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Lot 1147
A Steiff first festive bears, Blackey, Whitey and Rosey, made in 1997,1998 and 1999 - limited editions for Steiff Festival, EAN 655333 655340 and 655487 - 30cm tall, also the twins little Blackey and Little Whitey, made in 2000 - comes complete with Steiff Festival collectors card, an unopened sealed special edition festival book and certificate signed Tweed Roosevelt who is the great grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt of whom the Teddy bear was invented in honour of - Theodore Roosevelt was on a bear hunting trip but he refused to shoot the bear
Lot 310
Raffald, Elizabeth. The Experienced English Housekeeper, sixth edition, London: Printed for the author by R. Baldwin, 1778, signed by the author on opening page of first chapter (as per title page, 'N.B. No book is genuine but what is signed by the Author'), worn and incomplete as found, lacking boards. Together with two Victorian wedding menu cards (one for bride, one for bridegroom), engraved designs by J. A. Lowell of Boston, 1879, the menu inscribed in pencil (3)
Lot 366
Tennyson, Alfred Lord. Poems, first pirated edition, Privately Printed, 1862. Original blue wrappers, uncut pages, gift inscription to Mary Wilson, the English poet and wife of former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson, from Desmond Brayley, 1970. Loosely inserted catalogue clipping stating that the work was published in Toronto, 'This was a pirated edition, and John Camden Hotten, who tried to put it on the English market, was fined £100, and made to deliver up all copies for destruction.'
Lot 160
Russia.- De L'Isle (Guillaume) Carte de Tartarie Dressee sur les Relations de Plusieurs Voyageurs de Differentes Nations et sur Quelques Observations..., first edition of De L'Isle's map that shows from Eastern Ukraine and Crimea to South Korea, including Russia, Northern China, and Tibet, engraving with outline hand-colouring, sheet 505 x 660 mm. (19 7/8 x 26 in), central vertical fold reinforced verso, trimmed within platemark to lower edge, with margin restored and further support to verso of right hand edge, several repaired tears, handling creases and surfaced dirt, unframed, Paris, 1706.
Lot 228
Oxford.- Speed (John) Oxforshire described with ye Citie and the Armes of the Colledges of ye famous university, first edition, county map with inset town plan of Oxford, decorated with eighteen heraldic shields of university colleges, engraving with hand-colouring on laid paper with armorial watermark, sheet 390 x 540 mm. (15 1/4 x 21 1/4 in), central vertical fold reinforced verso with careful repairs to splitting, left and right border edges restored in facsimile, upper edge re-margined, some rough edges, unframed, Sudbury & Humble, [1611].
Lot 99
MARY E. MANN FIRST EDITION BOOKS to include 'Men & Dreams' 1912 which appears to be signed by the author and dated 1912, also includes a handwritten letter dated 15th Jan 1912 headed H.M.S. Excellent, Portsmouth and written to 'Bertie' from 'Hugh' discussing gifts and a play, 'A Winter's Tale' 1904, and 'Towards The Light' by Joseph Bibby 1932 (3)
![Fleming [Ian]: The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition 1962, pub by Jonahan Cape, issued by The Book Club, dustwrapper and four o](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f101a16a-9d8a-4fbb-b3fa-ab0c00db81f3/feb4c856-0643-4bf9-954a-ab1300f4beeb/468x382.jpg)
![Betjeman [John]: First and Last Loves, first edition 1952, pub by John Murray, illustrated by John Piper, dustwrapper, and se](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f101a16a-9d8a-4fbb-b3fa-ab0c00db81f3/daa1438d-3090-4aae-8556-ab1300f4c1b4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1349
Betjeman [John]: First and Last Loves, first edition 1952, pub by John Murray, illustrated by John Piper, dustwrapper, and seven other works by the author, 'Ghastly Good Taste', 1970, 'Continual Dew', facsimile re-issue 1977, 'Mount Zion or In Touch with the Infinite', 1975, 'Wantage Poems', first edition 1966, 'Summoned By Bells', illus Edward Ardizzone, first edition 1962. (8)
