Friends of the C. H. Booth Library

Highlights for 2011

36th Annual Book Sale

             SELECTIONS FROM THE SPECIALS SECTION OF THE 2011 BOOTH LIBRARY BOOKSALE

Aldis, Dorothy. Time At Her Heels.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937.  Fine-line inscription to historical novelist Esther Forbes, March, 1937.  VG in slightly worn DJ, now in protective cover.  $25.00.

Alexander, Kirklan B. The Log of the North Shore Club.  NY: Putnam, 1911.  VG. $60.00.

[Bible] Die Bucher der Bibel. 3 volumes: vol I, Westerman, 1909, II & III Harz, 1923; all published.  Illustrations by E M Lilien. Rubricated titles and texts.  Some soiling and foxing, 2 vols rebacked.  $250.00.

Bowen, Martha.  Scrimshaw: Variations on a Theme.  SF: the author, 1988.  Fine with fine DJ.  $200.00.

Capron, George, and David Black. New England Popular Medicine. Boston: Curtis, 1849. Fifth ed. Encyclopedia format. Rebound in full leather, VG. $75.00.

Chesterton, Gilbert K. The Ball and the Cross. NY: Lane, 1909. Bookplate of Hermitswood. Spine slightly darkened, front hinge cracked.  $75.00.

Churchill, Winston.  Marlborough His Life and Times.  NY: Scribner, 1933. Six volumes. Red half leather. Ex Bauman Rare Books.  VG. $500.00.

Flayderman, E Norman.  Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders. New Milford: the author, 1972. #116 of 1000, signed.  Spine lettering a bit light, otherwise VG with VG slipcase. $300.00.

Freud, Sigmund. Introductory Lectures on Psych-Analysis.  London: Allen & Unwin, revised edition, 1929.  Slight wear head & foot of spine.  $35.00.

Gay, Charles. Negociations Relatives a l’Establishment de la Maison de Bourbon.  Paris: Allourd et Kaeppelin, 1853.  Full red leather by Heldt.   VG.  $125.00.

Gray, Mr. Poems.  Glasgow: Foulis, 1773.  Full leather, front cover and front end page separate.   $150.00.

Gregory, G. A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.  London: Phillips, 1807.  Two volumes.  Half leather; ex library, two covers separate.  $100.00.

Hawley, Frederick B. Capital and Population. NY: Appleton, 1882.  Undated 4-line inscription by the author to Hon. A. H. Holley. Backstrip lightly faded, otherwise VG.  $200.00.

[Horticulture] A large number of horticulture/gardening, including: Bowles, E A. A Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for Gardeners. London: Hopkinson, 1924.  VG in worn DJ.   $20.00; Jekyll, Gertrude, and Lawrence Weaver. Gardens for Small Country Houses. London: Country Life, nd(1913). 2nd ed, revised and enlarged.  Head of spine worn, 2 inch split to front hinge.  $35.00; Repton, Humphry. The Art of Landscape Gardening. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, nd(1907). John Nolen, ed. Metamorphic color frontis. Slight scratches to front cover, wear at spine foot, paper label chipped. $75.00.

Hyland, Thelma. A primer of Zoography.  [NY?]: Alanson and Anabel [at] The Sign of the Second Ave El, nd. Foreward A B Hewes.  Illustrations using typographic materials pictorially.  “#3” penciled front end paper.  Written, designed, typeset, printed, bound and signed by Hyland.  VG with good DJ.  $50.00.

Kelly, J Frederick. Early Connecticut Architecture. NY: Helburn, 1924.  28 fascicles as issued, in original portfolio. Portfolio some wear, fascicles VG.  $75.00. 

M, E E.  Days on the Nepigon. NY: Foster & Reynolds, 1917.  VG.  $45.00.

[Masonic] By-Laws of Winslow Lewis Lodge. Boston: White for the Lodge, 1858.  Interleaved throughout; full leather, gilt emblem and lettering. With: Membership, Winslow Lewis Lodge. Boston: Mudge & Son for the Lodge, nd; Marshall, photographer. Printed membership list through 1868, blanks for additions, one name entered in ms as honorary member. Oval photo of unidentified man tipped to front cover.  Both VG.  $75.00.

Massini, Carlo. Vita di Gesu Cristo. Roma: Ospizio Della Madonna, 1836.  Half leather, gilt spine decoration. Title page foxed but only minor interior foxing.  Cover worn at extremities.  $500.00.

