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Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Item 1.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Opening Selection
28 Americana
40 Literature
64 History, Science & Exploration
71 Religion
75 Art, Architecture & Music
85 Children’s Literature
91 Gift Suggestions
105 Index
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D ecem ber 2013 | E xcep t iona l N ew A cqu isi t ions
lew is ca rroll
The Appleton Alice: First American And Earliest Obtainable Edition
Of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
1. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York, 1866. Octavo, period-style full red morocco gilt, original
cloth bound in. $18,000.
Very rare first American edition of Lewis Carroll’s brilliant and beloved topsy-turvy fantasy—virtually the earliest obtainable
edition, preceding the first published London edition, beautifully bound, with the original cloth bound in.
“The publishing history of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has a fairy-tale quality all its own. The Clarendon Press, Oxford,
printed two thousand copies of what has come to be known as the first edition of the book. On 24 May 1865 Carroll wrote to his
publisher… requesting 50 copies to give to friends. On 19 July, however, he heard from John Tenniel, his illustrator, that he was
‘dissatisfied with the printing of the pictures.’ On 2 August Carroll finally decided on the re-print of Alice, and he immediately
set about recalling all the copies that he had sent out earlier, promising replacements as soon as the new printing was available.
The remainder of the original books were sold to Appleton, the New York publisher, and they would appear, with a new title-page, as
the first American edition.” Only about 20 copies with the original London title page exist, making it virtually unobtainable
(Cohen, 113-114). This American issue consisted of only 1000 copies. Williams 44. Muir, 139. Faintest text offsetting and a few
spots of soiling, binding quite lovely. A beautiful about-fine copy.
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D ecem ber 2013 | A m er ic a na

jacob a nd w ilhelm grimm
“Once Upon A Time…”: Handsomely Bound First Edition In English Of Grimms’ Fairy Tales,
The Most Popular Collection Of Tales Ever Published, Illustrated By George Cruikshank,
With Autograph Letter Signed By Him
2. (CRUIKSHANK, George) GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm. German Popular Stories. London, 1823, 1826. Two volumes. 12mo,
early 20th-century full brown morocco gilt, custom chemises and half morocco slipcase. $18,500.
First editions (first issue of Volume I; first printing of Volume II) of Grimms’ famous fairy tales, including “Snow White,”
“Cinderella” and “Sleeping Beauty,” illustrated with two engraved title pages and 20 full-page etchings by George Cruikshank
(”perhaps his best work”), with an autograph letter signed by the illustrator, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Bartlett.
As early as 1805, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm began collecting German popular tales. They published the first and second volumes
of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812 and 1814. Its publication brought immediate and worldwide fame to the brothers Grimm and
provided the foundation for their influential and groundbreaking studies in German philology and grammar (See PMM 281). The
1823 edition in English of German Popular Stories was the “first anywhere to be fully illustrated” as well as the first to truly target
children (Darton, 216). Moreover, the English translation by Edgar Taylor (and his relatives) “revolutionized the conventional
English attitude to fairy tales and rehabilitated fantasy as generally acceptable reading-matter for the young… “If you ever happen
to meet with the two volumes of Grimm’s German Stories,” John Ruskin once advised, “which were illustrated by Cruikshank
long ago, pounce on them instantly; the etchings in them are the finest things, next to Rembrandt’s, that, as far as I know, have
been done since etching was invented.” Among other famous Grimm tales, these volumes contain “Rumpel-Stilts-Kin,” “Snow-
Drop” (Snow White), “Rose-Bud” (Sleeping Beauty), “Tom Thumb,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “The Golden Goose,” “The Frog-Prince”
and “Ashputtel” (Cinderella). First state of the engraved title page of Volume I, without the umlaut in the word Märchen. Cohn 369.
Cruikshank’s 1855 autograph letter to journalist and literary scholar Henry Morley, Jr. concerns payment in kind for work. Old
dealer description laid in. Occasional light foxing. A desirable landmark in illustrated children’s literature, handsomely bound and
in fine condition, with autograph letter signed by Cruikshank.
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ack er m a n n / the rhine

With 24 Superb Hand-Colored Folio Ackermann Aquatints Of Scenes Along The Rhine, 1820
3. (ACKERMANN, Rudolph) GERNING, Baron Johann Isaac von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to
Cologne. London, 1820. Folio, early 20th-century full green straight-grain morocco gilt. $11,000.
First edition of one of Ackermann’s wonderful Picturesque Tours, beautifully illustrated with 24 hand-colored folio aquatints
and large folding map. A lovely copy, superbly bound in full morocco-gilt by Bayntun.
In the history of book production “there is no more attractive figure than that of Rudolph Ackermann, through whose
extraordinary enterprise and spirit of adventure, aquatint was successfully applied to the illustration of books” (Prideaux, 120-
23). One of Ackermann’s most lucrative projects was his remarkable Picturesque Tours, a series of seven books produced between
1820-28. This is his Tour Along the Rhine, with beautifully hand-colored aquatints by Daniel Havell and Thomas Sutherland after
paintings by Christian Georg Schutz, depicting views of Mentz, the Castle of Furstenberg, the Church of Johannes, Pfalz Castle
and the town of Kaub, the salmon fishery at Lurley, Coblentz, Bornhofen, Cologne and other sites along the river. The plates were
pulled and hand-colored in the Ackermann studio, whose reputation for producing splendid illustrated publications and
disseminating fine aquatint prints spanned over two centuries. The folding map shows the course of the Rhine from Mentz to
Cologne. With accompanying text by Baron von Gerning describing the history and culture of the area (first published in German
in 1819, without illustrations). Abbey, Travel 217. Prideaux, 337. Tooley 234. Plates generally fresh and beautiful. A near-fine copy,
beautifully bound by Bayntun.
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geneva bible , 1589
“Of Cardinal Importance For Its Influence On The English Language, Literature And Thought”
4. BIBLE. The Bible… London, 1589. Small quarto, restoration-style full black morocco gilt. $12,000.
Handsome Gothic text edition of the Geneva (or “Breeches”) Bible—the important translation that shaped Protestant piety
for some five decades—illustrated with three woodcut title pages, printed by the prolific and prosperous publisher Christopher
Barker. A magnificently bound complete copy with a contemporary edition of the venerable Book of Common Prayer.
Upon Queen Mary’s accession in 1553, “publication of the English Bible ceased in England. Many Protestants who fled to the
Continent were attracted to Calvin’s Geneva. Among these exiles were eminent English Bible scholars who began work on a
new translation” (The Bible: 100 Landmarks 62). First published in 1560, the Geneva Bible—often called the “Breeches Bible”
for its unique rendering of Genesis 3:7—was “more scholarly than any previous translation… [It] achieved immediate
popularity and exerted an extremely powerful influence… The Geneva Version included prefaces, maps and tables; and for the
first time in an English Bible the verses were divided and numbered” (PMM 83). “It became the textus receptus for the Puritan
element in England. It was read by Shakespeare, Bunyan and the soldiers of the Civil War, and is thus of cardinal importance
for its influence on the English language, literature and thought” (Great Books and Book Collectors). Includes Apocrypha. Bound
with concordances and contemporary editions of the Book of Common Prayer and Sternhold and Hopkins’ metrical psalter
at rear. Prayer book without title page and first leaf, but collates as Griffiths 1590:2 (STC 16314a.5). Darlow & Moule 154.
Occasional old ink marginalia. Leaf [E8] of prayer book rebacked, partly obscuring old owner annotations. Scattered light
soiling. A few instances of paper restoration. Stunning restoration-style binding fine.
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w illi a m faulk ner

“William Faulkner At His Best”:
Exceptionally Scarce Signed Limited First Edition Of Go Down, Moses, One Of Only 100 Copies
5. FAULKNER, William. Go Down, Moses and Other Stories. New York, 1942. Octavo, original three-quarter rose cloth,
custom cloth clamshell box. $35,000.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 100 copies signed by the author. The scarcest of all Faulkner signed limited editions,
with the first book appearance of “The Bear.”
Go Down, Moses “was a landmark volume for Faulkner… Here we have the Southern dilemma, and Faulkner has
transformed it into the American” (Karl, 665-67). “So committed was Faulkner to the expansive possibilities of the short
story form that in Go Down, Moses he created what he always insisted was a novel composed entirely of interrelated stories
previously published separately” (Gelfant, 252). One of the most acclaimed stories, “The Bear,” had appeared, in abbreviated
form, in the Saturday Evening Post the same year (Brodsky 229); the coming-of-age tale remains one of Faulkner’s most
anthologized. A contemporary review in the Boston Globe said of all the stories that they “represent William Faulkner at
his best. Which is equivalent to saying the best we have.” Massey 448. Petersen A23.2a. A fine signed copy.
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wa lt w hit m a n /ci v il wa r
“Whitman Is A Wonderful Genius To Me, And No Less Than A Great Poet” (Rossetti):
First Edition Of Whitman’s Drum-Taps, Important Preferred Issue With Sequel For Lincoln,
Containing The First Printing Of “When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom’d”—
Association Copy Belonging To William Rossetti
6. WHITMAN, Walt. Drum-Taps. ISSUED WITH: Sequel to Drum-Taps. When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d. New
York and Washington, 1865-66. 12mo, original brown cloth. $16,000.
First edition, the important and preferred second issue, one of only 1000 copies, with the first appearance of the sequel celebrating
Lincoln containing “Lilacs” and “O Captain! My Captain!” The copy of editor William Michael Rossetti, who introduced
English readers to Whitman with his edition of 1868 and was “one of the first to recognize the ‘entire originality’ of Walt
Whitman” (ODNB).
Drum-Taps “stands among the nation’s finest poems” (ANB). Upon the death of Lincoln, Whitman delayed the printing of Drum-
Taps and added “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” a “profoundly moving dirge for the martyred Lincoln” (CHAL),
with separate pagination, table of contents, and title page. W.M. Rossetti’s published correspondence includes an 1866 letter from
Horace Scudder (a published author and longtime editor of Atlantic Magazine) which includes this passage: “Have you seen Walt
Whitman’s Drum Taps? It is just possible that you have not; and I will take the opportunity afforded by a friend’s going to London
to send you a copy… I do not think that Mr. Lincoln’s death brought any nobler expression of the personal grief of the best natures
in the country than ‘O Captain, My Captain!’ The lonely grief of the poet in the strong contrast which he presents was really that
felt by all.” Rossetti did not reply to Scudder’s letter until October 28, 1866—he thanked Scudder for the book, confessing that he
hadn’t had time to give it a full reading, although he did read “the long one on Lincoln’s funeral, and the one you specially mention
O Captain My Captain; both most glorious. Whitman is a wonderful genius to me, and no less than a great poet. I am not at all
sure but that one day he will stand out as the greatest English-writing poet of this period.” Rossetti’s edition of Whitman’s Leaves
of Grass from 1868 includes many poems from Drum-Taps, but in a different sequence from Whitman’s and with minor editing
changes. Still, Rossetti’s edition introduced Whitman to British readers—Rossetti and Swinburne were early admirers of Whitman.
English readers had to rely on Rossetti’s edition until Ernest Rhys’ 1886 edition, itself abridged. Myerson A3.1a2. Wells &
Goldsmith, 11. BAL 21398. An important association copy in fine condition.
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robert frost
“Now If It Was Dusk Outside/ Inside It Was Dark”:
Autograph Manuscript Of Frost’s 20-Line Poem “Come In,” Signed By Frost,
Framed With Gelatin Silver Print Of Frost, Signed By Photographer Lotte Jacobi
7. FROST, Robert. Manuscript poem signed [fair copy]. FRAMED WITH: JACOBI, Lotte. Signed photographic portrait of
Robert Frost. No place: no publisher, circa 1945. Quarto (8-1/2 by 11 inches), one sheet of watermarked wove typing paper,
handwritten on recto. Matted and framed with Lotte Jacobi’s photographic portrait of Frost, gelatin silver print (measures 8 by
10 inches), signed on print recto. $15,000.
Autograph manuscript fair copy of Frost’s renowned poem “Come In,” penned in blue ink entirely by Frost, signed by him and
inscribed at the foot, “To James Murphy.” Framed with a scarce gelatin silver print portrait of the poet, photographed by Jacobi
in 1959 at his Vermont farm, this print signed by Lotte Jacobi in her trademark pencil on the lower corner of the image.
Though they never met, Frost and the recipient of this handwritten poem, aspiring poet and avid collector James P.J. Murphy,
corresponded for nearly a quarter of a century. “Murphy was a shy man with a passion for literature and fine printing. He found
both in Frost’s books. The poet autographed Murphy’s copies of his works—often after considerable delay—and sent him his
special Christmas cards” (Burch, ANQ, 13:2, 35-40). Frost has written out in blue ink the full text of his poem “Come In.”
Beneath the poem Frost has signed his name and then written, “To James Murphy.” “Come In” first appeared in book form in A
Witness Tree in 1942, and was clearly esteemed enough by Frost to serve as the title poem to a larger collection of Frost’s poems
that was printed in a special Armed Services Edition for U.S. soldiers in 1943. “When I was asked to photograph Robert Frost, up
in Vermont at his house, the first thing he told me was ‘Don’t make me look jovial. Everyone thinks I’m a jovial old man, but I’m
actually rather crotchety.” So, Jacobi noted, “I took a more serious picture of him” (Schuyler, Lotte Jacobi, 210). This scarce silver
gelatin print was printed circa 1970, and comes from the Lotte Jacobi estate. Manuscript with a few faint creases along edges. Print
fine; scarce signed. Fine condition.
10 w ilson ’s a merica n ornithology
The First Major Studies Of North American Birds: The “Philadelphia Edition”
Of The Plates To Wilson’s American Ornithology, With 76 Large Folio Hand-Colored Engravings
8. WILSON, Alexander and BONAPARTE, Charles Lucian. American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the
Birds of the United States. Philadelphia, 1871. Atlas folio (14-1/2 by 17-1/2 inches), period-style three-quarter green
morocco gilt. $18,500.
The desirable “Philadelphia Edition” of the separate Atlas to accompany Wilson’s important contribution to American
ornithology, with 76 splendid hand-colored folio engravings made from original copperplates (plates in other editions
from 1828 to 1878 were considerably reduced in size). A beautiful copy.
Influenced by naturalist William Bartram and engraver Alexander Lawson, Alexander Wilson, considered the “father of
American ornithology,” cultivated his own interest in nature and in making drawings from nature. By 1805 Wilson real-
ized his “great plan of depicting and describing North American birds in a large work,” resulting in American Ornithology,
originally published in 1808-15. Wilson’s work was “of fundamental importance for the study of birds in North America,”
representing the first significant study of birds in the New World. Wilson covered only the eastern United States, but over
the next 100 years, ornithologists were able to add only 23 more indigenous land birds to his list. A decade later, Charles
Bonaparte, Napoleon’s nephew and himself an accomplished ornithologist “issued his American Ornithology, or The
Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United
States, Not Given by Wilson (1825-33), an in-
dependent work designed on the same princi-
ples as that by Wilson, and therefore regarded
as a kind of sequel to that work, for which
reason the two works were issued together in
subsequent editions” (Anker, 212). Together
these works established the foundation upon
which Audubon created his own monumental
work soon thereafter. Several combined octavo
editions followed, culminating in this final
folio edition of 1871, containing a separate
Atlas volume of the original 76 folio engrav-
ings of Wilson’s paintings, pulled from the
original copperplates engraved by Lawson,
Murray, Warnicke, and Tanner, and colored
by Rider. This edition was printed on much
larger paper than earlier editions, and is com-
monly called the “Philadelphia Edition.” This
is the plate volume only, without the three
octavo text volumes. Some atlas volumes are
seen with a further 27 plates by Lawson after
Peale and Rider to accompany the Bonaparte
supplement, for a total of 103 plates; those ad-
ditional, supplemental plates, issued separate-
ly, are not present in this volume. Nissen 997.
See Zimmer, 686; Anker 533 note; Sitwell, 157.
Notes from previous owner, dated 1964, and
from conservator, dated 1963, laid in. Plates
lovely and fine, with vibrant original hand-
coloring. Expert cleaning to original tissue
guards and the occasional margin of plates. A
splendid volume.
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na poleon

“Ah! Bourrienne, You Also Will Be
Immortal!”: Bourrienne’s Memoirs Of
Napoleon, With Fine Cosway-Style
Portrait Of Napoleon In Volume I—
The Doheny Copy
9. (NAPOLEON) BOURRIENNE, Louis
Antoine Fauvelet de. Memoirs of Napoleon.
London, 1885. Three volumes. Octavo, early
20th-century full crimson crushed morocco gilt,
Volume I with Cosway-style miniature portrait
of Napoleon behind glass inset into morocco
doublure.$15,000.
Revised and expanded illustrated edition in

English of Bourrienne’s classic biography of
Napoleon, three volumes very handsomely
bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full morocco
with a Cosway-style miniature portrait of
Napoleon inset into the front pastedown of
Volume I. From the renowned collection of
Carrie Estelle and Edward Laurence Doheny,
with their bookplates in each volume.
Of contemporary accounts of Napoleon, “among the best of the French eyewitness observations are the Memoirs of Bourrienne,
a schoolmate of Napoleon from their days at military school in the early 1780s. Napoleon then employed Bourrienne as his
private secretary beginning in 1797, and Bourrienne accompanied Napoleon on his campaign in Egypt… the Memoirs, first
published in 1829 and a popular sensation from the moment of their publication… have stood the test of time” (Tignor,
Memoirs of Napoleon, Introduction). Cosway bindings (named for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard
Cosway) were first commissioned in the early 1900s by J.H. Stonehouse from the famous Rivière
bindery, who employed Miss C.B. Currie to faithfully imitate Cosway’s detailed watercolor
style of portraiture. These delicate miniature paintings, often on ivory, were set into the
covers or doublures of richly-tooled bindings and protected by thin panes of glass.
Cosway bindings executed by other than the original collaborators are designated as
“Cosway-style” bindings—still splendid productions—by such esteemed binderies
as Bayntun-Rivière, Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Morrell, and Bumpus. With the
bookplates of renowned Los Angeles bibliophiles and philanthropists Edward
Laurence and Carrie Estelle Doheny. Carrie Estelle Doheny was among the
earliest female book collectors in the United States, having purchased her first
rare book in 1931. Under the tutelage of Frank Hogan and A.S.W. Rosenbach she
continued to buy books and manuscripts until her death in 1958. Her great
collection, consisting of incunabula (including a Gutenberg Bible), medieval and
Renaissance manuscripts, Western Americana, early printing, literature, and fine
bindings, was for many years housed at the Vincentian Seminary of St. John’s in
Camarillo, California. In 1987 a decision was made by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
to return many of the Doheny treasures to the market. Fine condition. A splendid set, with
fine Cosway-style portrait of Napoleon, and with distinguished provenance.
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w inston churchill
“This Is Not History: This Is My Case”: Churchill’s Brilliant History Of The Second World War,
Inscribed By Churchill In Volume I In The Year Of Publication To A Prominent Supporter
10. CHURCHILL, Winston. The Second World War. London, 1948-54. Six volumes.
Octavo, original black cloth, dust jackets. $17,500.
First English editions of Churchill’s WWII masterpiece, part history and part memoir,
written after he lost reelection as Prime Minister, in the original dust jackets, inscribed in
Volume I: “Inscribed for Donald Forbes by Winston S. Churchill, 1948.”
With the Second World War, Churchill “pulled himself back from humiliating [electoral]
defeat in 1945, using all his skills as a writer and politician to make his fortune, secure his
reputation, and win a second term in Downing Street” (Reynolds, xxiii). “Winston himself
affirmed that ‘this is not history: this is my case” (Holmes, 285). Churchill was re-elected to
the post of Prime Minister in 1951. “The Second World War is a great work of literature,
combining narrative, historical imagination and moral precept in a form that bears comparison with that of the original master
chronicler, Thucydides. It was wholly appropriate that in 1953 Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature” (Keegan,
175). Although preceded by the American editions, the English editions are generally preferred for their profusion of diagrams,
maps, and facsimile documents. Cohen A240.4. Woods A123b. Langworth, 254. Forbes was a prominent Woodford politician
and early supporter and fundraiser for Churchill, whose relation with Churchill is discussed extensively in David A. Thomas’
Churchill: The Member for Woodford (a copy of which is included). Three pages/slips of Forbes’ notes are laid in, including one on
the back of a deposit slip for Forbes’ bank account. Interiors fine; some light staining to top edges of text blocks. Light toning to
spines of bright dust jackets with light wear to extremities and a one-inch closed tear to spine foot of Volume I with tape repair to
verso and a half-inch closed tear to spine head fold of Volume IV. A near-fine inscribed set, with notable provenance.
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sa lva dor da lí
Dalí’s Large Folio Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland,
Signed By Him, With An Original Etching And 12 Full-Page Color Photogravures
11. (DALÍ, Salvador) CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland. New York, 1969. Large folio (13 by 18-1/2
inches), loose signatures laid into brown cloth portfolio,
clamshell box. $13,000.
Beautifully printed limited edition of the brilliant and

beloved children’s classic, one of 2500 copies signed by
Salvador Dalí, with an original etching and 12 full-page color
photogravures after his paintings— as breathtakingly
imaginative as the text they illustrate.
Dalí’s twisting dreamscapes and semi-hallucinatory images

superbly complement Carroll’s astonishingly inventive
fantasy (first published in 1865) and exemplify the artist’s
entire oeuvre. This magnificent production, printed on
Mandeure paper, contains an original three-color etching
as a frontispiece and 12 striking full-page color photogra-
vures (heliogravures) after Dali’s original gouache paint-
ings. Michler & Löpsinger 321-333. Field 69-5. A fine copy.
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john f. k en nedy
“Someone Was Shooting Fireworks Until We Saw The Blood On The President”:
Historic Breaking News Of The Kennedy Assassination On Original Dow Jones News Ticker Teletype
Cellophane Projection Sheets, November 22 And 23, 1963
12. (KENNEDY ASSASSINATION). Original Dow Jones News Ticker teletype reports of the Kennedy assassination. Dallas:
Dow Jones, November 22-23, 1963. Dow Jones News Ticker teletype printed in blue ink on transparent cellophane, 36 sheets, each
5-3/4 inches wide, length from 5-3/4 to 10-3/4 inches, a few corners rounded at top, cut from one 5-3/4-inch wide roll of cellophane
teletype, approximately 35 feet in length. $15,000.
Rare original Dow Jones News Ticker teletype reporting the events of November 22nd from his prepared Trade Mart Speech
which he never gave to the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald—on transparent cellophane used to project the news on large screens
on the floors of the Stock Exchanges as well as in stock broker offices
These historic sheets recount the events of the Kennedy assassination, as they are occurring. The Dow Jones News Ticker was
printed on two types of machines, hard copies and transparent cellophane for projection machines. While hard copies of AP,
UPI, and Dow Jones teletype have been on the market before, this is the only transparent cellophane copy we have ever seen,
used to project the news on large screens for stock brokers in large offices and on the floors of the Exchanges. Dow Jones Wall
Street news (not quoted below) is interspersed with Associated Press news about the President. All text in uppercase. Typos
not corrected. A dash is used in the teletype in place of an apostrophe (e.g. Goldwater-s). There are no punctuation marks.
There is more than one report per page. Fine condition.
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john f. k en nedy
“A Man Does What He Must… And That Is The Basis Of All Human Morality”:
First Edition Of Profiles In Courage, Inscribed By John F. Kennedy
13. KENNEDY, John F. Profiles in Courage. New York, 1956. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $16,500.
First edition, first printing, of Kennedy’s Pulitzer-winning examination of “that most admirable of human virtues,”
inscribed: “To —, with my warmest regards—John Kennedy.”
“A series of sketches of American politicians who risked their careers in the cause of principle… ‘A man does what he
must,’ Kennedy wrote, ‘—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that
is the basis of all human morality… The book was popular history of high order, and it received the Pulitzer Prize for
biography in 1957” (DAB). Illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photographic plates. Interior fine. Light
rubbing to extremities, with some white marks to cloth spine. Dust jacket bright with shallow edge-wear. An extremely
good inscribed copy.
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isr a el’s decl a r ation of independence
We “By Virtue Of Our Natural And Historic Right And On The Strength Of The Resolution
Of The United Nations General Assembly, Hereby Declare The Establishment Of A Jewish State”:
Scarce First Printing Of Israel’s Declaration Of Independence
14. BEN-GURION, David. “The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.” IN: Israel’s Provisional
Government Official Bulletin No. 1. BOUND WITH: Official Bulletins No. 2-25. Tel Aviv, 5 Iyar 5708 [May 14,
1948]-163 Iyar 5708 [October 1, 1948]. Slim tall octavo (8-1/4 by 13 inches), contemporary tan cloth. $16,500.
First printing of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, the first issue of Iton Rishmi, dated May 14, 1948, collected
together in one volume with the 24 separately printed, succeeding issues (No. 2, dated May 21, 1948, to No. 25, dated
October 1, 1948)—“It is rare to register with such precision the moment when historical change is inaugurated.”
May 14, 1948 was the final day of the British Mandate over Palestine, and as that day approached, various nations angled
to determine the future, or lack thereof, of the proposed Jewish state. In an effort to finally bring their dream of a Jewish
homeland to fruition, Jewish leaders seized the initiative and
began preparations to create a government for a Zionist state.
Spearheaded by David Ben-Gurion, leaders “established a
13-member National Administration and a National Council
of 37 members, which would, upon the departure of the British
Mandatory forces, become the provisional government and
legislature of the Jewish State… A committee of five—David
Remez, [Felix] Rosenblueth, Moshe Shapira, [Moshe] Shertok,
and Aharon Zisling—was appointed to draft the Declaration
of Independence. The draft submitted by the committee on
May 13 consisted of 22 articles… It was criticized as too long
and flowery, and the final wording was entrusted to Ben-
Gurion, Rabbi Y. L. Fishman (Maimon), A. Zisling, and M.
Shertok. During the same evening Ben-Gurion
prepared a final draft, which was approved by his
colleagues on the committee.” On Friday, May
14, 1948, Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel’s inde-
pendence. His recitation of Israel’s Declaration
of Independence was broadcast throughout the
entirety of the new state of Israel, and the nation,
now a fait accompli, was quickly recognized by
the United States and the USSR, assuring its ac-
ceptance. This is the first Israeli government
printing of the Declaration; its equivalent in U.S.
history would be the John Dunlap broadside of
the Declaration of Independence. Text in
Hebrew. Interior generally fresh with mild ton-
ing, light scattered foxing, small expertly re-
paired closed tear to one leaf affecting text (63),
slight soiling to cloth. A scarce extremely good
collection of these important publications.
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a lbert einstein
Signed And Dated By Einstein In The Year Of Publication,
First Edition Of Out Of My Later Years, 1950
15. EINSTEIN, Albert. Out of My Later Years. New York, 1950. Octavo, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket. $12,500.
First edition of Einstein’s second collection of social science-related articles, addresses, speeches, letters and papers covering
the period before, during and after the Second World War, an exceptionally scarce fine copy signed and dated by him in the
year of publication.
Commenting on the potential conflict of science and politics, Albert Einstein once turned to an assistant and sighed, “Yes,
time has to be divided this way between politics and our equations” (DSB). In this continuation of his first collection of
essays, The World As I See It (1934), Einstein offers further thoughts crossing that divide, mirroring his political, social,
philosophical and scientific concerns. Drawn from articles, speeches, letters and various papers, all written from 1934 to
1950, with many published here for the first time, the book includes
selections on science, ethics, public affairs, issues in Jewish history, the
dilemma of modern war and tributes to figures such as Marie Curie, Isaac
Newton and Mahatma Gandhi. This work was issued in a number of
different cloths and dust jackets, and there continues to be bibliographic
uncertainty about some points. Tiny closed tear to upper edge of scarce
dust jacket. A fine signed copy.
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benja min gr a h a m a nd dav id l . dodd

