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From newsletter 24:
17 HUYSMANS, J.K. Gegen den Strich (A Rebours). Autorisierte Uebersetzung von M. Capsius. Berlin, Schuster & L?ffler, 1897. Original wrappers (Melchior Lechter). 304 p. Uncut. Cover illustration and author's portrait by Melchior Lechter. First edition. A bit soiled. Tiny date on inside lower cover.
€ 425
* The very rare first translation into German, with Jugendstil design by Lechter printed in red and black.
22 MIRBEAU, Octave Dingo. (Inscribed). Paris, Biblioth?que-Charpentier - Eug?ne Fasquelle, 1913. Decoratively marbled boards. (6), 424 p. First edition. Cheap text paper browned. Backstrip a bit worn.
€ 250
* inscribed by Mirbeau to "Docteur Elias/ sympathiquement".
25 (ROPS). GLATIGNY, Albert Le fer rouge. Nouveaux ch?timents. France et Belgique, Chez tous les libraires, 1870 [= Brussels, Poulet-Malassis, 1871]. Original wrappers. (4), 76 p. Uncut. With an original etching by F?licien Rops printed in red. Printed on papier de Hollande. First edition. Spine worn, cover a bit yellowed.
€ 425
* Rare first edition with the added etching, ridiculing Napoleon III and Mar?chal Bazaine who are being branded with a red iron ('fer rouge') because of the Battle of Sedan and the Siege of Metz, while a vulture is sitting on the dead in a prison. This first edition is very rare.
From newsletter 23:
5 BARBER'S BUSINESS CARD Maison Auguste, 46, Passage Jouffroy, 48 sous l'Horloge. (Ca. 1870). Large steel-engraved business card of a barber/ hairdresser in 19th century Paris. Oblong 16 x 25 cm. Printed on one side only. Glue traces on verso. A bit soiled and with a corner crease.
€ 35
* With a detailed 77 x 137 mm steel engraving of the interior showing customers and barbers at work. 'Taille de cheveux 50 c., Barbe 25 c., Coiffure 25 c. Salon vaste et confortable. 10 Toilettes de front.' Lovely!
17 (BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John). ASDER, H. Keuze. Opgedragen verzen. (With a signed copper engraving by John Buckland Wright). (Den Haag, Boucher, 1939). Loose sheets in a portfolio of heavy laid paper, melinexed. 60 p. Set in Romanée and printed in 50 copies, not for trade. This is one of only 10 grand-luxe lettered copies on Imperial Japanese mother-of-pearl paper. Uncut. Copper engraving (also on Japanese paper) signed in pencil. First edition. Fine.
€ 450
* Resplendent deluxe book of poems by H.A. Sinclair de Rochemont (1901-1942), the founder of the first fascist party of the Netherlands, a friend of 'enfant terrible' artist Erich Wichmann, who is remembered here in a poem in modernist form. With a handwritten dedication by the author to A. van der Minne. A poem was dedicated to him in print ('Het vleugelig lot'). The copper engraving by John Buckland Wright shows a lilylike girl in a translucent dress dancing into a bower. Reid A34a.
30 CLARK, Larry Teenage Lust. New York, self published, 1983. 29 x 23 cm. Original wrappers. 148 p. Photos with an afterword by the photographer (27 p.), dated 1981. First edition. Cover a bit worn, lower wrapper has been folded.
€ 275
* A real cultbook, highly controversial because of the raw pictures of young people and their sex and drugs. There is no bound edition of this book - wrappers only.
31 COLERIDGE, S.T. The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in seven parts, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, now spelled in modern style & embellished with designs by Andre Lhote. Paris, Émile-Paul, 1920. Original wrappers: black tar paper boards covered with a fishing net! (4), 52 p. With a frontispice and nine fantastic vignettes. Printed in 729 numbered copies on Dutch handmade paper (of Van Gelder Zonen). First thus. Fishing net left a brown ghost on endpapers.
€ 50
* Unusual edition of the famous Rime of the Ancient Mariner, illustrated with some surreal designs and printed on heavy handmade paper, wrapped in a rough fishnet.
double portrait
38 GRACIÁN, Baltasar Meditazioni sopra la santissima Comunione composte in Lingua Spagnuola dal padre Baldassarre Graziano della Compagnia di Gesù, e tradotta nell' idioma italiano da Francesco de Castro della medesima Compagnia. Venice, Niccolò Pezzana, 1737. 14 x 9 cm. Vellum with calligraphed title on spine. 432 p. Nice inscription on page (2) dated 1737. Excellent condition.
€ 110
* Attractive little translation into Italian of El Comulgatorio (= 'The Altar Rail', 1655), by the Spanish Jesuit priest Gracián (1601-1658), an important prose author of the Baroque period, famous for his collection of maxims Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia or (Hand Oracle of) the Art of Worldly Wisdom. The book is a series of meditations about receiving communion, but this theological subject is treated with much expressivity. It is the last book written by Gracián (except for the third and last volume of El Criticón) and the only one published under his own name. This translation not in Worldcat or in any of the various national libraries, only a 1750 edition in the State Library of Montecassino.
39 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 6. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1904. Original cloth-backed boards. IV, 744 p. Illustrated. First edition. Binding a bit worn, lower cover slightly soiled. Still a very good copy.
€ 220
* Sixth Yearbook of the voluminous scientific series about (mainly) homosexuality, a real Fundgrube. In this volume a.o. the original version of 'The Uranian before the Church and the Holy Scripture' by Caspar Wirz, the result of very early statistical research by Magnus Hirschfeld about the percentage of homosexuals, medical research of 103 men with a uterus and of 58 menstruating hermaphrodites; the preliminary presentation of a model of sex differences by L.S.A.M. von Römer, an important article about the personality of August von Platen by elusive scientist Ludwig Frey, and last but not least the almost 200 pages of the bibliography of publications about homosexuality in the year of Our Lord 1903.
Two bearded women
les cigares charbonnaient
41 (INCUNABLE). SENECA, Lucius Annaeus Opera philosophica. Epistolae. [Venice, Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, about 1492]. Folio (31,8 x 21,8 cm). 18th century vellum with seven ribs. 237 ff (of 238, lacking only the final blank C10). 60 lines plus head line. Roman type. Capital spaces with guide letters. Binding a bit worn at lower corners, spine soiled and with an old ticket. 18th century bookplate (Joseph Mazarin?). Marginal notes (some trimmed) in a neat cursive contemporary hand, perfectly legible. A bit soiled and some stains. Tiny wormhole in margin starting from leaf cii to the end. A few restorations in margins. Some insignificant pinpoint holes in the text. In all a good copy.
€ 5450
* This attractive incunable contains the philosophical works and letters of Seneca, including his correspondence with Saint Paul (which is in fact a forgery from the 4th century), and also some works of the philosopher's father Seneca the Elder, in the Middle Ages thought to be the son's work. No colophon was printed in this book, the explicit ends with a quire register. Contemporary handwritten title on first blank with the Epitaph of Seneca ('Cura, labor, meritum') as a motto. With some misprints in the pagination and elsewhere (e.g. 'Epitsolarum' instead of 'Epistolarum' on leaf II). BMC, V, 595; Goff S-372, BSB-Ink S-269 (the copy that was used for reproduction has some slight differences in the typesetting). 59 copies in the various libraries (but not in the Dutch).
benediction
42 (INCUNABLE). MARCHESINUS, Johannes Mamotrectus super bibliam. Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 12 July 1492. 8vo (16,2 x 12,2 cm.) Old vellum with written spine title ('Vocabularius Sacrç Script:'). 273 leaves. Printed in two columns in a gothic type. 36 lines. First text page partly printed in RED. Three small woodcut capitals, initial spaces with guide letters and many three-line capitals of a rather different gothic type. Binding stained and soiled, a small piece of the lower outer corner has been torn off. Title page (with just the word 'Mamotrectus') is missing. Pastedowns soiled and damaged. First blank has a handwritten dedication saying something like 'A Monasterij S.te Vittorie/ ad … Vittorii de Portis'. At the last page a drawing of a bowl and a flower vase accompanies the name of a former owner ('Questo libro … thoma…'). Two pages loosening, some soiling and stains at the beginning and end. A few bookworm trails in the margins. In the last three leaves, some letters are missing because of bookworm damage. Several old inscriptions, especially in the vocabulary at the beginning. In two places, the book was strengthened with a narrow strip of vellum from an old manuscript. At the end, part of a benediction leaflet was used to fasten the book block to its binding. Three more identical leaflets plus four strips of a woodcut decoration were used to fill up the binding.
€ 3750
* This is the 21st of the 23 incunable editions of this text, usually called 'Mammotrectus super bibliam', however, in this book consistently spelled with one M: Mamotrectus, without 'super Bibliam'. In the colophon another version of the title is used: Mamotrectus tam bibliae quam aliorum plurimorum librorum. The meaning of this curious title is 'nourisher on the Bible', strongly suggesting 'the Bible's Breast Milk'. It is a handbook explaining words and notions of the Bible and other important texts, such as the letters of Saint Jerome to Paulinus and Desiderius, but also about clothes of priests, Latin accents and other practical subjects. The Mammotrectus would be useful if you were preparing a sermon or some other priestly act. After 1500, its popularity waned and it was criticized and ridiculed by Erasmus and Rabelais. The book starts with an extensive vocabulary of Latin words and their location in the Bible. The main part is the handbook. It ends with an index after the colophon.
This copy is a well-used practical book with several assets, such as the first text page printed in red and black, and its riddles to solve: the inscriptions at the beginning and the end could supply more information about former owners. The four identical benediction leaflets, used for the binding, probably date from the 17th century. They have been printed on one side only in a cursive Garamond, and contain a ritual benediction starting "I.N.R.I. Qui verbum caro factum est".
Although soiled and a bit damaged, it is an unpolished, authentic incunable that doesn't give itself away at first glance. References: Goff M252; BMC V 517; BSB Ink M-167; GW M20814.
human acorns
44 IONESCO, Eugène Théâtre. (Inscribed). Paris, Gallimard, (1954). Original wrappers. 332 p. First edition printed 'S.P.' a review copy. Cover partly loose, browned.
€ 65
* Signed inscription by Ionesco on halftitle to author and translator M.J. Premsela, dated 'Paris, 7.X.1954'. With a tiny note by Premsela on the flyleaf, probably about a review. Several ballpoint markings in the text.
49 MARTIN, Don Typescript Letter Signed to Flemish poet Gust Gils, 1962. Bond typing paper. 26,7 x 18,5 cm. Recto only. With MAD heading in red and black and New York address. Dated 'January 11, 1961' (= 1962) and signed with a thick felt tip pen. 22 lines. With headed MAD envelope and cancel stamp with the face of MAD's mascot Alfred E. Neuman, dated Jan 11, 1962. With carbon copy of the original letter by Gust Gils, dated 'december 14th, 1961'.
€ 225
* In a well-written, nice and personal letter, Gils asks Don Martin if he would give permission to print some of his drawings in a Flemish paper. He also asks for Martin's portrait. But Don Martin politely declines. His work only appears in MAD and its editors insist he keeps the readers in the dark. 'They'd be disillusioned to learn that I don't have floppy feet and dangling arms. Actually, I'm thirty years old and look like a normal, clean-cut American male; whatever that may mean to you. Perhaps you've never thought of any Americans as normal or clean-cut.' Also about his own projects. In his 27-line letter, Gust Gils describes himself as a poet of the post-war 'avant-garde', and adds a four-line poem translated into English by himself: 'Someone climbs a pile of crates'... Substantial, funny ensemble!
tainted with incest
57 (ONANISMUS). SALZMANN, Christian Gotthilf Ueber die heimlichen Sünden der Jugend. Leipzig, Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Vogel, 1819. Leather-backed boards. VIII, 232 p. Telling title engraving with a young man in a bleak wood, contemplating a foot-long cockroach. 4th edition. Copy from the Kinderbesserungsanstalt zu Dresden ('Child Correction Institute in Dresden') with stamps and some other marks on the first few pages. Cover somewhat worn, but inside condition very good.
€ 140
* Interesting anti-masturbation book by the German educationalist Salzmann (1744-1811) in the tradition of Onania, or the Heinous Sin of self-Pollution. First published 1785.
constant anxiety
58 (ONANISMUS). TISSOT, S.A.A.D. L'Onanisme. Dissertation sur les Maladies produites par la Masturbation. Troisième édition considerablement augmentée. Paris, Didot le Jeune, 1765. 16 x 10 cm. Marbled boards with paper spine label. (2), xxiv, 264 p. Edges marbled in red. Third edition. Bookplate removed from inside upper cover. A little wear, but an attractive book.
€ 190
* Early edition of this epochal work, that installed a constant anxiety in generations of adolescents. Nice little vignette on title page. With an extensive preface dated 1764 and greatly enlarged compared to the first Latin edition (1758) and the first in French (1760).
62 PANTER, Gary, & Mark BEYER Panter versus Beyer. (Paris), CBO Editions, 2003. 46 x 33 cm. Original wrappers with 20 p. including covers loosely inserted. Large format multicolor screen prints. Printed in 100 numbered copies. First edition. Fine condition.
€ 225
* This huge art publication by two influential American cartoon artists contains 16 screen prints, of which 4 double-page.
old earth man
68 SAGITTA (= John Henry MACKAY) Die Buecher der namenlosen Liebe. Neue Gesammt-Ausgabe. Self-published, 1924. 16,5 x 12 cm. Cloth with dust jacket and slipcase. 488 p. Fine copy complete with the often missing original green unprinted dust jacket. Inserted are two printed advertorial leaves, one ('Dies ist eine Satz-, Schrift- und Papierprobe') containing Sagitta's poem 'Gieb die Hand mir...'. Edges of slipcase and spine section of dust jacket a bit worn and discolored.
€ 140
* The revised, definitive edition of the first six of SAGITTA'S BUECHER DER NAMENLOSEN LIEBE ('Sagitta's Books of Nameless Love'). One of 2000 copies, numbered (possibly by the author himself!) both on the printed ticket of the slipcase and in the book. Contents: Vorwort (=Preface for this edition) - Die namenlose Liebe - Wer sind wir? - Fenny Skaller - Über die Stufen von Marmor - Am Rande des Lebens - Gehoer! Nur einen Augenblick! That is, a coming out prose text, two volumes of verse, a full-fledged, intensely touching gay novel, a play and a political pamphlet. The preface recounts the history of Mackay's mighty one-man's fight with homophobia. Of the book publications under Mackay's pseudonym Sagitta during his lifetime (1864-1933) this is the sixth: SAGITTA 06 (1924).
72 (SHOESMITH, Kenneth) Royal Mail List of Passengers (of R.M.S. Asturias). (London, Royal Mail Lines, 1939). Original wrappers. 36 p. Printed in black and blue. With vignettes. Small stain at the foot of the first pages, otherwise fine.
€ 45
* Elegant brochure designed by marine painter Kenneth Shoesmith with a delightful color picture of R.M.S. Asturias for a South-American decor as a cover illustration (over both sides). Vignettes by the same artist. The Asturias brought passengers from Southampton, Cherbourg, Portugal, Madeira and Brazil to Uruguay and Argentina, arriving on June 28, 1939.
freezing humor
76 THELEN, Albert Vigoleis Runenmund. Gedichte. (Munich, Theodor Klüber), 1963. 30 x 21 cm. Morocco-backed boards. 36 leaves bound as a block book with four protection leaves of handmade Japanese paper. Printed in red and black in 150 signed and numbered copies. 30 Roman numbered copies were published under the aegis of the Eugen Diederichs Verlag. First edition. Corners slightly bumped.
€ 125
* A large book of poems, unusual in its appearance. With a folded gift card from the publisher.
77 UG Block. [Paris], CBO editions, [2002]. Entirely screen-printed. 21 x 11 cm. 10 p. leporello with covers. Printed in 100 numbered copies.
€ 65
* Robotic screenprints by UG (Philippe Huger).
pop-up
78 UG XXX rated 3. (Pop-up book). [Paris], CBO editions, [2003]. Entirely screen-printed. 21 x 11 cm. 12 p. French fold with pop-ups and covers. Printed in 100 numbered copies. Some parts a bit tired or worn.
€ 195
* Complex and delicate, sexy pop-ups by UG, the extremely capable French artist, 'paper engineer' Philippe Huger. Adults only... With a wad of cotton wool on front cover, smelling sweetly.
From newsletter 22:
3. (BARNEY, Nathalie Clifford). HERON-ALLEN, Edward Memoranda of Memorabilia Encountered in the Course of a Sentimental Journey through the Correspondence of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné and her Friends and recorded by Edward Heron-Allen, F.R.S. Necromancer to Ye Sette of Odd Volumes. Some observations suggested by which formed the subject of a Discourse delivered by him as President of Ye Sette on the 24th of April 1928. Oxford, 'Printed by the University Press and to be had of no bokesellers' (sic), 1928. 15 x 11 cm. Richly gilt boards. 148 p. With two portraits. Printed in 133 numbered copies. First edition. Backstrip browned, some tiny spots on binding. Inside in very fine condition.
€ 200
* This is one of 13 deluxe copies 'imprynted upon
Japanese vellum' (to wit, Nr. 11), with a written presentation for Natalie
Clifford Barney, "Israfil", dated February 21, 1931, signed
by Edward Heron-Allen, 'Necromancer to Ye Sette, and President' of this
quaint literary club. Barney (1876-1972) was a famous lesbian society
woman, living together with painter Romaine Brooks in Paris.
4. BENSON, E.F. Paying guests. A Novel. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1929. Cloth. 288, (16) p. First edition. Some tiny spots. Newspaper clipping with review tipped-in on inside upper cover.
€ 75
* INSCRIBED by the author 'To/ Eugenia de Nottbeck/
with all affectionate greetings/ from/ E.F. Benson/ March 17.29.' Eugenia
de Nottbeck, from Geneva, was an elderly American lady (1855-1944) with
a share in the Astor estate. She used her wealth generously for the
benefit of Magdalen College, where Arthur Benson, a brother of the author,
was Master from 1915 until his death in 1925.
9. DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred Two Loves. [No place: E. du Perron], 1928. Original wrappers. (2), (4), 28, (4) p. Printed by A.A.M. Stols in only 50 copies. Very good copy.
€ 225
* Private edition of E. du Perron: twelve poems expurgated
from the 1919 edition of the collected poems of Douglas because of their
homosexual contents (see Du Perron's correspondence of June 1928). Typography
by Stols. Batten / Stols 82. Van Dijk 134.
12. GROOT, Hugo de Nederlandtsche jaerboeken en historien, Sedert het jaer MDLV tot het jaer MDCIX; Met de belegering der stast Grol en den aenkleven des jaers MDCXXVII; Als ook het Tractaet van de Batavische nu Hollandtsche Republyk en de vrye zeevaert, met aenteeckeningen: Voorts met het Leven des Schrijvers, twee volkomen Registers, en veele koopere Platen verciert. Alles vertaelt door Joan Goris. Amsterdam, By de Weduwe van Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfganck en Hendrik en Dirk Boom, 1681. 34 x 22 cm. Contemporary vellum (some soiling, upper cover loose). (44), 592, (76), 20, (6), 74 p. Title engraving by Abraham Blooteling. 19 (of 20: portrait of the author is missing) full-page portraits and 27 double-page engravings (a.o. by Jan Luyken). First edition. Some prints marginally torn, one damaged (with loss of content).
€ 550
* Classical folio-format history of the Netherlands
during the Eighty Years' War (between 1555 and 1617) with first-rate
illustrations.
13. GWASG GREGYNOG The Twelve - Y Deuddeg. Wood engravings by John Elwyn. With Commentary by Glyn Tegai Hughes. Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, 2000. 25 x 15 cm. Cloth-backed decorated boards. (2), 38 p. Set in Monotype Garamond by Eric Franklin and cast at Gregynog by Brian Pawley. Printed on Somerset mould-made paper by David Vickers and bound by Alan Wood in 250 numbered copies. Wood engravings and cover paper by John Elwyn (1916-1997). Book design Robert Meyrick. Fine condition.
€ 110
* Texts from the Bible about the Twelve Apostles,
and verse from various Welsh and English poets, among them Iolo Goch,
Goronwy Owen, Richard Taylor and Thomas Washbourne.
19. PEYREFITTE, Roger Les Amitiés Particulières. Avec, en frontispices, deux lithographies originales de Valentine Hugo. Paris, Jean Vigneau, 1946. 28 x 20 cm. Two volumes. Loose quires (as published) in fold-in wrappers, cardboard portfolios and a slipcase. (4), 182; (4), 182 p. Printed in red and black in 740 numbered copies. Slipcase partly discolored, backs of portfolios a bit yellowed. Bookplates (nice ones) and a few tiny owner's marks in ink at the inside of the wrappers.
€ 150
* Monumental book production, the first illustrated
edition of this famous coming of age boarding school novel about
Special Friendship. With two original lithographic frontispices by Valentine
Hugo, signed in the stone. Bookplates for Ernst Lampe (1919-2000) designed
in the 1940's by Gisele van Waterschoot van der Gracht (now exactly
100 years old!).
24. (RETZSCH, Moritz). SCHILLER, Friedrich von Fridolin, Huit Dessins de Retzsch, avec une traduction littérale, et vers par vers, de la ballade de Schiller, intitulée Fridolin, oder der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer, par Mme Elise Voïart, auteur des six amours. Paris, Audot, 1829. Landscape format (oblong 12 x 15 cm). Original illustrated wrappers illustrated with a wood engraving copying the first engraving by Retzsch. 24 pages and 8 extratext engravings. First edition. Small ticket on cover. Backstrip worn, cover a bit spotted and with edgewear. Somewhat foxed. Bookplate of Eugene Strens.
€ 30
* Attractive little book with prints by Moritz Retzsch.
Cover title: Ballade de Schiller, traduite par Madame Élise Voïart,
avec 8 gravures d'après les dessins de Retszch.
27. SALZMANN, Christian Gotthilf Ueber die heimlichen Sünden der Jugend. Leipzig, Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Vogel, 1819. Leather-backed boards. VIII, 232 p. Telling title engraving with a young man in a bleak wood, contemplating a foot-long cockroach. Fourth edition. Copy from the Kinderbesserungsanstalt zu Dresden ('Child Correction Institute in Dresden') with stamps and some other marks on the first few pages. Cover somewhat worn, but inside condition very good.
€ 150
* Interesting anti-masturbation book by the German
educationalist Salzmann (1744-1811) in the tradition of Onania, or the Heinous Sin of
self-Pollution. First published 1785. Ueber die heimlichen Sünden der Jugend" />
Ueber die heimlichen Sünden der Jugend" />
30. UG XXX rated 3. [Paris], CBO editions, [2003]. Entirely screen-printed. 21 x 11 cm. 12 p. French fold with pop-ups and covers. Printed in 100 numbered copies. Tiny dog's ear on one element.
€ 250
* Very intricate and delicate, sexy pop-ups by the
extremely capable French artist, the 'paper engineer' Philippe Huger.
Adults only. With a wad of cotton wool on front cover, smelling sweetly.
From newsletter 21:
10. FRIEDLAENDER, Benedict Renaissance des Eros Uranios. Die physiologische Freundschaft, ein normaler Grundtrieb des Menschen und eine Frage der männlichen Gesellungsfreiheit. In naturwissenschaftlicher, naturrechtlicher, culturgeschichtlicher und sittenkritischer Beleuchtung. Schmargendorf-Berlin, Verlag 'Renaissance' (Otto Lehmann), 1904. Contemporary cloth. XVI, 322, 88 p. Silk marker. Frontispice and two vignettes. First edition. Excellent, clean copy.
€ 100
* First edition of this groundbreaking work about
homosexuality, with the addition 'Aphorismen, Zusätze und Excurse'.
Attractive art nouveau decorations by Casberg-Krause: in the frontispice
a youngster looks dejectedly at a broken diadem. One vignette shows
a thoughtful boy's statue where two longtailed mice took residence,
and the other a humorous dragon with a spiky collar, captioned 'The
Aesthetic Spirit'.
18. HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. (Inscribed by the Author). Leipzig-Wien, Verlag für Sexualwissenschaft Schneider & Co., (1930). Vol. 1. Original cloth with dust jacket. XX, 416 p. Richly illustrated. First edition. DJ a bit coffee stained. Binding worn, damaged and a bit warped.
€ 800
* Poor copy, but with 3-line AUTHOR'S DEDICATION: 's.l. Dr. Günter
Tessmann,/ der hochverdienter Erforscher/ der Seelen u. Sitten der Völker/
(hard to read, possibly 'vom Herausgeber')/ Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld./
Berlin I.f.S.W. 2/IX 30.'. In turn, Tessmann gave the book to Felix Bryk, the Swedish anthropologist
and entomologist, author of Dark Rapture. The Sex-life of The African Negro (1939), which is a translation of Neger-Eros (1928), as is testified by an inscription of
Tessmann, dated 'Berlin, den 11 August 1936'. Anthropologist and explorator
Günter Tessmann (1884-1969) went into exile to Brazil from Nazi-Germany
in 1936. (s.l. = 'seinem lieben': 'to his dear Dr. Günter
Tessmann, the outstanding researcher of the minds and customs of the
nations, from the publisher Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Berlin, Institute
for Sexual Science, September 2 1930'. Tessmann's dedication: 'To his
dear Felix Bryk in friendly remembrance to Dr. Günter Tessmann'.) About the work of anthropologists Tessmann (who appears
to have been bisexual) and Bryk and their relevance for Hirschfeld,
there is a very interesting article in Anthropologica. Vol. 48, No. 2, 2006. '"Bisexuality"
and the Politics of Normal in African Ethnography' by Mark Epprecht,
p. 187-202. Books inscribed by Hirschfeld
are rare.
