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Auction archive: Lot number 207

NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE]. - Group of titles.

Estimate
£700 - £1,000
ca. US$1,145 - US$1,636
Price realised:
£25
ca. US$40
Auction archive: Lot number 207

NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE]. - Group of titles.

Estimate
£700 - £1,000
ca. US$1,145 - US$1,636
Price realised:
£25
ca. US$40
Beschreibung:

Group of titles.
HAGGARD, H. Rider. Allan Quartermain. New York: Harper & Bros., 1887. 12mo. Illustrated. Soft paper covers. Condition: front and back covers with tears and losses, spine cracked and with losses of paper to head and tail. first harper’s edition. [With:] SMITH, Mrs. J. Gregory. Atla. New York: Harper & Bros., 1886. 12mo. Full cloth stamped in gilt. first edition, inscribed by the author : “W.J. Robertson Esq / With best Christmas wishes / of Mrs. Gregory Smith. 1898.” [With:] ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. The Sand-Hills of Jutland. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 12mo. Full cloth stamped and ruled in blind. Condition: browning to extremities. first english edition. [With:] LOVEJOY, Joseph C. and Owen. Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy; who was murdered in defence of the liberty of the press, at Alton, Illinois, Nov 7, 1837. New York: John S. Taylor, 1838. 12mo. Full cloth stamped in blind, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Condition: badly foxed throughout, especially to endpapers; bumping to boards. Provenance: Harry Bache Smith [bookplate]. first edition. [With:] HOUSMAN, Clemence. The Were-Wolf. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1896. Large 12mo. Illustrated by Laurence Housman Condition: front board becoming detached at gutter of endpaper; boards faded and bumped. first edition. [With:] GREEN, Anna Katharine. The Sword of Damocles. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1881. 12mo. Publisher’s pictorial cloth stamped in ink. Condition: bumping and shelfwear. first edition. [With:] GREEN, Anna Katharine. Hand and Ring. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1883. 12mo. Illustrated. Publisher’s pictorial cloth stamped in ink. Condition: browning to extremities, first pages detached, front and back boards becoming detached, spine faded, shelfwear, dampstaining to cover. first edition. [With:] LEVER, Charles. Harry Lorrequer. His Confessions and Experiences. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [N.d., circa 1839]. 8vo. Full cloth stamped in blind. Condition: some foxing, especially to endpapers; cloth becoming detached from spine, exposing binding, bumping to corners. [With:] [BENNETT, Emerson]. The Trapper’s Bride; or, the Spirit of Adventure. Cincinnati: U.P. James, 1860. 8vo. Original pink paper wrappers. Unopened. Condition: damp stain to upper third of book; wrappers show areas of creasing and loss, particularly to head of spine, wrappers soiled

Auction archive: Lot number 207
Auction:
Datum:
30 Jun 2009
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Group of titles.
HAGGARD, H. Rider. Allan Quartermain. New York: Harper & Bros., 1887. 12mo. Illustrated. Soft paper covers. Condition: front and back covers with tears and losses, spine cracked and with losses of paper to head and tail. first harper’s edition. [With:] SMITH, Mrs. J. Gregory. Atla. New York: Harper & Bros., 1886. 12mo. Full cloth stamped in gilt. first edition, inscribed by the author : “W.J. Robertson Esq / With best Christmas wishes / of Mrs. Gregory Smith. 1898.” [With:] ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. The Sand-Hills of Jutland. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 12mo. Full cloth stamped and ruled in blind. Condition: browning to extremities. first english edition. [With:] LOVEJOY, Joseph C. and Owen. Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy; who was murdered in defence of the liberty of the press, at Alton, Illinois, Nov 7, 1837. New York: John S. Taylor, 1838. 12mo. Full cloth stamped in blind, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Condition: badly foxed throughout, especially to endpapers; bumping to boards. Provenance: Harry Bache Smith [bookplate]. first edition. [With:] HOUSMAN, Clemence. The Were-Wolf. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1896. Large 12mo. Illustrated by Laurence Housman Condition: front board becoming detached at gutter of endpaper; boards faded and bumped. first edition. [With:] GREEN, Anna Katharine. The Sword of Damocles. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1881. 12mo. Publisher’s pictorial cloth stamped in ink. Condition: bumping and shelfwear. first edition. [With:] GREEN, Anna Katharine. Hand and Ring. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1883. 12mo. Illustrated. Publisher’s pictorial cloth stamped in ink. Condition: browning to extremities, first pages detached, front and back boards becoming detached, spine faded, shelfwear, dampstaining to cover. first edition. [With:] LEVER, Charles. Harry Lorrequer. His Confessions and Experiences. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [N.d., circa 1839]. 8vo. Full cloth stamped in blind. Condition: some foxing, especially to endpapers; cloth becoming detached from spine, exposing binding, bumping to corners. [With:] [BENNETT, Emerson]. The Trapper’s Bride; or, the Spirit of Adventure. Cincinnati: U.P. James, 1860. 8vo. Original pink paper wrappers. Unopened. Condition: damp stain to upper third of book; wrappers show areas of creasing and loss, particularly to head of spine, wrappers soiled

Auction archive: Lot number 207
Auction:
Datum:
30 Jun 2009
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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