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1. AESOP. THE FABLES OF ESOPE TRANSLATED OUT OF THE FRENSSHE IN TO ENGLYSSHE BY: WILLIAM CAXTON. Newtown: The Gregynog Press, 1931. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/4" x 12-1/4") ochre levant morocco leather, top edge gilt, signed by George Fisher and William MacCance (the designer) at the Gregynog Press Bindery. The upper cover has three gilt rules, surrounding an inner rectangle outlined by multiple gilt rules of varying thickness, surrounding a design of onlaid brown calf in which the letters of "Esope" are ingeniously intertwined. "The Fables of" is printed above that in blind, and "Caxton" below in gilt. The rear cover simply has three gilt rules and the letters "GG" on an onlay of brown calf. The spine has five raised bands. Of a total of 250 copies, this is copy #14 of only 25 in this special binding. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Some rubbing to the spine and joints with mild chipping to the head; long vertical scratch to the front cover. Owner name on front endpaper; internally fresh and clean. A Very Good and scarce example of this beautiful book. (#017357) $8,500.00 2. AUDEN, W. H. & ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. THE ASCENT OF F6. London: Faber & Faber, (1937). Second Edition. SIGNED by both authors on the title page and rather scarce as such. This copy belonged to minor poet Campbell Mitchell-Cotts whose 1937 ownership name is on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with a faded spine. (#017518) $750.00 3. AUDEN, W. H. THE DOUBLE MAN. New York: Random House, (1941). First Edition. Bloomfield & Mendelson A24a: 2000 copies printed, precedes the English edition. This copy is likely an Advance Review Copy and consists of loose signatures, never bound. In pencil on the title page is written "Aldington," this likely being Richard Aldington's copy though the signature does not match his handwriting. Some browning and chipping, as could be expected, but overall in Very Good condition and quite scarce. (#017519) $450.00
4. (AUDEN, W. H.) TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD. A SELECTION FROM THE POEMS OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944. First Edition. SIGNED by Auden on the title page with his customary striking out of his printed name. Spine gilt a little dull. Near Fine in a priceclipped, Very Good dustwrapper. (#017517) $500.00 5. AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRITORIES. New York: V. G. Audubon/Roe Laockwood & Son, 1860. Second Edition. Seven royal octavo volumes (6-3/4" x 10-3/8") uniformly bound in full publisher's blindstamped brown morocco leather and illustrated with 500 hand-colored lithographed plates. This early reissue of the royal octavo edition of 1840--44 is a remarkable production, completed at the onset of the Civil War. It differs most from the original edition in the plates, with tinted backgrounds slightly altered and tint added to plain backgrounds. The text, with a few alterations, is the same as in ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY, 1831--39. ANKER 19; AYER/ZIMMER, page 23. Owner's 1876 name on front blanks. Text with moderate to occasionally severe foxing. The plates, with all tissue guards intact, are generally clean, though all are evenly toned. The upper half of the front cover of the first volume is slightly darkened from dampstaining as is the rear cover of the second volume with one plate stained with slight damage to the coloring and a few others slightly stained. A Very Good, attractive set with lovely hand-colored plates. (#017497) SOLD
6. THE AVICULTURAL MAGAZINE, BEING THE JOURNAL OF THE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF FOREIGN AND BRITISH BIRDS IN FREEDOM AND CAPTIVITY. London: R. H. Porter; later West, Newman, & Co., 1903-1914. First Edition. Twelve octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") volumes bound in early 3/4 maroon morocco leather and marbled boards with a gilt bird and lettering on the spines. Illustrated with numerous black-andwhite reproductions and 85 color plates of birds, mostly chromolithographs, a number with hand-colored finishing. Laid in is a 1911 receipt for purchase of a subscription to this set beginning in 1911. Some rubbing to the corners and spines but generally a handsome set, the contents Fine. (#017487) $1,500.00 7. BECKETT, SAMUEL. MURPHY. New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First American Edition. Beckett's first published novel, first published in England in 1938. Copy #5 of only 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and specially bound in gilt-stamped brown cloth and tan boards. Near Fine without dustwrapper, as issued. (#017402) SOLD
8. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. A PRAYER FOR THE UNITED NATIONS. n.p.: [The Orange Mountain Private Press], (Christmas 1949). First Edition. Heavy light beige wraps (6" x 9-1/4") with the author's name printed on the front; 8 pages. One of only 15 copies printed of this prayer of common faith written by Benet in 1942. Covers lightly soiled. Near Fine and obviously very scarce. (#017484) $250.00 9. BRANDEIS, LOUIS D. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). Boston, 10 Feb. 1906. A brief letter by Brandeis to Paul M. Herzog thanking him for a message, SIGNED. Brandeis was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. Early in his career he helped develop the "right to privacy" concept by writing a HARVARD LAW REVIEW article of that title and was credited by legal scholar Roscoe Pound as having accomplished "nothing less than adding a chapter to our law." His nomination to the Supreme Court was bitterly contested, partly because, as Justice William O. Douglas wrote, "Brandeis was a militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. He was dangerous because he was incorruptible... [and] the fears of the Establishment were greater because Brandeis was the first Jew to be named to the Court." Paul Herzog, a lawyer and assistant secretary of the federal National Labor Board, was appointed to New York's State Labor Relations Board in 1937 and again in 1939. In 1942, Herzog became Chairman of the State Labor Board. During his tenure on the State Labor Board, Herzog upheld the right of New York City school janitors to join labor unions. Herzog quit his post in February 1944 to accept a commission in the U. S. Navy Reserve. Folds from mailing, otherwise Very Good. (#017406) SOLD MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH ORNITHOLOGICAL WORK OF THE 18TH CENTURY
10. BRISSON (MATHURIN JACQUES). ORNITHOLOGIE OU METHODE CONTENANT LA DIVISION DES OISEAUX EN ORDRES, SECTIONS, GENRES, ESPECES & LEURS VARIETES. A LAQUELLE ON A JOINT UNE DESCRIPTION EXACTE DE CHAQUE ESPECE, AVEC LES CITATIONS DES AUTEURS QUI EN ONT TRAITE, LES NOMS QU'ILS LEUR ONT DONNES, CEUX QUE LEUR ONT DONNES LES DIFFERENTES NATIONS, & LES NOMS VULGAIRES [BOUND WITH:] SUPPLEMENTUM ORNITHOLOGIAE. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1760. First Edition. Six quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 10") bound in contemporary marbled calf leather, rebacked with later gilt decorated spines. Dual title-pages in French and Latin with parallel text in French and Latin, engraved woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Illustrated with 6 engraved title pages and 261 folding engraved plates by Martinet depicting numerous species of birds (pigeons, peacock, stork, eagle, ostrich, turkey, pheasant, etc.). The birds are depicted in their natural habitat, with charming backgrounds. The most important French ornithological work of the 18th century. One plate with partial closed tear, most plates with some offsetting from being folded. Near Fine, handsome set. (#017499) $10,000.00 ANKER 69: "Written by one of the greatest connoisseurs of birds of the time, the work deals with 1336 species... Brisson knew by sight more than 800 of the species he described... The plates, which are folded, were drawn and engraved by Martinet. Both artistically and as accurate detail studies they are better than those of most of his predecessors"; NISSEN 145; ZIMMER, page 95: "One of the early systematic treatises on birds by a contemporary of Linnaeus." LOUISE BRYANT'S HANDWRITTEN WILL 11. (BRYANT, LOUISE). MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT: DRAFT OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF LOUISE BRYANT SIGNED. [Moscow], (1922). First Edition. Two 6-3/4" x 10-1/8" sheets written on the rectos only in pencil in a small hand and SIGNED within the text by Louise Bryant, the widow of John Reed, portrayed by Diane Keaton in the film REDS. Bryant wills to Lincoln Steffens and others "all of the books, writings and manuscripts of my deceased husband, John Reed, whether published or unpublished and all receipts and royalties therefrom, with full power to publish, republish, or sell the same outright, however, for the purposes following, to wit: All receipts and profits therefrom shall be donated to and used for defraying the expenses of the defense of persons charged with crimes and offenses [?] out of [?] and economic agitation and effort, whether under arrest or at liberty and convicted or unconvicted, and aiding the families of such persons." Bryant also instructs to have all of her and Reed's correspondence to be destroyed. An interesting and likely unique piece of history. Near Fine. (#017509) $3,500.00 (SEE LISTINGS FOR EUGENE O NEILL AND JOHN REED FOR SIMILAR ITEMS.)
