SILENT AUCTIONCATALOG

Saturday, November 12th, 2016 6 p.m.Montgomery County Fairgrounds, Dayton, OH

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Lot 1.Keim’s Illustrated Hand-book of Washington and Its Environs: Maps,Diagrams and Illustrations, 1878 by De B. Randolph Keim. Red cloth 18mo, gilt letteringand decoration to front board and spine. 252pp, steel-plate engravings throughout, large fold outmap. Title page has wrinkle, corners bumped, head of spine soft, edges rubbed. Spine and coversshow wear. Ink stamp front endpaper, signature in pencil front fly leaf. Very scarce title.Minimum bid $25

Lot 2.The Gift of Friendship selected and edited by Alfred Hyatt, illustrations by Scottishpainter(Hannah Clarke)H.C. Preston MacGoun, 1910 collection of essays on friendship by Emer-son, Thoreau, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Francis Bacon, Aristotle etc. 264pp. 18mo, J.B.Lippincott, Philadelphia, T.N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh. Bound in green Morocco leather, gilttitle and decoration on front cover and spine. Spine faded, edges rubbed, front hinge a little fragile.Gorgeous tiny watercolor illustrations by Hannah Clarke Preston MacGoun, RSW.Minimum bid $40

Lot 3.Erfahrungs Grunde von des Blutlaffens (Empirical reasons for Bloodsucking), amedical text in German by D. Johannes Samuel Carls on bloodletting. Flensburg und Altona, Beyden Gebrudern Korte, 1742. Title page printed in red and black 18mo. 111p. Beautiful letterpressprinting. Bound in cardstock, rather fragile. A few ink markings in the front endpapers and titlepage. A very unusual and hard to find title.Minimum bid $40

Lot 4.Compendium of Local Civics Ohio Edition by Frank P. Sayrs. 1915 Union Supply, Wilming-ton, OH. 18mo Brown cloth, white title and decoration on cover, white title on spine. Errata slippasted in. Addressses township officials, municipal corporations, county officials, board of educa-tion and school examiners. Corners slightly bumped, head and tail of spine a little soft, spine isfaded. 87 pp plus fold out. Very scarce.Minimum bid $40

Lot 5.Lyrics of Lowly Life, by Paul Laurence Dunbar, published by Dodd, Mead, New York, 1897.Green cloth with gilt decoration and title on front and spine 16mo, 208 pp No Jacket. Frontispieceportrait, still protected by its tissue guard. Corners bumped, top edge significantly rubbed, fronthinge has been repaired. Only fair. This copy belonged to Clement L. Brumbaugh, long-time staterepresentative from Darke County (1863-1921) and bears his signature across the title page.Minimum bid $20

Lot 6.Poems of Cabin and Field by Paul Laurence Dunbar, published by Dodd, Mead, New York,1899. First edition. Solid binding, in fair condition, with damage to the head of the spine. Decora-tive cloth cover with red floral pattern and gilt title. Flourishes to each page by Alice Morse, crispblack-and-white photography on each verso by The Hampton Institute Camera Club, Dunbarpoems on each facing recto. Octavo, 125 pgs., top-edge gilt. Corners bumped, dampstain on somepage edges. Inscribed in ink front flyleaf, M.L.W. from H.B. C. 1899Minimum bid $20

Lot 7.“Christopher Ludwick: The Baker of Washington’s Army”. 15pp staple bound bookletfrom the Worcester Salt Company, produced c. 1925. From the “Spirit of the Revolution” by J.C.Fitzpatrick, chief of the manuscript division at the Library of Congress. In softcover wraps, withtanning throughout. Covers bumped and soft, small tear at binding. Very scarce.Minimum bid $20

Lot 8.Purpose & Circumstance by Arthur E. Morgan, Sc.D, president of Antioch College. Printed byKahoe & Company, Yellow Springs, OH, 1928. 28pp, blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped title. Containstwo addresses delivered at the Commencement Exercises at Antioch College in 1927 and 1928.Very scarce. In near fine condition, previous owner’s signature.Minimum bid $20

Lot 9.“Jack Greene”, Beautiful Victorian children's book. Silver embossed cover with colorplate Dodd, Mead 1877 This appears to be the first edition. Contains several very short stories withblack and white illustrations. Printed on pulp and bound in cloth. Unpaginated, approximately 44pp, 16mo.Minimum bid $35

Lot 10A Family Album, by Rebekah Baines Johnson, with an introducation by President LyndonBaines Johnson, Mc-Graw-Hill New York, 1965, first edition, signed by Lyndon Johnson on half-title page. The author was the mother of President Johnson. Illustated with photographs. 8 vo, 146p. Brown boards with gilt-stamped title, black spine with title, author and publisher in gilt. Finecondition. Dust jacket is in very good condition, no tears or creases, some slight chipping andminor rubbing on the surface. It has not been price-clipped—still bears $4.95 price. Other thanLBJ’s bold signature, there are no stray marks in or on this book.Minimum bid $40

Lot 11.The DaytonWomen’s Club Cook Book, compiled by the Tea Room Committee of The DaytonWomen’s Club. No date, but appears to be about 1920. Bound with metal staples and brownwaxed cord. In softcover wraps, front cover is detached. The preface is written Frances D. Houck, aDayton suffragette, and dedicated to Mrs. Julia Patterson Crane. A wide variety of recipes andmenus. Parts of this little book have dampstain, the back cover is marked. Still, an unusual sur-vivor, and rarely seen.Minimum Bid $20

Lot 12Geology of the Vicinity of Dayton with special reference to Hills and Dales andMoraine Park August Foerste 1915 Hollenbeck Press, Indianapolis Hardcover Very Goodcondition. 1st Edition. Hardback. Quarto. No dust jacket, as issued. Light olive cloth with gilt dec-orated and lettered front cover and spine. Some tanning to page edges, light mark on top edge.Some smudges and light stains on front free endpapers, mostly due to age; no marks, names,bookplates or anything of that nature. 210pp. Many black and white photographs. Tipped-infolding map. Numerous B&W illustrations and maps. Frontis with tissue guard. A special book.Minimum bid $65

Lot 13The Pictures Generation 1974-1984 by Douglas Eklund The Metropolitan Museum of Art /Yale University Press, New York, NY, 2009. First edition. Hardcover in fine condition, with pris-tine dust jacket 350 pp, 4to. Out of Print. Exhibtion catalogue published in conjuction with the ex-hibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 21 to August 2, 2009.From the collection of the late Dayton filmmaker Jud Yalkut.Minimum bid $40

Lot 14OehlenWilliams ’95Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio,1995 (Oehlen, Albert, and Williams,Christopher. Essays by Thomas Crow, Diedrick Diedericksen,Timothy Martin, Stephen Melville, Friedrich Petzel. Edited by Catherine Gudis. 172pp. Illustratedin black and white and color). 4to, orange card covers, French flaps, spine lettered in black andred. Albert Oehlen (born 1954) is a contemporary German artist. Christopher Williams (born1956) is an American conceptual artist and fine art photographer . In fine condition, as new. Fromthe collection of the late Dayton filmmaker Jud YalkutMinimum Bid $40

Lot 15Mood River, Kipnis, Jeff; Kwinter, Sanford; Oubrerie, Jose; Perlman, Chee; Johnson, Philip;Emin, Tracey Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, 2002. Limited edition of softcover exhibitioncatalog with bright orange plastic dustjacket, 140 pp but unpaginated, fine condition, as new,clean and crisp, with color and black and white illustrations. From the collection of the late Day-ton filmmaker Jud YalkutMinimum bid $75

Lot 16Sicilia e le isole in Bocca by Antonio Cardullo, illustrated by Rodo Santoro, preface by MichelePerriera Edikronos, Palermo, 1981 first edition. Printed in regional Italian, regular Italian andEnglish. Printed corrugated cardboard boards with color illustration, spine printed in black.271pp plus index and glossary. Many illustrations in this unusual Italian cookbook. Corners arebumped, long gift inscription on front endpaper, otherwise a very nice, pristine copy of an unusualand rare book.Minimum bid $25

Lot 17The AndyWarhol Foundation for the Arts 2-Year Report 2001-2003 New York TheAndy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts 2003, 2003. First Edition. Paperbound, 100cm x100cm. A comprehensive report of the work, programs, grants, legacy, financial statements, boardmember profiles, etc. from the two year period of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,2001 - 2003. Illustrated with numerous art works by Andy Warhol. Fine in printed wrappers.Minimum bid $10

