ONE OF FIVE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THACKERAY FOR "THE HISTORY OF SAMUEL TITMARSH AND THE GREAT HOGGARTY DIAMOND" [NUMBER 83] SALE NUMBER 1763 ON PUBLIC EXHIBITION FROM THURSDAY, OCTOBER EIGHTEENTH FIRST EDITIONS, AUTOGRAPHS WILLIAM M. THACKERAY WITH OTHER VALUABLE BOOKS MR. R. K. ALBRIGHT OF BUFFALO, N. Y. LETTERS FROM GEORGE MOORE TO THE MARQUISE LANZA FROM OTHER COLLECTIONS TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION AT EIGHT-FIFTEEN O'CLOCK THE ANDERSON GALLERIES INC. [MITCHELL KENNERLEY, PRESIDENT] PARK AVENUE AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET, NEW YORK 1923 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS CONDITIONS OF SALE All bids to be PER LOT as numbered in the Catalogue. The highest bidder to be the buyer. In all cases of disputed bids the lot shall be resold, but the Auctioneer will use his judgment as to the good faith of all claims and his decision shall be final. Buyers to give their names and addresses and to make such cash payments on account as may be required, in default of which the lots purchased to be immediately resold. Goods bought to be removed at the close of each sale. If not so removed they will be at the sole risk of the purchaser, and subject to storage charges, and The Anderson Galleries, Incorporated, will not be responsible if such goods are lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. TERMS CASH. If accounts are not paid at the conclusion of each sale, or, in the case of absent buyers, when bills are rendered, this Company reserves the right to recatalogue the goods for immediate sale without notice to the defaulting buyer, and all costs of such resale will be charged to the defaulter. This condition is without prejudice to the rights of the Company to enforce the sale contract and collect the amount due without such resale at its own option. Unsettled ac www.counts are subject to interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum. All books are sold as catalogued, and are assumed to be in good SECOND-HAND condition. If material defects are found, not mentioned in the catalogue, the lot may be returned. Notice of such defects must be given promptly and the goods returned within ten days from the date of the sale. No exceptions will be made to this rule. Magazines and other periodicals, and all miscellaneous books arranged in parcels, are sold as they are, without recourse. Autograph Letters, Documents, Manuscripts and Bindings are sold as they are, without recourse. The utmost care is taken to authenticate and correctly describe items of this character, but this Company will not be responsible for errors, omissions, or defects of any kind. BIDS. We make no charge for executing orders for our customers and use all bids competitively, buying at the lowest price permitted by other bids. Priced Copy of this Catalogue may be secured for fifty cents for each session of the sale. SALE THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER TWENTY-FIFTH, AT 8:15 FROM THE LIBRARY OF MR. R. K. ALBRIGHT NUMBERS 1-103 1 AMERICAN BOOK-PRICES CURRENT. 1895-1903, 1905, 1907-19. 23 vols., 8vo, cloth. New York, 1895-1919 2 ANTONINUS (MARCUS AURELIUS). [Thoughts.] Small 4to, wrappers, uncut. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902 3 ARISTOTLE. The Ethics of Aristotle. The Ethics of Aristotle. 2 vols., small 4to, wrappers, uncut. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902 A MATCHLESS COPY IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS 4 AUDUBON (JOHN J.). The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. Illustrated with 500 brilliantly colored plates. 7 vols., royal 8vo, in THE 100 ORIGINAL PARTS, original wrappers. In full green morocco solander cases. New York: Published by J. J. Audubon, 1840-44 [also] AUDUBON (JOHN J.). AND BACHMAN (JOHN). The New York: V. G. Audubon, 1849-54 AND A SUPERB COPY OF THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION OF BOTH THE The wrappers are in magnificent condition, being mainly without a break, EXTANT. It is interesting to note that the parts are all numbered by hand, showing that the wrappers for the entire edition were printed with the first number. Two different colored papers were used on the wrappers. Eleven of the parts were not trimmed by the binder before delivery to the subscriber, and may be unique. [SEE ILLUSTRATION] 5 AUSTEN (JANE). A Collected Set of FIRST EDITIONS of her A MAGNIFICENT SET OF JANE AUSTEN'S FIRST EDITIONS, WITH EVERY HALF- Sense and Sensibility. Persuasion. Northanger Abbey. London, 1818 2 vols. London, 1818 In "Northanger Abbey" there is a brief sketch of Miss Austen's life. This must be counted as one of the earliest notices of her life and genius, as she died on July 18, 1817. There are two slight repairs in ❝Pride and Prejudice."' 6 BACON (FRANCIS). Essays. Small 4to, half red levant morocco, gilt top, uncut, by Bradstreet. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1900 7 BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, etc. collected by Matthew C. D. Borden. Frontispieces. 2 vols., 4to, three-quarter brown levant morocco, gilt edges, by Stikeman (one cover slightly soiled). New York: Privately printed, 1910 One of 50 copies. With the Borden bookplate in each volume. 8 BLACKMORE (RICHARD D.). Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor. 3 vols., 12mo, crushed blue levant morocco, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, original covers bound in, by Riviere. A HANDSOME COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. London, 1869 CORRESPONDENCE BY THE AUTHOR OF “LORNA DOONE" WITH F. B. DOVETON AND OTHERS 9 BLACKMORE (R. D.). ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, comprising his Correspondence with F. B. Doveton, Mrs. Kirton, his Publishers, and Mrs. Kroeker, consisting of 44 Letters of various lengths, signed, and written between March 13, 1877 and May 28, 1897. With the original Envelopes. Inlaid and bound in 4to, crushed olive levant morocco, gilt back, line borders, gilt edges, by Riviere. THIS IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE ALSO INCLUDES THE PROOF OF A POEM BY DOVETON, entitled "The Haunted Castle," which Blackmore has edited with humorous and critical comments. At the end he has written: "Won't do. Dashed off with a cigarette instead of a thoughtful pipe. The metre-Iambic dimetre-is not sufficiently observed." The letters are most interesting, and refer to his work; his wife's illness and death; angling; his dislike of the "Ingoldsby Legends''; he mentions Baring Gould, Mortimer Collins, his old School-Blundell's; his finances; his "Alice Lorraine," and "Tales from the Telling House, etc., etc. The last letter, dated May 28, 1897, was written less than three years before his death. He writes: "I have little time now to look at anything, and see very few of the Magazines, for I can no longer get about with any comfort. Though my fruit crop is utterly smashed, I have as much to do as ever, and become rapidly less fit to do it." SUCH AN EXTENDED CORRESPONDENCE BY THE AUTHOR OF "LORNA DOONE' AS THIS IS QUITE UNUSUAL. |