20. (KICKSHAWS). CROMBIE, John, & Sheila BOURNE A Rolling Stone. Paris, Kickshaws, 1989. Oblong 14 x 20 cm. Original wrappers. 50 p. for the most part printed on one side only. Text by Crombie, 24 graphics by Bourne, printed in 95 numbered copies. First edition. Fine copy.
€ 40
* The life of a stone, a nice purple stone with a
soul, through billions of years. (Maybe I shouldn't say this, but the
ending is happy!). An extremely effective and amusing book, reminding
one of Edward Gorey.
26. MAUGHAM, William Somerset Typed letter with signature to the librarian William Bennet Stevenson (Hornsey Central Library) in London. On paper printed 'Villa Mauresque,/ St. Jean Cap Ferrat,/ A.M.' 20,7 x 13,0 cm. Dated '6th February, 1964.' Maugham, who had celebrated his 90th birthday on Januari, 25, thanks Stevenson effusively for his congratulations: 'I cannot tell you how pleased and flattered I was'. 8 lines. With original sealed airport envelope, on which someone wrote with trembling hand 'Signature could be of value').
€ 200
* Villa Mauresque was a colossal mansion built by
King Leopold II of Belgium for his own Father Confessor on the peninsula
of Cap Ferrat (Alpes-Maritimes), with the added luxury of a built-in
swimming pool. Somerset Maugham bought the Villa in 1928 and lived in
it until his death in 1965.
33. RONSARD, Pierre de Livret de folastries a Janot parisien. Édition conforme au texte original de 1553 augmentée ... par Fernand Fleuret et Louis Perceau. Paris, Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1920. Calf-backed green marbled boards with title shield. 176 p. Uncut. Backstrip discolored.
€ 25
* Nice binding with gilt satyr's bust on the spine.
36. THACKERAY, W.M. The Works. With biographical introductions by his daughter, Anne Ritchie. Vols. 11-17 and 20-26 (of 26). London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. Contemporary decorated full green calf with gilt titles and box design, raised bands, gilt rules to boards gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated. 50 cm on your shelf.
€ 350
* Incomplete set, but still 14 splendidly bound and
perfectly readable books in deluxe full leather bindings. We are ready to answer
your questions about the contents of the volumes.
37. VACQUERIE, Auguste 8 Autograph Letters Signed. Eight handwritten letters to 'Mon cher Koning' and to Koning's wife, who lived in Marseille. Two dated: 1881 & 1894. Three on paper with imprint Le Rappel, one with envelope.
€ 120
* Cordial letters by the author and journalist (1819-1895),
who was the executor of the last will of Victor Hugo. Added: a copy
of Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui, 8 November 1878, with portrait of Auguste Vacquerie
with accompanying article by Félicien Champsaur. 8 Autograph Letters Signed" />
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From newsletter 20:
9. BROMER, Anne C., & EDISON, Julian I. Miniature books. 40 Years of Tiny Treasures. New York, Abrams/ The Grolier Club, 2007. 28 x 25 cm. Illustrated boards with dust jacket. 416 p. Richly illustrated in colors. First edition. Fine copy.
€ 25
* Excellently illustrated book about
minibooks through the ages.
17. (EEKHOUD, Georges). HUGO, Victor L'Art d'être grand-père. Paris, Hetzel/ Quantin, about 1890. Gilt full morocco with inside dentelles and gold-printed flyleaves. (8), 240 p. Top gilt. Spine a bit discolored, some small traces of use.
€ 180
* This excellently bound gilt book
of Hugo's poetry was given by the staff of the Belgian journal L'Étoile
Belge to its owner, Alfred Madoux, on December 10, 1892 (probably
because of the birth of a grandchild), and signed by 17 of its collaborators.
Under the dedication '...dans l'espoir qu'elle puisse lui offrir un
jour L'Art d'être Bisaieul!' we find the signatures of courageous
novelist Georges Eekhoud, poet Albert Giraud, author Léopold Courouble
and fourteen others.
23. GRACIÁN, Baltasar Meditazioni sopra la santissima Comunione composte in Lingua Spagnuola dal padre Baldassarre Graziano della Compagnia di Gesù, e tradotta nell' idioma italiano da Francesco de Castro della medesima Compagnia. Venice, Niccolò Pezzana, 1737. 14 x 9 cm. Vellum with calligraphed title on spine. Nice inscription on page (2) dated 1737.
€ 110
* Attractive little translation
into Italian of El Comulgatorio (= 'The Altar Rail', 1655). Not
in Worldcat or in any of the various national libraries, only a 1750
edition in the State Library of Montecassino. The Spanish Jesuit priest
Gracián (1601-1658) was a prose author of the Baroque period, famous
for his collection of maxims Oráculo
manual y arte de prudencia or Hand Oracle of the Art of Worldly
Wisdom.
35. NAGRODSKAJA, Elena Die bronzene Tür (&) Kreuzweg der Leidenschaft. Leipzig, Wilhelm Borngräber Verlag, (about 1919). Cloth-backed decorated boards. 312; 342 p. Reprints. Spine of first vol. worn. Reading slant. Some foxing.
€ 25
* Two novels in German about homosexual
love by this popular Russian author, known also as Evdokiya Apollonowna
Nagrodskaya (1866-1930), daughter of novelist Avdotya Panaeva. She was
friends with Mikhail Kuzmin, who lived in her house from 1913-1914.
Nagrodskaya went to France after the Revolution.
41. SCHIDROWITZ, Leo Sittengeschichte des Theaters. Eine Darstellung des Theaters, seiner Entwicklung und Stellung in zwei Jahrtausenden. Herausgegeben von Leo Schidrowitz. Neue, erweiterte Ausgabe. Mit ca. 200 ein- und mehrfarbigen Illustrationen, Kunstbeilagen und Mappenwerk.
Vienna / Leipzig, Verlag für Kulturforschung, 1925. Tall 8vo. Orig. decorated cloth. First Edition. With 4 separate lithographed plates in an envelope in the back of the book, lithographed 'Beilagenwerk zur Sittengeschichte des Theaters'. First edition. Fine.
€ 85
* The 'Beilagen' or Extras
usually have not been included in this famous 'History of Morality in
the Theatre' (or taken out and used for decoration in personal cabinets).
These are anonymous, original color lithographies, amongst these a funny
movable print in very good condition, and other nice images. A fascinating
book, a naughty child of its times, in excellent condition. Moving the movable print 
From newsletter 19:
2. (AVIATION). AIR SHOW Royal Air Force Display Farnborough, Hants. Friday 7th and Saturday 8th July (1950). London, R.A.F. Benevolence Fund, 1950. Original decorated wrappers. First edition. 56 p. With many nice advertisements for airplanes and their parts. Spot on upper cover, spine has a little wear, but a very good copy.
€ 15
* Colored wrappers showing
a De Havilland Vampire airplane. Attractive, lavishly illustrated guide
for the R.A.F. Display of July 7 and 8, 1950, with a lot of aerobatics
by Vampires, Chipmunks, Meteors, Helicopters, an Olympia and a Spitfire.
Also the Canberra, Vickers-Armstrong 510, De Havilland Venom, Hawker
P. 1052, Hornet, Harvard, Boulton Paul Balliol, Slingsby Sedbergh, and
even a Bleriot, Deperdussin, Blackburn and a Sopwith Pup.
5. (AVIATION). MESSIER. Le spécialiste du train d'atterissage. (Airplane trade catalogue). Montrouge, Messier, [1935]. 28 x 21 cm. Original light blue wrappers. 32 p. Printed in black and light blue on cream-colored paper. Richly illustrated. All text pages underprinted with the blue Messier eagle. First edition. Soft crease in flyleaf, but a fine copy.
€ 75
* Elegant trade catalogue for
the factory of airplane landing gear that was developed by George Messier
(1896-1933), now Messier-Bugatti-Dowty.
6. (BESANT, Annie, & Jiddu KRISHNAMURTI). ZIEGLER, Franz Original photo of Besant and Krishnamurti sitting at a table in Eerde. Black-and-white photo with blindstamped name of the photographer: 'Ziegler Zwolle Holland'. Verso stamp: 'Copyrighted Star Publishing Trust Eerde-Ommen (Holland)' and handwritten 'Krishnamurti - A Besant'. About 1926. One corner creased, slight traces of use.
€ 50
* Besant is reading, Krishnamurti
laughing. Nice spontaneous photo. Franz Ziegler (1893-1939) worked as
Royal Photographer in The Hague from 1928-1939. In 1932 his photo studio
and archives burnt out completely, therefore his older photos are rare.
9. DOUGLAS, Lady Alfred (Olive Custance) I desire the moon. The diary of Lady Alfred Douglas (Olive Custance) 1905-1910. Introduced and annotated by Caspar Wintermans. Woubrugge, The Avalon Press, 2004. 27 x 16 cm. Original cloth with silk ribbon marker. 124 p. Printed on Simili Japon paper in 195 copies only. Illustrated. First edition. With prospect. Fine.
€ 80
* Amusing diary dating from
1905-1910 of Lord Alfred Douglas's wife Olive, full of interesting literary
details (about Oscar Wilde, naturally, but also about William More Adey,
Lord Berners, Wilfrid Blunt, Winstorn Churchill, Frank Danby, the extensive
Douglas family, Ivor Guest, Robert Ross, G.S. Street, the Tennant family,
Reginald Turner and many, many others). A beautiful, privately printed
book, with scholarly (but very readable) notes by Alfred Douglas biographer
Wintermans.
10. DOUGLAS, Lady Alfred (Olive Custance) I desire the moon. The diary of Lady Alfred Douglas (Olive Custance) 1905-1910. Introduced and annotated by Caspar Wintermans. Woubrugge, The Avalon Press, 2004. 27 x 16 cm. Original gilt vellum-backed boards with slipcase. 124 p. Printed on Simili Japon paper in 195 copies. This is one of 15 specially bound deluxe copies. Illustrated. First edition. With prospect. Fine.
€ 175
* Amusing diary dating from
1905-1910 of Lord Alfred Douglas's wife Olive, full of interesting literary
details (about Oscar Wilde, naturally, but also about William More Adey,
Lord Berners, Wilfrid Blunt, Winstorn Churchill, Frank Danby, the extensive
Douglas family, Ivor Guest, Robert Ross, G.S. Street, the Tennant family,
Reginald Turner and many, many others). A beautiful, privately printed
book, with scholarly (but very readable) notes by Alfred Douglas biographer
Wintermans. Rare deluxe copy.
11. DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred Oscar Wilde. A Plea and a Reminiscence Woubrugge, Avalon Pers, 2002. Large 8vo. Cloth. 56 p. Attractively printed by hand on Oud-Hollands paper in 250 numbered copies. With a prospect. First edition.
€ 50
* This fine bibliophile book
contains a passionate article written by Lord Alfred Douglas in August,
1895, for his incarcerated friend Oscar Wilde, for the Mercure de France.
However, the article was withdrawn at the last minute and long considered
lost. A manuscript of the French translation survived and was re-translated
into English. It is followed by Douglas' reminiscences of Wilde's last
years in Paris. A first edition of Lord Alfred Douglas!
18. (HIRSCHFELD, Magnus). WILDENHAIN, Felix Liebe ein Naturgesetz. Ein Film-Vortrag über die Beziehungen zwischen Mann und Weib in der Natur. Without place and publisher, [1933]. 8 p. without cover as published, all printed in carmine. Illustrated. Slightly creased.
€ 35
* 'Unter Zugrundelegung der
Forschungsergebnisse von Professor Haeckel (...), Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld,
Dr. Iwan Bloch, Havelock Ellis, (...) Artur Schopenhauer und Wolfgang
von Goethe.' One would not expect Hirschfeld's and Bloch's name to be
mentioned in a film advertisement from 1933!
From newsletter 18:
1. (INCUNABLE). SENECA, Lucius Annaeus Opera philosophica. Epistolae. [Venice, Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, about 1492]. Folio (31,8 x 21,8 cm). 18th century vellum with 7 ribs. 237 ff (of 238, lacking final blank C10). 60 lines plus head line. Roman type. Capital spaces with guide letters. Binding a bit worn at lower corners, spine soiled and with old ticket. 18th century bookplate (Joseph Mazarin?). Marginal notes (some trimmed) in a neat cursive contemporary hand, perfectly legible. A bit soiled and some stains. Tiny wormhole in margin starting from page cii to the end. A few restorations in margins. Some insignificant pinpoint holes in the text. In all a good copy.
€ 6250
* This attractive INCUNABLE contains
the philosophical works and the letters of Seneca, including his correspondence
with Saint Paul (in fact a forgery from the 4th century), and also some
works of the philosopher's father Seneca the Elder, that in the Middle
Ages were thought to be the son's work). No real colophon was printed
in this book, just an explicit with quire register. Contemporary handwritten
title on first blank with the Epitaph of Seneca ('Cura, labor, meritum...')
as a motto. With some misprints in the pagination and elsewhere (e.g.
'Epitsolarum' instead of 'Epistolarum' on leaf II). BMC, V, 595; Goff
S-372, BSB-Ink S-269 (the copy that was used for reproduction has some
slight differences in the typesetting). 59 copies in the various libraries.
Not in the Dutch libraries. Feel free to ask for photos.
