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Sale 451
Thursday, April 7, 2011
1:00 PM
Illustrated & Children’s Books
Fine Printing - Books in All Fields
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HALF OF THE PRESALE LOW ESTIMATE. SOME LOTS HAVE HIGHER RESERVES, BUT
ALWAYS BELOW THE LOW ESTIMATE.
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arketing
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Photography & Design
Chad Mueller, Photographer
Spring Auctions, 2011
April 7, 2011 - Illustrated & Children’s Books - Fine Printing - Fine Books in All Fields
April 21, 2011 - Americana with Travel, Cartography & Cruise Ship Memorabilia
May 5, 2011 - Rare Books and Manuscripts with Science and Medicine
May 19, 2011 - 19th and 20th Century Literature
Schedule is subject to change. Please contact PBA or pbagalleries.com for further information.
Consignments are being accepted for the 2010 Auction season. Please contact Bruce MacMakin at
bruce@pbagalleries.com.
Front Cover: Lot 142
Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left: Lots 30, 128, 404, 239
B
ond # 14425383
Section I: Children’s & Illustrated Books, Lots 1-148
Section II: Fine Printing, Lots 149-327
Section III: Fine Books in All Fields, Lots 328-420
Section I: Children’s & Illustrated Books
1. A’Beckett, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of Rome. xii, 308 pp. Illustrated with 10 hand-colored
steel-engraved plates by John Leech, plus wood engravings in the text. (8vo), original green cloth, giltstamped and lettered, all edges gilt. Early Edition.
London: Bradbury, Evans, [c.1855]
Spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, some light rubbing; hinges cracked with some
cracking at gutters between signatures; very good.
(150/250)
SIGNED BY VIRGINIA, MICHAEL & ANSEL ADAMS
2. Adams, Virginia and Ansel. Michael and Anne in the Yosemite Valley. 64 pp. Illustrated throughout
from photographs by Ansel Adams. (Oblong 4to), tan cloth lettered in red. First Edition.
New York: Studio Publications, [1941]
A scarce and unusual book by the great photographer, in which his small children survey the
sights of Yosemite and gambol in the meadows, etc. Signed on the half title by Virginia, Ansel
and Michael Adams. Soiling and wear to cloth, gift inscription on front endpaper; lacks dust
jacket; very good.
(200/300)
3. Adams, Ansel and Nancy Newhall. The Pageant of History in Northern California. Illustrations from
photographs by Adams. 14x11, spiral-bound pictorial wrappers. First Edition.
San Francisco: [American Trust Company], 1954
Light wear to covers; very good.
(150/250)
4. Adams, Ansel. Portfolio for Wolverine Boots and Shoes Company. A stiff white paper portfolio with
embossed wolverine logo, housing 5 photograph plates by Ansel Adams. Plates are 27.8x35.4 cm.
(11x14”).
Rockford, Michigan: Wolverine Boots and Shoes, No date [c.1960s]
A rare advertising portfolio. The photographs are captioned with the following titles: Sonoma
County Pasture; Mount McKinley from Wonder Lake; Valley of the Lyle Fork of the Merced
River; Snake River and Teton Range; Mount McKinley National Park. Portfolio with a few stray
marks; plates with some faint wear at corners from handling; very good.
(200/300)
Page 1
5. Ainsworth, Ed. The Cowboy in Art. 11x8½, leather, gilt cover vignette and lettering to spine, all
edges gilt, slipcase. First Printing.
New York and Cleveland: World Publishing Company, [1968]
No. 661 out of 1000 copies of this special edition. Fine.
(200/300)
6. (Albert, King of Belgium) King Albert’s Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative
Men and Women Throughout the World. 188 pp. Illustrated with 17 color plates by various artists (16 are
tipped-in); 8 black-&-white or duotone plates; photogravure frontispiece portrait of the King; music
notes; plus many other drawings and facsimile signatures in the text. 10¾x8½, original decorative
white cloth.
[London]: The Daily Telegraph, [1915]
A tribute book sold to benefit the Belgian relief fund, with color plates by Kay Nielsen,
Maxfield Parrish, Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham, Harrison Fisher, and others; black and
white illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson, Joseph Pennell and
others. The prose and poetry by Rudyard Kipling, Edmund Gosse, Eden Phillpotts, H. Rider
Haggard, Sarah Bernhardt, Winston Churchill (both the American novelist and the British
statesman), and others. Light wear and soiling to white cloth; very good.
(150/250)
7. Aldin, Cecil. Five color prints from The Fallowfield Hunt. Five color prints from The Fallowfield Hunt
series: The Breakfast at the Three Pigeons, Breaking Cover, Full Cry, The Check, and The Death.
Each approximately 9¾x12½.
[1900]
Known for his hunting scenes, Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) specialized in dogs, which feature
prominently and profusely in these five prints. Each print with varying degrees of edge wear
from light to moderate, including chipping, wear to corners, a few with moderately foxed or
dampstained margins; good to very good.
(80/120)
8. (Architecture) Eight nineteenth century Italian architectural engravings - six framed. Includes 5 matted and
framed in simple black frame, with frame measure 64x55 cm. (25¼x21¾”): Capella di S. Andrea,
Fuori della Porta del Popolo. From: Architettura di Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola. * Chiesa di S.
Eligio Degli Argentieri. * Palazzo Doria Pamphily in Via del Corso. From: Architettura dello stile di
Giuliano da Majano. * Palazzo Ossoli in Via de Balestrari. From: Architettura dello stile di Baldassare
Peruzzi. * Chiesa di S. Macuto. From: Architettura dello stile di Sebastiano Serlio con restauro del... *
Plus 1 in linen matting and silver frame, with frame measures 71.5x58.5 cm. (28¼x23”): Chiesa di S.
Giacomo Degli Spagnuoli. * 2 unframed prints: Porta d’Ingresso e Fenestre Laterali del Casamento in
Via del Gesu. * Monumento Sepolcrale di Diego de Valdes Vescovo di Zamora Chiesa di S. Giacomo
Degli Spagnuoli. Each measure 64x47 cm. (25¼x18½”).
19th century
Some light wear, a few spots of soiling or edge wear and/or a touch rippled; very good or near
fine or better.
(300/500)
9. (Art Journal - 1876) The Art Journal for 1876 - Volume 2. vi, 380 pp. Illustrations complete, containing
steel engravings of art and sculpture. 31.7x24 cm. (12½x9¾”), half morocco and cloth, gilt lettered
spine. New Series.
New York: D. Appleton, 1876
Spine detaching from text block along front joint, moderate to heavy rubbing to morocco;
front cover nearly detached, rear cover starting; plates are near fine; overall very good.
(100/150)
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SCARCE RICHARD AVEDON BOOK
10. Avedon, Richard. Made in France. Unpaginated. Text by Judith Thurman. (Folio) cloth backed
illustrated boards, no jacket (as issued). First Trade Edition.
San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, [2001]
High fashion photographs by Avedon taken in Paris during the 1950’s for Harper’s Bazaar
magazine. The photographs are reproduced with their original mountings, recto and verso
showing Avedon’s original notations. One of 5000 copies published for an exhibition of the
prints at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco in 2001. There were also 100 signed and numbered
copies with an original signed photograph. A bit of wear to edges; near fine.
(500/800)
11. Baskin, Leonard. Autograph Note Signed. ANS signed “Leonard,” one page, approximately 3x7.5”.
Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed by Baskin, postmarked March 18, 1985.
Leeds, MA: March 18, 1985
In full: “Forgive, please, my dreadful tardiness. I will do almost anything than answering letters
or attending to affairs, but on this day I buckled down to rush this check to you.” Fine.
(100/150)
A FEW BY L. FRANK BAUM
12. Baum, L. Frank. Glinda of Oz. 279 + [1] pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates and numerous black
& white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, yellow cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial
endpapers. First Edition, First Printing.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1920]
Advertisement on verso of half-title lists 13 titles through Glinda of Oz. Type showing early
signs of breaking on page 150. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 81. Wear and soiling to cloth and cover
illustration, hinges cracked; good.
(150/250)
13. Baum, L. Frank. The Land of Oz. Black & white illustrations by John R. Neill. Red cloth, color
pictorial label on front. Later printing.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1939
Inscribed on front free endpaper by Harry Neal Baum, son of the author L. Frank Baum. Some
edge wear, repair to head of spine, hinges starting; very good.
(200/300)
14. Baum, L. Frank. Queen Zixi of Ix: Or, the Story of the Magic Cloak. [8], 303 pp. Illustrated with 16
plates and drawings in the text by Frederick Richardson. 9x6¾, green pictorial cloth stamped in dark
green and orange. First Edition, Second State.
Chicago: Century Co., 1905
Second state, with illustration on p.171 printed in turquoise and black; integral rear endpaper.
Bienvenue & Schmidt p.215. Light wear and soiling to cloth, previous owners’ names and
bookplate on front endpapers, rear hinge cracked, front hinge starting; very good.
(300/500)
15. Baum, L. Frank. Sky Island: Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap’n Bill after Their Visit
to the Sea Fairies. 287, [1] pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates and numerous black & white drawings
by John R. Neill. 9x6½, red cloth, color pictorial cover label, spine stamped in black, color pictorial
endpapers. First Edition.
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1912]
This, a sequel to The Sea Fairies, is considered one of John R. Neill’s finest books, filled with
vivid fantasy images. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 247. Light wear and soiling to cloth; some
dampstaining (mostly marginal); good.
(200/300)
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THOMAS BEWICK’S FAMOUS WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS
16. Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. x, 483, pp. Illustrated throughout with wood
engravings by Thomas Bewick. 9x5¾, period marbled boards with modern calf rebacking. Third
Edition.
Newcastle Upon Tyne: S. Hodgon, et al, 1792
First published in 1790, Bewick’s influential work arose from a desire “to instruct his readers
in an agreeable way... Bewick faithfully depicted each quadruped in proper sequence. Exotic
animals like the lion and the hippopotamus, which he took from books, may be unconvincing,
but he never fails with the dogs, sheep, and cats, which he drew from life....” (Ray, Illustrator...in
England, 49). Some wear to boards, endpapers replaced, tear on title page with repair on verso,
some foxing; very good.
(300/500)
17. (Borein, Edward) Perkins, Charles Elliot. The Pinto Horse. 76 pp. Foreword by Owen Wister.
Color frontispiece; black and white illustrations by Edward Borein. 11x7¾, boards, dust jacket. First
Edition.
Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1927
Inscription in ink on front free endpaper reads, “To Molly Gregory, with much love and Merry
Xmas, Elsie Perkins. 1927.” Osborne’s Book Store, Santa Barbara label on rear pastedown. Edge
wear to jacket, including large chips, and closed tears, large dampstain along top edge of front
panel, spine and rear panel, heavy smudging; front board bent (mild crack in board) vertically;
else a very good volume in fair jacket.
(200/300)
18. (Borein, Edward) Galvin, John. The Etchings of Edward Borein: A Catalogue of his Work. Compiled
with the assistance of Warren R. Howell. In collaboration with Harold G. Davidson. (4to), giltlettered cloth, dust jacket.
San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1971
Handsomely designed and printed by Alfred and Lawton Kennedy. Jacket a touch sunned at
spine, one tiny closed tear; fine volume in near fine jacket.
(100/150)
SIGNED BY THE ACTOR WHO PORTRAYED TARZAN
19. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Foreign Legion. Blue cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1947]
Tarzan and his friends join the Dutch guerrillas in Japanese-held Sumatra during World War
II. Signed on the front free endpaper by Ron Ely, the actor who portrayed Tarzan in the NBC
television series. Some edge wear to jacket, a few short tears and wrinkle; fine in a very good
jacket.
(100/150)
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20. Cameron, Mrs. [Lyttleton, Lucy]. The Caution; or, Infant Watchfulness. [bound with] Cameron: The
Polite Little Children. Wellington, Salop. 65, [1 (blank)], [2] ads, 36 pp. Hand colored frontispiece at both
title pages, plus hand-colored plates. 13.9x8.5 cm. (5½x3¼”), contemporary calf, two gilt-bordered
burgundy morocco spine labels, all edges colored yellow, gilt dentelles, original salmon-colored stiff
printed paper wrappers bound in for both publications. Second Edition.
Wellington, Salop: F. Houlston and Son, 1827 [and] 1819
Two titles by the prolific Mrs. Cameron (1781-1858), sister of the more famous Mrs. Sherwood,
who also authored numerous moral and religious stories for children. Cameron, who wrote her
first book, The History of Margaret Whyte, at the age of seventeen, married the Reverend C.R.
Cameron in 1806. He worked for twenty-five years in a Shropshire parish among the colliers of
the district. She based many of her stories on factual incidents and occurrences. The attractive
decorative binding is by W. Worsfold of London for C.P. Putnam’s Sons. I. See The Osborne
Collection of Early Children’s Books: 1566-1910, I, pp. 236-237, listing the first edition of 1824
only. Surprisingly, this title (in any edition or translation) is not in the British Library Catalogue,
which lists over 65 different titles by Cameron, as well as numerous different editions and
translations of them. Not in the Gumuchian Catalogue of 15th to 19th Century Nursery Books,
which lists several other titles by Cameron. II. See The Osborne Collection, I, p. 238, listing
the eleventh edition of 1834 only. This first edition is also not in the British Library Catalogue,
which lists the sixth, eighth, and twelfth editions only . Not in the Gumuchian Catalogue. Spine
rubbed and chipped a touch, worn at extremities, joints are repaired, rear joint starting to split;
original wrappers trimmed, darkened with some smudges; very good.
(700/1000)
21. (Counter Culture) Counter culture event posters, plus other ephemera from the San Francisco Bay Area twenty pieces. Includes: 3 items from The San Francisco Mime Troupe. Color post card. 2005; Color
broadside/poster: Mister Smith Goes to Obscuristan. 2002; Color broadside/poster: Soul-Suckers
from Outer Space. In 3-D Mime-o-Vision. Dampstaining on bottom edge. 1996. * Small glossy
color card, advertising West Fest: 40th Anniversary Woodstock. Art of dove flying over Golden
Gate Bridge by Dusty Hughston. 2009. * Small color poster for: Mountain Play: Hair. Outdoor
Theatre, Mt. Tamalpais. 2007. * Color poster: The Bay Area Celebrates the Rainbow Show. De Young
Museum. 21 March to 22 June. * Small poster for an exhibit: 15-50-15, Loma Prieta Quake 15 Years
- Phoenix 50 Years - NERT 15 Years, Marina Remembrance & Celebration. 1989. * Small poster:
Return of Tut. Art Exhibit at Nine, 399 9th Street. Featuring art by various artists. Signed on bottom
margin by exhibiting artist Kalynn Campbell, dated 1986. * Small Poster: Warhol’s Wake, 1987. At
Nine, 399 9th Street. Signed by poster artist Kalynn Campbell, 1987. * Small poster: Cal-20 Class
Championship, The Corinthian Yacht Club...July 10-15, 1989. * Color poster: Fourth Annual North
Beach Photographic Art Fair, May 25, 26, 27 in Washington Square 9am/6pm. Poster art by Gilbert
Johnson. Moderately creased from rolling. 1974. * Front page of the San Francisco Examiner, dated
Wednesday, November 6, 1968. Mounted to board. Front page of newspaper with photograph of
Nixon, trimmed and mounted to board. * Silver and black poster for 3rd Annual Santa Cruz Poetry
Festival [at] Civic Auditorium. Poets included Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Al Young. * 3-D
poster, “Look Out.” With illustration of a clown throwing a pie towards the view, meant to be viewed
with 3-D glasses. Some soiling. Scholastic Magazines, 1979. * Small color proof: San Francisco’s
Problem Child Turns Twenty This Summer. Haight Ashbury. Art by Kalynn Campbell, with her
proof stamp on bottom edge, number 15/50 in pencil. 1987. * Black and white poster of Tania.
Shows a photograph of Tania (pseud. Patty Hearst) holding a machine gun. * Poster with green and
white black line drawing: The Straight Theater is Our Building: Fight for it. Tax Funds for Peoples’
Enterprises! 439 Cole St... A few yellow stains near edges. [c.1973]. * Plus 3 other posters.
San Francisco: Various dates
An interesting collection of mostly posters from events held in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Also includes smaller broadsides/posters and ephemera. Mostly very good.
(200/300)
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22. (Cruikshank, George) Collier, John Payne. Punch and Judy, with Illustrations Drawn and Engraved by
George Cruikshank. Accompanied by the Dialogue of the Puppet-Show, an Account of its Origin, and of PuppetPlays in England. [2], 111 pp. With 24 hand-colored etched plates by George Cruikshank including
frontispiece, plus other wood engraved vignettes in the text and on the title-page. (8vo) 19x11.5 cm.
(7½x4½”), later straight-grain green morocco, borders in gilt and blind, spine gilt, later spine label,
all edges gilt. First Edition.
London: Printed for S. Prowett, 1828
Rarely encountered with the plates colored. Spine darkened and a bit brittle, joints cracked,
hinges repaired with cloth tape; offsetting, foxing; good.
(400/600)
23. (Cruikshank, George) O’Hara, Kane. Tom Thumb; A Burletta, Altered from Henry Fielding. 35, [1]
ad, [1 (blank)], [3] ad, [1 (blank)], [4] ad insert, [2 (blank)] pp. 5 plates by George Cruikshank, plus
additional designs within text. 16.4x10 cm. (6½x4”), original salmon printed wrappers, in paper slip
and custom drop-back box.
London: Thomas Rodd, 1830
Pages 29-30 are mis-numbered 21-22. Volume spine mostly lacking, some finger smudges and
light extremity wear; very good.
(80/120)
24. Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. (8vo), clothbacked boards, pictorial jacket. First Edition, Third Issue.
New York: Knopf, [1964]
Third issue with 4 lines of the printer’s colophon below the “About the Author” section on the
last printed leaf. Faint shelf wear to jacket and volume; near fine.
(80/120)
25. (Disney, Walt) Thomas, Frank & Ollie Johnston. Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life. 575 pp.
Profusely illustrated throughout, nearly 500 are in color. 4to. Gilt-decorated red cloth, color pictorial
jacket, color pictorial slipcase. First Edition, deluxe issue.
New York: Abbeville Press, [1981]
Signed by both authors and containing a foot of original film “from a classic Disney feature”
(this one showing Bambi in the forest). Light wear to slipcase; else fine.
(300/500)
26. Donahey, Kathy. Pony Hunt - mixed media original painting. Original mixed media paint/collage
(with a few different fabrics pasted to it). Collage mounted to paper that measures 19x35.5 cm.
(11½x14”). Wrapped with plastic.
1988
Titled in pencil, dated, and signed by the artist. Also included in the lot: A color poster for
American Children’s Theatre of Santa Monica, CA. 45.7x61 cm. (18x24”). Signed by Donahey
whose illustration the poster features. A wonderful original work by American artist Kathy
Donahey. The plastic over the original painting is stuck to the surface/paint in a few very small
spots, an easy repair; else near fine.
(100/150)
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and 15% for that portion over $100,000.
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SCARCE PORTFOLIO OF ABC PRINTS BY EDMUND DULAC
27. Dulac, Edmund. Lyrics, Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z. Title leaf, 24 color plates and pictorial
endpapers from the book edition, all mounted on green paper, loose as issued in original cloth dropback box with pictorial title mounted on upper cover. One of approximately 160 copies.
London: Frederick Warne, 1908
Very rare issue of this charming early work
by Dulac, with exuberant drawings and
rhymes. This is the “unsigned, unnumbered,
limited edition of probably 160 copies in
portfolio form” as mentioned by White,
“Edmund Dulac”, p.200. Light wear and
soiling to box; some light wear and a few
pinholes to mounting sheet of title leaf,
small pinholes to one of the pairs of
endpapers; very good.
(3000/5000)
28. (Dulac, Edmund) Housman, Laurence.
rincess Badoura: A Tale from the Arabian Nights.
P
Illustrated with 10 color plates by Edmund
Dulac, tipped-in, with printed guards. 10x7½,
original pictorial cloth.
[London]: Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]
Spine sunned, some soiling to cloth; very
good.
(300/500)
Lot 27
29. (Engravings) Collection of over 180 nineteenth century engravings. Approximately 186 copper and steelengraved plates, excised from various publications. Pages are mostly around 32.5x24 cm. (13x9½”),
each with their tissue-guard.
Various places: [c.1850s]
Many from a publication published by Virtue & Co., London., or D. Appleton & Co., New
York. Engraved after artwork, sculptures, scenes of daily life, etc. An interesting collection.
Some rough edges where excised; very good or better.
(400/700)
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ONE OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY MAX ERNST AND RENE CREVEL
30. (Ernst, Max) Crevel, René. Mr. Knife Miss Fork - One of 50 signed copies. [iv], 38 pp. Title-page printed
in red and black, text paginated in red, 19 “photograms” by Max Ernst, tissue-guards captioned in
red. (8vo) 17.5x12 cm. (6¾x4¾”), original black buckram, spine and covers decorated in gilt, red and
blue after a design by Ernst, top edges gilt, black endpapers. Number 27 of 50 copies on Hollande
paper.
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1931
Signed by Crevel on half-title and by Ernst on frontispiece. One of the most celebrated books
of the press and a cornerstone of Surrealist literature. This work is a fragment from Crevel’s
novel Babylone, translated by Kay Boyle, and illustrated with some of Max Ernst’s most
successful book illustrations. Minkoff A-41; Rainwater 30; Roth 101. Lacking slipcase; light
extremity wear, covers rubbed, small chip to cloth on rear cover, hinges cracked; very good.
(10000/15000)
Lot 30
31. Fitzgibbon, Agnes and C.P. Traill. Canadian Wild Flowers. With botanical descriptions by C.P.
Traill. 86 pp. Illustrated with 10 hand-colored lithograph botanical plates by Agnes Fitzgibbon.
36.3x27 cm. (14¼x10½”), green cloth, cover lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Montreal: John Lovell, 1868
The first edition of this important work, which sold out two month after it was published.
Included in the lot: A manuscript autograph book with 108 pages filled with autographs/
inscription entries to a person named, Jessie Mac Nabb, dated 1873. She was the previous
owner of the book. Within are drawings, cut out and pasted trade card illustrations, etc. Bound
in boards and morocco spine (deteriorating). Covers nearly detached, a few leaves loose. Spine
chipped and darkened, soiling all over, lacks at spine ends, moderately rubbed edges; front cover
nearly detached, front free endpaper and blank leaf detached; title page foxed; foxing, offsetting
and smudges, mostly at leaf and plate extremities; good.
(500/800)
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SEVERAL LOTS BY OR WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT
32. Flint, William Russell. Breakfast in Périgord. Illustrated with woodblocks from drawings by
William Russell Flint. 12½x8¼, quarter black levant morocco & white boards, top edge gilt, slipcase.
No. 340 of 550 copies.
London: Printed for the Author, 1968
Signed by Flint in the colophon. Fine condition.
(100/150)
33. Flint, William Russell. Drawings. Illustrated throughout from drawings by William Russell Flint.
14x10, cloth, jacket. First Trade Edition.
London: Collins, [1950]
Accompanied by an autograph letter signed by Flint, on his Camden Hill letterhead, to a Mr.
Sayers, referring to his (Flint’s) wife’s illness, asking Sayers to procure a book, and writing about
this book: “That book of my Drawings gave me a lot of fun in arranging it - I quite took charge
of every page - aiming at simplicity. I trust you don’t disapprove!” Jacket with some rubbing,
price clipped; some foxing to endpapers, paper remnants to rear pastedown, very good.
(100/150)
34. Flint, William Russell. In Pursuit: An Autobiography. Illustrated from drawings, paintings, etc., by
William Russell Flint, some color. 14x9½, quarter red morocco & cloth, spine lettered in gilt, raised
bands, top edge gilt, slipcase. No. 411 of 850 copies so bound, from a run of 1050 copies.
London: The Medici Society, [1970]
Signed at the colophon by Francis Russell Flint (son of W.R. Flint, who passed away in 1969).
Fine in original cardboard carton
(200/300)
35. Flint, William Russell. Models of Propriety: Occasional Caprices for the Edification of Ladies and the
Delight of Gentlemen. Illustrated with drawings in sepia by the author, reproduced in photogravure.
10¾x7¼, blue & yellow cloth gilt, top edge gilt. No. 442 of 500 copies.
London: Michael Joseph, [1951]
Signed by Flint on the limitation-page. Fine condition.
(100/150)
36. Flint, William Russell. Shadows in Arcady. Decorations and initials designed by William Russell
Flint. 10½x7¼, blue & black cloth gilt, slipcase. One of 500 copies.
London: Charles Skilton, 1965
Signed by Flint on leaf facing colophon. Fine condition in slightly rubbed slipcase.
(100/150)
37. (Flint, William Russell) Judith. Reprinted from the Revised Version of the Apocrypha. Introduction by Dr.
Montague R. James. With 4 tipped-in color plates by W. Russell Flint; plus an extra suite of the same
4 color plates, laid inside the original folder. 9¾x7½, limp vellum lettered in gilt, ribbon ties, top edge
gilt, others untrimmed, slipcase. No. 52 of 100 copies.
London: The Haymarket Press, 1928
Signed by the artist in the colophon. Slipcase with rubbing and darkening, ¾” piece of bottom
panel missing; volume fine.
(200/300)
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38. (Flint, William Russell) The Book of Tobit and the History of Susanna. Reprinted from the Revised Version
of the Apocrypha. xvi, 47 pp. Introduction by Montague R. James. Illustrated with 4 tipped-in color
plates from paintings by W. Russell Flint. 10x7½, full limp vellum, lettered in gilt, ribbon ties, top edge
gilt. No. 5 of 100 copies.
London: The Haymarket Press, 1929
The extra suite of plates is not present with this copy, nor is the slipcase. Minor discoloration to
the vellum, very good or better.
(150/250)
39. (Flint, William Russell) Kingsley, Charles. The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children. xvii,
[1], 113, [2] pp. With 12 mounted color plates from paintings by William Russell Flint; printed tissue
guards. 10½x8, original full limp vellum lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, ribbon ties,
jacket, with later slipcase. No. 130 of 500 copies printed on hand-made Riccardi paper in the Riccardi
Press fount by Charles T. Jacobi.
London: Philip Lee Warner/Medici Society, 1912
Jacket with mild fading, ½” hole in spine, ends a bit chipped; volume fine.
(300/500)
40. (Flint, William Russell) Malory, Thomas. Le Morte Darthur: The History of King Arthur and of his
Noble Knights of the Round Table. 2 volumes. With 36 color plates by William Russell Flint. 8¾x5¾,
original green cloth, jackets with color pictorial labels.
London: Jonathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd., [1923]
First jacket lacking all of the spine strip, a few chips and tears to the panels, verso tape repairs;
2nd jacket spine darkened with chips, verso paper repair/reinforcement reattaching it to the
panels; else volumes very good, jackets fair to good.
(100/150)
41. (Flint, William Russell) Theocritus, Bion and Moschus. The Idylls of Theocritus [Bion & Moschus].
Rendered into English Prose by Andrew Lang. 2 volumes. With 20 mounted color plates by William Russell
Flint; printed tissue guards. 10½x8, original linen-backed boards, paper spine & cover labels, top
edges gilt, others untrimmed, jackets. No. 347 of 500 copies printed by Charles T. Jacobi in the
Riccardi Fount on handmade Riccardi paper.
London: The Medici Society, 1922
Fading to jackets with edge and extremity wear; some soiling and discoloration to boards,
corners rubbed or lightly bumped, offset to endpapers, darkening to extreme pate edges,
bookplates of Kenneth T. Gemmell, else very good.
(200/300)
42. (Flint, William Russell) The Water-Colours of W. Russell Flint [&] The Art of the Illustrator: W. Russell
Flint and His Work. Includes: The Water-Colours of W. Russell Flint RWS RSW. Foreword by Malcolm
C. Salaman. [4], 8 pp. With 8 tipped-in color plates; tissue guards. 14¼x16½, black boards lettered in
silver, rebacked with paper, new endpapers repairing some edge wear to boards. London: The Studio,
1920. * The Art of the Illustrator: W Russell Flint and His Work. With a 16pp. booklet bound in, and
six tipped-in color plates demonstrating the progression of a water-color drawing by Flint. No. 10 in
the series. 16x10¾, wrappers. London: Press Art School, [c.1920]. Together, 2 volumes.
London: 1920
Both about very good.
(100/150)
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43. (Flint, William Russell) Lot of 12 volumes of exhibition catalogues, biographies, tributes, etc., of William
Russell Flint & his work. Includes: Famous Water-Colour Painters: W. Russell Flint. Jacket. 1928. *
Modern Masters of Etching: W. Russell Flint. 1931. * Palmer. More Than Shadows: A Biography of
Sir William Russell Flint. Jacket. [1948]. * Drawings. Jacket. 1950. * Sir William Russell Flint, R.A.,
R.W.S. A Precis of Appreciations During Half a Century. 2 copies, each 1/750 1963. * Works by
Sir William Russell Flint, R.A. Royal Academy of Arts, Diploma Gallery. 3 copies, 2 in wrappers, 1
rebound in half calf & marbled boards. 1962. * Exhibition of Works by Sir William Russell Flint, RA
PPRWS. Diploma Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts. Wrappers bound in half calf & marbled boards.
1962. * Frost & Reed Gallery. Exhibition: The Works of Sir William Russell Flint. c.1965. * A Jubilee
Exhibition: Sir William Russell Flint. c.1965. Together, 12 volumes. Most with illustrations by William
Russell Flint. Cloth or boards except as noted.
Various places: Various dates
Generally very good or better.
(200/300)
WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
44. Gilkerson, Wm. Maritime Arts - With an original drawing. xviii, 76, [2] pp. Illustrations from
photographs, paintings, etc. Original signed watercolor drawing inserted at front. (4to) original tan
half morocco and black cloth, red morocco spine labels. Number XI of XXXIX copies with an
original drawing.
Salem, MA: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1981
Minor wear to binding; near fine.
(400/600)
THREE SERIGRAPHS BY MILTON GLASER
45. Glaser, Milton. Series of 3 serigraph prints by Milton Glaser. 3 serigraph prints, image size 42x65 cm.
(16½x25½”) on 61.5x85 cm. (24¼x33½”) sheets. Each one of 300 numbered copies. Numbered,
titled and signed in pencil in lower margin.
[New York]: [Serigrafia], No date
Titles include: View From Voipaia * View Near Greve *View Near Radda. Fine.
(700/1000)
46. Harman, Fred. The Great West in Paintings. 186 pp. Illustrations throughout in color and black &
white. (Oblong 4to) 8x11½, red leather-backed cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. Errata slip laid in. One of
100 hand-bound copies with a copperplate engraving. First Edition.
Chicago: Sage Books, [1969]
Signed by Harman at the limitation and on the print. Light wear to slipcase; jacket price clipped;
volume fine.
(200/300)
47. Helleu, [Paul Cesar]. Our Babies. [48] pp. (Small folio) 36x27 cm. (14¼x10½”), half cloth and
illustrated boards. First Edition.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [c. 1900]
Paul Cesar Helleu (1859-1927) is best known for his portraits of many of the most famous
and beautiful women of his time including the Duchess of Marlborough, the Countess of
Greffulhe, the Marchesa Casati and Belle da Costa Greene. Covers soiled, several razor marks to
rear cover; one leaf detached; good.
(200/300)
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48. (Hurd, Peter) Horgan, Paul. The Return of the Weed. Illustrated with original lithographs by Peter
Hurd, including tipped-in frontispiece. (4to) green cloth, paper spine label, glassine jacket, slipcase.
No. 218 of 350 total copies, of which only 250 were originally for sale. First Edition.
New York: Harper & Bros., 1936
Signed by the author and artist in the colophon. Classic short stories of the American west, with
illustrations by the author’s friend and noted artist Peter Hurd (1904-1984). A touch of wear to
slipcase, glassine lightly worn; else fine.
(200/300)
49. (Illustrated Books) Group of miscellaneous illustrated and children’s books. Includes: Sabin, Eldridge H.
Dollie’s Big Dream. Cloth. Illustrated by Elenore Plaisted Abbott and Helen Alden Knipe. [1929].
* Gillian, Strickland. Danny and Fanny. Cloth. Illustrated by Ruth Caroline Eger. [1928]. * Kingsley,
Charles. Westward Ho!. Cloth, dj. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. [1948]. * Schwimmer, Rosika. Tisza
Tales. Cloth. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. [1928]. * Hudson, W.H. A Little Boy Lost. Cloth. Illustrated
by Dorothy P. Lathrop. 1924. * Field, Eugene. The Sugar-Plum Tree and Other Verses. Cloth-backed
boards, dj. Illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat. 1930. * Peat, Fern Bisel. The Picture and Rhyme Book.
