Illustrated Books

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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. GOODEN, Stephen (1892-1955), illustrator. -- AESOP (c.620-560 B.C.). Fables. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1936. L’Estrange, Roger, Sir, translator.

4to (250 x 180 mm). Engraved title, 11 plates by Stephen Gooden (slight offsetting from plates, as usual). Original vellum gilt, top edge gilt others uncut (boards slightly bowed).

LIMITED EDITION, number 417 of 525 copies SIGNED BY GOODEN.

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

$600-800

171

[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. DULAC, Edmund (1882-1953), illustrator. -- SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tempest. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1908].

4to (280 x 225 mm). 40 color-printed plates by Dulac tipped to mounts, printed tissue guards. (Slight spotting and toning to a few text leaves.) Original publisher’s vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, green silk ties (covers slightly bowed).

LIMITED EDITION, number 96 of 500 copies SIGNED BY DULAC.

$400-600 170

[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey Vincent (1872-1898), Illustrator. -- JONSON, Ben (1572-1637). Volpone, or the Fox. New York: John Lane, 1898.

4to. 13 illustrations by Beardsley, extra suite of 6 plates. (Slight toning, minor staining along upper margin.) Publisher’s vellum, elaborately gilt upper cover, top edge gilt (covers bowed, some soiling, small portion of upper joint starting).

LIMITED EDITION, number 38 of 100 copies on Imperial Japanese vellum with an extra suite of 6 plates with larger versions of the illustrations at the beginning of each act.

$800-1,200

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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. DULAC, Edmund (1882-1953), illustrator. -- QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur, Sir (1863-1944). The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1910].

8vo. 30 color plates by Dulac tipped to mounts. (Some spotting throughout.) 20th-century blue morocco gilt (spine very slightly sunned), upper cover set with central color illustration after Dulac, top edge gilt, by A. D. Constance with her ticket. Provenance: 1930 gift inscription.

$400-500

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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. NIELSEN, Kay (1886-1957), illustrator. -- ASBJORNSEN, Peter Christen (1812-1885). East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Old Tales from the North. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.

4to. Colored frontispiece and plates tipped to mounts, lettered tissue-guards, numerous in-text illustrations. Contemporary blue crushed levant gilt, upper cover with elaborate gilt border after Nielsen’s illustrations, top edge gilt, others uncut, turn-ins gilt, preserving original endpapers, STAMP-SIGNED BY ZAEHNSDORF (covers very slightly bowed).

LIMITED EDITION, number 1 of 500 copies SIGNED BY NIELSEN of the second work published by him. A FINE COPY.

$6,000-8,000

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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939), illustrator. -- WAGNER, Richard (1813-1883). Margaret Armour, translator. Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday Page & Co, 1911.

4to. (280 x 228 mm). 30 color-printed plates by Rackham tipped to mounts, numerous black and white in-text illustrations, printed tissue guards. (Slight spotting and toning to a few text leaves.) Original publisher’s vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (ties lacking, light soiling and slight bumping to extremities). Provenance: John Holbrook, Jr. (signature).

LIMITED EDITION, number 299 of 1150 copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM.

$300-400

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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939), illustrator. Some British Ballads. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919].

4to. 16 color-printed plates by Rackham tipped to mounts, numerous black and white in-text illustrations, printed tissue guards. (Slight spotting and toning to a few text leaves.) Original publisher’s vellum gilt (slight soiling, corners slightly bumped). Provenance: 1922 gift inscription in ink.

LIMITED EDITION, number 366 of 575 copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM.

$400-600

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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939), illustrator. -- EVANS, Charles Seddon (1883-1944). The Sleeping Beauty. London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann and J. P. Lippincott Co., 1920.

4to. Color frontispiece and illustrations by Rackham. Contemporary blue morocco gilt, covers with gilt oral motif, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, the rest with oral motif, turn-ins gilt with oral vine motif, all edges gilt, stamp-signed by Bayntun (slight sunning to spine, a few minor scuffs to upper cover).

FIRST EDITION featuring Rackham’s celebrated silhouette illustrations.

$400-600

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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939), illustrator. -- WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683). The Compleat Angler. London: George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1931.

