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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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (?Lewis Carroll?) (1832?1898)]. The Harcourt Amory Collection of Lewis Carroll in the Harvard College Library. Compiled by Flora V. Livingston. Cambridge, MA: [Harvard University Press], 1932. 8vo. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations and engravings from photographs and facsimiles. Original buckram?backed marbled sides, gilt?lettered spine, uncut. Laid in with the publisher?s prospectus. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 65 copies, of which only 50 were for sale (originally priced at $35 (today $757); which during the Great Depression was nearly an entire week?s pay). Amory?s collection of Lewis Carroll was considered ?one of the best in existence? (from the prospectus). A VERY IMPORTANT AND SCARCE REFERENCE that contains several important items not otherwise published. Williams, Madan and Green 514. [With:] WILLIAMS, Sidney Herbert. A Bibliography of the Writings of Lewis Carroll. London: The Bookman?s Journal,1924. 8vo. Original cloth?backed boards. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 684 of 700 copies. The first attempt at a bibliography of Lewis Carroll. [Also:] STERN, Jeffery. London: White Stone Publishing, 1997. 8vo. Original red cloth. FIRST EDITION. ?? Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, condition generally near fine.