Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.: Literature
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The Tau Cross Mystery.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. 1935. - Octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide. Purple cloth titled in black on the front cover & the spine. The spine is lightly faded and the top edge of the book is foxed. [vi] & 294 pages, illustrated with a map of the crime scene. Very good. First American edition, published in the same year as the UK edition which was titled "In Whose Dim Shadow". VERY SCARCE. The 10th of Connington's Sir Clinton Driffield detective novels "The Tau Cross Mystery", begins with a shooting in an unlocked room with a set of footprints leading away from the open French windows. Very good .
-- Boeknummer: 96954
USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 116.75]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; CRIME FICTION; DETECTIVE NOVEL; MYSTERY; THE TAU CROSS MYSTERY; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST U.S. EDITION; IN WHOSE DIM SHADOW; CRIME SCENE MAP; ILLUSTRATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; SIR CLINTON DRIFFIELD.
Autograph Inscription Signed by the Popular Canadian Novelist with Both His Pen Name Ralph Connor and His Given Name Charles W. Gordon.
Winnipeg, Canada: Circa [1930]. [1930]. Winnipeg, Canada: Circa [1930]. [1930]. Good. - A 7-1/4 inch high by 5-1/8 inch wide sheet of cream-colored paper has been inscribed and signed in black ink: "Seymour Halpern / with kind regards / Charles W. Gordon / Ralph Connor / Winnipeg, / Canada." There is a light vertical crease to the paper & its edges are slightly darkened with 3 small, light stains to the left edge. The left bottom corner is creased. Good.
Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon [1860-1937] was a Canadian novelist, using the pen name Ralph Connor while maintaining his status as a church leader. Born in Ontario, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1890. He moved to Alberta and served in the Rocky Mountains until 1894. He then moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba where he spent nearly 40 years as minister of St. Stephen's Presbyterian/United Church. A popular and successful author, he sold more than five miilion copies of his works during his lifetime, some of which are still in print.
The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. Good .
Boeknummer: 34849
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE POPULAR CANADIAN NOVELIST WITH BOTH HIS PEN NAME RALPH CONNOR AND HIS GIVEN NAME CHARLES W. GORDON; SIGNATURE; PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER; REV. DR. CHARLES WILLIAM GORDON; SEYMOUR HALPERN.
Everything That Rises Must Converge
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1965). (1965). NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1965). (1965). Good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth backed blue paper covered boards (extremities & head of spine slightly faded; 2 tiny stains to rear board) titled in white on spine, in dw (lightly soiled with staining to dw spine & folds & very light staining to bottom corners of panels & flaps). xxxiv & 269 pages (light staining to lower third of fore-edge & lower corner of first 2 leaves). B&W portrait frontispiece. Good.
First edition.
A collection of nine stories, including the first appearance of "Judgement Day". Good .
Boeknummer: 8332
USD 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.25]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; FICTION; SHORT STORIES; WOMAN AUTHOR; AMERICAN; CATHOLIC; SOUTHERN; FLANNERY O'CONNOR; SOUTH; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; MODERN FIRST EDITION; MODERN 1ST EDITION; EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY.
Victory: An Island Tale.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. 1915. - Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in blue within a gilt panel with a vignette in gilt on the front cover. The binding is lightly rubbed and the head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped. Half-title, title, [1] leaf & 462 pages plus colophon. Illustrated with a map on the front pastedown & endpaper. Good. First American edition. Good .
Boeknummer: 94743
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; JOSEPH CONRAD; VICTORY: AN ISLAND TALE; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.
The Pleiad 1913-1914. (6 Issues of "the Pleiad" from December 1913 Through May 1914 Bound in One Volume)
(New York: Pleiades Club, 1914). 1914). (New York: Pleiades Club, 1914). 1914). Very good. - Small quarto, 7 inches high by 4-7/8 inches wide. 6 issues, each with their own original pictorial wrappers, bound together in light brown boards backed with a matching suede spine. An illustrated pictorial title label is mounted on the front cover. The edges of the covers are slightly soiled and the head of the spine is very lightly chipped. 150 & [2] consecutively numbered pages. These 6 issues are each illustrated with full-page color cover illustrations, numerous textual and full-page monochrome illustrations and a total of 9 tipped-in color plates, including works by Dan Smith, L.F. Conry, H.B. Eddy, Rollin Kirby, J. Stuart Blackton, T.C. Viall, and E.F. Foley, among others. The front hinge is cracked and the corners of a couple of the tipped-in plates are creased. Very good.
