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    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Bardi (Lorenzo). Nuova Raccolta delle piu interessanti Vedute della Citta di Firenze…, Florence, Lorenzo Bardi, [c.1840]. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Crawfurd (John). Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava..., first edition, 1829. £1,000 to £1,500.
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    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Dawe (George, engraver). The Life of a Nobleman, first edition, Geo. Henderson, [c.1825]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: [Doyle (John)], "H.B.". Political Sketches &c., 10 vol. including The Descriptive Key to H.B., Thomas McLean, [1829-51]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Eben (Adolphus Christian Frederick, Baron von) and Nicolaus Heideloff. Modèles de l'Uniforme Militaire Adopté dans l'Armée Royale de Suède, Rudolph Ackerman, 1808. £1,500 to £2,000.
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    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Geissler (J.G.G.) and Friedrich Hempel. Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebrauche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen, Tartarischen…, 4 parts in 1, Leipzig and Paris, [1804]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Hunt (Charles). Portraits of Winning Horses...of the Derby, Oaks, & St. Leger, from the Year 1842 to 1849…, Rock Brothers & Payne, 1849. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Kunike (Adolf Friedrich). Zwey hundert und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes…, Vienna, Leopold Grund, 1826. £3,000 to £5,000.
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    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Lasinio (Carlo). [Matrimony], Florence, 1790. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Reinhardt (Joseph). A Collection of Swiss Costumes, in Miniature, second English edition, James Goodwin, [1828]. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Wengen (Gottfried Durst von). Die Öffentliche Maskerade Bamberg am Fastnachts-Montage 1833…, Bamberg, [1833]. £2,000 to £3,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
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Rare Book Monthly

Articles - July - 2012 Issue

37th Annual Booth Book Sale July 14th - 18th

The Rare Book Area, all items priced to sell

An Extensive Selection of Rare and Collectible Material offered --

Book dealers may have 10,000 books and hope to sell 300 or 400 a year.  To do this they post online, issue catalogues and display at shows.  Consider then what the Friends of the C. H. Booth Library in Newtown, Connecticut will be doing this month – offering 120,000 books, DVDs, CDs, LPs and more during their five-day annual Book Sale beginning Saturday, July 14th and expecting to dispose of every item by the end of the fifth day.  Their goals are to raise money for the library and place every item in a new home.  The fair is in fact two events joined at the hip.  One hundred and nineteen thousand items are interesting, useable and appealing, the other roughly one thousand items rare and collectible.
  

The event formally kicks off at 7:00 a.m. Saturday when numbered tickets go on sale for $5.00. The doors on day one will not open until 9:00 a.m. but the highly motivated can secure their place in line early and then go off for breakfast. Come 9:00 am when the doors open the motivated will head for the early opportunities in their areas of interest.  Those interested in rare and collectible material will make a beeline for the Rare Book Room where interesting and desirable material is offered at an attractive discount to retail.  Folks looking for fresh fiction, children’s, history and all sorts of 20th century material will head for the main rooms where all categories and every item is priced.

Here is the five-day schedule.  For more info go to the book fair web site.

Saturday:  9-5 Admission is $5.00

Sunday:  9-5 Admission is free

Monday: 9-7 Admission is free.  All material is half-price.

Tuesday: 9-7 Admission is free.  All remaining material is $5.00 a bag [bags supplied]

Wednesday: 9-noon Admission is free.  All remaining material is free.

Over the course of the five-day event the Friends hope to earn $100,000 to fund library activities over the coming year.  The boy scouts are also hoping to clean up.  They will be feeding the masses on Saturday and Sunday with a selection of hot dogs and hamburgers.

So what is in the Rare Book room this year?

SELECTED LIST OF ITEMS FROM THE SPECIALS ROOM (ROOM 201) AT THE 2012 BOOTH LIBRARY BOOKSALE

[Art] Green, Roger. Max Papart. NY: Rizzoli, nd(c1984). With foldout color lithograph tipped in. Four-line inscription by Papart on title page, 1988, with drawing. Fine with fine jacket.  $45.00.

[___] Picasso, Pablo. Picasso and the Human Comedy. NY: Harcourt Brace, nd(1954). Constituting the American edition of Verve, Nos 29 & 30. Very good in slightly worn jacket.    $600.00.

Also, Verve, French edition, Vol 5 Nos 19 & 20, Couleur de Picasso, Paris, 1948, paper covered stiff boards, very good, $75.00.

[___] Verve. Volume I, Nos 1-4, Vol 2, 5 & 6; together the first 6 issues in 5 volumes. Issues 1-4 are in very good condition, 5 & 6, the first double issue, shows minor chipping to edges, 1 X ¼” piece lacking from foot of spine.  $1,250.00.

Avedon, Richard. Observations. NY: Simon Schuster, nd(c1959). Comments by Truman Capote. Minor shelf soil, head and foot of spine with wear, foot lacking publisher’s name, acetate jacket worn with pieces missing, slipcase worn at edges but solid, with no tape reinforcements.  $195.00.

Baedeker, Karl. Egypt and the Sudan. Leipzig: 1929. 8th edition. Good. $95.00.

____. Germany. Leipzig, 1936. Very good. $45.00.

____. Russia. Lacking title and backstrip. As is.  $150.00.

A number of other Baedekers will be available.

[Booth, John Wilkes] Forrester, Izola. This One Mad Act . . . The Unknown Story of John Wilkes Booth and his Family, by his Granddaughter. Boston: Hale Cushman Flint, 1937.  Good.  $50.00.

[Botanical prints] A multitude of chromolithographs removed from The Garden, Supplement to the Garden, Supplement to the Gardener’s Chronicle, some from House and Gardens, and perhaps others. Together, approximately 400 prints, will take some time to go through.  $1,000.00.

Burton, Richard. Meeting Mrs. Jenkins. NY: Morrow, 1966. Burton’s real name was Richard Jenkins; this is “a remarkable portrait of both [Elizabeth Taylor] and her personality,” in three scenes separated by some years. Inscribed on the half-title “To Fred With deep affection always Elizabeth Taylor Jenkins & Richard Burton.”  Very good with good jacket.  $250.00.

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. NY: Scholastic, nd(2008). Stated First Edition, October 2008; date sequence begins with 08, printing sequence begins with 1. Generically inscribed, “May the odds EVER be in your favor! Love, Suzanne Collins”. Fine with fine jacket.   $2,500.00.

[de la Mare, Walter] Georgian Poetry 1911-12. London: Poetry Bookshop, 1916. 7th thousand. Among many others, there are five poems each by Rupert Brooke and de la Mare; de la Mare signed the volume November 16, 1916, when he was at Yale to accept the Howland Memorial Prize awarded posthumously to Brooke; de la Mare also gave a lecture on Youth and Poetry. Front hinge chipped, cracked.  $40.00.

Dickens, Charles. The Chimes. NY: Historic Arts, nd. “[L]arge type, special edition of my Grandfather’s favorite Christmas-New Year story . . .”, printed note signed in ink by Enid Dickens Hawksley. Very good.  $45.00.

Eliot, T S. Journey of the Magi. London: Faber Gwyer, nd. Ariel Poems No. 8. Some chips and soil to wrapper.  $25.00.

See also Valery in this list; other Eliot volumes will be available.

[Foxe, John] Fox’s Book of Martyrs. Revised and Improved by John Malham., edited by T Pratt. NY: Borradaille, 1828-29. Two volumes in one. Very worn, boards separated, plates incomplete, but with five early lithographs by Pendleton, and one, not called for in the binder’s directions, by Imbert; this last signed, “on stone by Miss H. T.[?].” As is.  $75.00.

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London: Harrap, nd(1929). Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and signed by him, copy 159 of the English edition of 575. Gilt top edge, deckle fore and bottom, gilt vellum remarkably clean.  $450.00.

Hadden, James M. A Journal Kept in Canada and Upon Burgoyne’s Campaign in 1776 and 1777. Albany: Munsell’s Sons, 1884. With an Explanatory Chapter and Notes by Horatio Rogers. Historical Series #12. Howes H6. Deckle edges. Inscribed from Rogers to R H Lilly, June 17, 1884. Partially unopened. Backstrip worn, some tears, paper label present but worn to illegibility.  $150.00.

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    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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