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SPRING MISCELLANY OF NEW ARRIVALS

1. [ALEXANDER (William)]. PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE

DRESS AND MANNERS OF THE RUSSIANS. London: John Murray, 1814. First Edition. Large octavo (6-1/2" x 9-1/4") bound in contemporary half black

morocco and marbled boards with morocco corners. Illustrated with 64 fine

hand-colored aquatint plates depicting the costume of the Russian Empire.

Plates 1-17 are of the Finns and Laplanders; numbers 18-35 of the Tartars;

36-50 of the Samoyeds; and 51-64 of the Kalmuk, Mongols and others. Colas

2359; Hiler & Hiller p. 16; cf. Lipperheide Kaa 32. The first edition is

rather uncommon. Scattered minor spotting to both text and the plates,

which are generally clean and fresh; binding rubbed along spine edges with

hinges a bit tender but tight. Very Good. SOLD

2. BEMELMANS, Ludwig. THE DONKEY INSIDE. New York: The Viking

Press, 1941. First Edition. A notebook of several voyages through South

America, with a concentration on Ecuador. Illustrated with color plates of

the Plaza Independencia, Quito, Luchow's Restaurant, House and Garden of

Andre Roosevelt in Quito, and Indians in the patio of the Hotel Sucre in

Otavalo. Copy #8 (or possibly "S") of only 175 numbered copies with an

ORIGINAL DRAWING in color SIGNED by the author, in this case a

portrait of Miss Clavell from the author's beloved children's book

MADELINE. This is the first example of this title we have come across that

not only contains a drawing of a character from his famous children's book

series but that is also additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the

author, as this is on the limitation page: "To Eugenio/Prestinario/from

/Ludwig Bemelmans/1941." Pomerance does not indicate a lettered edition,

nor have we heard of another lettered copy, but given the most unusual

nature of this copy, we cannot rule out that it is lettered rather than

numbered. In any case a very scarce example of original art from one of

the best known children's books of the twentieth century. Darkening of

spine and slight soiling to the cloth. Very Good, lacking the slipcase.

$2,500.00

This book generated a term unique to Ecuadorian Spanish-- "bemelmans": a

foreigner who makes fun of the natives.

3. BENET, Stephen Vincent. JOHN BROWN'S BODY. Garden City:

Doubleday, 1928. First Edition. First Trade Edition after the printing of

201 signed deluxe copies of this popular success and Pulitzer Prize

winner. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "For W. L. Thompson Jr./with the best wishes of the author,/Stephen Vincent Benet/July 25 -1942." Near Fine in

a Good copy of the dustwrapper, missing some small pieces on the spine and

split there but with a very presentable appearance under mylar. $400.00

CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND 4. BIZOT, (P.). MEDALISCHE HISTORIE DER REPUBLYK VAN HOLLAND.

In 't Fransch beschreeven door den heer Bizot, en uit die taal

in 't Nederduitsch gebracht, en wel twee derden verm.; nevens

alle de medalien der overtocht van Zyn Hoogheid na Engeland, des

zelfs krooning; enz. tot nu toe in gevoegsaame ordre gesteld:

met een byvoegsel van de grafsteden ter eere der dappere helden

opgerecht. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1690. First Edition in Dutch.

Quarto (6-3/4" x 9") bound in early calf-backed marbled boards; (6), (36),

364; 40, (16) pages. Originally published in French in 1687, this useful

reference work on Dutch medals of the period 1555-1689 is complete and

profusely illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, engraved title page,

two portraits, 123 numismatic plates, 15 plates of sepulchral monuments,

and many text engravings. The numismatic plates, usually with multiple

images, are very interesting containing portraits, scenes of sea battles,

views of Dutch cities, and maps, including one of California as an island.

Each medal is fully described and accompanied by an explanation of the

historical details. Brunet I, 955 (French edition); Graesse I, 433 (note).

Name dated 1839 in ink on title page. Hinges a little weak. Near Fine.

$750.00

5. Elizabeth Browning's Poems

5. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. THE POEMS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT

BROWNING. Complete in Three Volumes. New York: James Miller, [1881]. Reprint. Three duodecimo (4-1/2" x 6-3/4") bound in contemporary polished

tree calf with gilt-ruled borders, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, and

marbled endpapers; 458 + 456 + 456 pages. All three volumes recently

rebacked with matching lighter color calf spines decorated in gilt with

contrasting morocco gilt-lettered spine labels. Corrected by the last

London edition, with an introductory essay by H. T. Tuckerman. Owner name

dated January 1882 on the front blank of each volume. Some toning to the

text; light edgewear and creasing of covers. Near Fine. $250.00

6. BROWNING, Robert. POEMS OF ROBERT BROWNING. London: Henry

Frowde/Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1905. Reprint. Octavo (5-1/4" x

7-3/4") bound in 3/4 green morocco with double gilt-ruled borders, a gilt-

decorated and lettered spine with three raised bands, top edge gilt, and

marbled endpapers; viii, 623 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece

portrait of the poet. Light rubbing to spine and corners. An attractively

bound edition of this poet's works in Near Fine condition. $100.00

7. BROWNING, Robert. THE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING with an

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912. Centenary Edition. Ten octavo (5-3/4" x 8-5/8") volumes attractively bound

in full burgundy morocco heavily gilt-decorated including a central floral

device on each cover with red and green onlay on a solid gilt background;

gilt dentelles. Each volume illustrated with a black-and-white engraved

portrait of Browning done by Emery Walker after various artists. Copy #454

of a limited edition of 526 copies. This set has bound into the first

volume an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the author dated 7 May 1878 to a Mrs. Castle. In full: "Mr. Barnett Smith has written, by an unpardonable

piece of negligence, the word you underline, critic, for 'cricket' - which

pray let mr. Maitland correct - taking my best thanks for his attention to

what could have made us all ridiculous enough. I shall soon make up for my

own disappointment in having missed you - this week has been a very busy

one for me. We all here want much to enjoy your company when you can

arrange to gratify us with it. I am writing now in intense haste, but a

word will serve the purpose." SIGNED "Ever affectionately yours, R

Browning." Minor wear. Near Fine with a handsome shelf appearance. SOLD

8. CAPOTE, Truman. A CHRISTMAS MEMORY. New York: Random House, [1966]. First Edition. Capote's touching tribute to his beloved distant

cousin and caretaker, Miss Sook Faulk. "As for me, I could leave the world

with today in my eyes." Copy #232 of 600 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Bookplate on the front pastedown. About Fine in the

original Fine mylar dustwrapper and a Fine slipcase with the gold spine

label intact. SOLD

9. CARTER, Jimmy. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH Inscribed to Maude Chasen of restaurant fame. Fine 8" x 10" black-and-white photograph of Carter smiling admirably at famed Hollywood restaurant owner Maude Chasen.

