Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) is one of just three writers to receive more than one Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Immensely prolific and popular, he was known for his quintessentially Midwestern fiction; Monsieur Beaucaire, set notably far from the American heartland, was his second published work.

This first edition wasinscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: “’And live men are jus’ — names!’ said M. Beaucaire. Booth Tarkington, Kennebunkport, Oct. 17, 1940.” (Tarkington spent much of his later life in Kennebunkport, ME.)

The novel is illustrated with six plates (including a frontispiece) by C.D. Williams, printed in violet with dark green frames and and all having tissue guards. The other decorations in the book were designed by Charles Edwin Hooper.

Binding:  Publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board; illustrated endpapers and top edge gilt. Housed in a chemise within quarter red morocco openback slipcase with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine.

•  Wright, III, 5370; Merle Johnson, p. 489; Russo & Sullivan, pp. 6–9.   Bound as above; corners slightly bumped, slipcase edges lightly rubbed. Very minor gutter crack at p. 44 and a more notable one at p. 62, without affecting strength of binding. Charmingly cased and signed by its celebrated author, a nice copyattractive and smart.  (37920)

•  Contemporary half calf over marbled paper–covered sides, gilt spine extra; sides and edges of paper showing light scuffing, spine leather a bit darkened; attractive. Marbled endpapers; all edges marbled to match endpapers and sides of covers. Front pastedown with small paper adhesions. One signature separated. An attractive edition, a pretty copy.  (19130)

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked inscription: “Phill Wenman”; first page of “The Life of Godfrey of Boulogne” with early inked inscription: “Phi. Wenman his Booke.” Frontispiece verso, title-page, and one other page rubber-stamped by the Holbrook Library of the Pacific School of Religion (properly deaccessioned).

Evidence of readership: Intermittent, generally unobtrusive early inked marginal brackets and marks of emphasis, with one annotation reading simply “Milton” (at “Swift from my selfe I run, my selfe I feare, / Yet still my hell within my selfe I beare”).

•  ESTC S117570; Graesse, VI, 35; NCBEL, I, 1103; STC (rev. ed.) 23699.   Contemporary mottled calf framed in double blind fillets, rebacked with plain calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands; sides predictably acid-pitted. Frontispiece cut down and mounted on contemporary fly-leaf. Institutional rubber-stamps as above, title-page recto with stamped numeral; pp. 81/82 excised and replaced in facsimile. Pages with light age-toning and cockling, occasional small smudges or spots; a few corners bumped. One leaf with tear from upper outer corner, not extending into text; four final leaves with closed tear in inner margin and small hole in text, affecting one to two letters of six lines of text without obscuring sense. A solid copy with appreciable history.  (36790)

WorldCat locates only five institutional copies of this edition.

Binding: Speckled grey cloth stamped in brown and blue with blue lettering; unsigned, but well designed.

•  Bound as above, slightly cocked and spine ends bumped. Ownership stamp to front free endpaper with offsetting to pastedown; interior otherwise clean. A lovely, clean copy.  (37488)

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked inscription reading “Celina Bray[?].” Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Not in American Imprints, not in Rosenbach; see Shoemaker 2381 for earlier Day printing.   Laid into later (not recent) floral paper wrapper. Pages age-toned and lightly spotted; edges slightly ragged. Small area of waterstaining to lower inner margins of last few leaves. Not untouched by time, but solid and most charming.  (38472)

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped decorative title and basket vignette, spine with gilt-stamped author and title.

•  Light wear only to joints and extremities, cloth showing small spots of faint discoloration. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription dated 1910, front fly-leaf with same owner's inked inscription. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean.  (30499)

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with garter-encircled pressure-stamp of Manchester bookseller Edwin Slater; front fly-leaf with early inked gift inscription to Ellen I. Moscrop [?] “from her sincere friend, Arabella Ble[???].” Most recently in the collection of Hubert Dingwall.