As early as 1896, a group of Greenwich Village artists, poets and other artistic and literary personalities were meeting weekly at Maria Del Prato's Italian restaurant on MacDougal Street. The group, which became known as The Pleaides Club, included Paul Du Chaillu, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, William Garrison, Clara Louise Kellogg and other luminaries among its early members. As it grew and needed larger quarters, the group first moved to the Black Cat then to the Hungaria, eventually settling in at the Hotel Brevoort in 1906. The club's mission was simply to provide a convivial and friendly audience to inexperienced artists through its weekly meetings and publication of their work in its yearbook, The Pleiad. Very good .
Boeknummer: 21451
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 140]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; POETRY; ILLUSTRATED; POEMS; ART; ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOR PLATES; NEW YORK CITY; THE PLEIADES CLUB; DAN SMITH; E.B. EDDY; T.C. VIALL; ROLLIN KIRBY; AIMEE GREENE ABBOTT; HENRY LEIGH; FRANK NORRIS; THE PLEIAD; BOUND VOLUME; YEARBOOK; YEAR BOOK; 1913
The Pleiad 1913-1914. (6 Issues of "the Pleiad" from December 1913 Through May 1914 Bound in One Volume).
(New York: Pleiades Club, 1914). 1914). - Small quarto, 7 inches high by 4-7/8 inches wide. 6 issues, each with their own original pictorial wrappers, bound together in light brown boards backed with a matching suede spine. An illustrated pictorial title label is mounted on the front cover. The edges of the covers are slightly soiled and the head of the spine is very lightly chipped. 150 & [2] consecutively numbered pages. These 6 issues are each illustrated with full-page color cover illustrations, numerous textual and full-page monochrome illustrations and a total of 9 tipped-in color plates, including works by Dan Smith, L.F. Conry, H.B. Eddy, Rollin Kirby, J. Stuart Blackton, T.C. Viall, and E.F. Foley, among others. The front hinge is cracked and the corners of a couple of the tipped-in plates are creased. Good.
As early as 1896, a group of Greenwich Village artists, poets and other artistic and literary personalities were meeting weekly at Maria Del Prato's Italian restaurant on MacDougal Street. The group, which became known as The Pleaides Club, included Paul Du Chaillu, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, William Garrison, Clara Louise Kellogg and other luminaries among its early members. As it grew and needed larger quarters, the group first moved to the Black Cat then to the Hungaria, eventually settling in at the Hotel Brevoort in 1906. The club's mission was simply to provide a convivial and friendly audience to inexperienced artists through its weekly meetings and publication of their work in its yearbook, The Pleiad. Good .
Boeknummer: 35842
USD 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.25]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; POETRY; ILLUSTRATED; POEMS; ART; ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOR PLATES; NEW YORK CITY; THE PLEIADES CLUB; DAN SMITH; E.B. EDDY; T.C. VIALL; ROLLIN KIRBY; AIMEE GREENE ABBOTT; HENRY LEIGH; FRANK NORRIS; THE PLEIAD; BOUND VOLUME; YEARBOOK; YEAR BOOK; 1913
Le Cahier Rouge / Ma Vie.
Amsterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1945. 1945. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wrappers in the original glassine dust wrapper. The spine is darkened with the extremities slightly darkened. 84 pages, partially unopened. Illustrated with a full-page portrait drawing with a tissue guard. Near fine. "Le Cahier Rouge" [The Red Notebook], by Benjamin Constant, the author of "Adolphe" and "Cecile", is the "elegant and cynical memoirs of his youth..His autobiographical works provide a glimpse of Constant himself, a curious blend of intellect and emotion, classicism and romanticism, trying to understand himself..Constant's works continue to speak to the modern conscience." [Dolbow, "The Dictionary of Modern French Literature: From the Age of Reason through Realism" pp. 67-68]. The book label of Monroe Wheeler, former Director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Museum of Modern Art, is mounted on the half-title. The text is in French. Very good .
Boeknummer: 37279
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; FRENCH LITERATURE; FRENCH AUTHOR; BENJAMIN CONSTANT; LE CAHIER ROUGE: MA VIE; PORTRAIT; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL; MONROE WHEELER'S COPY.
The Charges
Chicago, IL: The Swallow Press Inc. (1970). (1970). Chicago, IL: The Swallow Press Inc. (1970). (1970). Fine. - Octavo, cloth, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with a short tear to the top edge of the rear panel. [x] & 154 pages. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.
Inscribed by the poet to Dick Higgins of Something Else Press on the title page. Fine .
Boeknummer: 10239
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; POET; ALFRED COOK; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; THE CHARGES.
