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Catalog 182: Re-Arrivals
Literature and Non-Fiction................. Item 1
African-Americana................................. 283
Baseball................................................... 306
Children’s Books.................................... 319
Film & Photoplays.................................. 332
Mysteries & Detective Fiction................ 341
Photography . ......................................... 413
Science-Fiction, Fantasy & Horror........ 425
Westerns.................................................. 451
Western-Americana................................ 472
As anyone who has been paying any attention to BTC probably knows, our catalogs
usually consist almost entirely of “New Arrivals”: that is, books that we’ve acquired
within the past month or so. We are and continue to be omnivorous consumers
of private libraries and of the inventories of other booksellers and collectors. We
currently have about 250,000 books cataloged and offered for sale, with tens of
thousands more waiting to be sorted, cataloged, scanned, and trotted out before our
adoring (and adorable!) book buying public.
As you might imagine, with so much new material to deal with we are generally
not very introspective about older stock. We spend very little time fretting over
unsold inventory or agonizing that our prices are either too high or too low. We are
generally content to let the market take care of that: if they are priced too low they
go away, if not they just lie there despondently.
While we have occasionally and perfunctorily addressed older inventory by doing
sale catalogs or blanket discounts on certain classes of books, we have never before
gone back and actually individually re-priced books to market.
Until now.
I’ve recently revisited the prices of the books that have been in residence longest
and tried my level best to price them competitively (obviously and as always, taking
condition into account). From the results of that exercise we have chosen nearly 500
books, each one of which has had its price lowered by anywhere from 20% to, in a
few cases, as much as 90% off its former price.
You’re welcome!
We may do more of this in the future, but as these are our oldest inventory, it’s
unlikely we’ll ever have such a nice crop of reasonably high-value books that we will
reduce the prices on anytime soon. Just saying...
--Tom C
Literature and Non-Fiction
AIKEN, Conrad. Bring! Bring! and
Other Stories. New York: Boni & Liveright 1925. First
1
edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper that
is a little spine faded, has a couple of small chips and an
internal archival repair. A nice copy of Aiken’s first short story
collection. [BTC#40268]
(Alcatraz). STROUD, Robert
(“The Birdman of Alcatraz”). Two Page
Autograph Letter Signed. Two page (four sides of
2
two quarto leaves) Autograph Letter Signed (“Bob, Robert
Stroud #594”) in pencil, dated September 16,
1954, to his younger brother
Marcus. A fascinating, very tightly written letter
of over 700 words, eloquently discussing the
subjects of race and prejudice, intermarriage
between races, and several anecdotes related to
these matters. Stroud, the federal prisoner who
in his day held the record for solitary confinement
(over forty years), had ample opportunity for
study. While at Leavenworth he began to keep birds
and study them, eventually becoming a respected
authority on the subject and authoring two books.
He was not permitted to keep birds once he was
transferred to Alcatraz in 1942, but he continued to
write and produced two more books (an autobiography
and a history of the U.S. penal system, both of which
the authorities prevented from being published). Stroud’s
intelligence and erudition are evident in this letter. Thomas Gaddis’s 1955 biography
brought Stroud’s story to the attention of the general public and resulted in the 1962 film
about his life starring Burt Lancaster. Stroud’s activities, as one might imagine, were very
tightly restricted, and he was only allowed to correspond with a few people at any one time.
His letters are very rare on the market. [BTC#13049]
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Cover by Tom Bloom. © 2013 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
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AMIS, Martin. The Rachel Papers. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf 1974. First American edition. “BTP”
sticker on the front pastedown (as seems almost inevitable
with this title) else fine in fine dustwrapper. An attractive and
presentable copy of the author’s first book, and increasingly
scarce thus. [BTC#17602]
3
ANDERSON,
Maxwell. Valley
Forge. Washington:
4
Anderson House 1934. First
trade edition. Fine in fine
dustwrapper with very slight
wear. One of the author’s
historical dramas in verse. [BTC#40391]
—. The Wingless Victory. Washington
DC: Anderson House 1936. First edition. Fine in fine
dustwrapper, which features a likeness of leading lady
Katherine Cornell. A superlative copy of this verse play.
[BTC#40104]
5
6
— and Laurence STALLINGS. Three American Plays.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1926). First edition. One corner very slightly bumped
else a fine, fresh copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Contains three collaborations by these
authors including the first book appearance of What Price Glory?, basis for the classic 1926
Raoul Walsh-directed film featuring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, and Delores Del
Rio, remade in 1952 by John Ford with James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, and Dan Dailey.
[BTC#43140]
(Anthology). ADAMS, Franklin P. as
F.P.A., edited by. The Second Conning Tower
Book. New York: Macy-Masius (1927). First edition. Fine in
7
an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper slightly soiled on the
spine and with a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. Copy 68 of
100 numbered copies Signed by F.P.A. (Franklin Pierce Adams).
A collection edited by the popular reviewer and radio host, with
many important authors represented, most notably Dorothy
Parker with ten contributions, but also selections from E.B.
White, Witter Bynner, William Rose Benét, Vincent Starrett,
John Reed, Genevieve Taggard, Christopher Morley, Elinor
Wylie, and many others. [BTC#46656]
8
(Anthology). (BROOKS, Cleanth).
Facets: An Anthology of Verse. Nashville TN: Calumet Club of Vanderbilt
University (1928). First edition. Spine ends worn, about very good in fragments of the
original dustwrapper. Copy 140 of 250 numbered copies. An anthology of poetry by
Vanderbilt students and faculty, most notably Cleanth Brooks. This volume is Signed by
Brooks, and Inscribed by contributor Margaret Moore. Scarce. [BTC#40543]
(Anthology). CLARK, Barrett H. and
Kenyon NICHOLSON, edited by. The
American Scene: An Anthology of American
9
Plays. New York: Appleton 1930. First edition. Small,
discreet owner’s name, one corner lightly bumped, else fine
in attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with some
modest chipping at the crown. An anthology featuring work
by Eugene O’Neill, Michael Gold, Paul Green, Theodore
Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Edna Ferber, Susan Glaspell,
Lynn Riggs, Colin Clements, and others. Scarce in jacket.
[BTC#40349]
10
(Anthology). HARRIS, Alex, edited
with an introduction by.
A World Unsuspected: Portraits of a Southern
Childhood. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
(1987). Uncorrected proof. Large spiral bound galleys for inhouse use. Light wear at the extremities, just about fine. An
important anthology of Southern experience with self-portraits
of their youth by Sheila Bosworth, Robb Forman Dew, Barry
Hannah, Josephine Humphreys, James Alan McPherson,
Bobbie Ann Mason, T.R. Pearson, Padgett Powell, Ellease
Southerland, and Al Young. Almost certainly the editor Harris’s
copy with hundreds of pencil corrections in the text. The size
and construction of this set of galleys leads us to believe that
only a handful of them were printed for in-house use. Rare.
[BTC#44846]
(Anthology). (SHELLEY, Mary, John CLARE, et al.)
COATES, Reynell, edited by. Leaflets of Memory: An Annual for
11
1846. Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co. 1846. First edition. Publisher’s full gilt-stamped
leather, all edges gilt. Illustrated with color lithographic plates and steel-engraved plates.
Scattered foxing, particularly to the plates and tissue guards, a little light rubbing, a tight, very
good plus copy. Includes a 20-page story, “The Dream,” by Mary
Shelley, author of Frankenstein, and John Clare’s sonnet, “Fame.”
[BTC#40530]
ARMSTRONG, Anthony as “A.A.”
Britisher on Broadway. London: Methuen &
12
Company (1932). First edition. Contemporary owner’s name,
one small ink check mark on contents page, else fine in attractive,
very good dustwrapper with a few small chips and tears.
Autobiographical anecdotes by popular columnist “A.A” of the
magazine Punch about the frustrations, delights, and confusions
of an Englishman in New York City. Very scarce in jacket.
[BTC#38728]
ARMSTRONG, Martin. The Romantic Adventures of Mr.
Darby and of Sarah His Wife. London: Gollancz 1931. First edition. Japanese
13
vellum and cloth. Small stain on the edge of the spine, slight scuffing to the front board else
near fine, almost certainly issued without dustwrapper. Copy 21 of 50 numbered copies
printed on mould-made paper and Signed by the author.
[BTC#45366]
ARNOW, Harriette as Harriette
SIMPSON. Mountain Path. New York: Covici14
Friede (1936). First edition. Bookplate of book critic Paul
Jordan Smith, a slight bump on the top edge of the front
board, else fine in a lightly soiled, very near fine dustwrapper
with a couple of tiny nicks and tears. Author’s exceptionally
uncommon first book, published under her maiden name. By
the author of The Dollmaker. Only the second jacketed copy
we have seen in the past decade. [BTC#24687]
AUSTIN,
Mary. The Land of
Journeys’ Ending.
15
New York: Century Co. (1924). First edition. Fine in an
attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with some small nicks
at the spinal extremities, some soiling (also on the spine), and
some small tears. A look at the American Southwest by an
Illinois-born feminist who migrated to California, where she
was one of the founders of the writing community in Carmel
that included Jack London and George Sterling. She finally
settled in Sante Fe where she did much to preserve Native
American legends and culture. A lovely copy and scarce in
jacket. [BTC#45760]
(Aviation). JACKMAN, W.J. and Thos
H. RUSSELL. Flying Machines: Construction
16
and Operation. Chicago: Charles C. Thompson 1912.
Reprint. Octavo. 256pp. Owner’s name else very good plus
lacking the dustwrapper. With photographs and illustrations of
imaginative [read: crazy] and conventional flying machines of
the era throughout. [BTC#45596]
BARRY, Philip. In a Garden. New York:
French 1929. First edition thus, heavily revised from the 1926
Doran edition. Light wear to the crown, slight rubbing to the
spine lettering, very good in near fine dustwrapper supplied
from a contemporary later printing. Inscribed by the author: “To Hope and Edgar with
love from Phil, 18 March 1929.” Hope Montgomery Scott was the glamorous Philadelphia
Mainline society woman who was the basis for the Tracy Lord character in The Philadelphia
Story. The play was dedicated to Hope Montgomery Scott and her husband Edgar, who were
lifelong friends of Philip and Ellen Barry. [BTC#35]
17
—. Liberty Jones: A Play with Music for City
Children. New York: Coward-McCann 1941. First edition.
18
Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some shallow
loss along the top of the front panel and some tanning to the
spine. A nice copy of this play about a young woman living in
Washington DC. The play featured music composed by author
Paul Bowles. [BTC#46679]
BELL, Madison
Smartt. History of
the Owen School from
its Early Origins to
1984. (Nashville): Vanderbilt
19
University (1985). First edition.
Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. A very nice
copy of the author’s third and easily scarcest title, a history
of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt.
Distributed privately. [BTC#49743]
BELLAH, James
Warner. This is the
Town. New York: D.
20
Appleton 1937. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper
with a slight printing flaw to the silvered dustwrapper and
some wear at the extremities. Happy Shannon, the daughter
of an old-fashioned country doctor, comes to New York
City and dazzles and is bedazzled by the glittering night
life. Bellah, an aviator and war hero in both World Wars, is
inextricably linked to John Ford, who filmed his stories and
novels (as Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio
Grande) and for whom he wrote the screenplays The Man
Who Shot Liberty Valance and Sergeant Rutledge. Very scarce.
[BTC#44935]
BEMELMANS, Ludwig. The Donkey Inside. New York: Viking
1941. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.
Bemelmans captures in text and drawings the spirit of the three trips he made to South
America. [BTC#27678]
21
BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. Burning City. New York: Farrar,
Rinehart (1936). First edition. Full leather stamped in gilt, slightly rubbed, else fine in lightly
worn, near fine slipcase. Copy 177 of 275 numbered copies Signed by the author. A volume
of poetry by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner. [BTC#25816]
22
BENÉT, William Rose. The Dust Which
Is God. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1942. Third
23
printing, published a few months after the first printing. Fine
in a lightly worn, very good or better dustwrapper with a few
tiny chips at the extremities. A semi-autobiographical novel
in verse that won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1942. This
copy has an Autograph Note Signed laid in from the author’s
brother, (and fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner) Stephen Vincent
Benét, presenting the book with the following sentiment: “For
my little One whom I love deeply. SVB.” and dated 27 March
(in Roman numerals). On the front endpaper in Stephen
Vincent Benét’s hand is quite a lovely and romantic six-line
poem (unsigned) dated 11 January 1942 (again in Roman
numerals). We have not been able to discern the source of the
poem, and there is at least some reason, given the depth of feeling in the presentation, to
surmise that it might be unpublished. [BTC#9686]
(BERRYMAN, John). LEWIS, Matthew G. The Monk. New
York: Grove Press (1952). First edition. Introduction by John Berryman. Heavily bumped
at the top of the front board affecting the tops of some pages, else very good, lacking the
dustwrapper. The original text of the controversial novel, first published in 1796, with variant
readings and a note on the text by Louis F. Peck. Inscribed by John Berryman, commenting
on the physical flaws of the volume: “Don & Betty with love (150 years old: hence the
condition) John / Princeton 21 June 52.” [BTC#46750]
24
25
BEZZERIDES, A.I. Thieves’ Market.
New York: Bantam (1950). First paperback edition. Very good
in wrappers with light wear. Signed by the author, novelist, and
screenwriter who co-created the television series, The Big Valley.
A hardboiled novel about a WWII vet who avenges his trucker
father’s treatment at the hands of a crooked San Francisco fruit
dealer. Bezzerides also adapted it for the classic Jules Dassin
film noir version Thieves’ Highway with Richard Conte, Millard
Mitchell, and Lee J. Cobb. Blacklisted by Hollywood, this was
the last film Dassin made in America for over a decade, though
in the interim he continued to work on films in Europe.
[BTC#43444]
26
Basis for The Pajama Game
BISSELL, Richard. 7 1/2 Cents. Boston: Little, Brown (1953). Reprint
edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a modest stain on the rear panel. Inscribed and
Initialed by Broadway and Hollywood producer Frederick Brisson: “This was produced on
Broadway as ‘The Pajama Game’ by Brisson, Griffith & Prince. F.B.” Brisson was the son
of actor Carl Brisson, and husband of actress Rosalind Russell from 1941 until her death
in 1976. When his father moved from Britain to Hollywood in the mid-1930s, Frederick
Brisson followed and established a successful publicity agency. After the war he had great
success as a producer both on Broadway and in Hollywood. The boisterous musical comedy
about labor relations in a pajama factory, written by Bissell and George Abbott with great
songs by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, also established the reputation of choreographer Bob
Fosse. The film version with Doris Day, much of the original Broadway cast, and Fosse’s
innovative screen choreography, is equally enjoyable and was also produced by Brisson.
[BTC#43869]
(Boxing Fiction). COE, Charles
Francis. Knockout. New York: Lippincott (1936).
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First edition. Tidemark on the top of the front board affecting
parts of the last three letters in the title else a fine, tight copy
in a fine, bright and attractive James C. McKell-illustrated
dustwrapper. The story of Flash Phibin, who goes from circus
strongman to become “The Yankee Yahoo,” heavyweight
champion of the world, told in the hard-bitten language Coe
employed in his gangster and mystery novels. [BTC#32556]
28
BROMFIELD, Louis. Tabloid News.
New York: Random House 1930. First edition. A trifle dusty,
still just about fine in stiff, unprinted wrappers as issued. One of 875 copies. Inscribed by the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author at Malabar Farm at a later date. Scarce. [BTC#36777]
BROWN, Rita Mae. A Plain Brown
Rapper. Oakland: Diana Press (1976). First edition.
29
Perfectbound wrappers as issued. Illustrated by Sue Sellars. Small
sticker shadow on the front wrap, else very near fine. An early
collection of feminist and lesbian essays. [BTC#21204]
30
BUCHANAN, Robert. The Land Lorne.
New York: Francis B. Felt 1871. First American edition. Owner’s
name, sunned spine else very good. [BTC#45433]
BURNS, Robert with
illustrations by W. Russell
FLINT and R. Purves FLINT.
31
Songs and Lyrics of
Robert Burns. London: Philip Lee Warner 1911. First
edition with these illustrations. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint
and R. Purves Flint. Quarto. Small embossed “Specimen Copy”
on several pages, including on a couple of the color plates, label
(possibly from the publisher) mostly removed from the front
pastedown, else a near fine copy of this attractively illustrated
book of poetry. Presumably this “Specimen Copy” was either a
preview copy or a publisher’s file copy. [BTC#38179]
32
George H.W. Bush’s Yale-Freshman Yearbook
(BUSH, George H.W.). [College Yearbook]: The Yale Banner.
New Haven: Yale University 1947. First edition. Quarto. Ownership signature of a Yale
freshman, else fine. Yearbook from former President George Bush’s freshman year. Bush is
pictured in three group shots including the baseball team and the University Budget Drive, a
fundraising organization. [BTC#40452]
(Business). LOEB, Harold. Production
for Use. New York: Basic Books (1936). First edition.
33
Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with light edgewear.
Loeb’s conclusions as the Chairman of the National Survey
of Potential Product Capacity. An important figure in Paris’s
expatriate community. Loeb is also remembered in the
literary world as the model for Jake Barnes’s rival for the
affection of Lady Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises, wherein
his early kindnesses to Hemingway (using his influence with
Horace Liveright to get In Our Time published) was repaid by
being portrayed as Robert Cohn, the cowardly and especially
“Jewish” villain. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC#40024]
34
(Business). —. Full Production Without
War. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1946. First
edition. Spotting on the boards and a small paper remnant
adhered to the base of the spine from the jacket, as well
as a pencil note from a bookseller dated in 1985 giving
the provenance of the book, thus very good in very good
dustwrapper with some small chips and tears at the extremities.
Inscribed by the author: “To Susan Jenkins affectionately
Harold Loeb.” Jenkins was the wife of William Slater Brown,
designer for the Provincetown Theatre, and a close friend of
Eugene O’Neill’s. Loeb’s inscriptions are scarce (see above).
[BTC#40025]
BUTLER, Robert Olen. Sun Dogs. New
York: Horizon (1982). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper
with a touch of rubbing. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Inscribed by the author on
the title page. The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s second novel. [BTC#36549]
35
CABELL, James Branch. Jurgen. New York: McBride 1919. First
edition, first issue. Bottom corner of the front board bumped and the gilt spine lettering
a little dulled, very good, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A nice copy of this classic satiric
fantasy. Declared obscene by the New York Society for the Prevention of Vice, display and
sale of the book was banned for two years, ensuring its immortality in publishing history (as
well as serving to make copies of the first issue difficult to find). [BTC#36945]
36
—. Taboo. New York: McBride 1921. First edition. Fine in near fine example of the
fragile and very uncommon dustwrapper with light wear at the top edge of the front wrapper
and couple of tiny tears. Copy 151 of 920 numbered copies. [BTC#35353]
37
—. Something About Eve. New York: McBride 1927. First edition. Quarto.
Half Japanese vellum and papercovered boards. Light soiling, very near fine in lightly worn,
very good plus cardboard slipcase. Copy 618 of 850 numbered copies Signed by the author.
An attractive volume. [BTC#36993]
38
CALDWELL, Erskine.
Inscribed Photograph. [Circa 1960].
39
Black and white photograph matted, image size
about 7” x 9”. Photograph is fine, mat is torn at
one edge. Formal portrait of the author behind
his desk, and nicely Inscribed by the author
to New American Library publisher Victor
Weybright. With back mark of photographer
Harry Redl of Haight Street in San Francisco. A
handsome portrait. [BTC#10425]
(Cartoons). DEAN, Abner.
Come As You Are. New York: Simon
40
& Schuster 1952. First edition. Quarto. Small
name inked over on the front fly, edges of the
boards a little faded, a very good plus copy in
very good dustwrapper with modest chips at the
extremities. Inscribed by the author: “To Anne
– with good wishes – Abner Dean.” A book of
cartoons about people at parties and the way they behave (or not) at them. [BTC#43470]
41
CARVER, Raymond. Two Poems.
(Concord: Ewert 1986). First edition. Fine in saddle-stitched
wrappers. One of 160 Signed copies, this copy hors commerce.
[BTC#10760]
(—). CALLIS, Jo
Ann. Jo Ann Callis:
42
Objects of Reverie. Des
Moines: Black Sparrow 1989.
First edition, hardcover
issue. Very fine in very fine
dustwrapper. A pristine copy of
the hardcover issue of this exhibition
catalogue. Copy 25 of 150 numbered
copies Signed by the photographer.
Poems by Raymond Carver and an
essay by Buzz Spector. Shown without
dustwrapper. [BTC#16144]
CATHER, Willa. Not Under Forty. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf 1936. First edition. Very slightly rubbed, near fine
lacking the dustwrapper. Copy 118 of 333 numbered copies Signed by
the author. [BTC#6235]
43
CHARYN, Jerome. Once Upon a
Droshky. New York: McGraw-Hill (1964). First edition.
44
Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear, a little very
light rubbing, and a tiny stain on the rear panel. Author’s
first book, a novel about a retired Yiddish actor evicted
from his tenement in New York. Full-page pre-publication
author’s Inscription, apparently to a journalist setting up an
interview after the official publication date. A very nice copy.
[BTC#33876]
45
CHAYEFSKY, Paddy. The Tenth Man.
New York: Random House (1960). First edition. A little
scattered foxing on the foredge and a couple of pages, else
about fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed
by the playwright: “May / 60 Dear Coby: May you be deeply identified with the next one
– Paddy.” [BTC#15208]
CHEEVER, John. The Way Some
People Live. New York: Random House (1943). First
46
edition. Just a touch of tanning on the spine ends, still fine in
a good plus dustwrapper with a chip at the crown (about 1” at
its deepest point), and a long horizontal tear on the rear panel.
Author’s very uncommon first book, a collection of short
fiction that he never allowed to be reprinted. Only three of
the stories have ever been subsequently printed, in an obscure
paperback published in the 1960s. [BTC#36673]
Inscribed to Cheever’s Son-in-Law
—. The Leaves, the Lion Fish, and the
Bear. Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos 1980. First edition.
47
Cloth and papercovered boards with paper spine label. Bottom corners a little bumped and
some slight soiling, a nice, just about fine copy. One of 330 numbered copies Signed by
the author, this copy marked “Presentation Copy” in type and Inscribed by Cheever to Tad
Tomkins, his son-in-law (daughter Susan Cheever’s second husband). [BTC#26623]
(CHRISTY, Howard Chandler) RILEY, James Whitcomb.
An Old Sweetheart of Mine. Indianapolis:
48
Bobbs-Merrill 1902. First edition thus, with illustrations by
Howard Chandler Christy and designed by Virginia Keep.
Contemporary gift inscription on the half-title, still a lovely,
fine copy in fine, Christy-illustrated dustwrapper with one
short tear, in publisher issued, Christy-illustrated gift box (not
shown), which is attractive and presentable, but which has
been reinforced along the outer edges. Someone, presumably
the original purchaser, has elaborately tied a ribbon around the
front board, completely and easily removable, but which has
done no harm, so we have left it as found. A beautiful copy.
[BTC#40435]
CLAYTON, Geoffrey. What Price
Gloria! New York: Kinsey 1936. First American edition.
49
Negligible foxing on the spine else fine in fine dustwrapper.
