American Art Association: The Collection of the late William F. Gable of Altoona, Pennsylvania Part Eight. American, English, first editions, manuscripts autographs of famous authors and statesmen, presidents of the United States, Signers and other celebrities, &c. To be sold on t, 1925Apr16,

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 16, 1925 - April 16, 1925

Page Size: 578 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Alken Colored Plates. Real Life in Ireland, or, the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and ...	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
2	Daboll (Nathan)	Almanacs. The New England Almanack . . . for the Year 1803. New London [1802]. Writing in ink on ...			USD -	Unknown
3		American Humorists. Shillaber (B. P.--Editor). Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the ...			USD -	Unknown
4		Art. Rodin. The Man and his Art. Compiled by Judith Cladel and Translated by S. K. Star. New York ...			USD -	Unknown
5		Art Books. The Toledo Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition. 1912; The Wallace ...			USD -	Unknown
6		Art Books. The Studio. Year Book of Decorative Art. 1909 (2), 1911 (2), 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916 (2 ...	London	1909-1918	USD -	Unknown
7		Artists' Monograms. Rubens, Durer, Van Dyck, and Holbein, by H. Knackfuss; Leonardo da Vinci, by A ...	Various places	1899-1904	USD -	Unknown
8	Bancroft (George)	Poems.	Cambridge	1823	USD -	Unknown
9	Bangs (John K.)	Cobwebs from a Library Corner. N. Y., 1899; A House-Boat on the Styx. N. Y., 1903; Half Hours with ...			USD -	Unknown
10		Benois (Alexandre). The Russian School of Painting. With an Introduction by C. Brinton. New York ...			USD -	Unknown
11	Booth (Edwin)	Autograph Letter Signed.			USD -	Unknown
12	Buchanan (Robert)	The Fleshly School of Poetry and Other Phenomena of the Day; The Same.	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
13	Burns (Robert)	The Complete Works of Robert Burns. (Self Interpreting.)	Philadelphia	[1886]	USD -	Unknown
14	Burns (Robert)	The Letters of Burns. Engraved titles. 2 vols. in one. London, 1819. First Separate Edition ...			USD -	Unknown
15		Burns (Robert). Complete Poetical Works. Illustrated. New York: Virtue & Yorston [1866]; Tam o' ...			USD -	Unknown
16	Burns (Robert)	Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock, 1786. [Kilmarnock, 1870.] Facsimile of the ...			USD -	Unknown
17	Burritt (Elihu)	Three Autograph Letters Signed.		1858	USD -	Unknown
18	Burroughs (John)	Original Autograph Manuscript Signed, John Burroughs, of his poem, The Return.			USD -	Unknown
19		Butler (E. P.). Pigs is Pigs. N. Y., 1906; Ticknor (F. O.). Poems. Edited by K. M. R. Phila., 1879 ...	New York, etc.	various dates	USD -	Unknown
20		Calhoun (Arthur W.). A Social History of the American Family. Vol. III. Since the Civil War ...			USD -	Unknown
21	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Works, as below described.	New York and other places	[1871]--1911	USD -	Unknown
22		[Clemens (Samuel L.).] That Convention; or Five Days a Politician, by F. G. [Welch],-et als ...	New York	1872-[1886]	USD -	Unknown
23	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Three Autograph Letters Signed: (1) One page 12mo, Hartford [1872]. Signed,--Mark. To James ...			USD -	Unknown
24	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Two Autograph Letters Signed, Mark, and both addressed to James Redpath.			USD -	Unknown
25	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Autograph Letter Signed, S. L. Clemens. One page 8vo, Aug. 29/87. To an unnamed person; Autograph ...			USD -	Unknown
26	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Letter Signed, Saml. L. Clemens (Mark Twain.)	Hartford	[1876?]	USD -	Unknown
27	Clemens (Samuel L.)	A collection of Five Autograph Letters Signed, Endorsed Check, and Signed Receipt.			USD -	Unknown
28	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Three Autograph Letters Signed, Samuel L. Clemens, S. L. Clemens, and Mark. With photogravure ...			USD -	Unknown
29	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Three Autograph Letters Signed, The Clemenses, S. L. C. and S. L. Clemens. 8vo and 16mo ...			USD -	Unknown
30	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Autograph Letter Signed, S. L. Clemens.	Hartford	'87	USD -	Unknown
