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
804	Ralph Waldo Emerson	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. With Critical Introduction by Edward F. O'Day.	San Francisco	1934	USD -	Unknown
805	Longus	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe.	New York	1934	USD -	Unknown
806	Sir Thomas More	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Utopia . . . and done into English by Ralph Robynson.	New York	1934	USD -	Unknown
807	Marco Polo	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Travels. Revised and edited with an Introduction by Manuel Komroff.	New York	1934	USD -	Unknown
808	Mary W. Shelley	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Frankenstein. Printed with an Introduction by Edward Lester Pearson.	New York	1934	USD -	Unknown
809	Richard B. Sheridan	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The School for Scandal.	Oxford	1934	USD -	Unknown
810	[Samuel L. Clemens]	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Slovenly Peter [Der Struwwelpeter.] Translated . . . by Mark Twain.	New York	1935	USD -	Unknown
811	Nathaniel Hawthorne	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The House of the Seven Gables.	New York	1935	USD -	Unknown
812	O. Henry	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Voice of the City and Other Stories.	New York	1935	USD -	Unknown
813	W. H. Hudson	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Green Mansions. With an Introduction by W.Beebe.	New York	1935	USD -	Unknown
814	James Joyce	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert.	New York	1935	USD -	Unknown
815	Herman Melville	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Typee. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver.	New York	1935	USD -	Unknown
816	Laurence Sterne	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.	New York	1935	USD -	Unknown
817	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM	The War Years, by Carl Sandburg.	New York	[1939]	USD -	Unknown
818	LINCOLN, JOSEPH C.	Cape Cod Ballads and Other Verse.	Trenton	1902	USD -	Unknown
819		LITTLE AMERICA (Bird), London, 1930; signed; The Voice of Bugle Ann (Kantor), N. Y., n.d.; inscribed ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
820	LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK	London Lyrics. Frontispiece by Randolph Caldecott, and another illustration by Kate Greenaway, both ...	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
821	LONDON, JACK	The Call of the Wild.	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
822	LONDON, JACK	Children of the Frost, 1902; The Sea-Wolf, 1904; John Barleycorn, 1913.	New York	1902-13	USD -	Unknown
823	[LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.]	Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea. No. I, Boston: Hilliard, Gray & Co., 1833; The same. No. II ...	Boston	1833-4	USD -	Unknown
824	LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.	The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems.	Cambridge	1846	USD -	Unknown
825	LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.	The Song of Hiawatha.	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
826	LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.	The Courtship of Miles Standish, 1858; Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1863, later issue.	Boston	1858-63	USD -	Unknown
827	J. Amyot	LONGUS. Daphnis et Chloe ou les Pastorales de Longus. Nouvelle Edition Revue, Corrigee et Completee.	Paris	1863	USD -	Unknown
828	LONGUS	Daphnis et Chloe. Traduction P. L. Courier.	Paris	1898	USD -	Unknown
829	LOTI, PIERRE	La Troisieme Jeunesse de Madame Prune.	Paris	[1905]	USD -	Unknown
830	[LOWELL, JAMES R.]	Meliboeus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers, edited with an Introduction, Notes, Glossary, and Copius ...	Combridge and Boston	1848-67	USD -	Unknown
