[Rarebooks] FS: H.P. Kraus, inscribed

[Nina W. Matheson]

For consideration today :

Homage to a bookman: essays on manuscripts, books and printing written for 
Hans P. Kraus on his 60th birthday, Oct. 12, 1967.  Berlin, Gebr. Mann 
Verlag [1967]. Original red cloth. Lightly bumped at the foot of the 
backstrip and lower corners, otherwise fine. Book-plate of the recipient of 
Hans P. Kraus's inscription on the front pastedown. Inscribed by Kraus 
under his frontispiece photograph: "For Victor! [Guinzbourg] / With best 
wishes / New York Nov 18 1967 / Hans". 271 pp. Edited by Hellmut 
Lehmann-Haupt. Includes essays by Erwin Rosenthal, Dorothy E. Miner, Thomas 
E. Marston, Curt F. Bühler, Edwin Wolf, Ernst Kyriss, Valerian 
Lada-Mocarski, A. Hyatt Mayor, Martin Bodmer, and a number of others. 
Prospectus for the book, invitation to the reception at which the book was 
presented to Hans P. Kraus, and newspaper clipping from the New York Times 
about the presentation laid in.  $200

Ives, Samuel A.   An English 13th Century bestiary, a new discovery in the 
technique of medieval illumination by Samuel A. Ives & Hellmut 
Lehmann-Haupt.  New York, H. P. Kraus, 1942. Original green paper boards. 
Near fine. Inscribed by H. P. Kraus to Elizabeth Mongan on the half-title. 
In his autobiography, A rare book saga, Kraus tells of his 1941 visit to 
Lessing Rosenwald and of its successful outcome, one which convinced his 
future father-in-law that perhaps there was something to be said for the 
rare book business after all, leading to his marriage to Hanni. It would be 
natural for him to inscribe this copy to Rosenwald's curator and trusted 
adviser. 45 pp., followed by 8 plates. One of 300 copies. Dickinson, 
Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, a bibliography, p. 17.  $150

Kraus, H. P.   Fifty rare & important books with fifty illustrations.  New 
York [1942]. Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Presumably a special 
binding, original wrappers bound in. Lower corners bumped, boards somewhat 
bowed, otherwise fine. The firm's catalog 21, one of the earliest issued in 
America (the first such catalog was 19, 1939). Inscribed on the front 
endpaper: "With compliments / May 29, 1941 / H. P. Kraus". The recipient 
was probably Elizabeth Mongan, from whose library the book comes, at that 
time Lessing Rosenwald's recently appointed curator.  $150