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
401	Stephen (Sir Leslie)	Hours in a Library. [Three Series.] 3 vols. 1874-1879; Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking ...	London	1873-1879	USD -	Unknown
402	Stephen (Sir Leslie)	Five Autograph Letters Signed.		1887 to 1899	USD -	Unknown
403	Stephenson (George--Inventor of the Locomotive)	Autograph Letter Signed.	Liverpool	1828	USD -	Unknown
404		Sterne (Laurence). A Political Romance. [1759]. An Exact Reprint of the First Edition. With an ...	Boston	1914-1918	USD -	Unknown
405	Stevenson (Robert Louis)	The Black Arrow. A Tale of the Two Roses.	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
406	Stevenson (Robert Louis)	The Master of Ballantrae. 1889; The Wrecker. By Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne ...	London	1889-1892	USD -	Unknown
407	Stevenson (Robert Louis)	A Footnote to History. Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. Map. 1892. My First Book. The Experiences of ...	London	1892-1894	USD -	Unknown
408	Stevenson (Robert Louis)	Lark (The). Book 1. Nos. 1 to 12, inclusive. May, 1895 to April, 1896; Book 2. Nos. 13 to 24 ...	San Francisco	1895-1897	USD -	Unknown
409		Stevenson (Robert Louis). Vailima Letters Being Correspondence addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson ...	Chicago	1895-1915	USD -	Unknown
410		Stevenson (Robert Louis). Confessions of a Unionist. Cambridge: Privately printed, 1921. Limited ...			USD -	Unknown
411		Stevenson (Robert Louis). Three Short Poems. Chicago: Private Distribution, 1902. Limited to 50 ...	London, etc.	1902-1916	USD -	Unknown
412	Stevenson (Robert Louis)	Watt (F.). R. L. S. Frontispiece in photogravure. London [1913]; Hammerton (J. A.). Stevensoniana ...	London and Edinburgh	1907-1917	USD -	Unknown
413		Stevenson (Robert Louis). The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited by Sidney Colvin. Portraits ...	New York, etc.	various dates	USD -	Unknown
414		Stevenson's (Robert Louis) Copy. The Scotch Portmanteau Opened at York.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
415	Stevenson (J. H.)	Makarony Fables. Fables for Grown Gentlemen. For Private Circulation, 1897; The Thousand and One ...	London	1893-1897	USD -	Unknown
416	Stewart (Alexander T.--New York Merchant)	Two Autograph Letters Signed.	New York	1858, and 1868	USD -	Unknown
417	Stockton (Frank R.)	The Late Mrs. Null. 1886; Personally Conducted. 1899.	New York	1886-1899	USD -	Unknown
418	Stockton (Frank R.)	Stories of New Jersey. 1896; Personally Conducted. 1899.	New York	1896-1899	USD -	Unknown
419	Stoddard (Charles Warren)	Seventeenth Anniversary of the Corporate Society of California Pioneers.	San Francisco	1867	USD -	Unknown
420	Stoddard (Charles Warren)	A Collection of Seven Autograph Letters Signed. 25pp. 12mo. From 1875 to 1906. To Nance O'Neil ...			USD -	Unknown
421	Stoddard (John L.)	Library (The). A Thousand Hours Entertainment with the World's Great Writers.	Chicago and Boston	1917	USD -	Unknown
422	Stoddard (Richard H.)	Poems.	Boston	1852	USD -	Unknown
423	Stoddard (Richard H.)	Original Autograph Manuscript of: George Henry Boker.			USD -	Unknown
424	Story (William W.)	Two Autograph Letters Signed.		1860, and 1876	USD -	Unknown
425	Story (William W.)	Nero. An Historical Play.	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
426	Strauss (Richard--Celebrated German Composer, Conductor of the Royal Opera in Berlin, etc.)	Autograph Letter Signed.		1884	USD -	Unknown
427	Sudermann (Hermann--German Dramatist and Author)	Autograph Letter Signed.		1906	USD -	Unknown
428	Sue (Eugene)	Three Autograph Letters Signed.		1842 and no date	USD -	Unknown
429	Swanwick (John)	Five Autograph Letters Signed.		1778	USD -	Unknown
430	Swinburne (Algernon C.)	An Appeal to England against the Execution of the Condemned Fenians. Manchester, 1867. First Edition ...			USD -	Unknown
431	Swinburne (Algernon C.)	Works.	London, etc.	various dates	USD -	Unknown
432		Swinburne (Algernon C.). A Song of Italy. 1867; A Note on Charlotte Bronte. 1877; Rossetti (W. M ...	London	1866-1877	USD -	Unknown
433	Swinburne (Algernon C.)	William Blake. A Critical Essay.	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
434	Swinburne (Algernon C.)	Songs Before Sunrise.	London	1871	USD -	Unknown
435		Swinburne (Algernon C.). Felise. Chicago, 1906; Songs Before Sunrise. London, 1880; Bibliography of ...	Chicago, etc.	various dates	USD -	Unknown
436	Swinburne (Algernon C.)	Autograph Letter Signed.		1881	USD -	Unknown
437		Swinburne (Algernon C.). Autograph Letter Signed, A. C. Swinburne. 4pp. 8vo, 22a Dorset Street ...			USD -	Unknown
438	Swinburne (Algernon C.)	Autograph Letter Signed.		no year	USD -	Unknown
439	Swinburne (Algernon C.)	Autograph Letter Signed, A. C. Swinburne.			USD -	Unknown
440	Wise (Thomas J.)	[Swinburne (Algernon C.).] A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles ...			USD -	Unknown
441	Swinnerton (Frank)	Nocturne. London, 1917; The Merry Heart. London, 1909. Both First Edition; September. New York [1919 ...			USD -	Unknown
442	Swinton (John--Editor)	Four Autograph Letters Signed.		1876 to 1900	USD -	Unknown
443	Symonds (John Addington)	The Escorial. A Prize Poem, recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 30, 1860. Oxford, 1860; Christopher ...			USD -	Unknown
444	Symonds (John Addington)	Many Moods. 1878; Italian Byways. 1883; Vagabunduli Libellus. 1884.	London	1878-1884	USD -	Unknown
445	Symonds (John Addington)	Sun Artists. Number 7. April, 1891.	[London]	1891	USD -	Unknown
446	Symonds (John Addington)	In the Key of Blue and other Prose Essays.	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
447	Symons (Arthur)	The Symbolist Movement in Literature.	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
448	Symons (Arthur)	London. A Book of Aspects. London; Privately printed, 1909; Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands ...			USD -	Unknown
449	Symons (Arthur)	Studies in Two Literatures.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
450	Ricketts (C.)	Symons (Arthur). Pages on Art.	London	1913	USD -	Unknown
451		Talfourd (Sir Thomas Noon). Autograph Letter Signed. 2pp. 4to, 1816; Skeat (W. W.). Autograph Letter ...			USD -	Unknown
452	Tauchnitz (Baron--German Publisher)	Five Autograph Letters Signed.		186 to 1892	USD -	Unknown
453	Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)	Poems, Chiefly Lyrical.	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
454	Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)	Enoch Arden, etc. London, 1864. First Edition; Maud, and Other Poems. 1855. First Edition. With the ...			USD -	Unknown
455	Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)	Poems.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
456	Terry (Ellen--Celebrated Actress)	Eight Autograph Letters Signed.		1878 to 1906	USD -	Unknown
457	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	The National Shakspeare Committee and the late Mr. Thackeray. In quarter morocco slip-case, inner ...			USD -	Unknown
458		Thackeray (William Makepeace). Reading a Poem. A Sketch by Wm. Makepeace Thackeray. [London ...	London	1856-1897	USD -	Unknown
459	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	Reading a Poem. First Edition. [London] Chiswick Press, 1891; Stray Papers. Being Stories, Reviews ...	London and New York	1864-1901	USD -	Unknown
460	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	Thackeray. By L. Melville. From Temple Bar. June. London, 1902; Thackeray. From Events of the Month ...	London and New York	various dates	USD -	Unknown
461	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	Spielman (M. H.). The Hitherto Unidentified Contributions of W. M. Thackeray to Punch ...	New York and London	1874-1909	USD -	Unknown
462	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	The Orphan of Pimlico, and Other Sketches, Fragments and Drawings. With some Notes by Anne Isabella ...	London and Philadelphia	1876-1896	USD -	Unknown
463	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	Etchings by the late William Makepeace Thackeray while at Cambridge, Illustrative of University Life ...	Various places	[1878]-1911	USD -	Unknown
464		Thackeray (William Makepeace). The Chronicle of the Drum. N. Y., 1882; Wilson (J. G.). Thackeray in ...	London and New York	various dates	USD -	Unknown
465		Thackeray (William Makepeace). Reading a Poem. [London] 1891; Ballads and Songs. Illustrations by H ...	Various places	1887-1911	USD -	Unknown
466		Thackeray (William Makepeace). Ballads and Songs. N. Y., 1906; Mr. Brown's Letters to a Young Man ...	New York, etc.	various dates	USD -	Unknown
467	Thatcher (Benjamin B.--Author of Biography of North American Indians, etc.)	Original Autograph Manuscript Signed, of his fine article, entitled, The Chivalry of the Middle ...		1826	USD -	Unknown
