New York: Random House, 1967. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 16 pages. Original blue wrappers printed in black, stapled as issued. First edition, issued as a promotional item for 'The Confessions of Nat Turner' (published Oct. 9, 1967); no copies for sale. (BA).
New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company, 1896. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated. Original brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. First edition of these historical tales for use in schools. A very good copy of one of Stockton's more uncommon books. BAL 18922. (BA).
New York: Knopf, 1951. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original light blue cloth; dust jacket. First edition. One of 3,000 copies. Stevens' first book of prose, containing his selection of essays and speeches on the art of poetry, and on the relationship between the imagination and reality. A very.....
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[New York]: [The Gotham Book Mart], [1948]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 2 leaves, on pink and green paper. Original blue wrappers, printed in black and red, stitched. First edition, no. 33 of 205 copies of the private issue for Fania Marinoff and Carl Van Vechten. Printed at the.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 1/2 pages, small 4to. Southey complains that the printer "Mr. Rosser seems determined to be consistent in his management of my poor Letters [i.e. 'Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal', 1797] & do nothing as he ought to ... I......
London: Macmillan, 1949. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered; dust jacket; in a red cloth folding case. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to the bibliophile and writer "... John Hayward with love from Edith Sitwell." Other than the bowing, a......
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 pages, 4to, double-spaced on pale yellow paper. For more than half this letter Shaw critiques the movie 'The Human Comedy' based on Saroyan's play of the same title: "The big news is that I took my entire family... to see 'The Human Comedy' and.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, small 8vo, in ink on his personal postcard with his printed address. Apparently Bristow has written to Shaw seeking his advice about a career as an artist. Shaw responds: "You had better take your drawing seriously and make it your profession. Until you.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 20 prints of various sizes, loose as issued, plus introductory folder in large folding box, 16 x 24 inches, box with floral decoration and printed label; in original shipping cardboard box. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies: 19.....
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell; Cambridge: Elijah Johnson; London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1888. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Square 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, blind and gilt-ruled, untrimmed. First edition of the second book of poetry by the poet, satirist, and editor of 'Punch'. Laid in is an ANS, one.....
Bruxelles: Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1846. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 7 volumes, small 8vo. Contemporary English half calf and marbled boards, red roan lettering-pieces, spine gilt in compartments, sprinkled red edges, by Hollings of Covent Garden (with ticket). First edition. One of approximately 350 different literary and theatrical works.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 5 1/2 pages, 4to, approximately 2050 words (four of the letters single-spaced, one double-spaced). In very good condition. The letters constitute a virtual running account of Schulberg's occupation with 'What Makes Sammy Run': "I wrote a story last week which I am sure is.....
Chicago: The Black Archer Press, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Original pink wrappers with portrait of Saroyan in pink and black on front. First edition, one of 50 copies issued, boldly signed in blue ink by Saroyan on front cover. One of his rarest items: an essay on.....
Boston: Little, Brown, [1979]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth-backed orange boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "To John Flint / James Salter." (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A total of 6 pages, 4to, half are single-spaced, at least 2600 words, with three envelopes. 20 September 1962: "... I guessed you were in Hollywood... because I've seen you in TV plays coming out of there... I had a letter a couple of years.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, small 8vo (creased from folding). Framed with a color portrait, overall 23 x 18 inches. Ruskin writes to arrange a meeting. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 4to. In the first letter, Rukeyser writes: "Once you asked me to send you some short poems, saying you did not know I had written any. – Here are four:" In the second: "And three more (all of yesterday's and today's have been.....
London: 1883. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 19 pages, [3] advertisements. Self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Offering 211 lots of Rossetti art works: "One of the most important of all Pre-Raphaelite sale catalogues" (Frederman 19.3). (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 12mo, on his letterhead with small engraved vignette. Regarding illustrations: "I consider these designs Too Terrible for words. They utterly miss the spirit of the story. Could you get another done from my rough pencil sketch I enclose [not present] & let me.....
Paris: Three Mountains, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original printed red wrappers, untrimmed, tissue overlay; in a brown cloth slipcase. First edition, one of 400 ordinary copies, of an edition of 440. Inscribed in the year of publication by the American composer (and subject of Pound's book).....
Bruxelles: Edmond Deman, 1888. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio. Portrait and decoration by Edouard Manet. Half brown morocco, patterned boards, top edges gilt, other untrimmed. First edition of Mallarmé's translation and with the Manet portrait of Poe. No. 750 of 800 copies on papier de Collande, of an edition.....
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1893. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece and plates. Original midnight blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered and decorated, all edges gilt.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. The first two (total of 3 pages, large 8vo, single-spaced) are on 'The New Yorker' stationery and the third (one page, large 8vo, double-spaced) is on airmail paper. A total of approximately 800 words. With two original 'New Yorker' mailing envelopes. The letters discuss the.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. First edition, first printing of this collection. Presentation copy to his mother, inscribed by Perelman in blue ink on the front free endpaper: "To Mother, with love, Sid, November 2, 1955." In very.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo, integral blank leaf, on gray paper. "I am much obliged to the loan of Swedenborg’s(?) volume, which is the one I wanted. Also for the pamphlet. I will return them shortly." (BA) Patmore (1823-1896), English poet and literary critic, is best known.....
