New York: Random House, 1953. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Photographs by Slim Aarons. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket by Clifford Strohl Associates. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Alan and Phyllis Sues: "For Alan & Phyllis – Two more loyal supporters a playwright never had.....
New York: Fuck You Press, [1965]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Square 8vo. Original printed white wrappers. First edition, one of 300 copies, of this sexually explicit homoerotic poem. In very good to fine condition. Bloomfield & Mendelson, Appendix II. WITH: Another edition. Washington: Guild Press, [1970]. 8vo. Original pictorial.....
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.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 276 pages, 4to, bound in stiff tan boards (printed with an advertisement of a French musical instrument company). A very busy typescript with very extensive holograph revisions by Bason and with slips with emendations in his hand tipped in throughout. In addition, the writer has.....
London: Trianon Press, [1951]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio. 100 color plates, printed on pure rag paper manufactured to match the paper used by Blake. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; publisher's cloth-backed board folding case. Penciled ownership inscription, 1962 on front free endpaper. No. 433 of 250 copies.....
London: Heinemann, 1890. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 volumes, 8vo. Original scarlet cloth, spines gilt-lettered. First edition. Presentation copy from Caine to his wife, inscribed by him on the dedication page on his own behalf and also on behalf of their son, the dedicatee of this three-decker: "To my.....
London: Bell and Daldy [Printed at the Chiswick Press], 1871. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 volumes, 8vo. Original dark brown cloth, blocked in black and gilt. First edition. The dedication copy to Carlyle, with his bookplate in each volume and with an autograph letter signed from Helps to him.....
[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.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 8vo folded sheet. "I have just received your letter & am much obliged to your recommendation of a studio. There is however one objection to the rooms you mention, viz. that they are furnished. Mine are unfurnished. Moreover I have them on such.....
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original black cloth. First edition of the author's third book and first prose work (a novel). The dedication copy, inscribed by this twelve-year-old author: "For Jean Starr Untermeyer, most sweet friend and gracious lady, to whom I have dedicated.....
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.....
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]: Collingwood Bros. [1907]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original black cloth, lettered in white on spine and front cover, red thumb print (from the author's own) on front cover. First edition. 'The Red Thumb Mark' marks the introduction of Dr. Thorndyke, the first of the fictional "scientific detectives,".....
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.....
Paris: Bernard Grasset, [1929]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, unopened; plain glassine; publisher's slipcase. First edition, one of 12 numbered (this no. 5) 'hors commerce' copies on vélin sur fil creme Lafuma (the smallest limitation in the edition). A fine copy of Giono's first novel and.....
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1922. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Brown levant morocco by Tchekeroul, spine gilt-lettered, green morocco linings, marbled paper flyleaves, original printed wrappers preserved, all edges gilt; brown board and leather-edged open-face case. First edition, one of 30 lettered copies (this "AJ") on Holland paper. Bound at.....
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.....
Boston: The Arena Publishing Company, 1894. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original light green cloth, stamped in gilt. First edition. A marvelous association copy of Harte's only book, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper to the Boston publisher Richard Gorham Badger. The inscription, dated March 31, 1897.....
London: Reeves & Turner, 1884. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original brick cloth. First edition of this collection of essays. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his cousin William Hazlitt on the half-title: "W. Hazlitt Esq. with his cousin's affect. regards April 4 1884." The printed dedication.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
