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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Chapter Thirty-Four From the Novel East of Eden. [Bronxville]: Privately printed by Valenti Angelo

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Lot 301

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Chapter Thirty-Four From the Novel East of Eden. [Bronxville]: Privately printed by Valenti Angelo, 1952. 4to. Publisher's buff wrappers over white chipboard, with red and black rectangle leaf and branch device to title page, and 'JS' monogram at end of text, minor toning.FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, one of 125 copies privately printed on his hand press by Valenti Angelo, variant not in Goldstone & Payne, but matching the copy in the Holmes Collection (A36a), and variant (3) in John Steinbeck: An Exhibition of American and Foreign Editions (Texas, 1963). A fine copy of a scarce Steinbeck item. Goldstone & Payne A32d.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.A collection of the author's primary works in first edition: 1. To a God Unknown. New York: Covici

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.A collection of the author's primary works in first edition: 1. To a God Unknown. New York: Covici Friede, 1933. Publisher's beige cloth, green and white printed dust jacket. Jacket toned, especially to spine.2. East of Eden. New York: Viking Press, 1952. Publisher's green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Corners of jacket worn, spine darkened.3. Sea of Cortez. New York: Viking Press, 1941. Publisher's green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Jacket chipped at corners, spine slightly sunned, a little loose.4. Log from the Sea of Cortez. New York: Viking Press, 1951. Publisher's burgundy cloth gilt, pictorial dust jacket. 5. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede, 1937. Publisher's beige cloth, printed dust jacket. WITH: Burning Bright. 1930. * Cup of Gold. 1936 Covici Friede re-issue. * Cannery Row. 1945. * The Moon is Down. 1942. First issue, in yellow wrappers. * Another, in publisher's blue cloth, pictorial jacket. * Bombs Away. 1942. The Pearl. 1947. * Winter of Our Discontent. 1961. * Once There Was a War. 1958. * Travels With Charley. 1962. * A Russian Journal. 1948. * The Short Novels of John Steinbeck. 1953. * The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights. 1976. With Robert Giroux inscribed 'compliments' card inserted. * The Short Reign of Pippin IV. 1957. * The Forgotten Village. 1941. * The Wayward Bus. 1947. * Sweet Thursday. 1954. * The Red Pony. 1945. Slipcase.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.A group of John Steinbeck limited editions and other Steinbeckiana. Zapata. Yolla Bolly Press, 199

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Lot 304

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.A group of John Steinbeck limited editions and other Steinbeckiana. Zapata. Yolla Bolly Press, 1991. 4to. Illustrations by Karin Wikstrom. Limited edition, number 233 of a total of 257. * Journal of a Novel. The East of Eden Letters. New York: Viking Press, 1969. 4to. First edition, limited to 600 copies. * Another, trade edition. * Nothing So Monstrous. New York: Privately printed for Edwin J. Beinecke, 1936. First separate edition. * Un Américain à New-York et à Paris. Paris, 1956. French language. * The Viking Portable Library Steinbeck. 1943. * America and Americans. 1966. First edition, first state. * Letters to Elizabeth. 1978. * Positano. 1959. Wrappers. * Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wrappers. * Your Only Weapon is Your Work. 1985. Wrappers. * Their Blood is Strong. 1939. Wrappers. * A Letter by John Steinbeck to the Friends of Democracy. * Vanderbilt Clinic. 1947. Wrappers. * A Letter from John Steinbeck. 1964. Wrappers, cloth slipcase. * Speeches of Adlai Stevenson. Foreword by Steinbeck. 1952. * ROGERS, RICHARD. AND OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN. Pipe Dream. Adapted from Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday. 1956. * GANNETT, LEWIS. John Steinbeck. Personal and Bibliographical Notes. 1939. Wrappers. * HARMON, ROBERT B. A Collector's Guide to the First Editions of John Steinbeck. 1985. Wrappers.

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STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Harmonium. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. 8vo. Original checkered boards, blue cloth spine, pr

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Lot 306

STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Harmonium. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. 8vo. Original checkered boards, blue cloth spine, printed paper spine label, publisher's dust-jacket. Mild soiling to spine of jacket, some restoration along upper margin. With 4 pp publisher's catalogue dated Fall 1923 laid-in. Provenance: Marcia A. Taylor (Maine poet, 1881-1969, autograph to endpaper).FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, in the first state binding and original dust-jacket. One of 500 bound in checkered boards, published when he was 44 years old, an important contribution to modernism. 'Enter America. Stevens was over forty when his first book, containing much of his best work, was published. He takes delicious liberties with the American idiom, he radiates sensuous happiness and verbal felicity especially in his shorter poems' (Connolly 46). Edelstein A1a.

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STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Harmonium. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Publisher's quarter cloth and striped decorated boar

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Lot 307

STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Harmonium. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Publisher's quarter cloth and striped decorated boards, paper spine label. Browning to top edges of boards, corners rubbed, lacking jacket. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, in the second state binding, one of 215 produced. Connolly One Hundred Modern Books 46; Edelstein A1.a.WITH: Notes on a Supreme Fiction. Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1942. Publisher's white cloth printed in black. Light soiling. LIMITED EDITION, number 71 of 190 copies on Dutch charcoal paper. Edelstein A6.a.

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STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Ideas of Order. New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers, uncut, or

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Lot 308

STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Ideas of Order. New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers, uncut, original French fold glassine wrapper, publisher's plain cardstock slipcase, light toning to glassine tiny chips at corners, slipcase worn.'She sang beyond the genius of the Sea....' FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, OF STEVENS'S MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION, an unnumbered copy signed by Stevens at the colophon. Published 13 years after his acclaimed first book, Ideas of Order contains his landmark, 'The Idea of Order at Key West,' which critic Jay Parini called the second greatest American poem (after Whitman's 'Song of Myself'). Edelstein A2.a.

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STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Notes toward a Supreme Fiction. Cummington, Mass: Cummington Press, 1942. 8vo. Publisher's white

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Lot 309

STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Notes toward a Supreme Fiction. Cummington, Mass: Cummington Press, 1942. 8vo. Publisher's white cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black, lower cover in gray, original unprinted tissue jacket.FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number LIX of 80 copies on Worthy Hand & Arrows paper and signed by Stevens (from a total edition of 273). 'Stevens is able to gather together, in an astonishing splendor of integration, all the major themes of Romantic poetry, and so brings to a present perfection everything that is most vital in the imaginative legacy of Blake and Wordsworth' (Harold Bloom, ... A Commentary, 1963). A superb copy in unchipped tissue jacket. Edelstein A6.a.

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.[HANMER, SIR THOMAS. 1677-1746]. EDITOR. The Works of Shakespeare. Oxford: the Theatre, 1744.

