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.....
London: Max Goschen Ltd., 1913. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original paper vellum spine and dark brown boards, gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. First edition, number 20 of a limited edition of 50 copies numbered and signed by the author and in this special binding. The English writer.....
London: Centaur Press, [1934]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 4 pages. 8vo, with the printed envelope. First edition of this facsimile of the letter, limited to 50 copies (this is no. 43). Fine. Benkovitz A14. (BA).
Bellows Falls, VT: Printed by Bill Blake & Co., 1818. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Contemporary sheep. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed identically twice by the poet to a niece on front flyleaves: "Ann [...] Jones, Presented to her by her Uncle, Thom[as] G. Fessenden – January 31, 1818".....
New York: Equinox, 1932. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 8 pages. Original tan wrappers, printed in brown, tied as issued; with the original unlettered white envelope. First edition. Drawings by Albert Heckman. Very uncommon with the envelope.
London: Elliot Stock, 1899. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered. The author's heavily revised copy of the first edition of this reasoned argument for cosmopolitanism over nationalism, by the biographer of Adam Smith, and prolific writer on political and military topics. The copy is heavily revised.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 9 and 8 pages, 4to, on ruled notebook paper (of three different kinds). Rambling letters on literary matters. Farrell writes of "the number of 'average' Americans who want me to get the Nobel Prize" and of his plans "to issue a full length magazine of.....
New York: Random House, [1986]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original printed yellow wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof for the first edition. WITH: A copy of the first edition, same imprint. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Fine. Together, 2 volumes. (BA).
New York: Knopf, 1917. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece reproduction of a sketch of Pound by Gaudier-Brzeska. Original rose boards, front cover lettered in gilt. With early manuscript identification of Eliot as the author on title-page (the book was issued anonymously). First edition of Eliot's second book, one.....
Boston: Printed by Rowe & Hooper, 1816. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Contemporary sheep, green morocco spine label. First (and only) edition. A didactic novel set in New England, and with numerous references to the Revolutionary War. The author was a Methodist minister and father of Lorenzo Sabin, senator.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 10 x 14 inches, tipped to mat. A fine, humorous drawing entitled "A Sad Case," depicting dialogue between an older husband and his visiting friendly doctor, as his young wife sits surrounded by four very attentive younger men. Du Maurier was the chief caricaturist for.....
Paris: Gallimard, [1946]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue decorated cloth. Originally published in 1913, this is number 991 of 40 'hors commerce' copies, of an edition of 1000. With a 16-line manuscript quotation by the author taken from the novel, written on the half-title and signed "Roger.....
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[Boston]: [Houghton Mifflin], [1970]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pictorial glossy wrappers reproducing the front of the dust jacket of the published book. First edition. A scarce promotional booklet, specially signed by Dickey, issued in advance of the book's publication on March 23, 1970. It reproduces two sections.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo, Original black cloth, lettered in red; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing of the author's Hugo Award winning alternative history novel. "It is probably Dick's best work, and the most memorable alternative world tale, or fantasia.....
N.p. N.d. [circa 1880?]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 10 pages, folio (12 1/2 x 8 inches), very closely written in brown ink with some corrections and deletions; in a brown cloth slipcase. With bookplate of Douglas C. Ewing. A note on the verso of the last leaf attributes the.....
