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With Five Original Photographs Tipped In - 1952

[Alpine; Mountaineering]; Vial, A. E. Lockington. ALPINE GLACIERS (London: Batchworth Press, 1952) First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and also with review compliments slip of Australian booksellers Angus and Robertson slip laid in. This copy with 5 original photographs tipped to the end blanks of a mountaineer in climbing gear working through glaciers in Alpine locations. As this book is signed we think it likely either the author or a climbing associate of the author. With frontis-piece, 55 full page and 26 half page illustrations all from b&w

photographs by the author. 4to, original powder blue cloth gilt lettered on the spine, in the original dustjacket. A nice copy, the binding just a bit age mellowed, the jacket with some edge-wear or light chipping at the extremities and a few pen markings, but still whole and attractive, the text in fine order. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and the only copy that we can find to be available in the marketplace. Lockington Vial was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and a Member of the British Glaciological Society.

Louisa May Alcott - Jo’s Boys...A Sequel to “Little Men”First Edition in the Charming Victorian Binding Gilt - 1886

Alcott, Louisa May. JO’S BOYS, And How They Turned Out. A Sequel to “Little Men.” (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886) First Edition Portrait frontispiece of Louisa May Alcott with facsimile of her signature. 8vo, publisher’s original green Victorian deco-rated cloth, with embossed red and gold decorations in panel designs on the spine, and with black and gilt decorations to the covers. Now housed in a foldover clamshell case backed

Item Number: 1 Price: $350.

Alpine Glaciers - First Edition - Signed by the Author Item Number: 2 Price: $125.

in green morocco and lettered in gilt. A good copy with the text-block well preserved, the hinges strong and unbroken, the binding with some rubbing and evidence of use, showing wear to the tips and caps. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, of the sequel to LITTLE MEN, by the author of LITTLE WOMEN.

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First Edition with Hurley’s Important PhotographyArgonauts of the South - Voyages to Antarctica - 1925With the Shackleton and Mawson Expe-ditions

strong, the cloth in nice condition, the gilt just lightly mellowed at the spine and bright at the upper cover. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK IN THE ANTARCTIC OEUVRE. Hurley was photographer to Shackleton on the Endurance expedition and is considered one of the most important of all photographers of the polar experience.

Item Number: 3 Price: $650. Antarctic; Polar]; Hurley, Frank. ARGONAUTS OF THE SOUTH. Being a Narrative of Yoyagings and Polar Seas and Advenures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton (New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925) First Edition. Fully illustrated with 75 illustrations and maps from original photographs of the expeditions. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. A very well preserved copy, the text-block clean, the hinges tight and



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Baudelaire’s Masterworks - Les Fleurs Du Mal and MoreLimited - One of 950 Numbered Copies

light evidence of age at the tips. LIMITED EDITION and a handsome printing of Baudelaire’s most famous works. This is Arthur Symons’ important translation.



Jean de La Bruyère’s Thoroughly Critical CaractèresMaking Him “Many Readers and Many Enemies”A Handsome Il-lustrated Edition - Paris - 1845

then the typical foxing to which the book is prone, this primar-ily confined to the plates but only rarely dark enough to affect the images,the binding in lovely condition with just a bit of mellowing at the extremities. SCARCE EARLY ISSUANCE OF THIS HANDSOMELY IL-LUSTRATED EDITION. Bruyère’s “Caractères” appeared origi-nally in 1688, and at once, as Nicolas de Malézieu had predicted, brought him “bien des lecteurs et bien des ennemis” (many readers and many enemies).

Item Number: 7 Price: $225. Bruyère, (Jean de) la. LES CARACTÈRES OU LES MOEURS DEL CE SIECLE Par La Bruyère Suivis Du Discours a L’Acadèmie et de LA TRADUCTION DE THEOPHRASTE (Paris: Belin-Leprieur Libraire-Editeur, 1845) An Early Issuance. Illustrated throughout with finely engraved full-page plates and with engravings in the text including elaborate head- and tail-pieces. Grand 8vo, bound in handsome and contemporary black morocco over French marbled boards. Panel designs in blind in the compartments and one compartment lettered in gilt. A very handsome, very pleasing copy in proper contemporary binding, with much less

Vikram and the Vampire - Original Decorated ClothSir Richard Francis Burton

Item Number: 8 Price: $475. [Burton, Richard F.]. VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE or Tales of Hindu Devilry (London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893) First edition thus, Memorial edition. With frontispiece and 32 il-lustrations by Ernest Griset. 8vo, publisher’s original full black polished cloth with gilt pictorial designs and arabic characters on the covers, and gilt lettering on the spine. A very well pre-served, bright and clean copy. Very little evidence of age, only minimal evidence of shelving or use, clean within and with no

Bonvalot - Through the Heart of Asia - Profusely IllustratedA Journey Through Central Asia to IndiaA Fine Copy - The First Edition - 1889

Bonvalot, Gabriel. THROUGH THE HEART OF ASIA: Over the Pamïr to India, translated From the French by C.B. Pitman (London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1889) 2 volumes. First edition. With 250 black and white illustrations by Albert Pépin. 4to, original dark blue-green cloth, spines lettered in gilt with gilt and black ruling, upper covers ruled in black and each bears a pictorial vignette in blue and white, bordered in gilt. A bright and handsome set.

