Rare and valuable books ...
Subtitle: unrestricted sale October 27 [1930]
Published: 1930
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 249 lots.

Year of sale information from McKay, 9278.

"Sale number 3857."

"Colored plate books in collectors' condition, sporting books, including those by Apperley, Egan, Surtees, Westmacott and others; an oil portrait of Shakespeare, also a fine fourth folio; rare trial and unrecorded issues of Tennyson's works; first issue of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"; a presentation copy of Stephen Crane's "Maggie," and also an uninscribed copy which is probably the finest one extant; first editions by Dickens, Kipling, Shelley, Stevenson and others, and a finely-illustrated copy of Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson," containing several lines in his hand."

Cover title: Rare & valuable books, including the Lord Tennyson collection formed by Thomas Ogden Amelia, Philadelphia, Pa.; a fine fourth folio of Shakespeare's works, from the estate of the late Samuel Kalisch, Newark, N.J., and other collectors' books.

McKay, 9278

Place of sale: New York.

Date of sale: October 27, 1930.