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1 Robert W. CHAMBERS. Sketchbook of original pen-cil drawings. (1885). $3000

Oblong octavo. Quarter leather and cloth, in slipcase. Some wear to the spine, but still a very good copy in worn slipcase. There are about 45 sketches, many Initialed and dated by Chambers, who has Signed his full name to the first and last pages of the book. Chambers has sketched various subjects: ducks flying over swampland, figures (mostly women), portraits, studies of other artwork.

Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) was both an artist and writer, though he is better known for his nov-els than his art. Born in Brooklyn to wealthy parents, Chambers studied art in Paris, exhibiting at the Salon as early as 1889. Upon his return to New York, he made his living selling illustrations to magazines, before devot-ing himself to writing full-time. His first book, In the Quarter, was published in 1894. His most famous work, The King in Yellow, an influential horror story collection, followed in 1895. Though Chambers wrote a few more books in the supernatural/horror genre, he made a successful career out of writing romantic and historical fiction. [BTC #98889]

Art: Items 1...10 Children’s Books: Items 11...16 Literature & Miscellaneous: Items 17...78

2 Timothy COLE. Old English Masters Engraved by Timothy Cole, Japan Proofs. New York: Century Company 1902. $3500Limited edition. Number 71 of 150 copies. Two Elephant portfolios (46 cm.) containing 48 wood-engravings by Timothy Cole printed from the original wood blocks by J.C. Bauer. Each proof is printed on Japan silk tissue paper, which is in turn mounted on heavy Japan paper with a gold-lined frame, and surmounted by a cover of Imperial Irish linen paper bearing the number and title of each proof in letterpress. All plates are in fine condition in very good portfolio boxes with some soiling and tears in the cloth along the gutters. Timothy Cole was the acclaimed last master of interpre-tive wood-engraving, and he flourished

at a time when photographic illustrations supplanted the widespread use of wood engrav-ings. His work was famous for its vibrating and singing quality, which is particularly evident in the proofs, and for his ability to translate the particular characteristics and sentiment of each painting into black and white lines on a small block of boxwood. He was sent to Europe in 1883 to engrave the old master paintings and devoted the next 27 years going from gallery to gallery to complete his magnum opus. According to OCLC only one U.S. institution, the Huntington in California, owns a set of the Old English Masters Japan proofs. Each proof is Signed in pencil by Timothy Cole and J.C. Bauer. (Also see larger image on rear cover.) [BTC #326578]

Art

Original Artworks3 E.E. CUMMINGS. Pencil Sketch: Portrait of Unidentified Woman. $3000Original pencil drawing. Single sheet, 11" x 14". Portrait of a woman with shoulder-length wavy hair, wearing a necklace, shown up to the lapels of her blouse. Identity of subject unknown, though the initials “D C” lightly pencilled at bottom of page . LPC #517. Lopez #530. Some stains, not affecting drawing, some light wear along extremities, else in fine condition. [BTC #72300]

5 —. Sketch of Dancing Nude. $4500Original oil sketch. Oil on canvasboard, 8" x 10". Light brushed sketch of dancing nude woman, using mostly purple paint. LPC #785. Lopez #880. A little bit of wear to the corners, else fine condition. [BTC #72329]

4 —. Portrait of Marion Morehouse with Upraised Arms. $6000Original oil painting. Oil on canvasboard, 10" x 14". Portrait of Marion Morehouse, Cummings’s third wife; she is nude to the waist and posed with her arms raised with her hands behind her neck. LPC #731. Lopez #561. Fine condition. [BTC #72305]

6 Luis Miguel DOMINGUIN and Pablo PICASSO. Toros y Toreros. (New York): Harry N. Abrams (1961). $600First edition. Introduction by Georges Boudaille. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso. Text in English and Spanish. Folio. Illustrated cloth boards. Spine a bit tanned else near fine in worn, fair only cloth and illustrated cardboard slipcase lacking one side panel, and with a good printed acetate wraparound band with some rubbing and tears. [BTC #326352]

7 Diego RIVERA. Acuarelas [1935-1945]: Colleccion Frieda Kahlo. Mexico City: Editorial Atlante 1948.

$4500First edition. Text in sewn wrappers, laid, along with 25 loose plates (4 in color), into a cloth portfolio gilt. One of 1000 copies. Crease on the margin on one plate, tiny nicks and tears in the margins, and some modest wear to the edges of the portfolio, near fine. [BTC #326565]

8 Phyllis JOHNSON, editor. Aspen: The Magazine in a Box, Vol. 1, No. 2. (New York: Aspen 1966). $650Issue 2, “The White Box.” Designed by Frank Kirk, with Tony Angotti. Contains the following items:

1. “Farewell to a Canyon” by an unnamed author, 14 loose pages in card folder.

2. “Ski Racing / Edging the Possible” by Martin Luray, single page accordion-folded into card folder.

3. “Scriabin Again and Again…” by Faubion Bowers, small booklet.4. “The Adaptable House” by Peggy Clifford, large poster folded into small

card folder.5. “The Young Out’s VS the Establishment,” small booklet with short essays

by Lionel Trilling, Stanley Hirsin, Abby Mann, Norman Corwin, Robert Blumofe, Arthur Knight, John Burchard, David T. Bazelon, Robert Osborn, Albert and David Maysles, Jean Renoir, Carroll Baker, Eva Marie Saint, Dr. Karl Menninger, Jack Garfein, and Richard Dyer MacCann.

