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Lot 403
Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$800 -
1,200
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$1,764
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Lot Description
CUSTER, Elizabeth Bacon (1842-1933). Boots and Saddles. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.
8vo. Publisher's pictorial cloth gilt (bumping to head and tail of spine). Provenance: Charles Schreyvogel (signature). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIZABETH CUSTER: "Motto on General Custer's Spanish sword, 'Do not draw me without cause / Do not shield me without honor'."
[With:] [JOHNSON, Lady Bird (1912-2007)]. SMITH, Marie. The President's Lady: An Intimate Biography of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. New York: Random House, 1964. Publisher's blue cloth gilt; original dust jacket (chipping along extremities). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LADY BIRD JOHNSON: "With best wishes."
Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota