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HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

• (BINDINGS) A group of 15 volumes
  (BINDINGS) A group of 15 volumes bound in green or blue-toned leather. The Great Short Novels of Henry James. New York: Dial (1948). The Divine Comedy of Dante. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1919). 3 vols. Wuthering Heights. By Emily Bronte. New York: Rinehart (1950). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain. New York: Rinehart (1949). The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York: Rinehart (1949). Moby Dick. By Herman Melville. New York: [Rinehart n.d.]. Madame Bovary. By Gustave Flaubert. New York: Rinehart (1948). American Statesmen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1888. 3 vols. Collector's Editions - Dickens Roget Shakespeare. New York: Pocket Books 1948. 3 vols.
• BOOK “A BOY’S WILL”BOOK "A BOY'S
  BOOK “A BOY’S WILL”BOOK "A BOY'S WILL", By Robert Frost. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First American edition. 12mo (7.75" x 5.25"). Blue cloth.
• CHARLES W. ELIOT, BY HENRY
  CHARLES W. ELIOT, BY HENRY JAMESBoston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1930, two volumes, illustrated, two sets of same book, one specially bound with binding signed Riverside Press, aeg, five raised bands; second set with tipped in extras, ANS signed by Henry James, TLS signed by Henry James, teg Note: Henry James was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 18, 1879. He was the son of philosopher and psychologist, William James. Henry graduated with an A.B. from Harvard University in 1899 and a Bachelor of Law from Harvard Law School five years later. Provenance: Private Bluffton, South Carolina Collection Condition: wear to dust cover, chip at bottom of spine, top edge worn, light discoloration to pages, typical wear
• HAZLITT, WILLIAM. THE COLLECTED
  HAZLITT, WILLIAM. THE COLLECTED WORKS IN TWELVE VOLUMES (London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York: McCLure, Phillips & Co., 1902-1904), A. R. Waller and Arnold Glover, eds.; American edition, set 102 of 350, 8vo (8-1/2 in.), full calf with gilt rules and gilt top page edge, raised bands on spine.
• Hawthorne's Works, 22 Volumes
  Hawthorne's Works, 22 Volumes Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1900, three-quarter red morocco leather with gilt spine decoration, top edge gilt, marbled panels, 7-7/8 x 5-1/4 in.,
• (BINDINGS) A group of seven folio
  (BINDINGS) A group of seven folio or quarto-sized leather bound works comprising: The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1881. 2 vols. A Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters (1830-1838). By William Bates. London: Chatto and Windus n.d. Pierre et Jean. The Two Brothers. By Guy de Maupassant. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1899. Art and Artists of Our Time. By Clarence Cook. New York: Selmar Hess (1888). 3 vols.
• (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 20
  (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 20 leather-bound books published by the Franklin Library. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center various dates. The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne 1978. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain 1975. Plays. By Anton Chekov 1976. A Farewell to Arms. By Ernest Hemingway 1976. Four Plays. By Eugene O'Neill 1978. Tales of Edgar Allen Poe 1974. Stories. By Rudyard Kipling (1980). Black Beauty. By Anna Sewell (1982). Moll Flanders. By Daniel Defoe 1978. Humboldt's Gift. Saul Bellow (1983). Tom Jones. By Henry Fielding 1979. Treasure Island. By Robert Louis Stevenson 1975. Poems. By John Donne 1978. The Reivers. By William Faulkner 1983. The Return of the Native. By Thomas Hardy 1978. The Red and the Black. By Stendhal 1979. The Aeneid of Virgil 1975. Faust. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1979. Vanity Fair. By William Makepeace Thackeray (1977). The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel. By Francois Rabelais 1978.
• 15 leather-bound books: [The
  15 leather-bound books: [The Works of Anthony Hope], D. Appleton and Company, New York, limited edition 199/250, author's edition, hand-colored illustrations, 1902, three-quarter black leather with gilt decoration, 8-1/2 x 5-3/4 in. Minor corner and spine rubbing, slight toning.
• RALPH WALDO EMERSON, (12) VOLS.,
  RALPH WALDO EMERSON, (12) VOLS., 1897 Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press, Boston, New and Revised Edition, 1897, fine binding by Estes & Lauriat, Boston, leather spines and corners, marbled sides and endpapers, top page edges gilt, 7.75"h x 5.25"w
• (9) VOLS., CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
  (9) VOLS., CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Hardcovers in jackets, includes: 1) Ruth Benedict & Gene Weltfish. In Henry's Backyard The Races of Mankind. Henry Shuman, 1948; 2) Graham Greene, illus. by Dorothy Craigie. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, 1952; 3) Marie Neurath. Let's Look at the Sky. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard/Chanticleer/Isotype, 1952; 4) Neurath. I'll Show You How It Happens. Chanticleer Press, 1949; 5) Neurath. The Wonder World of Birds. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard/Chanticleer/Isotype, 1953; 6) Lancelot Hogben. How the World Was Explored. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard/Chanticleer/Isotype, no date. 7) Lancelot Hogben. The First Great Inventions. Chanticleer Press, no date; 8) Wendy Ann Kesselman. Franz Tovey and the Rare Animals. Harlan Quist, 1968, signed by the author; 9) Wendy Ann Kesselman. Angelita. Hill and Wang, 1970, stamped "With Love Jane Fontanez "Angelita"" on title page, 11"h x 8.5"w (largest)
• TWENTY LEATHERBOUND BOOKS.
  TWENTY LEATHERBOUND BOOKS. Includes Bryce The American Commonwealth New York: Macmillan and Company 1891 two volumes; Holt The Public and Domestic Life of...George The third London: Sherwood et al 1820 two volumes; Motley The Rise of the Dutch Republic New York: Harper and Brothers 1859 three volumes; Rawlinson The History of Herodotus New York: Appleton 1860 two volumes (of four); The History of the Life and Reign of George the Fourth London: Longman et al 1831 three volumes; De Quincy's Writings Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1851 two volumes; Froude Oceana or England and Her Colonies London: Longmans Green and Company 1886; Histoire de Charles XII New York: Appleton 1852; Harrall Henry the Eight and George the Fourth London: Baldwyn 1820; Harbey The Great Battles of the The British Army London: Routledge 1856; Burges The Greek Anthology London: Bell and Sons 1893; and Sewell First History of Greece New York: Appleton 1853. All in similar red leather over marbled boards.
• GEORGE ELIOT FELIX HOLT FIRST
  GEORGE ELIOT FELIX HOLT FIRST EDITIONGeorge Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (England, 1819-1880). Felix Holt. The Radical, in 3 volumes. First edition, 1866. Publisher William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburg and London; printed by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. With 4 pages and 20 pages of advertisements at rear of volume III. John F. Eastwood bookplates. Wear and scratches to boards and spine, corners bumped, bindings loose, boards separating and torn at pastedowns, shelf wear and wear to edges, some warping to pages, foxing throughout, notations in pencil front endpapers volume I. Provenance: Swann Galleries, New York 10/7/1971; private collection, New York City; thence by descent.
• THE ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF
  THE ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF WASHINGTON, 1904 Charles Henry Holt. Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington. The Grolier Club, New York, one of 425 copies, printed at the De Vinne Press, on American hand-made paper, frontispiece mezzotint, and nineteen photogravure pages, captioned tissue guards, vellum spine and tips, 12.25"h x 9.25"w
• (7) VOLS. 19TH & 20TH C. LITERATURE
  (7) VOLS. 19TH & 20TH C. LITERATURE & POETRY Includes: 1) Fannie Hurst. Lummox. Harper & Brothers, 1923, #210/250 signed by Hurst; 2) Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre. Thomas Crowell, vols. I & II bound as one; 3) James Ludlow. The Captain of the Janizaries. Funk & Wagnalls, 1888; 4) The AIAS of Sophokles. John Bartlett, 1851; 5) Christina Rossetti. Verses. Society for Pormoting Christian Knowledge, 1893; 6) & 7) Lyof N. Tolstoi. Anna Karenina. Thomas Crowell, 1927, complete in 2 vols.; largest: 8.5"h x 6"w
• 5 vols. Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
  5 vols. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. [Works.] Boston, 1874-1884. 8vo, contemp. 3/4 tan calf, marbled bds. & edges, gilt-decorated spines, brown & green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers; occasionally slightly scuffed, spines fading. Frontispieces. Incomplete & mixed set in uniform bdgs. Titles included: The Scarlet Letter; The Blithedale Romance; The House of The Seven Gables; The Snow Image and Other Twice Told Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse; Twice-Told Tales; The Marble Faun. Sound, bright & attractive bdgs.
• 36 vols. Library of America
  36 vols. Library of America Titles. (New York), (1982-1987): Adams, Henry. History of The United States, 1801-09, 1809-17; Novels, Mont St. Michel, The Education. 3 vols. * Cather, Willa. Early Novels and Stories. * Cooper, James Fenimore. The Leatherstocking Tales. 2 vols. * Crane, Stephen. Prose & Poetry. * Du Bois, W.E.B. Writings. * Faulkner, William. Novels 1930-1935. * Franklin, Benjamin. Writings. * Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Novels; Tales and Sketches. 2 vols. * Howells, William Dean. Novels 1875-1886. * Irving, Washington. History, Tales and Sketches. * James, Henry. Literary Criticism; Novels 1871-1880; Novels 1881-1886. 4 vols. * Jefferson, Thomas. Writings. * London, Jack. Novels & Stories. 2 vols. * Melville, Herman. 3 (of 4) vols. * Norris, Frank. Novels & Essays. * Parkman, Francis. France and England in North America. 2 vols. * Poe, Edgar Allan. Essays and Reviews; Poetry & Tales. 2 vols. * Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Three Novels. * Thoreau, Henry David. A Week; Walden, The Maine Woods ; Cape Cod. * Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad; Roughing It; Mississippi Writings. 2 vols. * Wharton, Edith. Novels: House of Mirth, Reef, The Custom of The Country, The Age of Innocence. * Whitman, Walt. Complete Poetry and Collected Prose. All 8vo, orig. cloth, slipcases; minor shelf wear, occasionally slightly dusty. Many 1st Library of America ptgs.
• 3 vols. Eliot, George. Felix
  3 vols. Eliot, George. Felix Holt The Radical. Edinburgh: Blackwood and Sons, 1866. First edition. 8vo, orig. brown cloth, gilt-lettered & decorated spines, dark green endpapers, fore & bottom edges untrimmed as issued; light edge wear, skillfull unobtrusive restoration at head & foot of spines. Minor occasional spotting to endpapers & a few front & back matter leaves. Pub. catalogues, 4 pp. & 20 pp. Lacking 1/2 titles. With ink stamp on vol. 1 title page above the author's name, "Presented by the publisher." Sadlier 814, Carter's C bdg.; Parrish pp. 20 &
• THE WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH
  THE WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1886 - 1891), small octavo (8-1/2 in.), three-quarter leather with gilt to spine over marbled boards.
• Folk Stories & Fables Selected
  Folk Stories & Fables Selected and Arranged by Eva March Tappan Houghton Mifflin Company ND ten volumes 8vo hard bound in buckram and in green and tan with gilt embossed covers. Children's Hour edition illustrated with black and white plates the frontispieces in color.
• HENLEY EDITIONS, THE WORKS OF
  HENLEY EDITIONS, THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IN TEN VOLUMES (New York: P. Collier & Son, 1912), small 8vo (8-1/4 in.), three-quarter gilt calf over marbled boards.
• Todd (H J) The Poetical Works of
  Todd (H J) The Poetical Works of John Milton, 5th ed. 4 vols., Rivingtons Longmans, etc., London 1852 and fourteen other leather bound books
• H. HALLETT & CO. PUBLISHERS, GEORGE
  H. HALLETT & CO. PUBLISHERS, GEORGE AND MARTHA WASHINGTON, CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS, 20-1/2 X 17 INH. Hallett & Co. Publishers, George and Martha Washington, Chromolithographs, 20-1/2 x 17 in
• FRANKLIN LIBRARY AMERICAN
  FRANKLIN LIBRARY AMERICAN LITERATURE BOOKS, 19 Nineteen leather-bound American literature books with gilt lettering published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania comprising Richard Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast," and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Justin Kaplan's "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain," Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence," Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," "Tales of Edgar Allan Poe," William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and "The Reivers," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Eudora Welty's "The Optimist's Daughter," John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans," Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Essays," Bruce Catton's "A Stillness at Appomattox," and Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage". Largest: 9.5" H x 6.5" W x 1.5" D.
• 1 vol. Harper's Weekly. New York,
  1 vol. Harper's Weekly. New York, 1872. Vol. XVI. Folio, contemp. 1/4 morocco & marbled bds., gilt-lettered spine; scuffed, corners rubbed away, joints rubbed. Numerous wood-engraved illus. Internally clean. Includes 3 full-page illus. after Winslow Homer: "Making Hay," "On The Beach, Two Are Company," "Under The Falls, Catskill Mountains," Thomas Nast political illus., fold. bird's-eye view of Philadelphia (repaired on verso fold), Aftermath of Boston Fire, double-page Stanley & Livingstone Meeting (split in center). Complete year.
• A Set of Cloth-Bound Books
  A Set of Cloth-Bound Books Library of the World's Best Literature Ancient and Modern New York J. A. Hill & Company 45 volumes.
• THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER
  THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMESThe Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Household Edition with Illustrations. Publisher: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Date: 1890.
• 1 vol. Hogarth, William. Werke.
  1 vol. Hogarth, William. Werke. Gottingen, n.d. [ca. 1850]. Oblong folio, contemp. bds.; worn. With 88 engraved plates by E. Ripenhausen. Scattered light foxing.
