[Minneapolis]: Department of the Navy, 1916. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Single folded sheet to make four pages. First edition. In 1913 a pamphlet was issued under London's name entitled 'The Good Soldier', urging young men to escape military service. This present leaflet prints the text of a......
[Northwood, Middlesex]: The Scorpion Press, 1960. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 32 pages. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition, no. 35 of 50 numbered copies signed by Logue. "Songs written in collaboration with Lindsay Anderson, Charles Fox, and Oscar Lewenstein for Harry Cookson's play 'The Lily-White Boys'." (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Sepia wash, pen-and-ink, with some China white, on paper, unsigned, penciled number "14" upper left (and "4" lower right), ca 1885. Image 9 x 14 1/2 inches; sheet 11 3/4 x 18 inches. Pin pricks along outer border of image. The landscape is of the.....
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From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Pencil on white drawing paper, 7 x 10 1/4 inches, Westmoreland, England, most probably September 1836. A fine, delicate preliminary sketch of a mountain lake scene in the Lake District. In the foreground are three grazing cows; in the middle distance beside the lake is.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A total of 7 pages, 4to, each a bifolium, and with its wax seal. The first letter has a seal hole affecting parts, but not the sense of three words, and a fold tear touching a few letters; on the fourth page Lawrence has written.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A total of 14 pages (8 are 8vo, 6 are 4to), approximately 1525 words of text, in ink. Old folds, two clean small fold tears in the last letter, but in very good condition. A charming series, beautifully written, full of news and affectionate in.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Approximately 320 pages, folio. All pages heavily corrected/revised in Laver's hand (some 25 pages are in typescript). Some pages a little frayed, otherwise in very good condition. Laver (1899-1975) was an English author, critic, art historian, and museum curator. He is perhaps best remembered as.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A total of 12 pages, 8vo, in ink, both letters with a few minor horizontal fold separations, but in very good condition. With an apparently unrecorded photographic portrait of Lanier. ALS of 24 August 1878: 7 pages, blue ink on white paper, with numerous revisions.....
London: Printed and sold by the Author, [1791]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Original marbled boards, untrimmed; brown cloth slipcase, brown morocco trimmed at front. First edition. Lackington owned the Temple of the Muses in Finsburg Square, London's largest bookstore. The popularity of this book was.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, with English translation. A fine letter on the death of his brother's wife and mentioning a lawsuit he has lost which deprives him of one of his novels. (BA).
New York: Random House, 1930. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. Illustrated by Kent. Original pale blue cloth, decorated in silver, top edges stained silver; publisher's board slipcase. First edition, limited issue, no. 865 of 900 copies signed by Kent. (BA).
New York: The Viking Press, 1983. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original grey and black boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. First state of the jacket with the original $14.75 price on front flap. Signed by Kennedy on the title-page in red ink. The third novel in Kennedy's Albany.....
London: Methuen, [1908]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. With twelve illustrations by Will Owen. Original pictorial greenish-blue cloth, decorated in black and gilt. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page to Arthur Morrison: "To Mr. Arthur Morrison from the lesser author. W. W. Jacobs.....
Paris: nrf, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small folio. Original pictorial tan wrappers, lettered in black, untrimmed, glassine dust wrapper and publisher's yellow board slipcase. Copy no. 212 of 380 copies. Illustrated with 113 woodcuts by Jean Hugo. (BA).
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1944]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red cloth; in the dust jacket. First edition of the best and most influential novel about alcoholism. The basis for the Oscar winning movie starring Ray Milland. (BA) A poorly manufactured wartime novel, it is often in.....
Philadelphia: Theodore Presser, [1913]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original pictorial boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first binding with figured endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Huneker on the dedication page: "This book of musical jollies is for the Weils – Ottilie and Otto – with the regards.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One full page, 8vo, on letterhead of "County Courts Circuit No. 9," tipped at edge to slightly larger sheet, a minor fold tear touching a letter. A humorous response to an autograph collector: "So wishing you all success in your effort to collect the autographs.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 8vo, a bifolium with the center fold reinforced with two strips of paper tape on front and back, else very good; written on embossed stationery of the Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall. Hughes responds to Gleason, sending his autograph: "... Autograph collecting is a......
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, ruled 8vo. Hughes responds to a request for his autograph: "... It must I suppose be always a great pleasure to an author to hear that his books have made him friends abroad... especially when such news comes from your country in which.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. Supplying his autograph: "Here is my autograph such as it is worth. Your friend must be a picker of straws to care for it." (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. Howells sends his autograph: "... I hope your friends will not be too much puzzled to know why such a name should be wanted." Winthrop Wetherbee (1863-1949), American autograph collector and poet, attended Harvard where he was editor of 'The Harvard Advocate';.....
Cambridge City, Wayne County [Indiana]: D. K. Winder, Printer, 1844. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. [2], [8], 10-64 pages. Original red roan-backed brown boards. First edition of this pioneer Indiana educator's first book, which consists of a series of letters, ostensibly pertaining to local events, written in the most.....
London: Printed for Robert Stodart, et al, 1818. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. xix, [1], 461, [3] pages. Original drab boards, untrimmed; in a green half-morocco slipcase. First edition, first issue; leaf of Stodart ads at end. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Hazlitt to the American actor/dramatist/critic John.....
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From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Although not so indicated, the recipient of this letter was the publisher, Archibald Constable. Hazlitt writes on financial and literary matters, proposing a work on "Beauty", and inquiring: "May I ask what is become of the Round Table? I hope it is not broke down.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 volumes, 12mo. Original gilt-decorated white cloth, top edges gilt; original unprinted gold-colored cloth dust wrappers (spines darkened). First illustrated edition, trade issue, with a new two-page Preface by Howells. Of the 18 illustrations, reproduced in aquatint, seven are by Childe.....
