London: Secker & Warburg, 1956. Gilt lettered boards. Spine somewhat cocked, but a very good copy in near fine dust jacket. First edition of the author's most widely read work. Poet Roy Fuller's copy, with his ownership signature on the front free endsheet. Laid in are some relevant clippings, including.....
![Item #WRCLIT85534 THE BOURBONS OF NAPLES (1734 - 1825) [with:] THE LAST BOURBONS OF NAPLES...](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT85534.jpg?v=1625085606)
London: Methuen & Co., [1956 & 1961]. Two volumes. Large, thick octavos. Gilt lettered blue cloth. Frontispieces and plates. The first volume: spine a trifle cocked, but very good and bright in rather shelf-worn, chipped and creased dust jacket. The second volume: about fine in very faintly edgeworn dust jacket.....
Boston: [From THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY], 1912. [2],[243]-333pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine backed at an early date with heavier paper, wrappers chipped at lower edge and lightly spotted, but a good, internally very good, copy. First edition. Tipped to the preliminary blank is a 2 1/2pp. autograph.....
![Item #WRCLIT77769 [Autograph Letter, Signed "Dover," to Alaric A. Watts]. George James Welbore...](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT77769.jpg?v=1593712662)
Dover House, Whitehill, 29 September 1831. 1 1/2 pp. on recto and verso of one panel of a folded lettersheet. Blank verso of conjugate tipped to mounting sheet otherwise very good. Baron Dover (1797-1833), British art patron, collector and editor of Walpole's letters, writes to British poet and anthologist Alaric.....
![Item #WRCLIT23663 PERMIT ME VOYAGE AND OTHER POEMS [altered to: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF....]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT23663.jpg?v=1593712154)
Boston: Houghton, 1968. Original uncorrected long galleys of the first edition, edited with an introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. This copy bears a number of manuscript corrections and revisions by Fitzgerald in his introduction, and bears his alteration of the original title to the published title. Very good.
![Item #WRCLIT77269 [Group of Seven Lightly Corrected Typescripts]. Clarissa Lorenz Aiken](/images/noimage.png)
Boston. nd. but ca. 1970s-1980s. 43 leaves. Quarto. Original and carbon typescripts, lightly corrected and occasionally revised in type and manuscript. Secured individually with paperclips (rusty), but very good. A sequence of essays and reviews by Clarissa Lorenz Aiken (d. 16 May 1992), second wife (1930-37) of poet and novelist.....
London: Cape, [ 1972]. Gilt cloth boards. Paperclip rust mark on pastedown, otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket. First edition. Louis Untermeyer's copy, with a t.pc.s. ("Joan A.") from Aiken to him laid in, responding to his praise for the books and expressing hopes for a visit either.....
London: Trübner & Co., 1889. 12mo. Decorated vegetable parchment and cloth, t.e.g. Portrait. Illustrations and decorations. Considerably foxed early and late, spine a bit tanned and lightly rubbed, else good and sound. "New edition." Laid in is a one-page a.l.s. from Arnold to S. Compton, Grand Hotel, "Tuesday," [ny], arranging.....
![Item #WRCLIT87690 [Three Typescript Articles re: the Ashburnham Library]. Ashburnham Library, A....](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT87690.jpg?v=1658261468)
[London. nd. but ca 1960s]. Four items, as described below. Very good except as noted. a) "The Ashburnham Library Lyell Lecture II." Quarto. Original typescript, ca 8pp (some half leaves inserted marking revisions). The first three pages bear moderate corrections in ink by Munby, the remainder show fewer manuscript revisions.....
Shelley House, Chelsea: The Ashendene Press, 1935. Folio. Full dark brown cowhide, stamped in gilt. Illustrated with facsimiles, specimen leaves, photogravures and collotypes. Trace of offsetting from binding to endsheets, a few minor foxmarks to endsheets, minor rubs to spine, otherwise a fine copy in slipcase. First edition of Hornby's.....
Paris: P. Rouquette, 1872. xxxii,335pp. Quarto. Handsome three quarter grey morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed, original printed wrapper bound in. An excellent copy. Edition deluxe of the second edition, revised and considerably enlarged. One of 108 copies printed on large paper (this being one of 100 on vergé).....
![Item #WRCLIT36926 [Corrected typed manuscript of] AT THE JERUSALEM. Paul Bailey](/pictures/thumb/wrclit36926.jpg?v=1593712193)
[ Np]. [nd. but ca. 1967]. [3],253 leaves. Quarto. Carbon typescript (prelims and final leaf of text in original typescript), typed on rectos only, with occasional insertions in manuscript. Very good. A late draft of the author's first novel, subsequently published by Cape (and Atheneum in the U.S.) in 1967.....
