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HEMINGWAY, Ernest Photograph
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Original Photograph. No place, no photographer, [circa 1945]. Image measures 3-1/2 by 5 inches. Frame measures 6-1/4 by 8 inches. $750. Fine original photograph of Hemingway, handsomely framed.
Price: USD 750.00 other currencies   order no. 24658   details     inquire
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LAWRENCE, Ruth Colonial Families of America
LAWRENCE, Ruth (ed.). Colonial Families of America. New York: National Americana Society, (1928). Folio, full red paneled morocco with black and gray morocco inlays, inlaid gilt centerpiece, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, gilt dentelles, watered silk doublures and endpapers, all edges gilt. $1200. Sumptuously bound and illustrated history of the leading families of colonial America, with eight full-page colored coats-of-arms and dozens of tissue-guarded mounted portraits. Includes the Van Rensselaer, Van Cortlandt, Quincy and Stuyvesant families. Printed on fine, wide-margined paper. Lightest sunning to one edge of front board, slight dampstain to front silk doublure and endpaper. A splendid production.
Price: USD 1,200.00 other currencies   order no. 24750   details     inquire
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MACK, Connie Signed photograph
MACK, Connie. Original Photograph Signed. No Place: Bachrach Portrait Photographers, 1939. Framed and matted original photograph measuring approximately 17 inches by 12 inches. Entire piece measures approximately 23 inches by 17 inches. $2500. Handsome portrait photograph of legendary baseball figure Connie Mack, signed and inscribed to famed portrait photographer Louis Bachrach, "With Best Wishes to Louis Fabian Bachrach, Sincerely Connie Mack." Mack, the "Grand Old Man" of baseball, had a career spanning over seventy years as a player, manager and owner. Under his leadership he guided the Philadelphia Athletics to nine league championships and five World Series titles. He is well remembered for his habits of managing from the dugout in a business suit and straw hat, positioning his outfielders by waving a scorecard. He is pictured here seated in such a suit, in a three-quarter length portrait taken by the Bachrach studios, photographers of every president since Abraham Lincoln as well as a veritable Who's Who of other dignitaries, celebrities and sports stars. Light residue to edges of photo, not affecting image. A fine piece, handsomely framed.
Price: USD 2,500.00 other currencies   order no. 24808   details     inquire
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GARDNER, John October Light
GARDNER, John. October Light: A Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, original brown cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. $200. First edition, signed by Gardner on the front free endpaper. October Light was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976. Some light pencil underlining, glue residue on front and rear pastedowns, magazine clipping on Gardner attached to endpaper, in near-fine dust jacket with light edgewear.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 24931   details     inquire
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GAINES, Ernest J. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
GAINES, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. New York: Dial Press, 1971. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. $2500. First edition of Gaines' great saga of black history in the South seen through the memories of the 110 year-old Miss Jane Pittman. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Clarence and Sharyn: / It was so good / meeting the both / of you. / And again, let me / say that that was / a great review / in Essence- / Best always, / Ernie Gaines / Oct 8, 1972 / 11 Waverly Place - / New York." "The fictive world of Ernest J. Gaines, as well as certain technical aspects of his works, might be compared to that of William Faulkner. But useful as such a comparison may be, it should not be pursued to the point of obscuring Gaines' considerable originality, which inheres mainly in the fact that he is Afro-American and very much a spiritual product, if no longer a resident, of the somewhat unique region about which he writes: south Louisiana... [Gaines'] perspective enables him to create, among other notable characters both black and white, a Jane Pittman... whose heroic perseverance we experience, rather than a housekeeping Dilsey (The Sound and the Fury) for whom we have little more than the narrator's somewhat ambiguous and irrelevant assurance that 'She endured.' In general, Gaines' peculiar point of view generates a more complex social vision than Faulkner's, an advantage Gaines has utilized with increasing dramatic force and artistic promise" (Vinson, 483). With publisher's publication notice laid in. Occasional light pencil marks or underlining. Book fine; dust jacket bright and near-fine with only minor edge-wear.
Price: USD 2,500.00 other currencies   order no. 24955   details     inquire
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LOWELL, James Russell Letters
LOWELL, James Russell. Letters of James Russell Lowell. Edited by Charles Eliot Norton. New York, 1894. Two volumes extended to four. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $600. First American edition, extra-illustrated with over 40 plates. This set comprises an extensive selection of the poet's letters. Lowell regularly corresponded with a number of his famed contemporaries, including Longfellow, Emerson and Hawthorne, among others. Edited by renowned scholar, Charles Eliot Norton, who "is best known as professor of the history of fine art at Harvard (1873-98), although his broad range of scholarship, lofty and catholic taste, and great personal charm extended his influence far beyond the confines of the university" (Hart, 545). Norton and Lowell had collaborated as editors of The North American Review in 1864. Originally issued with only three plates, this set is extra-illustrated with over 40 additional plates (many portraits, including Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Longfellow, Browning, etc.). Preceded only by the London edition, published in the same year. Armorial bookplates. A fine set, wonderfully illustrated.
Price: USD 600.00 other currencies   order no. 25227   details     inquire
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SIMPSON, Sir George Narrative of a Journey Round the World
SIMPSON, Sir George. Narrative of a Journey Round the World, During the Years 1841 and 1842. London: Henry Colburn, 1847. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full polished calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, red and green morocco labels, marbled endpapers and edges. $2600. First edition, with engraved frontispiece portrait and folding map tracing the author's route. Simpson, Governor-in-chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's territories in North America from 1821-1856, "ranks high among Canadian explorers, having twice crossed the continent. He planned the expedition of his cousin, Thomas Simpson, and made this famous expedition around the globe himself. The first volume relates to the author's journey across Canada to the Red River Settlement, Edmonton, Vancouver, up to Sitka, a voyage down the coast to San Francisco, Monterey, and Santa Barbara, and voyage to Hawaii. The second volume describes the Hawaiian Islands and the author's journey across Siberia and Russia to St. Petersburg" (Hill I, 274). "A model record of travels by an exceedingly able man and a keen observer" (Cowan, 216). Wagner-Camp 140:1. Sabin 81343. Streeter VI: 3710. Ink stamps. Slight dampstaining to front flyleaves only. Map and text fine. A beautiful copy in fine contemporary full polished calf-gilt bindings.
Price: USD 2,600.00 other currencies   order no. 25232   details     inquire
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DODSLEY, R. Select Collection of Old Plays
(DODSLEY, R.). A Select Collection of Old Plays. London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1744. Twelve volumes. Small octavo, contemporary full calf gilt, red morocco labels, raised bands. $2500. First edition of Dodsley's selection of 61 old English plays, in full contemporary calf gilt. "This collection contains sixty of the best and scarcest of the old English Plays, beginning with the Moralities and Mysteries. Much valuable information is interspersed throughout the volumes. 'We may here perceive how this noble generation of poets, some of whose names are not familiar to us, have moulded our language with the images of their fancy, and strengthened it by the stability of their thoughts' (Disraeli). 'No species of fiction is so delightful as the Old English Drama; even its inferior productions possess a charm not to be found in any other kind of Poetry' (Macauley)'" (Allibone I, 510). Three leaves in Vol. I, one in Vol. VII, cut (owner signatures removed), not affecting text. Early ink notations at front of each volume listing the plays included. Text clean and crisp. Contemporary calf-gilt bindings exceptionally lovely. A beautiful set.
