Sold at Austin Auction Gallery
(10) Library Shelf Books: Literature & Poetry
- Price realized
- $60
- Pre-sale estimate
- $80 – $150
- Hammer price
- $60
- Category
- Books, Manuscripts & Archives
- Sold
- November 18, 2023
- Sale
- November Spectacular 3-Day Auction Event - Day 2
Lot description
(lot of 10) Books: Literature and poetry subjects, most with leather binding and gilt-embossed lettering, including: (1) "Red Letter Poems by English Men and Women," with gilt page ends, published by Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, copyright 1884, inscribed with sentiment and dated 1885 at front end paper, 648 pages, (1) "An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey," by Robert Lois Stevenson, published by E.P. Dutton and Company, copyright 1913, 278 pages, (2) by Elbert Hubbard, with oversized leather binding, gilt embossed title plaque, (one) "Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great," published by G.P Putman's Sons, copyright 1895, inscribed with sentiment and dated 1901 at front end paper, 366 pages, (one) "A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things," published by Roycrofters, 1901, 166 pages, (1) "Rights of Man," by Thomas Paine, published by Peter Eckler, retailed by Charles S. Pratt, New York, 279 pages, (1) "The Musician's Year Book," compiled by Margaret Reintzel, published by E.P. Dutton and Company, 1907, 195 pages, (1) "Enoch Arden," by Alfred Tennyson, with gilt page ends, published by H.M. Caldwell Company, copyright 1900, 117 pages, (1) "One Hundred and One Famous Poems," compiled by Roy J. Cook, published by Reilly and Lee Company, copyright 1958, 185 pages, (1) "I Need the Money," by Hugh McHugh, published by G.W. Dillingham and Company, copyright 1903, 114 pages, (1) "The Busy Man's Friend," by James Lawrence Nichols, published by J.L. Nichols and Company, 1902, some separation of text block to binding, 256 pages, largest: approx 9.25"h, 6.25"w, 1"d, 7lbs total Start Price: $60.00
This lot sold at a past Austin Auction Gallery sale. Prices realized include the buyer's premium and are provided for research only — they are not an appraisal or a guarantee of future value.
