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CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur Adventures of Sherlock Holmes WITH: Memoirs
CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. WITH: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1892, 1894. Two volumes. Octavo, modern full blue morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $5600. First editions in book form of these classic stories starring literature's most famous detective, illustrated by Sidney Paget, handsomely bound in full morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere, with original cloth bound in. Although Sherlock Holmes first appeared in the novel A Study in Scarlet (1887), both he and his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, found lasting fame through Holmes' adventures in the Strand Magazine. "The initial 12 tales were collected between covers as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, published in England and America in 1892; and 11 of the second 12... as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1894. If any reader be prepared to name two other books that have given more innocent but solid pleasure, let him speak now-or hold his peace!" (Haycraft, 50). These volumes contain such famous and memorable tales as "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" and "Silver Blaze." Of special note is the last case in the Memoirs, "The Final Problem," in which Holmes apparently meets death in a struggle with "the Napoleon of crime," Professor Moriarty. "At one point, tiring of the detective, Doyle attempted to exterminate him... but the clamor of his admirers forced him to resurrect Holmes for several further volumes, and his popularity has waned little since" (Benet, 273). Original cloth bound in at rear of each volume. Green & Gibson A10a, A14a. DeWaal 520, 596. A fine pair of volumes.
Price: USD 5,600.00 other currencies   order no. 65373   details     inquire
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ADAMS, Ansel Portfolios of Ansel Adams
ADAMS, Ansel. The Portfolios of Ansel Adams. Boston: New York Graphic Society, (1981). Quarto, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $950. First revised edition of this retrospective collecting all the images from Adams' seven portfolios (1948-76), a rare presentation/association copy inscribed on the half title in the year of publication to his valued production manager on Yosemite and the Range of Light (1979), "For Nan Jernigan, Ansel Adams, Carmel, 6-6-81," featuring 90 laser-scanned duotone plates. This splendid work assembles all of Ansel Adams' peerless images from seven portfolios (1948-76), representing "a profound statement by a great photographer" (Nancy Newhall). This revision of the 1977 edition was prepared under Adams' supervision and features new laser-scanned duotone separations of all 90 plates: images that "most clearly represent Adams' personal view of the meaning of his work" (Introduction). "Ansel Adams attuned himself more precisely than any photographer before him to a visual understanding of the specific quality of the light... For Adams the natural landscape is not a fixed and solid sculpture but an insubstantial image, as transient as the light that continually redefines it" (Szarkowski, Looking, 144). With introduction by MoMA curator John Szarkowski; essays by Adams, Beaumont Newhall and Nancy Newhall. See Roth, 58. This presentation/ association copy is inscribed to Nan Jernigan, Adams' production manager on Yosemite and the Range of Light (1979). A fine inscribed copy with a memorable association.
Price: USD 950.00 other currencies   order no. 65381   details     inquire
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GORMAN, Greg Odes of Pindar
(GORMAN, Greg) HORACE. Odes of Pindar. New York: 21st Editions, 2007. Folio, original cloth, measures 20 by 16 inches; 62 pages. Housed in original wood packing case. $10,000. Signed limited first edition, number 23 of only 35 copies signed by photographer Greg Gorman, editor John Wood, translator Scott Goins and publisher Steven Albahari. The Odes of Pindar, printed in letterpress and in a brilliant new translation by classical scholar Scott Goins, is accompanied by eleven platinum prints of Greg Gorman's classic male nudes. Pindar, the greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece, celebrated athletic prowess and male beauty within the context of the Olympic games. Gorman is photography's leading classicist, and the work of no other living artist could better complement Pindar's poetry. Gorman makes light itself sculpt muscle, tendon, and bone as a Greek sculptor would have carved marble. Timeless beauty is both his and Pindar's subject. The handmade papers and foils of the unique binding suggest both the humble terra cottas and the elite shimmering golds of classic Greek aesthetics. Fine condition.
Price: USD 10,000.00 other currencies   order no. 65382   details     inquire
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MILNE, A. A. Toad of Toad Hall
MILNE, A. A. Toad of Toad Hall. A Play from Kenneth Grahame's Book 'The Wind in the Willows.' London: Methuen, (1929). Small quarto, original half blue cloth, printed paper label, uncut and unopened, original dust jacket. $4200. Signed limited first edition, number 105 of only 200 copies on handmade paper signed by both Milne and Grahame. "Milne was a great admirer of Kenneth Grahame's masterpiece for children, The Wind in the Willows" (Muir, 157). When it was proposed to him that he might attempt to dramatize a part of the book, he responded to Curtis Brown, in November of 1921: "The Wind in the Willows-now you're talking! If Kenneth Grahame is willing, and if you feel pretty sure that you can find the right manager for it (as I think you shall be able to), I will do it. And I shall love doing it. In fact, as soon as I got your letter, I began sketching it out... It's no use talking to me about novels now-I'm much too excited about this here play." In his enthusiasm, Milne underestimated the difficulty of his task; the book did not appear until eight years later. In spite of the many problems involved in the adaptation, it remains the only play of Milne's still regularly produced. Extra title label tipped in at rear. Book fine, dust jacket with light toning to spine, moderate chips to spine ends and top edge of rear panel, stains to front panel.
Price: USD 4,200.00 other currencies   order no. 65406   details     inquire
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NAPOLEON History of Napoleon
(NAPOLEON) LANFREY, Pierre. The History of Napoleon the First. London and New York: Macmillan, 1871-79. Four volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. $2500. First edition in English of Lanfrey's important history of Napoleon, perhaps the first to attempt an objective assessment of his life and accomplishments, handsomely bound by Riviere & Son. As Lanfrey states in the first chapter of his work: "Napoleon has for the most part had no judgment passed upon him but that either of profound hatred or of profound attachment... we have often seen Truth wounded by her weapons." First published in French beginning in 1867, The History of Napoleon was Lanfrey's chief work. Without index in Volume IV. Pencil owner inscription. Armorial bookplates. Library bookplates. Volume I rebacked with the original spine laid down, light wear to bindings. An extremely good copy. Scarce.
Price: USD 2,500.00 other currencies   order no. 65445   details     inquire
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WILLIAMS, Tennessee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (New York): New Directions, (1955). Octavo, original salmon cloth, original dust jacket. $650. First edition, first printing, of the play for which Williams won his second Pulitzer Prize. In 1973 Williams admitted, "Though Glass Menagerie may be my best play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is still my favorite" (Devlin, Conversations, 244). Includes both the Broadway and the original version of the Third Act, which Williams reluctantly rewrote at director Elia Kazan's request. First printing, with no acknowledgement on verso of title page, and no credit for scenic and costume design on page xii. Crandell A15.I.a. Book about-fine, dust jacket extremely good with wear to extremities and tape repair to verso. A desirable copy.
