A selection of fine and rare books

A Selection of Fine and Rare Books
for the Holiday Season
Catalogue 102
Winter 2006
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technologist and photographer Fernando Alves, and president David Brass,
with help from Caroline Brass, Debra Brass, and Steve Gertz.
Victor Adam’s “New Enigmatical Alphabet”
1. ADAM, V[ictor]. Nouvel Abécédaire en
Enigmes. Paris [and] New-York: [n.d., ca. 1840].
Folio. Hand-colored lithographed title and
twenty-six hand-colored lithographed plates,
heightened with gum arabic, each containing
numerous humorous vignettes. Lithographed
“Explication des Sujets composant L’abécédaire
en énigmes/Explanation of the Subjects composing The Enigmatical abecedary” at end.
Contemporary half dark green roan over green
moiré paper boards decoratively tooled in gilt.
Minor rubbing to extremities. Minimal foxing
and soiling. An excellent copy of this extremely
scarce series of plates. DB 00636.
$5,500
First Edition of
Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park”
2. [AUSTEN, Jane]. Mansfield Park: A Novel…London: 1814. First edition. Three twelvemo
volumes. Bound without the advertisement
leaf (pp. [355-356)] at the end of Volume III, but with the half-title in
each volume. Early twentieth-century antique-style mottled calf gilt by
Bartlett & Co. of Boston. Some foxing and browning. Clean tear neatly
repaired to two leaves in Volume III, a few additional small marginal
tears or expert repairs. Early ink signature washed from half-title of
each volume. An excellent copy. DB 00234.
$22,500
maroon morocco gilt over pink cloth boards.
Small neat leather repair to rear cover of Volume
I, top corners of Volume III very slightly bumped.
Some minor browning and slight offsetting,
heavier on the French etching paper, as usual.
Tiny dampstain in the upper corner of most
plates, minor dampstaining at the lower edge of
Volume II. An excellent copy. “If he had never
illustrated another book, this edition of Morte
D’Arthur could stand as a monument of decorative book illustration” (John Lewis, The Twentieth
Century Book, pp. 148-149). DB 00521. $5,500
Signed by All Four of the Beatles
and with an Autograph Note Signed
by Paul McCartney
6.
[BEATLES]. The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics.
Edited by Alan Aldridge. [New York: 1969]. First
American edition. Signed by all four of the Beatles
on the half-title. Quarto. With photographs and
illustrations by contemporary artists offering
their interpretations of Beatles songs. Original turquoise paper over
boards. In the original color pictorial dust jacket (jacket price-clipped,
with minor edgewear and browning). With an Autograph Note Signed
from Paul McCartney to Leslie Bricusse on five slips of paper taped
R.M. Ballantyne’s “Pirate City”
3. BALLANTYNE, R.M. The Pirate City. An Algerine Tale…With
Illustrations. London: 1874. First edition, later issue (with advertisements undated). Small octavo. Original maroon cloth with front cover
decoratively stamped in black, back cover decoratively bordered in blind,
and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Early ink ownership
inscription on front pastedown. A near fine copy. Ballantyne researched
his books from life, “so as to achieve greater verisimilitude…For Pirate
City (1874) he went to Algiers and dressed himself as an Arab” (The
Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature). DB 00588.
$650
Inscribed by Vicki Baum
4. BAUM, Vicki. Grand Hotel. Translated by Basil Creighton. Garden
City, New York: 1931. First American edition (first published in German
in 1929 as Menschen im Hotel). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author
on the front free endpaper: “To Mrs/Bertha Musch/Vicki Baum.” Octavo.
Original blue cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Slight fading to
board edges at top and bottom, minimal rubbing to spine extremities. A
near fine copy. In the original pictorial dust jacket (jacket with minimal
edgewear and light rubbing to rear panel). DB 00490.
$850
The “Superior Issue” on Dutch Handmade Paper
of Beardsley’s “Morte Darthur”
5. [BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, illustrator]. MALORY, Sir Thomas. The
Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights of the Round Table,
Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the
Achieving of the San Greal, and in the End, Le Morte
Darthur…[London]: 1893-1894. First edition. One
of 300 numbered copies of the “superior issue” on
Dutch handmade paper (this copy unnumbered),
out of a total edition of 1,800 copies. Three quarto
volumes. Two photogravure frontispieces on
India paper mounted, eighteen wood-engraved
plates printed on French handmade etching paper
(five double-page), numerous wood-engraved
text illustrations, chapter headings, borders,
and initials. One of several copies bound for H.
Sotheran in near contemporary three-quarter
together and affixed to the front pastedown containing the lyrics to an
unpublished song. Laid in is an Autograph Note Signed by Leslie Bricusse:
“‘The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics’ Signed by all four Beatles—John Lennon,
Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—and containing a
note from Paul to me after he, Linda & their children stayed at ‘Villa
Saint-Paul’ in France during the summer of 1980—together with the
world’s only copy of ‘The Bricusse Marching Song’, found pinned in my
bathroom cupboard.” DB 00023.
$37,500
A Wonderful Contemporary Binding
7.
[BIBLE IN ENGLISH. NEW TESTAMENT]. The New Testament of Our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ…Edinburgh: 1642. [Bound
with:] The Whole Book of Psalmes, With the Prose
in the Margin … London: 1649. Two small octavo
volumes bound in one. Contemporary London
binding of dark brown goatskin decoratively paneled in gilt. All edges gilt. Silver hasps attached to
new leather straps and silver catch pins. Minimal
rubbing. Head of spine lightly chipped. Slight
dampstain in the lower margin of the last twelve
leaves. Pencilled signature on front flyleaf. Early ink signature on second
front flyleaf. A wonderful example in an attractive and well-preserved
binding. DB 00710.
$7,500
A Fine Pair of Early Eighteenth-Century
Scottish “Herring-Bone” Bindings
8. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Holy Bible, Containing The Old and
New Testaments…Edinburgh: 1719. [Together with:] The Psalms of
David In Metre…Edinburgh: 1716. Bound in two twelvemo volumes.
parts in one large folio volume. Engraved pictorial general title, engraved
portrait of John Brown, engraved frontispiece portrait of “The Redeemer”
in The New Testament, hand-colored engraved map, uncolored engraved
plan, sixty-eight hand-colored engraved plates, and one uncolored
engraved plate. Contemporary navy polished calf decoratively panelled
in gilt and blind. Minor rubbing to board edges and corners. Tiny tear
to lower blank margin of general title, short tear to outer blank margin
of another leaf. Some scattered light foxing, slight offsetting from the
plates, a few leaves very slightly browned. A fine copy, crisp and clean,
in a wonderful contemporary binding. “In 1778 [Scottish divine John
Brown’s (1722-1787)] best-known work, the ‘Self-interpreting Bible,’ was
published at Edinburgh…[It] contains history, chronology, geography,
summaries, explanatory notes, and reflections—in short, everything
that the ordinary reader might be supposed to want. It is a library in
one volume” (D.N.B.). DB 00011.
$5,500
First Edition of “Lorna Doone,”
with an Autograph Letter Signed by R.D. Blackmore
Early eighteenth-century Scottish bindings of black goatskin. Covers
decoratively tooled in gilt with a large central herring-bone pattern,
spines decoratively tooled in gilt compartments with four raised bands,
all edges gilt. Corners very slightly bumped. Closely cropped, just affecting some headlines. A wonderful example. Individually chemised
and housed together in a cloth slipcase with morocco tips. This copy is
described and illustrated in Bookbinding in the British Isles, Maggs Bros.
Ltd., Catalogue 1075 (Spring 1987), no. 139. DB 00714.
$6,500
10. BLACKMORE, R.D. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor…London: 1869. First edition. Three small octavo volumes. Bound without
the preliminary blank leaf in Volume I and the final blank leaf in Volume
III, but with the sixteen-page publisher’s catalogue, dated March, 1869,
at the end of Volume III. Bound by Bayntun-Rivière in full red morocco
gilt. Spines very slightly sunned. A few mostly marginal tears or repairs.
Some occasional minor foxing or soiling. Bookplate on front pastedown
of each volume. Overall, an excellent copy. Laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed from Blackmore to James Payn, Teddington, Decr. 3rd. 1877,
thanking him for his assistance in the publishing of his works. Payn was
a literary adviser for Smith, Elder & Co. DB 00726.
$6,500
John Brown’s “Self Interpreting Family Bible,”
in a Fine Contemporary Binding
9. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Self Interpreting Family Bible, with an
Evangelical Commentary by the Late Revd. John Brown, Minister of the
Gospel at Haddington. Containing Marginal References & Reflections.
Embellished with Elegant Engravings. [Bound with:] The New Testament
of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ…London: [n.d., ca. 1832]. Two
Captain Bligh’s Own Account of the Mutiny on the “Bounty”
11. BLIGH, William. A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board His Majesty’s
Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the
Ship’s Boat, from Tofoa, One of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch
Settlement in the East Indies…London: 1790. First edition of Captain
Bligh’s own account of the mutiny on the Bounty. Large quarto. Folding
engraved plan and three engraved charts (two folding and printed on
pale blue paper). Original blue boards, neatly rebacked at an early date. A
couple of very small expertly repaired marginal tears. Some light foxing,
browning, and offsetting. A spectacular and very large copy. Housed in
a quarter morocco clamshell case. “The most famous voyage in recent
history…In 1792 [Bligh’s] narrative was revised in the official account
of the Bounty’s voyage published in London by George Nicol, A Voyage
to the South Sea” (Wantrup, p. 128). DB 00503.
$25,000
The “True Tale” of an Australian Bushranger Gang,
Led by the Englishman Captain Starlight
12. BOLDREWOOD, Rolf. Robbery Under Arms. A Story of Life and
Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia. London: 1888.
First edition. Three octavo volumes. Original green cloth with front covers decoratively stamped in black and spines ruled and lettered in gilt.
London: 1707. Sixteenth edition (first published in 1678). Twelvemo.
Engraved frontispiece and fifteen full-page woodcut illustrations. In the
original binding of contemporary sprinkled sheep. A few small holes in
the spine, one neatly repaired. One leaf with tiny paper flaw, just affecting a couple of letters. Early ownership inscriptions in red and black ink
of a John Cooke, variously dated 1709-1728, none offensive. A superb
copy of this scarce edition. DB 00631.
$7,500
First Editions of “Alice” and “Through the Looking-Glass”
in Beautiful Zaehnsdorf Exhibition Bindings
16. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two
Illustrations by John Tenniel. London: 1866 [i.e., November 1865]. Second
(first published) edition. [Together with:] Through the Looking-Glass, and
What Alice Found There. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. London:
Spines very slightly darkened, with a few tiny splits to cloth at extremities, hinges neatly repaired. Minimal foxing and soiling. Volume I with
short tear to upper blank margin of one leaf. Overall, an excellent copy
of this “true tale” of a bushranger gang, led by the immigrant Englishman
Captain Starlight, and narrated by an ex-bushranger awaiting execution
for his crimes. DB 00655.
$7,500
The Bremer Presse Edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature”
13. [BREMER PRESSE]. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Nature. [New York:
1929]. One of 250 numbered copies for Random House, New York, out of
a total edition of 530 numbered copies. Small folio. “Printed by hand on
Zanders hand-made paper…Title and initials designed by Anna Simons”
(Colophon). Original quarter vellum over decorative boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy. In the original
publisher’s red cardboard slipcase (a little rubbed). DB 00467. $550
One of 100 Copies Signed by René Bull
14. [BULL, René, illustrator]. MÉRIMÉE, Prosper. Carmen. Translated
by A.E. Johnson…London: [n.d, 1916]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 100
copies, signed by the artist. Quarto. Color frontispiece and fifteen color
plates. Black and white text illustrations. Original vellum over boards
pictorially stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Spine a little darkened. Otherwise an excellent copy. DB 00095.
$1,750
A Lovely Copy of an Early Eighteenth-Century Edition
of John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress”
1872 [i.e., December 1871]. First edition, first issue, with the misprint
“wade” for “wabe” on p. 21. Two small octavo volumes. Wood-engraved
text illustrations. Uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf in crimson morocco
decoratively tooled in gilt. Zaehnsdorf exhibition stamp in gilt on rear
pastedown. Some very minor foxing. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
with a few neat marginal repairs. Overall, an excellent set. Housed
together in a cloth slipcase. DB 00097.
$11,000
One of 100 Presentation Copies of “The Nursery Alice,”
Inscribed by Lewis Carroll on March 25, 1890
17. CARROLL, Lewis. The Nursery “Alice.” Containing Twenty Coloured
Enlargements from Tenniel’s Illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland”…London: 1890. Second (first published) edition. Presenta-
15. BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World To That
which is to Come…The Sixteenth Edition, with Additions of New Cuts.
tion copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title to his great nephew,
William Hume Hitchcock (1885-1950), in his characteristic purple ink:
“For Hume,/from the Author./Mar. 25. 1890.” Quarto. Twenty wood
engraved illustrations by Edmund Evans, enlarged from the originals
and printed in color. Original cream-colored glazed pictorial boards
with cream-colored cloth backstrip. Boards very slightly soiled and
rubbed at extremities. Minimal foxing to edges and endpapers. A near
fine copy. On 25 March 1890, Carroll wrote in his diary: “managed to
go to London, to write in over a hundred copies of The Nursery Alice”
(The Diaries of Lewis Carroll, p. 477). DB 00533.
$18,500
Vincent Figgins’s Facsimile
of William Caxton’s “Game of the Chesse”
gilt. Spines uniformly and attractively sunned to brown. A near fine set.
This is one of the most important early nineteenth-century English editions of Don Quixote. DB 00623.
$3,000
Churchill’s “Marlborough” Bound in Full Morocco
20. CHURCHILL, [Sir] Winston S. Marlborough: His Life and Times.
London: [1933-1938]. First edition. Four octavo volumes. Illustrated
with 114 illustrations in photogravure, fourteen facsimiles (some folding), and 196 maps and plans (some folding, some with color). One of
18. [CAXTON, William]. FIGGINS, Vincent. The Game of the Chesse,
by William Caxton. Reproduced in Facsimile from a Copy in the British
a few sets bound identically to the signed limited edition of 155 copies
in publisher’s full orange morocco by Leighton-Straker for Sotheran.
Front cover stamped in gilt with the arms of Marlborough, spines lettered in gilt with five raised bands, top edge gilt. Spines slightly faded.
An excellent set. DB 00607.
$4,500
Museum. With a Few Remarks on Caxton’s Typographical Productions…London: 1860. Second edition of Figgins’s facsimile edition of the
1482 Westminster Caxton edition. Small folio. Twenty-four woodcut
illustrations. Publisher’s deluxe binding of antique-style brown calf over
bevelled boards. Covers decoratively bordered in blind with a large
woodcut embossed on the front cover and William Caxton’s device
embossed on the rear cover. Minimal wear to corners of rear cover, small
split at bottom of rear joint. Otherwise a fine copy. With two armorial
bookplates. DB 00614.