Wrappers. 1941. * Three Little Kittens They Lost Their Mittens. Wrappers. Illustrated by Fern Bisel
Peat. 1931. * Peat, Fern Bisel. Birds. Wrappers. 1931. * Peat, Fern Bisel. Mother Goose. Wrappers.
1934. * Favorite Mother Goose Rhymes. Illustrated by Eulalie. Linen. 1937. * Nursery Rhymes.
Illustrated by Florence Salter. Wrappers. 1939. * Emerson, Sally. The Nursery Treasury. Boards, dj.
Illustrated by Moira and Colin Maclean. One page torn. [1988]. Together 13 volumes.
All with some wear; overall good to very good.
(100/150)
50. (Illustrated Books) Three volumes illustrated by Arthur Rackham or Edmund Dulac. Includes: Ford, Julia
Ellworth. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. Blue cloth. Duffield & Company, 1914.
* Edmund Dulac’s Picture-Book for the French Red Cross. Early leaves heavily foxed. Hodder and
Stoughton, [c.1920]. * Morley, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Early edition. “Heinemann” on spine. William Heinemann / Doubleday, Page, [c.1925]. Together 3
volumes.
Moderate wear to each, including soiling, rubbing and darkening to cloth; hinges cracked or
starting, some light to moderate foxing; good to very good.
(150/250)
51. (Illustrators) Group of books on book illustrators and illustration. Includes: Allen, Douglas & Douglas
Allen Jr. N.C. Wyeth. Cloth, dj. [1972]. * Dalby, Richard. The Golden Age of Children’s Book
Illustration. Boards, dj. [1991]. * Elzea, Rowland, intro. Howard Pyle. Wrappers. [1975]. * Kingman,
Lee. The Illustrators Notebook. Cloth. 1978. * Kingman, Lee. Illustrators of Children’s Books, 19671976. Cloth, dj. [1978]. * Laing, Cicely Mary Barker and Her Art. Boards, dj. [1995]. * Larkin, David,
ed. Dulac. Wrappers. [1975]. * Larkin, David, ed. Kay Nielsen. Wrappers. [1975]. * Larkin, David,
ed. The Fantastic Kingdom. Wrappers. [1974]. * Meyer, Susan E. A Treasury of the Great Children’s
Book Illustrators. Cloth, dj. [1987]. * Pitz, Henry C. Howard Pyle. Cloth, dj. [1975]. * Poltarnees,
Welleran. All Mirrors are Magic Mirrors. Wrappers. [1972]. * Taylor, Judy, et al. Beatrix Potter, 18661943. Wrappers. [1987]. * Viguers, Ruth Hill. Illustrators of Children’s Books, 1946-1956. Cloth.
[1972]. * Catalog for the Green Tiger Press. Wrappers. [1973]. Together 15 volumes.
Some light wear; overall very good or better.
(200/300)
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WITH AN ORIGINAL SKETCH BY NED JACOB
52. (Jacob, Ned) Dallas, Sandra. Sacred Paint: Ned Jacob. 10½x11½, leather, blind-stamped device,
cloth slipcase. First Edition.
Santa Fe: Fenn Galleries Publishing, [1979]
No. 84 out of 150 copies. With an original drawing on leaf at front. Signed on the half title page
by the author and the artist. Fine.
(150/250)
53. Jung Pao Chai. Shihchien. 4 volumes. Illustrated in color throughout. (4to) string bound paper
wrappers, brocade folding case. Revised Edition.
[Peking]: [1970s?]
Reproductions of art printed by Jung Pao Chai, over 200 illustrations. Fine.
(500/800)
54. Kent, Rockwell and Carl Zigrosser. Rockwellkentiana. Few Words and Many Pictures. Bibliography
and list of prints by Carl Zigrosser. With 90 plates, including a color frontispiece, and many other
illustrations. 10½x7¾, pictorial blue cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933
Scarce in the original jacket. Some creasing and chipping to jacket; a touch of edge wear to
volume; near fine in a very good jacket.
(200/300)
55. Killion, Tom. Two prints advertising books by Tom Killion. 2 woodcut illustrations including: Title page
from 28 Views of Mount Tamalpais with spelling error (Veiws for Views). 1975. * Prospectus for The
Coast of California From Point Reyes to Big Sur. 1979. Each matted and framed.
1970s
Fine.
(200/300)
THE FIRST WINNER OF THE CALDECOTT MEDAL
56. Lathrop, Dorothy. Animals of the Bible. Text selected by Helen Dean Fish from the King James
Bible. 27 full-page black and white plates. (Small 4to) green cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1937
The first winner of the Caldecott Medal, awarded in 1938. Signed by Dorothy Lathrop on verso
of front free endpaper. A bit of light wear to cloth, previous owner’s name on front endpaper,
rear free endpaper creased; very good.
(250/350)
57. Luquiens, Huc Mazelet. Two prints of coastal scenes by H.M. Luquiens. Two prints. One aquatint,
title unknown, approximately 20.2x25.2 cm on 25.5x30.8 cm. sheet. Hinged to matting. 1924. * One
etching, “Rough Water”, approximately 20x29 cm. on 29.2x36.8 cm. sheet. 1932. Both signed in
pencil in the lower margins.
1924 & 1932
Two coastal views, likely of Hawaiian scenes. H.M. Luquiens (1881-1961) studied at the Yale
School of Fine Arts and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1924 he became the first art
teacher at the University of Hawaii. Luquiens was a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers,
Prairie Print makes, Honolulu Print Makers, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, California Society
of Etchers, etc. Paper a bit browned; near fine.
(400/600)
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58. Maki, Haku. Poem 69-61 [and] Poem 69-60 - two framed color wood and cement-block prints. Two limited
edition color prints, tipped into matting together with tape on edges of verso. On top is Poem 6961, No. 190/202. On the bottom is Poem 69-60, No. 163/202. Each image measures 38.5x14 cm.
(15x.5½”).
1969
Each is signed by Haku Maki at bottom, and also numbered and titled in pencil. Two important
Poem illustrations from Maki’s Poem series. His method of block prints utilized woodblock and
cement, to create the embossed look of these two prints. Potentially yellowed at edges of verso
of each, due to their taping to matting with non-archival tape; else fine.
(300/500)
59. Michelangelo. Drawings of Michelangelo: 103 Drawings in Facsimile. Foreword by Mario Salmi.
Introduction by Charles De Tolnay. Critical Notes by Paola Barocchi. Illustrated with 103 drawings in
facsimile by Michelangelo. Folio, 17x12, calf-backed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase. First Edition.
New York: George Braziller, [c. 1965]
“This anthology of Michelangelo’s drawings,...attempts to present a selection from the most
characteristic and most beautiful drawings of the master, from his youth to his old age.” (From
introduction). Some scuffing to leather, light wear to slipcase; very good.
(200/300)
A FEW BY A.A. MILNE
60. Milne, A[lan] A[lexander]. Now We Are Six. x, [2], 103, [1] pp. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
7½x4¾, original burgundy cloth with gilt pictorial covers and gilt-lettered spine, top edges gilt, pink
pictorial endpapers, dust jacket. First Edition.
London: Methuen, [1927]
Third in the Winnie-the-Pooh series. Jacket a bit soiled and with some restorations on verso to
small chips and tears; volume with a touch of edge wear; near fine in a very good jacket.
(700/1000)
61. Milne, A.A. Now We Are Six - First English & American Editions. 2 volumes. Illustrated by E.H.
Shepard. Original cloth. First English and American Editions.
London / New York: Methuen / Dutton, 1927
The third title in Milne’s stories of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh. Light wear at
edges; very good.
(100/150)
ONE OF 350 SIGNED COPIES
62. Milne, A[lan] A[lexander]. Winnie-the-Pooh. xi, [3], 158, [2] pp. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard;
folding map at end. 22x16.5 cm. (8¾x7”), blue cloth-backed boards, paper cover label. No. 90 of 350
copies of the large paper edition. First Edition.
Signed by Milne and Shepard on the limitation/
copyright page. Dust jacket not present; some
light soiling to boards, corners rubbed, front free
endpaper lacking; very good.
(3000/5000)
Lot 62
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63. Milne, A[lan] A[lexander]. Winnie-the-Pooh. [iii]-x, [6], 158, [2]. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
7½x4¾, original green cloth with gilt pictorial covers and gilt-lettered on spine, top edge gilt, pictorial
endpapers with Christopher Robin’s map. First Edition.
A touch of edge wear, corners bumped; near fine.
(400/700)
SEVERAL LOTS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY BARRY MOSER
64. Moser, Barry. No Shortcuts: An Essay on Wood Engraving. Illustrations from engravings by Barry
Moser. (4to) red cloth, paper spine label. Number 54 of 320 copies.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Center for the Book, 2001
Signed by Moser at the colophon. Fine.
(150/250)
65. (Moser, Barry) Carroll, Lewis. Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. Illustrated throughout
by Barry Moser. Folio. Red cloth, with signed print in cloth folder, housed together in publisher’s
cloth slipcase. First University of California Edition from the Pennyroyal Edition.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982
Print of the Mad Hatter signed in pencil by Barry Moser. Spines a touch sunned; fine
(100/150)
66. (Moser, Barry) Plath, Sylvia. Above the Oxbow: Selected Writings by Sylvia Plath. Illustrated with wood
engravings by Barry Moser. (8vo), linen-backed boards, paper spine label. Number 128 of 325 copies.
Northampton: Catawba Press, 1985
Signed by Moser at the colophon. Fine.
(150/250)
67. (Moser, Barry) Two titles printed at the Wisteria Press with illustrations by Barry Moser. Includes: Gibbons,
Kaye. Frost and Flower: My Life with Manic Depression So Far. Frontispiece by Barry Moser. Cloth.
One of 265 copies on mouldmade paper. Signed by the author at colophon. 1995. * Butler, Robert
Olen. Coffee, Cigarettes and a Run in the Park. Illustrations by Barry Moser. One of 265 copies on
mouldmade paper. Signed by the author at colophon. 1996. Two volumes.
Decatur, GA: Wisteria Press, Various dates
Fine.
(200/300)
MOTHER GOOSE PRINTS BY SENDAK, VAN ALLSBURG, MOSER & 3 OTHERS
68. (Mother Goose) The Mother Goose Collection of Six Limited Edition Prints. 6 serigraph prints, each
in the original glassine folder with printed label; single sheet of letterpress descriptive text. (Folio)
27x20¾, loose, as issued, in the original cloth backed box. Number 56 of 300 copies.
New York: Serigrafia, Limited, [1990]
A striking portfolio of prints by 6 leading illustrators: Maurice Sendak, Chris Van Allsburg,
Barry Moser, Seymour Chwast, Daniel Palavin and Guy Billout. Each print signed by the artist
in pencil at lower right. The most ambitious project from fine art publishers Serigrafia, 100
copies were retained for the use of the illustrators, 100 for Serigrafia, and 100 were donated to
raise funds for The Children’s Health Fund at an initial offering price of $5000. Some light wear
to box; light wrinkle at corners (but well away from images); prints overall fine.
(1500/2500)
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69. (Nielsen, Kay) East of the Sun and West of the Moon. 204 pp. Illustrated with 25 tipped-in colored
plates, including frontispiece, by Kay Nielsen; plus numerous black and white illustrations and
decorations throughout. 8¾x6¼, coarse mustard-colored cloth, lettered in orange, pictorial jacket.
New York: Doran, [1920s]
Rare in the original dust jacket. Light edge wear to jacket; a few small spots of soiling to cloth,
gift inscription on front endpaper; very good in a like jacket.
(500/800)
70. O’Connor, John. The Wood-Engravings of John O’Connor. Many woodblock plates. 34.7x24.3 cm.
(13¾x9¾”), cloth-backed decorative red boards, spine lettered in gilt, boards and cloth slipcase.
[Gloucestershire]: Whittington Press, [1989]
No. 136 of 300 copies thus bound, and 350 copies total. A touch of shelf wear to slipcase
extremities; near fine.
(300/500)
ORIGINAL WOODCUTS BY DIRSO JOSE DE OLIVEIRA
71. Oliveira, Dirso Jose de (Brazilian, 1932-2005). Portfolio of 11 signed woodcut prints by Dirso Jose
de Oliveira. 11 woodcut prints (10 on tissue, one on paper). Includes illustrations from the following:
Dante’s Divine Comedy - Three prints, image size 44.5x28 cm., titled and signed in pencil in lower
margins. Each number 1 of 30. * Os Sertoes by Euclides da Cunha. Four prints, image size 32.5x50.5
cm. Titled and signed in pencil in lower margin. Two of the prints are matted. Three are number 1
of 30, the fourth is an Artist’s Proof. * Dom Quixote. Three prints, image size 31.5x51.5 cm. or the
reverse. Titled and signed in pencil in lower margins. One of the prints is matted. Each number 1 of
30. * An untitled portrait (possibly a self-portrait). Image size 48x33.5 cm. Signed in pencil in lower
margin. Together 11 woodcut prints, all by the final print on tissue, a few matted. All dated 1967.
The prints housed together between the wooden boards of a custom portfolio, woodcut illustration
on front and the artist’s name carved into wood at lower right, the original leather straps now largely
perished.
Brazil: 1967
Also included is a two-page handwritten
biography, in Portuguese, of Oliveira titled
“D.J. Oliveira - seus temas, suas xilogravuras”.
Signed at the close but the author’s name is
not legible to us. J. D. Oliveira (Dirso José
de Oliveira) is considered to be the father
of the arts in the state of Goias, Brazil, for
his many public works that include murals,
fountains, and sculpture. He was professor
of Drawing and Engraving at the School
of Fine Arts of the Catholic University of
Goiás. Some of his most noted works are
large public murals done in ceramic panels.
He is listed in the Dicionario Biobibliografico
Regional Do Brasil by Mario Ribeiro Martins,
with his engravings and paintings represented
in many museums world-wide. A few of the
prints darkened (most notably those that are
matted), one with some wrinkling and light
soiling at lower corner; overall very good to
fine.
(1500/2000)
Lot 71
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72. (Parrish, Maxfield) Skeeters, Paul W. Maxfield Parrish. The Early Years 1893-1930. 350, [1] pp. Fullpage color illustrations. 14¼x10, royal blue burlap, gilt-lettered on spine, pictorial endpapers; dust
jacket. First Edition.
Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, [1973]
Wonderful illustrated reference on one of America’s best-loved illustrators. Over 200
illustrations, including some from Arabian Nights, The Knave of Hearts, Mother Goose, and
other favorites. Minor wear to jacket; volume fine.
(100/150)
ONE OF ONLY 10 COPIES, UNIQUELY BOUND
73. [Phillips, Tom]. A Humument: A Novel after W.H. Mallock. Comprising a title card and 368 loose
color reproductions of Phillips’ artwork. (8vo) 18.9 x 14 cm., housed in two morocco-backed folders,
gilt-lettered; slipcase. First Edition.
London: [Tetrad Press], 1966-73 [but 1970-75]
First Printed Edition of this seminal postmodern artist’s book. Phillips has taken
Mallock’s Victorian novel, The Human
Document, and intricately overpainted the text
to create a wholly new poem. Number 24 of
100 copies, signed, and with each page signed
in initials by the artist. Additionally inscribed
by the artist: “one of ten copies with original
[drawing]”, but no drawing present; as issued.
The custom cases were commissioned as
a trial for the whole of the edition, but are
apparently unique to this copy. Some light
wear to slipcase; fine.
(2000/3000)
74. Phipps, Howard. Further Interiors: WoodEngravings by Howard Phipps. Color and black and
white plates from wood-engravings. 26.5x19
cm. (10½x7½”), saddle-sewn blue wrappers,
slipcase, both with hand-made paper label. No.
168 of 300 copies.
Whittington Press, [1992]
Lot 73
Signed by Howard Phipps at the colophon.
Slipcase with a touch of shelf wear; else fine.
(150/250)
75. Poole, H. Nelson. Six etchings by H. Nelson Poole plus two others. Seven etchings by Poole. Various
sizes, most hinged to matting. Titles include: Old Oaks, The Two Trees - Telegraph Hill, The Tall
Ship - Honolulu, Chinatown - San Francisco, Saint Ignatius - San Francisco, and two untitled views
one of a city from a hillside (likely San Francisco) and the other of a hillside overlooking a bay. All
signed in pencil in the lower margins.
1910s-20s
Also included are a signed etching of a farm landscape titled “Spring” by Mildred Bryant
Brooks, 1932 and a signed etching of a California mission titled “Our Lady Queen of the
Angels” by Arthur Millier. Together 9 etchings. Some browning to the paper; near fine.
(500/800)
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SEVERAL LOTS OF POSTERS
76. (Posters) Achille Philion: The Marvelous Equilibrist and Originator. Original color lithograph poster,
approximately 71x107 cm. (28x42”). Matted.
Buffalo: Courier Co., 1899
Fabulous original lithograph poster, often reproduced. Headline reading: “An Attraction
Without A Parallel” and the description continuing “The most perilous performance ever
devised by mortal man. Upon a globe twenty-eight inches in diameter the fearless Philion
ascends and descends a spiral tower fifty feet high on a roadway only sixteen inches wide, and
mounted upon this unsteady footing, he ventures out upon a slender cable forty feet from the
ground, performing the most difficult feats on his dangerous journey finishing his wonderful
exhibition by rushing headlong down the tower enveloped in flames and fireworks.” Some wear
and chipping at edges, lower corner detached but present, some amateur repairs on rear, colors
still very bright; very good.
(700/1000)
77. (Posters) Serra, Richard. Blindspot. 89x104 cm. (35x41”). Photograph by Dirk Reinartz.
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2003
Photograph of Serra’s monumental steel sculpture ‘Blindspot”. Small bump in lower margin,
near fine.
(200/300)
78. (Posters) Steinbeck, John. Two serigraph posters for “ A Celebration of John Steinbeck”. Two serigraph
posters, 116.5x76.5 cm (42x30”), portrait of Steinbeck with list of featured persons, one with blue
background, one with orange background.
New York: 2002
Poster from a 2002 event at Lincoln Center. One with short tear at bottom edge, thus near fine;
other fine.
(200/300)
79. (Posters) The Hour of the Furnaces, La Hora de los Hornos - color poster advertising a screening of the film.
Color lithograph poster. Red, yellow, and blue color on white paper. 61x45.3 cm. (24x17¾”).
[c.1968]
Dynamic poster advertising a viewing of the Argentinian documentary The Hour of the
Furnaces, by Fernando Solanas. Viewing Sun-Mon 7pm June 6-7 Kelly Antioch Hall. Illustration
shows a hand holding a Coca-Cola shaped bottle that reads “Standard Oil” from which flames
erupt. Other Coke bottles read: CIA, Armour Meat, and Ford. A few tiny tears at edges, some
very faint soiling; near fine.
(100/150)
THREE BEATRIX POTTER BOOKS WITH ORIGINAL GLASSINE JACKETS
80. Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. 85 pp. Illustrations throughout by the author. (12mo)
14x10.2 cm (5½x4”) original gray boards titled in green, mounted illustration on front, original
glassine jacket. Later printing.
London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1904]
With the rare glassine jacket advertising “Cicily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes” [1922] as “The Latest
Volume” at head of rear jacket panel. Some light wear and creasing to glassine; volume with
some minor edge wear; near fine in a like jacket.
(1500/2000)
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81. Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. 85 pp. Illustrations throughout by the author. (12mo)
14x10.2 cm (5½x4”) original blue-gray boards titled in white, mounted illustration on front, original
glassine jacket. Later printing.
With the rare glassine jacket advertising “The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse” [1918] as “The
Latest Volume” at head of rear jacket panel. Some light wear and creasing to glassine; volume
spine faded and with some minor edge wear; near fine in a like jacket.
(1500/2000)
82. Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. 85 pp. Illustrations throughout by the author. (12mo)
14x10.2 cm (5½x4”) original tan boards titled in white, mounted illustration on front, original glassine
jacket. Early printing.
With the rare glassine jacket advertising “The Tale of Mr. Tod” [1912] as the latest title on rear
panel. Jacket with some chipping and short tears; volume with some light edge wear, previous
owner’s gift inscription; very good in like jacket.
(1500/2000)
Lot 82
SCARCE BEATRIX POTTER ILLUSTRATION
83. (Potter, Beatrix) Roscoe, Henry Enfield. The Life & Experiences of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, D.C.L.,
LL.D. F.R.S. xii, 420 pp. Illustrated. (8vo) original blue cloth. First Edition.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906
Among the illustrations, facing page 243, is a color plate by Roscoe’s young niece Beatrix Potter.
The illustration, titled “A Dream of Toasted Cheese” features a bespectacled mouse perched
on a Bunsen burner reading a book, a quantity of mice amidst various laboratory equipment in
the background. Initialed and dated in the print “H.B.P. Dec. 99.” An early Potter illustration,
predating her popular “Peter Rabbit” series of children’s books, seemingly overlooked by her
bibliographers and apparently the only Potter illustration in a work of non-fiction published
during her lifetime. A must have for the Beatrix Potter completist. Light wear to extremities,
front hinge starting, previous owner’s name; very good.
(700/1000)
THREE FRAMED PRANG LITHOGRAPHS
84. Prang, Louis, publisher. [Chromolithograph after Benjamin Champney of harvest time in New England].
Chromolithograph on canvas, with Prang’s rubberstamp on the reverse. Signed and dated by
Champney in the stone. 37x60 cm. (14½x23½”), framed, overall 52x76 cm. (20½x30”).
Boston: 1870Stacks of wheat by a lazy river, mountains rising in the distance. Freeman p.63. Frame with
wear; image a bit soiled, a few cracks in the surface; good.
(200/300)
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85. Prang, Louis, publisher. [Chromolithograph after Benjamin Champney of haying in New England].
Chromolithograph on canvas, with Prang’s rubberstamp on the reverse. Signed and dated by
Champney in the stone. 37x60 cm. (14½x23½”), framed, overall 48x71 cm. (19x28”).
Boston: 1871Bucolic scene of haying in the hills of New England, kids and dogs running around. Freeman
p.63. Frame with wear; image a bit soiled, a few cracks in the surface with a bit of loss in upper
left sky portion; good.
(200/300)
86. Prang, Louis, publisher. The Crown of New England. Chromolithograph on board. 38x61 cm.
(14¾x23¾”), framed, overall 52x75 cm. (20½x29½”).
Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1869
The lush hills (some call them mountains) of New England. With Prang labels on the back.
Some rubbing, very good.
(300/500)
87. Pyle, Howard. Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners
of the Spanish Main. xviii, 247 pp. Compiled with a Foreword by Merle Johnson. Illustrated with
38 plates (14 in color with 2 tipped-in); plus several wood engravings and drawings throughout by
Howard Pyle. (4to) 12x8¾, period full polished red calf, gilt rule borders, spine gilt. First Edition.
New York: Harper & Bros., 1921
Publisher’s code “D-V” on the copyright page. Classic illustrated book abounding in Pyle’s
stylish renderings of pirates. Front joint split, extremities rubbed, hinges cracked, embossed
ownership stamp (Cedric Gibbons) on flyleaf; one plate reinserted with old cello tape; good.
(400/600)
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
88. (Rackham, Arthur) Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham
included 50 tipped-in color plates. 9¾x7¼, original green cloth pictorially gilt. First American Trade
Edition.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906
Latimore & Haskell p. 27. Some wear and spotting to cloth; a few tipped-in plates detached,
several tissue guards with tears; good.
(150/250)
89. (Rackham, Arthur) Browne, Maggie. The Book of Betty Barber. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with
6 color plates and 12 other illustrations. 8½x6½, original brown cloth lettered in black, color pictorial
cover label, top edge gilt. First Rackham Edition.
London: Duckworth and Co., [1910]
“These illustrations first appeared in magazine form in 1901 in Little Folks. They were all done
in black and white originally”. In this edition, 6 of them were colored by Harry Rountree. One
of the scarcer Rackham titles. Latimore & Haskell, p.36. Light wear to extremities; very good.
(500/800)
90. (Rackham, Arthur) Browne, Maggie. Two Old Ladies, Two Foolish Fairies and a Tom Cat. 190, [2] ad
pp. 16 pp publisher’s catalog at rear (dated 10.97). 4 color plates and other black & white illustrations
by Arthur Rackham. (8vo) original gilt stamped blue cloth. First Edition.
London: Cassell and Company, 1897
Scarce early work with illustrations by Rackham. Latimore & Haskell p. 9. Binding cocked, some
loss of gilt from front cover, front hinge starting; light foxing; very good.
(500/800)
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91. (Rackham, Arthur) Browning, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham,
including 4 color plates. 8½x5½, red cloth, large pictorial cover label, pictorial endpapers, dust jacket.
First American Rackham Trade Edition.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1934]
Scarce in dust jacket. Latimore & Haskell p. 71. Jacket chipped and with some tears, tape repairs
on rear, front flap price clipped; light wear to cloth; very good.
(150/250)
92. (Rackham, Arthur) Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. xii, 162 pp. Illustrations by
Arthur Rackham including 13 full-page color plates. (8vo) original red cloth lettered in white, pictorial
label on front. First American Trade Edition.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., [1907]
Latimore and Haskell p. 28. White spine lettering gone; very good.
(150/250)
93. (Rackham, Arthur) Ford, Julia Ellsworth. Snickerty Nick [and the Giant]. 78 pp. Rhymes by Witter
Bynner. Illustrated with 3 color plates, including frontispiece, and 10 drawings in the text, by Arthur
Rackham. 9½x7¼, blue cloth stamped in black. First Edition.
New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919
Loosely based on an Oscar Wilde fairy tale. There was no English edition of this title. Latimore
& Haskell, p. 50. Light wear and soiling to cloth, endpapers foxed; very good.
(200/300)
94. (Rackham, Arthur) Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham,
including 12 color plates. 9½x7, original blue cloth gilt-lettered, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt;
dust jacket. First American Rackham Trade Edition.
Philadelphia: David McKay, [1929]
Latimore & Haskell, p. 65. Jacket with some soiling, chipping and several tears, tape repairs
on rear; volume with short tear at head of spine, small scuff to rear cover; near fine in a good
jacket.
(150/250)
WITH 40 COLOR PLATES
95. (Rackham, Arthur) Grimm Brothers. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. xv, [1], 325, [1] pp.
Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 40 tipped-in color plates.
9¾x7¼, original red cloth pictorially gilt. First Trade Edition.
London: Constable and Co., 1909
Some of the world’s most popular fairy tales, fabulously illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Latimore & Haskell p.34. Spine a touch sunned, light edge wear, to small chips to for edges of
front cover; very good.
(600/900)
96. (Rackham, Arthur) Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by
the Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 12 tipped-in color plates on tan paper
plus numerous text illustrations; pictorial endpapers. 9¾x7¼, maroon cloth, lettered in gilt. First
American Rackham Trade Edition.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1917]
The classic childrens’ tales by the Brother’s Grimm, including Snow White, illustrated in color
by Arthur Rackham. Latimore & Haskell p. 46 (describing a different binding). Stain at foot
of spine and in lower margin (not affecting text or images), front hinge cracked; small corner
creases to a few plates; good.
(100/150)
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97. (Rackham, Arthur) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book. Illustrated with 24 plates (16 tippedin) by Arthur Rackham. 9½x7¼, gilt-decorated red cloth, dust jacket. First Rackham American
Edition.
New York: George H. Doran, [1922]
Scarce in the original illustrated dust jacket. Latimore & Haskell p. 55. A touch of wear to edges
of jacket and volume; a few plates detached and loosely inserted; very good.
(400/600)
98. (Rackham, Arthur) Ingoldsby, Thomas [pseud of Richard Barham]. The Ingoldsby Legends.
I llustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 24 tipped-in color plates on green paper and 12 tinted fullpage illustrations. 9¾x7¼, original green cloth gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Second
Edition, First Trade Printing.
London / New York: J.M. Dent / E.P. Dutton, 1907
The second edition with illustrations by Rackham, the first in 1898. This edition with some
change in the illustrations. Latimore & Haskell p.30. Light wear to extremities; light foxing; very
good.
(200/300)
99. (Rackham, Arthur) Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. [4], 102 pp. With 8 color
plates and numerous black and white decorations throughout by Arthur Rackham; color pictorial
endpapers. 9½x7, dark brown cloth, color pictorial cover label, spine lettered in gilt. First Rackham
Illustrated Trade Edition, American issue.
Philadelphia: David McKay, [1928]
Latimore & Haskell p. 63. A touch of wear to spine ends; near fine.
(150/250)
100. (Rackham, Arthur) Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 51
tipped-in color plates on green paper. 9¾x7¼, original green cloth pictorially gilt. First Trade Edition.
London: William Heinemann, 1905
The plates (apart from the frontispiece) are bound consecutively at the end. Latimore & Haskell
p. 26. Spine faded, short tear at foot of spine, some light wear to edges; light foxing; very good.
(300/500)
AN EARLY TITLE WITH RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS
101. (Rackham, Arthur) Irving, Washington. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 2 volumes.
Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, F.O.C. Darley, F.S. Church, Allan Baraud, Julian Dix, etc. (Large 8vo)
25.5x17.8 cm. (10x7”), later full brown morocco, floral emblems at corners, spines ruled and lettered
in gilt, raised bands, wide gilt dentelles, suede doublures and endleaves. Bound for the Knickerbocker
Press. Number 26 of 175 copies with proof illustrations on Japan paper, The Westminster Edition.
New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895
Latimore & Haskell, p. 4 (incorrectly stating that there are 3 illustrations by Rackham, there are
in fact 4 illustrations by him, as called for in the list of illustrations). Some wear to extremities,
lower corners rubbed and bumped; very good.
(500/800)
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102. (Rackham, Arthur) Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales From Shakespeare. Illustrated by Arthur
Rackham, including 12 color plates. (8vo), original gilt green cloth pictorially stamped & lettered in
gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Second Rackham Edition, First Trade Printing.
London / New York: Dent / Dutton, 1909
The second edition with illustrations by Rackham, the first in 1899 had only one color plate.
Latimore & Haskell pp. 33 (calling only for dark blue, light blue, and purple cloth bindings).
Fading to spine and front cover cloth, light edge wear, Christmas 1909 inscription on rear of
frontispiece; very good.
(150/250)
103. (Rackham, Arthur) Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated with 13 colored plates plus
text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 9¼x7, original black cloth with illustrated cover label, plain
endpapers. First American Edition.
New York: The Century Co., 1913
The title-page illustration of a sampler present in this edition is not in the English editions.
Latimore & Haskell p. 41. Slight lean to spine, light extremity wear; very good.
(200/300)
104. (Rackham, Arthur) Phillpotts, Eden. A Dish of Apples. 77 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham,
including 3 tipped-in color plates with tissue-guards; decorative endpapers. 8¼x6½, pictorial mauve
cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First Trade Edition.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1921]
Latimore & Haskell p. 54. Jacket with some soiling and light chipping, a few tape repairs;
volume fine.
(200/300)
105. (Rackham, Arthur) Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery & Imagination. Illustrations by Arthur
Rackham, including 12 color plates. 9¾x7½, red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First American Trade
Edition.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1935]
Latimore & Haskell p. 72. Light wear to jacket edges; fine.
(200/300)
106. (Rackham, Arthur) Princess Mary’s Gift Book. [4], 140 pp. Illustrated with 14 tipped-in color plates
by various artists; plus drawings in the text. 9¾x7¼, white cloth, jacket. First Edition.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1914]
Collection of stories and illustrations to benefit the Queen’s “Work for Women” fund.
Contributions by famous British authors: Haggard, Doyle, Kipling, J. M. Barrie and others.
Color plates by Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Detmold, Flint, Wilkinson, etc. Latimore &
Haskell p. 43. Scarce in jacket. Jacket with large chip from head of spine, tape repairs on rear;
volume with minor wear, inscription on front endpaper; near fine in good jacket.
(150/250)
107. Rackham, Arthur. Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures. Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
Illustrated with 44 tipped in color plates by Arthur Rackham with printed tissue guards. 10¼x8, giltstamped gray cloth. First Edition.
London: William Heinemann, [1913]
A necessity in Rackhamiana, illustrating fairy tales, the grotesque and the fantastic. Light wear to
cloth; near fine.
(300/500)
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108. (Rackham, Arthur) Some British Ballads. 16 tipped-in color plates. 10x7½, original blue cloth
lettered and decorated in gilt. First Trade Edition.
London: Constable & Co., [1919]
Latimore & Haskell p. 50. Spine sunned, light soiling to cloth, edge wear; very good.
(400/600)
109. (Rackham, Arthur) Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World.
x v, 291 pp. 12 color plates by Arthur Rackham. 9x6¼, original red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt.
