The library of the late James Wilson Falconer, Minneapolis, Minn. ...
Subtitle: to be sold by auction Wednesday, October nineteenth [1938]
Publisher: The Galleries
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 395 lots.

"Sale number 4406."

'Bligh's "Mutiny on the Bounty", first edition; Boswell's "Life of Dr. Johnson", with a fine autograph letter by Boswell to Mrs. Thrale; the Kilmarnock Burns, 1786; the second Edinburgh edition of Burns' Poems, with over ninety words of textual corrections in the poet's autograph; the autograph ms. of Burns' "To a mountain daisy", with an autograph letter by him; a collected set of first editions of Charles Dickens' works; Thomas Gray's Odes, first edition; the original ms. of W.E. Henley's sonnet on Robert Louis Stevenson; Higden's Polycronicon", 1482; the Robert Hoe copy of the first edition of Douglas' translation of the "Aeneid", 1553.'

Place of sale: New York.

Date of sale: October 19, 1938.