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Lot #1 (Sale Order 1 of 60)

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Lot #2 (Sale Order 2 of 60)

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Lot #3 (Sale Order 3 of 60)

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ANTIQUE and VINTAGE Ephemera Lot includes WW2 Jewish Prayer Book & 1860's Civil War Poem

Lot #5 (Sale Order 4 of 60)

Includes a WW2 Jewish Prayer Book, and a 1860's Soldier Poem.

A Daughter of the Samurai by Inagaki Sugimoto (1927) JAPAN

Lot #6 (Sale Order 5 of 60)

A Daughter of the Samurai. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1927. Hardcover, good condition. "Her father was a Samurai, with high ideals of what was expected of a Samurai's family. His hopes were concentrated in his son until the son refused to marry the girl for whom he was destined and ran off to America."

America's War for Humanity; Pictorial History of the World War for Liberty (1919)

Lot #7 (Sale Order 6 of 60)

Published by L. H. Walter, New York, NY, 1919. Very good condition hardcover with some slight spotting. With "The Official Story of American Operations in France," by General John J. Pershing.

Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen Years with ALEXANDER MCQUEEN (2013) FASHION

Lot #8 (Sale Order 7 of 60)

Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2012. Alexander McQueen's shows have become legends not only of fashion but also of art. Deniau was the only photographer allowed backstage by McQueen for 13 years. Her book offers an inspiring homage, through the art of photography, to the work of a great artist. Large Hardcover.

WW2 History of United States Naval Operations BOOK LOT

Lot #9 (Sale Order 8 of 60)

Five hardcovers with dust jackets as shown, very nice.

Joannis Clerici Opera Philosophica (1722)

Lot #10 (Sale Order 9 of 60)

Good- condition, some wear on the outside cover. Apud Rudolph. et Gerard. Wetstenios., 1722, Amsterdam.

Reports of the GETTYSBURG National Military Park (1905) SIGNED GIFT FROM SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE

Lot #11 (Sale Order 10 of 60)

Annual Reports of the Gettysburg National Military Park Commission to the Secretary of War 1893-1904. Published by Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1905. Mostly a photographic journal of the site. Hardcover, faded spine a bit. Inside pasted shows this was sent to Amos H. Fairbanks from Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, a American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924.

COLLECTION of Books on GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL

Lot #12 (Sale Order 11 of 60)

As shown, three hardcovers volumes, all in good condition.

Characteristics of Women (1846) by Anna Jameson - Analysis of SHAKESPEARE'S Women

Lot #13 (Sale Order 12 of 60)

Published by William D, Ticknor and Co., Boston MA, USA., 1846. Good- condition some signs of staining. This is the first attempt by a woman to analyse the characteristics of twenty-three heroines of Shakespeare's plays.

RAREST LIMITED A Book of Tales - Myths of the NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS (1901) ONE OF 105 ISSUED

Lot #14 (Sale Order 13 of 60)

Charles Erskine Scott Wood. A Book of Tales, Myths of the North American Indians, 143 pages. 12 mo, ONE OF 105 COPIES. Portland, OR: McArthur & Wood at the Attic Press, Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was an artist and radical activist who had come to know many American Indians while fighting in the Nez Perce War. His 14-year-old son William Maxwell Wood and friend Lewis McArthur began printing the book at their "Attic Press" in 1898, and finished three years later. PRINTED BY SCOTT'S SON IN HIS ATTIC - MADE ONLY 105 COPIES. IN ADDITION THIS WAS OWNED BY MOOREHEAD STORY who was an American lawyer, anti-imperial activist, and civil rights leader based in Boston, Massachusetts.

1885 SHAKESPEARE SET

Lot #15 (Sale Order 14 of 60)

This is not the complete set, eight of twelve, Boston Estes & Lauriat 1885, smaller sized hardcover.

A TEXAN looks at LYNDON (LBJ): A Study in Illegitimate Power (1964)

Lot #16 (Sale Order 15 of 60)

Mass market paperback, fair/good to good condition with some spine wear (see pic). At one point this the most successful political book of all time.

SOCIAL ETIQUETTE or Manners and Customs of Polite Society (1897)

Lot #17 (Sale Order 16 of 60)

Published by Bradley, Garretson Co., Brantford & Toronto, Ontario, 1897. Fair/Good to good condition with general wear throughout. "Embellished with superb phototype engravings."

