LITERATURE AND FINE BINDINgS 230-259

Lots 230 – 259

230 GIBRAN, KAHLIL The Prophet. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped and -lettered black cloth. First edition. Rare first edition of one of the best-selling books of the 20th century. Rubbing to boards; ends bumped; bookplate tipped to front pastedown; leaves toned. $1,000-2,000

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232 231 HEINLEIN, ROBERT Two first editions by Heinlein.

Assignment in Eternity. Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, (1953). 8vo, publisher’s orange cloth, gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket. First edition. Minor soiling to boards and jacket; small repaired tears to edges of jacket. [Together with:] Between Planets. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951. 8vo, publisher’s decorative blue cloth, dust jacket, price-clipped. First edition. Jacket with 1 x 5 3/4-inch section torn from upper edge and a 2 x 2-inch section torn from lower right corner of front panel; fading to boards; previous ownership ex-libri to endpapers. $200-400

232 HEINLEIN, ROBERT Revolt in 2100. Chicago: Shasta, (1953).

8vo, publisher’s quarter black cloth over red boards, gilt-lettered spine, original pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. One of approximately 200 subscriber’s copies signed by Heinlein on an inserted flyleaf. Light toning to jacket; minor soiling to fore edges. $800-1,200

233* HUXLEY, ALDOUS A Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.

8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First edition, first printing. Light soiling to boards; ends bumped; hinges starting. $300-500

234 ASIMOV, ISAAC Two first editions by Asimov, one signed.

Asimov’s Sherlockian Limericks. New York: The Mysterious Press, 1978. Small 8vo, publisher’s red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket. housed in red cloth slipcase. First edition, limited to 250 copies signed by Asimov and the artist Gahan Wilson, this being copy number 204. Slipcase faded; rubbing and edgewear to jacket. [Together with:] The End of Eternity. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Small chip to front panel of jacket; light wear to boards. $200-400

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235 BANNERMAN, HELEN The Story of Little Black Sambo. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, n.d. [c. 1900]

12mo, publisher’s quarter tan cloth over pictorial boards. Housed in custom cloth-backed clamshell case and chemise. First American edition, first issue, with title on boards printed in same shade of blue as Sambo’s pants. Boards rubbed and edges worn; intermittent light soiling. $200-400

236 BUCK, PEARL The Good Earth. New York: John Day, (1965).

8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped orange cloth, dust jacket. Later edition. Signed by Buck on the half-title. Jacket clipped and slightly torn at spine ends; hinges tender. $100-200 237 (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) TWAIN, MARK Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885.

8vo, publisher’s green cloth pictorially stamped in black and gilt, housed in green cloth slipcase. First American edition, first issue, with the following points: page [13], the illustration captioned “Him and another Man” incorrectly listed as at p. 88 (BAL first state); page 57, eleventh line from the bottom reads “with the was” instead of “with the saw” (BAL first state); “Huck Decided” on p. 9; second state frontispiece portrait with the imprint of the Heliotype Printing Co., the tablecloth, or scarf, not visible (BAL second state). Edgewear; ends chipped; backstrip detached from text block; front flyleaf detached but present; hinges starting; finger smudges to edges of some leaves. Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $800-1,200 238 (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) TWAIN, MARK The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson. And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894.

8vo, publisher’s rust cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt, grey endpapers, red-sprinkled edges. First American edition, first state, with sheets bulking 1 1/8-inches and portrait frontispiece with Twain’s facsimile autograph 1-7/16-inches wide. Ends lightly bumped; previous ownership stamped to front pastedown.

Literature: BAL 3442. $100-200

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239* (DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE) CARROLL, LEWIS Lewis Carroll. Photos and Letters to His Child Friends. Edited by Guido Almansi. (Parma:) Franco Maria Ricci, 1975.

Small folio, publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth with photographic pastedown to upper cover. Housed in original black clamshell case. First edition, number 813 of 3,000 copies signed on the colophon by the book’s designer and publisher, Franco Maria Ricci. Numerous tipped in plates throughout. Fine, with little wear to case. Property from the Collection of John Angelos, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin $100-200

240 FIELD, EUGENE Verse and Prose. Saint Louis: William K. Bixby, 1917.

8vo, 3/4 vellum over blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Housed in blue cloth slipcase. Presentation copy, inscribed to Eugene Field by William Bixby on the f.f.e.p. Additionally inscribed by a later owner. Light wear to slipcase. $60-80 241 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Across the River and Into the Trees. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950.

