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TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Opening Selection
28 Americana
40 Literature
64 History, Science & Exploration
71 Religion
75 Art, Architecture & Music
85 Children’s Literature
91 Gift Suggestions
105 Index
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lew is ca rroll
The Appleton Alice: First American And Earliest Obtainable Edition
Of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
1. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York, 1866. Octavo, period-style full red morocco gilt, original
cloth bound in. $18,000.
Very rare first American edition of Lewis Carroll’s brilliant and beloved topsy-turvy fantasy—virtually the earliest obtainable
edition, preceding the first published London edition, beautifully bound, with the original cloth bound in.
“The publishing history of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has a fairy-tale quality all its own. The Clarendon Press, Oxford,
printed two thousand copies of what has come to be known as the first edition of the book. On 24 May 1865 Carroll wrote to his
publisher… requesting 50 copies to give to friends. On 19 July, however, he heard from John Tenniel, his illustrator, that he was
‘dissatisfied with the printing of the pictures.’ On 2 August Carroll finally decided on the re-print of Alice, and he immediately
set about recalling all the copies that he had sent out earlier, promising replacements as soon as the new printing was available.
The remainder of the original books were sold to Appleton, the New York publisher, and they would appear, with a new title-page, as
the first American edition.” Only about 20 copies with the original London title page exist, making it virtually unobtainable
(Cohen, 113-114). This American issue consisted of only 1000 copies. Williams 44. Muir, 139. Faintest text offsetting and a few
spots of soiling, binding quite lovely. A beautiful about-fine copy.
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First editions (first issue of Volume I; first printing of Volume II) of Grimms’ famous fairy tales, including “Snow White,”
“Cinderella” and “Sleeping Beauty,” illustrated with two engraved title pages and 20 full-page etchings by George Cruikshank
(”perhaps his best work”), with an autograph letter signed by the illustrator, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Bartlett.
As early as 1805, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm began collecting German popular tales. They published the first and second volumes
of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812 and 1814. Its publication brought immediate and worldwide fame to the brothers Grimm and
provided the foundation for their influential and groundbreaking studies in German philology and grammar (See PMM 281). The
1823 edition in English of German Popular Stories was the “first anywhere to be fully illustrated” as well as the first to truly target
children (Darton, 216). Moreover, the English translation by Edgar Taylor (and his relatives) “revolutionized the conventional
English attitude to fairy tales and rehabilitated fantasy as generally acceptable reading-matter for the young… “If you ever happen
to meet with the two volumes of Grimm’s German Stories,” John Ruskin once advised, “which were illustrated by Cruikshank
long ago, pounce on them instantly; the etchings in them are the finest things, next to Rembrandt’s, that, as far as I know, have
been done since etching was invented.” Among other famous Grimm tales, these volumes contain “Rumpel-Stilts-Kin,” “Snow-
Drop” (Snow White), “Rose-Bud” (Sleeping Beauty), “Tom Thumb,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “The Golden Goose,” “The Frog-Prince”
and “Ashputtel” (Cinderella). First state of the engraved title page of Volume I, without the umlaut in the word Märchen. Cohn 369.
Cruikshank’s 1855 autograph letter to journalist and literary scholar Henry Morley, Jr. concerns payment in kind for work. Old
dealer description laid in. Occasional light foxing. A desirable landmark in illustrated children’s literature, handsomely bound and
in fine condition, with autograph letter signed by Cruikshank.
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First edition of one of Ackermann’s wonderful Picturesque Tours, beautifully illustrated with 24 hand-colored folio aquatints
and large folding map. A lovely copy, superbly bound in full morocco-gilt by Bayntun.
In the history of book production “there is no more attractive figure than that of Rudolph Ackermann, through whose
extraordinary enterprise and spirit of adventure, aquatint was successfully applied to the illustration of books” (Prideaux, 120-
23). One of Ackermann’s most lucrative projects was his remarkable Picturesque Tours, a series of seven books produced between
1820-28. This is his Tour Along the Rhine, with beautifully hand-colored aquatints by Daniel Havell and Thomas Sutherland after
paintings by Christian Georg Schutz, depicting views of Mentz, the Castle of Furstenberg, the Church of Johannes, Pfalz Castle
and the town of Kaub, the salmon fishery at Lurley, Coblentz, Bornhofen, Cologne and other sites along the river. The plates were
pulled and hand-colored in the Ackermann studio, whose reputation for producing splendid illustrated publications and
disseminating fine aquatint prints spanned over two centuries. The folding map shows the course of the Rhine from Mentz to
Cologne. With accompanying text by Baron von Gerning describing the history and culture of the area (first published in German
in 1819, without illustrations). Abbey, Travel 217. Prideaux, 337. Tooley 234. Plates generally fresh and beautiful. A near-fine copy,
beautifully bound by Bayntun.
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Handsome Gothic text edition of the Geneva (or “Breeches”) Bible—the important translation that shaped Protestant piety
for some five decades—illustrated with three woodcut title pages, printed by the prolific and prosperous publisher Christopher
Barker. A magnificently bound complete copy with a contemporary edition of the venerable Book of Common Prayer.
Upon Queen Mary’s accession in 1553, “publication of the English Bible ceased in England. Many Protestants who fled to the
Continent were attracted to Calvin’s Geneva. Among these exiles were eminent English Bible scholars who began work on a
new translation” (The Bible: 100 Landmarks 62). First published in 1560, the Geneva Bible—often called the “Breeches Bible”
for its unique rendering of Genesis 3:7—was “more scholarly than any previous translation… [It] achieved immediate
popularity and exerted an extremely powerful influence… The Geneva Version included prefaces, maps and tables; and for the
first time in an English Bible the verses were divided and numbered” (PMM 83). “It became the textus receptus for the Puritan
element in England. It was read by Shakespeare, Bunyan and the soldiers of the Civil War, and is thus of cardinal importance
for its influence on the English language, literature and thought” (Great Books and Book Collectors). Includes Apocrypha. Bound
with concordances and contemporary editions of the Book of Common Prayer and Sternhold and Hopkins’ metrical psalter
at rear. Prayer book without title page and first leaf, but collates as Griffiths 1590:2 (STC 16314a.5). Darlow & Moule 154.
Occasional old ink marginalia. Leaf [E8] of prayer book rebacked, partly obscuring old owner annotations. Scattered light
soiling. A few instances of paper restoration. Stunning restoration-style binding fine.
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Signed limited first edition, one of only 100 copies signed by the author. The scarcest of all Faulkner signed limited editions,
with the first book appearance of “The Bear.”
Go Down, Moses “was a landmark volume for Faulkner… Here we have the Southern dilemma, and Faulkner has
transformed it into the American” (Karl, 665-67). “So committed was Faulkner to the expansive possibilities of the short
story form that in Go Down, Moses he created what he always insisted was a novel composed entirely of interrelated stories
previously published separately” (Gelfant, 252). One of the most acclaimed stories, “The Bear,” had appeared, in abbreviated
form, in the Saturday Evening Post the same year (Brodsky 229); the coming-of-age tale remains one of Faulkner’s most
anthologized. A contemporary review in the Boston Globe said of all the stories that they “represent William Faulkner at
his best. Which is equivalent to saying the best we have.” Massey 448. Petersen A23.2a. A fine signed copy.
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First edition, the important and preferred second issue, one of only 1000 copies, with the first appearance of the sequel celebrating
Lincoln containing “Lilacs” and “O Captain! My Captain!” The copy of editor William Michael Rossetti, who introduced
English readers to Whitman with his edition of 1868 and was “one of the first to recognize the ‘entire originality’ of Walt
Whitman” (ODNB).
Drum-Taps “stands among the nation’s finest poems” (ANB). Upon the death of Lincoln, Whitman delayed the printing of Drum-
Taps and added “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” a “profoundly moving dirge for the martyred Lincoln” (CHAL),
with separate pagination, table of contents, and title page. W.M. Rossetti’s published correspondence includes an 1866 letter from
Horace Scudder (a published author and longtime editor of Atlantic Magazine) which includes this passage: “Have you seen Walt
Whitman’s Drum Taps? It is just possible that you have not; and I will take the opportunity afforded by a friend’s going to London
to send you a copy… I do not think that Mr. Lincoln’s death brought any nobler expression of the personal grief of the best natures
in the country than ‘O Captain, My Captain!’ The lonely grief of the poet in the strong contrast which he presents was really that
felt by all.” Rossetti did not reply to Scudder’s letter until October 28, 1866—he thanked Scudder for the book, confessing that he
hadn’t had time to give it a full reading, although he did read “the long one on Lincoln’s funeral, and the one you specially mention
O Captain My Captain; both most glorious. Whitman is a wonderful genius to me, and no less than a great poet. I am not at all
sure but that one day he will stand out as the greatest English-writing poet of this period.” Rossetti’s edition of Whitman’s Leaves
of Grass from 1868 includes many poems from Drum-Taps, but in a different sequence from Whitman’s and with minor editing
changes. Still, Rossetti’s edition introduced Whitman to British readers—Rossetti and Swinburne were early admirers of Whitman.
English readers had to rely on Rossetti’s edition until Ernest Rhys’ 1886 edition, itself abridged. Myerson A3.1a2. Wells &
Goldsmith, 11. BAL 21398. An important association copy in fine condition.
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Autograph manuscript fair copy of Frost’s renowned poem “Come In,” penned in blue ink entirely by Frost, signed by him and
inscribed at the foot, “To James Murphy.” Framed with a scarce gelatin silver print portrait of the poet, photographed by Jacobi
in 1959 at his Vermont farm, this print signed by Lotte Jacobi in her trademark pencil on the lower corner of the image.
Though they never met, Frost and the recipient of this handwritten poem, aspiring poet and avid collector James P.J. Murphy,
corresponded for nearly a quarter of a century. “Murphy was a shy man with a passion for literature and fine printing. He found
both in Frost’s books. The poet autographed Murphy’s copies of his works—often after considerable delay—and sent him his
special Christmas cards” (Burch, ANQ, 13:2, 35-40). Frost has written out in blue ink the full text of his poem “Come In.”
Beneath the poem Frost has signed his name and then written, “To James Murphy.” “Come In” first appeared in book form in A
Witness Tree in 1942, and was clearly esteemed enough by Frost to serve as the title poem to a larger collection of Frost’s poems
that was printed in a special Armed Services Edition for U.S. soldiers in 1943. “When I was asked to photograph Robert Frost, up
in Vermont at his house, the first thing he told me was ‘Don’t make me look jovial. Everyone thinks I’m a jovial old man, but I’m
actually rather crotchety.” So, Jacobi noted, “I took a more serious picture of him” (Schuyler, Lotte Jacobi, 210). This scarce silver
gelatin print was printed circa 1970, and comes from the Lotte Jacobi estate. Manuscript with a few faint creases along edges. Print
fine; scarce signed. Fine condition.
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The First Major Studies Of North American Birds: The “Philadelphia Edition”
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Of The Plates To Wilson’s American Ornithology, With 76 Large Folio Hand-Colored Engravings
8. WILSON, Alexander and BONAPARTE, Charles Lucian. American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the
Birds of the United States. Philadelphia, 1871. Atlas folio (14-1/2 by 17-1/2 inches), period-style three-quarter green
morocco gilt. $18,500.
The desirable “Philadelphia Edition” of the separate Atlas to accompany Wilson’s important contribution to American
ornithology, with 76 splendid hand-colored folio engravings made from original copperplates (plates in other editions
from 1828 to 1878 were considerably reduced in size). A beautiful copy.
Influenced by naturalist William Bartram and engraver Alexander Lawson, Alexander Wilson, considered the “father of
American ornithology,” cultivated his own interest in nature and in making drawings from nature. By 1805 Wilson real-
ized his “great plan of depicting and describing North American birds in a large work,” resulting in American Ornithology,
originally published in 1808-15. Wilson’s work was “of fundamental importance for the study of birds in North America,”
representing the first significant study of birds in the New World. Wilson covered only the eastern United States, but over
the next 100 years, ornithologists were able to add only 23 more indigenous land birds to his list. A decade later, Charles
Bonaparte, Napoleon’s nephew and himself an accomplished ornithologist “issued his American Ornithology, or The
Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United
States, Not Given by Wilson (1825-33), an in-
dependent work designed on the same princi-
ples as that by Wilson, and therefore regarded
as a kind of sequel to that work, for which
reason the two works were issued together in
subsequent editions” (Anker, 212). Together
these works established the foundation upon
which Audubon created his own monumental
work soon thereafter. Several combined octavo
editions followed, culminating in this final
folio edition of 1871, containing a separate
Atlas volume of the original 76 folio engrav-
ings of Wilson’s paintings, pulled from the
original copperplates engraved by Lawson,
Murray, Warnicke, and Tanner, and colored
by Rider. This edition was printed on much
larger paper than earlier editions, and is com-
monly called the “Philadelphia Edition.” This
is the plate volume only, without the three
octavo text volumes. Some atlas volumes are
seen with a further 27 plates by Lawson after
Peale and Rider to accompany the Bonaparte
supplement, for a total of 103 plates; those ad-
ditional, supplemental plates, issued separate-
ly, are not present in this volume. Nissen 997.
