Parke Bernet: FIRST EDITIONS OF ENGLISH, FRENCH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS, KELMSCOTT PRESS AND LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB PUBLICATIONS, CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND 'PEEP-SHOWS', BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY BLAKE, CALDECOTT, CRANE, BEARDSLEY, RACKHAM, KENT, REMINGTON, DAUMIER AND GAVARNI. A RE, 827,

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 13, 1947 - January 13, 1947
Page Size: 1239 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
704 Geoffrey Chaucer [KENT, ROCKWELL.] Canterbury Tales. New York

1930

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705 Herman Melville [KENT, ROCKWELL.] Moby Dick; or, The Whale. Chicago

1930

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706 KENT, ROCKWELL N by E. New York

1930

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707 William Shakespeare [KENT, ROCKWELL.] Venus and Adonis. Rochester

1931

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708 KENT, ROCKWELL A Birthday Book, 1931, signed by Kent; Gabriel (Pushkin), 1929; City Child (Robinson), 1931, signed ... New York

v.d.

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709 [KENT, ROCKWELL] Beowulf. New York

1932

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710 KENT, ROCKWELL Rockwellkentiana, 1933, signed by Kent; Wilderness, n.d.; Candide (Voltaire), 1928, Limited Edition ... New York

v.d.

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711 KENT, ROCKWELL Salamina, 1935, inscribed by the author; N by E, 1930, inscribed by the author; Candy (Alexander ... New York

v.d.

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712 KENT, ROCKWELL N by E, 1930, 2 copies, one signed by Kent; A Birthday Book, 1930; signed by Kent; City Child ( ... New York

v.d.

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713 KILMER, JOYCE Main Street and other Poems, N. Y. [1917]; First Edition; Trees [In: Poetry, a Magazine of Verse ... V.p.

v.d.

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714 KINGSLEY, CHARLES Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight. Cambridge

1855

USD - Unknown
715 KIPLING, RUDYARD A.L.s. Rudyard Kipling.

USD - Unknown
716 KIPLING, RUDYARD Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Lahore

1886

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717 KIPLING, RUDYARD Plain Tales from the Hills. Calcutta

1888

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718 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895. London

1894-5

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719 [KIPLING, RUDYARD] Catalogue of the works of Rudyard Kipling. New York

1930

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720 KIPLING, RUDYARD Many Inventions, 1893; The Light that Failed, 1891; Life's Handicap, 1891; The Day's Work, 1898. London

1891-8

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721 KIPLING, RUDYARD Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, London, 1892, one of 225 copies; The City of Dreadful Night ...

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722 KIPLING, RUDYARD 'Captains Courageous,' 1897; Soldier Tales, 1896. London

1896-7

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723 KIPLING, RUDYARD Puck of Pook's Hill, 1906; Rewards and Fairies, 1910; Kim, 1901; label removed from front cover ... London

v.d.

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724 KIPLING, RUDYARD Abaft the Funnel, N. Y., 1909; Twenty Poems, London [1918]; A Diversity of Creatures, London, 1917 ...

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725 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Years Between [1919]; The Seven Seas, 1896; The Five Nations, 1903. London

v.d.

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726 KIPLING, RUDYARD Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918. 1919; The Feet of the Young Men, 1920. Garden City

1919-20

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727 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Irish Guards in the Great War, 2 vols., London, 1923; Just So Stories for Little Children ...

USD - Unknown
728 LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE Contes et Nouvelles en Vers. Par M. De La Fontaine. Amsterdam [Paris]

1762

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729 LAMB, CHARLES Letters . . . with a Sketch of his Life. By Thomas Noon Talfourd, 2 vols., 1837; Final Memorials of ... London

v.d.

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730 LAMB, CHARLES and [MARY] Tales from Shakespeare, designed for the Use of Young Persons. London

1807

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731 LANG, ANDREW A collection of first editions of Fairy Books and Story Books edited by Andrew Lang. London

v.d.

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732 [Edited by Gelett Burgess] LARK, THE. San Francisco

1896-7

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733 LAWRENCE, D. H. Sons and Lovers, London, 1913; The Prussian Officer, London [1914]; Reflections on the Death of a ...

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734 LAWRENCE, THOMAS E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. New York

1926

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735 LAWRENCE, THOMAS E. Revolt in the Desert. New York

1927

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736 LAWRENCE, THOMAS E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Garden City

1935

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737 LAWRENCE, THOMAS E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Garden City

1935

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738 LAY ANTHONY, THE (Hergesheimer), N. Y., 1914; Come and Get It (Ferber), Garden City, 1935; The ...

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739 LEECH, JOHN Watercolor Drawing.

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740 LEECH, JOHN A group of 11 original pencil drawings on thin paper.

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741 Gilbert A'Beckett [LEECH, JOHN.] The Comic History of England. London

1846-8

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742 Gilbert A'Beckett [LEECH, JOHN.] The Comic History of Rome. London

[1851]

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743 [LEECH, JOHN] Young Troublesome; or Master Jacky's Holidays, colored plates [1850]; John Leech, his Life and ... London

18[50-]91

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744 LEECH, JOHN Pictures of Life & Character. London

1864

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745 Martin Hardie [LEE-HANKEY, W.] The Etched Work of W. Lee-Hankey, R. E. from 1904 to 1920. London

n.d.

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746 LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD Autograph Manuscript of The Strange Sermon of Dr. Ferdusi, signed in full at the end.

