[Rarebooks] FS: LITERATURE

[Norman Kane]

TRANSITION FORTY-EIGHT. JANUARY No. 1.  Paris, 1948.  Small 8vo in original printed wraps; printed on poor quality paper, now somewhat darkening. Housed in a protective folding, flexible board case. Small piece gone from blank margin of first leaf. Contributors include: Jean-Paul Sartre, Georges Bataille, Rene Char, Douglas Cooper, Max-Pol Fouchet, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, and Jean Wahl.  $15



YEATS, W. B.  POEMS.  London, 1913… Wade 100: "Seventh English edition, revised."  8vo. (8 x 5-1/2 inches); xvi, 316 pages. A variant binding in blue-green cloth with covers stamped in blind only and spine stamped in gold. Gilt a bit faded and very slight wear at corners and ends of spine. Untrimmed. Signature of E. Francis O'Brien at lower corner of free endpaper. Handsome portrait fronts of Yeats (not noted in Wade). A very good copy.  $15



]FREDERIC].  COOK, Marc.  “VANDYKE-BROWN" POEMS.  Boston, 1883.  Original green cloth with blind rules and gilt lettering on cover and spine. Small 8vo (7-3/4 x 5 inches); xviii, 225 pages. Nice photo-portrait of author as frontis with tissue guard. "Prefatory Words" by Harold Frederic and a tribute to the author by Prof. Edward North. Edited by Mrs. Cook. Frederic’s 's first appearance in a book--see BAL 6264: the variant imprint (Boston, N.Y. & Utica). The collected poems of the author known for writing "The Wilderness Cure," who died at the age of 29 from consumption. Library bookplate on front endpaper, otherwise a very good copy.  $15



DE BELLOY, [pseud of BUIRETTE, (or BUYRETTE), Pierre-Laurent].

GABRIELLE DEBERGY: TRAGEDIE EN CINQ ACTES ET EN VERS.

Paris 1778.  Disbound small 8vo (approx 7-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches); 52 pages. Verse tragedy in rhyming couplets with a macabre finale. Scarce.  $20



GIONO, Jean.  CLOVEK Z HOR.  Prague, 1934.  1st trade edition in Czech.  Approximately 7-1/2 x 5 inches in decorative boards backed in leather and with leather tips. Spine and  corners a little worn. Translation of "Un de Baumugnes." This is the second part of his early trilogy, "Pan, Le Grand Troupeau," which contains realistic portrayals of World War I. 5 locations  in OCLC.  $10



GOLDSMITH, Oliver.  POETICAL WORKS, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS.  Phila., 1803.  6.5 X 4 inches, recased in an old scuffed calf binding (cut away on the spine to reveal the original title-label), no front free end paper, small marginal tear in fly-title, a few leaves with   (mostly  marginal)  spots and light stains, repair using old paper on one margin,  xxxii,148 pages. (Includes, among much else, a "Letter from Mr. James Boswell" and Goldsmith's "Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec.")  $10



TROLLOPE, Anthony.  AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.  Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1883.  "Collection of British Authors. Vol. 2201. In one volume." Approximately 6 x 4-1/4 inches in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Front cover lightly rubbed and a small closed tear at head of half-title, otherwise very good, $10



HARTE, F. BRET.  THAT HEATHEN CHINEE AND OTHER POEMS MOSTLY HUMOROUS.  London, 1871.  Bound in full dark blue morocco (lightly rubbed) with gilt rules and lettering; marbled edges and raised bands on spine. 16mo; vi, (3), 16-140, (2) pages. The illustration of a group of four Chinese figures from the wrapper (repeating the frontis)  is tipped onto the front blank. Light foxing throughout.  First of this edition. BAL 7254: the earliest state, without a caricature on the title page. Misprint on page 126 as noted by BAL.  $20



DOYLE, A. Conan.  THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD.  London, 1896.  1st edition. Green A19.a. Advts dated 10.2.96. There are also copies with advts dated 30. 11. 95. Original red cloth with gilt lettering and an illustration of saber and bag printed in black on front cover, and publisher imprint in black on back cover. Covers a little soiled, spine darkened with a bit of wear at head, and corners bumped. Owner's illustrated bookplate on front paste-down. Front inner hinge cracking.  With 24 illustrations by W. B. Wollen.  $15



THACKERAY, W. M.  DENIS DUVAL.  Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1867.  Approximately 6-1/4 x 4-1/4 inches in old full vellum with red edges. Marbled endpapers. Spine darkened, otherwise a nice copy. Not in the Parrish, Grolier or Van Duzer catalogues. Thackeray's last book. Signature of E. A. Stevens--this is probably the American inventor, Edwin Augustus Stevens who died in Paris in 1868. He was the founder of the Stevens Institute of Technology (See DAB).  $20



CAMUS, Albert.  NEITHER VICTIMS NOR EXECUTIONERS.  N.Y., 1960.  1st separate edition. In original  wraps with illustration printed in red and black. Approximately 8-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches; 24 pages including stapled wraps. Introduction by Waldo Frank. Very light soiling to the covers, and a few pages opened a bit roughly, otherwise very good.   $10



MOORE, T. STURGE.  THE LITTLE SCHOOL.  London, 1917.  First of this enlarged edition with added poems.   8vo, original cloth-backed decorated boards, some foxing on end papers and a small foxed spot on a few pages, otherwise excellent.  Attractive cover.  $20



BEERBOHM, Max.  A PEEP INTO THE PAST.  Privately printed, 1923.  1/300 copies on Japan vellum. Approximately 10-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Paper title label on spine and  illustrated title label  on front cover with 1-1/2 x 4-3/4 inch abrasion, otherwise very good. Decorated title page and facsimiles.  (Satire on Oscar Wilde written in 1894).  $15



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