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Lot 31

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.[HANMER, SIR THOMAS. 1677-1746]. EDITOR. The Works of Shakespeare. Oxford: the Theatre, 1744. 6 volumes. 4to (315 x 242 mm). Engraved frontispieces (portrait in volume I), numerous engraved plates. 20th century red half morocco, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Joints tender, slightly rubbed, scattered foxing.Provenance: Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons (armorial bookplates). FIRST EDITION of Hanmer's version. Jaggard, p 499; Lowndes III, 2260.

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STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Three Academic Pieces. Cummington, Mass.: The Cummington Press, 1947. 8vo. Initial letters by

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Lot 310

STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Three Academic Pieces. Cummington, Mass.: The Cummington Press, 1947. 8vo. Initial letters by Wightman Williams colored blue and yellow. Original cloth-backed boards, uncut, ends of spine and corners a trifle rubbed, some light darkening. FIRST LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY WALLACE STEVENS, number 52 of 52 copies on Worthy Dacian paper, of a total edition of 246. Edelstein A12.

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894.Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1883. 8vo. Half-title, frontispiec

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Lot 311

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894.Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1883. 8vo. Half-title, frontispiece map printed in four colors, 8 pp advertisements coded '5R-1083' at rear. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, black endpapers, custom cloth chemise, red-morocco backed slipcase, some rubbing at the joints and spine lettering, light soiling, pp 267-270 roughly opened, two earlier bookseller catalogue entries pasted to rear fly.Provenance: Francis Fitz Randolph (bookplate to pastedown).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Stevenson's classic pirate's tale, 'a good tale well told' (Silvey 631). With first issue points: battered text to 'vain' last line of p 40 (as 'rain'), 'dead man's chest' on p 7, '7' dropped from pagination on p 127, lacking full stop after 'opportunity' on p 178, 'worse' in line 3, p 197, ads dated '1083,' with this title listed with 304 pages. Prideaux 11.

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894.Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1885 [corrected

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894.Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1885 [corrected in ink to 1886]. 8vo. 1 p ad leaf at rear. Publisher's wrappers lettered and decorated in red and blue, neatly rebacked, light wear.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, WITH HAND-CORRECTED DATE TO UPPER WRAPPER. Stevenson's classic tale was intended to be published during Christmas 1885, but according to publisher Charles Longman 'when it was ready the bookstalls were already full of Christmas numbers, etc., and the trade would not look at it' (Balfour, Life..., 1901, v 2, p 14). It was issued in early January 1886, but relatively unnoticed until it was reviewed favorably in The Times, compelling it to sales of 40,000 copies in the first 6 months, with Jekyll & Hyde eventually embedding himsel(ves) in our lexicon. A Haycroft-Queen Cornerstone. Beinecke 346; Prideaux 17.

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company...

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company... et al, 1849. 8vo. 1 p terminal advertisement, 'Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods.' Publisher's cloth, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt to spine, custom green cloth solander box, with morocco title label, light chipping at the corners of spine, light dampstain to final blanks.Provenance: Le Baron Russell (friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, pencil inscription of a descendant to endpaper); Maxwell Hunley Rare Books (bookseller's ticket).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THOREAU'S FIRST BOOK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Now considered a classic, Thoreau's first book was originally perhaps the most famous failure in publishing. After writing the original manuscript at Walden Pond from 1845-1847, Thoreau re-edited the manuscript as he worked on Walden for two years beginning in 1847. Not finding a publisher, Thoreau had the book printed at his own expense in 1849, but the book fared poorly, and just a few years later the publisher returned 706 copies of the 1000 printed. These copies would languish in Thoreau's closet until the bulk were purchased by Ticknor and Field and re-issued with a new title page in 1862. BAL 20104a. Borst A1.1.a1; Johnson High Spots, p 73.

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. 8vo. Wood-engraved title pag

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Lot 315

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. 8vo. Wood-engraved title page vignette, map of Walden Pond (with imprint), 8 pp of advertisements inserted at rear (dated June 1854, no priority). Publisher's cloth, ruled in blind with gilt titles to spine, small mark to lower margin front cover.Provenance: Martha A. Lewis (gift from Thomas J. Lewis, early ink inscription to first blank). 'I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived' (p 98).A FINE, UNSOPHISTICATED FIRST EDITION OF THOREAU'S AMERICAN MASTERPIECE, '... a central document of the American experience' (Thorpe, Gifts of Genius, p 169). Thoreau's 1849 book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers include a final ad leaf announcing: 'Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods.' In truth, it was another 5 years till Walden appeared in July of 1854, selling quietly but steadily. Walden today stands as one of the most important contributions to American literature, as poet Robert Frost noted in a letter in 1922, 'in one book (Walden), [Thoreau] surpasses everything we have had in America.' A BRIGHT COPY IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. BAL 20106; Borst A2.1.a; Grolier American 63.'I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion' (p 98).'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away' (p 348).

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Two titles: 1. Cape Cod. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. 8vo. Publisher's blue-green clot

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Two titles: 1. Cape Cod. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. 8vo. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decorated in blind, gilt titles on spine within wreath decoration, brown endpapers. Lightly rubbed at extremities, very minor spotting. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with December 1864 dated publisher's advertisements at back. Borst A5.1.a; BAL 20155.2. Excursions. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. Etched portrait frontispiece. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decorated in blind, gilt titles on spine within wreath decoration, brown endpapers. Slightly rubbed, very scattered spotting. FIRST EDITION. Borst A3.1.a; BAL 20113.

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Two titles: 1. A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston: Ticknor &

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Lot 317

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Two titles: 1. A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, decorated in blind, gilt titles within wreath decoration on spine, brown endpapers. Slightly rubbed at extremities, leaf f8 (sectional title for 'Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers') supplied from another copy, stains from pressed flower to pp 94 and 97. FIRST EDITION. BAL 20117. 2. The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. 8vo. 24 pp advertisements dated April 1864. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decorated in blind. gilt titles within wreath on spine, brown endpapers. Spine sunned, rubbed, scattered spotting. FIRST EDITION. BAL 20113.FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION OF 'CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.' Thoreau's most famous essay, as well as his 'Life Without Principle,' appears here for the first time in book form in A Yankee in Canada.

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WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER. 1962-2008.Infinite Jest. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1996). 8vo. Publisher's blue-cloth backed

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Lot 319

WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER. 1962-2008.Infinite Jest. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1996). 8vo. Publisher's blue-cloth backed boards, spine lettered in silver, original dust-jacket, lightest wear.FIRST EDITION IN FIRST ISSUE JACKET, SIGNED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Both innovative and influential, David Foster Wallace's masterpiece remains of the great modern American novels. Don Delillo called Infinite Jest a 'dead serious frolic of addicted humanity,' and eulogized Wallace as a writer who 'wanted to be equal to the vast, babbling, spin-out sweep of contemporary culture.'

