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2 Between the Covers - Rare Books, Inc. 112 Nicholson Rd (856) Gloucester City NJ Fax (856) mail@betweenthecovers.com Images are not to scale. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or . All items subject to prior sale. Payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. Institutions Catalogue 143 ~ Holiday 2008 Contents:...Page Literature (General Fiction & Non-Fiction)...1 African-Americana...55 Children s Books...59 Mystery & Detective Fiction...63 Science-Fiction & Fantasy...69 will be billed to meet their requirements. We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and PayPal. Domestic orders please include $5.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). All items insured. NJ residents please add 7% sales tax. Members ABAA, ILAB. Cover verse and design by Tom Bloom Baseball...72 Photography & Illustration...75 Music...80 Stocking Stuffers (aka Shameless Self-Promotion) 2008 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. Classic Book Cards. $20 / $50 Collectible book catalogs from Between the Covers and Biblioctopus. Each of the three sets of Classic Book Cards contains 76 unique rare book trading cards, each card featuring one of the best first editions in the world, with a picture on the front and stats on the back. Includes mint copies, dedication copies, presentation copies and author s copies of such classics as Gone With the Wind, The Catcher in the Rye, The Sound and the Fury, The Great Gatsby, Huck Finn, Moby-Dick, The Wizard of Oz, The Lord of the Rings and many more. Also a fun read, with descriptions as eye-popping as the books themselves. Each set is attractively packaged as a faux miniature book in an illustrated wraparound cover and clear plastic case. $20 per set, postpaid, or $50 for all three sets (shown at left, 228 unique cards total). A great gift for bibliophiles. Between the Covers Gift Certificates. $25 - $5000 Each Between the Covers gift certificate is individually numbered and features a literary portrait by Tom Bloom. Available in denominations of $25 (Mark Twain), $50 (Virginia Woolf), $100 (James Joyce), $250 (Edgar Allan Poe), $500 (Ernest Hemingway), $1000 (William Faulkner) and $5000 (William Shakespeare). A great way to make the book collector in your life happy this holiday season. Ask about our discount for complete sets. Between the Covers T-Shirt. $15 100% preshrunk cotton white T-shirt, silk-screened in five colors with a classic Tom Bloom/ Between the Covers catalog cover illustration of a tattoo artist putting the finishing touches on a large and formidable patron whose body is covered with the names of his favorite authors, with illustrations evoking their works. Caption: Not Just Another Bunch of Book Geeks. Available in Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large and 2XL please specify size when ordering. View images of over 35,000 first editions on our searchable web site

3 Between the Covers ~1~ L i t e r a t u r e 1 George ABBOTT and Ann Preston BRIDGERS. Coquette. New York: Longmans, Green and Co First edition. Introduction by Percy Hammond. A faint dampstain on the front board, green spine a bit mottled, some scattered foxing to the first and last two leaves, very good plus in a very near fine dustwrapper with slight age-toning, a very attractive copy. The play was written specifically for Helen Hayes, who starred in the Broadway production and is the dedicatee of the book. This copy Inscribed by Helen Hayes: To my hero, Percy Hammond. Helen Hayes Hammond, the prominent and acerbic drama critic for the New York Herald Tribune, provided the introduction, which is quoted at length on the jacket s front flap. Basis for the 1929 Sam Taylor-directed film. Mary Pickford bought the film rights to the play and took over Hayes part in her first talking role, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress, in the second year of the award s existence. An exceptional association copy. 2 Sherwood ANDERSON. Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life. New York: B.W. Huebsch James AGEE and Walker EVANS. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Near fine in an about very good, somewhat spine-faded dustwrapper with some internal tape removed, a couple of seamless professional mends and a couple of small chips. Issued in a small edition, an extended essay on rural poverty with arresting images by Evans. Aside from its place in literary history, the Walker Evans images have made it something of an iconic volume for students of photography. Parr and Badger, The Photobook Volume 1, p.144; Roth. The Book of 101 Books, p Isabel ALLENDE. The House of the Spirits. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition. Fine with a crisp spine label and mild toning to the boards (a natural reaction with the binder s glue which is generally seen) in a near fine, neatly restored dustwrapper. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and full morocco slipcase. On the front fly is the pencil signature of the publisher, B.W. Huebsch. A group of related short stories which together form a portrait of small-town America. This Johnson Highspot of American Literature was Anderson s first major success and had a considerable influence on American literature. Copies in jacket rarely surface. 3. The Cornfields. New York: The House of Russell (1939). First edition. Octavo. Green printed wrappers. 8pp. Covers very slightly soiled, but still near fine. Publisher s prospectus laid in. First separate edition of the first poem in Mid-American Chants (1918), with a brief biographical notice at the back. Not in Sheehy & Lohf, nor in Ray Lewis White s Sherwood Anderson: Fugitive Pamphlets and Broadsides, , nor in the later Additions to the Bibliography of Sherwood Anderson by Charles E. Modlin et al. OCLC locates only three copies: at William and Mary, Columbia, and University of Texas, Ransom Center. Rare. Anderson Typescript Possibly Unpublished 4. [Hand-Corrected Typescript]: A Business Venture Gun Running. Seven page typescript, both ribbon and carbon copies (14 leaves total) with holograph corrections. Fine with small holes from removed staples. Apparently unpublished, as neither the title nor the subtitle appears in Sheehy & Lohf. From the estate of Anderson s widow. First American edition. Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with two short tears, and a little age-toning. Laid in is a note from a Knopf editor sending the book to author Nicholas Delbanco, noting the typesetter s error that determines the first edition, and noting this as A rare first edition, with a slight typesetter s error to make it even more precious in years to come. The author s first book, with definitive proof of a previously unknown issue point. 7 same title. First American edition. Uncorrected Proof. A tiny tear at the crown and a little light soiling. The text was substantially altered between this proof version and the published version.

4 Between the Covers ~2~ C a t a l o g u e Michael ARLEN. The Green Hat: A Romance for a Few People. London: W. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd. (1924). First edition. A slight crease at the edge of the front fly, still easily fine in a very attractive, near fine dustwrapper (illustrated by Nick) with a little rubbing and a tiny hole on the edge of the spine. A major bestseller in its time, and the basis for the 1928 Clarence Brown film A Woman of Affairs featuring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Also filmed in 1934 by Robert Z. Leonard as Outcast Lady with Constance Bennett and Herbert Marshall. A very nice copy. 9 W.H. AUDEN. Poems. London: Faber and Faber (1930). First edition. Wrappers. Foxing and a little edgewear, a very good copy of the author s first commercially published book, preceded by a handful of copies of a privately printed volume. 10. Marginalia. (Cambridge: Ibex Press 1966). First edition. Self-wrappers. Illustrated by Laurence Scott. Fine. One of 150 copies Signed by the author and artist. An as new copy. 11. The Orators: An English Study. New York: Random House (1967). First American edition (revised and with a new foreword from the much earlier English edition). Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a little soiling. Nicely Inscribed by the author: To Charles with love from Wystan. A Connolly 100 title. 12 John ASHBERY. Some Trees. New Haven: Yale University Press First edition. Introduction by W.H. Auden. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a single short tear, and some very slight age-toning. An especially crisp and fresh copy. The important poet s first commercially published book, one of only 817 copies. 13. The Tennis Court Oath. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with one closed tear. A beautiful copy of an uncommon title. 14 Jane AUSTEN. Persuasion. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea First American edition. Two volumes. Octavo. Original boards with muslin spines and printed paper labels, preserved in a custom folding box. Contemporary penciled name and gift inscription dated 1838 on the title pages, printed label of Hosford s Circulating Library on front pastedowns, corners bumped, some slight scuffing to the boards, a few tears to leaves professionally mended, and modest wear to labels. Despite some minor flaws a very attractive example of a book rarely found in the original binding. Amelia Earhart s Senior High School Year Book 15 (Aviation). (Amelia EARHART). The Aitchpe Chicago: Hyde Park High School First edition. Quarto. Silk cord-tied blue wrappers with applied title label. 193pp. Illustrated. Tiny tears to the yapped edges, and a modest crease on the rear wrap, a near fine copy. On page 33 is the 17-year old Earhart s senior picture (with a small ink check beside it), with mention that she would attend Bryn Mawr, and that she came to Hyde Park from St. Paul in 1914 (one of six high schools she attended), and the accompanying caption: Meek loveliness is round thee spread. Earhart is mentioned in the class prophecy (as a waitress!), but she otherwise doesn t seem to have been particularly involved in extracurricular activities, presumably because she moved so much. Rare.

5 Between the Covers ~3~ L i t e r a t u r e 16 (Aviation, Ballooning). Vincent LUNARDI, Esq., Secretary to the Neapolitan Ambassador. An Account of the First Aerial Voyage in England in a Series of Letters to his Guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Campagni, Written under the Impressions of the various Events that affected the Undertaking. London: Printed for The Author: and sold at the Pantheon; also by the publisher, J. Bell Second edition, published the same year as the first. Contemporary full red morocco, ruled and titled in gilt, all edges gilt. 66 (ii) pp. Frontispiece engraved portrait of the author by Bartolozzi, two folding plates: The English Balloon and appendages and Apparatus for filling Mr. Lunardi s balloon. Two leaves (pp.51-54) supplied in a felicitously rendered facsimile (curiously, this is an appendix containing a letter to Lunardi from a W. Baker, possibly a relative or connection of the original owner). Light foxing in the text, contemporary bookplate of Robert George Baker, 1894 ownership signature of Sir Robert Baden-Powell. Additionally this copy is Signed by the author ( R. Lunardi ) on the half-title. Baden-Powell, in addition to founding the Boy Scouts, was a British Army general who used balloons for surveillance in Africa, particularly in Bechuanaland and the Sudan, and was later secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Rare signed. A beautiful copy with an interesting provenance. 17 Djuna BARNES. The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings. New York: Guido Bruno First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. A beautiful copy of the author s fragile first book. 18. Nightwood. London: Faber and Faber (1937). 19 Natalie Clifford BARNEY. Selected Writings. (London): Adam Books (1963). Uncorrected First edition. Edited with an introduction by Miron Grindea. Fine in proof. Yellow fine dustwrapper. One of 100 numbered printed wrappers. A trifle soiled, a near fine copy. Ohio-born Barney conducted an impor- copies Signed by Barney. The beautiful tant literary salon in Paris for well over a half-century, while keeping Paris fascinated by her occasionally scandalous lesbian relationships. Scarce. 20 Saul BELLOW. Mr. Sammler s Planet. New York: The Viking Press (1970). First edition. Fine, with the topstain bright, in fine dustwrapper (with a small ink price on the front flap). Signed by the author on the front fly. A lovely copy. Winner of the National Book Award. 21 Donald BARTHELME. Snow White. New York: Atheneum Uncorrected proof. Spiral bound in tall wrappers. A light crease to one corner of the front wrap and the first couple of pages, a little offsetting at the top of the front wrap, one spiral partially broken, else a near fine copy. The author s first novel. Very scarce in this format, presumably issued in a handful of copies.

6 Between the Covers ~4~ C a t a l o g u e Samuel BECKETT. Molloy. (Paris): The Olympia Press (1955). First edition in English, first issue (without the English price on the rear flap). Translated from the French by Patrick Bowles in collaboration with the author. A bookstore label on the inside front wrap, else fine in wrappers in a lightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper. 23. Fin de Partie suivi de Acte san paroles [Endgame]. (Paris): Les Editions de Minuit (1957). First edition, trade issue. Text in French. Pages browned as always, and a small, very faint stain on the wraps, else fine in wrappers as issued. Inscribed by the author in the month of publication (although misdated by him as having been signed the year before!): For Barney and Linda in friendship. Sam. Paris, Feb Barney is Barney Rosset, the New York publishing icon and founder of Grove Press, who was responsible for introducing Beckett s work to America, and was his American publisher. Along with James Laughlin of New Directions, Rosset revolutionized the American publishing industry. Starting in 1953, Rosset visited frequently with Beckett in Paris, and presumably the book was inscribed on one of those occassions. When Rosset was ousted from control of his own publishing company, Beckett made him a present of one of his plays (Eleuthria). An important association in the Nobel laureate s most important play after Waiting for Godot. 24. Endgame: A Play in One Act followed by Act without Words: A Mime for One Player. New York: Grove Press (1958). First American edition, and first edition in English. Translated from the French by the author. Fine in near fine (probably original) unprinted acetate dustwrapper with a couple of tears. One of 100 numbered copies of the limited edition. 25. Proust. New York: Grove Press (1957). First American edition. Fine in near fine (and probably original) unprinted acetate dustwrapper with a couple of small nicks and tears. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. 26 John BERENDT. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. New York: Random House (1994). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Splendid non-fiction account of a celebrated crime in Savannah, Georgia in which the author manages to capture the feel and character of the city and its residents. A surprise bestseller that went into scores of hardcover reprintings, some of which are mistakenly offered as first editions. Basis for the 1997 Clint Eastwood-directed film with John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Jude Law. 27 Elizabeth BISHOP. North and South. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with tiny nicks at the extremities. Author Arthur Mizener s copy with his small bookplate on the front pastedown and his extensive pencil notations throughout. The author s first book, winner of a Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award, and one of the 20th Century s defining books of poetry. 28. Selected Poems. London: Chatto and Windus First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 1200 copies of this important collection. A beautiful, just about as new copy. 29. Geography III. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1976). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.

7 Between the Covers ~5~ L i t e r a t u r e 30 John BERRYMAN. Stephen Crane. New York: Sloane (1950). First edition. Fine in a crisp and unfaded, just about fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to a close Princeton friend: Jimmie this son of Jimmie-like character. affectionately, John. 5 Dec A scarce biography by the poet, issued in the American Men of Letters series. Seldom found signed. 31. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1956). Uncorrected proof. Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Unbound string-tied folded and gathered sheets, page edges uncut. A little soiling to the outer pages, else near fine. A very scarce early issue, presumably only a few copies were issued thus. 32 Vincent BLASCO IBANEZ. Blood and Sand. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton (1913). First edition in English. Slight soiling, an about fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. The ultimate bull fight novel, basis for the 1922 Fred Niblo film featuring Rudolph Valentino, remade in 1941 by Rouben Mamoulian with Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth. 33 (Book Collecting). Nicholas BASBANES. A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. New York: Henry Holt (1995). Uncorrected proof. A slight bend on the front wrap, else very near fine in wrappers. Excellent book on book collectors and collecting including an historic overview, with interviews and profiles of modern collectors. A fascinating read, and increasingly scarce, especially in this format. 34 William BOYD. A Good Man in Africa. London: Hamish Hamilton (1981). First edition. Slight erasure to the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of the author s very scarce first book, a comic novel of political intrigue in West Africa. Basis for the Bruce Beresford film featuring Colin Friels and Sean Connery. 35 Jane BOWLES. Two Serious Ladies. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition. Slightly cocked else fine in a priceclipped, near fine dustwrapper with two small tears on the front panel. A fresh and bright copy of Bowles very uncommon first novel. 36 Paul BOWLES. The Sheltering Sky. (New York): New Directions (1949). First American edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a couple of modest chips and an old internal repair. The author s first and best known book, in which a disaffected American couple meet the harsh reality of the Moroccan desert, with less than happy results. Filmed by Bernardo Bertolucci with Debra Winger, John Malkovich, and the author in a small role. 37. A Little Stone. London: John Lehman (1950). First edition, first issue binding. A little bit of the usual age-toning to the pages, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the front panel. A beautiful copy of this collection of stories. 38. The Spider s House. New York: Random House (1955). First American edition. Fine in a price-clipped, very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of internal repairs. Signed by the author.

8 Between the Covers ~6~ C a t a l o g u e Max BROD. Reubeni Prince of the Jews. London: Knopf First English edition. Translated from the German by Hannah Waller. Small bookstore label on the front pastedown, fine in fine dustwrapper. Originally published in Germany in 1925 as Reubeni, Furst der Juden. 40 Bob BROWN. Demonics. Cagnessur-Mer: Eye Press First edition. Printed green wrappers. A small chip on the rear wrap affecting the corners of the last few leaves, small tears on the spine, else a near fine copy. Signed by the author in New York in William S. BURROUGHS. The Ticket That Exploded. Paris: Olympia Press (1962). Press (1964). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. Publisher s File Copy, stamped on the front and rear fly leaves, and the foredge: Production Dept. Working Copy Do Not Remove Grove Press Inc. Production Department. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy, with the red on the spine bright. Publisher s File Copy 42. Nova Express. New York: Grove With a Note from the Author Tipped-in 43 Louis BROMFIELD. Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady. New York: Frederick A. Stokes First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine advance issue dustwrapper, with some irregular tanning to the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher s slip tipped-in, noting the date of publication as October 14, and with an Autograph Note Signed by the author lightly tipped to the front fly: For William Langenfeld In gratitude and good friendship from the author who has not yet (strange as it may seem) forgotten the article he promised. Louis Bromfield. On the verso, the author has written Philadelphia Ledger. Presumably Langenfeld was an editor to whom this review copy was addressed. The advance issue of the dustwrapper, which we have never seen elsewhere, differs from the final dustwrapper only by the absence of a small blurb on the bottom of the front panel of the latter which states This Novel has never been published in any Periodical. A very nice copy of an early and scarce Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 44 Pearl S. BUCK. The Good Earth. London: Methuen and Company (1931). First English edition. Gift inscription, foredge foxed, spine slightly faded, a very good copy in a nice, very good or better dustwrapper with a triangular chip at the foot of the spine, and a faint stain at the crown. The Nobel laureate s best-known book, the first part of her House of Earth trilogy, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In 1938, based largely on the strength of The Good Earth, Buck became the second woman, and first American woman, to win the Nobel Prize for literature. The English edition of this elusive Pulitzer Prize winner has, like the American edition, become exceptionally uncommon in jacket. 45 (Charles BUKOWSKI). Sanford DORBIN. A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press First edition. Fine in fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper as issued. One of 350 numbered hardcover copies Signed by both Dorbin and Charles Bukowski.

9 Between the Covers ~7~ L i t e r a t u r e 46 Truman CAPOTE. Other Voices, Other Rooms. London: William Heinemann (1948). Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Printed tan wrappers. A bit cocked, slight spine erosion, a near very good copy of a fragile and uncommon issue. The author s first book. 47 same title. New York: Random House (1968). 20th Anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Uncommon, especially in this condition. Not shown. Blurbing The Sheltering Sky 48. Autograph Letter Signed to the Publicity Director at New Directions. One page Autograph Letter Signed to David McDowell of New Directions. Dated 15 November 1949 from Paris providing a blurb for the American edition of Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky (which was not used on the first American edition). Folded as mailed in a self-mailing envelope. Pencil note from B to J (presumably publisher James Laughlin): J we got this from Capote please return. B. and counter noted good, presumably by Laughlin. In full: Dear Mr. McDowell Thank you for your letter. I have not received the books you mention, but as it happens I have already read The Sheltering Sky in its English edition, and certainly it is an exceptional novel. In consequence I enclose the following remark, which New Directions may use if it chooses: Paul Bowles is a startling writer, and The Sheltering Sky possesses to a high degree the qualities most lacking in contemporary writing: the visual relativity of a truly poetic eye, and a sense of movement that hurls the reader forward. Most sincerely, Truman Capote. Capote was a recently minted success, and his endorsement would have been important to the publishers of the American edition of Bowles first novel. McDowell had a long and distinguished career in American publishing, working at New Directions, Random House, and Crown. For a short period in the late 1950s he and Ivan Obolensky published under their own imprint, most famously issuing the Pulitzer Prize-winning posthumous novel by his good friend James Agee, A Death in the Family. 49. The Grass Harp. New York: Random House (1951). Uncorrected proof consisting of long galley sheets printed rectos only, ribbon-tied at the top into blue covers with applied title label. Affixed to the cover label is another label that reads: An A Book To Be Considered at the Next Meeting, apparently indicating the book was being considered as a main selection for the Book-ofthe-Month Club. Modest wear, very good or better. Author s second novel. Rare in this format. 50. Breakfast at Tiffany s. New York: Random House (1958). First edition. A faint stain on the front fly, else fine in a uniformly and lightly spine-faded, else fine dustwrapper. 51. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequence. New York: Random House (1965). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for one very small chip at the corner of the rear panel. Signed by the author. Pulitzer Prize-winner for non-fiction. Capote s neighbor and close friend Harper Lee acted as his secretary during his investigations into this tragic murder. Basis for the excellent film adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks, with Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Quincy Jones music, and Conrad Hall s famous cinematography. A nice, fresh copy. Shown above right. 52 same title. First edition. Advance Reading Copy in self wrappers. Fine. Shown at left. 53 and Harold ARLEN. House of Flowers. New York: Random House (1968). First edition. Fine in fine, bright white dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A nice copy of Capote s light-hearted musical about the goings-on at two competing brothels in the West Indies.

10 Between the Covers ~8~ C a t a l o g u e Rachel CARSON. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of rubbing, but unusually fresh and bright. A classic of environmental literature, a long essay that appeared in The New Yorker and eventually resulted in the banning of the use of DDT. Not a particularly rare book, but exceptionally uncommon in this condition. 55 Raymond CARVER. Where Water Comes Together with Other Water. New York: Random House (1985). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by Carver to author Richard Marius: For Richard Marius with my thanks and my good wishes. Well-met in Cambridge. Ray Carver April 11, And in Lanier, with my warm regards. Laid into the book is Marius two page typed manuscript, with several hand corrections, of his introductory remarks about Carver for a reading. Marius is best known for his novels of the South (The Coming of Rain, etc.) and his writings on Thomas More and Martin Luther. A nice association. 56 W.J. CASH. The Mind of the South. New York: Knopf First edition. Bookplate of Bessie Steele Ledbetter. Endpapers foxed and the binding is soiled and moderately worn, an about very good copy in a price-clipped, very good plus dustwrapper with shallow chipping at the crown. Inscribed by the author: Inscribed to Mrs. J.M. Ledbetter, W.J. Cash. One of the most important and influential studies ever written about the philosophy, temperament and social customs of the South. Cash committed suicide soon after publication, at least in part because of the criticisms he received for debunking some of the accepted myths and beliefs of the region. Although all signed copies are rare, a few were issued with a signed, tippedin leaf. This is only the second inscribed copy we have seen. 57 Willa CATHER. April Twilights. Boston: Richard Badger / The Gorham Press First edition. Papercovered boards with paper labels on the front board and the spine, issued without dustwrapper. Tiny nick at the crown, spine label a bit darkened, and a small split at the joint, still an at least very good copy. Cather s first book, a vanity press collection of poetry. Cather reportedly destroyed the remainder of the edition in This copy Inscribed by Cather at a later date: For Edwin Winter, In return for a beautiful letter he once wrote me about My Antonia. Willa Sibert Cather. Five Bank Street. March 15, Also laid in is a two-page Autograph Note Signed Willa Cather, written in pencil, that addresses her attempts to visit her doctor, her inability to make engagements at present, and says in part: I came home with gout, but I admit it only to old friends. Anyhow, I m glad I had the Wine in Paris and the gout in New York! The note is folded, and has a couple of small tears, but is overall very good. 58. The Song of the Lark. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition, first issue with a boxed ad on the copyright page and with moment on page 8. Attractive contemporary bookplate on the front pastedown, else a very near fine copy. An early, major novel, utilizing one of Cather s major themes: the natural artist overcoming the limitations of provincial life. A nice copy, seldom encountered in the first issue. 59. The Professor s House. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First trade edition. Some faint stains on the foredge that affect the margins of a few pages, spine gilt tarnished, and a bit of offsetting to the endpapers, a very good copy in a very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown, some other very small nicks and tears, and a detached chip at the foot which is present and barely visible when the jacket is in mylar. Considered by some to be Cather s most accomplished novel.

11 Between the Covers ~9~ L i t e r a t u r e With a Three Page Remembrance by Joshua Chamberlain 60 (Joshua CHAMBERLAIN). Edward P. WESTON, editor. The Bowdoin Poets. Brunswick: Joseph Griffin Second edition. Original cloth gilt. Folding frontispiece engraving of the College. Cloth worn at the spine ends, still an attractive and presentable, very good copy. The first half of the book consists of selections of poetry by Bowdoin graduates, including Henry W. Longfellow. The second half of the book, with a separate titlepage (Bowdoin Souvenir), consists of blank pages for autographs. Ownership signature James D. Fessenden, Bowd. Coll. from the Class of 1852 on the front fly. Fessenden has divided the book into sections labeled for each Class from 1849 through James Deering Fessenden was the son of William P. Fessenden, Lincoln s Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War; and the brother of Major-General Francis Fessenden. James D. Fessenden also served as a Brigadier-General in the war, both as the commander of Company D of the elite Second U.S. Sharpshooters, and later as commanding officer of the First South Carolina Regiment of the United States Colored Troops, and is mentioned as such in the landmark work on black troops in the Civil War, The Black Phalanx. This book contains nearly 100 pages of autograph sentiments and good wishes to Fessenden, including a warm and closely written three page letter by Fessenden s classmate and fellow Civil War general Joshua L. Chamberlain (Signed J.L. Chamberlain ) dated in 1852 to Jimmie, and mentioning details of their friendship. Additionally Inscribed by Fessenden s uncle, Congressman James P. Fessenden; Paris Gibson, later to be a U.S. Senator and the founder of Great Falls, Montana; John N. Jewett, (possibly related to John W. Jewett, the Boston publisher of Uncle Tom s Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who lived at Bowdoin from as the wife of Bowdoin Professor Calvin E. Stowe, and where she wrote most of the novel); and several others who served with distinction as general officers in the War. We assume that during this period of history one couldn t swing a cat at an American institution of higher learning without hitting future commanders in the Civil War, but this is a pleasing group, with an interesting association between two future Civil War Generals, including Chamberlain, the hero of Little Round Top, and the central protagonist in Michael Shaara s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Killer Angels. 61 Whitman CHAMBERS. Invasion! New York: E.P. Dutton First edition. A trifle soiled at the spine ends, near fine in a very attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with small nicks at the spine ends. A wartime propaganda novel about an imagined Japanese conquest of California centered around the invasion of Santa Monica and Los Angeles. The dustwrapper belongs in the jacket art Hall of Fame, with leering Japanese soldiers capturing besuited studio executives and brassiere-clad blonde starlets at the Los Angeles City limits. Very scarce, especially in nice condition. 62 Borden CHASE. East River. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell (1935). First edition. Scattered foxing to the boards, and the first and last few leaves, else about fine in fine, fresh dustwrapper. The author s first novel, about tunnel builders working under New York s East River, and which includes some elements of the labor novel. Chase wrote both fiction and screenplays in a number of genres for several decades. Today he is best remembered for the classic western Red River. Chase co-scripted the 1935 Raoul Walsh film version of this novel, Under Pressure, featuring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Florence Rice, Marjorie Rambeau, and Charles Bickford, and which also features Ward Bond in a lesser role. Very scarce. 63 Kate CHOPIN. A Night in Acadie. Chicago: Way and Williams First edition. Contemporary and attractive bookplate of Robert Markham on the front pastedown, titles on the spine a bit rubbed, extremities a little rubbed and worn, a nice, very good or a bit better copy. The author s second book, like her first, Bayou Folk, a collection of short stories. Very scarce.

12 64 Austin CLARKE. The Vengeance of Fionn. Dublin and London: Maunsel & Company First edition. Quarter linen and papercovered boards with paper spine label. Attractive bookplate, some scattered foxing, a very good copy. Between the Covers ~10~ C a t a l o g u e (Cocktails). Professor Jerry THOMAS. Edited by Herbert ASBURY. The Bon Vivant s Companion or How to Mix Drinks. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition thus. Edited, with an introduction by Herbert Asbury. Cloth with gilt decorated pastepaper boards. Fine in a lightly worn, near fine slipcase with paper spine label. One of 160 numbered copies Signed by Asbury. Thomas original work, the first drink book to be published in the United States, appeared in A beautiful copy, and exceptionally uncommon. President Clinton s High School Yearbooks 65 (Bill CLINTON). Old Gold Book. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: Hot Springs High School Three volumes. Folios. Some modest wear, student inscriptions, mostly fine in custom cloth clamshell box. All three of Bill Clinton s High School yearbooks (he attended a junior high school which went up through 9th grade). As one might imagine, Billy Clinton (as he is called) is all over the books. In his first year there are about half a dozen photos. The next year about ten and by Senior year there are nearly 20 different photographs of him, including the famous photo of him shaking hands with J.F.K. at Boys Nation, as well as first chair saxophone in the All-State band, and in various other clubs and honor societies. Mercifully, these yearbooks have an index to students, but we have found some instances where they have failed to note his appearance in the index. Although a relatively large school approximately 350 students in Clinton s class, it would be difficult to assemble another set today. 67 Robert M. COATES. The Eater of Darkness. (Paris: Contact Editions 1926). First edition. Marbled paper selfwrappers with applied paper label. Spine cocked, and with small chips to the edge of the yapped portion of the wrappers, a very good copy. The author s first book, generally considered the first Dada novel. Early Analog Computer 68 (Computers). Aaron PALMER and John FULLER. [cover title]: Fuller s Computing Telegraph. New York: John E. Fuller Square octavo. Blind stamped flexible cloth folder or case, lettered in gilt, with 22 pages of instructions for use, and a large folding chart delineated and arranged by W(illiam) Nicholson. Laid in is a thick, leather edged board, on either side is a moveable, engraved rondel: on one side is Fuller s Time Telegraph, on the other is Palmer s Computing Scale Improved by Fuller. The case has some fading to the bottom of the front board, a little wear at the spine, and foxing to the text; the board holding the rondel has a little edge wear, and the action of the rondel is stiff but workable, all-in-all a very good plus or perhaps near fine example. Palmer patented his Scale in 1843, Fuller made an agreement to offer Palmer s Scale, along with his own Time Telegraph in combination, and patented the change in 1847, when it was first offered. Reportedly manufactured in two sizes, this is the larger of the two. According to some sources, this device was the first device used for high speed calculations that was referred to as a computer. The term was previously used to describe a mathematically adept person and the earliest OED citation for a non-human computer comes from Exceptionally scarce, especially in nice condition, as this example is.

