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
501 Wharton (Anne W.). English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans. 1915; Wharton (Grace and Philip ... Philadelphia

[1891]-1915

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502 Whistler (James McNeill) Notes--Harmonies--Nocturnes. [London] 1884; Greaves, Whistler & Chelsea. A Personal Note ...

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503 Whistler (James McNeill). Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock. [Jamaica, Queensborough, 1908]; The Gentle ... London, etc.

various dates

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504 Whistler (James McNeill). Eden Versus Whistler. Paris [1899]. First Edition; A Reply to an Attack ... Paris, etc.

[1899]-1908 and no date

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505 Whistler (James McNeill). Greaves, Whistler and Chelsea. London, 1911; Hartmann (S.). The Whistler ... London, etc.

various dates

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506 Whistler (James McNeill) Greaves, Whistler & Chelsea. A Personal Note. Illustrations. London, 1911; Lotus. Special Holiday ... London and Boston

1903-1911

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507 Whistler (James McNeill) Greaves, Whistler & Chelsea. A Personal Note. Illustrations. London, 1911; Lotus. Special Holiday ... London and Boston

1903-1911

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508 Whistler (James McNeill) Macfall (H.). Whistler. Boston, 1906; Eddy (A. J.). Recollections and Impressions of James A ... Boston, etc.

various dates

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509 Whistler (James McNeill) Wedmore (F.). Whistler and Others. N. Y., 1906; Hartmann (S.). The Whistler Book. Boston, 1910; Mr ... New York, etc.

various dates

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510 Gallatin (A. E.) Whistler (James McNeill). Whistler's Pastels. N. Y., 1912; Whistler's Art Dicta and Other Essays ... New York, etc.

various dates

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511 Pennell (E. R. and J.) Whistler (James McNeill). The Life of James McNeill Whistler. Philadelphia [London printed]

1908

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512 [Whitman (Walt)] Diary Notes of A Visit to Walt Whitman and Some of His Friends, in 1890. Illustrated. Manchester ... New York and Manchester

1850-1898

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513 Whitman (Walt) Autograph Letter Signed, Walt Whitman.

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514 Whitman (Walt) Autograph Letter Signed, Walt. Providence

1868

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515 Whitman (Walt) Autograph Letter Signed: Walt Whitman. Washington

1871

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516 [Whitman (Walt)] Democratic Vistas. Washington, D. C.

1871

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517 Whitman (Walt) Autograph Letter Signed, Walt Whitman. Camden

1878

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518 Whitman (Walt). Autograph Manuscript (about 160 words) being biographical data, in connection with [ ...

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519 Whitman (Walt) Autograph Letter Signed, in full.

1881

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520 [Whitman (Walt)] Whitman (Mary--Sister of Walt). Autograph Letter Signed,--Mary. 3pp. 12mo, Greenport, L. I., Dec ...

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521 Whitman (Walt) [Bucke (R. M.).] Autograph Letter, 2pp. 4to London, Ont., 17 Aug. 1888. To Walt Whitman. In ...

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522 Whitman (Walt) Three fine portraits of the Great Poet, each signed in full, enclosed in manila envelope, on which ...

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523 Whitman (Walt) Autograph Letter Signed, Walt Whitman. One page 8vo, Camden, Jan. 8 '91. To Mr. J. M. Stoddart ...

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524 Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass. Illustrated. Philadelphia [1900]; At the Graveside of Walt Whitman: Harleigh ... Philadelphia

1892-[1900]

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525 Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass. Including a Fac-simile autobiography, variorum readings of the poems and a ... Various places

1873-1920

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526 Whitman (Walt) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed. [London]

1900

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527 Whitman (Walt) Autograph Manuscript, Unsigned, entitled, The Public Schools (to Come).

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528 Whitman (Walt) Original Autograph Manuscript (unsigned), of his fine Poem entitled The Dead Tenor. Written on one ...

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529 Whitman (Walt) Autograph Letter Signed, W. W. 2pp. 8vo. N. Y. City, March 13, no year. To John Burroughs. With ...

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530 Whitman (Walt) Original Autograph Manuscript Poem,--Abraham Lincoln--born Feb. 12, 1809.

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531 Whitman (Walt) Autograph Letter Signed, Walt Whitman. 2pp. 8vo, Camden, New Jersey, July 11 (no year), with a ...

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532 Whittier (John Greenleaf) Two Autograph Letters Signed. 3pp. 4to. To his sister, Elizabeth. July 7th, 1837, and one page 4to ...

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533 Whittier (John Greenleaf) Autograph Letter Signed, Jno. G. Whittier. Philadelphia

1839

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534 [Whittier (John Greenleaf)] History of Pennsylvania Hall, which was destroyed by a mob, on the 17th of May 1838. Philadelphia

1838

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535 Whittier (John Greenleaf) Old Portraits and Modern Sketches. Boston, 1850; Hazel-Blossoms. Frontispiece and vignette. Boston ... Boston

1850-1875

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536 Whittier (John Greenleaf) Autograph Letter Signed.

