Important Book Auction
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We are pleased to offer from the collection of Rosemary Sullivan, a long time rare and out of print book dealer, and her late husband Bob “Sully” Sullivan, 1000’s of fine & collectible books.
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4 Books on Ghost Towns & Frontier
Lot # 71 (Sale Order: 76 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) Ghost Town Treasures by Lambert Florin, copyright 1965, First Edition, dust jacket. 2) Ghost Towns Of The west by Lambert Florin, copyright 1971, dust jacket. 3) Down On The Farm commentary by Stewart H. Hollbrook, copyright MCMLIV, dust jacket. 4) The Frontier Years by Mark H. Brown and W. R. Felton, L. A. Huffman, Photographer of the Plains, copyright MVMLV, dust jacket. Selling as 1 lot.
9 Books on American Trails
Lot # 72 (Sale Order: 77 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) The Santa Fe Trail by R. L. Duffus, Reprinted Edition 1931, dustjacket. 2) DESTINY ROAD - The Gila Trail and the Opening of the Southwest by Odie B. Faulk, copyright 1973 by Oxford University Press, Inc., dustjacket. 3) The End Of The Trail from E. Alexander Powell, F.R.G.S., Reprinted April 1916. 4) Soldiers on the Santa Fe Trail by Leo E. Oliva, copyright 1967 by the University of Oklahoma Press. 5) The Great North Trail by Dan Cushman, copyright 1966, First Edition, dustjacket. 6) Doomed Road Of Empire - The SpanishTrail of Conquest by Hodding Carter, copyright 1963, First Edition, dustjacket. 7) The California Trail by George R. Stewart, copyright 1962, dustjacket. 8) The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton, copyright 1945, dustjacket. 9) Here Rolled The Covered Wagons by Albert and Jane Salisbury, copyright 1948, Third Revised Edition, dustjacket. Selling as 1 lot.
Portraits From North American Indian Life
Lot # 73 (Sale Order: 78 of 444)
Edward S. Curtis, 1972, first edition, xvi pp. 88 plates (on 176 pp.), oblong 15x18, with gift inscription (not by the author), minor wear, Albert Miller Bookplate.
Wigwam And War-Path or The Royal Chief In Chains
Lot # 74 (Sale Order: 79 of 444)
John P. Dale, Boston, 1875, 2nd, xiii, 700, (1) pp, illustrations. 17 tales of the old west & the pioneers including Capt. Jack, Scar-faced Charley, Black Jim, Boston Charley and others, some cover wear
American Indians, First Families of the SW
Lot # 75 (Sale Order: 80 of 444)
American Indians, First Families of The Southwest by J. F. Huckel, 1928, 4th edition, edited by Fred Harvey, Kansas City, lovely color illustrations and cardstock cover.
2 - Native American Indian Books
Lot # 76 (Sale Order: 81 of 444)
Includes; 1) Lyman, QUILL AND BEADWORK OF THE WESTERN SIOUX, Dept. Interior, 1954, 116pp illus, chapters on the preparation of skins used, porcupine quill work, bead work and much more, paperbound. 2) Mails, SUNDANCING AT ROSEBUD AND PINE RIDGE, Centre for Western Studies--Augustana College, Soiux Falls, S.D., 1978, first, pp.viii,396, illus, includes Eagle Feather, James O. Dorsey, Frances Densmore and others. Albert Miller bookplate, dust jacket has spine spots and a small chuck missing at the top resulting in a little fading of the spine cloth. Selling as one lot.
The Bark Canoes And Skin Boats Of North America
Lot # 77 (Sale Order: 82 of 444)
By Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard I. Chapelle, 1964, Smithsonian, Washington, DC, first edition, 242pp. with illustrations. Albert Miller bookplate.
Pictorial History Of Indian Wars And Captivities
Lot # 78 (Sale Order: 83 of 444)
Frost's Pictorial History of Indian Wars and Captivities,New York, Wells Publishing Co., 1873, first edition, many illustrations, some wear and foxing.
7 Books on American Indians
Lot # 79 (Sale Order: 84 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) Famous Indian Tribes by William Moyers and David C. Cooke, copyright 1954. 2) Sioux Indian Leaders by Mildred Fielder, copyright 1975, dust jacket, reprint. 3) People Of The Lakes by the Editors of Time-Life Books, 1994 Time-Life Inc., dust jacket. 4) Pictorial History of the Wild West by James D. Horan and Paul Sann, copyright 1954. 5) The OLD WEST Speaks by Howard R. Driggs, Water-Coloring Paintings by William Henry Jackson, copyright 1956, dust jacket. 6) The North American Indians by Paula Richardson Fleming and Judith Luskey, published 1988, dust jacket. 7) A Pictorial History of the American Indian by Oliver Lafarge, MCMLVI, dust jacket. Selling as 1 lot.
5 Books on American Indians
Lot # 80 (Sale Order: 85 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) Concise Encyclopedia of the AMERICAN INDIAN, Revised Edition, Bruce Grant, copyright 1960 by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. ,dust jacket. 2) In A Sacred Manner We Live, photographs of the North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis, Barre Publishers 1973. 3) Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America, Charles Miles, MCMLXIII Henry Regency Co., dust jacket. 4) Lewis Henry Morgan - The Indian Journals 1859-62, Edited and with an introduction by Leslie A. White, copyright by the University of Michigan 1959, dust jacket. 5) The Canadian Indian - The Illustrated History of the Great Tribes of Canada, Fraser Symington, copyright 1969, dust jacket. Selling as 1 lot.
6 Books on American Indians
Lot # 81 (Sale Order: 86 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) Chief Pushmataha, American Patriot, by Anna Lewis, First Edition 1959, dust jacket. 2) The Patriot Chiefs by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., maps by Daniel Brownstein, copyright 1961, dust jacket. 3) Life Among The Apaches by John C. Cremony, 1991 Indian Head Books, dust jacket. 4) My Friend The Indian by James McLaughlin, with illustrations, copyright 1910, Sixth Impression. 5) The Indian Heritage of America by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. copyright 1968, dust jacket. 6) National Geographic on Indians of the Americas, a color-illustrated record, Third Printing 1957. Selling as 1 lot.
6 Books on American Indians
Lot # 82 (Sale Order: 87 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) American Indians of the Southeast, text by Michael Johnson, color plates by Richard Hook, copyright 1995. 2) Native Roots - How The Indians Enriched America by Jack Weatherford, copyright 1991, dust jacket. 3) Warpaths Invasions of North America by Ian K. Steele, 1994 Oxford University Press, dust jacket. 4) The Long Death by Ralph K. Andrist, maps by Rafael D. Palacios, Fourth Printing 1965, dust jacket. 5) Touch The Earth by T. C. McLuhan, copyright 1971, dust jacket. 6) White Savage - The Case of John Dunn Hunter by Richard Drinnon, copyright 1972, dust jacket. Selling as 1 lot.
Colton's General Atlas with Descriptions, 1870
Lot # 83 (Sale Order: 88 of 444)
1870, Hand colored engravings, front cover worn, almost detached, spine covering chipped and worn, 2 small closed 1" tears on first 10 pages, tatters on very edge of pages 41,42, on the double paged Pennsylvania Map, few smudge marks in margin,.scarce.
Caldwell's Washington County, PA Atlas, 1876
Lot # 84 (Sale Order: 89 of 444)
J.A. Caldwell, 1876, first, colored township, town & village maps + lithographic views of residences, public buildings, businesses. Cover loose from spine, first 2 pp and last 2 pages loose and tattered. Foldout part of Amwell Map is missing.
Tuscarawas Ohio Atlas And History
Lot # 85 (Sale Order: 90 of 444)
The First Centennial History and Atlas of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Published and copyrighted by Edwin S. Rhodes,Tuscarawas Centennial Association. New Philadelphia, Ohio, 1908, first, rebound in leather, 236pp. The title page is in poor condition but the history and maps are nice with 100's of names of landowners.
Atlas of Classical Geography
Lot # 86 (Sale Order: 91 of 444)
Hughs,William, Long, editor, 1870, maps outlined in color. Rebound in leather, very nice inside.
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Twain
Lot # 87 (Sale Order: 92 of 444)
New York, Charles L. Webster & Co., 1890, 575 pps + 2 pp. pub ads. b/w frontis & illus. Second or third issue of the first, as evidenced by the lack of a "S" in caption, The King, p.59. No half title on fly leaf. On the last three lines of p. 72, type is broken. Olive green cloth covers lettered in gilt front and spine (eliminating the word "Connecticut" on cover). Gilt device on spine; stamped on front in gilt, blue, & black is a decoration of an armored knight, shield, top-hat, etc. Tiny olive & white wallpaper print eps. Copyrighted 1889 by Clements. Date on t.p. is 1890; actual release date 12/10/89. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed, spine ends creased. Reference Merle Johnson, Bibliography of Mark Twain, 1935. BAL 3429
The American Claimant by Mark Twain
Lot # 88 (Sale Order: 93 of 444)
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1892. First Edition, illustrated by Dan Beard in pen & ink. xiv, (xv-xvi)-277, (278) pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s advertisements (279-286). Beard created the frontispiece and twenty-three other illustrations. See Johnson, Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain, pp. 53-54. Some wear on edges and top, bottom of spine, corners bent.
1st Edition, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer by Twain
Lot # 89 (Sale Order: 94 of 444)
The American Publishing Company, Hartford, Chicago, Cincinnati, A. Roman & Co., San Francisco, 1876, First Edition with second page of Contents paginated "XII," third page "XIII;" second page of Illustrations correctly paginated "XVI;" publishers ads "Revised December 1st, 1876."Lacks all fly leaves and the half title illustration page is loose and tattered on the edges. The original leather binding was crudely repaired long ago and there is paper tape at the top of the first and last page – the later affecting the type in the book ads, a poor copy of a very scarce book.