INSCRIBED and SIGNED as President in the upper right margin: "To my Georgia/friend Maude/Chasen/Jimmy Carter/9-23-77." Matted and framed.

Fine. $750.00

Maude Chasen died at the age of 97 in 2001. Her husband, Dave Chasen,

opened Chasen's Southern Pit Barbecue on Dec. 13, 1936. Frank Capra lent

Chasen his silverware for the restaurant's opening. It was a favorite spot

for many stars including Clark Gable, Jimmy Cagney, Marilyn Monroe, and

scores of others. Presidents John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, who proposed to future

wife Nancy there, frequented the restaurant which was the site of the

Academy Awards party for many years and which closed in 1995. This

photograph was one of many signed celebrity photos that graced the

restaurant's walls and that were auctioned off in the late 1990s.

10. CARTER, Jimmy. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH Inscribed to Shari Lewis. Wonderful 8" x 10" black-and-white photograph of Carter kissing on the

cheek a surprised Shari Lewis who is holding her most famous creation,

Lamb Chop. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in the upper left margin: "With

love/to Shari Lewis--/Jimmy Carter." Minor wrinkling. Fine. $1,500.00

Shari Lewis (January 17, 1933 _ August 2, 1998) was a children's

television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s. She

performed at the White House, mostly for Christmas parties, for Presidents

Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton.

11. CARVER, Raymond. CATHEDRAL. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Although his previous collection achieved some popularity,

this title is really Carver's breakthrough and break-away (from the

restraints of Gordon Lish's style) book. In it, Carver moved beyond the

constraining label of minimalism to mine an emotional depth not present in

his previous work and which would blossom fully in his next and last book.

The title story and "A Small, Good Thing" rank among the best stories of

the latter twentieth century. SIGNED by the author on the title page in

blue ink, and below that INSCRIBED and SIGNED by him as "Ray Carver" in February 1984 to the owner who has written her name (twice!) on the

front blank, also in 1984. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. SOLD

12. COLTON, G. Woolworth (maps) and FISHER, Richard Swainson

(text). COLTON'S ILLUSTRATED CABINET ATLAS AND DESCRIPTIVE

GEOGRAPHY. New York: J. H. Colton, 1859. First Edition. Folio (12" x 14-1/2") bound in modern buckram. Illustrated with 113 hand-colored maps,

plans and profiles on 47 sheets, 15 sheets relating to the United States.

Older perforated stamp on the title and last page of text. Toning to paper

but the maps are clean and fresh. Overall Near Fine. SOLD

13. COWING & CO.'S CATALOGUE OF PUMPS, FIRE ENGINES, HYDRAULIC

RAMS, AND OTHER MACHINES AND APPARATUS PERTAINING TO HYDRAULICS

MANUFACTURED AT THEIR WORKS SENECA FALLS NEW YORK UNITED STATES

OF AMERICA. New York: Bradstreet Press, 1867. First Edition. Octavo (5-3/4" x 9") bound in publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth; [1], 118 pages.

Scarce, early trade catalog illustrated with numerous woodcuts of all

types of hand pumps, force pumps, hydraulic pumps, lift pumps, fire-

fighting equipment, garden equipment, and miscellaneous related

manufactured items. Complete but many pages are detached and frayed along

the edges but with no loss. Moderate staining. Contents Fair only, binding

about Fine. $350.00

14. CSOORI, Sandor. MEMORY OF SNOW with the ORIGINAL WOODBLOCK

used for the illustration. Great Barrington: Penmaen Press, (1983). First Edition. One of 200 case-bound copies (of a total edition of 750)

illustrated by Michael McCurdy with a wood-engraved portrait of Csoori on

the dustwrapper cover and the title page. The poet's first book in

English, translated by Nicholas Kolumban. Included with the book is

McCurdy's ORIGINAL WOODBLOCK used for the illustration with this book. Covers soiled, otherwise Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Woodblock in

close to Fine condition. $350.00

15. DREISER, Theodore. SISTER CARRIE. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1900. First Edition. Publisher's wine-red cloth stamped in black.

Dreiser's first and most important book, both a modern classic and a

genuine rarity with only 1000 copies printed and those copies suppressed

by the publisher due to the book's unflinching depiction of an innocent

girl's spiral downward. Many believe that as few as 100 copies now exist.

An uncommon opportunity to obtain a landmark book, one of the scarcest of

the twentieth century, a book that paved the way for a host of writers to

come in dealing frankly with sexual situations that previously were either

hushed or sensationalized. Typical darkening of the spine but the

lettering is still readable. The spine tips, usually found frayed, are

rubbed and soft but intact. The text is fresh and bright. Most

importantly, both hinges--nearly always found split, cracked, or repaired-

-are here completely intact and original. A Near Fine copy and quite

scarce in this condition. SOLD

After Harper and Brothers declined to print the novel, Dreiser approached

Doubleday, Page, and Co., because it had published the writings of Frank

Norris, a promising naturalistic writer whose novel McTEAGUE had recently

caused a stir. Norris was an advisor for Doubleday and enthusiastically

supported the publication of SISTER CARRIE, later calling it "the best

novel I had read in M.S. since I had been reading for the firm." Based on

Norris's favorable praise, junior partner, Walter Hines Page, promised

Dreiser that Doubleday would publish the book. However, after reading

Dreiser's manuscript, Frank Doubleday objected to the immoral behavior of

the novel's characters and urged his firm to reconsider its publication.

