John Michael Lang Fine Books

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1. [African Americana] Malcolm X, with Alex Haley. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Garden City, New York: Grove Press, Inc., (1965). First edition. 9" x 6". 455pp. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dust wrapper. The edges are lightly soiled, and the tip of the front hinge has a small rubbed spot, else near fine condition. The dust jacket is price clipped and has a little edge wear and soiling. A generally very nice example. With an introduction by M.S. Handler. This copy bears a full page presentation inscription from Haley on the first leaf: "For Robert Lamb, jr. - a fellow devotee of Black History - with warm wishes from Malcolm's memory, and from me! Sincerely, Alex Haley." $1,750.00

2. [Art – Printmakers] Dearborn, Elwyn. The Down East Printmaker: Carroll Thayer Berry. A Catalogue Raisonné of His Wood Engravings, Woodcuts & Linocuts. Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1983. 10.75" x 8.25". 42pp., 105pp. of

illustrations. Fine condition. The near fine jacket has a small bit of edge wear. Berry was an

American artist who grew up in Maine, and whose work is often said to be emblematic of New England, especially the seacoast. In addition, he was one of the first U.S. artists to be assigned to create camouflage in World War I. $75.00

3. Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. 8.25" x 5.75". 159pp. Blue paper covered boards with a dark blue cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. Carver's first commercial success. The story "Why Don't You Dance?" was the basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film Everything Must Go. $125.00

4. [China] Taylor, George E. Edited by Maxwell S. Stewart. Changing China. St. Louis, Dallas, Los Angeles: Institute of Pacific Relations & Webster Publishing Company, 1942. 8" x 5.75". 94pp. Color illustrated wrappers. Mild edge wear and soiling, else VG+ condition. With a color cover illustrations of Chinese comrade and workers by LaVerne Riess. A study of political developments in China. With black & white photo illustrations. $30.00

5. [Detective Fiction] Malcolm, David. A Fiend Incarnate. New York: J. Selwyn Tait & Sons, 1895. 6.5" x 3.75". 213pp. Green cloth with red lettering and cover illustrations, top edge gilt. Light spotting to the cloth else nice condition. A detective story involving a forger and the Bank of England. $60.00

6. Dickens, Charles. The Works of Charles Dickens. London: Chapman & Hill, 1897. Thirty six 7.75" x 5.5" volumes. Three quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt decorated spines in compartments, maroon and green spine labels. The bindings are by Stikeman. With light rubbing and edge wear, but generally a very nice VG+ condition set. The Gadshill Edition, issued in 34 volumes. This set also includes the two volume work by John Forster, The Life of Dickens, uniformly bound with the set. $1,750.00

7. Green, Percy B. A History of Nursery Rhymes. London: Greening & Co., Ltd., 1899. First edition. 7.5" x 5". 196pp., plus ads. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near fine condition. With chapters covering language and storytelling of early man, superstition, nursery games, Jewish rhymes, cat rhymes, songs, Scottish rhymes, and much more. $85.00

8. [Hotels] Lot of 17 bound volumes of Western Hotel magazines: Guest; Western Guest; Front; La Diligencia. Seattle: Western Hotels, Inc., 1951 - 1980. Each volume bound in black buckram. All in near fine or better condition. With the color illustrated covers bound in. These trade journals are from the library of J. William "Bill" Keithan, Jr. Keithan was a WW II veteran, a Cornell Hotel School graduate, and a 33 year employee of Western Hotels (now Westin Hotels). He ultimately became Senior Vice President in charge of design and construction of hotels around the world. Upon retirement from Western he consulted on hotel projects and also taught at Cornell University Hotel School and served as the interim dean. These trade journals include articles on hotel service, Western employees, new hotels in the Western chain, amusing hotel anecdotes, hotel renovations, hotel coffee shops and restaurants and their chefs, hospitality tips and techniques, catering, hotel quizzes, a Western Hotels photo contest, hotel themed cartoons, and much more. The 1962 issue of Western Guest is particularly interesting, as it has great articles and photos of the Seattle World's Fair. The Western Hotel chain was formed in 1930 by a couple of Seattle hotel men who decided to band together to deal with the effects of the Depression which were already beginning to make a mark...they started with just a handful of properties but soon had 16. By the early 1960s the company had become Western Hotels International and managed many outstanding hotels here in the US and abroad, including the Plaza and the Savoy Plaza in New York, in addition to many of the better hotels in Washington and Oregon, including the Olympic and the Benjamin Franklin in Seattle and the Benson in Portland.