•  Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 191.   Binding as above, spine gently sunned; joints and edges mildly rubbed, corners somewhat more so. Stamp and inscription as above. Foxing/spotting variously, pages ranging from quite clean to bearing a few small spots to being more broadly affected, although the hue of this is generally light and the action is mostly confined to margins. Quintessentially and delightfully Victorian: a lovely collection of some of this beloved artist's best work.  (38851)

The book is profusely illustrated with pen drawings by Eric Palmquist, who has signed the colophon; of these, some are full-page, and some are spread across two pages with the text printed beneath. Most are smaller in-text drawings, including an extensive series of decorative tailpieces.

This edition was prepared under the supervision of Ragnar Svanström at the Royal Printing House in Stockholm, Sweden, and is limited to 1500 copies. Designer Karl-Erik Forsberg used a hand-set Berling Roman font which he himself designed; Forsberg also drew uncial letters, printed in red ink, for use on the title-page and for the canto-opening initials.

The binding is half natural Swedish linen stamped on the spine in red and black; the sides are covered with Swedish paper hand-grained to look like wood, and bear a small gold-stamped design of a warship, the Norse drakkar.

This is numbered copy 972 of 1500 printed; it wassigned by the illustrator.  The relevant Club newsletter is laid in.

Binding:  Quarter tan Swedish linen with streaked red paper–covered sides, front cover with gilt-stamped Viking ship, spine with decorative title in black and red, in the original matching slipcase with printed paper spine label.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 232.   Binding as above, spine slightly sunned, slipcase with moderate shelfwear to edges and one edge opening. A solid, attractive copy of a handsome book.  (29946)

This is numbered copy 972 of 1500 printed, signed at the colophon by the illustrator; the appropriate LEC newsletter, in its (unstamped) envelope, is laid in.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 483.   Binding as above, in original glassine dust wrapper and publisher's slipcase; wrapper with spine darkened and torn with loss, front panel crumpled; book clean and fresh, one leaf not with damage but a natural paper flaw at edge; slipcase showing only minimal shelfwear. A very nice copy.  (30124)

•  Publisher’s cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding lightly scuffed overall, spine with extremities worn and one compartment gently faded, back joint with small ink blotch and corner of front cover with traces of old adhesion, as a sticker. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate and institutional bookplate, front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1859, title-page verso stamped (no other markings). Pages slightly age-toned. (19078)

Binding:  Publisher's quarter parchment over handsome, textured, swirl-printed tan paper; spine with gilt-stamped author and title. Edges uncut.

•  Bound as above; corners bumped, spine darkened and rubbed, joints also rubbed. Title-page with small paper adhesion, one other page with light smudge, a little light dust-soiling along the uncut lower edges, otherwise clean.  (29724)

•  Publisher's vellum, spine with gilt-stamped author's name; spine and edges slightly darkened. Pages gently cockled, otherwise clean and crisp. A very nice copy.  (36923)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers; wrappers darkened with corners bumped, front wrapper with small ink spots, short edge tears, and faint rings of discoloration. Faint intermittent foxing with one signature (only) more notably age-toned.; final leaf with portion torn out of outer margin, not touching text. A pleasing touchstone for Victorian literature and its “production.”  (33259)

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 252. The plate leaves (only) are a bit cockled (which seems to be usual); a very good set. Slipcase included, label with a spot or two.  (5034)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 2T6768.   Binding as above, spine sunned to a rosy tan color, extremities lightly rubbed. Old cataloguing affixed to front free endpaper verso (i.e., to paper, not silk). Small line of staining to upper margins of most leaves, pages and plates otherwise clean save for three instances of offsetting from plates. A pretty little book; a nice thing in 1848 and a nice thing now.  (38635)

illustrated with six halftone plates by Edmund Marion Ashe

Signed binding: Publisher's maroon textured cloth, front cover with blind-stamped lion rampant outlined in black, gilt-stamped title, and outlined heart and roundel decorations. Signed by American illustrator and book designer Thomas Maitland Cleland (front cover blind-stamped “C”).

•  Binding as above, mild rubbing at extremities and joints, front cover clean and beautiful. Scattered small smudges, pages predominantly clean. A nice copy.  (28579)

The present work is a series of short stories (“The Missionary Sheriff,” “The Cabinet Organ,” “His Duty,” “The Hypnotist,” “The Next Room,” and “The Defeat of Amos Wickliff”) set in Iowa The black and white illustrations are by A.B. Frost and Clifford Carleton.

