- SIX GNOME PRESS CONAN FIRST EDITIONS
To include:
Robert E. Howard. CONAN THE CONQUERER. New York: The Gnome Press, Inc., 1950. First Printing stated. Hardcover. Red cloth-covered boards with dark blue lettering...
[more like this] - EARLY PREENING SCOTERAlbert Davids Laing
(1811-1886)
New York, NY, and Stratford, CT, c. 1850
14 in. long
A hollow, turned-head decoy by the father of the Stratford School. Laing, originally from New York City,...
[more like this] - GRAND CURLEWCharles Sumner Bunn (1865-1952)
Shinnecock,
NY, c. 1900
17 1/2 in. long
In 1971 Milton Weiler’s “Classic Shorebird Decoys” portfolio was published with text by William J. Mackey Jr. Across from Weiler’s Plate...
[more like this] - 7 ROCKWELL KENT BOOKS INC. SIGNED "A
BIRTHDAY BOOK"Seven books illustrated by Rockwell Kent (New York, 1882-1971), including:
1. A Birthday Book , Rockwell Kent, Random House, Inc. (New York), Pynson Printers,...
[more like this] - 2 RARE ARCHITECTURE BOOKS: CHARLESTON,
SMITHSONIAN1st item: HINTS IN PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE "Containing, among other illustrations, Views and Plans of the Smithsonian Institution together with an appendix relative...
[more like this] - ISABEL BISHOP ETCHING & BOOKSIsabel
Bishop etching and group of related books. 1st item: Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988) etching titled "Walking In The Subway Station", circa 1963. Titled and signed in pencil,...
[more like this] - GEORGE E. HUGHES O/B SATURDAY EVENING
POST COVER ART IL...George E. Hughes (Vermont/New York, 1907-1990) oil on board illustration painting for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, August 2, 1952 edition, titled...
[more like this] - VESTIE E. DAVIS PAINTING - CONEY ISLAND
(1959)Vestie Edward Davis (American, 1903-1978). Oil on canvas, 1959. Signed and dated on the lower right. A mesmerizing painting of Coney Island by self-taught American artist...
[more like this] - EGYPTIAN SEBENNYTIC-PTOLEMAIC GLASS
INLAY**First Time At Auction**
Egypt, perhaps the city of Sebennytos, Late Dynastic (30th Dynasty) to Ptolemaic Period, Sebennytic-Ptolemaic Period, ca. 380 to 30 BCE. A...
[more like this] - CARLOS ESTEVEZ MIXED MEDIA - "EL ARTE
SIN SU HISTORIA"Carlos Estevez (Cuban, b. 1969). "El Arte Sin Su Historia" mixed media on paper, 2002. Signature, title, and date with location (Havana) handwritten below....
[more like this] - 5 BOOKS LEECH, WARD, CARLYLE, LAMB,
GLADSTONE5 books, including first editions; and an issue of The Pocket Magazine c. 1896. Substance on a Speech by W.E. Gladstone, Works of Charles Lamb, Life of Schiller by...
[more like this] - (15) TEXAS HISTORICAL REFERENCE BOOKS,
L.B.J.(lot of 15) Texas historical reference books, comprising: (1) "Laredo and the Rio Grande Frontier," J.B. Wilkinson, Jenkins Publishing Co., Austin, Texas, illustrations...
[more like this] - (VIEW) NEW YORK - COVERING "E" THROUGH
"J" TOWNS: 90 POSTCARDS EARLY 20TH CENTURY "J" TOWNS: 90 POSTCARDS, Early 20th Century, Fort Plain: photo cards, street fair, Farmers & Mechanics Bank, exhibits at State...
[more like this] - WILLIAM GAY AND MARY E. YORKE (NEW YORK/CANADA/ENGLAND,
1817-C. 1888 AND C. 1854-1893), CLIPPER SHIP DREADNOUGHT., OIL ON CANVAS, 24" X 30". FRAMED 33.75" X 40".WILLIAM GAY AND MARY E. YORKE, New York/Canada/England, 1817-c. 1888...
[more like this] - 5 BOOKS LEECH, WARD, CARLYLE, LAMB,
GLADSTONE5 books, including first editions; and an issue of The Pocket Magazine c. 1896. Substance on a Speech by W.E. Gladstone, Works of Charles Lamb, Life of Schiller by...
[more like this] - A GROUP OF CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKSA
group of classic children's books, Eleven hardcover books: Walt Disney Studios. "Mickey Mouse in King Arthur's Court." New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 1933 The octavo...
[more like this] - 3 vols. Masters, Edgar Lee: Domesday
Book. New York: Macmillan, 1920. 1st ed. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered blue cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; occasionally slightly scuffed, spine ends slightly frayed. Sound,...
