[Rarebooks] FS: 10 New Arrivals in a variety of fields

[Charles Agvent]

1.  BRISLEY, Joyce Lankester. LAMBS'-TAILS AND SUCHLIKE. VERSES AND SKETCHES. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, (1930). First American Edition. Green floral-patterned boards with yellow cloth spine, pictorial endpapers; 95 pages. Charmingly illustrated collection of poems for children. Slight foxing to endpapers. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a little edgewear. (#017204)		$100.00

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2.  FLECKER, James Elroy. HASSAN: THE STORY OF HASSAN OF BAGDAD AND HOW HE CAME TO MAKE THE GOLDEN JOURNEY TO SAMARKAND: A PLAY IN FIVE ACTS. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923. First Edition. Beautifully bound by Asprey in full midnight blue morocco leather with gilt-ruled borders, gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Copy #226 of 380 numbered copies printed on English handmade paper. Introduction by J. C. Squire. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. "Men who think themselves wise believe nothing till the proof. Men who are wise believe anything till the disproof." Foxing to a few interior pages otherwise a Fine copy in a lovely binding. (#017207)		$100.00

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3.  INGRAM, Tom. BANNS OF MARRIAGE. London: Constable, (1956). First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to author Douglas Newton: "To Den with/love and all/thanks/from Tom." About Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. (#017194)		$50.00

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4.  LUCAS, Frederic A. GENERAL GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION HALLS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. New York: The Museum, June 1920. First Edition of 1920. Original decorated wraps; 136 pages. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings of the museum's holdings. Slight loss of paper along spine. Very Good. (#017202)		$50.00

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5.  McPHEE, John. THE SURVIVAL OF THE BARK CANOE. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1975). First Edition. "The story of the building of the birch-bark canoes and of the 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology." Mild foxing to bulked text fore-edge. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with the typical slight darkening of the spine. (#017203)		$75.00

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6.  McPHERSON, James Alan. ELBOW ROOM. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1977). First Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the first work of fiction by an African-American writer to do so. Slight dust soiling to the top bulked text edge otherwise Fine in a Fine dustwrapper with just a touch of wear. (#017205)		$150.00

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7.  NABOKOV, Vladimir. THE EYE. New York: Phaedra, 1965. First Edition. Advance Copy in wraps with dustwrapper with the publisher's address line on the copyright page and Trident Press noted on the rear dustwrapper flap. The dustwrapper is identical to the trade issue but slightly different in size extending above the top of the covers and resulting in inevitable wear. Review Slip laid in. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a few small holes on the spine and some tanning. (#017199)		$50.00

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8.  PANCAKE, Breece D'J. [McPHERSON, James Alan]. THE STORIES OF BREECE D'J PANCAKE. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1983). First Edition. With a 16-page foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner James Alan McPherson, and a 7-page afterword by author John Casey. Author's only book, published a few years after his suicide at the age of 26. Blurbs by Jayne Ann Phillips and Margaret Atwood. Slight dust soiling to the top bulked text edge otherwise a tight, Fine copy in a close to Fine dustwrapper with just light sunning to the spine. (#017206)		$50.00

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9.  TCHEKOFF, Anton [Anton Chekhov]. THE HOUSE WITH THE MEZZANINE AND OTHER STORIES. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1917). First American Edition. Dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Translated from the Russian by S. S. Koteliansky and Gilbert Cannan. Seven stories by the master: "The House with the Mezzanine;" "Typhus;" "Gooseberries;" "In Exile;" "The Lady with the Toy Dog;" "Goussiev;" and "My Life." Owner information in pencil from date of publication on the front endpaper. Some rubbing along spine and edges. Gilt is bright. Verty Good to Near Fine, lacking a dustwrapper if it ever had one. (#017196)		$50.00

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10.  THORNBURY, Walter. THE LIFE OF J. M. W.TURNER, R.A. FOUNDED ON LETTERS AND PAPERS FURNISHED BY HIS FRIENDS AND FELLOW ACADEMICIANS. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1862. First Edition. Tall octavo (5-3/4" x 9") bound in publisher's purple cloth with a gilt-lettered spines. Complete with half-title pages, 6 illustrations, and ads at the end of the second volume. Included chapters on Turner's notebooks and sketches and prices for his work. The Appendix inclues A complete catalogue of all Turner's engraved works; a Catalogue of all the pictures exhibited by Turner in the Royal academy and British institution. Between the years 1787 and 1850; a Catalogue of pictures given by Turner to the nation; and an Authentic Copy of Turner's will. Tight, solid copies, internally clean, with some loss of cloth along the spine edges and at the spine tips with a small section of the spine of the second volume partly detached. Good or better. (#017200)		$100.00

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