Q1318 Summer Shelf Lot Book Auction

[Literature] F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First edition, first printing. 8vo. [viii], 305 pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, front board lettered in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Front flap of publisher's dust jacket tucked between front end papers-- state unknown, but lack of reviews and publisher's summary indicate it is early. Previous owner name and date on ffep dated March 31, 1920, days after the book was published and prior to its stated date on the copyright page. - Lot 1

[Literature] Three early printings of works by F. Scott Fitzgerald: (1) Flappers and Philosophers. New York: Scribners, 1920. 8vo. Early printing, stating Reprinted September, 1920 with no mention of subsequent printings. Dark green cloth with significant water staining to upper and lower boards, affecting the end papers in front and rear and evident on the lower foreedges of texblock from half title to approx p. 11 of the text; in the rear pp. 264-269 as well as endpapers. No writing in text. Boards slightly cocked, though binding is generally good; (2) The Beautiful and the Damned. New York: Scribners, 1922. 8vo. First edition, second state with publisher's colophon on the copyright page and with single page of ads at rear (This Side of Paradise Twelfth Printing and Flappers and Philosophers Fifth Printing). Rippling to spine cloth, gilt darkened. Writing on front pastedown. 449 pp.; (3) Vegetable. New York: Scribners, 1923. 8vo. First edition, presumed later state. states Published April, 1923 with no mention of later printings. Single page of ads at rear, uncut at top. Some discoloration from dampstaining to cloth, but not severely damaging. Gilt on spine is darkened. Front joint is split from top down approx 1 inch starting just below; bottom of front hinge is holding; no issues with rear hinge. Textblock clean, no writing in text. - Lot 2

[History] Stanley, Henry M. In Darkest Africa: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. New York: Scribners, 1890. 2 volumes. Profusely illustrated with wood-engravings & plates; steel-engraved frontispiece portraits; 3 folding maps in rear endpaper pockets. 8vo. Original gilt pictorial cloth with inset silhouette of Africa. First American Trade Edition. - Lot 4

[Poetry] Four works by W.B. Yeats. Yeats (W.B.) Dramatic Personae. New York: Macmillan, 1936. First American Edition. Green cloth boards with gilt titling; spine and extremities faded. 200pp. Yeats (W.B.) The Winding Stair and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1933. Presumed First Edition. 8vo, embossed green cloth, & orig. d.j. by T.S. Moore. Top and base of dj spine torn, with loss. textblock good. Yeats (W.B.) Dramatic Personae. [n.p.]: Macmillan, 1936. Printed by R.R. Clark, Edinburgh. 8vo. Quarter cloth over geometric paper boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Ex Libris with previous owners name in blue ballpoint ink written on the title page. 190pp. Wade, Allan (ed.), The Letters of W.B. Yeats. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. 8vo. Photo dust jacket over blue cloth boards. - Lot 5

[Signed] Welty, Eudora. Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace. The Mississippi Historical Society: Jackson, 1975. Thin 8vo. Green paper boards with title label. First Edition, limited to 1000 copies. Signed by Welty on half title. Title page reads, A Paper Read at the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society, Jackson, Mississippi, March 7, 1975. - Lot 7

[Signed] White, Margaret Bourke. Portrait of Myself. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. Quarter black cloth over paperboards. Signed by author on ffep. Photo of author on back of dj. Dj is heavily worn with large chip missing from bottom left cover and spine paper. Flaps in good condition. - Lot 9

[Poetry] Yeats, W.B. and David FInn (illustrator). Redding Ridge, Conn.: Black Swan Books, 1983. 1st thus. 8vo, landscape oriented; teal green cloth/boards in publisher's illustrated paper slipcase; gilt lettering and decoration to cloth. 94 pp. with 36 color plates. Introduction by illustrator David Finn, followed by Yeats's poems Sailing to Byzantium and Byzantium. Numbered 171 of 1000 copies printed. - Lot 8

[German Language] Masereel, Frans and Thomas Mann. Jeunesse. Mit Einer Einfuhrung von Thomas Mann. Zurich: Verlag Oprecht, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Slender quarto [28 cm] Tan and black pictorial paper over boards, with toning to boards. In a dust jacket, which is split in half. Text in German. dj closed tear along top edge; spine tears on ends; material loss to paper boards exposing approx 1/2" of textblock at foot of spine. - Lot 6

[Americana] Bartlett, I.S. Wyoming. Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1918. 1st edition, 3 volumes. 647, 648, 65 3pp plus indices. Green cloth, all edges marbled. - Lot 11

[Literary Criticism] Patmore, C[overtry]. The Angel in the House: Books I & II: The First Editions [The Betrothal./ The Espousals]. Compiled by Patricia Aske. Ed. Ian Anstruther. Two volumes 4to. First Collated Edition. Tan slipcase. Quarter brown cloth, marbled paper boards - Lot 13

[Signed] (Lovecraft, Howard Phillips. Talman, Wilfred; L. Sprague de Camp; Gerry de la Ree. The Normal Lovecraft. Saddle River, N. J.: Published by Gerry de la Ree, 1973. Quarto, pp. [1-3] 4-30 [31-32], numerous illustrations, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Limited to 600 numbered copies of which only 60 were cloth bound; this is number 49.Three articles on Lovecraft: The Normal Lovecraft by Wilfred B. Talman, Sonia & H.P.L. by L. Sprague de Camp, and When Sonia Sizzled by Gerry de la Ree. Inscribed and signed by publisher Gerry de la Ree on limitation page. - Lot 14

[Fantasy] Hannes Bok and Abraham Merritt. The Fox-Woman/The Blue Pagoda. New York: New Collectors Group, 1946. First edition. Quarto; no dj. One of 1000 copies, this being no. 721. 109pp. - Lot 10

[World History] Strong, Richard P[earson], ed. The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo: Based on the Observations Made and Material Collected During the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Cambridge: Harvard, 1930. 2 volumes First Edition. 8vo. 1064pp. - Lot 16

[Literature] Jones, James. From Here to Eternity. New York: Scribners, 1951. 8vo. First Edition with A on copyright page. Black boards with spine titling in gilt. Minor stain on dj cover above the word Novel, else very good with minimal wear. Binding tight. Textblock is bright, clean with no writing. A very handsome copy. - Lot 3

[Childrens] Quiller-Couch, Arthur. The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales. 244 pp. Illus., Kay Neilsen with 16 tipped-in color plates. 8vo. Original gilt-pictorial blue cloth. - Lot 17

[Americana] Tomes, Robert. Battles of America by Sea and Land. With Biographies of Naval and Military Commanders. New York City: Patterson and Neilson. 1878, 3 volumes. Thick, heavy 4tos. Bound in 3/4 leather over cloth, engraved frontispieces and title pages, and 75 steel-engraved plates. - Lot 19

[Signed] Ukers, William H. All About Coffee. New York: The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Co.: 1935. Col. Frontis., b&w photos throughout. Second Edition. 8vo. 818pp. - Lot 15

[World History] Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn. Sinai and Palestine: In Stanley, Sinai and Palestine. Connection with Their History. London: John Murray, 1868. New Edition stated with maps and plates. 8vo, Bound in a contemporary full brown calf, gilt titling to spine. Folding color illus. lviii, 560pp. - Lot 18

[Signed] Poe, Elizabeth Ellicott and Vylla Poe Wilson. Edgar Allan Poe, A High Priest of the Beautiful. Washington: Stylus, 1930. 12mo. 112pp. First Edition. Green cloth stamped with gilt on upper panel. Inscribed on ffep to unnamed recipient and signed Elizabeth Ellicott Poe, June 1933. - Lot 12

[Childrens] Goethe, J.W. Reynard the Fox. London: Trubner & Co.; New York, Theo Stroefer, 1870. 4to. Cloth boards, all edges gilt; with illustrations by Wilhem von Kaulback. Hardcover cloth bound. - Lot 20