Second Rackham Illustrated Edition, First Trade Issue.
London: J.M. Dent, 1909
The second edition with illustrations by Rackham, the first in 1900 had only a single color plate.
Latimore & Haskell p. 32. Spine sunned, light soiling to cloth; very good.
(150/250)
110. (Rackham, Arthur) Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood.
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham including 8 color plates, captioned guards. 9¾x7¼, original green
cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers, dust jacket. First Rackham Trade Edition.
London: William Heinemann, [1918]
Latimore & Haskell, p. 48. Jacket with some soiling, chips and short tears, tape repairs on verso;
volume with some light rippling to cloth; very good.
(200/300)
111. (Rackham, Arthur) Wagner, Richard. The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie. [8], 160 pp. Translated
by Margaret Armour. Illustrated with 34 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham; printed tissue
guards. 9¾x7, gilt-stamped & lettered blue cloth. First American Rackham Trade Edition.
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1910
The first volume in Wagner’s The Ring of the Niblung trilogy, with lovely tipped-in plates by
Rackham. This is the same as the English trade edition with the exception of the binding, which
on the English edition is brown buckram. Latimore & Haskell p. 37. Light wear and soiling to
cloth; very good.
(200/300)
112. (Rackham, Arthur) Wagner, Richard. Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods. ix, [1], 182 pp.
Translated by Margaret Armour. 30 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham with printed tissue
guards. 9¾x7¼, brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. First Trade Edition.
London: William Heinemann, 1911
The second volume in The Ring of the Niblung trilogy. Latimore & Haskell p. 37. Front joint
splitting, some edge wear, covered bookplate on front endpaper; good.
(200/300)
113. (Rackham, Arthur) Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. (224) pp. 12 color plates by Arthur
Rackham. 9¾x7½, original green cloth stamped in gilt. First Trade Edition.
London: George G. Harrap, [1931]
Latimore & Haskell p. 66. Light wear and fading to cloth; very good.
(200/300)
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114. (Rackham, Arthur) Five volumes with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Includes: De La Motte
Fouque. Undine. 15 color plates. Blue cloth. Second Impression. London: Heinemann, 1911. *
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. 12 color plates. Blue cloth. First American Trade Edition.
Philadelphia: David McKay, [1929]. * Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt. 12 color plates. Orange cloth. First
American Trade Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1936]. * Milton, John. Comus. 24 color plates.
First American Trade Edition. Green cloth. Repair to head of spine. New York: Doubleday, [1921]. *
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. 20 color plates. Black cloth. First American Trade Edition. New
York: Doubleday, [1926]. Together 5 volumes.
All with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Some general wear; overall very good.
(250/350)
115. (Rackham, Arthur) Five volumes with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Includes: Hawthorne,
Nathaniel. A Wonder Book. 16 tipped-in color plates. Red cloth. First American Trade Edition. New
York: Doran, [1922]. * Brothers Grimm. Snowdrop and Other Tales. 20 color plates. Blue cloth. Early
reprint. New York: Doubleday, 1923. * Brothers Grimm. The Fairy Tales. 12 color plates. Green
cloth. Early reprint. New York: Doubleday, 1912. * Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. 12
color plates. Blue cloth. First Trade Edition. New York: Heritage Press, [1940]. * Morley, Christopher.
Where the Blue Begins. Four color plates. Blue cloth. First American Trade Edition. New York:
Doubleday, [1922, i.e. 1925]. Together 5 volumes.
All with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. All with some wear; overall good.
(200/300)
116. (Rackham, Arthur) Five volumes with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Includes: The Allies’ Fairy
Book. 11 (of 12) color plates. Blue cloth. First Trade Edition. London: Heinemann, [1916]. * Barrie,
J.M. The Little White Bird. 3 black & white plates. Brown cloth. Reprint. New York: Scribner’s,
1912. * Gates, Eleanor. Good Night. 4 (of 5) color plates. Pictorial gray cloth. First Book Edition.
New York: Crowell, [1907]. * Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pook’s Hill. Four color plates. Green cloth.
First American Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1906. Martineau, Harriet. Feats on the Fjord. 12
illustrations by Rackham, 1 in color. Rebound in grey boards. First Edition. London: Dent, 1899.
Together 5 volumes.
All with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. All with some wear; overall very good.
(150/250)
117. (Rackham, Arthur) Group of books about, or with illustrations by, Arthur Rackham. Includes: Gettings,
Fred. Arthur Rackham. Cloth, dj. [1976]. * Hamilton, James. Arthur Rackham. Cloth, dj. [1990].
Hudson, Derek. Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work. Cloth, dj. [1974]. * Larkin, David, ed. Arthur
Rackham. Wrappers. [1975]. Rackham’s Fairy Tale Coloring Book. Wrappers. [1979]. * Carroll,
Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Cloth-backed boards, dj. [1975]. * Mother Goose Nursery
Rhymes. Cloth-backed boards, dj. [1975]. * Malory. The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights
of the Round Table. Cloth, dj. [1926]. * Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. Boards, dj. [1969]. * Aesop’s
Fables. Cloth, dj. [1969]. * Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. Cloth, dj. 1972. Together 11 volumes.
Some light wear; overall very good.
(100/150)
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ENGRAVINGS AFTER RAPHAEL
118. Raphael Sanzio d’Urbino. Volume containing 60 engravings after works by Raphael. Bound volume
of 60 line engravings after works by Raphael. 27.8x20.2 cm. (11x8”), old full red morocco lettered
and ruled in gilt.
[France?]: [c. 1845?]
A previous owner has titled the volume “Cartoons - Raffaello Sanzio”. Plates compiled from an
undetermined work or works, possibly French, circa 1845. Binding well worn, joints split, hinges
cracked; one plate with a long repaired tear, light foxing; plates overall very good.
(200/300)
119. Remington, Frederic. Done in the Open. Illustrated throughout by Frederic Remington, mostly
full-page, some double-page (including one in color). (Folio) 16x11¼, original cloth-backed pictorial
boards. Early reprint.
New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1903
First published the prior year. Howes R204. Covers worn and with some soiling; a few leaves
with closed tears in lower margins from careless page turning, two page color plate split along
fold; good.
(200/300)
120. (Remington, Frederic) Garland, Hamlin. The Book of the American Indian. Illustrated with 35
plates (3 in color) by Frederic Remington. 12¼x8¾, half cloth & boards, pictorial cover label. First
Edition.
New York: Harper, 1923
Tales from American Indian lore and legend, and of their interaction with the white man. The
illustrations are taken from various works featuring Remington drawings and paintings. Spine
lightly rubbed and faded, corners a bit worn; occasional foxing; else very good.
(100/150)
REMINGTON CATALOGUE RAISONNE
121. (Remington, Frederic) Hassrick, Peter H. and Melissa J. Webster. Frederic Remington: A Catalogue
Raisonne of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings. 2 volumes. Each profusely illustrated with color and
black and white reproductions as plates and within text. 12x9, linen, dust jackets, slipcase. Includes
the electronic (CD-ROM) Catalogue Raisonne in sleeve inside pocket located at front pastedown of
Vol. 1.
Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, [1996]
Fine.
(200/300)
122. (Remington, Frederic) Allen, Douglas. Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War. xiv,
178 pp. Profusely illustrated. (4to) leather-backed cloth, slipcase. One of 150 copies of the Deluxe
Edition. First Edition.
New York: Crown, [1971]
Signed by the author. Fine
(80/120)
A FEW ROCK AND ROLL POSTERS
123. (Rock Posters) Bush, Kate. Kate Bush The Red Shoes - limited lithograph image of ballet slippers. Color
image of red ballet slippers. Matted and framed. With frame measures 61.5x61.5 cm. (24x24”). No.
428 of 500.
[1993]
Rare promotional lithograph featuring the ballet slippers photograph used on the album cover
of Kate Bush’s “The Red Shoes.” Fine.
(200/300)
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124. (Rock Posters) Four rock & roll posters - Ringo Starr, Billy Joel, &c. 4 posters including: Ringo Starr.
Vertical Man. * Billy Joel. Greatest Hits, Volume I & Volume II. (A few short tears at edges). * 2
posters for New York radio station WPLJ 99.5 (one featuring Jimi Hendrix).
1980s-90s
Some light wear, pinholes, creasing etc.; overall very good.
(100/150)
125. (Rock Posters) Glaser, Milton. Dylan. 84x55x5 cm. (33x22”). Illustration of Bob Dylan in
silhouette with multi-colored hair, the word DYLAN in block maroon lettering.
No place: [1967]
Poster designed by the New York artist and poster designer of over 300 posters, Milton Glaser.
It was issued with Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits album in 1967. An iconic image of the era.
Creased where folded as issued; near fine.
(300/500)
126. (Rock Posters) Griffin, Rick. Bulls Eye, Albert King, Creedence Clearwater Revival. Original color
poster. 35.5x56.2 cm. (14x22”). First Printing.
San Francisco: 1968
Art by Rick Griffin of a smiling bull’s head at the center of a target board. For the September
1968 concert at Fillmore West. An unusual horizontal poster. BG137. Near fine.
(150/250)
127. (Rock Posters) Jackson, Michael. Poster for Michael Jackson’s Thriller album. 91.5x61 cm. (36x24”).
Full color photograph of Jackson in yellow sweater vest, inset of album cover at lower left.
1984
Advertising poster for what remains today the best selling album of all time. A touch of wear at
edges; fine.
(100/150)
128. (Rock Posters) MacLean, Bonnie. The Yardbirds, The Doors, plus James Cotton, Blues Band, Richie
Haven - Bill Graham concert poster. 54.2x35.8 cm. First Printing.
San Francisco: 1967
1st printing poster on uncoated matte index. The
printer’s credit “Neal, Stratford + Kerr” is displayed in
the lower right corner, and this original poster measures
14x21 3/8”. A beautiful design by Bonnie MacLean.
BG075. Fine.
(800/1200)
129. (Rock Posters) Rolling Stones. Original advertising
poster for Rolling Stones album ‘Dirty Work’. 92x92 cm.
(36x36”). Black and white photograph.
1986
Advertising poster from the bands 1986 album ‘Dirty
Work’. Some light edge wear; very good.
(100/150)
Lot 128
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130. (Rock Posters) Wood, Ronnie. John Lennon - limited edition serigraph, signed and framed. Color
serigraph on paper, with the face of John Lennon repeated four times. Float-mounted in frame with
elaborately designed and cut matting. 76.3x58 cm. (30x23”). With frame measures 103x84.5 cm.
(40½x33”). No. 137/150.
[1988]
Titled, signed, and numbered in pencil, by the artist (and guitarist for the Rolling Stones) Ronnie
Wood. A few small marks to frame from handling; print is fine.
(1000/1500)
Lot 130
FOUR LOTS OF BOOKS SIGNED BY MAURICE SENDAK
131. Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Reprinted from new engravings made from the
original art, per rear jacket flap. Gray cloth-backed color pictorial boards, matching dust jacket, with
Caldecott Medal Seal on front panel.
[New York]: Harper & Row, [1974]
Inscribed, “For Helen” and signed by Maurice Sendak on the half title page. ISBN number on
rear board of volume. Front jacket flap clipped at top and bottom corner, spine and extremities
a bit yellowed; a touch of shelf wear to volume; near fine volume in very good jacket.
(600/900)
132. Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Cloth-backed boards, two identical dust jackets,
which read “25th Anniversary Edition” on top of front flap.
[New York]: Harper & Row, [1988]
Signed by Maurice Sendak on the half title page. Reprinted in 1988 from new engravings made
from the original art. Also included in the lot is a later edition (1964) of the book in a dust
jacket with the Caldecott Medal on front panel. Jacket with some moderate wear. Together 2
volumes. Very light shelf wear to jacket and volume; near fine.
(600/900)
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133. Segal, Lore and Maurice Sendak. The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm. 2 volumes.
Translated by Lore Segal. Illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Cloth, top edges gilt, dust jackets, slipcase.
First Editions.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, [1973]
No. 36 of 500 copies. Signed by Maurice Sendak and Lore Segal on the limitation statement in
Volume 1. Classic tales from the Brothers Grimm, with superb illustrations by Sendak. Jackets
price clipped, a bit of edges wear to them as well; mostly near fine.
(300/500)
134. (Sendak, Maurice) Two volumes illustrated by Maurice Sendak, and signed by him. Includes: Sendak,
Maurice. Outside Over There. Red gilt-lettered cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. Signed by Sendak
on front free endpaper. [Harper & Row, 1981]. * Grimm, Wilhelm. Dear Mili. Illustrated by Maurice
Sendak. Blue-gray cloth, illustrated dust jacket. Signed by Sendak on the half title. Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, [1988]. Together 2 volumes.
Light shelf wear to jackets and volumes; near fine.
(200/300)
135. Sendak, Maurice. Large collection of works by and/or illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Includes, several
illustrated by Maurice Sendak: Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear. Harper & Brothers, [1957]. *
Macdonald, George. The Light Princess. Farrar, [1969]. * 2 editions of: Krauss, Ruth. One in boards,
the other in cloth-backed boards, dj. Harper & Row, [1960]. * Krauss, Ruth. The Birthday Party.
Harper & Row, 1957. * Udry, Janice May. Let’s Be Enemies. Harper & Row, [1961]. * Opie, Iona &
Peter, eds. I Saw Esau. Candlewick Press, [1992]. * Tesnohlidek, Rudolf. Farrar, [1985]. * Krauss,
Ruth. Bears. [Michael di Capua / Harper Collins, 2005]. * Marshall, James. George and Martha: The
Complete Stories of Two Best Friends. Houghton Mifflin, 1997. * Hoffmann, E.T.A. Nutcracker.
Dj price-clipped. Crown Publishers, 1984]. * Schenk de Regniers, Beatrice. What can you do with
a Shoe? Harper & Row, [1955]. * Corsaro, Frank. The Love for Three Oranges. In clear dj. Bodley
Head, [1984]. * Krauss, Ruth. Two copies/editions of A Very Special House. Harper & Row, [1953]
plus a later edition. * Segal, Lore, transl. The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm. 2 vols in dj
and slipcase. Farrar, [1973]. * Plus those written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak: Hector Protector
and As I Went over the Water. With price-clipped dj. Harper & Row, [1965]. * In the Night Kitchen.
Harper & Row, [1970]. * Very Far Away. Dj price-clipped. Harper & Brothers, [1957]. * Plus 36 more
volumes, including 14 volumes in wrappers. Together 56 volumes, most in cloth and/or cloth-backed
boards and dust jackets, a smaller number are in wrappers.
Also includes: Hanrahan, Joyce Y. Works of Maurice Sendak. Cloth, dj. Revised & Expanded to
2001. Custom Communications, 2001. Mild general wear to most; mostly very good.
(300/500)
136. Seuss, Dr. If I Ran the Circus. Color illustrations throughout by Dr. Seuss. 11x8, pictorial boards,
matching dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing.
New York: Random House, [1956]
First printing with 250/250 price on jacket and correct listing of titles at rear of volume.
Younger & Hirsch 43. Jacket edge worn, diagonal tear (approx. 1½”) on rear panel with
resulting fold and wrinkling; volume with some light edge wear, bookplate, foxing to endpapers;
very good.
(400/600)
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137. Shaw, Ruth & Harry Alan Potamkin. Our Lenin. 62 pp. Illustrated in black & white by William
Siegel. 22.5x27 cm. (8¾x1½”), cloth-backed pictorial boards. First Edition in English.
New York: International Publishers, [1934]
Life of Vladimir Lenin for American children, based upon an illustrated story published in the
Soviet Union some years earlier. “While the story has been partly fictionalized, it adheres closely
to the true events in the life of Lenin.” Spine cloth partially perished, wear to boards edges,
minor cover soiling; front hinge cracked, about very good.
(400/600)
ORIGINAL ART BY ELLY SIMMONS
138. Simmons, Elly. Three original mixed media paintings and two lithographs by San Francisco artist Elly
Simmons. Includes: Collage/casein painting on rag paper. 22x16 cm. (8½x6¼”), tipped along top edge
to board. Illustrating a flower and sun. Signed by the artist, dated 1995. * Pen, casein, acrylic drawing
on paper. 13.2x17.6 cm. (5x7”), mounted to a slightly larger board. Illustrating an angel blowing a
horn, while flying over a row of houses. Signed by the artist, dated 1985. * Pen, casein, acrylic drawing
on rag paper. 14x18 cm. (5½x7”), mounted to slightly larger board. Illustrating some fish. Signed by
the artist, dated 1986. * Color lithograph on paper. 40.6x50 cm. (16x19¾”). Illustrating a large shell,
hermit crab, and starfish, plus a whale and a bird at the beach. Signed by the artist, dated 1982. * Color
lithograph on paper. 37.7x29.5 cm. (15x11½”), mounted to matt board. Self portrait. Signed by the
artist, dated 1981. Together 5 artworks.
1981-1995
Also includes a color poster for: Saratoga Rotary Art Show at West Valley College. Faint crease
where once folded, light stain on top left corner. Signed in pen by Elly Simmons (whose artwork
is on the poster), dated 1986. Together 6 items. Mostly fine.
(300/500)
139. Steadman, Ralph. The Dogs Bodies Portfolio - One of 30 Artist Proof Copies. Cloth portfolio
containing a copy of Steadman’s Dog Bodies (London: Abelard-Schuman, 1970) and an original
two-color silkscreen titled “Ink Hound”. One of 30 Artist Proof copies from a total edition of 100.
Petro III Graphics, 2000
Book signed in brown ink by Steadman, print signed and numbered in pencil. Fine.
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(200/300)
SEVEN NOVELS BY SURTEES WITH HAND COLORED PLATES
140. [Surtees, Robert Smith]. Seven sporting novels by Robert Smith Surtees. Includes: “Hawbuck Grange”.
8 color plates by Hablot K. Browne [Phiz]. Early printing. [1847]. Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour. 13 color
plates by John Leech. First Edition. With “Lord Elcho” dedication [1st issue], misspelling at head of
page 95 [first issue], woodcut on page 230 [2nd issue], advertisements not present. 1853. * Handley
Cross. 17 color plates by John Leech. Early Edition. [1854]. “Ask Mamma”. 13 color plates by John
Leech. Early edition. [1858]. * Plain or Ringlets? 13 color plates by John Leech (including illustrated
title page). First Edition. 1860. * Mr. Facey Romford’s Hounds. 24 Color plates by John Leech and
Hablot K. Browne [Phiz]. First Edition. 1865. * Hillingdon Hall. 13 color plates by Wildrake, Heath,
& Jellicoe. First Edition. 1888. Together 7 octavo volumes, uniformly bound in red half morocco
and marbled boards, spines ruled and lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. Four First Editions, 3 early
reprints.
London: Bradbury, Evans and Co, Various dates
Some light wear to extremities and rubbing to boards, a few hinges cracked; very good.
(2000/3000)
Lot 140
141. Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Pirates in Oz. 280 pp. With 12 color plates by John R. Neill. 9x6½, dark
green cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers. First Edition.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1931]
First state binding with spine imprint in boldface. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 113. Some light wear
to cloth and cover label, child’s name in pencil on ownership leaf; very good.
(150/250)
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WITH THE RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET
142. Timlin, William M. The Ship that Sailed to Mars: A Fantasy. Illustrated with 48 mounted color
plates; plus 48 text plates printed in colors, all mounted on heavy gray paper. 12x9, original quarter
vellum and printed olive boards, spine elaborately gilt, dust jacket. First American Edition.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1923]
Lot 142
The author/ illustrator, William Timlin (18931943) was born in Northumberland and
“educated in England but emigrated to South
Africa before 1915 and studied art there.. he
practiced as an architect. He wrote stories,
composed music, illustrated periodicals,
produced watercolor fantasies, painted in oil and
produced etchings.. It has been asserted that
the illustrations in this book put him in the top
ten of fantasy illustrators with Rackham, Dulac,
Goble and Nielsen” – see Horne, “Dictionary
of 20th Century British Book Illustrators.”
Timlin died in Kimberley, South Africa, before
his second great work “The Building of a Fairy
City” was completed. Dust jacket well worn,
with several large chips and with extensive tape
repair; volume with a small split at head of spine,
foxing to backstrip, some wear to edges, previous
owner’s bookplate, inscription and embossed
stamp on front endpapers; very good in a poor
jacket.
(2000/3000)
143. (Vassos, John) Four volumes designed by John Vassos - including one signed. Includes: Wilde, Oscar. The
Ballad of Reading Gaol. Signed by John Vassos on the half title page. With 2 bookplates on front
pastedown. Cloth-backed boards. 1928. * Gray, Thomas. Elegy in a Country Church-Yard. Cloth,
lettered in gilt. [1931]. * 2 copies of: Wilde, Oscar. Salome: A Tragedy in One Act. Black, gilt-lettered
boards, dust jackets. Later editions. [1927]. Together 4 volumes.
New York: E.P. Dutton, Various dates
One jacket is clipped, the other with chipping to edges; volumes with slight wear; very good or
near fine.
(100/150)
144. Very, Lydia L. Robinson Crusoe. [16] pp. incl. wrappers. Color lithographed throughout, including
color lithographed wrappers; period two-part box with L. Prang & Co. label inside box top.
Boston: L. Prang & Co., [1864]
Wonderfully preserved early shaped book, in fine condition. Box with some wear and chipping,
thread repair to one corner; shape book fine.
(300/500)
WITH BROZE SCULPTURE OF A BEAR
145. (Von Schmidt, Harold) Reed, Walt. Harold von Schmidt Draws and Paints the Old West - With
accompanying bronze sculpture. 230 pp. Lavishly illustrated. 12½x9½, quarter leatherette and red cloth;
slipcase. No. 89 of 104 copies signed by both artist and author, and issued jointly with a limited
edition bronze sculpture.
Flagstaff: Northland Press, [1972]
Accompanied by the bronze sculpture “The Startled Grizzly”, also in an edition of 104. Fine.
(700/1000)
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146. Ward, Lynd. Song Without Words: A Book of Engravings on Wood. Unpaginated. 21 woodcut
illustrations. (8vo) white paper-backed copper foil boards, slipcase with wrap-around band. One of
1250 copies. First Edition.
New York: Random House, 1936
Signed by Ward at the limitation statement. Slipcase worn and soiled with splits along corners;
spine darkened, some wear to foil; very good.
(300/500)
147. Wenzell, Albert B. In Vanity Fair. Illustration from drawings by A.B. Wenzell. (Oblong folio)
11½x17¾, original green cloth-backed pictorial boards, top edge gilt. First Edition.
New York: R.H. Russell, 1896
Some wear, soiling and scratching to binding, edge wear; very good.
(80/120)
148. Wood, J.G. and Joseph B. Holder. Animate Creation; Popular Edition of “Our Living World,” A
Natural History - six volumes. 6 volumes. Illustrated with a total of 34 chromolithograph plates by
L. Prang & Co.; numerous wood engravings throughout (many full-page). 32x24 cm. (12½x9½”),
original decorative dark brown cloth, stamped in gilt and black, all edges gilt.
New York: Selmar Hess, [1898]
Revised and adapted to American Zoology by Joseph B. Holder. Covers detached or starting,
spine chipped and/or detaching from text block, some soiling to few; internally bright and
mostly free from marks; good to very good.
(150/250)
Section II: Fine Printing
TWELVE LOTS FROM THE ALLEN PRESS
149. (Allen Press) “An Englishman”. On the Ambitious Projects of Russia in Regard to North West America....
Introduction by George P. Hammond. Illustrated with a facsimile of the 1840 map. 9¾x6½,
parchment-backed blue-gray boards printed with orange lettering. One of 350 copies printed by the
Allen Press.
[San Francisco]: Book Club of California, 1955
First published in 1830 and here reprinted for the first time. Prospectus laid in. BCC 90; Allen
Press 17. Parchment a bit browned; fine.
(100/150)
150. (Allen Press) Breen, Patrick. The Diary of Patrick Breen: Recounting the Ordeal of the Donner Party
Snowbound in the Sierras 1846-47. Introduction and notes by George R. Stewart. With a 29-page
facsimile of the diary. Decorations by Mallette Dean. 8¼x5¼, white cloth-backed patterned boards,
acetate jacket. One of 300 copies printed by the Allen Press.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946
Gripping first-hand account of the most harrowing of overland disasters. Prospectus laid in.
See Cowan p.70; Allen Press 5; BCC 64. Fine.
(250/350)
151. (Allen Press) Duchow, John Charles. The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852.
Foreword by George P. Hammond. Decorations in color by the printer, Mallette Dean. 4to. Original
decorated boards backed in green linen, paper spine label. One of 200 copies.
Kentfield, CA: Mallette Dean [at the Allen Press], 1959
Designed at the Allen Press but the printing, binding and publishing were done by Mallette
Dean while the Allens were living in France. Allen Press 21. Fine.
(150/250)
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WITH AN ORIGINAL LEAF
152. (Allen Press - Leaf Book) Hall, Basil. The Great Polyglot Bibles, Including a Leaf from the Complutensian
of Acala, 1514-17. Illustrated including an original leaf tipped in. 15x10¾, unsewn sheets in wrapper,
purple cloth box, striped paper jacket. One of 400 copies printed by the Allen Press.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1966
A handsome production in the French style, with the leaf printed in Greek, Latin and Hebrew.
Allen Press 24; BCC 124. Jacket torn along spine; volume fine.
(400/700)
153. (Allen Press) Hall, Carroll D., editor. Donner Miscellany: 41 Diaries and Documents. Illustrated
from photographs. 10x6½ green cloth-backed patterned cloth-covered boards. One of 350 copies
printed by the Allen Press.
Prospectus laid in. Allen Press 6; BCC 67. A touch of edge wear; fine.
(200/300)
154. (Allen Press) Hall, Caroll D. Heraldry of New Helvetia: With Thirty-two Cattle Brands and Ear
Marks Reproduced from the Original Certificates Issued at Sutter’s Fort. Illustrated with 32 facsimile cattle
brand certificates. 26.4x17.3 cm. (10½x7”), half calf and cloth, stamped brand on front, blue-lettered
spine. One of 250 copies printed by The L-D Allen Press.
“...a book on an important and little known phase of early California...one of the Club’s
publications most difficult to find.” (Magee). Adams Herd 971; BCC 62. Spine ends rubbed;
very good.
(80/120)
155. (Allen Press) Harte, Bret. A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready. Two tone brown boards, spine
lettered in gilt. One of 220 copies.
Kentfield, CA: L-D Allen Press, 1955
Allen Press 16. Fine.
(100/150)
156. (Allen Press) Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de. Essays of Montagne. Edited and translated by
Francis Carmody. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. 10x6¼, red brocade cloth, gilt-lettered spine. One of
200 copies printed on all-rag Oxbow.
[Hillsborough, CA]: The L-D Allen Press, 1948
(300/500)
157. (Allen Press) Stevenson, Robert Louis. La Porte de Maletroit. 60 pp. Illustrations and decorations
by Ray Bethers. 8x5¼, original wrappers and glassine; board chemise and slipcase. One of 300 copies
printed in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France by Lewis and Dorothy Allen.
Cagnes-sur-Mer: L.D. Allen Press for the Book Club of California, 1952
Handsomely printed with page heads in silver ink, illustrations in red, blue, and gilt. Text in
English. A bit of wear and soiling to chemise and slipcase; volume fine.
(150/250)
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158. (Allen Press) Twain, Mark. Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent. Selections from his letters to the
Territorial Enterprise: 1865-1866. Illustrations from photograph, old prints. Cloth-backed boards. One
of 400 copies.
Printed at the Allen Press. In their bibliography the Allens refer to this production as “a violent
departure from our goal of hand produced books. The text was selected by the Club; the types
were machine set; the paper was machine made, and the printing done on a motor-driven press.”
Allen Press 20. Spine sunned, light wear; very good.
(100/150)
159. (Allen Press) Twain, Mark. Roughing it in California. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. 10¼x6¼, wood
veneer boards, acetate. 1 of 200 copies printed on Oxbow rag paper by Lewis & Dorothy Allen.
Kentfield, CA: L-D Allen Press, 1953
(150/250)
160. (Allen Press) The Allen Press Bibliography: A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date
Including a Checklist of Ephemera. 114 + [7] pp. Illustrated with sample pages from the Allen Press.
13½x9¼, tan-brown cloth, blind-stamped decoration on front cover, spine lettered in gilt, page edges
untrimmed. Limited to 750 copies.
[San Francisco]: [The Book Club of California], [1985]
Facsimile of the hand-printed 1981 edition, with important additions, original leaves, and a
complete checklist of ephemera. Prospectus laid in. BCC 180. Fine.
(150/250)
THIRTEEN LOTS FROM THE ARION PRESS
161. (Arion Press) Brautigan, Richard. Trout Fishing in America. Preface by Ron Loewinsohn.
Illustrated with a full-page color lithograph by Wayne Thiebaud, signed by the artist in pencil on facing
captioned page; photo portrait of Brautigan originally taken by Edmund Shea in 1967. 11¾x8¾,
original blue and gray cloth, decorated and lettered in black. No. 156 of 200 copies.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003
Fine.
(300/500)
ARTIST’S PROOF OF PRINT BY JIM DINE
162. (Arion Press) Dine, Jim. The Temple of Flora - an Artist’s Proof signed by Jim Dine accompanying a poem
by Frederic W. Reid. Drypoint etching, hinged to the printed poem by Frederick W. Reid. Plus, 4 pp.
composed of the title page/copyright page, and the list of 28 plates within the publication. Together
[8] pp. All housed in plain gray paper folder. 53.3x35.5 cm. (21x14”).
The etching is signed in pencil by Jim Dine, and designated A/P. In 1984, when Arion Press
published The Temple of Flora, an artist book with Jim Dine, which included 28 drypoint
engravings and poetry selected by Glenn Todd & Nancy Dine, it was decided that each of the
poets would receive a signed artist’s proof of the image that corresponded to their poem as
published in the book, with the leaf from the book bearing the poem attached to the print. At
the time, a friend of the press, Frederick W. Reid, an accomplished poet and employee of the
typefounders, Mackenzie & Harris, composed his own poem to accompany the Bird of Paradise
print, and the press decided to print the poem, handset in the type used for the book, and, with
the accord of Jim Dine, to attach a signed artist’s proof of that Dine print. Included in the
folder are the title page and contents pages from the book. A rare and beautiful Arion Press
item. Provenance: The Estate of Frederick W. Reid. Fine.
(1000/1500)
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163. (Arion Press) Einstein, Albert. The Theory of Relativity. Blue cloth with wrap-around paper label.
Copy 86 of 400.
Centennial publication of two of Einstein’s most important papers: On the Electrodynamics of
Moving Bodies & Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on its Energy-Content? Fine.
(300/500)
164. (Arion Press) Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. A Coney Island of the Mind. [48] pp. Artwork by R.B.
Kitaj. Oblong 4to. Original hand-sewn in boards with brown cloth spine, slipcase. One of 300 signed
copies. First Arion Press Edition.
Signed by the poet and artist at the colophon. Prospectus laid in. Fine.
(400/600)
165. (Arion Press) Grabhorn, Robert, compiler. A Commonplace Book of Cookery. Preface by M.F.K.
Fisher. Illustrated with vignettes. Printed on English Inveresk cream mould-made paper. 9¼x5¾,
cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. One of 425 copies. First Edition.
The second book of the Arion Press. Prospectus laid in. Fine.
(200/300)
166. (Arion Press) Greene, Graham. Our Man in Havana. Illustrations by William Hamilton.
Introduction by Christopher Buckley. (8vo) blue cloth with Cuban flag design. Number 86 of 300
copies.
The 88th publication of the Arion Press. Fine.
(200/300)
167. (Arion Press) Hano, Arnold. A Day in the Bleachers. Illustrations by Mark Ulriksen. 11x7½, blue
cloth, pictorial label. One of 400 copies.
Signed by the author and illustrator at colophon. Fine.
(400/600)
168. (Arion Press) Kipling, Rudyard. With the Night Mail, A Story of 2000 A.D. Illustrations by
Vincent Perez. (8vo) tan linen, paper label, original mailing envelope styled cover. Number 156 of
250 copies.
Signed by the illustrator at colophon. Light wear to envelope; else fine.
(200/300)
169. (Arion Press) Maistre, Xavier de. Journey Round My Room. Illustrated with photographs by Ross
Anderson. 8½x6, striped cloth. One of 300 copies.
“Written while the author was confined to his room for 42 days as punishment for dueling, the
book presents the author’s imaginary journey exploring the limits of his surroundings.” (Arion
Press) Fine.
(300/500)
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170. (Arion Press) Todd, Glenn. The Ballad of Lemon and Crow. Illustrations by Bruce Conner and
Anonymous Artists. Patterned cream cloth with black cloth spine, slipcase. One of 300 numbered
copies.
Signed by the author and illustrator at colophon. Fine.
(300/500)
171. (Arion Press) Van Nostrand, Jeanne. Edward Vischer’s Drawings of the California Missions, 18611878. With a Biography of the Artist by Jeanne Van Nostrand. Introduction by Thomas Albright. With
44 color plates (including frontispiece) from Vischer’s drawings. (Oblong 4to) golden-brown linen
lettered in gilt, original plain jacket. One of 600 copies printed by the Arion Press under the direction
of Andrew Hoyem.
Vischer is credited with capturing in his drawings the look and feel of the colonial past with far
more freedom and vividness than his several competitors. Some of his drawings “reconstruct”
derelict mission buildings. Prospectus laid in. BCC 172. Light wear to jacket; volume fine.
(150/250)
172. (Arion Press) Wells, H.G. Tono-Bungay. Illustrations by Stan Washburn. (8vo) brown cloth,
pamphlet “Notes for Tono-Bungay”, slipcase. Number 52 of 300 copies.
Fine.
(400/600)
173. (Arion Press) Four publications from the Arion Press. Includes: Hoyem, Andrew. Car’s in the Corn,
Poe, Beep Your Horn. Wrappers. One of 400 copies. 2002. * Mackay, Charles. The Tulipomania.
Wrappers. One of 350 copies. 2005. * Lincoln, Abraham. My Childhood-Home I See Again.
Wrappers. One of 350 copies. 2010. * Hoyem, Andrew. The Apocryphal Wisdom of Solomon. Blue
cloth. One of 500 copies. 2000. Together four volumes.
San Francisco: Arion Press, Various dates
Fine.
(150/250)
TWO SPECIAL COPIES OF ARTISTS’ CHOICE EDITIONS BOOKS
174. (Artists’ Choice Editions) Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits.
Illustrations by John Vernon Lord. (4to) black morocco-backed pictorial boards, separate paper
portfolio containing three signed hand-colored prints. Slipcase. Copy no. XXIX of XXXVI Special
Copies.
[London]: Artists’ Choice Editions, 2006
Signed by the illustrator at the colophon. Fine.
(400/600)
175. (Artists’ Choice Editions) Ovenden, Graham. Acrostics. Illustrations by Graham Ovenden,
decorative borders by Brian Partridge. (4to) black morocco-backed patterned boards. Separate green
board portfolio containing two signed prints. Slipcase. Copy no. XI of XXIV Special Copies.
[London]: Artist’s Choice Editions, 2003
Signed by Ovenden at the colophon. Fine.
(400/600)
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176. (Barbarian Press) Lazarov, Peter. Peter Lazarov: A Selection of Engravings. Unpaginated. Illustrated
with wood engravings by Lazarov. (Folio) 15x10½, quarter morocco, patterned boards, slipcase. With
signed proof of the frontispiece in paper folder. One of 60 deluxe copies from an edition of 195.
[Mission, BC]: Barbarian Press, 2003
The third volume of the ‘Endgrains Editions’ series produced by Barbarian Press. Fine.
(400/600)
177. (Bird & Bull Press) Three Early French Essays on Paper Marbling, 1642-1765. 106, [1] pp. Intro. by
Richard J. Wolfe. Illus. with 13 original marbled paper samples by Wolfe, and with tipped-in plate from
photograph showing the process of Placard. 10x7, quarter-bound morocco & snail-pattern marbled
boards with gilt-lettered leather spine label; bound by Gray Parrot. One of 310 copies printed on
dampened Umbria paper.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1987
Fine.
(200/300)
178. (Bird & Bull Press) Five volumes from the Bird & Bull Press. Includes: Adams, John W., et al. The
Magnum Opus of Joseph Florimond Loubat. A Leaf Book. Red morocco-0backed blue cloth.
Prospectus laid in. One of 150 copies. 2007 * Harris, Elizabeth M. The Art of Medal Engraving. Blue
cloth. One of 230 copies. 1991. * Morris, Henry. A Visit to Hayle Mill. Brown leather backed boards,
jacket. One of 210 copies. * Stoneback, H.R. Cartographers of the Deus Loci: The Mill House.
Vellum-backed boards, plain jacket. Prospectus laid in. One of 240 copies. 1982. * Our Weekend
With Oak Knoll, October 3-5, 2008. Red cloth, paper label. One of 120 copies. 2008. Together 5
volumes.
Newtown or North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, Various dates
Also included: Booblio: Book Reviews for people who love to read but aren’t too good at it yet.
4 pp. Spring, 1999. A bookish farce published by Bird & Bull Press. Fine.
(300/500)
179. (Black Pennell Press) M’Alpine, John. Adventures of John M’Alpine, A Native Highlander. Wood
engravings by Kathleen Lindsley proofed from the original wood-blocks by Thomas Rae. (8vo) full
calf, slipcase. Copy ‘N’ of 26 lettered copies with an additional suite of wood engravings in pocket
at rear.
Greenock: The Black Pennell Press, 1985
Fine.
(250/350)
A LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS
180. (Book Club of California) Carmody, Francis J., translator. Physiologus: The Very Ancient Book
of Beasts, Plants and Stones. Translated by Francis J. Carmody. Illustrated with hand-colored lino-cuts
by Mallette Dean. 11x7¾, decorated vellum, spine lettered in orange. One of 325 copies printed by
Vivien & Mallette Dean.
Prospectus laid in. Spine a touch sunned; fine.
(150/250)
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181. (Book Club of California) D’Ambrosio, Joe. A Memoir of Book Design, 1969-2000. Illustrated in
color with facsimiles and reproductions of books created by D’Ambrosio. 11x8, half black cloth &
patterned boards, spine lettered in white. One of 350 copies designed by Joe D’Ambrosio.
Marvelous selection of the books written, illustrated, printed and bound by D’Ambrosio, with
detailed descriptions by him of the processes involved. Fine.
(100/150)
182. (Book Club of California) Dillon, Richard. Napa Valley Heyday. xii, 363, [1] pp. Photographs by
Charles B. Turill. (4to), tan cloth, paper spine label. One of 450 copies designed by Jonathan Clark
of the Artichoke Press.
Prospectus laid in. BCC 218. Fine.
(100/150)
183. (Book Club of California) Dillon, Richard H. Texas Argonauts: Isaac H. Duval and the California
Gold Rush. Illustrated with 13 color plates, some double-page, from paintings by Charles Shaw;
endpaper maps showing Duval’s route. (4to) 13½x9¾, linen-backed pictorial boards, paper spine
label, plain jacket. One of 450 copies printed by the Wind River Press.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987
Prospectus laid in. BCC 186. Light wear to jacket; volume fine.
(150/250)
184. (Book Club of California) Dreyfus, John. A Typographical Masterpiece: An account...of Eric Gill’s
collaboration with Robert Gibbings in producing the Golden Cockerel Press edition of ‘The Four Gospels’ in 1931.
Illustrations from woodcuts by Eric Gill and Robert Gibbings. (Small folio), gilt-stamped cloth, plain
dust jacket. 1 of 450 copies printed by the Meriden-Stinehour Press.
Dreyfus sheds considerable light on how the superb Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Four
Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ was conceived, planned & executed. BCC 194. Jacket with
some wear; volume fine.
(150/250)
A BOOK CLUB MODERN RARITY
185. (Book Club of California) Everson, William. On Printing. xviii, [2], 113 pp. Edited by Peter
Rutledge Koch. Illustrated from photographs and facsimiles; folding prospectus example for “The
Equinox Press” announcement on the rear pastedown. 7x4½, red linen, paper spine label. One of
400 copies printed by Peter Rutlege Koch.
Collection of Everson’s writings on printing, produced in honor of the poet/printer’s eightieth
birthday. Most of the 400 copies produced were lost in the process of shipping and never
recovered to the members of the Book Club of California, therefore making this one of the
scarcest BCC books. Erratum slip laid in. Prospectus included. BCC 199. Fine
(150/250)
186. (Book Club of California) Ford, Henry Chapman. An Artist Records the California Missions. Edited
with an introduction by Norman Neuerburg. Illustrations and plates from sketches & paintings by
Ford, a few in color including tipped-in frontispiece. (Oblong quarto), linen-backed patterned cloth,
paper spine label, plain paper jacket. One of 450 copies designed & printed by Patrick Reagh.
Most of Ford’s drawings and paintings were executed in the early 1880’s. The patterned cloth
used in the binding was typical of the wallpapers and decorations found in the California
Missions. Prospectus laid in. Minor wear to jacket; volume fine.
(150/250)
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187. (Book Club of California) Franklin, Colin. Themes in Aquatint. Illustrated with 16 plates from
aquatints. 36.5x23.5 cm. (14½x9¼”), cloth-backed marbled boards, plain paper jacket. One of 500
copies printed by the Cambridge University Press.
Examination of the use of aquatint in the illustrations of British books in the late 18th and
early 19th centuries. Jacket browned and with some light wear; volume fine.
(100/150)
188. (Book Club of California) Fraser, James Howard & Eleanor Friedl, compilers. John DePol:
A Catalogue Raisonné of His Graphic Work, 1935-1998. [1]-162 pp. (4to), black cloth-backed patterned
boards, slipcase. One of 400 copies.
Foreword by Donald R. Fleming. BCC 213. Fine.
(100/150)
189. (Book Club of California) Harlan, Robert D. Chapter Nine: The Vulgate Bible & Other Unfinished
Projects of John Henry Nash. 77 pp. With several facsimiles bound in, including folding facsimile tipped
in on the rear pastedown. 6¾x4½, cream boards, original glassine dust jacket. One of 500 copies for
the Members of the Book Club of California, designed by Abe Lerner.
BCC Publication No. 170. Glassine worn; volume fine.
(100/150)
190. (Book Club of California) Hart, James D., editor. My First Publication: Eleven California Authors
Describe Their Earliest Appearances in Print. Edited with introductions by James D. Hart. Drawings by
David Stone Martin. 9¾x6¼, cloth-backed illustrated boards, paper spine label. One of 475 copies,
printed by Adrian Wilson.
Contributors are Richard Henry Dana, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, Gertrude
Atherton, Gelett Burgess, Mary Austin, Wallace Irwin, Jack London, Robinson Jeffers, and
William Saroyan. Prospectus laid in. Fine.
(100/150)
191. (Book Club of California) Johnson, Kenneth M., ed. The Sting of the Wasp: Political & Satirical
Cartoons from the Truculent Early San Francisco Weekly. Illustrated in color from cartoons. (Folio)
14¼x10¼, original gilt-lettered gray cloth. One of 450 copies printed by the Plantin Press.
The Wasp was for several years under the editorship of Ambrose Bierce and the cartoons reflect
his satirical attacks. BCC 127. Fine.
(100/150)
192. (Book Club of California) Kruska, Dennis. James Mason Hutchings of Yo Semite: A Biography and
Bibliography. xvi, 324, [1] pp. Illustrations from photographs, old engravings, etc. (Folio) black and
green cloth, paper label on front, spine lettered in gilt. One of 500 copies. First Edition.
The bibliography “provides and annotated listing of all known Hutching’s publications and
those he influenced. Most items in the bibliography are illustrated and some of them have never
before been reproduced.” (From publisher’s prospectus.) Spine leaning, cloth a bit soiled; very
good.
(100/150)
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193. (Book Club of California) Kurutz, Gary F. The California Gold Rush: A Descriptive Bibliography of
Books and Pamphlets Covering the Years 1848-1853. xxvii, 771 pp. Illustrated with plates. (8vo), blue cloth,
stamped in gilt, plain paper jacket. 1 of 1000 copies, produced by W. Thomas Taylor.
The essential reference on the subject. Light wear to jacket; volume fine.
(200/300)
194. (Book Club of California) Leighton, Clare. Growing New Roots: An Essay with Fourteen Wood
Engravings. Illustrated by Leighton. 8½x5½, cloth. No. 313 of 500 copies printed by Lawton & Alfred
Kennedy and signed by the illustrator in the colophon.
Fine.
(100/150)
195. (Book Club of California) Mathes, W. Michael. Mexico on Stone. Lithography in Mexico, 1826-1900.
I llustrated, including some color and folding plates. 12x8¼, cloth-backed decorated boards, printed
paper spine label, plain paper jacket. One of 550 copies, printed by Jonathan Clark at the Artichoke
Press.
An important reference on the subject, includes a checklist of major works. Prospectus laid in.
Fine.
(100/150)
196. (Book Club of California) Sawkins, James Gay. A Pictorial Tour of Hawaii, 1850-1852: Watercolors,
Painting, & Drawings by James Gay Sawkins. With an account of his life & travels by David W. Forbes. Foreword
by Richard H. Dillon. Numerous plates reproducing works by Sawkins, most in color, a few folding.
(Oblong 4to), 9¼x12, beige cloth, paper spine label, plain jacket. One of 400 copies, designed by Jack
Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press.
Hawaiian pictures by a 19th century Anglo-American visitor to the islands. BCC 197. Some light
wear to jacket; volume fine.
(150/250)
197. (Book Club of California) Seaton, Elizabeth. WPA Federal Art Project - Printmaking in California
1935-43. 132 pp. 12¾x9¾, duo-tone blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow, clear acetate jacket. 1 of 450
copies designed by Patrick Reagh. First Edition.
Prospectus and errata slip, both laid in. BCC Publication No. 220. Fine.
(150/250)
198. (Book Club of California) Steinbeck, John. Letters to Elizabeth: A Selection of Letters from John
Steinbeck to Elizabeth Otis. Edited by Florian Shasky & Susan Riggs. Introduction by Carlton A.
Sheffield. Illustrated with a facsimile letter. (8vo), cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, dust jacket.
One of 500 copies printed by the Plantin Press.
Elizabeth Otis was Steinbeck’s literary agent and friend for forty years. Prospectus laid in. Fine.
(150/250)
199. (Book Club of California) Sterling, George. Dear Master: Letters of George Sterling to Ambrose
Bierce, 1900-1912. Edited with introduction by Roger K. Larson. Illustrated from photographs;
inserted facsimile. 11x7½, quarter cloth & boards, paper spine label, slipcase. One of 350 copies,
designed, composed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch.
Fine.
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(100/150)
200. (Book Club of California) Valenti Angelo: Author, Illustrator, Printer. Introduction by Oscar Lewis.
Illustrated with 43 facsimiles (35 in color) & illumination in gold & colors by Angelo. 14¼x10, quarter
red cloth & boards, paper spine label, plain jacket. 1 of 400 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem.
Signed by Angelo at the colophon, prospectus. BCC 154. Jacket browned and a bit worn;
volume fine.
(150/250)
201. (Book Club of California) Van Nostrand, Jeanne. San Francisco, 1806-1906 in Contemporary
Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors. 53 plates, most in color. 12x9, cloth, cover vignette in red and
lettered in gilt. One of 500 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. First Edition.
BCC 150. Fine
(100/150)
202. (Book Club of California) Wagener, Richard. California in Relief. Thirty Wood Engravings by
Richard Wagener. Wood engravings by Wagener. (4to) cloth-backed boards, matching slipcase. One of
300 numbered and signed copies.
“Not since Paul Landacre mastered the aesthetic and technical challenges of wood engraving in
the early twentieth-century has any California artist achieved prominence in the medium until
Richard Wagener began to explore it in the 1980s.” (from publisher’s prospectus). Prospectus
and order form laid in. Fine.
(500/800)
Lot 202
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SEVEN LOTS OF BOOK CLUB LEAF BOOKS
203. (Book Club of California - Leaf Book) Booth, Stephen. The Book Called Holinshed’s Chronicles: An
account of its inception, purpose, contributors, contents, publication, revision and influence on William Shakespeare.
Illustrated in photoengraved facsimile; with an original leaf from the 1587 edition tipped in. 14x8½,
linen-backed pictorial boards, paper spine label. One of 500 copies designed and printed by Adrian
Wilson.
The original leaf is pages 107/108 and includes a large woodcut initial letter and an armorial
woodcut within a decorative border. Slight lean to spine; fine.
(250/350)
204. (Book Club of California - Leaf Book) Borden, John and Janet Kreuger. Thomas Bewick & the
Fables of Aesop. With an original leaf from the first edition (1818) of The Fables of Aesop, and a new
impression from Bewick’s wood engraving for The Boys and the Frogs. 10½x8, boards, paper printed
spine label, plain paper jacket. One of 518 copies.
The original leaf in this copy comprises the fable of “The Serpent and the Man”, with woodcut
illustration and tailpiece. Prospectus laid in. Light wear to jacket; volume fine.
(100/150)
205. (Book Club of California - Leaf Book) (Dodoens, Rembert). A Leaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens
Herbal printed by Christopher Plantin. Short essay by Carey S. Bliss. Illustrated, including the original leaf.
(Folio), pictorial cloth, plain paper jacket. One of 385 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom.
The leaf in this copy has three woodcuts. BCC 156; Chalmer’s, Check List of Leaf Books, 166.
Jacket lightly worn; volume fine.
(200/300)
206. (Book Club of California - Leaf Book) Kurutz, Gary F. An Essay...on A Bibliography of California
and the Pacific West, 1510-1906 by Robert E. Cowan. With an Original Leaf from the Club’s 1914 First Edition.
With a leaf from the Club’s 1914 first edition. 10½x7¾, cloth-backed boards. One of 390 copies
printed at the Anchor & Acorn Press, designed by Lewis Allen of the Allen Press.
The leaf in this copy is pages 1 & 2. Prospectus laid in. BCC 201; Chalmers, Check List of Leaf
Books, 203. Fine.
(100/150)
207. (Book Club of California - Leaf Book) Shaffer, Ellen. The Garden of Health. Includes an
original leaf from the Hortus Santatis (1499) tipped in; plus many illustrations after medieval
manuscripts throughout. 13x8¾, cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of 300 copies designed and
printed by Lawton Kennedy.
The inserted leaf in this copy contains 4 wood cut illustrations. Fine
(200/300)
208. (Book Club of California - Leaf Book) Turner, Decherd. The Rhemes New Testament, Being a
full and particular Account of the Origins, Printing, and subsequent Influences of the First Roman Catholic New
Testament. Includes a leaf from the original 1582 edition, and with other illustrations. 10x7, moroccobacked gray boards, gilt-lettered spine, plain paper jacket. One of 395 copies printed by W. Thomas
Taylor.
The original leaf is from Chapter XIIII, The Epistle of S. Paul. Prospectus laid in. BCC 193;
Chalmer’s, Check List of Leaf Books, 196. Light wear to jacket; volume fine.
(150/250)
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209. (Book Club of California - Leaf Book) Wikgren, Allen P. A Leaf from the First Edition of the First
Complete Bible in English, The Coverdale Bible 1535. Includes the original leaf from the Coverdale Bible,
many other leaves in facsimile, including a fold-out. 13¾x9¾, pictorial red & black cloth, jacket. One
of 425 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy.
The leaf is from The book of Cronicles, chapters 18-19 (folio cii). Prospectus laid in. BCC 145.
Jacket edge worn and with several tears; volume fine.
(400/600)
SEVERAL SHELF LOTS OF BOOK CLUB PUBLICATIONS
210. (Book Club of California) Ten volumes of Americana published by the Book Club of California.
Includes: Alvarado, Juan Bautista. Vignettes of Early California. 1982. * Beach, Joseph Perkins. The
Log of Apollo, 1849. 1986. * Haraszthy, Arpad. Wine-Making in California. 1978. * Baker, Hozial H.
Overland Journey to Carson Valley & California. 1973. * Kurutz, Gary F. Benjamin C. Truman. 1984.
* Likins, Mrs. J.W. Six Years Experience as a Book Agent in California. 1992. * Mathes, W. Michael,
ed. Spanish Approaches to the Island of California, 1628-1632. 1975. * Peck, G.W. Aurifodina. 1974.
* Taylor, M. The Gold Digger’s Song Book. 1975. * Thayer, James Bradley. A Western Journey with
Mr. Emerson. 1980. Together 10 octavo volumes, all in original cloth, boards, or cloth-backed boards,
all but Aurifodina with dust jackets.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, Various dates
Some light wear to jackets; volumes fine.
(150/250)
211. (Book Club of California) Ten volumes of Americana published by the Book Club of California. Includes:
Austin, Mary. Mother of Felipe and Other Early Stories. 1950. * Baker, Hozial H. Overland Journey
to Carson Valley & California. 1973. * Browne, J. Ross. Muleback to the Convention. 1950. * A
Facsimile Edition of California’s First Book, Reglamento Provicional. 1954. * Genini, Ronald &
Richard Hitchman. Romualdo Pacheco: A Californio in Two Eras. 1985. * Hittell, Theodore H. El
Triunfo de la Cruz. 1977. * Kunzel, heinrich. Upper California. 1967. * The Miners’ Own Book.
1949. * Pinney, Thomas. John Ignatius Bleasdale: A Friend of Wine in New Worlds. 2006. * Truman,
Benjamine C. Knights of the Lash. 2005. Together 10 volumes, all in original boards, cloth, or clothbacked boards.
Some minor wear; near fine to fine.
(150/250)
Allyn, Joseph Pratt. By Horse, Stage & Packet. 1988. * Beach, Joseph Perkins. The Log of Apollo.
1986. * Berg, Baron Gustav von. From Kapuvar to California, 1893. 1979. * Craven, Tunis, Augustus
Macdonough. A Naval Campaign in the Californias. [1973]. * Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste. A Voyage to
California, the Sandwich Island & Around the World. 1997. * Rawls, James J., ed. Dan de Quille of
the Big Bonanza. 1980. * Rezanov, Nikolai. Rezanov Reconnoiters California, 1806. 1972. * Ridge,
John Rollin. A Trumpet of Our Own. 1981. * Walker, Franklin. The Seacoast of Bohemia. 1966. *
White, Gerald T. Baptism in Oil. 1984. Together 10 volumes, all in original boards, cloth, or clothbacked boards, all with original plain paper jackets.
Some wear to jackets; volumes fine.
(150/250)
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Artful Deeds in the Life of the Felon, Grovenor Layton. 1998. * Guillou, Charles F.B. Oregon and
California Drawings, 1841 and 1847. 1961. * Mawn, Geoffrey P. Jasper O’Farrell: Surveyor, Farmer,
& Politician. 2001. * Meyers, William H. Sketches of California and Hawaii. 1970. * Palmquist, Peter.
Redwood and Lumbering in California Forests. [1983]. * Polk, Willis. A Matter of Taste. 1979. *
[Another Copy] * Simpkinson, F.G. & E. Belcher. H.M.S. Sulphur at California, 1837 and 1839. 1969.
* Stauffacher, Jack W. Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco. 2003. * Weller, Earle
V. Ballads of Eldorado. 1940. Together 10 volumes, “Inscriptions” in original wrappers, all others in
original boards, cloth or cloth-backed boards, several with original plain paper jackets.
Some wear to jackets; volumes near fine to fine.
(150/250)
214. (Book Club of California) Thirteen Book Club of California publications, mostly literary subjects. Includes:
Davison, Richard Allan. Charles & Kathleen Norris, The Courtship Year. 1993. * Gearharts, The.
Let’s Play. 2009. * Jeffers, Una. A Book of Gaelic Airs for Una’s Melodeon. 1989. * Johnson, Kenneth
M. The Life and Times of Edward Robeson Taylor. 1968. * Levinsohn, John L. Frank Morrison
Pixley of The Argonaut. 1989. * Lewis, Oscar. A Widely Cast Net. 1996. * Norris, Frank. Collected
Letters. 1986. * [Another copy]. * Oscar Lewis, 1893-1992. 1992. * R.L.S. to J.M. Barrie. 1962. * Splatt,
Cynthia. Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig. 1988. * Stauffacher, Jack W. Porter Garnett, Philosophical
Writings on the Ideal Book. 1994. * Wilde, Oscar. Irish Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century.
1972. Together 13 volumes, “Oscar Lewis, 1893-1992” in original wrappers, all other in original cloth
or cloth-backed boards, a few with dust jackets (plain paper but for “Let’s Play).
Some light wear; overall near fine to fine.
(150/250)
215. (Book Club of California) Sixteen Book Club of California publications on printing, publishing, etc.
Includes: Barlow, William P., et al. Remembering Albert Sperisen. [1999]. * Harlan, Robert D. At the
Sign of the Lark. 1983. * Greenwood, Robert. A Valiant Enterprise: A History of the Talisman Press,
1951-1993. 2007. * Hart, James D. The Private Press Ventures of Samuel Lloyd Osbourne and R.L.S.
1966. * Johnson, Bruce L. James Weld Towne: Pioneer San Francisco Printer, Publisher, & Paper
Purveyor. 2008. * Kainen, Jacob. George Clymer and the Columbian Press. 1950. * Lewis, Oscar.
The First 75 Years: The Story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987. 1987. * Ritchie, Ward. Art
Deco: The Books of Francois-Louis Schmied. 1987. * Roatcap, Adela Spindler. Raymond Duncan,
Printer, Expatriate, Eccentric Artist. 1991. * Roth, William M. The Colt Springs High: A Publishing
Memoir of the Colt Press. 2004. * Second Reading, Selections from the Quarterly News-Letter,
1933-1963. 1965. * Skelton, Christopher. The Engraved Bookplates of Eric Gill, 1908-1940. 1986.
* Stauffacher, Jack Werner. A Typographic Journey: The History of the Greenwood Press, 19342000. 1999. * Teiser, Ruth. Lawton Kennedy, Printer. 1988. * Teiser, Ruth. Printing as a Performing
Art. 1970. * Wentz, Roby. The Grabhorn Press. 1981. Together 16 volumes, ‘Remembering Albert
Sperisen’ in original wrappers, all others in original cloth or cloth-backed boards, a few with plain
paper jackets.
Some light wear; overall near fine to fine.
(250/350)
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216. (Book Club of California) Collection of Book Club of California Keepsakes. 42 annual or semi-annual
publications comprising keepsakes for 1946, 1953, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1970-1975, 1978-2010. All
in the original cloth chemise and slipcase sets (save for the second volume of the 1980-82 keepsakes
which is leather-backed).
A very useful and interesting series of publications on the history of the book in California and
other related subjects. Some light wear; near fine.
(250/350)
BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA BIBLIOGRAPHIES
217. (Book Club of California) The Hundredth Book [&] The Two Hundredth Book. Magee, David. The
Hundredth Book: A Bibliography of the Publications of the Book Club of California & A History
of the Club. 1 of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press, [1958]. * And, Harlan, Robert D. The
Two Hundredth Book: A Bibliography of the Books Published by the Book Club of California
1958-1993. 1 of 500 copies printed by the Mastercraft Press, [1993]. Together, 2 volumes. With a
few facsimile woodcuts and title pages. 14x9¾, half cloth and decorative boards, paper spine labels.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1958 & 1993
Bibliographies of major importance as a source for much California fine printing. Prospectus
for second volume laid in. Fine.
(250/350)
LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOK CLUB POST CARDS
218. (Book Club of California) Collection of over 400 Book Club of California post cards. Collection of over
400 postcards from the Book Club of California advertising publications and announcing events.
The collection includes cards from the 1950s through the early years of the 21st century. Fine.
(300/500)
219. (Bridgewater Press) Boyd, William. Protobiography. (8vo) green cloth, clear jacket. One of 100
numbered copies from a total edition of 138.
[London]: Bridgewater Press, [1998]
Signed by Boyd at the limitation statement. Fine.
(150/250)
220. (Catfish Press) Catich, Edward M. Letters Redrawn from the Trajan Inscription in Rome. xi, 44
pp. (8vo), orange gilt-lettered cloth. Also includes 93 loose plates of typography diagrams and
photographs. Plates are 19x31.8 cm. (7½x12½”), and housed, along with book in orange cloth case.
Second Edition.
Davenport, IA: Catfish Press, [1961]
Case splitting at one edge, a few instances of fraying at extremities; Plate 1 is yellowed with a
few smudges, else plates are near fine; very good.
(200/300)
221. (Center for the Book) Ginsberg, Allen. Howl - One of 70 copies. [5] pp. Wrappers. One of 70
copies.
San Francisco: Katherine Case at the San Francisco Center for the Book, 2005
Printed by an assortment of self-professed hipsters with the help of Katherine Case. Fine.
(100/150)
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222. (Cherryburn Press) Bewick, Thomas. A Frail Memorial: Being Selections from the Writings and
Engravings of Thomas Bewick. Selected by William Hesterberg. Woodblock on tissue-paper on verso of
frontispiece portrait, wrapped with hand-made brown paper.22.425.5 cm. (8¾x6¼”), brown cloth,
slipcase.
Chicago: Cherryburn Press, [1975]
No. 55 of 100 copies. Fine.
(100/150)
THREE LOTS FROM THE COLT PRESS
223. (Colt Press) Norris, Frank. McTeague. [10], 390 pp. Illustrated by Charles G. Norris. (4to) 10½x7,
original cloth backed boards. Limited Edition of 500 copies.
San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941
Handsome Colt Press edition of McTeague, first published in 1899. One of only 500 copies
designed and printed by Jane Grabhorn and William Matson Roth. Lacking slipcase, corners and
edges lightly rubbed; very good.
(100/150)
224. (Colt Press) Twain, Mark. Concerning Cats. Two Tales. xvi, 29, [2] pp. Introduction by Frederick
Anderson. 4to, black cloth-backed patterned boards, spine label. One of 450 copies printed for the
Colt Press by the Grabhorn Press.
Prospectus laid in. BCC 102; GB 610. Spine faded, a touch of wear; near fine.
(200/300)
225. (Colt Press) Five volumes published by the Colt Press and one about. Includes: Hale, Edward Everett.
The Queen of California. Cloth-backed boards. 1945. * Poe, Edgar A. The Journal of Julius Rodman.
Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 1947. * Wheat, Carl I. Books of the California Gold Rush. Clothbacked boards. 1949. * Macarthur, Mildred Yorba. California-Spanish Proverbs. Vellum-backed
boards, dust jacket. 1954. * A Letter from Anthony Trollope Describing a Visit to California in
1875. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 1956. Also included: Catalogue of an Exhibition of the
Typographic Work of Jane Grabhorn. Wrappers. 1956.
San Francisco: Colt Press, Various dates
Together 6 volumes. Some general light wear; very good to fine.
(150/250)
226. (Cowell Press) Joyce, James. Chamber Music. (4to) 10¾x8, printed boards. One of 100 copies
printed on Japanese Hosho handmade paper.
Santa Cruz: Cowell Press, 1975
Prospectus laid in. Fine.
(100/150)
FIVE LOTS BY MALLETTE DEAN
227. Dean, Mallette. Linocut signed by the artist. Linocut. Image is 17x12½ on 23x18 paper. Signed
by the artist in pencil.
[c.1960s]
Great image of three ships at a dock, with a small group of passengers preparing to board.
From the illustrator of many fine press publications. Near fine.
(100/150)
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228. (Dean, Mallette) Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ah-Wah-Ne Days: A Visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1872.
I ntroduction by Oscar Lewis. Color decorations by Mallette Dean. 10½x7. Cloth-backed decorated
boards, paper spine label; jacket. One of 450 copies printed by Mallette Dean.
Prospectus laid in. BCC 137. Jacket faded and worn at edges; volume fine
(150/250)
229. (Dean, Mallette) Twain, Mark and Bret Harte. “Ah Sin”: A Dramatic Work. Edited by Frederick
Anderson. Color wood engraved plates, facsimiles, etc. 24.7x16.5 cm. (9¾x6½”), cloth-backed boards.
One of 450 copies designed by Viviev and Mallette Dean. Spine sunned; else fine.
(80/120)
230. (Dean, Mallette) Jeffers, Robinson. Themes in My Poems. Foreword by B.H. Lehman. Illustrated
with woodcut decorations by Mallette Dean. 11¼x8¼, brown linen-backed patterned boards, paper
spine label. One of 350 copies printed by Mallette Dean. First Edition.
Text taken from an address given by Jeffers on a speaking tour of the East Coast in 1941. BCC
93. Fine.
(150/250)
231. (Dean, Mallette) Four volumes printed by Mallette Dean for the Book Club of California. Includes:
Kunzel, Heinrich. Upper California. Cloth, plain paper jacket. One of 450 copies. 1967. * Lapp,
Rudolph. Archy Lee: A California Fugitive Slave Case. Cloth, plain paper jacket. One of 500 copies.
1969. * Le Conte, Carrie E. Yo Semite, 1878. Cloth backed boards, plain paper jacket. One of 450
copies. 1964. * Twain, Mark & Bret Harte. “Ah Sin”. Cloth-backed boards. One of 450 copies. 1961.
