Lot 174
North American literature
Collection of works, 19th-20th century
£1,500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
including:
[Irving, Washington]. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. No. I [-VII.]. New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1819-20. First editions, early printings, 7 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (20.6 x 13cm), contemporary maroon calf, parts 1-2 continuously paginated, remaining parts separately paginated, penciled annotation 'Bound from the parts [...] 2nd printing' to front free endpaper, contemporary gift inscriptions to title-pages, bindings sunned and rubbed;
[Early Canadian printing]. The Rising Village, with Other Poems. By Oliver Goldsmith. A Descendant of the Author of "The Deserted Village". Saint John, New Brunswick: published for the author by John McMillan, 1834. 12mo, contemporary cloth, 144 pp., bookplate (Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave), light wear to spine;
[Ball, Charles]. Fifty Years in Chains; or, The Life of an American Slave. New York: H. Dayton, 1860. 8vo, original blue cloth, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, binding rubbed, spine rolled, pp. 265-8 repaired;
Faulkner, William. Salmagundi. And a Poem by Ernest M. Hemingway. Milwaukee: Casanova Press, 1932. One of 525 copies only, large 8vo, original wrappers, light splitting to front joint;
Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. SECOND US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, wood-engraved additional vignette title-pages, front free endpapers with ownership inscriptions 'Benjamin W. Crowninshield', either the US politician (1772-1851) or his grandson (1837–1892), spines sunned;
and 12 others, including Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mother Carey's Chickens, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c.1911 (inscribed by the author), Robert Wilson, Poems, Boston, 1856 (first edition, with secretarial presentation inscription), Hermann Scheffauer, Looms of Life, New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1908 (first edition, inscribed by the author), Richard Eberhart, Thirty One Sonnets, New York: Eakins Press, 1967 (first edition, inscribed by the author), Liam O'Flaherty, The Fairy Goose and Two Other Stories, New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927 (first edition, signed by the author, additionally inscribed by British composer Kaikhosru Sorabji, 1892-1988 'To my dear friend Frank Holliday very affectionately ... K. 30/9/43'), Sir Woodbine Parish, Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, 1852 (second edition, original cloth), and similar (19)
