Lots 51 - 60

Lot #51: MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS
(1) Claude Debussy - Autographed note signed in French on his calling card. Signed on the verso, matted with a photo and Metropolitan Opera House program. (2) Maurice Ravel - envelope in Ravel's hand. Matted with a gelatin silver print of Ravel at the piano by Roger-Viollet. (3) Manuel de Falla - typed letter, signed and dated 1932. Matted with a photograph of de Falla. (4) George Antheil - autographed note, signed and dated 1946. Includes a stave of musical notation, "Over the Plains." (5) Jules Massenet - two page autographed letter, signed and dated 1898.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00 Sold at $100

Lot #52: (BLUE PRINT) HORNIG, JULIUS (EDISON, THOMAS). "CSNYI - CENTRAL STATION LOCATED ON 257 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK CITY - MARCH 15, 1882."
New York, 1882. Size: 34 x 46 in. Blue print for the first central power plant in the U.S. Built by the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, it had an initial load of 400 lamps for 85 customers. It is a direct current generator that began generating electricity on 9/4/1882. Julius Hornig, the chief construction engineer, and H.M. Byllesly's names are under the title. One closed tear in the upper left corner.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 Sold at $150

Lot #53: ENGRAVING REFERENCE, TWO CLASSIC TITLES
(1) Le Blanc & Brunet. "Manuel de L'Amateur D'Estampes." Paris, 1854-1889. 4 volumes (in 3). Bound in 1/2 morocco. (2) Smith, John Chaloner. "British Mezzotint Portraits being a Descriptive Catalogue ..." London (Sotheran), 1883, 4 volumes. Bound in brown cloth with paper spine label.
Estimate: $ 400.00 - $ 600.00

Lot #54: GARDENING BOOKS, GROUP OF SCARCE TITLES
(1) Lockwood, Alice "Gardens of Colony and State." New York, Scribner's, 1931. First edition, small folio, 2 volumes. (2) Leyland, "Gardens Old and New." London, volume 2 only. (3) "Landscape Annual - 1830." Octavo.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 Sold at $125

Lot #55: BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. "IL DECAMERONE."
Florence, Giunta, 1527 (1729). Small quarto. Bound in full gilt decorated 18th century vellum. A facsimile of the 1527 edition. Printed in 1729. An exact fascimile except for correction leaf numbers - 42, 101, 108. Vellum is bowed, otherwise a fine copy.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00

Lot #56: CONRAD, JOSEPH. "LORD JIM."
Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1900. First edition, octavo. Bound in original light green cloth. There is minor soiling but it is an unusually good copy.
Estimate: $ 1500.00 - $ 2000.00 Sold at $1000

Lot #57: CONRAD, JOSEPH - TWO SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS:
(1) "The Secret Agent." London, privately printed, 1923. 1 of 1000 copies signed. Half vellum in dust jacket. 2/3 of the dust jacket is off but present. (2) "Notes on My Books." London, 1921. 1 of 250 copies signed. The spine is soiled, an extra paper spine label is included.
Estimate: $ 800.00 - $ 1000.00 Sold at $450

Lot #58: EDGEWORTH, MARIA. "CASTLE RACKRENT, AN HIBERNIAN TALE."
London, J. Johnson, 1800. First edition, octavo. Bound in 1/4 calf. Spine chipped and front board detached. Includes 1/2 title. Miss Edgeworth's first novel. Some consider it to be the first novel to use a narrator; first historical novel and the first Anglo-Irish novel.
Estimate: $ 200.00 - $ 300.00 Sold at $350

Lot #59: (INSCRIBED) FROST, ROBERT. "A BOY'S WILL."
New York, Henry Holt, 1915. First American edition, second issue, octavo. Bound in blue linen cloth, spine faded. Inscribed "One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Robert Frost for Martha Leland Sherwin." The inscription is the last line of Frost's poem "Birches." The poem was first published in 1916 in "Mountain Interval." Child's bookplate on front paste down.
Estimate: $ 750.00 - $ 1000.00

Lot #60: FROST, ROBERT. "THREE POEMS."
Hanover, N.H., Baker Library Press, 1935. First edition, quarto. Bound in blue wraps with a printed paper label, spine lightly sunned. A first printing of 3 very early Frost poems. 1 of 125 copies.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00 Sold at $250