Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1907. 8vo. Complete with 8 color prints (including frontispiece) and black-and-white illustrations in text by Maginel Wright Enright. Original gray cloth, both covers with color-printed illustrations mounted. First edition, first state, with identical full-color designs on front and back covers.
London: Ward, Lock, 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pale green cloth; in a dark morocco slipcase with red morocco spine labels. First edition of this crime novel and the author's second book. The dedication copy to his mother, inscribed by Charteris incorporating the printed dedication: "With love.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1969. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original yellow cloth; pictorial dust jacket designed by Muni. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to Kenneth Millar: "Santa Barbara, Jan 25, 1969 / For Ken, Who will always be there, out in front.....
London: Macmillan, 1966. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original orange cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of this satirical novel about a scientist and the bureaucratic infighting he encounters. The dedication copy to Pamela Hansford Johnson, fellow English writer and the wife of C. P. Snow, inscribed by the.....
London: 1939. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 28 pages, 8vo, and 4 holograph preliminary pages and manuscript cover. Greenish-blue wrappers. John Gawsworth (1912-1970) had an active career as a literary editor, bibliographer, lecturer, archivist, and most of all, poet. He also served in the RAF in various European, North African.....
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London: T. Bensley, 1799. Two volumes, 8vo (212 x 125mm). 21 engraved portraits, vignettes in text. Contemporary full green straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt (sympathetically rebacked to style, some rubbing to joints and extremities, light wear along fore-edges, mottling to leather). First complete Bensley illustrated edition.
London: Hurst & Blackett, [1929]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the half-title: "To Mother With the Author's Affection. Ben Mowshay March 1929." The printed dedication reads simply: "To Mother." An English barrister and writer, Mowshay's previous.....
Redfield: 1853. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, blind rule borders, gilt-lettered and -decorated on spine. First edition of the Connecticut author's scarce first book, with publisher's advertisements at end. Wright II, 1206.
Amsterdam: Cohen Zonen, [1900]. 8vo (19 x 26 cm). [28] pages, each a full-color lithograph. Bound in plain, quarter cloth. A fine work by the caricaturist Chris Kras, critical of English involvement in the Boer War.
