[Paris]: [Contact Editions], [1926]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original marbled wrappers, printed paper labels, untrimmed; in a brown cloth slipcase. First edition of the first book by the future art critic of the 'New Yorker', "an ignored minor masterpiece of anti-realist fiction, a novel that deserves the attention.....
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.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 pages, 8vo and 4to, single-spaced, two on his letterhead, one with envelope. Cheever answers two lengthy and rather mawkish letters (each one page, 40, single-spaced) from Norman Wilner, a teacher of comedy writing: "... I am anxious about my work and its reception," Cheever.....
[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.....
London: Cassell and Company, 1937. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. First edition. The dedication copy to A. J. A. Symons, signed by the author on the title, with a signed Christmas card mounted on the front pastedown, and inscribed on the front free.....
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.".....
London: Jonathan Cape, [1931]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket designed by Lapthorn. First edition. A dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To R. Edwards, to whom this book is dedicated. Yours ever, C. D. Pegge." With an autograph note signed, London.....
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.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1921. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth-backed patterned boards, printed paper spine label; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Algernon Blackwood from Teresa Hooley / October 27th 1921." The English poet was known later in life as.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1938. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "March 25th 1938 / Margaret Herzog (Otherwise known as Peggy.) / For Elizabeth, to whom this was dedicated!" The printed dedication reads: "To.....
London: Reeves & Turner, 1884. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original brick cloth. First edition of this collection of essays. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his cousin William Hazlitt on the half-title: "W. Hazlitt Esq. with his cousin's affect. regards April 4 1884." The printed dedication.....
New York: Random House, 1977. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original quarter red cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by Harker on the dedication leaf that simply reads "To Kenneth Millar": "Santa Barbara / May 11, 1977 / that man of mystery. In probing the.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original grey cloth. First edition. The dedication copy ("To Van Wyck Brooks Grand Historian of Native Letters"), inscribed on the half-title: "For Van Wyck and for Gladys: as I have always inscribed my books to you both, and as I......
London: Methuen & Co., 1897. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Publisher's 40-page catalogue at end. Original pale blue cloth, gilt-lettered, untrimmed. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Mr. and Mrs. William Breffit from J. S. Fletcher." Fletcher (1863-1935) was an.....
