1. Nielsen, Kay (Illustrator): East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales From the North; New York George H. Doran, no date. Yellow cloth/red lettering, spine darkened. 204 pgs. No dustjacket. Small smudges to frontis and page 9, otherwise text and 25 tipped-in color plates in very good condition. All plates are present.
Sold for $60
2. The Picture of London for 1805; London: Richard Phillips, 1805. 432 pages with fold-out table at page 421 and fold-out map of "The Environs of London within Twelve Miles", missing one map. Leather binding, worn, with gilt on front cover and red and gilt on spine. Both boards loose. Owner's name in ink.
Sold for $50
3. Bullock, Tom: The Ideal Bartender; 1917 by Tom Bullock of the St. Louis Country Club. Red cloth cover, soiled with gilt lettering on front. Front hinge cracked, pencil marks on front ep. Pencil marks page 36, some pages dog-eared, stain on pages 11,12,30,31,32,33,34. Picture of Mr. Bullock after title page.
Sold for $90
4. Mabel: Playmates; Mary Flowers; Harry's Jack-Daw; Moonbeam; Little Freddie's School Days; Water Lilies; Sunbeam; Bonnie; Grannie's Young Days; Smiles; London: Frederick Warne & Co; NY: A.C. Armstrong & Son, no date. 10 small books in slipcase. Each illustrated with 24 pictures by George Lambert. Previous owner's name in pencil dated 1882.
Sold for $50
5. Grafton, Sue: "A" is for Alibi; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1982), FIRST EDITION. Dust jacket has small nicks at top and bottom of spine and at corners, price of $12.95. Book is dark grey with red lettering on spine, stamp on back cover. Previous owner's name on ffep.
Sold for $425
6. 1856 Yale Yearbook of Wyllys S. King (Kirkwood, MO); Embossed leather, AEG, spine detached at front cover, front signature detached, some foxing, some staining from leaves being pressed in book. Eighty-six signatures and birth dates with accompanying daguerreotype. Some portraits with hand painted insignia of famous secret Yale societies. Signatures include two Supreme Court Justices David J. Brewer and Henry B. Brown, plus President of New York Central & Hudson River RR, Chauncey DePew. Included with yearbook is photocopy of the Class of 1856 40th Reunion biographies.
Sold for $175
7. Parker, Dorothy: Not So Deep As A Well: The Collected Poems of Dorothy Parker; New York, the Viking Press, December 1, 1936. FIRST EDITION, #244 of 485 limited copies, signed by Dorothy Parker. Decorated by Valenti Angelo. Quarter bound black cloth with orange boards and white decorations on front cover, with rubbing to all edges. Ribbon marker. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Foxing on front & rear ep. Contents good.
Sold for $100
8. Pearson, Henry: Five Psalms; Brandeis University, 1969. Translated from the Masoretic text, 5 silkscreens by Pearson, limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed in sage colored clamshell case. Tissue guards.
Sold for $50
9. Dahn, Felix: Ein Kampf um Rom Historischer Roman Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig, 1914. Three Volumes, Vol. 2-400 pgs, Vol.3-488 pgs, Vol.4-488 pgs. Leather spine and corners, worn on edges, boards decoratively etched in swirl design. Folding map with color at rear of volume four, pages loose in rear of volume 4. Ribbon markers. Gilt lettering and decorations on 4 banded spine. Oak leaves end papers. Decorated edges.
Sold for $25
10. Twain, Mark: A Tramp Abroad; American Publishing Co., Ct. 1880, brown leather with gilt titles on black on a four banded spine. "Titian's Moses" frontispiece facing Twain portrait with tissue guard. 631 pages plus one-page ad for Innocents Abroad. Interior good, profusely illustrated, smudges on page 457. Previous owner's book plate, previous owner's signature in pencil. Very nice condition, possibly rebound.
