BRITISH HISTORy AND LITERATURE | LOTS 234-327

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234* GILLRAY, JAMES [The Caricatures of Gillray.] London: s.n., [1818]

Oblong 4to, red straight-grain morocco bordered in gilt, gilt-tooled and - lettered spine. Complete with 85 hand-colored plates on 81 leaves, some fold-out. Some wear to boards; bookplate tipped to front pastedown; light offsetting from plates; scattered brown spots; otherwise fine with exceptionally bright plates. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $3,000-5,000

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235* EDWARDS, JONATHAN Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New-England… Boston and Edinburgh: T. Lumisden and J. Robertson, 1753.

8vo, rebound in 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt-stamped and -lettered spines. Second edition of an important work of American theology. Rubbing and wear to boards; few brown spots. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $200-400

236 (ROWLANDSON, THOMAS) COMBE, WILLIAM Doctor Syntax in Paris, or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque [with] A Tour of Doctor Syntax in London, or The Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis. London: J. Johnson; for W. Wright, 1820.

2 vols. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece illustrations and numerous engravings throughout by Rowlandson. Bookplate tipped to front pastedown and some loss to spine ends (London); hinges reinforced on both vols. $300-500 237 SWIFT, JONATHAN A group of eight various editions of Gulliver’s Travels. $200-400

238* (LONDON) CARY, JOHN Cary’s New Pocket Plan of London, Westminster and Southwark; with all the Adjacent Buildings in St. George’s Fields &c. &c. ... London: Cary, 1793. Engraving with hand coloring of a plan of London extending to Chelsea, clockwise to the Serpentine, Paddington, Islington, Hoxton, Stepney, Rotherhithe and St George’s Fields. With the addresses of the Penny Post Receiving Houses and Hackney Coach Fares printed to lower margin. Framed and matted. Size visible 16 x 23 1/4 inches. $300-500 239* (TRAFALGAR) SILVESTER Plan of the Engagement off Trafalgar, Oct. 21, 1805. London, n.d. [c. 1850] Engraving with hand-coloring by Silvester of the lines of battle at Trafalgar. With list of casualties and participating English officers. Framed and matted. 22 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches. $600-800

240* (WATERLOO) FREEBAIRN Field of Waterloo together with Field of Quatre-Bras. Engraved maps with color of battlefields during the Waterloo Campaign, showing military placements. From History of the War in France and Belgium in 1815 by William Siborne (London, 1848), engraved by Freebairn. Framed and matted. 16 3/4 x 20 1/4 inches. $200-400

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241* (WATERLOO) WILLMORE, J.T. The Battle of Waterloo. London: G. Hogarth, 1849. Engraving with hand-coloring after the painting by G. Jones. Framed and matted. Size visible 15 x 22 inches. $60-80

242 WALPOLE, HORACE Anecdotes of Painting in England. Strawberry Hill: Thomas Farmer, 1762-1763.

3 vols., plus Catalogue of Engravers (4 vols. total) Later edition. 8vo, full speckled calf, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines, red morocco spine labels. With portrait engravings throughout. Some wear to boards; ends chipped; offsetting from plates; minor dampstaining to few leaves. $200-400 243 CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH “Graphic” Pictures and More “Graphic” Pictures. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1889 and 1887.

2 vols. Oblong 4to, original quarter blue cloth over pictorial boards. Illustrated. Wear and soiling to boards; leaves marginally chipped; previous ownership inscription to f.f.e.p. $50-100

244* (CARICATURE) LAVRATE, EDMUND Le Monde Plaisant, Paris, 1880-1881, together with Album Lavrate, s.l., n.d. Both 4to, with numerous color illustrations after Edmund Lavrate throughout. Wear to boards; some plates detached. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $300-500 245 (CARICATURE) A collection of books pertaining to caricatures and caricaturing, in two boxes. $400-600

247 (CARICATURE) GROSE, (FRANCIS) Rules for Drawing Caricatures. London: For S. Hooper, 1791.

8vo, contemporary full calf, rebacked, gilt-lettered spine label. Second edition, complete with 21 copper plates. First two plates toned with manuscript title to one; otherwise fine. $300-500

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248 (CARICATURE) MALCOLM, J.P. An Historical Sketch of the Art of Caricaturing. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813.

4to, contemporary full calf, gilt-lettered spine label, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. First edition. Complete with 31 engraved plates. Hinges reinforced but starting; some separation to spine; rubbing to boards. $600-800 249 (CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE) CAREY, DAVID Life in Paris; Comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours of Dick Wildfire. London: Printed for John Fairburn, 1822.

Large 8vo, rebound in 3/4 crushed maroon morocco, gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers, original wraps backed and bound-in, color frontispiece. Numerous hand-colored engraved plates throughout by George Cruickshank. F.f.e.p. starting to detach; some loss to original wrappers (backed); intermittent brownspotting; otherwise in very fine binding with crisp and colorful plates. $300-500 250 (CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE) IRELAND, WILLIAM H. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. London: John Fairburn, 1823-1828.

