{"id":122468,"date":"2018-03-09T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=122468"},"modified":"2023-03-28T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:10:52","slug":"eight-unexpected-highlights-antiquarian-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/09\/eight-unexpected-highlights-antiquarian-book-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Unexpected Highlights from the Antiquarian Book Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The fifty-eighth\u00a0New York Antiquarian Book Fair<\/a>,\u00a0organized\u00a0by\u00a0the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA<\/a>) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB<\/a>), opened March 8 at the Park Avenue Armory and runs through Sunday.<\/p>\n

Some of the items on display include Shakespeare folios and quartos and ephemera, Einstein\u2019s Bible and his letter on \u201cGod\u2019s secrets,\u201d a manuscript poem by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u2019s copy of the\u00a0Odyssey<\/em>, and the four-million-dollar Hamilton Collection, complete with a lock of his hair. There are also far stranger items, such as the \u201cfirst salad monograph,\u201d an instructional needlepoint from Shakespeare, and a shooting script from the Kurosawa classic Yojimbo.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is a deeper look\u00a0at some of the unique items on view at the fair:<\/p>\n

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1)\u00a0<\/strong>Moses Seixas and George Washington:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On August 18, 1790, on behalf of the Newport Jewish congregation (then numbering about three hundred), Moses Seixas\u00a0welcomed George Washington, expressing support for his administration and hope for his advocacy of religious freedom. Washington\u2019s letter in response, published in the Newport Mercury <\/em>that September, not only echoed Seixas\u2019s sentiments but also employed much of his rhetoric (indicated below with italics):<\/p>\n

The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.<\/em> It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance <\/em>requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the only known copy of the earliest obtainable printing of Washington\u2019s letter ($125,000, Seth Kaller, Booth A40).<\/p>\n

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2) Harriet Taylor Mill and Twenty-Two Other\u00a0\u201cWomen Philosophers\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Harriet Taylor Mill was the wife of John Stuart Mill and the uncredited coauthor of his foundational book\u00a0On the Subjection of Women<\/em>. She is one of the nearly two dozen female \u201cintellectuals of the first order\u201d showcased by Athena Rare Books, which is run by seller William Schaberg (most editions range in the three to four figures; Booth D19).
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\n<\/a>Athena\u2019s catalogue of \u201cWomen Philosophers\u201d includes household names like Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Simone de Beauvoir. Others are less well-known, such as Anna Maria van Schurman (1607\u20131678), the first woman to attend a European university (she sat behind a curtain, out of view of the men). William Schaberg\u2019s seventeen-year-old assistant and prot\u00e9g\u00e9e, Lucy Rose DaSilva, wrote\u00a0more than half the catalogue. Of psychoanalyst and author Lou Andreas-Salom\u00e9, she writes, \u201cIt is all too easy to define her by the men she entranced.\u201d Andreas-Salom\u00e9 was Rilke\u2019s lover, the object of Nietzsche\u2019s persistent affection, and Freud\u2019s first female student of psychoanalysis, but her works reveal her revolutionary independence. DaSilva appreciates these physical objects and their back stories as opportunities to \u201chumanize our gods.\u201d She found a book at Athena (an inscribed volume of Nietzsche) she wanted to \u201ctake home and hug.\u201d This is how young collectors are born.<\/p>\n

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3) From the Collection of:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Many historic collections are in evidence at this year\u2019s book fair.\u00a0Here are just a few examples:<\/p>\n

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Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785\u20131861) amassed\u00a0twenty thousand volumes in her lifetime, partially through inheritance but primarily through devotion and insight. Dispersed at Sotheby\u2019s in 1862, pieces of that collection still appear on the market. Currer\u2019s copy of The Comedies of Aristophanes <\/em>(1820, 1822) with her engraved bookplate is\u00a0on sale at the fair ($1,250, Honey and Wax Booksellers, Booth E9). If you\u2019d like to know what else was in Currer\u2019s library, you\u2019ll have to spend a bit more for a copy of the 1833 second catalogue she issued of her collection ($7,500, Jonathan Hill Rare Books, Booth B15).<\/p>\n

