Including the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Jesse “Cary” Caraway | Lots 398-417

Selections from the Collection of Jesse “Cary” Caraway (1917-1994)

Lots 398-417

The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture was established as the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932. The Fellowship emphasized a curriculum based on apprenticeship and hands-on learning, and early apprentices, immersed in Wright’s organic approach, worked together with Wright on projects like the Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater. Jesse “Cary” Caraway joined the Taliesin Fellowship program on 8 June 1935 and worked there until 1942.

At Taliesin, he met and married Frances Fritz, who worked for several years as Wright’s typist. Frances’s father, Herbert Fritz Sr., was one Wright’s early draftsmen, one of two who survived the fire at Taliesin in 1914. Fritz met his wife, Mary Larson, the daughter of Wright’s stonemason Alfred Larson, at Taliesin. Frances Fritz’s two siblings also had strong connections to Taliesin: Herbert Fritz, Jr. was a member of the Taliesin Fellowship, and Barbara Fritz married James Dresser, also a member of the Taliesin Fellowship. The family recalls delightful dinners and conversations when the families were together.

On leaving the Taliesin Fellowship program, Caraway worked as an architect in his own right. These selections from his archive offer an intimate view of life at Taliesin as a Fellow and the work of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

398 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959). An Autobiography. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1932.

Square 8vo. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations; decorative section titles printed in red and black. Original black cloth decorated in red and gold in Wright’s design (some slight wear, hinges loose); original pictorial dust jacket with Wright’s design printed in red and black (separated along rear fold, losses, dampstaining).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT: “To Carey...Frank Lloyd Wright /57.” Property of the Caraway Family $800 - 1,200

399 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. Ausgeführte Bauten. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1911.

4to (302 x 215 mm). Photogravure frontispiece of Coonley House in River Forest, Illinois, two illustrated plates of Unity Temple, numerous black and white photographic illustrations and floorplans; text in German. (Lacking printed “Frank Lloyd Wright, a Study and an Appreciation” by C. R. Ashbee, some minor staining.) Original drab wrappers (spine perished, becoming disbound).

Small format edition, often referred to as the “Little Wasmuth,” published after the Wasmuth portfolios of 1910-1911, whose photographic illustrations were originally intended to accompany the Wasmuth portfolio. Property of the Caraway Family $300 - 400

400 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. The Architectural Forum. Vol. 68, No. 1. New York: Time, Inc., January 1938.

4to. Numerous illustrations throughout. Original spiral-bound wrappers printed in red and black (some light staining, tiny crease to lower corner).

FIRST EDITION of the issue dedicated to the work of Wright, and highlighting his work on Fallingwater, Unity Temple, the S. C. Johnson Company Building, and Usonian House. Property of the Caraway Family $200 - 300

401 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. A collection of 15 carbon typescripts of lectures and speeches, 1929 or later, comprising:

“The City.” Taliesin. 29 September 1929. 14pp., clipped upper left corner. -- “The Profession.” Taliesin. 1 July 1930. 9pp., clipped upper left corner. -- “Opinion in American Architecture. I - Architecture of individualism.” Taliesin. 22 January 1934. 3pp. -- “Architectural Education: Professor Heinrick de Fries. ‘The Architect I Now Present Begins his Work where God Left Off.’” 11 September, 1934. 8pp., pinned upper left corner. -- “Broadacre City. A New success Ideal.” Chandler Arizona, 5 March 1935. 7pp., pinned upper left corner. -- “An Architect Speaking for Culture.” In Arizona Camp. 26 January 1936. 12pp., pinned upper left corner. -- “A Modern House Built for Herbert Jacobs, Madison, Wisconsin.” Taliesin. 5 November 1937. 6pp., stapled top center margin. -- “Twentieth Century Architecture.” N.p., n.d. 42pp. -- “The Nature of Architecture.” 38pp., clipped upper left corner. -- “Frank Lloyd Wright Principles of Design.” N.p., n.d. 3pp. -- “The Hillside Home School of the Allied Arts. Why we want this School.” Taliesin, n.d. 27pp., clipped upper left corner. -- “To Arizona.” Taliesin, n.d. 5pp., clipped upper left corner. -- “In the Cause of Architecture. ‘In Labour’.” N.p., n.d. 10pp. -- “Who Said ‘Conservative’?” N.p., n.d., 3pp. -- Untitled. [“Broadacre City comes as a natural sequence after the disappearing of the modern city...”]. N.p., n.d. 6pp, pinned upper left corner. -- Untitled. [“The Wisconsin red barn was knee-deep in glistening white snow as we, the Fellowship...left the Taliesin valley...”]. N.p., n.d. 4pp, pinned upper left corner. Property of the Caraway Family $800 - 1,200

402 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT] -- [PHOTOGRAPHS]. A group of 5 photographs, comprising:

Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright in a horse drawn carriage. John Engstead, photographer. Black and white photograph, approximately 14 x 11-in. 1955. -- Olgivanna Lloyd Wright. Color photograph, approximately 13 1/2 x 11-in. N.d. -- Frank Lloyd Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, and others. 3 color photographs, in folders, each 9 x 7-in. N.d. Showing a picnic at the residence of Mary Fritz, Spring Green, WI. With three related negatives.

[With:] Three recordings of Wright, comprising: Video cassette, with a note in Caraway’s hand: “FLLW in WHA Places 0-2039;” “Arch of FLLW 2039-3830.” -- Video cassette, with a note in Caraway’s hand: “FLLW and Madison.” -- Plastic Base Recording tape in box with a note in Caraway’s hand: “Date 10/24/56 speed 7 1/2 / Mr. Wright - AIA Dinner, Blackstone Hotel.” Property of the Caraway Family $300 - 400

403 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Typed letter signed (“F. LL. W/”), to Jesse “Carey” Caraway. Taliesin, 4 June 1952.

1 page, oblong 4to, on red-printed Taliesin stationery, creased.

Lloyd writes regarding the tax-exempt status of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation: “Although we are recognized as tax-free by Federal and State authority as a non-profit establishment devoted to the culture of the young man in Architecture we are having a hard time convincing our County Board that we should be exempted from taxes on our land and equipment, not classified with citizenry engaged in money making enterprizes of a private nature.” He asks Caraway for assistance: “Should you kindly write us a note (or send a wire) expressing frankly your feeling about our work as a factor in your educational experience you might help us...’Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.’” Wright closes the letter “Affectionately.” Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800 404 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Autograph letter signed (“F. LL. W/”), to Jesse “Cary” Caraway. New York, 21 March 1955.

1 page, 8vo, on Plaza Hotel stationery, creased, with original handaddressed stamped envelope, creased, ink slightly smudged.

Wright writes regarding the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation: “We were getting a little apprehensive - feeling our thanks to our many friends for their contributions would seem tardy...The bill in the assembly is a bit disappointing -- because I thought some actual consensus was to be legally made specific to our Foundation as a reward for service already rendered, etc. I want to meet with the special committee and the Governor. [Hust?] met him downstairs is arranging this for me. meantime - thanks for all you’ve done the best to yours. Affectionately.”

In 1954, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Wright owed $10,000 in back taxes on Taliesin, despite his argument that Taliesin was primarily a school and should therefore be tax exempt. Caraway suggested that Wright’s friends should express their appreciation and take up a collection. Property of the Caraway Family $2,000 - 3,000

405 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Typed note signed (“F. LL. W/”) with a few hand-corrections to Cary Caraway. Taliesin West, 23 March 1957.

1 page, oblong 4to, on Taliesin West stationery, creased.

In full: “Dear Cary: Not ready to take this part in fund-raising yet. Come out with William Stuart and we’ll talk it over [?] Affection, Frank Lloyd Wright.” William M. Stuart was the president of the Martin-Senour paint company, which developed a selection of paint colors developed by Wright in 1955. In February 1957, Stuart was named the Midwest regional chairman of the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund. Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800 406 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Typed note signed (“F. LL. W/”) with a few hand-corrections to Cary and Frances Caraway. Taliesin West, 24 January 1958.

1 page, oblong 4to, on Taliesin West stationery, creased.