Price: USD 650.00 other currencies   order no. 65447   details     inquire
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NAPOLEON Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
(NAPOLEON) (SCOTT, Walter). The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution. By the Author of "Waverley," &c. Edinburgh and London: for Longman, et al., 1827. Nine volumes. Octavo, late 19th-century full tan calf gilt rebacked with original spines laid down, spines elaborately gilt-decorated with Napoleonic symbols, red and black morocco spine labels, top edges gilt, uncut. $1800. Second edition of this famous history by the most celebrated author of the early 19th century, published in the same year as the first edition, handsomely bound. "Scott's command of structure is remarkable, his narrative skill striking. The Napoleon is... a profound and searching analysis of a towering subject" (Edgar Johnson). The work led to a controversy with General Gourgaud, the French historian who followed Napoleon into exile, about whom Scott had published certain documents. "There was some talk of a duel, which 'pleasantly stimulated' Scott's feelings; but the affair blew over without a challenge" (DNB). Gourgaud later published a "refutation" of Scott. Todd & Bowden 200Ac. Bound with all half titles. Interiors fine; light rubbing to extremities. A handsome copy.
Price: USD 1,800.00 other currencies   order no. 65451   details     inquire
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LEWIS, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia
LEWIS, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia. COMPRISING: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. WITH: Prince Caspian. WITH: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. WITH: The Silver Chair. WITH: The Horse and His Boy. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950-54. WITH: The Magician's Nephew. WITH: The Last Battle. London: The Bodley Head, 1955-56. Together, seven volumes. Octavo, original colored cloth, original dust jackets. $60,000. First editions of all seven books in Lewis' cherished Chronicles of Narnia, with the signature of illustrator Pauline Baynes laid into Prince Caspian. Lewis is likely best remembered for his beloved fantasy series, the Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis was "concerned to do for children what he had done for an adult readership in his science fiction... to re-imagine the Christian story in an exciting narrative context... [The Narnia books are] intoxicating to all but the most relentlessly unimaginative of readers, and must be judged the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-century author" (Carpenter & Pritchard, 370). "The stories are unforgettable not only for the excitement and suspense of the adventures but also for the strong emotions they describe so well... [and they are] further enriched by Lewis' skillful use of language" (Silvey, 406). Unlike most fantasy series, "each book has something new and different to offer and there is no weakening of either inspiration or interest" (Eyre, 132). All seven books were "illustrated by Pauline Baynes in delightful fashion. She was also responsible for the now amazingly rare gray dust wrapper" of the first book (Cooper & Cooper, 206). "Adored by children and academics alike, these books are extremely collectible, sought-after and scarce" (Connolly, 186). Fantasy and Horror 5-176. Publicity card for Prince Caspian signed by illustrator Pauline Baynes laid into that volume. Booksellers' small tickets in The Silver Chair, The Magician's Nephew and The Final Battle. Books near-fine to fine with mottling to cloth of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and Dawn Treader; frontispiece of Dawn Treader inoffensively traced with pencil (impressions visible on recto). Dust jackets very good to near-fine, occasionally price-clipped, with light toning and light rubbing, including occasional closed tears. A desirable, complete set of first editions.
Price: USD 60,000.00 other currencies   order no. 65476   details     inquire
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SAINT-ANGE, E. Livre de Cuisine
SAINT-ANGE, Evelyn. Le Livre de Cuisine. Recettes et Méthodes de la Bonne Cuisine Française. Paris:Librairie Larousse, (1927). Thick octavo, original brown cloth. $400. First edition of this compendium of proper French cuisine, illustrated with 103 line drawings. Offers recipes and techniques to allow the neophyte to prepare proper French cuisine. Includes discussion of necessary equipment and utensils, and line drawings illustrating equipment and techniques. Sections include sauces, soup, fresh- and salt-water fish, beef, veal, lamb, pork, poultry, rice, vegetables, fruits, puddings, and cakes. French cook and kitchen expert Saint-Ange's cookbooks are still held in high esteem by many professional chefs: "Julia Child called Saint-Ange's La Bonne Cuisine [also published by Larousse in 1927] 'one of my bibles' and drew heavily upon its detailed approach to preparation as she labored on her own classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (Publisher's Weekly). Text in French. Bookseller's ticket. Text clean, light rubbing to extremities. A near-fine copy.
Price: USD 400.00 other currencies   order no. 65534   details     inquire
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STEICHEN, Edward U.S. Navy War Photographs. Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Harbor
STEICHEN, Captain Edward, editor. U.S. Navy War Photographs. Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Harbor. New York: U.S. Camera, circa 1945. Slim square quarto, original stiff wrappers. $350. First edition, softcover issue, of this riveting eyewitness record of WWII battles at sea, compiled by Edward Steichen, then head of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, with 101 dramatic, oversize black-and-white photogravures. During WWII, one of the most renowned of America's military photography groups was "the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit famously headed by Edward Steichen," who compiled this outstanding eyewitness record of America's naval battles as captured by ordinary seamen, soldiers and fliers from aboard aircraft carriers, Coast Guard cutters, submarines, Navy scout planes, and from amidst beachhead assaults across the Pacific (Lenman, 670). Published by U.S. Camera shortly after the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri (105), U.S. Navy War Photographs contains over 100 large photogravure plates in a chronicle that begins at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and ends with a picture of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in 1945. Here are unforgettable images of Japanese fighter planes crashing into carrier decks, of skies lit up by anti-aircraft fire and Hellcats roaring into flight, of a dawn attack over Wake Island and Marines landing on the beaches of Okinawa and Iwo Jima, as well as the remarkable image of a sinking Japanese destroyer photographed through the periscope of a U.S. submarine. Issued in wrappers and cloth editions, no priority established. See Parr & Badger II:218; Roth, 54. Images clean and bright, tape reinforcement along spine and to verso of front wrapper. A bright, extremely good copy.
Price: USD 350.00 other currencies   order no. 65539   details     inquire
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JAPAN Yokohama Reconstructed
(JAPAN). Yokohama Reconstructed 1929. (Tokyo: High Speed Photograph), 1929. Oblong octavo, originalfull reverse calf gilt, silk ties. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $3200. First edition of this beautiful photo book, with 27 brown-toned photographic prints. Yokohama, adjacent to Tokyo, was almost completely destroyed in the Great Tokyo Earthquake and Fire of September 1, 1923. The rare photographs in this volume demonstrate the great extent to which Yokohama quickly recovered from the destruction, as well as including a rare panoramic photograph of a post-earthquake Yokohama. Photographic prints measure 7-1/2 by 10 inches and are mounted on thick paper leaves. Each is accompanied by a lengthy text description in English on the tissue guards. Japanese name seal; small library sticker to spine and front paste-down. Only lightest rubbing to extremities. Near-fine condition.
Price: USD 3,200.00 other currencies   order no. 65550   details     inquire
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SPENSER, Edmund Faerie Queene
SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Cambridge: University Press (John Clay), 1909. Two volumes. hick folio, original full vellum gilt, beveled wooden boards, uncut. $3000. Finely printed limited edition of Spenser's masterpiece, number 37 of only 350 copies, set in Cambridge type and illustrated with vignette title pages and Art Nouveau tailpieces. One of the great and lasting achievements of the Elizabethan era, The Faerie Queene reflects the remarkable intellectual progress of its age. Spenser invented a new rhyme scheme, the Spenserian stanza, into which he cast this beautiful prose-poem. A number of its lines stand among the best-known and most lyrical in English, and the work as a whole ranks as one of the finest long allegorical poems ever written. Of Spenser, Robert Southey wrote, "He is the great master of English versification-incomparably the greatest master in our language." This handsomely printed edition by John Clay of the Cambridge University Press was set in "Cambridge" type from the rare 1596 quarto edition of Spenser (Book VII from the 1609 folio). Only a bit of light soiling to lovely vellum, gilt bright. A beautiful copy in fine condition.