12. BUKOWSKI, CHARLES. HORSES DON'T BET ON PEOPLE & NEITHER DO I: WORMWOOD REVIEW 95. (Stockton, CA): (The Wormwood Review Press), (1984). First Edition. A little magazine, stapled, with a pictorial front cover reproducing a drawing by Bukowski. Of a total edition of 700 numbered copies, this is #27 of the first 70 copies SIGNED by the poet at the bottom of the first page. Fine. (#017399) $350.00 13. BUKOWSKI, CHARLES. RELENTLESS IS THE TARANTULA. (Detroit): Planet Detroit Chapbooks, (1986). First Edition. Illustrated wraps. A chapbook with 11 poems by Bukowski. One of 500 copies printed and offered gratis to subscribers of Planet Detroit Poems. Fine. (#017398) $100.00 14. (BUKOWSKI, CHARLES) CHERRY, SAM. PHOTOGRAPH OF BUKOWSKI. n.p., [1969]. An original 5" x 7" photograph of Bukowski seated in his Hollywood apartment. The photographer's name, Sam Cherry, is stamped on the verso with ink identification notations by his son, Neeli Cherkovsky. Fine. (#017400) $300.00 15. CAPOTE, TRUMAN. IN COLD BLOOD. New York: Random House, (1965). First Edition. Copy #441 of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. (#017525) SOLD SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL LANDMARK 16. CARSON, RACHEL. SILENT SPRING. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First Edition. This book on the effects of pesticides is a landmark in environmental writing inspiring the movement that led to the banning of DDT and raising awareness of the important connection between humans and their environment which hitherto had been generally taken for granted. This copy is INSCRIBED "To Eunice/with best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Signed copies of this important book, one of the most important of the century by many standards, are rather scarce as, ironically, Carson died of cancer less than two years after its publication. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light chipping to the spine head and minor edgewear. (#017526) $3,500.00 17. CARTER, JIMMY. PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. JIMMY CARTER 1980-81 (IN THREE BOOKS). BOOK I-JANUARY 1 TO MAY 23, 1980. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1980. First Edition. Thick quarto (6-3/4" x 10"), over 1000 pages, bound in green cloth. Illustrated with color photographs. Contains the papers and speeches from the first half of Carter's last year in office. SIGNED in full on the title page and uncommon as such. Flyer for a Carter signing laid in. Fine, issued without a dustwrapper. (#017527) $450.00
WHAT FOLLOWS IS A LONG RUN OF RAYMOND CARVER ITEMS INCLUDING MANY SIGNED AND LIMITED PIECES PROMOTIONAL INSERT WITH CATHEDRAL (Item 017429) 18. (CARVER, RAYMOND; ET. AL.) WOODMAN, ALLEN (EDITOR). STORIES ABOUT HOW THINGS FALL APART AND WHAT'S LEFT WHEN THEY DO. (Tallahassee, FL): Word Beat Press, (1985). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. An anthology of 10 stories by Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Robin Hemley, Michael Martone, Barbara Milton, Jayne Anne Phillips, Patricia Volk, Joy Williams, Robley Wilson, Jr., and Tobias Wolff. Includes Carver's story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film EVERYTHING MUST GO. SIGNED by Carver at his contribution and dated May 1986. Near Fine. (#017451) $250.00 19. [CARVER, RAYMOND; UPDIKE, JOHN; OATES, JOYCE CAROL; ET. AL.] ABRAHAMS, WILLIAM (EDITOR). PRIZE STORIES 1983. THE O. HENRY AWARDS. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in tall (10-3/4") printed green wraps. First Prize went to Raymond Carver's "A Small Good Thing." Publication date and price in ink on the front cover. Small tear at the bottom of the front cover; slight strip of sunning to the front edge. Near Fine and uncommon. (#017458) $75.00
20. CARVER, RAYMOND. AT NIGHT THE SALMON MOVE. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First Edition. Early collection of poems, one of 1000 copies of the softcover issue of a total edition of 1100. SIGNED by the author on the title page. About Fine. (#017420) $450.00 21. CARVER, RAYMOND. AT NIGHT THE SALMON MOVE. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First Edition. One of only 100 numbered and SIGNED copies of the hardcover issue of a total edition of 1100. Fine. (#017474) $600.00 22. CARVER, RAYMOND. AT NIGHT THE SALMON MOVE. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First Edition. Early collection of poems, copy #21 of only 100 numbered and SIGNED copies of the hardcover issue of a total edition of 1100. Spine sunned. Near Fine. (#017475) $450.00 23. CARVER, RAYMOND. CATHEDRAL. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in plain blue printed wraps. SIGNED by Carver on the title page. Although his previous collection achieved some popularity, this title is really Carver's breakthrough and break-away (from the restraints of Gordon Lish's style) book. In it, Carver moved beyond the constraining label of minimalism to mine an emotional depth not present in his previous work and which would blossom fully in his next and last book. The title story and "A Small, Good Thing" rank among the best stories of the latter twentieth century. Faint stain on the bottom of the front cover with a small, darker stain on the rear cover. Still Near Fine. (#017433) $600.00 24. CARVER, RAYMOND. CATHEDRAL. NY: Alfred Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in plain blue printed wraps. Publisher's information sheet stapled to the inside front cover. Fine. (#017455) $200.00 25. CARVER, RAYMOND. CATHEDRAL. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. A Review Copy with publisher's slip and an oversized postcard promotional piece for the book, the first we've seen, laid in. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#017429) $75.00 26. CARVER, RAYMOND. CATHEDRAL. NY: Knopf, 1983. First Edition. SIGNED by Carver on title page. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#017446) $400.00 27. CARVER, RAYMOND. CATHEDRAL. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. (#017445) $285.00 28. CARVER, RAYMOND. EARLY FOR THE DANCE. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1986. First Edition. Of a total edition of 136, this is one of 100 numbered copies in white wraps and a printed green dustwrapper of this collection of 10 poems, none of which had previously appeared in book form, SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#017471) $150.00
29. CARVER, RAYMOND. ELEPHANT AND OTHER STORIES. London: Collins Harvill, 1988. First Edition. Uncorrected proof in printed green wraps of a collection of 7 stories for which there is no comparable American edition. Slight crease to the lower corner of the front cover. About Fine. (#017434) $125.00 30. CARVER, RAYMOND. ELEPHANT AND OTHER STORIES. London: Harvill, 1988. First Edition. There is no comparable U.S. edition of this collection of 7 stories, 5 of which appeared in WHERE I'M CALLING FROM. Fine in a Fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. (#017460) $45.00 31. CARVER, RAYMOND. ELEPHANT. A STORY. Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 1988. First Edition. One of 200 copies hand-sewn in dark gray textured wraps resembling elephant skin with a printed label on the front cover, SIGNED in pencil by the author and by the illustrator, Carl Dern, on the half-title page. Fine. (#017417) $250.00 32. CARVER, RAYMOND. FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1983. First Edition. One of 250 numbered copies in red boards SIGNED by Carver of this superb collection containing the title essay as well as his essay "On Writing," along with 50 poems and 7 stories, including "So Much Water So Close to Home," which figured prominently in Robert Altman's film SHORT CUTS. Fine in original glassine. (#017421) $300.00 33. CARVER, RAYMOND. FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1983. First Edition. One of a small number of copies bound in boards, similar to the limited edition and likely meant for libraries. The standard trade issue was in paperback. This copy is SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine in original glassine. (#017422) $750.00 34. CARVER, RAYMOND. FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1983. First Edition. The standard trade issue in paperback. There were also a small number of copies bound in boards, similar to the limited edition and likely meant for libraries. This copy is SIGNED by the author on the title page and rather uncommon as such. Near Fine. (#017423) $250.00 35. CARVER, RAYMOND. FURIOUS SEASONS. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. First Edition. Carver's second collection of stories, one of 1200 copies of the issue in pictorial wraps of a total edition of 1300. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated 1 October 1977. Fine. (#017431) $450.00 36. CARVER, RAYMOND. FURIOUS SEASONS. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. First Edition. One of 1200 copies of the issue in pictorial wraps of a total edition of 1300. This is a Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid in. Fine. (#017438) $200.00
