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191168898New York: Duffield and Company 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Good . 128pp. Duodecimo 19 cm Light brown paper over boards with printed paper title labels on the spine and front board. Ex-library with traces of library markings on the rear endpaper. Spine subtly darkened. Ex-libris Emma K. Willits with her bookplate on the front pastedown. Emma K. Willits 20 September 1869 – 9 April 1965 was a physician and surgeon who played a significant role in the development of Children's Hospital in San Francisco now the California campus Women and Children's Center of the California Pacific Medical Center serving as the head of the Department of General Surgery from 1921 to 1934. She is thought to be the third woman to specialize in surgery in the United States and the first to head a surgery department. A play set among the Paiute Indians. A nice association copy. Duffield and Company hardcover
190970290Salt Lake City Utah: Intermountain Catholic Press 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 350 pp. Quarto 25 cm; full green cloth covered and beveled boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Centerpiece design also in gilt. Illustrated with many photographs maps and drawings. With the double-page Map Showing Route Taken by Fr. Silvestre Velez de Escalante July 29th 1776 – Jan 2nd 1777. Numerous photographs of prominent Catholic buildings including a double-page plate of Judge Memorial Home. The volume shows general light shelf wear; the boards are lightly scratched and there is some rubbing and bumping to the edges and corners. Binding is solid and square. Internally clean and bright. Ex-libris Historian J. Roderic Korns with his prior ownership label affixed to the front pastedown. Korns was a noted historian of the American West and author the work "West from Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of the Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846–1850" which he completed with the assistance of Dale L. Morgan.<br /> <br /> This work is a review of Spanish and Missionary Explorations Tribal Divisions names and regional habitats of the pre-European tribes the Journal of the Franciscan Explorers and discovers of Utah Lake. Covers the trailing of the priests from Santa Fe N.M. with Map of the route illustrations and delimitations of the Great Basin. Also contains the first English translation of Escalante's account of his explorations in Utah. Howes H238. Flake 3869. Intermountain Catholic Press hardcover
163867902London: Printed by T. Cotes for William Cooke 1638. First edition in English. Leather Bound. Good. 327 numbered pages. Twentyfourmo 14.5 cm Full brown leather with a red leather spine label decorative gilt tooling to the spine and double blind-ruled borders on the boards. Later endpapers circa 18th-19th century. Lacking the frontispiece portrait. Extremities rubbed. Cracks to the head of the spine along the joints the longer crack along the front joint measures 1 inch. Leather boards darkened at the edges. Ownership inscription "C Humphreys 1746" on front flyleaf. Two contemporary notations on the title page. A single manuscript notation within the text. One gathering hanging by a thread. Text block cracked at p. 317 and pp. 317-322 are partially detached. Small stains in the top margins of pp. 40-162 of "The Epistle." P. 286 is numbered as p. 287 and vice versa. <br /> <br /> Ex-libris English antiquary verse-writer and politician Hudson Gurney of Norwich 1775-1864 with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Hudson a highly acclaimed intellectual and bibliophile avowed to have read all 15000 volumes in his library and was a fellow of the Royal Society and the vice president of the Society of Antiquaries. His own verse works include the free translations of "Cupid and Psyche" 1798 and "The Orlando Furiosa" 1808 and his chronicle of major events in ancient history "Heads of Ancient History" 1814. His "Observations on the Bayeux Tapestry" 1817 presented an argument for the authenticity of its subject. He made numerous contributions in Parliament where he was viewed as an independent who tended to see both sides of every question. The book opens with a note on the translation which is followed by an unpaginated section titled "To the Inhabitants of the Island of great Britaine Unitie and Felicity."<br /> <br /> Gildas was a 6th century British monk and historian who lived for many years as an ascetic hermit on Flatholm Island in the Bristol Channel and was known for his piety and good education. He founded a monastery in Brittany known as St. Gildas de Rhuys. His "De excidio et conquestu Britanniae" "The Overthrow and Conquest of Britain" is one of a handful of sources for the country's post-Roman history. This work "The Epistle of Gildas" is a longer work which is a series of sermons on the moral failures of rulers and of the clergy.<br /> <br /> A work by one of the most influential figures of the early English Church. Printed by T. Cotes, for William Cooke unknown