Wright sends a note of thanks for a holiday gift. In full: “Dear Cary and Francis [sic]: We were glad to hear from the Caraways this Christmas. For the cheese - thank you! Affectionately, Frank Lloyd Wright.” Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800

407 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Three typed letters signed with a few hand-corrections (“Frank”), to Fowler McCormick, William Benton, and H. C. Price.

Each 1 page, oblong 4to, on Taliesin West stationery, with typed envelope, creased.

Three fundraising letters, in which Wright introduces Cary Caraway to each recipient: “This will introduce you to Cary Caraway who is [a] spark-plug for the International Organization proposing to raise a ten million dollar endowment fund in order to promote the work of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation anything you are willing to do to help ‘organize’ I shall be immensely gratified.” Wright is careful to note that he’s not asking for money, but rather requesting help with endorsing the efforts of the Foundation.

Fowler McCormick, the son of Harold McCormick and Edith Rockefeller, was the third generation of his family to head the International Harvester Company. William Benton was an American Senator from Connecticut, and was publisher of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Harold Charles Price founded the H. C. Price Company, which specialized in pipeline construction and non-corrosive pipe coatings. Wright designed the firm’s headquarters, The Price Tower, which was built in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1956. Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800

408 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT] -- [ENDOWMENT FUND]. A small archive of correspondence relating to Wright and the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment fund. Comprising:

[FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DAY]. Early working draft for an 8-page brochure for Frank Lloyd Wright Day with pencil annotations throughout. SIGNED BY WRIGHT (“FLLW”) on cover. Mayor Richard Daley established Frank Lloyd Wright Day on 17 October 1956.

[PUBLIC RELATIONS]. Carbon copy typescripts, primarily from Sept.-Dec. 1956. Ca 123pp, on letterhead. Correspondence from Franklin R. Ullrey and others from public relations firm Harshe-Rotman Inc. Relating to promotional activities, press releases, media appearances, promotional photographs, the establishment of Frank Lloyd Wright Day in Chicago, and Wright’s appearance on the gameshow “I’ve Got a Secret,” and a schedule for his media appearances on 7 September 1956. Harshe-Rotman was retained as public relations for the announcement of the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund.

[ENDOWMENT FUND CAMPAIGN]. Carbon copy typescript, “First Draft Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund Campaign for $5,000,000.00.” Chicago, 12 January 1957. 9pp., on legal sheets, bound with copper brads left margin, creased, with a few emendations in ink in an unknown hand. Outlining the organization, leadership, techniques, tone, goals and prospects for the establishment of an Endowment Fund to preserve Taliesin.

[ENDOWMENT FUND]. CARAWAY, Carey. Carbon copy typescript, an Affidavit, signed (“Carey Caraway”), October 15, 1957. 5pp. on legal sheets, with accompanying coversheet dated 10 October 1957, creased. Carey Caraway’s affidavit regarding his activities as President of the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund. Describing his time as a member of the Taliesin Fellowship and his relationship with the program and Wright: “Taliesin represents a unique achievement...Frank Lloyd Wright stands in the forefront of advanced architecture.” Property of the Caraway Family $400 - 600

409 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. A small archive including contracts and related correspondence for the proposed film about Wright’s life entitled Master Builder, comprising:

[CONTRACTS]. Typed document signed (“Frank Lloyd Wright,” “William Wesley Peters,” Cary Caraway,” and “Rodney Griffiths”). Chicago, 22 April 1955. 2 pages, staple-bound to a thick blue back cover page.

An agreement between the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund for the Endowment Fund to acquire the rights to Frank Lloyd Wright’s life story as published in his autobiography. SIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT and Carey Caraway with the embossed seals of the Foundation and the Endowment Fund. [With:] Typed document, with pencil emendations in an unknown hand. 2 pages, staple-bound to a thick blue back cover page. An annotated draft of the contract.

[Also with:] Two typed letters signed from Michael Ludmer of the Jaffe Agency to representatives of the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund, 1956, regarding Master Builder. With four typescript copies of responses from Cary Caraway to the Jaffe Agency and John Huston. -- Photostat copy of an introduction and synopsis for the proposed film, Master Builder, written by Meyer Levin. 14pp., 30-hole punched in left margin, bound with brads in a “Famous Artists Corporation” folder. Property of the Caraway Family $2,500 - 3,500

410 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT] -- [THE TALIESIN FELLOWSHIP]. A group of items relating to The Taliesin Fellowship, comprising:

Taliesin Tract. No. 1. Christmas Morning, 1953. 5p., printed in red and black. Accordion-fold, with original typed envelope. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT: “F. LL. W/ To the Caraways /54.” -- Western Union Telegram, from Wright to Cary Caraway. Phoenix, 19 January 1955. In full: “Dear Cary In New York this month why not come here Feb 26th 27th will talk to Ralph Walker most Suitable Speaker. If not then George Howe Philadelphia Gesundheit = Frank Lloyd Wright.” -- Western Union Telegram, from Wright to Cary Caraway. Scottsdale, 27 December 1956. In full: “Our best hope to you and yours = Frank and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright.” -- Photocopy of Employer’s Affidavit, describing Caraway’s apprenticeship at Taliesin and reproducing Frank Lloyd Wright’s signature. With single sheet, written in pencil, presumably in Caraway’s hand, describing the “Principles for the Practice of Architecture as adopted by the Taliesin Associated Architects.”

[With:] A group of 10 carbon typescripts by Wright’s apprentices, comprising: BAKER, Everett Burgess. “Tea Time at Taliesin.” 26 May 1936. 3pp. -- BERNOUDY, William Adair. “Sunday Services.” 1934. 6pp. -- BERNOUDY, William Adair. “Japanese Prints.” 1934. 6pp. -- DOMBAR, Abe. “Persistence.” 6 January 1935. 6pp., hand-lettered title. -- GOODRICH, Burton J. “Self-Expression.” December 1934. 4pp. -- GOODRICH, Burton J. “At Taliesin.” N.d. 3pp. -- MASSELINK, Eugene. “Taliesin.” N.d. 3pp. -- MASSELINK, Eugene. “We Call Ourselves a Family.” N.d. 6pp. -- MUSSON, Noverre. “Taliesin.” N.d. 3pp. -- [ANON.] “On Diplomacy.” 5pp. -- [ANON.] “Sand.” 1p. -- Together, 10 typescripts. Property of the Caraway Family $400 - 600

411 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. Two pamphlets about Wright and Taliesin, comprising:

Taliesin. The Taliesin Fellowship Publication. Vol. 1, No. 2. Spring Green, WI, 2 February 1941. Square 8vo. 32pp., photographic illustrations, printed in red and black. Original wrappers printed in red and black (some spotting). -- An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright. Sixth Book, Broadacre City. Spring Green, WI: The Taliesin Press, Spring 1944. Square 8vo. Original wrappers printed in red and black. “REVISED PRINTER’S PROOF.” -- Together, 2 works in 2 volumes. Property of the Caraway Family $300 - 400

412 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT] -- [RESIDENCE SPECIFICATIONS]. 2 carbon typescripts of residential building specifications, comprising:

[FALLING WATER]. Carbon typescript, “Specifications for Mr. And Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufmann Residence near Pittsburgh Penn. Frank Lloyd Wright Architect,” Taliesin, 1 February 1936. 9pp., most on legal-sized sheets, creased.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF FALLINGWATER, providing detailed plans for the foundation. stone work, concrete structure and slabs, millwork, windows, structural steel, glass, painting, waterproofing of roof and slabs, plastering of surfacing and concrete, hardware, electric wiring, heating, and plumbing. Fallingwater, designated a National Historic Landmark, was named by the American Institute of Architects the “best all-time work of American architecture.”