![Item #WRCLIT68100 [Autograph Letter, Signed ("Whitney")]. Whitney Balliett](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT68100.jpg?v=1593712413)
New York. 15 May 1986. One and 3/4 pages, on recto and verso of small octavo sheet of NEW YORKER letterhead. Ca. 150 words. Folded for mailing, a couple small smudges; very good. To "Dear Joe" [i.e. Jazz historian and critic, Joe Goldberg]. Balliett thanks him for pointing out a......
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1844. viii,[17] -167,[9]pp. Contemporary boards, printed spine label. Engraved frontis. Endsheets foxed, spine extremities worn (with surface chips), still a sound copy. First U.S. edition, with a "Notice of the Author," by "R.W.G." and dated at Philadelphia, Nov. 1843, suggesting the edition may not simply be.....
New York: Harper & Bros. 1906. Pictorial cloth. Frontis and plates. Small mark on two facing pages, otherwise near fine. First edition of the author's second, and most popular novel. THE SPOILERS was adapted to the screen on at least five occasions, first in 1914 and lastly in 1955. The.....
![Item #WRCLIT74698 [Autograph Letter, Signed]. Max Beerbohm](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT74698.jpg?v=1593712542)
48, Upper Berkeley Street, London. "Dec: 18 : '00" [1900]. One page, plus salutation. In ink, on folded octavo sheet of letterhead. Folded for mailing, scattered foxing, cryptic ink docket on last blank panel, otherwise about very good. To an indefinite "Dear Sir" [but presumably a theatrical manager]. Beerbohm regrets.....
![Item #WRCLIT77485 [Autograph Letter, Signed]. Max Beerbohm](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT77485.jpg?v=1593712640)
48, Upper Berkeley Street, London. Thursday, [no year]. Two pages on folded quarto sheet of letterhead. Pale residue from having been at one time mounted on blank verso of conjugate, otherwise very good. To a Mr. Thomas (first name indistinct): "I never have seen Mr. Nicol Dunn, and therefore cannot.....
[ Np]. [nd. but prior to 1915]. Portrait format (25.5 x 16 cm). Pen and ink, and watercolor wash on paper. Surface matted and framed under glass. Slight toning to paper, but in visible very good to fine condition (not examined out of frame). A whimsical portrait by Beerbohm of.....
New York. 25 February, 8 April and 6 December 1960. Three pages, on octavo and quarto folded stationary lettersheets, accompanied by envelopes. Very good. Behrman writes a party who, evidently, has provided some anecdotes or information helpful in the writing of PORTRAIT OF MAX, and has as well requested inscriptions.....
![Item #WRCLIT69493 [Three Typed Letters, Signed "Ludwig"]. Ludwig Bemelmans](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT69493.jpg?v=1593712440)
Paris & New York. 15 & 16 October 1951 and 3 June 1952. Three leaves, octavo and quarto. Folded for mailing, light use, else very good. Three letters to his representative, "Fred" [i.e. Frederic Newlen Price, of Feraragil Galleries] about business matters, all short and to the point, accompanied by.....
New York. 24 Feb., 1965, and 4 & 16 April 1966. Each a quarter page, on quarto sheet of personal letterhead. Folds from mailing, otherwise about fine. To "Mr. Seward," thanking him for his comments about his books ("It is letters like yours that bring cheer into dark corners"), and.....
New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1946. xviii,305,[3]pp. plus 35 plates. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. First edition. One of 3000 copies printed. Endsheets darkened a bit at the gutters, otherwise a very good or better copy in good, price-clipped dust jacket with uniform darkening and tide-mark at the spine panel.....
Minneapolis. 2 May 1945. One page, quarto, and postcard size, in ink, signed respectively 'Eric' and 'ERB.' With envelope for former. Two detailed communications from Bentley to Arthur Mizener, both about Mizener's upcoming novel course at the University of Minnesota (then being taught by Bentley), including suggestions for texts, means.....
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1911. Gilt cloth. Minor wear, corners bumped, gutter of endsheet abraded (from the mounted letter - see below), otherwise a good copy. First edition. The first novel by this prolific fiction writer, described by Kunitz and Haycraft "as essential a part of the social education.....
Venice: Galleria dell'ala Napoleonica, September 1950. Printed invitation, on stiff card (11.5 x 16 cm). Very good. An invitation to the opening of an exhibition of works by Berman, inscribed and signed by him in English: "Hope you can come today at 6 or later. Sincerely E. Berman."
