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[BIBLIOGRPHY]
1. Ashendene Press Hornsby, Charles Harry St. John (1867-1946).
A Descriptive Bibliography Of The Books Printed At The Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV - MCMXXXV.
Chelsea: Shelley House, 1935. First edition. Folio. 172 pages, 33.2 x 23 cm. Limited edition of the presss final book. This copy is number 357 of 390 (340 for sale), signed by Hornby, with errata slip and additional errata slip tipped in at end and with a loosely-inserted A Farewell Notice to the Subscribers to the Books of the Ashendene Press (1935) printed in red and black and sample first quire of Horace, Carmina (1903) with gold initial painted by Hewitt. Hornby XL. Half title, printed in black, red and blue, Ptolemy type, with tipped-in specimen leaves, hand-coloured initials by Graily Hewitt, collotype and photogravure illustrations by Emery Walker. The books are given full descriptions and accounts of their printing, but in many cases are also illustrated with specimen leaves from the original printing or pages entirely reset and reprinted for the occasion by Hornsby. Full and original maroon polished calf by W.H. Smith. with the Ashendene Press device in gilt on front cover. Fine in very good marbled board slipcase. $3,350.00
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[LITERATURE]
2. Blake, William.
The Writings of William Blake.
London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. First edition. xvii, 364/ vii, 397/ vii, 430 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy XXI of 75 on Oxford India paper from a total editions of 1575. With 58 monochrome lettered plates; produced under the supervision of Francis Meynell. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Notes. Index of First Lines. Keynes opted to arrange the material chronologically; however, he admits to the difficulty of such a precise arrangement, noting some of the dates assigned are necessarily conjectural. FREITAG 745. Bright, very fresh, clean copy. Orig. full vellum, backstrip lettered in gilt, yapp edges. Teg. Fine housed in a repaired slipcase. 3 Vols. $1,450.00
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[SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY]
3. Bradbury, Ray.
The Ghosts of Forever.
New York: Rizzoli, 1980. First edition. 130 pages. Folio, 36 x 28. Illustrations by Aldo Sessa, with a prologue by Bradbury and an Epilogue by Melvin B. Zisfien. Signed presentation copy "For Paul Carmen: This "Ghosts" with Good Wishes: Ray Bradbury" on half title page on label in silver lettering. Saxophonist Paul Carman is a veteran of the Frank Zappa Band of the late 1980's (in Frank's own words, "the best band you never heard in your life"). Slight bump to backstrip foot. Orig. silver covers lettered in black. Near fine. $250.00
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4. Caldwell, Erskine.
Tobacco Road.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. 241 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Signed presentation copy to Paul Carman signed by Erskine Caldwell. Interior contents fresh and clean. A novel about a dysfunctional family of Georgia sharecroppers during the Great Depression and often portrayed as a work of social realism. Saxophonist Paul Carman is a veteran of the Frank Zappa Band of the late 1980's (in Frank's own words, "the best band you never heard in your life"). Orig. green cloth decorated in blind and silver. Near fine. $295.00
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[LITERATURE]
5. Capote, Truman.
Breakfast at Tiffany's A Short Novel and Three Stories.
New York: Random House, 1958. First edition. 179 pages. 27 x 14 cm. Jacket design by Ismar Howard with 10/58 date code and $3.50 notations interior of front cover dust rapper. Interior contents clean and sharp. Dust wrapper with a few nicks at edges, and some mottling to cover edges head and foot. Orig. yellow cloth, backstrip in black and yellow in unclipped dust wrapper. Very good in very good dust wrapper. $895.00
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[SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY]
6. Cartier-Bresson, Henri.
Les Cahiers de la Photographie.
Paris: Argenton/Creuse, 1984. First edition. 157 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Signed presentation copy "a Daniel tres amicalement Henri" inside front cover. Illustrated throughout in black and white most full page images on glossy stock. Text in French. Laid-in the original publisher announcement. Interior contents clean and fresh. Orig. stiff wraps, illustrated front cover lettered in red. Near fine. $250.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
7. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.
