3. Bradley, Will (Illustrator).

War is Kind by Stephen Crane.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1899. First edition. 96 pages. 8vo, 21 x 13.5 cm. Six full-page and front cover illustration by Will Bradley with numerous decorations in the text. Printed on dark gray stock with covers to match. Title page, illustrations and decorations are by Bradley. He also arranged the layout of the book. Later editions were in a smaller format. BOMBACE A42. Clean interior, spine lacks two centimeters at foot, slight nick at head; nevertheless, covers are bright and fresh. Orig. illustrated gray boards. Very good. $375.00

[EXTRA SUITE OF PLATES]

4. Carroll, Lewis.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.

West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1982. 145 pages. Folio, 42.5 x 27.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 67 of 350 printed on Pulegium paper specially made for Pennyroyal by Strathmore Paper Company, and signed by Moser, accompanied with an extra suite of signed plates in a separate portfolio each plate signed in pencil by Moser. Seventy-five wood-engravings, including one double-page, by Barry Moser. Text printed in red, blue and black, title calligraphy by G. G. Laurens. Moser's skill and eloquence as an artist, as well as a fine craftsman presented here. One of the most well-regarded productions from an important press. Illustrated by Barry Moser with a Preface and Notes by James R. Kincaid. Text edited by Selwyn Goodacre. PENNYROYAL 26. Publisher's half purple morocco, ruled in gilt, over marbled boards. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Decorative endpapers in yellow and white. The additional suite of prints in a linen portfolio. Housed together in the publisher's quarter purple morocco clamshell case. Components in fine condition, slipcase front cover toned. Very good. $6,250.00

[COMPLETE SET]

5. Chagall, Marc.

The Lithographs of Marc Chagall Vol. 1: Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1960 * Vol. II: Monte Carlo & Boston: Andre Suaret & Boston Book and Art Shop, Inc., 1963 * Vol. III: Paris: Andre Suaret, & Boston Book and Art Shop, Inc., 1969 * Vols. 4-6: New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1974, 1984, 1986.

Paris & New York: Andre Suaret & Boston Book & Art Shop, 1960-1986. First editions in English. 33.4 x 25 cm. 28 original lithographs including dust jackets and frontispieces with plethora of of reproductions of his lithographs. Vols. 3-4 in original publisher's board slipcases. A few of the clear glassine overwrappers nicked, foot of Vol. I dust wrapper rubbed. All volumes very fresh and clean. Orig. beige cloth lettered in black. Fine in fine dust wrappers. 6 Vols. $6,350.00

[TRAVEL: WEST AFRICA]

6. Chaillu, Paul du.

The Country Of The Dwarfs.

New York: Harper and Company, 1871. 314 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Twenty four full page black and white illustrations. Eight pages of adverts at rear. Chaillu explored the regions of West Africa in the neighborhood of the equator, gaining considerable knowledge of the delta of the Ogooué River and the estuary of the Gabon, and the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. Interior contents very fresh and bright as is the front cover gilt decoration. Spine faded, slight rubbing to backstrip extremities. Orig. brown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Near fine. $225.00

[GOTHIC HORROR]

7. Du Maurier, George.

Trilby.

London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1894. First edition. 246, 259, 172 pages. 19 x 13 cm. This his most famous of George du Mauriers three novels, Trilby being his second is credited with having inspired Gaston Lerouxs 1910 novel, The Phantom of the Opera, not to mention it fitted into the gothic horror genre that was undergoing a revival. It was said that in his later years he resented the persistent attention the novel was given. At the end of Volume III a voluminous 43 pages of adverts. Armorial bookplates of Francis Scott Smith. Clean, fresh text, very slight crinkling of spine heads, small[l book label of Widdison Booksellers, Sheffield at rear pastedown. Orig. illustrated beige cloth. Near fine. 3 Vols. $420.00

[ENGLISH DRAMA HISTORY]

9. Egerton, John.

Theatrical Remembrancer; containing a complete list of all the dramatic performances in the English language ; their several editions, dates, and sizes, and the Theatres where they were Originally Performed: Together with an Account of those which have been Acted and are Unpublished, and a Catalogue of such Latin Plays as have been Written by English Authors, from the Earliest Production of the English Drama to the end of the Year MDCCLXXXVII. To which are added notitia dramatica, being a chronological account of events relative to the English stage.

