Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including the Olympic Manifesto

The Property of a Gentleman [LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH, JULIA WARD HOWE, ET AL] Poems of the "Old South". Boston: Published by the Old South Fair Committee, 1879 8vo (7 3/8 x 6 in.; 186 x 152 mm). Engraved frontispiece and vignettes, interleaves with each bearing the autograph of the corresponding contributor; some toning to text leaves. Originally terracotta cloth over bevelled boards, upper board decoratively lettered and stamped in gilt and black, spine gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, brown coated endpapers; very minor rubbing to corners. Original gray dustjacket printed in black; jacket toned and split with some loss to spine panel. First edition, the rare signed issue, with original jacket The present edition was published two years after the trade edition. It has been reported that 100 copies were printed, but the actual number could have been fewer. Facing each entry is a leaf signed by the contributor, including: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Julia Ward Howe, et al... The rarest limited signed edition of nineteenth century American literature REFERENCE: BAL 9134

[longfellow, henry wadsworth, julia ward howe, et al] | poems of the "old south". boston: published by the old south fair committee, 1879

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Selections from the Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman

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

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Evangeline, A Tale of Arcadie. Boston: William Ticknor & Company, 1847 8vo (184 x 116 mm). 4-page publisher's catalogue dated October 1, 1847 at beginning, early inscription to flyleaf; offsetting from booklabel, a few light spots. Plain publisher's boards with printed paper label to spine; backstrip detatched from upper cover, light shelf wear, hinge starting. Housed in a folding cloth case. Two fragments of a letter from the firm Thomas J. Gannon, Inc. (probably 1940s) offering the copy laid in. First edition, first state, with the intact type ("Long") at 61:1 ﻿Very shortly after printing began, the "ng" of Long dropped out of the plate, and the word was erroneously printed as "Lo" until it was corrected in the fifth edition. Only about ten copies in this first state are known. PROVENANCE Mrs. John Insley Blair (Blairhame booklabel) REFERENCE BAL 12089; Wilson 224

longfellow, henry wadsworth | first edition, first state of evangeline, the blair copy

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The Property of a Gentleman LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH Two First Editions Voices of the Night. Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. 12mo (4 3/8 x 7 in.; 115 x 175 mm). Half-title; on or two stray spots. Original brown paper-covered boards, paper label to cloth spine; some staining to boards, front hinge split but holding, ships to head and tail of spine and paper label. In custom quarter brown morocco over cloth slipcase and folding chemise. First edition, second state, in original boards. BAL 12065. Carolyn Wells (bookplate to front pastedown) — The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems. Cambridge: John Owen, 1846. 8vo (4 3/4 x 7 in.; 120 x 180 mm). Half-title, one or two stray spots. Original cream wrappers, decoratively printed in gold; minor foxing, minor wear to edges, vertical cracks to spine, minor chips to foot of spine. In custom red and brown linen clamshell case. First edition, first printing. BAL 12083 Group lots not subject to return. Together two fine first editions, including Longfellow's first major collection of poetry The Belfry of Bruges, which stands in the center of the Belgian town, once housed a treasury as well as the municipal archives. Built in 1240, it was ravaged by fire in 1280, and the city's records were forever lost. The tower was twice more consumed by flames before Longfellow composed his poem, in which he references these disasters.

