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Antique & Collectible Books #204 |
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by South Boston Books
Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 9:00 PM Eastern
First lots ends Sunday, February 11, 9:00 PM Eastern
Last lot ends Sunday, February 11, 9:52 PM Eastern $5 FLAT USA SHIPPING. Great lots of antiquarian books and ephemera. NO RESERVES - REASONABLE SHIPPING! 15% BUYERS PREMIUM
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PLEASE TAKE NOTE We accept payment by Paypal only via a PAYPAL INVOICE after auction. Lot #1 (Sale Order 1 of 53) PLEASE TAKE NOTE We accept payment by Paypal only via a PAYPAL INVOICE after auction. You will receive the invoice a few hours after the auction ends. Thanks. We do not have your credit card info and it will not be charged by us.
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SHIPPING IS $5 FLAT PER AUCTION FOR USA BIDDERS Lot #2 (Sale Order 2 of 53) SHIPPING IS $5 FLAT PER AUCTION FOR USA BIDDERS NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU PURCHASE.
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AUCTION TERMS - THANKS FOR SHOPPING WITH US! Lot #3 (Sale Order 3 of 53) BUYERS PREMIUM IS 15%. After seven days the consignor can request his item back if they wish. If your invoice is cancelled we reserve the right to ban you from future purchases. PLEASE NOTE NO RETURNS FOR ANY ITEMS - please review items thoroughly before bidding. Any unpaid PAYPAL invoices after 7 DAYS will be sent to Proxibid for review and your items will be relisted. Buyers Premium is waived for this auction. Books shipped within 5-7 business days - we try to ship out earlier than that. (10/17/2017) All packages delivered are the responsibility of the BUYER. Once the tracking shows delivered our end of the transaction is over. If your package is stolen you must contact the Post Office, no refund will be given through us or Paypal.
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Diary of a German Soldier (1963) Wilhelm Pruller WW2 First American Edition Lot #5 (Sale Order 4 of 53) Coward-McCann Publishers (1963) good condition in fair/good dust jacket with some wear. Hardcover. First American Edition stated.
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Stage-Coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle (1901) Lot #6 (Sale Order 5 of 53) Stage-Coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle, Published by Macmillan, New York (1901) good condition hardcover.
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ECHOES OF THE WAR by J.M. Barrie (1918) Author of Peter Pan Lot #7 (Sale Order 6 of 53) Echoes of the War by J.M. Barrie, Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York (1918) good condition, some spotting on the covers, Includes the plays The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, The New Word, Barbara's Wedding and A Well-Remembered Voice. ; Octavo; 188 pages.
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Adventures in Arabia (1939) by Seabrook - AMONG THE YEZIDEE DEVIL WORSHIPERS Lot #8 (Sale Order 7 of 53) Good condition, hardcover, Blue Ribbon Books (1935) no dust jacket. Numerous B&W drawings and a few tipped-in B&W photographic plates. Author Seabrook was an American Lost Generation occultist, explorer, traveler, and journalist who spent time with Aleister Crowley, studied Haitian Voodoo for his book "The Magic Island.
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RARE Rusty Hinges. A Story of Closed Doors beginning to Open in NORTH-EAST TIBET - CHINA Lot #9 (Sale Order 8 of 53) Rusty Hinges. A Story of Closed Doors beginning to Open in North-East Tibet by Frank Doggett Learner F.R.G.S., Published by The China Inland Mission, London (1933) good in good dust jacket. Writes on the people & land of Tibet, the religion, pers- secution, incarnate Buddhas, Lamasery of Ten Thousand Images, Kumbum Festivals, Koko-Nor, nomads, & conversions, the his- tory and description of Tibet and around the Kumbun Monastery, Koko Nor. Scarce documentary of travels.
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Who Walk Alone by Perry Burgess SIGNED (1940) Memoir American Soldier living in Culion Leper Colony Lot #10 (Sale Order 9 of 53) Who Walk Alone by Perry Burgess, Published by Henry Holt & Company (1940) good no dust jacket, signed on booklpate. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In 1940, Burgess published a novel, Who Walk Alone. The book, presented as the true story of an anonymous man Burgess met at Culion Leper Colony, tells the story of an American soldier who contracts leprosy while serving in the Spanish-American War in the Philippines. He fakes his own death to prevent his family from learning about his leprosy, then returns to the Philippines to live in Culion Leper Colony, where he spends the next twenty-five years.
