Fine Bindings & Sets

*110

[ART NOUVEAU BINDING]. Blank railroad ledger, “Compagnie des Chemins de fer de l’Ouest” (spine title). N.p.: n.p., 1909.

Oversize folio (770 x 530 mm). Blank ledger. Contemporary brown crushed levant, upper cover gilt-lettered “Grand Livre 1909” with tan, green, brown, yellow and red morocco onlays decorated in gilt and blind depicting a steam locomotive, copper ttings along top and bottom depicting train wheels and train tracks attached to bronze edge frame, lower cover with 5 bronze bosses (one detached), spine in 5 compartments with 6 raised bands, gilt-decorated in 3, 2 with decorative copper ttings, marbled edges.

A MONUMENTAL 20th-CENTURY ART NOUVEAU BINDING

Presumably created to commemorate the takeover of Compagnie des Chemins de fer de l’Ouest by Chemin de Fer de l’Etat, which was made of cial on January 1, 1909. Bronze medals commemorating the takeover are known in several examples. Compagnie des Chemis de fer de l’Ouest was formed in 1855 by the merger of several railway companies serving Normandy and Brittany. A FINE OVERSIZE ART NOUVEAU BINDING, weight in excess of 120 pounds. [Note: Bidders are encouraged to contact the department directly to request shipping information prior to bidding.]

Property from the Collection of Nicole Herweck, La Grange, Illinois

$1,000.00 - $1,500.00

111

[BINDINGS]. BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). Works. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912.

10 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces. Contemporary half red morocco gilt, top edge gilt (wear to extremities, several boards detached).

LIMITED EDITION, number 492 of 526 copies of the “Centenary Edition.”

[Bound in:] Autograph letter signed (“Robert Browning”) to Lady James. 19 Warwick Crescent, 16 July 1896. 1 p., 8vo, window mounted and bound in volume one. Browning writes to accept a dinner invitation from Lady James: “I shall be delighted to dine with you to-morrow as you so kindly devise. Yours very truly, Robert Browning.”

112

[BINDINGS]. BURROUGHS, John (1837-1921). Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904-1922.

23 volumes, 8vo., titles printed in green and black, color frontispieces, numerous plates. Original half blue morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by the Riverside Press bindery (a little rubbing and wear to spine ends and extremities, some minor toning to boards).

LIMITED EDITION, number 273 of 750 copies of the “Autograph Edition” SIGNED BY BURROUGHS and the publisher.

[Bound in:] Autograph letter signed (“John Burroughs”) to his publisher. West Park, New York, 16 July 1896, 1 p., 8vo, with Houghton Mifflin and Co. received stamp dated 17 July 1896. window mounted and bound in volume one. Burroughs writes his publisher regarding illustration selection for an upcoming work. “I should like to see two portraits of Whitman in the book – one early & one late one. For vignette I will send you a photo of his tomb & of his birth-place.”

$500-700

*113

[BINDINGS]. Chefs-D’Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain. Philadelphia: for Subscribers by George Barrie & Sons, [1900].

16 works in 20 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles and titles printed in red and black; numerous etched plates throughout. Contemporary half red morocco, spines in 5 compartments with 6 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, one with central green morocco eur-de-lys onlays, the rest gilt, edges gilt (spines slightly sunned, some minor rubbing to extremities).

LIMITED EDITION, number 817 of 1,000 copies printed on Japanese vellum.

Property from the Estate of Herbert Wittow, Denver, Colorado

114

[BINDINGS]. HORACE (65-8 B.C.). The Odes & Epodes of Horace. Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1901-1904.

7 volumes in 10, 8vo (225 x 164 mm). Numerous plates. Contemporary tan crushed levant, covers with wide grapevine motif border gilt with green and blue morocco onlays, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettered in three, the rest with gilt and blue morocco onlay grapevine, turn-ins gilt with gilt grape leaf motif, top edges gilt, others uncut (very slight fading to a few spines, corners very slightly rubbed, a few covers slightly bowed).

LIMITED EDITION, number 32 of 467 copies on handmade paper. A ne collected edition with illustrations after Howard Pyle, W. H. W. Bicknell, James Fagan, and Edmund H. Garrett.

$1,000-1,500

115

[BINDINGS]. LOCKHART, John Gibson (1794-1854). The Life of Sir Walter Scott. London and Boston: J. B. Millet Company, [ca 1903].

10 volumes, 8vo (218 x 150mm). Colored frontispieces, numerous plates, titles printed in red and black. Contemporary half red morocco gilt, spines gilt in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, wide lower compartment with cream and green onlay and gilt oral design, the rest gilt lettered or decorated, top edge gilt others uncut, (slight rubbing or wear to edges).

