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Sale Name: BOOKS BLACK STUDIES MATERIAL: AFRICA CARIBBEAN UNITED STATES FIRST EDITIONS ENGLISH AMERICAN LITERATURE 16th - 20th CENTURIES PRESS BOOKS SETS LEATHER BINDING
Auction Date: 11/06/1970 - 11/06/1970
Year of Sale: 1970
Sale Number: #114
Total Lots: 455
Sold Lots: 452
Lots Sold: 99.3%
Unsold Lots: 0
Price Unknown: 3

Total Sales (USD): 206,882.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: Inf%
Currency: USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 1,665,200.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
413		THE CARIBBEAN. HAITI & MARTINIQUE. A group of 22 volumes, mostly literature, and virtually all by black writers of Haiti and Martinique: De Vastey, Baron. Political Remarks on Some French Works and Newspapers, Concerning Hayti, London, 1818 (new boards) G		USD -	24,000.00
409		THE CARIBBEAN. A group of 25 volumes, mostly novels, by black writers of the West Indies: Salkey, Andrew. A Quality of Violence, London, [1959] (inscribed by author to Arthur Spingarn) Salkey. Escape to an Autumn Pavement, London, [1960] (inscribed by aut		USD -	24,000.00
410		THE CARIBBEAN. A group of 20 volumes, virtually all novels, mostly by black writers from British Guiana: Harris, Wilson. The Whole Armour, London, [1962] Harris. The Far Journey of Oudin, London, [1961] Harris. The Eye of the Scarecrow, London, [1965] Har		USD -	18,000.00
391		AFRICAN ART: CONGO, etc. Maesen, A. Umbangu: Art du Congo au Musee Royal du Congo Beige, [Brussels, ca. 1958] (50 color photographs mounted and laid loosely in wood portfolio) Elisofon, Eliot. The Sculpture of Africa, London, 1958 (405 photographs) Schmal		USD -	18,000.00
388		AFRICAN ART. Fuhrmann, Ernst. Afrika, Germany, 1922 (121 plates). Einstein, Carl. Negerplastik, Munich, 1920 (108 plates). Trowell, Margaret. Classical African Sculpture, N.Y., 1954. Himmelheber, Hans. Negerkunstler, Stuttgart, 1935. Negerkonst, Stockholm		USD -	18,000.00
390		AFRICAN ART. Cory, H. Wail-Paintings by Snake Charmers in Tanganyika, London, [1953] Holy, Ladislav. The Art of Africa: Masks and Figures from Eastern and Southern Africa, London, 1967 (150 plates, 28 in color) Summers, Roger, ed. Prehistoric Rock Art of		USD -	16,000.00
392	KJERSMEIR, CARL	AFRICAN ART, Centres de Style de la Sculpture Negre Africaine	1935-8	USD -	15,000.00
389		AFRICAN ART. Portier, A. & F. Poncetton. Les Arts Sauvages Afrique, Paris, 1956 (50 photographic plates laid loosely with text in portfolio wrapper). An Exhibition of Rare African Sculptures, N.Y., Valentine Gallery, n.d. African Folktales and Sculpture,		USD -	13,000.00
393	LUSCHAN, FELIX VON	AFRICAN ART, Die Altertumer von Benin	1919	USD -	13,000.00
407		THE CARIBBEAN. A group of 20 volumes, virtually all by black writers, dealing with the history, politics, etc., of the West Indies: Parry, J. H. and P.M. Sherlock. A Short History of the West Indies, London, 1965 Brown, Wenzell. Angry Men, Laughing Men, t		USD -	11,000.00
381		AFRICA: NIGERIA, CONGO, KENYA. Okafor-Omali, Dilim. A Nigerian Villager in Two Worlds, London, 1965. Ikejiani, Okechukwu. Education in Nigeria, N.Y., 1965. Delano, Isaac. Atumo ede Yoruba (Yoruba grammar), London, 1958. Ajayi, J. F. Yoruba Warfare in the		USD -	8,000.00
380		AFRICA: LIBERIA AND GHANA. Strong, Richard P., ed. The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1930. Buell, R. L. Liberia, Century of Survival, Phila., 1947. Mitchell, Francis. Grown Up Liberia, N.p., 1945. Nkrumah, Kwame. N		USD -	6,000.00
347	SANDBURG, CARL	Abraham Lincoln: the War Years	1939	USD -	500.00
95	DICKENS, CHARLES	Works	1906-08	USD -	475.00
339	POUND, EZRA	A Draft of XVI Cantos.	1925	USD -	420.00
26	BOSWELL, JAMES	The Life of Samuel Johnson	1791	USD -	400.00
426		19th CENTURY. Ward, Samuel. Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro, frontispiece portrait, London, 1855 Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House, frontispiece portrait, N.Y., 1868 Webb, Frank J. The Gar		USD -	360.00
100	DODGSON, C. L.	Lewis Carroll.		USD -	325.00
109	ELIOT, GEORGE	A collection of first editions	1854-1885	USD -	300.00
75	CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.	The Writings of Mark Twain	1922-25	USD -	280.00
195	THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE	Works	1869- 86	USD -	260.00
72	CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.	1885	USD -	260.00
150	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Moby-Dick; or, the Whale.	1851	USD -	240.00
412		THE CARIBBEAN: A group of 21 volumes of poetry, virtually all by black West Indian writers: McFarlane, J.E. A Treasury of Jamaican Poetry, London, [1949] Figueroa, John. Love Leaps Here, [London, 1962] (inscribed by author to Arthur Spingarn) Anduze, Aubr		USD -	240.00
10	AUSTEN, JANE	Pride and Prejudice	1813	USD -	240.00

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