Grolier One Hundred: Literature | A group of 14 titles, and one autograph letter signed

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman

Grolier One Hundred: Literature 

A group of 14 titles, and one autograph letter signed

Lot includes: Arthur, Timothy Shay. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854; 8vo, woodcut frontispiece and half-title; early ownership signature to rear flyleaf, light spotting. Original publisher's cloth, spine gilt; faded, a bit rubbed, scattered soiling, spine cocked. Housed in a custom clamshell. First edition, first issue. Grolier 100-62. — Bulfinch, Thomas. The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes. Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin, 1855. 8vo. early ownership signature to front pastedown. Publisher's patterned red cloth, spine gilt; chips to head- and tail-pieces, spine a bit faded. Housed in a custom red slipcase. First edition, first printing. Grolier 100-65. — Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Little Lord Fauntleroy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. Square 8vo. 14 pp. ads at rear. Publisher's pictorial brown cloth; extremities lightly rubbed. Housed in a custom slipcase. First edition, first issue. Grolier 100-89. [With] 5 pp. Autograph Letter Signed ("Frances Hodgson Burnett") to Robert Underwood Johnson, her editor at Century Magazine, Plandrome Park, Long Island, 20 November 1912. — Green, Anna Katharine. The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. 8vo, 2 folding plates; splits to folds. Publisher's brown cloth, lettered in black, spine gilt; rebacked, lightly soiled. Housed in a custom slipcase with chemise.  First Edition. Grolier 100-80. — Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. 8vo; bookseller's stamp and early ownership signature to flyleaves. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, coated brown endpapers; extremities lightly rubbed, hinges cracked. Housed in a custom slipcase. First edition, first issue. Grolier 100-76. — Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1881. 8vo; early ownership signature to title-page, title partially separated. Publisher's green pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped title on spine, coated brown endpapers; rebacked. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Grolier 100-84. — Howells, William Dean. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. 8vo. Original brown cloth, stamped in black and gilt; light shelf-wear. Custom slipcase with chemise. First Edition; Grolier 100-88. — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Ballads and Other Poems. Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. 8vo, uncut; light spotting. Original glazed boards; rebacked (as usual), some discoloration to covers. Housed in a custom pull-off case. First edition, first issue, the Blair copy (booklabel). Grolier 100-4. — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. 8vo. 12 pp. ads dated November 1855 at end. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Housed in a custom slipcase. First edition, first printing with "dove" on p. 96 instead of dived, the Blair copy (booklabel). Grolier 100-66. — Lowell, James. The Biglow Papers. Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848. 12mo. Original plum cloth stamped in blind and in gilt; front hinge cracked, spine somewhat faded. First edition, first issue with only Nichols imprint. Grolier 100-57. [With] The Biglow Papers. Second Series. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 12mo. Original cloth; hinges starting. First American trade edition with only Nichols imprint. Housed in a custom slipcase. Ex, Jean Hersholt (bookplates). — Markham, Edwin. The Man with the Hoe. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1899. 2 pp. ads at rear. Printed wrappers, stab stitch; covers separated and reinforced. First printing in booklet form, signed and dated by Markham on a sheet of paper tipped inside the front wrapper, accompanied by one panel of the original printed mailing envelope from the book's first publication; gilt morocco bookplates of Frank Hogan and Hannah D. Rabinowitz inside the chemise, housed in a custom slipcase with chemise. Grolier 100-99.— Simms, William Gilmore. The Yemassee. A Romance of Carolina. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. 2 vols., 8vo; spotting. Original blue cloth, printed spine labels; a bit cocked, chips to spine labels, vol. 1 covers lightly soiled. House in a custom slipcase. First edition, first printing of each. Grolier 100-40. — Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt; light shelf-wear, a few spots of soiling. First edition. Ex. John Gregory Hodgins (bookplate). Housed in a custom case. Grolier 100-73. — [Grolier Club]. One Hundred Influential American Books before 1900. Catalogue and Address. New York: Grolier Club, 1947. First edition, one of 600 copies.

Group lots not subject to return.