Rare books from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Leipzig: Georg Voss, 1804. Title creased and dust-soiled, final plate creased, lower wrapper detached. Oblong folio (18 x 10.75 inches; 455 x 273 mm). Engraved title in the form of a sampler, 52 pages, 50 engraved plates, consisting of 25 plates in two states, colored and uncolored. 19th-century stiff marbled paper wrappers; modern cloth-backed fitted case. SCARCE: Only the Metropolitan Museum of Art copy of this edition is located in the US. Copies of the 1802 French edition are held by the Smithsonian and Winterthur, and of the 1800 edition at U. Michigan and the Clark Art Institute. European online library databases record only a handful of copies of each edition in German, Swiss, French and British libraries. No copies have appeared at auction in the past century, according to databases. A beautifully illustrated manual for knitting and crocheting. This is the second, enlarged edition in German and the third edition overall, following a French version published in 1802. Netto's goal was to… Read More

Liancourt: Bernard Dumerchez, 2007. A fine copy with a few small soilmarks on box. Folio (25.25 x 14.5 inches; 640 x 368 mm). The complete portfolio with etching with aquatint printed in colors. Loose as issued in original portfolio; original cloth folding case, titled on top and spine. LIMITED EDITION, number 17 of 63 copies SIGNED BY NOËL AND WOU-KI, from a total edition of 99. Printed on Vélin BFK Rives. Throughout his career, Zao Wou-Ki merged Eastern and Western aesthetic traditions in his work, retaining technical elements of Chinese painting styles while embracing European Modernism. Published in 2007 by Bernard Dumerchez, Paris, the Le jardin d'encre portfolio, whose title translates to The Ink Garden, demonstratesº Zao's use of free-flowing brushstrokes, which incorporate elements of traditional Chinese calligraphy, to contemplate nature. The portfolio features a limited-edition etching and aquatint print on wove paper by Zao and a text by Bernard Noël, both housed within the original… Read More

New York: Doubleday & Co, 1963. Fine, well-preserved copies, the slipcases somewhat rubbed and worn. Together two volumes, 8vo. 650; 741 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth; acetate wrappers; publisher's slipcases. First edition, deluxe limited editions, each boldly signed by Eisenhower. Numbers 326 and 375 of 1,434 copies. The President's in depth account of his first administration.

New York: James Parker [I]; William Weyman [II], 1762. Joints cracked but holding, cloth tape reinforcements on inner hinges, some light browning and occasional spotting, dampstaining in volume 2. Together two volumes, folio. Vol. 1: Title, 3-page list of subscribers, Preface [i-iii], 1-488, Errata leaf. Vol. 2: [1], [1], [3], 268 pages. Contemporary calf, leather spine labels on volume 1 (one a modern replacement). Provenance: Swann Galleries, 21 October 2004, lot 323 ($2,530). FIRST EDITIONS. Volume one is signed on the title by Petrus Stuyvesant (1727-1805), the great-grandson of the British Colonial Governor by the same name. Volume two is signed on the front free endpaper and title by colonial statesman and Revolutionary patriot Robert Yates. Evans 6897 and 9213; Tower 624 and 625.

Paris: Librarie de Firmin Didot, 1872. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Light wear at extremities, but in very good condition. 8vo. Text in French. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Contemporary brown half morocco, top edges gilt; in a greyish-tan cloth slipcase. Matthew Arnold's copy, with 51 penciled annotations - totaling 590 words - by him on 31 pages, plus marginal markings and underlinings on these and numerous other pages. Some of the annotations are lengthy: 83 words in one case, 48 in another; the annotations average 19 words. Bookplate of Kenneth A. Lohf. (BA).

