viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1925

(RACKHAM, Arthur.) MORLEY, Christopher.
        Where the Blue Begins.
      London: William Heinemann; and Doubleday, Page & Co., New York,, [1925]. Quarto. Original black cloth-backed mottled blue green boards, printed labels to spine and front board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Housed in the publisher's green-grey card slipcase. Colour frontispiece, 3 similar plates, and 16 black and white illustrations in text. Extremities lightly rubbed, corners slightly worn, minor worm damage to joints. An excellent copy in a slightly worn slipcase with repairs to extremities. Signed limited edition, number 22 of 100 copies signed by both Rackham and Morley.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

1. Check availability: Biblio Link/Print

KUBELIK, Jan
        [Photo Album]: Souvenir of Cuba
      Cuba. 1925. Oblong quarto. Measuring 10" x 12.5". String-tied black cloth over paper boards with "Photographs" stamped on the front board. Contains 12 sepia toned silver gelatin photographs measuring 7.5" x 9.5", some with captions. Near fine photo album with near fine or better photographs. According to an Inscription, a photo album compiled for famed Czech violinist, Jan Kubelik, after a tour in Cuba in March of 1925. The album contains 12 professionally taken 7.5" x 9.5" photographs depicting notable sites in Cuba. Some of these include Havana Harbor, La Cabana Fort, Prado Street, and Malecon Avenue. The photos show large views of the city's central park and a landscape photo with the Havana skyline in the distance. One photo shows a lovely scene of the Cauto River lined in palm trees as well as the Almendares River and a village of thatched huts from Pinar del Rio.Jan Kubelik was a Czech violinist and composer who wrote and performed up until his death in 1940. His 1925 tour was a major trip planned after taking time off during World War I. When planning a tour he would often head to the United States and Canada with side trips to Mexico and Cuba. This album was created as a souvenir by Juan Torroella to commemorate his 1925 tour.A wonderful collection of large photographs of Cuba with an interesting association. .

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

2. Check availability: IOBABooks Link/Print

Kubin, Alfred
        Rauhnacht 13 Steinzeichnungen von Alfred Kubin Mit einem Vorwort von Otto Stoessl
      Berlin, Volksverband der BÃ¼cherfreunde / Wegweiser-Verlag, 1925. . Erste Ausgabe.- WG 2, 16 (fÃ¼r Kubin), 27 (fÃ¼r Stoessl); Horodisch 229; Raabe 281.- Im Inhaltsverzeichnis von Alfred Kubin SIGNIERT. - Der Gutsherr. Circe. HexenkÃ¼che. Verliebte Zauberer. Behemoth. Ein Wirtshaus am Donaustrand. SchloÃŸ Zwickledt. Vampyre. Leviathan. Der Fang. Kriegskameraden. Der MÃ¼hlteich. Die MÃ¼llerin. - Mappenvorderdeckel und -flÃ¼gel gering fleckig; innen gut und sauber

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel]

3. Check availability: Biblio Link/Print

Russell, George William [A E ]
        The National Being - Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity. [With an original drawing by Russell on the Titlepage].
      London: MAcMillan and Co.. Very good condition. Former library copy with some interesting Patina. Some old newspaper clippings on A.E. taped to the pastetown and endpaper include also a newspaper photograph of the older Russell. The wonderful drawing by A.E. signed in his full name and as A.E. Very Rare !. London, MAcMillan and Co., 1925. 13 cm x 19 cm. 176 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition. Former library copy with some interesting Patina. Some old newspaper clippings on A.E. taped to the pastetown and endpaper include also a newspaper photograph of the older Russell. The wonderful drawing by A.E. signed in his full name and as A.E. Very Rare !

      [Bookseller: The Time Traveller's Bookshop]

4. Check availability: Biblio Link/Print

Burroughs, Edgar Rice
        The Cave Girl
      McClurg, 1925 Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-323 [324: blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by J. Allen St. John, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. First binding with "A. C. McCLURG / & CO" at base of spine panel. 5000 copies printed. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 42. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-59. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 333. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 106. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02277. Heins CaG-1. A fine copy in very good dust jacket that has been lined and professionally restored. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

      [Bookseller: Bookbid Rare Books]

5. Check availability: Biblio Link/Print

AVIATION). LIGNES FARMAN
        Presentation album of the airline service Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam.
      - Large size album bound in marbled boards with leather edges and corners blocked in gold 'Lignes Farman/ Paris/ Bruxelles/ Amsterdam/ Au Général Dumesnil'. 42 x 32 cm. 24 leaves of heavy dark grey clouded paperboard containing 65 original photos printed on gold colored paper. Different sizes (square, round or oval), but a max of 22 and a minimum of 8 cm. Printed captions. About 1925. Spine discolored and a bit thin, worn at the top, some more wear at the foot. A few dents in the delicate covers.* One-of-a-kind oversize photo album offered to the French general Henri Dumesnil (1864-1942), who was manager of the French military service (Aéronautique militaire) from 1920-1927. Paris-based airline Farman and Dutch K.L.M. together organised the daily service between Amsterdam and Paris, with stops in Brussels, Antwerp and/or Rotterdam Waalhaven. One photo shows a Farman, the F-ADFQ over Le Bourget, another a Fokker F.III, the H-NABV.The attractive aerial photos show cities like Brussels, Saint-Quentin, Mechelen, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam. They were for sale in series or apart, with captions set from trendy Cochin type and printed in brown ink, published by the Entreprise Générale de Photographie in Paris. This Enterprise employed its own Farman flying machine for making aerial views and pictures of other airplanes.This is a magnificent, luxurious presentation album with pictures that give a good image of civil aviation around 1925. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis ILAB]