“Many Shall Be Restored That Are Now Fallen And Many Shall Fall That Are Now In Honor”:
First Edition Of Graham And Dodd’s Seminal Security Analysis, 1934
16. GRAHAM, Benjamin and DODD, David L. Security Analysis. Principles and Technique. New York, 1934. Octavo,
original red cloth. $29,000.
Extremely rare first edition, first printing, of Graham’s seminal work, considered the Bible of modern financial analysis, in
fine condition.
Few published works of the 20th century have exerted the influence or had as devoted a following as Security Analysis. Prior
to its publication, investors often relied on intuition or the character of a business owner to make their decisions. Writing
in the wake of the catastrophic stock market crash, Graham and Dodd designed “value-oriented investment,” a disciplined,
realistic approach to constructing a solid financial portfolio. Popular when it was published, it continues to shape the
strategies and the training of financiers. Copies of the first edition are known to appear both in black cloth binding, with
“Whittlesey House—McGraw Hill” in gilt at the foot of the spine, and in red cloth binding, with “McGraw-Hill Book
Company” in gilt at the foot of the spine, as with the present copy. No priority of issue has been established; because the
book is of exceeding rarity, either binding is equally desirable. Stated “First Edition” on title page, with no mention of
printing on copyright page. A fine, fresh copy.
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a lcoholics a non y mous
Very Rare 1939 First Printing Of Alcoholics Anonymous, In Notoriously Elusive Original Dust Jacket
17. (ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS) (WILSON, Bill). Alcoholics Anonymous. New York, 1939. Thick octavo, original red
cloth, dust jacket. $38,000.
First edition, first printing, of this influential work—a most desirable copy in the very rare original dust jacket.
The Alcoholics Anonymous “Big Book” was published at a particularly trying time; the Great Depression had driven many
Americans to desperation, and the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 ensured that alcohol was readily available. With moving
personal accounts and case histories of many original members of A.A., here is the story of countless “average Americans…
[whose] feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds” their lives together.
This extremely scarce first edition also examines the epiphanic moments in which hope for a new life is achieved, but “the later
editions of the Big Book play down this expectation of ‘sudden and spectacular upheaval” in favor of a more gradual explanation
for triumph over the addiction (New Yorker, 1955). The book’s publication itself represented a triumph over numerous obstacles;
pre-publication shares in the newly-founded corporation proved impossible to sell until a Reader’s Digest editor promised to
publish an article about the group’s efforts. The article never materialized, but the tenacity of Bill W. and friends resulted in the
independent publication of the book. An alternative title, The Way Out, had strong support from members, but a check of the
Library of Congress showed twelve books with that title. Bill W. remembers, “We said to ourselves, ‘We sure aren’t going to
make this book the thirteenth Way Out.’ We left the title Alcoholics Anonymous in the copy that went to the printer. That is how
we got the title for our book, and that is how our society got its name.” Owner signature and address. Bright, about-fine book
with just a bit of soiling to rear panel. Scarce bright jacket with expert restoration. A beautiful copy.
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i a n fleming
“He Must Play The Role… The Man Who Was Only A Silhouette”
18. FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London, 1955. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $15,000.
Scarce first edition of Fleming’s third novel, in which Bond must foil the attempt of a British industrialist to destroy
London with a nuclear weapon, in first-issue dust jacket.
Considered by many to be one of the best of the Bond books, Moonraker afforded Fleming “an opportunity to wax
lyrical about the England he loved—the ‘panorama full of color and excitement and romance… [Fleming also]
skillfully reintroduced notes of ambiguity and realism into the life of his globe-trotting hero… Noël Coward read
Moonraker in proof in Jamaica and pronounced, ‘It is the best thing he has done yet, very exciting… His observation
is extraordinary and his talent for description vivid” (Lycett, 253-54, 269). The early Bond novels are quite scarce.
“This title is extremely rare in fine condition” (Biondi & Pickard, 42). Made into the 1979 film of the same title with
Roger Moore as Bond and Lois Chiles as Dr. Holly Goodhead. Book fine; light toning to spine and soiling to white
back panel (as often) of bright, unrestored dust jacket with price-clipped front flap. A near-fine copy.
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j . d . sa linger
“In American Writing, There Are Three Perfect Books…
Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby And Catcher In The Rye”:
Beautiful First Edition Of Salinger’s Classic
19. SALINGER, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston, 1951. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $24,000.
First edition of Salinger’s first book—“a 20th-century classic”—in first-issue dust jacket with photograph of Salinger on the
back panel. A beautiful unrestored copy.
“In American writing, there are three perfect books, which seem to speak to every reader and condition: Huckleberry Finn,
The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye. Of the three, only Catcher defines an entire region of human experience: it is…
the handbook of the adolescent heart” (New Yorker). “This novel is a key-work of the 1950s in that the theme of youthful
rebellion is first adumbrated in it, though the hero, Holden Caulfield, is more a gentle voice of protest, unprevailing in the
noise, than a militant world-changer… The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a
ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many
voices—anger, contempt, self-pity—but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling”
(Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, 53-4). First printing, with “First Edition” on copyright page, in first-issue dust jacket with
author’s photograph on the rear panel. Starosciak A30. Bixby A2. Book fine. Light wear to extremities of bright, unrestored
dust jacket with slight toning to spine and nominal chipping to spine head. A beautiful copy, rare in this condition.
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george gersh w in
“I Got Rhythm…”: First Edition Of George Gershwin’s Song-Book,
Inscribed By Both Gershwin And Alajalov And With A Drawing By Alajalov
20. GERSHWIN, George. George Gershwin’s Song-Book. New York, 1932. Large quarto, original publisher’s full dark blue
morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $17,500.
First trade edition of this compilation of Gershwin’s “improvised” versions of his songs, inscribed in the year of publication by
both Gershwin and illustrator Constantin Alajalov to George Balanchine’s close friend Lucia Davidova, with an original
drawn “mask” of Davidova by Alajalov.
Pioneer aviatrix Lucia Davidova was a close friend of Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine. Self-described as Balanchine’s
“best platonic woman friend,” she was present at every performance, and even at classes and rehearsals. Gershwin knew her
from meetings with Balanchine over their planned collaboration on a new ballet. Gershwin’s untimely death in 1937 prevented
its realization. Thirty-three years later, however, Balanchine chose 17 of Gershwin’s Broadway songs for his ballet Who Cares?
Gershwin’s Song-Book, inscribed to Davidova, is illustrated with full-page color lithographic plates after Alajalov, and includes
such Gershwin standards as “Swanee,” “Fascinating Rhythm,” “The Man I Love,” “Strike Up the Band,” and “I Got Rhythm,”
among others. “In one of his few prose writings, George provided an introduction for the song book. What is most important…
is that it contained the original published version of each song, followed side by side by George’s ‘improvised’ versions of the
songs” (Carnovale, 14). See Carnovale, W45. Book with only minor wear, price-clipped dust jacket soiled and worn at extremities.
Inscriptions bold and fine. Very desirable inscribed.
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george ba rbier

One Of Only 50 Signed By George Barbier:
Limited First Edition In English Of Nijinsky,
With 12 Splendid Hand-Colored En Pochoir
Illustrations By Barbier
21. (NIJINSKY, Vaslav) BARBIER, George and MIOMANDRE,
Francis de. Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky. London, 1913.
Tall, slim folio, original printed paper wrappers. $19,000.
Limited first edition in English of this lavish visual tribute to the great
Nijinsky, with 12 striking full-page line blocks by George Barbier,
hand-colored en pochoir. This copy one of only 50 copies signed by
Barbier, Francis de Miomandre, and the editor.
“We have our despair, our sadness, our violated love and this thing,
most dread of all—the passing of the days between our hands, helpless
to cherish aught they give. But in the spring, the Russian Ballets and
NIJINSKY return. And all is forgotten” (Francis de Miomandre). This
glowing tribute is illustrated with 12 full-page, pochoir-colored line
blocks of Nijinsky in his various roles by Art Deco legend George
Barbier, who began his career as a costume and set designer for the
Ballet Russes. Renowned for his achievement in costume and fashion
illustration, his art work is epitomized by a characteristically elegant,
stylized line. From a total edition of only 400 numbered copies; this
copy is also much taller than the unsigned issue, which had about
three inches trimmed from the lower margin. Bit of light wear and
toning to fragile original wrappers, with two small stains to upper
right corner of front wrapper. Plates clean and fine. A magnificent
copy in original wrappers, most rare and desirable signed by Barbier.
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world wa r ii /
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george s . pat ton

“What Is California Going To Do About
Japan? I Hope They Cause A War”:
Patton’s Voluminous Official Report On
The Operations Of The Third Army,
One Of Only 289 Richly Illustrated
Copies, With Autograph Letter Signed
By Patton Laid In
22. (WORLD WAR II) PATTON, George S. After
Action Report, Third U.S. Army, 1 August 1944 -
9 May 1945. Washington, 1945. Two volumes.
Thick oblong folio, original three-quarter navy
leatherette, pictorial boards. Housed in custom
clamshell boxes. $15,000.
First edition of this classified official report of the

daily activities of Patton’s Third Army, with details
of the famous operation “Overlord,” illustrated with
hundreds of photographs, charts and maps, marked
“Secret” on every page. With a fine 1913 autograph
letter to his mother signed by Patton laid in.
Under the command of Lieutenant General George S.

Patton, Jr., the Third Army participated in eight major
European operations throughout their 281 days of
“constant battle during which we have engaged in
every type of combat except defensive.” They “gave new
meaning to ‘hard charging, hard hitting, mobile warfare.’ The Third Army’s swift and tenacious drive into and through France,
Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria contributed immeasurably to the destruction of the Nazi war
machine” (BACM Research). This official report of the daily activities of Patton’s
Third Army is organized in two sections: “Operations,” combining narratives of
specific operations with data on movements, casualties, and loss of materiel; and
“Staff Section Reports,” which contains monthly directives, instructions, action
reports, and lessons learned. As it contains far too much sensitive information, it
remained classified until February 1947. There were only 289 copies of this edition
produced in 1945 and at that time, in order to obtain a copy one had to have top
security clearance. Laid into this copy is a three-page autograph letter (one leaf of
7-3/4 by 11-1/2 inch green paper, folded once) signed by Patton, addressed “Dear
Mama,” that reads in part: “Mr. Gordon Johnston got made a captain and went
away so that we have no team much left only three good men. To add to this it
rained for five days straight and that made things so muddie that we could not
practice... After the War Department duty on a post is not as exciting as it might
be but it is a good thing. My hand is quite well now and I think the cuts are making
the hair grow. What is California going to do about Japan? I hope they cause a war.
With lots of love, George S. Patton Jr.” Near-fine condition. Scarce, desirable with
an autograph letter signed by Patton.
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joseph heller
“It Was Both An Honor And A Sadness To Hear From Someone

Who Did Leave The Country Rather Than Participate In This
War…”: Extraordinary Lengthy Letter Signed By Heller Discussing
The Composition Of Catch-22 And Dodging The Draft During The
Vietnam War, Together With Heller’s Anti-War Play, We Bombed
In New Haven, Inscribed First Edition, And A Later Autograph
Letter, Both Signed By Heller To The Same Recipient
23. HELLER, Joseph. We Bombed in New Haven. WITH: Autograph letter
signed. WITH: Typed letter signed. New York, 1968. Octavo, original
maroon cloth, dust jacket. Two leaves of Heller’s letterhead (7-1/4 by 10-1/2
inches), one typed and signed on recto, the other in autograph manuscript
and signed on recto. $7800.
First edition of Heller’s anti-war play produced during the Vietnam war,
inscribed by him, “To Walter —-, With admiration and sincere good wishes.”
Heller sent this inscribed book to the recipient after he had written to Heller
praising Catch-22 and implying that it was an inspiration for his decision to move to Canada to dodge the U.S. military draft.
With a lengthy typed letter signed by Heller from 1969 to the recipient praising him for his courage and discussing the composition
of Catch-22, as well as an autograph letter signed from 1999 to the same recipient.
Joseph Heller’s 1961 first novel quickly became a classic of anti-war literature. “By the mid-1960s, it had become a cult classic
among counterculture activists for its biting indictment of war” (Books of the Century). The recipient of this inscribed first edition,
wrote to Heller in 1969 from Toronto, praising Catch-22, asking about the composition of the chapter entitled “The Eternal City”
and mulling over his own decision to leave the United States (and thus avoid
the draft), among other topics. Heller replied with a lengthy typed letter in
which he discusses the draft and his own son (who would have been 13 at the
time) and remarks on his years at Time magazine and during the war. The
letter reads in part: “It was both an honor and a sadness to hear from someone
who did leave the country rather than participate in this war; I like to think
that I would do the same if faced with a similar choice, although I’m not sure
I would have the strength of character to do so, and I will certainly encourage
my own son to leave when he is old enough to be threatened with military
service, and leave with him if he wishes me to… The chapter THE ETERNAL
CITY, if I remember correctly, was one of the easiest of all to write, the reason
being, I think, that by that time in the book there was little artifice and more
of a need for direct expression. By that time, too, the time spiral had sort of
straightened itself out and there was a direct continuity of narrative… I’d not
heard before that I was accused of selling out… If anything, I bought out, not
sold out: I wrote most of the novel while I worked there and left the whole
God damned industrial world altogether shortly after it was published. And,
surprising as it may sound, I enjoyed myself immensely while I worked there,
just as I enjoyed myself, I am almost ashamed to admit, for most of my service
in the army.” Heller mentions that he is sending this copy of We Bombed in
New Haven under separate cover, “on the chance that you will enjoy that too,”
and closes by writing, “I wish you will be able to come back soon.” Also
included is a 1999 autograph letter signed from Heller to the same recipient.
Book fine, faint toning to edges of dust jacket, a fine copy with interesting
correspondence regarding Heller’s classic anti-war novel, Catch-22.
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a ndré m a rt y
Rare Limited Edition Of The Famed French Art Deco Publication, Volume Eight Of Modes Et Manières
D’aujourd’hui For 1919, One Of Only 12 Copies Issued On Japon, Featuring The Artistry Of André
Edouard Marty With 12 Pochoir Color Plates And Original Golfing Watercolor Signed By Marty
24. MARTY, André and BERNARD, Tristan. Modes et Manières d’Aujourd’hui. Huitième Année. 1919. Paris, 1921. Folio,
original half ivory and decorative paper boards, plates loose as issued, cloth ties, custom slipcase. $9500.
Limited first edition of Modes et Manières d’Aujourd’hui, Volume VIII for the year 1919, number 4 of only 12 copies issued on
Japon (of 300 copies), featuring 12 loose pochoir color plates, accompanying suite of 12 uncolored plates, and original matted
watercolor (8-3/4 by 5-1/2 inches) signed by French artist Andre Edouard Marty, a leading Art Deco artist, with 12 leaves of
accompanying text in French by popular playwright and novelist Tristan Bernard, rarely found complete in the original portfolio.
This original limited edition portfolio highlights the splendid Art Deco artistry of Andre Edouard Marty, who shared with
Georges Barbier, Charles Martin and others a love of “elegance and luxe… They fused their styles from a heady mix: Japanese
woodblock prints, classical Greek and Roman art, modern stage and costume design, and the cinema… The result of this
alchemy was a new way of illustrating the figure” (Torre, 20th-Century Fashion Illustration, 33). Marty, also well known for his
theatre posters, was one of an elite group of only four artists who contributed yearly to Gazette du Bon Ton (1912-25) and his
images were regularly featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Modes et Manières d’Aujord’hui and other publications. This rare
complete Volume VIII of Modes et Manières d’Aujourd’hui, for the year 1919, in the original portfolio, additionally contains 12
corresponding short works by noted French author Tristan Bernard, Modes et Manières d’Aujourd’hui, which first appeared in
1912, was a highly influential Art Deco fashion periodical. Publication ceased in 1923 with a
total of 7 volumes, each limited to a total of 300 copies. Complete volumes in the original
portfolios are quite rare. Plates and text very fresh, small bit of early tape reinforcement to
inner seams of portfolio. Near-fine.
28 A mericana
george wa shington
“The Only Comprehensive Account By A Great Statesman Of The Full Founding
Of The United States”: First Edition Of Marshall’s Life Of Washington,
With Atlas Volume Of The Military Campaigns
25. (WASHINGTON, George) MARSHALL, John. The Life of George Washington. Philadelphia, 1804-07. Six volumes.
Thick octavo, contemporary full brown tree calf gilt; quarto atlas volume, original marbled boards and paper label respined
in calf. $16,800.
First edition of Marshall’s magisterial biography of Washington, with engraved frontispiece portrait and the companion atlas
of ten strategic maps (eight double-page) depicting Washington’s major Revolutionary War campaigns. A beautiful and most
desirable set in contemporary tree calf, with scarce atlas volume in original boards.
Shortly after Marshall became Chief Justice, Washington’s nephew Bushrod approached him to write the first President’s official
biography. Probably no man was better suited to the task. As a personal friend of Washington, Marshall had announced the
President’s death in 1799, offered the eulogy, chaired the committee that arranged the funeral rites, and led the commission to
plan a monument in the capital city. When Marshall’s Life of Washington appeared, it quickly gained such authoritative status
that Washington scholar Jared Sparks suggested any new biographical undertaking would be “presumptuous” (Sparks,
Washington I:12). The work “is political history as well as biography… the only comprehensive account by a great statesman of
the full founding of the United States—of the founding of an independent people as well as of its government… There is no other
concentrated history of the essentials by such an authority on American institutions” (Robert K. Faulkner). “If George
Washington founded the country, John Marshall defined it” (Jean Edward Smith). This first edition, together with the first
English edition of the same years, are “the only complete editions of this indispensable work, the ‘Colonial History’ being omitted
in the later American editions” (Sabin). Scarce companion atlas includes a 22-page list of subscribers. Original owner signature
of Thomas Foster, dated 1804 on first page of Preface, and named in the list of subscribers, under Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Contemporary American tree calf bindings very attractive with just a bit of very minor restoration. Most desirable.
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benja min fr a nk lin
“America’s First Great Scientific Contribution”:
First Complete Edition Of Franklin’s Illustrated Experiments And Observations On Electricity, 1769
26. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America... London, 1769.
Large octavo, contemporary marbled boards rebacked in half tan sheep. $30,000.
First complete edition of “the most important scientific book of 18th-century America” and “America’s first great scientific
contribution” (PMM), with seven engraved plates (two folding). An exceptional, wide-margined copy in contemporary calf. An
important edition, edited and revised by Franklin himself, and with material and footnotes appearing here for the first time,
especially scarce in contemporary marbled boards.
This first complete edition is the fourth edition of the original work; the earlier editions, each issued in three parts as separately
published pamphlets usually bound together, were carelessly published. Franklin edited this new one-volume edition himself,
significantly revising the text, adding for the first time a number of his own philosophical letters and papers, introducing
footnotes, correcting errors, and adding an index. “Franklin’s most important scientific publication,” Experiments and
Observations contains detailed accounts of the founding father’s crucial kite and key experiment, his work with Leiden jars,
lightning rods and charged clouds (Norman 830). “The most dramatic result of Franklin’s researches was the proof that lightning
is really an electrical phenomenon. Others had made such a suggestion before him—even Newton himself—but it was he who
provided the experimental proof” (PMM). “The lightning experiments caused Franklin’s name to become known throughout
Europe to the public at large and not merely to men of science. Joseph Priestley, in his History of Electricity, characterized the
experimental discovery that the lightning discharge is an electrical phenomenon as ‘the greatest, perhaps, since the time of Isaac
Newton… Franklin’s achievement… marked the coming of age of electrical science and the full acceptance of the new field of
specialization” (DSB). Sabin 25506. Ford 307. Text and plates generally fresh with light scattered foxing, some rubbing to boards.
A highly desirable extremely good copy, in contemporary boards.
30 “The Southern States Had Rightfully
The Power To Withdraw”
27. DAVIS, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate

Government. New York, 1881. Two volumes. Thick octavo,
modern three-quarter brown crushed morocco gilt. $2600.
First edition of Davis’ seminal history, one of the most impor-

tant works on the Civil War written by one of the conflict’s
primary figures, and one of the major arguments for the
Constitutional basis of the war, with 18 maps (14 folding)
and 19 plates, including stipple-engraved portraits of Davis,
members of the presidential staff, General Lee and others.
“As president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson

Davis directed the new nation’s mighty struggle for indepen-
dence… His views, which he never recanted, were enshrined in
his Rise and Fall” (Cooper). “This was not a conventional memoir
that tells the story of the subject’s life. Instead, Rise and Fall was in
large part a massive, legalistic, dense and impersonal defense of state’s rights, secession, and Southern independence”
(Swanson, 363). This is “probably the most scholarly recital of the ‘states rights’ arguments, since it was written by the leader
of the movement after mature reflection” (Channing, 2156). In Tall Cotton 34. Small owner inkstamps. Interiors generally
fresh with light marginal dampstaining. Near-fine condition.
Rare Civil War Autograph Letter Signed By Ulysses S. Grant,

Penned By Him At His Headquarters Days Before The Election
That Decided Lincoln’s Second Term
28. (CIVIL WAR) GRANT, Ulysses S. Autograph letter signed. City Point,
Virginia, October 29, 1864. One leaf (5 by 8 inches folded) in manuscript
hand. $7500.
October 29, 1864 autograph letter signed by Ulysses S. Grant,

entirely penned by him within days of Lincoln’s re-election that
came on the heels of Union victories, with Lincoln keenly aware
of “how much he owed his general… Not everyone, then or later,
appreciated the magnitude of the accomplishment. One who did
was William T. Sherman,” whose request for a supply store at
Vicksburg is the subject of Grant’s letter, written from City Point,
Virginia on the letterhead of “Head-Quarters Armies of the
United States.”
This rare Civil War letter penned and signed by Grant is dated
mere days before the November 8 election that would decide
Lincoln’s second term. Beneath the letterhead of “Head-Quarters
Armies of the United States,” the text of Grant’s letter from City
Point, Virginia, to Treasury Agent William P. Mellen, reads in part: “Gen.
Sherman having expressed a willingness for Capt. O.H. Ross to keep a supply
store within his command I would request that the permit be given for
Vicksburg, Miss. I would limit it to what might be termed a military supply
store, that is confine it to such articles as officers, soldiers and Govt. employees would require.” It was at Vicksburg, only a year
before, that Grant triumphed in “one of the war’s great campaigns,” a turning point in Lincoln’s view of Grant. A highly desirable
near-fine letter.
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ci v il wa r bat tlefield bible , 1862
“Captured This Book Off The Rebels The First Of May 63”
And “Taken… At The Foot Of Big Round Top July 1863”: 1862 Civil War New Testament
Passed Between Confederate And Union Soldiers At The Battlefields Of Fredericksburg And Gettysburg
29. BIBLE. New Testament… New York, 1862. 16mo (2-3/4 by 4-1/2 inches), disbound. Housed in a custom box. $8500.
Extraordinary New Testament originally owned by a Confederate soldier at Fredericksburg and then evidently found and
retrieved by at least three other soldiers (two Union) at Fredericksburg and then Gettysburg who carefully recorded in pencil
their names and the circumstances of its acquisition. A wonderful Civil War artifact.
This New Testament is not just a Bible, but rather a battlefield remnant. Published in 1862 as a pocket Bible, it and Bibles like it
represented hope to the soldiers that carried them in dangerous circumstances far from home. This Bible is unusual, not so much
in that it changed hands, but that it changed hands between the Confederacy and the Union. Moreover, it bears a valuable written
record of its provenance. The first inscription, likely that of its original owner, follows the last verse of the Book of Revelation and
reads: “John L. Barnes Co. B 83 Regt Pen. (Vols).” Barnes appears to have been listed as “Barns” in official records. Based on his
military service, he likely lost or gave away his Bible when the 83rd engaged in combat during the Battle of Fredericksburg,
December 11-15, 1862. Barnes survived the war and was discharged on May 29, 1865. The second inscription, on the next page,
identifies the new owner as J.W. Stephenson of the “Southern Confederacy,” who writes: “Book Taken Possession December 17th
1862 at Frederickburg Virginia.” Four months later, the book again changed hands, this time passing to an “E. Durfee” who states
that he “captured this book of[f] the rebels the first of May 63.” Durfee would only retain possession for two months as the final
inscription attests: “Taken by J.S. Olsen at the foot of Big Round Top July 1863.” John Samuel Olsen was a teamster for the Union
and was likely retrieving the dead from the battlefield when he found the volume. (This may account for what appears to be a tiny
bit of blood spatter on the title page.). A few inscriptions quite faint due to old pencil, mild embrowning to text, chipping to last
few leaves, light soiling to front and rear cover pages. Very good condition. Rare.
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john ja mes audubon
Audubon’s Birds Of America, Final Octavo Edition, With 500 Hand-Colored Plates:
“One Of The Finest Ornithological Works Ever Printed”
30. AUDUBON, John James. The Birds of America. New York, 1870-71. Eight volumes. Royal octavo, publisher’s full brown
morocco. $48,000.
Lockwood Audubon, the final octavo edition, containing 500 superb tinted and hand-colored lithographic plates printed by
J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, with numerous in-text anatomical wood-engravings.
One of the most spectacular collections of ornithological prints ever produced and a landmark attempt to document the birds
of North America. “The most splendid book ever produced in relation to America, and certainly one of the finest ornithological
works ever printed… Audubon insisted on drawing from life, never from stuffed specimens, and was much in advance of his
time in portraying the birds (in many cases unrecorded species) in their natural surroundings… The courage and faith of the
Audubon family is breathtaking… This immense undertaking, this unparalleled achievement, was not the production of a
great and long-established publishing house, nor was it backed by a wealthy institution. It was the work of a man of relentless
energy, with no private fortune… It is a story without equal in the whole history of publishing” (Great Books and Book Collectors,
210-13). The second and subsequent octavo editions differed most notably from the first octavo in the addition of tinted
lithographic-wash backgrounds to the plates. “The lithographs in all of the later editions are identical and of the same value”
(Clark and Bannon, Handbook of Audubon Prints). This is the final octavo edition, issued by Lockwood in 1870-1871 and here
bearing the original 1839 Audubon copyright statement on the verso of the title pages. Sometime afterwards, the octavo
lithographic stones were destroyed when a floor collapsed in the Philadelphia warehouse where they were stored (Tyler,
Audubon’s Great National Work, 129, 165 note). Bound with half titles. Plates 155 and 156 bound in reverse order, but present.
Zimmer, 25-26. Early owner ink signature to half titles. Interiors fine, plates bright and beautiful, hand-coloring vivid; minor
expert restoration to one spine head. A lovely set in the original publisher’s morocco in about-fine condition.
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“Franklin’s Deism And His Religious Toleration”: Exceedingly Rare First Edition Of Benjamin
Franklin’s Poor Richard Improved… With A Section On “Freedom Of The Press”—The Hoe Copy
31. (FRANKLIN, Benjamin). Poor Richard Improved... Philadelphia, 1756. 12mo (4 by 7 inches), late 19th-century full
brown morocco rebacked with original spine laid down. $29,000.
Rare first edition of Franklin’s Almanack for 1757, with the famed woodcut of anatomical man “govern’d” by constellations
and 12 woodcut panels, rarely found complete and uncut, this copy with an exceptional provenance—from the prized
collection of renowned bibliophile Robert Hoe, founder of the Grolier Club, and containing the bookplate of fellow collector E.
Howard Litchfield. A fine uncut copy, bound in full crushed morocco by Bedford.
Franklin first issued Poor Richard’s Almanack in 1732, using the pseudonym Richard Saunders and initiating a series that “is
beyond question the most famous of almanacs, the most charming and readable of Franklin’s writings” (Ford, 11). In addition
to the Almanack’s witty proverbs, this issue for 1757, rarely found complete, especially reveals how Franklin balanced relevance
and humor with vigorous science and sly puzzles. “The annual puzzles got more complicated, as with 1757’s teaser,” set in the
September section. Here we are asked to “imagine three ships, each occupied independently by Christians, Jews or Muslims.
Each vessel leaves the same place but travels a different route under its religiously distinct crew. All return to the original port,
where ‘they shall differ so with respect to real and apparent Time, that they all shall keep their Sabbath on one and the same
Day of the Week, and yet each of them separately shall believe that he keeps his Sabbath on the Day of the Week his Religion
requires’… The larger point, one that exemplified Franklin’s deism and his religious toleration, was that the natural world in-
spired religious sentiment in everyone.” While Franklin, after 1748, was no longer involved in the daily operations of his and
Hall’s busy printing concern, Franklin scholarship clearly notes that his over-arching authorship role of the almanacs contin-
ued, along with the opportune supervision of their printing. Miller 635. Ford 104. Hoe Catalogue, 280. From the collection of
renowned bibliophile Robert Hoe, founder and first president of the Grolier Club. Armorial bookplate of fellow bibliophile
Edward Hubert Litchfield. A fine copy with an exceptional provenance, rare complete and uncut.
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si x presiden ti a l signat ures /a ll signed in irel a nd
Signed By Six U.S. Presidents: Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton And Obama
32. LOSSING, Benson J. Lossing’s New History of the United
States. New York, 1881. Thick quarto, early 20th-century full green
Early edition of Lossing’s American history text, distinguished by the