31	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Three Autograph Letters Signed, S. L. Clemens, and S. L. C.			USD -	Unknown
32		Clemens (Samuel L.). Autograph Letter Signed, S. L. Clemens, 3pp. 12mo, 23 Tedworth Square, Oct. 9 ...			USD -	Unknown
33	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Two Autograph Letters Signed, Sam, and S. L. Clemens. 3pp. collectively, 8vo; [Also] Autograph ...			USD -	Unknown
34	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Autograph Letter Signed, S. L. Clemens.		[1905]	USD -	Unknown
35	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Two Autograph Letters Signed.		1906	USD -	Unknown
36	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Autograph Letter Signed, Mark. 4pp. 8vo, Buffalo, December 3, no year. To Friend Redpath. With 2 ...			USD -	Unknown
37	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Autograph Letter Signed, Saml. L. Clemens.		no year	USD -	Unknown
38	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Autograph Letter Signed, S. L. Clemens.	Hartford	no year	USD -	Unknown
39	Clemens (Samuel L.)	What is Man?	London	1910	USD -	Unknown
40	Clemens (Samuel L.)	The New Guide of the Conversation in English. Introduction by Mark Twain. London, 1884. First ...			USD -	Unknown
41	Johnson (M.--Compiler)	Clemens (Samuel L.). A Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain. 1910. Limited to 500 copies, signed ...	New York	1910-1914	USD -	Unknown
42	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Mark Twain's Letter to the California Pioneers.	Oakland, Cal.	1911	USD -	Unknown
43	Clemm (Maria--Mother-in-law of Poe)	Autograph Letter Signed, Maria Clemm. One page 12mo, Lowell, April 11, 1850. To John Neal ...			USD -	Unknown
44	Cobb (Irvin S.)	Cobb's Anatomy. [1912]; Paths of Glory. [1915]; Fibble, D.D. [1916]; Cobb's Bill of Fare. [1913]; ...	New York	[1913-1916]	USD -	Unknown
45	Curtis (George William)	Fifteen Autograph Letters Signed. George William Curtis, G. W. C. and George W. Curtis. About ...			USD -	Unknown
46		Drama. A Collection of Autograph Letters, Inscriptions and Photographs of Actors and Actresses with ...			USD -	Unknown
47		Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century. With Biographical Notices.	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
48	Earle (Alice Morse)	Sun-Dials and Roses of Yesterday. New York, 1902. Large Paper Edition limited to 100 copies on ...			USD -	Unknown
49	Whitman (Walt)	Essex House Press. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed.	[London]	1900	USD -	Unknown
50	Field (Eugene)	Autograph Letter Signed, Eugene Field.	No place	1888	USD -	Unknown
51	Field (Eugene)	Lullaby Land. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. N. Y., 1897; The Stars. N. Y., 1901; The Love Affairs ...			USD -	Unknown
52	Field (Eugene)	A Little Book of Western Verse. N. Y., 1890; The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac. N. Y., 1896; The ...			USD -	Unknown
53	Field (Eugene)	Autograph Letter Signed.		1892	USD -	Unknown
54	Field (Eugene)	The House. N. Y., 1896; The Tribune Primer. Chicago, N. d.; Echoes from the Sabine Farm. Chicago ...			USD -	Unknown
55	Field (Eugene)	Autograph Letter Signed,--Eugene Field.	Chicago	1895	USD -	Unknown
56	Field (Eugene)	Songs and Other Verse.	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
57	Field (Eugene)	A Little Book of Tribune Verse.	Denver	1901	USD -	Unknown
58	Field (Eugene)	Autograph Letter Signed,--Eugene Field. One page 4to, Fox Lake, Ill., no date. To My dear Lynch ...			USD -	Unknown
59	Field (Eugene)	Autograph Poem Signed, entitled, Going Out Tomorrow!			USD -	Unknown
60	Field (Eugene)	Autograph Manuscript Signed, of his fine poem, entitled Paraphrase in Imitation of Suckling.			USD -	Unknown
61	Fielding (Henry)	Works.	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
62	Franklin (Benjamin)	The Sayings of Poor Richard. The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems of Benjamin Franklin originally ...	Brooklyn, New York	1890	USD -	Unknown
63	Lockwood (L. V.)	Furniture. Colonial Furniture in America.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
64		Furniture, Etc. Robinson (A. G.). Old New England Doorways. N. Y., 1919; Stickley (G.). Craftsman ...			USD -	Unknown
65		Furniture, Etc. Morse (F. C.). Furniture of the Olden Time. N. Y., 1917; Singleton (E.). The ...			USD -	Unknown