Advance Review Copy with slip tipped to the front fly. Snappy
Jazz Age novel in imitation of the Wodehouse manner: young
English milord’s only interest is to write a whizz-bang popular
song until his heart is captured by an elusive American floozy,
the eponymous Gloria. Scarce and attractive. [BTC#35370]
COHAN, George M. and Edward
MARSHALL. Broadway Jones. New York:
50
Dillingham (1913). First edition. Rear fly seems to have been
neatly sanded, perhaps to remove traces of a previously affixed
clipping but is only noticeable with effort, else fine in a lightly soiled, about fine dustwrapper
illustrated with photos from the play, and which is about 3/16” shorter than the book.
Novelized by Marshall from Cohan’s hit play. The jacket is a lovely and remarkable survivor.
[BTC#14870]
COLETTE. Mitsou. New York: Albert & Charles
Boni 1930. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper
with a couple of tiny nicks at the corners and a closed tear on
the rear panel. An attractive copy of this play about a Parisian
dancing girl and the dashing young lieutenant she falls in
love with, particularly scarce in jacket. Basis for the 1956 film
directed by Jacqueline Audrey. A beautiful copy. [BTC#40265]
51
— and Willy. Claudine at School. New
York: Albert and Charles Boni 1930. First American edition.
A fine copy with topstain brilliant in a lovely, fine dustwrapper
with just a touch of age-toning. An incomparable copy. Colette’s
first book, originally published in Paris in 1900. Basis for the
1937 Serge de Poligny film Claudine à l’école. [BTC#40264]
52
CONRAD, Jessie. (CONRAD, Joseph). A
Handbook of Cookery. London: Heinemann (1923).
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First edition. Preface by Joseph Conrad. Fine in near fine
dustwrapper with just a touch of darkening to the spine and a very
slight bit of rubbing. A cookbook by the wife of the noted novelist,
uncommon condition. [BTC#11435]
COWARD, Noël. Future Indefinite. New York:
Doubleday 1954. First edition. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper.
A photographic Christmas card Signed by Coward to Hope Scott
taped in. [BTC#45901]
54
(DARLING, William Young). Hades!
The Ladies! Being Extracts from the Diary of a
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Draper Charles Cavers, Esquire Late of Bond Street
London, West. London: Gurney and Jackson (1933).
First edition. Corners slightly bumped and offsetting to the
endpapers from the flaps, near fine in attractive, near fine
dustwrapper with some modest toning to the extremities and
the spine. Witty little essays and digressions by the author of
The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller, a volume we should
have read before we got into the trade. [BTC#43395]
DEMPSEY, David. Flood. New York:
Ballantine (1956). First edition. By very discreet evidence an
ex-library copy with a small inventory number stamped on the
dedication page, and some very faint signs of a pocket removed on the rear pastedown. Pages
browned, a faint tide mark along the edge of the spine on the front board, very good in very
good, spine-faded dustwrapper lightly chipped at the crown. True story of a flood on the East
Coast, apparently rushed into print. An uncommon Ballantine hardcover. [BTC#40364]
56
DOOLITTLE, Hilda writing as H.D. Palimpsest. (Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin 1926). First American edition (one of 700 copies bound from the French
sheets). Bottom edges of the boards rubbed, else very good in a near fine dustwrapper
with slight loss at the crown, affecting the title, and a small chip on the rear panel. A very
attractive copy of the author’s first novel. [BTC#23355]
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DREISER, Theodore. Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories. New
York: Boni & Liveright 1927. First edition. Just about fine in attractive, very good or a
little better dustwrapper with some tanning on the spine, a number of very shallow nicks
at the crown and one tiny nick at the top of the front panel. A nice copy of this collection
of novellas and stories, including “The Prince Who Was a Thief,” an Arabian Nights-style
story which became one of Tony Curtis’s first starring roles (as a Bronx-accented caliph).
[BTC#43072]
58
First book
59 DUNCAN, Robert. Heavenly City,
Earthly City. (Berkeley: Bern Porter) 1947. First edition.
Attractive, stamped name on the front pastedown and a touch
of wear to the fragile papercovered boards else near fine in a
very good plus dustwrapper with a couple of small chips on
the thin spine. The uncommon first book by one of the most
important poets of his era. Of a total edition of 350 copies this
is one of 250 copies in white boards (the additional 100 were in
green boards and were signed). [BTC#1194]
—. another copy. (Berkeley: Bern Porter) 1947.
First edition. Corners slightly worn, tanning to the extremities
of the fragile papercovered boards, a nice, very good copy
lacking the dustwrapper. Very uncommon first book by one of the important poets of his era.
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Of a total edition of 350 copies this is one of 250 copies in white boards (the additional 100
were in green boards and were signed). [BTC#47465]
DUNSANY, Lord. Rory and Bran. New
York: Putnam (1937). First American edition. Fine in fine,
very slightly soiled dustwrapper. Novel of a half-witted boy
driving his father’s cattle to market with his friend Bran,
who [spoiler alert] is revealed to be a dog in the final chapter.
A book-length joke by the author that is spoiled by this
American edition’s dustwrapper. Nevertheless a lovely copy.
[BTC#39215]
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EDGERTON, Clyde. Raney. Chapel
Hill: Algonquin 1985. First edition. Fine in very near
fine dustwrapper with a couple of small rubbed spots at
the extremities. Author’s scarce and desirable first book.
[BTC#45798]
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EDMONDS, Walter D. Chad Hanna.
Boston: Little Brown 1940. First edition. Fine in fine
dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. A lovely copy of this
novel set around the Erie Canal during its construction. Basis
for the Henry King film featuring Henry Fonda, Dorothy
Lamour, and Linda Darnell. [BTC#33205]
ELIOT, T.S. The Use of Poetry. Cambridge:
Harvard 1933. First American edition. Old, small bookstore
label and a little offsetting from the jacket design on the
endpapers, near fine in very good plus, price-clipped
dustwrapper that is tanned at the spine and extremities, but
has no appreciable chips or tears. A nice copy of this series of
lectures delivered by Eliot at Harvard. [BTC#29962]
64
ENGLANDER, Nathan. For the Relief of
Unbearable Urges. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1999.
65
Uncorrected proof. Publicity material stapled to inside of front
wrapper else near fine in wrappers. [BTC#48126]
FABIAN, Warner (pseudonym of Samuel
Hopkins ADAMS). Sailors’ Wives. New York: Boni
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& Liveright (1924). First edition. Bottom corners a little bumped
else near fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with a
few small nicks and tears and a small, light stain at the top of the
rear panel. Jacket art by A.N. Simokin. A Jazz Age novel in which
the heroine, with her doom impending, decides to live out her
life in a frenzy of revelry and hectic pleasures. Basis for the 1928 silent film featuring Mary
Astor and directed by D.W. Griffith-protégé Joseph Henabery. [BTC#37217]
FALSTEIN, Louis. Face of a Hero. New York: Harcourt Brace &
Company (1950). First American edition. Boards a little soiled and very slight fraying at the
crown, else near fine in very good plus dustwrapper with slight loss at the spinal extremities
and some faint staining on the front panel, pretty much indistinguishable from the jacket
design. A World War II novel by a Ukrainian-born American that received renewed attention
when some scholars contended that the plot elements in this book were suspiciously similar
to those that were later to appear in Catch-22. [BTC#31090]
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FAULKNER, William. This Earth: A
Poem. New York: Equinox 1932. First edition. Drawings by
Albert Heckman. Fine in string-tied wrappers as issued, in the
original envelope, which is very good with one flap detached but
present. [BTC#8126]
—. The Marble Faun and A Green Bough.
New York: Random House (1965). First collected edition,
reprinting the text of Faulkner’s only two volumes of poetry in
facsimile. Fine in a price-clipped, fine dustwrapper. This is the
first reprinting of The Marble Faun, Faulkner’s rare first book.
[BTC#39754]
69
FINEMAN, Irving. This Pure Young
Man. New York: Longmans, Green & Company 1930. First edition. Fine in price-clipped,
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very good plus, Arthur Hawkins-designed dustwrapper with slight loss at the crown and
a little rubbing and with the publisher’s sticker “$7500 Prize Novel” on the front panel.
Novel set among New York City society and centered on an earnest young architect and his
obsession with the New York City skyline. Author’s first novel. [BTC#38884]
FISHER, Steve. Take All You Can Get. New York: Random
House (1955). First edition. Remainder mark on the bottom edge else fine in near fine
dustwrapper with light wear to the spinal extremities, some barely noticeable scratches,
and a crease on the rear panel. “A tough, racy story about a used-car salesman and his girl.”
Hardboiled non-mystery. [BTC#17421]
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FLANNER, Janet. The Cubical City.
New York: Putnam’s 1926. First edition. Contemporary owner’s
signature else fine in a nice but flawed example of the rare
dustwrapper, with a large chip on the rear panel (affecting no
art but parts of two letters on the edge of the spine). Flanner’s
scarce and desirable first book, jacketed copies are scarce.
[BTC#46569]
73
Inscribed to James Thurber
—. Pétain: The Old Man of France. New York:
Simon and Schuster 1944. First edition. Quarto. Stapled
wrappers. Very faint dampstain to the tops of the front and rear
wrapper and a very faint horizontal crease on the right side of
the front wrap, still a nice, very good plus copy of an extremely
scarce book. Flanner’s view of Marshall Pétain, WWI hero turned figurehead for the Nazi-
controlled Vichy government in WWII. This copy Inscribed by the author to New Yorker
colleague James Thurber and his wife: “To the Thurbers, and the South of France, and their
Cook. Janet.” A superb association. [BTC#41058]
FLAUBERT, Gustave. Salambo [also
known as Salammbo]. London: Vizetelly & Co. 1886. First
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English edition (another English translation was published by
Saxon in the same year). Translated by J.S. Chartres. Bookplate on
the front pastedown, foxing to the first few pages, some moderate
rubbing and soiling to the boards, a solid, very good copy with
the gilt lettering clear and readable. The first translation into
English of this exotic novel of ancient Carthage that belongs in
the second rank of the author’s work behind Madame Bovary.
[BTC#28238]
—. Bouvard and
Pécuchet. London: H.S. Nichols
75
1896. First English edition, and first
edition in English. Moderate wear to the extremities, a handsome
very good plus copy. Flaubert’s last work, about two men who are
suddenly freed from their daily jobs and become amateur scientists,
with several poorly planned experiments ensuing. Filmed in France
in 1989. Connolly 100. [BTC#45386]
FLAVIN, Martin. Amaco. New York: Samuel
French 1933. First edition. Owner’s name on the front fly, light
foxing to the endpapers, else near fine in near fine, slightly tanned
dustwrapper with a few small chips to the ends of the spine and
corners of the panels. [BTC#44398]
76
FLOYD, Andress. My Monks of
Vagabondia. Union, NJ: Self Master Press Union (1913).
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First edition. Considerable rubbing to the painted lettering on
the spine and front board, as well as some scattered light foxing,
else a near fine copy of this attractively printed book. Floyd was
a self-styled utopian, who envisioned a world of simple clean
homes for the homeless vagabonds who apparently made up the
itinerant work force of his printing press. [BTC#37086]
78
FORD, Ford Madox. Great Trade Route.
New York: Oxford 1937. First American edition. Fine in a fresh,
near fine dustwrapper but for a modest chip at the corner of the rear panel where it meets the
foot of the spine. A “book of mental travel” including an excursion into the American South.
[BTC#33209]
—. Buckshee. Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press
(1966). First edition, a collection of previously published
poems with new introductions by Robert Lowell and Kenneth
Rexroth. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a touch
of wear along the top edge. One of 50 numbered copies
Signed by Lowell, Rexroth, and the book’s designer, Janice
Biala. This copy unnumbered, designated in ink: “Publisher’s
Copy – Out of Series” and has publisher James Randall’s
ownership Signature on the front fly. A selection of poems
from late in Ford’s life, long out of print and considered
among his best. [BTC#37687]
79
FORD, Richard. [Screenplay]: Bright
Angel. No place: no publisher 1988. First edition thus.
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Photocopied sheets in unprinted, bradbound wrappers. Signed
by Ford on the title page. The author’s only produced screenplay, basis for the 1991 film
directed by Michael Fields and featuring Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard, Valerie
Perrine, Burt Young, Bill Pullman, Mary Kay Place, Benjamin Bratt, and Delroy Lindo.
[BTC#40471]
FORESTER, C.S. Josephine: Napoleon’s Empress. London:
Methuen 1925. First edition. Heavy foxing throughout, spine and edges of boards faded, else
very good without dustwrapper. [BTC#37492]
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FOWLES, John. Introduction: Remembering Cruikshank.
Princeton: Princeton University Library Chronicle [1974]. First separate edition, printed as
an extract from The Princeton University Library Chronicle – Volume XXXV, Number 1 & 2.
Stapled wrappers. One of approximately 50 copies of an offprint prepared for the author’s
use from the Princeton University Library Chronicle consisting of four pages stapled into
brick colored wrappers. Signed by the author. Very scarce. [BTC#17926]
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FROST, Robert.
Inscribed Photograph.
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Approximately 8” x 10” black and white
photograph of Frost posed formally in
front of an oil portrait of himself. Fine.
Inscribed by Frost to his assistant while he
was Consultant in Poetry for the Library
of Congress: “Robert Frost to Phyllis
Armstrong.” Phyllis Armstrong was the
Assistant in Poetry at the Library of
Congress where she bullied, cajoled, and
served the various poets who served as
Poetry Consultant (later changed to Poet
Laureate) for 24 years. She was appointed by Karl Shapiro in 1946 who said in retrospect
that she handled, “one difficult poet after another, for which she deserved the Congressional
Medal of Honor.” A tall, chain-smoking, Canadian poet, she reminded Randall Jarrell of
T.S. Eliot. She was inextricably bound-up with the history of that office. When questioned
about his tenure, Howard Nemerov said: “I had no problems. I just did what Phyllis told me
to do.”A nice, large inscribed photo of one of America’s most beloved poets. [BTC#47548]
FUENTES, Carlos. Terra Nostra. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
(1976). First American edition. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Fine in very good
dustwrapper with some rubbing and light wear to the spinal extremities and edges of the panels.
Inscribed by Fuentes to African-American author Barry Beckham. [BTC#37722]
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FUJITA, Jun. Tanka: Poems in Exile. Chicago: Covici-McGee Co. 1923.
First edition. Tiny remnants of a removed bookplate else fine in spine-faded dustwrapper
with modest loss at the spinal extremities and some fading on the edge of the front panel.
Printed by Will Ransom. Nicely Inscribed by the author to one of the publishers of the
book, William McGee. [BTC#48891]
85
GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. El
Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba [No
One Writes To The Colonel]. Medellin: Aguirre
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Editor (1961). First edition. Text in Spanish. A faint stain
along the spine, page edges browned, still a very good copy
of this fragile little rarity, the author’s second book, a novella
which was the title story of his first book published in the U.S.
A clean and fresh copy of the Columbian Nobel Prize-winner’s
second book. Basis for a 1999 film starring Salma Hayek.
[BTC#10481]
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—. Operacion Carlota: Cuba Participa En
La Victoria De Angola. (Madrid: Trifuno) [circa 1976].
First edition. Text in Spanish. Yellow stapled wrappers (blue and white variants exist, no
priority). [28]pp. Fine. Cheaply produced offprint from a magazine article. Also prints a
poem by Pablo Neruda on the Angolan struggle. [BTC#25045]
GARDNER, John. The Wreckage of
Agathon. New York: Harper (1970). First edition. Fine in
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fine dustwrapper. Author’s second novel. [BTC#24581]
— and Lennis Dunlap. The Forms of
Fiction. New York: Random House (1962). First edition.
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Spine slightly faded else fine in fragile papercovered boards
lacking the dustwrapper. Gardner’s first book, a co-authored
English textbook, issued four years before his first novel, The
Resurrection. [BTC#32558]
GASS, William. On Being Blue: A
Philosophical Inquiry. Boston: Godine (1975). First
edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and slipcase. Copy 115 of 225
numbered copies of the deluxe edition Signed by the author. An
attractively printed book. [BTC#25704]
90
GENET, Jean. The Balcony. New York: Grove
Press 1958. First American trade edition. Fine in very good
plus, price-clipped dustwrapper with some short tears and slight
soiling. A nice copy of this major expressionist play. Because of
the simultaneous paperback issue, the hardcover is uncommon.
[BTC#37603]
91
GERSHE,
Leonard. Butterflies
Are Free. New York:
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Random House 1969. First
edition. Small smudge on
the front fly else fine in fine
dustwrapper. Inscribed by the
author, presumably to his brother: “Feb. 1971. For Harold
– My ‘inspiration’ and for Kit – my ‘inspiration-in-law.’
With love, Leonard.” Basis for the 1972 Milton Katselas film
featuring Edward Albert, Goldie Hawn, and Eileen Heckart,
who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role. A very
nice association copy. [BTC#44614]
GIELGUD, Val. White Eagles. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin 1929. First American edition. A little flaking to the cloth, else fine in a
beautiful, Harold Brett-designed dustwrapper with a very faint dampstain at the top of the
spine. A lovely copy of this espionage thriller set during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia.
One of this prolific author’s earliest books. [BTC#33563]
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The Dedication Copy
GLASGOW, Ellen. The Voice of the People. New York: Doubleday,
Page 1902. First edition thus, illustrated with photographs
by Henry Trosh (originally published without illustrations in
1900). Title page foxed, modest wear at the extremities, a very
good plus copy. The author’s third book, and the first to be
published under her own name. This is the DEDICATION
COPY Inscribed to her younger sister and closest friend:
“Rebe Gordon Glasgow from Ellen Glasgow.” The printed
dedication is: “To Rebe Gordon Glasgow.” Ellen Glasgow was
the ninth and Rebe the tenth and last of the Glasgow children.
Along with their slightly older brother Frank, the three siblings
formed an extraordinarily strong unit, bonding together
against the general unhappiness in their household, especially
their mother’s madness. Rebe read and critiqued Ellen’s earliest
work, and was almost certainly the unmarried Ellen’s closest
friend throughout her life. [BTC#46527]
GODWIN, Gail. The Perfectionists. New York: Harper (1970). First
edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A nice copy of this North Carolina author’s first book.
[BTC#12055]
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GOLDMAN, William. Tinsel. New York:
Delacorte (1979). First edition. Fine in very good plus
dustwrapper with a tear along the top edge of the front flap.
Signed by the author. Novel of Hollywood by one of the top
screenwriters. Despite his relatively high public profile, books
signed by Goldman are uncommon. [BTC#17397]
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GORDON,
Caroline. Aleck
Maury Sportsman.
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New York: Scribners 1934.
First edition, first issue.
Contemporary gift inscription,
usual fading to the green cloth,
very good or a little better in very good dustwrapper with
some modest chipping at the extremities, an archival, internal
tape repair, and some internal shadows from older tape repairs.
The author’s most celebrated book, about a Southerner who is
both a scholar and a sportsman, based on the life of her father.
[BTC#45245]
—. The Malefactors. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1956). First edition.
Boards slightly soiled else near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author from
her Princeton home: “For my dear Sally and Sam, from a faithful adherent, who recalls, on
this day, many happy hours spent under the Prince’s aegis, With much love, Caroline. The
Red House, April 18, 1961.” [BTC#22702]
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GOYEN, William. The House of Breath. New York: Random House
(1950). First edition. Boards a trifle worn and a slight bump to the foot, near fine in a very
good or somewhat better dustwrapper with a ¼” chip at the foot of the spine and some light
soiling to the rear panel. Texas author’s cheaply produced first book, one of A.C. Greene’s
“Fifty Best Books on Texas.” Blurbs by Christopher Isherwood, Stephen Spender, and
Elizabeth Bowen. [BTC#30769]
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—. Ghost and Flesh: Stories and Tales. New
York: Random House 1952. First edition. Light offsetting to
the front endpaper, boards lightly worn, else near fine in near
fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with some tanning to the spine
and light rubbing and wear to the extremities. Inscribed by the
author to his bibliographer. [BTC#38065]
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GREENE, Graham. The Name of
Action. London: Heinemann (1930). First edition.
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Bookplate else very good with one corner and the edges of
several pages bumped, lacking the dustwrapper. [BTC#39896]
GREY, Romer. The Cruise of the
“Fisherman”: Adventures in South Seas. New
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York: Harper & Brothers 1929. Reprint. Illustrated from
photographs. Boards a bit scuffed from insect damage, and the
first two leaves have a few small insect holes, a sound, good
only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Romer Grey:
“To Cecil – an old friend with my best regards. Romer Grey.
Glendale, Calif. May – 1930.” Grey has also made a small ink
correction in the text. Grey was the sportsman son of novelist
and fisherman Zane Grey. His books have always been eagerly
sought after by collectors of sporting books, and for the most
part are often more difficult to find than those of his father.
[BTC#49775]
GRIFFIN, John H. The Devil Rides
Outside. Ft. Worth TX: Smiths, Inc 1952. First edition. Bookplate front panel else
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fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a horizontal wrinkle near the top edge and a little
rubbing. Signed by the author. Author’s imaginative first novel, produced by an obscure press.
[BTC#15173]
104 HAGGARD,
H. Rider. A History of the
Transvaal. New York: New Amsterdam Book Company
1900. First American edition. Very small, light stain on the
spine else a fine copy. An updated and re-titled revision of
Haggard’s first book, Cetywayo and His White Neighbors
augmented to encompasses changes that were the result of the
Boer War. Scarce. [BTC#25546]
HARDING, John W. The Time, The
Place and The Girl.
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New York: G.W. Dillingham
(1908). First edition. Cover
and illustrations by Gordon
Grant. Fine in very good plus
dustwrapper that is 3/8” shorter than the book. A novel, from
the play of the same name by Will M. Hough and Frank R.
Adams. Basis for the 1929 Howard Bretherton-directed film
featuring Grant Withers as a former football star duped into
being the fall-guy on a bond scandal, and Betty Compson as
the ignored love who saves him. The film was released with
both silent and sound versions, the latter a pleasant musical
employing Vitaphone’s sound-on-disc system. Very scarce,
especially in jacket. OCLC lists only six copies. [BTC#54981]
HARDY, Thomas. Wessex Poems and Other Verses. New York:
Harpers 1899. First edition. Faint stain at the bottom corner of the front board and a little
darkening to the spine, an attractive, very good copy. Hardy’s first volume of poetry, a form
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he turned to after the unsatisfactory reception of his novels, and a pursuit which he always
regarded as far more important than his fiction. Though today’s readers know him mostly for
his great tragedies, Hardy was considered the equal of Yeats as the great poet of the turn of
the century. [BTC#33874]
Signed by Joel Chandler Harris – three times
107 (HARRIS, Joel Chandler).
WEEDEN, Howard. Bandanna Ballads.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Company 1899.
First edition. Introduction by Joel Chandler Harris.
Attractive, contemporary engraved bookplate on the
front pastedown, another older name on the front fly, else
just about fine. Dialect poems, purportedly by a black
man but actually by a white Alabama woman. This copy
Signed by Joel Chandler Harris on the second blank leaf:
“Faithfully yours: Joel Chandler Harris, Atlanta, Ga. 6
September 1900.” Additionally Signed in full on the title
page, where he has crossed out his printed name, and
Signed once again at the end of his introduction. A very
nice copy, signed thrice by the author of the granddaddy
of all dialect tales, Uncle Remus. [BTC#49781]
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HART, Moss. Christopher Blake. New York: Random House (1947).