Sold for $130
11. Brodhead, John Romeyn (E.B. O'Callaghan, Editor): Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York; procured in Holland, England and France; Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany, 1853-1881, 13 volumes. Brown embossed cloth with bookbinders tape in lieu of spine. Ex-library with usual stamps and card pockets. Vol. I-1856, Holland,646 pgs, 2 folding maps in text one folding map in back homemade pocket; II-1858, Holland, 770pgs; III-1853, London, 861pgs; IV-1854, London, 1192 pgs; V-1855, London, 985 pgs; VI-1855, London, 1028 pgs; VII-1856, London, 1006pgs; VIII-1857, London,817 pgs; IX-1855, Paris, 1112 pgs; X-1858, Paris, 1167 pgs; not numbered-1861, General Index, 683 pgs; XII-1877, by B. Fernow, Argus Co., Dutch & Swedish settlements on the Delaware, 669pgs, hinge broken; not numbered-1881, by B. Fernow, Settlements on the Hudson & Mohawk Rivers, 617 pgs.
Sold for $100
12. (Eliot, T. S.): Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917. Pink boards, faded, with gilt-stamped front board that has a split across the front, spine split. Some staining on pg. 14 & 15, pencil mark pg. 18, pg. 23,24,25. Emilo Luft bookplate and pencil inscription on front inside cover. Small New York Poetry Bookshop plate on rear inside cover. Pencil drawing on page 28 of reindeer.
Sold for $120
13. Pushkin, Alexander: Pushkin's Tales(title is in Russian). St. Petersburg:Dept for the Production of State Documents, (1901), 9pgs. Illustrated by Bilibin. To view cover click here BILIBIN.
Sold for $120
14. Mishima, Yukio: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea; NY: Knopf, 1965, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Red paper covered boards, dark green cloth backstrip, apple green topstain. Top corners slightly bent. Dust jacket with a touch of wear to spine ends. Translated from the Japanese by John Nathan.
Sold for $130
15. Dreisewerd, Edna: The Catcher Was a Lady; Hicksville, N.Y.: Exposition Press, 1978, FIRST EDITION. Signed by Edna and Clem Dreisewerd on front endpaper. Green cloth with gilt lettering. About the farm boy from Missouri who made it to the World's Series. Photographic reproductions and cartoons. No dust jacket.
Sold for $70
16. Grayson, Charles: The Sportsman's Hornbook; New York: Random House, 1933. One of 500 copies printed by James I. Haynes, designed by Ward Ritchie, bound by Eunice Murray, decorations by Edward Smythe. Beige buckram boards with gilt stamped leather spine with raised bands, slightly rubbed. Selections include Henry Van Dyke on fishing, Virgil on boxing, Chaucer on the hunt and Christopher Morley on swimming. Bookseller's sticker in front, uncut pages.
Sold for $90
17. St. Louis Postcard Album; c. 1902-1915. 187 postcards. Highland, Ill.: 9 postcards, including Latzer homestead, founder of Pet Milk. University of Ill.: 9 postcards. Minne Wonka Lodge: 3 postcards. St. Louis: Forest Park, Benton Park, Lafayette Park, Eads Bridge, Flood of 1903; Central High School, 1912; Compton Heights Water Tower; Fountain, Hyde Park; Group of Sky Scrapers, 1908; Shaw's Garden, 13 postcards; Tower Grove Park; St. Louis U; Washington U; City Hall; Churches; Soldan High; 1915 Famous Barr Co. - The largest building in the world; World's Fair, 1904, 24 postcards.
Sold for $375
18. Wright, R. R., Jr.: The Negro in Pennsylvania: A Study in Economic History; (Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern). A Thesis Submitted to the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Ph.D. Tan wraps, back cover missing. Bottom corners dog-eared. Two inches of spine missing at top, one inch missing at bottom. Inside pages are intact, 250 pages. "Compliments of Miss Alice Lachmund, Nov. 7, 1967" after contents page. Stain on foreedge.
Sold for $90
19. Sandoz, Mari: Cheyenne Autumn; New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1953). Inscribed by author to Helen and Edwin Baer with landscape sketch at end. 282 pages with dust jacket that is faded, chipped, and torn at top of spine with price of $4.50. Decorative endpapers, book is orange cloth. No printing edition stated. Folding map in back redrawn by H. Lawrence Hoffman from original by author.