signatures of six Presidents of the United States, collected by members
of one family over four decades: John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter,
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama,
with extensive supporting documentation.
One of New York state’s most prominent wood-engravers, “Lossing

wrote and illustrated books covering almost every possible topic in
American history” (ANB). The signatures of six United States
presidents, all of whom claim some Irish ancestry, distinguish the
present volume. President Kennedy signed, at the center of the front
free endpaper, during his June 1963 visit to Ireland. Kennedy arrived
in Ireland hours after his “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” speech in West Berlin.
He signed this book in Galway on June 29, the same day he left for
London. Presidents Reagan and Clinton both signed the same page,
Reagan at Ashford Castle in June 1984 and Clinton in Derry in November 1995. President Carter signed the verso of the front free
endpaper during his visit to Ireland in June 2007. On the recto of the first leaf, President George H.W. Bush has inscribed, “Dennis
McCarthy, all the best, George Bush, 9-22-06.” President Obama signed during his May 2011 visit to the United States Embassy
in Dublin. Owner inscriptions, inkstamp to pastedowns. Printed invitation, business card, color photograph affixed to verso of
front free endpaper and first leaf. A file of letters, photographs, photocopies, printed emails and other items establishing the
signatures’ provenance accompanies the book. Scattered light foxing; light dampstaining toward end of volume. A remarkable
and desirable volume boasting the signatures of six 20th and early 21st century American presidents.
36 Beautiful Large Vintage Photographic Print
By Camelot Photographer Mark Shaw,
With Shaw’s Studio Stamp
33. (KENNEDY, Jacqueline) SHAW, Mark. Gelatin silver

print. New York, 1963. Black-and-white photographic print,
measuring 10-1/2 by 10-1/2 inches, handsomely window
matted and framed. $6200.
Vintage photographic print, taken at the White House,

depicting Jackie Kennedy sitting on the floor holding John Jr.
and Caroline in her lap. With Shaw’s own 1963 studio stamp
and “Private Print” on verso.
Photographed early in Kennedy’s presidency, this image was

evidently printed by photographer Mark Shaw in 1963, most
likely in preparation for his book, The John F. Kennedys. “Just
as Abraham Lincoln thought Mathew Brady’s photography
won him the presidency, so Jackie Kennedy thought Mark
Shaw’s pictures helped her husband win the 1960 election”
(Sullivan, 492). In 1959, seeking to bolster JFK’s presidential
campaign, the Kennedys agreed to let Shaw do a photo-essay
for LIFE. Shaw quickly became a family friend and was a
frequent guest in the Kennedy home. Allowed complete ac-
cess, Shaw began to take photographs of the Kennedys in Georgetown and in Washington; on vacation; and even in the White
House. In 1964, the year after this print was produced, the image appeared as a half-tone in The John F. Kennedys, a photobook
that Shaw compiled just after JFK’s assassination as a tribute to the family Shaw had grown to love. As Shaw died unexpectedly in
1969 at the age of 47, Kennedy prints bearing his studio stamps are quite rare. A beautiful print.
“Time Is No Longer Endless, Or The Horizon

Destitute Of Hope”: Presentation Edition
Of The Spirit Of St. Louis, Signed By Lindbergh
34. LINDBERGH, Charles A. The Spirit of St. Louis. New York, 1953.
Octavo, original red cloth, acetate dust jacket. $5500.
“Presentation” first edition, number 507 of an undetermined limitation,

signed by Lindbergh on a tipped-in leaf.
Winner of the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography, this is Lindbergh’s

riveting account of the first solo nonstop flight between the United States
and Europe he undertook in 1927. “At its exciting best, this book
keeps the reader cockpit close to a rare adventure” (Time).
Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs, double-page map of the
flight, and mechanical diagrams of the plane. Without scarce
original shipping carton. A fine signed copy.
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“Whose Consistent Support Is A Great Source Of Inspiration… Martin”:
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Last Book, Presentation Copy Warmly Inscribed By King
To Civil Rights Activists Marian And Arthur Logan
35. KING Jr., Martin Luther. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? New York, Evanston, and London, 1967.
Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $17,500.
First edition, presentation/association copy, of King’s last book, published the year before he was assassinated, in scarce original
dust jacket, inscribed by him, “To My Dear Friends Marian & Arthur Logan, For whom I have great respect and admiration and
whose consistent support is a great source of inspiration. Martin.” Inscriptions signed with King’s first name only are rare.
King’s final book was published the year before the legendary civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis. Based upon his last
address as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivered in August 1967, the book discusses issues raised
by recent urban race riots, white backlash, and the 1966 shooting of James Meredith. “We have inherited a large house, a great
‘world house’ in which we have to live together—black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and
Protestant, Moslem and Hindu.” Civil rights activist Marian Bruce Logan, who had been a cabaret singer in her youth, married
Duke Ellington’s physician, Arthur C. Logan. “Mrs. Logan was an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a campaign aide
for several political figures, including Nelson A. Rockefeller, Robert F. Kennedy and Robert F. Wagner. Mayor Abraham D.
Beame appointed Mrs. Logan to head the Commission on Human Rights in 1977. During her two-year tenure she worked to stop
the practice of redlining... Along with her husband, Dr. Arthur C. Logan, a surgeon, she was involved in efforts to stabilize the
West Side as an integrated community during urban-renewal efforts there. Mrs. Logan was a socially prominent fund-raiser who
generated financial backing for both national and local civil-rights issues and causes, particularly those of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference. Mrs. Logan was at one time the only Northern board member of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference. She also raised money for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Urban League... During her career in show
business she sang using the stage name Marian Bruce. In the 1940s and 1950s she starred in the first all-black show to be presented
in a Miami Beach nightclub. She also sang in Europe” (New York Times obituary). Cloth with some wear and soiling. Bright dust
jacket with light wear to extremities and some soiling to rear panel. An extremely good copy with important provenance.
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Schoolcraft’s Monumental And Wonderfully Illustrated Six-Volume Work On The American Indian—
A Distinctive Presentation Set
36. SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry R. Historical and Statistical Information, Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of
the Indian Tribes of the United States. Philadelphia, 1851-54, 1868, 1860. Six volumes. Thick folio, period-style three-quarter
black morocco gilt, original pale yellow glazed pastedowns and endpapers retained. $25,000.
Mixed first and early edition set of the most comprehensive anthropological work on American Indians of its time, with over 320
lithographic and steel-engraved illustrations and maps (many full-page chromolithographs, some with hand-coloring) by Seth
Eastman and others. This set a scarce presentation set, inscribed in a secretarial hand in the first three volumes: “C.E. Potter, Esq,
with the respects of H.R. Schoolcraft.”
In 1847 Congress authorized Schoolcraft, explorer and former superintendent of Indian Affairs in Michigan, to collect historical
and statistical information on the country’s native inhabitants. “Schoolcraft’s work was intended to be a great encyclopedia of
information relating to the American Aborigines… It has indeed performed a very important service for Indian history, in col-
lecting and preserving an immense amount of
historic data. Vocabularies of Indian languages,
grammatical analyses, legends of various tribes,
biographies of chiefs and warriors, narratives of
captivities, histories of Indian wars, emigrations
and theories of their origin, are all related and
blended in an extraordinary manner. A very
large number of beautiful steel engravings are
contained in the work, but the most valuable of
its illustrations are the drawings of weapons,
domestic utensils, instruments of gaming and
amusement, sorcery and medicine, objects of
worship, their sculptures, paintings and fortifi-
cations… and every form of antiquities, which
have been discovered” (Sabin 77849). Originally
published entirely by Lippincott, Grambo from
1851-57; the final two volumes are slightly later,
published by J.B. Lippincott in 1868 and 1860,
respectively. Bookplate. Blind embossed stamp
of Manchester City Library to title pages and
frontispiece (only) of Volumes V and VI. Fine
condition. A lovely, complete set.
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“The Cause Of America Is… The Cause Of All Mankind”:
Rare 1776 London Edition Of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “The Most Influential Tract
Of The American Revolution,” With Additions To Common Sense And Chalmers’ Plain Truth
37. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) PAINE, Thomas and CHALMERS, James. Common Sense. BOUND WITH: CHALMERS,
James. Plain Truth. BOUND WITH: PEMBERTON, John, et al. Additions to Common Sense. Philadelphia, Printed, London,
Reprinted, 1776. Octavo, recent full tan calf gilt. $20,000.
Rare 1776 London edition of Paine’s Common Sense, printed within months of the first American edition, a work of such
paramount interest to both America and Britain that this fourth London edition was issued almost certainly before the
Declaration of Independence—that founding document whose issuance on July 4, 1776 “was due more to Paine’s Common
Sense than to any one other single piece of writing,” bound in one volume with the scarce second edition of Plain Truth,
attributed to James Chalmers and considered “the most famous answer to Paine’s advocacy for independence in Common
Sense” (Howes), along with Additions to Common Sense by various authors and featuring an early retranslated draft of the
Articles of Confederation.
This scarce fourth British edition of Common Sense, issued in 1776, the same year as the first, contains Paine’s additions,
increasing the original work by one-third. Like most English editions, this contains hiatuses deleting material critical of the
English crown and government to avoid prosecution. This copy is notably bound, as issued, with the second British edition of
Plain Truth (initially issued in March of 1776), “one of the better known attacks on Common Sense. In addition, this copy is
bound with Additions to Common Sense: a collection of ten essays responding to Common Sense. All 1776 editions of Common
Sense are rare and desirable and increasingly difficult to obtain. Adams, American Independence 222y; 208f; 223d. Text clean and
fine. A rare and important 1776 American Revolutionary collection.
Literature
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D ecem ber 2013 | L i t er at u r e
cerva n tes
Important Second Edition, And First Folio Edition,
Of The First English Translation Of Don Quixote, 1652
38. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight Errant, Don-Quixote,
Of the Mancha. London, 1652. Small folio, early full dark brown calf. $16,000.
Second edition of the first English translation of this “universal classic and arguably the greatest book ever written in
Spanish” (Folger’s Choice 30). The first folio edition, preceded only by the exceptionally rare 1612-20 small quarto first
edition by the same translator (Thomas Shelton).
The Spanish first edition appeared in two parts in 1605 and 1614, and the first part of Thomas Shelton’s English version
was published in 1612 and is very rare; the second part was added in 1620, both published in quarto. This is the first
single-volume Shelton edition, and is the first folio edition. “It is interesting to realize that the first modern novel was
composed by a sick, aged and impoverished man, who believed that a satirical tale might produce more revenue than
the poems and plays that he regarded as his more serious mission. Under the guise of a parody on romances of chivalry,
Cervantes created a study of reality and illusion, madness and sanity, that links him with such acute 16th-century
students of psychology as Erasmus, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Shakespeare” (Folger’s Choice 30). Wing C1776. Iconografia
de las Ediciones del Quijote, 399. Sedó 1152. Rio y Rico 440. See PMM 111. Discreet early owner signature on title page.
Closed tear to leaf Nn, just touching woodcut ornament. Restoration to extremities of binding. An extremely good copy
of this scarce early English edition.
“Holmes!… Is It Really You? 41
Can It Indeed Be That You Are Alive?”

39. CONAN DOYLE, Arthur. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
London, 1905. Octavo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, custom half
morocco clamshell box. $5500.
Preferred first English edition, considered far more desirable and

valuable than the American printing (which preceded it by only one
month), illustrated by Sidney Paget.
Having tired of his popular sleuth, Conan Doyle sent Sherlock Holmes
over the Reichenbach Falls at the close of The Memoirs of Sherlock
Holmes (1893). Although Holmes returned in The Hound of the
Baskervilles (1902), the author took care to set that adventure prior to
the detective’s demise, leaving Holmes—so Conan Doyle hoped—to
rest forever in peace. The author was, however, “persuaded to revive
Sherlock Holmes by the generous offers made by the proprietors of
[Collier’s Weekly Magazine]: $25,000 for six stories, $30,000 for eight or
$45,000 for 13. No conditions were attached. He replied on a postcard:
‘Very well. A.C.D.… The plots did come and 13 stories were written”
(Green & Gibson, 140-41). The first of the new series, “The Adventure of
the Empty House,” debuted in October 1903. “When the story went on sale, the bookstores and stalls in London were mobbed by
thousands of purchasers who literally fought for copies” (Nash, 1016). The game was once more afoot, and the great detective
would don his deerstalker for 20 more short stories and one novel before Conan Doyle retired him permanently in 1927. This copy
with duplicates of two plates bound in. Green & Gibson A29a. Near-fine condition.
First Edition Of Dickens’ Hard Times, In Original Cloth

40. DICKENS, Charles. Hard Times. For These Times. London,
1854. Octavo, original olive cloth, custom half morocco clamshell
box. $4000.
First edition in book form of Dickens’ attack on the conditions of life in

England’s industrial cities, in original cloth.
First published serially in Household Words from April to August,

1854, followed immediately by this first edition in book form, Hard
Times focuses on the inadequacy of a lifestyle that emphasizes only the
human intellect at the expense of the imagination and “the heart.”
Dickens also attacked the conditions of life in England’s industrial
cities, which produced the wealth that made his country the foremost
industrial power in the mid-19th century—but at a great cost to human
happiness. Hard Times was viewed as a departure from the author’s
previous tales, presenting what was to become an increasingly somber
picture of contemporary society in Dickens’ works. With half title.
Eckel, 131. Bookplate of book collector and Grolier Club member
Myrtle A. Crummer. Morocco bookplate. Interior fine, extremities
toned to brown. A desirable near-fine copy.
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“Not Such A Hound As Mortal Eyes Have Ever Seen”
41. CONAN DOYLE, Arthur. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London, 1902. Octavo, original pictorial black- and
gilt-stamped red cloth. $15,000.
First edition, first issue, of the third Sherlock Holmes novel, widely regarded as the best of the series and “one of the most
gripping stories in the English language,” wth 16 illustrations by Sidney Paget. A beautiful copy.
Although Conan Doyle had killed off his most famous character by sending him over the Reichenbach Falls while
grappling with Professor Moriarty in “The Final Problem” (December 1893), his readership demanded the sleuth’s return.
The author obliged with this, the third—and still considered by many the best—Sherlock Holmes novel, carefully
positioned on the title page as “another adventure” of Holmes. “But,” as Howard Haycraft notes, “the seed of doubt was
planted”; and while the novel proved an immediate success, readers continued to press for more. Conan Doyle finally
relented and engineered Holmes’ “resurrection” in 1903. The Hound of the Baskervilles remains “one of the most gripping
books in the language” (Crime & Mystery 100 Best 6). “The supernatural is handled with great effect and no letdown. The
plot and subplots are thoroughly integrated and the false clues put in and removed with a master hand. The criminal is
superb… and the secondary figures each contribute to the total effect of brilliancy and grandeur combined. One wishes
one could be reading it for the first time” (Barzun & Taylor 1142). Green & Gibson A26a. A fine, beautiful copy.
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Important New York Edition Of Henry James’ Works, With Photogravures By Alvin Langdon Coburn
42. JAMES, Henry. The Novels and Tales. New York, 1907-17. Twenty-six volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter red
Important “New York Edition” (trade issue) of Henry James’ works, with 26 beautiful
frontispiece photogravures by Alvin Langdon Coburn and special prefaces prepared by
James specifically for this edition, handsomely bound in contemporary morocco-gilt.
“While James had contemplated a collected edition of his works as early as 1900, serious
discussions of the idea did not start until 1904… A number of publishers were considered…
but James ‘cherished’ the idea of Scribners,” likely because they had published or were
publishing the collected works of Robert Louis Stevenson, George Meredith and other
authors James admired. The collection was to be “a ‘testamentary act,’ an edition definitive,
one that would… ensure James’ place as a master of fiction on the level of Balzac.” A
tumultuous publication history ensued, and “it is not an exaggeration to say that the
public reception of The New York Edition… was a financial and emotional disaster for
James” (Supino, 397-400). Time has, however, viewed this edition far more favorably,
prizing it for not only for James’ specially prepared, insightful prefaces but also Coburn’s
photogravure frontispieces. Selected by James himself, they include landscape and
architectural views, and a portrait of the author in the first volume. Recognized for his
distinctive photographs of cities and people, Coburn helped found the Photo-Secession
Group of photographers. He won renown for his works’ misty atmosphere and his
portraits of prominent artists and writers; those of Henry James rank among his most memorable. This set includes the final two
volumes called for in a complete, 26-volume set. Because they were published posthumously, eight years after the last of the rest,
they are scarce and often missing and contain the last of James’ writings before his death. About-fine condition.
44 “An Honorable Place In Any Library Of
Children’s Books”: First Editions Of
Kipling’s Jungle Books
43. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. WITH:

The Second Jungle Book. London and New York, 1894-
95. Two volumes. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth
gilt. $6000.
First editions of Kipling’s classic Jungle Books, “replete

with adventure and excitement.”
“Among the 15 stories in [these volumes] are some of

Kipling’s most memorable narratives” (Abraham, 36).
“The child who has never run with Mowgli’s wolf pack,
or stood with Parnesius and Pertinax to defend the
Northern Wall… has missed something that he will not
get from any other writer” (Carpenter & Prichard, 297).
Illustrated largely by W.H. Drake and Kipling’s father, J.
Lockwood Kipling, “this most desirable pair… will always fill an honorable place in any library of children’s books” (Quayle 87).
Livingston 104, 116. Bookplates. Previous owner’s blindstamp in Jungle Book, pencil owner signature in Second Jungle Book. A
couple of minor instances of light foxing to Second Jungle Book. Jungle Book with expert inner paper hinge reinforcement, light
expert color restoration to cloth. Both volumes exceptional with bright gilt. A lovely about-fine set.
Illustrated Works Of Shakespeare, Beautifully Bound In Full Vellum-Gilt,

One Of Only 175 Sets
44. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works. London, 1899. Twelve volumes. Octavo, publisher’s
full vellum gilt. $7500.
Fine set of the “Larger Temple Shakespeare,” one of only 175 sets printed on handmade paper,
beautifully illustrated with 40 full-page plates (30 hand-tinted), and copious in-text line cuts.
This splendid edition of Shakespeare’s

Works “aims at the elucidation of the
text by means of illustrative drawings
from old books, broadsides, antiquarian
objects, [and] maps, belonging for the
most part, to the poet’s own times.”
With a biography of Shakespeare,
“newly discovered” frontispiece portrait
published for the first time, a folding
view of London during Shakespeare’s
day, facsimile title and preliminary
pages from the First Folio, and glossa-
ries of Shakespearian English. Chapter
headings printed in red. Early gift in-
scription. Interior generally fine, beauti-
ful publisher’s vellum with only very
mild soiling, gilt exceptionally bright. A
lovely set.
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john milton

“The Earliest Serious Effort To Illustrate
An Important Work Of English Poetry”:
Exceedingly Scarce First Folio
Edition And First Illustrated Edition
Of Paradise Lost
45. MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. BOUND
WITH: Paradise Regain’d… To which is added
Samson Agonistes. London, 1688. One volume.
Folio (10 by 15 inches), contemporary full paneled
brown calf rebacked and recornered. $18,000.
First folio edition and first illustrated edition of

Milton’s magnum opus, Paradise Lost, featuring 13
copper-engraved plates, including frontispiece
portrait of Milton and 12 beautiful copper-engraved
plates, one for each of the 12 books, the “crowning
effort” of renowned publisher Tonson, rarely found
together in one volume with the same year’s elegant
folio edition of Paradise Regain’d and Samson
Agonistes, from the library of famed bibliophile
Estelle Doheny with her gilt morocco bookplate, in
contemporary paneled calf.
Dryden referred to Paradise Lost as “one of the greatest, most noble and sub-
lime poems which either this age or nation has produced.” This rare volume
contains the splendid “first folio edition of Paradise Lost and the first to be
illustrated” (Wither to Prior 607), with a copper-plate engraved frontispiece of
Milton by R. White that contains the first publication of Dryden’s lines on
Milton, and 12 full-page copper-plate engravings: ten signed by Burgesse, who
also appears in the subscriber’s list, one signed by P.P. Bouche, and “the eighth
plate, one of the best, is anonymous” (Pforzheimer 720). This is “the earliest
serious effort to illustrate an important work of English poetry” (Hodnet, 63).
In one volume with this handsomely illustrated first folio edition of Paradise
Lost and is the same year’s Paradise Regain’d and Samson Agonistes, “for
which purpose it seems to have been published.” Tonson, London’s foremost
publisher, “considered this publication his crowning effort” (Wither to Prior
615, 607). He “was a great admirer of Paradise Lost, and he would eventually
acquire Milton’s corrected manuscript… which eventually led to the publica-
tion of [this] lavish folio edition in 1688” (Bristol, 58). Paradise Lost first
published in 1667. Paradise Regain’d and Samson Agonistes first published in
1671. From the library of renowned bibliophile Estelle Doheney, with her gilt
morocco bookplate. Text and plates generally fresh, frontispiece mounted,
Paradise Lost title page with expert archival repair to small hole minimally
affecting one letter, a few other expertly repaired marginal tears to text, minor
rubbing to boards. An excellent copy with fine impressions of plates.
46 “Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Do The Day After Tomorrow Just As Well”:
Mark Twain’s Sketches, 1875, In Scarce Publisher’s Morocco
46. TWAIN, Mark. Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old. Hartford,
Connecticut and Chicago, Illinois, 1875. Large square octavo,
original three-quarter brown morocco, custom half morocco
clamshell box. $4800.
First edition, first issue, of this collection of 63 humorous pieces by

Twain, in very scarce publisher’s morocco binding.
“Sketches, New and Old gathered 63 writings and originally sold by

subscription for $3 to $6… [and] offered a dazzling variety of subjects,
from time to tourism to taxes, from national prejudices to politics,
from mock romance to domestic comedy… Includes enough humor,
satire, social criticism, and philosophy to engage any reader and to in-
crease the growth of Mark Twain’s reputation” (LeMaster & Wilson,
685). With wood-engraved frontispiece and numerous in-text engrav-
ings by the most prolific of Twain illustrators, True Williams. Copies
bound in the publisher’s three-quarter morocco are exceedingly scarce:
four years after publication 25,445 cloth copies had been sold, com-
pared to 5145 in sheep and a mere 298 in three-quarter morocco.
Contemporary ink presentation inscription dated in the year of publi-
cation. Bookplate. Minor and expert restoration to spine ends only. A
beautiful copy.
“None Genuine Without This Label On The Bottle”

47. TWAIN, Mark. Autograph note signed. No place,
January, 1885. One quarto leaf of stationery, framed with
portrait. $7500.
Autograph note signed by Mark

Twain. The humorous note, entirely in
Twain’s hand, reads: “None genuine
without this label on the bottle: Mark
Twain. Jan. ‘85.”
A delightful, humorous inscription by

Twain, written the same month that
Huckleberry Finn was first published.
Fine condition, handsomely framed.
“A Window Opened Into This Unexplored Abyss” 47
48. VERNE, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas…

Boston, 1873. Octavo, original green cloth. $6200.
First American edition, second and usual issue, of Verne’s classic,

preceded by the very rare Osgood issue, known only in as few as 30
copies. With 110 splendid full-page woodcut illustrations.
Originally published in France in 1869-1870, 20,000 Leagues Under

the Sea has a complex publishing history in English, and particularly
in the United States. It was originally published in English by Sampson
Low in London, late in 1872. In November, 1872, James R.
Osgood published the first American edition in Boston, using
the sheets from the London edition and with a new title page.
Shortly thereafter, George M. Smith published this edition in
a format and binding very similar to the Osgood edition, and,
curiously, with the imprint “Edition of James R. Osgood” on
the title page. For an unknown reason, copies of Osgood’s
edition were quickly unavailable. There is some speculation
that the majority of copies were destroyed in the Great Boston
Fire (November 9-10, 1872). It is also possible that Osgood’s
issue was only available by subscription, making Smith’s edi-
tion the first trade edition of the title to be sold in America.
As few as thirty copies of the Osgood edition are known to
exist, making the true first American edition an incredibly
scarce publication and making this Smith issue a very desir-
able collector’s edition. Myers 56. Bookplate, early owner ink
signature. Front inner hinge expertly reinforced. Minor soil-
ing, gilt bright. A near-fine copy.
“The Most Important Foundation… Of The Science Fiction Genre”