First edition. Damage to the boards from dampstaining, thus
fair but internally fine, in a lovely, fine dustwrapper with a
small, light ink mark on the front panel. Advance Review
Copy with slip laid in. Wonderfully Inscribed by the author:
“For Donald – A very integral part of this play – with my
deep thanks and gratitude. Moss Hart. New Hope, 1947.”
While it seems logical that this jacket was married to the book
(as there is no evidence of dampstaining to the jacket), our
instinct is otherwise as the book was in a private collection for
a considerable period of time, probably before jacket polygamy
became common, and it just feels like it belongs. Perhaps the
(so far unidentified) Donald removed the jacket at some point,
and replaced it after he had inadvertently damaged the book.
Basis for the Peter Godfrey film The Decision of Christopher
Blake featuring Alexis Smith and Robert Douglas as the divorcing parents of the title character.
[BTC#40419]
HAUPTMANN, Gerhart. Phantom. London: Secker (1923). First
English edition (preceded by the German and American editions, both published in 1922).
A little foxing to the endpapers else fine in lightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper with a couple
tiny nicks. The German Nobel laureate’s second novel for adults. It was made into a longconsidered “lost,” but now found, film adapted by Theo Von Harbou (of Metropolis fame)
and directed by F.W. Murnau (in the same year he directed Nosferatu). A very nice copy.
[BTC#36177]
109
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take
Nothing. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1933. First
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edition. Fine, with the gold spine label bright, in a near fine
dustwrapper with some light nicking at the extremities and
a little rubbing. A considerably nicer than usual copy of this
collection of stories, including “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.”
[BTC#49617]
HENRY, O. (pseudonym of William
Sydney PORTER). Postscripts. New York: Harpers
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(1923). First edition. A bit of darkening in the joints else a
fine, fresh copy in a very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with
a number of shallow chips and internally repaired tears at the
extremities but which is nevertheless fresh and attractive. A
posthumous collection of stories previously unpublished in book form. O. Henry was the
acknowledged master of the short story form, especially in the decades after his death in 1910.
[BTC#22303]
HICHENS, Robert. The Unearthly. New
York: Cosmopolitan 1926. First edition. Fine in lightly rubbed,
very good plus dustwrapper with a few short tears. Attractive
jacket illustration signed “T.N.” Published in England as The
God Within Him, a novel of the wasters of Mayfair. A brilliant
young woman flits from London society to the Riviera to the
Alps encountering a mysterious young foreigner. [BTC#38880]
112
HILLGARTH, Alan. The Black
Mountain. New York:
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Alfred A. Knopf 1934.
First American edition.
Contemporary gift inscription,
top edge of the rear board slightly abraded and a little light
soiling to the extremities of the binding, still near fine in
price-clipped, very good plus dustwrapper with some tears
along the upper extremities, mostly on the rear panel. Young
Indian boy is educated by a wise and mysterious native priest
who sends him on the mission of reinstating the oppressed
Indian races in Bolivia. Visionary elements in the plot, as well
as some similarities to the “lost race” genre. Excellent jacket
art by Nina Miller Davidson. [BTC#28211]
HILTON, James. Ill Wind. New York:
Morrow 1932. First American edition, published in England as Contango. Very slight
spotting and a couple of pinholes in the front joint else a near fine copy in attractive, about
fine, Gene-illustrated dustwrapper. Hilton’s second novel published in the U.S. [BTC#173]
114
HORGAN, Paul. Great River: The Rio Grande in North American
History. New York: Rinehart & Company 1954. Reprint. Two volumes. Near fine lacking
the original slipcase. Very nicely Inscribed in both volumes by Horgan to scholar and author
Leon Edel. [BTC#48893]
115
HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey. The Third
Hour. Boston: Little, Brown 1938. First American edition.
116
Fine in an about very good dustwrapper. An attractive jacket
but for a rather large chip on the rear panel. Author’s first
book, a novel of adventure. [BTC#12395]
HURST, Fannie.
Star-Dust: The Story of
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an American Girl. New York:
Harper (1921). First edition. A
little light wear to the extremities
of the spine else fine in near fine
dustwrapper lightly soiled on its white spine and with a small
chip at the corner where the spine meets the top of the front
panel. A lovely example of the pictorial jacket. The author’s first
novel, preceded by a few volumes of stories and a play. Very
scarce. [BTC#14880]
118 —. A President Is Born. New York: Harper &
Brothers 1928. First edition. Neat owner’s name else fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy
of this novel, set in Ohio, about a young man’s political destiny. [BTC#37231]
—. Five and Ten. New York: Harper & Brothers 1929. First edition. Tiny tear at
the crown, slight rubbing to the crown and corners, a very good or better copy lacking the
dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to her then current lover: “To Stef, Best of friends and
proofreaders. Fannie.” [BTC#46749]
119
—. Great Laughter. New York: Harper &
Brothers 1936. First edition. Very slight wear, easily fine in
an attractive, very good or a little better dustwrapper with
shallow chipping at the crown. A novel set in the Chelsea
section of New York City, about the 100-year-old matriarch
of a large and fading family conspiring to regain the family
fortune before she shuffles off this mortal coil. This copy
Inscribed by the author on the dedication page to her lover at
that time (inside her drawing of the Rock of Gibraltar): “To
Stef, whose friendship is my Gibraltar. Fannie.” The printed
dedication: “What large laughter among the immortals…”
is perhaps intentionally cryptic and it is at least arguable that
this could be a dedication copy. Hurst’s delicacy in preserving
the proprieties of her marriage-in-name-only to pianist
Jacques S. Danielson (they lived apart and were seldom in contact) might have prevented her
from dedicating a major novel to her lover. [BTC#46530]
120
—. Also see item 263
HUXLEY, Aldous. After Many a Summer. London: Chatto
& Windus 1939. Uncorrected proof. Two modest chips on the rear panel, near fine in
unprinted wrappers. With the author’s Signature tipped to the first blank. Scarce format for
this Burgess 99 title. [BTC#23468]
121
122
IRWIN, Godfrey. American Tramp and Underground Slang:
Words and Phrases Used by Hoboes, Tramps, Migratory Workers and Those
on the Fringes… New York: Sears Publishing [circa 1930]. First American edition, from
British sheets. 264pp. With an essay on American slang in its relation to English thieves’ slang
by Eric Partridge. A little rubbed at the extremities, a tear to the edge of two pages in the text
and the spine lettering a bit dull, still a very good copy lacking the presumed dustwrapper.
Interesting etymological study of the common idiom which developed among tramps.
[BTC#37106]
IRWIN, Wallace. The Love Sonnets
of a Hoodlum. San Francisco: Elder and Shepard 1902.
123
First edition. Introduction by Gelett Burgess. Stiff fabric with
paper label. A couple of small, faint splash marks to the label,
still just about fine. Inscribed by the author to the publisher
of the Grafton Press: “From a Grafter to the Grafton Press
or to Mr. Hitchcock with the best regards of Wallace Irwin.”
[BTC#54345]
124 JACKSON,
Shirley.
Hangsaman. London:
Gollancz 1951. First English edition. Modest rubbed spot on the
front board, some bumps to the edges of the boards, a very good
plus copy in very good plus dustwrapper with some slight tanning
to the spine, a small internal repair and a little offsetting at the
edge of the front panel. Inscribed by the author: “For Polly, with
warmest affection. Shirley.” Author’s third book, and second novel,
and her first novel to deal with the darker regions of human nature
and personality. Jackson only lived to age 49, and books inscribed
by her are notably uncommon.
[BTC#27396]
125
—. Raising Demons.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1957). First edition. A
couple of tiny spots on the bottom edge, still fine in an especially
fine and crisp dustwrapper. The second volume of the author’s
domestic reminiscences, preceded by Life Among the Savages,
virtually never found in this condition. [BTC#14778]
JAMES, Henry, edited by. The Letters
of William James. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press
126
(1920). First edition. Two volumes. Offsetting to first two blanks
of volume one, else fine in attractive dustwrappers with some
modest chipping at the extremities and a few internal repairs on the seams. James’s letters edited
by his son. Scarce in jackets. [BTC#40400]
JARRELL, Randall. The Seven-League Crutches. New York:
Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1951). First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with one
short, internally repaired tear and a little soiling. Advance Review Copy with slip tipped-in.
Important collection of poetry. [BTC#964]
127
JEFFERS, Robinson. Thurso’s
Landing and Other Poems. New York: Liveright
128
(1932). First edition. A couple of faint stains on the rear
board else about fine in attractive and bright, very good plus
dustwrapper with two faint, vertical creases, very slight tanning
at the spine and one tiny chip. A nice copy despite a smattering
of small flaws. [BTC#38263]
JONG, Erica. Fear of Flying. New York:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1973). First edition. Advance
Review Copy with slip laid in. Spine and edges of the boards
faded, else near fine in near fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper
with a ¾” chip at the bottom of the rear panel. [BTC#41829]
129
—. Half-Lives. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1973). Uncorrected proof.
Fine in tall wrappers. Author’s second book, a volume of poetry. Laid in is a brief Typed Note
Signed from Jong to “Anatole” (Broyard) sending the proof and soliciting his opinion. A
scarce proof, it is unlikely that many more than those necessary
for in-house editing were produced, with a nice presentation.
[BTC#6319]
130
—. How to Save Your Own Life. New York:
Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1977). Uncorrected proof. Fine in
wrappers. Very warmly Inscribed on the front wrap. Author’s
second novel, a Burgess 99 title. [BTC#6326]
131
KAUFMAN, George S. and Marc
CONNELLY. Beggar
on Horseback. New
132
York: Boni & Liveright (1924).
Second printing. Two pages
in the middle of the text are
darkened where a parody newspaper was tipped-in and is now
partially lacking, as usual with this title, some chipping to
the bottom of the paper spine label, about very good lacking
the dustwrapper. This copy is Inscribed by Connelly to a
Broadway producer: “To Sidley Brown, Who gave me another
automobile. Marc Connelly, Christmas, 1925.” A splendid
association. Basis for the 1925 James Cruze film featuring
Edward Everett Horton, famous for its fantastic, surrealistic
dream sequence, reminiscent of German cinema of the time
but unlike anything else produced in America in that era. [BTC#39712]
KEES, Weldon. Poems 1947-1954. San
Francisco: Adrian Wilson 1954. First edition. Former owner’s
inscription, slightly soiled, a small bookplate on the front
pastedown, some ink underlining assumed to be from the
reviewer, else near fine. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in.
[BTC#34303]
133
(KENT, Rockwell). SHEPHARD,
Esther. Paul Bunyan. New York: Harcourt, Brace
134
and Company (1924). First edition. Illustrated by Rockwell
Kent. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing at the
extremities. Shephard’s retelling of the Northwestern legend
of Paul Bunyan, with Kent illustrations. Scarce in jacket
[BTC#49318]
KOSINSKI, Jerzy. To Hold a Pen. [No
place]: The American Scholar 1973. Stapled wrappers. Folded
vertically down the middle, light offsetting on the rear wrap,
thus very good or a little better. Inscribed by the author: “For
Harold Brodkey, my pen-fellow, admiringly, Jerzy Kosinski.
November 7, 1973.” An uncommon offprint, the text of
an article about the PEN writers society, of which Kosinski
served as President in 1973-4.
[BTC#26104]
135
136 —
writing as
Joseph NOVAK.
The Future Is Ours,
Comrade. Garden City: Doubleday 1960. First edition.
Introduction by Irving R. Levine. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Effusively Inscribed by
the author at a later date as both “Jerzy” and “Joseph Novak.” The
author’s first book, increasingly difficult to find in this condition.
[BTC#10016]
137 (Landscape
Gardening). COPELAND,
R. Morris. Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and
Landscape Gardening. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company 1859. First edition. Thick
octavo. x, 813pp., double-page frontispiece plate (color-tinted lithograph), wood engraved
vignettes, in-text illustrations, and plates. Publisher’s brown ribbon-embossed cloth, gilt spine
title. Front hinge is loose, an about very good copy with some slight mottling to the boards.
Neat ownership signature of journalist, author and polymath Charles Leland: “Charles
Leland, Metropolitan Hotel. July 29/59.” [BTC#47403]
LENT, Jeffrey. In the Fall. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000. First
edition. Fine in slipcase, issued without dustwrapper. Copy 18 of 200 numbered deluxe
editions Signed by the author. Interesting and exceptional novel set during and just after the
Civil War. [BTC#41799]
138
LEVIN, Meyer. Compulsion: A Play. New York: Simon & Schuster
1959. First edition. Pages darkened else fine in lightly worn near fine dustwrapper with some
slight tanning on the spine. The uncommon play version based on Levin’s novel, itself based
on the Leopold and Loeb trial and Clarence Darrow’s defense of the two young murderers.
[BTC#13370]
139
(LEWIS, Wyndham) HANDLEY-READ, C. The Art of
Wyndham Lewis. London: Faber and Faber Limited
140
(1951). First edition. Quarto. Crown slightly sunned else fine
in near fine dustwrapper except for a corresponding chip at the
crown. Attractive copy of the first important monograph on
Lewis’s art. [BTC#27696]
LEYNER, Mark.
I Smell Esther Williams.
141
New York: Fiction Collective
(1983). First edition. Fine in fine
dustwrapper. A lovely copy of the
author’s first book. Scarce in the
hardcover issue. [BTC#47397]
LOCKHART, R.H.
British Agent. New York:
142
Putnam 1933. First American
edition. Introduction by Hugh
Walpole. Fine in near fine, priceclipped dustwrapper with a couple
of small chips and some small internal repairs. Something of a
bestseller, the autobiography of a Scottish diplomat posted to
the Soviet Union, where his knowledge of Russian affairs was
so acute that he was condemned to death by the Bolsheviks.
Basis for the Michael Curtiz film featuring Leslie Howard. A
relatively common title, in much nicer than usual condition.
[BTC#33224]
LONDON, Jack.
The Game. Toronto: Morang & Co. 1905. First
143
Canadian edition, first state. Old bookstore label on the front
pastedown and a small ink number on the title page, else a
fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. London’s boxing novel.
[BTC#17511]
—. Also see item 438
LOOS, Anita. “Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes”: The Illuminating Diary of A
144
Professional Lady. London: Brentano’s 1926. First English
edition. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. Cloth on the front board
a little puckered else near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Basis
for two films, the first a 1928 silent directed by Malcolm
St. Clair and featuring Alice White and Ruth Taylor. White
became an immediate star but retired from the screen shortly
thereafter and gave birth to a son, writer-actor Buck Henry.
Better known today is the 1953 Howard Hawks version with
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. [BTC#40184]
(LOWELL, Robert).
DOUGHTY, C.M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. New York: Random House
145
[circa 1947]. Stated “New and Definitive edition in one volume”
of the classic work, originally published in 1888. A little soiled, a
very good plus copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Robert
Lowell during his term as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of
Congress to his assistant there: “For Phyllis Armstrong From Robert
Lowell, For Holding Together for a year, September 17, 1947
– Sep. 16, 1948.” (See item 83)[BTC#46731]
146 LYTLE,
Andrew. At the Moon’s Inn.
Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill (1941). First edition.
Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with mild wear. An
appealing copy of this novel of Hernando de Soto’s 16th Century expedition through what
are now the Southern states in search of gold. [BTC#48821]
MacDONALD, George. Paul Faber. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1879.
First American edition. Very light rubbing to extremities of the spine else very near fine. A
nice copy of a scarce title. [BTC#12944]
147
MacGRATH, Harold. The Place of
Honeymoons. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1912).
148
First edition. Contemporary pencil owner’s name (“Custer
- Heidelberg Cottage”), fine in very attractive, very good
dustwrapper with embossed gold lettering, with a number of
modest chips. Basis for the 1920 Keanen Buel film The Place
of the Honeymoons with Emily Stevens and Frankie Mann.
Very scarce in jacket. [BTC#40091]
MALONE, Michael. Painting the
Roses Red. New York: Random House (1974).
149
First edition. Remainder mark top edge else fine in fine
dustwrapper with some like staining on the rear panel.
Author’s first book. [BTC#41465]
MANN, Thomas. Nocturnes. New York:
Equinox Cooperative Press 1934. First edition. Lithographs
by Lynd Ward. Faint residue from a bookplate removed from
the corner of the front pastedown, else fine in fine slipcase.
One of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author (of
which 990 copies were for sale). This is copy #5, and likely
was one of the ten copies retained by the publisher. Three
short stories that had not previously appeared in English.
The slipcase is seldom found in reasonable condition.
[BTC#24916]
150
—. Death in Venice. New York: Limited
Editions Club 1972. Folio. Quarter red morocco and marbled
papercovered boards in slipcase. Translated by Kenneth Burke.
Introduction by Erich Heller and illustrated by Felix Hoffman.
Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown and the spine very slightly soiled, still fine.
Copy 1499 of 1500 numbered copies Signed by Hoffman.
[BTC#15518]
151
MASON, Bobbie Ann. Shiloh and Other
Stories. New York: Harper 1982. Uncorrected proof. Near
fine in lightly worn wrappers. Author’s first book of fiction, a
very well-received book of stories. [BTC#36429]
152
MASTERS, Edgar
Lee. Mitch Miller. New
153
York: Macmillan 1920. First
edition. Illustrated by John Sloan.
Fine in very good, Sloan-illustrated
dustwrapper with a small chip on
the front panel and lacking the bottom 1.5” of the spine. Signed
by the author. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC#12664]
—. Kit O’Brien. New York: Boni & Liveright 1927.
First edition. A couple of spots of foxing on the front fly still fine
in fine dustwrapper with very slight
age-toning. A lovely copy of this
novel similar in tone to his previous
book Mitch Miller. [BTC#50663]
154
155 MAUGHAM, Robin. The Servant. New
York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1949). First American edition.
Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. Superb copy of this novella
about a corrupt butler who eventually dominates his dissipated
master, made into an impressive Joseph Losey film featuring Dirk
Bogarde, James Fox, and Sarah Miles. Scarce in this condition.
[BTC#32543]
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Christmas Holiday. New York:
Doubleday 1939. First American edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with some slight
fading to the orange ink on the spine, a very short tear, and some rubbing at the spine. A
crisp copy of this novel which was toned down considerably for the fine film with Deanna
Durbin as a downtrodden nightclub singer and Gene Kelly, cast against type, as her
murdering, convict husband. [BTC#49021]
156
157
McALMON, Robert. A Hasty Bunch.
(Paris: The Author 1922). First edition. A fine copy in selfwrappers, and uncommon thus. McAlmon was the founder of
Contact Editions, which published James Joyce, Ezra Pound,
and several others, including Ernest Hemingway’s first book.
He was at the center of expatriate life and helped to support
various struggling artists and writers in that tumultuous time.
The author’s second book, published at his own expense prior
to the formation of Contact Editions. A particularly nice copy,
containing a long Inscription by McAlmon dated in 1951.
[BTC#6839]
—. Not Alone Lost. Norfolk: New Directions
(1937). First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper
with one very shallow chip at the bottom of the front panel but which is otherwise quite
bright. A collection of poems by the influential expatriate, and the first of his books to be
published in the U.S. Uncommon. [BTC#14952]
158
McELROY, Joseph. A Smuggler’s
Bible. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World (1966). First
159
edition. Advance Reading Copy in yellow wrappers. Wraps
slightly soiled, spine very slightly tanned and an ink stroke on
rear wrap, a very good copy. Warmly Inscribed by the author,
his first book. [BTC#10873]
160 —.
Lookout
Cartridge. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf 1974. Uncorrected proof.
Tall blue wrappers. Very good with
slight staining to front and rear
wraps. Extremely uncommon proof.
This copy is warmly Inscribed by
the author in the year of publication. [BTC#11879]
—. Plus. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1977. First
edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for a little faint offsetting
on the rear panel. Advance Review Copy with slip and photo
laid in. As a consequence of publication of a simultaneous
paperback, the hardcover is uncommon. This copy warmly
Inscribed by the author as “Joe.” McElroy is a stranger to the
book-signing circuit and his presentation copies are among the
scarcest of modern writers. [BTC#11880]
161
McFEE, William. Pilgrims of
Adversity. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1928. First
162
edition. Endpapers and dustwrapper illustrated by Edward W.
Wilson. Spine slightly sunned, still near fine in attractive, very
good plus dustwrapper with a little shallow loss at the crown.
Signed by the author, noting the artist’s misspelling of a word
on the endpapers. A very nice copy of this novel of seafaring.
[BTC#36821]
McMURTRY,
Larry. The Last
Picture Show. New York:
163
Dial 1966. Uncorrected proof.
Spiralbound advance sheets, laid
into the finished dustwrapper. Small tape shadow on the front
page perhaps from a review or complimentary slip, reviewer
name on the jacket and half-title, else fine in very good
dustwrapper, a bit soiled and with a mild ring stain on the
front panel. Publisher’s letter laid in. McMurtry and director
Peter Bogdanovich co-wrote the screenplay for the 1971 film
with Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Cybil
Shepherd, and Academy Award-winners Ben Johnson and
Cloris Leachman. A rare advance state of this key work, one of
the defining works of the Sixties. [BTC#11542]
MENCKEN, H.L. Prejudices: Sixth Series.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1927. First edition. Copy 27 of 50
numbered copies printed on Japanese vellum, bound in vellum,
and Signed by the author. Spine very slightly soiled, still easily
fine in a modestly worn, very good slipcase. [BTC#49016]
164
MERCER, Charles. Rachel Cade. New
York: Putnam (1956). First edition. Corners a bit bumped and
worn else fine in very good plus dustwrapper with some shallow
loss at the crown and a tiny hole on the rear panel. Author’s
second novel, about a female missionary in Africa and her
odyssey towards love and adventure. Basis for the 1961 film The
Sins of Rachel Cade featuring Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, and
Roger Moore. [BTC#32570]
165
MICHENER, James A. Tales of the South Pacific. New York:
Macmillan (1947). First edition. Rebound in quarter leather and cloth. Pages a bit browned
as always, and some rubbing to the extremities of the leather, a very good or better copy.
Michener’s first work of fiction (preceded by a textbook), basis for the hit musical and film,
and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. [BTC#17932]
166
—. Iberia. New York: Random House (1968). First edition. Foxing to the foredge
else fine in a remarkably fine dustwrapper. A weighty tome, the author’s book about his
travels and reflections on Spain. [BTC#30840]
167
MILBURN, George. The Hobo’s
Hornbook: A Repertory for a Gutter Jongleur. New
168
York: Ives Washburn 1930. First edition. 295pp., decorations by
William Siegel. Fine in attractive dustwrapper that has a chip at
the crown affecting most of the title. A collection of hobo songs
meant to prove the author’s contention that hoboes were the last
of the balladeers. Scarce in jacket. [BTC#37121]
MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. Two
Slatterns and a King. Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd 1921.
169
First edition. Stapled wrappers. A trifle rubbed at the spine,
still a lovely, fine copy, housed in a chemise and quarter leather
and cloth slipcase titled in gilt, near fine with the cloth slightly
soiled. A very nice copy of a fragile and very short play. [BTC#36721]
—. The Buck in the Snow and Other
Poems. New York: Harper 1928. First edition. Fine in
fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. An especially crisp copy of a
relatively common title. [BTC#39504]
170
171 MILLER,
For June from Henry
Henry. To Paint Is To Love
Again Including Semblance of a Devoted Past.
New York: Grossman 1968.