4 vols. 8vo, bound by Riviere & Son in full crushed blue morocco with gilt-stamped armorial crest design to boards, gilt-stamped and -lettered spines, t.e.g. Complete with 27 engraved folding plates (24 hand-coloured). Spines darkened; upper board detached from vol. 2; scattered brownspotting. $1,000-2,000

251 (CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE) Monsieur Tonson. London: Marsh and Miller, 1830.

12mo, original pink printed wraps. Illustrated with seven engravings by Cruikshank. With three pages publisher’s advertisements at rear. Light soiling to wraps; spine deteriorated; previous owner’s ex-libris to front cover. $200-400

252 (HOGARTH, WILLIAM) IRELAND, JOHN Hogarth Illustrated from His Own Manuscripts. London: Boydell, 1812.

3 vols. 8vo, gilt-stamped straight-grain navy morocco, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines, a.e.g. Third edition. With extra-engraved title pages, engraved frontispieces, and engraved plates throughout. Minor edgewear; light foxing; offsetting from some plates. $300-500

253 BARNARD, FRED Original ink and gouache drawing on paper of the character “Bill Sykes” from Dickens’ Oliver Twist, signed and dated (“F. Barnard/’77). Framed and matted. 19 x 14 3/4 inches visible. $60-80

254 BUNBURY, HENRY WILLIAM Original ink and pencil sketch, unsigned, entitled “High Life Below the Stairs,” n.d. [c. 1790] Framed and matted. 11 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches visible. $60-80

255 CLARKE, JOSEPH CLAYTON (“KYD”) A group of four original pen and watercolor illustrations of Dickens characters from various novels, n.d. Framed. Size of largest 9 x 7 inches visible. $100-200

256 LEECH, JOHN A collection 10 of original pencil drawings, six being sketches for Punch. In three frames. Size of largest 5 x 7 inches visible. $200-400

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257 257* AUSTEN, JANE Mansfield Park: A Novel. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832.

2 vols. 8vo, rebound in 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. First American edition, one of only 1,250 copies printed. Lacking publisher’s advertisements in vol. 1; hinges tender; edges and spines chipped with loss to vol. 2; some leaves darkened; intermittent light foxing. Property from the Collection of Scott Snyder, West Valley City, Utah $1,000-2,000

258 DICKENS, CHARLES A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859.

8vo, rebound in 3/4 green calf over cloth, gilttooled and -lettered spine, t.e.g. First edition in book form, first issue, with page 214 misnumbered as “113.” With engraved frontispiece, engraved title page, and 14 engraved plates. Edgewear; bookplate tipped to front pastedown; inner-hinge cracked; intermittent foxing. Property from a Chicago-Area Collector $1,500-2,500

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259 DICKENS, CHARLES American Notes for General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842.

2 vols. 3/4 maroon calf over marbled boards, giltstamped and -lettered spines. First edition, first issue, with half-titles, contents, and second contents page in volume 1 misnumbered “xvi.” Spines faded; light edgewear; scattered foxing. Property from a Chicago-Area Collector

Literature: Eckel 113; Smith 11. $200-400

260 DICKENS, CHARLES Master Humphrey’s Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850.

3 vols. 8vo, 3/4 green calf over marbled boards, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines. First edition in book form. With engraved frontispieces and illustrations. Spines darkened; rubbing to boards; intermittent foxing. Property from a Chicago-Area Collector $200-400 261 DICKENS, CHARLES Sketches by Boz and Dombey and Son. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839 and 1848.

2 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in full tan calf, gilttooled and -lettered spines, red and green leather spine labels, gilt-inner dentelles, a.e.g. First combined edition (Boz) and First book edition (Dombey). Spines darkened; bookplates Colonel Arthur Hare Vincent tipped to front pastedowns; plates darkened; scattered brown spots. Property from a Chicago-Area Collector $500-700

262 DICKENS, CHARLES The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.

8vo, rebound in brown calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine label. First edition, bound from the original parts. With original front wrapper and numerous plates. Lacking all original advertisements; rubbing to boards; scattered brownspotting. [Together with:] Master Humphrey’s Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841. 3 vols. 8vo, rebound in full marbled calf, paper spine labels. First edition, bound from the original parts. With frontispieces and numerous illustrations. Edgewear with chipping to spine ends; intermittent brownspotting. Property from a Chicago-Area Collector $600-800 263* DICKENS, CHARLES The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman & Hall, May - September, 1870.

5 (of 6) original monthly parts. 8vo, original bluegreen wraps. Housed in quarter green calf over cloth clamshell case, gilt-lettered spine. First edition, first issue, earliest issue of part 6 with the “eighteenpence” slip pasted over the one shilling price on the front wrap, also including the often missing “Cork Hats” slip in part 2. With 12 engraved plates by S.L. Fildes. Calf on slipcase sunned; wrappers soiled and chipped at edges and spines; upper wrapper part 2 detached but present; intermittent brownspotting. Property from the Collection of Hubert Frank, Northbrook, Illinois $100-200

264 DICKENS, CHARLES Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.

2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 red calf over marbled boards, giltlettered spines. First edition in book form. Minor wear and soiling to boards; bookseller’s sticker to front pastedown; ownership stamp to title pages; intermittent foxing. [Together with:] Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. 8vo, 3/4 green morocco over cloth, gilt-tooled and -lettered spine. First edition in book form. Edgewear; darkening to some leaves; scattered foxing. Property from a Chicago-Area Collector $200-400

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265 THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE The Book of Snobs. London: Punch Office, 1848.

