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Boston: Press of Samuel Usher, 1890.. 29pp. Large octavo. Printed wrapper. Wrapper lightly soiled, with chipping along spine, offset from wrapper to facing text pages, but a good copy. First edition, with the Club's compliments slip tipped in front, as usual. Collected the same year, in revised form, in THE NEGRO QUESTION. BAL 2352.

Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 2/3/ 1955.. T.l.s., one page, closely typed, octavo. Typescript, ca. 50 leaves, quarto, with occasional manuscript insertions and annotations. Plus another item. Some use and creasing to portions of the typescript, paperclip rustmark at top edges of letter and a few leaves of the typescript; good. The poet writes "Dear Miss [Erica] Marx," in her role as editor/publisher of the Hand & Flower Press, commenting: "I wonder if you have forgotten me? I believe it is more than three years since last I wrote you, in the days of the B.P.A.'s flourishing. It was a great pity that the Association disbanded. But such an organisation needs more than a few enthusiasts to make it a success; and self interest is always a 'killer'." Cabuche was editor of IMPACT, the magazine of the Dulwich Branch of the British Poetry Association. He updates Marx on his activities, and mentions the appearance of some of his poems in anthologies, noting "I feel it is about time I did something about getting my… Read More

[Paris: Maeght, February 1966].. Folio. Pictorial wrapper. Photographs. Minor shelf rubbing at edges, otherwise fine. First edition, ordinary issue. Illustrated with seven original color lithographs (2 double-spread), including a lithographed wrapper design.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.. Thick octavo. Gilt lettered crimson cloth. U.S. flag stickers on free endsheet and jacket flap, otherwise very good or better in lightly sunned, nicked and faintly rubbed dust jacket. First edition of the future best-selling, politically fringe-right novelist's first published book, inscribed by her on the front free endsheet: "To: Maurice [....] October 17, 1938 Taylor Caldwell." The recipient's last name has been appropriately obscured by the application of a string of six small adhesive 48-star US flag labels. A seventh appears on the opposite jacket flap. The book bears the printed dedication "To M.R.," the author's second husband and, according to some sources, a significant contributor to the composition of this novel. Uncommon with a contemporary inscription, it would appear.

Mountain View, CA [etc]: Pacific Press Publishing Association, [1930].. 96pp. Small octavo. Color pictorial wrapper. Illustrated. Neatly sewn into a plain protective wrapper. A very good, fresh copy. First edition. Foreword by C.S. Longacre, Gen'l Secretary of the International Religious Liberty Association. An argument on both religious and secular grounds against the Cotsworth calendar as supported by the League of Nations and such industrial giants as George Eastman, as well as similar revisions.

[Princeton, NJ]: Bollingen Foundation / Princeton University Press, [1974].. 552,[4]pp. Large, thick quarto (31 x 23 cm). Gilt lettered black cloth, t.e.g. Heavily illustrated in black & white and occasional color. A fine copy, in acetate wrapper (moderate chip at one top forecorner) in publisher's cloth slipcase (a couple of very faint splashmarks on one board). First edition, deluxe limited issue. Copy #82 of two hundred numbered copies, specially bound and signed by Joseph Campbell. A fitting endcap of the remarkable Bollingen Series, published as the 100th title (including a total of 250+ associated volumes continuing into the 1980s).

Woodside, NY: Committee 2004, May 1998.. 31,[1]pp. Octavo. Pictorial self-wrapper. Fine. Volume one, number one. Intended to be published as a bi-monthly, it continued until at least a third issue. Uncommon.

Oxford: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1923.. Printed wrapper. Fore-edge of title-leaf shows moisture offset from front wrapper, otherwise a very good copy. First edition in English, translated from the Czech by Paul Selver, and adapted by Nigel Playfair and Clifford Bax. A work published contemporary with Karel's best known work, R.U.R., of equal importance as an anti- totalitarian satire, and considered by many critics a significantly better drama.

Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1843.. vi,[2],296pp. Octavo. Original publisher's boards, with early rebacking in plain paper. A few smudges to boards, spine backing a bit cracked and with a couple of small chips, old bookseller's catalogue description tipped to the front free endsheet, fore-tips worn, internally very good and bright. First US edition thus, edited by Emerson from Carlyle's original text (and, in part, manuscript), with a prefatory note by him. One of 1500 copies. From the distinguished collections of Henry W. Poor and Walter Thomas Wallace, with their respective bookplates on the front pastedown. MYERSON E3. TARR A13.2. BAL 5194.