Price: USD 2,500.00 other currencies   order no. 25315   details     inquire
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SOUTHEY, Robert Doctor
(SOUTHEY, Robert). The Doctor, &c. London: Longman et al., 1835-47. Seven volumes. Octavo, later three-quarter green morocco, marbled boards, endpapers and top edges. $1600. Second edition of Southey's The Doctor, best known for containing the first appearance in print of "The Three Bears." "Any text of the story published before 1850 is a rare and desirable possession" (Quayle, 73). The Doctor was the last major work by this poet laureate. "(Southey's) prose style has long been regarded as masterly in its ease and clarity. These qualities are best seen in... the anonymously published seven-volume The Doctor (1834-47), a fantastic, rambling miscellany packed with comments, quotations, and anecdotes" (Kuiper, 1055). "The Three Bears" appears in Vol. IV on page. 318; this version with a "Little Old Woman" instead of Goldilocks. Interiors generally clean with only occasional minor soiling. A lovely copy of this rare set, handsomely bound.
Price: USD 1,600.00 other currencies   order no. 25335   details     inquire
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KEATE, George Account of the Pelew Islands
KEATE, George. An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean, Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and Some of His Officers, Who, in August 1783, Were There Shipwrecked, in The Antelope, a Packet Belonging to the Honourable East India Company. The Second Edition. London: Printed for Captain Wilson, 1788. Quarto, original three-quarter calf, original marbled boards, uncut. $1750. Second edition, published in the same year as the first, with 15 full-page engraved plates (several folding), frontispiece portrait and folding map. "In August 1783, the Antelope, commanded by Henry Wilson, of the East India Company's Marines, ran on a rock near one of the Pelew Islands, and became a wreck. This group of islands had been sighted by the Spaniards and others, but had never been explored. Captain Wilson and his crew escaped safely to shore. He and his men were well treated by the natives, and in time they managed to build a small vessel from the wreck, in which they were able to reach Macao, taking with them... one of the king's sons. Wilson brought him to England where he was lionized and created a very good impression; he, however, unfortunately died of small-pox" (Cox II, 302-3). With superb copper-plates of inhabitants, views, tools, etc. Signatures and bookplate on front endpapers of members of the Chamberlain family, including that of Joseph Chamberlain dated 1789. Occasional light pencil marginalia. Several leaves with early repairs to closed tears and restoration to margins, repair covers text on pages 121-124. Some light scattered foxing or offsetting from plates. A handsome, wide-margined, uncut, large-paper copy in original boards.
Price: USD 1,750.00 other currencies   order no. 25348   details     inquire
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SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft Lodore
(SHELLEY, Mary). Lodore. By the Author of "Frankenstein." Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1835. Octavo,contemporary half red pebbled morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers. $2500. Early edition of this autobiographical novel by Mary Shelley, published the same year as the scarce London first. This autobiographical novel is based on a number of people and events from her early life, including her relationships with her father, William Godwin, and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley (as well as his relationship with his first wife, Harriet, who committed suicide). Lodore had greater success than any of Shelley's novels since Frankenstein. Editions were brought out in Paris, Brussels and New York in the same year as the now scarce London first. Contemporary owner signature to title page. Interior generally clean; contemporary binding near-fine.
Price: USD 2,500.00 other currencies   order no. 25372   details     inquire
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WALPOLE, Horace Letters of Horace Walpole
WALPOLE, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Edited by Peter Cunningham. London:Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. Nine volumes. Thick octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt; partially unopened. $1750. Handsomely bound 1886 illustrated edition of the entire series of Walpole's correspondence. With 39 engraved portraits throughout of Walpole and his correspondents. Walpole (1717-97) is among the small group of writers of whom it may be said that their letters form their major work. In Walpole's correspondence, printed gradually throughout the nineteenth century, "it is not too much to say that there is scarcely a dull page... In these epistles to Mann, to Montagu, to Mason, to Conway, to Lady Hervey, to Lady Ossory, to Hannah More, and a host of others, almost every element of wit and humour, variety and charm, is present. For gossip, anecdote, epigram, description, illustration, playfulness, pungency, novelty, surprise, there is nothing quite like them in English" (DNB XX, 632). "The best letter-writer in the English language" (Sir Walter Scott). First published in 1857. Lowndes, 2822. Spines lightly and evenly toned. An extremely good set.
Price: USD 1,750.00 other currencies   order no. 25536   details     inquire
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KINGSLEY, Charles Life and Works
KINGSLEY, Charles. The Life and Works. London: Macmillan, 1901-03. Nineteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark brown crushed levant morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut. $4800. Limited edition of the complete works of Kingsley, one of only 525 such sets printed, finely bound by MacDonald. Includes Kingsley's historical novels (Hypatia, Westward Ho!, and Hereward the Wake), his social reform novels (Yeast, Alton Locke, and Two Years Ago), poems, and Letters and Memories of his Life (edited by his wife, in four volumes). Kingsley (1819-1875) "was a celebrated and revered figure, who gained towards the end of his life (as a professor of modern history at Cambridge...) a high degree of public and indeed royal approval... Kingsley's works are now read largely for their social interest and admired for their brilliantly evocative descriptive passages" (Drabble, 535-36). A handsomely bound set in fine condition.
Price: USD 4,800.00 other currencies   order no. 25538   details     inquire
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CHARLES I Eikon Bazilike
CHARLES I. Eikon Basilike: The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings. [London: printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston], 1648. 12mo, twentieth-century full crimson morocco, raised bands, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Collation: A4 [A3 mis-signed as A4]; [Frontispiece]; B8-S8 [without S8, blank]. $2500. First edition, second issue, published just a few days after the execution of Charles I. With the engraved frontispiece by William Marshall in its first state. Sixty editions of this book appeared in England and abroad in the years following the execution of Charles I. The Eikon Basilike eloquently expresses the King's view of the events of the Civil War. Published as the King's personal writings, secretly communicated from the prison where the Parliamentarians were holding him, the Eikon was claimed after the Restoration by one Dr. John Gauden as his own work. Controversy raged around the book for many years. Some witnesses claimed to have seen the manuscript in the king's handwriting" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 212). "The controversy went on; but, as early as 1812, an unidentified writer, of singular acumen, was able to observe 'The King wrote some or much, and Gauden made a book of it'. Here, in a nutshell, is the story of the Eikon" (Madan, 133). "Whatever the truth of its origin, the Eikon became famous both on its own merits and on account of the answers it provoked, including Milton's attack in Eikonoklastes. The work is a masterpiece in its expression of Charles' principles, personal feeling, and prejudices, and, by making a martyr of this Stuart king, exercised a considerable influence on English history" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 212). This second issue of the first edition of the Eikon appeared within a few days of the death of the King, "probably about 4 February" of 1649 (1648 in the old reckoning) (Madan, 11). Collation: A4 [A3 mis-signed as A4]; [Frontispiece]; B8-S8 [without S8, blank]. With the original frontispiece by William Marshall, in its first state. Inserted before the title-page is an early facsimile of another Marshall frontispiece, found in some copies of King Charles' Works. With the mispaginations in signature G uncorrected. Madan 1, second issue. Text clean with slight dampstaining to a few leaves. Expert repair to rear joint. Handsomely bound.
