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Lot #1 (Sale Order 1 of 71)

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Lot #2 (Sale Order 2 of 71)

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Lot #3 (Sale Order 3 of 71)

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VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror (1974)

Lot #5 (Sale Order 4 of 71)

"In May 1939, the SS St Louis set sail from Hamburg carrying 937 German Jews seeking asylum from Nazi persecution. While the whole world watched and waited, the unfortunate travellers embarked on a strange and terrifying journey. Unknown to the captain, the ship was merely a pawn of Nazi propaganda. .."

Andersen's Fairy Tales and Grimms' Fairy Tales (1945) Two Volumes in Slipcase

Lot #6 (Sale Order 5 of 71)

Good condition if not better, some box wear to the slipcase. As shown.

Toulouse-Lautrec at the Circus: A Suite of Color Drawings (1967) FOLIO

Lot #7 (Sale Order 6 of 71)

Facsimile Reproductions from the Original Portfolio. Very good condition. Portfolio of 22 plates, all over 14" tall.

RARE The Little White Bird or Adventures In Kensington Gardens (1902) FIRST EDITION PETER PAN

Lot #8 (Sale Order 7 of 71)

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1902. First American edition. Octavo green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. Good to Very Good condition, slightly cracked hinge. The first appearance of Peter Pan.

The ARABIAN NIGHTS (c.1930) with Sixty Illustrations

Lot #9 (Sale Order 8 of 71)

Good condition with general wear on the exterior hardcover. Wonderful illustrations.

The Princess by Alfred Tennyson (1884)

Lot #10 (Sale Order 9 of 71)

Published by Houghton Mifflin and Co., Boston, Ma, 1884. Very good condition decorative hardcover.

The Achievements Of STANLEY And Other AFRICAN Explorers (1878)

Lot #11 (Sale Order 10 of 71)

Published by Hubard Bros, Philadelphia, 1878. Fair/Good to Good condition with some interior spotting, and some wear to the covers. Tall thick 8vo., orig. green cloth with pictorial gilt decoration on the spine. Detailed account on the early African explorers.

Jerusalem Delivered an Heroic Poem (1819)

Lot #12 (Sale Order 11 of 71)

Published by Suttaby, Evans & Fox, London UK, 1819. Small sized hardcover, fair/good condition only because of exterior. Illustrated.

LIMITED EDITION The Lipton Story (1950) by Alec Waugh - One of 300 COPIES

Lot #13 (Sale Order 12 of 71)

One of 300 signed by the author of a special edition. 277 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters blue morocco and cloth, t.e.g. Very good condition one of 300 signed by the author of a special edition. The slipcase has wear. "Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet, KCVO was a Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage who was a self-made man, as company founder of Lipton Tea, merchant, philanthropist and yachtsman who lost 5 straight America's Cup matches."

The LADY'S ALMANAC (1854)

Lot #14 (Sale Order 13 of 71)

Small sized in very good condition, no writing inside, wonderful little illustrated book.

Historic GIRLHOODS by Rupert Holland (1915)

Lot #15 (Sale Order 14 of 71)

Good condition, hardcover, illustrated.

CHRISTMAS EVE ON LONESOME And Other Stories (1904)

Lot #16 (Sale Order 15 of 71)

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1904. Eight full-page illustrations by Frank D. Schoonover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Original binding. Good if not better condition.

The Antique Tool Collector's Guide to Value (1985)

Lot #17 (Sale Order 16 of 71)

Good condition softcover. "This book describes, prices, and illustrates 56+ categories of antique tools! Types of tools included are: Axes, Anvils, Blacksmith, Chair Making, Chisels, Cobbler, Cooper, Knives, Drills, Farrier..."

EARLY TEXAS OIL: A Photographic History, 1866-1936

Lot #18 (Sale Order 17 of 71)

Very good condition, hardcover. "hree hundred twenty-eight contemporary photographs and historical background information provide a survey of the early days of the Texas oil industry and its impact on life within the state."

RARE ESSAYS by Matthew Arnold (1906) with Custom Binding

Lot #19 (Sale Order 18 of 71)

ARNOLD, Matthew. Essays. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. "Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold "was "'the first modern critic,' and could be called 'the critic's critic… It is in his The Function of Criticism at the Present Time [herein] that Arnold says that criticism should be a 'dissemination of ideas, a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world… " Hardcover, decorative custom binding.

Dora: The Nazi Concentration Camp Where Space Techonology Was Born and 30,000 Prisoners Died

Lot #20 (Sale Order 19 of 71)

Good condition hardcover. "A chilling first-person account of activities, death, and survival in the concentration camp where sixty thousand slave laborers built V1 and V2 rockets in subterranean caves."

DOMINATOR: The Story of the Consolidated B-32 Bomber

Lot #21 (Sale Order 20 of 71)

Very good condition, softcover, filled with photographs.

MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair

Lot #22 (Sale Order 21 of 71)

Very good condition hardcover. "The “definitive” book on the U-2 episode and its disastrous impact on the future of the Cold War (Kirkus Reviews). On May Day 1960, Soviet forces downed a CIA spy plane flown deep into Soviet territory by Francis Gary Powers two weeks before a crucial summit..."

DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ by Frank L. Baum (c.1930)

Lot #23 (Sale Order 22 of 71)

Good condition, hardcover, illustrated, some wear on the outer spine.

RARE LIMITED The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson (1957) SIGNED BY HERBERT HOOVER

Lot #24 (Sale Order 23 of 71)

Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1958. Limited edition, copy no. 399 of 500. One president records the history of another; a not so uncommon occurrence. However, in this instance, Hoover was part of his predecessor's administration.

LIMITED SIGNED For the Honour of a Hunter by A.M.D Seth-Smith (1996) HUNTING

Lot #25 (Sale Order 24 of 71)

#285 of 1,000 signed, limited edition copies. Signed by author A.M.D. (Tony) Seth-Smith on the limitation page. Additionally inscribed by the author on ffep. "Tony is one of the "hard safari men" whose lives are full of changes and charges. He lived his hunting life to the fullest; no two weeks were ever the same when on the hunting trail with him"

WILLKIE and American Unity (1940) & Up From the Streets by ALFRED E. SMITH (1928)

Lot #26 (Sale Order 25 of 71)

Both in fair/good to good condition hardcovers as shown, political themed.

The MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE (1923) by Rolland Jenkins

Lot #27 (Sale Order 26 of 71)

Very good condition, hardcover, very nice illustrations and photographs.

SIGNED SALEM INTERIORS (1950) Two Centuries of New England Taste by SAMUEL CHAMBERLAIN

Lot #28 (Sale Order 27 of 71)

Pictorial guide to houses of Salem, Mass. 1651-1849. Includes the House of Seven Gables made famous by Hawthorne.

THE MAINE WOODS (1864) by Henry David Thoreau FIRST EDITION

Lot #29 (Sale Order 28 of 71)

Published by Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864. The spine is gone however the label still exists and will be sent in the book - you could repair it if you wish. A scarce first edition of Thoreau's fourth book, published posthumously.

Antique CENTURY Cook Book (1896)

Lot #30 (Sale Order 29 of 71)

Good condition hardcover however on one side of the book, the dust jacket is basically glued to the cover (see pic). Nothing else of it remains.

The Luck of the Bodkins by P.G. WODEHOUSE (1940) with Pictorial Dust Jacket

Lot #31 (Sale Order 30 of 71)

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1940. Good condition with good dust jacket. 298 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in green cloth with dark green lettering to cover and spine in original pictorial jacket. The second novel featuring Monty Bodkin, Drone and nephew of Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, following on from Heavy Weather.

TROUT by Ray Bergman (1971) Fishing

Lot #32 (Sale Order 31 of 71)

Very good condition hardcover with dust jacket, lovely book.

Literary Landmarks of VENICE (1896)

Lot #34 (Sale Order 32 of 71)

Very good condition, hardcover. Has bookmark from Francis Richmond Allen who was a famous Boston architect. Green cloth with gilt lettering and bw decoration; 71 pp. with 16 bw illustrations; A personal tour of Venice in the unique style of literature and writing (on all subjects) as the theme, rather than the usual focus only on art.

ANTIQUARIAN BOOK LOT with Decorative Covers including Daughters of Genius (1888)

Lot #35 (Sale Order 33 of 71)

As shown, all hardcovers, all fair/good to good condition, includes Eastern Life Present & Past (1876), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1880), Fishmonger's Riddle (1929), lovely books for shelf.

TOM SWIFT SPACE BOOK COLLECTION

Lot #36 (Sale Order 34 of 71)

All from the late 1950's to 1960's hardcovers, good condition with dust jacket. One book is Tom Corbett.

Pictorial Life of GEORGE WASHINGTON: Embracing a Complete History of The Seven Year's War (1847)

Lot #37 (Sale Order 35 of 71)

Published by Charles J. Gillis, USA, 1847. A 588-page book including "upwards of one hundred engravings by Croome and Devereux". PLEASE NOTE THE SPINE IS COMPLETELY STRIPPED (see pic), we wouldn't normally list a item with this but given the title - we thought someone would want it.

Lessons in Flower and Fruit Modelling in Wax (1870) Illustrated

Lot #38 (Sale Order 36 of 71)

Published by George Routledge and Sons, London, 1870. Hardcover, good condition, some spotting. Illustrated.

Reciprocal Duties of Parents and Children (1819)

Lot #39 (Sale Order 37 of 71)

Published by Taylor and Hessey, London, 1819. Full Leather. Full Leather. Very good condition, spine label is absent.

Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (1926) illustrations by Gertrude Welling WONDERFUL

Lot #40 (Sale Order 38 of 71)

Published by J. H. Sears & Company, Inc, New York, 1926. Purple cloth over boards with a pictorial label on the front board. Welling's charming illustrations border each page of the text. Very good condition as shown. Owner signature. A highly collectible illustrated edition of Carroll's classic.

THE WAR IN KANSAS: A Rough Trip to the Boarder, Among New Homes and a Strange People (1856)

Lot #41 (Sale Order 39 of 71)

Fair/Good condition with wear throughout. Published by Derby & Jackson, 1856. "Brewerton was a correspondent of the NEW YORK HERALD. The book contains his letters to the newspaper. He was in Kansas Territory from December 1855 to January 1856. He was not a partisan, and his book is valuable because he recorded both Free-State and Pro- slavery versions of what was happening in Kansas Territory"

The REAL BOOK About SPIES (1953)

Lot #42 (Sale Order 40 of 71)

Very good condition hardcover with dust jacket.

OLD IRONSIDES the Fighting Constitution (1955)

Lot #43 (Sale Order 41 of 71)

Very good condition hardcover with good dust jacket, hardcover.

THIRTY SECONDS over TOKYO (1954)

Lot #44 (Sale Order 42 of 71)

Good condition hardcover with good dust jacket, hardcover.

The REAL BOOKS About the WILD WEST (1952)

Lot #45 (Sale Order 43 of 71)

Very good condition hardcover with dust jacket.

DECORUM A Practical Treatise on ETIQUETTE and DRESS (1880) by the BEST AMERICAN SOCIETY

Lot #46 (Sale Order 44 of 71)

Fair/Good to good condition, as shown, hardcover.

DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT; or, Lights and Shadows of NEW YORK LIFE (1895) POOR and the SLUMS

Lot #47 (Sale Order 45 of 71)

Published by The Hartford Publishing Company, 1895. Very good condition, decorative end papers; interior clean and unmarked; 740 pages. "A Pictorial Record Of Personal Experiences By Day And Night"

WOMAN; Her Position, Influence, and Achievement Throughout the Civilized World (1902)

Lot #48 (Sale Order 46 of 71)

Fair/Good condition with general wear throughout. Published by Springfield, Mass: The King-Richardson Co., 1901. Chapters include interesting entries on contemporary American figures like Emma Willard, Maria Mitchell, Clara Barton, and Helen Hunt Jackson.

Elegy Written in A Country Church-Yard (1846)

Lot #49 (Sale Order 47 of 71)

Fair/Good to good condition hardcover with some spotting as shown.

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING: A History (1931) & New York the WORLD'S FAIR CITY (1939)

Lot #50 (Sale Order 48 of 71)

Both good- condition with general wear. The Empire State is a fascinating look at the Empire State Building, printed in the year of completion. The photos include some of the original buildings that were razed, the initial ground breaking, construction, various design details, and the men who made it all possible.

Story of the MARTINIQUE DISASTER (1899) and ANNAPURNA Conquest of 26,493 Foot Peak (1953)

Lot #51 (Sale Order 49 of 71)

Both in good condition, the Martinique book has some wear, interestingly has clippings from the disaster inside! The Annapurna book has the dust jacket.

RARE Sir Douglas Haig's Command (1922) with 10 Large WW1 MAPS

Lot #52 (Sale Order 50 of 71)

Published by J.M Dent and Co, London, 1922, Very good condition. Two Volume set. Maps throughout. Volume I has 414 pages, seven fold-out maps, and a diagram showing distribution of German strength, dated 25th October, 1917. Volume II has 375 pages, seven fold-out maps and index.

Among the Poets: A Choice Selection of the Best Poems by the Best Authors (1881) Decorative

Lot #53 (Sale Order 51 of 71)

Very good condition hardcover as shown, wonderful for shelf.

1946 WORLD SERIES PROGRAM - RED SOX vs. CARDINALS

Lot #54 (Sale Order 52 of 71)

Fair/Good condition with a few tears on the cover, game is filled out with Ted Williams and Stan Musial

The WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION (1893) Portfolio of Views

Lot #55 (Sale Order 53 of 71)

Good condition hardcover with many photographs as shown.

NEW AMERICAN NAVY (1903) by John Long - VERY NICE Two Volume Set

Lot #56 (Sale Order 54 of 71)

VERY GOOD condition, two volume set by former Secretary of Navy, illustrated by drawings, Outlook Co. 1893.

Motor's TRUCK Repair Manual (1948)

Lot #59 (Sale Order 55 of 71)

Good condition interior pages, wear on the covers - from the shop.