8vo, original blue-green printed wrappers. Housed in custom brown cloth chemise and quarter brown crushed morocco slipcase, gilt-lettered spine. First edition, with two pages publisher’s advertisements, half-title, engraved title page, and engravings throughout. Light soiling to wrappers; spine repaired. [Together with:] The Kickleburys on the Rhine. By Mr. M.A. Titmarsh [pseudonym for William Thackeray] London: Smith, Elder, 1850. 8vo, rebound in full blue morocco, gilt-tooled and -lettered spine, t.e.g. First edition. With original wrappers bound-in. Light edgewear; bookplate tipped to front pastedown and f.f.e.p. Property from a Chicago-Area Collector $400-600 266* LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.

8vo, original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First American edition, first printing, with 22 pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear dated “November 1863.” Spine faded; ends bumped; previous owner’s ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; few scattered brown spots. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $300-500 267 DUMAS, ALEXANDER The Count of Monte-Cristo. London: Chapman and Hall, 1846.

2 vols. 8vo, rebound in full brown morocco, giltdecorated and -lettered spines, t.e.g., cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. First edition in English. Illustrated with frontispiece to each volume, and 18 plates. Wear to slipcase; light wear to boards at hinges; bookplate tipped to f.f.e.p., vol. 1; inner hinges cracked; scattered light foxing. $2,000-4,000

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268 (CLEMENS, SAMUEL) TWAIN, MARK The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). Boston: Charles L. Webster, 1885.

8vo, publisher’s green cloth stamped in gilt and lettered in black to upper boards and spine, cream endpapers. First American edition, early issue, with title page a cancel and the following first issue points: “Him and another Man” is listed at p. 88, “with the was” to p. 57 eleven lines from the bottom, final leaf blank, frontispiece with “Heliotype Printing Co.” and visible table cloth. Also, “Huck Decided” instead of “Huck Decides” under “Chapter VI” on p. [9], a first issue point per MacDonnell (Firsts, p. 31). Rubbing to boards; ends bumped; bookplate tipped to front pastedown.

Literature: BAL 3415. Kevin MacDonnell in Firsts, September 1998 - Vol. 8, No. 9, “Huck Finn, Among the Issue Mongers,” pp. 29- 35. $1,500-2,500 269* DOYLE, CONAN A. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, 1902.

8vo, original red cloth stamped in black and gilt. First edition, first issue, with “you” for “your” on p. 13. Illustrations by Sidney Paget. Light soiling to boards; ends bumped; glassine torn; hinges starting. Property from the Estate of Barbara Maggos, Alton, Illinois $1,500-2,500 270* DOYLE, CONAN ARTHUR The Lost World. London, New York, and Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.

8vo, original blue cloth ruled in white with giltstamped vignette to upper cover, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. With frontispiece and seven plates. Rubbing to boards; ends bumped; hinges starting; scattered light foxing. Property from the Estate of Barbara Maggos, Alton, Illinois $200-400

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271 ELIOT, T.S. John Dryden. The Poet, the Dramatist, the Critic. New York: Terence & Elsa Holliday, 1932.

8vo, purple paper boards, dust jacket. First edition. Jacket toned. [Together with:] Criterion Miscellany, Thoughts After Lambeth, no. 30. London: Faber & Faber, 1931. 8vo, original wrappers. Light edgewear. $300-500 272 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL The Scarlet Letter, a Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.

8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Housed in cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. First edition, with four pages publisher’s advertisements dated March 1, 1850, inserted at front. One of only 2,500 copies printed. Minor rubbing to boards; light edgewear with 1/4-inch of loss to each end of spine; scattered brown spots; hinges starting.

Literature: BAL 7600; Grolier 90. $3,000-5,000 273 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.

8vo, publisher’s black cloth, gilt-printed labels to spine and upper board. First edition, first issue, without the disclaimer notice on p. [x], publisher’s symbol device on copyright page. First state jacket, with “Katharine Barclay” on the front flap. Ends slightly bumped; jacket faded and lightly soiled with small dampstain to lower right corner; minor chipping to edges of jacket at spine; darkening to endpapers; previous owner’s notations in pencil to f.f.e.p. $800-1,200

274 HILTON, JAMES Goodbye Mr. Chips! London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934.

8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered blue cloth, original dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed and signed on the f.f.e.p., “To Miss B.F. Norris, from James Hilton, with good wishes. Nov. 1934.” Ends bumped; jacket lightly soiled, edges chipped, with some loss to bottom of spine and creases to rear panel; hinges starting. Property from the Collection of the Clerics of St. Viator, Arlington Heights, Illinois $400-600