8. BLAKE, William The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Maastricht), The Halcyon Press, 1928. Original vellum. (2), 38 p. Printed in red and black on Pannekoek Antique Wove-paper. 1e druk. Fine copy.
€ 350
* According to A.A.M. Stols, P.N.
van Eyck, who had edited the text, wanted to have a say on the typograpy
of the book. This brought J. van Krimpen to his famous complaint about
sparing typography: 'Adieu aesthetica en mooie pagina's! Adieu kleuren!
Adieu titels en initialen! Adieu de heele bliksemse boel!' ('Farewell
to esthetics and beautiful pages! Farewell to colors! Farewells to titles
and initials! Farewell to the whole darned mess!') In the Marriage
of Heaven and Hell Lutetia roman and cursive was used plus a lot
of swash capitals, resulting in splendid, conspicuous typography. One of an unknown number of copies
in full vellum. Van Dijk 128.
9. (BOEKHANDEL) Internationale Tentoonstelling voor Boekhandel en aanverwante vakken in het Paleis voor Volksvlijt te Amsterdam Juli-Augustus 1892. Catalogus. [Amsterdam], Vereeniging ter Bevordering van de Belangen des Boekhandels, 1892. Original gilt cloth. 196 pp. plus advertisements. First edition. In excellent condition.
€ 140
* Fantastic Victorian catalogue
for the International Exposition for Bookselling in Amsterdam of the
Dutch Association to Promote the Interests of Bookselling, with many
advertisements printed in gold and colors showing the best of the partaking
printers and other book producers. No boring Christmas holidays with
this book!
23. VANDAL, Albert En Karriole à travers la Suède et la Norwége. Ouvrage enrichi de gravures sur bois dessinées par L. Breton d'après des photographies et des croquis. Paris, Plon, 1885. 18 x 11 cm. Half cloth / marbled boards. (6), 398 p. With 10 woodengravings by L. Breton after photos and sketches. Third edition (first: 1876).
€ 30
* Account in French of a trip made
in 1875 from Paris to Sweden and Norway, ending in Copenhagen. In an
open carriage through Sweden and Norway.
From newsletter 17:
2. GEORGE, Stefan Gesamt-Ausgabe der Werke. Vol. 1-14 + 17 and 18. Added: Zeitgenössische Dichter in first edition. (Collected Works). Berlin, Georg Bondi, 1927-1934. Original gilt dark blue cloth. Printed on mould-made paper. Uncut. Design by Melchior Lechter. Some illustrations (portraits and handwriting examples). All are first editions of the Collected Edition. A little wear on some of the bindings. Together almost 30 cm on your shelf.
1. Die Fibel. Auswahl erster Verse - 2. Hymnen, Pilgerfahrten, Algabal - 3. Die Bücher der Hirten- und Preisgedichte, der Sagen und Sänge und der hängenden Gärten - 4. Das Jahr der Seele - 5. Der Teppich des Lebens und die Lieder von Traum und Tod mit einem Vorspiel - 6/7. Der siebente Ring - 8. Der Stern des Bundes - 9. Das neue Reich - 10/11. Dante: Die göttliche Komödie. Übertragungen - 12. Shakespeare-Sonnette. Umdichtungen. Vermehrt um einige Stücke aus dem liebenden Pilgrim - 13/14. Baudelaire: Die Blumen des Bösen; Umdichtungen - 17. Tage und Taten. Aufzeichnungen und Skizzen - 18. Schlußband. Manuel, Die Herrin betet, Die Aufnahme in den Orden, Jugenddichtungen, Gedichte in fremden Sprachen.
Added: the missing vol. 15 and 16 in first edition: Zeitgenössische Dichter. Vol. 1 and 2. 1905. Translations into German by Stefan George from poems by Rossetti, Swinburne, Dowson, Jacobsen, Kloos, Verwey, Verhaeren, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Regnier, d'Annunzio and Rolicz-Lieder. Printed on tinted vergé paper. Original violet boards with silver lettering by Melchior Lechter and 'Blätter für die Kunst' symbol. Spines and edges a bit discolored.
€ 350
* Not a perfect, but a fascinating
set of Stefan George's collected works: thirteen austere dark blue and
two violet books all in the type designed after George's handwriting,
printed on laid paper, uncut.
5. HAECKEL, Ernst, VIRCHOW, Rudolf DU BOIS-REYMOND, Emil 5 important polemic pamphlets bound together. 1. Ernst Haeckel: Die heutige Entwickelungslehre im Verhältnisse zur Gesammtwissenschaft. Vortrag, in der ersten öffentlichen Sitzung der fünfzigsten Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte zu München am 18. September 1877 gehalten. Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1877. 24 p.
2. Rudolf Virchow: Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft in der modernen Staat. Rede gehalten in der dritten allgemeinen Sitzung der fünfzigsten Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte zu München am 22. September 1877. Berlin, Verlag von Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey, 1877. 32 p.
3. Ernst Haeckel: Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre. Eine Entgegnung auf Rudolf Virchow's Münchener Rede über "Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat". Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1878. (4), 106 p.
4. Ernst Haeckel: Die Naturanschauung von Darwin, Goethe und Lamarck. Vortrag in der ersten öffentlichen Sitzung der fünfundfünfzigsten Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte zu Eisenach am 18. September 1882. [Mit einem Gedicht von Arthur Fitger]. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1882. VIII, 64 p.
5. Emil Du Bois-Reymond: Goethe und kein Ende. Rede bei Antritt des Rectorats der Königl. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin. Am 15. October 1882. Leipzig, Verlag von Veit & Comp., 1883. 44 p. [Second edition].
Bound together in leather-backed marbled boards. 4 first editions and an augmented second edition (No. 5). Original wrappers not included. Spine a bit rubbed, some pencil remarks, text paper browned.
€ 165
* Five pamphlets by three eminent
German scientists, among other things about the freedom of science,
about Darwinism and about the scientific achievements of Goethe. A window
on the academical debate of the 1870's and 80's.
9. LISSITZKY, EL, & Hans ARP (publishers) Die Kunstismen. Les Ismes de l'art. The Isms of Art. 1924-1914. Zürich, München & Leipzig, Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1925. Illustrated boards. XII, 48 p. Illustrated. First edition. Backstrip damaged. Boards browned. Some foxing (esp. flyleaves).
€ 1800
* Short descriptions in German,
French and English of the modern movements in art with illustrations,
in unsurpassed typography by El Lissitzky. With original illustrated
4-p. prospect advertising 9 books of Eugen Rentsch Verlag, a.o. this
same volume.
14. RIDEOUT, Henry Milner Dragon's Blood. Boston/ New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Decorated cloth. (12), 272 p. Illustrated in duotone by Harold M. Brett. Second edition. Fresh and flawless copy.
€ 45
* Chinese adventure novel by
an American author (1877-1927), who used to document himself thoroughly
for his books. Very fine publisher's binding: a blue dragon bursting
forth with orange flames against a Chinese disk in gold. This binding
has been designed by The Decorative Designers of Lee and Henry Thayer,
as the tiny monogram DD shows.
15. ROH, Franz, & TSCHICHOLD, Jan Foto-auge. 76 fotos der zeit - oeil et photo. 76 photographies de notre temps - photo-eye. 76 photoes of the period. Stuttgart, Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fritz Wedekind & Co., 1929. 29 x 21 cm. Original illustrated wrappers, bound as a block-book. 94 (double) p. 76 photos. Typography and design Jan Tschichold. First edition. Backstrip worn and damaged. Cover soiled and a bit worn at the edges. First and last pages foxed.
€ 650
* Groundbreaking modern photography
book with the self portrait of EL LISSITZKY on the cover. Introduction
in German, French and English by Franz Roh. Not a perfect copy, but
an unrepaired one in Good condition.
From newsletter 16:
antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS
(Fokas Holthuis &
Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag
The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl
See also www.fokas.nl
Newsletter 16 (August, 2011)
Amethyst
Illustration by
Leo Pinkhof from Nr. 19
4. CHAMPFLEURY, J. Histoire de la caricature antique. Deuxième édition, très augmentée. Paris, E. Dentu, (1867). Part of original cover pasted on cloth-backed boards. XXIV, 332, 4 p. With many wood-engraved illustrations. List of books of Dentu at the end. Second, revised edition. Some foxing.
€ 35
* Frontispice in colors. Numerous
charming little ancient Greek and Roman caricatures from seals, inscriptions,
graffiti and archeological finds (Pompeii!).
5. COUÉ, Émile Die Selbstbemeisterung durch bewusste Autosuggestion. Deutsch von Dr. Paul Amann. (Inscribed). Basel, Benno Schwabe & Co., 1924. Original wrappers. 160 p. With 14 p. publisher's ads. 43rd - 50th thousand.
€ 45
* With handwritten dedication by
the author: 'Au Docteur Streup/ Hommage de l'auteur/ (signed)/ Locarno,
le 14 avril 1925'. Émile Coué de Châtaigneraie (1857-1926),
a trained apothecary, introduced a hugely successful method of self
therapy, called 'Autosuggestion'. Nice typography.
8. FISCHER, Eugen Krieg. Ein Kapitel aus dem im Verlag Ullstein erschienenen Buch von Eugen Fischer: 'Die kritischen 39 Tage'. (Publisher's advertisement). [Berlin], Ullstein Verlag, [1928]. Stapled, without wrappers as issued. 16 p. Fine condition.
€ 12
* Chapter XI from Die kritischen
39 Tage by historian Eugen Fischer (1881-1964), in which the last
days before the Great War were detailed. Unembellished publisher's advertisement.
16. JOLAS (ed.), Eugene Transition, An International Workshop for Orphic Creation, Nr. 21. March 1932. The Hague, Servire Press, 1932. Original decorated cover (upper and lower cover designs Hans ARP). 336 p. Illustrated. First edition. Backstrip browned. Cover a bit yellowed. Some foxing. Original advertising slip (also with Arp's design, see scan) still pasted to upper cover.
€ 45
* With contributions by a.o. Samuel
Beckett, Gottfried Benn, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ludwig Klages, Raymond
Queneau, Kurt Schwitters (lanke tr gl) and Gertrude Stein.
17. JOLAS (ed.), Eugene Transition. An International Workshop for Vertigralist Transmutation. Edited by Eugene Jolas. July, 1935, No. 23. The Hague, Servire Press, 1935. Original illustrated wrappers (with a design by Paul Klee). 212 p. Illustrated. Backstrip a bit worn, but in very good condition.
€ 60
* Contributions by many avant-garde
authors, foremost James Joyce's Continuation of Work in Progress.
21. LUCE, Henricus Josephus De Opio Nonnulla. Dissertatio inauguralis medica ... in Universitate Literaria Gryphica. Greifswald, F.W. Kunike, 1836. 19,5 x 12 cm. No binding. First edition.
€ 120
* 'Some things about opium' in Latin.
Inaugural dissertation of the university of Greifswald (Vorpommern)
with 2-p. autobiographical sketch of the author (born 1809 in Münster).
At the end a page with four short theses has been added. None of these
is about opium. I.a.: "In Coxarthrocace sananda ferrum candens
ceteris remediis praeferendum" (‘in healing hip arthritis, cauterization
is the best therapy’). And a page with corrigenda, all held together
with a strip of blue paper. (4), 40, (2) p. A bit soiled, foxed and
dog-eared. Not in Wellcome.
23. (NORTH AFRICA). ALGERIA - MOROCCO - TUNISIA Algérie Maroc Tunisie via Marseille. Paris, J. Barreau, 1930. 26 x 19 cm. Original wrappers. 48 p. Slight traces of use.
€ 16
* Tourist guide with nice wrappers
by Dormoy. Photos by A. Bougault, Gillot & Ratel, Mazières, Guillot
and others, vignettes by Jean Julien. Detailed descriptions in French.
31. (TRADE CATALOG). ZIMMER EXPORT DIVISION Zimmer Fracture Equipment. August, 1947. Bourbon, Indiana, Zimmer Export Division, 1947. 4to. Original wrappers. 128, (4), (2) p. Richly illustrated. Vertical fold and some creasing.
€ 25
* Catalog of orthopedic instruments
and prosthetics. In the centre a nice colored advertisement for “The
Miracle Mechanical Hand”. With a loose addition about Stainless Hip
Caps.
32. VENETTE, Nicolaus Von Erzeugung der Menschen. Mit Königl. Pohl. und Chur-Fürstl. Sächs. Allergnädigsten Privilegio. Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1711. Small 8vo. Pleasing twentieth-century marbled boards with a morocco title ticket. (64), 608 p. With portrait frontispice and 8 illustrations, mainly of male and female sex organs. Browned and in some parts spotted. Some old underlinings.
€ 200
* Early 18th century
edition, a German translation of De la generation de l'homme, ou
Tableau de l'amour conjugal published in 1686 under a pseudonym
by Venette (1633-1698), one of the very first books about sexology.
34. ZABEL, Eugen Iwan Turgenjew. Eine literarische Studie. Mit dem Bildniss Turgenjew's. Leipzig, Otto Wigand, 1884. 8vo. Orig. cloth. First Edition.
