[Rarebooks] FS: A few bibliographies with unusual attributes

[Nina W. Matheson]

For consideration:  a selection from the many bibliographies listed on our 
website.

Davis, Lavinia.  A bibliography of the writings of Edith 
Wharton.  Portland, Maine, The Southworth Press, 1933. Original cloth. 
Lightly rubbed at the extremities, otherwise near fine. 325 copies printed. 
The Seven Gables Bookshop reference copy with pencilled additions and 
corrections on 12 pages and the rear p astedown. Included in the "Principal 
Works about Wharton" Appendix in Stephen Garrison's, Edith Wharton, a 
descriptive bibliography (1990). 62 pp. $150.

Growoll, Adolf.   Three centuries of English book trade bibliography, an 
essay on the beginnings of booktrade bibliography since the introduction of 
printing and in England since 1595.  New York, Published for The Dibdin 
Club by M. L. Greenhalgh, 1903. In a recent binding of quarter morocco and 
tan cloth. Fine. Inscribed by the author on a front endpaper: "A. H. Clark, 
with the regards of / A. Growoll / October 15, 1903". Arthur H. Clark, 
1868-1951, was an American antiquarian bookseller and publisher of 
consequence. See Dickinson's Dictionary of American antiquarian 
bookdealers, p. 33-4. One of 550 numbered copies. The title continues: Also 
a list of catalogues, &c., published for the English booktrade 1595-1902, 
by Wilberforce Eames, p. [101]-173. 195 pp. $150.00

Johnson, Merle.  American first editions: bibliographical check lists of 
the works of 199 American authors. Third edition, revised and enlarged by 
Jacob Blanck.  New York, R. R. Bowker Company, 1936. Original cloth. The 
reference copy of English bookseller Thomas Warburton of Manchester. 
Annotated in pencil by Warburton with detailed collations, information on 
month and day of publication, edition size, binding color, etc. Hundreds of 
clippings laid in from dealers' catalogs, Publisher's weekly, other trade 
sources, as well as book prospectuses and pages of Warburton's additional 
notes. The sections on John Esten Cooke, James Huneker, Thomas Nelson Page, 
and Edith Wharton are particularly heavily annotated. The binding is intact 
but the book is greatly swollen from all the laid in materia l . Four 
editions of the work were published 1928-1942, varying in the authors 
included. The book could very usefully be consulted by anyone undertaking a 
similar compilation or bibliographies of the le ss well-known authors. 
Tanselle / Basic Collection (the 1942 edition).  $150.00

Slocum, John J.  A bibliography of James Joyce [1882-1941] by John J. 
Slocum and Herbert Cahoon.  New Haven, Yale University Press, 1953. 
Original gray cloth. Lightly rubbed at the head of the backstrip, otherwise 
fine, without dust jacket. Inscribed by both authors on the front free 
endpaper: "For Franz Bader / The authors take great pleasure in inscribing 
this book / John Slocum / Herbert Cahoon / Bloomsday and after 1953". 195 
pp.  $150.00


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