longfellow, henry wadsworth | two first editions

The Property of a Gentleman LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH Autograph letter signed ("H. W. Longfellow"), to James T. Fields, 1860, regarding "Paul Revere's Ride," the poem credited with creating a national legend AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("H. W. LONGFELLOW"), TO JAMES T. FIELDS, 1860, REGARDING "PAUL REVERE'S RIDE," THE POEM CREDITED WITH CREATING A NATIONAL LEGEND Autograph letter signed ("H. W. Longfellow"), 3 pages on bifolium (6 1/8 x 4 in.; 155 x 102 mm), Cambridge, Mass., 23 November 1860, to James T. Fields; horizontal folds. [With:] Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 8vo (7 x 4 1/2 in.; 178 x 115 mm). Additional illustrated title, 22-page publisher's catalogue dated November 1863; initial blank and attitional title with light dampstaining at fore-edge. Publisher's brown blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in copper-gilt, top edges gilt, brown-coated endpapers; some wear and fraying at spine ends. Half brown morocco gilt slipcase and chemise; some scuffing. First edition, with a letter from Longfellow to his publisher, James T. Fields, correcting a mistake in the printing of "Paul Revere's Ride". Fields was somewhat of an amateur poet himself, and thought that the final line could be improved. "Paul Revere's Ride" appeared in the January 1861 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, of which Fields was part owner. Several lines were omitted by mistake. The error was corrected when the poem appeared in the 1863 collection, present here. When Paul Revere died in 1818, he was very much remembered for his business acumen and industriousness, rather than his midnight ride. The fame that Longfellow's poem brought to Revere came after the Civil War, and linked to the Colonial Revival Movement of the 1870s. It wasn't until 1878, for example, that the Old North Church posted a plaque noting it as the site of "the signal lanterns of Paul Revere," this acknowledging his standing as a historical figure. REFERENCE: BAL 12136

longfellow, henry wadsworth | autograph letter signed ("h. w. longfellow"), to james t. fields, 1860, regarding "paul revere's ride," the poem credited with creating a national legend

The Property of a Gentleman LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH; AND JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A Group of Six First Editions Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Seaside and the Fireside. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. 8vo (4 1/2 x 7 in.; 115 x 180 mm). Publisher's advertisements bound in at front. Original full brown cloth, covers ruled and elaborately stamped in blind, spine gilt lettered, yellow endpapers; minor rubbing to head and tail of spine. First edition, first printing, in near-fine condition. BAL 12099. Christopher Geest (bookplate to the front pastedown) — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Golden Legend. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851. 8vo (4 1/2 x 7 in.; 115 x 180 mm). Minor toning and offsetting. Original full brown cloth, covers ruled and elaborately stamped in blind, spine gilt lettered, yellow endpapers; minor rubbing to head and tail of spine, a few spots to covers. First edition, first printing. BAL 12102. R.L. Willing (gift inscription to front free endpaper) — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. 8vo (4 1/2 x 7 in.; 115 x 180 mm). Publisher's advertisements at end; minor foxing. Original full brown cloth, covers ruled and elaborately stamped in blind, spine gilt lettered, yellow endpapers; minor rubbing to extremities. In custom quarter red morocco clamshell case. First American edition, first impression. BAL 12112. Mrs. F. H. Randall (signature to title-page) - Libbie R. Lapham (signature to front free endpaper) — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 8vo (4 1/2 x 7 in.; 112 x 177 mm). Etched frontispiece, publisher's advertisements at end; minor toning. Original green textured cloth, covers decoratively ruled in blind, spine gilt-lettered, brown coated endpapers; minor rubbing to head of spine. In custom red and brown linen covered clamshell case. First edition, first state of publisher's catalogue. BAL 12136 —Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Divine Tragedy. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871. 8vo (4 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.; 115 x mm). Minor toning. Original green pebble-grain cloth, gilt device to cover, spine gilt lettered, brown coated endpapers; corners just rubbed. First edition. BAL 12157 — Lowell, James Russell. The Vision of Sir Launfal. Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848. Half-title. Original glazed cream paper covered boards printed in black; some soiling, loss to spine, joints weak but holding. In custom quarter brown morocco slipcase and folding chemise. First edition. BAL 13069. Louisa Norton (contemporary signature to front pastedown) - Donald S. Stralem (booklabel to chemise) Group lots not subject to return. Together a fine group of first editions

longfellow, henry wadsworth; and james russell lowell | a group of six first editions

