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: 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.....
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.....
