From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 15 pages, folio (13 x 8 inches), in ink on rectos only, heavy tan paper (slightly toned), tied at extreme upper left corner (first and least leaves loose); in a tan half-morocco slipcase (a bit scuffed). The manuscript in very good condition. From the Beerbohm.....
London: Heinemann, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. Fifty-one caricatures reproduced in black and white, with a color frontispiece, mounted on heavy gray paper; with the additional plate (autographed "Max") in pocket at rear cover as issued. With a long prose dedication to Edmund Gosse. Original green cloth, lettered.....
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.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 pages, 8vo and 4to, single-spaced, two on his letterhead, one with envelope. Cheever answers two lengthy and rather mawkish letters (each one page, 40, single-spaced) from Norman Wilner, a teacher of comedy writing: "... I am anxious about my work and its reception," Cheever.....
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author beneath the dedication "To My Cousin Kenneth Birdsall Jaffray": "Who listened so patiently for many years to my barks and howls." Further inscribed on.....
New York: George H. Doran, [1919]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original gray boards, printed paper labels, uncut; brown cloth slipcase. First edition of the twenty-three-year-old poet's first book. The dedication copy to her mother, inscribed by Deutsch on the front free endpaper: "For dearest Mamma, with love from.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo, Original black cloth, lettered in red; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing of the author's Hugo Award winning alternative history novel. "It is probably Dick's best work, and the most memorable alternative world tale, or fantasia.....
New York: Knopf, 1917. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece reproduction of a sketch of Pound by Gaudier-Brzeska. Original rose boards, front cover lettered in gilt. With early manuscript identification of Eliot as the author on title-page (the book was issued anonymously). First edition of Eliot's second book, one.....
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.....
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 and New York: John Lane/The Bodley Head, 1897. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red decorated cloth, blocked in black, gilt-lettered on spine, designed by Patten Wilson (who succeeded Aubrey Beardsley as cover designer of this fashionable series in 1895). First edition of this series of "cruel tales,".....
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.....
London: Longmans, Green, 1894. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth, untrimmed. First edition of this account of big-game hunting and traveling in South Africa. The dedication copy to Haggard, inscribed by Montague on the front flyleaf: "H. Rider Haggard Esq. with the Author's Compliments." The printed dedication.....
Nice: Privately Printed, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 91 pages. Original beige wrappers, printed in black, uncut. First edition, preceding the Fortune Press edition later in the year, of Harris's play about Joan of Arc. The dedication copy to Otto Hermann Kahn (1867-1934), financier, collector, and generous patron.....
New York: Knopf, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Tall 8vo. Original imitation white vellum, gilt-lettered and decorated, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. First edition, Copy No. 40 of 55 copies on Shizuoka Japan Vellum, of a limited signed edition of 255. This is actually the (a) dedication copy, although.....
Cambridge City, Wayne County [Indiana]: D. K. Winder, Printer, 1844. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. [2], [8], 10-64 pages. Original red roan-backed brown boards. First edition of this pioneer Indiana educator's first book, which consists of a series of letters, ostensibly pertaining to local events, written in the most.....
London: Methuen, [1908]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. With twelve illustrations by Will Owen. Original pictorial greenish-blue cloth, decorated in black and gilt. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page to Arthur Morrison: "To Mr. Arthur Morrison from the lesser author. W. W. Jacobs.....
London: Winchester and Varnham, 1821. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. 164 pages. Contemporary midnight blue straight-grained morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, rose-colored paper endleaves, morocco gilt inner dentelles, edges gilt. First edition. The dedication copy "to the Right Honorable Robert Viscount Melville, Baron Dunera, First Lord Commissioner of.....
New York: Random House, 1937. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Foreword by Marc Connelly. 8vo. Original light green cloth. Not a first edition, but the dedication copy, inscribed by Kober to fellow playwright Marc Connelly (best known for The Green Pastures, 1930): "Dear Marc - I think you're wonderful. Arthur.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Approximately 320 pages, folio. All pages heavily corrected/revised in Laver's hand (some 25 pages are in typescript). Some pages a little frayed, otherwise in very good condition. Laver (1899-1975) was an English author, critic, art historian, and museum curator. He is perhaps best remembered as.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A total of 7 pages, 4to, each a bifolium, and with its wax seal. The first letter has a seal hole affecting parts, but not the sense of three words, and a fold tear touching a few letters; on the fourth page Lawrence has written.....
Boston: Little, Brown, 1904. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pictorial gray cloth, stamped in black and yellow, lettered in gold, top edges gilt. First edition of this collection of stories. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author just below the printed dedication, which is "To Agnes": "from Richard.....
