POEMS (anonymous, but known to be FRANCIS NOEL CLARKE MUNDY). OXFORD, Printed by W. Jackson, MDCC,LX,VIII (1768). Disbound

(i.e. no covers), 4to 8x10 inches, 97 pages. Beautifully printed on heavy stock, watermarked, laid paper. The imprint of the type is fully tangible. FAIR Condition: Lacking covers (as noted above). The text block's sewn binding is mostly gone leaving all the signatures and many leaves loose. The front free endpaper is lacking, the brief errata has been clipped from its own page at the rear and pasted in the space below THE END on the last page of text, otherwise complete with all pages and signatures in their proper order. The pages themselves are in Good condition, with edge wear to their disbound edge, and some light edge toning and corner creases here and there. Overall the pages are bright, clean, clear and unmarked. Quite lovely as is (especially with the tactile printing), and a perfect candidate for rebinding. I have collated my copy page for page with the copy in the rare book room of the Oxford Library that has been digitized and put online.

REMARKS ON THE CASSANDRA OF LYCOPHRON, A MONODY. by the Rev. H. Meen, B.D. (Reverend Henry Meen, Rector of Saint Nicholas Cole Abbey and Saint Nicholas Olave, City of London). LONDON: Printed by Bunney & Gold, Shoe-Lane, Fleet Street, and sold by Messrs. Rivingtons, et al., 1800. Text in English with Greek excerpts from The Cassandra. Lacking covers, half-title page is disbound (i.e. laid on loosely),the rest of the pages (title page through the blank rear endpaper) still held together by the sewn binding, 5x8". Pagination: [4}, 45 pp. This was an attempt to show the importance of The Cassandra and to rescue it from falling into obscurity. An early and interesting Historical and Literary study. Condition: Lacking covers as noted above; the disbound title page and the blank rear endpaper are toned; there is foxing throughout, heaviest on about half the pages, light on the other half, text is always clear and legible beneath any foxing.

M. Tullius Cicero Orations XXIV - XXXV. (There are two title pages indicating this volume is composed of parts from Volume 3 of the Orations of Ciceronis, which was from Volume 7 of the complete Works of Ciceronis.) TEXT IN LATIN.

LONDON: Bodwell and Martin, et al, 1820.

Small format hardcover book, leather covered boards, gilt florets at the corners, four raised spine bands, spine title labels, 3x5 inches (8x13 cm), 398 pages.

Associations / Provenance:

Previously owned by R. W. Hunt, with his ownership label on the front free endpaper: "from the library of / R. W. HUNT / Keeper of the Western MSS / Bodleian Library".

Also previously owned by Stephen Edward Spring Rice, b.1856 d.1902, with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown.

GOOD condition: the rear spine fold is split, pulling away at the top 2 inches, but holding on with the cord binding, the front spine fold is split for 1 inch at the top at a bit at the bottom but still tight; the title labels are faded and rubbed but legible; internally, the front and rear hinges are cracked but holding well, there is some foxing and a bit of soiling here and there, overall the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A complete, presentable copy.

About R. W. HUNT (from Wikipedia):

******Richard William Hunt, b.1908 d.1979, was a scholar, grammarian, palaeographer, editor, and author of a number of books about medieval history. He began his career as a lecturer in palaeography at Liverpool University, and worked at Bush House during World War II. In 1945 he obtained the position of Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, and he relocated to Oxford, remaining in the position until 1975.

On Hunt's retirement from the Bodleian in 1975, he was honored with an Oxford exhibition, The Survival of Ancient Literature. In 1980 he was posthumously honored with a second major exhibition, Manuscripts at Oxford.******

About STEPHEN EDWARD SPRING RICE (from Wikipedia):

******Stephen Edward Spring Rice CB, b.1856 d.1902, was a British civil servant and academic. He was the son of the Hon. Charles William Thomas Spring Rice, a civil servant in the Foreign Office, and Elizabeth Margaret Marshall, the grandson of the Whig politician, Lord Monteagle of Brandon, the brother of the diplomat, Sir Cecil Spring Rice. He was brought up near Watermillock on the shore of Ullswater. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) and was a contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica. He is commemorated by a memorial bridge at Aira Force.******

GERMAN ROMANCE: Specimens of Its Chief Authors; with Biographical and Critical Notices by the Translator of Wilhelm Meister and the Author of The Life of Schiller (i.e. THOMAS CARLYLE). FOUR VOLUMES (Complete in These 4 Volumes). Edinburgh: William Tait, Prince's Street, and London: Charles Tait, Fleet Street, MDCCCXXVII (1827). FIRST EDITION. Original hardcovers, gray paper covered boards, brown paper covered spines, printed title information on spines, 5" x 8", 337, 317, 309 and 352 pages respectively.

Each Volume is complete with a half title and engraved title page. Early Thomas Carlyle book appearance, this was only his fourth work in book form. Carlyle greatly admired German writers and was instrumental in introducing them to the England through this, his 4 volume set of books. The four volumes are: Vol. I: Musaeus and Fouqué; Vol II: Tieck and Hoffman; Vol. III: Richter; and Vol. IV: Goethe (this 4 volume set is most renowned for this volume entirely on Goethe). All four Volumes were previously part of the CARLYLE COLLECTION of DR. SAMUEL A. JONES, with a decorative rubber stamp that states "CARLYLE COLLECTION

/ SAM'L A JONES" on the

front free endpaper of each volume, and a second such stamp on the front pastedown of the first volume. In addition, each volume is hand numbered according to its place in the collection.

The volumes are hand numbered 20, 21, 22 and 23, respectively. Dr. Samuel A. Jones was renowned collector of Thomas Carlyle. His entire collection was catalogued by the University of Michigan in 1919. The association gives this set a rather wonderful provenance. CONDITION: Volume I has a disbound front cover and is missing its spine covering. The spine covering of Volume II is almost completely chipped away, the spine coverings of Volumes III and IV are chipped, rubbed and worn, with the spine lettering only partially legible.

The covers of all 4 Volumes are worn at the edges, with most edges worn through, and the paper starting to peel away at a number of places. Volume I has a clipping from an old bookseller's catalogue pasted to the front pastedown. The clipping lists a similar set of Carlyle books for 1 pound 5 shillings. The bookseller was Alfred Russell Smith (Soho, London). Internally, there is foxing, offsetting, some spotting and some shorelining, mainly to the first and last few pages of each Volume, otherwise the inner pages are pretty nice - complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. SCARCE FIRST EDITION SET OF THIS IMPORTANT THOMAS CARLYLE WORK with a WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION to one of the most notable COLLECTOR'S OF CARLYLE.

THE SAINT'S TRAGEDY; or, The True Story of ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY, Landgravine of Thuringia, Saint of the Romish Calendar, by CHARLES KINGSLEY. Published by John W. Parker, London, 1848. FIRST EDITION. Small Format Hardcover Book, cloth covered boards, spine paper title label, 4.5x7". Pagination: [4], xxiii (i-xxiii), [4], 271 (pages numbered 28 to 271, consecutive numbering beginning with page "i"), [1], + 4 numbered pages of Publisher's ads. Preface by the Reverend F. D. Maurice and an Introduction by the Author. This is CHARLES KINGSLEY'S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK, a drama, written while he was Rector of Eversley. THE YEAST, Kingsley's first novel, was being published in installments in Fraser's Magazine at the same time, but it was controversial and the novel serialization was never finished - it was completed and first published in book form in 1850. Condition: The Original Covers are rubbed and shelf worn, there is a light cup ring on the rear cover, the spine covering is split at the rear fold, but holding well, the paper spine label is chipped and worn, affecting the label title text (part of the title, "KINGSLEY",

and the "5s." price are still clear). Internally, there is a previous owner's signature at the top of the front pastedown,

"St. John's Book Club" is written at the top of the front free-endpaper, there is some light corner creasing, overall the inner pages remain tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A complete, solid, nice 1848 First Edition copy, in original covers, of THE FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK by CHARLES KINGSLEY.

THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL - A History of Father and Son, by GEORGE MEREDITH. THREE VOLUME SET - Complete in these Three Volumes. LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, Piccadilly, 1859. FIRST EDITION. This was George Meredith's first full-length novel (preceded only by a volume of verse and two single-volume burlesques). When it first came out, in 1859, it was a critical and financial failure, considered both "unreadable" and of "low ethical standards". It was not, therefore, reprinted until 1878. Then, all of a sudden, the critics began raving about the book to such an extent that it became required reading at many English schools. That is why the 1859 first edition of what became the author's best known work is scarce. Half-leather (leather spine and corners) and pebbled cloth covered boards, five raised spine bands, embossed gilt titling to spine, marbled page edges, marbled endpapers, 4.5x7.5". Pagination: iv, 303; iv, 348; iv, 395. Bookplate of STEPHEN EATON ELAND on the front pastedown of each volume. Condition: Covers are rubbed and scraped at the spine ends, corner tips and edges of the leather, and are sunned at the margins, but remain sturdy and handsome; the top page edges have darkened; Volume I is lacking a blank prelim page (blank prelim page before the title page), otherwise all volumes are complete; there is substantial foxing to the first and last few pages of each volume, otherwise there is only a bit of foxing here and there; other than the foxing on the first and last few pages, the inner pages are complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. This 1859 First Edition Three Volume Set of George Meredith's First full-length Novel is VERY SCARCE.

DULCE COR: Being the POEMS of FORD BERÊTON (pseudonym of SAMUEL RUTHERFORD CROCKETT). LONDON: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., MDCCCLXXXVI (1886). First Edition. Hardcovers, olive green cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine, 5x7.5 inches. Pagination: xii, 200 pages. Frontispiece portrait and one plate, both with their tissue guards. This is the FIRST BOOK by the SCOTTISH writer S.R. CROCKETT, b. 1860 d. 1914. It is a collection of poetry written under the pseudonym FORD BERÊTON. The book was published the year Crockett was ordained into the Church of Scotland. It would be seven years later, and after resigning his ministry, that Crockett would begin publishing his famous SCOTTISH STORIES, beginning with his successful THE STICKIT MINISTER. This copy has an IMPORTANT SCOTTISH LITERARY ASSOCIATION, with the penciled ownership SIGNATURE and handwritten ADDRESS of Scottish writer WILLIAM SHARP on the half title page. William Sharp wrote under his name and under the pseudonym of FIONA MACLEOD. He was a contemporary of Samuel Crockett. He was also a contemporary of William Butler Yeats who reportedly liked the writing of Fiona Macleod but not the writing of William Sharp. There is a lovely pictorial bookplate of Albert Harrison on the front pastedown. I have no idea who he might be. VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some wear and rubbing to the spine ends and corner tips, there is foxing here and there, most noticeable on the first and last few pages, the leaf consisting of pages 95/96 is missing its upper corner (probably from being roughly cut open), not affecting text; otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. The penciled signature and handwritten address of William Sharp are clear and legible. About S.R. CROCKETT (from Wikipedia): ******Samuel Rutherford Crockett, b.1859 d.1914, who published under the name S. R. CROCKETT, was a Scottish novelist. After some years of travel, he became in 1886 an Ordained Minister of Penicuik. During the same year as his ordination, his first book, Dulce Cor (Latin: Sweet Heart), a collection of verse under the pseudonym Ford Brereton, was published. That was the only book he published until he abandoned the ministry to become a writer. The success of J. M. Barrie and the Kailyard school of sentimental, homey writing had already created a demand for stories in Lowland Scots, when Crockett published his successful story of The Stickit Minister in 1893. It was followed by a rapidly produced series of popular novels frequently featuring the history of Scotland or his native Galloway. Crockett made considerable sums of money from his writing and was a friend and correspondent of R. L. Stevenson. A substantial number of his works have been republished since the 100th anniversary of his death.****** About WILLIAM SHARP / FIONA MACLEOD (from Wikipedia): ******William Sharp, b.1855 d.1905, was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost completely secret during his lifetime. Sharp's poem THE LONELY HUNTER inspired the title of Carson McCullers debut novel THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. His poem contains the lines "Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still, But my heart is a lonely hunter, that hunts on a lonely hill". In Disney's 2017 movie production of Beauty and the Beast, Belle recites to the Beast several lines of Sharp's poem A Crystal Forest: "Each branch, each twig, each blade of grass, / Seems clad miraculously with glass".******

CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOKS BY OR RELATING TO WALT WHITMAN, The Property of His Intimate Friend, Biographer and Literary Executor, the Late Richard Maurice Bucke of London, Ontario (Sold By Order Of H. L. Bucke, Esq.) Which Will Be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... the 13th of May, 1935.

LONDON: Printed by Kitchen & Barratt Ltd., 1935.

Hard Library Covers, cloth covered boards, entire catalog bound within, 6x9.5 inches (15x24 cm), 31 pages plus 3 prelim pages (cover, foreword, conditions of sale). Illustrated with 4 facsimile illustrations of manuscript signatures and inscriptions.

117 lots are offered and described. No price estimates.

Condition: EX-LIB with a shelving number on spine, a UC Santa Cruz stamp on the front pastedown, a numerical stamp at the bottom of the Colophon page (last page), and a "Withdrawn UCSC" stamp on both the front free endpaper and the rear free endpaper, etc.; ex-lib aside, there is a slant to the spine, otherwise a solid, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked copy.

Original WUTHERING HEIGHTS CONTINUITY DIALOGUE SCREENPLAY / SCRIPT. Directed by William Wyler. Script by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, and an uncredited John Huston. Starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. The script is not dated and neither the writers, director or actors are credited on this script. However, the paper, the printing, and the six-reel transcription, and the Provenance, clearly identifies this as an original, 1939 continuity screenplay.

Provenance of Paul Kohner, with his early label "Paul Kohner, Inc." on the blank verso of the last page. Paul Kohner was an noted film producer in the 1930s. Among other films he produced William Wyler's "A House Divided" and Lon Chaney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Paul Kohner later became a film industry super-agent. John Huston was his client and friend for over 40 years, William Wyler and David Niven were also clients. All

were involved with Wuthering Heights, Wyler as Directory, Huston as an uncredited screenwriter, Niven as an actor. (See more about Paul Kohner at the end of this listing.)

Mimeographed pages printed on one side only, 8.5x11 inches, 47 pages, 3-hole punched at the left margin, bound with two brass brads.

The dialogue continuity is transcribed by reel. There are six reels, each with a Part A and Part B, except for Reel Six which only needs Part A to reach the end of the film. The dialogue continuity (and the 1939 film) ends with the classic: "No, not dead, Dr. Kenneth. Not alone. He's with her. They've only just begun to live. Goodbye Heathcliff. Goodbye my wild sweet Cathy."

FAIR CONDITION: The first page is browned, not attached to the brads, and heavily chipped at all its edges, but the text is complete and fully legible; pages 2-47 are age toned, and some edge wear here and there including a few closed tears and small chips.

This is the only Original Wuthering Heights Six Reel Dialogue Continuity that I have ever seen, and I doubt I will ever see another.