![Betjeman [John]: An Oxford University Chest, first edition 1938, pub by John Miles, Amen Corner, London EC 4, marbled boards.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f101a16a-9d8a-4fbb-b3fa-ab0c00db81f3/4e757153-f877-400d-b06c-ab1300f4c3e1/468x382.jpg)
![Betjeman [John]: Old Lights For New Chancels, Topographical and Amatory Verses, proof copy, first edition 1940, pub by John M](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f101a16a-9d8a-4fbb-b3fa-ab0c00db81f3/4ca28059-d127-4008-9897-ab1300f4c5a3/468x382.jpg)
![Betjeman [John]: High and Low, first edition 1966, pub by John Murray, Albermarle Street, dustwrapper; Betjeman [John]: A Few](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f101a16a-9d8a-4fbb-b3fa-ab0c00db81f3/3c1b9417-8ec8-4d9e-a975-ab1300f4c689/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1354
Betjeman [John]: High and Low, first edition 1966, pub by John Murray, Albermarle Street, dustwrapper; Betjeman [John]: A Few Late Chrysanthemums, first edition 1954, pub by John Murray, Albermarle Street, dustwrapper and Betjeman [John]: A Nip in the Air, first edition 1974, pub by John Murray. (3)
![Betjeman [John]: Poems in the Porch, first edition 1954, pub by SPCK London, book plate for John Sparrow (Academic Warden of](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f101a16a-9d8a-4fbb-b3fa-ab0c00db81f3/704a7c64-576d-4e6d-8345-ab1300f4c78d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 269
O'HARA, JOHN. 1905-1970.Appointment in Samarra. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1934). 8vo. Publisher's errata slip tipped at dedication page. Publisher's smooth black cloth, lettered in gilt, original pictorial dust-jacket, custom cloth clamshell box, with morocco title label to spine, subtle professional restoration to extremities of jacket.Provenance: 'Miss Beirne' (Publisher's 'Presentation Copy' bookplate to paste-down).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE JACKET, OF AUTHOR'S FIRST AND GREATEST BOOK. 'If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well, read Appointment in Samarra' (Ernest Hemingway, 'Old Newsman Writes,' Esquire, December, 1934). A fine copy in a bright jacket. Bruccoli A2.1.a.
Lot 93
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. 1859–1930.2 titles: 1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes Ltd., 1892. Original light blue cloth over beveled boards, cover and spine blocked and lettered in gilt and black, edges gilt. Spotting to early leaves and endpapers, shelfwear.Provenance: bookseller's ticket (W. Davenport Taylor ... Ashover, Gilham Grove) to front pastedown; ownership signature to half title.FIRST EDITION, with 'Violent' for 'Violet' on p 317, but without the street name 'Southampton Street' visible on the sign to the upper cover. Green and Gibson A10.2. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes Ltd., 1894. Royal 8vo. Original dark blue cloth over beveled boards, front board and spine lettered and blocked in black and gilt, edges gilt. Very minor spotting, a bright copy.FIRST EDITION.
Lot 103
JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.Dubliners. London: Grant Richards, 1914. 8vo. Half-title with publisher's advertisement on verso. Publisher's red cloth, spine and upper cover gilt-lettered, custom cloth slipcase, spine faded, some soiling and rubbing, spotting to early leaves. Provenance Ava Heslow; S. Steel (owner's names on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. Slocum & Cahoon A8.
Lot 104
KING JR, MARTIN LUTHER. 1929-1968.Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? New York: Harper & Row, 1967. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth, over yellow paper boards, spine lettered in gilt and red, original pictorial dust-jacket, small scuff to front panel, unobtrusive dampstain to upper jacket spine.FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by King to the front fly to Wilfred Cohen. King's final book, called by Cornel West '...his last grand expression of his vision....' A handsome copy.