See Zimmer, 686; Anker 533 note; Sitwell, 157.
Notes from previous owner, dated 1964, and
from conservator, dated 1963, laid in. Plates
lovely and fine, with vibrant original hand-
coloring. Expert cleaning to original tissue
guards and the occasional margin of plates. A
splendid volume.
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na poleon
Of contemporary accounts of Napoleon, “among the best of the French eyewitness observations are the Memoirs of Bourrienne,
a schoolmate of Napoleon from their days at military school in the early 1780s. Napoleon then employed Bourrienne as his
private secretary beginning in 1797, and Bourrienne accompanied Napoleon on his campaign in Egypt… the Memoirs, first
published in 1829 and a popular sensation from the moment of their publication… have stood the test of time” (Tignor,
Memoirs of Napoleon, Introduction). Cosway bindings (named for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard
Cosway) were first commissioned in the early 1900s by J.H. Stonehouse from the famous Rivière
bindery, who employed Miss C.B. Currie to faithfully imitate Cosway’s detailed watercolor
style of portraiture. These delicate miniature paintings, often on ivory, were set into the
covers or doublures of richly-tooled bindings and protected by thin panes of glass.
Cosway bindings executed by other than the original collaborators are designated as
“Cosway-style” bindings—still splendid productions—by such esteemed binderies
as Bayntun-Rivière, Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Morrell, and Bumpus. With the
bookplates of renowned Los Angeles bibliophiles and philanthropists Edward
Laurence and Carrie Estelle Doheny. Carrie Estelle Doheny was among the
earliest female book collectors in the United States, having purchased her first
rare book in 1931. Under the tutelage of Frank Hogan and A.S.W. Rosenbach she
continued to buy books and manuscripts until her death in 1958. Her great
collection, consisting of incunabula (including a Gutenberg Bible), medieval and
Renaissance manuscripts, Western Americana, early printing, literature, and fine
bindings, was for many years housed at the Vincentian Seminary of St. John’s in
Camarillo, California. In 1987 a decision was made by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
to return many of the Doheny treasures to the market. Fine condition. A splendid set, with
fine Cosway-style portrait of Napoleon, and with distinguished provenance.
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w inston churchill
“This Is Not History: This Is My Case”: Churchill’s Brilliant History Of The Second World War,
Inscribed By Churchill In Volume I In The Year Of Publication To A Prominent Supporter
10. CHURCHILL, Winston. The Second World War. London, 1948-54. Six volumes.
Octavo, original black cloth, dust jackets. $17,500.
First English editions of Churchill’s WWII masterpiece, part history and part memoir,
written after he lost reelection as Prime Minister, in the original dust jackets, inscribed in
Volume I: “Inscribed for Donald Forbes by Winston S. Churchill, 1948.”
With the Second World War, Churchill “pulled himself back from humiliating [electoral]
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). “Winston himself
affirmed that ‘this is not history: this is my case” (Holmes, 285). Churchill was re-elected to
the post of Prime Minister in 1951. “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). Although preceded by the American editions, the English editions are generally preferred for their profusion of diagrams,
maps, and facsimile documents. Cohen A240.4. Woods A123b. Langworth, 254. Forbes was a prominent Woodford politician
and early supporter and fundraiser for Churchill, whose relation with Churchill is discussed extensively in David A. Thomas’
Churchill: The Member for Woodford (a copy of which is included). Three pages/slips of Forbes’ notes are laid in, including one on
the back of a deposit slip for Forbes’ bank account. Interiors fine; some light staining to top edges of text blocks. Light toning to
spines of bright dust jackets with light wear to extremities and a one-inch closed tear to spine foot of Volume I with tape repair to
verso and a half-inch closed tear to spine head fold of Volume IV. A near-fine inscribed set, with notable provenance.
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john f. k en nedy
“Someone Was Shooting Fireworks Until We Saw The Blood On The President”:
Historic Breaking News Of The Kennedy Assassination On Original Dow Jones News Ticker Teletype
Cellophane Projection Sheets, November 22 And 23, 1963
12. (KENNEDY ASSASSINATION). Original Dow Jones News Ticker teletype reports of the Kennedy assassination. Dallas:
Dow Jones, November 22-23, 1963. Dow Jones News Ticker teletype printed in blue ink on transparent cellophane, 36 sheets, each
5-3/4 inches wide, length from 5-3/4 to 10-3/4 inches, a few corners rounded at top, cut from one 5-3/4-inch wide roll of cellophane
teletype, approximately 35 feet in length. $15,000.
Rare original Dow Jones News Ticker teletype reporting the events of November 22nd from his prepared Trade Mart Speech
which he never gave to the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald—on transparent cellophane used to project the news on large screens
on the floors of the Stock Exchanges as well as in stock broker offices
These historic sheets recount the events of the Kennedy assassination, as they are occurring. The Dow Jones News Ticker was
printed on two types of machines, hard copies and transparent cellophane for projection machines. While hard copies of AP,
UPI, and Dow Jones teletype have been on the market before, this is the only transparent cellophane copy we have ever seen,
used to project the news on large screens for stock brokers in large offices and on the floors of the Exchanges. Dow Jones Wall
Street news (not quoted below) is interspersed with Associated Press news about the President. All text in uppercase. Typos
not corrected. A dash is used in the teletype in place of an apostrophe (e.g. Goldwater-s). There are no punctuation marks.
There is more than one report per page. Fine condition.
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First edition, first printing, of Kennedy’s Pulitzer-winning examination of “that most admirable of human virtues,”
inscribed: “To —, with my warmest regards—John Kennedy.”
“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 eight pages of black-and-white photographic plates. Interior fine. Light
rubbing to extremities, with some white marks to cloth spine. Dust jacket bright with shallow edge-wear. An extremely
good inscribed copy.
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isr a el’s decl a r ation of independence
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We “By Virtue Of Our Natural And Historic Right And On The Strength Of The Resolution
Of The United Nations General Assembly, Hereby Declare The Establishment Of A Jewish State”:
Scarce First Printing Of Israel’s Declaration Of Independence
14. BEN-GURION, David. “The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.” IN: Israel’s Provisional
Government Official Bulletin No. 1. BOUND WITH: Official Bulletins No. 2-25. Tel Aviv, 5 Iyar 5708 [May 14,
1948]-163 Iyar 5708 [October 1, 1948]. Slim tall octavo (8-1/4 by 13 inches), contemporary tan cloth. $16,500.
First printing of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, the first issue of Iton Rishmi, dated May 14, 1948, collected
together in one volume with the 24 separately printed, succeeding issues (No. 2, dated May 21, 1948, to No. 25, dated
October 1, 1948)—“It is rare to register with such precision the moment when historical change is inaugurated.”
May 14, 1948 was the final day of the British Mandate over Palestine, and as that day approached, various nations angled
to determine the future, or lack thereof, of the proposed Jewish state. In an effort to finally bring their dream of a Jewish
homeland to fruition, Jewish leaders seized the initiative and
began preparations to create a government for a Zionist state.
Spearheaded by David Ben-Gurion, leaders “established a
13-member National Administration and a National Council
of 37 members, which would, upon the departure of the British
Mandatory forces, become the provisional government and
legislature of the Jewish State… A committee of five—David
Remez, [Felix] Rosenblueth, Moshe Shapira, [Moshe] Shertok,
and Aharon Zisling—was appointed to draft the Declaration
of Independence. The draft submitted by the committee on
May 13 consisted of 22 articles… It was criticized as too long
and flowery, and the final wording was entrusted to Ben-
Gurion, Rabbi Y. L. Fishman (Maimon), A. Zisling, and M.
Shertok. During the same evening Ben-Gurion
prepared a final draft, which was approved by his
colleagues on the committee.” On Friday, May
14, 1948, Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel’s inde-
pendence. His recitation of Israel’s Declaration
of Independence was broadcast throughout the
entirety of the new state of Israel, and the nation,
now a fait accompli, was quickly recognized by
the United States and the USSR, assuring its ac-
ceptance. This is the first Israeli government
printing of the Declaration; its equivalent in U.S.
history would be the John Dunlap broadside of
the Declaration of Independence. Text in
Hebrew. Interior generally fresh with mild ton-
ing, light scattered foxing, small expertly re-
paired closed tear to one leaf affecting text (63),
slight soiling to cloth. A scarce extremely good
collection of these important publications.
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First edition of Einstein’s second collection of social science-related articles, addresses, speeches, letters and papers covering
the period before, during and after the Second World War, an exceptionally scarce fine copy signed and dated by him in the
year of publication.
Commenting on the potential conflict of science and politics, Albert Einstein once turned to an assistant and sighed, “Yes,
time has to be divided this way between politics and our equations” (DSB). In this continuation of his first collection of
essays, The World As I See It (1934), Einstein offers further thoughts crossing that divide, mirroring his political, social,
philosophical and scientific concerns. Drawn from articles, speeches, letters and various papers, all written from 1934 to
1950, with many published here for the first time, the book includes
selections on science, ethics, public affairs, issues in Jewish history, the
dilemma of modern war and tributes to figures such as Marie Curie, Isaac
Newton and Mahatma Gandhi. This work was issued in a number of
different cloths and dust jackets, and there continues to be bibliographic
uncertainty about some points. Tiny closed tear to upper edge of scarce
dust jacket. A fine signed copy.
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Extremely rare first edition, first printing, of Graham’s seminal work, considered the Bible of modern financial analysis, in
fine condition.
Few published works of the 20th century have exerted the influence or had as devoted a following as Security Analysis. Prior
to its publication, investors often relied on intuition or the character of a business owner to make their decisions. Writing
in the wake of the catastrophic stock market crash, Graham and Dodd designed “value-oriented investment,” a disciplined,
realistic approach to constructing a solid financial portfolio. Popular when it was published, it continues to shape the
strategies and the training of financiers. Copies of the first edition are known to appear both in black cloth binding, with
“Whittlesey House—McGraw Hill” in gilt at the foot of the spine, and in red cloth binding, with “McGraw-Hill Book
Company” in gilt at the foot of the spine, as with the present copy. No priority of issue has been established; because the
book is of exceeding rarity, either binding is equally desirable. Stated “First Edition” on title page, with no mention of
printing on copyright page. A fine, fresh copy.
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First edition, first printing, of this influential work—a most desirable copy in the very rare original dust jacket.
The Alcoholics Anonymous “Big Book” was published at a particularly trying time; the Great Depression had driven many
Americans to desperation, and the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 ensured that alcohol was readily available. With moving
personal accounts and case histories of many original members of A.A., here is the story of countless “average Americans…
[whose] feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds” their lives together.
This extremely scarce first edition also examines the epiphanic moments in which hope for a new life is achieved, but “the later
editions of the Big Book play down this expectation of ‘sudden and spectacular upheaval” in favor of a more gradual explanation
for triumph over the addiction (New Yorker, 1955). The book’s publication itself represented a triumph over numerous obstacles;
pre-publication shares in the newly-founded corporation proved impossible to sell until a Reader’s Digest editor promised to
publish an article about the group’s efforts. The article never materialized, but the tenacity of Bill W. and friends resulted in the
independent publication of the book. An alternative title, The Way Out, had strong support from members, but a check of the
Library of Congress showed twelve books with that title. Bill W. remembers, “We said to ourselves, ‘We sure aren’t going to
make this book the thirteenth Way Out.’ We left the title Alcoholics Anonymous in the copy that went to the printer. That is how
we got the title for our book, and that is how our society got its name.” Owner signature and address. Bright, about-fine book
with just a bit of soiling to rear panel. Scarce bright jacket with expert restoration. A beautiful copy.
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i a n fleming
“He Must Play The Role… The Man Who Was Only A Silhouette”
18. FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London, 1955. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $15,000.