13 Between the Covers ~11~ L i t e r a t u r e Herman J. Mankiewicz s Copy 69 Humphrey COBB. Paths of Glory. New York: Viking Press First edition. A sound, very good copy with the spine faded in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a little overall edge wear, and a small spot on the spine. One of the great antiwar novels, based on real incidents during WWI. The film rights were purchased two decades later by Kirk Douglas, who hired the relatively unknown Stanley Kubrick to direct. Starring Douglas and Adolphe Menjou and scripted by Kubrick, Jim Thompson, and Calder Willingham, the film was a technical and critical triumph and ranks with All Quiet on the Western Front as perhaps the greatest antiwar film. Ownership Signature of Herman J. Mankiewicz, London, Mankiewicz wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Citizen Kane (for which he shared an Oscar with Orson Welles), The Pride of the Yankees, Dinner at Eight, and many other great films. He also contributed (although uncredited) to the screenplays of Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and The Wizard of Oz. Small folio. Leatherette embossed in blue and silver. Some wear to the rear board, else near fine. Citadel yearbook for author Pat Conroy s Senior year. Conroy is pictured in at least eight, and we suspect more, photographs in the yearbook, including an individual Senior Class picture, with the basketball team, and as Best Senior Private, presumably acknowledging his reluctance or inability to be promoted. In that picture, Conroy is struggling to keep a straight face whilst receiving a thorough dressing down by former Commandant of Cadets Lt. Colonel T.N. Courvoisie, i.e. The Boo, who was the subject of his first, privately printed book, also called The Boo. A cropped version of this photo served as the jacket art for that title, and the full photo served as the jacket art for the re-issue published by the Old New York Book Shop Press in (Pat CONROY). The Sphinx Charleston, South Carolina: The Citadel The Boo. Verona, Virginia: McClure Press (1970). First edition. Very fine in a bright and very fine dustwrapper. This copy is Signed by Conroy and dated by him in the year of publication. Laid in is an Autograph Note Signed by the subject of the book, Lt. Colonel T.N. Courvoisie, i.e. The Boo. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. Perhaps the nicest copy we ve seen of the author s very uncommon first book, a tribute to a beloved Commandant of Cadets at his alma mater, The Citadel, in Charleston. Because it was printed and distributed outside of normal publishing channels, The Boo has become one of the scarcest first books of the last several decades. 72 Noel COWARD. Three Plays: The Rat Trap, The Vortex, Fallen Angels. With the Author s Reply to His Critics. London: Ernest Benn Limited First collected edition, and the first appearance of Coward s introduction. Endpapers a little browned, else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Six long stories along with two produced, and one unproduced play. This copy Inscribed by Coward: For Mr. Earl Wray Pettys with my best wishes. Noel Coward Stephen CRANE. A Souvenir, and a Medley: Seven Poems and a Sketch by Stephen Crane with Divers and Sundry Communications from Certain Eminent Wits. East Aurora NY: The Roycroft Printing Shop First edition. Illustrated wrappers. A touch of soiling, the yapped edges only lightly worn, a lovely near fine example of a fragile item, housed in a custom chemise, and quarter morocco slipcase.

14 Between the Covers ~12~ C a t a l o g u e Hart Crane s Own Copy 74 Hart CRANE. White Buildings. New York: Boni and Liveright First edition, second issue with Allen Tate s name corrected on the titlepage. Foreword by Allen Tate. Near fine in an internally repaired, very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown. Hart Crane s own copy with his later ownership Signature: Hart Crane, Aug. 31 and his bookplate on the front pastedown. Apparently Hart Crane s mother either gave away or sold some of his bookplates shortly after his death to the bookseller Samuel Loveman, thus resulting in occasional association copies surfacing. However, all of the books that we have seen signed by him were either inscribed to a specific individual, or, in the case of a simple signature (with the exception of the signed edition of The Bridge only 50 copies), were from his personal library. 75. The Bridge. New York: Horace Liveright (1930). First American edition (preceded by the very limited French edition). Photograph by Walker Evans. Faint offsetting to the front fly, else fine in a good dustwrapper with some restoration and that has been slightly misprinted by the publisher. One of the highspots of 20th Century poetry. Connolly Two Letters: Hart Crane. Brooklyn Heights: For the Friends of Jack Birss First edition. One leaf folded to make four pages. Modest uniform age-toning, else near fine. One of 50 copies. Prints two letters to Samuel Loveman. Accompanied by a receipt for the pamphlet dated in 1960 for $15.00 from bookseller Henry Wenning. Of the original 50 copies, nearly half are held in institutions, and, considering the fragility, one might safely speculate that others have perished. Thus, this is rare. 77. The Collected Poems of Hart Crane. London: Boriswood (1938). 78 Robert CREELEY. Mazatlan: Sea. (San Francisco): Poets Press First English edition. Edited with an Introduction by Waldo Frank. Bookplate of author, editor, and critic Alan Pryce Jones, modest offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, else fine in a slightly spine-tanned, near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear, and a small, very faint stain. Inscribed to Max Beerbohm 79 R.B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM. A Brazilian Mystic: Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro. London: William Heinemann Harry CROSBY. Shadows of the Sun (Second Series). Paris: The Black Sun Press First edition. Quarto. Wrappers with applied title label. A trifle bumped, still easily fine. One of 50 numbered copies Signed by the poet. Scarce. First edition. Folding map. Some scattered foxing, and a couple of spots on the boards, a near fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Max Beerbohm: To Max Beerbohm With kindest regards & best wishes from R.B. Cunninghame Graham. March 30/1922, and with an ink correction, almost certainly in Cunninghame Graham s hand on the final page of text. Biography of a cowboy-mystic who formed a utopian community in Brazil. A pleasant association Beerbohm caricatured Cunnighame Graham in both words and pictures. First edition. French folded printed wrappers and original unprinted glassine. Glassine shows a little age-toning and edgewear, else fine. Limitation statement states this is one of 44 nunbered [sic] copies. This copy is not nunbered, or numbered, for that matter.

15 Between the Covers ~13~ L i t e r a t u r e 81 E.E. CUMMINGS. The Enormous Room. New York: Boni and Liveright (1922). virtually all others are found with the offending word obliterated. The nicest copy we ve seen. First edition, first state, without the expletive inked out on page 219. Fine in fine looking dustwrapper with professional internal mends at the folds, in a contemporary and possibly original acetate overjacket. Signed by the author. The author s first book, and probably either a review copy or one of the author s own copies Original Artwork 82. Portrait of the Artist s Mother Seated at Table. Original oil painting. Oil on sheet of canvas, 9½" x 13¼". Portrait of Cummings mother, Rebecca Haswell Clarke Cummings, seated at a table. LPC #690. Lopez #642. Fine condition. 83. Stripper with Snake on Stage. Original oil sketch. Oil on canvasboard, 8" x 10". Scene of a nude stripper with a snake wrapped around her neck, on stage. GBM #152. Lopez #136. Fine condition. Reefer Madness 84 Robert James DEVINE. The Moloch of Marihuana. Findley, Ohio: Fundamental Truth Publishers (no date - circa 1935). First edition. Illustrated wrappers. Pencil owner s name, modest edgewear and rubbing, a very good copy. Little known anti-marijuana tract that states that users are soon disrobing until clothes are scattered all over the floor and naked youngsters give themselves over, with wild abandon, to the ecstasies of every imaginable perversion prompted by drug-crazed minds. I wish. OCLC locates eight copies, mostly in theological libraries. But why should they have all the fun? Very uncommon. 85 Charles DICKENS. The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost s Bargain. London: Bradbury & Evans A fine, complete set of the Christmas books, beautifully bound by Bayntun. A Christmas Carol with first edition title page but corrected text; first edition, first issue of The Chimes; first edition of The Cricket on the Hearth; first edition, fourth issue of the vignette title page of The Battle of Life; first edition of The Haunted Man. All works with original illustrations, including four full-color plates in A Christmas Carol. Each volume has been uniformly bound in three-quarter, gilt-ruled morocco with giltdecorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers and all edges gilt. A lovely set, housed in a custom, half morocco gilt clamshell box. 86. Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans First edition. Thick octavo, 40 illustrations by H.K. Browne (aka, Phiz ) including the title page vignette with the Bradbury and Evans imprint, rebound in three quarter dark blue calf and marbled boards with gilt-stamped decorations on the spine. Some wear to the covers, else a near fine, handsomely bound copy of what many consider Dickens best novel, the story of the epic lawsuit, Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which takes so many years to settle that (spoiler warning) in the end nothing is left of the fortune in dispute. 87 James DICKEY. Drowning with Others. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press (1962). First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of tanning at the bottom of the spine. Signed by the author. A superior copy.

16 Between the Covers ~14~ C a t a l o g u e Robert DUNCAN. Heavenly City, Earthly City. (Berkeley: Bern Porter) First edition. Attractive, stamped bookplate on the front pastedown and a touch of wear to the fragile papercovered boards else near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with a couple of small chips on the thin spine. The very uncommon first book by one of the most important poets of his era. One of 250 copies bound in white boards, of a total edition of Emily DICKINSON. Poems Third Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers First edition. Edited by Mabel Todd Loomis. Charles Olson s Copy 89. Medieval Scenes. San Francisco: Centaur Press (1950). First Edition. Saddle-stitched wrappers. Color block print by Kermit Sheets. A bit of tanning at the edges, and a faint stain on the front wrap. One of 250 copies, Signed by the author. The poet Charles Olson s copy, with his ownership Signature ( Olson ) on the front fly. Olson served as Duncan s mentor beginning in 1947 (when Duncan wrote the poems in this book), and in 1956 invited him to teach at Black Mountain College. 90. The Years As Catches. Berkeley: Oyez First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 30 numbered and Signed hors de commerce copies of the hardcover issue that have had the endpapers of the book extensively handillustrated by the author. Gray cloth gilt, ribbon marker. Bookplate of noted New England artist Ethel Randolph Thayer on the front pastedown, a lovely, fine copy and uncommon thus. BAL 4661, binding 1 (with Roberts Brothers on the spine), no priority. A superior copy. 92 (Economics). Norman ANGELL. The Money Game: Explaining Fundamental Finance. A New Instrument of Economic Education. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co First American edition. Corners a little bumped, a couple of insignificant spots on the front board, else near fine, lacking a dustwrapper. Consists of text bound with a boxed game, within which are play money, playing cards, and scorecards. Game appears to be complete and unused. Creative education tool by a Nobel Prize-winning economist. 93 (Economics). T.R. MALTHUS. Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to their Practical Application. London: John Murray First edition. A chip to the first blank, corners a bit bumped, a slight crease on the spine, and slight soiling, still a remarkably fine copy in original papercovered boards with paper spine label, housed in a moderately worn, older slipcase. John Maynard Keynes hailed Malthus as one of the founders of modern economics, lamenting the fact that he did not achieve the pre-eminence of Ricardo. When Malthus published this book in 1820 the ideas propounded by Ricardo had become established orthodoxy. Because of his ongoing debate with Ricardo, Malthus issued this book to clearly delineate his position. It is in this book that the economic theory of rent is first clearly propounded. Malthus rebuts Ricardo on three main points: the value of a commodity is determined by the cost of labor; that demand affects values very little; and that profits are determined by the cultivation and fertility of the least arable land. Malthus questions each of these Ricardian principles offering strong arguments against them. He also offers cogent analysis of prices, income, and savings. One of the finest intellectual manifestos of the period by a leading theoretician. An exceptional copy most were rebound as a matter of course.

17 Between the Covers ~15~ L i t e r a t u r e Signed by Eisenhower 94 (Dwight D. EISENHOWER). The Inauguration of Alvin Chandler Duke as Twenty-Second President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Williamsburg, Virginia: The College of William and Mary First edition. A neat bookplate on the front pastedown, fine in gray cloth gilt in a lightly rubbed, fine original marbled papercovered slipcase, the whole housed in a newer quarter leather custom slipcase. Included is the address of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President of the United States. Eisenhower has Signed his address at page 58, and additionally affixed to the rear endpaper is an original photograph of Eisenhower at the ceremony. Ike had been President for only four months when the ceremony took place. Very nicely printed at the William Byrd Press. 95 (Anthology). Lawrence DURRELL, Ruthven TODD, Patrick EVANS, Rayner HEPPENSTALL, Edgar FOXALL, and Oswell BLAKESTON. Proems. London: The Fortune Press (1938). First edition. Fine in fine original unprinted watermarked white laid paper dustwrapper. A beautiful copy, seldom found in jacket. 96 T.S. ELIOT. Four Quartets. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1943). First American edition, first printing (and the first hardcover edition). Faint offsetting to the copyright page from a clipping, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with one rubbed tear on the front panel, and a very small chip at the crown. Eliot s masterpiece, an elaborately constructed, lyric meditation on time and the nature of experience, memory and consciousness. One of the principal poetic works of the century. Only 788 copies of this printing survived the publisher s recall for poor printing quality. An especially fresh copy. Connolly (.). Order of Service in Memory of Thomas Stearns Eliot. Born 26th September 1888 Died 4th January (London): Westminster Abbey / (The Hove Shirley Press Ltd) Stapled self-wrappers. 12pp. Just about fine. Order of service for Eliot s funeral service: prayers, hymns (some by Eliot), and a reading from Eliot s work by Sir Alec Guinness. Scarce. 98 Ford Madox FORD. New York Essays. New York: William Edwin Rudge First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 750 copies Signed by Ford. A very nice copy, and very uncommon in jacket. 99 E.M. FORSTER. A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold First edition. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author. Paper spine label a bit darkened and with a faint splash mark, some rubbing to the spine, else a very good copy lacking the original publisher s slipcase. The author s masterpiece, a scarce Connolly 100 title and basis for the final film directed by David Lean.

18 Between the Covers ~16~ C a t a l o g u e (William FAULKNER). Ole Miss (Oxford): Published by the Seniors of the Various Departments of the University (of Mississippi 1920). Quarto. Original limp leatherette stamped in gilt. Very faint, nearly invisible tidemark at the bottom of the pages, and the text block is loose in the binding, else a nice, very good copy, housed in a custom cloth clamshell case with leather spine label. This volume of the University yearbook prints five of Faulkner s stylized cartoons including an illustration for the A.E.F. Club (of which his brother is listed as a member), as well as a photograph of him in uniform as a member of the yearbook staff, and his full-page poem To a Co-ed. He is also listed under Special Students and, separately, as a member of the freshman literary class as Count William Falkner. Also listed are his brother Murry and his close friend and agent Ben Wasson. With a senior class of about 100 students not many copies of this yearbook were produced and it is consequently rare Sartoris. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1929). First edition. Bookplate (stamped for deaccession) of an institution and light discoloration to the rear board, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper that has undergone expert restoration at the extremities and appears sharp and fine. Faulkner s third novel (after Soldier s Pay and Mosquitoes) and the inaugural effort in his nearly career-long Yoknapatawpha cycle. Faulkner s conception and subsequent execution of a densely interrelated oeuvre was the most ambitious and successfully realized life s work of any American writer and inspired a host of later Nobel Prize winners including Albert Camus, Gabriel García Márquez, and Toni Morrison. Exceptionally scarce in the brittle Arthur Hawkins-designed dustwrapper Sanctuary. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith (1931). First edition. Fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with tiny nicks at the crown, and very slight age-toning to the white portions of the spine. Filmed in 1933 as The Story of Temple Drake with Miriam Hopkins in the title role. Both the book and film were controversial and the latter was banned for several years. A fresh and attractive, unrestored copy. Connolly These 13. New York: Cape & Smith (1931). First edition. Light soiling else fine. The first of Faulkner s signed/limited editions, this being one of 10 copies for presentation, warmly Inscribed to his lifelong best friend, editor, agent and confidant Ben Wasson, who helped to sell many of the stories herein. Includes A Rose for Emily, That Evening Sun, Dry September, and other classics. A superlative association almost all major association copies of Faulkner s works are now in institutions Doctor Martino and Other Stories. New York: Smith & Haas First edition. Contemporary owner name ( Polly Jordan 1938 ), spine quite faded, a very good copy in a handsome, very good plus dustwrapper that is a little tanned on the spine and has a few tiny nicks and tears. A better than usual example of the fragile Arthur Hawkins-designed jacket. Housed in a chemise and quarter leather slipcase. Signed by Faulkner on the title page: William Faulkner Oxford, Miss 30 Nov The author s second collection of stories, preceded by These 13. Faulkner was notoriously averse to signing trade editions (providing his biographers with several amusing anecdotes) and they are genuine rarities in the trade. Provenance of this copy available on request. 105 same title. New York: Smith & Haas First edition. Corners a little bumped, and a slight amount of the seemingly inevitable fading to the spine, without dustwrapper as issued. One of 360 numbered copies Signed by the author. A nice copy.

19 Between the Covers ~17~ L i t e r a t u r e 106 William FAULKNER. Pylon. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas First edition. Fine with the topstain bright, in a lightly spine-toned, else near fine first issue dustwrapper. Faulkner s tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean s life a few months after the book was published. The novel was the basis for the 1958 Douglas Sirk film The Tarnished Angels featuring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone. A handsome copy The Unvanquished. New York: Random House First edition. Fine in a very nice, fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear panel. A lovely copy of this novel, a collection of interrelated stories of the Sartoris family during the Civil War The Hamlet. New York: Random House First edition. Very slight age-toning, fine, lacking the publisher s original unprinted glassine dustwrapper. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. The first book of the Snopes Trilogy, and one of the scarcest of the signed and limited Faulkners. The Beer Broadside 109 ( ). [Broadside]: To the Voters of Oxford [The Beer Broadside]. (Oxford MS): William Faulkner, Private Citizen (1950). Broadside. One leaf. 8" x 11". Faint creases from once being folded, else fine. In 1944, Faulkner s hometown of Oxford outlawed beer. A few years later a letter from most of the town s clergymen appeared in the Oxford Eagle recommending an additional five-year ban. Faulkner wrote a letter in response, laconically enumerating errors of fact and chastising the clergymen for their position. As recounted in Blotner, when the editor of the Eagle refused to publish it, Faulkner had them print this broadside and he hand-distributed it with the help of his brothers and their children. The local Baptist minister was outraged by the employment of youth for this purpose (though they had observed proprieties by handing it out at the back door of the Baptist Church), while his Methodist counterpart received it in better humor, allowing that Bill Faulkner would know more about both beer and whiskey than we do. The ban was renewed by a vote of , and two months later the text of the broadside appeared in The New Yorker. This has long been considered one of the rarest (and shortest) of Faulkner s A items The Town. New York: Random House (1957). First edition, first issue. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper, with two very tiny tears. A bright and fresh copy of the second volume of the Snopes Trilogy. Once a relatively common book, exceptionally fresh copies such as this are rapidly becoming a memory. 111 same title. New York: Random House (1957). First edition. Fine, without box, as issued. One of 450 numbered copies Signed by the author. The second volume in the Snopes Trilogy. 112 Gustave FLAUBERT. Madame Bovary. London: Vizetelly & Co First edition in English. Modest wear to the cloth at the extremities of the spine and corners, still a nice and tight, very good plus copy with the spine gilt bright. A classic of French literature, Flaubert s masterpiece and best-known work Salammbo. London: Saxon and Company First English edition (a different English translation was published by Vizetelly in the same year). Translated (here described as Englished ) by M. French Sheldon. Some scattered foxing to the text, a very near fine copy. An exotic novel of ancient Carthage that belongs in the second rank of the author s work behind Madame Bovary.

20 Between the Covers ~18~ C a t a l o g u e F. Scott FITZGERALD. This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons First edition. A fine and bright copy, lacking the rare dustwrapper. The author s first book. 115 same title. London: W. Collins & Sons (1923). Second English edition, possibly Colonial issue. Neat ink name, and a tiny pencil name on the front endpapers, fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with some modest soiling on the front panel, tiny nicks at the crown, and remnants of a sticker partially obscuring the original 2 6 price. The sticker is hard to read, but we think it may note that this copy had a New South Wales derivation, indicating this might have been issued as either an Australian, or more likely, an all-purpose Colonial edition. Fitzgerald s first book, altered considerably from the American edition. This second English edition was published in February, 1923, not quite two years after the first. Any early jacketed editions of this title are rare. OCLC indexes but four copies of this edition in libraries, without specifying whether any copies have jackets Borrowed Time. (London): The Grey Walls Press (1951). First edition. Edited by Alan Ross. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A collection of short stories, collected for the first time under this title The Cruise of the Rolling Junk. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Bruccoli Clark First edition. Folio. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 1000 copies. Travel article by FSF. Inscribed by F. Scott Fitzgerald to Ogden Nash s father-in-law! 118 ( ). Thomas WOLFE. From Death to Morning. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons First edition. Spine lettering quite rubbed, else a very good copy in a presumably supplied, very good or better dustwrapper with slight nicking at the crown. Presented with an Inscription on the front pastedown by F. Scott Fitzgerald to the father-in-law of Ogden Nash, the father of Nash s wife Frances Rider Leonard of Baltimore: Leonard. Rugby Road Baltimore June 1936 from Scott Fitzgerald. Nash and Fitzgerald were mutual friends of the successful husband-and-wife screenwriting team of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, and were known to dine and play cards together at the Hackett residence (which was something of a haven for literary writers who found little success as screenwriters). We have not been able to determine the exact circumstances during which Fitzgerald presented the book to Leonard, nor whether the presentation was made directly or with Nash as an intermediary. 119 Ronald FIRBANK. Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli. London: Grant Richards John FOWLES. The Collector. London: Jonathan Cape (1963). First edition. Fine (in rust cloth, there also exists a trial binding in black cloth) in an about fine, first issue dustwrapper (without the reviews) with a couple of minute rub marks. The author s first book, a masterful account of obsession which was the basis for the William Wyler film with Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. Significantly nicer than usually encountered. 121 Philip FRENEAU. Poems on Various Subjects, But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence. London: John Russell Smith First English edition, as well as the first of any of Freneau s books to appear in First edition. Frontispiece portrait by England. Spine ends a little rubbed, slight soiling, a near fine copy. Uncommon edition by the New Jersey resident and Poet of the American Revolution. Augustus John. Fine in a moderately soiled, very good dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. Scarce in jacket.

21 Between the Covers ~19~ L i t e r a t u r e 122 Robert FROST. Inscribed Photograph. Approximately 8" x 10" black and white photograph of Frost posed formally in front of an oil portrait of himself. Fine. Inscribed by Frost to his assistant while he was Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress: Robert Frost to Phyllis Armstrong. A nice, large inscribed photo of one of America s most beloved poets. 123 R. Buckminster FULLER. Nine Chains to the Moon. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott (1938). First edition. Tiny owner name, three tiny ink marks on the contents page, corners a little bumped, still a very near fine copy in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of soiling. Signed by the author. The first book by the polymath and designer whose influence on a broad range of fields has increased with time. 124 John GARDNER and Lennis DUNLAP. The Forms of Fiction. New York: Random House (1962). 126 Jean GENET. The Balcony. New York: Grove Press First American edition, limited issue. Fine in very good original unprinted acetate dustwrapper as issued, with some small chips and tears (acetate dustwrapper not shown in illustration). One of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. A nice copy of this major expressionist play. This issue is rare. First edition. Ownership signature of novelist Jerre Mangione, corners rubbed, a good plus copy in a good, priceclipped dustwrapper with small nicks and tears, and a bit of soiling. Author s first book. The first copy we ve seen in a printed jacket that doesn t appear to have been married to the book Grendel. New York: Knopf First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a few minute paint flecks on the front panel, but with the spine completely unfaded and scarce thus. Gardner s best known novel, a retelling of the Beowulf story from the point of view of the monster. A beautiful copy. 127 William GADDIS. The Recognitions. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1955). Advance Reading Copy. Printed wrappers. A couple of tape shadows at the bottom of the spine near the rear panel, the original repair apparently to seal a short and unobtrusive repair, else a sound, very good or a little better copy. The author s uncommon and bulky first book, invariably found wellworn. Poorly received upon publication, Gaddis spent two decades writing copy for large corporations before publishing his next novel. By the end of his life he had won two National Book Awards and was seen as a major American author whose experimental work bridged the writings of James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon. The Dedication Copy 128 Stella GIBBONS. White Sand and Grey Sand. London: Hodder and Stoughton (1958). First edition. Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, else fine in very good plus dustwrapper with very light wear at the spine ends. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed by the author to Ena and Donal Lenihan: To Ena and Donal with love, and many thanks for much kindness, from Stella Gibbons Webb. Nov. 5, The printed dedication reads: To Ena and Donal Lenihan, affectionately. By the author of Cold Comfort Farm.

22 Between the Covers ~20~ C a t a l o g u e Allen GINSBERG. Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop (1956). First edition (preceded by an exceptionally rare mimeographed version). Small square octavo wrappers. First printing with the dedication to Lucian Carr, removed in later printings. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. One of only 1000 copies of this fragile pamphlet. A few spots of foxing, else very near fine. The quintessential Beat poem, a visionary denunciation of the weaknesses of American society. 134 Kahlil GIBRAN. The Madman: His Parables and Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Empty Mirror: Early Poems. New York: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books (1961). First edition. Wrappers. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. A couple of small stains on the rear panel, else fine. Inscribed by Ginsberg on Staten Island in 1964 to Ted Berrigan with drawings of a flower and Ginsberg s three-fish-withone-head symbol Mind Breaths: Poems San Francisco: City Lights Books (1977). First edition, wrappered issue. Fine in wrappers. Beautifully Inscribed by the poet to Ted Berrigan and his wife, the poet Alice Notley before publication date: For Ted & Alice Berrigan & Family, Xmas Neighbors 1977 with gratitude for yr eyes which actually have read thru the text, Allen Ginsberg AH December 27, A beautiful and fresh copy with an excellent association. 132 and Neal CASSADY. As Ever: The Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Berkeley: Creative First edition. Frontispiece and illustrations by the author. Contemporary owner name stamp of Danforth Barney on the front pastedown, corners and spine ends rubbed, foxing to the title page, a very good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. This copy Signed by the author: With regards from Kahlil Gibran. First editions signed by Gibran, particularly trade editions (a couple of limited, signed editions do occasionally turn up) are exceptionally scarce. Arts Book Company First edition, wrappered issue. Edited with an Introduction by Barry Gifford. Foreword by Carolyn Cassady. Afterword by Allen Ginsberg. A trifle worn, a near fine copy. Inscribed by both Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky to the poets Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley. Orlovsky has inscribed the book: Dec 28, 1977 For Ted Berrigan & Alice Notley: our hunney dew letters & excited chatterings. Farmer Peter Orlovsky [drawing of grapes]. Ginsberg s inscription reads: for Ted & Alice Berrigan a record of actuality guilded with conscious art-mindfulness old love letters & immortal longings Cleopatra (Allen Ginsberg) Dec. 27, Leon GORDON. White Cargo: A Play of the Primitive. Boston: The Four Seas Company (1925). First edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers, still easily fine in a slightly soiled, very good plus dustwrapper with a couple of short tears on the rear panel. Basis for the 1942 Richard Thorpe film featuring Hedy Lamarr as native Congo beauty Tondelayo, practicing her wiles on rival British planters Walter Pidgeon and Richard Carlson. Also the basis for a lesser known film made in Exceptionally scarce in jacket.