Together 4 volumes.
Some wear to jackets; volumes fine.
(150/250)
THREE LOTS FROM THE DERRYDALE PRESS
232. (Derrydale Press) Pickering, H.G. “Merry Xmas. Mr. Williams 20 Pine St. N.Y.”. [xvi], 34 pp.
Illustrations by Harry L. Timmins and Susan Shipp Pickering. (8vo) green cloth stamped in silver.
One of 267 numbered copies.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1940
Signed by Pickering on the title page. A scarce Derrydale title, not originally intended for general
sale. Siegel 160. Minor wear; near fine.
(300/500)
233. (Derrydale Press) Pickering, H.G. Neighbors Have My Ducks. [xiv], 47 pp. Illustrations by Harry
L. Timmins. (8vo) maroon cloth stamped in gilt. One of 227 numbered copies.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1937
Signed by Pickering on the title page. A scarce Derrydale title, not originally intended for general
sale. Siegel 121. Minor wear; near fine.
(300/500)
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234. (Derrydale Press) Thomas, Joseph B. Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages. xviii, [2], 272 pp. With
an introduction by The Earl of Lonsdale. Illustrated with plates from drawings, photographs, and
artwork including color frontispiece, also a photogravure of an etching by Bert Cobb of a hound
named Frantic. 12¼x9¼, original red cloth gilt, cover and spine decorated in lettered in gilt, top edge
gilt. First Edition. One of 250 copies. Second Edition.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1929
With small pink errata slip tipped in at page 1. A touch of shelf wear; faint yellow spots on
frontispiece tissue-guard and on title page; else a near fine volume.
(150/250)
235. (Fine Printing) Group of finely printed books and books about fine printing. Includes: Chambers, David.
English Country Bookshops. Green cloth. One of 1500 copies. Private Libraries Association, [2010].
* Hiller, Peter. Jo Mora: California Cowboy & Artist. Wrappers. Book Club of California, 2010. *
LeWitt, Sol, et al. Irish. Wrappers. One of 500 copies. Edinburgh: Morning Star, 1977. * More, Thomas.
The XII Propertees or Condicyons of a Lover. Tan cloth. One of 250 copies. Saint Dominic’s Press,
1928. * Peter Koch, Printer. Recent Work. Wrappers. One of 2000 copies. 1995. * Korean Printing
Heritage. [cover title] Wrappers. No place: No date. * Mott, Frank Luther. The Old Printing Office.
Cloth-backed boards. One of 125 copies. Yellow Barn Press, 1985. * New Work by John Gibson.
Wrappers. No place: No date. * A Checklist of Books, Posters, and Broadsides from Pennyroyal Press.
Wrappers. One of 3000 copies. 1986. * Rimbaud, Arthur. A Season in Hell. Wrappers. Pomegranate
Press, 1976. * [Rogers, Bruce]. BR Today: A Selection of His Books with Comments. Cloth-backed
boards. One of 450 copies. NY: Grolier Club, 1982. * [Rogers, Bruce]. Bouquet for BR: A Birthday
Garland Gathered by the Typophiles. One of 600 copies. 1950. * Selzer, Richard. Afterlife of the
Black Swan. Wrappers. L.E.C., 1991. * Sewell, Brocard. Three Private Presses: Saint Dominic’s Press,
The Press of Edward Walters, Saint Albert’s Press. Cloth-backed boards. One of 250 copies signed
by the author. Christopher Skelton, 1979. * Stein, Donna. Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and
Image, 1967-1988. Wrappers, slipcase. [1990]. * White, Boyd. Rickety Angels. Wrappers. Soundpost
Press, 1995. * Zukofsky, Louis. Initial. Wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies. Signed. NY: Pheonix
Book Shop, 1970. Together 17 volumes.
Some general light wear; overall very good to fine.
(250/350)
236. (Gehenna Press) Baskin, Leonard. Caprices & Grotesques. Seventeen drawings by Leonard Baskin,
printed from line cuts. 11x8, plain wrappers, slipcase with label. One of 500 copies.
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1965
Gehenna Press 44. Fine.
(300/500)
FIVE LOTS OF GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS TITLES
237. (Golden Cockerel Press) Coppard, A.E. Lot of three titles by A.E. Coppard from the Golden Cockerel
Press. Includes: The Hundredth Story of A.E. Coppard. Patterned boards backed with green morocco,
spine lettered in gilt. No. 934 of 1000 copies. 1931. * Rummy, That Noble Game; Expounded in
Prose, Poetry, Diagram and Engraving. Green cloth, jacket. 1 of 520 copies for America, published
by Houghton & Mifflin. 1933. * Pelagea & Other Poems. Cloth-backed batik boards, spine lettered in
gilt. No. 169 of 425 copies. 1936. Together, 3 volumes. Illustrated with wood engravings by Robert
Gibbings. Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press.
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, Various dates
First with printed notice to subscribers laid in, noting the limitation was raised from 750 to 1000
copies to accommodate buyers from America, but to alleviate any grievances felt by collectors
the printers decided to incorporate the first use of the “Golden Cockerel” fount. Jacket with
some soiling and wear; volumes very good to fine.
(150/250)
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238. (Golden Cockerell Press) Mathers, E. Powys. Procreant Hymns. [1], 20, [2] pp. Five engraved
plates by Eric Gill. (8vo) 24x16 cm. (9½x6¼”) original tan cloth, dust jacket. Number 189 of 200
copies.
[Waltham St. Lawrence]: Golden Cockerel Press, [1926]
The first volume illustrated by Gill for the Golden Cockerel Press. Chanticleer 37. Jacket
tattered, with large chips and in several pieces; volume spine sunned; ink note on front free
endpaper; else volume near fine, jacket poor.
(500/800)
ERIC GILL’S MASTERPIECE – THE FOUR GOSPELS
239. (Golden Cockerel Press) The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version
of King James I. 269, [1] pp. Wood-engraved initials, decorations and illustrations by Eric Gill, some
full-page. 33x23.5 cm. (13x9¼”), original half pigskin and cloth, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands,
top edge gilt, others untrimmed; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. No. 142 of 500 copies printed by
Moira & Robert Gibbings on Batchelor hand-made paper.
[Waltham St. Lawrence]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931
One of the greatest of all private press books, considered by many the finest production from
the Golden Cockerel Press, sharing status with the Kelmscott Chaucer, Ashendene Dante, and
Doves Press Bible. “Conceived in the mind of Robert Gibbings, this is the Golden Cockerel
book usually compared with the Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer. A flower among the
best products of English romantic genius, it is also surely, thanks to its illustrator, Eric Gill, the
book among all books in which Roman type has been best mated with any kind of illustration
...” (Chanticleer 78). Spine soiled and rubbed, light soiling to cloth; some faint offsetting of
illustrations else internally fine.
(8000/12000)
Lot 239
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240. (Golden Cockerel Press) Nine volumes published by the Golden Cockerel Press. Includes: Bannet, Ivor.
The Amazons. Wood engravings by Clifford Webb. Half cloth and marbled boards. One of 500
copies. 1948. * Coppard, A.E. Rummy, That Noble Game. Cloth, dust jacket. One of 1000 copies.
1932. * Edgeworth, Maria & Anna Letitia Barbauld. Letters. Cloth. One of 300 copies. 1953. *
Fielding, Henry. A Journey From This World to the Next. Illustrations by Denis Tegetmeier. One of
500 copies. 1930. * Gantillon, Simon. Maya. Wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. One of 500
copies. 1930. * Lucas, F.L. Gilgamesh, King of Erech. Illustrations by Dorothea Braby. Cloth-backed
boards. One of 500 copies. 1948. * Miller, Patrick. Woman in Detail. Illustrations by Mark Severin.
Cloth-backed boards. One of 550 copies. 1947. * Powys, When Thou Wast Naked. Wood engravings
by John Nash. Morocco-backed boards. One of 500 copies. Signed by Powys. 1931. * Whitfield,
Christopher. Mr. Chambers and Persephone. Wood engravings by Dorthea Braby. Cloth, with dust
jacket. Unlimited Edition. 1937. Together 9 volumes.
[Waltham St. Lawrence]: Golden Cockerel Press, Various dates
Most with some light wear; overall very good.
(400/600)
241. (Golden Cockerel Press) Nine volumes published by the Golden Cockerel Press. Includes: Binyon,
Laurence. Brief Candles. Wood engravings by Helen Binyon. Cloth, dust jacket. Unlimited Edition.
[1938]. * Coppard, A.E. Rummy, That Noble Game. Cloth, Dust jacket. One of 1000 copies. [1932].
* Cynwal, Wiliam. In Defence of Woman. Engravings by Gwyn Williams. Cloth. One of 500 copies.
[1960]. * F., A. The Ladies Pocket Book of Etiquette. Engravings by Hester Sainsbury. Vellum-backed
boards. One of 500 copies. 1928. * Heriz, Patrick de. La Belle O’Morphi. Illustrations by Francois
Boucher. Cloth. One of 750 copies. Ex-library. [1947]. * Lucas, F.L. Gilgamesh, King of Erech.
Engravings by Dorothea Braby. Cloth-backed boards. One of 500 copies. 1948. * Moncrif, Francois
Augustin Paradis de. Moncrif ’s Cats. Cloth. One of 400 copies. 1961. * Powys, Theodore Francis
Powys. Goat Green or the Better Gift. Engravings by Gwenda Morgan. Cloth, dust jacket. Unlimited
edition. 1937. * Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Engravings by
J.E. Laboureur. Cloth. One of 500 copies. 1928. Together 9 volumes.
[Waltham St. Lawrence]: Golden Cockerel Press, Various dates
Most with some light wear; overall very good.
(200/300)
242. (Golden Cross Press) The Sermon on the Mount, Being the Fifth, Sixth & Seventh Chapters of the
Gospel According to St. Matthew... Designed and hand illuminated by Valenti Angelo. (4to), brown half
morocco and boards, original slipcase. One of 110 copies printed by Edmund B. Thompson at
Hawthorn House.
New York: Golden Cross Press, 1935
Slipcase lacking ends, worn; spine darkened, some light wear; very good.
(300/500)
SIX LOTS FROM THE GRABHORN-HOYEM PRESS
243. (Grabhorn-Hoyem) Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr. California’s Pictorial Letter Sheets, 1849-1869.
171, [2] pp. Illustrated throughout with facsimile pictorial letter sheets, folding facsimile sheet in the
rear pocket, as issued. 13¾x10, crushed orange morocco-backed decorative boards, spine lettered in
gilt, plain paper jacket. One of 475 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. First
Edition.
San Francisco: David Magee, 1967
A catalogue of over 300 California pictorial letter sheets. Jacket sunned and chipped; volume
fine.
(100/150)
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244. (Grabhorn-Hoyem) Becker, Robert H. Designs on the Land: Diseños of California Ranchos and their
Makers. 64 California maps, two folding. (Oblong folio) 14x18, brown suede-backed cloth; spine
stamped in black. One of 500 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem.
GHB 29; BCC 133. A bit of wear to suede backstrip; near fine.
(300/500)
245. (Grabhorn-Hoyem Leaf Book) Littlejohn, David. Dr Johnson and Noah Webster. Two Men &
Their Dictionaries. Illustrated with two matched leaves from Johnson’s (1755) and Webster’s (1828)
dictionaries; other illustrations. 12½x10, cloth-backed boards, gilt decoration, leather spine label. One
of 500 copies printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem.
The leaves here from the letter “S”, both dictionaries including “superfluous” and
“superhuman”. BCC 139. A few small spots on rear board; near fine.
(250/350)
246. (Grabhorn-Hoyem) Leighly, John. California as an Island. Illustrated with 25 map plates, some
folding; hand-colored title page vignette. 13¾x8¼, brown morocco-backed pictorial boards. One of
450 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem.
Thorough examination of this fascinating period of
California cartography. Prospectus laid in. BCC 141;
GHB 60. Fine.
(700/1000)
247. (Grabhorn-Hoyem) In Memoriam - Edwin Grabhorn,
1889-1968. Illustrated with tipped-in half-tone photographs
& with tipped-in specimens. 16x11½, half cloth & boards,
paper spine label. One of 150 copies printed for the
Roxburghe Club by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem.
[San Francisco]: [Roxburghe Club], [1968]
Fine.
Lot 246
(80/120)
248. (Grabhorn-Hoyem) The Compleat Jane Grabhorn: A
Hodge-Podge of Typographical Ephemera, Three Complete Books,
Broadsides, Invitations: Greetings, Place Cards, &c. Various
illustrations, including many tipped-in folding ephemeral
items. 10¼x8¾, linen-backed decorative boards. One of
400 copies.
San Francisco: Grabhorn - Hoyem, 1968
Fine.
(150/250)
A LARGE COLLECTION OF GRABHORN PRESS PUBLICATIONS
249. (Grabhorn Press) Becker, Robert H. Diseños of California Ranchos Maps of thirty-seven Land Grants
[1822-1846], from the Records of the United States District Court, San Francisco. Illustrated with 37 color
facsimiles of original Diseños (some folding) with corresponding present-day maps in text. 35.5x22.5
cm. (13¾x9”), cloth-backed decorative boards. 1 of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
A fascinating tour through the ranchos, which in many cases constitute our cities of today. GB
648; BCC 118. Spine a touch sunned; fine.
(300/500)
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250. (Grabhorn Press) Beechey, F[rederick] W[illiam]. An Account of a Visit to California 1826-’27.
I ntroduction by Edith M. Coulter. Illustrated with 4 color reproductions of watercolors by William
Smyth and one map of the San Francisco Bay by F.W. Beechey. 12½x9, vellum-backed red cloth,
spine lettered in gilt. One of 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, [1941]
“Interesting account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American Conquest...” - Howes
B309; BCC 60. Minor edge wear; fine.
(200/300)
251. (Grabhorn Press) Chamisso, Adelbert von. A Sojourn at San Francisco Bay 1816 by Adelbert
von Chamisso, Scientist of the Russian Exploring Ship Rurik. Illustrated with color collotype plates after
drawings, first published in 1822, by the Rurik’s artist Louis Choris. 15¾x10, cloth-backed boards.
One of 250 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
GB 256; Howes C277; BCC 50. Spine sunned; near fine.
(150/250)
252. (Grabhorn Press) Coit, Daniel Wadsworth. An Artist in El Dorado: The Drawings and Letters of
Daniel Wadsworth Coit. Edited by Edith M. Coulter. Illustrated with 8 collotype plates reproducing
drawings by Coit. 13¼x9, cloth-backed boards, paper cover & spine labels. One of 325 copies printed
by the Grabhorn Press. First Edition.
Prospectus laid in. GB 276. Fine.
(100/150)
253. (Grabhorn Press) Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of
Life at Sea. Introduction by James D. Hart. Illustrated with 14 plates reproducing original lithographs,
paintings, etc. 9½x6¼, original pigskin backed boards. One of 1000 copies by Edwin & Robert
Grabhorn.
GB 257. Soiling and light wear to spine (as usual), rubbing to edges, previous owner’s label on
front pastedown; very good.
(100/150)
254. (Grabhorn Press) De Soto, Don Hernando. The Discovery of Florida: Being a True Relation of the
Vicissitudes that Attended the Governor Don Hernando De Soto and Some Nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of
Florida. Now Just Given by a Fidalgo of Elvas. Translated by Buckingham Smith with a new introduction
by George P. Hammond. Color woodcut decorations and initials by Mallette Dean. 13¼x9, clothbacked decorative boards, paper spine label. One of 280 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, [1946]
GB 432; BCC 65. Fine.
(150/250)
255. (Grabhorn Press) Dentzel, Carl Schaefer. The Drawings of John Woodhouse Audubon: Illustrating
his Adventures Through Mexico and California. Illustrated throughout with full-page photogravures and
color frontispiece. (Folio) 13¼x10¼, cloth-backed decorative boards with affixed gilt-lettered leather
spine label. One of 400 copies printed by Grabhorn Press. First Edition.
GB 592; BCC 97. Slight edge wear; fine.
(150/250)
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256. (Grabhorn Press) Elkus, Richard J. Alamos: A Philosophy in Living. Photographs & The Written
Word. [64] pp. With 24 photographs printed on glossy stock, tipped-in. (Folio) 16¼x12½, original
orange, tan and yellow linen hand-loomed and dyed in Mexico, backed with suede, title blind-stamped
on front. One of 487 copies designed by the Grabhorn Press. First Edition.
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1965
A sumptuous monograph and “the last major book of the press”. Prospectus laid in. GB 653.
Fine
(150/250)
257. (Grabhorn Press) Fahey, Herbert. Early Printing in California: From Its Beginning in the Mexican
Territory to Statehood, September 9, 1850. Illustrated with 16 plates after title-pages, newspapers, portraits,
etc. (Small folio), black and green cloth, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. One of 400 copies
printed by the Grabhorn Press.
An essential reference on the subject. With prospectus laid in and label from the sale of the
Library of Robert Grabhorn on front pastedown. GB 582; BCC 94. Spine a bit sunned; near
fine
(200/300)
CLASSIC ON THE MAPS OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY
258. (Grabhorn Press) Harlow, Neal. The Maps of San Francisco Bay From the Spanish Discovery...
Illustrated with collotype facsimiles of 21 maps on 19 plates, some fold-out. (Folio), red moroccobacked decorative boards, gilt lettered spine. One of 375 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
Superbly printed compendium of cartographic representations of the Bay of San Francisco,
with excellent facsimile reproductions and scholarly descriptive text. One of the three great
cartographic works issued by the Book Club of California. Prospectus laid in. BCC 77; GB 501;
Graff 1784; Howes H202; Rocq 9699. Fine.
(400/600)
259. (Grabhorn Press) Harte, Bret. Mliss, a Story by Bret Harte is from “The Luck of Roaring Camp and
Other Sketches” First Published in 1870... Illustrated with engraved color plates and initials by Mallette
Dean. 13½x10, cloth-backed decorated boards, printed spine label. One of 300 copies printed by the
Grabhorn Press.
“The illustrations were inspired by mid-Victorian American primitives, printed in color from
various materials - textiles, sand paper, leather and linoleum” - from the Grabhorn Bibliography.
Prospectus laid in. GB 456. Fine.
(100/150)
260. (Grabhorn Press) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Golden Touch. [ii], 45, [1] pp. Illustrations by
Valenti Angelo. 9¼x5¾, vellum backed boards, slipcase. One of 240 copies.
[San Francisco]: Grabhorn Press, 1927
Signed by Angelo at the colophon. One of the Fifty Books of the Year. GB 93. A touch
sunned; fine.
(150/250)
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261. (Grabhorn Press) Lewis, Oscar. A.M.B. Some Aspects of His Life and Times Begun in Playful Mood
for His Entertainment on His 75th Birthday and Now Completed for His Sorrowing Friends as a Token of
Remembrance and Affection. [8], 14 pp. Illustrated with 2 tipped-in plates from photograph portraits;
frontispiece portrait from a sketch. 11¼x8, decorative linen-backed blue boards, paper spine label.
One of 250 copies.
Fine press biography on notable San Francisco publisher, Albert Maurice Bender. A color
cartoon print illustration of Albert Bender by Dan Sweeney titled “Albert Bender and other
benders” showing three black male workers at a train station bowing down for Mr. Bender, laid
in. GB 349. Light wear; near fine.
(80/120)
262. (Grabhorn Press) Metzgar, Judson D. Adventures in Japanese Prints. [xii], 117 pp. With 12
reproductions of Japanese prints on 10 pages, 8 in color. (Folio), tan cloth-backed decorated green
boards, printed paper spine label. One of 300 copies. First Edition.
Los Angeles: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for Dawson’s Book Shop, [1943]
GB 390. Spine a touch yellowed and soiled; else fine.
(100/150)
263. (Grabhorn Press) Meyers, William H. Journal of a Cruise to California and the Sandwich Islands in
the United States Sloop-of-War Cyane. Edited by John Haskell Kemble. Illustrated with 10 plates after
sketches by Meyers, colored with linoleum blocks; frontispiece map. 15x10, linen-backed boards,
paper label. One of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
GB 568; BCC 91. A touch of edge wear; fine.
(150/250)
264. (Grabhorn Press) Meyers, William H. Naval Sketches of the War in California reproducing twenty-eight
Drawings made in 1846-47 by William H. Meyers, Gunner on the U.S. Sloop-of-War Dale. Descriptive text
by Capt. Dudley Knox. Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Illustrated with 28 plates after the
original drawings, colored with linoleum blocks. (Folio), white leather-backed marbled boards. One
of 1000 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
Meyers served aboard the U.S.S. Dale during the conquest of California by U.S. forces. The
plates were reproduced from the original drawings in the collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Prospectus laid in. GB 317 Spine leather browned and scuffed (as often); very good.
(150/250)
265. (Grabhorn Press) Miller, Henry. Account of a Tour of the California Missions, 1856, The Journal &
Drawings of Henry Miller. Introduction by Edith M. Coulter & Eleanor A. Bancroft. Illustrated with
19 reproductions of pencil drawings. 11½x8¾, vellum-backed patterned boards. One of 375 copies
printed by the Grabhorn Press.
GB 528; BCC 83. Fine.
(100/150)
266. (Grabhorn Press) [Miller, Henry]. 13 California Towns from the Original Drawings. Introduction by
Edith M. Coulter and Eleanor A. Bancroft. Illustrated with 13 plates. (Oblong folio), cloth-backed
marbled boards, gilt-lettered paper spine label. One of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
It was not until after publication that the artist of these drawings done in the 1850’s was
identified. BCC 68; GB 446. Light rubbing to corners; near fine.
(200/300)
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267. (Grabhorn Press) Nineteenth Century Type Displayed in 18 Fonts Cast by United States Founders, Now
in the Cases of the Grabhorn Press. Printed in colors. Oblong, 22x26.5 cm. (8¾x10½”), cloth-backed
patterned boards, plain paper jacket. One of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
San Francisco: David Magee, 1959
Signed at printer’s statement by Edwin Grabhorn. GB 607. Jacket worn; volume fine.
(150/250)
POWELL’S SANTA FE TRAIL
268. (Grabhorn Press) Powell, H.M.T. The Santa Fé Trail to California, 1849-1852: The Journal and
Drawings of H.M.T. Powell. [14], 272 pp. Edited by Douglas S. Watson. With 18 maps and plates, some
folding. (Folio) 34.3x23.3 cm. (13½x9¼”), quarter niger & buckram, spine lettered in blind, raised
bands, edges untrimmed. One of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. First Edition.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, [1931]
Daily journal from Illinois, via Santa Fe, to San Diego and continuing account of the mines.
Kurutz calls the work “one of the most important and highly celebrated overland narratives.
Its superb narrative combined with the elegant presentation of the Grabhorn Press make this a
cornerstone of any Western travel collection. His delicate sketches of the missions and pueblos
further embellish the volume.” BCC 41; GB 158; Graff 3334; Howes P525; Kurutz 515; Rocq
17100; Eberstadt 137:517; Wheat Books 161. Front hinge professionally repaired, small remnant
of bookplate on front pastedown; near fine.
(1000/1500)
ONE OF 90 COPIES
269. (Grabhorn Press) Scammon, L[aurence] N. Spanish Missions California: A Portfolio of Etchings.
10 etchings on tissue, each tipped into printed folio, as issued; set along with title folio in cloth
folder, 15¼x11. No. B16 of 90 copies, from a total run of 400 copies, the letterpress printed by the
Grabhorn Press.
San Francisco: Jean Chambers Moore, 1926
Each of the etchings signed by Scammon in pencil beneath the image; signed by Scammon
and Moore on the limitation-page. The etchings are of the first ten of the California missions,
including San Carlos de Borromeo, San Diego de Alcala, San Antonio de Padua, San Gabriel,
San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, San Francisco de Asis [Dolores], etc. Cowan p.570; GB 82. Spine of
folder a bit rubbed and frayed, very faint soiling to cloth; title sheet browned, each etching with
a few glue spots in the upper margin from being tipped to backing leaf, a few etching have come
loose; very good.
(300/500)
270. (Grabhorn Press) Small, Harold A., ed. Adventures of Joseph-Alexandre de Chabrier de Peloubet at
the time of The French Revolution...his Forebears in France...the Peloubet Family in America. 71 pp. 11x7½, linen
backed patterned boards, paper spine label. One of 185 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press.
San Francisco: [Grabhorn Press], 1953
GB 543. Sticker from Albert M. Bender Room of Stanford Library on front pastedown; else
near fine.
(150/250)
271. (Grabhorn Press) Stevenson, Robert Louis. Silverado Journal. lxxii, 95 pp. Edited by John E.
Jordan. Illustrated with facsimiles and inserts. 28.9x21.5 cm. (11¼x8½”), quarter black buckram and
patterned cloth, cloth spine label. One of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
The journal was heavily corrected and these corrections, deletions and transpositions are
indicated in red, while insertions are printed on lighter paper & bound in as appropriate.
Prospectus laid in. GB 557; BCC 88. Slight lean to spine; near fine.
(150/250)
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272. (Grabhorn Press) Utamaro, Kitagawa. Twelve Wood-Block Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro illustrating the
Process of Silk Culture. Introduction by Jack Hillier. Illustrated with 12 collotype plates after Utamaro
(colored with blocks engraved by Irma Grabhorn) from originals in the collection of Edwin & Irma
Grabhorn. 15x10, half parchment and patterned boards, gilt-lettered spine; plain jacket. One of 450
copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
Fourth and last of the Japanese print series from the Grabhorn Collection. Prospectus and
order form laid in. GB 652; BCC 121. Light wear to jacket; fine.
(150/250)
273. (Grabhorn Press) Waseurtz af Sandels, G. M. A Sojourn in California by the King’s Orphan: The
Travels and Sketches of G.M. Waseurtz af Sandels, a Swedish gentleman who visited California in 1842-1843.
Edited with an Introduction by Helen Putnam Van Sicklen. Illustrated with plates reproducing
drawings and sketches by the author, some folding, a few in color. 12¾x9, linen-backed patterned
boards, paper spine label. One of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. First Edition.
BCC 63; GB 417. Spine a touch sunned; fine.
(150/250)
274. (Grabhorn Press) Watson, Douglas S., comp. The Spanish Occupation of California: Plan for the
Establishment of a Government; Junta or Council Held at San Blas, May 16, 1768; Diario of the Expeditions
Made to California. Translated from the original documents by Watson, Thomas Workman Temple
II, and Frederick J. Teggart. 2 woodcut portraits by Zena Kavin, facsimiles of signatures, folding
frontispiece facsimile map. Printed in black & red. 11x7½, cloth-backed patterned boards, paper
spine label. One of 550 copies.
The most lengthy of the documents presented here is the “diario” of Miguel Costanso,
to whom was entrusted the duty of keeping a record of thy journey to Monterey and its
occupation in June of 1770. GB 203. Fine.
(80/120)
275. (Grabhorn Press) Wheat, Carl I. The Pioneer Press of California. [iv], 33 pp. 3 woodcut illustrations
by Malette Dean; 3 facsimiles. Cloth backed marbled boards, paper spine label. One of 450 copies.
First Edition.
Oakland: Biobooks, 1948
Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Bookplate of Albert Sperisen. GB 459. Spine label chipped; near
fine.
(100/150)
276. (Grabhorn Press) Wiltsee, Ernest A. Gold Rush Steamers [of the Pacific]. Color frontispiece,
14 full-page reproductions of ships, 2 portraits and 33 reproductions of canceled envelopes; map
endpapers. 10x6½, linen-backed cloth, paper spine label. One of 500 copies.
GB 293; Rocq 12870. Light soiling to cloth; very good.
(100/150)
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FOUR LOTS OF GRABHORN LEAF BOOKS
277. (Grabhorn Press - Leaf Book) Dearden, Robert R. & Douglas S. Watson. An Original Leaf
from the Bible of the Revolution. With an essay concerning the Aitken Bible by Robert R. Dearden, Jr.
and Douglas S. Watson. Tipped-in original leaf from the Aitken Bible; 10 facsimiles. 26.5x17 cm.
(10¼x7”), original morocco-backed blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, slipcase. No. 336 of 580
total copies, of which 515 were produced for this, the Colonial Edition. Printed by Edwin and Robert
Grabhorn.
San Francisco: John Howell, 1930
The original leaf from the important early American Bible within this copy is from the Book of
Kings. Touch of shelf wear to slipcase; volume spine faded and rubbed a bit; else near fine.
(150/250)
278. (Grabhorn Press - Leaf Book) Partridge, Eric. An Original Issue of “The Spectator” together with the
Story of the Famous English Periodical and of its Founders, Joseph Addison & Richard Steele. (4to) 33.6x20.6
cm. (13¼x8”), quarter cloth and marbled boards, printed paper spine label. One of 450 copies printed
by the Grabhorn Press.
[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, 1939
The original issue of the Spectator (one leaf) is tipped in. In this copy, it is for Friday, May 23,
1712. GB 312. Spine ends frayed, edges rubbed; very good.
(150/250)
279. (Grabhorn Press - Leaf Book) Pattison, Mark. The Estiennes: A Biographical Essay...Illustrated With
Original Leaves From Books Printed By The Three Greatest Members Of That Distinguished Family. Illustrated
with 3 original leaves printed by the Estiennes. Estienne family tree on title page and reproductions
of their printer’s marks in text. 13x8½, linen and cloth-backed boards, gilded vignette on cover, paper
spine label. One of 390 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
BCC 73; GB 489. Fine.
(200/300)
280. (Grabhorn Press - Leaf Book) [Wynkyn de Worde]. A Short Account of the Life and Work of
Wynkyn de Worde with a Leaf from the Golden Legend... Printed in red and black. Illustrated. 13¼x9¼,
cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine and cover labels. One of 375 copies printed by the Grabhorn
Press.
With an original leaf from Wynkyn de Worde’s Golden Legend tipped in. Printed by him in
London, 1527. GB 486; BCC 71. Light wear to spine label; near fine.
(250/350)
TWO LOTS OF GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHIES
281. (Grabhorn Press) Magee, David and Dorothy. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1940-1956
[With a Check-List 1916-1940]. Illustrated throughout with facsimiles and inserted sample leaves from
Grabhorn publications. 14x10, quarter red levant morocco and decorated boards, spine lettered in
gilt. One of 225 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
San Francisco: [Grabhorn Press], 1957
Post card invitation to a Book Club of California exhibition laid in. Second volume of the
Grabhorn Press Bibliography series. GB 586. Some light scuffing to leather; a few pencil
markings in margins; very good.
(400/600)
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282. (Grabhorn Press Bibliography) Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1915-1956. 2 volumes in 1. (4to)
tan cloth. One of 500 copies.
San Francisco: [Alan Wofsy], 1975
Reprint of the first two volumes of the Grabhorn Press Bibliographies. Also included: The
Grabhorn Press: A Catalogue of Imprints in the Collection of Henry R. Wagner. Wrappers.
Signed by Wagner. One of 250 copies. Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1938. * Hart, James D.
Tribute to Edwin Grabhorn & The Grabhorn Press. Boards. Inscribed by Hart [Jim] to Dorothy
and Lew [Allen] of the Allen Press. One of 1000 copies. San Francisco: Friends of the San
Francisco Public Library, 1969. Together 3 volumes. Fine.
(150/250)
283. (Grabhorn Press) Three volumes printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California. Includes:
Lewis, Oscar. The Wonderful City of Carrie Van Wie. One of 525 copies. [1963]. * M’Ilvaine, William.
Sketches of Scenery and Notes of Adventures in California & Mexico. One of 400 copies. 1951. *
Tripp, C.E. Ace High, The ‘Frisco Detective. One of 500 copies. 1948. Together 3 folio volumes in
the original cloth-backed boards, the first title in the original plain paper jacket.
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, Various dates
Fine.
(150/250)
284. (Grabhorn Press) Five volumes printed at the Grabhorn Press. Includes: Derby, George H. Phoenixiana.
With plain paper jacket. One of 550 copies. 1937. * Gerstacker, Friedrich. Scenes of Life in California.
One of 500 copies. [1942]. * Joaquin Murieta: The Brigand Chief of California. One of 400 copies.
1932. * Saddlebags, Jeremiah. Journey to the Gold Diggins. One of 390 copies. 1950. * Stevenson,
Robert Louis. The Silverado Squatters. With plain paper jacket. One of 900 copies. 1952. Together 5
octavo volumes bound in cloth backed boards, two in the original jackets.
Some light wear; very good to fine.
(150/250)
285. (Grabhorn Press) Six titles printed at the Grabhorn Press. Includes: Read, J. Marion. A History of
the California Academy of Medicine, 1870 to 1930. Morocco-backed boards. 1930. * Larkin, Thomas
O. California in 1846. Cloth-backed boards. 1934. * Delano, Alonzo. Pen-Knife Sketches or Chips
of the Old Block. Cloth-backed boards. 1934. * Green, Floride. Some Personal Recollections of
Lillie Hitchcock Coit. Cloth-backed boards. 1935. * Wheat, Carl I. The Pioneer Press of California.