Lot 106
LONDON, JACK. 1876-1916. AND ANNA STRUNSKY. 1877-1964.The Kempton-Wace Letters. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. 8vo. Publisher's original grey-green cloth, stamped in black, lettered in white to upper cover, and gilt to spine, spine lightly faded, front hinge professionally conserved with Japanese paper, front fly leaf backed.Provenance: Arnold Genthe (1869-1942, inscription from the author, dated January 28, 1907).FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY LONDON TO PHOTOGRAPHER ARNOLD GENTHE, 'Dear Genthe- 'Love? It is a great word. It is in all the dictionaries.' Yours faithfully, Jack London.' A collaboration between London and Anna Strunsky, The Kempton-Wace Letters is an epistolary novel that explores the nature of love and marriage, a particularly poignant topic for the two. Strunsky lived with London and his wife Bess while they completed the novel, and London proposed marriage to his writing partner. Famed San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe was a friend of both, and frequently photographed London. A fine association, better for the circumstances of the sentiment. Sisson & Martens p 11.
Lot 118
STEIG, WILLIAM. 1907-2003.58 original ink and wash drawings for About People, each individually titled by the artist in pencil with printers' notes on versos, various sizes, each signed in ink ('Wm. Steig'), some glue residue at top from previous mounting but not affecting images. WITH: Autograph Note Signed ('Wm. Steig') to an editor or art director: 'John--Here it is. Don't lose it. Bill.'Published: About People, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1939.Provenance: William Steig, the artist; by descent.Bill Steig was one of the most admired cartoonists of his generation. Selling his first cartoon to Harold Ross in 1930, he became one of the longest running contributors to The New Yorker in the magazine's history. Steig admitted that he had the greatest admiration for Pablo Picasso, whose influence is apparent in much of his more 'serious' work. In 1936, Steig began making drawings of various states of mind, his 'symbolic drawings,' and collected them in About People and other books. His brother Arthur explains in the foreword: 'Here unconscious experiences are for the first time given a plastic expression that is neither innate or absolute (as in surrealistic works), but organized, and related in specific terms to the real world.' The book is full of archetypal neurotics. Ross turned down these drawings as not being funny enough to appear in The New Yorker. But they were praised by his sister-in-law, anthropologist Margaret Mead. 'Mr. Steig has the rare faculty of sensing the essentials of human nature and the capacity of depicting them in a most poignant manner,' wrote noted psychologist and Freud's translator Dr. A. A. Brill. As apparent from these perceptive and sometimes haunting sketches, Steig suffered from severe depression and eventually sought treatment from controversial psychologist Wilhelm Reich. He even purchased an orgone box and an orgone blanket despite their being called frauds by the government. Steig credited Dr. Reich with saving him and dedicated one of his books to him. Three drawings ('Self-satisfaction,' p 37; 'Self-consciousness,' p 38; and 'Loss of a memory,' p 94) are rubberstamped on the versos 'Random House' and that they were reproduced in Life, January 8, 1940, pp. 52-53. Sold with a copy of the first edition in frayed dust jacket.