First edition. Folio. Small
dampstain at the bottom of
the front board else fine in
near very good dustwrapper
with scattered light stains and general wear. Inscribed by
Miller to his second wife June Mansfield: “For June from
Henry. Note: Unfortunately the reproductions are not
good – weak and off color – sorry!” A collection of Miller’s
painted art, along with the text of a previously published
limited edition that comprises Miller’s correspondence
with longtime friend Emil Schnellock about art and
painting. A great association. [BTC#40345]
MILLER, Max. I Cover the Waterfront. New York: E.P. Dutton and
Company, Inc. (1932). First edition. Fine in near fine, spine tanned dustwrapper with
some light wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels. Something of a pioneer
book of reportage, Miller covered the San Diego waterfront for years. Basis for the James
Cruze film featuring Claudette Colbert as the love interest of Ben Lyon, a reporter out to
expose smuggling. [BTC#38906]
172
173 MILLHAUSER,
Steven. Edwin
Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American
Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf 1972. First edition. A couple of very small
spots to the top edge stain else fine in a slightly soiled, fine
dustwrapper. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s first book.
[BTC#22727]
MILLIN, Sarah
Gertrude. The Dark
Gods. New York: Harpers
174
(1941). First edition. Fine in
fine, fresh dustwrapper with
some modest rubbing at the
spinal extremities and a couple tiny tears. A very nice copy of
this scarce novel set in South Africa and concerning itself with
Nazi spies and their interaction with the native population.
[BTC#37653]
175
MILLS, Hugh. Prudence and the Pill.
Philadelphia: Lippincott 1966. First American edition. Fine
in near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear, a little rubbing at the spinal extremities, a very faint
dampstain at the foot, and an old internal repair. A nice, presentable copy despite this litany
of small flaws. First novel by this playwright, made into a film featuring David Niven and
Deborah Kerr. [BTC#23509]
176
MITCHELL, Joseph. My Ears Are Bent.
New York: Sheridan House (1938). First edition. An about very
good copy with a tear at the crown and slight loss to the foot
of the spine, lacking the dustwrapper. The author’s first book, a
collection of short pieces from his days as a reporter for the New
York World-Telegram, the New York Herald Tribune, and The New
Yorker. Anecdotally, it has been said that Mitchell would not
allow this book to be reprinted in his lifetime because of some
racial characterizations that are now considered inappropriate.
This may be the case but Mitchell’s
writing, while never precious, could
hardly be considered insensitive.
[BTC#49913]
177
—. Old Mr. Flood.
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce (1948). First edition.
Bookplate and small, old price inked over on the front
pastedown, else fine in about very good dustwrapper with
small chips, internal repairs and some staining visible only on
the inside. Signed by the author. Three interconnected articles,
about the Fulton Fish market and its denizens, which appeared
originally in The New Yorker. [BTC#38734]
MITCHELL, Margaret. Typed
Letter Signed. One page Typed Letter on
178
the author’s stationery, dated December 18, 1946,
Signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh.” Folded in
thirds for mailing, with typed envelope included.
A trace of darkening at the folds else fine. Four
cordial paragraphs replying to a letter from her
friend Myron J. Quimby, who had recently
moved to Texas. The third paragraph concerns
Quimby’s son, Myron J. Quimby, Jr., of whom
she comments: “I hope Son finds not only a good
job but one that is satisfying and has a future to
it.” The younger Quimby became an author; two
decades later he wrote The Devil’s Emissaries, an
important true-crime account of “Machine Gun”
Kelly, “Pretty Boy” Floyd, and other notorious
criminals of the 1920s and ‘30s. Mitchell, the
author of the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel, Gone with the Wind, died after being struck
by an automobile in 1949. [BTC#46606]
—. Also see item 339
MOLNAR, Ferenc. The Good Fairy. New York: Long & Smith 1932.
First American edition, and the first edition in English. Translated and adapted by Jane
Hinton. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with some modest soiling and some
shallow chipping at the crown, and featuring a Cecil Beaton drawing of Helen Hayes as Lu
from the New York stage production. Splendidly adapted by Preston Sturges and filmed by
William Wyler in 1935 with Margaret Sullivan, Herbert Marshall as the doctor she pretends
is her husband, and Frank Morgan, who steals the show as the millionaire trying to separate
them. It was also remade in 1947 as I’ll Be Yours with Deanna Durbin. Scarce in jacket.
[BTC#37360]
179
180
MOLNAR, Franz. Prisoners. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1925).
First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A novel
translated from the Hungarian, about a young lawyer and
warden’s daughter set to marry when robbery intervenes. Basis
for the 1929 William Seiter film, an early talkie with a preDracula Bela Lugosi. A superb copy. [BTC#32575]
181
MONAHAN, Michael. The Papyrus:
A Magazine of Individuality. Mt. Vernon, NY: Michael
Monahan 1903-1909. Periodical. Four bound volumes of this
literary magazine; an incomplete run comprising of Volumes
1, 3, 4, and 5 (lacking volume 2). Quarter red morocco and
papercovered boards. Volume 5 fair only, others very good
with light wear to extremities. Wrappers bound in. Inscribed
in Volume 1 by the author and editor: “To the Hon. Thos. C.
O’Sullivan with all good wishes from Michael Monahan. Mt.
Vernon May 15 -1904.” Volume 5 is inscribed in 1910 by the noted book collector William
F. Gable to H. Luther Frees. An attractive and uncommon bohemian-type little magazine.
[BTC#48522]
MOORE, George. Memoirs of My Dead Life. London:
Heinemann 1906. First edition. Very good with a small ink notation on the rear pastedown
and a large but light tidemark on the rear board. Celebrated autobiography by the innovative
Irish novelist and man of letters. Connolly 100. [BTC#36427]
182
183
MUNDY, Talbot. King of the Khyber Rifles. Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill (1916). First edition, with the author’s name misspelled
on the title page. Owner’s name, crown a bit pulled and light
wear to the extremities, a very good copy lacking the rare
dustwrapper. A classic adventure novel, basis for the 1953 Henry
King-directed film with Tyrone Power. [BTC#40329]
184
NATHAN, George Jean. Bottoms Up:
An Application of the Slapstick to Satire. New York:
Philip Goodman 1917. First edition. Edges of the fragile
papercovered boards a little rubbed,
still about fine in an attractive,
very good example of the white
dustwrapper with a couple of
modest chips that affect none of
the printed text. Nathan, one of the most important American
drama critics of the first half of this century, was the co-editor
with H.L. Mencken of The Smart Set and co-founder with
Mencken of The American Mercury. This is his fourth book,
a satiric send up of the conventions of the Broadway theatre.
Exceptionally scarce in jacket. [BTC#21226]
185
NATHAN, Robert. Youth Grows Old.
New York: McBride 1922. First edition. Fine in very good
dustwrapper with a couple of small chips and internal, archival
repair to the front spine fold. Author’s scarce first collection of poetry, seldom found in the
fragile jacket. [BTC#26103]
186
NICHOLS, John. The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn. New
York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1982). First
edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the
author. [BTC#41647]
NICHOLSON, Geoff. Street
Sleeper. London: Quartet (1987). First
187
edition. Edges of the pages very slightly browned
else fine in fine dustwrapper. Author’s first book.
[BTC#25390]
NICHOLSON, Kenyon and Charles
ROBINSON. Sailor, Beware! Variations on
188
a Familiar Theme in Eight Acts. New York: Farrar &
Rinehart (1933). First edition. Trifle foxed on the top edge,
a fine copy in near fine dustwrapper with slight rubbing at
the extremities and a short, slightly creased tear at the bottom
of the front panel. Basis for several films including the 1936
Lady Be Careful directed by Theodore Reed, with a script by
Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, and featuring Lew Ayres,
Mary Carlisle, and Buster Crabbe; and the 1951 Hal Walker
film with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin (and including James
Dean in a bit part in his first, uncredited, film appearance).
[BTC#46589]
O’BRIEN, Tim. Northern Lights. London:
Boyars 1976. First English edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Author’s second
book, reportedly one of only 900 copies of this issue. [BTC#40425]
189
O’DONNELL, E.P. The Great Big
Doorstep. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 1941. First edition.
190
A couple of pages roughly opened with some chipping along
the edges, else fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper
with a shallow chip along an upper portion of the front
panel. A comedy by a Louisiana-born author about a Creole
family living outside New Orleans, later issued in the Lost
American Classics series with an introduction by Eudora Welty.
[BTC#12548]
O’HARA, John. A Rage to Live. New
York: Random House (1949). First edition. Fine in original
unprinted glassine with a couple of very small chips and tears.
Presentation edition, meant for friends of the author and
publisher. Basis for the film featuring Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara,
and Peter Graves. [BTC#33672]
191
—. From the Terrace. New York: Random House
(1958). First edition. Spine a bit faded, front hinge neatly
repaired thus very good in a price-clipped, very good plus (and
probably supplied) dustwrapper with a scrape on the front flap,
but which does not obscure any text. Nicely Inscribed by the
author to William and Frances Lord: “To the good Lord up
above – 77th Street – and Lady Frances, from their contented
customer, John O’Hara. 28 Dec ‘58.” [BTC#29944]
192
—. Ourselves to Know. New York: Random
House (1960). First edition. Spine lettering rubbed, a not
quite very good copy in very good plus, supplied dustwrapper.
Inscribed by the author: “Best ever, Bill. J. O’Hara.”
[BTC#6947]
193
—. The Instrument. New York: Random House (1967). First edition. Fine in
tape reinforced, very good slipcase. Copy 195 of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author.
[BTC#6948]
194
OATES, Joyce Carol. Marriage and
Infidelities. New York: Vanguard (1972). Uncorrected
195
proof. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author. [BTC#11558]
196
—. New Heaven, New Earth: The
Visionary Experience in Literature. New York: Vanguard
(1974). Uncorrected proof. Review slip taped to first blank
else fine in wrappers. Scarce proof of one of the author’s less
common critical volumes. [BTC#10904]
— as Fernandes.
The Poisoned Kiss
197
and Other Stories from the Portuguese. New York:
Vanguard 1975. Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers as issued.
Signed by the author. [BTC#6931]
OLSON, Charles.
Proprioception. San
198
Francisco: Four Seasons
Foundation 1965. First edition.
Fine in stapled wrappers as
issued. Briefly Inscribed by Olson
to beat generation figure John
Montgomery on the front wrapper. A collection of poems,
especially scarce signed. [BTC#18359]
ORCZY, Baroness. The Elusive
Pimpernel. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1908.
199
First American edition. Fine, lacking the rare dustwrapper.
Basis for the 1950 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger film
starring David Niven in the title role. [BTC#48151]
—. Also see item 383
ORLOVITZ, Gil. Concerning Man. New
York: Banyan Press 1947. First edition. Arthur Szyk bookplate,
fine in fine dustwrapper. Copy 34 of 350 numbered copies.
Inscribed by the author to Philadelphia artist Cornelia Tate:
“To Cornelia, with gratefulness, since you had the affirmation
to remove this volume from rarity to the circulations of your
affections. Gil Orlovitz, May 1947, Philadelphia.” Orlovitz’s
first book, as well as the first book of the press. Books signed by
Orlovitz are uncommon. [BTC#22681]
200
Maxfield Parrish’s Copy
201 (PARRISH, Maxfield). WHARTON, Edith. Italian Villas and
Their Gardens. New York: Century 1904. First edition.
Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Nineteen of the original
twenty-six Parrish illustrations have been neatly excised, a bit
cocked and some wear to the spinal extremities, otherwise a
sound, very good copy. Illustrator Parrish’s own copy, Signed
by him in his beautiful and idiosyncratic hand on the front
fly: “Maxfield Parrish: from The Century Company: 1904.”
Beneath this is an unsigned note by the artist’s son, Maxfield
Parrish, Jr.: “Unfortunately dad cut out many of the colored
prints of the best villas from this book.” It was Parrish’s custom
to remove most of the prints from his copies of his books to
be pasted into a “master” scrapbook, and such was the fate of
this volume. Included with this volume is a copy of the second
edition of this title, with all of the plates intact. [BTC#17514]
PEATTIE, Donald Culross. Immortal Village. Chicago: University
of Chicago (1945). First edition. Illustrated by Paul Landacre. Fine in very good dustwrapper
with a few small tears and light chips, lacking the slipcase. Copy 3 of 500 numbered copies
Signed by both Peattie and Landacre. [BTC#35130]
202
203
PERELMAN, S.J. The Rising Gorge.
New York: Simon and Schuster 1961. First edition. Fine
in just about fine dustwrapper with a fingertip puncture in
the front joint. Inscribed by the author: “To Deborah and
Saul with all best, Sid. SJP 1964 [word undecipherable].” A
collection of short humorous pieces. [BTC#39932]
204 —.
The Road to
Miltown or Under the
Spreading Atrophy. New
York: Simon & Schuster 1957.
First edition. Fine in very
good dustwrapper with the
spine soiled and a little faded.
Inscribed by the author: “To Deborah & Saul. Greetings, Sid.
S.J. Perelman.” [BTC#38540]
PORTER, Katherine Anne. Flowering
Judas. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1930).
205
First edition. One of 600 copies. Boards lightly soiled, else fine
lacking the dustwrapper. [BTC#42722]
—. French Song Book. Paris: Harrison of Paris 1933. Folio. Fine in fine
dustwrapper. Copy 283 of 595 numbered copies Signed by Porter, who assembled and
translated this collection, and comments on each entry. Prospectus for the book laid in. A
superlative copy. [BTC#40437]
206
207
POUND, Ezra. Imaginary Letters.
Paris: Black Sun Press 1930. First edition. Pages unopened,
slight loss at the crown else near fine in stiff wraps and the
original glassine dustwrapper, in a good cardboard slipcase
lacking the bottom panel. Copy 297 of 300 numbered copies
on Navarre Paper. [BTC#36421]
Peter De Vries’s Advance Copy
208 POWELL, Anthony. At Lady Molly’s.
Boston: Little, Brown (1957).
First American edition. Fine
in fine, unrubbed dustwrapper
with a little foxing on the rear
panel, as well as an alternate, good plus overjacket (not shown)
indicating that this is an Advance Review Copy, which is a
bit spine tanned. Author Peter De Vries’s copy with his pencil
ownership Signature (“De Vries”) on the front fly. De Vries
has provided a long blurb for the book that appears along with
blurbs from Evelyn Waugh and Edwin O’Connor on the front
panel of the advance jacket, and on the rear panel of the regular
trade jacket. A nice association copy of the fourth volume of
The Dance to the Music of Time. [BTC#45254]
209 POWERS,
Richard. Three Farmers
on Their Way to a Dance. New York: Morrow (1985). First edition. Fine in fine
dustwrapper with two tiny tears and a touch of rubbing. First book by an author whose
reputation grows with each offering. [BTC#14956]
(Prison Verse). GLYNN, John Francis. Songs from the
Silence: A Book of Prison Verse. Minneapolis: Byron & Learned (1921). First
210
edition. Thin green cloth boards. Handwritten monogram on front fly and light wear to the
spine ends, else fine, presumably issued without dustwrapper. Surprisingly, this book was
reissued in at least two other later editions. Scarce. [BTC#41152]
PRITCHETT, V.S. Dead Man Leading. New York: Macmillan 1937.
First American edition. Light stain to a small portion of the
foredge and to parts of one page, else about fine in price-clipped
and slightly toned near fine dustwrapper (with Arthur Hawkins
illustration) with a faint crease on the spine. Author’s second
novel published in America. [BTC#11588]
211
PROULX, E. Annie. Heart Songs and
Other Stories. New York: Scribners (1988). First edition.
Fine in fine dustwrapper. Proulx’s first book of fiction, and the
start of a distinguished literary career in which, in the course
of just a few years, she has won several major awards. A lovely,
as new copy. [BTC#36816]
212
PYNCHON, Thomas. V. Philadelphia: J.B.
Lippincott 1963. First edition. Three fairly large ink initials
on the front fly, some slight smudging on the front board, else
a very good or better copy in a near very good dustwrapper
with a long folded tear on the front panel and a modest
triangular chip on the rear panel. [BTC#37950]
213
214
RAU, Santha Rama. Home to India.
New York: Harper (1945). First edition. Brief, neat gift
inscription, near fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper
with slight loss at the spinal extremities. The author’s first book,
a rediscovery of her home country. A “Harper Find” title, as
well as an uncommon wartime book. [BTC#275]
ROBERT, Derek. ‘That’s the Life for
Me’. London: Hamish Hamilton (1964). First edition. Foredge foxed, else fine in a very
215
slightly spine-faded, else fine dustwrapper designed by Biro. A comic novel about the
adventures of an aging cargo ship and her crew. Uncommon. [BTC#51828]
216 ROBERTS,
Kenneth L. Europe’s
Morning After. New York: Harpers (1921). First
edition, first issue with the correct code on the copyright
page. Bookplate on the front pastedown else a fine, clean copy
lacking the dustwrapper. Author’s first book. [BTC#8270]
217 RUNYON,
Damon. Take It Easy.
New York: Stokes 1938. First
edition. Some foxing to the
boards and endpapers, as seems
inevitable with this title, a
very good copy in very good
dustwrapper with some moderate chipping at the extremities
and professionally repaired at the rear spine fold. A collection
of stories, one of which was adapted into the film Joe and
Ethel Turp Visit the President. [BTC#46822]
SAROYAN, William. The Beautiful
People. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company (1941). First edition. Fine in an
218
attractive dustwrapper that is a bit spine-faded but which is otherwise fine. A collection of
three plays. [BTC#25513]
SHAFFER, Peter. Amadeus. (London): Deutsch (1980). First edition.
Author and critic Tom Prideaux’s copy with his ownership signature and a couple of light
pencil notes, else fine in fine dustwrapper. The award-winning play. Shaffer adapted his
own play for the Milos Forman film which won them both Academy Awards, as well as Best
Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham (co-star Tom Hulce was also nominated in
this category for the title role). [BTC#12454]
219
SHAW, Irwin. Mixed Company: Collected Stories. New York:
Random House 1950. First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with a couple of very
small chips. Scarce in collector’s condition. This is a lovely copy. [BTC#32618]
220
SHENKER, Israel. Words and Their
Masters. Garden City: Doubleday 1974. First edition.
221
Photographs by Jill Krementz. Quarto. Fine in fine
dustwrapper with some nominal rubbing. A collection of
insightful and interesting interviews with writers accompanied
by Krementz’s portraits of the subjects. This copy Signed or
Inscribed by four of the subjects: Isaac B. Singer, Janet Flanner,
Bernard Malamud, and Kurt Vonnegut, who has noted after
his name, “Jill’s boyfriend” (he later married photographer
Krementz). Other subjects include Rex Stout, Jorge Luis
Borges, Gore Vidal, S.J. Perelman, E.B. White, Samuel
Beckett, Saul Bellow, and many others. A nice book, enhanced
by the collection of signatures. [BTC#10591]
222 SHERWOOD,
Robert Emmet. The
Virtuous Knight. New York: Scribners 1931. First
edition. Fine in fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper. A very nice
copy of this important and prolific author’s only novel, about
a knight during the Crusades, but which can be read as a
modern morality tale. Sherwood won four Pulitzer Prizes
(three for drama and one for history), an Academy Award (for
his script for The Best Years of Our Lives), and wrote many
of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s most memorable speeches. He
donated much of the enormous wealth he earned through his
plays to charitable causes, especially to refugee relief during
the Second World War. [BTC#32599]
223 SMITH, Stevie.
Novel on Yellow Paper. New York: William Morrow
1937. First edition. Blue cloth with dustwrapper priced $2.50
(no priority). Contemporary owner’s name, top corner a little
bumped, near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with
tears along the flap folds and some loss to the spinal extremities.
Author and poet’s first and most desirable book. [BTC#36509]
SMITH, Thorne. The Glorious Pool. New
York: Doubleday, Doran 1934. First edition. Some of the usual
fading to the blue boards, else about fine in a bright, very good
or better, price-clipped dustwrapper with several internal repairs
and a small chip on the rear panel. Aging gentleman and his
aging mistress find a fountain of youth. [BTC#38195]
224
Inscribed by “The March King”
225 SOUSA, John Philip. Pipetown Sandy. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill
(1905). First edition. Lettering rubbed away on the spine and partially rubbed away on the
front board as well, a near very good copy. A novel by the noted composer, and Inscribed by
him: “To Mrs. O.C. Varney from John Philip Sousa 1916.” Sousa often inscribed just using
his initials, or as J.P. Sousa; it is particularly nice that he signed here using his full name.
[BTC#46696]
226 STEGNER,
Wallace. The City of the
Living and Other Stories. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and
Company 1956. First edition. Neat gift inscription on the verso
of the front fly, small tape shadows on the front pastedown where
a small clipping was formerly attached and covered by flaps, a
very good copy in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with two
small internal tape shadows, and some general light wear. Signed
by the author. Despite a number of modest flaws, a presentable
and pleasing copy. [BTC#14856]
227 STEIN,
Gertrude. In Savoy or Yes Is
for Yes for a Very Young Man: A Play of the
Resistance in France. London: Pushkin Press (1946). First
edition. Wrappers in dustwrapper. The word “Savoy” stamped on
the front fly and a slight wrinkle on the front fly and on the dustwrapper in a corresponding
area else very fine. A play about the France Resistance. [BTC#510]
Talking Mule Literature
228 STERN, David. Francis Goes to
Washington. New York: Farrar, Straus 1948. First
edition. A little tanning to the pastedowns else fine in lightly
rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks.
Sequel to Francis, in which the talking mule masterminds
his owner’s run for Congress. Francis enjoyed a long career
as the star of seven different films, six of them directed by
Arthur Lubin, who later created the television series Mr. Ed.
[BTC#33864]
STEWART,
Donald Ogden. The
Crazy Fool. New York: Albert and Charles Boni 1925.
229
First edition. Illustrated by Herb Roth. Lightly rubbed, near
fine lacking the dustwrapper. One of 600 copies of a limited
Presentation Edition Signed by the author. Crazy young man
inherits an insane asylum from his uncle. [BTC#44937]
230
STITT, Milan. The Runner Stumbles.
Clifton, NJ: James T. White & Co (1976). First edition.
Fine in fine dustwrapper. An excellent play based on a true
incident about a priest accused of killing a nun, basis for the
film featuring Dick Van Dyke, Kathleen Quinlan, and Maureen Stapleton. Inscribed by the
author to his editor: “For the lady who gave me the library on East 40th where what was
researched for this play could be researched. With gratitude and love – Milan Stitt 8 March
1977.” Issued simultaneously in paperback. [BTC#36938]
STONE, Robert. Helping. [No place]: Dim Gray Bar Press 1993. First
edition. Cloth and papercovered boards in stiff card slipcase. As new. Copy 70 of 100
numbered copies Signed by the author. A handsome production of this story that originally
appeared in The New Yorker. [BTC#5995]
231
STONG, Phil. Career. New York: Harcourt,
Brace (1936). First edition. Bookstore label else near fine
in a very good plus dustwrapper with a long chip along the
crown and some rubbing. A novel about a father and son
from Pittsville, Iowa. The son, a medical student, helps his
father run their dry-goods and variety store while home
from school. The basis for two films: the first, a 1939 film
directed by Leigh Jason, starring Anne Shirley, John Archer,
and Edward Ellis, and the second, a 1959 film directed by
Joseph Anthony, starring Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine,
and Anthony Franciosa. [BTC#53607]
232
STRATTON-PORTER, Gene. The
White Flag. Garden City: Doubleday Page 1923. First
233
edition. Slight bend to the first several pages else fine in attractive, near fine dustwrapper a little
spine faded and with some small nicks and tears. A lovely example of the uncommon jacket.