Pudd’Nhead Wilson & Life On The Mississippi, Twain
Lot # 90 (Sale Order: 95 of 444)
2 Mark Twain titles. Includes; 1) Pudd’nhead Wilson/ Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing, A 1902 reprint of the 1894 first, 432pp, b&w margin illus. throughout. 2) Life on the Mississippi, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1899, Biographical Edition reprint of the original, 465 pp. plus book ads and Twain portrait frontis piece. From the Carrons (early Washington County farm family on Route 40 East ) estate with ink signature and date 1900 in ink on the fron free end page, 2 pps uncut (unopened). Selling as one lot.
4 - Mark Twain Books
Lot # 91 (Sale Order: 96 of 444)
Includes; 1) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg And Other Stories And Essays, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1900, First edition, state 2, 398 pp + book ads, illustrated, first flyleaf crudely cut off, spine sunned. 2) MARK TWAIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY (IN VOLUMES), Twain, Mark (with an Introduction by Paine, Albert Bigelow), P. F. Collier And Son Company, New York, 1925, First edition, xvi, 793pp, frontispiece of Twain, burgundy cloth, gilt lettered cover and spine, top edges gilt. 3) ROUGHING IT, Harper & Brothers, 1923 reprint, 330pp, states Volume 1 but complete, vgd. 3) THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER AND THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Modern Library, NY, no date given (1940), 591 pp, frontispiece, end pages have red, black and white characters and scenes from the books, hard to find. No dj. Selling as one lot.
2 - First Editions by Mark Twain
Lot # 92 (Sale Order: 97 of 444)
1) Extracts from Adam's Diary, Harper & Brothers, April 1904, First Edition, illustrated, covers and spine soiled, some wear, good tight copy. No dust jacket. 2) CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, With Notes Containing Corrections To Date, New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1907, First edition, first printing, with statement "Published February, 1907," boxed advertisement for Uniform Edition with seventeen titles listed and six titles under the heading "Other Books by Mark Twain," list of illustrations set in eight lines including heading, and misprint in the text at page 123, L2 "Autobiography;" first state frontispiece with facsimile signature captioned "[1906]." Frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher"s original red "cornhuskers" cloth with gilt lettered spine. Covers water marked, spine very sun faded, previous owner’s name in ink on end page. No dust jacket. Selling as one lot.
7 - Books About Mark Twain
Lot # 93 (Sale Order: 98 of 444)
Includes; 1) MARK TWAIN IN LOVE: THE STORY OF THE UNSUITABLE SUITOR, Miller, A., 1973 First Edition, dj. 2) A LIFETIME WITH MARK TWAIN THE MEMORIES OF KATY LEARY, FOR THIRTY YEARS HIS FAITHFUL AND DEVOTED SERVANT, Lawton, M, Harcourt, Brace & Company, NY, 1925, First Edition, 325 pp plus b/w photographs. Lending library stamp inside front cover else very good. 3) MARK TWAIN'S AMERICA, DeVoto, Bernard, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, 1933, 2nd edition, illustrated with woodblock prints by M.J. Gallagher at the beginning of each chapter, Bibliography, Appendices, Index. Lacks dust jacket, covers faded. 4) MARK TWAIN AND THE GOVERNMENT, Petersen, S., Caldwell, Idaho, The Caxton Printers, 1960, First thus, 146pp., beige cloth, dj. Bookplate of Edward Martin. 5) MARK TWAIN IN THE MOVIES: A MEDITATION WITH PICTURES, Seelye, J., Viking, 1977, NY, An intimate view of Twain (1835-1910) in words and pictures with many photos that had never been published before,wrinkled dust jacket. 6) MARK TWAIN HIMSELF, Meltzer, M., Bonanza reprint of 1940 edition, xii, 303pp, over 600 photographs and drawings, spine tear on bottom edge, some page stains. 7) MARK TWAIN ON THE
3 - Mark Twain Books
Lot # 94 (Sale Order: 99 of 444)
Includes; 1) Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography, Peter Pauper Press, Larchmont, 1930, illustrated woodcut portraits derived from old chapbooks accompany the text, limited 1/525 with the stamp of Priscilla Guthrie’s Book Shop, Pittsburgh, on the inside of the back cover. 2) Mark Twain's, Date 1601. Conversations as it was by the social fireside in the time of the Tudors. Privately printed for the Mark Twain Society of Chicago, MCMXXXIX (1939). Signed by the author. This is illustrated with a frontispiece of Tudor fireside scene with MT among famous Tudor dignitaries. 3) English As She Is Taught by Mark Twain The A.M. Davis Co., Boston, 1920, 22pp, a revised edition issued by The Century Company, paper covers worn, chipped and split at the seam. Selling as one lot.
Following The Equator by Mark Twain
Lot # 95 (Sale Order: 100 of 444)
Following The Equator, A Journey Around The World. American Publishing Co., Hartford, Connecticut, MCCCCXCVIII (1898), copyright 1897, by Olivia L. Clemens. Fortieth Thousand, 712 pp + photogravure front is of Twain leaning back on a deck chair, signed in facsimile: "Be good and you will be lonesome." With 192 illustrations by Dan Beard, A. B. Frost, B. W. Peter Newell, et al. Original blue full cloth binding, decorated in gold and polychrome, with an elephant on the front board.
