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Paine, Albert Bigelow Mark Twain: A Biography
New York: Harper, 1912 Tipped in to Volume Two is an Autograph Letter signed (“S.L. Clemens”), to Miss Annie. 3pp. Small 8vo, Hotel Kaiserhoff, Bad Nauheim, 18 July [ca. 1892]. A good personal letter regretting that he was unable to see her before returning to Europe: “It was too bad! If I had foreseen that I was not going to have an opportunity to call again, I would have marched into the house in spite of the prohibition; I excused you from seeing me only because I supposed I was going to have a chance to run in next day. Many is thae time I have regretted, since, that I didn't make sure of you while I had the opportunity. I will not run that sort of risk again…I also failed to see Dr. Root & Archie Welch. I came away pretty thoroughly disgusted with my flying visit…” Written just after a brief return to Europe where his family was vacationing in Nauheim. It was there in Nauheim that he conceived and began work on Puddenhead Wilson (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L) First Edition. 3 vols., 8vo. Illustrated. Original red cloth
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Brehm, Worth FINE ORIGINAL CHARCOAL SKETCH, A PRELIMINARY DRAWING FOR THE “WHITEWASHINGTHE FENCE” EPISODE IN THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
n.p., ca. 1910 A very interesting drawing indeed, showing Tom, in profile, seated on a barrel with other boys standing by, directing one of a series of his chums who, for a consideration, he has allowed to whitewash the fence: “He had a nice, good, idle time all the while--plenty of company--and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village”. The drawing is a preliminary one--the figure of Tom is well realized, but the others are done in a sketchier manner--evidently for the Harper 1910 edition. This image was subsequently replaced with one showing just Tom and another boy by the fence. A noteworthy drawing, showing how Brehm went about constructing one of his superb illustrations for Twain's classic work Evidently planned for the edition published by Harper & Brothers, 1910. Image size 17 x 12 inches. Matted
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Leech, John (1817-1864) An album of 10 watercolors and pencil drawings
n.p., n.d. Works included are: 1. Title page for "Jolly Fellers", Comic Song Book, in pencil and watercolor, initalled 2. Woman winding a clock, watercolor, signed "John Leech" 3. "A Tramp", watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 4. Gamblers at roulette table, watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 5. "Man throwing brick through a window", watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 6. A man dressing, watercolor, initalled "JL" 7. "Boy with a Hoop", watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 8. Women reading before a fire, pen and ink and watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 9. Apropos of Bloomerism, pencil (see Life and Character, 1st series, p. 69) 10. Roman Pastoral Poetry-1 (couple and dog), pen and ink and watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 6 x 4-3/4 and smaller. . Blue cloth spine and tan cloth
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Portrait of a Lady, oval bust length portrait with wire rim glasses andsausage curls
n.p., c.1840 (PHOTOGRAPHY) 1 3/4"x2" image in gold frame. .
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Webster, Noah Autograph Letter Signed (“N Webster”) to Henry Henrick, newspaper editorin Knoxville, attacking Lyman Cobb
New Haven, oct. 26 1836 Webster thanks Henrick, evidently editor of a newspaper in Knoxville, for inserting Webster’s “Caution” about the pirated Speller circulating in the market, then turning to the career of his arch-rival in the battle over the American Speller, Lyman Cobb. Webster pours out his feelings: “…He is an extraordinary man. His history is shortly thus. He was a poor boy in Lenox, Mass. Mr. Kamlin the printer here was in school with him. He afterwards lived with a Mr. Bosworth of Albany, as a menial, but I am told he was addicted to lying for which he was flogged. He thus ran away & the first thing Bosworth heard form him was, he had made a Spelling Book. It seems he went westward & kept school, then in Walker’s Dictionary adopted his plan of spelling & pronunciation. After he published his Sp Book, he attacked MINE, marked every thing in which I differ from Walker, published a long series of papers against me, first in an Albany paper, then in a pamphlet, which he sent by mail into all quarters. When my Dictionary appeared, he again wrote against me in a New York paper, finding fault with my discrepancies of orthography, published a pamphlet which you have doubtless seen…In his book many plagiarism form my dictionary, as there are in his little reticule.” As for the battle between Cobb’ Speller and Webster’s, according to Morgan in NOAH WEBSTER (1975), p. 190, “Although Cobb did not surrender, he had to fight a long retreat, and Webster’s book ultimately won the war…” 4to. 1-1/2 pp. With integral blank, addressed and postmarked on verso. Minor soiling, remains of seal, old folds; very good. Housed in a custom morocco-backed folding case
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Steinbeck, John Autograph Letter Signed (“John”) to Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard,regarding his new-born son, Tom, his and Gwyn’s plans for their new housein Monterey, and other personal matters
[Monterey, California, november, 1944] UNPUBLISHED letter from the author of THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Recently arrived in Monterey from New York, with Cannery Row completed, his new son Tom only a few months old, and where he had found his new house (The Soto House), Steinbeck, in high spirits, writes his good friends Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard who are expecting their first child: “We're writing Dr. Benaron today about the best man in your area …I'm a believer in a hell of a lot of prenatal inspection. It saves a lot of trouble and can make the difference between a miserable time and a very happy time.…Anyway you'll have fun. Honest Tom, now known as Swine Child, is a lot of fun. We enjoy him all the time. He is very funny and completely unremarkable. Has two eyes, two ears and the proper number of arms and legs. I wonder, by the way, who said that number was proper. Undoubtedly some egotist with two arms and two legs. …Tom's mental age is 11 weeks and he is three months old. This keeps him out of Harvard and the presidency not to mention Time-life. Do you suppose there is a vacancy is the Meglin kiddies. Hemight as well tap dance as just lie around the house. Our new house is one of the nicest of the adobes. Built about 1835, quite small - big living room, two bedrooms, lean-to kitchen and bath and a large garden. After the war we will add a wing in adobe. It is a very pleasant house. I'm sure you will like it. Well probably be in it by next weekend. We're going to have2o do the painting ourselves, but I like doing that. I once was a painter's apprentice for 6 months. Now it is Sunday and a very beautiful day. The rain is over and the earth giveth a good smell. It may take a couple or three days to get a reply from Chicago. Last night some drunks came in. I am getting old I guess. I didn't find them amusing. This is probably a bad thing. Three blimps are just outside off the coast, looking for something from their maneuvers. That's all - will let you know what we find out…” 14 x 8-1/2 inches. 2pp. in pencil, on rectos of two legal-size ruled note sheets. Very good. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith
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Steinbeck, John Typed Letter Signed (“John”) to Burgess Meredith , regarding his plannedtrip to Europe, the premier of the film THE PEARL, the state of politicalaffairs in the U. S., etc
