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.....
London: The Sunday Referee, 1934. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Frontispiece portrait. Original green cloth. First edition of the author's first book, the first title issued in the Sunday Referee Poets Series. The dedication copy ("Dedicated Gratefully to Victor B. Neuburg"), inscribed by Johnson on the front free endpaper.....
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.
London: Heinemann, [1943]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy to his wife Constance, inscribed in pencil by Masefield ten days before publication date: "For Con from Jan, 8 Oct: 1943. (Pub. 18th)." As usual with Masefield the printed dedication is.....
London: Ingpen & Grant, 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original black cloth, paper label, uncut; printed dust jacket. First edition, apparently "one of thirteen copies printed by mistake on large paper and uncut" (according to a penciled note possibly by Meyerstein) on the front pastedown. The dedication.....
Bruxelles: Edmond Deman, 1888. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio. Portrait and decoration by Edouard Manet. Half brown morocco, patterned boards, top edges gilt, other untrimmed. First edition of Mallarmé's translation and with the Manet portrait of Poe. No. 750 of 800 copies on papier de Collande, of an edition.....
N.p. [1934]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. 12 pages. Frontispiece after Edward Burra. Original quarter red cloth and tartan boards, printed label on front cover. First edition, believed to have been privately printed in an edition of about 100 copies, and a dedication copy. The printed dedication, which occupies.....
New York: Macmillan, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original purple cloth; printed dust jacket. First trade edition. 'Cavender's House' is dedicated "To the Memory of William Vaughn Moody," the American poet, who died in 1910. (The two poets had met as undergraduates at Harvard and had remained good.....
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo . O riginal cloth-backed boards, uncut. First edition of the poet's first book. The dedication copy to her husband, the poet and critic Louis Untermeyer, inscribed on the front flyleaf by Jean with eight lines of verse: "To.....