275 HUXLEY, ALDOUS Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.

8vo, original yellow buckram, gilt-lettered light blue leather spine label, t.e.g. First edition. One of 324 copies signed by Huxley on the limitation page, this being number 28. Lacking original dust jacket; soiling to cloth; ends bumped; darkening to edges of some leaves. $1,000-2,000

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276 JOYCE, JAMES Two titles published in the Criterion Miscellany series: Anna Livia Plurabelle, no. 15, [London, 1930, misprinted “MCXXX”], and Haveth Childers Everywhere, no. 26 [London, 1931]. 8vo, original giltlettered cloth, glassine. [Together with:] Dubliners. New York: The Modern Library, n.d. 8vo, red cloth, dust jacket. Minor wear and soiling to jacket. $100-200 277 JOYCE, JAMES Dubliners. London: Grant Richards, (1914).

8vo, publisher’s dark red cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt. First edition, with advertisements to verso of half-title. A fine copy of Joyce’s first prose work. Of the first edition, 1,250 copies were printed; 746 were bound by Grant Richards, and 504 copies were sent to the United States for the American edition. Light wear and soiling to boards; ends bumped and slightly frayed; toning to edges of leaves.

Literature: Slocum & Cahoon A8. $4,000-6,000 278 JOYCE, JAMES Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934.

8vo, publisher’s tan cloth lettered in red and black, original dust jacket. First U.S. edition. Dust jacket lightly soiled with repaired tear across and along spine; light soiling to boards; pencil notations to f.f.e.p. $500-700

279 LEWIS, SINCLAIR A group of four first editions, one with dust jacket, including Babbitt, (1922), Elmer Gantry, (1927), Arrowsmith, (1925), and Mantrap, (1926), in dust jacket.

8vo, original blue and orange cloth. Worn and faded; dust jacket (Mantrap) soiled and chipped; hinges starting. $400-600

280* LONDON, JACK The Call of the Wild. New York: Macmillan, 1903.

8vo, publisher’s vertically ribbed green cloth, lettered in gilt, spine and front cover pictorially blocked in black, white, and terra-cotta, t.e.g. First edition, first issue. Lacking dust jacket; edgewear and ends bumped; hinges starting. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $300-500

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

8vo, publisher’s grey buckram. First American edition, first printing. Light soiling and wear to boards; ends and corners bumped; previous owner’s ex-libris to front pastedown; hinges starting. $200-400

282 SHAW, BERNARD The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. New York: Brentano’s, 1928.

8vo, original decorative green cloth stamped in green and gilt, gilt-lettered spine, original dust jacket. First Edition. Scarce in the original dust jacket. Rubbing and chipping to edges of jacket; some toning to extremities of leaves. $100-200

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283* WELLS, H.G. The War in the Air, and Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While it Lasted. London: George Bell and Sons, 1908.

8vo, original cloth with pictorial onlay to upper board, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. Illustrated with 16 plates. Light soiling to cloth; ends bumped; bookplate tipped to front pastedown; toning to edges of leaves. Property from the Estate of Barbara Maggos, Alton, Illinois $200-400 284* WELLS, H.G. The War of the Worlds. London: William Heinemann, 1898.

8vo, original grey cloth lettered in black, with publisher’s device on rear cover, original slipcase. First edition, with 15 pp. advertisements dated 1897 at rear. Spine darkened; ends bumped; two bookplates tipped to front pastedown; darkening to f.f.e.p. Property from the Estate of Barbara Maggos, Alton, Illinois

Literature: Wells 14. $800-1,200

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285 WILDE, OSCAR Intentions. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1891.

8vo, original decorative gilt-stamped and -lettered green cloth designed by Charles Ricketts. First edition. Light soiling to boards; ends bumped. $200-400 286* WILDE, OSCAR Poems. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street, 1892.

8vo, original cloth elaborately gilt-decorated after design by Charles Ricketts. Limited edition, number 20 of 220 copies, signed by Wilde on the limitation page. With woodcut title, endpapers, and woodcut ornament to limitation page by Charles Ricketts. Minor soiling to boards; front endpaper threatening to detach. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $2,000-4,000

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287* WISTER, OWEN The Virginian. A Horseman of the Plains. New York: Macmillan, 1902.

8vo, original tan cloth stamped in red, black, and gilt, lacking dust jacket. First edition. With eight plates by Arthur I. Keller. Light soiling to boards; ends bumped; hinges starting; edges of leaves toned. Property from the Estate of Barbara Maggos, Alton, Illinois $400-600 287A WISTER, OWEN Lady Baltimore. New York: Macmillan, 1906.

8vo, quarter vellum over gilt-lettered paper backed boards, original dust jacket. First edition. Number 16 of 100 out-of-series copies on Japan vellum, signed by Wister on the limitation page. Boards soiled; dust jacket split at spine with 1/2-inch portion lacking from spine ends; jacket worn and faded; hinges tender. $100-200 288 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895.