37. CARVER, RAYMOND. HIS BATHROBE POCKETS STUFFED WITH NOTES. (Elmwood, CT): (Raven Editions), (1988). First Edition. Copy #10 of only 50 (of a total edition of 70) bound in Fabriano Ingres wrappers. Designed and printed letterpress by Carol Blinn at Warwick Press. SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Crease to upper right corner affecting text and cover. Thus Very Good (#017473) $250.00 38. CARVER, RAYMOND. IF IT PLEASE YOU. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1984. First Edition. Decorated boards with a black leather spine; (vi), 19 (1) pages. Copy "T" of 26 lettered copies signed by the author (of a total edition of 226) of this short story about an accountant. Fine without slipcase, as issued. (#017440) $400.00 39. CARVER, RAYMOND. IN A MARINE LIGHT. London: Harvill, 1987. First Edition. There is no comparable U.S. edition of this collection of poems which were published in the United States in two volumes--where WATER COMES TOGETHER WITH OTHER WATER and ULTRAMARINE--and are here rearranged with an epigraph that does not appear elsewhere. A Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid in. Fine in a just about Fine dustwrapper. (#017463) $100.00 40. CARVER, RAYMOND. MUSIC. (Concord, NH): (William B. Ewert), (1985). First Edition. A holiday greeting issued in three states: 100 unsigned copies consisting of a single sheet, folded twice, 10 ad personam signed copies designated for close friends, and 26 lettered and signed copies for collectors bound in tan wrappers. This is copy "Y" of the 26 lettered and SIGNED copies. Fine in the original envelope addressed by the publisher. (#017480) $225.00 41. CARVER, RAYMOND. MUSIC. (Concord, NH): (William B. Ewert), (1985). First Edition. A holiday greeting issued in three states. This is one of 100 unsigned copies consisting of a single sheet, folded twice. There were also 10 ad personam signed copies designated for close friends and 26 lettered and signed copies for collectors bound in tan wrappers. Fine. (#017481) $45.00 42. CARVER, RAYMOND. MY CROW. (Concord, NH): (William B. Ewert), (1984). First Edition. A holiday greeting issued in two states: 150 unsigned copies consisting of a single sheet, folded once, and 36 signed lettered copies bound in red wrappers. This is copy #34 of the 36 SIGNED copies. Fine. (#017478) SOLD 43. CARVER, RAYMOND. MY CROW. (Concord, NH): (William B. Ewert), (1984). First Edition. A holiday greeting issued in two states, this being one of 150 unsigned copies consisting of a single sheet, folded once. There were also 36 signed lettered copies bound in red wrappers. Fine in original envelope. (#017479) SOLD
44. CARVER, RAYMOND. MY FATHER'S LIFE. Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. First Edition. Copy #120 of 200 numbered copies sewn into Fabriano Roma wrappers and SIGNED by the author of a total edition of 240. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page by Gaylord Schanilec. A memoir of the Carver's father that first appeared in ESQUIRE magazine. Fine. (#017424) $200.00 45. CARVER, RAYMOND. MY FATHER'S LIFE. Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. First Edition. Copy #26 of 200 numbered copies sewn into Fabriano Roma wrappers and SIGNED by the author of a total edition of 240. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page by Gaylord Schanilec. Additionally SIGNED by Carver's wife, the poet Tess Gallagher, on the front endpaper. Fine. (#017425) $250.00 46. CARVER, RAYMOND. MY FATHER'S LIFE. Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. First Edition. Copy #192 of 200 numbered copies sewn into Fabriano Roma wrappers and SIGNED by the author of a total edition of 240. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page by Gaylord Schanilec. Additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Carver in 1987 on the front endpaper. Slight crimp in lower front corner. About Fine. (#017426) $300.00 47. CARVER, RAYMOND. MY FATHER'S LIFE. Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. First Edition. Copy #XXXIV of only 40 numbered copies sewn into Mouchette de Pombie wrappers and SIGNED by the author and by the artist of a total edition of 240. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page by Gaylord Schanilec. Additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Carver in 1987 on the front endpaper. A bit of sunning to the bottom of the wrapper. Fine. (#017427) $750.00 48. CARVER, RAYMOND. NO HEROICS, PLEASE. UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS. London: Harvill, (1991). First Edition. The true First Edition published a year before the U.S. softcover publication. Foreword by Tess Gallagher. A tight, crisp, Fine copy in a Fine bright dustwrapper. (#017459) $60.00 49. CARVER, RAYMOND. THE PAINTER & THE FISH. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1988. First Edition. Of a total edition of 100, this is one of 74 numbered copies in white wraps and a printed blue dustwrapper of this poem illustrated with woodcuts by Mary Azarian and SIGNED by the author and by the artist on the colophon page. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#017476) $250.00 50. CARVER, RAYMOND. THE PAINTER & THE FISH. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1988. First Edition. Of a total edition of 100, this is copy G of 26 lettered copies in cloth-backed beige boards of this poem illustrated with woodcuts by Mary Azarian and SIGNED by the author and by the artist on the colophon page. Fine. (#017477) $450.00
51. CARVER, RAYMOND. THE PHEASANT. Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1982. First Edition. This short story is copy #83 of 150 copies of the issue in French marble wraps of a total edition of 176 SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Fine. (#017432) $250.00 52. CARVER, RAYMOND. PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1974. First Edition. One of 500 copies in decorated wraps of the first collection of Carver's stories to be published in book form, preceding WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE? by two years. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Owner name in ink at the top of the page with the list of titles, owner blindstamp on front endpaper. Somewhat faint dampstain to the bottom of the front cover, mostly near the spine. (#017430) $225.00 53. CARVER, RAYMOND. SHORT CUTS. SELECTED STORIES. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, (1993). First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in plain light blue printed wraps. An editor's ink annotations on the printed list of titles page. About Fine. (#017456) $45.00 54. CARVER, RAYMOND. THIS WATER. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1985. First Edition. Of a total edition of 136, this is one of 100 copies in white wraps and a printed blue dustwrapper of this collection of 8 poems, none of which had previously appeared in book form, SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#017470) $200.00 55. CARVER, RAYMOND. THOSE DAYS. EARLY WRITINGS BY RAYMOND CARVER: ELEVEN POEMS AND A STORY. Elmwood, CT: Raven Editions, 1987. First Edition. Bound in marbled paper wrappers made by Faith Harrison. Designed and printed letterpress by Carol Blinn at Warwick Press. One of only 140 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Original prospectus laid in. Fine. (#017428) $350.00 56. CARVER, RAYMOND. THE TOES. (Concord, NH): (William B. Ewert), (1988). First Edition. Of a total of 136 copies, this is one of 36 bound in wraps of this poem by Carver, intended to be a signed holiday greeting but Carver died before completion. Fine. (#017469) $100.00 57. CARVER, RAYMOND. TWO POEMS. (Salisbury, MD): Scarab Press, (1982). First Edition. "Trade" issue. Intaglio illustration on the front cover by Patrick H. Cardiff. Copy #98 of 75 (of 100) numbered copies SIGNED twice by the author, once on the title page and again on the colophon page. His first limited edition after achieving some commercial success. A few faint spots to covers. About Fine. (#017467) $250.00 58. CARVER, RAYMOND. TWO POEMS. (Concord, NH): (William B. Ewert), (1986). First Edition. A holiday greeting publishing two poems--"reaching" and "Soda Crackers"--issued in two states: 100 unsigned copies consisting of a single sheet, folded once, and 26 signed lettered copies in brown wrappers. Copy "G" of the 26 SIGNED copies. Fine. (#017468) $300.00
59. CARVER, RAYMOND. ULTRAMARINE. New York: Random House, (1986). First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in bright yellow printed wraps of this collection of poems. This copy with the publisher's information slip, taped to the front cover, printed in black and stating a price of $13.95 and a publication date of 7 November 1986. Fine. (#017465) $100.00 60. CARVER, RAYMOND. ULTRAMARINE. New York: Random House, (1986). First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in bright yellow printed wraps of this collection of poems. This copy with the publisher's information slip, taped to the front cover, printed in red with the information handwritten, stating a price of $6.95 and a publication date of October 1987. Possibly a proof used for the Vintage softcover edition, though its contents are identical to that used for the hardcover first. Fine. (#017466) $100.00 61. CARVER, RAYMOND. VITAMINS. n.p. [New York]: Granta, n.d. [1984]. First Edition. An offprint in stapled wraps with a specially printed title page of this short story that first appeared in Granta Magazine in 1984 narrated by a man whose wife begins a home business selling vitamins. There were reportedly only 25 copies of this offprint produced. This copy is SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine and one of the scarcest of Carver's "A" items. (#017457) $1,000.00 62. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in cream wraps of Carver's second major collection of short fiction and his first book to go into further printings. Included is the story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film EVERYTHING MUST GO. Reproduces many corrections in the text. Not only is this copy SIGNED by the author on the title page, but it also includes a very scarce example of the proof dustwrapper with the spine and front cover similar to the finished version but the rear cover and inside flaps blank. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#017444) $1,500.00 63. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in cream wraps. Reproduces many corrections in the text. Publisher's notations in black and red ink on the front cover giving a publication date of April 1981 and a price of $9.95 along with a statement of 7500 in the first printing. Mild staining to the rear. Near Fine. (#017454) $250.00 64. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in cream wraps. Reproduces many corrections in the text. Mild darkening to the spine. Near Fine. (#017419) $200.00 65. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. A Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid in. Mild and rather typical sunning to the edges. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#017418) $135.00
66. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. About Fine in a very close to Fine dustwrapper with a small dampstain at the heel of the spine visible only internally. (#017441) $90.00 67. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. This copy with the ownership signature of a NEW YORKER staff writer on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. (#017442) $80.00 68. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. London: Collins, 1982. First British Edition. This copy SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Much less common than the American edition which was published the previous year. About Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. (#017443) $500.00 69. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. New York: Vintage Books, (March 1982). First Vintage Books Edition. First Paperback printing of Carver's second major collection of short fiction, priced at $2.95 on the front cover. This copy is SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated "11-15-86 Port Angeles Washington." Fine. (#017452) $250.00 70. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. and FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES. New York: Vintage Books, (March 1982) and (March 1984). First Vintage Books Edition. First Paperback printings of both books, each copy INSCRIBED "For Bert(?)" and SIGNED by the author "Ray Carver/Sacramento" on the half-title pages, the first title also dated "2-24-87." Fine, both housed in a specially made stiff, archival paper case. (#017453) $450.00 71. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHERE I'M CALLING FROM. NEW AND SELECTED STORIES. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988). First Edition. The author's strongest collection of stories and the last to be published in his lifetime. Several of these stories served as the basis for films, including SHORT CUTS directed by Robert Altman. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#017461) $350.00 72. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHERE I'M CALLING FROM. NEW AND SELECTED STORIES. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988). First Edition. INSCRIBED for ----- and SIGNED by the author on 29 May 1988 on the front endpaper. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with a very short closed tear at the top front. (#017462) $300.00 73. CARVER, RAYMOND. WHERE WATER COMES TOGETHER WITH OTHER WATER. New York: Random House, (1985). First Edition. Carver's first collection of poetry from a major publisher. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#017464) SOLD
74. CARVER, RAYMOND. WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE? THE STORIES OF RAYMOND CARVER. New York: McGraw Hill, (1976). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Carver's first trade book, a collection of stories that heralded a new perspective on the role of Everyman in modern fiction. A tight, crisp, Fine copy in a close to Fine bright white dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the head and just a trace of the inevitable soiling. (#017448) $750.00 75. CARVER, RAYMOND. WINTER INSOMNIA. (Santa Cruz): (Kayak), (1970). First Edition. Printed yellow and green wraps. Carver's first regularly published book and second book overall, published in an edition of 1000 copies. Illustrated by color prints by Robert McChesney. This copy SIGNED by the author on the title page. Small strip from the inside front cover adhesed on the front endpaper. Still Fine. (#017435) $400.00 76. CARVER, RAYMOND. WINTER INSOMNIA. (Santa Cruz): (Kayak), (1970). First Edition. Printed yellow and green wraps. One of 1000 copies. Illustrated by color prints by Robert McChesney. Fine. (#017439) $200.00 77. (CARVER, RAYMOND) STULL, WILLIAM L. AND CARROLL, MAUREEN P. (EDITORS). REMEMBERING RAY: A COMPOSITE BIOGRAPHY OF RAYMOND CARVER. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1993). First Edition. The 43 contributors include Tess Gallagher, Charles Wright, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Jay McInerney, William Heyen, Stephen Dobyns, William Kittredge, Hayden Carruth, and Robert Coles. Illustrated with photographs. Copy #8 of only 30 copies handbound by Earle Grey and SIGNED by the subject in 1988 on a limitation page originally intended for another title that was not published. Fine, issued without a dustwrapper. (#017436) $600.00 For more Carver see items 91 and 101 78. CLEVELAND, GROVER. THE PUBLIC PAPERS OF GROVER CLEVELAND, TWENTY-SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. MARCH 4, 1885, TO MARCH 4, 1889. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in original brown cloth. SIGNED by the President on the first blank months before his election to his historic nonconsecutive second term on the front blank to "John P. Irish/from/ Grover Cleveland/May 1, 1892." Small bookseller's ticket from Books Inc at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco on the rear pastedown. Minor rubbing to the spine tips and corners. Just about Fine. (#017396) $6,000.00 John Powell Irish (1843-1923) was a leader of the Democratic Party in Iowa and an opponent of prejudice against Japanese, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, women's suffrage, and labor unions. 79. CLINTON, BILL [WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON]. MY LIFE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Special Limited Edition issued a few months after the trade edition. Illustrated with photographs. One of 1500 numbered and SIGNED copies. Fine in slipcase, as issued. (#017501) $850.00
80. COLDEN, CADWALLADER. MEMOIR, PREPARED AT THE REQUEST OF A COMMITTEE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AND PRESENTED TO THE MAYOR OF THE CITY, AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE COMPLETION OF THE NEW YORK CANALS. New York: Corporation of New York, 1825. First Edition. Quarto (7-3/4" x 9-3/4"), bound in full giltdecorated calf leather with the city seal blindstamped on both covers, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down; v, [3], 408, [2] pages. Illustrated with the 47 listed lithographs, many folding, including 2 large folding hand-colored maps, as well as 8 lithographed facsimiles of testimonial letters by John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, and a few lithographs not listed. All lithographs were executed by Anthony Imbert, whom Harry Peters called the pioneer lithographer of New York City, after drawings by Asher B. Durand and others, including at least 3 by George Catlin. One of the first recorded American books illustrated with lithographs. HOWES C-562; AMERICAN IMPRINTS 20118; PETERS, AMERICA ON STONE, pp. 228-232. An important volume, commemorating the greatest feat of American engineering to that date, the opening of the Erie Canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. This copy with the name in gilt on the front cover of Samuel L. Mitchell. There is a portrait of Mitchell in the book engraved by Asher Durand. The front endpaper contains an inscription by Mitchell dated 1827 to his brother, Singleton, mentioning that he had received two copies of the book and was giving him this one. On the next blank page is an inscription dated 1849 by Singleton to his grandson. At the end of the book are bound a number of blank pages but for two which contain manuscript descriptions of Signals for the Grand Canal Celebration Fleet of Steam Gallies, with several small watercolors of flags. Light to moderate foxing, but generally a Near Fine and special copy of this rare and attractive book. (#017405) $5,000.00
Samuel L. Mitchell was a founding editor of The Medical Repository, the first medical journal in the United States, as well as a member of both the United States Congress and Senate. Mitchell strongly endorsed the building of the Erie Canal, sponsored by his friend and political ally DeWitt Clinton, and gave a speech at its dedication. Mitchell suggested renaming the United States of America Fredonia, combining the English "freedom" with a Latinate ending. His suggestion was not taken seriously, though some towns took on the name. He was known for his widespread knowledge, Thomas Jefferson considering him the "Congressional Dictionary." THE FIRST BOOK OF MUSIC BY A NATIVE AMERICAN 81. COMMUCK, THOMAS (A NARRAGANSETT INDIAN). INDIAN MELODIES. New York: G. Lane & C. B. Tippett, 1845. First Edition. Oblong octavo, 114 (2) pages. Original calf-backed printed boards with leather corner tips. A collection of original songs written by a Narragansett Indian who had worked on the compilation for seven years, only having learned to sing "scientifically" two years before. Apparently the first published attempt at such a feat by a Native American and thus of extreme historical importance. According to the author in his preface, he was aware of no other "son of the forest" trying to do what he had done. The songs are harmonized by Thomas Hastings, the famous American hymn compiler and composer, perhaps best known for writing the music for "Rock of Ages," who also happened to be an albino. The approximately two hundred songs in this compilation are for the most part titled after Native American tribes, though the lyrics are more traditionally Christian reflecting Commuck's Methodist Episcopal beliefs. Very scarce! Library perforated stamp on title page and two pages of preface, ink notation at top of first page of preface and first page of music; contents clean and crisp. Spine leather worn away, both covers neatly detached. Very Good. (#017524) $1,500.00
82. CONNELL, EVAN S. MESA VERDE. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992. First Edition. Folio (9-1/2" x 13") bound in full gilt-stamped vellum by Claudia Cohen. Illustrated with an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR and an etching by Robert Therrien. Copy #115 of only 150 copies (the entire edition) printed letterpress by Michael and Winifred Bixler and SIGNED by Connell and initialed by Therrien on the colophon page. Fine in slipcase, as issued. (#017513) SOLD 83. DE KAY, JAMES [HAND-COLORED PLATES]. NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK. ZOOLOGY OF NEW YORK, OR THE NEW YORK FAUNA... PART II. BIRDS. Albany: Carroll & Cook, 1844. First Edition. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-decorated cloth, lacking the spine. Illustrated with an engraved title page and 141 hand-colored lithographs of birds, mostly two per image, and containing "detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders." One of only 300 copies where the plates were colored. Moderate foxing, mostly to the text with just some plates affected. Most of the plates contain small, neat pencil identifications of the birds but are otherwise clean. Text block is cracked with one plate detached but present. A Good, complete set of these plates. (#017495) $700.00