After finding that Doubleday and Page was legally obligated to print the

novel, he allowed its publication but refused to promote it. As a result,

the novel sold only 456 copies, and Dreiser received a mere $68.40 in

royalties. It was only after Dreiser had established his literary

reputation with later novels and after a 1912 reprint by Harper and

Brothers had been published that the story of SISTER CARRIE was

acknowledged for its stark and realistic depiction of a young woman's

struggles. Though many would not think of Theodore Dreiser as an advocate

for women's rights, this novel was enlightening in its portrayal of a

young single woman's struggle to survive in a post-Victorian urban

environment. His work shortly after as editor-in-chief of the magazine

THE DELINEATOR provided further evidence for Dreiser's concern for women's

struggle to survive in early 20th century American society.

INSCRIBED TO PETER TAYLOR 16. EDGERTON, Clyde. RANEY. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of

Chapel Hill, 1985. First Edition. Author's first book, a humorous take on

Southern marriage, SIGNED on the title page and additionally SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author to fellow Southern author Peter Taylor

and his wife and dated 14 September 1987. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. SOLD

17. FERRARIO, Jules. LE COSTUME ANCIEN ET MODERNE OU HISTOIRE

DU GOUVERNEMENT DE LA MILICE, DE LA RELIGION, DES ARTS, SCIENCES

ET USAGES DE TOUS LES PEUPLES ANCIENS ET MODERNES.... Milan: De L'Imprimerie de L'Editeur, 1823. First Edition. Nine royal quarto (10" x

14-1/2") volumes uniformly bound in 12 volumes in half brown. Comprising

most of the set including all four volumes for Asia, both volumes for

Africa, and three of the six volumes for Europe, lacking the two for

America. Illustrated with 866 (of 895 listed) plates, most hand-colored,

including 4 LARGE folding hand-colored maps. According to Brunet II,

columns 1232-1233, this immense work was published in 143 parts

simultaneously in French and Italian between 1816 and 1834. Some browning

to plates, occasional light foxing; rubbing to extremities. Plates mostly

clean and fresh. Very Good. SOLD

18. FROST, Robert. A FURTHER RANGE. New York: Henry Holt and

Company, (1936). First Edition. A later printing of the First Trade

Edition of Frost's third Pulitzer Prize winner. This copy is INSCRIBED

and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page to a professor at the University of Texas, Philip Graham, with two stanzas, a total of eight

lines, from the poem "A Drumlin Woodchuck," which is included in this

volume: "My own strategic retreat/Is where two rocks almost meet/And

still more secure and snug/A two-door burrow I dug./With those in mind at

my back/I can sit forth exposed to attack/As one who shrewdly

pretends/That he and the world are friends." Owner name on the front

endpaper. Spine sunned. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. $5,000.00

19. FROST, Robert. NEW HAMPSHIRE. A POEM WITH NOTES AND GRACE

NOTES. New York: Henry Holt, 1923. First Edition. First Trade Edition of one of Frost's most notable books and winner of his first Pulitzer Prize

containing such poems as "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "Fire

and Ice." Illustrated with woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. This copy is SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper. Light wear to the spine tips with

rather faint dampstaining to the bottom portion of the spine and rear

cover. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. $2,000.00

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall." 20. FROST, Robert. NEW HAMPSHIRE. A POEM WITH NOTES AND GRACE

NOTES. New York: Henry Holt, 1923. First Edition. Fourth Printing of

this, one of Frost's most notable books and winner of his first Pulitzer

Prize containing such poems as "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and

"Fire and Ice." Illustrated with woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. This copy is

INSCRIBED "For Roger Williams" and SIGNED by the poet on the title page with one of his most famous first lines, from "Mending Wall" from his

collection NORTH OF BOSTON: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall."

Light wear to the corners and faint dampstaining to the very edge of the

boards and endpapers. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. $2,000.00

21. FROST, Robert. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1928). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards decorated with a

pattern of maple leaves. Crane A10.1: "Though printed in the same year as

the first [trade] edition by the same publisher, this edition is in an

entirely different setting and format with different pagination."

Illustrated with a frontispiece and three woodcuts by J. J. Lankes, each

plate SIGNED by the artist in pencil. Copy #59 of 1000 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Contains the title poem, "Spring Pools,"

and "Acquainted With the Night," among others. The scarce original

glassine has a couple of small chips but is in very nice condition. The

slipcase is split along the bottom and side edges but is complete. Fine,

bright copy in the original glassine and a Good slipcase. $1,000.00

22. GAUTIER, Theophile. THE WORKS OF THEOPHILE GAUTIER. New

York: George D. Sproul, 1900. Hand-Made Edition . Twenty-four octavo (5-

3/4" x 8-3/4") volumes attractively bound by The Trautz-Bauzonnet bindery

in full green morocco, the boards surrounded by gilt fleur de lys devices

within a double-ruled gilt border and a large gilt central fleur de lys

device onlaid in red morocco; the spine with five raised bands lettered

and decorated with gilt gilt fleur de lys devices; green and red morocco

doblures elaborately tooled with fleur de lys devices, marbled endpapers,

top edge gilt. Each volume is illustrated with plates in two states. Each

volume is copy #9 of a limited edition of 300 copies. Light rubbing to

some spine edges, mostly the first volume; some sunning to the spines.

About Fine with a handsome shelf appearance. SOLD

Gautier wrote plays, poetry, novels, short stories, and theater criticism.

His most famous work is MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN, an historical romance

based on the life of French opera star Mlle Maupin, who was a first-rate

swordswoman and often went about disguised as a man. Another well-known

work is his short story "La Morte Amoureuse," the story of a priest who

falls in love with a beautiful woman who turns out to be a vampire.