6. Check availability: AbeBooks Link/Print

NIELSEN, Kay) GRIMM, The Brothers.
        Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
      London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1925] - Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in terracotta morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial onlay of the gingerbread house to the front board, inner dentelles gilt, dark green endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Neat contemporary inscription to the bottom of the limitation page otherwise an excellent copy in a fine binding. With twelve tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissues, and ten full page monochrome plates Limited edition of 600 numbered copies of which this is number 424 signed by the illustrator. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington. ABA member]

7. Check availability: AbeBooks Link/Print

MADROLLE, [Cladius].
        INDOCHINE DU NORD: Tonkin, Annam, Laos, Yunnan, Kouang-Tcheou Wan
      Paris 1925, Hatchette. Red cloth, 384p.,29 plates called for. 13 maps, 5 color maps, 2 color folding pocket maps, text. figures, 12 x 18 cm., very clean, bright covers, text also. bright and very clean, second edition.. A WONDERFUL FRENCH GUIDE TO THE INDO-CHINESE COLONIES A most superb and excellent comprehensive guidebook to Indochina: covering Tonkin, Annam, Laos, Hanoi, Haiphong, Baie de Ha-long, Bac-ninh, Long-son, Caobang, Yunnan, Laokai to Mongtseu; Saison, Mont Tanvien, Namh-dinh, Phu li, Chine, Laos, Kabao, Tha-khek, Xieng Khuang, Luang Prabang, and to the French possession in China, ethnography, cults, religion, costume, archaeology &c... * This is not merely a guide to travel, but an important guide to the ethnic peoples and the Vietnamese, to the varied customs, costume, religion and cults, archaeology, languages and to the three states in the region. French text. * COLLATION: The work lists and calls for 44 maps/plans plus two large color folding maps in the back pocket. Some of the listed maps are in the wrong place, most are b.w. some are color, some are folding maps. We could not locate two of those listed but found unlisted color folding map opposite p. 244 and another b.w. on p.253, but did not list all of the unlisted ones. *** Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not always be the exact photo of the copy in stock for sale at any given time. If you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock today, please request this by email. . Photos of most of our books are posted to our .

      [Bookseller: Rare Oriental Book Company, ABAA, ILAB -]

8. Check availability: Biblio Link/Print

MAN RAY]. Cocteau, Jean
        L'ANGE HEURTEBISE; POÈME AVEC UNE PHOTOGRAPHIE DE L'ANGE PAR MAN RAY
      Librairie Stock, Paris 1925 - Folio, (22) leaves printed rectos only, with photogravure frontispiece by Man Ray. Loose as issued in printed wrappers. The frontispiece has left a transfer on the colophon leaf as usual. A fine, unopened copy. Housed in a newly made chemise of paper over boards with a morocco spine, titled in silver ink, housed in a matching paper over boards slipcase. Of a total edition of 300 copies, this is number 47 of 25 copies printed on Hollande Van Gelder. For Cocteau, the Angel Heurtebise was both his guardian and a demon; written during a feverish period of seven days, this is one of his best known poems ".Your beauty, angel of white lead, Caught in a photograph by an Explosion of magnesium." (from an English translation) Jean Cocteau collaborated on many photographically illustrated editions, this was the first. This photogravure from a Rayogram is one of Man Ray's most subtle and beautiful. Additionally, this copy is SIGNED by Cocteau with his customary five point star and the following, "Viens au ralenti folle etoile" (slow down crazy star). [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd., ABAA]

9. Check availability: AbeBooks Link/Print

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963). MARTIN CHARLES (1884-1934).
        SOIGNEZ LA GLOIRE DE VOTRE FIRME ET L'EXCELLENCE DE VOS MARCHANDISES, CAR, SI VOUS LES JUGEZ BONNES, VOTRE INTERET DEVIENT L'INTERET GENERAL.
      DRAEGER FRERES. SANS DATE (VERS 1925). - GRANDE PLAQUETTE IN-4 (31,5 X 38,5 X 1 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 8 PAGES ACCOMPAGNEES DE 11 PLANCHES VOLANTES, COUVERTURE CARTONNEE SOUS JAQUETTE CREME REMPLIEE ENTIEREMENT ILLUSTREE D'UNE COMPOSITION TYPOGRAPHIQUE DE LETTRES ENTREMELEES, IMPRIMEE EN TROIS COULEURS, TITRE IMPRIME EN NOIR SUR ETIQUETTE ROUGE CONTRECOLLEE SUR LE PLAT SUPERIEUR. ILLUSTRE D'UNE SUITE NUMEROTEE DE 11 COMPOSITIONS EN COULEURS HORS TEXTE DE CHARLES MARTIN, TITREES ET LEGENDEES, RETRACANT TOUTES LES ETAPES DE LA CREATION D'UN LIVRE ILLUSTRE. TRES RARE PUBLICATION NE COMPORTANT D'ORIGINE, NI PAGE DE TITRE, NI JUSTIFICATION DE TIRAGE, NI ACHEVER D'IMPRIMER. SEUL UN PAPILLON IMPRIME ET COLLE AU DOS DU PLAT SUPERIEUR PRECISE QUE "CETTE PLAQUETTE, EDITEE PAR DRAEGER FRERES POUR GLORIFIER LES INDUSTRIES DES ARTS GRAPHIQUES, A ETE ECRITE PAR JEAN COCTEAU ET ILLUSTREE PAR CHARLES MARTIN". EDITION ORIGINALE ET PREMIER TIRAGE. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Librairie du Château de Capens]

10. Check availability: AbeBooks Link/Print

BEEBE, WILLIAM, Written by, (1877-1962) SIGNED by Author, Horace Brodzky ML New Endpapers (1919-25) New endpapers with flying girl torchbearer motif
        JUNGLE PEACE (1925 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED, ML#30.2) SIGNED by William Beebe, GUIANA PICTURE TROPICAL Splendor & Mystery tells of Birds, Beasts, Plants & Insects with accuracy of Scientist
      MODERN LIBRARY, with 95 cents on DJ Spine BTM, 1925. ,SIGNED by William Beebe, Forward by Theodore Roosevelt, 95 Cents Inner DJ Flap ,HBDJ, 1925, STATED 1ST Modern Library EDITION,FINE-/GOOD-, VERY EARLY Dustjacket with 265 Titles on inside & Back of DJ & 95 cents & Pre ZipCode Coupon on Back DJ .DJ SPINE Foxed with Long Crease , Beautiful and very special little book. Brown Leatherette cvr with gilt Title on Spine cvr Bright condition is Fine Minus, the spine is straight and the hinge and binding are Fine-. The hinge is tight There is nice dark top stain, but with Small Stain, This has no bleed on to the pages. The leatherette is a bit dry around the edges, yet there are no cracks. Slight bowing along the ends. The endpapers are wonderful. There is a small rectangular book label on the BACK of the right side endpaper near the spine. Jacket is in Good Minus condition, toning front/spine/back and along the folds. LARGE chip at the back at the top edge at the spine. Nicks are the corners, and chips along the edges. There is a 1/8 in. vertical closed tear along the back fold. Beebe American Naturalist, Ornithologist, Marine Biologist, Entomologist, Explorer, and Author;,GUIANA PICTURE TROPICAL Splendor & Mystery tells of Birds, Beasts, Plants & Insects with accuracy of Scientist BROWN Leatherette In EARLY DJ WITH RED BANDS AT TOP & BTM FRONT & in Middle front of DJ Blurb by Theodore Roosevelt, Modern Library gets a new look: Flying girl with torch bearer colophon (designed by Lucien Bernard) used for first time on cover and title page of Jungle Peace by William Beebe, the first ML title bought by Cerf & Klopfer. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

      [Bookseller: BLUFF PARK RARE BOOKS]

11. Check availability: Biblio Link/Print

Newcomb, Howard R.
        THE UNITED STATES CENTS OF THE YEARS 1801-1802-1803
      Detroit, 1925. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt. 85, (1) pages; 5 fine photographic plates; addition slip tipped in on page 73. Green silk marker with the cardboard cent gauge present. A few authorial annotations in pencil; additional pencil annotations in another hand. Loosely laid in are the July 1931 photographic supplemental plate describing and depicting new 1801 varieties and the January 1928 photographic supplemental plate describing and depicting a new 1803 variety. Inscribed to Robert C. Slone by the author on a front blank. A fine copy. One of the major pre-Sheldon works on U.S. large cents; scarce with both supplementary plates. Concerning Newcomb and this work, Dr. Sheldon wrote: "during the first quarter of the twentieth century and until his death in 1945, Howard R. Newcomb was so closely identified with the big cents that to mention cents was to mention Newcomb... The United States Cents of the Years 1801-1802-1803 ... marks a milestone in the cent literature. Approaching a field which had been left almost in chaos by the Doughty book, Newcomb assembled a vast quantity of numismatic material, ordered and reordered it, finally set up a new classificational system and a list which seemed adequate; and after testing the new list for upwards of a decade, published. The verdict of time on this work has been favorable." About as nice a copy as one will ever see. Davis 745. Voted as one of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society's "One Hundred Greatest Items of United States Numismatic Literature."

