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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. 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. 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.....
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.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1) Original colored drawing for the dust jacket of the London 1924 edition (first English edition) of 'The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck'. 12 x 7 inches. Signed. Mounted on heavy card stock. With penciled editorial rulings, etc. on the card. This book was first published.....
New York: Knopf, 1981. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small, narrow 8vo. Original printed blue wrappers. First issue uncorrected proof for the first edition. These first issue proofs contain the story "The Laughter of Akiva," which was dropped and replaced by another story, "Puttermesser and Xanthippe," in the second issue.....
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.....
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.....