London: Ward, Lock, 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pale green cloth; in a dark morocco slipcase with red morocco spine labels. First edition of this crime novel and the author's second book. The dedication copy to his mother, inscribed by Charteris incorporating the printed dedication: "With love [to my Mother] from Leslie. Twenty second February 1928." Charteris' first book, 'X Esquire,' was issued by Ward, Lock in 1927; his third - in which The Saint (Simon Templar) first appears - was published by the same firm in September 1928 and entitled 'Meet the Tiger.' 'The White Rider' was later serialized (in 1933) in 'Detective Weekly.' This, the first book by Charteris to have a dedication and the only one dedicated to his mother, is the fine Florence and Edward Kaye copy, with bookplate. Lofts and Adley, 'The Saint and Leslie Charteris' (1972), pp. 102-103; Symons, 'Bloody Murder' (1972), pp. 202-203. (BA).

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. In fine condition. 2 pages, 4to, on two sheets of "Doubleday, Page & Company" letterhead (where Norris was an editor). A reply to Richards' letter of November 4, mostly discussing the sale of 'The Octopus' to Tauschnitz, for which Norris got £30 which was split with Richards who had published the London edition that September. Norris writes that 'The Pit', sequel to 'The Octopus', "is coming on, and I believe-firmly-will be much stronger"; and writes of receiving the 'Octopus' contract and of receiving British reviews. "Watch out for a man named Friedman who has writ 'By Bread Alone'. Did you get Dreiser's 'Sister Carrie'?" Norris was responsible for the publication of 'Sister Carrie' in 1900 by Doubleday, Page; the publishing firm, however, did not distribute the book and it was suppressed. Norris died in October 1902 at the age of 32. His letters are very rare. 'Collected Letters', ed. J. S. Chrisler, no. 103. (BA).

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Binding worn, some leaves lightly creased. 15 pages, folio (13 x 8 inches), written in pencil on rectos only, in at least three numbered sections, being a combination of rough notes and more formal correspondence to Russell Doubleday; with four large pencil drawings and one plan by Tarkington. Bound in limp brown sheep. Provenance: from the collection of Frank Nelson Doubleday. Tarkington offers meticulous advice about how the characters in 'Penrod' are to be depicted-particularly the title boy: "Penrod should not look tall, athletic, graceful; neither should he seem quite so short and awkward; nor must he seem either modish nor too extremely." The first page bears a drawing of what the author means: "A very vague suggestion. I mean something like this." Tarkington offers suggestions on the depiction of other characters as well. H also discusses the binding of the book which he argues should, like the illustrations, support his notion that "The value of Penrod is… Read More

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 5 1/2 pages, 4to, approximately 2050 words (four of the letters single-spaced, one double-spaced). In very good condition. The letters constitute a virtual running account of Schulberg's occupation with 'What Makes Sammy Run': "I wrote a story last week which I am sure is the best I ever did. It is about a Hollywood writer, and called 'What Makes Manny Run'... I was bowled over when I heard I had sold my story to Liberty [magazine] for five weeks' salary ... the Manny story (which incidentally is now Sammy, because Liberty was afrain Manny Cohen of Paramount would think it was him)..." In the course of the correspondence, the 23-year-old Schulberg also praises Saroyan's 'Little Children', describes a house he stayed in ("... it looked so big and naked, and somehow forgive me, I thought of a dame lying naked in a house, all alone, and waiting and waiting..."), and comments on Groucho Marx, Ring Lardner, and David Selznick. (BA).

London: Printed for Robert Stodart, et al., 1818. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Somewhat worn, narrow surface cracks to joints, label wanting, internally some foxing and occasional marginal smudges and discolorations. 8vo. xix, [1], 461, [3] pages. Original drab boards, untrimmed; in a green half-morocco slipcase. First edition, first issue; leaf of Stodart ads at end. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Hazlitt to the American actor/dramatist/critic John Howard Payne (1791-1852) on the title-page: "Presented to J. H. Payne / By the Author. June 1818." Payne, beginning in 1813, worked in the theatre of Britain, Ireland, and Paris, eventually establishing himself as one of the most successful dramatists of his era. Today he is best remembered for the lyrics to the song "Home! Sweet Home!" (adapted from his 1823 opera 'Clari, Maid of Milan'). 'A View of the English Stage' is a collection of Hazlitt's writings as drama critic for the 'Morning Chronicle', the 'Champion', the 'Examiner',… Read More