Binding:  Publisher's blue-gray cloth stamped in white with an overall pattern of an exuberant vine hiding the repeating image of an eagle with a palm branch in one talon and arrows in the other. Title and author in gilt on cover and on spine.

•  Wright, III, 2046.   Binding as above, very bright and nice; without the dust jacket. Very good condition.  (34607)

one of 220 copies printed, of which only 130 copies were for sale

•  Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 23.   Publisher's gray Fabriano paper wrappers, front wrapper with title stamped in blind. A clean, fresh copy.  (30800)

•  Fine, Janus Press 1975–80, 41.   Publisher's navy cloth, front cover with illustration on paper as above; spine very slightly sunned, outer front corners showing most minimal wear. Van Vliet's lithograph bright and beautiful.  (32333)

The volume was designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge, in Palatino types on paper made by J. Barcham Green; it was bound by Wigmore Bindery. This iscopy 142 of 270 numbered copies, of a total edition of 417 (including 12 lettered copies and 135 copies numbered I through CXXXV).

•  Publisher's marbled paper–covered boards with brown buckram shelfback, spine with gilt-stamped title, in matching paper and cloth slipcase; cloth with crease at spine head, slipcase with small dent to one outer edge and light wear to extremities. A nice copy of an elegant edition.  (33781)

•  American Imprints 9398.   Contemporary tan paper–covered boards with brown cloth shelfback; cloth worn, paper lost over rear board and wrinkled/chipped on front board. Front pastedown and free endpaper with early inked and pencilled inscriptions; tracing and annotation as above. Pages age-toned; one plate with upper portion excised, just shaving top of image.A quirky copy of a quirky work.  (36683)

•  Publisher's paper wrappers. A fresh, clean copy.  (37134)

This isnumbered copy 173 of 275 printed. The text was set in Garamond type with decorative initials in red and page ruling in blue, and printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard on Japanese vellum.

•  Harrop, Gregynog Press, 6.   Publisher's yellow buckram, spine with gilt-stamped title; sides mildly dust-soiled, spine slightly darkened, back cover with two areas of discoloration near upper edge. Pages gently age-toned and entirely clean.  (35245)

For this volume, Frederick William Thomas (1867–1956), an English Indologist and Tibetologist, collected and translated all the Tibetan literary texts then known. Several translations are prefaced by explanations of the text's origin and/or or notes on previous studies of it.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear. A portion of Howard's receipt for purchase, dated 1955, is laid in.

•  Publisher's navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; edges rubbed and extremities bumped, fading to front board, minor gutter crack at p. 96. This offering is pt. I only. A sound, decent copy of this first volume of an intriguing series.  (38078)

•  Wegelin, American Poetry, 1168; Shaw & Shoemaker 39076. Recent quarter cloth with blue-green paper sides, in the style of early 19th-centry American books. Ex–mercantile library with a few stamps, including on title-page. Two letters of title abraded and mostly invisible, yet, still, a clean copy.

The title-page is printed in black with two blue lines; the portrait of Emerson is in blue on a pale ochre field; the colophon incorporates a large blue “H.”

Lawrance Thompson (1903–73) was a member of the English faculty at Princeton University and the official biographer of Robert Frost.

•  New. Publisher's gray cloth shelfback with orange-red marbled paper sides. Deckle edges. In the original gray cloth openback slipcase.  (35754)

This is the first printing of Thoms' edition; the work was issued separately, and later reprinted as part of the three-volume Collection of Early Prose Romances (1828). WorldCat locatesonly four U.S. institutional holdings.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 2H28672. This edition not in Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering (see 1828.22 for three-volume collection); likewise Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), (see p. 92 as above).   Modern pebbled black morocco, front cover with gilt-stamped green morocco title-label, in matching morocco and marbled paper–covered slipcase; slipcase rubbed, volume spine sunned and rubbed. Pages faintly age-toned with scattered small spots of light foxing.  (37602)

Patrick Murdoch's short biographical piece on Thomson is included here, as well as a preface by James Nichols and notes from the editor. Stunning engravings signed by English engravers John Gilbert and William Greatbach appear throughout, protected by tissue guards.

