1927. American Art Association. Three auction catalogues of Charles Dickens books and manuscripts. NY, 1927 and 1929. Variously paged and illustrated. Very good paperbounds (covers soiled). No prices realized. ** The Renowned Collection of the Works of Charles Dickens Formed by Thomas Hatton (Dec. 7, 1927); First Editions Letters &..... More
American Art Association / Anderson Art Galleries. Two 1930s auctions featuring early manuscripts of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Sales 4073 (Jan. 4-5, 1934) and 4201 (Nov. 13-14, 1935). Totaling ca. 900 lots, several ills. Very good paperbounds (light cover soil). No prices realized. ** Sale 4073 (Rare Books, Autographs, Manuscripts, Drawings)..... More
1937. American Art Association / Anderson Galleries. The Library Collected by the Late Joseph B. Shea, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. NY, 1937 and 1938. Sales 4353 and 4359. Over 1000 items total, a few ills. of title pages. Very good paperbounds (light shelfsoil). No pricelists. ** Part I: Americana (with many captivity..... More
1926. Anderson Galleries. The Books of a Busted Bibliophile alias A. Edward Newton [Sale 2108]. NY, November 29, 1926. 194 lots, a few ills. Good paperbound (chipped). Occasional prices penciled in. Newspaper clipping about the sale laid in. ** The second of two sales during Newton's lifetime. Can be sent..... More
1923. Anderson Galleries, NY. The Library of John Quinn. Parts 1-5 (complete), 1923-24. Each, hundreds of lots, several ills. Unpriced. Good paperbounds (some covers lightly chipped, bottom corner of part 5 torn away, a few pages browned from newspaper clippings). Pencil notes on covers and occasionally inside. Overall sturdy and..... More
2010. Aronson, Judith. Likenesses: With the Sitters Writing about One Another. Manchester, UK: Lintott Press 2010. 132p, many large photos by Aronson printed in duotone. Fwd. by Charles Saumarez Smith, formerly head of the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery. Very good paperbound. Signed by the photographer. ** Compelling..... More
1946. Ash, Lee, et al., eds. American Notes & Queries: 1946-1950, 1962-1976. Various places. 18 vols. (old and new series). Close to 200 issues, lacking 3 (May 1972, January and February 1974). Overall very good paperbounds (light normal storage wear and age browning; one cover is quite browned and shows..... More
1912. [Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur]. The Story of a Printing House, being a Short Account of the Strahans and Spottiswoodes. London: Spottiswoode 1912. 2nd ed. 60p + several pls. Good hardcover (boards, cloth spine). Frontispiece detached, scattered foxing throughout. ** The author was then one of the directors of the firm..... More
1980. Bagnold, Enid; ed. by R.P. Lister. Letters to Frank Harris, & Other Friends. Andoversford: Whittington Press / London: William Heinemann, 1980. xxv, 77p + 5 tipped in pls., 1 in color. Fine hardcover (no d.j., as issued) in good slipcase (top edge splitting due to very tight fit of..... More
1973. Ballerini, Luigi, ed. Italian Visual Poetry 1912-1972. NY: Finch College Museum / Istituto Italiano di Cultura 1973. 78p, many ills. and diagrams, some in color. Good to very good paperbound (covers soiled). Comb binding is intact and secure. ** Extensive exhibition catalogue, with a wealth of information: checklist of..... More
Barnard, P.M. An Illustrated Catalogue of Pamphlets, Broadsides, Poems, Satires, etc. 1575-1818 with a small collection of old maps [Catalogue 159]. London, n.d. [1920s]. 365 items, several line ills. Very good paperbound (covers age browned). ** Also includes plays. Selected author and subject index. Can be sent outside the US..... More
1968. Blanck, Jacob. Bibliography of American Literature, vols. 1-5. Yale University Press, 1967-69 (1st pub. 1955 on). Hundreds of pages, some ills. Very good hardcovers (light shelfwear and soil; overall clean and sturdy). No d.j. (if issued?). ** From Henry Adams to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Vol. 5 is the 1969..... More
2009. Conn, Peter. The American 1930s: A Literary History. Cambridge 2009. 265p, a few ills. Very good paperbound. ** Good survey of many genres of literature, set against the decade's historical events. (In print at $46.99). More
