Auction Catalog from National Book Auctions: Books and Ephemera - Cuba, Sheet Music etc.
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- November 22, 2009, 12:00 PM EST
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Page 1 of 12 pages. 558 lots returned
Lot 3001: 7Pc Shakespeare Busts Sailing Galleons RARE ANTIQUE BOOKENDS Liberty Bell Abraham Lincoln The Emancipator
This lot includes the group of rare antique bookends shown in the corresponding image. This lot consists of three pairs and one single bookend without its mate. The first of this group is a cast iron Liberty Bell with the name of the manufacturer Ti [...more]
Minimum Bid: $26
Bids: 3
Watchers: 1
Lot 3002: SOME ACCOUNT OF THE VAMPIRES OF ONSET PAST & PRESENT 1892 Massachusetts Village Center Of Spiritualism
Title: Some Account of the Vampires of Onset, Past and Present Publisher: The New England News Company (Boston)Printing Year: 1892Condition/Details: Bound in original wrappers, this antique volume is a scarce collection of articles by several newspap [...more]
Minimum Bid: $90
Bids: 9
Watchers: 3
Lot 3003: Lawrence Beesley THE LOSS OF THE SS TITANIC 1912 1st US Edition Survivor's Account Of Sinking Of April 15 1912
Title: The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons Author: Lawrence BeesleyPublisher: Houghton Mifflin CompanyPrinting Year: 1912 First EditionCondition/Details: Bound in blue cloth with bright gilt embossing, this antique volume is a sc [...more]
Minimum Bid: $130
Bids: 6
Watchers: 1
Lot 3004: Fidel Castro PENSAMIENTO POLITICO ECONOMICO Y SOCIAL 1959 Key Political Texts w/ Accompanying Silk Bookmark
Title: Pensamiento politico, economico y social de Fidel Castro Author: Fidel CastroPublisher: Editorial Lex (Havana)Printing Year: 1959 Second EditionCondition/Details: Bound in red, black and white wrappers with drawing of Fidel Castro on front cov [...more]
Minimum Bid: $24
Bids: 4
Lot 3005: Arthur C. Clarke 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY 1999 Author-Signed First Printing Of Special Edition Of Science Fiction Classic
Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey Author: Arthur C. ClarkePublisher: New American LibraryPrinting Year: 1999 Author-Signed First PrintingCondition/Details: Bound in black boards with black cloth spine with bright silver lettering, this volume is a scarce [...more]
Minimum Bid: $20
Bids: 3
Watchers: 3
Lot 3006: Alexander Dana Noyes THE MARKET PLACE 1938 1st Edition Reminiscences Of a Financial Editor Wall Street c1880-1933
Title: The Market Place: Reminiscences of a Financial Editor Author: Alexander Dana NoyesPublisher: Little, Brown and CompanyPrinting Year: 1938 Stated First EditionCondition/Details: Bound in green cloth with bright embossed yellow lettering and dec [...more]
Minimum Bid: $20
Bids: 2
Lot 3007: 19Pc Porto-Vana Mi Lola Silver Prince N.O.S. CIGAR LABEL SAMPLES Manila Stubs La Confesion John Metaxas Casetta
This lot includes the group of cigar label samples shown in the corresponding image. This material consists of well-preserved new old stock cigar labels such as "Merchant's Queen," "Rolamo," "Silver Prince," "Little Cousins," "Cambridge," "Calsetta, [...more]
Minimum Bid: $24
Bids: 5
Lot 3008: J. K. Rowling HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN 1999 Advance Reading Copy In Slipcase 1999 BGS Certificate
The books offered in this lot are from a private collection of signed first printings and/or advanced reading copies of works of modern literature. Many include certificates of authenticity (COA) for the signatures. Condition grade certificates are a [...more]
Minimum Bid: $120
Bids: 6
Watchers: 6
Lot 3009: Ella Wheeler Cox THE STRICKEN CITY 1906 Sheet Music Song Written For Hearst San Francisco Relief Fund Earthquake
Title: The Stricken City Author: Ella Wheeler WilcoxPublisher: Chicago Sunday AmericanPrinting Year: 1906Condition/Details:This piece of antique sheet music is a scarce edition of a song written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox "expressly for the Hearst San Fr [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Lot 3010: A MEMORIAL OF THE HON. JOHN CROUSE OF SYRACUSE N.Y. 1889 Prominent Syracuse Merchant & Banker Benefactor