€ 22
* First edition of an early study
(Turgenyev died in September 1883) with a nice portrait by B. Mannfeld.
(8), 208 pp. Dark original cloth binding rubbed. Loosening. First flyleaf
cut out. With a fine jugendstil bookplate, printed in red, gold and
grey, for literature historian Prof. August Sauer.
From newsletter 15:
4. (CAPPIELLO, Leonetto). VILLIOD, Eugène Qui suis-je? Paris, Eugène Villiod, circa 1920. 11 x 7 cm. Folded card. 4 p. With two identical illustrations by Leonetto Cappiello. Very good condition.
€ 18
* Two identical lithographic illustrations
of the masked detective with a large key over the question: 'Qui suis-je?'
At the other side in lithographed handwriting the answer: 'Villiod Eugène,
Détective' advertising his books and activities: 'Enquêtes recherches
et surveillances pour mariages - successions - divorces - abus de confiance
- etc....'. A pretty advertising card.
5. (CHANNEL SWIMMER). SULLIVAN, Henry F. Autograph Signed Note. Slip of paper. Oblong 7 x 13 cm. 4 lines. Slight traces of use.
€ 35
* 'Yours truly/ Henry F. Sullivan/
swam English Channel/ Aug. 5 + 6, 1923. (flourish)'. Original signature
of marathon swimmer Sullivan, born 1893 in Lowell, Massachusetts, who
started from Dover on Sunday afternoon 4:20, August 5, 1923, and arrived
in Calais after 27 3/4 hours, having swum an estimated 56 miles.
15. (PATER, Walter). Walter Satyr, Anne Langdrew and Walter Lavish Slander Imaginary Lectures reported by Walter Satyr, Anne Langdrew and Walter Lavish Slander for The Morningside and now for the first time Collected with additional Lectures, an Imaginary Address and an Imaginary Interview into a book and with them the Original Pictures by Malcolm A. Strauss, Huger Elliott and W.H. Schanck. New York, The Morningside, 1900. First edition. 25 x 19 cm. Original boards with title ticket. 88 pp. Uncut. Illustrated. Printed in 500 numbered copies. Small spots on lower cover. Book is slightly slanted. Some foxing.
€ 30
* Morningside is the neighbourhood
in Manhattan, New York, where Columbia University, founded in 1754,
was moved to in 1896. This collection of 'Imaginary Lectures' not only
satirizes Walter Pater and his 'Imaginary Portraits' (and Walter Savage
Landor) but also various professors of Columbia University, who have
been portrayed by Strauss, Elliott and Schanck.
From newsletter 14:
2. BROMER, Anne C., & EDISON, Julian I. Miniature books. 40 Years of Tiny Treasures. New York, Abrams/ The Grolier Club, 2007. 28 x 25 cm. Illustrated boards with dust jacket. 416 p. Richly illustrated in colors. First edition. Fine copy.
€ 25
* Excellently illustrated book about
minibooks through the ages.
8. GUGLIA, Eugen (HIMMELBAUER) Knaben. Berlin, Meyer & Jessen, 1913. Original boards. 228 p. Printed on 'Perfecta' mould-made paper. Title in red and black. First edition. Very good copy.
€ 90
* Curious autobiographical book
by an Austrian school teacher and history professor about the Life of
the Boy - boys in general, boys special. 'Guglia was a typical scientist,
who had scintillating stylistic faculties at his disposal.' INSCRIBED
by the author to 'Franz Himmelbauer/ in Dankbarkeit für die freundliche/
und fruchtbare Teilnahme an der/ Entstehung dieses Buches/ [?] 1. Dez.
1913 E.Guglia'.
17. TISSOT, S.A.A.D. L’Onanisme. Dissertation sur les Maladies produites par la Masturbation. Paris, Didot le Jeune, 1765. Troisième édition considerablement augmentée. Cartonnage de l’époque.
€ 200
18. VENETTE, Nicolaus Von Erzeugung der Menschen. Mit Königl. Pohl. und Chur-Fürstl. Sächs. Allergnädigsten Privilegio. Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1711. Small 8vo. Twentieth-century marbled boards with a morocco title ticket, very nice. With portrait frontispice and 8 illustrations, mainly of male and female sex organs. Browned and in some parts spotted. Some old underlinings.
€ 220
* Later edition, 1711, a German
translation of De la generation de l'homme, ou Tableau de l'amour
conjugal.
From newsletter 13:
2. BARBER'S BUSINESS CARD Maison Auguste, 46, Passage Jouffroy, 48 sous l'Horloge. (Ca. 1870). Large steel-engraved business card of a barber/ hairdresser in 19th century Paris. Oblong 16 x 25 cm. Printed on one side only. Glue traces on verso. A bit soiled and with a corner crease.
€ 35
* With a nice 77 x 137 mm steel
engraving of the interior showing customers, barbers at work and furniture.
'Taille de cheveux 50 c., Barbe 25 c., Coiffure 25 c. Salon vaste et
confortable. 10 Toilettes de front. Spécialité pour la taille
des cheveux, la barbe et la coiffure.' An attractive specimen!
4. (BARNARD, Gwen). WALTER, Eugene The Shapes of the River. The London Thames. Illustrated by Gwen Barnard. London, Gaberbocchus [Stefan Themerson], 1955. Cloth with dustjacket. 44 p. First edition. Very slight wear at top of spine section, otherwise fine.
€ 20
* Lovely book with striking colour
illustrations by Gwen Barnard. With a funny 4-p. advertisement on yellow
paper for the Thameside Coronation Ballet
at the end of the book. ‘Some unconventional tools have been used
by Gwen Barnard in making the pictures reproduced in this book. One
of them, the wheel of a toy bicycle, is shown in the photograph on the
back of the jacket.’
16. PEUGEOT Banquet Peugeot. Salon 1936. Palais des Sports Dimanche 4 Octobre. À votre Service: 302 402. Deux soeurs parées de toutes les vertus. (Paris, Peugeot, 1936). Original wrappers with printed glassine cover. Sewn with a cord (with a small tassel). 8 p. printed in blue and black on one side only. First edition. Glassine a bit browned and damaged, especially at the back of the booklet, no loss of text. Edges slightly worn.
€ 35
* Cheerful and attractive menu,
a folded sheet with 4 printed pages, blue wrappers (showing two sisters
serving pheasants) and a cover with title and the two marks of the Peugeot
402 and 302 in red, white and blue. After dinner (pheasant, poularde,
Traminer 1933, Nuits Saint-Georges 1926) there was a dance and a lottery,
with a Peugeot 302, a motorcycle, a tandem and a bike as prizes.
18. SYMONDS, John Addington Last and First. Being Two Essays: The New Spirit and Arthur Hugh Clough. New York, Nicholas L. Brown, 1919. 19 x 14 cm. Cloth with dust jacket. 144 p. Deckle edges. First edition. DJ with some slight creases and two 1 cm tears, spine area slightly soiled. Some pages a bit foxed.
€ 45
* Two essays published for the first
time in book form - from the Fortnightly Review, 1868 and 1893.
21. VINTAGE WRITING PAPER. 19th century Two sheets of unused French love letter writing paper. Elaborate gilt border with a lithographed picture multicolored and gilt 'en pochoir'. 24 x 20 cm. Folded to make 4 p., printed on one page only. Probably about 1850. With a few tiny spots.
€ 25
* Deluxe paper with (1) Cupido on
a chariot, drawn by two dragonflies, with printed text: 'Pour toujours
à son Joug l'Amour les asservit' (= ‘Forever at their yoke –
Love enslaves them’) and a printed number; (2) A garlanded and winged heart
crowned with violets over a cloud, with printed text 'Mes pensées et
mon Coeur toujours volent vers vous' (= ‘My thoughts and my Heart
always fly to thee’) and a printed number.
23. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Mrs. Morse', dated 'Feb. 10th [18]96'. One sheet headed with a printed dog and ribbon with inscription Malo Mori quam Foedari ('I rather die than be dishonored'). Written on one side only. Pasted to a slightly larger sheet. 14,5 x 10,1 cm.
€ 40
* Goodlooking letter. 'I am sorry
we cannot come to you on the 21st. We are going out of town.' Address:
'131 N. 11th St.' Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was a children's books
author, her most famous book being Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(1903). After her husband's untimely death, she remarried with George
C. Riggs. This letter is duly signed 'Kate D Riggs'.
24. WILBRANDT, Adolf Fridolins heimliche Ehe. Nach Erinnerungen und Mitteilungen erzählt. Stuttgart und Berlin, Cotta, 1907. Original gilt brown cloth with a Jugendstil motif. 224, (6) p. Marbled edges. Book ribbon. 4th edition. Fine copy.
€ 65
* Later German edition of this famous
1875 gay novel (arguably the very first with a happy ending), nevertheless
very rare, and a beautiful book, its attractive period binding in fine
condition. A translation into English by Clara Bell was published in
1884, as ‘Fridolin’s Mystical Marriage’. Needless to say, its
modern reprints are hideously ugly.
From newsletter 12:
16. McCARTHY, Mary Typed letter signed to a gentleman in Toronto. On violet paper, recto only. 23,0 x 16,0 cm. Folded. Dated '141, rue de Rennes/ 75006 Paris/ November 9, 1982'. 5 lines.
€ 60
* About signing a picture and a
card (not included), 'though it's against my principles and practice
to autograph either cards or photos'.
19. REIMANN, Hans als: Artur SÜNDER Die Dinte wider das Blut. Eine Zeitroman. 39. wildgewordene und vermasselte Ausgabe. 640.-683. Tausend. (= 1.-5. thousand). Hannover/ Leipzig, Paul Steegemann, (1921). Die Silbergäule 132-134. Original stiff wrappers. 48 p. First edition. A bit soiled, bookplate (Leo Polak), name on p. 1 (Hugo Simons). Dent in first pages.
€ 22
* Humorous parody on the Blut-und-Boden-novel
Die Sünde wider das Blut by Artur Dinter. Leo Polak (1880-1941)
was professor of philosophy in Groningen.
From newsletter 11:
13 MAUGHAM, Robin Two typed letters signed, a greeting card (with gilt "House of Lords" and a trellis), two envelopes and a copy of The Servant, all for an old friend from Paris. Letters with printed letterhead '5 Clifton Road' in Brighton, dated '2nd November 1978' (11 lines, with envelope) and '4th May 1979' (8 lines), a card, signed, with Christmas greetings (with envelope) from December 4, 1980. The book, a later edition from 1964, has the inscription 'For Christian/ with respect/ and affection/ from/ Robin/ May 1965' and on the title page Maugham crossed out his printed name and put his signature underneath.
€ 65
* Letters about 'the vernissage
of Salavize', i.e. Martine Salavize, a young sculptor, and about Peter
(Burton, Maugham's lover and secretary), who is in Mexico and in America,
where he sold his flat. Maugham bought another house in Brighton (5
Clifton Road) and leaves 14 Bute Street. Nice ensemble. The Servant, all for an old friend from Paris" />
18 MÈREDIEU, D.-J. La reliure et la dorure à la portée de tous (chez soi). Angoulème, Fougère & Laurent, (circa 1920). Original wrappers. 64 p. Richly illustrated. Very good condition.
€ 25
* About binding and gilding books
at home. Nice illustrations, a.o. with many letters and ornaments used
for gilding.
23 WEGENER, Paul Original photographic postcard signed by Wegener in his role as Jago. Black and white postcard, issued about 1910. 13,7 x 9,0 cm. Signature in purple ink.
€ 25
* German actor Paul Wegener (1874-1948)
was in his early years a famous Shakespearean actor; in 1912 he began
a second career as a film actor, that brought him all over the world.
From newsletter 10:
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Newsletter 10 (December, 2010)
Hirschfeld
Duplex
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varied items ~
ANDROS, Phil / STEWARD, Samuel M. Two books with personal dedications. 1. Samuel M. Steward: Chapters from an Autobiography. San Francisco, Grey Fox Press, (1981). xii, 150 p. Some wear, with author's visiting card and a newspaper clipping. Inscribed 'For (x)/ in memory of a/ hot night in St. Tropez/ with a wild woodland/ creature/ Sam Steward/ 1-IX-87/ Berkeley'.
2. Phil Andros (= Samuel M. Steward): Below the Belt & Other Stories. San Francisco, Perineum Press, 1983. xii, 132 p. Later edition. Cover art by Tom of Finland. With publisher's folder for the Phil Andros series: a leporello mentioning seven titles, with 8 illustrations by Tom of Finland. The book is inscribed 'For (x)/ [oh, to be 60 years/ younger!]/ Phil Andros/ 1-IX-87/ Berkeley'.
€ 55
* Sizzling books by longtime gay erotica writer Samuel Steward (1909-1993), who started as a professor of English, then turned to be a tattoo artist, ending his distinguished career as a writer of many rough trade gay books.
BAHN, Walter Meine Klienten. Beiträge zur modernen Inquisition von Rechtsanwalt Walter Bahn. Berlin/ Leipzig, Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, [1908]. 23 x 15 cm. Orig. wrappers. 120 p. (including 7 pages of interesting, partly illustrated advertisements). With a facsimile. 3th printing. Backstrip damaged. Cover worn and loose. Text paper browned.