8vo, original cream cloth elaborately decorated in gilt on both covers by Granville Fell in Art Nouveau style design, gilt-decorated spine. First edition, one of only 750 copies of this first print run. Boards soiled; ends chipped; foot of spine reinforced with tape; portion of spine detached and laid into book at front; previous ownership inscriptions to f.f.e.p.; rear hinge cracked.

Literature: Wade, 15. $800-1,200

289 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. [Together with:] 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

290 TWO WORLDS MONTHLY Ulysses [partial, as published in Two Worlds Monthly] New York: Two Worlds Publishing, 1926-1927.

5 (of 11) issues [comprising v. 1 (nos. 1-4) and v. 2 (no. 1). 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. $200-400 291 (HARPER & BROTHERS) ADVANCE COPIES Four advance copies, each signed “compliments of Harper & Brothers,” including Gilbert Parker, The Weavers, (1907), Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Lady Rose’s Daughter, (1903), Anonymous, The Shrine, (1909), and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Walled in, (1907).

4 vols. 8vo, red paper, printed paper spine labels. Boards worn and faded, spine deteriorated on one. $300-500

292 BROMFIELD, LOUIS Pleasant Valley. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1945.

Thin 4to, publisher’s wrappers, printed title label. Proof copy, title label with “Prob. pub. date April 4, 1945 / Prob. price $3.00” and each page printed with “Bank L3” and “Slide” numbers, and “breaker” borders. With seven sheets of printed mock-up drawings after Kate Lord for the story. Light soiling to wrappers; toning to edges of leaves; minor chipping to edges of drawing sheets. $200-400

293 DELILLO, DON Two first editions, (The Body Artist, New York, 2001), including one advanced reading copy, (Libra, New York, n.d.), inscribed on the half-title. $80-120

294 EASTON ELLIS, BRETT A group of five books, three first editions, inscribed and signed, including, Glamorama (New York, 1998), American Psycho (New York, 1991), Lunar Park (New York, 2005) The Rules of Attraction (New York, 1987) and Less Than Zero (New York, 1995). $200-400 295 GINSBERG, ALLEN Straight Hearts Delight. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1980.

8vo, publisher’s printed paperback boards. First edition. Light wear to boards. [Together with:] The Fall of America. (San Francisco): City Lights Books, (1972). Small 8vo, publisher’s printed paper boards. Signed by Ginsberg on the title page and corrected on the last page, [and] Reality Sandwiches. (San Francisco): City Lights Books, (1963). Small 8vo, publisher’s printed paper boards. Signed and annotated by Ginsberg on the title page. $200-400

296 GRISSIM, JOHN Billiards. New York: St. Martin’s Press, [1978].

8vo, publisher’s brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by 10 members of the cast of the movie The Baltimore Bullet, (1980), including Ray Martin, Willie Mosconi, Richard Florence, Jimmy Mataya, James Rempe, and Irving Crane, among others. $200-400

297 LE CARRE, JOHN Two first American editions, including Call for the Dead, New York, 1962, and A Murder of Quality, New York, 1962. Both 8vo, publisher’s cloth, dust jackets. Soiling and wear to jackets; leaves toned. $300-500

298 (MODERN LITERATURE) A collection of modern literature including five books by Jonathan Franzen and one by Linda Lovelace, in one box. $200-400

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299* BUSCH WILHELM Color. Busch Bilderbogen. [and] Colorirt. Busch Bilderbogen. Munich: Verlag von Braun & Schneider, n.d. [c. 1890]

Folio, original quarter brown cloth over pictorial boards. With numerous double-page color illustrations throughout. Wear and soiling to boards; marginal chipping to plates; some leaves detached. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $100-200 300 (GREENAWAY, KATE) A group of five Kate Greenaway titles, including Under the Window (London, n.d.), Little Anne Book (London, n.d.), A Day in a Child’s Life (London, n.d.), Marigold Garden (London, n.d.) and A Century of Kate Greenaway (London, 1946). $80-120 301* HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings. New York: D. Appleton, 1881.

8vo, original pictorially gilt-stamped brown cloth. First edition, first issue with butterfly endpapers, the “presumptive” reading on p.9, and no mention of this title in the 8pp. publisher’s ads at rear. Minor edgewear and soiling to boards; text block leaning; hinges starting. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $400-600

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302* NORRIS, FRANK The Octopus. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1901.

