November 20, 2012
Live Auction104 East 25th Street
New York, NY, 10010 USA
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Viewing NotesExhibition & Sale Schedule: Sale 2295 - 19th & 20th Century Literature - begins at 1:30pm in New York on Tues, Nov 20. All material in Sale 2295 on display at our premises in New York City, 104 East 25th Street, as follows - Fri, Nov 16: 10am to 6pm - Sat, Nov 17: Noon to 5pm - Mon, Nov 19: 10am to 6pm - Tues, Nov 20: 10am to Noon.
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Lot 1: AGEE, JAMES. A Death in the Family.
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Description: AGEE, JAMES. A Death in the Family. 8vo, publisher's cloth, age-toning to extremities; dust jacket, light shelfwear, spine ends and folds rubbed, small tape repairs to spine panel ends. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957)
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Lot 2: ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Nye Eventyr. [-Anden Samling].
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Description: FIRST APPEARANCE OF "THE UGLY DUCKLING," "THE SNOW QUEEN" AND OTHER CLASSICS. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Nye Eventyr. [-Anden Samling]. Two parts in 1 volume, with half-titles, titles, and dedication leaves. Contemporary 1/2 calf over green marbled boards, spine worn with portions lost, covers rubbed, lacking free endpapers; some staining and soiling to title and several other leaves; preserved in custom 1/2 green morocco clamshell box. Copenhagen: Reitzel, 1844 [-45]
View additional info »Lot 3: ASHBERY, JOHN. As We Know * April Galleons.
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Description: ASHBERY, JOHN. As We Know * April Galleons. Together, 2 First Editions. Oblong 4to and 8vo, publisher's cloth; dust jackets, creasing to lower rear panel of first title. each copy signed by ashbery/span on the title-page. Two mid-career collections by one of the most influential American poets of the 20th Century. New York: Viking, (1979); (1987)
View additional info »Lot 4: AUSTEN, JANE. Northanger Abbey.
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Description: AUSTEN, JANE. Northanger Abbey. Volume 1 (only, of 2). 12mo, original publisher's drab boards backed in purple cloth (faded to brown), lacking paper spine label, edgewear; text block almost entirely loose from spine, few binding threads and signatures loose, several leaves in first third heavily creased, few other margins creased; else quite clean overall. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1833
View additional info »Lot 5: BALDWIN, JAMES. Go Tell It On the Mountain.
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Description: BALDWIN, JAMES. Go Tell It On the Mountain. 8vo, publisher's cloth, spot of fading at spine head; dust jacket, closed tears along spine panel and front flap, spine panel faded, dampstain most evident on verso. first edition of the author's first book./span New York, 1953
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