Price: USD 2,500.00 other currencies   order no. 25618   details     inquire
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver Works
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Miscellaneous Works. London: F.C. and J. Rivington, et al., 1820. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spines and dentelles, blind-tooled borders, marbled endpapers and edges. $750. Handsomely bound edition of Goldsmith's works, extra-illustrated with dozens of full-page plates. Light rubbing to extremities. An atttactive set.
Price: USD 750.00 other currencies   order no. 25746   details     inquire
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RANDOLPH, Thomas Poetical and Dramatic Works
RANDOLPH, Thomas. Poetical and Dramatic Works of Thomas Randolph... Now First Collected and Edited from the early Copies and from MSS... by W. Carew Hazlitt. London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1875. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tan polished calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, red and green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $675. First collected edition of Randolph's complete poetry and drama, beautifully bound in full polished calf gilt by Bedford. Randolph (1605-1635) during his brief life was one of the "Sons of Ben," the circle of poets and playwrights that gathered about Ben Jonson. His play The Jealous Lovers (1634), performed at Cambridge for King Charles I, was well received. This collection includes the first translation into English of any play by Aristophanes (the Plutus, translated here as Hey for Honesty, Down with Knavery), as well as Randolph's plays Aristippus, Amyntas, and The Muses' Looking-Glass. Bookplate. Fine condition.
Price: USD 675.00 other currencies   order no. 25800   details     inquire
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L'ENGLE, Madeleine Summer of the Great-grandmother
L'ENGLE, Madeleine. The Summer of the Great-grandmother. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1974). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $450. First edition, inscribed by L'Engle on the front free endpaper: "For Cynth & Alyce, / For all shall be well & all / shall be well & all manner / of thing shall be well. / Love, / Madeleine." Madeleine L'Engle's The Summer of the Great-grandmother recounts the dilemma she faced when her mother, at age 90, became incapable of caring for herself. This is the second volume in "The Crosswicks Journal." Madeleine L'Engle (1918- ) is one of the most widely read children's authors in the world. She won a Newbery Award for her book A Wrinkle in Time in 1963. This copy is beautifully inscribed by L'Engle with a quotation from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. A fine, bright copy.
Price: USD 450.00 other currencies   order no. 25827   details     inquire
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SENDAK, Maurice Wild Rumpus #2
SENDAK, Maurice. Wild Rumpus #2. Signed print from Where the Wild Things Are. [Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum and Library, 1971]. Oblong folio, image measures 20-1/4 inches by 9-1/4 inches. $1250. Lovely color print from Where the Wild Things Are, signed by Sendak. This color print from the artist's Caldecott Medal Award-winning classic Where the Wild Things Are (1963) was produced in 1971 as part of a series of 19 images selected from eight different titles by Sendak and newly re-photographed from the original artwork at the Sendak Archives, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia. This portfolio of 19 prints was originally issued unsigned, in an edition of approximately 5000 copies; in the 30 years since publication Sendak has autographed a few copies for friends and only occasionally for concessionary sale. Fine condition, suitable for framing.
Price: USD 1,250.00 other currencies   order no. 25901   details     inquire
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GOLDICUTT, John Specimens of Ancient Decorations from Pompeii
GOLDICUTT, John. Specimens of Ancient Decorations from Pompeii. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1825. Quarto, contemporary full polished calf gilt, green calf spine label, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. $5500. First edition of this beautiful collection of plates illustrating the adornments of Pompeii, with engraved and hand-colored title, and 19 engraved plates, 18 of which are hand-colored. This is architect John Goldicutt's second publication, a stunning set of plates showing ceilings, mosaics, and wall ornamentation from the then recently discovered buildings in Pompeii. The coloring is extremely vivid and accurate. Goldicutt states in his preface that the book was published with "a view to assist the artist in the interior decoration of houses, as well as what regards figure as colour." Plate counts vary among copies of this book, but most (including this copy) are found with the engraved title and 19 plates: there are, however, copies noted with additional plates. Upper joint of beautiful contemporary calf binding with very minor expert repair. Text and plates exceptionally bright and clean. A most handsome copy of this scarce work.
Price: USD 5,500.00 other currencies   order no. 25937   details     inquire
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STOWE, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America. London: C. H. Clarke and Co., 1852. Octavo, original blue cloth, all edges gilt. $1500. Early English edition of this influential novel, with 40 illustrations, issued later the same year as the true first English edition (un-illustrated), also published by Clarke. Uncle Tom's Cabin was immediately successful upon its publication in book form, and publishers in England, where there was a large and vocal anti-slavery contingent, were quick to issue their own editions of the controversial novel. This is an early Clarke printing, issued the same year as the true first English edition, also published by Clarke (sometimes confused with the 1852 Cassell printing with the 27 Cruikshank engravings). This edition contains 380 pages and 40 illustrations, rather than 329 pages, un-illustrated, as in the first Clarke printing. Clarke also produced a 351-page edition with eight engravings and a 380-page edition with 50 engravings, both also in 1852, to say nothing of the dozen or so pirated editions appearing this same year. "In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-19th century America Uncle Tom's Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces it was a slanderous attack on 'the Southern way of life'... the social impact of [the novel] on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since" (PMM 332). BAL 19518. See Grolier English 100, 91 and Grolier American 100, 61. Bookplate. Front inner hinge starting, some glue residue to front free endpaper. Pictorial gilt decorations to spine and front cover still quite bright. A very good copy.
Price: USD 1,500.00 other currencies   order no. 25974   details     inquire
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MILLER, Henry Autograph Letter Signed
MILLER, Henry. Autograph letter signed. WITH: Two autograph postcards signed. WITH: Canceled check endorsed by Miller. [Los Angeles: November, 1943]. Quarto (measures 8-1/2 by 11 inches), one leaf of white typing paper, written in ink on one side; postcards: each measures 3-1/2 by 5 inches, written in ink on one side and addressed in Miller's handwriting on the other. $1250. Autograph letter and two postcards, each signed by Henry Miller, to Bill Gutshall regarding two typescripts and Miller's characteristic watercolor "heads." The first postcard in this series of correspondence is postmarked Los Angeles, November 17, 1943, and reads: "Tuesday Night: Dear Mr. Gutshall-Please don't forget to return the (2) typescripts I gave you as soon as you're thru with them. I need them. Will have two or three heads to show you when you come this week-end. Henry Miller." The "heads" Miller refers to are his trademark watercolor-on-paper designs, which he often presented to friends. The autograph letter, with the original envelope postmarked Los Angeles, November 22, 1943, reads: "Dear Mr. Gutshall-Thanks-the scripts arrived. Forgive me if I don't attempt to answer your questions. I've given up answering criticisms, good or bad. In my own mind + heart there is no inconsistency in what I do + say. There may be contradictions, but in the long run they smooth out. Orwell was an ass, I can assure you-even if he was a hero, which I doubt. Funny you recall that meeting-how did you know? If you come Sat. or Sunday you ought to find me in in the late morning. I work all the time, except when visitors arrive or I have an errand to run. Will be glad to see you again. Sincerely yours, Henry Miller." The original envelope, torn open along one side, has been preserved, addressed to Gutshall in Miller's hand and with his address stamp on the rear. The final postcard, postmarked Los Angeles, November 30, 1943, reads: "Dear Bill Gutshall-please don't worry about making further payments-the gesture is enough! Come any time-take a chance-and pick a head you like. Sincerely, Henry Miller." With letter from Gutshall dated November 1945 but marked "never sent," thanking Miller for another "head"; the canceled check endorsed by Miller apparently received in payment from Gutshall for the design. First postcard with two small ink smudges where affected by water (not affecting body of text or signature); letter with evidence of creases where it was folded into sixths, otherwise fine. Handwriting clear and bold.
