GREAT GIFTS 94 Inscribed By Hugh Lofting 119 LOFTING, Hugh. The Story of Doctor Dolittle. New York, 1920. Octavo, original blue-stamped orange cloth, mounted cover illustration, custom clamshell box. $7800 First edition of the first Doctor Dolittle title, inscribed: “Sincerely Yours, Hugh Lofting. Jan. 15 21.” The copy of Horn Book founder and editor Bertha Mahoney Miller. With color frontispiece, two plates, and 30 in-text black-andwhite illustrations. Without scarce original dust jacket. Near-fine. “Thus Did Science And Morals Go Hand In Hand” 120 VONNEGUT, Kurt. Welcome to the Monkey House. New York, 1968. Octavo, original half yellow cloth, dust jacket. $1100 First edition of this collection of short pieces by Vonnegut, including some of “his best science fiction” (Clute & Nicholls, 1289). “Spanning the decades from the 40s to A.D. 2158 and beyond, Vonnegut rockets the reader from the old themes of love, identity, loneliness and the poignancy of human loss to stories concerning population explosion, programmed happiness and the emotions of machines” (Time). Very nearly fine. Tom Wolfe’s First Book, Boldly Signed By Him 121 WOLFE, Tom. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. New York, 1965. Octavo, original white cloth, dust jacket. $1500 First edition of Wolfe’s first book, boldly signed by him o with his characteristic flourishes. With the publication of this first book by Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut commented, “Holy animals! Sebaceous sleepers!… Wolfe comes on like a barbarian (as Mark Twain did)… He is the most exciting—or, at least, the most jangling—journalist to appear in some time” (New York Times). Near-fine. “Adios, You Who Watched The Sun Go Down, At The Rail, By My Side, Smiling” 118 KEROUAC, Jack. Excerpts from Visions of Cody. New York, 1959. Octavo, original half purple cloth. $4800 Signed limited first edition, one of only 750 copies signed by Kerouac, who designed the printed boards himself. This work is a 120-page excerpt from a novel by Kerouac of the same name, which was not published in its entirety until 1972. Nearly fine.
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