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Fort Clark, Texas, 1938. Fort Clark, Texas: July 29, 1938. Typed letter signed "G.S. Patton, Jr." to "Morry" [Luxenberg] a friend and military uniform supplier. This letter is anticipating his general's stars just days after becoming a colonel. Patton was promoted to colonel on July 24, 1938, and given command of the 5th Cavalry at Fort Clark, Texas, and this letter was written on the 29th of July. Letter on single sheet stationary headed "Fifth Calvary/ Fort Clarkm Texas," (7 3/16 x 6 15/16 inches; 183 x 177 mm). Typed on recto only. Letter dated "July 29, 1938." Letter reads: "Dear Morry;/ Thanks a lot for the Eagles and for the good/ wishes about the stars which I hope will also come/ true./ If you plan to come to Clark you had better write/ the adjutant and ask him how many prospects there will/ be you see this is a pretty small place. I cant make/ inquiries for you as it would not look right./ With renewed thanks, I am/ Truly yours/ G S Patton [autograph]/ G. S. Patton Jr./ Col. 5th Cav."… Read More

Paris: Troisieme Cashier, 1945. KIPLING, Rudyard. WOOLF, Virginia. La Table Ronde (No. III). Paris: Troisieme Cashier, [1945]. Quarto. 229 pp. Limited to 150 copies, of which this is number 148. Original wrappers. With 8 photgravures and music score facsimile laid in. Loose as issued. Slipcase. Minor browning to spine and wear to slipcase. Very good. HBS 66560. $300.

Paris: Quatrieme Cahier, 1945. ROMAINS, Jules. SUARÈS, André. La Table Ronde. Paris: Quatrieme Cahier, [1945]. Quarto. 227 pp. Limited to 2150 copies, of which this is number 54. Original wrappers. With 8 photgravures laid in. Loose as issued. Slipcase. Minor browning to spine. Very good. HBS 66393. $250.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. BROWNE, Hablot Knight. . A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. Full Description: DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne London: Chapman and Hall, [June-December] 1859. First edition, first issue, in the original eight numbers, bound in seven monthly parts. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 220 x 140 mm). [i-vii]viii[ix-x], [1]2-254. (No half-title called for.) Sixteen inserted plates including the frontispiece and the vignette title. Set collates complete, with the exception of Part V which is lacking all ads, and part VI only has one of the two leaves of the back advertisement. With the often-seen substitution of the Morison "Monument" ad for the Morison "View" ad in Part III, as in all other copies we've been able to trace. Also present is the scarce advertisement in the final part for Thackeray's The Cornhill Magazine, rarely present. Text is first issue with p. 213 showing "113",… Read More

London: Printed for T. Boosey, 1796. Rare early bilingual [seventh] edition of the "Mother Goose" fairy tales of Charles Perrault, with parallel texts in English and French on facing pages. Title-pages in both English and French. "The Discreet Princess" by M. J. L'Héritier de Villandon has two separate title-pages dated 1795 (French) and 1794 (English) but the pagination is continuous. Twelvemo (6 7/8 x 3 7/8 inches; 175 x 100 mm). [1]-227, [1, blank] pp. With nine engraved plates, including frontispiece by A. Anderson. Contemporary sheep rebacked with spine laid down. Original red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Endpapers toned around the edges, and leaves a bit toned and with some soiling throughout. Still a very good copy. This book comprises: "Little Red Riding Hood", "Blue Beard", Sleeping Beauty", "Puss in Boots", "Cinderilla"[!], "Little Thumb" (Tom Thumb) and two other Perrault tales. The added tale by Perrault's niece Marie-Jeanne l'Héritier de Villandon, "The discreet princess",… Read More

London: Printed for C. Bathurst.., 1786. or Catherine and Petruchio. A Comedy. Altered from Shakespeare, by David Garrick, Esq. Marked with the Variations in the Manager's Book, at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Gardens. London: Printed for C. Bathurst..., 1786. [with] MOORE, Edward. The Gamester, A Tragedy of Five Acts. Marked with the Variations in the Manager's Book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London: Printed for S. Bladon...,1789. [with] SOUTHERN, Thomas. HOPKINS, Mr. Isabella; or the Fatal Marriage. A Tragedy, Altered by Southern. Distinguishing Also the Variations of the Theatre, As Performed at the Drury-Lane. Regulated from the Prompt-Book, by Permission of the Managers. London: Printed for John Bell, 1780. [with] MURPHY, Arthur. The Grecian Daughter. A Tragedy. Marked with the Variations in the Manager's Book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London: Printed for T. Lowndes..., 1777. [with] ROWE, Nicholas. The Fair Penitent, A Tragedy; Of Five Acts. Marked with the Variations… Read More

New York: Metropolitan Books, 1930. Frontispiece by Paul F. Berdanier. New York: Metropolitan Books, [1930]. First edition of the third Pellucidar novel. Octavo. 312 pp. Frontispiece. Original bright blue cloth lettered in black on front cover and spine. Spine very slightly rubbed at extremities. Otherwise a fine copy. In the original color pictorial dust jacket by Paul F. Berdanier. First published as a six-part serial in The Blue Book Magazine, March-August 1929, with a front cover illustration on each of the first five installments by Frank Hoban (Hoban also did a great many interior black and white illustrations) and a map by Burroughs in the first three installments. Heins P3.1. Zeuschner 520. HBS 67054. $2,250.

Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853. Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys; Being a Second Wonder-Book. With fine illustrations. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. First American edition, first printing (without imprint of Geo. C. Rand on copyright page). Small octavo (6 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches; 167 x 109 mm). [8, advertisements], [4], 5-336, [2, blank] pp. With wood-engraved vignette title-page and six additional engraved plates. With eight-page publisher's catalogue inserted between front endpapers. Publisher's purple-brown cloth. Covers ruled and decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Edges stained yellow. Pale yellow endpapers. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Spine a bit sunned. Some minor flaking to the head and tail of the spine. Binding slightly skewed. Overall a very good or better copy. Chemised and housed in a brown cloth slipcase, with red morocco spine label. BAL 7614. Browne, p. 74. Clarke A22.2a. Peter Parley to Penrod, Pg. 10. HBS 67826.… Read More

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1928. Full Description: BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan Lord of the Jungle. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1928. First edition. Octavo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 186 x 125 mm). [viii],1-377, [1, blank] pp. With the typographical error on page 208 and no mention of further printings on the copyright page. With five inserted plates, including frontispiece. Publisher's full green cloth. Front board and spine stamped and lettered in black. Cloth very lightly sunned at spine. Lightly rubbed along extremities, and corners. A minimal crease to top of text black, barely affecting a few leaves. Still about fine. In publisher's pictorial dust jacket. Jacket exceptionally bright and about fine. Overall a near fine copy. "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is not just another chapter in the famous ape-man's thrilling career, it is by far greater than any other of the wonderful series of Tarzan stories. The name of Tarzan alone is a promise of thrills that has never disappointed a reader. In… Read More

New York: Metropolitan Books, 1929. Full Description: BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Lost Empire. New York: Metropolitan Books, [1929]. First edition. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 125 mm). With price-clipped first issue jacket with "salvery" instead of "slavery." Frontispiece. Original full orange cloth. Lettered in black on front board and spine. In first issue dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped. Jacket with some flaking and shelf-wear to top and bottom of the spine, and top front corner edge. Half-title with some light smudging. Still an almost fine copy. "Here are the new adventures of the most popular character in modern romance. Here is Tarzan penetrating a strange land in Africa from which no traveler has ever returned. Natives have told of hills that rise out of a huge void where the great plateau ceases as if nothing existed be-yond. They have told of white men in armor who have emerged from the abyss to carry off natives into salvery [sic]. The roar of life rumbles upward… Read More

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1924. First edition. Octavo. 346, [4], pp. Publisher's brown cloth, dark brown-stamped front board and spine, dust jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed at extremities with 1 small chip to top of front cover and a tiny bit of loss to bottom of spine. Otherwise, near fine. Heins. Zeuschner 532. HBS 67588. $3,500.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo. 196 pp. Full gray cloth, gilt-stamped on spine, dust jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed along extremities, some minor chipping to top and bottom of spine. Overall, a very good copy of this influential work dealing with "nonordinary reality." HBS 67668. $850.

Los Angeles, 1935. amp; others.] Technical Records of Los Angeles television Station W6XAO. [Los Angeles: 1935-1937]. Two light green cloth binders. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm). Approximately 450 pp total, labeled on spine: "Receiver / 1936-7" & "Camera / 1937," Los Angeles, 1935-1937, being the technical records of Los Angeles television station W6XAO, consisting of manuscript material, typed documents, original circuit diagrams, blueprints, photographs, etc. Cloth with some sunning and foxing. Overall about fine. "Los Angeles Cadillac dealer Don Lee branched out into the broadcast world in 1926 with the purchase of KFRC in San Francisco. He continued to buy a number of stations along the California Coast and formed the Don Lee network, which was affiliated with Columbia Broadcasting System. He was given a license to begin experimental television broadcasts in 1931 with station W6XAO. The early broadcasts consisted of still images at a low resolution, but by the time of the present… Read More

Boston: J. N. George, Manager, 1880. TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. Catalogue of Subscribers. Boston: J. N. George, Manager, July 1st, 1880. First telephone directory of Boston. Octavo (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 233 x 148 mm). [40] pp. With two pages "Suggestions to Subscribers" and thirty-eight pages total of "Lists of Subscribers." The Boston Exchange is twenty-six pages, the Edison Exchange is nine pages and the Brookline Exchange is three pages. Advertisements printed along lower margins, and on verso of front wrapper and on both sides of back wrapper. We could find no other copies of this at auction in over 50 years, nor could we find any copies on OCLC. This is the earliest obtainable telephone directory at present. No other copies beside the present copy of any earlier telephone directories have been sold at auction since 2008. This directory was printed just a year and a half after the first ever directory was printed in New Haven, Connecticut on February 21, 1878. A copy of the New Haven directory (a… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1926. RACKHAM, Arthur. . SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1926. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 520 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, this is copy number 222. Large quarto. [2, blank] xiii, [1], 185, [3, blank] pp. Twenty-one mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-five drawings in black and white. Original quarter vellum over white boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. In the original tan dust jacket printed in red, endpapers a bit foxed, (jacket a little browned), original glassine, very chipped. A fine copy. "There is an extra coloured plate in this edition that is not in the trade edition, this is the frontispiece titled ‘Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:‘" (Riall). Latimore and Haskell, pp. 61-62. Riall, p. 161. HBS 67589. $3,000.

1928. GILL, Eric. . [Golden Cockerel Press, association]. Ten Signed Original Wood Engravings. With Nine from "The Canterbury Tales" and One from "Troilus and Cresida" [n.p. n.d. c.a. 1928-1930]. Ten original wood engravings by Eric Gill for the publication of the Golden Cockerel Press's "The Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Cresida." Most are two wood engravings on a single sheet, numbered and signed by Gil. Nine sheets for "The Canterbury Tales" are uniformly matted, framed and glazed in slim gold frames. Frames measure: 14 3/4 x 11 inches; 375 x 278 mm. All are about fine. The single sheet from "Troilus and Cresida" is matted, framed and glazed in a slightly smaller slim black frame. Frame measures: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 311 x 237 mm. Some minor toning to mat and sheet to this single one. Still about fine. This set comprises: 1. Single sheet from page 98& 99 of "Troilus and Cresida" Girl turning into tree. [Skelton P456 and P457], on a single sheet, numbered 5/10, signed EricG. Visible… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson, 1766. Terra Australis Cognita: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by the editor, in which some geographical, nautical, and commercial questions are discussed. Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson, 1766-1768. First edition, the variant issue of Volume I containing a dedication to Sir Laurence Dundas (no priority). Three octavo volumes in fours. v, [1], viii, 516; [4], ii, 692; iv, 745, [1, blank] pp. Bound without advertisements. With all three folding engraved maps by T. Phinn after Vaugondy; 'Straits of Magellan', 'General Chart of the Indian Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and… Read More

Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin, 1529. BIBLE IN LATIN. Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin], 1529. Second Crespin edition, reprinted from the 1527 edition. Folio (13 15/16 x 10 inches; 354 x 252 mm.). 304 leaves ([18], CCLXVIII, [18] leaves). Complete with final blank leaf. Gothic type. Text in double columns within rule borders. Title printed in red and black with small woodcut of St. Jerome (repeated three times in the text with Jerome's prefaces) within a four-part woodcut border showing God the Father and two angels in a tympanum, the six days of Creation, and the Last Supper. Large six-part Creation woodcut at the beginning of Genesis, half-page woodcut of King Solomon at the beginning of Proverbs, full-page Nativity woodcut at the beginning of the New Testament, and 121 small text woodcuts (including twenty-three repetitions): ninety-one Old Testament woodcuts within strip borders (including eight repetitions) and thirty New Testament woodcuts without borders (including fifteen repetitions). Decorative… Read More

San Francisco: Simon J. Lubin Society of California, Inc, 1938. LANGE, Dorothea. Full Description: STEINBECK, John. [LANGE, Dorothea]. "Their Blood Is Strong." San Francisco: Simon J. Lubin Society of California, Inc., 1938. First edition, first issue in book form. Illustrated by Dorothea Lange's photos. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 225 x 150 mm). [4], 35, [1, blank] pp. With Lange's iconic black and white photographs of migrant workers on front and back wrappers and two photos of camps in the text. Original photographic wrappers. Front wrapper with some minor creasing to outer corner. Back wrapper with some minor chipping along fore-edge. Still, a near fine copy of this fragile item. Housed in a black morocco portfolio. First publisherd as articles for the San Francisco News, this pamphlet was a precursor to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. "When he [Steinbeck] wrote for serial publication in the San Francisco News the articles about the migratory agricultural workers in California he has… Read More

Basileae: Ex Officina Henric Petrina, 1573. PEURBACH, Georg von. errores, ex neglecta temporis aequation prouenientes, ostendutur, & multa quae ad Theoricarum, praesertins Octauae Sphaetae, intellectum faciunt, explicantur. QVAESTIONES VERO IN Theoricas Planetarum Purbachn, authore CHRISTIANO VRSTISIO Basil. eadem forma damus. Omnia recens in gratiam Candidatorum Astronomiae edita. Cum gratia & priuilegio Caes. Maiest. Basileae: [Ex Officina Henric Petrina, 1573]. Early edition of Peurbach's Theoricæ Novæ Planetarvm. Together with the follow up work: Quaestiones In Theoricas Planetarum by Christian Wursteisen (Urstitius). Additionally a work by Regiomontanus, and one by Ioannes Essler, both of which are part of volume one's continuous pagination. Volume II with separate collation. Two volumes in one, small octavo (6 1/4 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm). 16, 262 [ie 226], [2]; 16, 430 pp. With a total of 11 of 12 folding plates (more than usually found). One of two folding plates for book I (however it… Read More