Lot 121
STEIG, WILLIAM. 1907-2003.Original maquette for The Agony in the Kindergarten, 222 pp, drawn and annotated in ink and pencil, with typed slips pasted-in for front-matter, in commercial black card sketch book stamped 'Sketch Book' to upper cover, 240 x 185 mm, [New York, ca. 1950,] with earlier pencil and ink versions of the published work, heavily annotated by Steig indicating placement of images and captions.WITH: 69 loose finished drawings for the book (plus five photostats), ca. 1950, ink, graphite and/or color pencil, various sizes, five drawings signed ('Steig' or 'W. Steig') and most with printers' marks, some wear and discoloring. Published: The Agony in the Kindergarten, New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1950.Provenance: William Steig, the artist; by descent.MAQUETTE AND FINISHED DRAWINGS FOR ONE OF STEIG'S MOST IMPORTANT ADULT BOOKS. This archive traces the evolution of Steig's wonderfully dark The Agony in the Kindergarten, his often disturbing exploration of the little traumas of childhood. 'Despair is the human condition,' he told The New York Times in 1972. 'I always felt that something went wrong and it was my business to find out what happened.' The maquette shows the placement of each image and caption within a 222-page sketch book of earlier versions of the published art (with a few stats), the whole copiously annotated by the artist. The additional 69 finished childlike drawings and photostats formed much of the published book; and discarded sketches may be found on the versos of some of the final art. The commentary is typed below nearly all of these designs. The text that appears opposite the pictures in the book comprises common insensitive and often cruel remarks adults make about children ('That brat needs a good spanking,' 'Shut up!,' 'What the hell does she want now'). 'They're not actual people,' Steig explained, 'they're character traits,' representing the fears and anxieties of early youth. Steig supplied a quote from William Blake to serve as the book's motto; and his brother Arthur provided the foreword in verse in the manner of Blake ('Who gave him shame?/They who were lame;/They taught their pain/All over again'). The author dedicated the book to controversial psychiatrist Dr. Wilhelm Reich, who Steig said saved his life. '... the surreal drawings of The Agony in the Kindergarten were perhaps [Steig's] most brilliant breakthrough into a purer kind of art, but his representations of childhood have always implied a continuity with adult experience; children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us' (John Updike, 'Introduction,' The World of William Steig, 1998, p. 6). Ironically Steig's childhood was the happiest period of his life; and he often looked back to those early days when creating his popular prize-winning children's books. Includes a copy of the first edition of the book.
Lot 13
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.Macbeth, A Tragedy: With all the Alterations, Amendments, Additions, and New Songs. London: Printed for Hen. Herringman, sold by Jos. Knight and Fra. Saunders, 1687. 4to (213 x 161 mm). 20th century half calf, custom red morocco box. Browning, especially to first and last two leaves, a few repairs at margins of title, ink mark after imprint.Provenance: Ralph Vallone (bookplate).FOURTH QUARTO EDITION. This adaptation, by William Davenant, was first printed in 1674. This is the second edition of Davenant's version. Jaggard 381; Pforzheimer 914; Wing S-2932.
Lot 130
VERNE, JULES. 1828-1905.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Boston: George R. Smith, 1873. 8vo. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Publisher's green pictorial cloth decorated in black and gold, edges gilt. Spine ends bumped, foxing to first few leaves, otherwise very minor wear. SECOND AMERICAN EDITION, after the very rare Osgood edition which was mostly destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872. This example does not have 'THE END' on p 303, which is sometimes referred to as an issue point, but more likely a case of type slippage during the print run, as there are examples known with the words present, but only partially printed.
Lot 131
VERNE, JULES. 1828-1905.A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1874. 8vo. Frontispiece, title page vignette, and 50 plates by Edouard Riou. Publisher's pictorial orange cloth decorated in gold and black. Slightly rubbed, hinges starting, gift inscription to free front endpaper.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, published in 1873 but dated 1874. It was issued in three colors of cloth, orange, blue and green, in no particular precedence. Myers 35; Taves & Michaluk V002.
![VERNE, JULES. 1828-1905.The Mysterious Island [Trilogy]. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875. 3 volumes. 8vo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e4eb5919-aacc-4acb-a34e-ab050126a074/6fcd587b-d9da-46ba-bcb4-ab0900cff48f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 132
VERNE, JULES. 1828-1905.The Mysterious Island [Trilogy]. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875. 3 volumes. 8vo. Consisting of three titles, Dropped From the Clouds, Abandoned, and The Secret of the Island. 149 wood-engraved illustration plates, publisher's catalog at end of last two volumes. Publisher's pictorial cloth in red, purple and magenta, respectively, decorated in black and gilt, gilt edges. Covers soiled, spines faded, slight cracking to hinges.FIRST EDITION of all three volumes, translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. In the process of translation, Kingston also took some liberties with the text, particularly altering the dying words of Captain Nemo, so as not to offend British readers with his condemnation of Imperialism. Myers 42; Taves & Michaluk V013.