Binding:  Dark teal(?) morocco darkened to black with beveled boards and intricate decoration in blind; gilt lettering and additional blind decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt and gauffered. Binder's ticket of Poulter of Leamington on front pastedown.

Evidence of Readership: Two rather interestingly late-dated notes of reading completion (August and September 1942), in pencil in margins.

Provenance:  Signature and initials of V.C. Turnbull on verso of front free endpaper; another owner's notes on place/price of purchase on the same page.

•  Bound as above, refurbished. Lacks half-title; frontispiece and several plates lightly foxed, offsetting to tissue guards from plates, and small, sparse spots of staining to several leaves. Pencillings as above plus one pencilled marginal rule. A lovely collection, delicately detailed plates, and an excellent binding.  (37350)

•  McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 47. Full marbled handmade cloth; leather label at head of spine with title in gilt, label missing one corner. All edges untrimmed. Bookplate on front pastedown of volume.  (3674)

The added engraved title-page here is embellished with engravings from the designs of Richard Westall, and the frontispiece and added title-page were engraved by John Scoles. Among the four wood-engraved illustrations for the seasons, three are definitely by Alexander Anderson. “Spring” and “Summer” are signed “Anderson” and “Winter” is signed “A.”

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 42282; Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 565a.   Uncut and partially unopened copy. Publisher's printed paper over boards softly rubbed, obscuring some printing detail; very fragile, with joints cracked and weak, paper of spine cracked and chipped. Initials “JSH” inked on front free endpaper; a different monogram inked at top of title-page. All plates in nice impressions and frontispiece with protective tissue guard; some foxing/offsetting to this and engraved title-page opposite. Very evocative.  (9907)

• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 488.   Binding as above, spine ruled in gilt with gilt-stamped title, in textured paper–covered slipcase with green spine label; slipcase showing minimal shelfwear with one corner of spine label lifting, volume crisp and clean. A very nice copy.  (36085)

Binding:  Contemporary green morocco, covers framed in gilt triple fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons surrounding a central foliate medallion, spine gilt extra. Turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt. Signed binding: “Bain, Binder” small stamp in lower margin of verso of front free endpaper.

Provenance:  Prize copy: front fly-leaf with inked inscription reading “Jno. Hy. Lloyd [/] Prize for proficiency in English and British History. July, 1872 [/] A.R. Abbott [/] Grove House”; beneath inscription, affixed paper label inscribed “George B. Lloyd.” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  McLean, Victorian Book Design, 68 & 146.   Binding as above, showing light wear overall with joints, spine bands, and extremities rubbed, spine slightly darkened. Front fly-leaf with inscription and label as above. Fly-leaves and half-title foxed; a few faint spots of foxing scattered through pages. A distinguished example of this quintessentially Victorian present.  (38060)

•  New. Bound, as issued, in quarter blue linen with marbled paper boards, title stamped in gold on spine. With the glassine wrapper.  (35759)

The "Buzaglo" referred to in the poem is the eponymouscast-iron stove designed by London inventor/ironmaster Abraham Buzaglo, which the author of the poem contends will, once installed, quell party strife in the House of Commons by warming the uncomfortable chill that provokes and riles the more partisan members.

•  Recent marbled paper wrappers. Very light foxing on first three leaves. Two page numbers shaved.  (3689)

Provenance:  Front free endpaper and front fly-leaf each with contemporary pencilled inscription: “Miss L. Hart, Poughkeepsie, New York.”

•  Publisher's textured olive cloth, covers with embossed strapwork medallion surrounded by blind-stamped ivy border, spine with gilt-stamped title and ivy decoration; cloth attractively faded, extremities slightly rubbed, binding cocked with sewing loosening slightly. Pages with scattered instances of spotting, generally clean.  (34793)

Topics found in this collection of correspondence are wide ranging: Dante and terze rime, poetic style, preference for the Tuscan dialect, the fountains and viaducts of Rome, proper use of honorifics in letters, the letter “H” in Tuscan Italian and whether it is aspirated or not, teaching the alphabet to beginners, how a prince should react to those who speak ill of him, and the use of Greek words and terms.

This edition “con nuova aggiunta ristampati, & con somma diligenza da molti errori corretti” is printed in italic, and divided into seven “books,” each “book” beginning with a woodcut factotum initial. The printer's handsome woodcut device graces the title-page and the volume ends with three useful indices.

Provenance:  Black-stamped supra-libros (faded to “silver”) of Paulus von Pruan (1548–1616), the Nuremberg merchant and collector, and his signature on the front free endpaper; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Adams T789; EDIT16 CNCE 30511.   Contemporary limp vellum (lacking front pastedown) with slightly yapp edges; evidence that an old manuscript leaf was repurposed in construction of spine and of now-absent ties. Occasionally a little old very light staining or foxing; clean and nice. A desirable copy.  (38143)

Binding:  Publisher's quarter matte black buckram with sepia English-finish printed buckram–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 447.   Binding as above, in original glassine wrapper and tan paper-covered slipcase with printed paper spine label; wrapper with corners rubbed, slipcase showing minor shelfwear, volume clean and fresh.  (35247)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers, faded and chipped, front wrapper separated. Pages browned and embrittled, some leaves separated.  (33312)

WorldCat and Shaw & Shoemaker seem to indicate that only one U.S. institution (Library Company of Philadelphia) holds a hard copy, as opposed to electronic or microform.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 50620; Lowens, Songsters, 310.   Sewn as issued, on blue-green paper; sewing going, leaves separating. All edges tattered and deeply soiled; some print faded or abraded.  (38896)

•  VD16 T1606; Benzing, Hagenau, 39, 184. On Heinrich Gran's device, see: Heitz & Barack 2.   20th-century boards covered with vellum-like paper. Light age-toning with very light waterstaining across corners at end and some light foxing to margins elsewhere; very good and in fact for a “student book” remarkably good. A rare and attractive item.  (37834)

Binding:  Periwinkle publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine and front cover; white, black, and red illustration on front cover of two teenagers addressing a crate for shipment.

•  BAL 20522.   Binding as above, mildest rubbing, minor scratches to front cover illustration. Spotting on a handful of pages. Without d/j. A popular offering of early 20th-century juvenile literature, and an attractive copy.  (35990)

•  NSTC 0647541.   Contemporary half green goat and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations, top edge gilt; joints and extremities rubbed, inner portion of leather on front cover with patches of light discoloration. Front free endpaper with adhesions from now-absent label. Pages mildly age-toned, with a few instances of light spotting. Indeed a very romantic view (in both text and image) of Spanish fact mixed with fiction.  (34883)

Provenance:  20th-century bookseller’s label of James Miles and 20th-century bookplate of Alexander Stone. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  ESTC T93463; Opie B 328; Hugo 43; Bell 17; Osborne Collection, p. 743.   Later 19th-century mottled tan calf, gilt spine extra; joints and extremities lightly rubbed, small loss of leather at top of front joint. Labels and bookplate as above; without the bookseller’s advertisements at end. Minor foxing, pages otherwise crisp and clean.  (38709)

Binding:  Publisher's lime green cloth with a black and while collage-inspired paper label on each front cover; the pair housed in lime green cloth slipcase with black paper sides and paper labels on front and spine.

•  Chambers 70.   Bound as above, ink on pastedowns somewhat tacky with some offsetting, one leaf attached to pastedown with partial tear to fold; light to moderate age-toning affecting Japanese paper, otherwise bright and clean. Definitely an engaging piece of art.  (37197)

Binding:  Publisher's green calf, done by the Tapley-Rutter Company, with marbled paper–covered sides, spine gilt extra, in original slipcase.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 502.   Fine, in a near fine slipcase (paper cracked along a small portion of one edge, and carefully laid back down).   (21808)

Tusser (1524–80) was himself a farmer and one of the earliest known pastoral English poets. His poem as eventually expanded into the immensely popular Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie was widely read, but he never made his fortune; he remained a humble farmer, moving throughout England.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Mid- to late-19th-century half brown calf with marbled-paper sides and gilt lettering to spine; edges and boards lightly rubbed and minor wrinkling to spine; bumping to fore-edge of boards. Text with scattered spots of foxing. Uncut and partially unopened copy. A pleasing reprint of this Tudor essential.  (37856)

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 196.   Binding as above, in matching slipcase, rubbed; volume's spine sunned with lettering dimmed, gilt foil rubbed to silver at board edges. Pages clean, with text and illustrations bright.  (35674)

This is the first edition, first issue, with the copyright page marked May, 1919, “D-T,” and the endpapers printed in green.

•  BAL 3683; McBride 247.   Publisher's cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed illustration framed in wide gilt border, in original sage-colored dust jacket with affixed color-printed rondel vignette; volume showing (only) minimal shelf wear, jacket with upper edges chipped, one small hole in back wrapper, and extremities reinforced with cellophane tape some time ago. Top edge gilt. Some signatures unopened. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean. Classic Twain, classic Pyle.  (38399)

It may interest the reader to know that half of the writings in this volume are by women.

Sole edition. The volume was a fund-raising effort: “The principal reason that these stories have been gathered together and given to the public, is to start a fund wherewith to erect a fountain on the Campus of the University of California to be in harmony with the great Hearst architectural plan.”

Binding:  Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt with title and a scene of a rolling hill with trees on it. Binding signed “Kales.”

•  BAL 15035.   Binding as above: gilt a little rubbed or dulled. Overall, very good.  (34834)

•  Publisher's cream paper wrappers in folded heavy taupe paper wraps, front wrapper with gilt-stamped title. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations. A clean, crisp copy.  (32675)

This is copy no. 7.

Provenance:  Presentation copy to Arthur H. Scribner, a president of Charles Scribner's Sons and a Princeton alumnus, signed by Van Dyke, “March 17, 1898, Dies Sancti Patricii.”

•  Quarter “vellum” paper over gray paper–covered boards, dark teal lettering to front board; corners a bit bumped, very faint dirtying of boards. Interior bright, with fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. An unassumingly simple production from a good press, now uncommon and here inscribed by the author.  (38239)

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked inscription reading “A Thanksgiving Appreciation to Miss Alta Anderson from the Parents and Pupils of the Emerson St. Presbyterian S.S. Nov. 28, 1917.”

Signed binding: Publisher's deep violet-blue cloth, front cover with wide gilt border of floral and vine design, spine with gilt-stamped title and fleurons. Signed “EE,” with the second E reversed: Edward B. Edwards, who also designed the interior frames.

•  Binding as above, spine slightly dimmed. Pages and plates clean. A lovely copy.  (28954)

•  Goldsmiths’-Kress 7892.2; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VIII, 444. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding scuffed and rubbed, with leather cracking over joints and spine extremities chipped. All edges speckled red. Front free endpaper and fly-leaf partially affixed to front pastedown; front pastedown with inked initials. Pages beautifully clean.  (13629)

Following the poetry section there is a series of advertisements for products such as Pratt's Astral Oil and double-deodorized benzine. This is an interesting, attractive little relic of an era when manufacturers of such humble products sought surprisingly often to associate themselves with Much Higher Things — often going to real trouble and expense to do so!

•  Beige printed wrappers with “1888" written on the front cover in ink and a small pink stain at top edge; light age-toning.  (36736)

The work is here illustrated witha copper-engraved frontispiece and four plates, generally bucolic, done by Joseph de Longueil after Francesco Giuseppe Casanova and Charles Eisen. The text is additionally decorated with pictorial headpieces and fruit and floral tailpieces.

•  Brunet, V, 1303; Cohen & de Ricci 1022; Graesse, VII, 359; Schweiger, II, 1221/22.   Contemporary mottled calf framed in gilt triple fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped floral compartment decorations; joints and extremities rubbed, spine leather with small cracks, sides with expectable moderate acid-pitting. All edges gilt. Front hinge (inside) tender; a few scattered light spots, pages overall clean. An early, attractive edition of an excellent translation, withcrisp, lovely, well-impressed plates.  (30949)

•  Publisher's printed copper-colored paper wrappers; back wrapper lacking, front wrapper separating from foot and with small nicks to outer edge. One leaf with closed slit across, not spoiling sense of text; outer edges waterstained. A nice encapsulation of mainstream “presentable” thought on the literature, culture, politics, etc. of the day.  (35088)

Many sources, including OCLC, attribute this work to de Jouy himself, but the Monthly Review of May, 1825 admits that the “similarity of title, of decorum, of form, and of manner,” as well as the title-page’s claim that this is a continuation of de Jouy’s work, all misled their reviewer and a number of others into that incorrect and much-perpetuated citation. The travelogue has more recently been attributed to Louet de Chaumont, among others, while Barbier and Quérard suggest that it may have been compiled by de Villemarest from de Chaumont’s notes and manuscripts.

