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One of the Great Cor-nerstone’s of Italian Literature

Ariosto, Ludovico. [Opere] ORLANDO FURIOSO Di M. Lodovico Ariosto Delle Annotazioni de’ Più Celebri Autori Che Sopra Esso Hanno Scritto, e di Altre Utili, e Vaghe Giunte in Questa Impressione Adornato, Come nell’Indice Seguente la Prefazione si Vede (Venice: nella Stamp. di Stefano Orlandini, 1730) 2 volumes bound in one. The first folio edition in Italian of Orlando Furioso. Titlepage in black and red, portrait of Ariosto by C. Orsolini and 51 full page and elaborate allegorical plates by Giuseppe Filosi and by Giuliano Giampicoli which are within

one of three impressive engraved borders by Filosi. Large Folio, in fine full contemporary Italian vellum over stiff boards, the spine with a brown morocco label lettered and decorated in gilt. A superb copy, the best available, in an exceptional binding and wonderful state of preservation. ONE OF THE FOUR CORNERSTONES OF ITALIAN LITERA-TURE. Ariosto’s great cantos inspired by the crusades are considered his crowning achievement.

Capt. Amundsen’s My Polar FlightAmundsen, Capt. Roald. MY POLAR FLIGHT (London: Hutchinson and Co, [1925]) First edition. With 45 illustrations on plates and 2 charts. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth let-tered in gilt on the spine, in the scarce original dustjacket. A very desirable copy, the book very fine and beautifully preserved. The scarce jacket with some restoration work to the upper edge, and a bit of general mellowing, but well preserved and rarely encountered. It has protected the book beautifully, leaving the cloth and gilt-work bright and very fine. FIRST EDITION OF A BOOK VERY RARELY SEEN IN

Item Number: 1 Price: $550.

Orlando Furioso - The First Folio Edition in Italian Item Number: 2 Price: $7850.

DUSTJACKET, A FINE COPY AND VERY SCARCE THUS. After conquering the South Pole, and being the first person to have reached both poles, Amundsen became very interested in the possibilities of exploring the poles by aircraft. This is the account of his second at-tempt, and the first attempt by anyone to succeed, of crossing the pole from Norway to Alaska. He was accompanied by American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who’s account of the flight makes up the final chapter. This flight was made in a single engine airplane. Amundsen would also cross the polar sea in an Italian made dirigible.

Fine Books and Manuscripts

With Pioneering Works on Alcoholism, Typhoid and FeversDr. John Armstrong - “The Modern Sydenham”

toning then one would expect of books of the time, the copy still solid and quite fresh, the binding with upper hinge just lightly cracked, the calf binding still in nice condition. A SCARCE EARLY STUDY OF TYPHOID AND ITS TREAT-MENTS. The work also contains his study of brain fever from drunk-enness, a pioneering article on withdrawal and substance abuse that remained highly important for decades and was acclaimed by doctors such as Rush, Trotter and Huss.

Item Number: 3 Price: $450. Armstrong, John, M.D. PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS of TY-PHUS FEVER, of the COMMON CONTINUED FEVER, and of INFLAMMATORY DISEASES,&c,&c, with Notes Critical and Explanatory by Nathaniel Potter, M.D. (Philadelphia: James Webster, 1822) Second American Edition, we corrections and ap-pendix. 8vo, full contemporary tree calf, the spine with flat bands double ruled in gilt and a single red morocco label gilt lettered. Internally a very well preserved copy with much less spotting or

His First Success-ful Flight Across the North Pole


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Autographed - Midnight in the Garden of Good and EvilA Spellbinding Story of Savannah - A Very Fine Copy

FIRST EDITION AND A VERY FINE COPY, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. “John Berendt has written a gorgeous and haunt-ing blend of travel book and murder mystery. It is enchanting and disturbing and deeply atmospheric.” - Edmund White



Dan Brown - Angels and Demons - Signed First EditionIntriguing and Imaginative - A Very Suspenseful Read

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY DAN BROWN. “An explosive international thriller, ANGELS & DEMONS careens from enlight-ening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.”

Item Number: 8 Price: $950. Brown, Dan. ANGELS & DEMONS (New York: Pocket Books, 2000) First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth over orange boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original decorated dustjacket. A superior copy, as mint and pristine.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Girl From HollywoodFirst Edition - A Very Bright Copy - 1923

Item Number: 9 Price: $850. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE GIRL FROM HOLLYWOOD (New York: The Macaulay Company, 1923) First edition, first state binding stamped in yellow, inserted illustration without “he said”. Frontispiece by P.J. Monahan. 8vo, publisher’s original red wove cloth lettered and decorated in yellow on the spine and upper cover. A bright and very well preserved copy showing only very little evidence of age. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. First state of the binding on this pro-vocative novel from the early twenties. The story alternates between the all-American Pennington family on their remote California ranch

A Most Impressive Victorian American BibleContaining both the Authorized and Revised VersionsExtensively Decorat-ed with Thousands of Illustrations

[Bible], [American Bible]. THE HOLY BIBLE Containing the Authorized and the Revised Versions of the Old and New Testa-ments... with Complete Concordance. A Comprehensive Bible Dictionary.... (Boston: George V. Jones, Circa 1873) “The Parallel Bible”. Extensively and beautifully illustrated with over 3000 illustrations including full colour lithographic plates, many of which burnished in gold. Large, thick folio, in the publisher’s beautifully produced binding designed to mirror the hand-bound bibles of earlier centuries while incorporating newer full Victorian design elements. The Bible is of full burgundy morocco on thick

boards heavily embossed in a cross panel creating seven raised areas around the central panel decorated in extensive and highly detailed gilt depicting biblical scenes, the lower cover matching the upper, with two large and wide silver clasps decoratively engraved and with large silver hinge and clasp pieces A beauti-ful copy, well preserved and very useable, the paper toned as expected but clean and without spots or foxing, the plates bright, the binding with just a bit of edge-wear. A MAGNIFICENT AMERICAN BIBLE. The edition contains both the authorized “King James” text and the Revised version.