€ 22
* About the murder process of Theodor Berger and the famous Captain of Köpenick. Walter Bahn was the lawyer of Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific Humanitarian Committe (W.h.K.), but there's nothing about the Committee in these memoirs. Series 'Grossstadt-Dokumente' 42.
BECKFORD, William Vathek. Réimprimé sur l' original Français, avec la préface de Stéphane Mallarmé. Paris, Perrit & Cie, 1893. Original wrappers. (4), XLVIII, 208 p. Uncut. Tiny tears and some square millimeters of the wrapper edges missing. Backstrip browned. Foxed.
€ 50
* With 48 pages foreword by Mallarmé.
BESANT, Walter, & James Rice Ready-money Mortiboy. A Matter-of-Fact Story. London, Chatto & Windus, 1902. Attractive pictorial wrappers (by Geo Hutchinson). 176 pp. with various nice ads. New (popular) edition. Delicate book is fairly well preserved, only the backstrip is a little worn and discoloured, and strengthened with scotch tape. Corners slightly chipped. Some foxing. Two modern bookplates of collector A.S.A. Struik (who specialized in rare book covers).
€ 15
BRUGÈRE, F. de la L'école du jardinier amateur, fleuriste et potager. Notions élémentaires de botanique, du sol et de ses améliorations - Multiplication des plantes, éducation et culture des plantes, conservation des plantes - Jardin potager et plantes potageres, jardins paysagers, jardins fleuristes.
Paris, Anthème Fayard, about 1890. With 820 wood engravings in the text and 16 extratext chromolithographies. (4), 604 p. A few tears and creases, bound in a simple, sturdy contemporary cloth binding. Partly a bit browned, some isolated paper tears.
€ 50
* Detailed encyclopedia of gardening, comprising all sorts of different utensils, describing (with illustrations) many different beetles and other plagues, bats, moles, birds, winds; many varieties of trees, apples, pears and other fruits, roses, vines, artichokes, carrots, champignons, beans, potatos, flowers, aloes, draconias, laurels, and many other plants, illustrated with 820 nice wood engravings.
BRÜSSEL 1910 Kollektiv-Ausstellung der Deutschen Präzisions-Mechanik und Optik. Veranstaltet von der deutschen Gesellschaft für Mechanik und Optik. Brüssel 1910. (Trade catalogue). (Leipzig, Hermann Hönnicke Kunst-Anstalt, 1910). Original decorated cloth. (2), XVI, 144 p. Many technical illustrations. First edition. Ticket from an optics seller (Robert Drosten, Brussels) on cover, stamp on title page. Binding a bit soiled, otherwise fine.
€ 50
* Exposition catalog for the World Exposition in Brussels, 1910, of German precision mechanics and optics. Full of attractive advertisements of Carl Zeiss-Jena and other technical factories in Germany. Accomplished printing on art paper.
CAGNER, Ewert, & Ake GUSTAFSSON Hokuspokus. ('Movable' book). Gothenburg, TreTryckare, [1952]. 28 x 11 cm. Cloth-backed boards. 28 p., of which 24 are divided in half horizontally in order to make possible dozens of combinations of people. A bit browned.
€ 25
* A fantastic Swedish book of humorous illustrations.
CAUSLEY, Monroe S. Arthur W. Rushmore & the Golden Hind Press. A History & Bibliography. Published in association with The Madison Public Library, Madison, New Jersey. Delaware, Oak Knoll Press, 2005. 30 x 22 cm. Leather-backed marbled boards. With a marbled slipcase. XVIII, 178 p. Illustrated. Printed in 170 numbered copies, all signed by the author. This is nr. 169. Errata slip included. 1st edition. Fine copy.
€ 80
* Extensive bibliography. Tipped-in
specimen of marbled paper and other illustrations.
CROWLEY, Aleister White Stains. Edited with an Introduction by John Symonds. Londen, Duckworth, 1973. Leatherette with dust jacket. xvi, 120 p. Printed in 1000 numbered copies. Jacket a bit creased (it looks worse in the scan). Bookseller's mark of W.N. Schors.
€ 60
* Reprint of the pornographic-satanistic volume of poetry (1898), that was largely destroyed by British customs. Hetero, homo (A strong man's love is my delight!'), sado ('Pain is our joy and our spirits' power/ Never shall fade its fiery flower'), uro ('Let my fond lips but drink thy golden wine'), copro, bestio (With Dog and Dame), necro... there's something for everybody, often in dexterous rhymes. Some poems in French: 'Clitoridette, m'amourette...'. Amusing and attractive book, with its white binding sporting Crowley's erotic monogramme.
DEMOUSTIER, C.-A. Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie. Paris, Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1809. 6 parts in 2 volumes. 3/4 cloth with marbled boards (very slightly worn), first half of 19th century. VIII, 144; 128; 104. 96; 116; 148 p. Many fine engravings by Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune.
€ 75
* Lessons about mythology for girls, a popular book since its first publication in 1786. Exquisite edition by the learned bibliophile and publisher on beautiful white paper by Pierre Didot l'Aîné.
DESCHAMPS, Andrée Éther, Cocaïne, Hachich, Peyotl et démence précoce. Essai d'Exploration Pharmacodynamique du Psychisme des Déments précoces. Paris, Éditions Véga, 1932. 25 x 17 cm. Original wrappers. (2), 210 p. Uncut. First edition. Excellent copy.
€ 160
* Rare and early study about the
influence of hallucinogenics. Many detailed case histories. Thesis.
GARNIER Étrennes Garnier. Noël 1951. Parijs, Garnier, 1951. 27 x 19 cm. Leporello. 8 p. Illustrated. 4 p. in colors, 4 in black-and-white. Large advertisement label on first page. Tiny edge tears and a bit of foxing.
€ 18
* Three pages of ads for Benjamin Rabier. Interesting publisher's advertisements with clear depictions of typical French binding methods: half vellum decorated with an original watercolor, or 'demi basane bigarrée, genre ancien, fers spéciaux noir et or, tête fantaisie'.
GIDE, André Interviews imaginaires. Yverdon & Lausanne, Éditions du Haut-Pays, 1943. 25 x 18 cm. Original wrappers. (2), 146 p. Uncut. One of 1429 numbered copies on 'volumineux vergé bouffant' (total number 1460 exx.). Printed in red and black. First edition. Cover a tiny bit discolored.
€ 25
* Collection of 17 essays in the
form of imaginary interviews.
(GOOR, Gaston). BANDELLO, Matteo Histoires plaisantes. Traduites de l'Italien de René Novella. Gravures sur verre et illustrations par GOOR. Monaco, À la voile latine, (1950). Loose in illustrated wrappers, as issued, two volumes together in a cardboard cover and a box. 154; 144 p. Richly illustrated with engravings and vignettes. Printed in red and black in 950 numbered copies; this is one of 40 on 'papier pur fil à la forme des papeteries Johannot', each with an original drawing by Goor. Name of the happy owner printed in the colophon. First edition. Covers foxed, otherwise books fine. Box a bit soiled.
€ 220
* The original drawing is a design in ink for a vignette, with tiny signature 'G.' Naughty stories of the sixteenth century. Spicy engravings and many fine lascivious vignettes, inspired by renaissance motifs.
GORON, M.-F. Pariser Liebe. Memoiren. Mit Original-Illustrationen von J. Wely. (Vol. I). Paris & Leipzig, F. Krüger, 1899. Original decorated cloth. 240 p. First episode cover (in color) bound in as title. First German edition. Cover a bit soiled; a bit loose.
€ 20
* First part of L'Amour criminel. Lively illustrations by Jacques Wely, all dating from 1899.
HANKES DRIELSMA-DE KRABBÉ, M. Homo Duplex. Légende d'un coeur perdu en quatre actes et un épilogue. Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1928. 4to. Orig. wrappers. 120 p. Uncut. With erratum sheet. Printed in 550 numbered copies on Madagascar des Papeteries Lafuma. With an original coloured lithograph and some vignettes by Robert Bonfils. First edition. Cover slightly browned.
€ 45
* Play with homosexual content.
The author Marguerite de Krabbé (Kopenhagen 1876-Wassenaar 1929), daughter
of a Danish Minister of Defence, married journalist and lawyer Albert
Julius Hankes Drielsma (1880-1971).
HARLAND, Henry My Friend Prospero. A Novel. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. Original gilt boards. (4), 318 p. Top gilt. Uncut. First Edition. Stamp on flyleaf, backstrip and cover a little discoloured.
€ 40
* Deluxe edition: one of 500 numbered
copies with coloured frontispice and a portrait of the author, signed
in the plate.
HILLER, Kurt Gustav Wyneken's Erziehungslehre und der Aktivismus. Hannover, Paul Steegemann Verlag, 1919. Die Silbergäule 4. Original wrappers. 28 p. (9 pages of advertisements for books). First edition. Very good copy.
€ 45
HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Berlins Drittes Geschlecht. Berlin, Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, 1907. 23 x 15 cm. Orig. wrappers. 80 p. (including 10 pages of interesting, partly illustrated advertisements). 3th printing. Backstrip damaged. Cover worn and loose. Text paper browned.
€ 40
* About 'Berlin's Third Sex' or homosexuality in that thriving industrial metropolis of the beginning of the 20th century. A very fragile book. Series 'Grossstadt-Dokumente' 3. Added: Hans Ostwald: Zuhältertum. Third edition. Series 'Grossstadt-Dokumente' 5. 96 p. (12 pages of interesting advertisements). Poor copy: front cover missing.
HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Les homosexuels de Berlin. Le troisième sexe. Paris, Jules Rousset, 1908. Original wrappers. (4), 104 p. Uncut. First edition. Excellent copy.
€ 60
* French translation of Berlins drittes Geschlecht (1908).
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From newsletter 9:
2. BARNFIELD, Richard The Affectionate Shepheard. Llandogo, The Old Stile Press, 1998. 35 x 24 cm. Decorated 'vegetable parchment' (good quality beige boards) in cloth folding box. 60 p. Illustrated throughout by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. With a 9-p. essay by Peter Wakelin. Printed in 200 numbered copies, all SIGNED by the artist.
€ 95
* Inspired by Vergil's Corydon, who loved the youth Alexis, this is a homo-erotical text first published in 1594, when the author was only 20 years old. All the paper used for this edition was hand-made by Frances McDowall from The Old Stile Press. A perfect Old Stile publication, using a mixture of modern and ancient techniques to produce a superb marriage between text and illustrations.
11. HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Die Weltreise eines Sexualforschers. Mit 47 Abbildungen. Brugg, Bözberg, 1933. Original gilt cloth. XII, 396 p. Illustrated. First edition. Former owner's stamp on title page, otherwise an excellent copy.
€ 38
* Account of Hirschfeld's final world tour, that brought him in the end to Paris instead of Berlin in 1933.
15. LARBAUD, Valery Préface à un recueil de notes sur quelques poëtes français. Maestricht, A.A.M. Stols, 1926. 19 x 13 cm. Original decorated wrappers. (2), 46 pp. Uncut. Printed in red and black in 500 numbered copes. This is one of 70 on fine 'papier de Hollande à la forme des manufactures Van Gelder Zonen' (there were also 30 on Japan). First edition (édition originale). Cover slightly discolored. With bookplate of Eugène Strens wood-engraved by W.J. Rozendaal.
€ 50
* Vignettes engraved by J. Franken Pzn., initials designed by Alphonse Stols, coat of arms of Malherbe designed by J. van Krimpen. Van Dijk 86.
20. PURDY, James Kitty Blue: Ein Märchen. Aus dem Amerikanischen Englisch übersetzt von Tanja Schmidt. Utrecht, Hugin & Munin, 1999. 8vo. Original wrappers. 56 p. Printed in purple and black by Jan Erik Bouman on Lana paper. One of 60 numbered copies. Wrappers with gilt publisher's mark.
€ 50
* Translation in German, a superb bibliophile edition, set in Monotype and printed by hand. SIGNED by James Purdy. Jan Bouman died last September.
22. VERLAG FÜR LITERATUR UND POLITIK Der Weg ins Leben - Roman einder neuen Jugend. Unsere billige Romanreihe. (Publisher's advertising folder). Wien-Berlin, Verlag für Literatur und Politik, (about 1932). Folder. 4 p. One corner a bit worn, otherwise very good condition.
€ 25
* Eight black-and-white pictures of book covers, all by Russian authors: Pantelejew: Die Uhr, Ognjew, Das Tagebuch des Schülers Kostja Rjabzew, Bogdanow, Das erste Mädel, Fadejew, Die Neunzehn and others.
From newsletter 8:
4 BORGIA, Lucrezia, & Pietro BEMBO Messer Pietro Mio. Letters between Lucrezia Borgia and Pietro Bembo. Translation & Preface Hugh Shankland. Wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. (Marlborough), Libanus Press, 1985. Original morocco-backed gilt boards. With a cloth slipcase. (2), 46, (66) p. Uncut. Printed in dark and light ochre and black on Barcham Green in 135 numbered copies (of a total of 150), signed by Smith. First edition. Fine copy, slipcase has a few tiny spots.
