Lots 61 - 70
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Lot #61: FROST, ROBERT. TWO SIGNED LIMITED EDITION BOOKS.
(1) "A Further Range." New York (1936). 1 of 803 copies signed. Bound in cloth with a leather spine label. The slipcase has one small chip. (2) "A Witness Tree." New York, 1942. 1 of 735 copies signed. Bound in 1/4 cloth over floral paper boards. Includes slipcase.
Estimate: $ 1000.00 - $ 1500.00 |
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Lot #62: FROST, ROBERT - THREE TITLES
(1) "Collected Poems." New York, 1930. 1 of 1000 copies signed by Frost. (2) "A Witness Tree." New York, 1942. First trade edition in dust jacket. (3) "Collected Poems." New York, 1930. First trade edition. Bound by Riviere in fall red gilt calf. Spine darkened.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00 Sold at $400 |
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Lot #63: GILDON, CHARLES. "THE NEW METAMORPHIS; OR PLEASANT TRANSFORMATION OF THE GOLDEN ASS OF LUCIUS APULEIUS ..."
London, second edition, octavo, 2 volumes. 7 engraved plates. Bound in full brown calf. Includes new boards, one board detached. An original work of fiction. Masked as a rewriting of Apuleius' Golden Ass.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 |
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Lot #64: HUGO, VICTOR. "LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA MER."
Paris, Librairie Internationale, 1866. First edition, octavo, 3 volumes. Bound in 1/2 black morocco over marbled boards.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00 |
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Lot #65: LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. "THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH AND OTHER POEMS."
Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1858. 1st edition, first issue, duodecimo. Bound in publishers brown ribbed and embossed cloth. First issue with "Treacherous" on page 124. Publisher ads dated Oct., 1858 and the "Waverly Novels" insert leaf. Housed in a half morocco slipcase.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 |
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Lot #66: LONGFELLOW, HENRY, THREE CLASSIC TITLES
(1) "Song of Hiawatha." Boston, 1855. First edition, first issue. (2) "Courtship of Miles Standish." Boston, 1859. (3) "Tales of a Wayside Inn." Boston, 1863. Hiawatha is the first issue with "Dove" for "Dived" on p.96, line 7. Ads dated November, 1855.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 Sold at $150
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Lot #67: METASTASIA, PIETRO. "OPERE."
Paris, Herrissant, 1780-1782 & 1795. 15 volumes. Portrait and 37 engraved plates. Bound in full brown calf with heavily gilt spines. Three posthumous volumes are bound similarly but have some minor differences. Some stains to a few bindings and light internal stains. Complete works of the Italian poet and dramatist.
Estimate: $ 1000.00 - $ 1500.00 |
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Lot #68: (WILLIAM MORRIS'S COPY) "FABLES OF BIDPAI."
London, David Nutt, 1888, octavo. Frontis piece by Edward Burne-Jones. Bound in full calf with gilt spine by Zaehnsdorf. Slight spine fade. Provenance: William Morris's with his Kelmscott House bookplate. 1 of 550 copies.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 Sold at $175 |
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Lot #69: PRIOR, MATTHEW. "POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS."
London, Jacob Tonson, 1718. First edition, folio. Engraved title, frontispiece and engraved head and tail pieces. Bound in contemporary calf. The front board is detached and there are some rubs, internally fine and crisp. It includes the subscribers list.
Estimate: $ 1000.00 - $ 1500.00 |
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Lot #70: ROBERTS, KENNETH, TWO SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS
(1) "Northwest Passage." New York, 1937, 2 volumes, 1 of 1050 in slipcase. (2) "Oliver Wiswell." New York, 1940. 2 volumes, 1 of 1050 in slipcase.
Estimate: $ 750.00 - $ 1000.00 |
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