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Estelle Doheny (1856\u20131935) built her collection\u2013just under\u00a0ten thousand books and manuscripts\u2013from scratch. Many of her acquisitions were based on bibliographies such as One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature,\u00a0<\/em>by the Grolier Club, the New York City\u2013based society for book collectors. The pace and breadth of her acquisitions eventually justified a private librarian, Lucille Miller, who wrote a three-volume catalogue of the collection between 1940 and 1955. Doheny donated much of her approximately\u00a0seven thousand\u00a0books and 1,300 manuscripts to a memorial library in her husband\u2019s name, but it was later sold in a series of sales at Christies between 1987 and 1989. One such item is a nineteenth-century manuscript choir book with borders taken from a medieval illuminated manuscript ($2,300, Sanctuary Books, Booth B2).<\/p>\n

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Alfred Edward Newton\u2019s famed collection of about\u00a0ten thousand volumes, was dispersed shortly after his death in 1940. It included a copy of the 1676 Davenant sixth-quarto edition of Hamlet <\/em>($75,000, Manhattan Rare Book Company, Booth B20).<\/p>\n


\n<\/a><\/strong>4) James Joyce\u2019s copy of Madame Bovary:<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Not all readers are necessarily collectors, and \u201cassociation copies\u201d\u2014volumes that are signed, inscribed, or annotated\u2014show the ways in which books were held and used.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A nineteen-year-old James Joyce acquired this edition of Madame Bovary<\/em> in 1901 and signed it in his juvenile hand ($25,000, Honey and Wax Booksellers, Booth E9). Flaubert would prove a formidable stylistic influence on Joyce\u2019s early work. This copy, which includes transcripts of the Bovary <\/em>trial, was later picked up in a used bookshop by the Irish critic Ernest Boyd and bears his signature as well.<\/p>\n

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Joyce\u2019s signature here looks quite different from his later spidery hand you\u2019ll see elsewhere at the fair. Honey and Wax proprietor Heather O\u2019Donnell explains:<\/p>\n

Joyce\u2019s early signature is very different from his midcareer \u201cJames Joyce\u201d signature, familiar to us from the signed limited\u00a0Ulysses.<\/em>\u00a0Slocum and Cahoon, in their list of volumes from Joyce\u2019s library before 1905, note that he typically\u00a0signed \u201cJas. Joyce\u201d or \u201cJas. A Joyce\u201d during that period. As a very young man, Joyce was given to curlicues like those in the\u00a0Bovary<\/em>\u00a0signature \u2026 By 1901\u20131902, Joyce begins to drop the decorative flourishes, but the lines of the signature remain.<\/p>\n

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5) Women in the book business:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The cover with the woodblock (left) and without (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

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If Virginia Woolf is a god to you, one way to humanize her is to look closely at the books she printed and bound with her husband, Leonard, at Hogarth Press. They are often just a mess. Katherine Mansfield\u2019s Prelude <\/em>(1918) was only their second attempt at printing and binding. Mansfield had originally wanted\u00a0a woodblock\u00a0stamped on the cover, but after printing the first batch of copies, Woolf decided she did not like it and removed it. The version for sale is sans woodblock.\u00a0The page header title changes on page 21 from \u201cA Prelude\u201d to \u201cPrelude.\u201d Despite such flaws, common to Hogarth Press productions, this copy holds delights: it is signed on the cover (faintly) and front endpaper (more vibrantly) by Mansfield\u2019s friend, the literary patron Violet Schiff, and it later went into the library of Mansfield\u2019s\u2014and Woolf\u2019s\u2014bibliographer, Jean Kirkpatrick ($8,000, BAS Books Ltd., London).<\/p>\n

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A more aesthetically inspiring production is this 1550 missal printed by Yolande Bonhomme, the widow of renowned printer Thielman Kerver. After his death in 1522, Yolande carried on their publishing concern for another thirty-odd years. \u201cHer long and flourishing career illustrates the independence of widows in the Parisian book business from the\u00a0sixteenth century,\u201d notes Flavie Loizon, of Librairie Camille Sourget.<\/p>\n

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This is still evident three centuries later, as shown in an early-nineteenth-century bookseller\u2019s license made out to\u00a0a sixty-five-year-old widow named Anne Catherine Sim\u00e9on Cadenn\u00e9e (Missal: $44,000, Librairie Camille Sourget, Paris, Booth\u00a0C29. License: $1,200, Leo Cadogan, Booth C26).<\/p>\n

