[Rarebooks] FOUR FOR FRIDAY: Four items temporarily discounted

[Stephen Johnson]

Greetings to All.
Subject to the terms set forth below, we offer five (5) items at the
respective discounts sent forth below.   These discounts will be available
from the sending of this email through and including Monday, January 29,
2024 at 11:00 pm North Carolina Time

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*THE ITEMS ARE:*

Churchill, Winston Spencer; the Right Honourable Winston Spencer Churchill,
M.P.
Lord Randolph Churchill

London and New York: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1907. Second Edition [being
the First Edition in one volume]. TEMPORARILY ON HOLD. A Very Good + or
better copy of the Second Edition, being the first edition in a single
volume with the dedication page reading: "TO // CHARLES RICHARD JOHN
SPENCER-CHURCHILL // THIS BOOK // IN ALL FAITHFUL FRIENDSHIP // IS
INSCRIBED". The Volume is bound in the Publisher's burgundy cloth and wears
its RARE, PUBLISHER-ADDED 1925 DUST JACKET. A very good+ or better clean
copy with the burgundy color slightly faded on spine, in very good to Very
Good + jacket which is darkened on the spine, but the lettering remains and
readable, and shows shallow chipping to the spine ends and bottom of spine
not affecting lettering, plus one very small chip in spine below the title
not affecting lettering and slight closed tearing to the spine's leading
portion a touch below the author's name. The front and rear jacket panels
are complete. The spine panel also shows a few small light spots on jacket
spine, but it remains a very good to very good + jacket. The front free
endpaper has been signed and dated Sir John Heydon Romaine Stokes
(1917-2003) and dated June 1937. Stokes was a major in the Royal Fusiliers
in the Second World War and a Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1992, and
he appears to have purchased the book shortly before WWII. The jacket is
Macmillan's 1920s style brown paper which the Macmillan often added to
earlier titles still in stock to update their advertising. The rear panel
of the jacket lists "Some Standard Biographies" including Sir Sidney Lee's
King Edward VII. The ad for King Edward announces vol. 2 for Autumn 1925,
thus dating the jacket. A clean, square copy, very scarce in this jacket
and virtually unobtainable in the 1907 jacket. NOTE: We have reliable
information that, with respect to first edition issued in two volumes, only
five (5) jackets are known to survive for Volume I and only three (3)
survive for Volume II. We have never seen or heard of a copy of this second
edition (issued in only one volume) in the dust jacket and and conclude
that describing this jacket as being "Rare" is fully justified. A RARE COPY
INDEED. Very good +. Item #3846

Price: $8,250.00

TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $4,450.


Zola, Emile: Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred [Editor and Author of the Preface]
The Honour of the Army and Other Stories by Émile Zola. Edited with a
preface by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A
Very Good to Very Good + copy of the first UK Edition, first printing, in
the Publisher's original brown cloth -- a variant binding without a
catalogue (mildly askew, rubbing to the leading corners, spine ends, and to
the front board's bottom edge), in a Good dust jacket with fading to the
spine and to the panel extremities, moderate wear, and significant tape
repairs to the verso; being a collection of nine (9) short stories. A
(presumed) prior owner's pencil signature appears on front free endpaper,
there are spots to the closed page block's outer edges, some toning to the
free endpapers and to the title pages as well as to a number of the leaves.
Per Wikipedia: "Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the
best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an
important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a
major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the
exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred
Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined
J'Accuse…! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1901 and 1902." Nineteenth Century and turn of the Century
Zola works in their original dust jackets are QUITE SCARCE INDEED, making
this copy A REMARKABLE FIND.
Edited by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.

19th Century and turn of the Century Zola first in the dust jacket are
RARE.
Price: $2,700
TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $950.

Paine, Albert Bigelow [(1861-1937)]; [Clemens, Samuel / Twain, Mark
(1835-1910)]
Mark Twain: A Biography [First Published in 1912, then 1924, then 1928, and
thereafter]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Thus. Hardcover. TEMPORARILY
DISCOUNTED. WAS $4,650. NOW $2,150. An EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SET OF ALBERT
BIGELOW PAINE'S FAMED BIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN [SAMUEL CLEMENS] PUBLISHED IN
1928 IN THE RARE DUST JACKETS AND RARE SLIPCASE, being the second edition
of such Biography in three volumes [AS WAS THE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF 1912,
WHICH PRECEDED THE TWO-VOLUME SECOND EDITION OF 1924]. Each Volume of this
set bears the Publisher's edition code K-C, showing that each volume was
published in November, 1928 and that it is a proper set. This set was
issued in a small printing and seldom turns up with all three volumes
present and this is the only set with the jackets and slipcase that has
been seen at . The volumes are essentially Fine and show only minor surface
marking, the upper leading corner of Volume II is nudged and that of Volume
III is bumped. The EXCEEDINGLY RARE DUST JACKETS have some modest spine
chipping and spotting as well as some old tape repairs inside and outside
of jackets, though the jacket panels are generally nice. THE EXCEEDINGLY
RARE SLIPCASE is tattered and shows some seam splits, and the case's top
panel is detached but present. [Thus, while the case would benefit from an
expert restoration, it nevertheless is complete and an ABSOLUTE RARITY as
no copies of the 1912 Biography are recorded with the jackets or box, and
only one set of a 1923 reprint is known in the jackets and box, making this
set just the second example of the Biography with surviving jackets and
box, and is, as best we can determine, virtually the only obtainable
jackets or box for this classic Paine Twain Biography.

Additional Information:
This is the data an expert bookman know to me has noted over 30 years of
collecting Twain and talking with all the big Twain collectors and
consulting auction records. There are no copies of the 1912 biography with
jackets or box, although the contemporary ads noted a box. There was a
three-volume. reprint in 1921 or 1923 with one set that survived in plain
brown jackets with spine cutouts and housed in a white box and this 1928
edition clearly was designed to match the royal blue ribbed cloth and the
robin's-egg blue jackets of the 1924 autobiography in large 8vo. form. He
further notes that this 1928 edition was apparently very small and that it
is likely that only probably a few hundred copies of it were published such
that odd volumes turn up now and then, but this set is the only complete
set this expert has ever seen, with or without jackets and box.
Furthermore, only one set of a 1923 reprint is known in its jackets and
box, and this set is just the second known example of this Biography with
its surviving jackets and box. Fine / Very Good or Better. Item #3833

Price $4,650.00 TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $1,050.


Lawrence, J.J.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S MUSIC BOOK; Original Music Book of Confederate
Military Musician

No Publisher, No Date. No Edition. Wrappers. A RARE CIVIL WAR Confederate
Manuscript Military Music -- Among the Rarest Type of Confederate
Manuscript Material: A VERY GOOD ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MUSIC BOOK BELONGING
TO CONFEDERATE DRUMMER J.J. LAWRENCE OF COMPANY G [OF THE FIFTH TEXAS
VOLUNTEER INFANTRY] DURING THE CIVIL WAR. The book measures approximately 6
and 5/16th inches by approximately 3 and 9/16ths inches. The outer sides of
the wrappers are in marbled paper. Within are 40 pages with lines drawn to
be used by the musician to add notes for songs to be played by him. Nine of
the pages have been completed with song titles and notes. The remaining
pages are blank, presumably because of Lawrence's untimely early death. The
musician would add his own notes for songs to be played. The contemporary
marbled wrappers show some wrinkling, rubbing, staining, and edge wear.
Within, the contents are mildly foxed. A unique collection of songs, likely
written down and carried by J.J. Lawrence, a Texas Confederate drummer
killed in action in Virginia during the Civil War. There is a manuscript
note on the inside front wrapper of the volume, “Bass Drum Band Fifth Tex.
V.I.” and J.J. Lawrence is the only drummer listed in the roster of that
regimental company. Though musicians on both sides of the Civil War were
largely kept back from battle, Lawrence was killed at the Battle of Gaines
Mill on June 27, 1862. If this was J.J. Lawrence manuscript music volume,
and we think that it was, his death in the early years of the conflict
would account for the fact that this music manuscript does not contain more
songs, though all forty pages of the text have staff lines drawn in
manuscript for musical notation. The nine songs that are written out
include “The Bonnie Blue Flag,” “Pepita Marsch,” “Walger[?],” two versions
of a “Parade March,” and four versions of “Quick Step.” Company G of the
Fifth Texas Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Milam County Greys, was
organized in Cameron, Texas on July 15, 1861. The regiment served as part
of Hood’s Texas Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil
War. The Battle of Gaines Mill, fought in Hanover County, Virginia, was an
early Confederate victory, though one in four Texas soldiers died in the
battle, including Lawrence. While this book contains only a small sampling
of music, Confederate manuscript music material is EXCEEDINGLY RARE to the
Market. This volume, likely created by a Texas Confederate drummer boy
killed in action in Virginia while serving in Hood’s Texas Brigade, is an
important piece of historical evidence of the conflict. A REMARKABLE
SURVIVAL and EXCEEDINGLY RARE. Very good. Item #3318

Price: $6,450.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $1,450.


ALSO: PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR CURRENT SALE LIST IS TEMPORARILY STILL IN EFFECT.


With Thanks for your consideration of the these items and

Best Wishes,
Stephen



Stephen Johnson
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