First editions, incunabula, press publications, French illustrated books, original drawings, autograph material ...
Subtitle: public auction sale February 20 and 21 [1950]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 586 lots.

"Sale number 1129"--Prelim.

Date of sale: February 20 and 21, 1950.

Bidding sheet tipped in.

"Hawthorne's own copy of The scarlet letter; James Butler's Fortune's foot-ball; works of Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, H. Fielding, Mary Webb; The Haggadah, illustrated by Arthur Szyk, printed on vellum; Montaigne's Essays, 1603; a remarkable Washington letter; first issue of Alken's National sports of Great Britain.  Property of Albert B. Ashforth, New York; a Maryland private collector; Dr. David Crocker, Cleveland; sold by their order; and other owners."

Place of sale: New York.