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.
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’.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 pages, 8vo, a bifolium. Howe recommends a "Mrs. Morgan, wife of Col. Morgan, of Washington, D. C. She has given several recitations here, which have been highly thought of by competent judges, Col. [Thomas Wentworth] Higginson among the number..." (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. Howells sends his autograph: "... I hope your friends will not be too much puzzled to know why such a name should be wanted." Winthrop Wetherbee (1863-1949), American autograph collector and poet, attended Harvard where he was editor of 'The Harvard Advocate';.....
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.....
Paris: Chaubert and Herissant, 1759. 12mo (163 x 103 mm). xx, 237, [3] pages. Contemporary French mottled sheep, spine gilt with flowers. First edition. The philologist Etienne Barbazan (1694-1770) specialized in manuscripts from the Middle Ages, and notably contributed to reviving forgotten texts. The ordene of chivalry is a 13th.....
London: Faber and Faber, [1963]. 8vo. 46 pages. Illustrated by R. A. Brant. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. One of 3,000 copies of Hughes' third book for children. Sagar and Tabor A7.
Knotting, Bedfordshire: Christopher Skelton for Sceptre Press, 1979. Square 8vo. 4 pages. Stapled in original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 46 of 100 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 450. The colophon states that Hughes retained 50 of the signed copies for himself. With errata slip.....
Knotting, Bedfordshire: Christopher Skelton for Sceptre Press, 1977. Square 8vo. [8] pages. Sewn in original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 7 of 100 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 450. The colophon states that Hughes retained 50 of the signed copies for himself. Sagar and Tabor.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One full page, 8vo, on letterhead of "County Courts Circuit No. 9," tipped at edge to slightly larger sheet, a minor fold tear touching a letter. A humorous response to an autograph collector: "So wishing you all success in your effort to collect the autographs.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 8vo, a bifolium with the center fold reinforced with two strips of paper tape on front and back, else very good; written on embossed stationery of the Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall. Hughes responds to Gleason, sending his autograph: "... Autograph collecting is a......
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, ruled 8vo. Hughes responds to a request for his autograph: "... It must I suppose be always a great pleasure to an author to hear that his books have made him friends abroad... especially when such news comes from your country in which.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. Supplying his autograph: "Here is my autograph such as it is worth. Your friend must be a picker of straws to care for it." (BA).
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.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Two volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece in each volume. Original gilt-lettered and -decorated cloth; red quarter morocco slipcase with cloth chemise. Spines somewhat faded, light wear at extremities. FIRST EDITION.
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: C. Wittingham for Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, and others, 1810. 8vo. xxx, 315, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait after Nash by Romney. Contemporary calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece. Light wear at extremities; frontispiece offset onto title, some light browning. Later edition of 'The Village Curate,' but 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: Random House, 1994. 8vo. 633 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. First trade edition, first printing, signed by Irving on the title-page.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1944]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red cloth; in the dust jacket. First edition of the best and most influential novel about alcoholism. The basis for the Oscar winning movie starring Ray Milland. (BA) A poorly manufactured wartime novel, it is often in.....
Paris: nrf, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small folio. Original pictorial tan wrappers, lettered in black, untrimmed, glassine dust wrapper and publisher's yellow board slipcase. Copy no. 212 of 380 copies. Illustrated with 113 woodcuts by Jean Hugo. (BA).
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: Macmillan, 1896. 8vo. 388pp., 3pp. ads at end. Half-title. Early 20th-century half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt, original cloth covers and spine bound in at end. Chip at top of spine, a few small scratches to leather, otherwise clean. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 10621.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. Two volumes, 8vo. Plates. Original cloth; dust jackets. Owner's inkstamp crossing text on title, wear and chipping at extremities of jackets. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Scarce with jackets.
London: The Sunday Referee, 1934. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Frontispiece portrait. Original green cloth. First edition of the author's first book, the first title issued in the Sunday Referee Poets Series. The dedication copy ("Dedicated Gratefully to Victor B. Neuburg"), inscribed by Johnson on the front free endpaper.....