Sporting books in color; autographs and manuscripts including autographs of thirty-one presidents from Washington to Franklin D. Roosevelt, a musical score by Stravinsky, choice Whitman material including the only known manuscript page from Leaves of grass, an early Shaw manuscript; Sets in fine bindings including a collected set of the works of H.M. Tomlinson with fifty-two first editions and a magnificent extra-illustrated set of Dickens, a superb specimen of cottage roof style binding, Bryan's Dictionary of painters and engravers, first editions, books on Chinese art and other literature
Subtitle: public auction sale Tuesday and Wednesday, May 12 and 13 [1953]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
Other titles: Sporting books in color, finely bound sets, modern French illustrated books, Whitman & other manuscripts and autographs, first editions, Kelmscott Press, books on Chinese art, mainly from private sources including property of Alexander Sellers, Media, Pa. amd C.S. Hutter, Jr., Keswick, Va.
Notes: 614 lots.

Cover title: Sporting books in color, finely bound sets, modern French illustrated books, Whitman & other manuscripts and autographs, first editions, Kelmscott Press, books on Chinese art, mainly from private sources including property of Alexander Sellers, Media, Pa. amd C.S. Hutter, Jr., Keswick, Va.

"Sale number 1441"--Prelim.

Date of sale: May 12 and 13, 1953.

Bidding sheet tipped in.

Property of Alexander Sellers, Media, Pa. and C.S. Hutter, Jr., Keswick, Va. and other owners.

Place of sale: New York.