LIMITED EDITION, number 50 of 150 copies of the “Canongate Edition.”

$300-400

116

[BINDINGS]. SCOTT, Walter, Sir. (1771-1832). The Waverley Novels. New York, London: The Chaucer Company, n.d.

49 volumes (of 51, lacking vols. 1 and 17), 4to (265 x 175 mm). EXTRAILLUSTRATED by the addition of 48 watercolor and ink drawings by H.C. Green and numerous hand-colored engraved plates, many window mounted. Original autumn leaf calf, elaborately gilt, with oral design surrounding central coat-of-arms in gilt and purple morocco onlays, gilt and purple morocco thistle corner pieces; spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, gilt and purple thistle in one, thistle tools in the rest; turn-ins gilt with thistle motif, white morocco doublures with gilt and purple morocco on-lay central arms, maroon watered silk endpapers; edges gilt (slight chipping to spine-ends, a few small scuffs).

LIMITED EDITION, number 1 of 1200 copies of the EXTRA ILLUSTRATED EDITION.

$1,000-2,000

117

[BINDINGS] -- [SPECTATOR]. [By Addison, Steele & others]. The Spectator. London: for Messrs Payne, Davis, Longman, et al, [ca 1788].

8 volumes, 12mo (175 x 100 mm). Engraved frontispiece and title page to each volume. Contemporary tree calf, smooth spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt (a few hinges starting, some light wear). Provenance: J. Grenville Hamilton (bookplate).

Later edition. ESTC N24154; Lowndes 2470.

$100-200 118

[BINDINGS]. SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Works. “The Plays.” London: for Bellamy and Robarts, 1796.

7 volumes (of 8, lacking vol. 3), 8vo (208 x 123 mm). Engraved frontispieces, engraved titles, numerous engraved plates. Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked preserving original spines; slight wear to extremities). Provenance: Simeon Baldwin (signatures); Elizabeth Whitney (gift inscription).

Collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays.

$200-300

119

[BINDINGS]. STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Works. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921-1923.

26 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces in each volume. 20th-century half blue morocco gilt, spines gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (some slight wear with occasional minor losses to spine ends).

LIMITED EDITION, number 826 of 1030 copies of the “Vailima Edition”.

[Bound in:] Autograph letter signed (“R.L.S.”) to an unidenti ed receipient. Skerryvore, Bournemouth, 2 September 1886. 2 pages, 8vo, on a bifolium. In part: “I am charmed to say I am getting on with Jenkins. This is a great relief.”

$1,000-1,500

120

[BINDINGS]. WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). The Complete Writings. New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1902.

10 volumes, large 8vo. 10 frontispieces and 5 plates, each in three states. Original green morocco, covers with wide oral border gilt, red morocco onlay tulips, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt with central red onlay tulip, wide turn-ins and brown morocco doublures with gilt oral border, brown watered silk endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut and unopened (spines slightly sunned, some light rubbing, one hinge starting).

LIMITED EDITION, number 10 of 10 copies on Japan vellum of the “Author’s Autograph edition”, signed by the publisher.

WITH AN ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY WHITMAN to an unnamed recipient (presumably the editor of The Critic) bound in: Camden, 17 November [1883], 1 page, 8vo, regarding the publication of his essay “Eminent Visitors (Past, Present, and Future:) in The Critic, III: “As I see the proof corrections sent by me for the ‘Eminent Visitors’ are not made, I infer that my letter miscarried...I requested in it that you let me have twenty-printed slips of the article, with a headline From the Critic, New York, Nov. 17, 1883, at top - If the type is distributed & I cannot therefor have the slips, I would like twelve copies of the paper.”

$8,000-12,000

121

[BINDING]. WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850). The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Boston and New York: Houghton Mif in Company, 1910-1911.

10 volumes, 8vo (217 x 148 mm). Frontispieces, numerous photogravure plates. Original half blue morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by the Riverside Press bindery (slightly faded, slight wear to extremities).

LIMITED EDITION, number 141 of 500 copies of the “Large Paper Edition.”

