[Rarebooks] FS: Van Vechten

[Nina W. Matheson]

For consideration today:

Van Vechten, Carl.   Firecrackers, a realistic novel.  New York, Alfred A. 
Knopf, 1925 Bookseller's label on front pastedown. Otherwise fine in 
chipped dust jacket. First edition. American writers in Paris, 1920-1939. $45.

Jonas, Klaus W., comp.   Carl Van Vechten, a bibliography. Compiled by 
Klaus W. Jonas. With a preamble by Grace Zaring Stone.  New York, Alfred A. 
Knopf, 1955. Original quarter cloth and striped paper boards. Two small 
holes in the front joint, small scuff on the rear board, otherwise fine in 
lightly soiled dust jacket missing a one-inch piece on the rear panel, and 
with three short closed tears. Inscribed by the author on the front free 
endpaper: "For [names of recipients], This record of all the works and a 
history of the past of Carlo! / With fond embraces, May 26, 1955, in an old 
decaying manse". One of 400 copies. $75.

Banyan Press.  A first list of books printed and published by The Banyan Press.
[Pawlet, Vermont, The Banyan Press, 1948]. Original sewn printed wrappers. 
Fine. Unpaginated. Foreword by Carl Van Vechten. 2,000 copies printed. The 
little catalog announces the publication in the coming year of John 
Berryman's The Black Book , a book that appeared only in 1958 under a much 
different title.  $40.


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