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183869551London: Simpkin Marshall and Co 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 264pp. Small octavo 19.5 cm Green decoratively embossed cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Yellow endpapers. Frontispiece illustration. Spine sunned. Cloth at spine ends chipped. Underlying boards barely just beginning to peek through at corners. Free endpapers and recto of frontispiece mildly discolored. Short tape repairs to long closed tear on p. 140 no text is obscured. Loss to fore-edge margin of p. 163/64 again text not affected. Stitching visible in inside margins however binding very sturdy.<br /> <br /> Ex-libris James Cowan Smith with his bookplate depicting his beloved dog Callum on the front pastedown. James Cowan Smith 1843-1919 was a British civil engineer director of a railway company British Wagon and philanthropist. In his will he bequeathed what would now amount to roughly $4284000 to the National Gallery of Scotland to be used to expand its collection. The one stipulation was that the portrait of his dog Callum by John Emms was to be on permanent display in the museum. The condition of the donation helped draw attention to Callum's rare terrier breed the Dandie Dinmont. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co hardcover
183487522Berlin & Wien: Nicolai / Carl Gerold 1834. First Edition. Tall octavo 25cm. Contemporary full oxblood morocco decoratively stamped in gilt and blind on spine and covers; xxii384pp. Bit of fading to leather on spine and board edges slight rubbing and wear to extremities; still Very Good - a quite attractive copy. From the library of the prominent German publisher Bernhard Tauchnitz 1816-1895 with his engraved bookplate to front pastedown. Nicolai / Carl Gerold unknown
187245648Salt Lake City UT 1872. 32pp. Duodecimo 21 cm Stapled wrappers. Near fine. Early Utah/Masonry volume from the library of Kent Walgren. unknown
185270233Boston: Wright & Hasty Printers 1852. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 138pp. 19 cm. Tan and black printed wraps. 3/4" losses from the spine ends. Front wrap detached at the head and foot. Small dark partial ring stain to front wrap. Contemporary notations on verso of front wrap. Stitching visible in inside margins. Pages foxed. Fore-edge corners of front wraps and preliminary pages a bit dog-eared. Ex-libris Grace Josephine Boggs with her name and Berkeley California address on the front wrap. Grace Josephine Boggs 1879-1954 was married to Robert Roy Service in 1904. Together they joined the Student Volunteer Movement with the intention of devoting their lives to missionary work. Roy was accepted by the Y.M.C.A. for its foreign work and sent to Purdue University for training. Subsequently the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A. sent the young couple to Chengtu Szechwan in far west China to establish Y.M.C.A. work. Later they were transferred to Shanghai. While in Shanghai Grace served as a member of the China National Committee of the Y.M.C.A. and was active in American and international women's activities including the American Association of University Women and Daughters of the American Revolution. The Grace Service Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by John Stewart Service in July 1986. Information from UC Berkeley Bancroft Library. Wright-Howes C-457. Wagner-Camp 210.<br /> <br /> Asa Bement Clarke was born in Conway Massachusetts in 1817. He left New York on January 29 1849 as a member of the Hampden Mining Company. He then traveled to California by way of Mexico arriving at Los Angeles on July 9. Ferol Egan recounts his adventures as well as those of others who took the same route to California in "The El Dorado Trail" New York: McGraw-Hill 1971. Wright & Hasty, Printers paperback
189669650Paris: Mercure de France 1896. Fine. Mercure de France Paris 1896 9.50 x 15.50 cm relié The first edition with two portraits of Père Ubu drawn by Alfred Jarry. Half brown morocco over marbled paper boards by G. Gauché spine in five compartments raised bands with blind ruled fillet gilt date to foot of spine marbled endpapers and pastedowns covers and spine repaired preserved top edge gilt. A rare handsome autograph inscription signed by Alfred Jarry: Georges Rodenbach's copy. Alfred Jarry. Provenance: from the personal collection of President Georges Pompidou with his ex-libris to endpaper. He showed that he could at the same time love Racine and Soulages. Poussin and Max Ernst. Virgil and René Char and from that point of view he was outstanding. Alain Peyrefitte. From behind a desk in the école Normale and high up in the government administration in the bank and finally as a politician Georges Pompidou put together in the heart of his personal collection an anthology of French literature. This handsome copy of Ubu Roi reveals his identity as a man of letters between classicism and the avant-garde. Pompidou whose literary training would imbue both his thinking and political speeches showed a taste cultivated alongside his wife Claude for modern art cinema and the theatre: we know that he was well acquainted with Jules Romains read Beckett and was a great admirer of Louis Jouvet. The arts among other things owe him a debt for the unfailing support he showed the Théâtre National Populaire of Jean Vilar who presented a new staging of Ubu Roi in 1958 at Chaillot. This copy of Jarry's masterpiece also bears witness to its famous first owner the Belgian Symbolist Georges Rodenbach one of the most perfect writers in Flanders who received this work with a signed inscription from the author his fellow contributor to the Revue blanche. They were both disciples of Stéphane Mallarmé meeting every Tuesday with their master at his salon in the rue de Rome. Also a member of the circle of the Hydropathes in which Jarry was an active participant Rodenbach published in the same year as Ubu one of his most important collections of poems Les vies encloses inspired by the occultism of Novalis and the German Romantics. With Jarry claiming to be a follower of Pantagruel as Rodenbach did of Baudelaire one of them struggled with the incomprehension of the public while the other revelled in it: they developed at the two extremes of the Mallarmé spectrum. An admirable witness of the Parisian literary and bohemian microcosm this work with its prestigious provenance brings together two great names of the avant-garde theatre and fin-de-siecle poetry: Jarry the ultimate mystifier and Rodenbach the nostalgic poet of cloistered lives. Mercure de France hardcover
