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Lot #2 (Sale Order 2 of 67)

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Lot #3 (Sale Order 3 of 67)

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They Fought For The Union (1988)

Lot #5 (Sale Order 4 of 67)

Published by Random House Value Publishing, 1988. Very good condition large hardcover. "A Complete Reference Work on the Federal Fighting Man," notes the front jacket panel.

German Panzer Markings: From Wartime Photographs

Lot #6 (Sale Order 5 of 67)

Published by Crowood Press, 2007. Hardcover. Very good condition.

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (1926)

Lot #7 (Sale Order 6 of 67)

Published by Scribner's, 1926. Good. 8vo in olive leatherette.

The Scottish Chiefs (1923) by Jane Porter - Illustrations by N.C. WYETH

Lot #13 (Sale Order 7 of 67)

Published by Charles Scribner's & Sons, New York, 1923. Hardcover, very good condition, large inscription.

Exploring Space With A Camera NASA (1968) NEVER OPENED

Lot #14 (Sale Order 8 of 67)

This book was never taken out of the box! Published by National Aeronautics and Space Adm, Washington, DC, 1968. "A selection of NASA photographs taken during the first decade of space exploration: a photographic view of American space progress through Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, with the moon landing and many earth-views."

The Second World War by Winston Churchill (1984) SIX VOLUME SET

Lot #15 (Sale Order 9 of 67)

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company,, Boston:, 1983. Hardcover. Chartwell Edition. All six volumes are in very good condition in recent 1/2 blue leather and light tan cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a recessed paper label on the front boards. The end papers are decorated with maps of Europe and the Pacific theater.

LARGE COLLECTION of Small Antiquarian Books

Lot #16 (Sale Order 10 of 67)

This was added last second so all I can show you is the photos but many books from 1815 to 1850's all smaller sized in fair/good to good condition.

Make the Kaiser Dance (1978) SIGNED BY AUTHOR - With Additional WW2 Book

Lot #17 (Sale Order 11 of 67)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Signed by author with inscription. Also comes with Silent Victory as shown.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN BOUND January to June 1860

Lot #18 (Sale Order 12 of 67)

As shown, large oversized hardcover filled with illustrations and news.

RARE BOUND 1883 VANITY FAIR with 100 10"x15" Lithographs

Lot #19 (Sale Order 13 of 67)

Bound volume of 100 lithographs from Vanity Fair 1883. This volume only has the lithographs. Online these lithographs range from $30 to $100+ each. I wish I could show more - all the lithographs are in good to very good condition - little spotting if any. A few are horse racing related. Great for a reseller - or a collector.

The Boy Travellers in Mexico (1889)

Lot #20 (Sale Order 14 of 67)

Published by Harper & Brothers, [c.1889] 1890., New York:, 1889. Thomas Knox (1835-1896), famed Civil War correspondent for the New York Herald, later worked for the Russo-American Telegraph Company, which inspired his Boy Travellers series featuring and industrialist father and two sons traveling the world.

RARE Negro Makers of History (1928)

Lot #21 (Sale Order 15 of 67)

Published by Associated Publishers, Washington DC, 1928. Very good condition hardcover. Original publisher's binding of light brown cloth, vignette of a Colonial battle on upper cover depicting a firing squad which includes a fallen African-American.

On the Way: Narrative of the Two-thirtieth Field Artillery Battalion (1945) WW2 with PHOTO & MORE

Lot #22 (Sale Order 16 of 67)

As shown, hardcover comes with platoon photo, also comes with "Army Life" softcover from 1943.

THOREAU: His Life and Aims. A Study (1877)

Lot #23 (Sale Order 17 of 67)

Published by James R. Osgood & Company, Boston, 1877. Good condition small hardcover.

An American Primer By Walt Whitman: Facsimiles of Original Manuscript (1904) LIMITED TO 500 COPIES

Lot #24 (Sale Order 18 of 67)

Published by Small, Maynard & Company, Boston, 1904. Good to Very good condition. This first edition limited to 500 copies.

Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada (1904) LIMITED TO 500 COPIES

Lot #25 (Sale Order 19 of 67)

Published by Small, Maynard & Company, Boston, 1904. Good to Very good condition. Frontispiece portrait. Bound in black boards with white spine and corners. This first edition limited to 500 copies.

