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Lot #3 (Sale Order 3 of 62)

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The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War (1900)

Lot #5 (Sale Order 4 of 62)

Published by Houghton Mifflin Co, 1900. Good condition hardcover. 23 maps illustrating battle positions. Has light rubbing at spine tail and corners.

Four Anthems Adapted for Public Worship (c.1795) WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC

Lot #6 (Sale Order 5 of 62)

PLEASE READ COMPLETELY - As shown, no front cover however in the back 10 pages are HAND WRITTEN MUSIC on the back. signed and owned by "Lewis E. Walker" who was very likely Lewis E. Walker Early Photographer and Stereo Maker. He operated a book and stationery store in Warsaw for nearly 50 years which carried an extensive line of stereoscope cards. His son William was associated with him in the store which closed in 1901.

FRAMED Leaf from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 1499

Lot #7 (Sale Order 6 of 62)

As shown, very good condition, from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 1499 showing man studying on a desk. Framed in Italy.

WAR SONGS (1906) with Grant & Sherman Cover

Lot #8 (Sale Order 7 of 62)

As shown, softcover, good to very good condition.

The Pike County Ballads; Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth (1912)

Lot #9 (Sale Order 8 of 62)

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1912. Good condition hardcover. The Pike County Ballads is a compilation of six of Hay's poems originally published in 1871, including "Jim Bludso" and "Little Breeches." This edition features art by N.C. Wyeth, the illustrator known for his contributions to texts like Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe.

Singing Soldiers (The Spirit of the Sixties) CIVIL WAR

Lot #10 (Sale Order 9 of 62)

Good condition large hardcover as shown. Published by Grosset & Dunlap.

The Courtship of Miles Standish (1903)

Lot #11 (Sale Order 10 of 62)

Published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1903. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Good condition, some light spotting.

War of the Rebellion - Union & Confederate Navies (1917)

Lot #12 (Sale Order 11 of 62)

Large volume in good condition, as shown, volume from larger set. Western Waters Supply Vessels.

George Washington: Two Volume with Slipcase - Young Washington (1948)

Lot #13 (Sale Order 12 of 62)

Published by Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1948. Very good condition hardcovers in slipcase. Covers Washington's life through 1758.

ENDS OF THE EARTH by Roy Chapman Andrews (1929) HUNTING

Lot #14 (Sale Order 13 of 62)

Published by National Travel Club, New York, 1929. "Andrews (1884-1960), an explorer and naturalist, became the director of the American Museum of Natural History and brought the museum the first-known fossilized dinosaur eggs." , "The famous explorer and naturalist renders his very exciting account of travel, hunting and collecting specimens for the American Museum of Natural History. * He began in Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, Manila, a large portion of time spent in Korea. On to Japan, then to the main portion of the journey, covers whaling. Into Yunnan, the Liso tribe, Shensi & Mongolia."

Authentic WW2 NAZI Belt Buckle

Lot #15 (Sale Order 14 of 62)

As shown, good condition.

The Story of the War in South Africa. A Narrative of the Anglo-Boer War (1900)

Lot #16 (Sale Order 15 of 62)

Published by New York: Peter Fenelon Collier & Son, 1900. Good condition, some cover wear. Remington color frontis. (illustrator). Large oblong hardback, approx 11.5 x 17 inches. 208pp. Illustrated with 9 full-page color plates, including 2 colored maps, 9 sepia colored B&W photo plates, many full-page B&W plates and illustrations in text.

Dreyfus: the Prisoner of Devil's Island (1899)

Lot #17 (Sale Order 16 of 62)

Published by N.P.: Associated Publishing Company, 1899. "Captain Alfred Dreyfus was an artillery captain in the French Army who was convicted of treason in 1894 and sentenced to life confinement in a stone hut on the notorious Devil’s Island prison. He was Jewish and a victim of anti-Semitism, political intrigue, a corrupt military and false charges — and almost died from unhealthy conditions under a hot equatorial sun. In France, the story of his plight became a national scandal."

In the Woods and On the Shore (1908)

Lot #18 (Sale Order 17 of 62)

Published by LC Page, Boston, 1908. Very good condition hardcover. Large pictorial cover of a moose. Bears and moose in eastern Canada. Also upland game birds, waterfowl and even a chapter on trout fishing. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates from photographs.

