French. About-fine. 475

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474. OHARA, Ken. One. Tokyo, 1970. Thick square quarto, original stiff wrappers. $2200.

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476. MORRIS, Wright. The Inhabitants. New York and London, 1946. Quarto, original pale green cloth, dust jacket. $3500.

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479. MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard. Animals in Motion. London, 1899. Oblong quarto, original red cloth recased. $1850.

First edition of this “first work in photofiction” (Roth), signed by Morris, with 52 black-and-white photogravure plates of rural America. Thomas Mann praised Morris for a vision that vividly captured “the harsh beauty of ugliness, the romanticism of the commonplace, the poetry of the unpoetical” (Roth, 122). Light soiling to cloth, some chipping to dust jacket. Very good.

First revised and updated edition of Muybridge’s pioneering Animal Locomotion (1887), containing his selection of over 95 of the “most important plates” from that landmark 11-volume photobook. About-fine.

“Every Documentary Photographer… Owed A Basic Debt To Riis’ Crusading Images”

“A Master Of The Dynamic Close-Up” 477. RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert. Eisen und Stahl. Berlin, 1931. Octavo, original half blue cloth, original silver paper boards. $1500. First edition of Renger-Patzsch’s influential masterpiece, with 97 black-and-white photogravures that helped ignite “one of Germany’s most pervasive modernist movements” (Roth). In Eisen und Stahl, Renger-Patzsch “shows himself a master of the dynamic close-up… at a time when the modernist approach was at its height, and the German economy and industry were in a desperate situation” (Parr & Badger I:125). Text in German. Without scarce dust jacket, rarely found. Near-fine.

“His Studies Radically Altered The Understanding Of Motion” 478. MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard. “Males Wrestling,” Plate 347 from Animal Locomotion. Philadelphia, 1887. Single large folio sheet, 23-1/2 by 18 inches (colotype 17-1/4 by 6-1/2 inches, apart from letterpress); mat, 28 by 20 inches. $4500. Original “Author’s Edition” collotype of multiple sequential studies of two nude male wrestlers, from the most significant photographic work on the natural motion of animals. To settle a bet that a galloping horse leaves the ground completely, former governor of California Leland Stanford hired Muybridge to resolve the point. He designed a system of multiple cameras, and Stanford won his bet. These were the first successful sequential photographs of rapidly moving objects, and became Muybridge’s lifelong project. The subsequent 20,000 negatives of various animals and humans in motion were printed in 1887 as Animal Locomotion. Fine.

Muybridge’s Animals In Motion, 1899

480. RIIS, Jacob A. The Battle with the Slum. New York, 1902. Octavo, original blue cloth gilt. $850. First edition of Riis’ third book, with more than 90 illustrations, including over 70 photogravures and 20 drawings (many full-page) whose frank images prompted a groundswell for urban reform. “The first photographer to use the power of the image as a tool for reform,” in 1890 Riis published his groundbreaking How the Other Half Lives, “one of the first ‘modern’ photobooks.” With that and this subsequent work, Riis prompted major reform by charting “the rise of the tenement and the slum landlord,” using the camera “to bear critical witness to what is going on in the world” (Parr & Badger II:289, I:53). With over 70 photogravures, many illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. Near-fine.

Signed By Gilles Peress 481. PERESS, Gilles. Telex Iran. In the Name of Revolution. Millerton, New York, 1983. Folio, original stiff wrappers. $3500.

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First American edition, signed by Peress, with 100 striking black-andwhite photographs (many doublepage) taken during the U.S./Iran crisis of 1979-80. Telex Iran “made Peress’ reputation… is one of the key works in what might be termed a postmodern approach to photojournalism” (Parr & Badger II:252). From the library of Anna Winand, a noted critic long associated with New York’s International Center of Photography. Fine.

“Both Near To The Grasp And Unreachable”

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First edition of this unsettling 1904 photobook by Louis Robbins, featuring tales such as “Troublesome Children,” with 37 duotones (including tipped-in cover plate). Robbins’ Dutch Doll Ditties anticipates by over 30 years the work of Surrealists whose “fascination with the automaton or doll is a fascination with the unconscious as well as with the uncanny” (Lusty, Surrealism, 92). Robbins’ unusual images of articulated dolls, his bittersweet romances and unsettling tales, his challenge to racism in “Sambo”—eerily precede the Surrealist project of German artist Hans Bellmer in La Poupée (The Doll, 1935). Like Bellmer, Miró, Man Ray, and Duchamp, Robbins imagines the doll as “both near to the grasp and unreachable… ‘an incitement to poetry’” (Warren, 116). Plates fine, text block expertly repaired, mild rubbing to boards. Extremely good.

“These Photographs Will Leave You Speechless” 483. SCHMIDT, Michael and SCHLEEF, Einar. Waffenruhe. Berlin, 1987. Square quarto, original selfwrappers. $1850. First edition of this striking photo-essay on the Berlin Wall, signed by photographer Michael Schmidt, with 39 rich full-page duotones (one gate-folded). “Like much of Schmidt’s work, Waffenruhe (Ceasefire) is about Berlin… Autumnal, dark, Schmidt does not employ the objective materiality of the traditional Social Landscape mode, but imposes a distinctly contemporary, updated, picturesque” approach (Parr & Badger II:65). Schmidt “represents what is most promising about the New European photography” (New York Times). Text in German. Issued same year in cloth, no priority established. Fine. 483

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482. ROBBINS, Louis. Dutch Doll Ditties. London, 1904. Quarto, original half burgundy cloth. $2200.

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Vintage Gelatin Silver Print From W. Eugene Smith’s Private Collection 484. SMITH, W. Eugene. Photograph. Hitachi, Ltd.— Violinist from the Hitachi Symphony. No place, 1961. Vintage gelatin silver print, 11 by 16 inches; mat total, 20 by 16 inches, estate inkstamp on print verso, gallery label on mat verso. $5200. Vintage gelatin silver print from the estate of W. Eugene Smith, his image of a young symphony violinist and Hitachi worker. Chosen for his 1963 photobook Japan… A Chapter of Image, this print with Smith’s estate inkstamp on the verso was featured in a highly praised 1996 New York gallery exhibit. This luminous gelatin silver print of a young violinist in Japan’s Hitachi Symphony speaks to W. Eugene Smith’s artistry—in which “it is the people in front of his lens who most strongly attract his attention, and his sympathy” (New York Times). Fine.

“The Stuff Of American Surfaces Has Become The Stuff Of Contemporary Photography” 485. SHORE, Stephen. American Surfaces. New York, 2005. Square quarto, original black paper boards, dust jacket, “Kodak” envelope. $850. First edition of Shore’s remarkable photobook, representing “the central idea—in contemporary photography” (Parr & Badger), signed by Shore, with 313 color plates and the scarce “Kodak Color Finishing Envelope.” “Shore burst into the skies of photography in the early 70s, dazzling observers with carefully conceived color landscape photographs… captivating, balanced objects of considerable visual complexity” (New York Times). In American Surfaces Shore’s “photographs and the publication represent a central idea— possible the central idea—in contemporary photography. That is, the notion of the diary/snapshot album… The sophisticated snapshot not just an American language but a universal one” (Parr & Badger II:295). Fine.

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“To Look At And Appreciate The Beauty That Is All Around Us” 487. SOUGEZ, Emmanuel. Alphabet. Paris, 1932. Quarto, original stiff self-wrappers. $3500. First edition of Emmanuel Sougez’ influential photobook, with 26 finely screened black-and-white photogravures printed on heavy card stock. In the 1930s European “publishers showed great enterprise in employing photography to illustrate books for children, commissioning some of the finest photographers and utilizing the medium in both a realistic and a fantastic way… Precise, elegant and lyrical, these images constitute a model modernist project, being ideal vehicles for showing anyone, not just children, how to look at and appreciate the beauty that is all around us” (Parr & Badger I:102). Light edgewear to wrappers. Extremely good.

Signed By Acclaimed Appalachian Photographer Doris Ullman 488. ULMANN, Doris. Photograph signed. No place, circa 1932. Gelatin silver print, 6 by 8 inches; matted and framed, entire piece 12-1/2 by 15-1/2 inches. $4200.

“The Father Of Modern Photography” 486. STIEGLITZ, Alfred. Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio: 1864-1946. New York, 1947. Folio, original white paper wrappers; 18 unbound folio (16 by 12 inches) photographic plates, portfolio. $1500. First edition, one of 1500 copies, with 18 unbound, exhibitionsize Stieglitz photographic plates, and a separate volume of over 60 tributes. From the library of photographer and musician Graham Nash. “It is hard to overstate the influence Stieglitz had on photography as an art” (Witkin & London, 243). Steichen called him “the father of modern photography” and to Ansel Adams, Stieglitz was “truly a man without epoch.” Published the year after Stiegtliz’ death, with tributes by fellow artists such as Cartier-Bresson and Hart Crane. From the collection of photographer and musician Graham Nash, with his signed bookplate tipped-in. Images bright, light edge-wear to several plates, tape reinforcement to portfolio flaps. Extremely good.