$400-600

122

[BINDINGS]. [THE EASTON PRESS]. A group of 42 works published by the Easton Press, including:

ALCOTT, Louisa May. Little Women. 1976. -- BRONTË, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1978. -- KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Books. 1980. -- MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick. 1977. -- TOLSTOY, Leo. War & Peace. 1981. -- And 37 others. Together, 42 works, all in publisher’s leather gilt, edges gilt, condition ne. Complete list available on request. 121

123

[BIBLIOGRAPHY—BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. A group of 13 works, including:

JOHNSON, Merle, editor. American First Editions. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1929. -- KENT, Rockwell. The Bookplates & Marks of Rockwell Kent. New York: Random House, 1929. LIMITED EDITION, number 183 of 1250 copies SIGNED BY KENT. -- NEWTON, A. Edward. End Papers. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1933. LIMITED EDITION, number 824 of 1351 copies INSCRIBED BY NEWTON. -- GOODSPEED, Charles E. Yankee Bookseller. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. LIMITED EDITION, number 13 of 310 copies SIGNED BY GOODSPEED. -- SOWERBY, E. Millicent, compiler. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, VA, 1983. 5 volumes. -- And 7 others. Together, 13 works in 18 volumes, all in original publisher’s bindings, condition generally ne. Complete list available on request.

$300-400 124

125

BRAY, Anna Eliza (1790-1883). Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A. With Personal Reminiscences. London: John Murray, 1851.

8vo (212 x 165 mm). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of numerous plates and portraits and an ORIGINAL DRAWING BY STOTHARD; numerous illustrations. 20th-century tan calf gilt, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt (very slight rubbing to extremities).

FIRST EDITION of Bray’s biography of her father-in-law. 126

[BLACK ARCHER PRESS]. LONG, Frank Weathers (19061999). Herakles The Twelve Labors. Chicago: The Black Archer Press, 1932.

Folio. 12 wood engravings printed on papier du chine, tipped to mounts, each SIGNED BY LONG in pencil with plate number and title also written in pencil lower margin, loose as issued in original publisher’s board portfolio, orange silk ties (some slight rubbing to extremities, old spine repairs, defective).

LIMITED EDITION, number 36 of 100 copies, SIGNED BY LONG and sold by Chicago bookseller William Targ.

$400-500

BROWN, John. Memoirs of the Courts of Sweden and Denmark. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, n.d.

2 volumes, 8vo (210 x 135 mm). Frontispiece portraits, numerous plates. Red crushed levant gilt, upper cover set with central gilt arms, wide turn-ins gilt, red watered-silk doublures and endpapers, edges gilt (slight rubbing to extremities).

LIMITED EDITION, number 451 of 1000 copies on Japanese vellum.

127

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). Poems. London: Chapman & Hall, 1850.

2 volumes, 8vo (168 x 105 mm). Half-title (Slight spotting to a few leaves.) Contemporary half red morocco gilt, top edges gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY BIRDSALL for Charles Scribner’s Sons (slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Louisa Lane Clarke (1812-1883), British travel writer and botanist (signature). Second edition, the rst to include “Sonnets from the Portuguese,” including the half-titles, and with the publisher’s imprint in the second state as usual. Barnes A6; Tinker 399; Wise 7.

$1,000-2,000

128

BUTLER, Samuel (1612-1680). Hudibras. London: T.W. for D. Browne and others, 1726.

12mo (148 x 92 mm). 16 engraved plates (5 folding) after William Hogarth. (Lacking frontispiece; slight spotting to a few leaves; tear at fold of one folding plate.) Later vellum (slight soiling, covers bowed). Later edition of Butler’s satirical poem against religious sectarianism in seventeenth-century England. ESTC T1917.

$150-250

129

BYRD, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957). Little America. New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930.

8vo. Photogravure frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations. Original half parchment (slightly soiled, joints slightly rubbed). Provenance: Bowman Gray (1874-1935), President and Chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (signature, inscription); Gordon Gray (1909-1982), Government of cial in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations (signature, inscription). LIMITED EDITION, number 869 of 1000 copies of the “Author’s Autograph Edition” SIGNED BY BYRD and the publisher. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY BYRD: “All good wishes to Bowman Gray and Gordon Gray. R. E. Byrd March 14, 1931.”

$150-250

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CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York: Random House, 1958.

8vo. Original publisher’s yellow cloth gilt, top edge stained gray; original publisher’s dust jacket (spine panel sunned, slight toning, a few short closed tears to edges).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Capote’s celebrated novella along with three other stories: “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory.” 131

CAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965.

8vo. Original publisher’s maroon cloth gilt, top edge stained blue; original publisher’s dust jacket. Provenance: David Diamond (blind stamp).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Capote’s acclaimed true crime novel.

132

CAVENDISH, George (1500?-1562). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey the Great Cardinal of England. Chipping Campden: Alcuin Press, 1930.