1853

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537 Whittier (John Greenleaf) The Chapel of the Hermits, and Other Poems. 1853; The King's Missive, and Other Poems. Frontispiece ... Boston

1853-1881

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538 Whittier (John Greenleaf) Literary Recreations and Miscellanies. 1854; Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl. With Designs by E. H ... Boston

1854-1892

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539 Whittier's Copies. Reception of George Thompson in Great Britain. Boston, 1826; Piatt (Mrs. S. M. B ... Boston and New York

1856-1872

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540 Whittier (John Greenleaf) A Collection of Four Autograph Letters Signed.

1860

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541 Whittier (John Greenleaf) The Tent on the Beach, and Other Poems. 1867; The Bay of Seven Islands. Frontispiece portrait of ... Boston

1867-1883

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542 Whittier (John Greenleaf) The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and Other Poems. Illustrated. 1872; At Sundown. With Designs by E. H ... Boston

1872-1892

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543 Whittier (John Greenleaf) Fitz-Greene Halleck, A Poem, read in Central Park in 1877. No place

[1877]

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544 Whittier (John Greenleaf) Original Autograph Manuscript of his poem, entitled Arbutus.

1880

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545 Whittier (John Greenleaf) Original Autograph Manuscript, unsigned. 2pp. 4to. Written July 4th, 1888; printed copy, with ...

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546 Whittier (John Greenleaf) Whittier Correspondence from the Oak Knoll Collections, 1830-1892. Edited by John Albree. Portraits ... Salem and Haverhill

1893-1911

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547 Whittier (John Greenleaf) A Collection of Four Autograph Letters, Signed.

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548 Whittier (John Greenleaf) A Collection of Three Autograph Letters, Signed.

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549 Whittier (John Greenleaf) A Collection of Three Autograph Letters, Signed.

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550 Whittier (John Greenleaf) A Collection of Three Autograph Letters Signed.

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551 Whittier (John Greenleaf) A Collection of Four Autograph Letters Signed.

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552 Wilberforce (William) Two Autograph Letters Signed. 3pp. 12mo and 4to. Oct. 29, 1822, and Aug. 15, 1832. Accompanied by ...

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553 Wilcox (Ella Wheeler) Shells. With a very early photograph of the authoress inserted. Milwaukee, 1873. First Edition ...

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554 Wilcox (Ella Wheeler) Five Manuscript Poems, Signed, entitled, The World's Need, Respite, Deathless, Give Little ...

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555 Wilde (Oscar) Poems. Boston, 1881; Ave Imperatrix! A Dirge of Empire. With frontispiece, and hand-illuminated ... Various places

1864-1906

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556 Wilde (Oscar) Autograph Letter Signed, Oscar Wilde. Chicago

1882

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557 Rennell Rodd Wilde (Oscar). Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf. Philadelphia

1882

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558 [Wilde (Oscar)] An Ideal Husband. London

1899

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559 Wilde (Oscar). Impressions of America. First Edition. Sunderland, 1906; Poems. First American ... Various places

1894-1907

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560 Wilde (Oscar). The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3. Boston, 1902. Limited to 550 copies ... Various places

1894-1912

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561 Wilde (Oscar) The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London

1898

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562 Wilde (Oscar). Impressions of America. Edited with an Introduction, by Stuart Mason. Sunderland ... London and Sunderland

1906-[1914]

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563 Wilde (Oscar) The Sphinx. London

1901

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564 Wilde (Oscar) Salome. A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French. London

1904

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565 Wilde (Oscar). Sebastian Melmoth. 1905; Maeterlinck (M.). The Treasure of the Humble. 1911; The ... London

1905-1911

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566 Wilde (Oscar) The Trial of Oscar Wilde. From the Shorthand Reports. Paris

1906

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567 Wilde (Oscar) Autograph Letter Signed, Oscar Wilde. Oxford

no date

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568 Wilhelm II, Ex-Emperor of Germany Letter Signed.

1897

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569 Winter (William) The Queen's Domain. Boston, 1859. My Witness. Boston, 1871; Henry Irving. Portrait. N. Y., 1885 ... Boston and New York

1859-1892

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570 Winter (William) A Collection of Twelve Autograph Letters Signed. 18pp. 12mo. From 1881 to 1908. Together with Four ...

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571 Winter (William) A Wreath of Laurel. Portraits. 1898. First Edition; The Press and the Stage. 1889. New York

1889-1898

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572 Winter (William) Wanderers. Portrait. 1892; The Press and the Stage. 1889. New York

1889-1892

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573 Winter (William) Shakespeare's England. 1892; Shadows of the Stage. 1893; Wanderers. Portrait. 1892. New York

1892-1893

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574 Winter (William) Gray Days and Gold. 1911; Shakespeare on the Stage. 1911. First Edition; Other Days. 1908. All ... New York

1908-1911

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575 Winter (William) Life and Art of Richard Mansfield. With Selections from his Letters. New York

1910

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576 Zangwill (Israel) Ten Autograph Letters Signed, and Two Letters Signed.

1892 to 1915

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577 Zola (Emile) Au Bonheur des Dames. 12mo, half cloth, original wrappers bound in. Paris, 1883; Fruitfulness ... Paris and New York

1883-1900

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578 Zola (Emile) Autograph Letter Signed, Emile Zola.

1891

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