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Click here to subscribeCAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). Two works, comprising:Other Voices Other Rooms. 1948. 8vo. Original tan cloth; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (a few short tears). FIRST EDITION. -- A Christmas Memory. 1956. Original gilt-stamped green cloth; original board slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 315 of 600 copies SIGNED BY CAPOTE. -- Together, 2 works in 2 volumes, both published in New York by Random House, both 8vo. Condition generally fine.
CATHER, Willa (1873-1947). April Twilights. Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903.8vo. Title printed in green and black. Original drab boards, printed paper labels on upper covers and spine (spine label chipping, some light wear). FIRST EDITION OF CATHER'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK. Cather's only collection of verse, featuring poems written while she was working as an English teacher in a Pittsburgh high school, April Twilights was published again, with several of the original poems replaced, in a limited edition in 1923 by Knopf. Crane A1.a.
CATHER, Willa (1873-1947). Alexander's Bridge. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.8vo. Original purple gilt-lettered cloth [Crane's binding b], with "Willa S. Cather" on spine front cover (outside of the title box); in a later (ca 1918) unrestored dust jacket, unpriced, with the 13-line blurb on the front panel, with the adverts on rear panel beginning with Samuel Hopkins Adams' Success, and with a blurb for My Antonia on rear flap (a few chips and tears, some soiling). FIRST EDITION OF CATHER'S FIRST NOVEL, second issue of the text with half-title bound after the title-page. The work follows title character Bartley Alexander, a world-renowned builder of bridges, through his struggles with infidelity and integrity. In its 1912 review, The New York Times praised Cather's ability at ''catching and describing in terse, refined phrase the salient features of personality.'' Crane A5b.i.
CATHER, Willa (1873-1947). The Professor's House. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.8vo. Original purple cloth-backed orange cloth boards, top edge stained red (some very minor soiling); in unrestored dust jacket (some minor soiling, a few short tears). Provenance: sold Charles E. Lauriat Co. (bookseller's ticket on flyleaf). FIRST EDITION, TRADE ISSUE, written in three parts: Chapter II, "Tom Outland's Story" (which Cather wrote first), is framed by "The Family" (Chapter I), and "The Professor" (Chapter 3). Crane A14.a.i.
CATHER, Willa (1873-1947). Sapphira and the Slave Girl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. 8vo. Original green cloth-backed boards gilt; original printed dust wrapper (minor soiling, a few short tears); original board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 51 of 520 copies SIGNED BY CATHER. Cather began to write her final complicated novel, Sapphira, in the spring of 1937, and she continued to work on it until publication. Set in 1856 Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, the novel's vivid characters were drawn from Cather's own childhood memories, and the novel explores antebellum enslavement through the anxieties and paranoia of a white slaveowner, Sapphira, in the years leading up to the Civil War. Crane A22.a.i.
CATHER, Willa (1873-1947). A group of 10 works, comprising:The Troll Garden. McClure, Phillips & Co, 1905. -- [CATHER]. McCLURE, S.S. My Autobiography. Frederick A. Stokes, 1914. -- Lost Lady. 1923. -- My Mortal Enemy. 1926. -- Shadows on the Rock. 1931. LIMITED EDITION, number 133 of 619 copies. SIGNED BY CATHER. -- Another copy. -- Obscure Destinies. 1932. -- December Night a Scene from Willa Cather's Novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop." 1933. -- Lucy Gayheart. 1935. -- Sapphira and the Slave Girl. 1940. -- The Old Beauty and Others. 1948. -- Together, 10 works in 11 volumes, all published in New York, most published by Alfred A. Knopf, various 8vo sizes, all in original cloth or quarter cloth or printed wrappers, most in unrestored and unclipped dust jackets, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.
CHANDLER, Raymond (1888-1959). The Big Sleep. New York: Knopf, 1939.8vo. Half-title. Original orange cloth, stamped in grey (some minor soiling, spine slightly leaned); in unclipped dust jacket (separation along front spine fold with old tape repair verso, chipping with losses, soiling). FIRST EDITION OF CHANDLER'S FIRST BOOK, including the first appearance of detective Philip Marlowe. Chandler's hard-boiled crime novel has been adapted to film twice: in 1946, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, with a script co-authored by William Faulkner, and in 1978 starring Robert Mitchum. Bruccoli A.1.1.a.
