Invoices and Correspondence – B (1 of 3), 1925-1931

Brick Row Book Shop to Honeyman (unless otherwise noted) 1925 November 13 re: leather book label similar to Arthur Brown 1926 February 10 re: Leaves of Grass, Arthur Brown book label, 1926 February 27 re: Defoe andMencken 1926 March 9 re: books for a well-rounded collection of Bret Harte 1926 March 19 re: offer of Harte books 1926 March 22 re: purchase of In Memoriam, Overland Monthly, Heathen Chinee, Pliocene Skull 1926 March 23 re: Harte and Whitman 1926 April 5 re: Dickens Christmas books. 1926 April 22 re: why copy of M’liss by Bret Harte is so valuable - Scarcity 1926 April 2 re: purchase of Harte books 1926 November 30 re: Washington Irving, Hugo, Illuminated Book of Hours in Latin, Kelmscott, Lowell, Laurence, Hardy, Cabell, Lawrence, Milne, Cooper, Robinson, Hergescheimer by Swire, Crane by Starrett, Cabell by Holt, Van Vechten by Cunningham, Lawrence by McDonald, Shakespeare, Mencken,Hearn, Stephens, Goldsmith, Gray, Wilde 1927 March 9 re: purchase of Eliot and Cooper 1927 May 14 offering books that Honeyman was not interested in 1927 December 12 purchase of: The Spy, Afloat & Ashore, 2 Years Before Mast, Sister Carrie, Method of Nature, Bab Ballads, Dolores, Yankee Notions, The Gentle Boy, Mosses From an Old Manse, Dolliver Romance, 7 Vagabonds, Youma, On Democracy, Cabbages and Kings, Four Million, Heart of the West, Pipes o’Pan, Flying Islands, Afterwhiles, Rubiyat of Docetc., Home Folks, Wrong Box, Snow Bound, The Tent, A Stitch in Time, Castles in Spain, Lawrence and the Arabs, Midnight Folk, Porper Studies, Lazarus Laughed 1928 January 23 re: A. Edward Newton by George Sargent, Norman Douglas, Hardy’s Dynasts 1928 February 29 re: Kate Greenaway bookplate 1928 March 22 purchase of Ade, Bacon, Boyle, Byrne-Messer, Clemens, Cooper, Dante, Dunsany, Fiske, Harte, Irving, Mencken, Moult-Barrie, O’Neill, Robinson, Sheridan, Thoreau, Whittier, Wylie 1928 October 29 re: Shaftsbury’s Characteristicks. 1928 October 31 thanks for Shaftsbury’s Characteristicks. 1929 January 17 bid for Habington Castara, Holmes Urania, Hughes Tom Brown, Hunt Foliage, Amyntas 1929 May 1 re: 1st ed. of Tess of the D’Urbervilles 1929 May 22 to Honeyman from Treasury Dept. U.S. Customs Service re: affidavit for three volumes of Hardy’s “Tess” 1930 March 28 re: bookplate and agent Philip Brooks leaving the Brick Row Book Shop. Five typed pages of book dealings on Honeyman’s behalf. 1930 March 29 to Honeyman from Philip Brooks re: leaving Brick Row Book Shop handwritten letter saying David Randall, the new manager, is a Lehigh grad 1931 May 19 re: Lewis’s “The Monk.” 1931 August 13 re: offer of Sheridan The Rivals, Cooper The Spy, Somerville And Ross Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., Congreve The Way of the World, Arnold Saint Brendan, Memoirs of Alexander Pope