4to. Title printed in red and black. 20th century red morocco gilt, upper cover set with the central arms of Cardinal Wolsey, edges gilt (slight rubbing to extremities).

LIMITED EDITION, number 25 of 25 copies bound in red morocco and not for sale of a total edition of 325 copies.

$500-700

133

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (18741965). Marlborough His Life and Times. London: George G. Harrap, 1933.

4 volumes, 4to. Plates and illustrations. 20th century tan morocco gilt, upper covers SET WITH OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURES of Winston Churchill, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, and Blenheim Place, lower covers set with Marlborough’s arms stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, turn-ins gilt, blue watered silk doublures and endpapers, stamp-signed by The Chelsea Bindery (small scuff to Vol.IV upper cover); tan morocco folding case lined in blue watered silk.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 19 of 155 copies SIGNED BY CHURCHILL, of which 150 were for sale. Both the limited and the trade edition of 1933 form the rst English edition. Woods A40(a).

$15,000-20,000

134

CHURCHILL, Winston (1874-1965). Second World War. London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1948-1954.

6 volumes, 8vo (203 x 135 mm). Numerous maps and charts. Contemporary blue morocco gilt, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Bayntun for Kroch’s & Brentano’s, Chicago (spines and a few boards sunned).

FIRST TRADE EDITION of Churchill’s monumental history. Woods A123(b).

$800-1,200

135

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910). Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.

8vo (220 x 145 mm). Wood-engraved plates and numerous woodengraved illustrations in text. Original brown decorated cloth, front cover and spine blocked in black and gold (some light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Harry L. Liager (signature, 1886).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the tail-piece on p. 441 depicting an urn, ames and the head of Twain, BAL Intermediate A setting with the caption on p. 443 reading “The St. Charles Hotel.” BAL 3411.

$300-400 136

137

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

8vo (214 x 164 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 2), illustrations in text. Contemporary sheep gilt (rebacked preserving portion of original binding; rubbing to extremities).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with the following issue points: the title leaf is either in the second or third state; the portrait frontispiece is in the second state; rst state of p. 13 with “Him and Another Man” plate listed as being on p. 88; rst state of p. 57 with “was”; second state of pagination on p. 155; with nal blank 238. BAL 3415; Johnson, p. 43-50. 138

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

8vo (215 x 163 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original publisher’s green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (neatly rebacked and laid over modern green cloth preserving original spine and endpapers). Provenance: Ned Thomas (early signature).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with the following issue points: the title leaf is either in the second or third state; the frontispiece is in the rst state; rst state of p. 13 with “Him and Another Man” plate listed as being on p. 88; rst state of p. 57 with “was”; third state of pagination on p. 155; with nal blank 238. BAL 3415; Johnson, p. 43-50.

$600-800

CLEMENS, Clara (1874-1962). My Father Mark Twain. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931.

8vo. Frontispiece. Photographic portraits of Clara and Samuel Clemens tipped in. Original publisher’s blue cloth gilt (slight rubbing to extremities); slipcase. Provenance: Caroll Miller (presentation inscription from Clara Clemens).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CLEMENS: “To Mr. Caroll Miller with the cordial wishes of Clara Clemens. Be good and you’ll be lonesome. M.T.”

$100-200

139

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). On the Various Contrivances By Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised By Insects. London: John Murray, 1862.

8vo (185 x 125 mm). Folding wood-engraved plate, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text. (Without inserted advertisements found in some variants noted in Freeman.) Later half brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Gordon Gray (1909-1982), government of cial in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations (gift inscription from Henry Shaun).

FIRST EDITION of Darwin’s work on the evolutionary interactions between insects and plants, which provided evidence supporting his theory of evolution through natural selection. Freeman 800; Norman 595.

$500-700

140

[DESIGN]. A group of 4 works, comprising:

JONES, Owen. The Grammar of Ornament. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1910. FIRST EDITION -- ADLER, Rose. Reliures. Paris: Editions D’Art Charles Moreau, [1929]. Early edition. -- Another copy. -- DUMAS, F. G., editor. Exposition Universelle de 1889. Catalogue Illustré des Beaux-Arts 1789-1889. Lille: L. Daniel, n.d. Early edition. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, most rst editions except where indicated, all in original publisher’s cloth or boards, condition generally ne.

Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery

$200-300

141

[DICKENS, CHARLES (1812-1870)]. Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog, by Boz, with Other Tales and Sketches, From Bentley’s Miscellany, and the Library of Fiction. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837.