831	LOWELL, JAMES R.	Last Poems.	Boston	1895	USD -	Unknown
832	Martin Hardie	[McBEY, JAMES.] Etchings and Dry Points from 1902 to 1924. A Catalogue by Martin Hardie.	London	1925	USD -	Unknown
833	McNEILL, JOHN C.	Lyrics from Cotton Land.	Charlotte	N. C. [1907]	USD -	Unknown
834	MACAULAY, THOMAS B., LORD	Critical and Historical Essays, contributed to the Edinburgh Review.	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
835	MACAULAY, THOMAS B., LORD	The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete. Edited by his sister Lady Trevelyan.	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
836	MACFALL, HALDANE	The Splendid Warfarer.	London	1913	USD -	Unknown
837	MACFALL, HALDANE	The Splendid Warfarer.	London	1913	USD -	Unknown
838	MACHEN, ARTHUR	The Three Impostors. 1895; The House of Souls, 1906; The Hill of Dreams, 1907.	London	1895-1907	USD -	Unknown
839	MALIAC, ALBERT	Sonnets.	Paris	1887	USD -	Unknown
840	MALORY, SIR THOMAS	The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table.	[London]	1927	USD -	Unknown
841	MANN, THOMAS	The Beloved Returns. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter.	New York	1940	USD -	Unknown
842	MANSFIELD, KATHERINE	In A German Pension.	London	[1911]	USD -	Unknown
843	MANSFIELD, KATHERINE	Prelude.	Richmond	[1918]	USD -	Unknown
844	MANSFIELD, KATHERINE	Je Ne Parle Pas Francais.	Hampstead	1919	USD -	Unknown
845	MANSFIELD, KATHERINE	Je Ne Parle Pas Francais.	Hampstead	1919	USD -	Unknown
846	MANSFIELD, KATHERINE	The Doves' Nest and Other Stories.	London	[1923]	USD -	Unknown
847	MARKHAM, EDWIN	The Man with the Hoe.	San Francisco	1899	USD -	Unknown
848	MARKHAM, EDWIN	Lincoln & Other Poems, 1913; The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems, 1915; The Man with the Hoe and ...	Garden City	1913-5	USD -	Unknown
849	MARMION, SHAKERLEY	A Fine Companion.	London	1633	USD -	Unknown
850	MARMION, SHACKERLY	The Antiquary.	London	1641	USD -	Unknown
851	MARRYAT, FREDERICK	The Phantom Ship.	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
852	MASEFIELD, JOHN	Salt-Water Ballads.	London	1902	USD -	Unknown
853	MASEFIELD, JOHN	The Widow in the Bye Street.	London	1912	USD -	Unknown
854	MASEFIELD, JOHN	Ballads, 1903; William Shakespeare, n.d.; The Fancy, with a Prefatory Memoir . . . by John Masefield ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
855	MASSINGER, PHILIP	A New Way to Pay Old Debts.	London	1633	USD -	Unknown
856	MASTERS, EDGAR LEE	A Book of Verses.	Chicago	1898	USD -	Unknown
857	MASTERS, EDGAR LEE	Spoon River Anthology.	New York	1915	USD -	Unknown
858		MATHER, COTTON. Reasonable Religion: or, the Truths of the Christian Religion Demonstrated.	Londo	1713	USD -	Unknown
859	MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET	Of Human Bondage.	London	[1915]	USD -	Unknown
860	MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET	The Moon and Sixpence.	London	1919	USD -	Unknown
861	MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET	Cakes and Ale [1930]; First Person Singular [1931].	London	[1930-1]	USD -	Unknown
862	[MEISSONIER, E.]	Cte. Louis de Chevigne. Les Contes Remois.	Paris	1861	USD -	Unknown
863	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A ...	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
864	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
865	MERIMEE, PROSPER	Carmen. Translated from the French. . . by E. H. Garrett. With a Memoir . . by Louise Imogen Guiney.	Winchester, Mass.	1896	USD -	Unknown
866	Loys Delteil	[MERYON, CHARLES.] Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings of Charles Meryon.	New York	1924	USD -	Unknown
867	MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT	The King's Henchman.	New York	1927	USD -	Unknown
868	MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT	Wine from These Grapes [with] Epitaph for The Race of Man, 2 vols., N. Y., 1934; limited to 299 ...	New York	1931-4	USD -	Unknown