USD - Unknown
747 LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD Rudyard Kipling, A Criticism, London, 1900; Odes from the Divan of Hafiz, Freely Rendered from ... V.p.

1900-26

USD - Unknown
748 LEGEND OF JUBAL, THE (Eliot), Edin., 1874; The Music Master (Allingham), London, 1855; Sesame and ...

USD - Unknown
749 LIFE OF WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT (Ticknor), Boston, 1864; Large Paper copy of the first Edition; The ... V.p.

v.d.

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750 LIMITED EDITIONS. The Last Voyage (Hanley), with a . . . Foreword by R. Aldington, 1931; The Big Man ... London

1931

USD - Unknown
751 Rudolphe Raspe LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Travels of Baron Munchausen. New York

1929

USD - Unknown
752 Jonathan Swift LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver. [New York]

1929

USD - Unknown
753 Walt Whitman LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Leaves of Grass. New York

1929

USD - Unknown
754 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi. New York

1930

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755 Giovanni Boccaccio LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Decameron. Newly translated from the Italian by Francis Winwar. New York

1930

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756 Alphonse Daudet LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Tartarin of Tarascon. Translated by Jacques LeClercq. New York

1930

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757 Daniel Defoe LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Introduction ... New York

1930

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758 Friedrich H. C. Baron de la Motte LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Undine. [New York]

1930

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759 Thomas de Quincey LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Oxford

1930

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760 Victor Hugo LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Notre-Dame de Paris. Translated by Jessie Haynes. Paris

1930

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761 Washington Irving LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Rip Van Winkle. With an Introduction by Mark Van Doren. New York

1930

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762 Jean de la Fontaine LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Fables. Newly translated into English Verse by Joseph Auslander and Jacques ... New York

1930

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763 Jean-Baptiste Moliere LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Tartuffe or the Hypocrite. Leipzig

1930

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764 Edgar A. Poe LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. New York

1930

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765 Robert L. Stevenson LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Two Mediaeval Tales. Introduction by Clayton Hamilton. [New York]

[1930]

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766 John G. Whittier LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Snow-Bound. New York

1930

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767 Thomas Carlyle LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Sartor Resartus. London

1931

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768 . Charles Dickens LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Chimes. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. London

1931

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769 Henry Fielding LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Tom Jones. Introduction by J. B. Priestly. New York

1931

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770 Benjamin Franklin LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Autobiography. San Francisco . . . John Henry Nash

1931

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771 Jacob L. K. and Wilhelm K. Grimm LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Fairy Tales, colored woodcuts, by Fritz Kredel. Offenbach

1931

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772 Nathaniel Hawthorne LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Marble Faun. Introduction by Herbert Gorman. Zurich

1931

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773 Homer LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Odyssey & Iliad. Translated by Alexander Pope. Haarlem

1931

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774 Andrew Lang LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. translator. Aucassin and Nicolette. [Praha]

[1931]

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775 Pierre Loti LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. An Iceland Fisherman. Translated from the French by Guy Endore. Stockholm

1931

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776 William H. Thackeray LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Vanity Fair. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Oxford

1931

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777 Apuleius LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Golden Ass. Translated by Jack Lindsay. New York

1932

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778 Honore de Balzac LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Droll Stories. New York

1932

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779 James F. Cooper LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Last of the Mohicans. New York

1932

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780 Dante Alighieri LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Divine Comedy. Rendered into English verse by Melville Best Anderson. Verona

1932

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781 [Norman Douglas] LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. South Wind. [New York]

[1932]

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782 Alexandre Dumas LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Three Musketeers. The translation by William Robson, with an Introduction ... Maastricht

1932

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783 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Four Gospels. The Gospel According to St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke and ... Leipzig

1932

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784 Johann W. von Goethe LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Faust. Translation by Alice Raphael. New York

1932

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785 Rene Maran LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Batouala. Translated by Alvah C. Bessie. New York

1932

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786 Rene Maran LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Batouala. Translated by Alvah C. Bessie. New York

1932

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787 Charles Reade LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Cloister and the Hearth. New York

1932

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788 Robert S. Surtees LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Jaunts and Jollities of that Renowned Sporting Citizen Mr. John Jorrocks. New York

1932

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789 Aesop's Fables LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Samuel Croxall's Translation, with a Bibliographical Note by Victor ... [Oxford]

1933

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790 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. Barcelona

1933

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791 [Samuel L. Clemens] LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York

1933

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792 Confucius LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Analects. Translated by Lionel Giles. Shanghai

1933

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793 Charles de Coster LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Glorious Adventure of Tyl Ulenspiegl. Haarlem

1933

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794 Charles Dickens LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Cricket on the Hearth. [London]

1933

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795 Charles Dickens LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Cricket on the Hearth. [London]

1933

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796 Charles Dickens LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Oxford

1933

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797 Fyodor Dostoevsky LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Brothers Karamazov. New York

1933

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798 Anatole France LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. At the Sign of the Queen Pedauque. Chicago

1933

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799 William Shapespeare LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Introduction by Gilbert Murray. [High Wycombe]

[1933]

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800 Francois Villon LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Lyrics. Done into English Verse by Algernon Charles Swinburne, and others. Croton Falles, New York

1933

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801 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation ... New York

1934

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802 Samuel Butler LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Erewhon . . . With a Special Introduction by Aldous Huxley. New York

1934

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803 Geoffrey Chaucer LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Canterbury Tales. Rendered into English verse by Frank Ernest Hill. [London]

1934

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