Displayed below are some selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1920

INTERIOR DESIGN - WALLPAPER) Leigh, Conrad H. (illus)
        Wallpapers and Decorations. The Latest Designs and Choicest Colouring, Are to Be Found at John Gilkes & Sons (Limited) The Prudential Buildings 146 North St., Brighton
      No date. Ca. 1920.. Color lithographic poster, 46 3/4 x 31 1/4 inches. Little paper loss to upper edge, tears (up to 1 1/2 inch) and chips to edges, soft creases from rolling, clean and bright. Elegant poster design by Conrad Leigh, who also produced wallpaper designs for manufacturers John Gilkes and Sons. The poster was lithographed by J. J. Keliher & Co. Ltd. Litho. of London. .

      [Bookseller: oldimprints.com]

Bonnard, Pierre
        Original Pastel Drawing of a seated nude by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
      ca 1920-1930 - Original pastel drawing of a seated nude, 11 x 7 inches in beige mat with black border, 18 x 14 inches. A sensuous color pastel sketch with rich blues and greens in the background of fleshy peach nude. Signed in the corner by Bonnard. In excellent condition, ready to be framed. Authenticity has been established by Swann Galleries, but debated by a Bonnard scholar. Priced accordingly. Pierre Bonnard (October 3,1867 - January 23, 1947) was a French painter and printmaker known particularly for the decorative qualities of his paintings and his individual use of colour. During his life he was associated with other artists, Edouard Vuillard being a good friend, and he was a founding member of the Nabis. His work is part of the permanent collections at the Met, MoMA, Guggenheim, the Louvre, and other major museums. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Caliban Books Pittsburgh PA, ABAA]

E. M. Forster
        THE STORY OF THE SIREN
      Richmond: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1920. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Octavo. Contents are in Very Good condition; blue marbled wrappers are quite edgeworn, particularly at the spine where they are separated; according to Woolmer, this is the state “c” of the paper label; bearing the bookplate of noted Orientalist and linguist, Edward Denison Ross on the verso of the front cover; digital images can be made available upon request. Woolmer 9.

      [Bookseller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller]

WODEHOUSE PG
        Love Among the Chickens
      London: George Newnes In the soft covers with title in yellow on a red background, image of 3 persons in a farmyard checking out the chickens! Not dated but the dedication to W Towned is dated 1920. 6D edition. 128 pp, NO ink names or other such personal dedications, most pages lightly browned as is normal with the cheap paper. (have been told that this is probably the Second Reset Newnes paperback edition? of 1932) An excellent copy of a very scarce title.

      [Bookseller: Madoc Books]

Hardy, Thomas
        The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse, with Preface and Notes, in Twenty-One Volumes - Anniversary Edition
      NY: Harper, 1920. 21 volumes in original cloth. Limited to 1250 numbered sets, of which this is number 785. First edition thus. Published NY: Harper, 1920. 8vo., 6 1/2" x 9", bound in burgundy cloth with gilt tiles and blind emboss cover design, top edge gilting. Each volume illustrated with a unique frontis and three engraved plates, all with printed tissue guards. Sweat discoloration to the covers of most volumes - from mild to moderate, not affecting the pastedowns or endpapers. Rear outer hinge split on vol xi, closed tear at the crown of vol ii, else a very good, unworn set.. 1st. Hard. Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

      [Bookseller: The Wild Muse]

Kipling, Rudyard
        RUDYARD KIPLING'S COMPLETE WORKS. Leather Library Set Complete in 25 volumes.
      New York: Doubleday Page & Co, 1920 - 1924. Bound in full red leather bindings. These are limp leather bindings. Gilded spines. Top edges are gilded. 7.25 inches tall. 20 inches of shelf space. Very good condition, the leather is very fresh and supple, the hinges are all sound. Some light general rubs/wear. Early inscription. Internally clean, fresh, and bright. Appears free of foxing. The spines are ornately and elaborately gilded, and this set displays beautifully.

      [Bookseller: Merchants Rare Books, LLC]

Rackham, Arthur; Evans, C.s
        The Sleeping Beauty
      London: Heinemann. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED LIMITED DELUXE FIRST EDITION, one of only 625 copies, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with mounted full-color plate in pictorial border, three double-page silhouette illustrations with color, two full-page silhouette drawings with color, plus fourteen full- or double-page silhouette illustrations in black, and many illustrations within the text. Told by C.S. Evans and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Heinemann, (1920). Quarto, original half vellum over cream boards, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Soiling to edges of boards. An extremely good copy of book that is unusually prone to wear.

      [Bookseller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company]

RACKHAM. ARTHUR. Illustrates
        THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. Told by C. S. Evans
      William Heinemann. London. 1920. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Large 8vo. (10.1 x 7.5 inches). Colour silhouette frontis and 3 colour double page silhouette plates. Tipped in colour plate and 49 black and white silhouette drawings, 8 of them full page. Green and white Illustrated endpapers by Rackham. Neat previous owners three line inscription to the front free endpaper but generally a tight and fresh copy in the publishers red cloth spine with black lettering and decoration. Boards illustrated and lettered in red and black. In the original brown paper dustwrapper which is illustrated and lettered in black. Closed tear to the bottom of the front panel. Some minor chipping to the edges, the spine a little toned and some minor abrasions to the edges but overall a near fine, bright and tight copy of this beautiful book in a very good dustwrapper.