Whittier-Land A Handbook of Essex: Containing Anecdotes and Poems By John Greenleaf Whittier (1904)

Lot #26 (Sale Order 20 of 67)

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1904. Signed by Pickard, very good condition with some spotting.

The Cope by Gertrude Bone (1930) The Medici Society

Lot #27 (Sale Order 21 of 67)

Published by The Medici Society, London, 1930.Gertrude Bone, illustrated by her son Stephen Bone. Very good condition.

MAINE: A Collection of Writing and Images (1981) Puissant Press Limited Edition - With SIGNED PRINT

Lot #28 (Sale Order 22 of 67)

Very good condition, collection of poetry and art. Some pieces are numbered - and all under 100. Comes with signed print as well called "Sea Cove Shore" numbered 9/30.

FAMILY PETS (c.1890) Children's Book

Lot #29 (Sale Order 23 of 67)

Hardcover, good general condition with some cover wear and browning pages, illustrated.

RARE La Eloquencia del Silencio (1738)

Lot #30 (Sale Order 24 of 67)

Madrid, Diego Miguel de Peralta, 1738, 1 plate engraved by Palomino. Two-color cover. Parchment binding of the time. First edition of this important book dedicated to the life of San Juan Nepomuceno, written by the Mexican Jesuit Miguel Reyna de Zevallos

Whitman, the Poet-Liberator of Woman (1905) Limited to 500

Lot #31 (Sale Order 25 of 67)

Limited to 500, signed and published by the author (1905). Good+ condition as shown, hardcover.

RAREST The Wound Dresser: Letters From Washington - War of the Rebellion (1898) LIMITED TO 60!

Lot #32 (Sale Order 26 of 67)

Boston: Small, Maynard, & Company, 1898. First edition, first issue, of Walt Whitman's wartime correspondence, one of sixty copies with tissue-guarded illustrations printed on Japan paper and a facsimile letter, signed by the editor. Good condition, stain on inside cover. Outside the wards, Whitman reports a sighting of Abraham Lincoln: "I had a good view of the President last evening. He looks more careworn even than usual, his face with deep cut lines, seams, and his complexion gray through very dark skin - a curious looking man, very sad. I said to a lady who was looking with me, 'Who can see that man without losing all wish to be sharp upon him personally?'"

The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1874) by Francis Parkman

Lot #33 (Sale Order 27 of 67)

Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1874. Very good condition hardcover.

The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866) by J. Holland

Lot #34 (Sale Order 28 of 67)

Fair/Good to good condition with overall wear. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Page 1 rendering of the bust of Lincoln with tissue guard. Other drawings with tissue guards as well. Published by Gurdon Bill, Springfield, MA: 1866

Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman (1928)

Lot #35 (Sale Order 29 of 67)

Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1928. Good condition, some spotting, hardcover. "An evaluation of the relationship between Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln, and the truthfulness of Whitman's writings on Lincoln."

The Luther Bible of 1534, Complete Reprint, Biblia (2003) Large Two Volumes

Lot #36 (Sale Order 30 of 67)

As shown, very good condition, over eight pounds. Published by Köln, Taschen GmbH, 2003. Hardcover. " Martin Luther's translation of the Bible, first printed in 1534, was not only a milestone in German bookmaking, it changed the course of the world."

The History of the Reign of Philip the Third, King of Spain (1792) Two Volumes

Lot #37 (Sale Order 31 of 67)

Published by Basil: printed and sold by J.J. Tourneisen. 1792. Fair/Good to good condition, old library marks, wear on spine, as shown.

Speeches and Forensic Arguments (1843) by DANIEL WEBSTER - Three Volume Set

Lot #38 (Sale Order 32 of 67)

Hardcovers, good condition, some rubbing on spine and titles, as shown.

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887) Two Volumes

Lot #39 (Sale Order 33 of 67)

Published by D. Appleton and Co., New York, 1887. Good+ condition. Please note this was a three volume set, this is only for volume 1 and 2. As shown.

