Holiday 2020 Catalogue

H o l i d a y G i f t s 98 “A Taut, Real, Strenuous Book” 165. WOOLF, Virginia. The Years. London, 1937. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $4200. First edition of the most ambitious and successful of Woolf’s later novels. Extremely good. Comprehensive Signed Limited Edition Of Yeats’ Poems 166. YEATS, WilliamButler. The VariorumEdition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats. New York, 1957. Large thick octavo, original red and tan cloth. $3800. Signed limited first edition of this wonderful scholarly edition of Yeats’ poems, one of 825 copies signed by Yeats (on a printed sheet prior to his death). Without original acetate and slipcase. About-fine. “This Is A World I Love And I Think You Will Also” 167. (WYETH, Andrew) (BOSCH, Hieronymus) TOLNAY, Charles de. Hieronymus Bosch. New York, 1966. Folio, original white cloth, original dust jacket. $3200. First American edition of this lavishly illustrated tribute to the startlingly unconventional 15th-century Dutch artist. This copy presented by American artist Andrew Wyeth to his aunt and cousin, inscribed: “Dearest Miss Herr and her lovely daughter Mary—This is a world I love and I think you will also—All my love, Andy.” Near-fine, with a nice artistic association. “An All-Powerful Force To Loosen The Firm Foundations Of The Earth” 168. ZEIGLER, Wilbur Gleason. Story of the Earthquake and Fire. (San Francisco and Vicinity. The Story of the Great Disaster). San Francisco, 1906. Oblong quarto, original russet cloth, mounted cover photograph. $850. First edition of journalist Zeigler’s riveting eyewitness chronicle of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, published in San Francisco the same year, featuring a long folding photographic panorama of the city, with two full-page maps and 93 full-page half-tones from photographs by Strohmeier, Blumberg and others, including two folding panoramas showing the Business District before and after the fire, a splendid copy in original cloth. Text and plates fine, inner hinges expertly reinforced.