Reineke Fuchs von Wolfgang von Goethe (1846) with 35 ANIMAL SUBJECT Steel Engravings

Lot #18 (Sale Order 17 of 60)

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. We found this 1846 edition with no spine and no covers. There are 35 steel engravings which are fantastic - look at photos. Wonderful collection for framing.

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks (1889)

Lot #19 (Sale Order 18 of 60)

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks (vol. XVI Part II, May 1889 to October 1889) good condition, illustrated, hardcover.

RARE A Day in a Child's Life by Kate Greenaway (1881) First Edition

Lot #20 (Sale Order 19 of 60)

First edition. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Music by Myles B. Foster, Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Original light green glazed pictorial boards. London, George Routledge & Sons. n.d. [1881]. Containing nine songs for voice and piano by Myles B. Foster detailing activities from a day in a child's life. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Kate Greenaway, good condition hardcover with general wear.

DOLLY MADISON The Nation's Hostess (1928) & Memoirs and Letters of DOLLY MADISON (c.1925)

Lot #21 (Sale Order 20 of 60)

Two hardcovers, the "Nation's Hostess" Book has some stains on the cover. Otherwise good condition each.

The Rebel Yell & the Yankee Hurrah: The CIVIL WAR Journal of a Maine Volunteer

Lot #22 (Sale Order 21 of 60)

Very good condition hardcover with dust jacket "John Haley was not the only soldier to record each day's events in his journal by firelight or by picket's lantern, for his was a literate generation. He was unusual in that he later painstakingly rewrote his battlefield notes, "reflecting at leisure" and adding fascinating political and personal commentary to produce the remarkable volume he calls Haley's Chronicles."

SIGNED Follow Your Dreams by 1995 RED SOX MVP MO VAUGHN

Lot #23 (Sale Order 22 of 60)

Very good condition hardcover with dust jacket, signed on title page.

RARE SIGNED The Vivid Air, Gerald and Michael Constable Maxwell, Fighter Pilots in Both World Wars

Lot #24 (Sale Order 23 of 60)

Published by William Kinber, London, 1978, hardcover very good condition with dust jacket, signed. "When Gerald Constable Maxwell was flying as a fighter pilot in World War I, his brother Michael was born. Both went on to have distinguished flying careers in World War II. This is the story of both men and how their paths crossed during the second conflict. Gerald served with distinction with 56 Squadron, one of the crack fighter units of WWI in France. Upon his return to England he became Chief Flying Instructor of No. 1 Fighter and Gunnery School at Turnberry."

Under Two Flags: The American Navy in the Civil War

Lot #25 (Sale Order 24 of 60)

Hardcover good condition, "Vividly written and well researched by a noted historian of the period, this succinct history credits the Union Navy as an essential element in the northern victory. "

RARE Memoirs of the Queens of Prussia (1858) PROFESSIONALLY BOUND with 20 Tipped in Plates

Lot #26 (Sale Order 25 of 60)

Published by W. Kent and Co, London, 1858. THIS BOOK has over 20 plates tipped into the book from 1790's to the 1820's after being PROFESSIONALLY BOUND by W. Root & Sons Binder of London (unknown date). Wonderful Book.

Art and the War at Sea: 1914-1945

Lot #27 (Sale Order 26 of 60)

Very good condition large hardcover, " This original book redresses this imbalance by being the first study to focus on the art of war in the first half of the 20th century from a distinctly naval and maritime perspective." Dimensions ?:?9.8 x 0.8 x 10.63 inches

SIGNED The Killing of KAREN SILKWOOD: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case (1981)

Lot #28 (Sale Order 27 of 60)

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1981. Good condition hardcover, with dust jacket. Signed by the author.

An American Grammar in the United States (1820)

Lot #29 (Sale Order 28 of 60)

Good condition, small hardcover as shown.

Massachusetts in the REBELLION: A Record of Historical Position of the Commonwealth (1865) CIVIL WAR

Lot #30 (Sale Order 29 of 60)

Published by Walker, Fuller and Company, Boston, 1865. Massachusetts in the Rebellion: A Record of the Historical Position of the Commonwealth and the Services of the Leading Statesmen, the Military, the Colleges and the People in the Civil War of 1861-1865.