$1,850
One of 100 Specially Bound Sets of “The Second World War”
21. CHURCHILL, [Sir] Winston S. The Second World War. London:
[1948-1954]. First English edition. One of only 100 sets specially bound
by the publisher for presentation. Six octavo volumes. Comprising: The
Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate,
An Important Nineteenth-Century Edition of “Don Quixote,”
Extra-Illustrated with Approximately 200 Plates
19. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The History of the Ingenious
Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha; Translated from the Spanish, by
Motteux. A New Edition, with Copious Notes; and an Essay on the Life
and Writings of Cervantes [by J.G. Lockhart]. Edinburgh: 1822. Five
octavo volumes. Extra-illustrated with over 200 plates (many handcolored) from different illustrated editions of Don Quixote, including
Closing the Ring, and Triumph and Tragedy. Illustrated with maps (some
folding, some with color), diagrams, and facsimiles (some folding).
Loosely inserted is a printed leaf: “With all good wishes from Winston
S. Churchill.” Publisher’s full black morocco lettered in gilt on spines.
A fine set. DB 00606.
$4,750
The Most Important Work Illustrated by Walter Crane—
One of 1,000 Copies Printed on Handmade Paper
illustrations by Chas. Heath after R. Westall (1820), B. Lane after C.
Coypel (1808), G. VanderGucht after L. Vanderbank (1809), and others.
Bound ca. 1920 for Brentano’s by Bayntun of Bath in full green morocco
22. [CRANE, Walter, illustrator]. SPENSER, [Edmund]. Spenser’s
Faerie Queene. A Poem in Six Books, with the Fragment Mutabilitie.
Edited by Thomas J. Wise…London: 1897. One of 1,000 copies printed
ment leaf. Wood-engraved frontispiece and vignette title and eleven
wood-engraved text illustrations. Bound by Rivière & Son in full black
morocco gilt. Original red cloth covers and spine bound in. Spine faded
to brown. Tiny stain in the lower blank corner of four leaves. Otherwise
an exceptional copy of Charles Dickens’s rarest book. We have been able
to locate only one other copy of this first issue at auction (in 2002, in the
on handmade paper, out of a total edition of 1,028 copies. Six quarto
volumes. Double-page general title in Volume I, seven individual titlepages (dated 1894-1896), eighty-eight full-page woodcut illustrations
(one double-page), 132 head- and tail-pieces, numerous decorative
initials, and printer’s and publisher’s colophons. Bound by Zaehnsdorf
in full dark green morocco gilt. Covers decoratively tooled in gilt to
match the original cover design. Zaehnsdorf exhibition stamp in gilt
on rear doublure. Original pink printed wrappers bound in. A fine set.
DB 00104.
$5,000
“The Adventures of Four Nasty Children and Our Hero
with Mr. Willy Wonka and His Famous Candy Plant”
23. DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by
Joseph Schindelman. New York: [1964]. First edition (preceding the
English edition by three years). First issue, with six lines of printing
information (instead of five) in the colophon. Octavo. Original red cloth
with covers stamped in blind and spine stamped and lettered in gilt. A
fine copy. In the original first issue color pictorial dust jacket, with no
ISBN number on the rear panel and with the price $3.95 on the front
flap. The jacket is very slightly darkened and has a few small creases,
but overall, is in excellent condition. DB 00382.
$6,500
Excessively Rare First Edition, First Issue,
of Charles Dickens’s “Battle of Life”
24. DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London:
1846. First edition of the fourth of Dickens’s five Christmas books, first
issue of the vignette title (Todd A, Eckel 1), with no scroll and with the
subtitle in heavy type. Small octavo. Bound without the final advertise-
original cloth, recased, and part a set of the Christmas Books) since the
George Barr McCutcheon copy in 1926. Chemised in a full morocco
slipcase. DB 00758.
$40,000
The “Edition des Bibliophiles” of
the Works of Charles Dickens—One of Twenty-Six Copies
25. DICKENS, Charles. Charles Dickens’s Works. Edited by Richard
Garnett. Most Unusually and Elaborately Illustrated. London: Merrill
& Baker, [1900]. Edition des Bibliophiles. Limited to twenty-six lettered
copies. Thirty-two octavo volumes. Illustrated with frontispieces and
plates, including photogravures, etchings, photo-etchings, from the
original illustrations, and with fifty watercolor and wash drawings by
“Kyd” (Joseph Clayton Clarke). Contemporary blue morocco with covers
decoratively tooled in gilt in a floral design, spines decoratively tooled
and lettered in gilt in compartments with five raised bands, turn-ins
decoratively tooled in gilt, red calf doublures, red watered silk liners, top
edge gilt, others uncut. Spines uniformly faded to green. A wonderful
set. DB 00566.
$35,000
First Edition of Charles Dickens’s Second Christmas Book
26. DICKENS, Charles. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that
Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. London: 1845. First edition
(first state of vignette title, with “Chapman & Hall” centered and slightly
curved in the cloud at the foot of the engraved plate). Small octavo.
Wood-engraved frontispiece and vignette title and eleven wood-engraved text illustrations. Early twentieth-century red scored calf gilt by
Zaehnsdorf. All edges gilt. Original red cloth covers and spine bound
in. A near fine copy. DB 00423.
$500
First Edition, First Issue, of “A Christmas Carol”
27. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost
Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: 1843.
First edition, first issue, with the text entirely uncorrected, “Stave I”
as the first chapter heading, red and blue title-page dated 1843, blue
half-title, and green-coated endpapers. Small octavo. Four hand-colored
steel-engraved plates and four wood-engraved text illustrations. Original
cinnamon vertically-ribbed cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and blind
and lettered in gilt. The binding matches Todd’s first impression, first
issue. Very slightly skewed, the absolute bare minimum of rubbing to
cloth at corners and spine extremities. Slight offsetting from the plates,
some occasional very light soiling. Early ink signature beginning on the
front pastedown and continuing on the verso of the front free endpaper,
with a tiny bit of ink offsetting on the upper blank corner of the halftitle. A very pretty copy in near fine condition, totally unsophisticated,
and certainly one of the best copies that we have ever seen. Housed in
a morocco pull-off case. DB 00630.
$42,500
ruled in blind and lettered in gilt and spine lettered in gilt. Minimal fading to spine, gilt on spine a little dull. Free endpapers slightly browned
from pastedown glue. Otherwise a fine copy. Notable for containing
three stories not narrated by Dr. Watson. DB 00516.
$1,850
A Fine First Edition “Hound,” in the Original Cloth
29. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another
Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: 1902. First edition in book form
(first serialized in the Strand Magazine between August 1901 and April
1902). Small octavo. Sixteen plates by Sidney Paget. Original scarlet cloth
pictorially stamped in gilt and black and lettered in gilt. Spine slightly
faded, minor blistering to cloth on covers near joints. Minimal foxing
to edges, free endpapers slightly browned. An excellent copy, with the
gilt bright and fresh. DB 00348.
$6,500
“‘Holmes!’ I cried. ‘Is it really you?
Can it indeed be that you are alive?’”
30. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated
by Sidney Paget. London: 1905. First English edition of the third collection of Sherlock Holmes stories (preceded by the first American edition
The Final Collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories
by Arthur Conan Doyle, in the Original Cloth
28. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. London:
[1927]. First edition of the final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories by
Arthur Conan Doyle. Small octavo. Original red cloth with front cover
by about one month). Small octavo. Sixteen plates. Original dark blue
cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Small area of discoloration on rear cover. Some light foxing. A few leaves with short tears in
the gutter at the top or the bottom. Overall, an excellent copy, with the
gilt much brighter than is usually seen. “The author was persuaded to
revive Sherlock Holmes by the generous offers made by the proprietors
of the American magazine…thirteen stories were written, among them
some of the most interesting in the whole series” (Green and Gibson,
pp. 140-141). DB 00512.
$3,750
The Third Collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories
31. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated
by Sidney Paget. London: 1905. First English edition of the third collection of Sherlock Holmes stories (preceded by the first American edition
by about one month). Small octavo. Sixteen plates. Bound by BayntunRivière in full royal blue morocco gilt. Original blue cloth front cover
bound in at end. Tiny marginal repair to final leaf of text. Otherwise a
fine copy. DB 00107.
$1,750
boards. Front covers and spines pictorially stamped and lettered in
gilt and black. Minimal rubbing to corners and spine extremities.
Minimal foxing. This is a remarkable set—one of the best that we have
ever seen—with the gilt on the spines fresh and bright and the hinges
untouched. Each volume chemised in a quarter morocco slipcase. The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains the first twelve of the fifty-six
Sherlock Holmes stories and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes contains
the following twelve stories. The final story, “The Final Problem,” describes Sherlock Holmes’s death at Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.
DB 00058.
$28,500
A Spectacular Original Watercolor Drawing by Edmund
Dulac Depicting Cinderella on Her Way to the Ball
Extremely Scarce First Impression
of the First Sherlock Holmes Story
32. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. A Study in Scarlet. London: Ward, Lock &
Co., 1888. First edition in book form, first impression, of the first Sherlock Holmes story (preceded only by the story’s appearance in Beeton’s
Christmas Annual 1887) and the author’s first published work. Octavo.
Six full-page illustrations by the author’s father, Charles Doyle. Bound
ca. 1940 by Zaehnsdorf in full red morocco gilt. Tiny sliver torn from
upper blank corner of preliminary advertisement leaf. An exceptional,
tall copy, remarkably surviving with all of the publisher’s advertisements,
although bound without the original printed wrappers. Chemised in a
morocco slipcase. DB 00628.
$85,000
A Spectacular First Edition
Set of the “Adventures” and
“Memoirs” of Sherlock Holmes
33. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. [Together with:] The Memoirs of Sherlock
Holmes. Illustrations by Sidney Paget.
London: 1892-1894. First editions
(first issue of The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes). Two large octavo
volumes. The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes with 104 illustrations in the
text, and The Memoirs of Sherlock
Holmes with ninety illustrations in
the text (including the frontispiece,
“The Death of Sherlock Holmes”).
Original light blue and dark blue
cloth, respectively, over bevelled
34. DULAC, Edmund. “She was driven away, beside herself with joy.”
Original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawing for the color plate facing
p. 54, illustrating “Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper,” in The Sleeping
Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French Retold by Sir Arthur
Quiller-Couch (London: [1910]). This spectacular watercolor drawing
depicts a wooded scene with a full
moon in the background and Cinderella being driven to the ball in
“a beautiful coach all covered with
gold,” drawn by horses “of a lovely
grey, dappled with mouse colour”
and accompanied by a coachman
and three footmen in “their bedizened liveries.” Signed and dated at
lower right. Image size: 12 1/2 x 10
1/4 inches (318 x 260 mm.). Matted,
framed, and glazed. “In his painting,
Edmund Dulac was ever the experimenter, ever the innovator…From
his first to his last picture, Dulac
displayed sensational colours … His
special shade of blue was called, with
double entendre, bleu du lac. Not
only his blue, but his very French
talent for unusual combinations of colors, produced stunning effects”
(Hughey, Introduction). DB 00608.
$65,000
In the Original Publisher’s Box
35. [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. ANDERSEN, Hans [Christian].
Stories from Hans Andersen. London: [1911]. First trade edition. Large
quarto. Mounted color frontispiece and twenty-seven mounted color
One of 750 Copies Signed by Edmund Dulac
37. [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. OMAR KHAYYÁM. Rubáiyát
of Omar Khayyám. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald.
London: [n.d., 1909]. Limited to 750 copies, numbered and signed by
the artist. Large quarto. Twenty mounted color plates. Original vellum
over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Original brown silk
ties. A fine copy. Housed in the original publisher’s white cardboard
slipcase. DB 00587.
$2,500
One of 750 Copies Signed by Edmund Dulac
38. [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. POE, Edgar Allan. The Bells and
Other Poems. London: [n.d., 1912]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 750
copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Large quarto. Twenty-eight
mounted color plates. Ten black ink head-pieces on tan backgrounds and
portrait of Poe on the title-page, also in black ink on tan background.
Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt.
Later silk ties. An excellent copy. Loosely laid in is the Leicester Gal-
plates. Original pale olive green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered
in gilt. Minor foxing to edges, endpapers, and first and last few leaves.
Otherwise a fine copy. In the original publisher’s green cardboard box
stamped in dark green with the design from the front cover of the book
(some foxing and slight wear to box). DB 00517.
$1,850
One of 500 Copies Signed by Edmund Dulac
36. [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel.
Tanglewood Tales. London: [n.d., 1918]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to
500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Large quarto. Fourteen
mounted color plates. Original wartime binding of half vellum over gray
paper boards. Spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Some rubbing
to board edges. Light foxing to first and last few leaves. Previous owner’s
ink presentation inscription on half-title. Overall, an excellent copy. “In
December 1916 Dulac drew the first of the illustrations for what was to
be his last Gift Book for Hodder and Stoughton, Hawthorne’s Tanglewood
Tales…Because of paper restrictions the book was not published until
1918” (Colin White, Edmund Dulac, p. 88). DB 00112.
$1,100
leries announcement for the exhibition of Dulac’s original drawings for
The Bells. The exhibition ran from November 23 until Christmas 1912.
Housed in a cloth slipcase. DB 00108.
$2,500
One of 100 Copies Signed by Edmund Dulac
39. [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. ROSENTHAL, Léonard. The
Kingdom of the Pearl. London: [n.d., 1920]. English deluxe limited edition
(first published in French in 1919 without Dulac illustrations and again
in 1920 with Dulac illustrations as Au Royaume de la Perle). One of 100
copies numbered and signed by the artist, out of a total edition of 775
copies “for sale in the British Empire” (an additional 775 copies were
published by Brentano’s, New York, in 1925 “for sale in the United States
of America”). Large quarto. Ten mounted color plates. Original quarter
vellum over white paper boards decoratively stamped and lettered in
gilt. Some light spotting to the paper boards, corners slightly bumped.
Internally a fine and fresh copy. DB 00111.
$1,750
A Beautifully Bound Copy of the Rarest Dulac
Signed Limited Edition—One of Only Fifty Copies
40. [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Treasure Island. London: 1927. Edition de Luxe. Limited to fifty numbered copies on handmade paper, signed by the artist. Quarto. Twelve
color plates and twenty-one black and white drawings in the text. Bound
by Zaehnsdorf in full dark green morocco pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. A beautifully bound copy in fine condition. “For Treasure
Island Dulac experimented with a new style. He eschewed all the strong
colours that had been so attractive a feature of the earlier books, and
painted the illustrations in closely related tones to give a pastel-like,
dreamy softness. He conceived each of the drawings as a distance shot
from above, making the characters look tiny against the vastness of the
surrounding scene. The effect was strange, like an optical illusion, and
very successful. Many years later Dulac admitted that the illustrations
which most pleased him were those for Treasure Island” (Colin White,
Edmund Dulac, p. 135). DB 00744.
$9,500
In a Fine Modern Binding by Robert Porter
41. [EGAN, Beresford, illustrator]. BAUDELAIRE, [Charles]. Fleurs
du Mal in Pattern and Prose by Beresford Egan and C. Bower Alcock.
London: [1929]. Limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator.
Large quarto. Color frontispiece, two vignettes in black and green, and
multicolor morocco. Two plates cut and mounted. An excellent example.