Vintage gelatin silver print of a Southern Appalachian woman holding a basket of yarn, signed on the mount in pencil by Doris Ulmann. Ulmann probably took the photograph while assembling Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands, a book on Appalachian folk arts and crafts. Throughout her career, Ulmann “remained drawn to ordinary people… She is now widely recognized as a major pictorial chronicler of American life during the early 20th century” (ANB). Ulmann gave this print to her close friends, George Bidstrup and his wife, Marguerite Butler Bidstrup, founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School. About-fine. 488

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“Jazz Visually Echoes The Music Itself”

Inscribed And Twice Signed By Andy Warhol

489. VAN DER ELSKEN, Ed. Jazz. Amsterdam, 1959. Octavo, original laminated boards. $2200.

491. WARHOL, Andy. Andy Warhol’s Exposures. New York, 1979. Quarto, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2300.

First edition, Dutch issue, with over 100 rich, velvety photogravures of jazz greats, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan. “The 1950s constituted a golden age for jazz music. The decade was also renowned for classic small-camera photography… The two art forms combine to perfection in van der Elsken’s gem of a book, Jazz… which visually echoes the music itself” (Parr & Badger I:246). Text in Dutch. Issued same year in German as Foto-Jazz; both printed in Holland, no priority established. Near-fine.

First trade edition, American issue, of Warhol’s candid and engaging photobook, featuring 360 striking half-tones, signed by him on the dust jacket, then inscribed by him, “to debra, Andy Warhol,” above his trademark sketch of a broken heart. This collection of Warhol’s photographs includes wonderful sections on President Jimmy Carter, Capote, Dali, Studio 54 and numerous celebrities, artists and musicians. Issued same year as the English issue; preceded by a signed limited edition of 1,000 copies in full morocco. Fine.

“Lushly Romantic, A Chromatic Orchestration” 490. STRUTH, Thomas and BELTING, Hans. Thomas Struth. Museum Photographs. Munich 1998. Oblong quarto, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $1500. First edition in English, signed by Struth, a “complicated dialogue between photography and painting” (Parr & Badger), with 20 color and four black-white photographs. “Struth is one of the most promising of a young generation of German photographer-artists influenced by Hilla and Bernd Becher… the sureness of his eye is unmistakable” (New York Times). His fascination with public spaces is expressed here one of his most acclaimed photobooks, Museum Photographs. Struth would wait for hours to capture “pictures of people in some of the major museums of the world… as a meditation on the complicated dialogue between photography and painting” (Parr & Badger II:272). Preceded by the 1993 edition in German. Fine.

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“Iron Determination, Superb Physique And Unfailing Courage”

492. BYRD, Richard Evelyn. Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole. New York and London, 1930. Octavo, original threequarter Japan vellum. $800.

494. MAWSON, Sir Douglas. The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. London, 1915. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original gilt- and silver-stamped blue cloth. $4200.

Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 copies signed by Byrd and the publisher, with 74 maps and illustrations, including frontispiece portrait and two folding maps. “The expedition discovered a part of Antarctica now known as Marie Byrd Land, the Rockefeller and Ford mountain ranges, and the 10,000-foot La Gorce Mountain” (DAB). Without original slipcase. Light rubbing to extremities, light soiling to binding. Extremely good condition.

First edition of this classic account of Antarctic exploration, profusely illustrated with 18 color plates, hundreds of blackand-white plates, numerous in-text illustrations and three color folding maps in rear pocket of Volume II. Leading the renowned Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914, explorer Sir Douglas Mawson proved himself a true hero. While Mawson set up a main base in George V Land, his team “explored nearly 2000 miles of coastline while sledge parties traversed some 4000 miles in the coastlands and hinterlands… On one inland sledging expedition Mawson lost both his companions, and only survived by the exercise of iron determination.” Near fine.

The First Crossing Of Spitsbergen 493. CONWAY, Sir William Martin. The First Crossing of Spitsbergen. London, 1897. Large octavo, original half brown cloth. $950. First edition of this tale of Arctic adventure, profusely illustrated with eight color plates, two large color folding maps, numerous black and white photographic plates, and many intext illustrations. “The author spent the summer of 1896 and 1897 exploring the interior of West Spitsbergen… [The expedition] made in all 13 mountain ascents, produced a survey sketch of about 600 square miles of central West Spitsbergen, almost completed a circumnavigation of the main island, and made valuable geologic and natural history collections” (Arctic Bibliography 3378). Near-fine.

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495. HEALY, Michael Augustine. Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885. Washington, 1887. Quarto, contemporary full brown sheep. $750. First (and only) edition, with two large folding maps, 38 pages of wood engravings and four full-page color lithographs. Healy was the first African-American to be appointed commander in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, a precursor to the U.S. Coast Guard. It has been conjectured that Healy was Jack London’s model for the cruel Captain Wolf Larsen of The Sea-Wolf. Contains Healy’s report, as well as those of junior officers on the “Exploration of the Kowak River, Alaska” and the “Exploration of the Noatak River.” Ex-libris, with one small ink stamp and remnants of paper label to foot of spine. Handsome.

Parry’s Second Voyage For A North‑West Passage, With A Signed Autograph Note 496. PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North‑West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1821, 22, 23 in His Majesty’s Ships Fury and Hecla. London, 1824. Quarto, period-style brown and blue-gray paper boards. WITH: Autograph note. Single sheet of paper, measuring 4-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches. $2500. First edition of Parry’s second voyage, illustrated with eight large folding maps and charts and 31 full-page maps and copperplate engravings, with a brief autograph note written and signed by Parry tipped in. This work is particularly important for its depiction of Inuit life and its maps showing

the discoveries made in the Polar Sea north of Canada. “The work is in truth a splendid treatise on aboriginal life” (Field 1184). The autograph note, written entirely in Parry’s hand and laid in, reads: “Can you come up a moment. I leave word with the messenger where you are, in case your name is called, W. Parry.” Library stamp on title page. About-fine.

In Search Of The North-West Passage 497. PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1819-20. London, 1821. Quarto, original brown boards rebacked in contemporary brown morocco. $3500. First edition of the account of Parry’s important first voyage, uncut and in scarce original boards. Illustrated with engraved maps and plates. Parry’s expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage was one of the most important early explorations of the Arctic. He collected valuable data on the region’s climate, natural history, and geography. With folding frontispiece map, three folding plates, 16 full-page plates, and tipped-in errata slip. Auction catalogue dated 14 and 15 May, 1851 tipped in between pages xii and xiii. A large, clean, entirely uncut copy in original boards.

Signed By Reinhold Messner 498. MESSNER, Reinhold. Antarctica. Both Heaven and Hell. Seattle, 1991. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $300. First American edition, signed by Messner. Messner’s account of his 1990 trek across Antarctica in the path of Shackleton’s famous 1914 adventure. With 30 pages of color illustrations and over 100 black-and-white photographs. First published in German in 1990. Fine. 496

Peary’s Greenland Expeditions 499. PEARY, Robert E. Northward over the “Great Ice.” A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897. London, 1898. Two volumes. Octavo, original giltand silver-stamped blue cloth. $1250. First edition of Peary’s copiously illustrated account of his Greenland expeditions. Peary’s expeditions in 1886 and 1891-7 determined the insularity of Greenland and mapped the northern extension of the icecap. With photographic frontispiece portraits, hundreds of illustrations throughout, and large folding map at rear of Volume II. Near-fine.

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Theodore Roosevelt. Preceded by the English trade and limited editions of the same year. Very light foxing to occasional leaves, boards and spine ends lightly rubbed, with one small inoffensive tear to front cover. An extremely good copy.

Extraordinary Typed Letter Signed By Robert E. Peary 503. PEARY, Robert E. Typed Letter Signed to Stanley Gray. Washington: December 17, 1909. Two quarto leaves (8-1/2 inches by 11 inches), typed on rectos, 1-1/2 pages. With original typed envelope. $4800.

Peary Writes Of The Arctic For Children 500. PEARY, Robert E. Snowland Folk: The Eskimos, the Bears, the Dogs, the Musk Oxen, and Other Dwellers in the Frozen North. New York, 1904. Slim quarto, original pictorial olive cloth, mounted cover illustration. $375. First edition of the Arctic explorer’s book for children about the inhabitants of the north, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Admiral Peary tells stories about his dogs, the explorers’ flags, Eskimo families, housing his expedition in polar regions, and hunting wild animals. Near-fine.