Middleton, Conyers. The Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero.  London: Venner & Hood, et al, 1804. New edition, in three volumes.  Frontis of Cicero engraved by W Bromley. Half leather, gilt rules and lettering, blind ornaments.  Leather slightly worn but lettering clear. $50.00.

Morse, Charles, et al. Ducking Days. Chicago: [the authors?], 1919.Photo illustrations, color frontis.  Slight damp stain upper right corner front cover, not affecting text.  $200.00.

Pond, Fred E (Will Wildwood). Life and Adventures of “Ned Buntline”. NY: Cadmus Book Shop, 1919.  Slight sunning.  $75.00.

[Space] [Astronauts] Six volumes: Lovell, Lost Moon; Aldrin, Men From Earth; Carpenter, Cooper, Glenn, et al, We Seven; Borman, Countdown; Shepard, Moon Shot; Schirra, Schirra’s Space.  All Easton Press, #2958 of 3000, each signed by the author and with Certificates of Authenticity signed by author and witness.  VG. $1,500.00. 

[Stendhal, psued Marie Henri Beyle] Correspondence de Stendhal (1800-1842). Paris: Bosse, 1908.  3 volumes, blue half leather by Bonneau. VG. $125.00.  There are also several other Stendhal items, including a run of 22 volumes of the Stendhal Club in matching red half leather, VG, $225.00.   

Wesley, John. Primitive Physic: or, an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases. London: Hawes for Keith, et al, 1772. 15th edition.  Provenance: Sarah Wolton, 2 July 1773; “presented by W W Fowler”; bookplate of Coll. Lincoln. Bibl. Full leather, blind and gilt decoration.  Covers worn, front loosened.  $250.00. 

[Whaling] Percival, William E.  A Journal of a Whaling Voyage in the Ship Samuel Wright. Manuscript of a 39-month voyage to the Pacific, with a journal of one year of a later 4-year voyage, 1839-40. A full description is available on request.  Backstrip worn, one cover loose.  $3,500.

Wyeth, Betsy James.  The Stray. Illustrated by Jamie Wyeth. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, nd (1979).  Signed by author and illustrator.  VG.  $45.00.

Zola, Emile. L’Assommoir. Phila: Peterson, nd(c1882). List of 14 Zola works on copyright page.  Good.  $50.00.

SELECTIONS FROM THE CHILDREN’S SPECIALS BOOTH LIBRARY SALE 2011

Bard, Mary. Best Friends. Phila: Lippincott, nd(c1955). Stated first edition. Illustrations by Jill Elgin.  A bit lightstruck at edges and at hole in jacket, generally VG; jacket with some tears, 1 X ½ inch piece lacking at top of spine.  $75.00.

Bergengren, Ralph. David the Dreamer. Boston: Atlantic, nd(c1922).  Illustrations by Tom Freud. Pictorial cover. Hole in backstrip at rear hinge.   $50.00.

Boutell, Chip.  Shrimp, The Story of a Little Submarine.  Two typescripts of an apparently finished children’s book by the noted literary historian.  Both are in “dummy” format, with space left for illustration and the text worked around the space; however, there is no evidence to suggest who the planned illustrator might be or if the images existed at that point in time.  Both are housed in three-ring notebooks, one with obverse-reverse pages in plastic sleeves, one with the pages taped together.  Boutell has covered his original name and address information with a paste-over, the newer version using a zip code, the older has none.  Neither Worldcat nor LOC shows a record of this title.  The notebooks show some wear, the contents, excepting punched holes and tape, are very good.                            $250.00.

Burroughs, John. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900.  Color illustrations.  Contemporary gift inscription, 13 August 1901.  Embossed pictorial cover.  Good.  $10.00. 

Crane, Walter. King Luckieboy’s Picture Book.  London: Routledge, nd. Ad for Routledge’s New Sixpenny Toy Books on rear cover up to #115, ad for Crane’s books up to #117, this being #98. Off-orange wraps. Slight wear along spine, small tear to front cover, very good for this genre.  $45.00.

______. This Little Pig went to Market London: Routledge, nd. Off-orange wraps, ad for Routledge’s New Sixpenny Toy Books on rear cover up to #110; no ad for Crane’s books.Covers separated, some soiling.   $15.00.

