** BENEFIT SALE FOR THE BELGIAN SUFFERERS UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AUTHORS CLUB * Mr. Penrhyn Stanlaws, the eminent artist, offers to paint a portrait and give the avails to this Fund. Bids will be received at this sale-not less than $750.00— and the highest bidder will name the subject to be painted. FIRST SESSION Thursday Afternoon, May 20, 1915, at 2:30 o'clock Lots 1-314 1. ADAMS (OSCAR FAY). Sicut Patribus, and Other Verse. 16mo, cloth. N. p.: Published by the Author [1906] * Only 510 copies issued, signed by the author. With a poem, "William of Wykeham," in author's autograph, quoted from this book. 2. ADDAMS (JANE). Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes. Portraits and illustrations. 8vo, half levant morocco, gilt over uncut edges. N. Y. 1910 * The limited autograph edition, with additional inscription by the author. 3. ADDAMS (JANE). A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil. 12mo, half niger morocco, gilt top, uncut. *With autograph inscription by the author. N. Y. 1912 4. ADLER (FELIX). The Essentials of Spirituality. 12mo, cloth. N. Y. 1905 *With autograph inscription by the author, signed, "First there must be the hunger before there can be the satisfaction.'' 5. ADLER (FELIX). Life and Destiny. 16mo, cloth. Lond. 1913 *With autograph inscription by the author on "the two kinds of light.' 6. ALBEE (HELEN R.). The Gleam. 12mo, cloth. N. Y. 1914 * With a long and interesting A. L. S. of the author inserted. 7. ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY). The Writings. Comprising, The Poetical Works, 2 vols., and The Prose Works, 7 vols. Portraits. Together 9 vols. 12mo, cloth, gilt tops, uncut. Bost., n. d. *Laid in Vol. 1 is an interesting A. L. S. of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 11⁄2 pp., dated Feb. 5, 1885. 8. ALLEN (CHARLES DEXTER). Ex Libris. Essays of a Collector. 21 copperplate prints on Japan paper. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. Bost. 1896 * With autograph inscription, signed, by the author. 9. ALLEN (CHARLES DEXTER). American BookPlates. A Guide to their Study and Examples. Colored frontispiece and numerous facsimiles. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, N. Y. 1905 uncut. * With autograph inscription, signed, by the author: "Bookkeeping taught in three words-Never lend them!" 10. ALLEN (JAMES LANE). A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1900 *With autograph inscription: "This copy of A Kentucky Cardinal goes to the Cause of the Belgian Sufferers-at a benefit sale held by the Authors Club of New York City—with remembrance of Cæsar's words. James Lane Allen." 11. ALLEN (LYMAN WHITNEY). A Parable of the Rose and other Poems. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1908 * With autograph inscription, signed by the author: "The silence of God is His loudest word. O Love! I have heard, I have heard." 12. ALLEN (LYMAN WHITNEY). Abraham Lincoln. A Poem. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1909 *This poem was awarded the $1,000 prize offered by the New York Herald for the best poem on American History. With autograph inscription by the author, signed: "The hour was come, and with it rose the man 13. ALLEN (LYMAN WHITNEY). Love. A Poem. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. The Triumph of * Autograph inscription, signed, by the author. 14. ALTSHELER (JOSEPH A.). Guthrie of the Times: A Story of Success. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth. Garden City, 1913 * With an autograph inscription, signed, by the author. 15. ALTSHELER (JOSEPH A.). In Circling Camps. A Romance of the Civil War. 12mo, cloth. N. Y. 1913 *With autograph inscription by the author, signed: "Every book that an author sends into the world is his messenger," etc. 16. ANTIN (MARY). The Promised Land. Illustrations. 12mo, cloth. Bost. [1912] * Inscribed by the author: "In the faith of the Fathers, Sincerely yours, Mary Antin, April, 1915." * 17. ANTIN (MARY). They Who Knock at our Gates. A Complete Gospel of Immigration. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth. Signed autograph inscription by the author. Bost. 1914 18. ARNOLD (SIR EDWIN). Potiphar's Wife, and other Poems. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1892 * Inserted is an autograph note in the handwriting of the author. 19. ARNOLD (MATTHEW). The Poems of Matthew Arnold. 1840-67. Introduction by A. T. Quiller-Couch. Portrait. 8vo, brown levant morocco, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, by Riviere. Lond. 1909 * Laid in is an A. L. S. by Matthew Arnold. 20. ATHERTON (GERTRUDE). California, an Intimate History. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1914 *L. S. from the author inserted, 2 pp. 4to, N. Y. Sept. 27, [1914], discussing the proposed name of the above book and its peculiar characteristics. 21. AUERBACH (JOSEPH S.). Essays and Miscellanies. 2 vols. 12mo, half brown polished morocco, gilt tops, uncut. N. Y. 1914 *With autograph inscription, signed, by the author. 22. AUERBACH (JOSEPH S.). The Bible and Modern Life. 12mo, half brown polished morocco, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1914 * With autograph inscription, signed, by the author. 23. AURINGER (O. C.) AND SMITH (J. OLIVER). The Christ. A Poetical Study of His Life from Advent to Ascension. Frontispiece. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1899 * Autograph inscription by Mr. Auringer: "May the Cross, whose triumph this Book celebrates, be the power to raise the great burden which to-day lies upon Belgian hearts and homes."' Also, with the ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, of "When it Neither Rains nor Clears. (In a Library)," a poem by O. C. Auringer, 3 pp., 4to, signed. 24. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS. Theodore Roosevelt, L. S., 2 pp., 1900; Alice Morse Earle, A. L. S. 1900; Moncure D. Conway, A. L. S., 1 page, 1905; Hamilton W. Mabie, L. S. 1908; John B. Tabb, A. L. S. 1903; Frank R. Stockton, signature; and others. Togethers 46 pieces. * All of these letters have been presented to the Authors Club for this sale by members, including Duffield Osborne, W. P. Trent, G. H. Putnam, etc. 25. BACHELLER (IRVING). Eben Holden. A Tale of the North Country. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, gilt top. Bost. 1903 *L. S. from the author inserted, 1 page, 4to, 1915. 26. BACHELLER (IRVING). Eben Holden. Numer illustrations. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. Bost., n. * Autograph inscription, signed, by the author, 12 lin "This first child of mine has learned to sit down quietly a corner and speak only when he is spoken to," etc. 27. BACHELLER (IRVING). Darrel of the Blessed Isl Frontispiece. 12mo, cloth. N. Y., n. * Autograph inscription by the author: "This is the l thing that Darrel has said to me: 'Go find your brothers the world and see that these be many, for a Man's streng is multiplied by the number of his brothers.'"' 28. BACHELLER (IRVING). Keeping Up with Lizzi Illustrated by W. H. D. Koerner. 12mo, cloth. N. Y., n. * With inscription by the author: "This Lizzie business b gan back in the Garden of Eden when Eve, seeing that idle ness was a bad thing for Adam, got a permanent job for him Eve's daughters have had to resort to all kinds of device to keep him busy-Parisian gowns, political opinions, etc." 29. BANCROFT (FREDERIC). The Life of William H Seward. Portraits. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, gilt tops, uncut. N. Y. 1900 * With inscription by the author: "To the Authors Club, for the benefit of the suffering heroic Belgians. If the buyer will but bid according to their merits he will be generous indeed." 30. BARRIE (J. M.). Auld Licht Idylls. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, half lilac levant morocco, gilt, gilt top, uncut. * Laid in is an A. L. S. by the author. 31. BARRIE (J. M.). Sentimental Tommy. by William Hatherell. 12mo, cloth. Lond. 1888 Illustrated N. Y. 1914 * A. L. S. from the author inserted, 1 page, 12mo, Leinster Corner, 1908. 32. BEACH (REX). The Auction Block. A Novel of New York Life. Illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson. 12mo, cloth. N. Y. 1914 *With a L. S. of the author inserted, stating that the main facts of his book "The Iron Trail" are true. 33. BEERS (HENRY A.). The Thankless Muse. 16mo, cloth, gilt top. Bost. 1885 * With 4-line stanza on fly-leaf in author's autograph. 34. BEERS (HENRY A.). The Ways of Yale in the Consulship of Plancus. 2 illustrations. 16mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1910 *With autograph poem written and signed by the author, 10 lines. 35. BENET (WILLIAM ROSE). The Falconer of God and Other Poems. 8vo, boards, vellum back, uncut. New Haven: Yale Press, 1914 * With poem of 3 stanzas addressed to Belgium, in the autograph of the author. 'The Vast Black Eagle with its harpy beak Darkens her fields one wide and welterina arave" etc. 36. BENNETT (ARNOLD). Your United States: Impressions of A First Visit. Illustrations by Frank Craig. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1912 66 * Inserted is A. L. S. of the author to his publisher, concluding: The stuff will be delivered according to contract, if not earlier. I have never yet been late with copy." 37. BENNETT (ARNOLD). From the Log of the Velsa. Frontispiece in colors by the author and many illustrations by E. A. Rickards. 8vo, cloth, gilt, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1914 * Typewritten L. S. of the author inserted, extending to "Mr. Ellsworth' an invitation to lunch. 38. BIRNBAUM (MARTIN). Oscar Wilde: Fragments and Memories. Frontispiece. 12mo, vellum. N. Y. 1914 * One of 50 copies on Japanese vellum, signed by the author, and with an inscription by the publisher. 39. BISHOP (WILLIAM HENRY). The Golden Justice. 12mo, cloth. Bost. 1890 * With note in author's autograph stating that Milwaukee was the town used in this book to obtain local color. 40. BISHOP (WILLIAM HENRY). The House of a Merchant Prince. 12mo, cloth. Bost., n. d. *With autograph inscription, signed, by the author: "The House of a Merchant Prince was considered an accurate picture of the New York of its day, a millionaire New York. There is little left, in external aspects at least, that is like the present billionaire New York." 41. BIXBY (JAMES T.). Religion and Science as Allies, or Similarities of Physical and Religious Knowledge. 12mo, cloth. Bost. 1903 * With inscription by the author on Religion and Science. 42. BIXBY (JAMES T.). The Ethics of Evolution: The Crisis in Morals Occasioned by the Doctrine of Development. 16mo, cloth, uncut. Bost. 1907 *With a quotation from this book in the autograph of the author. 43. BIXBY (JAMES T.). The Open Secret: A Study of Life's Deeper Forces. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. Bost. 1912 *With 2 long quotations from this volume in author's autograph, both signed. 44. BJÖRKMAN (EDWIN). Gleams: A Fragmentary Interpretation of Man and His World. 12mo, cloth. * With autograph inscription by the author. N. Y. 1912 45. BJÖRKMAN (EDWIN). Voices of To-Morrow: Critical Studies of the New Spirit in Literature. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1913 * Autograph inscription by the author, signed, "Those voices are racial and social forces or tendencies or currents that may be found at work in and through all of us, etc. |