CHANDLER, Raymond (1888-1959). Farewell my Lovely. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. 8vo. Half-title. Original orange cloth stamped in blue, top edge stained blue; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (a few scuffs, some overall browning, spine darkened, light chipping). FIRST EDITION of Chandler's second novel. "Shocks and thrills aplenty lie ahead in this fast, close-knit, and utterly hard-boiled story of murder, extortion, and assorted rackets and depravities on the criminal fringes of Los Angeles. Readers of The Big Sleep know what to expect of Mr. Chandler; all others have a real experience in store" (dust jacket). Bruccoli A2.1.a
CHANDLER, Raymond (1888-1959). The Lady in the Lake. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. 8vo. Half-title. Original green cloth, stamped in green; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some light chipping and rubbing, overall browning.FIRST EDITION of Chandler's fourth Philip Marlowe mystery, the first of which to advertise "A Philip Marlowe Mystery" on the dust-jacket. Bruccoli A4.1.a [With:] CHANDLER. The Little Sister. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. 8vo. Original red cloth; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (a touch of wear). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of the fifth Philip Marlowe mysteries. Bruccoli A8.2.a.
CLEMENS, Samuel L. ("Mark Twain," 1835-1910). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. 8vo. Wood engraved frontispiece and numerous illustrations in text by True Williams and others, 4-page publisher's advertisements at end. Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and black, peach endpapers, plain edges (spine lightly dulled, hinges neatly repaired); blue morocco folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, printed on wove paper, versos of half-title and preface blank. "The irresponsibility, the love of odd adventure, and the sense of natural justice as opposed to the village code, which characterize the heroes of this book and its sequel Huckleberry Finn, presented a sharp contrast to the Sunday School or rags-to-riches literature which was then the common fare doled out to children... these books let fresh air into the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own childhood, and they will be classics the world over as long as there are boys" (Grolier American 79). BAL 3369; Johnson p. 27; Peter Parley to Penrod 43.
[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. DU BOIS, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963). Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. 8vo. Original navy cloth; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (spine panel darkened, chipping and short tears, a few separations along folds). Provenance: W.K. Pierce (ownership inscription dated 1920). FIRST EDITION of Du Bois's companion volume to The Souls of Black Folk which includes essays on race, poems, and autobiographical prose. RARE IN THE DUST JACKET: According to American Book Prices Current, only one other copy with the dust jacket, a second printing, has sold at auction in the last 40 years.
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Square 8vo. Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. (Spotting to a few leaves.) Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (slight rubbing to corners and spine ends, otherwise bright); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Perry Molstad (bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent); Sold Sotheby's New York, 27 April 1984, Sale 5184, Lot 419. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, early state, with the following issue points: the title leaf in the second state; the frontispiece in the first state; first state of p. 13 with "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of p. 57 with "was" for "saw"; first state of pagination on p. 155 (without the final "5"); third state of p. 283; with final blank 23/8. BAL 3415; Johnson, p.43-50.
CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889.8vo. 44 wood-engraved plates and numerous illustrations in text by Dan Beard, 2 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Original olive green pictorial cloth stamped in blue/gray, black and gilt, spine gilt (corners slightly bumped, a touch of wear to spine ends, otherwise bright). FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the S-like ornament between the two words in the caption on p.[59]. BAL 3429; Johnson, pp.50-52.
CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World. Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Company, 1897. 8vo. Plates and illustrations in text. Original cloth decorated and gilt (very slight rubbing to a few corners); slipcase. Provenance: Gift inscription 1898 on flyleaf. FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the Hartford imprint only. BAL 3451. A BRIGHT COPY.
CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). A group of 11 novels and collections of short stories, including: The Innocents Abroad, Or The New Pilgrim's Progress. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1869. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, BAL 3316. -- Roughing It. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1872. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, state "B" with no advertisement on p. [592]. BAL 3337. -- The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other Stories. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. FIRST EDITION. BAL 3436. -- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. BAL 3446. -- The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. FIRST EDITION, in dust jacket. BAL 3527. -- And 6 others. Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, various 8vo and 12mo sizes, all in original bindings, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.
CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). A group of 15 novels, comprising: Pudd'nhead Wilson. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. BAL 3441. -- How to Tell a Story and Other Stories. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. FIRST EDITION. BAL 3449. -- A Double Barrelled Detective Story. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 7 plates. FIRST EDITION. BAL 3471. -- A Horse's Tale. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. FIRST EDITION. BAL 3500. -- Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1909. FIRST EDITION. BAL 3511. -- And 10 others. Together, 15 works in 15 volumes, 8vo, all in publisher's red cloth bindings, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.
CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). A group of 11 works, including: Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance. New York: Sheldon & Company, [1871]. FIRST EDITION, 2nd state. Contemporary half morocco gilt. BAL 3326. -- Autobiography, (Burlesque.) First Romance, and Memoranda. Toronto: James Campbell & Son, [1871]. Unauthorized edition, with the possible FIRST APPEARANCE of "My Late Senatorial Secretaryship." BAL 3334. -- Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches. New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., [1878]. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. BAL 3378. -- The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other Stories. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. FIRST EDITION. BAL 3436. -- Europe and Elsewhere. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, [1923]. FIRST EDITION. In unrestored and unclipped dust jacket. BAL 3536. -- And 6 others. Together, 11 works in 12 volumes, various 8vo, 12mo and 16mo sizes, most in original bindings, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.
CONROY, Pat (1945-2016). The Boo. Verona VA: McClure Press, 1970.8vo. Photographic frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Original blue cloth; in unrestored dust jacket (price-clipped, some pale spotting). FIRST EDITION, WITH CONROY'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in. With "Boo's Immortals" leaf laid in. Conroy's first book, which he self-published on his graduation from The Citadel. " The Citadel is quirky, eccentric, and unforgettable. The Boo and I collaborated on this book to celebrate a school we both love €”each in our different ways. Proceeds for the book will go to a gift fund honoring Citadel graduates killed in Viet Nam" (Preface).
CRANE, Stephen (1871-1900). The Red Badge of Courage. New York: Appleton, 1895.8vo. Title printed in red and black. Original tan buckram decorated in red, black and gold (soiling, a few small stains, spine slightly leaned). Provenance: "R" (neat pencil note, 31 December 1959, on pastedown). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, printed on laid paper with top edge stained yellow, with the earliest advertisements headed "Gilbert Parker's Best Books." "An extraordinary study of the common man amid the turmoil, clamor and distortion typified by war...its intensity, its startling yet inevitable descriptive phrase, struck a new note in American prose" (DAB). BAL 4071; Grolier American 98.
CRANE, Stephen (1871-1900). A group of 6 works, comprising:The Red Badge of Courage. 1896. Partial dust jacket. -- George's Mother. NY et al: Edward Arnold, 1896. Provenance: Ephraim James Page (bookplate). BAL 4073. -- The Little Regiment. 1896. FIRST ISSUE. BAL 4076. -- Maggie. 1896. Later edition. -- The Third Violet. 1897. BAL 4078. -- The Open Boat. Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. BAL 4079. -- Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, most published in New York, most published by D. Appleton and Company, various 8vo sizes, all in original cloth stamped in various colors, most with top edge cut and others uncut, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally good.
CUMMINGS, E.E. (1894-1962). The Enormous Room. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. 8vo. Half-title. Original light brown cloth lettered in black on cover and spine, uncut (spine slightly soiled, slight rubbing to extremities); original pictorial dust jacket (restored with small areas of retouching, closed tear to front panel, a few small chips, small portion of front panel torn away but present). Provenance: Barbieri & Price Ltd. and Books Old & New (booksellers' tickets to front and rear pastedowns); George Cosmatos (sold, his sale, Sotheby's, 2005, lot 163). FIRST EDITION OF CUMMINGS' FIRST WORK, with p.219 in the uncorrected state. E. E. Cummings' autobiographical first novel is based on his experiences as an enlistee with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France, where he openly expressed anti-war views. He was arrested and held by the French military on suspicion of espionage for three and a half months. Of Cummings' first novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives €”The Enormous Room by e e cummings...Those few who cause books to live have not been able to endure the thought of its mortality." Firmage A1. THE COSMATOS COPY.
[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. HUGHES, Langston (1901-1967). Not Without Laughter. New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.8vo. Original pink and white striped cloth stamped in aubergine and blue; in unclipped illustrated dust jacket (some fading and light scuffing, minor restoration on spine panel verso). FIRST EDITION of Hughes' first novel. IN THE RARE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET. According to American Book Prices Current, only two copies with the dust jacket have sold at auction in the last 40 years.
CUMMINGS, E.E. (1894-1962). A group of 13 poetic works by Cummings, comprising: Puella Mea. [Mt. Vernon, NY], 1923. Printed in rust. -- Another copy. Printed in blue. (Lacking dust jacket). -- Another copy. Printed in rust. (Lacking dust jacket). -- 1 x 1. NY, 1944. -- "Cummings Number." In: The Harvard Wake. No. 5. Spring 1946. -- Xaipe. Seventy-One Poems. NY, 1950. -- Another copy. (Lacking dust jacket). -- 95 Poems. NY, 1958. -- A Miscellany. NY, 1958. -- Another copy. (Lacking dust jacket). -- A Selection of Poems. NY, 1961. Signed by Marion Cumming. -- 73 Poems. NY, 1962. -- Xaipe. NY, 1979. Advance review copy with slip laid in. -- Together, 13 works in 13 volumes, 8vo, in original bindings, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally fine.