66	Hayden (Arthur)	Furniture, Etc. Chats an Old Furniture. London, 1912; Chats on Old Prints. N. Y. [1909]; Chats on ...			USD -	Unknown
67	Gallatin (Albert--American Statesman and Financier)	Three Autograph Letters Signed.		1812 to 1837	USD -	Unknown
68		Gardens and Gardening. Wright (W. P.). Popular Garden Flowers. With 6 illustrations in colors, and ...	New York and London	1897-1912	USD -	Unknown
69	Garibaldi (G.--Celebrated Italian Patriot and General)	Autograph Letter Signed. One page 4to, Boston, September 7th, 1853. Accompanied by Autograph ...			USD -	Unknown
70	Garland (Hamlin--Celebrated American Author)	Six Autograph Letters Signed.		1893	USD -	Unknown
71	Garland (Hamlin)	Main-Travelled Roads. Introduction by W. D. Howells. Chicago, 1894; Prairie Songs. First Edition ...	Chicago and Cambridge	1893-1894	USD -	Unknown
72	Garrison (William Lloyd--Celebrated American Statesman, Abolitionist, and Woman's Rights Worker)	Four Autograph Letters Signed.			USD -	Unknown
73	Garrison (William Lloyd)	Three Autograph Letters Signed.		1865 to 1867	USD -	Unknown
74	Garrison (William Lloyd)	Four Autograph Letters Signed.		1866 to 1875	USD -	Unknown
75	Garrison (William Lloyd)	Two Autograph Letters Signed. 6pp. 8vo, Leeds, July 13, 1877, and Boston, April 4, 1879. Accompanied ...			USD -	Unknown
76	Garrison (William Lloyd)	Autograph Manuscript Signed, entitled, Not a Side Issue.	Roxbury	1878	USD -	Unknown
77	Kunz (George F.)	Gems and Precious Stones. Gems and Precious Stones of North America.	New York	1890	USD -	Unknown
78		Gorky (Maxim). Photograph, signed on reverse; Nazimova (Alla). Autograph Letter Signed. 2pp. 12mo ...			USD -	Unknown
79		Governors. A Collection of About Forty-Eight Letters and Documents Signed by Governors of various ...			USD -	Unknown
80	Gray (Thomas)	Poetical Works. Engravings. London, 1821; A Catalogue of the Antiquities, Houses, Parks, Plantations ...	London	[1773]-1821	USD -	Unknown
81	Gray (Thomas)	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Title-page and first leaf of text illuminated. [Cedar Rapids ...	London and [Cedar Rapids]	1846 and no date	USD -	Unknown
82	Greeley (Horace)	A Collection of 9 Autograph Letters Signed, written in ink, signed, Horace Greeley. To Hector Orr ...			USD -	Unknown
83	Greeley (Horace)	A collection of 10 Autograph Letters Signed, Horace Greeley.		1861-1870	USD -	Unknown
84	Greeley (Horace)	A Collection of 11 Autograph Letters Signed, Horace Greeley. 18pp. collectively, 8vo and 12mo ...			USD -	Unknown
85	Greeley (Horace)	Autograph Letter Signed, Horace Greeley. One page 8vo, New York Tribune, July 13, 1869. To Robert ...			USD -	Unknown
86	Greeley (Horace)	Autograph Letter Signed, Horace Greeley.	New York	1869	USD -	Unknown
87	Greeley (Horace)	Original Manuscript Signed,--H. Greeley. Written in ink on one side of 4 folio sheets, containing ...			USD -	Unknown
88	Greely (A. W.--American Arctic Explorer)	Autograph Letter Signed, A. W. Greely, 4pp. 12mo, Innsbruck, Auchen, July 4, 1908. To Mr. Young; [ ...			USD -	Unknown
89	Hamilton (William)	Poems on Several Occasions.	Edinburgh	1760	USD -	Unknown
90	Harris (Joel Chandler)	Uncle Remus and His Friends. Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads, With Sketches of Negro ...	Boston	[1892]	USD -	Unknown
91	Hawley (Joseph--Distinguished Massachusetts Patriot in the American Revolution)	Autograph Letter Signed.	Watertown	1776	USD -	Unknown
92	Hawley (Joseph R.--General in Civil War)	Three Autograph Letters Signed.		1868	USD -	Unknown
93	Hearn (George A.)	Art Collection.	New York	1906-1908	USD -	Unknown
94	Heine (Heinrich)	Works.	London	1892-1898	USD -	Unknown
95	Holyoake (George Jacob--English Political Reformer)	Nine Autograph Letters Signed, G. J. Holyoake.			USD -	Unknown
96	Downes (W. H.)	Homer (Winslow). The Life and Works of Winslow Homer.	Boston	1911	USD -	Unknown
97	Howells (W. D.)	The Landlord at Lion's Head. A Novel.	New York and London	1898	USD -	Unknown
98	Humboldt (Alexander von)	A Collection of 6 Autograph Letters Signed,--A. V. Humboldt, and Humboldt. 7pp. 4to and 8vo ...			USD -	Unknown
99	Humboldt (Alexander von)	A collection of 6 Autograph Letters, two in French Signed, Alexandre de Humboldt, the rest in ...			USD -	Unknown
100	Humboldt (Alexander von)	Four Autograph Letters Signed.		1840 to 1853	USD -	Unknown

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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