The Further Adventures Of Peary’s Daughter 501. (PEARY, Josephine Diebitsch). Children of the Arctic by the Snow Baby and her Mother. New York, 1903. Slim quarto, original pictorial green cloth, mounted cover illustration. $375. First edition, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Following the success of Peary’s book The Snow Baby about her daughter, who was born on an expedition to Greenland in 1893, Peary wrote this children’s book about the further Arctic adventures of her daughter. Near-fine.

“I Have Won Out At Last” 502. PEARY, Robert E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York, 1910. Thick octavo, original pictorial blue cloth. $450. First American trade edition (issued the same year as the first English) of Peary’s illustrated account of his journey to the North Pole. This dramatic account is illustrated with a large folding color map, eight color photographic plates, and over 100 black-and-white photographic plates. With introduction by

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Extraordinary and revealing typed letter signed from Peary to Stanley Gray, written shortly after Peary’s bitter controversy with Frederick Cook had erupted over which of the two explorers was the first to reach the North Pole. After leading several prior Arctic expeditions that fell short of the final goal, Peary set out on his last quest for the North Pole in 1908. Upon his victorious return, he learned of that Dr. Frederick A. Cook claimed to have reached the Pole one year earlier. A bitter controversy followed. Congress officially recognized Peary’s achievement in 1911. The very long letter reads, in part: “I would rather not lecture at all… In the interests of those dependent on me… I have no right to throw away opportunities which come to me unsolicited… If you can see your way clear to pay me $1,000.00 for a lecture in your largest Haverhill auditorium… I shall be glad to come to you, shall tell you the straight-from-the-heart story of the last of the great earth stories in a way that everyone in your audience will hear and understand.” He has signed “R.E. Peary, U.S.N.” Minor discoloration at a few spots on the letter and the ink in Peary’s signature has run slightly, but is nonetheless clear. Very good condition.

First Edition Of Antarctic Conquest, Inscribed By Commander Ronne 504. RONNE, Finn. Antarctic Conquest. New York, 1949. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $600. Presentation first edition of this Antarctic mission to map the territory bordering the Weddell Sea, with frontispiece portrait and eight pages of photographs, inscribed: “To Frederick Bauer with best wishes. Finn Ronne.” This autobiography by the last of the great polar explorers recounts his Antarctic Research Expedition of 1947-48, financed with only $50,000 and government equipment, returning with “a harvest of scientific findings.” Fine.

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Splendid Large Original Half-Tone Photograph Taken On Scott’s Discovery Expedition 505. (SCOTT, Robert Falcon). “Winter Quarters”—magnetic huts, used as an illustration for Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery. Antarctica, circa 1902. Original half-tone sepia photograph (11-1/2 by 9 inches), contemporary mount measures 13-3/4 by 11-1/2 inches. $1500. Original half-tone sepia photograph depicting “our magnetic huts,” with Discovery moored in the background and sled dogs in the foreground. This original photographic image was used to illustrate Robert Scott’s account of the first expedition to undertake extensive overland investigations of Antarctica. This original photograph illustrates “the larger of the huts.” Scattered flecking and faint damp-spot to photograph. Minor wear to margins of original mount.

Wonderful Catalogue Of Ponting’s Photographs From Scott’s Polar Expedition 506. (SCOTT, Robert F.) PONTING, Herbert G. Exhibition of the Photographic Pictures of Mr. Herbert G. Ponting. London, circa 1913. 12mo, original paper wrappers. $1200. Scarce catalogue from the exhibition of Ponting’s photographic work as a member of Captain Scott’s Antarctic expedition, including eight black and white photographs. Ponting was a well-known travel photographer who was selected by Scott to head the Photographic Department of the British Antarctic Expedition. This catalogue from a show by The Fine Art Society in London includes eight black-and-white photographic plates, among them shots of Captain Scott and “Midnight in the Antarctic Summer.” Some light wear to original wrappers. Exceptional.

First edition, first issue, illustrated with over 300 engravings on steel and wood from sketches by the author, including 20 full-page plates and four maps (two folding). U.S. naval physician Elisha Kane’s Arctic Explorations is an account of one of the last of the expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and the Northwest Passage. “It was Kane’s graphic tale that fired the imagination of others and served as the impetus for the continuing polar quest” (Pierre Berton). “Arctic Explorations lay for a decade with the Bible on almost literally every parlor table in America” (DAB). Near-fine.

“As ‘The Boss’ Would Have Wished” 508. (SHACKLETON, Ernest) WILD, Frank. Shackleton’s Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest. London, 1923. Thick octavo, blue gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. $3000. First edition of the narrative of Shackleton’s final expedition, with color frontispiece, several maps, and over 135 black-andwhite photographic illustrations. The purpose of the Quest’s voyage in 1921-22 was for Shackleton to map 2000 miles of the Antarctic coastline. Shackleton died suddenly of a heart attack aboard ship. Captain Frank Wild “decided the expedition would continue as the ‘The Boss’ would have wished” (Conrad 230). His account contains “extracts from the diaries of Shackleton” and a record of Shackleton’s funeral by Dr. Hussey, a ship physician (Rosove 349). Without scarce dust jacket. Near-fine. 508

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507. KANE, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ’54, ’55. Philadelphia, 1856. Two volumes. Octavo, original blind-stamped slate blue cloth. $950.

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“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful.” “The Ice Closed Over Her For Ever” 509. SHACKLETON, Ernest. South. London, (1919). Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth. $3000. First edition, second impression (a far better printing than the first), of Shackleton’s own account of his illfated expedition, with color frontispiece, folding map and 88 full-page photogravures, including Frank Hurley’s famed image of the doomed Endurance. Shackleton embarked in 1914 in the Endurance to make the first crossing of the Antarctic continent—1800 miles from sea to sea. But 1915 turned into an unusually icy year in Antarctica; after drifting trapped in the ice for nine months, the Endurance was crushed in the ice on October 27. “Shackleton now showed his supreme qualities of leadership… with five companions he made a voyage of 800 miles in a 22-foot boat through some of the stormiest seas in the world, crossed the unknown lofty interior of South Georgia, and reached a Norwegian whaling station on the north coast. After three attempts… Shackleton succeeded in rescuing the rest of the Endurance party and bringing them to South America” (DNB). Amazingly, all members of the Endurance party survived the ordeal. The second impression was printed one month after the first impression, and is considered by many to be more desirable, because the first printing was a poorly produced book. Conrad, 210-14, 224. Front inner paper hinge starting but sound. Original cloth nearly fine with only minor rubs, silver-gilt bright and fine. A near-fine copy.

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510. (SHACKLETON, Ernest) HURLEY, Frank. Five postcard photographs of Shackleton’s last expedition to Antarctica, 1914-1917. London, 1930. Photographs made up into postcards, each measures 5-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches. $2200. Five postcard photographs documenting Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition, three of which were published in the 1919 edition of South. Two postcards are signed by explorer Ernest Joyce, with dates of the expeditions he accompanied. Shackleton embarked in 1914 in the Endurance to make the first crossing of the Antarctic continent. But the Endurance became trapped in the ice for nine months, and was finally crushed on October 27. “With five companions [Shackleton] made a voyage of 800 miles in a 22foot boat… After three attempts… Shackleton succeeded (30 August 1916) in rescuing the rest of the Endurance party and bringing them to South America” (DNB). Amazingly, all members of the Endurance party survived, including Ernest Joyce, who signed two of the postcards offered here. These five wonderful documentary postcards were published in commemoration of the British Polar Exhibition in 1930; an accompanying sixth card is unidentified. Fine.

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Five Postcard Photographs Taken During Shackleton’s Last Antarctic Expedition, Two Signed By Survivor Ernest Joyce

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based in Moscow during WWII. Book fine, mild wear to extremities of scarce dust jacket, with one inch of loss to top of front panel and soiling to back panel, affecting text.

“Best Of The Gentleman Naturalists” 514. (PENNANT, Thomas). Arctic Zoology. London, 178485. Two volumes. Quarto, modern half brown calf. $ 2500.