Berendt, John. MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. A Savannah Story. (New York: Random House, 1994) First Edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over boards, the spine and upper cover let-tered in green, in the publisher’s decorated dustjacket. A very fine copy, as pristine.

and a young bit-part Hollywood actress. Shannon Burke, known on the screen as Gaza de Lure, remembers her Hollywood history. She had come for fame. She refused to trade sexual favors for work, and found that she could not get better roles. The novel includes bootlegging, drug-dealing, addiction, unwanted pregnancy, nude auditions, and (of course) true love. In ‘Tarzan Forever’, biographer John Taliaferro explains that the Pennington’s Ranch resembles Burroughs’s own Tarzana, California home: “Rancho del Ganado is Tarzana to the last detail; the description of roads, trails, topography, and architecture verge on the encyclopedic.”

Arrian’s Life of Alexander the Great - Greek and Latin TextsExpeditionis Alex-andri Libri Septem et Historia IndicaA Copy with Fine Provenance - The Macclesfield Copy


Arrianus, Flavius; Arriani Nicomediensis; Arrian, [Alexander the Great, Greek History, Macedonia]. EXPEDITIONIS ALEXANDRI LIBRI SEPTEM ET HISTORIA INDICA... (Leiden: Petrus Vander Aa, 1704) First of the Edition and first with Gronovius’ curation, the volume printed in both Greek and Latin in parallel columns. A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE, THE MACCLESFIELD. The title page printed in red and black and with engraved decoration, engraved decorated capital initials at the beginning of each book, both for the Latin and Greek texts. Folio, bound at the time in full contemporary polished calf, the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, and with a red morocco lettering label gilt. An excellent, well preserved

copy, still very handsome and with slight strengthening at the hinges, the text block crisp and clean throughout, with some of the occasional browning usual to the paper stock evident on some leaves. Still as fine a copy one might hope to encounter. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT, A COPY WITH FINE PROV-ENANCE. THE FIRST OF THE EDITION AND A HIGHLY IMPORTANT CLASSICAL WORK. Upon his retirement Flavius Arrianus, a Greek soldier in the Roman army, completed his seven volume work on the campaigns of Alexander, and an eighth describ-ing India was also penned, as well as his writings on the area of the Euphrates. All are included in the present volume.

James Boswell’s Life of Samuel JohnsonA Fine Set in Four Volumes Very Handsomely Bound“One of the Best Books in the World”

bands separating gilt paneled compartments. A fine set, sturdy, fresh, clean and attractive in every way. Beautifully preserved and very nicely bound. AN IMPORTANT EDITION OF THIS GREAT WORK AND AN UNCOMMONLY HANDSOME SET. For this edition the entire work had been read over by the author’s son, James Boswell by which many errors occasioned over the earlier editions had been discovered and carefully amended.

Item Number: 7 Price: $1450. Boswell, James. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON... (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811) 4 volumes, complete. The Sixth Edition, Revised and Augmented. Engraved portrait frontispiece and the two required plates including the fold-out facsimile of Dr. Johnson’s handwriting and the famous Round Robin in the first volume. 8vo, in fine contemporary bindings of full straight-grained calf, the boards deeply textured and with a roll-tooled border in blind, the spines with gilt stippled raised



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vellum a bit mellowed. The kasidah (couplets) in this volume of poetry were written by Burton under his nom-de-plume, Haji Abdu Al-Yazdi. Compared by critics to “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” Burton’s verse was judged as a “an exquisite gem of Oriental poetry.” Burton wrote the Kasidah 27 years before he first ventured to print it. Mosher printed only 20 copies on the japon vellum used for this copy. Initials are in red.

Fine Victorian Tales for Children - Lovingly IllustratedAdventures of a Brownie - 1872

Item Number: 11 Price: $750. [Craik, Dinah Maria (Mulock)]. THE ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE. As Told to My Child. By the Author of “John Halifax, Gentleman.” (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872) First American Edition, first issue with “just ready” in the advertisements. Lovingly illustrated with six engraved plates and numerous smaller wood engravings throughout the text by Helen Paterson (aka Mrs. Allingham). 12mo, publisher’s original brick coloured cloth attractively lettered in gilt on the

The Migratory Springbucks of South Africa - TrekbokkeFirst Edition in the Original Dustjacket - Very RareWith a Description of the Zambezi Falls

the very rare pictorial dustjacket. A superlative copy, very fine and as pristine in the original dustjacket. Very minor evidence of age to the jacket. RARE AND ESPECIALLY SO IN THE ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET. Perhaps the first book written on the “Trekbokke” --the Migratory Springbucks of South Africa.

Cronwright-Schreiner, S.C.. THE MIGRATORY SPRINGBUCKS OF SOUTH AFRICA (The Trekbokke). Also and Essay on THE OSTRICH and a Letter Descriptive of the ZAMBESI FALLS (London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1925) First Edition of a Scarce Book. Illustrated with a frontispiece and a number of other plates throughout. 8vo, publisher’s original light green cloth, lettered and bordered in dark green on the spine and upper cover, with

One of Darwin’s Most Important BooksThe Various Con-trivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised

Item Number: 13 Price: $325. Darwin, Charles. THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS. (New York: D. Apple-ton and Company, 1889) Second edition, revised. With numerous illustrations. 8vo, original brick red cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on spine and with ornately framed borders on the upper cover in black and on the lower cover in blind. A fine and handsome copy, internally as fresh and clean as one could hope to find, the binding dark, attractive and solid with only the lightest hint of

Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Africa 1822-1824Important First Edi-tion - Handsomely Bound - DenhamPublished in London in 1826 - Contempo-rary Binding

and handsome copy, internally fresh and clean, plates in fine order with less then typical offsetting, folding map near and with no wear and just a bit of spotting. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT WORK. Denham and Clapperton, in the company of Dr. Walter Oudney, traveled from Benioleed, near Tripoli, almost due south to Lake Tchad, with excursions into the mountains west of Mourzuk in Fezzan. Dixon attempted to follow the circuit around Lake Tchad but was unsuccessful.

Item Number: 14 Price: $2500.Denham, Major Dixon and Clapperton, Captain Hugh, and Doc-tor Oudney. NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA... (London: John Murray, 1826) First edition. With 34 fine engraved plates, one of which is hand-colored, 3 sketch maps, 6 engraved vignettes and large folding map of the route. 4to, full contemporary diced calf with blind rolled borders to the coverss, the spine sometime expertly restored preserving most of the original backing which features large central gilt tools in between multi-ruled gilt bands. A fine

upper cover and spine, the covers with additional black bands ruled in gilt, lower cover with Harper Brothers’ device in black, original brown endpapers. A fine copy, especially well preserved for a juvenile book of this period. The binding with just a bit of bumping, insignificant edgewear or other extremely minor evidence of age. A sweet an attractively illustrated Victorian children’s book written by the author for her adopted daughter.

edge-wear, hinges strong and tight, very clean. One of Darwin’s most important but often overlooked works. he book was concerned with working out in detail the relationships between sexual structures of orchids and the insects which fertil-ize them, their evolution being attributed to natural selection, and therefore was the first of the volumes of “supporting evidence” for his ORIGIN OF SPECIES.


One of Only 20 copies on Japon VellumBurton’s Kasidah

Item Number: 10 Price: $975. Burton, Richard F. THE KASIDAH of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi. A Lay of the Higher Law. With a Foreword by Roger Ingpen. (Portland: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1915) This edition printed on Japanese Vellum is limited to only 20 numbered copies,of which this is number 12 signed by Mosher. With a facsimile of the original design and lettering of the front wrapper to the first edition. Royal quarto, full vellum lettered in gilt on upper and lower covers and spine. A nice copy of this rare book, the

A Scarce Detmold Illustrated First EditionOur Little Neigh-bors - Animals of the Farm & Woodlands

FIRST EDITION. A very uncommon title by Detmold and an exquisite collection of his animal illustrations. The plates include, The Superior Cat, Mrs. Hen and Her Family, The Fairy Squirrel and Mice, Plain and Fancy. Eleven farm and woodland friends are described and painted in total making this book a lovely addition to a children’s illustrated library. These bright paintings of baby animals are some of Detmold’s most endearing and timeless illustrations.

Item Number: 15 Price: $195.[Detmold, illus.] Kaberry, C. J. OUR LITTLE NEIGHBOURS. Animals of the Farmyard and the Woodland (London: Humphrey Milford for the Oxford University Press, [c.1921]) First edition. With 11 mounted color plates by Edward J. Detmold. 4to, pub-lisher’s original lavender cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered and decorated in navy blue. An elusive title, this is a fresh and handsome copy, the plates are all very fine, the foxing to which the book is prone is at a minimum and confined mostly to the prelims, the cloth is bright with no fading.



North of Boston - A Robert Frost Classicpreserved, whole and without chipping, just a bit of wear at the fold lines and extremely minor rubbing to the spine. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION AND IN THE DUSTWRAP-PER. THIS ISSUE WAS ACTUALLY THE FIRST REPRINT OF THE FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN AMERICA. It was in NORTH OF BOSTON that Frost found himself, the book is vital to his development as a great poet. It remains in all his oeuvre perhaps the most prominent of his books.

Item Number: 19 Price: $1850.One of the Great Works of American PoetryThe First American Edition - In the Rare Dustjacket

Frost, Robert. NORTH OF BOSTON (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915) First Edition Thus, Stated Third edition but actually the second, and the First Edition Printed in America. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine and lettered in gilt within a double-ruled frame on the upper cover, in the publisher’s original dustjacket printed in black on the upper cover and spine. A fine and handsome copy, only the most minor of mellowing to the tips, the jacket unusually well

Adventures in New-foundland

Item Number: 20 Price: $295.Greene, Major William Howe. THE WOODEN WALLS AMONG THE ICE FLOES: Telling the Romance of the Newfoundland Seal Fishery (London: Hutchison and Co, 1933) First edition. With numerous illustrations from photographs and with charts. Large 8vo, publisher’s original bright royal-blue cloth decorated with a sailing ship in gilt to the upper cover, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt with a pictorial decoration of a seal in gilt. A fine and bright copy of this scarce book, the text essentially

pristine, the cloth fresh and with no fading, only the lightest evidence of age. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, RARELY FOUND IN THIS CONDITION, the book was prone to foxing, especially along the page edges, this copy is completely free of it. This is Major Greene’s extensive history of his years in the fleet of “wooden walls”, as the sealing steamers of Newfoundland were called.

Wooden Walls Among the Ice Floes

Dryden’s Translation - Printed by Jacob TonsonThe Satires of Junius and PersiusAdorned With Fine Copperplates by Hollar

Item Number: 18 Price: $550.[Dryden] Decimus Junius, Juvenalis; Aulus Persius Flaccus. THE SATIRES OF DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY MR. DRYDEN... (London: Jacob Tonson, 1697) Early issue. Adorned with sculptures, being sixteen finely engraved copper plates by Hollar, including the frontispiece, to illustrate each of the Satires and one additional engraved bust of Persius. Also with engraved half-titles to each of the Satires. 8vo, contemporary full speckled calf, sometime lont ago rebacked to period style with the spine featuring gilt

ruled raised bands, one compartment with a dark green morocco label lettered and ruled in gilt, endleaves renewed. A well pre-served copy. Some minor toning or foxing, more so to the title and frontispiece, binding with some normal age evidence. AN IMPORTANT TRANSLATION OF ONE OF THE GREAT CLASSICAL TEXTS. The engraved plates are much in the same style as the somewhat more famous plates in Dryden’s ‘Virgil’, which was first published the same year as this edition.

Through Italy and France With Charles Dickens Item Number: 16 Price: $1250.Dickens, Charles. PICTURES FROM ITALY (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846) First edition, with the first state of the ad leaf. With four vignette illustrations from woodcuts by Samuel Palmer. Small 8vo, in the publisher’s original blue cloth cloth decorated on both covers and spine in blind, the spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind. An especially nice copy of this charming little book, internally extremely clean and fresh. The blue cloth

First Edition - Origi-nal Cloth - Pictures From Italy

bright with no fading. A VERY NICE COPY INDEED. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. A beautiful reminiscence of a tour through Italy by one of England’s greatest writers. Dickens provides for the armchair traveler a descriptive journey through some of the most scenic areas and cities in Italy and France. His poetic and descriptive style, made famous in his many novels, is well suited to this type of travel log.

The Rare Offprint from Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie

Item Number: 17 Price: $2450.[Dore] Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321). THE [INFERNO] VISION OF HELL, and THE VISION OF PURGATORY AND PARADISE. Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary (London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell and Company Limited, 1903) 2 vol-umes. With Critical and Explanatory Notes, Life of Dante, and Chronology. With 135 extraordinary Gustave Dore engravings on plates including an impressive portrait of Dante. Folio, finely bound in handsome contemporary bindings of maroon morocco over burgundy cloth covered boards, the spine with fine gilt tool-

ing at the head and tail, gilt tooled and gilt bordered sectional compartment lettered in gilt. A fine and very attractive set of this great work. The pages are still clean and fresh and the fine bindings are sturdy and solid and very well preserved. A VERY HANDSOME SET IN MOROCCO BINDINGS. Dore’s huge and spectacular illustrations bring Dante’s visions to life in a style and manner to satisfy artistic appetites both subtle and grotesque. A truly grand example of the art of metal plate engraving.

Dore’s Spectacular “Dante” A Majestic Two Volume Set

First Edition - With Seven Fine Colour-plates

Item Number: 21 Price: $150.Grey, Zane. TAPPAN’S BURRO and Other Stories (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1923) First Edition. With seven illustra-tions on colour plates by Charles S. Chapman and Frank Street. Small 4to, publisher’s original pebbled black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, the upper cover featuring a full colour pastedown by Chapman gilt ruled and with gilt lettering. A very good and bright copy with only minor expected mellowing.

FIRST EDITION. A bright copy of one of the very few of Zane Grey’s books to be published with full colour-plates. Presented here are Stories of prospectors, Indians, fronteersmen and other such icons of the American West and Mexico. The stories Include “Tappan”s Burro,” “The Great Slave,” “Yaqui,” “Tigre,” and “The Rubber Hunter.”

Zane Grey - Tappen’s Burro and Other Stories



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SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. An account of big-game hunting with digressions on literary matters; this work shows Hemingway’s further cultivation of the primitive and brutal levels contrasted with hollow culture, which he felt had cheated his generation. Heming-way would long carry the reputation of a master hunter as well as master writer.

Frank Herbert’s Dune - A Fine CopyFICTION NOVELS OF ALL TIME. This finely produced Putnam edition attests to the near cult-like popularity that Frank Herbert had found with his complex story since its original publication in 1965. The story of Paul Atreides on the desert planet Arrakis had become one of the most famous and best selling novels of the genre. In 1975, it was voted by Science Fiction readers as the greatest novel ever, over such classics as LORD OF THE RINGS, 1984, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, and etc.

Item Number: 25 Price: $595.Herbert, Frank. DUNE (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1984) First Putnam edition. With the two page map of Arrakis. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth over blue boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original dustjacket. A fine copy indeed, very bright, the jacket with virtually no wear and only trivial signs of age. FIRST EDITION AND THE FIRST BOOK IN HERBERT’S EPIC SERIES, AND ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SCIENCE

Arguably the Most Famous Book of the Sci-Fi Genre

James Joyce - The First Edition Printed in England Item Number: 26 Price: $4750.Joyce, James. ULYSSES (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936) First Edition, English Issuance, First Authorized English edition, one of 900 copies only, printed on special Japon vellum papers, probably the most beautiful First Edition of ULYSSES ever printed. Tall, thick, royal 8vo, publisher’s original full green polished linen buckram with the gilt lettering and picto-rial decoration of the gilt bow designed by Eric Gill on the upper cover and spine, top edge gilt. A beautifully preserved copy, the covers of the green cloth in bright and beautiful condition without any of the fading typical to the book, the back without the usual fading and only very slight mellowing to the panel.