      [Bookseller: Paul Foster Books]

ROTHFELD. OTTO. Dhurandhar. M. V. Illustrates
        WOMEN OF INDIA
      Simkin, Marshall Himilton, Kent & Co, Ltd. London. No Date. [1920]. FIRST EDITION. (U. K.). Large 8vo. (9.8 x 7.8 inches). Illustrated with 48 fine full colour plates, each with a printed tissue guard, (except the frontispiece which has lost its guard but the colour plate is still clean and bright). Some light patches of mild foxing to a few pages, mostly to the margins and away from the text, but overall a very good copy in the publishers highly decorative cloth binding. Spine and front board decorated in yellow, red, blue, and white over green cloth. Black lettering. Prize label from the Royal Air Force's R. M. Groves Memorial Essay Prize, dated 1923, on the front free endpaper. A portrait photo of R. M. Groves (1880-1920), in his R. A. F uniform and with his facsimile signature, is mounted onto the front paste down endpaper, as is usual with the prize books given. The cloth is bumped and rubbed to the extremities with a couple of splits to the hinges (both about 1.5 inches long and without any loss) but overall this is a very good copy of this rare first U. K. edition.

      [Bookseller: Paul Foster Books]

FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940)
        This Side of Paradise
      New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Printing ("Published April, 1920" and Scribner's Seal on copyright page), one of only 3000 copies. 8vo: [8],305,[1]pp. Publisher's blue-green B cloth, lettered in blind to upper board and in gilt to spine, fore-edge untrimmed. Two neat owners’ signatures, on front paste down and front fly leaf, otherwise Fine, square and tight with bright gilt; clean, crisp pages; unmarked inside and out. Bruccoli A5.I.a. & Fitzgerald's first novel, the title drawn from the penultimate line of 'Tiare Tahiti' (1914) by the English poet Rupert Brooke. A semi-autobiographical work that "presents episodes from the boyhood, adolescence and young manhood of its protagonist, Amory Blaine, taking in his relationship with his mother, his schooldays, his student years, his eclectic reading, his ventures into verse and fiction, his love affairs, his service in World War One, his philosophical and political notions, and his changing ideas of himself, of others, and of the world." The book enjoyed both commercial and critical success, with 12 printings in 1920 and 1921 alone, totaling 49,075 copies, and launched its author to instant fame at the age of twenty-three and "seemed to catch the spirit of a generation of privileged young Americans growing up in the fast-changing world of the early twentieth century. . . . H. L. Mencken judged it '[t]he best American novel that I have seen of late' . . . . Fitzgerald had undoubtedly arrived." (The Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

      [Bookseller: Fine Editions Ltd]

Carter, Capt. Robert Goldthmaite (U.S. Army)
        PURSUIT OF KICKING BIRD - A Campaign In The Texas Badlands
      Washinton, D.C.: Gibson Bros.. SIGNED/Ltd.to less than 100 Copies. Contents clean & tight/V.G.+. 1920. First Edition. Brown Wraps. best known as a proponent of peace and accommodation with whites. Kicking Bird's close relationship with white men made enemies among his own people. At the same time, the ranks of such War Chiefs a Satanta & Lone Wolf swelled as Hostile Kiowas continued raiding settlements in Texas. Capt. Carter went out after Kicking Bird in Texas in 1871, when Satanta was captured after the Salt Creek Massacre. In 1872 Kicking Bird and some of his Sub-Chiefs stayed at Fort Sill. He was poisoned in 1874 by his own people on account of a suspicion that he was becoming too friendly with the whites. See Howes #C-197. Very Rare! No Chipping to wraps. - Very Nice Condition. .

      [Bookseller: pahaska books]

ELIOT, T[homas] S[tearns]
        The Sacred Wood. Essay on Poetry and Criticism
      London, Methuen & Co. (1920).. XVIII, 155 (1) pp. OLn. Rü. etw. gebleicht, Kanten berieb. EA. Gallup A5 - First edition. - Publisher's blue cloth boards, title blindstamped on front cover, spine lettered in gilt, with type of publisher at foot of spine measuring approx. 3mm. height. Some wear with rubbing to edges, spine somewhat darkened, lacking the rare dust jacket. A good copy. - Eliot’s collection of essays on poetry and criticism covers such masters of verse as Dante and Blake as well as his critical views of poetic drama, rhetoric, blank verse and other critics such as Ben Johnson, Swinburne and Phillip Massinger.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Burgverlag]

[DULAC, EDMUND]. Rosenthal, Leonard
        (Dulac, Edmund) The Kingdom of the Pearl
      Brentano's New York: Brentano's, (1920). Quarto. 151pp. One of 100 copies, signed by the illustrator, Edmund Dulac. With ten mounted color plates by Dulac. Rosenthal, a Parisian jeweler, commissioned Dulac to illustrate his work on the history and intrigue of the pearl. Drawing his inspiration from the Middle and Far East, these ten exquisitely colored illustrations are among the finest of Dulac's book illustrations. They are also among the last he would produce, as enthusiasm for deluxe illustrated editions waned in the years immediately following World War I. Along with the Arabian Nights, this is one of the scarcer books in Dulac's oeuvre. In the publisher's binding of vellum-backed gilt-decorated boards. Extremities show slight toning, else a fine, bright copy.