      [Bookseller: Kolbe & Fanning]

12. Check availability: IOBABooks Link/Print

13. Check availability: Biblio Link/Print

        [Photo Album]: Hunting and Fishing in New England and Canada 1925-1930
      Oblong octavo. Measuring 11.75" x 7.25". String-tied flexible cloth with "Photographs" stamped on the top board. Modest edgewear on the boards, near fine. Contains 272 black and white gelatin silver photographs. Images are various sizes between 1.75" x 2.75" and 3.25" x 4.75", mostly mounted between three and six to a page; one addition 6" x 9" photo on the last page is of a mounted buck . One or two have fallen out or are otherwise lacking, but clearly the album hasn't been pillaged. A few are faded, most are near fine or better. The vast majority are captioned. A beautifully composed and photographed album of hunting and fishing trips in Canada (Quebec, Ontario), and many locations in New England, and the Adirondacks between 1925 and 1930, with one trip to Maryland, Ohio, and West Virginia. Most of the trips seemed to be month or even season-long family trips and are dominated by the proud display of catches of fish and game. Locations are clearly identified, including Lake Chaplain and Bingham Fall, Vermont; Vanderwhacker Mountain and Lake Placid, New York; Lac La Croix and Lac Rognon in Canada; to name a few. While there are many typical camping scenes, the majority are of people in the field, with catches of minks, rabbits, bucks, and various fish proudly displayed by both male and female sporting folk. An unusually nice, well-captioned and finely realized subject specific album. .

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

15. Check availability: IOBABooks Link/Print

Madison, Lucy Foster
        WASHINGTON
      The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA 1925 - 8vo. cloth, illustration inlaid on front cover, illustrated endpapers, in box with illustrated cover. 399+(1) pages. First edition (Schoonover, Smith, and Dean 1274, 1276-7, 1277a-o, 1289, 1296al-ar, 1301, 1315-1318). Presentation by illustrator Frank E. Schoonover on front free endpaper with a two inch sketch of a man in a canoe. Preface by the author, table of contents, list of illustrations. Cover inlay, endpapers, frontispiece, chapter headers, and seven color plates in text by Frank E. Schoonover. Poem by James Russell Lowell precedes text. Box worn, one side separated. cloth, illustration inlaid on front cover, illustrated endpapers, in box with illustrated cover [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB]

17. Check availability: AbeBooks Link/Print

THOMPSON, A. BEEBY
        OIL-FIELD EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT. A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR OIL-FIELD PROSPECTORS AND OPERATORS, WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED A DISCUSSION OF THE ORIGIN AND DISTRIBUTION OF PETROLEUM, AND NOTES ON OIL-FIELD LEGISLATION AND CUSTOMS. IN TWO VOLUMES, 1). OIL-FIELD PRINCIPLES---- 2). OIL-FIELD PRACTICE
      London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1925., 1925. First edition. First edition. Thick 8vo. Volume I: Publisher's original red cloth with beveled edges, titles and decorations stamped in gold gilt on the spine, blind stamped publisher's device on the front cover, xxiv, 546 [2] pp., plus 32 pages of Index and 40 pages of oil-related advertisements, preface, frontispiece, illustrated, tables, maps, all edges speckled red, index, advertisements. Tiny closed tear to top edge of front fly leaf, penciled name on front fly leaf, former owner's name stamp on front pastedown sheet, else a near fine, bright, tight, clean copy. Volume II: Publisher's original red cloth with beveled edges, titles and decorations stamped in gold gilt on the spine, blind stamped publisher's device on the front cover, xxiv, 547 - 1177 [1] pp., plus 32 pages of Index and 40 pages of oil-related advertisements, preface, frontispiece, illustrated, tables, maps, all edges speckled red, appendix, index, advertisements. Former owner's name stamp on front pastedown sheet, else a near fine, bright, tight, clean copy. The name stamped in each volume is Henry B. Milner, Consulting Geologist & Petroleum Technologist. A large guide to oil production and exploration written by Thompson, an early pioneer in international oil production whose 60 year career took him to Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and North & South America. This two volume guide covers a huge range of the oil industry from the history and distribution of oil through the development of oil production in nearly every region of the world. Also includes information and instruction on a variety of oil extraction methods. Heavily illustrated throughout with photographs, figures, tables, and maps (some double-page and folded). Each volume contains 40 pages of oil-related advertisements. Swanson page 18 says "Accounts of principal oil fields, with maps; leasing; petroleum legislation, customs, usages; principles of refining; properties of crude oil and products; engineering problems; oil field equipment. Author is well-known British petroleum consultant." A handsome set, bright, tight clean copies and each volume in near fine condition. Exceptional copies.

      [Bookseller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS]

18. Check availability: Biblio Link/Print

GOURMONT (Rémy de).
        Le Songe d'une femme. Roman familier. Gravures au burin de J.-E. LABOUREUR.
      Camille Bloch éd, Paris 1925 - Paris, Camille Bloch éd., 1925, in-12, couverture rose éditeur rempliée, titre imprimé en noir sur le premier plat. Ce roman prend la forme d'un échange de correspondance où l'amour a le premier rôle. "Elle est fort belle : cela fait sa fierté, non son bonheur (.). Il est préférable de ne pas aimer une femme pour être charnellement heureux avec elle". Les burins de J.-E. LABOUREUR accompagnent avec grâce ces tribulations. L'un des acteurs y forme le souhait d'être "de ces romanciers dont les livres sont les compagnons de lit des incomprises et des délaissées". Tirage limité à 430 exemplaires numérotés et 25 exemplaires marqués de A à Z. Tous sur vélin d'Arches à forme. Un des 385 exemplaires numérotés en chiffres arabes. Petites usures et insolations à la couverture, fines piqûres éparses, léger report des couvertures sur les gardes. Manque la chemise et l'étui, infimes usures aux coiffes et dos très légèrement insolé. "Edition recherchée et cotée" (Carteret IV, 193 ; Monod I, 5637, p.785). Livres

      [Bookseller: Librairie Chretien]

19. Check availability: AbeBooks Link/Print

Fitzgerald F. Scott
        GREAT GATSBY
      New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1925. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with â€œchatterâ€on p. 60, line 16, â€œnorthernâ€ on p. 119, line 22, â€œitâ€™sâ€ on p. 165, line 16, â€œawayâ€ on p. 165, line 29, â€œsick in tiredâ€ on p. 205, lines 9-10, and â€œUnion Street stationâ€ on p. 211, lines 7-8. 8vo, publisherâ€™s original dark green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, and lettered in blind on the upper cover. 218 pp. A very attractive copy, the cloth with no fading, dark and rich green, the gilt just a bit mellowed as is normal, only very minor evidence of any age, internally clean and fresh, all solid and sound, hinges firm and endpaperâ€™s fine. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Fitzgerald's most highly acclaimed novel and one of the most iconic American novels of the 20th century. THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgeraldâ€™s finest novel, relates a tale of life, love, infidelity and death among the rich and beautiful residents of Long Island. It has become recognized as a sensitive and symbolic treatment of the themes of modern life, conveying with irony and pathos the legend of the â€œAmerican Dreamâ€

      [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc.]

20. Check availability: Biblio Link/Print

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
        The Great Gatsby.
      Charles Scribners, New York 1925 - First edition, first state with "chatter" p.60, "northern" p.119, "sick in tired" p.205, and "Union Street station" p. 211. Octavo, original dark green cloth. In near fine condition, with the gilt lettering to the spine bright, light rubbing to the endpaper. In 1922, Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Cyril Connolly called The Great Gatsby one of the half dozen best American novels: "Gatsby remains a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it" (Modern Movement 48). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB]

21. Check availability: AbeBooks Link/Print

Fitzgerald, F Scott
        The Great Gatsby
      New York: Charles Scribners, 1925. First edition, first state. Sheilah Graham's copy with her signature to the front free endpaper. Graham, one of the most influential gossip columnists in Hollywood, is remembered today as the last lover of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, their relationship through her autobiographical account of that period, Beloved Infidel, a best-seller, which was also made into a film. In her youth, she was a freelance writer for Fleet Street in London, and had published several short stories and two novels. These early experiences would converge in her career in Hollywood, that spanned nearly four decades, as a successful columnist and author. In a letter from May 1940 to S.J. Perelman, Fitzgerald invited him to visit, promising "Sheilah will be with me, just as merry as can be, to greet you on the porch with a julep" (Letters, Turnbull, ed., 1963). Little more than six months later it was Graham who would find Fitzgerald at home dead of a heart attack. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48.with "chatter" p.60, "northern" p.119, "sick in tired" p.205, and "Union Street station" p. 211. Octavo, original dark green cloth. In fine condition, with the gilt lettering to the spine bright. A significant association. In 1922, Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Cyril Connolly called The Great Gatsby one of the half dozen best American novels: "Gatsby remains a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it" (Modern Movement 48).

      [Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB]

23. Check availability: Biblio Link/Print

Louÿs (Pierre)
        Les chansons secrètes de Bilitis
      chez l'Artiste, Paris - Un volume in-4 plein maroquin vert ; dos mosaïqué et très ornés portant titre, auteur et date dorés ; le premier plat présentant un important décor de théâtre, formé d'encadrements de filets, de grecques et de palmettes dorés, avec, en cuir mosaïqué rose, orange et noir, deux faunes joueurs d'aulos de part et d'autre d'une colonne portant un canthare et surmontant le titre BILITIS en lettres grecques ; le second plat étant orné d'une triple roue concentrique de cuir mosaïquée et et de filets et palmettes dorés avec 4 palmettes dorées en écoinçon ; couverture et dos conservés, doubles gardes de soie rouge bordées d'encadremments dorés. Reliure d'époque de Laucournet. Ouvrage imprimé à 106 exemplaires seulement. Il comprend les textes originaux des 5 chansons censurées ou retirées de l'édition des Chansons de Bilitis de 1925 dont cet ouvrage est le complément. Il est superbement illustré de 6 eaux-fortes en couleurs dessinées et gravées par Edouard Chimot (1880-1959). L'un des 20 exemplaires sur Japon ancien comprenant un dessin original en couleurs, l'état définitif en couleurs, l'état avec remarques et le premier état des eaux-fortes. Superbe ouvrage malgré un dos légèrement insolé dans sa partie supérieure. // One volume, 4to, full dark green morocco with decorative inlays, and gilt ornaments, gilt-lettered and gilt ornate back, top edge gilt, original wrappers bound in, decorative silk woven endpapers. Contemporary binding by Laucournet. Only 106 copies printed on Japan vellum paper, one of the 20 copies with 3 states of the engravings (in colour, in black with inset engravings, and the first state) and with one original drawing in colour signed by the artist. A gorgeous book. s.d. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Le Scriptorium d'Albi]

