half-titles to vols. 2 and 3. Armorial bookplates of Henry Robertson Sand- bach; ownership signatures of M[argaret] Roscoe (1787–1840), née Sand- bach, to half-title of vol. 1 and title page of vol. 3. Spines expertly refurbished and recoloured, plates foxed as typical, occasional mark to contents but oth- erwise clean, else a very good set. first edition of Austin’s celebrated and most important trans- lation, “which was based on recollections by Falk and others and included some of Goethe’s poetry. It prompted Carlyle to exclaim, ‘you can actually translate Goethe’, something, he added, only a few in England could do [ Troubled Lives , 70]. She was already known, according to the publisher Dionysius Lardner, as ‘our best living translator’ (ibid., 71), and the three volumes on Goethe gave her some celebrity and much more work” ( ODNB ). £500 [130540] 13 (AVIATION.) ADAMS, Clara. Souvenir from the maiden voyage of the Hindenburg . [1936] Cream envelope (110 × 140 mm), with a single pearl embedded in the centre, tied with white string inked in gilt, manuscript inscription to front panel, manuscript decoration in gilt, red, blue and black to both sides. Faint foxing to rear panel and slight creasing; in near-fine condition. A unique and remarkable souvenir made and inscribed by the pio- neering passenger aviator Clara Adams: “To my friend Bill Schnei- der Jr. with kindest regards / Clara Adams—Cabin 19 Airship Hin- denburg , May 8, 1938 [ sic ] / First flight from Germany to the United States / Real pearl carried on this historic flight”. The Hindenburg’s maiden voyage left Frankfurt on 6 May 1936 and arrived in Lake- hurst, New Jersey, on 9 May, Adams being one of the 11 women on board. Although we have traced no folklore surrounding carrying pearls on maiden voyages, various photos of Adams show her wear- ing a string pearl necklace, from which this souvenir pearl may have been taken. The recipient, Bill Schneider Jr, her friend, fellow avia- tion enthusiast, and editor of the Airpost Journal, was in correspond- ence with a number of pioneering aviators, including Amelia Ear- hart. A few days after Adams landed, both she and Earhart spoke at an event organised by the American Air Mail Society on 14 May, at which Schneider, who was a member, was likely present, and it is
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possible that Adams presented him with the souvenir at this event (Adams has dated the inscription as 1938 in error). Adams (1884–1971) was the first woman to cross the Atlantic as a ticketed passenger, aboard the Graf Zeppelin on its return flight from New York in October 1928. In 1939 she set the unofficial record for passenger travel around the world via commercial air travel, in a trip lasting 16 days and 19 hours and covering 24,609 miles. Her interest in aviation led to a close friendship with fellow female pio- neers such as Amelia Earhart, Alys McKey Bryant, and Lady Grace Drummond-Hay, the latter of whom accompanied Adams on the Hindenburg’s voyage. (For Earhart, see item 59.) £425 [131273] 14 BABITZ, Eve. Eve’s Hollywood. [New York:] Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence, 1974
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver and pink, star motif to front cover in pink, grey endpapers. With the dust jacket designed by Irving Bogen featuring photos by Annie Leibovitz. Portrait frontispiece, photograph- ic plate, and 24 page photo ‘scrapbook’ printed on grey paper. Ticks and un- derlining in ink throughout first 52 pages, annotation in red to p. 23. Spine minimally rolled, faint toning to edges of book block; else a near-fine copy. first edition, inscribed by the author on the front free end- paper, “Too [ sic ] Anselma, love Eve Babitz”. Uncommon signed, Eve’s Hollywood was Babitz’s first work. Billed as a confessional LA novel, the work gives a semi-fictional account of Babitz’s early life in Hollywood. A photographer, author, and mainstay of Hollywood culture, Babitz (b. 1943) first gained her notoriety through Julian Wasser’s iconic photograph of her as a nude 20-year-old playing chess with Marcel Duchamp. In recent years Babitz’s works have grown in popularity, with many being reissued and published in translation for the first time. A television programme based on her life, L.A. Woman , is due to be released in 2019. £3,000 [130476] 13 13
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