Housed in a felt-lined cloth slipcase. An imitation of Pierce Egan’s Life
in London; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and
His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, Accompanied by Bob Logic, The
Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis (London:
1821). DB 00114.
$2,500
First Edition, First Printing, First State, First Binding
of “The Mill on the Floss,” in the Original Cloth
43. ELIOT, George. The Mill on the Floss. Edinburgh: 1860. First edition,
first printing, presumed first state. Three octavo volumes. Without the
inserted leaf advertising Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede and its
conjugate blank in the preliminaries of Volume I, but with 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements at the end of Volume III. Original orange-brown
diagonal ripple-grain cloth (Carter’s variant A) with covers decoratively
stamped in blind and spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt.
fifteen full-page drawings in black and white. In a fine modern binding
by Robert Porter of full dark green morocco gilt. Front cover with a stylized floral and leaf design with multicolor morocco onlays. Back cover
tooled in blind in the same design with black and gray morocco onlays.
Spine lettered in blind and decoratively tooled in gilt with multicolor
morocco floral onlays. Minimal foxing and marginal soiling. A near
fine copy. Laid in is an Autograph Note Signed from R.L. Porter, dated
February 1990, describing the binding. DB 00730.
$2,500
“Real Life in London” in an Onlaid Morocco Binding
42. [EGAN, Pierce, imitation of ]. Real Life in London; or, The Rambles
and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall,
through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life…Embellished
and Illustrated with a Series of Coloured Prints, Designed and Engraved
Light wear to extremities, circulating library labels neatly removed from
front covers, short split to rear joint of Volume I neatly repaired, inner
hinges of Volumes I and III expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Some
occasional foxing or staining. A very good copy. DB 00560.
$4,500
The Essex House Press “Poems of William Shakespeare”
44. [ESSEX HOUSE PRESS]. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Poems
of William Shakespeare, According to the Text of the Original Copies,
Including the Lyrics, Songs, and Snatches Found in His Dramas. [Lon-
by Messrs. Alken, Dighton, Brooke, Rowlandson, &c. London: 1821.
First edition, first issue. Volume I (of two) only. Octavo. Hand-colored
engraved vignette title and eighteen hand-colored engraved plates. Early
to mid twentieth-century full red morocco gilt by Bayntun of Bath.
Front cover with an onlaid figure of a London “character” executed in
don: 1899]. Limited to 450 numbered copies. Small quarto. Woodcut
frontispiece by Reginald Savage, decorative woodcut initials, woodcut
printer’s device. “Arranged, and carefully collated with the originals, by
F.S. Ellis, and printed at the Essex House Press, under the care of C.R.
Asbee” (Colophon). Bound in early twentieth-century green morocco
gilt. Covers with a panel of inlaid black morocco. Spine very slightly
faded. An excellent copy, largely unopened. DB 00712.
$2,000
An Extra-Illustrated Copy of the 1791 Edition of “Tom Jones,”
with Twelve Etchings by Thomas Rowlandson
45. FIELDING, Henry. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Edinburgh:
1791. Three octavo volumes. Twelve etched plates by Thomas Rowlandson. Extra-illustrated with forty-two additional plates. Early twentieth-
Copy Number “One” of Twelve Copies Printed on Vellum
47. [FLINT, W. Russell, illustrator]. KINGSLEY, Charles. The Heroes
or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children. London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society Ltd., 1912. One of twelve numbered copies
printed on vellum (this copy being No. “One”), out of a total edition of
512 copies. Quarto. Twelve mounted color plates. With an extra suite
of the twelve plates chemised in a cloth folder. Title printed in blue and
black with the lettering engraved after the design of M. Engall. Original
full limp vellum lettered in gilt. Original green silk ties. Bookplate neatly
removed from front pastedown. Small bookseller’s label and small library
ticket on front pastedown. Ink library stamps at foot of title, on verso
of title, and at foot of verso of mount of final plate. Otherwise this is a
very fine copy. Housed together with the extra suite of plates in a quarter
morocco clamshell. DB 00362.
$6,500
With a Fore-Edge Painting by Martin Frost
48. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Holy Bible,
Containing the Old and New Testaments…Oxford: Printed at the University
Press, 1854. Large octavo. Text in double columns. Contemporary full
dark green morocco gilt over bevelled boards by Hayday. All edges gilt.
century tan polished calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf. All edges gilt. A beautiful
set. “Rowlandson’s free and easy way of life and robust nature made him
a congenial illustrator of the English novelists of the age. The Vicar of
Wakefield was once cited as his best book in this line…but Tom Jones is
a far more typical effort” (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England,
32). DB 00578.
$1,500
W. Russell Flint’s “Song of Songs”
46. [FLINT, W. Russell, illustrator]. The Song of Songs Which is
Solomon’s. London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society
Ltd., 1909. One of 500 numbered copies on hand-made Riccardi paper,
out of a total of 517 copies. Quarto. Ten mounted color plates. Original
holland-backed boards with printed paper labels on front cover and
spine. Additional printed paper labels tipped in. Light offsetting from
cellotape on free endpapers. Otherwise a fine copy. In the original gray
printed dust jacket (jacket very slightly chipped at top and bottom of
spine). The first book printed at the Riccardi Press. DB 00454. $550
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With a fore-edge painting by Martin Frost of a Mississippi steamboat after
Currier & Ives. Tipped in at the back of the book is Martin Frost’s printed
certificate, inscribed: “Holy Bible/1854/[decorative rule]/‘Wooding Up’ at
night/on the Mississip[p]i/(after Currier & Ives)/[decorative rule]/Martin
Frost/MCMXCVI.” DB 00583.
$2,000
Gavarni’s “Terrible Children”
49. GAVARNI [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. Les
Enfans terribles. Paris: [n.d., 1838-1842]. Large quarto. Forty-nine handcolored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic. Bound without
the hand-colored lithographed title. Contemporary navy blue cloth
lettered in gilt. Some
rubbing to cloth, small
strip of cloth neatly reattached at upper edge of
rear board, front hinge
expertly repaired. Some
foxing, a few plates
slightly browned, small
dampstain to the upper
blank corner of Plate 1
and to the lower blank
margin of advertisements at end. A very
good copy. “In its images, Gavarni regularly
uses the quasi-innocent
questions or remarks
of children to put the
world of the adults
around them in disarray” (Beatrice Farwell,
The Charged Image, p.
91). DB 00322. $2,500
scribing the binding: “Total design is abstract but there is a suggestion
of sea-blue & green with the bright inlays suggesting the light & exotic
colours of the South. The shapes, formalized, of the inlays are also in
some etchings—fins, hats & fruit.” DB 00728.
$2,500
Captain Bligh’s “Voyage in the Resource”
52. [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. BLIGH, William. Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia, Together with the Log of
His Subsequent Passage to England in the Dutch Packet Vlydt and His
Remarks on Morrison’s Journal. [All Printed for the First Time from
the Manuscript in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales, with an
Introduction and Notes by Owen Rutter, & Engravings on Wood by Peter
Barker-Mill]. [London]: 1937. Limited to 350 copies. Folio. Original blue
and beige cloth binding. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Small red
ink stamp on front free endpaper. A near fine copy. DB 00622. $1,350
“The First of the Cockerel ‘Sea Log’ Series”
One of the Great Nineteenth-Century Color-Plate Books,
with Twenty-Four Hand-Colored Aquatints
50. GERNING, J.J. [Johann Isaac] von. A Picturesque Tour Along the
Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable Events, and of Popular Traditions…Translated from the German by
John Black. London: 1820. First English edition, early issue (the original
unillustrated German edition was published in Wiesbaden in 1819 as
Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln). Large quarto. Complete with
the list of subscribers. Large folding engraved map with color highlights
and twenty-four hand-colored aquatint plates by D. Havell and T.
Sutherland after C.G. Schutz. Text watermarked 1817 and 1818, plates
watermarked 1819 and 1820. Contemporary dark green roan ruled in gilt
and blind. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Binding lightly rubbed at
extremities, with a tiny split to rear joint at head of spine. Some minor
foxing and offsetting. A few small marginal rust spots. A fine, tall copy
in a contemporary binding. DB 00529.
$8,500
In a Fine Modern Binding by Robert Porter
51. GIBBINGS, Robert. Fourteen Wood Engravings. From Drawings
Made on Orient Line Cruises. [Waltham St. Lawrence: Printed by Robert
Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1932]. First edition. Large folio.
Woodcut vignette on title, small woodcut on following text page, and
fourteen full-page woodcuts. In a fine modern binding by Robert Porter
of full blue morocco. Front cover with five different colored morocco
inlays as segments of a semi-circle delineated with a gilt dotted rule.
Back cover with a similar design of a semi-circle delineated with dotted
lines in gilt and blind with different colored onlaid morocco dots. Green
morocco spine lettered in blind and decoratively tooled in gilt. Binding
with a few small areas of slight discoloration. Short tear to outer blank
margin of title, tiny tear to lower blank margin of final leaf. Otherwise
a fine copy. Laid in is an Autograph Note Signed by Robert Porter de-
53. [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. BLIGH, William. The Voyage
of the Bounty’s Launch as Related in William Bligh’s Despatch to the
Admiralty and the Journal of John Fryer. With an Introduction by Owen
Rutter and Wood-Engravings by Robert Gibbings. [London]: 1934.
Limited to 300 copies. Folio. Original cream and rust cloth binding.
Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Small red ink stamp on front free
endpaper. A near fine copy. “The first of the Cockerel ‘Sea Log’ series.
An innovation was the ‘sail-type’ of binding. Previously two different
cloths had never been combined to form a pattern” (Chanticleer 95).
DB 00621.
$950
Matthew Flinders’s
“Narrative of an Expedition to Furneaux Islands”
54. [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. FLINDERS, Matthew. Matthew
Flinders’ Narrative of His Voyage in the Schooner Francis: 1798. Preceded
and Followed by Notes…by Geoffrey Rawson. With Engravings by
John Buckland Wright. [London]: 1946. Limited to 750 copies. Folio.
Publisher’s full green buckram with front cover pictorially stamped in
gilt after a design by John Buckland Wright. Spine stamped and lettered
in gilt. Small red ink stamp on front free endpaper. A near fine copy.
“This is another book of daring exploration in our ‘Sea Series’. I tried to
produce these stories of high adventure in an exciting way, and planned
to make the book a symphony in green. I even thought of Scenting the
paper with seaweed” (Cockalorum 170). DB 00620.
$800
The First Edition of “The Wind in the Willows”
with Color Plates by Ernest H. Shepard
55. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. London: [1959].
First edition with color plates by Ernest H. Shepard. Octavo. Eight color
plates. Black and white text illustrations. Modern three-quarter green
calf over marbled boards. Spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with red morocco gilt lettering label. First published in 1908
with a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. The first edition illustrated
by Ernest H. Shepard was published in 1931 (with the illustrations in
black and white). DB 00582.
$600
A Complete Set of the Kate Greenaway “Almanacks,”
including a Presentation Copy
56. GREENAWAY, Kate. Almanack for 1883-[1895]. [Together with:]
Kate Greenaway’s Almanack & Diary for 1897. London: [1882-1894] and
[1896]. A complete set of first edition Kate Greenaway Almanacks, including a presentation copy of Kate Greenaway’s Almanack & Diary for 1897,
inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title: “Eileen Ponsonby/From/Kate
Greenaway/1896.” Together fifteen twentyfourmo and twelvemo volumes,
including a duplicate of the Almanack for 1884. No Almanack for 1896
was published. Numerous wood-engraved text illustrations printed in
color by Edmund Evans. Original bindings of glazed pictorial boards
with cloth spines, glazed pictorial wrappers, imitation morocco boards,
cloth, and imitation morocco. The Almanack for 1892 is in the original
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Rodney Engen’s biography of Kate Greenaway (see pp. 93-94) and in
Susan Ruth Thomson’s Catalogue of the Kate Greenaway Collection, Rare
Book Room, Detroit Public Library (see pp. 15 and 176)). This portrait
was inscribed four years earlier, in 1879, and although we have been
unable to identify the recipient, we believe it to be a childhood friend
of Greenaway’s. DB 00756.
$12,500
Edition de Luxe,
with an Original Pencil Sketch by Kate Greenaway
printed mailing wrapper and the Almanack for 1895 is in the original
glassine. Overall, an excellent set of these charming little books. Housed
together in a full morocco clamshell case. DB 00123.
$6,500
Original Inscribed Kate Greenaway Self Portrait
57. GREENAWAY, Kate. Original watercolor self portrait. [N.p.: n.d.,
1879]. The portrait, a side view of Greenaway wearing a black hat with
a brown band and feathers or pompoms, a blouse with a ruffled collar, and a beige cape, is inscribed by Greenaway: “To Alma [or Anna?]
Coote/Faithfully yours/with my very dearest love/K.G./1879.” Image
58. [GREENAWAY, Kate]. SPIELMANN, M.H., and G.S. Layard. Kate
Greenaway. London: 1905. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 numbered
copies (this copy being No.
181), signed by the artist’s
brother, John Greenaway.
Large quarto. Color frontispiece and fifty-three color
plates. Numerous black and
white illustrations, including thirty-four half-tone
plates. Original white cloth
over bevelled boards decoratively stamped in blind and
lettered in gilt. A near fine
copy. All 500 copies of the
Edition de Luxe have original
Kate Greenaway artwork
bound in. This copy has an
exceptional original pencil
sketch by Kate Greenaway
depicting a young girl, standing facing left, wearing a long
dress with an empire waist,
big puffy sleeves, and a wide
sash with a bow at the back.
At upper right, are detailed sketches of her arms, wearing long fingerless
gloves, resting on a surface. DB 00598.
$2,750
The First Volume of
“the Most Splendid of English Costume Books”
59. [HEIDELOFF, Nikolaus Wilhelm von, publisher]. Gallery of Fashion. Vol. I, April 1794-March 1795. [London]: 1794-1795. First edition.
Quarto. Hand-colored engraved title and twenty-four hand-colored
size: 6 3/8 x 4 inches (161 x 112 mm.). Set under bevelled glass within
a gold frame in a green morocco clamshell case lined with red velvet
by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Covers decoratively panelled in gilt with red
morocco gilt floral onlays, front cover lettered in gilt, spine decoratively
panelled with red morocco gilt floral onlays and lettered in gilt in compartments. A wonderful example. This portrait is similar to the inscribed
self portrait that Greenaway sent to John Ruskin in 1883 (illustrated in
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engraved plates depicting forty-six figures of fashionably dressed ladies.
Each plate with descriptive text. Contemporary limp red roan gilt. Early
ink signature on verso of front free endpaper. Some rubbing to covers.
Otherwise a fine copy. “The most splendid of English costume books,
and the first real venture in this country of a periodical devoted to the
changing taste in dress” (Abbey, Life, 218). Only 167 copies were subscribed to for this first volume in 1794, including “the Princess Royal,
the Princess Augusta, the Princess Elizabeth, the Duke of York and the
Empress of Germany” (Holland, Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770
to 1899, p. 48). DB 00547.
$7,500
A Near Fine Copy in the Original Dust Jacket
60. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: 1929. First
trade edition, first issue, with publisher’s seal on copyright page and no
A Superb First Edition Set of “Jungle Books”
63. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. With Illustrations by J.L.
Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. [Together with:] The Second Jungle
Book. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. London: 1894-1895.
First editions. Two small octavo volumes. Each volume in the original
bright blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. The absolute
legal disclaimer on p. [x]. Octavo. Original black cloth with gold paper
labels ruled and lettered in black on front cover and spine. Extremities
very slightly bumped, tiny portion of lower corner of spine label chipped
away. Small bookseller’s ticket on front free endpaper. Otherwise a near
fine copy. In the original first issue color pictorial dust jacket (with the
name of the heroine, Catherine Barkley, misspelled “Katharine Barclay”
on the front flap). The jacket has a few tiny chips and edge tears, but is
not faded and is totally untouched. DB 00755.
$11,500
First Edition of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” in the Deluxe Binding
61. KAFKA, Franz. Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]. Leipzig:
[1915]. First edition, deluxe boards issue. Octavo. Original blue gray
boards with cream-colored parchment spine. Front cover and spine
lettered in black. One tiny chip on rear joint, bottom of spine expertly
and almost invisibly repaired, top edge of boards slightly sunned. Otherwise an exceptionally fine and crisp copy. Housed in a quarter morocco
clamshell case. According to the publisher, 1,000 copies were printed,
most of them issued in wrappers. DB 00612.
$6,500
minimum of rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Some light foxing
in The Second Jungle Book. Small bookseller’s description tipped to front
free endpaper of The Jungle Book. A superb set, exceptionally clean and
bright. DB 00371.
$7,500
The True First Issue of Kipling’s “Just So Stories,”
in the Extremely Scarce Original Printed Dust Jacket
64. KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little Children. Illustrated
by the Author. London: 1902. First edition, first issue (with white pig-
A Fine Inlaid Morocco Binding by Kelly & Sons
62. [KELLY & SONS, binders]. CARROLL, Lewis. The Hunting of the
Snark…With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: 1876. First
edition. Small octavo. Bound without the final leaf (blank on the recto
and with advertisements on the verso). Nine full-page wood-engraved
illustrations. Bound by Kelly & Sons in full green morocco gilt. Front
cover with an inlaid vignette of the “Baker” executed in multicolored
morocco. Original buff cloth covers and spine bound in. A wonderful
example in fine condition. “The poem describes with infinite humor
the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable
creature. It has been called the ‘Odyssey of the Nonsensical’” (Williams,
Madan and Green 115). DB 00401.
$3,500
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ment) of Kipling’s famous collection of twelve stories and twelve poems,
including “How the Camel Got His Hump” and “How the Leopard Got
His Spots.” Small quarto. Twenty-two full-page illustrations. Original
red cloth pictorially stamped in black and white on covers, lettered in
white on front cover, and pictorially stamped and lettered in white on
spine. White pigment flaking a little, mainly on the spine, but far less
than usual. A near fine copy—one of the best that we have ever seen—in
the extremely scarce original tan dust jacket printed in red (jacket spine
missing). Chemised in a quarter morocco slipcase. “The white pigment
used on the covers of the first edition flaked off and a new ink was used
for subsequent issues” (Stewart 260). DB 00416.
$12,500
in the outer margin of three leaves. Small paper flaw to the outer edge
of one leaf. Otherwise a fine copy. Housed in a marbled board slipcase.
DB 00498.
$4,500
Twenty-Six Original Watercolor Drawings
Illustrating Kipling’s Works
65. [KIPLING, Rudyard]. S[MYTH], D[orothy] [Carleton]. Twentysix original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings illustrating titles of
A Complete First Edition Set of Andrew Lang’s “Fairy Books”
Kipling’s works, possibly done as designs for “vellucent” bindings for a
set of Kipling’s works. [N.p.: n.d., ca. 1920]. Twenty-six leaves (measuring
approximately 9 11/16 x 6 9/16 inches; 246 x 167 mm.), each with a central
inlaid rectangular watercolor vignette within a decorative floral border,
with the title in red and lines from the text in black below, beginning with
an illuminated initial, all underlined in red. Twelve of the watercolors
are signed D.C.S. (Dorothy Carleton Smyth, 1880-1933). A wonderful
set, from the archives of the Bayntun-Rivière bindery. Housed in a cloth
clamshell case. “In his large bindery at Portway, Bath, [Cedric] Chivers
employed about forty women for folding, sewing,
mending, and collating work, and in addition, five
more women worked in a separate department,
to design, illuminate, and colour vellum for book
decoration, and to work on embossed leather…but
the woman most frequently employed for this
kind of work was probably Dorothy Carl[e]ton
Smyth” (Marianne Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders
1880-1920, p. 86). DB 00648.
$8,500
La Fontaine’s “Cupid and Psyche,”
with Four Color-Printed Engraved Plates
66. LA FONTAINE, J[ean] de. Les Amours de
Psyché et de Cupidon…Paris: 1791. Large quarto.
Four color-printed stipple-engraved plates by
Madame de Mouchy, C. Bonnefoy, and N. Colibert, after M. Schall. The plates are in the first
state, “before titles.” Bound by De Samblanx & J.
Weckesser in full red scored calf. Covers decoratively panelled in gilt, spine decoratively tooled
and lettered in gilt in compartments, all edges gilt.
Tiny holes, neatly filled in at the time of binding,
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67. [LANG, Andrew, editor]. The Blue Fairy Book. [Together with:]
The Red Fairy Book. [And:] The Green Fairy Book. [And:] The Yellow Fairy
Book. [And:] The Pink Fairy Book. [And:] The Grey Fairy Book. [And:] The
Violet Fairy Book. [And:] The Crimson Fairy Book. [And:] The Brown Fairy
Book. [And:] The Orange Fairy Book. [And:] The Olive Fairy Book. [And:]
The Lilac Fairy Book. London: 1889-1910. First editions. Twelve small
octavo volumes. With illustrations by H.J. Ford, J.P. Jacomb Hood, and
Lancelot Speed, including color plates. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
in three-quarter harlequin morocco gilt over cloth boards. A very fine
and attractive set. “A series of anthologies of fairy stories, beginning with
The Blue Fairy Book, which were compiled for children by Andrew Lang
between 1889 and 1910. They put both well known and obscure tales
(some of them recently collected and never before printed) into a form
that was accessible
and attractive…For
each of the books Lang
himself selected the
tales, commissioned
necessary translations
or adaptations, and
wrote a preface” (The
Oxford Companion to
Children’s Literature).
DB 00141.
$9,500
First Edition of the First of
Andrew Lang’s “Fairy Books,”
in the Original Cloth
68.
LANG, Andrew. The Blue Fairy Book…
With Numerous Illustrations by H.J. Ford and G.P.
Jacomb Hood. London: 1889. First edition. Octavo.
Eight full-page wood engravings and numerous
wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Original
dark blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered
in gilt. Very faint early ink inscription on front
free endpaper. Apart from the bare minimum of
very slight foxing to a few leaves, this is an exceptional copy, with the gilt bright and fresh, of the
first and scarcest title in this series. The Blue Fairy
Book contains almost all of the “classic” fairy tales,
including “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Cinderella,”
“Aladdin,” “Rumpelstiltskin,” “Beauty and the
Beast,” “Goldilocks,” “Dick Whittington,” “Hansel
and Gretel,” “Snow White,” “Bluebeard,” and “Jack
the Giant Killer.” DB 00060.
$9,500
The Earliest Obtainable “King Arthur” in the Original Boards
Aristide Maillol’s Illustrations to Virgil’s “Georgics”
69. [MAILLOL, Aristide, illustrator]. VIRGIL. Les Géorgiques…Paris:
1937-1943 [i.e. 1950]. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Two folio
volumes. Text in Latin and French. With 122 woodcut illustrations.
This copy with an additional volume containing two extra suites of the
woodcuts, one in sanguine and one in black. Bound by Sangorski &
Sutcliffe in full niger morocco gilt. Original printed wrappers bound in.
The absolute bare minimum of faint foxing. Volume II with a tiny tear
in the outer blank margin of the preliminary blank leaf and a tiny paper
flaw in the upper blank margin of one leaf. Otherwise an absolutely fine
copy. Original publisher’s prospectus bound in. Each volume housed
in a cloth slipcase with morocco tips. “The last block was delivered to
the publisher in September, 1944, shortly before the artist’s death. Most
of the cuts were executed by craftsmen after Maillol’s drawings on the
block, since at that time his eyes were not strong enough for the cutting”
(The Artist & the Book, pp. 121-122). DB 00656.
$9,500
71. MALORY, Sir Thomas. The History of the Renowned Prince Arthur,
King of Britain; with His Life and Death, and All His Glorious Battles.
Likewise, the Noble Acts and Heroic Deeds of His Valiant Knights of the
Round Table…London: Printed for Walker and Edwards…, 1816. Seventh
edition, preceded only by the editions of 1485, 1498, 1529, 1557, 1578,
and 1634, all but the last virtually unobtainable. Two twentyfourmo volumes. Each volume with engraved frontispiece and added engraved title.
Publisher’s tan printed paper over boards, uncut and largely unopened.
Hinges cracked, but firm, front joint of Volume I neatly strengthened at an
early date, spines a little worn but not darkened, light wear to corners. Otherwise this is a wonderful copy in a remarkably preserved fragile binding.
Copies of this edition
in the original printed
boards are truly rare.
Armorial bookplate
on front pastedown
and early ink inscription on half-title of
each volume. Housed
together in a quarter
calf clamshell case.
“These unassuming
little volumes were
the first publication
of the works of Sir
Thomas Malory in the nineteenth century, and their importance cannot be overestimated…[The three-volume edition edited by Joseph
Haslewood and published by R. Wilks] was the second to appear in
1816” (Gaines, pp. 13-16). DB 00616.
$4,500
A Fine First Edition Set
of Presentation Copies of the Four “Pooh” Books
Eight Hand-Colored Aquatints of the Capitals of Europe
72. MILNE, A[lan] A[lexander]. When We Were Very Young. [Together
with:] Winnie-the-Pooh. [And:] Now We Are Six. [And:] The House at Pooh
with glazed paper of various colors. The front boards elaborately embossed in blind with the name of each city in black in a medallion in the
center. Minimal rubbing to extremities, a few spines slightly chipped.
Some light foxing. An excellent copy of this charming and fragile set
of pocket guides to European capitals. Booklabel on front pastedown
and ink signature on front free endpaper of each volume except Paris.
Housed together in the original cardboard slipcase covered with patterned paper (slipcase neatly repaired). DB 00709.
$2,500
Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: [1924-1928].
First editions. Presentation copies, each volume inscribed by the author. When We Were Very Young inscribed on the front free endpaper:
“This is Edna Dickstein’s book./A:A:Milne/[flourish]/Sep: 6th, 1927.
And that’s her birthday./[flourishes].” Winnie-the-Pooh inscribed on the
recto of the preliminary blank leaf: “For Mabel/with love from/A:A:
Milne.” Now We Are Six inscribed on the half-title: “This book belongs
70. MALO, Charles. Les Capitales de l’Europe. Promenades Pittoresques.
[Paris, Londres, St-Pétersbourg, Vienne, Rome, Berlin, Madrid, Constantinople]. Paris: [n.d., 1829]. Eight twelvemo volumes. Hand-colored
aquatint view in each volume. Bound in the original thin boards covered
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to/Charles Wilson/[flourish]/A:A:Milne/[flourish].” The House at Pooh
Corner inscribed on the half-title: “Charles Wilson’s book/[flourish]/A:
A:Milne/[flourish].” Four small octavo volumes. Text illustrations.
Original royal blue, dark green, dark red, and salmon cloth, respectively,
pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Each volume with the pencilled
signature of M.S. Slocum, Pasadena. A fine set. In the original pictorial
dust jackets. Housed together in a morocco book-back pull-off case by
Sangorski & Sutcliffe. DB 00762.
$45,000
The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the Four “Pooh” Books
73. MILNE, A.A. When We Were Very Young. [Together with:] Winnie-the-Pooh. [And:] Now We Are Six. [And:] The House at Pooh Corner.
With Decorations by E.H. Shepard. London: [1974-1978]. Each volume
limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by Christopher Milne. Four small
octavo volumes. Text illustrations. Publisher’s light blue, red, maroon,
and salmon morocco, respectively, pictorially stamped and lettered in
gilt. A fine set. Each volume housed in the publisher’s slipcase and the
four volumes housed together in a book-back cloth clamshell case with
multicolor morocco spines by Zaehnsdorf. DB 00146.
$6,500
One of 500 Copies Signed by A.A. Milne
74. MILNE, A.A. A Gallery of Children. Illustrations by Saida (H.
Willebeek Le Mair). London: [1925]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500
copies (of which 485 are for sale), numbered and signed by the author.
Large quarto. Color pictorial title and twelve color plates. Original white
buckram over bevelled boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt.
Very slight soiling to cloth, endpapers lightly foxed. Short tear to outer
margin of one leaf. Otherwise a near fine copy. DB 00147.
$1,500
Monnier’s “Theatrical Gallery”
75. [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator]. Galerie Théâtrale. Paris: [n.d.,
1828]. Large folio. Twenty-four hand-colored lithographed plates. All
plates mounted on guards. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco
over marbled boards. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in
gilt. Light rubbing to extremities. Some minor foxing and/or soiling. A
One of a Few Copies
with an Original Pencil Drawing by Barry Moser
76. [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. [PENNYROYAL PRESS]. BAUM, L.
Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz…With an Appreciation by Justin G.
Schiller. West Hatfield, Massachusetts: 1985. Limited to 350 numbered
copies, signed by Barry Moser. One of a few copies with an original signed
pencil drawing by Barry Moser. In this copy the drawing is of “Dorothy
in the Golden Cap.” Large quarto. Sixty-two wood engravings. Bound by
David Bourbeau at the Thistle Bindery in Barcham Green Dewint paper
over boards with front cover embossed and lettered in gilt and back
cover embossed and lettered in blind. A mint copy. Housed in a cloth
clamshell case. Laid in is a copy of the pamphlet “Forty-Seven Days to
Oz, A Chronicle of the Studies for the Illustrations for The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz by Barry Moser, Published by Pennyroyal Press, 1985.”
DB 00269.
$2,500
The Norwegian Polar Expedition, 1893-1896
77. NANSEN, Fridtjof. Fridtjof Nansen’s “Farthest North.” Being the
Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a
Fifteen Months’ Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen…
Westminster: 1897. First edition in English of Nansen’s own account of
his polar expedition in 1893-1896 (first published in 1897 as Fram over
Polhavet. Den norske polarfærd 1893-1896). Two large octavo volumes.
Etched frontispiece portrait, two photogravure plates, sixteen colored
lithographic plates, 110 plates and ninety-two text illustrations, mostly
from photographs, and four folding color maps. Original blue-green cloth
pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing to extremities,
front hinge of each volume cracked, but sound, slight discoloration to
cloth on spine of Volume II. Some occasional minor foxing. Overall, an
excellent copy. DB 00519.