[BTC#4414]
STYRON, William. The Confessions
of Nat Turner. New York: Random House (1967). First
234
edition. Fine in a very good plus slipcase. Copy 270 of 500
numbered copies Signed by the author. A nice copy of this
controversial tour-de-force and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
[BTC#41247]
235 SWIGGETT,
Howard. The Power
and the Prize. New York:
Ballantine Books (1954). First
edition. Near fine in a very
good plus dustwrapper with
some very small chips. Basis for
the 1956 Henry Koster film
featuring Robert Taylor as the hand-picked but too ethical
successor to ruthless business magnate Burl Ives. Also with
Elisabeth Müller, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, and
Mary Astor. [BTC#41274]
SYMONDS, John Addington. Last
and First: Being Two Essays: The New Spirit and
236
Arthur Hugh Clough. New York: Nicholas L. Brown 1919.
First American edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with
a couple of tiny nicks at the corners. First book appearances of
Symonds’s first and last essays, both published in magazines,
the first before his first book, the last a month before he died.
Very scarce in jacket. [BTC#41717]
TARKINGTON, Booth. Beauty and
the Jacobin. New York: Harpers 1912. First edition.
237
Spine slightly faded, still near fine. Nicely Inscribed by the
author at a later date. [BTC#36851]
—. The Flirt. Garden City: Doubleday Page 1913.
First edition. Illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood. Very near fine with a little light soiling to
the boards, lacking the dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author at a later date. His eighth
book and basis for the 1931 film The Bad Sister, directed by Hobart Henley and featuring
Conrad Nagel, Zasu Pitts, Humphrey Bogart (in one of his earliest roles), and in their film
debuts, Bette Davis and female lead Sydney Fox. A few years later Fox was dead at age 31, an
apparent suicide, and Davis was one of Hollywood’s top stars. [BTC#36830]
238
—. Women. Garden City: Doubleday, Page 1925.
First edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers and the inside of the
jacket else fine in a slightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. A very
attractive jacket illustrated by “E.R.” [BTC#49967]
239
—. Presenting Lily Mars. Garden City: Doubleday
Doran 1933. First edition. Spine lettering a bit worn, else very
good plus lacking the dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author
at a later date. Bought by MGM as a dramatic vehicle for Lana
Turner, the script turned out to be too light-hearted and the film
version was instead a musical showcasing Judy Garland as the
small-town girl who impresses Broadway producer Van Heflin.
[BTC#36845]
240
THURBER, James. Thurber On
Humor. Columbus, OH: The Martha Kinney Cooper
241
Ohioana Library Association 1953. First edition. Stapled
wrappers. Slight age-toning to the white wrappers, about
fine. Text of Thurber’s remarks upon accepting the Ohio
Sesquicentennial Medal. Scarce. [BTC#40132]
242
TOLSTOÏ, Count Lyof N. Iván Ilyitch
and Other Stories. New York: Crowell (1887). First
American edition. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. Light
wear at the spinal extremities, a very near fine copy. Tolstoy’s
most famous and important short work, the realistic depiction
of the gradual disintegration of the life of a provincial judge who develops cancer. The
illumination of his life at its end is one of the great novelist’s most successful integrations of his
religious and humanist beliefs into his writing. Tolstoy was nearly 60 when he wrote of Ilyitch’s
fears of death – he lived more than twenty years beyond this before, during a spiritual crisis,
wandering off one night and dying at a remote railway junction. [BTC#40138]
TOPKINS, Katharine. Kotch. New York:
McGraw-Hill (1965). First edition. A touch of rubbing to the
bottom edge else fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper
with a couple of tiny nicks and some negligible tanning on the
spine. Nicely Inscribed by the author: “To Harry Sions who
provided us with a splendid evening and – I hope – a new friend.
With all good wishes, Kathie Topkins.” Basis for the only film
directed by actor Jack Lemmon, featuring his friend and frequent
screen-partner Walter Matthau in the Oscar-nominated title role.
[BTC#2525]
243
244 TRAVEN,
B. The
Bridge in the Jungle.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938.
First American edition. A little darkening to the joints and
a small stain on the rear board else near fine in very good,
price-clipped dustwrapper with a few small nicks. Enigmatic
author’s third book published in the U.S. Basis for the 1971
film starring John Huston as Howard, the same character for
which his father won an Oscar for The Treasure of the Sierra
Madre, written and directed by Pancho Kohner, son of Paul
Kohner (Huston’s agent) and the Mexican actress Lupita Tovar
(allegedly a friend of the reclusive Traven). Considered by
some to be Traven’s best book. [BTC#22126]
245 TYLER, Anne.
Celestial Navigation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
1974. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a
trace of wear. A heartbreaking novel, the author’s fifth.
[BTC#33202]
—. Earthly Possessions. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf 1977. First edition. Nearly invisible remainder mark
bottom edge else fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear on
the rear panel. A very nice copy of a book that seems especially
susceptible to wear. Author’s seventh novel, basis for a TV
movie featuring Susan Sarandon. [BTC#33102]
246
247
UPDIKE, John. Bath after Sailing.
(Monroe, Connecticut: Pendulum Press 1968). First edition.
String-tied, stiff card wrappers. A faint vertical bend else fine. Copy 119 of 125 numbered
copies Signed by the author. A single poem, one of Updike’s scarcest limited editions.
[BTC#11952]
—. Love Factories: Three Stories, with a Foreword. Helsinki:
Eurographica (1993). First edition. Fine in stiff wrappers and dustwrapper as issued.
Copy 43 of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author. An attractively printed volume.
Uncommon. [BTC#15792]
248
—. Radiators. No place: William B. Ewert (1998). First edition. String-tied
wrappers in dustwrapper. As new. Copy 13 of 40 numbered copies Signed by the author. A
brief poem that appeared in The New Yorker. [BTC#37344]
249
VAN VECHTEN, Carl. Spider Boy: A
Scenario for a Moving Picture. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf 1928. First edition. Fine in a modestly chipped, original
glassine dustwrapper and very good cardboard slipcase with a
few splits at the extremities. Copy 211 of 220 numbered copies
Signed by the author. [BTC#43106]
250
251 VIDAL,
Gore. The
Judgment of Paris.
New York: Dutton 1952. First
edition. Top edge soiled and
lightly foxed else fine in a nice,
near fine dustwrapper with
some soiling on the rear panel.
[BTC#24838]
WAGONER, David. Rock. New York: Viking
1958. First edition. Extremities of the boards slightly sunned,
else near fine in price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with
some overall rubbing and light soiling. Author’s third novel,
about a young man newly divorced who becomes a lifeguard
and rejoins the wild hot rodding youth culture. [BTC#25366]
252
One of Ten Presentation Copies
253 WAKOSKI, Diane. The Lament of
the Lady Bank Dick. Cambridge, MA: Sans Souci
Press (1969). First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards
in unprinted glassine dustwrapper. Fine but for some light
chipping to the glassine. Of 99 numbered and Signed copies
this is number 8 of 10 copies intended for presentation.
Additionally Signed by William Young for the press. Wakowski
has accompanied her signature with a little drawing of what
might be a crescent moon spitting on a mouse, or it may be
something else, we can’t really say exactly. At any rate a very
small limitation, and consequently, rare. [BTC#26338]
254 WALTON, Todd. Inside Moves. Garden
City: Doubleday 1978. First edition. Fine in very lightly worn, fine dustwrapper. First
novel, about handicapped friends who support one of their own in his unlikely bid to start a
professional basketball career. Made into a critically acclaimed 1980 film directed by Richard
Donner, which featured the first performance by Harold Russell since his Oscar-winning
performance in The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946. [BTC#24922]
WARD, Lynd. Mad Man’s Drum. New
York: Cape & Smith 1930. First edition. Bookplate of S.
Beatrice Sondheim. Boards a little edgeworn, else near fine
lacking the dustwrapper. A nice copy of this arresting novel in
woodcuts. [BTC#45350]
255
WARREN, Robert Penn. The Circus
In The Attic. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode (1952). First
256
English edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper with a couple of
spots on the rear panel. The author’s
fourth novel. [BTC#39664]
—. Selected Poems 1923-1975. New York:
Random House [1976]. Uncorrected proof. Fine in tall red
wrappers. Signed by the author on the front wrap. Very scarce.
[BTC#6537]
257
258 WELTY,
Inscribed
Eudora. A Curtain of Green. Garden
City: Doubleday 1941. Early reprint,
in the same format as the first
edition. Introduction by Katherine
Anne Porter. Slight bump at the
crown else near fine in a priceclipped and spine-tanned, very
good dustwrapper. This copy Inscribed to Welty’s friend, the
author Edna Frederikson: “To Edna with my love & my good
wishes – Eudora. In New Orleans. September 2, 1942.” With
Frederikson’s small owner label and an unobtrusive note in
her hand. Frederikson was a Virginia teacher and close friend
of Katherine Anne Porter, who introduced her to Welty. With
Welty’s encouragement Frederikson wrote and published two
novels (at least one of which had a Welty blurb). [BTC#48906]
—. Henry Green: A Novelist of the Imagination. [Austin]: Texas Quarterly,
Autumn 1961. Offprint. Stapled wrappers. Fine. A rare offprint from this Texas literary
magazine, Welty’s take on the unjustly neglected English novelist. Offprints of this sort are
generally very limited. [BTC#11659]
259
—. Also see item 422
WERFEL, Franz. Verdi: Roman Der Oper. Berlin: Paul Zsolnay Verlag
1930. Unabridged, special edition approved by the author. Text in German. Apparently a
later, complete edition. Bookplate on the front pastedown and slight offsetting to the title
page from a small clipping else near fine lacking the presumed dustwrapper. Nicely and boldly
Inscribed by Werfel to one of his translators, Edith Abercrombie Snow. [BTC#7263]
260
261 WESCOTT,
Glenway. The Babe’s Bed. Paris:
Harrison of Paris 1930. First edition. Slight wear to the spine gilt,
still just about fine in red silk-covered boards and a very good slipcase
with a little wear at the extremities and a modest stain on one panel,
issued without dustwrapper. Copy 183 of 375 numbered copies (of a
total edition of 393) Signed by the author. Author’s sixth book, one of
his most desirable, and a watershed book that helped to indicate the
future direction of his writing. [BTC#23069]
262 WHARTON,
Edith. Artemis to Actæon.
London: Macmillan 1909. First
English edition from American sheets
with the title page a cancel. Cloth at
the top of the spine repaired, some
random light foxing else a very good
copy lacking the rare dustwrapper.
According to Garrison one of only
250 copies of the English edition.
The American edition itself is quite uncommon, this
edition many times more so. Inscribed by Wharton in an
uncharacteristically light tone to her lifelong friend Daisy
Chanler: “Dear Daisy, In lieu of a dreary book here’s a silly
one from yr. affte. Edith May 1909.” The inscription is
perhaps some indication of Wharton’s self-consciousness
about these poems as they were the direct expression of her
passion for Morton Fullerton, with whom she was engaged in an ongoing affair. Chanler
was one of Wharton’s closest friends. Yale’s Beinecke Library has over a hundred letters from
Wharton to Chanler that span a 50-year period. [BTC#1073]
263
Fannie Hurst’s Copy
—. Ethan Frome. New York: Scribners 1911. First
edition, first issue. A very good copy with some foxing and
slightly spine cocked, lacking the rare dustwrapper. Author
Fannie Hurst’s copy, with her attractive bookplate on the front
pastedown. Wharton’s greatest tragedy, which, along with The Age
of Innocence, ranks as her masterpiece. [BTC#37925]
—. Also see item 340
264 WHITE,
E.B. Quo Vadimus? or the Case
for the Bicycle. New York: Harper 1939. First edition.
Faintest hint of a tidemark else fine in a nice and bright, very
good dustwrapper with a faint dampstain mostly visible on the
underside. Despite some subtle flaws an attractive copy, considerably less rubbed than usual.
[BTC#6028]
WHITE, Robb. Run Masked. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938. First
edition. Dampstain to the bottom of the spine, thus a good only copy in a price-clipped,
very attractive, very good Covarrubias-illustrated dustwrapper with a corresponding large but
265
faint dampstain which is visible only at the bottom of the rear panel. American and British
expatriates drawn to a lonely Caribbean island (that bears a resemblance to Haiti) are joined
in a fight for survival when the natives go native on them. Exceptionally scarce first novel by
the author of Up Periscope. White grew up in the Philippines and served in the Navy during
WWII. He was also a screenwriter who partnered with schlockmeister impresario William
Castle to create the fun, gimmick-laden thrillers Macabre, House on Haunted Hill, The
Tingler, Homicidal, and 13 Ghosts. [BTC#49777]
266
WHITE, W.L. Journey for Margaret.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1941). First edition. Fine
in fine dustwrapper. Novel about a journalist and his wife
caught in the London Blitz. Basis for the 1942 film featuring
Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, and Nigel Bruce.
[BTC#39137]
267 WIGGIN,
Kate
Douglas. Mother
Carey’s Chickens. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin 1911. First
edition. Contemporary owner’s
name else fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a
little tanning and some faint damp spots on the spine. A nice
copy of this novel about a family combating poverty and tragedy
in order to get ahead, basis for a 1938 film with Fay Bainter,
Ann Shirley, Ruby Keeler, Walter Brennan, Frank Morgan, and
Margaret Hamilton. Remade by Disney as Summer Magic with
Hayley Mills and Burl Ives. [BTC#32600]
(WILDE, Oscar).
JUENESSE, Ernest La, André GIDE,
and Franz BLEI. Recollections of Oscar
Wilde. Boston: John W. Luce 1906. First American
268
edition. Fine with tape shadows on the front and rear
pastedowns. [BTC#39349]
WILDER,
Thornton. The
Woman of Andros. New
269
York: A&C Boni 1930. First
edition. Spine quite darkened
thus very good in a worn, about very good dustwrapper with
a tanned spine and some modest chipping at the extremities.
Inscribed: “For Miss Hazel Young with the regard of Thornton
Wilder. Hamden, Conn. July 1930.” [BTC#25005]
WILLIAMS, Jonathan. Amen Huzza
Selah. Black Mountain [North Carolina]: Jargon (1960).
270
First edition. Preface by Louis Zukofsky. Near fine with some
waviness to the self-wrappers, and with an acetate dustwrapper,
as issued. Inscribed by the author in 1980. One of 700 copies,
published as Jargon 13A. [BTC#54343]
271 WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
Suddenly Last
Summer. (New York): New
Directions (1958). First edition.
Fine in a very good dustwrapper
that is a little tanned on the
spine and extremities, and split
along the spine. An attractive
copy of this important Williams one-act play. Basis for the
film featuring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Mercedes
McCambridge, and Montgomery Clift, and later re-made
for television with Maggie Smith, Rob Lowe, and Natasha
Richardson. [BTC#30819]
—. Three Players of a
Summer Game and Other
Stories. London: Secker & Warburg 1960. First edition. No
272
equivalent American edition. Fine in a lightly soiled, near fine
dustwrapper. Author’s first collection of short stories to be published
in England. [BTC#48871]
273 —.
Tennessee
Williams’ Letters to
Donald Windham
1940-65 edited and
with comments by
Donald Windham. Verona:
(Mardersteig) 1976. First edition. Fine in wrappers,
unprinted dustwrapper and slipcase as issued. Of a total
edition of 526 copies this is one of 26 lettered copies
Signed by both Williams and Windham. Letter “E” of
26 lettered copies, the only signed issue of the book.
Obviously, a scarce issue of this handsomely printed
volume, and an important and revealing archive.
[BTC#40076]
Karl Shapiro’s Copies
274 WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Paterson. (New York): New
Directions (1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1958). First editions. Five volumes. A somewhat
worn set of the first editions, lacking the dustwrappers. Poet and critic Karl Shapiro’s
copies with his ownership signature in each of the first four volumes and his notes in
each volume. Shapiro has marked the number of each volume (in Roman numerals)
on the front board and on the spine. Shapiro was an important if not easily classifiable
poet. He rejected both the “new criticism” and the pragmatists, and instead settled on
Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams as his models for great American poetry.
His championship of Williams’s poetry, and particularly of Paterson, was influential in
establishing the high regard in which the work is now held. A magnificent association copy
of one of the great American poem cycles. Connolly 100. [BTC#17742]
Leon Edel’s Copy
275 WILSON, Edmund. This Room and
This Gin and These Sandwiches. New York: The
New Republic 1937. First trade edition, issued simultaneously
with a limited and signed edition. Spine slightly tanned, still a
very near fine and fresh copy in wrappers as issued. Leon Edel’s
copy with his pencil ownership Signature dated in 1974. A
splendid association copy: Edel, the noted literary critic and
biographer of Henry James, edited Wilson’s letters and journals
at the author’s request. [BTC#26100]
—. Three Reliques of Ancient Western
Poetry. [Boston: Thomas Todd 1951]. First edition. Stapled
276
wrappers. A trifle rubbed at the extremities else fine. Inscribed
by Wilson at the top of the title page: “Happy New Year from
EW.” An elusive pamphlet, apparently issued by Wilson as a
holiday greeting. [BTC#23514]
WOLFE, Thomas. The Web and the
Rock. New York: Harpers 1939. First edition. Fine in a
277
bright, very good plus dustwrapper with a short, shallow chip
at the top of the front panel. A nicer than usual copy of this
poorly made, posthumous novel. [BTC#25712]
278
WOOLF, Virginia. To the Lighthouse.
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
1927. First edition. Foxing
to the foredge, else just
about fine in a very good
dustwrapper with some
chipping at the spine and corners, a modest chip on the
rear panel, and slight tanning to the spine. The original
paper of the jacket has been archivally strengthened at
the folds, else the jacket is entirely original and has NO
supplemental restoration. One of the author’s most
influential novels, a richly textured examination of
gender and family, told through stream-of-consciousness
narratives. A nice, unsophisticated copy of a masterwork of
modern literature. Connolly 100. [BTC#49756]
WORTHINGTON, Richard. Women
with Nets. New York: Brentano’s (1932). First edition.
279
Fine in near very good dustwrapper with chipping, mostly at
the top of the front panel and the crown. Handsome playboy
ensnared by the wily women of post-WWI Berlin. Very scarce.
[BTC#46876]
WYLIE, Elinor. The Venetian Glass
Nephew. New York: George H. Doran Company 1925.
280
First trade edition, issued simultaneously with a signed and
limited edition. Neat, contemporary owner’s name else fine in
fine dustwrapper. [BTC#38876]
—. Mr. Hodge &
Mr. Hazard. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1928. First
281
edition. Fine in cloth and original acetate dustwrapper in
lightly soiled, near fine cardboard slipcase. Copy 42 of 145
numbered copies Signed by the author. A novel by a poet
influential in the first quarter of this century. Attractive
production. [BTC#14891]
282 YOUNG,
Stark. Addio, Madretta
and Other Plays. Chicago: Charles H. Sergel &
Company 1912. First edition. Bookplate of Lella Street
Trueheart on the front pastedown, pages a little darkened
and faint offsetting to facing pages in the text, a very
good copy, no dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author:
“To Miss Trueheart with kind regards from Stark Young,
1912.” Early plays by this versatile writer who was loosely
associated with the Southern Agrarian movement (contributing to the landmark volume I’ll
Take My Stand) and who later gained renown as a novelist and critic. Scarce. [BTC#39696]
African-Americana
283
BRUTUS, Dennis. Sirens Knuckles Boots. Ibadan, Nigeria: Mbari
Publications 1963. First edition. Square quarto. Saddlestitched illustrated wrappers. [36]pp. Staples a bit rusted,
light wear to the extremities, a very good copy of the
internationally known poet’s first book, a collection of
protest verse published while he was in prison. Born in
Zimbabwe, Brutus taught in South Africa for many years
until his outspoken opposition to apartheid resulted
in an 18-month prison term and his being banned
from teaching, writing, or participating in any social or
political meetings or activities. Scarce. [BTC#28575]
CAMPBELL, Bebe Moore. Successful
Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career
284
Marriage. New York: Random House (1986). First edition.
236pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC#47111]
CHASE-RIBOUD, Barbara. From
Memphis & Peking. New York: Random House 1974.
285
Uncorrected Proof. Fine. Wrappers. First book by an author also
well-known for her novels, sculpture, and her book on of the
Amistad mutiny. [BTC#48250]
286 CLEAVER,
Eldridge. Toxic Waste
and Acid Rain. (Stanford, CA: C.P. Times Press 1984).
First edition. 12mo. [8pp]. Staples slightly rusty else fine.
One of six small volumes in a series, this one a poem about
environmental concerns. [BTC#26840]
287 COOPER,
J. California. A Piece of
Mine. Navarro, CA: Wild Trees Press (1984). First edition.
Pictorial wrappers. Introduction by Alice Walker. A fine copy
of the author’s scarce first book, a collection of short stories
published by Walker’s small press. Inscribed by the author.
Seldom found in this condition. [BTC#22748]
GUY, Rosa. Bird at My Window. Philadelphia / New York: J.B. Lippincott
1966. First edition. Tiny spot and a little sunning to the boards else fine in very near fine
dustwrapper with some modest rubbing and a small tear on the front flap fold. A nice copy
of this Trinidad-native’s scarce first novel, set in Harlem.
[BTC#27874]
288
HIMES, Chester. The Heat’s On. New
York: Putnam (1966). First edition. Fine in a very good plus,
price-clipped dustwrapper with some rubbing. A Coffin Ed
Johnson/Grave Digger Jones thriller. [BTC#46390]
289
LEE, George W. River George. New York:
Macaulay 1937. First edition. Small, neat owner’s name else
about fine in near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing and
modest chips at the spine ends. Author’s second novel, the story
of a college-educated Tennessee sharecropper who is involved
in a murder and flees to Beale Street in Memphis. Uncommon.
[BTC#48252]
290
LINCOLN, C. Eric. My Face is Black. Boston: Beacon Press (1964).
First edition. 137pp. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear panel
and a little light rubbing. Signed by the author. An examination of the motivation of Elijah
Muhammad and Malcolm X. Scarce signed. [BTC#40186]
291
LITTLE, Arthur W. From Harlem to
the Rhine: The Story of New York’s Colored
292
Volunteers. New York: Covici-Friede (1936). First edition.
Fine in very good plus dustwrapper with some rubbing and
wrinkling. Very nicely Inscribed by the author on the halftitle employing most of the page: “This book is presented to
Edward M. Latham at the suggestion of ‘Trainee’ Arthur W.
Little, Jr. 5th Co. Plattesburg, 1940. With the Compliments
of the Author – Arthur W. Little, September 18, 1940.” A
history of the famous 15th Regiment during The Great War.
[BTC#37977]
McPHERSON, James Alan. Hue and
Cry. Boston: Little, Brown (1969). First edition. Fine in fine
293
dustwrapper with some very slight rubbing. The jacket bears a small “Winner of the Atlantic
Grant” sticker from the publisher. A better than usual copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
author’s first book. [BTC#27899]
MOTON, Robert Russa. What The
Negro Thinks. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1929.
294
First edition. Owner’s name, a little pencil underlining else
very good in a very good minus price-clipped dustwrapper
with a few chips. Moton was the successor to Booker T.
