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Mencken, H.L. (1880-1956),Two Volumes:
Lot: 91Sold for: $30$30Mencken, H.L. (1880-1956),Two Volumes: In Defense of Women, Garden City: Star Books, [1922], in publisher's black cloth and dust jacket. Together with Charles Agnoff's H.L. Mencken, a Portrait more ...
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) Eight Volumes:
Lot: 92UnsoldMillay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) Eight Volumes: A Few Figs from Thistles, [1922] with added material; The Buck in the Snow, 1928; The Harp-Weaver, 1923; Huntsman, What Quarry?, 1939; Mine the more ...
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Mixed Lot, 19th and 20th Century, Seven Volumes:
Lot: 93Sold for: $30$30Mixed Lot, 19th and 20th Century, Seven Volumes: Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, New York, Scribner's, 1929, later trade edition, no dust jacket, publisher's cloth, label on front board scratched; more ...
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Mixed Lot, Five Volumes:
Lot: 95Sold for: $50$50Mixed Lot, Five Volumes: James Edward Smith's An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany, London: for Longman, Hurst, et al., 1807, contemporary half calf, with engravings; Pen more ...
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Mixed Lot, Five Volumes:
Lot: 96Sold for: $100$100Mixed Lot, Five Volumes: Steinbeck, John (1902-1968): The Moon is Down, New York: Viking, 1942, with the statement, "First published in March 1942" on the copyright page, in a clean, price clipped more ...
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Mixed Lot, Two Boxes:
Lot: 97Sold for: $200$200Mixed Lot, Two Boxes: The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo, London: Argonaut Press, 1929, edited by John Frampton, bound in half vellum and decorated yellow buckram boards; a set of more ...
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Mixed Lot, Nine Volumes:
Lot: 98Sold for: $90$90Mixed Lot, Nine Volumes: Autograph book c. 1920, Dorchester, Massachusetts High School, cloth binding; Mary Chambers' A Book of Unusual Soups, Boston: Little Brown, 1930, cloth binding; Wallpaper more ...
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Mixed Lot, Three Volumes:
Lot: 99Sold for: $275$275Mixed Lot, Three Volumes: Frederick G. Jackson's A Thousand Days in the Arctic, New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1899, pictorial cloth, illustrated, maps; Dante's The New Life, translated by more ...
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Mixed Lot, Twelve Volumes:
Lot: 100Sold for: $225$225Mixed Lot, Twelve Volumes: Wallace Steven's Mattino Domenicale ed Altre Poesie, Torino: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1954, first edition, in limp paper wraps and glassine cover; Oscar Wilde's The Ballad more ...
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Mixed Lot, Two Volumes:
Lot: 101Sold for: $100$100Mixed Lot, Two Volumes: Walton's Compleat Angler, illus. Arthur Rackham, Philadelphia, [1931], publisher's green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., no edition statement; and Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture and more ...
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Modern Firsts, Limited Editions, Four Volumes:
Lot: 102Sold for: $20$20Modern Firsts, Limited Editions, Four Volumes: Carson's Silent Spring, first printing, 1962, in dust jacket; Lindbergh's WE, 1927, first edition, in tattered dust jacket; Segal's Love Story; 1970, more ...
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Montgomery, Lucy Maud (1874-1942) Anne of Avonlea
Lot: 103Sold for: $50$50Montgomery, Lucy Maud (1874-1942) Anne of Avonlea. Boston: L.C. Page, 1909. First edition, in beige publisher's cloth with mounted portrait of Anne, rubbed, with color frontispiece, loose, some more ...
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More, Thomas (1478-1535) Utopia
Lot: 104Sold for: $50$50More, Thomas (1478-1535) Utopia. London: privately printed for the Scott-Thaw Company [Chiswick Press], 1903. Folio, limited edition numbered 113 of 200, signed by Scott Thaw, portrait more ...
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Morice, Charles (1860-1919) Paul Gauguin
Lot: 105Sold for: $100$100Morice, Charles (1860-1919) Paul Gauguin. Paris: Floury, 1919. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter blue morocco, original limp wrappers bound in, illustrated, text evenly browned. more ...
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Napoleon III (1808-1873) Autograph Note Signed, 1870.