49. WELLS, H.G. The Time Machine. London, 1895. 12mo, original beige cloth,
custom half morocco clamshell box. $6000.
Preferred first English edition of H.G. Wells’ first, groundbreaking “scientific

romance,” in original cloth.
In 1894 Wells “began writing what he called ‘single sitting stories’ using his special
knowledge of science, culminating in the publication of his novella The Time
Machine in 1895… It was an immediate success” (Gunn, Gilgamesh to Wells, 337).
Its earliest readers grasped its significance: as one contemporary review states, “So
far as our knowledge goes [Wells] has produced that rarity which Solomon declared
to be not merely rare but non-existent—a ‘new thing under the sun” (Bergonzi, 41).
Important not only for establishing Wells as a popular author but also for its
“crucial breakthrough in narrative technology, providing science fiction with one
of its most significant facilitating devices” (Clute & Nicholls, 1227), “it is the most
important foundation stone of British scientific romance and the science fiction genre
in general” (Anatomy of Wonder II:1232). This edition retains more of the text from
the novel’s 1895 New Review serial appearance than the American edition
(published in May of the same year; the English edition published in May and
August of the same year), and is thus preferred. Currey, 424. Bookplate. Very nearly
fine condition, far nicer than usually found.
w. h . auden
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“Mussolini May Stamp As Hitler May Shout/ But Lies In The End Will Always Come Out”:
Autograph Manuscript Of Auden’s Enduring Poem On The Holocaust, Refugee Blues,
Signed By Him And With Two Unpublished Stanzas
50. AUDEN, W.H. Autograph manuscript poem signed. No place, no date. Octavo, two leaves, each written on one
side only, 42 lines, 14 verses in blue ink. $15,000.
Autograph manuscript of the poem “Refugee Blues” (here entitled “Song”) in Auden’s hand, signed by him and with his
corrections, showing numerous interesting variations from the published poem, including an additional two stanzas
apparently unpublished.
In 1939 W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood

made the momentous decision to emigrate to
America. Auden had experienced first-hand the
growing force of Nazi Germany. In the 1920s he
had visited Berlin, when the threat of Nazism
was already rising. In 1935 he married Erika
Mann, the daughter of the German novelist
Thomas Mann and an ardent anti-Nazi, in order
to provide her with a British passport to escape
from Nazi Germany. In departing England,
Auden did not turn from the war, but instead in
a burst of creative energy composed in his first
months in America some of his most powerful
and prophetic poetry, including one of the great
poems of World War II, “September 1, 1939,”
and this, his haunting testament to the
Holocaust, “Refugee Blues.” The poem clearly
and poignantly addressed the annihilation of
the Jews in Germany. The narrator, in a song-
like cadence, says:
“Say this city has ten million souls,

Some are living in mansions, some are living
in holes:
Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s
no place for us…
“The consul banged the table and said,

‘If you’ve got no passport you’re officially dead’:
But we are still alive, my dear, but we are still alive…”
There are several interesting variations in this manuscript version from the version printed in Collected Poems, as 49
well as four corrections by Auden in which he crosses out and rewrites words or phrases. Of greatest significance is
the inclusion in this manuscript version of two stanzas not included in the published version. In verse 12 the narrator

refers to train coaches that are full:
“Ran down to the station to catch the express

Asked for two tickets to happiness
But every coach was full, my dear, but every coach was full.”
And the final, hopeful verse, which also does not appear in published versions of the poem, reads:
“Mussolini may stamp as Hitler may shout
But lies in the end will always come out
No matter what they do, my dear, no matter what they do.”
Minor paper clip rust mark to margin of one leaf. Auden’s writing clear and bold. An extremely desirable signed manu-
script poem in fine condition.
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print Of

W.H. Auden, Signed By Lotte Jacobi
51. JACOBI, Lotte. Photograph signed. New York,
circa 1946. Vintage gelatin silver print (11 by 14
inches), photographer’s penciled signature and
embossed stamp on recto; handsomely framed, entire
piece measures 22 by 17 inches. $7500.
Vintage gelatin silver print by Lotte Jacobi, signed by

her with her embossed “New York” studio stamp in
the lower right corner of print recto, her famed 1946
portrait of poet W.H. Auden, his face half in shadow,
half in soft light, quietly intent on the open book in
his hands.
The photographs of Lotte Jacobi, one of the 20th-

century’s finest portraitists, “are celebrated for their
directness, their penetrating immediacy, and their
ability to convey the essence of the subject before her
camera.” (Sundstrom, 1). Jacobi’s photographs cap-
tured the vibrancy of Berlin’s Weimar culture before
she was forced to flee Nazi Germany in the 1930s. In
the 1940s her New York studio became a second
home to many, like her, exiled by force or choice
from their native lands. That sensitivity resonates in
this famous portrait of British poet W.H. Auden,
who often “depicted himself as a voyager” and in 1946, when this was taken, had just returned from “a visit to the war
ruins of Europe” (Davenport-Hines, 1, 228). With Jacobi’s trademark penciled signature at the lower right corner of the
print recto, immediately beneath her embossed stamp: “Lotte Jacobi, New York.” From the estate of Lotte Jacobi. A fine
signed print.
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“In This Book He Is Unsurpassable”
52. FAULKNER, William. The Hamlet. New York, 1940.

Octavo, original three-quarter dark green cloth, acetate. $7500.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 250 copies signed by

Faulkner, with scarce original acetate dust wrapper.
The first novel in the acclaimed and popular Snopes trilogy, The
Hamlet was the only novel Faulkner published between Absalom,
Absalom! in 1936 and Knight’s Gambit in 1949. The critical re-
sponse was very positive: Malcolm Cowley considered it
Faulkner’s best work since Sanctuary, while The New York Times
hailed it as “nothing short of superb—subtle and yet direct, hu-
morous, homely, brilliantly evocative of a decaying South in the
generation after the Civil War… In this book he is unsurpassable”
(Blotner, 416). Petersen A.22.1a. Brodsky 210. Fine condition.
Scarce and desirable.
“Faulkner Knows Exactly What He Is Doing”

53. FAULKNER, William. The Unvanquished. New York, 1938.
Octavo, original half burgundy cloth. $8500.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 250 specially bound copies,
signed by Faulkner.
This collection of seven interconnected stories about the Sartoris

family includes six previously published stories and one new story,
“An Odor of Verbena.” “The stories are full of action… and its
outdoor scenes of fights with Yankees and highwaymen, its pictures
of the transformation of well-bred Southern boys to horse thieves
and killers, give The Unvanquished something of the air of Two
Little Confederates as it might have been written by an
author aware of the race problem, economics, and
Freudian psychology… Faulkner knows exactly what he
is doing in tracing the New South to its origins in the
Old” (Time magazine, see In Tall Cotton 55). No dust
jacket or slipcase was issued with this edition. Petersen
A19.1. Brodsky 193. Fine condition.
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Signed Limited First Edition Of Frost’s
Complete Poems

54. FROST, Robert. Complete Poems of Robert Frost
1949. New York, 1949. Octavo, original beige cloth,
slipcase. $4000.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 500 copies signed

by Frost, with frontispiece photograph of the poet. Scarce
in original glassine.
“The most highly esteemed American poet of the 20th

century… T.S. Eliot [in 1959] toasted Frost as ‘perhaps the
most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American
poet now living,’ whose ‘kind of local feeling in poetry…
can go without universality: the relation of Dante to
Florence… of Robert Frost to New England” (ANB).
Comprehensive through 1949, this edition includes
“Mending Wall,” “The Death of a Hired Man,” “The Road
Not Taken” and “Storm Fear.” Crane A35. A fine copy with
the scarcely seen glassine.
Inscribed Presentation Copy Of Hemingway’s

Classic The Old Man And The Sea
55. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and The Sea. New York,
1956. Octavo, original blue cloth, later dust jacket. $11,500.
Early printing, a scarce presentation copy of Hemingway’s masterful

tale of “a fishing adventure… as close to tragedy as fishing may be”
(New York Times), inscribed: “To James — with sincere best wishes
always, Ernest Hemingway.”
William Faulkner, who reviewed The Old Man and the Sea for the
magazine Shenandoah, called the novel Hemingway’s best: “Time may
show it to be the best single piece of any of us. I mean his and my con-
temporaries” (Baker, 593-94). “Here is the master technician once more
at the top of his form, doing superbly what he can do better than anyone
else” (New York Times). The Old Man and the Sea is among the most
desirable and scarcest of Hemingway’s works to obtain inscribed. Early
printing, with no date on title
page and without Scribner
“A” beneath copyright no-
tice, with publisher’s code
M-7.56[H] indicating this
this is the 13th printing,
printed in July, 1956. Later-issue dust jacket as well, with mention of the Nobel Prize
for Literature 1954 on the rear panel, and with scarce publisher’s printed belly band
also mentioning the Nobel Prize. See Hanneman A24a. Book fine, minor creasing to
dust jacket spine head. A lovely inscribed copy in very nearly fine condition.
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Association First Edition Of For Whom The Bell Tolls, Inscribed By Hemingway
56. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust
jacket. $14,000.
First edition of this classic Hemingway novel, inscribed: “To Gregg Sinclair, with all good wishes, Ernest
Hemingway.”
“This is the best book Ernest Hemingway has written, the fullest, the
deepest, the truest. It will, I think, be one of the major novels of
American literature… Hemingway has struck universal chords, and
he has struck them vibrantly” (J. Donald Adams). Binding is a variant
with lettering on white panels on the spine, as opposed to on red
panels, as usually seen. Hanneman A18a. Inscribed to Gregg Sinclair,
the University of Hawaii professor who hosted a luncheon for
Hemingway at the Willows Restaurant during his Hawaiian vacation
in February 1941. Book with light staining to endpapers; rear inner
paper hinge split; light soiling to spine. Light restoration to dust jacket.
Minor water spot to inscription. A nice inscribed copy.
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“That Musical Crystal-Clear Style, Blown Like Glass From The White-Heat Of Violence”:
Signed Limited First Edition Of Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms,
The Only One Of His Works So Issued, In Scarce Original Slipcase, A Beautiful Copy
57. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York, 1929. Tall octavo, original white parchment spine, slipcase,
custom clamshell box. $22,500.
Signed limited first edition of Hemingway’s “consummate masterpiece,” one of only 510 copies signed by him, a splendid
copy, uncut and entirely unopened, in scarce original slipcase.
“Probably [Hemingway’s] best… Its success was so enormous… After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-
clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence… the beginning, like all his beginnings, seems effortless and
magical” (Connally 60). “A Farewell to Arms was the novel that placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters…
[it is], in fact, the most satisfying and most sustained, the consummate masterpiece, among Hemingway’s novels. It bears
the mark of Hemingway’s best gifts as a writer” (Mellow, 377-79). The only signed limited first edition of any of Hemingway’s
works. Without rarely found glassine. Hanneman A8b. An almost perfect copy with only very slight soiling to vellum spine
ends; slipcase expertly restored.
54 Beautiful First Edition Of Heinlein’s Classic
Stranger In A Strange Land
D ecem ber 2013 | H istory, S ci ence & E x plor at ion
58. HEINLEIN, Robert. Stranger in a Strange Land. New York, 1961.

Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $8500.
First edition of Heinlein’s most famous and influential novel.
“An amazing, iconoclastic and complex satire of hypocrisy in sex and

religion… A radical departure from conventional science fiction”
(Patterson, 29, 48). “It reached large audiences farther away from his science
fiction roots than anything else [Heinlein] wrote, and inspired insurgencies
both right and left” (Anatomy of Wonder II-518). The novel won Heinlein
his third Hugo Award—and while it strikes many readers as wildly
divergent from his previous Hugo-winning book, Starship Troopers (1959),
the author once claimed that the two works explored the same theme: “love
and duty—and how they are related to the survival of our race.” Currey,
193. Smiley, 36. Book fine, only very light wear to extremities of bright dust
jacket. An about-fine copy of this science-fiction landmark.
“Yes, Everybody’s Happy Now”:

First Edition Of Brave New World
59. HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London, 1932. Octavo, original
blue cloth, dust jacket. $8200.
First trade edition of Huxley’s haunting dystopian classic, this copy inscribed
in the year of publication by William Theodore Golden, the prominent
American statesman and entrepreneur who forged a path for science in
America, initiating the creation of a national science adviser under Truman,
and pivotal in the creation of the National Science Foundation—“an icon in
the American scientific community” (Washington Post).
“After the success of his first three novels, Huxley abandoned the fictional
milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future.
He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G.
Wells’ Utopian vision… The book was immediately successful” (Parker &
Kermode, 161-62). It remains the “seminal dystopia… As argument and as
satire, Brave New World is a compendium of usable points and quotable
jibes… and has provided material for much subsequent fiction,” not only
within speculative fiction but also beyond it (Clute & Nicholls, 606). Preceded
by the signed limited edition of 324 copies. Owner inscription of William
Theodore Golden, a prominent American statesman and entrepreneur “who earned a fortune in the 1930s through canny Wall
Street investments, spent more than 50 years bringing the foremost minds of science together with presidents, mayors and
international leaders… Golden became a consultant to President Truman in 1950 and recommended that he hire a scientist to
monitor the nation’s research efforts. Every president since has had an official science
adviser. Golden also helped launch the National Science Foundation… At his death
in 2007, Golden was remembered as “an icon in the American scientific community”
(Washington Post). Text fine, lightest edge-wear to bright gilt cloth; chipping to spine
head of dust jacket minimally affecting spine title. A highly desirable near-fine copy.
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m a rga ret mitchell
“My Dear, I Don’t Give A Damn”: First Edition Of Gone With The Wind,
Signed By Margaret Mitchell
60. MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York, 1936. Thick octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket, custom
box. $20,000.
First edition, first printing, of this American classic, in original dust

jacket, signed by the author.
“This is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced
by an American writer. It is also one of the best… It has been a long
while since the American public has been offered such a bounteous
feast of excellent story-telling” (New York Times Book Review, 1936).
Said to be the fastest selling novel in the history of American publishing (50,000 copies in a single day), Gone with the
Wind won Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize. Bookplate with owner’s name eradicated pasted down beneath Mitchell’s signature.
Occasional scattered light foxing to interior; light rubbing to extremities of original cloth. Scarce original dust jacket
extremely good with light wear to extremities and a one-inch closed tear to spine head, light soiling to spine, and tape
residue to verso. Scarce signed.
56 “This Would Be Ten Times As Good If I Could’ve USED 1%
Of The Real Stories…”
61. MICHENER, James. Tales of the South Pacific. New York, 1947. Octavo,
original pale orange cloth, dust jacket. $8000.
First edition of Michener’s first—and Pulitzer-winning—professional

writing effort, the basis of the classic musical “South Pacific,” inscribed by
the author to a colleague at Macmillan, “Dear Van: This would be ten times
as good if I could used [sic] 1% of the real stories you’ve told me in the last few
years. Jim Michener.”
“In 1940 Michener began a nine-year association, interrupted by

World War II, with the Macmillan publishing firm as a social-science
editor. In October 1942 Michener enlisted in the U.S. Navy reserve,
was commissioned the following February, served for a year at desk
assignments in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, and in April 1944
was sent to the Pacific theater of operations. He was partly an aviator
inspector but mostly a publications officer. His visits to some 50
islands inspired his Tales of the South Pacific (1947)… Although the
book won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, it remained little known until
South Pacific, the 1949 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, made him famous and rich. Then he began to
write full time” (ANB). “Macmillan apparently had little faith in the book, because the first edition was cheaply produced, with
a flimsy dust wrapper and a high-acid-content text stock that has browned badly over the years” (Groseclose, 21). Groseclose
A.003. Inscribed to George Lippincott Van Curan, colleague and good friend of Michener in the school textbook division of
Macmillan in the late 1940s. Book with slight rubbing to spine ends and extremities. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with three tape
repairs to verso. A near-fine inscribed presentation/association copy.
The Fountainhead, Inscribed By Ayn Rand

62. RAND, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Indianapolis and New York,
1943. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $6000.
Later printing of Rand’s best-selling and unforgettable celebration of

the individual spirit, inscribed by the author: “To Frank N. Skinner—
Cordially—Ayn Rand, 5/28/70.”
From 1935 to 1943, Rand worked as a secretary in an architectural firm,

and while there wrote The Fountainhead, her first Objectivist novel and
her first bestseller. “Reviews of her third novel were generally unfavor-
able, but it still became a word-of-mouth bestseller. It is the story of
Howard Roark, an architect who is such an individualist and so honor-
able (that is, so true to himself) that when one of his designs is modified
(in his view, adulterated) by mediocre minds, he destroys his own work.
For the rest of her life Rand expanded on this theme” (ANB). “Rand has
taken her stand against collectivism, ‘the rule of the second-hander, the
ancient monster,’ which has brought men ‘to a level of intellectual inde-
cency never equalled on earth.’ She has written a hymn in praise of the
individual” (Lorine Pruette). Rand would also write the screenplay for
the film version of the novel, released in 1949 and starring Gary Cooper
and Patricia Neal. Later printing, without listing of printing number on copyright page, in second-
state dust jacket. Perinn A3. Interior fine; light rubbing to cloth extremities. Light wear to ex-
tremities of dust jacket with toning to spine and some expert coloring to spine. An extremely good inscribed copy.
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“As Near To An Autobiography As I Will Ever Write”:
Very Scarce First Edition Of We The Living, Ayn Rand’s First Novel, Presentation/Association Copy,
Inscribed In The Year Of Publication To Her Literary Agent, Mary Virginia Inloes
63. RAND, Ayn. We the Living. New York, 1936. Octavo, original beige cloth. $19,000.
Scarce first edition of Rand’s first novel, one of only 3000 copies printed, inscribed by the author in the year of publication: “To
Mary Virginia Inloes—with the very best wishes of the author. Ayn Rand. June 17, 1936.”
We The Living, Rand’s first novel, was first published in April 1936 in a very small edition of 3000 copies. It details the heroine’s
struggle for individualism under Soviet communism and is the most autobiographical of Rand’s novels, published ten years
after she fled the Soviet Union for the United States. When the work was re-issued in 1959, Rand noted in the book’s forward
that “for those readers who have expressed a personal curiousity about me, I want to say that We the Living is as near to an
autobiography as I will ever write.” Without scarce original dust jacket. Perinn A1a. Inloes was a Hollywood literary agent,
representing Rand’s play Night of January 16th, which ran on Broadway from September 1935 through April 1936. In a letter
to Inloes dated June 18, 1936, one day after the inscription in this copy, Rand wrote: “I have just sent you a copy of my book, for
I certainly do not want you to wait for it at a lending library… I am quite happy and proud about the book, much more so that
about the unfortunate Night of January 16th. Speaking of Night, I must report that it is doing very well in summer stock. There
are several companies doing it now and many more planned. The London production is tentatively scheduled for September. I
understand also that a road tour of the big cities is planned for this fall” (Berliner, 31). Interior fine; light soiling to boards and
light toning to spine. An extremely good copy, scarce inscribed and with such exceptional provenance.
58 Presentation First Edition Of The Jungle,
Warmly Inscribed By Sinclair To His Patron,
Social Reformer And Philanthropist Geoffrey D. Herron
64. SINCLAIR, Upton. The Jungle. New York, 1906. Octavo, original
pictorial green cloth. $9200.
First edition of Sinclair’s muckraking classic, warmly inscribed by him to

his patron, the social reformer and millionaire philanthropist Geoffrey D.
Herron: “To Geo. D. Herron with sincerest gratitude & affection from The
Author. Princeton N.J. Feb 17th ’06.”
Sinclair’s famous exposé of Chicago meatpacking practices led to the im-

mediate passage of food-inspection laws, but failed to generate the ground-
swell of sympathy for the International Socialist cause for the author had
hoped would follow. Rohde, 38. This copy is inscribed to George D. Herron
“an early important figure in the rise of the Social Gospel in American
Protestantism… Herron subsidized
Sinclair while he wrote Manassas:
A Novel of the War (1904), a well-
researched novel combining history
and politics” (ANB). Bookplate and
inventory log of Willard S. Morse, an avid collector of Americana, with particularly large
collections of Bret Harte, Howard Pyle, and Upton Sinclair. Bookplate of Dr. and Mrs.
Elmer Belt, known for their spectacular collections of Florence Nightingale, Leonardo da
Vinci, and Upton Sinclair. Early bookseller advertisement. Text leaf detached, inner pa-
per hinge split, only light rubbing to cloth extremities. An attractive, near-fine presenta-
tion/association copy, with an outstanding provenance.
“Among Steinbeck’s Best Novels”

65. STEINBECK, John. In Dubious Battle. New York, 1936. Octavo,
original orange cloth, dust jacket, box. $8500.
First trade edition of Steinbeck’s fourth novel, published at the height of the
Great Depression and hailed as “the best strike and labor novel to come
out of our contemporary economic and social unrest” (New York Times), in
scarce dust jacket.
“Among Steinbeck’s best novels, the least known is probably In Dubious

Battle… It furnishes a handle by which one can grasp the larger intentions
of Steinbeck’s work” (New York Times Book Review). Steinbeck’s fourth
novel, this was the first of his to examine the lives of migrant workers. On
publication it was praised as “one of the most courageous and desperately
honest books that has appeared in a long time. It is also, both dramatically
and realistically, the best strike and labor novel to come out of our
contemporary economic and social unrest” (New York Times). “Considered
one of the great strike novels of the Depression years, In Dubious Battle has
as its setting Watsonville, California, only a few miles from Salinas and the
home of [Steinbeck’s] sister, Esther Rodgers. It was awarded the
Commonwealth Club of California Medal for 1936” (Salinas, 23). In October 2008, the New York Times asked President Barack
Obama to provide a list of books and writers that were significant to him; In Dubious Battle was one of the president’s selections.
Preceded only by the signed limited edition of 99 copies. Goldstone & Payne A5b. An exceptionally fine copy.
“Timshel!”: East Of Eden, 59
Signed Limited First Edition

66. STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York, 1952. Octavo,
original green cloth. $5800.
Signed limited first edition of Steinbeck’s epic and moving story of

a modern Cain and Abel, one of 1500 copies signed by the author.
Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his masterful modern reworking

of the tale of Cain and Abel, that it “has everything in it I have
been able to learn about my art or craft or profession in all these
years… I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense,
practice for this” (Salinas Public Library, 45). As a contemporary
reviewer put it, “Steinbeck is never dull and, even if you miss his
message, you’ll not be bored. There is only one Steinbeck and no
one writes about ‘his people’ as well” (W. Max Gordon). Without
original cardboard slipcase, original acetate dust jacket. Goldstone
& Payne A32a. Light foxing to endpapers. Fine condition.
“The Ancient Commission Of The Writer Has Not Changed”

67. STEINBECK, John. Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
New York, 1962. Octavo, staple-bound as issued, original tan printed tan
paper wrapper, custom clamshell box. $6800.
Limited first edition, one of 3200 copies printed for friends of

the author and the publisher of Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize
speech, with striking photographic frontispiece portrait by
Paul Farber. A fine copy, signed by Steinbeck on the title page.
“On the morning of October 25, 1962, Elaine was cooking

breakfast in the house at Sag Harbor when John, dressed in
pajamas and robe, padded over to the television set in the
adjoining sitting room to turn on the news. It was the period
of the Cuban missile crisis and John wanted to see, as he
muttered to Elaine, ‘if the world was still turning.’ The first
words that came from the set were, ‘John Steinbeck has been
awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.’ John was
thunderstruck—he had absolutely no idea that he had even
been under consideration that year… As his reputation with
the literary establishment [had] faded [since his first
nomination in 1945]… the idea that he might get the prize
had long ago left his mind.” Indeed, the press largely responded with faint
and tepid praise, questioning the Nobel committee’s judgment. “Because
of the opposition, [Steinbeck] felt he was under particular pressure to
come up with the best possible speech… He worried and fretted and stormed about the house, trying draft after draft… ‘I don’t
know whether or not it’s good but at least it’s me… Now they can take it or leave it. Only I hope I get the money first” (Benson,
914-18). Valentine 269. Morroco-gilt bookplate inside clamshell. A fine copy of a speech seldom found signed.
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“The First Flight Of A Fine Writing Talent”
68. STEINBECK, John. The Pastures of Heaven. New York, 1932. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $18,000.
Scarce first edition, first issue, one of a scant 650 copies sold, of Steinbeck’s lyrical and incisive portrait of the verdant heart of
California and its people—“points the way to most of his subsequent writing”—a beautiful copy in original dust jacket.
The Pastures of Heaven, Steinbeck’s second-published book, “began as an idea for a volume of interconnected short stories… The
setting was also prepared for the writing of Pastures by Steinbeck’s interest in family history, continuity and inheritance,
particularly in father-son relationships.” Shortly after submitting the completed manuscript, Steinbeck wrote, “‘If the reader will
take them for what they are, and will not be governed by what a short story should be (for they are not short stories at all, but tiny
novels) then they should be charming… There is no grand writing nor any grand theme, but I love the stories very much”
(Benson, 209, 219). Critics praised The Pastures of Heaven on publication as “the first flight of a fine writing talent” (Nation),
especially “noteworthy for its originality of phrase and image and a strongly poetic feeling” (New York Times Book Review).
Among other achievements, it “represents Steinbeck’s first effective use of local color and legend” (Salinas Public Library, 19).
“Today The Pastures of Heaven is the most popular of Steinbeck’s three early books. It points the way to most of his subsequent
writing” (Valentine 14). “Brewer, Warren & Putnam printed 2500 sets of sheets, of which 1650 were bound and about 650 copies
sold. The remainder were sold to Robert O. Ballou in 1932” (Goldstone & Payne, 22). Goldstone & Payne A2a. Bruccoli & Clark
I:353. Valentine 14. Near-fine dust jacket lightly rubbed with minor abrasions to spine, light wear to edges. Book fine. A lovely,
desirable copy of an elusive and significant Steinbeck first edition.
“The Imagination Is The Power Of The Mind Over The 61
Possibilities Of Things”: Stevens’ Pulitzer Prize-Winning
Collected Poems, Inscribed By Him With Powerful

Quotation Within Two Weeks Of Publication
69. STEVENS, Wallace. The Collected Poems. New York, 1954. Octavo,
original maroon cloth, dust jacket. $6000.
Limited first edition of Stevens’ Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, one of