LIMITED NUMBERED The Lost Cases of Ed London (2001) Crippen & Landru Mysteries SIGNED

Lot #60 (Sale Order 56 of 71)

As shown very good condition with dust jacket. Published by Crippen & Landru, 2001. Limited Signed Edition, being number 59 of 650. Also present is the bonus pamphlet of the first chapter of "Death Pulls A Doublecross". This pamphlet is in pristine condition. This copy is signed by the Author on the title page.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (c.1880) by Jules Verne

Lot #61 (Sale Order 57 of 71)

Fair/good to good condition as shown, some wear throughout. Nice for shelf.

J. Poindexter, Colored (1922)

Lot #63 (Sale Order 58 of 71)

Published by George H. Doran, New York, 1922. Humorous novel by a white author about Old Judge Priest's manservant Jeff, on his own and in New York.

TEMPERANCE JEWELS (c.1880) Anti-Liquor Reform Songs & Solos

Lot #64 (Sale Order 59 of 71)

Good condition small hardcover as shown.

Collection of MICHAEL CHABON Comic Books

Lot #66 (Sale Order 60 of 71)

Very good condition, as shown, five in total.

RARE Johnson's Natural History (1872) Two Volume Set Illustrated

Lot #90 (Sale Order 61 of 71)

Full title, "full title "Johnson's Natural History Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom with its Wonders and Curiosities from Man, Through all the Divisions, Classes, and Orders, to the Animalcules in a Drop of Water; Showing the Habits, Structure, and Classification of Animals, with Their Relations to Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, and the Arts" Good condition, some spotting. Includes 1550 life-like engravings in 1500 imperial octavo (quarto) pages. Two volume set.

Voluptuous Panic: The EROTIC WORLD of Weimar Berlin

Lot #91 (Sale Order 62 of 71)

Very good condition softcover. "Between 1921 and 1933, Berlin developed a reputation for debauchery unrivaled by any city before or since. Unlike European capitals like Paris, Barcelona, and Amsterdam, where brothel districts were extensive but discreet, in Berlin sexual tourism was a primary industry. On any given evening, over 600 establishments, from massage parlors to sex clubs to cabarets to private torture dungeons, promised unique sights and pleasures. Using tourist guidebooks that appeared before the Nazi period, historical memoirs, and more than 400 specialized journals and books, Mel Gordon has put together a controversial exploration of Berlin's erotic demiworld and its relationship to the rise of Nazism."

Early Photography at GETTYSBURG (1996) Large Hardcover

Lot #92 (Sale Order 63 of 71)

Very good condition, large hardcover with good dust jacket. "The long-awaited companion to Gettysburg: A Journey in Time. In the 20 years since Journey, Frassanito has uncovered many more never-before published photos of people and places significant to Gettysburg's early history as well as new information on commonly known photos, presented in a clear format."

General A.P. Hill: The Story of a CONFEDERATE WARRIOR

Lot #93 (Sale Order 64 of 71)

Very good condition hardcover. "A Confederate general who ranks with Lee, Jeb Stuart, and Stonewall Jackson but whose achievements have been unfairly neglected until now, finally receives his due in this invaluable biography by a noted historian of the Civil War. Drawing extensively on newly unearthed documents, this work provides a gripping battle-by-battle assessment of Hill's role in Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and other battles. 8 pages of photographs."

The Destructive War: William Tecumseh SHERMAN, STONEWALL JACKSON, & the Americans

Lot #94 (Sale Order 65 of 71)

Very good condition hardcover. "From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their strategies, and the feelings they inspired in their countrymen. At once an incisive dual biography, hypnotically engrossing military history, and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power."

Gone for a Soldier: The CIVIL WAR Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard

Lot #95 (Sale Order 66 of 71)

Very good condition softcover. "This memoir of the Civil War is written by a private soldier who was both an adept primitive artist and a natural writer. The document is illustrated with drawings by the author and was found in a Pennsylvania attic in 1963, along with a companion volume of letters written by the same man. ..."

Handbook for Guardians of CAMP FIRE GIRLS (1930)

Lot #96 (Sale Order 67 of 71)

Very good condition softcover as shown.

CAMP-FIRE GIRLS in the Country (1912)

Lot #97 (Sale Order 68 of 71)

Good condition, hardcover, pages slightly browning.

The OUTDOOR GIRLS Along the Coast (1913)

Lot #98 (Sale Order 69 of 71)

Good condition, hardcover, some wear on the covers, illustrated.

An Abridgment of LECTURES on RHETORIC (1823)

Lot #99 (Sale Order 70 of 71)

Good condition, some cover wear, Concord NH (1823) smaller sized hardcover.

DOMESTIC MEDICINE (1828) Prevention and Cure of Diseases

Lot #100 (Sale Order 71 of 71)

Fair/Good to good condition hardcover with cover wear. Interior pages are good with little wear.


Antique & Vintage Books #363
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Antique & Vintage Books #363
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