Paris: Société de Mercure, 1903. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Bound with: 'L'immoraliste'. Paris: Société de Mercure, 1902. Together two volumes in one, small 8vo. In a contemporary designer binding by René Kieffer in full tan pigskin, with a leather bas-relief sculpture [cuir ciselé] by R. Prath set into each.....
Caldwell, OH: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth. First edition of this play "presented with a grand salaam in the direction of Mr. Marc Connolly, author of 'The Green Pastures'..." (Author's Note). A dedication copy from the publisher to Marc Connolly, inscribed.....
New York: House of Field, Inc., 1943. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, printed paper spine label; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. A dedication copy, inscribed "Copy #1" on the front free endpaper and on the dedication leaf next to the printed dedication that reads: "To Harvey.....
New York: Samuel French, 1937. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original yellow printed wrappers. New edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper: "The new edition, Helen dear, with many memories – Dan, Christmas 1941!" The printed dedication reads: "For Helen.....
San Francisco: Steve Rubenstein, 1981. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dearest Alvah! I hope you like my book. At any rate, it's onward and upward! Thank you for helping me to keep my sensayuma. Love.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original black cloth, printed paper spine label. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the dedication page to Lady Eileen Oude: "From [indistinct nickname?] Oct. 7 1924." And with an ALS tipped to the facing leaf, 8vo, two pages.....
Hollywood: Murray & Gee, 1946. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Ethel & Bill Drake who need only look at the dedication to see what I think of the family – Love Milton.....
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth. First edition, second issue with cancel title (date changed from 1925 to 1926), inscribed under the printed dedication ("To Arthur J. Bliss / Magician of the Rainbow Flower, in all friendship"): "from Eden Phillpotts April 1926.".....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated by Keith Ward. Original cloth-backed boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of Harry Owens' version of this perennial classic. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to W. E. (Bill) Woodward on the front free endpaper: "To.....
London: Constable & Company, 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author beneath the printed dedication ("To Caradoc Evans"): "From Con O'Leary Aug. 4, 1928." Caradoc Evans (1878-1945) was a Welsh story writer, novelist and playwright. This is the Irish.....
London: Hurst & Blackett, [1929]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the half-title: "To Mother With the Author's Affection. Ben Mowshay March 1929." The printed dedication reads simply: "To Mother." An English barrister and writer, Mowshay's previous.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and chart. Original pictorial brown cloth. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his daughter on the front free endpaper: "For Dear Harrie! whop has put her Xmas monies–(a waste of shekals!)–into the.....
London: Wyman and Sons, 1895. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. 16 plates by G. J. Pinwell and J. North. Original quarter green morocco, red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by co-author Harry Quilter to dedicatee Maria Theresa Earle on the front flyleaf: "Maria.....
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1960. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth. Paper a bit browned, board edges lightly toned. First edition. WITH: Another edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Abrasion on front free endpaper, but generally a very good copy.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1938. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "March 25th 1938 / Margaret Herzog (Otherwise known as Peggy.) / For Elizabeth, to whom this was dedicated!" The printed dedication reads: "To.....
London: Reeves & Turner, 1884. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original brick cloth. First edition of this collection of essays. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his cousin William Hazlitt on the half-title: "W. Hazlitt Esq. with his cousin's affect. regards April 4 1884." The printed dedication.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original grey cloth. First edition. The dedication copy ("To Van Wyck Brooks Grand Historian of Native Letters"), inscribed on the half-title: "For Van Wyck and for Gladys: as I have always inscribed my books to you both, and as I......
London: Methuen & Co., 1897. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Publisher's 40-page catalogue at end. Original pale blue cloth, gilt-lettered, untrimmed. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Mr. and Mrs. William Breffit from J. S. Fletcher." Fletcher (1863-1935) was an.....
London: Andrew Melrose Ltd., 1919. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To his friend Thomas Burke from the author Caradoc Evans, March 16, 1920." Burke is best known as the author of 'Limehouse Nights'. Evans.....
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author beneath the dedication "To My Cousin Kenneth Birdsall Jaffray": "Who listened so patiently for many years to my barks and howls." Further inscribed on.....
New York: Covici Friede, 1938. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, printed paper label on spine; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy to the author's father, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To My Dearest Dad and Julia, from your devoted daughter Gertrude Crum," and.....
Barnet, England: Poetry Folios, 1945. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 11 pages. Original printed wrappers; glassine. First edition, one of 200 copies, this copy hors commerce. The dedication copy, inscribed beneath the colophon by the author: "À Paul Eluard en hommage Alex Comfort." The printed dedication ("For Paul Eluard").....
London: The Crime Club by Collins, [1952]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To dear Bice (who asked to have this book dedicated to her) and to James (who knew nothing of it) from.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1969. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original yellow cloth; pictorial dust jacket designed by Muni. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to Kenneth Millar: "Santa Barbara, Jan 25, 1969 / For Ken, Who will always be there, out in front.....
New York: Knopf, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth-backed decorated boards, paper label, uncut; in a cloth slipcase. . First edition, Copy No. 4 of 150 numbered copies on Borzoi All Rag Paper signed by the author (this copy not separately signed). The dedication copy, inscribed by the.....