      [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers ]

DULAC, EDMUND]. Rosenthal, Leonard.
        Dulac, Edmund) The Kingdom of the Pearl.
      New York Brentano's (1920) - Quarto. 151pp. One of 100 copies, signed by the illustrator, Edmund Dulac. With ten mounted color plates by Dulac. Rosenthal, a Parisian jeweler, commissioned Dulac to illustrate his work on the history and intrigue of the pearl. Drawing his inspiration from the Middle and Far East, these ten exquisitely colored illustrations are among the finest of Dulac's book illustrations. They are also among the last he would produce, as enthusiasm for deluxe illustrated editions waned in the years immediately following World War I. Along with the Arabian Nights, this is one of the scarcer books in Dulac's oeuvre. In the publisher's binding of vellum-backed gilt-decorated boards. Extremities show slight toning, else a fine, bright copy. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA]

Laurie Y. Erskine
        "The Laughing Rider"
      England [no date]. (Poster) Very good. 12" X 197 / 8" on stiff art board. In very good condition with bright colours. Some wear and darkening around edges. A dark and intreguing cover. "The Laughing Rider" by Laurie Y. Erskine Original watercolour art for dustjacket of book: "The Laughing Rider" by Laurie York Erskine. H & S [Hodder and Stoughton] - Adventures of Renfrew of the Royal North-West Mounted Police. Undated Ca. 1920's-1930's..

      [Bookseller: Aquila Books]

Lewis, Sinclair
        MAIN STREET
      New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe. 1920. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards, FEP cut out, owner address, chips to spine crown. Was initially awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, but was rejected by the Board of Trustees, who overturned the jury's decision. In 1926 Lewis refused the Pulitzer when he was awarded it for Arrowsmith. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

      [Bookseller: Rare Book Cellar]

Monet, Claude, French painter (1840-1926).
        Autograph Letter Signed.
      Giverny par Vernon-Eure, 21. X. 1920. - 8vo. 2 pp. With original autograph transmittal envelope. In Pencil. Monet writes a short note to French novelist and critic Georges Lecomte, thanking him for the recent article in "The Renaissance": "Mon cher ami, Excusez-moi je vous en prie, de ne vous avoir encore remercié du bel article que vous m'avez consacré dans la Renaissance, mais j'avais seulement de revenir d'un petit séjour [ ] et je m'empresse de vous adresser avec mes remerciements mon souvenir de bonne amitié".

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]

London, Jack
        HEARTS OF THREE
      New York: Macmillan, 1920. First American edition. Fine/Very Good. First printing in the scarce, unrestored dust jacket. An about Fine copy of the book with bright gilt, sharp boards and likely unread. A contemporary owner's name on the front paste-down and some minor dust soiling to the top of the page block and boards, otherwise about as fresh as one is likely to find this title. In a Very Good example of the scarce dust jacket, showing the original price and mostly complete, but with minor chips to spine ends, toning to spine and some rubbing to the spine and illustrated front panel. Overall an impressive copy of London's posthumously published treasure-hunting novel, originally envisioned as a movie scenario. Additional images available upon request. Fine in Very Good. dust jacket.

      [Bookseller: Whitmore Rare Books]

Albert Payson Terhune
        ARTIFACT: TERHUNE'S DESK CHAIR
      Terhune's original wing-back desk chair, 1920. . Restored with new leather but preserving most of the original buttons and brass tacks.

      [Bookseller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd, ABAA]

Sandburg, Carl:
        SMOKE AND STEEL
      New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.. Printed boards. First edition of the poet's third substantial collection. Fine in very good, lightly smudged and sunned dust jacket with a handful of small nicks.

      [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-]

Kelly, Richard Barrett Talbot (1896-1971)
        The Smug Dragon
      n.p., [c. 1920?]. 10-3/4 x 14-1/2 inches. Watercolor.

      [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller]

Gesell, Silvio.:
        Die natürliche Wirtschaftsordnung durch Freiland und Freigeld.
      Rehbrücke bei Berlin, Freiland-Freigeldverlag 1920 - das Buch ist in gutem Zustand,Einband etwas berieben/bestossen, Seiten altersbedingt nachgedunkelt, teilsweise etwas fingerfleckig, 392 'S. Deutsch 580g [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: ANTIQUARIAT Gerald Hermann Franke]

KEYNES, John Maynard
        THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE
      London:: Macmillan,, 1920. First Edition. Very Good. Very Good hardback First Edition First printing in the original blue cloth binding, gilt lettering spine. Mild cover edge wear, sun spine, soil edges. Mild toning eps. Prior owner inscription front paste down. From the library of C. David Cronon, former Dean of the College of Letters & Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison with his stamp ffep. No writing or marking in the text. Binding tight. 8vo. vii, 279 pp.

      [Bookseller: By The Book, LC ABAA-ILAB]

N/a
        The Diary of Samuel Pepys
      London - G. Bell and Sons. Ltd., 1920 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A handsome set of The Diary of Samuel Pepys with a portrait of Pepys to frontispiece of of volume one, from the pictures by Sir Godfrey Kneller in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Transcribed by the late Rev. Mynors Bright M. A. from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Edited, with additions and a preface by Henry B. Wheatley and with Particulars of the Life of Samuel Pepys to front of first volume. Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (23 February 1633 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy. The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London. Condition: In a handsome half calf binding with cloth covered boards. Externally, smart with only minor shelfwear and the very occasional mark to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Generally bright and clean throughout but with some foxing and offsetting from binding to endpapers. Overall: NEAR FINE.

      [Bookseller: Rooke Books]

May Gibbs
        Little Ragged Blossom and More About Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
      Sydney: Angus & Robertson Ltd, 1920. Undated, Marcie Muir 2752 states 1920. Illustrated covers with coloured pictorial inlay, colour frontispiece and one full page colour illustration, 20 full page sepia and white illustrations, numerous black and white line drawings in text. 98pp. Publisher gift inscription to W Cousins on front endpaper, 1918 added afterwards in pencil. Dustwrapper marred by a large piece missing from front cover, otherwise in very good condition. Book has been well protected by wrapper and only flaws are very faint age shading to endpapers and some age spotting visible to page edges when book is shut. More scans available.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

      [Bookseller: Mayger & Mayger Pty Ltd]

Dos Passos, John
        One Man's Initiation
      London: George, Allen and Unwin, 1920. Hard Cover. Very Good. Hard Cover. First edition, second state. HANDWRITTEN SIGNED POSTCARD FROM AUTHOR LAID IN. This is the author';s first novel, published in London before the US edition. Based on his experience in WWI, the novel sets the stage for Dos Passos';s Three Soldiers (which brought him international attention). The laid in postcard dated 6/15/59 reads "Shall be delighted to inscribe the book if you';ll send it to me here. Have you tried the Gotham Book Mart ... or one of the big London secondhand book stores - it was published there by Allen & Unwin in 1920 (?). The only copy I have is the Philosophical Library reprint ... Cordial Regards John Dos Passos." The original envelope addressed to John S. Mayfield is also laid in. Very good in blue cloth boards with black title to spine and front board. Fading to spine although the title remains bright. Offsetting to first and last couple of pages and remnants a sticker on the rear pastedown; otherwise the interior is very clean. In very good condition. 128 pages. LIT/051011.

      [Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop]

India. Burma. Ceylon. Murray's Handbook:
        A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon, including all British India, The Portuguese and French Possessions, and the Protected Native States. Tenth Edition. SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY IN SIGNED HATCHARDS BINDING
      John Murray, 1920. Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, on India Paper, with 38 folding coloured maps, 11 full-page maps and plans (a number coloured), numerous illustrations, plans and tables (several full-page) in the text, and a very large folding coloured map mounted on cloth in pocket at rear, some mild offsetting to blank preliminaries, endpapers very lightly age-soiled; handsomely bound in full crushed red morocco BY HATCHARDS, upper board lettered in gilt, back with five shaped raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, wide gilt doublures elaborately tooled in gilt with a floral border enclosing multiple frames, laid paper endpapers, red, yellow and green silk head- and tail-bands, red buckram pocket, a splendid and ornate copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. IT WAS COMMISSIONED BY GUY WESTMACOTT WHOSE NAME IS LETTERED IN GILT ON FRONT BOARD (this could well be Guy Randolph Westmacott of the Grenadier Guards). A SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY OF THE ONE OF THE BEST EDITIONS OF THE FINEST TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO INDIA AND SURROUNDING REGION. Very scarce in any condition. . Catalogs: india.

      [Bookseller: Island Books [formerly of Devon]]

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
        THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
      New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First edition. Near Fine. A bright, Near Fine copy of Fitzgerald's first book. A bit dusty on the top edge and a few scattered spots on the early pages. With the front panel of what appears to be an original/early dust jacket laid in. First published in a print run of just 3,000 copies, which sold out within three days. "Gatsby," by way of comparison, was published in an initial run of 20,000 copies. & & Fitzgerald's somewhat autobiographical novel about a mid-western boy who goes east for his education at Princeton. Cobbled together from several bits and pieces of writing and rushed to print in an attempt by the love-struck 22 year old Fitzgerald to entice Zelda with a life of literary celebrity. The week after publication they were married and officially launched as American literature';s newest power couple. Near Fine.

      [Bookseller: Whitmore Rare Books]

SAMAIN, ALBERT
        AU JARDIN DE L' INFANTE. SUIVI DE PLUSIEURS POEMES
      Paris, Ferroud, 1920.** . Giraldon, Adolphe.. Relié nouveau, demi - veau avec dos doré, plats de papier marbré, 13x19,5cm, (2) couverture originale, 187pp, couverture originale, (2), illustré, culs-de-lampe,vignettes, N° 835 de 1000 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin d' Arches, avec un état en couleurs. Illustre d' Art Nouveau periode par Adolphe Giraldon,

      [Bookseller: ERIK TONEN BOOKSELLER]

STRAUSS, Richard 1864-1949
        Autograph letter signed ("Richard Strauss") to the German-born American composer, pianist and musicologist Erwin Bodky
      Octavo. One page of a bifolium. Dated July 1, 1920. On Strauss's letterhead, with "Landhaus Richard Strauss Garmisch" imprinted at upper left. In German. With autograph envelope. & & Strauss warns Bodky that life is expensive in Garmisch and offers an alternative: "If your financial means do not permit you to travel, I would be quite willing... to give you some lessons when I will be in Berlin again in the second half of January 1921. The same goes for Stiebitz or Solomon."& & Slightly worn; creased at folds; envelope browned. . "[Strauss] emerged soon after the deaths of Wagner and Brahms as the most important living German composer. During an artistic career which spanned nearly eight decades, he composed in virtually all musical genres, but became best known for his tone poems (composed during the closing years of the 19th century) and his operas (from the early decades of the 20th)." Bryan Gilliam and Charles Youmans in Grove online& & Bodky studied with Dohnányi, Juon, Kahn and others at the Musikhochschule in Berlin, going on to win a fellowship from the Prussian government that enabled him to continue piano studies with Busoni and composition with Strauss. His compositions include a piano concerto, a chamber symphony, and chamber music, all apparently unpublished. He taught at the Longy School of Music in Boston and at Brandeis University.

      [Bookseller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC]

FRANCILL, Maurice J. [COWGILL, Francis]
        Collection of America's Radio Wizard
      Circa 1920s - 1930s. A collection of ephemera and photographs relating to Maurice J. Francill (1896-1974), "America's Radio Wizard," who traveled the country in the 1920s and 1930s giving exhibitions of his radio control technology on cars, trains, boats, and various industrial machinery. The group of items include more than a dozen photos of Francill's exhibitions, along with assorted broadsheets, flyers, handbills, press releases, and newspaper clippings concerning his traveling demonstrations. Further details available upon request. .

      [Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABA]

Lindsay, David
        A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS
      London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.,. [1920]. original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, front cover stamped in blind.. Belfast bookseller's small ink-stamp on each paste-down and at top. left corner of page [304]. Private bookplate of a well-known. collector of science fiction affixed to front paste-down. Spine panel. sunned, narrow strip of light sunning along top edge of rear cover,. top edge of text block dusty, some scattered foxing to fore-edge of. text block, a very good copy with tight, clean interior. Nice copies. of the first issue of this book are seldom seen and this is a well. above average copy. (#104175). First edition, first issue, first binding. 1250 copies printed of which this is one of 500 to 600 in the first issue binding. Lindsay's masterpiece. "A classic allegorical romance in which the landscapes and inhabitants of the planet Tormance provide an externalization of the moral and metaphysical questions that preoccupied the author. Its incarnate theological system influenced Lewis's OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET (1938), and it also bears some similarity to George Macdonald's LILITH (1895), although it is very much a work sui generis." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2- 72. "VOYAGE ... has become one of the most widely discussed and debated fantasies of the twentieth century, and it is well on its way to becoming one of the most influential." - Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 2039-45. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-63. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-221. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1019. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 31. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 509. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 140. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 693. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 666. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2383-88. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, p. 127. Bleiler (1978), p. 124. Reginald 09074.

      [Bookseller: L. W. Currey, Inc.]

COOPER, James Fenimore [BROCK, H.M.] [MORRIS, M.]
        The Leather - Stocking Tales. Comprising: The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, and The Prairie. With Illustrations by H.M. Brock and an Introduction by Mowbray Morris
      London: MacMillan and Co., Ltd., 1920's London: MacMillan and Co., Ltd., 1920's, 1920. 5 volumes; 8vo. Original publisher's blind stamped red cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. Trifling wear to extremities, slightly faded to spines, gilt a little dulled to The Prairie volume. A very good set, bright clean and strong. All later Brock printings except for The Prairie which is a first edition with untrimmed edges. A clean and handsome set. Abundantly illustrated with line drawing black and white full page plates.

      [Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books]

[EHON - BOTANICAL] Iwasaki Tsunemasa
        HONSO^ ZUFU
      19. Very Good. [EHON - BOTANICAL] Iwasaki Tsunemasa. HONSO ZUFU. 25.6 X 17.5 cm. [n.p, n.d. Taisho era, Japan] String-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji, 3 volumes from the printed series of 93 volumes (plus a 2 volume index). A small part of Iwasaki's classic work of botanical classification, which was begun in woodcut, then continued in manuscript form during the mid-19th Century. It was finally edited by Shirai and published in final form, printed by color woodblock, in 1920-22. [See Bartlett & Shiohara for much more on this important work] The volumes here included are: Volumes 27, 28 & 29. The impressions and condition are very good. Very lovely group.

      [Bookseller: Boston Book Company]

NA
        Le Cento citta d'Italia illustrate. (Numbers 1-300)
      Milano: Casa editrice Sonzogno, 1920-(1929?). A complete set of 300 numbers; all quarto, 16 pages (except for the Vatican City number that ends the series), and profusely illustrated; now in 6 later cloth bindings with original pictorial paper covers retained; ex library, bindings rubbed, text age toned but not fragile; a popular series with each number devoted to a different city or town in Italy. Photos available upon request.

      [Bookseller: Zubal Books]

Mckay, Claude
        Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems
      London: Grant Richards, 1920. First Edition, first printing of McKay's third publication, his first book of original poetry. Published London: Grant Richard, 1920. Original 8 vo. wrappers, 5 1/8" x 7 7/8", 40 pp., printed on laid paper, bound into tan card wrappers, with printed green publisher's label on cover. Some copies contained a frontis, this one does not. Tiny chip off one corner of label. Covers have minor creasing at the top and bottom edges, otherwise near fine. Pages bright and clean.. 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..

      [Bookseller: The Wild Muse]

        KLINGEN. 3. Aargang.
      Red. af bl.a. Emil Bønnelycke og Poul Henningsen. Kbhvn. 1920. Med originalgrafik af bl.a. Johannes Larsen, Axel Salto, Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Jais Nielsen, Karl Larsen, Sigurd Swane og Svend Johansen. Litterære bidrag af bl.a. William Heinesen og Poul Hennningsen. Fol. 12 numre indbundet med alle orig. omslag i ét samtidigt halvlærredsbind

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]

Pound, Ezra
        Umbra
      London: Elkin Mathews, 1920. Original quarter white parchment, gray boards, gilt lettering, untrimmed bottom and foredge, gilt top edge. Gallup A20b. Parchment and boards a little soiled, but a very nice copy. 100 printed on handmade paper, numbered and signed "Ezra Pound", and four "out of series" copies lettered A-D and signed with initials "EP". This is copy 'B'. (Gallup A20b) Binding (special copies): grey paper boards with vellum spine lettered in gold, grey endpapers, natural silk ribbon marker (bindings of out of series copies vary). Photos available upon request. Copy "A' is in the Beinecke Library at Yale University. We welcome all inquiries.. SIGNED. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

      [Bookseller: Karl W. Theis & Sons]

POUND, Ezra
        Umbra. The Early Poems
      London: Elkin Matthews,, 1920. All that he now wishes to keep in circulation from "Personae," "Exhultations," "Ripostes," etc. With translations from Guido Cavalcanti and Arnaut Daniel and poems by the late T. E. Hulme. Octavo. Original cloth backed boards, grey paper sides,titles to spine and front board in dark blue. With the dust jacket. Backstrip spotted, spots to edges and partial tanning to endpapers; a very good copy in the spinetanned jacket with a few spots, chips to ends and a few smaller chips to corners and edges. First edition, first impression, of this collection of poems chosen by Pound himself. Very scarce in the jacket.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Beerbohm, Max:
        "THE REACTION TOWARDS A MORE JUDICIAL METHOD OF CRITICISM" [caption title. Original drawing]
      [Np]. 1920.. Landscape format (22 x 27 cm), pencil and ink wash on paper. Matted and framed under glass. Very, very slight toning to paper, but in visible fine condition (not examined out of frame). With exhibition label retained on verso. A fine caricature by Beerbohm, signed by the artist, "Max 1920." The image was published in A SURVEY in 1921, and exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in May of 1921, where it was purchased (according to the retained LG label) by poet John Drinkwater. The caricature shows an Elder Critic and a Younger Critic, standing image left of a table, on which is a barrister's wig on a stand. In addition to the caption title, the text reads: "Elder Critic: 'And what is that - er - rather peculiar object? ' Younger Critic: 'My hat, sir.'" A variant, perhaps preliminary, version is in the Clark Library, with the figures reversed, unsigned, and with the caption partially torn away. HART-DAVIS 1989.

      [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-]

LASKER-SCHÜLER, Else
        Essays
      Bln., Cassirer 1920.. 2. Aufl. 103 S. OKart. Mit Einbandill. der Verf. Einbd. berieb., Klammerrost. Marabacher Mgazin 71/1995. S. 156 - Mit eh., 3-zeil. Widmung und Zeichnung der Verfasserin a. d. Titelbl., dat. 1921. "Jussuf, der Prinz von Theben".

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Burgverlag]

[NIELSEN, Kay] ANDERSEN, Hans
        Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen
      London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, n.d.(ca 1920's)., 1920. FIRST NIELSEN EDITION. 4to. Publisher's light blue cloth with elaborate gilt design and titles to spine and upper board; pictorial end papers. Illustrated with 12 colour plates with captioned tissues and monochrome plates and drawings within text. Ownership. Covers and gilt bright. Content tight and spotless. A fine copy. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.

      [Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books]

Gontard, Susette] - Frida Arnold u. Carl Viëtor (Hg.)
        Die Briefe der Diotima.
      Leipzig, Insel, 1920 - Gr.8°, 72 S. u. ein Begleitheft m. 25 S. als Beilage., OHLdr., goldgepr. Rücken, m. 5 Zierbünden, Kopfgoldschnitt., Rücken min. beschienen, fliegender Vorsatz u. 1 Vakatbl. m. min. gebräunten Ecken, sonst schönes Exemplar. EA. (= Veröffentlichung der Januspresse, Nr. 4). Nummeriertes Ex. Nr. 140/320, auf Büttenpapier. Beilage mit Anmerkungen und Nachwort zu den Briefen der Diotima. Der Band enthält die Briefe Susette Gontards an Hölderlin. 1100 gr. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: antiquariat peter petrej]

NIELSEN, KAY:
        A Jester (or a sorcerer?).
      1920 1920 - Shaded pencil drawing. No date. (1920's). 25,6 x 17,8 cm. Matted. On the back an ink drawing of a lady in Edwardian dress. In the background a couple watching. Not signed. Matted.

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell, Antiquarian Bookseller]

Burroughs, Edgar Rice
        Tarzan The Untamed
      Chicago, Illinois: A.C. McClurg & Co.. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1920. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 5 x 7.5 in.: 428 pages. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Boards are original olive-green cloth with front and spine panels stamped in dark brown. Light wear to edges of boards with a small dent in top edge of front cover. Starting to separate at front and rear endpapers, which has been well-repaired with archival tape. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (no names, bookplates or writing), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except as indicated). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Includes a beautiful frontispiece and eight additional black and white illustrations by J. Allen St. John. : B&W Illustrations .

      [Bookseller: KEENER BOOKS & COLLECTIBLES]

Glas, Erich und Phaedrus.
        Phädrus Augusti Libertus: Aesopische Fabeln. Acht Holzschnitte.,
      Berlin : Amsler & Ruthardt [ca. 1920]. - 2 Bl. Titelei, [9] Bl. : Holzschn. unter Passepartout. Sennewald 20. - - - Nr. 40 von 50 Exemplaren, im Druckvermerk voll signiert. 8 voll signierte Holzschnitte und ein Hs.-Initial (monogrammiert) unter Passepartout. Mappe gering berieben, Deckel leicht gewölbt, leicht stockfleckig. Passepartout teils gering stockfleckig, sonst gut. Sprache: de Gewicht in Gramm: 750 28,5*21 cm. OHalbpergament-Flügelmappe, goldgepr. Rückentitel.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat BehnkeBuch]

[Costume]; [Dress]; [Laboureur, Jean-Emile; Brissaud, Pierre, Benito Edouardo; et al]
        GOÛT DU JOUR
      Paris: Francis Bernouard, June 20 - December 20, 1920. 13 volumes in the 13 original fascicles. Limited First Edition, One of 1400 printed on Verge d’ Arches. With 41 engraved plates, 40 of which are hand-coloured, each captioned. 8vo, each fascicle in its original paper wrappers printed and decorated in several colours, and each one in original glassine as well. Now nicely boxed. A very fine set indeed, essentially without flaw. RARE FIRST EDITION. A beautifully illustrated record of fashion in the heady first years after the Great War. A time known and remembered for decadence and new styles as clothing entered the Mod era and women began to liberate themselves from the heavy formal clothing of the past. The plates depict fashion for both men and women, and included clothing, hairstyles and even furniture. Many of the Art Deco period’s best engravers and illustrators in France were involved. Among them; George Gorvel, J.E. Laboureur, Llano Florez, Gabriel Daragnès, J.E. Laboureur, Llano Florez, Gabriel Daragnès, Robert Bonfils and more.

      [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc.]

Adam Hargrave L.)
        THE POLICE ENCYCLOPAEDIA. 8 Volumes
      The Waverley Book Co. 1920 - Hardback. Eight Volumes. With a Preface by Sir Robert Anderson. The author has provided a mass of information about the origin, growth and organisation (at the time) of the Police Forces of the United Kingdom. Profusely Illus. + coloured Frontis/tissue-guard in Vol. I. lge. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Also pub. by Blackfriars Publishing Co. 1918 plus Waverley Book Co. 1920 and 1925. The Waverley Edn. was 'specially prepared for subscribers.' All 8 volumes have sunned sps. and sl. fading along top edges. Blue cloth/gilt lettering to sp. with Scales of Justice also in gilt. Vg. The combined weight is approx. 7kg. which will require additional postage. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Loretta Lay Books]