[With:] [STANLEY MARCUS HOUSE]. Carbon typescript draft, “Specifications for Mr. and Mrs. H. Stanley Marcus Residence in Dallas, Texas. Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect.” 8pp., printed in red ink, with several pencil corrections, creased, paperclip remnants upper left corner. Includes specifications for the foundation, brick work, floors, millwork, structural steel, glass, painting, roof, plaster, sheet metal, hardware, wiring, heating, and plumbing. Stanley Marcus famously fired Wright in the middle of the project for running over budget; Roscoe DeWitt finished the construction of the home. Property of the Caraway Family $800 - 1,200

413 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. CARAWAY, Jesse “Carey.” A group of architectural drawings, renderings, and blueprints relating to the Vigo Sunt House, San Marco in the Desert, and Usonian House. Comprising:

[VIGO SUNDT HOUSE.] Two original perspective drawings of the Vigo Sundt House by Carey Caraway. “House for Mr Vigo Sundt Madison Wis. Taliesin Fellowship Architect Carey Caraway. Approved” in lower margin. [Ca 1941]. Pencil and color on tracing paper. 2 oblong sheets (522 x 900 mm and 520 x 910 mm). (Second sheet with staining to upper right margin.) 11 original plan drawings in pencil of the Vigo Sundt House, signed “Taliesin Fellowship Architect Carey Caraway. Approved” lower margin, N.p., n.d. [ca. 1941]. Pencil on tracing paper. Including: plot plan (pencil and color), foundation plan, general plan, elevation and section plan, detail sections, roof framing, mill work schedule, diagram of sub-flooring area, glass schedule, roof area, footing and floor framing plan with heating (ink, pencil and color). Oblong sheets (each approximately 620 x 900 mm or smaller). -- 15 sepia diazo prints showing: exterior (3), plot plan, foundation plan, general plan, elevation and section plan, detail sections and roof framing (2), furniture, glass schedule (3). -- Agreement between the Taliesin Fellowship and Vigo Sundt. PLANS FOR WRIGHT’S FINAL (UNBUILT) HOUSE. Plans were delivered to the Van Sundt’s just days after Wright’s funeral.

[SAN MARCOS IN THE DESERT.] 23 sepia diazo prints “San Marco in the Desert for Alexander Chandler, Arizona, Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect’’ in block letters along lower margin, [Ca 1936]. Including: sheet 1-5 legends, 6 and 7 dining room, 8 roof plan, 9 foundation plan west wing, 10-12 terraces, 13 foundation plan east wing, 14-16 terraces, 17 section A-A, 18-21 elevations, 22 dining room detail, 23 lower level plan. Oblong sheets (each approximately 925 x 1800 mm or smaller). Wright’s plans for the resort, San Marcos in the Desert, were never realized as the project was halted by the Great Depression. [USONIAN HOUSE.] 10 sepia diazo prints “Usonian House for Museum of Modern Art, Frank Lloyd Wright Architect.’’ N.p. [1940]. Including: sheet 2 general plans, 3 roof plans, 4 elevations, 5 sections, 6-7 schedule of Walls, 8-9 schedule of roof, 10 reflected plan, 11 perforated board. Oblong sheets (each approximately 750 x 950 mm or smaller). Property of the Caraway Family $400 - 600 414 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. An archive of correspondence between the Bairds and Cary Caraway, primarily relating to the construction of the Theodore Baird Residence, comprising:

66 black and white thumbnail photographs mounted on 4 sheets showing the construction of the Baird Residence. -- 15 color photographs of the Baird residence, ca 1996, in a Christmas card from Bertie and Theo Baird. -- 5 ALSs from the Bairds to Cary Caraway; 1 ALS from the Bairds to the Fritzes. -- 6 carbon copy typescripts from Carey Caraway to the Bairds. 2 additional carbon copy typescripts from Carey Caraway to Edgar Tafel and Betty Goodwin. -- Photocopy of Theodore Baird’s account of the planning and building of the Theodore Baird Residence: “I want to make a record of our experience in finding an architect and in building the house he designed, not because as clients of FLLW we were or should be the center of interest but because the whole experience as I recall it is rich in human responses to what was for that time and in that place an unusual event...”. With a 2pp. photocopied letter from Theodore Baird to Carey Caraway, 22 November 1989.

The Theodore Baird Residence, a Usonian planned by Wright, was built in Amherst, MA by Wright protégé William Wesley Peters. Wright’s design included an in-law apartment and a dedicated space for the Baird’s dog, including a dog house. Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800

415 CARAWAY, Jesse “Cary.” A small archive of correspondence.

A group of 13 typed letters signed to Cary Caraway from fellow Taliesin Fellowship members Eugene (“Gene”) Masselink, William Wesley Peters (“Wes”), Marcus Weston, and several others, 19561984.

Much of the correspondence is personal in nature, including family enquiries and updates about life at Taliesin. A few letters of a more professional nature discuss possible upcoming projects. With 8 carbon typescript copies of letters from Caraway to Frank Lloyd Wright, Wes, Gene and others. Property of the Caraway Family $400 - 600

416 CAREY, Jesse Claude “Carey” (1917-1994). A group of original architectural drawings, blue prints, and plans, comprising drawings and printed plans of:

Himalayan Institute. Chicago, 1970s. Sunset Hills. Madison, WI, Historic District Weggiford House. Whitefish Bay, WI. Mr. & Mrs. Shuland House. Charles Cusher House. Mr. & Mrs. Chet Ruedisili House. Goldman House. Trichels. Blue Mounds Shelter. Blue Mounds, WI. Belair Yacht Club. American Legion. Hutment Theater. 1944. PreCast Column. Slab Supermarket. Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800

417 FULLER, R. Buckminster (1895-1983). Typed letter signed (“R. Buckminster Fuller”), to Carey Caraway. New York, 1 March 1940.

1 page, 8vo, on Fortune embossed stationery, creased.

Renowned architect Buckminster Fuller writes Caraway about some drawings he sent offering to study them at his first opportunity in a few weeks. He continues with some architecture and design advice: “Some years ago I worked out an isometric drafting form based on the equi-angular triangle and the hexagon tilted at 30° which made it posible to locate any three dimensional point in space, vertical or in the plane...some of the logic which led me to this form has been unraveling in your mind also. I guess that the main part of your problem is in materials, structural and mechanical technique.” Property of the Caraway Family $500 - 700

418 [FROST, Robert (1874-1963)] -- A group of 5 prints and posters related to Robert FROST, comprising:

3 woodcut prints by Julius John LANKES (“J.J. Lankes”) (1884-1960), including: Briarfield, ca 1930, signed “J.J. Lankes” lower left of printed image, visible area 163 x 203 mm, a few small spots. Lankes created woodcuts to illustrated Frost’s poems they worked together for over 40 years after meeting in 1923. -- Vermont Pasture (Robert Frost’s) (No. 9), 1924, signed “J.J. Lankes” lower left of printed image, visible area 208 x 282 mm, light toning around plate mark. In this woodcut, Lankes depicted Frost’s historic farm property in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, also known as “The Gully.” Frost resided here from 1929 through 1938, during which time he won two of his four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. -- Robert Frost Stone House Museum, South Shaftsbury, Vermont, 2002. Limited edition poster woodcut print, 2002, visible area 418 x 317 mm, a few very tiny spots. This poster was reproduced from the 1923 woodcut print Lankes created for Frost to use as his personal bookplate, featuring the Stone House next to a dirt road. [With:] A commemorative stamp on “American Poet Series Robert Frost” envelope with portrait printed in green, visible area 87 x 158 mm. – Robert FROST, author. Ed YOUNG (b. 1931), illustrator. Birches, From Birches, Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Poster, 596 x 442 mm, framed (unexamined out of frame). -- Together, 5 prints and posters, all matted and framed (not examined out of frame) (except where noted).

Property from the Collection of Robert and Norma Cotner $200 - 300

419 [FROST, Robert (1874-1963)]. A group of 7 works by or about Frost, comprising:

American & British Verse from The Yale Review. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Provenance: Anne (gift inscription, 1920). FIRST EDITION. -- A Further Range. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936. FIRST TRADE EDITION, second impression. -- A Masque of Reason. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Dust jacket. FIRST TRADE EDITION. -- A Masque of Reason. London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. -- In the Clearing. New York: Hole, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. Dust jacket. FIRST TRADE EDITION. -- ADAMS, Frederick B. To Russia with Frost. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1963. Slipcase. Provenance: Bryan S. Reid Jr. (gift inscription, 1969). FIRST EDITION. -- LATHEM, Edward Connery and THOMPSON, Lawrance, editors. Robert Frost: Farm-Poultryman. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth Publications, 1963. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, all 8vo, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, all in original publisher’s cloth, cloth-backed boards, or printed boards, dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fine.