DePaola, Tomie. Favorite Nursery Tales. NY: Putnam, nd(c1986). Inscribed by author/illustrator, 1986.  Together with, Children’s Theatre Company program, 19 September – 8 November, 1986, dePaola’s Strega Nona on cover, cast list, interview with dePaola.  Book VG with VG jacket (1” tear), program VG.   $30.00.

Emmerson, H H, illustrator. The May Blossom; or The Princess and her People. NY: Armstrong, nd. No copyright date, possibly Warne’s English plates. Verses by Marion M Wingrave. Chromolith illustrations. Binding cracked.   $20.00.

Goodrich, S G. Peter Parley’s Winter Evening Tales. Phila: Desilver, Thomas, 1836. Revised edition, c1829. Leather backstrip perished, otherwise good.  $35.00.

Grover, Eulalie Osgood. The Sunbonnet Babies’ Book. Chicago: Rand McNally, nd(c1902).  Illustrations by Bertha Corbett.  “M-23” on copyright page. Pictorial cover. Good.  $10.00.

Hughes, Ted. Nessie the Mannerless Monster.  London: Faber, nd(c1964). Illustrations by Gerald Rose.  VG with VG jacket.   $15.00.

Ledyard, Laura, and W T Peters. Tutti-Frutti A Book of Child Songs. NY: Harlan, nd(c1881). Decorations by D Clinton Peters, title page and color cover by A Bresman. Backstrip chipping, slight cover soil.  $20.00.

MacKinstry, E. The Fairy Alphabet As Used By Merlin. NY: Viking, 1933.  Illustrated by author.  Small tear upper front hinge.  $20.00.

McBrier, Page.  Beatrice’s Goat.  NY: Atheneum, 2001. Illustrated by Lori Lohstoeter.  2nd printing. Afterward by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Signed and dated by author, 2001 and by illustrator with drawing.  Partial proceeds were to fund an anti-hunger organization.  Ex church library, apparently never circulated, VG, VG jacket.  $15.00.

Newsom, Effie Lee. Gladiola Garden. Washington: Associated, 1944. Ex school library, as is. $50.00.

Nichols, Valerie A. Sammy the Sparrow Fast and Fastest. Xlibris Corp: np, nd(c2004). Illustrations byb Margie Segress. Pictorial covers. Inscribed by author on dedication page, 2007. Fine. 

[Pop-up] Garage. London: Bancroft, nd; car styles late 1940s-‘50s, Esso gas.  Four fold out scenes of garage activities.  All perfect except on piece pulled away from page, tape repair.  $25.00.

Sendak, Maurice. Lullabies and Night Songs.  NY: Harper Row, nd(c1965). Music by Alec Wilder, William Engvick, ed. Slightly lightstruck at hole in jacket, otherwise VG in good jacket.  $25.00.

Shirley Temple’s Bedtime Book. NY: Random, nd(c1962). Illustrations by J P Miller. VG.    $20.00.

Tudor, Bethany. Drawn From New England Tasha Tudor. Cleveland: Collins, nd(c1979). Signed by Tasha, 1980, inscribed by Bethany, 1980. VG in VG jacket. $125.00.

Additional Exciting Offerings for 2011

On the open selling floor:

• Antiques: single issues of Antiques magazine from 1950-1970’s
• Foreign Language:

• Large selection of French and Russian books in good condition, including classic fiction, non-fiction, specialized dictionaries and texts, and instructional CD’s
• Large number of French fiction and non-fiction from 1940’s on

• History: Miscellaneous items going back as far as 1930’s on British royalty
• Hobbies and Games: various guidebooks on collecting dolls and doll encyclopedias
• Music and Dance:

• Extensive collection of advanced flute sheet music covering various genres of the classical performance repertoire, most including piano accompaniment, as well as flute method books
• Limited number of small-format orchestral scores in good condition
• Piano sheet music, including many varied  arrangements by such jazz greats as Art Tatum, Chick Corea, Sonny Rollins & Bill Evans 

• War, Military and Espionage for serious Civil War buffs:

• Civil War Times Illustrated, like new condition, reprinted and bound, vol. 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 127, 18 and 19; $10 per volume
• War of the Rebellion. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, like new condition, reprinted and bound 1985, Serial numbers 6, 7, 19, 21, 30, 31, 33, 34, 38, 47, 54, 84, 85, 97 and 107; $10 per volume