25. Check availability: AbeBooks Link/Print

        Clown rêveur
      1925 - Aquarelle signée et datée en bas à droite, 1926, 38,5 x 28,5 cm. André Foy (1886 Paris  1953 Paris) était un peintre et un dessinateur. Il débute par du portrait-charge mais peint aussi des assiettes, décors et costumes de théâtre. Il illustre Alexandre, Arnoux, Courteline et publie quelques albums pour enfants et « Célébrités du café-concert ». Il est membre des Humoristes et expose à lAraignée, aux Indépendants et dans des salons de peintures. Il travailla pour de nombreux journaux tels que La vie Parisienne, Le Frou-frou, le Canard Enchaîné, La Gazette du Bon Ton, Marianne ou encore Le Petit Parisien (Dico-solo page 236). Un clown est assis sur une chaise, et semble perdu dans ses pensées. Il porte un costume noir, avec un col et un chapeau rouge ainsi qu'un masque blanc. Les tons sont gris, le col et le chapeau rouge mettent néanmoins une touche de couleur dans cette aquarelle. Oeuvre originale

      [Bookseller: Librairie Chretien]

26. Check availability: AbeBooks Link/Print

Dauthendey, Max
        Gesammelte Werke in sechs Bänden. 6 Bände.
      Albert Langen, München 1925 - Zusammen 4932 Seiten. Handgebundene grüne Halblederbände mit je 2 schwarzen sowie einem gelben, goldgeprägten Leder-Rückenschildchen, pergamentverstärkten Ecken, mit Japanpapier bezogenen Spiegeln und Vorsatzpapieren, handgefertigtem grauem Marmorpapier auf den Deckeln sowie farbigem Kopfschnitt. Die hinteren Vorsatzpapiere jeweils mit kleinem Buchbinder-Werkstattstempel der "Kunstbuchbinderei Ernst Schultze, Düsseldorf." Es handelt sich um ein gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Die maßgebliche Dünndruckausgabe der Werke Dauthendeys liegt hier in einem ungewöhnlich schönen, vom Buchbinder signierten Handeinband vor. Erste Ausgabe. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Rolf Bulang]

27. Check availability: ZVAB Link/Print

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
        The Great Gatsby
      Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1925 - First issue, with the four main issue points present: 1) pg. 60, line 16 "chatter" 2) pg. 119, line 22 "northern" 3) pg. 205, lines 9-10 "sick in tired" 4) pg. 211, lines 7-8 "Union Street station." A Very Good + copy with touches of wear at the spine ends and light mottling of the cloth on the front board. Internal contents gernally in excellent condition, although with a small stain on pages 4-5 and a previous owner's name erased from the front paste-down a bit aggressively.Despite its grand stature today, the book was a commercial failure during Fitzgerald's lifetime, much to the author's surprise and disappointment. Fitzgerald had felt the power of the novel and believed that it was a work of mature artistry. Modern scholars and readers agree and now "Gatsby" is a keystone of any modern first collection. Very Good +. [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB]

28. Check availability: AbeBooks Link/Print

Wright. WENDINGEN.
        The Lifework of Frank Lloyd Wright in 7 single issues.
      Publ. C.A. Mees, 1925-'26., Santpoort,, - Orig.wrappers in black/red, Japanese binding, cover after a design by Wijdeveld. The 7 numbers consist of more than 200 ills.,floorplans, drawings.Title page after a design by Frank Lloyd Wright. An introduction by architect H.Th. Wijdeveld and many articles by famous European architects and American writers. Condition: Original raffia bindings and covers in excellent condition. Interior very good. On covers and inside decent stamp! [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: adr. van den bemt]