Aventures De Don Quichotte De La Manche Par Michel Cervantes Nouvelle edition et nouvelle traduction par M. L'Abbe Lejuene
. Paris: P.-C. Lehuby, ca 1850. XII-477 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Illustrated with twenty full page plates by MM. Célestin Nateuil, Bouchot et Demoraine. Illustrated frontispiece. Interior contents clean and bright. Text in French. OCLC: 459163179. Contemporary black cloth in a brilliant, decorated binding, both covers and spine. Yellow endpapers. Aeg. Near fine. $595.00
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8. _____.
Les Principales Aventures De L'Admirable Don Quichotte, Representees En Figures Par Coypel, Picart Le Romain, Et Autres Habiles Maitres: Avec Les Explications Des XXXI Planches.
La Haie: Pierre De Hondt, 1746. Folio, 34.6 x 24.7 cm. x4, A-Z4, Aa-Ss4, Tt2. Title page printed in red and black with an engraved vignette, and title-page and all text pages within a typographical border, and with woodcut initials and head and tail pieces. The 31 plates after Coypel, Boucher, Cochin, Le Bas and Tremoliere. Twenty five of the engraved plates are after the masterful series by Coypel. RAY, FRENCH BOOKS. p.13. "Coypal painted scenes from Don Quiote between 1715 and 1720. The reduction of these designs appearing in 1746 assured their wide circulation. It is not too much to say that the pictorial tradition associated with Cervantes' masterpiece owes much to Coypal as to any other artist." This and the Dutch edition appeared the same year by the same publisher. Text in French. Interior contents fresh, bright and clean. Bookplates of Kenneth Rapoport and Vitai Lampada pastedown front cover. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt with arabesques and gilt corner motifs, red leather spine label in gilt. ASHBEE 43. COHEN-DE RICCI. 216 Contemporary full brown calf, red edges. Very good. $3,350.00
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[AMERICAN ART]
10. Cornell Joseph.
The Magical Worlds Of Joseph Cornell.
Washington DC: The Voyager Foundation, ca 2004. 24.5 x 14.5 cm. DVD videos of Joseph Cornell's films and interactive DVD-ROM. Two DVD disks -- Disk I [Nine of Cornell's films in full]. Disk II contains over 250 of Cornell's finest box constructions, collages, films and publications. Housed in illustrated boards. Fine. $100.00
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[SOCIALISM]
11. Debs, Eugene.
Labor and Freedom The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs.
St. Louis: Phil Wagner, 1916. First edition. 176 pages. 17 x 11.5 cm. Last not numbered Contents page presents topics and speeches. Introduction by Henry Thomas Tichnor. Debs, a five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. He was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Debs dropped out of high school at age of 14 to work on the Railroad. He was indicted and imprisoned for treason for his opposition to the US entry into World War I. Interior contents clean and fresh. Wear to backstrip head and foot, rubbing to corners, and two small paint spots front cover. Orig. light gray/blue cloth. Very good. $695.00
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[ORIGINAL PARTS]
12. Dickens, Charles.
Bleak House.
London: Bradbury & Evans, March 1852-September 1853. First edition. 624 [16] [16] [14] pages. 22 x 13.5 cm. From The Library of Jean Hersholt, with his signed bookplate inside of slipcase. First edition in the original 20 issues in 19 parts, with 40 inserted plates, including frontispiece and vignette title by Hablot K. Browne. With the Bleak House advertiser in each, back cover ad wrapper in first state, issues one to five, lacks the eight page "Grace Aguilar's Works," slip in part 16; however, all others are retained, and with the scarce "Village Pastor" booklet in part 15. Also, lacks the "New Geographical and Educational Works" ad in part XIV. First issue of the text, uncorrected thus: in Part 1. p.19 line six with "eligible" & Part VII, p.209, line 23 with "chair." Part IX, p.275, line 22 with "cousinship" [i-vii]vii-x[xi]xii-xiv[xv]xvi,[1]2-624. Spines expertly renewed on a few parts. Some light soil to a few wrappers. Neat subscriber's name to margin of Part XIX/XX. Tissue guards in place. Plates of Parts VIII,IX, and XII lightly tanned at edges, but not affecting illustrations. Two of the ten dark plates with light offsetting onto the adjacent plate. Remaining plates are very good to fine. Part X unopened, ergo unread. Overall a sharp set. Dickens's assault on the abuses in the Courts of Chancery, "many of the characters in the book were identified as having for their prototypes several of Dickens's friends." (ECKEL pp.79-81). HATTON AND CLEAVER, pp.275-304. Housed in full crimson morocco felt lined clamshell box with raised bands, spine panels with gilt arabesques and lettering (expert repair to front hinge). Near fine. $3,250.00
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13. _____.
Dealings With The Firm Of Dombey And Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1847/1848. First edition. 22 x 14 cm. 20 parts in 19 illustrated with forty plates by Hablot K. Browne [Phiz]. Plates have offsetting from tissue guards, wrappers generally clean with a few small nicks or chips. Pt.1. Later issue wrapper. Pt.2. Complete. Pt.3. Rear wrapper in later state. Pt.4. Inside front cover blank, lacks Lett's Diaries, lacks (7) Cheap and Elegant. Pt.5. Front ads in mostly later states but with the 11 line errata. Pt.6. Rear ads complete but out of sequence. Pt.7. Complete. Pt.8. Front ads from p.1-12 later state and with 4p cheap edition ad. Rear ads Mr. McGlashan's lists dated April 1847. Pt.9. Lacks "Just Publish" (8)p; With the word "Delight" twice noted. Pt.10. Lacks Gilbert's Dictionary. Pt.11. Complete. Pt.12. Booksellers stamp and early owner's name to front wrapper; Complete. Pt. 13. Early owner's name to front wrapper. Rear wrapper later state. Ad#2 same as in but in different font. Pt.14. Early owner's name to title page. Rear wrapper later state. e. Moses & Son's Lines to "A Bull, lacks ads 5-8. Page 432 and "if" present Pt.15. Ad on page 9 with large area torn away. Slip following plates lacking. 13 of the 18 diary samples dated 1857. Pt.16. Lacks "Punch Almanack". With four line heading in rear ad. Pt.17. No comma after February . Pt.18. No comma after march. Extra line on ad p. 12 Complete. Pt.19 & 20. Lacks slip following plates. Rear ads "Waterflow & Sons later state. ECKEL. pp. 74-76. "Under his contract with Bradbury & Evans his profits were 75 per cent, so this netted him for the first six months 2,200 pounds......financial worriment ceased." Dickens approached this work with more careful planning than his earlier novels. Some critics place it as the first of the later novels. HATTON & CLEAVER. pp.223-250. YALE/GIMBEL. A102. Overall bright and fresh set with color covers and backstrips with little or no faults. From the Library of Edward Dean Richmond with his bookplate. Orig. green pictorial wrappers. Near fine in green chemises in matching three quarter green cloth and brown morocco drop down case. $2,650.00
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[LITERATURE]
14. Flatman, Thomas.
Poems And Songs.
London: Printed by S. and B.G, for Benjamin Took, 1674. First edition. 140 pages. lacks A1 blank and cancel A3, as usual), (a)8,***4, B-K8 (lacks blanks K7-8). 19.5 x 11 cm. Flatman divided his career between writing poetry (in which his earnest religious temperament is revealed) and painting portraits in miniature. One of the lesser Caroline poets. CBHL, p.88 Vol.7 notes, "the poet-painter Thomas Flatman, whose unlucky name by no means expresses his poetic quality..." He was also a miniature painter, one of his self-portraits is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A portrait of Charles II is in the Wallace Collection, London. His miniatures are noted for their vitality. WING. Fl 151. GROLIER, WITHER to PRIOR 356. Triple gilt border fillets, raised bands, spine panels in gilt arabesques, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Book plates of Kenneth Rapoport. and leather gilt lettered label of W.Van B. Whitall. Interior contents bright and clean. Modern full black morocco. Aeg. Fine. $750.00
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[LITERATURE]
15. _____.
Poems And Songs ............Together with The Plague of Athens, Which hapned in the Second year Of The Pelopnnesian War. First described in Greek By Thucidies; Then in Latine By Lucretius. Now attempted in English By Tho. Sprat.
London. Printed for Joanna Brome. 1673. Three page inroduction: "To my Worthy and Learned Friend, Dr. Walter Pope, Late Proctor of the University of Oxford. 34 pages. Appears at the end of Poems And Songs..........
London: Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1682. Third Edition. A8, a-b8, B-M8. [L8 is a cancel]. 170 pages. Engraved portrait by White after Hayls, with the final 2 leaves of errata and advertisements. Flatman divided his career between writing poetry (in which his earnest religious temperament is revealed) and painting portraits in miniature. One of the lesser Caroline poets. CBHL, p.88 Vol.7 notes, "the poet-painter Thomas Flatman, whose unlucky name by no means expresses his poetic quality..." He was also a miniature painter, one of his self-portraits is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A portrait of Charles II is in the Wallace Collection, London. This later edition contains seventy nine separate pieces, 16 more than the prevous edition. The portrait of Flatman appears here for the first time. WING. F1153. Bookplates of Kenneth Rapoport and Henry A. Sherwin one of the founders of the Sherwin-Williams paint Company in 1866. Interior contents generally clean. Spine with raised bands, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Cambridge style full brown calf rebacked. Very good. $550.00
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[POETRY]
16. Fujita, Jun.
Tanka Poems in Exile.
Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923. First edition. 61 pages. 19.5 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 212 of 365 printed by Will Ransom at his private press in garamond on San Marco Italian handmade paper. The authors first book by a Japanese American poet, photo-journalist, photographer and silent film actor. He was also the only photographer to document the aftermath of the famous St. Valentine's Day massacre. This copy inscribed "Charlotte -- I think you will like these poems of my friend. Jack" After contacting Fujita's grandnephew and biographer, Graham Lee, and based upon his research, "Jack" is Jack Oppenheim. "Charlotte" is likely Charlotte Foye. Both were at the University of Chicago together, and Jack interviewed the author for a University of Chicago student literary publication called "The Circle" (of which he was the editor) in 1923. Mr. Lee has written a biography of his great-uncle scheduled for publication in September 2024. Lower front corner nicked. Mullberry Canson & Montgolfier hand made brown boards, black spine gold stamped. Very good. $395.00
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[MANUSCRIPT]
17. Hartley, David.
Observations On The Progress to Happiness Introduction [Manuscript on paper] Twelve Observations.
Np: Np, March 7th 173/5. 103 pages. 22 x 17 cm. The very last page of the manuscript with some loss at head. This manuscript in his own hand Hartley sought to explain how the most complex mental processes imagining, remembering, reasoning might be analyzed into clusters or sequences of elementary sense impressions and that ultimately all psychological acts might be explained by a single law of association. His major work was "Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations." (2 vol., 1749). From John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding he adopted the concept of the association of ideas that ideas are interconnected, sequential, and descriptive of experience. Attempting to explain how thought processes occur, Hartleys associations, with later modifications, has endured as an integral part of modern psychological theory. He advocated that physiological psychology be separate from metaphysics. Back cover has losses mostly toward the spine. Interior contents clean, legible and bright. Covers darkened. Orig. full vellum worn,with string ties. Good. $1,950.00
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[ARCHITECTURE]
18. Heath, Sidney & W. De C. Prideaux With A Foreword By R. Bosworth Smith.
Some Dorset Manor Houses With Their Literary And Historical Associations Illustrated with forty drawings by Heath, and rubbings from sepulchral brasses by Prideaux.
London: Bemrose and Sons Ltd, 1907. First edition. 280 pages. 31 x 29.5 cm. Appendix I & II. Index of Persons. For pages of adverts at rear. Errata. The County of Dorset is rich in the variety of Manor Houses many from the times of the later Plantagenets, Tudors and the early Stuarts. Wide text margins, interior contents clean and bright with the plates printed on glossy stock. Orig. brown cloth, beveled edges, backstrip and front cover lettered in gilt with the English three lions shield in gilt at front cover. Teg. Very good. $195.00
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[FRENCH DOLLS]
19. Koenig, Marie.
Poupees Et Legendes de France.
Paris: Libraire Centrale Des Beaux-Arts, ca 1900. First edition. Viii,156 pages. 35 full page color lithographs, one double-paged of French dolls. Preface by M. Maurice Bouchor. Illustrations after M.P. Mathey. Index at rear provides Provinces relating to the images. Text and images bright and fresh. Small book label of Mrs. Grant J. Holt of New Hampshire on prelims. Orig. lime green covers, front cover lettered and illustrated in gilt. Aeg. Near fine. $225.00
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[MODERN ART]
20. Kokoschka, Oskar.
Vier dramen [Four plays]. Orpheus und Eurydike; der brennende dornbusch; mörder, hoffnung der frauen; Hiob.
Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1919. First edition. 174 pages. 25.3 x 17.3 cm. Limited edtion, copy 43 of 50 of with original lithographed frontispiece by Oskar Kokoschka deluxe example, on wove watermarked paper, containing the original lithograph Menschenpaar, printed in sanguine on thin China paper, signed in pencil by Oskar Kokoschka. The regular edition had no lithograph. Bookplate of Kurt & Elsa Arnhold. The Arnholds and related Jewish families, were bankers, collectors, and public benefactors. Kurt Arnholds escaped from Germany to Holland in circa 1938. Interior contents clean and fresh. German text. . Quarter black roan and marbled boards. Teg. Very good/Near Fine. $750.00
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[LITERATURE]
21. Lawrence, Frieda (geb, Freiin von Richthofen).
"Not I, But The Wind..."
Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, 1934. First edition. 311 pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Signed presentation copy no.155 of 1000 to Dorothy Arnold Harris and signed by Frieda Lawrence in ink. Introduction by Giorgio Belloli. Illusrated with photographs. D.H. Lawrence died in 1930. Frieda lived with the couple's friend Angelo Ravagli on their Taos ranch and eventually married him in 1950. Half beige cloth and matching boards, paper spine label. Near fine. $195.00
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[LITERATURE]
22. Lee Harper.
To Kill A Mockingbird The Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition Of The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel. New York: Harper Collins, 1995. 323 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Signed by Harper Lee on the half-title in blue ink. With certificate of authenticity. This title has been translated into more than forty languages and sold over thirty million world-wide. As new copy. This Anniversary edition, gilt-stamped quarter cloth over gray paper-covered boards, with black endpapers, in illustrated unclipped dust jacket. Fine in fine dust wrapper. $1,350.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
23. Michelson, Richard.
Did You Say Ghosts? Illustrated by Leonard Baskin.
New York: Macmillan, 1993. First edition. Unpaginated. Approx. 15 leaves. 25 x 20 cm. Signed on the title page by Richard Michelson and Leonard Baskin in ink. Clean, fresh almost as new copy. Orig. illustrated boards replicated on dust wrapper. Fine. $125.00
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[THEATER]
24. Miller, Arthur.
Death of a Salesman Certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem.
New York: Viking Press, 1948. First edition. 139 pages. 25.5 x 14 cm. The quintessential theater production considered a landmark of American theater. Signed on title page in ink by Arthur Miller. It was the first play to win all three major drama awards upon its opening in 1949: the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Tony Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Spine slightly faded. Orig. orange boards front cover illustrated. Very good. $1,500.00
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[ANTI-WAR PROTESTS]
25. New York. Oak Publications.
Broadside Vol. 2.
New York: Oak Publicaitons, (1968). First edition. 96 pages. 29 x 21.5 cm. Signed copy front cover by Pete Seeger in red and Arlo Guthrie in black. Introduction by Gordon Friesen discusses America's topical folk song movement of the 1960's. This volume traces the anti-war protests of the Vietnam war and racial justice. Music scores and accompanying text. Drawings by Agnes F. Martin and Linda Jean Frame et al. Photographers, mainly Diana J. Davies and Erik Falkensteen. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. $750.00
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[FABLES]
26. Northcote, James, R.A.
One Hundred Fables, Original And Selected Embellished With Two Hundred Eighty Engravings on Wood (Second Edition) & Fables Original And Selected (Second Series), Illustrated By Two Hundred and Eighty Engravings On Wood.
London: Geo. Lawford, 1828/1833. First edition. 272 , 248 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Large Paper Copy. The illustrations, "the greater portion of which are of my own invention," with his headpiece designs for each one and with initial letters and tailpieces by William Harvey, pupil of Thomas Bewick." James Northcote was one of a number of prominent painters of the 18th century. Today Northcote is chiefly admired for his portraits, though his paintings of animals found favor in his lifetime. In his later years he devoted an increasing amount of time to history paintings, including some scenes from Shakespeare’s history plays which were exhibited in Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery. The Second Series of the Fables was published posthumously, Both volumes with Index To The Engravings. GORDON RAY 55/56. "Handsome set, particularly on large paper." Title page of first volume printed in red and black. Wide text margins. Clean, very fresh interior. Inner dentelles, triple gilt border fillets, raised bands, spine compartments with gilt arabesques, brown & tan spine labels in gilt. 19th century full calf. Teg. Fine. 2 vols. $1,500.00
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[LITERATURE]
27. Northampton, MA. Gehenna Press.
Conrad's Manifesto To A Career The History Of The Preface To The Nigger Of The Narcissus. Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1966. First Edition. 79 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition copy 299 of 1100 for the Rosenbach Foundation. Edited with an Essay by David R. Smith. Portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin. Harold McGrath was the pressman. Printed on Shizuoka vellum. Orig. marbled boards housed in gray board portfolio in a matching board slipcase backstrip with paper label. Fine. $100.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
27A. _____.
Culs De Lampe.
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1968. First Edition. 20 pages. 17 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition one of 250. Images in colors printed recto only. A cul-de-lampe is a typographic ornament, sometimes called a pendant, specifically a tailpiece in the shape of a triangle marking the end of a section of text. It may be a single illustration or assembled from fleurons. Printed on Nideggen and Fabriano blue and white paper by Harold McGrath. Orig. marbled boards, spine paper label. Fine. $100.00
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[THEATER]
28. Shirley, John.
The Coronation A Comedy. As it was presented by her Majesties Servants in the private House in Drury Lane (licensed 6 Feb 1635 as Shirley's, but printed in 1640 erroneously as a work of John Fletcher).
London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Andrew Cooke and william cooke, 1640. First edition. 36 unnumbered leaves. a2-b-I4-k2. 18 x 11 cm. "The plot line lies in the successive discovery of two brothers of a reigning queen, whose crown thus shifts from head to head." CHEL. Vol.6, p.204. His comedic works falls into two main classes: a comedy of manners and romantic comedy. This play was one of the many plays published while the playwright was absent in Dublin as the theatre company closed when the Bubonic plague hit London. Inner dentelles, interior contents generally clean, frontispiece head slightly shaved but title complete, bookplate of Kenneth Rapoport, and small book label at free rear endpaper. STC 22440. GREG 572a. Modern full maroon morocco, backstrip and front cover lettered in gilt. Fine. $1,450.00
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[POETRY]
29. _____.
Poems & &c. Sine aliqua dementia nullus Phoebus.
London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1646. First edition. 97 leaves. a3-b-f8,2a-d8-3a-b8 [leaving 2B3 unsigned]. There is no proof that the three sections herein are all bibliographically independent, belong together, and it is possible that they were sometimes issued, as they certainly sometimes occur, separately. The jump in pagination from pages 46 to 147 of the second section (Narcissus) coincides with a change in printer, as is clean from the use of ornaments in the text, which after being profuse here ceases abruptly. There also is lack of a catchword on c8. "In 1646 Shirley collected and published a number of the non-dramatic poems. A manuscript tin the Bodleian Library supplies variant versions of a large number of these, and a few additional pieces." CBHL. Vol. V1. p198. The latter reference also notes poems herein are amorous and personal. Six pages of adverts at rear: List of Moseley titles for sale. Contemporary signature free endpaper of John Amson. Frontispiece portrait of Shirley Text generally clean. Bookplate of Kenneth Rapoport. PFORZHEIMER 933. WING S3481. Contemporary sheep rebacked with red leather spine label. Very good. $1,550.00
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[ARTS & CRAFTS]
30. Stickley, L & J.G.
The Work Of L & J.G. Stickley.
Fayetteville, NY : L & J.G. Stickley, 1910. First edition. 28 leaves. 23 x 18 cm. Gustave Stickley, an American furniture manufacturer was a leading voice in the American Arts and Crafts movement. Stickley's design philosophy was a major influence on American Craftsman architecture. The movements aesthetics and ideas, however, reached a large, middle-class audience mainly through the skilled self-promotion of two men: Elbert Hubbard and Gustav Stickley. Stickley experimented with design trends ranging from the sinuous lines and vegetal motifs of European Art Nouveau to the exquisite forms and decorative inlays of British designers like Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott. A fresh, very bright copy, interior contents clean and fresh. The only flaw, some nicks to the yapp edge covers, foot and front cover. Orig. tan illustrated front cover. Near fine. Wraps. $250.00
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[WORLD'S FAIR]
31. Strahan, Edward, Walter Smith & Joseph M. Wilson.
The Masterpieces Of The Centennial International Exhibition: Vols. 1-3.
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1875. First edition. 29 x 22 cm. 366 pages: Volume I, Fine Arts --- more than 200 black and white illustrations -- paintings, sculpture, photography and fine art literature. 521 pages: Volume II, Industrial Art -- more than 500 black and white illustrations -- brass, bronze, cabinet furniture, carpets, jewelry, marble, lace, tapestry et al. 375 pages: Volume III, History, Mechanics, Science -- more than 250 black and white illustrations -- looms, bandsaws, engines, boilers, bridges, aqueducts, et al. Contents: Engravings on Steel, Paintings, Sculpture, Engravings On Wood, Engravings Of The Castellani Collection & Engravings Of The Masterpieces Of Photography. Gilt decorated raised bands, spine panels lettered in gilt. Interior contents fresh, very clean; almost as day printed, marbled endpapers. Orig. three quarter brown calf an marbled boards in a striated pattern. Near fine. 3 vols. $350.00
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[SCULPTURE]
32. Yves Bonnefoy; Anthony Rudolf (Translator).
La Primauté Du Regard (The Primacy Of Gaze) Some Remarks About Raymond Mason. Birmingham: Delos Press, 2000. First edition. Unpaginated. Twelve leaves. 25 x 16.5. Three tipped-in plates. Limited edition, one of 75 copies, this not numbered and signed by the author, artist and illustrator. (Bonnefoy, Mason and Rudolf in pencil). Printed at the Rampant Lion Press on tan Fabriano Ingres Paper and bound by The Fine Bindery. Text in French and English. Raymond Mason was a sculptor who trained at the Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts, the Royal College of Art, and Slade School of Art. He lived and worked in Paris beginning in 1946. Quarter blue spine printed in gilt, marbled boards, front cover paper label. Fine. $225.00
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