Price: USD 3,000.00 other currencies   order no. 65561   details     inquire
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OHARA, Koun Selected Flower Arrangements of the Ohara School
(OHARA, Koun). Selected Flower Arrangements of the Ohara School. New York: Yamanaka, 1936. Octavo, original light and dark green patterned silk covers, Japanese accordion-style binding, original slipcase. $500. First edition, third printing, richly illustrated with 50 color plates of flower arrangements Each brightly colored illustration is accompanied by a lengthy caption describing the arrangement. The Ohara school of Ikebana is one of the three most popular Japanese flower arranging schools, and the first of the modern schools, having branched off from the original, Ikenobo school in the late 19th century. It was founded by Koun Ohara's father. "The Ohara school generally uses moribana (piled-up flowers) in a shallow, flat container. The school was started at a time when Western culture was heavily influential in Japan and the moribana style made good use of Western plants" (japan-zone.com). Book lovely, fresh, and fine. Very good slipcase with some rubbing.
Price: USD 500.00 other currencies   order no. 65642   details     inquire
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NICHOLSON, William London Types
NICHOLSON, William. London Types. New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. Slim folio, original pictorial beige cloth. $1100. Limited first American edition, one of an unknown limitation printed on Japanese vellum of one of Nicholson's best known works, featuring 12 beautiful color lithographs of people at work in London, each accompanied by a sonnet by W.E. Henley. "Nicholson was as attentive to the content as to the design of his prints.. His subject was almost invariably one which he understood thoroughly, English life in his own day. The figures whom he chose for his portraits have for the most part turned out to be men and women in whom posterity continues to take a keen interest, and Nicholson's shrewd characterizations often suggest the reasons for their staying power... [In London Types], Henley's sonnets are vignettes of city life suggested by Nicholson's woodcuts, the poet in effect supply the detail that the artist has left out. 'Liza, the flower girl of 'Hammersmith' might be the first sketch for Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's Pygmalion of 1912" (Ray 293). Preceded by the British first edition of the same year; published simultaneously with the first trade American edition, which was bound in half cloth and printed on ordinary paper. Pencil owner notation and initiation. A bit of soiling to original cloth and light rubbing to extremities, front free endpaper expertly reattached. A lovely copy of a scarce title seldom found in this condition.
Price: USD 1,100.00 other currencies   order no. 65658   details     inquire
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BIBLE Manuscript Psalter
(BIBLE-PSALTER) Illuminated Manuscript Psalter on parchment. Southeastern France, likely Savoy, circa 1475. Small octavo (4 by 5-1/2 inches), modern full brown calf, raised bands, brass clasps, uncut; ff. 184. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $26,000. Illuminated 15th-century manuscript psalter on parchment with a miniature of King David with a harp, illuminated throughout in gold, green, red, blue, brown and black inks. Written in dark brown ink in a batarde bookhand on 22 lines, rubricated in red, with alternating red and blue capitals, two-line gold initials with white tracery infill on blue and red parti-colored grounds, occasional three- and four-line initials in blue or red on highly burnished gold backgrounds. Most pages have several ascenders, occasionally with elaborate strapwork. The miniature, prefacing the Psalter, depicts King David with a harp in a landscape, framed by craggy mountains, in the background a sea with boats and in the distance a castle: tiny red and white flowers decorate the landscape, and the name "David Davides" is written in the sky above his head. Surrounding the image-and seven other pages-is a full foliate border of acanthus leaves, fruit, flowers and animals and grotesques, in red, green, blue and brown inks and liquid gold. The style of the miniature and of the borders recalls that of Savoyard illumination at the end of the third quarter of the 15th century, including the highly saturated colors and the red used in the turrets of the castles in the miniature, both reminiscent of Peronet Lamy and other artists working at the courts of the dukes of Savoy. This Ferial Psalter was made for an ecclesiastic (probably a bishop), whose unidentified arms, a red rampant lion on a gold ground with a blue star, occur in the lower margin on folio 47 and whose cross and initials appear in the border of the miniature on folio 26. At one point it was in the possession of the Jesuit College of Nancy (with their inscription on folio 1, dated 1755, from where it was likely deaccessioned with the suppression of the Jesuits in France. The psalter itself is preceded by a calendar, the Nativity Office of the Virgin Mary, a Short Office of the Dead, and other prayers, comprising the first 25 folios. The remaining 159 folios are the Psalter, in the usual eight divisions. Ferial Psalters are uncommon from this time period, when the favored type of manuscript had become the Book of Hours. Without at least one folio of the calendar at the beginning, rest complete. Bookplate. Old auction description to front free endpaper. Expected marginal embrowning. A wonderful item.
Price: USD 26,000.00 other currencies   order no. 65662   details     inquire
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WEBSTER, Noah American Dictionary of the English Language
WEBSTER, Noah. The American Dictionary of the English Language. New York: S. Converse, 1828. Two volumes. Thick quarto, period-style three-quarter green morocco gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. $20,000. Rare first edition of Webster's magisterial American Dictionary, one of only 2500 copies. With frontispiece portrait. The fruit of nearly a quarter century of labor, Webster's American Dictionary was "probably the most ambitious publication ever undertaken, up to that time, upon American soil... Its merits at once gave it first place among English dictionaries. It marks, indeed, a definite advance in the science of lexicography. Webster established once for all the practice... of freely recording non-literary words... He justly based his definitions upon usage of American as well as British writers and speakers, and did not hesitate to record 'Americanisms' which he deemed worthy... His principles of definition were sound, and the definitions themselves in many cases cannot be bettered today, for Webster was a born definer as well as a man of encyclopedic knowledge... As a whole, Webster's American Dictionary was a scholarly achievement of the first order, richly deserving of its great reputation at home and abroad" (DAB). With definitions for "some 70,000 words-15,000 more than any previous English lexicon... Although only 2500 copies of the first edition were printed, the work established Webster as a lexicographer of international repute" (Lathem, 76 United Statesiana 9). Volume I with partial leaf (47d). Owner signature of William Leffingwell, highly respected Yale professor of art. Light scattered foxing, several leaves with closed tears mildly affecting text (Volume I). An extremely good copy, scarce in any condition and extremely significant; an essential acquisition for any collection of American literary landmarks.
Price: USD 20,000.00 other currencies   order no. 65663   details     inquire
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CRAIG, Edward Gordon Henry Irving, Ellen Terry
CRAIG, Edward Gordon. Henry Irving, Ellen Terry: A Book of Portraits. ([London]: Herbert S. Stone; Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1899). Slim folio, original tan paper-covered boards. $1500. First edition of this collection of 19 mounted photolithographs of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry by actor and master wood-engraver E. Gordon Craig. "If the role of King Arthur extended past the curtain to represent Henry Irving's place in the hierarchy of English theater at the turn of the century, Ellen Terry was most certainly his Guinevere, the Queen of Britain's stage" (David Howland). "Ellen Terry is the most beautiful name in the world; it rings like a chime through the last quarter of the nineteenth century" (George Bernard Shaw). Artist and actor E. Gordon Craig was Ellen Terry's son. He began acting in Irving's company in 1889, the start of a long career in the theater, designing, producing and publishing. Craig became interested in wood-engraving through William Nicholson and used the medium to design sets and arrange stage situations. "He roughed in his designs on the polished boxwood blocks and then worked up his effects with a graver and a gouge... His early designs... began to manifest a sense of mystery and drama... By his mastery of wood-engraving, he was able to project tragic overtones through suggestion, not labored realism" (Hodnett, 226). This superb collection of stage portraits of Irving and Terry in various of their roles, from Louis XI and Robespierre to Ophelia and Nance Oldfield, attests to Nicholson's artistic influence. Ray 288. Houfe, 101-02. Interior near-fine, with only a few finger marks. Light soiling to original boards, moderate chipping to paper spine. An extremely good copy. Scarce.
