CHARLES AGVENT 291 Linden Road Mertztown, PA 19539 610-682-4750 info@charlesagvent.com; www.charlesagvent.com Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) WINTER MISCELLANY 2013 Item 37: Le Petit Prince, One of 260 SIGNED Copies
1. AESCHYLUS & SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. PROMETHEUS BOUND and PROMETHEUS UNBOUND. Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Tall octavo (7-1/4" x 11") bound in two shades of fine linen buckram-- ivory and powder-blue--divided horizontally, with two rows of decorative ornaments stamped in gold along the joint, and with spine labels of the same shades of buckram applied to the contrasting areas. Printed by the Joh. Enschede en Zonen printing house in Holland on paper made in Holland specially for this edition. Translated and with an introduction by Rex Warner. Illustrated with 16 monochrome drawings by John Farleigh executed in line and wash over a buff background. Copy #1470 of 1500, issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase. (#016746) $85.00 2. AINSLE, Patricia & RITSCHER, Paul. ENDGRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WOOD ENGRAVING IN NORTH AMERICA. (Mission, British Columbia): Barbarian Press, 1994. First Edition. Quarto 7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in cloth-backed decorated boards in a slipcase with the sides covered by the same patterned paper. Of a total edition of 430 copies, this is copy #213 of 250 copies. Errata slip tipped in at rear. Commissions notice laid in. A magnificent production with each of the 121 wood engravings, each by a different artist, printed from the original block. The 121 contemporary Canadian and American artists represented include the little known as well as giants such as Leonard Baskin, John DePol, Michael McCurdy, and Barry Moser. A beautiful book and a great reference work. Fine in slipcase, as issued, of this important book. (#016762) $1,500.00 3. AUDEN, W. H. THE AGE OF ANXIETY. New York: Random House, (1947). First Edition. Fifth Printing. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony, no. 2," this book is one of Auden's finest accomplishments. SIGNED by the author in green ink on the title page. Slight foxing to the covers. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. (#016780) 4. BARTON, Clara. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Glen Echo [MD], 5 May 1906. A four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on two adjoining sheets (5-1/4" x 6-1/2") dated 5 May 1906 from the founder of the American Red Cross and SIGNED by her. To Miss Kensel [Mary Kensel Wells, Barton's secretary] regarding various matters of the Red Cross. In part: Like yourself, I am to [sic] hurried to make a visible sign of life... Mrs. G is a Smith College girl--her husband a Harvard. They have taken up their work with all the earnestness of Settlement girls--have various branches and affiliations--one of which has been First-Aid... They have done earnest work... They seem delighted with your work, especially the textbook and the little book... Mrs. Gitterman--she says Please tell the Boston officers that I am a Smith College girl and that isn t far from them. I think they will open the Washington door... I am so anxious to see that Report I can hear the true ring of it already. Slight paper loss to one upper corner and staple holes to the other. Fine with good content. (#016770)
5. BEAN, Alan; CONRAD, Charles "Pete"; GORDON, Dick. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH: APOLLO 12 ALSEP DEPLOYMENT. NOVEMBER 19, 1969. Large framed photograph (22-1/2" x 19") SIGNED by all three Apollo 12 astronauts as well as NASA Administrator Thomas Paine. The image (13-1/4" x 10-1/2") depicts the deployment of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP) with each experiment labeled. Conrad was the third man to walk on the surface of the moon with the words, "That may have been one small step for Neil, but that was one giant leap for Pete." Fine (#016775) 6. BENOIST, Ph[illippe] & JACOTTET, J[ean]. NOUVELLES VUES DE PARIS. Paris: Auguste Bry for Gilhaut Frères, [1870]. Nouvelle Edition. Oblong folio (15-1/2" x 11") bound in contemporary brown cloth with gilt spine letters. Illustrated with a title page featuring a map of Paris and 36 numbered tinted lithographs, 18 with early handcoloring, by Jacottet, Bachelier, and Benoist. There are also 8 tinted lithographs by A. Provost from PARIS ET SES ENVIRONS, making a total of 44 present. Plates generally clean except for one which is quite foxed. Near Fine. (#016769)
