Essays
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 Arrivals
Fear of Flying
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.....
When the Devil Was Well
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.....
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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.....
Saül, Drame en 5 Actes
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.....
Pylon
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.
The Babe's Bed
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.....
In the Money: White Mule Part II
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.....
Five "Mrs. Brown" novels
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".....
Two autograph manuscripts
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1) "Le Tour des Morts." 11 pages on 9 sheets, 4to, graph paper, the first nine 9 pages in ink on rectos, 2 pages in pencil on versos of last two sheets, signed in ink "Jean Lorrain" at end. Extensive working manuscript, corrected throughout. 2).....
Ode ... AIR: "Ye mariners of England"
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.....
The Orphan of Pimlico. A Moral Tale of Belgravian Life
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.
The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller
London and Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 306 pages. Original green cloth, printed label on spine (an extra label tipped in at end). First edition of Sir William Young Darling's anonymous whimsy, a first person, tragic tale of a failed bookseller who, according to.....
Housatonuc Bookshop: T. S. Eliot
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.....
Two scarce ephemeral items regarding the dinner for him on December 19, 1895, given by the society of Philistines
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).....
Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas
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.....
First Editions of American Authors... Introduction by Eugene Field
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.....
The Anthony Memorial. A Catalogue of the Harris Collection of American Poetry with Biographical and Bibliographical Notes
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.....
Catalogue of American Poetry, Comprising Duplicates from the Collection of the Late C. Fiske Harris of Providence, R. I. For sale by Wm. T. Tibbitts
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.....
Catalogue of First Editions of American Authors. Poets, Philosophers, Historians, Statesmen, Essayists, Dramatists, Novelists, Travellers, Humorists, &c., &c. &c.
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.....
Catalogue of First Editions of American Authors. Poets, Philosophers, Historians, Statesmen, Essayists, Dramatists, Novelists, Travellers, Humorists, &c., &c. &c.
New York: Leon & Brother, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, blue cloth spine. The first catalogue devoted totally to American literary first editions. As it listed all of the known works of the selected authors, it was also the first bibliography of American first editions.....
The Longfellow Collectors' Hand-Book: A Bibliography of First Editions
New York: William Evarts Benjamin, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original white parchment spine and lemon glazed boards, unopened. First edition, limited to 250 copies numbered and signed (with initials) by Benjamin (this is no. 95). The first separate bibliography of an American author, compiled by Beverly.....
To Rupert Brooke
N.p. Privately Printed by Lecram Press for Richard Jean Picard for Noel, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued. First edition, number 33 of 100 copies of this Christmas keepsake, the first publication in book form of Wolfe's 1918 tribute to Rupert Brooke.
Reward of Merit [Group of four cards]
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4 individual cards, each about 1 3/4 by 2 1/2 inches. Unsigned illustrations by Kate Greenaway, printed in colors. The illustrations show mother, children, and a dog in winter scenes on the cards. Corresponds to Schuster 293, illustrated on Schuster page 200. Thomson 296.
David Harum. A Story of American Life
New York: Appleton, 1898. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in green, red and white. First edition, in the rare cloth trial binding – the usual binding color is yellow. This is Westcott's only novel, published shortly after his death. He was a Syracuse.....