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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1st Edition, Mark Twain's Sketches, New And Old
Lot # 96 (Sale Order: 101 of 444)
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875, First Edition, Second State, 320 pp. with illustrations in text. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped front board and spine, black-stamped back board. Ink inscription of former owner on front end paper.
08 - Mark Twain Books
Lot # 97 (Sale Order: 102 of 444)
Includes; 1) The ADVENTURES of COLONEL SELLERS. by C. Neider, Doubleday, 1965, first thus 2) THE SELECTED LETTERS OF MARK TWAIN, C. Neider, Harper & Row, 1982, stated first but with the BOMC indent on back cover. 3) POOR LITTLE STEPHEN GIRARD, NY: Schocken, 1981, First US printing. 4) KING LEOPOLD'S SOLILOQUY, Twain, Mark, International Publishers. NY, 1970 reprint, 87 pages with gruesome photos of the tortures inflicted by Leopold’s minions, as documented and reported by Harris and Casement. Plastic coating on paper covers very soiled and separating at the edges and major ink notes and underlining throughout. 5) Twain: Wit and Wisecracks, Peter Pauper Press, 1961 6) Man is the Only Animal That Blushes.., Random Hse, 1970. 7) THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, G&D, 1948. 8) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, G&D, 1948.
1st Edition The Prince Of India by Lew Wallace
Lot # 98 (Sale Order: 103 of 444)
The Prince Of India or Why Constaniople Fell, 2 volumes, by Lew. Wallace. Wallace was also the author of Ben Hur. Harper and Brothers, 1893, first, ii, vi, 50,vi, 578pp, blue cloth gilt lettering and red and white decoration.
Thackerayana, Notes & Anecdotes by Wm. M Thackeray
Lot # 99 (Sale Order: 104 of 444)
Chatto & Windus, London, 1875, first edition, second state, xx, 494pp with 100s of sketches by the author including 5 in color. Six banded leather spine and the corners are scuffed and worn, nice marbled end pages and page edges, some foxing, a good plus copy.
7 1860's Tauchnitz Volumes w/ Mounted Photos
Lot # 100 (Sale Order: 105 of 444)
With early mounted photographs. All published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, Germany in the 1860s: 1) TRANSFORMATION: OR, THE ROMANCE OF MONTE BENI (MARBLE FAUN), Hawthorne, N., two volumes, pp. x, 292; vi, 280 + nearly 60 mounted albumen photographs featuring Rome and Florence and showing architecture, art, sculpture, scener; and, most interestingly, people. 2) THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. 3-4-5) 3 volumes, Longfellow, H. W., volume 1 has a mounted albumen photo portrait of Dante. 3) THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON. volume 2 ONLY, vi, 521pp, plus a mounted albumen photo of Byron for the frontispiece. 4) LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME: WITH IVRY AND THE ARMADA, MacAulay, T. B., 240pp plus a black and white frontispiece drawing. All are bound in leather and vellum and measure about 4.5x6.25”, all have nice gilt endpages and are signed with the names of members of the Lea family of Florence plus some have a stamp of the Italian bookseller Giulio Giannini, Firenze (Florence). Some stains on the white vellum bindings. Selling as one lot.
First Edition of The First Book by Archibald Rutledge
Lot # 101 (Sale Order: 106 of 444)
Under the Pines and Other Poems By A.H. Rutledge, 1906, The Eddy Press Corp, the extremely scarce first edition of the author's first book, Signed and inscribed by the author to "Miss Clara McCormick from A. H. Rutledge, May 9, 1906. And added to the bottom is "O to recall. What to recall”? - Phillips. Green cloth, gold lettering. Bubbled surface above the authors name and on the back, tear at top of spine and mild scuffing on corners. Archibald Hamilton Rutledge, 1883-1973, is the author of dozens of books about hunting and is perhaps most well known as South Carolina’s most beloved poet laureate. His former home, Hampton Plantation, is a state operated park and is open to the public. Rutledge’s notable descendents to name only a couple include two former South Carolina governors (his grandfathers) and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
2 - Booth Tarkington, First Editions
Lot # 102 (Sale Order: 107 of 444)
Includes; 1) The Conquest of Canaan, NY, Harper & Brothers, October, 1905, first with a perfect "p" on page 378, line 2, 389pp + illus., no dust jacket, slight jamming top and bottom of spine, o/w very good +. 2) Presenting Lily Mars, Garden City, Doubleday Doran, 1933, first, stated, some old water stains on the covers, lower front cover jammed, dust jacket price clipped, chipped along the edges and stained with a chunk on the back missing. Selling as one lot.