Price: USD 1,500.00 other currencies   order no. 65696   details     inquire
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SEUSS, Dr. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
SEUSS, Dr. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! New York: Random House, (1957). Quarto, original pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $4000. First edition of one of Dr. Seuss' most popular books. "When asked why he wrote the book, Seuss replied, 'I was brushing my teeth on the morning of the 26th of last December when I noted a very Grinch-ish countenance in the mirror. It was Seuss! So I wrote the story about my sour friend, the Grinch, to see if I could rediscover something about Christmas that obviously I'd lost'" (Dr. Seuss from Then to Now, 51). "In 1954 the Whos won popularity when Horton saved them from destruction... So Ted returned to Who-ville and paired the Whos with a character who was every bit as dastardly as Horton was faithful... Clearly the Grinch has been the most memorable Christmas villain to undergo redemption since Ebenezer Scrooge. To some degree, Ted identified with the Grinch... When asked why he wrote the book, Ted replied, 'I was brushing my teeth on the morning of the 26th of last December when I noted a very Grinch-ish countenance in the mirror. It was Seuss! So I wrote the story about my sour friend, the Grinch, to see if I could rediscover something about Christmas that obviously I'd lost.' It was no coincidence that, when the book appeared in 1957, the Grinch complained, 'For fifty-three years I've put up with it now...' Ted, of course, was born in 1904... After The Cat in the Hat [also published 1957] and The Grinch, Ted's reputation grew exponentially" (Cohen, 329-30). Geisel's tribute to true holiday cheer "added an unforgettable character to American literary mythology and a highly descriptive noun/verb to our language" (Dr. Seuss From Then to Now, 51) First edition, with 14 titles advertised on rear flap of dust jacket. Younger & Hirsch 33. Book with only a few spots of soiling to text and a bit of wear to spine head and corners. Dust jacket with minor soiling, light wear to extremities. A near-fine copy.
Price: USD 4,000.00 other currencies   order no. 65700   details     inquire
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NICHOLSON, William Alphabet
NICHOLSON, William. An Alphabet. London: William Heinemann, 1898 [i.e. 1897]. Slim quarto, originalhalf brown cloth. $1500. First trade edition of this landmark alphabet book, with 26 large color woodcut plates by Nicholson. In this work, which John Rowe Townsend called, "the first picture-book to look unmistakably to the 20th century in its graphic style," "each letter is represented by a full-page color wood-cut with a caption, beginning with 'A was an artist' and ending with 'And Z for zoologist'" (Osborne I:102). "Nicholson's woodcuts were reproduced by lithography... Each has a heavy border-Nicholson was known as 'the man who puts a thick black line round everything'-and within this border is a striking design, usually a single figure, made up of contrasting masses of black and one or more colors. The decorative appeal of these woodcuts was immediate and lasting... Each of Nicholson's subjects is carefully chosen. The cover figure is an old-time vendor of prints 'penny-plain and tuppence colored,' no doubt the artist's acknowledgement of the popular tradition in which he is working. 'A was an artist' shows Nicholson himself. 'B for Beggar' has Pryde [with whom he worked on his commercial art enterprises under the name "J. and W. Beggarstaff"] playing that role, of course, with a staff" (Ray 291). This title page of this book features the first appearance of the Heinemann windmill, which Nicholson created. Tipped-in advertisement for An Almanac present at rear. Preceded only by two extremely small limited editions, in which the "E" plate was Executioner, not Earl, and the "T" plate was Toppler, not Trumpeter. Illustrations fine, inner paper hinge split, light soiling to endpapers, a bit of wear and soiling to original boards as usual. An extremely good and desirable copy, very scarce in any condition.
Price: USD 1,500.00 other currencies   order no. 65701   details     inquire
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JEFFERSON, Thomas Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Charlottesville: F. Carr, 1829. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown marbled sheep, red and black morocco spine labels. $6500. First edition of the first published collection of Jefferson's writings, edited by his grandson. This four-volume collection begins with a memoir written by Jefferson at age 77, and includes a journal kept by him while Secretary of State during Washington's administration. "The rest consists exclusively of a voluminous correspondence, ranging from 1775, after blood had been spilt in Boston, to June 1826, only ten days before his death" (Sabin 35891). Includes Jefferson's famous letter to Benjamin Rush, in which he declared, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." With all half titles, four-page facsimile of Jefferson's manuscript of the Declaration of Independence, and engraved frontispiece portrait after Gilbert Stuart in Volume IV. Howes R60. Shoemaker 39133. Bookseller ticket. Owner signatures. Light scattered foxing, occasional minor paper repairs, small tear with loss to page 445 (Volume I), just affecting text; tiny holes to errata leaf (IV, 532); light edge-wear, dampstaining to contemporary sheep. An extremely good set, very scarce in contemporary bindings.
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EUROPE Les Beaux Pays
(EUROPE). Les Beaux Pays. Grenoble: B. Arthaud, 1930-38. 12 volumes. Tall octavo, contemporary three-quarter colored morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers top edges gilt. $1750. Early editions of these lovely travel books, beautifully and uniformly bound. From a series of works about the most beautiful sights in the world. Each volume features illustrations on nearly every page highlighting the loveliest features of the greatest cities and regions in Europe. Areas covered in this set include: Paris, Versailles, Alsace, Avignon, Côte d'Azur, Venice, the chateaux of the Loire Valley, Corsica, Grenoble and its mountains, Austria, Spain, and Flanders and Artois. With photographs of the vanished Europe that existed prior to World War II. Text in French. Original illustrated paper wrappers bound in. Beautifully bound in a variety of colors: red, brown, blue, green and black. A fine, beautiful set.
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FRASER, C. Lovat Nursery Rhymes
FRASER, Claud Lovat. Nursery Rhymes. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1919]. Slim quarto, original half gray cloth, illustrated paper-covered boards. $250. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated collection of familiar rhymes, with cover, title page, 21 large colored headpieces and 64 in-text vignettes by Claud Lovat Fraser. Lovat Fraser "realized early the importance of visualizing design and type together as an inseparable whole; and the methods which he came to employ in his printed and published work exercised a considerable influence" (DNB). "He developed a style of drawing and of illustration in the tradition of the chapbook with black outlines and flat areas of bright color... Their self-conscious simplicity and unaffected charm make them very much a part of Art Deco mannerism" (Houfe, 143). His lines were usually drawn with a reed pen, "producing thick, ropy, casual effects" (Hodnett, 253). They were reproduced in line cuts and the solid blocks of color printed from lithographic stones, as here. Without scarce dust jacket. Cotsen 3517. Interior fine, light rubbing to boards, repair to fragile cloth spine. A near-fine copy.
