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# Harry F. Marks Catalogue No. 4, 1919: Choice and Unusual Books ### By Marks, Harry F.
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HARRY F. MARKS
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CHOICE AND UNUSUAL BOOKS
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BOOK-LOVERS WILL FIND LISTED HEREIN MANY DESIRABLE, CURIOUS, AND _OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS_, INCLUDING _CHOICE EDITIONS_ OF _STANDARD AUTHORS_ IN _HANDSOME BINDINGS_ AT _ATTRACTIVE PRICES_.
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HARRY F. MARKS
Established 15 years at
110-116 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK
Phone Beekman 3352
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## Book Love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and
the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last you until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
_Anthony Trollope._
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All books are sold as new unless otherwise described in the Catalogue. Any book found to be imperfect or not agreeing with description may be returned and money will be refunded.
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As we have but one copy of most of the books listed, an early order would be advisable to avoid disappointment.
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HARRY F. MARKS
Established 15 years AT 110-116 Nassau Street New York, N. Y. Phone Beekman 3352
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Choice and Unusual Books
For Sale by
Harry F. Marks, New York
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1 Addison (Joseph). The works. With Notes by Richard Hurd, D.D. A New Edition. Illustrated with fine engravings. Newly and handsomely bound in 3/4 maroon calf, full gilt backs, linen sides, 6 volumes, London, Henry G. Bohn, 1854. =$21.00=
Fine clean set in a handsome binding.
2 Ainsworth (William Harrison). Historical Romances. Illustrated with numerous exquisite etchings in two states, remarque proofs, and portraits on India paper. 20 vols., 8vo. New red buckram, Japan vellum labels, entirely uncut. Phila., Barrie & Sons. UNEXPURGATED EDITION. Printed for subscribers only.
Published at $300. =$100.00=
First State, Library Edition, limited to 1,000 sets only, printed entirely on Japanese vellum paper. The handsomest edition of Ainsworth's writings issued.
3 Aldus Classics. Consisting of:--The Works of Francis Rabelais, translated from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Motteux, 2 vols.; The Decameron, or The Ten Days' Entertainment of Boccaccio, completely done into English Prose and Verse by John Payne, 2 vols.; The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, translated from the Authentic Text, with an essay upon the Heptameron, by George Saintsbury, M.A., 2 vols.; The Novellino of Masuccio, translated into English by W. G. Waters, 2 vols.; The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, completely translated into English, 2 vols.; The Tales and Novels of J. De La Fontaine, completely translated into English, 2 vols.; Limited Edition de Luxe, large paper, wide margins, splendidly printed, exquisitely illustrated with photogravures on Japanese vellum. In all 12 volumes, handsome 3/4 morocco, top edges gilt, uncut. Privately printed for Members of the Aldus Society, London, 1903.
Published at $150.00. =$75.00=
4 Another Copy of the same edition, bound in dark green buckram, Japanese vellum labels, gilt tops, uncut edges. 12 volumes. Privately printed for Members of the Aldus Society. London, 1903.
Published at $75.00. =$45.00=
5 Amatory. Kisses: A Poetical Translation of the Basia of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius. With the original Latin, and an Essay on his Life and Writings. Finely engraved frontispiece. The Second Edition, with additions. Post 8vo., old polished calf. London, 1778. =$7.50=
This translation throughout is confronted with the original Latin, the preservation of which, as every Edition of SECUNDUS is now become extremely scarce. Very fine copy.
6 Amatory (Aphrodite). Done into English from the French of Pierre Louys. Printed from bold type on a high grade antique-laid paper, and beautifully bound, with parchment back stamped in gold, and Fabriano sides. Gilt top, raw edge and tail. Notes and index are in the back of the book. Absolutely unexpurgated version. Beautiful frontispiece on Japanese vellum, and five head pieces. Decorative initial in the opening of each chapter. Privately printed for subscribers only. =$15.00=
Edition limited to 550 numbered copies only.
The feminine personage who occupies the principal place in this romance whose pages you are about to turn, is an antique courtesan, but be reassured, she will not convert herself.
She will be loved neither by a monk, a prophet or a God. In actual literature, this is an originality.
Rather she will be frankly a courtesan, the ardor and also the pride of every human being who has vocation and who holds in society a freely chosen place; she will have ambition to raise herself to the highest point; she will not even imagine a need for excuse or mystery in her life.
