£813
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs - Including the Trevor Dawson Magic Collection | 613
Auction: 30 September 2020 at 11:00 BST
Hecht, Ben A Thousand and one Afternoons in Chicago. 1922, illustrations by Herman Rosse, original pictorial boards; Lewis, Sinclair Our Mr Wrenn. New York: Harper, 1914.First edition, original grey cloth gilt; Green, Anna Katharine The Millionaire Baby. Indianapolis, 1905, January; First edition, original cloth; Stowe, C.E. Rhymes from the Santa Barbara Hills. San Ysidor Ranch, 1920. Presentation copy from the author (the only living child of Harriet Beecher Stowe], original wrappers, spine rubbed; [there is no separate title-page, the upper wrapper seeming to serve as title]; More, Sir Thomas Utopia. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934, number 1438 of 1500 copies, original vellum-backed boards, slipcase; Downes, Williaam H. Bookplates selected from the Works of Edmund H. Garrett. Throus-dale Press, Boston, 1903, original quarter parchment, slightly marked; Drinkwater, John The World's Lincoln. New York: The Bowling Green Press, 1928, one of 800 copies, original quarter parchment, glassine dustwrapper; Parker, Willis L. The Three Cuckolds our of Chaucer. New York: Privately Issued, 1932, original quarter parchment; Prokosch, Frederic Death at Sea. 1940, presentation copy to Arthur Lundkrist, original quarter cloth; Prokosch, F. A Ballad of Love. New York, 1960. First edition, number 23 of 99 copies signed by the author, original cloth, dustwrapper; Wright, S.F. The Throne of Saturn. Sauk City, 1949, Presentation copy, dustwrapper; Sinclair, Upton The Jungle. 1920, signed by the author on endpaper, original pictorial cloth, dustwrapper frayed; Sinclair, Upton The Spokesman's Secretary. Pasadena, 1926, original cloth; Naipaul, V.S. The Mystic Masseur. New York, 1959, dustwrapper; Capote, Truman A Christmas Memory. 1956, owner's gift inscription to flyleaf, original quarter cloth, slipcase; Faulkener, William Mirrors of Chartres Street. Minneapolis, 1953, number 536 of 1000 copies, original cloth; Williams, William Carlos. A Fream of Love. Parsippany, 1948, 2 copies, original wrappers; Eddison, E.R. The Worm Ouroboros. New York, 1926, First American edition, dustwrapper slightly frayed; Lovecraft, H.P. The Shunned House. Athol, Mass., 1928. morocco-backed cloth; Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman. New York, Viking Press, 1949. First edition, original pictorial tan cloth, top 20% of free endpaper cut away and with name in ink; Hale, E.E. The Man without a Country. Norwalk: Easton Press, 1979, green morocco gilt; Voltaire, J.F.M.A de Candide. New York: Random House, 1975, 4to, illustrated by Rockwell Kent, original cloth, slipcase; Breton, A. Young Cherry Trees secured against Hares. New York: View Editions, 1946, limited to 1000 copies, original boards, dustwrapper; Franklin, Benjamin The Way to Wealth. New York: Random House, 1930, folio, limited to 390 copies, original cloth, slipcase worn; and several others