2500 copies, this copy inscribed by the poet within two weeks of publication:
“The imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.
Nec. Angel, 136. To —. Wallace Stevens. Oct. 14, 1954.”
Critically praised as “a triumph of

the imagination,” Stevens’ Collected
Poems, which he wanted to call The
Whole Harmonium and resisted
publishing because “a collected
volume seemed final,” was specially
published in his honor, on his 75th
birthday. “They are proof, as their
author has said, that Poetry is one
of the sanctions of life” (New York Times). Containing the complete poems of seminal
works such as Harmonium (1931), Ideas of Order (1935) and Transport to Summer (1923),
among others. Awarded the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. With the exception of six poems,
“all those in ‘The Rock’ appear here for the first time in book form.” This limited first
edition published October 1, 1954. Morse A19. Edelstein 23.a.1. A fine copy.
Inscribed By Wallace Stevens, Scarce First Edition Of

The Man With The Blue Guitar & Other Poems
70. STEVENS, Wallace. The Man with the Blue Guitar & Other Poems.
New York, 1937. Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $5500.
First edition of Stevens’s classic collection, one of 1000 copies, signed and
dated by him, “Wallace Stevens, June 10, 1954,” only one year before he
won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, scarce in second state dust jacket. A
beautiful copy.
To critic Harold Bloom, “Blue Guitar is a very American poem, and

deliberately so. Its precursor poem is [Whitman’s] Song of Myself.” In this
volume’s title poem, together with “A Thought Revolved,” “The Men That
Are Falling” and the poet’s revised version of “Owl’s Clover” (1936),
Stevens continues his goal to emphasize “the opposition between
things as they are and things imagined; in short, to isolate
poetry.” Awarded the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, “no poet
gives us more to think about or greater reward for thinking”
(Chiasson, New York Review of Books). A fine inscribed copy.
62 First Trade Edition Of In Country Sleep,
Signed By Dylan Thomas
71. THOMAS, Dylan. In Country Sleep. New York, 1952. Slim

octavo, original blue-green boards, dust jacket. $6200.
First trade edition, published only one year before Thomas’ death,
signed and dated 1953 by Thomas, in scarce dust jacket.
Dylan Thomas’ last collection of new poetry includes “Poem on His

Birthday,” the famed villanelle “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good
Night,” “Lament” and “In Country Sleep.” Interviewed just before
the book’s publication, Thomas said, “I’ve never seen what a poem
really looks like. But I keep trying” (Ferris, 274). He died the
following year. With photograph of Thomas mounted on the title
page. The first trade edition was published the same year as the
signed limited first edition of only 100 copies. Rolph B15. Maud, 18.
Book fine; only slight wear to extremities of scarce, unrestored dust
jacket. A fine signed copy.
Signed By Hunter S. Thompson:

First Edition Of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
72. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. New
York, 1971. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $8250.
First edition of Thompson’s edgy journey into the American dream,

boldly signed by him with his characteristic “H.S. Thompson,” and
additionally dated SF/7.18,84” by him.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas “cemented Mr. Thompson’s place as a

singular presence in American journalism or, as he once called himself,
‘a connoisseur of edge work” (New York Times). Thompson’s
second book, the embodiment of Gonzo journalism, “is a
custom-crafted study of paranoia… a desperate and impor-
tant book, a wired nightmare, the funniest piece of
American prose since Naked Lunch” (Books of the Century,
278-80). Illustrated by Ralph Steadman, Thompson’s hallu-
cinogenic saga became “a metaphor for the state of the
American nation” (Stringer, 666). Made into the movie of
the same title in 1998, directed by Terry Gilliam and star-
ring Johnny Depp. Evidence of bookplate removal on the
front pastedown. Interior fine; light toning and wear to
binding edges. Price-clipped dust jacket bright and fine. A
near-fine copy, scarce signed.
First Edition Of The Rose Tattoo, 63
Boldly Inscribed By Tennessee Williams

73. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo. New York: 1951. Octavo,
original rose cloth, dust jacket. $4800.
First edition of Williams’ Tony Award-winning play—his “celebration of

the inebriate god,” boldly inscribed: “Sincerely, Tennessee Williams.”
Williams wrote of his play, “The Rose Tattoo is the Dionysian element in
human life… the lyric as well as the Bacchantic impulse… the transcen-
dence of life over the instruments it uses… a celebration of the inebriate
god” (Spoto, The Kindness of Strangers, 170). In his Memoirs he called it
“my love-play to the world.” Williams wrote the play following his 1948
trip to Italy. It opened in New York on
February 3, 1951, and ran for 306 perfor-
mances, winning five Tony Awards, in-
cluding Best Play, and was adapted to the
screen in 1955, earning three Oscars, in-
cluding Best Actress for Anna Magnani.
Crandell A10.1.a. Book fine, bright dust
jacket near-fine with a few small closed
tears to edges. A lovely inscribed copy.
Signed By Tennessee Williams,

Very Scarce First Edition Of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
74. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New York, 1955.
Octavo, original salmon cloth, dust jacket. $6500.
First edition, first printing, of the play for which Williams won his second
Pulitzer Prize, signed by the playwright.
In 1973 Williams admitted, “Though Glass Menagerie may be my best

play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is still my favorite” (Devlin, 244). Includes
both the Broadway and the original version of the Third Act, which
Williams reluctantly rewrote at
director Elia Kazan’s request. First
printing, with no acknowledge-
ment on the verso of the title page
and no credit for scenic and cos-
tume design on page xii. Crandell
A15.I.a. Only lightest edge-wear
to pristine dust jacket. A fine
signed copy.
History, Science & Exploration
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ch a rles da rw in
“Man Still Bears… The Indelible Stamp Of His Lowly Origin”
75. DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man. London, 1871. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter polished
tan calf gilt, custom slipcase. $12,000.
First edition, first issue, of Darwin’s landmark treatise, in which the word “evolution” is used to describe his theory for the
first time in any of his works, handsomely bound.
“The book, in its first edition, contains two parts, the descent of man itself, and selection in relation to sex. The word
‘evolution’ occurs [Volume I, p. 2] for the first time in any of Darwin’s works” (Freeman, 128-29). “In the Origin Darwin had
avoided discussing the place occupied by Homo sapiens in the scheme of natural selection, stating only that ‘light will be
thrown on the origin of man and his history.’ Twelve years later he made good his promise with The Descent of Man”
(Norman 599). Freeman 937. Garrison & Morton 170. Norman 599. Armorial bookplates. Occasional light pencil
marginalia. Bindings lightly rubbed. A very nearly fine copy, handsomely bound.
Signed By Einstein In The Year Of Publication, 65
Ideas And Opinions

76. EINSTEIN, Albert. Ideas and Opinions. New York, 1954. Octavo,
original gray cloth, dust jacket. $9000.
First edition of a major collection of Einstein writings, signed and date by

him in the year of publication, revealing the “many facets of the mind and
personality of the greatest scientist of our time” (New York Times), featuring
some works never before published in book form.
In this important and wide-ranging collection of Einstein’s writings, the

“many facets of the mind and personality of the greatest scientist of our
time are presented in a distinguished translation… Here one finds Einstein’s
views on the nature and methods of science, his own contributions to
physics, his reminiscences about scientific colleagues, and his evaluations
of the achievements of great scientists of the past—Kepler, Copernicus,
Newton, Maxwell,” as well as his thoughts on subjects ranging from
world peace to fascism. “The reader gains an insight into the unique
character of Einstein’s thinking in science and begins to sense the
grounds of Einstein’s basic satisfaction ‘with the mystery of the
eternity of life” (New York Times). Book fine; lightest edge-wear to
scarce about-fine dust jacket.
“There Are Many People Suffering From Phantasies And Don’t Want To Be Cured”:
Fascinating Typed Letter Signed By Carl Jung Mentioning Napoleon
77. JUNG, Carl. Typed letter signed. Zurich,
May 11, 1955. One half sheet of ivory wove typing
paper. $5500.
Intriguing typed letter signed by Jung to an

American correspondent answering a request to
sign books, and also discussing Napoleon, theoso-
phists, and the “many people suffering from
phantasies” who “don’t want to be cured.”
The text of the letter, written on Prof. Dr. C.G.

Jung’s letterhead with the address of Küsnacht-
Zürich Seestrasse 228 and dated May 11, 1955, reads in full: “Dear Sir, No objection against signing your books! It is quite indif-
ferent to old Napoleon whether anybody calls him a genius. Thus it is immaterial what I call him; when I talk of him, I talk of
Napoleon I, and according to the prevailing mood, I may call him a great nuisance or a scoundrel or a hell of a fellow. The the-
osophists claim many things beside rebirth. Nobody can hinder them. There are many people suffering from phantasies and don’t
want to be cured. Sincerely yours, [signed] C.G. Jung.” At the time he wrote this letter, the world-renowned psychologist was
nearly 85 years old, continuing to write and publish articles and books. Single fold line. Fine condition.
66 “The Place Of Any Star In The Primitive Sphere”: First
Edition Of Isaac Newton’s Chronology, 1728, With
Three Folding Plates, Scarce Large-Paper Copy
78. NEWTON, Isaac. Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms

Amended. London, 1728. Quarto, contemporary full brown
calf rebacked in elaborately gilt-decorated calf. $4500.
First edition, large paper copy, of Newton’s posthumously pub-

lished work, demonstrating the value of the Ptolemaic system in
his “startling revision of long accepted historical dates,” with
three folding diagrams of Solomon’s Temple.
Published posthumously, Newton’s Chronology expresses his

long pursuit of “a new system of ancient chronology,” poten-
tially heretical in its “startling revision of long accepted his-
torical dates.” Here Newton attempts to calculate the dates of
ancient events using astronomical considerations that dem-
onstrate the value of the Ptolemaic system. Newton had spent
years on the work when the 1725 publication of a pirated ver-
sion in French, which also refuted its conclusions, motivated him
to complete his text, a task occupying him until his final days.
Shortly before Newton died in 1727 Bishop Pearce wrote that “‘I found him writing over his Chronology… He read to me two
or three sheets of what he had written” (Christianson, 564-5). Babson 214. Bookplate. Text and plates generally fresh.
Contemporary calf boards expertly restored. Quite handsome.
“Highly Valuable For Its Variety And Extent Of Information”

79. BARROW, John. Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa.
London, 1806. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary full brown diced
calf rebacked with original spines laid down. $5500.
Second edition of Barrow’s important account, enlarged with the

addition of eight hand-colored aquatints not present in the first
edition. With a large folding map of Southern Africa outlined in
color and eight folding plans (two hand-colored), as in the first
edition. Handsome in contemporary calf.
At the time Barrow began collecting information for this work less
than a tenth of the British colony of South Africa had been accurately
mapped. During the course of his travels he visited the Boers,
Hottentots, and the Bosjemen, performing “a journey exceeding one
thousand miles on horseback, on foot, and very rarely in a covered
wagon, and full half the distance as a pedestrian, and never except for
a few nights sleeping under a roof.” The result was the most compre-
hensive work on the region published to date, with a map that at upon
appearance was unrivalled in its accuracy and scope. “Highly valu-
able for its variety and extent of information, both political and scien-
tific” (Lowndes, 122-23). The first edition of 1801-04 only included
one view, a folding hand-tinted aquatint view of Cape Town not re-
tained in this second edition, which has been enlarged with the addition of eight hand-colored engravings illustrating Boers,
natives, and fauna of South Africa not present in the first edition. Bookplate. Text and plates generally clean, hand-coloring fine.
Extremely good in nicely restored contemporary calf.
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crick a nd watson

One Of The Most Important Discoveries In The
Entire History Of Science, Scarce Offprint Of
Crick And Watson’s Discovery Of The Double Helix
Structure Of DNA, With Additional Material
80. CRICK, F.H.C. and WATSON, James D. Molecular
Structure of Nucleic Acids. Offprint from Nature, Volume 171.
London, 1953. WITH: CRICK, F.H.C. The Structure of the
Hereditary Material. Reprinted from Scientific American.
October 1954. WITH: CRICK, F.H.C. Nucleic Acids. Reprinted
from Scientific American. September 1957. Volume 197. No. 3.
San Francisco, 1957. Three volumes. Quarto, original self-
wrappers; custom box. $25,000.
Rare collection of three offprints documenting the discovery of

DNA, featuring the exceedingly scarce first offprint of the first
Watson and Crick article on DNA, the revolutionary 1953 work
announcing its double helix structure, whose scientific impact is
comparable “to the breakthroughs that led to the splitting of the
atom and the invention of the computer” (Sylvia Nassar).
Accompanied by the very scarce offprints of Crick’s 1954 Structure
of the Hereditary Material and his 1957 Nucleic Acids, the latter
with one of his earliest published statements on his “Central
Dogma,” proposing “a startling vision of life… the ‘philosophy’ of
the new science.” Also with facsimiles of 1957 correspondence be-
tween Crick and Linus Pauling, and a 1985 typed letter signed by
Maurice Wilkins, who shared the Nobel Prize with Watson and
Crick, together housed in a custom morocco clamshell box.
In 1962 Crick, Watson and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize “for their discoveries
concerning the molecular structure of nuclear acids and its significance for infor-
mation transfer in living material.” The publication of their joint 1953 paper in
Nature revolutionized biochemistry and the other life sciences, and
profoundly affected the study of molecular biology. The final paper as
it appears here was a complete work—Watson and Crick did not reveal
their work to the scientific community in stages—making its impact all
the greater. This scarce offprint contains the three papers that appeared
in the issue of Nature for April, 1953. The offprint was printed from the
standing type (rather than the electrotype plate used for the journal),
and is, in effect, a galley proof, issued in a small number for distribu-
tion among the scientists involved. Crick’s article Structure of the
Hereditary Material offers insight into the investigative processes he
and Watson followed; in his 1957 article, Nucleic Acids, he makes one
of his very first published statements about “the Central Dogma,”
which would prove “a turning point in the history of the life sciences…
came to replace another theory, the three-dimensional template theo-
ry… advocated by Linus Pauling” (Strasser). A landmark collection in
the history of science, in fine condition.
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rich a rd f. burton
Inscribed And Signed By Sir Richard F. Burton,
A Pilgrimage To Meccah And Medinah In One Volume
81. BURTON, Richard Francis. Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Meccah and Medinah. London and Belfast, 1879. Octavo, original
green beveled cloth gilt. $9000.
Third edition, revised, of “a most remarkable work of the highest value” (T.E. Lawrence), Burton’s scarce and important
illustrated narrative of his journey to Mecca, inscribed by Burton: “In memory of our pleasant hours at Trieste with affect[ionate]
regards. Richard & Isabel, 22. Dec 1881.” With three folding plans, one color folding map, and 27 in-text illustrations.
After years of studying Oriental customs and manners, Burton offered his services to the Royal Geographical Society “for the
purpose of removing that opprobrium to modern adventure, the huge white blot which in our maps still notes the Eastern and
Central Regions of Arabia” (Penzer, 44). Burton resolved to wend his way to Mecca to observe Muslim rites witnessed by few
westerners. Donning a variety of disguises and learning the mannerisms common to Islam—how to dress, eat, sit, sleep, pray,
etc.—Burton was accepted as a native. In his bibliography of Burton’s works, Norman Penzer remarks, “I questioned Colonel
Lawrence [i.e., “Lawrence of Arabia”] about the accuracy of Burton’s description of the journey to Mecca and Medina, and he said
that it was absolutely correct in every detail” (Penzer, 7). First published in 1855-56 as Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-
Medinah and Mecca. “The map in this edition is colored, in which state it has not appeared before” (Penzer, 54). Penzer, 44-54. In
1872, Burton was made consul at Trieste, Italy, a post he held until his death there in 1890. Isabel, cited in the inscription, was
Burton’s wife. Bookseller ticket. Occasional scattered light foxing to interior. Expert repairs to folding plan of El Medinah and
inner paper hinges. Light rubbing to extremities of bright original cloth. A near-fine copy, most scarce inscribed.
First Edition Of Burchett’s Naval History, 1720, 69
With Nine Double-Page Maps

82. BURCHETT, Josiah. A Complete History of the Most
Remarkable Transactions at Sea. London, 1720. Folio, contempo-
rary full paneled calf expertly rebacked. $4000.
First edition, with engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of

the author by Vertue and nine double-page maps by famous
Dutch mapmaker Herman Moll, bound in handsome contem-
porary calf boards.
“The first British authority which sought to achieve the bold and
perilous undertaking of chronicling occurrences afloat from the
earliest accounts of time” (Allibone, 285). A one-time clerk of
Samuel Pepys, Burchett’s tenure as Secretary of the Admiralty
“included the whole French war during the reigns of William III
and Anne, during which every document of importance passed
through his hands” (DNB). His comprehensive volume spans na-
val history from ancient Egypt to the early 18th century. “The last
half… has exceptional value. Writing of events concerning which
he had very full and accurate information… his expressions of
opinion carry great weight” (DNB). With woodcut historiated
initials, head- and tailpieces; title page printed in red and black; and nine double-page engraved maps by Herman Moll. “It
was in the 18th century that [Moll] made his mark, becoming in the second two decades the foremost map publisher in
England” (Tooley Africa, 77). Bookplate. Four maps with mild foxing, remaining maps and text remarkably clean and fresh.
An excellent, handsome copy.
“The First Discovery Of The West Indies,

Together With The Subjection And Conquest Thereof”:
Circa 1625 English Edition Of Hakluyt’s
Historie Of The West-Indies
83. (HAKLUYT, Richard) MARTYR, Peter (aka Pietro Martire
d’Anghiera). The Historie of the West-Indies. London, circa 1625.
Octavo, contemporary dark brown calf rebacked. $12,000.
Very scarce second complete edition of this English translation of an

important and early account of the Spanish in the West Indies,
published in English by Richard Hakluyt in order to encourage
English exploration and colonization of the region.
A vigorous propagandist and empire-builder, Hakluyt’s purpose

was to further British maritime enterprise and to intensify British
expansion overseas. He saw Britain’s greatest opportunity in the
colonization of America, and was one of the chief promoters of the
petition to the king for patents for the colonization of Virginia.
Peter Martyr published his history beginning in 1511, in Latin, and
separately and cumulatively until his death. (The first complete edi-
tion was issued in Latin in 1532.) Martyr’s work was first translated into English in 1555; the first major work in English about the
New World, it only included the first three of Martyr’s books. The full translation of all eight books was not issued until 1612,
followed by this edition, described as a reissue of the 1612 first edition sheets. Some early owner signatures and pen trials to front
and rear blanks. Old pencil notation from Bernard Quaritch (“Perfect”) on rear pastedown. Scattered light foxing and soiling. A
very good, complete copy of this very scarce title.
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john st ua rt mill
“The Greatest Good Of The Community Is Inseparable From The Liberty Of The Individual”:
First Edition Of Mill’s Classic On Liberty, 1859
84. MILL, John Stuart. On Liberty. London, 1859. Octavo, modern full speckled brown calf gilt. $6500.
First edition of Mill’s most famous work—“the final stage in the growth of Utilitarian doctrine… His arguments for freedom
of every kind of thought or speech have never been improved on” (PMM)—a beautiful copy in handsome full calf-gilt.
“Mill realized that the ‘greatest good’ of the community is inseparable from the liberty of the individual. Hitherto, liberty
had always been considered relative, in relation to tyranny or oppression: Mill extended tyranny to include a custom-ridden
majority, and declared that ‘the sole end for which mankind is justified in interfering with liberty of action is self-protection’…
Many of Mill’s ideas are now the commonplaces of democracy. His arguments for freedom of every kind of thought or
speech have never been improved on. He was the first to recognize the tendency of a democratically elected majority to
tyrannize over a minority… Mill’s On Liberty remains his most widely read book. It represents the final stage in the growth
of Utilitarian doctrine” (PMM 345). “On Liberty is regarded as one of the finest expressions of 19th-century liberalism”
(Baugh, 1323). With eight-page publisher’s catalogue tipped in at rear. Oval publisher’s inkstamp to title page, “Presented
by the Publisher.” With owner inscription opposite, faded but legible and dated year of publication, of “W.D. Watson, Febry
1859,” quite possibly belonging to a recipient chosen by Mill, or a reviewer. Bookseller ticket. Text very fresh and clean, light
wear and toning to original cloth. A highly desirable extremely good copy. Bound without publisher’s advertisements. Text
very fresh and clean with only lightest infrequent foxing. A fine handsomely bound copy.
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“A Source Of Spiritual Information…
Second Only To The Bible”
85. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book
of Common Prayer And Administration of the
Sacraments. London, 1662. Quarto, contempo-
rary full red embroidered velvet over wooden
boards. $7200.
The authoritative and influential 1662 revision of

the Book of Common Prayer, in an ornately em-
broidered velvet binding.
The prayer book was “effectively proscribed from

about 1641” during the English Civil War, but upon
the restoration of King Charles II, Parliament
made arrangements for a revised prayer book,
which saw print in 1662—this edition has served as
the common basis of the Anglican Communion’s
liturgical life. “Beginning in the 14th century royal and noble collectors often used silk brocade to cover their valuable manu-
scripts. By the 15th century these cloth covers were embroidered with fanciful designs or the owner’s insignia… While cloth and
embroidered bindings fell from favor on the continent in the 16th century, they remained popular in England until the Restoration”
(Bridwell Library). This copy of the Restoration prayer book, then, represents the waning trend of embroidered bindings in
England. Wing B3622. Scattered light foxing. Title page mounted. Mild wear to velvet, some age-wear to embroidery. A lovely
copy of a significant edition of the prayer book in a contemporary, elaborately embroidered binding.
Beautifully Illustrated 1716 Judeo-Italian Haggadah,

Printed In Venice
86. HAGGADAH. Seder Haggadah shel Pesah. Venice, 1716.
Folio, 19th-century Dutch marbled paper boards. $8500.
Beautifully illustrated 1716 Venice Haggadah, with Italian

translation printed in Hebrew characters. Includes Leone
Modena’s commentary (Tzli Esh), based on Isaac Abrabanel’s
earlier commentary, Zevah Pesah.
This early 18th-century Venice Haggadah was printed in the es-

teemed tradition established in the same city in the previous
century. “Among its visual highlights were a magnificent archi-
tectural border surrounding every page of text, woodcut initials
enclosing miniature figures and scenes, and large woodcut illus-
trations placed at the top or bottom of almost every page… ar-
ranged into a meaningful biblical cycle that begins with Abraham
and later focuses on the narratives actually recalled in the text of
the Haggadah” (Yerushalmi 44-55, regarding the extremely scarce 1609 and 1629 Venice editions, accurate for this edition as
well). Includes the famous 13-panel illustration of the stages of the Seder, and the ten-panel depiction of the ten plagues, which
became fixtures of illustrated Haggadahs after their first introduction in the 1609 Venice edition. Yaari 81. Yudlov 131. Most
leaves remargined or repaired along edges, at times affecting decorative border and text (supplied in neat facsimile). A very good
copy of this lovely illustrated Haggadah, an excellent example of the Venetian tradition.
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illu minated lea f

Exquisite Illuminated Leaf From A 15th-Century French Book Of Hours,
With A Three-Quarter Miniature Of St. Nicholas (Santa Claus) Resurrecting The Three Schoolboys
87. (BOOK OF HOURS). Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours. France, circa 1450. Single vellum leaf (4 by 5-1/2 inches), in
multicolored inks; handsomely matted and window-framed, entire piece measures 13-1/2 by 16-1/2 inches. $7800.
Beautiful illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours, featuring a striking three-quarter miniature of St. Nicholas resurrecting
the three murdered schoolboys—a traditional story based on a misinterpretation of St. Nicholas saving three daughters being
sold into sin—with an elaborate floriated-gilt panel border and two intricate initials.
This fantastic three-quarter miniature is from a Book of Hours, circa 1450, France, Use unknown. It is scribed in Latin on vellum
(178 x 115 mm.), with text from The Suffrages. The miniature (45 x 35 mm.) is of Saint Nicholas, also known as the Bishop of Myra,
holding his pastoral staff and mitre. Also depicted are three children coming out of a washtub. Legend holds that Nicholas,
commonly known as Santa Claus, saved the lives of the three boys. A surly innkeeper allegedly killed and dismembered the three
schoolboys, throwing their mutilated bodies in a pickling tub as food for his guests. Nicholas blessed the tub and the boys were
miraculously brought back to life. This, however, is a story that derives from poorly drawn artwork. The real Saint Nicholas was
in fact credited with saving three girls from prostitution. He was a wealthy and enlightened man known for his acts of charity.
When a poor man in town decided to begin selling his daughters into prostitution, Nicholas came under cover of darkness and
threw bags of gold through the man’s window—one for each daughter. Artists painted the bags of gold and, over time, those bags
came to be mistaken for the heads of children. This 15th century miniature clearly represents that version with a delicately
rendered St. Nicholas shown blessing three pale and naked boys standing in a pickling tub. A beautiful framed illuminated leaf
with an exquisite miniature in fine condition.
“Sacerdos In Aeternum Christus Dominus, 73
Secundum Ordinem Melchisedech…”

88. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Illuminated leaf from a
Latin antiphonal. Italy, 15th century. One vellum bifolium (i.e., pp. 4),
measuring 12-1/2 by 17 inches folded; matted and framed, entire piece
measures 20 by 26 inches. $7800.
Lovely, richly illuminated folio leaf from a 15th-century Italian

antiphonal, bearing the Latin text and the musical notation for two
chants used in the first vespers of the Feast of Corpus Christi,
handsomely matted and framed.
The Feast of Corpus Christi commemorates Jesus’ institution of the

Eucharist at the last supper he shared with his disciples prior to his
arrest and crucifixion. “Its origin lies in the increasing devotion to the
Blessed Sacrament especially after the Fourth Lateran Council in
1215, and after a vision experienced by a nun, the Blessed Juliana (d.
1258). A bull of Pope Urban IV (Transiturus, 1264) commanded its
observance. Since the 14th century, Corpus Christi has been celebrat-
ed by carrying the host in procession” (Bowker, 237-38). This lovely
illuminated vellum leaf (the first page of a bifolium, a large sheet
folded in half) from a large Italian antiphonal (a volume containing
the liturgical chant melodies and text for use by two alternating choirs)
presents the first two antiphons of the first Vespers of Corpus Christi. Floral panel with pigment slightly flaking. A few instances
of minor marginal soiling. An outstanding and impressive piece in excellent condition.
“Laudate Eum”: Lovely Illuminated Leaf From An Early