175 East 78th St., New York City, may 6, [1947] A fin, UNPUBLISHED letter from Steinbeck to his close friends Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard, : “We had a little bit of horror the other nlght. The Ratheons [?] gave a little reception at the RitzCarlton for President Aleman of Mexico. The prize bit of this evening was to be the world premier of my picture THE PEARL which I have been making for two years and a half. So they set up a screen and started the picture. First the FBI insisted that a big spot light be kept on the face of Aleman and you had to look at the screen through lt (incidently it made him a perfect target if anyone had wanted to shoot him. Then the power went not off but down enough so that all you could see were some dark shadows moving on a darker screen. It was quite something. Third it was in spanish which not ten eople in the audience understood. You can see that it was one of my greatest personal triumphs. I was sitting ln back but Gwyn says that in the middle of this horror Aleman leaned over and patted me on the shoulder and said, "Now don't you worry. It's going to be all right." Nothing so beautiful has ever happened to me. I am glad to hear that you are both so happy in your work. I have had a kind of a year of frustrations and disappointments, all my own fault but keen nevertheless. Thats one of the reasons I want to get out with some goat herder and vinyardists in the Greek countryside. I guess Milly is working on the Red Pony. I haven't heard anything to the contrary. New York is rainy and pleasant to me. Everythlng is moist and you don't dry out. But there is a dreadful nervousness. Congress just cut off all the state departments revenue for radio and magazines and gave J Edgar Hoover every cent he asked for. That seems to be the trend. Everybody is calling everybody else a communist. A group of Senators is going out to investigate Hollywood and to try to get laid. Louella Parsons has taken a strong stand against communism…” UNPUBLISHED 11-1/4 x 7-1/4 inches. 1-1/2pp. on personal stationery. Slightly waterstaining. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith
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Van Vechten, Carl Portrait Photograph of Billie Holiday
[New York, march 23, 1949 Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN (1978) (HOLIDAY, BILLIE) Approximately 9-1/2 x 7 inches. Vintage gelatin print. With the photographer's embossed stamp in the image and his atelier ink stamp on verso: “Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West /Cannot be reproduced without permission ” and with holograph notes giving subject of the photo, (“March 23, 1949”), and number of the print (III gg.4”). Matted and framed
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[Burke, Edmund] A Philosphical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime andBeautiful
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 Burke’s very scarce fifth publication (if one includesthe disputed AN ACCOUNT OF THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS), and, according to Todd (citing internal evidence) “This would appear to be a rather small edition, possibly like the VINDICATION limited to 500 copies…” First Edition, with half-title. 8vo. [16], 184 pp. Contemporary tan calf, leather spine label. Joints a bit tender, but the binding is sound and the interior is immaculate, beautifully clean and crisp, and complete with half-title. Todd 5a
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Shakespeare, William The Dramatic Works of. ..Revised by George Steevens
London: Printed by Bulmer & Co. for John & Josiah Boydell , George and W.Nicol, 1802 This set contains Boydell's series of large copper plates that were engraved after a number of well known contemporary artists. A type foundary, an Ink factory and a printing plant were all erected especially for the production of this edition, which actually began to be issued serially in 1791, despite the 1802 imprint 8 of 9 Volumes WITHOUT VOLUME 9 vols., Folio (16-1/2 x 13 inches). 81 [of 100] Plates after Fuseli, Reynolds, Westall, Ibbetson, Boydell, Stothard, et al. Bound in half contemporary pebbled brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine, t.e.g. A little scuffed, some scattered foxing (only occasionally affecting plates), usual offsetting from plates, else a very good set. Bookplate of Samuel Bancroft and Alfred Byers. Jaggard, p. 508
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Nichols, J[ohn] (attributed to) [Hebrew Orthography] or an Interpretation of All the Proper NamesContained in Holy Scripture, Including in Particular the Orthography andEtymology of Hebrew Words and Words in Other Languages, Interpolated withSundry Phylological and Grammatical Remarks, the Whole Composed inAlphabetical Order … by J. Nichols
n.p., n.d. (HEBRAICA) 8vo. Manuscript volume of 400 pages. Bound in modern brown morocco and red cloth
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Maugham, William Somerset Of Human Bondage
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915 Inscribed simply by Maugham on the front free endpaper in ink: “For Paul North / W. Somerset Maugham” Inscribed copies of the true first (American) edition of Maugham’s most famous book are extremely scarce, from any period. This inscription, although probably not contemporary with publication, has the look and feel of being early, and is in brown ink -- not at all like the blue-ink which Maugham typically used in later, post-war inscriptions. A very desirable inscribed copy, thus, of Maugham’s most famous work, and one of the enduring novels of the twentieth century First Edition, second issue, with the misprint corrected at line 4, page 257. 8vo. . Original green linen block in gilt on upper cover, gilt title on spine, faint rubbing to extremities, rear cover with inkstains. Bookplate of Opha Moore, Ohio historian, and Columbus, Ohio bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown. Contemporary presentation inscription on title page, “Compliments of the Season — A.J. Messier / Dec 1915.” Preserved in a green cloth clamshell box. Stott A21
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Collection of Seven Volumes on Woodcock (La Bécasse). Tome I: Polet deFaveau, (Sylvain), Le Chasseur à la Bécasse. Tome II: Varenne de Fenille,De la Chasse à la Bécasse à Tir et au Chien d’Arrêt. Tome III: Jourdeuil,La Chasse à la Bécasse. Tome IV: Duwarnet, Pour Chasser la Bécasse. TomeV: Hoffman, [Julius], La Bécasse. Tome VI: Reveilhac, Paul, Bécasse. TomeVII: Audebert, Tristan (Henri Béraud), La Chasse à la Bécasse
[Bordeaux]: L’Orée, [1974] (WOODCOCK) Each volume no. 30 of 45 exemplaires sur Vélin d’Arches … Tomes I-III enrichis d’une suite des illustrations en couleur; Tomes IV-VII enrichis d’une suite en deux états. 7 vols., Large 8vo. Illustrations originales de Lamotte. Unbound sheets, loose in pictorial wrappers as issued. Fine, in Fine dust jackets. All in original shipping boxes. Provenance: Rudolphe Coigney
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Niebuhr, Carsten Description de l’Arabie, d’après les observations et recherches faitesdans le pays même
Copenhagen: Chez Nicolas Möller, 1773 With the large fold-out map of Yemen hand-colored in outline First Edition in French, with half-title. 4to. 24 plates, two of which have hand-colored diacritical marks (of Arabic text) and initials; folding genealogical table; large fold-out map hand-colored in outline. 1 f. (half- title), [i]-xliii, [xliv-xlvi], [1]-372 pp. Full period raintree calf, spine gilt, boards tooled with floral border gilt. Short closed tear in folding map repaired, some minor dampstaining in margins. Fine. Gay 3589
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Lacépède, [Bernard-Germain-Etienne, Comte de] Œuvres … Nouvelle Édition, dirigée par M. A.G. Desmarest
