From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, remnants of brown masking tape at lower fore-corners and top edges. The artist writes (translated from the French): "I send you my wishes for the New Year and I think from the bottom of my heart that it will bring you.....
London: Constable, 1912. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Original maroon cloth, top edges gilt; in a maroon half-morocco slipcase. First edition of "the book that established Walter de la Mare as a major poet" (National Book League, 'Walter de la Mare: A Checklist', 1956, no 20). A very good.....
London: Methuen, [1914]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Original printed grey boards, unopened; printed tan dust jacket. First edition. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, light gray paper, vignette of "Room in which the immortal Shakespeare was born, Stratford on Avon," integral second leaf neatly inlaid, accompanied by small engraved portrait of Daniel (inlaid and stained). Daniel responds to an autograph request, listing the books he.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 8vo. Regarding a dinner invitation. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. The author, best known for 'Two Years Before the Mast', comments on the "air pipe" he has purchased and orders a drum. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 8vo, integral blank leaf. Crowe responds to a letter giving some basic biographical information and listing "my principal works." She continues: "I am glad you like my ghosts. It is a subject I am very much interested in & I should like some.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 12mo. Framed with an engraved portrait, overall 25 x 18 inches. Regarding a financial matter. (BA).
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).
Mobile, Alabama: S. H. Goetzel, 1865. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. 48 pages. Original tan pictorial stiff wrappers. "Fourth edition – Thirtieth Thousand" on front cover. Two full-page woodcuts (one of a printing press) and numerous cuts in the text. A fine copy. Crandell 4039; Parrish & Willingham 7685.....
N.p. dated "June 1809" at end of one poem and "Nov. 1809" at end of the other. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8 pages, 8vo, two bifolium each tipped to the same sheet of heavy paper, signed by Conder at bottom of fourth page. With a three-line note by Conder.....
[London]: [J.M'Creery], [1816]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 208 pages. Without the portrait, sonnet, and four leaves of "books omitted"; with a leaf at end advertising the auction sales of Roscoe's collection of pictures and prints. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Catalogue, mostly priced in ink, of the library.....
Caldwell, OH: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth. First edition of this play "presented with a grand salaam in the direction of Mr. Marc Connolly, author of 'The Green Pastures'..." (Author's Note). A dedication copy from the publisher to Marc Connolly, inscribed.....
New York: House of Field, Inc., 1943. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, printed paper spine label; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. A dedication copy, inscribed "Copy #1" on the front free endpaper and on the dedication leaf next to the printed dedication that reads: "To Harvey.....
New York: Samuel French, 1937. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original yellow printed wrappers. New edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper: "The new edition, Helen dear, with many memories – Dan, Christmas 1941!" The printed dedication reads: "For Helen.....
San Francisco: Steve Rubenstein, 1981. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dearest Alvah! I hope you like my book. At any rate, it's onward and upward! Thank you for helping me to keep my sensayuma. Love.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original black cloth, printed paper spine label. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the dedication page to Lady Eileen Oude: "From [indistinct nickname?] Oct. 7 1924." And with an ALS tipped to the facing leaf, 8vo, two pages.....
Hollywood: Murray & Gee, 1946. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Ethel & Bill Drake who need only look at the dedication to see what I think of the family – Love Milton.....
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth. First edition, second issue with cancel title (date changed from 1925 to 1926), inscribed under the printed dedication ("To Arthur J. Bliss / Magician of the Rainbow Flower, in all friendship"): "from Eden Phillpotts April 1926.".....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated by Keith Ward. Original cloth-backed boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of Harry Owens' version of this perennial classic. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to W. E. (Bill) Woodward on the front free endpaper: "To.....
London: Constable & Company, 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author beneath the printed dedication ("To Caradoc Evans"): "From Con O'Leary Aug. 4, 1928." Caradoc Evans (1878-1945) was a Welsh story writer, novelist and playwright. This is the Irish.....
London: Hurst & Blackett, [1929]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the half-title: "To Mother With the Author's Affection. Ben Mowshay March 1929." The printed dedication reads simply: "To Mother." An English barrister and writer, Mowshay's previous.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and chart. Original pictorial brown cloth. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his daughter on the front free endpaper: "For Dear Harrie! whop has put her Xmas monies–(a waste of shekals!)–into the.....
London: Wyman and Sons, 1895. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. 16 plates by G. J. Pinwell and J. North. Original quarter green morocco, red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by co-author Harry Quilter to dedicatee Maria Theresa Earle on the front flyleaf: "Maria.....
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1960. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth. Paper a bit browned, board edges lightly toned. First edition. WITH: Another edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Abrasion on front free endpaper, but generally a very good copy.....