Property from the Collection of Robert and Norma Cotner $600 - 800 420 [FROST, Robert (1874-1963)]. A group of 7 works by or about Frost, comprising:

American & British Verse from The Yale Review. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Original printed boards. FIRST EDITION. -- A Witness Tree. New York: Henry Holt and Company, June 1942. Dust jacket Later edition. -- A Witness Tree. New York: Henry Holt and Company, March 1943. Dust jacket. Later edition. -- A Masque of Reason. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. -- A Masque of Mercy. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. -- ADAMS, Frederick B. To Russia with Frost. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1963. Slipcase. FIRST EDITION. -- LATHEM, Edward Connery and THOMPSON, Lawrance, editors. Robert Frost: Farm-Poultryman. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth Publications, 1963. Original printed dust jacket. Provenance: Lawrance Thompson (signature, Princeton, 23 April 1971). FIRST EDITION. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, 8vo, FIRST EDITIONS where indicated, all in original publisher’s cloth, cloth-backed boards or printed boards, most with original dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fine.

421 GOREY, Edward (1925-2000). Baby Transported. Zürich: Diogenes Verlag, 1978.

Two etchings, on Arches paper, each 14 x 11 3/4 in., each SIGNED BY GOREY and numbered in pencil lower margin, 5/120. (Baby Transported with small surface abrasions to upper and lower margin verso, small pale stain upper margin; Malocclusion with cloth tape from framing upper margin verso.)

One of 6 etchings created by Gorey and distributed by Diogenes Verlag in 1975, each consisting of 120 Arabic numbered and 20 Roman numbered copies. Though the etchings were sold individually, they are considered a set. See Goreyana Blogspot, 4 April 2011. Property from the Collection of Thomas J. Barrett $1,000 - 1,500

422 GOREY, Edward (1925-2000). Dogear Wryde Postcards. Q. R. V. Hikuptah. -- Q. R. V. Unwmkd. Imperf. N.p.: n.p., 1996.

Two sets of 12 illustrated postcards, captioned on verso, each loose as issued in original pictorial envelope.

LIMITED EDITION, letter U of 26 lettered copies SIGNED BY GOREY ON THE ENVELOPE as “Dogear Wryde,” of a total edition of 526. Not in Toledano. Property from the Collection of Thomas J. Barrett

$200 - 300

423 [GOREY - BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CONTRIBUTIONS]. A group of 8 works, comprising:

TOLEDANO, Henry. Goreography. San Francisco: Word Play Publications, 1996. -- ROSS, Clifford & Karen WILKIN. The World of Edward Gorey. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. FIRST TRADE EDITION. -- WILKIN, Karen, editor. Ascending Peculiarity. Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey. New York, San Diego and London: Harcourt, 2001. FIRST EDITION. -- HALPERN, Daniel, editor. Who’s Writing This? Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1995. FIRST EDITION, with Gorey›s contribution “A Penchant for Pseudonyms.” -- HALPERN, Daniel, editor. Antaeus. Issue No. 75/74, Autumn 1994. Hopewell, NJ: Antaeus, 1995. FIRST EDITION, with Gorey›s contribution “Serious Life: A Locket.” -- ROSS, Clifford & Karen WILKIN. The World of Edward Gorey. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. LIMITED EDITION, number 293 of 300 copies SIGNED BY GOREY, ROSS and WILKIN of a total edition of 326. -- WILKIN, Karen, editor. Ascending Peculiarity. Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey. New York, San Diego and London: Harcourt, 2001. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY WILKIN. -- TOLEDANO, Henry. Goreography. San Francisco: Word Play Publications, 1996. -- Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, all in original publisher’s bindings as issued, condition generally fine. Property from the Collection of Thomas J. Barrett $200 - 300

424 GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Los Proverbios. Madrid: Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1864.

The complete set of 18 etchings with aquatint and drypoint, with the lithographic title-page, on heavy wove paper, without watermarks, plates 245 x 355 mm, sheets 308 x 438 mm, some dampstaining, a few corners creased or chipped, a few sheets with short mostly marginal tears or creases, title-page gutter margin recto and plate 4 gutter margin verso with old adhesive. Disbound with remnants of stab-sewing and sewing holes (occasionally with short tears) in the gutter margin, modern wrappers with modern adhesive.

FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies, of Goya’s print series, completed in the years between 1815 and 1824. The original series comprised 22 plates, which were left with Goya’s son Xavier on his departure from Spain in 1824; they remained hidden until Xavier’s death in 1854. Eighteen passed through two different owners before the came to the Royal Academy of San Fernando in 1862, where they were published in this first, posthumous edition in 1864. Four remaining plates were discovered in Paris in the early 1870s, and were eventually published in the periodical, L’Art, in 1877. (Deltiel 202-219; Harris 248-265).

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $15,000 - 25,000

425 HEINLEIN, Robert (1907-1988). Methuselah’s Children. Hicksville, NY: Gnome Press, [1958].

8vo. (Browned as usual.) Original black boards, spine lettered in red; original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, minor chipping or soiling, occasional repairs verso).

FIRST EDITION, in Currey’s priority ‘A’ binding with black boards lettered in red and the dust jacket with the publisher’s address “80 East 11th St., New York 3” on rear panel. Currey p.233. $300 - 400 426 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Torrents of Spring. New York: Scribner’s, 1926.

8vo. Original dark green cloth, stamped in red (very slightly leaned); pictorial dust jacket (spine panel toned, some light chipping, a few short separations to folds, small dampstain to foot of spine, some minor soiling).

FIRST EDITION OF HEMINGWAY’S FIRST NOVEL. Hemingway’s earlier works established his reputation in literary circles, but by 1925, he had not gained broader public recognition, which he attributed to his restrictive contract with Boni and Liveright, who published his earlier works. He wrote Torrents of Spring in a few weeks in November of 1925, and Boni and Liveright rejected it quickly. “I have known all along,” Hemingway wrote Fitzgerald, that the firm “could not and would not be able to publish it as it makes a bum out of their present ace and best seller Anderson” (Selected Letters, p. 183). The contract broken, Hemingway signed with Scribners, and The Torrents of Spring was published on 28 May 1926. Hanneman A4a. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana

$1,000 - 2,000

427 IRVING, John Winslow (b. 1942). The 158-Pound Marriage. New York: Random House, [1974].

8vo. Original publisher’s green quarter cloth over green paper-covered boards tamped in bronze and green (head and tail of spine very slightly sunned); first-issue dust jacket printed in green, white, orange, and black (some very minor chipping or toning).

FIRST EDITION, in FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET priced $5.95. By 1974, Irving had already won a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and four years after the publication of this work, he would publish The World According to Garp. $150 - 250 428 JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). A group of 3 works by JAMES, comprising,

The Spoils of Poynton. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 10622. -- The Awkward Age. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Slipcase. Provenance: Everett (armorial bookplate). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 10637. -- The Wings of the Dove. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. 2 volumes. Provenance: Everett (armorial bookplates); C.D. McDuffie (letter tipped in). FIRST EDITION. BAL 10647. -- Together, 3 works in 4 volumes, all 8vo, all in original publisher’s brown gilt-lettered cloth, FIRST EDITIONS where indicated, condition generally fine. $300 - 400

430 [KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] – [ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano] [Portrait of Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT (1882-1945)].

Photographic reproduction, [ca 1940-1945], image 221 x 191.5 mm (224 x 195 mm sheet), on wove paper, old adhesive on verso, SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT in ink lower right, reverse printed “Photo Brammer-320 E. 50th St., N.Y.C.,” based on Kaufman’s portrait of FDR in watercolor, white tempera, and charcoal on watercolor paper at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library (1947.181).

Property from the Estate of Mr Curt and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, New York and Snowmass Village, Colorado $200 - 300 429 [KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] – FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A Witness Tree. KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner [Kaufman] (1897-1961), illustrator. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1942.

8vo. Portrait frontispiece by Kaufman. (Very light toning.) Original publisher’s quarter teal cloth over teal paste-paper covered boards, smooth spine giltlettered, 2 edges uncut (some chipping). LIMITED EDITION, no. 22 of 735 copies, SIGNED BY ROBERT FROST.