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest Farewell to Arms
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Octavo, original black cloth, gold paper labels, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $9000. First edition, first issue, of the novel that "placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters." "Probably [Hemingway's] best... Its success was so enormous... After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence... the beginning, like all his beginnings, seems effortless and magical" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 60). "The novel that placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters... the most satisfying and most sustained, the consummate masterpiece, among Hemingway's novels. It bears the mark of Hemingway's best gifts as a writer" (Mellow, 377-79). First issue, with publisher's seal on copyright page and no legal disclaimer on page [x], in first issue art deco dust jacket by Cleonike Damianakes, with front flap misspelling of the heroine's name as "Katharine Barclay" instead of "Catherine Barkley." Appeared simultaneously with a limited edition of 510 numbered copies. Hanneman A8a. Book exceptionally fine, with gold labels bright and unrubbed, dust jacket clean and unfaded, with only light wear to spine ends. A lovely near-fine copy.
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DULAC, Edmund Princess Badoura
First edition (preceding the signed limited edition) of this Eastern tale, with 10 beautiful mounted color plates by Dulac in the style of Chinese paintings. "Scheherezade herself must have appeared to Edmund Dulac. In a dream, perhaps, in which she kissed his eyelids. Where else could he have learned to see the things he saw?... Whole generations saw his paintings and agreed, 'Yes, this is what the East must be like'-and dreamt of it themselves" (Rebecca Bruns). With the text of Scheherezade's last tale retold by playwright Laurence Housman (brother of poet A.E. Housman), Dulac's lavish color plates show the influence of his exposure to Persian miniatures and Chinese paintings. "The message is one of great serenity, of uncluttered order. For this book Dulac has altered his style to follow that of Chinese painting... None of his work before or after was quite like it" (Hughey 31, Comment). Published October 1913, preceding the limited edition by a month. Without scarce glassine and box. Hughey 31a. Houfe, 124. Fine condition.
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CRAIG, Edward Gordon The Page
CRAIG, Edward Gordon. The Page. Volume IV, Numbers 1 & 2. Hackbridge, Surrey: Craig, 1901. Quarto, original gray-brown illustrated paper wrappers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $2200. Limited first edition of E. Gordon Craig's journal devoted to the art of wood-engraving, number 134 of only 300 copies (colophon on rear cover), with 37 full-page original prints, most by Craig, inscribed on the cover by Craig's friend and art critic Haldane MacFall to fellow art critic and historian Marion Harry Spielmann. With original autograph letter signed from MacFall to Spielmann tipped on the free endpaper, and an original signed MacFall print of his fictional character "Jezebel Pettyfer" and MacFall's bookplate by Craig laid in. In 1893, artist, actor and set designer E. Gordon Craig settled in Uxbridge, where he met artists William Nicholson and James Ferrier Pryde. From them he learned various techniques of wood-engraving and used the medium to design stage sets and arrange scenes. "He roughed in his designs on the polished boxwood blocks and then worked up his effects with a graver and a gouge... His early designs... began to manifest a sense of mystery and drama... By his mastery of wood-engraving, he was able to project tragic overtones through suggestion, not labored realism" (Hodnett, 226). In 1898, Craig started a magazine devoted to the art of wood-engraving, The Page (1898-1901), "which was filled almost entirely with his own work. By the end of 1899 he had engraved nearly 200 blocks and published his first book, A Book of Penny Toys. During this period, Craig continued to develop as a stage designer and director... His innovations in lighting and design [informed by his own white-line wood-engravings] were admired by critics" (Yale University). Craig met artist and art critic Haldane MacFall sometime around 1903. Upon the death of Craig's former employer, the great London actor Henry Irving, the two men collaborated on a hastily produced biography-the text by MacFall and the portraits and decorations by Craig. As an act of friendship and promotion, MacFall presented this copy of Volume IV of Craig's The Page to fellow art critic and historian Marion Harry Spielmann. From 1886 to 1904 Spielmann was editor of The Magazine of Art and "as editor, he had a great influence on contemporary artistic taste, with the journal carrying articles by the leading artists and critics of the day" (Manchester University). In a letter of transmittal tipped onto the endpaper of this copy, MacFall writes to Spielmann, "I send you... a magazine which, likely enough, you have never seen-which contains nevertheless one or two little things from the hand of one of the most delightful of the younger men-Gordon Craig... It includes the 'Eve' and the 'Kensington Gardens," to say nothing of the exquisite 'Marian Terry' bookplate." Laid into this copy is a signed print of MacFall's controversial frontispiece for his own book, The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer (1898), featuring the bare-breasted image of the title character. Also loosely inserted is a mounted copy of MacFall's bookplate, designed by Craig. Houfe, 101-02. Bookplate of Spielmann. Near-fine condition, with only minor closed tears to spine ends of original wrappers. A very desirable copy, linking three key members of the turn-of-the-century English artistic community.
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HUNT, John Ascent of Everest
HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest. (London): Hodder and Stoughton, (1953). Octavo, original blue cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. $1500. First edition, signed by author Sir John Hunt and fellow climber Sir Edmund Hillary on the title page. With eight color photographic plates, 48 half-tone plates and a number of in-text illustrations after pen-and-ink sketches. The 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest was the eighth in 30 years to attempt Everest. On May 29th, 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay at last stood at the summit; it was a culminating moment in mountaineering history, and one of the great achievements of human stamina and will. The Ascent of Everest was written by Sir John Hunt, the leader of the expedition, in one month to satisfy the great demand around the world for the story of the British team's success. Chapter 16 is Sir Edmund Hillary's stirring account of the final part of the climb, and the appendices are by members of the expedition. Neate 393. Gift inscription. Text fine, sunning to spine and mild staining to back cover; only light edge wear to dust jacket. A near-fine copy.
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BEN-GURION, David Israel: A Personal History
BEN-GURION, David. Israel: A Personal History. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, (1971). Thick quarto, original blue cloth, marbled endpapers, original slipcase. $3500. Signed United Jewish Appeal Commemorative first edition, boldly signed by Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding father and first Prime Minister. "Foremost among the founding fathers of modern Israel," David Ben-Gurion drafted Israel's Declaration of Independence, serving afterwards as the new nation's first Prime Minister and subsequently as Minister of Defense (Encyclopedia Judaica). "Considered one of the most scholarly heads of state in human history," Ben-Gurion was also a prolific author; few were better qualified to write a "personal history" of Israel (New Jewish Encyclopedia, 48). Illustrated with over 140 black-and-white photographs and six maps. A signed limited edition in full morocco and a trade edition in cloth were released in the same year Gift inscription. A fine copy in a lightly worn slipcase.
