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.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 pages, 8vo, a bifolium. Howe recommends a "Mrs. Morgan, wife of Col. Morgan, of Washington, D. C. She has given several recitations here, which have been highly thought of by competent judges, Col. [Thomas Wentworth] Higginson among the number..." (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. To different recipients regarding social invitations (three cards), photographs of himself (one letter and one card), theatre tickets (one card), the Author's Society Pension Fund (one letter), and his opinion of a playscript by another writer (one letter). (BA).
Boston: The Arena Publishing Company, 1894. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original light green cloth, stamped in gilt. First edition. A marvelous association copy of Harte's only book, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper to the Boston publisher Richard Gorham Badger. The inscription, dated March 31, 1897.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 6 pages, 4to; and 2 1/2 pages, folio, two of the manuscripts on stationery with engraved vignettes. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 12mo, integral blank leaf, in French. A charming social note: "I have had no news of you since the immediate reply I made to your letter... Did you not receive that reply? I told you as plainly as possible, but I asked you.....
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers. First edition, limited to 250 copies signed by the author. A fine copy. " ...Susan Glaspell had written a one-act play called "Trifles," suggested by a murder account she had read in an Iowa newspaper.....
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1922. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Brown levant morocco by Tchekeroul, spine gilt-lettered, green morocco linings, marbled paper flyleaves, original printed wrappers preserved, all edges gilt; brown board and leather-edged open-face case. First edition, one of 30 lettered copies (this "AJ") on Holland paper. Bound at.....
Paris: Bernard Grasset, [1929]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, unopened; plain glassine; publisher's slipcase. First edition, one of 12 numbered (this no. 5) 'hors commerce' copies on vélin sur fil creme Lafuma (the smallest limitation in the edition). A fine copy of Giono's first novel and.....
Paris: Gallimard, [1925]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Dark blue three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, original printed wrappers bound in. First edition, copy no. 25 of 1200 'réservés aux amis de l'édition originale'. Bookplate of Réné Sibilat. Talvert & Place.....
London: Elkin Mathews, 1914. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original tan cloth, untrimmed. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed to fellow poet Gordon Bottomley in year of publication. "This collection was published shortly before the outbreak of war, contemporary with Gibson's co-founding and co-editing of 'New Numbers' was Lascelles Abercrombie.....
London and New York: Harper Brothers, 1905. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. With eight illustrations. Original pictorial blue cloth with a grotesque bat vignette in light blue and black on front cover, gilt-lettered. First English edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to "Israel Zangwill with the.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 2 pages, 4to, single-spaced. In the TNS of Jan. 16 Gardner writes that he did receive the copy of Martin's novel 'The Stolen Jew'. The TLS of July 13 is devoted to Gardner's explanation of why he can't write a letter to the 'New.....
London: Heinemann, 1907. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. First edition, first issue (with blind stamp in corner of back cover). Presentation copy to a very good friend, the foremost theatre critic of the day, inscribed by Galsworthy on the front free endpaper: "March.....
Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1890. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. With 15 inserted plates with illustrations by W. Bretenyder. Contemporary black cloth, spine gilt-lettered and ruled, edges stained red. First edition, issued in paper wrappers and cloth. According to a Lloyd Currey catalogue description for a different copy in.....
[London]: Collingwood Bros. [1907]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original black cloth, lettered in white on spine and front cover, red thumb print (from the author's own) on front cover. First edition. 'The Red Thumb Mark' marks the introduction of Dr. Thorndyke, the first of the fictional "scientific detectives,".....
New York: Putnam's, 1891. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original light blue cloth, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. First American edition; with five inserted plates. Bookplate of H. C. Cross. A very good copy of a scarce book. BAL 6271. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 1/4 pages plus address panel, a bifolium. In French. A densely written letter about human deformity. Answering a letter by Hecquet questioning whether it is theologically sound to baptize deformed babies (what he calls "monsters"). Bocquillot answers that in some cases the deformity is.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 4to, single-spaced, with a couple of holograph corrections, with envelope. For most of the letter Ford responds to queries from Hinton regarding the publication of several of his books. Towards the end Ford writes: "... I think 'The Good Soldier' is my best.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 14 pages, all but one quarto in size and all but one single-spaced; written from Paris and Toulon, 23 February 1931 to 27 January 1932, the correspondence relating to the book and its publication, etc.; one letter with marginal fraying, another a bit wrinkled, and.....
N.p. Privately Printed, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original vellum-backed marbled boards, top edges gilt, by Bayntun, with stamp on flyleaf; tissue dust jacket (frayed). First edition, number 10 of 12 large-paper copies numbered and signed by Fletcher, who was an English author of more than 100 titles.....