Sold for $120
20. Grimaldi, Stacey: The Toilet; third edition, 1823, London, sold by R. Ackermann, Strand, et.al. Nine hand-colored engraved plates by William Grimaldi each with a moveable flap, no tissue guards present. Uncolored engraved frontispiece. Ornamental frames on worded pages. Leather with gilt frame on front and back cover, four thick, raised bands on spine.
Sold for $375
21. Lenin; Ogiz State Publishing House of Political Literature, 1939. Spine detached, cover scratched. Text is English, but many of the tip-ins are Russian. One tip-in is loose. Photos, contents very unique.
Sold for $375
22. Johnson, Ralph P.: The Steam Locomotive Its Theory, Operation and Economics Including Comparisons with Diesel-Electric Locomotives; Simmons-Boardman Publishing, New York, (1942,1944), second edition. Inscribed "Marcus Jackson with compliments of Ralph P. Johnson Jan. 21, 1947. DJ has several tears and 1/3 of spine is missing. Green cloth boards, 2 pull-out tables & 2 pull-out drawings, rear pocket has 4 engineering drawings.
Sold for $70
23. Rouseau, G. G.: Del Contratto Sociale, Ossia Principi del Diritto Politico; Venezia Dalla Tipografia di Antonio Curti Presso Guistino Pasquali Q. Mario, MDCCXCVII, 207 pages. Followed by Discorso Sopra L'Economia Politica; 68 pages. Bound with leather spine and marble paste-paper covered boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, corners bent, edges rubbed.
Sold for $90
24. Stillwell, Hart: Campus Town; Popular Library 331, paperback, crease on front cover near spine, small spot, corners bumped, pages yellowed. Published April, 1951, former owner's name in blue pencil on front end paper. Cover states "She Defied Their Moral Code" with Ku Klux Klan cover art. Green paper edges.
Sold for $60
25. Barclay, Edgar: Stonehenge and Its Earth-works With Plans and Illustrations; London: D. Nutt, 1895. Grained maroon cloth with black ruled borders on covers and spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Cover is dented in numerous places with nicks to top and bottom of spine and large gouge on spine and back cover. TEG. Plan IV and VI are fold-outs. Plan V is not. 152 pgs, Index and Bibliography. Title page is missing 1 1/2 inch at top. Inscription on title page reads "Belonged to Sir Edmund Antrobus(sp?), on his death bought by Mr.Chubb of Bemerton Lodge, Salisbury, for 6600(pounds)in 1915. Mr. Chubb presented it to the nation." Book plate on inside front cover for William & Marian. Between pages 6 & 7, view VI is missing. All other illustrations listed are present. Ink inscription on page 8 reads "Since this book was pub. another trilithon fell-in the closing times of the 19th Century. Dec. 1900. Queen Victoria dies Jan. 22, 1901." Pencil marks on pg. 9, 126, 127. There is a tear on illustration "The Ramparts" on page 84, that goes through pages 85, 86, 87, 88.
Sold for $240
26. Rombauer, Irma S.: The Joy of Cooking; illustrated by Marion Rombauer, St. Louis MO: A.C. Clayton Printing Co., (1931). Spine is almost detached, white spots on front cover. Blue cover with gilt letters on front, none on spine. Hot Potato salad recipe pencil written on fep. Additional recipes on back, blank pages in ink & pencil. Previous owner's name and in black marker someone has written "First Edition of Joy of Cooking".
Sold for $90
27. Boswell, James: The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.; John Murray, Albermarle Street, London, 1835; 10 volumes, black leather spine with 5 raised bands, leather corners, navy boards, marbled endpapers, TEG. Minor chipping to spines, interior good. Previous owner's name in ink, dated 1926.
Sold for $170
28. Naipul, V. S.: The Mystic Masseur; Vanguard Press, New York, (1959). Dust jacket with chips to top and bottom of spine, rubbed on front cover. Previous owner's name and address stamped on ffep, smudge. 215 pgs. First novel by this Nobel Prize for Literature winner.
Sold for $110
29. Arnold, John P. and Penman, Frank: History of the Brewing Industry and Brewing Science in America; Chicago, Illinois: G.L. Peterson, Distributor, 1933. Hardcover, no dustjacket, limited edition, front cover stamped in gold, 252 pages, index. Discusses drink problems in colonial times to First Congress in 1789, beer brewing in colonial and early national days; advent of lager beer, breweries up to 1864, temperance organizaitons, prohibition, etc.