CUMMINGS, E.E. (1894-1962). A group of 10 works by Cummings, comprising: The Enormous Room. NY, 1922. (Lacking dust jacket). -- Him. NY, 1927. -- Eimi. NY, 1933. -- The Enormous Room. NY, 1934. Modern Library Edition. -- Tom. Santa Fe, NM, 1935. -- i. Six Nonlectures. Cambridge, MA, 1935. -- Another copy. -- Collected Poems. NY, 1938. Inscribed by Marion Morehouse to photographer Paul Rotha. -- Santa Claus. NY, 1946. -- Poems 1923-1954. NY, 1954. -- Together, 10 works in 10 volumes, 8vo, in original bindings, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.
DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection. New York: D. Appleton, 1860.8vo. Half-title; one folding letterpress table. (Some spotting.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered (wear with minor losses to spine ends and joints, upper hinge just starting). Provenance: John St. James (signatures on flyleaf and front blank, 1860). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with two quotations facing title-page. Darwin's work "marked a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general, for there is no field of human intellectual endeavor that has not been influenced by the thought and fact of evolution" (DSB III, p.571). Freeman 377.
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. 2 volumes, 8vo. Illustrations; 2pp. ads at end of vol.I and 12pp. at end of vol.II. Publisher's russet cloth, stamped in black, spines gilt-lettered (some rubbing and very slight wear to spine ends, cloth on upper cover vol.II slightly bubbling). Provenance: R. L. Phelps (early signature). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, including the first appearance of the word "evolution" in any of Darwin's works. Freeman 941.
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. London: John Murray, 1872. 8vo. 7 heliotype plates with arabic numerals, 3 folding, numerous woodblocks in text; 2 advertisement leaves at end, dated November 1872. (Light soiling to a few leaves.) Original green cloth, covers with blind frame, spine gilt (some light rubbing and wear, hinges just starting, corners and top edge of boards bumped). FIRST EDITION, second issue, with "htat" reading on p.208, and the last signatures being 2B^1 and 2C^4. The work contains studies of facial and other types of expression in man and mammals, and their relationship to various emotions. "This is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment" (Freeman). Freeman 1142.
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom. London: John Murray, 1876. 8vo. Errata slip; one diagram, numerous tables. (Spotting to title and a few other leaves.) Original green cloth, covers with blind frame, spine gilt (hinges starting, some light rubbing and wear).FIRST EDITION of this sequel to Darwin's Fertilisation of Orchids, based on painstaking experiments he had undertaken since 1866, making the work his most ambitious plant book to date. "It was too technical and too detailed to command a wide sale," although 1500 copies were sold before the end of 1876. Freeman 1249.
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). A group of American editions, comprising:The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. NY: Orange Judd & Company, 1868. 2 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Freeman 879. -- Insectivorous Plants. NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. 8vo. Original cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Freeman 1220. -- Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of the H.M.S. 'Beagle.' NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1890. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Freeman 64. -- Together, 3 works in 4 volumes, condition generally fine.
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.8vo (208 x 128 mm). 43 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), Robert William Buss, and Robert Seymour (including engraved frontispiece and engraved title). (Lacking half-title, some staining.) 20th-century red morocco gilt, purple cloth boards, marbled edges (some wear, corners bumped, hinges weak with front hinge reinforced).FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, text with most of the first issue points listed in Smith, with most plates in Smith's first state. Gimbel A15; Smith I:3.
JOAN MIRÓ I FERRÀ (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983)."Les essències de la terra". 1969.Lithograph, copy 6/200.Signed with monogram and justified by hand.Work published in the catalogue raisonné "Miró Litógrafo" Vol.IV Ed.Polígrafa, pg 26. ref.625.Measurements: 75 x 57,5 cm.; 88 x 70 cm.(frame).This lithograph was reproduced in the Italian edition (Juan Perucho, Milan, 1969) of "Les essències de la terra", a compendium of old Catalan texts illustrated with original lithographs by Miró.Joan Miró trained in Barcelona and made his individual debut in 1918 at the Galeries Dalmau. In 1920 he moved to Paris and met Picasso, Raynal, Max Jacob, Tzara and the Dadaists. There, under the influence of the surrealist poets and painters, he gradually matured his style; he tried to transpose surrealist poetry to the visual, based on memory, fantasy and the irrational. His third exhibition in Paris in 1928 was his first great triumph: the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired two of his works. He returned to Spain in 1941, and that same year the museum devoted a retrospective exhibition to him which was to be his definitive international consecration. Throughout his life he received numerous awards, such as the Grand Prizes at the Venice Biennale and the Guggenheim Foundation in Venice, the Carnegie Prize for Painting in Venice, the Gold Medals of the Generalitat de Catalunya and of the Fine Arts, and was awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Harvard and Barcelona. His work can currently be seen at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the MoMA in New York, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the National Gallery in Washington, the MNAM in Paris and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. This lithograph shows us the most essentialist Miró in his search for minimal and suggestive forms. Ranges limited to a few colours applied to flat, shiny surfaces combine to evoke the lyrical communion between man and his environment.