Three Signed By Stefansson 511. STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur. The Friendly Arctic. New York, 1921. Thick octavo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth. $850. First edition of the account of one of the last great North American expeditions, signed by Stefansson and dated December, 1921. From 1913 to 1918, Stefansson’s team surveyed the region from Alaska to Baffin’s Bay. With more than 100 photographs of the region, indigenous tribes and the explorers, and nine maps (six folding, two in rear pocket as issued). Light marginal browning to first few leaves, very light wear to cloth. A very good copy. 512. STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur. Arctic Manual. New York, 1944. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $800. First trade edition, inscribed in pencil: “Inscribed for Sr. Commander Albert G. Sayre by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, October 23 1944.” Originally written for the instruction of the U.S. Army Air Corps, this manual exhaustively treats the practical aspects of living in the Arctic. The first edition of this work was privately printed for the Army in 1940, making this the first trade edition. Book near-fine, price-clipped dust jacket very good with slight soiling, moderate wear to extremities, darkening to spine and several tape repairs to verso. Scarce. 513. STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur. Hunters of the Great North. New York, 1922 i.e. 1947. Octavo, original silverstamped black cloth, dust jacket. $500. First edition, later printing, presentation copy, illustrated with 26 photographic plates, six of them full-page, inscribed: “For Raymond Arthur Davies on his first visit to Dearing Farm, the story of the first journey north by his friend Vilhjalmur Steffansson, September 17, 1947.” “A retrospective account of the author’s sojourn among the Eskimos of the Mackenzie delta region and northern Alaska, while on the Leffingwell-Mikkelsen Expedition, 1906-07” (Arctic Bibliography 16817). The recipient, Davies, was a war correspondent who covered the Spanish Civil war and was

First edition of Pennant’s “classic work,” with 23 engraved plates—an attractively bound, uncut copy. “The work, which must be regarded as the most prominent of Pennant’s works, was originally planned as a sketch of the zoology of North America, but was later enlarged with the addition of descriptions of the quadrupeds and birds of the parts of Europe and Asia lying north of latitude 60 degrees N” (Anker 397). Without 1787 supplemental volume, as usual. Excellent.

“Without Parallel In The History Of Scientific Research” 515. THOMSON, C. Wyville. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76. London, 1885, 1882. Two volumes bound in three. Large quarto, contemporary full dark green morocco gilt, custom slipcases. $8000. First edition of the illustrated Narrative section of the report on the Challenger—a voyage “without parallel in the history of scientific research” (Britannica)—with 37 full-page photographic plates (two folding panoramas), 14 fine full-page chromolithographs, 66 charts and diagrams (20 folding), large folding map and numerous in-text wood engravings, handsomely bound by Donnelley. The binder’s own copy, with his bookplates. From December 1872, the Challenger spent a year gathering information on island chains such as the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands and the Bermudas. In early 1874, she became the first steamship to cross the Antarctic Circle. The 515

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“The Dogs Had Just Lain Down In The Snow, When An Enormous White Bear Made His Appearance…” 516. (WRANGEL, Ferdinand von.) SABINE, Edward, editor. Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Sea, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, & 1823. London, 1840. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco. $1500. First edition in English of this report of a Russian naval expedition in the Arctic Sea, with a large folding map of Northeastern Siberia. Von Wrangel headed a Russian government expedition to survey the coast eastward from the Kolyma River and northward in the East Siberian Sea. The expedition established that north of Cape Shelagsky was only open sea, and not land; charted the Siberian coast from the Indigirka River to Kolyuchinskaya Bay; and collected data on climate, geomagnetics, glaciers, natural resources and population. “These explorations seemed to confirm the existence of an open and navigable sea deep in the Arctic” (Hill 1916). This edition is a translation from the 1839 German edition “with some abridgement of text, and the omission

of meteorological tables in appendix” (Arctic Bibliography 18994). The Russian edition was not published until 1841. Exlibrary, with bookplate. Near-fine.

“The Finest Series Of Arctic Views Then Published”: First Edition Of Ross’ Voyage To Baffin Bay, 1819, With 15 Beautiful Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates 517. ROSS, John. A Voyage of Discovery. London, 1819. Quarto, contemporary full tan calf gilt rebacked. $9000. First edition, illustrated with 32 engraved plates, charts and maps (13 folding), including 15 magnificent hand-colored aquatints by Havell & Son (four folding) depicting icebergs, a “bear plunging into the sea,” and the ship’s “passage through the ice,” among other dramatic images. “A famous, even notorious, voyage, led by Captain John Ross. As his lieutenants, Ross had aboard William Parry, James Clark Ross, and Edward Sabine, all of future fame as explorers. Ross attempted to proceed westward through Lancaster Sound, but being deceived, presumably by a mirage, he described the passage as barred by a range of mountains, which he named the Croker Mountains, despite the disbelief of his colleagues. On returning to England in November, the report was, at first, accepted as conclusive, and Ross was promoted to post rank in December, 1818. In the following year he published this volume. A controversy soon arose which called Ross’ courage into question and opened a life-long quarrel between him and Sir John Barrow” (Hill I:261). “The voyage of John Ross into Baffin’s Bay in 1818 was a pioneering effort in high Arctic exploration” (Beinecke Library). Abbey Travel 634. Arctic Bibliography 14873. Scientific notations by early owner on some leaves; private library stamps to bottom edge of text block and to top of page 99. Light offsetting from plates; rubbing to contemporary calf. A fine copy. See illustration on page 126.

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second portion of the voyage was spent researching the Pacific. The present section of the work relates the day-to-day trials the crew faced as well as charting the vessel’s course. Especially notable are the early photographic prints, including striking images of Antarctic icebergs and a penguin rook on Inaccessible Island. The full report of the voyage was issued in 40 volumes from 1880 to 1895. Without the map showing the Challenger’s route. In 1877, Thomson’s “Preliminary Account” of the expedition preceded the present work (Conrad, 70; Fitzgerald Collection 703). Very nearly fine.

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518. (BASEBALL) AARON, Hank and WHEELER, Lonnie. If I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story. New York, 1991. Octavo, original half purple cloth, dust jacket. $350. First edition of this great champion’s autobiography, with 24 pages of photographs, signed by Hank Aaron. Fine.

1955 Position-Tips From The Stars Of The Milwaukee Braves 519. (BASEBALL) MILWAUKEE BRAVES (BREWERS). How to Play Better Baseball… by Stars of the Milwaukee Braves. Milwaukee, circa 1955. Six issues. 16mo, original red self-wrappered folding “posters,” measuring 3 by 4-1/2 inches folded. $400. Set of six original pocket-sized folding photographic “posters” of Milwaukee Braves’ stars demonstrating sequences of position play, including Joe Adcock at first base, Del Crandall behind the plate, and Bobby Thomson in left field. Published as part of an advertising series, these training booklets were designed to adorn a young player’s room. Printed on one side only to allow for hanging as a poster, each contains 12 stopaction photographs illustrating the proper way to play a given position. This collection features Joe Adcock, Johnny Logan, Bobby Thomson, Billy Bruton, Del Crandall, and manager Charlie Grimm. Minor chipping and faint staining. A very nice set. 519

Signed By Mickey Cochrane 520. (BASEBALL) COCHRANE, Gordon S. (Mickey). Baseball: The Fans’ Game. New York and London, 1939. Octavo, original orange cloth, dust jacket. $1500. First edition of this autobiography and collection of baseball tips by the Hall-of-Fame catcher, with photographic frontispiece portrait and 14 black-and-white photographic plates, signed: “Best Wishes, Mickey Cochrane.” Cochrane was a lifetime .320 hitter and won three World Series as catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics (1929-31) and one as player-manager for the Detroit Tigers (1935). Near-fine.

Signed Copy Of Lange’s Scarce History Of Pacific Coast Baseball 521. (BASEBALL) LANGE, Fred W. History of Baseball in California and Pacific Coast Leagues. 1847-1938. Oakland, 1938. Octavo, original half black cloth. $850. First edition of these illustrated “memories and musings of an old time baseball player,” with season-by-season summaries, statistics, rosters and biographical sketches, including Joe DiMaggio and Lefty Gomez, signed by the author. Lange played infield and caught for the Oakland “G&Ms” in 1886, third base for the Chicago Maroons in 1887-88, and starred with the Chicago White Stockings in the 1890s. Near-fine.

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Signed By Bobby Thomson And Ralph Branca

522. (BASEBALL) MANTLE, Mickey. Photograph signed. Pleasantville, New York, 1988. Original color contact print, measuring 8 by 10 inches. $1200.

526. (BASEBALL) THOMSON, Bobby. The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant! New York, 1991. Octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket. $300.

Color photograph of outfielder Mickey Mantle in Yankee pinstripes, boldly signed with blue marker. Fine.

First edition, signed by Giants home run hitter Bobby Thomson and Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca. The story of the 1951 pennant year, with interviews and 28 photographs. Fine.

527. (BASEBALL) WILLIAMS, Ted. The Boston Red Sox. New York, 1947. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $1500. First edition of this “dramatic and exciting” history of the boys from Beantown, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Ted Williams and Babe Ruth and 14 pages of player photographs, signed by Williams, Boudreau, Cramer and Doerr. This copy is signed by legendary Boston batsman Ted Williams, pitcher Lou Boudreau, outfielder “Doc” Cramer, and second baseman Bobby Doerr. Near-fine.

Signed By Jackie Robinson 523. (BASEBALL) ROBINSON, Jackie. Baseball Has Done It. Philadelphia and New York, 1964. Octavo, original cream cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $5000. First edition of this primary documentation of baseball’s integration—“what it is like to be both a baseball star and a Negro,”—signed: “Best wishes. Jackie Robinson.” This is an extraordinary collection of interviews between a number of famous black players and Jackie Robinson. Near-fine.