Title: A Memorial of Hon. John Crouse of Syracuse, N.Y. Who Died June 25th, 1889, Aged Eighty-Seven Years Publisher: UncreditedPrinting Year: 1889 Condition/Details: Bound in full leather with name of John Crouse in bright embossed gilt lettering on [...more]
Minimum Bid: $10
Watchers: 1
Lot 3011: 2V Arthur C. Clarke Gentry Lee SIGNED SCIENCE-FICTION NOVELS First Printing Dustjacket
This auction lot includes the following group of modern signed science-fiction novels in dustjackets:- Cradle by Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee - Dated 1988 by Warner Books - two copies, both stated first printings. Copy one features raised gilt le [...more]
Minimum Bid: $18
Bids: 2
Watchers: 1
Lot 3012: 4V Maurice Sendak NUTSHELL LIBRARY 1962 First Edition Classic Work Of Children's Literature In Slipcase Pierre Johnny Alligators Chicken Soup
Title: Nutshell Library: Pierre, A Cautionary Tale; Alligators All Around: An Alphabet; One Was Johnny: A Counting Book; Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months. Author: Maurice SendakPublisher: Harper & Row, PublishersPrinting Year: 1962Number of V [...more]
Minimum Bid: $28
Bids: 6
Watchers: 2
Lot 3013: 3Pc Glenn H. Curtiss Famous Aviator ANTIQUE SHEET MUSIC WITH THEME OF AVIATION World War I Air Combat Zeppelin
This lot includes the three pieces of antique sheet music shown in the corresponding image. These pieces have bright front cover illustrations offering striking images of air flight as it existed in the early part of the twentieth century. The first [...more]
Minimum Bid: $14
Bids: 2
Watchers: 1
Lot 3014: AUNT SALLY 1859 A Narrative Of Slave-Life and Purchase Of The Mother Of Rev. Isaac Williams, Of Detroit, Michigan Plates
Title: Aunt Sally; or, The Cross the Way of Freedom: A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams, of Detroit, Michigan Publisher: American Reform Tract and Book Society (Cincinnati)Printing Year: 1859Condition/Deta [...more]
Minimum Bid: $90
Bids: 9
Lot 3015: 10V Waterman Ludlow Locke DECORATIVE SET "TEN EPOCHS OF CHURCH HISTORY" Bartlet Vincent Walker Wells
Titles: The Post Apostolic Age; Age of the Renascence; The Apostolic Age; Age of the Crusades; The Great Western Schism; Age of Hildebrand; Age of Charlemagne; The Anglican Reformation; The Reformation; The Ecumenical Councils Authors: Lucius Waterma [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Watchers: 1
Lot 3016: 4V Victor Hugo WORKS 1887-1888 Les Miserables Ninety-Three Toilers Of The Sea History Of A Crime Frontispiece Plates
Title: Works Author: Victor HugoPublisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.Printing Year: 1887-1888Number of Volumes: 4 volume setNotes: Bound in brown cloth with bright gilt embossing, this antique set is a scarce nineteenth-century edition of the works of t [...more]
Minimum Bid: $80
Bids: 13
Watchers: 1
Lot 3017: 6V Clarke Connelly Flynn MODERN AUTHOR-SIGNED THRILLER NOVELS WITH COA & BGS Abbott Grisham Burke
The books offered in this lot are from a private collection of signed first printings and/or advanced reading copies of works of modern literature. Many include certificates of authenticity (COA) for the signatures. Condition grade certificates are a [...more]
Minimum Bid: $22
Bids: 3
Watchers: 1
Lot 3018: Geoff Emerick HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE 2006 Author-Signed First Edition Memoir Beatles Producer Abbey Road
The books offered in this lot are from a private collection of signed first printings and/or advanced reading copies of works of modern literature. Many include certificates of authenticity (COA) for the signatures. Condition grade certificates are a [...more]
Minimum Bid: $28
Bids: 4
Watchers: 1
Lot 3019: 5V Business Deductive Logic Gibson ANTIQUE & VINTAGE PHILOSOPHY Peat Davis Peck Williamson Natural
This auction lot includes the following group of antique and vintage titles on philosophy:- War Abolition: The Convictions of a Business Man by Harry P. Gibson - Dated 1925 by Robson & Adee (Schenectady) - gilt embossing. - The Inexcusable Lie b [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Lot 3020: T J Hartelius SWEDISH MOVEMENTS OR MEDICAL GYMNASTICS 1896 1st Edition J H Kellog Introduction & Notes Olsen Translation