23. (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS) BRABY, Dorothea. FOUR SKETCHBOOKS

CONTAINING PENCIL DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLORS. n.p.: [The Golden

Cockerel Press], [1940s - 1950s]. First Edition. Four sketchbooks (@8" x

10") filled with Braby's pencil drawings and occasional watercolors

comprising the preparatory work for THE LABYRINTH OF THE WORLD, published

by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1950, as well as various other personal and

possibly professional projects. Some pages loose with at least one text

block detached from the cover. Occasional soiling. Very Good and a scarce

collection. SOLD

Dorothea Braby was born in London and studied at the Central School of Art

and Design under John Farleigh and Noel Rooke, and later in Florence,

Paris, and at the Heatherley School of Fine Art. She worked as a portrait

painter and as a commercial artist but is best known for her book

illustrations. Working mostly in black and white, her illustrations are

produced by wood engraving, pen and ink, or occasionally by scraperboard.

Her best work was done for private presses, particularly the Golden

Cockerel Press. Her wood engravings were uniquely conceived and

brilliantly executed, and her creative talents flourished during the

revival of wood engraving that took place in the inter-war period. In her

own lifetime she was recognized as an exceptionally gifted wood engraver

and she regularly exhibited at the Society of Women Artists and the

Society of Wood Engravers. In 1960, however, Dorothea Braby gave up

professional art to devote herself to social work.

24. GOLDSMITH, Oliver [Thomas ROWLANDSON]. THE VICAR OF

WAKEFIELD; A TALE, BY DOCTOR GOLDSMITH. London: R. Ackermann, 1817. First Edition. Large octavo (9" x 10") in late nineteenth-century full

olive morocco by Riviere, covers and spine tooled in compartments with

gilt floral ornaments, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, burgundy endpapers.

The First Rowlandson Edition with 24 lovely hand-colored aquatints by the

artist. Complete with the Introduction leaf, the Advertisement leaf, and

the two Memoir leaves. Prideaux, page 138. Tooley, 436. Leaves a bit dust-

soiled along edges, occasional very light scattered soiling to leaves and

plates. Rubbing to the front joint of this attractive binding, covers

firm. Near Fine. $1,500.00

25. [GRAZZINI, Antonio Francesco (editor)]. TUTTI I TRIONFI

CARRI, MASCHERATE O CANTI CARNASCIALESCHI ANDATI PER FIRENZE DAL

TEMPO DEL MAGNIFICO LORENZO DE' MEDICI FINO ALL' ANNO 1559. In

questa seconda Edizione corretti, con diversi MSS. collazionati,

delle loro varie lezioni arricchiti, notabilmente accresciuti, E

co' RITRATTI DI CIASCUN POETA ADORNATI. Cosmopoli [Lucca]: [Pel

Benedini], 1750. Second Edition. Two quarto (6-1/2" x 9") volumes; [1]-

256; [257]-594 pages. Illustrated with two engraved allegorical pictorial

title pages and 44 inserted portraits engraved after contemporary prints,

paintings, and medallions. Among those depicted are Lorenzo Medici and

Niccolo Machiavelli, both of whom contribute songs to this collection. A

very interesting copy for several reasons. First, it exists in an unbound

state with modern cardboard covers and appears never to have been bound

previously. On the half-title page of each volume in early ink is written

a statement in Italian regarding one F. Enrico of Bologna applying for

license. This copy matches the second impression point of Brunet, V,

columns 988-989, regarding the spelling of "Mostreremvelo," but the

information regarding signatures OO and PP and the errata does not match

either the first or second impression. Graesse, VI: II, page 217, which

essentially repeats in distilled form the information in Brunet. No

endpapers present; offsetting to text from portraits. Near Fine.

$1,000.00

A collection of songs for carnivals, processions, masquerades, etc., first

published in 1559. Grazzini, the compiler, was better known as "Il Lasca,

Academico Fiorentino," a quarrelsome scholar regarded as one of the

masters of Italian prose.

26. HOMER. THE ILIAD OF HOMER. London: The Cresset press Limited, 1928. Royal octavo (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound by Bayntun in 3/4 navy blue

morocco with five raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration on the

spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. The First Twelve Staves,

translated into English by Maurice Hewlett. Edition limited to only 750

copies, of which 725 were for sale in England and America, this copy not

numbered. About Fine. SOLD

27. HUXLEY, Aldous. EYELESS IN GAZA. London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. First Edition. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Copy #167 of 200 copies

SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. This autobiographical novel with a pacifist theme was the first book by Huxley published after BRAVE

NEW WORLD. Its title derives from a phrase in John Milton's SAMSON

AGONISTES and, as with Milton's poem, recalls the biblical story of

Samson, who was captured by the Philistines, his eyes burned out, and

taken to Gaza, where he was forced to work grinding grain in a mill.

Issued without dustwrapper or slipcase. Light wear to corners; mild foxing

to the title and limitation pages. Near Fine. SOLD

28. Ingersoll's Works

"The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a

benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not" 28. INGERSOLL, Robert G. THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. New York: The Dresden Publishing Co./C. P. Farrell, 1902. Autograph Edition .

Twelve octavo (6" x 9") volumes attractively bound in 3/4 green morocco

and marbled boards with gilt rules, the spine with five raised bands and

four floral gilt decorations with red morocco onlays for the petals. Each

volume is illustrated with a frontispiece, mostly portraits, with the

first volume also containing a hand-colored title page and a check

SIGNED by the author bound in. Each volume is copy #2 of a limited

edition of 250 copies. Light wear to some corners, a nick here and there.

About Fine with a handsome shelf appearance. $4,000.00

Ingersoll was a popular orator who spoke on many subjects, his favorite

being agnosticism, and he often poked fun at religious belief. He was

known in his time as _the great agnostic." Ingersoll enjoyed a friendship

with the poet Walt Whitman, who considered Ingersoll the greatest orator

of his time: "It should not be surprising that I am drawn to Ingersoll,

for he is Leaves of Grass... He lives, embodies, the individuality, I

preach. I see in Bob [Ingersoll] the noblest specimen_American-

flavored_pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding light."

Ingersoll delivered the eulogy at the poet's funeral in 1892.