4to (260 x 190 mm). Color frontispiece and 11 plates in color by Rackham, printed tissue guards; title printed in green and black. Original vellum gilt, top edge gilt others uncut (some slight spotting and rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Reginald Roose Francis (bookplate)

LIMITED EDITION, number 527 of 775 copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM. [Laid in:] Publisher’s promotional card.

Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery 177

[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939), illustrator. -- SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tempest. London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday Page & Co., [1926].

4to (288 x 230 mm). 21 color-printed plates by Rackham tipped to mounts and numerous illustrations by Rackham, printed tissue guards. Original half vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.

LIMITED EDITION, number 422 of 520 copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM.

$600-800

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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. REYNOLDS, Frank (1876-1953), illustrator. -- DICKENS, Charles, (1812-1870). Mr. Pickwick. Pages from the Pickwick Papers. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [ca 1910].

4to (235 x 248 mm). 25 color-printed plates by Reynolds tipped to mounts, printed tissue guards (slight toning to a few preliminary leaves). Original publisher’s vellum gilt (covers slightly bowed, ties lacking).

LIMITED EDITION, number 194 of 350 copies SIGNED BY REYNOLDS.

$200-300

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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. When Adam Delved and Eve Span.... [Ancoats Brotherhood, 1894-5].

4 pages on single folding sheet, small 4to (208 x 142 mm folded). Large woodcut illustration by Edward Burne-Jones, woodcut initials, borders, and press device designed by William Morris.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies printed, the text comprising two poems by Tennyson and prose by John Ruskin. The Ancoats Brotherhood, founded by Charles Rowley in 1878, aimed to bring the arts and literature to Ancoats to improve the social conditions of the working class. Lecturers included William Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Peter Kropotkin and George Bernard Shaw. Peterson D5. RARE.

[Bound with:] 3 draft prospectuses, December 1892, each 4 pages on a single folded sheet, with several notes and emendations in pencil and ink, tipped along fold to board.

$500-700 181

KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Money. London: Macmillan and Co., 1930.

8vo. Original publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt (a few faint dampstains on block edges not affecting internal margins, front hinge of Vol. I slightly shaken); printed dust jackets (some chipping to ends of spine panel and corners, spine panels slightly darkened); cloth slipcase. Provenance: H. T. Engstrom (signature on front yleaf of Vol. I, see below).

FIRST EDITION. A Treatise on Money is Keynes’s first attempt, following the 1929 crash, at explaining the vagaries of the trade cycle, and outlining new methods for controlling booms and busts. “He subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economists to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate” (PMM).

Howard T. Engstrom (1913-1962) was a Yale University mathematics professor and headed research operations at the United States Navy’s Communication Supplementary Activities CSAW during World War II. Along with William Norris and others he founded Engineering Research Associates in 1946. He was one of the co-creators of the UNIVAC computer, and served as deputy director of the National Security Agency. Moggridge A7.1; see PMM 423.

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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Crusader Castles. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. $800-1,200

183 (Part Lot)

[LITERATURE]. A group of 5 works, comprising:

2 volumes, 4to. Titles printed in red; collotype frontispiece in vol.II, collotype and line facsimiles, illustrations, maps and plans after Lawrence in the text, many full-page, some color-printed. (Minor spotting to a few leaves.) Original half brick red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (spines slightly sunned, some minor soiling to covers, edges slightly rubbed). Provenance: M. J. Landy (signature dated June 1939).

LIMITED EDITION, number 306 of 1000 copies. “Lawrence’s thesis in this work is counter to the accepted view that improvements in military architecture had been brought back from the Near East by the Crusaders: he believed rather that the improvements had been developed in Europe and taken by the Crusaders to the Near East. This is a discussion not yet entirely settled” (O’Brien A188-189). Chanticleer 112. WELLS, H.G. The Brothers. New York: The Viking Press, 1938. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- ALGREN, Nelson. The Man With the Golden Arm. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ALGREN. -- ALGREN, Nelson. The Last Carousel. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973. Later edition. INSCRIBED BY ALGREN. -- MORRISON, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MORRISON. -- WINTERS, Jonathan. Winters’ Tales. New York: Random House, 1987. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WINTERS. -- Together, 5 works all in original publisher’s bindings and dust jacket, most SIGNED AND INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS where indicated, condition generally ne.

