The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
WASHINGTON
BOOKS FETCH $1,000
First Presidents Autographed
Copy OF "Don Quixote" is
Sold at Auction.

New York, Special: AT the most I'M
portant sale of the winter, CONSISTING
of first editions and association poohs
colected bv George w. Williamson, the
ton price was brought by George WASH
;neton's copy OF the history OF Don
Ouixote in four volumes, bearing wash
ington's autograph on the tue pages
and his book plate in three OF the vol
umes. The four volumes, which are
foxed and have the corners of a few OF
the leaves rubbed away. were sold IN
half a minute for $1,000 to George -.
Smith. a New York dealer. These vol
umes were at one time owned in Ph1la-
delphia.
The majority of the offerings were
first editions, or presentation copies of
the works of Robert Louis stevenson;
Fred D.. Norris, bought The Pentland
Rising; a Page of History, 1885, which
was Stevenson's first publication, for
Sl77. so. Nearly all the other Stevenson
offerings of Importance were bought
by Philadelphia dealers, for a customer.
A presentation cony of a Brodie,
or the Double Life" a four act melo-
drama by Stevenson and William
Ernest Henley. which was presented
by the latter to Brander Mathews, went
for sos.
Stevenson's THE Surprise"
The only known copy of The Sur
prise" edited and published by S. l..
Osborne & Co, at Alameda, Cal, in
lSSp, llili SSto "N "SNA'~S AoSS -
SGT 5s, brought 1925.
An original poem to IF. J.. S." signed
by Stevenson, sold for $Sl. and the
proof edition of his Tn Silverado
squatters" brought s65. "Ticonderoga,
a Legend of the West Highlands"
printed privately for King Kalakaua,
OF Hawaii. of which only two copies
were struck off, sold for $1O5: The au-
thor's edition of THE Master of Bal
lantrae' old for s1oe. and The Misad-
~ - u
was suppressed and all but a few
copies destroyed, brought $140.
1.-The South Seas; a Record of Three
Cruises which was privately printed,
and of which only eight copies are
known, went for $3.50. A copy Of a
ing The Bottle Imp" the first serial
story read by the Samoans in their own
language, which caused Stevenson to
be named "Tusitala,' a teller of tales,
sold for $50. Geo. D. Smith bought a
presentation copy of AN Inland Voy-
age" for $l15.
New Dickens Record.
The greater part of the interest in
one sale centered about the contest over
a first edition in the original parts,
with the addresses of Dickens Pick
wick Papers" c. 3. Mems. of Boston,
finally bought the edition for $755. This
was a new high price for a first Of the
"Pickwick Papers," the former marx
being S710, which was paid in london
four or five years ago.
Other high prices were brought by a
first edition of John Burroughs Notes
on Wal Whitman as Poet n Person."
S110; a first issue of Alice in Won
derland,' the authors own copy, with
illustrations by John Tenniel, $315; Dan
iel's Civil Wars" $17e: Charles Dick
ms own copy of Doctor Marigold,"
as arranged and read by the author,
$50: a first of Emerson's Society and
Solitude" with an autograph letter, $40.
Thackaray's own copy of Ton
Jones'" bearing Thackaray's embossed
stamp on the title page of each of The
six volumes, s120: and The Legend of
Jubal." in the original printers proof,
with corrections in the autograph Of
George Eliot, SIG.
A high price, $3.50. was paid for a
first edition of Hawthorne's Fan
shave" in the original binding. Only
eleven copies of this rare edition have
ever been offered at public sale. Haw-
thorne's The Celestial Railroad" a
first bound in the original buff-printed
wrappers, brought $500.
A bronze medallion portrait of Haw-
thorne, issued by the Grolier club.
brought SGT, while a similar one of
Lowell went for only SIS. The total of
the two days sale amounted to SIS, 900.