London: John W. Parker and Son, 1853. Two volumes, 8vo. xxiv, 323; iv, 377, 6 [ads]. Publisher's brown grained cloth, ruled in blind on sides, gilt-lettered on spine; in a somewhat worn folding case. Provenance: Mrs. J. Insley Blair (Blairhame bookplate; sale Sotheby's New York, 3 December 2004, lot 184).....
Florence: Privately Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, 1928. 8vo. Brown half morocco, pebbled cloth boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. First edition, number 670 of 1000 copies signed by the author. "Mr. Lawrence has moments of greatness, of course, but hours of something very different" – Virginia Woolf ('The Common.....
London: [Oxford University Press for] Humphrey Milford, 1918. 8vo. [8], 124 pages. 2 portraits engravings under tissue by Emery Walker, 2 double–page facsimiles of autograph poems, and 2 in–text facsimiles of the author’s signature. Original holland-backed boards, printed paper spine label, untrimmed. First edition, limited to 750 copies, of Hopkins’.....
Written on the printed leaflet titled "Meet Judy Blume," 8 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches, black-and-white photo of Judy Blume on cover, listing Blume's books on the back, issued by Bradbury Press and E. P. Dutton & Co., the inner pages printing Blume's reminiscences on writing that she included as.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1886]. 8vo. 456 pages. Portrait frontispiece of the author; one-page publisher's advertisement at end, with this work listed first and priced $1.50. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in maroon and gilt. First American edition, an unusually fine copy of a scarce book commonly found in worn.....
Boston: Little, Brown, 1961. 8vo. 201 pages. Original grey cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition of Salinger's classic long-form stories about two of the Glass children. Stated first edition on title verso, jacket priced $4.00, without reviews, and unclipped.
New York: M. J. Ivers & Co., December 22nd, 1887. 8vo. 92 pages. Original printed wrappers; morocco pull-off case. Wrapper reads "The Misadventure [singular] of John Nicholson." American Series no. 60. A pirated reprint of a Christmas number. Scarce in any condition.
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. Small 4to. vii, 323 pages. Original half black morocco, marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, red silk page markers.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. 8vo. [12], 340 pages. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, with a lengthy inscription by Jong across the span of the title: "June '74 / For RIch / My old pal from worser days – the die was cast.....
New York: Privately Printed for Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach [by Boston: The Bibliophile Society], 1921. 4to (23 x 17.5 cm). Frontispiece portrait, folding facsimile plates of the manuscript. Original gilt-lettered parchment-backed boards; fragment of plain original dust wrapper. One of 450 copies of this "Small Complimentary Edition," issued by.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. 8vo. 310 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Toklas by Man Ray, photographic plates. Original blue cloth, lettered in silver on front cover and spine, top edges stained blue; acetate dust wrapper. Third printing. Signed by Gertrude Stein on the front free endpaper. This was.....
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.....
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. 8vo. 315 pages. Original pictorial wrappers made from the dust jacket. Provenance: Alvin Grauer (signature on front free endpaper). First edition, the scarce publisher's advance in wrappers of the trade issue. Petersen A16; Massey 173.
Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1930. 8vo (22 x 17.5cm). 46 pages. Original unbound sheets. One of 375 signed and numbered copies printed on Pannekoek Holland of an edition of 394 (this is no. 16). The author's copy, unbound and in a manila envelope with Westcott's manuscript notes, giving Monroe Wheeler's.....
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940. 8vo. 382 pages. Original blue cloth, silver lettering on spine; printed dust jacket, designed by James Laughlin. First edition, first printing, one of about 1500 copies printed. Signed by Williams on the front free endpaper. A much finer than usual copy of this novel, the.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Comprising: Mrs. Brown Up the Nile. [1869]. – Mrs. Brown on "Dizzy". [1874]. – Mrs. Brown at the Skating Rink. [1875]. – Mrs. Brown at Cleopatra's Needle. [1878]. – Mrs. Brown and King Cetewayo. [1882]. All published London: George Routledge and Sons. Original "yellow back".....
N.p. s.n., n.d. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Broadside, 9 3/4 x 8 inches. A song sheet printing of Pierpont's celebrated temperance song. Published in his 'Airs of Palestine', it was often sung and reprinted, as on the celebration of Independence Day, 1839, when it was sung at Faneuil Hall.....
London: Smith Elder, 1876. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio. Illustrated by the author. Original green quarter morocco, smooth spine gilt-lettered, grey printed boards, top edges gilt. First edition.
Salisbury, CT: The Cantina Press, [1938]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches). Printed on tissue, on one side only of leaves. Original plain salmon wrappers; in a quarter morocco folding case. Scarce and fragile bookseller's catalogue of 28 first editions of T. S. Eliot's.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1) "The Time Has Come," the Walrus Said, "To Talk of Many Things". [East Aurora, NY: Elbert Hubbard, 1895]. 8 pages, 9 x 6 1/4 inches, large illustration by Collin on the front cover, stitched with red thread (first and last leaves separated along spine).....
Philadelphia: [Privately Printed], 1907. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 86 pages. Frontispiece showing Thomas's library. Contemporary red hard-grained morocco, gilt-ruled and -lettered, top edges gilt, by Lippincott's, a presentation binding found on some copies. THE FIRST COPY. First edition of the catalogue of the private library of Philadelphia industrialist.....
Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1893. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original lavender cloth, paper label on spine, untrimmed. First edition of the first hardcover Stone & Kimball book and the first work with that imprint on its title-page. Number 47 of 50 large-paper copies signed by the publishers. The.....
Providence: s.n., 1886. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Tall 8vo. Portrait of Henry B. Anthony. Contemporary blue half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, by B. P. Sanford. Presumably a large paper copy (measuring 10 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches). With cut signature of Anthony affixed to verso of.....
Providence: Tibbitts, 1883. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. Tibbitts' name, etc. is on a label pasted over "For sale by Tibbitts, Shaw & Co," on title-page and on front cover. "Very scarce" (Hill). Hill, cat. 42: "The earliest bookseller's catalogue devoted entirely to American.....
New York: Leon & Brother, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Engraved title (as used on the front cover of the original wrappers.) Maroon half morocco gilt, marbled boards, gilt edges. The first catalogue devoted totally to American literary first editions. As it listed all of the known works.....
