Uncommonly Good Books Found Here: January 2011

$5,000.00

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Quarter pink cloth over black cloth with gilt titles on the spine, Wrapped in decorated acetate jacket. Housed in yellow decorated cardboard slipcase. Limited Edition. Number 15 of 350 copies only, signed by the author. A fine copy of one of the Nobel Prize winning author’s finest books. Rare and desirable.. Signed By the Author. Limited First Edition, Signed & Numbered. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

Sold by:  Contact Editions

$3,350.00

From Death To Morning by Thomas Wolfe

New York: Charles Scribner’s & Sons, 1935 First Edition, first issue, Signed and dated by Thomas Wolfe, January 10th, 1936, in blue-black fountain pen on the front endpaper. 8vo. 304 pp. A very good or better copy in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper showing moderate use. Scribner “A" and seal on the copyright page and in the first issue brown cloth, gilt stamped panels and spine, with the typo on page 59 L21, ["rer" for "her"], orange topstain. In the first issue dustwrapper, without the letters “BTC" on the front cover. One of Wolfe’s most esteemed collections of short stories inclusive of, Death The Proud Brother, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, The Four Lost Men and The Web of Earth. 7500 copies printed. Uncommon signed. Housed in a custom slipcase. Johnston A4.I.a.. Signed by Author. First Edition.

Sold by:  TCBL The Book Collector’s Library

$2,000.00

Cinnabar Lotus. From The Masterworks of Chang Ta-Ch’ien by Chang Ta-Ch’ien (Zhang Daqian)

San Francisco, Calif.: Editions Press, 1975. Color lithograph. 29 x 20 5/8 inches. Edition of 171. Signed in pencil by the artist.

Sold by:  Alan Wolfsy Fine Arts

$1,250.00

The City Of The Saints, And Across The Rocky Mountains To California by Richard Francis Burton

London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1861. Octavo. Pages x, 707; Bound in half calf leather over marbled boards. Including numerous illustrations and fold out maps. Collated complete, a very nice example of this work. Penzer 68. Burton’s account of his travels in the American west. The narrative begins with Burton’s departure by stage coach from Saint Joseph, Missouri on August 7, 1860, and his arrival in the ‘Holy City’ of Salt Lake on August 25. He remained in Utah for one month, and then continued on the Sacramento and San Francisco, stopping briefly at Carson City and Virginia City on the way. “Burton was very interested in the Mormons and wrote about them sympathetically. The appendix of the book contains a number of Mormon documents and a Mormon chronology; including an extensive Mormon bibliography." (Wagner-Camp) “The book is a rare account by an experienced traveler who was alert to every detail, to language, to the nuances of a dynamic developing nation that showed high civilization on its eastern coast and progressive barbarism as one traveled westward. . First English Edition. Very Good.

Sold by: Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts, ABAC – ILAB

$1,025.00

L’Homme De Brenne by Paul Vialar

Paris: Bibliophiles De L’Automobile-Club, 1972. Livre. Illus. by Aymar De Lézardière. Condition Parfaite. Couverture illustrée. Edition Originale. 29cm x 39cm. 120 pages. / Texte inédit de Paul Vialar. Chemise et étui en PARFAIT ETAT. Pages en ff, non-rognées sur 2 côtés. Édition originale ornée de 22 eaux-fortes originales d’Aymar de Lézardière, dont une en frontispice. – Tirage à 150 exemplaires réservés aux sociétaires (celui-ci est le no 91, spécialement imprimé pour Monsieur Robert Marcy, exemplaire sur VELIN D’ARCHES). EXTREMEMENT RARE!!!! Photos disponibles sur demande.

Sold by: Louis Caron