12mo (180 x 110 mm). Original publisher’s red cloth-backed boards (worn, joints separating, text block detached, endpapers lacking)Provenance: Union Society Library (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF THE EARLIEST PRINTINGS OF DICKENS IN BOOK FORM IN THE UNITED STATES. “The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble” is Dickens’ only contribution to the work, which includes eleven other short stories. Carey, Lea and Blanchard would publish the rst two chapters of Oliver Twist in the same format on 15 April 1837. Eckel p. 175; Gimbel B44; Smith, American Editions pp. 9-10.

$300-400 (Part Lot)

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Personal History...of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849-1850.

20 parts in 19, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, title and 38 plates after Hablot K. Browne [“Phiz”]. (Some plates slightly browned.) Original printed blue-green pictorial wrappers (some light soiling, a few short tears); half green morocco slipcase.

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, VIRTUALLY COMPLETE WITH ADVERTISEMENTS AND INSERTED SLIPS, with the “Copper eld Advertiser” in each part and all ads listed by Hatton & Cleaver, except: back wrappers differ in parts 1, 2, 8, and 19/20; with all front ads except lacking slip before plates parts 7 and 19/20, with a different slip part 10; lacking a few of the back ads parts 12, 18, and 19/20 (but with back ads present in each of those numbers). David Copper eld, written at the midpoint of Dickens’ career, draws from the author’s own life. The novel is scarce in parts. As Eckel notes, the printing was comparatively small, the parts were “much read and roughly handled,” and “ ne, clean and unrepaired copies [were] dif cult to procure” even in 1932. Hatton & Cleaver pp.253-272; Sadleir 686; Yale/Gimbel A121. A FINE COPY.

$3,000-4,000

143

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

8vo. Frontispiece, etched half-title and 14 plates; with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY DICKENS tipped in. Green morocco gilt, covers with gilt ruled borders incorporating scrolling corner pieces, front cover SET WITH OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF DICKENS, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt lettered in 2, remaining with elaborate gilt decoration, turn-ins gilt with marbled end papers, edges gilt STAMP-SIGNED BY BAYNTUN (RIVIERE), BATH, ENGLAND (spine slightly sunned). Provenance: Sold Christie’s Los Angeles, 8 November 2000, lot 176.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with p. 213 misnumbered as p. 113. VERY FINE. [Tipped in:] An AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (“Charles Dickens”), to a Mrs. “Manson[?]”, Broadstairs, Kent, September 18, 1857. 4 pages, octavo, on light blue, mourning stationery.Dickens writes with a small piece of business possibly with regard to his All the Year Round magazine, and then continues in response to a letter earlier received. “There are some things in the enclosed notice, which I must get you to insert without Scott’s assistance ... If I had any control over the Australian ships you would not be troubled with our young friends an hour. Not having the least, I can’t help you. It is arranged that I am to be informed when the first recommendable one sails. And the moment I receive such intelligence I will write to you. I would recommend you on the whole not to go ... until we have got rid of these girls,” who, it seems, they are looking to place in a boarding school.

$8,000-12,000

144

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Autograph letter signed (“Charles Dickens”), to J. W. Mellis. Higham by Rochester, Kent, 18 August 1867.

1 page, 8vo, on Gad’s Hill Place Stationery, creased, framed. Declining a request, writing: “I beg to express my regret that I cannot possibly comply with the request proffered in your letter.”

Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery

$800-1,200

145

[DOVES PRESS]. MILTON, John (1608-1674). Paradise Lost [and] Paradise Regained. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1902, 1905.

2 volumes, small 4to. Printed in red and black. (Some minor mostly marginal spotting to a few gatherings.) Original limp vellum, giltlettered on spine, stamp-signed by THE DOVES BINDERY (some minor curling at edges).

LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies on hand-made paper of a total edition of 325.

$1,500-2,500

146

DOYLE, Arthur Conan, Sir (1859-1930). A group of 3 works, comprising:

The Valley of Fear. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915. -- His Last Bow. London: John Murray, 1917. -- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. London: John Murray, 1927. (Some spotting throughout.) -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, ALL FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, all in original publisher’s red cloth gilt, condition generally good (a few corners slightly bumped, some rubbing to extremities).

$400-600

147

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). Notes on a Horse Thief. Greenville, MS: The Levee Press, 1950.

8vo. Original publisher’s pictorial green cloth (slight rubbing to extremities; small stain to lower left corner of upper cover); folding case.

LIMITED EDITION, number 127 of 975 copies SIGNED BY FAULKNER.

$500-700

148

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). A Fable. New York: Random House, 1954.