IMPORTANT AND RARE FIRST EDITION. The author’s exhaustively illustrated account of his journey westward to look for vestiges of history left in the small societies of Central Asia, a region which he considers a “fascinating” land of diversity

Baudelaire, Charles. LES FLEURS DU MAL, Petits Poemes en Prose, Les Paradis Artificiels, Translated by Arthur Symons (London: The Casanova Society, 1925) Limited edition, being one of 950 hand-numbered copies of a total print run of 1000. With a handsome engraved title-page and manuscript facsimile as frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s original black boards backed in black calf, gilt lettered on the spine. An attractive copy with

foxing apparent. SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF THE MEMORIAL ISSUE OF THIS IMPORTANT TEXT. This printing, was specially issued for the uncompleted Memorial edition of the writings of Burton and is a collection of Hindi stories that are, according to Burton’s wife Isabel, “thoroughly witty, and make those laugh heartily who have lived in the East.”

Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” - A Beautiful SetThe Fine Motteux Translation With Lalauze’s Beautiful Etchings

Item Number: 9 Price: $850. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. THE HISTORY OF THE IN-GENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA...translated from the Spanish, By F.A. Motteux (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1908) 4 volumes. Grant’s fine Library Edition, first edition thus. Richly illustrated throughout with 37 engravings designed and etched by Ad. Lalauze on tissue-guarded plates, engraved portrait of Cervantes at the beginning of Volume I. Tall, thick 8vo, in the publisher’s original brown cloth with paper labels printed in red and black on the spines, t.e.g., others untrimmed. A very handsome set, very fine and seemingly unread and unused, the

brown cloth with only extremely minor age evidence, paper labels a bit mellowed by time. A FINE AND HANDSOME SET WITH EXCELLENT ACA-DEMIC INCLUSIONS. A beautiful set of Cervantes and a very scarce edition edited by J.G. Lockhart who also wrote the included essay on the Life of Cervantes. Motteux’s translation is one of the most famous of the period, and here, the book is presented in lovely style. There is a fine ‘Life of Cervantes’ preceding the text and in addition, important and very copious notes on the text are appended.

Autographed Copy - Joseph Brodsky - Selected Poems - 1974The Great Nobel Laureate - An Emi-grant to America


Brodsky, Joseph. SELECTED POEMS Translated and Introduced by George L. Kline, With a Forward by W. H. Auden (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1974) First thus, the Penguin and first wrappered edition of the translation. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JOSEPH BRODSKY. 8vo, in the publisher’s original decorated paper wrappers featuring a portrait of the author on the upper cover in purple and light green. A fine copy, especially well preserved for a wrapper copy of the period, the paper fresh and clean, the text-block solid, the wrappers fresh and unworn with just minor

mellowing from age. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY JOSEPH BRODSKY. This is a very early collection of his poems, and was published only one year after his expulsion from the Soviet Union and settlement in the U.S. and which was accomplished with the help of his literary supporters and friends such as W. H. Auden. Brodsky’s poetry was denounced by a Leningrad newspaper as “pornographic and anti-Soviet.”



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First Edition of the Final Dickens Christmas BookCharles Dickens - The Haunted Man - 1848

Item Number: 10 Price: $950. Dickens, Charles. THE HAUNTED MAN and the Ghost’s Bar-gain. A Story For Christmas Time (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848) First edition. With 16 engraved illustrations including a fine title-page and frontispiece. Small 8vo, in handsome full brown calf with red morocco spine brightly decorated in gilt in a holly motif, with the original Christmas-red cloth covers bound in the rear. A very attractive copy, fresh and clean in a fine binding.

Charles Dickens - ‘Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit’A Fine and Very Handsomely Bound First Edition

tion. A few plates with the typical aging, but a copy generally free of the inevitable toning associated with the engravings in copies of Dickens’ first edition novels. FINE AND SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Some critics have stated that this novel is Dickens at his best, with the character Pecksniff being one of Dicken’s most brilliant contributions to English literature.

Dickens, Charles. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT (London: Chapman and Hall, 1844) First edition, first issue, with “100£” on the signpost in the engraved frontis-piece. With frontispiece and 39 engravings after illustrations by ‘Phiz’. 8vo, handsomely bound in fine 3/4 antique morocco over cloth boards, the spines with raised bands gilt ruled, lettered in gilt in two compartments bordered in blind, a.e.g. A very hand-some and appealing copy in an unusually fine state of preserva-

A Very Rare Early Printing of John Donne’s PoetryPoems on Several OccasionsPrinted in London in 1719 by Tonson

Item Number: 12 Price: $4500. Donne, John, D.D. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. Written by the Reverend John Donne... To this Edition is added, Some Account of the Life of the Author. (London: Printed for J. Tonson, and Sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster Row, 1719) Very Scarce and Very Early printing of one of the most elusive of all early English offerings of Donne’s poetry. With finely engraved pictorial head and tail pieces throughout. 8vo, antique half calf over marbled boards, the spine with raised bands bordered with gilt rules and with a red morocco lettering label gilt lettered. A

Theodore Dreiser’s Autobiography of His Younger YearsA History of Myself...Dawn - New York - 1931

SCARCE FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. The jacket statement notes that the book provides the most intimate confession of youth since Rousseau. Presentation copies of the book are rare. A 1931 promotional leaflet for Dreiser’s NEWSPAPER DAYS is loosely inserted.

Item Number: 13 Price: $450.Dreiser, Theodore. A HISTORY OF MYSELF. DAWN. (New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931) First Editon of Dreiser’s au-tobiography of early youth. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY FROM DREISER’S WIDOW. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over red cloth boards, the spine and upper cover lettered in gilt. A fine copy, bright and clean, the dustjacket also very well preserved and just a bit aged.

FINE FIRST EDITION IN A VERY APPROPRIATE AND APPEALING BINDING. THE HAUNTED MAN was Dickens’ fifth and final Christmas book. It, like the others proved very popular and went into re-print many times after its original introduction in 1848.

very handsome and tight copy, quite clean and in good order. Only a bit of occasional spotting to the text. RARE AND VERY DESIRABLE. AN EARLY PRINTING OF DONNE’S POETRY, ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER OF ALL ENGLISH POETS AND ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT COLLECTIONS TO OBTAIN IN AN EARLY ANTIQUARIAN PRINTING. Donne’s poetry is what may plausibly be called the greatest poetical collection of the century.


One of the Great Portfolios in Egyptian Archeology Item Number: 14 Price: $475.[Egypt]; Naville, Edouard. THE TEMPLE OF DEIR EL BAHARI. Parts I through III. (London: Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund; Kegan Paul, Trench and Trübner; B. Quaritch, 1895-1898) 3 volumes. First Edition of each volume. Illustrated with 86 full page plates. A number of the fine plates are printed in colours and many are double-page or double-page with fold-outs. Elephant folio, 18” x 14 1/4”, printer’s original paper covered boards backed in black cloth, the upper covers lettered in black, the spines lettered in red. Internally quite well preserved with just some minor toning and evidence of use, the colour plates are all in fine condition, a few of the fold out plates with minor wear along the outside edges not affecting the image, one of the

The Temple of Deir El Bahari - With 86 Impressive PlatesIncluding Plates in Full Colour By Howard Carter

folding plates is split at the fold line but remains whole and complete. The covers and spines with wear or old staining at the edges. AN IMPRESSIVE STUDY OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS AT THE TEMPLE OF DEIR EL BAHARI PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED INCLUDING COLOUR PLATES BY HOWARD CARTER, THE DISCOVERER OF THE TOMB OF TUT ANKH AMEN. Deir el-Bahri is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile. This work was commissioned by the Egypt Exploration Fund was the joint effort of several leading Egyptologist, including Howard Carter.

“One of the Great and Permanent Works” - First Edi-tionAn Especially Nice Copy - Beautifully Preserved

Item Number: 15 Price: $550.Emerson, R. W. ENGLISH TRAITS (Boston: Phillips and Samp-son and Company, 1856) First edition, first printing with the battered type and the “(1)” on the half-title. 8vo, publisher’s original black-brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind with blind decorative devices, cover bordered in blind. An excellent copy, internally near as pristine and almost mint, the cloth covers in outstanding condition, tips near perfect, head-cap with slight split, a beautiful copy and rare thus. Now housed in a protective morocco tipped slipcase.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. Emerson’s observations on England, based in part on his visits there in 1833 and 1847. “...the best of American travel-books and one of the great and permanent works of its kind” - Van Wyck Brooks.

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s English Traits - 1856



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H. Rider Haggard - The Poor and the Land - 1905First Edition - Origi-nal Decorated Cloth


George Wither’s Festival of ChristmasSheet folded in fours. Very fine, remarkably so for such a delicate item. A very nice printing of George Wither’s lovely Holiday poem designed and illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser. It is printed as a Christmas card in fours but is quite large, the tipped in plate measur-ing over seven and a half inches tall. A very attractive piece of holiday ephemera and a fine example of Lovat Fraser’s exquisite art work.

Item Number: 17 Price: $165.Designed and Deco-rated by Claud Lovat Fraser

Haggard, H. Rider. THE POOR AND THE LAND. Being a Re-port on the Salvation Army Colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England. With Scheme of National Land Settlement and an introduction. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905) First Edition. With twelve illustrations throughout. 8vo, pub-lisher’s original red cloth lettered and lined in black on the spine and upper cover. A lovely copy in very pleasing condition. The cloth and decorations are both bright and clean.

FIRST EDITION. This is a detailed report, with photographs, on two of the three Salvation Army settlements established in America: Fort Romie, California and Forty Amity, Colorado ( according to Haggard’s introduction, “Fort Herrick in Ohio...is left out of the account, in as much as it is in the main devoted tothe redemption of inebriates”). (Haggard had been appointed by the Colonial Office as “Commissioner” to inspect and report back to the housed of Parlia-ment on these colonies.”)

[Greeting Card. Fraser, Illus] Wither, George. THE FESTIVAL OF CHRISTMAS (London: Lund, Humphries and Co., [1920]) This is number one in a series of five festival cards by ‘modern artist’. Designed by Claud Lovat Fraser and illustrated by him with hand-coloured decorations on the upper and lower covers, also with a large tipped in hand-coloured plate of three festive merrymakers. Single Folio in fours, unbound as issued printed on heavy stock paper of high quality, edges untrimmed. One

Zane Grey’s Most Famous Novel and Perhaps His Best Work

Item Number: 18 Price: $2250.Grey, Zane. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE. A Novel (New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912) First Edition, first printing. Illustrated with four plates by Douglas Duer. 8vo, publisher’s original tan cloth, the upper cover ruled in purple and lettered in gilt and featuring a tipped-on colour illustration of a Western horizon, the spine lettered in black. A very nice copy, internally near fine, the cloth with some very minor and expected mellowing or age evidence, the front hinge

just a bit tender. A really handsome copy of a book elusive in collector’s condition. ZANE GREY’S MOST FAMOUS, POPULAR AND CRITI-CALLY ACCLAIMED BOOK. First Editions are becoming hard to find. Grey can be credited, more then any other single author, as creating our modern genre of the Western. This is the story that will no doubt seal his reputation forever.

Riders of the Purple Sage - First Edition - 1912

A Charles Smith 12 Inch Terrestrial GlobeA Handsome 19th Century Globe on Fine Mahogany StandExceptional Detail and Finely Hand-Coloured

Item Number: 16 Price: $4950.[Globe] Smith, Charles. SMITH’S TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, Containing all the Most Recent Discoveries (London: C. Smith and Son, Circa 1880) A scarce and very handsome 12 inch globe. printed in multiple colours, this richly detailed globe, shows all the continents & countries as they were at the time and also indicates all the major ocean currents, connecting currents and the Antarctic & South East Trade Wind Drifts. With an analemma showing the declination of the sun for every day of the year and the Equation of Time. Total height approx. 19 and a half inches,

on its original stand of a turned mahogany column with a tre-foil base resting on bun feet, with a graduated brass meridian marked out in degrees of longitude. The globe is made of 12 hand-coloured copper engraved gores on solid core. Very well preserved, uncommonly such. The glove bright and fresh, the original stand in excellent condition as well. AN UNCOMMONLY HANDSOME AND WELL PRESERVED EXAMPLE OF A SCARCE CHARLES SMITH GLOBE. Charles Smith was a noted Stationer, map and globe-seller in London.

His Most Important Book - Middle Passageand considered by many as one of his best books. It is also one in which he addresses most directly the issues of black lives in American history. The novel shows a personal and historical perspective on the illegal slave trade in the United States. Set in 1830, the novel won the National Book Award in 1990.

Item Number: 20 Price: $350.Johnson, Charles. MIDDLE PASSAGE (New York: Atheneum, 1990) First edition, first printing, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s burgundy boards backed in black cloth, the spine gilt lettered, in the original pictorially decorated dustjacket. A very fine, essentially as mint and pristine copy. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR,

Charles Johnson - Autographed First Edition - As Pristine in DustjacketWinner of the Na-tional Book Award

James Joyce - The First Edition Printed in EnglandUlysses - A Pleasing Copy in the Original Dustjacket Rare Thus - One of the Greatest Novels of the 20th Century

Item Number: 21 Price: $6750.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 edition of ULYSSES ever printed. Tall, thick, royal 8vo, publisher’s original full green polished linen buckram with the gilt lettering and pictorial decoration of the gilt bow designed by Eric Gill on the upper cover and spine, housed in the rare printed dustjacket lettered in black on the upper cover and on the spine and decorated with the bow in red on the spine panel. A well preserved copy, the covers of the green cloth in bright and beautiful condition without any of the fading typical to the book, the back just a bit mellowed at the tips, the dustjacket with the price still intact

and showing some light aging and some evidence of use or handling, but whole and without major defects or substantial wear. A pleasing 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, RARE IN THE DUSTJACKET. This an extremely impressive copy of the first authorized English edition. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST EDITION of ULYSSES PRINTED IN GREAT BRIT-AIN. 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.



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From The Editio Princeps of the Famed 1611 BibleA Leaf from the “King James” BibleThe Book of Psalms XVII - XIX

A large leaf showing the original stab marks for sewing from the original time of binding. A LEAF IN PERFECT CONDITION FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS FROM THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF KING JAMES’ BIBLE, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ‘AUTHORIZED’ VERSION, A LANDMARK OF PRINTING AND THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL ENGLISH BIBLES.

Item Number: 22 Price: $550.[King James Bible], [1611 Bible]. A LEAF FROM THE 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE, a Leaf From Psalms containing part of Psalm XVII, all of Psalm XVIII and part of XIX ([London: Robert Barker, 1611]) A single leaf from the First Edition or the Editio Princeps of the King James’ Bible. Printed double-column with headlines and chapter lines, this leaf with three fine five line ornamental capital initials, text within woodcut rules, in both gothic and roman letter. Royal Folio, a single leaf. A very fine and well preserved leaf with no staining or wear whatsoever.

A Handsome Set of Rudyard Kipling’s Best Works Item Number: 23 Price: 395.Kipling, Rudyard. THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898) 12 volumes. Trade printing of the “Outward Bound” edition. Each volume with a frontispiece engraving, title-pages with Kipling’s “white elephant” tipped-on emblem in red, each volume illustrated throughout. 8vo, publisher’s original light-maroon cloth, the upper covers with “white elephant” in white within double gilt fillet circles, spines gilt lettered and decorated with a water-lily motif, t.e.g. A very handsome set, over-all the volumes are quite fine with only very minor and uniform mellowing to the spines,

12 Volume “Outward Bound” EditionIncludes Jungle Books and Captains Coura-geous

all but inevitable with the maroon cloth, Vol. IV only has minor evidence of damp to the upper outside corner of some text leaves, Vol. XII only with front hinge just a bit started. A HANDSOME SET FEATURING MANY OF KIPLING’S BEST WRITINGS. Included here are: Vol. I, Plain Tales From the Hills; Vol. II & III, Soldiers Three and Military Tales; Vol. IV, In Black and White; Vol. V, The Phantom Rickshaw; Vol. VI, Under The Deodars and Other Stories; Vol VII, The Jungle Book; Vol. VIII, The Second Jungle Book; Vol. IX, The Light That Failed; Vol. X, The Naulahka; Vol. XI, Verses; Vol. XII,” Captains Courageous”.

D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterly’s Lover - 1928A Very Early Pirated Edition

Lawrence, D. H. LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER (n.p.: Privately printed, 1928) Very early pirated edition in the year of original publication. Tall 8vo, original green textured paper boards backed in pebbled cloth, the spine lettered in gilt. A very good and solid copy, a touch of old evidence of staining to the outside page edge not affecting the interior, the binding with light age-wear, but still a pleasing and handsome copy.

Item Number: 24 Price: $275. AN EARLY PIRATED EDITION. The first edition was printed privately in Florence by Lawrence’s good friend Pino Orioli. It was followed by numerous pirated editions and later several expurgated versions. This pirated edition was printed just shortly after the first edition and is nearly identical in format to the true first.

The Courtship of Miles Standish - A Longfellow ClassicFirst Edition, First Issue - A Very Well Preserved Copy

Internally clean and fresh, one small closed tear to the edge of a page, front free-fly with unobtrusive short closed separation at the gutter. A NICE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. An American classic by this truly masterful craftsman of narrative poetry. A difficult book to locate in nice condition.

Item Number: 25 Price: $595.Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, And Other Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858) First edition, first printing with October ads and unbat-tered type in all places. 8vo, publisher’s original brown Ticknor cloth binding, lettered in gilt on spine, blindstamped decorations and borders on covers. A bright, clean and nice copy, with only the lightest aging to the binding, the tips in very nice condition.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s First Book of Poetry Item Number: 26 Price: $950.Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. VOICES OF THE NIGHT (Cambridge: John Owen, 1839) First Edition, a very early state with three of four textual errors uncorrected. LONGFELLOW’S FIRST BOOK OF POEMS. Small 8vo, very handsomely bound in full blue antique morocco by Taffin, the spine with raised bands gilt stopped, the compartments with panel designs in gilt, one compartment lettered in gilt, covers with double gilt fillet rules, an inner gilt frame incorporating gilt rolled stops and rules and corner devices, the turnovers wide and elabo-rately decorated with designs and frames and rules in gilt. A

Voices in the Night - Published in Cam-bridge in 1839

fine copy internally, the binding very handsome and showing very nicely with virtually no wear to the covers or spine, age evidence as the front hinge is delicate and starting. RARE FIRST EDITION OF LONGFELLOW’S FIRST BOOK OF POEMS. THIS IS A VERY EARLY ISSUANCE OF THE TITLE, WITH ONLY ONE CORRECTION MADE TO THE TEXTUAL READINGS. THREE REMAIN UNCORRECTED. Poems include “Voices in the Night”, “Earlier Poems” and “Trans-lations”

First Edition of Norman Mailer’s Greatest WorkThe Naked and The Dead

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.

Item Number: 27 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 attached to the back, some wear to the board edges and corners,



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One of the Most Elusive Books in the Antarctic Oeuvreevidence of use or age, sometime refurbished at the hinges and tips, overall a well preserved copy with the text-block in nice condition and the original maps all present. TRUE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST ELUSIVE AND IMPORTANT OF ALL WORKS IN THE ANTARCTIC OEU-VRE. Rarely encountered, much less in the original cloth binding with all maps intact, this is a good copy, complete and whole. The ANTARCTIC MANUAL provides the best general coverage of the exploration of Antarctic to that date.

Item Number: 30 Price: $4500.[Antarctic; Polar]; Murray, George. THE ANTARCTIC MANU-AL... (London: Royal Geographical Society, 1901) First Edition of the is rare and important work. Profusely illustrated throughout the volume, and with charts and three sheets of folding maps in a pocket at the rear of the volume. 8vo, publisher’s original royal-blue cloth, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, the covers stamped with frames in blind. A good copy, with withdrawal stamp to the bookplate, old ownership perforation to the title-page, some mellowing of the cloth, the spine panel with more

The Antarctic Manual - George Murray - 1901For Use of the Expe-dition - By the Royal Geographic Society

One of Ansel Adams’ Most Beautiful Works - SignedImages 1923-1974 - Limited and Signed by the PhotographerA Very Fine Copy in the Original Slipcase


Adams, Ansel. IMAGES 1923-1974. Foreward by Wallace Stegner (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974) First edition, first issue. One of the special copies, LIMITED AND SIGNED, by Ansel Adams for subscribers. With 106 plates, three portraits, and endpapers and dustjacket photos by Adams. Oblong folio, original black and grey cloth, in the dustjacket, in the original

slipcase. A very fine copy, beautifully preserved in the original slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED AND SIGNED FOR SUBSCRIB-ERS. A eloquent representation of Adams oeuvre, including scenery, portraits, and still-life photographs.

With Original Signed Lithograph - Limited and Numbered Item Number: 31 Price: $275.[New England]; McCord, David; Wengenroth, Stow, Illustra-tor. STOW WENGENROTH’S NEW ENGLAND (Barre: Barre Publishers, 1969) First edition, one of 350 copies only on Rives paper, specially bound and boxed. With ORIGINAL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH, and profusely illustrated throughout with Wen-genroth’s fine lithographs reproduced from the Wiggin Collection and printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. The original lithograph was pulled from the stone at the workshop of George C. Miller and Son on Rives paper. It is entitled “The New England

Stow Wengenroth’s New England - A Superb CopyA Beautiful Joining of Words and Art - First Edition

Coast”. Oblong Folio, very handsomely bound in publisher’s original blue Crepe Kaji paper handmade in Japan and backed with red linen. A superb copy, as pristine and mint. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED AND WITH A SIGNED ORIGI-NAL LITHOGRAPH. This book is a conversation, a comparing of experiences between David McCord a stylist in language and Stow Wengenroth, a craftsman who built his career on a sense of subtleties, mysteries, chemical facts and artistic possibilities of lithography.

Signed by the Author - Tim O’Brien Item Number: 32 Price: $450.O’Brien, Tim. GOING AFTER CACCIATO (London: Jonathan Cape, 1978) First Edition, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR, TIM O’BRIEN. 8vo, publisher’s original gray-blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, housed in the original pictorial dustjacket. A fine copy, very bright, very clean and essentially pristine.

Going After Cac-ciato - First Edition in DustjacketOne of the Most Out-standing Novels of the Vietnam War

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Tim O’Brien’s National Book Award winning novel is “among the most outstanding fictional narratives of the Vietnam War” - Stringer, 502. This is a complex book about a soldier in Vietnam who decides to run away from the war. Careful reading is repaid with an appreciation of the clever chronological structure.

Maugham, W. Somerset. THE RAZOR’S EDGE, A Novel (Lon-don: William Heinemann Ltd., 1944) First edition. Small 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, in the very scarce original dustjacket. A very good and well preserved copy of this book, nearly impossible to find in truly “fine” condition due to the wartime standards materials used. The scarce jacket has a bit of light edgewear and evidence of age or use, some old repairs to the verso of the dustjacket.

Item Number: 28 Price: $650.Somerset Maugham’s Most Sought After Title

FIRST EDITION. One of Maugham’s most sought after titles in first edition form. THE RAZOR’S EDGE tells the story of an Ameri-can pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life. Maugham was remarkably prescient, anticipating an embrace of Eastern culture by Westerners almost a decade before the Beat writers were to popularize the culture in America.

The Razor’s Edge - First Edition - 1944

John Marr and Other Poems - Herman MelvilleFirst Edition - A Fine Copy in Original Cloth

printed in an editioin of only 25 copies, appeared anonymously in 1888, this is the first edition of the book available to the general public. Poems included here come from the namesake title JOHN MARR, SEA PIECES, TIMOLEON (also issued originally in a printing of only 25 copies), BATTLE PIECES, MARDI AND CLAREL.

Item Number: 29 Price: $175.Melville, Herman. JOHN MARR AND OTHER POEMS...With an Introductory Note by Henry Chapin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1922) First Trade Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original gray-blue boards backed in tan cloth and lettered in gilt on the spine. A fine copy, well preserved and clean and fresh. THE FIRST TRADE EDITION OF THE BOOK. While JOHN MARR AND SOME OTHER SAILORS WITH SOME SEA PIECES



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The Works of Plato - A Very Early Set in Two VolumesIn Unusually Well-Preserved Contempo-rary BindingsPublished in London - 1749

Item Number: 34 Price: $1250.Plato, . THE WORKS OF PLATO ABRIDG’D... (London: Printed for R. Ware, P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman....J. Rivington et al., 1749) 2 volumes. The fourth edition, corrected. Small 8vo, full contemporary polished calf with double gilt fillet rules to the borders of the covers; raised bands to the spine, separating the compartments which are beautifully decorated with gilt panel designs and contrasting morocco lettering labels gilt, red edges. A very handsome, pleasing and fine contemporary set. This copy

is without fault of restoration or refurbishment. SCARCE EARLY PRINTING OF THIS IMPORTANT TRANS-LATION AND VERSION OF PLATO’S DIALOGUES. Very at-tractive and complete set containing, among other writings, Socrates’ Apology, Crito, Protagoras and the first and second Alcibiades. With a Discourse on Plato, as well as a Life.

The Definitive Edition of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poespines, some occasional rubbing to the board edges, the paper labels somewhat toned and a bit soiled. AN IMPORTANT SET OF THE DEFINITIVE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, Limited to only 1000 copies, numbered in each volume. The handsomely printed illustrations are from a broad number of sources, including artwork by Albert Edward Sterner and Aubrey Beardsley.

Item Number: 35 Price: $750.Poe, Edgar Allan. THE WORKS...Newly Collected and Edited... (New York and Pittsburg: For the Colonial Company Limited by R.R Donnelley and Sons, 1903) 10 volumes. The Definitive Edition, LIMITED to one thousand numbered and registered sets. With over 50 illustrations printed on Japan vellum paper with captioned tissue-guards printed in red, title-pages printed in black and red. 8vo, in the publisher’s original blue cloth with paper spine labels printed in black and red. Internally a fine and fresh set, the bindings solid and sturdy, with mellowing to the

A Fine Limited Printing - Well Illus-trated - 10 Volumes

Charles Dickens’ Timeless Annual FavoriteA Christmas Carol - Arthur Rackham - First EditionDelightfully Illus-trated Throughout in His Best Fashion

SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN PLEASING CONDITION. A shining example of what you get when a true masterpiece of literature is complemented by one of the world’s greatest book illustrators. An inspiring combination. The artist successfully incorporated the ‘Phiz’ and Cruikshank styles into his own to create striking renditions of Victorian London with ample room to uniquely evoke ghostly fantasy images as well.

Item Number: 36 Price: $950.[Rackham, illus.] Dickens, Charles. A CHRISTMAS CAROL (London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann and J. B. Lippin-cott Co., [1915]) First edition, the English issue. With 12 haunting colour plates, illustrated endpapers,18 black and white illustra-tions and line drawings by Arthur Rackham. 8vo, publisher’s original grey-blue cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt on the upper cover. A nice copy, very well preserved, with a touch of expected mellowing to the spine.

Landor’s Travels into Central Asia and Tibet Item Number: 37 Price: $495.Savage Landor, A. Henry. IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND: An Ac-count of a Journey Into Tibet... (London: Heinemann, 1898) 2 vol-umes. First edition, first issue. With photogravure frontispiece, 8 colour plates, 50 full page illustrations, over 150 illustrations in text, and a large folding map at rear. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth handsomely lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt, black and brown on the upper covers and in gilt and black on the spines. Internally a very good copy and a pleasing set, quite clean and fresh, the cloth with some rubbing to the green

colouring at the extremities, some evidence of age or mellowing to the cloth, hinges a bit shaken as is typical with these heavy text-blocks. THE TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, AND NOW QUITE SCARCE. This has become, like the author’s other books, quite dif-ficult to obtain these days. The books were especially popular and after the original two volume format was sold out quickly, the book was reprinted again and again in a one volume format.

In The Forbidden Land

The Works of Shakespeare - Charles Knight’s Edition - 1881A Fine and Very Handsome Set in Contemporary Calf

Item Number: 38 Price: $950.Shakespeare, William. THE STRATFORD SHAKSPERE [His-tories, Comedies, Tragedies of William Shakespeare] Edited by Charles Knight (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881) 6 volumes. A handome early set of Knight’s important edition. With an engraved plate for each play. 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, the spines richly gilt decorated in compartments between gilt stippled bands, two compartments with contrasting dark brown and dark green morocco labels. An fine and handsome set, internally fresh

and clean with no foxing or spotting whatsoever, text firm and appearing unread, the binding sturdy and very attractive with fine hinges and only the most minor of evidence of shelving at the tips and edges, uncommonly fresh and well preserved. A FINE EARLY SET OF KNIGHT’S IMPORTANT EDITION. It contains Knight’s excellent “Life of Shakspere”, notes on various readings and glossery. The vignette style engravings for each play are a delightful addition as well.

John Stephens - Incidents of Travel in Yucatan - 1843First Edition of this Classic Central American WorkWith the Fine En-gravings Through-out by Catherwood

Item Number: 39 Price: $1550.Stephens, John L. INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN YUCATAN (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1843) 2 volumes. First edition. With 120 fine engravings, including the two large multi-folding frontispieces and a folding map. The engraved plates were made from daguerreotype views and drawings by Frederick Catherwood. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth decorated with elaborate gilt designs in Mayan motif on the covers and the spines, lettered in gilt. A nice set, the paper with some toning and spotting as is all but inevitable with American books of the period. The cloth and gilt-work remain quite handsome. The

bindings are well preserved and quite strong with only minor wear. The folding plates are all intact, the folding map is pres-ent, some use is evident as is usual. THE FIRST EDITION OF STEPHENS’ CLASSIC WORK ON CENTRAL AMERICA. Stephens was the first westerner to penetrate the jungles of Central America and explore the ruins of the Mayan civilization. William Catherwood’s drawings of stelae and other monuments and buildings contribute enormously to the importance of the work.



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Days With Sir Roger de Coverly - In A Very Fine BindingFrom “The Specta-tor” - Illustrated by Hugh Thomson

Item Number: 41 Price: $295.[Thomson, Hugh. Illustrator], de Coverley, Sir Roger. DAYS WITH SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY... (London and New York: Macmillian and Co., 1892) SCARCE DELUXE LARGE PAPER COPY. First issue thus of the third edition. With over sixty delightful illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Crown 8vo, in a beautiful deluxe binding for Hatchard’s of full green morocco, the boards ruled in gilt, the spine beautifully decorated in arts-and-crafts style in an elaborate floral motif in compartments between tall raised bands, two compartments with stylized let-tering in gilt, gilt turn-ins and board edges, fine softly marbled

endpapers, t.e.g, green silk ribbon marker bound in. Internally a fine, bright copy with just a bit of foxing to the prelims only as is almost always the case, and a few very minor light spots throughout. The binding very handsome and solid, but with some minor faint stains to the boards and some wear to the leather along the hinges and extremities. SCARCE LARGE PAPER COPY IN DELUXE FULL MO-ROCCO PRODUCED FOR HATCHARD’S BY ONE OF THE IMPORTANT LONDON BINDERS.

First Edition of A Significant Ornithological WorkCharles Stonham - The Birds of the British IslandsHandsomely Bound by Bumpus in Green Morocco

Item Number: 40 Price: $2500.Stonham, Charles. THE BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. Illustrated by Lillian M. Medland (London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-1911) 5 volumes. First editions. With 318 superb engraved plates by Lilian M. Medland with captioned tissue-guards, 2 full-page anatomical woodcuts in red and black, and 2 coloured folding maps. Large 4to, bound by Bumpus in contemporary three-quarter green morocco over green cloth covered boards, the spines pleasantly toned to honey, spines with tall raised bands ruled in bind, lettered in gilt in two compartments, t.e.g. A handsome set, extremely minor toning or spotting almost

entirely confined to the prelims and occasionally on the outer edges of the margins but otherwise the books are internally fresh and clean, the fine Bumpus bindings with some general age rubbing mainly to the corner-pieces. FIRST EDITION AND AN IMPORTANT WORK. A SCARCE COMPLETE SET, INCLUDING THE SUBSCRIBER’S LIST AT THE END OF VOLUME V. The work was originally published in 20 monthly parts, this set must have been bound by Bumpus almost immediately after the publication of the final part.

An Artist in The Riviera - A Bright and Beautiful BookWith 30 Fine Colourplates by Walter Tyndale

Item Number: 42 Price: $325.Tyndale, Walter. AN ARTIST IN THE RIVIERA (London: Hutchinson and Co., N.D. (circa 1915)) First edition, the pre-ferred UK issue. Illustrated with 30 beautiful tipped in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. 4to, publisher’s original deep blue cloth, with elaborate designs and border decorations in gilt on the spine and upper cover, decorated endpapers. A superlative copy of this truly beautiful book, the plates are all pristine, bright and vivid, the blue cloth dark and rich, the gilt bright and exceptionally well preserved.

FIRST EDITION 0F THIS EXCEPTIONALLY BEAUTIFUL ARTIST’S BOOK. AN ARTIST IN THE RIVIERA is the least commonly found of Tyndale’s series, and unquestionably one of the loveliest. His “Artist in... “ books are the finest examples of the decorative travel gift books of the period. Tall and handsome with extensive text and reminiscences, they are none the less best loved for the absolutely marvelous colour plates. This title not only portrays the natural and man-made beauties of the Riviera, but also captures the spirit, the “feel”, of these timeless seaside communities.

From the Acclaimed Author of The Compleat AnglerFirst Edition of Izaak Walton’s Life of Dr. SandersonFull Contemporary Calf - 1678

Item Number: 43 Price: $650.Walton, Izaak. THE LIFE OF DR. SANDERSON.... (London: For Richard Marriott, 1678) First Edition. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Sanderson, also with separate engraved title-pages to Sanderson’s included 5 works. 8vo, in full contem-porary dark calf boards, long ago rebacked with proper raised bands double-ruled in blind, with a red morocco label lettered and double-ruled in gilt, additional gilt lettering at the tail of the spine. A very handsome copy, well preserved. Internally

quite fresh feeling but with light and unobtrusive evidence of old damp to the outside bottom corner. The portrait, general title-page and a few leaves in the preface with some wear and soiling to the outer edge, antique binding handsome and solid but with some expected wear and mellowing. SCARCE FIRST EDITION of Walton’s last published major work and the last of his series of “Lives” which along with Sanderson included Dunne, Hooker, Herbert and Wotton.

Walt Whitman - Leaves of GrassThe Publisher’s Re-vised Study Edition

Item Number: 45 Price: $350.Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS Including a Fac-simile Autobiography,Variorum Readings of the Poems, and a Depart-ment of Gathered Leaves. (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1900) Early edition. With an engraved frontispiece of Walt Whitman as from the first edition. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine, lettered in gilt on the upper cover. A handsome copy, well preserved, clean, tight and sound. Light mellowing to the gilt of the spine panel.

A CORNERSTONE WORK IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. An early edition issued by the publisher which allows the reader to sift through the many revisions Whitman made upon the poems. The lines are numbered and the footnotes include earlier renderings of the lines. Changed headings are noted. This edition of LEAVES OF GRASS contains the final revisions of Whitman’s body of poems---he died shortly before it was issued.

H.G. Wells - His First Literary WorkSelect Conversations With An Uncle - London - 1895

Item Number: 44 Price: $475.Wells, H. G. SELECT CONVERSATIONS WITH AN UNCLE (now extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences. (London: John Lane/ New York: The Merriam Company, 1895) First Edition Issued in America of Wells’ first literary work (preceded only by two scientific texts). With the illustrated, decorated title-page. 8vo, publisher’s original light brown clowh, pictorially decorated and lettered in blue and red on the upper cover and spine. This is a very nice copy, about as close as one can rea-sonably expect to being fine. The book is increasingly difficult

to come by. A quite nice inscription is penned at the front of the volume. VERY SCARCE. These pieces had originally appeared in “The Pall Mall Gazette” in 1893-94 while Wells had been a drama critic on the publication’s staff. He used a “bombastic old fraud” of an “Uncle” character to expound his opinions on a variety of social mat-ters. “The best of the pieces involve fashionable conversation, how to listen to social music, the problems of the newly married, riding a tricycle...” [Smith].

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