Signed By Mike Schmidt 524. (BASEBALL) SCHMIDT, Mike and WALDER, Barbara. Always on the Offense. New York, 1982. Octavo, original maroon paper boards, dust jacket. $250. First edition of the strategic philosophy of golden-glove third-baseman and Phillies slugger Mike Schmidt, signed by him. Fine.

Signed By Duke Snider 525. (BASEBALL) GOLENBOCK, Peter. Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers. New York, 1984. Octavo, original blue cloth, slipcase. $750. Signed limited first edition of this classic history of the Brooklyn Dodgers, one of 400 copies signed by both Golenbock and Dodger immortal Duke Snider. Golenbock covers the history of the Dodgers from their earliest days through Walter O’Malley’s eventual removal of the team to California. Fine.

1935 Year Book From Ted Williams’ High School, Signed By Him 528. (BASEBALL) (WILLIAMS, Ted). Dias Cardinales: Hoover Senior High School Year Book. San Diego, June 1935. Slim quarto, original spiral-bound red paper boards, custom clamshell box. $4800. Original copy of the 1935 Hoover High yearbook, boldly signed later by Ted Williams on the team picture. Ted Williams led the American League in batting six times and in slugging percentage nine times. His high school team won all but three games in their 1935 season. Williams graduated the following year and immediately joined the minor leagues. Signature fine. Only light foxing to first and last few pages, silver coverlettering rubbed. 528

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shot of “The Greatest” in shirt and tie, talking on the phone, was probably taken around 1964. This was the year when 22-year-old Ali beat heavyweight champion Sonny Liston and took the title. Based on similar inscriptions, the recipient of this photograph may well have been the Peter Moser who served on the committee for the 1984 Olympic Games. Fine.

Two Inscribed By Max Baer 531. (BOXING) BAER, Max. Photographic print inscribed. No place, 1957. Black-andwhite photographic print, measuring 7-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches. $500.

Signed By Muhammad Ali And Photographer Neil Leifer 529. (BOXING) (ALI, Muhammad) LEIFER, Neil. Large original color photograph signed. No place, November 1993. Poster-sized photographic print, image measures 19 by 19 inches, entire print measures 24 by 20 inches. $7200. Extraordinary poster-size color photograph taken from overhead of Muhammad Ali returning to his corner with his fists raised over his head in triumph, leaving behind a sprawled-out Cleveland “Big Cat” Williams, one of only 350 copies printed and signed by the photographer Neil Leifer, this copy additionally signed by Ali. Ali fought “Big Cat” Williams in defense of his heavyweight championship on November 14, 1966 in Houston. Many feel that this was the finest fight of Ali’s career. Renowned sports photographer Neil Leifer chronicled Ali throughout his career and captured many of the defining images of “The Greatest.” Fine.

Inscribed By Muhammad Ali 530. (BOXING) ALI, Muhammad. Photograph inscribed. No place, circa 1964. Glossy black-and-white photograph (5 by 7 inches). $700. Striking backlit photograph of a young Muhammad Ali, boldly inscribed: “To Peter, from Muhammad Ali, 4-1-91.” This head-

Photographic print of a young Max Baer in the ring, gearing up for a fight, inscribed to his close friend, Canadian rodeo champion “Calgary Red”: “Larry this is before we met in 1933. This was taken 1929 Oakland—I was a young one here—Your pal, Max Baer 1957.” Baer began boxing professionally in 1929. This image was captured at a fight in Oakland. By 1933, Baer had knocked out Hitler’s favorite Max Schmeling. One year later, Baer captured the title “Heavyweight Champion of the World.” In 1935, after losing his title to “Cinderella Man” James J. Braddock, Baer began to turn away from boxing. By the 1950s, Baer had begun making celebrity appearances at Cameron’s auto dealership outside of Sacramento. Fine. 531

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534. (FOOTBALL) LANDRY, Tom with LEWIS, Gregg. Tom Landry: An Autobiography. Grand Rapids and New York, 1990. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $250. First edition, signed by Landry. “Landry was selected as the head coach when the Dallas Cowboys started their first National Football League season in 1960… Landry’s teams had 20 straight winning seasons, 13 divisional championship, five NFC titles and victories in Super Bowls VI and XII” (Pro Football Hall of Fame). Illustrated with 22 pages of color photographs. Fine.

“Win One For The Gipper” 535. (FOOTBALL) (ROCKNE, Knute) STUHLDREHER, Harry A. Knute Rockne: Man Builder. Philadelphia, 1931. Octavo, original blue cloth. $600. Signed limited “Notre Dame” first edition, one of an unspecified number of the first printing specially designated for the undergraduates, alumni, and friends of Notre Dame and signed by Harry A. Stuhldreher. The basis for the film Knute Rockne, All-American, which starred Ronald Reagan. This biography of renowned Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne was written by a member of his legendary 1924 team, quarterback Harry A. Stuhldreher. Under Rockne’s coaching, that year’s backfield became a powerhouse despite their relatively diminutive statures (all below six feet and 162 pounds). Near-fine.

“Permit Foot Ball To Hold Its Place As The Greatest Game Ever Devised For Young Men…” 533. (FOOTBALL) Spalding’s Official Foot Ball Guide. New York, 1939. 12mo, contemporary burgundy cloth, original wrappers bound in. $950. The 1939 edition of the Spalding Company’s annual review and preview of American college football, illustrated with more than 80 black-and-white team photographs and replete with statistics of the players and their plays. This copy of Herman Hickman, “one of the greatest linemen to play the game,” with his bookplate. Circa 1890, Spalding began publishing football guides comparable to its baseball manuals. This edition reviews the 1938 college football season. A detachable, 80-page section of “Official Foot Ball Rules,” bound in stiff wrappers, precedes the Guide proper. Bookplate of Herman Hickman, “one of the greatest linemen to play the game… Hickman played three All-Pro seasons with the Brooklyn football Dodgers… [He] eventually became the head coach at Yale” (College Football Hall of Fame). Front board embossed “Ole Timer.” Near-fine.

With 54 Photogravures Of Fishing Holes 536. (FLY-FISHING) WALTON, Izaak and COTTON, Charles. The Compleat Angler. London, 1888. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $4500. Limited 100th edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Marston, illustrated with 103 wood-engravings and 54 photogravures (27 by Emerson) depicting the present-day river-banks of the authors’ original fishing holes. Charles Warren Stoddard’s copy, signed by him. First published in 1653, “the Angler is a ‘piscatorial classic’” (Sampson, 385). This edition, called the “Lea and Dove Edition” (after the authors’ favorite rivers), is a reissue of the first two parts of the fifth edition of 1676. The early photogravures were produced by P.H. Emerson and George Bankart. Emerson’s works “have been in great demand by photography collectors, so many volumes have been destroyed by the extraction of Emerson’s photogravures” (Coigney, 125). Signatures of author Charles Warren Stoddard. Lovely and very scarce.

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Vintage candid photograph of heavyweight champions Max Baer and Rocky Marciano, inscribed, “Larry, ‘Rocky’ Marciano and I are talking about you on my radio show and how you are the Pontiac ‘Champion.’ Good luck, your pal, Max Baer. 1957.” Following his boxing career, Baer hosted two successful radio programs. This candid photograph captures Max’s “on air” interview with former heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, who had retired the previous year, undefeated. Fine.

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Thomas Poulton. Adhering to the finest traditions and intentions of the Nonesuch Press, this edition of Walton’s complete works combines elegance with accessibility. Spine toned to dark brown. Fine.

“The Golf Stroke Is The Most Highly Technical Method Of Hitting A Ball In The Whole Realm Of Sport” 539. (GOLF) MACDONALD, Bob. Golf. Chicago, 1927. Quarto, original dark green cloth. $850. First edition of this “exhaustive analysis of the golf-stroke,” with over 200 stop-action photographs of the swing from multiple perspectives. A beautiful fresh copy. Fine.

First Edition Of Travis’ Practical Golf “No Single Book Ever Had A More Revolutionary Effect On The Angling World”

540. (GOLF) TRAVIS, Walter J. Practical Golf. New York, 1901. Octavo, original green gilt-stamped cloth. $950.

537. (FLY-FISHING) RONALDS, Alfred. The Fly-Fisher’s Entomology. Liverpool, 1913. Two volumes. Quarto, original half green morocco gilt. $6200.

First edition of this illustrated instruction manual by one of the all-time golf greats. Travis was three-time National Amateur Champion (1900, 1901, 1903) and won the British amateur championship at Sandwich in 1904. With numerous photographs of Travis demonstrating stances, grips and swings. Fine.