Washington as principal of Tuskegee. [BTC#46517]
REED, Ishmael. The Free-Lance
Pallbearers. Garden City: Doubleday 1967. First
295
edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with the
slightest of tanning to the white spine. Signed by the author.
A lovely copy of the author’s desirable first book, a humorous
and irreverent novel. [BTC#17892]
—. The Free-Lance Pallbearers. Garden City: Doubleday 1967.
First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of tanning to the white spine.
[BTC#17891]
296
SEALE, Bobby. Seize the Time: The
Story of The Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton.
(Baltimore): Black Classics Press (1991). First edition by this
press, with a new introduction by the author. Originally published
by Random House in 1970. Perfectbound wrappers. Ink
underlining on a few pages else fine. Inscribed by the author: “210-92 To John & Phoebe cooperational humans. Bobby Seale.”
[BTC#33644]
297
SHANGE, Ntozake (misspelled
Ntosake). For Colored Girls Who Have
Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is
Enuf. San Lorenzo, California: Shameless Hussy 1975. First
298
edition, first issue. Slight offsetting to the first text leaf, else fine
in illustrated and stapled red wrappers as issued. The true first
issue of the author’s very scarce first book (with the author’s
first name misspelled), issued two years before the Macmillan
edition. A film version was released in late 2010 from director
Tyler Perry and starring Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, and
Whoopie Goldberg. [BTC#47446]
SULLIVAN, Leon
H. Build Brother Build.
299
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith 1969. First edition. 192pp. Fine
in near fine dustwrapper with an unobtrusive snag on the edge
of the spine. Nicely Inscribed by the author: “To — , One of
the most amazing men I have ever known, with thanks for your
participation in some of the work I have tried to accomplish!
Leon H. Sullivan.” A very nice copy of this autobiography
of the clergyman, businessman, and Civil Rights champion.
[BTC#46015]
TATE, Claudia, edited by. Black
Women Writers at Work. New York: Continuum
300
(1984). First paperbound edition. Light wear to the edges of the wrappers. Conversations
with Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker,
Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and others. This copy
Inscribed by Sonia Sanchez and Gwendolyn Brooks, and Signed by Nikki Giovanni,
Margaret Walker, and Kristin Hunter. A nice assemblage of signatures. [BTC#48777]
TOOMER, Jean. Essentials. Chicago:
Private Edition 1931. First edition. Fine in a lightly agetoned, near fine dustwrapper. One of 1000 numbered copies,
this is copy 90 and is Signed by the author. Toomer’s second
book, his novel, The Cane, was the first book of the Harlem
Renaissance. Our observation based on copies of this title that
we have seen is that relatively few copies were actually signed
and distributed at the time of publication, and that the vast
majority of copies languished in warehouses, unsigned, until
after Toomer’s death. [BTC#36957]
301
WALKER, Alice. Revolutionary
Petunias & Other Poems. New York: Harcourt Brace
302
Jovanovich (1973). First edition. Short tears to the edges of a few pages else fine in fine
dustwrapper with a tiny tear to the crown of the thin spine. Author’s third book, and second
collection of poetry. Scarce. [BTC#36497]
—. Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning. New
York: Dial Press (1979). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author’s sixth book, a
collection of poetry, considered by many to be her scarcest. A lovely copy. [BTC#36496]
303
304
—. Her Blue Body Everything We Know:
Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete. San Diego: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich (1990). First edition. Fine in fine slipcase. Copy 105 of
111 numbered copies Signed by the author. A notably small limitation.
Author’s collected poems. [BTC#36685]
WASHINGTON, Booker T. Frederick
Douglass. Philadelphia: Jacobs (1907). First edition. 365pp.,
305
frontispiece portrait. Half leather and marbled papercovered boards.
Bookplate of silent film star John Gilbert, corners a bit bumped and
slight wear at the spinal extremities, a very good copy of this very
uncommon biography of Douglass. This is the first copy we have seen in
this publisher’s deluxe binding, all other copies we have seen were bound
in publisher’s cloth. One of Washington’s scarcest books. [BTC#45767]
Baseball
ALLEN, Lee. The Cincinnati Reds: An Informal History. New
York: Putnam (1948). First edition. Corners slightly bumped, still fine in very good plus
dustwrapper with a few short tears. A nice copy of an uncommon team history in the
Putnam Sports Series. [BTC#28569]
306
—. The Hot Stove League. New York: A.S. Barnes 1955. First edition.
Pages browned, as always, small paper remnant on the front fly, else near fine in near fine,
lightly rubbed dustwrapper with a very small chip on the rear panel. An informal and quirky
history of baseball that has long been considered one of the scarcer modern baseball books.
[BTC#46204]
307
308
ARCHIBALD, Joe. Fifth Base.
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company (1973). First edition.
Issued in library binding. Near fine in pictorial boards.
[BTC#48702]
BARBOUR, Ralph Henry. Captain
Chub. New York: Century Company 1910. First edition.
309
Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown and a couple
of stains on the front endpaper, probably from a bookplate
removal, spine lettering a bit rubbed but readable, a sound very
good copy in pictorial boards. First chapter of this schoolboy
novel begins with the crimson nine in mortal combat with
their blue team rivals. McCue, despite citing most of Barbour’s
baseball books, missed this one. [BTC#23167]
DAVIS, Clyde Brion. Northend
Wildcats. New York: Farrar, Rinehart (1938). First
310
edition. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. Fine in attractive,
near fine dustwrapper with a couple of short tears and a
little wrinkling on the rear panel. Novel for both children
and adults, about the adventures of the Northend Wildcats
and their attempts to raise money to buy uniforms and
equipment for the team. Scarce in this condition. McCue p.34.
[BTC#25245]
EARL, John
Prescott (pseudo­nym
of Beth Bradford
GILCHRIST). Captain
of the School Team. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing 1910.
311
First edition. Contemporary pencil gift inscription, spine lettering
a little rubbed, else near fine. Third book in the series, mostly
football but listed by McCue (p.45). [BTC#23148]
312 JOHNSON,
Owen. The Varmint. Boston:
Baker and Taylor Co. 1910. First edition. Boards slightly
mottled, small bookseller label on rear pastedown, still a very
good or better copy with little of the usual rubbing to the spine.
One of the Lawrenceville books, some baseball but more emphasis on football in this one.
McCue p.58. [BTC#23176]
LANIGAN, Ernest J. The Baseball Cyclopedia. New York: The
Baseball Magazine Company 1922. First edition. Wrappers. 206pp., 7pp. supplement. Top
corner chipped, crease at the top of the front page, else fine. Excellent yearbook with up-todate records. [BTC#38648]
313
MATHEWSON, Christy. First Base
Faulkner. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1916).
314
First edition. Illustrated by Charles Relyea. Illustrations and the
facing pages quite foxed, some smudges on a few pages and the
spine is slightly faded, else very good or a little better, lacking
the rare dustwrapper. The third of the four alliterative “Matty”
books (the others were Pitcher Pollack, Catcher Craig, and Second
Base Sloan), baseball novels for boys by the Hall of Fame pitcher.
In this one Joe (not Bill) Faulkner joins the team and wins the
big game with an unassisted double play. Scarce. [BTC#46001]
NEEDHAM, Henry Beach. The Double Squeeze. Garden City:
Doubleday, Page 1915. First edition. Introduction by Connie Mack. Illustrations by Arthur
William Brown and George Wright. Contemporary gift inscription else fine, lacking the
presumed dustwrapper. Uncommon baseball novel. Mack, a friend of the author’s, was his
model for Tris Ford, the manager of the “Giant-Killers” and the character who unifies the
book’s four stories. McCue p.74 [BTC#46734]
315
SCOTT, Morgan (pseudonym of Gilbert PATTEN). Rival
Pitchers of Oakdale. New York: Hurst (1911). First edition. Slight rubbing to the
316
spine decoration and lacking the front free endpaper, a bright near fine copy. Third book in
the six book Oakdale series. Rival prep school pitchers compete. McCue p.78. Mattson and
Davis 43100. [BTC#23169]
WERBER, Bill. Circling the Bases. [No place]: (The Author) [circa
1979]. First edition. Fine in pictorial boards and near fine dustwrapper with a short tear.
Inscribed by the author: “To Jennifer: With all of our love, Nana & Gramps; plus an assist
from Bill Werber.” Self-published memoir by a Duke University graduate and third baseman
who excelled, particularly with the Reds, Yankees, and Red
Sox. Includes some good Babe Ruth anecdotes. Scarce.
[BTC#40467]
317
WOOD, H. Wellington. Base Ball
Thrillers of the National Game. (Philadelphia):
318
The Author 1914. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 8pp. Some
oxidation to the staples and browning to the surrounding area,
two parallel vertical creases, a very good copy. A humorous
composition, part essay, part verse, about baseball that
attempts to explain the national game by using the surnames
of the various pro players out of context. Of some interest is
an early mention of Babe Ruth in his rookie year. Rare. OCLC
lists no copies in American libraries. [BTC#47625]
Children’s Books
BRINE, Mary D. Little Lad Jamie. New
York: Dutton 1895. First edition. Scattered foxing, a nice, very
good copy. Story of a good little boy and his adventures when
his mother must go away for a time. Beautifully illustrated
with eight tipped-in photogravure prints on tissue. Very scarce.
[BTC#40477]
319
320 BROWNE,
Howard. Warrior of the
Dawn. Chicago: Reilly & Lee (1943). First edition.
Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown else fine in very
good dustwrapper with small chips and tears at the extremities.
Inscribed by the author at a later date. Tarzan-esque adventure
aimed at adolescents. Browne is probably better known for his hardboiled novels. Books
signed by him are uncommon. [BTC#37198]
321
BERRY, Rotha McClain. Swift Deer:
The Navajo. San Antonio: Naylor Company 1953. First
edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with one tiny tear. A
children’s book by a Texas author, probably self-published. The
story of a Navajo boy who struggles with his cultural beliefs
after being exposed to life outside the reservation. A superb,
bright and fresh copy. [BTC#49269]
322
CLARK, Ann. Little Herder In Spring.
Washington DC: Education Division U.S. Office of Indian
Affairs [circa 1941]. First edition. Illustrated by Hoke
Denetsosie. Large bookplate from a distinguished collection
of Western Americana (consisting of a lovely silver print
photograph) else fine in wrappers. Signed by the illustrator.
[BTC#50678]
COOK, Edmund Vance and Bessie
Collins Pease [GUTMANN]. The
Biography of Our Baby. New York: Dodge
323
(1906). First edition. Quarto. A baby book with room
to add comments, pictures, etc. This copy partially used
with some ink comments, photo of a baby tipped to the
appropriate page, some offsetting from cards or notes that
were laid in. Lightly soiled, a very good copy of this attractive
volume, illustrated throughout by Bessie Collins Pease [later
Gutmann]. Scarce. [BTC#38640]
de la MARE, Walter. The Three MullaMulgars. London: Duckworth 1910. First edition, first
324
issue in green cloth with monkey device and gilt lettering on the front board. Bookplate of
Oliver Brett, Third Viscount Esher, and very slight splash marks on the spine, a near fine
copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. A classic children’s work. [BTC#48899]
—. Ding Dong Bell. London: Selwyn & Blount 1924. First edition. A tiny
bump at the bottom of the front board, still a fine copy in about fine dustwrapper with slight
loss at the crown. Copy 97 of 300 numbered copies Signed
by the author. An exceptional copy. [BTC#4583]
325
MAXWELL, William. The Heavenly
Tenants. New York: Harper (1946). First edition.
326
Pictures by Ilonka Karasz. Quarto. Slight rubbing to the
boards else fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper
with slight loss at the crown. Author’s scarce, and only,
children’s book, illustrated by a New Yorker colleague.
[BTC#30567]
Staff of the Walt Disney Studios.
The Adventures of Mickey Mouse: Book
Number 2. Philadelphia: McKay (1932). Illustrated
327
papercovered boards. Small dampstain on the bottom corner
of the first page, some scattered smudging to the pages, and
wear at the extremities, an about very good copy, lacking the
rare dustwrapper. A presentable copy of an early Disney title.
[BTC#29163]
328
VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. [Poster]:
Jumanji.
Boston: Houghton
Mifflin [1981].
Approximately 40”
x 44”. Fine, folded into quarters as issued. Poster
for the release of Van Allsburg’s Caldecott Medalwinning book Jumanji, reproducing an illustration
from the book. A splendid, striking image. Signed by
Van Allsburg. [BTC#12273]
—. Ben’s Dream. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Company 1982. First edition. Spine a
little cocked, else fine in a price-clipped about fine
dustwrapper with a tiny chip on the bottom of the
rear panel and a little rubbing. Author’s third book. [BTC#22048]
329
330
—. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1984. First edition.
Quarto. Fine in a price-clipped, very near fine dustwrapper
with a single short tear and some negligible wear at the
crown. A marvelous and haunting collection of pictures
with one-line captions from which you are to invent the
story (as Stephen King did for one of the pictures, “The
House on Maple Street,” in his collection Nightmares and
Dreamscapes). [BTC#12749]
331 WARREN,
Robert Penn. The
Gods of Mount
Olympus. New York: Random House (1959). First
edition. Illustrated by William Moyers. Fine in an attractive,
very good dustwrapper with some rubbing and short tears. A
very uncommon children’s book in the Legacy Series. One of
the author’s two children’s books, this one much the scarcer of
the pair. [BTC#2540]
Film & Photoplays
332
DE HAAS, Arline. Say It With Songs.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1929). First edition, a
photoplay edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with
a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. Novelized by De Haas
from the Darryl Zanuck and Harvey Gates screenplay for the
Al Jolson movie, his first all-talkie, in which he sings, among
other songs, “Little Pal.” Jacket painting of Jolson and his
film family, illustrated with stills from the film. A lovely copy.
[BTC#23035]
FAIRBANKS, Douglas. Making Life
Worth While. New York: Britton (1918). First edition,
333
the Khaki edition. Light tidemark to the bottom of the pages,
else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with
chips at the spine ends. The simultaneously issued “Khaki Edition,” much smaller and more
compact than the regular issue, intended for use by the boys at the front in WWI. Wisdom
from the noted film star in a smaller package. [BTC#48176]
FOWLER, Guy. 4 Devils. New York:
Grosset & Dunlap (1928). First edition, a photoplay edition.
Contemporary gift inscription, slight offsetting to the
endpapers else fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper
with a bit of light wear. Novelized by Fowler from the story by
Herman Bang and starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Morton.
Produced and directed by F.W. Murnau of Nosferatu fame,
one of three films he made for Fox when he first came to the
U.S. from his native Germany. He made one other major film
and was killed in an automobile accident at the age of 42.
Illustrated with stills from the film, now lost, about a trapeze
troupe overcome by tragedy. Jacket painting portrays the
“Devils” and the love interest. Scarce. [BTC#23280]
334
GREENE, Sarah P. McLean. Cape Cod Folks. New York: Grosset
& Dunlap (1904-1925). Photoplay edition. Scattered foxing on the foredge else fine in near
fine dustwrapper with a little toning to the white portions. Jacket and text illustrated with
stills from the film. The jacket states the 1924 Reginald Barker-directed film version for
Louis B. Meyer was entitled Her Man, but a Western with that title was also made that year
and the film was released as Women Who Give. [BTC#40388]
335
HILL, Edwin C. The Iron Horse. New York: Grosset & Dunlap
(1924). Photoplay edition. Neat contemporary owner’s name else fine in very good or
better dustwrapper with some tanning to the spine and short tears and slight nicks at the
extremities. Illustrated with stills from John Ford’s epic silent film about the building of the
transcontinental railroad which employed a cast of thousands including, in a bit part, Clark
Gable in his first year in Hollywood. Novelized by Hill from the Charles Kenyon/John
Russell screenplay. [BTC#18529]
336
JOHNSTON, Annie Fellows. The Little Colonel. New York:
Burt [circa 1935]. Photoplay edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of small
nicks and some rubbing. A very nice copy with endpapers, photos, and jacket art from the
1935 film that featured Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore. [BTC#16083]
337
MAYORGA, Margaret, edited by.
One Reel Scenarios for Amateur MovieMakers. New York: Samuel French (1938). First edition.
338
Slight paper remnant on the rear board, adhered from the
inside of the jacket, else fine in an attractive very good
dustwrapper with a faint dampstain on the edge of the spine
and the top of the rear panel. Front panel illustration of
Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid. A collection
of short screenplays intended for amateur filmmakers, and
illustrated with stills from amateur film groups (which
apparently once operated much as local theatre groups do
today), special effects, and some stills from professional films
(Chaplin and Eisenstein). Unusual. [BTC#15174]
339
“Greater Than Ever in Wide Screen”
(MITCHELL, Margaret). [Film Trailer]: Gone With the Wind.
[Circa 1967]. 35mm film trailer for
the 1967 Wide Screen re-release of
the epic motion picture Gone With the
Wind. A trifle dusty else fine with no
discernable scratches or splices, this
example perhaps never run theatrically.
The film was shot in 1.33:1 ratio,
but significantly for this re-release
was “converted” to wide screen by
eliminating portions of the top and
bottom of the frame. With the gorgeous
vista of Tara in the background, the beginning and end of the trailer proclaim the film to be
“More Spectacular More Stirring with the Scope of our Wide Screen.” [BTC#43622]
WHARTON, Edith. The Marriage
Playground. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1928).
340
Photoplay edition of Wharton’s novel The Children. Small
owner label front fly, foxing and soiling to the endpapers
and foredge, an about very good copy in very good or better
dustwrapper with a jacket painting depicting Fredric March
and Mary Brian, and some negligible shallow chipping.
Illustrated with stills from the film. [BTC#20463]
Mysteries & Detective Fiction
ANDERSON, Frederick Irving. The
Notorious Sophie Lang. London: Heinemann (1925).
341
First edition. Some edgewear to the cloth, endpapers browned and
several dampstains on the boards, a good only copy of a rare book.
Anderson published only three volumes of fiction, most of which
first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. In their Encyclopedia of
Mystery and Detection, Steinbrunner and Penzler praise the somewhat
forgotten writer: “… the stories have a subtle richness that requires
a careful reading of every word, lest the inevitable story between the
lines be missed.” Basis for a series of films released in the 1930s, all
of which featured Gertrude Michael as the jewel thief Sophie Lang.
[BTC#47817]
342
ARMSTRONG, Charlotte. The Albatross.
New York: Coward-McCann (1957). First edition. Ownership
signature of minor literary figure, still fine in modestly rubbed, else fine dustwrapper.
Advance Review Copy with slip and photo laid in. An especially nice copy of a book
notorious for usually being in poor condition. A classic collection that includes a novelette
and nine stories. Queen’s Quorum. [BTC#48059]
BLOCH, Robert. The Dead Beat. New York: Simon and Schuster 1960.
First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with some light soiling to the
panels. Signed by the author. [BTC#43715]
343
BLOCK, Lawrence as Jill Emerson. A Week as Andrea
Benstock. New York: Arbor House (1973). First edition. Fine in very near fine
344
dustwrapper with a little rubbing and very short tear. Block’s second hardcover novel
using this pseudonym, a non-mystery novel about a woman’s self-awareness which the
publisher compares to Diary of a Mad Housewife and Up the Sandbox! An uncommon title.
[BTC#45698]
Basis for Diabolique
345 BOILEAU, Pierre and Thomas
NARCEJAC. The Woman Who Was No
More. New York: Rinehart (1954). First American edition.
Page edges browned else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with
a tiny tear and a few minuscule flecks of white paint on the
front panel. An uncommon title, the first book by this French
team to be published in the U.S. Basis for the classic HenriGeorges Clouzot film Diabolique with Simon Signoret and the
director’s wife Vera Clouzot. A translation from the French, and
published before the film was released, this had a very small
print run, perhaps as few as a thousand copies. Considering the
cheap leftover wartime materials employed, it is unlikely to have
survived in any numbers. We have only seen a handful of copies
in the last two decades. [BTC#28878]
BROWN, Fredric. The Wench is Dead. New York: Dutton 1955. First
edition. A small tape shadow on each pastedown, else near fine in an attractive, very good
or better dustwrapper with a faint stain to the bottom of the front flap, and some subtle
rubbing at the bottom of the front panel. L.A. bartender is murdered and an undercover
scholar investigating social conditions is implicated. [BTC#46672]
346
BUTLER, Ellis Parker. Philo Gubb,
Correspondence-School Detective. Boston /
347
New York: Houghton Mifflin 1918. First edition. Fine in a
lovely, near fine dustwrapper with very shallow loss at the crown
and with professional internal repairs at the folds. A hilarious
parody of the detective genre – Gubb emulates Sherlock Holmes
and maintains an office for his two occupations: correspondenceschool detective and wallpaper hanger. One of the first and best
detective parodies. Queen’s Quorum. [BTC#47320]
348
CHANDLER, Raymond. Playback.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1958. First American edition,
preceded by the U.K. edition. Fine in a very good plus
dustwrapper with a single short tear on the front panel and a
little rubbing. A better than usual copy of a cheaply manufactured volume. [BTC#41321]
CHESTERTON, G.K. Four Faultless Felons. London: Cassell
(1930). First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with slight chipping at the spinal
extremities, particularly at the foot. A collection of four novellas. Scarce in jacket.
[BTC#47323]
349
CHRISTIE, Agatha. Poirot Loses a
Client. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1937. First
350
American edition. A couple of faint dampstains on the rear
panel else about fine in an about very good dustwrapper
with some edgewear, small chips at the spinal extremities
and a stain on the rear panel about the size of a quarter.
Still a presentable copy of a book hard to find in jacket.
[BTC#46709]
— as Mary Westmacott. Unfinished
Portrait. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1934. First
351
American edition. Neat, contemporary owner’s name, corners
slightly bumped else fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks. No fading to the
delicate pink color on the jacket. A non-mystery in which a young woman tells the story of
her tragic life to an interested young artist. A lovely copy of the second Agatha Christie novel
written under the Westmacott pseudonym. [BTC#33090]
CLANCY, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. London: Collins 1985.
First English edition. Usual browning to the pages, and some faint evidence of dampness
to the bottom edge of the pages, a very good plus copy in about fine dustwrapper with one
short tear at the top of the front flap fold. Uncommon edition of the author’s first book, the
352
breakthrough title in the techno-thriller genre. [BTC#40324]
353
COE, Charles Francis. G MAN.
Philadelphia: Lippincott (1935). First edition. Bookstore stamp
on the front pastedown, a bit cocked, a well-read but still
nice, very good copy in an attractive, very good plus pictorial
dustwrapper with a discreet crease on the spine and slight spine
fade. Several of Coe’s works were adapted into film, including
Nancy Steele is Missing! with Peter Lorre, The Gay Bride with
Carole Lombard, and Raoul Walsh’s Me, Gangster, also with
Lombard and co-scripted by Coe. A classic hardboiled gangster
novel. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC#13121]
CROOKER, Herbert. The Crime in Washington Mews. New
York: Macaulay (1931). First edition. A couple of small stains on the boards, a very good
plus copy in price-clipped, very good plus dustwrapper with a small chip at the corner of
the spine and another modest one at the bottom of the rear panel. Clay Brooke investigates
the New York City kidnapping of a millionaire’s eccentric, sculptress daughter by a criminal
mastermind named “The Weasel.” [BTC#46548]
354
ELLROY, James. Brown’s Requiem. (New York): Avon (1981). First
edition. Paperback original. A little cocked and a couple of light stress creases on the spine
else about fine in wrappers as issued. True first edition of the author’s first book. A murder
mystery centered around golf. Basis for the 1998 film with Michael Rooker and Selma Blair.