Paris: Joseph Foret, [1959],. Small folio (41.5 x 34cm). Loose signatures and sheets laid into printed wrappers. Fine in slightly faded and marked cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition in this format, illustrated with ten original full-page lithographs, in color, by Carzou, printed by Mourlot. From a total edition of 207 numbered copies, this is one of 117 numbered copies on Rives. With the artist's signed presentation inscription, accompanied by two original ink drawings. MONOD 7964.

New York: Knopf, 1935.. Large octavo. Gilt cloth, t.e.g., ribbon marker. Faint foxing to endleaves, otherwise fine and bright in defective dust jacket and slightly spotted slipcase. First edition, limited issue. One of 749 numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by the author.

[Birmingham &] New York: Delos Press / William Drenttel, [ca. 1997].. Marbled wrappers, printed label. Fine. First edition, ordinary issue, of Hamburger's translation, printed in parallel with the German text and with a substantive translator's note. One of 200 numbered copies, from a total edition of 257 copies printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press.

[Birmingham &] New York: Delos Press / William Drenttel, [ca. 1997].. Cloth and marbled boards, printed label. Fine, with prospectus laid in. First edition, deluxe issue of Hamburger's translation, printed in parallel with the German text and with a substantive translator's note. Inscribed by the translator on the colophon to William Drenttel, the US publisher. This is an unnumbered copy, in addition to fifty numbered copies, specially bound, signed by the translator, from a total edition of 257 copies printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press.

[Birmingham &] New York: Delos Press / William Drenttel, [ca. 1997].. Cloth and marbled boards, printed label. Fine, with prospectus laid in. First edition, deluxe issue of Hamburger's translation, printed in parallel with the German text and with a substantive translator's note. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, signed by the translator, from a total edition of 257 copies printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press.

Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, [1969].. Large quarto. Cloth. Illustrated throughout (largely in color). Fine in lithographed pictorial dust jacket, plastic wrapper and card slipcase. First US edition of the third volume in the series. Translation into English by George Lawrence. Illustrated with two original color lithographs (including the dust jacket) printed by Mourlot.

[Paris]: Maeght Editeur, [1957].. Small quarto. Color lithographed pictorial wrapper over stiff wrapper. Plates and photographs. Slight tanning at spine ends, with small nick at crown, otherwise about fine. First edition. Including the wrapper and title-page, illustrated with thirteen original color lithographs and two black & white lithographs by Chagall, all printed by Mourlot. Several are double-panel fold-outs.

Monte Carlo: André Sauret, [1962].. 210,[4]pp. Small folio (33 x 26 cm). Cloth. Plates, photographs. Fine in dust jacket with tiny nicks toward lower fore-tip. Card slipcase. First English language edition, translated from the French by Elaine Desautels. Illustrated with two full-page original color lithographs executed by Chagall for this work and printed by Mourlot, as well as 36 multi- color preparatory color designs transferred to stones under Chagall's supervision and printed by Charles Sorlier. The text was printed at the Imprimerie Nationale. A splendid overview of the various stages of Chagall's twelve stained glass window designs for the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre in Jerusalem.

London: Jonathan Cape, [1977].. Gilt cloth boards. Map endsheets. Photographs. First edition of the author's first book, a substantial addition to the field of travel literature. Spine very slightly cocked, faint, small pencil ownership note in corner of the half-title, otherwise about fine in dust jacket with slightest hint of sunning to the spine.

[London]: The Colophon Press, 1993.. Small quarto. Stiff wrapper, printed label. Slight crease along top edge of lower wrapper panel, faint pencil acquisition inscription in upper forecorner of the front free endsheet, otherwise fine. First edition. From an edition of 211 copies printed on Vélin d'Arches, this is one of 175 regular copies. Laid in is a 1992 t.l.s. from a well-known London bookseller to the former owner, a well known curator/editor, drawing his attention to the appearance of the typescript of this essay at a 15 December Sotheby's London sale raising funds for the London Library. He comments on the £5-600 estimate: "In normal circumstances I would regard this as quite high enough, but the charity element enters into the picture and makes predictions harder than usual...." It sold for £620.

Dublin: Printed by George Faulkner, 1745.. 20pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Very good or better. First edition. Another rather academically formal poem written to mark Chesterfield's brief, but constructive, tenure as Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland. The anonymous poet includes a prose advertisement in which the indebtedness of the poem to "the most celebrated Fable of Antiquity, attributed to Prodicus the Sophist," dealing with the life choice of Hercules between "an easy and inglorious; or a difficult but illustrious" life, is acknowledged. FOXON T503. ESTC T180825. BRADSHAW 1135.