London: Andrew Melrose Ltd., 1919. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To his friend Thomas Burke from the author Caradoc Evans, March 16, 1920." Burke is best known as the author of 'Limehouse Nights'. Evans.....
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author beneath the dedication "To My Cousin Kenneth Birdsall Jaffray": "Who listened so patiently for many years to my barks and howls." Further inscribed on.....
New York: Covici Friede, 1938. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, printed paper label on spine; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy to the author's father, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To My Dearest Dad and Julia, from your devoted daughter Gertrude Crum," and.....
Barnet, England: Poetry Folios, 1945. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 11 pages. Original printed wrappers; glassine. First edition, one of 200 copies, this copy hors commerce. The dedication copy, inscribed beneath the colophon by the author: "À Paul Eluard en hommage Alex Comfort." The printed dedication ("For Paul Eluard").....
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: 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: Twayne, [1957]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of this psychiatrist and one-time Fugitive poet's last book of poetry published during his lifetime (he died in September 1957). The dedication copy, inscribed by him to Louis Untermeyer and his third wife.....
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.....
