Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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BURNETT, Frances Hodgson (1849?1924). Little Lord Fauntleroy. New York: Charles Scribner?s Sons, 1886. 8vo. Frontispiece and title vignette, numerous illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. Original publisher?s brown pictorial cloth stamped in red and gilt, brown coated endpapers (extreme spine ends rubbed with some fraying, corners also rubbed, hinges tender); slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the De Vinne printer?s device on p. 210, signature mark 12 present, and 14 pp. publisher?s ads at back. First published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine (November 1885?October 1886), Burnett?s book ?earned wide praise on its publication; enthusiastic reviewers included Louisa May Alcott, and among its English admirers was Gladstone? (Carpenter & Prichard, 316). BAL 2064.