[With:] A small group of Frost Christmas Cards, all printed in New York by The Spiral Press with original colored paper wrappers (majority pictorial), including: Closed for Good. 1948. SIGNED BY ROBERT FROST, INSCRIBED TO KAUFMAN. -- On a Tree Fallen Across the Road (To Hear Us Talk). 1949. (Some staining.) – Doom to Bloom. New York: The Spiral Press, December 1950. SIGNED BY LESLEY FROST. -- One More Brevity. 1953 -- Kitty Hawk 1894. 1956. -- My Objection to Being Stepped On. 1957 -- Accidentally on Purpose. 1960. SIGNED BY LESLEY FROST, INSCRIBED to “Enit and Edward” (with a second unsigned copy). -- The Wood-Pile, 1961, SIGNED BY LESLEY FROST, INSCRIBED to “Edward.” -- Together, 8 works in 9 volumes, all Provenance: Enit Zerner Kaufman.

Property from the Estate of Mr Curt and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, New York and Snowmass Village, Colorado $400 - 600

431 [KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] – [TRUMAN, Harry S. (18841972)] – Photograph signed and inscribed on mat (“Harry Truman.”), as former United States President to Enit Zerner KAUFMAN. Independence, Missouri: 24 November 1954.

Black and white photograph, visible area 158 x 202 mm, signed and inscribed on mat at lower left “Kind regards from Harry Truman Independence. Nov. 24, 1954.”, some minor staining at top left, mated and framed (not examined out of frame). Photograph depicts artist Enit Zerner Kaufman painting former president Truman’s portrait.

Property from the Estate of Mr Curt and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, New York and Snowmass Village, Colorado $400 - 600

1 page, 4to, tipped into an autograph album.

Schiele arranges a meeting with his student, whose work he describes as promising, frequently mentioning his address in Vienna, Hietzinger Hauptstrasse 101, and Hietzing, Vienna’s 13th district, with which Schiele is closely associated.

Following his military service in World War I, Schiele was back in Vienna in 1917, where he focused on his artistic career. His output was prolific, and he was invited to participate in the Secessions’s 49th exhibition, held in Vienna in 1918. He had 50 works accepted for the exhibition, which were displayed in the main hall, and he designed the poster for the exhibition, reminiscent of the Last Supper. The show was a success, and he received many portrait commissions. On October 28, 1918, Schiele’s wife Edith died from the Spanish Flu pandemic that had claimed more than 20,000,000 lives in Europe; Schiele died three days later.

[Autograph album also includes:] HANAK, Anton. ALS. A “cryptographic” letter to Enit Kaufman (nee Zerner). Tipped in. -- Numerous signatures, including actress Lotte Medelsky, opera star Enrico Caruso, singer Jan Kiepura, actor Aleksandër Moisiu, author Erich Kästner, actress Lili Marburg, designer Robert Kronfeld, singer Charles Kullmann, singer Elisabeth Schumann, singer Luise Helletsgruber, actress Katharine Hepburn, skater Ernst Baier, skater Karl Schäfer, Indian leader H. T. Mazumdar, and others. Property from the Estate of Mr Curt Strand and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, NY and Snowmass Village, CO $6,000 - 8,000

433 [KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] –SCHIELE, Egon (1890-1918). Autograph letter signed (“Egon Schiele” in a paraph), to Enit Kaufman (“Fraulein Ernestine Zerner”). Vienna, 12 March 1918.

1 page, 4to, with original envelope. Presumably arranging a meeting with his student. With his calling card laid in.

Enit Zerner Kaufman (1908-1961) was born near Vienna, where she would later study art. Her interest was portraiture, and she painted among prominent European artists, including Albert Sarraut and Georges Duhamel. Her work was featured in several exhibitions in Paris. She and her husband Edward fled Europe at the onset of World War II, and they arrived in New York City in 1939. She resumed her career in the United States, building her reputation as a portraitist, ultimately painting four American Presidents, including Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Her work was featured in exhibitions in the 1940s and 1950s at the Smithsonian Institution and the New York Historical Society among others. Property from the Estate of Mr Curt Strand and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, NY and Snowmass Village, CO $5,000 - 7,000

434 [KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] – An archive of material related to Enit Kaufman’s artistic career, including a group of ALSs from Anton Hanak to Kaufman, ALSs to her husband Edward ca 1944, files of carbon copies, exhibition announcements, official photographs of her paintings and portraits, photographs, press clippings, drafts of written works, costumes, and 27 books. Including a small group of notes and books inscribed by educator and reformer Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

Included are 6 autograph letters signed, from Anton Hanak (1875-1934) to Ernestine Zerner [Enit Zerner Kaufman]. Each 1 page, with original envelope, written in “cryptographic” hand. Hanak was a prominent Austrian sculptor in his day, and was known for his monumental sculptures, tombs and fountain figures of pre-expressionist style. Each letter is written in a distinctive hand to Enit Kaufman, who was born in Vienna, where she would live until 1939.

The archive also includes an album of press clippings and a box of photographs of her paintings and exhibitions, and copies of a dissertation about her work by Cary Cardova, World War II America Through Portraiture: Enit Kaufman’s American Portraits.

With a group of 27 books including: CANFIELD, Dorothy (1879-1958). Basque People. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931. -- CANFIELD, Dorothy (1879-1958). Four-Square. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1949. -- RUSKIN, John (1819-1900). Ruskin’s Lectures on Art. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1870. -- FISHER, Dorothy Canfield. American Portraits. Pictures by Enit Kaufman. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946. -- Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society. New Haven and London: The Yale Univeristy Press, 1974. 2 Volumes. -- And 23 others. Complete list available on request. Property from the Estate of Mr Curt Strand and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, NY and Snowmass Village, CO $300 - 400

435 LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (“T.E.”) (1888-1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom a Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935.

4to (248 x 187 mm). Photographic frontispiece, 46 plates, 4 folding maps in red and black, printed document from Jonathan Cape laid in. (Some leaves uncut and unopened.) 20th-century dark brown levant gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2 compartments, covers gilt paneled with floral corner-pieces, marbled endsheets, original tan cloth spine and cover bound neatly in, top edge gilt, others uncut (endsheets soiled).

FIRST TRADE EDITION of Lawrence’s epic account of his war experiences, including the Arab Revolt. He began writing this work in 1919 while attending the Paris Peace Conference. After several mishaps (including leaving the first manuscript at the Reading Railway Station), this work was first published in 1926. Lawrence was played by Peter Seamus O’Toole the 1962 film, Lawrence of Arabia.

$400 - 600

436 LE CARRÉ, John (1931-2020). The Looking-Glass War. London: Heinemann, 1965.

8vo. Original black boards; original dust jacket (price-clipped, spine sunned, some very slight rubbing to corners). Provenance: The Book Shop, Kew (bookseller’s label).

FIRST EDITION.

$200 - 300

437 LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Arrowsmith. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.

8vo (225 x 159). Title-page printed in red and black. Original buckram backed boards, printed paper label on spine, top edge gilt, others uncut (some wear, stitching on front and rear quires weak, repair to front pastedowns); blue slipcase (chipping).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 380 of 500 copies SIGNED BY LEWIS. In 1926, Lewis was offered the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for this work but refused stating other authors were more worthy. Only four years later, he accepted the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters” (The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930). $600 - 800

438 [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] -- ARISTOPHANES (448?-380? B.C.) Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973), illustrator. Lysistrata. Gilbert SELDES (1893-1970), introductions. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934.

4to. Printed in red and black, 6 etched plates and numerous illustrations in sanguine. Publisher’s color pictorial boards (spotting to endleaves); original glassine dust jacket (chipped); original board chemise and slipcase (joints starting, faded, chipped).

LIMITED EDITION, number 806 of 1500 copies SIGNED BY PICASSO. “The only American publication with original Picasso etchings, which are among his most important in the classical style” (The Artist and the Book 226). George Macy considered Lysistrata to be one of the finest editions printed by the Limited Editions Club.

$3,000 - 4,000

439 [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] -- DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (18321898). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. John Tenniel, illustrator. Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge for The Limited Editions Club, 1932.