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6) A letter from Susan B. Anthony:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Letters by Susan B. Anthony are not uncommon, but in this one she is particularly incisive in her call for coeducation. Working on National American Woman Suffrage Association letterhead in 1903, Anthony writes to the Greek scholar E. M. Tomlinson, professor and trustee of the coed Alfred University. She writes:<\/p>\n

Alfred was one of the first places that I visited in 1852 and I have watched your institution with a great deal of interest ever since \u2026 I do not suppose the question of segregating the sexes has ever been thought of in your college. It is pitiful to see how Chicago University with Dr. Harper [University of Chicago\u2019s first president, William Rainey Harper] at its head is setting an example of segregation. Did you notice that instead of increasing the number of young men of the city and from the East he is 700 short of as many as he ha[d] last year? I should think that would be a lesson to him; but none are so blin[d] as those who will not see, so I suppose he will not charge the lessening of the number of students to his invidious action with regard to women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anthony agrees to complete Tomlinson\u2019s set of her four-volume History of Woman Suffrage\u00a0<\/em>and also suggests he acquire her two-volume Life and Work<\/em>: \u201cyou ought to have it so every student could find it on your shelves when he comes to the inevitable moment of writing a composition on the question of woman\u2019s rights\u201d ($5,250, Claudia Strauss-Schulson at Schulson Autographs, Booth B17).<\/p>\n

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7) T. E. Lawrence\u2019s working manuscript of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Also on display is the only surviving working manuscript material of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, <\/em>Lawrence\u2019s ten-volume memoir of the Arab Revolt. The history of the manuscript is quite complicated. Lawrence famously lost the first draft, which was\u00a0250,000 words long, at Reading station.\u00a0He wrote it out again, from memory, at a length of 400,000 words. That manuscript is now at the Ransom Center at\u00a0the University of Texas at\u00a0Austin.\u00a0From that manuscript, he worked on a polished version of 335,000 words. That handwritten manuscript is now\u00a0at the Bodleian. In 1922, to protect himself from loss, he had that version typed up, and eight copies were printed. Those are referred to as the Oxford Text, as he had them printed at Oxford Press.\u00a0He hand-corrected five of them\u00a0and had them bound.\u00a0They were essentially private proof copies.\u00a0Finally, he agreed to prepare the manuscript\u00a0for publication\u2014in a subscription edition of\u00a0a hundred copies. He worked from the printed bound copies,\u00a0editing by hand directly onto them. He destroyed the other volumes with his hand edits but sent this one\u00a0to D. G. Hogarth, which is how it survived.\u00a0For sale\u00a0is volume eight, which he\u00a0rewrote\u00a0substantially,\u00a0effectively making this\u00a0\u201cheavily annotated proof copy\u201d a\u00a0working manuscript ($275,000, Maggs Bros. Ltd., London, Booth E2).<\/p>\n

In an accompanying letter from the mid 1920s, Lawrence notes that this is\u00a0\u201can example of the more drastic revision which some of my sections have had, especially Books VIII and IX.\u201d Those books cover the period between the capture of Jerusalem and then Damascus. He\u00a0describes his 1922 version as \u201cdull \u2026 The final effort didn\u2019t come off very well in print, because I\u2019m not very good at vigorous writing.\u201d Bookseller\u00a0Ed Maggs notes that \u201csignificantly the only paragraph in the whole of Book VIII which bears no revision is that in Chapter 103 (Chapter 94 in the 1926 edition), recounting the deaths of both Daud and Farraj, Lawrence\u2019s young servants.\u201d<\/p>\n

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8) Margaret Thatcher\u2019s Musings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a complimentary notebook from a Concorde flight in the late nineties, Margaret Thatcher jots down Thomas Carlyle\u2019s dictum that \u201chistory is the biography of great men\u201d and adds a rejoinder in a strong hand: \u201cand women\u201d ($35,000, Peter Harrington, Booth A8).<\/p>\n

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Sarah Funke Butler<\/i><\/b> is a literary agent with a specialty in literary archives, and a private curator.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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