6. Music by Alexander Scriabin played by Daniel Kunin, original 331/3 acetate flexi-disc recording.Some wear and soiling to the white box, otherwise all items in fine condition. Aspen was a multi-media “magazine” about the arts published by Phyllis Johnson, a former editor for Women’s Wear Daily and Advertising Age, from 1965 to 1971. Each issue was a custom-made box containing separate booklets, pamphlets, records, posters, and in one issue, a Super-8 movie reel – each item representing what would have been an article in a traditional printed magazine. Each issue had its own editor and designer, which provided unprecedented artistic originality. However, not surprisingly, its avant-garde format made it impractical, if not downright impossible, for the magazine to support itself. Advertising was supposed to help pay for the costs of production, but the ads, which were contained in a folder at the bottom of the box, were easily ignored. Furthermore, it proved difficult to adhere to the publication schedule of four issues a year. In the end, only ten issues were published. As the poetry and art website www.ubu.com notes: “Perhaps Aspen was a folly, but it was a vastly pleasurable one, with a significant place in art history. The list of contributors included some of the most interesting artists of the 20th Century. And as an exemplar of creative publishing, Aspen was a wonder. Its contents, however, are all but lost: few copies of Aspen have survived.” [BTC #96052]

9 Norman ROCKWELL. Paintings by Norman Rockwell to Illustrate “Tom Sawyer.” New York: The Heritage Press [1936?]. $850First edition. Three facsimile “paintings” on thick artist board, laid into an illustrated cardstock portfolio. A small stain on the front of the portfolio else very near fine; “paintings” are fine. Individual “paintings” turn up but the set is very scarce. OCLC locates only two sets. [BTC #326567]

10 John SLOAN. [Signed etching]: Serenade (aka: The Laggard in Love). [No place: no publisher] 1912.

$1500Etching on thin laid paper. Image size 3" x 5¼" on 8" x 10½" sheet. Plate mark. Pinholes around outer edges of sheet, else fine. An etching by John Sloan from a projected edition of 100, of which only 90 were printed (Morse 159). Signed in pencil in the lower right corner by Sloan. An estimated 3500 impressions of this etching were used as the frontispiece to Thomas A. Daly’s book Madrigali (Philadelphia, 1912), a collection of Italian dialect verse. This particular etching is from the per-sonal collection of the artist’s widow, Helen Farr Sloan. [BTC #281979]

14 Eric CARLE. The Tiny Seed. New

York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1970. $1500First edition. Thin quarto. Fine in picto-rial boards in very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper with several tiny nicks and tears at the extremities. Inscribed by the author with a full page illustration of a flower. A very

nice copy. [BTC #318997]

11 L. Frank BAUM. Father Goose’s Year Book. Quaint Quacks and Feathered Shafts for Mature Children. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co. (1907). $350First edition. Tall octavo. Cloth with applied paper illustration. Small contemporary gift inscription, spine lettering a little dull, cloth a little faded, and a bit of light overall wear, but still a tight, very good copy. [BTC #330192]

12 Elizabeth BISHOP. The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1968). $400First edition. Woodcuts by Ann Grifalconi. Oblong quarto. Fine in fine dust-wrapper with a barely visible smudge and a tiny tear on the front panel. A beautiful copy of a scarce children’s book by the noted poet. [BTC #274509]

13 Margaret Wise BROWN. The Steamroller: A Fantasy. New York:

Walker and Company

1974. $350First edition. Illustrated by Evaline Ness. Oblong thin small quarto. Boards slightly bowed else about fine in near fine dustwrap-per with a few tiny scat-

tered spots and a short tear on the rear panel. An attractive copy. [BTC #327364]

Children’s Books

15 Noel LANGLEY. The Tale of The Land of Green Ginger. London: Arthur

Barker (1937). $4500First edition. Quarto. Illustrated by the author. Neat contemporary gift inscription, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few small chips and tears. The author and illustrator was, among many other things, a very successful screenwriter and one of the principal writers of the screenplay for The Wizard of Oz. He was chosen on the basis of The Tale of The Land of Green Ginger. Includes a late use of the swastika in the illustrations (for obvious reasons the decorative motif, popular for several decades, fell out of favor in the English speaking world when Hitler rose to power). Very scarce, especially in jacket. Curiously, and despite the fact that the book has seldom been out of print since publication, OCLC locates but two copies of the first edition, and none in the U.S. [BTC #329250]

Inscribed with a Drawing16 Shel SILVERSTEIN. The Missing Piece. New York: Harper & Row (1970). $1000

Early reprint. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrap-per. Inscribed by Silverstein over two pages with an original drawing of the circle that is missing a piece attempting to eat Chewbacca from Star Wars(!). [BTC #322296]

17 (Anthology). William Stanley BRAITHWAITE, edited by. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926 and Yearbook of American Poetry (Sesqui-Centennial Edition). Boston: B.J. Brimmer 1925. $400First edition, second printing. Fine in a soiled, about very good dustwrapper with several small chips along the upper extremities. Edited by a noted African-American poet, this is an important compendium represent-ing most active American poets of the period. This copy Signed by several poets at each of their contributions including Mark Van Doren, A.M. Sullivan, John Hall Wheelock (twice), Louise Townsend Nicholl (twice), and Harold Vinal (twice). A nice collection of signatures and scarce in dustwrapper. [BTC #56762]

Literature

18 (Anthology). Anäis NIN, Albert COSSERY, Harry CROSBY, Charles OLSON, Man RAY, et al. Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly, Spring 1947 (Volume II, Portfolio V). (Washington, DC / Paris): Black Sun Press 1947. $650First edition. Portfolio with 32 loose sheets in paper folder. Edited by Henry Miller, Romare Bearden, Sam Rosenberg, and Harry T. Moore. Folder very good with dampstain, tears and chips, and split at the fold. Interior sheets show minor signs of toning with the occasional tiny chip or subtle dampstain. Complete set with table of contents and contributors page. Includes works by Harry Thornton Moore, Harry Goode, Conrad Moricand, Edwin J. Becker, Leo Tolstoy, Anäis Nin, Emanuel Carnevali, Albert Cossery, Georg Mann, Rene Batigne, Harry Crosby, Merle Hoyleman, Selden Rodman, Mason Jordan Mason, Charles Olson, René Bélance, Vera Inber, George Leite, Modigliani, Max Ernst, Roberto Fasola, William Calfee, Jim Poe, Scipione, Justin N. Locke, Mirko, Man Ray, Carmelo and Meraud Guevara. [BTC #315980]

19 (Anthropology). Margaret MEAD. Growing Up in New Guinea. New York: William Morrow 1930. $375First edition. Bottom edges of the boards a bit rubbed, near fine in an edge-worn, good dustwrapper with rubbing, and extensive internal repairs. Mead’s second book, a continuation of her groundbreaking anthropological studies of adolescence, this time focusing on the Manus of New Guinea. [BTC #284088]

20 (Aviation). M.H. ANDRÉ. Les Dirigeables. Étude Complète de la Direction des Ballons des Tentatives Réalisées et des Projets Nouveaux. Paris: Librairie Polytechnique Ch. Béranger 1902.

