Fantastic Lifetime Book Collection

Fantastic Lifetime Book Collection

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Muscarelli Auction is proud to be Handling The Book Collection from a local Collector.
Collection includes modern first editions and author signed first editions. A great collection of books by respected Japanese writers of novels, poetry, and short stories can be found among our many listings. Limited edition Roycroft books signed by Elbert Hubbard, history, fine literature and Easton Press leather bindings round out this superb collection.
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PICK UP Tuesday Feb 8,2022 FROM 10:00-5:00pm
Auction Location will be at 4500 US Highway 64-90 Taylorsville, NC. Shipping is available on SMALL items at buyers expense. Appointments will be scheduled for pick up through YouCanBookMe, which can be reached through a link on your invoice. Please schedule a time and we will be better able to serve you and your needs in a more timely fashion. ITEMS MUST BE PICKED UP ON THIS DAY. ALL ITEMS THAT ARE LEFT WILL BE DONATED TO A LOCAL CHARITY. THANK YOU
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Lot Of 4 Antique & Vintage Children's Books

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Books include; Loraine and the Little People, 1915, by Elizabeth Gordon, illustrated by Penny Ross, cloth binding with color paste down cover, good with some soiling inte...morerior; Is This The House Of Mistress Mouse, 1964, by Richard Scarry, Golden Book, color cardboard binding, good with light wear to covers; StampKraft-Mother Goose & Other Rhymes, 1919, hardback binding, good with wear to spine, all stamps intact and pasted in book; Old Testament Stories, 1938, Lillie A. Farris, cloth binding with paste down on cover, color illustrations, good with corners and spine bumped.

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Folio Edition Of The Education Of Mr. Pipp By C. D. Gibson

Lot # 2      

First Edition, 1899, Pictorial covers, Black & White Illustration through-out, fair to good condition, spine is missing paper covering, scuffing and wear to covers, damp ...morestains near spine, interior is reasonably clean, first few pages are detached from spine but intact with edge chips and wear.

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Folio Size Birds & Animals Children's Book

Lot # 3      

Published by Mclaughlin Bros., undated, color pictorial cover with black cloth spine, 32 full page color illustrations by Albert Kaye with descriptive text, very good con...moredition with light wear to covers on edges, interior is clean.

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Lot Of 4 Color Illustrated Antique Children's Books

Lot # 4      

Including: Frisky the Squirrel, 1904, color paper wraps, illustrated, good, back cover is nearly detached, interior is clean; My Object ABC Is For Cat, 1921, Linentex bin...moreding, very good, illustrated; My ABC Of Animals, 1927, LinenTex binding, illustrated, very good; Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Book "Hey Diddle Diddle", color paper covers, sewn, illustrated, undated, good with small tear to cover and light soiling.

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Lot Of 2 Arts & Crafts Reference Guides

Lot # 5      

Contains; Stickley Style, undated, hardback binding, color photography through out, very good condition and William Morris By Himself-Designs & Writings, edited by Gillia...moren Naylor, 2000, hardback binding with dust jacket, very good condition, clean interior.

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Histoire Du Petit Negre Sambo French Edition

Lot # 6      

Little Black Sambo-published in 1921 by Frederick A. Stokes, written by Helen Bannerman and translated from English to French by Madeleine Bleriot Johnson, cloth binding ...morewith paste down color cover, illustrated, very good condition, rare to find in this translation.

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Punch 1857-1858

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Vol 33, 1857, London, Ex Library, paper and leather boards with gilt titled spine and decoration, clean interior, nice bound edition of this famous English satirical news...morepaper, black and white woodblock engravings through out including double page examples.

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9 Volumes Of Routledge's Pocket Library, 1886

Lot # 8      

A beautiful series of little books, tastefully bound, paper and cloth boards with paper paste down title on spine, collection of assorted authors, good condition with min...moreor shelf wear and some foxing to interior front pages. Great decorator lot.

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Folio Size The Magazine Of Art Volume Vlll, 1885

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Published by Cassell and Company Limited, London, Paris, New York, 1885, profusely illustrated with steel and wood engravings as well as photogravures, over 50 full page ...moreillustrations. Book is bound in cloth boards with leather corners and spine, cover has a gold gilt floral urn decoration, interior is clean, spine and corners of covers are rubbed, otherwise good condition.

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Signed Elbert Hubbard of Roycrofters Book "The Law Of Love"

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Hand signed and numbered copy #14 of 106, The Law Of Love by Marion Reedy,1905, published and printed by Elbert Hubbard of the Roycrofters at their shop, in East Aurora, ...moreNew York, good condition. Leather and paper boards with gilt titled spine, spine has tear near top and bottom but still is intact. spine is rubbed on its edges as well as the corners of binding, interior is clean.

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4 Volume Set The Newgate Calendar, By Knapp & Baldwin 1824-1825

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Books Comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England since the commencement of the Eighteenth ...moreCentury, London J Robbins, 1824, First edition by this publisher, illustrated frontis and in text throughout, paper and leather boards, gilt decorated spine and titles, good condition for age with normal expected wear to covers, interior is reasonably clean with some foxing and toning of pages. Still good set on this known history of crime in England.