Hubble, Edwin
        A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae
      Washington, D.c.: Carnegie Institu. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of Edwin Hubble's landmark paper documenting what would later become known as Hubble's Law, stating that there is a proportional relationship between a galaxy's recession velocity and its distance from the Earth. One of the most profound discoveries in science, Hubble's data provided evidence of an expanding universe, thereby providing the essential argument for the Big Bang theory, proving the natural implications of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, and ultimately allowing for the determination of the age of the universe. By the early 1920's advances in spectroscopy had allowed for the observance of a curious "redshifting" of galaxies, indicating that the majority of galaxies seemed to be receding from the Milky Way. The evidence was rudimentary and inconclusive and "various weird and wonderful explanations were put forward, but there was no consensus. The case of the receding galaxies remained a mystery until Edwin Hubble applied his mind and his telescope to the problem. When he entered the debate he saw no point in wild theorizing, particularly when the power of the mighty 100-inch Mount Wilson telescope held the promise of new data." To solve the redshift mystery, Hubble and his assistant Milton Humason "divided the work between them. Humason would measure the Doppler shifts of numerous galaxies, and Hubble set about measuring their distances... By 1929 Hubble and Humason had gauged the redshifts and distances for forty-six galaxies." Using only the twenty that were within an acceptable margin of error for their measurements, Hubble plotted velocity versus distance for each galaxy. "In almost every case the galaxies were redshifted, implying they were receding. Also, the points on the graph seemed to indicate that the velocity of a galaxy strongly depended on its distance. Hubble drew a straight line through the data, suggesting that the velocity of a given galaxy was proportional to its distance from the Earth... "If Hubble was right, the repercussions were immense. The galaxies were not randomly dashing through the cosmos, but instead their speeds were mathematically related to their distances, and when scientists see such a relationship they search for a deeper significance. In this case, the significance was nothing less than the realization that at some point in history all the galaxies in the universe had been compacted into the same small region. This was the first observational evidence to hint at what we now call the Big Bang. It was the first clue that there might have been a moment of creation." (Simon Singh, Big Bang). Two additional implications of Hubble's discovery were that, through the use of Hubble's Law and the accurate determination of Hubble's proportionality constant, the age of the universe could be determined; also, it confirmed the natural result of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity which predicted an expanding universe (before Einstein added his "cosmological term" to prevent this seemingly impossible conclusion). After Hubble's discovery proved the unnecessary and incorrect inclusion of the forced "cosmological term" in Einstein's theory, Einstein sought out Hubble to congratulate him, later calling his cosmological term "the biggest blunder he ever made in his life." In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 3. [Washington, D.C.]: Carnegie Institution, 1929. The entire volume offered. Quarto, elegant modern three-quarter morocco. A few stamps to outer corner of a few pages (none to Hubble paper). Binding and Hubble paper in fine condition.

      [Bookseller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company]

Warren Harding
        Harding Gushes With Affection For His Cronies.A letter to the Charles Forbes family praises the man who would later betray his confidence
      Harding Gushes With Affection For His Cronies.& .& A letter to the Charles Forbes family praises the man who would later betray his confidence.& & President Harding was elected in 1920 and he brought a few friends (known as the "Ohio Gang") with him to the White House. The Gang was led by Harry M. Daugherty (Harding's appointment as Attorney General) and included Albert B. Fall (Secretary of the Interior) and Charles R. Forbes (Veteran's Bureau). These men were corrupt, and after Harding's death scandal after scandal came to light, ruining his reputation in history.& & After it was discovered that Secretary Fall had received several hundred thousand dollars from oilmen Harry Sinclair and Edward Doheny, to whom he had leased naval oil reserves in California and at Teapot Dome, Wyo., the name Teapot Dome was linked with Harding's as a symbol of corruption. Fall, finally convicted of bribery, went to jail, as did others. Daugherty, dismissed by Coolidge, barely escaped their fate. As for Forbes, he figured out how to put taxpayer money, intended to build veteran's hospitals, directly into his own pockets. When this was uncovered he fled to Europe to avoid prosecution, but eventually returned and was sent to prison. The following letter, written while Harding was serving as U.S. Senator from Ohio, is an eye-opening illustration of just how close the future president was with these men.& & Autograph Letter Signed on his personal letterhead, two pages, Washington, December 30, 1918, to Mrs. Charles Forbes, wife of his convivial crony. "Mrs. Harding commands me to write and express the pleasure we had in receiving your card. We had not known before that Major Forbes had become a Lt. Colonel. Of course, we were delighted at the promotion and greatly pleased to hear from you. The writer is doing the secretarial work because Mrs. Harding is in bed and has been there for six weeks - hydro nephrosis. We all think she is doing well now, patient included. Dr. Sawyer was here yesterday and added to her progress by comforting assurances. He inquired concerning Colonel Forbes and yourself, and we could tell him little, except that the soldier had written just before the armistice and we had heard you were in Washington through a letter from Governor Pinkham. The governor is surely a great friend of the Forbes family. By the way, he sent us a package & & of Korea coffee with Christmas greetings. Mrs. Harding was greatly interested in your employment and thinks it fine that you can be engaged in engrossing work in the extended absence of your husband. How fine it is for you to be really well! Long may& & your good fortune continue. Marcia must be fast becoming a young lady. Time fairly flies. It is four years since we first greeted her and you in beautiful Honolulu. Most likely the Lt. Colonel will be returning soon. Very likely we will get to greet him before you do, unless you are coming east. If you will come here to greet him, we will make you both welcome. We are fond of the Forbes." Florence Harding had a serious kidney ailment and almost died a number of times before she became first lady. This stay in bed was the result of one of those episodes. The Pinkham referred to was Lucius Pinkham, Governor of Hawaii Territory at the time. Dr. Sawyer was Charles E. Sawyer, Hardings' personal physician for years in their hometown of Marion, Ohio, who came to serve Harding in the White House.& & No clearer example could be found of the psychology of the future president, as here he freely manifests the very attitude that drew him into the morass. The love and trust he showered on the Forbes family (and his other friends) was touching but sadly misplaced; it would be repaid with ingratitude and betrayal. A very important letter, more personal and revealing than any other we have seen. It is also an uncommon Autograph Letter Signed to the Forbes family, auction records indicating that no other such letter has been offered for sale over the past 30 years.&

      [Bookseller: The Raab Collection]