![WARHOL, ANDY & RALPH THOMAS WARD.Love is a Pink Cake by Corkie and Andy. [New York: privately printed, 1952.] Folio (280](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e4eb5919-aacc-4acb-a34e-ab050126a074/b6d8362e-e6d6-4b88-a8d7-ab0900d00e43/468x382.jpg)
Lot 133
WARHOL, ANDY & RALPH THOMAS WARD.Love is a Pink Cake by Corkie and Andy. [New York: privately printed, 1952.] Folio (280 x 216 mm). 25 Loose leaves, each with illustration after Warhol. Some leaves toned at extremities.WARHOL'S FIRST BOOK, PRIVATELY PRINTED IN AN EDITION OF APPROXIMATELY 100 COPIES. Feldman & Scheilmann IV.27-50.
Lot 135
WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. 1856-1915.Up From Slavery: An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. A fine copy.WITH: July 18th [1902] / Grand Trunk Railway System / Excursion Rates / to / Cassopolis [Michigan] affording all an opportunity to hear the address of Booker T. Washington. Detroit: Printed by Schoeber Printing Company, [1902]. Printed broadside, 524 x 173 mm, old folds, hole from posting, small tear at lower crease.Provenance: S.B. McCracken (bookplate, pencil note dated 'March 20, 1901').FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY WASHINGTON, and dated 'Tuskegee, Aug 11, 1906' to the verso of the contents page, with rare broadside advertisement for a Booker T. Washington speech.
Lot 147
CALDWELL, ERSKINE. 1903-1987.Tobacco Road. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. 8vo (188 x 128 mm). Original cloth, lettered in blind on gilt boxes, publisher's dust-jacket, minimal wear. FIRST EDITION OF THE AMERICAN CLASSIC, brought alive on the screen in 1941 by director John Ford. A bright, tight copy.
Lot 148
CAPOTE, TRUMAN. 1924-1984.In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965. 8vo. Original cloth; slipcase.FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 267 of 500 copies SIGNED by Capote. With In Cold Blood, Capote invented a new genre of literature, the 'non-fiction novel,' by exploiting 'a whole battery of novelistic techniques which enforce the structure and hence the meaning of the Clutter case' (Wiegand, 'The Non-fiction Novel,' New Mexico Quarterly 37, 1967). A fine copy.
Lot 150
CAPOTE, TRUMAN. 1924-1984.Breakfast at Tiffany's. New York: Random House, 1958. Publisher's yellow cloth, red dust jacket printed in black and white. Very minor sunning to spine and a few small creases to jacket. FIRST EDITION, A FINE COPY.WITH: Other Voices, Other Rooms. New York: Random House, 1948. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, few small corner chips and toning to jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE JACKET, AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK.WITH: The White Rose. Newton, IA: Tamazunchale Press, 1987. Miniature (60 x 43 mm). Publisher's white vellum gilt. Fine. Limited edition, number 115 of 250.WITH: ARLEN, HAROLD. House of Flowers. New York: Random House, 1968. Publisher's black cloth and boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. Scarce.
Lot 152
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910.The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. New York: C.H. Webb, 1867. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, upper cover with gilt frog design, lower center-left, and frog in blind to lower cover, custom cloth dust-jacket, cloth slipcase, minor wear to joints.FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, of Twain's first book, without ad leaf, and broken type on pp 21, 66, and 198. A tight, bright copy. 'Perhaps no short sketch of Twain's so quickly won wide popularity as did 'The Jumping Frog.' Calaveras County, California, is known to thousands who have never seen the Golden State simply because of this gem of humor' (Zamarano 80 17). BAL 3310.
Lot 153
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. 8vo. 4 pp publisher's ads dated December 1, 1876. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in black and gilt, rebacked, original spine laid-down, new headbands.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF TWAIN'S CLASSIC AMERICAN NOVEL, BAL's second printing, issue A, on laid paper, with frontispiece to the verso of half-title and contents beginning on the verso of the preface. '...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.