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Scarce Book Chiushingura; or The Loyal League (Japanese Romance), 1880

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Translated by F. V. Dickins, with notes and an appendix containing a metrical version of the ballad of Takasago, and a specimen of the original text in the Japanese Chara...morecter, profusely illustrated by engravings on wood drawn and executed by Japanese artists, 8vo, cloth and gilt decorated covers, very good condition.

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Scarce Japanese Book Entitled Kusamakura and Buncho, 1927

Lot # 13      

Written by Soseki Natsume, translated by Umeji Sasaki and illustrated by Hyakusui Hirafuku, published in Tokyo, 1927, cloth binding with dust jacket, binding is in very g...moreood condition, dust jacket has small chip near top of spine, and minor edge wear. Color illustrated plates, clean interior,

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1893 Morris's British Butterflies

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79 hand colored butterfly plates, History Of British Butterflies, 7th edition, 1893, by Rev F. O. Morris, hand colored plates, green cloth binding with gilt decoration on...more cover and spine, very good condition, clean interior, binding is slightly bumped at corners and on spine. Very nice illustrated Natural History.

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1860 New Edition of Noble Deeds Of American Women

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Edited by J. Clement, 1860 new edition, frontis steel engraving of Martha Washington and illustrated with black and white wood engravings throughout, red cloth binding wi...moreth gilt decorated spine and titles, good condition, interior has some foxing and staining otherwise mostly good, covers are bumped.

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Four Antique Children's Books

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Included are; Mother Goose Illustrated By Kate Greenway, undated, London-Frederick Warne and Co; The Green Umbrella, A Ladybird Book, series 401, Printed in England; Maet...moreerlink's The Children's Blue Bird, illustrated by Doris & Marion Henderson, 1913, Grosset & Dunlap; Mother Goose Rhymes, illustrated by Edward G. McCandlish, printed by Roycrofters at their shop in East Aurora, N. Y. Books are hardbound with pictorial covers, good condition with mostly clean interiors, a few covers have minor wear.

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The Red Pony By John Steinbeck First Illustrated Copy 1945

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Illustrated By Wesley Dennis, The Viking Press, New York, 1945, cloth binding with paper paste down on cover, gilt titled spine on cloth, binding is good with some staini...moreng and light bumping to spine, interior is clean. Nice copy for the collector of Steinbeck books.

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Beautifully Bound Four Volumes of Gil Blas Translated By Lesage, 1822

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This outstanding 4 volume set of The Adventures Of Gil Blas Of Santillane, translated from the French by Lesage, New Edition, hand colored engravings by Robert Smirke, Lo...morendon, Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 1822, small octavo, full calf gilt decorated bindings with gilt paper edges, fine condition in paper decorated slip case.

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Pierre Louys APHRODITE Illustrations En Couleurs De Paul-Emile Becat, 1937

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#259 of 3200 edition, illustrations in color, published by Editions De Arts H. Piazza, Paris, 1937, in slip case accompanied by bound folder containing 22 B & W illustrat...moreions, very good conditions, binding is fine plates have some folds near top edges and tears. Book is near fine in slipcase.

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Observations on the Religious Peculiarities of the Society of Friends, 1825

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First American Edition from the 4th London Edition, by Joseph John Gurney, published by S Potter & Co. Philadelphia, 1825, bound in leather boards, covers are loose and d...moreetached from spine, spine is chipped and missing leather, interior has toned pages and light foxing otherwise good and complete copy.

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Two Books By Isaac Asimov

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Books include; "In Joy Felt The Autobiography Of Isaac Asimov 1954-1978", First edition, ex-library, 1980, with dust jacket and "In Memory Yet Green The Autobiography of ...moreIsaac Asimov 1920-1954", 1979, trade edition, ex-library, with dust jacket, both books are in good condition with normal library stamping, some soiling and light wear to dust jackets.

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One Hundred Merry And Delightsome Stories With Color Illustrations

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Translated from the celebrated French collection of jovial medieval tales: translated by Robert Douglas-PARIS, privately printed, profusely illustrated through-out with c...moreolor engravings, leather and paper board binding with gold titles on spine, French end papers, good condition with some rubbing to covers, binding beginning to separate from outer covers, clean interior.

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Rare Signed Limited Edition Rip Van Winkle

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By Washington Irving, published by the Roycrofters 1905, limited to 100 copies, this copy being #21, signed by Elbert Hubbard, bound in leather and paper boards with gilt...more titles on spine, reasonably good condition with wear to spine (some splitting and rubbing of edges) and covers, interior is clean

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Scarce Book "That Negro Problem" By Coy Muckle Signed Copy

Lot # 24      

Title goes on to contain "A Southern Speaks His Mind", signed on front fly leaf in ink Coy Muckle 1-5-47, privately printed by author 1946, black cloth binding with gold ...moretitles on cover, good with some wear to cloth covers and light interior foxing front few pages, minor bug damage on last end papers, otherwise still a good copy of this hard to find narrative on the American Negro in the 1940's.

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Rare Early Printing Of "Salmagundi" By Irving

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This early satirical was written by Washington Irving, William Irving and James Kirk Paulding, Title goes on to contain "The Whim-whams and Opinions Of Launcelot Langstaf...moref, Esq. & Others", this full leather 20mo binding was published in London by Charles Daly 1841, book is illustrated with fine steel engravings, Leather bound with gilt decoration and titles, edge of pages have gilt, book is in very good condition with light rubbing to covers, interior is reasonably clean with some light foxing and page toning.

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