29. KEROUAC, Jack. SIGNED CHECK to the IRS. A check made out in Kerouac's hand to the Internal Revenue Service, in the amount of $300,

drawn on the account of John L. Kerouac and his mother, Gabrielle Kerouac,

at Security National Bank of Northport, NY, dated 11 April 1963 and

numbered in ink by Kerouac as check #51. SIGNED as John L. Kerouac. As a writer Kerouac would have had to make a quarterly payment to the IRS. This

check is one of those payments. Usual cancellation marks, none affecting

the signature. Fine. SOLD

30. LEHNE, Dr. Adolf (editor). FÄRBER-ZEITUNG. ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR

FÄRBEREI, ZEUGDRUCK UND DEN GESAMMTEN FARBENVERBRAUCH. Jahrgang

1902. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1902. First Edition. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/4") bound in half black leather and cloth; x; 399 pages. Containing 34

inserted plates with over 260 actual fabric samples ranging from small

swatches to larger pieces several inches long. The title page calls for 24

plates, and indeed there are 24 numbered plates as well as 10 unnumbered.

Some plates creased but all fabric samples present and in Fine condition.

Binding quite rubbed with some loss of leather but covers are tight. Very

Good. SOLD

31. LUKYEN (JAN). AFBEELDINGEN DER MERKWAARDIGSTE

GESCHIEDENISSEN VAN HET OUDE EN NIEUWE TESTAMENT. Amsterdam:

Johann Covens and Cornelius Mortier, 1729. First Edition. Large folio (12"

x 20") bound in red calf-backed marbled boards. Illustrated with 67

double-page engravings, of which 6 are maps, and 30 half-page engravings.

The maps are mainly of the Holy Land, including a plan of Jerusalem, but

the world map depicts California as an island. Tears along folds of a few

plates; the last page with a long vertical tear with no loss. Moderate

foxing, toning; the plates generally quite clean. Very Good. SOLD

32. EVANGELICAE HISTORIAE IMAGINES

32. NATALIS, Hieronymus. EVANGELICAE HISTORIAE IMAGINES. Antwerp: [Martinus Nutius?], 1596. Second Edition. Small folio (8" x 12")

bound in calf-backed marbled boards. Illustrated with an engraved title

page and 153 engraved plates with many depicting scenes from the life of

Christ engraved by Anton Wierix, Hieronymus Wiericx, Mallery, and others.

About a dozen pages with marginal tears of various sizes repaired on the

versos. Clean copy with little wear to the binding. Very Good. SOLD

33. (NERI, Antonio; MERRET, Christopher; KUNCKEL, Johann). ART

DE LA VERRERIE, DE NERI, MERRET ET KUNCKEL AUQUEL ON A AJOUTÉ LE

SOL SINE VESTE D'ORSCHALL ; L'HELIOSCOPIUM VIDENDI SINE VESTE

SOLEM CHYMICUM ; LE SOL NON SINE VESTE; LE CHAPITRE XI DU FLORA

SATURNIZANS DE HENCKEL, SUR LA VITRIFICATION DES VÉGÉTAUX; UN

MÉMOIRE SUR LA MANIÈRE DE FAIRE LE SAFFRE; LE SECRET DES VRAIES

PORCELAINES DE LA CHINE & DE SAXE.... Paris: Durand & Pissot, 1752. First French Edition. Quarto (7-1/2" x 9-3/4") bound in contemporary

mottled calf with a heavily gilt-decorated spine with five raised bands

and a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label, rebacked at an early date

retaining the original spine. Illustrated with an extra engraved title

page (mounted on the recto of the engraved frontispiece), 15 folding

engraved plates, and several text engravings. The first treatise devoted

to the manufacture of glass, originally published in Italian in 1612 and

translated into English by Merret in 1662. This French edition combines

the best 17th and 18th century works on glass-making and deals also with

the fabrication of fayence, porcelain, mirrors, imitation gems, glazing

techniques, the creation of various colours, etc. Beautiful plates with

glass production, melting furnaces, tools etc. See J. R. Partington, A

HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY, Volume II, pages 361-377. Armorial bookplate on the

front pastedown. Early pencil and ink notes on front blanks. Near Fine

copy. $1,600.00

34. [NEW YORK CITY]. CENTRAL PARK SCENERY. New York: Charles

Magnus, n.d. (@1875). First Edition. A four-page integral lettersheet (9-

1/2" x 11-1/2" opening to 19" x 11-1/2") with the front having the bottom

portion ruled and the top portion (9' x 6-1/2") containing a hand-colored

lithograph of 16 vignettes of scenes in Central Park. About Fine.

SOLD Charles Magnus was one of the largest publishers of Civil War

topographical prints, song sheets, and city views, as well as pictorial

envelopes with Civil War camp scenes, etc. Magnus's pieces were printed on

notoriously cheap paper and few examples have survived.

35. O'BRIEN, Tim. IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE. London: Calder & Boyars, (1973). First British Edition. Issued the same year as the

American edition. His scarce first book. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page to Barry with the quote: "Box Me Up + Ship Me Home!"

O'Brien was much more willing to add the rest of the title with his

signature closer to the time of publication. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper.

SOLD

36. O'BRIEN, Tim. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. Boston: Houghton

Mifflin, 1990. First Edition. First Trade Edition after the Franklin

Library edition of this superb book, perhaps the best evocation so far of

the Vietnam conflict. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine first issue dustwrapper. SOLD

37. PLINY. THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD, COMMONLY CALLED THE

NATURALL HISTORIE OF C. PLINIVS SECVNDVS. London: Adam Islip, 1601. Second Edition. Two folio (8-1/4" x 12-1/2") volumes bound in one in early

full tree calf with a gilt-decorated spine and a red morocco gilt-lettered

spine label, recently and neatly rebacked; [42], 614, [42] + [12], 632,

[84]: Lacks several leaves: the front and rear blanks, The Dedicatory

Letter, The Preface to the Reader, the errata leaf to the first volume,

The Preface or Epistle Dedicatorie to Prince Vespasian, and the

advertisement leaf at the end. Translated from the Latin original by

Philemon Holland. THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this foundational book

of science, the greatest scientific work to emerge from the Roman Empire.

In 37 books, Pliny compiled an encyclopedia of the accumulated wisdom of

his time in fields as diverse as mathematics, physics, astronomy,

geography, ethnography, medicine, zoology, anthropology, physiology,

philosophy, history, agriculture, mineralogy, art history, and literature.

