The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-08
OLD Room STORE FINDS.
some OT the Rare Volumes That Have Breu
Hlstien In Osisi Places.

To- rHT FpIruP up THE SyN N,r what
treasures lie hid IN second hand book
store I have uI-t picked mp for a nickel
a volume of sermons nv Henry Melville
Nhorn 1 heard a. college student in ~
PauI'-. London. Melville. IL will b. recalled.
Was characterized by Phillips Brooks a.
the greatest preacher h- had ever heard
TN turning over the pages of this old vol
ums ! ind ~ cam" over IA this country IN
the packe, ~ james. Which left London
on June - and arrived in the port of New
York on July Is. aud that q PASSENGER had
read on. ot ~ sermons a. they we're near
ing the bsV OF New York on July -. What
a treasury Of past memories In an old book
" hich crossed the Atlantic before the dav~
Of ocean steamers sud Ailanti" cables
Not - long ago a Shropshire farmer
bought a. a country book store for -iNpenc"
"A copy of The Tragedie Of AntOnio- don"
into English NV the Countess Of Penn
broke and printed IN iip The Proud
Salopian" valued the book b.cau-- hc
! knew that the Counties. bad lived Ia Ludlow
Castl. Eventually II found ~ way to
Sotheby'-. where It ~s- sold for CSSi n
was bough, bv Mir Is~k-on the well known
book collector
| Quite recently a poor Jewish youth bought
from an old book store In Mile End Road %
copy OF GOet he's poems. for which he gave
only a few pence. lie -Oon discovered that
the little volume was enriched with Tha"k-
eray'z signature and = number 81 sketches
" the great novelist. lie sold the book for
go
The much prized volume 81 the edition of
Homers works printed in less which may
IL, seen IN the British Museum was pio kr,i
I'm in a second hand book store for seven
.hIlIinR- but "a COPY of the same edition
ha. been sold for EcW watis's Divine
SonRs' vas bought in London in 1901 for
twenty shilIings and was Immediately sold
for RS II Was sent to SOth.by'z. where "
Vs. bought for New York millionaire
A Few years ago a book collector bought
the first edition ~ D-foei- kobin-on cru
aoe printed In i7ip. and pa III, a. h" thought.
tn. eEtravaEant prise Of as for il bat when
~ came TO the hammer " fetched If9S
nj ioys ss y,,un nI IN ~. 1 sssTv t nv. 81
edition Of shakespeare Passionate l'il-
grim With some no,e- IN the han nd writing
eventually -old nv auction to an american
for t'!coo. seven ycaIs ago q farm lahorst
| 4 Aackful Of books TO a serond hand dealer
az Iampeter for 10 Hhillings. In tho sack
was the Latin Prayer Rook Of 1919. The
Tor "a and was satisfied with the sale hut this
hook wa. recently sold In London for gsOO
Is%ss TsaHs wso h ,sI,. hen sS,, , boob
stores stores Of London Most of the irs, eJi.
especially shelley. Keats. Byron and Words
have been paid IoF fret edition copies OF
queen Nab, ZaSirozzi. AlestoT- and
81 1911 70 worth at the least fiSo NE cow
plets poems OF that date were sold in isOg
Tor fi7o Tenny-on.s Poems by Two
Brothers. work which the Laureate wrote
IN collaboration With his iro'her Charles.
Il exceedingly valuable owing 20 it- very
limited issue BroWntnEs Pauline pub
lished ANONYMOUSLY IA 1873, u much sought
copy Of the fret edition Of Bunyan :
Pilgrims Progress brought A.. as only
Q few years ago. a.
BRooKLIN. July Z