Lot: 106Sold for: $100$100Napoleon III (1808-1873) Autograph Note Signed, 1870. Single page laid stationary with letter N surmounted by a crown, inscribed on one side. To an unnamed recipient, fulfilling a request for an more ...
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Natural History Prints, Thirty-seven.
Lot: 107Sold for: $50$50Natural History Prints, Thirty-seven. Eleven lithographs of the stalked Kaleidoscope jellyfish by Debray from Henry James Clarke's Lucernariae and their Allies, Washington: Smithsonian more ...
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Natural History, Eight Volumes:
Lot: 108Sold for: $30$30Natural History, Eight Volumes: Mathews's Fieldbook of American Wild Flowers, 1927; Davis's Geographical Essays, 1909; Agassiz's Letters and Recollections, 1913; Russell's Glaciers of North America, more ...
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Newman, John B. (fl. circa 1840) Illustrated Botany
Lot: 109UnsoldNewman, John B. (fl. circa 1840) Illustrated Botany. New York: Wellman, 1846. Octavo, first edition, volume one only, illustrated throughout with vibrantly colored lithographic plates, cloth more ...
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Newman, John B. (fl. circa 1840) Illustrated Botany
Lot: 110Sold for: $70$70Newman, John B. (fl. circa 1840) Illustrated Botany. New York: Wellman, 1846. Octavo, first edition, volume one only, illustrated throughout with vibrantly colored lithographic plates, in more ...
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Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910) Carte de Visite, Signed.
Lot: 111Sold for: $850$850Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910) Carte de Visite, Signed. Nightingale standing, facing left, holding papers in her hands, with a carved piece of furniture in the background, produced by the more ...
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O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953) The Provincetown Plays, third series
Lot: 112Sold for: $90$90O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953) The Provincetown Plays, third series. New York: Frank Shay, 1916. Includes The Two Sons by Neith Boyce; Lima Beans by Alfred Kreymborg; and Before Breakfast by O'Neill, more ...
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One Thousand Valuable Secrets in the Elegant and Useful Arts
Lot: 113Sold for: $425$425One Thousand Valuable Secrets in the Elegant and Useful Arts. Philadelphia: for Davies and Stephens, 1795. First American edition, 12mo, original sheepskin with red spine label, front board more ...
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Photographic Journals from European Tour, 1875 and 1877.
Lot: 114Sold for: $400$400Photographic Journals from European Tour, 1875 and 1877. Two separate albums compiled by Ellen Sturgis Dixey (1849-1924),of Lenox, Massachusetts, wife of Richard Cowell Dixey (1844-1914),with more ...
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Poster Art Reference, Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries: Two Volumes
Lot: 115Sold for: $40$40Poster Art Reference, Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries: Two Volumes Charles Hiatt's Picture Posters, London: George Bell and Sons, 1895, profusely illustrated, bound in publisher's pictorial more ...
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Professional Criminals of America, Forty Cards.
Lot: 116Sold for: $1,300$1,300Professional Criminals of America, Forty Cards. Each card, 4 1/4 x 2 1/4 in., has a portrait of the criminal, his or her name, any aliases, and the crimes they generally commit, the images and the more ...
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Rail Road Documents, 19th Century.
Lot: 117Sold for: $950$950Rail Road Documents, 19th Century. A collection of receipts, checks (many stamped),payroll documents, stock certificates, mostly related to rail road business, and mostly mid-19th century, with more ...
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Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) Anthem
Lot: 118Sold for: $300$300Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) Anthem. Los Angeles, California: Published by Pamphleteers, Inc., 1946. The Freeman, volume III, Number 1. Pamphlet, first edition in this form, bound in gray textured paper more ...
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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953) Cross Creek.
Lot: 119Sold for: $15$15Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953) Cross Creek. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First edition, with "A" code on copyright page, in green publisher's cloth with silver stamping, spine more ...
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Reference Books: 20th Century Design, One Box.
Lot: 120Sold for: $250$250Reference Books: 20th Century Design, One Box. Reference books and original dealers' catalogs for mid-century modern furniture, museum exhibition catalogs, and works on earlier Scandinavian more ...
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Reference Books: American Furniture, Four Volumes:
Lot: 121UnsoldReference Books: American Furniture, Four Volumes: Luke Vincent Lockwood's Colonial Furniture in America, New York: Scribner's Sons, 1913, expanded, illustrated edition, in two volumes, full more ...