8vo, publisher’s black cloth with Hemingway’s facsimile signature gilt-stamped to upper board, gilt-lettered spine, first issue dust jacket. First edition. Rubbing to boards; jacket toned and worn with rear panel beginning to detach. $100-200

242 IRVING, WASHINGTON Tales of a Traveller. New York and London: G.P Putnam’s Sons, 1895.

2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s cream cloth elaborately stamped in green, gilt, and black, t.e.g. Buckthorne edition, first illustrated trade edition. Illustrated with 25 monochrome plates from engravings, paintings and photographs by various artists, five of which are by Arthur Rackham. Light soiling to boards; spines darkened; some tissue guards torn. $200-400 243* JOYCE, JAMES Ulysses [partial, as published in Two Worlds Monthly] New York: Two Worlds Publishing, Feb. 1925 - Jun. 1927.

6 (of 11) issues [comprising v. 3 (no. 3), v. 2 (ns. 1, 3 and 4), v. 3 (ns. 1 and 2). 8vo, publisher’s printed wraps. Containing pirated excerpts from Joyce’s Ulysses. The illegal publication led to Joyce suing the magazine’s editor, Samuel Roth, and a printed protest against Roth signed by 167 prominent writers, artists and intellectuals, including T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and Albert Einstein. [Together with:] Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations. New York: Mocki-Grisball, 1926-1927. 4 issues [comprising v. 2, ns. 5-8]. (10 issues total) Property from the Collection of John Angelos, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin $300-500

244* REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA All Quiet on the Western Front. Boston: Little, Brown, 1929.

8vo, publisher’s grey buckram lettered in black and red, dust jacket. First U.S. edition, stated first printing. Light soiling and chipping to edges of jacket; 2-inch tear to rear panel of jacket; hinges tender. $200-400

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245 (WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE) LEAVITT, RICHARD F. The World of Tennessee Williams. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, (1978).

4to, publisher’s beige cloth, gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket, price-clipped. Housed in original orange slipcase. First edition. Limited edition, mis-numbered “722” of an edition of 250 copies signed by Tennessee Williams and the author Richard Leavitt on the limitation page. Very minor edgewear to jacket; light soiling to slipcase. $150-250

246 (PERIODICAL) GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE Graham’s Magazine of Literature and Art. Vol. XXII. Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1843.

Vol. 22 only. 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. With contributions by James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Edgar Allan Poe, and others. Rubbing to boards; bookseller’s sticker to front pastedown; intermittent foxing; darkening to leaves. $100-200 247 (PERIODICAL) PAGANY Pagany: A Native Quarterly. Boston: Richard Johns, 1930-1932.

4 issues, comprising: vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1930); vol. 1, no. 3 (July 1930); vol. 2, no. 1 (January 1931); and vol. 3, no. 1 (January 1932). 8vo, publisher’s printed color wrappers. Literary periodical with contributions by William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Georges Hugnet, Ezra Pound, and others. Light soiling to wrappers, previous owner’s pen ex-libris to front wrapper, three issues. $100-200

248* (PERIODICAL) THE YELLOW BOOK The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly. London: John Lane, 1894-1897.

11 (of 13) vols. only. 8vo, publisher’s pictorial yellow cloth. With plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others. Soiling and edgewear to boards; spines deteriorated or lacking on some vols.; hinges starting. [Together with:] The Chap-Book Semi-Monthly. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895-1896. 7 vols. 8vo, original wrappers. Soiling and chipping to wrappers; light dampstaining to wrappers on some vols. (18 total) Property from the Collection of Bradley G. Wilde, Dallas, Texas $200-400 249 (PERIODICAL) AMERICAN AUTOPSY The American Autopsy. Edited by Harold Hersey. Springfield, Mass.: Headquarters Publishing, 1932.

Vol. 1, no. 1, January 1932. 4to, original printed wrappers. First and only issue of this rare periodical that published 14 unusual articles on literary topics by mostly anonymous authors with titles such as “Literary Animals,” “Mr. Twiddlebutton,” “Storm in a Water Glass,” and I-NI-A-BI.” Light soiling and creasing to wrappers. $200-400

250 (BOOKS ON BOOKS) A.C. McClurg and Co.’s Illustrated Holiday Catalogue of Books. S.l.: A.C. McClurg, 1892.

8vo, rebound in full brown blind-stamped morocco, gilt-lettered spine, gilt-inner dentelles, t.e.g. Title page, table of contents, and first 12 pp. torn and archivally repaired; light toning to extremities of leaves. $200-400

251 (BOOKS ON BOOKS) KINDER, LOUIS H. Formulas for Bookbinders. East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1905.

