The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. 8vo. xiii, 253 pages. Original cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, top edges gilt. FIRST EDITION, first state, with eight entries facing half-title. BAL 5771.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. 8vo. xiii, 253 pages. Original cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, top edges gilt. FIRST EDITION, first state, with eight entries facing half-title. BAL 5771.
New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company, 1896. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated. Original brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. First edition of these historical tales for use in schools. A very good copy of one of Stockton's more uncommon books. BAL 18922. (BA).
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.....
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 and New York: John Lane/The Bodley Head, 1897. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red decorated cloth, blocked in black, gilt-lettered on spine, designed by Patten Wilson (who succeeded Aubrey Beardsley as cover designer of this fashionable series in 1895). First edition of this series of "cruel tales,".....
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.....
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.....
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.....
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered. First combined edition, first issue. Presentation copy, inscribed by Markham: "My dear Norbert Hyatt: If all men were like you, poets would live in palaces and kings would do them reverence. All good.....
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered in green, red, and yellow, decorated in red and yellow, top edge stained green, untrimmed; in a red half-morocco slipcase (a bit worn). First edition of the author's first book; first issue of the.....
New York: Appleton, 1900. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated. Original stamped maroon-brown leather wrap-around wallet binding with fastening tab. First edition thus. Printed at head of title-page: "Wm. H. Crane Edition" (he played Harum in the production). A separately-published chapter from the 1898 bestselling local color novel about.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Two volumes, large 8vo. Frontispieces and engraved titles. Original boards, printed paper labels, untrimmed; in a red quarter morocco slipcase. First edition, limited large-paper issue, no. 35 of the 'Author's Autography Copy" edition signed by Stedman. Bookplates of Frederick W. Skiff.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 8vo. 288 pages. Plates. Special binding of tan cloth, suede-lettering piece on front cover, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. First edition, number 102 of 150 copies of the Autograph Edition, signed by Howells. The trade edition, bound in green cloth, is quite.....
New York: Charles Scribner 's Sons, 1901. 2 volumes, octavo. Frontispiece and photographic plates. Contemporary plum morocco gilt, spine with acorn tool centered in 4 compartments, gilt-lettered in the remaining two, marbled boards, top edges gilt (slightly sunned, a few small chips at extremities). FIRST EDITION. An attractively-bound set.
Paris: Hachette, 1901. First edition. Folio (12 1/4 x 8 1//2 inches). 436 pp. 19 plates, some printed in color, black-and-white illustrations in text. Fine French binding by P. Affolter, three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, smooth spine richly gilt with floral and other tools, top edges gilt. Slight touches to.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Two volumes, 8vo. 254; 274 pages. Frontispieces. Original quarter vellum; brown cloth chemises, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Limited edition, number 42 of 150 copies printed on Holland paper.
Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1901. 8vo. 245 pages. 12 color plates, including frontispiece (with tissue guard) by C. Y. Cory. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered and -paneled on front cover, cover with color illustration mounted at center. Christmas gift inscription, 1906, on front pastedown, with recipient's inkstamp on front free endpaper. First edition.....
Jamaica, Queens: The Marion Press, 1901. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 125 pages. Contemporary red quarter roan, green cloth boards. Bookplate of the William L. Clements Library (withdrawn stamp). One of 1500 copies. 411 lots, priced in ink by C. Gerhardt (note on p. 125). The auctions were held.....
Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1901. 8vo. 306 pages, [4] ads, 32-page ads. Original cloth, lettered in black on front cover, in gilt on spine. First edition of the fourth and last of the Galsworthy novels written under the "Sinjohn" pseudonym. One of 1050 copies printed. With bookplate of C. H. St John.....
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. 8vo (24.5 x 15 cm). xi, 31, [1] pages. Original cream cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine. Limited edition, number 273 of 500 copies, printed on French hand-made paper (from an edition of 520). Printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. BAL.....
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. One of 425 copies printed on Japan vellum. 13.4 x 8.8 cm. Original printed wrappers. Printed at the press of George D. Loring, Portland, Maine.
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. One of 425 copies printed on Japan vellum. 13.4 x 8.8 cm. Original printed wrappers. Printed at the press of George D. Loring, Portland, Maine. With folded advertisement for the Brocade Series laid-in.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903. 8vo (19.2 x 11.7 cm). 195 pages. Half-title, initial advertisement leaf. Original cloth, printed paper label on spine, uncut. Provenance: Collin Armstrong (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies bound uncut and with the paper label. Typography by Bruce Rogers. BAL.....
San Francisco: W. E. Wood, 1903. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of Bierce. Original dark green cloth, gilt pictorial stamping and lettering, top edges gilt, others uncut; black cloth folding case. First edition, state 1 (BAL). This is the dedication copy to the designer of the binding.....
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.....