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Lot #1 (Sale Order 1 of 64)

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Lot #2 (Sale Order 2 of 64)

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Lot #3 (Sale Order 3 of 64)

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Pancoast's Tokology and Ladies Medical Guide (1903) with Color Illustrations

Lot #5 (Sale Order 4 of 64)

"Pancoast's Tokology and Ladies Medical Guide, A Complete Instructor in All the Delicate and Wonderful Matters Pertaining to Women" Good condition some wear. Moveable plate with cover overlays. Seventeen color plates plus black and white engravings throughout. Large thick hardcover.

Uncle Wiggily's ARABIAN NIGHTS (1917)

Lot #6 (Sale Order 5 of 64)

Published by M.A. Donohue, Chicago, 1917. Fair/Good to good condition, some fading on cover, one illustration with small tear (see pic), scarce title.

Bomber Command Continues - The Air Ministry Account Of The Rising Offensive Against Germany (1942)

Lot #7 (Sale Order 6 of 64)

Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1942. Very good condition. Softcover pamphlet, "bringing up to date the account of the bombing offensive and covers accounts of a Wellington flying back from Bremen, building the bombers, attacks on Brest, German ports and the first 1000 bomber raid on Cologne, ills include Stirling, Halifax, Boston and aerial photos of bombing"

Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac (1882) CIVIL WAR

Lot #8 (Sale Order 7 of 64)

Published by Washington DC, 1882. Very good condition hardcover. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. A Critical History of Operations in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.1861-1865.

RAREST Run to Daylight! SIGNED by VINCE LOMBARDI

Lot #28 (Sale Order 8 of 64)

Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1963. Hardcover in very good condition in fair/good dust jacket. SIGNED INSIDE BY LOMBARDI.

Bound LIFE MAGAZINE 1942 with WW2 Content

Lot #29 (Sale Order 9 of 64)

The entire eight pound book is filled with articles, photographs, and advertisements from WW2. Great book.

LARGE 26"x16" 1877 Map of New York City and Brooklyn

Lot #30 (Sale Order 10 of 64)

As shown, very good condition. Lovely map ready for framing.

SCARCE The Wooing of a Fairy (1897) by Gertrude Warren

Lot #31 (Sale Order 11 of 64)

London Hurst & Blackett (1897) good general condition as shown. Could not find one copy online anywhere - maybe you can.

RARE SIGNED View From The Summit by Sir Edmund Hillary - COA - FIRST ON TOP OF EVEREST

Lot #32 (Sale Order 12 of 64)

Published by Easton Press, 2002. Full-Leather. Condition: Very good condition, (there is a sticker that stuck to the book I didn't see - I will remove it I didn't see it when I took the photo). COMES with signed COA so you get two signatures. , Gilt lettering and decorated covers, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers, silk marker

ANTIQUATIAN BOOK LOT - 1860's Bible - 1850's Hand Colored Floral Engravings

Lot #33 (Sale Order 13 of 64)

As shown, includes a 1860's Bible (with clasp broken), The Mimic Life (1856), Memorial of Daniel Webster (1853), Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (c.1940) and a 1850's Ladies Wreath with many floral hand-colored illustrations. This book is missing the spine.

Collection of Decorative Antiquarian Books - BOY SCOUTS - SIR WALTER SCOTT

Lot #34 (Sale Order 14 of 64)

All hardcovers in good condition. Titles shown in photos.

The Rebel of the School (1902) by L.T. Meade - Wild IRISH Girl

Lot #35 (Sale Order 15 of 64)

Good condition, nice decorative cover. "Kathleen O'Hara, a wilful, daring, yet beautiful and impulsive Irish girl, enters Great Shirley School. She becomes restive under the restraint, and converts others to her ways of thinking and acting."

Luttrell of Arran (1865) by Charles Lever

Lot #36 (Sale Order 16 of 64)

Published by London: Chapman And Hall, 1865. Excellent plates by the leading illustrator "Phiz" Hardcover, good condition. One of Irish novelist's later works, and last to be illustrated by Phiz.