3-Leatherbound Books
Lot # 103 (Sale Order: 108 of 444)
Lot includes; (1) Vesper Bells, Melanchthon Woolsey Stryker. Printed for the Author Rome Oneida County New York Issued 1919. (2) Bracebridge Hall by Washington Irving. Illustrated by R. Caldecott. London Macmillan & Co. 1904. (3) Coaching Days and Coaching Ways by W. Outram Tristram With 214 Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton. Macmillan and Co. Limited St. ;Martins Street, London 1914. Smith Nesbit Whitworth, bookplate. Cover detached from spine. selling as 1 lot.
3-Leatherbound Books
Lot # 104 (Sale Order: 109 of 444)
Lot includes; (1) Endymion A Poetic Romance by John Keats. Oxford University Press, London: Humphrey Milford 1927. (2) L'imitation DE Jesus-Christ, DE M. L'ABBE' DASSANCE. Paris, L. Curmer, Editeur, 1857. Foxing throughout, loose cover from spine. Bookplate Evelina DuPont De Nemours. (3) Opere DI Lodovico Ariosto, Vol. 1, 1857
5 Books for Ladies
Lot # 105 (Sale Order: 110 of 444)
Lot includes; (1) The Ladies' Keepsake, and Home Library. Embellished with Numerous Engravings. New York; Burdick & Scovill. 1860's? 3 color flower plates, many black and white scenes. (2) The Task A poem by William Cowper. Illustrated by Bir Foster. London: James Nisbet and Co. Berners Street. MDCCCLXXVIII. (3) The Religious Souvenir, for 1840. Edited by Mrs. L.H. Sigourney. New York Soofield & Voorhies. (4) The Way To Prosper, or In Union There Is Strength, and Other Tales. By T.S. Arthur. Philadelphia 1851. First Edition, Scarce. (5) The Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope. With eighteen illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. New York. R.H. Russell 1901. Arthur signed. Helen Rawson Bryce Barnhart bookplate. Loose hinge. Selling as 1 lot. t.
3 Leatherbound Novels
Lot # 106 (Sale Order: 111 of 444)
Lot Includes; (1) Don Quixote The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha. By Miguel DeCervantes Saavedra. Easton Press. 1979. (2) The Brothers Karamazov by Frodor Dostoevsky. Easton Press. 1979. (3) Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier. Easton Press. 1963. Selling as 1 lot.
8 leather-bound novels
Lot # 107 (Sale Order: 112 of 444)
Lot Includes; (1) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Paul Degen. Franklin Library 1980. (2) Grimm's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Lucille Corcos. Easton Press 1980. (3) Evidence of Love by Shirley Ann Grau, Illustrated by Howard Rogers. Franklin Library 1977, 1st edition. Signature of previous owner on endpage (4) Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang In There Forever by William Saroyan. Illustrated by Al Hirshfeld. Franklin Library 1976. (5) Selected Poems 1923 - 1975. by Robert Penn Warren. Illustrated Leo and Diane Dillon. Franklin Library 1976. Limited 1st edition. Signed and dated by previous owner on endpage (6) A God Against the Gods by Allen Drury. Illustrated by Ted CoConis. Franklin Library 1976. Limited 1st edition. (7) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Easto Press. 1979. (8) Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Easton Press. 1980. Selling as 1 lot.
12 Books by Art Buchwald, one autographed
Lot # 108 (Sale Order: 113 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) I Chose Caviar, Fourth impression 1957. 2) You Can Fool All Of The People All The Time, copyright 1985, dust jacket. 3) Down The Seine And Up The Potomac , fourth impression 1977, dust jacket. 4) While Reagan Slept, copyrig 1983, fourth impression, dust jacket. 5) Counting Sheep, copyright 1970, dust jacket. 6) Paris, copyright 1954, First Edition, dust jacket. 7) Is It Save To Drink The Water?, copyright 1962, First Edition. 8) Have I Ever Lied To You?, copyright 1968. 9) I Chose Capital Punishment, copyright 1963, Second Printing, dust jacket. 10) Whose Rose Garden Is It Anyway?, copyright 1989, dust jacket. 11) The Buchwald Stops Here, copyright 1978. Third Impression. 12) I Am Not a Crook, copyright 1974, Second Impression, signed by author. Selling as 1 lot.