The dynamic President of Western Hotels, Eddie Carlson was instrumental in securing Seattle's bid to host the 1962 World's Fair...he later went on to be President of United Air Lines when UAL acquired the chain in 1970. These journals have much information and personal details about all the great Western Hotels, including the food they served and the people who provided all the service. Western Hotels became Westin Hotels in 1981, and was later acquired by Marriott International. $500.00

9. [Humor] Ryder, Robert O. and Harry J. [James] Westerman. Some Further Observations of the Young Lady Across the Way. Columbus, Ohio: The Young Lady Across the Way Publishing Company, [no date, circa 1915]. First edition. 5.5" x 4". 109pp. Color illustrated paper covered boards with a red cloth spine. Corners a little rubbed, one faint yellow pencil mark on the front endpaper, two small 1915 ownership inscriptions, else near fine condition. This funny book features short pithy anecdotes about the Young Lady Across the Way. Most of the anecdotes depict the Young Lady misunderstanding a word or phrase or a social situation. Each is accompanied by a comic full page illustration by Westerman of the lady and her funny little dog. Westerman's cartoons appeared in many publications. He was a regular artist for Puck in the 1910s, and his social and sentimental cartoons were syndicated by McClure. He was the artist of George V. Hobart’s comic strip The Dinkelspiels, and of George Ade's Newest Fables in Slang. A very uncommon book; the Worldcat locates only 3 copies in American institutions. $100.00

10. [Idaho] McLeod, Geo. A. History of Alturas and Blaine Counties Idaho. Hailey, Idaho: The Hailey Times, 1950. Third edition. 7.5" x 5". 216pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. Mild soiling to cloth, else a near fine copy. A good history of these particular regions of the state if Idaho. With sections on the earliest white pioneers, ranches and farms, early town sites, the creation of the counties, the Chinese in Hailey, the state's activities during World War One, roads and bridges, etc. $75.00 11. [Military History] Calvert, Michael. Prisoners of Hope. London: Jonathan Cape, (1952). First edition. 7.75" x 5.25". 303pp. Red cloth with silver spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; near fine (price clipped) dust jacket. With an introduction by Peter Fleming. An account of "Mad Mike" Calvert and his command of the 77th brigade in Burma during World War Two. With black & white photo illustrations and five maps, several folding. $30.00

12. [Military History] Bayard, R. P. Middle East War Projects of Johnson, Drake & Piper, Inc. For the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army 1942 - 1943. New York: Privately Printed, 1943. First edition. 13" x 10". 206pp. Rust cloth stamped in gilt, in the original plain dust wrapper. Fine condition. A beautifully produced book, designed and printed by William Edwin Rudge's Sons. With map endpapers and numerous illustrations from drawings and monochrome photographs. A study of this construction contracting firm's work building bases, ports, docks, barracks, mess halls, etc., in Eritrea, Egypt, the Levant, Arabia, Sudan and other locales. $60.00

13. [Military History – Great Britain] MacWilliam, H. D., compiler and editor. The Official Records of the Mutiny of the Black Watch. A London Incident of the Year 1743. London: Forster Groom & Co., Limited, 1910. First edition. 11" x 8.5". 237pp. Red cloth with gilt spine

lettering. Light soiling and rubbing to cloth, but generally near fine condition. With a frontis portrait of Lord Sempill, and eight other full page illustrations. An account of an infamous incident in the history of the 42nd Royal Highlanders. The regiment was ordered to London in 1743 for an inspection by King George II. Rumors flew that they were to be shipped to the West Indies to fight in the War of the Austrian Succession, and many deserted for Scotland. They were soon recaptured; three of the insurgent leaders were executed in the Tower of London, and the remainder of the regiment shipped to Flanders and elswehere. $75.00

14. [Military History] Wessel, Wilhelm. Lot of two pastel drawings and one pencil line drawing by Erwin Rommel's staff artist. Circa 1942. The 14"x 10" pencil drawing is entitled "German Soldiers Talking". It depicts four uniformed members of the German Afrika Corps.

The first pastel drawing is an 18.5" x 14" depiction of three German armored vehicles rumbling through the blazing late afternoon North African desert

The second pastel is a 15" x 23" depiction an expansive and dramatic evening North African desert scene with German military vehicles scattered across the landscape. Titled in Wessel's propaganda book With Rommel in the Desert Stützpunktgelände.

