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Auction archive: Lot number 18

Whitman (Sarah Helen) Hours of Life, and other poems, first edition, Providence, 1853 & others, American literature (c.35)

Estimate
£150 - £200
ca. US$193 - US$257
Price realised:
£55
ca. US$70
Auction archive: Lot number 18

Whitman (Sarah Helen) Hours of Life, and other poems, first edition, Providence, 1853 & others, American literature (c.35)

Estimate
£150 - £200
ca. US$193 - US$257
Price realised:
£55
ca. US$70
Beschreibung:

Whitman (Sarah Helen) Hours of Life, and other poems, first edition, light offsetting, original brown blind-stamped cloth, rubbed, spine ends a little worn, Providence, 1853 § Whittier (John G., introduction) The Journal of John Woolman, original terracotta cloth, gilt, Boston, 1871 § Washington (Booker T.) Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, frontispiece, some foxing, 1902 § Willard (Frances E.) My Happy Half-Century: The Autobiography of an American Woman, plates, 1894 § Conrad (Robert T.) Aylmere, or the Bondman of Kent; and other poems, ink inscription and old sticker to title, some leaves becoming loose, Philadelphia, 1852 § Myerson (Joel) Emily Dickinson: A Descriptive Bibliography, Pittsburgh, 1984, all original cloth, most rubbed, the fifth with spine worn and torn; and c.30 others, American literature, some reference, 8vo et infra (c.35) ⁂ Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-78) was an American poet and spiritualist who at one point was engaged to Edgar Allan Poe.

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Whitman (Sarah Helen) Hours of Life, and other poems, first edition, light offsetting, original brown blind-stamped cloth, rubbed, spine ends a little worn, Providence, 1853 § Whittier (John G., introduction) The Journal of John Woolman, original terracotta cloth, gilt, Boston, 1871 § Washington (Booker T.) Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, frontispiece, some foxing, 1902 § Willard (Frances E.) My Happy Half-Century: The Autobiography of an American Woman, plates, 1894 § Conrad (Robert T.) Aylmere, or the Bondman of Kent; and other poems, ink inscription and old sticker to title, some leaves becoming loose, Philadelphia, 1852 § Myerson (Joel) Emily Dickinson: A Descriptive Bibliography, Pittsburgh, 1984, all original cloth, most rubbed, the fifth with spine worn and torn; and c.30 others, American literature, some reference, 8vo et infra (c.35) ⁂ Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-78) was an American poet and spiritualist who at one point was engaged to Edgar Allan Poe.

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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