Lot 155
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910. ET AL.Liber Scriptorum. The First Book of the Author's Club. New York: Published by the Author's Club [by the De Vinne Press], 1893. Folio. Title-page printed in red and black, wood engraved headpieces, initials and tailpieces for each contribution. Publisher's straight-grain morocco, decoratively stamped in gilt and black, titles in gilt, top edge gilt, gilt floral endpapers, upper cover skillfully reattached, rubbed at the extremities, minor wear at corners. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, SIGNED BENEATH THEIR CONTRIBUTION BY ALL 109 AUTHORS, including Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Low De Vinne and Andrew Carnegie, among others, number 140 of 251 copies. Sumptuously produced and printed by Theodore Low De Vinne, this beautiful book includes the first appearance of Twain's 'A Californian's Tale' and Roosevelt's 'A Shot at a Bull-Elk,' among 109 original contributions, each signed. Merle Johnson notes that of the 251 copies, 30 were 'split up into their component articles' (Johnson, Bibliography of Mark Twain [1910 ed], p 70-71). BAL 3438 (for Clemens).
Lot 156
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910.Early Works of Mark Twain, in original cloth, 9 titles: 1. Roughing It. Hartford: 1872. Light fraying to spine ends. Provenance: Jno. H. Myers (inscription dated 1872). FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. BAL 3337. Zamarano 80 18.2. Sketches New and Old. Hartford: 1875. Spine ends frayed. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. BAL 3364.3. The Prince and the Pauper. Boston: 1882. Rubbed, frayed at spine ends, front hinge repaired with Japanese paper. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST STATE, FIRST BINDING. BAL 3402.WITH: Innocents Abroad. 1872. FIRST EDITION, 3RD ISSUE. * Life on the Mississippi. 1883. FIRST EDITION, MIXED STATE. * Roughing It. 1874. Early printing. * A Tramp Abroad. 1880. Front hinge started. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. * The Stolen White Elephant. 1882. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. * Library of Humor. 1888. Hinges repaired. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE.
Lot 157
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910.Works of Mark Twain, in publisher's cloth, 1889-1897, 10 titles: 1. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. NY: 1889. Clean copy, hinges started. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE (of p 59). BAL 3429.2. Tom Sawyer Abroad. NY: 1894. Some soiling (as usual). FIRST EDITION. BAL 3440.3. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson. And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. Hartford: 1894. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST STATE, frontispiece in state A. BAL 3442.4. Following the Equator. Hartford: 1897. A FRESH COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. BAL 3451.WITH: American Claimant. 1889. FIRST EDITION. * The £1,000,000 Bank Note. 1893. FIRST EDITION. * The £1,000,000 Bank Note. 1893. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. * Pudd'nhead Wilson. 1894. FIRST (ENGLISH) EDITION. * Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. 1896. A FINE COPY. FIRST EDITION, 2ND STATE. * How to Tell a Story. 1897. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE.
Lot 158
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910.Later Works of Mark Twain, in original cloth, 10 titles, 3 with dust-jackets: 1. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. NY: 1909. FIRST EDITION, a beautiful copy IN SCARCE DUST-JACKET. BAL 3511.2. The Curious Republic of Gondour. NY: 1919. FIRST EDITION IN SCARCE DUST-JACKET. BAL 3527.3. Mark Twain's Autobiography. NY: 1924. 2 volumes. FIRST EDITION, BAL STATE A, in dust-jacket and slipcase. BAL 3537.WITH: A Double Barreled Detective Story. 1902. FIRST EDITION, on laid paper. * Editorial Wild Oats. 1905. FIRST EDITION. * Extract from Adam's Diary. 1906 printing. * Eve's Diary. 1906 but later 'F-O.' * Horse's Tale. 1907. FIRST EDITION. * What is Man? London, 1910. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. * The Mysterious Stranger. 1916, but later 'B-Y,' Wyeth illustrations.