Wessel had studied with Kandinsky and Schwitters and worked at the Weimar Bauhaus under Kandinsky. He was a close friend of the Desert Fox and was taken prisoner of war in North Africa. He continued to work as an artist after the war until his death in 1971. These artworks are accompanied by two WW II era propaganda books written and illustrated by Wessel, by a photo album of images of appr. 20 of Wessel's other North Africa scenes, and a typed account of how the collector, J. William Keithan, acquired the drawings. Keithan was an American WW II veteran, participated in the liberation of Dachau, and was later an amateur WW II historian. The drawings are all matted, and framed. We have not examined them outside the frames, but they all appear to be in very nice condition. Shipping at cost for these items.

$1,250.00 15. [Movies] Sayre, Joel & William Faulkner. The Road To Glory. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Press, 1981. 8.5" x 5.25". 176pp. Beige cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket has a light bit of rubbing. This screenplay was made into a film by Howard Hawks in 1936 featuring Frederic March, Warner Baxter, and Lionel Barrymore. $45.00

16. [Music] Cage, John. Silence. Lectures and Writings By John Cage. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, (1961). First edition. 9.25" x 7.75". 276pp. Black cloth, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; the nice, bright jacket has a small bit of edge wear and a couple short closed tears. Essays by the American avant - garde composer and music theorist. Cage covers a wide variety of subjects in this volume, including the composition process, forerunners of modern music, Erik Satie, Robert Rauschenberg, etc. $100.00

17. [New York City] Worden, Helen. Here is New York. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939. First edition. 8" x 5.5". 411pp. Red cloth in dust wrapper. Spine lightly soiled, one page with offsetting from a clipping, else near fine condition. The uncommon jacket has a little edge wear and a faded spine, but is otherwise a decent VG+ example. Subtitled on the cover "A Gay Baedeker of Gotham." With maps and many illustrations by the author. "Licensed by the New York World's Fair, this book tells where to go and how to get there, occasionally dipping into the past for a touch of legend or anecdote." $100.00

18. [Ocean Liners – Normandie] Foucart, Bruno, Charles Offrey, Francois Robichon, Claude Villers. Normandie, Queen of the Seas. New York, Paris, Lausanne: The Vendome Press, 1985. First American edition. 13.75" x 10.25". 207pp. Blue cloth hardback with gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; near fine (price clipped) jacket. With 393 photo illustrations, 112 in color. A beautifully produced book covering every detail about the legendary French ocean liner. Considered the apex of art deco design, no ship, plane, train, car or other mode of transportation has ever matched the vessel for sheer beauty and comfort. $100.00

19. Robinson, Holland and Mac Harshberger. Mother Goose Song Book. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, (1926). First edition. 12" x 9.5". 43pp. Red printed paper covered boards with a gray cloth spine in the very uncommon original dust jacket. Very nice, near fine condition; the very bright jacket has one small chip at the base of the spine. Beautifully printed on eight different colored papers on the rectos only. A genuinely charming book, with music and lyrics to classic songs such as A cat came fiddling, Sing a song of Sixpence, Ladybug, Ladybug, There was a crooked man, Hey! Diddle diddle, The man in the moon, etc. Harshberger was a highly successful illustrator who is best known for his elegant, simplified forms in which positive and negative shapes are equally important and economy of line is the rule. He studied with Maurice Denis in Paris. $500.00

20. Stevens, Wallace. The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First trade edition. 9.5" x 6.25". 534pp. Red cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Limited edition; one of only 2500 numbered copies. With a frontis photo portrait of the poet by Sylvia Salmi. Stevens was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for this book. $125.00

21. Stine, Thos. Ostenson. Echoes From Dreamland. Seattle: The Puget Sound News Company, 1903. 6.75" x 5". 100pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Near fine condition. A

collection of verse by the Norwegian - American editor of the Seattle Daily Times Scandinavian department. Stine also authored Scandinavians on the Pacific. The title page bears a penned note "Alfred Salin, A Christmas token from the author." A very uncommon Seattle imprint. $45.00 22. [Supernatural] "Streamline". Foretold. Stories of Modern Second - Sight. Stirling: Eneas Mackay, (1934). First edition. 7.25" x 5.75". 117pp. Brown cloth, in dust wrapper. Cloth a little spotted, else VG+ condition. The jacket has a little edge wear and rubbing, and is price clipped. ''the author of these stories is a well-known air pilot who served in the R.N.A.S. and R.F.C during the war''. A collection of some of the author's remarkable premonitions and warnings. $75.00