8vo. Original publisher’s blue decorated cloth gilt, top edge stained blue, fore-edge uncut; original publisher’s slipcase (tape residue, slight toning and rubbing).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, LIMITED EDITION, number 452 of 1000 copies printed on rag paper SIGNED BY FAULKNER. Petersen A31b.

$500-600

149

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). A group of 3 works, comprising:

Absalom, Absalom! 1936. Original publisher’s black cloth gilt, top edge red; original dust jacket (chipping and tears to extremities with associated losses; slight toning to edges of aps). FIRST TRADE EDITION. -- The Unvanquished. 1938. Original publisher’s pictorial gray cloth, top edge red; original dust jacket (closed tear to recto of dust jacket; slight damp stain affecting top edge of verso of dust jacket; slight sunning to spine). FIRST EDITION, first printing. -- Go Down Moses. 1942. Original publisher’s black cloth gilt, top edge red; dust jacket (price-clipped; slight tears and chipping with associated losses). FIRST EDITION, rst printing. --Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all FIRST EDITIONS, all published in New York by Random House, all in original publisher’s cloth and dust jackets, condition generally ne.

$600-800

(Part Lot)

150

FIELDING, Henry (1707-1754). Amelia. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752.

4 volumes, 12mo (170 x 100 mm). (Some light spotting or staining.) 19thcentury speckled calf gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, morocco lettering-pieces (some light wear to spines and joints). Provenance: William Woods (bookplates); Peggy & Steve Fossett (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of Fielding’s last novel. Though two impressions of the rst edition were printed a month apart, there are no recorded distinguishing characteristics between them. Samuel Johnson remarked on the publication of Fielding’s last novel that it was “perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.” Cross III, p. 321; ESTC T89846; Rothchild 853.

$800-1,200 151

152

FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925.

8vo. Original publisher’s dark green cloth gilt (lacking dust jacket, slight rubbing to spine ends and covers, for complete condition information, please visit hindmanauctions.com). Provenance: Marion A. Simpson (signature).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with “chatter” for “echolalia” on p. 60, “northern” for “southern” on p. 119, “it’s” for “its” and “away” for “away.” on p.165, “sick in tired” for “sickantired” on p. 205, and “Union Street station” for “Union Station” on p. 211. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48. FIELDING, Henry (1707-1754). The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. London: for A. Millar, 1755.

12mo (185 x 105 mm). Half-title. (Some very light spotting to a few leaves.) 20th-century brown crushed levant, covers with gilt and blind strapwork borders, spine gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (some very light wear to extremities). Provenance: Peggy & Steve Fossett (bookplate).

Second edition, printed prior to the rst edition but issued after it, with the unedited text and “A Fragment of a Comment on L. Bolingbroke’s Essays” at the end. The text of this unedited edition was suppressed in favor of the edited text by Fielding’s brother. This edition was released to meet demand following the Lisbon earthquake in November of 1755. Fielding left England for Lisbon in an attempt to recover his health; he died in Lisbon on 8 October 1754. Cross III p. 326; ESTC T131334; Rothschild 857.

$300-500

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[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. CLAUSTRE, Andre de. Histoire de Thamas Kouli-Kan, Roi de Perse.... Paris: Briasson, 1743.

12mo (163 x 98 mm). Engraved frontispiece, folding map. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, edges red concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Bandar Abbas, Persia (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: B. Carra de Vaux (bookplate); Mr Geoffroy (signatures).

Second edition of Claustre’s work, rst published in 1742.

$700-900

154

GARRATT, Arthur (1873-1955), illustrator. -- HASSALL, Arthur (18531930). Christ Church in Oxford. London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.

4to (305 x 250 mm). 26 color-printed plates by Garratt tipped to mounts, printed tissue guards. Original publisher’s vellum, covers with hand-painted design (ties lacking; covers slightly bowed, slight rubbing to extremities).

LIMITED EDITION, number 16 of 124 copies SIGNED BY GARRATT.

$100-200 155

[GENERAL ANTIQUARIAN]. A group of 2 works in 3 volumes, comprising:

156

HARRIS, Joel Chandler (1848-1908). Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881.

8vo (190 x 125 mm). Frontispiece, 7 plates and in-text illustrations. Original publisher’s pictorial brown cloth gilt (slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Fred Eledbody? (signature).

FIRST EDITION, third state, “presumtuous” in last line of p.9, and 8 pages of publisher’s advertisements with p. 233 devoted to reviews of Uncle Remus. BAL 7100; Penrod, pp.56-57.