The Property of a Gentleman LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH Poems on Slavery. Cambridge: John Owen, 1842 8vo (4 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.; 108 x 164 mm). Half-title with presentation inscription in Longfellow's hand; lacking publisher's advertisements. Full red morocco, bound by Bradstreet, spine gilt lettered, turn-ins with multiple gilt rules and gilt floral cornerpieces. In custom red and brown linen clamshell case. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed in Longfellow’s hand, “Rev. R. C. Waterston | from the Author” The present collection of poems was written by Longfellow in support of the United States anti-slavery efforts. Longfellow, who was conscious of his public image, published the poems even though he suspected that doing so would hurt him commercially. Upon the publication of the volume, many people wrote to Longfellow, expressing their disapproval over him having written such verse. Longfellow responded to this criticism by stating that his feelings prompted him to write about such things, and that he had no regrets about writing them. Robert Cassie Waterston was a noted Unitarian clergyman in Boston. Today the bulk of his books are held in the Massachusetts Historical Society. REFERENCES BAL 12068 PROVENANCE Robert Cassie Waterston (author's inscription to half-title) — Stephen Wakeman (book label to front pastedown; his sale, American Art Association, 29 April 1924, lot 657)

longfellow, henry wadsworth | poems on slavery. cambridge: john owen, 1842

The Property of a Gentleman LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH Two First Editions The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. 8vo (4 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.; 115 x 185 mm). Publisher's advertisements dated October 1858 at end; minor toning, a few stray spots. Original brown cloth, covers ruled and decoratively stamped in blind, gilt lettering to spine, brown coated endpapers; minute repair to head of spine, advertisement for Waverley novels tipped on to front free endpaper. First edition, first printing. BAL 12122 — The New England Tragedies. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. 12mo (4 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.; 114 x 174 mm). Minor toning. Original full green cloth (BAL binding “A”), covers ruled in blind, upper cover and spine gilt lettered, brown coated endpapers; slight rubbing to head of spine. In custom red and brown linen clamshell case. First edition, first printing, Oliver Wendell Holmes' copy. BAL 12150. Oliver Wendell Holmes (“Chambered Nautilus” bookplate to front pastedown. Group lots not subject to return. Holmes and Longfellow were friends—indeed, the Fireside Poets were, in fact, cousins as well. Holmes, a great admirer of Longfellow's, regarded him as one who "wins and warms ... kindles, softens, cheers [and] calms the wildest woe and stays the bitterest tears!" The present volume bears the bookplate of Holmes, which features the chambered nautilus. A polymath who was both a successful novelist and served as Dean of Harvard Medical School during his lifetime, Holmes felt that the nautilus was an excellent metaphor for personal or institutional progress, growth, survival, and adaptability. He immortalised the organism through his own verse, and here the image is accompanied by the motto per ampliora ad altiora (“through greater breadth to greater depth”). A wonderful association copy

Fine Books and Manuscripts

[Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Julia Ward Howe, et al]

[Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Julia Ward Howe, et al] Poems of the "Old South": Boston: Published by the Old South Fair Committee, 1879 Small 4to. Engraved frontispiece and vignettes, interleaves with each bearing the autograph of the corresponding contributor; some toning to text leaves. In original green cloth boards, upper board decoratively lettered and stamped in gilt and black, spine gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, brown coated endpapers; very minor rubbing to corners and spine ends, cracked hinge. Original gray dustjacket printed in black; jacket toned with losses to front, rear, and spine panels, owner's inscription in pencil on front flap. First edition, the rare signed issue, with original jacket. The present edition was published two years after the trade edition. It has been reported that 100 copies were printed, but the actual number could have been fewer. Facing each entry is a leaf signed by the contributor, including: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Julia Ward Howe, et al. REFERENCE BAL 9143 PROVENANCE Charles W. Pilgrim (bookplate paste-down on front endpaper)

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[longfellow, henry wadsworth, julia ward howe, et al] | one of the rarest limited signed editions of nineteenth century american literature

Fine Autograph Letters and Manuscripts from a Distinguished Private Collection: Part II | Music, Americana, English and Continental Literature

James, William. Autograph note signed, regarding Professor James Young Simpson. 1 page (5 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.; 145 x 166 mm) on paper, written in black ink. Chocorua, New Hampshire, dated "Sept 30" [no year]; signed ("Wm. James"); one or two smudges. "Prof. J.Y. Simpson has probably returned to Edinburgh," James writes. "I have heard nothing of or from him since the Zoological Congress week." William James—brother of Henry James—was a philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James Young Simpson was primarily a zoologist, but following the WWI, he was also involved in establishing the Baltic States and Finland as autonomous countries. Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Autograph letter signed to a Mr. Miller in response to a note he sent the writer. 1 page (5 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.; 130 x 206 mm) on paper, written in black ink. Talbot House, Arundel Street, Strand, London, on "Idler Illustrated Monthly" stationery, no date, signed ("Jerome K. Jerome"); one or two tray spots. Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for Three Men in a Boat (1889). Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Autograph letter signed to a Miss Thurmond(?), agreeing to a request. 1 page (4 1/2 x 7 in.; 114 x 178 mm) on paper in black ink. Cambridge, 14 April 1875, signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"); minor spotting and toning, hole to lower margin, not affecting text. "It gives me great pleasure to comply with your request," Longfellow writes, "and withe best wishes, I am yours sincerely".  Longfellow was one of the five Fireside Poets from New England, and the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. 

