[Rarebooks] FS: A Pair of SCARCE books DISCOUNTED

[Allington Books]

Greetings to All.
Subject to the terms set forth below, today and tomorrow we offer the
below-described works, each at  substantial  discount:
Gilbert, W. S. [Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck]
Gretchen [Eric Quayle's copy with his bookplate and note]

London: Newman & Co., 1879. First Edition (?). Hardcover. A Very Good copy
of either the first or the second edition -- see below, (with some mild
rubbing), in the Publisher's original cloth having an EXCELLENT PROVENANCE,
being the copy of noted British bibliophile, collector, historian, and
author Eric Quayle whose bookplate (dated 1965) graces the volume's front
pastedown. W. S. Gilbert was the famed English dramatist, librettist, poet
and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur
Sullivan, a collaboration which produced fourteen comic operas, with the
best-known of them likely being "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The Pirates of
Penzance", and "The Mikado", one of the most frequently performed works in
the history of musical theatre. "Gretchen" is one of Gilbert's scarcest
works as attested by a note by Eric Quayle, written and initialed in pencil
on the verso this copy's front free endpaper reading as follows: "a
difficult Gilbert / first edition / E.Q." Quayle describes this copy as the
"first edition" and his bookplate on the front pastedown is dated 1965
within the bookplate. Searle in his bibliography of Gilbert's works
describes this copy as the second edition, but that bibliography was issued
much earlier (1931) than Quayle's bookplate is dated. Thus, Quayle clearly
would have had access to Searle's bibliography. If one sides with Quayle,
this is a first edition copy. Even if Searle happens to be correct, putting
Quayle's and Searle's determinations together reveals the scarcity of this
copy even if Searle is correct as to its edition. A Very Good copy, with an
EXCELLENT PROVENANCE WITH A NOTE INITIALED BY ERIC QUAYLE FROM WHOSE
COLLECTION IT COMES. QUITE SCARCE INDEED. Very good. Item #2736

Price: $225.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $65.00
Burnett, W. R. [Burnett, William Riley]
Iron Man [Scarce Signed Copy]

New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh The Dial Press, 1930. First Edition, First
Printing. Hardcover. An Essentially Fine copy of the first edition, first
printing (some mild darkening to parts of the cloth, some spotting to the
topstain -- spine lettering still in unusually nice condition) in a Very
Good dust jacket with some scattered tears and some short tape repairs to
the jacket's verso and a faint fold line to the front flap's upper portion
-- the jacket's spine shows only a touch of the fading commonly found on
this title and the front panel remains unusually bright), SIGNED BY W. R.
BURNETT on the title page; William Riley Burnett's second novel, the tale
of a mechanic's assistant who becomes a boxer and ultimately wins the
middleweight championship. [Burnett himself boxed while a student at Miami
Military Institute in Ohio.] The book provided the basis for a 1931 movie
starring Lew Ayres and Jean Harlow and for the 1951 film noir starring Jeff
Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, and Rock Hudson. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Fine /
very good. Item #2716

Price: $725.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $225.00


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Stephen
Allington Antiquarian Books


Stephen Johnson
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