"The 'Natural History' of Pliny the Elder is more than a natural history:

it is an encyclopedia of all the knowledge of the ancient world" (PRINTING

AND THE MIND OF MAN). Among the many diverse subjects discussed by Pliny

are mermaids, wine, witches, herbal medicines, skin care, and aphrodisiacs

("if the seed of that Mallow that runneth up in one stalke; bee reduced

into powder and strewed upon that part of a woman which Nature hath

hidden, shee will bee so wood after the companie of a man, as she will

never be satisfied nor contented with embracing"). "As a purveyor of

information both scientific and non-scientific, Pliny holds a place of

exceptional importance in the tradition and diffusion of Western culture"

(DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY). Pforzheimer 496. First title page

with early signature and neatly laid down on paper. But for the missing

preliminary matter, a Fine copy, bright and clean. SOLD

The Natural History is among the single largest literary works to survive

from antiquity. It is also the only work extant of the 132 written by

Pliny, an indefatigable seeker of knowledge who lost his life in 79 A.D.

while trying to observe at close hand the eruption of Vesuvius.

38. [ROGERS, Bruce]. THE HISTORY OF OLIVER AND ARTHUR. (Cambridge): (Houghton Mifflin), 1903. First Edition. Imperial octavo

bound in contemporary red half morocco and black boards with marbled

endpapers. Copy #245 of 330 designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the

Riverside Press in double columns of red and black letter on Arnold

handmade paper with upward of 50 engravings redrawn from the woodcuts that

appeared in the original of this medieval romance written in French in

1511, translated into German by Wilhelm Liely in 1521, and here rendered

into English by William Leighton and Eliza Barrett. Laid in is a two-page

typed letter from the publisher dated 1904 describing and offering the

book. Spine darkened, gilt still bright. Near Fine in a Very Good example

of the original slipcase with a paper label on the spine. SOLD

39. ROOSEVELT, Eleanor & FERRIS, Helen. YOUR TEENS AND MINE.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1961). First Edition. SIGNED by the former First Lady on the front endpaper. Roosevelt advises how a teen-

age girl can grow to be a gracious lady by recounting her own experiences

of overcoming shyness and facing her fears. A few pages in the penultimate

chapter have pencil and pen markings with some words crossed out and a few

added, apparently in preparation for reading from the chapter. The

handwriting does not appear to be Roosevelt's but possibly may be

Ferris's. In any case, it's an interesting alteration to an already

uncommon book, especially when autographed. Near Fine in a Very Good

dustwrapper. $1,000.00

40. ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. WHITHER BOUND? Boston & New York:

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. First Edition. The future President's

first book, comprising the text of a lecture delivered at the Milton

Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation on 18 May 1926. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in a Good dustwrapper. SOLD

41. [ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.] MALTBY, Albert Elias. NAVAL

SKETCHES OF THE WAR IN CALIFORNIA. Reproducing Twenty-Eight

Drawings Made in 1846-47 by William H. Meyers Gunner on the U.

S. Sloop-of-War Dale. New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Tall Folio (11" x 15-1/2") bound in marbled boards backed with white morocco

and a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label. One of 1000 copies

printed at the Grabhorn Press. Illustrated with 28 full-page color plates

by William H. Meyers.Heller and Magee, Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press,

1915-1940: 317: The method of color reproduction employed in NAVAL

SKETCHES OF THE WAR IN CALIFORNIA is novel in the history of printing:

first the original drawings were reproduced in black and white by a

gravure process, then the color blocks were cut in linoleum, and printed

over the black and white prints, shading was effected by sandpapering the

linoleum. Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. This copy SIGNED on the and dated 12 January 1940 by Franklin Roosevelt. Very Good SOLD

42. [ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.] WILSON, Carey. THE PRESIDENT'S

BIRTHDAY PARTY BROADCAST. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") bound in full gilt-lettered red morocco; 12 pages. An ORIGINAL typed Andy Hardy

radio script by Carey Wilson that followed the birthday broadcast for

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in1939 This copy is INSCRIBED to

Wilson and SIGNED by Roosevelt on the last page. Laid down to a front blank page is a letter from the Secretary to the President, Stephen Early,

on White House stationary dated 7 February 1939: "This is by way of

acknowledging your letter to me under date of January thirty-first, with

enclosed script of the Hardy Family program which followed the President's

Birthday Address on the air. I am happy to advise you that the President

has signed a copy of your manuscript by name and has asked me to forward

it to you with an expression of his best wishes." Not only a rare script

from the Andy Hardy legacy but a truly unique Presidential item. Minor

wear. About Fine. $4,500.00

Carey Wilson, one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts

and Sciences, was a writer, narrator, and producer. His many screenwriting

credits include BEN HUR and MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY for which he was

nominated for an Oscar. As a producer he contributed to the rise of many

notable screen stars including Lana Turner, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland,

Esther Williams, Margaret O'Brien, and Red Skelton. His films included THE

POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, GREEN DOLPHIN STREET, and SCARAMOUCHE. Wilson

is perhaps best known, however, as the creator of the film series DR.

KILDARE and ANDY HARDY (played by Mickey Rooney), said to be the most

successful and most popular film series ever made in the United

States.Wilson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

43. ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT). AFRICAN GAME TRAILS.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE AFRICAN WANDERINGS OF AN AMERICAN HUNTER-

NATURALIST. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. The First Trade Edition bound in publisher's decorated cloth; xv, [i], 529

pages. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps. INSCRIBED and

SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author less than 3 months prior to his death: _Inscribed for/Mr. L. DeSales Casey/with the best wishes

of/Theodore Roosevelt/Oct. 18th 1918._ Roosevelt loved travel and was the

first standing president to travel abroad. Shortly after he retired from

the presidency in 1909, he sailed for Africa returning a year later. This

book is an account of his African hunting trip and is not often seen

signed by Roosevelt outside of the edition limited to 500 copies issued by

the publisher signed. The front endpaper has a little wear along the edge

not affecting the inscription. There is also a two-inch tear on the top of

page 260 with no loss. On the facing illustration is a fingerprint in ink

(Roosevelt's?). The top of the spine has a half-inch closed tear. Near

Fine. SOLD

Casey was the Art Editor of Collier's Magazine during the early 1900s and

had a passion for collecting autographs.

44. ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT). BIG GAME HUNTING IN

THE ROCKIES AND ON THE GREAT PLAINS: Comprising "Hunting Trips

of a Ranchman" and "The Wilderness Hunter." New York: G. P.

Putnam's Sons, 1899. First Edition. Thick quarto (8" x 11") bound in the

original publisher's cloth with a gilt elk on the spine, a bear stamped in

black on the rear cover, and gilt-stamped labels on the spine and on the

front cover incorporating a moose and a gun. Copy #384 of 1000 copies

SIGNED by the author below the frontispiece portrait of him standing proudly in his Rough Rider uniform. Comprises two earlier books, HUNTING

TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN and THE WILDERNESS HUNTER. With 55 illustrations by

Remington, Frost, Beard, and others. Recently rebacked retaining the

original spine. Ex-library copy with a small bookplate on the front

pastedown, a small perforated stamp on the title page, a few small ink

stamps on front blank pages, and ink numbers on the spine. Contents quite

clean. Overall a nice copy of this desirable book, increasingly uncommon

in the original binding. Near Fine. $6,500.00

45. RUSKIN, John. KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER OR THE BLACK

BROTHERS with AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. New York: William Edwin

Rudge, 1930. Full black calf. Introduction by Eugene A. Noble. Illustrated

by F. H. Horvath with the frontispiece pencil SIGNED by the artist. Copy

#30 of only 50 with an original SIGNED holograph letter by Ruskin bound in, this copy with a one-page letter dated 5 November 1873 to Madame E.

Stuart: "I wish I could write a pretty picturesque hand like yours. --

still one word puzzles me in your address Les B[?] ? -- please tell me if

it is some Breton(?) word." Housed in the original felt-lined yellow

folding box. Fine copy in a close to Fine example of the box. SOLD

A sumptuous edition of Ruskin's charming fairy tale, (first published in

1851), which he wrote for Euphemia Gray, to whom he was later unhappily

married. "In this new edition the artist and the author are engaged in the

joint task of giving something that will be worth remembering. So

intimately has Mr. Horvath entered into the spirit of Mr. Ruskin_s story

that his pictures have the exceptional merit of unfolding the inner

meanings suggested by words. The imagination of the picture maker has been

enlivened by that of the writer, resulting in perfect accord, and a new

interpretation is made for the delight of those who read" (introduction).

46. SHAKESPEARE, William. THE POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,

ACCORDING TO THE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL COPIES, INCLUDING THE

LYRICS, SONGS, AND SNATCHES FOUND IN HIS DRAMAS. [London]: (Essex House Press), (December 1899). First Edition. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-1/8")

bound in publisher's full vellum with yapped edges and both tie strings.

Copy #382 of 450 copies arranged and carefully collated with the original

texts of the earliest editions by F. S. Ellis and printed in red and black

at the Essex House Press under the care of C. R. Ashbee, published by

Edward Arnold. Illustrated with a full-page plate and scores of decorative

initial capital letters. Owner name partially erased on front endpaper.

Vellum a bit soiled and wrinkled. Very Good or better. $750.00

47. SMITH, Charles Hamilton. SELECTIONS OF THE ANCIENT COSTUME

OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FROM THE SEVENTH TO THE SIXTEENTH

CENTURY. London: William Bulmer, 1814. First Edition. Folio (10-1/2" x 15-1/2") bound in contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards with

morocco corners, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Extra hand-

colored pictorial title, two engraved dedication pages, one colored, and

60 full-page hand-colored aquatint plates etched by John Augustus

Atkinson. Complete with Preface, List of Subscribers, Directions to

Binder, and the errata sheet. Colas 2755; Lipperheide 988; Tooley 455.

Plates clean and fresh; binding with just minor wear. Near Fine.

$1,500.00

48. STEVENS, Wallace. NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION. Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press, 1942. First Edition. White cloth

lettered in black and gray. Copy #L of 80 numbered and SIGNED copies of a total edition of 273 printed on Worthy Hand & Arrows paper of this

important poem. Edelstein A 6.a. Light, scattered foxing; owner name with

price paid dated 1946 on upper corner of front endpaper. Cloth a little

soiled, as usual. Near Fine, without the scarce glassine. $4,000.00

49. STEVENS, Wallace. TRANSPORT TO SUMMER. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1947. First Edition. Second Printing: Edelstein A 11.a.2: 1500 copies

printed (There were only 1750 copies of the first printing.). SIGNED by the poet above the title of the poem "The Creations of Sound" on page 34.

Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine. SOLD

50. STOWE, H. B. THE WRITINGS OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1896. Large-Paper Edition. Seventeen volumes

(5-3/4" x 8-3/4") attractively bound in 3/4 green morocco and green cloth

with gilt rules, the spine with five raised bands and gilt decorations and

lettering, top edge gilt. Includes the 16 volumes of the WRITINGS plus the

additional volume of the LIFE OF STOWE. Illustrated with frontispieces in

both an uncolored and colored state. Copy #17 of 250 sets with an inserted

sheet SIGNED and dated by Stowe on 5 January 1896. As Stowe signed only a few sheets at a time, each inserted sheet bore different dates. This is

the second to earliest date listed. Bookplate on front pastedown of each

volume. Spines uniformly faded to brown, some with light flaking at joints

and tips, but all sound and attractive overall; Volume 11 professionally

and almost invisibly rebacked; Volume 10 with dampstaining to the first

section of contents, not visible from the spine. Near Fine. $7,500.00

51. STRONG, Asa B., M.D. THE AMERICAN FLORA, OR HISTORY OF

PLANTS AND WILD FLOWERS…. New York: Green and Spencer, 1853; 1849. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10") bound in publisher's full gilt-decorated red

