New York: J. Sabin & Sons, 1876. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. List of prices bound in after title. Original printed wrappers, paper spine with title in manuscript (presumably done by Goelet when the price list was added). 2239 lots, priced in pencil. Ogden Goelet's copy, with his name.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Comprising: Mrs. Brown Up the Nile. [1869]. – Mrs. Brown on "Dizzy". [1874]. – Mrs. Brown at the Skating Rink. [1875]. – Mrs. Brown at Cleopatra's Needle. [1878]. – Mrs. Brown and King Cetewayo. [1882]. All published London: George Routledge and Sons. Original "yellow back".....
N.p. s.n., n.d. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Broadside, 9 3/4 x 8 inches. A song sheet printing of Pierpont's celebrated temperance song. Published in his 'Airs of Palestine', it was often sung and reprinted, as on the celebration of Independence Day, 1839, when it was sung at Faneuil Hall.....
[Richmond, VA]: [Hockaday], ca late 1860s-early 1870s. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Some foxing. Hockaday goes on to report that "prospects are favorable for a HEAVY DECLINE in grain and flour especially, and as Produce generally sells better and commands higher prices when new.....
New York: Bangs, Merwin & Co., 1869. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 521 pages. Contemporary black half roan, pebbled black cloth boards, edges untrimmed. Label presenting the copy to The Philomathic Club by F. S. Crawford, Concord (with the Club's name gilt-lettered on spine). 6742 lots. "... buyers were.....
New York: J. Sabin & Sons, 1870. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. xvi, 556 pages, prices realized bound at back as pp. 541-556. Contemporary reddish-brown half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt. 2687 items, catalogued by Joseph Sabin at the collector's home in Chicago and sold in New York.....
New York: Bangs. Merwin, Co., 1875. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 376 pages [without the supplement]. 20th-century blue buckram. 2663 lots, priced throughout in ink. "Field's fortunes declined in the mid-1880s and he was forced to sell his library at auction. Under careful management of master auctioneer Joseph Sabin.....
London: Smith Elder, 1876. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio. Illustrated by the author. Original green quarter morocco, smooth spine gilt-lettered, grey printed boards, top edges gilt. First edition.
Salisbury, CT: The Cantina Press, [1938]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches). Printed on tissue, on one side only of leaves. Original plain salmon wrappers; in a quarter morocco folding case. Scarce and fragile bookseller's catalogue of 28 first editions of T. S. Eliot's.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1) "The Time Has Come," the Walrus Said, "To Talk of Many Things". [East Aurora, NY: Elbert Hubbard, 1895]. 8 pages, 9 x 6 1/4 inches, large illustration by Collin on the front cover, stitched with red thread (first and last leaves separated along spine).....
Philadelphia: [Privately Printed], 1907. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 86 pages. Frontispiece showing Thomas's library. Contemporary red hard-grained morocco, gilt-ruled and -lettered, top edges gilt, by Lippincott's, a presentation binding found on some copies. THE FIRST COPY. First edition of the catalogue of the private library of Philadelphia industrialist.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Tall 8vo. 278 pages, printed in double-columns. Original green cloth, blocked in blind, gilt-lettered. First edition of the first work of detective fiction directly concerned with the world of antiquarian books, booksellers, and book auctions. Gowans' Second-Hand Book Catacombs in New.....
Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1893. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original lavender cloth, paper label on spine, untrimmed. First edition of the first hardcover Stone & Kimball book and the first work with that imprint on its title-page. Number 47 of 50 large-paper copies signed by the publishers. The.....
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New York: Bangs & Co., 1880. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 50 pages. Original printed wrappers; in a cloth folding chemise. A priced copy. "There is in this catalogue, fifty titles which are rare, and fifty more which are scarce. Be kind enough to help yourselves. 'The Book of.....
Providence: s.n., 1886. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Tall 8vo. Portrait of Henry B. Anthony. Contemporary blue half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, by B. P. Sanford. Presumably a large paper copy (measuring 10 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches). With cut signature of Anthony affixed to verso of.....
Providence: Tibbitts, 1883. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. Tibbitts' name, etc. is on a label pasted over "For sale by Tibbitts, Shaw & Co," on title-page and on front cover. "Very scarce" (Hill). Hill, cat. 42: "The earliest bookseller's catalogue devoted entirely to American.....
New York: Leon & Brother, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Engraved title (as used on the front cover of the original wrappers.) Maroon half morocco gilt, marbled boards, gilt edges. The first catalogue devoted totally to American literary first editions. As it listed all of the known works.....
New York: Leon & Brother, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, blue cloth spine. The first catalogue devoted totally to American literary first editions. As it listed all of the known works of the selected authors, it was also the first bibliography of American first editions.....
New York: William Evarts Benjamin, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original white parchment spine and lemon glazed boards, unopened. First edition, limited to 250 copies numbered and signed (with initials) by Benjamin (this is no. 95). The first separate bibliography of an American author, compiled by Beverly.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 1/2 pages, small 4to. "Every body has some 'damned good natured friend.' Let me be your ficus achates on this occasion & point out the amusing passage in the National Journal. You will see that you are not so great a man as we.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 4to, on pale blue paper. Mostly regarding swapping autograph items: a "scrap of Burns with the letter of Gen. Montgomery" from him in exchange for "the letter of Fitzgerald." Fine condition. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 4to. "... The signature of Queen Anne to which you refer is not in my possession, nor have I ever seen it. I have none of the Pope's Bulls, nor have I seen any..." Sprague was a clergyman, author, and one of the.....
Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1864-1875. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Complete set of the 17 catalogues of what the bookseller Drake came to designate, with the fifth number (April 1, 1869), as the "Quarto Series." Various sizes in small 4to and 4to, bound in tan buckram, roan spine label. Bookplate.....
N.p. Privately Printed by Lecram Press for Richard Jean Picard for Noel, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued. First edition, number 33 of 100 copies of this Christmas keepsake, the first publication in book form of Wolfe's 1918 tribute to Rupert Brooke.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4 individual cards, each about 1 3/4 by 2 1/2 inches. Unsigned illustrations by Kate Greenaway, printed in colors. The illustrations show mother, children, and a dog in winter scenes on the cards. Corresponds to Schuster 293, illustrated on Schuster page 200. Thomson 296.