$350First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt. 354pp., illustrations. A bit of wear to the crown, and to one corner, still a bright, very good or better copy. [BTC #314469]

21 Henri Martin BARZUN. Orpheus 1963: A World in Chorus. A 20th Century Literature of Synthesis. New York: Liberal Press (1962). $850First edition. Quarto. Printed perfectbound wrappers. A little wear to the wrappers and spine a little tanned, else about fine. Inscribed by the author: “For Professor Howard Nitzberg with best wishes for his Ph.D. dissertation with my compliments. H.M. Barzun. New Rochelle, N.Y. June 1966.” Laid in is a two-page mimeographed overview of Orphic Art, based on Barzun’s work, but of unknown origin, perhaps written by Nitzberg. Barzun, the father of author and polymath Jacques Barzun, was a poet, and one of a number of French modernists who came to New York City right before and during the first World War, among them Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and his wife Gabrielle Buffet, Arthur Cravan, Albert Gleizes and his wife Julliette Roche; painters Jean and Yvonne Crotti; and writer Henri-Pierre Roché. They joined painter Joseph Stella, harpist Carlos Salzedo, and others including Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Man Ray, forming a community of modern artists who made New York the new center of the art world. [BTC #73608]

22 (Basketball). James NAISMITH. Basketball: Its Origin and Development. New

York: Association Press 1941. $2750First edition. Introduction by Clair Bee. Fine in a crisp and attractive, fine dustwrapper with a light crease on the rear panel. The only book written by the inventor of basketball, his own story of the earliest days of the game, and the further development of the rules. This title was in preparation when Naismith passed away in 1939, and was published posthumously by the little known publishing arm of the Y.M.C.A. movement. Naismith invented the game while teaching at Springfield College in Massachusetts, which was then known as the International Y.M.C.A. Training School. The first edition is exceptionally uncommon, and while there exist earlier books on the game, few can be as definitive. A lovely copy. [BTC #326937]

23 (Catherine E. BEECHER). To the Board of National Popular Education. [No place]: “Not published”

[1849]. $400First edition. Stitched self-wrappers. 25, [1]pp. Very good with mild wear

and a few small chips. The eldest child of Lyman Beecher and older sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catherine Esther Beecher (1800-1878) was an early and prominent promoter of higher education for women, as well as a forceful advocate for the feminization of the teaching profession. Frustrated by the roles and limited educational opportunities afforded to women, she opened the Hartford Female Seminary in 1823, then in 1831 moved to the Midwest with her father to campaign for more schools and teachers in the frontier. She returned to the East Coast in 1837 and founded “The Ladies Society for Promoting Education in the West.” A decade later she co-founded the Board of National Popular Education, which trained young women as teachers in four-week sessions in Connecticut and then sent them out West. Sabin 4293. OCLC locates four copies. [BTC #325414]

24 (Bindings). Saint Francois DE SALES. Introduction A La Vie Devote. Paris: L. Mulo (No date - circa 1850). $450Later printing, text in French. 64mo. Full morocco with applied wood marque-try board overlays, the front depicting a lily, the rear with the initials “M.C.” Apparently the book once had leather straps (small metal clasps remain), but they are lacking, although with little evidence of removal, else near fine. A very attrac-tive binding. [BTC #83736]

25 Jorge Luis BORGES. El Jardin de senderos que se bifur-can [The Garden of Forking Paths]. Buenos Aires: Sur (1942). $2750First edition, text in Spanish. Printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit rubbed, a nice, near fine copy, housed in custom quarter morocco and cloth clamshell case. A collection of stories – the title story was the first work by Borges to be translated into English (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine in 1948). The story also marked the introduction of the concept of “hypertext.” A nicer than usual copy of a seminal work of modern world literature. [BTC #324039]

26 —. Otras inquisi-ciones (1937-1952) [Other Inquisitions]. Buenos Aires: Sur

[1952]. $2000First edition, text in Spanish. Printed self-wrappers. Pages a little age-toned, else a remark-able, fine copy. Often considered Borges’s best book of essays, with

many whose insights and lines of questioning were famously ahead of their time. [BTC #324038]

27 (Canadian Women’s Literature). Ellen Kyle NOEL as Mrs. J.V. Noel. The Abbey of Rathmore and Other Tales. Kingston, C.W.: Printed by James M. Creighton 1859. $1500

First edition. Publisher’s cloth gilt. Contemporary owner’s name else a tight, near fine copy with some light spotting to the cloth. A collection of three novellas, the first book by this Irish-born, Canadian writer. Noel’s gothic fiction has drawn attention (and probably deserves more) not only for her place in the canon of 19th Century female novelists, but also because some of her work is set in the ante-bellum American South (she lived for a time in Savannah, GA) and describes

plantation slave life. McMullen and Campbell, Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women. [BTC #314524]

28 Emanuel CARNEVALI. A Hurried Man. Paris: Contact Editions / Three Mountains Press (1925).

$500First edition. 12mo. Printed orange wrappers. Front hinge a little tender else near fine. [BTC #328820]

