The Triumph of the Egg
New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., [1921]. First edition. 8vo. 7 plates of Eugene Hutchinson's photographs of the clay impressions of Tennessee Mitchell. Original cloth; dust jacket; black cloth slipcase with morocco label.
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Letters ecrits a sur Provincial
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.....
The heavily revised typescript of "Moments of Love," Bason's unpublished first novel, written as a teenager in London, ca 1925
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.....
Autograph manuscript signed of the 'Seven Men' story "James Pethel"
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.....
Le Venin
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.....
Shapes of Clay
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.....
Colorado: Its Resources, Parks, and Prospects as a New Field for Emigration; With an Account of the Trenchera and Costilla Estates, in the San Luis Park
London: Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1869. 4to (10.75 x 8.5 inches). 217 pages. Oval bust portrait albumen photograph of William Gilpin, Governor of Colorado, mounted as frontispiece (mount foxed). Large folding map: "Map of the Trenchara and Costilla Estates forming the Sangre de Christo Grant Situate in San Luis.....
![Item #409836 Autograph note signed ("C. Bronte"), “Saturday,” to “N." [Ellen Nussey], [18...](https://riverrunbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/409836.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694112947)
Autograph note signed ("C. Bronte"), “Saturday,” to “N." [Ellen Nussey], [18 June 1853]
One page, oblong, 80 x 95mm. Tipped at corners on the verso of the frontispiece in Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1872. Trimmed closely, visible horizontal fold near top, but generally fine. Apparently a lost letter from Charlotte Brontë to her close friend Ellen Nussey. Reading...
All the Assholes in the World and Mine
Bensenville, IL: Open Skull Press, 1966. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Mimeographed. [28] pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a drawing by Bukowski, pale yellow plain endleaves. FIRST EDITION, one of "no more than 400 copies." One of Bukowski's earliest prose works. Krumhansl 23.
The Life of Hernando Cortes
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.....
Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street
New York: Irving Publishing Co., 1888. Thick 8vo. 684, [1], xx, [1] pages. Frontispiece and nearly 50 plates. Publisher's gilt-lettered and -decorated bevelled green cloth. A fine copy, the spine ends gently rolled and a few small spots of wear to the joints, unobtrusive pencil note on flyleaf verso by.....
Banners
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.....
Savonarola
London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1926. 8vo. xv, [1], 99 pages. Original black cloth, printed paper spine label; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this play in verse by T. S. Eliot’s mother, one of 300 copies printed. Laid-in is a signed calling card from “Mrs Henry W. Eliot” inscribed “Compliments of.....
Views in New-York and its Environs from Accurate, Characteristic & Picturesque Drawings, Taken on the Spot, expressly for this work, by Dakin, Architect; with Historical, Topographical and Critical Illustrations, by Theodore S. Fay, assisted by several Distinguished Literary Gentlemen
New York; London: Peabody & Co; O. Rich, 1831. 4to (26.5 x 21 cm). Text paginated 1-50 consecutively. Engraved title with vignette, marked "proof," three full-page engravings of St. Paul's Broadway, Trinity Church, and City Hall, printed by William D. Smith, folding map colored in outline (mounted on linen); and.....
Alberto Aspesi Autunno-Inverno 1995/96
Mabou, Nova Scotia: October 1995. 12.75 x 9.5 inches. [40] pages. 24 black-and-white photos by Robert Frank. Original pictorial boards with images by Frank. Text in Italian. A lookbook of jackets made by Alberto Aspesi, shot in a casual, informal manner by Frank in Nova Scotia. Rare.
The Red Thumb Mark
[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,".....
Light and Shadow
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.....
Rift
New York: The Grenfell Press, 1986. 8vo. Sewn in wrappers; dust wrapper with woodcut by Joel Shapiro. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 150 copies signed by Cole and Shapiro.
Photograph of Robert Capa and Burl Ives visiting John Huston in the hospital, 1953
6 7/16 x 9 13/16 inches. Gelatin silver print. Stamped on verso with Ernst Haas's Magnum Photos inkstamp. On a mount with corners (photo removable) with Elaine Steinbeck's manuscript identification in white ink: "Photographer Robert Capa and singer/actor Burl Ives visit John Huston in the hospital ... 1953." A superb.....
Joan La Romee. A Drama
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.....
Grandfather's Chair: A History for Youth
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. 16mo (12.4 x 7.8 cm). vii, 140 pages. Original bluish plum basket-weave embossed cloth, black paper label on front cover (gilt lettering oxidized to invisibility); green cloth chemise; green morocco pull of case by Bradstreet's (one joint split). FIRST EDITION of the first of three.....
Tampico
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.....
HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin. Horae in Laudem beatissimae virginis Mariae, ad usum Romanum
Paris: Regnault and Claude Chaudiére, 1549. 4to (230 x 158 mm). Collation: a-y8. 176 leaves. Roman types, printed in red and black. Ruled in red. Renaissance woodcut title-border of termini and festoons, printers' device (Colines' Time with his scythe); 14 FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS, combining illustration and architectural frame on a single.....
Roni Horn: To Place: Lava
New York: Self-published, 1992. 4to. [92] pages. 16 color and 29 tritone images. Original cloth. The third volume of 'ONE OF THE MOST EPIC AND AMBITIOUS OF ARTIST'S BOOKS' (The Photobook). One of 750 copies. This is the third in Horn's ongoing series of books concerning Iceland. Here she collects.....
Salthaven
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.....