ANDERSONVILLE by MacKinlay Kantor, (1976) Leather Bound FRANKLIN PRESS

Lot #37 (Sale Order 18 of 62)

Published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1976. Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine, Leather Bound, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of more fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. "Commonly known as Andersonville the Confederate military prison facility was officially named Camp Sumter and was established in Macon County, in southwest Georgia in 1864. The prison stockade designed to hold 10,000 prisoners at one time held as many as 33,000. Nearly 13,000 of the 45,000 men who entered the stockade died there. By the time it closed in early May 1865, the sanitation, health, and mortality problems stemming from its overcrowding, had earned Andersonville a reputation as the most notorious of Confederate atrocities inflicted on Union troops."

Women by Tana Kaleya (1980) Erotic Photography

Lot #38 (Sale Order 19 of 62)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First printing. About 100 pp., fully illustrated with color photos, folio size, hardcover, dustjacket. Published by Publicness, Paris, 1980. Lovely copy of this scarce book of erotic photos.

CAPTURED WOMEN by Jeff Dunas (1981) Erotic Photography

Lot #39 (Sale Order 20 of 62)

First Edition. First printing. Black buckram boards with white imprinting on spine. Many beautiful full-colored erotic images of women. Good to Very good condition with some dust jacket wear. Jeff Dunas has served as the staff photographer for Oui Magazine, Playboy, Penthouse and Viva. He has received numerous art directors awards for his work.

Catalogue: du cuir et du caoutchouc photographies André Berg (1981) Erotic Photography

Lot #40 (Sale Order 21 of 62)

Bound in pictorial boards illustrating same artwork as dustjacket. Illustrated throughout in black & white with text by Patrice Caumon. Very good condition large hardcover.

A Sportsman's Scrapbook by John C. Phillps (1928)

Lot #41 (Sale Order 22 of 62)

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1928. Good+ condition with little wear, no dust jacket. "A collection of stories of hunting ruffed grouse, ducks and geese (including stalking waterfowl at night from a punt), hunting wild sheep, reindeer in Greenland, chamois in the Alps, and a couple of chapters on trout fishing.' Hardcover.

On the Wing. A Book for Sportsmen (1869) HUNTING

Lot #42 (Sale Order 23 of 62)

Published by Boston. Fields, Osgood, & Co. 1869. Very good condition. Selection and use of guns; various kinds of shooting (woodcock, quail, grouse, snipe, waterfowl, rabbits);training hunting dogs; woodcraft. Appendices include various State game laws and list of gun-makers.

Walk on the Wild Side by Jeanette Jones (1995)

Lot #43 (Sale Order 24 of 62)

144pp. A collection of provocative photographs of cross-dressers, drag artists and transsexuals by London photographer. Very good condition, dust jacket in good condition.

Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman

Lot #44 (Sale Order 25 of 62)

Like New. This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son. Hardcover.

Ranch Under the Rimrock (1968) Central Oregon Ranch

Lot #46 (Sale Order 26 of 62)

Good condition hardcover with dust jacket. "Interesting chronicle of what it was like to be really, really wealthy and run a ranch in central Oregon in the teens and twenties by the mother of Governor Tom McCall. "

Touring Great Britain (1926) by Robert Shackleton

Lot #47 (Sale Order 27 of 62)

Published by Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1926. Very good condition. . Illustrated with photographs taken on the tour.

Beautiful Bermuda: The Standard Guide to Bermuda (1911)

Lot #48 (Sale Order 28 of 62)

Rare early travel guide to Bermuda. Fold-out color map follows text. Lots of old advertisements. Paperback (wrappers) Good to Very good condition.

RARE First Russia Then Tibet (1933) by Robert Byron

Lot #49 (Sale Order 29 of 62)

Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1933. Hardcover very good condition no dust jacket. "An old Etonian and part of the social milieu captured by Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited, Byron travelled to India in 1929 as special correspondent for the Daily Express, venturing into Tibet. The book is really two separate narratives: the first a sort of cultural tour of Soviet Russia in the 1920's; the second covering the trade route from Sikkim to Gyantse and the difficulties of gaining permission to visit Tibet."

WE: The Famous Flier's Own Story of His Life and His Transatlantic Flight CHARLES LINDBERGH

Lot #50 (Sale Order 30 of 62)

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Very good condition, hardcover, no dust jacket.

NEW SEALED - The Early Beatles LP Album

Lot #60 (Sale Order 31 of 62)

As shown, never opened.

BORN IN THE USA - Bruce Springsteen LP Album

Lot #61 (Sale Order 32 of 62)

Very good condition album in very good as well.

ELVIS PRESLEY His Hand in Mine LP ALBUM

Lot #62 (Sale Order 33 of 62)

Good+ condition cover with very good album inside.

