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Autograph Letters, Documents, Manuscripts and Bindings are sold as they are, without recourse. The utmost care is taken to authenticate and correctly describe items of this character, but this Company will not be responsible for errors, omissions, or defects of any kind. BIDS. We make no charge for executing orders for our customers and use all bids competitively, buying at the lowest price permitted by other bids. Priced Copy of this Catalogue may be secured for fifty cents for each session of the sale. SALE MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER SIXTH, AT 2:30 SELECTIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF MR. WALTER H. RICHTER NUMBERS. 1-292 Unless otherwise described, all books are in original cloth binding and in good, second-hand condition. 1. ANDERSON (SHERWOOD). Marching Men, 1917; MidAmerican Chants, 1918. Scarce; Poor White, 1920; The Triumph of the Egg, 1921. 4 vols., 12mo. New York, 1917-21 FIRST EDITIONS. 2. BALZAC (HONORE DE). Nine Tales from the Contes Drolatiques. Rendered into English of the XIVth and XVth Centuries by Robert Crawford. Portrait. 8vo, boards, vellum back, London, 1921 uncut. One of 600 copies printed for private circulation. Autographed by the translator. 3. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). The Wonderful History of Virgilius the Sorcerer of Rome. Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley. 12mo, boards, cloth back, uncut. London, 1893 FIRST EDITION. 4. Bon Mots from Sheridan, Sidney Smith; Charles Lamb, Douglas Jerrold; Samuel Foot and Theodor Hook. Edited by Walter Jerrold. Grotesques by Beardsley. 3 vols., 12mo, uncut. FIRST EDITIONS WITH THE BEARDSLEY DRAWINGS. London, 1893-94 KEYNOTE SERIES WITH BEARDSLEY'S DESIGNS 5. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). The Keynote Series of Novels and Short Stories. With Designs by Beardsley on title-pages and covers. 22 vols. and Prospectus. 23 vols. in all, 12mo. A London, 1893-6 COMPLETE SET OF FIRST EDITIONS OF THIS SERIES, SCARCE IN THIS STATE. Comprising: Keynotes (Egerton); A Child of the Age (Adams); Poor Folk (Dostoievsky), WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE MOORE. VERY SCARCE; The Dancing Faun (Farr); The Great God Pan (Machen); Discords (Egerton); The Woman who Did (Allen); At the First Corner (Watson); Prince Zaleski (Shiel); The British Barbarians (Allen); At the Relton Arms (Sharp); The Mountain Lovers (Macleod); Yellow and White (Dawe); The Woman Who Didn't (Cross); Grey Roses (Harland); The Three Impostors (Machen); The Girl from the Farm (Dix); Monochromes (D'Arcy); Women's Tragedies (Lowry); The Mirror of Music (Makower); Nobody's Fault (Syrett); The Barbarous Britishers (Trail). 6. Plays. By John Davidson. Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley. Square 8vo, uncut. 7. FIRST EDITION. One of 500 copies. London, 1894 The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. Illustrations by Beardsley and others. Vols. 1 to 4. 4 vols., square 8vo, London, 1894-5 uncut. Vols. 1 and 4 are FIRST EDITIONS. 8. A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender, etc. By John Davidson. Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley. 8vo, uncut. 9. London, 1895 FIRST EDITION. With bookplate of Algernon Charles Swinburne. An Evil Motherhood. An Impressionist Novel. Walt Ruding. Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley. 8vo. 10. FIRST EDITION. By London, 1896 The Rape of the Lock. Written by Alexander Pope. Nine drawings by Beardsley. 4to, uncut. 11. FIRST EDITION. London, 1896 A Book of Bargains. By Vincent O'Sullivan. Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley. 8vo, uncut. FIRST EDITION. London, 1896 12. The Savoy. An Illustrated Quarterly. Cover decorations and illustrations by Beardsley. 3 vols., 4to, decorated cloth, uncut. London, 1896 This is the correct issue, with "Leonard Smithers and Co., 1896" on the back of each volume. With the Christmas Card tipped in. 13. FIRST EDITION. Printed on Japan papers. A Book of Fifty Drawings. With an Iconography by Aymer Vallance. 4to. London, 1897 The Houses of Sin. By Vincent O'Sullivan. Cover London, 1897 One of 400 copies. 15. 14. design by Beardsley. 8vo, uncut. The Pierrot of the Minuet. Written by Ernest Dowson. With initials and ornaments by Beardsley. Small 4to. London, 1897 16. FIRST EDITION. The Rape of the Lock. Written by Alexander Pope. 11 drawings by Beardsley. 12mo. London, 1897 17. Ben Jonson his Volpone: or the Foxe. With a Critical Essay on the Author by Vincent O'Sullivan and a Frontispiece, Five Initial Letters and a Cover Design illustrative and decorative by Aubrey Beardsley. Together with an Eulogy of the artist by Robert Ross. 4to, uncut. London, 1898 18. The London Year Book. 8vo (name on title). London, 1898 Contains 3 illustrations by Beardsley, and a Memoir of the artist, by W. L. SCARCE. 19. Six Drawings Illustrating Théophile Gautier's Romance, Mademoiselle de Maupin. Folio, loose in half cloth portfolio. One of 50 copies. 20. London, 1898 A Second Book of Fifty Drawings. 4to. London, 1899 FIRST EDITION. 21. The Early Work of. With a Prefatory Note by H. C. Marillier. Portrait and numerous plates. 4to, uncut. 22. FIRST EDITION. London, 1899 The Later Work of. Colored frontispiece and numer ous plates in black and white. 4to, gilt top, uncut. London, 1901 FIRST EDITION. One of only a few copies issued with the colored frontispiece. 23. Gallatin (A. E.). Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings. A Catalogue and a list of Criticisms. vellum back, uncut. 24. FIRST EDITION. One of 250 copies. Last Letters. John Gray. 8vo. Illustrations. 4to, boards, New York, 1903 With an Introduction by The Rev. FIRST EDITION. Inserted is a fine and interesting A. L. s., 4 pp., 8vo, Hotel Cosmopolitan, Menton, France, Dec. 29 [1897]. To his brother. "Menton continues to give me nothing but cause for gratitude & great expectations. It is a dear little place & I have got quite fond of it, and Abbé Luzanne who has a villa here brought me the Blessed Sacrament this Christmas. 25. The Dream and the Business. By John Oliver Hobbes. Cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. 8vo. London, 1906 FIRST EDITION. 26. An Issue of Five Drawings Illustrative of Juvenal and Lucian. Proofs on Japan paper. Folio, loose in printed wrap pers. 27. London, 1906 VERY RARE. Privately issued and limited to 120 copies. 28. [] Ross (Robert). Aubrey Beardsley. A Revised Iconography by Aymer Vallance. 16 plates. 12mo, uncut. 29. FIRST EDITION. London, 1909 The Eighteen-Nineties. By Holbrook Jackson. Illustrated. 8vo, uncut. New York, 1913 Contains numerous reproductions by Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Walter Crane, and others. 30. Lysystrata. Lutspiel in 3 Deutsch bearbeitet von J. J. C. Donner. tions by Beardsley. 12mo, boards. 31. One of 400 copies. Akte, von Aristophanes. An Aubrey Beardsley Scrap Book. By Georges Derry. With an illustration to Ibsen's "Ghosts." 4to, wrappers. London, 1920 One of 200 copies, with limitation statement and autograph of the author. 32. Illustrations to Salome. 17 plates printed on Japan paper. 4to, loose in half vellum portfolio. 33. Portrait and 4 drawings to illustrate the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Mounted on thick cardboard. New York, n. d. 34. BEERBOHM (MAX). The Happy Hypocrite. Illustrations in color by George Sheringham. Small 4to, pictorial cloth, uncut. London, [1915] London, 1919 London, 1919 FIRST EDITION. 37. [-] Max Beerbohm in Perspective. By Bohun Lynch. With a Prefatory Letter by M. B. Illustrated. 8vo, boards, cloth back. London, 1921 FIRST EDITION. 38.- A Survey. With numerous caricatures in color and monochrome. Royal 8vo. London, 1921 FIRST EDITION. Contains caricatures of Conrad, Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson's Peace, Woodrow Wilson addressing Congress, etc. 39. Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Some Memories of Him and 12mo. London, n. d. his Art. Portraits and illustrations. FIRST EDITION. 40. Street. A. L. s., with initials, 2 pp., 12mo. 48 Upper Berkeley 41. CABELL (JAMES BRANCH). 12mo. 42. 43. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. The Eagle's Shadow. New York, 1904 VERY SCARCE. Chivalry. Illustrated. 12mo, uncut. FIRST EDITION. New York, 1909 The Soul of Melicent. Illustrations in color by Howard New York, [1913] FIRST EDITION, in black cloth binding, and colored illustration on front Pyle. 8vo. cover. |