29 Pat CONROY and Barry MOSER. Thomas Wolfe. Atlanta:

Old New York Book Shop Press 2000. $850First edition. Full morocco. Frontispiece por-trait of Wolfe and Conroy by Barry Moser. 30pp. As new. One of 24 lettered copies (of a total edition of 289) Signed by Pat Conroy and Barry Moser, and with an origi-nal page of the handwritten manuscript bound in. A wonderful essay on Wolfe that originally appeared in the magazine Southern Cultures. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #282678]

30 (Charles DICKENS). Two-page Third Person Letter from Charles Dickens, probably written in the hand of his traveling secretary George Putnam. 1842. $950

Octavo. Folded for mailing. Very good or better. A letter writ-ten 8 March 1842 from the United States Hotel in Philadelphia to Mr. Joseph Jones, declin-ing an invita-tion from the Committee of that city’s Hibernian

Society, during Dickens’s first trip to America. Dickens stayed at the United States Hotel from March 5th through 9th, during which time he met twice in his rooms with Edgar Allan Poe, who was seeking help from Dickens in finding an English publisher. [BTC #87955]

31 —. A Child’s History of England. New York: Harper and Brothers 1853,

1854. $1500First American edition of each vol-ume (conforming to Gimbel A129 with 1853 on title page of Volume One, and the correct publisher’s addresses for each volume). Two volumes. Uniform publisher’s blind-stamped red cloth, titled and decorated on the spine in gilt. Boards a trifle soiled, corners slightly bumped, slight foxing to

prelims, still a beautiful and fresh, fine set. Very scarce, especially in this condition.

[BTC #317901]

32 —. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and

Hall 1865. $1350First book edition. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. Two volumes. Early half calf and marbled papercovered boards, raised bands, black and red calf spine labels, spine elaborately gilt. Bound with-out ads. Neat contemporary owner’s name in each volume, con-siderable wear to the edges of the boards, a little spotting on the calf, still a handsome and pleasing, near fine set. [BTC #327108]

33 Robert DUNCAN. Illustrated by Cy TWOMBLY. The Song of the Border-Guard. Black Mountain, North Carolina: Nicola Cernovich / Black Mountain College

Graphics Workshop [1952]. $4000First edition. Designed by Cy Twombly. Folded broadside laid into handprinted wrappers that measure 12½" x 19" when open. Inevitable slight glue mark where broadside was tipped in, still fine. Reportedly one of approximately 200 copies printed at the printshop of Black Mountain College, and one of the earliest printed works by Twombly. Extremely scarce, very fragile, and rare in this condition. [BTC #322623]

34 Edward DORN. Gunslinger Book I. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow

Press 1968. $300First edition. Cloth with applied printed labels. Fine. One of 100 numbered hardbound copies Signed by the poet. [BTC #329078]

35 William FAULKNER. Requiem for a Nun. New York: Random

House (1951). $750First edition. Corners a trifle bumped, else fine in fine, first issue dustwrapper with a little rubbing and a tiny tear at the crown, but with almost none of the seemingly inevitable spine-fading. A play, with long narrative sections, which continues the story

of Temple Drake, a character introduced two decades ear-

lier in Sanctuary. Faulkner’s first book after win-ning the Nobel Prize. An especially fresh copy of an increasingly scarce title, usually found in lesser condition. [BTC #327417]

36 F. Scott FITZGERALD. Tales of The Jazz Age. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons

1922. $2500First edition, first printing (with “an” on page 232). Spine lettering bright, a nice and fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. [BTC #328298]

37 —. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1925.

$4000First edition, first issue. Contemporary gift inscription on the front pastedown (from “Frederic,” and curiously in a

handwriting similar to Fitzgerald’s, although we by no means mean to imply that it is his), slight rubbing, a nice, near fine copy, with the spine lettering easily readable, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A handsome copy of this American classic. Connolly 100. [BTC #328302]

39 John HELD, Jr. Grim Youth [with] original drawing from the book. New

York: The Vanguard Press (1930). $4500First edition. Some sun-ning and spotting on the spine, a small tear to the margin of one leaf, a presentable, good copy in good or better, price-clipped dustwrap-per. Accompanied by the original pen and ink drawing for the illustra-tion that appears on page 123, depicting a Jazz Age

lothario in his roadster, confronted by a policeman while his

flapper girlfriend adjusts her disheveled clothing. The caption in the book reads, “Go ahead; I guess it must be love.” Approximately 9½" x 12½", the

drawing is framed. Unexamined out of the frame, it is probably on stiff art board, shows a tiny tear in the margin, but is else fine. Additionally Inscribed by Held in the bottom margin: “For Chris and Eleanor with love & kisses. John Held.” We handled this drawing nearly a quarter century ago, and hap-pily it has returned to us, albeit (we suspect) only for a brief interlude. [BTC #21588]

38 James Clarence HARVEY. A Roman Legend and Other Poems. New York: Weeks & Campbell

1888. $400

First edition. 12mo. 21, [1]pp. Original flexible celluloid illustrat-ed wrappers printed in black and gold, and bound with a thin chain that holds a Roman coin that has been punched for the chain to pass through as a fob. Chain and coin a little tarnished, else fine. [BTC #322785]

boards with applied spine labels. Neat gift inscription (“Presented to Thos. Clark 2nd, Esquire, by his friend T. Tredwell. January 1st, 1844”), a hand-some, very good or bet-ter set with some scat-tered foxing in the text, and modest edgewear. Irving’s follow-up to his successful Sketch Book, also published under the Crayon pseudonym. BAL 10109. [BTC #98905]

41 Washington IRVING writing as Geoffrey Crayon. Brace-bridge Hall, or, The Humorists. New York: C.S. Van Winkle

1822. $1250First edition. Two vol-umes. Rebacked in mus-lin over contemporary marbled-papercovered

40 (John HELD, Jr.). John Pearson MEDDERS, editor. Yucca 1931. “The Book of the Future.” Denton, Texas: North Texas State