• New categories of special interest to patrons:

• Style (entertaining, etiquette, fashion, interior decorating, etc.;  in the cafetorium near crafts and cooking)
• Teens (fiction and non-fiction; in the gym near adult fiction)
• Tweens (fiction and non-fiction for advanced juvenile readers 10 years old and up; in the cafetorium near children’s books)
• Manga (in the gym)

In the Rare Books and Collectibles’ Room

• Baron, Peter. The Round Table Murders (Macaulay, 1931). First edition; rare, but worn, so offered at $10
• Bent, Arthur Cleveland. Handsomely bound bulletins by Arthur Cleveland Bent on the Life Histories of North American birds (by order) published by the Smithsonian Museum (1930’s-1950’s), 20 of the 23 volumes published overall, not ex lib., at $8.00 each.
• Burroughs, John. John Burroughs Talks. His Reminiscences and Comments. As reported by Clifton Johnson, 1st ed. (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1922), a collection of remarks by the renowned naturalist and early environmentalist John Burroughts, as reported by Clifton Johnson, with fully intact and bright pastedown color illustration on cover; plus early reprints of three books by Burroughs, all in good condition: Fresh Fields 6th ed. (Boston & New York: Houghton, Miffliln & Co., 1887), and A Year in the Fields. From the Writings of John Burroughs. Illustrations from photographs by Clifton Johnson (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1896 and 1901)
• Churchill, Winston. Complete Correspondence with FDR (3 vols.), Plus: biography by R.S. Churchill (vol. 1) and Martin Gilbert (vol. 2-12), etc., all bound in gold decorated boards and gilt-edged pages by Easton Press; some still in original cellophane wraps
• Davitt, Michael. Within the Pale: The True Story of Anti-Semitic Persecution in Russia (Jewish Publication Society, 1903) Special Edition. 8vo. xiv,300,[4]pp. Rare copy in original blind-stamped cloth with red lettering on cover and spine; pages browned and brittle, front boards loose, and a few pages of the front matter separated from binding.
• Kern, Jerome. The Jerome Kern Song Book (1955) with dust jacket
• Porter, Cole. The Cole Porter Song Book (1959) in the original slipcase. and
• Thackeray, William Makepeace. Thackeray’s Works, complete 30-volume de luxe limited edition, no. 881 of 1000 published by Estes & Lauriat at end of 19th century; dark blue boards with glued label on spine, pages with gilt top edge
• Assortment of limited edition classics beautifully bound by Franklin Press Library
• Extensive selection of very good condition adult and children’s books signed by author and/or illustrator
• Wide selection of fine and very good condition comic books in protective sleeves; $2 each
• Large selection of signed first editions printed in the UK; hardcover with fine dust jackets, many by or about media and sport celebrities
• Assortment of vintage books on gardening, including early reprints of works by Gertrude Jekyl
• Extensive collection of pristine Easton Press publications, some still in original cellophane wraps, many limited editions and autographed works donated by the estate of a private collector; for example:

• All six volumes of the signed collector’s limited edition of Astronaut Library with certificates of authenticity
• Full six-volume set of World in Crisis by Winston Churchill in original cellophane wraps
• Cross-section of books about U.S. presidents, plus 2-volume collection of the most famous speeches by each president up to George H.W. Bush

• Profusely illustrated 19th and early 20th century books on hunting, fishing, etc.
• Travel guides to the American West printed in the 19th and early 20th centuries
• Cross-section of Greek and Latin authors published by Harvard/Heinemann as part of the dual-language Loeb Classical Library; late 20th century printings, majority with very good to fine dust jackets. Selections include

Complete sets of:

• Apostolic Fathers (Greek) (2 vol.)
• Aristotle, Metaphysics (2 vol.)
• Bede, Historical Works (2 vol.)
• Josephus, The Jewish War ( 2 vol.)
• Suetonius (2 vol.)
• Tacitus, Histories and Annals (2 vol.)
• Virgil (2 vols.)

Plus individual volumes of:

• Augustine, City of God (I, II, IV, V, VI, VII)
• Pliny, Natural History (I, III, IV, V, IX, X)
• Seneca, Moral Essays (II, III)

And these famous writers:

• Caesar, The Gallic War
• Cicero, De re publica, De legibus
• Marcus Aurelius

Plus: