[Rarebooks] FS: Author's Bibliographies

[Karen Howell]

Today we offer a short list of author's bibliographies.  Enjoy!

1    [DIBDIN]  WINDLE, John and PIPPIN, Karma.  Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1776-1847: A Bibliography.  New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999.  FIRST EDITION  8vo.  9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches.  xxiii, (385) pp.  Frontispiece portrait of Dibdin, black-and-white illustrations, complete bibliographical descriptions of Dibdin's oeuvre, chronological list of Dibdin's published works, index of works; text clean, un-marked.  Gilt-stamped blue cloth; binding square and tight.  Fine.      $ 25

2    [DOCK]  MAUER, Alison K. and Edgar F. MAUER.  George Dock, M.D.: A Bibliography of His Writings, with Reproductions of the original texts of Notes on the Coronary Arteries.  Los Angeles, CA: Barlow Society for the History of Medicine and Friends of the Library of Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1991.  Pamphlet.  235 x 153 mm.  [20], 7, [1 blank], 7, [1] pp.  Black-and-white frontispiece portrait of George Dock, title-page printed in red and black inks, more than 200 titles of publications by Dr. Dock, including the text of two of his most important contributions to medical literature; text clean, un-marked.  Printed wrappers on laid paper, title in red on front cover, stapled; binding square and tight, but some of the pages have press marks, probably caused in the printing process.  Printer's copy from the private collection of Vance Gerry who worked for Patrick Reagh in the 1980s.  Very Good.
        $ 35
SECOND EDITION, enlarged, LIMITED to 500 copies, printed letterpress at the shop of Patrick Reagh.  Lists more than 200 titles of publications by Dr. Dock, including the text of two of his most important contributions to medical literature.

3    [FROST]  LENTRICCHIA, Frank and LENTRICCHIA, Melissa Christensen, compilers.  Robert Frost: A Bibliography, 1913-1974.  Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1976.  Series: Scarecrow Author Bibliographies, No. 25.  8vo.  8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches.  viii, 238 pp.  Includes books by and about Frost, critic index; text clean, un-marked.  Gilt-stamped red cloth; binding square and tight, lightly rubbed.  Very Good.      $ 12

4    HARTE, Bret (1836-1902).  The Heathen Chinee: Plain Language From Truthful James.  With an Introduction by Ina Coolbrith, And A Bibliography by Robert Ernest Cowan.  Illustrated by Phil Little.  San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1934.  Folio.  xli, [i blank] pp.  14 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches.  Printed double-fold "Chinese-style," frontispiece illustration of the "heathen Chinee," 10 illustrations, 16-item bibliography traces the publication history of this item from 1870 to 1873; text clean, un-marked.  Bound in blue paper over flexible boards, printed paper top cover label, stitched Asian-style; binding square and tight, spine heavily faded and weakened by exposure.  Comes in the original orange slip case with printed paper label one side; case is missing the back and is heavily rubbed.  Bookplate of Dwight Lancelot Clarke.  A Good copy.
        $ 75
LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies, printed by John Henry Nash in handset Bulmer type on machine made paper.  Originally written as a satire on anti-Chinese attitudes in California, Harte's poem from a larger work was excerpted and published throughout the United States as a screed against cheap Chinese labor.  The broad distribution made Bret Harte the most celebrated literary man in American in 1870.  Magee remarks: "200 copies printed for the Book Club of California, printed by John Henry Nash.  The copies not taken by the Club were printed for Suttonhouse, Ltd. in 1936.  These can be distinguished from the Club edition by the imprint on the title, lack of colophon, and a simple orange slip-case."  This copy has an orange slip case, lacks a colophon, and the imprint reads "Printed by John Henry Nash, 1934."  Reference: Magee, The Hundredth Book, No. 47.

5    [JAMES]  LARSON, Roger Keith.  Controversial James: An Essay on the Life and Work of George Wharton James.  San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1991.  Series: The Book Club of California Publications, Number 195, Literary Profiles Series, No. 3.  Tall 8vo.  261 x 207 mm.  xii, 98, [2] pp.  28 photographic plates, title-page vignette printed in brown ink, numerous page decorations from Carl Eytel's drawings used in James' The Wonders of the Colorado Desert, bibliography of the writings of George Wharton James; text clean, un-marked.  Red cloth with gilt decoration on top cover.  Slip case with printed paper spine label.  INSCRIBED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title.  Two additional signatures on the colophon, one is that of Carolyn Robertson.  Fine.
        $ 125
LIMITED EDITION of 400 copies designed and printed at the Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, California, the typeface is Linotype Janson, set by the Anchor & Acorn Press, Petaluma.  George Wharton James (1858-1923) was a popular lecturer and journalist; James published more than forty books and many articles and pamphlets on California and the American Southwest.  His books and pamphlets are collected at the California State Library and the University of California, Berkeley.  A collection of his photographs is at the University of New Mexico.  Included in the Rounce & Coffin Club's Exhibition of Western Books. Reference: Harlan, The Two Hundredth Book, No. 196.

Presentation Copy SIGNED by Ballard

***6    [KIPLING]  BALLARD, Ellis Ames (1884-1938).  Catalogue Intimate and Descriptive of My Kipling Collection.  Books, Manuscripts and Letters with Reproductions of Rarities.  How I Got Them, Why I Prize Them and What I failed to Get.  With Inferences and Opinions Solely My Own and Probably Wrong.  Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1935.  8vo.  9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches.  253, [1] pp.  Frontispiece portrait of Kipling, title page printed within a elaborately decorated border, black-and-white facsimiles throughout, more than 240 entries of various Kipling publications, and an additional Appendix of Original Magazine Publications; text clean, un-marked.  Full blind-stamped vellum, spine titled in black with small red swastika decoration, top edge gilt; binding square and tight, some minor rubbing associated with the slip case.  Slip case with vellum tips at head and foot of opening, has minor shelf wear, small water stain in one corner.  PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED on the colophon by the author.  Near Fine.
    $ 300
LIMITED EDITION of 120 copies printed for presentation.  Ellis Ames Ballard was a founder of the Philadelphia law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll.  The Catalogue of his Kipling collection has been frequently cited because it contains about thirty-five facsimiles of Kipling's work not previously printed or collected. 

7    [KIPLING]  STEWART, James McG. (1889-1955).  Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliographical Catalogue.  Edited by A. W. Yeats.  Toronto: Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press, 1959.  Thick 8vo.  9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches.  xv, 673, [1] pp.  Black-and-white photographic frontispiece portrait of Stewart, Preface by Yeats, 8 facsimile reproductions of title pages, index; text clean, un-marked.  Red cloth, spine titled in gilt, no dust-jacket (as issued?); binding square and tight, light rubbing, use wear.  SCARCE.  Very Good.
    $ 150
LIMITED EDITION of 750 copies.  Presents clearly and accurately the data relevant to the many printings of Kipling's works.  The standard work. 

8    [LAWRENCE]  O'BRIEN, Philip.  T. E. Lawrence: A Bibliography.  Boston: G. K. Hall, (1988).  9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches.  xii, 724 pp.  Comprehensive listing of all of Lawrence's printed writings as well as the critical and biographical works, 16 black-and-white plates, index; text clean, un-marked.  Orange cloth, gilt titled spine, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, lower corner bumped, some light soiling to edges.  Very Good.      $ 50

9    [SERVETUS]  FULTON, John F. (1899-1960)  Michael Servetus, Humanist and Martyr.  With a Bibliography of His Works and Census of Known Copies by Madeline E. Stanton.  New York: Herbert Reichner, 1953.  Series: Historical Library, Yale Medical Library and Department of the History of Medicine, Yale University, Publication No. 22.  8vo  8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches.  98, [2] pp.  Half-title, black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Servetus, 27 figures, bibliography of Servetus and a general bibliography, index of names; text clean, un-marked, pages lightly toned.  Bound in full red morocco, gilt titled spine; binding square and tight.  Fine. 
        $ 250
LIMITED EDITION of 750 copies printed at the Lane Press of Burlington, VT.  The Definitive bibliography of Servetus's writings with reproductions of the title-pages of the rarer editions.  One of a few copies bound in leather by Herbert Reichner.  RARE in leather. 

10    STEVENS, Henry Newton (1850-1930).  Ptolemy's Geography: A Brief Account of All the Printed Editions Down to 1730....  London: Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles, 1908.  8vo.  9 x 6 1/4 inches.  viii, 62, [2] pp.  Printed throughout in black and red inks, decorative initials, headpieces and tailpieces, printed on laid paper; text clean, un-marked.  Wrappers, printed in red and black with decorations on the front cover, top edge gilt; binding square and tight, toning to extremities, light shelf wear.  With the printer's device of the Chiswick Press, Charles Whittingham and Co., Tokes Court, Chancer Lane, London on the colophon.  Also included is a copy of The Month at Goodspeed's, April 1949, Vol. XX, No. 7, in which there is fuller discussion of editions of Ptolomy.  Ownership signature of Francis P Farquhar.  Very Good.
    $ 125
SECOND EDITION of this important study of the editions of Ptolomy's Geography and the Lewis map by Henry N. Stevens, Fellow of the Royal Geological Society. 

11    [WAGNER]  POWELL, Lawrence Clark and FARQUHAR, Francis P.  The Published Writings of Henry R. Wagner.  Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1955.  Pamphlet.  9 x 6 inches.  x, 30 pp.  Half-title, black-and-white photographic portrait of Wagner, title printed in red and black, Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell and a Preface by Francis P. Farquhar; text clean, un-marked.  Green wrappers, printed paper top cover label, stapled; binding square and tight, extremities toned, covers a bit soiled.  Very Good.
    $ 35
Issued by the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles at the first Far Western Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America, held at the Henry E. Huntington Library on August 27, 1955, in honor of Henry R. Wagner.  With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell and a Preface by Francis P. Farquhar, and the Preface from the 1934 edition by Henry R. Wagner.  Lists 167 publications from 1890-1955. 

***12    [WEBSTER]  SKEEL, Emily Ellsworth Ford (1871-1958), compiler.  CARPENTER, Edwin H., Jr., editor.  A Bibliography of the Writings of Noah Webster.  New York: New York Public Library, 1958.  Tall Thick 8vo.  10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches.  Xxxix, 655, [3] pp.  Lists more than 380 items, appendices, index, numerous black-and-white illustrations on plates, index; text clean, un-marked.  Navy cloth, spine stamped in red and gilt; binding square and tight, shelf wear and soiling to the covers.  Includes a folded sheet entitled "Noah Webster, 1758-1843" folded twice, printed at the Thistle Press in honor of the publication of this book, with a portrait of Webster on the front and text in the opening by Ben Grauer, "American Grew Up on Noah Webster."  Very Good.
    $ 85
LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies, this copy is out of sequence.  Composed in Montype Bell and printed by Clarke & Way at the Thistle Press on specially made laid Worthy Paper. 


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