[New York]: Macmillan, [1970]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket designed by Anthony Sini. First edition. The book is dedicated "To Peg Campbell," the wife of John W. Campbell, renowned editor of 'Astounding Science Fiction' (later 'Analog Fiction/Science Fact'), in which parts of this.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Approximately 110 pages, folio, in ink in an "Excelsior Journal for 1890"; original binding of dark brown and mauve pebbled cloth, brown roan corners. A fascinating record by the owner of one of the teams in the Players’ League, formed by the Brotherhood of Professional.....
London: The Scholartis Press, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. First edition, limited to 1000 copies (of which this is one of 950 for sale). The dedication copy, inscribed by Bates beneath the printed dedication ("To Constance Garnett"): "who by her poetic genius began to influence.....
Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1938. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Later buckram, original printed wrappers bound in, untrimmed. First edition. Inscribed by Bernstein on the half-title to the dedicatee’s wife, the actress Patricia Patterson: “à la meilleure partenaire de Charles à la Marmanche Pat affecteuresment Henry Bernstein.” Patricia Patterson.....
San Francisco: W. E. Wood, 1903. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of Bierce. Original dark green cloth, gilt pictorial stamping and lettering, top edges gilt, others uncut; black cloth folding case. First edition, state 1 (BAL). This is the dedication copy to the designer of the binding.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Large 8vo. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Original pictorial dark gray wrappers over stiff wrapper (inch piece chipped from heel of spine); in a maroon half-morocco slipcase. First (and only) edition of the author's first book, a collection of.....
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.....
[Paris]: [Contact Editions], [1926]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original marbled wrappers, printed paper labels, untrimmed; in a brown cloth slipcase. First edition of the first book by the future art critic of the 'New Yorker', "an ignored minor masterpiece of anti-realist fiction, a novel that deserves the attention.....
London: Heinemann, 1943. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth. First edition. A dedication copy "To Hugh ['Binkie'] Beaumont, the play's producer, inscribed by the playwright on the front free endpaper: "For Hugh from Noel Coward." (...all Noel's plays had been presented in England since 1939 [and.....
Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1864-1875. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Complete set of the 17 catalogues of what the bookseller Drake came to designate, with the fifth number (April 1, 1869), as the "Quarto Series." Various sizes in small 4to and 4to, bound in tan buckram, roan spine label. Bookplate.....
London: George Routledge, 1893. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original tan cloth, decorated in blue and brown, gilt-lettered, beveled boards, unopened. First edition of this humorous novel, intended as a parody of the detective/mystery story (of which the author wrote several). The dedication copy to the author's wife, inscribed.....
Bellows Falls, VT: Printed by Bill Blake & Co., 1818. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Contemporary sheep. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed identically twice by the poet to a niece on front flyleaves: "Ann [...] Jones, Presented to her by her Uncle, Thom[as] G. Fessenden – January 31, 1818".....
London: Max Goschen Ltd., 1913. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original paper vellum spine and dark brown boards, gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. First edition, number 20 of a limited edition of 50 copies numbered and signed by the author and in this special binding. The English writer.....
London: [Privately Printed for Connolly at the Shenval Press], March 1963. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Large 8vo. Surrealistic frontispiece reproducing a Max Ernst illustration. 16 pages. Original green wrappers, printed paper label. First edition, limited to 50 numbered copies signed by Connolly (this is no. 5) of a ribald.....
London: Alston Rivers, 1906. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo . O riginal dark red buckram, gilt-lettered and stamped, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on publication day by Ford on the front free endpaper: "Henry James, Esq. / affectionately from / Ford Madox Hueffer.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 4to, single-spaced, with a couple of holograph corrections, with envelope. For most of the letter Ford responds to queries from Hinton regarding the publication of several of his books. Towards the end Ford writes: "... I think 'The Good Soldier' is my best.....
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.....
Paris: Société de Mercure, 1903. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Bound with: 'L'immoraliste'. Paris: Société de Mercure, 1902. Together two volumes in one, small 8vo. In a contemporary designer binding by René Kieffer in full tan pigskin, with a leather bas-relief sculpture [cuir ciselé] by R. Prath set into each.....
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From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Although not so indicated, the recipient of this letter was the publisher, Archibald Constable. Hazlitt writes on financial and literary matters, proposing a work on "Beauty", and inquiring: "May I ask what is become of the Round Table? I hope it is not broke down.....
London: Printed and sold by the Author, [1791]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Original marbled boards, untrimmed; brown cloth slipcase, brown morocco trimmed at front. First edition. Lackington owned the Temple of the Muses in Finsburg Square, London's largest bookstore. The popularity of this book was.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A total of 12 pages, 8vo, in ink, both letters with a few minor horizontal fold separations, but in very good condition. With an apparently unrecorded photographic portrait of Lanier. ALS of 24 August 1878: 7 pages, blue ink on white paper, with numerous revisions.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Sepia wash, pen-and-ink, with some China white, on paper, unsigned, penciled number "14" upper left (and "4" lower right), ca 1885. Image 9 x 14 1/2 inches; sheet 11 3/4 x 18 inches. Pin pricks along outer border of image. The landscape is of the.....
London: Heinemann, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 60 pages. Original pale blue printed wrappers. First edition. The dedication copy (as usual "To My Wife" Constance), signed by Masefield on the half-title in ink and inscribed by him below this in pencil: "For Con from Jan. Nov. 3, 1947.".....
London: Heinemann, [1943]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy to his wife Constance, inscribed in pencil by Masefield ten days before publication date: "For Con from Jan, 8 Oct: 1943. (Pub. 18th)." As usual with Masefield the printed dedication is.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red, blue and patterned cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of The New Yorker author's first full-length book. The dedication copy, inscribed beneath the printed dedication "For Maeve" (his wife Maeve Brennan): "with love from Mac.".....