869	MILLS, JOHN	Christmas in the Olden Time; or, The Wassail Bowl.	London	[1846]	USD -	Unknown
870	MILNE, A. A.	A collection of 9 A.L.s., 14 pp. in all,			USD -	Unknown
871	MILNE, A. A.	The Holiday Round [1912]; Once on a Time, 1917; The House at Pooh Corner [1928]; The Christopher ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
872	MILNE, A. A.	First Plays.	London	1919	USD -	Unknown
873	MILNE, A. A.	When We Were Very Young, London [1924]; Winnie-the-Pooh, London [1926]; Now We Are Six, London [1927 ...			USD -	Unknown
874	MILNE, A. A.	The Hums of Pooh [1929], signed by the author, illustrator, and music composer; A Gallery of ...	London	[1925-9]	USD -	Unknown
875	MILNE, A. A.	Now We Are Six.	London	[1927]	USD -	Unknown
876	MILNE, A. A.	The House at Pooh Corner.	New York	[1928]	USD -	Unknown
877	MILTON, JOHN	Paradise Lost [and] Paradise Regained.	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
878	MILTON, JOHN	The Shorter Poems of John Milton.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
879	[MILTON, JOHN]	Comus.	[London]	[1901]	USD -	Unknown
880	J. J. Foster	MINIATURE PAINTERS. Miniature Painters, British and Foreign.	London and New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
881	MITCHELL, MARGARET	Gone with the Wind.	New York	1936	USD -	Unknown
882	MITCHELL, MARGARET	Gone with the Wind.			USD -	Unknown
883	MITFORD, MARY R.	Our Village.	New York	1828	USD -	Unknown
884	[MOGRIDGE, GEORGE]	Sergeant Bell and his Raree Show.	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
885	MOORE, GEORGE	A Drama in Muslin, 1886; Confessions of a Young Man, portrait, 1888; The Bending of the Bough, 1900.	London	1886-1900	USD -	Unknown
886	MOORE, GEORGE	Spring Days, 1888; A Drama in Muslin, 1893; The Lake, 1905.	London	1888-1905	USD -	Unknown
887	MOORE, GEORGE	Mike Fletcher.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
888	MOORE, GEORGE	Celibates, 1895; Evelyn Innes, 1898; The Untilled Field, 1903; Memoirs of My Dead Life, 1906.	London	1895-1906	USD -	Unknown
889	MOORE, GEORGE	Sister Teresa.	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
890	MOORE, GEORGE	Hail and Farewell.	London	1911, 1912 [-14]	USD -	Unknown
891	MOORE, GEORGE	Impressions and Opinions.	London	1913	USD -	Unknown
892	MOORE, GEORGE	Hail and Farewell: Vale.	Leipzig	1914	USD -	Unknown
893	MOORE, GEORGE	The Brook Kerith, Edinburgh, 1916; Memoirs of My Dead Life, N. Y., 1920.	V.p.	1916-20	USD -	Unknown
894	MOORE, GEORGE	The Coming of Gabrielle, London, 1920; The same, New York, 1921; The Apostle, London, 1923.	London and New York	1920-3	USD -	Unknown
895	MOORE, GEORGE	Memoirs of My Dead Life, London [1921]; Ulick and Soracha, N. Y., 1926.			USD -	Unknown
896	MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER	Shandygaff, 1918; in the first binding; Kathleen, 1920; Thunder on the Left, 1925; Human Beings ...	Garden City	1918-32	USD -	Unknown
897	MOTTRAM, R. H.	The Spanish Farm, 1924, with an A.L.s. by the author in reference to his war books; Our Mr. Dormer ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
898	[MURFREE, MARY N.]	The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains, Boston, 1885; In the Clouds, Boston, 1887; The Story of ...			USD -	Unknown
899	MUSSET, ALFRED DE	Ses Plus Beaux Vers.	Paris	[1928]	USD -	Unknown
900	Oliver Goldsmith	NASH PRINTING, JOHN HENRY. The Deserted Village.	San Francisco	1926	USD -	Unknown
901	NATHAN, ROBERT	The Fiddler in Italy, N. Y., 1925; The Woodcutter's House, Indianapolis [1927]; Jonah, N. Y., 1925 ...			USD -	Unknown
902	NEWMAN, JOHN H., CARDINAL	Apologia Pro Vita Sua.	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
903	NEWELL, PETER	Autograph Manuscript The Raccoon and the Rabbit, about 160 words, written on 1 page, 8vo.			USD -	Unknown

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