What about Germany? by Louis P. Lochner - NAZI GERMANY

Lot #37 (Sale Order 17 of 64)

Good condition hardcover with dust jacket that has some wear.

RARE Annals of Philadelphia, Being a Collection of Memoirs, Anecdotes, & Incidents of City (1830)

Lot #38 (Sale Order 18 of 64)

Good condition, last three pages have burn marks (see pic) odd... hardcover, ""Intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes of manners and customs, and the city in its local changes and improvements." Very nice.

FLYING SAUCERS From Outer Space (1953) First Edition

Lot #39 (Sale Order 19 of 64)

Published by Henry Holt and Co., 1953, first edition. Good to very good condition with dust jacket. The author presents the view that there are reasons to believe that flying saucers are real. The book explains the contradictions presented by some and the hope that it will help prepare for "the final act of the saucer drama".

Real Tales of Real Dogs by Albert Payson Terhune (1935) Great Illustrations

Lot #40 (Sale Order 20 of 64)

Published by Saalfield Publishing, Akron, Ohio, 1935. Good condition, great illustrations. 92 pages with a series of etchings by Diana Thorne.

TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA In the Years 1780, 1781 and 1782 - Two Volume Set in Slipcase (1963)

Lot #41 (Sale Order 21 of 64)

Published by University of North Carolina Press, North Carolina, 1963. A revised translation with introduction and notes by Howard C. Rice, Jr. 2 vols. (xxiv, 364; x, 365-688p.), b/w illus., original green cloth, in the original publisher's slipcase.

Around the Year in the Garden (1926) Vegetable Guide - Fruits - Flowers

Lot #42 (Sale Order 22 of 64)

VERY GOOD condition hardcover, fairly scarce not many listed on line, with photographs.

In the ONCE UPON A TIME - A Fairy Tale of Science (1913)

Lot #43 (Sale Order 23 of 64)

Published by George G. Harrap & Co., London, 1913. Good condition, hardcover. "Known for her pleasant stories about animals and nature, Gask's book here is finely, wonderfully illustrated by Patten Wilson"

RARE MRS. PETER RABBIT by Thornton W. Burgess (1919) Illustrated

Lot #44 (Sale Order 24 of 64)

Good- condition hardcover with general overall wear. Illustrations by Harrison Cady. One illustration/page has a tear.

TARGET: GERMANY The Army Air Forces' Official Story of the Bomber Command's Year over Europe (1943)

Lot #45 (Sale Order 25 of 64)

Good condition if not better. Published by Simon & Schuster, 1943.

GERMANY SURRENDERS Unconditionally; Facsimiles of the Documents (1945)

Lot #46 (Sale Order 26 of 64)

Published by U S Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1945, very good condition, softcover. This pamphlet is for the exhibit at which the German surrender documents agreed to at Luneburg, at Rheims, and at Berlin were made available for public inspection.

PUTNAM'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE of American Literature, Science, and Art. Vol. III January to June 1854

Lot #47 (Sale Order 27 of 64)

684 pages. Illustrated. The March, April and May issues contain the first appearance of the novella: The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" written by Herman Melville under the pseudonym Salvator R. Tarnmoor. The novella consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" about the Encantadas or Galapagos Islands related by an anonymous narrator. The sketches were later collected in The Piazza Tales in 1856. Good general condition as shown.

KAZAN The Story of a Great Dog (1937) Little Book

Lot #48 (Sale Order 28 of 64)

Good condition as shown, some cover wear, illustrated.

Collection of 1950's and 1960's PEANUTS BOOKS

Lot #49 (Sale Order 29 of 64)

As shown, all in good to very good condition. Paperbacks.

DAN DUNN Secret Operative (1937) LITTLE BOOK (1937)

Lot #50 (Sale Order 30 of 64)

Good condition, some slight cover wear as shown.