Ulysses - A Beautiful Copy in Unusually Fine Condition Rare Thus - One of the Greatest Novels of the 20th Century

An excellent survival with all aspects of a collector’s demands in good order. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT LITERARY FIRST EDITION, AR-GUABLY THE GREATEST WORK OF FICTION OF THE 2OTH CENTURY. This an especially well preserved and pleasing copy of the first authorized English edition. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST EDITION of ULYSSES PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. The superb binding executed in full polished linen buckram has been especially designed for this great book. DESIGNS FOR THE BINDING, EXECUTED IN GILT WERE ACCOMPLISHED BY ERIC GILL, ONE OF THE MOST GIFTED MASTERS OF THE ART.

Hardy, Thomas. TWO ON A TOWER. A Romance (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882) 3 volumes. Scarce first edition. 8vo, bound by Zaehnsdorf in near contem-porary three-quarter blue morocco over blue marbled boards, the spines are gilt lettered in two compartments and have wide gilt decorated raised bands, t.e.g., the original blue cloth to the up-per cover and spine of Volume I has been retained and bound in. Now housed in a fine morocco backed foldover protective case. A very pleasing and handsome set, quite fine internally with just

Item Number: 22 Price: $6000.First Edition - Two on a Tower - Original Cloth Preserved

a bit of normal age mellowing to the text, the original half-titles retained, the antique bindings with some light evidence of age or use at the joints and extremities. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF HARDY’S WESSEX NOVELS, SET IN A PARALLEL VERSION OF LATE VICTORIAN DORSET. It is a tale of star-crossed love in which the unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an astronomer who is ten years her junior.

Thomas Hardy’s Most Complex Romance

First Edition of this Formative Work on HarlemJames Riker - Harlem (City of New York) - 1881

ing, primarily at the tips. Hinges are tight and strong and the text-block well preserved. FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE EARLY TEXT ON HARLEM. James Riker New York historian and genealogist was descended from early Dutch settlers. He collected original documents from the colonial era, copied extracts from documents in state and local archives and corresponded extensively with historians, relatives and old family friends.

Item Number: 23 Price: $450.[Harlem, New York]; Riker, James. HARLEM (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals... (New York: Printed for the Author, 1881) First Edition. Illustrated with engravings in the text, full-page plates and a large folding map of Harlem. Royal 8vo, publisher’s original sea-green cloth, the covers stamped in blind with multi-framed panels at the borders, the spine lettered in gilt. A very good copy, clean and tight and very well preserved internally and with only light evidence of age or use to the bind-

John F. Kennedy - Profiles In Courage - 1956A Copy Signed by the 35th President

Item Number: 27 Price: $4250.Kennedy, John F. PROFILES IN COURAGE (New York: Harper and Brothers, (1956)) SIGNED BY JOHN F. KENNEDY. First Edition, a very early printing with the Harper code H-F (August, 1956) and the original $3.50 price on the dustjacket. 8vo, pub-lisher’s original quarter black cloth and blue cloth over boards, in the original printed and pictorial dustjacket, the book and its original jacket are now protected in a fine facsimile of the jacket. A very good and handsome copy of the book, the paper with just minor age mellowing, minor rubbing at the extremities and

edges, the jacket is edge worn and mellowed and has several chips, including some loss at both spine tips, bottom third of spine torn but present and still attached. Now presented with a facsimile jacket housing the original jacket. SIGNED BY THE 35th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND A VERY EARLY ISSUANCE OF HIS IMPORTANT PU-LITZER PRIZE WINNING BOOK. The most famous and long-enduring of the President’s writings. This was Kennedy’s second book. It earned for him the Pulitzer Prize.

Hemingway’s Thoughts on Literature and Game Item Number: 24 Price: $2950.Hemingway, Ernest. GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935) First Edition. Illustrated with black and white drawings throughout. 8vo, original green cloth lettered in gilt over black on gilt ruled spine, upper copy with Hemingway signature facsimile in gilt. In the original decorated dustjacket. A nice copy of this work, the cloth with some of the usual mellowing down to the spine panel and covers, the jacket with some minor shelf-wear or edge rubbing.

The Green Hills of Africa



First Edition of Norman Mailer’s Greatest Work Item Number: 31 Price: $850.Mailer, Norman. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD (New York: Rinehart and Co, 1948) First edition, first issue with Rinehart logo on copyright page, jacket without the Rinehart quote. 8vo, original black cloth printed in white on the spine, printed dust-jacket with Mailer’s photograph on the rear panel. Internally a very good and well preserved copy with only minor mellowing and some dusting to the page edges. The cloth good only with the spine panel loose from the front board but still whole and

The Naked and The Dead

attached to the back, some wear to the board edges and corners, dustjacket in good order with very little wear or aging. NORMAN MAILER’S FIRST BOOK AND ARGUABLY STILL ONE OF HIS BEST. Long considered one of the best novels to come out of World War II, and the best to come out of America. It caused a sensation on its initial publication; critics compared the 25-year-old author to Tolstoy and catapulted him to instant literary celebrity.