7 Amatory. Beaux Art Classics. The most noted love stories in French and English literature. Edited by Anatole France, Jules and Leo Claretie, Luxembourg Edition de Luxe. Comprising Longu's Daphnois and Chloe, Bourget's Pastels', Gautier's Jean and Jeanette and King Candoule, Musset's Last Abbe and The Mouche, Flaubert's, A Simple Heart and Herodias, Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra and Romeo and Juliet. Each exquisitely illustrated with etchings by Lalauze and other famous French artists. 8 volumes, 8vo. Red buckram, gilt tops and backs. Printed in Paris (English text) by Societe des Beaux Arts. =$27.50=
An unusually fine printed set.
8 Amatory. Dialogues of the Hetaerai. By Lucian of Samosata. In English. Translated by M. S. Buck. A series of fifteen incidents, familiar to the life of Greek courtesans, told in the dialogue form of which Lucian was so thoroughly the master. Printed from type on a high-grade antique-laid paper, and bound in half parchment, stamped in gold, Fabriano sides. Gilt top, uncut. Privately printed for subscribers only. =$5.00=
Only 600 numbered copies.
These dialogues are usually omitted from the published translations of Lucian's works. They are here printed in a literal translation absolutely without cuts.
9 Amatory. Lost Valentines Found, with Other Trifles in Rhyme. 16mo., contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt back. London, 1821. Scarce. =$5.00=
Oh: joy of my bosom, delight of my heart, Gay blooming Marchioness! thou shalt be mine--All buxom--all witching--all round as thou art--Thou were formed, my love! for thy own Valentine.
10 Amatory. Aucassin & Nicolete. Done into English by Andrew Lang. Post 8vo., new half calf, gilt top and back, uncut. London, 1896. =$5.00=
Limited number of copies only printed. What the nameless author does care for, is his telling of the love story, the passion of Aucassin and Nicolete. His originality lies in his charming medley of sentiment and humor, of a smiling compassion and sympathy with a touch of mocking mirth. The Love of Aucassin and Nicolete.
11 Amatory. The Greek Anthology. (Palatine MS.) The Amatory Epigrams. Completely rendered into English for the first time. UNEXPURGATED. Small 4to. original boards, leather back, uncut. Privately printed, 1916. =$3.75=
Of this edition, intended for private circulation only, is limited to 750 numbered copies.
An 8-page Appendix has been added, separately printed and laid in, and not in previous copies, having been suppressed.
12 Amatory. The Works of Peter Pindar. Engraved titles. 5 vols., 8vo., half tree calf, marbled board sides, leather labels. London, 1794-1801. =$22.50=
Originally issued in 3 volumes, but the scarce 4th and 5th volumes have been added to this set, uniformly bound.
Volume 5 contains: Nil Admirari; or, A Smile of a Bishop, occasioned by an Hyperbolical Eulogy on Miss Hannah More; Expostulation; or an address to Miss Hannah More; Duplicity, or The Bishop, and Simplicity, or the Curate; Julia, or The Victim of Love, Etc., Etc. A fine work on early English Amatory writings.
13 Amatory. Illustrious Dames of the Court of the Valois Kings. By Pierre de Bourdeille, and C. A. Saint-Beuve. Literally translated by Katharine P. Wormeley. With 8 full-page photogravure plates. 8vo. cloth, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. (London printed), 1912. =$3.00=
The present issue, complete in every respect, with all the illustrations of the costly original edition, is now published to meet the demand for a less expensive form of this realistic and intimate chronicle of the illustrious women of the most luxurious European court at the most brilliant epoch of its existence.
14 Amatory. Ephemera. Greek Prose Poems. By Mitchell S. Buck. 8vo. boards, vellum backs, uncut. Philadelphia, 1916. =$2.25=
Edition limited to 750 copies printed entirely on Japan paper. The two series of antique sketches contained in this volume show the art of rhythmic prose, so successfully used in French by such writers as Baudelaire and Pierre Louys, presented directly in the English language.
A keen perception of beauty has not distorted a necessary faithfulness to subject-matter; and those who still admire the flowers of past ages will find them here, still fragrant.
15 Amatory. Longinus on the Sublime. Translated into English by H. L. Havell. With a 12-page introduction by Andrew Lang. Post 8vo. original cloth, uncut. London, 1890 Scarce. =$5.00=
First Edition, in regard to Andrew Lang's Introduction. Scarce. Lang item.
16 Amatory. The Thousand and One Days. Persian Tales. Edited by Justin Huntley McCarthy. Frontispiece. 2 vols. Post 8vo. original boards, vellum backs, uncut. London, 1892. =$5.00=
If the Thousand and One Days are not such splendid stories as The Thousand and One Nights, what stories in the world are so splendid? We may love the (The Thousand and One Nights) with all our hearts, and yet be willing to welcome The Thousand and One Days for the sake of that enchanted and enchanting Orient of which they tell.
