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Cullen, Clarence Louis Tales of the Ex-Tanks: A Book of Hard-Luck Stories
Grosset & Dunlap. New York. 1900.. Cloth. 1st edition (Grosset & Dunlap original). Wright III 1331. Illustrated front cover. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. 392 pages. Contents include: Tale the First -- Wherein Ex-Tank No. 3 Sheweth that the Hock-Shop Violin may be Ye Real Thing; Tale the Eleventh -- Wherein Ex-Tank No. 25 Elucidateth Ye Theory That a Man is Never Broke Unitl He Is Broke; Tale the Twentieth -- Wherein Ex-Tank No. 3 Endeavoreth to Convey an Idea of the Misery of Awakening in ye Bug-Ward; Tale the Twenty-Fifth -- In Which Ex Tank No. 27 Findeth Himself Shanghaied on Board ye Brigantine Monmouth Queen; etc. LITERATURE. AMERICAN. LITERARY WORKS. FICTION. TALES. SHORT STORIES (Book ID 95) $37.50

Cummins, Ella Sterling The Story of the Files: a Review of California Writers and Literature.
World's Fair Commission of California. San Francisco, California. 1893. First Edition. 460 pages; portraits; 3 pages of ads before the text and 3 pages follow it (all unnumbered); Rebacked with the original boards, leather label. ZAMORANO EIGHTY # 24 - "Aside from its extreme textual value and interest, this book has become a collector's item. Nowhere else can be found the wealth of material on the early writers and their literature that is given in THE STORY OF THE FILES. There is more than a hundred portraits of California authors of note, and sketches from many of their writings. Also found in this book, are histories of the famous early magazines and newspapers of San Francisco." Very good clean copy. Condition: Very Good. California Literature, American Literature. DK-68 (Book ID 11358) $100.00

Curtis, George Wiiliam Ars Recte Vivendi: Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair"
Harper & Brothers. New York and London. 1898. First Edition. Publisher's dark gray cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Some light wear at extremities. The title translates into English as "The Art of Living Rightly" and a former owner has written that in ink on the title page. Former owner's signature on front end paper. These essays originally appeared in Harper's Magazine in Curtis's column "Easy Chair" and are on (as the preface says) "vital questions of hygiene, courtesy and morality." Bibliography of American Literature number 4409. 136 pages plus two pages of publisher's advertisements. Condition: Very Good. 19th Century American Literature. Essays (Book ID 7734) $25.00

Cutter, Eunice P. Once Upon A Time
Printed By John Henry Nash. San Francisco. 1934. First Edition. Cloth Backed Decorative Boards. No. 2 of 600 copies printed. Inscribed by the author to his mother: "Dear, My Mother, Please read pages seventy one to seventy three. I love you. Leland. Christmas 1934." A second inscription following the above reads as follows: "To Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Woodring in appreciation of their friendship for my mother and sister from Leland W. Cutler, August 6, 1948". With annotating by the author concerning most chapters. Book has spine label. Slip case: spine label; damp spotting front and rear covers; small split bottom of spine; slight wear to opening edges. 81 pages. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. Book measures 8 1/4 x 11 1/4. In the Introduction the author notes: "In this book I set down some things that I have said from time to time. I make no claim of virtue for the words except that they were spoken on occasions when I tried to say the things I felt". Contents include: Summer Dreams; Broken Colors; A Toast; My Mother's Dad; Meaning of Christmas; A Layman and the Law; David Starr Jordan; San Francisco and Ignatius; At the Hearthstone; The Founders of Stanford; Traveled Roads; Drinking Song; When I Was A Laddie; A Cheerful Song; etc. Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Poetry. Verse. Publications. (Book ID 4401) $100.00

Dane, Clemence Pseud. Of Winifred Ashton Typed Letter Signed
One page. 6 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches. Date March 30, 1947. London. To Jean Hersholt. "I am writing to thank you personally for your most kind and heart-warming cable, and also to thank you as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the award for the film 'Vacation from Marriage.' I am most honoured by it, and shall value the trophy enormously. May I ask you to convey my thanks and sense of gratification for honour done not to me alone, but to my collaborator Anthony Pelissier and to the entire group who worked on 'Vacation from Marriage' and most of all, of course, to Alexander Korda himself." The film "Vacation from Marriage" was also released under the title "Perfect Strangers." It won an Academy Award for "Best Original Story" in 1946. Dane (1887-1965) was a British artist, actress, novelist and playwright. Condition: Fine. Academy Awards. Hollywood. Movies. Autographs and Manuscripts (Book ID 8088) $50.00