Title: Swedish Movements or Medical Gymnastics Author: T. J. HarteliusPublisher: Modern Medicine Pub. Co. (Battle Creek, Michigan)Printing Year: 1896 First EditionCondition/Details: Bound in gray cloth with (faded) gilt lettering to spine, this antiq [...more]
Minimum Bid: $20
Bids: 2
Lot 3021: 40Pc Bombay Hindustan SHEET MUSIC WITH MIDDLE EASTERN & INDIAN THEMES Palesteena Bagdad Arabian Dreams
This lot includes the group of antique sheet music with decorative color front covers shown in the corresponding image. This group contains cover illustrations and music either pertaining to the cultures of the Middle East and India, or with associa [...more]
Minimum Bid: $35
Bids: 4
Lot 3022: Central Upstate New York ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHIC GLASS & FILM NEGATIVES c1900 Amateur Photographer Carthage Optometrist
This lot includes the group of antique photographic glass and film negative plates shown in the corresponding image. These plates come in their original boxes (labeled "Eastman's Kodoid Plates," "Eastman Dry Plates," and "The Stanley Dry Plate"). Amo [...more]
Minimum Bid: $26
Bids: 2
Watchers: 2
Lot 3023: 4V Prairie Pioneer JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Decorative Set Mohican
Title: The Prairie (1872), The Pioneers (1872), The Pathfinder (1873), The Last of the Mohicans (1873) Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: D. Appleton and CompanyNumber of Volumes: 4Notes: This set is bound in maroon cloth with decorative gilt em [...more]
Minimum Bid: $40
Bids: 6
Lot 3024: Pat Conroy THE PRINCE OF TIDES 1986 Author-Signed Advance Uncorrected Proof Novel Barbra Streisand Film
Title: The Prince of Tides Author: Pat ConroyPublisher: Houghton Mifflin CompanyPrinting Year: 1986 Author-Signed Advance Uncorrected ProofCondition/Details: Bound in pictorial wrappers, this volume is a scarce autographed pre-publication printing of [...more]
Minimum Bid: $40
Bids: 4
Watchers: 2
Lot 3025: Tolkien Routledge Wrappers Hay MODERN ADVANCE READING COPIES OF NOVELS Lawrence Shapero Koen Mercury
This shelf lot includes the group of modern advance reading copies of novels shown in the corresponding image. Due to the high volume of books we are selling at this auction, we will be offering a number of bulk buy opportunities such as this one du [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Watchers: 1
Lot 3026: 5V Red Randall Rand Star Air Circus Daring Wings JUVENILE AVIATORS SERIES W/ DUSTJACKETS Bird Boys Secrets Of Cuzco
This auction lot includes the following group of titles:- Red Randall in the Aleutians by R. Sidney Bowen - Dated 1945 by Grosset & Dunlap Publishers - spine of dustjacket shows small tears - Rand Starr Leading the Air Circus; or, The Sky Flyers i [...more]
Minimum Bid: $14
Bids: 2
Watchers: 2
Lot 3027: 6V Earth Literature Hawthorne Talmage ANTIQUE WORLD HISTORY Decorative Gilt Goodrich Nation
This auction lot includes the following group of antique titles on world history:- Remarkable Trials of All Countries - Dated 1882 by S.S. Pelboubet & Company - volume two. - The Literature of All Nations and All Ages edited by Julian Hawthorne - [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Lot 3028: Anthony Asadullah Samad SOULS FOR SALE 2002 Author-Signed First Printing Diary African-American Activist Scholar
Title: Souls for Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man: Conflict and Compromise of Second-Generation Advocacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era Author: Anthony Asadullah SamadPublisher: Kabili Press (Los Angeles)Printing Year: 2002 Author-Signed First Prin [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Watchers: 2
Lot 3029: 6V Submarine Hans Brinker Tarzan Twins ANTIQUE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Grimm Burroughs Dodge Bercy Barnes
This auction lot includes the following group of antique children's literary titles:- The Motion Picture Comrades Aboard a Submarine by Elmer Tracey Barnes - Dated 1917 by The Saalfield Publishing Company (Chicago) - Slight chipping to top of spine [...more]
Minimum Bid: $35
Bids: 3
Watchers: 1
Lot 3030: Agatha Christie THE SECRET ADVERSARY 1922 1st US Edition First Appearance Of Detectives Tommy & Tuppence
