Selected List of Books to be found in the Collectibles Room

A SELECT LIST OF BOOKS FROM THE SPECIALS COLLECTION OF

THE BOOTH LIBRARY BOOK SALE, JULY 2010

Anon. The Canary Bird Fancier, Improved: . . . With a Few Useful Hints to the Breeders of Mules. . . . With Directions for Care of Native and Exotic Songsters. Boston: Bradshaw, 1843. Seventh American edition. 71 pp. For those not familiar with such things, the mules are birds. Original blue paper wraps, spine quite worn., some internal foxing. $40.00.

[Aviation] Springs, Elliott White, et al. Pilot’s Luck. Phila: McKay, [1929]. Illustrations by Clayton Knight. Reverse of fly leaf with 12-line inscription from Knight to J Vinton Stowell, Jr, “with the hope that you yourself may never see such a war as is here pictured . . . .” The recipient may have been the son of James Vinton Stowell, well known amateur archeologist working in Canada and upper New York, and himself a naval veteran of WWI. Inscription dated 1929. Also with a Clayton Knight card tipped to page. Some wear to extremities, spine label chipped, color illustration tipped to front cover with only minor abrasions. $100.00.

Bramah, Ernest. The Eyes of Max Carrados. London: Richards, 1923. Upper front cover bumped, spine slightly soiled. $50.00.

Byron, Lord. Manfred, a Dramatic Poem. London: Murray, 1817. 3rd issue, with the Hamlet quotation on title page. Half leather, marbled boards, spine with some wear. Inscribed W A B Janes, West Morrisania, May 10, 1871, and with his bookplate. $100.00.

[Commonplace book] Quarto-sized blank book, of which 16 pages have been used. Entries include a 3-page Character of Washington (James K Paulding), 2-page Monody on Mrs Hemans (Lydia Sigourney), and shorter quotations from Moore, Whittier, Holmes, Child, and other lesser known figures; several are from an A Boyd. The rest of the book remains blank. Mid-19th century. Half leather, marbled boards; spine slightly worn with some chipping at head. $50.00.

Cabinet Pictures by Modern Painters. London: Cundahl, 1862. 134 wood engravings of various subjects, taken from a wide variety of artists. Half leather, covers and spine somewhat worn.. $150.00.

[Cookery] Mills, Elizabeth, et al. At the Sign of the Rolling Pin. Middletown, NY: Stivers Printing, 1916. Second edition, apparently converted to a fund raiser for the Endowment Office of Vassar College. Compiled by four members of the Vassar class of 1917 and one member of 1918. Recipes in three parts, the largest simply by undergraduates, a small section of “foreign” recipes including two from Alaska, again by undergraduates, and a third section of recipes contributed by alumnae, including Maria Loraine Dickinson, ’67, “The First Graduate.” Provenance: Mary Geissman, with an explanation of other family members who attended Vassar. VG. $35.00.

Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Christo. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1941. Four volumes. Intro by Andre Maurois, illustrations by Lynd Ward. Designed and printed by Peter Beilenson. #1078 of 1500 copies. Colophon signed by Ward. With original glassine wraps and slipcase, all fine. $250.00.

Flora and Sylva. London: W Robinson, 1903-1905. Three volumes bound in five small- folio size volumes. Many color plates. Full leather bindings by Stewart & Kidd, Cincinnati, three now with chipped spines. Original ads bound in. Some water damage to lower edges volumes I and III, affecting text paper more than the glossy plate paper. $300.00.

____ . The New Flora and Sylva. London: Dulau, 1929-1934. Edited by E H M Cox. Six volumes bound in six, ¾ leather by Bennett Book Studios, for John G Kidd & Sons. Photographically illustrated, with occasional chromolithographs. Fine. $200.00.

Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs. NY: Webster, 1885. Two volumes, half leather. Good, only light wear. Bookplates of Robert Mitchell Ekings. $150.00.

Hayes, W Woodrow. You Win With PEOPLE! [Columbus, OH?: the author?, 1973] Three line inscription on front free endpage signed Woody Hayes. Fine, jacket lacking top 1” at top of spine. $100.00.

Henry, Matthew. A Method for Prayer. Morristown, NJ: Johnson, 1818. Jacob Mann, printer. Full leather, original spine, but restitched. Back cover loose. Provenance: William Mahan, Juliet Mahan, Nancy Mahan. $30.00.

Irving, Washington. The Angler. Np: privately printed for A S W Rosenbach, December, 1931. Printed by The Southworth Press. #45 of 150 copies. Five-line inscription by Rosenbach to Mrs H C Folger, December, 1931, on front free endpage. Some wear to front cover corners, otherwise VG, including paper label. $35.00.

Jackson, Shirley. The Lottery. NY: Farrar Straus, 1949. With the FS logo on copyright page, $2.75 jacket and 53 E 34th St address. Bookplate, otherwise book VG; jacket has been poorly inserted into sleeve leaving some wrinkles and tears to exposed edges. $200.00.

Nixon, Richard M. Six Crises. Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. Stated first edition. Signed on flyleaf, with a 1976 gift inscription on the front free endpage from parents to their children. VG with VG jacket. $30.00.