Davis, Richard Harding The Novels and Stories of Richard Harding Davis. Crossroads Edtion.
Charles Scribner's Sons. New York, New York. 1916. Set of 12 volumes reprinting Davis' works in an edition of 256 copies, this being # 85. Bound in publishers cloth with paper wrapper on boards (darking to the spine). Issued on Japan paper, paper labels, gilt edging to the top of the pages. I: Van Bibber and Others - xiv, 331 pages; frontportrait. II: The Exiles and Other Stories - viii, 325 pages; frontis. III: Gallegher and Other Stories - ix, 306 pages; frontis. IV: Soldiers of Fortune - xv, 358 pages; frontis. V: Captain Macklin, His Memoirs - viii, 329 pages; frontis. VI: Ranson's Folly - vi, 320 pages; frontis. VII: The White Mice - viii, 305 pages; frontis. VIII: The Scarlet Car - xi, 401 pages; frontis. IX: The Bar Sinister - vi, 306 pages; frontis. X: The Man Who Could Not Lose - vii, 365 pages; frontis. XI: The Red Cross Girl - xx, 296 pages; frontis. XII: The Lost Road - xxii, 330 pages; frontis. Each volume contains a brief introduction by an author who knew Davis. Note -- Volume X: "The Log of the Jolly Polly" pp 312-365, first edition thus; Volume XI: "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" pp 251-276, first edition thus; Volume XII: "The Man Who Had Everthing" pp 308-330, first edition thus. Blanck - BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERIACN LITERATURE 2, # 4574 "12 volumes issued in a variety of bindings ... The earlier sets (Harper, 1898; Scribner, 1899; Scribner, 1903) contain no first edition material. The UNIFORM EDITION, New York (Scribner, 1918) printed from the plates of the 1916 edition" Condition: Very Good. Collected Writings of Richard H. Davis. DK-29 (Book ID 10366) $250.00

Day, Clarence Life With Mother
Alfred A. Knopf.. New York. 1937. First Edition. Cloth Backed Boards. Limited to 750 copies. Gilt page tops, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Ribbon book mark. Page sides and bottoms uncut. Damp stains top edge front cover. The author's previous book, "Life With Father", was a huge success. Here the author continues to provide more stories about his family, but centered around his mother: Mother and Father Meet; Father Visits the War; Mother Shows Us Off; Mother on Horseback; Mother Gets an Allowance; Mother and Our Wicked Mare; Mother and Pug Dogs and Rubber Trees; Mother and the Servant Problem; etc. American Literature. Literary Works. Stories. Family Life. Writings. (Book ID 4433) $47.50

Defore, Daniel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress, or a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Modemoisell De Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess De Wintselheim in Germany, Being the Person Known By the Name of Lady Roxana in the Time of Charles II. (cont.)
The Limited Editions Club. Avon, Conn.. 1976. Illustrated by Kroeber, Bernd. # 1352 of 2000 copies printed at The Stinehour Press, in Lunenburg, Vermont for the Limited Editions Club. Illustrations cut in wood by Bernd Kroeber and signed by him on the colophon page. xiv, 256 pages; publisher's red and white cloth binding with design on cover and gilt title on the spine. Contained in publisher's slipcase (8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inch). Slipcase with light sun fading along box opening and with a small chip. Condition: Fine. Daniel Defoe, English Literature. DK-20 (Book ID 9989) $37.50

DeJong, David Cornel The Unfairness of Easter and Other Stories
The Talisman Press. 1959. San Jose, California.. First edition. 500 copies printed. Cloth backed patterned boards. Dust wrapper. With seven illustrations by Newton Baird. From the dust wrapper: "The Unfairness of Easter and Other Stories is a collection of memorable short stories by a writer of co nsiderable reputation. Mr. DeJong has achieved distinction in the craft of fiction with the publication of such works as 'Old Haven' and 'The Day of the Trumpet'. This is Mr. DeJong's first collection of short stories since the publication in 1946 o f 'Snow on the Mountain'. The stories in this present collection are diverse in plot and setting, rich in detail, and each is an example of accomplished prose fiction". Contents include: Ninth Anniversary; Those Who Eat Dragonflies; The Funeral of P apje; Accident of Disloyalty; etc. LITERARY WORKS. FICTION. LITERATURE. PUBLICATIONS. WRITINGS. (Book ID 3290) $37.50

Dickens, Charles American Notes for General Circulation
The Limited Editions Club. Avon, Connecticut. 1975.. Illustrated by Houlihan Raymond F.. Leather backed illustrated boards, spine label. Slip case with decorated spine label. No. 482 of 2000 copies signed by illustrator. Color plates. 272 pages. 6 3/4" x 10". From the Introduction: "American Notes is the account of a love affair that went badly wrong. Charles Dickens travelled to America in January, 1842, with a romantic dream of what he would find in that Land of Liberty; he left six months later a disillusioned, hostile critic of most of what he had seen". In the author's Preface, Dickens notes: "To represent me as viewing America with ill-nature, coldness, or animosity, is merely to do a very foolish thing: which is always a very easy one". Contents include: The Passage Out; Boston; An American Railroad. Lowell and its Factory System; New York; Philadelphia and its Solitary Prison; A Night Steamer on the Potomac River. A Virginia Road, and a Black Driver. Richmond. Baltimore. The Harrisburg Mail, and a Glimpse of the City. A Canal Boat; A Jaunt to the Looking-Glass Prairie and Back; etc. Illustrated Books. Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Travel Experiences. (Book ID 103) $75.00

Dickens, Charles Bleak House.
Bradbury and Evans. London, England. 1853. First Edition. Illustrated by Browne, H.K. First Edition in book form. xvi, 624 pages; illustrated; bound in quarter tan leather with gilt tooling and title on a black field on the spine, raised bands. Former owner's bookplate on the inside cover and signature in ink on the inside flyleaf. Some darkening to frontis and first title page, light foxing near some the plates (complete), otherwise a clean tight copy. Dickens's great story of a will, lawyers and the families involved in a multi-generational lawsuit and its results on all involved. Condition: Fine. Dickens, English Literature, Law and Lawyers, England. DK-17 (Book ID 9835) $375.00

Dickens, Charles The Short Stories of Charles Dickens
The Limited Editions Club. New York. 1971.. Illustrated by Ardizzone, Edward. 3/4 cloth with patterned boards, gilt trim on cover, gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Patterned slip case (matches book cover), spine label. No. 482 of 1500 copies. Signed by illustrator and designer-printer. 423 pages. 6 3/4" x 10". Color plates. Selected and Introduced by Walter Allen. Book contains numerous short stories by Dickens: The Boarding House; Horatio Sparkins; Mr. Minns and His Cousin; Mrs. Larriper's Lodgings; Dr. Marigold; Mugby Junction; Hunted Down; George Silverman's Explanation; etc. Illustrated Books. English Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Fiction. Novelist. Journalist. Editor. Limited Editions. (Book ID 104) $100.00

Dickens, Charles; Edited By George Pierce Baker Charles Dickrens and Maria Beadnell Private Correspondence
The Bibliophile Society. Boston. 1908. First Edition. Publisher's paper (immitating vellum) over boards. A fine copy of the book in a very good publisher's double slipcase. Black and white and color illustrations. Limited to 493 copies. This copy belonged to Dickens's bibliographer John C. Eckel ("The First Editions of the Writings ofCharles Dickens and Their Value", Chapman & Hall, 1913) ) and has his very attractive bookplate on the front pastedown. 152 pages, plus unpaginated illustrated section and colophon at end. Condition: Fine. Literary Letters. Association Copies. (Book ID 8584) $75.00

Disraeli the Younger The Infernal Marriage
William Jackson (Books) Ltd.. London. 1929. Vellum Backed Cloth. Illustrated by Austen, John. No. 744 of 850 copies printed at The Curwen Press. Gilt trim at vellum edges, gilt lettering front cover and spine. Color and black and white illustrations, full and partial page. Gilt edged page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Some unopened pages. Small stain bottom last page of Introduction to page 3, text unaffected. The Introductory Note mentions that this work and "Ixion", both by Disraeli, were published in 1834 and "...it is significant that though he later wrote more profound, more sustained works, never did he write anything more brilliant and witty than 'Ixion' and 'The Infernal Marriage'." "The author's father, a learned bibliophile and erudite historian, thought they were his best work, and many a later critic has agreed with that judgement". "...unsurpassed in English literature as romantic, fantastic 'contes', or 'middles' as future historian will probably come to call them". Illustrated Books. English Literature. Curwen Press. Literary Works. Satire. Fiction. Contes. Middles. (Book ID 105) $47.50

Disraeli, Benjamin or, the First Earl of Beaconsfield Hugnenden Edition: Novels and Tales of the Earl of Beaconsfield with Portrait and Sketch of His Life
Longmans Green & Co.. London. 1881. 11 volumes, complete. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 3, page 773. Original publishe'sr grayish brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Front cover with blue background and gilt coat of arms of Beaconsfield. Slight wear at corners, buta handsome set and very good. Consists of: 1. Vivian Grey. 2. The Young Duke and Count Alarcos. 3. Contarini Fleming and The Rise of Iskander. 4. Alroy, Ixion in Heaven, the Infernal Marriage and Popanilla. 5. Henrietta Temple. 6. Venetia. 7. Sybil. 8. Tancred. 9. Coninsby. 10. Lothair. 11. Endymion British Politics and Literature. Sets Prime Minister. Judiaca. (Book ID 5290) $200.00

Dobie, J. Frank John C. Duval, First Texas Man of Letters: His Life and Some of His Unpublished Writings.
Southwest Review. Dallas, Texas. 1939. First Edition. Illustrated by Sketches By Tom Lea. 1000 copies printed. 105 pages; sketches; buff boards with brown backstrip, gilt lettering. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "T E.G. Gillett, from John H. McGinnis. Christmas, 1939", Gillett was a Texas newspaperman who had a Texas town named after him, McGinnis was Editor of the Southwest Review. A biography of John C. Duval (1816-1897), noted Texas story teller and surveyor. Most famous for EARLY TIMES IN TEXAS (18 ), THE ADVENTURES OF BIGFOOT WALLACE (1870), among other works. Includes a bibliography of his writings and Duval's Unpublished Writings. First published in the SOUTHWEST REVIEW during 1939. Condition: Very Good. J. Frank Dobie, Texas, John C., Duval. DK-75 (Book ID 11534) $75.00

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