Lot 18Kate Smith Stories of Annabelle Illustrations by Bill and Bernard Martin Based on the origi-nal Annabelle stories by Jane Gale. Hardcover with original dustjacket. 1951 Tell-Well Press,Kansas City, Missouri. Signed by Miss Smith. Book is in very good condition, corners slightlybumped, dustjacket is good with minor tear at head and tail of spine. In very nice shape for achildren’s book.Minimum bid $50

Lot 19Let’s Have a Farm story by Jeffrey Victor, pictures by Veronica Reed, Capitol Publishing Co.New York 1945. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. Metal spiral bound pictorial boards open todie-cut, lithographed cardboard pages that turn to form a farm. Corners bumped and a paste downon last (blank) page, else a nice copy.Minimum bid $25

Lot 20Let’s Have a Store story by Jeffrey Victor, pictures by Frances Wells. Capitol Publishing Co.,New York, 1945. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good Metal spiral bound pictorial boards open todie-cut, lithographed cardboard pages that turn to form a store.. Corners bumped.Minimum bid $25

Lot 21The Little Boy Blue Story Book, The Bobby Shafto Story Book, The Simple SimonStory Book and The Humpty Dumpty Story Book Published by James and Jonathan;Kenosha WI, 1948 Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; Four story books to-gether with two chain links. ; Color Illustrations; Unpaginated. Minimum bid $50

Lot 22Bunker Hill Los Angeles . . . reminiscences of bygone days by Leo Politi, Desert-South-west Inc. Palm Desert, CA 1964, First edition, first printing Hardcover. Book Condition: Verygood. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair Author (illustrator). Grey cloth boards with gilt stamped deco-rated front board and spine. Dust jacket is sunned, and discolored, chipping and small tears. Priceunclipped. Illustrated book about the historic Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles wherePoliti lived as a child and returned to as an adult. 25 lovely paintings of buildings now gone withoccasional stories about these places from his memories. Politi is noted for many children's booksand non-fiction books about California. Brown multi image line drawings on the end papers. Frontflyleaf features Leo Politi’s signature and date (1964) with a hand-colored illustration by Politi of amorning glory.Minimum bid $25

Lot 23Picturesque Gem for the Season 1890 with stories, poems, and illustrations for young andold American Publishing Co., New York 62pp Profusely illustrated book of stories. Quarto. Printedon pulp. Condition good, corners bumped, chipping on spine. Extraordinarily scarce, no referenceanywhere save Google books.Minimum bid $40

Lot 24India Illustrated with Pen & Pencil Urwick, Rev. W.; revised and enlarged by Prof. EdwardP. Thwing Hurst & Co., New York, 1891. 197pp. plus index, travels in India. Hardcover. Book Con-dition: Good. No Jacket Quarto Brown cloth covered book with illustrated cover. Corners arebumped., covers show wear and handling. Gift inscription in pencil. Gilt on all three edges.Minimum bid $20

Lot 25Wolf Song by Harvey Fergusson, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1927. First edition. Hard Cover.Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 206pp.; purple cloth with blue and yellow title plate,rubbed edges, spine faded, clean,tight pages. Western fiction. Octavo.Minimum bid $10

Lot 26The Heart of a Dog by Albert Payson Terhune; George H. Doran, New York, 1924 First Edition.Book Condition: Good. 8 lovely tipped-in platesi n color by Marguerite Kirmse are Fine. Bindingtight, text block is tight and clean, save for one page with a smudge. Cover features faded gilt deco-ration and title, along with full color paste-down—the paste down illustration of the collie is onlyin fair condition. Head and tail of spine softened, gilt title very faint. Gift inscription in ink onfront fly leaf and bookplate on front endpapers.Minimum bid $35

Lot 27Theodore Roosevelt: His Life andWork: Picturesque, Virile, Strenuous, He Reignedan Uncrowned King in a Land that Had No Kings Drinker, Frederick E. (ed)/Mowbray,Jay Henry (ed) Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co., 1919. Very good copy in the originalnavy cloth. Decorative portrait and titles on front panel. 471 pp., frontis, photos, well-preservedoverall. Octavo.Minimum bid $25

Lot 28African Game Trails An Account of the AfricanWanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist Scribner's NY 1910, xxiii. + 583pp. Octavo More than 200 illustrations from photo-graphs by Kermit Roosevelt & other members of the expedition, & from drawings by Philip R.Goodwin. Pictorial green cloth with herd of elephants, gilt lettered front & spine. First edition withW. B. Conkey seal on copyright page. Merle Johnson -- American First Editions -- calls this theSubscriber's edition Edge wear, otherwise a very good unmarked copy.Minimum bid $75