17 Amatory. For a Night. By Emile Zola. Translated by Alison M. Lederer. 8vo. cloth. Phila., 1911. =$1.00=
The imaginative realism, the poetic psychology, of this story of the abnormal Therese who kills her lover; of the simple-minded Julien who becomes an accessory after the act for love of her, and finally "let himself fall" into the river, having first dropped the body of Colombel over, are gripping and intense.
This volume contains two other typical Zola stories: The Maid of the Dawber and Complements--two delightful, crisp bits of literature.
18 Amatory. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (Frances Burney.) With Notes by W. C. Ward. Engraved frontispieces. 3 vols., post 8vo. 1/2 red levant morocco, raised bands, gilt tops. London, 1890. =$15.00=
The cream of the diarists and memoir writers.
Privately printed Vizetelly edition. Scarce. Regarded as a series of pictures of the society of the time, the Diary is unsurpassed for vivid coloring and truthful delineation.
19 Amatory. (Hugo, Victor). SELECTED POEMS. Illustrated. 3 vols., 8vo. 3/4 crushed blue levant morocco, extra, gilt paneled backs with raised bands, gilt tops, uncut. Phila., 1897. =$22.50=
A limited edition printed entirely on Japanese vellum, with the illustrations in two states--one on Japan vellum, and the other on China paper. A magnificent set in a handsome binding.
The beautiful illustrations include the following: Boaz Slumbering, The Sylph, Soul-Stress, The Feast of Freedom, The Ballad of the Nun, The Fay and the Peri, Oh, When I Sleep, To His Muse, Marriage and Feasts, Last Night, Etc., Etc.
20 Amatory. Sonnets from the Patagonian. 8vo. boards, uncut. Phila., 1918. =$2.00=
Limited to 750 copies printed on Italian hand-made paper. This volume when it first appeared was not liked by divers nice people--it was thought nasty--but none put it down till he had finished it, a terror was on him lest he miss a word. And the terror was the sword of Beauty which slayeth all.
21 Amatory. The Grove; or, a Collection of Original Poems. Translation by W. Walsh, Dr. J. Donne, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Hall, The Cady E---- M----; Mr. Butler, Sir John Suckling, and other eminent hands. 8vo. contemporary blind tooled paneled calf, (neatly rebacked.) London, 1721. Curious old work. =$7.50=
The list of subscribers includes the names of several ladies, and some clergymen, but some of the pieces are decidedly unfit for either women or the clergy.
22 Amatory. Two Deaths in the Bronx. By Donald Evans. 8vo. boards, antique wove paper. Philadelphia, 1918. =$1.50=
The modernism, mistakenly called Futurism, that in the Sonnets from the Patagonian sometimes merely amazed, in the present instance, stimulates and satisfies. The volume is a series of pitiless photographs of profligate men and women who fritter away life, seeking new pleasures, new sensations. It is a gallery of incurable poseurs. A curious little volume.
22A Amatory. The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter. (Scenes de la Vie de Boheme.) By Henri Murger. A literal translation into English. UNEXPURGATED EDITION. With portrait and several very fine etchings printed on Japan vellum. 8vo. original buckram, uncut. Societe des Beaux-Arts. Paris, London and New York, 1915. =$2.25=
Most delightful reading of Paris' most famous art centre (The Latin Quarter).
23 Amatory. Plays and Sonnets. By Ernest Lacy. 2 vols. Printed on hand-made paper and illustrated with 7 etchings. 12mo. cloth, uncut. Phila., 1916. =$3.50=
Volume I, The Bard of Mary Redcliffe, a play in 5 acts. Vol. II, Rinaldo, the Doctor of Florence, a play in 5 acts. Chatterton, a 1-act play. Sonnets.
These three plays and sixty-odd sonnets are written with lucidity and emotion. A human heart throbs through them. The sonnets have evoked a fine critical eulogy from the greatest student of the Elizabethan sonnets (including Shakespeare's).
23A Amatory. The Lady with the Camellias. By Alexander Dumas, fils. UNEXPURGATED EDITION. With portrait and several fine etchings by Albert Lynch, printed on Japan vellum. 8vo. buckram, gilt tops, uncut. Societe des Beaux-Arts. Paris, London and New York, 1915. =$2.25=
A literal translation of Dumas' charming story of a most handsome woman, courted by royalty itself, but at last met the fate of so many others of her class.