RAREST Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1860) Third Edition, First Printing

Lot #40 (Sale Order 34 of 67)

Third Edition, First Printing (Date of 1860 on title page). Good+ general condition. Published by Thayer & Eldridge, 1860. Octavo. Publisher s original brown cloth boards spine stamped in gold and tan endpapers. Illustrated frontispiece of Walt Whitman with stain (see pic). The first two editions of Leaves of Grass were self-published by Whitman. This was the first widely available edition. The publisher went bankrupt after a second printing. This is a very scarce copy in the original cloth of this landmark collection of American poetry. 456 pages.

RAREST Around the World in Eighty Days by JULES VERNE - FIRST EDITION

Lot #41 (Sale Order 35 of 67)

Edition Originale. First edition, 1st printing. True First Edition of "Around the World in Eighty Days". Good condition, front cover with cracked hinge. Hardcover as shown. Title "Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours"

Mahomet and his Successors (1850) Two Volumes by WASHINGTON IRVING

Lot #42 (Sale Order 36 of 67)

Works of Washington Irving. Vol. XIV and XV. Mahomet and his successors. 2 Vol. Both in good condition as shown. Complete two volumes out of a larger set.

Madame Chrysanthemum (1927) by Pierre Loti - LIMITED EDITION - Rebound in Leather

Lot #43 (Sale Order 37 of 67)

Published by P. Calmann-Levy, 1927. REBOUND lovely, very good condition. LOTI PIERRE. One of 2000 numbered copies.

On the Frontier With Colonel Antes : Supremacy of the Red and White Races in PA (1900)

Lot #44 (Sale Order 38 of 67)

Published by S. Chew & Sons, Camden, NJ: 1900. Good condition, some staining on cover boards. With a presentation inscription inside from the author. Limited to 1000 copies, this is un-numbered, presumably a author's copy.

LIMITED Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (1940) Limited Edition Club

Lot #45 (Sale Order 39 of 67)

Published by Members of the Limited Editions Club, Fanfare Press in London, 1940. Good condition, interior very good, with slipcase. Lithographs by Jacob Epstein. One of 1500 numbered copies.

RARE Poems By Walt Whitman. Selected and Edited By William Michael Rossetti (1868) Rebound

Lot #46 (Sale Order 40 of 67)

Published by John Camden Hotten, London, 1868. Rebound, the original covers were put inside the book at the end (see pic). First appearance of Whitman in England, no sequence established among the four binding styles noted from this edition of 1500 copies.

The Eventful History Of The Mutiny And Piratical Seizure Of HMS Bounty (1999) Folio Society

Lot #47 (Sale Order 41 of 67)

8vo., Second Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece, 15 plates on 11 and endpaper maps; pictorial boards, gilt back, a very good copy in good publisher's board slip-case.

The Letter Writer (1840) Containing a Great Deal of Letters

Lot #48 (Sale Order 42 of 67)

Good condition small hardcover as shown.

Anecdotes for Girls (1848) Narratives and Principles of Character

Lot #49 (Sale Order 43 of 67)

Good to very good condition small hardcover as shown.

History of the Thirty-Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865 (1884)

Lot #50 (Sale Order 44 of 67)

Good condition, ex-library. Published by Mills, Knight, 1884. Hardcover.

Memorial History of the 17th Massachusetts Regiment in the Civil War (1911)

Lot #51 (Sale Order 45 of 67)

Written and Compiled in part by Thomas Kirwan. Edited and Completed by Henry Splaine. Published by the Salem Press, Salem, Mass. 1911 1st edition with 403 pages, plus over 90 pages of illustrations, mostly from old photographs and some maps. Good+ condition ex-library with some signs of water damage (small).

ANDERSONVILLE (1986) by MacKinlay Kantor

Lot #52 (Sale Order 46 of 67)

Published by The Franklin Library., Franklin Center., 1986. First edition thus. Illustrated by Walter Tabor. Very good condition, 786 pps. Gilt decorated hard cover. Dark blue colored leather. All edges gilt.

RAREST November Boughs by Walt Whitman (1889) Scottish Imprint only 250 ISSUED

Lot #60 (Sale Order 47 of 67)

Paisley and London: Alexander Gardner, 1889. First edition, first printing, second issue. This volume, which includes Whitman's essay on Robert Bums, is the only Whitman edition on which Gardner's imprint appears, in which 250 were published.