15th-Century Book Of Hours Featuring Two Miniature Landscape Scenes
89. (ILLUMINATED LEAF). Illuminated manuscript leaf from a Book of
Hours. France, circa 1425. Single vellum leaf, measuring 4-1/2 by 7 inches;
handsomely matted and window-framed, entire piece measures 9-1/2 by 11-
1/2 inches. $6800.
Lovely illuminated leaf from a 15th-century French Book of Hours, with 17

initials in gilt and colored ink and featuring elaborate illuminated borders
as well as illuminated border panels depicting, against vividly colored
landscapes, a bird and bug on the recto and two animals on the verso.
This leaf is from a French book of Hours, likely Use of Bourges, circa 1425. It
is written on each side in 20 lines of Latin text, all in a strong Gothic liturgical
hand, with a total of 17 one-line initials, all elaborately executed in liquid
gold on red and blue filigreed fields. The text, Psalm 148.2-149.4 in the Latin
Vulgate, begins on the verso as framed. There are also eight illuminated line
extenders. Both top panels consist of red, blue and green acanthus leaves on
a liquid gold background. Both side panels contain liquid gold ribbons filled
with roses and irises, while blue and gold acanthus leaves foliate the rest of
the panel (against a chocolate background on the recto and a white
background on the verso). The lower borders on both sides feature landscapes
with, on the recto, a bird apparently preparing to eat a small winged insect on
the recto, and two indeterminate grotesques on the verso. Fine condition.
74 1789 Venice Edition Of The Roman Missal,
Beautifully Bound In Contemporary Morocco-Gilt
90. MISSAL. Missale Romanum. Venice, 1789. Folio, contem-

porary full red Italian morocco gilt. $4200.
Early 18th-century Venetian edition of the Roman Missal, with

engraved vignette title page and three full-page engravings, in a
lovely contemporary morocco binding with elaborate gilt-tool-
ing with the original owner’s initials “L.M.” in the centerpiece
on each cover.
The Council of Trent (first convened in 1545 and concluded in

1563) reaffirmed and codified traditional Roman Catholic doc-
trine in the wake of Protestantism’s emergence. The first Missal
revised to reflect Tridentine teachings saw print in Rome in
1570. This 1789 Venice edition is handsomely printed in red and
black, features four-line musical staves and is illustrated with an
engraved vignette title page and three full-page engravings: the
Annunication (verso of leaf facing A1), the Crucifixion (L8v)
and the Resurrection (M5v). Text in Latin. Old ink annotation
to rear flyleaf. Text generally clean with only occasional spots of
foxing. Some light rubbing to extremities and a few abrasions to
covers of lovely binding, gilt bright. A beautiful volume.
“Of Cardinal Importance For Its Influence On The

English Language, Literature And Thought”: 1610
Barker Geneva Bible In Contemporary Calf Boards
91. (BIBLE). The Bible: That Is, The Holy Scriptures. London,
1610. Thick octavo, contemporary full paneled calf rebacked. $6000.
1610 Barker Geneva Bible—popularly known as the “Breeches

Bible,” arguably the most significant Protestant translation of
Scripture prior to the King James—illustrated with woodcut orna-
ments, title page and frontispiece, and including a woodcut map of
the Holy Land, in attractive contemporary calf boards
Upon Queen Mary’s accession in 1553, many Protestants fled to

Calvin’s Geneva, where some set to work working on a new English
translation of the Bible. First published in 1560, the Geneva Bible—
often called the “Breeches Bible” for its rendering of Genesis
3:7—“achieved immediate popularity and exerted an extremely
powerful influence… It has been more properly called the
Elizabethan family Bible, since it was this version which was the
first to enter the English home” (PMM 83). “It was read by
Shakespeare, Bunyan and the soldiers of the Civil War, and is thus
of cardinal importance for its influence on the English language, literature and thought” (Great
Books and Book Collectors, 105-8). Bound with a 1612 edition of Sternhold and Hopkins’ popular metrical psalter; the psalter
without leaves [E8], F1 and [F7]-[G4]. Darlow & Moule 237. Old owner inscriptions, marginalia. Scattered mild foxing and soil-
ing, light dampstaining. Occasional minor edge-wear; pinprick hole to leaf 2L1, not affecting text; minor marginal worming to
2S3-2T4. Frequent marginal restoration (including throughout metrical psalter), sometimes affecting text. Binding with expert
restoration. Handsome in contemporary calf boards.
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a nsel a da ms
“Adams Had A Greater Impact Upon Creative Photography Than Any Other Person
In This Century”: Signed Limited Deluxe First Edition Of Adams’ Images 1923-1974,
With Numbered Exhibition-Size Gelatin Silver Print, Fern Spring, Also Signed By Adams
92. ADAMS, Ansel. Images 1923-1974. Boston, 1974. Large oblong folio, original half black morocco, dust jacket,
mounted gelatin silver print, box. $12,000.
Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 copies, of Adams’ award-winning “ideal book, comprising his personal choice
of pictures,” containing 115 superb photolithographs of images personally selected by Adams, this scarce deluxe edi-
tion issued with the accompanying exhibition-size mounted gelatin silver print, “Fern Spring, Dusk,” signed by Adams
in pencil on the mount and numbered on mount verso.
“Ansel Adams had a greater impact upon creative photography than any other person in this century.” Images 1923-1974
is his “first very-large-format book… In full control, Ansel produced his ideal book, comprising his personal choice of
pictures, state-of-the-art reproduction, graceful words and
elegant design. He selected the 115 photographs that he be-
lieved best represented the range of his vision, choosing (as
he always did when it was up to him) a wide spectrum of
portraits, details, abstracts and occasional quirky subjects,
as well as a smattering of his grand landscapes… Images was
both a great aesthetic and a commercial success, elected as
one of the 50 Books of the Year by the American Institute of
Graphic Arts and awarded first prize at the World Book Fair
in Leipzig, Germany” (Alinder). To Pulitzer Prize-winning
writer Wallace Stegner, who authored the introduction,
Adams’ “mind and vision, his reverence, his delicacy and
strength, will have the power to move and enhance and en-
large us as long as walls exist for photographs” (Miraculous
Instants). Adams “elevated the act of photography to a reli-
gious experience” (Stepan). Copies complete with the sepa-
rate numbered gelatin silver print are quite scarce, as the
print is often framed rather than kept with the book. A fine
signed copy in price-clipped dust jacket with accompanying
fine signed print.
76 “The Ecstasy And Essence Of The Dance”
93. BRODOVITCH, Alexey. Ballet. New York, 1945. Oblong
quarto, original half gray cloth, French wrappers over stiff

paper boards, custom box. $9500.
First edition, an exceptionally scarce “photobook legend,”

Brodovitch’s first and only authored work, one of only 500
copies, featuring 104 dynamic black-and-white photogravure
plates.
“One of the most cinematic and dynamic photobooks ever

published… Ballet has become a photobook legend for two
reasons. Firstly, only a few hundred copies were printed, so the
book is more talked about than actually seen. Secondly, the
volume was extremely radical… Alexey Brodovitch’s pictures
totally violated the accepted conventions… [creating] a
vibrancy and a fluidity that perfectly captures the motion of the dance” (Parr & Badger I:240). During his 24 years at Harper’s
Bazaar, Brodovitch became “one of the most influential teachers in photography… [and] revolutionized fashion photography” by
guiding the careers of Richard Avedon and countless others (New York Times). Yet his own work as a photographer remained
unknown until this 1945 publication of Ballet, the first and only work authored by him. Here Brodovitch “reconnected with one
of his enduring passions: the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo… Working with an extremely mobile 35mm camera, Brodovitch
captured the ecstasy and essence of the dance in images that shift, dissolve, blue, darken impenetrably, or explode into light”
(Roth, 110). Most of the 500 copies were “distributed to the artist’s inner circle rather than to bookstores” (Roth, 110). A beautiful
near-fine copy of this scarce photographic classic.
Jerusalem Windows, Boldly Inscribed By

Chagall, With Two Original Color Lithographs
94. CHAGALL, Marc. Vitraux pour Jerusalem. Monte
Carlo, 1962. Folio, original gray raw silk, photographic
endpapers, dust jacket, acetate, slipcase. $9800.
First French edition of Chagall’s Jerusalem Windows,

boldly inscribed by Chagall and dated 1965, with two
original full-color lithographs specially prepared by
Chagall for this edition and with numerous beautiful color
lithographic reproductions of the artist’s work.
Illustrated are various drafts as well as the final versions

of the 12 stained glass windows (one for each of the tribes
of Israel) and designed by Chagall for the synagogue of
the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. Issued
the same year as the very similar English-language edi-
tion titled Jerusalem Windows. Text in French, See
Sorlier, Chagall 78; Sorlier, Chagall Lithographs 365-66;
Cramer 49. Small notation to corner of slipcase. A fine
inscribed copy.
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“Fate Knocking At The Door”:
First Edition Of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, One Of The World’s Greatest Musical Treasures
95. BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Cinquième Sinfonie en ut mineur: C Moll… Oeuvre 67. Leipzig, 1826. Royal octavo, early
three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $13,500.
First edition of the full score of Beethoven’s magnificent Fifth Symphony—“the best known, and therefore the most generally
enjoyed, of Beethoven’s nine Symphonies… a more universal favorite than any other work of the same class” (Grove,
Beethoven, 137)—fully engraved and handsomely bound, with boards preserving much of the original paper wrappers.
“The piece of music by which Beethoven is most widely known” (Grove, Beethoven, 137). “Because of its tremendous power,
Beethoven’s Fifth has always been a special favorite; the opening, which Beethoven in an unguarded moment likened to fate
knocking at the door, has become the symbol of man over his destiny” (Alkerstedt). “What instrumental work of Beethoven
testifies to this [depth of thought] to a higher degree than the immeasurably noble and profound Symphony in C minor? How
this marvelous composition carries the hearer irresistibly with it in its ever-mounting climax into the spirit kingdom of the
infinite!” (E.T.A. Hoffmann). This full score is preceded only by the orchestral parts and various arrangements for smaller
ensembles, published by the same firm in April 1809. Kinsky-Halm, 160. Fuld, 557. Owner signatures of noted 19th-century
music scholar and music collector Julian Marshall. “In later years he formed a valuable collection of musical autographs and
portraits, wrote much on musical subjects and contributed to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians” (DNB). Bookseller’s
small inkstamp to title page. Armorial bookplate. Scattered light foxing, corners expertly restored. Rare and important.
ja mes joyce / henri m atisse
Signed By Matisse: The First Illustrated Edition Of Ulysses
96. JOYCE, James and MATISSE, Henri. Ulysses. New York, 1935. Large
quarto, original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth, acetate, slipcase, custom
clamshell box. $9000.
First illustrated edition of Joyce’s landmark Ulysses, one of 1500 copies

signed by Matisse, with 26 illustrations by him, one of the 20th-century’s
most desirable illustrated books, combining the work of two great mod-
ern artists.
One of the most arresting collaborations in 20th-century literature. “It was

a great idea to bring them together; celebrities of the same generation, of
similar virtuosity” (Wheeler, 15). The 26 beautiful full-page illustrations by
Matisse accompany the text of Joyce’s Ulysses, including six soft-ground
etchings with reproductions of the sketches on blue and yellow paper. “One
of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II.
According to George Macy [this work’s designer], who undertook this only
American publication of Matisse’s illustrations, he asked the artist how
many etchings the latter could provide for $5000. The artist chose to take six
subjects from Homer’s Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with
the soft-ground etchings (Matisse’s only use of this medium) record the
evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit compositions”
(Artist and the Book 197). Without scarce original acetate. Slocum & Cahoun
A22. LEC 71. Light expert reinforcement to front inner hinge and slipcase
seams, cloth clean, gilt bright. A near-fine copy.
With 24 Original Folio Etchings By Edouard Chimot, 79
Bound By Kieffer

97. (CHIMOT, Edouard) BARBUSSE, Henri. L’Enfer. Paris, 1921. Folio,
contemporary full black morocco, on-laid green and gold morocco
decorations; custom leather-edged slipcase. $3800.
First illustrated edition, one of only 355 copies on Vélin d’Arches

paper (from a total edition of 432 copies), illustrated with 24 full-page
original etchings by Edouard Chimot. In a striking Art Deco binding
by renowned French bookbinder René Kieffer.
Influenced by Lautrec, Renoir and Rodin, Chimot had taught himself

painting and directed his talent primarily to the illustration of books.
Best known for his etchings, he became known as “the painter of
feminine sensuality” (Slatkine, Livres Illustrés 1900-1930). This copy
beautifully bound in black morocco Art-Deco binding by René
Keiffer, with the label of his famed workshop affixed to the front free
endpaper. “After World War I Kieffer emerged as one of Paris’ leading
binders whose impeccable workmanship was now matched by a wide
range of progressive designs inspired by Legrain. His style continued
to evolve in the late 1920s and 1930s” (Art Nouveau and Art Deco
Bookbinding). Barbusse’s L’Enfer was originally published in 1908.
Text in French. One plate lightly foxed, rear joint slightly tender.
About-fine condition, a lovely illustrated volume.
Tennyson’s Arthurian Classic Idylls Of The King,

Folio Illustrated With 37 Steel Engravings By Doré
98. (DORÉ, Gustave) TENNYSON, Alfred. Idylls of the
King. London, 1868. Thick folio, 20th-century full navy
morocco gilt. $5800.
First edition of Tennyson’s Arthurian classic with illustrations by

Doré, with 37 large, lovely full-page steel engravings by him, very
handsomely bound.
“By the early 19th century, the Arthurian legends had become a
literary anachronism. Tennyson’s poetry brought about a rebirth
of interest in the material and eventually placed it on a new pla-
teau of respect and significance for writers and artists” (Lacy,
446). “The Idylls of the King appeared in the autumn of 1859 and
received a welcome so instantaneous as at once to restore its au-
thor to his lost place in the affections of many” (DNB). This edi-
tion is the first to feature the engraved frontispiece portrait (de-
picting the poet surrounded by his Camelot characters) and 36
other dramatic engraved plates by Gustave Doré. “No other for-
eign illustrator and few native ones of the period so completely
captured the English fancy [as Doré]… Tennyson and his pub-
lisher Moxon greatly favored Doré as an illustrator” (Muir). The text contains the first four poems of the epic cycle: Enid, Elaine,
Vivien and Guinevere—all the parts of the Idylls Tennyson had completed to date (the first complete publication of all 12 poems
together would not appear until 1891). Only occasional faint foxing. A beautiful, large volume in fine condition.
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Among The Most Important Works Of Its Kind:
The First Isaac Ware Edition Of Palladio, 1738, With Over 200 Fine Folio Plates
99. PALLADIO, Andrea. The Four Books of Andrea Palladio’s Architecture. London, 1738. Folio (10 by 16 inches),
contemporary full mottled calf rebacked in calf gilt. $12,000.
First Isaac Ware edition (in English) of Palladio’s enormously important treatise on architecture, with four engraved title pages
and 212 numbered architectural plates (205 of which are full-sized folio plates)—still considered the definitive English edition.
First published in Italian in 1570, Palladio’s treatise popularized classical decorative details, becoming what is probably the most
influential architectural book ever printed. Incorporating many of his own designs to illustrate the principles of classical Roman
architecture, Palladio strongly influenced 18th-century architecture in the British Isles, Italy and America. While Palladio’s
work was the most common architectural book owned by designers and builders, it was difficult to obtain in America. Thomas
Jefferson commented in 1804 that “there never was a Palladio here [in Washington] even in private hands till I brought one…
the chance of getting one in America is slender.” The first English translation of the four books was made by Nicholas DuBois
in 1715, with designs by Giacomo Leoni and revised by Leoni in 1721. Burlington commissioned architect Isaac Ware to produce
a more accurate translation, which was “notably more literal than his predecessor’s and is considered, to this day, the definitive
one” (Harris). Avery 172. Millard 53. Fowler 229. Harris 691. First three leaves, two plates with expert restoration or repairs.
Minor ink stains to plates 11 and 13 of Book I, plates with expert cleaning. Expert restoration to attractive contemporary
mottled calf binding. A beautiful copy.
“Scheherezade Herself Must Have Appeared To Edmund Dulac” 81
100. (DULAC, Edmund, illustrator). Stories from The Arabian Nights.

London, 1907. Thick quarto, publisher’s full vellum gilt. $6500.
Signed limited first edition, one of 350 copies signed by Edmund Dulac—“an
illustrator of first rank, a master of the fantastic and exotic and ‘a dreamer
of extraordinary dreams’” (Dalby, 82-83)—with color frontispiece and 50
mounted color plates by him, beautiful in the original decorative vellum-gilt.
A fine copy.
“Scheherezade herself must have appeared to Edmund

Dulac. In a dream, perhaps, in which she kissed his eye-
lids. Where else could he have learned to see the things
he saw? Faraway places. Exotic peoples. The mirages of
domed and minareted cities. How else could he have
known the look of an Eastern paradise? The curl of the
last tendril blossoming in an Arab courtyard? The tilt of
a crescent moon? And he did seem to know. Whole
generations saw his paintings and agreed, ‘Yes, this is
what the East must be like’—and dreamt of it them-
selves” (Rebecca Bruns, “Arabian Nights—and Art
Nouveau”). Dulac’s Arabian Nights exemplifies the “gift
book” genre so popular during Christmas seasons of the
early 20th century. “These books were precious objects,
to be looked at with awe and handled with care” (Lewis,
186). Hughey 16. Bookplate. One tissue guard with mi-
nor expert repair. Fine condition.
“The Master Of Make-Believe”:

Maxfield Parrish’s Arabian Nights, Signed By Parrish
101. (PARRISH, Maxfield) WIGGIN, Kate Douglas and SMITH,
Nora A.The Arabian Nights. New York, 1912. Tall octavo, original
black cloth gilt, mounted cover illustration. $4500.
Early edition with Parrish’s marvelous illustrations—12

lovely four-color process plates and illustrated title page—
this copy signed and dated by Maxfield Parrish in 1947.
“Maxfield Parrish throughout his long lifetime created and

painted a world of his own” (Reed & Reed, 67). By 1900, he
was recognized as “one of America’s most successful art-
ists, achieving national popularity for his distinctively ele-
gant style, detailed backgrounds and glowing colors”
(Dalby, 42). Colliers magazine originally commissioned
Parrish’s illustrations for The Arabian Nights in 1906; this
book was first published in 1909. Sweeney, 24-25.
Early ink gift inscription dated 1914. Interior gener-
ally clean, light rubbing to mounted cover illustra-
tion. An attractive copy in near-fine condition, scarce
and most desirable signed by Parrish.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s La Botanique,
With 65 Lovely Stipple-Engraved Color Plates By Pierre-Joseph Rédouté,
“Among The Greatest Of Flower Painters”
102. (RÉDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph) ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. La Botanique. Paris, 1821. Large quarto (10 by 14 inches),
contemporary full green calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $18,500.
Second large quarto edition of this splendid early 19th-century botanical work, with 65 lovely stipple-engraved tissue-guarded
plates by Rédouté (of flowers, fruit, etc.) and engraved by Bouquet, Chailly, Delelo, Gabriel, de Gouy, and others, printed in
colors and finished by hand.
A wonderful series of botanical prints after works by the celebrated 19th-century master, Pierre-Joseph Rédouté, over 40 of which
show full-page images of flowers and fruit trees (the rest depicting multiple images on a single page), including familiar flowers
commonly known as the crocus, tiger lily, narcissus, digitalis, snapdragon, sweet pea, Queen Anne’s lace, dandelion, and aster,
and such flowering fruit trees as the pear, peach, and plum. “Rousseau’s interest in botany was awakened in 1763 or 1764, shortly
after he had gone to Switzerland. Following the current fashion he made various collections of plant specimens or herbaria, two
of which are known to have been given to Madame Delessert and her daughter Marguerite-Madeleine. Subsequently, the Lettres
elementaires sur la botanique were written for Marguerite-Madeleine, at the request of her mother” (see Stafleu). This botanical
treatise was first published in Paris in 1771, but it was in 1805 that the first edition with the plates engraved after Rédouté’s
paintings was published, in folio. It was also issued that year in a quarto format; this is only the second quarto issue, followed by
another in 1822. With 159 pages of text in French, a one-page table and seven pages containing Explication de Planches. Great
Flower Books, 134. Nissen 1688. Bookplates of Lynde Selden, vice chairman of American Express. Interior expertly cleaned with
scattered light foxing, contemporary calf binding expertly restored with spine lightly toned. A beautiful volume.
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“The Most Renowned Photobook Of All”:
Scarce First Edition Of Les Américains, Twice Signed By Robert Frank
103. FRANK, Robert. Les Américains. Paris, 1958. Oblong octavo, original glazed paper over boards. $22,000.
First edition, signed by Frank on both the half title and on the title page of his timeless masterpiece—no photobook “has been
more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized” (Parr & Badger), with 83 full-page photogravures.
In his preface to the 1959 American edition of Robert Frank’s magnum opus, Jack Kerouac wrote, “Anybody doesn’t like these
pitchers dont like potry see? Robert Frank… he sucked a sad poem out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic
poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message. You got eyes.” “From April 1955… to June 1956, Robert Frank
made a number of short trips out from New York and one long (nine-month) journey to the West Coast in a 1950 Ford to
photograph America. From the more than 20,000 images that resulted, Frank eventually chose 83 of them and arranged them
into four chapters… ‘With these photographs,’ he later wrote, ‘I have attempted to show a cross-section of the American
population. My effort was to express it simply and without confusion. The view is personal…’ Such a simple intention for a
book that would so alter the course of modern photography” (Roth, 150). This is the first edition, published in Paris, with
accompanying texts in French selected by Alain Bosquet. Frank’s Américains eventually achieved legendary status as “the
most renowned photobook of all… It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers… Many memorable
photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully
realized than Frank’s masterpiece” (Parr & Badger I:247). As issued without a dust jacket. Copies signed by Frank are
exceptionally rare. See Looking In; Open Book, 176. Images and text fresh and clean, inner hinge starting but sound, boards
with only lightest soiling, none of the usual wear to spine ends. A scarce near-fine signed copy.
84 “One Of Stravinsky’s Most Moving Compositions,”
Inscribed By Him
104. STRAVINSKY, Igor. In Memoriam Dylan Thomas. Dirge-

Canons and Song. New York, 1954. Quarto, staple-bound, original
paper wrappers; pp.8. $3800.
First edition of the piano-vocal score, inscribed by the composer: “To

James —, sincerely, Igor Stravinsky. Hollywood 1955.”
As the composer explains in his notes, he and Thomas had planned to

work together on an opera; Thomas “was on his way to me in Hollywood
when he passed away suddenly after arriving in New York from England.
This was a terrible blow to me as well as to all those who knew
Dylan Thomas’ genius.” For text Stravinsky chose Thomas’ tribute
to his father, with it’s famous lines “Do not go gently into that
good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage,
rage against the dying of the light.” “This work of compassionate
homage transcends any weaknesses of Dylan Thomas’ original
poem and is one of Stravinsky’s most moving compositions”
(White, 440). First performed in Los Angeles in 1954. Published
the same year as the full score for tenor, string quartet and four
trombones. de Lerma I2. Fine condition.
12 Lovely Aquatint Folio Views

Of Venice
105. (VENICE) LAZZARI, Antonio. Nuova
Raccolta delle Principali Vedute della R. Città
di Venezia. Venice, 1831. Oblong folio,
contemporary marbled boards. $5500.
First edition of this wonderful collection of

views of Venice, with vignette title page and 12
rich aquatints by Antonio Lazzari.
Venice had been an independent republic for

over 1100 years, during much of which she had
been “mistress of the Mediterranean,” the
principal crossroads between East and West,
and the richest and most prosperous commercial
center in the civilized world. “No nation has
ever presented itself with more panache—
confident as the Venetian Republic was… that it would last forever.
Coupled with this conceit, were a highly calculated love of ceremony
and a gift of publicity” (Jan Morris). Intended for the burgeoning 19th-
century tourist trade, this stellar collection of Venetian attractions
represents the best achievements of the contemporary artistic and
print-making community in Venice, depicting such famous sights as San Marco Square, the Grand Canal and the Rialto Bridge.
With captions in French and Italian. Not in Cicognara. Impressions very crisp and rich, only faint foxing to endpapers and
margins of title page, minor rubbing to extremities of contemporary boards. A splendid production.
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“Dickens’ Imagination Simply Pours Into Everything He Writes”
106. DICKENS, Charles. A Child’s History of England. London,
1852-54. Three volumes. Small octavo, original gilt-stamped pictorial
reddish-brown cloth, custom slipcase. $7500.
First edition, first state, of Dickens’s history of England for children,

with frontispieces by F.W. Topham, in original cloth-gilt.
“Very sharp and very opinionated… the book bears a strong

resemblance to his two historical novels, Barnaby Rudge and A Tale
of Two Cities; it is essentially history as theatre, with crowds,
confrontations, clashes, battles, death scenes and sundry noises off.
But it is also energetically written; Dickens’s imagination simply
pours into everything he writes or speaks, and so there are moments
of great power” (Ackroyd, Dickens, 584). First state, with first state
ads in Volumes I and III and with no page number on p. xi in Volume
I. Eckel 128-129. Smith II:10. Morocco bookplates. Owner signature
on title page of Volume III. Only a few isolated spots to interiors,
minor stray marks to Volume I cloth, mild toning to extremities. A
lovely copy in near-fine condition.
“In All This World There Is Nothing So Beautiful As A

Happy Child”: First Edition Of The Life And Adventures Of
Santa Claus, In An Elaborate Kelliegram-Style Binding
107. BAUM, L. Frank. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
Indianapolis, 1902. Octavo, modern full red morocco gilt, multi-color
inlaid morocco illustration, custom quarter-morocco slipcase. $6500.
First edition, first state, of Baum’s whimsical biography of Santa Claus,

with 20 plates (14 two-color and six full-color) by Mary Cowles Clark,
elaborately bound in a full red morocco-gilt Kelliegram-style binding by
Asprey featuring a multi-color pictorial morocco inlay of Santa Claus
carrying an overstuffed bag of presents and
starting to go down a chimney.
Though best known for his Oz books, “Baum

displayed his wizardry at forging a whole new
mythology from already-existing characters”
with this volume (Franklin, 33). Baum was the
“first [author] to write a book entirely about
Santa” (Clute & Grant, 836). Appropriately,
Baum delivered the manuscript for this book
to his publisher on Christmas Day of 1901
(Hearn, liii). First state, with divisions “Book
First,” “Book Second” and “Book Third” (as
opposed to “Youth,” “Manhood” and “Old
Age,” as later). Bienvenue, 200. Connolly, 38. A
fine copy, beautifully bound.
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roa ld da hl / na nc y eck holm burk ert

Very Rare First Edition Of James And The Giant Peach, Inscribed By The Illustrator
108. (BURKERT, Nancy Eckholm, illustrator) DAHL, Roald. James
and the Giant Peach. New York, 1961. Large octavo, original red cloth,
dust jacket. $8500.
Scarce first edition of Dahl’s “little classic,” with beautiful illustrations