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MAGNA CARTA.London: J.Pine, After May, 1733. Hand-colored engraved broadsheet on paper, heightened in gold, an exact copy of

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Lot 32

MAGNA CARTA.London: J.Pine, After May, 1733. Hand-colored engraved broadsheet on paper, heightened in gold, an exact copy of the original Magna Carta in the Cottonian Library of the British Museum, 675 x 530 mm. The text of the charter surmounted by a panel with the facsimile signatures of the Trustees of the Cottonian Library giving their permission, the sides further decorated with the arms of the 25 barons who were in dispute with King John, many heightened in gold, and an explanatory text by Pine below the text. Upper and lower margins slightly shaved with very slight loss of the acanthus border, a few small wear holes along plate mark, at the left margin.An important record of one of the World's foremost historical documents, Pine's exact copy of the Magna Carta, 'This plate being a correct copy of King John's Great Charter'. There are 2 surviving examples of the 1215 Magna Carta in the British Library, the example gifted by Cotton to form the New British Library was damaged by a fire at Ashburnham House, near the Houses of Parliament in October 1731, the sides curling and the seal melting (as shown in this engraving), although the text was readable. In December 1731 a transcription was made by the Commissioners, and Pine was engaged by the Cottonian Library to accurately preserve the words of this great document for posterity. The first impressions of this engraving were printed on vellum, and then copies were issued on paper. John Pine (1690-1756) was an accomplished engraver in London. He was a close friend of Hogarth, and in 1743 became the Kings engraver of seals, and Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms.

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WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER. 1962-2008.A group of nine first editions, most signed by the author: The Broom of the System. 1987. Tr

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Lot 320

WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER. 1962-2008.A group of nine first editions, most signed by the author: The Broom of the System. 1987. Trade paperback, published simultaneously with the hard cover edition. * Girl With Curious Hair. 1989. * Signifying Rappers. 1990. * A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. 1997. * Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. 1999. * Everything and More. 2003. * Oblivion: Stories. 2004. * Consider the Lobster, and Other Essays. 2006. * Both Flesh and Not. 2012. All first editions, all except the last title (published four years after the author's death) signed on the title pages.

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WAUGH, EVELYN. 1903-1966.Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. Boston: Little, Brow

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Lot 322

WAUGH, EVELYN. 1903-1966.Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. 8vo. Publisher's turquoise cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blue topstain, original printed dust-jacket.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, 600 copies so bound, 450 of which were for sale. A fine, fresh copy of Waugh's most popular book. Davis 20.

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WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892.Two Rivulets; Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India Camden. New Jerse

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Lot 326

WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892.Two Rivulets; Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India Camden. New Jersey: Author's edition, 1876. 8vo. Mounted albumen photograph frontispiece, original cream half calf and marbled boards, brown morocco gilt lettered spine label, yellow endpaper; green half morocco slipcase and chemise. Some rubbing and light wear to binding. Provenance: Roy L. Marston (bookplate).FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Mounted albumen photograph frontispiece SIGNED BY WHITMAN and dated 1881, as issued. BAL 21413. WITH: November Boughs. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth, top edge gilt others uncut. Provenance: John Malone (inscribed by Walt Whitman's literary executor Horace Traubel on front free endpaper). First edition, third issue. BAL 21430.

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JOHNSON, SAMUEL. 1709-1784.A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Ill

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JOHNSON, SAMUEL. 1709-1784.A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. London: printed by W. Strahan, for Knapton, Longman, Hitch, et al., 1755. 2 volumes. Folio (418 x 248 mm). Titles printed in red and black. Double column. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Browning and staining to lower margin, with some chipping to lower margin of second volume.Provenance: Stewart (armorial bookplate with motto 'Avito Viret Honore'); Fursdon Library (name on front paste-down).FIRST EDITION OF JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY, one of the most influential books in the history of the English language. 'Dr Johnson performed with his Dictionary the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography ... It is the dictionary itself which justifies Noah Webster's statement that 'Johnson's writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton's discoveries had in mathematics'. Johnson introduced into English lexicography, principles which had already been accepted in Europe but were quite novel in mid-eighteenth-century England. He codified the spelling of English words; he gave full and lucid definitions of their meanings (often entertainingly colored by his High Church and Tory propensities); and he adduced extensive and apt illustrations from a wide range of authoritative writers ... but despite the progress made during the past two centuries in historical and comparative philology, Johnson's book may still be consulted for instruction as well as pleasure' (PMM). Indeed, the labor and genius of Johnson's production still awes us today. Over a period of eight years, 'with no real library at hand, Johnson wrote the definitions of over 40,000 words ... illustrating the senses in which these words could be used by including about 114,000 quotations drawn from English writing in every field of learning during the two centuries from the middle of the Elizabethan period down to his own time' (W. Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson, 1977, p 247). Courtney & Smith p 54; Grolier English 50; PMM 201; Rothschild 1237.

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WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. 1883-1963.Paterson. New York: New Directions, 1946-1958. 5 volumes. Publisher's cloth, printed dust

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Lot 338

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. 1883-1963.Paterson. New York: New Directions, 1946-1958. 5 volumes. Publisher's cloth, printed dust jackets, Part V with pencil portrait of Williams reproduced on front panel. Wear and browning to jacket corners, Parts I and III with slight chipping at jacket folds. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES of the first four parts (Part V published with no limitation statement). In the preface of Part I, Williams describes this work as 'a long poem in four parts.' Nonetheless, Part V was published in 1958, some seven years after Part IV, and twelve years from the initial publication. Connolly Modern Movement, 100; Wallace A24, A25, A30, A34, A44.

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JOHNSON, SAMUEL. 1709-1784.Mr. Johnson's Preface to his Edition of Shakespear's Plays. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1765. 8vo (1

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Lot 34

JOHNSON, SAMUEL. 1709-1784.Mr. Johnson's Preface to his Edition of Shakespear's Plays. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1765. 8vo (196 x 126 mm). 20th century tan calf gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Corners rubbed, light browning and spotting. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of Johnson's preface to his influential annotated Shakespeare. Chapman & Hazen 148; Courtney & Smith p 107; Rothschild 1249. WITH: LILLO, GEORGE. 1691-1739. The London Merchant: or, the History of George Barnwell. London: J. Gray, 1731. 8vo (195 x 121 mm). Disbound. Light staining and spotting. FIRST EDITION of Lillo's moral tale, first performed at Drury Lane the same year.