1850's Daguerreotype of Soldier or Worker

Lot #61 (Sale Order 48 of 67)

As shown, 4" tall in case. PLEASE NOTE - The second photo I put in my scanner and turned up the exposure so you could see more of the photo. Some form of worker - military? police. Hard to say.

1974 Letter and Stationary SIGNED by BETTE MIDLER

Lot #62 (Sale Order 49 of 67)

As shown, still in the protector sheet from a notebook. Comes with envelope, dated 1974.

1990's RUSSIAN Occupation War Rug

Lot #63 (Sale Order 50 of 67)

As shown, NEVER USED, still wit tags, unlike many rugs online this is not U.S. occupication, this is Russian, Size is 18x32.

History of the Campaign of the Army of Virginia, Under John Pope, Brigadier-General U.S.A (1889)

Lot #64 (Sale Order 51 of 67)

Published by Houghton, Osgood and Company, Cambridge, 1889. Fair/Good to good condition, ex-library. Folded theater map of northern Va. (1862) in rear pocket.

LIMITED The Planters of the Commonwealth 1620-1640 (1930)

Lot #65 (Sale Order 52 of 67)

Published by Riverside Press, for Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1930. Good condition, one cover has some box marks on it. Limited/Numbered. "The ships which brought them ; their English homes, and the places of their settlement in Massachusetts 1620 to 1640. Excellent for Genealogical purposes."

SIGNED Putting the Rabbit Back in the Hat - BRIAN COX from SUCCESSION & MANHUNTER

Lot #66 (Sale Order 53 of 67)

As shown hardcover, very good condition, signed.

RARE The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1961) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Lot #67 (Sale Order 54 of 67)

Published by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1961. 2nd Edition. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1961 (second edition, thirteenth impression overall) No dustjacket. Hardcover, one color illustration is loose.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume LXI. June to November, 1880

Lot #68 (Sale Order 55 of 67)

Good to very good condition, hardcover. Authors include: Didier, Longfellow, Tennyson, Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Henry James.

Large Mid-Century POSTAGE STAMP ALBUM

Lot #69 (Sale Order 56 of 67)

As shown, I would say at least 30-40 pages with stamps. Hardcover.

Bob Dylan – New Morning LP (1970)

Lot #80 (Sale Order 57 of 67)

Very good condition in very good cover. Columbia – KC 30290

Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin' LP (1964)

Lot #81 (Sale Order 58 of 67)

Very good condition in very good cover. Columbia – CS 8905

The Who – It's Hard LP (1982)

Lot #82 (Sale Order 59 of 67)

Very good condition in very good cover. Warner Bros. Records – 1-23731

Steely Dan – Aja LP (1977)

Lot #83 (Sale Order 60 of 67)

Very good condition in very good cover. ABC Records – AA-1006

Abbey Road: Anniversary Edition [Super Deluxe Box Set 2CD/Blu-ray]

Lot #84 (Sale Order 61 of 67)

Very good condition as shown.

Frank Zappa – Tinsel Town Rebellion LP (1981)

Lot #85 (Sale Order 62 of 67)

Very good condition in very good cover. Epic – PW2 37336 Canada

Grateful Dead – Go To Heaven LP (1980)

Lot #86 (Sale Order 63 of 67)

Very good condition in very good cover. Arista – AL 9508

NEW SEALED Plastic Model KitMil24 Hind Helicopter 1:48

Lot #100 (Sale Order 64 of 67)

NEW SEALED AS SHOWN

NEW SEALED AMT ERTL # 8851 McDonnell Douglas AH-64A "APACHE"

Lot #101 (Sale Order 65 of 67)

As shown, SEALED, NEW

NEW SEALED Testors Italeri 1/35 Scale Katyusha Rocket Launcher Plastic Model Kit

Lot #102 (Sale Order 66 of 67)

NEW SEALED AS SHOWN

TWO COPIES - NEW SEALED MATCHBOX 1/72 PK-17 MESSERSCHMITT BF 109E

Lot #103 (Sale Order 67 of 67)

As shown, both new sealed.


Antique & Vintage Books #379
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Antique & Vintage Books #379
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