Limited edition, one of only 270 copies, signed by the publisher, with 48 actual tied flies in captioned mounts and illustrated with 21 full-page plates, including six beautiful photographs and 11 hand-colored engravings depicting flies and fish. With his Fly-fisher’s Entomology, originally published in 1836, Ronalds became “the most significant figure after Cotton… It is safe to say that no single book ever had a more revolutionary effect on the angling world—that is, the actual practice of angling, as opposed to the recording of its annals— than The Fly-fisher’s Entomology.” Whereas the 1836 first edition was praised for its plates, which juxtaposed depictions of natural and artificial flies, this limited edition contains 48 flies mounted on thick card that correspond to the depictions of live flies in the color plates. Ronalds’ original plates have been remade for this edition and have been carefully painted from the last edition revised by the author. The flies have been specially dressed according to Ronalds’ instruction, and have been beautifully preserved. Also contains Ronalds’ prefaces to the first five editions. Fine.

Nonesuch Press Compleat Angler 538. (FLY-FISHING) WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson. Bloomsbury, 1929. Thick octavo, original full light sienna morocco, gilt centerpiece “I.W.” circled by small gilt oval, marbled paper slipcase. $650. Handsome Nonesuch Press limited edition of the complete writings of Izaak Walton, one of 1600 copies, with critical notes by Geoffrey Keynes and handsome full-page and in-text illustrations by portraitist Charles Sigrist and naturalist

A History Of Golf In Great Britain 541. (GOLF) DARWIN, Bernard, et al. A History of Golf in Britain. London, 1952. Thick quarto, original green cloth, dust jacket. $650. First edition of this comprehensive survey of British golf, with contributions by famous players and golf writers and illustrated with four color plates and numerous black-andwhite photographs of equipment, golf swings, and personalities. Headlined by Bernard Darwin, golf correspondent of The Times and one of the best regarded of all golf writers, this wonderful history of British golf is “a classic in the literature of golf.” Fine. 541

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Facsimile Edition Of The First American Book On Golf 545. (GOLF) LEE, James P. Golf in America: A Practical Manual. Far Hills, New Jersey, 1986. Tall 12mo, original pictorial yellow cloth, slipcase. $650.

Inscribed By Bobby Jones 542. (GOLF) JONES, Robert Tyre (“Bobby”). Golf Is My Game. Garden City, 1960. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $6000. First edition of Bobby Jones’ personal account of his career and views on golf, illustrated with numerous photographs and diagrams, inscribed: “For Tom Gilmour, With best wishes, Robert T. Jones, Jr.” In this book, Jones “tells of 14 years of exciting championship competition-and golf today compared with what it was.” Near-fine.

“Character, Magnetism, Courage, And Intelligence Of A High Order” 543. (GOLF) JONES, Robert T., Jr. and KEELER, O.B. Down the Fairway: The Golf Life and Play of Robert T. Jones, Jr. New York, 1927. Octavo, original green and yellow cloth. $1200. First trade edition of what many collectors consider the greatest golf book of the 20th century, with 37 black-and-white photographs. The great Bobby Jones, winner of 13 major championships and founder of the Augusta National Golf Course and the Masters tournament, “left an enduring legacy of athletic prowess and exemplary personal characteristics” (ANB). This first trade edition of Jones’ autobiography, written when he was only 25 years old, was preceded by a signed limited edition of 300 copies. Without scarce dust jacket. Fine.

Limited facsimile edition, one of 1,500 copies, of the first golf book to be published in the United States. Lee’s instructional manual was printed just as the Scottish sport was catching on in this country. The year 1895 saw the first official United States golf championships; the U.S. Golf Association was formed the year before. Illustrated with photographic plates. This fine facsimile of the 1895 edition is the sixth in a series of publications sponsored by the USGA. Fine.

“Putting Is The Key To Success In Golf” 546. (GOLF) PARK, William, Jr. The Art of Putting by Willie Park. Edinburgh, 1920. Slim octavo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth. $3000. First edition of this early instructional manual by a man who has “devoted more time to the study and practice of putting than any other golfer, amateur or professional,” with 12 photographic plates of set-ups for long and short putts. Willie Park not only played the game professionally but also operated a successful club manufactory and designed golf courses. Here, Park discloses “several points which [he had] kept a close secret,” one of which was hitting the top half of the ball, thereby imparting topspin. Bookplate and stamp of famous golf collector R. Otto Probst, whose library is showcased in the PGA Historical Center. Fine.

Inscribed By Gary Player 547. (GOLF) PLAYER, Gary. Grand Slam Golf. London, 1966. Octavo, original blue paper boards, dust jacket. $600.

“A Galaxy Of Golf Balls” 544. (GOLF) MARTIN, John Stuart. The Curious History of the Golf Ball: Mankind’s Most Fascinating Sphere. New York, 1968. Tall octavo, original white buckram, dust jacket. $650.

First edition, inscribed to the wife of a Coca-Cola executive: “To Margery Killeen, With Best Wishes, Am pleased to be associated with a firm like Coke. 546

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Sincerely, Gary Player. Mar 66.” Gary Player (aka “The Black Knight”) won three Masters Tournaments, three British Opens, two PGA Championships, the U.S. Open in 1965, three Senior PGA Championships, two Senior U.S. Opens, three Senior British Opens and the Senior Players Championship in 1987. This copy was inscribed by Player to Margery Killeen, the wife of a Coke executive. Gary Player had an endorsement from Coke. He has also served as host of the Coca-Cola Charity Championship. Very nearly fine. 548

Limited first edition, one of only 500 copies printed, with color cover illustration, one mounted illustration, and 112 halftones, portraits, and illustrations, many full-page. “A thick compendium of sporting adventures written by hunters throughout the British Empire” (Czech, Asian Big Game, 176). Additionally, it “features two chapters on big game hunting in Africa” (Czech, African Big Game, 140). Contains material from John Ross’ significantly smaller The Book of the Red Deer (1925). Near-fine.

First Edition Of Sporting Scenes And Country Characters, 1840, With 67 In-Text Wood-Engravings 550. (HUNTING) [WHITE, Charles] (aka MARTINGALE). Sporting Scenes and Country Characters. London, 1840. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter red morocco gilt. $400. First edition of this popular manual of field sports, with wood-engraved title vignette and 67 in-text illustrations (at least five by Henry Alken), handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf. With chapters on hunting pheasant, fox, hare, deer, grouse, duck, and fly-, float-, and trout-fishing. Fragile half title detached and laid in, title page starting at joint. An extremely good copy.

Inscribed By Racing Legend Mario Andretti 551. (RACING) ANDRETTI, Mario with COLLINS, Bob. What’s It Like Out There? Chicago, 1970. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $300.

Inscribed By Sam Snead 548. (GOLF) SNEAD, Sam. How to Play Golf, and Professional Tips on Improving Your Score. Garden City, 1946. Slim quarto, original gilt-stamped green cloth. $600. First edition of Slammin’ Sam’s first instructional manual, illustrated with hundreds of stop-action photographs and line cuts, inscribed: “To Doc McConnell. Best of luck, Sam Snead.” Sam Snead won six major titles, including the 1942, 1949 and 1951 PGA Championships, the 1949 and 1952 Masters Tournament, and the 1946 British Open. Without scarce dust jacket. Fine.

Illustrated Limited First Edition Of The Book Of Red Deer And Empire Big Game 549. (HUNTING) ROSS, John and GUNN, Hugh. The Book of the Red Deer and Empire Big Game. London, 1925. Quarto, original gilt-stamped white cloth, mounted cover illustration. $750.

First edition of this “odyssey” of one of the great race-drivers of all time, inscribed: “To Leonard with sincere best wishes. Mario Andretti.” “On May 31, 1969, Mario Andretti won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. In winning he broke 15 of the 20 race records and established a race-speed average of 156.867 miles per hour… This is the story of Mario Andretti’s odyssey.” Fine.

The Vade Mecum Of Racket Sports 552. (TENNIS) BRUCE, Clarence Napier, Baron Aberdare, editor. Rackets, Squash Rackets, Tennis, Fives and Badminton. London, 1933. Thick octavo, original gilt-stamped brown and tan cloth, dust jacket with two mounted photographs. $450. First edition of this comprehensive handbook on racket sports, edited by squash and tennis champion Clarence Bruce, with 115 photographs and diagrams, being Volume XVI of the Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes. This complete guide to squash, tennis, handball and badminton, edited by the legendary Clarence Bruce, is “packed with practical advice so set forth that the would-be player is warned of every pitfall and advised as to the best tactics to pursue.” Book fine, original dust jacket slightly soiled.

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553. (SURFING) JAMES, Don. Surfing San Onofre to Point Dume 1936-1942. San Francisco, 1998. Oblong octavo, original half black cloth. $275.

555. (MOUNTAINEERING) BONINGTON, Chris. The Ultimate Challenge. The Hardest Way Up the Highest Mountain in the World. New York, 1973. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $325.