Cloth-backed boards. 1948. * Catalogue of Some Five Hundred Examples of the Printing of Edwin
& Robert Grabhorn. Original wrappers. [c. 1960]. Together 6 volumes.
Some general light wear; overall very good or better.
(150/250)
286. (Grabhorn Press) Six volumes of Western Americana printed at the Grabhorn Press. Includes: Grabhorn,
Jane Bissell. A California Gold Rush Miscellany. 1934. * Delano, Alonzo. Pen-Knife Sketches. 1934.
* Lewis, Oscar. California in 1846. Inscribed by Ed & Marjorie [Grabhorn] on front free endpaper.
1934. * Coit, Danile Wasdworth. An Artist in El Dorado. 1937. * Sutter, John. New Helvetia Diary.
Lacking pages 97-112. 1939. * California, 1847-1852. 1942. Together 6 quarto volumes, all in clothbacked boards.
Some general wear; very good to fine.
(150/250)
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287. (Grace Hoper Press) Grover, Sherwood and James D. Hammond, eds. Common Place Book Six.
Illus. with typographic examples. 11¾x8¼, cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt; plain jacket.
One of 75 copies printed on Curtis Tweedweave paper from a total edition of 275.
Aptos & Woodside: Grace Hoper Press, 1983
Grace Hoper mailing label laid in. Jacket toned; volume fine.
(80/120)
288. (Gregynog Press) Parker, Agnes Miller. Wood Engravings from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales. 54, [1]
pp. 17 wood-engraved plates. (Folio) 35.5x24 cm. (14x9½”) cloth-backed patterned boards, matching
slipcase. One of 185 numbered copies from a total edition of 200.
[Newtown]: Gwasg Gregynog, 1997
Beautiful wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, printed from the original blocks held in the
National Library of Wales. Fine.
(300/500)
289. (Hart, Leo) Lamb, Charles. A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig. Hand-colored illustrations by Wilfred
Jones. 20.5x14.5 cm. (8x6”), vellum-backed boards, slipcase. No. 59 of 950 copies, printed under the
direction of Leo Hart.
Rochester, NY: Printing House of Leo Hart, 1932
Signed by the illustrator at the colophon. Also signed and inscribed by Leo Hart on front free
endpaper, dated 1932. 12 pp. wrapper-bound prospectus included. Slipcase rubbed; spine a
touch rubbed; else fine.
(100/150)
290. (Hoyem, Andrew) Paul Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Wurttemburg. Early Sacramento: Glimpses
of John Augustus Sutter, the Hok Farm, and Neighboring Indian Tribes, from the Journals of Prince Paul.
Translated by Louis C. Butscher. Illustrated with 3 plates. (4to) cloth-backed boards, paper spine
label. 1 of 400 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem. First Edition.
[Sacramento]: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1973
Fine.
(80/120)
291. Lehrer, Warren. Versations. Unpaginated. (Oblong folio) 26x41 cm. (10¼x16”), spiral bound
cloth-covered boards. One of 150 copies.
Mattapoisett, MA: Lehrer/Baker, 1980
Prospectus laid in. “Versations” is a study of human dialogue it is a setting for sixteen
characters eight conversations each inhabiting its own private booth yet somehow co-existing
simultaneously”. Signed by Lehrer at the colophon. Some fading to cloth, light wear; very good.
(300/500)
292. (Lime Kiln Press) Jeffers, Robinson. Tragedy Has Obligations. Illustrated with an original woodcut
by Allison Clough & a tipped-in facsimile holograph of a manuscript of Tragedy Has Obligations.
15¾x10¼, black morocco-backed cloth, gilt-lettered spine. No. 148 of 200 copies printed on Tovil
handmade paper in Weiss Roman and Italic type.
[Santa Cruz]: Lime Kiln Press, 1973
Signed in the colophon by Everson & Clough. Prospectus laid in. Fine.
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(250/350)
SIGNED BY PICASSO
293. (Limited Editions Club) Aristophanes. Lysistrata: A New Version by Gilbert Seldes. 117, [1] pp.
Illustrated by Pablo Picasso including 6 original etchings. 11½x9¼, decorated yellow boards, chemise
and slipcase. No. 658 of 1500 copies.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934
Signed in pencil by Picasso at the colophon. One of the
two or three greatest books from the Limited Editions
Club, illustrated by perhaps the most influential artist of
the twentieth century. Slipcase worn and with repairs;
spine of chemise sunned; light edge wear to volume;
foxing; very good.
(3000/5000)
294. (Limited Editions Club) Bradbury, Ray. The Martian
Chronicles. Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. Black cloth,
speckled with white, matching board slipcase. One of 2,000
copies.
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974
Lot 293
Signed by the author and illustrator at the limitation.
Light wear to slipcase; volume fine.
(200/300)
295. (Limited Editions Club) Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. Introduction
by Wallace Fowlie. Illustrations by Daniel Maffia. 8¼x7½, gilt-stamped red morocco, top edge gilt,
slipcase. No. 1234 of 1500 copies printed by the Vermont Printing Co.
[Brattleboro]: Limited Editions Club, 1971
Signed by the illustrator at colophon. L.E.C. newsletter laid in. Remains of glassine jacket
present; slipcase and volume fine.
(500/800)
296. (Limited Editions Club) Two titles published by the Limited Editions Club. Includes: Henry, O. The
Voice of the City and Other Stories. Illustrations by George Grosz. One of 1500 copies. 1935. *
London, Jack. White Fang. Illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich. One of 2000 copies. 1973. Together two
volumes, in slipcases, each signed by the illustrator.
Some light wear, bookplate in first title; very good.
(100/150)
297. (Limited Editions Club) Four titles from the Limited Editions Club. Includes: The Fables of Jean de la
Fontaine. 2 volumes. Illustrations by Rudolph Ruzicka. Slipcase (worn). 1930. * Two Plays by Anton
Chekhov. Illustrations by Lajos Szalay. Glassine, slipcase. 1966. * de Maupassant, Guy. Bel-Ami.
Illustrations by Bernard Lamotte. Glassine (torn), slipcase. 1968. * Puskin, Alexander. The Captain’s
Daughter & Other Stories. Illustrations by Charles Mozley. Glassine, slipcase. 1971. Together 4 titles,
each one of 1500 copies and signed by the illustrator.
Various places: Limited Editions Club, Various dates
(250/350)
298. Lingen, Ruth. The Color Book of Useful Plants. 12 letterpress leaves with plant drawings in outline
with opaque glassine overleaves with hand-coloring applied. 6¼x6½, tan linen. No. 17 of 30 copies.
[San Diego]: [Ruth Lingen], [1978]
Signed by Lingen at rear. An early work by Lingen who later founded the Poote Press and has
collaborated with many contemporary artists. Fine.
(100/150)
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299. (Lord John Press) Everson, William, Gary Snyder, Philip Levine, Clayton Eshleman &
Jerome Rothenberg. Out of the West. Decorative map endpapers. (Small 4to), cloth-backed boards,
spine lettered in gilt; bound by Bela Blau. No. 49 of 350 hand-numbered copies designed and printed
by Vance Gerry. First Edition.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979
Signed by each of the five poets on the page preceding their poems. A touch of wear and a few
small spots to binding; very good.
(100/150)
300. (Lord John Press) Everson, William. Renegade Christmas. Brown morocco-backed, paste-paper
boards, spine lettered in gilt. From an edition of 26 lettered copies, this copy out of series and not
lettered, this the binder, Bela Blau’s copy. First Edition.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1984
Signed by William Everson on leaf at front. Five poems in the continuing cycle which began
in “The Masks Of Drought,” published by Black Sparrow Press. Printed colophon states the
edition is limited to 125 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies, the lettered copies thus bound.
Fine.
(100/150)
301. Mahr, Karl. Printing Types: Their Birth in the Typefoundry Depicted in Woodcut and Verse. Woodcut
illustrations throughout. 44.4x29.5 cm. (17½x11½”), red cloth with black spine, front cover lettered
in gilt. First Edition.
Privately Printed, 2000
The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of
Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens, GA. Fine.
(150/250)
3 LOTS BY JOHN HENRY NASH
302. (Nash, John Henry) Bierce, Ambrose. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce. Introduction by Bertha Clark
Pope. Memoir by George Sterling. Tipped-in photogravure frontispiece portrait. 9x6¼, cloth-backed
marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. One of 415 numbered copies printed by John
Henry Nash.
BCC 17. Some light wear; very good.
(100/150)
303. (Nash, John Henry) Gray, Thomas. Ode to the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude, Left Unfinished By
Mr. Gray, and Since Completed. 2 volumes. Frontispiece “Caricature of Thomas Gray” in color from
the original drawing by Thomas Rowlandson. 12x9, vellum backed grey boards, vellum corners, spine
lettered in gilt; facsimile copy 10½x8¼, wrappers in matching folder, both vols. housed in folding
chemise with spine lettered in gilt, slipcase with printed paper spine label. One of 200 hand-numbered
copies privately printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash.
San Francisco: William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1933
Facsimile volume of the original first edition. Issued for private distribution as a Christmas gift
for William A. Clark’s friends. With “Compliments of William Andrews Clark, Jr., Christmas,
1933” tipped-in paper label. Bookplate of the Zamorano Club, donated by Robert Cowan. Light
wear to slipcase; spine a bit sunned; near fine
(100/150)
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304. (Nash, John Henry) Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane & Other Poems. 2 volumes including a facsimile
of the 1827 First Edition, 6½x4¼, set into an 8¾x6¼ case and a new printing from the 1845 edition,
12½x9, batik boards with silk ribbon ties, matching slipcase with two compartments. One of 150
copies printed by John Henry Nash for William Andrews Clark, Jr.
San Francisco: William Andrews Clark, 1923
With “Compliments of William Andrews Clark, Jr.” tipped-in paper label at front free endpaper
of larger volume. Wear to covering of slipcase; volumes near fine.
(100/150)
305. (Nonesuch Press) Harvey, William. The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey. (8vo), full
brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt. One of 1450 copies.
London: Nonesuch Press, [1928]
A reprint of the first English translation (1653) of Harvey’s De Motu Cordis & De Circulatione
Sanguinis. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Spine and edges darkened; very good.
(200/300)
306. (Nonesuch Press) Six volumes from the Nonesuch Press. Includes: The Nonesuch Dickens:
Retrospectus and Prospectus. Blue gilt-lettered cloth. 1937. * Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress
and The Life & Death of Mr. Badman. Marbled cloth, paper spine label. 1 of 1600 copies. 1928. *
Apuleius. Cupid and Psyches: The Excellent Narration of Their Marriage... Cloth-backed patterned
boards, slipcase. 1 of 625 copies. 1923. * Laver, James. Ladies’ Mistakes. Marbled boards, paper
spine label, slipcase. 1 of 300 copies. 1933. * Blake, William. Blake’s Pencil Drawings. Second Series.
Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Cloth, patterned dust jacket. 1 of 1440 copies. 1956. * Sidney, Sir Philip.
Astrophel & Stella. Decorative jacket over boards, cloth chemise, slipcase, paper cover label. 1 of
1210 copies printed by the Kynoch Press. 1931. Together 6 volumes.
Soho/London: Nonesuch Press, Various dates
Moderately rubbed slipcases; light to moderately rubbed extremities of volumes; one with
some yellowing from (now removed) tape; else very good.
(150/250)
A JOHN FANTE RARITY
307. (Okeanos Press) Fante, John. Prologue to Ask the Dust. Unpaginated. 7 original etchings by John
Register. (Small folio) blue cloth, paper labels on front and spine, slipcase. One of an edition of 110
copies, 75 of which were for sale, this copy not numbered and marked as a Publishers Proof.
[Oakland & San Francisco]: Magnolia Editions, Modernism, Okeanos Press, [1990]
Signed by John Register at the colophon. The etchings were printed at Magnolia Editions; the
text was printed letterpress by Eric Johnson at Okeanos Press, both in Oakland, California. Laid
in is a letter from Martin Muller of Modernism thanking bookseller Jeffrey Thomas for the
trade of a signed copy of Fante’s ‘Ask the Dust’ for the present volume. Fine.
(1500/2000)
308. (Perishable Press) Blackburn, Paul. Gin. Unpaginated. (4to) 28x18 cm. (11x7¼”), vellumbacked marbled boards. One of 136 copies. First Edition.
Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Th Prshble Prss [The Perishable Press], [1970]
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “for Gil & Vicki [Sorrentino] This is
fretwork, more than steelwork - but that you might enjoy it anyhow. love- Paul”. A bit of wear
to extremities; near fine.
(300/500)
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309. (Plantin Press) Marks, Lillian. Saul Marks and the Plantin Press: The Life & Work of a Singular Man.
I llustrated from photographs, typographic examples, etc. 10x6¾, quarter cloth, paper spine label;
slipcase. One of 50 additional copies for presentation after an edition 350 numbered copies printed
by Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press.
Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1980
Inscribed by Lillian Marks at colophon. Fine.
(100/150)
310. (Pomegranate Press) Oates, Joyce Carol. The Girl. Illustrated with color woodcuts by Karyl
Klopp. 25x18.7 cm. (9¾x7¼”) red morocco-backed black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Number 26 of
50 specially bound copies from an edition of 300. First Edition.
Cambridge, MA: Pomegranate Press, 1974
Signed by Oates on the title page and by the illustrator at the colophon. Bound by Arno Werner.
A bit of wear to cloth; near fine.
(250/350)
311. (Roxburghe Club) Linden, James & Jennifer Larson, eds. Printers to the Club. 33 folios of stiff
paper containing original specimens of printing by 32 small presses who printed announcements and
keepsakes for the Roxburghe Club; on the first page of each folio is printed a brief autobiographical
note by each printer, and there is a short explanatory text on the inside of the 33rd (i.e. title) folio.
16x10½, items set loose as issued in folding linen box, paper cover & spine labels. No. 24 of 100 sets.
San Francisco: Roxburghe Club, 1986
Errata slip adding Roger Levenson, Tamalpais Press, to the list of printers laid in. Fine
(200/300)
312. (Silent Books) Bain, Iaian, introduction by. The Wood Engravings of Richard Shirley Smith. 72 pp.
27.5x19.5 cm. (10¾x7¾”), purple cloth-backed illustrated boards, gilt spine, slipcase. One of 100
copies. First Edition.
Cambridge: Silent Books, [1994]
With two loose woodcuts laid into rear pocket, each signed by Richard Shirley Smith, and
numbered 92/100. The book is also signed in pencil by Smith, and numbered 92/100 on the
blank page facing the half title page. Fine.
(100/150)
313. (Thomas, Peter & Donna) Aesop. Aesop’s Frog Fables. [18] leaves, 2 cut silhouettes of a frog.
7½x5¼, full green suede, slipcase. Number 49 of 50 copies.
Santa Cruz: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1990
Printed and bound by the Thomas’s, one of the scarcer volumes from their press. Light wear to
slipcase; else fine.
(200/300)
314. (Vale Press) Tennyson, Alfred Lord. In Memoriam. cxxv, [2] pp. Decorative title page borders by
C.S. Rickets. (8vo) original white buckram, spine lettered in gilt; pages unopened. One of 320 copies.
[London]: [Ballantyne Press], [1900]
The Vale Press books of Hacon and Ricketts were printed at the Ballantyne Press. Soiling to
cloth, penciled notes on endpapers; internally fine.
(200/300)
Each lot is illustrated in color in the online versionof the catalogue.
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A FEW LOTS PRINTED BY ADRIAN WILSON
315. (Wilson, Adrian) Dillon, Richard. Images of Chinatown: Louis J. Stellman’s Chinatown Photographs.
Illustrated throughout from photographs by Louis J. Stellman. 7¼x8½, quarter red cloth and
decorative black & white boards, paper spine label. One of 450 copies printed by Adrian Wilson at
his Press in Tuscany Alley.
Prospectus laid in. Views of San Francisco’s Chinatown from 1906 to World War II. BCC 153.
Fine.
(150/250)
316. (Wilson, Adrian) Everson, William. In Medias Res. Canto One of an Autobiographical Epic: Dust Shall
Be the Serpent’s Food. Foreword by Everson. Illustrated with woodcuts by Tom Killion. (Folio), blue
morocco-backed linen, front cover with a gilt-stamped morocco panel after Killion’s woodcut. No.
15 of 226 copies. First Edition.
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, [1984]
Signed by the author, artist and book designer/printer in the colophon. Prospectus laid in. Spine
a bit sunned; near fine.
(150/250)
317. (Wilson, Adrian) Gerstle, Sara. Three Houses. (8vo) illustrated green wrappers, paper spine label.
One of 150 copies.
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1952
Laid in is a folded broadside printing, by Adrian Wilson, of the Old English folk song, John
Barleycorn. Fine
(100/150)
318. (Wilson, Adrian) Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child’s Garden of Verses - Unbound sheets. Illustrations
by Joyce Lancaster Wilson. (8vo), unbound folded sheets. One of 500 copies.
San Francisco: Press in Tuscany Alley, 1978
Signed at the colophon by the illustrator and inscribed by Adrian Wilson “for Kathi with warm
affection”. Prospectus present. Fine.
(150/250)
319. (Wilson, Adrian) Unna, Warren. The Coppa Murals: A Pagaent of Bohemian Life in San Francisco at the
Turn of the Century. Introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Black and white photographs of murals,
decorations. 8½x9¼. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, paper spine label. 1 of 350 copies printed by
Adrian Wilson.
Prospectus laid-in. Photo-illustrated story of the mural decorations which adorned San
Francisco’s famous old Coppa’s Restaurant, destroyed by the earthquake and fire of 1906. Minor
edge wear; fine.
(100/150)
320. (Wilson, Adrian) Small group of relating to Adrian Wilson and The Press in Tuscany Alley. Includes:
Wilson, Adrian. The Nuremberg Chronicle Designs. Wrappers. One of 350 copies. 1969. * Wilson,
Joyce Lancaster. The Ark of Noah. Illustrations by the author. From an edition of 300 copies. This copy
out of series. Inscribed by Joyce Wilson. [1975]. * Wilson, Joyce Lancaster. The Swing. Illustrations
by the author. Wrappers Prospectus laid in. One of 300 copies. Signed by Joyce and Adrian Wilson.
[1981]. * Mines D’Or de la Californie. Wrappers. One of 350 copies. 1974. * Specimens from The
Press in Tuscany Alley’s Edition of A Child’s Garden of Verses. Wrappers. Specimens in pocket at
rear. One of 150 copies printed on Adrian Wilson’s press. 1996. Together 5 volumes.
(200/300)
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321. (Windsor Press) Venner, To[bias]. A Briefe and Accurate Treatise of Tobacco. In which, the immoderate,
irregular, & unseasonable use thereof is reprehended, and the true nature and best manner of using it, perspicuously
demonstrated. Title-page printed in red & black, with vignette illustration in color; shoulder headings in
red. 12¼x9¼, ¼ morocco & decorative boards, spine lettered in gilt. 1 of 200 copies printed by James
& Cecil Johnson at the Windsor Press.
First printed in 1637, 52 years after smoking was first introduced in England by Sir Francis
Drake. With the leather bookplate of Estelle Doheny. Lacking slipcase; spine rubbed; very
good.
(200/300)
FIVE YOLLA BOLLY PRESS BOOKS
322. (Yolla Bolly Press) Doerr, Harriet. Under an Aztec Sun. (4to) gilt-stamped red cloth, slipcase.
No. XXXIII of 65 copies bound in cloth. First Edition.
[Covelo, CA]: Yolla Bolly Press, 1990
Signed by Doerr at the colophon, prospectus laid in. The fourth volume in the Yolla Bolly Press
Storytellers series. Fine.
(150/250)
323. (Yolla Bolly Press) Hardy, Thomas. The Vineyards and Wine Cellars of California. Edited by Thomas
Pinney. Foreword by Robert Mondavi. Illustrated from photographs and with tipped in facsimile
wine labels. (4to), cloth-backed decorated boards; plain slipcase. One of 450 copies printed at Yolla
Bolly Press.
(150/250)
324. (Yolla Bolly Press) Larson, Roger Keith. Controversial James: An Essay on the Life and Work of
George Wharton James. Illustrated from photographs. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration on cover,
boards slipcase with paper spine label. One of 400 copies printed by the Yolla Bolly Press.
(100/150)
325. (Yolla Bolly Press) Saroyan, William. The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories.
Afterword by Herbert Gold. Illustrated with woodblocks by Bill Prochnow. 10x7½, gilt-stamped
cloth, publisher’s slipcase. One of 200 copies designed by James and Carolyn Robertson.
[Covelo, CA]: Yolla Bolly Press, [1984]
Signed by the artist and Herbert Gold at the colophon. Publisher’s printed thank you slip, laid
in. Fine.
(100/150)
326. (Yolla Bolly Press) Stansky, Peter. Another Book That Never Was. Illustrated. 11x7½, quarter
cloth and decorative boards. One of 350 copies, designed by Christine Taylor and printed at the Yolla
Bolly Press.
(100/150)
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327. Zakani, Obaid-e. The Pious Cat. 36 pp. Translated by Basil Bunting. 27.3x19.8 cm. (10¾x7¾”),
cloth-backed boards, illustration of a cat on front board, slipcase. First Edition.
[Italy]: Bertram Rota, 1986
No. 40 of 200 copies. With facsimile wrapper bound book in its original Persian, laid into small
pocket at from pastedown. Plus the small owner’s label tipped in at front free endpaper, of
Irving W. Robbins, Jr. Touch of wear from handling to slipcase; volume is fine.
(80/120)
Section III: Fine Books in All Fields
THE FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE HARPER BROTHERS
328. (American Imprints) Seneca. Seneca’s Morals. By Way of Abstract. To Which is Added, A Discourse
Under the Title of An After-Though. By Sir Roger L’Estrange, Knt. 359 pp. (12mo) period full calf, red
morocco lettering piece. Fifth American Edition.
New York: Evert Duyckinck, J. & J. Harper, printers, 1817
The first book published by J. & J. Harper, founders of the Harper publishing empire. Also
included is a copy of the 1917 Centennial Edition. Cloth-backed boards, cloth dust jacket. Copy
number 1 of 750 copies. 1817 edition with wear to edges, 1” strip torn from head of title page
with loss of three lines of text; foxing. 1917 edition with some light wear to jacket and board
edges.
(300/500)
329. (Antiphonary) Eighteenth Century Antiphonal. 148, [2] pp. Two manuscript leaves inserted at
rear, manuscript musical notations on front free endpaper. Title leaf lacking. (Folio) 52.5x37 cm.
(20¾x14½”), period full calf.
[Provence?]: Lucas Dauphin, Diaconus Aquensis, 1761
18th century antiphonal, stenciled giving the appearance of manuscript, 4 line red staves.
Stenciled head- and tail-pieces, and decorative devices in red and black. One leaf with penciled
drawing, several leaves with voice designations pinned in margins. Binding worn; front joint
split, lacking rear free endpaper, long tear to one leaf, some foxing and light soiling; good.
(2000/3000)
Lot 329
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DRAWING FOR THE BAGDHAD OPERA HOUSE
330. (Architecture) Wright, Frank Lloyd. Architectural drawings for Baghdad Opera House. Original
architectural plans, with additional hand-drawings and notations, for the Baghdad Opera House.
Caption titled “Cross Section, Facing Mecca”. Approximately 59x111 cm. (23¼x43¾”) visible, matted
and framed, overall 93.5x144 cm. (36¾x56¾”). Also two diazo print plans: “Plan at top of ziggurat
and entrance to auditorium” 63.5x58.5 cm. (25x23”) visible, matted 80.5x74 cm. (31¾x29¼”) overall.
“Elevation” 58x64.5 cm. (22¾x25½) visible, matted 75x80 cm. (29½x31½”) overall.
1957-58
The Baghdad Opera House was a part of the Frank Lloyd Wrights “Plan for Greater Baghdad”
a project done by Wright for the development of a cultural center, opera house, and university
on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, in 1957-58. The most thoroughly developed aspect of the
plan was the opera house, which was to have been constructed on an island in the middle of
the Tigris. Due to the 1958 collapse of the Hashemite monarchy, development of the project
stopped, and it was never built. The opera house itself was intended to serve the Baghdad
Symphony Orchestra. Wright’s design was flexible enough to accommodate from 1600 to
7000 people. The plans show the building, atop a hill, approached by a road spiraling up from
the base of the hill to the opera house at the top. A pool surrounds the theater and is itself
surrounded by gardens. Provenance: From the collection of the Taliesin Foundation, sold
in 2009 and acquired from the purchaser in 2010 by our consignor. Some creasing and light
wrinkling to large plan, one corner of frame damaged, two smaller prints with some fading.
(5000/8000)
Lot 330
331. (Armitage, Merle) Six volumes on musical subjects, designed by Merle Armitage. Includes: Schmitz, E.
Robert. The Capture of Inspiration. Spiral bound and in cloth covers. No. 382 of 500 copies, signed
by author at colophon. 1935. * Esser, Grace Denton. Madame Impresario: A Personal Chronicle of
an Epoch. Signed by author on title page. Cloth. Manzanita Press, [1974]. * Garroway, Will. Pianism.
Wrappers. 1939. * Schmitz, E. Robert. The Piano Works of Claude Debussy. Cloth, dj. Duell, Sloan
and Pearce, [1950]. * Armitage, Merle. Igor Stravinsky. Cloth, dj. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1949]. *
Armitage, Merle. George Gershwin: Man and Legend. Cloth, dj. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1958].
Together 6 volumes.
Light to moderate edge wear to jackets; light shelf wear to volumes; very good or near fine.
(300/500)
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332. Bennett, Alan and Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore. Beyond the Fringe “64”
- Typescript of the play, signed by actor Bob Cessna and James Valentine. 68 pp., bound in a red folder, with
gilt-lettered title on front cover. Title page reads, “Second Edition.”
New York: 1964
Alexander H. Cohen’s (producer) copy of the typescript of Beyond the Fringe, from the New
York production in 1964. Inscribed and signed by American actor Bob Cessna on title page.
Cessna was an understudy for Dudley Moore’s character in this production, and it was his first
professional acting role. Also inscribed and signed by James Valentine on the next page. Some
staining, mostly on rear cover, edge wear to folder; some smudges and light edge wear to leaves
within; very good.
(200/300)
333. Benson, A.C., Lawrence Weaver, & E.V. Lucas, editors. The Book of the Queen’s Dolls’ House
[&] The Book of the Queen’s Dolls’ House Library. 2 volumes. Numerous full page plates, many in color.
(4to) 10x7¾, original linen-backed blue boards, paper labels on spines. Each one of 1500 copies.
The first volume describes the doll’s house, made as a gift for Queen Mary. The second volume
is devoted to the doll’s house library. Binding detached in a single unit on first title, front hinge
cracking in second title, some light wear; good.
(200/300)
334. Bernhard, Thomas. The Voice Impersonator. 71, [1] pp. (12mo) brown cloth, paper spine label.
One of 100 copies.
New York: William Drenttel, 1995
Translated from the German by Craig Kinosian. Fine.
(200/300)
335. Blackmore, Richard Doddridge. Fringilla or Tales in Verse. (199) pp. (8vo) 9x6, parchment
backed boards, paper spine label, pages unopened. No. 10 of 25 copies.
Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1895
Published to secure the American copyright which enabled the Burrows Brothers to publish
Will Bradley’s magnificent masterpiece of Art Nouveau book design later the same year. Spine
darkened, some light wear; very good.
(100/150)
336. (Book Design) Book Design of the Russian Avant-Garde: Editions of Mayakovsky - two bindings.
Includes: Black cloth-bound edition, with decorative paper strip wrapped around it. Includes an
original letterpress plate, used in the production of the book, in glassine envelope. No. 100 of 200
cloth-bound copies. * Spiral bound edition, with board covers and decorative paper jacket. One of
500 “wire” bound copies. Unnumbered.
[Kansas City, MO]: Grafik Archive Publishing, [2000]
Beautiful color plates of Russian Avant-Garde art by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Includes a nice
essay on the artist at rear by Roberta Lord. Out of a total edition of 700, of which there were
200 cloth-bound, and 500 wire bound copies. Fine.
(200/300)
Each lot is illustrated in color in the online versionof the catalogue.
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337. (Bookends) Lot of bookends - including 8 full pairs, plus several singular bookends. Includes 8 pairs of
bookends: “Ye Olde Printer.” J. Ruhl sculptural bookends. 6¾” tall. * Wood carved, home-made(?)
bookends. L-shaped base with a wheel, and a chain, with metal accents. 6” tall. * Metal pair, each with
a cast metal duck, mounted to a standard metal bookend. 5½” tall. * Gold painted sculptural pair,
of a Renaissance Man, leaning against a globe, a stack of books next to him. 6” tall. * Red leather
padded L-shaped bookends, with fold-out bottom portion, hinged to top portion. Gilt labeled, “G.
Serraglin Firenze”. * Pair of sculptural bookends depicting the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Statue.
Made by Alexander Backer Co., signed on back. * Cast Iron pair of Galleon Ships, each hand-painted.
* Decorative wood and metal L-shaped bookends, with fold-out bottom portion, hinged to top
portion. * Plus 6 singular bookends.
Some light general wear to all; very good.
(400/700)
SEVEN LOTS OF BOOKS IN PARTS BY DICKENS, THACKERAY & TROLLOPE
338. (Books in Parts) Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. 20 parts in 19. Illustrated with 40 plates by
Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”), including 10 “dark plates” (some of the plates are reproduced by
lithographic transfers from the steels, as well as from the etchings - See Hatton & Cleaver, p.276).
(8vo) 8¾x5¾, original blue wrappers with woodcut design by Browne. Housed in a custom moroccobacked box. First Edition.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1853
First edition in the original parts, with the following variations from Hatton & Cleaver: Parts I,
II, & III have a 4 pp insert at front for “Periodical & Serial Publications...supplied by Thomas
Ordish” not called for by Hatton & Cleaver; Part II with duplicates of the Waterloo and Sons
ad and the “Notice of Removal” slip inserted at front; Parts XIII and XVI lacking the scarce
“Grace Aguilar’s Works” ads; Part XIX/XX lacking both of the inserted slips called for at the
front. All wrappers are correct as called for. Waterlow ad in Part I in the ‘A’ variant; Crochet
Cotton slip in Part III in design state ‘2’. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 275-304. Rear wrapper of Part
I detached, wrappers to Part VI detached, some wear light soiling and chipping to wrappers,
restorations to most spines; foxing, Household Words slip detached in Part XI; very good.
(1500/2500)
Lot 338
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339. (Books in Parts) Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. 20 parts in 19. Illustrated with 40 etched
plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). (8vo) 8¾x5¾, original green wrappers with woodcut design by
Browne, custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. First Edition
Complete Dickens novel in the original parts. With the eight-line errata slip in Part XIX-XX;
copies with the two-line slip are thought to be earlier. This work contained the first example of
what later became known as the “Dark Plates,” captioned “On the dark Road”; these were later
used more extensively in Bleak House and other works; it also contained the first examples of
horizontal etchings on the steels used in a Dicken’s book, five in number. The advertisements,
which vary in almost every set of Dickens in parts, contain the following variations from the
delineation by Hatton & Cleaver: Part I has the rear wrapper called fro on Part X, lacking page
5/6 from the ‘Advertiser’, lacking the 8 pp catalog at rear (“Just published...); Part III lacks the
“Richard’s Universal Daily Remembrancer” at rear; Part IV lacks 4-fold sheet at rear advertising
Lett’s Diaries, lacks ad for “Cheap and Elegant Christmas Book” at rear; Part V lacking errata
slip, with insert at front for The National Cyclopaedia not called for by Hatton and Cleaver; Part
VI ad at rear for “Valuable Educational Works” on green paper (Hatton and Cleaver call for
white, pink or brick red); Part VII lacks slip at front advertising cheap edition of Dickens works;
Part VIII with ads at rear for Heath’s Illustrated New Testament and Sharpe’s Corresponding
Maps not called for by Hatton and Cleaver; Part IX lacks slip for The Disgrace to the Family
which should be at rear; Part X lacks 8-page ad for Gilbert’s Dictionary; Part XIII has 4 pp ads
at rear headed “Question! Question! Question!” not called for by Hatton and Cleaver; Part XIV
lacking pages 3-10 of advertiser at front, ads at rear for Norton’s Camomile Pills not called for
by Hatton and Cleaver; Part XV has only 7 diary leaf specimens; Part XVI lacks the slip for
Punch’s Almanack which should follow the plates; Part XVII lacks the slip for The Life and
Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith which should follow the plates, and also, lacks “Eagle and
Protector” and Waterlow & Sons” ads from rear; Part XVIII has the rear wrapper from Part
XIV and several incorrect ads at rear; Part XIX/XX has the rear wrapper from Part XVIII and
incorrect ads at front and rear. Hatton & Cleaver p.227. Slipcase worn; wrappers with some
chipping, light soiling and repairs; overall very good.
