ORCHARD AND VINEYARD. by SACKVILLE WEST. V

Storrs: Univ. of Connecticut, 25 April 1972.. Folded quarto leaflet on stiff stock (25.5 x 18 cm). Top edge a shade darkened, a few small dust spots, else near fine. First edition. One of an edition of five hundred copies (of which the first twelve were to be signed by Duncan). This copy bears his signed presentation inscription to his chief trade publisher at the time, James Laughlin, and is also initialed and dated at the end of the text. BERTHOLF A42a.

John Lane The Bodley Head.London.,1936. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. THE DEDICATION COPY. Inscribed by Crankshaw to his wife, Clare, on the half title. ---- For Clare. The first copy of the first of all our books. April 17th 1936. Teddy. ----- Pages affected by small damp stain to the fore edge at the bottom 1.5 inches, but not spreading onto the page surface. Some foxing, mostly to the first and last few pages. Overall a near to very good copy in a poor dustwrapper with loss to both the top and bottom of spine and with several chips to the panel edges. ---- Bought, by me, direct from the estate of Crankshaw's widow, Clare.:

New Haven, CT: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1896. First edition. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. [6] + 173 numbered pages, which are bright and clean. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Bound in striking full blue leather which is lightly rubbed and sunned. Gilt borders to covers and gilt title to front cover and spine. "Church Club of Connecticut" to front cover. The personal copy of Samuel Hart, one of the authors/lecturers, with contemporary pencil gift inscription on endpaper "Samuel Hart from the Church Club. From the library of Samuel Hart, which experienced a fire that damaged a number of books. As a result, items from Hart's library are extremely rare. Samuel Hart (1845-1917) was dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, the (un)official "middle way" seminary of the Episcopal Church at Middletown, Connecticut. In 1886, he became the third custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. In 1892, he became secretary of the House of… Read More

NY: Random House, 1994. Signed first edition. Inscribed presentation copy to Stepp and Cook Neilson. Motorcycle legend Cook Neilson was a preeminent motorcycle journalist and editor of Cycle Magazine. He won the Daytona Superbike race in 1977 on a Ducati. He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame and the Ducati North America Hall of Fame in 2006. Published NY: Random House, 1994. 8vo. Slight creasing to spine, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

( Geo. P. Putman. New York.) - Paris. 1848 (1928). FACSIMILE EDITION. One of 50 copies printed. 12mo. (7.5 x 5.3 inches). [1] - 143pp, plus 16pp publishers advertisements. Black cloth with blind ruled lines and gilt lettering to the spine. Both boards with triple ruled line borders and decorative circular device to the centre, all in blind. Complete with the facsimile bookplate of noted American book collector Stephen H. Wakeman, the sixth owner, after Poe, of the original book, on the front pastedown endpaper. A fine copy of this rare facsimile of the Author's own annotated copy of the last work published in Poe's lifetime, and one he considered his finest. This facsimile was created in 1928 while the book was owned by Florence Meyer Blumenthal, the 8th owner of the original annotated book, after Poe himself. "A beautiful and remarkably faithful facsimile of this copy was made in 1928 in Paris, in an edition of 50 copies. It is occasionally mistaken for the original" - Edgar Allan Poe Society of… Read More

Storrs: Univ. of Connecticut, 25 April 1972.. Folded quarto leaflet on stiff stock (25.5 x 18 cm). Top edge a shade darkened, a few small dust spots, else near fine. First edition. One of an edition of five hundred copies (of which the first twelve were to be signed by Duncan). This copy bears his signed presentation inscription to his chief trade publisher at the time, James Laughlin, and is also initialed and dated at the end of the text. BERTHOLF A42a.

John Lane The Bodley Head.London.,1936. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. THE DEDICATION COPY. Inscribed by Crankshaw to his wife, Clare, on the half title. ---- For Clare. The first copy of the first of all our books. April 17th 1936. Teddy. ----- Pages affected by small damp stain to the fore edge at the bottom 1.5 inches, but not spreading onto the page surface. Some foxing, mostly to the first and last few pages. Overall a near to very good copy in a poor dustwrapper with loss to both the top and bottom of spine and with several chips to the panel edges. ---- Bought, by me, direct from the estate of Crankshaw's widow, Clare.:

New Haven, CT: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1896. First edition. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. [6] + 173 numbered pages, which are bright and clean. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Bound in striking full blue leather which is lightly rubbed and sunned. Gilt borders to covers and gilt title to front cover and spine. "Church Club of Connecticut" to front cover. The personal copy of Samuel Hart, one of the authors/lecturers, with contemporary pencil gift inscription on endpaper "Samuel Hart from the Church Club. From the library of Samuel Hart, which experienced a fire that damaged a number of books. As a result, items from Hart's library are extremely rare. Samuel Hart (1845-1917) was dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, the (un)official "middle way" seminary of the Episcopal Church at Middletown, Connecticut. In 1886, he became the third custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. In 1892, he became secretary of the House of… Read More

NY: Random House, 1994. Signed first edition. Inscribed presentation copy to Stepp and Cook Neilson. Motorcycle legend Cook Neilson was a preeminent motorcycle journalist and editor of Cycle Magazine. He won the Daytona Superbike race in 1977 on a Ducati. He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame and the Ducati North America Hall of Fame in 2006. Published NY: Random House, 1994. 8vo. Slight creasing to spine, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

( Geo. P. Putman. New York.) - Paris. 1848 (1928). FACSIMILE EDITION. One of 50 copies printed. 12mo. (7.5 x 5.3 inches). [1] - 143pp, plus 16pp publishers advertisements. Black cloth with blind ruled lines and gilt lettering to the spine. Both boards with triple ruled line borders and decorative circular device to the centre, all in blind. Complete with the facsimile bookplate of noted American book collector Stephen H. Wakeman, the sixth owner, after Poe, of the original book, on the front pastedown endpaper. A fine copy of this rare facsimile of the Author's own annotated copy of the last work published in Poe's lifetime, and one he considered his finest. This facsimile was created in 1928 while the book was owned by Florence Meyer Blumenthal, the 8th owner of the original annotated book, after Poe himself. "A beautiful and remarkably faithful facsimile of this copy was made in 1928 in Paris, in an edition of 50 copies. It is occasionally mistaken for the original" - Edgar Allan Poe Society of… Read More