23 Between the Covers ~21~ L i t e r a t u r e 139 William GOLDING. Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber (1954). First edition. A trifle sunned at the crown, near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a modest chip at the crown affecting the tops of the letters or in Lord. The Nobel Prize winner s key book, his arresting first novel about the elemental savagery of human nature. 135 William GODWIN. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Philadelphia: Printed by Bioren and Madan First American edition. Two volumes. 12mo. Recent period-style full calf, red spine label, spine gilt. Early owner signature, some modest age-toning to the pages, an attractive, very good set. In cloth chemises and marbled slipcase. 136 Henry GREEN. Loving. London: The Hogarth Press Uncorrected proof. A small chip to the corner of the front wrap, else near fine with very light wear. Scarce in this format Doting. New York: Viking Press First American edition. Corners a trifle bumped, near fine in a slightly soiled, very good dustwrapper with a short tear on the front panel. Inscribed by the author: For Ivy Litvinov, with love from Henry Green 28/2/60. Litvinov was a Russian translator who wrote a considerable amount of fiction for The New Yorker The Brass Butterfly. London: Faber and Faber (1958). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of the author s only play, one of 2000 copies. 141 Caroline GORDON. Penhally. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with the slightest of uniform age toning. A lovely copy of the author s uncommon and fragile first novel. Gordon s reputation as the den mother for the Southern Literary Renaissance has overshadowed the excellence and enduring qualities of her own work, which are certain to be better appreciated by future generations of critics. 142 Graham GREENE. The Man Within. London: William Heinemann (1929). 138 Thom GUNN. Fighting Terms. (Oxford): Fantasy Press (1954). First edition, first issue lacking the final t in thought on page 38). A couple of tiny spots on the front board and a little soiling, else near fine, issued without dustwrapper. Author s first substantial book. Very scarce. First edition. A bookplate on the front pastedown, and a small label on the rear pastedown indicating this was at one time donated to a distinguished rare book library, with that library s tiny release stamp, and a small expertly, and minimally repaired hole on the spine, about very good lacking the dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the front fly. The author s first novel, seldom found signed The Complaisant Lover: A Play. London: William Heinemann (1959). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.

24 Between the Covers ~22~ C a t a l o g u e Hilda DOOLITTLE as H.D. [Trilogy]: The Walls Do Not Fall, Tribute to the Angels, The Flowering of the Rod. London: Oxford University Press 1944, 1945, First editions. Three volumes. Self-wrappers. Light bump to one corner of Tribute to the Angels else just about fine. The Flowering of the Rod is an Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A nice uniform set. 147 Ben HECHT. Humpty Dumpty. New York: Boni and Liveright First edition. Corners slightly bumped else fine in very good dustwrapper with small nicks and tears, and some soiling. 145 Sergeant Ed HALYBURTON. Shoot and Be Damned! New York: Covici- Friede (1932). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of small nicks and tears. Account of the author s term as a prisoner of war in WWI. Scarce. 146 Robert HASS. Time and Materials: Poems (New York): Ecco (2007). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by Hass to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for poetry. 148 Joseph HELLER. Catch-22. New York: Simon & Schuster First edition. Bottom corners bumped, a very good plus copy in a near fine dustwrapper with very tiny nicks and tears. A handsome copy of the author s first novel, whose satiric anti-war attitude set the tone for the 1960s, and whose title quickly became part of the language. Mike Nichols directed the 1970 screen version with Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Martin Sheen, Jon Voight, Orson Welles, and Buck Henry, who also wrote the screenplay. 149 Elizabeth HARDWICK and Barbara KARPT. [Unproduced and unpublished filmscript of Kate Chopin s]: The Awakening. (No place: No publisher No date - circa 1975). Bradbound in plastic coated, printed wrappers. Lightly worn, fine. An unproduced and unpublished screen adaptation of Chopin s novel, as well as a summary of the novel, and an introduction by Hardwick. Rare. Ex-Carter Burden. 150 (Anthology). Jim HARRISON, Charles SIMIC, George QUASHA, Dan GERBER, and J.D. REED. 5 Blind Men. Fremont: Sumac Press First edition. Boards very slightly splayed, still easily fine, without dustwrapper, as issued. Copy letter Y of 26 lettered copies Signed by all five of the poets. 151 John HERSEY. Hiroshima. New York: The New Yorker Aug. 31, First edition. Quarto. Complete issue of The New Yorker that contains the first appearance of Hersey s report on the bombing of Hiroshima, the entire issue devoted to the report. Slight split at the bottom of the spine, tiny tears at the edges of the first few pages, else an unusually fresh, at least near fine example, with a fine example of the rarely seen wraparound band.

25 Between the Covers ~23~ L i t e r a t u r e 152 Ernest HEMINGWAY. Three Stories & Ten Poems. (No place - Paris: Contact 1923). First edition. Light foxing to the wraps else an about fine, unopened copy, lacking the glassine dustwrapper. The Nobel laureate s first book, published in a limited edition of 300 copies. Hemingway expected Bill Bird to publish in our time as his first book, with this to be his second, and the rear panel of this volume lists the other title as available. But in our time was scheduled to be the sixth volume in Ezra Pound s inquest series, forcing a delay of publication until early Thus Robert McAlmon at Contact had the distinction of introducing in book form one of the greatest and most influential writers of modern literature. Though Hemingway earned essentially no money from this book, he was already associated with Pound and Gertrude Stein and soon found influential support in the critic Edmund Wilson and the anthologist Edward O Brien. Within a few short years he was among America s best-selling and most lauded writers, a status he cemented for posterity in the 1950s after winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea, and later the Nobel Prize for Literature. An attractive copy of a keystone of modern book collecting. In older custom chemise and clamshell case in our time. Paris: Three Mountains Press First edition. Binder s glue stains on the endpapers, as usual, tiny chips at the spinal extremities, slight bowing of the covers, an excellent, very nearly fine copy. Hemingway s second book, copy 42 of 170 numbered copies. In a custom quarter morocco clamshell case In Our Time. New York: Boni & Liveright First American edition, and first thus with the inclusion of additional stories, as well as the author s first book published in the U.S. Spine gilt faded and readable with effort, else near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. One of only 1335 copies published. Connolly Winner Take Nothing. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons James HILTON. Goodbye, Mr. Chips! London: Hodder & Stoughton First edition. Fine, with the gold spine label bright, in a near fine dustwrapper with some light nicking at the extremities and a little rubbing. A considerably nicer than usual copy of this collection of stories, including A Clean, Well-Lighted Place The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons First edition. A small owner s label on the front fly, else fine in a nice, very good or better, priceclipped dustwrapper with a small (but present) chip on the rear panel, and a couple of small nicks and tears at the front spine fold. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of Hemingway s most beloved books, seen by many as a late-career return to form. The title which cinched the Nobel Prize for the author. Basis for the John Sturges film with Spencer Tracy. A nice copy. Burgess 99. First edition. Some staining to the boards, else very good in very near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing at the extremities. Signed by the author. Basis for two films: the 1939 Sam Wood-directed version with Robert Donat (who beat out Clark Gable, Henry Fonda and others for the Best Actor Oscar in what was probably Hollywood s best year ever), Greer Garson and Paul Henreid and the 1969 remake directed by Herbert Ross with Peter O Toole, Petula Clark and Michael Redgrave. A very nice copy. (1967). First edition. Edited by William White. Bottom corner a trifle bumped, still fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A beautiful copy, and scarce in this condition The Nick Adams Stories. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons (1972). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A collection of stories that is becoming increasingly less common. An exceptional, basically as new copy By-Line: Ernest Hemingway. Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons

26 Between the Covers ~24~ C a t a l o g u e Harry HOUDINI. The Right Way to Do Wrong: An Expose of Successful Criminals. Boston: Harry Houdini First edition. 96pp. Illustrated. Illustrated wrappers as issued. Some soiling and foxing to the page edges, a faint stain on the front wrap, a very good or better copy in original wrappers, and with no restoration. Houdini s self-published first book, seldom found in this condition. 162 Ted HUGHES. Animal Poems. (Bow, Crediton, Devon: Richard Gilbertson 1967). First edition. Small quarto. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. One of 63 numbered copies (of a total edition of 100) Signed by Hughes Wodwo. London: Faber and Faber (1967). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. New York: Harper & Row (1971). First American edition, hardcover issue. A modest stain on the foredge and the edge of the rear flap, else near fine in an about near fine dustwrapper with a few modest stains and some overall age-toning. Signed by the poet. 166 Aldous HUXLEY. Point Counter Point. London: Chatto & Windus First edition. Fine in a nice, very good white dustwrapper with some tanning 165. Prometheus on his Crag. London: Rainbow Press First Edition. Full purple morocco. Frontispiece drawing by Leonard Baskin. Just a touch of rubbing, easily fine in fine slipcase. One of 160 numbered copies Signed by both Hughes at the limitation statement and Baskin at his illustration. and small nicks at the spine. A nice copy of this important novel, considered by many to be Huxley s most ambitious and complex. 167 same title. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran First American edition. Small, neat owner name on the front fly, bottom of the boards a little worn, near fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a small smudge on the spine, and a couple of unnecessary internally repaired small chips Heaven and Hell. New York: Harper and Brothers (1956). First American edition. Corners a trifle bumped, else fine in a slightly age-toned, else fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Huxley s continuation of his experiments with mind-altering substances, begun with The Doors of Perception. Inscribed to A.B. Frost 161 E[merson]. HOUGH. The Singing Mouse Stories. New York: Forest and Stream Pub. Co First edition. Green cloth with gilt cover design by Will Bradley. Vignettes by W.S. Phillips. Corners a little rubbed, else a fine copy. The author s first book, this copy Inscribed by him to the noted illustrator A.B. Frost: To Mr. A.B. Frost with the compliments of the Author. E. Hough. A nice association.

27 Between the Covers ~25~ L i t e r a t u r e 169 William INGE. A Loss of Roses. New York: Random House (1960). First edition. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with stills from the play, an early work that featured a young Warren Beatty on Broadway. 173 Wallace IRWIN. The Shame of the Colleges. New York: The Outing Publishing Company (1907). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a very faint stain (more pronounced in the scan than it appears). College hijinks illustrated in very attractive arts and crafts style by M.L. Blumenthal with vignettes on every page. Chapters concentrate on individual schools: Harvard, Vassar, Princeton, University of Chicago, Yale, and West Point. A lovely little book, and rare in jacket. 170 Saikaku IBARA. Quaint Stories of Samurais. Paris: Printed for Private Distribution / (Maurice Darantiere) First edition. Translated from the Old Original by Ken Sato. Printed self-wrappers. Modest age-toning, a wrinkle on the front wrap, else near fine. One of 500 copies. A very scarce title and a Japanese classic. 174 Randall JARRELL. Little Friend, Little Friend. New York: Dial Press First edition. Neat, contemporary owner name, a little rubbing to the boards, else fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks at the front flap fold, and very subtle fading on the thin spine. Perhaps the best volume of poetry to emerge from the Second World War, including the brief but haunting classic The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner. 171 Christopher ISHERWOOD. Goodbye to Berlin. London: Hogarth Press First edition. Very slight foxing to the endpapers, still easily fine in a price-clipped, else fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears. Includes the story Sally Bowles, published earlier by Hogarth, which was the basis for the film Caberet. Connolly The Seven-League Crutches. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1951). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. On the front fly, Jarrell has neatly written out and Signed the text of his most famous poem The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, which curiously, does not appear in this important collection of poetry. 172 John IRVING. The World According to Garp. New York: E.P. Dutton (1978). First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper, with a tiny crease on the front flap, and none of the usual flaking to the gold lettering. Briefly Inscribed by the author. The book that more than any other helped establish the author s popularity, in some measure thanks to the successful George Roy Hill film featuring Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, John Lithgow, and Glenn Close (in her memorable Oscar-nominated film debut). A beautiful copy, and becoming uncommon thus. 176 George KELLY. Philip Goes Forth. New York: Samuel French First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with two small nicks at the corners. Kelly, author of The Show-off and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Craig s Wife, was one of his era s most popular and acclaimed playwrights, as well as the uncle of screen legend Grace Kelly. Scarce, especially in this condition.

28 Between the Covers ~26~ C a t a l o g u e Shirley JACKSON. The Road through the Wall. New York: Farrar Straus and Company First edition. Pages browned as always, else fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with one tiny tear. A particularly bright copy of the author s first book The Lottery or The Adventures of James Harris. London: Victor Gollancz First English edition. Slightly cocked, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with small chips at the extremities. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Paul Radin: For Doris and Paul Radin with regards, Shirley Jackson In some sense a significant association: Radin, an important anthropologist, authored many books including some on religion among the American Indians and witchcraft. Jackson was a significant collector of books on witchcraft and certainly must have been aware of Radin s work. A collection of short fiction, well-crafted tales of psychological horror, including the justly-celebrated and muchanthologized title story which, when it was initially printed in The New Yorker, caused a furor and elicited more letters than any story up to that time. Seldom found inscribed. The author s most sought after title Hangsaman. New York: Farrar Straus and Young (1951). First edition. Extremities of the boards a little worn, else near fine in near very good dustwrapper with a chip on the front panel, and lacking the top one inch of the spine (part of which is laid into the book). Author s third book, and second novel, and her first novel to deal with the darker regions of human nature and personality. Inscribed by the author to her in-laws, the parents of her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman: For Lulu and Dad with all my love Shirley. April The recipients were, along with her own parents, the dedicatees of her book Life Among the Savages. Jackson was a bit of a recluse and books inscribed by her are uncommon, especially with any kind of association. 180 Charles C. JONES, Jr. The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864, and the Confederate Operations in Georgia, and The Third Military District of South Carolina During General Sherman s March from Atlanta to the Sea. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell Printed for the Author First edition. Early three-quarter green morocco and marbled paper-covered boards. Neatly and professionally rebacked, a nice, very good or better copy. Laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed to Colonel Jno. P. Nicholson in Philadelphia, sending an engraved portrait of himself (not present): It forms one of a series of Confederate Officers engraved by Charles B. Hall of New York City and asks further when the copy of Jones History of Georgia in Nicholson s hand will be bound and returned to him. 181 (James JOYCE). An Exagmination of James Joyce: Analysis of the Work in Progress by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage, William Carlos Williams. Norfolk, CT: New Directions (no date -1929). First American edition of Our Exagmination Round the Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, from sheets of the true first, French edition. With Letters of Protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some modest age-toning, some modest tears at the edges of the spine-folds, a tiny nick at the crown, and a little discoloration at the top of the front panel. Contains brief quotations from Work In Progress including a passage concerning Swift and blindness, p. 109, which was not later incorporated in Finnegans Wake. The Letters of Protest are reputed to have been written by Joyce himself. The American edition is uncommon.

29 Between the Covers ~27~ L i t e r a t u r e 182 Jack KEROUAC. On the Road. New York: Viking Press First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing and a short tear on the rear panel. A brilliant, fresh copy of the key novel of the beat generation, written in three weeks but with an effect that shows no sign of diminishing. A superior copy The Dharma Bums. New York: Viking Press First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper, with modest rubbing and one very short tear, but with none of the usual fading to the colored portions of the spine illustration. Kerouac s follow-up to On the Road, a thinly-veiled account of his spiritual growth and friendship with poet Gary Snyder Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three. New York: Grove Press (1959). First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in a modestly rubbed, very good plus dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears, and a rubbed crease on the front panel Excerpts from Visions of Cody. New York: (New Directions 1960). First edition. Fine in a fine example of the original acetate dustwrapper (not shown in illustration). One of 750 numbered copies Signed by Kerouac, this copy out of series. Laid in is the publisher s prospectus as issued, fine with a small and very faint dampstain. The only lifetime edition of this title, expanded and republished in a trade edition after Kerouac s death. Scarce. 186, Robert FRANK, and Alfred Leslie. Pull My Daisy. New York: Grove Press (1961). First edition. Paperback original. Text by Jack Kerouac for the Film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Fine. A lovely copy Satori in Paris. New York: Grove (1966). Presentation Copy 188 Soren KIERKEGAARD. Christelige Taler [Christian Discourses]. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel First edition, Presentation state. Includes The Anxiety of the Heathen, Exultant Notes in the Conflict of Suffering, Thoughts Which Wound from Behind for Edification, and Discourses at the Communion on Fridays. Very good or better copy in glossy black presentation issue papercovered boards with some surface loss to the outer joints and spine. A presentation copy Inscribed by Kierkegaard to Johan Ludvig Heiberg, the philosopher and prominent Hegelian whom Walter Lowrie called the acknowledged literary arbiter of Copenhagen. He was a close mentor to Kierkegaard who served as one of the official readers of Kierkegaard s dissertation and had an First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. important influence upon his work. Kierkegaard published two appreciations of Heiberg s mother and his wife (both were actresses) and remained close to the older scholar throughout his life. Despite this Heiberg never ceased to represent for Kierkegaard the hypocrisy of contemporary culture and Christianity. An important early work by the great philosopher. According to Lowrie, the third section is the first example of the polemic against a self-satisfied Christianity which was to dominate Kierkegaard s late writings. Among the controversial themes of this third section is Kierkegaard s attack upon the widespread confusion among both laypeople and theologians between the intellectually comforting Platonic notion of the soul s immortality and the Christian doctrine of a resurrection inseparable from judgment, addressed to the will rather than the intellect, and thus rightly a source of fear and trembling. A presentation copy of the first importance. Himmelstrup 110.

30 Between the Covers ~28~ C a t a l o g u e Thomas KENEALLY. Schindler s Ark. Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton (1982). 190 Ken KESEY. One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest. New York: Viking Press (1962). First edition. Fine in a very attractive, very good plus, first issue dustwrapper with some subtle fading at the spine and the edge of the front panel, and a little rubbing, but considerably less than usual. Author s uncommon first book, something of a generational keystone and basis for the 1975 film which was the first to win all five major Oscars since It Happened One Night in A nice copy. 191 Galway KINNELL. The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper with none of the seemingly inevitable fading to the spine. A superior copy. First Australian edition. Considerable rubbing to the cheaply manufactured boards, thus a very good or a bit better copy in an about fine dustwrapper without the usual spine fading. Although the U.K. edition precedes, the Australian edition (of this book written by an Australian author) is much scarcer, and generally considered more desirable. This copy nicely Inscribed by the author and dated in the year of publication. A nice copy of this powerful, Booker Prize-winning novel, basis for the unforgettable Steven Spielberg film which won several Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay and Original Score, and which also featured Oscar-worthy performances by Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes. 192 Thomas KINSELLA, translated by. Longes Mac n-usnig: Being the Exile and Death of the Sons of Usnech. (Dublin): Dolmen Press (1954). First edition. Quarter vellum and decorated papercovered boards. A little soiling to the spine, else near fine. One of 200 numbered copies (of a total edition of 225). Although not called for, this copy is Signed. A rare title of this tale translated from the Gaelic. 193 Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de LAMBERT. New Reflexions on the Fair Sex. Written originally in French, by the celebrated Marchioness de Lambert, (and by her suppress d) Translated into English by J. Lockman. London: Printed and sold by N. Prevost First edition in English, translated by John Lockman. Xxviii, 72pp. Bound in old, but later unprinted wrappers. A little soiling and very light foxing, a handsome, near fine copy. An important book by a woman about women, the Marchioness de Lambert bridges the gap between the 17th and 18th Centuries, and the salon she presided over was at the center of Parisian literary and intellectual life. In this book she reproaches men with spoiling the dispositions nature has given to women, neglecting their education, filling their minds with nothing solid, and destining them solely to please, and to please only by their graces or their vices. It was doubtless these unpopular opinions, and her aversion to the publicity of authorship, that led her to buy the entire edition of her Reflexions sur les Femmes, which was published without her consent. The book has been almost continuously in print since originally published, and has gained new life in women s studies programs. OCLC locates but three copies worldwide two at the University of California, and one at Princeton. 194 Philip LARKIN. The North Ship. London: Faber and Faber (1974). Uncorrected proof. Revised edition (first published in 1945). Tiny staple holes on the front wrap, still fine in blue printed wrappers. Uncommon advance issue of this important poetry collection, the author s fourth book.

31 Between the Covers ~29~ L i t e r a t u r e 199 (Lesbian Fiction). Ann BANNON. Odd Girl Out. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal (1957). First edition. Paperback original. A horizontal rubbed spot on the front wrap, else a bright, very good plus copy. Signed by the author on the title page. The author s first book, something of a classic of lesbian fiction. Bannon wrote a handful of novels on lesbian themes, and then retired from the writing scene to become a successful (and for a time married) college administrator. Her books, all paperback originals, have recently been released by the Cleis Press in their series of lesbian pulp fiction classics Beebo Brinker. Greenwich, 195 (Anthology). D.H. LAWRENCE, Amy LOWELL, Hilda DOOLITTLE, et al. Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin First edition. Stiff printed card covers. Modest erosion to the spine, a tight, very good copy in a near fine example of the original glassine dustwrapper with chips at the spine ends. Contributors include Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, and F.S. Flint. One of 1000 copies. 196 (Lesbian Fiction). Patricia HIGHSMITH as Claire Morgan. The CT: Fawcett Gold Medal (1962). First edition. Paperback original. A small owner name on the first page, pages a little browned, slight creases on the spine and the front panel, a very good or better copy that is, and it pains us to say so, very slightly cocked (okay, so it doesn t pain us to say so it s just the kind of sophomoric humor that we thrive on here). Signed by the author on the title page. Probably the author s scarcest book, featuring her eponymous heroine and lesbian heartthrob, Beebo Brinker. Price of Salt. New York: Coward- McCann (1952). First edition. A faint ring on the front board else near fine in good plus dustwrapper with several modest chips and tears, and some professional internal reinforcing to the jacket folds. A presentable copy of a rare book, Highsmith s pseudonymous lesbian novel. Because its ending leaves the strong possibility of happiness for the two lovers, defying the lesbian pulp formula of the time, some consider this the first happy ending in homosexual fiction. 197 Harper LEE. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott First edition. Fine in a bright and fresh, near fine, priceclipped dustwrapper (the printed price is not an issue point for this jacket). A classic novel about adolescence and the battle against injustice, basis for the equally classic film with Gregory Peck and, in his pivotal film debut, Robert Duvall as Boo Radley. The author s first and only novel, winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Becoming exceptionally scarce in this condition and without any restoration. 198 same title. London: Heinemann (1960). First English edition. Very slightly cocked else fine in fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy of the more visually appealing English edition. 201 Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields First edition, first issue. Dove for dive on page 96; one complete on page 279, 12 pages of inserted ads dated November, Owner name dated 1856, slight cracking to the paper over the front hinge, a few very faint splash marks to the spine, a sound and attractive, very good copy. Listen my children and you shall hear 202. Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor & Fields First edition, first state ads. Small tears to the cloth at the spine ends, but otherwise a nice, near fine copy. Contains Longfellow s most enduring poem, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.

32 203 John Uri LLOYD. Stringtown on the Pike: A Tale of Northernmost Kentucky. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a little soiling and very short edge tears. Nicely Inscribed by the author to his niece on Christmas in the year of publication. Very scarce in the early photographic jacket. Between the Covers ~30~ C a t a l o g u e Malcolm LOWRY. Ultramarine. London: Jonathan Cape (1933). First edition. A fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. The author s first book. Very scarce. Ralph Ellison s Copy 209. Under the Volcano. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock (1947). First edition, preceding the English edition. Some stains on the front board and the spine, an about very good copy, lacking the dustwrapper (jacket flaps laid into the book). Lowry s masterwork, an expressionistic novel of the final, desperate day of a former British consul drinking himself to death in Mexico. Basis for the John Huston film featuring Albert Finney (who was nominated for an Oscar) and Jacqueline Bisset. Ralph Ellison s copy with his ownership Signature, and with a few pencil notations by Ellison including: Conrad. Lord Jim. 210 same title. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock (1947). Uncorrected proof of the first edition, preceding the English edition. A short, repaired tear on the front wrap, title and author s name inked on the spine, else a near fine copy in wrappers as issued. 204 Robert LOWELL. The Mills of the Kavanaughs. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1951). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip tipped in. Author Arthur Mizener s copy with his small bookplate. A very nice copy of a scarce title, the author s second commercially published book Life Studies. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1959). First American edition (English edition precedes). Fine in a presentable, good only dustwrapper with a good size chip on the rear panel. Signed by the author. One of Lowell s more important collections of poetry. Winner of the National Book Award. 206 and Nolan SIDNEY. The Voyage and Other Versions of Poems by Baudelaire. London: Faber and Faber First edition. Large quarto. 16 monochrome, and 8 color plates. Fine in cloth and fine original unprinted glassine dustwrapper and near fine slipcase with a small bump and stain. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by both Lowell and Sidney. 207 Lord LYMINGTON. Git le Cœur. Paris: Black Sun Press First edition. Quarto. Printed wrappers. A little offsetting on the front wrap, and light wear to the spine ends, near fine. Love poems by Lymington (later Earl of Portsmouth) and an intimate friend of publisher Caresse Crosby. Copy number 194 of 200 numbered copies printed on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen. This copy Signed by the author, and with corrections in his hand. Additionally laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed from Lymington to English Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald, presenting the volume.

33 Between the Covers ~31~ L i t e r a t u r e 212 Bernard MALAMUD. The Natural. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company (1952). 211 Kenneth MacPHERSON. Gaunt Island. Riant Chateau, Switzerland: Pool First edition. Wrappers with printed French-folded dustwrapper. Some internal tissue repair to the wrappers, else near fine. Avantgarde novel by MacPherson, husband of Winnifred Bryher. Scarce. First edition. Fine in the gray binding (one of three, with no priority established) in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears and nominal rubbing. An especially nice copy of the author s first book, perhaps the classic baseball novel, and basis for the sugar-coated but nevertheless effective Barry Levinson film featuring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, and Kim Basinger. 213 Norman MAILER. [Playscript]: The Deer Park: A Play. New York: Supreme Pix (Leo Garen, Norman Mailer, and James Walsh no date - circa 1954). Playscript. Quarto. Mimeographed sheets, screw bound into plasticized wrappers with title in gilt. Marked Draft, and numbered in hand as No. 45. Pencil signature of actress Beverly Bentley, Mailer s third wife, on the title leaf, another pencil name erased, a few light pencil notes in the text, binder worn at edges, a very good copy of the script for Mailer s first play, later published by the Dial Press. Ex-Carter Burden. Rare. 214 David MALOUF. Bicycle and Other Poems. (St. Lucia): University of Queensland First edition. A tiny owner name on the title page else fine in wrappers as issued. Signed by the author. Australian author s exceptionally uncommon first solelyauthored book. Seldom found signed. 215 David MAMET. American Buffalo. New York: Grove Press (1976). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Except for a touch of age-toning to the flaps, this is a spectacular, as new copy Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations. New York: Grove Press (1978). First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of one of the playwright s scarcer titles Lakeboat. New York: Grove Press (1981). First edition. Corners a trifle bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper House of Games. A Screenplay. Based on a Story by David Mamet and Jonathan Katz. New York: Grove Press (1987). First edition, a paperback original. Octavo, illustrated with stills from the movie, glossy wrappers. Covers a little rubbed, else a fine copy. An uncommon title. The film was Mamet s directorial debut. Inscribed by Mamet to the actor and director Paul Bartel. With a complimentary card from Orion Pictures laid in Speedthe-Plow. New York: Grove Press (1988). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An as new copy Oleanna. New York: Pantheon (1992). First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful, as new copy, only 1500 copies bound in hardcovers.

34 Between the Covers ~32~ C a t a l o g u e Heinrich MANN. Small Town Tyrant. New York: Creative Age (1944). First American edition. Small ownership signature of publisher Alan Swallow on the front fly, and a small stain on the front board and foredge, else near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a tear across the top of the spine. Translated from the German, this is the first American appearance of the novel that was the basis for the Josef von Sternberg film The Blue Angel, an enduring classic featuring Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich in the role that made her internationally famous. A very scarce wartime title, issued by a small publisher, this is a nice copy of a cheaply made volume. 226 Thomas MANN. The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First American edition. Translated by H.T. Lowe- Porter. Offsetting to blank preliminaries from clippings, else near fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. 222 George V. MARTIN. For Our Vines Have Tender Grapes. (No place): Funk Inc. (1940). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some very small nicks at the spine ends, wear at the corners, and a scratch on the spine. Margaret O Brien and Edward G. Robinson starred in the excellent 1945 film, directed by Roy Rowland, and co-scripted by Dalton Trumbo, about life in a Norwegian farm community in Wisconsin. First edition. Fine in French-folded wrappers, in a chipped, original unprinted glassine sleeve. McAlmon was the founder of Contact Editions which published James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and several others, including Ernest Hemingway s first book. He was at the center of expatriate life and helped to support various struggling artists and writers in that tumultuous time. One of 200 copies, the sleeve is pretty nearly impossible to find. 223 Robert McALMON. The Portrait of a Generation. Paris: Contact Editions / Three Mountain Press Larry McMURTRY. The Last Picture Show. New York: Dial First edition, advance issue. Spiralbound advance sheets, laid into the finished dustwrapper. Small tape shadow on the front page, perhaps from a review or complimentary slip, reviewer name on the jacket and half-title, else fine in very good dustwrapper, a bit soiled and with a mild ring stain on the front panel. Publisher s letter laid in. McMurtry and director Peter Bogdanovich co-wrote the screenplay for the 1971 film with Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Cybil Shepherd, and Oscar winners Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman. A rare advance state of this key work, one of the defining works of the Sixties It s Always We Rambled: An Essay on Rodeo. New York: Frank Hallman First edition. Fine in printed boards. Publisher s promotional card laid in. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. 227 Carson McCULLERS. The Member of the Wedding. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with just a little bit of the usual spine fading. Inscribed by the author to her editor at Houghton Mifflin, Robert Linscott: For my precious Bob, very gratefully and with my most devoted love, Carson. A superb association, Linscott was one of the most distinguished American editors of the first half of the 20th Century, and formed particularly close relationships with McCullers and Truman Capote. McCullers later adapted her own novel into a play that opened on Broadway with Julie Harris and Ethel Waters and won numerous awards. Waters and Harris then recreated their Broadway roles in the 1952 Fred Zinneman film, with Harris nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.

35 Between the Covers ~33~ L i t e r a t u r e 228 Arthur MILLER. Death of a Salesman. New York: Viking Press First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing and a tiny, nearly invisible stain on the rear flap fold. An exceptionally fresh and bright copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, one of the classics of American drama and basis for a number of film and television versions with Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Dustin Hoffman, and Brian Dennehy, among others, assaying the role of salesman Willy Loman. 229 Margaret MITCHELL. Typed Letter Signed. One page Typed Letter on the author s stationery, dated December 18, 1946, Signed Margaret Mitchell Marsh. Folded in thirds for mailing, with typed envelope included. A trace of darkening at the folds else fine. Four cordial paragraphs replying to a letter from her friend Myron J. Quimby, who had recently moved to Texas. The third paragraph concerns Quimby s son, Myron J. Quimby, Jr., of whom she comments: I hope Son finds not only a good job but one that is satisfying and has a future to it. The younger Quimby became an author; two decades later he wrote The Devil s Emissaries, an important true-crime account of Machine Gun Kelly, Pretty Boy Floyd and other notorious criminals of the 1920s and 30s. Mitchell, the author of the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gone with the Wind, died after being struck by an automobile in Autograph material by her is scarce. 230 Howard MOSS. The Wound and the Weather. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock Henry Miller s First Book Appearance 231 (Anthology). (Henry MILLER). Peter NEAGOE, editor. Americans Abroad: An Anthology. The Hague: Servire Press (1946). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. An as new copy of the author s uncommon first book. First edition, first binding linen boards. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the front panel. Contains Henry Miller s first book appearance, Mademoiselle Claude, in addition to work by Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Robert McAlmon, John Dos Passos, Harry and Caresse Crosby, and many others. A beautiful copy. Two Inscribed to June 232. The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder. (San Francisco): Greenwood Press First edition by this publisher. Illustrated by Gordon Cook. Near fine in selfwraps with a tiny nick and a little light wear. One of 500 copies. Inscribed by the author to his second wife, June Mansfield, who was by all accounts the inspiration for much of his most important fiction: For June the only imaginative story I ve written. Henry 10/15/56. A superb association. Shifreen & Jackson A66d. 233 ( ). Robert SNYDER. This is Henry, Henry Miller from Brooklyn: Conversations with the Author from The Henry Miller Odyssey. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing (1974). First edition. Quarto. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper with one longish tear. Inscribed by Miller to his second wife June Mansfield: For June, Merry Xmas! Henry Mansfield was perhaps Miller s most important influence, and his muse for most of his earliest and most famous work. In the text of this book Miller relates: I was married a few years when I finally ran into Mona, in my books, you know, in the dance hall, and we were caught in bed one morning when I thought my wife had gone on a vacation So I left her immediately and went to live with June Mona. And it was through my new wife that I got the courage to make my final decisions and to live by them she used to say to me, Look, give up that job; Start to write. A nice association.

36 Between the Covers ~34~ C a t a l o g u e 14 3 First Printed Photo of Marilyn Monroe 234 (Marilyn MONROE). Chieftain West Los Angeles: University High School First edition. Folio. Scattered very light foxing, a very good plus copy. Marilyn Monroe, here as Norma Baker, is depicted with a small, individual picture in the sophomore class. The picture is the first image of Monroe to be published in a book. In addition, the actress did not finish high school and this is the ONLY portrait photo of her to appear in a high school yearbook. American Book Prices Current lists no auction records for this book, and we have seen only one other copy offered in the book trade. 235 Vladimir NABOKOV as Nabokoff. Laughter in the Dark. Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill (1938). First edition. Fine in a slightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper with very slight rubbing at the extremities. A beautiful copy of the author s first book published in the United States. Increasingly difficult to find in acceptable condition, this is a superior copy. 236 (New York). W. Parker CHASE. New York The Wonder City: An Illustrated Story of New York, with statistics and general data concerning New York s Vastness, New York s People, New York s Activities and New York s Intimate Inside Life in the Year New York: Wonder City Publishing Company (1931). First edition. Papercovered boards. Slightly spine faded else fine in near fine dustwrapper (utilizing the famous Berenice Abbott photo of New York at night from above as a wraparound illustration) with a small chip at the crown. Fascinating guidebook to New York with the assessed values, costs, and histories of many prominent buildings, articles on the city, lists, photos and biographies of prominent New Yorkers, etc. Rare in this condition. 237 Frank O HARA. A City Winter and Other Poems. New York: Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery Folded and gathered sheets of the first edition, which was limited to 150 numbered copies (this copy unnumbered). With two drawings by Larry Rivers. Minor soiling to outer wrap else fine in wrappers. A rare advance format of the poet s scarce first book. 238 Mr. F. (Sometimes attributed to either Jean-Antoine Romagnesi or M. Fuzelier or Fuselier). Le Retour de Tendresse ou La Feinte Veritable. Comedie. Paris: Chez Briasson First edition. Text in French. 52pp. Bound in older, but later unprinted wrappers. An ink blot on the inside of the front wrap, slight foxing to the pages, a near fine copy. An Italian-style comedy play. OCLC cites two copies at Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, and attributes a date, perhaps mistakenly, of Lorine NIEDECKER. My Friend Tree. Edinburgh: The Wild Hawthorn Press Anaïs NIN. Under a Glass Bell. New York: Gemor Press First edition. Illustrated papercovered boards without dustwrapper as issued. Cover and seventeen engravings by Ian Hugo. A little rubbing to the edges of the boards, else a near fine copy. One of 300 unnumbered copies, the entire edition. This copy Inscribed by the author in the year of publication: To Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Maas. Sincerely, Anaïs Nin. New York First edition. Oblong 12mo. Linocuts by Walter Miller. Introduction by Ed Dorn laid in on a separate sheet as issued. Niedecker s second book, published by the concrete poet Ian Hamilton Finlay. Fine in wrappers and fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy.

37 Between the Covers ~35~ L i t e r a t u r e 241 (Anthology). Flannery O CONNOR, William STAFFORD, et al. New Signatures 1: A Selection of College Writing. Prairie City, Illinois: The Press of James A. Decker (1947). First edition. Edited by Alan Swallow. A small bookstore label on the front pastedown, a few wrinkles on the spine, near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Very uncommon anthology of college writing with contributions by Herb Gold, John Hollander, William Stafford, and Flannery O Connor. O Connor contributes a 13 page story, The Barber, one of her earliest stories to be printed (her first was Geranium in 1946 in Accent magazine). After this appearance, The Barber went otherwise unpublished until her Complete Stories were published posthumously in Wise Blood. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company (1952). First edition. Very slight rubbing at the bottom of the boards, as usual, else fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with a hint of pencil notation and two tears on the front panel, and a small chip at the corner of the crown. A nice copy, with the white jacket whiter than usual. Advance Review Copy with slip tipped to the front fly. The author s first book. Burgess (Art). ( ). Stanley MELTZOFF. Original Oil Painting for the first paperback edition of Wise Blood. Original oil painting by Meltzoff for the paperback edition. Image framed to approximately 17" x 21", probably soon after publication. At the base of the frame is an engraved plaque: Original Painting of Stanley Meltzoff for Signet Book WISE BLOOD Presented with the Compliments of The New American Library of World Literature, Inc. The painting is fine, the plaque exhibits a little tarnishing, probably easily remedied if one were inclined to do so. The painting depicts Sabbath Lily Hawks flirting with a startled-looking Hazel Motes, who reclines under a tree in a straw hat. Meltzoff is one of the most highly regarded of the 1950s paperback artists. His paintings, especially for major titles, are avidly sought after. Accompanied by a near very good copy of the Signet first edition paperback, published in A Good Man Is Hard to Find. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company (1955). First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a little wrinkling on the rear panel, but no fading of the red on the spine. The author s masterpiece, her second book and first of short stories. A breathtaking collection of horror tales that probe the darkest heart of the South through the use of traditional Southern Gothic writing mixed with a nightmare vision seemingly derivative of German expressionism. A stunning and disturbing accomplishment. A very nice copy. Contract for the French edition of A Good Man Is Hard to Find 245. Partially Printed Document Signed. One leaf. Folio. Partially printed both sides. Old folds, a small tape repair at one split fold, else a near fine example. A contract, dated 20 March 1956, between French publisher Librairie Gallimard and O Connor for the French publication of A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Signed by O Connor, and additionally signed by her mother Regina Cline O Connor, as witness.

38 Between the Covers ~36~ C a t a l o g u e John O HARA. Butterfield 8. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1935). First edition. Short tear at the foot and a small neat repair to the paper over the front hinge, a very good copy in a good only, but presentable dustwrapper with some chipping, and repairs. Inscribed by the author to fellow novelist Ben Ames Williams: To Ben Williams Cordially John O Hara. The author s third book and second novel, and by all accounts one of his best. O Hara s laconic journalistic style was particularly effective in illuminating the life of the middle-class American, a mantle he seems to have inherited from Sinclair Lewis. Filmed in 1960 with Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, and Dina Merrill. One of the author s best known novels, and seldom found inscribed, especially with a nice association. 247 Charles OLSON. Letter for Melville 1951: written to be read AWAY FROM the Melville Society s One Hundredth Birthday Party for MOBY-DICK at Williams College, Labor Day Weekend, Sept 2-4, Black Mountain, North Carolina: Black Mountain College First edition. Two large quarto leaves, printed rectos only, folded and tipped into a printed folder. A large, but not too annoying stain on the rear wrap, and a small and interesting inscription on the front wrap: go west young man go west. Winnie the Pooh. Hope your San Francisco days are glorious Diana. We haven t identified Diana, but it could have been Black Mountain resident Diana Woelffer. The recipient could have been any number of Black Mountain students or faculty members who headed west and were instrumental in helping to found the San Francisco Renaissance, including Olson himself, Robert Duncan, and Robert Creeley. Better researchers than us might be able to find the association. Butterick A4: approximately 50 copies produced Anecdotes of the Late War. Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams First edition. Broadside, folded into stiff card covers as issued. A little age-toning to the covers else fine. Inscribed by Olson to his wife and son: For B. and for Charles Peter fr. Charles. Issued as Jargon Broadside I. A great association The Maximus Poems. New York: Jargon / Corinth Books First combined edition, limited issue. Cloth and printed paper wrappers applied to the cloth. A touch of age-toning, still easily fine. Copy letter Z of 26 lettered and Signed copies. 250 Michael ONDAATJE. The Dainty Monsters. (Toronto): Coach House (1967). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author on the front fly: For David and Joan and kids on Garside with love. Mike. Nov. 1968, as well as Signed by him on the title page. One of 500 numbered copies of the true first edition of his very uncommon first book. 251 Albert Bigelow PAINE. The Tent Dwellers. New York: The Outing Publishing Company First edition. Illustrations by Hy. Watson. Fine in near fine, slightly oversize dustwrapper as issued. A collection of episodic humorous fiction about hunting and fishing, featuring the redoubtable Eddie. Scarce in jacket. 252 George ORWELL. Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1946). First American Edition. A trifle rubbed, thus near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with rubbing, and a couple of very small tears and tiny chips. A brilliant, classic anti-utopian short novel, in which a cast of barnyard animals re-enact the events of the Russian Revolution and the betrayal of its more humane elements by Stalin. Well-adapted both as a 1955 cartoon and a 1999 cable movie using the latest animal-special effects, though both versions added upbeat endings to Orwell s harrowing vision. Not a rare book, but this is a nice presentable copy most are found well-worn. Connolly 100.

39 Between the Covers ~37~ L i t e r a t u r e Painted Patchen 253 Kenneth PATCHEN. The Dark Kingdom. New York: Harriss & Givens (1942). First edition. Stiff wrappers. Some offsetting to the wrappers from the now-lacking unprinted glassine dustwrapper, a fresh, very good copy in a lightly rubbed, near fine slipcase. One of 75 numbered copies Signed by the author, and with the front wrapper bearing a painting of an angel by Patchen. The Rarest Patchen? 254. An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air. Waldport, OR: Untide Press First edition, first impression. Wrappers with applied title piece. Modest wear, near fine. The first printing of 1800 copies was rendered unfit for release through a printer s error. All were destroyed except for about 70 copies, which were distributed with the second impression, with no known differentiation. Eventually 23 of the 70 copies of the first impression came into Patchen s hands, and he created a limited edition of 11 copies, with a hand-lettered limitation page (where Patchen sets this sequence out). This is copy number 4 of the 11, and is Signed by the author. A beautifully printed small collection of poems printed in a conscientious objectors camp. Rare. Kenneth Patchen 1946). First edition, black paper edition. Fine in white buckram, in fine blue buckram dustwrapper with applied paper label (custom made by Miriam Patchen, not shown here). Prospectus for the edition laid in. Numbered and Signed by Patchen on a black label at the rear, as one of 148 copies of the black label edition, this is one of 75 copies with a separate label tipped onto the front fly identifying it as one of 75 copies in white buckram, with an original painting by the author tipped on to the front board. The 73 undecorated copies of the edition were bound in red buckram. Both limitation statements list this as copy number 9. The painting is of an angel astride a horse or donkey. An attractive copy of a rare, if slightly bibliographically confusing issue. Morgan A11a. One of 75 Painted Copies 255. Sleepers Awake. (New York: Padell / An Unrecorded Variant? 256 same title. (New York: Padell / Kenneth Patchen 1946). First edition, black paper edition. A few small tape shadows on the boards from an old glassine protector, else near fine in white buckram without dustwrapper. Numbered and Signed by Patchen on a black label at the rear, as one of 148 copies of the black label edition. 75 of the copies of this edition were bound in white buckram, with an original painting by the author tipped on to the front board. The additional 73 undecorated copies of the edition were bound in red buckram. This copy is a variant issue, although bound in white buckram, there is no evidence that it ever bore a painting. This is copy number 4. Morgan A11a (an apparently unrecorded variant). A Painted Patchen 257. Poem- Scapes. Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams First edition. Octavo. Ruth Witt-Diamant s copy, with her ownership signature on the front free endpaper. Fine. One of 75 numbered copies prepared & painted by Patchen, with his painted Signature and limitation on the rear endpapers. Patchen s paintings depict a bearded man with a dog or a wolf on the front board, and a man dancing beneath the moon on the rear board. Nicer images than usual for a Painted Patchen. Jargon 11.

40 Between the Covers ~38~ C a t a l o g u e Alan PATON. Inscribed Photograph. Matted photograph, 11½" x 13", with the image area about 7" x 9½". Fine. An attractive formal studio portrait (signed Blackstone NY in the margin) from the chest up of the South African author and reformer. Inscribed by the author: Whitney Darrow from Alan Paton Darrow was the long-time head of marketing at Scribners, who published Paton s Cry, the Beloved Country in the year this portrait was inscribed. A lovely and unusually large image, and the only inscribed photograph of Paton we have handled, or for that matter, seen. 259 Eva PERON. La Razon De Mi Vida. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Peuser First edition. Dampstain to the front board and the bottom edge of the first few leaves, thus good only in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. Inscribed by the author in Spanish Por Senora Isabel F. de Gutierrez [word obscured] con y cariño. Eva Peron (apparently something like with fondness and sympathy ). Peron s autobiography, which includes an intriguing chapter about the author s two personas as Eva Peron and Evita. The book also bears a facsimile signature, as printed, on the half-title, which is the first page of text. Scarce. Publishing Co. (1959). First edition. A trifle rubbed, still fine in wrappers. The very uncommon true first edition of Pinter s first play, Inscribed by him to his first wife Vivien Merchant: Dec. 59 To Vivien, Love D. The D. is for David. Pinter, who is also an actor, used the stage name David Baron and almost all his early material inscribed to Merchant is signed thus. Neither this edition, nor the first trade edition in England, published by Methuen, contained a printed dedication. However, the first American edition, The Birthday Party & The Room: Two Plays, which was the first edition to contain a printed dedication, was dedicated to Merchant. Thus, to our lights, this could fairly be considered the dedication copy of the Nobel laureate s first book it is certainly as close to one as could exist. An exceptional association copy, in a very uncommon book Landscape. (Ipswich): Emmanual Wax for Pendragon Press First edition. Fine. One of 2000 numbered copies, this is copy number 11, and is Inscribed by the author, using his acting stage name, David Baron: Aug 68 To My Darling from David. The recipient was Pinter s wife, the actress Vivien Merchant. A significant association copy of one of his celebrated Memory Plays Five Screenplays. London: H. Karnac (Books) Ltd. (1971). The Dedication Copy of the Nobel Laureate s First Book 260 Harold PINTER. The Birthday Party. London: Encore First edition. Fine in a rubbed, else fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Printed limitation stating this is one of 150 numbered copies Signed by the author. This copy marked by Pinter as copy #VI, Signed by Pinter, and with his handwritten hors de commerce statement. From a cache of books which belonged to Pinter s first wife, Vivien Merchant. Scarce. 263 Robert M. PIRSIG. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. New York: William Morrow First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of the author s desirable, but cheaply produced first book, with the glued text block unusually tight.

41 Between the Covers ~39~ L i t e r a t u r e 264 Sylvia PLATH. The Colossus and Other Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First American Edition. Fine in a very slightly spine-toned, near fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy of the author s first book. 265 as Victoria Lucas. The Bell Jar. London: Heinemann (1963). First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with one corner a trifle rubbed. Pseudonymously published in England just before her suicide, and not published in America for nearly a decade. A lovely copy of this thinly veiled autobiography of alienation which has become a contemporary classic of the literature of women s oppression. 266 same title. New York: Harper and Row (1971). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A beautiful copy. 269 Katherine Anne PORTER. A Christmas Story. New York: Delacorte Press (1967). First edition with these illustrations. Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by Shahn and with an autopen signature of Porter. This copy however, also bears an authentic Porter Signature as well Ariel. London: Faber and Faber (1965). First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Other than the price-clip, a brilliant, as new copy of this extremely influential collection of poetry, written in the last months of the poet s life. 268 same title. New York: Harper & Row (1966). First American edition. Introduction by Robert Lowell. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of age-toning. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A lovely copy. 271 A. POULIN, Jr., poetry and etchings by Robert E. MARX. Angels. Rochester, NY: The Black Bird Press First edition. Loose sheets in cloth portfolio, and slipcase. Slight sunning to the edges of the slipcase, still easily fine. One of 35 copies Signed by both the poet and the artist. Each of the ten etchings is also numbered and Signed in pencil by the artist. Letter of provenance to the original owner laid in. A lovely fine press production. Peter De Vries Advance Copy 270 Anthony POWELL. At Lady Molly s. Boston: Little, Brown (1957). First American edition. Fine in fine, unrubbed dustwrapper with a little foxing on the rear panel, and another very good plus dustwrapper indicating that this is an advance copy, which is a bit spine tanned. Author Peter De Vries copy with his pencil ownership Signature ( De Vries ) on the front fly. De Vries has provided a long blurb for the book that appears along with blurbs from Evelyn Waugh and Edwin O Connor on the front panel of the advance jacket, and on the rear panel of the regular trade jacket. A nice association copy of the fourth volume of The Dance to the Music of Time.

42 Between the Covers ~40~ C a t a l o g u e Dawn POWELL. Sunday, Monday and Always. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Fine in a price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with an internally repaired tear, and several tiny nicks and short tears. Signed by the author. The author s scarce first collection of short stories. 273 Thomas PYNCHON. The Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott (1966). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A beautiful copy of the author s increasingly scarce second book, as nice as we ve seen. 274 Princess Catherine RADZIWILL (Catherine Kolb-Danvin). Those I Remember. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co. (no date - circa 1924). First edition. Two volumes. Rebound in half-morocco and marbled paper over boards. An extensively extra-illustrated set with engravings and many photographs (most lovely gravures and albumen prints) of famous personages of the time including Emperor William III, Lady Randolph Churchill, Emile Zola, Clemenceau, Alfonso XIII, and many others. Underneath the photograph of King George VI is a tipped-in Signature. There is also a tippedin Signature underneath the photo of Balfour. Memoirs of an outrageous Polish Countess who married a German Prince. 275 John REED and Mabel Dodge LUHAN. Letters Signed to Walter Lippman from Provincetown with apparently unpublished photographs. One-page Typed Letter Signed ( Reed ) with holograph postscript from John Reed to Walter Lippman, (the influential journalist and commentator who was, along with T.S. Eliot, John Reed s Harvard classmate) dated 29 June 1914 from Provinceton, thanking Lippman for his extravagance of praise on your postal to Mabel. I never imagined either of the articles were as good as that. He goes on to mention I had a marvelous interview with the President, however, he refused to let me print. Reed sends the article (not present here), and notes but he said I could make an interpretative article out of it, as if it were my own opinion. Accompanied by a one-page Autograph Letter Signed ( Mabel ) from Luhan (undated) sending photographs and discussing details of her upcoming trip to Europe (where Lippman was at the time). The three photographs, each 3½" x 5", show: 1. Reed standing on the porch of a typical Provincetown cottage, accompanied by a well-fed literary-looking gentleman; 2. Reed in straw boater, leaning over a table, with cottages in the background, labeled by Luhan on the verso ( Reed making table! ); and 3. Luhan, the well-fed gentleman, and a small boy (presumably Luhan s son, with whom they lived) on the porch of the cottage (presumably this photo was taken by Reed). Accompanied by the original envelope (which is a little roughly opened) postmarked from Provincetown. Luhan, a wealthy heiress, was something of a Zelig-like figure in the first half of 20th Century literary life. She and Reed carried on a relationship from 1913, when they sailed together for Paris, later returning to Provincetown and New York, with Reed finally leaving her in November of 1914 to report on the insurgency in Mexico. He returned afterwards to Provincetown, where along with Louise Bryant (whom he married in 1916) and Eugene O Neill (with whom they both lived), he helped in the founding of the Provincetown Players, and where their triangular relationship inspired O Neill s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Strange Interlude Insurgent Mexico. New York: D. Appleton and Company First edition. A small owner s name on the front fly, slight soiling to the spine-ends, near fine in good plus photographic dustwrapper with several modest chips, and splash marks on the spine. Reed s first book by a major publisher, and his first hardcover, compiled from his dispatches while traveling with Pancho Villa s army for four months. In much the same way that Reed s later Ten Days That Shook the World provided one of the definitive eyewitness accounts of the Bolshevik Revolution, this work captures a firsthand perspective on the Mexican Revolution. Very scarce in jacket.

43 Between the Covers ~41~ L i t e r a t u r e 277 John Crowe RANSOM. Grace After Meat. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press First edition. Introduction by Robert Graves. Decorated papercovered boards with paper title label. Slight erosion at the base of the spine, a very good copy of this very fragile volume. This copy Signed by Graves, the dedicatee, and who was responsible for convincing the Woolf s to publish the book, thus: Robert Graves, alias (John Boyle, etc.). One of 400 copies of Ransom s first book published in England. 278 Charles REZNIKOFF. The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff. Volume I: Poems and Volume II: Los Angeles: Black Sparrow 1976,1977. First edition. Edited by Seamus Cooney. Two volumes. A tiny stain on the rear board of volume 2, still fine in fine original unprinted mylar dustwrappers (not shown). Each volume is one of 225 numbered hardcover copies Signed by the author. 279 (Anthology). Adrienne Cecile RICH, et al. Departure Pamphlets: I Six Women Poets. (Oxford: Departure no date - circa 1951). Auden s Copy First edition. Stapled wrappers. (8)pp. Fine. Very uncommon little pamphlet featuring six women poets, issued at Merton College. In addition to Rich, the authors represented are Elizabeth Jennings, Lotte Zurndorfer, Jenny Joseph, Gillian Craig, and Marion Smith. 280 Laura RIDING as Laura Gottschalk. The Close Chaplet. London: The Hogarth Press First edition. Gray papercovered boards with applied paper label. Some erosion to the spine ends, rubbing, and a few small paint marks on the front board. A good only copy of the author s very fragile first book, issued without dustwrapper. W.H. Auden s copy with his small ownership Signature. Rare. In Robert A. Wilson s chapbook describing his purchase of Auden s New York library, he specifically refers to this copy, purchased by Auden as a student: and some astute purchases made at that time, such as Laura Riding s first book A Close Chaplet bearing his college signature. 281 Philip ROTH. Goodbye, Columbus. (London): Andre Deutsch (1959). First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author s very scarce first book, almost always found quite worn. A Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award winner, as well as winner of the National Book Award and basis for the film directed by Larry Peerce and featuring Richard Benjamin and Ali McGraw. The English edition, in addition to being much more attractive than the American edition, is many times more scarce. An Emerging Voices Title 282 Anne ROYALL. The Tennessean: A Novel, Founded on Facts. New Haven: Printed for the Author First edition. 12mo. Early or near contemporary three-quarter green straightgrain morocco, with marbled papercovered boards, spine decorated and titled in gilt. Very slight rubbing to the joints, a couple of faint spots on the foredge, bottom corner of the title page has a little professional restoration affecting no text, a nice, near fine copy. The author s second book, and only novel, something of a potboiler that contained tales of pirates and fierce Indian attacks with long passages of life in rural Tennessee. Royall, disappointed by the reaction to this novel, returned to writing travel books, eventually completing ten such books of some importance. Grolier Club. Emerging Voices. American Women Writers , pp ; James. Anne Royall s U.S.A.; Wright I, 2257; Sabin A rare book, OCLC locates only microform copies.

44 Between the Covers ~42~ C a t a l o g u e (J.D. SALINGER). [Story]: The Hang of It in The Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines. Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers First edition, first issue. Page edges a little browned as usual, a bit of rubbing to the boards, else about fine in papercovered boards (without dustwrapper as issued) and in the rare original illustrated shipping carton, which shows evidence of having been mailed, but is otherwise in about fine condition. This book of cartoons and short stories was intended to be shipped to fighting men away from home. Salinger s story represents his first appearance in a commercial book. Both issues are very uncommon in the original carton, the first issue much more so than the second Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction. Boston: Little, Brown (1959). First edition, third issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a small offset on the inside. A very nice copy Franny and Zooey. Boston: Little, Brown (1961). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author s important third book, two novellas of the Glass family that first appeared in The New Yorker. A beautiful, fresh copy as nice as we ve ever seen. 286 another copy. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with two short tears, and a bit of soiling. A nice copy. 287 ( ). Ian HAMILTON. J.D. Salinger: A Writing Life. New York: Random House (1986). Uncorrected proof. Printed yellow wrappers. A fine copy. This proof was suppressed because Hamilton used the text of some Salinger letters. Salinger sued Random House, which won the first round on fair use but lost the case when Salinger appealed. Hamilton rewrote the book, paraphrasing the letters, and Salinger took him to court again. Hamilton s book, In Search of J.D. Salinger, finally appeared two years later in a substantially altered form (in part because at that point this attempted biography had actually become a part of Salinger s life as well). Very uncommon and desirable, partly for its inclusion of otherwise unobtainable Salinger text. Harry and Caresse Crosby s Copy 288 Edgar SALTUS. Poppies and Mandragora. New York: Harold Vinal First edition. Spine lettering a little dull and corners a little rubbed, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. One of 300 copies. A posthumously published volume of poetry, with 23 additional poems by the author s widow, Marie Saltus. Saltus was one of America s chief proponents of European decadence and the credo of artfor-art s sake, famous and infamous in his day for the cynicism and eroticism of his work. This copy bears the small leather bookplate of Harry and Caresse Crosby on the front pastedown, the front fly has a small embossed black sun, and both boards have been stamped with their gilt impressed coat of arms. 289 Bernard SHAW. Peace Conference Hints. London: Constable & Company First edition. Printed green self-wrappers. Ownership signature of the great humanist and reformer Henry S. Salt, pages a little browned, and a small tear on the titlepage, else near fine. Tipped to the titlepage is a card printed With Bernard Shaw s Compliments and an Autograph Note to Salt: This will not be published until Tuesday: no eye but yours must profane it until then. Ayot St Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts. 6th March Laid into an envelope hand addressed by Shaw to Salt (albeit at a later date) and housed in a custom chemise (with the bookplate of A. Edward Newton), and moderately worn slipcase. Accompanied by a first edition of Salt and His Circle with a preface by Bernard Shaw, which details at length their friendship. This card is dated just two weeks after Salt s wife and Shaw s great friend, Kate Salt died. A notable association.