a group of 3 autograph letters signed

THE JAMES S. COPLEY LIBRARY: ARTS & SCIENCES, INCLUDING THE MARK TWAIN COLLECTION

A significant correspondence from Longfellow to family friend Robert Ferguson, comprising 15 autograph letters signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"; "H.W.L."), Cambridge (Massachusetts), Nahant, Liverpool, Edinburgh, and Rome, 15 January 1865–4 July 1880, written on a variety of bifolia (one written on a blank leaf of a letter by his daughter Edith), totalling 54 pages. The Longfellow letters are accompanied by 36 autograph letters signed to Ferguson by the poet's daughter Edith, and by an autograph letter signed to Longfellow from the naturalist Louis Agassiz,12 March 1865. All contained in mylar folders in a three-ring binder, buckram slipcase. 

longfellow, henry wadsworth

Autograph transcript signed ("Henry W. Longfellow") of his poem "A Psalm of Life. What the heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist," 3 pages on a bifolium of light blue paper (9 x 6 3/4 in.; 227 x 172 mm), Cambridge, 26 August 1845; a few pinholes in margins, marginal annotation in another hand at head of first page ("Longfellow born in Maine America 1807"). Red morocco portfolio gilt.

The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part VI

8vo (175 x 113mm.), FIRST EDITION, ONE OF THE DE-LUXE 'GILT EXTRA' COPIES, with the first printing points listed by BAL ("one" on p.279 present but with "n" printed slightly imperfectly), without the publisher's advertisements present in some copies, VARIANT BINDING in blue cloth, all edges gilt, covers ruled and decorated in blind, central arabesque designs in gilt on covers, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, collector's matching protective case within red cloth case and quarter red morocco slipcase, some slight wear at head and base of the spine and along edges

the song of hiawatha. boston: ticknor and fields, 1855

8vo (179 x 116mm.), FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (with first printing points as listed in BAL but with "n" present in "one" on p.279), advertisements dated November 1855 at end, original brown cloth, covers decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, collector's matching close case and quarter morocco slipcase, some slight browning to end-leaves

2 volumes, 8vo (201 x 124mm.), FIRST EDITION, title page in setting A, original tan boards, white labels printed in black on spines, collector's cloth cases and quarter blue morocco slipcase

hyperion, a romance. new york: samuel colman, 1839

longfellow, henry wadsworth. evangeline, a tale of acadie. new york: öthomas de vinne...

The Poetical [-Prose] Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. Boston & New York: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, 1904.

The Poetical [-Prose] Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. Boston & New York: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, 1904. 7 volumes, in 8s (7 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 194 x 125 mm). Numerous plates. Contemporary brown half morocco, top edges gilt; minor rubbing. The Amesbury edition, with portraits, illustrations and facsimiles. With: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Poetical [-Prose] Works [and:] The Divine Comedy. Boston & New York: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, 1904 11 volumes, in 8s (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.; 190 x 125 mm). Numerous plates. Contemporary green half morocco; some rubbing to extremities.

whittier, john greenleaf; longfellow, henry wadsworth

longfellow, henry wadsworth.

probably Robinson and Leadbeater, raised on a waisted socle base.