7. BEOWULF. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12") bound in blue linen and a richly decorative patterned paper handmade by Ingeborg Borjeson in Stockholm. Modern verse translation of this Anglo-Saxon epic by William Ellery Leonard. Text is printed in three colors with color auto-lithographs drawn on separated plates by Lynd Ward. Copy #1470 of 1500. Issued unsigned. Fine, bright copy in glassine and a Fine slipcase. (#016750) 8. BIBLE. THE BOOK OF JOB. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1946. Small folio (8-1/2" x 12") bound in half white sheepskin leather with sheepskin corners, gilt-stamped, and gilt-decorated smooth vellum paper sides. Copy #12 of 1950 copies illustrated with 8 busy and striking color plates by Arthur Szyk, each placed by hand in the book, and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Slight rubbing to the spine, much less than normal. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. (#016744) 9. BIBLE. THE BOOK OF RUTH. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Small folio (8-1/2" x 12") bound in half white sheepskin leather with sheepskin corners, gilt-stamped, and gilt-decorated smooth vellum paper sides. Copy #12 of 1950 copies illustrated with 8 busy and striking color plates by Arthur Szyk, each placed by hand in the book, and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Just a touch of darkening to the spine. About Fine in a close to Fine slipcase and uncommon in this condition. (#016745) 10. BIBLE. THE FOUR GOSPELS: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW, ST. MARK, ST. LUKE AND ST. JOHN. Leipzig: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Octavo (7-5/8" x 9-1/2") bound by Fritzsche-Hager of Leipzig in half vellum, gold-stamped, with terra-cotta paper sides; 240 pages. Printed by Poeschel and Trepte, Leipzig, on handmade paper. Introduction by E. Sutherland. Copy #1315 of 1500 designed and decorated with woodcuts by Emil Rudolf Weiss and SIGNED by him on the colophon page. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine, bright copy in a close to Fine slipcase with soiling to one edge. (#016749) $175.00 11. BROOKE, Rupert. THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE: WITH A MEMOIR. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., 1933. Reprint. Nicely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 3/4 blue polished calf leather and marbled boards with a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label and a heavily gilt-decorated spine. Illustrated with a photogravure portrait of Brooke. Close to Fine in an attractive binding. (#016777) 12. BROWNING, Robert. THE POEMS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Tall octavo (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in blue morocco-backed boards inlaid with a black embossed portrait. Selected with an introduction by C. Day Lewis. Designed by John Dreyfus and printed at the University Printing House in Cambridge. Copy #1470 of 1500 illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick and SIGNED by him on the colophon. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in glassine and slipcase. (#016755) $85.00
13. BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc de. OEUVRES COMPLETES DE BUFFON, SUIVIES DE LA CLASSIFICATION COMPAREE DE CUVIER, LESSON, ETC., ETC. Paris: Pourrat Freres, 1837. Nouvelle Edition. Five volumes bound in 7 large octavo (6-5/8" x 10") volumes with green morocco leather spines and marbled boards, the plates bound separately in the two extra volumes. Illustrated with a total of 225 plates: a portrait, 4 folding maps, 10 black-and-white plates, and 201 delicately hand-colored plates of mammals and birds. Plates generally clean and bright. Near Fine, attractively bound. (#016768) $2,500.00
14. BUSH, George. ALL THE BEST, GEORGE BUSH. MY LIFE IN LETTERS AND OTHER WRITINGS. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999. First Edition. Bound in full gilt-decorated blue leather. One of a limited edition of 3000 numbered copies SIGNED by the former president. There was a later edition of this book by Easton Press bound in red leather. This original is much harder to come by. As New, still sealed in shrinkwrap. (#016759) 15. CAPOTE, Truman. TRUMAN CAPOTE READING HIS A CHRISTMAS MEMORY FROM "BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S." New York: United Artists, (1959). A 33-1/3 r.p.m. 12-inch High Fidelity record of Capote reading his touching memoir. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the cover above the title to literary critic Coleman Rosenberger and dated 1959 by Capote. Music composed by Irving Joseph. A few light scratches, otherwise Fine in a Very Good sleeve. (#016771) 16. CATHER, Willa. THE NOVELS AND STORIES OF WILLA CATHER [THE WORKS]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937-41. First Edition. The Autograph Edition consisting of 13 volumes, limited to 950 copies, this being #62, SIGNED by the author on the limitation page of the first volume. Most of these sets were issued in cloth and boards. This set is one of a small number bound at the Riverside Press in 3/4 black morocco leather and pink cloth boards with gilt rules and gilt-lettered and decorated spines with four raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Minor rubbing to a few volumes; two volumes with stains on the covers. A Near Fine and attractive set, scarce in this binding. (#016789) $7,500.00 17. DEFOE, Daniel. THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF MOLL FLANDERS. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Octavo (5-5/8" x 8-7/8") bound in full blue padded silk stamped in copper. Introduction by John Winterich. Illustrated with pen drawings by Reginald Marsh hand-colored by Martha Berrien. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise Fine in a close to Fine slipcase with just a tad of the peeling of the fragile gold foil usually found. Uncommon in this condition. (#016765) $175.00 18. DICKENS, Charles. GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Quarto (7" x 10") bound in green buckram and printed by R. & R. Clark with a previously unpublished 6000-word preface by George Bernard Shaw. This edition is also bibliographically important in that it is the first time Dickens's original "unhappy" ending to this great novel was published. This is copy #1267 of 1500 with 55 illustrations by Gordon Ross and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Ticket of bookseller Philip Duschnes on the verso of a rear blank. Mild sunning to spine with less discoloration than usual. Near Fine in a lightly worn, Very Good slipcase. (#016753)