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WOLFE, THOMAS. 1900-1938.The Crisis in Industry. Chapel Hill: Published by the University, 1919. 8vo (223 x 152 mm). Origina

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Lot 341

WOLFE, THOMAS. 1900-1938.The Crisis in Industry. Chapel Hill: Published by the University, 1919. 8vo (223 x 152 mm). Original printed wrappers. Custom chemise and slipcase. Provenance: H. Bradley Martin (bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's New York, January 31, 1990, lot 2277).FIRST EDITION OF WOLFE'S FIRST BOOK, 200 copies printed. Wolfe was awarded the Worth Prize for his senior thesis looking at labor and capitalism in America, post WWI. The Martin copy, fine. Preston 1.

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WOLFE, THOMAS. 1900-1938.Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 8vo. Orig

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Lot 342

WOLFE, THOMAS. 1900-1938.Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, publisher's dust jacket, custom morocco backed cloth drop-back box, spine of jacket lightly faded, minor edgewear.FIRST EDITION OF WOLFE'S FIRST NOVEL, IN FIRST ISSUE JACKET, with Doris Ulmann's photograph of Wolfe, and biography. A clean, bright copy of Wolfe's greatest work and an American classic.

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WOLFE, THOMAS. 1900-1938.The Story of a Novel. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. 8vo. Publisher's original red cloth,

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Lot 345

WOLFE, THOMAS. 1900-1938.The Story of a Novel. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. 8vo. Publisher's original red cloth, blocked in black, and lettered in gilt, original dust jacket, spine lightly faded.Provenance: Maurice G. ______? (inscribed by the author, last name obscured by early flag sticker).FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION, For Maurice G. [obscured by sticker], / Sincerely, / Thomas Wolfe / June 23, 1936.' Wolfe's autobiographical tribute to his editor Maxwell Perkins, 'not only the greatest editor of his time, but man whose character is also a character of immense and patient wisdom and gentle but unyielding fortitude.' Johnston A5.1.a.

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WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Typed Note Signed ('Virginia Woolf') to Mr. [Harda] Kamp, enclosing three autographs (not present)

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Lot 348

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Typed Note Signed ('Virginia Woolf') to Mr. [Harda] Kamp, enclosing three autographs (not present) 'in case you wish to insert them in my books,' 1 p, 168 x 102 mm, London, March 3, 1927, toning, tipped to endpaper of:WITH: Night and Day. London: Duckworth and Company, [1919]. 8vo. 2 pp reviews for The Voyage Out at the end. Publisher's grey cloth, lettered in light blue, lacking dust-jacket, minor chipping to corners, wear to extremities.FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S SECOND NOVEL, WITH TYPED NOTE SIGNED TIPPED AT THE ENDPAPER. Kirkpatrick A4a.

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WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Orlando: A Biography. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. 8vo. Frontispiece and 7 plates. Publisher's bl

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Lot 349

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Orlando: A Biography. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. 8vo. Frontispiece and 7 plates. Publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, minor wear to cloth at upper corner. Provenance: Helena M. Hand (booklabel).FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 861 COPIES, SIGNED BY WOOLF, in purple ink, this number 443 of 800 numbered copies. Woolf's fantastic homage to Vita Sackville-West has proven to be one of her most enduring contributions, among many, to the 20th-century conversation on gender, feminism and identity. Kirkpatrick A11a.

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[GRIFFITH, ELIZABETH. 1727-1793.]The Platonic Wife, a Comedy. London: W. Johnston, J. Dodsley and T. Davies, 1765. 8vo (200 x

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[GRIFFITH, ELIZABETH. 1727-1793.]The Platonic Wife, a Comedy. London: W. Johnston, J. Dodsley and T. Davies, 1765. 8vo (200 x 122 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Scattered spotting and staining.Provenance: The author (notation on title page); Richard Leonard Johnson (inscription on flyleaf dated 1790); Lord Wardington (loosely inserted note offering the book as a gift, dated 1977).FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A MANUSCRIPT EPILOGUE ON FRONT FLYLEAF. Signed by the author on the title page, with the notation 'Corrected by the Author' at the top margin. The front flyleaf is covered recto and verso with a manuscript epilogue in 28 lines, with the instruction 'to be Spoke by Mrs. Yates.' Mary Ann Yates was an actress who played the title role. There are further corrections and emendations throughout the text. Published as 'By a Lady,' Griffith's first play met with harsh criticism for its strong-willed female lead character. An important early woman's voice in English literature.

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WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.A Room of One's Own. New York, The Fountain Press; London, The Hogarth Press, 1929. Tall 8vo, ori

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Lot 350

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.A Room of One's Own. New York, The Fountain Press; London, The Hogarth Press, 1929. Tall 8vo, original cinnamon cloth, spine gilt lettered, uncut. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED, number 217 of 450 copies for sale from a total edition of 492, signed in purple ink (as usual) by the author on the half-title. Kirkpatrick A12a.

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WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.A Room of One's Own. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929. 8vo. Publisher

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Lot 351

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.A Room of One's Own. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929. 8vo. Publisher's cinnamon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original Vanessa Bell designed dust-jacket printed in blue, light offsetting to endpapers, minor chipping to jacket, strengthened with tape at spine ends and upper corner.FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF WOOLF'S LANDMARK CRITIQUE ON WOMEN AND FICTION. Springing from two lectures given in 1928, Woolf explores the intersection of women, literature and economics, giving rise to the oft-quoted observation, 'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.' Her critique however is much deeper, and her arguments and analysis have become the starting point for feminist literary criticism. 'Probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in this century' (Hermione Lee, Financial Times). Kirkpatrick A12b.

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WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Street Haunting. San Francisco: Westgate Press (printed for the Grabhorn Press), 1930. 8vo. Publi

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Lot 352

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Street Haunting. San Francisco: Westgate Press (printed for the Grabhorn Press), 1930. 8vo. Publisher's blue-morocco backed patterned paper boards, original gray paper slipcase, spine lightly sunned.FIRST EDITION, number 178 of 500 copies signed by Woolf in purple ink. Woolf's meditation on the streets of London: 'And what greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into those footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men?' (pp 34-35). Kirkpatrick A13.

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WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Five early publications in first editions: 1. The Voyage Out. London: Duckworth & Co., 1915. P

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Lot 354

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Five early publications in first editions: 1. The Voyage Out. London: Duckworth & Co., 1915. Publisher's green cloth printed in black on cover and gilt on spine. Rubbed, toning. Woolf's first novel. 2. Mrs. Dalloway. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1925. Publisher's red cloth. Spine ends bumped, slight shelfwear.Provenance: Louis Blake Duff (bookplate).3. Jacob's Room. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1922. Publisher's yellow cloth, paper spine label. Corners bumped, light shelfwear, toning. The first novel published by the Hogarth Press.4. Monday or Tuesday. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921. Publisher's quarter brown cloth and printed boards. Rubbed. 5. Another. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1921. Publisher's quarter dark green cloth and boards, paper spine label. Lacking dust jacket, slightly rubbed. First American edition.

