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Rare Book Room Archive of Sold Items


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Original Edward Gorey Posters	War Horses Present and Future, Londo: R.A. Everett, 1902	High Court of Justice, London: John Caulfield, 1820	A.I. Cummings ' A Factory Girl Lowell: J.E. Short, 1847

Edward Gorey posters

$2,500 (Sold)

War Horses Present & Future

$200 (Sold)

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Original Edward Gorey Posters

War Horses Present and Future, Londo: R.A. Everett, 1902

High Court of Justice,
London: John Caulfield, 1820

A.I. Cummings '
A Factory Girl
Lowell: J.E. Short, 1847


$1,500 (Sold)	$12,500 (Sold)	$17,000 (Sold)	$5,000 (Sold)
Leaf from the second edition of the first American bible translated into the Native American language by John Eliot, 1680	John James Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America	Signed note from Herman Melville dated November 25th (no year)	Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol London: Chapman & Hall, 1843


$250 (Sold)	$150 (Sold)	$450 (Sold)	$3,000 (Sold)
Joan Miro's Mirografias Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1972	Boston Illustrated Boston:James R. Osgood & Co., 1875	Count Gleichen 's With the Camel Corps Up the Nile London: Chapman & Hall, 1888	William Henry Hill et al. 's The Violin-Makers of the Guarneri Family Privately Printed


$2,500 (Sold)	$175 (Sold)	$450 (Sold)	$12,500 (Sold)
The Harvard Computation Laboratory Staff 's Manual for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator Cambridge: Harvard University, 1946	Andrew Lang's The Secret of the Totem New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1905	W. Park Jr.'s The Game of Golf New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899	Robin Carver's The Book of Sports Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden, 1834.


$3,750 (Sold)	$250 (Sold)	$2,500 (Sold)	$2,500 (Sold)
Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat New York: Random House, 1957	Pamphlet of Sermons & Orations of Nathanael Emmons et. al. Mass: E. Merriam; Isaiah Thomas; Sewall Goodridge, 1799-1804	The Trial of the British Soldiers Boston: Belcher & Armstrong, 1807	Samuel Purchas's His Pilgrimes, the Third Part London: William Stansby, 1625


$2,500 (Sold)	$50,000 (Sold)	$5,000 (Sold)	$12,500 (Sold)
Document signed by President Andrew Jackson in frame 1835	Herman Melville 's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851	Walt Whitman inscription signed and dated Feb. 27, 1886	Signed edition of Felix Salten's Bambi New York: Simon & Schuster, 1929


$500 (Sold)	$375 (Sold)	$500 (Sold)	$5,000 (Sold)
David Ramsay's History of the American Revolution Lexington: Downey & Phillips, 1815	Frank L. Baum's The Tin Woodman of Oz Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1918	La Geographie en Estampes Paris: Lecerf, nd	Secrets of the Brazil London: Longman, 1821


$500 (Sold)	$450 (Sold)	$175 (Sold)	$250 (Sold)
Andrew Wright's The Courthand Restored London: R. Bickerstaff, 1815	Spratling & Faulkner's Sherwood Anderson Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966	Usher Burdick's Last Battle of the Sioux Nation Wisconsin: Worzalla Publishing Co., 1929	J. Lee Humfreville's Twenty Years Among our Hostile Indians New York: Hunter & Co., 1903


$500 (Sold)	$1,500 (Sold)	$250 (Sold)	$5,000 (Sold)
Christine Covert 's Duodecimary: Twelve Marbled Papers Hancock: Gray Parrot, 1994	Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952	Gordon Dunthorne 's Flowers and Fruit Prints of the 18th and 19th Centuries Washington: Privately printed, 1938	Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind New York: Macmillan, 1936


$250 (Sold)	$500 (Sold)	$12,500 (Sold)	$7,500 (Sold)
Robert McCloskey 's Burt Dow: Deep Water Man New York: Viking Press, 1963	Peter Beard 's Diary Japan: Libro Port Publishing Co. Ltd., 1993	Charles Dickens 's A Christmas Carol Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1844	Ltd, signed edition of Ian Fleming 's On Her Majesty's Secret Service London: Jonathan Cape, 1963


$250 (Sold)	$6,500 (Sold)	$2,500 (Sold)	$3,750 (Sold)
Signed, Limited Edition Jack Kerouac 's Visions of Cody New York: New Directions, 1959	Antonio Maria Valsalva Imolensi 's De Aure Humana Tractatus Privately printed: 1704	J.D. Salinger 's Catcher in the Rye Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951	Phineas Thayer 's Casey at the Bat Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1912


$10,000 (Sold)	$12,500 (Sold)	$2,000 (Sold)	$4,000 (Sold)
Abbot & Smith's Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia London: J. Edwards, 1797	Baseball Player's Pocket Companion Boston: Mayhew & Baker, 1860	Limited signed edition Arthur Rackham's Mother Goose New York: The Century Co., 1913	John James Audubon 's Birds of America Vol. VII New York: V.G. Audubon, 1860


$450 (Sold)	$875 (Sold)	$1,500 (Sold)	$2,500 (Sold)
G. Montorgueil 's Jouns a l'Histoire Paris: Boivins & Co., 1908	Fernand Mourlot et al 's Prints from the Mourlot Press Mourlot Press, 1964	Limited edition Jonathan Duft & Peter Meyer's Irish Miniatures in the Abbey Library of St. Gall Urs Graf-Verlag, 1954	Limited Edition James Joyce 's Ulysses Paris: Egoist Press, 1922


$375 (Sold)	$375 (Sold)	$350 (Sold)	$875 (Sold)
Joseph Destrees 's Les Heures de Notre Dame Bruxelles: Lyon-Claesen, 1896	Bound issues of A Travers le Monde Nos. 87-136 1904	Limited signed edition Abba Eban's My Country: The Story of Modern Israel New York: Random House, 1972	Jessamine Ward 's Freaks and Frolics of Little Girls New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1887


$300 (Sold)	$375 (Sold)	$1,000 (Sold)	$3,750 (Sold)
Arthur J. Evans's Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos London: B. Quaritch, 1906	Limited signed edition of Junzaburo Nishiwaki & Masuo Ikeda's Traveler's Joy Tokyo: Nantenshi Gallery, 1974	Thomas Walsh 's Journal of the Late Campaign in Egypt London: Luke Hansard, 1803	Vladmir Nabokov 's Lolita Paris: Olympia Press, 1955

Rare Book Room Archive of Sold Items