84. DE KAY, JAMES [HAND-COLORED PLATES]. NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK. ZOOLOGY OF NEW YORK, OR THE NEW YORK FAUNA... PART II. BIRDS. Albany: Carroll & Cook, 1844. First Edition. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-decorated cloth. Illustrated with an engraved title page and 141 hand-colored lithographs of birds, mostly two per image, and containing "detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders." One of only 300 copies where the plates were colored. Nearly all of the plates are bright and clean, but a few have ragged edges. The first two plates are the worst, with the first trimmed with tears and the second with some staining. Spine badly worn, covers detached, text block cracked with many plates loose. A Good, complete set of these plates. (#017496) $600.00 85. DUBUS, ANDRE. BLESSINGS. Elmwood, CT: Raven Editions, 1987. First Edition. Bound in blue decorated paste paper over boards made by Carol Blinn who also designed and letterpressed the book at Warwick Press. Copy #23 of only 60 numbered copies (of a total edition of 70) SIGNED by the author constituting the First Seperate Edition of this story. A very attractive book by one of the modern masters of the short story. Fine. (#017505) $500.00 86. DUGAN, ALAN. POEMS. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961. First Edition. Dugan's impressive first book, winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper and uncommon in this condition. (#017521) $350.00 87. DUGAN, ALAN. POEMS. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963. First Edition. Dugan's second book, follow-up to his winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and aptly titled. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper and uncommon in this condition. (#017522) $100.00 88. EISENHOWER, DWIGHT [EISENHOWER, MAMIE]. INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DELIVERED AT THE CAPITOL... JANUARY 20, 1953. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1953. First Edition. Printed wraps, 5 pages. SIGNED by the new First Lady on the top of the front cover. On the eve of the Cold War Eisenhower makes some prescient statements: "Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains... Honoring the identity and the special heritage of each nation in the world, we shall never use our strength to try to impress upon another people our own cherished political and economic institutions." Fine. (#017520) $250.00
89. EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. POEMS. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1876. Later printing. Publisher's brown cloth; 251 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Emerson. First published in 1846. This copy is SIGNED by the author "R. Waldo Emerson/April 13, 1876" on the second blank. Spine gilt dull. Near Fine in a later cloth slipcase. (#017528) $5,000.00
90. [FONTAINE, NICOLAS] SIEUR DE ROYAUMONT. L'HISTOIRE DU VIEUX ET DU NOUVEAU TESTAMENT, AVEC DES EXPLICATIONS EDIFIANTES TIREES DES SAINTS PERES POUR REGLER LES MOEURS DANS TOUTE SORTE DE CONDITIONS. Paris: Chez Pierre Le Petit, 1686. Early Edition. Duodecimo (3-3/4" x 6") bound in contemporary calf leather with a gilt-decorated spine, spine label lacking; xiv, 656, [6] pages. An early edition of de Royaumont's classic history of the Bible (first published in 1670). This edition is illustrated with an engraved title page and 266 half-page plates. Contents very clean; spine rubbed with the hinges a little tender but the covers still tight. Very Good. (#017511) $750.00 91. (FORD, RICHARD; WOLFF, TOBIAS; ET. AL.) HALPERT, SAM (EDITOR). WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RAYMOND CARVER. (Layton, Utah): (Gibbs Smith), (1991). First Edition. Conversations with 9 writers--richard Ford, Chuck Kinder, William Kittredge, Jay McInerney, Leonard Michaels, Robert Stone, Douglas Unger, Geoffrey Wolff, and Tobias Wolff--as well as Carver's ex-wife, Maryann. SIGNED by Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff at their contributions. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#017449) $75.00 92. GENTRY, THOMAS. NESTS AND EGGS OF BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES. Philadelphia: J. A. Wagenseller, 1882. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's decorated cloth, lacking the spine which is here covered with binder's tape. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, a detailed chromolithographic title page, and 54 gorgeous chromolithographs of birds and their nests with eggs, all protected with a tissue guard. Bennett (p. 44): "Drawings done chiefly by Mr. Edwin Sheppard of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, acknowledged as the best ornithological artist in America." Rear cover loose but holding; plates vary from clean to lightly foxed. Very Good. (#017493) $1,250.00
93. GINSBERG, ALLEN. SIGNED SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPH OF GARY SNYDER TITLED GARY SNYDER, MARCH 12, 1991. First Edition. A fine image (11" x 14") of Snyder with an extensive SIGNED INSCRIPTION by the photographer Ginsberg in the margin below: Gary Snyder relaxing at breakfast, Christine's Polish Restaurant at 1st Avenue & 12th street around corner from my apartment where he stayed on visit for publication of his condensed ecological essays 'Practice of the Wild', March 12, 1991 Manhattan. Prototype of Jack Kerouac's 'Dharma Bums' hero, Snyder helped found Rin of Bone Zendo, San Juan Ridge near Nevada City, California, raised family there in Ponderosa and Blue Oak Woods since late 1960's. Near Fine. (#017374) SOLD
94. GOLDBERG, RUBE. "HOW MUCH WILL HE LET ME KEEP? COMING TAX CUT": ORIGINAL SIGNED CARTOON. The drawing in heavy pencil and chalk is of a man pulling a giant dollar bill toward him with the hand of Uncle Sam coming down on the bill with a cleaver titled "Coming Tax Cut." The image, SIGNED by Goldberg, is 11" x 12" on a 14-1/2" x 18-1/2" sheet. It more than likely was done for a newspaper as it has reproduction directions in the margin beneath the image, and while it is not dated it appears to have been accomplished sometime during the 1950s. An uncommon opportunity to acquire an original piece of art from the creator of the famous Goldberg contraptions. Near Fine. (#017510) SOLD
95. GREENE, W. T. PARROTS IN CAPTIVITY. London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-87. First Edition. Three large octavo (6-3/4" x 10") volumes bound in publisher's gilt-decorated cloth, the first two volumes in dark green with a gilt parrot on the front cover and the third volume in olive green with the title and a caged parrot in gilt on the front cover. Illustrated with 81 lovely color xylographic plates with hand-coloring, some heightened with gum arabic, of macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Intended primarily as a guide for those interested in keeping parrots as pets, the publisher spared neither pains nor expense to make the work as attractive as possible. A Fine set with bright and clean plates, increasingly uncommon as such. (#017494) SOLD FINE BIRD BOOKS, page 103; NISSEN 393; ZIMMER, page 274.
96. HAYES, RUTHERFORD B. ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880. First Edition. Printed green-gray wraps; 34 pages. SIGNED on the top margin of the front cover "With my Compliments/R. B. Hayes" by the President. Hayes covers much ground in this address beginning with the statement: "Continued opposition to the full and free enjoyment of the rights of citizenship, conferred upon the colored people by the recent amendments to the Constitution, still prevails in several of the late slaveholding States... It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear." Hayes also proposes reforming the civil service to eliminate corruption and expresses his wish to eradicate the evils of Mormon polygamy in Utah. He discusses foreign relations at some length and concludes with recommendations specific to Washington including its water supply, railroad depots, and the completion of the Washington Monument. Hayes is quite uncommon in signed books and pamphlets and when found are usually examples from his library rather than his own work. Inscription a little light, but very clear. There is a vertical crease down the center of the pamphlet. Very Good. (#017482) $3,500.00
97. IRVING, JOHN. SETTING FREE THE BEARS. New York: Random House, (1968). First Edition. Irving's scarce first book, this the issue in red cloth-backed boards. There was also an issue in full red cloth with the text bulking slightly smaller. No priority has been proven, though the number of cloth-backed copies seems to outnumber greatly the number in full cloth. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. (#017404) $1,000.00 98. JARRELL, RANDALL. LITTLE FRIEND, LITTLE FRIEND WITH HIS MOST FAMOUS POEM IN HIS HAND. New York: Dial Press, 1945. First Edition. His second book published in an edition of 2000 copies. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper for Dorothea Garritson and SIGNED by the poet below Jarrell's handwritten poem, the last poem of the book and perhaps his best known, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," with its famous last line: "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose." Slight uneven sunning to the boards from the missing sections of the dustwrapper. Near Fine in a Fair dustwrapper lacking most of the spine and with a few small tears and chips. (#017485) $8,500.00 In his review of this book Robert Lowell said it "contains some of the best poems on modern war, better, I think, and far more professional than those of Wilfred Owen, which, though they seem pathetically eternal to us now, are sometimes amateurish and unfinished. The determined, passive, sacrificial lives of the pilots, inwardly so harmless and outwardly so destructive, are ideal subjects for Jarrell" ("With Wild Dogmatism," NEW YORK TIMES, 7 October 1951).
