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It is likely that no other writer is identified with a regional literature as much as Lawrence Clark Powell. In over 700 publications, starting with his Ph.D. thesis in 1932, he has described, critiqued and promoted the literature of California and the Southwest. In doing so he has expanded that literature with a unique contribution of his own that now overshadows much of the literature about which he has written.
In his 1964 address to the Grolier Club of New York, Larry described the three themes that have dominated his writing as life, landscape and literature [see item # 525]. It is his intimate familiarity and appreciation of all three of these elements coupled with his ability to fuse those components into charming, harmonious, prose that has captured the devotion of his readers. This process does not occur fortuitously or by innate talent alone. It requires self-discipline: the discipline of observation, the discipline of recording one's observations and experiences, the discipline of study of flora, fauna, geography, geology, meteorology, history, literature, psychology and numerous other subjects that are neccesary to interpret and to clearly communicate what one observes and what one reads, and finally the discipline of writing it right [to borrow a phrase from Ambrose Bierce]. Lawrence Clark Powell, despite his individualism, is a disciplined man - to be a truly good writer he must be - and as a writer he is one of the best. That he was able to write so much and so well and still build the UCLA library into one of the foremost libraries in the world and found an outstanding school of library science without neglecting his family and friends deserves fervent admiration.
Lawrence Clark Powell's life has been as interesting as his literary products or perhaps it is the other way around. With Larry it is impossible to separate the two - and that is just how he would like it to be. Bits and pieces of that life will be found in his writings and in the commentary on various items in the list below. When I last visited him at the age of 88 [his age - not mine], Larry still exhibited that charming blend of boyish ebullience and adult savoir faire without a hint of pretension that has endeared him to several generations of readers, students and friends alike. Will there be more products of his literary muse? Only time will tell. For the past several years he has considered each creation his last but there has always been more. The time must come, of course, when his prediction is correct but I hope that day is postponed for as long as he is willing to pique his devotees with yet another essay or book. or maybe just a preface or two.
The following items, though far from complete, are representative of his most significant work. All of them have been donated to the University of Arizona Library Foundation so that proceeds from the sale will go to honor Fay and Lawrence Clark Powell through their Endowment Fund for Southwest Research. Any amount that is paid for an item above the estimated value will be tax deductible. So be generous in your bidding and count your blessings twice: at the end of the auction and again on April 15, 1998.
446. Powell, Fay Ellen. That Kitty Colette. [4], 10 pp. One illustration. 4-1/4x5, gray boards and lavender cloth with spine title in silver, cover title in lavender and ornaments in black and silver. Limited edition of 200 copies. Phoenix: Saltbush Press, 1988. Signed and inscribed to the Larsons by Fay Powell, Larry's wife for 56 years - until her death in 1990. This booklet is illustrative of Fay's interest in and affection for animals. In this brief account she makes observations about the intelligence of animals and their ability to think [solve problems] commonly thought to be the exclusive province of humans ever since Descartes 17th century pronouncments, but well known to prehistoric man and more recently affirmed by science. Fay's devotion to animals led her to be active in the Tucson zoological society. Fine condition. (70/100).
447. Powell, Gertrude Eliza Clark. Looking Back and Remembering. An Autobiographical Sketch. [6], 9-85, [1] pp. Illustrated with sixteen unpaginated plates from photographs. 8-1/2x5- 1/2, blue cloth with gilt spine title and cover ornament. Printed for Lawrence Clark Powell by Richard J. Hoffman in Van Nuys. Tucson: Privately printed, 1987. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell on the title page. Gertrude Clark Powell was Larry's mother who lived to the age of 86. At the age of 62 she spent some time with Larry while he was working on his PH.D. thesis in Dijon. During her visit, Larry persuaded her to commit her childhood and family memories to writing, in part to keep her occupied while he was working as well as to provide him with family information that he would not be likely to have or to remember. This is the result, published some fifty-five years later. An interesting memoir in its own right as well as an essential source for any future L.C.P. biographer Fine condition. (50/80).