(1000/1500)
340. (Books in Parts) Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit. 20 parts in 19. Illustrated with 40 plates from
etchings by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”), including 8 “dark” plates. (8vo) 9x5½, original blue wrappers
with woodcut design by Browne, housed in a custom morocco-backed box. First Edition.
With the first edition points of “Rigaud” for “Blandois” on page 469, etc., “William” for
“Frederick” on page 317 line 27, B2 instead of BB2 on page 371, page 573 not numbered.
Front wrapper of Part I from a later issue or possibly an early facsimile; Part XIV with rear
wrapper ads from Part VII; Part XVII with
rear wrapper ads from Part XVIII; Part
XIX/XX with rear wrapper ads from Part
XIV. Complete with all advertisements and
slips as noted in Hatton & Cleaver with the
exception of: Part I lacking pp 7/8 from
advertiser at front; Part XIV with 3 ads at
read not called for by Hatton & Cleaver
(Norton’s Camomile Pills, American SugarCoated Pills, The Morisonian Monument).
Errata slip present in Part XVI. Hatton &
Cleaver pp.305-30; Gimbel A140 Box with
some light wear; some light wear, soiling
and chipping to wrappers, spines expertly
restored; two leaves of ads at rear of Part
XIV with upper corner lacking; some foxing
and offsetting; very good.
(1200/1800)
Lot 340
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341. (Books in Parts) Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. 20 parts in 19. Half-titles. Illustrated with
40 wood-engraved plates after Marcus Stone. (8vo) 8¾x5½, original wrappers, custom drop-back
box. First Edition.
London: Chapman and Hall, [1864]-1865
First edition, in original parts. Each part bound with the “Our Mutual Friend Advertiser” plus
several other slips and inserts. With all advertisements as called for by Hatton & Cleaver except
as follows: Part 1, ad for Fry’s Cocoa in the Homeopathich Cocoa variant but printed on Lemon
color paper versus the pink suggested by Hatton and Cleaver, lacking “To the Reader” slip; Part
2 lacking “On the 31st of May” slip; Part 7 lacking “Kaye’s Worsdell’s” slip; Part 8 lacking “The
Christmas Number” slip; Part 9 lacks “Dr. De Jongh’s” ad; Part 13 lacking entire “Advertiser”
from front; Part 12 lacking People’s Pickwick slip; Part 14 lacking Economic Life Assurance
Society ad; Part 16 lacking “Norton’s Camomile Pills” ad; Part 18 lacking “In Number 355”
slip and with 8pp ad for “Chapman and Hall’ New Publications” not called for; Part 19/20
lacking all ads. The “Scottish Union” ad at rear of Part 9 is in the rare white ribbed paper state.
Hatton & Cleaver pp. 345-370. Wear to box; some wear, light soiling and chipping to wrappers,
restorations to a few spines; an ex-library copy with some ink and pencil numberings, stamps on
rear of a few plates, foxing; very good.
(800/1200)
342. (Books in Parts) Thackeray, W[illiam] M[akepeace]. The History of Pendennis. 24 parts in 23.
Illustrated by Thackeray with 48 etched plates, including added titles; wood engravings in the text.
8¾x5½, original illustrated yellow wrappers. Custom two-part full morocco solander box. First
Edition.
London: Bradbury & Evans, November, 1848-December, 1850
First edition in the original parts of Thackeray’s rather convoluted tale of love, lust and greed
amongst the English gentry. “Pendennis Advertiser” at front of most issues, many also with
advertisements at rear and some inserts, title pages, half-titles, and contents and plate lists at rear
of Parts XII and XXIII/XXIV. Box worn; some chipping to wrappers, several with restorations
to spines, light soiling; very good.
(500/800)
343. (Books in Parts) Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. 20 parts. Illustrated with 40 wood-engraved
plates after J.E. Millais. 8¾x5½, original tan printed wrappers, custom drop-back box. First Edition.
London: Chapman and Hall, [1861-62]
A nice set of Orley Farm in the original parts; laid in is the original invoice from John &
Edward Bumpus, Ltd., for this set and two others, dated 1940. The advertisements conform
to the listings by Sadlier except as follows: Part V with slip at front for W.H. Smith’s Standard
Works not noted by Sadlier; Part VI with
yellow slip at front loose, with wear to 1
edge, and only 4 pp. of ads at front (not
8) numbered 1-2, 7-8, and with the last
2 ad pages at rear printed on pink, not
green paper, and the sample of cambric
frilling is gone; Part VII with 4-page slip
at front for W.H. Smith’s Subscription
Library, dated Aug. 24, 1861, not noted
by Sadlier, and at rear the slip advertising
“The Queen” is on yellow paper, not the
blue or pink options given by Sadlier;
Part VIII with 4-page slip at front for
Lot 343
W.H. Smith’s Subscription Library, dated
September, 1861, not noted by Sadlier;
Part XIX lacking the 8 pp. of ads at front and the 4 pp. of ads at rear. Sadlier, Trollope 13. Box
soiled and worn; some minor darkening to the wrappers, 1 with circular stain on front wrapper,
a few with wrappers soiled and repaired, very good or better condition, lacking only a few of
the ads, and with variants and additions not noted by Sadlier, much nicer than normally found.
(4000/6000)
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344. (Books in Parts) Trollope, Anthony. The Last Chronicle of Barset. 31 original parts. Illustrated
with 31 wood-engraved plates after G.H. Thomas. (8vo) 8¾x5¾, original decorated wrappers printed
in color, custom box. First Edition.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., [1866-1867]
The final installment in Trollope’s Barsetshire series, in the original parts. Each part with ads
at the front, many with them at the rear as well. Part I lacks at front the 4 unnumbered pages
of “Select Library of Fiction,” and at rear lacks the 4-pp of ads for “Thorley’s Spicy Aromatic
Condiment,” and the Nissen and Parker ads are printed in green paper; Part II at front lacks
at front the 4 unnumbered pages of “Select Library of Fiction,” and the Nissen and Parker ad
at rear is printed on pink paper; Part III lacks the inset slip of Chapman & Hall publications
at rear; Part IV Part II at front lacks at front the 4 unnumbered pages of “Select Library of
Fiction”; Part V at front lacks at front the 4 unnumbered pages of “Select Library of Fiction”;
Part VI with portion of final page of 4-page insert at rear torn off; Part VIII lacks the inset
slip at front of Chapman & Hall publications; Part XI lacks the inset slip at front of Chapman
& Hall publications; Part XII lacks 4-page unnumbered inset slip at front; Part XVI lacks inset
announcement slip at front; Part XVIII lacks inset announcement slip at front; Part XXXII
lacks inset announcement slip at front. All the advertisements conform to Sadlier except as
noted. The work is accompanied by the customs invoice from John & Edward Bumpus, made
out to Mrs. Shelden Goodall Cooper, of San Francisco, dated Sept. 2nd, 1940, for 6 pounds 10
shillings plus postage, translated to $27.07, with typed note that due to recent Defence (Finance)
Regulations, payment in Sterling could no longer be accepted, and Dollar Drafts, Cheques or
Money Orders were necessary. Sadlier, Trollope 25. Box worn; some wear to wrappers, mostly
the spines of the earlier parts, a few with ink names at the top; several with dampstains within,
overall in very good condition.
(1500/2000)
COLORED PRINTS OF SHELLS
345. Bosc, L[ouis] A. G. Histoire Naturelle des Coquilles. 5 volumes. 44 engraved plates (40 handcolored); folding chart. (12mo) 12.5x8.5 cm. (5x3¼”) period cloth backed boards, spines lettered in
gilt. First Edition.
Paris: Chez Deterville, An. X [1802]
Charming engraved plates of mollusks. Nissen Zoology 476. Spines sunned, joints splitting,
some wear to boards; very good.
(1000/1500)
346. (Botanical) Ten framed color botanical prints. Ten matted and framed prints from various publications
and of various sizes, include those with the following name(s): 6 framed prints measuring (with frame)
approximately 29.7x21 cm. (11¾x8¼”) with some variation: 1 Thysanothus inhicatus 2 Oncidium
papilis. * Triticum Aestivum, Cupressus Sempervirens, Oncidium papilio, Polianthes Tuberosou.
* 1. Claytonia Caroliniana 2. Claytonia virginica 3. Sedum Sempervirens 4. Sedum ternatum 5.
Sedum coeruleum. * 1 with no caption. * Mala umbellata, Mauve ombellee. * Mesembryanthemum
linguiforme. Ficoide en langue. * Plus 4 larger prints titled: Cypridpedium Spicerianum. With
frame 47.5x41 cm. (18¾x16”). * White & Strip’d Roses. With frame 58.5x48.5 cm. (23x19”). *
Imantophyllum Miniatum. With frame 49x38.5 cm. (19x15”). * Borrago Constantino politana, flore
reflexo coeruleo calyce vesicario t. cor. 6. With frame 46x34.5 cm. (18x13½”). Together 10 prints,
each a color engraving or lithograph.
19th & 20th century
Includes prints by Paxton, Redoute, Bessa, John Edwards, Georg Ehret, Jane Loudon, and
others. Each very good to near fine. Not inspected outside of frames.
(300/500)
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COMPLETE WORKS OF BUFFON – PLATES UNCOLORED
347. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc. Oeuvres Completes de Buffon. 26 volumes. Portrait frontispiece
and 245 engraved plates. (8vo) later red half calf and marbled boards. Nouvelle Edition.
Paris: Eymery, Fruger et Cie., 1828-29
Comprises: Théorie de la terre (2 volumes), Minéraux (6 vol.), Des animaux (1 vol.), De
l’homme (2 vol.), Quadrupèdes (6 vol.), Oiseaux (8 vol.), Supplément (1 vol.). The plates in this
set in their original uncolored state and rare as such. Some wear and scuffing to leather; some
light foxing; very good.
(2000/3000)
Lot 347
348. [Burgess, Gelett, et al]. The Lark. Book I & Book II, Numbers 1-24, plus the Epi-Lark. 2 volumes.
(8vo) 7½x5½, original self wrappers in original color printed beige cloth.
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1896-97
Contains Gelett Burgess’ Purple Cow and many other classic pieces of California light prose
and poetry. Light wear to cloth; very good and better than typically encountered.
(200/300)
SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATORS
349. [Burgess, Gelett, et al]. The Lark, Book 1, Nos. 1-12 - Signed by illustrators. Book 1 only (of 2).
Illustrations throughout. (8vo) 7½x5½, original self wrappers in original color printed beige cloth.
First Edition.
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895-96
A unusual copy, signed throughout by various illustrators of the front covers: Numbers 1, 3 &
6 signed on front by Gelett Burgess; Number 2 signed on front by Bruce Porter and initialed
by him after several contributions; Number 4 signed on front by Florence Lundborg; Numbers
5, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 12 signed on front by Ernest Peixotto; leaf with silhouettes in Number 9 signed
by all four gentlemen, Gelett Burgess, Ernest Peixotto, Bruce Porter & Willis Polk (small repair
to this leaf); Number 11 signed on front by Herbert Van Vlack. Some light wear and foxing to
cloth; one leaf with long closed tear; very good.
(300/500)
350. (California) Eight souvenir items from the Tournament of Roses, Pasadena. Includes: 3 quarto-sized
souvenir booklets from the years 1934, 1941 and 1947. * 5 fold-out post card sets. From the years
1926, 1929, 1931, 1939 and 1941.
1926-1947
Lovely collection of souvenir items from Pasadena’s annual Tournament of Roses. Some wear
from handling; generally very good.
(250/350)
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ALS FROM THOMAS CARLYLE
351. Carlyle, Thomas. Autograph Letter Signed, with photogravure portrait. Autograph letter signed,
approximately 7x4½”. With hand-pulled photogravure portrait of Carlyle by Julia Margaret Cameron
(from Camera Work XLI, 1913). The pair matted and framed. Overall 15¾x18½”.
No place: No date
A short note from Carlyle declining a dinner invitation citing a previous engagement. Letter
creased; else appears fine, not examined out of frame.
(1000/1500)
352. Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. Typed letter, signed. Typed letter signed, on Roosevelt Field
Hotel, letterhead.
Mineola, NY: November 14, 1930
In full: “Yes, I remember seeing you at the Club. I am glad that you have been helping Doctor
Blossom in the Club library. And thanks for your congratulations. I appreciate them very much.
Dagwan, the Medicine Man in ‘The Silent Enemy’ is Chief Akawansh, Chief of the Golden
Lake Band of Ojibays, in Northern Canada.” Born Sylvester Clark Long with an ethnic mix
of American Indian, white, and black heritage, he became famous following publication of his
autobiography in which he claimed to be the son of a Blackfoot Indian chief. After starring
in the film Silent Enemy, concerns arose over his falsifying his heritage. He was found dead
of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the home of a California socialite in 1932. Creased from
mailing, light wear at edges, a bit browned.
(100/150)
FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION
353. Church of England. The Book of Common Prayer - First Baskerville Edition. Unpaginated (final leaf
Qq4). (8vo) period full red straight grain morocco, decorative gilt borders, “J. Abbott” in gilt on front
cover, flat spine with gilt decorations, all edges gilt. First Baskerville Edition.
Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1760
This copy with “Price Six Shillings and Six Pence, unbound” in publisher’s imprint, third line
of title in italic, star and lozenge borders, leaves B8, C6, C7, and D2 uncancelled, and with
the occasional prayers at rear (not found in all copies). Some scuffing and wear to leather, a
few signatures uneven; title page lacking upper corner and backed with a later sheet, adjoining
contents leaf similarly lacking corner with loss of border but no loss of text, faint staining; very
good.
(700/1000)
354. Crane, Stephen. Three first editions by Stephen Crane. Including: George’s Mother. 177, [8] ad pp.
Original tan cloth lettered in black. With bookplate of Frank Earle Hayward, and small catalogue
description on front endpapers. Edward Arnold, 1896. * Great Battles of the World. 278 pp. Red
cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated in gilt and silver, top edge gilt. J.B. Lippincott, 1901. * The Little
Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War. [6], 196, [6] ad pp. Tan cloth embellished
with gilt and red, lettered in red and black. First Issue. D. Appleton, 1896.
Various places: 1896-1901
Light shelf wear, scattered and faint soiling to a few; very good.
(300/500)
355. (Crime) Internationales Criminal-Polizeiblatt - The International Criminal Police Times. Bound volume of
weekly and special issues comprising Volume XXI, No. 40-57 (lacking nos. 47 & 54); Volume XXII
Nos. 1-58 (lacking no. 57); Volume XXIII, Nos. 1-56 (lacking nos. 2, 5, 12-16, 22, 24, 25, 31, 32, 34,
35, 37-40, 43, 49, 52). (4to) 28x22 cm. (11x8¾”), period black half morocco and cloth, spine lettered
in gilt.
Frankfurt: 1907-1909
International police periodical, text in French, German, and English with scores of photographs
of wanted men and women with descriptions of their crimes. Front joint split, some other light
wear; internally very good.
Page 75
(200/300)
SAMMY DAVIS JUNIOR’S PHOTO ALBUM
356. (Davis, Sammy Jr.) Sammy Davis Jr.’s Snapshot Album containing over 700 photographs. Over 700
snapshot photographs, most approximately 3x3” to 4x5”, affixed to the pages of a photo album,
most affixed with old cello-tape. Album of full black leather stamped in gilt on spine: “Snapshots,
Volume 5” and in gilt on front “Snapshots” with “Sammy Davis Jr.” in gilt at bottom edge. Album
approximately 14½x11 overall.
No place: 1950s-60s
Includes a number of photographs of the entertainer
in casual moments, many photographs of other
performers, dancers, friends and intimates of
Davis, at the beach on the street in various locales,
backstage, offices, etc. Quite possibly a number of
other celebrities in these photographs, unfortunately
unidentified in the album. Light wear to album, most
photos affixed with tape (now yellowed); very good.
(2000/5000)
357. [Dorat, Claude Joseph]. Mes Fantaisies. xlviij, 238
pp. Three engraved vignettes by Eisen. 7½x5½, rebacked leather, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. First
Edition.
Amsterdam: Sébastien Jorry, 1768
Moderate edge wear; dampstain at lower gutter edge
from title page - pp. xvj and pp. 177 - end of volume;
very good otherwise.
(80/120)
Lot 356
358. (Doyle, Arthur Conan) Newnes, George, ed. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Complete in The Strand
Magazine Vol. XXII & XXIII. 2 volumes. (8vo), publisher’s pale blue pictorial cloth with title and
decoration in gilt and black, all edges gilt. Contains the First Appearance of “The Hound of the
Baskervilles.”
London: Newnes, 1901-1902
Some light wear; very good.
(250/350)
359. (Doyle, Arthur Conan) Newnes, George, ed. The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Complete in The Strand
Magazine Vol. XXVI - Vol. XXVIII. 3 volumes. (8vo), publisher’s pale blue pictorial cloth with title
and decoration in gilt and black, all edges gilt. First Appearance of “The Return of Sherlock Holmes.”
London: Newnes, 1903-1904
Thirteen new tales featuring a resurrected Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated by Sidney Paget.
Considerable other interesting content. Also included is Volume XL of The Strand Magazine
[1910], containing the short story “A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of
the Devil’s Foot.” Together 4 volumes. Some wear and soiling to cloth; a few leaves pulled or
detached and loosely inserted; good.
(300/500)
360. Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Five volumes by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Includes: Poems of Cabin and
Field. 1900. * The Uncalled. 1901. * Lyrics of Lowly Life. 1906. * Lyrics of the Lowly. 1912. * Lyrics
of Lowly Life. 1914. Together 5 volumes.
Some wear, hinges cracking, etc.; overall very good.
Page 76
(80/120)
361. Elgar, Edward. Signed Photo Post Card. Black & white photo post card, 5¼x3½”, boldly signed
on image.
No place: Early 20th century
Elgar was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and
international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral
works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for
violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of
Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King’s Musick in 1924.
Fine.
(1000/1500)
BEAUTIFUL BINDING BY DON ETHERINGTON
362. (Fine Binding - Don Etherington) Milton, John. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d. Introduction
by William Rose Benet. Illustrated by Carlotta Petrina. (Folio), finely bound in white pigskin with
purple morocco backing, inlaid flame design on front board with radiating gilt and blind rules, title
in gilt on spine, custom felt-lined box. No. 1441 of 1500 copies printed by John Henry Nash, signed
by the illustrator.
San Francisco: John Henry Nash for the Limited Editions Club, 1936
A beautiful designer binding, signed in gilt stamping at lower edge, inside front cover. “Don
Etherington began bookbinding at age thirteen as a student at the Central School of Arts
and Crafts in London and as an apprentice at Harrison’s & Company in London. He studied
bookbinding and design with Edgar Mansfield and Ivor Robinson at the London School of
Printing and worked as a conservator for the BBC and Roger Powell and Peter Waters. From
1967 to 1969 he was a training consultant
at the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence
where he trained individuals in conservation
practices as part of the flood response effort.
He came to the Library of Congress in
1970 with Peter Waters where he served as
Training Officer and Assistant Restoration
Officer...He served as Assistant Director and
Chief Conservation Officer at the Harry
Ransom Humanities Research Center at the
University of Texas at Austin. In 1987, he
joined Information Conservation, Inc. where
he created a new conservation division. In
1982, he co-authored, with Matt Roberts,
Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books:
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology,
the first comprehensive attempt to compile
terminology from all the bookmaking and
conservation fields...He is a past Fellow of
Designer Bookbinders. His work is held in
significant collections worldwide.” (Guild
of Bookworkers website). A touch of
discoloration to white leather; near fine.
(2500/3500)
Lot 362
363. (Fine Bindings) Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Large paper edition. 3 volumes.
“100 illustrations by Herbert Railton and many portraits” (as issued) and extra-illustrated with the
insertion of approximately 65 plates from earlier publications. (Large 8vo) 23.5x16.5 cm. (9¼x6½”)
period three-quarter green morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, top edges gilt. One of 350
copies for America from the Large Paper Edition.
London: J.M. Dent, 1901
A handsomely presented set of this classic biography. Spines a bit sunned, a touch of wear to
extremities, scuff to rear board of Volume 3, front hinge starting in Volume 1; very good.
(400/600)
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364. (Fine Bindings) Chambers, R., editor. The Book of Days - City of London School Prize Bindings. 2
volumes. Woodcut illustrations throughout. (Large 8vo) 25.5x18 cm. (10x7¼”) period full brown
calf, circular emblem of the City of London School in gilt on front covers, spines gilt, red and green
morocco spine labels, all edges marbled.
London: W. & R. Chambers, [c. 1870]
Award inscription on front flyleaf. Awarded as 2nd Prize for Mathematical Proficiency, 5th
Class, City of London School, Midsummer 1875. Some fading and light wear, hinges cracking;
very good.
(200/300)
365. (Fine Bindings) [Disraeli, Benjamin] Earl of Beaconsfield. Novels and Tales by the Earl of
Beaconsfield. 11 volumes (complete). (Small 8vo) full red morocco, covers bordered in gilt, spines gilt,
raised bands, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt. The Hugenden Edition.
London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1882
A very handsome shelf of books. Some light edge wear, one volume (Tancred) with small chip
to head of spine; near fine.
(700/1000)
366. (Fine Bindings) Eliot, George. [Works - Arbury Edition]. 24 volumes. Plates, some colored. (8vo)
period three-quarter brown morocco and cloth, spines gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. Number 122
of 1000 copies of the Arbury Edition.
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, [c. 1900]
A handsomely bound set. Leather spines a bit dry, some rubbing and scuffing, a few small chips
to spine heads; nonetheless an attractive shelf of books; very good.
(1000/1500)
367. (Fine Bindings) Seeley, L.B. Fanny Burney and Her Friends. [2], xii, 331 pp. 9 Illustrations after
Reynolds, Gainsborough, Copley and West. (Large 8vo) 25.5x17.5 cm. (10x7”), later full mottled calf,
floral gilt borders, spine with gilt floral devices with red and green onlays, red morocco lettering piece,
raised bands. Number 69 of 150 large-paper copies.
London: Seeley and Co, [c.1890]
Select passages from her diary and other writings. Small scuff-mark to front cover, minor edge
wear; very good.
(250/350)
368. (Fine Bindings) Three volumes, finely bound. Includes: Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland [bound with] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. 2 volumes
bound in 1. Full red morocco, gilt devices of characters from the tales on covers and in spine
compartments, raised bands, all edges gilt. Bound by Hatchards. Macmillan, 1959 & 1962. * Farley,
John. The London Art of Cookery, and housekeeper’s Complete Assistant, on a New Plan. Made to
the Understanding of Every Housekeeper, Cook, and Servant, in the Kingdom. Modern quarter red
polished calf and cloth. Tenth Edition. Scatcherd and Letterman, et al, 1804. * Wells, H.G. The War
in the Air, and Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While it Lasted. Full recent blue morocco,
spine ruled and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Original front cover blue cloth (later state with mounted
illustration) bound in at rear. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere. First Edition. George Bell and Sons, 1908.
Together 3 volumes.
Near fine or fine.
(250/350)
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GEORGE GERSHWIN AUTOGRAPH WITH MUSICAL QUOTATION
369. Gershwin, George. Signed Photograph with Autograph Musical Quotation. Inscribed and signed
photograph, approximately 6¼x6¼”, with three measure autograph musical quotation at bottom.
[Havana]: [1932]
Photo of Gershwin in a side profile pose, boldly inscribed “To Bohemia, In appreciation & with
sincere good wishes. George Gershwin.” Bohemia was a popular Cuban magazine, shut down
by Castro in the 1950s. Signed during Gershwin’s 1932 visit to Havana following the death of
his father. Trimmed, with a small loss of emulsion at left edge, small stain over Gershwin’s nose;
small newspaper photo of Gershwin (same image) affixed to rear, pencil and ink docketing, date
stamped Sept. 23, 1932; very good.
(2000/3000)
Lot 369
370. Graglia, C. Dizionario Portatile Delle Lingue Italiana ed Inglese. 2 volumes. [4], li, [1], 715; 528
pp. Engraved frontispiece in each volume. 5¼x4½, period full vellum, morocco spine labels. New
Edition.
Florence: John Marenigh, 1819
First volume Italian to English, second volume English to Italian. Armorial bookplate of Sir
William Molesworth in each volume. Some spotting to vellum, spine labels chipped; light foxing;
very good.
(100/150)
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371. Grew, Nehemiah. Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or, A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and
Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge...Whereunto is Subjoyned
the Comparative Anatomy of Stomach and Guts. [xii], 386, [2], [2 (blank leaf)], [ii], 43, [2 (blank leaf)] pp.
Engraved portrait frontispiece and 31 engraved plates (1 folding). (Folio) 32x19.5 cm. (12½x7¾”),
period full calf, red morocco spine label. First Edition.
London: W. Rawlins, 1681
“Grew, who was secretary of the Royal Society, compiled this catalogue of its museum. He was
one of the early comparative anatomists to use the microscope and he introduced the term
“comparative anatomy.” His treatise on the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts is an
early classic in the field, and the thirty-one plates are particularly fine.” (Heirs of Hippocrates,
640). “Published with the catalogue is Grew’s study of stomach organs, which is the first
zoological book to have the term “comparative anatomy” on the title page, and also the first
attempt to deal with the system of organs by the comparative method” (Garrison-Morton, 297).
Some wear and scuffing to leather, hinges repaired; lower corner of one plate lacking (no loss
of image); very good.
(2000/3000)
Lot 371
SIGNED BY GEORGE HARRISON
372. Harrison, George. I, Me, Mine. 398, [2] pp. Illustrations from photographs, etc. (8vo) original
brown half calf and cloth, leather only in the shape of a guitar on front, facsimile signature in gilt on
rear, spine gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, cloth slipcase with paper label. One of 2000 copies. First
Edition.
Guildford Surrey, England: Genesis Publications Limited, [1980]
Signed by George Harrison on inserted leaf at front, as issued.
Autobiography of the late former Beatle, includes facsimile
reproductions of the lyrics of many of his songs. Increasingly
scarce. Fine.
(3000/5000)
Lot 372
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373. Harte, Bret. The Crusade of the “Excelsior”. 18 consecutive weekly issues. January 8, 1887May 14, 1887. All but one containing an installment of this Harte novel. A notice in the January
15th issue states that the installment was not received in time to be included (a poem by Harte,
“Crotalus, Rattlesnake Bar, Sierras” is included in this issue). Woodcut illustrations throughout.
(Folio) 16½x11½, custom brown cloth folder.
New York: Harper’s Weekly, 1887
Published in book form the same year. Wear at edges, several issues unopened along top edge;
good.
(200/300)
374. [Hill, John]. The Actor: or, A Treatise on the Art of Playing. [ii], 284, [19, [1 blank], +[4] ad pp.
(12mo) later green straight-grain full morocco bordered in gilt, top edge gilt. Second Edition.
London: R. Griffiths, 1755
Comments on the 18th century stage and its luminaries. First published 1750. This work has
also been attributed to Aaron Hill. Spine faded to brown; occasional foxing; very good.
(200/300)
375. Hill, Napoleon. Think and Grow Rich. 381 pp. (8vo) red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition, first
or early printing.
Meriden, Conn.: The Ralston Society, 1937
First or early printing of the still popular work teaching “the famous Andrew Carnegie formula
for money-making...Organized through 25 years of research in collaboration with more than
500 distinguished men of great wealth...” Jacket chipped and with dampstain at lower edge of
rear panel; volume with some dampstaining to covers, other light wear; good.
(400/600)
376. Hundhausen, Vincenz. Der Ölhändler und das Freudenmädchen: Eine chinesische Geschichte in fünf
Gesängen. 3 volumes. 64; 65-124; 125-166, [2] pp. 8x5, wrappers, bound with string, housed in
publisher’s silk-lined cloth chemise. No. 55 out of 500 copies.
[Leipzig]: [Wilhem Borngraeber], [1926]
Signed by the author with a short inscription dated 1927, at the limitation statement. A Chinese
Story in Five Songs. Chemise yellowed to side panels, slight edge wear; slightly sunned wrapper
edges; light and scattered foxing; very good.
(200/300)
377. (Huth, Alfred H.) Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts & Printed Books Bequeathed to the British Museum
by Alfred H. Huth. xvi, 130 pp. Portrait frontispiece, 18 colotype plates. (Folio) 15x11¼, original red
cloth. First Edition.
London: For the Trustees, 1912
Some fading to cloth; very good.
(100/150)
378. (Hyde, Donald Frizell) Donald Frizell Hyde. Memorial Service, Christ Methodist Church, New York City.
13, [1] pp. Wrappers. Housed in a custom morocco-backed clamshell box. First Edition.
[New York]: [Spiral Press], 1966
Booklet from memorial service for bibliophile Donald F. Hyde. This copy belonged to Frederick
B. Adams, Jr., Director of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Also included are the proof sheets for
the booklet and several letters from Mary Hyde to Adams expressing her gratitude for his role
in arranging the memorial services, etc. Fine.
(250/350)
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379. Jalovec, Karel. Italian Violin Makers. 440, xxxii pp. Illustrated from nearly 1800 photographs,
plus 32 pages of violin drawings showing blueprints and precise measurements at rear. (4to), bluegray cloth, gilt vignette to front cover, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. Second Edition, Revised.
New York: Crown, [c.1958]
A comprehensive and scholarly study of Italy’s violin makers, which includes an authoritative list
of 1855 violin and lute makers with detailed accounts of their lives and instruments and many
examples of their labels. Jacket well worn, large chips from spine ends, creasing, tears; cloth
faded at edges; very good in poor jacket.
(150/250)
COLOR PLATES OF BIRDS
380. Jones, Thomas Rymer. Cassell’s Book of Birds. 4 volumes. Illustrated with 40 chromolithograph
plates and 400+ engravings (4to) 26x18.5 cm. (10¼x7½”), period brown half morocco and cloth,
spines lettered and decorated in gilt.
London: Cassel, Petter & Galpin, [c. 1870]
A colorful collection of chromolithograph plates of birds of the world. A bit of wear to
extremities, hinges cracked in 2 volumes; very good.
(400/600)
381. (Literary Autographs) Group of 14 autograph signatures of noted literary figures. 14 clipped signatures,
signed cards, etc., various sizes.
Wilkie Collins, Anthony Hope Hawkins, W. Somerset Maugham, William Cullen Bryant, John
Greenleaf Whittier, Douglas Jerold, Charles Kingsley, Edward Calisch, Bret Harte, J.W. Cable,
Arnold Bennett, Louis Untermeyer (3). Small tape remnants on all; very good.
(300/500)
382. M’Intosh, Charles. Three works on gardening by Charles M’Intosh. Includes: The Greenhouse,
Hot House, and Stove. Additional hand-colored title page and 10 (of 17) hand-colored plates. 1838.
* The Flower Garden. Additional hand-colored title and 15 hand-colored plates; numerous other
illustrations, full-page and in text. Lacking printed title page and possibly other preliminary text. 1838.
* The Orchard: Including the Management of Wall and Standard Fruit Trees and the Forcing Pit.
Additional hand-colored title and 17 hand-colored plates. Long tear to frontispiece. 1839. Together 3
small octavo volumes, uniformly bound in half calf and cloth.
London: Orr, Various dates
Wear to bindings, a few leaves detached; a few plates with short tears, some foxing. Offered as a
collection of plates, not subject to return.
(300/500)
383. Marie of Romania. My Country. [ii], 69, [1] pp. Illustrations from photographs. (8vo) blue cloth
stamped in gilt and blue. First Edition.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916
Signed by Marie on front free endpaper, dated 1924. Light wear at edges, a few small spots on
rear; light foxing throughout, heavier on endpapers; very good.
(200/300)
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384. Meinhold, William. Sidonia the Sorceress: The Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House
of Pomerania. Translated by Lady Wilde. [And] Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. 2 volumes. xxiv, 400; xii,
425 pp. 19.2x12 cm. (7½x4¾”), original bronze moiré cloth, spines decorated & lettered in gilt.
