Books and Ephemera - McCarthy, Picasso, Antiques, etc.
Catalogue Information: 436 lots | 435 with images | View lots
Date: 29 January 2012
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Sale Notes:
This catalog features a broad range of rare antique and vintage books, as well as a large collection of intriguing ephemera and artwork. Of particular note are rare first editions of 19th century and modern titles as well as a very large collection of signed modern first editions. The books in these collections are impressive both for their quality and condition. We will also offer a select group of estate furniture and other antiques.
Important books in this auction include first editions, many of which are author-signed. Noteworthy examples include first editions of three Cormac McCarthy entitled "The Orchard Keeper," "Child of God," and "The Stone Mason." Also offered are first American and English editions of Herman Melville's landmark 1847 title, "Omoo." Other lots include decorative antique sets by classic authors such as Victor Hugo and Alexander Dumas, along with Justin Winsor's eight-volume 1884-1889 work entitled, "Narrative and Critical History of America." Modern works in this catalog include hundreds of signed first editions by prominent writers such as Norman Mailer, Michael Crichton, Ken Follett, Dan Brown, Dick Francis and Amy Tan, to name just a few.
Found throughout this catalog are pleasing groups of ephemera and artwork. Leading the field is a pencil-signed lithograph of "The Model Painter" by Pablo Picasso, offered with provenance. A vast array of ephemera lots are included in this catalog with vintage and antique items dating back to the 17th century. Themes of the ephemera lots include early engravings and lithographs, travel-related, transportation (aviation, automotive, and railroad), antique photographs (including tintypes) , magazines, early ship cargo manifests and original documents, artwork, advertising-related items, original Civil War material, tobacciana, breweriana, large quantities of original correspondence with postage and early cancels, and many other genres.
This catalog also includes other antique items. Featured are antique bookcases and desks along with early stoneware pottery and a pendulum clock.
Lot 2001: 2V S. A. Beach THE APPLES OF NEW YORK 1905 1st Edition Pomology Color Plates
Title: The Apples of New YorkAuthor: S. A. Beach - Spencer A. Beach was undoubtedly one of the most well known and far seeing professional horticulturists of the early 20th Century. In 1891 he became horticulturist at the New York Agricultural Exper [...more]
Lot 2002: Pablo Picasso MODEL PAINTER 1961 Pencil-Signed Lithograph From Estate Of Art Curator Alfred Collette
Title: The Model PainterArtist: Pablo PicassoMedium: LithographFeatures: Signed In PlateWidth: 24.0" Height: 19.75"Book Details: Condition / Notes: Lithograph is preserved under glass in gilt-edged matting within gilt wooden frame. Back side i [...more]
Lot 2003: ANTIQUE PETITION FOR REMOVAL OF SUNKEN SHIP c1887
Details: This lot includes the antique document shown in the corresponding image. This is a petition to have sunken ship removed from port entrance. It is signed by thirty ship captains.Text reads as follows:To the Hon. Secy of the Treasury / Washi [...more]
Lot 2004: Cormac McCarthy CHILD OF GOD 1974 First Edition In Scarce Dust Jacket
Title: Child of GodAuthor: Cormac McCarthy - Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memo [...more]
Lot 2005: 12Pc Boston Newspaper ANTIQUE ISSUES OF COLUMBIAN CENTINEL 1801-1825
Details: This lot features the following group of antique issues the Columbian Centinel, printed in Boston and dating from the early nineteenth century. There are 12 number of issues, with the earliest dated 1794 and subsequent issues with a date ra [...more]