448.Powell, G. Harold. Letters from the Orange Empire. Edited by Richard G. Lillard. Afterword by Lawrence Clark Powell. [8], 142, [1] pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and ten paginated plates. 9x6, brown cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Limited first edition of 100 signed copies bound in brown cloth. Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1990. Signed by the afterworder on the limitation page. Larry's father, G. Harold Powell, was an agricultural scientist who specialized in the field of pomology [cultivation of fruit]. While working in the Department of Agriculture he was assigned to work on the problem of orange spoilage that was occuring with transcontinental shipping of the fruit from California. He tackled the problem with enthusiam and earned the everlasting gratitude of the California orange growers when he solved it through his expert knowledge and controlled experimentation. These letters were written to his wife and family from California in 1904 and 1909. Like many another person, [including this collector] after exposure to the climate and landscape of California, he decided that they should make it their home. The family settled in South Pasadena permanently in 1911. In 1912 he was apppointed general manager of the California Fruit Grower's Exchange, a position which he held to his premature death at the age of 50 - when Larry was still a teen-ager. Fine condition. (70/100).
449. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Act of Enchantment. An Address Delivered at the Annual Banquet for 1960 of the Historical Society of New Mexico, at Las Cruces, New Mexico. [4], 3-24, [1] pp. 6- 3/4x5, stiff yellow wrappers with cover title in black. Printed for the Historical Society of New Mexico by the Stagecoach Press in Houston. Santa Fe: Historical Society of New Mexico, 1961. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine condition. (50/80).
450. Powell, Lawrence Clark. The Alchemy of Books and Other Essays and Addresses on Books and Writers. [6], vii-xi, [3], 3-263 pp. 8-1/4x5, cloth-backed decorated boards with paper spine label. First edition. Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, [1954]. In this book Larry epitomized his persona in the following statement: "I'm an individualist when it comes to reading. I read what I like when I like." This philosophy, of course, is applied by Larry to more than reading. Like most creative people he is an individualist - period [but a highly self- diciplined individualist]. Immediately following the above quotation Larry confesses to having never read War and Peace. "I am saving it for my old age" was his commentary. At last contact he was still saving it for his old age. Fine condition. (60/90).
451. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Arizona, a Bicentennial History. [8], ix-xviii, [2], 3-154 pp. Illustrated with two maps and sixteen inserted plates from photographs of various sources, 8-1/4x5-1/2, gray cloth with gilt cover title and ornament and gilt spine title printed on red panel, pictorial dust jacket. Third printing. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., no date. Signed by the author. Fine condition. (50/80).
452. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Bibliographers of the Golden State. [4], 29, [1] pp. Illustrated with one facsimile and three portrait plates. 9-3/4x6-1/2, stiff beige wrappers with spine and cover titles and ornament in black. Printed at the Plantin Press in Los Angeles. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California, 1967. Signed by the author. Fine condition. (50/80).
453. Powell, Lawrence Clark. The Blue Train. [7], 8-128, [3] pp. Illustrated with a reproduction in color of a Claude Monet painting tipped to the title page, a reproduction of a photographic portrait tipped to a section introduction page and an original photograph tipped opposite the limitation page. 9x5-1/2, morocco-backed blue boards with gilt spine title and blind-stamped cover title. Limited first edition of 200 copies. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Lawrence Clark Powell's first novel. Set in pre-world war II France, it had its origin in Larry's postgraduate study in Dijon and is an aesthetic paean to passions of youth. Although he wrote it in the first person, he leaves us guessing as to how much of it is actual autobiography. He completed the first version in 1941 but postponed publication in deference to his more conventional career as University librarian and literary critic. After retirement from his position at UCLA in 1966 Larry rewrote it again but put off publication until 1975 when he revised the manuscript for the final time. Three years ago Larry told me that this work stimulated the most mail response of any of his books [and maybe female response?]. It has been translated into French and also sold for the right to make into a movie, although no screenplay has been produced as yet. Maybe the producers are struggling with how explicit they can make it. Slight marginal fading of boards - otherwise in fine condition. (100/150).
454. Powell, Lawrence Clark. The Blue Train. [7], 8-128, [3] pp. 9x5-1/2, cloth-backed blue boards with spine title printed in dark blue and cover title blind-stamped, pictorial dust jacket. First trade edition. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. Signed inscription by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine condition. (50/80).
455. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Bookman's Progress. The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell. [4], v-ix, [3], 3-246 pp. 9-1/4x6, green cloth with spine title and cover ornament printed in black, pictorial dust jacket. [Los Angeles]: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. Inscribed and signed by the author. Five leaves slightly narrower than the others and therefore not properly trimmed - otherwise in fine condition. (60/90).
456. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Books Are Basic. The Essential Lawrence Clark Powell. Edited by John David Marshall. [8], ix-xi, [3], 3-95, [2] pp. Frontispiece portrait. 7-1/4x4-1/4, brown linen with gilt spine title and cover ornament, printed dust jacket. Second printing. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1986. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell on the title page. Included with this is a photocopy of the cover of AB Bookman's Weekly for January 6, 1986 with a quotation from Lawrence Clark Powell [initialed by L.C.P.] and page 27 of the same issue with a review of this book which comprises Marshall's selection of Powell's most quoted or quotable excerpts from his writing. The quotation on the cover of AB is: "Some books are to be read in an hour, and returned to the shelf; others require a lifetime to savor their richness. Such books should be owned in personal copies to travel with and sleep beside - the most fruitful of all companions. " Fine condition. (50/80).
457.Powell, Lawrence Clark. Books in My Baggage. Adventures in Reading and Collecting. [8], 11-255, [3] pp. 8-1/2x5-3/4, lavender cloth with gilt spine and cover titles and blind-stamped ornaments, fore-edges untrimmed, top edges stained, pictorial dust jacket. Second printing. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, no date [c.1960]. Signed by the author. Fine condition. (50/80).
458. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Books West Southwest. Essays on Writers, their Books and their Land. [8], ix-x, [2], 3-157 pp. 8-1/4x5-1/4, cloth-backed decorative boards with gilt spine title. First edition. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, [1957]. Inscribed by the author to John G. Knight. Fine condition. (70/100).
459. Powell, Lawrence Clark. [Brent] Le Monde Passe. La Figure de ce Monde Passe. A Remembrance of Duncan Brent in a Memoir and Commentary on his Correspondence with Lawrence Clark Powell. [4], 7-81, [2] pp. Illustrated with eight unpaginated photographic plates. 8-1/2x5-1/2, charcoal gray cloth with gilt spine title and cover ornament. First edition. [Tucson]: Privately printed by the author, 1983. An interesting collection of letters from one of the Powell's more unusual friends in Malibu. From Larry's introduction and the content of the letters, it is not evident that either Brent or his wife did anything other than live a simple, unfettered life: traveling and indulging their intellectual and artistic whims to whatever extent it pleased them without seeming concern for financial reward or public recognition. [Presumably, their financial support was inherited.] Being a staunch political conservative, Brent would probably not have relished the appellation of "hippies" which it appears that in spirit, at least, they were. The couple ended their own lives together in 1981 by carbon monoxide inhalation, long before Dr Kevorkian gained national fame for assisting such intentions. Fine condition. (50/80).
460. Powell, Lawrence Clark. California Classics. The Creative Literature of the State. [6], vii-xviii, [2], 3-393 pp. Illustrated with thirty portraits of authors. 9x6, gray cloth with spine title and cover ornament printed in brown, printed dust jacket. Second printing. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, [1972] . Next to Southwest Classics, Lawrence Clark Powell's most popular book and one of the key motivators of my own collecting and writing. Author and editor Gerald Haslam said, "It is in a word, a classic itself. Don't miss it." It has been reprinted several times and is still in print, I'm sure that it has already met Larry's own definition of a classic as "a book read by more than one generation." Fine condition. (50/80).
461. Powell, Lawrence Clark. California Classics. The Creative Literature of the State. [6], vii-xviii, [2], 3-393 pp. Illustrated with thirty portraits of authors. 9x6, stiff white wrappers with spine and cover titles in black with decoration in green and black. First softcover edition. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, [1972] . Fine condition. (50/80).
462. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Desert Splendor. [96] pp. Profusely illustrated from color photographs by various photographers. 12x9, pictorial boards with printed cover title. Phoenix: Arizona Highways, 1977. Text by Powell, illustrations by professional photographers [many of the photographs by David and Josef Muench]. This is Powell's prose portrait of his adopted state after retirement from UCLA and appointment as Professor in Residence at the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1971. Fine condition. (50/80).
463. Powell, Lawrence Clark. El Morro. [4], 7-129, [2] pp. 9x6, cloth-backed orange boards with gilt spine title and cover title printed in black. Limited first edition of 226 copies. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1984. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell and the designer, Ward Ritchie. Larry considered this to be his best fictional writing and I agree although I consider it a close contest with his latest novel,
The Holly and the Fleece [see item # 478]. It was four years in preparation and it shows in its abundance of descriptive detail and its literary craftsmanship. It is a superb example of Larry's alchemy with the three L's. Fine condition. (70/100).
464. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Eucalyptus Fair. A Memoir in the Form of a Novel. [6], 9- 271, [2] pp. 9x6, leather-backed boards with spine and cover titles printed in silver and cover ornament stamped in green, cloth slipcase with side title and ornament to match the cover. First limited edition of 50 specially bound copies designed by Ward Ritchie. Tucson: Books West Southwest, 1992. Signed by the author and by Ward Ritchie. This book is a fictional account of the early romances in Larry's life. Laura in the novel is Fay Shoemaker who became his wife in the novel as well as in life. Although this novel is based on actual experiences, one should not translate it too literally as autobiography. In discussing his writing with me, Larry said that one reason he enjoyed writing was that it was a purification ritual for him. In writing fiction he could dissect life into its component parts and then recreate it the way he wanted. Fine condition. (100/150).
465. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Eucalyptus Fair. A Memoir in the Form of a Novel. [6], 9- 271, [2] pp. 9x6, green cloth with spine and cover titles printed in silver and ornaments stamped in green, pictorial dust jacket. First trade edition. Tucson: Books West Southwest, 1992. Fine condition. (50/80).
466. Powell, Lawrence Clark. The Evening Redness. The Collected Four Novels of Lawrence Clark Powell with Notes on His Writing, 1930-50. [8], 5-436 pp. 9x6, black leather and decorated boards with gilt spine titles, red buckram-covered slipcase. Limited first edition of 100 copies specially bound and signed. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1991 . Signed by the author on the limitation page. The collected novels of Lawrence Clark Powell to the time of publication. This includes The Blue Train, The River Between, El Morro, and Portrait of My Father. One more novel was published in 1995. [See item # 478]. Fine condition. (100/150).
467. Powell, Lawrence Clark. The Evening Redness. The Collected Four Novels of Lawrence Clark Powell with Notes on His Writing, 1930-50. [6], 5-436 pp. 9x6, black cloth and decorated boards with gilt spine titles. First trade edition. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1991 . Fine condition. (50/80).
468. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Ex Libris. Notes on My Family's Bookplates. [6], 9-37, [2] pp. Illustrated with seventeen facsimiles of bookplates. 6x4-1/2, cloth-backed decorated boards with gilt spine title, decorated endpapers. Limited edition printed for friends of Fay and Larry Powell by Richard Hoffman in Van Nuys. Tucson: Press of the Bajada, 1984. Laid in is a signed Powell presentation card with a Powell bookplate tipped on. Fine condition. (60/90).
469. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Farewell to the Encinal. [6], 7-21, [3] pp. 7-1/2x5-1/2, green cloth-backed decorated boards with gilt spine title. Limited edition printed for the friends of Fay and Larry Powell by Richard J. Hoffman in Van Nuys and bound by Bela Blau. Tucson: "El Signo de los Arboles Candos", 1982. Fay and Larry Powell's 1982 New Year gift to friends. A tribute to the place of their residence [Malibu Encinal] which was destroyed by the big fire that swept the area in 1978 [and is being swept by fire again at the very moment that I am composing this commentary - news report laid in]. Although they were living in Tucson at the time of the fire, they still owned the house and property and entertained the possibility of returning. The fire ended that consideration along with many books, family artifacts and treasures. Here Larry reprints two of his earlier essays on Malibu with unlabeled foreword and afterword to make it current to 1982. Fine condition. (50/80).
470.Powell, Lawrence Clark. Fay. Two Commemorations of the Death and Life of Fay Ellen Powell. [6], 9-73, [2] pp. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and thirteen additional paginated plates from photographs. 8-1/2x5-1/2, cloth-backed decorated boards with gilt spine title, cloth-covered slipcase to match the book spine. Limited first edition of 50 copies signed by the author/compiler Lawrence Clark Powell and the designer Ward Ritchie. [Tucson]: Privately published, [1993]. Signed by Powell and Ritchie on the limitation page. Fay Ellen Shoemaker Powell died of cancer in 1990 . This is Larry's touching account of the last days along with the tributes of many friends. Fine condition. (70/100).
