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
201	Pierce (Franklin--Fourteenth President)	Autograph Letter Signed.	Washington	1857	USD -	Unknown
202		Pierce (Franklin). Autograph Letter Signed. 2pp. 8vo, Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 25, 1857. Accompanied ...			USD -	Unknown
203	Pierce (Franklin)	Autograph Letter Signed.	Washington	1857	USD -	Unknown
204	Buchanan (James--Fifteenth President)	Three Autograph Letters Signed, James Buchanan. 4to, and 8vo, 3pp. collectively; [Also] Autograph ...			USD -	Unknown
205	Lincoln (Abraham--Sixteenth President)	Document Signed in ink, Abraham Lincoln.	Washington	1863	USD -	Unknown
206	Johnson (Andrew--Seventeenth President)	Document Signed.		1865	USD -	Unknown
207	Johnson (Andrew)	Document Signed.		1866	USD -	Unknown
208	Johnson (Andrew)	Document Signed.		1865	USD -	Unknown
209	Johnson (Andrew)	Letter Signed.		1867	USD -	Unknown
210	Johnson (Andrew)	Document Signed.		1854	USD -	Unknown
211	Grant (Ulysses S.--Eighteenth President)	Autograph Letter Signed.	New York City	/81	USD -	Unknown
212	Grant (Ulysses S.)	Autograph Letter Signed.	City Point, Virginia	1865	USD -	Unknown
213	Grant (Ulysses S.)	Autograph Letter Signed.	Long Branch, N. J.	1870	USD -	Unknown
214	Grant (Ulysses S.)	Autograph Letter Signed, Ulysses.	Virginia	1864	USD -	Unknown
215	Grant (Ulysses S.)	Autograph Letter Signed.	New Jersey	1875	USD -	Unknown
216	Grant (Ulysses S.)	Document Signed in ink on vellum, U. S. Grant. One page large folio, Washington, December 28, 1871 ...			USD -	Unknown
217	Hayes (Rutherford B.--Nineteenth President)	Four Autograph Letters Signed, R. B. Hayes, 8vo, 4 1/2 pp. collectively; [Also] Autograph Carte de ...			USD -	Unknown
218	Garfield (James A.--Twentieth President)	Two Autograph Letters Signed. 3pp. 8vo, and 4to, Washington, July 20, 1866, and no date. Accompanied ...			USD -	Unknown
219	McKinley (William--Twenty-fifth President)	Autograph Document Signed (twice).		1870	USD -	Unknown
220	Taft (Wm. H.--Twenty-seventh President)	Autograph Letter Signed.		1915	USD -	Unknown
221		Randall (James R.). Four Autograph Letters Signed. 9pp. 12mo and 4to. From 1874 to 1901; Wilder ( ...			USD -	Unknown
222	Randall (James R.)	Autograph Letter Signed. 6pp. 4to., Dec. 15, 1884. To Brander Matthews; [Also], Autograph Verse from ...			USD -	Unknown
223	Read (Thomas--First American Commodore, Explorer, Soldier, the brother of George Read, Signer of the Declaration of Independence)	Document Signed.		1771	USD -	Unknown
224	Read (Thomas Buchanan)	Paul Redding. Boston, 1845. Contains a 4pp. poem, The Oath, Autographed and Signed by Read; The ...			USD -	Unknown
225	Read (Thomas Buchanan)	Paul Redding. New York, 1845. (Piece cut from half title); The Wagoner of the Alleghanies ...			USD -	Unknown
226	Read (Thomas Buchanan)	Two Autograph Letters Signed.		1847	USD -	Unknown
227	Read (Thomas Buchanan)	Original Autograph Manuscript Signed, of his fine poem, entitled, A Maiden's Tears, written, in ...			USD -	Unknown
228	Read (Thomas Buchanan)	Sheridan's Ride.	New York	1867	USD -	Unknown
229	Read (Thomas Buchanan)	Read (Thomas Buchanan). The New Pastoral. Portrait. 1855. Containing a one-page Signed Autograph ...	Philadelphia	1855-1889	USD -	Unknown
230	Read (Thomas Buchanan)	Sylvia: or, The Last Shepherd. An Eclogue. And Other Poems. 1857. First Edition. With an A. L. S. by ...	Philadelphia	1857-1889	USD -	Unknown
231	Reade (Charles)	Five Autograph Letters Signed.			USD -	Unknown
232	Reed (Edwin)	Bacon and Shakespeare Parallelisms. London, 1902; Co-incidences. Bacon and Shakespeare. Boston, 1906 ...			USD -	Unknown
233	Remington (Frederic)	Sundown Leflare. 1899; The Way of an Indian. 1906.	New York	1899-1906	USD -	Unknown
234	Remington (Frederic)	Autograph Letter Signed.		1900	USD -	Unknown
235	Remington (Frederic)	Autograph Letter Signed.		no year	USD -	Unknown
236	Remington (Frederic)	Autograph Letter Signed.		No date	USD -	Unknown