Children's Books - First Editions, Taylor, Jane & Anne: Meddlesome Matty; The Luck of The Bean-Rows a fairy-tale for lucky children illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser; Kashtanka (first edition) written by Anton Chekhov, illustrated by William Stobbs published by The Oxford University Press 1959; Childhood's Golden Tales published by Dean & Son; Rag and Tag by Mrs Whittaker; Buds and Flowers; Chimes and Rhymes; Hullo Girls the wireless aunties' annual; Tom Brown's School-Days Macmillan & Co. 1884; modern hardback children's book reference books including Kestrel-Viking The Children's Theatre by Franz Bonn pop out book; Bibliophile In THe Nursery; Victoriana; The Treasures of Childhood; Victorian Style; Scrap Books; etc qty
Books - Travel & Exploration - 'My camel ride from Suez to Mount Sinai' by Arthur W. Sutton; Enchanted Vagabonds by Dana Lamb and June Cleveland published by Hamish Hamilton; Brimming Billabong, first edition, by W.E.Harney published by Angus and Robertson, Australia; Pedalling Poland by Bernard Newman; Eurasia A Regional Geography published by Collins'; Denmark The Land Of Our Queen by Margaret Thomas; The Grant Educational Company Land & Life travel volumes; Scotland by H.V.Motron; Thorough Guide The Peak District 1899; Photographic Views of London and Suburbs; complete set of Cassel's Book of Knowledge Vol.I-VIII, decorative bindings, published by The Waverley Book Company Ltd; A Popular History of The Great War vol.I-IV; Singning At Sight a book related to composition of an orchestra; The Early Cave Man; The World Of Today vol.I-VI decorative bindings; Landmarks of British History by Lucy Dale; The Life and Times of King Edward VII; various late Victorian, Edwardian and later educational studies
First Editions. Salinger, J.D. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction; (same author) Franny and Zooey (dustwrapper stained); Bellow, Saul. Mosby's Memoirs and other stories; Faulkner, William. These Thirteen Stories; Steinbeck, John. The Forgotten Village. 1941, first American edition; (same author) The Winter of Our Discontent; Crouch, Steve. Steinbeck Country; O'Hara, John. Pipe Night; Baldwin, James. The Devil Finds Work.
Miller, Henry. Remember to Remember, 3 copies; The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 2nd issue, sellotape trace to front pastedown; Tropic of Capricorn; Nexus; Quiet Days in Clichy, first American pbk. Edition ; The Cosmological Eye; Henry Miller's Book of Friends; Moore, Nicholas. Henry Miller. First editions.
LL 410mm, TL 865mm. brünierter Rundlauf: links in Goldschrift "Lucerne Switzerland 1995", rechts "First Swiss-American Edition". Verstellbares Visier mit Stufenschieber, Blockkorn. Lauflanges Röhrenmagazin mit vergoldeten Bändern. Vergoldetes Gehäuse,rechts mit Abbildung der Luzerner Kapellbrücke und Randverzierungen, linksseitig das Löwendenkmal. Ladehebel vergoldet, Hammer und Abzug blankpolliert, Kolbenhaloberseite mit der Innschrift "050 of 300". Geölte Nussholzschäftung, Kolbenhals mit Fischhautverschnitt, rechts im Kolben emailierte Plakette mit Schweizer- und U.S-Flagge, polierte, brünierte Kolbenkappe. Orig. Verpackung. #6180878 WES Zustand neuwertig
Mathematik - - Antonio Maria Lorgna. Fabbrica ed usi principali della squadra di proporzione... Mit 2 gefalt. Tafeln. Verona, Moroni 1768. 4° (12), 67 S. 1 w. Bll. Zeitgenössischer Ppbd. Erste und einzige Ausgabe. - Riccardi, Biblioteca matematica italiana I(2): 47,7. - Tomash L 133. - Erste Ausgabe der seltenen Schrift zu Lorgna's Instrument für Ingenieure und Militär. Er erörtert seine Konstruktion und Verwendung mit Kapiteln über hydrographische Kartographie, Nivellierung, Ballistik usw. Es konnte für Sektoren-Operationen ähnlich dem Leybourn-Quadranten genutzt werden. Wohlerhalten. Mathematics. - With 2 engraved plates. First and only edition of the rare writing on Lorgna's instrument for engineers and military. It discusses its construction and use with chapters on hydrographic cartography, levelling, ballistics, etc. It could be used for sector operations similar to the Leybourn Quadrant. Well preserved.