29. Check availability: AbeBooks Link/Print

VENTURI Adolfo -
        Storia dell'arte italiana. Volume IX. La pittura del cinquecento. Parte I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII.
      Milano, Hoepli, 1925/1934, sette volumi in-8vo grande, brossura originale con copertine illustrate a colori (di Edoardo Gioia), pp. XXIX-914 con 684 incisioni in fototipografiia nel testo e 8 tavole a colori fuori testopp. XXX-888 con 684 incisioni in fototipografiia nel testo e 8 tavole a colori fuori testopp. XXIX-1001 con 873 incisioni in fototipiapp. XXXIII-1069 con 743 incisioni in fototipografia nel testopp. XLIV-1331 con 910 incisioni in fototipografia nel testopp. XLV-939 con 559 incisioni in fototipografia nel testopp. XL-956 con 586 incisioni in fototipografia nel testopp. LVII-1213 con 677 incisioni in fototipografia nel testo. Complessivamente 5.989 illustrazioni e 16 tavole a colori fuori testo. Collana "Storia dell'arte italiana". Si tratta dell'intera sezione, completa, dedicata alla pittura del Cinquecento. Qualche strappo alle copertine ed ai dorsi dei primi volumi

      [Bookseller: Libreria Piani gia' Naturalistica]

30. Check availability: Direct From Bookseller Link/Print

Hobson, R.L.
        The Later Ceramic Wares of China - being the Blue and White, Famille Verte, Famille Rose, Monochromes, etc. of the K'ang Hsi, Yung Cheng, Ch'ien Lung and other Period of the Ch'ing Dynasty. DELUXE COPY IN VELLUM !!!!
      Ernest Benn, London 1925 - First edition. highlights. Quarto. Vellum with gilt tooling. Signed by R.L. Hobson. Fine. Deluxe edition of 25 copies of which this is number 19, signed by Hobson and bound in vellum.156 Pages, followed by 81 plates (many folding) of which 31 are in colour showing multiple items. A classic standard reference work on Ching dynasty porcelains, mostly from the Kangxi period and reflecting the refined taste of collectors of the late 19th and early 20th century.This edition is by far one of the scarcest of any book on Chinese porcelain. The book has clearly never been read or probably even opened as the first pages are still uncut along the edges as it came from the binders. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Meijering Art Books]

31. Check availability: ZVAB Link/Print

JOHNSON, James Weldon.
        The Book of American Negro Spirituals. Edited with an Introduction by James Weldon Johnson. Musical arrangements by J. Rosamond Johnson.
      4to., original cloth lettered on spine and upper board. A very good copy. First edition. Inscribed by James Johnson "For George Gershwin, Sincerely James Weldon Johnson". Howard Pollack in his George Gershwin: His Life and Work comments "Of the black artists associated with Van Vechten, Gershwin established a special closeness with brothers James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson. In earlier years, the Johnsons had been a songwriting team much like the Gershwins with attorney James Weldon the scholarly lyricist and New England Conservatory graduate J. Rosamond the well trained composer. In the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance, the Johnson brothers also cultivated an interest in African American folk music. In 1925 and 1926, at the movement's zenith, they brought forth two volumes of Negro Spirituals. Each spiritual bore a dedication to some friend or hero including Booker T Washington and W.E.B, Du Bois, dedications that taken together helped chart the social terrain of the Harlem Renaissance. They dedicated "In Dat Great Gittin' Up Mornin'" (In the Second Volume) to Gershwin who was, with Percy Grainger and Fritz Kreisler, one of the small number of white composers so honoured...James Weldon, on hearing of Gershwin's death, sent Ira a telegram stating, "America has lost a great composer. Personally I feel his loss as a friend." The importance of Negro spirituals on Gershwin is readily apparent. In 1925, the year this book was published, he declared "I think it [Jazz Opera] should be a Negro opera, almost a Negro 'Scheherazade'. Negro, because it is not incongruous for a Negro to live jazz. It would not be absurd on the stage. The mood could change from ecstasy to lyricism plausibly because the Negro has so much of both in his nature. That type of opera could not, I am afraid, be done at the Metropolitan. It is a typically opera comique venture. I would like to see it put on with a Negro cast. Artists trained in the old tradition could not sing such music, but Negro singers could. It would be a sensation as well as an innovation." Pollack again comments, "Throughout the remainder of 1925, Gershwin occasionally voiced his intention of writing an opera for African American singers, adding that Carl Van Vechten was helping him find "a suitable libretto". "I shall certainly write an opera", he stated in the fall. "I shall write it for niggers. Blacks sing beautifully. They are always singing; they have it in their blood. They have jazz in their blood too, and I have no doubt that they will be able to do full justice to a jazz opera." The gestation of Gershwin's 'jazz opera' into Porgy and Bess did not see fulfilment until the 1930's. "The opera's distinctive absorbtion of African American oratory and music underpins its great individuality, including allusions to a wide range of black popular music from W.C. Handy to Cab Calloway; and black folk music, from street cries and children's ditties to, above all, the Negro spiritual, which informs not only many of the opera's songs and choruses but its recitatives as well."

      [Bookseller: Henry Southern Ltd.]

32. Check availability: Direct From Bookseller Link/Print

MILNE, A.A. (author). H. Willebeek le MAIR (illustrator).
        A Gallery of Children.
      Large 4to. Original white buckram illustrated with gilt vignette to upper cover, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, printed on fine hand-made paper; pp. [iv], 5-105; illustrated title-page and 12 charming coloured plates in Art Deco style; a fine copy preserved in truly exceptional condition, both externally and internally, bar light spotting to the endpapers. First edition: copy number 4 of a total limitation of only 500 (of which only 485 were for sale), signed by Milne.