19. DONNE, John. THE POEMS OF JOHN DONNE. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter burgundy morocco leather and ochre linen boards, the front board embossed with an oval portrait of Donne; 224 pages. Selected, annotated, and introduced by Frank Kermode; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with 33 engravings on wood by Imre Reiner. Copy #1470 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. (#016747) $125.00 20. ELIOT, T. S. FOUR QUARTETS. London: Faber & Faber, [1960]. First Edition. Quarto (8" x 11-3/4") bound in vellum-backed marbled boards with matching marbled paper slipcase. Gallup A43-c. The Mardersteig Edition printed on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona, Itlay, and limited to 290 numbered copies SIGNED by the author, this being copy #207. Fine in a Fine marbled slipcase housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell box. (#016763) 21. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. THE GREAT GATSBY. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1980). Octavo (6-3/4" x 8-5/8") bound by the Stinehour Press in full gray buckram stamped with a design by Deborah M. Evetts of a vintage automobile with silver headlights. Copy #1496 of 2000 illustrated with 14 color gouaches by Fred Meyer, SIGNED by him on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in a Fine slipcase. (#016641) 22. FORD, Gerald. PORTRAIT OF THE ASSASSIN. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1965). First Edition. The first and, at least to that point, only book about JFK's assassination by a member of the Warren Commission, written while Ford was still a member of Congress. SIGNED by the future President on the front endpaper. Slight wear to the bottom front corner. About Fine in a Fine, bright dustwrapper. (#016778) 23. FROST, Robert. COMPLETE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST. New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1959). Reprint. Nicely rebound by Maurin in 3/4 red morocco leather with two raised bands and a gilt-decorated and lettered spine. Illustrated with a photographic portrait of Frost by Clara Sipprell. Small scrape to spine; light wear at corners. Near Fine in an attractive binding. (#016776) $250.00
24. GLENN, John. JOHN GLENN: A MEMOIR. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999. First Edition. Bound in full gilt-decorated dark green leather. One of a limited edition of 3500 numbered copies SIGNED by the first U.S. astronaut in space. There was a later edition published by Easton Press in 2005. As New, still sealed in shrinkwrap. (#016760) $250.00 25. GRAVES, Robert. POEMS. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Octavo (6-7/8" x 10") bound in buckram and letterpress printed paper sides. Copy #1470 of 2000 illustrated with 8 water-color reproductions by Paul Hogarth. SIGNED by the typographer Freeman Keith and by the illustrator on the colophon page. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in torn glassine and Fine slipcase. (#016752) $75.00 26. [HAYES, Rutherford B.] PRENTISS, George L. OUR NATIONAL BANE; OR, THE DRY ROT IN AMERICAN POLITICS. A TRACT FOR THE TIMES TOUCHING CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1877. First Edition. Printed wraps; 118 pages. SIGNED while governor of Ohio at the top of the title page "R. B. Hayes/26 May 1877." Covers lightly soiled. About Fine. (#016782) $2,000.00 27. HESSE, Herman (MILLER, Henry). SIDDHARTHA. EINE INDISCHE DICHTUNG. (New York): The New Classics Series (New Directions), (1951). First American Edition. First English language Trade Edition, preceded only by New Direction's slipcased limited edition. First issue with "Patterson" on the verso of the half-title page. Translated from the German by Hilda Rosner. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Henry Miller on the front free endpaper: "To Mrs. Edna Liebmann/who, I hope, will/spread the good/news./henry Miller/8/10/52." Laid in are two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) by Miller to Liebmann with the original mailing envelopes addressed in Miller's hand from 1957 and 1958. Dustwrapper art by Alvin Lustig. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a short, closed tear at the bottom front and a sunned spine. (#016779) One of the Nobel Prize winner's two famous and important novels, the other being of course STEPPENWOLF. Hesse based this book on the early life of Gautama Buddha. The story of a son rebelling against his father's teaching and traditions and eventually finding true enlightenment resonated with those maturing in the 1960s and 1970s making this title something of a cult classic. It was made into a beautiful film in 1972 by Conrad Rooks.
