Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Property from the Workman Collection Burnett, Frances Hodgson The Secret Garden. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1911 8vo (187 x 123 mm). Half-title, pictorial frontispiece with 3 additional pictorial plates by M. L. Kirk. Publisher's green cloth with color illustration laid down to upper board, spine lettered in gilt. In custom slipcase. First edition—an exceptional copy of the scarce first printing (with "August 1911" on the copyright page). “At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.” First serialized in The American Magazine between November 1910 and August 1911, The Secret Garden was one of the first examples of a narrative for children being first published in a magazine with an adult readership. Influenced by Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Burnett's classic novel addresses many mature themes such as male privilege and postcolonialism. An exemplary copy of an enduring classic.

View 1 of Lot 1030: Burnett, Frances Hodgson | “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

burnett, frances hodgson | “if you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

Two autograph letters signed, each 4 pages (6 3/4 x 5 3/8 in.; 174 x 135 mm), on stationery engraved at top right corner, "Plandome Park, Plandome, Long Island," 28 October 1915 and 9 November 1915, to Colonel Bunbury, sending a set of his books to the Royal Engineers of Bermuda; one letter with autograph envelope 

burnett, frances hodgson

Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana

Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories. New York: Scribner's, 1890 (BAL 2077) — Giovanni and the Others. New York: Scribner's, 1892 (BAL 2082) — The One I Knew the Best of All. New York: Scribner's, 1893 (BAL 2084) — Two Little Pilgrims' Progress. New York: Scribner's, 1895 (BAL 2088) — The Good Wolf. New York: Moffat, Yard, 1908 (BAL 2108) — My Robin. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1912) (BAL 2118) — The Little Hunchback Zia. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1916) (BAL 2123) — The White People. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1917 (BAL 2125)

Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories. New York: Scribner's, 1890 (BAL 2077) — Giovanni and the Others. New York: Scribner's, 1892 (BAL 2082) — The One I Knew the Best of All. New York: Scribner's, 1893 (BAL 2084) — Two Little Pilgrims' Progress. New York: Scribner's, 1895 (BAL 2088) — The Good Wolf. New York: Moffat, Yard, 1908 (BAL 2108) — My Robin. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1912) (BAL 2118) — The Little Hunchback Zia. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1916) (BAL 2123) — The White People. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1917 (BAL 2125) Together 8 volumes, various sizes. All illustrated, some in color. Uniformly bound in honey morocco gilt by the Harcourt Bindery, Boston, original front cloth covers and spines bound in, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt.

robinson, charles--burnett, frances hodgson. the secret garden, heinemann, 1911, 8vo, 8...

The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part VI

8vo (209 x 167mm.), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with the DeVinne imprint on the verso of p.209 of the text, followed by 14pp. adverts), illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, original pictorial brown cloth lettered with design in red, black and gilt, contemporary inscription on endpaper, minor scratch to front endpaper

little lord fauntleroy. new york: charles scribner's sons, 1886

4to, FIRST EDITION, second issue, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE AUTHORESS loosely inserted (to Mr Somerset, discussing in some detail five forthcoming play productions, their characters and their casts, 4 pages, 8vo, on headed black-edged stationery of 44 Lexham Gardens, South Kensington, undated), frontispiece and illustrations by Reginald B. Birth, some full-page, half-title, 16 pages of publisher's advertisements at end, original grey pictorial cloth, slightly soiled and slightly rubbed This lot contains 1 item(s).

burnett, frances hodgson. little lord fauntleroy. new york: charles scribner's sons, 1886

The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part IV

large 8vo (210 x 169mm.), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with the DeVinne imprint on the verso of p.209 of the text, followed by 14pp. adverts), illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, original pictorial grey cloth lettered with design in red, black and gilt, collector's red morocco-backed velvet lined box, foot of spine bumped, with small crease at the top of upper cover, some splitting at gutter

8vo (202 x 148mm.), "PRESENTATION EDITION", 5 coloured plates, original green pictorial cloth with colour illustration laid down to upper board, illustrated endpapers, DUST-JACKET, head and foot of spine bumped, dust-jacket worn frayed at extremities with some minor losses

the secret garden. new york: frederick a. stokes company, [c.1913]

The Secret Garden. William Heinemann, 1911

robinson, charles--burnett, frances hodgson.

The Library of an English Bibliophile Part VIII

8vo (187 x 125mm.), FIRST EDITION, half-title, pictorial frontispiece with 3 additional pictorial plates by M. L. Kirk,  original green cloth with colour illustration laid down to upper board, spine lettered in gilt, bumped

the secret garden. new york: frederick a. stokes company, 1911

8vo (209 x 165mm.), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with DeVinne Press imprint on p. [210], signature mark "12" on page 177 and "14" on page 209, half-title, 14 pp. of advertisements at end, pictorial frontispiece and various illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, original pictorial brown cloth lettered with design in red, black and gilt, brown endpapers, previous ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper, very minor and light soiling to covers, bumped