193370034Edinburgh: John Grant 1933. New Edition. Hardcover. Good. 442; 458; 355pp. Thick royal octavos 24 cm Navy blue cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and a blind stamped vignette on the front board. Top edge gilt; other edges deckled. 1/2" closed tear at head of backstrip of volume 1. Minor stain to front board of this volume as well. Hatching to approximately a dozen pages in volume 1 mostly in pencil. As is. Some plates detached. With only one map at the rear of volume 3 the following map IS present: "Map of the United States Showing Indian Reservations". May require extra postage due to the number of volumes. Ex-libris novelist and historian of the Old West James D. Horan with his bookplate on the front pastedown of volume 2. By the authors of "The McKenney-Hall Picture Gallery." A new edition edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. John Grant hardcover
196571251New York: Random House 1965. Second printing of the first edition in the first issue dust jacket. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Cormac McCarthy in black ink on the half-title page to Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter: "For Nicholas All the very best Cormac." <br /> <br /> 246 pp. Octavo 21 cm. Publisher's green cloth and light burgundy paper-covered boards stamped in gilt red and blind. Publisher's green topstain. White dust jacket with red and black typography designed by Muriel Nasser. Second printing clearly stated on the copyright page. First issue dust jacket with "$4.95" price intact at top-front flap and "5/65" code at the bottom-right. <br /> <br /> A Near Fine copy the text block is clean square and seemingly unread throughout. The green topstain is lightly faded and the paper at the fore-edges of the boards show bits of abrasion. The dust jacket is Very Good gently sunned at the spine and showing light overall surface soiling and minor edgewear including a short split beginning at the top-front flap fold and tiny chips at the spine head and the top-right corner of the front panel. An attractive copy with an intimate association. A significant association copy warmly inscribed by the notoriously reclusive author to his long-time friend the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter. Throughout a friendship spanning forty years Potter’s bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy where the two shared a rapport rooted in their mutual appreciation of literature art music and history. This volume represents a vital fragment of that connection; McCarthy who famously avoided public life inscribed most of his published works to Potter.<br /> <br /> The second printing of The Orchard Keeper consisted of a small run of only 750 copies. It has been noted that surplus first-issue dust jackets were used for this printing; these were frequently price-clipped to accommodate the second printing’s increased $6.95 price. The present example is notably not price-clipped retaining the original $4.95 price.<br /> <br /> Set in a remote rural Tennessee community between the World Wars The Orchard Keeper is McCarthy’s debut novel inaugurating a cycle of four Southern Gothic works with Outer Dark Child of God and Suttree to follow. The narrative explores the forces of modern civilization as they encroach upon older more rugged ways of living. Upon its release the novel earned McCarthy immediate critical acclaim and comparisons to the likes of William Faulkner. Random House hardcover
71333New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2022. First editions first printings in publisher's slipcase. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. From the library of the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter a long-time friend of Cormac McCarthy. Both volumes are signed by the author on publisher’s tipped-in pages: The Passenger in blue ink and Stella Maris in black ink. Laid into the first volume are two small memo notes in Potter’s hand providing a record of the set's rarity: "This is one of the two copies of the boxed signed edition that Dorothy Massey proprietor of Santa Fe’s Collected Works Bookstore got in the "lottery" for them. Collected Works was one of hundreds of bookstores that tried to order them. Probably fewer than 500 were signed. Dorothy gave it to me."