Paris: Chez Ladrange et Verdière, 1826-1833 Superb edition, handsomely presented, of the works of the great French naturalist and succesor to Buffon, collecting his massive HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES POISSONS; … DES QUADRUPEDES OVIPARES; … DES SERPENTS; and DES CÉTACÉES. In addition, the set collects Lacépède’s lectures, including the often omittted lectures “Discours sur la durée des espèces”, and “Troisième vue de la nature”. See DSB VII, pp. 546-548. Complete, as issued, with all the lithographed plates (occasionally found bound separately), the set comprises: Vol. I. Discours. portrait + 627 p + 1 folding table. Vol. 2. Histoire naturelle des Cétacés. 412 pp. + 20 plates Vol. 3 Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares. 624 pp + 24 plates Vol. 4 Histoire naturelle des serpents. 557 pp. + 23 plates Vol. 5 - 11. Histoire naturelle des poissons. 5: 501 pp + 27 plates; 6: 596 pp. + 24 plates; 7: 510 + 13 plates; 8: 512 pp. + 23 plates; 9: 497 pp. + 15 plates; 10: 459 pp + 7 plates; 11: 544 pp. + 11 plates and folding table 11 vols., 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Roger after the painting by Hersent, and 187 lithographed plates of fish, whales, serpents, etc., from drawings bu Oudart, and 2 large folding tables. Contemporary quarter brown morocco and patterned paper boards, gilt-lettered spines, raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers. Occasional faint dampstaining to outer margins in vols. 5 & 6, some light scattered foxing, but overall a very handsome and impressive set
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Saunders, Louise The Knave of Hearts
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925 A lavishly illustrated work, characteristic of Parrish’s style. Parrish executed the twenty-six paintings for The Knave of Hearts “within three years, and the book, a sumptuous production, was published on October 2, 1925. The large format . . . that Parrish had originally suggested was used, and the illustrations, printed in rich colors on heavy, coated paper, were the highest-quality reproductions that could be had” (Ludwig) (PARRISH, MAXFIELD) First Edition. Folio. Pictures by Maxfield Parrish. Original black cloth, pictorial paper onlay to upper board. Faint rubbing at head of spine, two minor scuffs to paper onlay, else a fine, brighter than usual copy. In custom half morocco slipcase with chemise. Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish p. 48
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Laurentie, François Louis XVII, D’Après des Documents Inédits
Paris: Emile-Paul Frères, 1913 Limited edition, one of only 400 copies. 2 vols., Folio. Profusely illustrated with mounted portraits, engravings, and facsimiles. Contemporary full dark blue crushed morocco gilt, elaborately tooled spines, royal emblems on covers, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt. Fe condition. From the library of Julia Parker Wightman, with her bookplate
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Steinbeck, John Autograph Letter Signed (“John”) to Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard,from Cuernavaca, regarding the filming of THE PEARL, and other matters
Hotel Marik, Cuernavaca, Mexico, “june - (toward the front)”, [1945] UNPUBLISHED letter written from Cuernavaca, while Steinbeck was in Mexico “riding herd” on the shooting of the film version of THE PEARL Dear Buzzy and Paulette: I've forgotten where you live. I've forgotten Milly's [i.e., LEWIS MILESTONE'S] street number too but at least I remember his street. We don't live at the hotel but we get our mail there. I know Paulette knows the place. We have a little house with a big garden about half a mile from the plaza - very pleasant. Will be here until October I guess. We don't start shooting [THE PEARL] until August. I don't suppose there is much chance of your coming down after you finish the Chambermaid [ Meredith’s DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID]. Blumey was asking about you the other night when we were in town. We're getting lots of sun and oddly enough a lot of work done, a thing I can hardly believe. I wonder how your film ["Diary of A Chambermaid"] goes. I have some ideas for the future - too many but perhaps worth discussing some time. Tom grows like a bloody weed. He is so black we will have trouble getting him into a hotel in Georgia. And he is very strong and no intellectual company whatever. Gwyn thrives here. Anyway, we'll see our picture through here and then go on to New York in October and after that we have no plans. …The grapevine has nice things to say about your picture. And Renoir is a great man. I've always wanted to work with him. The rains are just starting here and the fine big clouds all day. It's pretty wonderful. Please give our love to Kendal and Milly. And to yourselves. JOHN” [with:] Telegram from Steinbeck’s wife Gwendolyn in New York, to Burgess Meredith in Monterey, Calif., convenying Steinbeck’s address in Cuernavaca: “Dear Buzz, John is in Mexico Address Hotel Marik Cuernavaca Mor. Mexico…Gwen in New York.“ 11 x 8-1/2 inches. One page in ink on recto of a single sheet ruled note paper. Very good. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith
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Frazer, James G 4 Autograph Letters signed , To Grant Allen
n.p., 1890-1897 A fascinating group of letters whose scope ranges from animism and tree worship to private topics. In one letter, Frazer thanks Allen “for the kind present of ‘The Attis’” (Allen’s translation of The Attis of Caius Valerius Catullus … with dissertations on the myth of Attis, on the origin of tree-worship …, 1892). Frazer later devoted a section to this subject in Adonis, Attis, Osiris. Studies in the history of oriental religion (1906). Elsewhere, Frazer observes, “I should be pleased and proud to make your acquaintance. … Whether the profit would be mutual, is, I fear, much more than doubtful. I am no talker and I am afraid you would find me an exceedingly dull fellow. The few ideas I have occur at long intervals, and though, by being stored up and set out together in a book, they make make a little show, yet the intervals (which form much the greater part of my life) are times of ‘long barren silence’ and intellectual vacuity. Not that I am idle at such times, I am reading and studying. But the process of absorbing ideas, however pleasurable to the absorber, is hardly interesting to the bystander. Forgive me for saying so much about myself. … It must be very disappointing, after reading a book with interest or even admiration, to find that the writer is a very dull person.” The recipient is Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (1848–1899), a prolific Canadian-born writer, reviled in the mid 1890s as “the prophet of the new hedonism.” As Vickery notes, discussing The Attis, “the first to make extensive use of Frazer’s ideas was Grant Allen … he drew heavily on The Golden Bough, which he calls ‘a profound and epoch-making work’ … Allen’s ideas are of less importance than is the swiftness with which he absorbed and applied the perspectives afforded classical literature by The Golden Bough.” Frazer autograph material is quite uncommon, especially with such good content 4 vols., 12mo. 1-1/2 to 4 pp. . Vickery, The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough, pp. 88-89
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Burton, Richard The Land of Midian (Revisited)
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879 First Edition. 2 vols., Tall 8vo. Illustrated with six colored plates, folding map. Original pictorial cloth. Some minor spotting, else a fresh, fine set. With a loosely inserted secretarial letter from publisher Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., dated 18 June 1883, referring to the destruction of portraits of Burton in a recent fire. Penzer pp. 96-97
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Thoroughbred Sires and Dams [later] Thoroughbred Broodmare Records, 1946-1979, 1981
Lexington, KY: Compiled and published by The Blood-Horse, 1947-1982 “The first volume covering fiveyears, 1935-1939, was known as ‘Thoroughbred Broodmare Records.’ Annual volumes were published thereafter, under the name ‘Thoroughbred Sires and Dams,’ for 18 years, 1940-1957, inclusive. Beginning with the 1958 edition the sire section was dropped, and the name reverted to its original and current title of ‘Thoroughbred Broodmare Records.’” First editions. 34 vols., Thick 8vo. Compiled by the Jockey Club Statistical Bureau Lexington, Ky. Full tan morocco, blind stamped emblematic tooling at corners of each cover and spine, by J.F. Tapley Co., Long Island City, N.Y. Fine
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Willyams, Cooper A Selection of Views in Egypt, Palestine Rhodes, Italy, Minorca &Gilbraltar from the Original Drawings, executed during a Visit to thoseplaces. ..with a Geographical and Historical Description to each View, inEnglish and French
London: Printed for John Hearne, 81 Strand; by J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, 1822 Second Edition, Second Issue (dated 1822 not 1821). Folio. With 36 colored plates. Quarter contemporary crimson pebbled morocco, spine neatly laid down, title label on upper cover. Abbey Travel 198; Atabey 1339 ; Blackmer 1814; Hilmy II, 335; Weber 1114
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An archive of materials belonging to John Clarke Kennedy concerning hisinvolvement in Yachting, Inc. , publishers of Yachting Magazine, and theeventual merging of Yachting, Inc. into Kelmo Corporation, which theKennedy family controlled
n.p., ca. 1923-1940 John C. Kennedy was successively treasurer, then president of Yachting, Inc., publishers of Yachting Magazine, and retained this archive after the magazine changed hands in the late 1930s. Included in this material are the corporate records of the Kelmo Corporation, into which Yachting, Inc. was merged in 1924 (it later separated and was re-merged in 1940), records of the Yachting Board of Directors' meetings (primarily concerning financing, and including the meeting agreeing to sell all the capital stock to Kennedy); the actual books of issued and unissued common and preferred stock certificates of Yachting, Inc., a book of shares of common stock of Kennedy Brothers Incorporated transferring Yachting stock to the Kennedys; the original 1923 signed option agreement by which Yachting's owners transferred, for $40,000, the total outstanding stock (common and preferred) and the actual stock certificates themselves, and the original agreement of Oswald Garrison Villard conferring, for $15,000, his title and interest in the magazine--name, records and other assets; Yachting's corporate income tax returns for 1927 and 1933 and some later tax and real estate correspondence; a lengthy Price, Waterhouse report concerning the history and financial condition of Yachting as of January 1924 and a less encouraging special balance sheet and P&L for 1933; a 1933 recapitulation of book sales; and balance sheets and stock certificates of related companies. Also included are two 4 x 7" black leatherette books "Tide Tables and Daily Log" for l937 and 1938 in which John C. Kennedy has recorded his daily activities from July 7, l937, thru December 31, 1938. Of particular interest are the efforts made in the fall of 1937 to interest Roy E. Larsen of Time, Inc. in the purchase of Yachting Magazine by Time--a proposition which Larsen declined. The entries for 1938 deal mostly with Kennedy's growing financial worries and the decline of his sister's and his own health: it comes as a shock to learn that the author of these almost unbearably poignant entries was only 50 years old. On June 28 Kennedy reports the transfer "which took away my last of Yachting after 15 yrs." In addition, the archive contains the original certification of the familiar "Yachting" logo as a U.S. trade-mark registered June 3, 1924; the original certificate registering the same in Canada, dated January 20, 1925; the unsigned carbon of a 1935 deposition by John C. Kennedy, with accompanying schedule showing Yachting, Inc.'s stock portfolio at the time of its sale in 1933 at a loss of $144,000; the magazine's copy of a signed agreement to publish "The Model Yacht" by John O. Berg; a corrected draft of a document changing the corporate name of Yachting, Inc. to Kelmo Corporation dated October 26, 1939; 5 insurance policies, with photostats of applications, on the life of John C. Kennedy; his U.S. passport, issued 1924; his autograph 2-pp enumeration of property to be divided among the heirs of his mother, along with photographs and correspondence concerning her grave; and other papers, including his agreement to lease from Jules S. Bache his 112-ft. diesel yacht "Colmena" for July and August, 1931, for $13,500--a unique souvenir of happier days. Altogether, an archive of engrossing interest for the business and sporting historian alike (YACHTING MAGAZINE) . One full red calf corporate ledger titled "Yachting, Incorporated"; one green cloth stock ledger with the remains of a Yachting label on the upper cover; two green cloth books of stock certificates, each labeled "Yachting, Incorporated Preferred Stock", and one such book labeled "Yachting, Incorporated Common Stock"; a similar book of stock certificates of Kennedy Brothers, Incorporated; two appointment books with tide tables for 1937 and 1938; and a brown expanding legal-size folder of documents
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Dickens, Charles The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837 This copy has all the of the textual first issue points mentioned byHatton and Cleaver, except for the rare one on page 25: the signature ‘E’ is present; on page 260, line 29 reads ‘hodling’; p. 267, the figure ‘7’ is aligned above the other numbers; p. 341 has correct readings of ‘inde- licate’ and ‘inscription’;p. 342, line 5, has uncorrected “S. Veller”; p. 400, has incorrect reading ‘this friends’; p. 432, the ‘F’ in headline is imperfect. In addition, the vignette title-page is in the first state, with the sign reading ‘Veller’. Lacking half-title, engraved frontispiece supplied from another edition. In addition, the copy is extra-illustrated with the 32 ‘Sam Weller’ plates, issued under that pseudonym by Thomas Onwhyn in 1837 First Edition, first issue of text. 2 vols., 8vo. 43 engraved plates by R. Seymour and H. T. Browne (“Phiz”), and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the rare 32 “Sam Weller” plates. Bound in full nineteenth-century brown morocco, covers elaborately gilt with design of swirling gilt fillets and fleurons, gilt spines, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. A lovely binding, with bookplate of Frederick Hulme Thwaites. Smith 3 (pp. 19-27)
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Nightingale, G.W. , R[oyal] Munster "Photographs of the North Russian Relief Force. April 1919 to October1919. General H. deV. Sadleir-Jackson's Brigade." Approximately 100snapshots, mounted
n.p., april 1919 to october 1919 These photos show the invasion of Russia by the English, Irish andthe Americans. It was one of the great disgraces in American History. The first photos are of the H.M.T. "War Summit" & H.MT. "Pretorian" chugging through the Arctic Ocean and White Sea in Midsummer, June 1919 on its way to Archangel. "Nevertheless, Allied contingents intended to forestall this non-existent threat began landing at Vladivostok in April, 1918. By September 15, 1919 there were in the Russian Far East 60,000 Japanese trooops, 8,477 Americans, 1,429 British, 1,400 Italians, and 1,076 French. It must be noted that there was by no means complete agreement between the Allies about the objectives of the intervention as a whole. While originally the motive of guarding the military stores against German seizure was kept in the foreground, at a later date the British and French both established close connections with the Anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia and talks about the crusade against communism were begun." Vernadsky (RUSSIA) Oblong 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches). . Contemporary grey cloth
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“W. Freeborn's system of Articulated Locomotives”: detailed engineeringdrawing, pen and ink on thin prepared translucent cloth, signed “J.H.Müller Eng. 25 Chambers Str. del”
New York, ca. 1880 A beautiful cut-away engineering drawing consisting of four studies; front, head-on view; back view; and two side views of a steam locomotive, with cow-catcher, top bell, and ornamented headlight, done with meticulous skill. Possibly used in a patent application, for developing component specifications, or for displaying to potential investors. A handsome and highly decorative work (RAILROADS) Image 52-1/2 inches long, 22 inches high. Framed. . Fine condition
