Anderson Galleries: First Editions and Private Press Books, The Library Formed by Abraham Goldsmith, sold by order of his daughter. Books, Autographs, and Mementos from the James Whitcomb Riley Homestead, selections from the collections of George B. Thummel and Jahu Dewitt M, 4150,

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 07, 1935 - February 07, 1935
Page Size: 605 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
400 MARINE RESEARCH SOCIETY. A Series of Publications of the Marine Research Society. Salem

1924-5

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401 MARION PRESS (THE). The Wish (Pope), 1897; The New Gulliver (Garrison), vignette on title-page, 1898 ... Jamaica, New York

1898-1900

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402 MARRYAT (FREDERICK) The Works of Frederick Marryat. Boston

n. d.

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403 MARVELL (ANDREW) Miscellaneous Poems. London

1681

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404 MATHEWS (MRS. ANNE) Anecdotes of Actors, 1844; The Old Play-Goer (Robson), 1846; Our Actresses (Wilson), 2 vols., 1844 ... London

v. d.

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405 MAUPASSANT (GUY DE) Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life. Akron

n. d.

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406 MAXWELL (JAMES) A Monument of Remembrance, erected in Albion, in honor of the magnificent departure from Britannie ... London

1613

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407 MAYHEW (HENRY AND HORACE) The Greatest Plague of Life, n.d.; Hans of Iceland, 1825; lacks Preliminary Note and advertisements ... London

v. d.

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408 McFEE (WILLIAM) Command, Garden City, 1922, Large Paper; Cytherea (Hergesheimer), N. Y., 1922, Large Paper; The ...

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409 [McLEAN (SARAH P.)] Cape Cod Folks. A Novel. Boston

1881

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410 MEDALLIONS. The Circle of Friends of the Medallion. [New York]

[1899-1915]

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411 MEIER-GRAEFE (JULIUS) Modern Art: Being a contribution to a new system of aesthetics. New York

1908

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412 MELVILLE (HERMAN) Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York

1851

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413 MERRYMOUNT PRESS (THE). Cornelii Taciti Opera Minora [1904]; A Note on the Discovery of a new Page ... Boston

1904-25

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414 MICHEL (EMILE) Rembrandt: His Life, his Work, and his Time, 2 vols., N. Y., 1894; Leonardo da Vinci (Muntz), 2 vols ... New York and London

1894-8

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415 MILLER (JOAQUIN) The Ship in the Desert. Boston

1875

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416 Ik Marvel [MITCHELL (DONALD G.)] Reveries of a Bachelor; or, A Book of the Heart. Indianapolis

[1906]

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417 MOLIERE (J. B. P. DE) Oeuvres, 8 vols., Paris, 1697; The Landscape Annual for 1830-4, 5 vols., London, 1830-4.

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418 MOORE (GEORGE) Hail and Farewell, 3 vols., London, 1911[-4]; The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (Gissing ...

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419 MOORE (GEORGE) Avowals, 1919; Memoirs of My Dead Life, 1920; Heloise and Abelard, 2 vols., 1921; In Single ... New York

1919-21

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420 MOORE (THOMAS) The Loves of the Angels, A Poem. London

1823

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421 MORELL (CHARLES) The Tales of the Genii, with plates colored by hand, 2 vols., 1820; The Students' Quarter (Thackeray ... London

v. d.

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422 MORRIS (ROBERT, Signer from Pennsylvania) A. L. s., 1 p., 12mo, Nov. 8, 1797, to John Nicholson; A. L. s. by President James Monroe, 2 pp ...

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423 MOTLEY (JOHN LOTHROP) Works, 9 vols., N. Y., 1880; Works (Daniel Webster), 6 vols., Boston, 1856.

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424 MUDIE (ROBERT) The Feathered Tribes, colored plates by G. Baxter, 2 vols., 1834; Fables (Brown), 1884; A Pretty ... London

v. d.

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425 MUMFORD (JOHN K.) Oriental Rugs, colored reproductions, 1901; A History of New York (Irving), illustrated by Maxfield ... New York

1901-2

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426 MUTHER (RICHARD) The History of Modern Painting. New York

1896

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427 NAPOLEON I History of the Expedition to Russia (De Segur), 2 vols., London, 1825; The Secret History of the ...

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428 NAPOLEON I Napoleon at St. Helena (O'Meara), 2 vols., London, 1888; History of Napoleon (Bussey), 2 vols ...

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429 NAPOLEON I Memoirs of Constant, 4 vols., N. Y., 1895; A Reply to Sir Walter Scott's History of Napoleon ( ...

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430 NAPOLEON I Memoirs to serve for the History of Napoleon I from 1802 to 1815 (De Meneval), 3 vols., London, 1894 ...

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431 Seymour (Edward) NAPOLEON I. History of the Wars resulting from the French Revolution . . . The Life of Napoleon ... London and New York

1815-1906

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432 NAPOLEON MEMOIRS. London

n. d.

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433 NEVILL (RALPH) Memoirs of Monsieur d'Artagnan, 3 vols., London, 1898; Memoirs of Madame de Remusat, 3 vols., N. Y ...

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434 NEW ENGLAND PRIMER (THE), Enlarged and Improved: or, an easy and Pleasant Guide to the art of ... Newburyport

[1798-1800]

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435 NEWTON (A. EDWARD) A Magnificent Farce. Boston

[1921]

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436 NEWTON (A. EDWARD) Doctor Johnson, 1923; The Greatest Book in the World [1925]. Boston

1923[-5]

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437 Hone (Philip) NEW YORK. The Diary of Philip Hone (Edited by Tuckerman), 2 vols., N. Y., 1889; Colonial New York ( ... New York

1843-1925

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438 Edited by Henry Collins Brown NEW YORK CITY. Valentine's Manual of the City of New York, 1916-28. New York

[1916-28]

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439 NEW YORK STATE AND CITY. The Hudson (Lossing), N. Y., n.d.; Historic New York (Goodwin), 2 vols., N ... V. p.

v. d.