Love & Hate: Selected Translations from the Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Translated from the Latin by Geoffrey Cook
Hamilton, New Zealand: Outrigger Publishers Ltd, (1975). (1975). Hamilton, New Zealand: Outrigger Publishers Ltd, (1975). (1975). Very good. - Octavo, stapled printed green wraps. The spine & extremities are darkened. [vi], ii & 38 mechanically reproduced pages & 2-page publisher's catalog. Very good. Very good .
Boeknummer: 3271
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; POETRY; GAY POETRY; TRANSLATION; LATIN; CATULLUS; ROMAN; CARMINA; POET; GEOFFREY COOK.
Milly Lance
Mossant, Vallon & Co. n.d. [1930s]. n.d. [1930s]. Mossant, Vallon & Co. n.d. [1930s]. n.d. [1930s]. Very good. - Small quarto [7 inches high by 5 inches wide], softcover bound in printed white wraps with raised decorative patterning on the front wrap, sewn with white thread. The edges of the wraps are darkened & the head of the spine is chipped. [28] pages. Very good.
Mossant & Vallon produced fine felt hats in the 1930s. Very good .
Boeknummer: 13392
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; FICTION; SHORT STORY; DUTTON COOK; MILLY LANCE; MOSSANT & VALLON; HATTERS.
The Filmmaker
Santa Barbara, CA: Fithian Press, 2000. 2000. Santa Barbara, CA: Fithian Press, 2000. 2000. Very good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ELISE DALLEMAGNE-COOKSON WITH A SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed. 252 pages. The top edge of the book is slightly soiled. Very good.
First edition.
Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and signed "Elise Dallemagnr-Cookson / Christmas 2001 / Cherry Valley, N.Y." Laid in is an autograph letter signed on her personalized letterhead enclosing a copy of the book. Very good .
Boeknummer: 33289
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; THE FILMMAKER; HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE; BLACKLISTED FILMMAKER; ELISE DALLEMAGNE-COOKSON; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED; ALS; A.L.S.; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
Sarcophagus III. (June 1977). Edited by Paul Wolfe and Peter Bertolette
(Sarcophagus), 1977. 1977. (Sarcophagus), 1977. 1977. Good. - Small quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in stapled pictorial pink & black wraps. The edges of the wraps are faded & the corners are slighly creased. [39] mechanically reproduced pages. Black-and-white illustrations by Paul Gervais. Good.
Among the contents are a conversation with Clark Coolidge, Charles Boer and Paul Metcalf, a review by Peter Bertolette of An Olson-Melville Sourcebook, and poems by George Butterick, Alex Gildzen and Michael Rumaker. Good .
Boeknummer: 11425
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; POETS; PERIODICAL; SARCOPHAGUS; PETER BERTOLETTE; PAUL WOLFE; CLARK COOLIDGE; CHARLES BOER; PAUL METCALF; GEORGE BUTTERICK; ALEX GILDZEN; MICHAEL RUMAKER; ILLUSTRATIONS; PAUL GERVAIS.
![[Cornwall, Barry]. Proctor, B.W. (1787-1874). English poet who used the pseudonym "Barry Cornwall'. He served as a Commissioner in Lunacy., Autograph Note to a Woman Seeking His Deceased Daughter's Autograph Signed by Nineteenth-Century English Poet B.W. Proctor [Barry Cornwall].](https://c2.bibtopia.com/h/034/183/1295183034.0.x.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Autograph Note to a Woman Seeking His Deceased Daughter's Autograph Signed by Nineteenth-Century English Poet B.W. Proctor [Barry Cornwall].
[London]: 9 March, 1871. 1871. - 26 words penned on a partial sheet of letterhead, approximately 3-1/4 inches high by 3-1/2 inches wide, with his London address printed in red at the top. The letterhead is mounted on a piece of card of the same size. Signed "B. W. Proctor". The note is lightly soiled & its left edge is a bit darkened. Some partial words are penned on the verso of the mount with glue stains where it has been removed from an album. Good. Proctor writes that he regrets to say that his daughter died five years ago. "Therefore the only signature that I can send you is that of your obed servt / B. W. Proctor". Bryan Waller Proctor [1787-1874] was a nineteenth-century English poet. He studied law in London then entered a partnership with another solicitor. In 1820 the partnership was dissolved and he began to write under the pseudonym of "Barry Cornwall". After his marriage in 1824 he returned to his career as a conveyancer and was called to the bar in 1831. In the following year he was appointed metropolitan commissioner of lunacy, an appointment that was renewed annually until he was elected one of the Commissioners in Lunacy constituted by the Lunacy Act of 1845. Most of his verse was written between 1815 and 1832. His deceased daughter Adelaide Anne [1825-1864] referred to in the note was also a poet. Good .
