Paris: Librarie de Firmin Didot, 1872. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Text in French. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Contemporary brown half morocco, top edges gilt; in a greyish-tan cloth slipcase. Matthew Arnold's copy, with 51 penciled annotations – totaling 590 words – by him on 31 pages, plus marginal markings.....
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.....
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: 1977-78. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 226 pages, 4to, ribbon copy and the setting copy with extensive edits by the author and his editor at Random House (who has also extensive markings for the printer). Some minor edge tears and fraying, but in very good condition. With: A......
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.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1871. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. 64 pages, plus ads. Original purple pictorial wrappers. First separate edition of perhaps the single most influential future war story: "Before Chesney there had been little effective method in the few tales of the war-to-come that had.....
Barnet, England: Poetry Folios, 1945. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 11 pages. Original printed wrappers; glassine. First edition, one of 200 copies, this copy hors commerce. The dedication copy, inscribed beneath the colophon by the author: "À Paul Eluard en hommage Alex Comfort." The printed dedication ("For Paul Eluard").....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 7 x 5 1/2 inches. In pencil on the recto of an octavo piece of stationery of "Dumbleton Hall, Evesham" (somewhat smudged). On the verso is written in ink (by Sykes?): "Cyril / Drawn by / Christopher Sykes / Jan. 1937." (BA).
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.....
Philadelphia and Reading: Peter Fritts, 1877. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio. Original brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and blind, edges gilt. First edition of the first book containing illustrations by Denslow (three lithographed plates): "Easton, Pa in 1876," double-page frontispiece with "W. W. Denslow, Del."; "The Lehigh.....
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 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: 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: T. Fisher Unwin, 1889. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original tan cloth, the front cover blocked in black and gilt to a "light and shadow" motif. First edition. The dedication copy to his father Richard Garnett, inscribed on the half-title: "R. Garnett from his son the Author. October.....
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1896. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated by A. D. McCormick, and from photographs. Original dark green cloth, gilt-lettered, gilt landscape vignette on front cover, top edges gilt, binder's ticket of Leighton Son and Hodge at inside rear cover. New edition of the author's.....
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.....
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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 for Robert Stodart, et al, 1818. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. xix, [1], 461, [3] pages. Original drab boards, untrimmed; in a green half-morocco slipcase. First edition, first issue; leaf of Stodart ads at end. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Hazlitt to the American actor/dramatist/critic John.....
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.....
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Original pale green boards. First trade edition of Joyce's second collection of poetry; errata slip tipped in at rear. Contains thirteen poems. Actually a very good copy. Slocum & Cahoon A24.
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. A total of 14 pages (8 are 8vo, 6 are 4to), approximately 1525 words of text, in ink. Old folds, two clean small fold tears in the last letter, but in very good condition. A charming series, beautifully written, full of news and affectionate in.....
