L'Heure Bleue
by GOREY, Edward
(New York): Fantod Press / Gotham Book Mart, 1975. First edition. Slightly oblong 12mo. Fine in wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by the author.
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Leaves from a Mislaid Album
by GOREY, Edward
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Seventeen loose illustrations in folder and envelope. Fine.
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Allá Vá Eso; [There it Goes]
by Goya, Francisco de
1870. Etching on paper, 1st published in 1799, this issue ca. 1875 (later ones are dogfood). Plate 66 from Los Caprichos, the sheet 8” X 10” the image 4 7/8” X 7 3/8” (the full margins are not pictured). Titled at the base, plate number at the upper right. Good. Unframed. A supernatural allegory of a witch and her cat flying over the landscape on a crippled devil who looks like a surgically humanized warthog from the island of... Read More
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The Flowers Personified; Being a Translation of Grandville’s Les Fleurs Animées
by Grandville, J.J. [Jean Jacques]
New York: R. Martin, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. 3 vols. in 1. 1st American edition (in English). Exceptionally detailed, bespoke, contemporary full morocco, signed on the cover by Jill Smith, intricately inlaid, white silk moiré, framed endpapers, bearing a gilt inscription from a husband to his wife on their wedding day (Jan. 1, 1859, probably dating the binding as 1858), all edges gilt, light wear to covers, neatly rebacked, small chips to the corners of the vignette title page,... Read More
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Up and Down the World
by Gray, Russell [Eleanor Frances Le Fanu]
London: Tinsley Brothers. 18, Catherine Street, Strand, 1869. First Edition. 3 vols., 8vo (202 x 143mm), vi, 292, [2]; vi, 278, [2]; vi, 268, [4] Publisher’s dark green decorative cloth stamped in blind, gilt spines. Publisher’s advertisements at the back of all volumes. Light rubbing to the spine ends, some scattered foxing at the front of each volume, volume one spine gently cocked, else a bright, near fine set. Originally serialized in the Dublin University Magazine, a very scarce... Read More
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Nightmare Alley
by Gresham, William
New York: Rinehart, 1946. First Edition. Endpapers foxed, one small and faint smudge, else fine in a very good dustjacket marred only by a 3/8” chip to the spine’s upper corner and light wear to its base. Seldom seen in a jacket this nice. An acclaimed model for postmodern noir, but if you like books with happy endings, don’t bother. 2 films (1947 and 2021) were also good but also not cheery. It is set at the lowest level... Read More
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Getaway John" Manuscript
by Guard, Dave [The Kingston Trio]
1959. Very good. Original working manuscript of "Getaway John" from the album At Large, handwritten by Dave Guard, founding member and leader of The Kingston Trio. Titled at top, with chord symbols, full musical notation in treble and bass clefs, and complete lyrics written in phonetic spelling for singing pronunciation, in dark pencil with several neat revisions and corrections, and erasures throughout; on recto of a 12" x 16" sheet of yellow 12-staff manuscript paper. Measure numbers and... Read More
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Zombie Jamboree" Manuscript
by Guard, Dave [The Kingston Trio]
1958. Original recording session working manuscript, 2pp, rectos only, handwritten on 12" x 16" sheets of yellow 12-staff manuscript paper by Dave Guard, founding member and leader of The Kingston Trio. Titled at top, with chord symbols, full musical notation in treble and bass clefs, structural performance markings (numbered sections, "IN," "OUT," chorus designations), and complete lyrics written in phonetic spelling for singing pronunciation, executed in dark pencil and pen with corrections in white-out, pencil, and erasures throughout. Fine... Read More
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She; A History of Adventure
by Haggard, Rider
New York: Harper, 1886. First Edition. Published Dec. 24, 1886, preceding the London edition of Jan. 1, 1887, though both title pages are dated 1887. Also preceding Munro's pirated edition in wrappers dated Dec. 31, 1886 and Harper's reissue in wrappers. Original publisher's three-quarter cloth (also seen in half cloth) and marbled paper over boards, 8vo (175 x 125mm), pp. vii, 316, plus two color plates inserted. Rubbed and toned, bookplate to the front pastedown, very good. THE imperial... Read More
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Künstliche Atomumwandlungen und die Spaltung schwerer Kerne; reprinted from Strahlentherapie, 75. Band, 1944, pp. 16–27
by Hahn, Otto
Berlin and Vienna: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1944. First Edition. Offprint, 8vo (241 × 171mm), pp. 12. Sonderabdruck from the journal of the Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lichtforschung. Self-wrappers, staple-bound, soft crease, light toning, publisher's paper reinforcement to the spine with some staple rust, else near fine. Signed by Hahn on the front wrapper. A survey lecture delivered at Bremen on October 21, 1940 and at Jena on June 25, 1942, in which Hahn, as director of... Read More
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Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina
by Hamilton, Elizabeth
London: Printed by R. Cruttwell for G. and J. Robinson, 1804. First Edition. 3 vols., 8 vo (214 x 133mm), pp. [ii], xxxviii, 319, [1]; [ii], v, [i], 340; [ii], viii, 352. Original buff-white boards, uncut, neatly rebacked with matching paper, with the half titles. There's a mend to the upper corner of vol. 1, light soiling to the boards, rubbing to the extremities, internally clean and beautiful with only a few spots of foxing throughout. Not in Sadleir,... Read More
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A Complete Set of the Short Story Collections
by Hammett, Dashiell [edited by Ellery Queen]
New York: Spivak; Bestseller Mystery, 1962. First Editions. 10 vols., including: $106,000 Blood Money, The Adventures of Sam Spade, The Continental Op, The Return of the Continental Op, Hammett Homicides, Dead Yellow Women, Nightmare Town, The Creeping Siamese, Woman In The Dark, and A Man Named Thin. Browning to the pages (standard with these), rubbing to the extremities, some occasional creases, else very good to near fine in the original unrestored wrappers. Custom cloth case. The 10 volumes collect... Read More
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A Man Called Spade [with] Too Many Have Lived [with] They Can Only Hang You Once; in The American Magazine [and] Collier's Weekly
by Hammett, Dashiell
New York: American Magazine [and] Collier's Weekly, 1932. First Edition. 3 vols. 1st appearances in print, anywhere, of the only 3 Sam Spade short stories that Hammett ever had published (following his Spade novel The Maltese Falcon, 1930). All 3 are illustrated by Joseph Clement. The first 2 are not scarce, the 3rd is. These magazines precede the 1st printing of the 3 stories in a book edition (The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories, 1944) by 12... Read More
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Hunger
by Hamsun, Knut
London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. First Edition. Wrappers. 1st edition in English of the Nobel Laureate’s masterpiece. Original wrappers, small nick to upper back cover, some handling wear, a few creases, else very good, complete, and unrepaired. Copies in cloth are out there, those in wrappers are not (1 copy in wrappers listed in RBH’s auction records in the last 85 years and that sale was 29 years ago). First published (1890) in Norwegian as Sult and first translated into... Read More
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Owen Glendower; or, The Prince in Wales
by [Hardy, Elizabeth]
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1849. First Edition. 2 vols., 8vo (208 x 132mm), pp. vi, 304; [2], 301, [1]. Publisher’s light russet cloth with decorative designs blocked in blind, gilt spines, printed publisher’s catalog on glazed-paper endpapers. Rubbing and soft bumps to the extremities, bookseller's ticket on the back pastedowns, else a near fine, bright set. Historical romance centered on the last Welsh Prince of Wales, Owain Glyndwr. More than a conventional costume romance, Hardy's novel participates... Read More
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All Things Must Pass; Handwritten Lyrics
by Harrison, George [Mal Evans]
1970. 17 lines handwritten by Mal Evans in ink, titled “Sunrise” the song would later be called “All Things Must Pass” the title song of George Harrison’s first solo album from 1970. “George Harrison” written in ink at the bottom right. An early working draft, close but unlikely a final draft based on the below differences. Ex Christie’s South Kensington 28/Aug/1987. These lyrics were copied by Evans from an earlier messy draft written by Harrison. Throughout his time as... Read More
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Essai d'une Théorie sur la Structure des Crystaux, Appliquée a Plusieurs Genres de Substances Crystallisées
by Haüy, René-Just
Paris: Gogué & Née de la Rochelle, 1784. First Edition. Haüy’s first printed book, uncut in blue remnant wrappers, ink titled paper label, 8vo (213mm x 138mm), pp. [viii], [1], 236, with eight folding engraved plates by Sellier after Fossier. Unrestored, clean, full margined and complete; a beautiful copy of a scarce book in wrappers. Custom slip case. Dibner 92. Here Haüy established the theoretical foundation of modern crystallography through his revolutionary proposition that crystals are composed of identical... Read More
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A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First Edition. First printing of 3,000 copies, with “lifed” for “lifted” on page 21, line 3, but this is no ordinary copy of the 1st printing. It’s in the publisher’s deluxe gift binding (likely less than 10% of the total first printing run), easily identified by the oval design on the front cover being in gilt, but also the gilt decorations, and the gilt edges, and only a small fraction of the 1st... Read More
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The New–England Magazine
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Boston: J.T. Buckingham, 1835. First Edition. Near fine. 23 vols. 1st appearances in original wrappers of 12 Hawthorne stories in The New–England Magazine, featuring tales from the allegorical (Young Goodman Brown) to a precursor to the detective story (Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe). 2 complete years in the original wrappers with Jan. 1835 issue (The Gray Champion) extracted from an annual volume. Despite light wear and a few minor repairs, in near fine condition (extraordinary). 2 half morocco cases. These... Read More
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In Our Time
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First American edition, and first thus with the inclusion of additional stories, as well as the author's first book published in the U.S. Spine gilt faded but easily readable, near fine, lacking the dust jacket. One of only 1335 copies published. "Connolly 100.
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Freida the Jongleur
by Hemphill, Barbara
London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1857. First Edition. 3 vols, 8vo. (206 x 137mm), pp. [4], 316; [4], 310, [2]; [4], 315, [1], 32, [4]. Publisher’s olive green cloth with a decorative design in blind, gilt spine, glazed endpapers. Presentation copy of Hemhill's final novel, with the first volume inscribed by Hemphill's son Charles H. Hemphill, 1st Baron Hemphill, PC QC (an Irish politician and barrister) to the Duchess of Bedford. Bound in at the back of volume... Read More
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The Four Million
by Henry, O.
New York: McClure, Phillips and Co, 1906. First Edition. O. Henry’s second book, first printing (though the prefatory misprint “lony” is often cited as an issue point, it is not, since all first editions have the same misprint). Original red cloth. Fine condition. Reference: B. A. L. 16271. Ex–Mrs. J. Insley Blair (the great Natalie Blair) with her small leather “Blairhame” bookplate on the inside cover of the chemise in an old half morocco slipcase, she had made for... Read More
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All Fall Down
by HERLIHY, James Leo
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1960. Uncorrected proof. Unbound sheets stapled into the finished dustwrapper. A little soiled, near fine. The Detroit-born author was educated at North Carolina's Black Mountain College. This is his first, and surprisingly, most immediately successful novel (*Midnight Cowboy* received good reviews, but sold poorly until the success of the film). *All Fall Down* was made into a John Frankenheimer-directed film starring Warren Beatty and Eva Marie Saint. A very scarce issue.
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Account of a Comet; In Philosophical Transactions the Royal Society of London, vol. 71
by Herschel, William
London: J. Nichols, 1781. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing anywhere of Herschel’s paper (read April 26, 1781) announcing his sighting of Uranus, the first new planet to be discovered since antiquity (Mercury in 265BC). Herschel thought that what he had seen was doubtless a planet, but since he was an amateur, and not a member of The Royal Society, he modestly titled his article with reserve, and in his paper, he referred to the object as a comet. However,... Read More
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Four Presentation Copy Papers on Hafnium
by Hevesy, George de
1951. First Edition. George de Hevesy's career encompassed both the discovery of a new element and the founding of isotopic tracer methodology, the latter earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943. His identification of hafnium in 1923, carried out in collaboration with the physicist Dirk Coster at Bohr's institute in Copenhagen, resolved a long-contested problem in periodic classification: it provided experimental confirmation of Bohr's prediction that element 72 should be a zirconium analogue rather than a rare... Read More
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