Price: USD 1,250.00 other currencies   order no. 26054   details     inquire
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MARSH, Othniel Charles Dinocerata, a Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals
MARSH, Othniel Charles. Dinocerata. A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals. IN: Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Volume X. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1886. Quarto, early three-quarter red morocco, raised bands, red pebbled cloth, marbled endpapers and edges. $1250. First edition of this paleontological description of the Order Dinocerata, with 56 lithographed plates (including one large folding plate) and numerous in-text woodcuts depicting fossils excavated by the United States Geological Survey. Published by the Department of the Interior. The order Dinocerata (uintatheres) denotes an extinct hoofed quadruped that grew to the size of a large rhinoceros, flourishing in North America during the Paleocene and Eocene. Though herbivorous, male Dinocerata had saber-like upper canines, presumably for defensive purposes, as can be seen on the large folding lithographed plate of the assembled skeleton of Dinoceras Ingens. Marsh (1831-99) was the pre-eminent paleontologist of his day, and was President of the National Academy of Sciences from 1883-95. "Marsh's classifications and descriptions of extinct vertebrates were major contributions to knowledge of evolution" (DSB IX, 134). Light rubbing to contemporary morocco binding. Large folding plate depicting the entire skeleton of Dinocerata expertly sectioned and backed with linen. Interior fine, light wear to binding. An attractive copy of this early work of paleontology.
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BRAQUE, Georges Le jour et la nuit
BRAQUE, Georges. Le jour et la nuit: Cahiers de Georges Braque, 1917-1952. (Paris): Gallimard, (1952). 12mo, original printed paper wrappers. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and slipcase. $14,000. First edition of Georges Braque's collection of aphorisms, boldly signed by Braque with an original pen-and-gouache color composition on the front free endpaper. Jean Paulhan's personal copy. Braque inscribed this copy of his book Le jour et la nuit by creating, on the front free endpaper, a beautiful painting in black pen and blue gouache, showing two flowers against a blue background, and inscribing the whole with the words "Pour Jean Paulhan 1952 G Braque." Paulhan was an eminent French literary critic and essayist and a member of the Académie Française. The text of Le jour et la nuit is made up of aphorisms by Braque on the subject of art and the imagination: "Il n'est en art qu'une chose qui vaille: celle qu'on ne peut expliquer" (There is only one thing in art that is valuable: that which one is not able to explain); "L'Art est fait pour troubler, la Science rassure" (Art is made to disturb, Science reassures). The volume contains penciled annotations by Paulhan and two small inserted pieces of paper with his manuscript jottings. Very light wear to fragile original wrappers, Braque's painting fine and bright.
Price: USD 14,000.00 other currencies   order no. 26106   details     inquire
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DICKENS, Charles Our Mutual Friend
DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-65. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original green paper wrappers printed in black, partially unopened. Housed in custom burgundy half morocco box. $4500. First edition in original parts, with nearly all advertisements. With Our Mutual Friend, "Dickens has for the first time given serious consideration to the theme of unrequited love. In earlier books it may have been secret or ill-timed, but there was always an equilibrium in which both parties seem to accept that they loved or can be loved; and that, when eventually they declare their love, it is not rejected." But in Our Mutual Friend "there is torture in love, and despair, and madness. There is some necessary connection between courtship and death... it is possible to trace the strange curve of Dickens' temperament exploring extremity in art if not necessarily life" (Ackroyd, 955). In the illustrations to Our Mutual Friend, "for the first time, a departure is made from etchings on steel. The designs of Marcus Stone are engraved on wood by Dalziel (21) and W. T. Green (19), to the usual number of forty subjects" (Haddon and Cleaver, 347). Part 1: Without one leaf of advertisement (5), "Thorley's," rear. Without rear advertisements (8, 9, 10). Part 7: Without rear advertisement (6), "Thorley's" Part 9: Rear advertisements (6) and (7) transposed. Part 11: Without rear advertisement (1), "DeJongh's." Part 14: Without the rare 4-pp. advertisement for the "Economic Life Assurance Company," meant to follow the plates. Without rear advertisement (2), "Mappin, Webb & Co." Part 16: Without rear advertisement (2), "Mappin, Webb." As in some other copies, the printer's imprint does not appear on the front wrapper of the first part, and the explanatory slip regarding the title is bound before page 1 of the first part. Hatton and Cleaver, 343. Eckel, 94-95 Usual minor chipping (with some expert restoration), some soiling to cover of first part. Plates and interior very clean and bright. Handsomely boxed.
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PRAYER LEAF Tephilah Ne'estah poh Mantua
(JUDAICA-BROADSIDE). Prayer Leaf. Tephilah Ne'estah poh Mantua. Mantua: no publisher, 1784. Quarto (measures 8 inches by 10 1/2 inches), single leaf, printed on one side. $3500. Prayer composed in Mantua in relation to the outbreak of plague in the town of Isspalatro (Split in present-day Croatia). This printed broadside indicates that Jews in Italy were praying for the welfare of their brethren across the Adriatic, though the plague does not seem to be directly threatening the town of Mantua. Text in Hebrew, with decorative typographical border. Vinograd, Mantua 542. Cropped along right and lower margins, with some loss of text and ornamental border. Rare.
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JUDAICA - TAX REGULATIONS Torath HaChitzonim
(JUDAICA-TAX REGULATIONS). Torath HaChitzonim. [Mantua]: no publisher, no date. Small folio, measures 10 inches by 14 inches, single leaf printed on one side. $2800. Mantuan broadside printing regulations concerning the taxation of foreign Jewish traders conducting business at local fairs and markets. With a Cherem (Bill of Excommunication) signed by Israel Gedalya Casses. Text in Hebrew. Vinograd, Mantua 465, 571, 582, 589. Fine condition, a wide-margined copy. Rare.
