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Auction archive: Lot number 24

AMERICAN AUTHORS -- INSCRIBED BOOKS]. WYLIE, ELINOR. Jennifer Lorn. 1923. Dust jacket (bit rubbed and soiled) . First Printing, Second Issue as usual (BAL 23495). INSCRIBED TO VINCENT STARRETT in 1927 -- ADE, GEORGE. In Babel. 1903. Front inner hinge...

Auction 15.10.1997
15 Oct 1997
Estimate
US$700 - US$900
Price realised:
US$460
Auction archive: Lot number 24

AMERICAN AUTHORS -- INSCRIBED BOOKS]. WYLIE, ELINOR. Jennifer Lorn. 1923. Dust jacket (bit rubbed and soiled) . First Printing, Second Issue as usual (BAL 23495). INSCRIBED TO VINCENT STARRETT in 1927 -- ADE, GEORGE. In Babel. 1903. Front inner hinge...

Auction 15.10.1997
15 Oct 1997
Estimate
US$700 - US$900
Price realised:
US$460
Beschreibung:

AMERICAN AUTHORS -- INSCRIBED BOOKS]. WYLIE, ELINOR. Jennifer Lorn. 1923. Dust jacket (bit rubbed and soiled) . First Printing, Second Issue as usual (BAL 23495). INSCRIBED TO VINCENT STARRETT in 1927 -- ADE, GEORGE. In Babel. 1903. Front inner hinge broken . INSCRIBED for J.L. Ingraham in 1930 with 12 lines about this book -- [DUNNE, FINLEY PETER]. Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War. Boston, 1898. Offset on endpapers; half morocco slipcase . Author's first book, INSCRIBED to Harry Brown "with compliments...Dec. 8, 1898" -- KELLY, GEORGE. Craig's Wife. Boston, 1926. Covers slightly soiled; half morocco slipcase . INSCRIBED the month after publication -- WESCOTT, GLENWAY. The Apple of the Eye. 1924. Covers faded . INSCRIBED TO WILLIAM ROSE BENET "with many thanks for a number of 'gentle courtesies'" -- HUBBARD, ELBERT. A Message to Garcia. [East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1899]. Brown suede, last few leaves with marginal dampstain; half morocco slipcase . First Edition (?), one of 940 numbered and signed copies, INSCRIBED BY HUBBARD as "Fra Elbertus" -- And 9 other volumes, mainly New York, 1917-42, nearly all original bindings, varying condition , including a work each by Edgar Lee Masters, Kreymborg, Starrett, and A.E. Newton, each either inscribed, signed and/or with a letter laid in by the respective author. New York, except as noted. Together 15 vols., 8vo, virtually all in original bindings . FIRST EDITIONS, except as indicated. (15)

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

AMERICAN AUTHORS -- INSCRIBED BOOKS]. WYLIE, ELINOR. Jennifer Lorn. 1923. Dust jacket (bit rubbed and soiled) . First Printing, Second Issue as usual (BAL 23495). INSCRIBED TO VINCENT STARRETT in 1927 -- ADE, GEORGE. In Babel. 1903. Front inner hinge broken . INSCRIBED for J.L. Ingraham in 1930 with 12 lines about this book -- [DUNNE, FINLEY PETER]. Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War. Boston, 1898. Offset on endpapers; half morocco slipcase . Author's first book, INSCRIBED to Harry Brown "with compliments...Dec. 8, 1898" -- KELLY, GEORGE. Craig's Wife. Boston, 1926. Covers slightly soiled; half morocco slipcase . INSCRIBED the month after publication -- WESCOTT, GLENWAY. The Apple of the Eye. 1924. Covers faded . INSCRIBED TO WILLIAM ROSE BENET "with many thanks for a number of 'gentle courtesies'" -- HUBBARD, ELBERT. A Message to Garcia. [East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1899]. Brown suede, last few leaves with marginal dampstain; half morocco slipcase . First Edition (?), one of 940 numbered and signed copies, INSCRIBED BY HUBBARD as "Fra Elbertus" -- And 9 other volumes, mainly New York, 1917-42, nearly all original bindings, varying condition , including a work each by Edgar Lee Masters, Kreymborg, Starrett, and A.E. Newton, each either inscribed, signed and/or with a letter laid in by the respective author. New York, except as noted. Together 15 vols., 8vo, virtually all in original bindings . FIRST EDITIONS, except as indicated. (15)

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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