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The Fall of the ROMANOFFS: How Rasputine Caused the Russian Revolution (1917) RUSSIA Lot #11 (Sale Order 10 of 53) The Fall of the Romanoffs : How the Ex-Empress & Rasputine Caused the Russian Revolution by the author of the Russian Court Memoirs. Russian Court Memoirs, Author Of [Princess Catherine Radziwill] Published by New York : E. P. Dutton And Company (1917) good condition, hardcover.
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The Book of BOSTON (1917) by Robert Shackelton Lot #12 (Sale Order 11 of 53) Good condition, hardcover, Penn Publishing with some spotting.
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The Story of GENERAL CUSTER by Margaret Leighton Lot #13 (Sale Order 12 of 53) Grosset & Dunlap (c.1950) good no dust jacket, weekly reader series. Small hardcover.
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GERONIMO Wolf of the Warpath by Ralph Moody (1958) Lot #14 (Sale Order 13 of 53) Good condition in good dust jacket with protector. Random House (1958) First Edition.
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ANTIQUARIAN & VINTAGE BOOK LOT including Lynx Hunting (c.1890) & Abraham Lincoln (1919) Lot #15 (Sale Order 14 of 53) Lynx Hunting by C. A. Stephens, Published by Hurst (c.1890) good condition hardcover. ALSO Abraham Lincoln A PLAY by John Drinkwater (1919) small hardcover. ALSO Donald McKay and the Clipper Ships (1959) and Clipper Ship Days (1952) both in good condition.
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The Hand Book of Illustrated Proverbs by John Barber (1856) Lot #16 (Sale Order 15 of 53) The Hand Book of Illustrated Proverbs by John Barber, Published by New York: George F. Tuttle, 1856. Good- condition hardcover, some spotting, the fold-out is cut in half, some outer spine wear.
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Winning A Cause: World War Stories by Thompson & Bigwood (1919) WW1 Lot #17 (Sale Order 16 of 53) Winning A Cause: World War Stories by Thompson & Bigwood. Published by Boston. Silver, Burdette & Co. [1919] good condition, hardcover. WW1.
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RAREST Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Southern Life as it is (1852) PRO-SLAVERY Response to Uncle Tom's Cabin Lot #18 (Sale Order 17 of 53) Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or Southern Life as it is by Mary H. Eastman, Published by Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co (1852) good condition, some spotting, owner signature. B&W Illustrations; 8vo ; 280 pages; A pro-slavery response to publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin earlier that year. Although almost entirely forgotten by history, this book sold more than 20,000 copies when it first came out -- hardly the reception that Uncle Tom received, but a respectable number of sales all the same, and it fueled the flaring debate in its time.
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REMEMBER THE ALAMO by Robert Penn Warren (1958) First Edition Lot #19 (Sale Order 18 of 53) Good condition in good dust jacket in protector, Random House (1958) First Edition.
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RARE Ideal Suggestion Through MENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY (1893) by Henry Wood - Mental Healing Lot #20 (Sale Order 19 of 53) Good condition hardcover, Boston Lee & Shepard (1893) Third Edition.
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Carl Sandburg: A Pictorial Biography (1967) SIGNED BY EDITORS Lot #21 (Sale Order 20 of 53) Carl Sandburg: A Pictorial Biography, Joseph Haas, Gene Lovitz, Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York (1967) good condition signed by both editors. Hardcover with dust jacket with some wear.
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DAVE DAWSON with the AIR CORPS by Bowen (1942) WW2 with Dust Jacket Lot #22 (Sale Order 21 of 53) Good in fair/good dust jacket in new protector, pages browning, Saafield (1942).
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Audel's Mason's and Builder's Guide (1957) Three Volumes Lot #23 (Sale Order 22 of 53) Audel's Mason's and Builder's Guide, Frank Graham, Published by Theo Audel and Company, (1957) Three volumes, good condition as shown.
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Demorest's Magazine Portrait Album: An Unrivalled Collection of Two Hundred Fine Portraits (c.1880) Lot #24 (Sale Order 23 of 53) Demorest's Magazine Portrait Album: An Unrivalled Collection of Two Hundred Fine Portraits of Famous Men and Women of All Eras and Every Land from Demorest's Family Magazine, Published by NY: Demorest's Family Magazine c. 1880 good general condition, 7" tall. A portrait album published by Demorest's Magazine; subscribers were instructed to cut out portraits published in the magazine and glue them into the album. Most are glued in some with additional information pasted in by the owner. Someone wrote some dates on the title page in pencil.