8vo, original gilt-stamped and -lettered red cloth. First edition, first issue, with spine imprint in sansserif face and with device of J.J. Little on copyright page. Ends bumped; previous ownership inscription to f.f.e.p.; hinges starting. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $80-120

303 POTTER, BEATRIX The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit. New York and London: Frederick Warne, [1906]

16mo, original green cloth wallet-style binding with mounted color illustration and imitation clasp to upper cover. First edition, first American issue. With 11 (of 14) full-page linen-backed color illustrations. Cloth lightly rubbed and soiled; some creasing to leaves; hinges tender. $400-600 304 POTTER, BEATRIX The Story of Miss Moppet. New York and London: Frederick Warne, [1906]

16mo, original grey-blue cloth wallet-style binding with mounted color illustration and imitation clasp to upper cover. First edition, first American issue. Complete with 14 full-page linen-backed color illustrations. Light soiling to boards; some spotting to linen; hinges starting. $800-1,200

305 (CHILDREN’S) SEUSS, DR. Two first editions, including If I Ran the Zoo, New York, Random House, (1950) and Scrambled Eggs Super! New York, Random House, (1953). 4to, original pictorial boards and dust jackets. Minor wear to boards; chipping to edges of jackets. $100-200 306 (CHILDREN’S) A collection of children’s books, in two boxes. $400-600

307 (CHILDREN’S) Slovenly Peter [Der Struwwelpeter]. Translated by Mark Twain. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935.

4to, publisher’s quarter red morocco over decorative cloth, original blue paper slipcase. Limited to 1,500 copies, this being number 91. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel throughout. Wear and fading to slipcase; slipcase spine broken; bookplate tipped to front pastedown. [Together with:] Der Struwwelpeter. By Dr. Heinrich Hoffman. Frankfurt: Ferdinand Carl, n.d. [c. 1876] 8vo, original quarter red cloth over pictorial boards. First edition. With numerous illustrations throughout. $300-500

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308 (ARGONAUT PRESS) A collection of three works published by the Argonaut Press.

4to, original vellum backed buckram boards, uncut and largely unopened. Each limited to 975 copies on Japon vellum. Profusely illustrated with plates and maps.

The World Encompassed. An Analogous Contemporary Document Concerning Sir Francis Drake’s Circumnavigation of the World, London, 1926; The Discoverie of the Large and Beauwtiful Empire of Guiana. By Sir Walter Raleigh. London, 1928. With portrait frontispiece and two maps. Voyages and Discoveries. By William Dampier. London, 1931. Some light fading to Sir Francis Drake and edges of all vols.; otherwise interiors in fine condition.

Provenance: Bernard Shapero Rare Books, London. $200-400 308A* (DERRYDALE PRESS) HEYWOOD, GERALD Charles Cotton and His River. Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, 1928.

4to, publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth, giltlettered spine. First edition, limited issue, one of 50 unnumbered copies bearing the Derrydale imprint at the foot of the title-page. Complete with 10 full-page illustrations, one fold-out, and 12 tipped in head- and tail-pieces. This “is a rare and not easily recognized Derrydale” (Frazier). Minor edgewear; hinges starting; inner hinge cracked. Property from the Collection of Scott Snyder, West Valley City, Utah $4,000-6,000 309 (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) ALIGHIERI, DANTE The Divine Comedy. Translated by Melville Best Anderson. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932.

4to, publisher’s decorative wove silk, gilt-stamped silk spine label, t.e.g., slipcase. Number 515 of 1,500 copies signed by the designer Hans Mardersteig. Wear to slipcase; rubbing to boards; scattered foxing. $100-200

310* (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) BECKETT, SAMUEL Nohow On. [New York:] The Limited Editions Club, (1989).

4to, bound by Markey and Asplund in gilt-lettered navy morocco, gilt-lettered spine. Housed in custom suede-lined black cloth clamshell case, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Illustrated with etchings by Robert Ryman. Limited edition, number 314 of 550 copies printed on Cartiere Enrico Magnani paper by the Shagbark Press, signed by the author and illustrator. Fine. Property from the Collection of Clifton J. Wilkow, Chicago, Illinois $1,000-2,000

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313 311 (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) DOUGLAS, NORMAN South Wind. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932.

4to, publisher’s tan buckram, printed paper spine label, slipcase. Illustrated by Carlotta Petrina. Limited edition, number 545 of 1,500 copies, signed by the illustrator. Minor wear to slipcase; light soiling to boards. $200-400

312 (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Of Human Bondage. New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1938.

2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s grey cloth, gilt-lettered green paper spine labels, slipcase. Illustrated with numerous etchings by John Sloan. Limited to 1,500 copies, this being number 215, signed by the illustrator. Light wear to slipcase; spines faded. $200-400

313 (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) MELVILLE, HERMAN Moby Dick. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930.

3 vols. 4to, publisher’s black cloth pictorially stamped in silver gilt, aluminum slipcase. One of 1,000 sets printed by The Lakeside Press. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Light wear and soiling to slipcase; minor rubbing to boards; minor offsetting from illustrations. $2,000-4,000

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314 (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) WILDE, OSCAR Salome. A Tragedy in One Act. London: Limited Editions Club, 1938.

2 vols. Small 4to, original gilt-stamped red cloth (vol. 1) and original black printed wrappers (vol. 1). Housed in original maroon cloth slipcase. Vol. 1 with English text, translated by Lord Alfred Douglas, with 16 illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Number 215 of 1,500 copies. Vol. 2 with French text and 10 pochoir plates on black paper after gouaches by Andre Derain. Number 215 of 1,500 copies, signed by Derain on the limitation page. Fading and wear to slipcase at edges. $200-400

315* (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of 18 books published by the Limited Editions Club.