BEATLES IV with Original Wrapping (1965)

Lot #63 (Sale Order 34 of 62)

As shown, very good condition, nice record.

The Children of DICKENS (1946) with Dust Jacket

Lot #64 (Sale Order 35 of 62)

As shown, very good condition hardcover with dust jacket in protector.

The Papers of JEFFERSON DAVIS (1971) Seven Volumes

Lot #70 (Sale Order 36 of 62)

Very good condition all with dust jacket - missing volume 3 and 9. Hardcovers, very nice. Published by Louisiana State University Press, 1971.

JEFFERSON - SIX VOLUME SET (1981) by Douglas Malone

Lot #71 (Sale Order 37 of 62)

All in very good condition as shown with dust jackets. Set Includes: Vol 1, Jefferson the Virginian, 1948 14th Printing; Vol 2, Jefferson and the Rights of Man, 1951 eight printing; Vol 3, Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty, 1962, fourth printing; Vol 4, Jefferson the President First Term, 1970, second printing, Vol 5, Jefferson the President Second Term, 1974 FIRST EDITION; Vol 6 The Sage of Monticello

RARE Wallace Wood's CANNON

Lot #72 (Sale Order 38 of 62)

Soft cover American graphic novel in English. 131 pages. 2001 edition. Oversized book. Book is in good condition. Unmarked copy, shelf wear only. Nudity. Wally Wood's work is a treat for lovers of espionage comics.

TWO Authentic ELVIS DEATH Newspapers (1977)

Lot #99 (Sale Order 39 of 62)

Has logo stating it's authentic (they printed a lot of them...) in very good condition, you get TWO.

PETER AND WENDY (1911) by J.M. Barrie FIRST EDITION

Lot #100 (Sale Order 40 of 62)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing, with the words "Published October, 1911" and the Scribner seal printed on the copyright page. Illustrated by F.D. Bedford with 11 plates. A wonderful copy of this classic children's book. 267 pages. Good to Very good condition with spotting on the cover as shown in the pictures.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (c.1930) by JULES VERNE

Lot #102 (Sale Order 41 of 62)

Good to very good condition. Hardcover, illustrated.

Spain and the Spaniards (1903) Two Volume Set

Lot #103 (Sale Order 42 of 62)

Published by Henry T. Coates, Philadelphia, 1895, Good+ to Very Good condition. Copiously and handsomely illustrated with a fold-out map and more than 45 photographs. 1st Edition. Two volumes. First American edition. Translated by Stanley Rhoads Yarnell.

ANIMAL HEROES of the Great War (1925)

Lot #104 (Sale Order 43 of 62)

Published by The Macmillan Company, NY, 1925, Ex-library otherwise good condition. Published posthumously, this is a study of the animals used by the military during World War I: horses, camels, mules, donkeys, oxen, dogs, pigeons. A history also of chemical warfare, veterinary services, humane societies.

RAREST North American Indians (1913) Eight Years Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians CATLIN

Lot #105 (Sale Order 44 of 62)

Published by Philadelphia Leary, Stuart and Company 1913. Very good condition. Amazing Set. Two volume set, ix, [3], 298 pp; xii, 303 pp, With 320 illustrations in color, carefully engraved from the author s original paintings and including 3 color maps, one is folding. a series of fifty-eight letters written while the author was among the Indians. Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839. 2 volumes.

LIMITED Gamaliel Waldo Beaman - His Life and Art

Lot #106 (Sale Order 45 of 62)

Gamaliel Waldo Beaman - His Life and Art with foreword by Diana Korzenik, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Professor Emerita and author of Drawn to Art: A Nineteenth-Century American Dream) and printed by fine arts printer, Puritan Capital of Hollis, NH. Very good condition hardcover. Comprehensive biography of his life, supplemented with over 80 exhibits and illustrations that provide insight into the period in which the artist lived and worked along with a portfolio of over 150 high resolution color images of his art work.

Poems of Childhood (1904) by Eugene Field - Illustrations by MAXFIELD PARRISH

Lot #107 (Sale Order 46 of 62)

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1904. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish with 8 luminous full-page color plates. Good condition with wear.