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WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.13 titles: 1. The Waves. London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. Publisher's purple cloth, spine gilt let

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Lot 355

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.13 titles: 1. The Waves. London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. Publisher's purple cloth, spine gilt lettered, pictorial dust jacket design by Vanessa Bell. Minor chipping to edges. FIRST EDITION. Kirkpatrick A16a. 2. The Years. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. Publisher's green cloth, spine gilt lettered, pictorial dust jacket design by Vanessa Bell. Some minor chipping to ends of spine panel, slight staining. FIRST EDITION. Kirkpatrick A22a. 3. To the Lighthouse. London: The Hogarth Press, 1927. Publisher's blue cloth. FIRST EDITION. Kirkpatrick A10. WITH: The Common Reader. 1925. Without dust jacket. * Kew Gardens. 1927. Limited edition, not signed. * Orlando. 1928. * The Waves. New York, 1931. * The Common Reader, Second Series. 1932. * A Letter to a Young Poet. 1932. * Three Guineas. 1938. * Between the Acts. 1941. * The Death of the Moth. 1942. * A Writer's Diary. 1953. * Granite and Rainbow. New York, 1958. All London, unless noted, mostly in dust jackets as issued and noted.

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SHAKESPEAREAN FORGERIES.[IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. 1775-1835.] Two plays: 1. Vortigern, an Historical Tragedy. London: J. Barke

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SHAKESPEAREAN FORGERIES.[IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. 1775-1835.] Two plays: 1. Vortigern, an Historical Tragedy. London: J. Barker, 1799. 8vo (206 x 131 mm). Modern half calf and marbled boards. Slightly rubbed, browning to title and last leaf.2. Henry II, an Historical Drama. London: J. Barker, 1799. 8vo (206 x 131 mm). Modern half calf and marbled boards. Slightly rubbed, scattered browning.Provenance: Joan Feisenberger (1910-1992, bookplates).Two interesting Shakespearean forgeries published by Ireland. In the first, Vortigern and Rowena, Ireland was unaware that his son had forged the manuscript. He then sold the production rights to Irish actor and theatrical producer Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who began to doubt that the work was genuine. Nonetheless, the play opened at the Drury Lane Theatre in April 1796, to only one performance. The second work, Henry II, was never performed.

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SHAKESPEAREAN FORGERIES.[IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. 1775-1835.] The Confessions of William Henry Ireland. London: Ellerton &

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SHAKESPEAREAN FORGERIES.[IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. 1775-1835.] The Confessions of William Henry Ireland. London: Ellerton & Byworth, 1805. 8vo (185 x 112 mm). Half calf and marbled boards. Rubbed, text block cracking slightly, minor spotting.WITH: Miscellaneous Papers, Legal Instruments, The Tragedy of King Lear, and a Small Fragment of Hamlet, from the Original Mss in the Possession of Samuel Ireland. London: Egerton, et. al., 1796. Small 4to (224 x 140 mm). Folded engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare by Samuel Ireland. Contemporary quarter calf and plain boards, paper spine label, edges uncut. Covers soiled, scattered browning and spotting, library stamp on rear paste-down. Provenance: Francis Bacon Library (bookplate). WITH: GREATHEAD, BERTIE. 1759-1826. The Regent, a Tragedy. Dublin: Burnet, et. al., 1788. Contemporary wrappers, edges uncut. Chips to spine and edges of wrappers, soiling and creasing to page corners. William Henry Ireland was a book collector whose father, Samuel Ireland, held a great fascination for Shakespeare's works. Having access to old paper stock at the legal office where he worked, William produced forgeries of documents supposedly written in Shakespeare's hand, the first of which were published by his father as Miscellaneous Papers, Legal Instruments, The Tragedy of King Lear, and a Small Fragment of Hamlet. William then forged two entirely new plays, Vortigern and Rowena and Henry II, purported to be lost Shakespeare manuscripts, but denounced in print as fakes. With Samuel Ireland accused of forgery, his son published a confession, but the family reputation was ruined and neither he nor his father were able to make it whole.

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DICKENS, CHARLES. 1812-1870.The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences, & Observation of David Copperfield. London: Br

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DICKENS, CHARLES. 1812-1870.The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences, & Observation of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, May 1849-November 1850 20 parts in 19, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title, and 38 plates by H.K. Browne, advertisements conforming to Hatton & Cleaver (including the first issue of part 8 with 'Lile' for 'Life' on pp.3 of the Advertiser, and folding 'Letts' advertisement with 6 specimens at end; without 'Visit to Exhibition...' slip), one leaf of advertisements torn with loss. Publisher's blue pictorial wrappers, lightly soiled, back-strips all neatly replaced. Loose in a modern blue morocco book box, gilt lettered on spine.Provenance: Michael Sharpe (bookplate inside the box).FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS. Dickens's eighth novel, here published in its original parts. The work is inspired by the London of his youth and containing a portrait of his own father in the form of Mr. Micawber.

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.The Tragedie of Julius Caesar. London: Doves Press, 1913. Small 4to (233 x 164 mm). Printed

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Lot 74

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.The Tragedie of Julius Caesar. London: Doves Press, 1913. Small 4to (233 x 164 mm). Printed in red and black. Red morocco gilt by Doves Bindery, edges gilt, red cloth slipcase. Upper joint starting, minor browning to endpapers. LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 copies.WITH: Lucrece. London: Doves Press, 1915. Small 4to (234 x 164 mm). Printed in red and black. Black morocco gilt by Doves Bindery, edges gilt, black cloth slipcase. Minor wear, browning to endpapers. LIMITED EDITION, one of 175 copies.Two of four Shakespearean titles printed on hand-made paper by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson for the Doves Press. The text is taken from the first folio edition. Tidcombe 32 and 37.

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.The Players' Shakespeare. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1923-1927. 6 volum

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Lot 75

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.The Players' Shakespeare. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1923-1927. 6 volumes. Folio. Including Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Tragedie of Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, King Lear, and Love's Labour's Lost. The first two titles in green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, decorated in gilt and blind on covers, spines gilt in 6 compartments; the remainder in publisher's vellum, decorated in gilt and blind on covers, gilt titles on spines; to edges gilt, remaining edges untrimmed; five with slipcases. Spines of morocco binding sunned, slipcases perished, minor wear and browning.LIMITED EDITIONS, each in numbered editions of 100, with illustrations by Charles Ricketts, Thomas Lowinsky, Albert Rutherston, Ernst Stern, Paul Nash, and Norman Wilkinson. Each copy is signed on the limitation page by the respective artist, the art editor, and Harley-Granville Barker, who wrote the introductions.

