[Rarebooks] FS: Presses; limited editions; &c.

Tue Apr 17 23:03:37 EDT 2012

LANGNER, Lawrence and LANGNER, Armina Marshall.  THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. AN AMERICAN COMEDY.
N.Y., 1934.  No. 8 of 35 specially bound copies; signed by both authors. Brick colored cloth backed in white cloth with blue lettering. Illustrated with a few photo plates of theatrical scenes. Housed in a cloth covered slipcase, (a little rubbed).  This play, a social satire, considers the problems a young European immigrant would find at any point in America's history, including a famous sequence on "bundling." Lawrence Langner and Terry Melburn were co-managers of The Theater Guild. Armina Marshall was Langner's long-time wife and the Guild's associate producer. Their great success was "Oklahoma." A prime association copy. $15

GARRISON, Wendell Phillips.  THE NEW GULLIVER.  Marion Press, 1898.  1 of 300 copies. Original blue boards backed in horsehide with leather label lettered in gilt on spine. 7-3/4 x 5 inches; 50, [1] pages. Unopened. Illustrated title page printed in red and black. Some foxing. Lost race novelette; Larremore 9b.  Wright III-2130. $20

JACKSON, HOLBROOK.  AN ESSAY BY HOLBROOK JACKSON: TYPOPHILY, ORIGINALLY PRINTED AS THE INTRODUCTION  TO "A CATALOGUE FOR TYPOPHILES" . .   London, 1945.  Original printed wrappers, approx. 10 X 7 1/2 inches, 7, [1] pages.  Jackson's copy, with a letter to him from W. A. Jefford tipped in presenting the pamphlet to Jackson.  Handset and printed by students at the Polytechnic; Jefford was head of the Printing Dept.  $20

PLATOV, Mariquita.  17 SONNETS.  Tideline Press, 1975.  Number 38 of 100 copies, signed by the author. Octavo, 9.75 x 6.5 inches. One-quarter white burlap, purple boards printed in black, printed paper spine label. Leaves unopened. Laid in is a T.L.S by the author, pertaining to this work & her recently published plays. $10

MOORE, George.  APHRODITE IN AULIS.  London, 1930.  1st edition. Number 952 of 1825 copies.  Signed by the author.  Small quarto, approx 10.25 x 7 inches;  vi, 340, [i] pages. Original full vellum over boards, decorated & lettered in gilt, deckle edges.  Prior owner's bookplate on front pastedown.  A nice copy.  $15

HARDING, GUNNAR.  THE FABULOUS LIFE OF GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE.  Windhover Press, 1970.  Original wrappers, 10 x 6-1/2 inches, printed on heavy paper with  interesting silk-screen color embellishments.  One of 320 copies only printed by students at the University of Iowa.  $10

DRINKWATER,  JOHN.  TIDES, A BOOK OF POEMS.  London, 1917.  First edition. Tall thin 8vo, original cloth-backed floral-decorated boards, spine label darkened and a little rubbed. Small book label of Herbert Boyce Satcher, small catalog clipping, and a neat 4-line comment from "Today" penned by a former owner,  F.D.S. Darwin on end paper. Drinkwater's name, &c, (NOT a signature) written on a front  blank.  Autograph Letter Signed by the printer/publisher, C.W. Beaumont, in 2 pieces, tipped in,  regarding his further publishing plans.   THE FIRST BEAUMONT PRESS BOOK,  one of 250 copies on hand-made paper.  $30

HUBBARD, Bert (editor).  DREAMS AND THEIR MEANING. A LITTLE JOURNEY IN PSYCHO-ANALYSIS.  E. Aurora, 1922.  
First edition. Original gray boards with red title on front cover, backed in ornate embossed leather; moderately rubbed. Owner's signature on endpapers and front blank. Printed in black with chapter heads and ornate initial caps in red. Collected essays on dreams and symbols from Freud's "Hypothesis" to Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Demonology."   1 copy in OCLC. $15

EDEL, Leon.  HENRY JAMES IN WESTMINSTER ABBY.  Honolulu: Petronium Press, 1976.  Small 4to in stiff blue-grey printed wraps over plain paper. 1/274 signed, (the whole edition was 300). Frontis intaglio  portrait of James by John Singer Sargent. An excellent copy of this address by James' bibliographer.  $15

DOUGLAS, Norman.  PANEROS. Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like.  Illustrated by Robert Rotter.  N.Y., 1932.
1st US edition. 1 of 750 copies.  Octavo, approx 9 x 6 inches; 120 pages. Tan paper over boards, decorated & lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Spine age darkened, tiny piece gone from the top of the spine with short split along the rear hinge at the same spot. Colored book-plate of Harry Bache Smith, the famous librettist & book collector. His "Sentimental Library" was purchased by Rosenbach.  $20

[KING, JESSE M.].  THE CITY OF THE WEST.  Boston: Foulis Press, 1911.  US edition of a much admired Foulis Press publication with mounted title and 25 mounted illustrations. Color-illustrated cover-title in wraps over boards. Covers a little soiled and chipped at edges. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. (Charming illustrations of historic sites in Glasgow.)  $20

[CRANE, STEPHEN].  I ENCLOSE YOU SOME LINES.  N.Y.: Oliphant Press, 1984.  Two-page facsimile letter from Crane to Elbert Hubbard, Jan. 29th, 1898.  1 of 50 copies only.The facsimile is enclosed within the original red printed wrappers, and is with the original envelope.  Crane mentions Harold Frederic, The Philistine, &c, and concludes, "Go on, brave man, and do well. For my part I am heavy with trouble."  2 COPIES for $25

BOWES, ROBERT & GRAY, G. J.  JOHN SIBERCH: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES . . .  Cambridge, 1906.  "With facsimiles of title-pages, colophons, ornaments, initial letters, woodcuts, &c., used by John Siberch."   #114 of 150 copies. Octavo, original cloth, institutional stamps on margins of title page,  47,[5] pages. (Early 16th Century Cambridge printer.)
$ 15

FIRBANK, Ronald.  AN EARLY FLEMISH PAINTER.  Daedalus Press, 1969.  Issued at Christmas a a greeting for the friends of Enitharmon Press and Miriam J. Benkovitz. 12mo. (7-/4 x 4-3/4 inches) in printed purple wraps with sewn binding. Signed and inscribed by Benkovitz. Portrait of Charles V tipped in and attributed to the Flemish painter Jan Gossart (sometimes called Jan of Maubeuge). An excellent copy.  $10

[MOSHER].  SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles.  **SIENA.  Mosher, 1910.  Approximately 4-3/4 x 5-1/2 inches in plain stiff paper wraps with patterned paper jacket. Printed paper  labels on front cover and spine. Spine and edges with slight darkening otherwise a very good copy. Attractively printed with wide, ruled margins and frontis portrait of a Pre-Raphaelite lass. A very nice copy.  ** DOWSON, Ernest.  THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE. A DRAMATIC PHANTASY.
Mosher, 1913.  1/ 950 copies. 1st US edition?  In original grey boards with printed paper labels on front cover and spine.  7 x 4-1/2 inches;  37, [2] pages. Bottom corners are bumped, old signature on front end-paper, otherwise an excellent copy. The last title published in The Lyric Garland series. Hatch 592.  ** DICKENS, Charles.  A CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.  Mosher, 1921. 1/300 copies. In blue charcoal paper boards with raised bands and printed paper label on spine. 7-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches; viii, 194 pages. Printed for Edward A. Woods in an edition of 300 copies on Van Gelder paper. Hatch 755.  THE 3 for $40

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