$600
A Superb Copy in the Original Green Vellum Binding
78. [NIELSEN, Kay, illustrator]. QUILLER-COUCH, Sir Arthur. In
Powder & Crinoline. Old Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
London: [n.d., 1913]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 copies, numbered
and signed by the artist. Large quarto. Inserted title and twenty-six
mounted color plates. Original full green vellum over boards pictorially
stamped and lettered in gilt. Later green silk ties. Covers very slightly
bowed, minimal wear to extremities, endpapers a little foxed. A near
fine copy of this title, which usually appears with the green vellum badly
discolored. The gilt is fresh and bright. DB 00152.
$6,500
One of the Greatest American Playwrights
79. O’NEILL, Eugene. The Plays of Eugene O’Neill. New York: [19341935]. Wilderness Edition. Limited to 770 numbered sets, signed by the
author in Volume I. Twelve octavo volumes. Photogravure frontispieces.
Designed by Elmer Adler and printed on specially watermarked paper.
Original russet buckram decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. A
fine set. DB 00739.
$1,500
Papworth’s “Select Views of London,”
with Seventy-Six Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates
few tiny marginal tears. Two bookplates on front pastedown. Small ink
stamp on the verso of thirteen plates. An excellent copy. “The theme
of the street entertainer was popular with lithographers, although
with the notable exception of Daumier, their miserable state was not
often depicted…Monnier, a playwright and actor as well as a draftsman, included this low theatrical form in his Galerie théâtrale, which
is otherwise devoted to scenes of actors, rehearsals, and back-stage life
of the indoor legitimate theatre” (Beatrice Farwell, The Charged Image,
p. 112). DB 00501.
$5,500
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80. PAPWORTH, John P. Select Views of London; with Historical and
Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting of Its Public Buildings. London: 1816.
First edition, first issue, with Papworth’s
name on the titlepage. Large octavo.
Seventy-six handcolored aquatint
plates (five doublepage and folding).
Plates watermarked
1815. Contemporary
Regency calf, neatly
rebacked, with original spine laid down. Covers decoratively bordered
in gilt, spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with black
morocco gilt lettering label. A little light offsetting from the plates to
the text. Armorial bookplate of Frank Brewer Bemis and bookplate
of Gladys Robinson on the front pastedown. An excellent early copy.
Housed in a cloth slipcase. DB 00640.
$9,500
The Tamerlane Edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
81. POE, Edgar Allan. The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Edited
and Chronologically Arranged on the Basis of the Standard Text, with
Certain Additional Material and with a Critical Introduction by Charles F.
Richardson…Illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn. New York: [1902].
Tamerlane Edition. Limited to 300 numbered sets printed on Ruisdael
hand-made paper. Ten octavo volumes. Photogravure frontispieces and
plates in two states (one of the frontispieces in color). Contemporary olive
green morocco. Covers decoratively panelled in gilt, spines decoratively
tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, board edges and turn-ins
ruled in gilt, mauve morocco doublures decoratively tooled in gilt, pink
watered silk liners, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spines uniformly faded
to brown. A fine set. DB 00565.
$19,500
One of 250 Copies Signed by Cole Porter
82. PORTER, Cole. Red Hot and Blue. A Musical Comedy. New York:
1936. First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by Cole
Porter. Folio. Original red, white, and blue watered silk over boards.
from the 1936 Broadway musical which starred Ethel Merman, Jimmy
Durante, and Bob Hope. DB 00158.
$6,500
“They Call Me ‘Peter Rabbit’!!”
83. POTTER, Beatrix. Autograph Letter Signed by Beatrix Potter
to a Miss Joy Shapland, Bellaire, Barnstaple, N. Devon, Sept[ember]
26 [19]13. Four octavo pages. With three original drawings by Beatrix
Potter of her pet pigs, including “Little Pig Robinson.” Together with the
original envelope. A wonderful and unique item. “I have had a photograph of you and two nice funny pictures of Mrs Tittlemouse since last
June! It is almost too late
to say ‘thank you’; you will
be quite surprised to get
a letter. I was very ill last
spring—I thought it was
the last of ‘Peter Rabbit’,
and since then I have been
drawing [three pigs drawn
in the letter]—dozens of
pigs! I have been so tired
of them, but the printers
said all the little friends
would be disappointed if I
did not screw out my usual
Christmas book. I’m afraid
it is not very good this
time, but I have done my
best; and I am well again,
so I hope to do better next
year. You do look a funny little fatty, lying amongst the Sea pinks, if Mrs
Tittlemouse were there, I’m sure she would want to kiss you and tickle
you! I have Sea pinks in my garden—‘thrift’ sometimes we call it; and I
have six little Spotty pigs in a stye. Just now I am up in London to see
about printing, so I have found time to answer your letter. I am glad
you like ‘Mrs Tittlemouse’, I am fond of her too, and I like going round
with a mop & doing house work; but the children in the village where
I live don’t call me that name—they call me ‘Peter Rabbit’!! A friend of
mine has got a gray squirrel called ‘Joy’, she is very tame & lives in a big
parrot cage. Much love from Beatrix Potter.” DB 00777.
$30,000
A Fine Copy of “The Fairy Caravan”—
the Only Signed Limited Beatrix Potter Book
84. POTTER, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan. Philadelphia: David McKay
Company, [1929]. Autographed Edition. Limited to 100 numbered
copies, signed by Beatrix Potter. Small quarto. Six color plates, twenty
Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Spine very slightly faded. Minimal
wear and fraying to corners. A little bit of brown glue staining to inner
hinges, as usual. An excellent copy (much better than is usually seen),
with the gilt very bright. Contains the sheet music for ten Cole Porter
songs (including the popular “It’s De-Lovely” and “Red, Hot and Blue”)
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full-page black and white illustrations, and forty-two black and white
vignettes in the text. Original dark green cloth with color pictorial
label on front cover. Spine lettered in gilt. Minimal rubbing to corners
and spine extremities, a couple of tiny marks on the back cover, front
hinge expertly and almost invisibly repaired, rear hinge just starting,
but sound. Previous owner’s ink inscription on front free endpaper. A
lovely copy, internally fine, of this notoriously rare book. In the original
color pictorial dust jacket. The jacket is the finest that we have ever seen,
with only a couple of tiny little nicks on the edges. This edition contains
an inserted limitation leaf bearing the following statement: “The autographed edition of this book is limited to one hundred copies, none of
which will be offered for sale. This copy is number 21. It is presented
with the compliments of the author.” The Autographed Edition does not
appear in Linder, Quinby, or V & A. DB 00695.
$14,500
Beatrix Potter’s Privately Printed
Ambleside Edition of “The Fairy Caravan”
85. POTTER, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Heelis (“Beatrix
Potter”). [Philadelphia and London]: Copyright of the Author, 1929.
Beatrix Potter’s privately printed Ambleside edition. One of 100 copies, with the first nine leaves printed at Ambleside and the remaining
sections from the sheets of David McKay’s Philadelphia edition. Large
An Original Watercolor Drawing
of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
87. POTTER, Beatrix. “Peter Rabbit Sledging.” [N.p.: n.d., ca. 19001910]. Early pen-and-ink and watercolor drawing. Depicts two rabbits,
wearing blue sweaters, in the snow, with one rabbit pulling a sled which
has overturned on the other rabbit. Image size: 3 x 4 inches; 90 x 115
mm. Exhibited: The British Art of Illustration 1800-1995. Matted, framed,
and glazed. DB 00626.
$52,500
The First Privately Printed Edition
of Beatrix Potter’s Scarce Second Book
88. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. [London]: December
1902. First (privately printed) edition of Beatrix Potter’s scarce second
book. One of 500 copies printed. Twelvemo. Color frontispiece and
fifteen color plates. Original pink boards pictorially stamped and lettered in black on front cover. Minimal foxing to boards and endpapers.
Otherwise a mint copy. Housed in a morocco clamshell case. “Her
octavo. Frontispiece and five color plates, twenty-one full-page black
and white illustrations (including the vignette of seven dogs on p. [5]),
and forty-two black and white vignettes in the text. Loosely inserted in
a cloth chemise are the first eighteen pages of the Philadelphia edition,
together with a duplicate set of the first eighteen pages of the Ambleside
edition. Original quarter dark green cloth over green boards. Front cover
lettered in dark green. Spine extremities a tiny bit creased. A very fine
copy of this extremely scarce Beatrix Potter item. Housed in a morocco
clamshell case. “In the privately bound copies of The Fairy Caravan,
the first eighteen pages of the American edition, including the preface
and dedication page, were discarded, and a new set of pages printed at
Ambleside. An additional page was added on which were sketches of
dogs she knew” (Linder, pp. 292-294). DB 00766.
$15,500
First Edition of “Ginger & Pickles,”
in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
86. POTTER, Beatrix. Ginger & Pickles. London: 1909. First edition.
Small quarto. Color frontispiece and nine full-page color illustrations.
Black and white vignette on the title-page and nineteen black and white
vignettes in the text. Original greenish-tan boards decoratively stamped
and lettered in darker green. Color pictorial label on front cover. Previous owner’s ink presentation inscription on half-title. A near fine copy.
In an original slightly later (ca. 1911) glazed paper glassine dust jacket
printed in black. Jacket with a closed tear to front panel and another to
rear panel, not affecting text. DB 00685.
$4,750
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privately printed edition of Peter Rabbit having enjoyed some success,
Beatrix Potter decided to have this next work brought out in the same
manner…It has a format similar to the privately printed Peter Rabbit, but
with a binding of pink printed boards” (Morgan Library, Early Children’s
Books, 221). DB 00663.
$6,500
First Published Edition of “The Tailor of Gloucester,”
in the Original Deluxe Floral Cloth Binding
89. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: 1903. First
published edition, first issue (printed October 1903), with a singlepage endpaper occurring four times. Twelvemo. Color frontispiece and
twenty-six color plates. Eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the
December 1902 privately printed edition and seventeen are new for this
edition. Original deluxe floral cloth binding. Front
cover with two white cloth gilt lettering labels.
Spine a little darkened, with minimal rubbing to
extremities. Some very light marginal soiling. Small
“Punch” figure neatly stamped in the blank center
of the front pastedown. An excellent copy. Previous
owner’s ink inscription on front free endpaper.
Housed in a cloth slipcase decoratively tooled in
gilt. The floral cloth fabric, which was also used on
the deluxe binding of The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin,
came from Beatrix Potter’s grandfather’s firm,
Edmund Potter & Co. of Dinting Vale, Manchester. Beatrix Potter referred to these two books as
“bound in a flowered lavender chintz, very pretty”
(Linder, pp. 138-140). DB 00664.
$9,500
First Published Edition of
“The Tailor of Gloucester,” in the Rare
Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
90. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: 1903. First
published edition, first issue (printed October 1903), with a singlepage endpaper occurring four times. Twelvemo. Color frontispiece
and twenty-six color plates. Eleven of the illustrations are repeated
from the December 1902
privately printed edition
and seventeen are new
for this edition. Original
maroon boards ruled and
lettered in white. Color
pictorial label on front
cover. Minimal fading to
spine. Small bookseller’s
label on rear pastedown.
Otherwise a very fine copy.
In the rare original glazed
paper glassine dust jacket
printed in black. The jacket has a few very small chips along the top
edge, but it is certainly the finest jacket for this title that we have ever
seen. DB 00665.
$17,500
First Edition of “Benjamin Bunny,”
in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
91. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. London: 1904. First
edition. Twelvemo. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates. Black
and white vignette on title-page. Original tan boards ruled and lettered
in dark green. Color pictorial label on front cover. Minimal darkening
to board edges. Otherwise a near fine copy. In the original glazed paper
glassine dust jacket printed in black. Small pieces are missing from the
top and bottom of the jacket spine (including the
price), as well as a small piece missing on the back
panel. DB 00667.
$8,500
First Edition of “Benjamin Bunny,”
in the Original Deluxe Cloth Binding
92.POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.
London: 1904. First edition. Twelvemo. Color
frontispiece and twenty-six color plates. Black
and white vignette on title-page. Original deluxe
binding of
tan cloth
decoratively stamped
and lettered
in gilt. Color pictorial
label on
front cover.
All edges gilt. The bare minimum
of rubbing to corners and spine
extremities. A few tiny faint ink
splatters on pp. 70 and 71 and a tiny abrasion in the lower blank margin,
where they were once adhered to one another. Otherwise a very fine
copy. DB 00733.
$12,500
First Edition of “Jemima Puddle-Duck,” Signed by
Beatrix Potter and in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
93. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. London: 1908.
First edition. Signed by the author/illustrator (“Beatrix Potter”) on the
half-title. Twelvemo. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates.
Black and white vignette on title-page. Original green boards ruled and
lettered in white. Color pictorial label on front cover. The spine is a little
bit darkened and has been expertly strengthened at the top and bottom.
Small stain in the lower margin of the rear endpapers, just touching
into the book. Pages 32 and 33 were once adhered together in the lower
blank margin, resulting in some minor surface loss from p. 33 onto p.
32. A very good copy. In the scarce original glazed paper glassine dust
jacket printed in black. The jacket has been expertly strengthened at
the top and bottom of the spine, not affecting any lettering. Otherwise
this is a remarkably fine jacket. Housed in a morocco clamshell case.
DB 00680.
$18,500
First Edition of “Jemima Puddle-Duck,”
in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
94. POTTER, Beatrix.
The Tale of Jemima PuddleDuck. London: 1908. First
edition. Twelvemo. Color
frontispiece and twentysix color plates. Black and
white vignette on title-page.
Original gray boards ruled
and lettered in white. Color
pictorial label on front
cover. A near fine copy. In
the scarce original glazed
paper glassine dust jacket
printed in black. Apart from some light creasing, this jacket is in remarkably fine condition. DB 00769.
$14,500
First Issue of “Johnny Town-Mouse,” Incribed by
Beatrix Potter and in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
95. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. Londo[n]: [n.d.,
December 1918]. First edition, first issue (printed December 1918),
with the final “n” missing in “London” on the title-page. Presenta19
tion copy, inscribed
by the author/illustrator on the front
free endpaper: “Miss
Wheelwright/with
kind regards from/
‘Beatrix Potter’/Dec
18.18.” Twelvemo.
Color frontispiece
and twenty-six color plates. Black and
white vignette on
title-page. Original
gray-green boards
ruled and lettered in white. Color pictorial label on front cover. Minimal rubbing. Minor marginal soiling to a few leaves. A near fine copy.
In the rare original glazed paper glassine dust jacket printed in black
(different from the “advertising runner” described by Quinby). There
is a piece missing at the upper edge of the rear panel, not affecting any
text. Housed in a calf clamshell case. DB 00692.
$18,500
First Edition of “Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle,” Signed by
Beatrix Potter and in the Original Glassine Dust Jacket
96. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. London: 1905.
First edition. Signed by the author/illustrator (“Beatrix Potter”) on the
verso of the frontispiece. Twelvemo. Color frontispiece and twenty-six
color plates. Black and white vignette on title-page. Original brown
boards ruled and
lettered in white.