Einbände - - René Char. Fenêtres dormantes et porte sur le toit? Paris, Gallimard, (6 septembre) 1979. 94 S., (3) u. (2) Bll. Prachtvoller cremefarbenes Maroquineinband mit kolorierten geometrischen Figuren und Blindprägungen auf dem glatten Rücken und den Deckeln. In Chemise und Schuber. Signiert: Daniel Henri Mercher, 1984. Eins von 35 Exemplaren der Vorzusgausgabe auf Vergé de Hollande. - Die Sammlung wurde im Herbst veröffentlicht und folgte damit dem Rhythmus von Chars zweijährlichen Veröffentlichungen im Verlag Gallimard. Sie wurde bereits im Herbst 1978, wenige Wochen nach seinem ersten Herzinfarkt, verfasst. Selten und wohlerhalten im eindrucksvollen und meisterhaften Handeinband. Splendid cream morocco binding with coloured geometric figures and blindstamping on the smooth spine and covers. In chemise and slipcase. Signed: Daniel Henri Mercher, 1984. One of 35 copies of the pre-publication edition on Vergé de Hollande. - The collection was published in the autumn, following the rhythm of Char's biennial publications at Gallimard. It was written as early as autumn 1978, a few weeks after his first heart attack. Rare and well preserved in an impressive and masterly binding.
Laurens, Henri - - Tristan Tzara. Entre-Temps. Mit 1 Original-Radierung u. 4 Tafeln von Henri Laurens. Paris, Point du jour, 1946. Gr.-8°. 49 S., 3, 2 w. Bll. OBroschur (etwas gebräunt). Skira 196. - Völker 22. - Unnumeriertes Exemplar der Auflage (GA 356). Erste Ausgabe. - Die Radierung u. erste Bll. papierbedingt stärker gebräunt. Insgesamt noch schönes Exemplar. First edition. With 1 original etching and 4 plates by Henri Laurens. Original paperback (somewhat browned). Unnumbered copy of the edition (GA 356). - The etching and the first few pages more browned due to the paper. Overall still a fine copy.
Medizin - - Alfred A.L.M. Velpeau. Traité des Maladies du Sein et de la Region Mammaire. Mit 8 farblithogr. Tafeln. Paris, V. Masson, 1854. 2 Bl., XIX, 727 S. 8°. Marmor. HLdr. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. RTitel u. RVerg. (Gelenke angeplatzt, 1 Deckel beinahe los). Erste Ausgabe. - HoH 1530. - Waller 9854 (nur 2.A.) - Nicht bei Osler u. Cushing. - "Velpeau was the leading French surgeon of the first half of the 19th century. His great treatise on tumours of the breast, his best work, was the most important of its time on the subject. It includes a good account of hyperplastic disease os the breast" (Garrison/Morton 5771). - Tls. stockfleckig, gutes Exemplar. First edition. With 8 col. engraved plates. Marbled half leather with gilt stamped title to spine and spine gilt (joints cracking, one board nearly loose). - Occ. foxed, good copy.