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Augsburg Eagle: The Story of the Messerschmitt 109 by William Green (1971) Lot #25 (Sale Order 24 of 53) Augsburg Eagle: The Story of the Messerschmitt 109 by William Green, Published by Doubleday & Co., Garden City (1971) good in good dust jacket. The story of the Messerschmitt 109 from the drawing boards of 1933 to its final service use in Spain in 1967. Military ; Color & B/W Illus.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages.
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LARGE United States Stamp Album - FILLED WITH STAMPS Lot #26 (Sale Order 25 of 53) Usually when we receive these albums they are less than half filled. THIS IS 90% FILLED - over 100 pages the most stamps we've seen in a individual book so far. The folder itself has a loose front cover. Some are glued in, some cancelled, some framed in.
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Miracle At Philadelphia: Story Of The Constitutional Convention May To September 1787 with Slipcase Lot #27 (Sale Order 26 of 53) Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story Of The Constitutional Convention May To September 1787, in slipcase, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. Published by Book of the Month Club, New York, NY, U.S.A. (1986) 346 pp. Index. Illustrations by Warren Chappel; new Introduction by Henry Steele Commager. Good condition with slipcase.
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RAREST Mormonism: its Leaders and Designs by John Hyde (1857) Lot #28 (Sale Order 27 of 53) Mormonism: its Leaders and Designs by John Hyde, Published by W. P. Fetridge, EB (1857) very good condition, amazing hardcover. John Hyde was an English Mormon who had been ordained to the priesthood of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) , brought an action of divorce against his wife, Lavinia, for adultery. He had left the LDS Church and began to write and publish anti-Mormon material, a move that caused him to be excommunicated from the LDS Church.
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DIANA Princess of Wales Royal Mail Mint Stamp Collection Lot #29 (Sale Order 28 of 53) Very good condition, as shown, shrink wrapped, never opened.
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RARE Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1932) Greenway Classics Decorative Binding Lot #30 (Sale Order 29 of 53) Good condition as shown, Greenway Publishing Company (1932) large owner inscription, raised bands leather spine hardcover.
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RARE KNUTE ROCKNE Man Builder by Harry Stuhldreher (1931) with Dust Jacket Lot #31 (Sale Order 30 of 53) Good condition, pages browning, good dust jacket. Hardcover.
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The Real SARAH BERNHARDT Audiences Never Knew (1924) Lot #32 (Sale Order 31 of 53) Fair/Good to good condition hardcover as shown, small amount of spotting and some cover wear. Boni and Liveright (1924).
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RARE Salt Water FISHING by Van Campen Heilner (1937) Illustrated Lot #33 (Sale Order 32 of 53) Salt Water Fishing by Van Campen Heilner, Published by Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1937) good condition large hardcover no dust jacket.
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Historic Pilgrimage in New England by Bacon (1898) Pilgrim & Puritan Days Lot #34 (Sale Order 33 of 53) Good condition, Silver Burdett & Company (1889) hardcover.
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COLLECTION of Charles Dickens Books (c.1880) Lot #35 (Sale Order 34 of 53) Four issues, mostly in good condition, some have slight hinge cracks and some cover wear. Includes Sketches by Boz, Great Expectations, Pickwick Papers, Christmas Story, and more.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss (1957) First Edition Lot #36 (Sale Order 35 of 53) How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss, Published by Random House, New York (1957) Dr. Seuss (illustrator). First Edition no dust jacket.
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The CHILDREN of DICKENS by Crothers (1937) Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith Lot #37 (Sale Order 36 of 53) Good condition large hardcover with some spotting, Charles Scribner's Sons (1937).
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RARE The Conscience of a Conservative by BARRY GOLDWATER (1960) SIGNED Lot #38 (Sale Order 37 of 53) Good condition hardcover, signed.
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OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway (1952) First Edition Later Edition Lot #39 (Sale Order 38 of 53) Trade copy dust jacket with price on label, good condition, good dust jacket as shown.
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RARE Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or War on the White Slave Trade (1920) Lot #40 (Sale Order 39 of 53) Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or War on the White Slave Trade, (1920) by Ernest A. Bell, hardcover, good condition, front illustration becoming loose, some cover wear, hinge slightly cracked. Illustration tipped-on depicting a young girl behind a barred window and obviously the slaver in the background. A detailed account of the shameless traffic of young girls and boys and the methods employed.
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Customs and Fashions in New England (1893) & Sabbath in Puritan New England (1893) by Alice Earle Lot #41 (Sale Order 40 of 53) Both in good condition, one has a slightly loose hinge, as shown.