237	Remington (Frederic)	Autograph Note, Unsigned.		No date	USD -	Unknown
238	Remington (Frederic)	Autograph Letter Signed.		no date	USD -	Unknown
239	Remington (Frederic)	Autograph Letter Signed.		No date	USD -	Unknown
240	Remington (Frederic)	Autograph Letter Signed, Frederic R.		no year	USD -	Unknown
241	Riis (Jacob A.)	Autograph Manuscript Signed, entitled, The Making of Thieves.			USD -	Unknown
242	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Autograph Letter Signed,--J. W. Riley.		1882	USD -	Unknown
243	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Looking Forward. Illustrated. Chicago [1889]. Contains Articles by Riley; Out to Old Aunt Mary's ...	Various places	Various dates	USD -	Unknown
244	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Two Autograph Letters Signed in full: comprising,--(1) One page 8vo, Indianapolis Journal ...			USD -	Unknown
245	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Old-Fashioned Roses. Indianapolis, 1889; A Child-World. London, 1896; A Defective Santa Claus ...	Various places	1889-[1907]	USD -	Unknown
246	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Autograph Letter Signed,--Jamesie. One page 12mo, Indianapolis, Dec. 14, 1891. To Madison Cawein ...			USD -	Unknown
247	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Neghborly Poems, On Friendship, Grief, and Farm-Life, by Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone. (James Whitcomb ...	Indianapolis	1891	USD -	Unknown
248	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Neghborly Poems, On Friendship, Grief, and Farm-Life, by Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone (James Whitcomb ...	Indianapolis	1891	USD -	Unknown
249	Riley (James Whitcomb)	The Flying Islands of the Night.	Indianapolis	1892	USD -	Unknown
250	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Green Fields and Running Brooks.	Indianapolis	1893	USD -	Unknown
251	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Green Fields and Running Brooks.	Indianapolis	1893	USD -	Unknown
252	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Green Fields and Running Brooks.	Indianapolis	1893	USD -	Unknown
253	Riley (James Whitcomb)	A Child-World.	Indianapolis	1897	USD -	Unknown
254	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Autograph Letter Signed,--James Whitcomb Riley.	Indianapolis, Indiana	1897	USD -	Unknown
255	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Autograph Manuscript, Signed, of his fine poem, entitled, Mirage.			USD -	Unknown
256	Riley (James Whitcomb)	Complete Works. [Also] An Authentic Biography.	Indianapolis	1916	USD -	Unknown
257	Ritchie (Anne Thackeray, Lady)	Three Autograph Letters Signed. 9pp. 12mo, no date. One with original addressed envelope ...			USD -	Unknown
258		Roberts (C. G. D.). New York Nocturnes. Boston, 1898; Seton-Thompson (E.). Biography of a Grizzly. N ...	Boston, etc.	various dates	USD -	Unknown
259	Rochambeau (Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de)	Autograph Letter Signed: Le Cte. de Rochambeau.		1790	USD -	Unknown
260	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer)	Instructions Concerning Erecting of a Library . . .	Cambridge	1903	USD -	Unknown
261	Rossetti (Christina G.)	Goblin Market and Other Poems.	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
262	Rossetti (Christina G.)	Autograph Letter Signed. 2pp. 12mo. London, 1867. To [Bayard Taylor]. Accompanied by Autograph ...			USD -	Unknown
263	Rossetti (Christina G.)	A Pageant and Other Poems. London, 1881. First Edition; New Poems. Hitherto Unpublished or ...	London and New York	1881-1896	USD -	Unknown
264	Rossetti (Christina G.)	A Collection of Three Autograph Letters Signed.		No date	USD -	Unknown
265	Rossetti (Christina G.)	Two Autograph Letters Signed.		No date	USD -	Unknown
266	Rossetti (Dante Gabriel)	Autograph Letter Signed.		1866	USD -	Unknown
267	Rossetti (Dante Gabriel)	Autograph Letter Signed.		1873	USD -	Unknown
268	Rossetti (Dante Gabriel)	Autograph Letter Signed.		1875	USD -	Unknown
