Eugene Field
WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TIPPED IN
Field, Eugene (1850-1895). A LITTLE BOOK OF WESTERN VERSE [ALs
tipped in]. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1889. LIMITED EDITION. #202 J/250
numbered copies issued to subscribers only, with a short colophon at the
end signed by the printer, a one page ALs on Field’s Chicago Daily News
Stationary signed and dated March 30, 1892 in reference to a news article
laid in and a small signed, dated and inscribed card by the author tipped in
onto the front free endpaper, a full sized (8" X 11") printed dedication page
written to Field's brother which was later found and published after Field's
death tipped in after dedication page, and a news clipping of a short poem
by Field titled SHARPS AND FLATS laid in at rear (Field wrote articles also
titled Sharps and Flats at the Chicago Daily News), title page in red and black, 196pp. including
subscribers list, printed on laid paper watermarked L.L. Brown, bound in 3/4 white cloth over gray paper
covered boards, black leather spine label gilt, spine gilt, white cloth with some spots of foxing and finger
soiling, a very nice copy in black cloth dust jacket with flaps covered with paper probably to prevent off-
setting. [BAL 5739] [pb.4273] $550
WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TIPPED IN
Field, Eugene (1850-1895). WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM [ALs tipped in].
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. LIMITED EDITION. #124/250
copies signed by the publisher, a tipped in ALs, written on Field’s Chicago
Daily News stationary dated 1892, in reference to some old prints and
fashion plates Field had received and reference to Antiquarian Bookseller
Henry Nims. Small leather bookplate of noted book and print collector
Herschell V.Jones (1861-1928) on front paste down, title page printed in red
and black, 126(1)pp., printed on laid paper watermarked Van Gelder, bound
in 3/4 white vellum over pale blue paper covered boards, spine and top
edge gilt, Off-setting from bookplate otherwise nearly fine in light blue cloth
dust jacket. [BAL 5750] [pb.4272] $725
WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TIPPED IN
Field, Eugene (1850-1895). THE HOLY-CROSS and Other Tales.
Cambridge & Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1893. LIMITED EDITION. #63/110
copies, of which only 100 copies were for sale, signed by the publisher, with
a charming ALs by the author laid in, signed and dated 1892. Field’s writes
a very nice personal letter to a close friend. A young college girl who he
suspects is “homesick”, so he tells her about the neighbors and giving Mrs.
Maxwell her puppy today, and how little Freddie Nagler almost killed himself
today and other home town news. Title page in green and red, limitation
page and title page on Japan vellum, the remaining sheets printed on Van
Gelder paper, 191pp., bound in dark blue cloth, paper spine label, damp
staining along outer edge of both boards with light staining to upper corner of last three leaves, in blue
cloth dust jacket with flaps covered in paper possibly to protect from off-setting, In all, a very good copy of
an uncommon limited edition. [BAL 5757] [pb.4271] $600
Field, Eugene. CULTURE'S GARLAND: Being Memoranda of the Gradual
Rise of Literature, Art, Music and Society in Chicago, and Other Western
Ganglia. Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1887. First Edition. Octavo. The author's
second book with introduction by Julian Hawthorne, number 16, issued
semi-monthly, xvi, 327, (9)pp. ads, bound in original gray paper wraps
lettered and decorated in red and dark gray, small piece of upper corner torn
away, faint damp stain to covers text clean and bright, a nearly fine copy
housed within a custom morocco backed slipcase and chemise. Comprises
sketches of life and literature, mostly humorous, "which engagingly blends
the atmosphere of cultivation, so long anticipated by Chicagoans, with wiffs
from the real and ever present stock-yards". [issued as Ticknor's Paper Series #16; BAL 5733] [pb.0630]
$450
Field, Eugene. CULTURE'S GARLAND. Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1887. FIRST
EDITION, Author's second book, 325pp., 8pp. ads, beautifully bound in full red
crushed morocco with a central rope design in black to upper board, lower board
depicts a hangman's platform and noose, raised bands with title gilt in one
compartment, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, original covers
bound in, previous owner's bookplate otherwise a very handsome copy, internally
clean and bright. Originally published as Ticknor's Paper Series of Choice Reading
which was issued monthly. [pb.0513]
$350
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