Color pictorial
paper label on
front cover. Expert repair to
rear joint. Some
minor marginal
soiling. Pages 10
and 11 were once
adhered to one
another, causing
loss of half of
the word “kins”
in line 6 on p. 10
(it is all actually
present, but stuck onto the opposite page). Blindstamp of W.H. Smith &
Son, London, on front free endpaper. Previous owner’s ink signature on
half-title and small red ink stamp on half-title and verso of half-title. A
very good copy. In the original glazed paper glassine dust jacket printed
in black. Some tears to jacket spine, with the top 1/4 inch chipped away.
Housed in a morocco clamshell case. DB 00670.
$18,500
The First Trade Edition of “Peter Rabbit”
97. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London: [n.d., 1902].
First Warne edition, first, second, or third printing (October-December 1902), all identical. Twelvemo. Color
frontispiece and thirty
color plates. Black and
white vignette on titlepage. Original dark
brown boards lettered
in white. Color pictorial label on front cover.
Gray leaf-patterned
endpapers. Some very
minor rubbing to bottom of rear joint, small
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split to front hinge at bottom, text block very slightly shaken. A little bit
of foxing, mainly to edges and endpapers, and a tiny bit of marginal soiling. A very good copy. “There are no recognizable differences between
the first three printings, except that green boards were introduced after
the first printing” (Linder, p. 421). DB 00662.
$10,500
First Edition of “Pigling Bland,” Inscribed by Beatrix Potter
and in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
98. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Pigling Bland. London: 1913. First
edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author/illustrator on the verso
of the frontispiece: “With love to Ruth/from/Cousin Beatrix/Dec. 1913.”
Twelvemo. Color frontispiece and fourteen
color plates. Black
and white vignette
on the title-page and
thirty-seven black and
white vignettes in the
text. Original maroon
boards decoratively
stamped and lettered
in white. Color pictorial label on front
cover. Boards a little
bit faded, neat repair
to rear joint, top and
bottom of spine worn, lettering
on spine a little
bit rubbed, especially at the bottom. A couple of
small marginal ink stains between pp. 8 and 9. A very good copy. In the
rare original glazed paper glassine dust jacket printed in black. Apart
from a small piece chipped away at the top of the spine, not affecting
any text, the jacket is near fine. DB 00690.
$11,500
First Edition of “The Tale of Samuel Whiskers,”
Signed by Beatrix Potter
99. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly
Pudding. London: [1926]. First edition in this format (originally published in 1908 in large format as The Roly-Poly Pudding). Signed by the
author/illustrator (“Beatrix Potter”) on the half-title. Twelvemo. Eighteen
full-page color illustrations. Thirty-nine black and white vignettes in
the text. Original red boards ruled and lettered in white. Color pictorial
label on front cover. Boards slightly faded, corners a tiny bit bumped,
front hinge strengthened. The color of the spine has been touched up
a little bit. A very good copy. Scarce. DB 00683.
$4,850
First Edition of “Squirrel Nutkin,”
in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
100. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. London: [November] 1903. First edition, third printing, with “1903” and the words “Author of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’” on the title-page. Twelvemo. Color
frontispiece and twenty-six color plates. Black and white vignette on
title-page. Original dark blue boards ruled and lettered in white. Color
pictorial label on front cover. Ink presentation inscription on the verso of
the frontispiece: “To
Ruthie Smith/from
‘Wheel’. /[flourish]/
Xmas 1903.” An absolutely mint copy.
In the original glazed
paper glassine dust
jacket printed in
black. The jacket has
some chipping at
the top and bottom
edges, including a
small piece missing
from the bottom of the spine (with loss of the “ET” in
the word “NET”) and a small piece missing from the
fold of the rear flap, but generally, it is wonderfully
complete. DB 00666.
$10,500
First Edition of “The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies,”
in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
101. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.
London: 1909. First edition, first or second printing,
with the Notice Board in the illustration on p. 14.
Twelvemo. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color
plates. Black and white vignette on title-page. Original
dark green boards ruled and lettered in white. Color
pictorial label on front cover. Spine minimally darkened. Small split to front hinge. Otherwise a fine copy.
In the original (possibly earlier) glazed paper glassine
dust jacket printed in black. Jacket with a little fraying
at the top of the spine, otherwise near fine (this jacket
has been on the book for its entire life, causing the
darkening on the spine). Housed in a quarter morocco
clamshell case. DB 00684.
$7,500
First Edition of “Timmy Tiptoes,”
in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
102. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. London: 1911. First
edition. Twelvemo. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates.
Black and white vignette on title-page.
Original dark green
boards ruled and
lettered in white.
Cover pictorial label
on front cover. A
near mint copy. In
the original glazed
paper glassine dust
jacket printed in
black. A remarkable and complete
jacket, with only a
tiny bit of chipping
at the top and bottom of the spine and a closed tear at the bottom of
the spine. DB 00687.
$7,500
First Edition of “Timmy Tiptoes,”
in the Original Deluxe Cloth Binding
103. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. London: 1911. First
edition. Twelvemo. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates.
Black and white
vignette on titlepage. Original deluxe binding of
green cloth decoratively stamped
and lettered in gilt.
Color pictorial label on front cover.
All edges gilt. The
bare minimum of
rubbing to corners
and spine extremities. Otherwise an
absolutely mint
copy. Previous owner’s ink signature on front free endpaper. Small
bookseller’s ticket on rear pastedown. Housed in a morocco clamshell
case. DB 00688.
$8,500
First Edition of “Tom Kitten,” Inscribed
by Beatrix Potter and in the Original
Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
104. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Tom Kitten. London: 1907. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed
by the author/illustrator on the front free endpaper:
“For Kate,/with love from/Beatrix Potter./Christmas
1907.” Twelvemo. Color frontispiece and twentysix color plates.
Black and white
vignette on titlepage. Original
greenish brown
boards ruled
and lettered in
white. Color
pictorial paper
label on front
cover. There is
some evidence
(glue visible at
p. 40) that the
lower portion (about 1 inch) of the
book may been tightened a little.
The top half of the book has never been touched. Otherwise a near fine
copy. In the original glazed paper glassine dust jacket printed in black.
The jacket is in fine condition. DB 00678.
$18,500
First Edition of “Tom Kitten,”
in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket
105. P O T T E R ,
Beatrix. The Tale of
Tom Kitten. London:
1907. First edition.
Twelvemo. Color
frontispiece and
twenty-six color
plates. Black and
white vignette on
title-page. Original greenish brown
boards ruled and
lettered in white.
Color pictorial paper label on front
cover. A fine copy. In the original glazed paper glassine dust jacket
printed in black. The jacket is in fine condition. DB 00770.
$14,500
First Edition of “The Tale of Two Bad Mice,”
in the Original Deluxe Cloth Binding and Glassine Dust Jacket
106. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Two Bad Mice. London: 1904. First edition. Twelvemo. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates. Black and
white vignette on
title-page (expertly
hand-colored in
this copy). Original
deluxe binding of
maroon cloth decoratively stamped
and lettered in gilt.
Color pictorial label
on front cover. All
edges gilt. Minimal
rubbing to spine
extremities and corners. There is a very
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small watercolor stain in the margin of the title-page and in the lower
margin of the frontispiece. Previous owner’s inscription on the front
free endpaper. Otherwise an excellent copy. In the original plain glazed
paper glassine dust jacket. DB 00668.
$7,750
A Superb Original Arthur Rackham Watercolor Drawing
for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “A Wonder Book”
107. RACKHAM, Arthur. “The Paradise of Children.” London: 1922.
Original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawing for the tinted line drawing
illustrating “The Paradise of Children” (“Pandora’s Box”) in Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book (London: [n.d., 1922]). Signed and dated
at lower right. Image size: 15 x 11 inches (381 x 279 mm.). Matted,
framed, and glazed. This charming watercolor drawing depicts life as
mounted on heavy
brown paper. Four
drawings in black
and white. Original vellum over
boards pictorially
stamped and lettered in gilt. Later
green silk ties.
Map of Kensington Gardens on
front free endpaper. The spine
is very slightly
darkened and the
gilt on the spine is a little dull. Otherwise a fine copy. Previous owner’s
ink presentation inscription, dated Christmas 1906, on the dedication
leaf. “This was the book which first made Rackham’s work famous” (The
Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature). DB 00652.
$7,500
Extremely Scarce 1912 Deluxe Edition
of Arthur Rackham’s “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens”
109. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in
Kensington Gardens. From The Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie. A New
Edition. London: [n.d., 1912]. Deluxe edition, one of fifty (?) copies.
it was before Pandora opened the “great ugly box.” “The moment one
opens Hawthorne’s Wonder Book one becomes aware of the rounding
and softening of form in Rackham’s work. The modern Pandora of
Hawthorne opens her box for the world in 1921, and she is a very living
young girl, with breasts just beginning to swell, indicating that Rackham
was aware of the undertones of this story which is being retold with
every lifetime. In ‘The Paradise of Children’…the children are drawn in
line, but the washes of colour give them a rotundity of form and a very
human life. The point which Rackham is making, surely, is that these
are real children, a real Pandora, and not some dream from fairy land”
(Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, p. 141). DB 00625.
$38,500
Signed Limited Edition
of Arthur Rackham’s “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens”
108. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (From “The Little White Bird”). London: 1906. Deluxe edition. Limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist (this being
copy No. 2). Large quarto. Color frontispiece and forty-nine color plates
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Large quarto. Fifty mounted color plates, seven full-page black and
white drawings, and fifteen black and white drawings in the text. Map of
Kensington Gardens on the verso of the contents leaf. Full red morocco
by Zaehnsdorf. Front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt to
match the original cover stamping. A little bit of foxing. An excellent
copy. Reprint of the 1906 edition with a new color frontispiece and seven
additional full-page black and white drawings. DB 00581.
$4,500
Edition de Luxe, Signed by Arthur Rackham
110. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: [1915]. Limited to 525 numbered copies, of which
500 are for sale
in Great Britain,
Ireland and Colonies, signed by the
artist. Large quarto. Twelve color
plates mounted
on heavy brown
paper and twenty
drawings in black
and white. Original vellum over
boards pictorially
stamped and lettered in gilt. Yellow silk ties renewed. The gilt on the
spine is very slightly rubbed. Expertly repaired tear to rear free endpaper.
Otherwise a near fine copy. DB 00386.
$3,750
One of 750 Copies Signed by Arthur Rackham
111. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. [GRIMM, Jakob and Wilhelm].
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas.
London: 1909. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 750 numbered copies for sale
in Great Britain and Ireland, signed by the artist. Large quarto. Forty
mounted color plates and forty-five drawings in black and white (nine
full-page). Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered
in gilt. Yellow silk ties renewed. Minimal rubbing to extremities, slight
discoloration to vellum, endpapers very lightly foxed. Some very minor
offsetting from the text illustrations. A few tiny marginal tears. Short
crease to plate facing p. 90. Two small stains to verso of mount for plate
facing p. 128. Overall, an excellent copy. Housed in a quarter morocco
slipcase. “Reprinted from the 1900 edition, with added illustrations and
larger pages” (Latimore and Haskell, p. 34). DB 00474.
$6,500
In the Very Scarce Original Dust Jacket
112. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GRIMM, [Jakob and Wilhelm].
Hansel & Grethel & Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm. London: [1920]. First
separate edition (originally published in Arthur Rackham’s The Fairy Tales
of the Brothers Grimm (London: 1909)). Quarto. Twenty mounted color
plates and twenty-eight black and white drawings in the text. Original
dark blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Free endpapers
slightly browned from pastedown glue. Tiny bookseller’s label on front
pastedown. A fine copy. In the very scarce original tan paper dust jacket
printed in dark blue, the front panel matching the gilt stamping on the
front cover of the book and the back panel with publisher’s advertisements (jacket spine very slightly darkened). DB 00543.
$1,250
One of Eleven Special Copies
with an Original Watercolor Drawing by Arthur Rackham
113. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt. A
Dramatic Poem…London: [1936]. Limited to 460 numbered copies (of
which 450 are for sale), signed
by the artist. One of eleven
special copies (this copy being
No. 11) containing an original watercolor drawing (on
an inserted leaf between the
half-title and the frontispiece)
signed and dated at lower left:
“Arthur Rackham/1936.” The
drawing depicts a young Peer
Gynt being attacked by a group
of troll imps and running for
his life through a forest of
anthropomorphic trees. Large
quarto. Twelve mounted color
plates and numerous black
and white illustrations in the
text. Specially bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full green
morocco decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Original pictorial
endpapers bound in. Bookplate on front pastedown. Spine slightly faded,
otherwise a very fine copy. DB 00268.
$35,000
One of 750 Copies Signed by Arthur Rackham
114. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. LAMB, Charles and Mary. Tales
from Shakespeare. London: 1909. Limited to 750 numbered copies, signed
by the artist. Large quarto. Thirteen mounted color plates, including
the additional plate not present in the trade edition. Two full-page illustrations in black and white, twenty chapter headings, and fourteen
tail-pieces. Original white buckram decoratively stamped and lettered
in gilt. Original rose-colored silk ties. A fine copy. DB 00579. $2,500
One of Ten Special Copies
with an Original Watercolor Drawing by Arthur Rackham
115. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery & Imagination. London: [1935]. Limited to 460 numbered copies (of
which 450 are for sale), signed
by the artist. One of ten special
copies (this copy being No. 5)
containing an original watercolor drawing (on an inserted
leaf between the half-title and
the frontispiece), signed and
dated at lower right: “Arthur
Rackham/1935.” The drawing
depicts a man in his pajamas,
with his red slippers on, and a
ghost-like skeleton coming up
beside him giving him a fright,
causing his hair to stand on
end and causing him to drop
his copy of Poe’s Tales. Large
quarto. Twelve mounted color
plates, seventeen black and
white plates, and eleven small
black and white drawings in
the text. Specially bound by
Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full green morocco decoratively stamped and
lettered in gilt. Original pictorial endpapers bound in. Spine slightly
faded, otherwise a fine copy. In the original cardboard slipcase with
printed spine label with matching limitation number (lower edge of
slipcase expertly and almost invisibly replaced). DB 00267.
$37,500
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With Two Original Signed
Pen-and-Ink Drawings
by Arthur Rackham
116. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. WAGNER, Richard.
The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie.
[Together with:] Siegfried & The
Twilight of the Gods. Translated
by Margaret Armour. London:
1910-1911. First trade editions.
Two quarto volumes. Each
volume with an original penand-ink drawing, signed and
dated by Arthur Rackham. The
Rhinegold & The Valkyrie with
thirty-four mounted color plates
and fourteen drawings in black
and white and Siegfried & The
Twilight of the Gods with thirty
mounted color plates and nine drawings in black
and white. Original light brown buckram pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Slight
browning, primarily to leaves preceding and following plates. A few tiny
tears and creases to upper edge of two leaves in Siegfried & The Twilight
of the Gods. Otherwise near fine copies. DB 00360.
