Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms (Signed limited edition)
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1929
- $20,500
Number 244 of 510 copies of the signed, limited edition, printed on large paper. Available simultaneously with the trade edition. Original half japon, over paper boards, black morocco spine label. Spine head bumped, small skinning to head of spine label, binding faintly toned. Slight rubbing and wear to slipcase. Housed in the publisher's leaf-patterned slipcase, and additionally housed in a custom yellow morocco clamshell. "Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old, and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from WWI, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front, and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield, this gripping, semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to the novel 39 times to get the words right. The result is what the Washington Times called 'a towering ornament of American literature'" (Hemingway Library). Grissom A.8.1.a2; Hanneman A8b. Near Fine.
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The Petticoat: An Heroi-comical Poem. In two books
Bound to style in quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt to spine. All edges marbled. Measuring 185 x 112mm and collating complete including half title: [4], iii, [1, blank], 39, [1, blank]. With catchword 'behold' on page 27 and floral ornament above 'Finis' on page 39 as called for. A Fine example, unmarked and fresh. A scarce piece of erotic satire, ESTC records copies at 11 U.S. institutions. It last sold at auction in 1929, and the present is the only first edition on the market. "Begin my Muse and sing in Epick train The Petticoat; Nor shall thou sing in vain, The Petticoat will sure reward thy pain!" So opens a satire composed under the pseudonym Mr. Gay (used by several of those hacks in Edmund Curll's employ), which traces how the amorous adventures of Thyrsis and Chloe were made possible by the latter's fashionable hooped skirt. Finding both humor and seriousness in women's fashion, The Petticoat points out how some of the clothing designed to hinder women's movement could actually be adapted to their advantage -- in this case, the pursuit and fulfillment of illicit sexual affairs. For just as Thyrsis is able to hide beneath his lover's skirt to conceal himself while pleasing her, Chloe is able to share this information with her female coterie (including the work's readers). Thus, women desirous of hiding lovers of any gender might deploy this ingenious method, allowing them to engage in affairs without traveling far from home. An acknowledgement of women's own sexual desire and agency. ESTC T43929. Unspeakable Curll 241-242. Not in the Register of Erotic Books. Democracy in America. Part the First
Two octavo volumes, collating xliv, 333, [2 ads]; vi [of viii], 462, [2 ads]: with the folding map to the front of volume 1; half-title in volume 1, lacking half-title in volume 2 and lacking the second leaf of the table of contents. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, marbled end papers, rebacked but retaining the original spines. Folding map, outlined in color, with a few cracks along the folds, some repaired on the verso, otherwise an excellent set internally. The second edition in English of Part I, which was originally released in French and English a year earlier in 1835. Part II of Democracy in America would not appear in first edition in the Paris or London imprints until 1840. De Tocqueville, a French aristocrat, visited America between 1831 and 1832, ostensibly to study the penal system, although his interest was considerably broader. It seems logical that France would look to America as a beacon of hope for a successful democracy. After France embraced the goals of equality and democracy in 1789 at the start of the French Revolution, it found itself first in a dictatorship under Napoleon and then in one constitutional monarchy after another during the years following. De Tocqueville's astute observation of several aspects of American society and culture provides an invaluable lens of foreign perspective on our young nation's political growth. Democracy in America was an immediate and sustained success. Almost from the beginning it enjoyed the reputation of being the most acute and perceptive discussion of the political and social life of the United States ever published. Whether perceived as a textbook of American political institutions, an investigation of society and culture, a probing of the psyche of the United States, or a study of the actions of modern democratic society, the book has maintained its place high within the pantheon of political writing. "No better study of a nation's institutions and culture than Tocqueville's Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer; none perhaps as good" (The New York Times). Howes T-278, 279. Sabin 96062, 96063. Clark III:111. Cosentino (Washington 1989). A Night in a Balloon. An Astronomer’s Trip from Paris to the Sea in Observation of Leonids