8vo. Numerous wood engravings by Bruno Rollitz after Tenniel. (Very minor spotting.) Original publisher’s red morocco gilt, smooth spine gilt, all edges gilt (minor rubbing, browning to endleaves); original blue cloth slipcase, printed paper label on spine (fading, some wear). Provenance: James E. Poling (bookplate, rear pastedown).

LIMITED EDITION, number 735 of 1,500 copies, SIGNED BY FREDERIC WARDE, AND ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ORIGINAL ALICE, Alice Hargreaves, who signed the book during her visit to New York at the age of 81 to commemorate the centennial of Dodgson’s birth.

[With:]

Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. John Tenniel, illustrator. Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge for The Limited Editions Club, 1935. 8vo. Numerous engravings re-engraved by Frederic Warde. (Very minor spotting.) Original publisher’s blue morocco gilt, smooth spine gilt, all edges gilt; original red cloth slipcase, printed paper label on spine (minor wear). LIMITED EDITION, number 1,348 of 1,500 copies, ONE OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY ALICE HARGREAVES.

$2,000 - 3,000

440 [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] -- HERSEY, John (1914-1993). Hiroshima. Jacob Lawrence, illustrator. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983.

Folio. 8 silkscreens by Lawrence, binder’s note and Limited Editions Club prospectus laid in. Original black aniline full top grain with colorless soil repellent finish, smooth spine, front cover blind lettered, black edges (a few minor scuffs); original publisher’s black cloth slipcase, lettered on spine (some chipping).

LIMITED EDITION, number 1,101 of 1,500 copies SIGNED BY HERSEY, WARREN, and LAWRENCE. Includes a new poem by Robert Penn WARREN (1905-1989). $400 - 600

441 [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] -- JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Henri Matisse, illustrator. Ulysses. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935.

4to. 6 etchings, 20 facsimiles of preliminary drawings on colored paper. Original publisher’s brown pictorial cloth design by LeRoy H. Appleton, upper cover and spine gilt-decorated; original board slipcase, printed paper label on spine; glassine dust jacket (chipped).

LIMITED EDITION,ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH MATISSE AND JOYCE, number 482 from a total edition of 1,500 copies. “One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy, who undertook this only American publication of Matisse’s illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer’s Odyssey” (Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, pp.35, 61). When asked why he did not illustrate episodes from Joyce’s novel, he responded that he hadn’t read it. The American Livre de Peintre, 32; The Artist and the Book, 197; Slocum and Calhoun A22.

$8,000 - 12,000

442 [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] – A group of 3 works, comprising:

FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Poor Richard’s Almanacks 1733-1758. Norman Rockwell, illustrator. Philadelphia, 1964. Laid in “The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club, No. 369, October 1964. Original half top-grain cowhide over French hand-marbled paper-covered boards, spine in 6 compartments with 5 18th-century style bands, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, 12 zodiac signs burned on shelf back (one corner bumped); (slipcase with some chipping). LIMITED EDITION, number 1,101 of 1,500 copies. SIGNED BY ROCKWELL.– HEANEY, Seamus. Poems and a Memoir. Henry Pearson, illustrator. 1982. Laid in “The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club,” No. 530, November 1982. Original brown aniline full top grain with colorless soil repellent finish, spine gilt-lettered, front cover blind stamped from engraving by Pearson, top edge gilt (a few tiny scuffs). LIMITED EDITION, number 1,101 of 1,500 copies. SIGNED BY ROCKWELL. -- MILLER, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Leonard Baskin, illustrator. 1984. 5 etchings. 4to, brown morocco, spine giltlettered; slipcase gilt-lettered. LIMITED EDITION, number 1,101 of 1,500 copies. SIGNED BY MILLER AND BASKIN. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all published in New York by the Limited Editions Club (except where noted), all 4to, all in original publisher’s bindings as described, all in original slipcases, condition generally fine. $400 - 600

443 LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Call of the Wild. Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, illustrators. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1903.

8vo. Pictorial title-page printed in black and blue, pictorial frontispiece, 25 illustrations (19 full-page and 8 in-text), leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Original publishers’ pictorial cloth stamped in red, white, and black and gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut, decorated endpapers (slightly cocked spine, some light rubbing); publisher’s printed dust-jacket (some minor chipping).

FIRST EDITION, fourth issue of London’s enduring adventure novel set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. BAL 11876; Peter Parley to Penrod, p 119.

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana

$500 - 700

445 [MAILER, Norman (1923-2007)]. A group of 5 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:

The Naked and the Dead. New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1948. Later printing dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- The Deer Park. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1955. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- The Fight. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- The Last Night. New York: Targ Editions, 1984. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE one of 250 copies SIGNED BY MAILER. -- Tough Guys Don’t Dance. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. FIRST EDITION. Leather gilt. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, most FIRST EDITIONS SIGNED BY MAILER where indicated, all in original boards, cloth or cloth-backed boards, dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fine. $300 - 400

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444 LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). A group of 31 works, most first or early editions, comprising:

The Scarlet Plague. Gordon Grant, illustrator. 1915. (Lacking front fly leaf.) Woodbridge 128. --The Valley of the Moon. 1913. Woodbridge 117. --Burning Daylight. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1910. --White Fang. New York and London: The Macmillan Company, 1906. Second Issue (only one copy of the 1st issue recorded). Woodbridge 46. --The Little Lady of the Big House. 1916. Woodbridge 138. -- And 27 others. Together, 31 works in 32 volumes, including 2 works about London, most published in New York by The Macmillan Company (except where indicated), all 8vo, many with frontispieces, all original publisher’s cloth pictorial bindings, many with glassines, condition generally good. $2,500 - 3,500

446 MIRÓ, Joan (1893-1974). Joan Miró. Lithographs. Vol.I: New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1972; Vol.II: New York: Léon Amiel Publisher, 1975; Vols.III & IV: Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1977, 1981.

4 volumes (of 6 comprising vols.I-IV), 4to. 32 original lithographs, numerous reproductions of Miró’s works. Original publisher’s cloth; original lithographic dust jackets (some minor toning); original wrap-around bands and glassines for vols.II-IV (a few short tears to glassines).

LIMITED EDITION, each one of 5,000 copies of the (vol.I number 1778, vol.III number 734, vols.II and IV unnumbered). $1,000 - 1,500

448 [PLANTIN PRESS]. Broadside printing of the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Antwerp: Architypographia Plantiniana, n.d. [ca 18th-century?].

Broadside (313 x 466 mm). Printed in red and black within decorative borders; two engraved plates depicting the Crucifixion and the Last Supper. The full sheet uncut.

The Plantin press had a monopoly, granted by the papacy, to print liturgical formularies, including in Spain, for nearly 200 years. Plantin was known for employing numerous engravers to keep up with the vast number of compositions needed. The engraver of the plates in this broadside is an unknown Belgian school engraver. RARE: We trace no copies of this broadside at auction, and trace no copies on OCLC.

Property from the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art $500 - 700 447 OVID (43 B.C.-17? A.D.). Ovid’s Verwandlungen in Kupfern Vorgestellt und mit den Nöthigen Erlaeuterungen versehen. Vienna: Ignaz Alberti, 1791.

3 volumes, small 4to (222 x 159 mm). Text in German, engraved title-pages, 135 (of 140?) engraved plates. (Spotting, trimmed, some browning.) 20th-century black leather, spine gilt-lettered (some rubbing or light chipping).

FIRST GERMAN EDITION of Ovid’s Metamorphoses profusely illustrated with copperplate engravings.

Property from the Estate of Mr Curt and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, New York and Snowmass Village, Colorado $300 - 400

449 RILEY, James Whitcomb (“Benj. F. Johnson of Boone”) (18491916). “The Old Swimmin’-hole,” and ‘Leven More Poems, by Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone. Indianapolis: George C. Hitt & Co., 1883.

12mo (161 x 105 mm). Title-page printed in red, a few woodcut illustrations. (Tiny spots on a few pages.) Original publisher’s buff wrappers printed in red (browned, some chipping); morocco slipcase. Provenance: Frances M. Hakerly (signatures, September 1883).

FIRST EDITION OF RILEY’S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, with horizontal chain lines spaced 1-in. apart. This collection of poems in the Hoosier dialect first appeared in the Indianapolis Journal under his pseudonym. BAL 16525.