Scarce first edition of Fleming’s third novel, in which Bond must foil the attempt of a British industrialist to destroy
London with a nuclear weapon, in first-issue dust jacket.
Considered by many to be one of the best of the Bond books, Moonraker afforded Fleming “an opportunity to wax
lyrical about the England he loved—the ‘panorama full of color and excitement and romance… [Fleming also]
skillfully reintroduced notes of ambiguity and realism into the life of his globe-trotting hero… Noël Coward read
Moonraker in proof in Jamaica and pronounced, ‘It is the best thing he has done yet, very exciting… His observation
is extraordinary and his talent for description vivid” (Lycett, 253-54, 269). The early Bond novels are quite scarce.
“This title is extremely rare in fine condition” (Biondi & Pickard, 42). Made into the 1979 film of the same title with
Roger Moore as Bond and Lois Chiles as Dr. Holly Goodhead. Book fine; light toning to spine and soiling to white
back panel (as often) of bright, unrestored dust jacket with price-clipped front flap. A near-fine copy.
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First edition of Salinger’s first book—“a 20th-century classic”—in first-issue dust jacket with photograph of Salinger on the
back panel. A beautiful unrestored copy.
“In American writing, there are three perfect books, which seem to speak to every reader and condition: Huckleberry Finn,
The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye. Of the three, only Catcher defines an entire region of human experience: it is…
the handbook of the adolescent heart” (New Yorker). “This novel is a key-work of the 1950s in that the theme of youthful
rebellion is first adumbrated in it, though the hero, Holden Caulfield, is more a gentle voice of protest, unprevailing in the
noise, than a militant world-changer… The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a
ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many
voices—anger, contempt, self-pity—but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling”
(Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, 53-4). First printing, with “First Edition” on copyright page, in first-issue dust jacket with
author’s photograph on the rear panel. Starosciak A30. Bixby A2. Book fine. Light wear to extremities of bright, unrestored
dust jacket with slight toning to spine and nominal chipping to spine head. A beautiful copy, rare in this condition.
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“I Got Rhythm…”: First Edition Of George Gershwin’s Song-Book,
Inscribed By Both Gershwin And Alajalov And With A Drawing By Alajalov
20. GERSHWIN, George. George Gershwin’s Song-Book. New York, 1932. Large quarto, original publisher’s full dark blue
morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $17,500.
First trade edition of this compilation of Gershwin’s “improvised” versions of his songs, inscribed in the year of publication by
both Gershwin and illustrator Constantin Alajalov to George Balanchine’s close friend Lucia Davidova, with an original
drawn “mask” of Davidova by Alajalov.
Pioneer aviatrix Lucia Davidova was a close friend of Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine. Self-described as Balanchine’s
“best platonic woman friend,” she was present at every performance, and even at classes and rehearsals. Gershwin knew her
from meetings with Balanchine over their planned collaboration on a new ballet. Gershwin’s untimely death in 1937 prevented
its realization. Thirty-three years later, however, Balanchine chose 17 of Gershwin’s Broadway songs for his ballet Who Cares?
Gershwin’s Song-Book, inscribed to Davidova, is illustrated with full-page color lithographic plates after Alajalov, and includes
such Gershwin standards as “Swanee,” “Fascinating Rhythm,” “The Man I Love,” “Strike Up the Band,” and “I Got Rhythm,”
among others. “In one of his few prose writings, George provided an introduction for the song book. What is most important…
is that it contained the original published version of each song, followed side by side by George’s ‘improvised’ versions of the
songs” (Carnovale, 14). See Carnovale, W45. Book with only minor wear, price-clipped dust jacket soiled and worn at extremities.
Inscriptions bold and fine. Very desirable inscribed.
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george ba rbier
Limited first edition in English of this lavish visual tribute to the great
Nijinsky, with 12 striking full-page line blocks by George Barbier,
hand-colored en pochoir. This copy one of only 50 copies signed by
Barbier, Francis de Miomandre, and the editor.
“We have our despair, our sadness, our violated love and this thing,
most dread of all—the passing of the days between our hands, helpless
to cherish aught they give. But in the spring, the Russian Ballets and
NIJINSKY return. And all is forgotten” (Francis de Miomandre). This
glowing tribute is illustrated with 12 full-page, pochoir-colored line
blocks of Nijinsky in his various roles by Art Deco legend George
Barbier, who began his career as a costume and set designer for the
Ballet Russes. Renowned for his achievement in costume and fashion
illustration, his art work is epitomized by a characteristically elegant,
stylized line. From a total edition of only 400 numbered copies; this
copy is also much taller than the unsigned issue, which had about
three inches trimmed from the lower margin. Bit of light wear and
toning to fragile original wrappers, with two small stains to upper
right corner of front wrapper. Plates clean and fine. A magnificent
copy in original wrappers, most rare and desirable signed by Barbier.
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First edition of Heller’s anti-war play produced during the Vietnam war,
inscribed by him, “To Walter —-, With admiration and sincere good wishes.”
Heller sent this inscribed book to the recipient after he had written to Heller
praising Catch-22 and implying that it was an inspiration for his decision to move to Canada to dodge the U.S. military draft.
With a lengthy typed letter signed by Heller from 1969 to the recipient praising him for his courage and discussing the composition
of Catch-22, as well as an autograph letter signed from 1999 to the same recipient.
Joseph Heller’s 1961 first novel quickly became a classic of anti-war literature. “By the mid-1960s, it had become a cult classic
among counterculture activists for its biting indictment of war” (Books of the Century). The recipient of this inscribed first edition,
wrote to Heller in 1969 from Toronto, praising Catch-22, asking about the composition of the chapter entitled “The Eternal City”
and mulling over his own decision to leave the United States (and thus avoid
the draft), among other topics. Heller replied with a lengthy typed letter in
which he discusses the draft and his own son (who would have been 13 at the
time) and remarks on his years at Time magazine and during the war. The
letter reads in part: “It was both an honor and a sadness to hear from someone
who did leave the country rather than participate in this war; I like to think
that I would do the same if faced with a similar choice, although I’m not sure
I would have the strength of character to do so, and I will certainly encourage
my own son to leave when he is old enough to be threatened with military
service, and leave with him if he wishes me to… The chapter THE ETERNAL
CITY, if I remember correctly, was one of the easiest of all to write, the reason
being, I think, that by that time in the book there was little artifice and more
of a need for direct expression. By that time, too, the time spiral had sort of
straightened itself out and there was a direct continuity of narrative… I’d not
heard before that I was accused of selling out… If anything, I bought out, not
sold out: I wrote most of the novel while I worked there and left the whole
God damned industrial world altogether shortly after it was published. And,
surprising as it may sound, I enjoyed myself immensely while I worked there,
just as I enjoyed myself, I am almost ashamed to admit, for most of my service
in the army.” Heller mentions that he is sending this copy of We Bombed in
New Haven under separate cover, “on the chance that you will enjoy that too,”
and closes by writing, “I wish you will be able to come back soon.” Also
included is a 1999 autograph letter signed from Heller to the same recipient.
Book fine, faint toning to edges of dust jacket, a fine copy with interesting
correspondence regarding Heller’s classic anti-war novel, Catch-22.
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Limited first edition of Modes et Manières d’Aujourd’hui, Volume VIII for the year 1919, number 4 of only 12 copies issued on
Japon (of 300 copies), featuring 12 loose pochoir color plates, accompanying suite of 12 uncolored plates, and original matted
watercolor (8-3/4 by 5-1/2 inches) signed by French artist Andre Edouard Marty, a leading Art Deco artist, with 12 leaves of
accompanying text in French by popular playwright and novelist Tristan Bernard, rarely found complete in the original portfolio.
This original limited edition portfolio highlights the splendid Art Deco artistry of Andre Edouard Marty, who shared with
Georges Barbier, Charles Martin and others a love of “elegance and luxe… They fused their styles from a heady mix: Japanese
woodblock prints, classical Greek and Roman art, modern stage and costume design, and the cinema… The result of this
alchemy was a new way of illustrating the figure” (Torre, 20th-Century Fashion Illustration, 33). Marty, also well known for his
theatre posters, was one of an elite group of only four artists who contributed yearly to Gazette du Bon Ton (1912-25) and his
images were regularly featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Modes et Manières d’Aujord’hui and other publications. This rare
complete Volume VIII of Modes et Manières d’Aujourd’hui, for the year 1919, in the original portfolio, additionally contains 12
corresponding short works by noted French author Tristan Bernard, Modes et Manières d’Aujourd’hui, which first appeared in
1912, was a highly influential Art Deco fashion periodical. Publication ceased in 1923 with a
total of 7 volumes, each limited to a total of 300 copies. Complete volumes in the original
portfolios are quite rare. Plates and text very fresh, small bit of early tape reinforcement to
inner seams of portfolio. Near-fine.
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“The Only Comprehensive Account By A Great Statesman Of The Full Founding
Of The United States”: First Edition Of Marshall’s Life Of Washington,
With Atlas Volume Of The Military Campaigns
25. (WASHINGTON, George) MARSHALL, John. The Life of George Washington. Philadelphia, 1804-07. Six volumes.
Thick octavo, contemporary full brown tree calf gilt; quarto atlas volume, original marbled boards and paper label respined
in calf. $16,800.
First edition of Marshall’s magisterial biography of Washington, with engraved frontispiece portrait and the companion atlas
of ten strategic maps (eight double-page) depicting Washington’s major Revolutionary War campaigns. A beautiful and most
desirable set in contemporary tree calf, with scarce atlas volume in original boards.
Shortly after Marshall became Chief Justice, Washington’s nephew Bushrod approached him to write the first President’s official
biography. Probably no man was better suited to the task. As a personal friend of Washington, Marshall had announced the
President’s death in 1799, offered the eulogy, chaired the committee that arranged the funeral rites, and led the commission to
plan a monument in the capital city. When Marshall’s Life of Washington appeared, it quickly gained such authoritative status
that Washington scholar Jared Sparks suggested any new biographical undertaking would be “presumptuous” (Sparks,
Washington I:12). The work “is political history as well as biography… the only comprehensive account by a great statesman of
the full founding of the United States—of the founding of an independent people as well as of its government… There is no other
concentrated history of the essentials by such an authority on American institutions” (Robert K. Faulkner). “If George
Washington founded the country, John Marshall defined it” (Jean Edward Smith). This first edition, together with the first
English edition of the same years, are “the only complete editions of this indispensable work, the ‘Colonial History’ being omitted
in the later American editions” (Sabin). Scarce companion atlas includes a 22-page list of subscribers. Original owner signature
of Thomas Foster, dated 1804 on first page of Preface, and named in the list of subscribers, under Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Contemporary American tree calf bindings very attractive with just a bit of very minor restoration. Most desirable.
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First complete edition of “the most important scientific book of 18th-century America” and “America’s first great scientific
contribution” (PMM), with seven engraved plates (two folding). An exceptional, wide-margined copy in contemporary calf. An
important edition, edited and revised by Franklin himself, and with material and footnotes appearing here for the first time,
especially scarce in contemporary marbled boards.
This first complete edition is the fourth edition of the original work; the earlier editions, each issued in three parts as separately
published pamphlets usually bound together, were carelessly published. Franklin edited this new one-volume edition himself,
significantly revising the text, adding for the first time a number of his own philosophical letters and papers, introducing
footnotes, correcting errors, and adding an index. “Franklin’s most important scientific publication,” Experiments and
Observations contains detailed accounts of the founding father’s crucial kite and key experiment, his work with Leiden jars,
lightning rods and charged clouds (Norman 830). “The most dramatic result of Franklin’s researches was the proof that lightning
is really an electrical phenomenon. Others had made such a suggestion before him—even Newton himself—but it was he who
provided the experimental proof” (PMM). “The lightning experiments caused Franklin’s name to become known throughout
Europe to the public at large and not merely to men of science. Joseph Priestley, in his History of Electricity, characterized the
experimental discovery that the lightning discharge is an electrical phenomenon as ‘the greatest, perhaps, since the time of Isaac
Newton… Franklin’s achievement… marked the coming of age of electrical science and the full acceptance of the new field of
specialization” (DSB). Sabin 25506. Ford 307. Text and plates generally fresh with light scattered foxing, some rubbing to boards.
A highly desirable extremely good copy, in contemporary boards.
