First editions including Omar Khayyam and Dicken's Works, mainly in original parts, also collected sets; autograph letters and manuscripts of celebrated persons with a fine group of presidents ...
Subtitle: public sale Tuesday and Wednesday November 18 and 19 [1941]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1941
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Standard sets, first editions, autograph letters & manuscripts, press publications, Americana
Notes: 546 lots.

Cover title:  Standard sets, first editions, autograph letters & manuscripts, press publications, Americana.

"Sale number 315."

Date of sale: November 18 and 19, 1941.

"Kelmscott Press publications including the Chaucer, Audubon's Birds of America and other books on birds, Woodward's books on horses, Stoke's Iconography, an important manuscript by Rubinstein and other rarities; property of the estates of the late Arthur Curtiss James, sold by order of the executors; Katherine Sanford Nielson, sold by order of the executor; with properties from other sources; together with selections from the libraries collected by the late Henry J. Willing, sold by order of the present owner, Mark S. Willing; Howard Murray."

Rare book copy: Cased with other catalogs from same auction house.

Place of sale: New York.