23. [Tattoos] Ebensten, Hanns. Pierced Hearts and True Love. An Illustrated History of the Origin

and Development of European Tattooing and a Survey of Its Present State. London: Derek Verschoyle, 1954. 8.5" x 5.5". 96pp. Rust red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine, in dust wrapper. Small stamp on the front leaf, else fine condition. The jacket has a little edge wear and rubbing but is fairly bright. Second printing. With a color frontispiece of a tattoo design chart of Rich Mingins, a well - respected London tattoo artist. Illustrated with black and white photos and drawings of people with tattoos, and of historical and modern tattoo designs. "This is the story of European tattooing, telling briefly

how it has developed during the four thousand years that separate the butterfly on Field-Marshal Montgomery's right arm and the tattoos discovered on the skins of Egyptian mummies dating to 2000 B.C." $100.00

NOTED FEMINIST CARTOONIST 24. Thomas, Helen & Edwina. Tippie's Tunes. Boston: The Boston Music Co., 1944. 12" x 9". 19pp. Color illustrated paper covered boards, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; the jacket has some edge wear and a 5" closed tear on the front panel. Comic songs about a funny little white dog named Tippie Stubbs. With humorous drawings by Edwina. Edwina Dumm was a writer - artist who drew the comic strip Cap Stubbs and Tippie for six decades and is notable as the nation’s first full-time female editorial cartoonist. She was profiled in Alice Sheppard's Cartooning for Suffrage (1994) as a prominent and influential feminist artist $65.00

25. [Tobacco] Laufer, Berthold, Wilfird D. Hambly and Ralph Linton. Introduction of Tobacco Into Europe. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1924. First edition. 8.5" x 5.5". 66pp. Printed stapled paper wrappers. Fine condition. With chapters covering Sir Walter Raleigh, cultivation of tobacco in England, pipe smoking, snuff, chewing tobacco, tobacco in France, Spain, Portugul, Russia, Italy, etc. $25.00

26. [Trade Catalogs] Catalogue B-35. Armstrong Bros. Tool Co. Manufacturers of Tool Holders For Turning, Boring, Threading, Knurling, Cutting Off, Planing, Slotting, and Drilling Metals, Pipe Tools...Drop Forged Clamps...Wrenches...[etc.]. Chicago: Armstrong Bros. Tool Co., [no date, circa 1929]. 6.25" x 4.25". 241pp. Black silver and red embossed wrappers. Near fine condition. A nicely produced and fully illustrated industrial trade catalog. Nicely printed in red and black.

$30.00

27. [Washington State – WPA] Compiled By Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Washington. Washington. A Guide to the Evergreen State. Portland, Ore.: Binfords & Mort, 1941. First edition. 8" x 5.25". 687pp. Green cloth stamped in red. Front hinge just a bit weak, else near fine condition. With numerous black & white photo illustrations and map endpapers. With a folding map tucked in a pocket at the rear of the book. $35.00 28. [Western Americana] Lockley, Fred. To Oregon By Ox Team in '47. The Story of the Coming of the Hunt Family to the Oregon Country and the Experiences of G. W. Hunt in the Gold Diggings of California in 1849. Portland, Oregon: Fred Lockley, 1924. First edition. 9" x 6". 16pp. Stapled wrappers. Small ink mark on the inside of the front cover, else near fine condition. An interesting account of a noted pioneer family. Decker - Soliday II 883, Graff 2518, Mintz 297, Smith 6000. $25.00

29. [Western Americana - Montana] Aasheim, Magnus, compiler. Montana. Sheridan's Daybreak. Volumes I & II. Aberdeen, South Dakota: North Plains Press, 1970 & 1984. 11" x 8.5". 1007, 1008pp. Both volumes bound in maroon buckram with gilt lettering. Volume I with a gift inscription, otherwise both volumes in fine condition. A good study of Montana's Sheridan County, with chapters on the towns of Antelope, Archer, Coalridge, Comertown - Dooley, Dagmar, Homestead, Medicine Lake, Outlook - Daleview, Plentywood, Raymond, Redstone - Wolf Creek, Reserve, Volmer, and Westby. With much biographical details on local families. Includes many black & white photo illustrations. $225.00