London: Reeves and Turner, 1894
Sidonia the Sorceress is an historical novel about the witch hunts in Northern Europe around
1500, translated by Oscar Wilde’s mother; Mary Schweidler: the Amber Witch, is a Gothic
novel and literary hoax which first appeared in English in 1844. Armorial bookplates of Francis
Pember. Some rubbing to spine ends, joints and corners, spine ends a little bumped, as are lower
corners, a few soilmarks to covers; offset to free endpapers, else very good.
(200/300)
GORGEOUS MINIATURE BOOK IN SILVER BINDING
385. (Miniature Books) St. Pierre, Bernardin de. Paul et Virginie. 219 pp. Illustrated title page and
6 woodcut plates. 65x45 mm., period black leather binding with later hinged silver covers, engraved
borders, title engraved on front, monogram engraved on rear.
Paris: Marcilly, [1835]
Charming binding on a scarce miniature book. Welsh 6110. Some wear to page edges, foxing, a
previous owner has written the date 1787 on title page and the author’s name in ink inside front
cover, 1897 gift inscription at head of first page; very good in a fine binding.
(500/800)
386. (Miniature Books) Ten miniature books. Includes: Weber, Francis J. California: A Bibliography
of its Miniature Books. With envelope. 1 of 350 copies printed at the Junipero Serra Press. 1976. *
Weber, Francis J. California: The Golden State. With envelope. 1 of 300 copies printed at the Junipero
Serra Press. 1979. * Weber, Francis J. The Cable Cars. 1 of 350 copies printed at the Junipero Serra
Press. 1984. * Weber, Francis J. Majesty: Britain’s “Queen Mum”. Ward Schori, 1990. * O’Neill,
Eugene. The Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog. 1 of 1000 copies. Achille
J. St. Onge, 1972. * Emily & Oscar by D’Ambrosio. 1 of 75 copies, signed by D’Ambrosio and the
printer, E. Mundell. The Compulsive Printer, 1980. * Gutenberg. 1 of 180 copies, signed by the
publisher. Sunflower Press, 1977. * Marquez, Ernest & Kenneth E. Pauley. The California Missions
Then and Now. Signed by authors. 1 of 500 copies, bound by Bela Blau. [California Mission Press,
1985]. * Gordon, Dudley. The Birch Bark Poems of Charles F. Lummis. [Karen and Susan Dawson],
1969. * Cassidy, Terence W. The Bobtail Streetcar. 1 of 175 copies, signed by Duane Scott. Scott Free
Press, [1986]. Together 10 volumes.
Some very light general wear to few; mostly near fine.
(250/350)
THREE LOTS OF MINIATURE BOOK REFERENCE
387. (Miniature Books) Stone, Wilbur Macey. Three volumes on miniature books by Wilbur Macey Stone.
Includes: A Snuff-Boxful of Bibles. (12mo) cloth-backed boards. One of 200 copies. Newark:
Carteret Book Clun, 1926. * The Thumb Bible of John Taylor. (12mo) cloth-backed boards. One of
100 copies. Prospectus laid in. Brookline, MA: The LXIVMOS, 1928. * The Gigantick Histories of
Thomas Boreman. (8vo) cloth-backed boards. One of 250 signed copies. Portland, ME: Southworth
Press, 1933. Together 3 volumes.
Some light wear; overall very good.
(300/500)
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388. (Miniature Books) Group of books about Miniature Books. Includes: Adomeit, Ruth Elizabeth.
Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, A Checklist. (8vo) cloth. 1980. * Bain, Ian. Albert Schloss’s Bijou
Almanacs, 1839-1843. (4to) boards, dust jacket. From an edition of 150, this copy ‘Out of Series’.
[1969]. * Facsimile of c. 1912 catalogue from David Bryce & Son’s. Spiral bound. * Davis, Toger.
Kendrew of York and His Chapbooks for Children. (4to) red cloth, folder with 3 facsimile chapbooks,
slipcase. One of 485 copies. 1988. * Henderson, James D. Lilliputian Newspapers. (8vo) cloth-backed
boards, slipcase. One of 1000 copies. 1936. * Jones, Mary Lutz. A Los Angeles Typesticker: William
M. Cheney. (12mo) cloth-backed boards. One of 350 copies. 1981. * Irwin, Frank, ed. Bibliography
of the Hillside Press. (8vo) cloth. One of 125 copies. 1971. * Kavin, Mel, comp. A Catalog of the
Thirty-Three Miniature Designer Bindings of You Can Judge a Book by its Cover by Bernard C.
Middleton. (Oblong 4to) brown and black cloth. One of 500 copies. 1998. * Levitan, Lakman L. In
Search of Miniature Books. (8vo) faux-leather. One of 500 copies. [1985]. * Powell, Lawrence Clark.
Make Mine a Small One. Wrappers. 1965. * Spielmann, Percy Edwin. Catalogue of the Library of
Miniature Books Collected by Percy Edwin Spielmann. (8vo) boards, dust jacket. One of 500 copies.
[1961]. * Thomas, Peter & Donna. More Making Books By Hand. Wrappers. 2004. * Weber, Francis
J. A Select Guide to the Sources for Miniature Books, 1879-1992. (12mo) cloth. One of 300 copies.
1992. * Welsh, Doris V. The History of Miniature Books. (8vo) cloth. 1987. Together 14 volumes.
Also included are 5 books and one periodical one other, non-book, miniature items. Some with
light wear; overall very good or better.
(500/800)
389. (Miniature Books) Gathering of bookseller’s catalogs and auction catalogs for miniature books. Includes
catalogs from Swann Galleries, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, Christies, Bromer Booksellers, Robert
C. Bradbury, Tracy Bradbury, Gail Curry, Joshua Heller, Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Dawson’s Book
Shop, Michael Garbett, The Catharijne Press, Louis W. Bondy, American Art Association, etc. Over
200 catalogs, lists, etc.
Also included are a small gathering of various miniature book collectors journals, etc. Including
the Newsletter of the LXIVMOS, The Miniature Book Collector, and the Amistad Courier.
Overall very good.
(200/300)
390. Moore, Grace. Photograph and signature of Grace Moore. Full length portrait of Moore on a
staircase in Japanese style dress, approximately 9x7”. Mounted to matting with a clipped signature.
New York: Museum of Modern Art Film Library, No date
Grace Moore (1898-1947) was an American operatic soprano and actress in musical theater and
film. She was nicknamed the “Tennessee Nightingale.” Small slip from the MOMA Film Library
affixed at top. Fine.
(300/500)
391. Morgan, Barbara. Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs. (4to), cloth, dust jacket. First
Revised Edition.
New York: Morgan & Morgan, [1980]
Inscribed and signed by Marsha Graham on the front free endpaper. Jacket edges yellowed; else
near fine.
(200/300)
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392. [Morier, James]. The Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan, in England. 2 volumes. xxxii, 306; [ii],
352 pp. (12mo) full calf, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, and gilt decoration.
London: John Murray, 1828
Each with a small label on front pastedown which reads, “Bound by Smith, 49 Long Acre.”
Moderately rubbed extremities, front joint starting (just a bit) on each volume; scattered and
faint marks within; very good.
(80/120)
393. (Movie Souvenir) [Dietz, Howard], editor. Gone with the Wind - original movie souvenir booklet.
avid O. Selznick’s production of Margaret Mitchell’s Story of the Old South: Gone with the Wind.
D
In Technicolor, Starring Clark Gable as Rhett Butler... 18 pp. Full of photographs and illustrations of
the actors and scenes from the movie. 30.5x23 cm. (12x9”), white wrappers with color illustrations.
[1939]
“This booklet, edited by Howard Dietz, is sold in theatres showing “Gone with the Wind” and
may be purchased from Ellison B. Greenstone...25c per copy.” -On rear wrapper. Light finger
soiling; very good.
(100/150)
394. (Musical Caricatures) Sotomayor, Antonio. Album of twelve photographs of art by Antonio
Sotomayor. A three-ring binder housing 12 photographs (laid into plastic sheets). Compiled in 1960
with accompanying typescript text regarding the artist and the caricatures pictured within. Most
photographs measure 25.5x20.5 cm. (10x8”).
1960
Antonio Sotomayor was a Bolivian artist whose caricatures of notable figures in music are
pictured within, all but a few in black and white. Sotomayor was the staff artist of the San
Francisco Chronicle, and designed costumes and scenery for the San Francisco Opera and
Ballet. Also includes 1 photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Haas posing with the artist’s
work. Haas was the manager of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. The caricatures pictured
within are of: Arturo Toscanini, Pierre Monteux, Enrico Caruso, Ernestine Schumann-Heink,
Fritz Kreisler, Ezio Pinza, Anna Pavlova, Gregor Piatigorsky, Marian Anderson, Joseph Szigeti,
Artur Rubinstein, and Leopold Stokowski. Some wear to three-ring binder; very good.
(300/500)
395. Oppenheimer, J. Robert. The Open Mind. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955
Signed by Oppenheimer on title page. Oppenheimer was one of the most important theoretical
physicists of the 20th century, the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, founder of the
American school of theoretical physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the man
who held Einstein’s old position as director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,
NJ. Small authentication sticker at foot of title page, card laid in. Jacket chipped at edges;
volume with some light wear to extremities; near fine in a very good jacket.
(800/1200)
396. (Persian Art) Ghirshman, Roman, et. al. La Persia il Regno Immortale. 224 pp. Photography by
William MacQuitty. Cloth, dust jacket, cloth slipcase with window to see the dust jacket through.
Transorient, [1971]
A book on Persian culture written in Italian, containing many large and striking color
photographs of architecture (ancient and modern) and other arts throughout the ages. Light
shelf wear to all (slipcase, jacket, volume); ink inscription on front free endpaper; very good
(100/150)
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397. (Photographs) Five cased photographs. Portraits of unidentified persons. Four cased tintypes
portraits (one with two photographs inside) and 1 case with two ambrotype portraits. Two measure
2½x2”, all the rest 3x2¾”.
n.p.: c.1865
Each photograph within a Union case, the single portraits have velvet lining. Cases worn, some
with tape reinforcements at hinges; one tintype with some bubbling; each with a price sticker on
glass; overall very good; sold as is.
(200/300)
ONLY ONE OTHER COPY LOCATED
398. (Photography) 3-Dimensional Vectographs in Operations and Training. [21] pp. Includes mounted
illustrations, maps, diagrams and, vectographs. (Folio) 35.2x27.2 cm. (13¾x10¾”) plastic comb
binding with heavy boards. 2 pair of plastic frame “Polaroid 3-D Picture Viewer” glasses and 12 thin
cardboard pair of 3-D glasses inside rear cover.
Cambridge, Mass.: Polaroid Corporation, [1945]
A rare volume on mid-century attempts at three-dimensional photography. OCLC WorldCat
locates only a single copy at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Light wear; curving
to heavy card mounting leaves; deterioration to lenses of glasses; else very good.
(500/800)
399. (Photography) Hayden, E.S. Splendid Daguerreotype Miniatures, Taken in Every Style, by E.S. Hayden broadside. Original broadside for E.S. Hayden, a traveling daguerreotypist. 30x25.5 cm. (12x10”). With
decorative border and printed in several typographic fonts.
No date [c.1840s]
“His miniatures are warranted not to be surpassed by any, for their richness of tone and life-like
appearance...” Some uneven trimming at edges; very good.
(300/500)
BILL OWENS’ PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY OF AMERICAN SUBURBAN LIFE
400. (Photography) Owens, Bill. Suburbia. Unpaginated. (4to) illustrated wrappers. First Edition,
First Printing.
[San Francisco]: Straight Arrow Books, [1973]
An important late 20th century photographic essay of Suburban American life. Roth 101, pp.
224-225. Slight wear at edges; fine.
(400/700)
ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES
401. Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane and Other Poems. 64 pp. Preface by Richard Hearne Shepherd.
(Small 8vo) 16.3x10 cm. (6½x4”), original full vellum lettered in brown and red. Number 33 of 100
copies. Second Separate Edition, First English Edition.
London: George Redway, 1884
“First published at Boston in 1827 and now first republished from a unique copy of the original
edition”. The second edition of Tamerlane, containing a long preface recounting the publishing
history of the book, along with a facsimile of the British Museum’s copy of the original edition.
Quite scarce, of the 100 copies OCLC locates 30 in institutional holdings, only a single copy has
sold at auction in at least the past 30 years. Vellum soiled, light edge wear; very good.
(1500/2000)
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402. Prince, William Robert. The Pomological Manual; Or, A Treatise on Fruits - First and Second Editions.
2 volumes, each two parts in 1 volumes. (8vo) original cloth-backed boards. First and Second Editions.
New York: T. & J. Swords, et al, 1831 & 1832
Popular treatise on fruits for the orchard and garden: pears, apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums,
cherries, etc. Boards worn; light foxing; very good.
(200/300)
403. Prince, William Robert. Prince’s Manual of Roses. 213, [2] pp. (8vo) later full black calf, spine
lettered in gilt. First Edition.
New York: Published by the author, 1846
Comprises a history of the roses of Europe and America and information on their culture and
propagation. Lacking all but the final leaf of the 50 page catalogue of roses from the author’s
nursery typically found at the rear. Extremities rubbed; very good.
(100/150)
REPTON’S MASTERPIECE ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING
404. Repton, H[umphry] & J[ohn] Adey Repton. Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape
Gardening. xii, 238, [2] pp. 41 (of 42) aquatint plates (many hand-colored, several tinted, 13 with
overlays); numerous aquatint vignettes (2 with overlays). Lacking the View from Endsleigh called for
at page 213. (Folio) 36x29 cm. (14¼x11½”), later red morocco backed marbled boards, spine extra
gilt. First Edition.
London: T. Bensley & Son, 1816
First Edition of Repton’s final great work on landscape gardening, written together with his
architect son. Humphry Repton was the main successor to Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown as
an improver of grounds for the English gentry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
century. Repton’s landscapes displayed his preference for a gradual transition between house
and grounds by means of terraces, balustrades and steps. Binding well worn, detached at front
hinge, rear hinge cracking; lacking one plate, an occasional spot of foxing; internally very good.
(5000/8000)
Lot 404
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405. Rosa, Salvator. Satire di Salvator Rosa Dedidacate a Settano. 153, [2] pp. (12mo) early full vellum,
spine lettered in gilt.
Amsterdam: Presso Severo Portomastix, [c. 1690]
Rosa was an important Italian painter and poet, who lived in Naples, Rome, and then mostly
in Florence. “He founded the Accademia dei Percossi, whose members included the poet and
librettist Giovanni Apolloni, the playwright G.B. Ricciardi and probably the composer Antonio
Cesti (for whom Rosa’s letters are an important source of biographical information). Rosa was a
gifted comic actor and was famous for dramatic readings of his satires. His principal significance
for music derives from the first satire, La musica (1641) [Included in the present volume], in
which his keen vision of the follies of musical life in Rome particularly the attention lavished
on singers) receives trenchant expression...Rosa was one of the first painters to reject the
patronage system and champion artistic freedom. In the 18th century his satires and wild
landscapes were much admired (save by Mattheson, who attacked La musica inhis Mithridat).
Rosa came to be regarded as a romantic hero and many myths about him arose, including the
notion that the composed music (see Walker); his life, suitably transformed, furnished material
for several opera librettos in the 19th century and Liszt named a movement of Années de
pèlerinage after him.” (Grove Music Online). Front joint split, rear joint starting, soiling to
vellum; foxing throughout, repairs to upper corners of 2 leaves; very good.
(600/900)
406. Rosenbach, A.S.W. The All-Embracing Doctor Franklin. 45, [2] pp. Portrait frontispiece. (8vo) green
morocco-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt. One of 198 copies.
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1932
Rosenbach gives support to Franklin’s reputation as a ladies’ man, citing the text of many letters.
Printed by Fred Anthoensen, The Southworth Press, Portland, Maine. Edges worn; very good.
(150/250)
407. Rosini, Giovanni. La Poesia, La Musica e La Danza. [viii], 30 pp. (8vo) 16x11 cm. (6¼x4¼”)
period stiff boards. First Edition.
Parma: Tipi Bodoniani, 1796
Elegant collection of Italian poems by Giovanni Rosini, beautifully printed by Bodoni.
Dedicated to the marquise Vittoria Torrigianni Santini. Rosini was a professor of Italian history
and art who authored books on Dante, Galilei, the history of Italian painting and sculpture and
several volumes of poetry. Boards worn and soiled; some staining and soiling throughout; good.
(700/1000)
TWO RUSSIAN RARITIES
408. (Russian) Musschenbroek, Peter van. [Elementa Physica in Russian], Sokrachenie Opytnoy Fiziki
(Reduction of Skilled Physics) (caption title). 716 pp. With 14 folding copper-engraved plates, plus a
duplicate of plate 11. (8vo) 20x12 cm. (8x4¾”), period calf. First Edition in Russian.
Moscow, Russia: 1791
Rare Russian edition of Musschenbroek’s Elementa Physica, first
published in Latin in 1726, which played an important part in
the transmission of Isaac Newton’s ideas in physics to Europe.
There is no separate title-page, apparently as issued. Pieter van
Musschenbroek was born on 14 March 1692 in Leiden, Holland,
the son of a maker of scientific instruments. He is remembered
today for his work in electrostatics, and the invention of the
Leyden jar, named for his city of origin. Rubbing to covers;
old Russian rubberstamps on title-page, a few leaves with short
marginal tears, else very good.
(3000/5000)
Lot 408
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409. (Russian) [“Works of the Free Economic Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Husbandry”
- in Russian]. 5 volumes. [6], 120; [6], 247, [1]; [6], 240, [1]; [6], 197, [2]; [8], 166 pp. With 29 folding
copper-engraved plates; 16 folding tables in the third volume, included in the pagination; copperengraved title-page vignettes. (8vo) 19.5x12 cm. (7¾x4¾”), period quarter calf & marbled boards,
spines tooled in gilt, lettering pieces.
St. Petersburg, Russia: 1769-1775
Rare publications of this important Russian organization,
the nation’s first learned society not formally associated
with the government. It was founded in 1765, and for
the first ten years each of its annual publications was
published as three books per year, which are here bound
together. The primary thrust is agriculture and husbandry,
with much on beekeeping - the symbol of the society is
a beehive, which dominates the title-page vignettes. The
volumes are dated 1769, 1771, 1772, 1773 and 1775. Just a
little shelf wear; fine overall.
(4000/6000)
410. Scheltinga, Theodoro. Commentarius in Habacucum
Prophetam Philologico-Theologicus. xvi, 426, [22] pp. (4to)
19.5x15.5 (7¾x6¼”), disbound.
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Abrahamum Kallewier, 1747
Binding lacking, some wear at page edges; fair only.
(100/150)
Lot 409
RARE 18TH CENTURY DUODECIMO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE
411. Shakespeare, William. The Works of Shakespeare. 8 volumes. Each play with separate title page,
pagination and register. First volume prefaced with a life of Shakespeare by Rowe. 42 engraved plates.
(12mo) 16.5x10 cm. (6½x4”), uniformly bound in late 18th century full calf, spines gilt, red and black
morocco lettering pieces.
London: J. Tonson, and the rest of the Proprietors, 1635 [but 1730s]
Volume 7 without the common title page and apparently assembled at an early date (not before
1786) with copies of Antony & Cleopatra (Tonson, 1758), King Lear (Bathurst, 1786), Othello
(Bathurst, 1784) and Cymbeline (Bathurst, 1784). An early duodecimo printing of Pope’s edition
of the bard’s plays. ESTC T54702 (except volume 7). Spines sunned, extremities rubbed and
worn, a few joints cracking; very good.
(2500/3500)
Lot 411
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412. (Shriners) Collection of program, pamphlets, etc. from various Shriner’s events. Collection of approximately
50 items from the early 1900’s to the 1970’s including programs from various lodge events, lists of
officers, handbooks, etc.
Includes items from the Islam Temple, Al Kader Temple, Bektash Caravan, Ainad Temple,
Ziyara Temple, etc. Some items with wear; overall very good.
(300/500)
413. Sparrow, Walter Shaw. Two volumes on British sporting art by Sparrow. Includes: Angling in British
Art. [1923]. * A Book of Sporting Painters. [1931]. Two quarto volumes, profusely illustrated, original
cloth. First Edition.
London: John Lane, Various dates
Indispensable reference texts for British sporting art. Some light wear and soiling to cloth, front
hinge starting in first title; some foxing; very good.
(200/300)
414. Stevenson, Robert Louis. An Inland Voyage. x, 237 pp. Wood-engraved pictorial half-title by
Walter Crane. 7½x4¾, original decorative light blue cloth, stamped in black and gilt, front cover with
a vignette scene, gilt-lettered spine with double-sided paddle in gilt, bevelled edges, brown endpapers.
First Edition.
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878
Stevenson’s first full-length book. Travel writings resulting from a trip along the canals and
rivers in France and Belgium with a companion. Only 750 copies printed. Beinecke 12; Prideaux
1. Bookplate from W.H. Smith & Son’s Subscription Library, London. Gilt largely lost from
front cover stamping, joints split and with glue repair, rear hinge cracked; light foxing; still a fair
copy of a scarce book.
(250/350)
415. Taunton, Thomas Henry. Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries. 4
volumes. Illustrations throughout after old engravings, facsimiles etc. (Large 8vo) 25.8x19 cm.
(10¼x7½”) original red cloth, rebacked with gilt-lettered red calf, endpapers replaced. First Edition.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887-1888
Over 400 illustrations including many steel plate engravings. The standard reference for the
subject. Bindings with some wear; very good.
(700/1000)
416. (Theatrical & Film Scenery Supplies) R.L. Grosh & Sons Theatrical Scenery and Supplies - Hollywood
27, California [cover title] of the trade catalogue. 135 pp. + [6] pp. of loose sheets laid in advertising
theatrical stage hardware. Many photographs within illustrating sets and items available from Grosh.
21.5x27.7 cm. (8½x11”), tan wrappers lettered in dark brown and blue, fastened to text block with
brads.
Hollywood, California: R.L. Grosh & Sons, No date [c.1940s]
Categories of sets for sale include: Novelty, Circus and Tropical. A scarce and early trade
catalogue for the Hollywood company. Robert Grosh was born in 1891 in Columbus, Ohio. As
a child he worked in vaudeville. He moved to Hollywood in 1932 and opened his own business
supplying scenery and theatrical designs to Warner Brothers, RKO, Twentieth Century Fox, and
more, and it remains in business today. Front wrapper with 5 tiny closed tears on bottom edge, a
few faint marks to covers; very good.
(200/300)
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417. Van, Melvin. The Big Heart. 77 pp. Photographs by Ruth Bernhard. Cloth, photographic dust
jacket. First Edition.
[San Francisco]: [Fearon Publishers], [1957]
Signed by Melvin Van and Ruth Bernhard on the title page. With an additional inscription from
Bernhard, signed by her initials on the title page. A book about the author’s experience as a
San Francisco Cable Car grip man. The photography within represents a complete departure
Bernhard’s usual work. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, with a few tiny nicks and chips, one long
closed tear at spine heel; light rubbing to volume extremities; very good volume in same jacket.
(300/500)
418. Verhaeren, Emile. Three volumes by Emile Verhaeren. Includes: Les Aubes. Inscribed by the
author, his first dramatic work. One of 5 copies on Japon, not numbered. 1898. * Les Visages de la
Vie. One of 20 copies on Hollande paper. 1899. * Petites Legendes. One of 20 copies on Van Gelder
paper. Together 3 volumes, octavos of varying sizes, similarly bound in cream half suede and marbled
boards, morocco spine labels, all with original wrappers bound in. First Editions.
Brussels: Deman, 1898-1900
Verhaeren was among the great lyric poets of his day, achieving and international renown and
befriending may of the greatest artists and writers of the epoch. He narrowly missed winning
the Nobel Prize in 1911. Some light wear and soiling to suede; internally about fine.
(800/1200)
419. Wawra von Fernsee, Ritter Heinrich. Itinera Principum S. Coburgi. Die Botanische Ausbeute von der
Reisen Ihrer Hoheiten der Prinzen von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha. 205 + 18 botanical plates at rear. 30x22.2 cm.
(11¾x9”), cloth-backed marbled boards, attached ribbon bookmark. Facsimile Edition.
Vienna: No date
A facsimile of the book published in 1888. Fine.
(80/120)
420. Witsius, Herman. De Œconomia Dœderum Dei Cum Hominibus. [xx], 755, [21] pp. (4to) 21x17 cm.
(8¼x6¾”), period full calf.
Basil: Joh. Rudolph, 1739
The author was appointed professor of theology at the University of Franeker in 1675, the
University of Utrecht in 1680 and the University of Leiden in 1698. This volume being a later
printing of his “Economy of the Divine Covenants Between God and Man”, first published in
1677. Binding well worn; good.
(150/250)
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CONDITIONS OF SALE
The property listed in this catalogue will be sold by PBA Galleries, Inc. (hereinafter Galleries) as
agent for others upon the following terms and conditions as may be amended by notice or oral
announcement at the sale:
1. All bids are to be per lot as numbered in the catalogue.
2. As used herein the term “bid price” means the price at which a lot is knocked down to the
purchaser and the term “purchase price” means the aggregate of (a) the bid price (b) a premium
of twenty percent (20%) of the bid price payable by the purchaser, and (c) unless the purchaser is
exempt by law from the payment thereof, any California state or local sales tax except where sold to
a purchaser outside of California and shipped to the purchaser.The Galleries have been authorized
by the consignor to retain, as part of remuneration, the 20% premium payable by the purchaser.
3. Property auctioned by the Galleries is often of some age.Prospective bidders should
personally inspect such property to determine its condition and whether it has been repaired
or restored.Any information provided by the Galleries or its employees is for the convenience
of bidders only and should not be relied upon. ALL PROPERTY IS SOLD “AS IS” AND
NEITHER THE GALLERIES NOR THE CONSIGNOR MAKES ANY WARRANTIES OR
REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND OR NATURE WITH RESPECT TO THE PROPERTY
OR ITS VALUE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR
WHETHER THE PURCHASER ACQUIRES ANY COPYRIGHTS.IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE GALLERIES OR THE CONSIGNOR BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CORRECTNESS OF
DESCRIPTION, GENUINENESS, ATTRIBUTION, PROVENANCE, AUTHENTICITY,
AUTHORSHIP, COMPLETENESS, CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY OR ESTIMATE OF
VALUE.NO STATEMENT (ORAL OR WRITTEN) IN THE CATALOGUE, AT THE SALE,
OR ELSEWHERE SHALL BE DEEMED SUCH A WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION,
OR ANY ASSUMPTION OF RESPONSIBILITY.HOWEVER, notwithstanding this condition
and subject to the further provisions of this paragraph as set forth below, property may be
returned by the purchaser, the sale rescinded and the purchase price refunded under the following
conditions: (1) printed books which prove upon collation to be defective in text or illustration
(provided such defects are not indicated within the catalogue or at the sale), and (2) autographs
which prove not to be genuine (if this can be demonstrated and if not indicated in the catalogue
or at the sale).Printed books are not returnable for defects not affecting text and illustration,
including, but not limited to, lack of half-titles, lists of plates, binder’s instructions, errata,
blanks, or advertisements.No returns will be accepted unless written notice, by registered mail or
receipted courier, is received by the Galleries within fourteen (14) days of the sale of the property
and the property is returned in the same condition as it was at the time of sale.NO LOT IS
RETURNABLE ON ACCOUNT OF PROPERTY INCLUDED BUT NOT SPECIFICALLY
NAMED AND DESCRIBED IN SUCH LOT.LOTS CONTAINING THREE OR MORE
TITLES, WHETHER NAMED OR UNNAMED, AND SELLING FOR ONE HUNDRED
FIFTY ($150) OR LESS, EXCLUSIVE OF BUYER’S PREMIUM, ARE SOLD NOT SUBJECT
TO RETURN FOR ANY REASON.
4.Photographs, prints and other fine art multiples are sold in compliance with California law, and
the Galleries’ catalogue descriptions of such multiples conform to the applicable provisions of that
law.
5. Any right of the purchaser under this agreement or under the law shall not be assignable and
shall be enforceable only by the original purchaser and not by any subsequent owner or any person
who shall subsequently acquire any interest. No purchaser shall be entitled to any remedy, relief or
damages beyond return of the property, recision of the sale and refund of the purchase price; and,
without limitation, no purchaser shall be entitled to damages of any kind.
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6. If we are prevented by fire, theft or any other reason whatsoever from delivering any property to
the purchaser, our liability shall be limited to the sum actually paid by the purchaser.
7. Books and other property purchased are to be removed at the close of each Sale unless shipping
instructions are received by the Galleries before such sale.If not removed, property will be held
at the sole risk of the purchaser and no responsibility is assumed if such goods are lost, stolen,
damaged, or destroyed.The Galleries will facilitate shipment of property to out-of-town purchasers
at an additional packing charge plus carriage and insurance, but will not be responsible for any loss
or damage resulting from the shipping thereof in excess of the amount of the insurance.
8. Payment terms:All items are to be paid for by (a) cash, (b) cashier’s check, (c)credit card,
or (d) personal check with approved credit, and all accounts are due when bills are rendered.
MERCHANDISE WILL BE SHIPPED AFTER PAYMENT HAS BEEN RECEIVED.
9. We reserve the right to reject a bid from any bidder.The highest bidder acknowledged by the
auctioneer shall be the purchaser.In the event of any dispute between bidders, or in the event the
auctioneer doubts the validity of any bid, the auctioneer shall have the sole and final discretion
either to determine the successful bidder or to re-offer and resell the article in dispute. If any
dispute arises after the sale, our sales records shall be conclusive in every respect.
10. Unless the Sale is advertised as a sale without reserve, each lot is offered subject to a reserve.
MOST LOTS OFFERED BY THE GALLERIES HAVE A MINIMUM RESERVE OF ONEHALF THE PRESALE LOW ESTIMATE .The Galleries do not accept reserves of more than the
low estimate nor allow consignors to bid on their own items.
11. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery or inconvenience in the settlement of a purchase, no lot can be
transferred.Each buyer must pay for the whole of his purchases before any lot can be removed.
12. As a service to clients unable to attend the Sale, we will accept absentee bids without charge in
advance of the sale by telephone, mail, fax, email or in person.All bids must state the highest bid
price the bidder is willing to pay.“Buy” bids are not accepted.Please check bid sheets carefully to
make sure you have the correct lot numbers and that the sheet is legible.The Galleries reserve the
right to refuse to undertake absentee bids, and shall in no event be responsible for failure to execute
such bids or for any error that may occur when executing them.Unsuccessful absentee bids will not
be acknowledged.
ALL SALES HELD BY PBA GALLERIES ARE CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO SECTION
2328 OF THE COMMERCIAL CODE AND SECTION 535 OF THE PENAL CODE OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
CONSIGNING BOOKS TO PBA GALLERIES
The first step in consigning to PBA is to contact the Galleries, either by phone, fax, email or letter.
It can then be determined whether the item or items under consideration would do well at auction.
Following this, arrangements can be made for the delivery of the material to PBA. In the case of
large consignments or libraries, a member of the staff may be able to view the books on location,
and make arrangements for its transportation to PBA Galleries. Because of the costs involved, PBA
discourages consignments with a total value of less than $1500.
The frequency of auctions, and variety of subject matter, allows PBA Galleries to ensure quick
turn-around time for items consigned. Books can appear at auction as quickly as 30 days and
generally not more than 90 days following consignment. Commissions vary between 10% and 15%,
depending on the selling price of an item.These commissions encompass all related costs including
insurance, storage, cataloguing, illustrations, etc., except shipping. Payment is sent within 20 banking
days of an auction.
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BId Sheet
Sale #:_________________
133 Kearny Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
Phone: (415) 989-2665 Fax: (415) 989-1664
www.pbagalleries.com
Sale Date:______________________
Name:_______________________________
Bidder#:______________ Cust Id#___________
Company:____________________________
Shipping address (if different from mailing address)
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City:________________State:______Zip:______
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Is either a new address? Yes No
Day Phone:___________________Home Phone:____________________Cell:____________________
Email:___________________________________________
Fax:_________________________
Are you a dealer purchasing for resale? Yes No (if yes) I hereby certify that all tangible personal
property purchased by me will be for resale and is not subject to California Sales Tax, and that I hold
Sellers Permit #________________
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2.
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PBA Galleries is hereby authorized to bid on the following lots up to the price stated.
All bids shall be treated as offers made subject to the Conditions of Sale.
These bids will not be executed unless this form is signed.
A 20% Buyer’s Premium will be charged on all lots sold.
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$00 to $200. . . . . . . . $10 $2000 to $5000. . . . . . . $250
$200 to $500. . . . . . . . $25 $5000 to $10,000. . . . . $500
$500 to $1000. . . . . . $50 $10,000 to $20,000. . . $1000
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