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TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD. 1809-1892.Queen Mary: A Drama. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, l

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Lot 80

TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD. 1809-1892.Queen Mary: A Drama. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, later green cloth chemise and slipcase. Slightly rubbed, minor spotting.FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS SON, on the title page, 'Hallam, from A.' Hallam, 2nd Baron Tennyson, worked for his father as personal secretary, and wrote his father's biography. He later served as Governor-General of Australia.

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DANTE, ALIGHIERI. 1265-1321The Divina Commedia. Translated by Henry Boyd. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. 3 volumes.

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Lot 91

DANTE, ALIGHIERI. 1265-1321The Divina Commedia. Translated by Henry Boyd. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. 3 volumes. 8vo (233 x 144 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary straight grained red morocco elaborately gilt with wide borders of gilt Greek-key bands within fillets and other decorative designs, spines in six compartments gilt lettered or numbered in two, gilt edges; cloth folding case. Spines darkened, light staining, some wear to joints and rubbing to extremities. Light spotting to endpapers and intermittently within. Provenance: J. Smyth (early owner's name on title). FIRST EDITION of the complete Divine Comedy in English. Preceded only by the 1782 publication of Rogers' translation of the Inferno. Taller than most copies, possibly from the large paper issue cited by Lowndes, finely bound. Lowndes 569.

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DICKENS, CHARLES. 1812-1870.Oliver Twist, or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By 'Boz.' London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 3 volumes.

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Lot 92

DICKENS, CHARLES. 1812-1870.Oliver Twist, or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By 'Boz.' London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 3 volumes. 8vo (203 x 128 mm). 24 plates by George Cruikshank, including the original 'fireside' plate in Vol III, p 312. Half titles in volumes I and II; 4 ad pp at end of volume I and 2 ad pp at beginning of Vol III. Original reddish-brown cloth upper and lower covers with arabesque design in blind, lettered in gilt to spine, light yellow endpapers. Vol I frontispiece detached; some dampstaining to Vols I and II plates; some sunning and wear to bindings.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the original 'fireside' plate and 'Boz' as only attribution. Dickens issued Oliver Twist in book form before the novel had run its course in the periodical. Impatient to get the book to print, he had not approved all of Cruikshank's illustrations, and within a week of printing, stopped the press to replace the final plate and put his name on the title pages. Eckel pp 59-61; Smith I pp 28-37; Gimbel A27.

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GEISEL, THEODOR ('DR. SEUSS'). 1921-1990.Bartholomew and the Oobleck. New York: Random House, (1949). 4to (311 x 235 mm). Or

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Lot 96

GEISEL, THEODOR ('DR. SEUSS'). 1921-1990.Bartholomew and the Oobleck. New York: Random House, (1949). 4to (311 x 235 mm). Original blue printed boards. Lacking jacket. Some shelfwear, minor toning to boards and prelims.FIRST EDITION with blue background to boards, SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY DR. SEUSS: 'Extra Oobleck Blobb / for Judy / with Best Wishes / From Ted, alias Dr. Seuss.' Younger and Hirsch 3.

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GEISEL, THEODOR ('DR. SEUSS'). 1921-1990.If I Ran the Zoo. New York: Random House, (1950). 4to (308 x 232 mm). Original pict

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Lot 97

GEISEL, THEODOR ('DR. SEUSS'). 1921-1990.If I Ran the Zoo. New York: Random House, (1950). 4to (308 x 232 mm). Original pictorial boards. Lacking jacket. Shelfwear, spine split at upper left corner.FIRST EDITION, SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BU DR SEUSS: 'For Judy / Merry Xmas / Dr. Seuss.' Younger and Hirsch 44.

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BARBIER, George (1882-1932, illustrator). Vingt-Cinq Costumes pour le Théatre. Préface par Edmond Jaloux. Paris: chez Camill

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Lot 601

BARBIER, George (1882-1932, illustrator). Vingt-Cinq Costumes pour le Théatre. Préface par Edmond Jaloux. Paris: chez Camille Bloch & Jules Meynial, 1927. 4to (305 x 238mm). Half title, etched portrait frontispiece of George Barbier by Charles Martin, wood-engraved illustration on title, initial, text printed on pale grey/blue paper, 25 tipped-in pochoir coloured costume plates by Frazier-Soye after George Barbier. FINELY BOUND in later green morocco by Roger Devauchelle, with the original watered silk wrappers mounted onto the covers, the upper wrapper lettered in green and with an engraved illustration after Barbier laid down, spine lettered in gilt, later endpapers. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 204 OF 300 COPIES. Colas I, 218; Hiler p. 64; Imbert, Camille Bloch, éditeur, no.26.

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DE VILMORIN, Louise Lévêque (1902-69). Fiançailles pour Rire. Paris: Gallimard, 1939. 8vo (184 x 118mm). Half title. Contemp

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Lot 605

DE VILMORIN, Louise Lévêque (1902-69). Fiançailles pour Rire. Paris: Gallimard, 1939. 8vo (184 x 118mm). Half title. Contemporary green crushed morocco-backed marbled boards by "Alix", spine gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut, original wrappers printed in red and black bound in (spine faded). FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "A Madame Colette, que j' aime et que j' admire, ces 'fiançailles pour rire' Sont offertes Avec le coeur de l' auteur, Louise." Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), celebrated French novelist and woman of letters.

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FRASER, James Baillie (1783-1856). A Winter's Journey (Tatar,) from Constantinople to Tehran; with Travels through Various P

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Lot 607

FRASER, James Baillie (1783-1856). A Winter's Journey (Tatar,) from Constantinople to Tehran; with Travels through Various Parts of Persia, &c. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 2 volumes, 8vo (214 x 135mm). 2 engraved frontispieces (frontispieces spotted and stained, titles more lightly spotted and stained). Contemporary [?publisher's] green leather-effect cloth gilt, gilt edges (rebacked preserving original spines, some wear to head and feet of spines). Provenance: Horace Broke (armorial bookplate); "Horace Broke, from his sincere friend, L. Cust, Christmas 1845" (inscription on front free endpaper of vol. one). FIRST EDITION. Brunet II, 327; Diba p.242; Ghani p.141; Wilson p.75. (2)

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LEGRAIN, Pierre (1888-1929, binder & designer) - Sidonie-Gabrielle COLETTE (1873-1954). La Naissance du Jour. Roman. Par

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Lot 609

LEGRAIN, Pierre (1888-1929, binder & designer) - Sidonie-Gabrielle COLETTE (1873-1954). La Naissance du Jour. Roman. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1928. 8vo (188 x 122mm). Half title. EXCEPTIONALLY FINELY BOUND BY PIERRE LEGRAIN in full crushed morocco, the covers with a dramatic geometric "zig-zag" design in gilt rules dissecting black morocco onlays, repeated letter "C" stamped in blind on the undecorated part of the covers and on dentelles, the pattern repeated on the spine, dark green suede endpapers, additional pale green marbled endpapers, original wrappers printed in red and black bound in, uncut, slipcase. Provenance: bookplates of Sadruddin Aga Khan and Catherine Aga Khan loosely-inserted. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED EDITION OF 800 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 200 OF 200 COPIES "SUR PAPIER DE HOLLANDE." "... the city where bookbinding was brought into tune with the creative spirit of the twentieth century was, expectedly, Paris. Here ... [books] were bound by craftsmen who broke completely with the past in design, and sometimes even materials. This school was founded, shortly after the First World War, by Pierre Legrain ..." (Alan G. Thomas, Great Books and Book Collectors (1975), p.85); "[Pierre Legrain] ... perhaps the most influential of all modern French binding designers ...." (Mirjam M. Foot in The Book Collector, Vol. 68, No. 3 (p.521)).

