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Lot #4 (Sale Order 4 of 48)

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THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London (1977) Limited Edition Franklin Library

Lot #6 (Sale Order 5 of 48)

Very good condition, leather covers, gilt page ends. Franklin Library (1977), illustrated.

RARE Football and How to Watch It by Percy D. Haughton (1922)

Lot #7 (Sale Order 6 of 48)

Football and How to Watch It by Percy D. Haughton, Published by Marshall Jones Company, Boston (1922), no dust jacket.

William Pitt and the GREAT WAR by J. Holland Rose (1911)

Lot #8 (Sale Order 7 of 48)

William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland Rose, Published by London : G. Bell (1911) good condition hardcover with some slight wear on the upper spine. Biography of William Pitt set against the politics and turmoil of the years 1791 to 1806; the Irish Rebellion, and the war with France. Illustrated; 596 pages.

Our American GAME BIRDS (1941) Waterfowl HUNTING

Lot #9 (Sale Order 8 of 48)

Our American Game Birds by Van Campen Heilner, Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York (1941) large folio hardcover, very good condition, Includes all of the waterfowl (duck, goose, swan, brant, shorebirds) and game birds (snipe, woodcock, quail, the various grouse, rail, dove, turkey, pheasant, etc.,) with information on identification range, hunting, gun dogs, bird flight, etc.

THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY by Frederick Jackson Turner (1977) Limited Edition

Lot #10 (Sale Order 9 of 48)

THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY by Frederick Jackson Turner, Published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania (1977) very good condition hardcover. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. A Limited Edition, published under the auspices of The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration.; A Limited Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

SIGNED Eleven Bravo Edict (1977) VIETNAM WAR - Privately Printed by Soldier

Lot #11 (Sale Order 10 of 48)

Good condition hardcover, with dust jacket, inscribed by author. Some light spotting on back dust jacket.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine Bound Volume VI December, 1852, to May, 1853

Lot #12 (Sale Order 11 of 48)

Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume VI December, 1852, to May, 1853. Published by Harper & Brothers (1853) Good- condition with general cover wear. Contains Abbott's Napleon Bonaparte, Richard's The Landscape of the South, and Dickens' Bleak House.

The INDIANS Of CUZCO And The APURIMAC. Memoirs (1916) Numerous Photographs

Lot #13 (Sale Order 12 of 48)

The INDIANS Of CUZCO And The APURIMAC. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association, Vol. III, No. 2 by H. B. Ferris, Published by American Anthropological Association, Lancaster, PA (1916) Illustrated with numerous b/w photographs. 8vo. A study of the Anthropometric data collected by L. T. Nelson, M.D., Surgeon of the Peruvian Expedition of 1912 under the auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic Society.

The SHRINKING CIRCLE Memories of NAZI Berlin 1933-1939

Lot #14 (Sale Order 13 of 48)

Very good condition, softcover. "This autobiographical account of a young girl's life in Nazi Berlin covers the period from Hitler's rise to power through the outbreak of World War II."

BAROMETERS Anderoid and Barographs by Edwin Banfield

Lot #15 (Sale Order 14 of 48)

Very good condition, hardcover. The author traces the history of aneroid barometers, barographs, storm glasses and weather houses with the help of 130 illustrations.

Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America As Seen by the Early Explorers (1972)

Lot #16 (Sale Order 15 of 48)

Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America As Seen by the Early Explorers and Fur Traders During the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century by Erna Gunther, Published by Chicago University of Chicago Press (1972) Good condition, hardcover.

What Happened to the Children Who Fled NAZI PERSECUTION (2006)

Lot #17 (Sale Order 16 of 48)

What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution, very good condition. "The result of a four-year, in-depth study of those refugees who came as children or youths from Central Europe to the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, fleeing persecution from the National Socialist regime" Hardcover.

THE DUCK-HUNTINGEST GENTLEMEN; A Collection of Waterfowling Stories (1980)

Lot #18 (Sale Order 17 of 48)

THE DUCK-HUNTINGEST GENTLEMEN; a collection of waterfowling Stories by Russell, Keith C., and Friends. Published by Winchester Press, (1980) Over 20 short articles by Russell (averaging 3 or 4 pages each) & nearly 60 by numerous other contributors. Illustrated endpapers, frontis photo, illustrated title page, illustrated chapter heads.

EPHEMERA LOT - Letters - Billhead

Lot #19 (Sale Order 18 of 48)

Everything in photos is included. Letter from 1858, billheads from Kodak, a 1934 diplomatic letter from Bolivia.

SIGNED Baking with Julia (1996) Cook Book SIGNED BY JULIA CHILD

Lot #20 (Sale Order 19 of 48)

Large oversized hardcover, inscribed and signed inside by Julia Child.

The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (c.1880) Four Volume Set

Lot #21 (Sale Order 20 of 48)

All in very good condition, hardcovers with decorative binding. New York William Allison (c.1880)

The GREAT ARMS RACE A Comparison of U.S and SOVIET Power (1958)

Lot #22 (Sale Order 21 of 48)

Good condition, hardcover, with fair/good dust jacket.

THE WAR AND THE JEW - Holocaust and British Palestine WW2

Lot #23 (Sale Order 22 of 48)

THE WAR AND THE JEW. With A Foreword By Pierre Van Paasen And A Conclusion By Colonel John Henry Patterson, D.S.O. New Introductions By Menachem Begin And Dov Shilansky. Biography By Charles Shapiro. Jabotinsky, Zeev. Published by NY. 1987. Altalena Press/ A Chaz~Kalman Book/ Tova Press Inc. (1987) very good condition hardcover. Reprint of 1942 original, with new material added. Zionist hero and writer, Jabotinsky saw the Holocaust coming but failed in his effort to relocate the Jews of Europe to then British Palestine.

THE U-BOAT: The Evolution and Technical History of German Submarines

Lot #24 (Sale Order 23 of 48)

Good condition with some slight dust jacket wear. "It's the enthusiast's bible of U-boat history and development, with more detail and technical information than any other book on the subject. Displaying photographic coverage second to none, it has a wealth of submarine plans and profiles that illustrate every aspect of design and operation. Track the constant improvements implemented from World War I to World War II and beyond: the single-drive models, small and midget versions, the move to high submerge speed, the change to Type XXI and XXIII constructions, and production in the twilight of Nazi defeat. A Selection of the Military Book Club."

RAREST The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling Henry Fielding (1749) SIX VOLUME SET

Lot #25 (Sale Order 24 of 48)

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling Henry Fielding. Published by Printed for A. Millar, London (1749) good condition, some boards slightly loose. he first edition of Fielding's masterpiece, arguably the greatest English novel of the 18th century. Demand for Fielding's novel was so great that all 2,000 copies of the first edition were bought up by the trade before the book's publication on 28 February 1749. On the spine of each volume it states "THE FIRST ISSUE TO THE FIRST EDITION". The book is generally regarded as Fielding s greatest, and as one of the first and most influential of English novels"

Toby Tyler or TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS by James Otis (c.1920)

Lot #26 (Sale Order 25 of 48)

Hardcover, good condition, illustrated.

The Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat (1927)

Lot #27 (Sale Order 26 of 48)

Good condition, hardcover, as shown.

Japanese Wood-Block Prints: Tourist Library (1938) Booklet - COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

Lot #28 (Sale Order 27 of 48)

Japanese Wood-Block Prints: Tourist Library: 24 by S. Huzikake, Published by Board of Tourist Industry Japanese Government Railways, Japan (1938) A brief history of dynasties, styles and artists with color and b&w reproductions of famous Japanese woodblock prints. Size: 8vo.

LARGE BOUND VOLUME of 1870's Sheet Music - Many Illustrated

Lot #29 (Sale Order 28 of 48)

Large 14" bound volume of about 200 pages of sheet music - some with illustrative covers as shown. Most are dates in the 1870's. Covers with wear, however book is solid.

RARE A Midsummer-Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1908) Illustrated by ARTHUR RACKHAM

Lot #30 (Sale Order 29 of 48)

A Midsummer-Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Published by William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co, London and New York (1908) interior pages good condition, the covers are in fair/good condition.

Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942

Lot #31 (Sale Order 30 of 48)

An exhaustive, illustrated account of Operation Mars, a World War II battle between Germany and the Soviets that became a catastrophe for the latter, meticulously recounts a contest that was long kept a secret by Stalin's censors. Very good condition hardcover.

The Battle of Kursk (1999) by Johnathan House WW2

Lot #32 (Sale Order 31 of 48)

Very good condition, "Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in consequence, the Battle of Kursk witnessed (at Prokhorovka) one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses—including nearly 200,000 Soviet and 50,000 German casualties—within the first ten days of fighting. Going well beyond all previous accounts, David Glantz and Jonathan House now offer the definitive work on arguably the greatest battle of World War II."

The Boy's King Arthur (c.1925) Illustrated

Lot #33 (Sale Order 32 of 48)

Very good condition, spine faded, hardcover.

Attack of the Airacobras: SOVIET Aces, American P-39S, and the Air War Against GERMANY WW2

Lot #42 (Sale Order 33 of 48)

Very good condition hardcover. "During its titanic military struggle with Germany, the Soviet Union received a major boost with the arrival and deployment of nearly 5,000 Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter planes--courtesy of America's Lend-Lease program. The impact was dramatic, as the Soviets quickly adapted the planes into a devastatingly lethal force. Dmitriy Loza's account, admirably translated and edited by James Gebhardt, vividly re-creates the battle campaigns of this odd coupling of capitalist planes and Marxist pilots and shines a bright light on a little known part of the air war on the Eastern Front."