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This rare Civil War letter penned and signed by Grant is dated
mere days before the November 8 election that would decide
Lincoln’s second term. Beneath the letterhead of “Head-Quarters
Armies of the United States,” the text of Grant’s letter from City
Point, Virginia, to Treasury Agent William P. Mellen, reads in part: “Gen.
Sherman having expressed a willingness for Capt. O.H. Ross to keep a supply
store within his command I would request that the permit be given for
Vicksburg, Miss. I would limit it to what might be termed a military supply
store, that is confine it to such articles as officers, soldiers and Govt. employees would require.” It was at Vicksburg, only a year
before, that Grant triumphed in “one of the war’s great campaigns,” a turning point in Lincoln’s view of Grant. A highly desirable
near-fine letter.
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Extraordinary New Testament originally owned by a Confederate soldier at Fredericksburg and then evidently found and
retrieved by at least three other soldiers (two Union) at Fredericksburg and then Gettysburg who carefully recorded in pencil
their names and the circumstances of its acquisition. A wonderful Civil War artifact.
This New Testament is not just a Bible, but rather a battlefield remnant. Published in 1862 as a pocket Bible, it and Bibles like it
represented hope to the soldiers that carried them in dangerous circumstances far from home. This Bible is unusual, not so much
in that it changed hands, but that it changed hands between the Confederacy and the Union. Moreover, it bears a valuable written
record of its provenance. The first inscription, likely that of its original owner, follows the last verse of the Book of Revelation and
reads: “John L. Barnes Co. B 83 Regt Pen. (Vols).” Barnes appears to have been listed as “Barns” in official records. Based on his
military service, he likely lost or gave away his Bible when the 83rd engaged in combat during the Battle of Fredericksburg,
December 11-15, 1862. Barnes survived the war and was discharged on May 29, 1865. The second inscription, on the next page,
identifies the new owner as J.W. Stephenson of the “Southern Confederacy,” who writes: “Book Taken Possession December 17th
1862 at Frederickburg Virginia.” Four months later, the book again changed hands, this time passing to an “E. Durfee” who states
that he “captured this book of[f] the rebels the first of May 63.” Durfee would only retain possession for two months as the final
inscription attests: “Taken by J.S. Olsen at the foot of Big Round Top July 1863.” John Samuel Olsen was a teamster for the Union
and was likely retrieving the dead from the battlefield when he found the volume. (This may account for what appears to be a tiny
bit of blood spatter on the title page.). A few inscriptions quite faint due to old pencil, mild embrowning to text, chipping to last
few leaves, light soiling to front and rear cover pages. Very good condition. Rare.
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Lockwood Audubon, the final octavo edition, containing 500 superb tinted and hand-colored lithographic plates printed by
J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, with numerous in-text anatomical wood-engravings.
One of the most spectacular collections of ornithological prints ever produced and a landmark attempt to document the birds
of North America. “The most splendid book ever produced in relation to America, and certainly one of the finest ornithological
works ever printed… Audubon insisted on drawing from life, never from stuffed specimens, and was much in advance of his
time in portraying the birds (in many cases unrecorded species) in their natural surroundings… The courage and faith of the
Audubon family is breathtaking… This immense undertaking, this unparalleled achievement, was not the production of a
great and long-established publishing house, nor was it backed by a wealthy institution. It was the work of a man of relentless
energy, with no private fortune… It is a story without equal in the whole history of publishing” (Great Books and Book Collectors,
210-13). The second and subsequent octavo editions differed most notably from the first octavo in the addition of tinted
lithographic-wash backgrounds to the plates. “The lithographs in all of the later editions are identical and of the same value”
(Clark and Bannon, Handbook of Audubon Prints). This is the final octavo edition, issued by Lockwood in 1870-1871 and here
bearing the original 1839 Audubon copyright statement on the verso of the title pages. Sometime afterwards, the octavo
lithographic stones were destroyed when a floor collapsed in the Philadelphia warehouse where they were stored (Tyler,
Audubon’s Great National Work, 129, 165 note). Bound with half titles. Plates 155 and 156 bound in reverse order, but present.
Zimmer, 25-26. Early owner ink signature to half titles. Interiors fine, plates bright and beautiful, hand-coloring vivid; minor
expert restoration to one spine head. A lovely set in the original publisher’s morocco in about-fine condition.
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Rare first edition of Franklin’s Almanack for 1757, with the famed woodcut of anatomical man “govern’d” by constellations
and 12 woodcut panels, rarely found complete and uncut, this copy with an exceptional provenance—from the prized
collection of renowned bibliophile Robert Hoe, founder of the Grolier Club, and containing the bookplate of fellow collector E.
Howard Litchfield. A fine uncut copy, bound in full crushed morocco by Bedford.
Franklin first issued Poor Richard’s Almanack in 1732, using the pseudonym Richard Saunders and initiating a series that “is
beyond question the most famous of almanacs, the most charming and readable of Franklin’s writings” (Ford, 11). In addition
to the Almanack’s witty proverbs, this issue for 1757, rarely found complete, especially reveals how Franklin balanced relevance
and humor with vigorous science and sly puzzles. “The annual puzzles got more complicated, as with 1757’s teaser,” set in the
September section. Here we are asked to “imagine three ships, each occupied independently by Christians, Jews or Muslims.
Each vessel leaves the same place but travels a different route under its religiously distinct crew. All return to the original port,
where ‘they shall differ so with respect to real and apparent Time, that they all shall keep their Sabbath on one and the same
Day of the Week, and yet each of them separately shall believe that he keeps his Sabbath on the Day of the Week his Religion
requires’… The larger point, one that exemplified Franklin’s deism and his religious toleration, was that the natural world in-
spired religious sentiment in everyone.” While Franklin, after 1748, was no longer involved in the daily operations of his and
Hall’s busy printing concern, Franklin scholarship clearly notes that his over-arching authorship role of the almanacs contin-
ued, along with the opportune supervision of their printing. Miller 635. Ford 104. Hoe Catalogue, 280. From the collection of
renowned bibliophile Robert Hoe, founder and first president of the Grolier Club. Armorial bookplate of fellow bibliophile
Edward Hubert Litchfield. A fine copy with an exceptional provenance, rare complete and uncut.
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First edition, presentation/association copy, of King’s last book, published the year before he was assassinated, in scarce original
dust jacket, inscribed by him, “To My Dear Friends Marian & Arthur Logan, For whom I have great respect and admiration and
whose consistent support is a great source of inspiration. Martin.” Inscriptions signed with King’s first name only are rare.
King’s final book was published the year before the legendary civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis. Based upon his last
address as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivered in August 1967, the book discusses issues raised
by recent urban race riots, white backlash, and the 1966 shooting of James Meredith. “We have inherited a large house, a great
‘world house’ in which we have to live together—black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and
Protestant, Moslem and Hindu.” Civil rights activist Marian Bruce Logan, who had been a cabaret singer in her youth, married
Duke Ellington’s physician, Arthur C. Logan. “Mrs. Logan was an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a campaign aide
for several political figures, including Nelson A. Rockefeller, Robert F. Kennedy and Robert F. Wagner. Mayor Abraham D.
Beame appointed Mrs. Logan to head the Commission on Human Rights in 1977. During her two-year tenure she worked to stop
the practice of redlining... Along with her husband, Dr. Arthur C. Logan, a surgeon, she was involved in efforts to stabilize the
West Side as an integrated community during urban-renewal efforts there. Mrs. Logan was a socially prominent fund-raiser who
generated financial backing for both national and local civil-rights issues and causes, particularly those of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference. Mrs. Logan was at one time the only Northern board member of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference. She also raised money for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Urban League... During her career in show
business she sang using the stage name Marian Bruce. In the 1940s and 1950s she starred in the first all-black show to be presented
in a Miami Beach nightclub. She also sang in Europe” (New York Times obituary). Cloth with some wear and soiling. Bright dust
jacket with light wear to extremities and some soiling to rear panel. An extremely good copy with important provenance.
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Schoolcraft’s Monumental And Wonderfully Illustrated Six-Volume Work On The American Indian—
A Distinctive Presentation Set
36. SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry R. Historical and Statistical Information, Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of
the Indian Tribes of the United States. Philadelphia, 1851-54, 1868, 1860. Six volumes. Thick folio, period-style three-quarter
black morocco gilt, original pale yellow glazed pastedowns and endpapers retained. $25,000.
Mixed first and early edition set of the most comprehensive anthropological work on American Indians of its time, with over 320
lithographic and steel-engraved illustrations and maps (many full-page chromolithographs, some with hand-coloring) by Seth
Eastman and others. This set a scarce presentation set, inscribed in a secretarial hand in the first three volumes: “C.E. Potter, Esq,
with the respects of H.R. Schoolcraft.”
In 1847 Congress authorized Schoolcraft, explorer and former superintendent of Indian Affairs in Michigan, to collect historical
and statistical information on the country’s native inhabitants. “Schoolcraft’s work was intended to be a great encyclopedia of
information relating to the American Aborigines… It has indeed performed a very important service for Indian history, in col-
lecting and preserving an immense amount of
historic data. Vocabularies of Indian languages,
grammatical analyses, legends of various tribes,
biographies of chiefs and warriors, narratives of
captivities, histories of Indian wars, emigrations
and theories of their origin, are all related and
blended in an extraordinary manner. A very
large number of beautiful steel engravings are
contained in the work, but the most valuable of
its illustrations are the drawings of weapons,
domestic utensils, instruments of gaming and
amusement, sorcery and medicine, objects of
worship, their sculptures, paintings and fortifi-
cations… and every form of antiquities, which
have been discovered” (Sabin 77849). Originally
published entirely by Lippincott, Grambo from
1851-57; the final two volumes are slightly later,
published by J.B. Lippincott in 1868 and 1860,
respectively. Bookplate. Blind embossed stamp
of Manchester City Library to title pages and
frontispiece (only) of Volumes V and VI. Fine
condition. A lovely, complete set.
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Rare 1776 London edition of Paine’s Common Sense, printed within months of the first American edition, a work of such
paramount interest to both America and Britain that this fourth London edition was issued almost certainly before the
Declaration of Independence—that founding document whose issuance on July 4, 1776 “was due more to Paine’s Common
Sense than to any one other single piece of writing,” bound in one volume with the scarce second edition of Plain Truth,
attributed to James Chalmers and considered “the most famous answer to Paine’s advocacy for independence in Common
Sense” (Howes), along with Additions to Common Sense by various authors and featuring an early retranslated draft of the
Articles of Confederation.
This scarce fourth British edition of Common Sense, issued in 1776, the same year as the first, contains Paine’s additions,
increasing the original work by one-third. Like most English editions, this contains hiatuses deleting material critical of the
English crown and government to avoid prosecution. This copy is notably bound, as issued, with the second British edition of
Plain Truth (initially issued in March of 1776), “one of the better known attacks on Common Sense. In addition, this copy is
bound with Additions to Common Sense: a collection of ten essays responding to Common Sense. All 1776 editions of Common
Sense are rare and desirable and increasingly difficult to obtain. Adams, American Independence 222y; 208f; 223d. Text clean and
fine. A rare and important 1776 American Revolutionary collection.
Literature
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Important Second Edition, And First Folio Edition,
Of The First English Translation Of Don Quixote, 1652
38. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight Errant, Don-Quixote,
Of the Mancha. London, 1652. Small folio, early full dark brown calf. $16,000.
Second edition of the first English translation of this “universal classic and arguably the greatest book ever written in
Spanish” (Folger’s Choice 30). The first folio edition, preceded only by the exceptionally rare 1612-20 small quarto first
edition by the same translator (Thomas Shelton).
The Spanish first edition appeared in two parts in 1605 and 1614, and the first part of Thomas Shelton’s English version
was published in 1612 and is very rare; the second part was added in 1620, both published in quarto. This is the first
single-volume Shelton edition, and is the first folio edition. “It is interesting to realize that the first modern novel was
composed by a sick, aged and impoverished man, who believed that a satirical tale might produce more revenue than
the poems and plays that he regarded as his more serious mission. Under the guise of a parody on romances of chivalry,
Cervantes created a study of reality and illusion, madness and sanity, that links him with such acute 16th-century
students of psychology as Erasmus, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Shakespeare” (Folger’s Choice 30). Wing C1776. Iconografia
de las Ediciones del Quijote, 399. Sedó 1152. Rio y Rico 440. See PMM 111. Discreet early owner signature on title page.
Closed tear to leaf Nn, just touching woodcut ornament. Restoration to extremities of binding. An extremely good copy
of this scarce early English edition.
