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376 [VIRGIL] VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Opera Virgiliana um decem commentis, docte et familiariter exposita, docte quidem Bucolica & Georgica a Seruio, Donato, Mancinello & Probo nuper addito... Lyons: In typographaria officina Ioannis Crespini, 1529. Modern cream leather blind tooled in period style. 12 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches (31 x 21 cm); collating a 6 b-q 8 r 6 ; 2a-2f 8 ; a 6 b-z 8 2A-2O 8 2P 6 [dagger] 8 , illustrated throughout with superb large wood engravings after Gruninger’s 1502 Strasbourg edition. Engraved title & last leaf repaired; small excision to engraving on c6, various other defects to a few other leaves; wormed at ends; some dampstaining & browning. Despite the condition defects noted, still a respectable copy of a book frequently found severely defective. Adams V-474 C $800-1,200 375 375 part [LITERATURE] [SWIFT, JONATHAN]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726. First edition, closest to Teerink’s “AA” state with “Second Edition” stated on title on volume 2. Two volumes, modern calf to period style. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches (19.5 x 12 cm); portrait frontispiece to volume I in Teerink’s state 2a (vertical chain lines), with 6 maps and plans. Most likely an assembled copy with a few signatures possibly supplied, some spotting and staining, dampstain to rear of vol 1, ownership signatures to titles; Together with [OVID]. Les Metamorphoses. Amsterdam: P. & J. Blaeu. 1702. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Tall folio. With half-title and in-text illustrations. Neat ownership signatures, joint starting; URRY, JOHN. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Bernard Lintot, 1721. Modern morocco backed boards. First edition thus. Tall folio. With 1 frontispiece portrait (of 2, lacking the portrait of Chaucer). Portrait partially backed; The Whole Works of Flavius Josephus. London: printed for Proprietors, 1785. Contemporary tree calf rebacked retaining portion of original spine. Folio. 60 plates. Faint dampstain; LA FONTAINE, JEAN. Contes et nouvelles en vers. [Paris, 1777]. 2 volumes. Contemporary calf. Engraved titles, portrait and 80 plates. Faint dampstain but generally clean, chips to spines; MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. London: 1749. Newton translation. Two volumes. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Frontispieces and plates. Wear to bindings; And TWAIN, MARK. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American, 1869. Original cloth, rebacked, slipcase. The texts of the additional works here not collated, the entirety of the lot sold as is. C $1,500-2,500 See Illustration of Part 378 Literature • 19th Century 377 [SPORTING] Group of five sporting volumes, including Henry Lee Ferguson The English Springer Spaniel in America, Derrydale Press, 1932; Clive Phillipps-Wolley Big Game Shooting, Badminton Library, 1894, two volumes; Gilbert White The Natural History of Selborne, John Lane, 1900, illustrated by Edmund H. New; and Philip Gilbert Hamilton Chapters on Animals. Some light wear, volumes generally in sound condition, all with the book label of Samuel Blatchley Webb. C $400-600 378 CHOPIN, KATE [O’FLAHERTY, KATHARINE] Bayou Folk. Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. First edition, inscribed “Miss Mabel Holden/from her sincere friend/ Kate Chopin/March 26/1894”—i.e. inscribed two days after publication (the book was advertised for March 24 in a Publisher’s Weekly ad of March 17, see B.A.L.). Original green sateen cloth, gray coated endpapers. 6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches (17 x 11 cm); (iv), 313 pp. (p.314 blank), 2 pp. advertisements. Spine very slightly faded with a small spot, very light binding wear overall, but a very sound and attractive copy, the hinges uncracked. This was Kate Chopin’s first book of short stories, and includes a number of important proto-feminist works, most notably Desiree’s Baby, a tale of miscegenation, and La Belle Zoraide. Inscribed copies of any of her works are rare. While we cannot definitively identify the recipient, there seems a strong likelihood that this was Mabel C. Holden, a socially well-connected St. Louis resident whose song cycle Five Songs (with lyrics by W.M.C.) was published by Thiebes-Stierlin Music in St. Louis in 1896. Holden lived on Locust Avenue in St. Louis as of 1895; Chopin on Morgan Street, no great distance away. B.A.L. 3244. C $4,000-6,000 See Illustration 379 CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. (=TWAIN, MARK) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First Edition. Publisher’s decorated green cloth with pale peach endpapers, housed in a custom case with the “Huck Finn” motif from the cloth cover repeated on the box. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (22 x 17.5 cm); 399 pp., frontispiece portrait. Rubbing to spine tips and a bit of restoration at foot, very lightly rubbed, some occasional thumbsoiling and spotting, an attractive and bright copy. With the following BAL points for the first edition: The title leaf is a cancel with an 1884 copyright, the frontispiece in 2nd state, Him and another man listed at p. 88, p. 57 printed “with the was”, p. 283 is a cancel, and p. 155 in 3rd state. BAL 3414. C $2,500-3,500 See Illustration 379 380 380 CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. (=TWAIN, MARK) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. First English edition, preceding the American by 4 months. Original red cloth decorated in gilt and blind. 7 1/2 x 5 inches (19 x 12.5 cm); 438 pp.; 32 pp. publisher’s ads bound at rear dated October 1884, frontispiece and in-text illustrations. Endpapers renewed, some thumbsoiling and tanning to first leaves, the front hinge loose, the spine lightly darkened but the cloth in clean and bright condition overall. BAL 3414. C $600-900 See Illustration 381 CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. (=TWAIN, MARK) Group of four titles. Comprising A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889, original cloth, first edition (without “s” ornament on p. 59, BAL 3429, A trifle rubbed, slightly cocked, an attractive copy; Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894, original cloth, BAL 3442, very clean; Mark Twain’s Library of Humor, 1888, first edition, original cloth, BAL 1982, A little rubbed, scratches to rear board; Following the Equator,1897, first edition, original cloth, hinge cracked, rubbed at tips. A presentable group of Twain titles. C $800-1,200 383 382 CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. (=TWAIN, MARK). The Writings of Mark Twain. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1899 [-1907]. Comprising sixteen of twenty-five volumes of The Autograph Edition including Volume 1 which contains the limitation leaf signed as both Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain, this copy with an initialed note from Twain bound into volume one and an attestation by R.U. Johnson that the note is in Twain’s hand, number 117 of 512 sets, this group also including the volume signed by Charles Dudley Warner. Full green morocco, the covers panelled in gilt, the spines tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, with blue morocco doublures, silked endpapers, t.e.g. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches (21.5 x 15 cm); frontispieces, plates. Spines faded and with some wear to tips, rubbed at places, some spotting internally and soiling to endpapers, spotting to note. The note bound in here is an envelope, addressed and initialed in Twain’s hand to the editor of Country Magazine in New York, with directions “from the back room, second turning to the starboard as you go along the hall where the pictures hang. -M.T.” C $1,000-1,500 383 CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. (=TWAIN, MARK) Autograph letter signed. Riverdale on the Hudson: 18 March 1903. Autograph letter signed “SL Clemens” on one sheet of Clemens’ stationery declining an invitation to lecture. Usual fold, slight small stain to margin, slight offset from header. C $1,000-1,500 See Illustration 112 DOYLE NEW YORK • November 5, 2012 view the fully illustrated catalogue and bid online at doylenewyork.com 113
386 CRANE, STEPHEN The Red Badge of Courage. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. First edition, first issue (printed on laid paper, the top edge stained yellow). Publisher’s buckram decorated in red, black and gilt, in printed dust wrapper repeating the cover desgin, housed in a custom cloth clamshell case. 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); title in black and red, 233 pp., 4 pp. publisher’s ads, with a publisher’s list of “Standard Fiction” laidin (listing this title at $1.00). Cloth lightly thumbsoiled and darkened at spine, a few faint spots to rear board, wrapper tissue backed, neatly split along upper joint fold, a few short creases and tears but overall a well preserved example of a very scarce dust wrapper. BAL 4071. C $6,000-9,000 See Illustration 386 384 COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR Sibylline Leaves, A Collection of Poetry. Rest Fenner, London, 1817. First edition. Publisher’s (?) blue-gray boards, marble paper spine with pasted label with the title in a Gothic face and a 10s 6d. price. The boards and spine appear correct, although the more commonly encountered spine is buff paper. 