$30
Mixed Lot, 19th and 20th Century, Seven Volumes: Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms , New York, Scribner's, 1929, later trade edition, no dust jacket, publisher's cloth, label on front board scratched; Reade's It is Never too Late to Mend , Boston: Ticknor, 1856, in two volumes, spotting, worn publisher's cloth; Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Listen! the Wind , New York: Harcourt Brace, 1938, with dust jacket; Champney's Three Vassar Girls Abroad , Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1883, illustrated, heavy damage to back board, water damage; Walker's Book of Raphael's Madonnas , New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1860, illustrated, disbound, lacking back board; and Clayton Hamilton's On the Trail of Stevenson , Garden City: Doubleday, 1915, First edition, first issue, frontispiece and text illustrations by Walter Hale; with the section on Stevenson's marriage to divorcee Mrs. Osbourne on pages 130-135 intact, the first issue was suppressed when the publisher was threatened with legal action, and this section was expurgated from subsequent editions; publisher's cloth spine and paper boards, with labels on spine and front board, discolored. (7)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-02-14