€ 140
* First English translation of this famous Renaissance love correspondence. Excellent edition with serene wood engravings.
12 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 6. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1904. Original cloth-backed boards. IV, 744 p. Illustrated. First edition. Binding a bit worn and loosening, first four pages loose. Two stamps and inscription in pencil.
€ 220
* Sixth Yearbook of the voluminous scientific series about (mainly) homosexuality, a real Fundgrube. In this volume among others the original version of 'The Uranian before the Church and the Holy Scripture' by Caspar Wirz, the result of very early statistical research by Magnus Hirschfeld of the percentage of homosexuals, medical research of 103 men with a uterus and of 58 menstruating hermaphrodites; the preliminary presentation of a model of sex differences by L.S.A.M. von Römer, an important article about the psyche of August von Platen by elusive scientist Ludwig Frey, and last but not least the almost 200 pages of the bibliography of publications about homosexuality in the year of Our Lord 1903.
13 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 5. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1903. Two volumes. Contemporary bindings: three-quarter cloth with marbled boards, titles from original wrappers pasted on spines. (8), 706; (4, 664) p. Illustrated. First edition. Bindings rubbed. Slight traces of use.
€ 325
* With nice bookplate of the Dutch physician Louis Heijermans (1873-1938), author of several medical and sexological books, and a brother of the author Herman Heijermans. This Fifth Yearbook is one of the most extensive and interesting of the 23 Jahrbücher with large contributions by Hirschfeld himself, Lucien von Römer (his well-illustrated and extensively researched ‘About the Androgynic Idea of Life’), Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, Franz Neugebauer and Numa Praetorius (Eugen Wilhelm).
22 LAUTRÉAMONT, Comte de (= Isidore Ducasse) Les Chants de Maldoror. (Chants I, II, III, IV, V, VI). Paris/ Brussels, [anonymous - printed by E.Wittman], 1874. Rebound in full leather. 336 p. First edition, second issue. Binding discolored and scratched. Some light foxing at the beginning and the end.
€ 1500
* Of this epochal work, the first edition was printed in 1869. About ten copies of this edition are known today. In 1874, four years after the gifted author died (only 20 years old), the Belgian bookseller Jean-Baptiste Rozez bought the remaining stock, and brought it into circulation with new wrappers, halftitle and title, bearing the year 1874. This is such a copy (without the wrappers), possibly bound about 1900.
27 MONTORGUEIL, Georges L'Année féminine (1895). Les Déshabillés au théatre. Illustrations de Henri Boutet. Paris, H. Floury, 1896. Leather-backed marbled boards. Original wrappers (upper cover, lower and backstrip) bound in. (4), 124 p. Uncut. First edition. With 8 original etchings/ drypoints in colors and many vignettes by Henri Boutet. Very slight wear around the spine. Bookplate.
€ 75
* Dainty and humorous depictions of nymphs and satyrs and more down to earth French women (looking for a flea or drying after a bath). Oh la la! anno 1896. Elegant - and a little naughty.
31 RIDEOUT, Henry Milner Dragon's Blood. Boston/ New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Decorated cloth. (12), 272 p. Illustrated in duotone by Harold M. Brett. Second edition. Fresh and flawless copy.
€ 55
* Chinese adventure novel by an American author (1877-1927), who used to document himself thoroughly for his books. Very fine publisher's binding: a blue dragon bursting forth with orange flames against a Chinese disk in gold. This binding has been designed by The Decorative Designers of Lee and Henry Thayer, as the tiny monogram DD shows.
37 (TALL or SMALL). GENERAL TOM THUMB Collection 1. Sketch of the Life, Personal Appearance, Character and Manners of Charles S. Stratton, the Man in Miniature Known as General Tom Thumb, and His Wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton, including the History of Their Courtship and Marriage, With Some Account of Remarkable Dwarfs, Giants, & other Human Phenomena, of ancient and modern times. Also, songs given at their public levees. (Booklet).
2. Original CDV photo of Lavinia Warren.
3. Original business card of General Tom Thumb in French.
1. New York, Wynkoop, Hallenberg & Thomas, 1863. 16 x 10 cm. Original front wrapper present, but backstrip and lower wrapper missing. 48 p. 15 illustrations, most of these full-page. Page 9-16 misbound. Illustrated. Some marginal tears and wear, some damage, foxing spots throughout.
2. CDV photo on card of Lavinia Warren, probably from about 1890. Card measures 18 x 9 cm, the photo is much smaller and oval: 9,0 x 4,6 cm.
3. Business card of General Tom Thumb, in French, a diminutive 'porcelain card' probably made in Belgium between 1844 and 1865. 1,8 x 3,3 cm (measuring half of my own thumb).
€ 125
* Delightful rare booklet about the marriage of little persons (both under 90 cm) General Tom Thumb (1838-1883) and Lavinia Warren (1841-1919), a major event of 1863. The bridal cake and many of the marriage gifts are depicted. With a description of the ceremony and the text of many joyful wedding songs. The Carte de Visite photo shows Lavinia standing on an elaborate chair with a long dress. The business card, a minuscule 'porcelain card', is in French: Le Général Tom Pouce. The 'Carte porcelaine' was produced chiefly in Belgium after 1830, using white lead to attain a special lustre, and set a fashion especially for business cards and advertising. Because of the dangerous manufacturing process, making porcelain cards was forbidden in 1865.
38 (TALL or SMALL). WADLOW, Robert P. Autograph note with signature. Sheet of paper (29 x 15 cm) on which a newspaper photo has been pasted, with signature of the tallest man in history. The sheet and clipping are a bit damaged, not affecting the note. Signed 'Sincerely, Robert Wadlow, Alton, Ill.' with many flourishes. Dated in another hand '6-24-39'.
€ 175
* Robert Wadlow (1918-1940), who lived in Alton, Illinois, was the tallest man in history about whom there is irrefutable evidence. At his death (only a year after signing this), he measured 272 cm and, though slender, he weighed 220 kg.
From newsletter 7:
3. BORGIA, Lucrezia, & Pietro BEMBO Messer Pietro Mio. Letters between Lucrezia Borgia and Pietro Bembo. Translation & Preface Hugh Shankland. Wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. (Marlborough), Libanus Press, 1985. Original morocco-backed gilt boards. With a cloth slipcase. (2), 46, (66) p. Uncut. Printed in dark and light ochre and black on Barcham Green in 135 numbered copies (of a total of 150), signed by Smith. First edition. Fine copy, slipcase has a few tiny spots.
€ 140
* First English translation of this famous Renaissance love correspondence. Splendid edition with serene wood engravings.
6. DOUGLAS, Norman Autograph Postcard Signed to Henry Savage. Color postcard of the outskirts of Florence. 9,0 x 14,0 cm. Dated 'Florence/ 27 Jan' [1934]. Six lines. Stamp of 0,50 Lire and rubber stamps. Worn and creased, with a repaired tear.
€ 75
* Journalist Henry Savage stayed in Villa Patrizi, Capri. Douglas writes 'So glad to see your card. I hope you are having a lovely time. I may catch you on Capri later on!'.
15. KRAFFT-EBING, R. von Psychopathia Sexualis, with especial reference to the Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study. Authorized Translation of the 7th Enlarged and Revised German Edition by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, M.D. Philadelphia / London, F.A. Davis / F.J. Rebman, 1895. 24 x 16,5 cm. Cloth. (2), xiv, 438 p. Binding a bit worn, owner's marks on flyleaf, but a very good copy.
€ 35
* Former owners: Samuel Eugene Stevens M.D. (born 1839, author of The Economy of Misery, 1915) and J. Kingsley Stevens. The first edition in English appeared 1892.
18. SOLOMON, Solomon J. Autograph letter signed to E. Lonsdale Deighton, dated '14th Oct 1922'. 16,5 x 12,5 cm. 4 lines, written on one side of a 4 p. letter paper printed '18, Hyde Park Gate S.W.7.'. 'Certainly use the drawing of which you write in the new edition of the Album for Earl Haigs Appeal Fund.'
€ 30
* A letter by the painter Solomon J. Solomon (1860-1927), who was influenced by Leighton and Alma-Tadema to paint large dramatic canvases. In the Great War he pioneered in camouflage painting of tanks, buildings and netting, receiving the rank of lieutenant-colonel from General Douglas Haig. Solomon obviously liked the idea that a drawing of his was used for The British Legion album in aid of Field-Marshall Earl Haig's appeal for ex-service men of all ranks, that was published in 1924 by E. Lonsdale Deighton.
From newsletter 6:
9 HENNERT, Johann Friedrich Dissertation sur les moyens de donner la plus grande perfection possible aux lunettes, dont les objectifs sont composés de deux matières, qui a remporté le prix proposé par l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres pour l'année 1771, adjugé en 1772. Berlin, Chr. Fr. Voss, 1773. 28 x 21 cm. Old marbled boards. (4), 58, (2) pp. Nice vignette on p. 3. First edition. Bookblock loosening a bit from covers. Some small notes and arithmetic scribbled (1800’s) on last endpapers. A bit browned.
€ 100
* Technical essay mainly about lenses for telescopes, which sort of glass to use and how to grind and position them. Many mathematical formulas. Foreword about the Royal Academy prize. With a folding table (see picture). Hennert (1734-1813) was professor of philosophy and mathematics in Utrecht.
10 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 6. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1904. Original cloth-backed boards. IV, 744 p. Illustrated. First edition. Binding a bit worn and loosening, first four pages loose. Two stamps and inscription in pencil.
€ 220
* Sixth Yearbook of the voluminous scientific series about intermediate sexuality, mainly homosexuality, a real mine of information. In this volume among others the original version of 'The Uranian before the Church and the Holy Scripture' by Caspar Wirz, the result of very early statistical research by Magnus Hirschfeld of the percentage of homosexuals, medical research of 103 men with a uterus and of 58 menstruating hermaphrodites; the preliminary presentation of a model of sex differences by L.S.A.M. von Römer, an important article about the psyche of August von Platen by elusive scientist Ludwig Frey, and last but not least the almost 200 pages of the bibliography of publications about homosexuality in the year of Our Lord 1903. Two bearded women:
11 KIRCHNER, Friedrich Buch der Freundschaft. Mit 53 Porträts. Halle (Saale), G. Schwetschke'scher Verlag, 1891. Original gilt cloth. VIII, 352 p. Wood-engraved portraits. First edition. Small waterstain at upper cover, a bit of wear along the edges and slight traces of use.
€ 16
* An attractive book, with its tiny condition faults a child of its time, not a loveless modern reprint. This Victorian 'Book of Friendship' has recently been reproduced twice in the U.S.A., one even uglier than the other: it 'may have imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc.' according to one of the sellers. Argh! Book haters. I much prefer a few honorable stains to a poorly made new copy.
From newsletter 5:
7 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 5. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1903. Two volumes. Contemporary bindings: three-quarter cloth with marbled boards, titles from original wrappers pasted on spines. (8), 706; (4, 664) p. Illustrated. First edition. Bindings rubbed. Slight traces of use.
€ 325
* With nice bookplate of the Dutch physician Louis Heijermans (1873-1938), author of several medical and sexological books, and a brother of the author Herman Heijermans. This vol. 5 is one of the most extensive and interesting of the 23 Jahrbücher with large contributions by Hirschfeld himself, Lucien von Römer (his well-illustrated and extensively researched ‘About the Androgynic Idea of Life’), Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, Franz Neugebauer and Numa Praetorius (Eugen Wilhelm).
11 MARIE MADELEINE Ihr schlechter Ruf. Roman. Leipzig, B. Elischer Nf., (about 1910). Illustrated cloth after Franz von Bayros. (4), 352 p. Later edition. Backstrip a bit worn. Two rubberstamps of a former owner, some foxing.
€ 25
* Decadent sentimental novel with fantastic cover illustration in typical Bayros style: an ugly fat toad looks up to a lascivious lady embracing a white lily. Six pages of publisher's ads for other books of Marie Madeleine, citing various critics, a.o. George Sylvester Viereck.
13 PLATEN, August von Neue Ghaselen Erlangen, Junge, 1823. Marbled paper wrappers. (2), 62 p. First edition. Wrappers partly loose. Backstrip worn, dog's ears. Some foxing at beginning and end.
€ 150
* Not a very attractive copy, but still a rare first edition of Graf August von Platen.
16 STRATZ, C.H. Die Körperformen in Kunst und Leben der Japaner. Stuttgart, Ferdinand Enke, 1925. 24,5 x 17 cm. Original decorated cloth. XII, 256, (16) p. With 152 mainly photographical illustrations and 4 colour plates. With a 16-p. illustrated publisher's catalogue at the end of the book. Fresh copy.
€ 45
* Shortly before his early death in 1924, Stratz completed this thoroughly revised fourth edition. First published in 1902.
From newsletter 4:
3 CARLIER, F. Les deux prostitutions (1860-1870). Paris, E. Dentu, 1887. Simple half-cloth binding without text. 516 p. First edition. A bit foxed, a bit loosening.