Architektur - Gartenarchitektur - - G. Fr Guerniero. Delineatio montis a metropoli Hasso-Casselana uno circiter milliari distantis qui olim Winter-Casten, id est, Hiemis Receptaculum dicebatur, nunc autem Carolinus audit, ob aedificia et aquarum fonts quibus...Carolus, Landgravius Hassiae...illum posteritatis monumento magnifice exornavit. Mit 1 gest. Titelvign. u. 16 tlw. gefalt. oder doppelblattgr. Kupfertafeln. Kassel, H. Harmes, 1706. 10 Bll., Taf. Folio. Geflammter Ldr. d. Zt. mit reicher Goldprägung und golgeprägten Fileten. Ldr. d. Zt. (etwas berieben u. bestoßen). Kat. d. Ornamentstichslg. Bln. 3319 - Thieme-Becker XV, 236 - 2. Ausgabe, erschien ein Jahr nach der römischen Erstausgabe, vermehrt um den deutschen und französischen Text. - Prächtiges und seltenes Architekturwerk, das die geplanten und ausgeführten Bauten in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe zeigt, die der römische Architekt Francesco Guerniero in den Jahren 1701 bis 1705 für den Landgrafen von Hessen ausführte. Die schönen, teils mehrfach gefalteten Kupferstiche von G. G. Frezza und G. F. Venturini zeigen sowohl Gesamtansichten als auch Teilausschnitte der Architektur- und Gartenanlagen wie einzelne Gebäude, Grotten, Kaskaden, Pavillons in Grundrissen und Aufbau. - "Der größte Wert der 'Delineatio montis' liegt darin, daß sie die einheitliche barocke Gesamtplanung wiedergibt, von der nur das oberste Drittel der grandiosen Kaskadenanlage verwirklicht wurde. Und es ist nicht übertrieben, daß die vollständige Realisierung des Projekts 'vielleicht das Grandioseste' hervorgebracht hätte, 'was irgendwo den Barockstil in Verbindung von Architektur und Landschaft gewagt hat' (Georg Dehio)" (Helmut Scharf im Nachwort zum Faksimiledruck der 1. Ausgabe). - Statt dem zweiten Titel mit einer Vignette ist eine große Idealansicht der Herkulestatue (von mehreren Platten gedruckt) eingebunden. - Meist stärker gebräunt u. angestaubt,die Tafeln nur selten mit kleinen Defekten. Garden architecture. - Second edition, published 1 year after the Roman first editon and extended with German and French text. - With 1 half-page coat of arms copper engravings and 16 engraved plates. - Mostly more browned and dusty, the boards only rarely with small defects.
Delaunay, Sonja - - Yvan Goll. L'herbe du songe. Mit 2 (1 handsignierten) Lithographien von Sonia Delaunay. Paris, Caractères (1971). 69 nn. S. 4° OBrosch. Kein Exemplar im internationalen Handel für uns nachweisbar. - Eins von 25 Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe im größerem Format, die erste der auf schwerem Bütten abgezogenen Graphiken von der Künstlerin signiert. Nicht bei Raabe. Erste Ausgabe dieser Übersetzung von "Traumkraut" von Claire Goll und Claude Vigée. Mit zwölfseitiger Einleitung von Claire Goll. Breitrandiger Druck und schönes Exemplar. No copy traceable to us in international trade. - With 2 (1 signed) lithographs by Sonia Delaunay. One of 25 copies of the preferred edition in larger format, the first of the prints printed on heavy laid paper signed by the artist. Not published by Raabe. First edition of this translation of "Traumkraut" by Claire Goll and Claude Vigée. With twelve-page introduction by Claire Goll. Wide margins print and nice copy.
Masereel, Frans - - Carl Sternheim. Chronik von des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts Beginn. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd. Mit 16 Original-Holzschnitten von Frans Masereel, davon 14 ganzseitig. München, Drei Masken Verlag, 1923. 299 S., 1 Bl. ; 1 Bl., 261 S., 1 Bl. 8°. Prächtiger Pgt. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. RTitel, geometrischer Rücken-, Deckel- und Stehkantenvergoldung, farb. Deckel-Ornamenten und Kopfgoldschnitt. Im signierten Handeinband von H. Sperling, Leipzig. - Gabelentz 38. Raabe-Hannich 291, 29. - Eines von 300 nummerierten Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe, welche für Paul Neff in Stuttgart hergestellt wurde. Im Druckvermerk vom Autor signiert. - Erweiterte Neuauflage des erstmals 1918 bei Kurt Wolff erschienenen Werks, zugleich erste Ausgabe mit den Illustrationen von Frans Masereel. - Gutes Exemplar. 2 pts. in 1 vol. With 16 original woodcuts by Frans Masereel, 14 of which full-page. Splendid cont. vellum with gilt title, geometric gilt on spine, covers and edges, coloured cover ornaments and gilt top edge. - In signed hand binding by H. Sperling, Leipzig. - One of 300 numbered copies of the special edition, which was produced for Paul Neff in Stuttgart. Signed by the author in the imprint. - Extended new edition of the work first published by Kurt Wolff in 1918, at the same time the first edition with illustrations by Frans Masereel. - Good copy.
Charchoune, Serge - Typographie - - Pierre Lecuire. Abracadabra. Mit einer Umschlagslithographie und 3 ganzseitige Lithographien 2 typograpghische Ornamente und 15 Tafeln mit imaginären Schriften. Paris, Pierre Lecuire, 1971. 31 S., 2 Bll., 4 w. Bll. Quer.-Folio. Im Schuber. Eins von 54 Exemplaren auf Velin d'Arches. - Seltene erste Ausgabe dieses typographischen Gedichts, ein dreieckiges Porträt des Malers, illustriert "unter dem Zeichen der Welle und der Schlange" von dem russischen Maler Serge Charchoune (1888-1975), der vornehmlich in Frankreich lebte und in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges verstarb. Charchoune war Schüler von Henri Le Fauconnier und verkehrte mit Albert Gleizes, Marie Laurencin, und Francis Picabia. Er war Mitglied der DADA-Bewegung im Café Certá, beim "Trial of Barrès" von André Breton organisiert und stellte in Paris bei Tristan Tzara in der Montaigne Galerie und in Berlin in der Galerie Der Sturm aus. In diesem Werk vervielfältigt er die Register in einem unerwarteten Spiel und bietet dem Dichter "Zeichen, Buchstaben, Geldscheine, magische Dreiecke, musikalische Botschaften, imaginäre Schriften, Sphynx und grafische Schlangen, Silhouetten und Signaturen". Der schöne bibliophile Druck bei Marthe Fequet und Pierre Baudier in Paris. - Wohlerhalten. Typography. - With a cover lithograph and 3 full-page lithographs 2 typographical ornaments and 15 plates of imaginary fonts. One of 54 copies on vellum d'Arches. - Rare first edition of this typographic poem, a triangular portrait of the painter, illustrated "under the sign of the wave and the snake" by the Russian painter Serge Charchoune (1888-1975), who lived mainly in France and died in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. Charchoune was a student of Henri Le Fauconnier and associated with Albert Gleizes, Marie Laurencin, and Francis Picabia. He was a member of the DADA movement at the Café Certá, organized at the "Trial of Barrès" by André Breton, and exhibited in Paris with Tristan Tzara at the Montaigne Gallery and in Berlin at the Der Sturm Gallery. In this work he multiplies the registers in an unexpected game, offering the poet "signs, letters, banknotes, magic triangles, musical messages, imaginary writings, sphynx and graphic snakes, silhouettes and signatures." The beautiful bibliophile Printing by Marthe Fequet and Pierre Baudier in Paris. - Well preserved.
Johann Christoph Beckmann. Historia orbis terrarum, geographica et civilis, de variis Negociis. Nostri potissimum & Superioris Seculi, aliisve rebus selectioribus. Frankfurt, Fincelius, 1673. 2 Bll., 452 S., 4 Bll. 4°. Dunkelbrauner Ganzmaroquin d. Zt. mit breiter, floraler Deckelbordüre, Eckfleurons und Wappensupralibros. Erste Ausgabe von Beckmanns Hauptwerk, eine "allgemeine Fürsten- und Völkerkunde" (ADB). - VD17 12:108422U - Sabin 4255 - ADB II, 240 f. - Enthält auch Darstellungen der amerikanischen Geographie, der Herkunft der amerikanischen Indianer, ihrer Sprachen etc. - Stärker gebräunt, Titel mit rad. Stempel, Exlibris auf vord. Innendeckel "Van Baviere" und hint. Innendeckel "Van Hulthem". - Dekorativ gebundenes Exemplar. First edition, rare. - Dark brown full morocco with wide floral cover border, corner fleurons and heraldic supralibros.
Musik - - Du Buisson. Livre(s) d'airs serieux et à boire, à 2 & e parties. 7 Tle. in 1 Bd. (Tl. 1-2: "Troisiesme partie", Tl. 3-7: "Basse"). Mit 6 (von 7?) gestoch. Titeln mit allegor. Bordüren, gestoch. Initialen u. Musik. Paris, C. Ballard, (1686)-1692. Bl. 1-23, 1 n.n. Bl., 45 S., 1 n.n. Bl., 44 S., 2 n.n. Bll., 44 S., 2 n.n. Bll., 46 S., 1 n.n. Bl., 45 S., 1 n.n. Bl., 45 S., 1 n.n. Bl. Quer-12°. Ldr. d. Zt. mit Rücken- u. Kantenvergoldung (Buchblock herausgelöst, leicht bestoßen, Rücken berieben, Schnitt etwas fleckig). Erste Ausgabe dieser von Du Buisson komponierten Sammlung von barocken Arien und Trinkliedern. Du Boisson, der als "fameux buveur" beschrieben ist, ist Autor von zahlreichen und populären Trinkliedern. - Vorsätze, erstes Titelbl. u. 2 Bll. mit Widmung fehlend. Etwas gebräunt u. stellenweise leicht angerändert. With 6 (of 7?) woodcut title pages, woodcut initials and device, sheets music. - First edition of this collection of barock arias and drinking songs. Du Boisson was renowned as a famous drinker and his output consists almost entirely of drinking songs. - Contemporary leather with gilt tooling to the spine (book body detached from cover, slightly bumped, spine rubbed, edges somewhat stained). Endpapers, fist title leaf and 2 leaves with dedication missing. Somewhat browned and occasionally with small marginal tears.
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