Recent Acquisitions from John Michael Lang Fine Books
Recent Acquisitions from John Michael Lang.
By Michael Stillman
A pamphlet of Recent Acquisitions has just been received from John Michael Lang Fine Books. This could be described as a general listing, since the books do not follow a particular theme. There is certainly a concentration of works from the Pacific Northwest, as befitting a bookseller from Seattle. However, this is no limitation. For example, Lang has a copy of Charles Goodspeed's biography, Yankee Bookseller. Yankee booksellers are not to be found in Seattle. The legendary Goodspeed's bookshop was located in Boston. Here are a few of Lang's most recent acquisitions.
This book would certainly have to be described as related to the Pacific Northwest, though it was printed in Pittsburgh. Actually, that was probably as far west as you could find a printer in 1807. Item 2 is Patrick Gass' A Journal of the Voyages of a Corps of Discovery, Under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke... This is the first edition of the first book on Lewis and Clark's famous journey by a participant in the expedition. The travelers were not supposed to jump the gun on the official account, but it took eight years for that book to be released. Meanwhile, Gass brought the earliest eyewitness account of the unknown Northwest to his countrymen. Priced at $13,500.
Item 12 is With a Quiet Heart. An Autobiography of Eva Le Gallienne. Born in London at the turn of the century, she came to America at the age of 16, and by the 1920s, was a successful Broadway actress. Le Gallienne was involved in numerous lesbian love affairs along the way, plus a brief fling with actor Basil Rathbone. While the number of plays in which she appeared declined after the 1920s, she continued acting through most of her life. She would also later appear in an occasional film or television program, and in 1980, at the age of 81, she became the oldest person to secure an Academy Award nomination, being nominated for best supporting actress in "Resurrection." She died in 1991, at the age of 92. However, this biography misses the last 40 years of her life, having been published in 1953. This copy is signed and inscribed to Alma Kruger, a fellow actress, thirty years La Gallienne's senior, who generally played matronly roles. $60.
Here is a quite obscure cookbook: Recipes and Domestic Service: the Mahammitt School of Cookery. The author, Sarah Helen Tolliver Mahammitt, was a Black woman from Nebraska, and there cannot have been too many Black women authors in 1939 Nebraska. Mrs. Mahammitt evidently had been a caterer for 30 years, and wished to share her recipes, some of which were her own. It does not appear that the book was targeted specifically to the Black community, but to anyone who likes to eat. Item 8. $125. For a bit more unusual cookbook, there is The Official Handbook for the National Training School of Cookery, an 1881 London imprint. Among the recipes are "stewed ox cheek, brain cakes, toad in the hole, and sheep's head." I think this cookbook may be more suitable for collecting than for actual use. Item 9. $125.
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE Le Neptune Oriental
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: CASSAS Eaux fortes de la Sicile et quelques vues d’Espagne
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: CASSINI DE THURY Carte générale et particulière de la France.
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: JOUY; GARNERAY Vues des côtes de France dans l'Océan et dans la Méditerranée
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: LA PÉROUSE Voyage autour du monde
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: LE GENTIL DE LA GALAISIERE Voyage dans les Mers de l’Inde
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: LICENT Hoang Ho, Pai Ho, Loan Ho, Leao Ho. Itinéraires suivis dans le bassin du golfe du Pei Tcheuly
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: FRENCH SCHOOL FROM THE 19th CENTURY Panorama d’Athènes
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: PEETERS Description des principales villes, havres et isles du golfe de Venise
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: PÉRON; FREYCINET Voyage de découverte aux terres australes
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: STACKELBERG La Grèce : vues pittoresques et topographiques.
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: VALENTINER Atlas des Sonnensystems.
Forum Auctions Online Sale: The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper Ending 7th November, 2024
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). The Thirteen Problems, first edition, The Crime Club, 1932. £15,000 to £20,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Dumb Witness, first edition, 1937. £3,000 to £4,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Cards on the Table, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £2,000 to £3,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: [Carr (John Dickson)], "Carter Dickson" and John Rhode. Drop to his Death, first edition, Heinemann, [1939]. £600 to £800.
Forum, Nov. 7: Berkeley (Anthony). Jumping Jenny, first edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. £800 to £1,200.
Forum Auctions Online Sale: The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper Ending 7th November, 2024
Forum, Nov. 7: Marsh (Ngaio). Overture to Death, first edition, The Crime Club, 1939. £600 to £800.
Forum, Nov. 7: [Day-Lewis (Cecil)] "Nicholas Blake". The Beast Must Die, first edition, 1938. £750 to £1,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Brand (Christianna). Green for Danger, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1945. £600 to £800.
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Murder is Easy, first edition, signed by the author, 1939. £3,000 to £4,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Sayers (Dorothy L.) Lord Peter Views the Body, first edition, Gollancz, 1928. £6,000 to £8,000.
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Sotheby's Fine Books, Manuscripts & More Available for Immediate Purchase
Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD
Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD
Freeman’s | Hindman Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana November 14
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. FIRST AM. ED, FIRST ISSUE IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET. 1911. $6,000 – 8,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds. L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Lon., 1949. FIRST EDITION IN A VERY FINE DUST JACKET. $6,000 – 8,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans. L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:The Federalist. NY, 1788. FIRST EDITION, THICK PAPER COPY. $60,000 – 80,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: SELBY. Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology. Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.