Extracted from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (Volume LX, Number 2), pages 276-284. Disbound but complete; dampstaining to lower third of all pages. This first-hand account of aeronautical astronomical study by a key female scientist is scarce. "Dorothea Klumpke was the first woman to earn a PhD in astronomy -- a feat she accomplished in 1893 at the University of Paris, with a dissertation about the rings of Saturn.She began working at the Paris Observatory in 1887, just as the international all-sky charting project known as the Carte du Ciel was getting underway, and she contributed mightily to that effort" (Linda Hall). The American scientist's French career was a success from the get-go. In 1889, she became the first recipient of the Prix de Dame from the Societie des Astronomique as well as the first woman to become an officer of the Paris Academy of Scientists. Not satisfied there, she broke through yet another glass ceiling in 1891, when she was appointed the first female Director of the Observatory's Bureau of Measurements. Among her peers she was recognized as a keen scientific observer. "Hopes for a brilliant Leonid meteor shower in November of 1899 prompted French astronomers to propose observing the display at altitude, from a hot air balloon. Jules Janssen, director of the Meudon Observatory, chose Klumpke to make the ascent" (Linda Hall). The present account, which appeared in New York one year later, documents Klumpke's first-hand experiences on the Leonid expedition. In addition to her scientific observations, several images and a map of the balloon trajectory, Klumpke reveals her excitement to readers. Skilfully she takes a scientific expedition and transforms it into an accessible journey akin to something from Jules Verne, wherein she and her crew launch into the sky to observe extreme celestial beauty. "Never before had nature seemed so grand to me, so beautiful." A scarce firsthand narrative about aeronautical astronomical study, from a woman who broke through every barrier she could. A Scheme for a New Lottery: or, a Husband and a Coach and Six for Forty Shillings. Being very advantageous to both Sexes; where a Man may have a Coach and Six and a Wife for Nothing.
Modern quarter morocco over cloth with gilt to spine. Measuring 180 x 111mm and collating complete including frontis, folding game board, and concluding woodcut: [2], 62, [2]. Bookplate of the Ricky Jay Collection to front pastedown. Top margin trimmed close with consistent loss to running headers and occasional loss to page numbers, with no other text effected. Pages somewhat toned with minor marginal chips, but otherwise unmarked. A scarce satire playing both on the rising popularity of get-rich-quick schemes and on the economics of the marriage market, the present is the only example to appear in the auction record. In the abscence of ESTC, we have used OCLC, which identifies only 12 institutional copies. The present is the only example currently in trade. A Scheme for a New Lottery satirically warns readers against the dangers posed by get-rich-quick schemes, targeting large-scale scams like the recently burst South Sea Bubble and the pawn-broking swindle of the so-called Charitable Corporation. It also takes its shot at the everyday "Methods of Change-Alley Brokers, or Jockies.at the Hiring of which many middling Tradesmen run off many Thousands of Pounds in small sums, for which they now labour under great Necessities for want of it." More than the developers of scams, A Scheme places blame on the lack of critical thinking and the resulting gullibility of those who participate. Unrealistic and large-scale promises to rapidly improve peoples' financial lives and assist them in changing social classes were appealing at a time when few were "successful in using wealth from trade to found a landed family" that could become ensconced among the gentry (Rapp). But at the same time, they were typically only enriching for those running the scams. To that end, as soon as A Scheme critiques tradesmen for their slow but significant payouts through gambling, it turns around and proposes "Another Lottery, which may prove a general benefit to all concern'd; as there is no better Remedy for a Bite from a Mad Dog than the Liver of the Dog that bit." The proposed lottery, filled with so many rules, exceptions, and convoluted promises ensures that the cycle continues. The basis for the present lottery also notably satirically targets the greatest systemic economic scam of the period: marriage. While marriage among the elite during the century was a means for consolidating wealth and ensuring the success of the future (male) offspring in a family, for the lower classes it represented opportunities "to create new, economically stable" or upwardly mobile situations for whichever partner married up (Knoll). Equally, because such marriages relied on the fiscal responsibility of the male partner or the honest financial disclosures of both families involved, it could also result in financial ruin. Ultimately, few marriages of the period met the romantic ideal of companionate partnership set by popular novels. A Scheme's lottery particularly plays on the latter facts -- and especially how they affect women's future financial prospects. By providing "Fifty Thousand tickets to be deliver'd to Maids, or Widows, or any that appear to be such" in the hopes of winning a financially stable husband represented by the tickets drawn. Such a match could be a good one: "A Ware-House Keeper with the Salary of a Hundred Pounds per Annum and if he is a fair trader he may make it One Thousand," or "the Governour, salary unknown but sufficient to keep a coach-and-six." It could also, by virtue of lottery, be a loss: "2 Scotchmen, both Pedlars, 500 Broken Booksellers," and a range of other ruinous bounders are also listed as prizes. For those who desire an advance attempt, the folding game bound in the book invites blindfolded women to stick a pin in the board to claim their prize. The present copy was played (gently), with pin marks revealing a Blacksmith and a Valet de Chambre among those husbands won. The popularity of A Scheme resulting in a reissue the same year, with a canceled title page as The Ladies Lottery and falsely attributed to Swift. ESTC N20921. The Grey World
Original gray publisher's cloth binding embossed in gilt and black. A pleasing, square copy with some sunning to spine and light foxing to the closed edges of the text block and title page. Early gift inscription to front endpaper: "With warmest good wishes for Dec. 22, 1926 from Alice Herbert." The first novel by the prolific writer, pacifist, and philosopher, it has become quite scarce with no other copies on the market and OCLC reporting holdings at only 6 institutions in the U.S. "Evelyn Underhill was a prolific writer who published 39 books and more than 350 articles and reviews. In her early years she wrote about mysticism; in her latter years on the spiritual life as lived by ordinary people.Underhill began writing before she was sixteen, and her first publication (a collection of humorous verse about the law) appeared in 1902" (Evelyn Underhill Society). Only two years later, she released her first novel The Grey World. Drawing on tropes of Greek mythological heroes' missions to the underworld, and referencing Dante's Divine Comedy, Underhill's narrative is a psychological study that begins with the hero's death, moves through reincarnation and finally beyond the "grey world" to a space of happy reflection and peace. For her, it was a call for individuals to choose to appreciate the temporal beauty of the every day that so often goes unnoticed. "It seems so much easier these days to live morally rather than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day." Among the most important English female religious writers of her time, Underhill was also "the first woman to lecture at Oxford.and the recipient of an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen" (Greene). Her ideas about individual freedom as it applied to religion and politics even became a cornerstone of her debates with her contemporary C.S. Lewis. In their correspondence she argued that Lewis' "ideas about salvation depended too much on animals being 'tame.' This is perhaps why Lewis later emphasized that Aslan [in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardobe] was not tame" (Armstrong). Her work, so focused on the human spiritual connection to others and the world, eventually led a previously apolitical writer to embrace pacifism and speak out at the rise of the Second World War. The Grey World, which remains under-studied compared to her later philosophical texts, gives insight into her evolution. "Her early insights deepen and mature and take on new expression. Her thought shifts from illumination of the mystic way to an exploration of the spiritual life and how it is to be lived in the world. This redirection follows from her early work and results in writing which eloquently argues for the importance of the spiritual life and how it is to be lived.The issue of war forces an articulation of one's most fundamental assumptions about reality.she calls for a deeper, more profound understanding of what it means to be a religious person in the mid-twentieth century" (Greene). Sanctuary
A lovely, Near Fine copy of the book with a previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down and some minor dampstaining to the rear end leaves, otherwise a bright, crisp copy. In a Very Good+ to Near Fine dust jacket with the spine panel a bit toned and two clean tears on the rear panel, without loss (the larger about an inch long and a corresponding crease across the panel). Completely unrepaired and unrestored, and presenting very well. This copy with grey pattern on the magenta end-papers, and price of $2.50 on the bottom of the front flap. Faulkner's controversial prohibition era novel was a commercial and critical success; and along with his novels The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary led to his Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. "The theme of Sanctuary is the discovery of reality with the concomitant discovery of evil.instead of victory and moral vindication, [the characters] receive a stunning kind of defeat.the traditional society has given place to a modern world in which amoral power is almost nakedly present" (Brooks). A stirring exploration of the modern world and the fall of men. Near Fine in Very Good + dust jacket. Bleak House
Complete with all 40 plates which include the frontispiece, title-page and the 10 "dark plates." Has all three typographical errors associated with the first edition, first issue: P.19, line 6: "elgble"; P.209, line 23: "chair" instead of "hair"; and P.275, line 22: "counsinship" instead of "cousinship." Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full green crushed morocco with a gilt portrait of Dickens on the front board and gilt signature on the rear. Marbled end papers all edges gilt. Front outer joint a little tender. Extremely clean internally, with much less foxing than is typically seen. A very handsome copy overall. One of Dickens' finest novels, the action in Bleak House revolves around a never-ending set of related Chancery Court cases to resolve the inheritance of a considerable estate. Dickens turns his pen to a biting condemnation of the system and the need for reform (which shouldn't surprise the Dickens scholar). A complex novel and filled with subplots, it engages and titillates the reader from start to finish. Noted by some for Inspector Bucket's prominent role in investigating a murder, which earned it a spot on the Haycraft-Queen cornerstone list of detective fiction, the novel is also memorable for its complex representation of femininity. "There's more to Esther than simple good nature. As the book progresses she reveals a dark, angry wit. It is a wit that can still strike a chord today" (The Guardian). An important social commentary, and Dickens at his best. Near Fine. En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot]
A Very Good copy of the first trade edition, following the 35 signed copies. A fragile softcover book. Front wrapper reattached and a tear repaired on p 29. Spine creased and a bit toned, text block also a bit browned, as often. One of the masterpieces of 20th century theatre - Beckett's hugely influential tragicomedy. Beckett had originally written the play in French between the Fall and Winter of 1948-1949. (Beckett would not translate the play into English until its London premier, in 1955) In fact, this edition of the play - the Minuit edition - was released in 1952, before the play's first performance the next year. Beckett was thought to have been inspired to write the work after viewing Caspar David Friedrich's painting "Mann und Frau den Mond betrachtend" (Man and Woman observing the Moon). Upon its French premier, the play was met with positive reviews and though it was first received somewhat coldly in London, it would soon become a popular and critical success there and worldwide. Some critics, like Norman Berlin, credit the play's wide appeal to its "stripped down" nature - its simplicity encourages a myriad of readings and interpretations that otherwise could not exist. Beckett would later win the Nobel Prize for Literature and "Waiting for Godot" appears on Le Monde's list of the "100 Books of the Century." "It arrives at the custom house, as it were, with no luggage, no passport and nothing to declare: yet it gets through as might a pilgrim from Mars. It does this, I believe, by appealing to a definition of drama much more fundamental than any in the books. A play, it asserts and proves, is basically a means of spending two hours in the dark without being bored." (Contemporary Observer review from the famed drama critic Kenneth Tynan.). Very Good. An heiress grows into womanhood in a changing world, documenting five years of her life in the US and Europe
Red cloth over card with gilt to front board. All edges stained read. Measuring 200 x 170mm and containing 186 handwritten pages across five years. Dried flowers and theatre program loosely inserted at front. Ownership signature and bookplate of Catherine Harrison Squibb to front pastedown and endpaper with signature of the same to rear endpaper. A research rich and densely written diary, the present would be useful in fields including but not limited to intergenerational wealth and its relationship to emotional abuse, women's education and educational travel, early 20th century reading habits, modern friendship, courtship and romance, and women's increased mobility and travel. The second daughter of Charles Fellow Squibb, himself the second son of pharmaceutical boss Dr. E. R. Squibb, Catherine Harrison Squibb was raised in economic privilege. Her earliest years were spent in the Brooklyn townhouse built for her parents by her grandfather, while her teen years were split between her father's historic estate of Welwood and her boarding school in Dresden. At Welwood Charles, always considered as "the lesser son" according to his E.R.'s journals, followed in his father's controlling footsteps by "purchasing polo ponies, setting about learning to jump" and "insisting his children do the same.to maintain the lifestyle of the landed gentry" (Belcher). This is confirmed in the opening entry of the diary (October 25, 1906) near Catherine's 16th birthday, where she reports "I rode side-saddle with Rosalie in the morning.rode again in the afternoon (ist richerverlobt! er est 62 --- alt!!)" The numerous rides do not seem to entirely please Catherine, as she hides her frustration in the German parenthetical (roughly, "he is engaged to be a judge! he is 62 years old!!"). Three days later on her birthday, she spends her time significantly differently, clowning with her brother and aunt, and "playing tennis in the afternoon." This becomes something of a tradition, as her birthday entries report several times "played tennis all afternoon" She also notes her time in French and German lessons -- with German becoming more frequent during and after her time at school in Dresden, especially when she wants to obfuscate her thoughts from unwanted readers. If this diary is any indication, music and reading, travel and school became refuges for Catherine. And she claimed as much time as she could to find independence and develop herself outside of Charles' strict rules. Her reading preferences reflect this desire to immerse herself in Jane Austen's world of social visits and balls, where family conflict is eventually smoothed by a woman's exit to a loving partner and home of her own. "Good day!" she writes on April 29, 1908, "Stayed in bed all day. I finished Pride & Prejudice and began Emma." This is contrast against her reaction to Charlotte Bronte's work on May 1 of the same year: "Cold & windy. We came in on the 9.30. Aunts at Welwood.had music lesson.I began Jane Eyre. Dismal book!" Her tone and word choice reflect the most happiness in these circumstances, whereas riding is reported like a duty -- she may report what time of day and what horse, but no expressions of joy accompany them. While the diary concludes in 1911, when Catherine is 21, we know that she would return to Europe from 1917-1919 as a nurse in WWI, watching her own country battle her beloved Germany. Within the time, her father had sold his birthright in Squibb, and with "his extravagant lifestyle eating through his money quickly.he was forced to sell Welwood.not long thereafter he went to France" and never returned to the US (Belcher). In 1920, she would marry veteran and shoe manufacturing foreman Raymond Pratt, moving with him to Pasadena, California and becoming a civic leader. Much deeper work can be done on Catherine's lives and relationships, especially considering the current cultural trends of novels, films, and series depicting both the glamour and the emotional squalor of the 1%. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Very Good copy of the book. Inner hinges repaired and first blank excised, otherwise a fairly clean, bright copy overall. With all three generally accepted first printing points. Frontis bust of Twain in the first state. Recounting the adventures of Huckleberry Finn as he flees his own abusive father and aids Jim in his escape from slavery, Twain's novel has been praised for its "distinctly American voice," putting at its center two common people who find an uncommon friendship. "Today perhaps the novel's greatest significance lies in its conception of childhood, as a time of risk, discovery, and adventure. Huck is no innocent: He lies, steals, smokes, swears, and skips school. He accepts no authority, not from his father or the Widow Douglas or anyone else. And it is the twin images of a perilous, harrowing odyssey of adventure and perfect freedom from all restraints that so many readers find entrancing" (Mintz). A metaphor for a young and rebellious nation, as well as its individualist inhabitants, Huckleberry Finn defies genre by being simultaneously an adventure story, a road novel, a coming of age tale, an expression of nostalgia for the expansive natural spaces lost to industrialization, and an exploration of race and class. Listed on the American Scholar 100 Best American Novels and one of the 100 Best Novels Written in English. BAL 3415. MacDonnell, 31. Very Good. The Character of a Town Miss
Original quarter cloth over printed card. Measuring 213 x 143mm and complete in 8 pages. A Near Fine example, with a touch of soiling and offsetting to card wraps; rear endpaper torn with minor loss, with remnant adhering to excess publisher's glue on the rear pastedown. Antiquarian Charles Hindley's first separate facsimile publication of the pamphlet originally published in 1680 by Rowland Reynolds, this being one of six copies on this yellow paper. First separate issue from his 1871-1873 set in 3 volumes titled Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana: The Old Book Collector's Miscellany which drew together sixteenth and seventeenth century works in history, literature, and biography. Scarce across the board, OCLC reports 15 copies of the 1680 first edition and 5 copies of the present reprint; no copies of either appear in the modern auction record or in trade. A late seventeenth century satire on the rising fame and wealth of courtesans in London, The Character of a Town Miss opens with a hard distinction among the classes of sex workers. "Miss is a Name, which the civility of this age bestows on one that our unmannerly ancestors call'd Whore or Strumpet," the pamphlet begins. With humor, it acknowledges that the best of this class, however, perform a social service that keeps the world in balance. "A certain Help-Meet for a Gentleman, instead of a Wife; serving either for the prevention of the Sin of Marrying, or else.to render the Yoke of Matrimony more easy." In a system that required men and women to marry for economic purposes rather than affection, engaging with sex workers allowed men to select paid companions who not only fulfilled sexual desires but also conversational and intellectual ones. Thus, women of this rank deserved a different title, "an honest Courtezan.and differs from your ordinary Prostitute.one perhaps has an hundred Customers, t'other but Two or Three.indeed may well she thrive." In what follows, the anonymous author describes such a woman's habits -- from the places she frequents, to her mode of travel, to her companions, clothing, and methods of flirtation. Fluctuating from critical to appreciative and back, the satire acknowledges the foolishness of a world that requires and sustains such a profession; but it also recognizes the limited choices of these women, and the short-lived careers they might face. Collection Relating to the Financial Empire of a Woman & her Daughter
[Women and Money] [Financial Estates] [Financial Autonomy] Mary Ann Tritch Rogers Hailing from an immigrant family that rose to prominence in the West, Mary Tritch Rogers and her daughter Georgette Houston were often overlooked in their own time in favor of the family patriarchs. Mary's father George Tritch (1829-1899) was, after all, a German immigrant whose evolution from downtrodden pioneer to millionaire rail road and real estate magnate was documented in Sketches of Colorado (1911) and celebrated in numerous newspaper and society articles in his lifetime. Meanwhile, Mary's husband Benjamin W. Rogers (1842-1917) was Colorado's first dentist and a community cornerstone. Yet the present collection reveals that Mary, and Georgette after her, were more than ballroom delights. Savvy investors and business women, in their own quiet way they built and maintained their own empire even in the face of scandal, marital separation, and disinheritance. Without the documents preserved here, we might never know their story. The territory and later state of Colorado had varying property laws for women across Mary's emergence to adulthood. It was a space where white male settlers drastically outnumbered their female counterparts; and when statehood in 1876 stripped women of suffrage, there was little incentive for men to vote to reinstate it immediately. That said, the increasing number of Married Women's Property Acts extending across the US did provide expanded protections for women to have control over their own wages, their inheritance, their land ownership and their investments. Mary Tritch Rogers used this to her benefit, as portions of this collection show. Taking the allowances given her first by her father and later her husband, she was able to grow her own little empire based in stock investments, real estate purchases, and interest earned from rents and loans to members of the community. This financial privilege allowed her to legally separate from her husband and her unhappy marriage in 1900 (signing over $15,925 -- or $576,000 today -- for his promise to depart peacefully and disconnect from her). It also allowed her to survive disinheritance from her father -- something reported by newspapers following his death, and potentially connected to the public scandal of her separation. Along with her daughter, she relocated to Massachusetts for the remainder of her life. Though newspapers suggested this was for her "health," it's far more likely that the distance from her estranged husband and perhaps even Massachusetts' own property laws were a larger appeal. With her independent wealth, Mary Tritch Rogers was also able to provide freedoms for her daughters that weren't available to her. Georgette would be widowed early on in her marriage, and lived as a single mother to her children William and Dorothy. Account books from her household show, however, a comfortable life similar to her mother's. According to the 1910 and 1920 US Censuses, she took up residence near Boston, Massachusetts with her children and mother, keeping at least one maid. Yet neither women list employments other than head of household. Notably, neither show signs of remarrying either. By the time of Mary's death in 1935, her estate was valued at $269,458 -- or $6.02 million today. A full accounting of her assets and debts owed for settlements and funeral expenses is included. The research rich assortment of ledgers, checkbooks, letters, travel and stock documents, legal materials and other personal ephemera give scholars an opportunity to examine not only the individual lives of these women, but also how their financial savvy contributed to or harmed the white and Indigenous communities around them. To what extent did these women's lives in Colorado, in Europe (where Mary lived for a time), or in Massachusetts expand or contract based on the localities' laws surrounding women's finances? And to what extent did the women replicate or depart from some of the more fiscally aggressive and harmful practices of the men around them? Collection contains: Mary Tritch Rogers' Loans and Banking Ledger (1894-1898) Quarter roan over printed cloth with handwritten ownership title to front board. Measuring 235 x 185mm and containing 22 pages including pastedowns. With detailed information on Rogers' investments, outgoing loans, and payments owed or received during the later years of her marriage leading up to her formal separation. Georgette R. Houston Account Book (1908-1911) Pictoral cloth with stitched edges. Measuring 185 x 60mm and containing 24 handwritten pages of financial information from her early years of marriage. Managing her household expenses and allowances. Georgette R. Houston Check Book (1941-1942) Pebbled faux leather. Measuring 215 x 175mm and with all check stubs filled and all checks absent. Documenting her expenditures including household costs, tuitions, and charitable donations. Packet 1: Legal and Financial Documents 1895 Power of Attorney granted by Mary T Rogers to her father and husband while in Paris 1900 Formal Separation and settlements between Mary T Rogers and her husband (2 signed copies) 1916 Attorney letter addressed to Mary T Rogers 1935 Mary T Rogers final estate and funeral expenses Packet 2: International Travel 1892 Family Visa for travel to Europe 1896 Single Visa for Mary T Rogers' travel to France 1899 Family Visa for travel to Europe 1904 Single Visa for Mary T Rogers' travel to Germany Packet 3: Assorted Family Documents 1 Sheet of Family Marriages & Births Unidentified dental record 1901 Stock Certificate 1911-12 Car Insurance Letter in Mary T Rogers' sole name Packet 4: Assorted Letters of the Houston Family Letters, report cards, clothing orders, job references and other documents. Packet 5: Licenses & Ephemera Assorted hunting licenses and cricket ephemera Packet 6: Photos Assortment of 6 original family photographs, including Mary Rogers in mourning Packet 7: Clippings Assortment of 6 society pages clippings regarding family marriages and deaths.- $3,250
- $3,250
Alone In A Time Of Armies (Signed) [A New Year’s Greeting From Black Sparrow Press]
Bukowski, Charles One of 1,500 paperback copies, unnumbered, but signed by the author on the cover. A Fine copy. Bound in light blue paper, one of the stapled copies (100 were sewn) with silver, magenta, and black cover design featuring the text "A New Year's Greeting From Black Sparrow Press" and black flyleaves. Alone In A Time Of Armies, was a single poem published as a by Black Sparrow Press for their 1985 "New Year's Greeting." A truly moving piece set in Philadelphia during WWII in which Bukowski reflects on his self-inflicted isolation during a lonely night. With a pleasing cover and title page design reminiscent of artwork by El Lissitzky. Krumhansl 94. Fine.- $175
- $175
For Your Eyes Only
Fleming, Ian Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, eye design to front board in white. With the illustrated dust jacket. A Fine copy of the book in Near Fine dust jacket. Price-clipped jacket with red text a trifle faded on the spine and some rubbing. First edition, first impression. Rather than a full-length novel, For Your Eyes Only was Fleming's first collection of short stories. Apart from the titular story, the collection includes "From a View To a Kill", "Quantum of Solace", "Risico", and "The Hildebrand Rarity". Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.- $1,750
- $1,750
Science Notebook with content on Geometry, Chemistry, Physiology, and Geography
[Women in STEM] Annie J. Doran Quarter roan over pebbled boards ruled in gilt. All edges marbled. Measuring 200 x 165mm and containing 81 pages in a single hand. Several sections have been neatly excised from the notebook -- likely unrelated school content from other classes, to ensure that the present notebook focused on math and science lessons. We've been unable to pin down precisely which Annie J. Doran this manuscript was owned by (a number of Irish immigrants and first generation women by this name resided in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and New York during this period, according to Census records); however, in the absence of a specific creator, the notebook nevertheless sheds light onto the American educational system, and the type of STEM training being provided to young women in the lead up to the nineteenth century. The neatness of the present notebook suggests that it was not used in the classroom but, rather, was a fair copy created by Annie for study purposes. Clearly written and organized, she provides headers on the content as well as meticulous mathematical figures, formulas, and scientific tables and diagrams documenting experiments. The chemistry content is the largest section of the notebook, in fact. And it does provide step by step information on hands-on experimentation to help students understand such concepts as heat transfer and conduction, the weight of gasses, and the creation and use of combustion. Further research could be done, for example, to determine what texts Annie's instructors were using in their teaching; for several of the experiments, the diagrams and content seem similar to Jane Marcet's recommended experiments in Conversations on Chemistry, although certainly a range of texts could have been used as sources.- $1,000
- $1,000
Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, Esq. [Bound with] Views in London. By an Amateur.Dedicated to Sophia, Countess Darlington [Bound with] Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Lord Colchester (Presentation Copy)
[Law, Hon. Elizabeth Susan] [Lady Colchester] E. S. L. Three volumes bound in one and including a presentation inscription to the verso of front endpaper: "The Marchioness of Salisbury, with Lady Colchester's Love." Additional signature to title of second volume. Full straight grain morocco presentation binding by White of Pall Mall, with gilt title to spine. Boards and turn-downs stamped in gilt. All edges brightly gilt. Yellow endpapers. Measuring 187 x 111mm, bound in reverse chronological order and collating complete with half titles: [8], 61, [1]; viii, 66; [2], vi, 104. Spine sunned and a large patch of discoloration to the rear board; joints cracked but holding firm. Occasional marginal foxing, but overall fresh with the author's occasional handwritten corrections. Each printed privately, Law's poetry titles are each scarce, with OCLC reporting 15, 10, and 8 copies respectively. Drawn together here with feminist political associations, Lady Colchester bestows the works on Mary, the second Marchioness of Salisbury (nee Sackville-West) who was an active Tory in addition to overseeing a salon that included Charles Darwin and Benjamin Disraeli among its visitors. The author of several privately printed poetry collections, in addition to published translations, Elizabeth Susan Law Abbot, Lady Colchester was noted in her own time for deploying "anecdotal, self-deprecating, and ironic" tones that complicated her otherwise polite literary output (Comic Women's Poetry of the 19th Century). The three books combined here demonstrate that tendency. Folded within seemingly common upper-class topics are reflections on intelligent women's loneliness in a marriage economy that devalued their selfhood (in the opening poem Le Beau Ideel of her volume dedicated to Lord Colchester); on the ways a woman's appearance might cause society to overlook her "rarest gifts.a head with heart combin'd" (in the dedication of her volume to the late Sophia, Countess Darlington); and on exercises of musical lyricism and translation in the volume dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, the political raconteur best known for ensuring that his friend Ignatius Sancho's biography reached publication and spread the story of his birth during the Middle Passage and his life as a free Black intellectual. Even Lady Colchester's recipient speaks to her political interests. Mary, the Marchioness of Salisbury, was the second wife of the Marquess; and she was noted for her public engagement with political and intellectual figures including Benjamin Disraeli and Charles Darwin. Knowing of the Marchioness' own intellect and ambition, her choice to present these three books speaks to the deeper meanings hidden within her own writing. Jackson 193.3 and 193.6.- $2,250
- $2,250
War all the Time (Signed first edition)
Bukowski, Charles One of 500 trade edition copies, signed by Bukowski on the title page. Fine in Very Good + publisher's acetate jacket. Bound in light grey boards with gray fabric backstrip and maintaining paper title to spine. Insignificant discoloration to top of closed text block and minor smudge on top front board. Interior bight and clean, appearing virtually unread with orange end sheets. Acetate with expected scuffing and large scratch across back panel. An anthology of Bukowski's poetry from the first half of the 1980s, in which the author experiments with structure and length. Offering enthusiasts a familiar mix of the gritty with the quotidian. A great example of a Black Sparrow Press bookâ"run by John Martin the avant-garde press was responsible for supporting and publishing Bukowski's work throughout his prolific career. Krumhansl 89. Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.- $395
- $395
Dangling In The Tournefortia
Bukowski, Charles One of 750 first trade editions. Near Fine in like publisher's acetate jacket. Bound in light grey boards and dark blue cloth backstrip, retaining paper title to spine, and with dark blue endpapers. Minor discoloration to board edges and closed text block, with dust on spine; jacket with expected scuffing and some residue on back. Overall a clean copy appearing unread. A ferocious collection of poems returning to some of the author's most trusted subjectsâ"gambling, women, writingâ"but with an additional sense of retrospection. Bukowski writes knowingly of the working class and fringes of society: unafraid of the recounting everything from the domestic to pornographic. A classic Black Sparrow Press publication; run by John Martin the avant-garde press was responsible for supporting and publishing Bukowski's work throughout his prolific career. Krumhansl 71.- $275
- $275
Barfly (Signed first edition)
Bukowski, Charles Trade edition signed by Bukowski on the half-title. A nearly Fine copy in like publisher's acetate jacket. Bound in black paper boards with yellow cloth backstrip maintaining paper label to spine. Text interspersed with humorous printed illustrations by Bukowski. Minor scuffing to edges of boards and with the expected scuffing on acetate jacket. Copy otherwise appears clean and unread. A semi-autobiographic screenplay following the binge-drinking Henry Chinaski (Bukowski's alter ego) misadventures and the characters he meets at The Golden Horn bar in Los Angeles. The author was commissioned to write the script by director Barbet Schroeder, for a 1987 film staring Faye Dunaway and Mickey Rourke. Bukowski would use this experience for the basis of his book Hollywood (1989). Krumhansl 90. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.- $350
- $350
Factotum
Bukowski, Charles One of 750 first trade editions. A nearly Fine copy in Near Fine publisher's acetate jacket. Bound in light green boards with black cloth backstrip and maintaining paper title to spine; with geometric design on front cover. Exceptionally minor wear to extremities (including a loose string from cloth backstrip); jacket with expected scuffing and a few small bumps. Otherwise a clean copy appearing unread. Bukowski's second Henry Chinaski novel, and the prequel to Post Office (although published after), follow's the author's alter ego as he moves from job to job while pursuing his writing and wrestling with his demons. The book would later be adapted into film (2005). A great example of a Black Sparrow Press book. Run by John Martin the avant-garde press was responsible for supporting and publishing Bukowski's work throughout his prolific career. Krumhansl 51. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.- $295
- $295