Parkinson, James. The Chemical Pocket-Book; or Memoranda Chemica. With an Appendix, Containing the Principla Objections to the Antiphlogistic System of Chemistry, by James Woodhouse. Phila: Humphreys, 1802. Two folding plates engraved by Tanner. Provenance: Zaccheus Collins, purchased by the Loganian Library in 1832, later stamped “Duplicate Sold”. Collins was a Philadelphia merchant and amateur botanist who formed a large herbarium, adding to it the herbariuim of the prominent botanist William Baldwin. Collins died without a will, and his collections became separated. Z. Collins inscribed on title page, with the Loganian bookplate. Covers separated but present, internally very good. $100.00.

Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. London & NY: Harrap & Brentano’s, nd[1923]. 382 page issue. All plates present, one B&W plate loose. A pressed flower stain mars page 183. Spine faded. $85.00.

Ruark, Robert. Uhuru: A Novel of Africa Today. NY: McGraw Hill, [1962]. Advance review copy; printed publication date changed by rubber stamp also adding that it was a BOMC selection. Original stiff wraps, title penciled on spine, very good. $30.00.

Salisbury, Frank O. Sarum Chase. London: Murray, [1953]. Revised ed. With a letter from the author to Ms Mary Geissman expressing a desire to meet when Geissman is in the area. With Geissman’s address label tipped to inside front cover. VG., with torn jacket. $35.00.

Schutz, Anton. New York in Etchings. NY: bard, [1939]. #1774 of 2050 copies. Spiral binding, VG with slightly worn jacket. $150.00.

[Widener Collection] Catalogue of Paintings Forming the Private Collection of P. A. B. Widener, Ashbourne – Near Philadelphia. 1885-1900. #97 of 250 copies. Two folio volumes, Modern Paintings, and Early English and Ancient Paintings. Paintings reproduced in photogravure, with tissue guards. Portrait of Widener added to volume I, inscribed “Portrait of Peter A. B. Widener painted by John L Sargent – at ‘Lynnwood Hall’ Pa. 1903”. Volume II half-title inscribed Rebecca N Van Trump from P A B Widener Phila 1900, and later reinscribed to Charles Sewell Glenn by his aunt, Rebecca Newbold Van Trump, September, 1919. Full leather. Bindings broken, backstrips lacking, internally clean. $300.00.

Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. NY: Harcourt, [1927]. “I” under copyright notice. Previous owner’s (Edith Day) inscription dated July 1927 inside front cover. Lettering gone from spine, worn on front cover. $75.00.

A SELECT LIST OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS AT THE BOOTH LIBRARY SALE 2010

[All information on the following Algers is taken from Bennett, Horatio Alger, Jr, A Comprehensive Bibliography]

Alger, Horatio, Jr. Herbert Carter’s Legacy; or, The Inventor’s Son. Boston: Loring, (1875). First edition: first page of publisher’s ads, Tattered Tom, Second Series: April, ’76 for Sam’s Chance, followed by IV. (blank). There may be a slight binding variation; I would describe the spine as having a printer’s ornament above and below “Carter’s”, with a vine above and below the entire title. Fading to spine, only slight wear; C A Speck Jr penciled inside front cover. $75.00.

____. Risen From the Ranks; or, Harry Walton’s Success. Boston: Loring, (1874). First edition: second page of publisher’s ads, Tattered Tom, second series listing I. Julius as the only entry; Luck and Pluck, second series, Risen From the Ranks as the last entry; Bold and Brave Books, only entry is I. Bold and Brave; or, The Fortunes of a Factory Boy. Faded spine, some wear at head and foot; C A Steck Jr penciled inside front cover. $75.00.

____. Sam’s Chance; and How He Improved It. Boston: Loring, (1876). First edition: first page publisher’s ads, Tattered Tom Series, second series IV. (In April, 1877); second page, Brave and Bold Series, III. Shifting for Himself. (In October, 1876). Faded spine, wear at head and foot, hinges cracked, some gatherings started. $50.00.

____. The Young Outlaw; or, Adrift in the Streets. Boston: Loring, (1875). First edition: first page publisher’s ads Seeking His Fortune “Will be Ready in May”; second page, Tattered Tom, second series III. and IV. Blank; third page, Luck and Pluck, second series, IV> Herbert Carter’s Legacy; or, The Inventor’s Son, in October.; Brave and Bold Series, II. ____, in October, 1875.Spine soiled, ½ inch tear at head, lacking lower ½ inch at foot, back cover slightly spotted, slightly cocked. $50.00.

D’Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar. Columbus. NY: Doubleday, 1955. Stated first edition. Birthday inscription to Karla from Nicolas Martin (Nils Maarten) and the D’Aulaires. Slight wear at edges. $35.00.

Disney, Walt. Uncle Remus Stories. Np: Golden, 1947. VG. $20.00.

Edwards, Julie Andrews, and Emma Walton Hamilton. Dumpy Saves Christmas. NY: Hyperion, (2001). Stated first edition. Illustrated by Tony Walton. Generically inscribed by Hamilton on front free endpage. VG. $15.00.