Sold for $90
30. Scott, Natalie V.: 200 Years of New Orleans Cooking; New York, Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931, red cloth with large white polka dots, black cloth title label on spine with gilt lettering, spine slightly discolored. Black cloth page marker embroidered with publisher's names in white lettering. Frontispiece and 16 full and 1/2 page illustrations by William Spratling. Endpapers have been written in and crossed out with red ink. Previous owners name in red ink.
Sold for $110
31. Smollett, Tobias: Travels Through France and Italy; Dublin: printed for Robert Johnston, 1766, 2 volumes, leather bound, five raised bands on spine with maroon and gilt decoration. Previous owner's name written in ink in both volumes.
Sold for $140
32. Weatherly, Fred E.: Twilight Tales; London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner, illustrated by M. Ellen Edwards, no date. Full page chromolithographs illustrate the poems, each illustrated in light brown. Rear hinge tender.
Sold for $40
33. Cain, Julien: The Lithographs of Chagall; NY: George Braziller, (1960). Mylar cover over nice dust jacket with some rubbing to edges. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Intro by Marc Chagall, notes & catalogue by Fernand Mourlot.
Sold for $180
34. Woolrich, Cornell: The Black Path of Fear; Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1944, published for the Crime Club. FIRST EDITION. Dust Jacket is heavily chipped with creases on front, large piece on back is loose. Gray boards with black lettering and design.
Sold for $170
35. Napoleon: Codice di Napoleone Il Grande pel Regno D'Italia; Milano, Dalla Reale Stamperia, 1806 (MDCCCVI), edizione originale e la sola ufficiale. Seconda Impresssione on back page. Unusual binding, vellum decorated to make it appear to be sprinkled calf, morocco look label. Page wrinkled in front, 633 pgs.
Sold for $200
36. Pushkin, Alexander: The Tale of Tsar Saltan; St. Petersburg, (1905),illustrated by Ivan Bilibin. 19 pgs. Crayon marks on pictures on pages 4, 7, 13, & 15. To view cover click here BILIBIN.
Sold for $90
37. Cody, W. F.: "Buffalo Bill" Cody photo cards; 3 photo cards & 1 flyer. Card 1: a head and shoulders studio portrait of Cody attired in cowboy hat, coat & tie by Stacy; Brooklyn, N.Y with facimile signature. Card 2: Photo of Cody(?) in mocassins with native American family of 6 on one side. Other side is 14 native Americans in full Indian dress. Card 3: Same photo as above of Cody(?) with native American family, with large blue circle stain. Other side is native American couple, card is torn. Flyer is Buffalo Bill Combination advertising Buffalo Bills new drama "Prairie Waif".
Sold for $320
38. Adams, Richard: Watership Down; New York: Macmillan, 1974, (1972); uncorrected proof. Yellow cover has spots, looks like an unread copy.
Sold for $80
39. Stevens, Warren: St. Louis The Fourth City; Deluxe Supplement, S. J. Clarke: St. Louis & Chicago. Two volumes, 1909. Leather and marbled boards, spines loose, large chip on front cover of Vol. II, TEG, uncut pages, interiors fine, tissue guards.
Sold for $150
40. Ireland, LeRoy: The Works of George Inness. An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne; University of Texas Press; Austin, London; (1965), signed by Ireland. No DJ.
Sold for $10
41. Alexandro, R. P.: Claudii Fleurii Abbatis Historia Ecclesiastica...; Impensis Josephi Wolff. 25 volumes, leather, raised bands on spine. Endpapers marbled or floral wallpaper. 1761-1791. Usque ad annum 1063-1753. 7 volumes have covers that are brittle, torn, warped or damaged (17, 32, 56, 67, 70, 73, 80). Rebound set? Volumes 14, 16, 17, 18, 22, 24, 27, 32, 34, 38, 39, 40, 44, 47, 48, 56, 59, 62, 67, 69, 70, 73, 77, 80, 81.
Sold for $140
