New York: Appleton, 1898. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in green, red and white. First edition, in the rare cloth trial binding – the usual binding color is yellow. This is Westcott's only novel, published shortly after his death. He was a Syracuse.....
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.
New York: Consolidated Retail Booksellers, 1905. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece and illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton. Original decorated red cloth, blocked in black and lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of the author's first book, and scarce in the dust jacket. An uncommonly found work.....
London: Hutchinson for the Crime-Book Society, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. Original ribbon-tied wrappers. First edition of the first in the original crime dossier series devised by Wheatley and J. G. Links. These were novel, and immensely popular, crime stories, reproducing cablegrams, documents, photographs, police reports, criminal records.....
Paris: Léon Vanier, 1891. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Preface by Armand Silvestre. 12mo. Contemporary black and white decorated boards, red roan spine label, original tan printed wrappers bound in, untrimmed. First edition of this volume of invective verse. A marked up copy, presumably for the second edition of 1894.....
London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original mottled paper printed wrappers; in a cloth folding case. One of 11 copies on Japan vellum. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the half-title: "XI copies have been printed on Japan Vellum. This is Number II.....
London: Selwyn & Blount, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author to the "dean of American booksellers": "For Dave Kirschenbaum from his friend, Charles Stonehill. 1st edition, but second issue binding.".....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Two volumes, large 8vo. Frontispieces and engraved titles. Original boards, printed paper labels, untrimmed; in a red quarter morocco slipcase. First edition, limited large-paper issue, no. 35 of the 'Author's Autography Copy" edition signed by Stedman. Bookplates of Frederick W. Skiff.....
[Hurst, Reading, Berkshire]: Privately Printed [by the Tragara Press], 1991. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original black cloth. First edition. One of 200 copies on Abbey Mills laid paper printed by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press in Edinburgh. This copy from the library of George Sims, with his.....
Cincinnati: Elliston Poetry Foundation / University of Cincinnati, [1964]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Facsimile edition. Original green buckram. Number 25 of 500 copies. "I think I must have printed NINE EXPERIMENTS before the Auden POEMS, which I also did in 1928. I gave up printing the latter halfway.....
New York: Macmillan, 1921. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red cloth-backed boards, printed paper label; printed dust jacket. First edition.
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd; London: Simpkin, Marshall et al, 1913. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the dedicatee Austin M. Purves, Sr. to his son on the front free endpaper: "To my son Dale Benson Purves on Christmas Day 1914 with love.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1913. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Inscribed with four lines of verse from the poem "A Coiner of Angels" (on p. 38 in the book): "From 'The Little Red Ring' / What will.....
New York: Macmillan, 1962. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original maroon cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Fred Dannay with great respect (and affectionately) Charles Norman." Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee famously wrote under their 'nom de.....
Redfield: 1853. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, blind rule borders, gilt-lettered and -decorated on spine. First edition of the Connecticut author's scarce first book, with publisher's advertisements at end. Wright II, 1206.
N.p. After 1934. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Calligraphic manuscript. Folio, 14 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Two bifolia, the first with title on front and colophon on back, the central bifolium with the text on three pages. The book was privately printed at the press of William E. Rudge.....
London, etc. Oxford University Press, 1922. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Tall 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered. First edition. The dedication copy ("To Robert Morrison MacIver") inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For R. M. MacIver with gratefully acknowledged thanks from the author W. P. M. Kennedy.....
New York: Appleton, 1884. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Original maroon cloth, top edges gilt, partly unopened. Second edition, corrected and expanded (the first was of the year before). John Keese was William's father and was considered the worthiest book auctioneer of his day (the 1840s.....
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece and plates. Original green cloth, publisher's gilt device on front cover, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt; in a quarter red morocco slipcase. First edition. With a 28-page chapter on Burton's immense library, celebrated.....
New York: Privately printed, 1905. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original half vellum, untrimmed. First edition, no. 99 of 152 copies. Presentation copy, and in a sense a dedication copy, inscribed on the front pastedown: "To Edmund Stedman 'Whom we are glad to have known and loved' I think.....
London: Heinemann, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Folding table frontispiece. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered, top edge stained green; in the printed dust jacket; in a green cloth chemise and slipcase. First trade edition of the sequel to 'The Forsyte Saga'.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Original tan printed wrappers; in a quarter blue morocco slipcase. First edition, no. 154 of 250 copies signed by the author. An interesting monograph giving Galsworthy's credo as a novelist and playright. In it he elaborates on his theory.....
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 and New York: John Lane/The Bodley Head, 1897. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red decorated cloth, blocked in black, gilt-lettered on spine, designed by Patten Wilson (who succeeded Aubrey Beardsley as cover designer of this fashionable series in 1895). First edition of this series of "cruel tales,".....
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. Plates by Robert Edmond Jones. Original green boards, gilt-lettered and decorated, unopened; publisher's board slipcase. The author's copy: Copy no. 2 of this large-paper edition, printed at the Lakeside Press, signed by the author and illustrator. One of.....