SIGNED JANE GOODALL The Chimpanzees of Gombe

Lot #31 (Sale Order 30 of 60)

Good condition large hardcover, has bookplate/sticker inscribed and signed by Jane Goodall.

RARE Grimm's Fairy Tales (c.1920) Illustrations by ARTHUR RACKHAM

Lot #32 (Sale Order 31 of 60)

Published by William Heinemann Ltd., London. Hardcover. A beautiful and smart copy with 40 captioned tissue guarded full page color plate illustrations plus 55 black & white line drawings by Arthur Rackham.

WAR OF 1812 NEWSPAPER Boston - WAR to be DECALARED

Lot #33 (Sale Order 32 of 60)

As shown, Columbian Centinel July 15th 1812, good condition, many articles on the beginning of the War of 1812.

Cities of Northern and Central Italy (1876) Three Volume Set

Lot #34 (Sale Order 33 of 60)

Very good condition, three volume set. The first edition of Augustus Hare's travel work, taking the reader throughout Northern Italy, illustrated with beautiful engravings. A travel work exploring Northern Italy as it was in the nineteenth century.Illustrated with in-text engravings.

Scenes and Legends of The North of SCOTLAND (1852)

Lot #35 (Sale Order 34 of 60)

Published by Moore & Anderson, Cincinnati, 1852. Very good condition, lovely binding. Old Castle of the Urquharts, The Fisherman's Widow, The Quarantine, Tarbat Ness, etc.

History of England by Thomas Babington MaCaulay (c.1880) Five Volume Set

Lot #36 (Sale Order 35 of 60)

Good condition, five volumes, very good condition as shown, hardcovers.

WW1 Imperial German & Austrian Papiermark Collection

Lot #37 (Sale Order 36 of 60)

All in very good condition, as shown, small note collection. About 35 of them.

Examples of Holiness (c.1880) with Decorative Covers

Lot #38 (Sale Order 37 of 60)

As shown, very good condition, decorative covers, some page end wear, really lovely blue covers for shelf.

KEEPING THE SEAS by Captain E.R.G. Evans (1920) WW1

Lot #39 (Sale Order 38 of 60)

Published by Frederick Warne & Co, New York, N.Y., 1920. Contains portrait frontispiece, 327 pp with 15 full-page monochrome archive photographs throughout. Good general condition with general wear from age.

Over the River, or Pleasant Walks Into the Valley of Shadows and Beyond (1865)

Lot #40 (Sale Order 39 of 60)

Published by Universalist Publishing House, Boston, 1865. Good condition, hardcover. A book of consolations for the sick, the dying, and the bereaved is an unchanged.

INDIAN BOYHOOD by Charles Eastman (1902)

Lot #41 (Sale Order 40 of 60)

Good condition, hardcover as shown. 289pp featuring four illustrations including tissue protected frontis.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Accounts and Letters of the Second,Third, and Fourth Voyages - Two Volumes

Lot #42 (Sale Order 41 of 60)

Published by Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca Dello Stato, Rome, Italy, 1994. Good condition two large folio sized hardcovers. Contains also letters previously not known to exist until 1985.

The Pros and Cons of UNIVERSALISM (1842) by George Rogers

Lot #43 (Sale Order 42 of 60)

Good- condition, smaller sized hardcover with spotting.

TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson (1930) Illustrated

Lot #44 (Sale Order 43 of 60)

Good to very good condition hardcover illustrated.

A Book of Prayer for the Church (1915) & A Book of Prayer (c.1910)

Lot #45 (Sale Order 44 of 60)

Both in good condition, hardcovers as shown.

RAREST The Triumphs Of Temper. A Poem (1803) with WILLIAM BLAKE First Edition Engravings

Lot #46 (Sale Order 45 of 60)

Very rare. With 6 first edition engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Beautiful leather binding. Gorgeous smaller sized (7" tall) book in very good condition.

SIGNED Fearful Odds: A Memoir of VIETNAM and Its Aftermath

Lot #47 (Sale Order 46 of 60)

Very good condition hardcover. "Fearful Odds is a no holds barred narrative told in three parts. It is the true story of a young Army officer, groomed for command and assigned to lead a platoon on a reconnaissance mission in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam in 1968. An otherwise routine mission is complicated by the contradiction of an inept chain of command. The resulting casualties devastate the platoon and the graphic images and memories of the action and the grueling months that follow, lead Chuck Newhall to a lifetime of severe trauma, guilt, grief and anger."