€ 80
* Thorough study by the Chief of the Paris Vice Squad, François Carlier. The first half of the book treats 'normal' prostitution, the second half is about 'Prostitution Antiphysique', or 'pederasty'. It is one of the first serious books about the subject.
6 GRACIÁN, Baltasar Meditazioni sopra la santissima Comunione composte in Lingua Spagnuola dal padre Baldassarre Graziano della Compagnia di Gesù, e tradotta nell' idioma italiano da Francesco de Castro della medesima Compagnia. Venice, Niccolò Pezzana,1737. 16mo. Vellum with calligraphed title on spine. Nice inscription on page (2) dated 1737.
€ 120
* Attractive little Italian translation of El Comulgatorio (1655, literally ‘The Communion window’). Not in Worldcat or in various national libraries. Only a 1750 edition in the State Library of Montecassino.
13 MACKAY, John Henry Der Freiheitsucher. Psychologie einer Entwickelung. Berlin-Charlottenburg, self-published, 1920. Original wrappers. XII, 264 pp. One of 1000 copies, all signed and numbered by the author. With a loose leaflet of Contents. First edition. Fragile wrappers a bit creased and discolored. Corners somewhat worn.
€ 120
* Mackay's autobiography ("The Freedom Seeker") in his brilliantly succinct philsosophic style (with bouts of pathos). A bit of Mackay's Sagitta identity shines through: he describes his falling in love with a boy from his own high school. The only indication of a publisher is Mackay's home address, Berliner Straße 166.
19 STEINBECK, John Original Press Photo from January 7, 1966. Original photo of United Press International, stamped and with an official caption on a ticket, dated '7-1-66'. Also with two later tiny newspaper clippings about Steinbeck's death in 1968. 26,0 x 20,3 cm. Some traces of use.
€ 100
* A beautiful portrait of the rugged, elderly author with a black cap. According to the caption, 'Steinbeck watched a whale boat race between Norway and the U.S. Coast Guard.'
From newsletter 3:
3. (ESTADO NOVO) Telefones. Realizações do Estado Novo. Lisbon, Edições SPN, 1934. Stapled. 16 p. A bit creased.
€ 16
* In Portuguese. This booklet boasts the achievements of Salazar's Estado Novo ('New State') in the telephone department. Nice photographic cover design with telephone pole in grey and yellow.
5. FOTOGRAFIE Das Werk. Technische Lichtbildstudien. Mit Vorbemerkung von Eugen Diesel. Königstein, Verlag Langewiesche, 1931. Die blauen Bücher. 27 x 19 cm. Original stiff wrappers. 80 p. Tiny dog ear. Name on flyleaf and on p. 1. First pages slightly foxed.
€ 20
* Very fine atmospheric photos of industrial and technical subjects by several artists (many by Paul Wolff). One is reminded of Bernd & Hilla Becher. The book doesn't open wide enough to make a scan of the inside without damaging it, but it also has an elegant cover:
7. HALL, Radclyffe The Well of Loneliness. With a commentary by Havelock Ellis. Paris, Pegasus Press, 1928. Cloth with dust jacket. 512 p. Uncut. DJ a bit creased and (at the lower side) partly discolored, backstrip slightly soiled. Lower cover a bit worn.
€ 40
* First Pegasus Press edition, published in September 1928. Two Jonathan Cape editions in July and August 1928 had been distributed, but then the book was suppressed. Cape's partner brought the molds of the book to Paris, where this first continental printing was made. Rare with dust jacket (containing some press notices; all four corners clipped as issued).
9. MASEFIELD, John Three original press photos from 1930-1933. 15 x 21 and 20 x 25 cm. With press organisation stamps and captioned tickets with red crayon lines at the reverse. Slight creases and other little signs of wear, but in a general very good condition.
€ 100
* The first photo, dated May 12 1930, shows Masefield apparently caught unaware in an old suit, in front of a house, with elucidating text on verso 'John Masefield, whose adventurous career included service as a common sailor and porter in a New York pre-prohibition saloon, and who was today appointed Poet Laureate of England'. The second, dated May 22, 1930, shows Masefield and his daughter Judith feeding their two donkeys on his estate near Oxford, England. The third, dated Jan 6, 1933, shows Mr and Mrs Masefield 'as they arrived on the S.S. Mauretania today' in New York.
10. MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent Original Press Photo taken in Boston on August 22, 1927. Original photo with two stamps ('International Newsreel Corp.') and a captioned ticket pasted on verso. 20,8 x 26,0 cm. With penciled inscription on verso. Unobtrusive creases.
€ 120
* Millay in 1927 was a world famous poetess (1892-1950), now chiefly remembered for her life-relishing poem 'My candle burns at both ends,/ It will not last the night;/ But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--/ It gives a lovely light!' and her simultaneous relations with men and women. Like many of her contemporaries she was very upset by the death sentence of the Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti; she wrote four poems about them. Some of her co-campaigners were Dorothy Parker, G.B. Shaw, Upton Sinclair and H.G. Wells. This photo was made the day before the execution. According to the caption '[Millay is taken] under arrest with another woman by plain clothesmen and police. Both women were participants in the "Death March" by Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers in front of the State House, and were among the many picketers arrest today.' Far left we see Millay detained by a plainclothesman, who at his other side holds an elderly woman with a grim face. She is flanked by a uniformed policeman. Behind them walks another policeman detaining two men (one is smiling).
13. PURDY, James The Blue House. Forbidden Poems. Utrecht, Hugin & Munin, 2004. Gilt morocco backed boards with Roma paper in slipcase (Phoenix Bindery). 40 p. Set by hand from Romanée and Cancelleresca Bastarda type and printed in black and blue on Zerkall-Bütten in 80 numbered copies, all signed (a bit shakily) by the author. First edition.
€ 250
* This is one of only 18 Roman numbered deluxe copies bound in 3/4 morocco. A lustrously beautiful book with refined typography.
15. ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel Hand and Soul. Maastricht, The Halcyon Press / A.A.M. Stols, 1928. Cloth with title ticket. 17 x 13 cm. Top gilt. Uncut. (2), 44 p. Printed in 361 numbered copies. Bookplate on inside cover. Flyleaves browned.
€ 25
* One of 325 copies on Van Gelder Zonen paper. Beautiful initials and typography by Jan van Krimpen, who used a type thought to be composed by the 15th century printer Peter Schöffer. The Halcyon Press 3. Van Dijk 126.
18. TOMBAUGH, Clyde W. Publicity sheet of Pluto signed by the discoverer of the planet. NASA fact sheet, dated 1994, with artist's impression (by Pat Rawlings) in colours of Pluto and its moon Charon, signed in felt tip pen by Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered 'Planet X' in 1930. Oblong 25,3 x 20,4 cm.
€ 80
* Pluto lost its status as a planet in 2006, but Tombaugh didn't live to be offended by this degradation: he died in 1997, 90 years old. The ambitious astronomer signed many items with that same sentence, 'Discovered 9th planet, Pluto, on 18 Feb 1930'. This is a very nice one with a fine, large impression of what Pluto might look like. By the way, the fact sheet predicts the atmospheric collapse of Pluto 'onto the surface in a planet-wide snow storm' in 2010. While we are expecting this snow storm, or distrusting this detailed weather forecast 16 years ahead, an ounce of the late Clyde Tombaugh's ashes is en route to his dear planet child with the greatest speed ever achieved by human means with the robot spacecraft New Horizons. It is planned to pass by Pluto at 13.700 km on July 14, 2015 around 11:47 Greenwich Mean Time. Grab the chance to buy an original autograph of a man of whom a part (possibly his very writing hand) is at this moment nearing to 4.5 billion kilometres from home. No human particle ever traveled so far...
From newsletter 2:
5 DJÂMÎ Salâmân & Absâl. Poème allégorique persan traduit pour la première fois en français par Auguste Bricteux. Avec une Introduction sur le mysticisme persan et la rhétorique persane, et des notes. Paris, Charles Carrington, 1911. 4to. Original wrappers. viii, 200 p. Uncut. One of 600 copies on Vergé Anglais paper (total number 650 exx.). Tiny tear in backstrip.
€ 70
* Persian poem translated into French.
Introduction of 59 p., 30 pages notes, with three indexes.
6 JOLAS (ed.), Eugene Transition. An International Workshop for Vertigralist Transmutation. Edited by Eugene Jolas. July, 1935, No. 23. The Hague, Servire Press, 1935. Original illustrated wrappers (with a design by Paul Klee). 212 p. Illustrated. Cover a bit soiled and very slightly worn. Corners lower cover creased.
€ 90
* Contributions by many avant-garde
authors, foremost James Joyce's Continuation of Work in Progress.
INSERTED is the Transition 23 supplement Testimony against Gertrude
Stein, a pamphlet by George Braque, Eugene & Maria Jolas, Henri
Matisse, André Salmon and Tristan Tzara (Transition Pamphlet no. 1,
February 1935, 16 p.).
7 KIPPS, Donovan Dolly Morton. Seuls mémoires authentiques sur la flagellation des esclaves avant la guerre de Sécession, la discipline dans la vie passionnelle des colons sudistes, et les sévices exercés contre les femmes blanches du Nord anti-esclavagistes. Traduit de l'Anglais pour la première fois par Augustin Sarcel. Illustrations de Louis Malteste. Paris, Collection des Orties Blanches, (about 1928). 23 x 15 cm. Original wrappers. (6), 248 p. On vergé paper. Uncut. Reading slant, some vague creasing and spots, but a very good copy.
€ 80
* “Dolly Morton. The only authentic
memoirs about the whipping of slaves before the Civil War, about discipline
in the passionate life of the Southern colonists and the cruelties to
the white anti-slavery women of the North. Translated from the English
for the first time by Augustin Sarcel.” A salacious flagellationist
book, situated in Virginia (1866), with nice black-and-white illustrations
by Louis Malteste. There have been various suggestions for the name
of the author, however, none of these appear to be sure; there's even
some doubt about this being a translation or the original. See Mendes
160-A.
8 KREUTZBERG, Harald Bauernball-Kalender Bimmelbach 1921. (Dresden, Akademie für Kunstgewerbe, 1920). 4to (28 x 22 cm). Rebound in modern cloth, original stiff wrappers bound in. 13 leaves. 15 large format linocuts, wrappers colored by hand. First edition. A delicate book, protected in rough natural cloth.
€ 350
* “Farmers’ Ball Calendar Bimmelbach
1921”. Fantastic quasi-naive humorous calendar wrought by Kreutzberg
when he was only 17 years old, before becoming the famous brilliant
ballet dancer. Two black linocuts for the wrappers, colored by hand,
and one large monochrome linocut for each month plus title. Each linocut
has some rhyming text, for instance 'Auf diesem Bilde kannste sehn,
wie schön die Frühlingslüfte wehn!' Printed in a small number of
copies.
17 SCHOFF, Otto 'Liegende Frauen' (Two Women Lying Down). Original lithograph from Vier Zeilen. Herrenspende auf dem Berliner Presse-Ball 1928. Berlin, Verein Berliner Presse, 1928. One side pasted on nice colourful paper, like the 12 other lithographs (by different artists) in this series. 14,3 x 19,8 cm. Fine condition.
€ 50
* Lithograph suggesting a lesbian
intimacy, by a master of casual erotic perception (1884-1938).
20 ZEPPELINS Travels through space with Parseval! Berlin, Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m.b.H., [1910]. Oblong. Cord binding. Embossed cover with mounted oval illustration of a Zeppelin airship circling a mediaeval castle. (2), 32 p. Illustrated. First edition. Very slight traces of use.
€ 300
* Very rare German trade catalog
for Parseval airships advertising many existing and ideal types of zeppelins.
From newsletter 1:
1. BENSON, Stella Mrs Oneleg. (Typescript, signed in blue ink). Two leaves, typed on one side only. Not dated (probably 1925-1930). 26,0 x 20,3 cm. 95 lines. Two corrections, one in ink and one in pencil. Pin holes at left upper side and some waterstains.
€ 150
* Passionate and lively plea marked 'Confidential' for a pension for Benson's friend 'Mrs Oneleg', a crippled paper bag maker, who 'after a life of tameless energy, cheerful profanity and selfless kindness, has become a Parish Case'. It is not quite clear for whom this loving portrait of a London East End character was meant; it may be a short story, but it ends concretely enough with a plan for collecting 15/- a week as a 'Lord George Govvament Pension' for Mrs. Oneleg, who is 'with her 59 years too young for a real pension and doesn't want to depend on church charity'. Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English novelist and feminist who also wrote about China.
21. WILLIAMSON, Hugh Double Crown Club. Dinner CLXX. No place, Double Crown Club, 1963. 25 x 17 cm. Folded half sheet of tinted paper to form 8 p. of which 4 were printed (in brown and black). First edition. Vague horizontal fold.
€ 12
* Menu for the Double Crown Club Dinner CLXX (for lovers of typography) on June 12, 1963. Title page border adapted by Hugh Williamson from a design by Fredric Warde.