<br /> <br /> 383; 189 pp. Two octavo volumes 24 cm. Publisher’s blue and red paper-covered boards respectively; titles gilt-stamped to spines. First edition clearly stated on the copyright pages. In the original illustrated dust jackets with prices and date codes intact. Housed in the publisher's decorative pictorial paper-covered slipcase with the original paper label tipped-on the rear panel. All elements are Near Fine; bright square clean copies showing only the faintest hints of shelfwear or handling. This set documents a direct connection within the Santa Fe book trade having been gifted from Dorothy Massey to Nicholas Potter. The signatures are provided on the publisher’s tipped-in pages with provenance established by a laid-in note in Potter’s hand. This note identifies the volumes as a gift from Massey proprietor of Collected Works establishing a professional association that distinguishes this set from typical signed issues. It stands as a physical record of the professional network and relationships that supported McCarthy’s work in New Mexico for four decades.<br /> <br /> Alfred A. Knopf published The Passenger on October 25 2022 followed by Stella Maris on December 6 2022. This slipcased boxed set was released concurrently with the second volume and contains both first-edition hardcovers. These signed sets were distributed via a highly restricted "lottery" to select bookstores; it is estimated that only 500 such sets were produced. As McCarthy declined public appearances for these final titles these tipped-in pages represent rare "officially" signed copies of his final works. McCarthy passed away in June 2023—scarcely six months after the final volume's release—marking these as the last works published during his lifetime.<br /> <br /> Conceived as a profound late-career diptych The Passenger and Stella Maris constitute Cormac McCarthy’s final novels. The first volume follows Bobby Western a salvage diver contending with his father’s legacy on the Manhattan Project and the suicide of his sister Alicia. Its companion Stella Maris is a psychiatric transcript recording Alicia’s own struggle with mathematics and hallucination. Eschewing conventional linear plotting the pairing serves as a rigorous inquiry into the "unshareable" nature of reality and the constraints of human knowledge. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
71330London: Picador 2006. First U.K. edition first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of only 200 copies issued with a bookplate signed in black ink by Cormac McCarthy mounted to the title page. These bookplates were signed specifically for this first Picador edition and distributed via the British retailer Waterstones. From the library of the late Santa Fe bookseller and McCarthy associate Nicholas Potter. Laid in is Potter's original invoice and purchase receipt from Nicholas & Helen Burrows booksellers Surrey/London UK dated 20-Nov-06.<br /> <br /> 241 pp. Octavo 24 cm. Publisher’s black paper-covered boards with silver stamping to the spine. Original pictorial dust jacket with the "£16.99" price intact. A bright square and clean copy. The inclusion of the signed bookplate at the title page is notably scarce. A short note in Potter's hand is also laid in: "w/signed Bookplate tipped in. October 2006. Cormac told me he would not sign this book title so it is rare signed even if it is on a bookplate." Throughout a friendship spanning forty years Nicholas Potter’s Santa Fe bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy where the two shared a rapport rooted in their mutual appreciation of literature art music and history. This volume represents a vital fragment of that connection.<br /> <br /> Pulitzer Prize-winning and austere The Road is a harrowing odyssey and a testament to paternal devotion. Set in an ash-covered wasteland the narrative depicts a father and son navigating a landscape of predatory cannibals among the ruins of civilization. Refining the sparse prose of his late career into minimalist parable McCarthy captures the endurance of hope in the face of total environmental collapse. The work was adapted into a film directed by John Hillcoat and starring Viggo Mortensen. Picador hardcover
71342Hopewell NJ: The Ecco Press 1994. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Cormac McCarthy in blue ink on the half-title page. <br /> <br /> 133 pp. Octavo 22 cm. Publisher's black cloth and grey paper-covered boards with blind-stamped design on the front and silver titles on the spine. First edition clearly stated on the copyright page. In the original dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd with the "$19.95" price and "9404" code intact on the front flap.<br /> <br /> A Near Fine unread and clean copy. The rear board is bound slightly askew a minor binder's aberration. The dust jacket is likewise Near Fine showing only very light surface rubbing. A nice copy. Signed by the notoriously reclusive author. From the library of the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter. Throughout a friendship spanning forty years Potter’s bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy where the two shared a rapport rooted in their mutual appreciation of literature art music and history. This volume represents a vital fragment of that connection.