99. KIPLING, RUDYARD. HIS APOLOGIES. (London): (The Medici Society, Ltd), (1932). First Edition. Thin 5-3/4" x 8-3/4" chapbook of Kipling's sentimental poem about a dog. Illustrated by R. H. Buxton. With the illustrated slip "With Best Wishes" tipped in. Fine, with the original envelope. Uncommon in this condition. (#017515) $100.00 100. KIPLING, RUDYARD. JUSTICE. (London): (Methuen & Co.), [1918]. First Edition. A 5-1/2" x 8" broadside printed on both sides of card stock within a border of names of towns destroyed by the Germans during World War I. Illustrated with a sword and scale above the title. Published in America as a chapbook, this poem was a warning against easy terms to Germany. Livingston 431. Light wrinkling. Near Fine. (#017514) SOLD 101. KITTREDGE, WILLIAM. WE ARE NOT IN THIS TOGETHER. Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Foreword by Raymond Carver. One of 50 numbered and SIGNED copies by both Kittredge and Carver. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#017437) $500.00
102. KJAERBOLLING, N. SKANDINAVIENS FUGLE, MED SAERLIGHT HENSYN TIL DANMARK OG DE NORDLIGE BILANDE. Copenhagen: Forfatterens Forlag, 1875-1877 and [1879]. First Edition. Octavo (5" x 7-1/2") text volume and small folio (9-1/2" x 15-1/2") plate volume bound in contemporary leatherbacked boards. Illustrated with 106 hand-colored lithographed plates of birds, with several birds to a plate. The atlas dates to 1879. ANKER 250 and 251. Included is an 1852 First Edition (ANKER 256) of the text volume of Kjaerbolling's DANMARKS FUGLE, the original of this work. Rather heavy foxing to text, less so to the atlas where foxing is light. The text block is broken in a couple of places. Overall Very Good. (#017490) $1,500.00
103. KORNER, M[AGNUS PETER]. SKANDINAVISKA FOGLAR. Lund: R. H. Porter; later West, Newman, & Co., 1842. First Edition. Quarto (7-3/4" x 9-1/2") bound in contemporary leather-backed marbled boards. Illustrated with 54 (numbered to 62) hand-colored plates of birds, with several birds to a plate. Bound at the end is a 12-page work titled SVENSKA COLORERADE FAGEL- EGG, published in 1840 in Stockholm with 4 multi-image hand-colored plates of eggs. NISSEN 525. Lacks 8 numbered plates. Minor soiling, a handful of plates with slight foxing but the majority clean. Near Fine. (#017489) $500.00
104. LEVINE, PHILIP. ON THE EDGE. Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, (1963). First Edition. Brown boards with printed paper spine label. Copy #128 of 220 numbered copies printed by hand on Golden Hind paper. Levine's first book. Slight wear to corners; adhesive remnant from removal of a small sticker at the bottom corner of the front cover. Near Fine without dustwrapper, as issued. (#017516) $1,500.00 105. LEWIN, WILLIAM. THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN, SYSTEMATICALLY ARRANGED, ACCURATELY ENGRAVED, AND PAINTED FROM NATURE... London: J. Johnson, 1800, 1796, 1797, 1801. Second Edition. Eight quarto (9-1/4" x 11-1/2") volumes bound in four in contemporary leather-backed marbled boards. Text in English and French. Illustrated with 336 fine hand-colored plates, 278 of birds and 58 of eggs. The very scarce first edition was limited to only 60 folio copies with each illustration an original watercolor by Lewin. For this second edition Lewin engraved plates for the first three volumes himself, while plates in the remaining volumes were done by his sons. While some sets have watermarks dated 1815, this set is watermarked 1794. ANKER 306; FINE BIRD BOOKS, page 91; NISSEN 562; ZIMMER, page 395. Owner name on front pastedown of first volume. Some scattered foxing, soiling but generally very clean; some rubbing to spines with nearly all the leather labels gone. Near Fine. (#017492) SOLD
106. LYNCH, W. F. NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES' EXPEDITION TO THE RIVER JORDAN AND THE DEAD SEA WITH A FINE INSCRIPTION BY JERUSALEM MAYOR TEDDY KOLLECK. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1849. First Edition. Large octavo (6" x 9-1/4") in original gilt-decorated cloth; xx, [13] - 508 pages (+40 pages of catalogue/ads at rear). Illustrated with 2 folding maps and 28 full-page wood engravings. This copy of Lynch's account of the first succesful navigation of the Dead Sea is especially interesting for its November 1963 SIGNED INSCRIPTION on the front endpaper by six-term Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kolleck to John D. "Jack" Jernegan, the United States Ambassador to Iraq (1958-1962) and Algeria (1965-1967): "I hope the times when there is 'nothing left for the U.S. Navy to do' but to sponsor scientific expeditions described in this book will return in our life time. Please accept this volume as a memento of your visit." Rebacked retaining most of the original spine. A very clean, tight, Near Fine copy. (#017408) $350.00 107. MAYNARD, CHARLES J. EGGS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., 1890. First Edition. Gilt-lettered stamped cloth in the original brown paper dustwrapper printed on the spine. Illustrated with 10 hand-colored lithographs showing multiple images of eggs. BENNETT, page 74. Some browning and staining to text. Very Good in a Good, nearly complete example of the very scarce dustwrapper, split neatly along one spine edge. (#017488) SOLD
108. MILLER, JOAQUIN. UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT: ALASKAN. "LET THERE BE LIGHT". First Edition. Folio (8-1/4" x 11-3/4") consisting of 53 pages numbered to 54 (one page contains two numbers) on lined yellow paper with a few additions at the end on white paper pasted to the yellow pages with a calligraphic title page facing a photographic reproduction of Miller. Bound in 3/4 maroon morocco leather and marbled boards housed in a slipcase of full burgundy morocco leather. Though some of the phrases, such as the title, are used in other of Miller's works, this long narrative poem appears to be unpublished. The poem begins: "In the morning of the world;/ere the holy stars were born--/early morning of the world;/o, that wondrous, wondrous morn!" We have at this point not read much else because our lives are short and Miller's handwriting is trying, but we are fairly confident that the text deals at least in part with the Alaskan Gold Rush of the 1890s as Miller visited the Klondike during that time returning to California after six months, exhausted from his adventures, with thousands of dollars of gold dust and $6,000 from a publisher for his Alaskan letters. Fine and rare, beautifully bound. (#017375) $25,000.00 The "Poet of the Sierras," also known as the Buffalo Bill of American literature, Miller was indeed one of the more colorful authors of the late 19th century, known for fabricating many features of life. While still a boy he headed from Oregon to California during the early gold rush where he worked in a number of mining camps. He survived several battles with Indians as well as several altercations with the law. He earned his keep mostly from mining and the Pony Express before his writing sustained him.
109. O'NEILL, EUGENE (BRYANT, LOUISE). THIRST AND OTHER ONE ACT PLAYS. LOUISE BRYANT'S COPY. Boston: Gorham Press, (1914). First Edition. First book by this multiple Pulitzer Prize winner, perhaps the greatest playwright of the American theater, containing 5 short plays: THIRST, THE WEB, WARNINGS, FOG, and RECKLESSNESS. Atkinson AI-1-I: 1000 copies printed, financed by his father, the actor James O'Neill. This is Louise Bryant's copy with her ownership SIGNATURE dated 1916 on the front endpaper. The book is also SIGNED by O'Neill on the front pastedown with the unattributed first 5-line stanza of Ernest Dowson's poem "Exchanges" in O'Neill's hand: "'All that I had I brought,/little enough I know,/a poor rhyme roughly wrought,/a rose to match thy snow;/all that I had I brought.'/gene O'Neill -- T.Y.A." Additionally the book is SIGNED on the list of characters for the title play by each of the actors: George Cram Cook as A Gentleman, Louise Bryant as A Dancer, and O'Neill as A West Indian Mulatto Sailor. Below the cast list Bryant has written: "As played by the/provincetown Players/Provincetown, Mass/Summer 1916." Bryant has made a similar notation on the cast list page for FOG: "Played by the Provincetown/Players--Playwrights Theatre/New York City--Winter 1917." THIRST, the second of O'Neill's plays to be produced, has a number of lines crossed out in pencil with some words added by Bryant who obviously used this text in the production of the play. The work of the Provincetown Players in the summer of 1916, with its production of THIRST and before that O'Neill's BOUND EAST FOR CARDIFF, along with plays by Bryant, John Reed, and others, is sometimes cited as the beginning of modern theater in the United States. An exceptional copy of this important book. Very Good, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. (#017500) $75,000.00
George Cram Cook, husband of author Susan Glaspell, was the founder of the Provincetown Players. At the time of the production of THIRST, O'Neill was having a brief affair with Bryant, who was in a relationship with journalist John Reed whom she would marry that fall. Their love triangle was famously fictionalized in the film REDS with Warren Beatty as Reed, Diane Keaton as Bryant, and Jack Nicholson as O'Neill. Supposedly encouraged by Bryant, O'Neill took on the most stage time of his entire career performing in this play. Both THIRST and FOG have shipwrecks as plot devices, quite likely influenced by the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 as well as O'Neill's experience keeping watch in the crow's nest of the U.S.S. Philadelphia on the same route taken by the Titanic. EZRA POUND INSCRIBED TO HIS DENTIST 110. POUND, EZRA. PATRIA MIA. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, (1950). First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author and dated March 55 on the front endpaper to Dr. Persion, the dentist who treated Pound at St. Elizabeth's before his release and return to Italy. Pound refused to accept his release until Persion had completed Pound's dental work. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. (#017401) SOLD 111. PUFENDORF, SAMUEL. INTRODUCTION A L'HISTOIRE GENERALE ET POLITIQUE DE L'UNIVERS, OÙ L'ON VOIT L'ORIGINE, LES RÉVOLUTIONS, L'ETAT PRÉSENT, & LES INTÉRÊTS DES SOUVERAINS. Amsterdam: Zacharie Chatelain, 1743-45. Eight duodecimo (4" x 6-3/4") volumes bound in recent russet morocco leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spines and morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 8 engraved frontispieces, one portrait (of 2), and 41 engraved maps by Chatelain. Volumes 1-5 deal with Europe and Africa, Volumes 6-7 with Asia, and Volume 8 with the Americas. Two tables and one portrait lacking. Contemporary armorial stamp on title pages; occasional toning or browning of text, engraved matter generally very clean. A Fine set, attractively bound. (#017409) $2,500.00