About CONTINUITY SCRIPTS:

******Continuities (Continuity Scripts) were an important part of the film industry in its early days. They were typically created after a film was "in the can", but before it was released, in order to create a written "copy" of the film. A good Continuity provided a transcription of every word of dialogue in the finished film, something that could obviously not be known until a film was completed. Continuities were created both for copyright protection and for a "true record" of a film. Many early films easily degenerated, and many others were wiped out to recover their silver. A true continuity script was therefore often the only archived, word-by-word, record of many early films.******

About PAUL KOHNER (from his March 19, 1988 New York Times obituary):

************Paul Kohner, b.1902 d.1988, was a prominent Hollywood film producer and super-agent for motion picture actors and directors.

Paul Kohner was born in Teplice-Sanov in what was Czechoslovakia. In the 1920s Kohner came to the United States to work for Universal. He became head of Universal's European division in Berlin in the late 1920's.

He returned to the United States in the mid 1930's, and produced dozens of films, including Lon Chaney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," William Wyler's "A House Divided," "The Chinese Parrot" and "Love Me and the World Is Mine".

Kohner opened his talent agency in 1938 while still a film producer. In the 40s and 50s his illustrious client list included John Huston, Ingmar Bergman, Maurice Chevalier, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Liv Ullmann, Billy Wilder, Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Marcel Pagnol, Douglas Sirk, Lana Turner and Erich von Stroheim.

Ingmar Bergman once said that Paul Kohner's life "includes the history of the movies." And John Huston, a client for more than 40 years, said of Paul Kohner: "We lasted through marriages and wars and good times and disasters - nothing lasts forever except Paul and me."******

HEROIC EROTICS: THE ANATOMY OF MISOGYNY IN THE ARS AMATORIA, by Laurie J. Churchill. An Original PhD Thesis.

Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of California, Santa Cruz, in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in LITERATURE.

Self published, Laurie J. Churchill, June 1985.

Printed paper covers, copy shop type printing, 8.5x11 inches, 163 pages, pages printed on one side only.

VERY GOOD condition, the covers are lightly toned, overall tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

After graduating with a PhD. Laurie J. Churchill went on to become lead editor of the major scholarly work: "Women Writing in Latin: Women Writing Latin in Roman Antiquity; Women Writing Latin in Late Antiquity; and Women Writing Latin in the Early Christian Era" (Routledge, 2002). She has also written numerous articles on classical literature and feminist pedagogy.

BETWEEN THE LINES: Letters and Memoranda Interchanged by H. Buxton Forman and Thomas J. Wise. Foreword by Carl H. Pforzheimer, introductory essay and notes by Fannie E. Ratchford.

Correspondence between a bibliographer/bookseller and a collector who worked together to produce and sell many literary forgeries.

AUSTIN: The University of Texas Press, 1945. LIMITED EDITION, one of only 525 copies.

Hardcover Book, gilt top edges, 6.5x9.5 inches, xii + 38 pages of text + 35 facsimile plates, including some that fold-open. No slipcase.

The book is in VERY GOOD, light foxing to the blank endpapers, otherwise sharp cornered, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

About FORMAN and WISE and their LITERARY FORGERIES (from Wikipedia):

******Henry Buxton Forman, b.1842 d.1917, was a Victorian era bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller who wrote bibliographies of Percy Shelley and John Keats. In 1934 he was revealed to have been in a conspiracy with Thomas James Wise, b.1859 d.1937, to produce and sell large quantities of forged first editions of Georgian and Victorian authors.

In 1887 Henry Buxton Forman and Thomas James Wise, a London commodity broker and book collector, began producing literary forgeries, often using an apocryphal Philadelphia Historical Society as a cover. Numerous forgeries were produced over the next fifteen years. They specialized in early pamphlets, supposedly privately published, of poets some of whom such as Rossetti and Swinburne were still living. Dates, places of publication, publishers (as distinct from printers) led the collecting world to believe in these 'rare private' editions. Buxton Forman and Wise forged publications by: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson, George Meredith and William Thackeray and many others. Many of these forgeries were sold to collectors across the English speaking world. It would be forty years later that their fraud would be discovered by John Carter. The extent of the forgeries was such that the Brayton Ives sale in New York in 1915 contained twenty four forgeries.******

THE FOUR MILLION, by O. HENRY (pseudonym of William Sydney Porter). Includes the first book appearance of GIFT OF THE MAGI.