      [Bookseller: Henry Southern Ltd.]

33. Check availability: Direct From Bookseller Link/Print

Goethe, (Johann Wolfgang von) und Kampf, Arthur (Illustrationen):
        Faust. Eine Tragödie. Mit Radierungen von Arthuir Kampf.
      im Eigenbrödler-Verlag, Berlin 1925 - 2 Teile in 1 Band. Berlin im Eigenbrödler-Verlag 1925. 35,8x27 cm. 1 w. Bl., 179 S., 1 S., 1 Bl.; 1 w. Bl., 265 S., 1 S., 1 Bl., 1 w. Bl. Mit 24 signierten Originalradierungen von Arthur Kampf. Roter Ganzlederband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, Deckelvignette und Deckelfiletierung, Steh- und Innenkantenvergoldung, reicher Rückenvergoldung und Kopfgoldschnitt. Eines von 500 numerierten und von Kampf im Kolophon signierten Exemplaren auf Johann-Wilhelm-Bütten (GA 650 Ex.). Bei diesem Exemplar sind ,wie bei der Vorzugsausgabe in 150 Exemplaren, alle 24 Radierungen handschriftlich signiert. - Satz und Titelzeichnung von Marcus Behmer. - Hinterdeckel mit Lederabrieb. Schnitt und nur sehr wenige Seitenränder schwach stockfleckig. Exlibris auf Innendeckel. Sprache: Deutsch Roter Ganzlederband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, Deckelvignette und Deckelfiletierung, Steh- und Innenkantenvergoldung, reicher Rückenvergoldung und Kopfgoldschnitt. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Daniel Thierstein]

35. Check availability: ZVAB Link/Print

Gangolf, Paul (1879-1939),
        Koksende Hure. Lithographie.
      1925 - Signiert "Gangolf". Im Stein signiert, datiert und betitelt. Kräftiger Druck auf Maschinenbütten. Söhn HDO 72718-7. Eines von 100 Exemplaren. Blatt 7 aus Die Schaffenden, V. Jarhgang, 2. Mappe, 1926. - Der jüdische Künstler Paul Gangolf, eigentlich Paul Loewy, war Autodidakt und schuf neben Gemälden vor allem grafische Arbeiten. Ab 1914 entstanden erste expressionistische Holzschnitte, in denen Gangolf unter anderem seine Erlebnisse als Soldat im Ersten Weltkrieg verarbeitete. Zu Beginn der 1920er Jahre veröffentlichte er mehrere Mappenwerke. Neben der 1923 entstandenen Mappe Großstadt gehört die im Malikverlag erschienene Serie Metropolis zu seinen wichtigsten Werken. Gangolf wurde von Gustav Schiefler gefördert und Schiefler plante ein Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphiken Ganglofs zu erstellen. Durch den Tod Schieflers konnte dieses Projekt nicht umgesetzt werden. - Ganz wenig gebräuntes Papier, zu den Rändern hin ein klein wenig stärker. Die oberen Blattkanten teilweise mit ganz schwachen Stauchspuren und minimal angestaubt. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2100 32,5 x 26,3 cm. Papier: 41 x 30,8 cm. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

      [Bookseller: Kunstantiquariat Joachim Lührs]

38. Check availability: ZVAB Link/Print

JAMES, M R (1862-1936)
        A Warning To The Curious and other Ghost Stories
      London: Edward Arnold. 1925., 1925. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.200. Publisher's oatmeal cloth in original dust-wrapper with a haunting illustration by Gilbert James, depicting a corpse hanging from a gallows on a moorland hillside. No inscriptions, book has a slight lean. Fragile price-clipped jacket with a few minor chips and a couple of old tape marks/mends, plus a few small tears to folds. A very good copy of an extremely scarce book in dust-wrapper. Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge and later Eton School. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.'

      [Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books]

40. Check availability: IOBABooks Link/Print

Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo and Walter Gropius, editors.
        MALEREI, PHOTOGRAPHIE, FILM. BAUHAUSBÜCHER NO. 8.
      Munich: Albert Langen, 1925. First edition. Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. 8vo., 133 pp., 74 illustrations. Although there is no visible staining from moisture, there is very light cockling on a portion of the lower edge at the gutter; occasional spots of foxing on the blank margin of some text leaves. Bound in yellow cloth, titled and decorated in red. A near fine and bright copy; however, lacking the illustrated dust jacket. In this work Moholy-Nagy proposes the possibilities that are exemplified in his oft quoted statement that "the illiterate of the future will be ignorant of camera and pen alike." Design and typography by Moholy-Nagy. Includes photos by: Stieglitz, Man Ray, Renger-Patzsch, Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hannah HÃ¶ch. Paul Citroen, et al. This is the rare first edition, published two years before the more common second edition.

      [Bookseller: Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd]

41. Check availability: Biblio Link/Print