$200-300

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LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Son of the Wolf. Tales of the Far North. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900.

8vo. Frontispiece. Original publisher’s pictorial cream cloth (slight rubbing to extremities); dust jacket (chipping to extremities with associated losses, soiling, spine slightly sunned).

Later edition published by Grosset & Dunlap during the same year as Houghton, Mif in and Company published the rst edition. This collection of short stories had been previously published in Overland Monthly and Atlantic Monthly. BAL 11869; Sisson & Martens, p.1.

$300-400

186 (Part Lot)

LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). Revolution and Other Essays. London and New York: Mills & Boon, Limited and the Macmillan Company, 1910. 8vo. Publisher’s advertisements (Light spotting and toning.) Later blue cloth (slight sunning to spine and edges); original dust jacket (chipping with minor losses to extremities, slightly soiled) Later edition. BAL 11916; Sisson & Martens, p.45.

[With:]

John Barleycorn. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1913. 8vo. Frontispiece and plates. (Spotting to preliminary and nal leaves.) Original publisher’s red cloth (hinges starting, fading to spine and edges); dust jacket (tape repairs to edges, a few creases and chipping to extremities with associated losses, toning). Provenance: M. G. Hamilton (signature); Dymock’s Book Arcade (bookseller’s label). Later edition published by Grosset & Dunlap during the same year as the Century Co. published the rst edition. BAL 11946; Sisson & Martens, p.71. 187

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LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Sea-Wolf. New York and London: The Macmillan Company and Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1904.

8vo. Frontispiece, ve plates. Original publisher’s pictorial blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt (slight rubbing to extremities), cloth slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, second issue with the copyright notices dated 1903 and 1904. BAL 11882; Sisson & Martens, p.19.

$300-400

LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips (1890-1937). Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1943.

8vo. Original publisher’s black cloth gilt-lettered on spine; original dust jacket (some minor chipping to top edge with occasional minor losses, toning).

FIRST EDITION of the second collection of Lovecraft’s short stories, poems and essays published by Arkham House. Bleiler 1375; Currey 320.

$500-600

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[MANUSCRIPT]. Manuscript Prayerbook, in Latin. [Italy, Brescia?, late 16th cent, continued to 18th cent].

48 leaves, 192 x 140 mm, on vellum. Written in dark brown & red ink in various hands. Double-ruled borders in red throughout. With red penwork decorations between quotations. Dedication leaf to “Alle molto [Re]everende et Deuote Sig[no] re Le Reverende Madri di S. Giulia di Brescia” with text below in a cursive hand (with text & decoration rubbed away & with some pigment transfer to facing page). Fullpage miniature depicting kneeling patron or dedicatee, being bleswsed by an angel, with Latin motto above, 4 2-line initials, one in gold, the rest red, one leaf of music. Apparently incomplete, leaves rubbed with slight losses, some worming. Bound in modern leather gilt. Provenance: Conte Paolo Vimercati-Sozzi (1801-1883), Italian antiquary (engraved bookplate).

Vimercati-Sozzi donated a large portion of his library, including books and manuscripts, to the city of Bergamo in 1869; they are presently housed in the Biblioteca Civica. The remainder of his collection was sold at auction in Milan in 1893.

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

$1,000-2,000

*189

[MANUSCRIPT]. Single manuscript leaf from a Psalter and Litany, [England], ca 1420-1440.

Lettered on one side, 12mo (visible area 116 x 79 mm). 18 lines, single column, written in Gothic script, on vellum, blue and gold line llers, blue, red and gold 3-line initial, red and gold 1 1/2-line initials, black and gold foliate decoration in margin. Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Provenance: Ferdinand Roten Galleries, Baltimore MD (gallery label).

Property from the Estate of Rose V. James, Atlanta, Georgia

$2,000-3,000

190

[MANUSCRIPT]. Single manuscript leaf.

Lettered on one side, 12mo (visible area 145 x 90 mm). 35 lines, double column, written in Gothic script, on vellum, blue and red 4-line decorated initials. Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame).

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

$200-300