[Laid-in:] Autograph note signed (“James Whitcomb Riley”). N.p., November 1895. 1 page (90 x 113 mm). In full: “The Golden Age of NOW. Very truly yours.”

Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $500 - 700

450 SALINGER, Jerome David (“J.D.”) (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.

8vo. Publisher’s original black cloth, spine gilt-lettered (a few small stains, some light rubbing to extremities); original first issue dust jacket printed in red, black, and yellow, cropped photograph of Salinger on rear cover, flap priced at $3.00 (some toning and chipping, a few stains); glassine (chipped).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without “Reprinted July 1951” on copyright page. IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with the $3.00 price on the front flap and with the Lotte Jacobi photo credit on Salinger’s portrait on the rear panel. The novel’s protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has entered the pantheon of American literary heroes. “The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many voices— anger, contempt, self-pity—but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling” (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, pp. 53-54). $3,000 - 5,000

451 [THE SAVOY]. SYMONS, Arthur (1865-1945), editor. Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator. The Savoy: An Illustrated Quarterly. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896.

3 volumes (Nos. I-VIII [all published]), 4to. Numerous illustrations after Beardsley and others. (Tear to one title-page repaired, some minor chipping, weak hinges.) Publisher’s original gilt-pictorial cobalt cloth, smooth spine gilt-lettered and decorated (chipping to spines, spines darkened, some corners bumped).

FIRST EDITION in book form with illustrations after Beardsley, Whistler, Beerbohm, Blake, Shannon, Pennell, and other contemporary artists. Literary contributions by Yeats, Beardsley, Conrad, and G.B. Shaw, amongst others. Reproductions include line and half-tone wood engravings by Paul Naumann. Lasner 103.

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $1,000 - 2,000

452 SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Arthur RACKHAM, illustrator. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. New York & London: Doubleday, Page & Co., and William Heinemann, 1908.

4to (246 x 180 mm). Title-page woodcut, 40 color-printed plates tipped to mounts and numerous illustrations by Rackham. (Some quires loose, one tipped-in image free). Original quarter green cloth gilt, top edge gilt (some light overall wear).

FIRST TRADE EDITION. Hudson p.168; Latimore & Haskell p.32; Riall p.87. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $500 - 700

453 STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press, 1939.

8vo. (A few tiny pale stains to the first few leaves.) Original pictorial beige cloth (some light soiling, minor spotting to endleaves); facsimile dust jacket; cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION, WITH STEINBECK’S SIGNATURE tipped to front free endpaper. Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1940 for this novel. Goldstone & Payne A12a. $400 - 600

454 STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Cannery Row. New York: Viking Press, 1945.

8vo. (Half-title and first few leaves creased). Original publisher’s buff cloth printed in blue, top edge stained blue; original pictorial dust jacket (some minor chipping). Provenance: Bob Stricker (signature).

FIRST EDITION, issue in cloth, in first issue binding. Goldstone & Payne A22b. $300 - 400

455 MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950). The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver. New York: Frank Shay 1922.

8vo. Frontispiece and vignettes. Original plain tan wrappers (joint starting), stapled, within original printed apple green wrappers with vignette on front (soft crease to front wrapper, some minor loss of pigment); orange quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Perry Molstad (bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent); acquired by the present owner from a descendant of John Fleming.

FIRST TRADE EDITION, ONE OF 15 COPIES BOUND IN APPLE GREEN WRAPPERS. The first trade edition of The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver consisted of 500 copies printed on regular paper. Of these, all but 75 were bound in orange wrappers. Frank Shay, the publisher, had the remaining 75 copies bound in five different colored wrappers (15 of each): red, dark green, apple green, yellow, and blue. “Simultaneously with the first edition there were printed five copies on Japan vellum, having the same title-page as the regular edition, but differing from the regular edition in that the endsheets were omitted...The only one I have seen was bound in red wrappers. Mr. Shay has no record or recollection of what other colors were used on these five copies” (Yost 15). A FINE COPY OF THIS RARITY. $600 - 800

456 MOSHEIM, John Lawrence (“Johann Lorenz von Mosheim”) (16931755). Commentaries on the Affairs of the Christians Before the Time of Constantine the Great; or, an Enlarged View of the Ecclesiastical History of the First Three Centuries. Robert Studley Vidal, translator. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 18131835.

3 volumes, 8vo (215 x 128 mm). (Spotting throughout, browning.) Later half calf, spines gilt, brown and tan morocco lettering-pieces gilt (rubbed, some chipping, endleaves spotted). Provenance: John St. James (signature, 8 May 1867); 2 shelfmarks.

FIRST EDITIONS IN ENGLISH, including copious notes and references added by Vidal. Mosheim was the Chancellor of The University of Göttingen, and a church historian.

Property from a Prominent Chicago Collection $150 - 250

457 POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). “The Raven” in: The American Review: A Whig Journal. Vol. I, Nos. 1-6. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845.

6 parts in one, 8vo (225 x 145 mm). 3 engraved portraits (of 5, lacking 2). (Some pale spotting, a few leaves browned.) Contemporary cloth (rebacked in modern leather).

FIRST APPEARANCE OF POE’S “RAVEN” which appears on p.143 of the second number, under the pseudonym “by --- Quarles.” Heartman and Canny consider this to be the first printing of “The Raven,” but which appearance came first is a bit of a dispute. Heartman and Canny maintain that the 29 January 1845 appearance in The Evening Mirror is not the first printing, since The American Review announced that “No. II will bear date Feb. 1845, but will be issue early in January.” Unless the publishers were unable to issued the work as promised, the appearance in The American Review predates the later January appearance in The Evening Mirror. See Heartman and Canny, p.145. $800 - 1,200

458 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] -- [AFRICA] -- Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discover of the Interior Parts of Africa. London: C. Macrae, 1790.

4to (292 x 228 mm). Engraved folding map frontispiece. (Some spotting, a few short tears in map, some short tears.) Contemporary half calf, smooth spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (top joint repaired, overall rubbing). Provenance: John Thomas Stanley, Esquire of Alderley (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, published by The African Association, which was created to inform the British of African geography and was founded in 1788. The large engraved frontispiece map depicts Northern Africa and was compiled by J. Rennell, who was a geographer, pioneer of oceanography, and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in London in 1830.

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $400 - 600

459 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty. London: Printed for George Nicol, 1792.

4to (285 x 230 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 engraved plates (2 folding), 4 engraved maps and charts (3 folding). (Tiny spots to a few leaves.) Contemporary half calf, blind-tooled and gilt, marbled boards (some rubbing, upper joint just starting); blue cloth folding case. Provenance: Sir Robert Johnson Eden, 5th Baronet (armorial bookplate).

FIRST EDITION OF “ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE INCIDENTS IN THE WHOLE OF MARITIME HISTORY” (Hill). Following a request by West Indian merchants to George III, Sir Joseph Banks recommended that the Admiralty fit out the Bounty for a voyage to collect bread-fruit trees from Tahiti for shipment to the West Indies. Banks also recommended Lieutenant Bligh as commander of the voyage on which Fletcher Christian sailed as Master’s Mate. Reaching Cape Horn in 1787 and encountering fierce head winds, Bligh retreated across the South Atlantic to round the Cape of Good Hope and sail south to Australia and New Zealand to Tahiti. This is the first official account of the voyage and mutiny, edited from Bligh’s journals by James Burney under the supervision of Sir Joseph Banks while Bligh was on his second bread-fruit voyage. The year of publication also marked the courtmartial proceedings against fourteen returned mutineers, three of whom were hanged. Ferguson 125; Hill 135; Kroepelien 93; NMM 1:624; Sabin 5910.

Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $6,000 - 8,000

460 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] -- BOWDICH, Thomas Edward (1791-1824). Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo, During the Autumn of 1823, While on His Third Voyage to Africa. Sarah Bowdich, Editor. London: George B. Whittaker, 1825.