morocco, recently rebacked with red. The title pages state that there are

70 "Beautiful Colored Engravings Taken from Nature" in the first volume

and 54 in the second. In fact, the books are complete and illustrated with

a total of 98 full-page lithographic plates, 97 of which are hand-colored,

some with two images per page (accounting for the discrepancy with the

title page statements), including a colored engraved title page and

letterpress title page in each volume. Two supplemental volumes were also

issued by the publisher, evidently in very small quantity as these later

volumes are rather scarce. Sporadic foxing present on both text and

plates, as is common, with most tissue guards present. Very Good. SOLD

52. STURGES, Preston. STRICTLY DISHONORABLE. New York: Horace

Liveright, 1929 (1930). First Edition. Fourth Printing of this romantic

comedy play first produced on Broadway in 1929. It has been adapted for

the screen twice, first in 1931, then again in 1951. The play was

Sturges's second Broadway production and the first of his plays to be made

into a film. This copy is INSCRIBED with an unidentified poem and

SIGNED as "Preston" in January 1933: "What good to know this greenery / Is only shoddy scenery-- / That Cupid is a stupid little fool-- / That the

firmament conspires / To gratify desires / That pass away when day is

dawning cool?" Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the dustwrapper

which has a slightly darkened spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.

SOLD

One of Hollywoods greatest filmmakers, Preston Sturges was the first

writer to direct his own script; thus, the credit "written and directed

by" first appeared before his name in THE GREAT MCGINTY. He also won the

first Academy Award ever given for Best Original Screenplay for that

script. Among his other films are SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (perhaps the finest

movie-about-a-movie ever made), CHRISTMAS IN JULY, UNFAITHFULLY YOURS, THE

MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK, and THE LADY EVE.

53. THATCHER, Margaret. STATECRAFT. Norwalk: Easton Press, 2002.

First Edition. Bound in full gilt-decorated blue leather. SIGNED by the former prime minister of England, as issued. As new, still in shrinkwrap

and publisher's shipping box. SOLD

54. THOMPSON, Hunter. FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. A SAVAGE

JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. NY:Random House (1971). First Edition. His second, and most desirable, book, illustrated by Ralph

Steadman and made into a movie in 1998 starring Johnny Depp and Benicio

Del Toro. Typical mild sunning to edges of boards and slight foxing to

bulked top edge and fore edge, both common minor faults for this title.

Near Fine in price-clipped, lightly soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper. $650.00

55. WASHINGTON, Booker T. UP FROM SLAVERY. New York: Doubleday, 1901. First Edition. Classic turn-of-the-century autobiography by the

successor to Frederick Douglass as the foremost American black leader of

his time. Born a slave, Washington founded Tuskegee Institute, becoming

its first president, at the age of 25. This copy of his best known book is

SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper to "Booker T.

Washington/Tuskegee Alabama/Jan. 25, 1902." Signed First Editions of this

classic of African-American history are quite uncommon. Owner name in ink

below the author's. Mild wear to the spine tips and corners with the spine

edges rubbed. Near Fine. $7,500.00

56. WILSON, Woodrow. ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT WILSON AT THE

BROOKLYN NAVY YARD BROOKLYN, N. Y. MAY 11, 1914. Services in

memory of those who lost their lives at Vera Cruz, Mexico. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1914. First Edition. Printed

wraps, 8 pages, including the covers. SIGNED by the President at the end of the text. Toning to text. Near Fine. $3,000.00

"We have gone down to Mexico to serve mankind, if we find out the way. We

do not want to fight the Mexicans. We want to serve the Mexicans, if we

can, because we know how we would like to be free and how we would like to

be served if there were friends standing by in such case ready to serve

us. A war of aggression is not a war in which it is a proud thing to die,

but a war of service is a thing in which it is a proud thing to die.

“Notice how truly these men were of our blood. I mean of our American

blood, which is not drawn from any one country, which is not drawn from

any one stock, which is not from any one language of the modern world; but

free men everywhere have sent their sons and their brothers and their

daughters to this country in order to make that great compounded Nation

which consists of all the sturdy elements and of all the best elements of

the whole globe. I listened again to this list of the dead with a profound

interest because of the mixture of the names, for the names bear the marks

of the several national stocks from which these men came. But they are not

Irishmen or Germans or Frenchmen or Hebrews or Italians any more. They

were not when they went to Vera Cruz; they were Americans, every one of

them, and with no difference in their Americanism because of the stock

from which they came. They were in a peculiar sense of our blood, and they

proved it by showing that they were of our spirit, that no matter what

their derivation, no matter where their people came from, they thought and

wished and did the things that were American; and the flag under which

they served was a flag in which all the blood of mankind is united to make

a free Nation."

57. WOLFF, Tobias. THIS BOY'S LIFE. London: Bloomsbury, (1989). First British Edition. Wolff's first book of memoirs, made into a film

starring Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio. A wonderful book, chosen in

a recent survey as one of the 100 best books of non-fiction written in the

20th Century. This copy SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper and rather uncommon. SOLD

58. WORDSWORTH, William. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM

WORDSWORTH. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910. Reprint. Sextodecimo (4-3/4" x 7") bound in full dark blue padded leather with

florets in red and gilt on the front cover and spine, all edges gilt, and

marbled endpapers; xxxii, 985 pages. Edited with a preface by Thomas

Hutchinson and including a chronological table. Illustrated with a

frontispiece portrait of the poet. Near Fine. SOLD

59. WRIGHT, Richard. ECOUTE, HOMME BLANC (WHITE MAN, LISTEN!). Paris: Calmann-Levy, (1959). First French Edition. Pictorial wraps. Four

lengthy essays on race relations. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "A-/Melle. Lenone Chevalier/avec mes

hommage/Richard Wright." Books signed by Wright are uncommon. He died in

Paris a year after the publication of this book at the age of 52. Many

pages unopened; slight and natural aging of the text, with minor

dampstaining toward the front. Near Fine. SOLD

60. YEATS, W. B. THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1922. First Edition. Original gray boards with parchment spine.

Photogravure frontispiece portait of Yeats after Charles Shannon. Copy

#187 of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation

leaf. Wade 133. A Near Fine copy with slight darkening of the spine and

bumping to the corners. Lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. $1,350.00