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ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel De Foe (c.1900) Lot #42 (Sale Order 41 of 53) Fair/Good condition, some spotting, one loose illustration. Hardcover, no date (c.1900) as shown.
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PLUCK and LUCK (1923) Cartoons by Vanity Fair Columnist Lot #43 (Sale Order 42 of 53) Pluck and Luck by Robert Benchley, Drawings by Gluyas Williams. Published by Blue Ribbon Books., Garden City, New York (1923) good condition hardcover. The collection contains The Church Supper, French For Americans, and Looking Shakespeare Over. Gluyas Williams illustrations throughout. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vanity Fair columnist.
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HOME LIFE IN COLONIAL DAYS by Alice Morse Earle (1899) Lot #44 (Sale Order 43 of 53) Good condition hardcover, MacMillan & Company (1899) hardcover.
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Winning FOOTBALL Strategy (1937) by Bernie Bierman Lot #45 (Sale Order 44 of 53) Winning Football Strategy, Psychology and Technique by B.W. Bernie Bierman, Published by Whittlesey House, New York (1937) good condition hardcover.
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RARE THE TOWN by William Faulkner (1957) First Edition First Printing with Dust Jacket Lot #46 (Sale Order 45 of 53) The Town by William Faulkner, Published by Random House, Ne w York (1957) FIRST EDITION, STATED FIRST PRINTING, good condition, dust jacket not clipped in good- condition with some wear in new jacket protector. The second novel of the Snopes trilogy--which also included "The Hamlet" and "The Mansion". Hardcover.
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The JUNGLE BOOK by Rudyard Kipling (1950) Very Good Condition with Dust Jacket Lot #47 (Sale Order 46 of 53) In Dust Jacket, very good condition in very good clipped dust jacket as shown. Grosset Publishing (1950)
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The Arming of Europe and the Making of the FIRST WORLD WAR by David G. Herrmann - Princeton Press Lot #48 (Sale Order 47 of 53) The Arming of Europe and the Making of the FIRST WORLD WAR by David G. Herrmann, Published by Princeton Univ (1996) very good condition. "most complete study to date of how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crises that led up to the First World War. Instead of emphasizing the naval arms race, which has been extensively studied before, Herrmann draws on documentary research in military and state archives in Germany, France, Austria, England, and Italy to show the previously unexplored effects of changes in the strength of the European armies during this period."
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ANTIQUARIAN BOOK LOT including Oration of Demosthenes (1843) & Pictures of Victorian Authors (1884) Lot #49 (Sale Order 48 of 53) Includes a "Pipe All Hands" book from the 1930's (see pic), small book with some wear - might be a gift to someone who visited someones boat. Also three volumes of Dante's Inferno, two are Purgetorio and the other is the Paradiso all from c.1900 in good condition. Not sure if complete. PEN PICTURES OF EARLIER VICTORIAN AUTHORS (1884) good condition - nice for shelf, and THE ORATION OF DEMOSTHENES on THE CROWN (1843) in fair/good condition with wear. THE HUMAN INTELLECT Psychology and the Soul by Noah Porter (1874) hardcover, good.
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Wit, Wisdom and Eloquence of Colonel R. G. Ingersoll (1885) Civil War Veteran "The Great Agnostic" Lot #50 (Sale Order 49 of 53) Wit, Wisdom and Eloquence of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Published by Rhodes & McClure, Chicago (1885) First Edition good condition. Ingersol was an American lawyer, a Civil War veteran, politician, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic".
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The Life and Times of THE CHIEF JUSTICES of the SUPREME COURT of the United States (1858) Lot #51 (Sale Order 50 of 53) Good condition, hardcover, Second Series including John Marshall, Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott (1858) large hardcover.
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DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Reminiscences (1964) First Edition Lot #52 (Sale Order 51 of 53) Large hardcover, good condition in good dust jacket. (1964) stated first edition.
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Kicking the American Football by Leroy Mills (1936) Lot #53 (Sale Order 52 of 53) Kicking the American Football. Second Edition. Leroy N. Mills, Published by Putnam's, New York (1936) good condition in fair/good condition dust jacket with wear. Owner inscription and signature.
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Persian Life and Customs: Scenes and Incidents of Travel in the Land of the Lion and the Sun (1896) Lot #54 (Sale Order 53 of 53) Persian Life and Customs: With Scenes and Incidents of Residence and Travel in the Land of the Lion and the Sun, S. G. Wilson, Published by Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, Edinburgh, Scotland (1896) good condition, ex-library with marks on inside and spine, otherwise good.
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