The Nazi Connection by F. W. Winterbotham

Lot #48 (Sale Order 47 of 60)

Very good condition hardcover ""F.W. Winterbotham's The Ultra Secret, which described his role in the breaking and use of the top-secret German code during World War II, was a sensational best seller that made newspaper headlines."

LIMITED SIGNED The Book of Kane Wagner by Karl Edward - One of 425 Published

Lot #49 (Sale Order 48 of 60)

Published by Donald M Grant, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, U.S.A., 1985. Very good condition with slipcase. First Edition. Deluxe Limited edition, #151 of 425, signed by Wagner and Jones on the limitation page.

REDWOOD COUNTRY: The Lava Region and the Redwoods (1949)

Lot #50 (Sale Order 49 of 60)

Photographic dustwrapper, photograph taken by Ansel Adams. Good condition hardcover with dust jacket. A book about the states that have the giant redwood trees and great lava deposits on their borders Southern Oregon and northern California.

SIGNED Faith with Power: A Life Story of Quillen Hamilton Shinn (1912)

Lot #51 (Sale Order 50 of 60)

Quillen Hamilton Shinn was a Universalist minister and well-traveled missionary, is known as the "St. Paul of the Universalist Church." He has been credited with starting at least 40 churches and inspiring nearly 30 persons to enter the ministry. Signed by the author. Signed, very good condition.

ANTIQUARIAN BOOK LOT - Ten Books (1759-1880)

Lot #52 (Sale Order 51 of 60)

Collection of old antiquarian books different dates, fair to good condition, wear, as shown.

Chicago World's Fair 1933 Religious Souvenir

Lot #53 (Sale Order 52 of 60)

Small box as shown, comes with many booklets and original intro piece.

TIK-TOK of OZ by Frank L. Baum (c.1930)

Lot #54 (Sale Order 53 of 60)

Very good condition, hardcover, wonderful illustrations and covers.

KING ARTHUR by Edward Bulwer (1871)

Lot #55 (Sale Order 54 of 60)

Published by Charlton Tucker, London, 1871. Hardcover, very good condition. All edges gilt. Illustrations throughout. Marbled endpapers with leather doublure.

SIGNED BERNIE SANDERS Our Revolution

Lot #56 (Sale Order 55 of 60)

Very good condition, hardcover, signed on bookplate.

The Life and Travels of GENERAL GRANT (1879)

Lot #57 (Sale Order 56 of 60)

Very good condition. Pictorial Boards. First Edition. Octavo. Two volumes in one, 251pp., 599pp., (850) pages total. portrait frontispiece, profusely illustrated, A very nice copy bound in brown cloth decorated in gilt over beveled boards. Also comes with Civil War Antietam advertisement (see pic) that looks like a art exhibit that was showcased after the war.

ANTIQUARIAN BOOK LOT - Life of George Peabody (1870) Renaissance in Italy (c.1890)

Lot #58 (Sale Order 57 of 60)

As shown, all hardcovers, good condition.

HUNTING and FISHING by L.L. Bean (1955)

Lot #59 (Sale Order 58 of 60)

Fair/Good to good condition with some wear, illustrated.

Propagation of Wild Birds: A Manual of Applied Ornithology (1915) by Herbert K. Job

Lot #60 (Sale Order 59 of 60)

Herbert K. Job (illustrator). First Edition. Published by Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Hardcover. Good condition, hinge slightly cracked and some wear on the covers.

School ATLAS of English History (1891) & German ATLAS (1872)

Lot #61 (Sale Order 60 of 60)

Two atlases, both have wear on the covers, the German maps are very nice, as shown.


Antique & Vintage Books #364
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Antique & Vintage Books #364
by South Boston Books Event Begins: Tuesday, December 14, 10:00 PM Eastern First lots ends Sunday, December 19, 8:00 PM Eastern Last lot ends Sunday, December 19, 9:01:53 PM Eastern Great lots of antiquarian books, collectibles of all sorts, ephemera and some coins. Great collection of items! NO RESERVES - REASONABLE SHIPPING!