$4,500
An Early English Edition of the Reynard Fables
117. [REYNARD THE FOX]. The Most Delectable History of Reynard
the Fox. Newly Corrected and Purged, from all grossness in Phrase and
Matter…London: 1701. [Bound with:] The Most Pleasant and Delightful
History of Reynard the Fox. The
Second Part…London: [And:]
The Shifts of Reynardine The
Son of Reynard the Fox, Or a
Pleasant History of His Life and
Death…London: 1684. Three
parts in one small quarto
volume. Sixty-two woodcuts
in the first part, printed from
thirty-nine blocks, and fifteen
woodcuts in the second part,
five repeated, all repeats
from the first part. Most
cuts signed “E.B.” (Edward
Brewster). Contemporary
sprinkled sheep with covers
decoratively tooled in blind
and spine decoratively tooled
in gilt in compartments with
two red morocco gilt lettering
labels. Minor restoration to covers. Some browning, occasional light
dampstaining and soiling. Part I with tiny puncture marks in the lower
blank margin through gathering I, just touching one letter in the imprint
on the title-page, six small holes in I3 and one tiny hole in I4, causing
loss of a couple of letters. A few minor marginal paper flaws. Armorial
bookplate of Gloucester on front free endpaper. Bookplate of Hugh
Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944) on front pastedown.
An excellent copy. DB 00654.
$18,500
W. Heath Robinson’s “Book of Goblins”
118. [ROBINSON, W. Heath, illustrator]. Heath Robinson’s Book of Goblins. A Collection of Folk-Lore and Fairy Tales…London: [n.d., 1934].
First edition. Quarto. Seven color plates, eight full-page and forty-five
smaller black and white line drawings, and ninety-three black and
white vignettes of goblins. Original blue cloth pictorially stamped in
blind and lettered in gilt. Early ink inscription on front free endpaper.
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Small insignificant stain on the fore-edge. A very light dampstain in
the lower margin of the first few leaves. Otherwise an excellent copy.
Stories “taken from Vernaleken’s collection of Bohemian folk-tales, In
the Land of Marvels…The change of title was obviously an attempt by the
publisher to cash in both on Heath Robinson’s reputation as a humorist
and on the popularity of his already well known goblin pictures” (Beare,
p. 90). DB 00544.
$750
One of 500 Copies Signed by W. Heath Robinson
119. [ROBINSON, W. Heath, illustrator]. KIPLING, Rudyard. A Song
of the English. London: [n.d., 1909]. First separate edition. Limited to
500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Large quarto. Thirty
mounted color plates. Descriptive tissue guards, each with a miniature
line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white illustrations
in the text. Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped in dark
green, red, and gilt and lettered in gilt and green. Later taupe silk ties.
Some slight discoloration to vellum on covers and very slight rubbing
to gilt on spine. Otherwise an excellent copy. DB 00176.
$1,750
W. Heath Robinson’s “Midsummer-Night’s Dream”
120. [ROBINSON, W. Heath, illustrator]. SHAKESPEARE, [William].
Shakespeare’s Comedy of A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. London: 1914. First
trade edition, third issue (bound in 1919). Large quarto. Twelve mounted
color plates. Forty-seven full-page and nineteen smaller black and white
drawings in the text. Original quarter tan linen over green linen-grain
paper boards. Corners very lightly bumped. Minimal foxing. Otherwise
a near fine copy. In the original brown pictorial dust jacket printed in
black with the original binding design (jacket reinforced at the edges
and spine folds on the verso). “As with Twelfth Night, Heath Robinson
set out to recreate the atmosphere of the play rather than to provide a
pictorial record of the action…It is the black and white illustrations that
dominate the book” (Beare, pp. 43-44). DB 00461.
$1,250
“The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”
Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson
121. [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. [RASPE, Rudolf Erich].
Surprising Adventures of the Renowned Baron Munchausen, Containing
Singular Travels, Campaigns, Voyages, and Adventures…London: 1809.
First edition illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson. Twelvemo. Nine handcolored engraved plates, including folding frontispiece. Contemporary
half red straight-grain morocco over the original drab boards. Spine
decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. All edges gilt.
Minimal rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Minimal offsetting
from the plates. A wonderful copy. With a pencilled note on the front
free endpaper: Beckford Copy. Small diamond-shaped label on the front
pastedown with pencilled shelfmark: B.4. DB 00370.
$3,500
First Edition of “The Catcher in the Rye,”
in the Original First Issue Dust Jacket
122. SALINGER, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: 1951. First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo. Original black cloth decoratively
stamped and lettered in gilt on spine. Extremities very slightly bumped,
gilt on spine a little dull. Occasional minor marginal soiling. Otherwise
a near fine copy. In the original first issue color pictorial dust jacket
designed by Michael Mitchell with Salinger’s photo on the rear panel
by Lotte Jacobi and with the price $3.00 on the front flap. The jacket
the front panel (jacket with the absolute minimum of darkening to
spine, edges with a few very tiny chips at folds and one tiny closed tear
on front panel). The lower corner of the front flap of the dust jacket is
clipped (the front flap originally had two prices, $3.50 at the top and
$3.79 at the bottom (for the Library Edition)—which this is not, so this
price is clipped). This is as fine a copy of the book and dust jacket as we
have ever seen. DB 00066.
$17,500
First Edition of “The Cat in the Hat,”
in the Rare First Issue Dust Jacket
126. SEUSS, Dr. (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel). The Cat in the
Hat. [New York: 1957]. First edition, first issue. Octavo. Color illustrations
throughout. Original unglazed color pictorial boards. Color pictorial
is very slightly browned, but the bright red is totally unfaded—at one
time, however, the jacket was taped to a Brodart and has been neatly
restored in four places on the flaps, with a few letters supplied in ink,
where the tape was removed. DB 00754.
$9,500
“One of the Epic Events of British Exploration”
123. SCOTT, Captain R[obert] F[alcon]. Scott’s Last Expedition…Vol. I.
Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott…Vol. II. Being the Reports of
the Journeys & the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and
the Surviving Members of the Expedition…With Photogravure Frontispieces, 6 Original Sketches in Photogravure by Dr. E.A. Wilson, 18
Coloured Plates (16 from Drawings by Dr. Wilson), 260 Full-Page and
Smaller Illustrations, from Photographs Taken by Herbert G. Ponting,
and Other Members of the Expedition; Panoramas and Maps. London:
1913. First edition. Two large octavo volumes. Original blue cloth ruled
in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Previous owner’s ink inscription
on front pastedown of each volume, bookplate on front pastedown of
Volume l. Some scattered foxing. A near fine set. DB 00657.
$950
First Edition of “Rob Roy”
124. [SCOTT, Sir Walter]. Rob Roy…Edinburgh: 1818. First edition,
first issue. Three twelvemo volumes. Complete with half-titles, but
bound without the final blank leaf in Volume I. Early twentieth-century
antique-style half sprinkled sheep over blue boards. Smooth spines
ruled and numbered in gilt with brown calf gilt lettering label. Corners
lightly rubbed. Minimal foxing and browning, a few leaves with tiny
marginal paper flaws, Volume III with a tiny bit of worming at the outer
edge of a few leaves. Early ink signature cut from original endpaper and
mounted on front pastedown of each volume. Bookseller’s ticket on front
pastedown of each volume. An excellent
copy. DB 00651.
$950
A Fine First Edition of
“Where the Wild Things Are,”
in the Rare First Issue Dust Jacket
125. SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild
Things Are. [New York]: 1963. First edition. Oblong quarto. Color illustrations.
Original color pictorial boards with dark
green cloth backstrip. Color pictorial
endpapers. Minimal soiling and edgewear
to boards. A fine copy. In the rare original
first issue matching color pictorial dust
jacket without the Caldecott Medal on
endpapers. Tiny area of slight discoloration on front board, small stain
on back board, the bare minimum of rubbing to spine extremities, small
erasure at top corner of front free endpaper. A near fine copy, far better
than is usually seen. In the rare original first issue color pictorial dust
jacket, with the price “200/200” on the front flap and with no mention
of the “Beginner Books” series on the rear panel. Jacket with the bare
minimum of rubbing at folds. DB 00381.
$6,500
Katherine Ann Porter’s “Christmas Story,”
with Illustrations by Ben Shahn
127. [SHAHN, Ben, illustrator]. PORTER, Katherine Anne. A Christmas
Story. New York: 1967. First edition. Limited to 500 copies, signed by
the author and the illustrator. Small square octavo. Eight full-page black
and white illustrations, one additional black and white illustration, plus
a photograph of Katherine Anne Porter’s niece, Mary Alice. Original
green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. A fine copy. In the original matching
green cloth slipcase decoratively stamped in gilt. DB 00159.
$300
The Shakespeare Head Brontë
128. [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, [Charlotte, Emily,
Anne, and Patrick Branwell]. The Shakespeare Head Brontë. [In Eleven Volumes].
[Together with:] The Brontës: Their Lives,
Friendships and Correspondence. In Four
Volumes. [And:] The Poems of Charlotte
Brontë & Patrick Branwell Brontë. [And:]
The Poems of Emily Jane Brontë and Anne
Brontë. [And:] The Miscellaneous and
Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and
Patrick Branwell Brontë. In Two Volumes.
[Edited by Thomas James Wise and John
Alexander Symington]. Oxford: 1931[1938]. Limited to 1,000, 750, 500, 500,
and 1,000 copies, respectively. Nineteen
large octavo volumes. Photogravure
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unopened. “This important edition was based on a ‘thorough collation
of the four Folios and of all the Quarto editions of the separate plays, and
of subsequent editions and commentaries’…so that in textual matters it
constitutes a virtual variorum” (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare).
DB 00786.
$11,000
Original Pen-and-Ink Drawing by Ernest H. Shepard
of Christopher Robin “Down by the Pond”
131. SHEPARD, E[rnest] H. “I’m Fishing. Don’t Talk, Anybody, Don’t
Come Near! Can’t You See That The Fish Might Hear?” [N.p.: n.d.].
frontispieces and plates. Original orange buckram lettered in gilt on
spines. A fine set. In the original cream-colored printed dust jackets
(some very minor shelfwear to jackets). DB 00184.
$7,500
The Shakespeare Head Press Spenser
129. [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. SPENSER, Edmund. The Works
of Edmund Spenser. Oxford: 1930-1932. One of 375 numbered copies on
Batchelor’s Shakespeare Head handmade paper, out of a total edition
of 386 copies. Eight large octavo volumes. “The text has been newly
prepared from the original editions by Professor W.L. Renwick…The
headings and initial letters, drawn by Joscelyne Gaskin and engraved
on wood by Hilda Quick, will be printed in colour. The decorations, in
Original pen-and-ink drawing reproducing the illustration on p. 58 of
Now We Are Six (London: [1927]), illustrating the poem, “Down by the
Pond.” Depicts Christopher Robin, at left, tip-toeing through the grass
to the left, holding a fishing pole in his right hand, a bucket in his left
hand, with a basket over his shoulder. At right, three ducks are walking
away in the opposite direction. Image size: 4 1/2 x 8 9/16 inches; 115 x
217 mm. Signed at lower right. Matted. DB 00764.
$25,000
A Wonderful Original Signed Pen-and-Ink Drawing
of Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger by Ernest H. Shepard
part based on the woodcuts in the early editions but for the most part
original, designed and engraved on wood by Hilda Quick, will be coloured by hand” (Publisher’s Prospectus). Bound in the original quarter
green Hermitage calf gilt over marbled boards by Douglas Cockerell.
Minimal rubbing to boards, a few spines very slightly faded. Minor
foxing to edges. A few tiny (ink?) spots in Volume III. Otherwise a fine
set. In the original glassines. With the publisher’s prospectus loosely
laid in. DB 00711.
$2,850
The Cambridge Shakespeare
130. SHAKESPEARE, William. The
Works of William Shakespeare. Edited by
William Aldis Wright. London: 18931895. Second edition of the Cambridge
Shakespeare (first published in nine
volumes in 1863-1866, edited by William
George Clark, with W. Aldis Wright and
John Glover as collaborators). “Five hundred Copies of this Edition on hand-made
paper were printed in 1893[-1895].” Forty
large octavo volumes. Bound by Rivière
& Son in early twentieth-century threequarter royal blue morocco gilt over blue
cloth boards. A near fine set. Partially
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132. SHEPARD, E[rnest] H. “Tiggers
Don’t Like Honey.” [N.p.]: 1961. Original
pen-and-ink drawing reproducing the
illustration on p. 23 of The House at Pooh
Corner (London: [1928]), Chapter II, “In
which Tigger comes to the forest and has
breakfast.” Depicts Winnie-the-Pooh and
Tigger sitting at the dining table, Pooh
with his hand in the honey pot and Tigger,
with a plate and spoon in front of him,
looking quizzically at the honey jar as
honey drips from his mouth. Captioned
below, and signed and dated at lower
right. Image size: 4 x 4 3/4 inches; 100 x 120 mm. Matted, framed, and
glazed. Together with an Autograph Letter Signed by Shepard to a Miss
Shirley, on Woodmancote, Lodsworth,
Nr. Petworth, stationery, dated June 21st
[19]61. “In answer to your request/I send
you two drawings/that I have specially
made for your school library./The drawing of Eeyore you/may like to have for
yourself./The questions you ask me/about
my methods are/best answered by my
telling/you that most of my illustrative/
work is done in pen and/ink, the colour
drawings being/done in watercolour. I
do/but little work in oils now/but enjoy
painting landscapes and/figures in watercolour. I use/models when necessary but
work/without them when time is short/I
choose my own subjects for/illustration
morocco slipcase. Treasure Island was published on 14 November 1883,
so it is most likely that the first issues had October advertisements
(“5R-1083”). Copies are known with July (“5G-783”) and December
advertisements (“5R-1283”). DB 00036.
$32,500
The Best Edition of Stevenson’s Works
135. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
New York: 1921-1923. Vailima Edition. One of 1,030 numbered sets for
the United States, out of a total edition of 2,090 sets. Twenty-six octavo
and I like to keep/my original drawings, though/many of these have
been sold in/the United States/With good wishes for the/welfare of
your school/Yours Sincerely/Ernest H. Shepard.” DB 00763. $37,500
First Edition of “A Child’s Garden of Verses”
133. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child’s Garden of Verses. London:
1885. First edition, first printing (which consisted of 1,000 copies). Small
octavo. Original blue cloth over bevelled boards with publisher’s device
stamped in gilt on front cover and with spine ruled and lettered in gilt.
First state of binding with a curved apostrophe in the word “Child’s” and
with the word “of ” in small type in the spine lettering. Minimal rubbing
to corners and spine extremities, spine very slightly darkened, front
hinge just starting. Otherwise a fine copy. Bookplate of Johannis Lovett
and pencil signature of M.S. Slocum of Pasadena on front pastedown
and bookplate of Edwin B. Holden, dated 1894, on front free endpaper.
Chemised in a quarter morocco slipcase. DB 00263.
$4,250
First Edition of “Treasure Island”
134. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. London: 1883. First
edition, first issue. Octavo. With 8 pp. advertisements, “dated 5R-1083”
(with Treasure Island listed on p. 2 as having “304 pages”). Frontispiece
map of Treasure Island. Original olive green diagonal fine-ribbed cloth
volumes. Photogravure frontispiece portraits. With an introduction by
Lloyd Osbourne in Volume I. Publisher’s deluxe binding by Stikeman
& Co. for Charles Scribner’s Sons of contemporary three-quarter blue
morocco over blue cloth boards. Spines decoratively tooled in gilt in
compartments. A fine and attractive set. DB 00194.