P.E. Matheson, trans., The Discourses of Epictetus, 1966. 3 copies.; Philip Vellacott, trans., Euripides, 1967; Meric Casaubon, trans., Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, 1956; Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, 1974. 2 vols.; Aristophanes, The Frogs, 1937; Petrarch, The Sonnets, 1965; Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1958. 2 copies; John Dryden, trans., The Georgics, 1942; Aristophanes, The Birds, 1959; Virgil, The Aenid, 1944; Cicero, Orations and Essays, 1962; Julius Caesar, The Gallic Wars, 1954; Harry Carter, trans., The Histories of Herodotus, 1958; Aristotle, Politics & Poetics, 1964. Property from the Collection of Jerome Buff, New York, New York. Sold for the Benefit of Special Collections, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $200-400 316* (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of 20 books published by the Limited Editions Club, mainly American literature.

Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, 1968; Thomas Hardy, Jude The Obscure, 1969; Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1964; Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, 1954; Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales, 1966; Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, 1962; Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1944; Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1975; Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1932; Herman Melville, Typee, 1935; Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus, 1957; James Fenimore Cooper, The Pilot, 1968; Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1935; Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, The Federalist, 1945. 2 vols.; O. Henry, The Voice of the City, 1935; Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the Narcissus, 1965; Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, 1958; Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, 1939. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1940. Property from the Collection of Jerome Buff, New York, New York. Sold for the Benefit of Special Collections, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $200-400

317* (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of 21 books published by the Limited Editions Club, mainly Russian and French literature.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, 1971. 2 vols.; Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame De Paris, 1930. 2 vols.; Feodor Dostoevsky, A Raw Youth, 1974. 2 vols.; Nikolai Gogol, Chichikov’s Journeys; or, Home Life in Old Russia, 1944. 2 vols.; R.B. Sheridan, The School for Scandal, 1934; Alexandre Dumas, Marguerite De Valois, 1969; Joseph Auslander, trans., The Fables of Jean De La Fontaine, 1930. 2 vols.; John Milton, The Masque of Comus, 1954; Francois-Marie Arouet De Voltaire, The History of Zadig, 1952; Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection, 1963; Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1949. 2 vols.; Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind, 1983; Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1964; Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed, 1959. 2 vols. Property from the Collection of Jerome Buff, New York, New York. Sold for the Benefit of Special Collections, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $200-400 318* (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of 39 books published by the Limited Editions Club.

Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers, 1932. 2 vols.; Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1963; Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, 1951; Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales, 1942. 2 vols.; Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, 1947. 2 vols.; Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, 1974; Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, 1939; Washington Irving, The Alhambra, 1969; Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Lyrics of Francois Villon, 1933; Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1939; George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days, 1943; Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1971; C. Collodi, Pinocchio, 1937; Henry James, Daisy Miller, 1969; Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle, 1930; Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi, 1951; Delia Goetz, The Book of the People: Popol Vuh, 1954; Saxo Grammaticus, The History of Amleth, Prince of Denmark, 1954; W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions. A Romance of the Tropical Forest, 1935; Pierre Loti, An Iceland Fisherman, 1931; Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, 1949; Richard Burton, The Kasidah of HajiAbdu el-Yezdi, 1937; Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1946. 7 vols.; Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, 1941. 4 vols. only; John Greenleaf Whittier, Snow-Bound, 1930; Holbrook Jackson, Of the Uses of Books, 1937; Carl Van Doren, The Travels of Baron Munchausen, 1929. Property from the Collection of Jerome Buff, New York, New York. Sold for the Benefit of Special Collections, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $200-400

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319 (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group 24 Limited Edition Club books, with three Easton Press titles and two others (29 total).

Booth Tarkington, Monsieur Beaucaire, 1961; Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return, 1981; Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1969; John Hersey, The Wall, 1957; Sophocles, Oedipus the King, 1955; Richard Wagner, Bernard Shaw and John Culshaw, Richard Wagner; The Perfect Wagnerite; Kind Resounding, 1968. 3 vols.; Charles Dickens, Short Stories, 1971; Paul Fort, Le Livre des Ballades, 1921; Edward James, The Next Volume, 1939; W. Hey, Ausgewahlt Fabeln fur Kinder, n.d.; Richard Hughes, The Innocent Voyage, 1944; Delia Goetz, The Book of the People: Popol Vuh, 1954; Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, 1974. 2 vols.; Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the Narcissus, 1965; Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates, 1962; George Borrow, Lavengro, 1936. 2 vols.; W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, 1935; Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1969; Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, 1961; Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Island, 1975; Horace, Odes and Epodes, 1961. 2 vols.; Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Voyage to Brobdingnag, 1950; Shakespeare, Works, Easton Press, 1992. One vol. only; Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Easton Press, 1994; Washington Irving, The Alhambra, 1978. $300-500 320* (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of 18 books published by the Limited Editions Club, mainly poetry and plays.