•  NSTC 2H18614. Publisher’s plain paper-covered boards, sometime rebacked with speckled paper and old printed paper labels laid on, the set now in a recent case with sides covered in blue cloth and speckled paper; extremities rubbed, covers with spots of discoloration, retained spine labels chipped and darkened. Front pastedowns each with institutional bookplate (no other markings). Hinges (inside) reinforced some time ago. Vol. II with one signature separated. Pages untrimmed and clean save for scattered small spots of foxing. A strong, agreeable set.  (20256)

The volume opens with a Kelmscott Press–like double-page spread with wide decorative border and wood-engraved portrait of the poet (signed “CUE”), and features a decorative capital at the start of each ballad.

This is numbered copy 159 of 385 printed (of which only 350 were for sale), on heavy paper with deckle edges.

•  Publisher's plain olive paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label; minor shelfwear, overall solid and tight.; without the publisher's plain dust jacket. Outer margins of first leaves (including “title”) with a noticeable smudge or stain, otherwise clean.  (30554)

This is numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed — this volume, designed by Stephen Harvard, being the first ever set by the Stinehour Press in the then-new Galliard typeface, created by Matthew Carter after the work of the 16th-century punchcutter Robert Granjon; Carter also designed the endpaper ornaments.

Bound in green linen imported from Holland, spine with gilt-stamped title and front cover with gilt-stamped author's name, the volume issigned by Harvard at the colophon. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 513.   Binding as above, in original dust wrapper and matching slipcase; back upper edge of wrapper torn, slipcase and volume clean and crisp. A very nice copy.  (32031)

Dibdin notes that the text is “printed in a correct and magnificent manner” — a commonly felt sentiment still, today, in regards to most Foulis Press productions.

Provenance:  Partially rubbed armorial bookplate of Alexander Gordon of Culvennan, Esquire.

•  ESTC T139215; Gaskell 360; Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics p. 558.   Polished calf with spine compartments stamped and lettered in gilt, all edges speckled red; moderate rubbing, a few spots on front cover, offsetting on first and last few leaves from binding. Gentle age-toning; lacks blank following dedication. Marked as above, light pencilling on endpapers. An elegant edition of Virgil from a fine 18th-century Scots press.  (36157)

In the early decades of the 20th century, Tice was a sensation because of her provocative art and as the embodiment of bohemian Greenwich Village — gaining, indeed, the sobriquet “The Queen of Greenwich Village.”

Binding:  Publisher's black goat, round spine with raised bands lettered in gilt and with a gilt-stamped female nude figure in center area of spine; front cover with two gilt-stamped reclining female nude figures reminiscent of those on big-rig mud guards! Elegant gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt and other edges deckle. Housed in a brown paper–covered open-back case.

•  Case rubbed but sound; binding as above with spine a little pulled, corners a little bumped, and front joint (outside) a little abraded. First leaves separated and tipped in; possibly, cancels? All illustrations eye-popping in several senses; all tissue guards present.  (33447)

WorldCat and ESTC do not locate any U.S. institutional holdings of this edition (another variant, printed in the same year, has 194 pages).

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of George Gropius (“und seinen Freunden”), front free endpaper with early pencilled inscription: “Lewis Tiger's Book.”

•  ESTC T167805; Graesse 392; Brunet, V, 1362.   Later marbled paper–covered boards, much rubbed and worn, paper lost over spine and back cover, back cover partially covered in cloth tape. Bookplate as above, front free endpaper with pencilled doodling along inner margin. Frontispiece and pp. 127/28 lacking. Sewing loosening. Occasional mild to moderate foxing; one page with light stain partially obscuring text without loss of sense. This is a book that was read (and read and read). . . .  (30400)