• THE WORKS OF BRET HARTE,
  THE WORKS OF BRET HARTE, PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 1921, 10 VOLUMESThe Works of Bret Harte, Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1921, 10 Volumes,
• [Literature Fine Press] Four titles
  [Literature Fine Press] Four titles published by the Limited Editions Club each limited to 1500 copies 1) D. C. Peattie An Almanac for Moderns illus. by Asa Cheffetz (Washington: 1938) signed by artist 4to. pict. cloth slipcase; 2) H. Melville Typee: A Romance of the South Seas illus. by Miguel Covarrubias (NY: 1935) signed by artist 8vo. printed paper; 3) S. V. Benet John Brown's Body illus. by John Steuart Curry (NY: 1948) 4to red cloth; 4) Charles Kingsley Westward Ho! illus. by E. A. Wilson (NY: 1947) sgd. by artist 2 vols. 4to. cloth and printed boards slipcase Estimate $ 200-300
• SIXTEEN LITERARY BOOKSMany
  SIXTEEN LITERARY BOOKSMany published by Heritage Press, NY.
• [Literature History] Selection of
  [Literature History] Selection of English and American authors most cloth-bound including: 27 vols. of the ''Aldine Poets'' Series; Hume's History of England; Macaulay's History of England; Milman's Gibbon's Rome and a partial set of Dickens' Works Estimate $ 100-200
• Fine leatherbound books: various
  Fine leatherbound books: various titles Holmes Oliver Wendell. THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 3 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co. 1891. Dumas Alexander. THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO. 2 vols. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1894. Manning Anne. COLLECTED WORKS. 7 vols. 2nd ed. London: Arthur Hall Virtue & Co. n.d. (1854). CHERRY & VIOLET THE COLLOQUIES OF EDWARD OSBORNE THE MAIDEN AND MARRIED LIFE OF MARY POWELL DEBORAH'S DIARY THE PROVOCATIONS OF MADAME PALISSY and others. THE SPECTATOR: COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. London: Jones and Co. 1823. Ingoldsby Thomas. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. London: Richard Bentley 1865. Orton Job. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE CHARACTER AND WRITINGS OF THE LATE REV. PHILIP DODDRIDGE D.D. OF NORTHHAMPTON. London: Richard Baynes 1819. Garcia-Frias Juan. LA TEORIA DIFERENCIAL DEL CONOCIMENTO. Madrid: Gongora 1942. Shakespeare William. THE COMPLETE DRAMATIC AND POETIC WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. William Allan Neilson ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1906. all bound in leather with gilt-tooled spines. (17pcs) Provenance: Atlanta Georgia private collection. Back    Inquiry      Previous Item   Next Item © Charlton Hall Auctions.  Images descriptions and condition reports used on this site are original copyright material and are not to be reproduced without permission. For further information telephone 803.779.5678     © 2012 CHARLTON HALL GALLERIES INC.
• [LITERATURE], 15 VOLUMES,
  [LITERATURE], 15 VOLUMES, INCLUDING: HARPER LEE, JAMES JONES, WILLIAM FAULKNER, LYND WARD, GEORGE ORWELL, MELVILLE AND STEINBECK[Literature], 15 vols., 8vo-4to, first and later editions, most with dust jackets, including: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960; James Jones, From Here to Eternity, 1951; William Faulkner, The Town, 1957 and Big Woods, 1955; Lynd Ward, Madman's Drum with woodcuts, 1930; George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949; Herman Melville, Moby Dick or the Whale, illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 1930; John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat, illustrated by Ruth Gannett, 1937; and others.
• (14 VOLS) HALLAM & SHORT STORIES
  (14 VOLS) HALLAM & SHORT STORIES LIBRARY BOOKS(14 vols) English leather bound library shelf books, including: (6 vols) by Henry Hallam (England, 1777-1859), all published by John Murray, London, full-leather bound, with gilt embossed coat of arms for The Law Society of the United Kingdom, (three vols) "View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages," published by 1868, (three vols) "Introduction to the Literature of Europe," 1873; (8) "The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories," vols 13-20, edited by John Alexander Hamilton, published by The Educational Book Company Limited, London, quarter-leather bound, with gilt lettering and accents; largest: approx 9 1/8"h, 6 1/8"w, 1.75"d, 26.25 lbs total **Provenance: A prominent Houstonian's River Oaks Estate**
• 1 vol. (Edith Wharton.)
  1 vol. (Edith Wharton.) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works. London: F. Warne, 1893. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered red morocco; worn & rubbed, spine gone. Front free endpaper detached. Signed & dated, "July 3rd, 1894" by Edith Wharton with 5 line presentation inscription on 1/2 title. Front & back matter toned.
• The Home Book of Verse American and
  The Home Book of Verse American and English 1580-1920 Selected and arranged by Burton Egbert Stevenson New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1912. Selected and arranged by Burton Egbert Stevenson of Chillicothe Ohio. Rowfant Binding in full red leather with gilt tooling and satin end pages, marbled fly pages. Decorative spine. Presumed first edition, single volume of 8-3/4"T and 3" Thick. 3742 pages in 7 parts with appendix. Gilt ruled edges.