THE LITERARY WORLD. A GAZETTE FOR AUTHORS, READERS AND PUBLISHERS. VOLUME II
C.F. Hoffman [editor] iii,[1],644pp. Quarto. Original publisher's blind-stamped cloth. Spine ends somewhat frayed, early ink name on front pastedown, endsheets rather foxed, with minor foxing and edge-tanning elsewhere, one gathering toward end proud (and probably reinserted), otherwise very good. The publisher's bound semi-annual volume for whole numbers 27 through 52, spanning 7 August 1847 - 29 January 1848. The earlier volume has considerable significance for Melville content, in part due to his friendship with the former editor, Evert Duyckinck. Not so this volume, though Emerson, Lowell and others are noted.- $55
- $55
MOBY DICK O LA BALLENA BLANCA
Melville, Herman xlviii,426,[18]pp. Large octavo. Printed wrapper. Light use to wrapper, but very good or better. Published as "Sepan Cuantos" No. 506. The translation is not attributed in the book or in its entries in OCLC, though several translations into Spanish preceded this printing. W. Somerset Maugham's essay on the novel is included among the prefatory items, among which is a Melville chronology.- $25
- $25
DECORUM A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON ETIQUETTE AND DRESS OF THE BEST AMERICAN SOCIETY
[Courtesy Book - American]: [Ruth, John] 414pp. Octavo. Pictorial olive cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt, silver and black. Some flecking to cloth sizing, light rubbing at spine ends, some spotting in upper margins of about half the text-block, otherwise very good. A subscription edition of this highly popular text first published in Chicago in 1877 under Ruth's name. This edition is represented as "Revised" by S.L. Louis and Ruth's name has been dropped. As might be expected, some of the formulae for cosmetic and toilette preparations might now be discouraged as potentially either fatal or addictive. OCLC: 6360371.- $40
- $40
THE WILLIM LORING ANDREWS COLLECTION OF MAPS, VIEWS, PRINTS AND BOOKS RELATING TO NEW YORK AND OTHER AMERICANA
[Andrews, William Loring] 68,[2]pp. plus four plates. Decorated house-style printed wrapper. Illustrations and facsimiles. Slight tanning to wrapper and small nick to spine, otherwise unusually nice. Two sessions, consisting of 441 lots, to be sold without reserve. Neatly priced throughout in red pencil, quite often with buyers identified (or initials of buyers). The whole is preceded by a facsimile of a letter from James F. Drake, to Mitchell Kennerley, providing background for his consignment of this element of Andrews's collection. Drake bought the larger portion of the Andrews collection in 1919 and left these items in storage.- $35
- $35
PIERRE OR THE AMBIGUITIES
Melville, Herman Red cloth, decorated in black with designs by Dwiggins. Ink ownership inscription on front free endsheet, otherwise near fine in lightly rubbed, priced clipped dust jacket. New printing in the format, as one of Knopf's Alblabook series. Text edited by Robert S. Forsythe,- $18
- $18
TYPEE NARRATIVE OF A FOUR MONTHS’ RESIDENCE AMONG THE NATIVES OF A VALLEY OF THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS
[Penguin Illustrated Classics]: Melville, Herman 12mo. Pictorial wrapper. Frontis and illustrations by Robert Gibbings. Inevitable tanning to textblock, tiny sliver loss from fore-edges of first two leaves, otherwise about fine in the scarce pictorial dust jacket. Laid into cloth chemise with Penguin logo on spine and upper panel. First edition in this format, as C8 among the first, simultaneously published ten volumes in the short-lived PENGUIN ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS series. Gibbings edited the series, but illustrated this title only. Uncommon in dust jacket. KIRKUS,et al, 58.- $55
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OF TIME, TYPE & THE TYPOCRAFFTERS A TYPOGRAPHICAL REVERIE WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE LIFE AND WORK OF J.L. FRAZIER AND THE INLAND PRINTER.
[Contre Coup Press]: Kramer, Kay Michael [4],135,[5]pp. Large octavo (25 x 17 cm). Gilt lettered cloth and marbled boards, edges untrimmed. Fine. First edition. One of a total edition of 29 copies printed on Fabriano handmade paper. Laid in front is an autograph calligraphic letter, Athens, GA, 12-17-90, from Dwight Agner to "Emerson," regretting their not having gotten together to visit at a Typocrafters meeting. Contributors include Paul Duensing, Alexander Lawson, Hec Mann, John Schappler, et al. A portfolio of ephemera mentioned in the colophon is not present with this copy. Scarce. OCLC locates four copies. OCLC: 1032336314.- $400
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ORIENTAL PRINTING, FANTASY AND ART PAPERS [cover title]
[Paper Sample Book]: Nelson-Whitehead Paper Corp. [3],132 leaves, many of them color. Oblong quarto (19 x 27.5 cm). Open sewn decorated paper over boards. Damp stain to upper fore-corner and for-edge of early portion of the textblock, fading to negligible by leaf 28, upper fore-tips bumped, first and least leaves creased, otherwise a good example. A handsome and particularly substantial Asian paper sample book, including a number of foil and tea chest papers. Nelson-Whitehead was a later incarnation of the Japan Paper Company, which was founded in New York in 1901. During WWI, it was renamed the Steven-Nelson Company, and thereafter to Nelson-Whitehead. OCLC dates this specimen collection 1959; there were contemporary and slightly later kindred specimen books in smaller format or with fewer leaves. OCLC: 25047437.- $150
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DEAR JOE: A BRIEF CORRESPONDENCE
[Warwick Press]: Blumenthal, Joseph, and Carol J. Blinn [32]pp. Small octavo. Cloth backed decorative paper over boards, paper spine label. Facsimiles. Faint pencil erasure from front free endsheet, otherwise fine, with prospectus laid in. First edition. One of a total edition of seventy-five copies designed, printed and signed by Carol Blinn.- $135
- $135
SEXTODECIMOS ET INFRA
Andrews, William Loring xiii,[1],[4]-117pp. Small octavo. Gilt decorated stiff card over boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontis and 26 plates (many in color). Large bookplate of Judge John Wesley Warrington, slight dusting along top edge, minute tear at toe of lower wrapper spine fold, otherwise very good or slightly better. Accompanied by a somewhat tanned example of the outer chemise. First edition of Andrews's paean to early smaller books and miniatures he had at hand. Copy #5 of 140 copies printed on English hand- made paper, in addition to 12 copies printed on Imperial Japan paper. The color illustrations are printed by the Bierstadt process, and the title is printed in colors and marginal decorations in the manner of an illuminated manuscript. A bibliography of Andrews' publications in limited edition formats occupies pp. 109-117. The chemise bears the bookplate of Daniel Henry Holmes.- $250
- $250