$9,500
First Edition of the Author’s First Book
136. THOMAS, Dylan. 18 Poems. London: Published by The Sunday
Referee and The Parton Bookshop, [1934]. First edition, second issue,
of the author’s first book. One of the second 250 copies bound up about
a year after the first issue and published on February 21, 1936. Octavo.
With an extra Parton Press advertisement leaf tipped in between the
half-title and the title-page. Original black cloth with rounded spine.
The Dutch gilt lettering on the spine discolored to pale green (as often,
according to Rolph). Small bookplate on front pastedown. A near fine
copy. In the original dust jacket. Dust jacket foxed and frayed, with a
few short tears, and a small piece missing from top edge of rear panel.
DB 00301.
$1,850
A Fine First Edition of “Walden”
137. THOREAU, Henry D[avid]. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston:
1854. First edition. Octavo. With an eight-page publisher’s catalogue,
dated May, 1854, inserted between the rear endpapers. Plan of Walden
Pond facing p. 307. Original brown vertically-ribbed cloth with covers
decoratively stamped in blind and spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt.
Original pale yellow coated endpapers. Some very faint water spots on
covers, small ink stain on rear cover, minor rubbing to extremities, short
split to cloth at upper portion of rear joint. Two areas of offsetting from
an inserted newspaper clipping on front endpapers. A few tiny marginal
with covers ruled in blind and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Original
black coated endpapers. Just slightly skewed, the absolute minimum of
wear to corners and extremities, rear inner hinge expertly and almost
invisibly repaired, small abrasion at foot of front pastedown. Some very
occasional browning and soiling. Paper flaw to the lower blank margin
of one leaf. Previous owner’s ink inscription on front flyleaf: “T.E. Freeman/Xmas Eve. 1883.” An exceptionally fine copy, with the gilt on the
spine bright and fresh. The Bradley Martin copy, with the bookplate
of Mildred Greenhill on the front pastedown. Chemised in a quarter
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tears. Occasional minor soiling or staining. Pencil annotation at head of
first page of text, a few occasional pencil marks and underlinings, including a few tiny marginal red and blue pencil marks. Early ink ownership
inscription on front free endpaper. Despite the aforementioned minor
flaws, this is a wonderful and totally unsophisticated copy. The gilt on
the spine is fresh and bright. Chemised in a quarter morocco slipcase.
DB 00032.
$19,500
First Edition, First Printing, of Thoreau’s First Book
138. THOREAU, Henry D[avid]. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack
Rivers. Boston and Cambridge: 1849. First edition, first printing, of
Thoreau’s first book. Twelvemo. Original brown cloth (BAL binding variant A, Trade Binding) with five-rule border stamped in blind on covers.
Spine lettered in gilt with rules and decorative leaf-design stamped in
blind. Original buff endpapers. Some wear to spine extremities, affect-
ing a few letters in the publisher’s name at the foot of the spine, small
split to cloth at rear joint, some slight wear to corners. The hinges are
perfectly sound. Contemporary ink signatures on front free endpaper
and front flyleaf. Armorial bookplate of Jacob Chester Chamberlain on
front pastedown, with his acquisition slip tipped in between the rear
endpapers: "From Chew Col.…Dec 27/00…J.CC.” Some neat marginal
pencil notes and underlining. The three lines of type dropped by the
printer on p. 396 are provided in pencil, with Chamberlain’s note concerning this textual point. A spectacular copy, totally untouched. The
gilt on the spine is bright and fresh. Chemised in a full morocco pull-off
case by Bradstreet. DB 00541.
$19,500
A Superb William M. Timlin Original Watercolor Drawing
139. TIMLIN, William M. “Fairy Dance.” Original watercolor drawing.
[N.p.]: 1920. Titled, signed in full, and dated at lower right, with Timlin’s
owl device beside the title. Image size: 6 13/16 x 10 inches; 173 x 253
mm. Matted, framed, and glazed. Possibly a preliminary drawing for
The Ship That Sailed to Mars (London: [1923]), as it is very similar to
the illustrations for “Phoecus” and “Orpheus” in “The Star of the Classic Myths” in Part II. Depicts “the eternal wood” (“where dwelt many
others whose names were potent in the fashioning of the Legends, and
whose lives were great and glorious in the Golden Age of Myth”), with
two dryads, or wood nymphs, wearing long flowing dresses, their long
brown hair swept by the wind, holding hands, arms outstretched, spinning around. Dominating the scene is a large gnarled tree with enormous
roots and spindly branches. Sitting crouched on one of the branches, is
Pan, accompanying the dryads on his flute. DB 00237.
$9,500
Original William M. Timlin Watercolor Drawing
for “The Ship That Sailed to Mars”
140. TIMLIN, William M. “The Finished Palace of the Princess.” [N.p.:
n.d., ca. 1923]. Original pen, ink, and watercolor drawing for The Ship
That Sailed to Mars (London: [1923]). Signed at lower left. Image size: 10
3/4 x 8 3/4 inches; 273 x 248 mm. Matted, framed, and glazed. Together
with the original leaf
of accompanying
calligraphic text.
Image size: 11 1/4
x 7 5/8 inches; 285
x 195 mm. Also
matted, framed, and
glazed. Depicts a
room in the Palace of the Princess
with a large arched
French window,
with curtains hung
on either side of the
door. The Princess,
in a golden gown,
is standing in the
middle, moving a
rug into position. At right are
three Fairies, one holding a ladder on which a second Fairy is
standing, hanging a gem-hung
lamp. The third Fairy is standing by a small table at far right
making the final adjustments
to the drapes. The text of the
calligraphic leaf in black with
initial letters and decorations
in blue. “That night for a space,
every Fairy laboured, as only
Fairies can, on the unfinished
Palace of the Princess, and it
was soon complete. Its marble
terraces were builded, and its
many towers capped, and its
crystal-floored halls were lit
with gem-hung lamps…Then the Prince and Princess were married, and
the bells rang out afresh, and on the scene shone the Double Moons
the Old Man had so longed to see. All the evening, in the midst of all
the merriment, the Princess held the Old Man’s hand in gratitude that
could find no words, and it seemed to him that here was a Land where
a man might live gladly, and for ever.” DB 00450.
$37,500
Six Chromolithographed Dissolving Transformation Pictures
141. [TRANSFORMATION BOOK]. [POTTER, Beatrix]. Changing
Pictures. A Book of Transformation Pictures. London: Ernest Nister, [n.d.,
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ca. 1893]. First edition. Small quarto.
Six full-page chromolithographed
illustrations, each
with the original
paper tab to operate the slats. Numerous black and
white drawings in
the text. Original
glazed color pictorial boards with
red cloth backstrip.
Hinges expertly
and almost invisibly repaired,
endpapers slightly
browned. Otherwise a fine copy. One of the three cover illustrations is by Beatrix Potter. It depicts a rabbit opening the door on a snowy morning to see a
gift basket full of carrots and turnips. “In 1892 Beatrix Potter had sold
a few of her drawings to a firm called Ernest Nister—a German firm
of Fine Art Colour Printers who had a London office at 24, St. Bride
Street, E.C.…She now [in 1894] wished to offer Nister something more
ambitious, and wondered whether her story of Mr. Jeremy Fisher could
be made into a booklet” (Linder, p. 175). DB 00417.
$1,750
A Spectacular Copy of the First American Edition,
Later Printing, of “Huckleberry Finn”
142. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s
Comrade). With One Hundred and Seventy-Four Illustrations. New
York: 1885. First American edition, later printing. Octavo. Inserted
frontispiece portrait, with tissue guard, and wood-engraved text illus-
cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt and spine lettered in gilt.
Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, just slightly skewed.
Tiny tear to upper blank margin of one leaf. Previous owner’s pencilled
presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Otherwise a near fine
copy. Housed in a cloth slipcase. First published in French in 1873 as
Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours. DB 00404.
$1,350
Original Louis Wain Watercolor Drawing
144. WAIN, Louis. “Puss in Sweets.” [N.p.: n.d., ca. 1890s]. Original
watercolor drawing of a kitten sitting in a bag of sweets. Signed at
lower left. Image size: 9
7/8 x 7 inches; 250 x 178
mm. Matted, framed,
and glazed. A wonderful
early example of a Louis
Wain original watercolor
drawing. At the end of the
last century, Louis Wain
(1860-1939), the Edwardian cat artist who went
mad, became a household
name as an illustrator of
cats, whom he depicted
in all sorts of activities,
from skating and playing
cricket to driving motor
cars, attending dances,
and playing musical instruments. “He invented
a cat style, a cat society, a
whole cat world. English
cats that do not look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves”
(H.G. Wells). DB 00270.
$12,500
Inscribed by H.G. Wells
145. WELLS, H.G. In the Days of the Comet. New York: 1906. First
American edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the
half-title: “To/Doctor W. Blake Odgers./In memory of a suppressed/action/From/H.G. Wells/[flourish]./Oct 30. 07/[flourish].” Octavo. Original
dark blue pictorial cloth. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Free endpapers slightly browned from pastedown glue. A few neat
pencil markings and underlinings. Bookplate on front pastedown. In the
original tan dust jacket printed in dark blue. The jacket, which is totally
untouched, is very slightly browned and lightly foxed, with a small faint
red stain at the lower corner of the rear panel and a few small holes
and short tears, none affecting any text. Housed in a quarter morocco
clamshell case. “‘In the Days of the Comet’ is considered the best work
of the popular author of ‘The War of the Worlds,’ ‘The Time Machine,’
trations. Original dark green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in
gilt and black. Original pale peach endpapers. At one time there was
a slip of paper inserted between the frontispiece and the frontispiece
portrait, which has left a faint brown mark in the gutter, affecting the
tissue guard for the portrait and the frontispiece. Otherwise this is as
fine a copy as you could wish for, absolutely bright and fresh. Housed
in a quarter morocco clamshell case. DB 00568.
$9,500
First Edition in English
of Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”
143. VERNE, Jules. The Tour of the World in Eighty Days. Boston: [July]
1873. First American edition and first edition in English, first issue, with
no mention of the translator, George M. Towle, on the title-page. Small
octavo. Frontispiece. Original terra cotta blindstamped cloth with front
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‘When the Sleeper Wakes,’ etc. It is full of romantic color and beautiful”
(front panel of jacket). DB 00759.
$22,500
jacket spine a little darkened with minimal chipping at extremities).
DB 00313.
$2,500
A Finely Bound Set of the Best Edition of the Works of H.G. Wells
With an Autograph Manuscript Fragment by Walt Whitman
and an Autograph Letter Signed by John Burroughs
146. WELLS, H.G. The Works of H.G. Wells. London: 1924-1927. Atlantic
Edition. One of 620 numbered sets for Great Britain and Ireland, out of
a total edition of 1,670 sets. Signed by H.G. Wells. Twenty-eight octavo
volumes. Photogravure frontispieces. Bound ca. 1960 by Bayntun of Bath
in three-quarter dark red morocco gilt over red cloth boards. Spines
very slightly faded. A fine set. DB 00024.
$13,500
A Very Attractive Publisher’s Binding
147. [WESTALL, Richard, and John Martin, illustrators]. CAUNTER,
Hobart. Pictorial Illustrations of the Old and New Testaments…With
Descriptions by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B.D. London: 1838. First
edition. Octavo.
With 144 woodengraved plates after Richard Westall
and John Martin.
Publisher’s deluxe
binding of black
roan. Covers decoratively stamped in
blind, spine pictorially stamped and
lettered in gilt, all
edges gilt. Joints and
boards edges a little
rubbed. Bookplate neatly removed from front pastedown. Minimal foxing
and soiling. An excellent copy in a very attractive publisher’s binding.
DB 00715.
$1,500
First Edition of “The Sword in the Stone”
148. WHITE, T.H. The Sword in the Stone. London: 1938. First edition of
the first volume of T.H. White’s tetralogy based on Arthurian Legend.
Octavo. Text illustrations by the author. Original black cloth lettered in
white on spine. Minimal rubbing to extremities, two small areas of slight
discoloration to
cloth on spine, an
additional area of
discoloration at the
upper corner of the
rear cover, edges
lightly foxed. An
excellent copy. In
the original black
and white pictorial
dust jacket (jacket
price-clipped and
with a few tiny
chips or tears ,
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149. WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass…[Together with:] Complete Prose
Works…Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898. Large-paper edition.
One of sixty copies for sale in the United States, out of a total edition of
ninety copies. Signed by the
publishers. Two large octavo volumes. Photogravure
frontispiece portrait and
five photogravure plates,
one facsimile. Bound by
Whitman Bennett of New
York in full green morocco
gilt. Minimal foxing and
darkening to edges, tiny
faint dampstain in the
upper blank corner, most
noticeable at the beginning
of Leaves of Grass and at
the end of Complete Prose
Works. Complete Prose
Works with one leaf torn
across and neatly repaired,
just affecting a couple of letters. An excellent copy. Bound in at the front of Leaves of Grass is a leaf
of manuscript in Whitman’s hand, a Typed Letter Signed by Edmund C.
Stedman, and an Autograph Letter Signed by John Burroughs. Bound in
at the front of Complete Prose Works are three Autograph Letters Signed
by Edmund Clarence Stedman, two to Mr. John H. Johnston and one to
John Swinton. DB 00383.
$18,500
One of Only Seventy-Five Copies Signed by Oscar Wilde
150. WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Illustrated by
Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood. London: 1888. First edition. One of
seventy-five numbered copies (sixty-five of which are for sale) on large
paper, signed by the author and the publisher. Folio. Frontispiece and
two plates by Walter Crane, each in two states, one black and one brown,
printed on India paper mounted. Six head-pieces, printed in black on
India paper mounted, and six tail-pieces by Jacomb Hood. Original
Japanese vellum over bevelled boards. Front cover pictorially stamped
in black with a design by Jacomb Hood and lettered in red. Spine ruled
and lettered in black. Corners very lightly bumped, spine very slightly
darkened and with a few tiny water stains, light foxing to endpapers. Still,
this is one of the finest copies that we have seen of this title, which is
notoriously hard to find in fine condition. Housed in a quarter morocco
slipcase. DB 00761.
$25,000
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A Pair of Secret Library Doors
[SECRET LIBRARY DOORS]. A pair of doors which, when closed, looks just like bookcases filled with leather-bound books, and could conceal
a secret room (or two). The doors can be used together or separately. Each door has three four-inch brass hinges and an ornate brass handle. The
doors are made of composite wood painted green. They are 2 inches thick, 78 inches tall by 32 3/4 inches wide, and weigh 90 lbs. Each has seven
shelves with the spines of actual nineteenth-century leather-bound books attached. The left-hand door has 148 books on the shelves and the righthand door has 143 books. The shelves are 1 inch thick by 31 inches wide, and, from top to bottom, are 8, 8, 9, 10, 10, 11, and 11 inches apart. The
bottom shelf sits on a 3 inch plinth. These fine secret library bookcase doors were removed from an English country house where they had resided
for many years. Here is a wonderful opportunity to hide your own secret room within your library! DB 00731.
$15,000