24 Amatory. Original Poems. Serious and Humourous. By Henry Baker. Post 8vo. half calf, board sides. London. Printed for the Author, 1725. =$5.00=
First Edition Scarce.
Contents: Kitty's Dream, The Beauties of Enfield, A Proof of Love, The Execration, The Rapture, Amanda's Character, Etc.
24A Amatory. Madame Bovary. By Gustave Flaubert. UNEXPURGATED EDITION. With portrait and several fine etchings by Faurie, printed on Japan vellum. 8vo. buckram, gilt top, uncut. Societe des Beaux-Arts, Paris, London and New York, 1915. =$2.25=
Madame Bovary is a most fascinating story of a woman of culture and refinement, but ultimately followed the course of so many others.
25 Amatory. Secret Memoirs of Louise, Crown Princess, The Court of Royal Saxony, 1891-1902. From the pages of her diary, lost at the time of her elopement from Dresden with W. Andre ("Richard") Giron. By Henry W. Fisher. Illustrated from photogravures, 1/2 vellum, board sides, gilt top and back, as issued. N. Y., 1912. =$5.00=
This edition printed on Japanese vellum paper, is limited to 250 copies only. UNEXPURGATED.
If Louise had lived at the time of Phryne, the philosophers would have characterized her as "an animal with long hair," if he had known her, the great Mirabean might have coined his pet phrase, "a human that dresses, undressed and talks" (or writes) for Louise; as a matter of fact, she is one of those "Jansenists" of love who believe in the utter helplessness of natural woman to turn down a good-looking man.
26 Another Copy of the same edition, printed upon a beautiful laid deckle-edge paper. UNEXPURGATED. Cloth, 8vo. gilt tops, New York, 1912. =$3.00=
27 Amatory. The Works of Tibullus, containing his Four Books of Love--Elegies. Translated by Mr. Dart. To which is prefix'd the Life of the Author. Also, Some Observations on the Original Design of Elegiac Verse; with Characters of the most Celebrated Greek, Latin and English Elegiac Poets. Finely engraved frontispiece, and several head-and-tail pieces. Post 8vo. new 1/2 polished brown calf extra, gilt tooled backs, with green levant labels, gilt top. London, 1720. =$12.50=
The works of Ovid having been some time translated, and met with so favorable a reception, the translator thought it would not be disagreeable to introduce a polite contemporary of his, in our language, one whom Ovid himself imitated, and for whom he had so great a value that he recommends his pupils in Art of Love, to read his works, and gather from them all the tender sentiments expressed of the tenderest of passions.
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28 Anthropology. (Davenport, John). Curiositates Eroticæ Physiologiæ, or, Tabooed subjects freely treated. Six Essays, vis.: Generation; Chastity and Modesty; Marriage; Circumcision; Eunuchism; Hermaphrodism, and followed by a closing essay on Death. Small 4to. 1/2 morocco, gilt top, uncut. London: Privately printed, 1875. =$15.00=
Let it not be supposed that the author's intention has been that of writing an obscene book, or even to employ obscene words. He holds that the grand subject--the Reproduction of the Human Race--which runs more or less through all the essays in this volume, is, in itself, most pure, and that the words which are necessary, adequately, and correctly to describe it in its various phases and ramifications, have acquired the stigma of obscene only in modern times, and, though an ultra-fastidiousness, which would hesitate to apply the word breech to a man's small clothes, but would rather designate them as unmentionables, indescribables, or femoral habiliments.
29 Anthropology. Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction; with some account of the Judicial "Congress" as practised in France during the Seventeenth Century. By John Davenport. Illustrated. Small 4to. 1/2 levant morocco extra, gilt tooled back, gilt top, uncut. London. Privately printed, 1869. =$15.00=
The reproduction powers of nature were regarded by the nations of remote antiquity with an awe and reverence so great as to form an object of worship, under a symbol, of all others the most significant--the Phallus; and this was founded a religion, of which the traces exist to this day, not in Asia alone, but even in Europe itself.
30 Anthropology. Psychopathia Sexualis. With especial reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct. A Medico-Forensic Study. By Dr. R. V. Krafft-Ebing. Translated from the German by F. J. Rebman. 8vo. buckram. New York, 1910. =$3.50=
Few people are conscious of the deep influence exerted in sexual life upon the sentiment, thought and action of man in his social relations to others. Shiller, in his essay, Die Weltweisen, touches upon this subject in these memorable words: "So long as philosophy keeps together the structure of the Universe so long does it maintain the world's machinery of hunger and love."
