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engaged in the huge destructive work, the play not simply of a reparatory or consolatory, but a positively productive and creative virtue in which there is a peculiar honour.” Edel & Laurence state that there were 2000 copies of this only separate printing (yet it is extremely scarce, with no copies listed in OCLC,) and further, that Macmillan issued it in a white envelope with imprint, “A Motor Ambulance in France | by Henry James” (not present.) Most of the edition may have been intended for mailing to a general readership, and largely discarded. The BAL entry does not give the number of copies printed or mention an envelope. [BAL 10683; Edel & Laurence C2] $400.00 54. [Joyce, James] Charles Duff. JAMES JOYCE AND THE PLAIN READER. With a Prefatory Letter by Herbert Read. London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1932. Near fine in light green cloth with crisp orange lettering on the spine. The text is clear and unmarked but there is some light off-setting from the dust jacket on the front and rear end papers. The dust jacket is very nice with an elegant front panel featuring a line drawing of Joyce by the publisher, Desmond Harmsworth, that does not appear elsewhere in the text. The spine is lightly sunned and there is some chipping at the upper spine. Duff’s critical essay on Joyce, an early publication of this kind, with an Appendix giving a brief bibliography followed by a short list of critical writings. The errata slip is not present, however, there is a one-page advertising sheet laid in, printed on one side, for the novel Plummer’s Cut by Basil Maine, which had just been issued by Harmsworth. The dust jacket, with the drawing, is quite scarce in as nice condition as here. There was a second edition later in the same year that has the same jacket drawing set within a frame. $125.00 55. Lactantius. L. COELLI LACTANTII FIRMIANI DIUINARUM INSTITU- TIONUM LIBRI SEPTEM PROXIME CASTIGATI, ET AUCTI. Venice: Aldus, 1535. With the woodcut Aldine device on the title page and final page. Very good in a completely original somewhat darkened contemporary limp vellum binding with overlapping edges and a spine liner of 15 th -cent. manuscript on vellum. The title is handlettered across the top of the spine and also vertically down the spine, which also has an early printed library label affixed across the bottom. There are random ownership notes on the inner vellum binding fold-overs and a minute ownership signature on the title page beneath the printer’s device. Underlinings and contemporary marginal additions throughout give clear evidence of a careful perusal of the text. The contents consist of: De Ira Dei Liber I., De Opificio Dei Liber I., Epitome in libros sues, liber acephalos., Phoenix., Carmen de dominica resurrection., ITEM Index in eundem rerum omnium., and TERTULLIANI liber apologeticus cum indice. This is the second Aldine edition. The
first, in 1515, did not contain the Tertulliani. Lactantius was a fourth century Christian apologist. He was the first to compose his works in Latin and is often referred to as the “Christian Cicero” because of his elegant style. His works were widely read in the 16 th - century, the most significant being the Divinarum Institutionum, written between 303 and 311, which was intended to point out the futility of pagan beliefs and to establish the reasonableness and truth of Christianity. [Renouard 113,2] $1,200.00 The Lady Chatterley decision signed by the presiding judge 56. [Lawrence, D. H.] Frederick vanPelt Bryan. GROVE PRESS. INC. AND READERS’ SUBSCRIPTION, INC. PLAINTIFFS against ROBERT K. CHRISTENBERRY, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS POSTMASTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, DEFENDANT. OPINION. United States District Court. Southern District of New York. Civil 147-87. July 21, 1959. Very good in stapled printed wrappers. District Judge Bryan’s important opinion in this case established the present understanding of American obscenity law ensuring that sexual material with even a small measure of social value would enjoy First Amendment protection. He based his decision on the arguments of Charles Rembar, a member of the Grove Press defense team, which offered a new interpretation of Justice Brennan’s opinion in Roth v. United States, that had introduced the redeeming-social-value test for obscenity. A landmark in American jurisprudence, signed by Judge Bryan on the inside of the front wrapper and dated June 21, 1959. Note: This copy is not to be confused with the reprint, issued in the exactly same format by The Readers’ Subscription, which is identical except for four lines printed on the rear wrapper: “Reprinted and distributed by / THE READERS’ SUBSCRIPTION / 59 Fourth Avenue / New York 3, N.Y.” $300.00 Le Pois, Antoine. DISCOURS SUR LES MEDALLES ET GRAVURES ANTIQUES, , PRINCIPALEMENT ROMAINES. See item No. 69. 57. Malamud, Bernard. THE NATURAL. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. Very good in the original reddish brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. There is a barely perceptible stain to the lower portion of the rear board, otherwise a nice clean, tight copy in a pictorial dust jacket that displays some modest rubbing and wear and, more significantly, a light red stain to the lower rear panel corresponding to where the cloth once bled. Malamud's first book, and a high-spot of sports-based fiction. $1,500.00 58. Malamud, Bernard. HOLOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED. Dated February 5, 1971, with a Gramercy Park return address. A thank you note to the editor, Byron Dobell, for the loan of a book by Rilke with the admonition “don’t fret if (it) doesn’t come back for a while. It should before summertime or on demand.” Signed, Bernard. $75.00 59. [Melville, Herman] POEMS. New York: The Century Magazine. Vol. XLIV, No. 1, May, 1892. Very good in illustrated wrappers, with portions missing at top and bottom of the spine. Pages 104-105 print poems by Herman Melville with an Introduction by Arthur Stedman which serves as an obituary notice for Melville who had died the previous September. We had always understood that Melville had been completely forgotten as a literary figure and that his death had drawn very little notice, however Stedman reports that “it was the signal for an outpouring of articles on the life and writings of an author whose vogue had temporarily subsided, partly through his own self-
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