New York: Doran, 1923. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original tan cloth and marbled boards. First edition, second printing as usual with tipped-in corrected title-page (only one located at Yale is known of the first printing). Presentation copy, inscribed by Wylie on front flyleaf to the wife of the.....
New York: Doran, [1923]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pictorial black cloth, lettered and decorated in silver; in the metallic finish dust jacket; in a black half morocco slipcase. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the front free endpaper: "For Vincent Starrett [American 'bookman' and.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 20 pages, 4to, the ribbon copy, double-spaced, with revisions (some extensive) in ink by Woolrich. There are about 65 words in his hand on 8 pages (2 and 14 have the majority) and about 30 crossouts/deletions on 7 pages (2 having about half). In very.....
London: John Murray, 1891. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 volumes, 8vo. Original diaper-grained red cloth lettered in gilt and blind. First edition of this historical novel about Jonathan Swift and the two Esthers in his life: Esther Vanhomrigh (the "Vanessa" of his "Cadenus and Vanessa," who conceived a hopeless.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 7 letters, 13 pages, 8vo and 4to, in French on Cardinal Mercier's printed stationery, most with typed English translations; in a red half-morocco slipcase, gilt-lettered. From the Estelle Doheny collection. Contents: 1. ALS, 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, Antwerp, 3 October 1914. Regarding a Mr.....
[London]: May 1886. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Square 8vo. 7 pages. Original printed brown wrappers, stitched and untrimmed as issued. First edition of this uncommon exhibition catalogue, undoubtedly prepared by Whistler. The first series (1884) of 'Notes,' etc. is listed in Merle Johnson, p. 522. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. The group comprises: 1 . a n uncorrected carbon typescript of "David Harum. A Comedy in Four Acts from David Harum A Story of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott," approximately 100pp. [including cast list, descriptions of "Characters in the Play," and stage directions], 4to, n.p......
New York: Appleton, 1900. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated. Original stamped maroon-brown leather wrap-around wallet binding with fastening tab. First edition thus. Printed at head of title-page: "Wm. H. Crane Edition" (he played Harum in the production). A separately-published chapter from the 1898 bestselling local color novel about.....
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.....
Cork: Printed by and for the Author, 1835. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. vii, 76 pages. 5 engraved plates. 19th-century red quarter roan, marbled boards (front cover detached, a bit closely trimmed at bottom but without loss). First edition. WITH: A copy of the expanded second edition. London: Printed.....
London: Printed for Timothy Goodwin, 1683. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio broadsheet, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. First, and only, edition. Walcott, a Captain of the Guards, was tried for complicity in a plot to kill Charles II and his brother "at a Play-house." Scarce. Wing W285. (BA).....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Consisting of 188 autograph letters signed, and one autograph postcard signed (336 pages, 12mo and 8vo), plus 25 related items. As below:. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). 38 autograph letters signed, 52 pages, nearly all 12mo, about half in French, most signed "L Alma-Tadema" (a few.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 12mo. Tourgée was a carpet-bagger judge and a best-selling author of sensational political novels, including 'A Fool's Errand'. Here (in about 155 words) he writes a playful response to a girl's request for an autograph: "My publisher handed me your request for an.....
London: Duckworth, [1912]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece. Large 8vo. Original dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, front cover with gilt vignette, top edges gilt; in a dark green cloth folding box. First edition of Tomlinson's first book, signed by him on the front free endpaper. The book recounts.....
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney: Bantam, [1983]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. Illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Original pictorial wrappers designed by Steadman. First edition: "Brain-curdling escapades by the King of Gonzo" in Hawaii. (BA).
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849-50. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 volumes, large 8vo. Illustrations on steel and wood by the author. Original gray-blue cloth, blocked in blind, spines gilt-lettered, unopened. First edition in book form. A fine, bright and unopened copy. Van Duzer 166. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 15 pages, folio (13 x 8 inches), written in pencil on rectos only, in at least three numbered sections, being a combination of rough notes and more formal correspondence to Russell Doubleday; with four large pencil drawings and one plan by Tarkington. Bound in limp.....
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered in green, red, and yellow, decorated in red and yellow, top edge stained green, untrimmed; in a red half-morocco slipcase (a bit worn). First edition of the author's first book; first issue of the.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo, in French. Sending regrets in response to an invitation.
London: Constable, 1906. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, untrimmed. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Edward Hutton from Arthur Symons, November 1906." Essays by Symons on Rodin, Moreau, Whistler, Richard Strauss, Eleonora Duse.....
London: F. S. Ellis, 1870. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original printed tan wrappers, unopened. First edition. Tinker 2017; Wise, Swinburne, 52. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 8vo, integral address leaf. A letter of encouragement to a young poet who had sent Sue some of his verses. (With transcript and English translation.) (BA).
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.....
