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Lot 281
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. A group of 7 works relating to literature and philosophy, comprising:
BIERCE, Ambrose. Horseman in the Sky. A Watcher by the Dead. The Man and the Snake. 1920. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Number 49 of 400 copies. -- STERLING, George. Lilith. A Dramatic Poem. 1920. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Number 295 of 350 copies. -- DAWSON, Emma Frances. A Gracious Visitation. 1921. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Number 247 of 300 copies. -- BROWNE, Lewis. The Final Stanza. 1929. 8vo. Original vellum-backed boards. Number 281 of 400 copies SIGNED BY BROWNE. -- CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain") and Bret HARTE. "Ah Sin". 1961. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 450 copies. -- NORRIS, Frank. Collected Letters. 1986. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards; original plain dust jacket. One of 500 copies. -- JEFFERS, Una, compiler. A Book of Gaelic Airs for Ana's Melodeon. 1989. Oblong 4to. Original cloth; original plain dust jacket. One of 500 copies.
ALL LIMITED EDITIONS, published by various printers for The Book Club of California.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation