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Sale 502
March 14, 2013
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Literature
- Children’s & Illustrated with Original Art -
Fine Books in All Fields
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Front Cover: Lot
Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left: Lots
B ond # 14425383

Section I: Fine Literature, Lots 1-156
Section II: Children’s & Illustrated Books, Lots 157-343
Section III: Original Art & Posters, Lots 344-403
Section IV: Fine Books in All Fields Including Fine Press, Lots 404-621
Section I: Fine Literature

1. AdAms, douglAs. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Boards, jacket. First Edition.
London: Arthur Barker Limited, [1979]
First edition of Douglas Adams’ first book. Jacket spine faded, a touch of extremity wear;
volume leaning a bit, lower corners slightly bumped, very good in like jacket.
(300/500)
FOUR LOTS OF ASIAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
2. (Asian-American - 1898 Chinatown fiction by the first Chinese-American writer) sui sin FAr
[pseud. edith eAton]. “Sweet Sin, A Story” - in The Land of Sunshine, The Magazine of California and the
West, Vol. VIII, No. 5, April 1898. On pp. 223-226. Text illustrations. Article. (8vo) original wrappers.
Los Angeles: April, 1898
Edith Maude Eaton has been called by her biographer “the first published Asian North
American fiction writer”. Born in England, the daughter of a British merchant and a Chinese
woman who had been adopted by English missionaries, Eaton came to Canada as a child and
began writing there, though she eventually moved to the United States, living in San Francisco,
Seattle and Boston. Eaton began writing for magazines in 1888, but not until 1896, two years
before coming to America, did she begin writing stories with a “Chinese theme” and signed
with her Chinese pseudonym. The short story offered here was the sixth of these, but possibly
the first written while she was in California, clearly intended to have a San Francisco Chinatown
setting, being the writer’s “first fictional treatment of race and her first Eurasian protagonist” –
the daughter of a Chinese merchant and his American wife who falls in love with a Caucasian
man who asks her to marry him, but, faced with an impossible dilemma, writes her father a
suicide note that “I cannot marry a Chinaman as you wish…who would despise me for being
an American”, but would not marry her American lover for fear that their children would
be taunted and degraded by American racists. While less popular as a writer than her sister
Winnifred, who wrote a shelf of romance novels under a Japanese pseudonym, Edith Eaton’s
first and only book of collected stories (see the 1912 entry in this catalogue) has a place in
literary history as the earliest book of Chinese-American fiction. Light edge wear to wrappers, a
few small spots of surface wear, a small dampstain at spine head; very good.
(100/150)
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3. (Asian-American - 1931 First Korean-American novel) KAng, Younghill. The Grass Roof. 367 pp.
(8vo) original cloth with paper labels, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York / London: Scribner’s, 1931
Born in Korea in 1903 “in an isolated grass-roofed village”, Kang was educated in Japan,
returned to Korea to teach in a missionary school, was jailed for a year for joining a revolt
against Japanese domination, then came to America in 1920 to attend Harvard. When he wrote
this book – his first, and the first novel published in the United States by a Korean-American
- he was a lecturer in English at New York University. Kang’s next two books, published in
the 1930s, were autobiographic, one concerning his childhood in Korea, the other about his
American experiences and the “making of an Oriental Yankee”. Jacket edges lightly worn with
small chips, creasing and a few tiny tears; volume spine ends a bit rubbed and bumped, edges a
touch faded; very good.
(150/250)
4. (Asian-American - 1912 First book of Chinese-American fiction) sui sin FAr [pseud. edith
eAton]. Mrs. Spring Fragrance. 347 pp. (8vo) original red cloth, spine and front cover decorated in
green, white and gilt. First Edition.
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1912
In the striking original decorative cloth. Arguably the first work of Chinese-American fiction.
As noted above, Eaton, daughter of a British merchant and his Chinese wife, began writing in
her early 20s while living in Canada, but did not produce stories with a Chinese theme until two
years before she moved to San Francisco. The first half of this book concerns “Mrs. Spring
Fragrance” an “Americanized” Chinese woman selling curios in Seattle, while the second half
are her “Tales of Chinese Children” –a collection of short stories which first appeared in 24
different American magazines. Eaton, at a time of rampant anti-Chinese racist stereotypes,
as her biographer notes, “courageously chose to write of the Chinese in North America as
humorous, tragic, charming, and loving - in short, as human.” Spine a touch faded, a bit of
rubbing at spine ends and corners; else near fine; a clean and tight copy with a bright cover
illustration.
(150/250)
5. (Asian-American - 1902 Yone Noguchi, 1st “Japanese-American” novel) “miss morning glorY”
[pseud. noguchi, Yone]. The American Diary of A Japanese Girl. 259 pp. 10 full-page plates and text
decorations by Yeto. Half tan textured cloth and decorative boards with laid down color illustration
of a Japanese girl writing. First Edition.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1902
While the eminent Japanese poet and writer Yone Noguchi was not an American citizen – and,
indeed, strongly supported his homeland’s battle with the United States during World War
II – he spent more than 10 years of his early life in the US, living in San Francisco (among
the California “bohemians”) and New York from 1893 to 1904. This anonymously written
book, which he published at age 26, was his first novel, and, arguably, was the first “Japanese-
American” fiction. While the first novel of ‘Onoto Watanna’ (pseudonym of Edith Eaton’s
sister Winnifred), published two years earlier, is considered “the first known novel by an Asian
American”, Winnifred, like Edith (see her listings in this catalogue) was of Chinese-British
descent, though most readers of her popular, and beautifully produced, romance novels
believed her to be Japanese. A bit chipped at spine ends, faint dampstains to boards; front hinge
starting; name in red ink on front pastedown, name in pencil on front free endpaper; very good.
(100/150)
6. Austen, JAne. The Novels of Jane Austen. 10 volumes. Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. Introduction
by Prof. William Lyon Phelps. Color plates by C.E. & H.M. Brock. Brown cloth, paper spine labels,
top edges gilt. No. 458 of 1000 copies of the Hampshire Edition.
New York: Frank S. Holby, 1906
There were two volumes of Letters not added to this set. Spine labels darkened, rubbed; overall
very good.
(400/600)
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7. (Barnes, Djuna) A lAdY oF FAshion [BArnes, dJunA]. Ladies Almanack showing their Signs and their
tides; their Moons and their Changes; the Seasons as it is with them; their Eclipses and Equinoxes, as well as a
full Record of diurnal and nocturnal Distempters. 84 pp. Woodcut illustrations throughout. 22.3x17.3 cm.
(8¾x7”), original white wrappers illustrated in black. No. 83 of 1000 copies on Alfa.
Paris: Printed for the Author, 1928
Sold by [Edward W. Titus, 4 rue Delambre, at the Sign of the Black Manikin]. The information
on Edward Titus is blacked out on the title page, as is usually seen. A touch of wear at spine
ends, very faint finger soiling to wrapper edges; near fine.
(400/600)
PHOTOS OF THE BEATNIKS BY CHESTER KESSLER
8. (Beatnik - Photographs) Kessler, chester monroe. Approximately 65 silver photographs by Chester
Kessler of members of the Beat and Counterculture movements. Includes:
* 37 photographs of Allen Ginsberg, some publication. c.1959. * 5 photographs of Kenneth Patchen.
1952. * 5 photogrAphs oF AnnA hAlprin And memBers oF the s.F. plAYhouse group. 1962. * 2
photographs of Bob Kaufman. N.d. * 2 photographs of Kenneth Anger. 1967. * 1 photograph of Zack
Thompson. 1959. * 12 photographs of James Baldwin. 1952. * 1 photograph of Stan Brakhage. 1954.
Together, 65 photographs. 10c15 cm. (4x6”).
California: c.1952-1967, printed later
Photographs of luminaries in the beat counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s, taken by
photographer and film-maker Chester Kessler. These were printed by the executor of his estate,
Robert E. Johnson, with Kessler Estate rubberstamps on verso along with ink captions. Fine
condition.
(600/900)
9. BecKett, sAmuel. Ill Seen, Ill Said. (8vo) blue morocco-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in
gilt. No. 9 of 299 copies.
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1982
Signed by Beckett on the half-title. Fine.
(600/900)
10. BecKett, sAmuel. Proust. Decorative cream boards stamped in brown. First Edition.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931
Author’s first book by a major publishing house. Part of the publisher’s Dolphin Books series.
Spine a bit darkened, leaning, light soiling; very good.
(100/150)
11. Bennett, Arnold. Seven works by Arnold Bennett. Includes: * Bennett, Arnold. Judith: A Play in
Three Acts. With dj. Chatto & Windus, 1919. * From the Log of the Velsa. Chatto & Windus, 1920.
* Riceyman Steps. Cassell and Company, [1923]. * The Grim Smile of the Five Towns. Chapman and
Hall, 1907. * The Human Machine. New Age Press, 1908. * What the Public Wants: A Play in Four
Acts. Frank Palmer, [1910]. * The Plain Man and His Wife. Hodder and Stoughton, [1913].
London: Various dates
Light shelf wear; very good.
(150/250)
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12. BrAdBurY, rAY. The Illustrated Man. Tan linen, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Doubleday, 1951
Signed by Bradbury in green ink on the title page. Laid in are the original receipt for the
purchase of the book from the Memphis News Company on 6/15/51 for $1.93. Also, a holiday
greeting card with a typed message, signed, from Bradbury reading: “Dear Jean-Louis: I imagine
you already now[sic] that TRUFFAUT will film FAHRENHEIT 451 in the coming spring?
And that Barrault is going ahead with plans to stage THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES at the
ODEON Theatre de France in 1963? Hoping you are in good health and that your New Year
will be vigorously healthy and creative. Best from yours, Ray Bradbury”. Jacket edge worn with
some small chips, spine leaning, light wear to cloth, bottom edge worn, book and jacket about
very good.
(600/900)
13. Burroughs, edgAr rice. The Warlord of Mars. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Red cloth stamped
in gilt. First Edition, First Printing.
Chicago: McClurg, 1919
John Carter attempts to rescue Dejah Thoris. First printing with imprint of W.F. Hall on
copyright page and with the publisher’s imprint at base of spine set in 3 lines. Heins M3.1;
Zeuschner 829. A few small spots to cloth; very good.
(150/250)
14. Burroughs, WilliAm s. Exterminator!. Mauve cloth stamped decorated in black, pictorial jacket.
First Edition.
New York: The Viking Press, [1973]
Signed by Burroughs on the title-page. Not related to an earlier collaboration by Burroughs with
Brion Gysin with the same title, minus the exclamation mark. Title and cover illustration recall
Burroughs’ days as an exterminator. Maynard & Miles A23a. Jacket a bit yellowed; otherwise
fine.
(150/250)
DON JUAN CANTOS I-XVI
15. [BYron, george gordon noel, lord]. Don Juan, Cantos I-XVI. 6 volumes. Half titles present
in Volumes 1 & 2, as called for; advertising leaf at rear of third volume. (8vo) 22.5x14.5 cm (9x5¾”)
later full brown polished calf, gilt floral corner pieces, spines gilt, raised bands, gilt dentelles, marbled
endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Early printing (“New Edition”) of Volume 1, first
printing of Volumes 2 through 6.
London: Thomas Davidson / John Hunt, 1820-1824
Byron’s epic satire and one of the great comic
poems in the English language. Each volume with
bookplate of Sir William Augustus Fraser. Fraser
served in Parliament in the 19th Century, was the
son of Sir John James Fraser, one of Wellington’s
staff at Waterloo, and an author of several notable
volumes including Words on Wellington (1889),
Disraeli and his Day (1891), Hic Et Ubique
(1893),Napoleon III (1896), and Waterloo Ball
(1897). Also, in the lower margin of each bookplate
is the last name, Van Vechten, the only other owner
of this set in its lengthy history. The Van Vechten
connotes Helen Van Vechten, the fine printer
of the Philosopher Press in Wausau, WI. Spines
a touch sunned, lightly rubbed; light foxing and
offsetting; near fine.
(2500/3500)
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16. cAin, JAmes m. Three first editions by James M. Cain. Includes:
* Past All Dishonor. Cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. 1946.
* The Butterfly. Cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. 1947.
* The Moth. Cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. 1948.
Together 3 volumes.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Various dates
Cain is of course best remembered for his 1934 novel “The Postman Always Rings Twice”.
Jackets lightly worn at edges; overall near fine.
(150/250)
SIGNED BY TRUMAN CAPOTE
17. cApote, trumAn. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Yellow cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Random House, [1958]
Signed by Capote on the half title. Basis for the classic 1961 Blake Edwards film starring Audrey
Hepburn. Jacket with “10/58” date code on the front flap. Jacket spine sunned, light wear at
edges and folds, small chips at head of spine; volume with slight wear at spine end; near fine in
a very good jacket.
(700/1000)
18. cApote, trumAn. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Yellow cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Random House, [1958]
Basis for the classic 1961 Blake Edwards film starring Audrey Hepburn. Jacket with “10/58”
date code on the front flap. Jacket spine a little sunned, a few scuffs and short edge tears to
front panel, rear panel with some soiling, small stain and short tear, mild chipping to spine ends;
volume spine lettering somewhat rubbed; else very good in like jacket.
(400/600)
19. cApote, trumAn. The Grass Harp. Beige linen, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Random House, [1951]
First issue binding in the rough beige linen. A bit of wear to jacket edges and extremities, spine
chips to spine head, price clipped; a few tiny spots to front joint, else very good in like jacket.
(200/300)
20. cApote, trumAn. Other Voices, Other Rooms. Light beige cloth, jacket. First Edition.
New York: Random House, [1948]
Capote’s first book. Wilson A1a. Jacket with some rubbing to spine ends and corners, a little
edge wear; else very good in like jacket.
(200/300)
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THREE POSTCARDS FROM CAPOTE
21. cApote, trumAn. Three autograph postcards signed by Truman Capote, to Burt Eikleberry. Includes: Postcard
sent from Playa de Aro, Spain, 2 Oct. 1960. * Postcard sent from Munich, West Germany, though
Capote give a return address in Switzerland. 29 Dec. 1960. * Postcard sent from Bridgehampton, New
York, June 8, 1963.
Various places: 1960-1963
Burt Eikleberry, a student at Oklahoma State and then the University of Kansas, wrote
several times to Truman Capote, and received these postcards in response, as described in a
detailed letter of provenance from Eikleberry. The first replies to a letter Eikleberry wrote
after reading the short story “A Christmas Memory,’ in Breakfast at Tiffany’s: “Thank you for
your very kind and generous letter. You might like ‘Children on Their Birthdays’ which is in
‘A Tree of Night’...” From Switzerland, Capote responds to a query about the availability of
two of Capote’s books: “...The books you mention, ‘The Grass Harp,’ and ‘A Tree of Night’
are being reprinted next year; but are now available by writing ‘The New American Library’
(paperback)...” The final postcard, written some three years after the others, is in answer to a
query about when Capote would publish something new, and Eikleberry had not mentioned
that he had written Capote previously: “Dear Sir, are you pretending not to be the same Mr. E.
who used to write me from Oklahoma (which is where I bought this particular card on a recent
cross country trip). The record was made by United Artists Records and can be ordered from
them. The book can be ordered from the Gotham Book Mart in N.Y. I am writing a book with
a Kansas background. Regards - T.C.” The book turned out to be In Cold Blood. The postcard
Capote bought in Kansas shows a piglet nursing, with mother pig pleading “Suck, Damn It!
Don’t Blow.” This turned up as a caption on a sweatshirt in Music for Chameleons. Very good
or better condition.
(800/1200)
IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET
22. chAndler, rAYmond. Farewell, My Lovely. Pinkish-orange cloth, lettered in blue, dust jacket. First
Edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1940]
Author’s second book. The second Philip
Marlowe mystery novel and was later
adapted for film and released as “Murder,
My Sweet” in 1945. Bruccoli A2.1.a.
Jacket with professional restorations to
edges, spine, and folds, rear panel soiled,
damp stain on front flap; light wear to
cloth, endpapers soiled, small stain to
front endpaper and first few leaves; book
and jacket very good.
(2000/3000)
23. child, lee. Seven titles by Lee Child, three
of them signed. Includes: Killing Floor. [1997].
* Die Trying. Signed by author on title-
page. [1998]. * Tripwise. Signed by author
on front flyleaf. [1999]. * Running Blind.
[2000]. * Echo Burning. Signed by author on
title-page. [2001]. * Without Fail. [2002]. *
Bad Luck and Trouble. [2007]. Together, 7
volumes. Boards, jackets. First Editions.
New York: Various dates
The first six Jack Reacher novels, all
published by Putnam, and the 11th,
published by Delacorte Press. Near fine
Lot 22 to fine condition.
(100/150)
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