First editions, association books, autograph letters and manuscripts and other important items ..
Publisher: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries
Published: 1935
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Library
Other titles: First editions, autograph letters and manuscripts, association books & other items of outstanding importance, including the original manuscripts of the "Liber Scriptorum" of the Authors Club, and a series of unpublished letters by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.
Notes: 354 lots.

Sale code: 4175.

'... including the original manuscript of "Liber scriptorum", a page of the manuscript of Dickens' "Oliver Twist", and manuscripts by Burns, Browning, Holmes, Longfellow, Thackeray, Sheridan, and others, the property of the Authors Club of New York, sold by order of the membership and council of the club; a remarkable series of unpublished letters by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, the property of a gentleman residing in London; illuminated manuscripts; autographs of Washington and Lincoln and their generals and the presidents sets and illustrated books, property of the estate of the late Nellie P. Carter, Boston, Massachusetts, sold by order of Arthur H. Wellman, executor; selections from the library of the late F. Lothrop Ames, North Easton, Mass., sold by order of the present owner; and other properties owned by Maurice Bower Saul, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a collector residing in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and other owners.'

Place of sale: New York.

Date of sale: April 24-25, 1935.