Lot 29The Illustrious Life of WilliamMcKinley, Our Martyred President by Murat Halstead1901. Published by the author. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fair to Good. No Jacket. First Edi-tion. Bound in brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine and a paste-down cameo photoportrait on the front. Illustrated with black-and-white photos and drawings, this book looks atMcKinley's presidency, his assassination, his assassin and the proceedings that followed his death.472 pages; Quarto Front hinge is delicate, corners bumped, head and tail of spine are bumped andsoft. Gilt letters on cover and spine have faded.Minimum bid $10

Lot 30Sailor Life on Man of War and Merchant Vessel by Charles Nordhoff Dodd, Mead, NewYork, 1884 1st.ed., 1887. 320 + 16 (advt.) pp. Frontis of flags (cold. & fldg.) plus 50 woodcuts.Brown cloth decorated (cold. & gilt). 19 x 13cm. Binding pulled ; free fly leaf loose , cornersbumped, head and tail of spine soft, otherwise in good shape. The author wished to provide a bookfor his boys relating to ships, sailors and the sea but was unable to find one in the bookshops of the1880s and so decided to write one himself. A wealth of subjects including types of sailing vessels,parts of the ships and their rigging ; the loss of the LA PLATA ; the Glorious First of June 1794 ;burning of the ship-of-the-line QUEEN CHARLOTTE ; lighthouses ; lightships ; flags ; Polar ex-ploration ; Nelson at the Nile ; Napoleonic War anecdotes ; navigation ; the compass ; shipwrecks ‘Trafalgar and Nelson’s death ; famous men-o’-war ; anecdotes of Nelson, Howe, St. Vincent,Napier & Codrington ; naval stations ; weather at sea ; naval battles ; Lloyd’s ; watches and crew ;whalers ; steam ships and engines ; loss of life at sea ; life-boats ; wreck of the BIRKENHEAD ;French maritime affairs ; going to sea in 1887 ; etc. Illustrated with a coloured chart of flags and 50woodcuts, bound in an attractive Victorian pictorial binding. NAVAL & MERCHANT SHIPPINGAFFAIRS IN 1887.Minimum bid $25

Lot 31Empires of the Ancient Near East 4 volumes, slipcased. Saggs, Gurney, Gardiner and CookPublished by The Folio Society, London, England, 2004 Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, as new.1st Edition. Volume 1: The Babylonians Volume 2: The Hittites Volume 3: The Egyptians Volume4: The Persians. Beautifully bound boxed set. A superb copy. Book sizes Octavo.Minimum bid $50

Lot 32.Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae Lubos Perek , Lubos Kohoutek, Academia Pub-lishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1967, Prague. Hardcover. Quarto. Paleblue cloth with white stamped title and authors on front board and spine. Permanently attachedwhite ribbon bookmark. Book condition very good, no marks, tears or stains. Book is straight andtight, some bumping to the corners. Black and white pictorial dustjacket poor to fair with creasesand tears, but it is mostly complete—a small section is missing at the tail of the spine. 276pp 115black and white photo plates. We will include a full page newspaper clipping which was tucked inthe book, from the November 28, 1969 New York Times: “Cameras Record the Activities of theApollo 12 Astronauts on the Lunar Surface.” Very scarce.Minimum bid $65

Lot 33.AndrewWyeth, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1968. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good.No Dust Jacket Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong elephant folio. Bound in Boltonbuckram cloth boards with brown cloth spine titled in white. The initials AW are printed in darkbrown to front board. Significant fading to boards. Edges rubbed and corners bumped. Clean inte-rior overall, moderate foxing to edges of textblock. Securely bound, book is still in square. 174pp.Many full page and double-spread color plates. A lavish collection of Wyeth’s work.Minimum bid $30

Lot 34Chihuly Gardens and Glass by Dale Chihuly Portland Press, Seattle, 2002. hardcover. Firstedition, second printing, limited to 5000 copies. Book Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condi-tion: near fine. Signed by Chihuly on the front free endpaper. Essays by Barbara Rose, Lisa C.Roberts, and Mark McDonell. Beautifully and extensively illustrated in full color. 187pp., oblongfolio, yellow cloth, pictorial dustjacket.Minimum bid $50

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