468	Thaxter (Celia)	A Collection of Four Autograph Letters Signed. 6pp. 12mo. From 1871 to 1877. To James Osgood and ...			USD -	Unknown
469		Thomas (G.). An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and ...			USD -	Unknown
470	Tilton (Theodore)	A Collection of Five Autograph Letters Signed, and One Autograph Quotation Signed.		1860, 1863, and no date	USD -	Unknown
471	Tilton (Theodore)	Swabian Stories. N. Y., 1882. First Edition. Autograph Presentation Copy from the author, with ...			USD -	Unknown
472	Timrod (Henry--Celebrated American Author)	Two Autograph Letters Signed.		1856, and 1862	USD -	Unknown
473	Timrod (Henry)	Three Autograph Letters Signed.		1867 and no date	USD -	Unknown
474	Townsend (George Alfred--Gath.)	The Entailed Hat or Patty Cannon's Times. [1884]; Mrs. Reynolds and Hamilton. 1890.	New York	[1884]-1890	USD -	Unknown
475	Townsend (George Alfred--Gath)	A Collection of Three Autograph Letters Signed.		1886, 1898, and no date	USD -	Unknown
476	Townsend (George Alfred--Gath)	Original Typewritten Manuscript, entitled, Hearing My Requiem.		1892	USD -	Unknown
477	Train (George Francis--Eccentric American Author and Lecturer)	Six Autograph Letters Signed.		1861 to 1873	USD -	Unknown
478	Trollope (Anthony--Celebrated English Author)	Two Autograph Letters Signed.		1874	USD -	Unknown
479	Tupper (Martin F.)	Original Autograph Manuscript, Signed, of his fine poem, entitled, A Word with America.		1856	USD -	Unknown
480	Tupper (Martin F.)	Proverbial Philosophy. A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. First, Second and Third Series. 1838, 1842 ...	London	1838-1867	USD -	Unknown
481	Turner (J. M. W.--Celebrated English Artist)	Two Autograph Letters Signed. 2pp. 12mo, Jan. 31, 1845, and no date. Accompanied by portrait of ...			USD -	Unknown
482	Voltaire (J. F. M. Arouet de)	Henriade. An Epick Poem. In Ten Cantos. Translated from the French into English Blank Verse ...			USD -	Unknown
483		Voltaire (J. F. M. Arouet de). The Man Worth Forty Crowns. Phila., 1778; Letters Concerning the ...			USD -	Unknown
484	Voltaire (J. F. M. Arouet de)	Works of.	Various places	1749-1776	USD -	Unknown
485		Voltaire (J. F. M. Arouet de). Historical Memoirs of the Author of the Henriade. With some Original ...			USD -	Unknown
486	Voltaire (J. F. M. Arouet de)	Voltaire's Letters on the Eminent Writers who have been Accused of Attacking the Christian Religion ...			USD -	Unknown
487	Voltaire (J. F. M. Arouet de)	Letter Signed. One page 4to, Ferney, September 14, 1771. To Monsieur Fabri, addressed on back. With ...			USD -	Unknown
488	Voltaire (J. F. M. Arouet de)	Autograph Letter Signed with Initial.		1760	USD -	Unknown
489	Voltaire (J. F. M. Arouet de)	Letter with One-line Autograph and Initial of Voltaire.			USD -	Unknown
490	[Walton (Izaak) and Cotton (Charles)]	The Compleat Angler. By Moses Brown. Engraved plates. 1750. This is Browne's First Edition, and the ...	London	1750-1797	USD -	Unknown
491		Walton (Izaak) and Cotton (Charles). The Complete Angler. Extensively embellished with engravings on ...	London	1822-1827	USD -	Unknown
492	Walton (Izaak) and Cotton (Charles)	The Complete Angler. Second Edition. Extensively embellished with engravings on copper and wood ...	London	1824-1883	USD -	Unknown
493	Walton (Izaak) and Cotton (Charles)	The Complete Angler. 60 illustrations from designs by Stothard and Inskipp. Half green polished calf ...	London	1825-1894	USD -	Unknown
494	Walton (Izaak) and Cotton (Charles)	The Complete Angler. 1896. With bookplate of F. W. Skiff; The Complete Angler. Edited by Ephemera ...	London	1854-[911]	USD -	Unknown
495	Walton (Izaak) and Cotton (Charles)	The Complete Angler: or Contemplative Man's Recreation.	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
496	Walton (Izaak) and Cotton (Charles)	The Compleat Angler.	London	1904	USD -	Unknown
497	Warner (Charles Dudley)	Works of.	Boston and Hartford	1871-1876	USD -	Unknown
498	Warner (Charles Dudley)	A Collection of Nine Autograph Letters Signed 19pp. 12mo. From 1873 to 1895. Accompanied by two-page ...			USD -	Unknown
499	Watson (William)	Works of.	Various places	1884-1895	USD -	Unknown
500		Watts-Dunton (Theodore). Jubilee Greeting at Spitshead to the Men of Greater Britain. London, 1897 ...			USD -	Unknown

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