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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

 

AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS:

Autograph letters

Books signed by the author, sometimes inscribed to a famous person.

Signed photographs

Original illustrations

Ephemera - too much to catalogue

World War II Beach Scene off (?)-loading supplies to US Navy Ships. The back of the photograph states :"Official U.S. Navy Photograph. Not For Publication - Unless Officially Released". Also "Photographio "unreadable"

/ [U.] S. Naval Imp[unreadable] unreadable/ Coronado, San Li[unreadable] 55, California"

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CARTOGRAPHY: Harlow: Maps of the Pueblo Lands of San Diego, 1602-1874; Wheat: The Maps of the California Gold Region, 1848-1857. A Biblio-cartography of an Important Decade.

CHILDREN's books: L. Frank Baum, Mother Goose in Prose illustrated by Maxfield Parrish; Walt Disney: Mickey Never Fails, signed by Walt Disney; Samuel Goodrich: The Tales of Peter Parley About America, first edition, the rarest American children's book.

ILLUSTRATED Books: The Springtide of Life and The Compleat Angler , illustrated and signed by Arthur Rackham; Camille, signed by Marie Laurencin

EARLY BOOKS: Petrus de Crescentius: De Agricultura Omnibusque Plantarum, et Animalium…

LAW: Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, four volumes, all first editions; The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy, London, 1776

LITERATURE, 19TH CENTURY: Joseph Conrad: An Outcast of the Islands; Mirror of the Sea; Point of Honour

LITERATURE, 20TH CENTURY: William Faulkner: The Hamlet and Go Down Moses, signed limited editions.

L[eon] G[ermain] Pelouse. Landscape with women and trees. Oil on board, ornamental gilt frame, overall size 18 x 21 inches.Signed and dated lower right, 1883.

$3,000.00

Leon Germain Pelouse was a French painter (1838-1891). This evocative work depicts two country women meeting on a stone-lined path through the wooded countryside, each coming from another direction, stopping to talk. A little sunlight falls on their shoulders, and is seen in patches in the woods.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Aperture Magazine issues. Appalachian Wilderness by Eliot Porter. Signed presidential photographs (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman.

PRESS BOOKS: A large number of Grabhorn Press Books; Book Club of California books; Ashendene

SCIENCE & MEDICINE: Pavlov, Die Arbeit der Verdauungsdrusen, first edition in German;

SETS: Plutarch, The Works of Corneille (in French), Shakespeare, in 3/4 morocco, and others.

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BOOKS: Churchill, Great Contemporaries, Life of Marlborough; Kilmer, Trees and other poems.

TRAVEL: EKELOF, Ett Ar i Stilla Havet (A Year in the Pacific) Stockholm, 1872

 


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