[BTC#27768]
355
ENGLAND, George Allan. Pod,
Bender & Co. New York: McBride 1916. First edition.
356
Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the flaps, else about fine
in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with some
old internal brown paper repairs and some negligible and very
shallow chipping. Signed by the author in pencil. Chronicles
of the highjinks of Pod and Bender, arch crooks in the mold
of Raffles and Young Wallingford. England also was a prolific
and popular author of early science-fiction (in his day he was
the closest rival to Edgar Rice
Burroughs) and some of his
works used fantasy to expound
socialist principles, a la Jack London. Exceptionally scarce in
jacket, or signed. [BTC#46824]
357 FINNEY,
Jack. 5 Against The House.
Garden City: Doubleday 1954. First edition. Very near fine in
very good or better dustwrapper with some slight nicks, tears,
and rubbing at the extremities. The author’s uncommon first
book, the basis for the 1955 Phil Karlson film featuring Guy
Madison, Kim Novak, and Brian Keith as would-be thieves of
a Reno casino. [BTC#49611]
358 FREEMAN,
R. Austin. The Puzzle
Lock. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1925. First edition.
Pinhead-sized abrasion to the cloth on the spine, slightly
soiled, a very good or better copy lacking the rare dustwrapper.
A collection of Dr. Thorndyke stories. [BTC#47406]
—. The Magic Casket. London: Hodder &
Stoughton [1927]. First edition. Faint stain to the bottom
third of the spine, lightly soiled, a very good or a little better
copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. Mystery author P.M.
Stone’s copy, with his ownership signature in pencil on the
front pastedown. An uncommon collection of Dr. Thorndyke
stories. [BTC#47440]
359
360 —.
The Surprising Experiences of Mr.
Shuttlebury Cobb. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1927. First edition. A fine copy,
lacking the scarce dustwrapper. A collection of short fiction in which Cobb travels through
the underbelly of London, encountering mysterious and in some cases magical elements, by
the physician-turned-author. [BTC#47382]
GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The World of Water: Exploring
the Sacramento Delta. New York: Morrow 1965. First edition. Spine lettering a little
worn and a little foxing, also on the spine, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Nonmystery travel book. Inscribed by the author: “To ‘Bimbo’ with best from yours, Erle. Erle
Stanley Gardner.” [BTC#38622]
361
362
GRANT, James Edward. The Green Shadow. New York:
Hartney Press 1935. First edition. Fine in a lightly worn, near
fine and attractive dustwrapper designed by Charles B. Gilbert
with a few short tears and some rubbing. The jacket has an
unusual design with the tops and bottoms of the flaps extended,
folded inward and glued (as issued) to make pockets that hold the
jacket on. Very hardboiled private eye novel. The Chicago-born
author was a newspaper journalist who wrote a column on rackets
and racketeering, and later became a successful screenwriter.
Among his produced scripts were The Great John L., The Angel
and the Bad Man, Sands of Iwo Jima, Flying Leathernecks, Hondo,
The Alamo, and Donovan’s Reef. This particular novel was the
basis for the fast-paced and very entertaining 1936 Charles Vidor
film Muss ‘em Up, with Preston Foster as detective “Tip” O’Neil.
[BTC#39295]
HARDY, Arthur Sherburne. Diane and Her Friends. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin 1914. First edition. Very near fine. A collection of stories that introduces
Inspector Joly. Hardy, after graduating from Cornell, served as ambassador to numerous
countries including Greece, Switzerland, Persia, and Spain. Queen’s Quorum. [BTC#47816]
363
HAWTHORNE, Julian. Six Cent Sam’s. St. Paul: Price-McGill
(1893). First edition. Modest soiling to the boards, a faint horizontal crease to one side of the
front board, a very good or a little better copy of this uncommon collection of mystery short
stories, one of three written by the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. [BTC#47815]
364
HIAASEN, Carl. Double Whammy. New York: Putnam (1987).
Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author. [BTC#10149]
365
HOPKINS, Nevil Monroe. The Strange
Cases of Mason Brant. Philadelphia: Lippincott
366
1916. First edition. Four illustrations in color by Gayle
Hoskins. Moderate tape shadows on the free endpapers, else a
very near fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. Three cases,
one a novelette featuring Mason Brant and his “Watson,”
Robert Dale. While one of the stories features a fanciful use of
radium as a detecting device, the stories are generally adjudged
excellent. The first of the author’s two mysteries, and very scarce.
[BTC#47389]
HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey. The Salvation
of Pisco Gabar and Other Stories. London: Chatto
367
and Windus 1938. First edition. Corners slightly bumped, about
fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a modest chip at the spine and a small, faint
stain on the front panel that is not very noticeable because of the jacket design. The author’s
first collection of short stories, several with criminal content. [BTC#48219]
HUME, Fergus. Hagar of the Pawn-Shop. London: Skeffington
& Son 1898. First edition. Light foxing, some soiling, and a split in the cloth along the top
edge of the spine where it meets the front panel. A collection of stories about Hagar Stanley, a
beautiful gypsy who solves crimes. The author wrote the bestselling The Mystery of a Hansom
Cab (the true first edition is perhaps the rarest book in the mystery genre) but most of his
other 130 books were relatively unsuccessful. This collection is one of only a few of his books
which are sought after, mostly for its unique protagonist. [BTC#47441]
368
369 HUNT,
Howard. Maelstrom. New York:
Farrar, Straus & Company 1948. First edition. Fine in
very good or a little better dustwrapper with some modest
chipping at the crown. The Watergate burglar’s third book,
and first mystery. A little wear, but an attractive copy of an
uncommon title. [BTC#45755]
HUXLEY, Elspeth. The African Poison
Murders. New York: Harper and Brothers 1940. First
370
American edition. Slightly cocked and a little soiling to
the boards, very good or a little better in an attractive, very
good dustwrapper that has been reinforced internally with
brown paper. Author’s third mystery, a thriller set in Africa.
[BTC#33618]
JAMES, P.D. and T.A. CRITCHLEY. The Maul and The
Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811. London: Constable (1971). First
371
edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the crown, and a sticker for the American
distributor on the rear panel. Non-fiction account of a famous crime spree in Regency
England. [BTC#49966]
KELLERMAN, Jonathan, Dr. Helping
the Fearful Child. New York: Norton (1981). First
372
edition. Scratch to both the front board of the book and the
front panel of the jacket, a couple of small spots on the foredge
else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. First book written by the
successful mystery author (he had previously edited a medical
textbook), creator of child psychologist/detective Alex Delaware.
[BTC#39553]
373 LANGTON,
Jane.
The Transcendental
Murder. New York: Harper
& Row (1964). First edition.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper with the white portions of
the spine a little tanned and scuffed; considering the thin,
uncoated paper of the jacket, a much better than usual
example. Author’s first mystery for adults, featuring detective
hero Homer Kelly, preceded by a couple of little-known
books for adolescents. Concord librarian writing a book on
the transcendentalists is immersed in a murder. Nice Eudora
Welty blurb. [BTC#37364]
374 LATIMER,
Jonathan. Solomon’s
Vineyard. Santa Barbara: Neville 1982. First unexpurgated American edition, as well
as the first to contain an interview with the author. This novel was originally published in
England in 1941. Fine in purple cloth as issued. Copy 138 of 300 numbered copies (of a
total edition of 326) Signed by the author. [BTC#24117]
LEBLANC, Maurice. The Confessions
of Arsene Lupin. London: Mills & Boon Limited
375
(1912). First edition in English. Small, contemporary owner’s
name, a tiny tear at the crown, slight wear at the edges of the
spine, the applied pictorial portrait of Lupin on the front
board only slightly rubbed, a handsome, very good plus
copy. A scarce collection of short stories featuring the greatest
French criminal mastermind and occasional detective. Lupin’s
adventures were portrayed in many films with the character
being played by, among others, John Barrymore and Melvyn
Douglas. A very nice copy. [BTC#46879]
LEROUX, Gaston. Nomads of the
Night. New York: Macaulay (1925). First American edition.
376
Owner’s name and a little soiling, else fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of modest
tears and a small chip to one corner of the crown. A mystery featuring Nina Noha, the beautiful
dancer of Paris, and the resourceful adventurer Cheri-Bibi, who appeared in several of Leroux’s
mysteries. Leroux, of course, is best known for his Phantom of the Opera. [BTC#37014]
MacDONALD, John D. Typed Letter Signed “John.” One
page Typed Letter Signed “John” to Robie Macauley, editor at Playboy, about a story he is
submitting for consideration. [BTC#7406]
377
MACDONALD, Ross. A Collection of Reviews. Northridge,
California: Lord John Press 1979. First edition, deluxe issue. Copy 37 of 50 numbered
copies (of a total edition of 350) Signed by the author. Slight rubbing at the bottom of the
cloth and papercovered boards else fine. A collection of essays on various authors and topics
including detective fiction, James M. Cain, Joseph Conrad, Colin Wilson, and Thomas Mann.
[BTC#24752]
378
McCULLEY, Johnston. Black Star’s
Return. New York: Chelsea House (1925). First edition.
379
Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, else
fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with tiny
nicks at the crown and a couple of short tears. The third
volume to feature “The Black Star,” by the creator of Zorro.
[BTC#48909]
MOSLEY, Walter. A
Red Death. New York: Norton
380
(1991). Uncorrected proof. Fine
in wrappers. Signed by the author.
Second Easy Rawlins mystery.
[BTC#12762]
381 NEBEL,
Frederick. Fifty Roads to Town.
Boston: Little, Brown 1936. First edition. Top edge and extremities
of the boards a bit soiled thus very good or a little better, in good
plus dustwrapper with a large triangular chip on the rear panel.
The author’s uncommon third novel,
a hardboiled book about strangers,
stranded and snowbound in a Maine town, was made into a comedy
film with Don Ameche, Ann Sothern, Slim Summerville, and Stepin
Fetchit. [BTC#29950]
NEELY, Barbara. Blanche On the Lam. New
York: St. Martins (1992). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
First novel by this African-American writer, a mystery about a 40year-old domestic forced to solve a murder mystery or have herself
be considered the prime suspect. Winner of the Agatha Award for
best first novel. [BTC#25942]
382
ORCZY, Baroness. The Old Man in
the Corner. London: Greening & Co. 1909. First edition.
383
Slight soiling to the spine, and the corners slightly bumped,
a lovely, about fine copy, with no rubbing to the usually wellworn pictorial front board, lacking the rare jacket. A collection
of stories featuring the nameless detective who never leaves
his room, the precursor to Nero Wolfe. A superb copy of a
book generally found very worn. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone,
Queen’s Quorum. [BTC#47383]
384 PAYNE,
Lamar
Strickland. 20th
Century Fables. New York:
Broadway Publishing Company
(1904). First edition. Illustrations by O’Malley. Title page and
frontispiece guard a bit foxed, else fine. A very scarce collection
of fables, reminiscent of George Ade, but several with criminous
content. [BTC#47818]
PEARS, Iain. The Raphael Affair. New
York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992. Uncorrected proof. Fine
in wrappers. The first book in the author’s series of art related
mysteries. [BTC#36398]
385
386 POST,
Melville
Davisson. The Silent Witness. New York:
Farrar & Rinehart (1929). First edition. Slight offsetting to
the endpapers, else fine in an attractive dustwrapper with
several internal repairs. Post’s work is considered by many,
Howard Haycraft and Ellery Queen among them, second
only to Poe’s in the annuls of American detective fiction. He
died the year after this was published in a fall from a horse.
[BTC#47309]
PRESNELL, F.G. No Mourners
Present. New York: Morrow 1940. First edition. Slight
387
crease to the spine cloth else about fine in a lightly rubbed,
very good plus dustwrapper. Author’s second of three mysteries featuring John and Ann
Webb, the poor man’s Nick and Nora Charles. The first book in the series was filmed as
Slightly Honorable. [BTC#45353]
PROSPER, John. Gold-Killer: A Mystery of the New Underworld.
New York: Doran 1922. First edition. Foxing to the foredge and endpapers, light wear to
the boards, very good plus in very good or better dustwrapper with a number of small nicks
and tears, and one slightly longer tear on the rear panel. A novel of the “new underworld” of
organized crime. The author’s one and only mystery, set in New York City. [BTC#38741]
388
ROHMER, Sax. Yellow Shadows. London: Cassell (1925). First
edition. Name and ink notation that this is a “1st edition” on the front fly, publisher’s small
sticker on the front board, scattered light foxing, very good plus lacking the dustwrapper.
The second novel to feature Daniel “Red” Kelly. Scarce. [BTC#43347]
389
SHAW, Joseph T. Danger Ahead. New
York: Mohawk Press (1932). First edition. Slight soiling to
foredge, else fine in a vibrant, near fine dustwrapper with one
very small chip and an old label on the spine. A scarce novel
by the editor of Black Mask who is better known today for his
encouraging and publishing such authors as Dashiell Hammett
and Raymond Chandler. [BTC#4452]
390
SHEARING, Joseph (pseudonym of
Marjorie BOWEN). The Spider in the Cup.
391
New York: Smith and Haas 1934. First American edition.
Delicate green dyes in the boards moderately faded, else fine
in fine dustwrapper with very minor rubbing. Victorian-era
mystery featuring a young woman, the paid companion of an
older woman, who is involved in a poisoning. Shearing was the pseudonym of the novelist
Marjorie Bowen. A lovely copy. [BTC#46574]
392 SPILLANE,
Mickey. The Long Wait. New
York: Dutton 1951. First edition. A trifle worn at the spinal
extremities else fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with
modest rubbing, some creases and a couple of subtle, short tears.
The second of Spillane’s books to be filmed (after I, The Jury), this
time by director Victor Saville in 1954 with Anthony Quinn and
Charles Coburn. A serviceable copy of the author’s sixth book,
and his first not to feature Mike Hammer. [BTC#49475]
393 STARRETT,
Vincent. Murder in Peking.
New York: Lantern Press 1946. First edition. Endpapers and top
edge foxed, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little light
edgewear. Thirteen Caucasian men and women, including a
mystery writer and a Hollywood
director, attend a party given by a beautiful Chinese woman
in a rented Buddhist temple. [BTC#33274]
394
STEIN, Aaron Marc. Up To No Good.
Garden City: Doubleday / Crime Club 1941. First edition.
Some wear to the surface finish of the boards, a very good
or a little better copy in very good, Paul Galdone-designed
dustwrapper with some rubbing and small chips at the
corners of the spine. Archaeologist murdered in Peru.
[BTC#40326]
STERLING, Stewart. Where There’s Smoke. Philadelphia:
Lippincott (1946). First edition. Small, contemporary gift inscription else fine in very good
plus dustwrapper with a small nick and a little rubbing, all at the crown. A firefighter mystery
featuring Ben Pedley, New York City Fire Marshall, on the search for an arsonist who torched
a radio personality’s dressing room. Author’s third book, and second of over twenty Ben
Pedley mysteries. Sterling wrote extensively for radio, movies, and television. [BTC#28172]
395
THOMAS, Ross as Oliver Bleeck.
The Highbinders. New York: Morrow 1973.
396
Uncorrected proof. A small dampspot on the front wrap and
an owner’s stamp on the verso of the front wrap, very good in
wrappers. Signed by the author. A scarce format of this Philip
St. Ives mystery. [BTC#2609]
THOMPSON, Jim.
Bad Boy. New York: Lion
397
(1953). First edition. Paperback
original. A little scattered foxing
on a few pages, small ink mark
at the bottom of the front
wrap and modest creasing on the spine, a very good plus
copy in wrappers. Along with Roughneck, the most frankly
autobiographical of his paperback originals. [BTC#39236]
—. A Hell of a Woman. New York: Lion
(1954). First edition. Paperback original. A beautiful near
fine plus copy in crisp wrappers with just a touch of rubbing
at the extremities and small 1/2” initials in blue on the first page. Lion Original 218.
[BTC#24228]
398
399
Scarce Jim Thompson Item
(—). Furrow’s End: An Anthology of Great
Farm Stories. New York: Greenberg (1946). First edition.
Edited by David B. Greenberg. Introduction by Louis
Bromfield. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a little foxing on
the edges of the rear flap fold. An uncommon anthology of
farm stories including an early Jim Thompson story, “Mr.
Simpson Makes a Sale,” as well as stories by Bromfield, E.B.
White, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, George Sessions Perry,
Jesse Stuart, and William Saroyan. A very nice copy and
uncommon in jacket. [BTC#33562]
VALIN, Jonathan. The Lime Pit. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1980). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny
pin hole on the front panel. Author’s first book, and the notable debut of the excellent Harry
Stoner series of mysteries. [BTC#24115]
400
VAN RAALTE, Joseph. The Walls Are High and She Is
Very Far. New York: Vanguard (1931). First edition. Foxing to the endpapers else
401
fine in a lovely, near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing at the extremities. Romantic
mystery about an imprisoned felon who continuously escapes from prison to be with the
woman he loves. [BTC#29306]
VICKERS, Roy. The Department of Dead Ends. (New York):
Spivak (1947). First edition. Paperback original. Perfectbound digest-sized wrappers. Pages
browned, a bit of rubbing mostly to the extremities and a couple of small checkmarks on the
contents page, a very good plus copy. A collection of stories about a department in Scotland
Yard that solves cold crimes. One of the few paperback originals that is both a Queen’s
Quorum and Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. [BTC#26157]
402
403
WALLING, R.A.J. In Time for Murder.
New York: Morrow 1933. First American edition. Tiny ink
number on the front pastedown and a few tiny scrapes on
the front board, still easily fine in a very attractive, about fine
dustwrapper with two short tears on the rear panel and a little
rubbing. A bright, fresh copy of this Mr. Toleree novel, first
published in the U.K. as Follow the Blue Car. [BTC#49959]
WHITFIELD, Raoul. Silver Wings. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf 1930. First edition. Illustrated by Frank
Dobias. Two blanks excised (but not the patterned art decodesign endpapers) else near fine lacking the scarce dustwrapper.
Inscribed by the author: “To Trudy – My perfectly swell
‘Lafayette’ neighbor – January – 1931. Raoul Whitfield.” A collection of aviation stories for
adolescent boys, issued at about the same time as the author’s better known noir mysteries.
The only book by this author we’ve seen either signed or inscribed. [BTC#46201]
404
405
WILLEFORD, Charles. Poontang and
Other Poems. (Crescent City, FL: Privately Printed / New
Atheneum Press 1967). First edition. Stapled wrappers. Very
slight bump to the bottom corner, still easily fine. Signed by
the author. Reportedly one of 500 copies, this is the seemingly
scarcer variant in gray wrappers (also issued in green, no
priority). A self-published volume of poetry, perhaps the scarcest
book published under Willeford’s name, and rare signed.
[BTC#45959]
—. Cockfighter. New York: Crown 1972. First
hardcover edition, preceded by a paperback original. Small
bookstore label else fine in a very good dustwrapper with a
number of small rubbed spots, the most grievous about 3/8”
long at the bottom left corner of the front panel. Author’s elusive second hardcover title,
about the hard-as-nails world of the cockfighting circuit. Scarce. [BTC#47970]
406
—. The Way We Die Now. New York: Ultramarine 1988. First edition.
Quarter leather and marbled boards. Fine. Copy number 76 of 99 numbered copies Signed
by the author. [BTC#24875]
407
—. Cockfighter Journal. Santa Barbara: Neville Spearman 1989. First edition.
Fine in cloth as issued. Foreword by James Lee Burke. Copy 172 of 300 numbered copies (of
a total edition of 326) Signed by Burke. [BTC#48160]
408
WOODS, Stuart. Blue Water, Green
Skipper. New York: Norton (1977). First edition. Owner’s
409
name on the front pastedown else fine in a bit rubbed, very
good plus dustwrapper with a few tiny tears. Author’s first
book, a non-fiction account of transatlantic solo race sailing,
which precedes his first mystery by four years. The book had a
very small first printing. [BTC#14895]
410 WOOLRICH,
Cornell. Cover
Charge. New York: Boni &
Liveright 1926. First edition.
Owner’s name, endpapers
somewhat foxed, boards lightly soiled, spine darkened and
with a very tiny puncture, a good or somewhat better copy
lacking the dustwrapper. First book by the much admired
genre writer whose work is periodically rediscovered.
[BTC#24218]
411 —.
A Young Man’s
Heart. New York: Mason
Publishing Company 1930. First edition. A trifle sunned at the
crown, still easily fine in a very attractive, very good dustwrapper
with a chip at the crown which affects the “A” of the title. One
of the author’s early novels, about an American who brings his
bride to Mexico, where he used to live, to find things changed
and sinister. Scarce in jacket.
[BTC#33846]
412 —.
Violence. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Company
(1958). First edition. Corners
very slightly bumped else fine in
a near fine dustwrapper with a
small chip at the right hand corner of the crown. An attractive
copy of this collection of stories. Includes “The Corpse in the
Statue of Liberty,” one of his best early tales, and “Guillotine”
and “The Moon of Montezuma,” which were both televised
on the anthology program Thriller starring Boris Karloff.
[BTC#46761]
Photography
413
COWLEY, Malcolm. Exile’s Return:
A Literary Odyssey of the 1920’s. New York: Limited
Editions Club 1981. First edition. Introduction by Leon Edel.
Fine in a fine tissue dustwrapper with a fine papercovered
slipcase. Copy 467 of 2000 numbered copies Signed by
Cowley and photographer Berenice Abbott. [BTC#46301]
HOYNINGEN-HUENE, George.
Baalbek Palmyra. New York: J.J. Augustin (1946).
414
First edition. Text by David M. Robinson. Bookstore label
else fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with a little rubbing
on the rear panel. A book of archeological photographs taken
in the Syrian desert. Inscribed by the photographer in Beverly
Hills in 1963. [BTC#46291]
JURY, Mark. The Vietnam Photo
Book. New York: Grossman 1971. First edition,
415
hardcover issue. Large quarto. Small erasure at the corner
of the halftitle, three lines in the text underlined, else
about fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a little wear
at the extremities, including slight loss at the foot of the
spine. Because of a simultaneous paperback (which is itself
uncommon) this hardcover is scarce. [BTC#15826]
KARSH, Yousuf.
Faces of Our Time.
416
Toronto: University of
Toronto Press (1971). First
edition. Quarto. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with a
tear to the crown and a crease on the rear panel. Inscribed by
the author. [BTC#47473]
LYON,
Danny. Pictures
From the New
World. New York:
417
Aperture (1981). First edition. Fine in fine cloth slipcase.
Copy 178 of 400 numbered copies Signed by the author,
lacking the original silver print. [BTC#47550]
MAPPLETHORPE, Robert. Lady:
Lisa Lyon. New York: Viking (1983). First
418
edition. Foreword by Samuel Wagstaff. Essay by Bruce
Chatwin. A small chip to the margin of a few pages,
else fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC#47482]
419
MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard. Descriptive Zoopraxography or
the Science of Animal Locomotion….
(Philadelphia):
University of
Pennsylvania 1893.
