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Lot 101
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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300
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$625
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Lot Description
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. BEMELMANS, Ludwig (1898-1962). The Castle Number Nine. New York: The Viking Press, 1937.
4to. Illustrated throughout. Original green cloth gilt; original pictorial dust jacket (slight rubbing to extremities, spine panel slightly darkened, some minor soiling, a few short tears).
FIRST EDITION of Bemelman's story about Baptiste, who goes to live with the eccentric Count Hungerburg-Hungerburg in Castle No. 9 in Austria.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation