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.
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.
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. 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.....
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.....
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.....
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...
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.
[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: 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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....