$200-300 157

CANISIUS, Petrus. De Maria Virgine Incomparabili Et Dei Genitrice Sacrosancta… London: David Sartorius, 1577. 2 volumes. Near contemporary velllum, manuscript waste antiphonal leaves. BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme. A Handbook of Gastronomy. London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1884. Contemporary vellum. LIMITED EDITION, number 179 of 300 copies. -- Together, 2 works in 3 volumes, condition generally good.

Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery

$150-250

[HALE, Thomas]. Eden: Or, A Compleat Body of Gardening. London: printed for T. Osborne, T. Trye, S. Crowder and Co., and H. Woodgate, [1756-]1757.

Folio (413 x 254 mm). Engraved frontispiece by Charles Grignon after Samuel Wale, 2pp. dedication to Earl of Bute, 58 engraved plates (of 60, lacking plates 19 and 37). (Some mostly marginal soiling to a few leaves, several leaves with marginal worming, slight marginal chipping to last few leaves.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked, preserving original spine and lettering-piece).

FIRST EDITION, intended as a companion to the Compleat Body of Husbandry (London, 1756). Each weekly part includes information on what should be done in the garden during the following week together with descriptions of the plants that should be at their peak at that time. According to the author’s introduction: “We shall treat Gardens from their Origin, Design, and rst Construction, to the raising them to Perfection, and keeping them in that condition; and we shall consider, in our Course, their Products, whether of Use, Curiosity, or Beauty. These we shall describe in their several Seasons, suiting our Publications to the Time of their Appearance.” Henrey III.776; Hunt 559; Nissen BBI 880.

158

GRATIANUS, the Canonist (d. ca 1150). Decretum. Venedig: Petrus de Plasiis, 25 January 1483.

4to. Collation: A-I12 K8 L-Y12 2A12 2B8 a-x12 y-z8. 547 leaves (of 548, lacking A1, blank). Double column, 49 lines of text, 59 lines of gloss enclosing text, headline. Types: 76G (text, headlines), 63G (gloss, register). Printed in red and black, capital spaces and red printed Lombards.

FIRST PAGE ILLUMINATED BY A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST in gold and colors, large initial in red on gold ground, leafy vine border lling upper lower margin, arms of the Bishop of Brixen lower margin, other initials supplied in blue. (A few short marginal tears with occasional repairs, z7 and z8 with repairs to gutter margin affecting a few letters.) Modern brown niger preserving old bookplate and old annotations. Provenance: contemporary or near-contemporary annotations; Baron Fürstenberg (armorial bookplate).

Second quarto edition published in Venice, preceded by an edition in quarto format printed by Adam de Rottweil, ca 25 January 1480. Numerous editions of this collection of canon law, compiled in the 12th century and rst printed in Strasbourg in 1471 in folio format, proliferated, especially in Italy. The present edition includes the commentary by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis. BSB-Ink. G-265; GW 11365; Hain 7900; ISTC ig00373000.

$4,000-6,000

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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The Scarlet Letter, A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.

8vo (178 x 110 mm). Title printed in red and black. 4-page publisher’s advertisements dated 1 March 1850 bound in at front. Contemporary red morocco gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, red watered-silk doublures, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Inman, original publisher’s brown cloth bound in.

FIRST EDITION with 4-page publisher’s ads dated 1 March 1850. Hawthorne’s work was an immediate success, selling 2,500 copies in its rst week of publication, giving Hawthorne his rst literary success. BAL 7600; Grolier American 59.

$600-800

160

HEARN, Lafcadio, translator. Japanese Fairy Tales. [Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, ca 1936]. 161

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.

12 numbers (of 20), 8vo. Color-printed throughout. Publisher’s crepe, stab-sewn (some minor tears to a few numbers).

Comprising: No. 7. The Old Man & The Devils. -- No. 9. The Serpent With Eight Heads. B. H. Chamberlain. -- No. 10. The Matsuyama Mirror. Mrs. T. H. James. -- No. 11. The Hare of Inaba. Mrs. T. H. James. -- No. 12. The Cub’s Triumph. Mrs. T. H. James. -- No. 14. The Princes Fire-Flash & Fire-Fade. Mrs. T. H. James. -- No. 15. My Lord Bag O’-Rice. B. H. Chamberlain. -- No. 16. The Wonderful Tea Kettle. Mrs. T. H. James. -- No. 17. Schippeitaro. Mrs. T. H. James. -- No. 18. The Ogre’s Arm. Mrs. T. H. James. -- No. 19. The Ogres of Oyeyama. -- No. 20. The Enchanted Waterfall. Mrs. T. H. James. 8vo. Original vellum-backed blue boards, gilt-lettered spine black leather spine label, uncut (lacking original publisher’s board slipcase, slight chipping with small loss to lower corner of spine label, some soiling or toning).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 388 of 510 copies SIGNED BY HEMINGWAY. The limited issue was issued simultaneously with the rst trade issue. Connolly, The Modern Movement 60 (“his first full-length novel and probably his best”); Hanneman A8b.