<br /> <br /> Written in the mid-1970s The Stonemason remained unpublished for nearly twenty years until its release by Ecco Press in 1994. The professional relationship began when Ecco founder Daniel Halpern reached out to McCarthy via a letter to his Tennessee home. This collaboration eventually established Ecco as a primary publisher for McCarthy’s dramatic and poetic work.<br /> <br /> Set in Louisville Kentucky the work meditates on craft and heritage. McCarthy’s rhythmic dialogue reflects the precision of masonry elevating manual labor to a spiritual discipline. Prioritizing thematic architecture over narrative the play measures the permanence of stone against the fragility of family structures. The Ecco Press hardcover
201071344London: Picador 2010. First U.K. edition first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 142 pp. Octavo 20.5 cm. Publisher's black paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped titles on the spine. Black endpapers. In the original illustrated dust jacket designed by David Pearson with the "£9.99" price intact. A nice bright clean copy. From the library of the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter. Throughout a friendship spanning forty years Potter’s bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy; the two shared a rapport rooted in a mutual appreciation of literature art music and history. While this copy is neither signed nor marked it originates from Potter's collection. McCarthy who famously avoided public life inscribed most of his published works to Potter.<br /> <br /> Set in a sparse New York apartment the work is a claustrophobic dialogue sparked by a thwarted suicide. With McCarthy’s prose stripped to its essential core the play pits existential despair against faith in a high-stakes dialectic for the soul. Picador hardcover
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
192825688New Haven CT.: Yale University Press Published for Phillips Academy Andover MA 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good or better. 11 x 14 1/4 inches. Oversize hardcover tan cloth backed with blue paper over boards and paste-on title plate to front cover clean rear cover shows soiling no markings on spine. General light wear and some discoloration including the spine else clean tightly bound; internally shows light foxing to end papers balance of book printed on bright paper that is clean and free of markings. No dust jacket/slipcase if issued. SIGNED: Elizabeth Goodhue Fuess 1878-1943 on the front flyleaf. She was the wife of Claude Moore Fuess the tenth headmaster of Phillips Academy. 30 b/w photographic prints with captions each on the recto side of each leaf mostly notable buildings on campus. <br/><br/>Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome. Yale University Press, Published for Phillips Academy Andover (MA) hardcover
176088881Paris: S. n. 1760. Fine. A contemporary full red morocco binding S. n. Paris 1760 22.5 x 29.3 cm trois volumes reliés New edition adorned with a portrait of the author by Daullé three headpieces by de Sève engraved by Juste Chevillet twelve plates engraved by Jacques Aliamet Jean-Jacques Flipart Noël Le Mire Louis-Simon Lempereur Dominique Sornique and Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu and thirteen vignettes and sixty tail-pieces all by de Sève engraved by Jean-Charles Baquoy Jean-Jacques Flipart and Louis Legrand. A superb copy of the first luxury edition of Racine among the most sought-after bound in the most sumptuous red morocco. Contemporary full red morocco spine with five raised bands and gilt compartments triple gilt fillet border corner fleurons yellow morocco lettering pieces and volume numbers double gilt fillets on the boards marbled endpapers double gilt fillet on the edges gilt dentelle turn-ins gilt edges. Occasional light foxing mostly on the early leaves of the volumes; some browned pages; skilfully restored corners and joints; a few scratches. Provenance: Library of Jean Fürstenberg his red morocco bookplate pasted to the verso of a free endpaper of vol. I others in paper in vols. II and III. From a family of Berlin bankers and a banker himself Hans Fürstenberg took refuge in France in 1938 and francised his name. It was then that he presented to the Bibliothèque nationale his collection of original editions of German works from the pre-classical and classical periods. From his youth Jean Fürstenberg also collected illustrated books rare French eighteenth-century works incunabula and bindings maintaining his interest in these fields throughout his life and publishing several works on the subjects. In 1959 together with Julien Cain he founded the International Association of Bibliophily. Comité dhistoire de la Bibliothèque nationale de France S. n. hardcover