First edition. Hinges
professionally
reinforced and the
tips of the cloth
spine ends restored,
a nice, very good
plus copy. Published
to commemorate
a course of two lectures delivered by Muybridge at
the University of Pennsylvania and illustrated with
engravings of athletes and animals running, jumping,
etc. This volume reproduces on several preliminary pages
the signatures of those who originally subscribed to the author’s landmark work Animal
Locomotion. Muybridge’s history of his own photographic studies of animal movement,
which he initiated at the behest of Governor Leland Stanford, who wanted to win a bet
as to whether all four of a horse’s feet were off the ground while trotting. Muybridge, a
Government photographer assigned to the Pacific Coast, ingeniously set up a track with a
series of still cameras along the edge, with their shutters attached to strings. As the horse
ran past, each string would break, releasing the shutter. Governor Stanford won the bet, but
more importantly, Muybridge further refined his technique for capturing and displaying
motion through photography, working from 1884 through 1887 at the University of
Pennsylvania. In addition to providing this crucial link between still photography and
motion pictures, Muybridge actively promoted this new technology through lecture tours
and commercial offerings. This copy is Inscribed by Muybridge to a noted publisher of
photographic stereocards: “George Ennis with the compliments of The Author. University of
Pennsylvania. 9 June 1894.” [BTC#45757]
REYNOLDS, Robert and Tony
HILLERMAN. Rio Grande. Portland, OR:
420
Graphic Arts Center Publishing (1975). First edition. Text by
Tony Hillerman. Folio. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped
dustwrapper. [BTC#47506]
VAN DERZEE, James. James Van
DerZee, Photographer. New York: James Van
421
DerZee Institute / Beefeater Foundation 1972. First edition.
Small quarto. Stapled wrappers. Catalogue of a traveling
exhibition of photographs by James Van DerZee, organized
by the James Van DerZee Institute, Inc., and reproducing
ten Van DerZee photos. Fine in original glassine sleeve. Although not called for, this copy is
Signed by James Van DerZee. [BTC#46038]
Eudora Welty’s First Book Appearance
422 (WELTY, Eudora). SCHUSTER, M. Lincoln, edited by.
Eyes on the World. New York: Simon and Schuster 1935. First edition. Quarto. Very
good. Inscribed by the editor, M. Lincoln Schuster. Eudora Welty’s first book appearance, a
credited reproduction of her photograph “Pickup–Deep South” (also known as “Making a
Date”). Also includes photos by Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Steichen, and other wellknown photographers of the period. [BTC#47656]
WOLFF, Paul, Dr. Meine Erfahrungen
mit der Leica. Frankfurt: H. Bechhold (1934). First
423
edition. Text in German. Bookstore label else very good with
moderate soiling, lacking the dustwrapper. [BTC#47626]
ZAIDENBERG, Arthur. Drawing
the Human Figure. New York: Crown (1944).
424
First edition. Quarto. With life-class model photographs by
Berenice Abbott. Edges of the pages a little browned, still
just about fine in good dustwrapper with spine faded, some
modest chipping at the crown and other light wear. Oftreprinted guide to drawing, mostly notable for the Abbott
photos; the first edition in reasonably good dustwrapper is
scarce. [BTC#44844]
Science-Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
425 BARKER,
Clive. Weaveworld. New York:
Poseidon Press (1987). First American edition. Cloth. Fine in
unprinted acetate dustwrapper and fine slipcase. One of 500
numbered copies signed by the author, this copy is Signed but
unnumbered, bearing instead the initials of a Simon & Schuster
editor in the limitation space (Poseidon is a division of Simon &
Schuster). [BTC#2619]
426 BENSON,
E.F.
Visible and Invisible. New
York: Doran 1924. First American
edition. Fine in an attractive, very
good plus dustwrapper with some
small chips internally repaired
with brown paper. A collection
of supernatural stories that is considered the author’s best,
and one of the highspots of ghost storytelling. Includes two
particularly memorable stories, “The Horror Horn,” and
“Mrs. Amworth,” a classic of vampire fiction. Scarce in jacket.
[BTC#42400]
COLLIER, John. His Monkey Wife or
Married to a Chimp. New York: Appleton 1931.
427
First American edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a
little rubbing and a nominal tear. Author’s first book, a fantasy
classic. Lonely schoolmaster in the Upper Congo unwittingly
teaches his pet chimp to read. She devours the English classics
and begins to exhibit the softer virtues of Victorian womanhood
but when the chimp gets a rival for the schoolmaster’s affections
she starts reading “Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Collier is
wonderfully pleasant and amusing late night reading, especially
if you’re fond of vivid dreams. In Bleiler. [BTC#32615]
428
DU BOIS, Theodora. Solution T-25.
Garden City: Doubleday 1951. First edition. Fine in fine
dustwrapper with some negligible rubbing at the spinal extremities, a lovely copy. Postapocalyptic drama about an American scientist forced to collaborate with the enemy in order to
assist the resistance. [BTC#19131]
JANE, Fred. T. Blake of the “Rattlesnake” or The Man Who
Saved England: A Story of Torpedo Warfare in 189-. London: W. Thacker &
Co. 1898. First edition. Illustrated by the author. Corners
a bit bumped and some rubbing to the spinal extremities,
a handsome, very good or better copy in pictorial boards.
Bleiler Checklist title about an imaginary war in the immediate
future. In addition to illustrating works of Arthur Conan
Doyle and others, author and illustrator Fred. T. Jane had
a pre-Wright Brothers penchant for envisioning airships
destroying cities. Whereas this fascination might have resulted
in the ordinary crack-pot getting committed, Jane was able to
parlay his enthusiasm into publications such as Jane’s Fighting
Ships, All the World’s Airships, and ultimately the still-thriving
Jane’s Defense publishing and consulting conglomerate.
Scarce. [BTC#43090]
429
430 JORDAN,
Robert.
The Great Hunt. New York: Tom Doherty (1990).
Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. The second book in The
Wheel of Time series. [BTC#43842]
431
KELLER, David H. The Homunculus.
Philadelphia: Prime Press 1949. First edition. A couple of spots
of foxing else fine in a lightly rubbed, very good slipcase as
issued. Copy 88 of 112 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Additionally, very nicely Inscribed by the author in 1951 to an
important collector. [BTC#33945]
432
KINROSS, Albert. The Fearsome Island,
Being a Modern Rendering of the Narrative of one Silas
Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, whose shipwreck
and subsequent adventures are herein set forth….
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone 1896. First American edition. Slight
rubbing to the boards, a fine copy. A 16th Century seaman is
shipwrecked on a mysterious, uncharted island in the Atlantic.
The hero encounters numerous perils, seemingly supernatural in
origin, though several employ the use of electricity, mechanics,
photography, and other technological advances. In Bleiler.
[BTC#43096]
KLINE, Otis A. Call
of the Savage. New York:
433
Clode (1937). First edition. A small
spot on the foredge else fine in very good plus dustwrapper,
slightly sunned at the spine and with several short tears.
Reissued as Jan of the Jungle. Kline was the most successful
author of Tarzan imitations. Scarce in jacket. [BTC#10382]
—. The Port of Peril. Providence: The Grandon
Company 1949. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
[BTC#44188]
434
Koontz’s First Hardcover
435 KOONTZ, Dean as K.R. DWYER. Chase. New York: Random
House (1972). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An exceptional copy of this Koontz
suspense thriller about a war hero stalked by a psychopath. The prolific author’s first
hardcover book. [BTC#27704]
—. Dragonfly. New York: Random House (1975). First edition. Owner’s name,
negligible spine slant still very near fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the rear panel.
[BTC#10673]
436
437
LE QUEUX, William. The Eye of Ishtar. New York: Stokes (1897).
First American edition. Illustrated by Alfred Pearse. Endpapers a
little foxed, spine slightly rubbed, an at least very good copy of
this Lost Race novel. In Bleiler. [BTC#45396]
LONDON, Jack. Before Adam. New
York: Macmillan 1907. First edition. Spine lettering rubbed
but readable, otherwise a tight, fine copy lacking the rare
dustwrapper. A tale of prehistoric life, the first science-fiction
novel by London, and the first of several of his works to employ
astral projection. In Bleiler. [BTC#42605]
438
MACHEN, Arthur. The Three
Impostors; or, the Transmutations. Boston: Roberts
439
Brothers 1895. First American edition. Contemporary, old
style library bookplate (dated 1894) on the front pastedown
and unused sign-out sheet on the rear pastedown else about
fine. Title page design by Aubrey Beardsley. A collection of
short stories, several of the supernatural variety. In Bleiler.
[BTC#43081]
—. The Terror. London: Duckworth (1917).
First edition. Pages browned as always, tiny chips from the
bottom corner of several pages and a small spot on the front
board, still an attractive, very good plus copy lacking the
dustwrapper. Label laid in indicating that this volume is from
the library of fantasy author and Arkham House cofounder
Donald Wandrei. A tale about the revolt of the animals. In Bleiler. [BTC#43094]
440
441 MARRIOTT,
Crittenden. The Isle of
Dead Ships. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1909. First
edition. Color frontispiece and additional illustrations by Frank
McKernan. Slight wear to the spinal extremities else fine in
pictorial boards. Classic fantasy with mystery elements by this
Baltimore-born author. Filmed twice, once in 1923 by Maurice
Tourneur and again in 1929 by Irvin Willat with Jason Robards,
Sr., Virginia Valli, and Noah Beery. Very scarce. In Bleiler.
[BTC#45423]
MATHESON,
Richard. Hell House.
442
New York: Viking 1971. First
edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped
dustwrapper. A classic horror novel, advancing the somewhat
genteel “haunted house” tradition a step or two. Basis for the
genuinely scary, Matheson-scripted film The Legend of Hell
House with Roddy McDowell. A very nice copy. [BTC#38735]
MERRITT, Abraham. The Story
Behind the Story. New York: Privately Published
443
1942. First edition. One corner lightly bumped else very near
fine without dustwrapper as issued. Pieces from The American Weekly, of which Merritt was
editor. Very nicely Inscribed by Merritt, with a postscript which is also Initialed by him.
[BTC#6102]
444
RENARD, Maurice. New Bodies for Old, or, The Strange
Experiments of Dr. Lerne. New York: Macaulay (1923). First American edition,
and first edition in English of his 1908 novel Le Docteur Lerne, Sous-Dieu (translation
unattributed). Very slight scuff to the foredge else fine in fine dustwrapper. A superb,
almost as new copy of the classic science-fiction tale about a mad scientist and his inhuman
experiments. The first novel by the author of The Hands of Orlac. In Bleiler. [BTC#15302]
SIODMAK, Curt. Hauser’s Memory. New York: Putnam’s (1968).
First edition. Fine in a bright, near fine dustwrapper with two barely noticeable tears.
Nicely Inscribed by the author. An attractive copy of this sequel to the author’s classic novel
Donovan’s Brain, which was filmed several times. [BTC#36502]
445
SMITH, George O. Venus Equilateral. Philadelphia: The Prime
Press 1947. First edition. Illustrations by Sol Levin. Some fading at the spine ends, else fine
in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with some rubbing and a few small chips. Signed
by the author. The story of a man determined to establish interplanetary communication.
[BTC#53211]
446
STOKER, Bram. The Mystery of the Sea. New York: Doubleday
Page 1902. First edition, preceding the English edition by three months. Front hinge neatly
repaired, “V”-shaped tidemark from dampstaining at the top of the text block, outwardly
attractive and near fine with slight sunning to the spine. Inscribed by the author: “Harry
Sowers from Bram Stoker 22-3-02.” A very early inscription, likely in the first month of
publication. A novel of witchcraft and Scottish history, it revealed something of Stoker’s
youth as an invalid (he recovered so well through a personal exercise regimen that later in
life he was famous for his robust health), as well as his interest in ciphers (those in the book
greatly impressed his friend Arthur Conan Doyle). A nice copy. [BTC#40586]
447
448
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings [The Fellowship of the
Ring, The
Two Towers,
The Return
of the King].
London:
George Allen
& Unwin, Ltd.
1954, 1955.
Three volumes.
Each volume is
a first edition,
first issue. All
three volumes
are fine and
bright. All in
original dustwrappers, the red lettering on the spines is slightly and uniformly faded. Slight
and nearly invisible restoration to the extremities of the first volume, else fine with no chips,
tears, owner names, or price-clipping. Each volume housed in a separate, uniform, custom,
cloth chemise and gray quarter-morocco slipcase. Probably the most beloved fantasy, and
easily one of the most important novels of the 20th Century. Recently discovered by a new
generation, in part due to the award-winning film trilogy by Peter Jackson. Mixed issue sets,
made-up sets employing wildly divergent-condition of the individual volumes, and rebound
sets abound, but first issue sets in uniformly nice condition remain scarce and desirable.
[BTC#80301]
VACHELL, Horace Annesley. Quinney’s Adventures. New
York: Doran (1924). First American edition. A little darkening at the hinges else fine in
very good plus dustwrapper rubbed on the front panel, with a very faint stain on the spine
and a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. A sequel to Quinney, featuring the eponymous art
dealer and adventurer. Elements of both mystery and the supernatural. In Bleiler and Hubin.
[BTC#43250]
449
VIVIAN, E. Charles. Fields of Sleep. West Kingston, RI: Donald
M. Grant, Publisher 1979. First edition thus, and the true first issue of this edition with
illustrations by Thomas Canty. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A re-issue, with new illustrations,
of a classic fantasy novel of an Englishman who discovers a hidden valley in Asia. This is the
first issue (not one of the 1200 copies produced the following year), the pages shot directly
from an early edition. Apparently Grant didn’t like the way the pages laid out and had the
entire edition pulped. Grant re-issued a more acceptable version in a 1980 limited edition.
Scarce. [BTC#48267]
450
Westerns
451
ADAMS, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1927. First edition thus,
in the Riverside Bookshelf series. Illustrations by R. Farrington
Elwell. Attractive bookplate of Dolph Judd consisting of a
gravure photo of a steer, plus two other small book plates, else
fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple tiny nicks and tears. A
very attractive copy. [BTC#49973]
BAXTER, George
Owen (pseudonym
of Frederick FAUST
a.k.a. Max BRAND).
Red Devil of the
Range. New York: Macaulay
452
(1934). First edition. Slight wear at the bottom of the boards,
still about fine in an attractive, very good, price-clipped
dustwrapper with a creased tear along the edge of the spine
and front panel and a couple of small chips. Everard Winton
tames the impossible horse, the Red Pacer, and faces a gang of
desperadoes. [BTC#40099]
BRAND, Max (pseudonym of
Frederick FAUST). Pillar Mountain. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company
453
1928. First edition. Faint name stamp on the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper. A fresh
copy with the yellow and oranges of the jacket vibrant and bright. [BTC#37030]
CARTER, Forrest. The Education of Little Tree. (New York):
Delacorte (1976). First edition. A trifle foxed on the foredge and edges of the boards else
fine in a fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Purported autobiography of a Cherokee orphan
that became a much beloved book before it was revealed that the author was not of Indian
454
ancestry. Basis for a 1997 film, co-scripted by Earl Hamner, Jr. and featuring James Cromwell
and Graham Greene. [BTC#22106]
COOPER, Courtney Ryley. End of
Steel. New York: Farrar, Rinehart (1931). First edition.
455
Fine copy in a lovely, fine dustwrapper with two short tears.
Adventures in the wilderness of Canada near the edge of the
Arctic Circle. Cooper’s novels and stories were the basis for
many film westerns including Cecil B. DeMille’s The Plainsman
with Gary Copper and Jean Arthur. [BTC#33275]
EVANS, Max. Long John Dunn of
Taos. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press 1959. First edition.
456
Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author:
“To McElroy – From Fred and Max – Neither of us know
what we are doing – we just do it – Best of luck in an
important position – Max Evans.” Dunn’s story as related to Evans, author of The Rounders.
[BTC#40137]
EVARTS, Hal G. The Shaggy Legion. Boston: Little, Brown
1930. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with shallow chipping along the lower
extremities. Novel of buffalo hunters on the plains. [BTC#48177]
457
GRANGER, K.R.G. Ten Against
Caesar. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 1952. First edition.
458
Slight soiling in the front gutter, still easily fine in a priceclipped, moderately spine-faded, very good plus dustwrapper
with a shallow triangular chip that affects the top of the last
two letters of the author’s name. Signed by the author with
her full name: “Kathleen Robert George Granger” (her real
name was Kathleen B. George, the “Robert” apparently was
added from her husband’s name). Author’s first novel, a very
scarce Houghton Mifflin hardcover western, and basis for
the Raoul Walsh film Gun Fury, originally filmed in 3D,
and featuring Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, and Lee Marvin.
[BTC#39157]
HENRY, Will (pseudonym of Heck ALLEN a.k.a. Clay
FISHER). Who Rides With Wyatt. New York: Random House (1955). First
459
edition. A couple of light bumps to the bottom of the boards else fine in an attractive, about
fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears and a little light scratching on the rear panel. A nice
copy of this novelized account of Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, basis for the movie Young Billy
Young with Robert Mitchum. [BTC#16070]
—. The Seven Men at Mimbres Springs. New York: Random House
(1958). First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed
by the author: “Dear Bill – Maybe you will keep this around a little while and so remember
briefly, the sender and Christmas, 1961. Your friend, Will Henry.” [BTC#22130]
460
JAMES, Will. The American Cowboy. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons 1942. First edition. Small name or price whited-out on the front fly else fine in near fine
dustwrapper with faint age-toning on the spine. A very nice copy. [BTC#49931]
461
L’AMOUR, Louis. Guns of the
Timberlands. (New York): Jason Press (1955). First edition.
462
A trifle rubbed at the base of the spine, else fine in near fine
dustwrapper with a few tiny tears and a little rubbing at the
extremities of the spine. A lovely copy of the author’s cheaply
manufactured second hardcover, his first hardcover western and by
all accounts his rarest book. [BTC#14787]
LANSDALE, Joe R.
The Magic Wagon. Doubleday:
463
Garden City 1986. First edition. Fine
in fine dustwrapper with one nearly
invisible, minuscule tear. A western with
fantasy elements, by the Texas author
whose many award-winning horror and fantasy works have earned
a considerable following. A lovely copy. [BTC#39209]
LOMAX, Bliss. Colt Comrades. Garden City:
Doubleday Doran 1939. First edition. Very fine in especially fine
and fresh dustwrapper with some nominal rubbing. Rainbow
Ripley and Grumpy Gibbs, stock detectives, encounter a beautiful
girl and their horse thief nemesis. A lovely copy. [BTC#22314]
464
MANNING, David (pseudonym of
Frederick FAUST a.k.a. Max BRAND).
Bull Hunter. New York: Chelsea House (1924). First
465
edition. Pages slightly yellowed, near fine in very good
pictorial dustwrapper with some small nicks and tears, and
some dampstaining to the white spine that is pervasive but
very faint. An attractive copy of this western story about a
strong but slow-witted man who is forced to use his wits to
survive. Faust is best known for his books written under the
pseudonym Max Brand. [BTC#33093]
MONTAGUE, Joseph (pseudonym
of J. Allan DUNN). Strange Timber.
466
New York: Chelsea House (1927). First edition. Hinges repaired, endpapers soiled, a very
good copy in about very good dustwrapper with some chipping at the crown (affecting no
lettering) and a number of other very small chips. Adventure novel set at a western lumbering
company. [BTC#33096]
PHILLIPS, Henry Wallace. Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of
Red Saunders. New York: Century Co 1905. First edition. Fine in pictorial cloth. A very
attractive copy of this western novel. [BTC#14905]
467
RHODES, Eugene Manlove. Say Now
Shibboleth. Chicago: The Bookfellows 1921. First edition.
468
Fine in about fine, original unprinted glassine dustwrapper with
mild age-toning and a single small spot. One of 400 copies
prepared for The Bookfellows. Three tart essays by the Westernborn Rhodes, who was for 25 years a working cowboy and scout
in the Indian Wars. He went on to become the foremost literary
author of western stories and novels and was respected and read
by the likes of Robert Frost, Christopher Morley, and Bernard
DeVoto as the author whose work most truly represented the
West and its people and outlook. [BTC#35355]
SAVAGE, Les, Jr. Treasure of the
Brasada. New York: Simon & Schuster 1947. First edition.
469
Slight offsetting on the front pastedown else fine in a rubbed, very good dustwrapper with
some shallow chipping at the foot and on the rear panel. First book by this prolific, if shortlived western writer. Laid in is a Typed Letter Signed by Savage (“Les”) to fellow western
author Samuel A. Peebles, dated April 23, 1958. Savage, as Chairman of the Nominating
Committee of the Western Writers of America, announces the winners of the election for
officers, and thanks Peebles, who apparently wasn’t elected, for his participation in the
election. Original envelope present. Savage died at age 35, and his autograph is exceptionally
uncommon. [BTC#34536]
470
STRINGER, Arthur. The Prairie Child.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1922). First edition. Moderate
stain on the front panel, thus very good in an attractive, very
good W.H.D. Koerner-designed dustwrapper with a couple
of very small chips and a crease on the spine. Western novel
has an impoverished society girl returning from Europe and
going West to develop some land with her new husband. Basis
for the Hugo Balin-directed silent film The Prairie Wife with
Dorothy Devore, Herbert Rawlinson, and Boris Karloff in a
small role as “Diego.” [BTC#41318]
471
WARD, Don, edited by. Wild Streets:
Tales of the Frontier
Towns by Members of
the Western Writers of America. New York: Doubleday
1958. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some
very light wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels.
Contributors include: S. Omar Barker, Tom W. Blackburn,
W. Edmunds Claussen, Dan Cushman, Allen Vaughan Elston,
Norman A. Fox, Ernest Haycox, Elmer Kelton, Elmore
Leonard, Noel M. Lewis, John Myers Myers, Les Savage, Jr.,
Thomas Thompson, and William O. Turner. [BTC#46984]
Western Americana
BAILEY, Paul. Jacob Hamblin: Buckskin Apostle. Los Angeles:
Westernlore Press 1961. Reprint. Small spot on the edge of the title page else fine in a near
fine dustwrapper. [BTC#50700]
472
BIRNEY, Hoffman. Grim Journey. New
York: Minton, Balch 1934. First edition. Fine in a near fine
dustwrapper with a lightly tanned spine and light wear to the
crown. [BTC#52671]
473
474 COOLIDGE,
Dane. Fighting Men
of the West. New York:
Dutton (1932). Second edition.
Fine in a near fine dustwrapper
with a short tear at the top of
the rear panel. [BTC#52172]
475 HOOKHAM,
Ruth. Neena. New York:
Exposition (1956). First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.
[BTC#52754]
KELEHER, William A. Violence In
Lincoln County 1869-1881. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico (1957). First
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edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with light soiling. [BTC#52824]
MUMEY, Nolie. The Singing Arrow. Denver: Golden Bell 1958. First
edition. Folio. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing. Copy 993 of a 1000
numbered Signed copies. [BTC#53194]
477
478
MURBARGER, Nell. Sovereigns of the Sage. Palm Desert,
Califonia: Desert Magazine Press (1958). First edition. Fine
in an almost fine dustwrapper. [BTC#50703]
SANTEE, Ross. Apache Land. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons 1947. First edition. Illustrated by the
author. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks.
[BTC#49271]
479
WOODWARD, Arthur. A Brief
History of Navajo Silversmithing. Flagstaff,
480
AZ: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art 1938. First
edition. Field notes by Richard Van Valkenburgh. Bookplate
of Dolph Judd consisting of an attractive gravure photograph
of Navajos on horseback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A
beautiful copy. [BTC#50012]