28. HOOVER, Herbert. AN AMERICAN EPIC. Four Volume Set, with the first 3 volumes SIGNED. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1959-60- 61-64. First Edition. All First Printings. Volume I: INTRODUCTION & THE RELIEF OF BELGIUM AND NORTHERN FRANCE 1914-1930 (INSCRIBED and SIGNED). Volume II: FAMINE IN THE FORTY-FIVE NATIONS & ORGANIZATION BEHIND THE FRONT 1914-1923 (INSCRIBED and SIGNED). Volume III: FAMINE IN FORTY-FIVE NATIONS & THE BATTLE ON THE FRONT LINES 1914-1923 (INSCRIBED and SIGNED). Volume IV: INTRODUCTION, THE GUNS CEASE KILLING AND THE SAVING OF LIFE FROM FAMINE BEGINS 1939-1963 (Hoover's business card in the book, no signature. Hoover died in 1964, the year this volume was published and likely no signed copies exist.). Each of the first three volumes is INSCRIBED by Hoover "to my good friend Irene Kuhn." Also includes an unsigned note in an unknown hand to which a news story is attached regarding the death of Hoover's assistant Thomas Gregory in a car crash in 1933 and a broadside of Hoover's speech at the dedication of the Herbert Hoover Memorial Library on 1962 on his 88th birthday. Offsetting from paperclip slightly affecting one inscription. Close to Fine in Very Good dustwrappers and quite uncommon to find signed as a complete set. (#016788) $2,500.00 An account of President Herbert Hoover's relief and rehabilitation work during and just after the first World War 1914-1930, and his role again during and after the Second World War 1939-1960. 29. JEFFERSON, Thomas. THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. Lunenberg: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Small quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in blue vellum cloth and harmonizing hand-marbled paper; 384 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 16 full-page two-color lithographs drawn on the stone and 36 part-page drawings by Lynd Ward, the lithographs printed in blue and black. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise Fine in a Fine slipcase. (#016787) 30. KELLER, Helen. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. Wonderful 8" x 10" photograph of Keller standing and holding hands with her companion Polly Thomson, the two facing slightly toward each other. With a fine INSCRIPTION in pencil by Keller at the bottom half of the photo: "To: Mr. Carl E. Jackson/with pleasant memories/of his kindness." SIGNED by Keller in her typical pencil and by Thomson in ink. Photographs signed by Keller are quite uncommon; those with such a fine inscription as this are scarce. Keller almost always wrote in pencil, and with photographs often the lead did not take well to the image and all that remains is the impression from the pencil in the photo with none of the lead from the pencil. In this case, the writing is quite dark and legible, only hard to read when it crosses the dark coats worn by both women. In the original envelope addressed in Thomson's hand to Jackson at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Memphis. Fine. (#016772) $2,500.00
Item #30: SIGNED Helen Keller Photograph
31. LIBERACE. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. An 8" x 10" publicity photograph of Liberace SIGNED by the flamboyant pianist in the bottom right corner on a dark portion of the photograph, difficult to see when looking straight at it but visible on a slight angle. Small tear at the top just entering the image; crease at bottom left corner. Very Good. (#016773) 32. MANDELA, Nelson. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, (2000). First Edition. Bound in full gilt-decorated dark green leather. One of a limited edition SIGNED by the former prisoner, president, and Nobel Prize winner. Publisher's certificate and note about the book laid in. Fine. (#016761) $4,500.00 33. MANTLE, Mickey (with GLUCK, Herb). THE MICK. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Illustrated with photographs. This is the special Limited Edition, bound differently from the trade edition and SIGNED by the star centerfielder on the limitation page, one of 536 numbered copies corresponding with the number of his career home runs. This is copy #293 commemorating the 293rd home run hit at Comisky Park in Chicago on 17 June 1960. Fine without dustwrapper, as issued. Still in the original shipping box. (#016781) $1,000.00 34. MAUPASSANT, Guy de. A WOMAN'S LIFE (UNE VIE). New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-7/8") bound with a white sheepskin leather spine with a red leather gilt-lettered spine label and French marbled paper sides; 280 pages. Designed by Francis Meynell and printed at the Marchbanks Press. Introduction by Edmond Jaloux. Illustrations by Edy Legrand, pochoir hand-coloring through stencils at the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies, issued unsigned. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. (#016786) $60.00 35. (MELVILLE, Herman) BASKIN, Leonard. MOBY DICK. EIGHT ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS. (New York): (Kennedy Graphics), 1970. First Edition. Portfolio (17" x 23") of 8 original SIGNED and numbered lithographs by Leonard Baskin, this being #140 of 200 sets. Each SIGNED lithograph is 11-1/2" x 17", with the exception of Moby Dick which is 17" x 23." Fine in original cloth folder lettered in gilt. (#016774)