Teachers College 1931. $2500First edition. Quarto. Blue, red, and silver embossed buckram. 320pp. Heavily illustrated. Rear hinge tender, and a little rubbing, but near fine. The editor’s own copy with his name embossed on the front cover. A beautifully conceived college yearbook with distinctive streamlined Art Deco design, and which is dedicated to iconic Jazz Age artist John Held, Jr. Laid in is a Typed Letter Signed from the college president congratulating Medders on a job well-done, a certificate of award made out to Medders, several sheets of stationery for the book, and a por-

trait of the yearbook staff. More importantly, the

dedicatee, John Held, Jr., the greatest cartoon chronicler of the era’s flapper co-eds and their Jazz Age “sheiks,” is featured in a full-page photograph (credited to the prestigious New York photographer Apeda). The original 8" x 10" photograph, Signed by Held, is laid into the book opposite his portrait. Apparently his duties as dedicatee were limited to choosing the toothsome co-ed who was featured in the book as “Queen of the Book of the Future.” Unique. [BTC #328353]

42 Randall JARRELL. Address of Randall Jarrell. Poetry Winner. National Book Awards. New York: National Book

Awards 1961. $300Four quarto leaves stapled in upper left cor-ner. Printed (mimeographed) rectos only. Staple partially worked loose, else fine. Text of Jarrell’s Award address, received for The Woman at the Washington Zoo, with a “Hold For Release” notice in upper right hand corner. Scarce. OCLC locates no cop-ies that we can find. [BTC #329463]

43 Nunnally JOHNSON. [Screenplay]: “The House of Rothschild.” (No place):

Twentieth Century Pictures October 8, 1949. $450Dialogue and Continuity Script Taken from the Screen. Mimeographed sheets brad bound in blue wrappers. Near fine. The 1949 film was directed by Alfred L. Werker, and featured George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, and Robert Young. Ex-Carter Burden. [BTC #81523

44 James JONES. From Here to Eternity. New York:

Charles Scribner’s Sons 1951. $750First edition, numbered and signed presentation issue. Slightly cocked, near fine in an edgeworn, very good dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Winner of the National Book Award and basis for the Academy Award-winning film with Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift, as well as Oscar-winners Donna Reed and Frank Sinatra in the role which revitalized his career. [BTC #278686]

45 William MAXWELL. The Chateau. New York:

Alfred A. Knopf 1961. $850First edition. Fine in very good dustwrap-per with a small stain on the spine, and small nicks and chips on the front panel. Warmly Inscribed by the author to his fellow editor at The New Yorker Rachel MacKenzie: “For Rachel, most affec-tionately, Bill. February 1961.” Rachel

MacKenzie replaced Katherine White as the fiction editor at The New Yorker on the recommendation

of May Sarton. During her tenure at the magazine MacKenzie was noted for her nurturing and editing of, among others, Sarton, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and especially Isaac Bashevis Singer. MacKenzie’s enthusiasm led to the magazine devoting an entire issue to Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. However, the magazine wouldn’t publish Goodbye, Columbus as she recommended because William Shawn was too squeamish over the more “frank” aspects of the novella. An excel-lent association – although there were periods when Maxwell devoted his time to his own writing, he spent many years as a primary fiction editor for the magazine. [BTC #314666]

46 Thomas MEEHAN. [Playscript]: I Remember Mama: The Musical. New York: (Alexander H. Cohen and Hildy Parks) / Rodgers and

Hammerstein [1979] / 1981. $1250Playscript. Mimeographed leaves printed rectos only, screw bound into embossed black wrappers. Very near fine. Rodgers and Hammerstein label on first leaf noting that this copy has been revised for their production com-pany in 1981. This musi-cal, the last to be com-posed by Richard Rodgers (who died in 1979), is an adaptation of the comic play that Rodgers and Hammerstein produced in 1944. That in turn was adapted from Kathryn Forbes’s novel Mama’s Bank Account, and was the basis for the 1948 George Stevens film with Irene Dunne as Mama. This musical version featured music by Rodgers and lyrics by Martin Charnin. Laid in is a master property list, and a letter from a Rogers and Hammerstein executive to a set designer offering $1000 for him to design sets for the play. [BTC #322442]

47 Henry MILLER. [Lithograph]: “D’apres Schatz.” 1973.

$4500Original lithograph in black and orange. Image size: 11¾" x 18½" (with mar-gins 16" x 23¼"). Glazed and framed. Hand Inscribed, titled, signed, and dated by Miller below image: “For Sydney Omarr – ‘D’apres Schatz – Henry Miller 1973.” Scene of the inside of an apartment with a naked man smoking on a bed, while a naked woman washes at a sink, and with a horse in the fore-ground. Unexamined out of the frame, but all indications are that the litho-graph is in fine condition. Old label, contemporary with the frame, indicating the lithograph was framed in Santa Monica, California. Omarr was a close friend of Miller’s and the “astrologer to the stars.” He published a daily horo-scope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers and his books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. He started out during the Second World War at the age of 17 when his predictions of horse races, boxing matches, and other sporting events were broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Like Miller, Omarr surrounded himself with beautiful women and was the personal adviser to Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, and Mae West, among others. [BTC #97795]

48 Bradford MORROW. [Manuscript of Introduction to] Blast 3 [with Prospectus Laid In]. (Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow 1984). $750Manuscript. Folio. Six sheets folded once at center. Fine. Morrow’s manuscript intro-duction to Blast 3 with corrections throughout in his hand and Inscribed: “Thought you might look this through – comments? Brad.” Laid into a fine example of the Blast 3 prospectus. [BTC #316362]

49 (Music). George ANTHEIL. Bad Boy of Music. Garden City:

Doubleday, Doran 1945. $650First edition. Near fine in a chipped and torn, fair only dust-wrapper. Inscribed by the author: “For my friend Hiler Père with warmest regards from the author, George Antheil. Dec. 1, 1945.” [BTC #326904]