4to (265 x 209 mm). Lithographic hand-colored frontispiece, 18 lithographic plates (2 hand-colored, 6 folding, 4 in-text woodcut illustrations. (Some spotting or minor creasing.) Contemporary calf gilt, smooth spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt, blind and gilt decoration to sides, edges marbled, marbled endsheets (sympathetically rebacked, rubbed). Provenance: Rev. Dr. Bellamy (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION, A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR, inscribed to Rev. Dr. Bellamy by Bowditch’s wife. Bowdich’s text was completed and edited posthumously by his wife, Sarah, who contributed 3 additional sections: “A narrative of the Continuance of the Voyage to its Completion,” “A Description of the English Settlements on the River Gambia,” and the “Appendix.” Abbey Travel 190; Colas 418.

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $1,500 - 2,500

461 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- BRUCE, James (1730-1794). -- Travels To Discover The Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768… 1773. Vol. I-IV. -- Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia. Vol. V. -- Edinburgh: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790.

5 volumes, 4to (294 x 229 mm). 55 engraved plates, 3 engraved folding plans, 3 engraved folding maps, half-titles, title-pages with engravings, engraved dedication vol. I. (Some spotting or minor offsetting, a few marginal tears, a few blank leaves stuck together.) Contemporary tree calf, smooth spines gilt, red morocco letteringpieces gilt (hinges starting, some with old repairs, overall wear).

FIRST EDITION. Bruce of Kinnaird had studied Arabic and Ethiopic and was British Consul at Algiers. Believing the source of the Nile to be somewhere in Abyssinia, Bruce travelled from the Red Sea coast (near present day Eritrea) and reached Gondar where he spent three years at the royal court. By 1770 he had jointed an expeditionary force which brought him within reach of his goal -- to the spring south of Lake Tana form which the Blue Nile rises -- and was forever convinced this was the source of the main Nile. He remained in the Sudan and Egypt until returning to Scotland in 1773, but disillusioned by the reception he received there, did not publish his journals until 1790. It is however “one of the most splendid narratives in the literature of African explorations” (Hallett, Africa to 1815). Blackmer 221; Hilmy I:91; Nissen ZBI 617.

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $800 - 1,200

462 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] -- DENHAM, Dixon, Major (1786-1828), and Captain Hugh CLAPPERTON (1788-1827). Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824… Extending Across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and From Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. London: John Murray, 1826.

2 volumes in one, 4to (268 x 211 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 32 engraved plates (one hand-colored), 11 in-text woodcut illustrations (2 plans), 6 engraved maps (5 full-page, one folding). (Some occasional spotting or offsetting.) Modern half calf over green cloth gilt, smooth spine gilt, 3 black morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges faintly marbled, marbled endsheets (chipping to lettering-piece, some small scuffs). Provenance: W. Conway (signature).

FIRST EDITION of important explorations in Africa. The first volume is an official expedition to discover the course of the Niger from the starting point of Tripoli, rather than West Africa. Clapperton and Oudney were the original members of the party, to which Denham was added, but whose “arrogance, malice, and contempt for his colleagues from the start soured relations between them” (DNB). This famous “Bornu Mission” provided the earliest European report on the Central Sudan and Northern Nigeria. From the Mediterranean they reached Murzuk and Bornu on the west of Lake Chad, and eventually Sokota. Failing to ascertain the source and termination of the Niger, Denham explored Lake Chad, and Oudney and Clapperton journeyed westward to the Niger. Clapperton continued alone after Oudney’s death at Murmur, reaching Sokota and rejoining Denham at Kuka. On the second expedition Clapperton had been promoted to Commander and was sent back to Sokota to open up trade with the west coast. He died in 1827, having crossed Yoruba Country and the Niger. He was survived by his “servant” Richard Lander who carried on alone. Lander brought Clapperton’s journals back to England and wrote the “Life of Clapperton” which appears in this second work. Hilmy, p. 172 (Narrative).

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $400 - 600

463 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- GRANT, James Augustus (1827-1892). A Walk Across Africa or Domestic Scenes from my Nile Journal. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1864.

8vo (222 x 141 mm). 2 folding color maps (one folding into rear pocket, one laid in). (Several short tears to folds of maps, occasional spotting.) Publisher’s original green pictorial cloth gilt, smooth spine, gilt-lettered and decorated, front cover with blind-stamped border and gilt figure, by Edmunds and Remnant with their ticket (hinges weak).

FIRST EDITION of Grant’s account of his mission to find the source of the Nile with fellow Indian army officer, John Hanning Speke. “The two explorers and their porters now embarked on the ‘long walk’ on which Palmerston was later to remark and so provide Grant with the title of his book, A Walk across Africa” (DNB). Czech, p. 66 (“A monumental work of exploration”).

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $1,000 - 1,500

464 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- HARRIS, John (1667?-1719). Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. London: Printed for T. Woodward, A. Ward, S. Birt, D. Browne, et al., 1744-1748.

2 volumes, folio (403 x 250 mm). 38 engraved plates, 23 engraved maps (16 folding). (Some minor spotting to a few leaves, a few leaves in vol.I with minor dampstaining to upper corner outer margin.) Contemporary calf (rebacked to style, a few small losses or some minor rubbing to finish).

Second edition, edited by John Campbell. First published in 1705, this edition contains many more plates and maps than the first. “Especially prized for its maps...[the second edition is] particularly valuable [for] the inclusion of a printing of Tasman’s original map” of the “Southern Continent” (Hill). The work also includes what is likely the first account of Bering’s second expedition, and contains THE FIRST ENGLISH MAP OF NEW HOLLAND, as well as maps of Australia and the Americas. Alden and Landis 744/116; Hill 775; Lada-Mocarski 3; Sabin 30483.

Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $6,000 - 8,000

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465 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- ROGERS, Woodes. A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South Sea, thence to the East Indies.... Second edition. London: For Andrew Bell and Bernard Lintot, 1718.

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8vo (195 x 107 mm). 5 copper engraved maps. (6 1/2-in tear to world map repaired verso). Contemporary calf (old rebacking to style, upper joint starting, some overall wear).

Second edition, preceded by the first edition of 1712. Rogers’ privately funded voyage was more financially successful than any since Drake and Cavendish; Rogers maintained good order despite a “mongrel crew and with officers often mutinous.” Privateer William Dampier was pilot and navigator (see lot 53). After they rounded Cape Horn, they sheltered at Juan Fernandez; there, they rescued Alexander Selkirk, whose story (as told by Rogers) was an inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Their attack on Spanish ships on the west coast of Mexico and South America resulted in the taking of an Acapulco galleon (among others), whose bounty included important information in the form of maps. Included here are 5, taken by Rogers from “The best Spanish manuscript draughts.” Hill 1479; Sabin 72754; Wagner-Camp 78a. Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $800 - 1,200

466 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823-1913). The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise.... London: MacMillan and Co., 1869.

2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles; 2 folding maps, 6 plates. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt (recased preserving original endpapers, spines slightly leaned). Provenance: Marshall S. Foster (signatures).

Second edition, published in the same year as the first edition. “On the basis of artistic format, literary style, and scientific merit, it is clearly one of the finest scientific travel books ever written” (DSB). During his travels in the East Indies from 1854-1862, Wallace formulated the principle of natural selection. Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $200 - 300

467 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. San Diego: University of California, 1974, 1982, 1983.

3 volumes, 8vo. Original publisher’s blue decorated cloth. Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $200 - 300

468 [VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND (1819-1901)] -- BENSON, Arthur Christopher (1862-1925), and Viscount Reginald Brett ESHER (1852-1930), editors. The Letters of Queen Victoria A Selection from her Majesty’s Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861. London: John Murray, 1907.

3 volumes, 8vo (221 x 147 mm). Engraved portrait frontispieces with tissue guards, engraved illustrated, 2 manuscript pages laid in. (Spotting.) Contemporary half red morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, gilt-lettered in 3 compartments, top edges gilt, other edges uncut (spotting to edges and endsheets). Provenance: Althorp (tipped-in ANS, Northampton: 23 December 1908), gifted to: Harry Manfield (18555-1925) (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, the first of 3 series of 3 volumes each containing The Letters of Queen Victoria. This set was a Christmas and New Year’s gift to British Liberal Party politician and prominent Freemason Harry Manfield. [Laid-in:] Autograph material from members of Victoria’s circle, comprising: an unsigned note mentioning Johanna Clara Louise Lehzen, who was Princess Victoria’s governess and later lady in attendance; partly printed document signed requesting the release of Henriette Vernet and forgiving her debt. $700 - 900