36. MILTON, John. PARADISE LOST. London: Septimus Prowett, 1827. First Martin Edition. Two large octavo (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in contemporary dark green morocco leather with gilt rules on the covers, gilt rules and lettering on the spines, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 24 engraved mezzotint plates by John Martin, tissue guards intact. A high point of British book illustration, Martin's attempts to make Darkness visible are monuments to the visionary strain of Romantic art. Owner inkstamp of R. B. Patterson, Edgehill House, Langside, on front endpaper of each volume; neat owner signature of Sarah Elizabeth Atkin dated 1833 on front blank of first volume. Light to moderate foxing. Short split at the bottom of the front hinge of the first volume. A Near Fine set of this beautifully illustrated edition of this classic. (#016767) 37. SAINT EXUPERY, Antoine de. LE PETIT PRINCE. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1943). First Edition. Copy #163 of only 260 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. The American edition appeared before the French or English editions. This issue with the text in French had a limitation of less than half of the 525 copies of the English language issue. One of the most beloved books of the twentieth century and scarce on the market. The dustwrapper on this copy is the original with the matching number in ink on the spine. Bookplates neatly removed from the front free endpaper and rear pastedown and one ink stamp professionally erased on the bottom of the title page. Covers and text are clean and bright. Near Fine in a price-clipped, close to Fine dustwrapper. (#016790)
38. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. THE POEMS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Large octavo (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter burnt-orange morocco leather and orange linen with a black embossed portait of the poet in the center of the front cover. Selected with an introduction by Stephen Spender. Copy #1470 of 1500 illustrated with 45 wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. (#016757) 39. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. TREASURE ISLAND. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1941. Quarto (7" x 10-3/4") bound in full blue sailcloth with a gold-stamped red leather spine label. Copy #41 of 1500 illustrated with color plates by Edward Wilson including a hand-printed lithograph of Long John Silver SIGNED by the artist. Fine, bright copy with mild sunning to the spine in a lightly soiled, Very Good slipcase. A somewhat nicer copy than normally found of this lovely book. (#016754) $200.00 40. STOKER, Bram. DRACULA. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Large octavo (7-1/8" x 11-1/8") bound in two textures of black cloth with gilt lettering and a blind-stamped design of Dracula on the front cover; 448 pages. Introduction by Anthony Boucher. Illustrated with 33 wood engravings, 8 in three-colors, by Felix Hoffmann printed from the wood blocks. Copy #382 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Some fading to the covers and to the red topstain of the bulked text edge. Close to Near Fine, lackng the slipcase. (#016688) 41. THATCHER, Margaret. STATECRAFT. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2002. First Edition. Bound in full gilt-decorated blue leather. One of a limited edition SIGNED by the former prime minister of England, as issued. Publisher's certificate laid in. Fine. (#016758) 42. THOREAU, Henry David. CAPE COD. Portland, ME: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Small quarto (6-3/4" x 10-1/4") bound in pictorial buckram. Printed at the Anthoensen Press. Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. Copy #39 of 1500 illustrated with drawings by Raymond Holden and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. Mild sunning to spine. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. (#016783) $60.00 43. VERNE, Jules. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in white English vellum with boards covered in hand-marbled paper imported from France and a spine label lettered in gold leaf. This is copy #39 of 1500 printed at the Plantin Press with an introduction by Ray Bradbury and illustrated with plates by Edward Wilson with pochoir hand-coloring. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise Fine in a Fine slipcase. (#016764) $125.00