Quotations in Nudes (1996) by Wilhelm W. Reinke

Lot #108 (Sale Order 47 of 62)

Published by Erschienen in Kilchberg/Zurich, Switzerland bei: Ed. Stemmle im Jahre 1996. Very good condition with good dust jacket with some slight wear. "In his staged photography scenes showing figures such as Cain and Abel"

The Spirit of the Ghetto (1909) by Hutchins Hapgood

Lot #109 (Sale Order 48 of 62)

Good condition with ex-library markings. "Frontispiece with tissue guard, and more than 50 illustrations by Jacob Epstein. This view of turn-of-the-century Jewish culture in New York portrays the lives of Jewish immigrants: everyday people, intellectuals, artists, reformers, and literary figures such as Abraham Cahan, along with the stars of Yiddish theater. A pioneering ethnographic work that became one of the classics of literary journalism in the United States. "

1860 Pre-CIVIL WAR PAMPHLET - The Republic and it's Crisis

Lot #110 (Sale Order 49 of 62)

Very good condition, some slight spotting, five pages as shown.

SIGNED BARACK OBAMA The Audacity of Hope

Lot #111 (Sale Order 50 of 62)

As shown, paperback, very good condition and SIGNED

At the Back of the North Wind (1916) & Goop Encyclopedia (1920)

Lot #112 (Sale Order 51 of 62)

Both in good- to good condition with general wear as shown.

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (1997) Archive Society - Two Volumes

Lot #122 (Sale Order 52 of 62)

Published by Archive Society Publishing 1997, very good condition, fake leather, has sticker remanence on spine, otherwise nice for shelf.

COOKING Menus for Every Occasion (1927)

Lot #123 (Sale Order 53 of 62)

Published by Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1927. Very good condition hardcover. "Feeding Little Folks Without Force, Cold Meals for Hot Days, Home-Grown Meals, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Wedding, Christening, Lenten Menus, Chafing-Dish, Picnicitis, Box-Lunches, Church or Charity Affairs, Table d'Hote, Meals Men Choose, Meals Women Choose, &c. "

RARE The Complete Manual for Young SPORTSMEN (1856) HUNTING

Lot #124 (Sale Order 54 of 62)

Published by Stringer & Townsend, New York, 1856. lithographed frontis view & half-title page, and 55 text illustrations, including plate of trout flies, appendices. Good condition. Hardcover.

SIGNED The Ruffed Grouse : Life History, Propagation and Management (1947)

Lot #125 (Sale Order 55 of 62)

Published by MacMillan Company, New York, 1947. Good condition with spotting on the end pages. Signed by author.

Battles for the Union (1877) by Captain Willard Glazier CIVIL WAR

Lot #195 (Sale Order 56 of 62)

Published by Dustin, Gilman & Co., Hartford, Conn., 1877. Fair/Good to good condition, some wear on the covers and title page. As shown. "A simple school teacher from upstate New York, Willard Worchester Glazier turned his thrilling Civil War experiences into several books and went on to become a well-known author and explorer. With the onset of the Civil War, Willard enlisted in the Harris Light Cavalry, the 2nd New York Cavalry Regiment as he had a horse. He was taken as a prisoner of war on October 18, 1863, nears Buckland Mills, Virginia, and sent to Libby Prison, which was notorious for their harsh conditions."

RARE The Wild Grizzlies of Alaska (1930) by John M. Holzworth

Lot #196 (Sale Order 57 of 62)

Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930. Hardcover. 84 illustrations from photographs and a map. 417 pp. "A story of the Grizzly and Big Brown bears of Alaska, their habits, manners and characteristics, together with notes on Mountain Sheep and Caribou, collected by the author for the United States Biological Survey."

THE WHO - Tommy and Quadrophenia Live DVD

Lot #197 (Sale Order 58 of 62)

Very good condition as shown.

Dawn on OMAHA BEACH: We Were There

Lot #198 (Sale Order 59 of 62)

Very good condition paperback, "Before his death in 2009, Elisha “Ray” Nance, the last surviving officer of the “Bedford Boys” –Co. A, 116th Regiment, 29th Division—penned an account of his experiences before and after WWII. He intended to publish his book, but never achieved that dream. Now his children have published his fascinating memoir under the title “Dawn on Omaha Beach: We Were There.”

Tales of the MYSTERIOUS and MACRBE (1967)

Lot #199 (Sale Order 60 of 62)

Very good condition hardcover with dust jacket.

YANK: The Army Weekly, 1944 BOUND

Lot #200 (Sale Order 61 of 62)

As shown, fair/good to good condition, some pages are flaking a bit, but completely readable every page and cover, you must just be more careful. SO much WWII content - every page - impossible to show all, 100-200 pages.

NEW SEALED 007 DVD SET

Lot #201 (Sale Order 62 of 62)

As shown, brand new. Comes with seven of his movies as shown on the box.


Antique & Vintage Books #376
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