(many full-page and in color) by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, inscribed by
her, “To all the dear Spencers and Ollmanns, large and small! Nancy
Ekholm Burkert.”
“In 1953 Dahl married the actress Patricia Neal; they had three children, to whom he began to tell bedtime stories. James and
the Giant Peach, the first of these to reach print, is a comic fantasy about a small boy who travels the world inside a huge
peach, in company with several giant insects. Like most of Dahl’s children’s books, it first appeared in print” in the United
States (Carpenter & Prichard, 139). When editor Virginie Fowler first read the work, she wrote to the author, “If this doesn’t
become a little classic, I can only say that I think you will not have been dealt with justly” (Treglown, 134). “When Tim
Burton approached Roald Dahl’s widow about his plan to make a film of James and the Giant Peach, she asked him why he
wanted to do it. Burton’s answer clinched the deal: ‘It’s the only book that ever gave me any hope when I was a child’” (D is
for Dahl, 68). First edition, with H. Wolff credited as binder in the colophon. Inscribed by illustrator Nancy Eckholm Burkert.
“Burkert works in a tradition of artists for whom book illustration is one of the fine arts like painting or sculpture… Her
drawings are not a secondary accompaniment to words, but a primary and integral part of the book experience in which she
is an equal partner with the writer” (Michael Danoff). James and the Giant Peach was her first illustrated children’s book. Ink
numeral “12” to rear flap of dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed with minor loss to spine foot. Book fine. A
near-fine copy of an elusive first edition, inscribed by the illustrator.
“And This Copy Is Inscribed By Old Possum Himself”: 87
Wonderfully Inscribed By T.S. Eliot

109. ELIOT, T.S. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. New York, 1939.
Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $4800.
Early American edition of one of Eliot’s most popular and “one of the most
famous 20th-century books of all,” in original dust jacket designed and drawn
by him, warmly and boldly inscribed on the dedication page, “And this copy is
inscribed by Old Possum himself. T.S. Eliot for —, 11 June 1947.”
Fellow poet Ezra Pound first gave the

nickname “Old Possum” to Eliot. Eliot
sometimes used it among his friends
and occasionally signed letters to them
with the initials “T.P.” (Tom Possum).
“A classic from the day it was printed
and today-partly because of the irre-
pressible musical, Cats—one of the
most famous 20th-century books of all.
This one is a must” (Joseph Connolly). First published 1939. See Gallup A34b. Closed tear
to lower margin of pages 31-32, not affecting text. Dust jacket with light toning to spine,
short closed tear to spine head. A near-fine copy, delightfully inscribed by Eliot.
“It Will Live As Long As Aesop’s Fables”

110. HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings.
New York, 1881. Octavo, original gilt- and black-stamped pictorial red
cloth, custom slipcase. $11,000.
First edition, first state, of the first and most beloved Uncle Remus book by
Harris, the one American writer of the Reconstruction who “has made the
most permanent contribution,” with eight plates and numerous text
illustrations by Church and Moser, in original bright gilt cloth.
“Harris’ main concern in setting [the stories] down

was to preserve the remnants of a folklore which he
was sufficiently farseeing to know would one day
perish from the earth unless someone who under-
stood the racial psychology and social philosophy
behind it acted as amanuensis to its surviving narra-
tors” (Twenty-three Books, Winterich, 102). “Of all
the American writers of [the Reconstruction] period,
Joel Chandler Harris has made the most permanent
contribution” (Braithwaite, in The New Negro, 32). “It
will live as long as Aesop’s fables” (John Bigelow).
BAL 7100. Armorial bookplate of William Fitzhugh,
the accomplished book collector. Contemporary
pencil owner gift inscription. Morocco bookplate.
Inner paper hinges starting, original cloth-gilt quite
bright. An exceptional copy in about-fine condition.
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a . a . milne
“Among The Best Ever Written For Children”: First Editions Of Milne’s Four Pooh Books
111. MILNE, A.A. The Four Pooh Books: When We Were Very Young; Winnie The Pooh; Now We Are Six;
The House At Pooh Corner. London, 1924-28. Four volumes. Small octavo, original pictorial cloth, custom
slipcase and chemise $28,000.
First editions of Milne’s wonderful “Pooh Quartet,” in original dust jackets.
“Although Alan Alexander Milne wrote novels, short stories, poetry and many plays for adults, in addition to his
work as assistant editor for Punch from 1906 to 1914, it is his writings for children that have captured the hearts of
millions of people worldwide and granted Milne everlasting fame” (Silvey, 461). Milne wrote most of these poems
at the request of friend and fellow poet Rose Fyleman, who was planning a new children’s magazine. “On a rain-
blighted holiday in Wales, [Milne] escaped from the crowd of fellow guests to the summerhouse, and for 11 days wrote
a set of children’s verses, one each day… ‘There on the other side of the lawn was a child with whom I had lived for three
years [his son, Christopher Robin]… and here within me were unforgettable memories of my own childhood.’ He
added more verses when he got home, enough for a book, and allowed some to be published in advance in Punch”
(Carpenter & Prichard, 351). Shepard, a Punch staff artist at the time, provided delightful line vignettes, result-
ing in “a wonderful marriage of verse and vision. His delicately precise and fresh drawings had an instant
appeal” (DNB). When We Were Very Young first edition, second issue as usual, with page ix numbered
(any first edition copy is exceedingly scarce). Payne I.A-IV.A. Cutler & Stiles, 115-16. With
vintage advertisements-testaments to Pooh’s perennial merchandising appeal-laid in
to The House at Pooh Corner. Books fine with cloth clean and gilt bright.
When We Were Very Young and House at Pooh Corner dust jack-
ets extremely good with light edge-wear, tape repairs to versos;
sticker residue to front panel of House at Pooh Corner jacket.
Remaining jackets about-fine. A most desirable near-fine
first edition set of four cherished childhood classics.
“The One With The Power To Vanquish The Dark Lord 89
Approaches”: Harry Potter And The Order Of The
Phoenix, Signed By J.K. Rowling

112. ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix. London, 2003. Thick octavo, original pictorial boards,
dust jacket. $13,500.
First edition of the fifth book in the extraordinarily successful fantasy

series, signed by J.K. Rowling.”
Worldwide enthusiasm and intense media attention accompanied

the publication of the fifth installment in this astoundingly popular
series. “Harry Potter has shown empire-building skills that would
put Queen Victoria to shame… Worldwide sales have topped 190
million in more than two hundred countries… It’s a Harry Potter
world, and we just live in it” (Weinberg, 43). Rowling has
rarely held signings for the later books in her series, so
inscribed copies such as this are increasingly scarce and
desirable. With promotional bookplate, bookmark, hangtag,
and stickers laid in. A fine signed copy.
“I Am Eloise. I Am Six”:
Rare First Edition Of Eloise, Signed Kay Thompson
113. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise. Drawings by Hilary Knight.
New York, 1955. Slim quarto, original white pictorial cloth, dust
jacket. $9000.
First edition of the first and rarest Eloise book, signed by Kay
Thompson.
“Eloise’s birth was unexpected. At rehearsals of her act with the

Williams Brothers, Thompson [who was a professional singer]
prized punctuality. Then one day she was late. In a high, childish
voice that she had never used before, she made her apology. One of
her co-workers said, ‘Who are you, little girl?’ Thompson replied, ‘I
am Eloise. I am six.’ The others joined in the game, each assuming
a juvenile identity, and it became a regular rehearsal pastime” (New
York Times). That pastime became a book, with three more to follow
in Thompson’s lifetime. “Eloise became an alternative persona for
Kay Thompson, much as the dummy Charlie McCarthy was for
Edgar Bergen… [allowing] Thompson to express contrarian
thoughts and ideas. Eloise took form as a lonely and whimsical
child who created her own world” (Marie Brenner). A lovely signed
copy in near-fine condition.
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Wonderful Large Original Color Snoopy Sketch, Inscribed By Schulz
114. SCHULZ, Charles M. Original large sketch of Snoopy inscribed. Santa Rosa, California, 1996. Single sheet of
paper (7-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches); matted and framed, entire piece measures 11-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches. $8800.
Large original sketch of a smiling Snoopy rendered in black marker standing in green grass with a red heart in front of
him, inscribed: “Happy Birthday, Deborah! Schulz,” accompanied by a typed signed letter from Schulz’s secretary
thanking a Mr. Martin Levy for a letter expressing his family’s devotion to Snoopy and the Peanuts gang and offering
Deborah, presumably Levy’s wife, this sketch and wishing her all the best.
“Peanuts first appeared in October 1950 in eight daily newspapers. The feature was immediately popular and was soon
picked up by hundreds of other newspapers throughout the country. By the end of the decade Schulz had become arguably
the best-known cartoonist in the United States… By the time of Schulz’s death [in 2000] he had drawn a total of 18,250
Peanuts strips, and the cartoon was syndicated in 2600 newspapers worldwide, appearing in 21 languages in 75 countries”
(ANB). Snoopy, based on one of Schulz’s own dogs, has become one one of the most beloved members of the Peanuts gang.
The framed sketch is accompanied by a typed signed letter from Schultz’s secretary, Edna Poehner. Poehner later moved
on to work at the Schulz Museum and Research Center. A fine item.
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“Lyric Imagery Touched By Limited First Edition Of Byrd’s Little
Poignant Realism” America, Signed By The Author
115. ANGELOU, Maya. I Know Why the 118. (AVIATION) BYRD, Richard Evelyn.
Caged Bird Sings. New York, 1969. Octavo, Little America: Aerial Exploration in the
original black cloth, dust jacket. $600. Antarctic. New York and London, 1930.
Octavo, original three-quarter Japan vellum,
First edition of Maya Angelou’s celebrated
sky-blue cloth boards, glassine, box. $950.
autobiography. As James Baldwin writes,
Angelou’s masterpiece “marks the begin- Signed limited first edition, one of 1000
ning of a new era in the minds and hearts copies signed by Byrd and the publisher,
and lives of all black men and women…. I with 74 maps and illustrations, including
have no words for this achievement.” First frontispiece portrait and two folding maps.
issue, with top edge stained magenta. Dust “The expedition discovered a part of
jacket price-clipped. About-fine. Antarctica now known as Marie Byrd Land,
the Rockefeller and Ford mountain ranges,
and the 10,000-foot La Gorce Mountain. Some 150,000
Signed By Ansel Adams square miles of territory was photographed” (ANB). Fine.
116. ADAMS, Ansel. Images 1923-1974. Boston, 1974.
Oblong folio, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1200.
First edition, first printing, with 115 extended-range photo-

lithographs, part of an undisclosed number prepared for
subscribers by Time-Life Books and signed by Adams on a
tipped-in leaf, in scarce original dust jacket. For this stun-
ning folio collection, “one of the handsomest books of its kind
ever made,” Adams chose 115 photographs of the Sierra
Nevada Mountains: landscapes that offer an incomparable
“purity and clarity of image” (New York Times). Issued simul-
taneously with a deluxe limited edition. Without scarce slip-
case. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
Nansen’s In Northern Mists

117. (ARCTIC) NANSEN, Fridtjof. In
Northern Mists. Arctic Exploration in Early
Times. London, 1911. Two volumes. Quarto,
original gilt-stamped blue cloth. $1500.
First edition in English of Nansen’s illustrated

Arctic study, with color frontispieces and over
150 other illustrations. Nansen examines the
first sources of knowledge of the Arctic, start-
ing with Hecataeus of Miletus in the fifth cen-
tury B.C. and ending with the Portuguese ex-
plorations of the early 16th century. Without
scarce original dust jackets. Very nearly fine.
92 Signed By Earhart,
With An Original Voice Recording
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119. (AVIATION) EARHART, Amelia. The Fun of It. New

York, 1932. Octavo, original brown cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition, early printing, signed by Earhart on a tipped-

in leaf, with original silvertone phonograph recording of her
internationally broadcast speech given the day she completed
her solo transatlantic flight. Covering Earhart’s life through
May 20-21, 1932, “when Miss Earhart, alone in a Lockheed
Vega monoplane with a single Wasp engine, negotiated
2,026 miles through storm and fog from Harbor Grace,
Newfoundland, to a cow pasture on the outskirts of
Londonderry, Ireland” (ANB). Near-fine.
Fine 13th-Century Illuminated Leaf

120. (BIBLE) (ILLUMINATED LEAF). Illuminated leaf Inscribed By Johnny Cash And June Carter Cash
from a Medieval Bible. France, circa 1250. Single vellum leaf,
measuring 4-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches, scribed in black ink, 122. CASH, Johnny. Man in Black. Grand Rapids, 1975.
illuminated in red, blue and gold inks. Handsomely matted Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $1600.
and window-framed. $3800.
First edition of Cash’s noted first autobiography, inscribed by
Lovely illuminated leaf from a 13th-century French Bible, him: “To George Baber, The Best to you, Johnny Cash,” addi-
with several colorful initials including a seven-line miniature tionally inscribed: “To Mr. George Baber—My friend Eddie’s
portrait (likely of Jesus), handsomely matted and framed. friend—My Best to you—June Carter Cash.” In this volume,
This leaf from a mid-13th century French manuscript Bible Cash presents his life as a “spiritual odyssey.” Recipient is un-
contains the conclusion of 2 Peter and 1 John 1-4 in the Latin doubtedly the noted bluegrass and country music composer,
Vulgate. Fine. George Baber. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
Superb Large Illuminated “The Heyday Of

Manuscript Koran Leaf Photojournalism”
121. ILLUMINATED LEAF. Manuscript 123. (CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri)
Koran leaf. Likely Persia, 17th-18th century. WRONECKI, Daniel. New-York.
Single leaf, measuring 11 by 15 inches; Paris, 1949. Octavo, original cream
mounted in a card folder, entire piece paper wrappers, dust jacket. $1500.
measures 12-1/2 by 18-1/2 inches. $4800.
First edition of this pivotal early photo-
Lovely 17th or 18th century manuscript book, with 127 photogravures, includ-
Koran leaf, scribed in five lines of black ink ing 64 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, one
in a large muhaqqig hand, with ayah mark- of the earliest book appearances of his
ers in gilt and black and an ‘ashr divisional work, scarce in original dust jacket.
marker in gilt and red surrounded by blue Compiled by fellow photographer
flechettes. This lovely Koran leaf includes Daniel Wronecki, this lyrical view of
the key passage: “As in the example of the 1940s Manhattan features 64 images
Spider, who builds a house; but truly the by Henri Cartier-Bresson in one of
flimsiest of houses is the Spider’s house;—If the earliest appearances of his work
they but knew.” The verso is similar. A beau- in book form. Text in French. Fine.
tiful leaf in fine condition.
Inscribed By Julia Child 93
124. CHILD, Julia. Cooking with Master

Chefs. New York, 1993. Quarto, original glazed
boards, dust jacket. $1200.
First edition of Julia Child’s lively presentation

of signature recipes from 16 famous contempo-
rary chefs (a companion volume to her PBS series
of the same name), inscribed: “To Sue & Ralph,
Julia Child.” Julia Child’s Cooking with Master
Chefs won high praise on publication as “a show-
case for cooks in the untouchably revered class”
(New York Times). Very nearly fine.
“Nothing Short Of The Loss Of My

Life Shall Prevent Me From Becoming
Their Historian”
125. CATLIN, George. North American
Indians. Edinburgh, 1926. Two volumes. Large
octavo, original pictorial red cloth gilt. $3800.
Later edition of Catlin’s monumental history, with 309 Chagall’s Jerusalem Windows,
chromolithographs on 180 plates and three color-print- With Two Original Lithographs
ed maps (one folding). A young lawyer turned portrait-
ist, Catlin set out for the West from his home in 126. CHAGALL, Marc. The Jerusalem Windows. Monte Carlo,
Pennsylvania in 1830 to record on canvas North 1962. Folio, original gray cloth, acetate. $2800.
American Indians and their way of life. His eight years
First edition in English, with two original color lithographs spe-
among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the
cially prepared by Chagall for this edition, and with numerous
Rocky Mountains resulted in his “Indian Gallery,” an
beautiful color reproductions of the artist’s work. Illustrated are
enormous collection of artifacts, as well as more than
various drafts as well as the final versions of the 12 stained glass
four hundred paintings, including portraits and scenes
windows (one for each of the tribes of Israel) designed by Chagall
of tribal life. Fine.
for the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical
Center. Without original cardboard slipcase. Book fine, dust jacket
and acetate near-fine.
“Never In The Field Of Human Conflict Was So Much

Owed By So Many To So Few”
127. CHURCHILL, Winston. A Speech by The Prime Minister…
in the House of Commons, August 20th, 1940. London, 1940.
Octavo, original gray wrappers printed in maroon, custom
clamshell box; pp. 16. $1600.
First edition of Churchill’s famous 1940 address to the House of

Commons at the height of the Second World War, one of history’s
most stirring and influential speeches. “Churchill’s historic
exhortations are equal [to the Gettysburg address] in their ringing
assertion of democracy confronting the seemingly irresistible
forces of tyranny” (PMM 424). Near-fine.
94 Scarce first edition of Clancy’s “breathlessly exciting” first
novel (Washington Post). Insurance agent Clancy’s first novel
and the first fiction published by the Naval Institute Press, The
Hunt for Red October became a surprise best-seller and one of

President Reagan’s favorite books. Very nearly fine.
Salvador Dalí’s Cookbook

131. DALÍ, Salvador. Les Dîners de Gala. New York, 1973.
Folio, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket. $800.
First edition of this extravagant, lavishly illustrated cookbook

created by Dalí in honor of his wife Gala. Preceded in 1971 by
a portfolio of 12 colored lithographs under the same title,
each reproduced in this enlarged edition. Text in English.
Near-fine.
“When The Battle Waged Hottest,
Sheridan Was At His Best” “Larger And Brighter Than The Reality”
128. (CIVIL WAR) SHERIDAN, P.H. Personal Memoirs
132. DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of
of P.H. Sheridan. General United States Army. New York,
Nicholas Nickleby. London, 1839. Octavo, early 20th-
1888. Two volumes. Octavo, original burgundy pebbled
century full tan calf gilt. $2200.
cloth rebacked at an early date in three-quarter burgundy
morocco. $1200. First edition in book form, bound from early parts, of one of
Dickens’ most popular novels, illustrated with 39 etchings by
First edition of Sheridan’s military autobiography, with 27
Hablot Knight Browne (“Phiz”) and the steel-engraved
maps (11 folding) and 17 plates, handsomely bound in three-
frontispiece portrait after the painting by David Maclise.
quarter morocco gilt. “Often ranked with Grant and Sherman
Handsomely bound by Bayntun. This copy is bound from a
as the foremost Union commanders” (Mullins & Reed 82),
mix of early and later parts, with “visiter” corrected to “sister”
Sheridan completed this work just days before his death in
on page 123 (a later state) and “latter” on page 160 (an earlier
1888. Near-fine.
state). First state of the engraved frontispiece portrait of
Dickens and first states of plates one, two, and three. Originally
“A Stellar Work Of Civil War History—A Classic” issued in 20 parts from April 1838 to October 1839. Beautiful.
129. (CIVIL WAR) CHAMBERLAIN, Joshua Lawrence. The

Passing of the Armies. An Account of the Final Campaign
of the Army of the Potomac. New York and London, 1915.
Octavo, original blue cloth. $2800.
Scarce first edition of “one of the finest accounts of a campaign

penned” by a Union soldier (Eicher), with frontispiece and
full-page portrait of Chamberlain, along with three color-
outlined maps (two folding). A “clear and precise recording of
the final campaign of the war, from the last days of fighting at
the Petersburg front… [to] the surrender at Appomattox”
(Eicher 146). About-fine.
“Our Mission, Comrades, Is To Avoid Detection…”

130. CLANCY, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. Annapolis,
1984. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
“For Sheer Virtuosity In Prose “I Have Been Treading On 95
Faulkner Has No American Rival Leaves All Day Until I Am
Since Melville And James” Autumn-Tired”

133. FAULKNER, William. Intruder in 137. FROST, Robert. A Further Range.
the Dust. New York, 1948. Octavo, New York, 1936. Octavo, original beige
original black cloth, dust jacket. $2200. buckram, glassine, slipcase. $1200.
First edition of Faulkner’s first novel Signed limited first edition of Frost’s
published since 1940—“his stirring, very Pulitzer Prize-winner, one of 803 copies
great chronicle” (New York Times). signed by Frost. In this volume, Frost’s lyr-
Intruder in the Dust was published eight ics, “though more playful in blending fact
years after Faulkner’s novel The Hamlet and fantasy, have beneath their frivolity a
and only one year before Faulkner was deep seriousness” (Hart, 269). A Further
awarded the Nobel Prize. Near-fine. Range won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in
1936. Fine.
Signed By William Faulkner

134. FAULKNER, William. Idyll in the
Desert. New York, 1931. Octavo, original
marbled red boards, glassine. $4500.
Signed limited first edition of Faulkner’s

“I’ve Gotta Use Words When
haunting tale of love and loss, one of only
I Talk To You”
400 copies signed by him, in scarce original
glassine. “Idyll in the Desert shows 138. ELIOT, T.S. Sweeney Agonistes.
Faulkner’s mastery of oral storytelling London, 1932. 12mo, original blue paper
techniques and gives one version of his boards, dust jacket. $2800.
theme of endurance and love lasting be-
yond death” (Skei, 15). This signed limited First book edition, in first binding, of
edition was limited to 400 copies; this is an Eliot’s initial attempt to revive poetic dra-
“out of series” copy. Fine. ma, in scarce dust jacket, signed by him.
First published in The Criterion Magazine
in 1926, Sweeney Agonistes was not per-
“The Grandeur Of The Scheme, The Size Of The Enterprise” formed until 1934. About-fine.
135. FAULKNER, William. The Town. New York, 1957. Octavo, original tan
cloth, acetate, custom slipcase. $3000.
Signed limited first edition, one of 450 copies signed by Faulkner. The sec-
ond novel in Faulkner’s celebrated Snopes trilogy, which began with The
Hamlet (1940) and ended with The Mansion (1959). Front flyleaf (blank)
excised. Fine.
“I Am Overtired Of The Great Harvest I Myself Desired”

136. FROST, Robert. North of Boston. New York, 1924. Octavo, original half
olive cloth. $1500.
Later printing of Frost’s second published book, signed and dated by him:
“Robert Frost Amherst 1925.” This volume represents a pinnacle of Frost’s
career, containing such classic poems as “Mending Wall,” “The Death of the
Hired Man,” “Home Burial,” and “The Wood-pile.” First issued in London in
1914. Near-fine.
96 “To Begin With He Was Ashamed
Of Himself—A Rare State Of Mind”
141. FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball.

London, 1961. Octavo, original
dark brown paper boards, dust
jacket. $1600.
First edition of Fleming’s ninth

Bond novel, featuring the first ap-
pearance of the super-spy’s memo-
rable nemesis, the villainous mas-
termind behind SPECTRE, Ernst
Blofeld. “Thunderball represented
a new departure [for the Bond se-
ries], with the introduction of
SPECTRE and of Ernst Blofeld, a
Inscribed By Groening With A commanding villain who was to
reappear. This gave a measure of
Large Sketch Of Bart Simpson
continuity to the later Bond nov-
139. GROENING, Matt. School is Hell. New York, 1987. Square els… Thunderball worked well as an adventure story…
octavo, staple-bound as issued, original printed coated paper the theme of the theft of atom bombs seemed pertinent
wrappers; pp. [48]. $1500. and modern” (Black, 49, 55). Near-fine.
First edition, early printing, of Groening’s third collection of his

“Life in Hell” comic strips, inscribed by him with a large, original “Paris Is A Moveable Feast”
ink sketch of his iconic character Bart Simpson (labeled “BART”
142. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New
with an identifying arrow), whose speech balloon reads “TO JIM!!,”
York, 1964. Octavo, original half russet cloth, dust
signed, “Matt Groening 5/31/88.” Groening began his “Life in Hell”
jacket.$500.
comic strip in 1977; initially self-published, at the height of its 32-
year run it was syndicated in 379 newspapers, largely in the alterna- First edition of Hemingway’s celebration of Paris, with
tive, underground press. Fine. eight pages of black-and-white photographs. Hemingway
declared to a friend in 1950: “If you are
lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a
“A Naked Arm Smelling Of Chanel young man, then wherever you go for the
No. 5 Snaked Round His Neck…” rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris
is a moveable feast. Near-fine.
140. FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the
Golden Gun. London, 1965. Octavo, original
black paper boards, dust jacket. $850. “Man Is Not Made For Defeat”
First edition of Fleming’s final Bond novel, 143. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old
published the year after Fleming’s death, in Man and The Sea. New York, 1952.
which 007 is sent to Fleming’s beloved Jamaica Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket,
to neutralize the assassin known as “the man custom clamshell box. $3500.
with the golden gun.” Because Fleming wrote
this Bond adventure while ill—the author “was First edition of Hemingway’s classic story,
only able to work on it for one and a half hours winning him the Pulitzer Prize in 1952
a day”—the publisher hired novelist Kingsley and contributing to his award of the 1954
Amis to complete and revise it (Black, 75). Second-issue binding, Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner, who
without gilt-embossed gun on front cover, as usual; the first-issue reviewed The Old Man and the Sea for the magazine
binding is extremely rare. This copy is first impression, second is- Shenandoah, called the novel Hemingway’s best: “Time
sue, bound with plain white endpapers. About-fine. may show it to be the best single piece of any of us. I
mean his and my contemporaries” (Baker, 593-94). Fine.
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“In The World According To Garp, Inscribed By Stephen King “Beware Of Clowns
We Are All Terminal Cases” Leaving Balloons!”
145. KING, Stephen. Firestarter. New
144. IRVING, John. The World York, 1980. Octavo, original half red 146. KING, Stephen. It. New York,
According to Garp. New York, 1978. cloth, dust jacket. $1100. 1986. Thick octavo, original half black,
Octavo, original half navy cloth, dust dust jacket. $2200.
jacket. $2800. First trade edition, boldly inscribed by
King in the year of publication: “For First edition, inscribed: “For Don and
First edition of Irving’s fourth and most Gene—All the best from your wife—and Shirley—Best wishes—and beware of
famous novel, inscribed: “For Betsy, who from me—Stephen King, 8/18/80.” clowns leaving balloons! Warmly,
runs a very nice bookstore — John Irving.” Preceded only by a signed limited edi- Stephen King 6/14/87.” A terrifying tale
Winner of the 1980 National Book Award, tion published in the same year. Basis of unspeakable evil lurking in the sew-
World According to Garp “is the novel for the 1984 film starring Drew ers of a small town in Main, It was listed
which made Irving’s name on both sides Barrymore. Book fine, bright dust jacket by Publisher’s Weekly as the best-selling
of the Atlantic” (Parker, 527-8). Fine. with tape repairs to verso. A lovely copy. book of 1986. Fine.
Ice Axe Boldly Signed By Signed By Sir Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary And George Lowe
147. HILLARY, Edmund. Ice axe 148. HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest.
signed. Kandersteg, Switzerland, London, 1953. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust
1943. Wood and steel shaft measures jacket. $1500.
34 inches; steel blade measures 11-1/2
inches. $2000. First edition, signed by expedition members Sir
Edmund Hillary and George Lowe, extensively
Vintage ice axe boldly signed at a later illustrated. The 1953 British Expedition to
date in black ink on the wooden shaft Mount Everest was the eighth in 30 years to at-
by mountaineering legend Sir tempt Everest. On May 29th, 1953 Sir
Edmund Hillary. Although he as- Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide
cended Everest only once after the Tenzing Norgay at last stood at the sum-
initial summit, Hillary has had a pro- mit. Lowe served on the expedition’s
found influence on the Everest area, support team and directed a documen-
returning each year to work among tary film made during the mountaineer-
the Sherpa people. Fine. ing expedition. Fine.
98 Jack London’s Scarce First Book Inscribed By Harper Lee
149. LONDON, Jack. The Son of the Wolf. 151. LEE, Harper. To Kill a
Boston and New York, 1900. Octavo, original Mockingbird. New York, 1995.
slate gray cloth stamped in silver. $3300. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust
jacket. $1750.
First edition, scarce first issue, of London’s first
book, his groundbreaking collection of nine Thirty-fifth Anniversary edition, in-
tales set against the stark landscape of the scribed: “To John with my best wishes,
Yukon, in original silver-stamped first state Harper Lee.” First pub-
binding. “In 1897 London joined the gold rush lished in 1960, To Kill a
to the Klondike, where he made an unsuccess- Mockingbird became an
ful attempt at mining… Stricken with scurvy, immediate bestseller and
he returned to Oakland the following year and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize
began to write of his experiences… in 1900 his for Fiction. Fine.
first collection, The Son of the Wolf, was issued,
bringing him national fame” (Hart, 490). Near-fine.
“He Did Not Want His Wife To
Adore A Stranger”
152. NATHAN, Robert. The Bishop’s Wife. Indianapolis,
1928. Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition of Nathan’s whimsical tale. Basis for the 1947