44. VERNE, Jules. THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. Baltimore: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Quarto (7-1/8" x 10-1/4") bound in decorated linen buckram. The original translation by William Henry Giles Kingston. This is copy #39 of 1500 with an introduction by Ray Bradbury and illustrated with 32 plates by Edward Wilson with pochoir hand-coloring. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Bookplate on front pastedown. Slight rubbing to spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. (#016784) $100.00 45. VERNE, Jules. TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Quarto (7-1/8" x 10-1/4") bound in green leather-backed boards covered in paper with a hand-colored design by Edward Wilson, the endpapers with a different design. This is copy #39 of 1500 printed at the Plantin Press and illustrated with plates by Edward Wilson printed as gravures with pochoir hand-coloring. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Bookplate on front blank. Touch of rubbing to the spine. Near Fine in a sunned, Near Fine slipcase. (#016785) $125.00 Item #46: The Works of H. G. Wells, SIGNED, in 28 volumes
46. WELLS, H. G. THE WORKS OF H. G. WELLS. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First Edition. The Atlantic Edition complete in 28 volumes here bound by Stikeman & Co. for the publisher in 3/4 dark blue morocco with gilt rules and spines with two raised bands lettered and beautifully decorated in gilt with a lovely floral pattern. Copy #683 of 1050 SIGNED by the author on the limitation statement in the first volume, which contains THE TIME MACHINE. The definitive set of Wells with all of his major works including THE TIME MACHINE, THE INVISIBLE MAN, FIRST MEN IN THE MOON, WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE WAR IN THE AIR, etc., here in the very scarce original deluxe leather binding. The covers of 17 of the 28 volumes have been neatly and professionally re-attached. Very minor wear, mostly to some corners. Overall Near Fine and very attractive on the shelf. (#016791) $7,500.00 47. WHITMAN, Walt (Edward WESTON). LEAVES OF GRASS. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Two slim, tall quarto (9" x 12") volumes bound in imitation vellum reproducing in dark grass-green ink a photograph by Edward Weston who has illustrated the volume with 49 photographs specially commissioned for this book and made into exquisitely clear halftones printed on coated paper. Each spine has a leather label with the title stamped in gilt. With an introduction by Mark Van Doren. Copy #12 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. A masterpiece of the modern photographically illustrated book. Very minor wear to spine tips and corners. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. (#016756) $1,250.00 48. WILDE, Oscar. FAIRY TALES. Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, n.d. Octavo (5-1/8" x 9-1/4") in decorated boards designed by Valenti Angelo who also decorates the text; 109 pages. One of 1550 copies. Near Fine in Near Fine slipcase of this charming book. (#016766) 49. WILDER, Thornton (Jean CHARLOT). THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-7/8") bound in natural buckram with a silhouette frieze of the Bridge's doomed pedestrians stamped in black on both covers, backed in fine imported black morocco leather. Introduction by Granville Hicks. Illustrated with 16 full-color lithographs drawn directly on the plates by Jean Charlot and printed in seven colors. Copy #1470 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase with some soiling. (#016751) $85.00 50. WORDSWORTH, William. THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter tan morocco leather and ochre-dyed linen boards with the front board embossed with a portrait medallion of Wordsworth; 300 pages. Selected and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with 10 full-page line drawings, with tints added by watercolor, and a score of black-and-white drawings by John O'Connor. Copy #1470 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. (#016748)