The Garden of Kama And other Love Lyrics from India
London: William Heinemann, 1904. 8vo. vii, 173, [i] pages. Original half vellum, green cloth, top edges gilt.
London: William Heinemann, 1904. 8vo. vii, 173, [i] pages. Original half vellum, green cloth, top edges gilt.
Chicago: Hammersmark Publishing Company, 1904. 8vo. 213 pages. Original quarter brown cloth, grey boards, printed paper labels on front cover and spine. First edition.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1904. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pictorial gray cloth, stamped in black and yellow, lettered in gold, top edges gilt. First edition of this collection of stories. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author just below the printed dedication, which is "To Agnes": "from Richard.....
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.....
New York: Privately printed, 1905. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original half vellum, untrimmed. First edition, no. 99 of 152 copies. Presentation copy, and in a sense a dedication copy, inscribed on the front pastedown: "To Edmund Stedman 'Whom we are glad to have known and loved' I think.....
New York: Consolidated Retail Booksellers, 1905. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece and illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton. Original decorated red cloth, blocked in black and lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of the author's first book, and scarce in the dust jacket. An uncommonly found work.....
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1906. 2 volumes. 8vo. 237 and 230 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Contemporary blue half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Provenance: W. Macdoland MacKay (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Mary Augusta was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. 8vo (7.5 x 5.25). 420 pages. Frontispiece by N.C. Wyeth. Original red decorated cloth. First edition.
London: Brown, Langham, 1906. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original light gray pictorial cloth, untrimmed; in the rare printed orange dust jacket. First edition of this novel of mystery and intrigue (listed in Hubin's 'Bibliography of Crime Fiction'). If there were a dedication copy of 'Rouge,' this would be.....
London: Constable, 1906. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, untrimmed. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Edward Hutton from Arthur Symons, November 1906." Essays by Symons on Rodin, Moreau, Whistler, Richard Strauss, Eleonora Duse.....
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1907. 8vo. Complete with 8 color prints (including frontispiece) and black-and-white illustrations in text by Maginel Wright Enright. Original gray cloth, both covers with color-printed illustrations mounted. First edition, first state, with identical full-color designs on front and back covers.
[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,".....
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.....
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.....
London: Methuen, [1908]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. With twelve illustrations by Will Owen. Original pictorial greenish-blue cloth, decorated in black and gilt. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page to Arthur Morrison: "To Mr. Arthur Morrison from the lesser author. W. W. Jacobs.....
New York: Duffield & Co, 1909. First American edition. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine (a few pale stains on cover, mild blind circular puckering on front).
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. 8vo. 179 pages. Facsimile of a manuscript poem by Hearn. Original cloth-backed boards, spine label; plain paper wrapper; slipcase. Number 354 of 575 copies. Introduction by Ferris Greenslet. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Riverside Press. Laid-in: prospectus for the.....
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1911. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth. With a 64-page publisher's catalogue inserted at end. . First edition. The dedicatee Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's copy. The printed dedication to him is in the form of a three-page letter/preface. On both sides of the front.....
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated by J. N. Marchand. Original green mottled cloth. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed to James Carleton Young on the dedication leaf: "Dear Jim I mean every word of this dedication, and a lot more –.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1911. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original thin printed boards, edges untrimmed. First edition of Bradley's first book, number 3 of 100 numbered copies. A penciled note says this copy was in the library of the dedicatee George Edward Woodberry, American critic and poet.
London: Constable, 1912. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Original maroon cloth, top edges gilt; in a maroon half-morocco slipcase. First edition of "the book that established Walter de la Mare as a major poet" (National Book League, 'Walter de la Mare: A Checklist', 1956, no 20). A very good.....
London: Duckworth, [1912]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece. Large 8vo. Original dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, front cover with gilt vignette, top edges gilt; in a dark green cloth folding box. First edition of Tomlinson's first book, signed by him on the front free endpaper. The book recounts.....
Philadelphia: Theodore Presser, 1913. 8vo. 195 pp. Original decorated cloth; without dust jacket in a later blue cloth slipcase. One-inch split along front joint, spine and front cover slightly soiled. FIRST EDITION, first issue with the floral endpapers. PRESENTATION COPY, with a lengthy inscription on the dedication leaf: "For my.....
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.....
Philadelphia: Theodore Presser, [1913]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original pictorial boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first binding with figured endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Huneker on the dedication page: "This book of musical jollies is for the Weils – Ottilie and Otto – with the regards.....