Rare first editions, autographs and manuscripts; Doves and Kelmscott publications, incunabula, Americana ...
Subtitle: public auction sale December 1 ... December 2 [1947]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 471 lots.

"Sale number 905"--Prelim.

Date of sale: December 1 and 2, 1947.

Bidding sheet tipped in.

"Featuring Lamb and Dreiser manuscripts, Poe letters, Vanity fair in parts, drawings by Thackeray, Boswell,s Johnson in boards, uncut, the Kilmarnock Burns, Keats' Poems, autographs of the presidents, Mirrour of the world; property of Miss Edith Eyre, New York; and other owners, including Mrs. L.B. Dixon, Del Mar, Calif., New York and Washington, D.C.; private collectors, Authors Club, New York; sold by their order."

Place of sale: New York.