45 Between the Covers ~43~ L i t e r a t u r e 290 Budd SCHULBERG. What Makes Sammy Run? New York: Random House (1941). First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper. The author s exceptionally scarce first book, the story of Sammy Glick, who leaves a trail of wrecked careers and lives as he struggles to reach the top in Hollywood. Curiously, one of the most influential novels ever written about the movie world, and one of the author s only books that hasn t (yet) been made into a film. Exceptionally scarce The Harder They Fall. New York: Random House (1947). First edition. A small, faint stain on the topedge, still fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with a bit of rubbing and a couple of small and unnecessary internal repairs. Signed by the author. A scathing indictment of the manipulation of professional boxers, no less relevant today than it was fifty years ago. Basis for the powerful Mark Robson film in which Humphrey Bogart, in his final role, plays a cynical press agent who comes to realize the extent to which prizefighters are pawns of their managers and racketeers. A very nice, signed copy. 292 Michael SHAARA. The Killer Angels. New York: McKay (1974). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight rubbing and two short tears. Because of the perfect binding, an illfated attempt by the publisher to lower production costs, this book is virtually always cocked, a flaw this copy does not exhibit. Basis for the movie Gettysburg and easily one of the very best and most beloved novels of the Civil War. It is also one of the scarcest American first editions of the 1970s and was a surprise winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 293 Sam SHEPARD. Five Plays: Chicago, Icarus s Mother, Red Cross, Fourteen Hundred Thousand, Melodrama Play. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1967). First edition. Fine in a very slightly agetoned, else fine dustwrapper with a nearly invisible tear on the front panel. Author s first book. A lovely copy, and very scarce thus. 294 Irwin SHAW. Sailor Off the Bremen and Other Stories. New York: Random House (1939). First edition. Small, attractive (and probably self-designed) bookplate of Chicago artist Arthur Johan Anderson tipped-in, else fine in fine dustwrapper with a small, unobtrusive tear at the top of the rear panel. A lovely copy of the author s first work of prose, preceded only by a play. The title story and several of the other stories first appeared in The New Yorker. Very scarce, especially in this condition Mixed Company: Collected Stories. New York: Random House First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of very small chips. The thick, textured jacket is nearly impossible to find in collector s condition. This is a lovely copy Whispers in Bedlam: Three Novellas. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1972). First edition (with no equivalent American edition). Very slightly cocked, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short, rubbed tear on the front panel. Three long stories that first appeared in Playboy magazine. Inscribed by Shaw to fellow writer James Jones and his wife: To Jim & Gloria, with fond memories of the cruddy green jock strap in the Bahamas. With love, Irwin. Shaw, William Styron, and their wives, were the Jones best friends in Paris according to the Frank McShane biography of Jones. 297 Alan SILLITOE. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. London: W.H. Allen First edition. Faint offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Basis for the excellent, Sillitoe-scripted film with Tom Courtenay as the angry young runner in a juvenile reform school run by Michael Redgrave. A beautiful copy.

46 Between the Covers ~44~ C a t a l o g u e Robert E. SHERWOOD. Waterloo Bridge. New York: Scribners First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Fourth play by the four time Pulitzer Prize-winner, about a London chorus girl reduced to prostitution during WWI. It was the basis for two excellent films, the first made by James Whale in 1931 with Mae Clarke (and with Bette Davis in one of her earliest performances), the second by Mervyn LeRoy in 1940 with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. A superb copy The Petrified Forest. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons First edition. Fine in a rubbed, very good dustwrapper with light nicking to the spinal extremities. Inscribed by the author: for my dearest Jane and Wilfred with much love Bob, March The jacket pictures Leslie Howard in the lead role on Broadway. Also in the Broadway production was character actor Humphrey Bogart. Both reprised their roles for the classic film version, and were joined by Bette Davis. The film became Bogart s breakthrough role. A scarce title, and the only signed copy we ve seen There Shall Be No Night. New York: Scribners First edition. Offsetting to the endpapers from the flaps, some light mottling to the boards, a very good copy in very good plus dustwrapper with some tiny nicks and slight wear. The third and last of the author s Pulitzer Prize winning plays, about a Finnish scientist and his family and what befalls them in their embattled country. This copy Inscribed by the author: for Lowell Thomas, Jr. with every good wish from Robert Sherwood. December Whether this is inscribed to the famous journalist and travel writer, or to his son is not clear. 302 Upton SINCLAIR. The Jungle. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company First edition, second issue (with battered type to the 1 on the copyright page). Doubleday edition (also issued in a Sustainer s Edition). Modest rubbing to the white paint spine lettering but still easily readable, a nice and tight, very good plus copy. One of the few books ever published to have a direct, immediate and significant impact on American society and thought. Although Sinclair s intent was to expose the abusive labor conditions in the Chicago stockyards as a means of promoting socialism, the American public was more interested in the novel s vivid depiction of unsanitary conditions in the slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants, and as a result the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels. An attractive copy Dragon s Teeth. New York: Viking Press First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper that is lightly soiled and with tiny nicks and tears. A nicer than usual copy of this entry in Sinclair s Lanny Budd series. A wartime Pulitzer Prize winner, now very uncommon in jacket. 301 Carol SHIELDS. The Stone Diaries. Toronto: Random House of Canada (1993). First edition. Neat bookplate on the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper. The exceptionally uncommon, true first edition of this Pulitzer Prize winner. Apparently issued in very small numbers. Not only did this book win the Pulitzer, it was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. As the result of Shields dual U.S./Canadian citizenship, this is the first time a book was in contention for both awards. 304 Dodie SMITH. I Capture the Castle. London: Heinemann (1949). First English edition. A little foxing to the endpapers else fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with wraparound jacket art, with two shallow chips to the corners of the crown, and tiny nicks at the foot. Smith s first novel, a bestseller by an Englishwoman living in the U.S., and one of the most beloved 20th Century romances, about an eccentric family living in the ruins of an old castle, and the trials and tribulations of the two daughters of the family. Basis for an enjoyable 2003 film directed by Tim Fywell, with interesting performances by Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, and Rose Byrne. An exceptionally uncommon title, this is the first jacketed copy we ve seen in many years, despite being on a constant look out for the book.

47 Between the Covers ~45~ L i t e r a t u r e 305 Muriel SPARK. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. London: Macmillan (1961). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Basis for the stage version with Vanessa Redgrave and then the film starring Maggie Smith, who won a Best Actress Oscar for the title role of the flamboyant but flawed Scottish schoolteacher. A lovely copy. 306 same title. London: Macmillan (1961). Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Title written on spine in pencil, else fine. A very nice copy of this scarce format. 307 Wallace STEVENS. Ideas of Order. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First trade edition. Bookplate of a minor published poet on the front pastedown, fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with a tear on the front panel, slight tanning on the spine, and very shallow loss at the crown. Publisher s response card laid in. A very nice copy of an uncommon title, one of only 500 copies. Edelstein A2b. 309 (Sylvester STALLONE). Something for the Girls! Beverly Hills: Tiger Calendar by Judi Folio. Spiral bound at top. Fine. A cheesecake type calendar featuring a different nude man (genitalia discreetly hidden) for each month. Purportedly for the girls, many of the shots are more reminiscent of the style of photos made for softcore gay porn of the era. A young Stallone, here portrayed as Tony, has the cover shot (with the same photo appearing in October). The picture, entitled Room for Two shows Stallone lying on the edge of a large bed, giving his best come-hither look to the camera, ten years before Rocky established him as a permanent film icon. Presumably quite scarce and enough to make one all tingly inside. 310 Gertrude STEIN. An Acquaintance with Description. London: Seizin Press First edition. White cloth boards. Moderate soiling to the boards, a very good plus copy. One of 225 numbered copies Signed by the author on a tipped-in limitation slip as issued. Scarce The Making of Americans. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company (1934). First American edition. Neat initials else fine in a bright, very good plus dustwrapper with slight loss at the foot, and small nicks and tears at the crown. One of Stein s major works, an experimental novel, completed in 1911 but not published until much later. 308 Michael STEWART, Lee ADAMS, and Charles STROUSE. [Program for]: Bye Bye Birdie. New York: Frank Hopkins (1960). Near fine in stapled wrappers with a touch of rubbing. Program of the first rock and roll musical play, Inscribed by stars Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke and Kay Medford, as well as by cast members Paul Lynde, Dick Gautier, Michael J. Pollard, Marijane Maricle, and Johnny Borden. 312 Gene STRATTON- PORTER. The Fire Bird. Garden City: Doubleday, Page First edition. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Decorations by Lee Thayer. Cloth backed papercovered boards as issued. A bookplate on the front pastedown, lightly rubbed, a little scattered and very light foxing, a handsome, very good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper. Cryptically Inscribed by the author: A tall brave, a sheltered campfire, a blue shell. Gene Stratton-Porter. Very scarce thus.

48 313 John STEINBECK. Cup of Gold: A Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer. With Occasional Reference to History. New York: McBride Between the Covers ~46~ C a t a l o g u e First edition, first binding. Small gift inscription, a few pages roughly opened with small chips at the edges of the pages, light wear at the spine ends, a very good copy in an attractive, first issue dustwrapper that has been professionally restored, mostly at the spine and spinal extremities, and appears near fine. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Housed in a quarter morocco and marbled paper clamshell case. One of only 600 copies issued in the first issue binding and jacket, of a total first edition of only 1537 copies of all three issues printed. Steinbeck s first book, a novelized version of the life of the pirate Henry Morgan Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede First edition, second issue or second printing. A little foxing to the boards, a very good or a bit better copy in good only dustwrapper (with the price present) that is a bit stained and foxed. Nicely Inscribed by the author: Dear Sam Thank you for reading and your kind words. Sincerely, John Steinbeck. A poignant, classic novella of two Depression-era drifters whose dreams of a better life are not supported by fate. Adapted by Steinbeck for the stage and then filmed several times, first by Lewis Milestone in 1939 with Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney, Jr. in the lead roles The Long Valley. New York: Viking First edition. Spine very slightly tanned, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small tear where the crown meets the front panel, and some light rubbing. A very attractive copy, and seldom found thus The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press (1939). First edition. Foxing to the foredge and endpapers, else near fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with very slight toning to the spine. Signed by the author: Thank you, John Steinbeck. New York. Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of an Oklahoma family s migration to California during the Depression. Basis for the John Ford film featuring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and Supporting Actress Jane Darwell won Academy Awards; Fonda was nominated but lost to Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips! Steinbeck s masterpiece and literature s lasting testament to the Great Depression, it was singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later Cannery Row. New York: The Viking Press First edition, in buff-colored, first issue binding (as opposed to the later and much more common yellow binding). Very slightly soiled, still fine in a lightly rubbed, fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy of a deceptively uncommon first edition, especially in this condition The Winter of Our Discontent. New York: Viking First edition. Limited edition. One of 500 copies. Fine, lacking the printed acetate overjacket. However, and although not called for, this copy is Inscribed: For Oliver H. Clark from John Steinbeck. Very scarce thus Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. New York: The Viking Press First edition. Fine in wrappers and fine dustwrapper. One of 3200 copies. A lovely copy. 320 and Zachary SCOTT. John Emery. New York: Privately Printed First edition. A couple of very faint tape shadows on the pastedowns, slight rubbing to boards still a very near fine copy in leather and papercovered boards as issued. One of only 200 copies. The text of two eulogies delivered at private services for the deceased actor. One of the very scarcest Steinbeck items.

49 Between the Covers ~47~ L i t e r a t u r e 321 David STOREY. Saville. London: Jonathan Cape (1976). Uncorrected proof. A South African bookstore label on the front wrap, slightly cocked and rubbed, very good or better. Winner of the Booker Prize. A very scarce issue. 322 Jim TULLY. Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography. New York: A&C Boni First edition. Moderate wear to the extremities, thus very good plus in a soiled, very good plus example of the rare dustwrapper with some short tears and tiny nicks, and some modest soiling. Basis for the 1928 William A. Wellman film featuring Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, and Richard Arlen. The author s most sought after book, rarely found in jacket. 323 William STYRON. Lie Down in Darkness. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1951). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of rubbing. A superb copy of the author s first book. 324 (Television). A. Frederick COLLINS. Experimental Television: A Series of Simple Experiments with Television Apparatus. Also How to Make a Complete Home Television Transmitter and Television Receiver. Boston: Lothrop, (1954). Long galleys of the first separately printed edition (originally published in Quite Early One Morning). Five leaves, printed rectos only, and an unprinted cover sheet, all folded. Slight offsetting to the unprinted cover sheet, else fine. Accompanied by a first edition of the finished book as issued by New Directions, which is fine in near fine, slightly age-toned dustwrapper. A beloved little gem, this story of Christmas in Wales was recorded by Thomas, and became a Christmas classic, necessitating this separate edition. Ex-Ned Erbe, director of publicity for New Directions. Possibly a unique copy. Inscribed by Harold Pinter to Vivien Merchant 326. (Harold PINTER). Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices. Lee & Shepard Co. (1932). First edition. Fine in pictorial cloth and fine dustwrapper. An early book on television, in exceptional condition. Very scarce in jacket. 325 Dylan THOMAS. A Child s Christmas in Wales. Norfolk: New Directions London: J.M. Dent (1956). Eighth impression. Slightly cocked, else near fine in very good dustwrapper. Originally commissioned as a BBC radio play. This copy Inscribed by Harold Pinter (using his stage name, David Baron) to his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant, apparently on the two month anniversary of their marriage: To Vivien, Nov. 56. Almost two months! David. Merchant went on to play the part of Mrs. Pugh in the 1972 film version of the play directed by Andrew Sinclair, along with a cast that also featured Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O Toole, Glynis Johns, and Siân Phillips [Broadside]: Triumphant Return from Tour Under Milk Wood. New York: Circle in the Square (no date ). Poster or broadside. 8½" x 11". Fine. Illustrated poster for the 1961 production at Circle in the Square in Greenwich Village. Scarce.

50 Between the Covers ~48~ C a t a l o g u e Hunter S. THOMPSON. Hell s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. New York: Random House (1967). First edition. A little light spotting on the topedge stain, else fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. An especially fresh copy of the author s first book, perhaps the inaugural effort of the new participatory journalism. The black jacket is generally encountered rubbed and worn Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. New York: Random House First edition. A touch of the usual fading to the boards, still a lovely, fine copy in fine dustwrapper with none of the spine fading or age-toning often seen on this title. A beautiful copy of the Gonzo manifesto and how-to travel book, basis for the Terry Gilliam film featuring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. 330 Mark TWAIN. The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for People of All Ages. Boston: James R. Osgood First American edition, first issue with Franklin Imprint, first binding state with a single blank leaf at the rear, and the proper placement of the black rosettes. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. A bookplate on the front pastedown, a tiny name stamp on the title page, and a trifle rubbed at the bottom corners, else a fine and bright copy. On a lark a prince and a pauper change stations in life, allowing both to learn something about the other and allowing Twain to critique various legal and moral injustices. An unusually fine copy of a classic children s tale. BAL The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto and Windus First edition, first issue with October ads inserted, preceding the American edition. A couple of small, light spots on the rear board, and a few tiny holes in the rear gutter, a bright and attractive, near fine copy of the true first edition of one of the cornerstones of American literature. BAL same title. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co First American edition (the English edition preceded by a year). Green cloth gilt (also issued in blue). First issue (with all of Blanck s points for cloth copies except p.155, which appears in what he referred to as a later state, but which has been conclusively proven false: all first edition copies of Huck had the signature with p.155 gathered at random from sheets which existed before publication). Tiny owner name dated in the year of publication, top corner of the front board a bit bumped, else a superlative, bright and fine copy, with the cloth unworn, the hinges tight and unbroken, and the gilt bright and unrubbed. As nice a copy as we ve seen in several years. Johnson Highspot of American Literature, Peter Parley to Penrod. 333 John UPDIKE. The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures. New York: Harper and Brothers (1958). First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped, first issue dustwrapper with a single short tear. Author s first book, a collection of poems Rabbit, Run. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition. A neat, contemporary owner name on the front fly else fine in just about fine first issue dustwrapper with some very slight rubbing, mostly at the crown, and a tiny tear at the base of the spine. A considerably nicer than usual copy of a key title, the first book in the Rabbit tetralogy, and probably the author s most sought after title. 335 Anne TYLER. The Clock Winder. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to actor and director Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul, Cannonball!, Caddyshack II, Gremlins II, Deathrace 2000, etc.): For Paul Bartel, with best wishes, Anne Tyler. A very near immaculate copy of the author s fourth, and what many consider her scarcest book, with an interesting association.

51 Between the Covers ~49~ L i t e r a t u r e A Classic of Misogyny 336 E.W. (Edward Ned WARD). Female policy detected or the Arts of Designing Woman Laid Open. By E.W. Author of the London spy, and Trip to Jamaica. Teaching: I. Of her allurements, inconstancy, love, revenge, pride and ingratitude. II. A pleasant and profitable discourse in defence of married men, against peevish, fretful and scolding wives; with several notable examples of the mischiefs which have attended their lust and pride. III. A true character of a virtuous Woman, or Wife indeed. To which is added, a poetical description of a Widow, Wife and Maid. London: Printed for the Booksellers throughout the World From the 100th edition. 24mo. Printed papercovered boards. Frontispiece woodcut (repeated on the rear board). Marginal edgewear, but a remarkable survivor in this fragile format, and at least very good. The woodcut is wonderful. Originally published in 1695, and often reprinted, although the 100th edition seems a little optimistic. No copies of this edition (or potentially about ninety other editions, if the printer can be believed) listed in OCLC. 337 Robert Penn WARREN. Blackberry Winter. Cummington MA: Cummington Press First edition. Illustrated by Wightman Williams. Fine in papercovered boards with paper spine label, in slightly soiled, else fine unprinted plain white paper (as issued). One of 280 numbered copies (there were also 50 lettered copies which were signed). One of Warren s scarcest titles, a short story, and especially rare in jacket To a Little Girl, One Year Old, in a Ruined Fortress. (New Haven CT): School of Design Yale University (1956). First edition. Square octavo. Printed boards as issued. The slightest of rubbing, a virtually new, unread copy. According to some sources one of about 175 copies designed, illustrated, and printed by Jane Doggett at the Department of Graphic Arts at the Yale School of Design. A superlative copy. Inscribed to Anita Loos 339 H.G. WELLS. The Bulpington of Blup. New York: Macmillan Early reprint. A couple of ink numbers else about fine in a very good supplied Grosset & Dunlap dustwrapper with some light chips and tears. This copy Inscribed by Wells on the half title to author and screenwriter Anita Loos: Anita with love from H.G. Loos attractive bookplate affixed on the facing page. An affectionate and pleasing association. 340 James D. WATSON. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York: Atheneum First edition. Very slight sunning at the edge of the boards still easily fine in a crisp and fine dustwrapper. An exceptionally bright copy. A NYPL Book of the Century. The First American Legal Novel 341 (George WATTERSON). The Lawyer, or Man as He Ought Not to Be. A Tale. Pittsburgh: Printed for and Published by Zadok Cramer, and Sold at his Bookstore [Franklin s Head] First edition. Small octavo. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled paper over boards, gilt rules and lettering, untrimmed. Frontispiece. Modest foxing to the text, edges a little rubbed, and the spine lettering worn, but mostly readable, a handsome, very good or better copy of this very uncommon American novel. The first book by Watterson ( ), a tale with strong gothic elements about a crooked lawyer who has committed a series of reprehensible crimes. As near as we can determine this is the first American work of fiction to feature a lawyer as the main character. No matter how one feels about the profession and its practitioners, it is perhaps not surprising to find the protagonist so reviled. In addition to his career as a journalist and author, Watterson served as the first full-time Librarian of Congress, a post which he held from 1815 to Wright I, 2684; American Bibliography 16672; Peters, The Early American Novel, pp Although held at several institutions, all four of Watterson s novels are rare in the trade, and lacking from many significant libraries and private collections.

52 Between the Covers ~50~ C a t a l o g u e Evelyn WAUGH. A Handful of Dust. London: Chapman and Hall (1934). First edition. Cocked, and a little foxing on the foredge, else near fine in a moderately foxed and age-toned, very good dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. One of Time Magazine s 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century. Exceptionally uncommon in jacket Scott-King s Modern Europe. Boston: Little, Brown First American edition. Boards slightly soiled, near fine in a slightly spine-tanned, near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Waugh: To Mr. Henry Clifford, a belated Christmas present from Evelyn Waugh. Copies of the American trade editions are uncommon inscribed. Tom Mix s Copy 344 (Western). Edgar Rice BURROUGHS. Apache Devil. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (1933). First edition. A faint spot on the front board, some rubbing, a very good or better copy in a fine (probably supplied, but not by us) dustwrapper. Cowhide bookplate of cowboy film star Tom Mix on the front pastedown with the kindly sentiment: The Good Book says, God helps those that help themselves, but I say God help the man that strays off the ranch with this book, and stamped with his signature and T.M. brand. Signed by the author: With best wishes, Edgar Rice Burroughs. 345 Eudora WELTY, illustrated by. Flo Field HAMPTON. [Sheet Music]: Mosquito. Crystal Springs, Mississippi: Flo Field Hampton Publishing Co First edition. Quarto. 6pp. One bifolium, with laid-in leaf, as issued. Tiny tears to the wrappers, a little foxing and rubbing, else a near fine example. A novelty song, about a mosquito who bites a young lothario, distracting him from plighting his troth. Probably of no redeeming social or cultural value, except for the fact that the cover illustration was drawn by 17-year old Eudora Welty, who designed the cover for this musical piece written by Flo Field Hampton, her English teacher at Jackson Junior-Senior High School. This apparently precedes any other known appearance of any of her work. A rare and ephemeral piece, OCLC lists only one other recorded copy, at the University of Mississippi. 346 and Katherine Anne PORTER. Eudora Welty: A Note on the Author and Her Work. Together with The Key, one of seventeen stories from Miss Welty s forthcoming A Curtain of Green. (Garden City: Doubleday, Doran 1941). First edition. Stapled photographic wrappers (with a photo of Welty on the front wrap). Octavo. 22pp. Slight bend on the right-hand side of the wrappers, else easily a fine copy. Welty s rare first separate publication, a promotional pamphlet issued before publication of her first book, printing a single story, along with an appreciation by Porter. Polk A The Wide Net and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company (1943). First edition. Fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with the pink portion of the spine, which is usually faded out to near invisibility, only slightly faded and very easily readable. The only flaw is a vertical pink stain on the spine, possibly the result of a printer s error. Only the third copy we have seen that retains a substantial portion of the pink spine lettering and rare thus. Author s elusive third book, cheaply manufactured during wartime and virtually never found in this condition Ida M Toy. Urbana: University of Illinois (1979). First edition. Quarto. Fine in cloth covered boards as issued. One of 350 Signed copies of this portrait of a Mississippi midwife and shopowner originally published in Accent in 1942.

53 Between the Covers ~51~ L i t e r a t u r e 349 Nathanael WEST. The Day of the Locust. London: The Grey Walls Press (1951). Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Unprinted wrappers. Pages a trifle browned, author and title written on the front wrap, a nice, very good or better copy. The timeless and quintessential Hollywood novel; West explores the frustration, violence, and savagery beneath the glamour and glitz. A very uncommon issue. Maxfield Parrish s Copy 350 Edith WHARTON. Italian Villas and Their Gardens. New York: Century First edition. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Nineteen of the original twenty-six Parrish illustrations have been neatly excised, a bit cocked and some wear to the spinal extremities, otherwise a sound, very good copy. Illustrator Maxfield Parrish s own copy, Signed by him in his beautiful and idiosyncratic hand on the front fly: Maxfield Parrish: from The Century Company: Beneath this is an unsigned note by the artist s son, Maxfield Parrish, Jr.: Unfortunately dad cut out many of the colored prints of the best villas from this book. It was Parrish s custom to remove most of the prints from his copies of his books to be pasted into a master scrapbook, and such was the fate of this volume. Included with this volume is a copy of the second edition of this title, which includes all of the plates removed by the artist. 351 Walt WHITMAN. As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, and Other Poems (Leaves of Grass). Washington DC: (The Author) First edition. A little rubbed, a sharp, near fine copy. A collection of poetry described by Whitman (who wrote most of his own publicity and, occasionally, reviews of his own books leaving nothing to chance as it were) as the poems of the author s elder age are the surplusage of Leaves of Grass the wake following that volume, as the eddies behind a ship. The title poem was delivered at the Dartmouth College commencement. This is a presentation copy, Inscribed by the author: Lilla Gosling from Walt Whitman. Gosling was a nurse whom Whitman met in Canada through his friend and eventual literary executor (along with two others) R.M. Bucke. She was the daughter of Thomas and Anne Willson Miller of Niagara/Buffalo and latterly of Owen Sound Ontario. In 1875 Lilla married Frank Gosling, a Banker, in London, Middlesex, Ontario. Richard Bucke, the dear friend of Whitman, was a physician in London, Middlesex. Copies of Whitman books with tipped-in signatures, envelopes tipped-in with the author s signature in the return address and signed photos attached (often by Whitman s own design), while no longer plentiful, are nevertheless much more common than books actually inscribed by him in the book, as this is. Furthermore, it is of some added interest that he signed the book with his full name rather than as the Author as was usually the case. A particularly nice association copy. BAL Thornton WILDER. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Albert & Charles Boni First edition. A little worn and bumped at the spinal extremities, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with light wear at the top and bottom edges and which is about 1/16" shorter than the book. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Wilder s best known novel, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a carefully interwoven story of a priest s attempt to find divine providence in the collapse of an 18th Century Peruvian bridge. A very nice copy of Wilder s breakthrough book, scarce in jacket. 353 Edmund WILSON. Travels in Two Democracies. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1936). First edition. Offsetting to the rear blanks, the front fly has been carefully removed, and the half-title has a small newspaper photo of Wilson affixed, else a nice, very good copy in a modestly spine faded, very good dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: To the Workers Defense League of New Jersey, With best wishes for their success, Edmund Wilson. April 11, An attractive copy of a scarce book, about the United States and Russia, with an appropriately socialistic inscription.

54 Between the Covers ~52~ C a t a l o g u e Tennessee WILLIAMS. The Glass Menagerie. New York: Random House (1945). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with very small chips at the spine ends. Author s first regularly published play. Williams also wrote the screenplay for the 1950 Irving Rapper film featuring Jane Wyman and Kirk Douglas A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: New Directions First edition. Owner name on the front fly neatly marked over, bottom of the boards a little rubbed, still about fine in a bright, near fine dustwrapper with slight (but less than usual) fading to the spine, and a little offsetting and a small stain on the rear panel. Pulitzer Prize-winning drama highspot, basis for innumerable revivals and an explosive Elia Kazan film featuring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter. Ironically, Brando, in his signature performance, was the only one of the quartet who didn t win an Oscar. A lovely copy Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New York: New Directions First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with very light wear. Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a dying Southern patriarch and the machinations of his greedy, would-be heirs. The original theatrical performance, directed by Elia Kazan, featured Ben Gazzara, Burl Ives, Barbara Bel Geddes, Pat Hingle, and blues greats Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. It was successfully translated into film featuring Ives, Elizabeth Taylor, and Paul Newman. The black, thin paper jacket tends to wear inordinately; this is a lovely copy. Inscribed to Gordon Lish 357. Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: A Book of Stories. (New York): New Directions (1974). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to controversial editor Gordon Lish: To Gordon Lish Sincerely, Tennessee Williams. A collection of short stories, at least one of which Lish published in Esquire when he was fiction editor there. 358 William Carlos WILLIAMS. The Great American Novel. Paris: Three Mountains Press First edition, advance issue. String-tied folded and gathered sheets. A little foxing to the top leaf else near fine. Stamped Review Copy on the top leaf. Limited to 300 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and apparently issued for review. A very uncommon state of a scarce title, the only review copy we ve seen from this important press that also issued Ernest Hemingway s second book, in our time A Voyage to Pagany. New York: The Macaulay Company First edition. Boards a bit rubbed and soiled, a very good copy in near very good dustwrapper with internal tape repair. Signed by the author Paterson [Books 1-5 complete]. (New York): New Directions (1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1955). First editions. Five volumes. Each volume is fine in a modestly soiled, very good to near fine dustwrappers as follows: Book One has modest age-toning; Book Two has a tear on the spine, and is moderately soiled, it is also an Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher s promotional material laid in; Book Three is modestly soiled, and is price clipped; Book Four is a trifle soiled and has a modest dampstain at the crown, and bears Malcolm Cowley s ownership Signature; Book Five is an Advance Review Copy with slip and author s photo laid in. A nice, just about uniform sets of one of the great American poetry cycles. Volume Two won the National Book Award. The textured paper of the dustwrappers lends itself to soiling. Virtually all sets that one sees are so afflicted, this set virtually free of soiling, has a trace of age-toning at the extremities, and is one of the nicer sets we have seen. Connolly 100.