La Fontaine, J[ean] de. FABLES CHOISIES, Mises en Vers Par J. De La Fontaine (Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant [et] Durand, De l’Imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1755-1759) 4 volumes. First edition of this extraordinary work, considered to be one of the finest illustrated books ever produced in France. Engraved frontispiece, and with the engraved portrait Oudry by Tardieu after de Largillière included in only some copies, and 275 engraved plates after Jean-Baptiste Oudry by Cochin, Tardieu, Prévost, Chedel Lempereur and others. As well, there are over 200 very finely engraved vignettes, head- and tail-pieces by Lesueur after Bachelier. Large folio, bound in very handsome contemporary full calf, the boards framed with gilt double-ruled

Item Number: 29 Price: $22,500.One of the Finest Illustrated Books of all TimeThe Zenith of the French Illustrated Book

lines, the spine with wide bands creating gilt framed compart-ments, each double-gilt ruled and decorated in a floral motif. A fine and handsome set, very well preserved with only light evidence of use or age and some very expert and unobtrusive restoration at the hinges. RARE FIRST EDITION OF WHAT IS GENERALLY CONSID-ERED TO BE ONE OF THE GREATEST FRENCH BOOKS OF ALL TIME AND ONE OF THE FINEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS EVER TO BE PRODUCED, ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS AND SUCCESSFUL EVER PRODUCED, AND THE ZENITH OF THE 18TH CENTURY DECORATED BOOK IN FRANCE.

The Most Beautiful La Fontaine Fables Ever Printed

Le Vaillant’s Travels into Africa - 1790The Important First Edition of the First VoyageIn the Rare Printer’s Boards - Original Deckled Edges

A fine set in fully original condition as it came from the printer, unrestored and unsophisticated, very scarce such. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. “Le Vaillant was a French naturalist who traveled in South Africa from 1780 to 1785 when he collected material for his magnificent book on the birds of Africa. His travels were extensive and took him as far as Namaqualand, Bechuanaland, and parts of the Kalahari. His conceit adds a spice of humor to his books”

Item Number: 30 Price: $1750.Le Vaillant, [Francois]. TRAVELSFROM THE CAPE OF GOOD-HOPE, INTO THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AFRICA, INCLUDING MANY INTERESTING ANECDOTES... (London: for William Lane, 1790) 2 volumes. First edition. With 14 elegant copperplate engravings, some folding. There are two plates of giraffes rather than only one as listed and an additional plate of arms opposite page 1. 8vo, in original printer’s boards and untrimmed as is-sued, very rare as such, the boards of gray paper with contempo-rary backing of brown calf gilt ruled and lettered in manuscript.

Stride Toward Freedom - One of the Best American BooksSigned by Martin Luther King Jr.

edge-mellowing, the jacket handsome with some small chips, minor edge wear and slight fading to the spine. AN INSCRIBED COPY WITH EXCELLENT PROVENANCE OF THIS GREAT WORK IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. This is the famous story of Rosa Parks and the resulting Montgomery bus boycott led by Dr. King. This copy belonged to George and Josephine Rayford of Charleston, WV. Mrs. Rayford was the first African American affiliated with the Kanawha County Business Education Association, serving of the Board of Directors.

Item Number: 28 Price: $9500.King, Jr., Martin Luther. STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM: The Montgomery Story (New York: Harper & Row, 1958) First edition, an early issue (Sept. ‘59) printing. SIGNED with “best wishes” by Dr. King to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Rayford. With eight pages of photographs. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth backed in black, lettered in silver on the spine and with silver publisher’s device on the upper cover, in the original dustjacket. Now pre-served in a handsome morocco backed fold-over box with black morocco labels lettered in gilt.. A very well preserved copy, inside clean and quite fine, the blue cloth with only the most minor of

First Edition - With Colourplates by A.C. MichaelAn Artist in SpainIncluding and Extra Colourplate Not Called For


Michael, A.C. AN ARTIST IN SPAIN (London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.) First edition. Illustrated with 26 beautiful tipped-on colour plates, including frontispiece by A.C Michael, and with an extra tipped-on plate at the overleaf, not called for in the collation. 4to, publisher’s original brick-red cloth, upper cover and spine handsomely lettered and decorated with designs rendered in orange and black. A fine copy, especially well pre-

served and very, internally very fine with all plates bright. FINE FIRST EDITION COPY OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED AND HANDSOMELY PRESENTED WORK. The splendours of Spain come vividly to life in this scarce work, generously illustrated with the author’s own paintings. Subjects include the Segovia Cathedral, the Alhambra at sunset, and the bullfights at Madrid.

The First Authorized and Trade Edition of a Classic WorkHenry Miller - Tropic of Cancer - Grove Press


Miller, Henry. TROPIC OF CANCER (New York: Grove Press, 1961) First authorized and first trade edition issued in America. With a long introduction by Karl Shapiro and a preface by Anais Nin. 8vo., publisher’s original cloth backed boards in dustjacket. A handsome, clean and pleasing copy, some light evidence of age or shelving to the dustjacket, the book very fine. FIRST AUTHORIZED AND FIRST TRADE EDITION ISSUED

IN AMERICA. Of the book, John Ciardi said, [it] “is a substantial work of art. The violence of Miller’s attack on orthodoxy and false-ness is indispensable to his human vision of things. In [the book] the test is ferocity, a ferocious and yet naive sincerity that castigates all sham. It cannot fail to be moral finally, because the ferocity is radi-cally moral. And because the author is an artist--a very good one, as the continued ‘underground life’ of the book attests.”



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The Knave of Hearts - The Preferred Cloth BindingMaxfield Parrish’s Spectacular Master-pieceWith Brilliant Colour Illustrations Throughout

in very nice condition, some minor mellowing to the black cloth and pastedown and some bumping to the corners, otherwise very bright and clean and well preserved. THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS BRILLIANT ILLUSTRATED BOOK. Perhaps Parrish’s best work, and certainly a very scarce book in nice condition. So well known and popular was his work F. Scott Fitzgerald , for example, described the reflection in a restaurant window as being the color of ‘Maxfield Parrish moonlight.’