Lot 159
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. 1789-1851.The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. 2 volumes. 12mo. With all blanks, including conjugate with title page in vol 2. Publisher's paper boards, and printed spine labels, uncut, custom cloth chemise for each volume, morocco spine labels, dropback cloth box, with skillful repairs to spines, some foxing throughout, as usual. Provenance: H.C. Thompson (ink signature); Minnie S. Lewis (faint pencil note); Jean Hersholt (1866-1956, translator of Hans Christian Andersen, bookplate); Dr. Thomas A. McGraw (sold Parke-Bernet, 1967, lot 41); Carol G. and William E. Simon (bookplate).FIRST EDITION OF COOPER'S MOST POPULAR NOVEL, THE FIRST PUBLISHED LEATHER-STOCKING TALE, with all first edition points, including BAL's state A of the copyright page in vol 2, and all blanks, including the conjugate to the title page in vol 2. 'The most famous of the Leatherstocking Tales, and the first in which the scout Natty Bumppo was made the symbol of all that was wise, heroic and romantic in the lives and characters of the white men who made the American wilderness their home ... The novel glorified for many generations of readers, in England, France, Russia, and at home, some aspects of American life that were unique to our cultural history' (Grolier American 34). BAL 3833; Spiller & Blackburn 7.
Lot 16
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.Julius Caesar: a Tragedy as it is now Acted at the Theatre Royal. London: Henry Herringman, 1691. 4to (219 x 160 mm). 19th century half green morocco and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, modern custom quarter green morocco box. Small repairs at fore-edge of title, scattered spotting. Provenance: Frederick William Cosens (1819-1889, bookplate); Ralph Vallone, Jr. (bookplate).SECOND QUARTO EDITION. Julius Caesar was one of the twenty plays which made their first appearance in the 1623 First Folio. Of these, three were issued in quarto format during the 17th century: The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar. The first quarto of Julius Caesar appeared in 1684. Bartlett placed four undated quartos between this and the present 1691 edition (making this the sixth). However, more recently Wing gave priority to this edition, placing the undated editions at around 1695. Bartlett 117; Pforzheimer 886 ('Sixth(?) edition'); Wing S-2922A.
Lot 160
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. 1789-1851.The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna. New York: Charles Wiley, 1823. 2 volumes. 8vo (180 x 103 mm). Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine labels, modern blue cloth chemise and quarter blue morocco slipcase. Rubbed, free front endpaper of Volume I loose, scattered staining and foxing. FIRST EDITION, Volume I in first state, printed by J. Seymour; Volume II in state B, with p 329 numbered at right hand margin. Wright 671; Spiller & Blackburn 3.Provenance: Hillsdale Union Library (bookplates).WITH: Home as Found. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1838. 2 volumes. 8vo. Publisher's purple cloth, paper spine labels. Rubbed, spines sunned, foxing. FIRST EDITION, second printing, without apology for paper quality opposite title page. Provenance: Frederick Bronson (bookplates).
Lot 161
CULLEN, COUNTEE. 1903-1946.Seven works by the Harlem Renaissance Poet: 1. The Black Christ & Other Poems. New York: Harper, 1929. Publisher's cloth backed blue boards; part of the original glassine dust jacket, publisher's slipcase, splitting to edges. LIMITED EDITION number 91 of 128 copies SIGNED by Cullen. 2. Caroling Dusk. An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets. New York: Harper, 1927. Publisher's black cloth with black lettered pink paper labels on cover and spine; pictorial dust jacket, flaps detached, some light chipping to edges. FIRST EDITION. The anthology of African American poets includes: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Anne Spencer, Jessie Fauset, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. 3.The Black Christ & Other Poems. New York: Harper, 1929. Frontispiece and illustrations by Charles Cullen. Publisher's black cloth backed blue boards. Pictorial dust jacket design by Charles Cullen. FIRST EDITION. WITH: Color. New York, 1925. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed and signed by Cullen on front free endpaper. * Copper Sun. New York, 1927. LIMITED EDITION, number 23 of 100 copies SIGNED by Cullen. *The Ballad of the Brown Girl. New York, 1927. LIMITED EDITION, number 119 of 500 copies. PRESENTATION COPY signed by Cullen on front free endpaper. *The Medea and some Poems. New York, 1935. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.