55 Between the Covers ~53~ L i t e r a t u r e 361 Virginia WOOLF. To the Lighthouse. London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press First edition. Foxing to the foredge, else just about fine in a very good dustwrapper with some chipping at the spine and corners, a modest chip on the rear panel, and slight tanning to the spine. The original paper of the jacket has been archivally strengthened at the folds, else the jacket is entirely original and has NO supplemental restoration, and is rare thus. One of the author s most influential novels, a richly textured examination of gender and family, told through mastered stream-of-consciousness narratives. A nice, unsophisticated copy of a masterwork of modern literature. Connolly 100. Signed and in the Rare Original Dustwrapper 362. Orlando: A Biography. NY: Crosby Gaige First edition, preceding the English trade edition. Fine with none of the usual spine fading, and the only example we have seen in the original unprinted deep purple glassine dustwrapper, that has some minor chipping, mostly on the rear panel. One of 861 numbered copies Signed by the author. A fantasy biography of transgendered Orlando, living alternately as male and female through four centuries. Made into a Sally Potter film in 1992 with Tilda Swinton in the title role and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I. A rarity in jacket A Room of One s Own. London: Hogarth Press First edition. A few spots of foxing on the foredge that encroach slightly on a few pages, slight offsetting to the front fly from the jacket flap, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few faint spots of foxing. An attractive copy of an important title, the delicate pink jacket is generally found well-worn The Waves. London: The Hogarth Press First edition. Fine in near fine, Vanessa Bell-illustrated dustwrapper that is a little aggressively price-clipped, removing a couple of letters on the flap, and with a small internal mend, but otherwise a very attractive, fresh copy. Connolly A Writer s Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf. London: Hogarth Press Uncorrected proof. Edited by Leonard Woolf. Unprinted red wrappers. Spine a little sunned, and top corner a little bumped, still near fine. Scarce in this format. The Earliest Work of Any Importance Written in English about Wines 366 (Wine). Sir Edward BARRY. Bart. Observations Historical, Critical and Medical, on the Wines of the Ancients. And the Analogy Between Them and Modern Wines. With General Observations on the Principles and Qualities of Water, and in particular those of Bath. London: Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand First edition. Quarto. 479, (1)pp. errata. Engraved title and frontispiece. Rebound with new endpapers in half-leather and cloth, with red morocco spine label gilt. Faint staining in the margins of the last dozen or so pages, very slight rubbing to the spine, near fine with nice, wide margins. Described by André Simon as The earliest work of any importance written in English about wines. An attractive copy.

56 Between the Covers ~54~ C a t a l o g u e (Women). Charlotte Perkins GILMAN. His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers. New York: The Century Company (1923). First edition. Fine in near fine printed dustwrapper with a couple of small, narrow chips near the crown, and a touch of agetoning at the spine. Last book by Gilman, and very uncommon in jacket. 370 (Women). Julia Ward HOWE. From Sunset Ridge: Poems Old and New. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Early reprint. Octavo. Original cloth and papercovered boards lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Corners a bit bumped, a very good copy. Signed by the author: Yours sincerely, Julia Ward Howe. Includes the author s Battle Hymn of the Republic. 368 (Women). Jane ADDAMS. A New Conscience and An Ancient Evil. New York: Macmillan First edition. Just about fine in a lovely, near fine dustwrapper with very slight nicking at the crown. A beautiful example of the fragile and uncommon jacket. Addams on the problems of white slavery. 369 Franz WRIGHT. Rorschach Test. (No place): Minatoby (No date ). First edition. String-tied wrappers. Pictures by Martha McCollough. A slight smudge on the front wrap, else fine. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by both Wright and McCullough. This is designated copy # 1, and in addition to being signed at the limitation page, is Signed again on the titlepage, and is yet again very warmly Inscribed by both, again on the titlepage to another poet and close friend of Wright s. Very scarce, and not to be confused with the Carnegie-Mellon University edition published several years later; OCLC locates a single copy of this edition. 371 Alexander WOOLLCOTT and George S. KAUFMAN. The Dark Tower: A Melodrama. New York: Random House First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with slight tanning to the white parts of the spine, a little loss at the crown, and a rubbed tear on the front panel. A play that became the basis for two films: The Man With Two Faces in 1934 directed by Archie Mayo, and featuring Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, and Mae Clarke; and an eponymous version in 1943 directed by John Harlow and featuring Frederick 373 William Butler YEATS. The Wild Swans at Coole. New York: Macmillan First American edition, with new material added. Papercovered boards and jacket, both with a design by Sturge Moore. Neat, contemporary owner name on the front fly, corners very slightly bumped, else about fine in a lightly soiled, else near fine dustwrapper with a very short tear. Signed by the author on the title-page, and dated by him in A very attractive copy of this important volume of poetry Last Poems and Plays. New York: Macmillan First American edition. Fine in a very attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with modest toning to the spine, and tiny nicks and tears. A nice copy. Burtwell, Anne Crawford, and David Farrar. Scarce. 372 Lanford WILSON. Hot L Baltimore. New York: Hill & Wang (1973). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Winner of both the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and an Obie for Best Off-Broadway Play. Also the basis for a funny but short-lived television series. A superior copy.

57 Between the Covers ~55~ A f r i c a n - A m e r i c a n a Author s Copy 375 Countee CULLEN. The Ballad of the Brown Girl: An Old Ballad Retold. New York: Harper First edition. Illustrations and decorations by Charles Cullen. Spine label a little tanned else fine in remnants of the original cardboard slipcase. Countee Cullen s own copy with his ownership Inscription: Author s Copy, Countee Cullen. Laid in is a typed letter Signed by Cullen, dated 25 April 1928 on Opportunity stationery (listing Cullen as Assistant Editor), to Carroll A. Wilson, granting permission for Wilson to retain the three books that he sent to Wilson as a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, along with his application for a fellowship (not present). Wilson s small, attractive bookplate is on the front pastedown. A unique copy of an important work. 377 Sterling A. BROWN. Southern Road. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1932). First edition. An owner name affixed on a piece of paper to the front pastedown, corners a little bumped, a very good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: Remembering a more than pleasant Sunday Sterling A. Brown. April 22, Blockson W.E.B. DU BOIS. Black Folk Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race. New York: Henry Holt (1939). First edition. Older bookplate on the front pastedown, light wear at the extremities, a near fine copy in a fresh and clean, near fine dustwrapper that is lightly rubbed. Signed by Du Bois. A very uncommon title, especially signed. 378 William Stanley BRAITHWAITE. Lyrics of Life and Love. Boston: Herbert B. Turner First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards. Handwritten verse written on the half-title, a couple of small notes in the text, corners a little worn, a very good plus copy of a fragile volume, presumably issued without dustwrapper. Poet, anthologist and historian s first book, a collection of verse, issued by a little-known publisher. 379 Paul Laurence DUNBAR. Majors and Minors. (Toledo: Hadley & Hadley 1895). First edition. Grey-blue cloth, with beveled boards (as called for by Blanck), titled in black on the front board. The fragile front endpaper, which has a couple of edge chips, has been professionally reattached, some light staining at the bottom of the front board, a nice and presentable, very good copy of the author s rare second book, one of only 1000 copies printed, and like his first, selfpublished by the author. An exceptionally scarce book. BAL The Uncalled. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition, binding A with the author s name spelled incorrectly. The gilt on the front board a trifle rubbed, else a nice, very near fine copy. The author s first novel and one of his scarcer titles. Inscribed by Dunbar to His Mother 381. Lyrics of Love and Laughter. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Very light rubbing and a couple of tiny dents to the foredge still a nice, about fine copy. A collection that encompasses the poems that were originally published in his first two books, Oak and Ivy and Majors and Minors, with the addition of eleven new poems. This copy Inscribed by the author to his mother, Matilda Dunbar: To Ma With her son s love. Matilda Dunbar was the dedicatee of each of her son s first two books, and while she is not here so named, one is hard pressed to imagine a better association than the one between the author and the mother who taught him to read, write and appreciate poetry. As nice a copy as one could hope to own.

58 Between the Covers ~56~ C a t a l o g u e Pauline E. HOPKINS. Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South. Boston: The Colored Co-Operative Publishers First edition. Illustration and cover designed by R. Emmett Owen. Green cloth decorated in red and yellow. A couple of small, faint stains on the front fly, but a lovely, fine copy of this important novel, the eighth published novel by an African American woman, and one of the most important, notable for its realistic portrayal of lynching and prejudice in the unreconstructed South. Additionally, this was only the third novel published by an African-Americanowned publishing company. Hopkins was the literary editor of Colored American Magazine, a short-lived but important periodical. A lovely copy of a rare and desirable book. 385 Charles JOHNSON. The Middle Passage. New York: Atheneum First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by Johnson to a fellow author, and former colleague at Bennington: For Nick Delbanco, with profound admiration & lifelong friendship. Charles Johnson. 1/28/92. Laid in is an Autograph Postcard Signed from Johnson to Delbanco, as well as Delbanco s printed introductory notes to a reading by Johnson. A novel about a freed slave who, to his horror, stows away on a slave ship headed for Africa. National Book Award winner. A wonderful association copy. 382 Chester B. HIMES. If He Hollers Let Him Go. Garden City: Doubleday Doran First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a couple of small internal repairs, and a bit of soiling and rubbing. A better than usual copy of the author s increasingly scarce first book, cheaply produced during wartime, and seldom found in presentable condition La Croisade de Lee Gordon [Lonely Crusade]. (Paris): Correa (1952). First French edition. Translated by Yves Malartic. Pages with a little browning else fine in a lightly worn, near fine dustwrapper. The author s second novel, Inscribed by Himes to Michel Fabre, a Sorbonne professor, biographer of Richard Wright, and the founding director of the Center for Afro- American Studies at the University of Paris: For Michel Fabre with all best wishes Chester Himes. Himes moved to France in the Spring of Books inscribed by Himes, while very scarce, do occasionally appear on the market, early books with early, and meaningful, inscriptions are very uncommon. 386 (Early African-American Poet). Specimen of 1838 Negro Poetry. One-page holograph manuscript of poetry by a black woman transcribed and signed by a missionary, Matthew Banks, in the West Indies and dated 9 April Labeled at the top: A Specimen of Negro Poetry, extracted verbatim from an Epistle addressed to me by a female convert, when leaving the West Indies. Following the heading is a twelve-line poem set in three stanzas, each of two rhyming couplets of what is essentially a farewell poem, wishing Banks success and a safe journey from the island. Unfortunately Banks didn t see fit to identify the author by name. Still, aside for the works of Phillis Wheatley and a single poem by Lucy Terry, we know of no other earlier examples of poetry by an American black woman. 387 Jamaica KINCAID. Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya. Washington, DC: National Geographic (2005). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Kincaid to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his family: To the D s with love from Jamaica.

59 With the Original Photogravure Print 388 (Photography). Julia PETERKIN and Doris ULMANN. Roll, Jordan, Roll. New 390 Walter Adolphe ROBERTS. Pierrot Wounded and Other Poems. New York: Britton Between the Covers ~57~ A f r i c a n - A m e r i c a n a Publishing Company First edition. Printed and illustrated perfectbound wrappers. Modest chips at the corners of the front wrap and a small chip on the rear panel, else a very good plus copy. One of 550 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. The author s rare first book, a volume of poetry by Roberts, accompanied by a few translations into English of poems by European poets. Blurb by W.S. Braithwaite on the rear wrap. Very scarce. York: Robert O. Ballou (1933). First edition. Folio. Quarter white linen and brown papercovered beveled boards in slipcase. Very mild soiling and a few small spots to the spine, else fine in a very good example of the fragile, original papercovered cardboard slipcase, with moderate loss to the paper but all seams still intact. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by both Peterkin and Ulmann. Peterkin s text, about poor black tenant farmers of the South, accompanied by Ulmann s spectacular photogravures, including 18 not found in the trade edition. This copy with the original photographic print that is now rarely found in conjunction with the book, near fine with just a hint of wear at the extremities, not affecting the image, Signed beneath the image in pencil by Ulmann. Laid in is an Autograph Note Signed by Julia Peterkin, dated Oct 8th 1930 and briefly thanking her correspondent. Accompanied by a 1980 note of provenance relating that this copy was purchased from Peterkin s grandson. An absolutely magnificent book, in our opinion one of the highpoints of American book production and rarely encountered. Roth same title. New York: Robert O. Ballou (1933). First trade edition, first issue. Fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with small chips on the crown and rear panel. 391 Wallace THURMAN and A.L. FURMAN. The Interne. New York: Macaulay (1932). First edition. A bit of scuffing at the bottom of the boards else near fine in a bright, very good dustwrapper with some slight spine fading and some modest chipping to the spine ends. Additionally this copy is Signed by both authors this is one of only two books we have seen signed by Thurman. A very nice copy of this seldom encountered novel, a somewhat sensationalistic story of what happens behind the scenes at a big city hospital. Thurman was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. His residence in Harlem was referred to as Niggerati Manor and was one of the central gathering places for the Harlem intellectual elite. Born in Salt Lake City and educated there and in Los Angeles, his brilliance and varied background allowed him to participate in and simultaneously critique the Harlem Renaissance with unique perspective. He was chosen by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and others to be the editor of Fire!!, the short lived (one issue) magazine which was probably the high point of the young intellectuals during the Harlem Renaissance. The two novels he wrote during that time, The Blacker the Berry and The Infants of Spring, were defining works of Renaissance literature. The Interne, written with Furman, a white author Thurman met while working at Macaulay, is a scathing indictment of the bureaucracy and corruption of urban hospitals as seen by the novel s hero, an idealistic young doctor. Thurman left Harlem for Hollywood and worked on screenplays, including Tomorrow s Children starring Sterling Holloway, a story drawn from The Interne about court-ordered sterilization of the poor. Thurman s weekly studio paycheck of $250 was, according to one source, the highest salary paid a Negro in America. He returned to Harlem for a visit in An alcoholic and long plagued with ill-health, he collapsed in the middle of his reunion party and was taken to the very hospital he condemned in The Interne. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, he languished there for six months before finally dying on Christmas, 1934, at the age of 32. Rare in jacket and exceptionally so signed.

60 394 Booker T. WASHINGTON. Stenographic Report of the Commencement Exercises of the Washington Normal School No. 2, M Street High School, Armstrong Manual Training School at Convention Hall, Washington, D.C., Friday, June 16, Booker T. Washington - the principal speaker of the evening. Washington, DC: Between the Covers ~58~ C a t a l o g u e First published work by an African-American 392 Phillis WHEATLEY. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant of Mr. John Wheatley of Boston, in New England. London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston First edition. Early, but not contemporary full polished calf, red morocco spine label gilt. The often missing frontispiece has been remargined, all blanks present, a small 1951 catalogue description (sale price - $10.00!) tipped to the front blank has offset a little on the facing blank, else a clean and lovely, fine copy. The first book to be published by an African-American. Wheatley was captured by slavers in Senegal and sold in Boston in 1761 to John and Susanna Wheatley, who named her for the ship that transported her, the Phillis. The Wheatleys educated her and encouraged her to write. Accompanied by the Wheatley s son she travelled to London to look for a publisher. The Countess of Huntingdon, a family friend, took an interest in her work and financed this publication. The author was freed later that year, and in 1776, during the siege of Boston, appeared before General Washington. The death of the Wheatleys led to an unfortunate marriage with a free black man who went bankrupt, and she died in childbirth in The famous frontispiece illustration of Wheatley is the only surviving work by the African-American slave artist Scipio Moorehead. A very attractive copy. Blockson 101. John O Hara s Copy 393 Richard WRIGHT. Native Son. New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. Top corner very slightly bumped, very near fine, in a supplied, very good or better dustwrapper, with faint evidence of tape removal at the spine ends. The true first edition (the book club edition, which also states first edition, is often offered incorrectly as the first). John O Hara s copy with his small pencil ownership Signature at the bottom of the front fly: John O Hara. Along with Ellison s Invisible Man and Baldwin s Go Tell It On the Mountain, Native Son is one of the indisputable William H. Davis, Stenographer and Principal of Lincoln Temple Business College (1905). 23 folio sheets, typed rectos only and brad-bound into unprinted blue paper wraps. Three horizontal folds, tiny tears to the edges of the wrappers, a near fine set. A verbatim transcription of the commencement ceremony noting Rev. William V. Tunnell s invocation, and brief addresses by Hon. H.B.F. Macfarland, and Hon. W.S. Montgomery, the bulk of the transcript is dedicated to Washington s address (complete with notes on the audience s reaction with applause and laughter) and which appears from page 5 to midway through page 22. OCLC lists a transcription of the speech in another volume published in 1905 (2 copies), but makes no mention of this stenographic record. A possibly unique artifact of a Washington address. mid-century classics of African- American literature. Wright and O Hara appeared together on the radio program Author Meets the Critics, with Wright taking the part of critic and commenting, O Hara s short stories are almost as good as short stories can be written Tuskegee and its People: Their Ideals and Achievements. New York: D. Appleton and Company First edition. 354pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Light rubbing to the corners, else a bright and fine copy in a very good example of the rare printed dustwrapper with some chips and tears, particularly where the crown meets the rear panel, and some professional internal reinforcement to the folds. A collection of essays and articles about the school and the achievements of its graduates by Tuskegee graduates and faculty including Mrs. Washington, Robert Moton, William Holtzclaw, Emmett J. Scott, George W. Lovejoy, and many others. This copy has a tipped-in page before the half-title with the printed Compliments of Booker T. Washington. An attractive copy of a scarce title, most likely prepared for and distributed to potential philanthropists upon whom Tuskegee relied for financial support, particularly in its early years. In case we forgot to mention it, the jacket is rare.

61 Between the Covers ~59~ Children's Books 396 Lloyd ALEXANDER. The Wizard in the Tree. New York: Dutton (1975). First edition. Illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi. Fine in a slightly sunned, fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed: For Carl and B., with fond and wizardly wishes from Lloyd. The recipient, Carl Karsch, worked with Alexander in a bank in the 1950s and they remained life-long friends. A National Book Award Finalist in The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha. New York: E.P. Dutton (1978). First edition. Fine in a slightly sunned, fine dustwrapper illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi. Inscribed by Alexander to Carl Karsch (see above): For Carl and B., these two new lives and many fond wishes from a not-so-new Lloyd, Christmas Winner of the 1979 CRABbery Award, the 1981 Dutch Silver Slate Pencil Award and the 1984 Austrian Children s Book Award. Also a National Book Award Finalist in L. Frank BAUM. The Marvelous Land of Oz [with] Queen Zixi of Ix. Chicago / New York: Reilly & Britton / Century 1904, 1905 First editions. Rebound at a very early date in uniform bindings. Rebacked, labels removed from each spine, internally fine. The Marvelous Land of Oz is Signed by the author on the recto of the frontispiece illustration: Very Sincerely Yrs, L. Frank Baum. Queen Zixi of Ix has a 1905 Autograph Letter Signed L. Frank Baum tipped-in before the frontispiece illustration. The letter has been trimmed slightly to fit the book, affecting one letter, and just touching the top of his printed name in the letterhead. 399 Jean and Laurent DE BRUNHOFF, adapted from the drawings of. The Colorful World of Babar The Little Elephant / Le Monde Pittoresque De Babar Le Petit Elephant. San Francisco: Determined Productions First edition. Large folio (approximately 14" x 20"). Horizontal canvas tape bound with printed stiff card covers. First (title) leaf detached, with tiny tears and a small stain at the extremities, a bit of foxing on the covers, else a near fine copy of this coloring book with captions in both English and French. Exceptionally scarce. OCLC locates no copies. 401 Walter R. BROOKS. The Clockwork Twin. New York: Knopf First edition. Drawings by Kurt Wiese. Corners a little bumped else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper without significant chips or tears, but with a little unprofessional collaboration to the front panel drawing (i.e. a little coloring), as well as on the rear panel and rear flap. Freddy the Pig and friends. 400 Howard and Bette FAST. The Picture-Book History of the Jews. (New York): Hebrew Publishing Company (1942). First edition. Quarto. Illustrated papercovered boards in dustwrapper. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a little age-toning and a couple of short tears (curiously, we have never seen an unpriceclipped copy). Children s history by the author of Spartacus Freddy and the Flying Saucer Plans. New York: Knopf First edition. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. A faint dampstain on the bottom edge else near fine in a faintly (but pervasively) dampstained, very good dustwrapper with some other general light wear. Freddy the intrepid pig detective helps protect two sets of plans for a flying saucer. A pleasing copy.

62 Between the Covers ~60~ C a t a l o g u e Edward GOREY. The Fantod Pack. (No place - probably Southern California): The Owl Press (no date - circa 1969). The true first edition, unauthorized, and pirated from a 1966 issue of Esquire magazine. Twenty tarot-type cards, fluorescent green cardstock printed in purple, wrapped in a printed yellow sheet, with a printed blue sheet wrapped around. Cards are fine, yellow sheet is fine, blue sheet has an old handwritten price struck through, and two small tape shadows, else fine. Rare. Gorey s take on the trumps major of tarot cards, the authorized edition of the pack wasn t issued until Toledano A113c, speculating that these were produced in The Green Beads. New York: Albondocani Press First edition. Stapled wrappers. A fine, as new copy. Prospectus for the edition laid in. Copy letter E of 26 lettered copies Signed by Gorey, and reserved for the use of the author and publisher. 405 same title. New York: Albondocani Press First edition. Stapled wrappers. A fine, as new copy. Prospectus for the edition laid in. Copy number 4 of 400 numbered copies Signed by Gorey. Not shown. 406 as Dogear Wryde. Dogear Wryde Postcards: Alms for Oblivion. (New York: no publisher no date ). First edition. Sixteen postcards in a printed envelope. Fine. Toledano A Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses. New York: Workman Publishing (1980). First edition. 12mo. Fine in wrappers as issued. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by Gorey. 408 as Dogear Wryde. Dogear Wryde Postcards: Neglected Murderesses Series. (New York: no publisher no date ). First edition. Twelve postcards (this set is complete plus has a duplicate of one of the cards) in a printed envelope, with a separate limitation card. Fine. One of 250 numbered sets Signed by Gorey. Toledano A Melange Funeste. (New York): Gotham Book Mart First edition. 12mo. Fine in wrappers as issued. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by Gorey. A slice book. 410 as Dogear Wryde. Dogear Wryde Postcards: Tragédies Topiares. (New York: no publisher no date ). First edition. Twelve postcards in a printed envelope, with a separate limitation card. Fine. One of 250 numbered sets Signed by Gorey. Toledano A98a. 411 as Dogear Wryde. Dogear Wryde Postcards: Menaced Objects. (New York: no publisher no date ). First edition. Sixteen postcards in a printed envelope, with a separate limitation card. Fine. One of 250 numbered sets Signed by Gorey. Toledano A96a. 412 as Garrod Weedy. The Pointless Book: Or, Nature & Art in Two Volumes Bound Together. (No place): The Fantod Press First edition. Small book (64mo). Fine in wrappers. Copy number 13 of 100 numbered copies Signed by Gorey as Garrod Weedy.

63 Between the Covers ~61~ Children's Books The Dedication Copy Extra-illustrated by the Dedicatee, and with the Original Painting for the Frontispiece 413 Mary KENNEDY. Music by Deems TAYLOR. A Surprise to the Children. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran First edition. Seven color illustrations, and thirteen monochrome and many small drawings in the text by J.H. Dowd. Four songs, with music by Deems Taylor. An extra copy of each dustwrapper flap tipped to the rear endpaper, corners a bit rubbed, and several of the black and white drawings have been colored in (more about this later), else a very good or better copy in a good dustwrapper with a large chip at the bottom of the front panel. The Dedication Copy. Inscribed by Mary Kennedy (who was married to Deems Taylor) to their daughter: For Joan with love from Mary. November 3, Additionally, on the dedication page, beneath the printed dedication which reads For Joan Kennedy has written: written by her Mother and given to her with a heart full of devoted love. We can only assume that Joan, who would have been six at the time of publication, is responsible for the extra coloring in the text. The jacket text reveals that their six-year-old daughter, Joan Taylor, suggested the title. [Accompanied by]: the original water color painting for the frontispiece illustration by J.H. Dowd, of two children floating far above land in a bubble. Matted to approximately 10" x 12½", framed and glazed. Unexamined out of the frame. While the frame and matte exhibit wear, the painting appears fine. Also with an 8" x 10" photograph of Kennedy laid in. 414 Ted HUGHES. Meet My Folks! London: Faber and Faber (1961). First edition. Illustrated by George Adamson. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing. Contemporary owner names on the front fly, under which is a Signed sentiment from the author: with good wishes, Ted Hughes. The author s third book and first book of children s verse. A very nice copy How the Whale Became and Other Stories. London: Faber and Faber (1963). First edition. Illustrated by George Adamson. Thin octavo. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a rubbed mark on the front panel, still a remarkably fresh copy. Stories for children. near fine. Uncommon format The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People. London: Faber and Faber (1963). Uncorrected proof. Illustrations by R.A. Brandt. Wrappers. A touch of age-toning, 417. Earth-Moon. (London): Rainbow Press (1976). First edition. Illustrated by the author. Full blue calf stamped in silver. Fine in fine slipcase (slipcase not shown). One of 200 numbered copies (of a total edition of 226) Signed by the author. A beautiful copy. 418 Rev. Charles KINGSLEY. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Boston: T.O.H.P. Burnham First edition. Blue cloth gilt. Professionally rebacked, with endpapers replaced, else a fine copy of this children s classic.

64 Between the Covers ~62~ C a t a l o g u e Norman LINDSAY. The Magic Pudding: The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney: Angus and Robertson (1918). First edition, first issue, with green A&R endpapers and maroon cloth spine titled in gilt. Illustrated by the author. Slight offsetting on the front board (from the applied illustration on the jacket) else fine in a lovely, fine example of the rare dustwrapper with some tiny nicks at the corners. The author, best known for his naughty paintings and drawings of nudes (and whose frolicsome lifestyle inspired the splendid independent film Sirens) wrote and illustrated this children s book, the most famous Australian book for children. It follows a koala bear s adventures in the bush protecting a magic cut-an -come again puddin that replenishes itself after every bite, and in any flavor that the eater desires. He and his friends protect the pudding from the depredations and kidnapping attempts of two professional pudding thieves, a wombat and a possum. The book gained new life when it was reprinted in the United State during the Depression, at a time when a replenishing pudding probably sounded like a good idea. An absolutely superior copy, probably the nicest we will ever see, of a charming and amusing tale, and a classic which has never been out of print. 420 Mary O HARA. My Friend Flicka. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott (1941). First edition. A faint pencil name on the front fly, fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with small nicks and tears at the extremities, and very slight loss at the crown. The author s first book. Basis for the eponymous 1943 film directed by Harold D. Schuster, and featuring Roddy McDowall and Preston Foster. The first edition is exceptionally uncommon in jacket. 421 James Whitcomb RILEY. Riley Roses. New York: Grosset and Dunlap (1909). Reprint. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Decorations by Franklin Booth. Fine in a modestly spine-tanned, very good or better dustwrapper with a Christy illustration. Scarce in jacket. 422 Chris VAN ALLSBURG. Jumanji. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co First edition. Oblong folio. A tiny owner name on the front pastedown, fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper, with a discreet 2" tear on the rear panel. A very nice copy of the author s very scarce second book, winner of the Caldecott Medal. Basis for the Joe Johnston film with Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, and Kirsten Dunst [Poster for the book]: Jumanji. Approximately 40" x 44". Fine, folded into quarters as issued. Poster for the release of the book, reproducing one of its illustrations. Signed by Van Allsburg. 424 Robert Penn WARREN. The Gods of Mount Olympus. New York: Random House/Legacy Books (1959). First edition. Illustrated by William Moyers. Boards a litle rubbed, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few short tears. Signed by the author. One of the author s two children s books, this one much the scarcer of the pair. A nicer copy than usual; this is the only signed copy we recall having seen. 425 E.B. WHITE. Stuart Little. New York: Harper & Brothers (1945). First edition. Pictures by Garth Williams. Fine in a near very good dustwrapper with a few tiny nicks and a modest stain on the spine, with the price on the front flap intact (which almost never seems to be the case). A cheaply produced children s classic, the marvelous story of an adventurous mouse who acts human Charlotte s Web. New York: Harper and Brothers (1952). First edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a crease to the front spine fold and only a little bit of the spine toning that usually plagues this title. An especially nice copy of an enduring children s classic about a spider who befriends a pig.