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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel Scarlet Letter
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Octavo, modern full scarlet morocco, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $2500. Third edition of Hawthorne's American classic, issued the same year as the first, handsomely bound in full scarlet morocco by Bayntun-Riviere. The first edition of The Scarlet Letter sold out in ten days and "made Hawthorne's fame, changed his fortune, and gave to our literature its first symbolic novel a year before the appearance of Melville's Moby-Dick" (Bradley et al., 652). "Since 1837, when he had written [the short story] 'Endicott and the Red Cross,' he had often been tormented by a symbol-a scarlet 'A,' worn by an adultress in that tale-which had, at last, worked its way into a full-length book" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 349). The novel "glows with the fire of a suppressed, secret, feverish excitement... a fire that neither wanes nor lessens, but keeps at its original scorching heat for years" (Allibone I:805). First printing of the third edition, with Hobart & Robbins imprint on the copyright page and date of 1850 on the title page; later printings of the third edition give 1851 as the date on the title page. Clark 16.3.a. BAL 7600. Fine condition
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DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste Description of the Empire of China
DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet: Containing the Geography and History (Natural as well as Civil) of those Countries. London: T. Gardner for Edward Cave, 1738-41. Two volumes. Folio, period-style full brown paneled calf, raised bands, red morocco spine labels. $28,500. First folio edition in English of one of the most celebrated of all 18th-century works on China, illustrated with 42 large folding maps (most engraved by Bowen after Anville), nine town-plans, and 13 full-page plates depicting dress, customs and ceremonies. French geographer and Jesuit Jean Du Halde "is credited with compiling the first definitive book on the Chinese Empire" (Hill II: 408). "He was never in China himself, [but rather] has drawn his materials from a variety of sources, especially from the printed and manuscript account of the missionaries" (Lowndes, 693). As a prime source of the new fashion of "chinoiserie," Du Halde's work found its way into many of the great libraries of the time. Translated into English by Richard Brookes from the 1735 French edition, the Description first appeared in 1736 as a four-volume octavo edition (with only four maps and 15 plates), entitled The General History of China. This folio edition was published two years later by Edward Cave in weekly numbers. "All of the first volume of 678 pages and more than half of the second relates to China [the rest to Tibet and Korea]... [many] have regarded it as the completest and most valuable history of the Chinese Empire which had appeared up to the time of its publication" (Cox I, 335). The maps by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville are based on the extensive Jesuit surveys carried out for the Emperor Kangxi between 1708 and 1718. These maps "remained the principal cartographical authority on China during the rest of the 18th century" (Tooley, 107). In Volume II, pages 382-384, is an account of Vitus Bering's voyage of 1725-1728 off the coast of Siberia, with a map showing the earliest English-printed configuration of any part of Alaska, St. Lawrence Island. The inclusion of a summary of Bering's unpublished report makes Du Halde's work the "first book describing any part of Alaska" (Howes D546). With beautifully engraved headpieces and initial letters. The "General Map of Tibet," called for in the "Directions" on the last page of Volume II, was to serve as the template for the nine separate sheets of maps of Tibet, but appears never to have been published, as every description that contains a collation reports it lacking. Cordier, 50. Lust 15. Occasional marginal annotations in a contemporary hand. Text and plates remarkably clean and fine, a few minor paper repairs. A splendid copy.
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RACKHAM, Arthur Comus
(RACKHAM, Arthur) MILTON, John. Comus. New York and London: Doubleday, Page, and William Heinemann,[1921]. Quarto, modern full maroon morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $800. First trade edition, with 24 mounted color plates and 37 black-and-white line cuts by Rackham, handsomely bound. A beautifully illustrated version of Milton's pastoral drama (first published 1638). "Rackham's fanciful imagination gave his illustrations instant recognition, and his dedication to illustration kept him in the public eye for 30 years" (Hodnett, 233). Published the same year as the signed limited edition of 550 copies. Lattimore & Haskell, 54-55. Riall, 143. Tiny crease to one corner of frontispiece plate. A fine copy, handsomely bound.
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RACKHAM, Arthur Goblin Market
(RACKHAM, Arthur) ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1933]. Slim octavo, original burgundy cloth with mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers, uncut, original dust jacket. $325. First American edition with Rackham's illustrations. Rackham illustrates Rossetti's famous-and controversial-children's poem (first published 1862) with four color plates, 19 black-and-white drawings and pictorial endpapers. Published the same year as the signed limited and trade first editions. Latimore & Haskell, 69. Riall, 179. Original dust jacket near-fine with light soiling, slight rubbing to edges, tape repair to verso. Book fine. A lovely copy.
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FOLKARD, Charles Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes
WALTER, L. Edna, ed. Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. London: A. & C. Black, (1919). Octavo, originalhalf green cloth, pictorial paper-covered boards, pictorial endpapers. $250. First edition, with numerous color vignettes, borders and 12 color plates by Charles Folkard. The creator of "the first newspaper cartoon animal to achieve worldwide fame," Teddy Tail, Charles Folkard "was equally well known for his wide range of color plate illustrations, combining an infectious sense of humor with a wealth of fine detail" (Dalby, 109). Interior generally clean, light rubbing to lower edge of frontispiece. Light toning to boards, light rubbing to spine ends and edges. A near-fine copy.
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STEINBECK, John East of Eden
STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: Viking, 1952. Octavo, original green cloth, russet spine label, original acetate dust jacket, original slipcase. $5000. Signed limited first edition, one of 1500 copies signed by Steinbeck. Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his classic retelling of the story of Cain and Abel, that it "has everything in it I have been able to learn about my art or craft or profession in all these years... I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this" (Salinas Public Library, 45). Goldstone & Payne A32a. Book fine, with a bit of light foxing to endpapers. Light edge-wear and toning to intact original slipcase. A near-fine signed copy.
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CAPOTE, Truman Hollywood Color Portraits
KOBAL, John. Hollywood Color Portraits. New York: William Morrow, 1981. Quarto, original black cloth, original photographic dust jacket, original laid-in color one-sheet (measures 18 by 22 inches). $550. First edition of Kobal's tribute to Hollywood's golden years and the "Technicolor legend," with over 70 full-bleed color photographic portraits of the leading stars and original laid-in color poster of Bogart, this association copy from the library of Truman Capote, with his penciled initials on the front free endpaper. Film archivist John Kobal assembles the glitter of Hollywood's studio years and the rich saturated hues of Technicolor in this collection of photographic portraits of stars such as Monroe, Brando, Bogart, Crawford and others. With over 70 four-color photographic plates by Scotty Welbourne, Frank Powolny, Ernest Bachrach and others. From the library of Truman Capote, initialed by him. A fine association copy.
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LINDBERGH, Charles A. Of Flight and Life
LINDBERGH, Charles A. Of Flight and Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Octavo, originalblue cloth, original dust jacket. $3200. First edition of this prophetic discourse on weapons of mass destruction, signed on the half title: "Charles A. Lindbergh. August 1948." In this Cold War-era essay, Lindbergh warns about the dangers of the Soviet Union and uncontrolled scientific advances without a moral compass acting as a guide. Of Flight and Life "sums up Lindbergh's concerns about the unchecked spread of scientific materialism and his fear that Americans were caught in a vicious circle in which our security today demanded regimentation and the development of weapons that would ruin us tomorrow" (Robert Wohl). Book with only minor soiling to cloth, dust jacket with light rubbing to edges. A near-fine signed copy.
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GREENAWAY, Kate Queen of the Pirate Isle
(GREENAWAY, Kate) HARTE, Bret. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. London: Chatto and Windus, [1886]. Slim octavo, original pictorial tan cloth, all edges gilt. $600. First edition, with frontispiece and 27 vivid color illustrations by Kate Greenaway, in pictorial publisher's cloth. Considered to be among Greenaway's finest works and "one of the most successful examples of her talents as a book illustrator," The Queen of the Pirate Isle "was described by her friend John Ruskin as 'the best thing you have ever done-it is so real and natural'" (Quayle, 98). Schuster & Engen "Binding 1e," with gilt edges and blue endpapers. (BAL binding list incomplete.) Schuster & Engen 165.1e. Osborne I:350. See BAL 7337. A lovely copy in very nearly fine condition.
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MEANY, Tom Incredible Giants
MEANY, Tom. The Incredible Giants. New York: A.S. Barnes, (1955). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $325. First edition of this behind-the-scenes biography of the 1954 World Champion New York Giants, with 16 pages of photographs, signed by Giants manager Leo Durocher and star left-fielder Monte Irvin. Tom Meany, called by many "Baseball's Boswell," spent most of career covering the Brooklyn Dodgers, ultimately becoming the publicist for the Mets. His biography of the New York Giants is the "story of their regeneration, of the return of Willie Mays, of the acquisition of Johnny Antonelli." Smith 4052. Grobani 19-16. Text uniformly embrowned, as usual. Original dust jacket lightly rubbed, with small tape repair to closed tear and minor edge-wear. An extremely good signed copy.
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LARSEN, Don Perfect Yankee
LARSEN, Don and SHAW, Mark. The Perfect Yankee. Champaign: Sagamore, (1996). Octavo, original full brown leatherette gilt, original dust jacket. $300. Signed limited first edition account of one of the most enduring moments in baseball history, Don Larsen's perfect World Series' game, number 479 of only 500 copies signed on the title page by both Yogi Berra and Don Larsen. On October 8, 1956, Yankee pitcher Don Larsen achieved baseball immortality by pitching the first, and to date only, perfect game in World Series history, defeating the Dodgers 2-0. The image of Yogi Berra leaping into Larsen's arms following the final pitch (on the dust jacket) is one of the most memorable in the history of the game. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. A fine signed copy.
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PETERSON, Robert W. Only the Ball Was White
PETERSON, Robert W. Only the Ball Was White. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, (1970). Tall octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. $750. First edition of this reconstruction of the story of Negro Baseball, signed by William H. Barnes, Cecil Kaiser, Buck O'Neil, Art "Superman" Pennington, Herman "Doc" Howard, Gene Smith, Harold "BeBop" Gordon and Mel Duncan. "One summer day in 1939, a kid squatted on the bank behind home plate at Russell Field in Warren, Pennsylvania, fielding foul balls (which could be redeemed for a nickel each), and saw Josh Gibson hit the longest home run ever struck in Warren County." The kid was Robert Peterson, who in this volume has "reconstructed the story of Negro baseball from old sports publications, the Negro press and interviews with the men who played the game." "Long recommended as the best book on the subject" (Smith 1184). Grobani 6-6. Book fine. Small tape repair and modest chipping to extremities of original dust jacket. A near-fine copy, signed by eight players.
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BERRA, Yogi Yogi, It Ain't Over
BERRA, Yogi. Yogi, It Ain't Over. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1989). Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. $300. First edition of Yogi's first-hand account of his career as player and manager, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs, signed by Berra on the half title. Memoirs of the Hall of Fame catcher, legendary bad-ball hitter, Yankee and Mets manager and enigmatic quipster. A fine signed copy.
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PORTER, Cole Red Hot and Blue
PORTER, Cole. Red Hot and Blue. A Musical Comedy. New York: Random House, 1936. Quarto, original red, white and blue silk. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $8800. Signed limited first edition, number 32 of only 300 copies signed by Cole Porter. Contains the lyrics, melody, and piano accompaniment for the ten songs from this popular Cole Porter musical comedy, including "It's De-Lovely," "You're a Bad Influence on Me," "A Little Skipper from Heaven Above," "What a Great Pair We'll Be," and "Red Hot and Blue." Title page printed in red, blue, and black. Interior fine with light toning to endpapers. Notoriously fragile original silk binding with mild rubbing to joints and extremities, light soiling including small waterstain and abrasion to front board. An extremely good copy.
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DAVIDSON, Bruce Du [Magazine title]. New York-100th Street
(DAVIDSON, Bruce) GASSER, Manuel AND Obermüller, Klara, editors. DU [Magazine title]. New York-100th Street. (Zurich: Conzett & Huber), March 1969. Large quarto, original stiff photographic wrappers. $950. First publication of images from Davidson's powerful view of Harlem, preceding his first photobook East 100th Street by one year, scarce issue of the German magazine Du, with 60 rich, full-page photogravures-including seven gatefolds not present in the book and cover image. In March 1969, the German magazine Du dedicated an entire issue to this first publication of 60 evocative images from Bruce Davidson's photographic study of Harlem-preceding by one year his first photobook East 100th Street (1970). Defying a practice of using small or medium format cameras in documentary work, Davidson had spent over two years photographing Harlem's East 100th Street with a bulky large-format camera that came "to be part of the block's daily life... [and] opened up new vistas" that fundamentally reshaped documentary photography (Roth, 196). Printed here in large, splendid photogravure plates (unlike the book's duotones, and larger in size than what appeared in the book) and featuring seven two-page gatefolds not present in the eventual book, Davidson's work has proven a key influence on a generation and an unforgettable, "exemplary exercise in the humanist social documentary mode" (Parr & Badger II:18). With essay by Davidson in German. As issued without dust jacket. A fine copy.
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POTTER, Beatrix Tailor of Gloucester
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: December, 1902. 12mo, original pictorial pink boards. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $12,000. True first edition, one of only 500 privately printed copies, of Potter's second book, which she called "my own favorite amongst my little books," with frontispiece and 15 illustrations in color, three of which do not appear in the first trade edition of October, 1903. Inspired by a real-life incident involving a tailor's pressure to finish a waistcoat for the new mayor of Gloucester, this book "was Potter's own favorite of all her stories, and one can see why, for in it she indulges her own fascination with the era of her grandparents and great-grandparents... Fairy tale, nursery rhyme and Arcadian fantasy all come together for a moment in perfect balance. No wonder Beatrix Potter was proud of the book" (Carpenter, 148). "Evidently with some regret, Beatrix Potter [deleted from the first trade edition] eight or nine pages of text [which appear in this edition] where she had described in detail how Simpkin wandered through the streets of Gloucester on the night of Christmas Eve, when all the animals were talking and the carol singers were singing. This is the part of the story which contained the majority of her rhymes and verses" (Linder 117). Quinby 3. Usual faint discoloration to bright pictorial boards. Miniscule rub to foot of spine. An exceptionally lovely, fine copy.
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ABBOTT, Berenice Changing New York
ABBOTT, Berenice. Changing New York. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1939. Quarto, original blue cloth, original photographic dust jacket. $6500. First edition of Abbott's landmark photo-essay on New York City, from waterfronts to storefronts, with 97 halftone plates. After spending the better part of the Twenties in Paris photographing such literary celebrities as James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, and Andre Gide, Abbott returned to New York with the intention "to do in Manhattan what Atget did in Paris." Abbott captured the city "with a straightforward style that nodded toward 19th-century classicism while signaling a new sort of stripped-down modernism" (Roth, 100). "Changing New York not only fulfills Abbott's criterion for the historical importance of the documentary mode, but also demonstrates its power as a medium of personal expression" (Parr & Badger I:141), providing "a distinctive interpretation of New York as well as a priceless document thereof" (Icons of Photography, 104). Text by Elizabeth McCausland. Open Book, 130. Plates quite fresh, only tiny abrasions to frontispiece and title page, faint edge-wear to bright cloth; slight edge-wear, minor tape reinforcement to verso of scarce, price-clipped dust jacket. An extremely good copy of a photographic classic.
