Fine Books and Manuscripts

Includes: Little Book of Profitable Tales, 1889. Number 90 of 250 copies; With Trumpet and Drum, 1892. Number 145 of 250 copies, signed by the publisher; Another copy, hand-numbered 7; An Auto-Analysis, 1896. Number 31 of 150 copies, signed by the artist who illuminated the initials and other decorations; Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, 1896. Number 31 of 150 copies; Songs and Other Verse, 1896. Number 86 of 150 copies; The Eugene Field I Knew, by Francis Wilson, 1898. Number 177 of 204 copies; Some Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to E.H.N. Patterson of Oquawka, Illinois, with Comments by Eugene Field. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1898. Limited to 186 copies; Temptation of Friar Gonsol,; Study in Heredity and Contradictions, 1901. Number 216 of 262 copies. 2 vols.; Passing of Mother's Portrait, by Roswell Field, 1901. Number 3 of 110 copies; My Book, 1905. Number 412 of a limited edition, initialed by W.K. Bixby on a printed limitation slip, and further inscribed by him on the front endpaper, to Edward L. Preetorius. Included is a letter from WKB to ELP, and includes a facsimile letter from William C. Buskett to WKB. Includes a loose portrait of Field. With an introduction by Roswell Field. Slipcased; Madeline by Roswell Field, 1906. Number 179 of 250 copies; Cradle Lullabies, 1909; Penn-Yan Bill's Wooing, Privately printed, 1914; Verse and Prose, 1917. One of 100 copies; Symbol and the Saint, 1921. One of 300 copies. [Together with:] an original Eugene Field bookplate, an engraved wedding invitation [Eugene Field] to Julia Comstock; a royalty report from Charles Scibner's, December 12, 1873.

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