65 Between the Covers 427 Eric AMBLER. A Coffin for Dimitrios. New York: Knopf First American edition. Fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with some tiny, internally repaired tears, two tiny nicks, and a little edgewear. A much nicer than usual copy of this book that seems always found beset by grievous flaws. A classic thriller, Ambler s best known book and basis for the film The Mask of Dimitrios directed by Jean Negulesco, and featuring Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Zachary Scott. 428 (True Crime). Danny AHEARN. How to Commit a Murder. New York: Ives Washburn First edition. A small erasure on the front fly else fine in a price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with small chips at the extremities, and the folds internally mended with archival tape. A non-fiction how-to about committing major crimes, by a gangster and ex-con. Also includes helpful hints on robbing jewelry and fur stores, dope dealing, and much, much more. Some of Ahearn s stories were used by Hollywood as the basis for the films Escape from Crime (1942) and Bulldog Edition (1936). 429 Libbie BLOCK. Wild Calendar. New York: Knopf First edition. Dark blue cloth with textured dustwrapper. A tiny spot on the front board, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears. A beautiful copy of the author s first novel, presumably autobiographical, about a Denver woman who marries young, and pining for her lost youth, tries to do something about it. Basis for the 1949 Max Ophuls-directed noir film Caught featuring Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan as her rich but neurotic husband, and James Mason as the doctor she tries to escape with. ~63~ Mystery & Detective Fiction They Live By Night 430 Edward ANDERSON. Thieves Like Us. New York: Frederick A. Stokes First edition. Fine in a very good plus example of the dustwrapper with some modest chipping on the rear panel, tiny nicks at the spine ends, some rubbing, and a closed tear on the front panel. Basis for the 1948 film They Live By Night, the first film directed by Nicholas Ray (at the suggestion of influential producer and much later character actor John Houseman). The book was filmed under its original title in 1974 by Robert Altman, starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall and featuring background radio music and sounds provided by mystery author (and old-time radio expert) John Dunning. Exceptionally scarce in jacket. Spellbound 431 Francis BEEDING. The House of Dr. Edwardes. Boston: Little, Brown First American edition. An ownership stamp on the front fly else fine in an attractive, near fine example of the rare dustwrapper with a couple of short tears and a little general overall age-toning. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock s 1945 psychological thriller Spellbound, scripted by Ben Hecht, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck and with Salvador Dali s famous dream sequences. 432 Robert BLOCH. Psycho. New York: Simon and Schuster First edition. Pages with the usual uniform browning, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight rubbing and wear. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock s masterpiece, considered by many critics one of the greatest films in any genre. A very nice copy. 433 James Lee BURKE. Lay Down My Sword and Shield. New York: Crowell (1971). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with three short tears, two of them trifling, the third along the edge of the spine is a little rubbed. Author s third book, and the scarcest of his three early non-mystery titles The Convict. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University (1985). First edition. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Published simultaneously in both hard and soft covers, a collection of stories that received almost no distribution. This hardcover is easily his scarcest book.

66 Between the Covers ~64~ C a t a l o g u e Cain s own copy of his first publication 435 James M. CAIN. The Final Issue of The Lorraine Cross. France: 79th Division May 8, James M. Cain s own copy of the final issue of The Lorraine Cross, the newspaper of the 79th Division of the U.S. Army of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War I. The Lorraine Cross was founded, edited, and largely written by James M. Cain, in part as a means of avoiding combat. This is the final issue of the paper, issued as the Division was returning to the U.S. The paper is quite browned, but otherwise fine. When Cain returned, he had this issue and some associated material matted and framed in period arts-and-crafts style oak frames, and hung in his own house. The issue prints a letter of thanks from the Division s commanding General Joseph E. Kuhn to Cain, thanking him and the paper s staff for their efforts on the paper. Also with: the original typed letter Signed from Kuhn to Cain (also framed by Cain). The letter is slightly darkened at the extremities from matteburn but is otherwise fine. Also accompanying the letter and the newspaper is an original broadside printed in red and blue: Have You Subscribed to The Lorraine Cross? printed in red and two shades of blue with a comic drawing of doughboys reading the paper. This too has been framed by Cain in a compatible frame, and is in fine condition. Issues of The Lorraine Cross are impossible to find. To find Cain s own copy of the last and most important issue, along with the letter and broadside, is about as much as one could wish for of Cain s juvenilia. For the three framed items. Cain s favorite photograph Inscribed to His Wife 436. Portrait Photograph Inscribed to His Wife. Black and white portrait photograph. Approximately 8" x 10". Photographer s stamp ( Melbourne Spurr ) on the recto. Photographer s signature in the lower right corner a bit smudged, upper right-hand margin slightly cropped, else an attractive, fine print. Inscribed by the author on the recto to his fourth (and final) wife, the opera singer Florence MacBeth: To Florence: Her favorite ham. Jamie. March 13, A studio portrait of Cain which he always referred to as his gangster photo. Cain, behatted, and with his overcoat collar turned up, gruffly peers out of the photo. Always sensitive about his homely looks, this was Cain s favorite photo of himself, with the knowing tough-guy look a happy substitute for his lack of physical beauty. An example of this photograph (and indeed perhaps this same print) appears in the Roy Hoopes biography of Cain. 437 Agatha CHRISTIE. Ten Little Niggers. London: Collins for the Crime Club (1939). First edition. Some sunning to the spine ends, and a dampstain on the front board, an about very good copy in an attractive, very good plus example of the dustwrapper with some neatly effected professional restoration, particularly at the base of the spine. A highly politically incorrect title even when it was published, the jacket compounded the problem by portraying little black figures with big white lips cavorting with spears and eating watermelon. One of Christie s best-known and most ingenious mysteries, the book was published in America as And Then There Were None and was later reissued as Ten Little Indians, perhaps only an incremental improvement over the original. One of Christie s rarest and most sought after titles. 438 G.K. CHESTERTON. The Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories. London: Cassell and Company (1922). First edition. Fine in a very attractive, near fine dustwrapper with shallow chipping at the top of the spine. A collection of stories following the exploits of gentleman detective Horne Fisher (bearing no connection to the eponymous Hitchcock films, but classics in their own right). A lovely copy of a very scarce and desirable title Four Faultless Felons. London: Cassell (1930). First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with slight chipping at the spinal extremities, particularly at the foot. A collection of four novellas. Exceptionally scarce in jacket.

67 Between the Covers 440 Irvin S. COBB. Down Yonder with Judge Priest and Irvin S. Cobb. New York: Ray Long and Richard R. Smith First edition, first issue. A small, neat owner name, and a tiny dark spot in the front gutter else fine in fine, very slightly soiled dustwrapper. A collection of stories, which provided the characters for the 1934 John Ford-directed film Judge Priest with Will Rogers in the title role. A lovely copy. The Most Dangerous Game 441 Richard CONNELL. Variety. New York: Minton Balch & Co First edition. A contemporary owner name, a very faint, slight dampstain on the edge of the front board, just about fine in a good only dustwrapper with a number of chips, including the bottom 2" of the spine. A rare collection of short stories, mostly notable for the first book appearance of one of the most famous and anthologized short stories, The Most Dangerous Game. The tale of a big game hunter who uses people as prey on his private island, the story has been filmed at least eight times (not counting numerous additional radio and television adaptations), first and most memorably in 1932 by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, featuring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong. Cooper and Schoedsack were simultaneously filming their masterpiece, King Kong (which took much longer to produce because of its special effects) and used the same elaborate jungle sets and much of the same cast (who would quickly change costumes mid-day and return to the set). RKO remade the film in 1945 as A Game of Death, directed by Robert Wise. Another story in this book, Isles of Romance was made into the 1927 Mervyn Leroy-directed film No Place to Go with Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes. The jacket of this book is of very thin and brittle paper stock, and is virtually never found. Rare. Scandal Sheet 442 Samuel FULLER. The Dark Page. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1944). First edition. About fine in a moderately worn, near very good dustwrapper with two small nicks at the crown, and a couple of tears on the front panel. The third novel and first mystery by the future cult film director, written while he was a corporal in the Army. Set partially in the Bowery in New York City, a newspaper editor murders a blackmailer, and his star reporter is hot on the trail. Basis for the 1952 film noir Scandal Sheet directed by Phil Karlson, and featuring Broderick Crawford, John Derek, and Donna Reed. Exceptionally scarce. ~65~ Mystery & Detective Fiction 443 Freeman Wills CROFTS. The Pit-Prop Syndicate. New York: Thomas Seltzer First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some tiny nicks and tears. An absolutely beautiful copy. Author s third mystery. Amateurs trying to penetrate a crime syndicate are forced to call upon the professionals. We can t imagine a nicer copy exists. Publisher s File Copy 444 Carter DICKSON. The Judas Window. New York: William Morrow First edition. Fine in a price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with some rubbing and small nicks. Publisher s file copy, so stamped on the top edge, and with publication date and some specs for the book noted in pencil on the front fly, and additionally, with some pencil changes to the text of the front flap of the jacket, apparently for a later edition. A unique copy of a Haycraft- Queen Cornerstone. Quantum of Solace 445 Ian FLEMING. For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape (1960). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny crease on the front flap. The eighth Bond book, containing five separate stories of 007: the title story, From a View To a Kill, Quantum of Solace, Risico, and The Hildebrand Rarity. The first three stories have lent their names to Bond films and, in the case of the book s title, for a hit song as well. An exceptional copy. 446 David GOODIS. Retreat from Oblivion. New York: E.P. Dutton First edition. A tiny stain at the bottom of the front board else fine in near fine dustwrapper with some modest rubbing at the spine ends. A much nicer than usual copy of the author s first book. Goodis reputation has steadily developed as one of the most important of the noir novelists. Author of many paperback originals, his hardcover titles are extremely uncommon, and Retreat from Oblivion is by far the scarcest of these.

68 Between the Covers ~66~ C a t a l o g u e James Edward GRANT. The Green Shadow. New York: Hartney Press First edition. Fine in a lightly worn, near fine and very attractive dustwrapper designed by Charles B. Gilbert with a few short tears and some rubbing. The jacket has an unusual design with the tops and bottoms of the flaps extended, folded inward and glued (as issued) to make pockets that hold the jacket on. Very hardboiled private eye novel. The Chicago-born author was a newspaper journalist who wrote a column on rackets and racketeering, and later became a very successful screenwriter. Among his produced scripts were The Great John L., The Angel and the Bad Man, Sands of Iwo Jima, Flying Leathernecks, Hondo, The Alamo and Donovan s Reef. This particular novel was the basis for the fast-paced and very entertaining 1936 Charles Vidor film Muss em Up, with Preston Foster as detective Tip O Neil. 448 Dashiell HAMMETT. The Glass Key. London: Alfred A. Knopf First edition, preceding the American edition, and first issue, with the Knopf imprint (later issues have the Cassell imprint). Attractive engraved bookplate on the front pastedown, slightly cocked, and with a small, not too obtrusive stain on the front board, otherwise near fine, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A very attractive copy of the author s fourth book. This true first, English edition is exceptionally uncommon, and flat out rare in the jacket (which this copy lacks). Knopf published in the U.K. for only a few years, and generally produced very small editions. 449 Thomas HARRIS. The Silence of the Lambs. New York: St. Martin s Press (1988). Advance Reading Copy. Well-rubbed wrappers, an about very good copy. Inscribed by the author to a close friend: For, my neighbor and Trivial Pursuit partner, with every good wish. Thomas Harris, Sag Harbor September / 88. Basis for the acclaimed Jonathan Demme film which was the first film since One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest to win all the major Academy Awards. Harris lived in Europe for many years; his signature is among the scarcest of contemporary authors, and is seldom found as part of a personal association. The First Inscribed Copy 450 Harry HERVEY. School for Eternity. New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons (1941). First edition. Very near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with some modest chipping on the front panel. Murder and romance at a mysterious citadel in the West Indies. Frances Marion was the dedicatee of the book. Hervey placed most of his works in exotic locales. The classic film Shanghai Express was based on another of his stories. This copy with a warm, full-page Inscription by the author, noting this the first inscribed copy of School for Eternity. 451 John LE CARRÉ. Call for the Dead. New York: Walker (1962). First American edition. A fine copy in very good dustwrapper with two short tears and some age-toning or soiling at the extremities. A nice copy of the author s uncommon first book, and the introduction to the world of George Smiley A Murder of Quality. New York: Walker First American edition. Slight stain on the foredge and slightly warped, as usual (curiously this Cold War-era thriller was printed in then Communist Bloc Poland, with indifferent production results), near fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a little of the usually-worse fading to the delicate pink spine. A nice copy of the author s very uncommon second book, featuring George Smiley The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. London: Gollancz First edition. Foredge a little soiled and barely perceptible discoloration to the spinal edges, else a fine copy in an exceptionally fine and bright dustwrapper, without any of the usual fading. A splendid copy of this Edgar Award-winning novel that revealed the duplicity and moral ambivalence in the spy trade that seems so obvious now. Basis for the Martin Ritt film featuring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner. A very nice copy.

69 Between the Covers 454 John D. MacDONALD. Wine of the Dreamers. New York: Greenberg (1951). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing on the front panel and very slight fading to the spine. The author s first hardcover book, an excellent science-fiction novel that has been overshadowed by his detective fiction. A much nicer than usual copy. ~67~ Mystery & Detective Fiction 458 (Western). Elmore LEONARD. Escape from Five Shadows. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing on the front panel, and two tiny tears barely worthy of mention. The third of the author s three Houghton Mifflin hardcover westerns, from early in Leonard s career. He has gone on to become one of the most successful mystery novelists working today, and several of his works have been adapted to film. Only a small number of hardcover copies of this edition were printed, and most of them went to libraries (when copies surface on the market they almost invariably have replaced endpapers and remnants of library markings). A superior copy of a notable rarity, avidly sought by both western and mystery collectors The Deep Blue Good-By. New York: J.B. Lippincott First American hardcover edition. A trifle sunned at the extremities, thus near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a bit of rubbing and two tiny tears. A very nice copy of the first Travis McGee novel (although not the first to be published in hardcover in the U.S.). Dorothy Hughes Copy of a Queen s Quorum Title 456 Philip MacDONALD. Something to Hide. Garden City: Doubleday / Crime Club First edition, preceding the English edition. Pages a little browned, else fine in a modestly spine-faded, very good plus dustwrapper with some light rubbing and very short tears. Edgar-winning mystery author Dorothy Hughes copy with her ownership Signature on the front fly. A collection of short stories, and a Queen s Quorum title. 459 Jerome ODLUM. Each Dawn I Die. Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill (1938). First edition. Modest wear to the boards, very good in an about very good dustwrapper with modest loss at the spine ends, and several internal mends. Basis for the 1939 William Keighley film featuring James Cagney as an unjustly imprisoned reporter, and George Raft as a hard-as-nails mobster he turns to for help. Exceptionally scarce in jacket. 460 L.T. MEADE. The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings. London: Ward Locke & Co First edition. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. Early and neat gift inscription, modest wear to the extremities, and some foxing throughout, a bright, near fine copy. Queen s Quorum says the earliest appearance of a female felon in a series of short stories. Very scarce, particularly in this condition. Rambo 457 David MORRELL. First Blood. New York: M. Evans (1972). First edition. Fine in a presentable, very good dustwrapper with some staining visible on the inside of the jacket, and some modest wear at the spine ends. Signed by the author, his first book, the novel that introduced the iconic character of John Rambo, in the 1970s the archetypal misunderstood Vietnam vet, and in the 1980s the invincible American one-man army. 461 Sara PARETSKY. Indemnity Only. New York: The Dial Press (1982). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author, her first book. A superior, as new copy.

70 Between the Covers ~68~ C a t a l o g u e James ROSS. They Don t Dance Much. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Contemporary owner name, cloth on the spine a bit foxed and soiled, a very good copy in an edgeworn, very good dustwrapper with a modest chip at the foot, and some nicks and short tears at the extremities. Signed by the author. Extremely uncommon hardboiled first novel: Smut and his assistant Jack McDonald scheme to gyp a small town political boss, fool the sheriff and, if necessary, kill each other. Most of the book takes place in a Southern roadhouse. Reportedly one of only 2000 copies. Ross was a North Carolina-native, and the brother of author Eleanor Ross Taylor (who was married to author Peter Taylor). Published in the Lost American Classics series, this novel enjoys something of a cult following. The only signed copy we ve seen. 463 Ira WOLFERT. Tucker s People. New York: L.B. Fischer First edition in first issue dustwrapper, priced $3.00 and with text instead of the illustration on the front panel. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with the top corner clipped (but a price printed on the bottom of the flap), and a tiny tear on the flap. Basis for the film Force of Evil featuring John Garfield as a crooked lawyer, a masterpiece considered the darkest, seediest, and most claustrophobic of all film noir. Very scarce. 464 (Jim THOMPSON). Compiled by the Workers of the Federal Writer s Project of the Works Progress Administration in the State of Oklahoma. Tulsa: A Guide to the Oil Capital. American Guide Series. Tulsa: The Mid-West Printing Co. / (Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers Project) First Edition. Stapled orange wrappers. Slightly sunned at the spine, still easily a fine and crisp copy. An attractively printed pamphlet, and the second (of three) books worked on by Jim Thompson for the WPA, as Director. Presumably Thompson provided much of the text for this rare pamphlet. The Oklahoma WPA produced only four books of which Thompson worked on three (he was not involved in the production of the state guide). A rare Thompson item, perhaps the rarest, preceding both Now and On Earth and his first short story appearance. 466 William Rawle WEEKS. Knock and Wait a While. Boston: Houghton Mifflin First edition. A short tear at the crown else fine in a moderately rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with three short tears. Edgar Award winner for Best Novel. A nice copy of an uncommon title. 465 Ellis PETERS. A Morbid Taste for Bones. New York: William Morrow First American edition. The slightest smudge on the front board, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper. The first Brother Cadfael mystery. 467 Cornell WOOLRICH. Cover Charge. New York: Boni & Liveright First edition. Corners bumped, modest tears at the spine ends, a near very good copy lacking the very uncommon dustwrapper. First book by the much admired genre writer whose work is periodically rediscovered. This copy is nicely Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, utilizing most of the front fly: To Ken Daughrity in memory of many pleasant sympathies we share / from his devoted friend Cornell Woolrich. New York Aug. 10, Daughrity s pencil signature appears on the rear fly as D Aughrity, and a penciled address is on the front pastedown. The novel, which is a Jazz Age imitation of Woolrich s then-idol F. Scott Fitzgerald, features a female character named Vera Dougherty, and perhaps the recipient of this copy, likely a Columbia classmate of the undergraduate author, lent a variation of his name to her. Woolrich signed little, and but for this copy, we ve never seen a copy of his first book signed Times Square. New York: Horace Liveright First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few small tears, a couple of tiny nicks, and some slight age-toning at the spine. The third, and in our experience, the scarcest of the author s six F. Scott Fitzgerald-influenced novels of the Jazz Age, published before he made his name writing noir thrillers. A story of the gay and tawdry little boys and girls whose playground is Broadway. Pretty, hard-boiled flapper intermittently supports her gad-about boyfriend as he trips the lights fantastic. Exceptionally uncommon in jacket.

71 Between the Covers ~69~ Science-Fiction & Fantasy 469 Isaac ASIMOV. Pebble in the Sky. Garden City: Doubleday First edition. Page edges slightly tanned, still fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight rubbing to the corners of the spine ends. The thin paper jacket is usually found well-worn. A very nice copy of the author s first book, a science fiction, time-travel novel, seldom found in this condition. 470 Clive BARKER. Weaveworld. New York: Poseidon Press (1987). First American edition. Fine in an unprinted acetate dustwrapper (not shown) and fine slipcase. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by the author, this copy is unnumbered, bearing instead the initials of a Simon & Schuster editor in the limitation space (Poseidon is a division of Simon & Schuster). 471 Ray BRADBURY. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine (1953). First edition, binding state D (no established priority). Slight rubbing to the spine ends, tiny tear to the edge of one leaf in the text, else fine in a lightly soiled, very good plus dustwrapper with a shallow chip at the crown, and some of the usual fading to the red 451 on the spine. Signed by the author. A nice copy of a very scarce Ballantine hardcover and a highspot of science-fiction literature The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics. New York: Dial (1963). First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a bit of modest spine-fading. Four plays inspired by Bradbury s experiences in Ireland. 473 Edgar Rice BURROUGHS. Carson of Venus. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (1939). First edition. Fine in a slightly spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to a noted collector. 474 Philip José FARMER. The Green Odyssey. New York: Ballantine Books (1957). First edition. Vertical creases on the cheap cardboard boards, else about fine in a fresh, near fine dustwrapper with some very modest wear. Farmer s exceptionally uncommon first book. Most copies seem to have gone to libraries with the result that when found in the market they usually have replaced endpapers and have jackets that have either been marred with library markings, or married from other copies. This copy has never seen the inside of a public library and every indication is that the jacket has remained with it throughout its existence. As nice a copy as we ve seen in the past three decades. 475 David EDDINGS. The Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician s Gambit, Castle of Wizardry, Enchanters End Game. London: Century Five volumes, each volume is a first edition. Very slight aging to the cheap paper pages, still easily fine in fine dustwrappers. A lovely and uniform set of five volumes of this epic and wellregarded fantasy series, with spines as nearly uniform as they are ever likely to be. Reportedly the first two volumes were issued in very small first printings, perhaps as few as 200 copies.

72 Between the Covers ~70~ C a t a l o g u e One of Two Known Copies in Jacket 476 Gaston LEROUX. The Phantom of the Opera. New York: Bobbs- Merrill (1911). First American edition. Color frontispiece and four striking two-page color illustrations by Andre Castaigne as issued. Contemporary owner name on the front fly, bottom corners a trifle bumped, near fine in a very good example of the exceptionally rare dustwrapper. The jacket has some professional internal repair, and some modest chipping at the spine ends that continues a bit onto the rear panel near the crown. The jacket art repeats the striking Castaigne image of the Phantom descending the staircase of the Paris Opera House, and wraps around onto the spine, and is overprinted in embossed gold. From an older private collection, this was long thought to be the only known jacketed copy (we remember when it last appeared in a catalogue about 20 years ago), but our research has identified one other jacketed copy, with identical text, type, and $1.25 price, but utilizing a different image from the book (thus there are two known variant jackets, each existing in only a single known copy). Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case. Filmed several times, most indelibly with Lon Chaney as the vengeful composer, and in recent decades transformed into a successful musical play, and a less successful musical film. Some modest flaws, but try to find another. A true rarity, and perhaps the only jacketed copy that will ever appear on the market. 477 Philip MacDONALD as W.J. STUART. Forbidden Planet. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1956). First edition. Fine in a price-clipped, very good plus dustwrapper that has one small nick at the top of the front panel and some light rubbing at the extremities. A novelization issued to coincide with the release of the classic science-fiction film. Penned by the under-appreciated mystery writer Philip MacDonald using a pseudonym, the story was itself based on Shakespeare s The Tempest. The film featured Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, and Robby the Robot. A very nice copy, and very scarce thus. 479 John GUNTHER. Eden for One: An Amusement. New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. A Jazz Age-style bookplate on the front fly else fine in near very good dustwrapper with offsetting on the rear panel, small chips, a split along the edge of the front flap, evidence of old internal repairs, and a modest stain on the front panel. Bleiler-listed satiric fantasy tale in the vein of James Branch Cabell s Jurgen about a man bored with familiar things, sent on a series of fantastic adventures by a magician. Very scarce in the P. M. designed jacket. An early work by the noted travel writer and author of the classic Death Be Not Proud. 480 Jack FINNEY. Time and Again. New York: Simon & Schuster (1970). First edition. A slight tear on the edge of the cloth on the rear board else about fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small crease on the rear flap and a little very light wear. A novel centered around time travel back to 19th Century New York, this book has achieved a certain cult status in the genre. A nice copy of an uncommon first edition. 478 Stephen KING. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. (West Kingston RI): Donald M. Grant (1982). First edition, trade issue. Very slight wear, fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. The first volume in the Dark Tower series. Briefly Inscribed by King. A nice copy. 481 Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT. The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Buffalo: Shroud Publishers First edition. Currey s state D(2), in second state of the jacket. Black cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Fine in very good or better yellow dustwrapper with a few small nicks and tears, and a little age-toning. Stated one of 1500 copies, this is number The Dunwich Horror and Others. Sauk City: Arkham House First edition, first printing. Tiny name stamp on the bottom edge, with a date stamped on titlepage, else near fine in near very good dustwrapper with edgewear and several small holes, mostly at the folds.

73 Between the Covers ~71~ Science-Fiction & Fantasy 483 Noëlle ROGER. He Who Sees. London: George G. Harrap & Co. (1935). Rare in jacket. 484 Max RITTENBERG. The Mind-Reader: Being Some Pages from the Strange Life of Dr. Xavier Wycherley. New York: Appleton First edition. Boards a little edgeworn and soiled, still very good or better without the presumed dustwrapper. First English edition. Translated by Robert Lancaster. Boards slightly bowed and some very light scattered foxing, else about fine in a very attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a rubbed tear at the crown. Jacket art by Nina Miller-Davidson. A French bibliofantasy the study of Buddhist manuscripts enables the protagonist to learn to see the future. 486 J.R.R. TOLKIEN. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 1954, Three volumes. Each volume is a first edition, first issue. All three volumes are fine and bright. All in original dustwrappers, the red lettering on the spines is slightly and uniformly faded. Slight and nearly invisible restoration to the extremities of the first volume, else fine with no chips, tears, owner names, or price-clipping. Each volume housed in a separate, uniform custom cloth chemise and gray quarter-morocco slipcase. Probably the most beloved fantasy, and easily one of the most important novels of the 20th Century. Recently discovered by a new generation, in part due to the award-winning film trilogy by Peter Jackson. Mixed issue sets, made-up sets employing wildly divergent-condition of the individual volumes, and rebound sets abound, but first issue sets in uniformly nice condition remain exceptionally scarce and desirable. Inscribed to Amelie Rives 485 Frank R. STOCKTON. Stockton s Stories. Second Series: The Christmas Wreck and Other Stories. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons First edition. Green cloth. Small bookplate of novelist Amelie Rives on the front pastedown, a fine copy. Inscribed by the author shortly after publication: Amelie Rives with sincere regards of Frank R. Stockton Nov. 7/86. Amelie Rives was a fantastic figure, a beautiful Southern girl, one of the most popular American authors of late 19th Century, specializing in scandalous romance novels, married first to an allegedly mad scion of the Astor family, and later to a Russian prince. This collection of stories contains some of a supernatural nature. In Bleiler, BAL The Silmarillion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (1977). First American Edition, first binding, in the first state of the text (with unbroken type on lines 28 & 29 on page 229). Very slight smudge on the foredge, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper with two minuscule tears. 488 Charles WILLIAMS. All Hallows Eve. London: Faber & Faber First edition. Edges of the boards very slightly soiled, else fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with very shallow loss at the crown, and a small stain on the rear panel. A very nice copy of the author s fragile and uncommon final novel, about a magical attempt to gain control of the souls of the dead in post-war London, and the two little girls that accidentally interfere. 489 ( ). J.R.R. TOLKIEN, C.S. LEWIS, Dorothy SAYERS, et al. Essays Presented to Charles Williams. London: Oxford First edition. With a Memoir by C.S. Lewis. Some foxing to the foredge and preliminary leaves, a small scuff on one page, else fine in very good dustwrapper with a triangular chip at the foot, and other light wear. Essays intended to be presented to Williams but instead published after his death. Among the six contributors are C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers. Very scarce, especially in jacket.