269	Rossetti (Dante Gabriel)	Ballads and Sonnets.	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
270	Rossetti (Dante Gabriel)	Verses.	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
271	Caine (Sir Hall)	Rossetti (Dante Gabriel). Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Portrait. 1882; Wood (E.). Dante ...	London	1882-1894	USD -	Unknown
272	Rossetti (William Michael)	Swinburne's Poems and Ballads. A Criticism.	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
273	Rossetti (William Michael)	Swinburne's Poems and Ballads. 1866. First Edition; Poems. 1870; The Germ. Nos. 1 to 4. Jan. to May ...	London	1870-1901	USD -	Unknown
274	Rossetti (William Michael)	Four Autograph Letters Signed.		1870 to 1882	USD -	Unknown
275	Rossetti (William Michael)	Six Autograph Letters Signed.		1871 to 1901	USD -	Unknown
276	Rossetti (William Michael)	Lives of Famous Poets.	London	[1877]	USD -	Unknown
277	Rossetti (William Michael)	A Collection of 6 Autograph Letters Signed.		1877 to 1889	USD -	Unknown
278	Rossetti (William Michael)	Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism Papers from 1854 to 1862.	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
279		Roycroft Press. A collection of books printed at the Roycroft Press.	East Aurora, New York	1896-1919	USD -	Unknown
280	Kipling (Rudyard)	Roycroft Press. The Dipsy Chanty, and Other Selected Poems.	[East Aurora, New York]	[1899]	USD -	Unknown
281		Roycroft Press. A collection of books printed at the Roycroft Press.	East Aurora, New York	1899-1908	USD -	Unknown
282	Hubbard (Elbert)	Roycroft Press. A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things.	East Aurora, New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
283	Ruskin (John)	Two Autograph Letters Signed.		(1841) and 1860	USD -	Unknown
284	Ruskin (John)	The Political Economy of Art. 1857; The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and its Application to ...	London	1857-1859	USD -	Unknown
285	Ruskin (John)	A Collection of Five Autograph Letters Signed.		1860 to 1886	USD -	Unknown
286	Ruskin (John)	Two Autograph Letters Signed.		1864, and no year	USD -	Unknown
287	Ruskin (John)	A Collection of Six Autograph Letters Signed.		1864 to 1886	USD -	Unknown
288	Ruskin (John)	Four Autograph Letters Signed.		1865 to 1883	USD -	Unknown
289	Ruskin (John)	The Ethics of the Dust. London, 1866. With A. L. S. by Ruskin, 2pp. 1873; The Lord's Prayer and the ...			USD -	Unknown
290	Ruskin (John)	A Collection of Five Autograph Letters Signed.		1866 to 1884	USD -	Unknown
291	Ruskin (John)	The Poems of John Ruskin.	Orpington	1891	USD -	Unknown
292	Ruskin (John)	Stray Letters from Professor Ruskin to a London Bibliopole.	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
293	Collingwood (W. G.)	Ruskin (John). The Life and Work of John Ruskin.	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
294	Ruskin (John)	Letters from John Ruskin to Rev. J. P. Faunthorpe, M.A.	London	1895-1896	USD -	Unknown
295	Sala (George (Augustus)	All the World's a Cheese!	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
296	Sala (George Augustus)	Original Autograph Manuscript, Signed in Full,--George Augustus Sala, of a sketch entitled Robson ...			USD -	Unknown
297	Sala (George Augustus)	William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher.	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
298	Saltus (Edgar E.)	Balzac. Frontispiece. Boston, 1884; Tales Before Supper from Theophile Gautier and Prosper Merimee ...	Boston, etc.	1884-1920	USD -	Unknown
299	Saltus (Edgar E.)	The Perfume of Eros. N. Y., 1905; The Truth about Tristrem Varick. Chicago [1888]; Balzac ...			USD -	Unknown
300	Saltus (Francis S.)	Works of.	Buffalo	1890-1892	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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

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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