Vintage LIONEL TRAINS Catalog

Lot #51 (Sale Order 31 of 64)

As shown, some page wear, unknown date somewhere 1950's to early 1960's.

Navajo Shepherd and Weaver by Gladys A. Reichard

Lot #52 (Sale Order 32 of 64)

Very good condition hardcover as shown. 222 pages. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings.

Count of Monte-Christo (1914) by Alexander Dumas - Three Volume Set

Lot #53 (Sale Order 33 of 64)

As shown, hardcovers, good condition.

The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin (1913)

Lot #54 (Sale Order 34 of 64)

Published by Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1889. Hardcover, good condition if not better. Small sized.

JEFFERSON DAVIS and His Cabinet (1944) Louisiana State Press

Lot #55 (Sale Order 35 of 64)

Published by Louisiana State Univ Press, Baton Rouge, La, 1944. Good condition with good dust jacket.

JEFFERSON DAVIS - Tragic Hero 1864-1889

Lot #56 (Sale Order 36 of 64)

Good condition in hardcover with good dust jacket.

Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by JEFFERSON DAVIS (1958) Two Volume Set in Slipcase

Lot #57 (Sale Order 37 of 64)

Very good condition as shown, hardcovers, some scratching on the slipcase else as shown.

Collection of EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Paperbacks 1950's to 1970's

Lot #58 (Sale Order 38 of 64)

Great collection of paperbacks, everything in these photos will be included. 28 total.

Baedeker's United States (1904) with 25 Maps and 35 City Plans

Lot #59 (Sale Order 39 of 64)

(4 1/4" x 6 1/2"), red cloth with 25 maps and 35 city plans. Detailed descriptions of US cities and landmarks at the turn of the last century,. Popular subject of the Bardeker's series, very nice.

Three CHARLES DICKENS BOOKS (c.1900) with Decorative Bindings

Lot #60 (Sale Order 40 of 64)

As shown, three hardcover volumes. Dana Estes & Company (c.1900)

Complete Works of Moliere and Theatre Complet de J. Racine (1870) with Hand Colored Costume Plates

Lot #61 (Sale Order 41 of 64)

Three volumes very good, in French, GREAT color plates (see pic). Jean Racine was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.

To California by Covered Wagon (1955) with Dust Jacket

Lot #62 (Sale Order 42 of 64)

Very good condition, hardcover with dust jacket.

RUSSIA and TURKEY in the Nineteenth Century (1894)

Lot #63 (Sale Order 43 of 64)

Published by A.C. McClurg, Chicago, 1894

FILE NO. 114 by Emile Gaboriau (1886) French Detective Series

Lot #64 (Sale Order 44 of 64)

Gladstone Series - Gaboriau's Sensational Novels - File No. 114 from the French of Emile Gaboriau. Published by Syndicate Trading Company. Good condition hardcover with slight browning of pages.

THE MASTER by Mary A. Denison (1862)

Lot #81 (Sale Order 45 of 64)

Good condition hardcover. An aging music teacher and his depressed wife, a former singer who has lost her voice, take on two young girls for lodgers, very different in character.

Princesses and Court Ladies (1906) by Arvede Barine

Lot #82 (Sale Order 46 of 64)

Good condition hardcover as shown.

The Forging of the Anchor. A Poem (1883)

Lot #83 (Sale Order 47 of 64)

Published by Cassell & Company, London, 1883. Bound dramatic Victorian poem illustrated with engravings. Good to Very good condition.

Modern Priscilla Home Furnishing Book (c.1925)

Lot #84 (Sale Order 48 of 64)

Very good condition hardcover as shown.

The Charm of a Well Mannered Home (1923) by Helen Ekin Starrett

Lot #85 (Sale Order 49 of 64)

Published by J. B. Lippincott, 1923. Hardcover very good condition. "promoting an harmonious household in the Christian spirit. Starrett was a suffragist and educator who founded the Kenwood Institute and Mrs. Starrett's Classical School for Girls both in Chicago. "

SIGNED Heusinger of the Fourth Reich (1963) General Adolf Heusinger

Lot #86 (Sale Order 50 of 64)

Good condition, signed, Adolf Heusinger was a German military officer whose career spanned the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and West Germany.