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First edition, richly illustrated with photographs and signed by Bonington and fellow master climber Doug Scott. In The Ultimate Challenge Bonington recounts his first attempt at mastering the Southwest face of Everest in 1972, an expedition that came within 600 feet of the summit. Later that year, Bonington tried again and succeeded. Doug Scott, a climbing legend in his own right after his painful 6-day descent in the Karakorum Himalaya with two broken legs in 1977, accompanied Bonington on both expeditions. Book fine, bright price-clipped dust jacket very good with minor edgewear and tape repair to verso of spine head.

Signed By Sir Edmund Hillary 556. (MOUNTAINEERING) HILLARY, Edmund. Photograph signed. No place, circa 1953. One sheet, measures 8 inches by 10 inches; matted and framed. $985. Photograph of Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbing Mount Everest, boldly signed by Hillary. Black-and-white photograph of Hillary and Norgay in climbing gear, carrying backpacks and struggling on the side of snow-covered Mount Everest. In the upper left corner is an inset of Hillary, smiling at the camera, with his snow goggles on top of his head. Signed “Ed Hillary” on the snowy portion of the mountain. Fine. 556

Signed By Galen Rowell And Nine Other Famous Climbers 554. (MOUNTAINEERING) ROWELL, Galen, editor. The Vertical World of Yosemite. Berkeley, California, 1974. Quarto, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $3200. First edition, richly illustrated with dozens of beautiful color and black-and-white photographs, signed by editor and award-winning photographer Galen Rowell and additionally signed by climbers Allen Steck, Steve Roper (twice), Lynn Hill, Jim Bridwell, Tom Frost, John Middendorf, Jerry Gallwas, Royal Robbins, and John Long. This is the first major book on climbing in Yosemite, as well as Galen Rowell’s first book. In this work the climbers wrote about and provided photographs of their own adventures rock climbing in Yosemite. Rowell provided introductions to each of their articles. In the spring of 1975, Galen Rowell was a member of one of many climbing expeditions attempting to summit K2 when Pakistan finally opened the peak. Book with only minor offsetting from signatures to facing page. Dust jacket extremely good, with only slightest soiling, light wear to extremities, and a few tape repairs to verso.

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First trade edition, with 97 sepia and color photographs documenting Southern California surfing culture in the years before World War II. First published two days before James’ death in 1996 as a signed limited edition of 500 copies, this collection of images captures, in the words of the introduction by C.R. Stecyk, “six years of exuberance… [and] a lifestyle that had never existed before.” Original price sticker to rear board. Fine.

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AARON, Hank 134 ABBOTT, Berenice 4, 114 ADAMS, Ansel 5, 113 ADAMS, John 55 AGRICOLA, Georgius 57 AKHMATOVA, Anna 96 ALEXANDER, William 8 ALGREN, Nelson 62 ALI, Muhammad 136 ANDRETTI, Mario 140 ARTAUD, Antonin 105 ATGET, Eugène 114 ATWATER, Richard and Florence 91 AUBENAS, Sylvie 114 AUDSLEY, George Ashdown 105 AUDSLEY, William 105 AUSTEN, Jane 62 AUSTER, Paul 62 AUSTIN, Mary 113

BAER, Max 136, 137 BALTZ, Lewis 115 BALZAC, Honore de 62 BARBIER, George 96 BAUDELAIRE, Charles 62, 97 BAUM, L. Frank 85, 86 BEALS, Carleton 117 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey 97 BELLOW, Saul 63 BELTING, Hans 125 BELZONI, Giovanni Battista 18 BEMELMANS, Ludwig 86 BENIOFF, David 63 BERENDT, Joachim E. 117 BERNSTEIN, Carl 55 BIBLE 6, 7 BIGELOW, John, Jr. 28 BILLINGS, Robert William 112 BISCHOF, Werner 115 BLAIR, Robert 105 BLAKE, William 105 BLOSSFELDT, Karl 97, 114 BOCCACCIO, Giovanni 63 BONINGTON, Chris 141 BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret 97, 116 BRADBURY, Ray 86 BRADLEY, Omar 42 BRASSAÏ 115 BRAVO, Manuel Álvarez 115 BRODOVITCH, Alexey 116 BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily and Anne 63 BROOKE, Rupert 97

BROWN, Margaret Wise 86, 87 BUCK, Pearl S. 87 BURRI, René 116 BURTON, Richard F. 27 BYRD, Richard E. 126 BYRON, Lord 63

CALLAHAN, Harry 116 CAMENA D’ALMEIDA, Pierre. 36 CAPONIGRO, Paul 116 CAPOTE, Truman 64 CARROLL, Lewis 87 CARTER, Howard 23 CARTER, Jimmy 27, 55 CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri 117 CATHER, Willa 64 CENDRARS, Blaise 103 CERVANTES 64 CHABON, Michael 64 CHAUCER, Geoffrey 64 CHRISTO 106 CHURCHILL, Randolph 52 CHURCHILL, Winston 9, 47–54 CLARENDON, Earl of 34 CLARKE, Susanna 65 CLARK, Larry 117 CLARK, Mark W. 42 CLAXTON, William 117 CLEVELAND, Grover 56 CLINTON, Bill 55 CLOUZOT, Henri 98 COCHRANE, Gordon 134 COCTEAU, Jean 98 COLFER, Eoin 87 COLLINS, Bob 140 COLLINS, Wilkie 65 CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur 65 CONDON, Richard 65 CONRAD, Joseph 98 CONWAY, Sir William Martin 126 CORMAN, Avery 65 COTTON, Charles 137 CRADDOCK, Harry 98 CRANE, Stephen 65 CROUCH, Nathaniel 87 CRUMB, Robert 106 CULLEN, Countee 98 CURTIS, Edward 117 CUSTER, George 34

DAHL, Roald 88 DALÍ, Salvador 107 DALY, César-Denis 107 DARWIN, Bernard 138 DAVID, Percival 107

DAVIDSON, Bruce 118 DEBUSSY, Claude 98 DE PAOLA, Tomie 89 DESCHARNES, Robert 107 DÍAZ, Junot 67 DICKENS, Charles 66–67 DINESEN, Isak 67 DISNEY STUDIOS 88 DISNEY, Walt 107 DOCTOROW, E.L. 68 DOISNEAU, Robert 118 DRAYTON, Michael 67 DREISER, Theodore 98 DUNCAN, Isadora 99

EATON, Seymour 88 EDISON, Thomas Alva 99 EISENHOWER, Dwight D. 43, 56 ELEFTHERIADES, Efstratios 112 ELIOT, George 68 ELIOT, T.S. 99 EMERSON, Ralph Waldo 68 EVANS, Walker 117

FAULKNER, William 68, 100 FEILD, Robert D. 107 FERBER, Edna 69 FILLMORE, Millard 57 FINLEY, John 9 FITZGERALD, Edward 78 FITZGERALD, F. Scott 100 FLACK, Marjorie 90 FLAUBERT, Gustave 69 FLEMING, Ian 10, 70 FORD, Ford Madox 101 FORD, Gerald R. 56, 57 FORD, Richard 69 FORESTER, C.S. 89 FOWLES, John 69 FRANCE 12 FRANK, Robert 119 FRASER, George MacDonald 71 FRÉART DE CHAMBRAY, Roland 108 FRIEDLANDER, Lee 118 FROST, Robert 69, 71, 101 FULLER, Thomas 17

GIBBON, Edward 13 GIBRAN, Kahlil 12 GIBSON, Hugh 35 GILBERT, Martin 52 GINSBERG, Allen 71 GOLDICUTT, John 108 GOLENBOCK, Peter 135

JAMES, Henry 73 JAMES, Will 90 JEFFERSON, Thomas 35 JENKINS, James 36 JOHNSON, Andrew 58 JOHNSON, Crockett 90 JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines 58 JONES, Bobby 139 JONGH, Frederick and E. de 36 JOURDAIN, M. 109 JOYCE, James 15, 102

HALL, James 77 HALL, Radclyffe 101 HAMMETT, Dashiell 101 HAMPTON, Wade 30 HANCOCK, A.R. 29 HANDFORTH, Thomas 88 HARDEE, William Joseph 29 HARDING, Edward 5 HARRIS, Joel Chandler 89 HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel 72 HAY, John 16 HAYNES, F. Jay 119 HEALY, Michael Augustine 127 HEATH, Dave 119 HEMINGWAY, Ernest 34, 35, 72, 102 HERLIHY, James Leo 72 HIDO, Todd 119 HILLARY, Edmund 141 HILLMAN, William 60 HOBSON, Robert Lockhart 107 HOMER 72 HOOD, John Bell 30 HOOD, Robert E. 28 HOOVER, Herbert 35, 57 HORNBY, Nick 72 HOUSMAN, Laurence 89 HUARD, Charles 41 HUBLER, Richard 60 HUGHES, Langston 119 HUMPHREY, Hubert 36 HURLEY, Frank 131

