Rare & valuable books, autographs, manuscripts ...
Subtitle: public sale Monday & Tuesday evenings December twelfth & thirteenth [1938]
Publisher: The Galleries
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Rare and valuable books, autographs, manuscripts
Notes: 608 lots.

"Sale number 4422"--Cover.

'... including the excessively rare first edition of "Tamerlane" by Edgar Allan Poe, property of Edgar W. Dunbar, Skowhegan, Me.; Civil War autographs & letters by Lincoln, Grant, Lee & others, property of the estate of John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, Pa.; unusual framed portraits & autographs, property of the Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio; an important letter by George Washington relating to the Blount conspiracy, with other unusual letters, property of Charles Francis Jenkins, Germantown, Pa.; valuable documents of the American Revolution; first editions of works by Barrie, Kipling, Shaw, Stevenson, Whitman, & others; first editions by Donne, Pope, Waller, & other early poets; property of various owners, sold by their order.'

Place of sale: New York.

Date of sale: December 12 and 13, 1938.