COMANCHES: The Destruction of a People (1974)

Lot #87 (Sale Order 51 of 64)

Published by Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1974. Hardcover, good condition with dust jacket. The photo looks as if it is softcover - it is not. " A classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, stunning orators, disciplined warriors, and the finest makers of arrows, Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise."

Red Horse Hill by Stephen W. Meader (1957)

Lot #88 (Sale Order 52 of 64)

Very good condition with dust jacket. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1957 . Popular book.

EVANGELINE: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1895)

Lot #89 (Sale Order 53 of 64)

Published by Smith-Andrews Publishing Co., Chicago, 1895, good condition hardcover.

THE PETERKIN PAPERS by Lucretia P. Hale (1887)

Lot #90 (Sale Order 54 of 64)

As shown, good condition with some cover wear. Published by Ticknor and Co., Boston, 1887. Illustrated Edition.

Intellectual Arithmetic upon the Inductive Method (c.1820) Early American School Book

Lot #91 (Sale Order 55 of 64)

As shown, smaller sized hardcover, Boston William J. Reynolds (1820)

Two Copies of La Vie Parisienne (1924) French Art Nouveau and Art Deco illustrated Magazine

Lot #92 (Sale Order 56 of 64)

Both in good condition as shown, very nice.

The Bigelow Papers by James Russell Lowell (1896)

Lot #93 (Sale Order 57 of 64)

Published by Henry Altemus, Philadelphia, 1899. 16mo. Decorative paper-covered boards; decorated cloth spine; rubbing wear to edges of covers; some darkening to covers.

The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier (1871) & Adventures of Don Quixote (c.1890)

Lot #94 (Sale Order 58 of 64)

As shown both nice for shelf, hardcovers, some cover wear. Nice for shelf.

COLLECTION of Books by James Fenimore Cooper (c.1920)

Lot #95 (Sale Order 59 of 64)

As shown, all very good condition hardcovers.

U.S. Army Weapons 1784-1791 by William H. Guthman

Lot #96 (Sale Order 60 of 64)

Published by The American Society of Arms Collectors, 1975. Very good condition with wraps. A comprehensive survey w/ text of U.S. military weapons in the post revolutionary period (1784-1791). Contents include: Revolutionary War surplus; Repairs; Other weapons & repairs; Swords; Tomahawks: Tools; Notes; Illustrations.

The Karl F. Moldenhauer Collection of Remington Arms (1980)

Lot #97 (Sale Order 61 of 64)

Auction hardcover catalog in slipcase as shown. Published by Richard A. Bourne Co., Inc. Very good condition with many photographs.

MOUNT ETNA: The Anatomy of a Volcano (1985)

Lot #98 (Sale Order 62 of 64)

Published by Chapman and Hall, United Kingdom, 1985. Very good condition hardcover. "a principal aim of this book to synthesize the knowledge of Etna, especially information derived results of these many different studies into a more during the 1971 flank eruption, and also to point complete understanding of the volcano."

Practical Cooking and Serving (1914)

Lot #99 (Sale Order 63 of 64)

Fair/Good condition hardcover as shown.

THE MYSTICS (1904) by Katherine Cecil Thurston

Lot #100 (Sale Order 64 of 64)

Good condition, hardcover, nice cover. Thurston's novels achieved success in both Britain and the United States. Her best-known work was a political thriller entitled John Chilcote, M.P. (as The Masquerader in the United States), published in 1904 and on the New York Times bestseller list for two years. Her career was cut short at the age of 36 when she was found dead in her hotel room in Cork.


Antique & Vintage Books #372 MEMORIAL DAY
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Antique & Vintage Books #372 MEMORIAL DAY
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