Lot 162
DANA, RICHARD HENRY. 1815-1882.Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. 12mo. Publisher's cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt 'THE FAMILY LIBRARY No 106' and titled [BAL's binding A], chipping to spine ends, some foxing.Provenance: Mrs. Rachel Myers (contemporary inscription).WITH: To Cuba and Back. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. 8vo. 16 pp ads dated April 1859. Publisher's cloth.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with dotted 'i' in copyright line and unbroken running head at p 9, 'one of the most sought-after books in American Literature and very rare' (Hill pp 78-79). Dana's narrative of a voyage to Alta California in 1834-36 was one of the first to come from a deckhand rather than a ship's officer or passenger, and gives a clear picture of California in the years just prior to the influx of American settlers in the 1840s, 'our only trustworthy account before the 1849 gold rush' Grolier American 46. BAL 4434; Cowan I p 62; Graff 998; Howes D49; Johnson High Spots 26; Zamorano 80 26.
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ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. 1888-1965.The Waste Land. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. 8vo. Publisher's black flexible cloth, lettered in gilt, lacking dust jacket, spine lightly faded.'April is the cruelest month...'FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'mountain' correctly spelled on p 41 and number '482' (of 500 in the first state) on colophon 5 mm high. Upon reading the manuscript of The Waste Land, Ezra Pound wrote to John Quinn, 'About enough, Eliot's poem, to make the rest of us shut up shop.' A sharp copy without the rare dust jacket of perhaps the most important poem of the 20th-century.
Lot 165
ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. 1888-1965.Poems 1909-1925. London: Faber and Gwyer, 1925. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine label, original dust jacket, slight dust soiling to panels, some staining to endpapers and edges.Provenance. H.N. Davy (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Eliot added to 'The Waste Land,' the dedication to Ezra Pound (borrowed from Dante): 'il miglior fabbro'. An important collection, containing 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,' 'The Wasteland,' and the first book appearance of 'The Hollow Men.' Scarce in dust jacket. Gallup A8a.
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Lot 166
ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. 1888-1965.Poems 1909-1925. London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd, 1925 [but 1926]. 8vo. Original white cloth, titled in gilt to spine, lightly soiled.Provenance: T.S. Fairley (neat ink inscription to endpaper).FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, one of 85 numbered copies, this one out-of-series and unnumbered. Gallup A8b.
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ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. 1888-1965.JONES, DAVID. 1895-1974. In Parenthesis seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu. London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1961). 8vo. Publisher's blue buckram, stamped in gilt and gray on the spine, and lettered in blind, original glassine wrapper.FIRST EDITION WITH ELIOT'S INTRODUCTION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 37 of 70 copies signed by Eliot and David Jones. Jones created important works in both literature and the visual arts, with In Parenthesis perhaps his greatest achievement. In his introduction, Eliot calls it a 'work of genius,' and separately it has been praised as 'one of the great poems of the century' Graham Greene) and 'the greatest book about the First World War' which does for 'for the British and the Germans what Homer did for the Greeks and the Trojans' (W.H. Auden). An oft-overlooked modernist high spot.
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.K. Henry IV. With the humours of Sir John Falstaff. A Tragi-comedy. London: Printed for R.W. and Sold by John Deeve, 1700. 4to (212 x 163 mm). Modern paneled calf, Custom black cloth box. Repairs and ownership stamp to title, light browning and soiling. Provenance: John Brown (ownership stamp dated 1756); Mary Hyde [Viscountess Eccles] (bookplate; her sale, Christie's New York, April 14, 2004, lot 95); Ralph Vallone, Jr. (bookplate).NINTH EDITION and the first edition of Thomas Betterton's adaptation. Abridged and—as printed on the title page—'Revived, with Alterations' by Betterton (1635-1710). In his time, Betterton was the preeminent actor and theater manager in England. Wing S-2928.
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