50 Flannery O’CONNOR. A Good Man Is Hard to Find. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company (1955). $1250First edition, first issue. Very slightly cocked, and a little rubbed, near fine in near very good first issue dustwrap-per with only modest fading to the red por-tion of the spine, a couple of small chips, and dampstains on the rear panel. The author’s masterpiece, her second book and first of short stories. A breathtaking collec-tion of horror tales that probe the darkest heart of the South through the use of tra-ditional “Southern Gothic” writing mixed with a nightmare vision seemingly derivative of German expressionism. A nice, present-able copy. [BTC #99723]

51 Kenneth PATCHEN. First Will & Testament. (New York:

Padell 1948). $450Second edition and first edition thus, adding a new poem and a photograph of the author, the first edition was published by New Directions in 1939. Slight offsetting to a terminal blank, else fine in nice, near fine dustwrapper with a little age-toning. Nicely Inscribed by the author to his close friend, the artist Arthur Sturcke, with a poem and utilizing most of the front fly. Sturcke was a painter and pacifist who exhibited in the 1930s and 1940s, and who did much to help and support Patchen. Patchen mentions him in his book Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer in a dialogue discussing art and artists: “And what about DeNiro? There is a seri-ous young painter. All right what about Kamrowski? – Or Lee Bell? Or Jackson Pollock? – Or Arthur Sturcke?” A very attractive copy. [BTC #107654]

52 —. To Say if You Love Someone. Prairie City, Illinois: Decker Press (1948). $1000First edition, “later state gift edition.” Boards in a purple and pink floral dustjacket with red and blue letter-ing, and a $2 “Gift Edition” price. The jacket has been neatly affixed to the boards, and appears as if it might have been issued that way. A near fine copy. One of about 200 copies issued of this title, in various issues and states. After Patchen had received a couple of copies, Decker mysteriously disappeared, his car found aban-doned. His disappearance was never solved. Several years later Patchen was offered the remaining copies by the state comptroller, which he paid for and received. Morgan notes this pink and purple dustwrapper with red and blue lettering. [BTC #107625]

Publisher’s Maquette with Unused Images53 (Photography). Ralph GIBSON. Infanta. (New York): Takarajima

Books (1995). $5000First American edition, publisher’s maquette. Introduction by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy. Afterword by Mary Gaitskill. Folio. Publisher’s maquette, a pre-publication handmade example of the book prepared by the publisher’s design staff, consisting of unprinted pages bound in cloth, with both the text and offset linescreen examples of the Gibson images affixed to the blank pages with paste, with a handmade mockup of the dustwrapper with image, cover and flap text all affixed with paste (and which differs slightly from the published version). Most notable is that this version includes six images that were not included in the final published version

of the book. One block of text (the title on the title page) has detached but is present, else very near fine in near fine

dustwrapper, with plastic affixed over the jacket, presumably by the publisher. Offered with a first American edition of the final book. Almost certainly a unique publish-er’s maquette for the book. [BTC #322681]

54 Harold PINTER. The Homecoming. New York: Grove

Press (1966). $500First American edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Initialed by Pinter on the half-title. The Homecoming won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1967. Probably the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s best-known and commercially most success-ful drama. [BTC #276703]

55 —. [Screenplay]: The French Lieutenant’s Woman: A Screenplay. London: Parlon

Productions 1980. $500Brad bound photocopied legal size leaves printed rectos only. Near fine. A pho-tocopy of an earlier version, displaying punch holes from the earlier version in the copy. Adapted from the John Fowles novel by Harold Pinter for the 1981 Karel Reisz film starring Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. [BTC #324803]

56 Ezra POUND. Lustra of Ezra Pound with Earlier Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf

1917. $750First American edition. A bit of soil-ing, particularly to the spine of the fragile papercovered boards, else a near fine copy lacking the rare dust-wrapper. A nice copy of this fragile volume. [BTC #273888]

57 Dawn POWELL. A Time To Be Born. New York:

Charles Scribner’s Sons 1942. $600First edition. Front fly a bit skinned where a small label or bookplate was removed, small tears to the spine ends, about very good in very good or better dustwrapper with small creased tears on the front panel. A nice, presentable copy of an uncommon title. [BTC #275058]

58 Frederic PROKOSCH. Going Southward. (No place -Paris?: Frederic Prokosch)

1935. $2000First edition. Decorated marbled wrappers with white printed label. 24mo. Fine. Out of a total edition of 33 copies, this is copy number 4 on green vellum. Inscribed by the author as a Christmas greeting. A brief poem, one of the author’s rare “butterfly books.” Prokosch was an American novelist of remarkable prom-ise who later fell under a cloud for manufacturing some spurious “rare first editions,” which he did while experimenting with the handpress he used to manufacture the butterfly books. Additionally he reprinted some of the books between 1978-1980, but the provenance of this book, and the owner’s notes that accom-pany the book indicate that it was obtained in the 1950s. His reputation has suffered despite the fact that his books were both a critical and popular success at the time of publication. Rare. Of the 33 copies, OCLC locates four copies in institutions. [BTC #278669]

59 E. Annie PROULX. Heart Songs and Other Stories. New York: Charles Scribner’s

Sons (1988). $300First edition. Fine in a very slightly rubbed, still fine dustwrapper. Proulx’s first book of fiction after several works of non-fiction, and the start of a distin-guished literary career. A very nice copy. [BTC #330118]

60 Thomas PYNCHON. V. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott

(1963). $1450Advance Reading Copy. A modest stain on the top edge, spine sunned, a very good copy in wrappers as issued. The advance copy of the author’s first book, more square than usual. [BTC #313954]

61 Mario PUZO and Francis Ford COPPOLA. The Godfather: Screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola. New York: Paramount Pictures 1971. $5000

Original screenplay. Third

draft. Dated March 29, 1971 (the date principal photog-raphy began). 143pp. Unbound mimeographed

sheets printed rectos only, with related mate-rial. A script used by the studio to prepare the

television version, this is accompanied by 1) a four page mimeographed memo marked: “Master

Copy -- Showing Actual Changes Made,” apparently intended to make the film televisable, for instance:

“21’ - Caan balls wedding guest against bedroom door - pick up scene as Duvall knocks on door, Caan and girl

are then in freeze position - continue scene (with girl’s off camera ‘Oh Sonny!’ but WITHOUT the orgasmic moans

and sighs) after Caan says he will join Duvall in a minute. (Recommended cuts will be made Also after cuts made

‘Oh Sonny’ didn’t make sense and Coppola agreed to cut).” Also: “31’ - greatest piece of ass I’ve ever had. (Cut ‘ass’ only

Changed to ‘greatest piece of stuff ’).” Also with 2) Single photo-copied sheet printed recto only of Coppola’s introduction to the film indicat-ing, in part: “I was pleased to have the opportunity to personally supervise

the revisions, working with NBC so that this film could be viewed on television.” Slight age-toning and light wear at the extremities, paperclips on the pages where changes have been made with pencil notes, else a near fine copy. The bestselling novel was made into one of the most acclaimed blockbuster films, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and featuring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, and many others. The Godfather was first nationally broadcast on NBC in November, 1974, a month before the theatrical debut of the equally acclaimed The Godfather: Part II. In 1977 a more elaborate, chronological portrayal of the Corleone epic (combining this film, its sequel, and numerous cut scenes) was edited and televised as The Godfather Saga (reportedly in order to raise funds for Coppola’s Apocalypse Now). [BTC #322104]

Salinger’s First Interview62 (J.D. SALINGER) Clifton FADIMAN, William

MAXWELL, et al. Report on The Catcher in the Rye [in] Book-of-the-Month Club News. (New York): The Book-of-the-

Month Club 1951. $650Small quarto. Stapled wrappers. Rubbed, and rein-forced on the interior of the spine by a professional archivist, an about very good copy. Contains an illus-trated four page report on “an extraordinary first novel by a young American” enthusiastically written by Clif-ton Fadiman. This is followed by a two page biograph-ical profile by Salinger’s friend, The New Yorker editor William Maxwell. The long concluding paragraph of the profile constitutes the first, and one of the very

few, interviews Salinger ever gave. In his biography of Salinger, Paul Alexander speculates that the only rea-son Salinger consented to this interview was because BOMC News had commissioned his friend Maxwell to conduct it. This piece is also extraordinary because it illustrates scenes from the book (unfortunately the art is unattributed). Salinger felt strongly that his writing should speak for itself and after the success of The Catcher in the Rye, and spurred by some less than happy dealings with publishers, Salinger forbade his publishers from either illustrating his books, or from providing biographical information. A scarce and fas-cinating piece of Salinger ephemera. [BTC #99197]

63 William SAROYAN. The Assyrian and Other Stories. New York:

Harcourt, Brace and Company (1950). $650First edition. Fine in a spine-tanned, very good or better dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by Saroyan utilizing the entire front fly: “For Mickey Leach with pro-found thanks for being interested in this book & in this writer sin-cerely, William Saroyan. NY Jan 19, 1950.” [BTC #327030]

64 (Science-Fiction). [Karel ČAPEK]. [Poster]: See Rossums Universal Robots. A Play with a Message [Not a Motion Picture]. Sacramento Memorial Auditorium.... Sacramento: Hapeman-Gee Printing Co.

1927. $2500Printed in blue ink on cardstock. Approximately 14" x 11¼". Tiny tears or small creases, else a near fine copy. The information “A Play with a Message” has been added over an original line (that seems like it might have been misspelled). An influential play by Karel Čapek, which premiered in Prague in 1921, most famous now for introducing the word “robot” (derived from the Czech noun “robota” meaning “labor”). The play, in which androids who are at first content to work for their human creators decide to rebel, made its U.S. premiere in 1922 and supposedly Spencer Tracy made his stage debut as one of the robots in an early American production. [BTC #330349]

65 (Science-Fiction). Lee CORREY. Rocket Man. New York:

Henry Holt (1955). $400First edition. A small and light stain on the front board, and a couple of tiny spots on the title page, else near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears, mostly confined to the spine ends, and small chips on the rear panel. Novel for ado-lescents about the distant future (2002) in which a New Mexico science student goes to Mars. Signed by the author and additionally Inscribed by him in 1957. [BTC #98243]

66 (Science-Fiction). Robert JORDAN. The Eye of the World. New York: Tom Doherty (1990).

$650First edition. Fine in fine dustwrap-per. The first book of “The Wheel of Time” series. [BTC #319965]

67 (Science-Fiction). Bram STOKER. Dracula. Westminster [London]: Archibald

Constable and Company 1897. $25,000First edition, the presumed first printing (on non-coated stock and bulking thicker), first issue without any advertisements. Neat ownership label of Colonel Kendal Coghill, C.B. on the front pastedown, also an attractive bookplate and pencil name on the front fly, hinges cracked, minor foxing, moderately cocked, light mottling and soiling to the cloth, for this book a very good copy in a custom quarter morocco clam-shell case. The pencil ownership signature is “Mrs. McClure.” The American publisher of Dracula was Doubleday, McClure, but whether this Mrs. McClure is in any way related is not determined. An attrac-tive copy of this iconic title, a cornerstone of horror fiction. [BTC #325280]

Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge’s Copy68 William SHARP. Life of Robert Browning. London: Walter Scott 1890.

$600First edition. Corners a bit bumped, light wear and tear at the spine ends, a couple of light pencil notes in the text in an unknown hand, a

sound and attractive, very good copy. Inscribed by the author: “To Miss Agnes Hall from her friend The Author. Rome 1890-91.” With the book-plate of Radclyffe Hall and her companion Una Troubridge. An interesting copy. We could find little of Agnes Hall but that she was a correspondent of

W.B. Yeats. How the book transferred from Agnes Hall to Radclyffe Hall and Troubridge is unknown. Sharp embodied some feminine consciousness of his own, writing several books under the pseudonym, Fiona MacLeod. [BTC #81325]

69 (Howard STERN). Colonnade 1972. Rockville Centre, NY:

South Side Senior High School 1972. $650First and only edition. Quarto. 167pp. + ads. Decorated cloth. A trifle soiled, very near fine copy. Radio personality Howard Stern’s Senior Class Year Book. Stern appears in jacket and tie in his Senior picture on page 45. There are many candid and club pictures, but we have foregone the pleasure of the hunt for Stern, and left it to the eventual purchaser to experience the possible wonderment of discovery. [BTC #313749]

70 Edward STREETER. Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation. New

York: Harper (1954). $300First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. A very nice copy of a cheaply manufactured volume, basis for the film Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation featuring Jimmy Stewart and Maureen O’Hara. Very scarce. [BTC #33169]

71 Alice B. TOKLAS. What Is Remembered. New York: Holt,

Rinehart and Winston (1963). $650Uncorrected proof. Spiral bound printed wrappers. Some soiling on the front wrap, uneven toning, and a couple of faint splash marks, a very good copy. An uncommon format of the actual autobiography of the longtime compan-ion of Gertrude Stein, who wrote the 1933 book The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. [BTC #99731]

72 Mark TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens). Following the Equator: A Journey around the World. Hartford, Connecticut:

American Publishing Co. 1897. $600First trade edition, with single- location imprint. Illustrated by Dan Beard, A.B. Frost, B.W. Clinedinst, and others. Blue cloth gilt with applied paper illustra-

tion. A nice and tight, near fine copy with slight rubbing, and slight evidence of neat rear hinge repair. Gilt is bright, the heavy text block tends to spring the hinges, this remains a tight copy. Mark Twain’s last travel book. BAL 3451. [BTC #329285]

73 Sigrid UNDSET. Madame Dorthea. New York:

Alfred A. Knopf 1940. $550First American edition. Translated from the Norwegian by Arthur G. Chater. Faint pen-ciled own-er’s name, endpaper gutters are toned

from the binder’s glue else near fine in a price-clipped, near good dustwrapper with some chips and internal repairs. Signed by the Nobel Prize-winning author. [BTC #326794]

74 Lew WALLACE. Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ. New York: Harper & Brothers

(1892). $1000Reprint (“Garfield Edition”). Two vol-umes. Japanese vellum with yapped edges. A touch of foxing on the boards, still eas-ily fine. One of 350 numbered copies. Although not called for, Inscribed by the author in the second volume with a quota-tion from the book: “For my part, speaking with the holiness of truth, I would not give one hour of life as a Soul for a thou-sand years of life as a man. Truly your friend, Lew Wallace. Indianapolis, March 25th, 1902.” [BTC #324700]

Inscribed to Ruth Ford75 Tennessee WILLIAMS. Dragon Country: A Book of Plays. New York: New Directions (1970). $750

First paperback edition, printed simultaneously in hardcover. Decorated wrappers. A tiny crease and wrappers a trifle age-toned, else very near fine. Inscribed by Williams to actress Ruth Ford: “Love to Ruth, Tennessee.” In Williams’s Memoirs he refers to Ford as “the wise and lovely actress, Ruth Ford, who seems to have been born with more worldly wisdom than I have accumu-lated even at this point in life.” Ford was the Mississippi-born sister of surrealist author Charles Henri Ford, as well as a beauti-ful model and actress, first in Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre, and later in films and theater. Notably, she starred on Broadway in Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit in 1946, under the direction of John Huston (the last of five Broadway plays he directed). Her apartment in the Dakota became a salon for authors such as Williams, Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and Truman Capote. A chance encounter between Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents in her Manhattan living room led to their collaboration, with her Dakota-neighbor Leonard Bernstein, on West Side Story. Similarly, she brought together Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight to create the celebrated stories of Eloise, the little girl who lived at the Plaza.

Ford is well known also for her long friendship with William Faulkner, which began with her dating his brother Dean in the early 1930s. Faulkner was openly smitten with Ford for many years. He wrote his experimental 1951 title Requiem for a Nun, a sequel to his early and controversial novel Sanctuary, with her in mind. He further declared, to the consternation of his agent and publisher, that it was her dramatic property (Requiem for a Nun was a mixture of stage play and novel). Stage production of the title stalled for years, partly because Faulkner’s experimental drama did not lend itself to live theatre, and partly because the producers were unsure of Ford’s suitability. Faulkner was adamant that it was her dramatic property, and in 1959 she adapted the play herself and starred in its London production opposite her second husband, Zachary Scott. Her stage version received enthusiastic reviews in both London and New York, but did not fare so well with audiences and closed after a short run on Broadway. Ford continued to act on both stage and screen well into the 1980s. She passed away in 2009 at the age of 98. A nice association. [BTC #321114]

76 Virginia WOOLF. To the Lighthouse. London: J.M. Dent (1938). $750Uncorrected proof of the first Everyman’s Library edition. Printed wrappers. A good only copy with the rear wrap lacking, front wrap holding on tenuously, and some erosion to the spine. Still a rarity of one of the author’s most influential novels, a richly textured examination of gender and family, told through stream-of-consciousness narra-tives. Proofs of the early Everyman’s Library books are exceptionally scarce. Connolly 100. [BTC #276922]

77 (World War II). (Admiral Karl DOENITZ). H.K. THOMPSON and Henry STUTZ, editors. Doenitz at Nuremberg: A Re-Appraisal War Crimes and the Military Professional. New York: Amber Publishing

Corp. (1976). $300First edition. Bookplate of publisher Edward M. Crane (of D. Van Nostrand), else fine in a price-clipped and very slightly spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper with a little foxing, in a fine slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by Admiral Karl Doenitz. We suspect that all of the limited and signed copies were price-clipped. [BTC #326977]

78 Franz WRIGHT. The Earth Without You. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry

Center (1980). $650First edition. Printed wrappers. Some spotting on the front wrap, edges of the spine rubbed, thus very good. Inscribed by Wright in 1981 to another poet and close friend. [BTC #93975]

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