New-York tribune., 1920-11-05
Books and Letters
OF Noted Authors
Sell for Thousands
Autographed Copies of
Works by Dickens, Thack-
cray and Others Disposed
Of at Anderson Gallery

The bidders at last nights sale Of
Association Books at the Anderson Gal
lerles were nearly all collectors. AL
though only seventy eight lots were
sold, the total for the sale was SIT, 1876.
., A COLLECTION of autograph letters by
Charles Dickens and by Robert and
Elizabeth Browning, Thomas Carlyle,
John Foster and Cruikshank, relative
to the life and works Of Dickens, was
sold for the highest price of the even
ing, going for $4,000 to Gabriel Wells.
joint letter of Robert and Eliza
beth Browning is one of the features
Of this collection. 1t was addressed to
Miss Bailey and comments upon the in
compatibility of Charles Dickens and
his wife. Old sketches by Augustus
Egg, sketchea by Cruikshank and draw
lngs by Charles Green are also in
cluded in the volume.
Charles Dickens's personal copy of
vanity Fair, with an autograph letter
from Thackeray to Dickens and an orig
lnal drawing by the author, was sold
to Walter Hill for $1,000 This is the
first edition and contains Dickens 3
bookplate and the sale label.
Mr.. Hill also bought several others
of the books, among them Trackeray
dedication copy of The Irish Sketch
Book, by NJ. A. Titmarsh, for S74O;
Lewis Carroll's copy of Tennyson's s
Poems, for $3.50; an autographic pres
entation copy Of George Meredith 3
Rhoda Fleming to DR.. Jessop, a warm
personal friend of Meredith, for $3.50,
and collection of first editions of the
novel and tales Of George Eliot in TWEEN
ty-eight volumes for 5000
1t cost William Makepeacc Thackeray
nci dow !, ,Ir ,,-l,
lish one of Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing's poems, and his rejection letter,
sold last night, cost a collector $500
Said Thackeray, the editor, to Mrs.
Browning, in excusing his rejection of
her work: "There are things my
squeamish public will not hear on
Mondays, though on Sundays they
listen to them without struggle"
The Posthumous Papers of the Pick
wick Club, by Charles Dickens, with
forty-thrce illustrations by r. Seymour
and "Phlz,' presentation copy from
the author to Mrs. Henry Delcomb, was
sold for $3.50. The authors presenta-
tion copy to Thomas Milton of Amer
lean Notes for General Circulation
brought S725.
copy Of The Old Curiosity Shop
Inscribed on the title leaf to Profess or
N't'i'' Holu lOi Pt-O, Professor + 9l-
toms copy of Oliver Twist, inscrbed d
by tho author, $50; Dickens's presen-
tation copy of Martin Chuzzlewit to
Thomas Chapman, $500; the presenta-
ton copy of The Cricket on the
Hearth to Douglas Jerrold, 1925; The
Haunted Man and The Ghosts Bargain
with Dickens's inscription, to William
Harrison Ainsworth, 5000.
The presentation copy of Bleak
House to W. II. Wills brought $3.50,
end the Dickens presentation copy Of
a Tale Of Two Cities, to Edmund
Yates, S6l0
The Mystery of Edwin brood. first
edition, presented by Mamie Dickens
and Georgiana Hogarth to friend
with letter from Mamie Dickens laid
IN, was sold last night for $l20, and a
copy of the first edition of Charles
Dickcns's Life of John Forster, with two
autograph letters by Dickens, brought
$500.
Oliver Goldsmth's The Traveller
with the ORIGINAL drawings by Birket
Foster, was sold for $3.50 A set of the
Kate Grecnaway Almanacs, from 1888
to 1897, in fifteen volumes, brought
1928. copy of the first edition OF
Alexander Hamilton's The Federalist
was sold for SITS,
The collection Of association books
was made by Edwin w Coggeshall.
1t contained ten presentation copies
from Dickens and also presentation
copies OF Longfellow, Holmes. Brown
ing and Meredith