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DREISER, Theodore Titan
DREISER, Theodore. The Titan. New York: John Lane Company, 1914. Octavo, original blue-gray cloth. Housed in custom blue cloth clamshell box. $4000. First edition, signed and inscribed by Dreiser on the front free endpaper: "To W. W. Lang with my best wishes Theodore Dreiser." Dreiser "relied on his own energetic research into the life of his model, the street-railway magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes. [Through] the fictional Frank Cowperwood... The Titan details Cowperwood-Yerkes's stock and street-railway manipulations in Chicago and his long series of sexual conquests. Harper's, after having printed and advertised the novel, backed out of publishing it, and Dreiser had to find another publisher" (DAB 3, 236). "The Titan is, if anything, somewhat scarcer than the two preceding Dreiser novels [Jennie Gerhardt (1911) and The Financier (1912)]" (McDonald 6). Small chip to foot of slightly sunned spine. A near-fine copy, inscribed by Dreiser.
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LAMB, Charles Essays of Elia, WITH: Last Essays of Elia
LAMB, Charles. The Essays of Elia. WITH: The Last Essays of Elia. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Two volumes. Octavo, 20th-century full navy straight-grain morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, burgundy morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $450. Illustrated edition of Lamb's renowned "Elia" essays, with over 150 full-page and in-text wood engravings after drawings by Charles E. Brock, elegantly bound by Riviere & Son. "The prose essays under the signature of Elia form the most delightful section amongst Lamb's works." "They are carefully elaborated; yet never were works written in a higher defiance to the conventional pomp of style. A sly hit, a happy pun, a humorous combination, lets the light into the intricacies of the subject... [Lamb] gives an importance to every thing, and sheds a grace over all" (Allibone, 1050, 1049). The first series of these popular Essays appeared in the London Magazine between August 1820 and October 1822; the second series, between May 1823 and August 1825. This illustrated edition was first published 1899. Lowndes, 1300. Bookplates. Very slight discoloration to front cover of each volume, otherwise a handsome set in fine condition.
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LOCKE, John Collection of Several Pieces
LOCKE, John. A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr. John Locke, Never Before Printed, or Not Extant in His Works. London: J. Bettenham for R. Francklin, 1720. Octavo, contemporary paneled calf rebacked; pp. (62), 362, index and errata, 19. $2600. First edition, first issue of this first attempt at a written constitution, complete with rare errata and three pages of advertisements. "Contains Locke's 'Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina,' the distinguished beginnings of the Carolina constitution, and apparently the first attempt to create a written constitution" (Streeter II: 1119). In 1663 Charles II gave patents for the lands of Carolina to Lord Ashley, later Earl of Shaftesbury, and seven other noblemen. Ashley had Locke write a model constitution, one of the most liberal documents of its day. The original draft was dated 21 June 1669; after its adoption further sections were added. "The first instrument ever digested and written out, for the entire and perfect government of a political body. Though impracticable in many particulars, it undoubtedly suggested to the colonists many hints which were beneficial in their civil and political organization" (Sabin 41726). "It is printed as adopted by the proprietors in Locke's works. The general scheme is aristocratic, and negro slavery permitted. There is, however, a remarkable provision, allowing any seven persons to form a church upon professing belief in God and in the duty of public worship. This provision expresses Locke's opinion" (DNB XII: 29). Turnbull 58. Thornton 7863. Very good condition.
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RICHTER, Francis C. Reach Official American League Base Ball Guide for 1906
(BASEBALL) RICHTER, Francis C., ed. Reach's Official American League Baseball Guide. Philadelphia: A. J. Reach Co., 1906. 12mo, original pictorial paper wrappers. $300. 1906 Reach's Base Ball Guide, containing full statistics, stories and dozens of photographs from the 1905 American, National and minor league baseball seasons, including the rookie campaign of Ty Cobb. A. J. Reach first gained baseball fame as a player, and began publication of his Guide in 1883. Reach's publication became the official publication of the American League shortly after its emergence as a major league, but continued to comprehensively cover the entire professional baseball world. Smith 320. Front wrapper missing, interior clean. A fascinating chronicle of the beginning of baseball's modern era.
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YORKE, James Union of Honour
YORKE, James. The Union of Honour. Containing the Armes, Matches and Issues of the Kings, Dukes, Marquesses and Earles of England from the Conquest.... London: Printed by Edward Griffin, 1640. Small folio, modern full paneled calf, raised bands, black morocco spine label. $1800. First edition, illustrated with hundreds of woodcut armorials and coats-of-arms. "A curious volume, compiled from the previous works of Milles, Brooke and Vincent," Yorke offers a fascinating account of English royal history with a chronological detailing of battles fought on the British Isles and France (Lowndes, 3018). "The work has the advantage of being arranged in alphabetical order of titles. From 1622 to 1640 Yorke claims the 'creations and continuance of families' as his own work" (DNB). Variant imprint, with extra engraved title-page with portrait of the author and dated 1641, in addition to letterpress title-page dated 1640. STC 26103. Paper repair to letterpress title page where previous owner's signature was excised. Binding fine, interior quite clean. An exceptionally good copy.
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BONVALOT, Gabriel Through the Heart of Asia
BONVALOT, Gabriel. Through the Heart of Asia, Over the Pamïr to India. Translated from the French by C.B. Pitman. London: Chapman and Hall; New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1889. Two volumes. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth with pictorial decorations on front covers. $1350. First edition in English of Bonvalot's travels through Central Asia into India, with 250 full-page and in-text illustrations by fellow-traveler Albert Pépin. After being denied passage through Afghanistan, Bonvalot and his companions redirected their expedition toward Samarkand and crossed the Pamïr into India. Though they were the first men to record successfully crossing the Pamïr, they lost their horses and their luggage-and nearly their lives. With folding map tracing the expedition's route printed in color. This American issue of the first edition in English was bound from the same sheets as the London first; the cloth bindings bear the American publisher's name, though Chapman and Hall's eight-page catalogue is bound at the rear of Volume II. First published in French in 1888 with the title Du Caucase aux Indes à Travers le Pamir. Very light wear to spine ends; pictorial cloth boards clean and bright. A near-fine copy.
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PAXTON, Peter Civil Polity
(PAXTON, Peter). Civil Polity. A Treatise Concerning the Nature of Government. Wherein the Reasonsof that Great Diversity to be Observed in the Customs, Manners, and Usages of Nations, and Historically Explained; and Remarks made upon the Changes in our English Constitution; and the Differing Measures of our Several Kings. London: R. Wilkin, 1703. Octavo, early paneled calf rebacked, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $1750. First edition of this important study of civil governments. Both John Locke and Robert Malthus owned copies of the first edition in their libraries. This work was published anonymously, but Paxton was identified as the author in A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr. John Locke (1730). Paxton was a physician but wrote a number of interesting works on economics and political theory, including the 1704 Discourse Concerning the Nature, Advantage, and Improvement of Trade, "a sensible and remarkable exposition of laissez-faire" (DNB). The present work describes and analyzes "the Nature of Government... the Basis upon which they stand; and what it is that cements and holds Men together, in the same Community; And then by what Methods Civil Polities are continued; why they flourish, and why after a time some are necessarily ruined..." The author also discusses at length natural, human and divine laws, liberty and freedom, how and why religion influences civil governments, the changes in England's government over time, and "the marvellous Differences in the several European Governments." Harrison & Laslett 725. Malthus catalogue, 130. Not in Goldsmiths, Kress or Hanson. Bookplates, including armorial bookplate of Lord Viscount Powerscourt to blank verso of title page. A handsome, near-fine copy.