Title: The Secret Adversary Author: Agatha ChristiePublisher: Dodd, Mead and CompanyPrinting Year: 1922 First American EditionCondition/Details: Bound in orange cloth with embossed black lettering, this antique volume is a rare first U.S. edition of [...more]
Minimum Bid: $26
Bids: 5
Watchers: 2
Lot 3031: Periodcals Comfort Rural Progress FARMING EPHEMERA Farmer's Pocket Ledger Burpee's Blue List Electricity Australia
This lot includes the group of farm ephemera shown in the corresponding image. This material consists of issues of the "Farmer's Pocket Ledger," an issue of "Burpee's Blue List" (1925), a softcover edition of "Fodder Crops for Australia" (1922), a [...more]
Minimum Bid: $24
Bids: 3
Watchers: 1
Lot 3032: Dean Koontz SOLE SURVIVOR c1997 Rare Best-Selling Author-Signed Uncorrected Proof Suspense Thriller English Edition
Title: Sole Survivor Author: Dean KoontzPublisher: Headline (London)Printing Year: circa 1997 Author-Signed Uncorrected ProofCondition/Details: Bound in wrappers with bright multi-color front cover, this volume is a rare "bound typescript for advance [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Watchers: 2
Lot 3033: 10V Abbott Longfellow Tennyson Geneva ANTIQUE DECORATIVE LITERATURE Holland Naples Rome Rhine Atlantic
This auction lot includes the following group of antique decorative literary titles:- Rollo on the Rhine by Jacob Abbott - Dated 1858 by Hurst & Company - Rollo in Holland by Jacob Abbott - Dated 1858 by Hurst & Company - Rollo on the Atlantic [...more]
Minimum Bid: $60
Bids: 6
Lot 3034: 6V Hardware Age List Bagley & Sewall Wire ANTIQUE TECHNOLOGY Fire Dept. Hydraulics National Electric Light Association
This auction lot includes the following group of titles:- Wire & Wire Products: Directory, Index & Buyers Guide - Dated 1930 by Quinn-Brown Publishing Corp. - The Bagley & Sewall Company, Watertown, New York, U.S.A. : Builders of Paper Making Mach [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Watchers: 1
Lot 3035: Confidential Reilly Clarke Marsh VINTAGE MYSTERY & CRIME NOVELS Ellis Gayle Shute Joscelyn Gluck
This shelf lot includes the group of vintage mystery and crime novels shown in the corresponding image. Due to the high volume of books we are selling at this auction, we will be offering a number of bulk buy opportunities such as this one during th [...more]
Minimum Bid: $24
Bids: 2
Watchers: 1
Lot 3036: 5V Bellow Ravelstein Buzz Aldrin Mankoff AUTHOR-SIGNED FIRSTS Yarrow Puff Magic Dragon Sabuda Night Before Christmas
This auction lot includes the following group of autographed titles:- Ravelstein by Saul Bellow - Dated 2000 by Viking - First Printing in dustjacket - Reaching the Moon by Buzz Aldrin - Dated 2005 by Harper Collins Publishers - Stated First Edit [...more]
Minimum Bid: $40
Bids: 5
Watchers: 1
Lot 3037: 8V Tuscany Florence Caesar Ireland ANTIQUE DECORATIVE EUROPEAN HISTORY Gypsies Roland Lafayette Abbott
This auction lot includes the following group of antique decorative titles on European history:- History of Madame Roland by John C. Abbott - Dated 1856 by Harper & Brothers - Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude - no date provided by Harpe [...more]
Minimum Bid: $55
Bids: 7
Lot 3038: Joseph Conrad TYPHOON 1902 British Literature Adventure Novel Illustrations By Maurice Greiffenhagen
Title: Typhoon Author: Joseph ConradPublisher: G. P. Putnam'sPrinting Year: 1902Condition/Details: Bound in green cloth with bright orange lettering on spine and under pictorial design on front cover, this antique volume is a scarce second printing o [...more]
Minimum Bid: $18
Bids: 2
Lot 3039: 15Pc Military Marches Gettysburg Sheridan's Ride E. T. PAUL SHEET MUSIC Chariot Race Of Ben Hur Napoleon Burning Of Rome
This lot includes the group of antique sheet music with decorative color front covers shown in the corresponding image. This group contains bright color cover illustrations and music composed by E. T. Paul. There are 15 individual music pieces in t [...more]
Minimum Bid: $55
Bids: 5
Lot 3040: ANCHOR POST IRON WORKS 1913 Illustrated Catalogue No. 50 Fences Gates Railings Lamps Private Estate Entrances
Title: Wrought Iron Railings and Entrance Gates Publisher: Anchor Post Iron WorksPrinting Year: 1913 (Catalogue No. 50 - Section Three)Condition/Details: Bound in original brown wrappers, this antique volume is a scarce catalogue for a New York City [...more]