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Some edge nicks, etc., but in very good condition. Autograph and typed manuscript signed of drafts of scenes of the screenplay of the film 'Espoir' (of Malraux's novel dealing with the Spanish Civil War, 'L'Espoir, published in 1937). Consists of title/presentation page, plus approximately 20 text pages, also 4to, with extensive revisions and manuscript insertions in Malraux's hand. 'Espoir: Sierra de Teruel' (English title: 'Days of Hope' or 'Man's Hope') is a 1938-39 Spanish-French war film, directed by Boris Peskine and Malraux. The 87-minute black-and-white film-the screenplay written by Malraux and two others-was not commercially released until 1945. The film depicts Spanish Republican forces fighting against the better-equipped Francoist armies in the desolate Sistema Ibérico mountains of the Province of Teruel in 1937. (BA).

Lexington, KY: J. Clarke & Co, 1836. Wear to binding, front free endpaper lacking, some toning to sheets, horizontal tear through some leaves at end. 8vo (176 x 107 mm). Later copy of Holley's frontispiece map inserted (tear along one fold). Original muslin, printed paper spine label. Provenance: William Bollaert (1807-1876), writer, chemist, geographer and ethnologist (signature on title, see below); Edward Everett Ayer, presented to the Newberry Library (bookplate, with Newberry removal label; sold Parke Bernet 4-5 May 1966, lot 442). Second, enlarged edition of Holley's promotion of colonization. The 1836 edition is not merely a re-issue of the 1833 edition of Holley's 'Texas: Observations. Historical, Geographical and Descriptive in a Series of Letters.' It is a significantly expanded issue that includes commentary and documents relating to the Texas Revolution. Of the notable additions, Streeter stated, "As Mrs. Holley says in her Preface and again to the same effect in her Introduction, this… Read More

Florence: Privately Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, 1928. A fine copy. 8vo. Brown half morocco, pebbled cloth boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. First edition, number 670 of 1000 copies signed by the author. "Mr. Lawrence has moments of greatness, of course, but hours of something very different" - Virginia Woolf ('The Common Reader'). "Lawrence fully intended to shock and expected his book to be banned. The time-bomb only recently exploded when the issue of the trial ended censorship in England... Even without the eroticism it is a fascinating and well-planned novel rich in post-war observations and character portrait" (Connolly, The Modern Movement, 57). Roberts A42a.

Paris: Jean Hugues, 1961. Internally fine and very well preserved; the slipcase and chemise stained. Folio (330 x 254 mm). [18 bifolia: 58, [2], [1] pages]. Half-title, original etched frontispiece portrait of Leiris by Giacometti, printed title and Leiris' verse illustrated with 12 original etchings by Giacometti, final leaf with justification; sheet size: 325 x 250 mm. Text and plates loose as issued in original printed wrappers; glassine; cloth chemise with printed title on spine; matching slipcase. One of 100 copies of Giacometti's striking collaboration with Leiris, this is copy number 33 signed by Giacometti, Leiris, and initialed by Hugues on the justification page. Printed on BFK Rives. "It was said that Giacometti was never completely at ease with the medium of intaglio printmaking, but one would never know that from the confidence and artistry displayed in these thirteen etchings. Giacometti's genius lay in his ability to reduce his subject to the lines of artistic necessity, leaving… Read More

Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1893. Light wear to boards, generally a very well-preserved copy. Folio. Half-title. 61 plates, including photogravures, collotypes & halftones from photographs; lithographs, some color, of maps, pottery, etc.; drawings and diagrams of skulls, etc.; plus frontispiece portrait & map. Original half leather, printed boards. First edition in English, with more plates than in the Swedish original. Translated by D. Lloyd Morgan into English. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the Duke of Loubat. Joseph Florimond Loubat (1831-1927) was a French and American bibliophile, antiquarian, sportsman and philanthropist. The author was a member of the illustrious Swedish family of scientists, and he was the first to scientifically study the ancient Pueblo ruins in Mesa Verde. His book is a visually striking and academically rigorous archaeological and anthropological study of the cliff dwellers in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah,… Read More