Boeknummer: 95474
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 70]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; POETRY; ENGLISH POETS; AUTOGRAPH NOTE TO A WOMAN SEEKING HIS DECEASED DAUGHTER'S AUTOGRAPH SIGNED BY NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH POET B.W. PROCTOR; PSEUDONYM BARRY CORNWALL; DAUGHTER ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTOR, POET; .COMMISSIONER IN LUNACY; NIN
Well Done.
(Boulder, CO: Four Square Books, Kavyayantra Press), (1995). (1995). INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MATT CORRY - Small quarto [6-5/8 inches high by 5 inches wide], softcover bound in gray wrappers sewn with brown cord & decorated with pink & gray squares. Decorative gray rice paper endpapers. There are a few tiny pink marks to the front wrap, probably acquired in the printing. Title & 2 pages of text, plus colophon on the inside rear wrap, printed in purple & red. Near fine.
Limited edition of 48 copies handset at the Kavyayantra Press, Boulder, Colorado.
Inscribed and signed in full by Matt Corry on the colophon. Very good .
Boeknummer: 35867
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 70]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; WELL DONE; MATT CORRY; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; KAVYAYANTRA PRESS; LIMITED EDITION.
The Castilian. By Don Telesforo de Trueba Y Cosio, Author of "Gomez Arias". (2 Volumes).
New York: J.&J. Harper, 1829. 1829. - Octavo, 8-1/8 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. Two volumes uniformly bound in the original light brown boards backed with reddish cloth spines with yellow title labels on the spines. The covers are rubbed and soiled with wear to the corners and head of the spines. The spines are faded and the cloth is splitting along the top of the front and rear joints of the first volume and somewhat less so along the top of the front and rear joints of the second volume. [6] & 232 deckle-edged pages; and 241 deckle-edged pages respectively, including the 6-page publishers catalog which precedes the text in the first volume. The pages are toned with scattered foxing throughout, particularly to the endpapers and pastedowns. An early owner's name is penned on the front endpaper of each volume. A portion of the second volume's rear blank leaf is torn. Good. First American edition. RARE. The Spanish author, novelist and dramatist Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio (1799-1835) was born in the town of Arredondo in the Cantabrian region of Spain. His father sent Joaquin Telesforo and his brothers (one of whom was the draftsman and watercolorist Clara de Trueba y Cosio) to be educated in England. Joaquin Telesforo continued his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris where he gained an interest in pursuing a literary vocation. He started writing while still at the Sorbonne and, prior to his return to Spain, dedicated a sonnet to the Spanish General Rafael del Riego who was leading a liberal mutiny demanding that Spain reinstate its Constitution. Influenced by the works of Joseph Addison and Vittorio Alfieri, he wrote "The Death of Cato" and then "Elvira" after returning to Spain. Pursuing a diplomatic career, he was first posted to the Spanish embassy in Paris and subsequently to England. Back in Spain, the liberal voice expressed in his novels and plays was not always well received by the monarchy and he chose to emigrate to England in 1824. His earlier English education served him well as he went on to write historical novels in the English language, including the substantial "Gomez Arias or the Moors of the Alpujarras". This novel about the life of the libertine Don Juan who is forced by the monarchy to marry the woman he mocked and condemned him to death was compared by critics to the works of Walter Scott. He followed this with publication of the "Life of Hernan Cortes" in 1826 and then "The Castilian" in 1829, a novel describing the Knight Don Ferran de Castro's adventures during the violent reign of Pedro I of Castile. In 1834, following the death of Ferdinand VII, regent Maria Cristina granted an amnesty which allowed the expatriated Liberals to return to Spain. Joaquin Telesforo returned to take up a seat as Secretary for the Estate of Procurators and Attorney for Santander representing the Progressive party and collaborated on the Madrid newspaper "El Eco del Comercio". His health, however, was frail and a year later he returned to live in Paris with his mother where he died soon thereafter. Good .
Boeknummer: 94961
USD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 699.25]
Catalogus: Literature
Trefwoorden: LITERATURE; SPANISH; ENGLISH LANGUAGE; JOAQUIN TELESFORE DE TRUBA Y COSIO; THE CASTILIAN; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST U.S. EDITION; 19TH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; LIBERAL; HISTORICAL FICTION; NOVEL; DON FERRAN DE CASTRO; VIOLENT REIGN OF PEDRO I OF CAS
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