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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[FORE?EDGE PAINTING ? NATIVE AMERICANS]. LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807?1882). The Poetical Works of? Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [1880]. 2 volumes, 4to (305 x 235 mm). Original morocco decorated in blind and gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt?lettering in compartments, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, each concealing a FORE?EDGE PAINTING of Native American scenes including scalping enemies, hunting buffalo, tribal dancing, villages, etc.