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D' ANANIA, Giovanni Lorenzo (1545-1609). De natura daemonum ... Libri quatuor. Quorum I. Agit de origine & differentia daemo

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Lot 614

D' ANANIA, Giovanni Lorenzo (1545-1609). De natura daemonum ... Libri quatuor. Quorum I. Agit de origine & differentia daemonum. II. De eorundem in homines potestate. III. De his, que daemones per se operantur in nobis. IV. De his, quae hominum auxilio peragunt. Quae omnia tum exemplis, tum rationibus Philosophicis, ac Theologicis comprobantur. Cum Indice rerum memorabilium. Venice: Aldus, 1589. Small 8vo (146 x 100mm). Head of title in woodcut baroque border, woodcut Aldine device, initials (2 wormholes in title not affecting letters but running into first few leaves where they touch a few letters, title very lightly browned, some staining at gutter of first and last few leaves, some very light staining and spotting). Early 19th-century half vellum and marbled boards, spine with [?]later rather crude red and blue lettering pieces gilt (lightly rubbed and stained). Provenance: Harry Bertram McCaskie (armorial bookplate). Second edition of this work on demonology which was first published in 1581. Caillet I, 272; Renouard 1589/6; Texas 521; Thorndike VI, p. 527; not in Brunet. "Anania believed in the existence of both aerial and subterranean demons. He held that demons only pretend to shun certain constellations and regarded both astrological and necromantic images as operative only by demon aid ... He believed that demons are terrified by relics of the saints, but that they are cast out now less frequently than formerly" (Thorndike).

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FRASER, George Macdonald (1925-2008). Royal Flash. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1970. 8vo (207 x 135mm). Half title. Origin

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Lot 617

FRASER, George Macdonald (1925-2008). Royal Flash. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1970. 8vo (207 x 135mm). Half title. Original cloth, dust-jacket (a few short tears and a little fraying at corners). FIRST EDITION of the second "Flashman" novel. With 11 other books including the same author's Flashman at the Charge (London, 1973, cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Flashman in the Great Game (New York, Knopf, 1975, cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION) and Roald Dahl's Boy. Tales of Childhood (London, 1984, cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). (12)

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RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [?September] 1885. 8vo (188

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Lot 620

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [?September] 1885. 8vo (188 x 130mm). Half title, folding coloured lithographed frontispiece, wood-engraved map on p.27, 16-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end, comprising 8-pages headed "Illustrated, Fine-Art, and other Volumes" with date code "5 G. 8.85" and 8-pages headed "Bibles and Religious Works" with date code "5 B. 8.85" (frontispiece torn and repaired without loss, some mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original red pictorial cloth lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt (dampstaining to upper cover, some other staining, edges lightly rubbed). Provenance: Sotheran stamp on front pastedown; modern, partly illegible, inscription on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Bamamgwato" on p.10, "to let twins to live" on p.122, and "wrod" on p.307. Allen 31; Sadleir 1089; Scott 4: "2,000 copies"; Whatmore F3; Wolff 2863.

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RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). She. A History of Adventure. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Ha

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Lot 621

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). She. A History of Adventure. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title, double coloured lithographed frontispiece, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (a few stains, occasional light spotting and staining). Original dark blue bevelled cloth lettered and decorated in gilt (extremities rubbed and scuffed, inner hinges weak with a little separation and tearing at gutter, first signature starting). FIRST EDITION, with "geneleman" on p.59, "mysogynist" on p.88, and the other first edition issue points as listed in Scott. McKay 5a; Sadleir 1092; Scott 5; Whatmore F4; Wolff 2881.

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RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). Cleopatra. Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis, the Royal Egyptian, as

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Lot 622

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). Cleopatra. Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis, the Royal Egyptian, as Set Forth by His Own Hand. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 8vo (190 x 130mm). Half title, frontispiece, and 28 plates by M. Greiffenhagen and R. Caton Woodville, printed publisher's slip tipped-in at "List of Illustrations", 16-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end dated January 1889 (head of dedication leaf torn away and repaired without loss, some spotting and staining). Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, bevelled edges (extremities light rubbed). Provenance: W. Curran Reedy (bookplate); old bookseller's clipped description loosely-inserted and pencil annotation to front endpaper. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title signed "H. Rider Haggard", and with a one-page autograph letter, on pale blue paper with printed heading, 'North lodge, St. Leonards on Sea,' [undated], tipped-in, stating, "Dear Sir, You ask for a word of advice. Here it is - not too comforting, I fear, but earnest. Think thrice before embarking on literature as a means of livelihood; 'of the making of many books there is no end.' Your well-wisher, H. Rider Haggard," with the recipient's name added in Rider Haggard's hand at the end, "W. Curran Reedy, Esq." Scott 13; Whatmore F10. The recipient of this presentation copy is almost certainly William Curran Reedy (1892-1970) who did not apparently heed the author's advice and went on to publish several books of poetry and on cricket.

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RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). Smith and the Pharaohs. And Other Tales. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., 1920. 8vo (182 x

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Lot 623

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). Smith and the Pharaohs. And Other Tales. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., 1920. 8vo (182 x 122mm). Half title (lightly and fairly consistently browned throughout). Original russet cloth, lettered in black, upper wrapper of dust-jacket laid down on front pastedown (ink stain on lower cover, corners lightly bumped, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: "Given to Nina ... by Budgie, 9.9.21" (inscription on half title). FIRST EDITION, with "truck" on p.48, and "Man-kau-ra" on p. 58, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "To E. Wallis Budge [?]de A. S., H. Rider Haggard, 10 Nov. 1920," with a card, tipped onto the front free endpaper, with printed heading "North Lodge, St Leonards on Sea," dated "10. Nov: 1920", inscribed, "My dear Budge, Perhaps Smith and the Pharaohs may amuse you; I don't know but invest S in postage on the chance. I much enjoyed our chat the other day. Procured your [illegible word] stuff and am trying it on my mucous membranes. Ever sincerely yours, H. Rider Haggard." Rider Haggard's friendship with the renowned Egyptologist Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934) is well-documented; the author dedicated his novel Morning Star (London, 1910) to him, a copy of which (the first edition, in original cloth) is included in the lot. Scott 75; Whatmore F49. (2)