[more like this] - 2 vols. Illustrated Poetry: (Cook,
Margaret, illustrator.) Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1913. 4to, orig. gilt-pictorial, lettered & paneled green cloth, gilt-pictorial & lettered spine,...
[more like this] - 4 vols. Law: Croke, George. Second
Part of The Reports... Select Cases,.. during.. Reign of... King James... London, 1669. Folio, old calf; rubbed & worn. Minor internal foxing. * Fourth Part of Modern Reports......
[more like this] - 13 vols. (Rackham, Arthur, illustrator):
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1909. 1st Am. trade ed. thus. Lg. 8vo, orig. richly gilt-pictorial & decorated red cloth; spine ends rubbed, other...
[more like this] - 59 vols. E.F. Benson & Brother - Benson,
E.F.: Dodo. London: Methuen, 1893. 1st ed. 2 vols. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered blue cloth; moderately scuffed, some edge wear, a little cocked. Upper 1/3 of 1/2 title chipped...
[more like this] - Five Richard Kidder Meade, Jr. Confederate
Civil War Letters, Civil War Era Photographs, Paintings, Meade Family Archive Virginia, 1861-1862: letter from Fort Sumter, March 21, 1861, to sister Julia Meade (1830-1906),...
[more like this] - 4 vols. Illustrated Books: (Pyle, Howard,
illustrator.) Johnson, Merle, compiler. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. New York: Harper, 1921 [but Sept., 1923]. Folio, orig. cloth & bds., color pictorial cover label; light...
[more like this] - 5 vols. (2 wrappers) Children's Books
- With Mechanical & C. Illustrations: Push and Pull Pictures: A Novel Mechanical Picture Book. London: E. Nister; New York: E.P. Dutton, n.d. [ca. 1892]. Sq. 8vo, orig. chromolithographic...
[more like this] - Civil War Autograph Book of the 96th
New York Infantry Standard 12mo autograph book second leaf with A.E. Howard in elaborate calligraphy. The autographs are mostly in rank order and those dated are from Feb....
[more like this] - 4 vols. American Illustrators: (Wyeth,
N.C., illustrator.) Matthews, Brander, editor. Poems of American Patriotism. New York: Scribner's, 1922. Lg. 8vo, orig. black cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., color pictorial...
[more like this] - 6 vols. Illustrated Books: (Dulac;
Edmund, illustrator.) Rosenthal, Leonard. The Kingdom of The Pearl New York: Brentano's, n.d. [ca 1925]. 4to, orig. gilt-lettered & decorated white cloth-backed silver decorated...
[more like this] - 4 vols. (Parrish, Maxfield, illustrator):
Grahame, Kenneth. Dream Days. London & New York: John Lane, (1902). 8vo, orig. color & gilt pictorial green cloth, t.e.g.; moderate edge wear, spine ends rather scuffed. Plain...
[more like this] - 3 vols. (Parrish, Maxfield, illustrator):
Wiggin, Kate Douglas; Smith, Nora A. The Arabian Nights. New York: Scribner's, 1909. 8vo, orig. black cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., color pictorial cover label; moderately...
[more like this] - ALLEN, James Edward. 1932 Etching "The
Builders" 1932 etching and drypoint on paper from 1932, possibly workers aloft on the Empire State Building. Pencil signed lower right and inscribed to Robert Nisbet. This...
[more like this] - 2 vols. Milne, A.A.: Winnie-The-Pooh.
London: Methuen, (1926). First edition. 8vo, orig. gilt-pictorial & paneled dark green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; very occasional, very light...
[more like this] - Four Books About the Southern Black
Man in Poetry and Story The Black Christ & Other Poems by Countee Cullen New York: Harper & Brothers 1929 12mo hardbound in blue paper boards with past down title illustrated...
[more like this] - 6 vols. Signed Books - American & British
Authors: De La Mare, Walter. Poems for Children. London: Constable, (1930). 1st ed., copy "G," 1/8 (of 133) signed by De La Mare. 8vo, orig. 1/4 linen & bds., t.e.g., other...
[more like this] - 17 vols. Pennsylvania and Related Genealogy:
Alexander, John E. A Record of The Descendants of John Alexander. Philadelphia: A. Martien, 1878. 8vo, orig. cloth; light wear. Inscribed by author on endpaper. * Ambler,...
[more like this] - Charles Hook Armco Steel Company Lot
of Manuscripts & Documents Lot includes letters photographs pamphlets mostly from the late 1930s through the 1960s. Born in 1880 the youngest of four children of Henry and...
[more like this] - 6 vols. Illustrated & Illustrated Children's
Books: Martin, Benjamin E. In The Footprints of Charles Lamb. New York: Scribner's, 1890. 8vo, orig. white cloth, gilt, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; scuffed. Plates. With...
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