Louis and Bryna Untermeyer, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, 1962; Louis Untermeyer, Poems of Heinrich Heine, 1957; Frank Kermode, The Poems of John Donne, 1968; Stephen Spender, The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 197;. Pedro Antonio De Alarcon, The ThreeCornered Hat, 1959; Dom Roger Hudleston, The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi, 1930; Sir John Froissart, The Chronicles of England..., 1959; Lafcadio Hearn, trans., The Tales of Guy De Maupassant, 1963; George Bernard Shaw, Two Plays for Puritans, 1966; Honore De Balzac, Droll Stories, 1932. 3 vols.; J.G. Pilkington, The Confessions of St. Augustine, 1962; Rudyard Kipling, Tales of East and West, 1973; W.B. Yeats, Poems, 1970; William Wordsworth, Poems, 1973; John Keats, Poems, 1966; Robert Graves, Poems, 1980. Property from the Collection of Jerome Buff, New York, New York. Sold for the Benefit of Special Collections, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $200-400 321* (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of 20 books published by the Limited Editions Club.

Q. Horatius Flaccus, Odes and Epodes, 1961. 2 vols.; Arthur Machen, The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt, 1972; Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches, 1956 (slipcase in pieces); Francis Bacon, The Essayes; or, Counsels Civill & Morall, 1944; Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 15171521, 1942; Benvenuto Cellini, The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself, 1937; Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 1961; Thomas De Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1930; Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida, 1939; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1934; Hart Crane, The Bridge, 1981; Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, 1937; Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler..., 1948; Margaret Armour, trans., The Nibelungenlied, 1960; F. De La Motte Fouqe, Undine, 1930; Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, 1966. 2 vols.; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1957. Property from the Collection of Jerome Buff, New York, New York. Sold for the Benefit of Special Collections, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $200-400

322* (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of 21 books published by the Limited Editions Club, mainly British literature.

Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone, 1959; R.S. Surtees, The Jaunts and Jollities of that Renowned Sporting Citizen Mr. John Jorrocks, 1932; Jane Austen, Emma, 1964,; John Milton, Il Penseroso, 1954; Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, an Autobiography, 1942; Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, 1957; Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return, 1981; Robert Browning, The Ring and The Book, 1949. 2 vols.; John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, 1941; Anthony Trollope, The Warden, 1955; Robert Louis Stevenson, Mediaeval Tales, 1930; Thomas More, Utopia, 1934; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1934; Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1934; Charles Dickens, Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, 1957. 2 vols.; Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 1956. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, 1935; Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol in Prose, 1934; Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, 1931. Property from the Collection of Jerome Buff, New York, New York. Sold for the Benefit of Special Collections, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $200-400 323* (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of four Limited Edition Club titles in seven volumes,

Including: Salome. London and Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1938. 2 vols. Number 142 of 1,500 copies, signed by Derain on the limitation page. The Black Tulip. A Romance. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Number 95 of 1,500 copies signed by Van Krimpen and Lammers. The Fairie Queene. Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1953. 2 vols. Number 395 of 1,500 copies signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. The Poems of William Shakespeare. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1941. 2 vols. Number 682 of 1,500 copies signed by Bruce Rogers on the limitation page. Property from the Collection of Jerome Buff, New York, New York. Sold for the Benefit of Special Collections, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $150-250

324 (NONESUCH PRESS) HOMER The Iliad [and] The Odyssey. Translated into English by Alexander Pope with parallel text in Greek. New York: Nonesuch Press, 1931.

2 vols. 8vo, full goatskin, gilt-lettered spines, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Ornaments by Rudolf Koch and Fritz Kredel. Limited to 1,450 copies, this being copy number 480. Darkening to spines and edges of boards; Rubbing to raised bands and wear to hinges (Iliad); some spotting to endpapers. $400-600 325 (NONESUCH PRESS) DICKENS, CHARLES The Nonesuch Dickens. Published under the editorial direction of Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter and Thomas Hatton. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938.

15 (of 25) vols. only. Large 8vo, publisher’s cloth in various colors, gilt-lettered black leather spine labels. Limited to 877 copies. Numerous plates, some in color, and text illustrations from the original steel plates and woodblocks. Minor wear and soiling to cloth. Property from a Chicago-Area Collector $1,000-2,000

326 (YOLLA BOLLY PRESS) KROEBER, THEODORA The Inland Whale. Foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin. [Covelo, CA:] The Yolla Bolly Press, (1987).

4to, string-bound flexible cloth over boards, woodcut paper cover label to upper board, housed in paper slipcase. Illustrated with nine full-page hand-colored woodblocks by Karen Wikstrom. First edition, number 73 of 135 limited edition copies, signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. With limitation and ownership statement laid into front. Light wear to slipcase. $200-400

327 (YOLLA BOLLY PRESS) STEINBECK, JOHN Zapata: A Narrative, in Dramatic Form, of the Life of Emiliano Zapata. [Covelo, CA:] The Yolla Bolly Press, [1991]

4to, 3/4 maroon buckram over decorative handmade Japanese paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, maroon cloth slipcase. Illustrated with seven woodcut plates by Karin Wikstrom (two fold-out). Limited edition, number 119 of 257 copies, signed by the illustrator. Light wear and fading to slipcase; spine faded. $200-400