an english parian ware bust of henry wadsworth longfellowcirca 1880

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Darwin, Charles Signature ("Charles Darwin | Down, Kent | Oct. 12th 1879") on a card Stiff card (42 x 76 mm) mounted on a leaf of an autograph book (120 x 190 mm), the book also signed by six United States presidents ("Woodrow Wilson, Washington, 14 Nov., 1917"; "Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Thanksgiving Day, 1917"; "Wm. H Taft, July 7th 1918—New Haven, Conn."; "With best wishes, Calvin Coolidge, 1924"; "U. S. Grant" [clipped signature on a mounted card]; "Grover Cleveland" [on a mounted letter signed, 30 July 1884, to Samuel H. Rice]) and by other notables, including Thomas A. Edison, Benito Mussolini, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (on a mounted card), Salvador Dali (on a card artlessly taped in), Jane Addams, and others; the signatures evidently collected by Virginia Harold, who has signed the front free endpaper. Limp green calf gilt.

View 1 of Lot 1215: Darwin, Charles | A fine signature of Charles Darwin from Down House

darwin, charles | a fine signature of charles darwin from down house

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.

grolier one hundred: literature | a group of 14 titles, and one autograph letter signed

Hyde Park Antiques: Past, Present and Future Part II

Literature Works Include: Leo Tolstoy. The Works. London: Walter Scott, [N.D.]. 15 vols, 8vo. — Dante Alighieri - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (trans.). The Divine Comedy. New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago: The Nottingham Society, ca. 1902. 4 vols, 8vo. — (Mystery Library). Cleveland and New York: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., ca. 1930. 9 vols, 8vos. Titles include: Edgar Wallace, Silinski Master Criminal; Edward Stilgebauer, The Star of Hollywood; Chester K. Steele, The Mansion of Mystery; Maurice Leblanc, Arsene Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes; Armstrong Livingston, The Monk of Hambleton; Jermyn March, The Scarlet Thumb; John Laurence, The Secret of Sheen; and Wilfrid Usher, The Great Hold-Up Mystery. — Jean Pierre Claris De Florian. Oeuvres de Florian. Paris: Chez Ménard, 1838. 12 vols., 8vo. (Sold as a group—not subject to return.)

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literature, a group of works

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman | Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana 

Roosevelt, Franklin D., & Winston Churchill

Roosevelt, Franklin D., & Winston Churchill Lithographed broadside signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt ("Franklin D Roosevelt") as thirty-second President, and Winston Churchill ("Winston S. Churchill") as Prime Minister. [np, nd, but August 1941] Lithographic card (171 x 223 mm) pictorially printed in orange and black, with a galleon at sea printed in gray, label to verso of Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd; minor toning. Matted, framed, and glazed; not examined out of frame. A scarce broadside signed by two great wartime leaders In 1941, President Roosevelt forwarded a message to Churchill via Wendell Wilkie, who had been Roosevelt's political opponent in the presidential election of 1940. The message read: "Wendell Wilkie will give you this — He is truly helping to keep politics out over here. I think this verse applies to you people as it does to us: Sail on, Oh Ship of State! / Sail on, Oh Union strong and great. / Humanity with all its fears / With all the hope of future years / Is hanging breathless on thy fate." Churchill reproduced the lines of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's verse quoted in Roosevelt's message as a decorative keepsake for distribution to the attendees of the first wartime conference between the two leaders. Held at sea in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, during August of 1941, the conference resulted in the issuance of the Atlantic Charter. A few of the copies were signed by the two leaders, including the present, which was given to General Henry "Hap" Arnold. PROVENANCE Estate of General H. H. "Hap" Arnold (Bonhams New York, 11 June 2008, lot 2361)

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roosevelt, franklin d., & winston churchill | atlantic conference broadside, signed by both wartime leaders

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman [American Literature] A group of seven titles and one autograph note Lot includes: Alcott, Louisa May. Little Men. Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. 8vo. 4 pp. ads, signature "1" on first page of text, frontispiece; ownership stamps to flyleaves, lightly toned. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt; light shelf wear. First American edition, first issue. BAL 167 [With] Autograph note from Louisa May Alcott [np, nd], "Miss Alcott's so busy she cannot write notes to little girls. If she did there would be no stories for them to read"; folds. Housed in a custom slipcase. — Bierce, Ambrose. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, 1891. 8vo. Original brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; lightly rubbed. Housed in a custom slipcase. First edition. Grolier 100-94. — Dos Passos, John. U.S.A. Trilogy: The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. 3 volumes, 8vos. Illustrated by Reginald Marsh. Publisher’s cream buckram over beveled boards, morocco title labels to spine and upper cover, gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, housed in a cloth slipcase with printed paper label to spine. Limited edition, number 202 of 365 sets, signed by the author and illustrator on limitation page. — [Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth]. Outre-Mer; A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea. No. 1 [and No. II]. No. 1: Boston: Hilliard, Gray & Co. 1833. 8vo. Spotting throughout. Original printed yellow marbled wrappers; worn, silked in places, losses to extremities. No. 2: Boston: Lilly, Wait, and Company, 1834. 8vo. Spotting throughout. Cloth-backed drab paper boards; lightly stained and worm. Together 2 volumes, first editions, the Blair copy (booklabels) housed in a custom slipcase. BAL 12053 & 12056. — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems. Cambridge: John Owen, 1846. in 8s. Partially unopened; lightly toned. White paper wrappers, titled and decorated in gold; lightly soiled and worn. Housed in a custom slipcase. First edition, the Blair copy (Blairhame booklabel to chemise; Christie's 14 December 2016, lot 247). — Salzmannn, Christian Gotthilf; Mary Wollstonecraft [Translator]. Elements of Morality, for the Use of Children. Philadelphia: J. Hoff & H. Kammerer, 1796. First American Edition, 2 volumes, 12mo. 2 pp. ads, 20 hand-colored plates; scattered soiling throughout; Early tree calf; rebacked and somewhat worn. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Ex Samuel W. Pennypacker (bookplate to pastedowns). — Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. 8vo. Original blue-mesh cloth, dust jacket; inner flaps with corners clipped, a bit soiled, some wear at corners, small split at foot of front joint, head of spine a bit chipped. First edition, first state with page viii so numbered and with the third line from the bottom of page 19 reading "sence"; first issue jacket without the reviews on the rear panel. Sold as a group lot, not subject to return.

[american literature] | a group of seven titles and one autograph note

The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin

John Estaugh A Call to the Unfaithful Professors of Truth, … to which is added Divers Epistles of the same Author. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, M,DCC,XLIV (1744) 8vo (142 x 92 mm). Type ornaments in text; very minor pale spotting, mostly affecting the final four leaves. Contemporary paneled calf, blind tooled, likely Philadelphian; rather rubbed, wear to extremities, the binding sound and in entirely original condition. First edition of a rare Franklin imprint—a tract by the prominent Quaker minister John Estaugh encouraging his fellow Friends of Truth to live up to their faith. Franklin printed around 2,000 copies of this short theological text for the author's widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Estaugh, who also wrote the preface. "The large number of copies printed in this edition suggests that Mrs. Estaugh meant the book to be distributed to the monthly meetings of the Friends of the Philadelphia-Burlington Yearly Meeting. She presented 200 copies to her own Haddonfield N.J. Meeting, May 17, 1744" (Miller). Elizabeth Estaugh, born Haddon, was the founder of Haddon Township and Haddonfield, New Jersey. She emigrated alone from England to New Jersey, and developed the Haddonfield Plantation. John Estaugh, whom she had met earlier in England, followed her to America and, soon after, they were married. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow drew on an account of the Estaughs' courtship for his poem "Elizabeth" in Tales of a Wayside Inn. Subsequent editions appeared in London and Dublin, both in 1745. Very rare at auction—only one other copy has sold in the last sixty years, according to Rare Book Hub. REFERENCES Miller 348; ESTC W37661; Evans 5390; Hildeburn 876; Sabin 23040 PROVENANCE Likely Sotheby's London, Catalogue of Valuable Books and Manuscripts... of the Library of the Late P. M. Pittar, 4 November, 1918, Lot 245 ("original panel calf … fine clean copy")

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john estaugh | a rare quaker tract printed by benjamin franklin

Books &amp; Manuscripts

A fine group of 6 framed literary autographs and 4 books signed or inscribed, as follows:

A fine group of 6 framed literary autographs and 4 books signed or inscribed, as follows: Santayana, George. Autograph letter, signed ("G Santayana"), 1 page (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.; 260 x 165 mm), Rome, 20 April 1928 via Brown Shipley Co., London, to Marshall A. Best, Viking Press, with accompanying stamped envelope, matted, glazed and framed with photo portrait. Acknowledges receipt of Hillyer's The Seventh Hill, and expresses his thoughts on poetry and the differences between the British and American varieties. — Eliot, Thomas Stearns. Autograph letter, signed ("Tom Eliot"), 2 pages (7 3/4 x 7 in.; 197 x 178 mm), on letterhead "24 Russell Square WC 1, Museum 9543," 1 April 1957, to Cecilia, matted, glazed and framed with a portrait photo. Thanking her for her good wishes on his recent marriage, asks for her help in presenting his wife at a Garden Party: "The point is that it would be very embarrassing to have a royal command in which my wife was not included!" — Frost, Robert. "Acquainted with the Night." Autograph manuscript, signed ("Robert Frost"), 1 page (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.; 190 x 145 mm), 14 lines, San Antonio, 5 January 1937, "For Mrs. Emmaline Jones," matted, glazed and framed with portrait photo. — Lewis, Clive Staples. Autograph letter, signed ("C.S. Lewis"), 1 page (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.; 171 x 105 mm), on letterhead "Magdalen College, Oxford," 21 January 1942, to Mrs. Eyre, matted, glazed and framed with portrait photo. Offers his impression of Buddhism: "and if His final aim is simply to suck us in again why did He originally puff us out?" Thanks her for making his Allegory of Love a bedside book, a "compliment almost beyond ambition. My own are Alice, The Wind in the Willows and Boswell." — Douglas, Alfred Bruce. Autograph letter, signed ("Alfred Douglas"), 2 pages (8 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.; 215 x 168 mm), on letterhead "1 St. Ann's Court, Nizells Avenue, Hove 2, Sussex", 23 September 1942, to an unnamed correspondent, matted, glazed and framed, with a portrait photo with Oscar Wilde. Reflecting on his relationship with Wilde "it can do no good to Wilde to pretend that he was a saint as you seem inclined to do. My own book ... is written in spirit of charity & affection and I have said in his favour all that is possible to be said." — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Autograph quotation of the last two stanzas of "The Arsenal at Springfield", signed "Henry W Longfellow", 1 page (4 x 6 1/4 in.; 102 x 158 mm), 8 lines, dated 1 January 1880. With 4 books: Rudolph Valentino. Day Dreams. New York: Macfadden, 1923, inscribed — Norman Douglas. Old Calabria. London: Martin Becker, [1915], inscribed — Robert Frost. West-Running Brook. New York: Holt, 1928, number 699 of 980 copies, signed by Frost — W. Somerset Maugham. Cakes and Ale. Melbourne-London-Toronto: Heinemann, [1954], number 551 of 1000 copies signed by the author and the artist.

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English Literature, History, Children's Books &amp; Illustrations

large 8vo, first edition, 2 volumes extended to 4, no. 94 of 350 copies, illustrations, extra-illustrated copy with 352 portraits and views inserted by John P. Woodbury, together with 22 autograph letters signed, one autograph note signed and one document signed, including letters by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife Sophia and his daughters Rosa and Una, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Mary Howitt, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowe and Mrs Henry Wood, an autograph note signed by Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, and a document note signed by Henry Stevens of Vermont, full brown morocco gilt by Macdonald & Sons, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, the other edges uncut, minor fading to spines

nathaniel hawthorne and his wife. a  biography. cambridge, massachusetts, at the university press, 1884

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891 In 8s (8 5/8 x 6 in.; 218 x 152 mm). Frontispiece, 22 photogravure plates after Remington, numerous marginal illustrations. Original publisher's pictorial gilt suede, spine lettered gilt, green-coated endpapers, top edge gilt; front hinge repaired. Green dust-jacket lettered in red on upper wrapper and spine; spine ends and flaps chipped, some repair to backstrip, inside corners clipped, spine browned.

(remington, frederick, illus.)

Property from Kennedy Family Homes

Retailed by Richard Briggs, Boston, the neck with band of blossoms and the titles of poems over a body decorated with a print of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the reverse with a poem entitled "Keramos,"  impressed factory mark and numerals.

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