Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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[DERRYDALE PRESS]. SHELDON, Harold P. Tranquility Revisited. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1940. 4to. Additional engraved title?page, 7 color tipped?in plates by A. Lassell Ripley. Original publisher?s gilt?decorated burgundy faux leather, top edge gilt. Provenance: Frank J. Lowe (penciled notation). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 262 of 485 copies. INSCRIBED BY SHELDON: ?With my best wishes / Harold P. Sheldon / Falls Church, Virginia. / June 18, 1940.? Siegel 163. ?? [With:] Tranquility. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935. 8vo. Uniformly bound. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 154 of 950 copies. Siegel 107.