4to, publisher’s quarter red cloth over printed boards. Limited edition, number 177 of 490 copies on Imperial Japan Vellum, signed by Kinder on the limitation page. With two plates featuring designs of bindings by Kinder. Soiling to boards; edgewear; scattered brownspotting and light soiling to leaves. $700-900

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252 (BAYNTUN) CARROLL, LEWIS Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan, 1872.

2 vols. 8vo, uniformly rebound by Bayntun in crushed red morocco with inlaid panels of green, white, black, purple, brown, and red depicting characters from the stories to upper boards, gilt roll-tooled borders, gilt-lettered spines, a.e.g. With original cloth bindings tipped in to rear of each volume. “Alice’s Adventures” is a later issue, thirty-sixth thousand; “Looking Glass” is a first edition, first issue, with “wade” for “wabe” on p. 21. Minor dampstain to foot of spine, “Looking Glass,” not affecting leaves; hinges tender, both vols. $3,000-5,000

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253 (BAYNTUN) KHAYYAM, OMAR Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London and New York: George Routledge & Sons and E.P. Dutton, n.d. [1904]

12mo, bound by Bayntun full crushed red morocco, central panel on upper cover with dark brown, tan, green, and cream onlays depicting a male figure within gilt borders with green and purple onlays of leaves and grapes, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, the others with green and purple onlays of leaves and grapes, red silk doublures and endpapers, a.e.g. Housed in red cloth slipcase. Illustrated with 12 black and white plates. Light soiling to slipcase; otherwise fine. $800-1,200

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254 (RUBAN) DOUCET, JEROME Contes de la fileuse. Paris: Ch. Tallandier, n.d. [c. 1900]

8vo, bound by Ruban in full dark green levant morocco with pink, purple, green, and brown floral inlays to upper board, gilt-lettered spine, gilt-morocco dentelles, silk floral endpapers and pastedown to doublures, t.e.g. Housed in original slipcase. Illustrated by Alfred Garth Jones. First edition, number 13 of 25 copies on Japon, with an extra set of plates on China paper. Signed by Jones on the half title. Wear to slipcase; spine darkened. $2,000-4,000 255 (SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE) FITZGERALD, EDWARD Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Introduction by A.C. Benson. London: Siegle, Hill, [1911]

4to, rebound in modern 3/4 black calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g. First trade edition. Reproduced from a manuscript written and illuminated by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Illustrated with color plates and illuminated initials. Minor edgewear; intermittent light foxing; previous owner’s manuscript inscription to f.f.e.p. $300-500 256 (VANNUTELLI ST. GEORGES) GRAVIER, GABRIEL L’Abbe Petitot sous le Cercie Polaire. Rouen: Imprimerie D’Esperance Cagniard, 1889.

8vo, bound by Vannutelli St. Georges in full green crushed morocco with white leather onlays meant to resemble icebergs. Original wrappers bound in. Light soiling to boards. $600-800

257 (FINE BINDINGS) DORAT, CLAUDE JOSEPH Les Baisers, ou collection de petits poemes erotiques. The Hague and Paris: Sebastien Jorry, 1770.

8vo, bound in full levant red morocco with blue morocco insets and gilt roll-tooling, gilt-tooled and -lettered spine, blue morocco doublures with giltfloral borders, silk endpapers, a.e.g. Housed in black silk clamshell case. With 47 engraved vignettes and culs-de-lampe on Japanese vellum, most attributed to Charles Eisan. Light soiling to boards; upper board threatening to detach. $2,000-4,000

258 (FINE BINDINGS) SCOTT, SIR WALTER The Works of Sir Walter Scott Including the Waverley Novels and the Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912.

51 vols. 8vo, 3/4 crushed brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-decorated and -lettered spines, t.e.g. Large paper edition, number 49 of 375 copies. With 2pp. tipped-in autographed letter signed (“W.S.”) to front of volume one, to “Charles,” May, 1816. Volume 51 being “The Country of Sir Walter Scott” by Charles S. Olcott. Engraved plates throughout, color frontispiece. [Together with:] Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott. By John Gibson Lockhart. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1901. 10 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in 3/4 crushed brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-decorated and -lettered spines, t.e.g. Large paper edition, number 378 of 600 copies. Engraved plates throughout. With autographed letter signed (“Lockhart”) pasted to tipped in page at front of volume one. Bookplates Christopher Magee Steel tipped to front pastedowns; offsetting from some plates; otherwise very fine with hinges tight on all vols. [61 vols. total] $1,000-2,000

259* (FINE BINDINGS) [Court Memoirs of Europe.] Boston: Hardy, Pratt, 1899-1901.

18 vols. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g. Versailles Aquarelle Edition, number 49 of 85 numbered sets. Minor edgewear; some rubbing to spines; otherwise fine. $400-600

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