New York: Random House, 1960. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth; in publisher's box. Box a trifle soiled. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Olive Gowen with best wishes, John O'Hara, 28 Jan. '63." WITH: 'Here's to O'Hara'. New York: Duell, Sloan.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 4to, on two sheets of "Doubleday, Page & Company" letterhead (where Norris was an editor). A reply to Richards' letter of November 4, mostly discussing the sale of 'The Octopus' to Tauschnitz, for which Norris got £30 which was split with Richards who.....
New York: McBride, [1932]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Original plaid cloth; in the colorful dust jacket. With a miniature Scotch bottle fitted into a hollowed out part of the margins of the first 150 pages, as issued. Lauder (1870-1950) was a hugely popular Scottish singer and comedian. (BA).....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Contemporary black half morocco, with leather label of the compiler of the volume, Henry C. Boyd: "STATEMENTS / HENRY C. BOYD / March 14th 1859 to June 27th 1866." Several pages have annotations in pencil or ink by Boyd. Bound in are three leaves.....
[New York]: [1848]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Large folio broadside (27 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches), two long folds (one vertical, one horizontal). The top half of this broadside advertisement is a map of the area, showing the properties to be auctioned. The bottom half gives the information about.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, folio, with integral blank leaf (with docket). Signed by Roos and Thinehovon (followed by red wax stamps) and signed by three witnesses. "The Condicon of this obligation is... that if the above bound... doo well and truely observe, perform, fullfill, accomplish, and keep.....
N.p. n.d. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 35 pages, 4to (10 ¾ × 8 ½ inches), a working draft written in pencil with very extensive revisions by the author (virtually all of the crossed out words and passages are still readable); the pages mounted on heavy gauze for binding, gray.....
New York: 1941. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 4-page leaflet. First edition, an offprint from the 'Journal of the New York Entomological Society', Vol. XLIX, September 1941, pages 265-267. Julian AA4.1 ("None examined ... at least 25 copies."). Fine. (BA).
New York: Norton, [1990]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. "Advance Reader's Copy Not for Resale" of the first edition. The first Easy Rawlins crime novel, and Mosley's first book. Very good copy. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 2 pages, 8vo, the TLS full-page and single-spaced. In the typed letter, Morris complains about the magazine censoring his language in a soon-to-be-published story: "What friggin' sort of nonsense is this? Copulating comics, triple-breasted Playmates, but no friggin' immortal litrachur, eh?..." (BA).
London: Guy Chapman, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. Original dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered, gilt vignettes on front cover, unopened; in the dust jacket. First edition in English. "Translated by G. P. C., C. B. P., and H. M. from the French Fermé la Nuit." Limited to 275 copies.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1891. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Three volumes, 8vo. Original smooth light coffee-colored cloth, blocked in black and blind, spines gilt-lettered, untrimmed; in a brown half-morocco slipcase (spine dried). First edition, in a rare variant binding (the book is ubiquitous in royal blue cloth). See Sadleir.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Three volumes, 8vo. Original brown cloth, blocked in black, spines gilt-lettered; in a brown half-morocco slipcase. First English edition, preceded by a New York piracy of the unfinished novel as it appeared in the 'Fortnightly Review' from September to December.....
San Francisco: Printed by Henry Nash for His Friends, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio (18 x 13 1/2 inches), folded sheet, fore- and bottom-edges untrimmed. First edition of this tribute to George Sterling by Mencken, one of 300 copies printed; with a pictorial border by William Wilke. The.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. Regarding a meeting. (A difficult handwriting!). (BA).
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1932. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green pigskin-backed batik boards, top edges gilt; publisher's slipcase. First edition, one of 100 numbered copies in this special binding signed by the poet (this is no. 89). Presentation copy, inscribed (full-page) by Markham: "To Ray Cecil Carter.....
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered. First combined edition, first issue. Presentation copy, inscribed by Markham: "My dear Norbert Hyatt: If all men were like you, poets would live in palaces and kings would do them reverence. All good.....
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From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Autograph and typed manuscript signed of drafts of scenes of the screenplay of the film 'Espoir' (of Malraux's novel dealing with the Spanish Civil War, 'L'Espoir, published in 1937). Consists of title/presentation page, plus approximately 20 text pages, also 4to, with extensive revisions and manuscript.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 2 pages, 4to, on MacLeish's letterheads. The dictated Jan. 8 letter concerns a three-meeting course on the teaching of poetry that MacLeish would be giving at the College. The TLS is a thank-you letter for his enjoyable experience at the College: "It was a......
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Comprising: 29 typed letters signed, 5 typed postcards signed, and 2 autograph postcards signed, all from McGuane to Oppenheimer, and one typed letter signed (carbon copy, with holograph note) from McGuane to William B. Decker (senior editor at Dial Press); written from Palo Alto (and.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. The file consists of 20 typed letters signed, one typed letter (unsigned), one autograph letter signed, 13 typed notes signed, one typed note (unsigned), and one autograph note signed. The letters total 26 pages, 8vo (a few 4to), nearly all single-spaced; the notes are various.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 full pages, 8vo. An amusing response to an autograph collector requesting an autograph manuscript poem (and who apparently sent an inkstand along with his request): "... You shouldn't have sent me the inkstand–for I don't like being deadheaded, & moreover I learn from an.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, inlaid at integral blank leaf. Lover writes: "You applied to me last December for my autograph. I was out of town, and immediately after Christmas I was extremely ill–all this will explain why your note had lain so long unanswered, then.–.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original chocolate brown cloth, decorated in blind, spine gilt-lettered; in a blue quarter morocco slipcase. First American edition, first printing, with the letter "n" missing in the word "one" on p. 278 line 4 up; 12-page publisher's catalogue at.....
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[Boston]: [The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and The American Humane Education Society], [1918]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Four page leaflet. First edition, first printing, of his foreword to 'Michael, Brother of Jerry' (1917). London in the novel exposed the cruel conditions for trained.....
