[Rarebooks] FS: Several TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED items available

[Stephen Johnson]

The below items are for sale at a substantially reduced price today
(Sunday) and tomorrow (Monday) subject to the terms set forth below.

Bruccoli, Matthew [Series Editor]; [Covering: Ade, George; Agee, James;
Anderson, Sherwood; Ashbury, John; Bishop, Elizabeth; Bradbury; Cabell,
James Branch; Cain, James; Carson, Rachel; Capote, Truman; Coover, Robert;
Crews, Harry; DeLillo; Crane, Hart; Eastlake, William; Faulkner, William;
Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Gardner, John; Gaddis, William; Gordon, Caroline;
Grey, Zane; Grau, Shirley Ann; Hawkes, John; Hawthorne, Nathaniel;
Hemingway, Ernest; Hughes, Langston; Jackson, Shirley; Jones, James; Jong,
Erica; Miller, Arthur; Morris, Wright; Nabakov, Vladimir; Nemerov, Howard;
Oates, Joyce Carol; O'Connor, Flannery; Parker, Dorothy; Price, Reynolds;
Pynchon, Thomas; Reed, Ishmael; Salinger, J. D.; Sinclair, Upton; Sontag,
Susan; Stein, Gertrude; Steinbeck, John; Stevens, Wallace; Styron, William;
Tarkington, Booth; Taylor, Peter; Thurber, James; Updike, John; Vidal,
Gore; Vonnegut, Kurt; Walker, Alice; Wharton, Edith; Wilder, Thornton;
Wister, Owen; Wolfe, Thomas; and many others]
First Printings of American Authors [SCARCE TO RARE COMPLETE SET OF FIVE
VOLUMES]

Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1977, and 1987. First Edition, First
Printing. Hardcover.
A Very Good + set of ALL FIVE VOLUMES of this noted Bibliography listing
the first printings of works by many notable American authors. Overall, the
Volumes are in Very Good + condition (some corner bumping, some soiling to
the edges of the closed page block's -- mainly to the bottoms, and Volume 5
shows a small bit of loss to the cloth on the front board's leading edge).
Each Volume was published by Gale Research Company, Volume 1 in 1977,
Volumes 2 and 3 in 1978, Volume 4 in 1979, and Volume 5 in 1987. Each
Volume is a first edition, first printing and Volumes 1 and 2 contain their
respective Errata slips tipped in. Volume 4 contains a Cumulative Index for
the first four Volumes and Volume 5 contains a Cumulative Index for all 5
Volumes. Matthew Bruccoli was the Series Editor for all 5 Volumes, which
together provide an excellent and useful reference for those collecting,
selling, studying, or reference 20th Century American Literature. The Set
is Uncommon to the Market -- even when in a group of only the first four
Volumes, and Volume 5 is SCARCE TO RARE and thus is quite difficult to find
on the market. COMPLETE SETS OF ALL FIVE VOLUMES ARE QUITE SCARCE TO RARE
INDEED. [Please Note: This is a heavy set and Buyer's shipping cost will
exceed the amount quoted by this site.]. Very good +. Item #2936

Price: $625.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $225.

Coel, Margaret
Chief Left Hand [ASSOCIATION COPY; SIGNED TWICE]; Arapaho

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. First Edition, First
Printing. Hardcover. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (tiny
rubs to the leading board corners and to the spine ends) in a Very Good
dust jacket (moderate wear, short tear to the front panel's upper edge,
SIGNED TWICE BY MARGARET COEL on the half-title page, the first of which
was written in the year of the book's publication and reads as follows:
"For Cathie and Vance Dittman / on their 40th anniversary // With my
respect and / admiration! // Margaret Coel // October, 1981". The second
signature simply states: "Margaret Coel // March 5, 1999". [Cathie Dittman
was the Co-author of "Indian Hills: The Place, The Time, The People" and
Vance Dittman was a Professor of Law at the University of Denver. Both were
environmentalists. Yale College holds a collection of miscellaneous
memorabilia of Vance R. Dittman, Jr. (Yale 1924 and 1927) and creative
works by Catherine Pierson Dittman (wife of Vance Dittman) who studied
painting at Yale.] Margaret Coel's DEBUT BOOK, a Biography of Chief Left
Hand, Chief of the Arapaho, a legendary leader of the Plains Indians and
noted diplomat and linguist, being the first biography of this leader ever
published (and being the biography of the original Chief Left Hand as
opposed to a Chief of the same name who succeeded Little Raven in 1889 as
the principal Chief of the Southern Arapahos in Oklahoma.) Signed copies of
the book are quite uncommon, copies signed and dated in the year of
publication are, in our experience, are EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE, AND
DOUBLE-SIGNED COPIES ARE EVEN MORE SO and ASSOCIATION COPIES ARE AS SCARCE
AS HEN'S TEETH. Fine / very good. Item #2929

Price: $185.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $75.


Weatherly, F. E. [Editor, Introduction]; Nister, Ernest [designer of the
automatic pop-ups] Knowles, Horace J. [Line cuts and vignettes]
PEEPS INTO FAIRYLAND: A PANORAMA PICTURE BOOK OF FAIRY STORIES; Peeps into
Fairy Land

London and New York [Printed in Bavaria]: Ernest Nister (London); E. P.
Dutton & Co. (America), [1895]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A
Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, undated, but with a
date-confirming presentation to the front free endpaper dated Christmas,
1895. The volume, which has been recased (using original red spine) shows
external wear and some staining as well as a crack to the rear board and
within shows a couple of gutters reinforced with archival tape. The front
free endpaper is complete (with some crease lines) and the rear free
endpaper is only partially present. The text pages are somewhat toned and
are well-illustrated in half-tone vignettes and line cuts. The volume
contains six beautiful colour pop-up illustrations designed by Ernest
Nister, all of which are bright and attractive, complete and without loss,
with each showing two illustrated levels above its respective illustrated
base page. [It is not known how much of his own drawing Nister contributed
to this volume or to the the books he printed as after he began his work as
a publisher in 1888, Nister did not engage in much creative work and it is,
we think, unlikely that Nister did any illustrations for this book as at
that point in his career he focused on organizing and directing the
workers, managing his business and supervising the printing process -- with
the exception of wood engraving which was supervised by a co-worker named
C. Priess.] The full opening of the book at each pop-up lifts the top and
middle levels of the pop-up illustration. The middle level of each is
designed to be supported by a short piece of material which is missing at
four of the illustrations. [With or without this short piece of material,
the opening of the book raises the middle portion of the illustration above
the base level (but only slightly where the short piece is missing or is
present but not functioning properly), all as shown on our Allington Books
site which contains more illustrations than can be hosted by either ABE or
Biblio.] The book's Editor and author of its Introduction, Frederic Edward
Weatherly, gained fame through his collaboration with Beatrix Potter, whose
pictures appeared with Weatherly’s poems (“Bunny, Bunny Postman” and
“Benjamin Bunny”) in A Happy Pair (1890). Advertised on the title page as
“a panorama picture book of fairy stories,” this collection of six fairy
tales said to have been told by “King Cole” -- who told his audience of
children whose parents were too busy to talk to them after their Papa
returned from work in the evening -- that he saw "Peeps into Fairy-Land, my
dears! Peeps into the land of story-books" and then began to tell them the
stories set forth in this book. The stories include "Naughty Noel", "The
Fairy Fir-cones", "The Fly-away Flock", “Jack and the Beanstalk”, "The Blue
Bird" and “The Babes in the Wood”, each of which contains a corresponding
full-page pop-ups designed by German publisher and engineer Ernest Nister.
Born in Germany and later having an office in London Ernest Nister
(1841–1906) published and printed movable books for children as well as
paper ephemera such as greeting cards, post cards, and calendars. Nister
refined the techniques used in the design of "magic windows," "dissolving
picture," and pop-up books, publishing them from his firm based in
Nuremberg, a toy-making center of the nineteenth century. One of Nister’s
major contributions to the development of movable books is the technique of
displaying multilayered, three-dimensional scenes. While this type of scene
already had been developed by Dean and then Tuck, their constructions had
to be lifted up or pulled down manually in order for them to “pop up.”
Nister’s constructions, however, did not require manipulation, since each
scene was attached by a tab or tabs to the facing page, so when the page
was turned, the multiple layers automatically opened out as described
above, bringing a more rapid enjoyment to the reader. In short, while
Nister was not the first to invent pop-up books, he was the first to invent
automatic pop-up books, making this copy of such an early automatic pop-up
book an important part of book history. Furthermore, as Nister typically
did not date his books, this copy is of added importance as it dates the
book's publication to 1895. This copy is an uncommon survivor of this early
pop-up book engineered by Nister and is uncommon in any condition. An about
Very Good copy. SCARCE INDEED. Almost Very Good. Item #2927

Price: $575.00   NOW AVAILABLE FOR $225.


Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, John Maxwell]
Life & Times of Michael K

New York: The Viking Press, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (quite mildly askew
with some lean to the volume, thin fade line to each spine end) in a Fine
dust jacket, being Coetzee's fourth novel, a book about the value of human
life, race, a mother and son relationship, and war, and winner of the 1983
Booker Prize. A highly-acclaimed author, Coetzee has won the Booker Prize
twice and won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature as an author "who in
innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider."
Coetzee also won the Jerusalem Prize, the CNA Prize (thrice), the Prix
Femina étranger, The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and many
other awards and honours, including a number of honorary doctorates. A Near
Fine copy of this early J. M. Coetzee work. Near fine / fine. Item #2920

Price: $65.00    NOW AVAILABLE FOR $25.


Cather, Willa
My Antonia

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover.
An about Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, second state
with the illustrations printed on text paper. [The first state of the first
printing has the illustrations on glossy coated paper. As Willa Cather
objected to the glossy paper, the balance of the first printing was printed
on the same paper used on the text pages. It is thought that 2,500 copies
were printed on coated paper and that only 1,000 copies were printed on the
same paper as was used for the text.] This copy is somewhat askew and shows
rubbing to the spine ends, board corners, and joints, as well as modest
damage to the front board's right side, a notation in pencil to the front
free endpaper and another to the rear pastedown in ink, and a brown spot to
the upper margin of the latter portion of the pages. As the first printing
was not substantial, copies of the first edition, first printing in either
state are QUITE UNCOMMON TO SCARCE. An about Very Good copy. QUITE UNCOMMON
TO SCARCE. Very good. Item #2899

Price: $150.00   NOW AVAILABLE FOR $50.


Wright, Lyle H.; Smith, Geoffrey D.
American Fiction 1774-1850; American Fiction 1851-1875; American Fiction
1876-1900; American Fiction 1901-1925

San Marino, CA and Cambridge, UK: The Huntington Library and Cambridge
University Press, 1969,1965, 1966, 1997. First Edition and Second Revised
Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good or better copy of American Fiction from
1774 through 1925 with the first volume being the Second Revised Edition
(which improved on the first revised edition and provided additional
information), the second volume being the first edition, second printing
with the Additions and Corrections being appended (rather than given in a
separate volume), the third volume being the first edition, first printing,
and the fourth volume being the first edition, first printing, thus the
complete work of this bibliography of American Fiction. The first three
volumes were prepared by Lyle H. Wright and the fourth and final volume by
Geoffrey D. Smith, each with the assistance of others. The first three
volumes still wear their original dust jackets and the fourth has no dust
jacket. All of the Volumes and jackets are in reasonably nice condition
with the closed page blocks showing varying amounts of soiling and marking
and the jackets showing some soiling and some wear and tear. Altogether a
Very Good or better complete set of this notable Bibliography of American
Fiction published from 1774 through 1925. A Very Good or better set.
[PLEASE NOTE: This a heavy set and the Buyer's postage cost will exceed
that quoted by this site.]. Very good / very good. Item #2885

Price: $325.00   NOW AVAILABLE FOR $150.


Bodenstedt, Friedrich von
Die Lieder des Mirza-Schaffy mit einem Prolog von Friedrich von Bodenstedt.
[The Songs Of Mirza-Schaffy with a Prologue by Friedrich von Bodenstedt]

Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Geheimen Ober-Hofdruckerei (R. von
Decker), 1875.
Hardcover. A Near Fine copy of The Songs of Mirza-Schaffy with a Prologue
by the German writer, translator, and critic Friedrich von Bodenstedt
(1819-1892), in the Publisher's original blue boards with the front board
and spine lettered and decorated in gilt and with all edges of the closed
page block in gilt as well (some lean to the left, tiny push to the top
edge of several pages). Being not only a beautiful copy but also a RARE
one, the book wears its RARE original dust jacket and its EVEN RARER
underjacket. (The dust jacket shows multiple tears as well as some chipping
and a few tape repairs -- apparently archival -- to the verso, and the
underjacket has been bifurcated and shows general wear as well.) First
published in 1851, this collection of poems, written in an Oriental style,
was instantly successful. In producing this book, Von Bodenstedt translated
poems by Azerbaijani and Persian Poets (although he later sought to pass
them off as his own work.) Per Wikipedia: "The success of this work can
only be compared with that of Edward FitzGerald's Omar Khayyám, produced in
somewhat similar circumstances, but differed from it in being immediate. It
has gone through 160 editions in Germany, and has been translated into
almost all literary languages. The celebrity is not undeserved, for
although Bodenstedt does not attain the poetical elevation of FitzGerald,
his translation conveys a view of life which is wider, more cheerful and
more sane, while the execution is a model of grace." In short, this is a
BEAUTIFUL AND RARE copy of this highly-notable work, both dust jackets of
which are REMARKABLE SURVIVALS. [Please Note: This is a heavy book and
Buyer's shipping cost will exceed that quoted by this site.]. Near fine /
very good. Item #2892

Price: $1,250.00   NOW AVAILABLE FOR $450.


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Allington Antiquarian Books



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