AMERICAN

BOOK-PRICES CURRENT

VOL. XXIX

The Edition of this Volume XXIX of AMERICAN BOOKPRICES CURRENT is limited to Six Hundred

and Fifty Copies

CURRENT

A RECORD OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND

AUTOGRAPHS SOLD AT AUCTION IN NEW
YORK AND ELSEWHERE, FROM SEPTEMBER,
1922, TO AUGUST, 1923

BEING THE SEASON 1922-1923

COMPILED FROM THE

AUCTIONEERS' CATALOGUES

NEW YORK

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

1923

Copyright, 1923

BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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PREFACE

THE
HE present Volume XXIX of American Book-Prices Current is
Important sales,
exhibiting every phase of book-collecting, were marked by a general
rise in prices. Early in the preparatory work it was hoped that by
discarding all entries under $7.50 it would be possible to reduce
materially the bulk of the catalogue, but the season's sales offered so
great a number of new titles, and the prices were generally so good
that the problem of elimination was as difficult as before.

For purposes of easy references, this year's catalogue lists Broadsides, not in a separate division, but in the body of the book, under author when possible, or with sufficient description to identify them. As the interest in illustrated books, particularly those with colored plates, steadily increases, collations have been given with slightly greater fulness than in past years.

One of the most remarkable collections of recent years, that of Illustrated Books, Manuscripts and Drawings, the property of a Philadelphia Collector, was dispersed on April 16-18, at the American Art Association. The high points of this sale were Orme's "British Field Sports," which brought $5300.00; Hamilton's "Months," at $7900.00, and a set of Wheatley's "Cries of London" at $9900.00. Other interesting items were a copy of Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress,' of 1679, at $2000.00, Blake's "Illustrations to the Book of Job," at $3125.00 and his "Visions of the Daughters of Albion," at $1450.00; Goya's "Caprichos," at $1150.00; Mudford's "History of the Campaign in the Netherlands," at $2000.00, and a set of Kate Greenaway's Almanacs, presentation copies to Mary Anderson Navarro, at $1125.00. This collector had specialized in books in original bindings or parts, and their condition was uniformly excellent. A sale of somewhat similar content was that of the late Clarence Bement, which offered an interesting array of costume books and theatrical tracts and memoirs. The prices in the latter class ranged generally above those of similar collections, promising a general increase of values in this class of works.

The classic Americana was unusually well represented in the collection of the late Charles Eliot Norton, sold by the American Art Association with that of the late James Terry, of Hartford. This sale offered two important Mather items: Cotton Mather's "Accomplish'd Singer," at $610.00, and Increase Mather's "First Principles of

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