ILLUMINATED LEAF 14 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT 14 IRIBE, Paul 102 IRVING, John 72 IRVING, Washington 92

JACKSON, Andrew 57 JACKSON, Charles 73 JACOBI, Lotte 120 JAMES, Don 141

KAFKA, Franz 102 KANE, Elisha Kent 129 KARLOFF, Boris 73 KEATS, John 73 KEELER, O.B. 139 KENNEDY, Jacqueline 58 KENNEDY, John F. 2 KENNEDY, Robert 16 KENNEDY, William 73 KERTESZ, Andre 120 KING Jr., Martin Luther 36 KING, Stephen 74 KIPLING, Rudyard 90 KNOWLES, John 74 KOOLHAAS, Rem 109 KORMAN, Lewis J 39 KOUDELKA, Josef 120 KRULL, Germaine 120

LA BREE, Ben 30 L’AMOUR, Louis 74 LANDRY, Tom 137 LANGE, Dorothea 121 LANGE, Fred 134 LAWRENCE, D.H. 102 LAWRENCE, T.E. 37 LAWSON, Robert 91 LE CARRÉ, John 15, 74 LE CORBUSIER 109 LEE, Harper 74 LEE, Henry 27 LEE, James 139 LEE, Robert E. 30 LE GALL, Guillaume 114 LÉGER, Fernand 103 LEIFER, Neil 136 LEONARD, Elmore 74 LESLIE, Frank 30 LEWIS, C.S. 91 LEWIS, Gregg 137 LINCOLN, Abraham 16, 31, 59 LONDON, Jack 75 LONGSTREET, James 31

LOUDON, Jane Wells 11 LYALL, Robert 3 LYSONS, Samuel 109

MACARTHUR, Douglas 44 MACDONALD, Bob 138 MACDONALD, George 90 MACDONALD, Golden 86 MACKENZIE, Frederick 110 MADISON, James 58 MAHAN, A.T. 37 MAIURI, Amedeo 110 MAMET, David 75 MANTLE, Mickey 20, 135 MARKER, Chris 121 MARLBOROUGH, Duke of 37 MARTIN, John Stuart 139 MAUGHAM, W. Somerset 75 MAWSON, Sir Douglas 126 MCCARTHY, Cormac 75 MCCULLERS, Carson 75 MCLEAN, Thomas 37 MCMURTRY, Larry 76 MEISELAS, Susan 121 MESSNER, Reinhold 127 MEYER, Jerome 91 MEYRICK, Samuel Rush 38 MICHENER, James 76 MILLER, Arthur 76 MILLER, Francis Trevelyan 32 MILLER, Olive Beaupre 92 MILNE, A.A. 92 MILWAUKEE BRAVES 134 MINISTÈRE DE LA GUERRE 44 MITCHELL, Margaret 76 MONTGOMERY, Bernard Law 21 MONTGOMERY, L.M. 21 MORAND, Paul 115 MORRIS, Edmund 60 MORRIS, Wright 122 MORSE, John 59 MOSLEY, Walter 76 MOTTELAY, Paul 33 MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard 122

NACHTWEY, James 38 NAPOLEON, Bonaparte 38 NARDI, Luigi 110 NAYTHONS, Matthew 39 NEWELL, Gordon 45 NICHOLSON, Peter 111 NICOLAY, John 16 NIMITZ, Chester W. 45 NIXON, Richard 39, 59 NORDHOFF, Charles 77

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GRANGER, Brownell 28 GRANT, Ulysses S. 29 GRASS, Gunther 71 GREENE, Graham 71 GRIFFITHS, Philip Jones 34 GROPIUS, Walter 101 GROSSMAN, Vasilii Semenovich 44 GROSZ, George 108 GRUBB, Davis 71 GUILLET SAINT-GEORGES, Georges 38 GUNN, Hugh 140

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OBAMA, Barack 59 O’BRIAN, Patrick 77 O’BRIEN, John 77 OHARA, Ken 121 O’NEILL, Eugene 102

PAINE, Albert Bigelow 82 PALAHNIUK, Chuck 77 PARK, William, Jr. 139 PARRY, William Edward 127 PASTERNAK, Boris 77 PAZ, Octavio 115 PEARY, Josephine Diebitsch 128 PEARY, Robert E. 127, 128 PENNANT, Thomas 132 PERESS, Gilles 122 PERLIN, Bernard 46 PERRAULT, Claude 110 PERSHING, John J. 42 PINCKNEY, Charles 55 PISTOLESI, Erasmo 111 PLATH, Sylvia 77 PLAYER, Gary 139 POE, Edgar Allan 77 POGANY, Willy 78 POTTER, Beatrix 22, 93, 94 PYNCHON, Thomas 78

QUIGLEY, Martin 111

RACKHAM, Arthur 92 RAMSAYE, Terry 99 RANDALL, Henry 58 RAND, Ayn 23, 77 RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan 92 REAGAN, Ronald 60 RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert 103, 122 RICHARDS, Eugene 38 RICKENBACKER, Edward V. 42 RIIS, Jacob 122 ROBBINS, Louis 123 ROBBINS, Tom 78 ROBINSON, Jackie 135 ROBINSON, William 11 ROCKNE, Knute 137 ROMAN, Alfred 33 RONALDS, Alfred 138 RONNE, Finn 128 ROOSEVELT, Eleanor 39 ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. 47 ROSS, John 140 ROUSSEAU, J.J. 78 ROWELL, Galen 141 RUSKIN, John 111

SACKVILLE-WEST, Edward 78 SAINT SAUVEUR, Hector 112 SALINGER, J.D. 78, 79 SALTEN, Felix 94 SANDERS, Daniel Clarke 40 SANTOS, Francisco de los 111 SCHLEEF, Einar 123 SCHMIDT, Michael 123 SCHMIDT, Mike 135 SCHULZ, Charles 22, 95 SCOTT, Robert 129 SENDAK, Maurice 94 SEUSS, Dr. 94, 95 SEXTON, Anne 79 SHACKLETON, Ernest 129, 131 SHEPARD, Sam 80 SHERIDAN, P.H. 33 SHERMAN, William Tecumseh 33 SHORE, Stephen 123 SMITH, Adam 24 SMITH, Allen E. 45 SMITH, Benjamin 33 SMITH, Charles 26 SMITH, W. Eugene 61, 123 SMYTH, Henry DeWolf 44 SNEAD, Sam 140 SOUGEZ, Emmanuel 124 SPENSER, Edmund 79 STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur 132 STEINBECK, John 79 STEIN, Gertrude 103 STEVENSON, Robert Louis 95 STEVENS, Wallace 103 STIEGLITZ, Alfred 124 STORY, George 40 STOWE, Harriet Beecher 80 STRAVINSKY, Igor 104 STRUTH, Thomas 125 STUHLDREHER, Harry 137 SUETONIUS 25 SWARUP, Vikas 80

TAFT, William H. 60 TARLETON, Sir Banastre. 27 TAYLOR, Paul 121 TENNYSON, Alfred 80 TÉRIADE, Efstratios 112 THACKERAY, William 80 THOMPSON, Ernest 81 THOMPSON, Kay 25, 95 THOMSON, Bobby 135 THOMSON, C. Wyville 132 THOREAU, Henry David 40 TIBBETS, Paul 45 TIDYMAN, Ernest 81

TOMES, Robert 33 TOOMER, Jean 81 TRAVIS, Walter J. 138 TRUMAN, Harry 60, 61 TURNLEY, David 41 TURNLEY, Peter 41 TWAIN, Mark 82

ULMANN, Doris 124 UPDIKE, John 84

VAN ALLSBURG, Chris 95 VAN DER ELSKEN, Ed 125 VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Eugene 112 VONNEGUT, Kurt 83

WALDER, Barbara 135 WALISZEWSKI, K. 41 WALTON, Izaak 137, 138 WARD, Joseph 59 WARHOL, Andy 125 WASHINGTON, George 61 WEISGARD, Leonard 86 WELLS, H.G. 83, 101 WHARTON, Edith 81 WHEELER, Lonnie 134 WHITE, Charles 140 WILDE, Oscar 83, 104 WILD, Frank 129 WILLIAMS, Ted 135 WILLIAMS, Tennessee 84 WILLIAMS, William Carlos 84 WILSON, John Marius 41 WILSON, Woodrow 61 WITHERS, Alexander S. 41 WITTMAN, William 20 WOLFE, Tom 24 WOODWARD, Bob 55 WOOLF, Virginia 84, 104 WRANGEL, Ferdinand von 133 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd 104 WYATVILLE, Jeffry 112

YEAGER, Chuck 46 YEATS, William Butler 84

ZUSAK, Markus 84

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