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Small 8vo. Green cloth with paper labels, slipcase. 52pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Binding spine and edges ever-so-faintly sunned, else near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this slim tribute volume, boldly signed and Inscribed by Knopf in blue ballpoint on the front flyleaf: "For Carl Haverlin / with sincere regard / Anfred a Knopf / 19 January 1960." (CARL HAVERLIN, 1899-1985, was a noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar, radio pioneer and president of Broadcast Music, Inc. ) Scarce collection of tributes published by a group of Knopf's friends called "The Book Table, " consisting of "a few each of publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, designers and producers of books and book materials." Two side-by-side rear flyleaves bear the boldly inked signatures of six of the book's ten contributors: Novelist Carl Van Vechten (who took the frontispiece portrait), critic/essayist Carl Van Doren, H.L. Mencken, New York Public Library director H.M. Lydenberg, "Publisher's Weekly" co-editor Frederic G. Melcher and publisher B.W. Huebsch. Also signed by Milton Ferguson and Franklin F. Hopper (N.Y.P.L. librarians), Max Salop (book distributor), John T. Winterich (editor), C.C. Williamson (Columbia University librarian), Whitney Darrow ("New Yorker" cartoonist), Robert F. DeGraff (publisher, founder of Pocket Books), Nathan H. Shrift (? ), Benjamin S. Van Wyck (printer), Meredith Wood (co-founder Book-of-the-Month Club), John Meullor (? ), Harry Scherman (BOMC co-founder), Donald Barr (? ), John L. Ladd (publisher, Plimpton Press), Bertram Wolff (printer), Robert S. Lynd (editor/publisher turned sociologist, author of classic "Middletown"), George P. Brett (chairman, Macmillan Company), Elmer Adler (legendary typographer who founded "The Colophon"), Elmer Davis (journalist, radio news commentator), Charles Denhard (publishers' ad man), Fred Crofts (publisher), Michael A. Corrigan (book wholesaler), Alfred A. Knopf (again) and Cedric R. Crowell (publisher), plus one illegible. A unique cross-section of signatures from the book world. No limitation statement, but probably fewer than 50 copies were produced.

First edition. About fine in like dust jacket. (Light shelf wear to jacket. ) SIGNED on neatly tipped-in cards by cast members: May McAvoy, William Demarest, Roscoe Karns, Myrna Loy & Audrey Ferris.

A very scarce first edition of this beautifully hand-coloured humorous work by Alfred Henry Forrester, an immensely entertaining volume. The very scarce first edition of this work. A selection of nonsense and satirical pieces, a perfect example of the popular Victorian humour literature genre. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, and twelve hand-coloured plates. Written and illustrated by Alfred Henry Forrester, a popular comic author and artist of the Victorian era. Bookplate of Alfred Sutro to the front pastedown. Sutro was an author, dramatist, and translator, writing the first English translation of the works of his friend, Maurice Maeterlinck. He was also a playwright in his own right, writing a more than twenty successful plays. Prior bookseller's description to the verso to the front endpaper. In a lovely half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart, with just a little rubbing. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Prior bookseller's description to the verso to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some odd spots. Near Fine.

A very scarce first edition of this beautifully hand-coloured humorous work by Alfred Henry Forrester, an immensely entertaining volume. The very scarce first edition of this work. A selection of nonsense and satirical pieces, a perfect example of the popular Victorian humour literature genre. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, and twelve hand-coloured plates. Written and illustrated by Alfred Henry Forrester, a popular comic author and artist of the Victorian era. Bookplate of Alfred Sutro to the front pastedown. Sutro was an author, dramatist, and translator, writing the first English translation of the works of his friend, Maurice Maeterlinck. He was also a playwright in his own right, writing a more than twenty successful plays. Prior bookseller's description to the verso to the front endpaper. In a lovely half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart, with just a little rubbing. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Prior bookseller's description to the verso to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some odd spots. Near Fine.

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First edition. Oblong small folio. Quarter white cloth decorated and titled in silver, and silk cloth decorated in red and gold. Printed title page plus 10 Japan-tissue photogravures each tack-glued at the corners onto a larger page, and printed by Edward Edwards' New York Photo-Gravure Company. Very good with rubbing on the boards, light corner wear and dampstaining on the spine, but with the interior images fine. A group of 10 hand-pulled photogravures, including one of the earliest known published works by American photographer Alfred Stieglitz: "After the Rain, " which is, ironically for this American view book, a study done in 1886 in Mittenwald, Germany. All of the other images are believed to be from New York State. A rare volume, *OCLC* locates eight copies.