Oscar-winning film of the same name starring Cary Grant
and Loretta Young. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
“That’s Why Whenever It’s Foggy And Gray,

It’s Rudolph The Red-Nose Who Guides
Santa’s Sleigh”
153. MAY, Robert L. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Chicago, 1939. Small quarto, staple-bound as issued, original
pictorial paper wrappers; pp. [32]. $1800.
First edition of the very first appearance of Santa’s be-

loved ninth reindeer, with 41 illustrations by Denver
Gillen. Montgomery Ward and Company asked Robert
May, a copywriter on its advertising staff, to write a
“Someday We’ll Find It, The Rainbow Connection…” booklet of Christmas verses as a premium for children to
take home after visiting the de-
150. (HENSON, Jim) CRIST, Steven. The Muppet Movie. New partment store’s Santa Claus.
York, 1979. Quarto, original gilt-stamped pictorial mustard May produced Rudolph the Red-
cloth, dust jacket. $1750. Nosed Reindeer. Near-fine.
First edition of the generously illustrated storybook adapta-
tion of the Muppets’ first feature film, boldly signed by their
creator, Jim Henson. Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo
the Great and all the rest of the gang are “movin’ right along”
to Hollywood in pursuit of their dream of “making millions of
people happy” in this adaptation of The Muppet Movie (1979),
featuring numerous full-color photographs and the lyrics from
all the songs in the film. Fine.
Inscribed By Mother Teresa 99
156. MOTHER TERESA. Typed letter

inscribed. Calcutta, August 16, 1988.
Printed buff-colored postcard, measuring
5-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches, with typed signed
letter on verso. $1500.
Postcard from the Missionaries of Charity

in Calcutta with a typed letter from
Mother Teresa, inscribed: “God bless you
M Teresa MC.” The typed letter reads in
full: “Dear Mr. A—, Thanks for your kind
gift of Rs.10/- sent to us by M.O. It helps us
to bring love, joy, and peace into the lives
of the poor. Our gratitude to you is our
prayer for you that you grow in God’s love
Among The First American Pop-Up Books and love others as He loves you and so radiate His love to all
you meet. You are daily in my prayers and I hope you pray for
154. (POP-UP BOOKS) LENTZ, Harold B., illustrator. me also.[signed] God bless you. M Teresa MC.” About-fine.
The “Pop-up” Cinderella. Including Hansel and Gretel,
Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Puss-In-Boots. New
York, 1933. Thick octavo, original pictorial boards and “The American People Know Practically Nothing
endpapers, dust jacket. $1800. Of What Really Happened Over There”
First “pop-up” edition of four famed fairy tales, illustrated 157. PERSHING, John J. My Experiences in the World War.
with in-text line-drawings and four wonderful pop-ups by New York, 1931. Two volumes. Large octavo, publisher’s olive
Harold B. Lentz, completely intact. Blue Ribbon was the buckram, dust jackets. $1500.
first publisher to market its books using the term “pop-
up.” They and paper-engineer Harold Lentz collaborated Signed limited “Author’s Autograph” first edition of the
in the 1930s to produce a successful series of imaginative 1931 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history, one of 2100
pop-ups, the first modern pop-up books produced in copies signed by Pershing. Pershing returned from World
America. About-fine. War I as America’s most famous general. “In that adventure
there were many lessons useful to the American people,
should they ever again be called to arms, and I felt it a duty
With Six Bright And Engaging Moveables to record them as I saw them.” Without scarce slipcase.
Including A Large Pop-Up Santa Books fine, dust jackets near-fine.
155. (POP-UP BOOKS) (WOHLBERG,

Meg) MOORE, Clement C. The Night Signed By Eugene O’Neill
Before Christmas. New York, 1944.
158. O’NEILL, Eugene. Mourning Becomes
Slim quarto, spiral-bound as issued,
Electra. New York, 1931. Tall octavo, original
original pictorial paper boards. $550.
full Japan vellum gilt. $1650.
First edition of this 1940s pop-up ver-
Signed limited first edition, one of only 550
sion of the classic Christmas story,
copies signed by O’Neill. “Mourning Becomes
featuring one traditional pop-up, three
Electra is in many respects O’Neill’s most
tab mechanicals, one spring-shake
successful work. It transposes the events of
moveable, and a ribbon-pull pop-up,
Aeschylus’ Oresteia to a Puritanical family in
as well as numerous additional color
New England, replacing the old acceptance
illustrations, all by illustrator Meg
of fate with a modern doctrine of psychologi-
Wohlberg. In lovely pictorial boards. A
cal causation” (Hartnoll, 612). Without origi-
beautiful copy.
nal slipcase. About-fine.
100 Inscribed By Yitzhak Rabin
159. RABIN, Yitzhak. The Rabin Memoirs.
Boston and Toronto, 1979. Octavo, original half

black and blue paper boards, dust jacket. $1200.
First edition in English, inscribed:“To Lilian &

Steve, With deep affections 2.20.84, Y. Rabin.”
Rabin “is frank in treating the episodes of per-
sonal crisis and also in describing relations
with colleagues, friends and adversaries… A
significant contribution to the history of the
time” (Foreign Affairs). Book fine, dust jacket
near-fine.
Salinger’s Raise High The Roof Beam,

First Edition, Very Scarce First Issue Inscribed By Schulz With An Original Drawing Of Snoopy
160. SALINGER, J.D. Raise High the Roof Beam, 162. SCHULZ, Charles M. Peanuts Jubilee. New York, 1976. Oblong
Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction. folio, original pictorial wrappers. $2500.
Boston and Toronto, 1963. Octavo, original gray
cloth, dust jacket. $4500. Later edition of this celebration of Peanuts’ silver anniversary, warmly
inscribed: “To George—Happy 24th—Charles M. Schulz,” above an origi-
First edition, very scarce first issue, one of a very nal sketch of Snoopy. Illustrated with numerous photographs and comic
few copies released without the dedication leaf. strips, including 134 color reproductions of Sunday panels. Near-fine.
Like Franny and Zooey (1961), these two long stories
were first printed in The New Yorker, and form part
of Salinger’s uncompleted series about the Glass “And That’s What Christmas Is All About, Charlie Brown”
family. Only a very few copies (the publisher once
estimated as few as 20, although that number is 163. SCHULZ, Charles M. A Charlie Brown Christmas. Cleveland and
probably too low) were issued without a dedication New York, 1965. Quarto, original cloth, dust jacket. $850.
leaf. Very nearly fine. First edition, adapted from the perennial Christmas television favor-
ite. “The first broadcast was watched by almost 50% of the nation’s
viewers… [and its subsequent run] has made it a staple of family holi-
“At Least I’m Still In Love
day traditions and an icon of American pop culture” (USA Today).
With Yorick’s Skull”
Very nearly fine.
161. SALINGER, J.D. Franny
and Zooey. Boston, 1961.
With A Signed Sketch Of Linus
Octavo, original gray cloth,
dust jacket. $950.
And His Blanket
First edition of Salinger’s 164. SCHULZ, Charles M. A New Peanuts Book

third book— about the Glass Featuring Snoopy. New York, 1958. Slim octavo, original
family, whom he had “been pictorial wrappers. $3200.
waiting for most of [his] life.” First edition of this celebration of Peanuts comic strips
“Franny” originally appeared featuring Charlie Brown’s loveable dog, with a sketch by
in The New Yorker in 1955 Schulz of Linus van Pelt and his blanket. With a clipped
and was followed two years Peanuts strip featuring Linus and his blanket laid in.
later by “Zooey.” Book fine, This volume was the first to exclusively feature the
dust jacket near-fine. character of Snoopy, Charlie Brown’s exuberant, novel-
writing beagle (Dyer). Fine.
Inscribed By Ronald Reagan 101
165. REAGAN, Ronald. An American Life. New York, 1990.

Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $3800.
First edition of the 40th President’s autobiography, signed

and dated by him in the year of publication: “To Stefanie
Salata—With Very Best Wishes & appreciation. Ronald
Reagan, Dec. 18 / 1990.” President Reagan’s illustrated auto-
biography, with 16 pages of black-and-white photogravures.
Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Fine.
The Mercury Astronauts: Signed By Carpenter,

Cooper And Glenn
166. (SPACE) CARPENTER, Scott; COOPER, Gordon; Inscribed By Singer
GLENN, John; GRISSOM, Virgil; SCHIRRA, Walter;
168. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Yentl the Yeshiva Boy. New
SHEPARD, Alan; SLAYTON, Donald. We Seven. Norwalk,
York, 1983. Octavo, original russet cloth, dust jacket. $600.
1997. Octavo, original full black morocco gilt. $2200.
First trade edition of Singer’s beloved tale, inscribed and
Signed limited “Collector’s Edition,” one of 3000 copies of this
signed by him: “To Nell, Greetings, I.B. Singer.” Singer’s classic
comprehensive and engaging first-hand account of the genesis
tale is one of his best known stories, with woodcut illustrations
of America’s manned space program signed by three of the
by Antonio Frasconi. Published the same year as the premiere
Mercury astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and
of Barbara Streisand’s film adaptation. About-fine.
John Glenn. This volume offers a co-
hesive chronicle of the beginnings of
American manned space exploration Signed By Joe DiMaggio In Each Volume
from the perspectives of those who
pioneered it, with each member of 169. (SPORTS) DIMAGGIO, Joe. The DiMaggio
Project Mercury contributing at least Albums. New York, 1989. Two volumes. Quarto,
three essay-length sections. Fine. original blue cloth, slipcase. $1600.
First trade edition, signed by DiMaggio on the

Signed By Astronaut frontispiece portrait of each volume. These volumes
Alan Shepard contain over 800 pages of newspaper accounts,
photos and reproductions of memorabilia from
167. (SPACE) SHEPARD, Alan DiMaggio’s incomparable career, with commentary
AND SLAYTON, Deke. Moon Shot. and an introduction by DiMaggio himself. Fine.
Norwalk, 1997. Octavo, publisher’s
full black morocco gilt. $1200.
Boldly Inscribed By Ted Williams
Signed limited edition, one of 3000
copies signed by Alan Shepard, with laid-in Certificate of 170. (SPORTS) WILLIAMS, Ted. My Turn at Bat. New York,
Authenticity signed by Alan Shepard and Louise B. Shepard, 1969. Octavo, original half white cloth, dust jacket. $1500.
handsomely bound. Written by two of the seven original
First edition, scarce first issue, of Williams’ autobiography,
Mercury astronauts, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, Moon
boldly inscribed by him, “To John, Ted Williams.” Arguably
Shot was first published shortly after Slayton’s death in 1993.
the greatest pure hitter of all time, with a lifetime batting
Shepard is distinguished as the first American to journey
average of .344 and a lifetime slugging average of .634. “The
into space and as Commander of Apollo 14, the third expe-
Splendid Splinter” was named “Player of the Decade 1951-
dition to walk on the moon. Fine.
1960” and elected to the Hall of Fame in 1966. With 32 pages
of photographic illustrations. About-fine.
102 year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, is “un-
doubtedly [his] most popular non-fiction work” (Gross
Hayman, 50). Fine.
Signed By Margaret Thatcher

174. THATCHER, Margaret. The Path to Power. Norwalk,
CT, 1995. Octavo, original full navy morocco gilt. $1500.
Signed limited edition, one of 3000 copies signed by Thatcher.

This autobiographical account, published following 1993’s
The Downing Street Years, relates the story of Lady Thatcher’s
early life and the beginnings of her political career. Illustrated
with 38 pages of photographs. Fine.
Signed By Muhammad Ali

“One Of Mark Twain’s Most Important Books”
171. (SPORTS) (ALI, Muhammad) HAUSER, Thomas.
Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times. Norwalk, 1996. 175. TWAIN, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. Boston, 1883.
Octavo, original red morocco gilt. $1700. Octavo, original three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $2900.
Signed limited “Collector’s Edition” of Ali’s official, illustrated First American edition, with hundreds of illustrations, many
biography, one of 3500 copies specially bound and boldly by Edmund Henry Garrett, handsome in publisher’s three-
signed by both author Thomas Hauser and Muhammad Ali. quarter morocco-gilt. “Widely regarded as both one of Mark
“Thirty years after he burst on the scene as a gold medal win- Twain’s major works and a classic on the Mississippi itself. Its
ner at the Rome Olympics, Muhammad Ali remains a magical early chapters especially are unrivaled in evoking the excite-
figure, known and loved throughout the world.” Fine. ment of their time… According to Howells, Mark Twain re-
garded Life on the Mississippi as his greatest book”
(Rasmussen). First state, intermediate B, without illustration
“Timshel!” of Twain’s head in flames on page 441 and
with caption on page 443 reading “The St.
172. STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New Louis Hotel.” Near-fine.
York, 1952. Octavo, original green cloth,
dust jacket, custom box. $2800.
Twain’s The Prince And The
First trade edition of Steinbeck’s epic and Pauper, In Publisher’s Morocco
moving story of a modern Cain and Abel.
Steinbeck wrote that East of Eden “has ev- 176. TWAIN, Mark. The Prince and the
erything in it I have been able to learn about Pauper. Boston, 1882. Octavo, original
my art or craft or profession in all these three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $3200.
years,” further claiming that everything he
wrote prior to East of Eden “has been, in a First American edition of “the best book
sense, practice for this” (Salinas Public for young folks that was ever written,”
Library, 45). Book fine, dust jacket near-fine. (Harriet Beecher Stowe), in publisher’s
deluxe three-quarter morocco-gilt bind-
ing. Thought by his family and many of
“Pure Delight” his friends to be his best work, The Prince
and the Pauper represented a risky departure for Twain in his
173. STEINBECK, John. Travels with Charley. New York, attempt to write a serious and thoughtful adventure story for
1962. Octavo, original cream cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. $1500. children. Second state, with Franklin Press imprint on copy-
right page and “estate” changed to “state” on page 124, line 1.
First edition of Steinbeck’s beloved cross-country narrative.
Boards and joints lightly rubbed, minor expert reinforcement
Scarce in this condition. This much loved chronicle of
to inner paper hinges. An excellent copy.
Steinbeck’s rediscovery of America, published the same
“Camelot… Name Of nected series of bedtime tales for his nieces 103
The Asylum, Likely” and nephews by the time it came to
Harper. There, shepherded by the distin-

177. TWAIN, Mark. A Connecticut guished editor Ursula Nordstrom and fe-
Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. New licitously illustrated [with 87 drawings] by
York, 1889. Octavo, original green Garth Williams, the book was eventually
pictorial cloth, custom half morocco published-generally to high acclaim”
clamshell box. $4500. (Silvey). Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
First edition, first issue, of Twain’s come-

dic critique of Arthurian legend and “It Never Was A War,
19th-century America. Twain wrote A Any More Than There’s War
Connecticut Yankee after reading Between Men And Ants”
Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, exploring “a
number of implicit parallels between 180. WELLS, H.G. The War of the
Arthur’s England and the American Worlds. London, 1898. Octavo, original
South: slavery; an agrarian economy which came into armed gray cloth, custom half morocco clamshell box. $4500.
conflict with an industrial economy; a chivalric code which,
Clemens said, was secondhand Walter Scott and kept the First edition of H.G. Wells’ classic and influential “scientific
South mawkish, adolescent, verbose, and addicted to leather- romance.” “Almost all of Wells’ best science fiction has an
headed anachronisms like duels and tournaments. In both evolutionary subtext… The British Empire, like all others
frameworks a civil war destroys the old order, and the Yankee before it, represented the successful predation of the weak by
has as acute a sense of loss as Mark Twain did” (Kaplan, 297). the strong, and that was the subject, in a metamorphosed
Inner hinges expertly reinforced, spine lightly rubbed. Gilt form, of The War of the Worlds” (Disch, 62-63). “The novel is
bright. An excellent and lovely copy. a tour de force whose innumerable fictional offspring include
numerous adaptations and homages, by far the most effective
of which was Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater radio broadcast
“All The Christmases Roll Down of 1938” (Anatomy of Wonder). Near-fine.
Toward The Two-Tongued Sea…”
178. THOMAS, Dylan. A Child’s “Listen: Billy Pilgrim Has Come
Christmas in Wales. Norfolk, Connecticut, Unstuck In Time”
1955. 12mo, original cream paper boards,
dust jacket. $550. 181. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-
Five. New York, 1969. Octavo, original blue
First separate edition of Thomas’ beloved
cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
Christmas story. Published the year after its
first appearance in the short story collec- First edition of Vonnegut’s “most power-
tion Quite Early One Morning, and specially ful novel,” a modern classic of time travel,
produced for sale at Christmastime 1955. metaphysics and the morality—or lack
Book fine, dust jacket near-fine. thereof—of war. “Slaughterhouse-Five,
perhaps Vonnegut’s most powerful novel,
presents two characters who can see be-
“The Truth Of The Matter Was, neath the surface to the tragic realities of
The Baby Looked Very Much Like human history but make no attempt to
A Mouse In Every Way” bring about change… The central event is
the destruction of Dresden by bombs and
179. WHITE, E.B. Stuart Little. New York and London, 1945. fire storm—a catastrophe that Vonnegut himself wit-
Octavo, original pictorial olive cloth, dust jacket. $1800. nessed as a prisoner of war” (Vinson, 1414-15). “A master-
First edition of White’s “outstandingly funny and sometimes piece… A key work” (Anatomy of Wonder). Book fine,
touching” (Carpenter & Prichard) first book for children. dust jacket near-fine.
“The story had been brewing with White for years as a discon-
104 Signed By William Carlos Williams
184. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The Desert Music and
Other Poems. New York, 1954. Octavo, original half buckram,

glassine, slipcase. $3500.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 100 copies signed by

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams.
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1953, Williams is
“one of the great forces in 20th-century American verse”
(Hamilton, 584). Fine.
With Presentation Slip Inscribed By

The Duke Of Windsor
185. WINDSOR, Duke of. A King’s Story. New York,
Signed By Both Author And Artist circa 1951. Octavo, modern full crushed navy morocco
gilt, custom slipcase. $2500.
182. (WYETH, N.C.) BOYD, James. Drums. New York,
First trade edition, handsomely bound by Bayntun (Riviere),
1928. Thick octavo, original orange cloth, mounted cover il-
with tipped-in autograph slip signed by the Duke of Windsor:
lustration, custom clamshell box. $3500.
“To Ned and Joan with best wishes from Edward, May 1951.”
Limited first edition with N.C. Wyeth’s illustrations, one of This handsomely bound volume surveys Edward’s life up un-
only 525 copies signed by both Boyd and Wyeth, with an til his abdication in December 1936. Illustrated with 28 pages
illustrated title page, seven pages of facsimile manuscript of photographs. Fine.
correspondence between illustrator and author, 14 full-page
color plates, and 47 in-text pen-and-ink linecuts. James Boyd
served in World War I and brought his experiences as a soldier First Edition Of Spoon River Anthology,
to his two major novels: his first novel, Drums, set during the Inscribed By Masters
Revolution, and Marching On, about the Civil War. Without
186. MASTERS, Edgar Lee. Spoon River Anthology. New
scarce glassine or publisher’s box. Fine.
York, 1915. Small octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket,
custom chemise and slipcase. $6800.
“Intensely And Brilliantly Alive” First edition, first issue of Masters’ most
celebrated work, inscribed by the poet,
183. YATES, Richard. Revolutionary
“Inscribed for ——with best wishes, Edgar
Road. Boston and Toronto, 1961. Octavo,
Lee Masters.” Master’s envisioned this
original half red cloth, dust jacket. $2800.
work—over 200 short, free verse poems
First edition of Yates’ explosive debut voiced by dead residents of the fictional
novel. Richard Yates’ groundbreaking Spoon River, Illinois—as “a kind of Divine
first novel “creates an indelible portrait Comedy,” representing a full range of hu-
of lost promises and mortgaged hopes” manity from the noble to the foolish, the
in suburban America, and has been saints and—in particular—the sinners.
critically praised for possessing “an in- “The malevolence, greed and violence re-
tensity that excites the reader’s compas- vealed in the poems stood in direct contrast
sion as well as his interest” (New York to the conventions of piety dominating
Times). Hailed by Tennessee Williams as early 20th-century literature of rural
“intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a America” (Springer, 438). Rare original
masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don’t dust jacket lightly soiled; dust jacket and original glassine
know what it is.” Fine. with light edge-wear. Book fine.
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A DORÉ, Gustave 79 KING Jr., Martin Luther 37 RÉDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph 82
ACKERMANN, Rudolph 4 DULAC, Edmund 81 KING, Stephen 97 ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques 82
ADAMS, Ansel 75, 91 KIPLING, Rudyard 44 ROWLING, J.K. 89
ALI, Muhammad 102 E
ANGELOU, Maya 91 EARHART, Amelia 92 L S
AUDEN, W.H. 48 EINSTEIN, Albert 17, 65 LAZZARI, Antonio 84 SALINGER, J.D. 21, 100
AUDUBON, John James 33 ELIOT, T.S. 87, 95 LEE, Harper 98 SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry R. 38
LENTZ, Harold B. 99 SCHULZ, Charles M. 90, 100
B F LINDBERGH, Charles A. 36 SHAKESPEARE, William 44
BARBIER, George 23 FAULKNER, William 6, 50, 95 LONDON, Jack 98 SHERIDAN, P.H. 94
BARBUSSE, Henri 79 FLEMING, Ian 20, 96 LOSSING, Benson J. 35 SINCLAIR, Upton 58
BARROW, John 66 FRANKLIN, Benjamin 29, 34 SINGER, Isaac Bashevis 101
BAUM, L. Frank 85 FRANK, Robert 83 M Space 101
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van 77 FROST, Robert 9, 51, 95 MARSHALL, John 28 STEINBECK, John 58, 59, 60, 102
BEN-GURION, David 16 MARTY, André 27 STEVENS, Wallace 61
Bible 5, 31, 74 G MASTERS, Edgar Lee 104 STRAVINSKY, Igor 84
Book of Common Prayer 71 GERSHWIN, George 22 MATISSE, Henri 78
BOYD, James 104 GRAHAM, Benjamin 18 MAY, Robert L. 98 T
BRODOVITCH, Alexey 76 GRANT, Ulysses S. 30 MICHENER, James 56 TENNYSON, Alfred 79
BURCHETT, Josiah 69 GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm 3 MILL, John Stuart 70 THATCHER, Margaret 102
BURKERT, Nancy Eckholm 86 GROENING, Matt 96 MILNE, A.A. 88 THOMAS, Dylan 62, 103
BURTON, Richard F. 68 MILTON, John 45 THOMPSON, Hunter S. 62
BYRD, Richard Evelyn 91 H Missal 74 THOMPSON, Kay 89
Haggadah 71 MITCHELL, Margaret 55 TWAIN, Mark 46, 102
C HAKLUYT, Richard 69 MOORE, Clement C. 99
CARROLL, Lewis 2, 13 HARRIS, Joel Chandler 87 Mother Teresa 99 V
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri 92 HEINLEIN, Robert 54 VERNE, Jules 47
CASH, Johnny 92 HELLER, Joseph 26 N VONNEGUT, Kurt 103
CATLIN, George 93 HEMINGWAY, Ernest NANSEN, Fridtjof 91
CERVANTES, Miguel de 40 51, 52–53, 96 NAPOLEON 11 W
CHAGALL, Marc 76, 93 HENSON, Jim 98 NATHAN, Robert 98 WASHINGTON, George 28
CHAMBERLAIN, Joshua 94 HILLARY, Edmund 97 NEWTON, Isaac 66 WATSON, James D. 67
CHILD, Julia 93 HUNT, John 97 NIJINSKY, Vaslav 23 WELLS, H.G. 47, 103
CHIMOT, Edouard 79 HUXLEY, Aldous 54 WHITE, E.B. 103
CHURCHILL, Winston 12, 93 O WHITMAN, Walt 7
CLANCY, Tom 94 I O’NEILL, Eugene 99 WILLIAMS, Ted 101
COBURN, Alvin Langdon 43 Illuminated Leaf 72–73, 92 WILLIAMS, Tennessee 63
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur 41 IRVING, John 97 P WILLIAMS, William Carlos 104
CRICK, F.H.C. 67 PAINE, Thomas 39 WILSON, Alexander 10
CRUIKSHANK, George 3 J PALLADIO, Andrea 80 WILSON, Bill 19
JACOBI, Lotte 49 PARRISH, Maxfield 81 WINDSOR, Duke of 104
D JAMES, Henry 43 PATTON, George S. 25 WRONECKI, Daniel 92
DAHL, Roald 86 JOYCE, James 78 PERSHING, John J. 99 WYETH, N.C. 104
DALÍ, Salvador 13, 94 JUNG, Carl 65
DARWIN, Charles 64 R Y
DAVIS, Jefferson 30 K RABIN, Yitzhak 100 YATES, Richard 104
DICKENS, Charles 41, 85, 94 KENNEDY, Jacqueline 36 RAND, Ayn 56, 57
DIMAGGIO, Joe 101 KENNEDY, John F. 14–15 REAGAN, Ronald 101
DODD, David L. 18
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