IMPORTANT LITERATURE LOTS 254 – 352

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254 BAUM, FRANK L. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1902.

8vo, original decorative publisher’s cloth. First edition. Contains numerous illustrations by Mary Cowles Clark. A few pages are soiled on the edges, and one page has two small tears and creases at the bottom edge. Minor weakening of the inner front hinge. The binding is lightly worn, with one tiny bump, and minor loss to some white lettering/ decoration. Previous owner’s 1903 gift inscription on a blank endpaper. $100-200

255 BAUM, L. FRANK Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Chicago: The Reilly and Brittin, 1908.

4to, publishers blue cloth, binding C, pastedown illustration. First printing with advertisement on verso of half-title listing three titles. First state binding with The Reilly &/ Britton Co. Hinges tender; ends and corners bumped. Property from a Private Collector $300-500 256 BAUM, L. FRANK The Road to Oz [and]The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago: Reilly and Lee, 1909, 1903.

2 vols. 4to, publishers green cloth with paste down pictorial label, ware to boards, hinges tender and ends bumped. Property from a Private Collector $300-500

257 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT Poems. London: Edward Moxon, 1844.

2 vols. 8vo, original green cloth stamped in blind (Carter’s variant A), uncut, housed in a custom clothbacked folding case. First edition, second issue with ads dated January 1st 1845. Light ware to spines. Property from a Private Collector $200-400

258 No Lot

259 CAPOTE, TRUMAN In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. New York: Random House, 1965.

8vo., Publishers maroon cloth, dust jacket unclipped. First printing, with 1/66 code on front flap & “Publishers of the American College Dictionary and the Modern Library” on rear flap. Signed by the author on an inserted leaf. Dust jacket toned and slightly chipped. Property from a Private Collector $500-700

260 CARROLL, LEWIS The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits. London: Macmillan, 1876.

Thin 8vo, publisher’s pictorial cloth. Text block shifted; spine toned with some loss at edges and ends. $200-400

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261 CATHER, WILLA Two first editions, comprising The Old Bauty and Others. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. 8vo, publisher’s orange cloth with black stamped title and decoration, printed dust jacket. First edition; Sapphira and the Slave Girl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. 8vo, publisher’s green cloth boards, printed dust jacket. First edition. $100-200

262 (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) 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. $700-900 263 (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) TWAIN, MARK The Jumping Frog. New York and London: Harpers and Brothers, 1903.

8vo, publisher’s red cloth with printed title and image of frog. Complete 12 plates including pictorial frontispiece. Hinges starting; soiling to boards; spine and corners bumped. $80-120

264 (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) TWAIN, MARK Mark Twain’s Sketches, Old and New. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1875.

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth stamped in gilt and lettered in black. Significant waterdamage cause boards to bow; loss to corners and spine ends; hinges cracked; dampstain to all pages. $100-200

265 CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. Document signed (“S.L. Clemens”), 3 pp., s.l., n.d. Contract between Clemens and Frank Mayo for the dramatization of Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins. Signed by Mayo below Clemens. Housed in cloth-backed slipcase and chemise along with a first edition of Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894. 13 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches. $2,000-4,000 266 [COOPER (JAMES FENIMORE)] Two works.

The Water Witch; or, The Skimmer of the Seas a Tale. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. 3 vols. First British edition [Together with:] The Headsman or The Abbaye des Vignerons. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1833. 2 vols. First American edition. Property from a Private Collector $100-200

267 COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE The Last of the Mohicans. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1826.

2 vols. in one. 12mo, contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards. First edition, first state; volume one with pagination present on p. 71; p.89 misnumbered 93; p.243 reads “XIV” for “XVI”; last “i” is present in pagination on p. viil; copyright notice reads “a Book” in volume one. Volume two title page supplied in facsimile, lacking blanks at beginning and end of volume one and beginning of volume two; final blank present. Early engraved book plate of previous owner to front pastedown: Sarah S. Snow. Property from a Private Collector $800-1,200