Minimum Bid: $40
Bids: 6
Watchers: 2
Lot 3041: 7V Christian Ecclesiastical Fessenden ANTIQUE THEOLOGY Maguire Cambridge Goodrich Presbyterian Doddridge
This auction lot includes the following group of antique titles on theology:- The Ecclesiastical Class Book by Charles A. Goodrich - Dated 1839 by F.J. Huntington and Co. - Memoirs of Rev. N. Fessenden, with an Appendix - Dated 1863 by uncredite [...more]
Minimum Bid: $18
Bids: 4
Watchers: 1
Lot 3042: Gelett Burgess THE MAXIMS OF METHUSELAH 1907 Author-Signed First Edition in Scarce Dustjacket Humorous Maxims
Title: The Maxims of Methuselah Author: Gelett BurgessPublisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company PublishersPrinting Year: 1907 Author-Signed First Edition in Scarce DustjacketCondition/Details: Bound in cloth spine with bright pictorial paper front cover [...more]
Minimum Bid: $16
Bids: 3
Lot 3043: 5V Biography Plastering Israels Carnegie ANTIQUE & VINTAGE ESTATE BOOKS Alice's Restaurant Cookbook Bankart
This auction lot includes the following group of antique and vintage estate books:- Five Minute Biographies by Dale Carnegie - Dated 1937 by Southern Publishers, Inc. - Illustrated. - Just Looking by Walter O'Meara - Dated 1956 by Sullivan, Stauf [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Lot 3044: 31V Tragedies Histories Comedies ANTIQUE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE Sonnets Hamlet Lear Macbeth Tempest Juliet & Romeo
This shelf lot includes the group of 31 Shakespeare volumes shown in the corresponding image. This set was published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ld. (London). Each volume is bound in red leatherette, with bright gilt lettering to spine, and measures approxi [...more]
Minimum Bid: $35
Bids: 5
Lot 3045: Watchtower Scripture Government ANTIQUE & VINTAGE JEHOVAH'S WITNESS Kingdom Children
This shelf lot includes the group of antique and vintage books on Jehovah's Witnesses shown in the corresponding image. Due to the high volume of books we are selling at this auction, we will be offering a number of bulk buy opportunities such as th [...more]
Minimum Bid: $35
Bids: 4
Watchers: 1
Lot 3046: Ladies' Monthly Museum Good Housekeeping ANTIQUE WOMEN'S MAGAZINES 1823 / 1920-1950 Mademoiselle The American
This lot features the following group of antique women's magazine issues:Title: The Ladies' Monthly Museum, Good Housekeeping, American Home, The American, Woman's World, Mademoiselle Issue Dates: 1823 (one issue of Ladies' Monthly Museum), 1920s and [...more]
Minimum Bid: $28
Bids: 3
Watchers: 1
Lot 3047: 4V Ford Glenn Lullaby Animal ANTIQUE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Floyd Sperry
This auction lot includes the following group of antique children's literary titles:- Buds From Every Clime by J. Byron Sperry - Dated 1889 by People's Publishing Company (Chicago) - Spine shows slight chipping at top. - Picture Songs for the Kidd [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Lot 3048: Arthur C Clarke THE SONGS OF THE DISTANT EARTH 1986 Author-Signed First Printing Science Fiction Novel Paradisical World
Title: The Songs of the Earth Author: Arthur C. ClarkePublisher: Del Rey / BallantinePrinting Year: 1986 Author-Signed First PrintingCondition/Details: Bound in blue boards and dark blue cloth spine with bright gilt lettering , this volume is a scarc [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Watchers: 2
Lot 3049: 6V Ave Maria Jesus Christ Catholicism ANTIQUE DECORATIVE THEOLOGY Bazilikh Roy Farrar Virgin
This auction lot includes the following group of antique decorative titles on theology :- Eikon Bazilikh: The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings - Dated 1824 by C. & J. Rivington (London) - reprint of original 1643 [...more]
Minimum Bid: $12
Bids: 1
Lot 3050: Wilson Collison DARK DAME 1935 Novel Basis For "Maisie" Hollywood Film Series
Title: Wilson Collison Author: Dark DamePublisher: Claude Kendall & Willoughby Sharp Inc.Printing Year: 1935Condition/Details: Bound in red cloth with black lettering and pictorial design to spine, this antique volume is a scarce novel that served as [...more]
Minimum Bid: $18
Bids: 2
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