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Selections from the Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman Grolier One Hundred: Literature A group of 14 titles, and one autograph letter signed Lot includes: Arthur, Timothy Shay. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854; 8vo, woodcut frontispiece and half-title; early ownership signature to rear flyleaf, light spotting. Original publisher's cloth, spine gilt; faded, a bit rubbed, scattered soiling, spine cocked. Housed in a custom clamshell. First edition, first issue. Grolier 100-62. — Bulfinch, Thomas. The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes. Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin, 1855. 8vo. early ownership signature to front pastedown. Publisher's patterned red cloth, spine gilt; chips to head- and tail-pieces, spine a bit faded. Housed in a custom red slipcase. First edition, first printing. Grolier 100-65. — Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Little Lord Fauntleroy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. Square 8vo. 14 pp. ads at rear. Publisher's pictorial brown cloth; extremities lightly rubbed. Housed in a custom slipcase. First edition, first issue. Grolier 100-89. [With] 5 pp. Autograph Letter Signed ("Frances Hodgson Burnett") to Robert Underwood Johnson, her editor at Century Magazine, Plandrome Park, Long Island, 20 November 1912. — Green, Anna Katharine. The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. 8vo, 2 folding plates; splits to folds. Publisher's brown cloth, lettered in black, spine gilt; rebacked, lightly soiled. Housed in a custom slipcase with chemise. First Edition. Grolier 100-80. — Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. 8vo; bookseller's stamp and early ownership signature to flyleaves. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, coated brown endpapers; extremities lightly rubbed, hinges cracked. Housed in a custom slipcase. First edition, first issue. Grolier 100-76. — Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1881. 8vo; early ownership signature to title-page, title partially separated. Publisher's green pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped title on spine, coated brown endpapers; rebacked. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Grolier 100-84. — Howells, William Dean. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. 8vo. Original brown cloth, stamped in black and gilt; light shelf-wear. Custom slipcase with chemise. First Edition; Grolier 100-88. — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Ballads and Other Poems. Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. 8vo, uncut; light spotting. Original glazed boards; rebacked (as usual), some discoloration to covers. Housed in a custom pull-off case. First edition, first issue, the Blair copy (booklabel). Grolier 100-4. — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. 8vo. 12 pp. ads dated November 1855 at end. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Housed in a custom slipcase. First edition, first printing with "dove" on p. 96 instead of dived, the Blair copy (booklabel). Grolier 100-66. — Lowell, James. The Biglow Papers. Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848. 12mo. Original plum cloth stamped in blind and in gilt; front hinge cracked, spine somewhat faded. First edition, first issue with only Nichols imprint. Grolier 100-57. [With] The Biglow Papers. Second Series. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 12mo. Original cloth; hinges starting. First American trade edition with only Nichols imprint. Housed in a custom slipcase. Ex, Jean Hersholt (bookplates). — Markham, Edwin. The Man with the Hoe. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1899. 2 pp. ads at rear. Printed wrappers, stab stitch; covers separated and reinforced. First printing in booklet form, signed and dated by Markham on a sheet of paper tipped inside the front wrapper, accompanied by one panel of the original printed mailing envelope from the book's first publication; gilt morocco bookplates of Frank Hogan and Hannah D. Rabinowitz inside the chemise, housed in a custom slipcase with chemise. Grolier 100-99.— Simms, William Gilmore. The Yemassee. A Romance of Carolina. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. 2 vols., 8vo; spotting. Original blue cloth, printed spine labels; a bit cocked, chips to spine labels, vol. 1 covers lightly soiled. House in a custom slipcase. First edition, first printing of each. Grolier 100-40. — Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt; light shelf-wear, a few spots of soiling. First edition. Ex. John Gregory Hodgins (bookplate). Housed in a custom case. Grolier 100-73. — [Grolier Club]. One Hundred Influential American Books before 1900. Catalogue and Address. New York: Grolier Club, 1947. First edition, one of 600 copies. Group lots not subject to return.

grolier one hundred: literature | a group of 14 titles, and one autograph letter signed

L12404

Edmond Malone (to his sister Catherine, 3 pages, 3 January 1800), William Stukeley (autograph manuscript poem, "On the death of my wife's favorite cat Tit", 2 pages), Anna Seward (fragment, to Joseph Porter, Samuel Johnson's stepson, an affectionate letter after the death of her sister Sarah, his fiancée), Jeremy Bentham (on an appointment, 1 page, 16 Feb 1831), Maria Edgeworth, Thomas Moore, James Currie, Samuel Rogers, Joanna Baillie, Basil Hall, Mary Russell Mitford, Edward Dowden, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Rowland Hill, Garnet Wolesley (3), Redvers Buller (2), Lord North, Arthur Wolfe, Henry Brougham, Edward Jenner (incomplete), Yoshitane Sannomiya (2), Isabella Bishop (2), with 14 other letters and 13 loose cut signatures, most letters mounted, but some loosely inserted, in a 19th century folio album, calf, covers detached and loss at spine

collection of letters by writers, soldiers, and other prominent figures of the 18th and 19th century, including a group by british administrators in ceylon (1870s), comprising 41 letters, by:

Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire: The Last of the Mitford Sisters

A VERY FINE COMPLETE SET OF THE PUFFIN 70th ANNIVERSARY "DESIGNER CLASSICS" (Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women; Dahl, Roald. James and the Giant Peach; Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist; Hodgson Burnett, Frances. The Secret Garden; Stephenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island; Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days). Puffin Classics, 2010, each numbered from an edition of 1000 copies, in custom binding designed by a noted artist or designer, housed in individual publisher's acrylic slipcase; together with 37 others, 8vo and smaller, original cloth and wrappers, many with Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire's bookplate, some spines perished and extremities of boards worn (43)

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