London: Printed for T. and J. Egerton, 1788. First edition. (vi) [2] 354 pages. Interior contents very clean, bright and fresh. The Index of Authors and The Index of Plays in alphabetical order at the end of the book is extensive, and starts after text page 276 with the Play List being the most extensive. A one page list of Abbreviations notes categories: where staged, and some generic designations -- Comedy, Tragedy, Masque, Not printed, etc. Overall, an excellent bibliographical resource for early English drama. Endpapers renewed, front cover rehinged, overall an attractive copy. Contemporary flat back three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. Very good. $395.00

[PICASSO EAUX- FORTES]

10. Geiser, Bernhard.

Picasso Peintre-Graveur Catalogue Illustre De L'Oeuvre Grave Et Lithographie 1899-1931.

Berne: Chez L'Auteur, 1933. First edition. 257 pages. 30.5 x 22 cm. Black and white plates with descriptive French text for each entry. Table Alphabetique Des Titres. Partly unopened. Fresh, very bright copy printed on glossy stock. Original wrappers bound-in. Green cloth with black leather spine label printed in gilt. Fine. $295.00

[BOUND BY BAYNTON]

11. Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

The Blithedale Romance.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1852. First English Edition. 259, 287 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Bound by Baynton of Bath. This novel set in a utopian farming commune dramatizes the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries. Raised bands, green and maroon spine labels, inner dentelles, double gilt border panels, marbled endpapers. Clean, very fresh set. BAL. 7610. 20th century polished brown calf. Teg, Fine in very good matching cloth slipcase. 2 Vols. $395.00

[FIRST AMERICAN EDITION]

12. _____.

The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance Of Monte Beni.

Boston: Ticknor And Fields, 1860. First American edition. 283, 284. 18 x 12. First issue with 16 pps. of adverts dated March 1860. An unsigned elegant binding, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, cover border panels in interlocking floral motifs, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The London and Boston editions were supposed to be issued simultaneously. "Contemporary notices indicate that the London edition was issued prior to the Boston edition, but simultaneous publication may have occurred." [see:BLANCK 7621] Full crimson calf. Aeg. Fine. 2 Vols. $300.00

[POET/ENGRAVER]

13. Jones, David.

The Sleeping Lord.

London: Faber, 1974. First edition. 111 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 136 of 150 signed by Jones with frontispiece illustrated by him. Title page printed in yellow and black. Jones, Welsh by birth, artist and painter, he won notable praise from T.S. Eliot and Auden as one of the finest poets of the 20th century. He was introduced to Eric Gill, in the 1920's studied engraving, became a Catholic and joined Gill's Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic. Orig. light tan cloth lettered in blind, beveled edges. Fine in fine brown cloth slipcase. $525.00

[FABLES]

14. Krilov, Ivan Andreevich.

Krilof And His Fables By W.R.S. Ralston, M.A. of The British Museum Translated from the original Russian by Ralston.

London: Strahan And Co. Publishers, 1869. First edition. (2) [vii-xlii] 180 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings. Illustrations by A.B. Houghton and J.B. Zwecker. Inspired by La Fontaine and Aesop 77,000 copies of his fables were sold at the time of his death with many of his themes satirizing contemporary political situations. FORREST REID 200. GLEESON WHITE 135. Interior contents clean and fresh. Rubbing to extremities. Raised bands, marbled endpapers, panels decorated in gilt, a few spine nicks. Contemporary full brown tree calf rebacked. Aeg. Very good. $200.00

[FULL VELLUM COVERS]

15. La Fontaine, Jean.

The Fables Of Jean De La Fontaine Translated by Edward March.

New York & London: Random House & William Heinemann, 1931. 235 & 336 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 446 of 525 signed by Edward Marsh and Stephen Gooden. Marsh, sponsored the Georgian school of poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. 24 copper engravings with engraved pictorial titles (tissue guards, set in Monotype Garamond, and printed on hand-made wove paper, uncut edges. Covers of volume two toned. Orig. full vellum with beveled edges in plain white dust wrappers. Vol. 1, near fine & Vol. 2 very good in fine matching brown cloth portfolios housed in near fine matching quarter brown leather slipcases, spines lettered in gilt. 2 vols. $250.00

[NOBEL PRIZE WINNER]

16. Lewis, Sinclair.

Arrowsmith.

New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1925. First edition. 448 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 380 of 500 signed by Lewis: becoming the first American awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. H.L. Mencken called him "a red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." This title discusses the travail faced of an idealistic physician. His literary reputation waned at the end of his career and was renewed in the early twentieth century -- primarily for his dystopian satire, "It Can't Happen Here," an appropriate parallel to the rise of Donald Trump. Crisp copy, small nicks to left side of spine paper label. Orig. publisher's beige nubby cloth and slate blue boards. Teg. Fine in worn slipcase. $1,550.00

[TRADE CATALOGUE]

17. New York.

O.L. Schwencke Lithograph Engraver And Lithographer. Cigar Box Labels. 

New York: O.L. Schwencke, ca 1900. 98 leaves. 27 x 19.5 cm. 100 labels, 81 full page and 19 multiple pages mounted chromolithograph plates. An elegant printer's sample book incorporating embossed printing as well as full color gold and silver examples. The labels present the spirit of the 19th century with a cross section of the advertiser and printer art of the period. Trade catalogues at WINTERTHUR No. 1618 describes a copy with 89 color plates. One plate has a woman smoking a cigar. The last few leaves have multiple images. Raised bands, covers decorated in blind.  Modern full brown calf in Cambridge style binding. All edges red. Fine. $950.00

[EARLY PRINTING]

18. Olmstead, Duncan H. 

Bartolomeus Zanni Printer at Venice 1486-1518 and at Portese 1489-90 A Monograph Compiled from Various Sources Together with a Leaf from Jacobus de Voragine;s Legendario de Sancti Printed by Zanni at Venice, 1503.

Berkeley: Tamalpais Press, 1962. 3 pages in text. 34 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 22 of 100 issued with a leaf having one or more woodcuts and reserved for the members of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. The original leaf from Jacobus de Voragine's Legendario de Sancti in double columns printed recto and verso contains one woodcut illustration in the text. The leaf book herein is from an imperfect broken copy. Orig. publisher's gray/green wrappers printed in red, and saddle sewn. Fine. $400.00

[ENGLISH TEXT]

19. Paris. Verve.

Verve The French Review Of Art No. 8 September-November 1940.

Paris: Verve, 1940. First edition. 35 x 27 cm. No. 8 completed a few days before the occupation of Paris: original front cover colored lithography by Henri Matisse, and double-paged color lithograph by Pierre Bonnard [Sunset Over The Mediterranean], plus eleven color drawings in red by Andre Derain. "Matisse (finished) the covers of this number a say before the war broke out." Text in English. Orig. cover by Matisse in color with original glassine lacking a small portion front cover at lower spine. Near fine. $350.00

[ART NOUVEAU]

20. Robinson, Charles Newton. 

The Viol Of Love.

London: John Lane, 1895. First edition. 56 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Limited edition, one of 350. Front cover decoration by Laurence Housman, noted for his intricate Art Nouveau designs. 16 pages of adverts at rear. Small book label free front endpaper of W.H. Clarke & Co., Boston. Interior contents bright. Rubbing to backstrip head and foot, first few leaves unopenend. Orig. green decorate cloth. Very good. $350.00

[[PRINTED BY MOURLOT]

21. Roger-Marx, Claude.

Bonnard Lithographie.

Monte-Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1952. First edition. 183 pages.31 x 24.5 cm. 98 facsimile colour and monochrome lithographs printed by Mourlot. Text in French. "An adventurous, and influential lithographer working largely in color. THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK. p.24. One of the Nabis. Clean, bright copy. Orig. pictorial stiff wrappers in original glassine overwrapper lacking small portions at head and rear of backstrip. Near fine in fine matching slipcase. Stiff Wraps. $350.00

[LITHOGRAPHS]

22. Rosenstiehl, M.A. 

Traite De La Couleur Au Point De Vue Physique, Physiologique Et Esthetique Comprenant l'expose de l'etat actuel de la question de L'harmonie des Couleurs. Deuxieme Edition, Revue et mise a jour par Julie Beaudeneau. 

Paris: Dunod, 1934. Duxieme Edition. XV, 247 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Eight full page color lithograph plates, 53 text illustrations. Originally published 1913 that expands upon the author’s important brochure, Les premiers elements de la science de la couleur (Mulhouse, 1884) which had helped spread knowledge of Maxwell color disks, the adjustable colored discs, which when spun at high speed form a single color. Published at the height of Cubism it was inspiration for the color system of Julie Beaudeneau which, in turn, was used by Jacques Villon.” - [See] “A color bibliography,” Yale Lib. Gazette, July 1974, p. 45. BIRREN 560 (ed. of 1913). Text in French, bright and sharp. Backstrip slightly darkend. Alphabetical Index. Orig.beige cloth lettered in brown. Very good. $250.00

[NAPOLEONIC WARS]

26. Walsh, Thomas.

Journal Of The Late Campaign In Egypt: Containing Descriptions Of That Country, And Of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, And Macri; With An Appendix; Containing Official Papers And Documents.

London: T. Cadell, Jun, And W. Davies, 1803. Second edition. (viii} 259 & Appendix 145 pages. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. Large folding map frontispiece, 49 engraved plates, maps and plans on 42 sheets, including six colored acquaints plates and six hand-colored folding maps and plans. List of Subscribers & Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates. The author, an Irish Captain of the 93rd Regiment of Foot participated in the fall and capture of Alexandria during the Napoleonic Wars. All plates generally clean and fresh, some light toning to first few leaves with balance predominately clean. Armorial bookplate of Colonel Cooper, and small signature of Cooper at title page head. ABBEY TRAVEL 266, BLACKMER 1767. Contemporary flat back spine, full tree calf, red leather spine label. Near fine. $995.00

27. Walton, Izaak & Charles Cotton.

The Complete Angler With An Introduction By James Russell Lowell.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1889. 465 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 111 of 150. 15 "Embellishments," full page tipped-in plates with tissue guards. 74 engravings on wood. General Index. Fresh, clean copy. Raised bands, spine panels with decorative gilt angling designs. Three quarter green calf, marbled boards and matching endpapers, spines uniformly faded to brown. Teg. Near fine. 2 Vols. ($350.00

[NAPOLEONIC WARS]

28. Wilson, Robert Thomas.

History Of The British Expedition To Egypt; To Which Is Subjoined A Sketch Of The Present State Of That Country And Its Means Of Defence Illustrated With Maps And Portraits of Sir Ralph Abercromby.

London: T. Egerton, 1803. Second edition. (xxi) 387 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm, engraved portrait, two folding tables, three folding maps, one colored in outline. Half title. Sidney Smith in a contemporary review, noted (Edinburgh Review), "The best of the English accounts is certainly that of Robert Wilson....'The narrative is extremely full and very entertaining." [see: ALLIBONE, Vol.III, p.2782]. As a member of Parliament, Wilson pressed to end the practice of corporeal punishment of soldiers, common at the time. Contents Of The Appendix. Action during the Napoleonic Wars. Interior contents fresh and clean. Raised bands, red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Tiny faded signature title page head. Contemporary full brown calf slight front cover abrasion at lower left margin. Near fine. $750.00