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Can It Indeed Be That You Are Alive?”
Having tired of his popular sleuth, Conan Doyle sent Sherlock Holmes
over the Reichenbach Falls at the close of The Memoirs of Sherlock
Holmes (1893). Although Holmes returned in The Hound of the
Baskervilles (1902), the author took care to set that adventure prior to
the detective’s demise, leaving Holmes—so Conan Doyle hoped—to
rest forever in peace. The author was, however, “persuaded to revive
Sherlock Holmes by the generous offers made by the proprietors of
[Collier’s Weekly Magazine]: $25,000 for six stories, $30,000 for eight or
$45,000 for 13. No conditions were attached. He replied on a postcard:
‘Very well. A.C.D.… The plots did come and 13 stories were written”
(Green & Gibson, 140-41). The first of the new series, “The Adventure of
the Empty House,” debuted in October 1903. “When the story went on sale, the bookstores and stalls in London were mobbed by
thousands of purchasers who literally fought for copies” (Nash, 1016). The game was once more afoot, and the great detective
would don his deerstalker for 20 more short stories and one novel before Conan Doyle retired him permanently in 1927. This copy
with duplicates of two plates bound in. Green & Gibson A29a. Near-fine condition.
First edition, first issue, of the third Sherlock Holmes novel, widely regarded as the best of the series and “one of the most
gripping stories in the English language,” wth 16 illustrations by Sidney Paget. A beautiful copy.
Although Conan Doyle had killed off his most famous character by sending him over the Reichenbach Falls while
grappling with Professor Moriarty in “The Final Problem” (December 1893), his readership demanded the sleuth’s return.
The author obliged with this, the third—and still considered by many the best—Sherlock Holmes novel, carefully
positioned on the title page as “another adventure” of Holmes. “But,” as Howard Haycraft notes, “the seed of doubt was
planted”; and while the novel proved an immediate success, readers continued to press for more. Conan Doyle finally
relented and engineered Holmes’ “resurrection” in 1903. The Hound of the Baskervilles remains “one of the most gripping
books in the language” (Crime & Mystery 100 Best 6). “The supernatural is handled with great effect and no letdown. The
plot and subplots are thoroughly integrated and the false clues put in and removed with a master hand. The criminal is
superb… and the secondary figures each contribute to the total effect of brilliancy and grandeur combined. One wishes
one could be reading it for the first time” (Barzun & Taylor 1142). Green & Gibson A26a. A fine, beautiful copy.
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Important “New York Edition” (trade issue) of Henry James’ works, with 26 beautiful
frontispiece photogravures by Alvin Langdon Coburn and special prefaces prepared by
James specifically for this edition, handsomely bound in contemporary morocco-gilt.
“While James had contemplated a collected edition of his works as early as 1900, serious
discussions of the idea did not start until 1904… A number of publishers were considered…
but James ‘cherished’ the idea of Scribners,” likely because they had published or were
publishing the collected works of Robert Louis Stevenson, George Meredith and other
authors James admired. The collection was to be “a ‘testamentary act,’ an edition definitive,
one that would… ensure James’ place as a master of fiction on the level of Balzac.” A
tumultuous publication history ensued, and “it is not an exaggeration to say that the
public reception of The New York Edition… was a financial and emotional disaster for
James” (Supino, 397-400). Time has, however, viewed this edition far more favorably,
prizing it for not only for James’ specially prepared, insightful prefaces but also Coburn’s
photogravure frontispieces. Selected by James himself, they include landscape and
architectural views, and a portrait of the author in the first volume. Recognized for his
distinctive photographs of cities and people, Coburn helped found the Photo-Secession
Group of photographers. He won renown for his works’ misty atmosphere and his
portraits of prominent artists and writers; those of Henry James rank among his most memorable. This set includes the final two
volumes called for in a complete, 26-volume set. Because they were published posthumously, eight years after the last of the rest,
they are scarce and often missing and contain the last of James’ writings before his death. About-fine condition.
44 “An Honorable Place In Any Library Of
Children’s Books”: First Editions Of
Kipling’s Jungle Books
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Fine set of the “Larger Temple Shakespeare,” one of only 175 sets printed on handmade paper,
beautifully illustrated with 40 full-page plates (30 hand-tinted), and copious in-text line cuts.
Dryden referred to Paradise Lost as “one of the greatest, most noble and sub-
lime poems which either this age or nation has produced.” This rare volume
contains the splendid “first folio edition of Paradise Lost and the first to be
illustrated” (Wither to Prior 607), with a copper-plate engraved frontispiece of
Milton by R. White that contains the first publication of Dryden’s lines on
Milton, and 12 full-page copper-plate engravings: ten signed by Burgesse, who
also appears in the subscriber’s list, one signed by P.P. Bouche, and “the eighth
plate, one of the best, is anonymous” (Pforzheimer 720). This is “the earliest
serious effort to illustrate an important work of English poetry” (Hodnet, 63).
In one volume with this handsomely illustrated first folio edition of Paradise
Lost and is the same year’s Paradise Regain’d and Samson Agonistes, “for
which purpose it seems to have been published.” Tonson, London’s foremost
publisher, “considered this publication his crowning effort” (Wither to Prior
615, 607). He “was a great admirer of Paradise Lost, and he would eventually
acquire Milton’s corrected manuscript… which eventually led to the publica-
tion of [this] lavish folio edition in 1688” (Bristol, 58). Paradise Lost first
published in 1667. Paradise Regain’d and Samson Agonistes first published in
1671. From the library of renowned bibliophile Estelle Doheney, with her gilt
morocco bookplate. Text and plates generally fresh, frontispiece mounted,
Paradise Lost title page with expert archival repair to small hole minimally
affecting one letter, a few other expertly repaired marginal tears to text, minor
rubbing to boards. An excellent copy with fine impressions of plates.
46 “Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Do The Day After Tomorrow Just As Well”:
Mark Twain’s Sketches, 1875, In Scarce Publisher’s Morocco
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46. TWAIN, Mark. Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old. Hartford,
Connecticut and Chicago, Illinois, 1875. Large square octavo,
original three-quarter brown morocco, custom half morocco
clamshell box. $4800.
In 1894 Wells “began writing what he called ‘single sitting stories’ using his special
knowledge of science, culminating in the publication of his novella The Time
Machine in 1895… It was an immediate success” (Gunn, Gilgamesh to Wells, 337).
Its earliest readers grasped its significance: as one contemporary review states, “So
far as our knowledge goes [Wells] has produced that rarity which Solomon declared
to be not merely rare but non-existent—a ‘new thing under the sun” (Bergonzi, 41).
Important not only for establishing Wells as a popular author but also for its
“crucial breakthrough in narrative technology, providing science fiction with one
of its most significant facilitating devices” (Clute & Nicholls, 1227), “it is the most
important foundation stone of British scientific romance and the science fiction genre
in general” (Anatomy of Wonder II:1232). This edition retains more of the text from
the novel’s 1895 New Review serial appearance than the American edition
(published in May of the same year; the English edition published in May and
August of the same year), and is thus preferred. Currey, 424. Bookplate. Very nearly
fine condition, far nicer than usually found.
w. h . auden
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“Mussolini May Stamp As Hitler May Shout/ But Lies In The End Will Always Come Out”:
Autograph Manuscript Of Auden’s Enduring Poem On The Holocaust, Refugee Blues,
Signed By Him And With Two Unpublished Stanzas
50. AUDEN, W.H. Autograph manuscript poem signed. No place, no date. Octavo, two leaves, each written on one
side only, 42 lines, 14 verses in blue ink. $15,000.
Autograph manuscript of the poem “Refugee Blues” (here entitled “Song”) in Auden’s hand, signed by him and with his
corrections, showing numerous interesting variations from the published poem, including an additional two stanzas
apparently unpublished.
And the final, hopeful verse, which also does not appear in published versions of the poem, reads:
“Mussolini may stamp as Hitler may shout
But lies in the end will always come out
No matter what they do, my dear, no matter what they do.”
Minor paper clip rust mark to margin of one leaf. Auden’s writing clear and bold. An extremely desirable signed manu-
script poem in fine condition.
The first novel in the acclaimed and popular Snopes trilogy, The
Hamlet was the only novel Faulkner published between Absalom,
Absalom! in 1936 and Knight’s Gambit in 1949. The critical re-
sponse was very positive: Malcolm Cowley considered it
Faulkner’s best work since Sanctuary, while The New York Times
hailed it as “nothing short of superb—subtle and yet direct, hu-
morous, homely, brilliantly evocative of a decaying South in the
generation after the Civil War… In this book he is unsurpassable”
(Blotner, 416). Petersen A.22.1a. Brodsky 210. Fine condition.
Scarce and desirable.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 250 specially bound copies,
signed by Faulkner.
William Faulkner, who reviewed The Old Man and the Sea for the
magazine Shenandoah, called the novel Hemingway’s best: “Time may
show it to be the best single piece of any of us. I mean his and my con-
temporaries” (Baker, 593-94). “Here is the master technician once more
at the top of his form, doing superbly what he can do better than anyone
else” (New York Times). The Old Man and the Sea is among the most
desirable and scarcest of Hemingway’s works to obtain inscribed. Early
printing, with no date on title
page and without Scribner
“A” beneath copyright no-
tice, with publisher’s code
M-7.56[H] indicating this
this is the 13th printing,
printed in July, 1956. Later-issue dust jacket as well, with mention of the Nobel Prize
for Literature 1954 on the rear panel, and with scarce publisher’s printed belly band
also mentioning the Nobel Prize. See Hanneman A24a. Book fine, minor creasing to
dust jacket spine head. A lovely inscribed copy in very nearly fine condition.
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Association First Edition Of For Whom The Bell Tolls, Inscribed By Hemingway
56. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust
jacket. $14,000.
First edition of this classic Hemingway novel, inscribed: “To Gregg Sinclair, with all good wishes, Ernest
Hemingway.”
“This is the best book Ernest Hemingway has written, the fullest, the
deepest, the truest. It will, I think, be one of the major novels of
American literature… Hemingway has struck universal chords, and
he has struck them vibrantly” (J. Donald Adams). Binding is a variant
with lettering on white panels on the spine, as opposed to on red
panels, as usually seen. Hanneman A18a. Inscribed to Gregg Sinclair,
the University of Hawaii professor who hosted a luncheon for
Hemingway at the Willows Restaurant during his Hawaiian vacation
in February 1941. Book with light staining to endpapers; rear inner
paper hinge split; light soiling to spine. Light restoration to dust jacket.
Minor water spot to inscription. A nice inscribed copy.
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Signed limited first edition of Hemingway’s “consummate masterpiece,” one of only 510 copies signed by him, a splendid
copy, uncut and entirely unopened, in scarce original slipcase.
“Probably [Hemingway’s] best… Its success was so enormous… After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-
clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence… the beginning, like all his beginnings, seems effortless and
magical” (Connally 60). “A Farewell to Arms was the novel that placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters…
[it is], in fact, the most satisfying and most sustained, the consummate masterpiece, among Hemingway’s novels. It bears
the mark of Hemingway’s best gifts as a writer” (Mellow, 377-79). The only signed limited first edition of any of Hemingway’s
works. Without rarely found glassine. Hanneman A8b. An almost perfect copy with only very slight soiling to vellum spine
ends; slipcase expertly restored.
54 Beautiful First Edition Of Heinlein’s Classic
Stranger In A Strange Land
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First trade edition of Huxley’s haunting dystopian classic, this copy inscribed
in the year of publication by William Theodore Golden, the prominent
American statesman and entrepreneur who forged a path for science in
America, initiating the creation of a national science adviser under Truman,
and pivotal in the creation of the National Science Foundation—“an icon in
the American scientific community” (Washington Post).
“After the success of his first three novels, Huxley abandoned the fictional
milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future.
He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G.
Wells’ Utopian vision… The book was immediately successful” (Parker &
Kermode, 161-62). It remains the “seminal dystopia… As argument and as
satire, Brave New World is a compendium of usable points and quotable
jibes… and has provided material for much subsequent fiction,” not only
within speculative fiction but also beyond it (Clute & Nicholls, 606). Preceded
by the signed limited edition of 324 copies. Owner inscription of William
Theodore Golden, a prominent American statesman and entrepreneur “who earned a fortune in the 1930s through canny Wall
Street investments, spent more than 50 years bringing the foremost minds of science together with presidents, mayors and
international leaders… Golden became a consultant to President Truman in 1950 and recommended that he hire a scientist to
monitor the nation’s research efforts. Every president since has had an official science
adviser. Golden also helped launch the National Science Foundation… At his death
in 2007, Golden was remembered as “an icon in the American scientific community”
(Washington Post). Text fine, lightest edge-wear to bright gilt cloth; chipping to spine
head of dust jacket minimally affecting spine title. A highly desirable near-fine copy.
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“This is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced
by an American writer. It is also one of the best… It has been a long
while since the American public has been offered such a bounteous
feast of excellent story-telling” (New York Times Book Review, 1936).
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. Bookplate with owner’s name eradicated pasted down beneath Mitchell’s signature.
Occasional scattered light foxing to interior; light rubbing to extremities of original cloth. Scarce original dust jacket
extremely good with light wear to extremities and a one-inch closed tear to spine head, light soiling to spine, and tape
residue to verso. Scarce signed.
56 “This Would Be Ten Times As Good If I Could’ve USED 1%
Of The Real Stories…”
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61. MICHENER, James. Tales of the South Pacific. New York, 1947. Octavo,
original pale orange cloth, dust jacket. $8000.
Scarce first edition of Rand’s first novel, one of only 3000 copies printed, inscribed by the author in the year of publication: “To
Mary Virginia Inloes—with the very best wishes of the author. Ayn Rand. June 17, 1936.”
We The Living, Rand’s first novel, was first published in April 1936 in a very small edition of 3000 copies. It details the heroine’s
struggle for individualism under Soviet communism and is the most autobiographical of Rand’s novels, published ten years
after she fled the Soviet Union for the United States. When the work was re-issued in 1959, Rand noted in the book’s forward
that “for those readers who have expressed a personal curiousity about me, I want to say that We the Living is as near to an
autobiography as I will ever write.” Without scarce original dust jacket. Perinn A1a. Inloes was a Hollywood literary agent,
representing Rand’s play Night of January 16th, which ran on Broadway from September 1935 through April 1936. In a letter
to Inloes dated June 18, 1936, one day after the inscription in this copy, Rand wrote: “I have just sent you a copy of my book, for
I certainly do not want you to wait for it at a lending library… I am quite happy and proud about the book, much more so that
about the unfortunate Night of January 16th. Speaking of Night, I must report that it is doing very well in summer stock. There
are several companies doing it now and many more planned. The London production is tentatively scheduled for September. I
understand also that a road tour of the big cities is planned for this fall” (Berliner, 31). Interior fine; light soiling to boards and
light toning to spine. An extremely good copy, scarce inscribed and with such exceptional provenance.
58 Presentation First Edition Of The Jungle,
Warmly Inscribed By Sinclair To His Patron,
Social Reformer And Philanthropist Geoffrey D. Herron
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64. SINCLAIR, Upton. The Jungle. New York, 1906. Octavo, original
pictorial green cloth. $9200.
First trade edition of Steinbeck’s fourth novel, published at the height of the
Great Depression and hailed as “the best strike and labor novel to come
out of our contemporary economic and social unrest” (New York Times), in
scarce dust jacket.
john steinbeck
“The First Flight Of A Fine Writing Talent”
68. STEINBECK, John. The Pastures of Heaven. New York, 1932. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $18,000.
Scarce first edition, first issue, one of a scant 650 copies sold, of Steinbeck’s lyrical and incisive portrait of the verdant heart of
California and its people—“points the way to most of his subsequent writing”—a beautiful copy in original dust jacket.
The Pastures of Heaven, Steinbeck’s second-published book, “began as an idea for a volume of interconnected short stories… The
setting was also prepared for the writing of Pastures by Steinbeck’s interest in family history, continuity and inheritance,
particularly in father-son relationships.” Shortly after submitting the completed manuscript, Steinbeck wrote, “‘If the reader will
take them for what they are, and will not be governed by what a short story should be (for they are not short stories at all, but tiny
novels) then they should be charming… There is no grand writing nor any grand theme, but I love the stories very much”
(Benson, 209, 219). Critics praised The Pastures of Heaven on publication as “the first flight of a fine writing talent” (Nation),
especially “noteworthy for its originality of phrase and image and a strongly poetic feeling” (New York Times Book Review).
Among other achievements, it “represents Steinbeck’s first effective use of local color and legend” (Salinas Public Library, 19).
“Today The Pastures of Heaven is the most popular of Steinbeck’s three early books. It points the way to most of his subsequent
writing” (Valentine 14). “Brewer, Warren & Putnam printed 2500 sets of sheets, of which 1650 were bound and about 650 copies
sold. The remainder were sold to Robert O. Ballou in 1932” (Goldstone & Payne, 22). Goldstone & Payne A2a. Bruccoli & Clark
I:353. Valentine 14. Near-fine dust jacket lightly rubbed with minor abrasions to spine, light wear to edges. Book fine. A lovely,
desirable copy of an elusive and significant Steinbeck first edition.
“The Imagination Is The Power Of The Mind Over The 61
Possibilities Of Things”: Stevens’ Pulitzer Prize-Winning
Collected Poems, Inscribed By Him With Powerful
First edition of Stevens’s classic collection, one of 1000 copies, signed and
dated by him, “Wallace Stevens, June 10, 1954,” only one year before he
won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, scarce in second state dust jacket. A
beautiful copy.
First trade edition, published only one year before Thomas’ death,
signed and dated 1953 by Thomas, in scarce dust jacket.
Williams wrote of his play, “The Rose Tattoo is the Dionysian element in
human life… the lyric as well as the Bacchantic impulse… the transcen-
dence of life over the instruments it uses… a celebration of the inebriate
god” (Spoto, The Kindness of Strangers, 170). In his Memoirs he called it
“my love-play to the world.” Williams wrote the play following his 1948
trip to Italy. It opened in New York on
February 3, 1951, and ran for 306 perfor-
mances, winning five Tony Awards, in-
cluding Best Play, and was adapted to the
screen in 1955, earning three Oscars, in-
cluding Best Actress for Anna Magnani.
Crandell A10.1.a. Book fine, bright dust
jacket near-fine with a few small closed
tears to edges. A lovely inscribed copy.
First edition, first printing, of the play for which Williams won his second
Pulitzer Prize, signed by the playwright.
ch a rles da rw in
“Man Still Bears… The Indelible Stamp Of His Lowly Origin”
75. DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man. London, 1871. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter polished
tan calf gilt, custom slipcase. $12,000.
First edition, first issue, of Darwin’s landmark treatise, in which the word “evolution” is used to describe his theory for the
first time in any of his works, handsomely bound.
“The book, in its first edition, contains two parts, the descent of man itself, and selection in relation to sex. The word
‘evolution’ occurs [Volume I, p. 2] for the first time in any of Darwin’s works” (Freeman, 128-29). “In the Origin Darwin had
avoided discussing the place occupied by Homo sapiens in the scheme of natural selection, stating only that ‘light will be
thrown on the origin of man and his history.’ Twelve years later he made good his promise with The Descent of Man”
(Norman 599). Freeman 937. Garrison & Morton 170. Norman 599. Armorial bookplates. Occasional light pencil
marginalia. Bindings lightly rubbed. A very nearly fine copy, handsomely bound.
Signed By Einstein In The Year Of Publication, 65
Ideas And Opinions
“There Are Many People Suffering From Phantasies And Don’t Want To Be Cured”:
Fascinating Typed Letter Signed By Carl Jung Mentioning Napoleon
77. JUNG, Carl. Typed letter signed. Zurich,
May 11, 1955. One half sheet of ivory wove typing
paper. $5500.
At the time Barrow began collecting information for this work less
than a tenth of the British colony of South Africa had been accurately
mapped. During the course of his travels he visited the Boers,
Hottentots, and the Bosjemen, performing “a journey exceeding one
thousand miles on horseback, on foot, and very rarely in a covered
wagon, and full half the distance as a pedestrian, and never except for
a few nights sleeping under a roof.” The result was the most compre-
hensive work on the region published to date, with a map that at upon
appearance was unrivalled in its accuracy and scope. “Highly valu-
able for its variety and extent of information, both political and scien-
tific” (Lowndes, 122-23). The first edition of 1801-04 only included
one view, a folding hand-tinted aquatint view of Cape Town not re-
tained in this second edition, which has been enlarged with the addition of eight hand-colored engravings illustrating Boers,
natives, and fauna of South Africa not present in the first edition. Bookplate. Text and plates generally clean, hand-coloring fine.
Extremely good in nicely restored contemporary calf.
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crick a nd watson
In 1962 Crick, Watson and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize “for their discoveries
concerning the molecular structure of nuclear acids and its significance for infor-
mation transfer in living material.” The publication of their joint 1953 paper in
Nature revolutionized biochemistry and the other life sciences, and
profoundly affected the study of molecular biology. The final paper as
it appears here was a complete work—Watson and Crick did not reveal
their work to the scientific community in stages—making its impact all
the greater. This scarce offprint contains the three papers that appeared
in the issue of Nature for April, 1953. The offprint was printed from the
standing type (rather than the electrotype plate used for the journal),
and is, in effect, a galley proof, issued in a small number for distribu-
tion among the scientists involved. Crick’s article Structure of the
Hereditary Material offers insight into the investigative processes he
and Watson followed; in his 1957 article, Nucleic Acids, he makes one
of his very first published statements about “the Central Dogma,”
which would prove “a turning point in the history of the life sciences…
came to replace another theory, the three-dimensional template theo-
ry… advocated by Linus Pauling” (Strasser). A landmark collection in
the history of science, in fine condition.
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Inscribed And Signed By Sir Richard F. Burton,
A Pilgrimage To Meccah And Medinah In One Volume
81. BURTON, Richard Francis. Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Meccah and Medinah. London and Belfast, 1879. Octavo, original
green beveled cloth gilt. $9000.
Third edition, revised, of “a most remarkable work of the highest value” (T.E. Lawrence), Burton’s scarce and important
illustrated narrative of his journey to Mecca, inscribed by Burton: “In memory of our pleasant hours at Trieste with affect[ionate]
regards. Richard & Isabel, 22. Dec 1881.” With three folding plans, one color folding map, and 27 in-text illustrations.
After years of studying Oriental customs and manners, Burton offered his services to the Royal Geographical Society “for the
purpose of removing that opprobrium to modern adventure, the huge white blot which in our maps still notes the Eastern and
Central Regions of Arabia” (Penzer, 44). Burton resolved to wend his way to Mecca to observe Muslim rites witnessed by few
westerners. Donning a variety of disguises and learning the mannerisms common to Islam—how to dress, eat, sit, sleep, pray,
etc.—Burton was accepted as a native. In his bibliography of Burton’s works, Norman Penzer remarks, “I questioned Colonel
Lawrence [i.e., “Lawrence of Arabia”] about the accuracy of Burton’s description of the journey to Mecca and Medina, and he said
that it was absolutely correct in every detail” (Penzer, 7). First published in 1855-56 as Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-
Medinah and Mecca. “The map in this edition is colored, in which state it has not appeared before” (Penzer, 54). Penzer, 44-54. In
1872, Burton was made consul at Trieste, Italy, a post he held until his death there in 1890. Isabel, cited in the inscription, was
Burton’s wife. Bookseller ticket. Occasional scattered light foxing to interior. Expert repairs to folding plan of El Medinah and
inner paper hinges. Light rubbing to extremities of bright original cloth. A near-fine copy, most scarce inscribed.
First Edition Of Burchett’s Naval History, 1720, 69
With Nine Double-Page Maps
“The first British authority which sought to achieve the bold and
perilous undertaking of chronicling occurrences afloat from the
earliest accounts of time” (Allibone, 285). A one-time clerk of
Samuel Pepys, Burchett’s tenure as Secretary of the Admiralty
“included the whole French war during the reigns of William III
and Anne, during which every document of importance passed
through his hands” (DNB). His comprehensive volume spans na-
val history from ancient Egypt to the early 18th century. “The last
half… has exceptional value. Writing of events concerning which
he had very full and accurate information… his expressions of
opinion carry great weight” (DNB). With woodcut historiated
initials, head- and tailpieces; title page printed in red and black; and nine double-page engraved maps by Herman Moll. “It
was in the 18th century that [Moll] made his mark, becoming in the second two decades the foremost map publisher in
England” (Tooley Africa, 77). Bookplate. Four maps with mild foxing, remaining maps and text remarkably clean and fresh.