471. Powell, Lawrence Clark. [F.D.R.] A Selective Bibliography of the Zeitlin Franklin Delano Roosevelt Collection. [2], 3-12 pp. 8-1/2x5-1/2, stiff gray wrappers with F D R and line portrait on cover. Los Angeles: The Library Patrons of Occidental College, 1988. Fine condition. (50/80). "Books have been my love from earliest years, first as a reader, then as a seller, next as a custodian, and finally as a writer. Through books I have made friends the world around...Books hold quintessential life, are realer than reality, in that they are more lasting than human life." Fortune and Friendship
472. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Fortune and Friendship. An Autobiography by Lawrence Clark Powell. [8], ix-xiii, 227 pp. Thirty-seven illustrations from photographs and two from paintings on 16 unpaginated plates, 8-1/2x5-1/2, red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles and blind-stamped cover ornament. First edition. New York, London: R. R. Bowker Company, 1968. Signed and inscribed by the author. The first of the major nonfictional autobiographies by Lawrence Clark Powell. [For the next one, see item # 488]. Fine condition. (50/80).
473. Powell, Lawrence Clark and Ward Ritchie. A Foreword for Ward. [by L.C.P.] An Afterward after Ward [by Ward Ritchie]. [6], 7-46, [1] pp. Ten text illustrations from photographs. 9x6, stiff cream wrappers with cover title in black and ornaments in red. Limited edition designed by Ward Ritchie and printed for Lawrence Clark Powell. No place: [privately printed], 1996. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell. The latest cooperative effort of these two life-long friends and the last as Harry Ward Ritchie was dying of cancer while completing his portion. Fine condition. (50/80).
474. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Goethe's Dream of Sicily. [3], 4-13, [2] pp. 6x6, stiff decorative wrappers. Limited edition printed by Richard J. Hoffman. Tucson: Privately printed, 1982. Signed by the author. Fine condition. (50/80).
475. Powell, Lawrence Clark. From the Heartland. Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and Beyond. [2], [6], vii-xi, [3], 3-167, [1] pp. Illustrated with four photographic plates and eight pencil portraits by Bettina Steinke. 9x6, morocco-backed orange buckram with gilt spine title, marbled endpapers, slipcase. Limited first edition of 100 copies, specially bound and signed. Flagstaff: Northland Press, [1976]. Signed by the author and the artist on the limitation page. This is a collection of disparate essays united by their geography and Larry's interest in the subjects. They include, among other, essays on Larry's boyhood, the artist Maynard Dixon, book seller Jake Zeitlin, printer Saul Marks, author Henry Miller, Big Sur, and Portugal [loosely connected to the Southwest by the 16th century Portugese navigator, Cabrillo and the 20th century traveler Lawrence Clark Powell]. Fine condition. (100/150).
476. Powell, Lawrence Clark. From the Heartland. Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and Beyond. [6], vii-xi, [3], 3-167, [1] pp. Illustrated with four photographic plates and eight pencil portraits by Bettina Steinke. 9x6, brown cloth with gilt spine title, tan endpapers, printed dust jacket. First trade edition. Flagstaff: Northland Press, [1976]. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine condition. (50/80).
477. Powell, Lawrence Clark. A Good Place to Begin. [4], 5-12 pp. 9x6, stiff red wrappers with cover title in black. Sacramento: California State Library Association, [1987]. Signed by the author. Presented at the fund-raising dinner for the Los Angeles Public Library held at the 88th Conference of the California Library Association, Long Beach, California, November 17, 1986. This fund-raiser was organized in response to the tragic destruction of the Los Angeles Public Library by arson on April 29, 1986. Fine condition. (50/80).
478. Powell, Lawrence Clark. The Holly and the Fleece. [6], 9-125, [2] pp. 8-1/2x5-1/2, red cloth with gilt spine titles and cover rules, decorated dust jacket. First edition. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1995. Larry's latest offering of fiction and perhaps his best because it is his most poignantly autobiographical novel. The plot develops around the semi-mystical dynamics of mutual sexual attraction between two people - but this time two people who are each married to someone else - a common plot made uncommon by its psychological realism and Larry's richly descriptive prose. The novel was started more than forty years ago. Completion and publication were undoubtedly deferred until now in deferrence to Fay. Fine condition. (50/80).
479. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Islands of Books. [6], vii, [5], 3-111 pp. 7-3/4x4-1/4, cloth- backed boards with gilt spine title and cover ornament in black. Limited edition of 150 copies printed for members of the Zamorano Club. Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1951. Minor fading of cover margins - otherwise in fine condition. (80/120).
480. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Land of Boyhood, South Pasadena in California Childhood. Recollections and Stories of the Golden State. Gary Soto, Editor. pages 186-192 of [11], 2-255, [6] pp. Illustrated with thirty-two childhood photographs of the authors. 9x6, white paper- covered boards with spine title in green, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1988. Larry's name is printed as William Clark Powell on the dust jacket although it is printed correctly in the book. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell on the title page as "William a.k.a. Lawrence Clark Powell". Signed as well on the Powell boyhood story. This essay of Lawrence Clark Powell is also included in Return to the Heartland. Fine condition. (50/80).
481. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Land of Fact. A Companion to Land of Fiction. Thirty-six Nonfiction Books about Southern California Selected and Annotated by Lawrence Clark Powell. [60] pp. 7-1/2x5, white cloth with gilt spine title and cover ornament. Limited first edition of 150 copies specially bound and signed. Los Angeles: The Historical Society of Southern California, 1992. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell and Ward Ritchie. Powell was one literary critic who did not confine his reading or his critique to fiction. His literary interest was limited more by geographic boundaries than by Dewey classification. Perhaps this rather eclectic literary pursuit was the result of his training and professional environment in library science or perhaps it was genetically predetermined by a father endowed with talent in science and a mother whose tastes ran more to fiction or more likely the combination of both heredity and environment as usual. Regardless of its origin, his expansive vision of literature has been of great benefit to his readers. Fine condition. (80/120).
482. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Land of Fiction. Thirty-two Novels and Stories about Southern California from Ramona to The Loved One. A Bibliographical Essay. [8], ix-xiv, [57] pp. 7-1/4x5, maroon cloth with gilt spine title. Limited first edition of 325 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1952. Early California Travel Series No. VI. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine condition. (80/120).
483. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Land of Fiction. Thirty-two Novels and Stories about Southern California from Ramona to The Loved One. A Bibliographical Essay. [8], ix-xiv, [57] pp. 7-1/4x5, maroon cloth with gilt spine title. Limited second edition of 100 signed copies. Los Angeles: The Historical Society of Southern California, 1991. Signed by the author. Fine condition. (80/120).
484. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Landscape and Literature. The Essays of Lawrence Clark Powell in the Southwest Review. [7], viii-xvi, [3], 2-123 [2] pp. 9x6, coarse beige linen with black spine title and red and gray paper cover ornament. Limited edition of 750 copies printed by W. Thomas Taylor. Dallas: Degolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, 1990. Fine condition. (60/90).
485. Powell, Lawrence Clark and William Everson. [Letters] Take Hold Upon the Future. Letters on Writers and Writing, 1938-1946. Edited by William Eshelman. [4], v-xxix, [3], 3-603, [1] pp. One illustration from a photograph of Powell and Everson. 8-1/2x5-1/2, gray cloth with spine and cover titles printed in blue. First edition. Metuchen and London: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1994. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell on the title page. Fine condition. (50/80).
486. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Librarian on Leave. [4], 7-38, [1] pp. 8-1/2x5-1/4, gray wrappers with cover title and ornamentation printed in black and gold. Los Angeles: UCLA Librarian, 1952. Inscribed and signed by the author. Letters from Lawrence Clark Powell to his staff at UCLA, written during his sojourn in the British Isles under a Guggenheim Fellowship, from September, 1950 to June 1951, published originally in the UCLA Librarian and collected for this printing by its editor, Everett Moore. Modest wear and discoloration of wrappers with splitting at lower spine - otherwise in fine condition. (60/90).
487. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Librarians as Readers of Books. [4], 5-32 pp. Frontispiece portrait. 7x4-1/2, blue cloth with blind-stamped cover ornament. Limited edition of 400 copies printed at the Dogwood Press by Frank McCaffrey. [Seattle]; Typophiles, 1948. Signed by the author in 1949 and again in 1993. Larry was one of those librarians as interested in the books in his custody as he was in the art of management of those books. Fine condition. (80/120).
488. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Life Goes On: Twenty More Years of Fortune and Friendship. [6], v-xix, [4], 2-180 pp. Illustrated with two portraits and sixteen inserted plates with illustrations from photographs. 8-1/2x5-1/4, red cloth with spine and cover titles printed in white, printed dust jacket. First edition. Metuchen and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1986. Signed by the author on portrait page. An important sequel to his first autobiogaphical work,
Fortune and Friendship [see item # 472]. Fine condition. (50/80).
489.Powell, Lawrence Clark. The Little Package. Pages on Literature and Landscape from a Traveling Bookman's Life. 16, 17-316, [4] pp. 8-1/2x5-1/2, red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles and blindstamped ornaments, fore-edges untrimmed, top edges stained, printed dust jacket. First edition. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1964]. Signed and inscribed to author Kenneth Johnson. Fine condition. (60/90).
490. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Make Mine a Small One. [6], 7-15, [1], [4 adv.] pp. Frontispiece illustration. 5-1/4x4-1/4, stiff ornage wrappers with cover title in black. Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1965. Initialed by the author on the title page. First separate printing of Larry's essay on the contemporary trend to large books [the coffee table monsters] - originally published in the New York Times Dec. 6, 1964. Fine condition. (50/80).
491. Powell, Lawrence Clark and W. W. Robinson. The Malibu: I. Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit: An Historical Approach by W. W. Robinson, II. Personal Considerations: Essays by Lawrence Clark Powell. [8], 86, [2] pp. Numerous original color and black and white illustrations by Irene Robinson. 10x7-1/4, cloth-backed, decorated boards with paper spine label. Limited edition of 320 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1958 . Signed by the authors, the artist and the printers on the limitation page. One of the most sought- after Lawrence Clark Powell books for a variety of good reasons including 1) the authors, 2) the subject, 3) the illustrations, 4) the superb quality of design and printing. This was written and published while the Powells still lived in Malibu and before the disastrous fire that destroyed their home. Fine condition. (300/500).
492. Powell, Lawrence Clark and W. W. Robinson. The Malibu: I. Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit: An Historical Approach by W. W. Robinson, II. Personal Considerations: Essays by Lawrence Clark Powell. [10], 86 pp. Numerous original black and white illustrations by Irene Robinson. 10x7-1/4, stiff, pictorial wrappers with spine and cover titles in blue and black. First soft-cover edition.Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, [1958]. Very minor cover wear - otherwise in fine condition. (50/80).
493. Powell, Lawrence Clark. The Manuscripts of D. H. Lawrence Compiled by Lawrence Clark Powell. Foreword by Aldous Huxley. [2], iii-xi, [3], 79 pp. Illustrated with two inserted plates with facsimiles of Lawrence manuscripts. 9-1/4x6-1/4, blue wrappers with printed cover title. Limited edition of 750 copies. Los Angeles: The Public Library, 1937. Signed by L.C.P. on his Preface page. The second book of Lawrence Clark Powell. Minor marginal fading and cover abrasion - otherwise in fine condition. (100/150).
494. Powell, Lawrence Clark. [Miniature book] L.C.P.'s Book about Book Shops. [2], 3-8, [1] pp. 2-1/4x1-1/2, full leather with gilt spine and cover titles. First edition, printed by W. M. Cheny and bound by Bela Blau. Los Angeles: [Roy V. Boswell], 1966. Signed by Jake Zeitlin and Roy V. Boswell. A true mini-masterpiece of fine printing and binding. Fine condition. (100/150).
495. Powell, Lawrence Clark. [Miniature book] L.C.P.'s Book about Book Shops. [6], 5-14, [1] pp. Frontispiece caricature of Lawrence Clark Powell. 1-5/8x1-1/8, full leather with gilt spine title. Second edition, "unenlarged", printed by W. Cheny and bound by Bela Blau. Los Angeles: [Dawson & Boswell], 1966. Another edition, even smaller than the first, published in the same year. Fine condition. (100/150).
496. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Musical Blood Brothers. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Josef Haydn. [4], 5-28, [1] pp. 7-1/2x5, stiff green wrappers with cover paper label. Privately printed in a limited edition for a joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano clubs in Los Angeles, 1966. Malibu: "Press of the Prevailing Westerly", 1966. Signed on the title page by the author. This represents the musical side of Lawrence Clark Powell. It is almost as eclectic as his literary side but favors the classics as expressed in this essay. Larry played the piano and saxophone in jazz combos in his youth. Fine condition. (50/80).