3 Novels
Lot # 109 (Sale Order: 114 of 444)
Lot Includes; (1) Mignon, the new novel by James M. Cain. 1962. Dust jacket, first edition. (2) The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain. 1945. 10th printing. Dust jacket. (3) The Leaning Tower and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Port 1st edition. 1944. Dust jacket. Selling in 1 lot.
Boston Pearl
Lot # 110 (Sale Order: 115 of 444)
Boston Pearl Gazette of Polite Literature, edited by Isaac C.Pray, JUN. Volume 5 Boston MDCCCXXXVI. Rough condition. Bookplate on cover: Mrs. W. A. Woodward
Holleyhocks and Goldenglow by Elbert Hubbard
Lot # 111 (Sale Order: 116 of 444)
The first thousand copies of Hollyhocks and Goldenglow, off the press, are numbered and autographed by the author, and this book is numbered X340. Copyright 1912 by Elbert Hubbard and Roycrofters mark. Leatherbound.
Loss Of The Sultana And Reminiscences Of Survivors
Lot # 112 (Sale Order: 117 of 444)
Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors by Rev. Chester D. Berry. Lansing, Darius D. Thorp, 1892, first, 426pp, illus, the explosion of the steamship returning from the south which resulted in the death of over 1,500 Union Civil War POWs. Some spotting to covers, edges worn, end pages and first 12 pp have some smudges, a very hard to find title.
Advance And Retreat by A.B. Hood
Lot # 113 (Sale Order: 118 of 444)
1880, New Orleans, Hood Orphan Memorial Fund, important Confederate book with maps, foxing on title page, damage to bottom of spine and corners.
Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War
Lot # 114 (Sale Order: 119 of 444)
1896. Rubbed corners, some leather off spine, 20 poor pages.
Narratives Of The Civil War, 3 Vols
Lot # 115 (Sale Order: 120 of 444)
By Shelby Foote. Random House, later printings, dust jackets are price clipped and soiled. Selling as one lot.
4-Books on Gettysburg
Lot # 116 (Sale Order: 121 of 444)
Lot Includes; (1) Human Interest Stories of the Three Days' Battles at Gettysburg by Herbert L. Grimm and Paul L. Roy. 1969. (2) With Pen and Camera on the Field of Gettysburg in War and Peace. Text by Holman D. Waldron. 1898 and 1902. 3) Historic Views of America's Greatest Battlefield Gettysburg, published lee Museum, Gettysburg, Pa .Gettysburg: "What They Did Here" by L.W. Minnigh, copyright 1954, Selling as 1 lot.
2 - Civil War Titles, Confederate Interest
Lot # 117 (Sale Order: 122 of 444)
Includes; 1) Destruction and Reconstruction by Richard Taylor, Appleton, 1890 , 279pp, by a Lieut-Gen., Confederate Army, name in pencil on end page; Dabney, 2) Life and Campaigns of Lieut.Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), Blelock & Co.,1866, first, portrait + 11 maps. Pencil signature of Robt. F. Matthun (?), Columbia, Miss, July 15/66 on front fly leaf, covers worn and soiled, the end pages and first 12 pages are soiled and toned. Selling as one lot.
2 - Civil War Titles (1 First Edition)
Lot # 118 (Sale Order: 123 of 444)
Includes; 1) Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession: Brownlow, Cincinnati, George W. Childs, 1862, First edition, 458pp + book ads, covers worn, some looseness. 2) Camp Fire Chats of the Civil War; Davis, World Publishing, 1887 reprint, xiii, 404pp, nice floral end pages, a good plus copy. Selling as one lot.
Army of The Potomac From 1861 To 1863 1st ed.
Lot # 119 (Sale Order: 124 of 444)
By Samuel Livingston French. NY, Publishing Society, 1906, first, 375pp + illus, an inside view of the history of the Army of the Potomac and its leader in the official dispatches, reports and secret correspondence; from the date of its organization under General McClellan in 1861, until the supersedure of General Hooker and the assignment of General Meade to its command in 1863.
History of the Army of the Potomac by J.H. Stine
Lot # 120 (Sale Order: 125 of 444)
1893, second edition, detailed descriptions of many important battles including Bull Run, Gettysburg, etc, many illustrations,Nevins I-45, Dornbusch, (vol.1 reference), III-1279.
