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Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover to Stanford ProfessorFrontispiece. 8vo. Original cloth, in dust wrapper. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Printing, with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover on the front endpaper, "To Prof. Eliot Jones (and Mrs. Jones) With the wishes for a Happy New Year (if any) Herbert Hoover." Eliot Jones, author of five books, was a professor at Stanford (Hoover's alma mater) for 35 years. Dust wrapper slightly chipped at edges, with 1½-inch tear to top of front cover; 1-inch tear to middle of spine; o/w Fine.

INSCRIBED BY BOWLES TO HIS PUBLISHERBOWLES, PAUL. Collected Stories. 1939-1976. Introduction by Gore Vidal. 8vo. Original decorated cloth-backed paper-covered boards; paper label on spine. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara 1979. First Edition. One of 5 presentation copies marked "5/5 JM" and signed by the publisher John Martin on the colophon page. This copy is a presentation copy from Bowles to Martin. "For John Martin who believes in making books beautiful. (You must come and have tea at the Beach Café some day.) All best, Paul B. Tangier 3/x/79." Fine.

8vo. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Boston: Wm. Parsons Lunt. 1869. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the cover, "John Bartlett with respect of C. F. A. Jr. " Charles Francis Adams, Jr. was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the 1st Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry on December 28, 1861. He fought with distinction during the Gettysburg Campaign, where his company was heavily engaged at the Battle of Aldie. On September 8, 1864 he was commissioned as the lieutenant colonel of the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (officially designated "5th Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry"). He was promoted to colonel and assumed command of the regiment on March 14, 1865, shortly before the end of the war. At that time regiment was assigned guarding Confederate prisoners of war at Point Lookout, Maryland. Adams had it reassigned to front line duty during the closing days of the campaign against Richmond, an action he wrote about with regret in his autobiography. He led his regiment into Richmond… Read More

First Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Stein on the front endpaper, dated Oct 20, 1933, shortly before she returned to America after a thirty-year absence.Small 8vo. Original printed orange wrappers in scarce publisher's slipcase, Paris: Plain Edition (1932).Wrappers and slipcase lightly soiled, o/w fine.

First Edition. Presentation copy.Inscribed to Madison Cawein.Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Original green cloth, gold-stamped. Boston and New York 1891. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed on the front endpaper to the poet Madison Cawein, "Madison Cawein With the kind regards of Oliver Wendell Holmes Boston October 12th 1891". Also inscribed by Cawein.Madison Cawein's poetry extolled the fields and forests, springs and flowers of Kentucky. Joyce Kilmer adjudged him the greatest nature poet of his time. An interesting association copy. Front hinge starting, o/w Fine.

Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. (The 5x8 Press, New Jersey 1942). First Edition. Presentation copy from Paul Goodman to James Laughlin. For James Laughlin / Paul / May 1942. A wonderful association copy from Goodman to the owner of New Directions Press. In 1941 Laughlin published an anthology of five young American poets that included Paul Goodman. Very light water stain to edge of cover, o/w Fine.

First Edition.Inscribed and signed by Cocteau with an original profile line drawing by Cocteau on the half-title. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, enclosed in modern cloth box. Paris: Gallimard 1948. Covers with splitting along spine, short tears and soiling, as usual, o/w Fine.

Hardcover. 12mo. Original vellum, lettered in manuscript on the spine, hand-painted borders on boards, gold and purple marbled endpapers, original printed wrappers bound-in. Paris, Albert Messein 1926. Third Edition. Minkoff A-3c. Limited to 100 copies on Arches. This copy inscribed by Harry Crosby: 'Helenka from Harry Paris MCMXXVII.' Helenka was probably Helenka Adamowski Pantaleoni, the Broadway and film actress, intellectual and great beauty who later founded the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and became the president of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF. Adamowski met Harry at Harvard when he was a student after World War I. She remembered him at this time as being 'an incredibly sensitive, high-strung, poetic individual who was wound up to such a pitch that even in those early days I wondered whether he would survive the year.' . . . Harry once took her to the Harvard-Yale boat races in New London, hired an airplane and insisted that the pilot essay some aerobatic stunts. The pilot refused, but 'Harry did… Read More

INSCRIBED BY BOWLES TO HIS PUBLISHERBOWLES, PAUL. The Spider's House. With a Preface by the Author. 8vo. Original decorated cloth-backed paper-covered boards; paper label on spine. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara 1982. First Edition. One of 4 copies for presentation marked "Presentation Edition 4/4," signed by the publisher John Martin on the colophon page. This copy is a presentation copy from Bowles to Martin. "For John Martin, Greetings from the Third and Fourth Worlds. 'But what was the past of her to which she mattered?' Best, Paul Bowles Tangier, 9/111/82." Fine.

INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPYP.T. Barnum. Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum. Written by Himself.Illustrated. Frontispiece. 8vo. Original dark green cloth, gilt decorated on spine. Buffalo, New York. 1873. Author's Edition. Revised, Enlarged, Newly Illustrated.Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. "To Geo Le French, Esq. With Compliments of the Author P.T. Barnum Bridgeport July 5th 1874."Three small water stains on front cover; ¼-inch strip at head of spine loose; heel of spine slightly chipped; o/w a very nice copy of this rare presentation copy by P.T. Barnum.

COPY # 1Inscribed by AldrichALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. With photogravure frontispieces and illustrations. 8vo. 9 volumes uniformly bound in polished buckram and paper-covered boards. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1897-1907. Large Paper Edition. Limited to 250 hand-numbered sets, this being set # 1. The set is inscribed by Aldrich on the front endpaper of volume I: "For Mr. E. B. Holden. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. November 1897."Edwin Babcock Holden was an early president of the Grolier Club whose library was dispersed in a series of major sales from 1910-1920. Together with: The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. By Ferris Greenslet. 8vo. Bound in polished buckram and paper-covered boards. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1908. Large Paper Edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this being copy # 1. 10 volumes in all, uniformly bound.Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a New England-based poet, novelist, Civil War correspondent and editor who counted among his… Read More