112. REED, JOHN. THE DAY IN BOHEMIA OR LIFE AMONG THE ARTISTS BEING A JEU D'ESPRIT CONTAINING MUCH THAT IS ORIGINAL AND DIVERTING. IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND THE COGNOMENS AND QUALITIES OF MANY PERSONS DESTINED ONE DAY TO ADORN THE ANNALS OF NATIONS, IN LETTERS, MUSIC, PAINTING, THE PLASTIC ARTS, AND EVEN BUSINESS; TOGETHER WITH THEIR FOIBLES, WEAKNESSES, AND SHORTCOMINGS. AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE LED BY GENIUSES IN MANHATTAN'S QUARTIER LATIN. New York: Printed for the Author, 1913. First Edition. Stiff printed brown wraps (6-1/2" x 9-5/8"). Issued in an edition of 500 copies. Though there is no indication of such in the book itself, this volume was in the possession of Louis Bryant, Reed's wife. Laid in is an interesting piece: a 6" x 7-1/4" reproduction of an unidentified figure on which is written on the verso in an unidentified hand: "In the world is a big place which is called Russia, and there is a little place, my heart, which is full of gratefulness and love for a little American doll Louise Bryant. And when Louise thinks of Russia I beg her to think of me ever yours." Following that is a name, partly obliterated, dated Moscow, April 1921. Slight soiling to the covers; the bottom of the spine lacking about two inches of paper. Very Good. (#017504) $750.00
INSCRIBED BY JOHN REED TO LOUISE BRYANT 113. REED, JOHN. SANGAR. TO LINCOLN STEFFENS (INSCRIBED TO LOUISE BRYANT). Riverside, CT: Hillacre, 1913. First Edition. Small quarto (6-1/2" x 9-3/4"); dark brown paper boards stamped in gilt on front and spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Lincoln Steffens with tissue guard. One of only 500 copies of Reed's first book, a poem subtitled "The mad recreant knight of the west." This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "To Louise/with everything/john Reed." Perhaps the best known left-wing American journalist of the twentieth century; Reed was portrayed by Warren Beatty in the film REDS, nominated for twelve Academy Awards and winner of three, which centered on Reed's life, notably his romance with Louise Bryant, played by Diane Keaton, and his early death at 33 in Moscow. Reed's best known book, TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, is Reed's firsthand account of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. Boards slightly bowed; about an inch of the spine neatly and professionally repaired at the top, slight wear at the heel. Near Fine, lacking the publisher's cardboard slipcase. (#017502) $7,500.00
114. REED, JOHN. TAMBURLAINE AND OTHER VERSES. (Riverside, CT): Hillacre, 1917. First Edition. Small quarto (6-1/4" x 9-1/2"). Issued in an edition of 500 copies, 450 on Utopian laid paper and 50 on Nordeling hand-made paper. Present here are examples of each of the two issues. The larger limitation is as published in blue paper-covered boards with a printed paper label on the front cover. The smaller limitation is bound by E. C. Lewis Co., Baylis Bindery, New York, in full black morocco leather with gilt-ruled panels and a new gilt-decorated and lettered spine, marbled endpapers. The smaller limitation is uncommon in the market. Though there is no indication of such in the books themselves, both of these volumes were in the possession of Louis Bryant, Reed's wife. Included is a 4-1/8" x 8-1/2" original photograph of John Reed on stage in costume annotated in Louise Bryant's hand on the rear: "The Game-- A Morality Play By Louise Bryant-- John Reed as Death." With the stamped credit information for photographer Paul Thompson. Dampstaining to the bottom of the spine of the larger limitation copy with little effect on the text. Some aging to the leather of the smaller limitation volume and soiling to the endpapers. Both Very Good. (#017503) $1,500.00
115. [REED, JOHN]. GROUP OF 5 SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS OF SCENES IN SPAIN WITH AN ANNOTATED PHOTOGRAPH OF A FRIEND AND A PHOTOGRAPH OF REED WITH LOUISE BRYANT. First Edition. The 5 scenic photographs are all 2-3/4" x 4-1/2" mounted on index cards and are all annotated by Reed and SIGNED by him on the versos of the index cards as "J. S. Reed/42 Wash. Sq. N.Y. 1. "From my window looking out into the square behind the hotel at Tolosa." 2. "Pyrenees Running out to sea San Sebastian." 3. Royal Box. The Annual Royal Bull-Fight San Sebastian." 4. "Witch-chase in Burgos." 5. "Hernani, a typical Basque village, dominated by its big bullying Church." The photograph of a gentleman, slightly smaller in size, is annotated by Reed in pencil on the verso identifying the man as Dr. Dobay at the Ritz Hotel. The photograph of Reed and his wife Bryant is slightly larger and depicts them standing and hugging on a porch, likely in Provincetown, with no writing on the verso. The European photographs were most likely taken by Reed during the summer of 1910 when he traveled to Europe following his graduation from Harvard. Very Good and unique. (#017507) $7,500.00
116. [REED, JOHN] (WHEELWRIGHT, EDMUND MARCH). LAMPY'S EARLY DAYS. BY AN OLD LAMPOONER. Cambridge: The Harvard Lampoon Society, 1909. First Edition. Early gilt-decorated and lettered full dark burgundy morocco (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") with the original purple wraps within; [viii], 72 pages. One of 500 copies, this illustrated history of the early days of the Society by one of its founders is very scarce. This copy especially interesting as it belonged to John Reed and is SIGNED on the endpaper: "John S. Reed '10 Ibis/'In medio tutissimus ibis/a sacred oath I swear to Heaven and him/confirming it with Ibis holy name'/-tamburlaine." Reed, who graduated from Harvard in 1910, served as president of the Harvard Lampoon. Under Reed the publication evolved from collegiate humor to literate, and often scathing, social commentary. Professionally rebacked with a new spine, mild wear to corners. Very Good. (#017506) $2,500.00 (SEE ALSO ITEMS 11 AND 109 FOR OTHER JOHN REED RELATED ITEMS) 117. REICHENOW, ANTON. DIE VÖGEL DEUTSCH-OST-AFRIKAS. Berlin: Geographische Verlagshandlung Dietrich Reimer, 1894. First Edition. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11") in publisher's original limp boards; [4], 250, [2] pages. The Birds of German East Africa illustrated with 106 figures in the text drawn from nature by Anna Held, 43 of which are delicately hand-colored. Rather scarce. Bookplate of the Field Museum of Natural History on the pastedown with both cancelled and withdrawn small ink stamps to the title page. Covers rubbed; book cocked. Contents about Fine. (#017486) SOLD
118. ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR. IT'S UP TO THE WOMEN. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. "A book of nationwide appeal to the women of America. It answers the questions of millions of women." This is copy #128 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Her first book and quite uncommon, especially in the dustwrapper. Small sunned spot to spine. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with slight chipping and a few tape repairs. (#017403) SOLD
119. ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH INSCRIBED TO CONCERT PIANIST EUGENE LIST. A superb 9" x 12" photograph printed on stiff paper depicting Mrs. Roosevelt standing in a formal white gown by a window presumably in the White House. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by her on the white dress that drapes across the floor: "To Mr. Eugene List/with good wishes/eleanor Roosevelt." Although the photograph is not signed by the photographers, it is a well-known image by Harris & Ewing. The writing is dark, though there is a smear that affects the "M" in "Mr." and the "E" in "Eleanor." Lovely and elegant image in Near Fine condition. (#017512) $750.00 120. RUSH, BENJAMIN. SIX INTRODUCTORY LECTURES, TO COURSES OF LECTURES, UPON THE INSTITUTES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Philadelphia: John Conrad, & Co. etc., 1801. First Edition. Octavo (5" x 8") bound in contemporary sheep with the original gilt-lettered leather spine label; 168 pages. Austin, 1682; Norman, 1864. After Rush joined the medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1791, he regularly delivered these introductory lectures to beginning medical students_ ( Heirs of Hippocrates 1067, citing the 1811 expanded edition). The contents are: "On the necessary connection between observation and reasoning in medicine, delivered November 7th, 1791."--"On the character of Doctor Sydenham, delivered December 9th, 1793."--"On the causes of death in diseases that are not incurable, delivered November 26th, 1798."--"On the influence of physical causes in promoting an increase of the strength and activity of the intellectual faculties of man, delivered November 18th, 1799."--"On the vices and virtues of physicians, delivered November 2nd, 1801."--"Upon the causes which have retarded the progress of medicine, and the means of promoting its certainty and greater usefulness, delivered November 3rd, 1801." Mild aging to the text, sporadic light foxing. Both covers neatly detached at the spine which is intact. Very Good. (#017523) SOLD Benjamin Rush, a friend of Benjamin Franklin and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was also one of the most respected medical doctors and theorists in America. He probably had more influence on American medicine than anyone else. The emblem of the American Psychiatric Association bears his portrait.
121. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. A COLLECTION OF POEMS, VIZ. I. VENUS AND ADONIS. II. THE RAPE OF LUCRECE. III. THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM. IV. SONNETS TO SUNDRY NOTES OF MUSICK. London: Bernard Lintot, [1709]. First Edition. The first issue, having the four sub-titles dated 1630, 1632, 1599, and 1599 respectively, of the Second Edition of Shakespeare's Poems after the very scarce 1640 edition and the first to include VENUS AND ADONIS and THE RAPE OF LUCRECE. Small octavo (4" x 6-3/4") bound by Riviere and Son in a full gilt-decorated early 20th century brown morocco original Cosway binding with recessed panels on front and rear with inset oval watercolor miniatures on ivory by C.B. Currie under glass (signed on the front pastedown) with the Henry Sotheran imprint at the bottom of the verso of the front free endpaper; (4), 155 pages. Inserted is a page with the following printed information: "This is No. 893 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J. H. Stonehouse, with Miniatures on Ivory by Miss Currie." Both Stonehouse and Currie have SIGNED the page at the bottom. The book was beautifully rebacked in the past decade or so with a new spine that blends quite well with the covers. The Currie miniature at the front is after the Droeshout Portrait (1622) of Shakespeare used as the frontispiece to the First Folio. The rear miniature is a depiction of Venus and Adonis. At some point the volume suffered some water damage which is now most visible on the endpapers and first and last few pages of the text as well as slight damage to the portrait of Shakespeare. Still a beautiful binding on a rare and important book in overall Very Good condition. (#017373) $15,000.00
Cosway bindings--named after the leading miniaturist of the Regency period, Richard Cosway (1742-1821)--were introduced in the early 1900s by John H.Stonehouse of Henry Sotheran & Company who conceived embedding miniature paintings in the covers of elaborately-tooled bindings. Harrison teamed with the Riviere bindery to create the bindings after his designs. Riviere hired Miss C. B. Currie to create the delicate miniature paintings on ivory inset into the covers and protected by thin panes of glass. Much imitated since, original Cosway bindings such as this, particularly when on a book of some importance, are highly desired. 122. STEVENS, WALLACE. IDEAS OF ORDER. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First Edition. The first binding in vertically striped parti-colored cloth with a printed label on the spine, one of 500 copies in this binding. Poet's second book, previously published in a small limitation of 165 copies by the Alcestis Press. Darkening to the edges of the boards and the spine with light fraying at the tips. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with rubbing and slight loss to the spine. (#017498) SOLD
123. SUNDEVALL, CARL J. SVENSKA FOGLARNA. Stockholm: J. & A. Riis and P & G Beiger, 1856 and 1883. First Edition. Two oblong folio (11-1/4" x 9" and 12-1/2" x 10") volumes bound in contemporary leather-backed boards. The smaller volume contains the first volume of text in addition to the lithographed title page and the 84 hand-colored lithographed plates of birds, with several birds to a plate. The larger volume contains the remaining 3 volumes of text. Some foxing to the text, much less so to the plates, half of which are clean and the other half exhibiting foxing to various degrees, mostly light. Very Good and uncommon to find complete. (#017491) SOLD ANKER 490; FINE BIRD BOOKS, page 110; WOOD, page 587: "An interesting and systematic account... The plates are well made and greatly assist the identification of varieties."
LEAF OF THOREAU MANUSCRIPT MENTIONING WALDEN POND
124. THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU WITH A LEAF OF MANUSCRIPT MENTIONING WALDEN POND. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. Manuscript Edition. Large octavo (6" x 8-3/4"), 20 volumes bound by Stikeman and Co. in 3/4 brown morocco leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spines. Illustrated with 3 portraits and 101 gravures after photographs by Herbert Gleason. BAL 20145: copy #396 of 600 numbered sets SIGNED by the publisher with an inlaid leaf of Thoreau's original holograph manuscript written on both sides of the sheet regarding the Fall coloring of trees. The manuscript in this copy is from Thoreau's important essay "Autumnal Tints," perhaps the best essay written by anyone on the subject of the color of the changing fall leaves. In part: "Notwithstanding that the red maple is the most intense scarlet of any of our trees, the sugar maple has been the most celebrated, and Michaux, in his Sylva, does not speak of the autumnal color of the former... Walden's hilly shore too is now most beautifully painted chiefly, with small trees of this species which extend their red banners over the water, and here and there on one side slender young black birches rise a clear pale yellow quite distinct amid the evergreens and other trees on the steep shore." Much more. Thoreau manuscript material is increasingly scarce and more expensive to obtain, nearly always being found as it is here, bound into the Manuscript Edition. Partial separation along fold on the manuscript page. One volume slightly chipped along spine. Near Fine. (#017407)SOLD This edition marks the first printing of Thoreau's entire Journal.
125. WILDER, THORNTON. OUR TOWN WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). NY: Coward-McCann, (1938). First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "For Roger Seccombe/with the best wishes of/thornton Wilder/New Haven/November/1938." With 2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) on both sides of one sheet of personal stationery addressed to Seccombe and inserted in a handwritten, postmarked envelope to Roger Seccombe dated 25 October 1941 tipped in at the front endpaper. In full: "Many thanks for your letter. It is a great pleasure to hear from any relative or friend of my friend whom I admire so much. I wish I were in Chicago and could have some talks with your son. However, I rejoined the faculty this past summer alone, after four years' absence, and do not foresee when I shall return there again. This is a double disappointment, because I should also like to ask him many questions about Antioch -- a place which all teachers watch with such interest. I have just returned from England where I spent the month of September and I am very eager -- if all my accumulated work will only permit -- to go up to Peterboro and tell Mary of all the absorbing and sad and finally magnificent things I saw there. Tell your son that I hope to see him some day and never to hesitate to call on me, if he hears that I am in the vicinity. Sincerely yours, Thornton Wilder." In September of 1941, Wilder went to England to attend a congress of the International PEN Club whose main theme was "Literature and the World after the War," but the heart of the issue was the responsibility of the writer in time of war. Wilder was part of a vocal group that opposed the president of British PEN, Storm Jameson, who insisted that members commit themselves exclusively to propaganda for the Allied cause. (Stein, Gertrude; Wilder; Thornton; Burns, Edward; Dydo, Ulla E.; Rice, William. THE LETTERS OF GERTRUDE STEIN AND THORNTON WILDER, page 297). When not caught up in navigating the politics of PEN, Wilder wrote to American educational philosopher Robert Maynard Hutchins that his days in London, "were crowded with inspections of ruins, defense activities, airplane factories, bomber commands, luncheons, interviews with works, journalists. Ministers, dinners, writers, and so on" (Wilder, Thornton; Wilder, Robin; Bryer, Jackson. THE SELECTED LETTERS OF THORNTON WILDER, page 400). It is perhaps to this variety of experiences while in London which Wilder refers in this letter when he says, "I have just returned from England where I spent the month of September and I am very eager -- if all my accumulated work will only permit -- to go up to Peterboro and tell Mary of all the absorbing and sad and finally magnificent things I saw there." Some sunning to covers. About Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. The letter has a crease from folding, otherwise Fine, with envelope. (#017414) $2,500.00 126. [WILDER, THORNTON]. CHAP BOOK. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LITERARY MAGAZINE. [VOL. III, NO. 2]. [Syracuse]: [Syracuse University], January 1931. First Edition. A 23-page pamphlet with a tipped-on photographic reproduction of Wilder on the front cover and an excerpt from Wilder's foreword to THE ANGEL THAT TROUBLED THE WATER reprinted as the first page of text, a brief note by the editor at the end claiming this to be the Wilder issue, and a 3-page critical study of WOMAN OF ANDROS by a student. Dime-sized faint stain on front cover; light wear. Near Fine. (#017415) $100.00
127. WRIGHT, CHARLES. THE VENICE NOTEBOOK. (Boston): (Barn Dream Press), (1971). First Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. Copy #58 of 100 (of a total edition of 500 copies) SIGNED by the poet. Photograph of the poet on the rear cover by James Tate. Slight soiling to the covers. Near Fine. (#017483) $250.00 ONE OF MANY RAYMOND CARVER TITLES INCLUDED