NEW YORK: McClure, Phillips & Co., MCMVI (1906). First edition, first printing, will all points present, MCMVI on the title page, "Published April, 1906" on copyright page, no indication of additional printings, and "lony" (misspelling of "long") in the prefatory notice (facing the copyright page).

Hardcovers, dark red cloth covered boards, gilt titling to the front cover and spine, blind stamped framing to the front cover, 5x7.25 inches (13x18.5 cm), 261 pages.

First edition, first state, of O. Henry's second published book, in bright gilt-stamped original cloth.

The Four Million contains some of Henry's most famous stories, including most notably the first printing in book form of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.

GOOD condition, the covers have light wear to the spine ends and corner tips, some sunning / fading to the spine, and a bb-size scrape to the front panel; internally, the pages are lightly age toned as is normal, the front inner hinge is cracked but holding well, the rear inner hinge is split, scraped, and lacking some of the hinge paper covering but also holding well, the top edge of the title page has a closed tear and some associated creasing, the text block is cracked at a couple places where the book was over-opened but is still well bound with the stitched binding, there is a small oval bookstore sticker to the bottom of the front free endpaper (the famous but long gone "Old Corner Book Store / Boston"), a previous owner's signature and date (1912) also on the front free endpaper, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy.

About O. Henry (extracted from Wikipedia):

******William Sydney Porter, b.1862 d.1910, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known for his naturalist observations, witty narration, and surprise endings. Porter's early career was as a bank clerk and part time short story writer. His banking career ended suddenly when he was convicted and imprisoned for embezzlement. In prison he started writing short stories under the pseudonym O. Henry. He was released in 1901 after serving three years. Porter continued writing under the name O. Henry, and the rest, as they say, is history.******

SPIKENARD AND SAFFRON - A STUDY in the POETIC LANGUAGE of the SONG OF SONGS, by Jill M. Munro.

Published by Sheffield Academic Press, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series #203, England, 1995. ISBN 10: 1850755620 ISBN 13: 9781850755623.

Hardcover Book, green cloth covered boards, gilt embossed titling and design on the front cover and spine, 6x9.5 inches (15x25 cm), 166 pages.

NEAR FINE condition, light push to the bottom of the spine, overall looks and feels unused, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

A hard-to-find study on this Hebraic, Poetic, Biblical Erotica.

From the Publisher:

******This study focuses upon the language of the Song of Songs in an attempt to see how individual images work together in the constitution of a poetic unity. The perception of certain imaginative fields, each of which organizes a range of related imagery, is helpful to an appreciation of the symbolic density which certain images acquire in the course of the Song's movement and to an acknowledgment of their capacity for narrativity.******

About the SONG OF SONGS (from Wikipedia):

******The Song of Songs, also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is an erotic poem, one of the five megillot (scrolls) in the Ketuvim (writings), the last section of the Tanakh. It is unique within the Hebrew Bible: it shows no interest in Law or Covenant or the God of Israel, nor does it teach or explore wisdom like Proverbs or Ecclesiastes (although it does have some affinities to wisdom literature, as the ascription to the 10th century BCE King of Israel Solomon indicates); instead, it celebrates sexual love, giving "the voices of two lovers, praising each other, yearning for each other, proffering invitations to enjoy".

The two lovers are in harmony, each desiring the other and rejoicing in sexual intimacy. The women of Jerusalem form a chorus to the lovers, functioning as an audience whose participation in the lovers' erotic encounters facilitates the participation of the reader.

Scholars differ in assessing when it was written, with estimates ranging from the 10th to 2nd century BCE, with linguistic analysis suggesting the 3rd century.******