$2,000-3,000

$800-1,200

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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Winner Take Nothing. New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933.

8vo. Original publisher’s black cloth, printed paper labels gilt, top edge red; dust jacket (slight rubbing, a few tiny chips or small tears occasionally with minor losses to extremities).

FIRST EDITION, rst issue, with “A” to the copyright leaf, misprint to p. 159, “T” absent from “Two” and rst state dust jacket with Stallings’ review of Death in the Afternoon on rear panel. Hanneman A12a.

$800-1,200 163

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HOMER. L’Odissea. Girolamo Bacelli, translator. Florence: Apresso il Sermartelli, 1582.

12mo (160 x 100 mm). Title printed within woodcut borders, woodcut initials, woodcut printer’s device on nal leaf. (Lacking leaves Tt5-8, wormtrack to ca 24 leaves affecting headline, some browning and staining throughout.) Contemporary vellum, spine handlettered (stained). Provenance: University of Chicago Library (bookplate, withdrawal stamp).

FIRST EDITION of the rst Italian translation of Homer’s Odyssey. Bacelli, the translator, was a member of the Accademia Fiorentina, Florence’s philosophical and literary academy during the Renaissance.

$200-300

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HOMER. -- HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679), translator. Homer’s Odysses. London: Printed by J. C. for W. Crook, 1675.

12mo. (Lacking errata leaf, a few leaves trimmed close affecting several headlines, paper aw affecting one page number.) Contemporary calf (rear board detached and front hinge starting, overall wear). Provenance: M. C. Lang, University of Chicago Library, Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana (bookplate).

165

HUBBARD, L. Ron (1911-1986). Slaves of Sleep. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948.

8vo. Original publisher’s gray cloth gilt-lettered on spine; original printed dust jacket illustrated by Hannes Bok (some minor creasing and chipping primarily to corners, slight toning).

FIRST EDITION of Hubbard’s science fantasy novel, which originally appeared in a 1939 issue of the American pulp fantasy ction magazine Unknown. Currey 256.

$200-300 166

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HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (1810-1879). A Record of the Black Prince. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849.

8vo (185 x 130 mm). Title printed in red and black, numerous chromolithographic illuminated pages. Publisher’s leather-backed papiermâché boards with cut-out design set with the central arms of the Black Prince over red paper, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt (hinges starting as usual, a few small chips to cover, spine slightly rubbed).

FIRST EDITION of Humphrey’s selection of “quaint and striking passages from early chroniclers which he illustrated with borders and miniatures freely copied from manuscripts of the period.” (Ray English 233). Abbey, Life 223; McLean Victorian Book Design, p. 104.

$300-400 168

HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (1810-1879). The Miracles of Our Lord. London: Longman & Co., 1848.

8vo. (163 x 116 mm). 32 chromolithographic illuminated pages. (Light spotting to a few leaves.) Original publisher’s leather-backed black papier-mâché boards, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt (some cracking or chipping, some light rubbing to spine). Provenance: T. Bowler (bookseller’s label); Miss France (gift inscription from Walter Davies, 1849).

FIRST EDITION. A ne example of Humphrey’s use of illumination in nineteenth-century book decoration inspired by his interest in medieval illuminated books. BMC 12:903.175; Ray 232.

$250-350

HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel, editor (1810-1879). Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851.

8vo. (190 x 148 mm) First leaf of text within a chromolithographed border and with an historiated initial, text embellished with gilt. (Some spotting to a few leaves.) Original leather-backed decorative papier-mâché boards with cut-out design over gilt cloth set with a central inset portrait of Shakespeare on upper cover and his initials and a laurel wreath to the lower cover, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt (hinge repaired; some cracking or chipping; covers slightly rubbed). Provenance: Albon Torven? Library (signature in pencil); Gloucestershire College of Art & Design Library (library stamp).

FIRST EDITION. An example of Humphrey’s “embellishment” of signi cant passages in the plays and poems of Shakespeare by “enshrining them, as it were, in a reliquary as rich as a combination of the typographic and lithochromic arts could form” (preface). McLean Victorian Book Design, p. 104.