31 Anthropology. A Problem in Modern Ethics. Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion. Addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists. By John Addington Symonds. 8vo. cloth. London, privately printed, 1896. =$3.50=
Limited to 100 numbered copies only.
Inverted sexuality, the sexual instinct diverted from its normal channel, directed (in the case males) to males, forms the topic of this volume. The study will be confined to modern times, and to those nations which regard the phenomenon with religious detestation.
32 Anthropology. A Problem in Greek Ethics. Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion. Addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists. By John Addington Symonds. 8vo. cloth. London, privately printed, 1901. =$3.50=
Limited to 100 numbered copies only.
For the student of sexual inversion, ancient Greece offers a wide field for observation and reflection. Its importance has hitherto been underrated by medical and legal writers on the subject, who do not seem to be aware that here alone in history have we the example of a great and highly-developed race not only tolerating homosexual passions, but deeming them of spiritual value, and attempting to utilize them for the benefit of society.
33 Anthropology. The Sexual Life of Woman, in its Physiological and Hygienic Aspect. By E. H. Kisch. Post 8vo. cloth. New York, 1916. =$3.00=
From the earliest days of the medical art this sexual life of woman has aroused in the leaders of medical thought the highest interest, and for this reason great attention has been directed, not only to the anatomy of the genital organs and to the diseases of the reproductive system, but also to the individual manifestations of sexual activity and to the influence exercised by these on the female organism as a whole.
34 Anthropology. The Sexual Question. A Scientific, Psychological, Hygienic and Sociological Study. By August Forel. English adaptation, revised and enlarged, by C. F. Marshall. Illustrated. 8vo. cloth. New York, n. d. =$3.50=
In the domain with which we are concerned the French public are too much afraid of crudities and of calling things by their proper name. By veiled words and by indirect locution one may say anything, but the author decided not to employ such subterfuges in treating of such a vital social question with the seriousness it requires.
35 Anthropology. Histoire de la Prostitution, chez tous les peuples du monde. Depuis l'antiquité la plus reculée jusqu'a nos jours. Par Pierre Dufour. 6 vols. 8vo. 1/2 green morocco, gilt tops, uncut. Paris, 1851. =$50.00=
This edition contains many engraved plates finely printed on India paper, which were omitted from subsequent issues on account of their free interpretation.
This is about the most extensive work on prostitution, no phase of the subject having been omitted.
36 Anthropology. The History of Prostitution. Its Extent, Causes and Effects Throughout the World. By William W. Sanger. With numerous Editorial Notes and an Appendix. 8vo. cloth. New York, 1913. =$3.50=
A vice which has been co-existent with the human race, which has prayed upon the morals as well as the health of all peoples in all ages, which in the past has defied the edicts of despotism no less than at present it defies the mandates of repressive legislation--such a vice should not in any spirit of prudery be put aside as unfit for public consideration.
37 Sex Worship. The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship, by Sha Rocco. Traces of Ancient Myths in Religions of To-day. A Compendium of Sex Worship based on standard, rare and expensive works. Long out of print. With 26 curious illustrations. 12mo. cloth. New York. =$1.00=
38 Flagellation. History of Flagellation among different nations. A narrative of the strange customs and cruelties of the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, etc., with an account of its practice among the Early Christians, as a religious stimulant and corrector of morals. Many illustrations. 8vo. cloth. New York, 1903. =$1.50=
Contains anecdotes of Remarkable Cases of Flogging, and of Celebrated Flagellants. A most curious work on the subject.
39 Flagellation. The Rodiad. By George Coleman. 18mo. original red boards, leather backs (new.) London, 1810 (reprinted.) Scarce. =$3.00=
40 Antique Gems from the Greek and Latin, with original Text and Translations. Embracing ANACREON, APULEIUS, APOLLONIUS of RHODES, CATULLUS, HORACE, LONGUS, LUCIAN, LUCIUS, MUSAEUS, OVID, PROPERTIUS, SAPPHO, TATIUS, THEOCRITUS, and VIRGIL. Translated into English by eminent scholar-poets, beginning with Sir Philip Sydney and including Marlow, Dryden, and Milton, among earlier writers, and Andrew Lang of the present day. Text is specially printed on Imperial Japanese vellum. With over two hundred beautiful illustrations. Limited edition de luxe, 12 volumes, top edges gilt. Printed for subscribers only. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons.
Published at $180.00. =$60.00=