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Source Title	A Flourish For Wright Howes: Americana
Description	This was the 100th catalogue of Leekley Rare & Scholarly Books of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois. It is a tribute to the great early-to-mid 20th century American bookman Wright Howes. Offered were 373 items in Howes' field, Americana. Books are found on subjects such as Abraham Lincoln, the Dakotas, Howard Stansbury's trip to the Great Salt Lake, Indians, California, and much more. These are primarily books that Howes himself once offered for sale, or reprints of the same.
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Total Records in AED	373

Forum Auctions: Private Press, Illustrated Books and Modern First Editions. January 30, 2019

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: Wilde (Oscar). The Sphinx, one of only 25 large paper copies, illustrations and original pictorial vellum, 1894. £10,000 to £15,000

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: King (Jessie Marion, 1875-1949). The Lament, pen and black ink on vellum. £10,000 to £15,000

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: Leger (Fernand). Cirque, one of 300 copies, Paris, Teriade, 1950. £10,000 to £15,000

Forum Auctions: Private Press, Illustrated Books and Modern First Editions. January 30, 2019

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: Picasso (Pablo).- Reverdy (Pierre). Sable Mouvant, one of 255 copies signed by the artist, Paris, Louis Broder, 1966. £8,000 to £12,000

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: Joyce (James). Ulysses, one of only 250 copies signed by both the author and artist, 6 etchings by Matisse, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1935. £6,000 to £8,000

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Laurence Hodson's copy, 1931. £5,000 to £7,000

Forum Auctions: Private Press, Illustrated Books and Modern First Editions. January 30, 2019

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: Camus (Albert). The Stranger, first American edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, New York, 1946. £5,000 to £7,000

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: Greenhill (Elizabeth, binder).- Flint (Sir William Russell). In Pursuit: An Autobiography, limited edition signed by Francis Russell Flint, 1969. £4,000 to £6,000

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: Cranach Press.- Shakespeare (William). The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, one of 300 copies, Janet Leeper's copy signed by Edward Gordon Craig, 1930. £4,000 to £6,000

Forum Auctions: Private Press, Illustrated Books and Modern First Editions. January 30, 2019

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: Gray (John). Silverpoints, first edition, one of 25 large paper copies, initials and original vellum bidning designed by Charles Ricketts, 1893. £2,000 to £3,000

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: Kelmscott Press.- Design for the frontispiece to 'A Dream of John Ball', pen & black ink over pencil and heightened with Chinese white, 1892. £2,000 to £3,000

Forum Auctions, Jan 30: Crowder (Henry). Henry Music… Poems by Nancy Cunard, Richard Aldington, Walter Lowenfels…, first and only edition, one of 100 copies signed by Crowder and additionally inscribed by him, 1930. £1,500 to £2,000
Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 230: Charles Bukowski. South of No North. Los Angeles, 1973. First edition. Signed. $1,500 to $2,000

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 244: Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. Garden City, 1932. First American edition. Signed. $2,500 to $3,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 10: Frank Lloyd Wright. “Fallingwater Side Elevation” Original Blueprint. $1,500 to $2,500

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 169: Chicago’s Progress: A Review of the World’s Fair City. Chicago: Bishop Publishing, (1933). $150 to $250

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 299: [Tanguy, Yves] Benjamin Peret. Dormir dans Les Pierres. Paris: Editions Surrealistes, 1927. $2,500 to $3,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 276: Jean Hans Arp. Arp: Eleven Configurations. Zurich, 1945. $1,200 to $1,500

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 235: Joseph Conrad. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard. New York: 1904. First edition. $800 to $1,200

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 290: Umberto Brunelleschi. Louys, Pierre. Les Aventures du Roi Pausole. Paris: 1930. $1,200 to $1,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 700: X-Men No. 94. Marvel Comics, 1975. CGC 9.0. $800 to $1,200

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 540: Travers, P.L. Mary Poppins [and] Mary Poppins Comes Back. Signed. New York: 1936. $1,000 to $1,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 576: Mickey Mouse. 17 Big Little Books. 1930s-40s. $300 to $500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 429: Paracelsus. Medicina Diastatica or Sympathecall Mumie. London: 1653. $800 to $1,200
Doyle, Americana from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: Online Only Auction. Now thru January 29, 2019

Doyle, Americana from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson, thru Jan 29: HUBBARD, LUCIUS L. Summer Vacations at Moosehead Lake and Vicinity... $300 to $500

Doyle, Americana from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson, thru Jan 29: HIND, HENRY YOULE. Explorations in the Interior of the Labrador Peninsula, the Country of the Montagnais and Nasquapee Indians. $700 to $1,000

Doyle, Americana from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson, thru Jan 29: TOME, PHILIP. Pioneer Life; Or, Thirty Years a Hunter... $1,000 to $1,500

Doyle, Americana from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson, thru Jan 29: CANOVA, ANDREW P. Life and Adventures in South Florida. $400 to $600

Doyle, Americana from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson, thru Jan 29: Photographically illustrated journal describing an 1890 hunting trip to Colorado. $700 to $1,000
Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Leonard Baskin, Diptera: A Book of Flies & Other Insects, Gehenna Press, 1983. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georg Heym, Umbra Vitae, illustrated by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, first edition, Munich, 1924. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, special copy for illustrator Alan James Robinson, first book from Cheloniidae Press, 1980. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: W.B. Yeats, Poems, illustrated by Richard Diebenkorn, accompanied by a suite of 6 etchings, 1990. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georges Rouault, Cirque de l’Étoile Filante, Paris, 1938. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: François-Louis Schmied, Le Cantique des Cantiques, Paris, 1925. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Frank Lloyd Wright, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe, Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1910. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Hans Bellmer & Georges Hugnet, Oeillades ciselées en branch, Paris, 1939. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Wassily Kandinsky, Klänge, first edition, Munich, 1913. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Charles Dickens, The Nonesuch Dickens, limited edition, 1937-38. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Rudyard Kipling, Le Livre de la Jungle, plates by Paul Jouve, engraved by F.L. Schmied, Paris, 1919. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georges Lepape, Les Choses de Paul Poiret, Paris, 1911. $3,500 to $5,000.
Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Kingsborough, Edward King. Antiquities of Mexico: Comprising Facsimiles of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics… London, 1831-1848. $80,000 to $120,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Paul Revere. The Bloody Massacre perpetrated In King-Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Reg. Boston, 1770. $150,000 to $200,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Battle of the Alamo. Suplemento al Diario del Gobierno de la Republica Mexicana. (Núm. 326. Tom. IV.). Mexico City: Imprenta del Aguila, Dirigida por José Ximeno, 1836. $6,000 to $8,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: The Declaration of Independence. The first book-form printing of the Declaration of Independence. $300,000 to $500,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Treaty of Paris, Ratification. By the United States in Congress Assembled, A Proclamation … Annapolis, [Ca. 16-17 January 1784]. $800,000 to $1,200,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Declaration of Independence. The only known privately held copy of the celebrated William J. Stone facsimile for which provenance can be traced back to a direct ancestor who received it in 1824. $600,000 to $800,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Crockett, David. Autograph letter signed ("David Crockett") to George Patton, announcing his intention to travel to Texas. $70,000 to $100,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Wytfliet, Cornelius. Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum, Sive Occidentalis Notitia Brevi Commentario Illustrata. Leuven: Johannes Bogaerts 1597. $35,000 to $50,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber Cronicarum cum Figuris et Ymaginibus. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. $70,000 to $100,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: New York Mets. Baseball from the first victory of the New York Mets. $25,000 to $35,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Robert E. Lee. Autograph letter signed ("R E Lee") as Confederate commander, to Rabbi Max Michelbacher, declining to furlough Jewish Confederate troops for the high holy days. $150,000 to $250,000

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