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DICKENS, Charles Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, His Relatives, Friends, and Enemies. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843-44. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original green printed paper wrappers. Housed in custom full morocco slipcase. $5000. First edition in original parts, with 40 engraved plates and cover design by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). "You know, as well as I," Dickens told John Forster at the time of its publication, "I think Chuzzlewit in a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories" (Ackroyd, 415). With title page (bound in Number XIX/XX) showing the reward bill with the transposed pound sign and seven studs in the lid of Punch's trunk. With errata leaf and almost all advertisements and slips, including an additional ad for Eagle Life Assurance in Number XIV. Without some ads, including the very rare "Foreign Travel" slip in Number VII. Number III misbound (pagination out of sequence). Number IV inside back wrapper is for "Illustrated London News" instead of "Doudney Bros." Number IV without rear ad (2). Number VI inside back wrapper is for "Sangster" instead of "Doudney Bros." Number VI with different rear ad (1), for "Rippon & Burton" instead of "The National Art-Union." Number VII without slip (extremely rare). Number XII with different Moses rear ad, "The Pride of London." Some pages torn. Number XIII without rear ads (4) and (5). Number XVI without rear ad (Moses). Hatton & Cleaver 185. Eckel, 71-73. Mortimer L. Schiff's copy, with his red morocco bookplate on front cover of Number I. Some soiling and fraying to original wrappers, a few spines expertly repaired and some rear wrappers supplied from other parts. Plates generally quite clean with only occasional light embrowning. Scarce in the original parts.
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FIELD, Eugene Writings in Prose and Verse
FIELD, Eugene. The Writings in Prose and Verse. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896-1901. Twelve volumes. Small octavo, original publisher's half vellum and gray boards, paper spine labels, top edges gilt, uncut. Each volume housed in custom cloth chemise and half-morocco slipcase. $3000. Autograph edition of Field's prose and verse works, number 41 of only 100 sets produced with autograph letter signed tipped into Volume I. This is the first collected edition of Field's works, published just one year after his death. Each volume with mounted frontispiece portrait or illustration, the whole finely printed on Japan paper. In addition to his popular verses for children, Field (1850-95) is best known for his satirical newspaper column in the Chicago Morning News entitled "Sharps and Flats," and for his lullaby "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod." He was an avid book-collector, and this set includes his unfinished fictional autobiography, "The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac," with a foldout facsimile of a page of Field's fair copy. Bookplates. Volume I with minor split along exterior joint of original vellum spine. A fine set in extraordinary condition with autograph letter in Field's hand. Each volume in a handsome half-morocco slipcase.
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NECKER, Jacques Treatise on the Administration of the Finances of France
NECKER, Jacques. A Treatise on the Administration of the Finances of France. London: J. Walter, et al., 1785. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tree calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, red and green morocco spine labels. $3500. First edition in English of Necker's celebrated justification for his policies as Finance Minister of France during the American Revolution, in handsome contemporary tree calf. Necker attempted to finance French participation in the American War of Independence without recourse to additional taxation. In trying to raise the necessary loans, Necker published in 1781 his Compte rendu au Roi-a best-seller of the time-claiming a surplus of 10,000,000 livres in the hope of concealing an actual deficit of 46,000,000. The opposition of the leading minister and the hostility of the queen Marie-Antoinette forced Necker to resign on May 19, 1781. He retired to Saint-Ouen, where he wrote this work to justify his policy (De l'administration des finances de la France was published in 1784). After his successors failed to solve the financial problems for which he was at least partially responsible, and with France on the verge of bankruptcy in spite of the aristocracy's agreement to surrender its immunity from taxation, Necker himself was recalled as finance minister on August 26, 1788. Bound with half titles in Volumes I and III. Goldsmiths' 13052. Kress B919. A few joints starting, but cords still holding firm. Contemporary tree calf bindings quite handsome.
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WIGGIN, Kate Douglas Writings
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. The Writings. Ten Volumes. WITH: My Garden of Memory, An Autobiography. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917, 1923. Eleven volumes in all. Octavo, three-quarter dark green crushed morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partially unopened. $2600. Signed limited "Autograph Edition," number 57 of only 500 sets signed by the author. This copy inscribed by her on a preliminary leaf of Volume I with a two-line quotation from one of her works and boldly signed. Richly illustrated with 133 full-page photogravures, including a portrait of the author as a child and a view of Sunnybrook Farm; each volume features a mounted frontispiece printed in color, and an extra hand-colored frontispiece; several plates printed in color throughout. In addition to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, this set includes The Story of Patsy, Wiggin's first published story, The Birds' Christmas Carol and Mother Carey's Chickens, among others. BAL 22679. A lovely signed set of the works of this beloved children's author. Fine condition.
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COCTEAU, Jean Opium. Journal d'Une Desintoxication.
COCTEAU, Jean. Opium. Journal d'une Desintoxication. Paris: Librairie Stock, [circa 1930]. Octavo, original pink printed paper wrappers. $475. Third edition of Cocteau's accounts of opium addiction, richly illustrated with the artist's drawings. Cocteau's long and painful addiction to opium "would lead Cocteau to many detoxifications, sanitarium stays, and bizarre hallucinations, that he would transform into extraordinary drawings... The drawings done under the influence of opium are a marvel. They allow us a glimpse into the life of a tortured soul who cries out in lines that excite the senses and cause us to wonder about the daily nightmare of addiction" (Emboden, 36). Opium, the journal of Cocteau's exhausting recovery, is illustrated with these drawings. Text in French. Text bright. Repair to fragile paper spine, slight wear to original wrappers. Extremely good condition.
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DICKENS, Charles Autograph Letter Signed
DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter signed. Devonshire Terrace, (London): "Wednesday morning," January 6, (1841). Octavo, one page, framed with original photograph portrait. $6000. Fine autograph letter signed by Dickens to illustrator Daniel Maclise regarding the fourth birthday of Dickens' first child. The note reads, "My Dear Maclise, Today is Charley's birthday. He attains the tremendous age of four. If you have nothing better to do, perhaps you'll look in this evening. (John) Forster will be here, but nobody else. Faithfully yours as always, Charles Dickens." Late in 1839 Dickens had moved to a "handsome house with a considerable garden" in Devonshire Terrace in Regent's Park. Among his closest friends during this period were Maclise and John Forster, whom Dickens later chose as his biographer. "An outstanding draughtsman, Maclise became the leading history painter of his period, his greatest work being two enormous murals in the House of Lords... There are several examples of his conventional portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, including a well-known one of Dickens" (Chilvers & Osborne, 304). Very good condition, showing some very light soiling. Signature clear and bold; very handsomely framed with original photograph.
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STRAUSS, Johann Musical quotation signed
STRAUSS, Johann. Autograph musical quotation signed. No place, 1895. Quotation measures 5-1/2 by 4 inches. Framed with portrait, entire piece measures 10-1/2 by 16-1/2 inches. $5500. Signed musical quotation from Johann Strauss, framed with a photographic portrait. The boldly-signed quotation from one of Strauss' waltzes is signed "Johann Strauss" and dated "15 Sept. 1895." Slightly embrowned, but music and signature bold and clear. Handsomely framed.
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STIEGLITZ, Alfred Autograph Letter Signed
STIEGLITZ, Alfred. Autograph letter signed. New York, December 30, 1939. Two quarto leaves measuring 8 by 10 inches, written in black ink on rectos only. Handsomely framed with photographic portrait measuring 7 by 9-1/2 inches. Entire framed piece measures 34 by 19-1/2 inches. $8200. Fine related autograph letter boldly written and signed by Stieglitz. Handsomely framed with original photographic portrait of Stieglitz, signed by photographer Lotte Jacobi. In this warm letter to Jacobi, Stieglitz apologizes for the late return of proofs she had sent to him. The letter reads: "My dear Lotte Jacobi: I am ashamed and an old man should not have to be ashamed. But I am ashamed. This morning I find buried under a heap of papers your proofs of me & I in the belief that I had sent them to you long ago. Really a few days after you brought them. And that I had written to you. You see the state I am in. Inexcusable-and yet I offer no excuses. Merely repeat I am ashamed. Some day you must drop in & I'll tell you about the proofs. The one we all like the best. Will you, can you, ever forgive me. I hope you are having pleasurable holidays. For me they are like other days. I have been at The [American] Place daily. My best wishes for 1940! Cordially, Alfred Stieglitz." The proofs in question are from a 1938 session-the photograph here is one taken by Jacobi during this session. Jacobi, who immigrated from Germany to New York in 1935, photographed many of the best-known photographers of the period, including Berenice Abbott, Nancy Newhall, Barbara Morgan, and of course, Stieglitz himself, who was an important influence on the development of Jacobi's portrait work. With envelope addressed in Stieglitz's hand in mylar sleeve affixed to rear of framed piece. Fine condition, handsomely framed. A superb piece.
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JONSON, Ben Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher
JONSON, Ben. The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: The First Printed from the Text, and with the Notes of Peter Whalley; the Latter, from the Text, and with the Notes of the Late George Colman. London: John Stockdale, 1811. Four volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $1250. 1811 edition, with engraved frontispiece portraits of Jonson, Beaumont, and Fletcher by Audinet. This set brings together the dramatic works of Ben Jonson and the playwriting team of Beaumont and Fletcher, giants of English renaissance drama. It has been argued that during the reign of James I, the plays of Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher were more highly valued than Shakespeare's. Jonson's plays earned him the title of Poet Laureate, while Beaumont and Fletcher worked the popular vein of romantic tragi-comedy. Among the plays in this set are Jonson's Volpone and The Alchemist, and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy and The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Lowndes, 1230. Text printed in double columns. Light spotting to a few pages, otherwise fine. A beautifully bound set.
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MALTON, Thomas Compleat Treatise on Perspective
MALTON, Thomas. A Compleat Treatise on Perspective, in Theory and Practice.... London: Printed for the Author, 1776. Folio, modern full panelled speckled calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $3800. First edition of this scarce architectural treatise, illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 46 fine copper-engraved plates (42 folding, of which five have moveable overslips) depicting buildings, interiors, columns, etc. One of only 300 copies printed for subscribers. Thomas Malton the elder built his reputation as a writer on Euclidean geometry, which he thought fundamental to the understanding of perspective. This four-part work focuses on the practical application of geometric principles and the incorporation of Newtonian optics into architectural drawing and delineation, especially as regards perspective. The detailed plates and overslips convey this focus in their depiction of individual elements and combinations. This is one of 300 copies of the first edition delivered to subscribers; the remaining copies were destroyed in the printer's fire of March 2, 1776. The book was well regarded, as evidenced by the subscribers' list to the second edition, which included Gainsborough, Reynolds, George Stubbs, and other notables. Paper repair to outer margin of last folding plate. A beautiful, near-fine copy. Rare.
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DREISER, Theodore Financier
DREISER, Theodore. The Financier. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1912. Octavo, early three-quarter red crushed morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine with green morocco inlays, top edge gilt. $3200. First edition, inscribed and signed by Dreiser on a front flyleaf: "To Maurice Hatton / For value to be recieved [sic] - From / Theodore Dreiser / New York, June 21st 1913 / and not too big." "The historic scope of his theme, the monumental architecture of his story, and the exhaustiveness of his documentation make The Financier the greatest business novel written in America of its time-and probably of all time" (Lingeman, 281). With clipped signature of Jay Cooke, who figures in the novel as a secondary character, attached to front flyleaf. In writing The Financier Dreiser drew on a biography of Cooke, prominent Philadelphia banker and Union financier during the Civil War, as a model for its hero, Frank Cowperwood (Lingeman, 276). Minor wear to handsome binding. A splendid presentation copy.
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THOMSON, Virgil Four Saints in Three Acts
THOMSON, Virgil, and STEIN, Gertrude. Four Saints in Three Acts: An Opera... Complete Vocal Score. New York: Music Press, Inc. and Arrow Music Press, Inc., [1948]. Folio, original three-quarter tan buckram, original boards covered with tea-chest paper printed in green, orange and white. In original gray paper covered slipcase. $3000. Deluxe first edition of the piano-vocal score, number 18 of just 30 copies printed on rag paper and signed by the composer. Thomson met Gertrude Stein in Paris in the autumn of 1926, "and the two expatriates began to lay plans for an opera. They decided it would concern Spanish saints and the Spanish landscape... Stein completed the libretto for the opera, Four Saints in Three Acts, in June 1927, and Thomson finished the piano score a year later (it was orchestrated in 1933). The original text was rambling, plotless, hermetic, with no clearcut division into scenes and acts and with little indication of which character was speaking at any given moment...Thomson imposed order on the material, eventually deleting about a third of it, and fashioned a work consisting of a prologue and four acts. In the absence of a plot, Thomson's painter friend Maurice Grosser devised a scenario, or series of tableaux and processions, for staging the work... When Four Saints received its initial performances in Hartford, New York, and Chicago (with Stein present), it was widely publicized and became something of a succès de scandale... It is the composer's most famous work" (New Grove, 18: 787). An aria in Act III, sung by St. Ignatius, contains Stein's famous line "Pigeons on the grass alas." Wilson, E9b. Some slight wear to original slipcase. Without original manuscript page, as often. A near-fine copy of this rare signed limited edition.
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BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van String Quartet in Eb (op. 127)
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Quatuor pour deux Violons, Alto et Violoncelle, composé et dédié à Son Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Nicolas de Galitzin... Oeuvre 127. Mainz: chez les fils de B. Schott, [1827]. Folio, original separate parts, disbound from an earlier binding. Housed in a green cloth clamshell box. $4200. First edition, second issue, in parts, of Beethoven's op. 127, the first of his late string quartets. "After completing the Ninth Symphony in early 1824, Beethoven spent the two and a half years that remained to him writing with increasing ease, it seems, and exclusively in the medium of the string quartet. The five late string quartets contain Beethoven's greatest music, or so at least many listeners in the twentieth century have come to feel... Even within individual quartets Beethoven encompasses both deep seriousness and lighthearted gaiety without incongruity" (New Grove II: 387; XVIII: 281). "We are eternal debtors to his deafness. It is doubtful if such lofty music could have been created except as self-compensation for some such affliction, and in the utter isolation which that affliction brought about... At times these quartets seem to have the celestial quality of 'The light that never was, on sea or land'" (Scherman and Biancolli, 973). First edition, second issue (identified by the imprint "a Paris rue de Bourbon No. 17"; Schott's address changed by September 1827 to "Place des Italiens, no. 1"). Kinsky-Halm, 385. These individual instrumental parts were once bound together as a volume; they have been disbound, and there is some glue residue on the spines. Still a fine copy of this great quartet.
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GREVILLE, Charles Greville Memoirs
GREVILLE, Charles. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King WilliamIV... WITH: A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria... Edited by Henry Reeve.... London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1875-1887. Eight volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter red levant morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $1200. First editions of Greville's account of Queen Victoria's reign, with the fourth edition of his account of King George IV and King William IV, handsomely bound. "Greville's chief title to fame is his series of memoirs. For 40 years he kept with great pains a political diary, designed for publication, which he confided to Mr. Henry Reeve shortly before his death. Owing to his close relations with both whigs and tories... he was peculiarly well informed on the most secret transactions of contemporary politics. He spared no pains in completing his information, recorded it with great freshness and perfect impartiality, and frequently revised his diaries. These characteristics, coupled with the brilliant portraits which he draws of his contemporaries, make his diaries the most important work of their kind in his generation" (DNB). CBEL III: 145. Bookplates. Owner signatures. Fine condition. A lovely set.
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RUSKIN, John Inaugural Address
RUSKIN, John. Inaugural Address. Delivered at Cambridge, October 29, 1858. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1858. 12mo, original paper wrappers. $275. First edition in original paper wrappers. From 1855 to 1870, Ruskin devoted much of his time to delivering lectures and addresses throughout England. This particular address was given at the inaugural ceremony of the Cambridge School of Art in October 1858 and was published shortly thereafter. Light wear to original wrappers. An extremely good copy of a fragile piece.
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CUVIER, Georges Lecons d'Anatomie Comparee
CUVIER, Georges. Lecons d'Anatomie Comparee. Paris: Baudouin, An VIII (1800-05). Five volumes. Octavo, contemporary half navy calf gilt rebacked with original spines laid down, marbled boards and endpapers. $2000. First edition of this founding work of modern comparative zoology, illustrated with seven large folding tables and 52 engraved plates. Cuvier (1769-1832) reorganized the comparative anatomy collections of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle-at the time the world's largest establishment dedicated to scientific research. The huge museum menagerie furnished Cuvier with invaluable specimens for dissection and anatomical preparations of mammals, birds, fish and fossils (DSB). "Cuvier's Leçons was the first truly complete work in the history of comparative anatomy. Whereas his predecessors had at best applied comparison to select groups of animals, Cuvier consistently attempted to employ it in his study of every known animal or species. Comparative anatomy became for Cuvier an essential segment of the theoretical basis of natural history... Comparative anatomy is therefore the division of the natural sciences which tends to generalize, to erect the theory of organization" (Coleman, 62; Norman Library 565). Volume I contains the principal discussion of Cuvier's famous theory of the correlation of parts (the functional relationship of each bodily organ to every other organ). "Cuvier ranks with von Baer as one of the founders of modern morphology" (Garrison-Morton 311). Text in French. Horblit, One Hundred Books Famous in Science 20a. Bookplates. Occasional light foxing, faint dampstain in Volume II. An extremely good copy.
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BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van String Quintet (op. 4)
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Grand Quintetto per due Violini, due Viole, e Violoncello, dal Sigr. Luigi van Beethoven. Opera IV. Vienna: Artaria, [1796]. Original unbound parts (as issued). $5800. First edition of the instrumental parts of this 18th-century Beethoven score, fully engraved. Beethoven's first String Quintet is an adaptation of an earlier octet for wind instruments. The changes introduced between the octet and quintet versions are significant and relate to Haydn's influence on Beethoven. "In the short space of years between the octet (1792) and the quintet (1796) the great London symphonies of Haydn had appeared and... Beethoven felt this change of emphasis in his larger forms. Whereas the octet looks backward to the divertimenti and serenades of the past, the quintet expresses the more serious expression and intent of the great Viennese symphonic works. That Beethoven [saw the need for] this major revision, while still keeping the essential thematic structure intact, shows how far the court composer at Bonn had developed into the great symphonist of the future" (Scherman and Biancolli, 204-206). Eighteenth-century Beethoven scores are increasingly scarce. Faint owner ink-stamps to each part, contemporary ownership signature of W. Brand to outer wrapper. Light soiling to outer wrapper. An extremely good copy.
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BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van String Quintet (op. 29)
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Quintetto Pour 2 Violons, 2 Altos et Violoncelle, composé et dédié à Monsieur le Comte Maurice de Fries par L. van Beethoven. Oeuv. 29. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1802]. Folio, original separate parts (as issued), first violin part and first viola part respined. $4800. First edition, in parts, of Beethoven's String Quintet op. 29, fully engraved. The String Quintet op. 29 "quite definitely points to the future and gives and indication of what is to come after 1802. This is one of the transitional works which lies squarely across style boundaries. Few of Beethoven's works flow as smoothly and easily as the quintet's first movement; its melodies move from cadence to cadence with a quality of repose that is delightful. The lyric, florid adagio... is a charming inspiration worthy of comparison with the best works of Mozart. [In] the third and fourth movements we see the Beethoven of the future" (Scherman and Biancolli, 206-207). Kinsky-Halm, 70. Each part with faint owner inkstamp. First violin part with 18th-century owner signature of W. Brand. An extremely good copy, handsomely boxed.
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BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van String Quartet in Eb (op. 74)
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Quatuor pour deux Violons, Viola et Violoncelle composé et dédié a Son Altesse le Prince regnant de Lobkowitz... Oeuv. 74. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, [1810]. Folio, original parts in original wrappers, each part respined (first violin part in contemporary gray stiff paper wrappers with contemporary manuscript paper label). $3500. First edition, first issue of Beethoven's "Harp" Quartet, in parts, fully engraved. So called from its use of harp-like pizzicato effects, the "Harp" quartet is one of the great works of Beethoven's middle period. "Around 1808 the enthusiasm and high daring of Beethoven's music begins to be tempered by ever-increasing technical virtuosity... The change is clearest of all [in] the 'Harp' Quartet of 1809... The climax of the first movement is a climax of sheer technical exhilaration, for in the coda Beethoven seems at last to have solved the problem of simulating orchestral idiom in a quartet" (New Grove, 2: 384). Kinsky-Halm, 198. Hirsch IV: 320. Hoboken II: 333. Contemporary owner signatures. A fragile set of instrumental parts in excellent condition.
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SMOLLETT, Tobias Works of Tobias Smollett
SMOLLETT, Tobias. The Works of Tobias Smollett. With an Introduction by W. E. Henley. Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1899. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $2800. Beautiful set of Smollett's novels, bound by Zaehnsdorf, illustrated with numerous frontispieces after Cruikshank. Includes Roderick Rand