Item Number: 35 Price: $2150.[Parrish, Maxfield, Illus.] Saunders, Louise. THE KNAVE OF HEARTS. With Pictures by Maxfield Parrish (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925) First edition and the best issue bound in cloth and oversized. Decorated with a beautiful colourplate pictorial cover, stunning pictorial endleaves and a profusion of very fine colour illustrations throughout by Maxfield Parrish. 4to, publisher’s original black cloth with the full size pictorial colour pastedown on the upper cover, and colour illustrated endpapers. A handsome copy with the head and tail of the spine

First Edition With Arthur Rackham’s Illustrations Item Number: 36 Price: $650.[Rackham, illus.] Andersen, Hans. FAIRY TALES BY HANS ANDERSEN (Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1932]) First edition, American issue using the English sheets with a title-page printed in the UK for American use. With 12 wonder-ful colour plates, and 59 black and white illustrations within the text by Arthur Rackham. 4to, original peach cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt, with the fine pictorial endpapers created by Rackham. A fine bright copy, internally as clean and fresh as one could find, plates bright and lovely, the cloth with a

bit of mild mellowing to the spine and top edges but in all very handsome and fresh. ELUSIVE ARTHUR RACKHAM FIRST EDITION. A beautiful collaboration of one of the world’s greatest story tellers with one of the 20th century’s finest illustrators. Here we find a wide assortment of Hans Christian Andersen’s well-loved tales beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

The Fairy Tales of Hans Andersen

Charles Dickens - Richly Illustrated by Frank Reynolds A Bright and Hand-some Copy of ‘The Pickwick Papers’

Item Number: 37 Price: $285.[Reynolds, illus.] Dickens, Charles. THE POSTHUMOUS PA-PERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB (London: Westminster Press, N.D., circa 1912) First edition such, the Westminster imprint by arrangement with Hodder & Stoughton. Illustrated with 20 remarkable tipped-in colour plates by Frank Reynolds with opaque lettered tissue guards, and with a colour vignette title page and colour illustrated endpapers. Thick 4to, publisher’s original bright crimson cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and

upper cover, and with the fine gilt and black pictorial vignette on the upper cover. A bright, handsome and fresh copy with only very minor evidence of age. ONE OF OUR FAVORITE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND THIS A BRIGHT COPY. This fine gift edition of THE PICKWICK PAPERS, is handsomely illustrated with Frank Reynolds’ magnificent illustrations. On these colourful and energetic pages, the exploits and antics of Pickwick, Tupman, Winkle, and Snodgrass come to life.

The Catcher in the Rye - Boston - 1951 - First EditionJ.D. Salinger’s Iconic American Literary Classic

Item Number: 38 Price: $3950.Salinger, J. D. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951) First edition and First Printing. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and in the original dustjacket featuring Salinger’s photo on rear cover credited to Lotte Jacobi and $3 price correctly positioned on front flap. A good and honest copy showing some use, but otherwise well preserved. The dustjacket with some evidence of age-wear at the extremities and with a chip at the bottom of the spine panel, the bottom of the dustjacket sometime trimmed slightly to clean the bottom edge.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF AN AMERICAN ICONIC WORK AND A 20TH CENTURY LITERARY CLASSIC. J.D. Salinger’s first and still, most famous work.. Salinger tapped into a common and necessary theme in American literature with his unhappy teenage character, Holden Caulfield, who runs away from his boarding school as part of his disgust with ‘phoniness’. Caufield’s feelings and the idiom in which he communicates them have made the book a symbol of purity and sensitivity to generations of readers and has insured that it will remain a particularly coveted title in modern literature.

Nabokov’s Most Famous Book - Lolita Item Number: 34 Price: $3250.Nabokov, Vladimir. LOLITA (Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955) 2 volumes. First edition. First Issue, with the prices imprinted on the rear covers at 900 F and other called for first issue points: August 1955 in each volume, *1 and **1. 8vo, publisher’s original green wrappers, lettered and decorated in white and black. A handsome, honest set, some natural evidence of age, some mellowing, a small chip to a corner of the upper cover of Vol. Two, some rubbing to the extremities or hinges, a solid and collectible set.

The First Edition, First Issue - Original WrapsPublished in Paris by the Olympia Press - 1955

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF A CLASSIC TWENTIETH CENTURY BOOK. Nabokov’s most famous work, it was prevented entry into the United States and was not published here for many years after the first issuance of the book in Paris. To this day it remains a cornerstone book in the collecting of modern literature. Generally affordable copies of the proper first issue are not often encountered and thus ours represents a good opportunity to obtain this elusive work.

Scarce First Edition, First Issue in Rarest Mustard ClothJohn Steinbeck’s Cannery Row - 1945

Item Number: 39 Price: $2250.Steinbeck, John. CANNERY ROW (New York: Viking, 1945) First edition, first issue, the very scarce light mustard binding is-sued on only a limited number of the first editions. 8vo, original light mustard cloth, in the dustjacket. A nice copy with some light edgewear to the jacket.

RARE, ONE OF AN EXTREMELY LIMITED NUMBER IN THE FIRST ISSUE MUSTARD BINDING. The warm and funny story of the inhabitants of Cannery Row in Monterey, California. Steinbeck dedicated the book to his close friend Ed Ricketts upon whom he modeled Doc, the central character of the novel.



Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace - Six Volumes - 1886Rare First Edition in English of a World ClassicOriginal Cloth Gilt Decorated - A Very Pleasing Set

Item Number: 40 Price: $13,500.Tolstoi, Leo. WAR AND PEACE. A Historical Novel...Translated into French by A Russian Lady and From the French by Clara Bell... (New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886) 6 volumes. First edition in English, First Issue of each volume with the proper dating and Gottsberger imprint to the verso of each title-page. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, with black tooled borders and gilt pictorial decorations in all over designs to the covers. A very pleasing set of this rare survival. The original cloth remains in quite good condition, the

hinges are strong and tight, some light edgewear to expected areas of the cloth, the tips and the spine ends just a bit rubbed primarily from shelving, two volumes with a bit more wear to the tips of the spines than the others. Ads comport with those in the copy at Harvard University. RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. A COMPLETE SET OF FIRST ISSUE VOLUMES, ALL IN ORIGINAL BINDINGS AND IN A PLEASING STATE OF PRESERVATION. Tolstoy’s epic of the Napoleonic wars has few peers in world literature.

Toulouse-Lautrec - Master of the Post ImpressionistHis Lithographs and Drypoints - Impres-sively Illustrated

Item Number: 41 Price: $275.[Toulouse-Lautrec]; Adhémar, Jean. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints (New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1965]) With 368 beautifully reproduced full-page illustrations including 54 in colour. Folio, publisher’s original orange cloth lettered in gilt and white on the upper cover and spine, in the original dustjacket. A fine copy, the book very much so, the jacket with only minor edge wear and one small

tear with no loss along the fold of the rear flap. A BEAUTIFUL CATALOGUE RAISONNE, certainly no expense was spared in the production. The reproductions, especially those of the colour plates, are of the finest quality. The 22 page list of plates cleverly folds out, thus allowing it to be accessed with the book still opened to any other page.

Merry Tales From Mark TwainFirst Edition in the Original ‘State A’ Cloth Binding

Item Number: 42 Price: $295.Twain, Mark. MERRY TALES (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892) First edition, BAL’s first binding state. 8vo, publisher’s original green-gray cloth lettered and decorated on the upper cover and spine in gilt and black. An honest and well preserved copy lightly mellowed by time and use.

FIRST EDITION. A selection of seven tales by the great American author and humorist for Arthur Stedman’s Fiction, Fact and Fancy series. The tales are; The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The Invalid’s Story, Luck, The Captain’s Story, A Curious Experience, Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning and Meisterschaft.

The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China - 1880/1881Jules Verne - First Illustrated Edition

Item Number: 43 Price: $895.Verne, Jules. THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN IN CHINA. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer (New York: E.P. Dut-ton and Company, 1881) First Illustrated Edition, actually published in October 1880. 8vo, publishers original green cloth, lettered and pictorially decorated in black and gilt on the spine and upper cover. A very nice copy, especially bright and well preserved, only slight evidence of aging at the tips, crease to the rear cover.

A VERY NICE COPY OF THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDI-TION IN COLLECTOR’S CONDITION. The edition was actually published in October 1880 and comes from the British sheets including the ad leaf for Verne’s works with prices in sterling. It was actually published a month earlier than Sampson Low’s first British edition. The story of a wealthy young Chinaman who is, after much happiness, burdened with the loss of his fortune. But this loss sends him out into the world to seek a new fortune, and adventures more thrilling.

Lew Wallace’s Classic Ben-HurIn the Original Decorated Cloth Binding

Item Number: 44 Price: $325.Wallace, Lew. BEN-HUR. A Tale of the Christ (New York: Harper and Brothers, [1880]) First edition, a very early printing (with the 11-word dedication). 8vo, dark blue cloth gilt lettered on the spine, decorated with a bright star and lettered in gilt and red on the upper cover. A very bright and clean copy, near to fine but for some minor evidence of shelving or age at the tips and extremities, former owner’s neat inscription at the top of the title-page.

A CLASSIC AND TIMELESS WORK. Lew Wallace said that he wrote Ben-Hur as a way to sort out his own beliefs about God and Christ. In doing so he inspired many readers by combining romanticism and spiritual piety common in sentimental novels of the 19th century with the action and adventure found in the more popular stories of the day. It prompted many clergy to reverse their church’s long-held opposition to novels and actually encourage their congregations to read Ben-Hur.

Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth - 1905 A Fine and Bright Copy - 1st Edition - Rare First Issue

Item Number: 45 Price: $1450.Wharton, Edith. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905) First Edition, First Issue, without the later issued ads and with 535-537 blank. With eight full page black and white illustrations by A B Wenzell. 12mo, publisher’s original ribbed red cloth. The upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. Now in a fine protective morocco backed clamshell case, gilt lettered between raised bands. A lovely and fine copy with bind-ing cloth and gilt clean and fresh and uncommonly bright.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. “It is a great Ameri-can novel, intensely interesting, marvelous in its literary finish and powerful in its delineation of Lily Bart.”- Philadelphia Press. “She is the first to make a really powerful and brilliant book out of the mate-rial offered by American fashion to the novelist...A sterling piece of craftsmanship, a tale which interests the reader at the start and never lets him rest till the end is reached.”-New York Tribune.

The Poems of William Butler Yeats - 1901Beautifully Pre-sented in Highly Decorated Cloth Gilt

Item Number: 45 Price: $650.Yeats, W. B. POEMS (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1901) The third English issue. With and etched portrait frontispiece after the drawing by Jack B. Yeats. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered and richly decorated in gilt on the spine and upper cover in overall floral designs and with a large central gilt rose decora-tion on the lower cover. A bright handsome copy, essentially

fine, the text with no spotting or staining. AN IMPORTANT WORK, A FIRST OF SORTS WITH REVI-SIONS, UNUSUALLY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION with fine cover designs and a profusion of Yeats’ finest poems. It contains revisions and additions not included in the two earlier printings and is arguably a more attractive production overall.

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