The German Fleet at War, 1939-1945

Lot #43 (Sale Order 34 of 48)

Very good condition, hardcover. "he German Fleet at War relates the little-known history of the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet with a focus on the sixty-nine surface naval battles fought by Germany's major warships against the large warships of the British, French, American, Polish, Soviet, Norwegian and Greek navies. It emphasizes operational details but also paints a broad overview of the naval war. The book addresses the lack of information about the specifics of naval engagements in World War II and provides a database of naval engagements for comparison and analysis, but unlike most reference works, it has a continuous narrative and a theme. The result is a unique overview of the German and Allied navies at war that provides new appreciation of their activities and accomplishments."

Collection of WW2 U.S. and GERMAN TANK Books

Lot #44 (Sale Order 35 of 48)

As shown, all softcover, all in good condition.

SPORTING GUNS by Richard Akehurst (1968)

Lot #45 (Sale Order 36 of 48)

Very good condition hardcover, dust jacket in good condition, owner signature. "This richly illustrated book by Richard Akehurst traces the development of sporting guns and fowling related to contemporary history from the sixteenth century."

De l'Allemagne. Par Mme La Baronne De Stael-Holstein (1832) TWO VOLUMES

Lot #46 (Sale Order 37 of 48)

De l'Allemagne. Par Mme La Baronne De Stael-Holstein. Nouvelle Edition precedee d'une introduction par Charles de Villers et enrichie du texte original des Morceaux traduits. Two volumes, in French, Paris Treuttel (1832) some staining, small hardovers.

Tales of Mystery & Imagination by EDGAR ALLAN POE - Weathervane Classic

Lot #47 (Sale Order 38 of 48)

Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, Published by Weathervane Books, NY (1976) Good condition, hardcover, nos dust jacket. Some of Rackham's best work presented here in a handsome Weathervane reprint.

SIGNED My Beloved World (2013) SUPREME COURT JUSTICE Sonia Sotomayor

Lot #48 (Sale Order 39 of 48)

Very good condition, hardcover, signed by Supreme Court Justice.

Story of Wah Sing Our LITTLE CHINESE FRIEND (1906)

Lot #49 (Sale Order 40 of 48)

Story of Wah Sing Our Little Chinese Friend by Helen L. Campbell, Published by Educational Publishing Company (1906) good condition small hardcover with some library markings.

The Boatman's Manual - A Complete Manual of Boat Handling, Operation, Maintenance (1951)

Lot #50 (Sale Order 41 of 48)

The Boatman's Manual - A Complete Manual of Boat Handling, Operation, Maintenance, and Seamanship by Carl D. Lane, Published by W.W. Norton, New York (1951) good condition.

The House Tells the Story: Homes of the AMERICAN PRESIDENTS

Lot #51 (Sale Order 42 of 48)

Very good condition hardcover in good dust jacket with some slight wear. "Noted artist Adam Van Doren is your guide for an excursion to the celebrated homes of fifteen American presidents, past and present. The text is personal and unaffected; Van Doren visited these homes to ensure that he recorded every detail accurately, often becoming acquainted with the former presidents themselves, always trying to portray them in the human environment they created for themselves."

The U-Boat War in the Caribbean by the Naval Institute Press

Lot #52 (Sale Order 43 of 48)

Account of WWII submarine operations in the Caribbean, Very good condition.

Attack Carrier: The Constellation Papers (1971) VIETNAM WAR Protest Pamphlet

Lot #53 (Sale Order 44 of 48)

Attack Carrier: The Constellation Papers. Watson, Will. Published by Nonviolent Action, Peoples Union, San Diego CA (1971) good condition, pamphlet with some minor wear. Vietnam War protest piece.

GERMAN WW2 Light Cruisers of World War II

Lot #54 (Sale Order 45 of 48)

Large hardcover, very good condition with some dust jacket wear.

Big Friend, Little Friend: Memoirs of a World War II Fighter Pilot

Lot #55 (Sale Order 46 of 48)

Good condition with good dust jacket in protector. Hardcover.

The Road to RUSSIA: Arctic Convoys WW2 1942

Lot #56 (Sale Order 47 of 48)

Good condition hardcover with dust jacket. "n the summer of 1942 Britain and the United States of America jointly agreed to provide massive quantities of arms and other vital war supplies to bolster Soviet Russia's struggle against Hitler's invasion. As might be expected, the bulk of these cargoes were carried in British and American merchant ships, with naval escorts."

When Mother Lets Us Help (1909) Children's Book

Lot #57 (Sale Order 48 of 48)

Good condition, children's book, small hardcover.


Antique Books & Ephemera #321
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Antique Books & Ephemera #321
by South Boston Books Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 11:20 AM Eastern First lots ends Sunday, April 5, 9:00 PM Eastern Last lot ends Sunday, April 5, 9:47 PM Eastern Great lots of antiquarian books, collectibles of all sorts, ephemera and some coins. Great collection of items! NO RESERVES - REASONABLE SHIPPING!