[Rarebooks] FS: Books- Book Collectors, Book Hoaxes &c

Wed Jun 12 08:28:24 EDT 2019

Five Varied Booky Items-

1) Horace Liveright 1929 Mid Winter Books Folder.  - A listing of 
just-published fiction and nonfiction for those long winter nights. 
4-panel paper folder, 5.5”x3” (folded) 5.5”x12” (unfolded). Minor soil. 
$15

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2) “The History of a Hoax: Edmund Lester Pearson, John Cotton Dana, and 
The Old Librarian's Almanack” by Wayne A. Wiegand. Published in 
Pittsburgh by Beta Phi Mu in 1979. In 1909 bibliographers and librarians 
were startled by the publication of something called "The Old 
Librarian's Almanack -A very rare pamphlet first published in New Haven 
Connecticut in 1773 and now reprinted for the first time". A clever and 
(partially) innocently-intentioned hoax, the “Almanack” was meant to 
puncture a few stiff-shirted balloons then being bandied about in the 
library community. It was filled with such sage advice as, “No person 
younger than 20 years is on any pretext to enter the library,” and “Be 
suspicious of women. They are given to reading of frivolous romances... 
you will make no error in excluding them altogether, even though by that 
act it befall that you should prohibit from entering some one of those 
excellent females who are distinguished by their wit and learning. There 
is little chance that you or I, sir, will ever see such a one”. The 
whole affair got out of hand when some people took it a little too 
seriously... Hardcover. 6"x9", 75 pages, facsimiles. In fine, clean 
condition, with a tight binding. $20

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3) “The Koh-I-Noor of Books. An Essay In Bibliosophical Eristics” by 
Tydor Debrenowsky. Privately printed for the Friends of the Torch Press, 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Christmas 1938. Edition limited to 400 copies. A 
spoof on bibliophilic and private press pretension, purporting to be a 
description of a rare and unique manuscript, know known as the 
Finkelstein-O'Holligan Omniology Codex, which will be reprinted in a 
limited edition of 2,500 copies at $20,000 each. The manuscript had 
previously been owned by the famous bibliophile, the Baron de Fricassee, 
who was killed by being shot by an icicle fired from an ancient 
arquebusse "by a veiled lady in the foyer of the Grand Opera in Paris". 
Hardcover. 5"x8", 26 pages. Minor soil, light wear. With a thick 
glassine jacket that is worn, chipped, and soiled. With- a plain 
Christmas greeting card from the Torch Press. $20

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4) “A Record of British and American Private Collectors and Lovers of 
Books, Prints, MSS., Etc.” Published in London by The Bookman's Journal 
in 1927. The volume has the bookplate of Mary J.[enks] Coulter [Clark] 
of San Diego, who is listed inside a as collector of books & prints 
related to art, religion, philosophy, and the Elizabethan period, 
especially the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy. Mary Jenks Coulter Clark 
[1880-1966] was a well-known artist, bookbinder and lecturer who studied 
at the Cincinnati Art Academy under Frank Duveneck, worked at the 
Rookwood Pottery, was the first Curator of Etchings and Engravings at 
the Cincinnati Art Museum, served on the staff of Department of Fine 
Arts at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and was 
assistant director at the Fine Art Gallery of San Diego. Her works were 
in the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Boston Museum of fine 
Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum, the Louvre, and 
the National Gallery of Art. Hardcover. 6.5"x10", 266 pages. Minor soil, 
light wear, many small pencil notes. $20

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5) 1881 Color Bookplate - Regency Woman in Chair with Fan. A lovely 
hand-colored bookplate showing a Regency-era lady sitting in a chair 
fanning herself as a servant leans over to make sure she’s ok. 
Bookplate. 3”x4.75”. Some wear and soil, mounting paper residue on the 
back. $20

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