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RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). When the World Shook. Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbut

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Lot 624

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). When the World Shook. Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1919. 8vo (188 x 120mm). Half title, 2 plates of "star charts". Original tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "To Mrs Pitt from H. Rider Haggard, St Leonards, March 1919." Scott 72. With 7 other books by the same author, ALL PRESENTATION COPIES INSCRIBED TO "MRS PITT", including Ayesha. The Return of She (London, 1905, original cloth, FIRST EDITION, the half title inscribed, "To Mrs Pitt, from H. Rider Haggard, Ditchingham, Jan. 1906," and Wisdom's Daughter. The Life and Love Story of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed (London, [1923], original cloth, FIRST EDITION, the half title inscribed, "To Mrs Pitt (Wisdom's Second Daughter) from H. Rider Haggard, 29 March, 1923"). We have been unable to identify "Mrs Pitt", the recipient of these copies; there is no one of that name listed in the index of Rider Haggard's autobiography. (8)

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RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925) - A collection of 10 works of non-fiction in 12 volumes including: The Last Boer War (London

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Lot 627

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925) - A collection of 10 works of non-fiction in 12 volumes including: The Last Boer War (London, 1899, original pictorial wrappers, modern box), A Winter Pilgrimage Being an Account of Travels through Palestine, Italy and the Island of Cyprus (London, 1901), Rural England (London, 1902, 2 vols.), Regeneration. Being an Account of the Social Work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain (London, 1910), The Days of My Life. An Autobiography (London, 1926, 2 vols., dust-jackets); and J. E. Scott's A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Rider Haggard (Takeley, 1947), all FIRST EDITIONS in the original publisher's cloth. The lot sold not subject to return. (12)

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SPARE, Austin Osman (1886-1956, illustrator). Earth Inferno. London: Co-Operative Printing Society Limited, February 1905 [bu

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Lot 629

SPARE, Austin Osman (1886-1956, illustrator). Earth Inferno. London: Co-Operative Printing Society Limited, February 1905 [but dated 1904 on illustrations and on the verso of the final printed leaf]. Folio (440 x 340mm). Woodcut illustrations by the "ARC" engraving Co., Limited, after Austin Osman Spare, some full-page. Original green buckram lettered in black, uncut (corners lightly bumped, some very light staining). Provenance: original invoice from Otto Schulze & Co., Edinburgh, loosely-inserted, made out to Dr. H. B. McCaskie on 27th March 1909 for £1-5-6, and "out of print" added by the bookseller below. FIRST EDITION OF THE ARTIST'S FIRST (SELF-)PUBLISHED WORK. NUMBER 41 OF 265 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Harper A1a. A printed "Foreword", appearing on page 4 of the book, by the unknown (and unexplained) "C.H.L." gives a brief synopsis but sheds very little light on this puzzling work: "In venturing to submit this, the first collection of Drawings to Austin Spare's few friends and admirers, we can only hope for the kindly reception that so many have promised ... In turning contemptuously, as many will, from these Spare creations, remember - they cannot be proved to be senseless although they may seem so to us ...[etc]."

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SPARE, Austin Osman (1886-1956, illustrator). A Book of Satyrs. London: John Lane, [n.d. but plates dated 1906/1907]. Folio

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Lot 630

SPARE, Austin Osman (1886-1956, illustrator). A Book of Satyrs. London: John Lane, [n.d. but plates dated 1906/1907]. Folio (436 x 325mm). Introduction by James Guthrie, woodcut frontispiece and 12 plates by Austin Osman Spare, illustrations (brown ink spot to first few leaves affecting frontispiece and title, some light offsetting, occasional light staining). Original vellum-backed green paper pictorial boards, uncut (vellum lightly stained, boards a little rubbed at edges with stain rubbed away on upper cover). FIRST EDITION, second issue. LIMITED TO 300 COPIES [unnumbered and unsigned]. Harper A2b: "This edition had an additional illustration 'Pleasure' [as a frontispiece], the introduction by James Guthrie was reset to cover one and a half pages, and some vignettes rearranged."

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[TATTERSALL, George (1817-49)]. The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses ... by Wildrake. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. L

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Lot 631

[TATTERSALL, George (1817-49)]. The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses ... by Wildrake. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. Large 8vo (249 x 155mm). Additional pictorial title [?]inserted from another work titled "The Cracks of the Day" with Rudolph Ackermann imprint, 44 engraved plates, 11 full-page portraits (additional title browned and stained, occasional light spotting and staining). FINELY BOUND in later red crushed half morocco gilt by Morrell, spine with equestrian motifs stamped in gilt in the compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut, original pictorial wrappers bound in at the end (section a little faded on upper cover). [?]FIRST EDITION. Huth p. 176 (citing an edition of 1850 only).

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DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). An autograph letter, signed, to Hugh Falconer, three-pages, on paper with printed heading "Down,

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Lot 632

DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). An autograph letter, signed, to Hugh Falconer, three-pages, on paper with printed heading "Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E.", dated "24th [June 1861]", stating, "My dear Falconer, I have just received your note ... & I lose not a moment in answering you, & thanking you heartily for your offer of the valuable specimen; here I have no aquarium & [illegible words] for Torquay [illegible words] it would be a thousand pities [illegible words]. Certainly much like to see it, but I fear it is impossible. Would not the Zoolog. Soc. be the best place, & then the interest which may well take in this extraordinary animal would repay you for some [?]truth. Kind as you have been in taking this [?]truth & offering me this specimen to tell the truth I value your note more than the specimen. I shall keep your note amongst my few precious letters. Your kindness has quite touched me. Yours affectionately and gratefully, Ch. Darwin." With the original stamped envelope, post-marked "Bromley, Ju[ne]24, 61", and addressed in Darwin's hand, "Dr Falconer, F.R.S., 31 Sackville St., Piccadilly, London, (W.)" pasted onto blank area of the letter beneath Darwin's signature. Hugh Falconer (1808-65) was a renowned Scottish geologist, botanist, paleontologist and paleoanthropologist. He was the first to suggest the evolutionary theory of 'punctuated equilibrium' and may also have been the first to discover a fossilised ape. Originally a 'creationist', he came to embrace Darwin's theories after a correspondence and friendship which lasted many years. In 1859, Darwin sent Falconer a copy of 'On the Origin of Species' with a letter which stated, "I am fully convinced that you will become, year after year, less fixed in your belief in the immutability of species." See DNB. The present letter is included (in summary only) in Cambridge University's 'Darwin Correspondence Project' where it is listed as letter number DCP-LETT-3196.

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