[Rarebooks] FS: EPHEMERA

[Norman Kane]

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COTERIE.  Complete set of 7 numbers in 6 vols. 4tos, Original pictorial wraps, very good except for (as usual) Number 1, which is chipped and has a piece missing above the title.  Pictorial title pages and illustrations by, among others,  Brzeska, Sickert, Nina Hamnett, Archipenko, Andre Derain, & Modigliani. There are a number of contributions by Aldous Huxley & Conrad Aiken, T. S. Eliot’s “A Cooking Egg” (Pipit sate upright in her chair / Some distance from where I was sitting: / “Views of the Oxford Colleges” / Lay on the table, with the knitting …), L.A.G. Strong, Michael Sadleir, Harold Monro, Frank Harris, J. G. Fletcher, Roy Campbell, Wilfred Owen, Aldington, the Sitwells, Coppard, Amy Lowell, H. D., et al. The last volume contains a hitherto unpublished poem by Oscar Wilde.

London, 1919-1920/21.    $190.00 ($170.00 to the trade) 



CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.  Carte de visite photo by Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker St. (not far from Sherlock Holmes’ lodgings ?), London W.

$20.00



COCTEAU, JEAN.  POEMES. [In: LA LIGNE DE COEUR. Nantes, Nov. 1926.]  Wraps chipped. Scarce.  $15.00



[CIVIL WAR]. D.S. BY 5 OFFICERS OF THE 13TH MASS. VOLUNTEERS, City Point, Va., July 14, 1864, requesting transport for their personal horses to Washington. Order acceding to the request on the verso by the Provost Marshall General of the “Armies operating against Richmond.”  The application was signed by Col. S. H. Leonard, Surgeon A. W. Whitney and others.   $50.00





WALTHALL, EDWARD CARY.   A.L.S., Coffeeville, Miss.,  4/13/1869, To Canfield & Co., Phila., ordering law books. Hole, probably from breaking the seal. Tape repairs on verso. (Attorney, Confederate General, later U.S. Senator. “He especially distinguished himself at the battle of Missionary Ridge, where he led his brigade over a ridge and held back the Federal troops till the Confederate army made its escape. He covered the retreat of General Hood's army after the defeat at Nashville. He resumed the practice of law in Coffeeville.”)     $50.00  



[CIVIL WAR.] COX, JOHN DOLSON.  A.L.S., Cincinnati, 3 May 1889, to John M. Buist [?]. “My first commission in the War of the Rebellion was dated the week after Sumter was fired upon, & I was mustered out as Major General commanding 23d Amy Corps after peace had been fully established.”   (Governor of Ohio, Secy. Of Interior, Congressman, historian, Dean of the Cincinnati Law School.)  

$35.00



CARRINGTON, HENRY BEEBEE. ELABORATELY WRITTEN SENTIMENT SIGNED, 1901, giving his full rank as Colonel, U.S. 15th Infantry, 1861, Brig. General, 1862. Yale Class of 1845. (As Maj. Genl. Of the Ohio Militia he put 9 regiments in the field and helped save  West Virginia for the Union. Later he took part in the Indian Wars, 1865-69, built Fort Phil Kearney, wrote or edited several historical works.)   $50.00



MILES, NELSON A. Nice large signature, signing himself as Lieutenant General.  $90.00 



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