An excellent, handsome copy.
john st ua rt mill
“The Greatest Good Of The Community Is Inseparable From The Liberty Of The Individual”:
First Edition Of Mill’s Classic On Liberty, 1859
84. MILL, John Stuart. On Liberty. London, 1859. Octavo, modern full speckled brown calf gilt. $6500.
First edition of Mill’s most famous work—“the final stage in the growth of Utilitarian doctrine… His arguments for freedom
of every kind of thought or speech have never been improved on” (PMM)—a beautiful copy in handsome full calf-gilt.
“Mill realized that the ‘greatest good’ of the community is inseparable from the liberty of the individual. Hitherto, liberty
had always been considered relative, in relation to tyranny or oppression: Mill extended tyranny to include a custom-ridden
majority, and declared that ‘the sole end for which mankind is justified in interfering with liberty of action is self-protection’…
Many of Mill’s ideas are now the commonplaces of democracy. His arguments for freedom of every kind of thought or
speech have never been improved on. He was the first to recognize the tendency of a democratically elected majority to
tyrannize over a minority… Mill’s On Liberty remains his most widely read book. It represents the final stage in the growth
of Utilitarian doctrine” (PMM 345). “On Liberty is regarded as one of the finest expressions of 19th-century liberalism”
(Baugh, 1323). With eight-page publisher’s catalogue tipped in at rear. Oval publisher’s inkstamp to title page, “Presented
by the Publisher.” With owner inscription opposite, faded but legible and dated year of publication, of “W.D. Watson, Febry
1859,” quite possibly belonging to a recipient chosen by Mill, or a reviewer. Bookseller ticket. Text very fresh and clean, light
wear and toning to original cloth. A highly desirable extremely good copy. Bound without publisher’s advertisements. Text
very fresh and clean with only lightest infrequent foxing. A fine handsomely bound copy.
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Beautiful illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours, featuring a striking three-quarter miniature of St. Nicholas resurrecting
the three murdered schoolboys—a traditional story based on a misinterpretation of St. Nicholas saving three daughters being
sold into sin—with an elaborate floriated-gilt panel border and two intricate initials.
This fantastic three-quarter miniature is from a Book of Hours, circa 1450, France, Use unknown. It is scribed in Latin on vellum
(178 x 115 mm.), with text from The Suffrages. The miniature (45 x 35 mm.) is of Saint Nicholas, also known as the Bishop of Myra,
holding his pastoral staff and mitre. Also depicted are three children coming out of a washtub. Legend holds that Nicholas,
commonly known as Santa Claus, saved the lives of the three boys. A surly innkeeper allegedly killed and dismembered the three
schoolboys, throwing their mutilated bodies in a pickling tub as food for his guests. Nicholas blessed the tub and the boys were
miraculously brought back to life. This, however, is a story that derives from poorly drawn artwork. The real Saint Nicholas was
in fact credited with saving three girls from prostitution. He was a wealthy and enlightened man known for his acts of charity.
When a poor man in town decided to begin selling his daughters into prostitution, Nicholas came under cover of darkness and
threw bags of gold through the man’s window—one for each daughter. Artists painted the bags of gold and, over time, those bags
came to be mistaken for the heads of children. This 15th century miniature clearly represents that version with a delicately
rendered St. Nicholas shown blessing three pale and naked boys standing in a pickling tub. A beautiful framed illuminated leaf
with an exquisite miniature in fine condition.
“Sacerdos In Aeternum Christus Dominus, 73
Secundum Ordinem Melchisedech…”
This leaf is from a French book of Hours, likely Use of Bourges, circa 1425. It
is written on each side in 20 lines of Latin text, all in a strong Gothic liturgical
hand, with a total of 17 one-line initials, all elaborately executed in liquid
gold on red and blue filigreed fields. The text, Psalm 148.2-149.4 in the Latin
Vulgate, begins on the verso as framed. There are also eight illuminated line
extenders. Both top panels consist of red, blue and green acanthus leaves on
a liquid gold background. Both side panels contain liquid gold ribbons filled
with roses and irises, while blue and gold acanthus leaves foliate the rest of
the panel (against a chocolate background on the recto and a white
background on the verso). The lower borders on both sides feature landscapes
with, on the recto, a bird apparently preparing to eat a small winged insect on
the recto, and two indeterminate grotesques on the verso. Fine condition.
74 1789 Venice Edition Of The Roman Missal,
Beautifully Bound In Contemporary Morocco-Gilt
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Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 copies, of Adams’ award-winning “ideal book, comprising his personal choice
of pictures,” containing 115 superb photolithographs of images personally selected by Adams, this scarce deluxe edi-
tion issued with the accompanying exhibition-size mounted gelatin silver print, “Fern Spring, Dusk,” signed by Adams
in pencil on the mount and numbered on mount verso.
“Ansel Adams had a greater impact upon creative photography than any other person in this century.” Images 1923-1974
is his “first very-large-format book… In full control, Ansel produced his ideal book, comprising his personal choice of
pictures, state-of-the-art reproduction, graceful words and
elegant design. He selected the 115 photographs that he be-
lieved best represented the range of his vision, choosing (as
he always did when it was up to him) a wide spectrum of
portraits, details, abstracts and occasional quirky subjects,
as well as a smattering of his grand landscapes… Images was
both a great aesthetic and a commercial success, elected as
one of the 50 Books of the Year by the American Institute of
Graphic Arts and awarded first prize at the World Book Fair
in Leipzig, Germany” (Alinder). To Pulitzer Prize-winning
writer Wallace Stegner, who authored the introduction,
Adams’ “mind and vision, his reverence, his delicacy and
strength, will have the power to move and enhance and en-
large us as long as walls exist for photographs” (Miraculous
Instants). Adams “elevated the act of photography to a reli-
gious experience” (Stepan). Copies complete with the sepa-
rate numbered gelatin silver print are quite scarce, as the
print is often framed rather than kept with the book. A fine
signed copy in price-clipped dust jacket with accompanying
fine signed print.
76 “The Ecstasy And Essence Of The Dance”
93. BRODOVITCH, Alexey. Ballet. New York, 1945. Oblong
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First edition of the full score of Beethoven’s magnificent Fifth Symphony—“the best known, and therefore the most generally
enjoyed, of Beethoven’s nine Symphonies… a more universal favorite than any other work of the same class” (Grove,
Beethoven, 137)—fully engraved and handsomely bound, with boards preserving much of the original paper wrappers.
“The piece of music by which Beethoven is most widely known” (Grove, Beethoven, 137). “Because of its tremendous power,
Beethoven’s Fifth has always been a special favorite; the opening, which Beethoven in an unguarded moment likened to fate
knocking at the door, has become the symbol of man over his destiny” (Alkerstedt). “What instrumental work of Beethoven
testifies to this [depth of thought] to a higher degree than the immeasurably noble and profound Symphony in C minor? How
this marvelous composition carries the hearer irresistibly with it in its ever-mounting climax into the spirit kingdom of the
infinite!” (E.T.A. Hoffmann). This full score is preceded only by the orchestral parts and various arrangements for smaller
ensembles, published by the same firm in April 1809. Kinsky-Halm, 160. Fuld, 557. Owner signatures of noted 19th-century
music scholar and music collector Julian Marshall. “In later years he formed a valuable collection of musical autographs and
portraits, wrote much on musical subjects and contributed to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians” (DNB). Bookseller’s
small inkstamp to title page. Armorial bookplate. Scattered light foxing, corners expertly restored. Rare and important.
ja mes joyce / henri m atisse
Signed By Matisse: The First Illustrated Edition Of Ulysses
96. JOYCE, James and MATISSE, Henri. Ulysses. New York, 1935. Large
quarto, original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth, acetate, slipcase, custom
clamshell box. $9000.
“By the early 19th century, the Arthurian legends had become a
literary anachronism. Tennyson’s poetry brought about a rebirth
of interest in the material and eventually placed it on a new pla-
teau of respect and significance for writers and artists” (Lacy,
446). “The Idylls of the King appeared in the autumn of 1859 and
received a welcome so instantaneous as at once to restore its au-
thor to his lost place in the affections of many” (DNB). This edi-
tion is the first to feature the engraved frontispiece portrait (de-
picting the poet surrounded by his Camelot characters) and 36
other dramatic engraved plates by Gustave Doré. “No other for-
eign illustrator and few native ones of the period so completely
captured the English fancy [as Doré]… Tennyson and his pub-
lisher Moxon greatly favored Doré as an illustrator” (Muir). The text contains the first four poems of the epic cycle: Enid, Elaine,
Vivien and Guinevere—all the parts of the Idylls Tennyson had completed to date (the first complete publication of all 12 poems
together would not appear until 1891). Only occasional faint foxing. A beautiful, large volume in fine condition.
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a ndrea pa ll a dio
Among The Most Important Works Of Its Kind:
The First Isaac Ware Edition Of Palladio, 1738, With Over 200 Fine Folio Plates
99. PALLADIO, Andrea. The Four Books of Andrea Palladio’s Architecture. London, 1738. Folio (10 by 16 inches),
contemporary full mottled calf rebacked in calf gilt. $12,000.
First Isaac Ware edition (in English) of Palladio’s enormously important treatise on architecture, with four engraved title pages
and 212 numbered architectural plates (205 of which are full-sized folio plates)—still considered the definitive English edition.
First published in Italian in 1570, Palladio’s treatise popularized classical decorative details, becoming what is probably the most
influential architectural book ever printed. Incorporating many of his own designs to illustrate the principles of classical Roman
architecture, Palladio strongly influenced 18th-century architecture in the British Isles, Italy and America. While Palladio’s
work was the most common architectural book owned by designers and builders, it was difficult to obtain in America. Thomas
Jefferson commented in 1804 that “there never was a Palladio here [in Washington] even in private hands till I brought one…
the chance of getting one in America is slender.” The first English translation of the four books was made by Nicholas DuBois
in 1715, with designs by Giacomo Leoni and revised by Leoni in 1721. Burlington commissioned architect Isaac Ware to produce
a more accurate translation, which was “notably more literal than his predecessor’s and is considered, to this day, the definitive
one” (Harris). Avery 172. Millard 53. Fowler 229. Harris 691. First three leaves, two plates with expert restoration or repairs.
Minor ink stains to plates 11 and 13 of Book I, plates with expert cleaning. Expert restoration to attractive contemporary
mottled calf binding. A beautiful copy.
“Scheherezade Herself Must Have Appeared To Edmund Dulac” 81
Signed limited first edition, one of 350 copies signed by Edmund Dulac—“an
illustrator of first rank, a master of the fantastic and exotic and ‘a dreamer
of extraordinary dreams’” (Dalby, 82-83)—with color frontispiece and 50
mounted color plates by him, beautiful in the original decorative vellum-gilt.
A fine copy.
Second large quarto edition of this splendid early 19th-century botanical work, with 65 lovely stipple-engraved tissue-guarded
plates by Rédouté (of flowers, fruit, etc.) and engraved by Bouquet, Chailly, Delelo, Gabriel, de Gouy, and others, printed in
colors and finished by hand.
A wonderful series of botanical prints after works by the celebrated 19th-century master, Pierre-Joseph Rédouté, over 40 of which
show full-page images of flowers and fruit trees (the rest depicting multiple images on a single page), including familiar flowers
commonly known as the crocus, tiger lily, narcissus, digitalis, snapdragon, sweet pea, Queen Anne’s lace, dandelion, and aster,
and such flowering fruit trees as the pear, peach, and plum. “Rousseau’s interest in botany was awakened in 1763 or 1764, shortly
after he had gone to Switzerland. Following the current fashion he made various collections of plant specimens or herbaria, two
of which are known to have been given to Madame Delessert and her daughter Marguerite-Madeleine. Subsequently, the Lettres
elementaires sur la botanique were written for Marguerite-Madeleine, at the request of her mother” (see Stafleu). This botanical
treatise was first published in Paris in 1771, but it was in 1805 that the first edition with the plates engraved after Rédouté’s
paintings was published, in folio. It was also issued that year in a quarto format; this is only the second quarto issue, followed by
another in 1822. With 159 pages of text in French, a one-page table and seven pages containing Explication de Planches. Great
Flower Books, 134. Nissen 1688. Bookplates of Lynde Selden, vice chairman of American Express. Interior expertly cleaned with
scattered light foxing, contemporary calf binding expertly restored with spine lightly toned. A beautiful volume.