1965. Conrad, Joseph; ed. David R. Smith. Conrad's Manifesto: Preface to a Career. The History of the Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus." Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press for the Rosenbach Foundation, 1966. 82p + original wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin. Fine hardcover (marbled boards) within board..... More
1955. Driscoll, Emily [bookseller]. Catalogue 15: Autographs, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings, Association Books. NY, 1955. 69p (504 items), no ills. Fair paperbound (covers detached). ** Works from the Americas, Britain, and Europe, from ca. 1530 on. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
1934. Dulau & Co., London [bookseller]. Catalogue 220: Interesting Books in English Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 1934. 1011 items, no ills. Very good paperbound (covers sunned). ** Includes books formerly owned by John Addington Symonds, an extensive collection of Tennyson and Browning with many previously unrecorded variants..... More
1954. Duthuit, Georges. A Painter of Awakening: Jean-Paul Riopelle. NY: Pierre Matisse Gallery 1954. One sheet, folded twice to make 4 panels including color cover. Unfolded, ca. 21 x 18 inches. Fair: browned, torn at creases and edges, tack holes in corners. The previous owner (an artist) apparently made some..... More
![Trouble [signed 1st in d.j.]. Michael Gilbert](/pictures/thumb/A6492.jpg?v=1590764441)
1987. Gilbert, Michael. Trouble. NY: Harper & Row 1987. First edition. 253p. signed by Gilbert in ink on the title page, at the time of publication. Very good to fine hardcover in like d.j. ** thriller filled with racial tensions, international terrorists, and the IRA. His 27th book... More
1948. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust: Nach altester Aufzeichnung. Frankfurt am Main: "Der Goldene Brunnen" 1948. 126p + 7 pls. by Karel Svolinsky, some in color. Very good paper-covered boards (spine and strip on front cover lightly faded, corners lightly shelf-bumped). No. 106 of 400 copies. In German. ** A beautifully..... More
1994. Guare, John. Eric Fischl: "The Travel of Romance." NY: Mary Boone Gallery 1994. N.p., ca. 15 color ills. on large plates. Very good hardcover (some shelfwear; internally fine). No d.j., as issued. ** Exhibition catalogue of five large oil paintings of nudes, also illustrated with details and related watercolors..... More
1965. Halley, Anne. Between Wars & Other Poems. Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press 1965. 72p, a few ills. by Leonard Baskin. Fine hardcover in very good d.j. (sunned; neat short closed tear to top left of front panel). No. 377 of 500 copies. ** Title page printed in red and black..... More
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1995. Heaney, Seamus. "Belfast 1972." In La Gaceta del Fondo de Cultura Economica. Tialpan, Mexico, December 1995. Issue number 300. 64p, several photos and other ills. Very good paperbound (light handling wear; cover corners creased). In Spanish. ** Heaney's text is translated from his volume of Selected Prose 1968-1978. The..... More
1933. Heartman, Charles F., and Harris B. Weiss, eds. The American Book Collector: July-December 1933 (vol. 4). Metuchen, NJ, 1933. Good paperbound (light cover wear and spine chipping); internally very good. ** Volume 4 in five loose issues, complete (including one double issue). Includes articles on Poe, trade cards of..... More
1998. Hernandez, Mario. Libro de los Dibujos de Federico Garcia Lorca. Madrid: Comares 1998 (1st pub. 1990). 273p, ca. 380 ills., many in color. Near fine large paperbound. In Spanish. ** Catalogues for the first time Lorca's sketchbooks and other drawings, made between 1923 and 1936. Among their admirers were..... More
1965. Hilles, Frederick W. and Harold Bloom, eds. From Sensibility to Roamanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle. NY: Oxford University Press 1965. 585p + many pls. Very good hardcover (covers faded at edges) in good d.j. (some tears) ** Twenty-six essays "tracing the main movement of English poetry from..... More