74 Between the Covers ~72~ B a s e b a l l The First Book Devoted Exclusively to Baseball 490 The Base Ball Player s Pocket Companion: Containing Rules and Regulations for Forming Clubs, Directions for the Massachusetts Game, and the New York Game, from Official Reports. Boston: Mayhew & Baker First edition. 16mo. 35(1)pp. Original flexible cloth-covered boards with a gilt illustration of a ball player. Old library stickers removed from the endpapers, small nicks at the extremities, a very good example in a custom quarter leather and cloth clamshell case. A rare book the first book exclusively devoted to baseball. According to a recent baseball auction (at which an 1861 third edition sold for $8500 plus premium) fewer than ten examples of this first edition are known. 491 Edmund Vance COOKE. Baseballogy. Chicago: Forbes & Company First edition. Pictorial paper over boards. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An attractive and uncommon book of humorous verse about baseball, rare both in jacket and in this condition. 492 Frank L. CHANCE (possibly ghostwritten by Hugh Fullerton). The Bride and The Pennant. Chicago: Laird and Lee (1910). First edition. Paperback original. Preface by Charles A. Comisky. Small bookstore label on the front wrap and the title page, cheap pulp paper quite browned, a couple of very small chips to the page edges and a couple of tiny chips to the wrappers, still a clean, very good plus copy in pictorial wrappers. Very rare pulp novel by the Cubs Peerless Leader and which includes a short biography of Chance. McCue in Baseball by the Books speculates that it was ghostwritten by Hugh Fullerton, who dedicated his own first baseball novel to Chance, and who ended his last novel with the toast, To the bride, the groom and another pennant. Fullerton was a reporter for a Chicago newspaper whose reportage was instrumental in breaking the 1919 Black Sox scandal, and he was the only local writer to predict that the White Sox Hitless Wonders would beat the Cubs in the 1906 World Series. Rare. 493 Boston Typo-Athlete. Official Organ of the Union Printers. National Baseball League. Boston: (Boston Union Printers Baseball Association) A complete run consisting of Issues 1-7, dated August 19 - August 25, Quarto, bound into marbled endpapers, three-quarter morocco and cloth. Some pages with closed tears, some loose, covers worn, otherwise a very good copy. This free periodical was the official paper of the Boston Union Printers Baseball Association, published to promote the fifth annual Printers National Baseball Tournament. OCLC locates a single run, at the Boston Public Library. 494 Ty COBB. Busting Em and Other Big League Stories. New York: Edward J. Clode (1914). First edition. Introduction by John N. Wheeler. A Christmas greeting on the front fly, with name erased, abrading the paper a bit, some light soiling and rubbing, a very good or a little better copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. A cheaply made book, this qualifies as a particularly nice copy of an exceptionally uncommon book. 495 John M. DOWD. [The Dowd Report]: In the Matter of Peter Edward Rose, Manager, Cincinnati Reds Baseball Club: Report to the Commissioner. New York: Office of the Commissioner Major League Baseball May 9, First edition. Quarto. Plastic comb-bound photo duplicated pages with a clear plastic front cover, and card rear cover. 225pp. Handwritten copyright notice on the title leaf. A small chip and tear on the plastic front cover, page edges a bit thumbed, a near fine copy. The damning report prepared by attorney John Dowd for the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, which resulted in the lifetime ban of Pete Rose from Major League Baseball. This copy Inscribed by the Commissioner of Major League Baseball to a young attorney in Dowd s office: To, Thank you for all your help Bart Giamatti. Purchased by us directly from an attorney, then working in Dowd s office, who reports that when Giamatti received the final report at Dowd s office, he promised to sign autographs for the staff, most of whom proffered baseballs. Our friend offered the report instead, the evidence of which we offer here. Apparently later generation copies of this report occasionally appear in the sports world signed by either Dowd or Rose, but we have not heard of another signed by Giamatti, who died less than four months later at the age of 51, only eight days after his final decision to ban Rose, and is rare thus.

75 Between the Covers ~73~ B a s e b a l l Three Inscribed to the Yankee Clipper 496 (Joe DiMAGGIO). Frank CAPRA. The Name Above the Title. New York: Macmillan Company (1971). Second printing. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears and a little light edgewear. Inscribed by Capra to Joe DiMaggio: To Joe DiMaggio The incomparable One with respect and admiration Frank Capra. Ex-Joe DiMaggio with a letter of provenance signed by DiMaggio s two granddaughters. 497 ( ). Michael A. MUSMANNO. The Story of The Italians in America. Garden City: Doubleday and Company First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. Inscribed by the author to Joe DiMaggio: Aug To Joe DiMaggio With ever augmenting admiration for the home runs you hit in the great game of life, touching all the bases of fair play, sportsmanship and true brotherliness. Most Sincerely, Michael A. Musmanno. Ex-Joe DiMaggio with a letter of provenance signed by DiMaggio s two granddaughters. 498 ( ). Vladimir POZNER. Parting with Illusions: The Extraordinary Life and Controversial Views of the Soviet Union s Leading Commentator. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (1990). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of creases on the front flap. Autobiography of the Russian Cold War commentator and talking head. Pozner, who spent much of his career deriding Yankee Imperialists for the Soviet propaganda machine, has Inscribed the book to a REAL Yankee Imperialist: For My Hero Joe DiMaggio! From Vladimir Pozner. Feb. 25, Laid in is a bookmark from a bookstore in San Francisco (DiMaggio s hometown). Ex-Joe DiMaggio with a letter of provenance signed by DiMaggio s two granddaughters. 499 Juvenile Pastimes; or Girls and Boys Book of Sports. New Haven: Published by S. Babcock 1849 (on the title page; 1850 on the front wrap). Edition undetermined. Stapled wrappers. 24mo. 16pp., illustrated with cuts. Scattered foxing, else a nice, near fine copy. A compilation of children s games, including a relatively early mention of baseball, as well as two illustrations of the game, one of which is a full page. Any pre-civil War baseball references are hard to find. This is a particularly attractive example of this chapbook. Rosenbach s Early American Children s Books lists several similarly titled volumes, but none that seem to conform to this in exact contents. 500 William EVERETT. Double Play; or How Joe Hardy Chose His Friends. Boston: Lee and Shepard First edition. 12mo. 244pp. Original red-brown cloth with gilt title and baseball decorations on the spine. Contemporary, neat gift inscription, bottom corners bumped, some wear to the spine ends, a very good copy. The fourth novel to incorporate baseball activity, the second was the author s own Changing Base; or What Edward Rice Learnt at School (Boston, 1869). The author, son of the famous orator Edward Everett and cousin of the author Edward Everett Hale, also served in Congress. An attractive copy. 501 Mickey MANTLE and Phil PEPE. My Favorite Summer (New York): Doubleday (1991). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Mickey Mantle.

76 Between the Covers ~74~ C a t a l o g u e William PATTEN and J. Walker McSPADDEN, edited and compiled by. The Book of Baseball from the Earliest Day to the Present Season. New York: P.F. Collier & Son (1911). First edition. Folio. Buckram and printed papercovered boards. Frontispiece by Charles Dana Gibson. Corners of the papercovered boards rubbed through, else a remarkably nice, near fine copy, with the original binding strong and unrepaired. A desirable, if not entirely rare book which is usually found damaged, repaired, or both; this is an especially nice copy. 503 Francis C. RICHTER. Richter s History and Records of Base Ball: The American Nation s Chief Sport. Philadelphia: Francis C. Richter First edition. 306 pp., copiously illustrated after photographs. Slight soiling to the boards, and a little edgewear, still a near fine copy of a very important baseball book. As a writer and associate of baseball officials, Richter was an influential force in the early development of the game. Beginning with the Philadelphia Day in 1872, then the Sunday World and Public Ledger, he was the first to set up a Sports Department for any newspaper. Richter helped form the original American Association in 1882 and to place the Philadelphia Athletics in it. The next year he helped organize the Phillies in the National League. In 1883, he started Sporting Life, a weekly newspaper, which became a great force in baseball. In 1907, he was offered the presidency of the National League, but turned it down. He edited the Reach Guide from its inception in 1901 to the 1926 volume, which he completed days before his death. A superior copy of a book usually found well worn. The Earliest Advertisement for Baseball Cards? 505 Odds and Ends. Vol. 1, Nos. 2 & 3. Mattoon, IL: F.L. Horn April and May, One quarto leaf folded to make four pages, apparently paginated with the previous issue: (1)6-8. A small stain on the first page, else fine. An amateur newspaper, on page 7 (or the third page of the newspaper) is an advertisement that reads as follows: Base Ball Cards! 25 for 20 cts. Special rates to clubs. State position and name of club when ordering. Agents wanted! Send 3 ct. stamp for samples. Franklin L. Horn, Mattoon, Ills. Within our own little circle of baseball scholars and enthusiasts debate rages over the meaning of this little advertisement, with some convinced that this is an advertisement for business or trade cards, others that it indicates a previous unknown series of amateur baseball cards, and still others believing it was an advertisement for a stillborn project proposed by the printer, with no takers. The meaning of baseball cards is somewhat fluid. A few cabinet photographs were issued in the 1850s, and the sporting goods company Peck and Snyder issued a few cabinet photograph cards of teams in ; but the first use of the term to indicate what we now consider baseball cards usually refers to mass produced player cards issued with tobacco products in the mid-1880s. Odds and Ends is an example of an amateur newspaper, part of a movement that started around 1805 and continued, with fits and starts, until the Great Depression, with the golden age of the movement between , and beginning in 1867, with the invention of an inexpensive novelty press. This item might provide a vital missing link to the study of early cards, or just be a dead-end in the evolutionary development of the hobby. At any rate, a fascinating and thought provoking item. 506 Al(fred H.) SPINK. One Thousand Sport Stories. (Chicago: The Spink Sport Stories Co. 1921). First edition. Three volumes. Red cloth gilt. Binding error has left one page corner a bit oversized, light soiling to the boards, an otherwise fine, tight set. Stories about a number of sports by Spink, one of the leading sportswriters of his day and after whom the sportswriters wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame is named. Complete sets are scarce, especially in this condition. 504 John Montgomery WARD. Base-Ball: How to Become a Player; With the Origin, History, and Expansion of the Game. Philadelphia: Athletic Publishing First edition, hardcover issue. 149pp. Early owner name, very slight rubbing to the extremities, a lovely, fine copy. Ward was one of the great pitchers; when he injured his arm, he became a star shortstop for the New York Giants. Unlike most players of his day, he was a college graduate, earning a law degree from Columbia while playing. He was the first President of the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players, the first players union, and in 1890 helped to form the Players League, which folded after one season. The Hall of Famer retired at 34 as player-manager of the world champion Giants. This is considered the first truly important book on baseball as a game. Further, most copies were issued in wrappers. We have heard informed speculation that the few extant hardbound copies were intended for presentation. Only one copy appears in the auction records for the past quarter century (a wrappered copy in 1993, $2100).

77 Between the Covers ~75~ Photography & Illustration 507 Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de BUFFON. Oeuvres Completes de Buffon. Paris: Chez Baudouin Freres, Editeurs et Chez N. Delangle, Editeur volumes (complete). Octavos. Consists of 28 volumes of text, 4 supplementary volumes by Baron Cuvier, and 2 volumes containing 180 hand colored plates. Frontispiece portrait and two folding plates. Contemporary green morocco over marbled boards with gilt spine decoration. Text in French. Older bookplate, some scattered foxing, and light edgewear to the edges of some of the spines, a handsome, near fine set. 508 Berenice ABBOTT. A Guide to Better Photography. New York: Crown Publishers First edition. Quarto. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a bit of rubbing. Very attractively illustrated with, among others, many of Abbott s own photographs, as well as with several Atget photographs from her collection. A bright and fresh copy. 509 Leo and Diane DILLON (aka The Dillons). Original Dustjacket Cover Art by The Dillons for Mrs. Munck by Ella Leffland. Boston: Houghton Mifflin First edition. Bookplate on the front fly, else fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. With the original art for the dustwrapper: acrylic and watercolor. Image matted to approximately 11½" x 17". Unsigned. Fine. The Dillons are married artists who collaborate on much of their work. 510 Julian DE MISKEY. Original New Yorker Cover Painting for the April 1, 1933 issue. Watercolor on paper. Framed to approximately 10¾" x 16". Signed lower right with the intial M, as was his custom. Fine. An image of a supercilious hunter preparing for a safari at an Abercrombie and Fitch-type store. Accompanied by an original copy of that issue of The New Yorker. With all of the Original Art and Playing Cards 511 (Playing Cards). Henrik C. DRESCHER III, with text by Sleeth MITCHELL. Vox Corvi (The Voice of the Crow). (No place - Raleigh, NC): Mythworks (No date ). First edition. Oblong small quarto. Quarter leather and printed paper over boards. Boards moderately worn, and a small marginal stain on the last leaf of text, internally fine. One of 52 numbered copies of the Thumb-print Edition with the author s thumbprint. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. A wonderful and unusual book with each page devoted to a single playing card, with the author s poetry about the mythical meanings of each card, and with an original illustration of each card by award-winning illustrator Drescher [with] the mock-up for the book with all the original art and calligraphic renderings of the poems, as well as some illustrations and title cards that were not used. In a separate folder, mailed from Drescher to Mitchell is the original art for 56 playing cards: a standard deck of 52 cards, a title card, two jokers (depicting Mitchell and Drescher), and a crow card that is used on the cover of the book. The art for the cards is in pen and ink and watercolor, the watercolor has feathered out a little on a few of the cards, but they are otherwise near fine. Drescher has published over thirty children s books, and is a frequent illustrator for major magazines and newspapers, including regular publication in the New York Times. This book precedes his first book published by a mainstream publisher by six years. Provenance on request.

78 Between the Covers ~76~ C a t a l o g u e Lee FRIEDLANDER. Cherry Blossom Time in Japan. (No place): Haywire Press (1986). First edition. Large oblong folio. Gravure printing by Thomas Palmer. Embossed silk cloth in embossed cloth slipcase. Engraved titlepage. Slightest sunning to the delicate pink silk, still easily fine. Copy number 28 of 50 copies (there were also six lettered artist s copies). Twenty-five exquisitely printed gravure images each numbered and Signed by the photographer. A beautiful production. 513 Hans GISSINGER and Marc MENEAU. La Conversation. (no place - Phoenicia, NY): Woodstock Editions First edition. Quarto. Two volumes in slipcase. Text in French with English translation by Richard Pevear. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and fine, illustrated slipcase, an as new copy. Elaborate photographic study by Gissinger of French cuisine, with conversations between Gissinger and chef Marc Meneau, selected and with additional text by Gilles Stassart. One of 2000 numbered copies, each volume numbered and Signed by Gissinger Text by Gérard OBERLÉ. Salami. (no place - Phoenicia, NY): Woodstock Editions First edition. Folio. Text in French with English translation by Richard Pevear. Fine in decorated cloth, an as new copy. Elaborate photographic study by Gissinger of Italian sausage, with accompanying essays 515 Ralph GIBSON. Chiaroscuro. (New York): Hyperion Press First edition. Oblong folio. Cloth clamshell portfolio containing a bifolium limitation leaf and fifteen (15) photographs, each numbered and Signed by the artist. One of 100 numbered copies (there were also five lettered copies). Slight rubbing to the cloth, still fine, and internally immaculate. by the noted French publisher and bookseller. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by Gissinger.

79 Between the Covers ~77~ Photography & Illustration 517 Kazumi KURIGAMI. Photographs by Kazumi Kurigami. (Tokyo): Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (1985). First edition. Oblong large octavo. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Exceptionally uncommon. 516 Sam HASKINS. Cowboy Kate & Other Stories. New York: Crown (1965). First edition. Folio. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a small tear on the rear panel. A very nice copy. Hasselblad, The Open Book, p Norman LINDSAY. Petronius: A Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon with the earliest English Translation (1694) Now First Reprinted with an Introduction Together with One Hundred Illustrations by Norman Lindsay. London: Privately Printed by Ralph Straus First edition. Large folio. Quarter Japanese vellum and paper covered boards, spine titled in gilt, printed label on the front board. Spine a 521 (Edward HOPPER). Guy Pène DU BOIS. Edward Hopper. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art (1931). First edition. Thin quarto. Bookplate of a noted journalist and historian on the front pastedown, clippings affixed on the page facing the titlepage and on the rear fly, else near fine in a tattered, good only dustwrapper. Inscribed by Edward Hopper: To J. Owen Grundy of The Villager who not only inspired but generously conducted the campaign that (we hope) will save No. 3 for another century as an historic art center on Washington Square. Edward Hopper. Below this Hopper s wife, Josephine Nivison Hopper, has also signed and dated the sentiment. Laid in is an invitation to a private viewing of the exhibit at the Whitney. Grundy was a journalist on The Villager, a Greenwich Village newspaper, who specialized in the preservation of old buildings. He continued his work as a preservationist in his home of Jersey City, where a park has been named after him. 518 Guy FRY. Original illustrations for the book Thirteen Ghostly Yarns, edited by Elizabeth Hough Sechrist. Thirteen drawings by Guy Fry. Pen and ink on gessoed illustration board. Very lightly soiled, with a few production notes and captions in the margins, just about fine. The drawings are in black and white, and each is protected by a paper sleeve. They are unsigned, but the title of the book and artist s name have been written in ink on one of the sleeves. The drawings depict various ghosts doing ghostly things. The complete suite of drawings for this book was originally published in Philadelphia by Roland Swain in 1932, and later reissued by Macrae Smith in bit tanned and some vertical scratches, some edgewear to the boards, an about very good copy, extensively illustrated with plates. One of 250 numbered copies (of a total edition of 265) Signed by Lindsay and Ralph Straus. Exceptionally scarce The Pen Drawings of Norman Lindsay. Sydney: Angus and Robertson First edition. Special Number of Art In Australia. Folio. Extensively illustrated with tipped-in plates. Quarter cloth and printed papercovered boards. An attractive, contemporary and risque bookplate tipped to the front pastedown, a near fine copy, without the presumed dustwrapper. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by Lindsay. Exceptionally scarce.

80 Between the Covers ~78~ C a t a l o g u e Ben TALBERT. Three Notebooks of Sketches and Plans for Installations, with related material. Various dates, mostly circa Three composition books. Small quartos. Modest wear, mostly near fine. Heavily illustrated by the artist Ben Talbert, one of the most important artists in the Los Angeles circle that revolved around Wallace Berman and his publication Semina. Berman and his circle were at the forefront of avant-garde cultural and artistic experimentation on the West Coast, in effect, the western equivalent of Andy Warhol and his Factory workers, with sensibilities representing the Beat and early counterculture movements. These notebooks are from Talbert s most important period, and the most important period for his circle, when he was directly influenced by and collaborating with Berman, and most of the art works presage Talbert s most cherished and representative themes nudes, intense sexuality, S&M scenes, and handwritten and illustrated plans for installations, assemblages, collages, or sculpture. Several drawings and plans are initialed and dated, although most are not, as normal for sketchbooks. Related material laid in includes several nude and mildly sexual photographs of Talbert and a woman named Gayle, presumably his wife or girlfriend, used by them as Christmas Greetings, other clothed photographs of the couple, a handmade Valentine from Gayle to Talbert, several vintage color photographs of Talbert s framed work, a couple of different invitations to memorial retrospectives of his works, after his untimely death in 1975 from a drug overdose at the age of 42, and several additional drawings by Talbert on a variety of different sizes of paper. The sketches, ranging from fully detailed drawings to impressionistic nudes, are executed in a variety of media: pencil, pen and ink, marker, gouache, colored pencil, watercolor, and a few in ball-point pen. There are 69 pages of reasonably fully executed drawings bound in, plus an additional 5 laid in, for a total of 74 pages of drawings. There are 21 pages of handwritten and illustrated plans for installations, plus another 2 laid in for a total of 23 pages. There are about 14 pages of drawing exercises bound in, where Talbert attempted to draw every conceivable object (often more than a dozen objects to a page). There is one additional drawing mounted and used as a greeting card that we are reasonably certain is by Talbert, as it is similar to his style and preferred subject matter (a spurting penis), but whose inscription: Sam Luv, Tony gives us pause. While the drawings are appealing and interesting, the plans for Pop installations, assemblages, and sculptures are fascinating, especially considering the time in which they were conceived. They include Chastitybelts shaped and illustrated as police badges, and many variations on altered televisions, mostly with sexual twists and innuendos. Talbert recently underwent a retrospective exhibit at the Andrew Roth Gallery in New York in March of This is previously unrecorded material, representing vital and important work for an overlooked but important artist in the most interesting period of his career.

81 Between the Covers ~79~ Photography & Illustration 523 Ed VAN DER ELSKEN. Sweet Life. New York: Harry N. Abrams (1966). First edition. Oblong folio. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of a splendid book, with deep, rich gravure images. Parr and Badger, The Photobook Volume 1, p Tony SARG. Original Art: Weeping Dachshunds Original art. Watercolor. Approximately 16" x 15½". Framed and glazed. Signed lower right: Tony Sarg 20. Very 524 Carl VAN VECHTEN. Seven Photographs by Carl Van Vechten (five of Gertrude Stein and two self-portraits). Seven photographs by Carl Van Vechten. Each is postcard size (5½" x 3¼"), and each bears Van Vechten s embossed stamp in the margin. Small tape or stamp hinge shadow on the reverse side of each where they were placed in an album, else just about fine. One image of Stein has some scratching, but the scratches are from the plate, not the printed image. The five photographs of Stein, each from the chest up, with a mountain range in the distance, were all apparently taken at the same time, each is printed on Dupont Defender photographic paper, and each is labeled on the reverse in Van Vechten s hand: Gertrude Stein Bilignin. One of the Van Vechten self-portraits is of the author and photographer in formal dress looking pensive, the other informal, looking even more pensive. The latter is Inscribed on the reverse: For Richard Corin [?] from Carl Van Vechten. April 1963, New York. Both are printed on Kodak photo post card paper. slightly faded, but still a near fine, interesting and amusing watercolor of a pair of weeping wiener dogs. Sarg was born in Guatemala to German and English parents, trained in Germany, married an American, and moved to England. With the advent of World War One he moved to New York where he did illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post. He was probably best known as a children s book illustrator who specialized in quirky animal figures, but he was also responsible for reviving the popularity of the marionette theater in America. For a period in the 1930s, until his death in 1942, he and his famous protégé Bill Baird designed the animated Christmas displays in the windows of Macy s, and designed the first hot-air balloons for the Macy s Thanksgiving Day parade. A pleasing little painting. 525 (Architecture). Frank Lloyd WRIGHT. Buildings, Plans and Designs. New York: Horizon Press (1963). First American edition of the Wasmuth portfolio, originally published in Germany in Introduction by Frank Lloyd Wright. Foreword by William Wesley Peters. Elephant folio, 100 loose sheets of architectural plans in printed paper folder, separate booklet, all in folding cloth and board portfolio with ribbon ties. Some smudging and wear to the portfolio, thus about very good, but internally a fine copy of this massive work. Limited to 2500 numbered copies for sale in America. With a postcard with two Frank Lloyd Wright stamps on it laid in. As Wright explains in the introduction (written for this edition two years before his death at age 91), all copies of the original portfolio intended for American distribution were destroyed in a fire. The influence of the Wasmuth portfolio, the first publication of any of Wright s work, on 20th Century architecture cannot be overstated (but call us, and we ll try!).

82 Between the Covers ~80~ M u s i c Irving Berlin s Rhyming Dictionary! 527 (Irving BERLIN). J. WALKER. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language in Which the Whole Language is Arranged According to Its Terminations Revised and Enlarged by J. Longmuir. London: George Routledge and Sons (no date - circa 1895). Revised and enlarged edition. Octavo. Red cloth. Gilt lettering dulled but readable, modest wear to the spine ends, a tight, very good copy. Irving Berlin s copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Housed in a custom quarter leather and marbled papercovered board clamshell case. Laid into the book (and now removed) are twenty slips of paper with notes by Berlin, of these, seven contain working manuscript notes for a rhyming song. The transitory and fragmentary nature of the notes are obviously inconclusive, but it appears this song is currently unpublished. Also in the book is a letter to Mrs. Berlin from a Las Vegas correspondent, and some other material. Further provenance on request. A chance to remake musical history: in an interview in his 90s (he lived to 101), Berlin claimed never to use a rhyming dictionary. 528 Benny GOODMAN and Irving KOLODIN. The Kingdom of Swing. New York: Stackpole (1939). First edition. Endpapers a bit foxed and light wear to the boards, near fine in a nice, very good or better dustwrapper that has some rubbing, and very shallow nicks at the spine ends. Advance Review Copy with publisher s complimentary slip laid in. A scarce title, issued by a relatively small press, usually found in much inferior condition. 529 Woody GUTHRIE. Bound for Glory. New York: E.P. Dutton First edition. Spine gilt a trifle dull, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small nick, and a modest tear on the rear panel. Uncommon autobiography by the legendary singer/ songwriter and folk icon. Basis for the Hal Ashby film with David Carradine. An exceptionally scarce wartime book, this is the nicest copy we ve seen. 531 John GREENWAY. American Folk Songs of Protest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with tiny nicks at the spine ends, and slight fading to the red portion of the spine. A very nice copy of an uncommon scholarly book on the subject. 532 (New Jersey). Adolph JACKSON. Pearls: a collection of sacred songs to be used at the opening of divine service. Camden, NJ: (The 530 (The Beatles). Brian EPSTEIN. A Cellarful of Noise. Garden City: Doubleday First American edition. Fine in fine, priceclipped dustwrapper. A lovely copy. Author 1850). First edition. Quarter red calf and marbled papercovered boards. 80pp. Modest wear to the spine ends and corners, a nice, very good or better copy. No title page as issued. Titled on an engraved bookplate of the front pastedown: To the members of the First Presbyterian Church of Camden, N.J.: Pearls: a collection of sacred songs to be used at the opening of divine service. Pencil Inscription by the author, who was the organist at the church, and who composed some of the songs and wrote arrangements for others. OCLC WorldCat locates but two copies, neither in New Jersey (Trinity College in Connecticut and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary). Exceptionally uncommon.

83 Between the Covers ~81~ M u s i c 533 (Dance). Uday SHANKAR. Inscribed Photograph. Black and white photograph. Matted to approximately 7" x 9½". Framed and glazed. Unexamined out of the frame. Image a bit unevenly sunned, else a very good example of this handsome image. Undated, circa Inscribed on the bottom of the image to the daughter of American artist Thornton Oakley: Miss Lansdale Oakley Very best wishes, Uday Shankar. Shankar, the elder brother of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, was as influential to Indian 536 Gustav MAHLER. Signed Cabinet Photograph. Berlin and Hamburg: E. Bieber Cabinet photograph. Approximately 6½" x 4¼". Fine condition. Elaborate backmarks with a handnumbered plate number on recto. Tiny impressed date ( 1901 ) below the image. Signed by Mahler above the image, his pen skipped a bit on the last few letters of his name. A splendid image, photographs signed by the dance as his brother was to classical Indian music. Born of a Bengali family, he studied at the Royal College of Art in London. He incorporated classical and Indian folk dance to create ballets based on Hindu themes for Anna Pavlova, and during the 1930s toured with his own dance troupe. He popularized Indian dance in both the west and India itself, and is pictured on a 1978 Indian postage stamp. 534 (KISS). Jess KITTS, as told to. Kisstory. Los Angeles: Kisstory Ltd First edition. Folio. Black leatherette stamped in silver, with applied limitation label on spine, in slipcase. Fully illustrated in color. Fine with the slipcase displaying a modicum of wear. The limitation is unspecified, this is copy number 6809, and is Signed by four members of the band: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, and Eric Singer. great composer are uncommon. 537 Manuel KOMROFF. The Magic Bow: A Romance of Paganini. New York: Harper & Brothers (1940). First edition. Offsetting to two sets of facing pages, else fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper, with tiny nicks at the crown. Basis for the 1946 film The Magic Bow directed by Bernard Knowles, and featuring Stewart Granger as Paganini. 538 John SINCLAIR and Robert LEVIN. Music and Politics. New York and Cleveland: World Publishing (1971). First edition. A small remainder mark on the bottom edge else fine in near fine dustwrapper with soiling at the crown. Signed by John Sinclair, the Detroit poet, manager of the band MC5, and leader of the White Panther Party. 535 Michael WOJCZUK. Wojczuk s Bay Area Bands Sketch Book #1 for Coloring. Berkeley: Cross Cut Saw and Mid Press Productions First edition. Oblong quarto. Stapled wrappers. Staples ozidized, small holes on the rear wrap, else a very good copy. Coloring book with pictures of various Bay Area artists performing including the Jerry Garcia Band, Merle Saunders and Jerry Garcia, Eddie Money, Energy Crisis, Sweet Chariot, Legion of Mary, Rubisa Patrol, Earthquake, Ways of Meringue, and others. 539 Paul WHITEMAN and Leslie LIEBER. How to Be a Bandleader. New York: Robert M. McBride (1948). First edition. Copiously illustrated with photographs of contemporary musicians in action. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of shallow nicks at the crown. An amusing, and very scarce book.

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