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Lot 254
Sale 6356 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Lots Open
Jun 18, 2025
Lots Close
Jul 2, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$300 -
400
Price Realized
$183
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Lot Description
DOXEY, William, editor. The Lark: Book I (Nos. 1-12). San Francisco: William Doxey, 1896.
8vo. Original tan pictorial cloth (some splits in cloth, soiling).
FIRST EDITION. A San Francisco-based humor magazine, founded in 1895 and dedicated to "sincerity, spontaneity, and gaiety."
[With:] DOXEY. The Lark. San Francisco: William Doxey, (1895-1896). Nos. 6, 10, 12-15, 17, 19-20. Original pictorial wraps (extremely brittle, many separations and losses throughout).
[With:] 2 copies of: DOXEY. The Lark Almanack 1899. San Francisco: William Doxey, 1899. Original pictorial wraps (brittle, with some chips and losses).
Together, 23 works in 12 volumes.
Property of Kris and Alicia Huffman, SuddElle Farms at Clover Hill, Lenoir, North Carolina