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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earlof Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; Late EnvoyExtraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together with several other pieceson various Subjects
London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1774 First Edition, with half-titles. 2 vols., 4to (28x 22 cm.). Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the Originals now in her Possession. Engraved frontispiece portrait after he painting by Hoare. Full contemporary polished tree calf, ornately gilt spines with central floral and basket devices in each panel, spines with red and green leather labels lettered in gilt. Joints to both volumes starting (but sound), light rubbing to head of volume one and to edges of both; interiors clean and crisp; early owner‘s signature on title-page of volume I. Overall, a very impressive set in a handsome binding of the period. Rothschild 596
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Webster, Noah Autograph Letter Signed (“N Webster”) to Henry Henrick, concerning somepapers Webster has sent for printing in Knoxville newspapers, andenclosing a “Caution” to insert in the local paper
New Haven, july 25 1836 The great American lexicographer writes, at age 78, in part: “My Dear Sir, I have deposited in the post office for you a paper on my containing some remarks on Knoles’ Dictionary & a paper on my TEACHER, a little book lately published…I have a partcular desire to have inserted extensively a short notice on the next folio. The publication of my Old Spelling Book is a most infamous trespass on me & a great injury…” [James Knowles’ PRONOUNCING AND EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE had recently been published ( Dublin, 1835), as had his own THE TEACHER; A SUPPLEMENT TO THE ELEMENTARY SPELLING BOOK (New Haven, 1836)] Webster appends a note headed “CAUTION” on the verso of the conjugate leaf, sternly cautioning the public against purchasing his spelling book. “The editions in market are mostly pirated; & either by accident of for fraudulent purposes, the work has been altered, & …thrown into such confusion, as to render it worse than useless.” 4to. One page. Addressed and postmarked on verso. Minor soiling, remains of seal, old folds; very good. Housed in a custom morocco-backed folding case
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Jesse, John Heneage London: Its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places
London: Richard Bentley, 1871 (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED) ``` vols., 8vo. Three volumes expanded to six by the addition of over 350 plates comprising portraits, v`a, monuments, buildings, palaces, etc., inlaid to size and tissue-guarded. Handsomely bound in 3/4 olive morocco over marbled boards, panelled spine gilt, a.e.g. by Lauriat, in fine condition, each volume in a cloth protective wrapper and slipcase
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Byrne, Donn Autograph Manuscript Signed (“Donn Byrne”) of his second novel, THEFOOLISH MATRONS
Published New York: Harper’s, 1920; ms dated at end of "New York, June 18, 1920." Second novel by the Irish-American Byrne, who died tragically in 1928. Byrne, although born in Brooklyn of Irish parents, grew up in Ireland and identified himself strongly with his mother country, even though he eventually settled in New York where he finally made his fame and fortune. A major manuscript from an important figure in the American literary renaissance. The Foolish Matrons was published by Harpers in September, 1920, and a film based on the novel appeared the following year, directed by Marcel Tourneur Mostly 11 x 8-1/2 inches, with 20 leaves from Book One on smaller sheets. Written in brown ink on rectos of approximately 495 leaves, with occasional autograph corrections, emendations, deletions. In a custom red cloth chemise and folding box with leather cover and spine label. With a copy of the first edition of the novel in very good, scarce, unclipped dust jacket with slight wear. BAL 2289
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Lamb, Charles Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the Use of Young Persons
London: Printed for Thomas Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Library Hanway-Street (Opposite Soho-Square), Oxford Street, 1807 First edition. 2 vols., 8vo. Embellished with Copper-plates. Contemporary calf, rebacked, front hinge off of Vol.I. In half green morocco slipcase, and chemise. (2)
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Steinbeck, John Autograph Letter Signed (“John”) to Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard,regarding his hospitalization, recent accident
[New York City], may 26, [1947] UNPUBLISHED. On the even of his planned trip with Robert Capa to report on the state of postwar Europe, Steinbeck suffered a serious fall from his window. Writing to his friends Burgess Merdith and Paulette Goddard, he explains: “…I am in the Lenox Hill Hospital. Have been for two weeks and will be a minimum of one more and maybe two. I leaned out of our downstairs window and the iron guard gave way and I fell to the pavement. Broke my knee, tore ligaments in my back and had those things called internal injuries. I've been a sad sack but am getting better now. So I have to put off the trip I was going to make to let the knee get strong. Anyway here is what we plan to do. About the fifteenth of June Gwynn and I will go to Paris and stay there and thereabouts for about a month. Then she will go home and I will go on to Russia. Maybe we can spend some time together in France. Maybe Paulette could show Gwyn about in the lady dept. I'm supposed to have some francs - quite a lot. This is pretty wavery handwriting, but I have that fateful hospital weakness. By the way, Wallerstein has a play which the Schubert are opening here in the fall but it is opening in Glasgow soon. He is over there now. Maybe its something for you for in Dublin. Try to get in touch with him. It is a very funny and satiric comedy. It might be up your street. Very fine woman's part. Don't know about the man's. Might look into it. Tom [his baby son] has been exposed to mumps. I guess we'll have that next. This damnable sickness makes it hard to write for long.…” [with:] MEREDITH, Burgess. Typed Letter (retained carbon copy), June 4 to Steinbeck in reply to the above, and one other,May 22, 1947), in which Meredith requests a copy of Pastures of Heaven. Meredith remarks humourously: “I don’t know what philosophic remark to make about your guillotining yourself leaning out of your own downstairs window…” UNPUBLISHED 14 x 8-1/2 inches. 1-1/2pp. in ink on recto and verso of a single sheet of yellow ruled note paper. Slightly waterstaining. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith
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Bruel, François-Louis Histoire de L'Aéronautique par les Monuments, Peints, Sculptés, Dessinéset Gravés des Origines à 1830
Paris: André Marty, 1909 Lavish iconography of the early history of flight––the plates are magnificent facsimiles, either tipped-in, on different papers or on satin, some hand-colored, some on stubs. A wonderful compilation from five different sources, including the collection of Paul Tissandier, Sir David Salomons and Baron Carl de Vinck. A sumptuous production First Edition, one of 325 copies. Large thick 4to. 206 Reproductions en noir et en couleur, iv, 93, 4 pp. Handsomely bound in full dark blue morocco, upper cover gilt with rococo design, panelled spine similarly tooled, t.e.g., others uncut, by Hatchards of Piccadilly. Rebacked, preserving original spine, else a FINE copy
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
Boston and Cleveland, OH: John P. Jewett & Co. and Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852 Pasted down on front endpaper of volume 1, small card inscribed thus "The Lord is nigh unto all that call on Him. From your unknown but sincere friend Harriet Beecher Stowe June 7, 1889 First Edition. 2 vols., 8vo. Title-page vignettes, six plates (three plates in each volume). Half-leather, marbled boards, a.e.g., hinges cracked, top of spine vol. 1 missing, foxed throughout. Bookplate. Inscribed. BAL 19343