8 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches (22.5 x 14 cm); x, [2] (the errata), 302 pp. Upper board detached lower joint weak, the endpaper detached and with an inscription, the half-title not present. An entirely uncut (though opened) copy, internally generally in very clean condition. The first collected edition of Coleridge’s poetry, with the revised version of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, published for the first time under Coleridge’s name, together with The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode and France: An Ode. Ashley I, p. 206; Wise Coleridge 45; Tinker 697. C $800-1,200 385 [COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR] Faustus from the German of Goethe. London: Boosey and Son, 1821. First English edition. Half leather with early marbled boards, neatly rebacked. 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (26 x 21 cm); vii, [1], 86, [2] pp., with frontispiece and 26 plates after Retsch. Binding with wear, rebacked but sound, some toning and light spotting internally. This 1820 edition is now widely accepted as having been translated by Coleridge, based on the scholarship of Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick, and is an important addition to the Romantic canon. C $600-900 387 387 DICKENS, CHARLES Autograph letter signed, single page on folded sheet, dated fourteenth December 1842, addressed to “My Dear Pettigrew” (i.e. T. J. Pettigrew, a friend of Cruikshank, who was active in opposing the abuse of orphans), written from Devonshire Terrace, 8 lines on a social matter. 7 1/8 x 4/38 inches (18 x 11 cm). In overall fine condition, framed with an engraving of Dickens. C $1,000-1,500 See Illustration 388 388 DICKENS, CHARLES A Christmas Carol in Prose, being A Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. The seventh edition, stated, this copy inscribed on the half-title “Mrs. Smithson/from/Charles Dickens/18th April 1844.” 19th century pebble-grained red morocco, simple gilt rules, spine in six compartments, marbled endsheets, all edges gilt. [4] ff. including half title, frontispiece, title and preface, 166 pp. text. Binding somewhat rubbed to joints but sound, two minor tears with discreet old restorations to a tiny tear on the fore-margin of the the half-title and frontispiece, some minor toning to the plates as usual, but an attractive copy. A significant Dickens presentation, to the wife of his close friend the solicitor Charles Smithson, shortly after the untimely death of the latter at the age of 39. Dickens attended the funeral at Malton Abbey on the fifth of April 1844, heading up to Yorkshire by train for the day. The letter of the same date that originally accompanied this presentation copy now resides at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and it makes evident that Dickens was deeply distressed by his friend’s death. In the letter, he mentions that he had hoped that Mrs. Smithson would be able to stay with his family (“for a twelvemonth”), but that they had discovered there were insufficient bedrooms for Smithson’s young family. (He was a godfather to one of Smithson’s children). There is a long-standing tradition that the office of Scrooge was based on Smithson’s office on Chancery Lane in Malton, and that various characters of Dickens (John Brodie, Sairey Gamp and possibly others) were based upon residents of the area. Mr Spenlow (of Spenlow and Jorkins in David Copperfield), is supposedly modelled on Charles Smithson. However, the evidence for all of this is largely anecdotal. The binding of this copy is early, and it cannot be ruled out that it was bound at Dickens’ behest for presentation to Mrs. Smithson; given the tragic event it commemorates, a regular copy may have been felt to be inadequate. Philo Calhoun and Howell J. Heaney record twenty-two inscribed examples of A Christmas Carol in their 1945 work (published in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America and subsequently available as an offprint). This example was not among them. C $40,000-60,000 See Illustration 114 DOYLE NEW YORK • November 5, 2012 view the fully illustrated catalogue and bid online at doylenewyork.com 115
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