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440 PARKMAN (FRANCIS) The California and Oregon Trail. New York

1849

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441 PATER (WALTER) The Works of Walter Pater. London

1900-1

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442 PENNELL (JOSEPH) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen, their Work and their Methods. A Study of the Art to-day with ... London

1889

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443 [PHILIPS (KATHERINE)] Poems. London

1664

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444 PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS. A Collection of Philosophical Writings by Spencer, Darwin, Spinoza, Richard ... V. p.

v. d.

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445 PIKE (ALBERT) Hymns to the Gods and Other Poems. [Washington]

[1872?]

USD - Unknown
446 PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS) Comoediae. [Milan]

[before 1497]

USD - Unknown
447 POE (EDGAR ALLAN) The Raven, illustrated by Gustave Dore, N. Y., 1884; Some American Painters in Water Colors (text by ... New York and Munich

v. d.

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448 POE (EDGAR ALLAN) The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. New York

n. d.

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449 Shelley (Percy Bysshe) POETS. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 3 vols., N. Y., n.d.; The Poetical Works of ... V. p.

v. d.

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450 POETRY AND DRAMA. A Collection of Poetry and Drama by Shelley, Wordsworth, Irving, Browning, and ... V. p.

v. d.

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451 PRESCOTT (WILLIAM H.) Works, 15 vols., Phila., 1880; History of England (Hume and Smollett), 13 vols., London, 1807 ...

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452 [PRIOR (MATTHEW)] Poems on Several Occasions, frontispiece, 1709; The Works of Virgil (translated by Pitt and Wharton ... London

1683-1790

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453 [PYLE (HOWARD)] First Year Book of the Bibliophile Society. Boston

1902

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454 QUARLES (FRANCIS) Divine Fancies: Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. London

1632

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455 QUARLES (FRANCIS) The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain Eglogues. London

1646

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456 REMINGTON (FREDERIC) The Way of an Indian. New York

1906

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458 Benj. F. Johnson RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB). The Old Swimmin'-hole, and 'Leven More Poems. Indianapolis, Indiana

1883

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459 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Character Sketches. The Boss Girl. A Christmas Story and Other Sketches. Indianapolis

1886

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460 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) A Buckeye Ballad. Compliments of Passenger Department, Buckeye Route. Tale of a Million. [Columbus, O.]

[1890]

USD - Unknown
461 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Neghborly Poems. Indianapolis

1891

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462 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Rhymes of Childhood. Indianapolis

1891

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463 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Poems by James Whitcomb Riley. Chicago

1892

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464 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) The Flying Islands of the Night. Indianapolis

1892

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465 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Poems Here at Home. New York

1893

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466 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Armazindy. Indianapolis

1894

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467 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Dialect in Literature. Indianapolis

1896

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468 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) A Child-World. Indianapolis and Kansas City

1897

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469 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) A Child-World. Indianapolis and Kansas City

1897

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470 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) A Child-World. Indianapolis and Kansas City

1897

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471 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers. New York

1897

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472 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) The Golden Year. From the Verse and Prose of James Whitcomb Riley. London

1898

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473 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Negborly Poems and Dialect Sketches. Indianapolis and Kansas City

1899

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474 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Home-Folks. Indianapolis

[1900]

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475 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) An Old Sweetheart of Mine. Indianapolis

n. d.

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476 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) The Book of Joyous Children. New York

1903

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477 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Out to Old Aunt Mary's. Indianapolis

[1904]

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478 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) A Defective Santa Claus. Indianapolis

[1904]

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479 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Morning. Indianapolis

[1907]

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480 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Morning. Indianapolis

[1907]

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481 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) The Boys of the Old Glee Club. Indianapolis

[1907]

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482 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Out to Old Aunt Mary's. [Indianapolis]

[1912]

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483 [RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB)] New Suburban Train Service on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern R. R. N. p.

n. d.

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484 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Songs of Summer. Indianapolis

n. d.

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485 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) A. L. s. Jim. Delphi, Indiana

1883

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486 [RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB)] Guest Book from the Riley Home.

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487 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Three Autograph Manuscript Poems, comprising: To the first Fly, written on one sheet, 12mo; about ...

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488 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Two Blotograms executed by James Whitcomb Riley.

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489 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Green Fields and Running Brooks, Indianapolis, 1893, with a small slip of paper on which Riley has ...

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490 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Sketches in Prose; Afterwhiles; Pipes O' Pan; Rhymes of Childhood; The Flying Islands of the Night ... Indianapolis

n. d.

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491 [RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB)] A High-School Dictionary of the English Language. New York

1869

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492 [Lord (William S.)] [RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB)] This is for You. Love Poems of the Saner Sort. Chicago

1902

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493 Wells (Carolyn) [RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB).] A Nonsense Anthology. New York

1902

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494 Nicholson (Meredith) [RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB)] Poems. Indianapolis

n. d.

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495 Kipling (Rudyard) [RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB)] Recessional and Other Poems. New York

n. d.

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496 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Two Photographs of James Whitcomb Riley.

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497 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Photograph of James Whitcomb Riley; size, 12 3/4 by 9 1/4 inches Another similar; size, 11 1/2 by 9 ...

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498 RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB) Two mother-of-pearl pens, with gold nibs; in cases.

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499 [RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB)] Limoges China.

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500 [RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB)] Walking Stick used by James Whitcomb Riley.

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