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Auden, W.H. and Louis MACNEICE Letters from Iceland
New York: Random House, [1937] Letters and poems (only a few of the poems were written on the actual trip, most of the book being composed on Auden’s return.) A highly desirable copy, inscribed by both Auden and Isherwood: “To Miss May Cameron / with best wishes and thanks for our first American interview / Wystan Auden / New York / July 7th - 1938.” and beneath, Isherwood has penned: “And likewise from Christopher Isherwood, who received one of these letters.” Auden and Isherwood moved together to New York in 1939, only a few months after they inscribed this book. On this occasion, he and Isherwood were sojourning in the city after their trip to China. According to Humphrey Carpenter, in W.H. Auden, A Biography (Boston, 1981)., p. 240, “Here [in New York] they were met by George Davis, the fiction editor of Harper’s Bazaar, who had got to know them both in London the previous year. Davis was acting as their unofficial American agent…Under his guidance, they began to see the New York sights. They were interviewed, photographed, introduced to celebrities…” First American Edition. 8vo. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Original tan cloth, spine and edges a little toned, otherwise fine. Custom half morocco clamshell box. Bloomfield A14
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Keller, David H[enry] Corrected Typescript Signed of his novel, The Homunculus
Underwood, 55 Broad St., Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pa., jan. 1947 David H. Keller, M.D. (1880-1966),was born in Philadelphia and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. After practicing medicine for more than a decade, he became an neuropsychiatrist in 1914, and subsequently practiced in state hospitals in Louisiana, Tennessee, and again in Pennsylvania. Keller served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in both World Wars, and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. A prolific writer “better known for his sf … than for his fantasy and horror, which is in fact superior” (Mike Ashley in the Encyclopedia of Fantasy), Keller was a frequent contributor to Weird Tales as well as to numerous early fan publications; some of his works were first published in France, and his bibliography is complex. Keller's first work in the field of fantasy and science fiction appeared in 1928; his first published novel was The Devil and the Doctor (1940). The Homunculus was published by Prime Press of Philadelphia in 1949. This typescript is signed “David H. Keller M.D.” on the title leaf and bears more than 100 authorial corrections, sometimes extensive. These are chiefly in ink with an occasional pencilled or typed alteration 4to. [3], 177 leaves, with numerous autograph corrections in ink. Signed on title-leaf. Contemporary black buckram, title in gilt on spine. Fine. Currey, pp. 274-275
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Shakespeare, William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Being a Reproduction inFacsimile of the First Folio Edition 1623. From the Chatsworth Copy inthe Possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. With Introduction andCensus of Copies by Sidney Lee. [With supplements:] … A Census of ExtantCopies with Some Account of Their History and Condition [and] Notes &Additions to the Census of Copies
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press; Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1902; 1906 The Athenæum for Jan. 3, 1903, recorded the publication of this landmark facsimile of the First Folio as “an important literary event.” The facsimile was limited to 1,000 copies, “the whole issue having been taken up long before publication. The book is bound in leather of the most durable kind, to which ties are fixed …. At all points the reproduction is as perfect as such a thing could be, a worthy monument of enterprise, artistry, and erudition. The possessor of it has a document of greater value than the most minute collation; he has, indeed, so far as textual labours are concerned, the original book before him in its best state, for the Chatsworth copy is remarkably clean and well preserved.” Editor Sidney Lee's 45-page Census and 20-page Notes & Additions are preserved in a companion volume First Folio Edition. Copy no. 70 of 1000 of this facsimile, signed by Sidney Lee. Folio. . Original full brown suede stamped in black, red morocco gilt labels on spine and upper board, two leather ties, fore edge and bottom edge uncut. Supplement bound in later full brown suede with Notes & Additions in original wrappers. A superb, mint copy in a custom cloth slipcase
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Hemingway, Ernest Autograph Note Signed (“Ernie”) on Christmas Card from Mary and Ernest toGeorge Brown, Hemingway’s boxing coach, friend and trainer
Ketchum, Idaho, december, 1958] Fascinating personal note from Hemingway and Mary to their good friend George Brown, his personal trainer and boxing coach. Not long after the opening of the film of THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, and on a break from Cuba in his beloved mountain retreat in Idaho, Hemingway writes: “Best always George from us both. Working hard, Mary fine and happy, very good shooting, weigh 205 (steady down to 3 never over 6), wish you were here to eat some of Mary’s wonderful game cooking — lots of big mallards, pheasants, partridges. Book going fine. Thanks for sending the reviews of the picture. “Tracy even double-crossed by coming out in another picture* at same time. The Prince. “Best luck for this year and our loved to Georgette. Ernie and Mary.” *THE LAST HURRAH, by John Ford, was also released in 1958 7 x 3-1/2 inches. In ink on inner panel of folded card. Very good
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Puccini, Giacomo Autograph letter signed ("G Puccini") to Sybil [Seligman]
Torre del Lago, Toscana, 1 october 1907 A fine letter by the composer of Madam Butterfly to his mistress Sybil Seligman, “Cara Sybil,” in receipt of a telegram concerning press notices as the opera is being acclaimed all over Europe -- “veramente fulmineo” 8vo. One page, with envelope addressed to “Sybil Seligman, 7 Upper Grosvenor Str, London W”. In ink on blue imprinted stationery, professionally double-matted with an early photographic portrait, envelope preserved on verso. Unexamined out of frame. Slightly faded, else fine. Vincent Seligman, Puccini Among Friends
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Les Amours des Dieux Payens [L'Arétin d'Augustin Carrache]. … Tome Premier[Second]
A Lampsaque [Paris]: chez tous les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1802 The engravings show the erotic play of Graeco-Roman deities and mythological figures, such as Mars and Venus, Jupiter and Juno, satyrs and nymphs, as well as of mortals such as Antony and Cleopatra, Messalina, Ovid, and the daughter of Augustus (“Julie”). The text briefly describes the mythical figures depicted in a variety of postures. Gay-Lemmonyer attributes its authorship to Croze-Magnan. An attractive copy of a scarce book (CURIOSA) 12mo. Orné de vingt figures. 20 engraved erotic plates. [4], 106, [4], 107 pp. Nineteenth-century three quarter blue morocco, some rubbing at extremities. One leaf cropped at corner margin (by binder?) with repair, no loss, scattered foxing, plates bright. Very good. Kearney, The Private Case 337; Pia, Les Livres de l'enfer, p. 44; Gay Lemmonyer I, 167, 260-261
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[Shelley, Percy Bysshe, John Milton, and Matthew Arnold] Three Elegies. Lycidas by John Milton. Adonais by Percy B. Shelley.Thyrsis by Mathew Arnold
n.p.: At the Ashendene Press, 1899 "The last book printed on the Ashendene Press before its removalto Shelley House, Chelsea..." (ASHENDENE PRESS) Number 18 of 50 copies printed from Fells english type. 4to. viii, 49 pp. Full blue cloth preserving original printed tan wrappers. With Newbegin's San Fransisco label at back. Ashendene Bibliography X; Ransom #11
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Hunter, Dard The Literature of Papermaking, 1390-1800
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1925 Limited to 190 numbered copies, signed by the author, this being copy No. 177. Folio (16-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches; 41.9 x 29.2 cm). 48pp. Hand-printed in type of Hunter’s own design on hand-made paper, and illustrated with numerous text reprodcutions from old engravings and with 26 tipped-in facsimiles. Loose as issued in the original half-linen portfolio, with ties. Portfolio with a spotting, occasional offsetting from facsimiles. An incredible achievement in bookmaking and scholarship, Dard Hunter’s second book on the subject
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Pepler, Douglas The Devil's Devices or Control versus Service
London: Published at the Hampshire House Workshops, Hampshire Hog Lane, Hammersmith, 1915 The firstbook of S. Dominic's Press, inscribed by Douglas Pepler to his fellow Hampshire House Workshop member and intimate friend: “To EJ [monogram], i.e. Edward Johnston with my love. The book and I would not have made much of a show on our own account. But thanks are included in that which is greater. HDCP 25.XII 1915” The monogram of EJ also appears as part of the calligraphic sword device printed opposite the title page, “From the author Douglas Pepler and EJ Eric Gill To G. K. C . It is not given for goods or gear but for the thing RK” (GILL, ERIC) First Edition, COPY No. 1 of 200 numbered “proof” copies, signed by Eric Gill and Douglas Pepler. 12mo. With Woodcuts by Eric Gill. Six woodcut illustrations and five triangular devices. Original quarter smooth canvas and red paper boards. Some rubbing to extremities, minor soiling, else a very good copy of this early Gill work, with an additional inscription from the author to Edward Johnston on the limitation leaf. Physick 36-47; Gill 259; Ransom p. 46, 1
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Hilton, James Archive of Research Material for THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL
V.p., 1942-4 A substantial archive of material relevant to novelist James Hilton’s research on the subject that would culminate in his book, THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL, published in the U.S. in 1943, and the U.K. in 1944, and the 1944 Cecil B. DeMille film (starring Gary Cooper as Wassell and Ronald Colman as ). The archive includes a clean carbon typescript, 133 leaves, dated "7/31/42," of a near final form of the text (accompanied by several leaves relating to name changes, one with substantive annotations by Hilton in manuscript). The remainder of the material includes typed, carbon, and mimeographed transcripts of interviews Hilton (and others) conducted with those who knew Wassell, or soldiers who met him in the Pacific, newswire transcripts of articles about Wassell and related topics, and similar documents. Finally, and significantly, the archive contains a typed transcript, as well as mimeographed transcript, of a series of interviews with Wassell undertaken by Hilton and Cecil B. DeMille ad DeMille Ranch, 16-19 June 1942 Generally 4to. 800 leaves. Typescript, carbon typescript, and mimeographed typescript, with infrequent manuscript corrections. Very good
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Sandburg, Carl Small archive of 5 original manuscript / typescript fragments from hisABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS AND THE WAR YEARS
n.p., n.d [c. 1954] In 1926 Carl Sandburg published his groundbreaking 2 volume biography, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS; there followed in 1939 his Pulitzer Prize-wining sequel in four volumes, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS. Finally, in 1954, his one-volume abridged and completely rewritten edition appeared, for which this material seems to have been written. There are some choice passages here: the first 2pp. deals with Lincoln’s MARRIAGE TO MARY TOOD; the second deals with his law partnership with WILLIAM HERNDON; the Nevins’ manuscript is an important and detailed critique of the Sandburg edition; and Sandburg’s hand-written list of Confederate and Union generals is, prima facie, a choice item for any Civil War collector 4to and folio. (1) 2 typewritten and manuscript pages which appear on pp. 77 and 78 of the ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS, 1926), numbered by hand “94” and “95”; (2) and one typewritten page (which appears on pp. 79 and 80), hand-numbered “96” -- each page with ms. corrections (in another hand); (3) 3pp. of typewritten editorial suggestions, with galley references, by ALLAN NEVINS for the one-volume edition of Sandburg’s ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS AND THE WAR YEARS (1954), with a few notes at the foot of final page by Sandburg in his shorthand, and other pencilled remarks and comments; (4) Manuscript instructions for the layout of a photographio reproduction (appearing at pp. 214 and 215 in ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS AND THE WAR YEARS), on single sheet of yellow legal-size paper; and (5) Manuscript instructions for the layout of a photographic reproduction (appearing at pp. 510 and 511 in Volume II), on single sheet of yellow legal-size paper. In all, 9 pages.
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Sandburg, Carl Typescript of his “Sources and Acknowledgements” published in theSandburg’s one volume abridged edition of ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIEYEARS AND THE WAR YEARS
n.p., n.d. [after 1956] 4to. 14pp. on unruled yellow paper, with numerous autograph corrections, insertions, and deletions by Sandburg and Catherine McCarthy in red and black pencil; paginated at upper left in pencil; title written in pencil at the top of first page with the remark “(back of book in fine type”). One leaf slightly darkened, a few occasional smudges
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Sandburg, Carl Small archive of 5 Autograph and Typescript Manuscripts, each with contentrelated to Abraham Lincoln
n.p., n.d.[ca. 1944] Various sizes. In all, 8pp., comprising: (1) Brief one page Autograph Ms. noteregarding the attitudes of two living ex-Presidents (Fillmore and Pierce) toward Lincoln; (2) One page Autograph Manuscript initialled “C.S.”(in 3 columns) regarding the life mask of Lincoln made by Leonard Volk and the photograph of that mask by Edward Steichen (published in THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, edited by Sandburg and Merserve, New York, Harcourt Brace, 1944, beneath a reproduction of the Steichen photo); (3) One page Autograph Ms. on ruled note paper regarding an unpublished letter written “in the indubitable cramped style of Dennis F. Hanks”; (4) Typed note beginning “Many men and women, now faded and gone …” consisting of a single paragraph captioned “Preface - 2”at top in Sandburg’s hand in pencil; (5) one page Autograph Note quoting remarks derogatory to Lincoln from the front page of Leslie’s Weekly of Feb 25, 1865 (“A schoolboy would deserve flogging for sending out documents of such prodigious moment as come from his pen in phrases so mean and unbecoming”); (6) Half-page typescript of “People Who Touched Lincoln” (published in THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1944) typesigned “C.S.” and docketed at bottom “For the Photographs of Abraham Lincoln”; One page of Autograph Notes concerning instructions for the Barrett photographs, “when reassembled for new plates” according to a handwritten note (not Sandburg’s ) on the verso of an attached card from the author. Very good
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Muir, John The Writings
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916-24 The page of manuscript, consisting of 7 lines in ink on a half sheet, with one change in ink and one insertion in pencil, describes “the foothills [where] you enter the lower fringe of the forest, composed of oaks & pines planted so wide apart that not one twentieth of the ground is in shade at clear noon …” Manuscript Edition, No. 675 of 750 copies, with a page of manuscript tipped into Vol. I. 10 vols., 8vo. Illustrated with 69 black and white photogravures by Charles S. Olcott and Herbert W. Gleason, eight color photogravures, many halftones. Original cloth with leather labels. Spines a little faded, else nice set. Kimes 341-344
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Vehling, Joseph D 29 Original Ink and Pencil Drawings for Apicius: Cookery and Dining inAncient Rome. A Bibliography, Critical Review and Translation. DepictingAncient Stoves, Cooking Utensils, Interiors, Serving Dishes, etc
Chicago: Walter Hill, 1936 (GASTRONOMY) Various Sizes (355 x 290 mm to 75 x 180 mm). Each signed with initials of the Artist. Matted with the corresponding captioned illustrations. In worn and split cloth drop box, morocco label. Bitting, p. 13: "Fully annotated. The name was synonymous with gourmandise and, among the ancients, was given to choice dishes the name of the author was (probably) Coelius, who gave the name Apicius to his book"; Vicaire p. 277
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Guerry, André Michel Essai sur La Statisque Morale de France, précédé d'un rapport à l'Académiedes sciences, par MM. Lacroix, Silvestre et Girard; par A.-M. Guerry
Paris: Chez Crochard, Libraire, rue et Place de l'École-de-Médecine. [Londres. Halimbourg, 32 Southampton Str. Strand, Foreign Bookseller], 1833 In this pioneering essay, French statistician Guerry (1802-1866) applied statistics to the study of human behavior and criminality, examining the frequency of crime and vice (crimes against persons and property, rape, illegitimate births, prostitution, suicide, etc.) and the correlation to education, charity, and religious instruction. The idea of moral statistics rapidly gained currency, inspiring numerous contributions in the French Annales d'hygiène publique and the Journal of the Statistical Society of London through the mid nineteenth century. The use of statistics in law enforcement and legislation is today is, of course, a commonplace. With the contemporary ownership signature of Theodore Sedgwick (1811-1859) prominent New York lawyer and diplomat, who in 1833 was the newly appointed attaché to the U.S. legation in Paris, where “he enjoyed a number of stimulating personal contacts, notably with De Tocqueville, who became his friend and correspondent” (DAB) First edition. Small folio. 7 lithographic plates printed in color. 69, [2] pp. Original quarter cloth and printed paper over boards, with advertisements on back cover. Signature of Theodore Sedgwick on title-page
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor [Collected Works]
London: William Pickering, etc, 1836-1877 An excellent collection of the posthumous works of Coleridge, with many of the William Pickering titles in first edition. Includes the Literary Remains (4 vols., 1836-1839), On the Constitution of Church and State (1839), Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1840), Biographia Literaria (2 vols. in 3, 1847), Aids to Reflection (2 vols., 1848), Notes and Lectures upon Shakespeare (2 vols., 1849), Essays on His Own Times (3 vols., 1850), The Friend (3 vols., 1850), Notes on English Divines (2 vols., 1853), Notes Theological … (1853), Specimens of the Table Talk … (1858), Osorio (1873), and the Poetical and Dramatic Works (4 vols., 1877). With Gillman’s Life of Coleridge (1838), Cottle’s Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (1848), and the Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge, edited by Allsop (1850) 31 vols., 8vo. . Half brown morocco, spines uniformly darkened
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Maugham, William Somerset Of Human Bondage
London: William Heinemann, 1915 Maugham's masterpiece, one of the most important novels of the 20thcentury. INSCRIBED BY MAUGHAM on the front free endpaper: “For James Spencer. “This by way of being an autobiopgraphical novel, but it IS a novel & fiction has as great a place in it as fact. “W. Somerset Maugham” Of this book, with its strong autobiographical focus, Maugham wrote: “I am willing enough to agree with common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work. It is the kind of book that an author can write only once. After all, he has only one life to live. The book has become a classic, gone into innumerable editions, translated into almost every civilized tongue and been the source of numerous dramatizations, perhaps most notably the film starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis. A umique presentation copy of one of the great modern novels in the English language First English Edition. 8vo. [8], 648, [16] pp. (ads). Original blue cloth, a little rubbed. spine slightly dulled, inner hinges cracked and gutters of first two preliminary leaves reinforced by tape. In quarter blue morocco clamshell box. Stott A21b
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Hennessey, Tom Original Sketches by Tom Hennessey for ‘Gunning for Upland Birds andWildfowl’ by Shirley E. Woods 1976
n.p., 1976 Complete set of the original drawings for the 16 illustrations in Gunning for Upland Birds and Wildfowl by Shirley E. Woods (Winchester Press, 1976), with one additional drawing of a red-winged blackbird not used in the book Folio. 17 pencil drawings on 14 sheets, each drawing signed or initialed by the artist and mounted in a folio leaf, with a title leaf in ink in the hand of author Shirley E. Woods. Bound in dutch linen, leather labels on spine and front board. In matching linen covered slipcase. Fine. With a fine copy of the published book in dust jacket, signed on the title page by the author
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Grant, Col. James A. (1827-1892) Two Autograph Letters signed to Carl Christian Giegler, Chief of SudanTelegraph, in Khartoum
London, 1 march 1876, 23 november 1876 COL. GRANT ON GORDON’S FIRST TOUR OF DUTY IN AFRICA: In the March 1876 letter, Grant notes The Times's report on Gordon's contemplation of retirement. “It is reported … that my excellent friend Colonel Gordon contemplated retiring from his present duties south of Gondokar, and if this is true, no one will regret it more than I do for he is one in a thousand — one in every respect highly qualified for bringing the natives under a new rule — I trust the report is without foundation …” In the November letter he expresses relief that Gordon is staying in Khartoum: "It delighted me to hear that Colonel Gordon was not coming home when he intended as changes in the Govt. make a great difficulty out there, besides which he is so well suited for the work, however I think that five years work on the Nile is very trying to a constitution and that a trip to Europe is absolutely necessary after five or six to recruit body & mind. Colonel Gordon can have few European comforts about him. l know he will be successful in placing the "Khedive" upon the Victoria and in getting some proper person to take his place whenever he wishes to resign and take leave to Europe." He then reports that Mr. Lucas has asked for a letter of recommendation to Gordon, but "as [Lucas] had never been with natives" and lacked knowledge of eastern countries, Grant declined to write it 8vo. Together 12 pages. With original envelopes in Grant's hand
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Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
New York: Random House, [1952] First edition. 8vo. 439 pp. Original cloth. Fine in good plus dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, author portrait by Gordon Parks (wear at spine ends, back cover wrinkled with closed tears, tape repairs on verso)
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Ramazzini, Bernhard [Bernardino] Abhandlungen von den Krankheiten der Künstler und Handwerker neubearbearbeitet und vermehret von Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann
Stendal: D.C. Franzen und J.C. Grosse, 1780-3 “Ramazzini was the first to recognize the social significance of occupational diseases and his book appeared at a most opportune time, since, with the beginning of industrial development in the eighteenth century, prevention of accidents from machinery and the general health of workers became increasingly important” (PMM). Early German edition of this landmar