London: The Crime Club by Collins, [1952]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To dear Bice (who asked to have this book dedicated to her) and to James (who knew nothing of it) from.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1969. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original yellow cloth; pictorial dust jacket designed by Muni. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to Kenneth Millar: "Santa Barbara, Jan 25, 1969 / For Ken, Who will always be there, out in front.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1920. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated by Allan Gilbert Cram. Original decorated cloth. Later printing (the first was 1917). Signed by the dedicatee Vincent C. Pepe beneath the printed dedication.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red cloth. First edition. With an ALS by the dedicatee Sir Gilbert Parker laid-in thanking Chambers for dedicating the book to him, one page, London, 6 December 1931: "... I am touched by your.....
New York: Knopf, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth-backed decorated boards, paper label, uncut; in a cloth slipcase. . First edition, Copy No. 4 of 150 numbered copies on Borzoi All Rag Paper signed by the author (this copy not separately signed). The dedication copy, inscribed by the.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original greenish brown cloth, top edges gilt. First edition of Van Doren's first book, which is dedicated "To My Father and Mother." Inscribed by him at top of half-title: "The author to the dedicatees." Clipping of a newspaper review laid.....
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.....
Boston: The Beacon Press, [1955]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, issued without a dust jacket. First edition. The book is dedicated "To Charles Warren Everett," former head of the English Department at Columbia University, where Trilling was a professor and its leading literary critic. This.....
London: The Fleuron Ltd., 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth-backed decorated boards. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies (of which this is no. 21), and the dedication copy, inscribed by Symons on the front free endpaper (oddly, his inscription virtually repeats the printed dedication): "for Harold.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth, blocked in blind, spine gilt-lettered. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by Sylvester on the half-title to "Mathew [sic] Arnold Esq from the Author." The printed dedication to Arnold is "in grateful recognition of much.....
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth, partly unopened; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the poet: "For Raphael Weill, this unneutral book, with gratitude and affection, George Sterling. San Francisco, July 5th, 1916." The printed dedication reads: "To.....
London: Duckworth; New York: George H. Doran, 1927. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Tall 8vo. Original buff buckram, untrimmed. First edition, one of 15 copies for presentation of 165 copies (150 for sale) on handmade paper numbered and signed by the poet (this is number 155). The book is dedicated.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated with 16 plates. Original dark red cloth, top edges gilt; printed dust jackets. Two copies: each a dedication copy of the first edition of Sitwell's first prose work. The book is dedicated "To Helen Rootham and Evelyn Weil.".....
London: Macmillan, 1922. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth, uncut. First edition. The dedication copy to fellow Irish writer Stephen MacKenna, inscribed by the poet and essayist Russell on the front free endpaper: "28.10.22. Dear MacKenna, You have been living for years in the palace chambers of.....
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.....
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: Harcourt, Brace, 1944. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by Porter to her favorite nephew Paul Porter, Jr. under the printed dedication (which reads "To Corporal Harrison Paul Porter, Jr.): "To Paul in France this copy of.....
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1911. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth. With a 64-page publisher's catalogue inserted at end. . First edition. The dedicatee Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's copy. The printed dedication to him is in the form of a three-page letter/preface. On both sides of the front.....
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1929]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. With a foreword by Louis Untermeyer. 8vo. Original decorated cloth-backed boards, paper label, untrimmed. First edition of this book of poetry, limited to 1500 numbered copies, of which this is Copy No. 1 and also the dedication copy. 'A Cedar Box' is.....
London: At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1903. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Original light green cloth gilt, top edges gilt, after a design by Moore. Provenance: Frederic Dannay (his sale Christie's New York, 16 December 1983, lot 249). First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author on.....
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original faux-vellum backed blue boards, leather spine label, unopened; plain blue dust jacket lettered in grey on spine; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: sold Christie's New York, 15 October 1997, lot 278. Second American ("Author's") edition, revised and expanded.....
New York: Timescape Books, [1981]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small, narrow folio (10 3/4 x 6 inches), original printed yellow wrappers. Advance uncorrected galley proofs for the first edition, printed on both sides, perfect bound, entirely different in format from the published version. A dedication copy, signed and dated.....
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.....
Garden City: 1934. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo . O riginal black cloth, spine lettered and decorated in "shadowy" green. First edition. Presentation copy to the dedicatee-who-should-have-been, inscribed by the author in purple ink on the verso of the half-title: "To my dear friend Arthur G. Learned who heartens.....
London: Heinemann, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 60 pages. Original pale blue printed wrappers. First edition. The dedication copy (as usual "To My Wife" Constance), signed by Masefield on the half-title in ink and inscribed by him below this in pencil: "For Con from Jan. Nov. 3, 1947.".....
