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Virginia Woolf
First Edition, Signed & Numbered  in D.J.


Signed Virginia Woolf
Number 18 of Limited Edition of 250


 


Kenneth Grahame
Wind in the Willows


Title Page by
Kenneth Grahame



1st Ed. Death in the Afternoon Hemingway


 Title Page


1st Edition Detail

 


Asher Benjamin Architects book 

 

 

LANDRY BOOK LOT LISTING    APRIL 13th - Click Here for a Printable List

REMEMBER: BOOKS & STAMPS WILL BE SOLD PROMPTLY AT 3:00PM

LOT                     TITLES


500    The Meanderings of the Matriarch   Marion Rivinus  sgd    1977
          Sketch of the History of Wyoming    Isaac Chapman    1830
          Tourists Guide to Yosemite Valley     J.M. Hutchins     1876
          Recollections of Mexico   Waddy Thompson       London 1846
          The Great West Illustrated   Henry Howe, 1872

501    Great Men and Famous Women    8 Volumes
          Voyages and Travels; 4 Volumes 1887
          Massachusetts in the Rebellion   P.C. Headley , Boston, 1866
          Life of Admiral Dewey     Murat Halstead, Chicago   1899

502     In The Forbidden Land  (Tibet)   2 Volumes  A.Henry Savage Landor    NY 1899
           Japanese Studies   H.G. Ponting   Pub. by   K. Ogawa, Tokyo, 1906.               503    Approx.  24  18th and 19th Century Leatherbound books, misc. authors
504     Box lot of late 19th and 20th C. novels, some with dustjackets, misc. authors
505     Record of an Obscure Man       Mary Spence Lowell Putnam  inscribed 1st large 
           Paper Edition.  Boston, Ticknor and Fields  1861
506     Shadows on the Rock         Willa Cather      Knopf   NY  1931
           The Old Beauty and Others      Willa Cather         Knopf  NY  1948

507     The Wind in the Willows   Kenneth Grahame    Metheun and Co, London 1908

508      Treatise on Naval Architecture       A.F.B. Creuze   Adam Black, Edinburgh 1851
            Life Saving Nantucket    Edouard Stackpole   Nantucket LiveSaving Museum,
            1972,   Together with 4 other Nautical related books

509     Decade of American Sporting Books and Prints     Derrydale Press, NY  1937
            Feathered Game from a Sporting Journal   Eugene Connett  Derrydale Press 1929

510     New and Complete Newgate Calendar. Vol 1,2,4,5  William Jackson,
            London, 1795

511     Father Goose, His Book.   Frank Baum, Illus. W.W. Denslow  Hill, Chicago, 1899

512    Death In the Afternoon.  Ernest Hemingway,  Scribner, NY 1932 with DJ

513    16 Volumes, Western Mass History inc History of Western Mass,
          2 vol.  History of Pittsfield 1734 – 1800,  History of Berkshire County 1885,  etc.

514    On Being Ill, Virginia Wolfe, Hogarth Press, 1930  Signed,, #18 of 250 together
          with   Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde, 1928 and Viva,
          E.E. Cummings, NY, 1931

515    Black Lust, Villiot, Panurge Press, NY 1931 ltd to 2000 copies & Book of
         American Negro Spirituals & Three Spirituals Earth to Heaven, Allan Crite,
         Cambridge MA, 1948, 3 copies author signed.  6 volumes total

516    8 Volumes 20th century illustrated books inc. Moby Dick illus. by Schaeffer,
          First Nantucket Tea Party, illus. by Walter Tittle 1907,  Casanovas Homecoming,
          illus by Rockwell Kent 1947, large paper edition ltd to 1499 copies, #284,
          Book of Ruth illus by Arthur Szyk,  4 others

517    The Horticultural Repository, G. Brookshaw, vol 1 Coe, London,
          1823, also inc. Introduction to Gardening, C. Marshall, first American Edition,
          Boston, 1799 with others.

518    History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay,  Lt. Gov Hutchinson, London, 1765

519    November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three,
          Wendell Berry, illus. by Ben Shahn, NY, 1964 sgd by author and illustrator,
           with Tribute to JFK, U.S. News 1960

520    Life of Stonewall Jackson,  By a Virginian…. C Richardson, NY 1863 
           reprinted form advance sheets of the Richmond Edition, also Narrative of 
           Gettysburg, 1888,  The Sun, (newspaper) NY, April 10th 1865, Lincoln print with 
           printed signature

521    Essay on the Life of Putnam,  Col David Humphreys, Hartford 1783, 
          History of  Connecticut,   Ben. Trumbull, New Haven 1797, same dated 1818,  Life
          and Character of John Paul Jones, J.H Sherburne,  Washington 1825,  Letters to
          Congress of George Washington

522    Journal of a Cruise to the Pacific Ocean,  Capt. David Porter, USS Essex  Bradford
          and Inskeep, Philadelphia, 1815 with illustrations

523    Little Journeys, Eldred Hubbard Memorial Edition, tooled covers in 14 volumes,
          1928 also with Guide Book to Little Journey signed by Hubbard, 2 other
          Roycrofters pamphlets 1926, 1927

524    Geology of Vermont, 1861, also 2 copies The Green Mountain Boys,  Boston, 1855

525    Box lot Childrens books and Poetry volumes.

526    The Faerie Queen, Edmund Spenser, with illust. 3 Vol. printed by J. Brindley,
           London 1751, together with the 2 Volume 1758 Edition, London.                    

527    A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean for Making Discoveries in the Northern 
          Hemisphere,  Captain James Cook, Illust.  4 Vol.  New York,  Tiebout and 
          O’Brien, 1796 together with Journal of Researches into the Natural History and
          Geology….Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Charles Darwin, NY,
          Harper Brothers, 1864.

528    The Architect, or the Practical House Carpenter, Illust. Asher Benjamin, Benj.
          Mussey and Co, Boston, 1848 together with History of the Art of Engraving, S. 
          Harding, London, 1747.

529    Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, 3rd. American Edition, M.L.
           Davis, NY, 1801,  together with The Pharmacopeia of the United States of
           America, 2nd Edition, C. Ewer, Boston, 1828.

530    Meteorological Essays in two Treatises, E. Barlow (?)  Illust. Booke, Caldecott,
           London, 1715.

531    Cynthias Revells, Sejanus, Catiline, Epicoene, 4 plays by Benjamin Jonson,  4 Vol. 
          printed by William Stansby, London, 1616.

532    The Fables of Aesop, with a Life of the Author, 112 Illust. 2 Vol. Printed for John
          Stockdale, London, 1793

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18th Century Hand Colored Botanicals

 
35 LOTS OF ESTATE BOOKS


Continental Polychrome
Book Covers. On left
Madonna and Child:
6¼"x 9¼" On Right: 6¼"x 9¼"
Middle: 'The
Annunciation:' 7"x 8"
 

Father Goose,
His Book by F. Baum 1899


 

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Journal of a Cruise,
Capt. Porter, 1815

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Preview Monday April 12th from 3 to 5 PM, and day of sale 12 Noon to 3:00PM
 
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Voyage to the Pacific, Capt. Cook 1796

 


Mass Bay Colony History,
Hutchinson

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1872 Boston & 1905 US Stamp Albums


Extensive collection of early stamps & stamp albums, including
1872 Boston Postage Album

The Postage Lots in this Auction are from the collection of Edna Buchanan, Daughter of the Postmaster in Yelm, WA

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