[Rarebooks] FS: LITERATURE: SIGNED BOOKS, LIMITED EDITIONS, FIRST EDITIONS, &c.

[Norman Kane]

[STEVENSON, R. L.]  STEVENSON'S BABY BOOK. BEING THE RECORD OF THE SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR STEVENSON SON OF THOMAS STEVENSON, C. E. AND MARGARET ISABELLA BALFOUR OR STEVENSON.
San Francisco: Nash for John Howell, 1922.  #311 of 500 copies. Small, thin, 4to (9 x 6 inches) in cupid-patterned paper boards backed in blue cloth. Printed paper title label on spine. Tipped-in photo frontis and facsimiles. Inscribed by Howell to publisher Arthur Scribner.  An excellent, unopened copy. $25

  WILDER, Thornton.  THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY.  N.Y., 1927.  1st edition. Approximately 8 x 5 inches in taupe cloth with green and black printing. With illustrations by Amy Drevenstedt.  Illustrated endpapers. Covers very lightly soiled, slightly cocked, but a very good copy of this American classic.  $20

BANGS, John Kendrick.  KATHARINE. A TRAVESTY.  N.Y., 1888.  1st of this (enlarged) edition. BAL 699: state 1, with uncorrected text.  Approximately 6-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches. Original pictorial wraps in black and red. Covers a little soiled with slight spine wear. Attractive copy of this scarce, fragile travesty on "The Merchant of Venice." $15

FEARING, Kenneth.  DEAD RECKONING. A BOOK OF POETRY.  N.Y., 1938.  First printing with a SIGNED INSCRIPTION: "To --?--, We're still on our way - when ? Kenneth Fearing." Nelson Algren's perceptive if somewhat politically oriented review (in the "Sunday Worker") laid in. Signed copies are scarce. Endpapers with paste bleed-through; a very good copy in a worn by largely complete dust wrapper. (Poetry unlike anything written today: Dos Passos out of Whitman and tinctured with despair, rage, irony, sarcasm, capital letters, melancholy, prophecy and politics: really quite wonderful in a way.)  $20

BRUA, Edmond.  Le Coeur a l'Ecole: Poemes.  Algeria, 1935.  One of 300 COPIES on Japan vellum, an excellent copy, largely unopened. Unpaginated.  (An early work by this Algerian poet of mixed Alsatian/Corsican ancestry, friend of Camus, Corbusier, et al.)  $10

DAVIS, Richard Harding.  IN THE FOG.  N.Y., 1901.  1st edition, BAL 4537: binding B ("The sequence is arbitrary.")  Approximately 8 x 5-1/4 inches in original blue cloth with pictorial title label on front cover. Illustrated, some with color, by Thomas Mitchell Peirce and F. D. Steele. Very nice SIGNED inscription by Davis to Augustus Thomas, noted American dramatist and stage manager, "To Augustus Thomas in part payment for the thousand dollar adt. [advertisement] he gave this book the night he produced his play of 'Soldiers of Fortune' at New Haven." Covers lightly rubbed, inner joint starting to open, numeral inked on free endpaper with 1-inch closed tear at head. $15

AUDEN, W. H.  POEMS.  London, 1933.  1st of this (2nd) edition, with seven poems removed and replaced by seven others. Bloomfield A2b. Approximately 1000 printed. Nice copy in a chipped, spine darkened, repaired, soiled dust wrapper. Small neat signature on end paper. $10  

SOUTHEY, Robert.  THE DOCTOR &c. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.  London, (1849), 1853.New Edition, edited by his son-in-law, John Wood Warter. With original frontis portrait of the author (showing him from the rear) and the original title page illustrated with "A View from the Author's Study Window," bound in.  Approximately 8 x 5-1/2 inches in full calf with gilt decoration and lettering on spine. All edges marbled with matching marbled endpapers. Covers rubbed, worn at extremities with small piece missing from title label. Small manuscript inscription of former owner Dr. Thomas S. Kirkbride (famous alienist, more than 40 years in charge of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane in Philadelphia, known colloquially as "Kirkbride's.") Southey's observations and reflections on contemporary life and favorite bits of literature include a rendering of "The Three Bears," "published specially for the amusement of the 'little people,' lest in the volumes of THE DOCTOR &c. it should escape their sight."   $15

GIEDION-WELCKER, C[arola], editor.  IN MEMORIAM. JAMES JOYCE.  Zurich, 1941.  Original green printed wraps. Gilt title on front cover, spine and edges a little faded. 1st. Slocum B24: the issue in which all titles & captions are in English, as well as two articles. (The other issue is mostly in German.) Photocopy re Joyce's funeral, &c. laid in. 9-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches; 55 pages.   $20

[MURRAY, John].  LORD BYRON AND HIS DETRACTORS.  N.Y.: Haskell, 1971. 11 x 8-1/4 inches. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. Essentially an attack on Lord Lovelace (Byron's grandson) and his "Astarte," which created a sensation by accusing Lord Byron of an incestuous relationship with his half-sister [which was a fact.] A reprint of Murray's presentation to The Roxburghe Club. An excellent copy. $20

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