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WHARTON, Edith Decoration of Houses
WHARTON, Edith and CODMAN, Ogden, Jr. The Decoration of Houses. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Quarto, original marbled paper boards, original paper spine label, uncut. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $5600. First edition of Wharton's influential first published book, a fine copy in original marbled boards. Considered the first American handbook of interior decoration, Wharton's beautifully illustrated Decoration of Houses, her first published book (her Verses appeared privately in 1878), contains chapters on every aspect of interior design (including rooms in general, walls, doors, windows, fireplaces, ceilings and floors, gala rooms, bedrooms, the dining-room and library), as well as a survey of historical traditions and a detailed bibliography. The indirect result of Wharton's collaboration with Ogden Codman on the decoration of "Land's End," her estate in Newport, Decoration of Houses advocates continental rather than English models, and has had a continuing influence on architects and interior designers. Wharton notes in her conclusion: "Modern civilization has been called a varnished barbarism: a definition that might well be applied to the superficial graces of much modern decoration. Only a return to architectural principles can raise the decoration of houses to the level of the past." Without extremely rare dust jacket. Garrison A2.1.a., binding B, no priority determined Bookseller ticket. Mild toning to spine. A superb copy in fine condition.
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WHITE, E.B. Charlotte's Web
WHITE, E.B. Charlotte's Web. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1952). Octavo, original beige cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $2800. First edition of one of the most delightful and beloved children's books, a cornerstone of any collection of modern children's literature. The most celebrated of White's three children's books, "Charlotte's Web is rightly regarded as a modern classic" (Connolly, 322-23). nderson, 6. Costen 11941. Books of the Century, 210. Cloth with light soiling, price-clipped dust jacket with light toning to spine, faint circular stains to panels, partially erased old pencil notation to rear panel. A near-fine copy.
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BELLOW, Saul Humboldt's Gift
BELLOW, Saul. Humboldt's Gift. New York: Viking, (1975). Octavo, original half yellow cloth, original dust jacket. $850. First edition of Bellow's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, signed by him on a tipped-in leaf. Awarded the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Humboldt's Gift is the seventh novel by "the most distinguished novelist of the post-war period in America" (Vinson, 124). It was Bellow alone who "managed brilliantly, in the words of Philip Roth, 'to close the gap between Thomas Mann and Damon Runyon.' In doing so, he capture a huge slice of American life... giving new immediacy to the American novel" (New York Times). Book with slight discoloration to spine; dust jacket fine.
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REAGAN, Ronald Speaking My Mind
REAGAN, Ronald. Speaking My Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1989). Tall octavo, original half blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $3000. First edition of Reagan's selected speeches, inscribed by him on the dedication page, "To Sid Craig, with very best wishes, Ronald Reagan, Dec. 21 - 1989." Selected and annotated by Reagan, this collection begins with one of his first public talks, delivered in 1951, and includes the many speeches that helped to define the "Reagan Revolution" and his two terms as President. A fine inscribed copy.
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CHURCHILL, Winston Second World War
CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy. London: Cassell, (1948-54). Six volumes. Octavo, modern full navy morocco gilt, raised bands, spine compartments gilt-stamped with Churchill lion emblems, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $3500. First English editions of Churchill's masterpiece, handsomely bound. The six volumes of Churchill's masterpiece were published separately between 1948 and 1954. With the Second World War, Churchill "pulled himself back from humiliating defeat in 1945, using all his skills as a writer and politician to make his fortune, secure his reputation, and win a second term in Downing Street" (Reynolds, xxiii). "Winston himself affirmed that 'this is not history: this is my case'" (Holmes, 285). Churchill was re-elected to the post of Prime Minister in 1951. "The Second World War is a great work of literature, combining narrative, historical imagination and moral precept in a form that bears comparison with that of the original master chronicler, Thucydides. It was wholly appropriate that in 1953 Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature" (Keegan, 175). Although preceded by the American editions, the English editions are generally preferred for their profusion of diagrams, maps and facsimile documents. Cohen A240.4. Woods A123b. Langworth, 254. Fine condition.
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BURROUGHS, William Naked Lunch
BURROUGHS, William. The Naked Lunch. Paris: The Olympia Press, (1959). Small octavo, original greenand white paper wrappers, original dust jacket. Housed in custom clamshell box. $8000. First edition, mixed first and second issue, of one of the most controversial novels of the 20th century, inscribed on the half title: "For Boris Ilalich. With all best wishes. William S. Burroughs. October 15, 1983." Allen Ginsberg initially drew attention to Naked Lunch in his 1955 dedication to Howl, hailing Burroughs' work as "an endless novel which will drive everybody mad." Jack Kerouac volunteered to type Burroughs' manuscript, but reneged after completing the first two chapters because its disturbing imagery caused him to have nightmares (Miles, 6, 9, 79). It was Ginsberg who finally submitted the unsightly, tattered manuscript that "smelled like trouble" to Maurice Girodias, founder of the Olympia Press and publisher of other controversial books such as Nabokov's Lolita and Samuel Beckett's Watt (de Grazia, 385). First published in Paris, Burroughs' work was summarily banned in the United States and Britain, enduring a censorship trial in the States and becoming "one of the most clothed books in history" through various expurgated editions that followed (Miles, 108). Book second issue, with "New Franc" price stamp on rear wrapper over the original "Francs 1500" price, placed there on first printing copies that had not sold by January 1, 1960. Dust jacket first issue, with original price only. Maynard and Miles A2. Bookplate. Only very light wear to spine ends of book and bright dust jacket. A near-fine inscribed copy.
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ROOSEVELT, Theodore Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. Octavo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, top edge gilt, uncut and partly unopened. $1200. First trade edition, with photogravure frontispiece portrait and numerous photographic plates. Roosevelt colorfully relates his adventures hunting bear, deer, cougar and other game in such locales as the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone Park. "Like Audubon, William Elliott, and Judge Caton, Roosevelt liked to chase deer with horses and hounds: 'To be able to ride through woods and over rough country at full speed, rifle or shotgun in hand, and then to leap off and shoot at a running object is to show that one has the qualities which made the cavalry of Forrest so formidable in the Civil War.' This volume also contains an excellent chapter on 'Books on Big Game' in which Roosevelt reveals his admiration for two other giants among deer hunters: Judge Caton and T.S. Van Dyke" (Wegner, 234). A few sections of this book originally appeared in the publications of the Boone and Crockett Club and in Whitney's Deer Family; this is their first appearance together in book form, as this first trade edition preceded the signed limited edition. Wheelock, 10. Phillips, 320. Contemporary gift inscription. Text fine. Light rubbing to extremities, light soiling, and a chip to top of spine, just affecting title. Near-fine condition.
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EDEN, Frederic Morton The State of the Poor: or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England.
EDEN, Frederic Morton. The State of the Poor: or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period. London: J. Davis, 1797. Three Volumes. Large quarto, modern three-quarter speckled brown calf gilt, red and blue morocco spine labels, marbled boards. $22,000. First edition of Eden's unrivalled three-volume economic analysis of late 18th-century England, the "basis of sociological analysis ever since" (PMM), with folding table and numerous charts. "State of the Poor is one of the classical works in the history of economics. Eden was led to embark on the subject by the high prices brought on by the war in 1793 and 1795, and the eff