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First edition, signed by Frank on both the half title and on the title page of his timeless masterpiece—no photobook “has been
more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized” (Parr & Badger), with 83 full-page photogravures.
In his preface to the 1959 American edition of Robert Frank’s magnum opus, Jack Kerouac wrote, “Anybody doesn’t like these
pitchers dont like potry see? Robert Frank… he sucked a sad poem out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic
poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message. You got eyes.” “From April 1955… to June 1956, Robert Frank
made a number of short trips out from New York and one long (nine-month) journey to the West Coast in a 1950 Ford to
photograph America. From the more than 20,000 images that resulted, Frank eventually chose 83 of them and arranged them
into four chapters… ‘With these photographs,’ he later wrote, ‘I have attempted to show a cross-section of the American
population. My effort was to express it simply and without confusion. The view is personal…’ Such a simple intention for a
book that would so alter the course of modern photography” (Roth, 150). This is the first edition, published in Paris, with
accompanying texts in French selected by Alain Bosquet. Frank’s Américains eventually achieved legendary status as “the
most renowned photobook of all… It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers… Many memorable
photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully
realized than Frank’s masterpiece” (Parr & Badger I:247). As issued without a dust jacket. Copies signed by Frank are
exceptionally rare. See Looking In; Open Book, 176. Images and text fresh and clean, inner hinge starting but sound, boards
with only lightest soiling, none of the usual wear to spine ends. A scarce near-fine signed copy.
84 “One Of Stravinsky’s Most Moving Compositions,”
Inscribed By Him
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“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). When editor Virginie Fowler first read the work, she wrote to the author, “If this doesn’t
become a little classic, I can only say that I think you will not have been dealt with justly” (Treglown, 134). “When Tim
Burton approached Roald Dahl’s widow about his plan to make a film of James and the Giant Peach, she asked him why he
wanted to do it. Burton’s answer clinched the deal: ‘It’s the only book that ever gave me any hope when I was a child’” (D is
for Dahl, 68). First edition, with H. Wolff credited as binder in the colophon. Inscribed by illustrator Nancy Eckholm Burkert.
“Burkert works in a tradition of artists for whom book illustration is one of the fine arts like painting or sculpture… Her
drawings are not a secondary accompaniment to words, but a primary and integral part of the book experience in which she
is an equal partner with the writer” (Michael Danoff). James and the Giant Peach was her first illustrated children’s book. Ink
numeral “12” to rear flap of dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed with minor loss to spine foot. Book fine. A
near-fine copy of an elusive first edition, inscribed by the illustrator.
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Wonderfully Inscribed By T.S. Eliot
Early American edition of one of Eliot’s most popular and “one of the most
famous 20th-century books of all,” in original dust jacket designed and drawn
by him, warmly and boldly inscribed on the dedication page, “And this copy is
inscribed by Old Possum himself. T.S. Eliot for —, 11 June 1947.”
First edition, first state, of the first and most beloved Uncle Remus book by
Harris, the one American writer of the Reconstruction who “has made the
most permanent contribution,” with eight plates and numerous text
illustrations by Church and Moser, in original bright gilt cloth.
a . a . milne
“Among The Best Ever Written For Children”: First Editions Of Milne’s Four Pooh Books
111. MILNE, A.A. The Four Pooh Books: When We Were Very Young; Winnie The Pooh; Now We Are Six;
The House At Pooh Corner. London, 1924-28. Four volumes. Small octavo, original pictorial cloth, custom
slipcase and chemise $28,000.
“Although Alan Alexander Milne wrote novels, short stories, poetry and many plays for adults, in addition to his
work as assistant editor for Punch from 1906 to 1914, it is his writings for children that have captured the hearts of
millions of people worldwide and granted Milne everlasting fame” (Silvey, 461). Milne wrote most of these poems
at the request of friend and fellow poet Rose Fyleman, who was planning a new children’s magazine. “On a rain-
blighted holiday in Wales, [Milne] escaped from the crowd of fellow guests to the summerhouse, and for 11 days wrote
a set of children’s verses, one each day… ‘There on the other side of the lawn was a child with whom I had lived for three
years [his son, Christopher Robin]… and here within me were unforgettable memories of my own childhood.’ He
added more verses when he got home, enough for a book, and allowed some to be published in advance in Punch”
(Carpenter & Prichard, 351). Shepard, a Punch staff artist at the time, provided delightful line vignettes, result-
ing in “a wonderful marriage of verse and vision. His delicately precise and fresh drawings had an instant
appeal” (DNB). When We Were Very Young first edition, second issue as usual, with page ix numbered
(any first edition copy is exceedingly scarce). Payne I.A-IV.A. Cutler & Stiles, 115-16. With
vintage advertisements-testaments to Pooh’s perennial merchandising appeal-laid in
to The House at Pooh Corner. Books fine with cloth clean and gilt bright.
When We Were Very Young and House at Pooh Corner dust jack-
ets extremely good with light edge-wear, tape repairs to versos;
sticker residue to front panel of House at Pooh Corner jacket.
Remaining jackets about-fine. A most desirable near-fine
first edition set of four cherished childhood classics.
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Approaches”: Harry Potter And The Order Of The
Phoenix, Signed By J.K. Rowling
“I Am Eloise. I Am Six”:
Rare First Edition Of Eloise, Signed Kay Thompson
113. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise. Drawings by Hilary Knight.
New York, 1955. Slim quarto, original white pictorial cloth, dust
jacket. $9000.
First edition of the first and rarest Eloise book, signed by Kay
Thompson.
ch a rles schulz
Wonderful Large Original Color Snoopy Sketch, Inscribed By Schulz
114. SCHULZ, Charles M. Original large sketch of Snoopy inscribed. Santa Rosa, California, 1996. Single sheet of
paper (7-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches); matted and framed, entire piece measures 11-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches. $8800.
Large original sketch of a smiling Snoopy rendered in black marker standing in green grass with a red heart in front of
him, inscribed: “Happy Birthday, Deborah! Schulz,” accompanied by a typed signed letter from Schulz’s secretary
thanking a Mr. Martin Levy for a letter expressing his family’s devotion to Snoopy and the Peanuts gang and offering
Deborah, presumably Levy’s wife, this sketch and wishing her all the best.
“Peanuts first appeared in October 1950 in eight daily newspapers. The feature was immediately popular and was soon
picked up by hundreds of other newspapers throughout the country. By the end of the decade Schulz had become arguably
the best-known cartoonist in the United States… By the time of Schulz’s death [in 2000] he had drawn a total of 18,250
Peanuts strips, and the cartoon was syndicated in 2600 newspapers worldwide, appearing in 21 languages in 75 countries”
(ANB). Snoopy, based on one of Schulz’s own dogs, has become one one of the most beloved members of the Peanuts gang.
The framed sketch is accompanied by a typed signed letter from Schultz’s secretary, Edna Poehner. Poehner later moved
on to work at the Schulz Museum and Research Center. A fine item.
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Later edition of Catlin’s monumental history, with 309 Chagall’s Jerusalem Windows,
chromolithographs on 180 plates and three color-print- With Two Original Lithographs
ed maps (one folding). A young lawyer turned portrait-
ist, Catlin set out for the West from his home in 126. CHAGALL, Marc. The Jerusalem Windows. Monte Carlo,
Pennsylvania in 1830 to record on canvas North 1962. Folio, original gray cloth, acetate. $2800.
American Indians and their way of life. His eight years
First edition in English, with two original color lithographs spe-
among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the
cially prepared by Chagall for this edition, and with numerous
Rocky Mountains resulted in his “Indian Gallery,” an
beautiful color reproductions of the artist’s work. Illustrated are
enormous collection of artifacts, as well as more than
various drafts as well as the final versions of the 12 stained glass
four hundred paintings, including portraits and scenes
windows (one for each of the tribes of Israel) designed by Chagall
of tribal life. Fine.
for the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical
Center. Without original cardboard slipcase. Book fine, dust jacket
and acetate near-fine.
First edition of Faulkner’s first novel Signed limited first edition of Frost’s
published since 1940—“his stirring, very Pulitzer Prize-winner, one of 803 copies
great chronicle” (New York Times). signed by Frost. In this volume, Frost’s lyr-
Intruder in the Dust was published eight ics, “though more playful in blending fact
years after Faulkner’s novel The Hamlet and fantasy, have beneath their frivolity a
and only one year before Faulkner was deep seriousness” (Hart, 269). A Further
awarded the Nobel Prize. Near-fine. Range won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in
1936. Fine.
135. FAULKNER, William. The Town. New York, 1957. Octavo, original tan
cloth, acetate, custom slipcase. $3000.
Signed limited first edition, one of 450 copies signed by Faulkner. The sec-
ond novel in Faulkner’s celebrated Snopes trilogy, which began with The
Hamlet (1940) and ended with The Mansion (1959). Front flyleaf (blank)
excised. Fine.
Later printing of Frost’s second published book, signed and dated by him:
“Robert Frost Amherst 1925.” 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.” First issued in London in
1914. Near-fine.
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Of Himself—A Rare State Of Mind”
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Boston and New York, 1900. Octavo, original Mockingbird. New York, 1995.
slate gray cloth stamped in silver. $3300. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust
jacket. $1750.
First edition, scarce first issue, of London’s first
book, his groundbreaking collection of nine Thirty-fifth Anniversary edition, in-
tales set against the stark landscape of the scribed: “To John with my best wishes,
Yukon, in original silver-stamped first state Harper Lee.” First pub-
binding. “In 1897 London joined the gold rush lished in 1960, To Kill a
to the Klondike, where he made an unsuccess- Mockingbird became an
ful attempt at mining… Stricken with scurvy, immediate bestseller and
he returned to Oakland the following year and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize
began to write of his experiences… in 1900 his for Fiction. Fine.
first collection, The Son of the Wolf, was issued,
bringing him national fame” (Hart, 490). Near-fine.
“He Did Not Want His Wife To
Adore A Stranger”
152. NATHAN, Robert. The Bishop’s Wife. Indianapolis,
1928. Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
Signed limited “Collector’s Edition” of Ali’s official, illustrated First American edition, with hundreds of illustrations, many
biography, one of 3500 copies specially bound and boldly by Edmund Henry Garrett, handsome in publisher’s three-
signed by both author Thomas Hauser and Muhammad Ali. quarter morocco-gilt. “Widely regarded as both one of Mark
“Thirty years after he burst on the scene as a gold medal win- Twain’s major works and a classic on the Mississippi itself. Its
ner at the Rome Olympics, Muhammad Ali remains a magical early chapters especially are unrivaled in evoking the excite-
figure, known and loved throughout the world.” Fine. ment of their time… According to Howells, Mark Twain re-
garded Life on the Mississippi as his greatest book”
(Rasmussen). First state, intermediate B, without illustration
“Timshel!” of Twain’s head in flames on page 441 and
with caption on page 443 reading “The St.
172. STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New Louis Hotel.” Near-fine.
York, 1952. Octavo, original green cloth,
dust jacket, custom box. $2800.
Twain’s The Prince And The
First trade edition of Steinbeck’s epic and Pauper, In Publisher’s Morocco
moving story of a modern Cain and Abel.
Steinbeck wrote that East of Eden “has ev- 176. TWAIN, Mark. The Prince and the
erything in it I have been able to learn about Pauper. Boston, 1882. Octavo, original
my art or craft or profession in all these three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $3200.
years,” further claiming that everything he
wrote prior to East of Eden “has been, in a First American edition of “the best book
sense, practice for this” (Salinas Public for young folks that was ever written,”
Library, 45). Book fine, dust jacket near-fine. (Harriet Beecher Stowe), in publisher’s
deluxe three-quarter morocco-gilt bind-
ing. Thought by his family and many of
“Pure Delight” his friends to be his best work, The Prince
and the Pauper represented a risky departure for Twain in his
173. STEINBECK, John. Travels with Charley. New York, attempt to write a serious and thoughtful adventure story for
1962. Octavo, original cream cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. $1500. children. Second state, with Franklin Press imprint on copy-
right page and “estate” changed to “state” on page 124, line 1.
First edition of Steinbeck’s beloved cross-country narrative.
Boards and joints lightly rubbed, minor expert reinforcement
Scarce in this condition. This much loved chronicle of
to inner paper hinges. An excellent copy.
Steinbeck’s rediscovery of America, published the same
“Camelot… Name Of nected series of bedtime tales for his nieces 103
The Asylum, Likely” and nephews by the time it came to
Harper. There, shepherded by the distin-